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Quote from: mrbasehart on December 04, 2006, 12:08:13 PM
So...What kinds of music do people like? ;D
Oh, I really enjoy action/adventures ::)
;D
Thinking about it, the biggest weakness of The Lord of the Rings trilogy is all the dialogue and exposition. I understand it's a huge, huge story adapted from something like a 1000 pages worth of books, but wouldn't it be more time-efficient to tell the story through other means other than dialogue or monologues? Peter Jackson is talented for certain, but I'm not sure if he's talented enough to do that. If there is another Lord of the rings trilogy ever made, that's probably the only possible thing that can be improved upon. If only Stanley Kubrick were still alive and had the constitution to make three huge movies...
Whew boy. Let's be thankful for small favours. Like this not being a thing.
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/2016/02/must-read-this-gremlins-reboot-would-have-been-insane/
Oddly, there's misspelling both in the pitch (distruction) and in the introduction to the pitch (Firday). Come on, people. At least use spell check.
Anyway, it's a pretty lame and dull pitch. Mostly I'm sharing because I'm always interested in "What ifs" in pop culture.
Quote from: Johnny Unusual on February 05, 2016, 08:55:27 AM
Whew boy. Let's be thankful for small favours. Like this not being a thing.
http://oneperfectshotdb.com/2016/02/must-read-this-gremlins-reboot-would-have-been-insane/
Oddly, there's misspelling both in the pitch (distruction) and in the introduction to the pitch (Firday). Come on, people. At least use spell check.
Anyway, it's a pretty lame and dull pitch. Mostly I'm sharing because I'm always interested in "What ifs" in pop culture.
Eh, doesn't seem so bad. I like the escalation from the previous movies where it's difficult to find the Mogwai, and the plane crash escalates the consequences. If anything, I think making it still be about a small town is too much like the first one. I'd rather them overrunning a city. That was the threat in the second.
If you are interested in seeing how a film might be translated into another language, taking into account wordplay and cultural references that wouldn't travel, you might want to read this.
https://legendsoflocalization.com/ghostbusters-in-japanese/
I've talked about before about how I'm not THAT into horror films and yet... I have seen a big transformation in myself when it comes to my feelings about that genre over the past couple years. I actually kind of like horror now, generally speaking. As long as things don't get ridiculously gory, I'm game. I'm looking forward to Midsommar, It Chapter 2, and finally seeing Us.
Not sure what I can attribute this change in heart to. After all, horror movies(again, generally speaking) don't scare me that much.
Quote from: Russoguru on August 18, 2019, 06:34:58 PM
I've talked about before about how I'm not THAT into horror films and yet... I have seen a big transformation in myself when it comes to my feelings about that genre over the past couple years. I actually kind of like horror now, generally speaking. As long as things don't get ridiculously gory, I'm game. I'm looking forward to Midsommar, It Chapter 2, and finally seeing Us.
Not sure what I can attribute this change in heart to. After all, horror movies(again, generally speaking) don't scare me that much.
Wow. Sounds look I'm on a similar path. I've seen Us and am looking forward to Midsommar and IT 2. And two of my favorite movies I've seen within the past year are the original Suspiria and Possession (1981). I don't care for gore or schlock, so if the horror movies I see can keep it to really moody and atmospheric psychological thriller territory, I'm usually pretty satisfied.
I feel it is rare to for me to be scared watching a horror movie but I still like the genre a lot. If you ever need recommendations, I got a lot.
Quote from: Johnny Unusual on August 19, 2019, 12:31:41 PM
I feel it is rare to for me to be scared watching a horror movie but I still like the genre a lot. If you ever need recommendations, I got a lot.
Suspiria is the only Argento film I've seen. What do you recommend as a follow-up to it from him? Would you go with the sequel or is there something better of his that I should see?
