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

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A small theater chain owner in Texas called into the Opie Radio show yesterday and said his corporate lawyer contacted him and said that the insurance company would refuse to pay out any claims IF something happened (which even the insurance company admitted the odds were slim to none), because there was advance warning made putting the negligence squarely on the theaters to pay any legal costs and zero responsibility to the insurance companies.

So theaters bailed on showing it due to the legal scare, causing Sony to just throw their hands up and yank it since no one would show it.
 
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Here's another idea for The Interview: dub it in Korean and smuggle it into North Korea, or give it away free in China and let the existing cross-border smugglers between China and North Korea bring it in:

Park Sang Hak, a North Korean defector now living in the South, has an idea. Mr. Park ... puts information about the outside world along with movies and television programs on USB drives, which he floats into the North on balloons. The Kim Jong Un regime has labeled him “enemy zero” and sent an assassin to kill him with a poison-tipped pen. For real.

Mr. Park wants to include “The Interview” on future balloon launches. But there is another way to make sure that the movie gets the giant audience that Kim fears, even in North Korea: Make it free.
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release it into the public domain. Anyone could then share the file online without violating copyright, burn it onto DVDs or even re-edit it to make new viral videos. Chinese netizens love to mock Kim, and North Koreans like to watch movies smuggled across the border from China. Perhaps the CIA could dub the movie into Korean to make sure it gets to its target audience.
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Saw The Hobbit finale last night. I thought it was pretty good. The fight sequences were amazing. I don't think they did as good of a job with the "extra" material they used than they could have but getting to see the Battle of the Five Armies onscreen was worth it.

People are going to be madder about the cliffhanger from part 2 after this one. I still think it was the right call.
 
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Just watched this fascinating documentary on Starz about filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his attempt to bring Frank Herbert's book Dune to the big screen in 1975. He gathered together a bunch of creative people, Moebius did the storyboards, he got H.R. Giger to design sets and characters(years before Alien), bands like Pink Floyd on board to do the soundtrack, tentative casting of Orson Welles for Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger for Feyd Rautha. Except for his own sort of hippy-dippy peace and love 60's sentiment ending, it sounded like a version I would have loved to see.

The best part was his description of how he was heartbroken not to be able to do it, and had to be led like a dying man by his children into the theater to see David Lynch's version years later, only to bit by bit to cheer up as he saw how awful that film was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
 
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rufus said:
Just watched this fascinating documentary on Starz about filmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky, and his attempt to bring Frank Herbert's book Dune to the big screen in 1975. He gathered together a bunch of creative people, Moebius did the storyboards, he got H.R. Giger to design sets and characters(years before Alien), bands like Pink Floyd on board to do the soundtrack, tentative casting of Orson Welles for Baron Harkonnen and Mick Jagger for Feyd Rautha. Except for his own sort of hippy-dippy peace and love 60's sentiment ending, it sounded like a version I would have loved to see.

The best part was his description of how he was heartbroken not to be able to do it, and had to be led like a dying man by his children into the theater to see David Lynch's version years later, only to bit by bit to cheer up as he saw how awful that film was.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/
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I wish I was even interested in Dune, as I have seen previews/recommendations for this doc. It does look good, if you're interested in the subject matter.

Did watch the Bonnie And Clyde mini-series that AMC/HIS/whoever put out a couple years ago. Not bad. Haven't looked into how factual it was, but it was entertaining. Really liked Emile Hirsch in it.

Also caught the 30/30 "The U" and "Brian And The Boz" shows. Very decent, and brought back some memories of my childhood (hated 'em both).
 
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Went to Mockingjay Pt. 1 tonight and liked it much the same as the first two in the series - which is to say, quite a bit.


They've done a nice job with this.
 
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Went to Mockingjay Pt. 1 tonight and liked it much the same as the first two in the series - which is to say, quite a bit.


They've done a nice job with this.
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I do want to see it. I expect full setup mode for the Pt 2 which the critics interpret that as "Katniss is all whiny and such" and "moneygrab."

Your thoughts on that take?
 
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Brenthoven said:
I do want to see it. I expect full setup mode for the Pt 2 which the critics interpret that as "Katniss is all whiny and such" and "moneygrab."

Your thoughts on that take?
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For a setup movie - which is really what it is - I thought it was good and I was never bored.

Regarding Katniss - I think they were trying to create a character arc for her. It's more believable imo if she does have some fear and doubt considering what she is dropped into: the face of a revolution. I didn't find her to be whiney, just less sure of herself due to understandable factors.

I had read some negative reviews of the film and kept waiting to see evidence of what had crawled up certain critics' arses, but never did.

