The Movie Thread v. Return of the Jedi

[ZKX-2099]

There's something very relaxing about most of that movie... after the crash scene that is.

[Chino]

I'll never not be totally transfixed whenever I watch Cast Away.  Gripping film, amazing performance by the legendary Tom Hanks, and I just love the ending to death.  So good.

There is not a chance in hell I wouldn't have opened that last package.

[hefdaddy42]

I thought Cast Away was a great film, but it's one of those that has NO replay value for me.  I just can't imagine watching it again.

But Hanks was fantastic in it.

[BlackInk]

^Pretty much exactly that.

[KevShmev]

I agree that it's replay value is not high; I only revisit it once every few years, but every time I do, I think it's great.

[Chino]

I find it funny that the script for Cast Away actually had lines written out for Wilson.

[KevShmev]

Really?   My guess would be so whatever lines Hanks' character said back to him sounded more natural.  It's like when you see a scene in a movie or TV show where someone is talking to another on the phone, but you only see one end of the conversation; they probably make up lines the other person is saying, even if we never see or hear them being spoken.

[Orbert]

Exactly.  So Hanks would have something to react to.  I think all the one-sided conversations are great; Hanks does a great job of responding to things Wilson says, if only his head, and we can almost always tell what it was that Hanks imagined Wilson said.  That may or may not have been as clear if Hanks didn't have the lines to respond to.

[BlackInk]

2001 is a classic, but 2010 is pretty damn cool too.

[Kotowboy]

2001 is a classic, but 2010 is pretty damn cool too.

Yeah I didn't mind it.

[hefdaddy42]

2001 is a classic, but 2010 is pretty damn cool too.

TBH, I actually prefer 2010.

[Zantera]

I really like Cast Away as well, but I'm a sucker for the "stuck alone on an island" stories, so the same goes for the story of Robinson Crusoe for example.

[Super Dude]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

[The King in Crimson]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

I liked it, if only because Emma Thompson is really, really good in it. And Colin Ferrell too. But yeah, the rest is basically a Disney whitewash and not really true and factual, though the little I've read makes it seem as if PL Travers was even MORE unpleasant in real-life. 

[MrBoom_shack-a-lack]

Edge Of Tomorrow was alot better than expected.

[Orbert]

Finally saw American Hustle

Whoa.

I might write more after I've had a chance to digest it.  Great movie, though.

[bout to crash]

Yeah, I enjoyed that one.

Saw The Zero Theorem last night, with mixed feelings. Weird and funny, which Gilliam always does well... but I felt like there was something missing. Visually very cool, of course, with some future dystopian elements that seem uncomfortably realistic.

[MetalJunkie]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

I would have been far more interested in seeing a biography about Walt starring Tom Hanks.

[hefdaddy42]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

What do you mean?

[Kotowboy]

Edge Of Tomorrow was alot better than expected.

Definitely !

[BlackInk]

^ Saw it today, and it was good. Though 8.0 at IMDb is pushing it..

[Outcrier]

^ Saw it today, and it was good. Though 8.0 at IMDb is pushing it..

That's because IMDB users overrate any new movie (include giving ratings of 10 or 1 before even watching it, something that happens with all new superhero movies per example).

The TV series ranking is pretty good though, i give them that.

[Super Dude]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

What do you mean?

Oh sorry. Yeah, so basically they transform her into this person who's anti anything positive to the point of inhumanity (as Crimson said, apparently she was rather unpleasant, but this was basically completely over the top), and they completely changed the facts of how Disney acquired the rights and whatnot while making Disney himself seem by contrast like a fatherly and affable figure (when in reality he was a huge jerk to her).

There's a good article that summarizes the most appalling changes if you can get past the more politically charged commentary of it: https://www.laweekly.com/2013-12-12/film-tv/saving-mr-banks-mary-poppins/

[Kotowboy]

I dislike Emma Thompson. I think she over acts in everything.

[Chino]

So I watched The Purge the other night with the lady. What a piece of shit movie that was. I don't even know where to start. The daughter and her boyfriend were the most cringe-worthy elements I may have ever seen in a movie. The ending was absolute shit too. The only decent thing that happened in that hour and a half was the scene when the father was wondering around with the shotgun. I was expecting that movie to be an hour and a half of people in a city going ape shit on one another, not an hour and a half of some family's house.

2/10

[ozzy554]

So I watched The Purge the other night with the lady. What a piece of shit movie that was. I don't even know where to start. The daughter and her boyfriend were the most cringe-worthy elements I may have ever seen in a movie. The ending was absolute shit too. The only decent thing that happened in that hour and a half was the scene when the father was wondering around with the shotgun. I was expecting that movie to be an hour and a half of people in a city going ape shit on one another, not an hour and a half of some family's house.

