The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

[Handyman]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Well most people I know that read Hunger Games hated the 3rd book so splitting it into two movies irks them. I never read it and dont much care about the movies either

I am in no hurry to see Peter Jackson's "Not Quite as Good as The Return of the King" but it will happen. I will not own any of the Hobbit Trilogy though much like I dont any of the Star Wars Prequels.

[The Rube]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

For a setup movie - which is really what it is - I thought it was good and I was never bored.

Regarding Katniss - I think they were trying to create a character arc for her. It's more believable imo if she does have some fear and doubt considering what she is dropped into: the face of a revolution. I didn't find her to be whiney, just less sure of herself due to understandable factors.

I had read some negative reviews of the film and kept waiting to see evidence of what had crawled up certain critics' arses, but never did.

Fwiw, the wife liked it a lot also. Both of us read the books before any of the movies came out coz our 6th grader (at the time) came home and told us we HAD to read these great books he had "discovered." Part of me wishes I hadn't as I wonder how I would experience these movies without knowing what comes next or what the spoilers are.



Is it a money grab to cut the final book in half? Obviously, but I don't mind since I felt it was done well.


Next weekend I will put myself through the other, poorly executed money-grab franchise movie series. Gotta see it on the Ultra Screen just like the first 5.

I never read the Hunger books, but I can understand your feeling on that, as I have gone that route before. I like movies more than books, overall. I'm more a visual person. Good to know about the take. Look forward to seeing this.

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

I do want to see it. I expect full setup mode for the Pt 2 which the critics interpret that as "Katniss is all whiny and such" and "moneygrab."

Your thoughts on that take?

For a setup movie - which is really what it is - I thought it was good and I was never bored.

Regarding Katniss - I think they were trying to create a character arc for her. It's more believable imo if she does have some fear and doubt considering what she is dropped into: the face of a revolution. I didn't find her to be whiney, just less sure of herself due to understandable factors.

I had read some negative reviews of the film and kept waiting to see evidence of what had crawled up certain critics' arses, but never did.

Fwiw, the wife liked it a lot also. Both of us read the books before any of the movies came out coz our 6th grader (at the time) came home and told us we HAD to read these great books he had "discovered." Part of me wishes I hadn't as I wonder how I would experience these movies without knowing what comes next or what the spoilers are.



Is it a money grab to cut the final book in half? Obviously, but I don't mind since I felt it was done well.


Next weekend I will put myself through the other, poorly executed money-grab franchise movie series. Gotta see it on the Ultra Screen just like the first 5.

[The Rube]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Went to Mockingjay Pt. 1 tonight and liked it much the same as the first two in the series - which is to say, quite a bit.


They've done a nice job with this.

I do want to see it. I expect full setup mode for the Pt 2 which the critics interpret that as "Katniss is all whiny and such" and "moneygrab."

Your thoughts on that take?

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Went to Mockingjay Pt. 1 tonight and liked it much the same as the first two in the series - which is to say, quite a bit.


They've done a nice job with this.

[The Rube]

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Just watched this fascinating documentary on Starz about filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his attempt to bring Frank Herbert's book Dune to the big screen in 1975. He gathered together a bunch of creative people, Moebius did the storyboards, he got H.R. Giger to design sets and characters(years before Alien), bands like Pink Floyd on board to do the soundtrack, tentative casting of Orson Welles for Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger for Feyd Rautha. Except for his own sort of hippy-dippy peace and love 60's sentiment ending, it sounded like a version I would have loved to see.

The best part was his description of how he was heartbroken not to be able to do it, and had to be led like a dying man by his children into the theater to see David Lynch's version years later, only to bit by bit to cheer up as he saw how awful that film was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/

I wish I was even interested in Dune, as I have seen previews/recommendations for this doc. It does look good, if you're interested in the subject matter.

Did watch the Bonnie And Clyde mini-series that AMC/HIS/whoever put out a couple years ago. Not bad. Haven't looked into how factual it was, but it was entertaining. Really liked Emile Hirsch in it.

Also caught the 30/30 "The U" and "Brian And The Boz" shows. Very decent, and brought back some memories of my childhood (hated 'em both).

[rufus]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Just watched this fascinating documentary on Starz about filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his attempt to bring Frank Herbert's book Dune to the big screen in 1975. He gathered together a bunch of creative people, Moebius did the storyboards, he got H.R. Giger to design sets and characters(years before Alien), bands like Pink Floyd on board to do the soundtrack, tentative casting of Orson Welles for Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger for Feyd Rautha. Except for his own sort of hippy-dippy peace and love 60's sentiment ending, it sounded like a version I would have loved to see.