Well, I haven't seen a lot but I hear his latter day works are... not good. Try some of his giallo films. The giallo is the precursor to the modern slasher but with some more difference: they tend to be detective whodunit stories but with more blood and horror. As I said, I don't scare from a lot of these movies but the guy knows what scares me here: realizing you are not alone. I've only seen a couple but I like Deep Red a lot. It's not as over the top stylish and one of the deaths is sort of darkly funny (I don't know if intentionally) but shit, that seen with the doll freaked me out when I first saw it.
I have yet to see Inferno, but it is generally considered to be, while not as good as Suspiria, a good movie. I haven't seen Mother of Tears, the last in the trilogy, but it was mostly received poorly.
Quote from: Johnny Unusual on August 19, 2019, 05:27:08 PM
Well, I haven't seen a lot but I hear his latter day works are... not good. Try some of his giallo films. The giallo is the precursor to the modern slasher but with some more difference: they tend to be detective whodunit stories but with more blood and horror. As I said, I don't scare from a lot of these movies but the guy knows what scares me here: realizing you are not alone. I've only seen a couple but I like Deep Red a lot. It's not as over the top stylish and one of the deaths is sort of darkly funny (I don't know if intentionally) but shit, that seen with the doll freaked me out when I first saw it.
I have yet to see Inferno, but it is generally considered to be, while not as good as Suspiria, a good movie. I haven't seen Mother of Tears, the last in the trilogy, but it was mostly received poorly.
I've never cared much for Argento. He's good with set pieces, the murders, but the rest of his movies lack imagination. I'd much rather watch one of Fulci's twisted films. He's a sloppier director but they're a lot of fun. House by the Cemetery is a good one to start with.
Can someone please explain to me the appeal of the Fast and the Furious movies? Because as far as I can tell, they all just feel like the game goddamn thing every time: Muscle cars and bland human beings as generic archetypes with a few hot women thrown in for good measure. It's just the same movie every goddamn time, with characters who have little to no personality. I'm not saying they're bad actors, Jason Statham, Vin Diesel and even The Rock are certainly capable of good acting, it's just that these movies seem to have them stuck in roles where they have little to no reason for emotional connections, character development or offering something otherwise compelling.
I just feel like all these movies exist only for superficial appeal. I mean yeah I don't expect these movies to have astounding scripts, but after all these movies, there's just nothing there that I find interesting because when you're in a universe where you're so blatantly violating the laws of physics, I just feel like falling asleep all over again. Where else is there left to go? Space? I mean why the hell not? If we're going to just blatantly violate the laws of physics in every movie, let's have Jason Statham go go the goddamn moon and have a fistfit(with no helmets on of course, we wouldn't want people to think the moon doesn't have an atmosphere).
Amazing action/stunt/CIG craziness, from the 6th one onwards I think they're incredibly fun
I also don't get it at all. Absolute snooze IMO. My wife finds them entertaining though.
I've got my Thursday night IMAX tickets for the early screening of Dune (2021) purchased. Only one more day until the Atreides leave Caladan and step foot on Arrakis.
When I joined this forum a dozen years ago, my only affiliation with Dune was its reputation as a box office bomb. That turned to practically a meme for this sub. And that was its reputation for me for many years.
Within the past 3 years, I have seen the David Lynch movie (Alan Smithee edition), read the book, played the board game, and overall familiarized myself with the universe.
It's been a long time since I've been this excited about a movie. I guess you could say I HAVE AWAKENED!
Quote from: stansimpson on October 20, 2021, 08:47:42 AM
I've got my Thursday night IMAX tickets for the early screening of Dune (2021) purchased. Only one more day until the Atreides leave Caladan and step foot on Arrakis.
When I joined this forum a dozen years ago, my only affiliation with Dune was its reputation as a box office bomb. That turned to practically a meme for this sub. And that was its reputation for me for many years.
Within the past 3 years, I have seen the David Lynch movie (Alan Smithee edition), read the book, played the board game, and overall familiarized myself with the universe.
It's been a long time since I've been this excited about a movie. I guess you could say I HAVE AWAKENED!
You're in for a treat.
