When they eventually reboot "The Expendables" I want it to be re-branded "Planet Hollywood".
David Lynch's Dune is awful.
but it's also kinda fun ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
here's mine - the birds sucks. only one likable character (who only becomes likable halfway into the movie), melanie is fucking creep, and it's so. god. damn. slow.
i like all of the other hitchcock movies i've seen, but the birds is not a good movie.
Clint Eastwood will go down in cinematic history as a director, not as an actor.
Watching Return of the King, our extended edition DVDs and finding it unfathomable that the theatrical version missed out Saruman’s ending, the skulls in the Paths of the Dead sequence and the whole the Scouring of the Shire section of the book was ignored! Also loving it much more than I remembered. I think they should have ended it after Aragorn was crowned
This is old, but ... Dazed and Confused is a period movie that’s far more enjoyable to people who were actually around during the particular period in question. Just like how you like “Singles.” “Dazed” perfectly sums up high school during that period, even if you didn’t go to high school in Texas or didn’t have those dumb rituals at your high school (we certainly didn’t), the movie still sums up the massive boredom, hanging out, pot-smoking and aimlessly driving around while pot-smoking, and the music.
My contribution:
The Ten Commandments SUCKS. Everything about it sucks.
Okay, I'll bite. Is it because of the chair thing? Because yeah, that was absolutely ridiculous. It made him look like an old fool who's losing his mind. I'll admit I don't know much about him as a person, apart from what is on his Wikipedia page. My comment was only about his career in movies.
The Charlton Heston/ Yul Brynner thing? I believe you mean that it's awesomely kitsch. It's the best fun I have every Easter!
this is a little melodramatic, but it's not wrong. and it links to the vanity fair article where he very clearly outs himself as an out of touch, racist dick.
Wow. Thank you both. That I really didn't know about.
On one hand, you could say that he's a product of his generation but on the other hand, the one that matters the most, a man of his intelligence should have been able to break from that mold and grow up with his views of the world.
Also: @allegro when I was growing up, on Easter weekend, cable tv would give us the Charlton Heston double showcase of Ben Hur and The Ten Commandments. At Christmas, cable tv would give us the double showcase of The Sound of Music and Gone With The Wind.
Cable tv is weird.
Speaking of Easter zzzzzzzzzzz. Every Good Friday, my Catholic family would subject us to The Robe. At least it had Richard Burton.
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i thought you were jewish!? did you convert when you married G? or are you just really knowledgable about judaism (like you are about many things)?
ok, my controversial opinion: i've been watching a lot of Argento films lately and several of my friends have cited Deep Red as their favorite, but i just cannot get into it at all. and the dubbing is WAAAAAAY worse and way more distracting than usual in his movies.
anyway, so far my favorite is Suspiria (duh) but followed very closely by Cat O' Nine Tails (which is apparently Argento's least favorite of his films). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I saw The Godfather III yesterday for the first time in a while, and I think that while it's not quite as good as the first two, it's still a fine movie (as I've said in this thread before). If Winona Ryder had not dropped out of the project and she had played Mary Corleone and if Robert Duvall had reprized his role as Tom Hagan, I think III would have been as good as the first two.
My take on the death of Michael Corleone might be controversial. Most people seem to think that he died a lonely and broken man, but did he?
Yes, he died alone, but maybe he finally found peace with himself and his sins.
ETA: Andy Garcia was great as Vincent Corleone.
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This is what comes of having an autistic child who has to watch Jurassic Park with me up to the bit where the TRex chases the jeep every morning, you notice little things that aggravate you
Why does Ian Malcolm say ‘what have they got in there, King Kong?’ as they enter the park when his character KNOWS there is a TRex in there, it’s just an annoying filmmakers reference to another film that now takes me out of it
now when he says that I shout at the TV, you know there’s a TRex in there, what is wrong with you
Does he know, though? Because Hammond didn't tell the others (apart from the lawyer).
No, what I mean is, that the Dern and McNeil characters certainly didn't know they were about to see living dinosaurs as Hammond didn't exactly tell 'em what the park was about.
Yes but Ian Malcolm said ‘he did it, the son of a bitch did it’ at the point where they all saw the grazing herbivore dinosaurs suggesting he had an inkling of what was going on beforehand, plus they all saw the brachiosaurus etc before they embarked on the tour where he comments about King Kong. I’ve seen this film far too many times, 89 since Lockdown (up to the trex jeep chase).
Heh, you're right. I thought he said that before they meet the herbivores. Maybe it's a comment on the giant doors to the park he thought were ridiculous? Or him trying to impress Ms. Sattler with his humor....
Getting annoyed at the Jack Black character in Peter Jackson’s King Kong. He’s either a cunt or useless all the way through, then gets to make the pithy remark ‘it was beauty who killed the beast’ at the end. No it was YOU who bought Kong back. I don’t even blame the military who did what they had to do. Shame they couldn’t have tranquillised him and took him back, but I wish Kong had at least killed him
that was my episode 1 for a long time. there are still bits I like - the T-Rex fight is nice - but there are so many others that are just floundering - the T-Rex fight takes so long - that its runtime just bugs me.
It's like George Rail Road Martin and other fantasy authors who get so successful they eschew the whole thought of having an editor to trim the fat.
Batman Returns (1992) was the best Batman movie.