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MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

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Movies seen on long flights this last week and a half:

-The Grand Budapest Hotel
-The Darjeeling Limited
Two of the only Wes Anderson movies I had not yet seen. I think I just have The Life Aquatic to go now. As always, it's the visuals that stand out. If nothing else, Anderson is just great at composing shots, and that keeps you going even when there isn't anything else going on.

-Finding Dory
It's nice, certainly entertaining and far from being Pixar's worst, but this was definitely a cash-in more than a meaningful story.

-Now You See Me 2
I really have no idea why some of these movies get sequels, least of all Deus Ex Machina: The Movie. That said, even in material that's clearly lacking, most of the cast is hard to not enjoy on screen, especially Daniel Radcliffe.
 
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So I was stuck watching with my wife something called Hardwired with Val Kilmer and Cuba Gooding. It's amazing an actor that was part of Top Gun, Real Genius, Thunderheart, The Doors, Tombstone, The Ghost in The Darkness et al along with an AA winner from Men of Honor, Boyz in the Hood, Jerry McGuire and As Good as it Gets have to finish their careers with this schlock.

Not trying to oversell either actor just saying.
 
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Val was pretty solid in "Kill The Irishman."

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Laura (1944):

Detective falls in love with the victim of the murder he's investigating. Pretty solid whodunit, a ton of twists and turns, very good watch. Highly recommend.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Laura (1944):

Detective falls in love with the victim of the murder he's investigating. Pretty solid whodunit, a ton of twists and turns, very good watch. Highly recommend.
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Also Vincent Price with an awful southern accent.

Great movie, agreed.
 
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Kepler said:
Also Vincent Price with an awful southern accent.

Great movie, agreed.
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This shows my age: I thought the writer was Vincent, as that's more of the look I remember him (maybe erroneously?) by? His later years.

Yeah, that was a bad southern accent. Played the bumpkin fool quite nicely, though. The aunt did a superb job.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Movies seen on long flights this last week and a half:

-The Grand Budapest Hotel
-The Darjeeling Limited
Two of the only Wes Anderson movies I had not yet seen. I think I just have The Life Aquatic to go now. As always, it's the visuals that stand out. If nothing else, Anderson is just great at composing shots, and that keeps you going even when there isn't anything else going on.
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For reasons even I don't understand, this really is one of my favorite movies ever.
 
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Honestly, besides Royal Tenenbaums (BRILLIANT!), the rest of Wes' movies left me more and more disappointed. Besides the same themes over and over, they just became drier and drier and drier and blah blah blah and who the hell cares anymore.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Honestly, besides Royal Tenenbaums (BRILLIANT!), the rest of Wes' movies left me more and more disappointed. Besides the same themes over and over, they just became drier and drier and drier and blah blah blah and who the hell cares anymore.
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Just realized I've never seen a Wes Anderson film. Ironic since I'm pretty sure I'm the target demo.
 
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I've only seen Bottlerocket. It was awesome. Or at least I remember it being awesome back when I was in college.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Not sure I'd consider it a remake. Reboot maybe I guess.
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Is there a difference? I don't mean that snarkily -- it seems to me that a reboot is just what Hollywood called a remake 30 years ago. I suppose a reboot suggests an emphasis on establishing a new franchise with sequels, but take the Mummy as a classic example -- everybody who made and remade it back in the old days was doing so in order to churn out sequels.

I've yet to see a truly satisfying mummy, in the way that say the original Dracula and Nosferatu are a satisfying vampire. The original http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x229956_the-mummy-1932_shortfilms is the closest but that's because of the cinematography and Zita Johann, not the mummy himself (sorry Boris).
 
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Kepler said:
Is there a difference? I don't mean that snarkily -- it seems to me that a reboot is just what Hollywood called a remake 30 years ago. I suppose a reboot suggests an emphasis on establishing a new franchise with sequels, but take the Mummy as a classic example -- everybody who made and remade it back in the old days was doing so in order to churn out sequels.

I've yet to see a truly satisfying mummy, in the way that say the original Dracula and Nosferatu are a satisfying vampire. The original http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x229956_the-mummy-1932_shortfilms is the closest but that's because of the cinematography and Zita Johann, not the mummy himself (sorry Boris).
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For me a remake suggests it's mostly the same film/story with different actors/writers/directors. The last franchise with big forehead guy didn't conjure up the Boris Karloff days for me and I doubt Tom Cruise would sign on to tag along.
 
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Slap Shot said:
Not sure I'd consider it a remake. Reboot maybe I guess.
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I'd call this a reboot since Universal Studios is hoping to use this movie to start their "Monster Universe". They want to link the Mummy to other classic movie monsters like Frankenstein, Wolfman, Dracula, and others.

I'm skeptical of this working out, but hey, Disney/Marvel are printing their own money so let's try out best to copy them!
 
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