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

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Brenthoven said:
Agreed. It was almost like a Disney-fied version of the story, with some of the funny one-liners and such. However, the meat of the plot was done alright. Seeing the trailer and movie poster...I was expecting a super blockbuster movie, and they just didn't quite commit to what they wanted to do, IMO.
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They definitely marketed the movie wrong. It was never intended to be like that it is Clooney making a period piece about a story many didnt know about. I think the fact that he got a bunch of stars to be in it hurt it because if it had been a lesser budget film the same critics would have loved it with zero changes to script.

I like the movie a lot, but it is nothing special. I also dont think it was ever meant to be anything special. It is just the story of some guys who had a passion to save the art Hitler was going to destroy.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Finally got around to Desolation of Smaug.

So far, it's pretty bad.
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You know what would be a cool project, after Part 3 comes out edit the 3of them into one 3.5 hour film and see if it is better. I think it would could be epic!
 
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Elizabethtown. It got pretty bad reviews, but I like it a lot. I pretty much like every film Cameron Crowe has done, but there's just a lowkey sweetness about this film that I find charming. One of the few movies that I'll probably buy on DVD.
 
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rufus said:
Elizabethtown. It got pretty bad reviews, but I like it a lot. I pretty much like every film Cameron Crowe has done, but there's just a lowkey sweetness about this film that I find charming. One of the few movies that I'll probably buy on DVD.
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Did I miss 60B? Did I miss 60B? DID, I, MISS 60B? DID. I. MISS! 60! B!?
 
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Bloodsport...awesome and horrible, but great to watch whilst working out :)
 
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Brenthoven said:
Pain And Gain:

Much better than I thought it would be. Yes, lots of things were Hollywood-ized, but hey, that's the movies for ya. I still liked it.
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I saw that back in theaters, sort of a last hurrah before I had shoulder surgery, and there wasn't anything that really interested me playing at the time. Marky Mark was doing the promo circuit for the movie last year, he said that they had to tone down and remove a few of the dumber things those guys did in real life so that people wouldn't just toss up their hands in disgust at the Hollywood-ization of the movie. While I never researched it, if that's true, I would love to read a book on the events.
 
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Brenthoven said:
This could be a great debate: better "great bad movie:" Bloodsport....or Roadhouse? :D
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Look Bloodsport is fun and the terrible acting is hilarious (Donald Gibb might have been the only decent acting job in the film...think about that!) but Roadhouse owns all. It is everything a dude movie is supposed to be! Not to mention it has Sam Elliot (with that amazing stache) and Terry Funk!
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Frankly, that's about the order I'd put then in for GBOAT.
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It's really too bad that the producers of the Bond franchise were unable to persuade the producers of Remington Steele to release Pierce Brosnan from his contract. They wanted him to play Bond after Roger Moore but couldn't sign him at that time, and so they settled for Timothy Dalton instead. By the time they did get Brosnan, he'd lost some of that edge that he had when they first wanted him.
 
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FreshFish said:
It's really too bad that the producers of the Bond franchise were unable to persuade the producers of Remington Steele to release Pierce Brosnan from his contract. They wanted him to play Bond after Roger Moore but couldn't sign him at that time, and so they settled for Timothy Dalton instead. By the time they did get Brosnan, he'd lost some of that edge that he had when they first wanted him.
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I liked Dalton's Bond... but that's as someone who as a youngin' was watching the marathons where they would air all of them. The more I watched the marathons, the less I liked of Roger Moore's version of Bond, and the more I liked of Lazenby and Dalton. Connery is still the best, but Diamonds are Forever was such a departure from the spy format and played more like a Roger Moore Bond film (which, is where the series headed).

And I thought it was NBC that wouldn't allow the release of Brosnan due to his success, not the producers of Remington Steele.
Ehh, kind of, found it thanks to Wikipedia:
Albert R. "Cubby" Broccoli offered Brosnan the part of James Bond for the film The Living Daylights. Following NBC's reversal [of cancelling Remington Steele], Broccoli stated he did not want Bond to be identified with a current TV series, and instead gave the role to Timothy Dalton.
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And the writing was terrible for the Brosnan Bonds. In order of release the worse they got. Even Brosnan admitted he bailed after Die Another Day just because of how hack it had become.


And I love the re-boot with Daniel Craig. It seems more true to the brooding/headcase that the books hinted at instead of the gadgets and one-liners that the movies became.
 
