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Movies: New Ideas Welcome II Prequel Reboot

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Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I don't like comic book movies aside from some of the batman movies, but I saw wonder woman this weekend and it was freaking awesome.
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I'm along those lines, but you should really check out Kick A* and Deadpool. Very off the wall, irreverent, hilarious movies.
 
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Wow.

The Force Awakens was really, really good. It's easily the best since Empire. It's almost a better version of A New Hope. I mean, it's a total ripoff of ANH, but it was good.

I loved the lightsaber battle in the woods. It was so beautiful. Perhaps the best fight in the series.
 
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I loved it when I saw it...but the more I get away from seeing it in the theater the more I really have come to dislike ANH. I cant explain it, it just didnt hold up over time.
 
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Handyman said:
I loved it when I saw it...but the more I get away from seeing it in the theater the more I really have come to dislike ANH. I cant explain it, it just didnt hold up over time.
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You can see what a whiny little b* Luke was, just like dad when he was a kid. :D




The Stanford Prison Experiment:

Based on true story. A group of men are chosen for a study. Some are prison guards, some are prisoners. Part of Stanford was remade as a prison. Let the events commence.

I've always read about it, and this movie delivers. It really is scary to see how humans adapt to the roles given them. Highly recommend.

Related: We Live In Public is one of the scariest documentaries I've seen. TSPE reminded me of this doc. In WLIP, a number of people are given free room and board, no rules, really, they have to live as a small community, but they are on tape 24/7. As the creator of the experiment puts it: everything is free, except the footage. WE own that. The degeneration that follows is horrifying. No "reality" tv at this time. The creators just let things happen, as in TSPI.
 
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I read ANH, my brain recognized ANH, but it said, "f-ck it" and still processed it as TFA.
 
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I didn't care for TFA at all. In fact the best part of the movie was the ending. I will say in its defense that it recaptured the allure and charm of IV-VI that was completely lost in I-III, I liked many of the characters and I have a feeling it will setup VIII really well. But on its own it's meh at best.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I don't get TFW hate. I loved it.
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I dont hate it...I just feel if it had come out instead of the prequels it wouldnt be as beloved. (not by you but many others including myself) Put it this way, I have seen the original trilogy hundreds of times, the prequels a few times (well mostly just #3 the other 2 are unwatchable) and The Force Awakens once. I have literally never felt the need to watch it again. It hit the right notes, but was nothing special outside of seeing a Star Wars film in the theater. (which is an experience)

Speaking of Star Wars...with 3 weeks or so left in filming the directors of the Han Solo film left the project. You dont see that very often...
 
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Brenthoven said:
Related: We Live In Public is one of the scariest documentaries I've seen. TSPE reminded me of this doc. In WLIP, a number of people are given free room and board, no rules, really, they have to live as a small community, but they are on tape 24/7. As the creator of the experiment puts it: everything is free, except the footage. WE own that. The degeneration that follows is horrifying. No "reality" tv at this time. The creators just let things happen, as in TSPI.
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These results are eerily similar to the "mouse utopia" experiments of the 1950s.

Scientists introduced 2 pairs of breeding mice into an environment in which there were no predators, and they were provided with all the food and water they needed, so that they didn't even have to forage to find food. At first, the mouse population grew just fine, but after a time, they had a complete breakdown in society, young males became more concerned with grooming than mating, female fertility plummeted, and eventually they all died off.
 
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Handyman said:
I dont hate it...I just feel if it had come out instead of the prequels it wouldnt be as beloved. (not by you but many others including myself) Put it this way, I have seen the original trilogy hundreds of times, the prequels a few times (well mostly just #3 the other 2 are unwatchable) and The Force Awakens once. I have literally never felt the need to watch it again. It hit the right notes, but was nothing special outside of seeing a Star Wars film in the theater. (which is an experience)

Speaking of Star Wars...with 3 weeks or so left in filming the directors of the Han Solo film left the project. You dont see that very often...
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I heard that. That's odd but there's a lot of weird stuff going on with these "universe" movies. So many universes now and a lot of politics everywhere.

I've watched it 2 or 3 times. There are certain scenes in it that are so good I continue to enjoy them over and over again.
 
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Handyman said:
I dont hate it...I just feel if it had come out instead of the prequels it wouldnt be as beloved. (not by you but many others including myself) Put it this way, I have seen the original trilogy hundreds of times, the prequels a few times (well mostly just #3 the other 2 are unwatchable) and The Force Awakens once. I have literally never felt the need to watch it again. It hit the right notes, but was nothing special outside of seeing a Star Wars film in the theater. (which is an experience)

Speaking of Star Wars...with 3 weeks or so left in filming the directors of the Han Solo film left the project. You dont see that very often...
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I read that they were fired from the production, not that they voluntarily left. Nothing I read went into it too deeply, only that they weren't making their bosses very happy.
 
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It doesnt matter whether they left or were fired...switching directors before the end of principle photography is a very risky proposition. They already have 2 sets of reshoots planned because of it. (well one is because of it one was planned) Han Solo is going to be a very expensive production and the post production is going to be intense. I would not be surprised if it gets delayed. (and it probably should)

As for ticking off Disney...it isnt exactly a secret that Disney can be kind of a pain in the butt to deal with. ;)

And yeah these big universe deals are becoming a quagmire. I mean Universal is taking a bath on their "Dark Universe" no one wanted and Pirates Transformers looks to be dying out too. (even with international numbers it looks like TF is going to underperform) Sony is already planning like 5 Spiderman spinoffs (will Iron Man be in all of them too?) and of course Disney is milking Star Wars for everything they have and so on and so on. Standalone films re going to become increasingly rare. Not a smart move imho.
 
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The stand alone films will be relegated to the studios' smaller production arms, the traditional art-house studios that they acquired however many years prior.

I don't even know what the "Dark Universe" is. Is that a reference to DC and its style?
 
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