New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

[unofan]

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It's been what, 20 years since the original? And this isn't a remake, it's a sequel? Just strikes me as odd, and a cashgrab, which usually doesn't turn out well.

I'd love to be wrong, as the first one was great. I just get that funny feeling that it'll be terrible.

While there are good if not outstanding sequels, if I had to make an educated guess, I'd say the ratio of bad sequels to good sequels is at least 2:1. So the odds are, it'll suck.

 

[PrezdeJohnson09]

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From the success of Avatar and a few other wide releases, it sounds like more movies are going to be released in IMax. There's even a standard movie theater that was built only a couple years ago, just 7 or 8 miles from me, that has an IMax screen in it - I had never heard of that before.

The report I heard said that the final two Harry Potter movies would be on IMax, and they mentioned a couple others, too.

Transformers in IMax was pretty sick too. Probably a big reason why a marginal storyline and marginal acting movie made $400 million because it was "entertaining".

 

[Handyman]

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It's been what, 20 years since the original? And this isn't a remake, it's a sequel? Just strikes me as odd, and a cashgrab, which usually doesn't turn out well.

I'd love to be wrong, as the first one was great. I just get that funny feeling that it'll be terrible.

Why would Oliver Stone need a cashgrab?

It is a sequel that takes place 20 years later where Stone does exactly what he did in the original, show what is really going on on Wall Street. Find interviews with him where he goes in depth, that will sell the movie. This isn't "Oooooh lets bring back Gordon Gecko for funzies!" because if they were going to do that they would have just brought back Charlie Sheen and done the movie from there. This is Gordon Gekko on the modern Wall Street, seeing a new generation making money in a whole new illegal way and trying to help prevent the major crash that is about to happen. (ya know, the one that really did happen that screwed us all)

Here is the wiki page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_2

 

[GreatLakerMohawk]

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I checked out Extract last night and thought it was OK. Like other Mike Judge movies I might have to watch it more to get more of the subtle lines but I didn't immediately "love" it the way I did Office Space and Idiocracy. Jason Bateman was good, Kristen Wiig was tolerable, Gene Simmons was hilarious for his short bit and Mila Kunis is fun to look at.

 

[Handyman]

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I checked out Extract last night and thought it was OK. Like other Mike Judge movies I might have to watch it more to get more of the subtle lines but I didn't immediately "love" it the way I did Office Space and Idiocracy. Jason Bateman was good, Kristen Wiig was tolerable, Gene Simmons was hilarious for his short bit and Mila Kunis is fun to look at.

Yeah I was disappointed in that movie but yes Mila Kunis has some wonderful intangibles

 

[Kepler]

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Why would Oliver Stone need a cashgrab?

Why did George Lucas need three?

Because more is more than less.

 

[Derek Dunning]

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I checked out Extract last night and thought it was OK. Like other Mike Judge movies I might have to watch it more to get more of the subtle lines but I didn't immediately "love" it the way I did Office Space and Idiocracy. Jason Bateman was good, Kristen Wiig was tolerable, Gene Simmons was hilarious for his short bit and Mila Kunis is fun to look at.

That's on my radar along with a few other movies that just got put on Time Warner Cable's I-Control On-Demand movie channels.

I also want to see District 9, I love you Beth Cooper (only for Hayden Penatierre), and Inglorious Basterds.

 

[Handyman]

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Why did George Lucas need three?

Because more is more than less.

No I don't buy it...I mean you are right but I just dont see that. He didn't have to be involved in this project it isnt like he wrote it, he chose to do it. If he was just going to choose what movie to direct in the hopes of making lots of cash he could do anything.

Lucas is a megalomaniac who loves having people bow to him like he is some sort of Messiah. The fact that all of his buddies win awards ****es him off so this is his way of shoving it back at them

 

[The Rube]

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No I don't buy it...I mean you are right but I just dont see that. He didn't have to be involved in this project it isnt like he wrote it, he chose to do it. If he was just going to choose what movie to direct in the hopes of making lots of cash he could do anything.

Lucas is a megalomaniac who loves having people bow to him like he is some sort of Messiah. The fact that all of his buddies win awards ****es him off so this is his way of shoving it back at them

How about Oliver Stone is batsh* crazy? Does that reason work for you?

 

[Handyman]

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How about Oliver Stone is batsh* crazy? Does that reason work for you?

Well yeah, that is why his movies are (sometimes) good! If he was normal he would just be another Coppola or Brian DePalma!

But hey, feel free not to see it, you can watch more crap like Dude, Where's My Car and wonder why your IQ keeps decreasing

 

[The Rube]

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Well yeah, that is why his movies are (sometimes) good! If he was normal he would just be another Coppola or Brian DePalma!

