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

[ExileOnDaytonStreet]

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

This was inevitable, but you've got to give props to the internet for making this happen so soon:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...&v=v93Jh6JNBng

[Kepler]

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Disney is the Proctor & Gamble of entertainment: high quality, mainstream target, no risks, nothing original, no excuses. After the prequels that will be a big step up. Lucas being all but eliminated from the creative process is also a good sign. I think we'll get something very serviceable. Frankly, if someone was interested in doing something original they would stay away from prestige franchises and... do something original.

[French Rage]

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Now you have Abrams directing a movie that has Lucas pretty far removed from it. He has a rich universe in which to operate and appears to be more interested in the quality of the movie than merchandising concerns. This movie has great potential written all over it.

And say what you will about Disney, but they know how to turn out a product that people mostly want to see. By mostly, I mean not perfect but a hell of a lot better than people expected, and for Star Wars that would be a drastic improvement over the prequels. Everyone feared they would ruin the Marvel movies, but they did well beyond expectations, and in the end they know how to make money and have hired the right people and gotten out of the way at the right times, so fingers crossed that continues here.


Though I suppose it's too much to hope we go back to stop motion and miniatures for special effects. As good as technology has gotten, real things still look more real, and CGI still looks like actors acting against a green screen.

[St. Clown]

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Lucas sold out. That's been the problem since Episode VI on. We'll see if Abrams has a different idea or not.

It really started with little things that became big things. The original script for Return of the Jedi had Han dieing during the fight with Jaba, but Lucas changed that so as to sell more toys. He admitted to it, and production staff lament the changes that he made in the concern for merchandising because they were made at the expense of the movie's quality. He did the same with te prequels

A New Hope was great because Lucas had to do a lot with only a small budget and didn't have any clue he was sitting on a mountain of gold, so the focus was entirely upon the quality of the movie. The Empire Strikes back was phenomenal because Lucas had penned the basic story but then let Kasdan and Brackett write the screenplay and Kershner directed it; they wanted to tell a good story and knew how to make top flight quality of the material.

Now you have Abrams directing a movie that has Lucas pretty far removed from it. He has a rich universe in which to operate and appears to be more interested in the quality of the movie than merchandising concerns. This movie has great potential written all over it.

[ScoobyDoo]

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Lucas sold out. That's been the problem since Episode VI on. We'll see if Abrams has a different idea or not.

[Shirtless Guy]

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Episode 1 of the Star Wars series should be ignored completely. While Episodes 2 and 3 aren't great, they are quite acceptable and do an acceptable job of telling the prequel story. Granted some of the acting is still too wooden, but I blame Lucas for almost everything wrong with them.

[FreshFish]

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We saw Sin City a Dame to Kill for over the holiday. Just awful.

Four people watching, collective review is eight thumbs down.

[Kepler]

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I didn't mind the prequels for Star Wars overall. Hard to recapture that magic of the first three, especially considering how old one was when first watched.

I can only speak of Ep 1 since I ignored the other two. Ep 1 was a tween merchandising scam. What if Steven Spielberg directed a Kenner Toy Saturday morning cartoon?

What people don't seem to remember is how poor Ep 6 was, though. That series ran the classic 95/80/65/50... sequence. From what I've heard, 35 and 20 are too kind for Eps 2 and 3. We're due for a 5 from Ep 7, but if they recapture the dated Space Opera feel of the original I have hopes that it will be adequate.

[Kepler]

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Sorry but Abrams Star Trek movies sucked. (I only saw the first one but the second one sounded even worse) Star Trek in name only from a guy who admittedly doesnt even get Star Trek.

I think that is too harsh. Kirk's daddy's liebestod was such infantile corn it belonged in The Dark Knight, but other than that the first Abrams Trek flick was satisfactory. The second was hot garbage.

[Handyman]

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My friends saw Horrible Bosses 2 and loved it immensely...I plan to see it this week

[The Rube]

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I didn't mind the prequels for Star Wars overall. Hard to recapture that magic of the first three, especially considering how old one was when first watched.

I didn't mind the new Star Treks at all. They were better than some of the originals, worse than others.

Expendables 3:

Loved it in all its popcorn glory. Great balance of poking fun at themselves and a decent action movie. Minor spoiler: good passing of the guard, too, although I think they could have found some better choices. I like Ronda Rousey, but when she's the biggest "new guard".....kind of a problem. I really hope that the rumor (dunno how valid the rumor is) about having an all-female sequel is true. I know some friends and I were kicking around names we'd like to see in that.

[Handyman]

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Just saw the Star Wars trailer. Good enough for me.

Did anyone really doubt that the best way to improve that series was to forcibly take it away from that hack Lucas? Abrams did wonders for the Star Trek franchise that had been cast off on an iceberg. (Did anyone see the last TNG movie? It was fking AWFUL. Which is sad considering First Contact was such a fantastic movie.) The last two Star Trek movies were amazing. This next Star Wars is going to be amazing. Even if it's not amazing, it's going to be infinitely better than those tightly coiled piles known as 1-3.

Sorry but Abrams Star Trek movies sucked. (I only saw the first one but the second one sounded even worse) Star Trek in name only from a guy who admittedly doesnt even get Star Trek.

The teaser is fine, but I think the Star Wars freaks are trying to hard t make it into something it isnt. No one complained about the trailer for Phantom Menace either remember.

[Spartanforlife4]

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Lars von Trier says he doesn't know if he can make any movies now that he's sober.

Sad to hear, especially after he did such a good job as Pie in Too Many Cooks.

[The Rube]

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Loved the concept, absolutely hated the execution. I'm actually embarrassed for Fassbender (sp?) on this one.

It was a little Matrixy (part 2) at the end, but *shrug* I really liked it.

[Slap Shot]

Snow Piercer

A train carrying what's left of the human population after an apocalyptic event travels around the world. The cars are sorted by class. The poor people decide to try and take over the train by moving up cars.

I thought this was a great take on a "revolution" story. Quite a dandy surprise at the end, as far as cameos go, too.

Loved the concept, absolutely hated the execution. I'm actually embarrassed for Fassbender (sp?) on this one.