HegemonKhan wrote:Golden Years were the 80s and 90s [...]
The best thing I watched for plot/writing of late is Breaking Bad.
and anime is far better visual literature
jaynabonne wrote:
I've been meaning to see if I can find "My Neighbor Totoro" somewhere to watch it again. It's been a while.
Marzipan wrote:"OurJud"
I've seen the first two Hobbit films, but never the LotR trilogy.
That's like saying you've seen the Star Wars prequels but never the originals...
HegemonKhan wrote:I just can't do black and white (except for Sin City 1, lol) ... all the shows are, is dialogue, and an alien dialogue from a generation long gone [...]
davidw wrote:I saw the third part of the Hobbit trilogy recently and came away unimpressed. I liked LoTR and felt it worked well as three movies, but then LoTR is a huge book anyway. The Hobbit isn't. Stretching a small book into three long movies just left a lot of padding, which the director seems to have decided to fill with characters who weren't even in the Hobbit (hello Legolas, Saruman and Galadriel). Lots of really overlong battle scenes didn't help and the over the top fights were just cringe-worthy. Seriously, did Legolas really jump off the side of a 60 foot tower, break his fall by stabbing his sword into the head of a troll, then use said sword to steer said troll into said tower and topple it over a ravine, thus making a pretty effective bridge? I'm sure he can't have done because that would have been goddamn ridiculous, but that's what I saw.
HegemonKhan wrote:
(if you're new to Tolkien, aka only watched the movies, you may not be aware of this about tolkien's time of fantasy writing: females had no role, and the the cheesy "no man can kill me" by the wraith king doesn't count as actual female rolls within its world, and the female elf wizard had a very minor role. In, modern fantasy, females get roles now, and that is especially true in the Wheel of Time series, grins).
HegemonKhan wrote:
totally unimpressed by Guardians of the Galaxy, maybe the actual comics is more interesting (haven't really read any American comics), but the movie was trash.
Green Lantern was decent, and much better than Guardians of the Galaxy
OurJud wrote:I'll stick to me Carry On films
Marzipan wrote:Green Lantern was dull and mediocre, a far worse sin than simply being bad.
Marzipan wrote:"OurJud"
I'll stick to me Carry On films
How's your internet? Got a data limit? If not I'll happily give you six bucks to rent it in HD on Amazon right now, so you can join me in sadly shaking my head at Hegemon and contemplating all the ways that boy just ain't right.
HegemonKhan wrote:anyways, what are all of you guys-n-gals, favorite movies?
Silver wrote:I like trashy horror like Halloween and thrillers like Duel.
I like arthouse like Gummo and Buffalo 66.
War films I like Full Metal Jacket and Hurt Locker.
I could sit here forever talking about films I like. It's easier to talk about films I don't like. I'm not massively into romantic comedies or action films. First Blood was good but I'll avoid Steven Seagal films like the plague. Joy Ride was pretty good but that's more a horror really.
To pick up on the last post both Withnail and Kes are great movies. I'm a big fan of Ken Loach and Mike Leigh. Haven't seen all their films though. And who's that other director again who does the weird stuff? Um.. oh yeah David Lynch. I like his stuff.
Mulholland Drive is a good film. And The Elephant Man.
HegemonKhan wrote:last recommendation of a movie gone un-noticed: Drive, though be warned... it's violent, but I can't comment of why that's so awesome, as it's an epic plot twist spoiler.
jdpjdpjdp wrote:Cards on the table: I'm a giant comic book geek. It has not come up previously, but it was only a matter of time...
Despite this, I haven't seen GotG yet. Stop yelling, I'll get to it. It's been a rough year, I'm behind on everything.
Marzipan wrote:Anyway, I'm a big fan of superheroes and sci-fi but I just can't do comic books anymore, at least not the really long running runs. At some point they all got so convoluted and were trying so desperately hard to be dark and grim and edgy, the characters bounce back and forth from being either being locked in the status quo and unable to develop to the writers getting all sadistic and taking them apart, then hitting the reset button on the entire universe to start again. I take a peek at what's going on in the Batman universe now and then and I can't even enjoy it anymore, give me the old animated series from the 90s over that any day...
Speaking of superhero movies though, the ones everyone keeps yelling at me to see are First Class and Days of Future Past. I disliked the third X-Men movie so much I kind of stopped paying attention to the series for awhile. Have you seen those and how good are they?
X-Men 3 never happened. It was a mass hallucination foisted upon us by aliens, or possibly malevolent spirits from a dimension parallel to ours. (Can you tell I grew up on comics? )
First Class and DoFP are both good. I would disagree with anyone who says they are great. I think because so much time elapsed after X2 without an X-Men movie that was anything above mediocre, people got all over excited and overrated them. But they are both enjoyable and worth watching. I like First Class better of the two, only because I think DoFP was trying too hard to "fix" the franchise instead of just delivering the best possible movie, and it suffered from too many characters syndrome.
Silver wrote:60s Batman with Adam West is surely the greatest? Actually I haven't seen the animated series.