But hey, feel free not to see it, you can watch more crap like Dude, Where's My Car and wonder why your IQ keeps decreasing

Oh, I'm sure you've seen your share of crap, too.

If this new Wall Street is good, sure I'll watch it, but I'm just on the suspicious side right now.

And yay, "High Plains Drifter" is on! Awesome movie.

 

[Handyman]

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Oh, I'm sure you've seen your share of crap, too.

If this new Wall Street is good, sure I'll watch it, but I'm just on the suspicious side right now.

And yay, "High Plains Drifter" is on! Awesome movie.

Well I did say I liked Police Academy 3 and 4

I am updating my Netflix que watching Class Action...I love this movie

 

[bigmrg74]

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And why would that be? There have been a number of sequels that have been as good or better than the original. How do you know already?

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Hadn't watched an old fillm for a while. Hadn't seen this one yet and saw it was on TCM. Set the DVR. Watched it last night since everything was repeats last night. Doesn't get much better than Katharine Hepburn, Jimmy Stewart, and Carey Grant. I thought the supporting role by Ruth Hussey was very good as well. Looked it and sure as anything she had a best supporting actress nomination for the role and Jimmy Stewart had won for his. I'd say this is my favorite of Hepburn's roles I've seen so far.

Case in point, Bride of Frankenstein. Twice the movie as the original Frankenstein.

 

[St. Clown]

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Just beware, there's IMax and then there's IMax. One theater here in Omaha (actually Counciltucky, but same metro area) has an "IMax" theatre, but it's not the gigantic 5-story high screen most people think of when they think IMax. The screen is maybe 1.5-2x's the size of a normal one, and the sound quality's somewhat better, but not twice the price of a movie ticket better. Saw the Star Trek reboot there, won't go back again.

Found the website for that theater that people told me had the IMax theater. The theater doesn't call it that - just two huge screens and thirteen other normal screens. They also have something called "4K Digital," but don't explain what's digital - the sound, video or both.

The place does serve booze, so that's a plus.

 

[The Rube]

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Well, here's my must-watch movie tomorrow:

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[Handyman]

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I watched Yes Man...I enjoyed it more than I figured.

 

[The Rube]

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Wesley Willis' Joyrides: different from the other doc I watched (which was more just a camera following him around, which is interesting enough). This one started from his childhood and covered his whole life, including interviews with his family, etc. He also talks a bit more about his schizophrenia and you see a the starts of a couple "episodes" in the movie, which is kinda sad, kinda disturbing, since we've all seen "that crazy guy" in the middle of a downtown area, or whatever.

Even for a non-fan, this doc is better than average, and worth watching.



Unforgiven: Great movie, got better as the movie went on. Seemed kinda bland at first, and I was getting tired of Eastwood's constant "I'm not like that anymore" speeches/lines. When English Bob shows up, the whole sorta mystery of his character really started to change the mood of this movie for me, and kicked it into high gear. The ending was great, given its complexity (and of course referencing some of Eastwoods' classic westerns and such).

This would be worth owning.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Recently saw the new Sherlock Holmes, which was about what I expected and good.

Then last week, I randomly picked Book of Eli because nothing really stood out at the moment. Halfway in, I thought it was going to be an atheist flick, then the ending changed my opinion.

Otherwise, it had kind of a typical post-nuclear apocalypse theme, complete with plenty of scorched earth, bombed out cities, scarce resources, desperate villains, and highway violence. Mildly entertaining, but bland.

 

[Foxton]

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Then last week, I randomly picked Book of Eli because nothing really stood out at the moment. Halfway in, I thought it was going to be an atheist flick, then the ending changed my opinion.

Otherwise, it had kind of a typical post-nuclear apocalypse theme, complete with plenty of scorched earth, bombed out cities, scarce resources, desperate villains, and highway violence. Mildly entertaining, but bland.

Isn't the whole thrust of the movie, that Eli, who's got god on his side to kill people cause he's blind, is bringing a bible to some place out west, and some guy who actually wants to rebuild a bit decides it's the most important thing that he needs, so he wastes his resources to find something that he could probably just find in the drawer of some abandoned hotel if this world was based on reality at all?

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

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Isn't the whole thrust of the movie, that Eli, who's got god on his side to kill people cause he's blind, is bringing a bible to some place out west, and some guy who actually wants to rebuild a bit decides it's the most important thing that he needs, so he wastes his resources to find something that he could probably just find in the drawer of some abandoned hotel if this world was based on reality at all?

Basically