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

[ScoobyDoo]

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Avatar 6 - The Search for More Money!

Avatar 7 - Just a collection of film we had left over after the cuts from the previous 6 that we've strung together into another money churning blockbuster.

[goldy_331]

Avatar 7 - Just a collection of film we had left over after the cuts from the previous 6 that we've strung together into another money churning blockbuster.

But how many suicides will result from it?

[St. Clown]

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But how many suicides will result from it?

I can't speak to the quantity, but it'll only be the ones society sorely needs.

[Shirtless Guy]

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You could say that about a host of remakes that should have never been made. I haven't seen the remake, but there was no way Bridges could replace The Duke.

As for the modern oaters, my benchmark is Silverado. Love this reviewer's comment on Rotten Tomatoes:

****, I thought I read that this movie was on netflix streaming...got all excited to watch a "benchmark western" boo.

[rufus]

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You've never seen Silverado? Kevin Kline, Danny Glover, Scott Glenn, and a young Kevin Costner, who was given the part by Kasden to make up for having his scenes cut out of The Big Chill, and then supporting roles by John Cleese, James Gammon, Brian Dennehy, Jeff Fahey and more. It probably is, more than any other film, responsible for the rebirth of the western in modern cinema.

[whatever]

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Not much for watching TV series on Netflix, but I like watching Once Upon A Time, just to see Lana Parilla. She hot.

[rufus]

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Not much for watching TV series on Netflix, but I like watching Once Upon A Time, just to see Lana Parilla. She hot.

Not so much in Storybrook, but when she's all done up in the evil queen's lace and leather..........................meow.

[manurespreader]

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I saw the movie, " Last train to Lisbon" yesterday. Not as good as the book, which was a big best seller.. I liked the movie, but you really have to pay attention or you miss things and get left behind. Still, I like movies that make you think.

[FreshFish]

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You could say that about a host of remakes that should have never been made.

I saw trailers for a remake of Robocop What is the point? why not simply re-release the original with a better sound system or something like that? much cheaper to distribute and likely to do just as well at the box office, which would mean far better profits! In 1987, the idea of Detroit as a failed city was satire; now it is merely sad and depressing.



I was trying to think of a remake that was as good or better than the original. A few came surprisingly close. Most of them were US remakes of a superior foreign film, like The Magnificent Seven set in Mexico with gunfighters against bandits was really good, nearly as good as The Seven Samurai with swordsmen against bandits in feudal Japan....or Point of No Return as the US remake of the French film La Femme Nikita. that kind of "remake" makes sense, as people don't like subtitles or watching a dubbed film where the words spoken by the voices obviously don't match the moving lips.

[RaceBoarder]

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I saw trailers for a remake of Robocop What is the point? why not simply re-release the original with a better sound system or something like that? much cheaper to distribute and likely to do just as well at the box office, which would mean far better profits! In 1987, the idea of Detroit as a failed city was satire; now it is merely sad and depressing.



I was trying to think of a remake that was as good or better than the original. A few came surprisingly close. Most of them were US remakes of a superior foreign film, like The Magnificent Seven set in Mexico with gunfighters against bandits was really good, nearly as good as The Seven Samurai with swordsmen against bandits in feudal Japan....or Point of No Return as the US remake of the French film La Femme Nikita. that kind of "remake" makes sense, as people don't like subtitles or watching a dubbed film where the words spoken by the voices obviously don't match the moving lips.

You don't want to get started on the amount of FAIL that appears to be involved in the new ROBOCOP... The internet folk have already beat that horse into a pulp... And it's likely that they are all correct in their assumptions...

[St. Clown]

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This might be the geekiest movie/twitter thing ever. Star Wars and Marvel get into a Twitter "bout".

http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/22/...icle-trend-now

[FreshFish]

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I was trying to think of a remake that was as good or better than the original.

IMHO, the US remake of The Italian Job was "better" than the British original....

[Slap Shot]

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The Bourne Identity. Still can't turn it off.

[solovsfett]

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Saw Lone Survivor last weekend...WHAT A ****ING AMAZING MOVIE!

I read the book last summer so I knew the story going in and in thinking about the book in retrospect to be honest there's not a creative writer anywhere on earth who could have created/written the story Marcus Luttrell lived through.

The acting was great, but what really got me is the movie took very little if any liberties with in the story (although the end was rushed...both Gulab and the village elder deserved more exposition and screen time) and the final montage showing the real men was enough to make you cry.

For me this is the best film I've seen based on a true story/war experience (right up there with the Band of Brothers and Pacific series)...I wish Blackhawk Down had achieved this level of greatness but that really wasn't Ridley Scott's forte.

here's a pretty good conversation w/one of the actors and Marcus himself - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5m9CMT_1bU

[The Rube]

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Nice double feature (different channels) tonight:

The Warriors
Identity

Love 'em both. Worth owning.