Silver wrote:Cheers for the recommendation, I'll check it out. I bet you've seen any film I recommend. What about films with Ray Winstone in? You'll have seen Scum no doubt, almost certainly Nil by Mouth but what about The War Zone?
Silver wrote:Ah right, you might want to give The War Zone a miss too then. I sort of lump them in with Leigh/Loach in terms of being gritty and British is all.
Silver wrote:You haven't seen Sweet Sixteen then? I saw the cinema release and walked out gutted as all the romcom punters were walking out with smiley faces. I quite like that though. I'd rather sit through a film that elicits a negative feeling but a point be made rather than, well, rather than what I tend to get forced to watch by her indoors lol.
Silver wrote:"OurJud"
[quote="Silver"]... I think every single Aussie I ever asked about it [...]
I'm more interested in why/how you know so many Aussies
Silver wrote:You can't have visited Earls Court then.
Silver wrote:There are a lot of terrible horror films though.
Silver wrote:What's the ending? (or do you mean Walking Dead? In the book of The Mist the ending was.... *no spoilers until I know you got there*)
I like the old Hammer House of Horror series off the TV. I wanted to get Murder, Mystery and Suspense too but I've never ever seen that anywhere ever again in terms of availability.
Silver wrote:Yeah go for it.
Silver wrote:It ends at the same time too. You get the big alien four (or six?) legged thing go past the car and then it's just the fact that he's writing a letter for whoever finds it saying he'd like to say there was a happy ending but he sees no end to it. So they literally just bolted that last bit on. I think the film's resolution is better. Well, the book didn't have one.
jdpjdpjdp wrote:"OurJud"
You reckon Mr King was kicking himself when he watched the film?
Actually, IIRC, King did say in an interview that he thought the film ending was better than his, and wished he'd thought of it.
Silver wrote:King is notoriously bad at being able to end stories though.
OurJud wrote:"Silver"
They do entire films on youtube? lol
Oh, yeah... not always strictly legal in terms of copyright, and many get taken down fairly quickly. Your best bet (ironically) is with the old obscure stuff where no one's really sure where the copyright/ownership lies.
OurJud wrote:Huh? I'm confused.
I didn't think you were asking me directly, if they did entire films on youtube (despite the question mark). The 'lol' suggested you were stating your surprise at the fact they did entire films.
Silver wrote:"OurJud"
Huh? I'm confused.
I didn't think you were asking me directly, if they did entire films on youtube (despite the question mark). The 'lol' suggested you were stating your surprise at the fact they did entire films.
Because you said 'here it is if you want to see it in all its glory' which I took to mean - the entire film, rather than the ending of the film in all its glory.
HegemonKhan wrote:
if you have the time, obviously the books are much better, being much longer (more content) than movies are.
R2T1 wrote:As to number of books, there is only one for The Hobbit and three for the LotR although you can also get the 3 of them as a single book.
I can certainly recommend the reading of these in whichever order you choose. (Although the LotR books need to be read in order - The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers then The Return of the King.)
HegemonKhan wrote:I've no idea why you got the "Hobbit" and the "LotR Trilogy", if just confuses people... The 4 part Series: Hobbit -> Fellowship -> Towers -> King
HegemonKhan wrote:if I remember right (in the movie anyways), this is NOT a flashback. Frodo is just visiting Bilbo, and then after Frodo leaves... Bilbo's journey begins (the events of: The Hobbit book)
HegemonKhan wrote:that's what I said... Frodo visits Bilbo before Bilbo goes off on his adventure (with the dwarves, finding the One Ring and smegol~gollum, smaug, and etc)
davidw wrote:The events of The Hobbit take place roughly 70 years before the events in LoTR, so the scene with Frodo visiting Bilbo is indeed a flashback.
OurJud wrote:Anyway, I think we're there now.
I've just ordered The Hobbit in paperback. I did consider buying the three LotR books at the same time, but thought I'd check to see if I like TH before spending money unnecessarily.
Is it a given that if I don't like TH book I won't like the LotR books either, or are they very different?
davidw wrote:"OurJud"
Anyway, I think we're there now.
I've just ordered The Hobbit in paperback. I did consider buying the three LotR books at the same time, but thought I'd check to see if I like TH before spending money unnecessarily.
Is it a given that if I don't like TH book I won't like the LotR books either, or are they very different?
They're completely different. I liked The Hobbit but not so much LoTR. The Hobbit is aimed more at kids than adults - which is probably why I preferred it because I was only 11/12 when I read it - whereas LoTR is more an adult's book. They're very different in style so you might well love one and not be able to stand the other.
R2T1 wrote:If you don't want to actually part with any ca$h and you are on Win 8, 8.1 or 10, then you can find the ebooks for LotR for free ($0.00) in the Store. Not too sure about the Hobbit as it seems to be in a foreign language. It says it supports US English but I haven't installed it to find out.
davidw wrote:I liked both Tomorrowland and Terminator Genisys and was quite surprised when neither were very well received. I thought the Terminator film was a massive step up from the previous two and Emilia Clarke did a really good job in the Sarah Connor role.