Fwiw, the wife liked it a lot also. Both of us read the books before any of the movies came out coz our 6th grader (at the time) came home and told us we HAD to read these great books he had "discovered." Part of me wishes I hadn't as I wonder how I would experience these movies without knowing what comes next or what the spoilers are.



Is it a money grab to cut the final book in half? Obviously, but I don't mind since I felt it was done well.


Next weekend I will put myself through the other, poorly executed money-grab franchise movie series. Gotta see it on the Ultra Screen just like the first 5.
 
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For a setup movie - which is really what it is - I thought it was good and I was never bored.

Regarding Katniss - I think they were trying to create a character arc for her. It's more believable imo if she does have some fear and doubt considering what she is dropped into: the face of a revolution. I didn't find her to be whiney, just less sure of herself due to understandable factors.

I had read some negative reviews of the film and kept waiting to see evidence of what had crawled up certain critics' arses, but never did.

Fwiw, the wife liked it a lot also. Both of us read the books before any of the movies came out coz our 6th grader (at the time) came home and told us we HAD to read these great books he had "discovered." Part of me wishes I hadn't as I wonder how I would experience these movies without knowing what comes next or what the spoilers are.



Is it a money grab to cut the final book in half? Obviously, but I don't mind since I felt it was done well.


Next weekend I will put myself through the other, poorly executed money-grab franchise movie series. Gotta see it on the Ultra Screen just like the first 5.
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I never read the Hunger books, but I can understand your feeling on that, as I have gone that route before. I like movies more than books, overall. I'm more a visual person. Good to know about the take. Look forward to seeing this.
 
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Well most people I know that read Hunger Games hated the 3rd book so splitting it into two movies irks them. I never read it and dont much care about the movies either :)

I am in no hurry to see Peter Jackson's "Not Quite as Good as The Return of the King" but it will happen. I will not own any of the Hobbit Trilogy though much like I dont any of the Star Wars Prequels.
 
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The Battle of the Five Armies is the lowest scoring of the three Hobbit films, scoring 60% on RottenTomatoes, The Desolation of Smaug scored 74%, An Unexpected Journey got 63%. I'm not expecting much out of this, and will wait to see it for free instead of in the theater.

I had trouble staying awake during the first two movies, and that rarely happens to me during a movie.
 
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The third Hunger book is definitely the weakest although I didn't hate it.

I actually found the movie to be more engaging than the book, iirc.
 
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I know that the Hobbit movie will be a dumpster fire, but i will see it through.
 
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Yeah at least this one I will see with my buddy, I had to sit through Hobbit 2: This Time With More Dwarves Running! by myself. These movies just have zero charm...even at the lamest point of LOTR there was a spark of something, some moment of laughter or humanity that made you smile. This one is all Easter Eggs and CGI...just like the Star Wars Prequels. They worried more about getting the "ZOMG ITS SAURON or DATS SHERLOCKS VOICE!!1!!!" reaction than finding a way to engage us.
 
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The third Hunger book is definitely the weakest although I didn't hate it.

I actually found the movie to be more engaging than the book, iirc.
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I've not seen the movie yet. My problem with the third book was that the author kept... having Katniss get knocked out at critical junctures of the story only to come around when something momentous had happened. She would contribute heavily to the penultimate moments in a scene, then BAM, she wakes up and the world is entirely different. Using that tactic once or twice would be one thing, and send a strong message to readers about how life can happen, but it just became a crutch and ruined the story, especially at the climax.
 
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I read the book once and it was several years ago, so I honestly don't remember that.

I remember the ending, but that's about it.
 
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Handyman said:
Yeah at least this one I will see with my buddy, I had to sit through Hobbit 2: This Time With More Dwarves Running! by myself. These movies just have zero charm...even at the lamest point of LOTR there was a spark of something, some moment of laughter or humanity that made you smile. This one is all Easter Eggs and CGI...just like the Star Wars Prequels. They worried more about getting the "ZOMG ITS SAURON or DATS SHERLOCKS VOICE!!1!!!" reaction than finding a way to engage us.
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I agree. the chemistry amongst the characters was real and made the journey so much more than "Look at this cool creature we're fighting!" The first Star Wars trilogy had this too while the second suffers from the same lack of it as the Hobbit(s).


I think the all-cgi backdrops also contribute mightily to the stale feeling.

In LOTR, they went to all of these amazing locations to film while in the Hobbit, the one that's supposed to be in a sunnier, lighter era, it all looks drab and dreary.

Seriously, Jackson got just about everything wrong with this project.
 
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I watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World again last night.

Man I love this movie. So nerdy, so many references. :)
 
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