K, so I was thinking back to the most notorious bomb of 2022, Morbius... and...well... it wasn't good. But, at least it was only 90 minutes. That's the same thing I said about Jonah Hex. It may have been bad, but at least it was mercifully short, clocking in at ONLY 81 minutes.
Correction, Morbius was One hour and 44 minutes. So I guess I need to do a redaction and say at least it was much shorter than the average Marvel movie.
What the fuck is it anyway with Marvel movies from Sony? It's like unless they're hyper-focused on Spider-man, their results are almost always lame. Venom was okay, and I thought Carnage wasn't too, too bad... but between those movies, Morbius, and the upcoming Madame Web, I feel like Sony are the biggest indifferent to comic book movie jackasses of all time. I might say they're right up there with Warner bros with the DCEU and the Salkinds with the 3rd and 4th Superman movies.
Sure, Madame Web could be fun.... but color me skeptical.
Spider-Man is all Sony has the rights to, and they can use ancillary Spider-Man characters without giving Disney anything, so if they want a slice of that sweet Marvel Pie, they have to dig deep.
Quote from: Pak-Man on December 18, 2023, 11:32:02 AM
Spider-Man is all Sony has the rights to, and they can use ancillary Spider-Man characters without giving Disney anything, so if they want a slice of that sweet Marvel Pie, they have to dig deep.
And, yeah, the biggest problem that I think Sony has, is that they don't hire people to write, direct, and act in the films who actually LIKE the characters and care about the stories. Sony is creating what they consider 'bankable product', instead of 'art'. Whether one likes the stories they tell or not, the MCU is intended to have fun stories, with inherent respect for the characters. Sony has neither of those.
A long time ago, I posted on the forum about how much I LOVE the Commentary for Blood Simple, the commentary from a somebody named Kenneth Loring. According to a cursory google search, Loring was portrayed by actor Jim Piddock.
Well, although he's Loring, the commentary track is anything but BORING.
*Crickets*
It's still an outrageously funny commentary track, due partially to the fact that Blood Simple is NOT a movie you're supposed to laugh at. It is a straight up suspenseful murder mystery with little to no humorous moments, so to hear this Loring guy talk about how the opening scene in a car was filmed upside down and in reverse and how a dog in the film was in fact animatronic(while playing this role 100% straight) is just mind-bogglingly insane, but also marvelous.
It's too bad commentaries are not much of a thing anymore. I remember listening to the commentaries for the Simpsons dvd sets ALL the time, and sometimes they were almost as funny as the episodes. I find it sad that most streaming internet services don't even bother with adding commentary tracks, AT ALL!!! If you watch digital simpsons episodes on Amazon prime or Disney+... there's no commentary track available... EVER!!!!
Anybody else notice this trend lately? I thought it was really sad that commentary tracks are just a thing of the past now. It was a great way of extending the versatility of DVD/Blu-Ray players... it's like studios don't give a fuck anymore... which now that I think of it... totally makes sense.
So in short.... streaming services suck(in part) because they don't have all the shit the fucking dvd's did, god dammit.
I agree Cyrusso. After being blown away by 'Barbie' I was REALLY looking forward to commentary tracks. [An idea how much I love the film: I gave eight copies as holiday gifts... basically to everyone I buy gifts for.] I'd hoped for two commentaries on the Blu-ray (in a perfect world): one with Greta Gerwig alone or her with Noah Baumbach, and maybe a second with Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling. I can't imagine that those would have been anything but hysterical and insanely informative.
And commentaries on the film/Blu-ray? Non-existent.
You are right: far too many films no longer have commentaries. My guess is that the studios don't want to pay enough to get the people involved to spend an additional 2+ hours of their time on commentary tracks. I think just like other extras on discs being whittled away at (with rare exceptions), the studios are thinking, "they'll buy it regardless - and we don't include these with digital copies which suckers people are happy to pay more for than the physical releases (which also include a digital release >:D ) - so what do we care?"
Capitalistic greed. I see it right up there with Prime's 'free' shipping: the original was "2-day shipping". Gradually Bozos changed it to "usually once a week", while increasing the cost of Prime.