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I thought GoldenEye (first Brosnan) was top notch and a great reboot after Dalton. They got progressively worse after that.

The more I reflect on Gone Girl the more I loved it. I haven't read any of the author's (Gillian Flynn) stuff but I plan to read all three of her novels now. I'm sold.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I thought GoldenEye (first Brosnan) was top notch and a great reboot after Dalton. They got progressively worse after that.
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This has been the pattern with most Bonds except Connery (solid almost throughout) and Dalton (both awful).

Connery

B -- Dr. No
A -- From Russia with Love
A -- Goldfinger
C -- Thunderball
A -- You Only Live Twice
A -- Diamonds Are Forever
D -- Never Say Never Again

Lazenby

A -- On Her Majesty's Secret Service

Moore

A -- Live and Let Die
B -- The Man with the Golden Gun
C -- The Spy Who Loved Me
D -- Moonraker
B -- For Your Eyes Only
D -- Octopussy
C -- A View To a Kill

Dalton

D -- The Living Daylights
F -- License to Kill

Brosnan

B -- GoldenEye
C -- Tomorrow Never Dies
D -- The World Is Not Enough
D -- Die Another Day

Craig

A -- Casino Royale
D -- Quantum of Solace
F -- Skyfall
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
lolwut? I thought Skyfall was excellent!
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Skyfall was awful. Judi Dench hammed it up worse than Ted Cruz, the villain was, as near as I can tell, an actual joke that the director missed, and the script had the impact and interest value of a high school student's love poetry.

I know movies are only watched by adolescents now, but yowzer that was bad.

Compare the first 90% of Casino Royale (particularly the first quarter), which was so fantastic it ranks with the first two great Connery movies (the latter two are great but for pure action reasons). I have no idea how the franchise has sunk to such depths in the last 2.1 movies, considering Craig had the promise to be the second great, dark, problematic Bond. They don't have the Dalton miscasting handicap, they've just been lazy.
 
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Kepler said:
Skyfall was awful. Judi Dench hammed it up worse than Ted Cruz, the villain was, as near as I can tell, an actual joke that the director missed, and the script had the depth and interest value of a high school student's love poetry.

I know movies are only watched by adolescents now, but yowzer that was bad.

Compare the first 90% of the Casino Royale, which was fantastic. I have no idea how the franchise has sunk to such depths in the last 2.1 movies, considering Craig had the promise to be the second great, dark, problematic Bond.
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O.o

Huh... I guess YMMV applies :)

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/guides/james_bond_countdown/
 
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Hey, people somehow think The Departed is an A (it's an F) and The Dark Knight is the Greatest Movie Ever Filmed (it's a C, though granted the first time I watched it I'd have said a D). I can only call them as I see them.

But look, pretty much every movie of the last 40 years that people on this forum rank as "great" I would call "self-important hyperventilation for little boys." (Except GF1, which actually deserves the hype.) So you should probably consider the source... ;)
 
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Kepler said:
Hey, people somehow think The Departed is an A (it's an F) and The Dark Knight is the Greatest Movie Ever Filmed (it's a C, though granted the first time I watched it I'd have said a D). I can only call them as I see them.

But look, pretty much every movie of the last 40 years that people on this forum rank as "great" I would call "self-important hyperventilation for little boys." (Except GF1, which actually deserves the hype.) So you should probably consider the source... ;)
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I think you're rather harsh on The Departed (yes, saw the original...didn't care for it that much, it felt incomplete) and Dark Knight (it was very good, and it had one of the best villain performances I've ever seen).

So....last 40 years.....The Godfather, Red Cliff (international version), Amadeus, Das Boot, Fight Club, Rescue Dawn, American Psycho, Roadhouse (ok, you might have me there ;) ), Royal Tenenbaums, Django Unchained, etc etc....

I guess I disagree with many of your criticisms. And honestly, having getting into the movies from the 1930s-1950's lately (in the past couple years), there was just as much "dreck" then as there is now.
 
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On a scale of 0 (bad) to 10 (good), my time-based rating of the departed looks a lot like a graph of 10/(x-10)^3+10.

In graphical form
 
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We could also delve into more foreign movies, but I think Kepler isn't counting them, and that would be fair on his part.

I agree most "blockbuster" movies nowadays are just not that good. They are either sequels or reboots, or if they are somewhat original, they are pure action and SFX. That's why when you see a movie like Black Swan or Eastern Promises...while they are really good movies, they seem so much better.
 
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