2/10

That is what bugged me about the movie. They had in my opinion an awesomely ridiculous concept to work with and they made a home invasion movie with it. The purge: Anarchy looks like what I wanted the first one to be.

[Xanthul]

The Purge is an interesting concept with atrocious execution. Terrible plot holes and stupid decisions by every character, time and time again.

[Kotowboy]

The Purge is an interesting concept with atrocious execution. Terrible plot holes and stupid decisions by every character, time and time again.

^ pretty much every one of those films.

Hey there's a guy in my house - best run upstairs where I can definitely escape 

[Zantera]

I rewatched Rush Hour and Rush Hour 2, and both are still entertaining and enjoyable IMO. Not on the same level as the very best of action (like Die Hard, Predator, Matrix or T2 for example), but Chan/Tucker is a great duo. I've always been a big fan of Chan, and while Tucker is a bit obnoxious, he really is so full of himself that his character becomes funny as a result. The stuff he says aren't always funny, but just how over-the-top he is, always viewing himself as the ultimate cop, when in reality he is a pretty mediocre one who screws stuff up.

[jammindude]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

What do you mean?

Oh sorry. Yeah, so basically they transform her into this person who's anti anything positive to the point of inhumanity (as Crimson said, apparently she was rather unpleasant, but this was basically completely over the top), and they completely changed the facts of how Disney acquired the rights and whatnot while making Disney himself seem by contrast like a fatherly and affable figure (when in reality he was a huge jerk to her).

There's a good article that summarizes the most appalling changes if you can get past the more politically charged commentary of it: https://www.laweekly.com/2013-12-12/film-tv/saving-mr-banks-mary-poppins/

As "over the top" as it was, it's my understanding that the reality was even worse.

What I hated about it was this overdone "rainbow in the sky" idea that you can "nice" mean people into being nice themselves.   (like in The Grinch story)   But the reality (as it was with the real P.L.) is that some people are just mean people, and you're never going to change or redeem them because mean is just who they are.   Even her own adopted child ended up disowning her, and a biographer (possibly the kid?? I don't remember) wrote that she died "loving no one, and with no one loving her either."    She was just never a nice person to anyone.

[Scorpion]

So I very recently saw both A Most Wanted Man - brilliant - and Sin City 2 - not as good as the first one, but not nearly as atrocious as some reviews claimed, so all in all, last week was a good cinema week.

[Super Dude]

Almost a year after it came out, I've finally seen Saving Mr. Banks. It's really terrible - it's like Disney taunting P.L. Traverse from beyond the grave.

What do you mean?

Oh sorry. Yeah, so basically they transform her into this person who's anti anything positive to the point of inhumanity (as Crimson said, apparently she was rather unpleasant, but this was basically completely over the top), and they completely changed the facts of how Disney acquired the rights and whatnot while making Disney himself seem by contrast like a fatherly and affable figure (when in reality he was a huge jerk to her).

There's a good article that summarizes the most appalling changes if you can get past the more politically charged commentary of it: https://www.laweekly.com/2013-12-12/film-tv/saving-mr-banks-mary-poppins/

As "over the top" as it was, it's my understanding that the reality was even worse.

What I hated about it was this overdone "rainbow in the sky" idea that you can "nice" mean people into being nice themselves.   (like in The Grinch story)   But the reality (as it was with the real P.L.) is that some people are just mean people, and you're never going to change or redeem them because mean is just who they are.   Even her own adopted child ended up disowning her, and a biographer (possibly the kid?? I don't remember) wrote that she died "loving no one, and with no one loving her either."    She was just never a nice person to anyone.

That still doesn't change the fact that Disney treated her like shit and used a loophole in their contract to basically take away all creative control and relegate her to "consultant" on the movie. He did things that may have technically constituted a breach, but he had this "final reel" loophole.

[jammindude]

^^^^^^^^^

I'm not necessarily saying that Disney was "right" or "justified" in doing what he did...but at the same time, there aren't too many people who wouldn't...upon discovering that someone is being a complete and total ass and simply holding their part in the group endeavour hostage...wouldn't begin to become *very hostile* in return.    She's probably lucky that Disney *only* acted like prick.   

[Kotowboy]

Sooo.....



There's a going to be a TETRIS movie...

Surely the only choice of theme song is " Build Me up, Break Me Down " ?

[Bolsters]

Sooo.....
There's a going to be a TETRIS movie...