HegemonKhan wrote:still haven't seen any good movies... sighs... all are disappointments... actually, Pride and Prejudice with Zombies, was decent...
HegemonKhan wrote:P.S.
I reminded myself of The Princess Bride.... I HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE HATE that movie... I WAS BORED OUTA MY MIND... when I had to watch it, the entire thing... BORED INTO OBLIVION...
HegemonKhan wrote:(our tastes do seem to be polar opposites lol)
HegemonKhan wrote:I wasn't very impress by the movie, and while the strategy at first was interesting as I never knew of it (the ONLY appeal of the movie to me), isn't so neat now that I look back upon it.
jaynabonne wrote:Another implausible film was the recent "The Martian", but I must say I enjoyed that one anyway, unlike "Gravity". I think "Gravity" might work better on the big screen (I saw it on a television), as perhaps the effects could make up for the lack of a story (or rather: without the effects, there would be no movie). But I know I was wondering afterwards what the fuss was all about.
HegemonKhan wrote:Why such the big deal about it? It's just boring Disney singing scene.
davidw wrote:I saw Gravity and really liked it. I didn't think it was quite as good as the critics made it out to be - but then when are films ever that good? - but I definitely enjoyed watching it.
HegemonKhan wrote:I added 'Apollo 13' to the list as it was an example of a disaster/doomsday movie, but it at least is based off of a real situation (no idea how accurate it was to what actually happened with the actual apollo 13 flight, and/or its "science" to real science ~ I haven't seen it since it came out... like 20 or so years ago - so I don't remember it at all).
I forgot to mention 'The Martian', but I never saw it anyways, as I'm like... hmm... Matt Damonien pretending to be a scientist.... riiiight... a retarded actor pretending to be a smart scientist, ya I wanna see that movie (sarcasm). Just like how retarded Hollywood portrays business... ya... businesses and their bosses and employees are really just justin beibers having frat/porn/sex parties... ya that's really the world of business... ya uh huh... um no, that's the world of retarded bimbo slut hollywood celebrities and actors, who've never contributed a damn thing to society's wellness/advancement, unlike the businesses and their bosses and employees providing society with wonderful technology, products, and services, that they portray so dead wrongly, lol. Please show me a business and a boss/employee who're immature retarded justin beibers who need a very brutal spanking and frat/porn/slut parties, please, give me one such example!
I'm so fed up with the immature dodo-bird brained retarded losers of hollywood and other entertainers (singers, musicians, athletes, and etc). Stop destroying human society! Stop commiting crimes, damned criminals and their assitances/enablers/inciters/encouragers! Anarchy reigns supreme, death to human society. massive degression and destruction. Why did I have to be born through this wretched backwardness/degression of humanity. Thanks a lot for making the 21st century even more wretched, vile, and evil than the 20th century, ya... a new better age/century, a golden era of human behaviorism... HAH... and I get to enjoy it...
welcome to the 21st century... the century of liberalism/terrorism:
THE CENTURY OF THE CRAZZIES,
THE AGE OF MADNESS!
XanMag wrote:I find it very difficult to be absorbed by films heavy in science. As a science teacher I'm very distracted by bad science. Apollo 13 was fairly accurate, but there wasn't a TON of science that was up front. Gravity... I couldn't get into it. The science was SO VERY BAD. 99% of it caused me to cringe. It had to be the most unbelievable science themed movie in a couple decades. And I really like the actors in it too. I have yet to see the Martian because I enjoy just about every one of Damon's films and I'm always super critical of science themed movies. Don't want to ruin a good thing. Anyone know if the science is believable enough to make it enjoyable? Or at least enough to suspend my willingness to disbelieve.
Tarzan: yep, another disappointment, total trash. Like Jungle Book, it had such potential, and they totally failed.
Star Trek: Beyond: again a disappointment, total trash. Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness, were good/decent. Someone really failed with Beyond (was it the same director/writer as the other two or a different one? if the same... must be fatigue-laziness)
I guess I'll go see Jason Bourne... I liked Bourne Legacy (the movie withOUT Matt Damon), it was very good for the type of movie it is (better than all the Bourne movies with Matt Damon trash), and so I doubt Jason Bourne will be better than Bourne Legacy, but meh, I've seen all the Bourne movies thus far, might as well see the (probably, lol) last one.
I'm looking forward (never hopeful though - as most movies fail hard) to Suicide Squad, but we'll see if it's actually good or is yet another disappointment.
I just watched my fav film 'Leon' again recently and it never gets old. A must watch if you haven't read it.
Jason Bourne and Suicide Squad were both trash. Also, Kubo was trash too.
Hadn't got around to seeing the Mechanic 2 (Resurrection or whatever it is called) yet.
Pete's Dragon was actually a decent movie for what it was, a bit scary/realistic for kids (at least my old generation anyways), but otherwise a not bad kid movie. Not great, not good, but not bad. It was a decent as the kid movie that it is. I saw the original Pete's Dragon cartoon/cartoon-movie (whatever it was, lol) as a kid, but I have zero recollection of it, sighs, so, I can't compare the movie to it.