The best part was his description of how he was heartbroken not to be able to do it, and had to be led like a dying man by his children into the theater to see David Lynch's version years later, only to bit by bit to cheer up as he saw how awful that film was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/

[ScoobyDoo]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Saw The Hobbit finale last night. I thought it was pretty good. The fight sequences were amazing. I don't think they did as good of a job with the "extra" material they used than they could have but getting to see the Battle of the Five Armies onscreen was worth it.

People are going to be madder about the cliffhanger from part 2 after this one. I still think it was the right call.

[St. Clown]

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I'm not sure that this link is going to take people directly to the comment, but it looks like Christopher Titus responds to Amazon user comments given on his standup routines. His response isn't funny at all, but it's sort of telling, in a way.

http://www.amazon.com/review/R2XEAX6...wasThisHelpful

[FreshFish]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Here's another idea for The Interview: dub it in Korean and smuggle it into North Korea, or give it away free in China and let the existing cross-border smugglers between China and North Korea bring it in:

Park Sang Hak, a North Korean defector now living in the South, has an idea. Mr. Park ... puts information about the outside world along with movies and television programs on USB drives, which he floats into the North on balloons. The Kim Jong Un regime has labeled him “enemy zero” and sent an assassin to kill him with a poison-tipped pen. For real.

Mr. Park wants to include “The Interview” on future balloon launches. But there is another way to make sure that the movie gets the giant audience that Kim fears, even in North Korea: Make it free.
....

release it into the public domain. Anyone could then share the file online without violating copyright, burn it onto DVDs or even re-edit it to make new viral videos. Chinese netizens love to mock Kim, and North Koreans like to watch movies smuggled across the border from China. Perhaps the CIA could dub the movie into Korean to make sure it gets to its target audience.

[aparch]

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A small theater chain owner in Texas called into the Opie Radio show yesterday and said his corporate lawyer contacted him and said that the insurance company would refuse to pay out any claims IF something happened (which even the insurance company admitted the odds were slim to none), because there was advance warning made putting the negligence squarely on the theaters to pay any legal costs and zero responsibility to the insurance companies.

So theaters bailed on showing it due to the legal scare, causing Sony to just throw their hands up and yank it since no one would show it.

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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I cant remember where I read it, but I heard that Sony was better off putting it entirely for insurance reasons instead of letting it run wherever it could and trying to collect a "partial" claim.

[The Rube]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Apparently Team America World Police got pulled from theaters now by Paramount. Not sure I understand that. I don't get that. Sure, it's Un's dad, but Il didn't seem to care then AND he's dead now.

But can people please stop talking about how this is making America weak? It was still going to run until the top five theater companies decided to drop it, and then Sony, a Japanese company, decided to pull it completely. People are making it out to be like Obama made a speech from the Oval Office declaring North Korea won and is now the greatest country on Earth.

The theaters were weak in pulling it. Sony, seeing that (meaning no earnings) made a sound business decision.

[Spartanforlife4]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

Apparently Team America World Police got pulled from theaters now by Paramount. Not sure I understand that. I don't get that. Sure, it's Un's dad, but Il didn't seem to care then AND he's dead now.

But can people please stop talking about how this is making America weak? It was still going to run until the top five theater companies decided to drop it, and then Sony, a Japanese company, decided to pull it completely. People are making it out to be like Obama made a speech from the Oval Office declaring North Korea won and is now the greatest country on Earth.

[FreshFish]

Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

found the reference to which I alluded earlier: Bloomberg.

Sony Corp. (SNE) Chief Executive Officer Kazuo Hirai personally approved scenes in “The Interview,” the Seth Rogen film that angered North Korea and may have prompted a cyber attack on the company’s Hollywood film studio, according to e-mails made public by the hackers.

In messages to Sony Pictures Entertainment Co-Chairman Amy Pascal, Hirai gave input and ultimately the go-ahead to a toned-down scene depicting the death of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and he asked the studio executive to make sure the filmmakers didn’t include Kim’s exploding face in versions released outside the U.S.

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Pascal and other Sony film executives asked [director and co-star Seth] Rogen to remove some of the gore from the the scene in which Kim dies in a slow-motion fireball. The aim of the cuts was to emphasize the comedic nature of the film and depict the scene in a more cartoonish light.

“In shot #337 there is no face melting, less fire in the hair, fewer embers on the face, and the head explosion has been considerably obscured by the fire, as well as darkened to look less like flesh,” Pascal wrote to Hirai on Sept. 28. “We arrived at this shot (#337) after much cajoling and resistance from the filmmakers.”