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thatsMISTERwookiee
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PRIME DIRECTIVE for this thread: Agree to Disagree.
Feel free to review movies from any era, recommend or warn people of certain movies, list your all-time best films, list your all-time worst films. You will be voicing your opinion, so you can never be wrong, just understand other's opinions are theirs and they are also never wrong.
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thatsMISTERwookiee
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I'll start off with a fave of mine, "THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI", a silent film from Germany released in 1920. It probably falls more under the Horror category than any other, but it is an excellent story. A hypnotist has in his possession(and under his control) a sleepwalker, that is released at night to terrorize and kill. Can our young hero find a way to stop this monster, and Dr. Caligari, before his girlfriend becomes the next victim? It is well worth watching to find out.
(Yes, I do have a copy on DVD.)
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You know there are are two threads on this Jack?
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thatsMISTERwookiee
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dialswiftjustice posted:
You know there are are two threads on this Jack?
Unless you are refering to a REALLY old thread, one of these is for Movies, the other one is for TV.
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firstsonofsolo
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Predator
Predator 2
Alien
Aliens
Resident Evil
5th Element
Starship Troopers
The Returner
AOTC
ROTS
ESB
ROTJ
Matrix
Matrix Revolutions
House of 1000 Corpses
Night of the Living Dead (1968 B&W)
I would have to say those are probably my top pics of all time in no particular order. Notice how I like some of the sequels but not all and not necesarilly in the order they came out!
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Vangarian
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2001 was my favorite. Though now I'd have to say it's a bit antiquated. Still for its time, it was a wonderful movie.
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Vangarian posted:
2001 was my favorite. Though now I'd have to say it's a bit antiquated. Still for its time, it was a wonderful movie.
How can that Film be antiquated? It gave us what we have today, and something to set a goal for. Very much like Star Trek (all that tech has come to pass except the "big" stuff). A vast part of NASA is based on Clarke's work (he is a scientist first, author second). As 2001 was being written and shot he was designing Epcot center for Disney, designed the communication satellite, "sling shot" effect, all have been used and other stuff he came up with just has to catch up to his ideas. Very much like we still have to catch up to Asimov's stuff.
HAL and SAL are not far off, 99.9% of the tech for that film was based on Clarke's predictions, which WILL come to pass or has already been designed. What comes after the shuttle, Clarke has something to do with.
Heck, we do already have a space craft named "Discovery"  Apollo 13 was names "Odyssey" as well as the mars odyssey.
I just don't see how something based in FACT (for the science part) that has not happened yet can be antiquated.
Maybe I’m a bit too passionate about it. I retract if I went "overboard".
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Jack, remembering your twenty questions about the battle of Thermopylae, I saw a trailer for a movie you might enjoy..."300"...it's about the Spartans vs. the Persians. I thought the trailer looked pretty awesome.
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JediObiKat posted:
Jack, remembering your twenty questions about the battle of Thermopylae, I saw a trailer for a movie you might enjoy..."300"...it's about the Spartans vs. the Persians. I thought the trailer looked pretty awesome.
I'm hoping to see it sometime next weekend.
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thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
JediObiKat posted:
Jack, remembering your twenty questions about the battle of Thermopylae, I saw a trailer for a movie you might enjoy..."300"...it's about the Spartans vs. the Persians. I thought the trailer looked pretty awesome.
I'm hoping to see it sometime next weekend.
The cinematography reminded me of the style of special effects used in the three Wakowski brother's productions (Matrix, II & III). It should be fun to watch to say the least.
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Vangarian posted:
thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
JediObiKat posted:
Jack, remembering your twenty questions about the battle of Thermopylae, I saw a trailer for a movie you might enjoy..."300"...it's about the Spartans vs. the Persians. I thought the trailer looked pretty awesome.
I'm hoping to see it sometime next weekend.
The cinematography reminded me of the style of special effects used in the three Wakowski brother's productions (Matrix, II & III). It should be fun to watch to say the least.
Not having read Frank Miller's "300", and going only by the trailers, it looks like they are going more with the LEGEND of Thermopylae, and not so much historical accuracy(In both versions, the 300 Spartans still die.).
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I know I'm gonna step on toes with this one, but...
They had the movie, "Clerks" on the other night. I tried to sit through it, but I couldn't.
It's the cussing. How difficult can it be to write dialogue when every other word is the "f" word. It's my upbringing. Yeah, I cuss. When I'm alone, I sound like a freaking longshoreman. But I rarely cuss in public, unless it is to make a point. I don't care to hang around people who constantly cuss, and I sure as the deuce don't care to sit in front of a movie and watch people cuss. Yeah, I'm specifically refering to Jay's(with Silent Bob) tirade. "F" this and "F" that. What purpose did that scene have?
It might be a classic film, and I am not questioning anyone's judgement who wishes to think that. But I just couldn't sit and wait through all the vulgarities to get to the part that makes it a classic.
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thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
I know I'm gonna step on toes with this one, but...
They had the movie, "Clerks" on the other night. I tried to sit through it, but I couldn't.
It's the cussing. How difficult can it be to write dialogue when every other word is the "f" word. It's my upbringing. Yeah, I cuss. When I'm alone, I sound like a freaking longshoreman. But I rarely cuss in public, unless it is to make a point. I don't care to hang around people who constantly cuss, and I sure as the deuce don't care to sit in front of a movie and watch people cuss. Yeah, I'm specifically refering to Jay's(with Silent Bob) tirade. "F" this and "F" that. What purpose did that scene have?
It might be a classic film, and I am not questioning anyone's judgement who wishes to think that. But I just couldn't sit and wait through all the vulgarities to get to the part that makes it a classic.
Damian, you wanna take this one? I know you're a big 'Kevin Smith' movie guy...
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_Anakin_Vader_ posted:
thatsMISTERwookiee posted:
I know I'm gonna step on toes with this one, but...
They had the movie, "Clerks" on the other night. I tried to sit through it, but I couldn't.
It's the cussing. How difficult can it be to write dialogue when every other word is the "f" word. It's my upbringing. Yeah, I cuss. When I'm alone, I sound like a freaking longshoreman. But I rarely cuss in public, unless it is to make a point. I don't care to hang around people who constantly cuss, and I sure as the deuce don't care to sit in front of a movie and watch people cuss. Yeah, I'm specifically refering to Jay's(with Silent Bob) tirade. "F" this and "F" that. What purpose did that scene have?
It might be a classic film, and I am not questioning anyone's judgement who wishes to think that. But I just couldn't sit and wait through all the vulgarities to get to the part that makes it a classic.
Damian, you wanna take this one? I know you're a big 'Kevin Smith' movie guy...
To each is own.
Only thing I’m going to say is those characters are based on real people. Back in "the day" when I was a "metal head" I was Silent Bob ( I was once very quiet because I was overly shy). I knew MANY Jays.
I’ve had many of the same conversations as Kevin Smith writes. He casts his friends and bases all his dialog on convorsations he has with them.
I talk just like Jay when I slip back into my “old” self. It took me MANY years to stop talking like that.
It’s very much a generation thing; his stuff is almost always about my generations' pop culture. Either you “get it” or you don’t. I can relate to it very easily.
Does not mean it's bad, just different.
I've met people that didn't like Python... baffles me. But then again I don't think The Office is funny at all, and I've watched 2 seasons of the BBC orig. before the american version aired just to see why it kept getting awards.
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See Monty Python is funny but not as funny as the Office........Though nothing compares to 40 year old virgin and I also like American Pie
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