Mako Crab wrote:Yeah, I should've said that I don't hate Army of Darkness. It's still good. And it's way, WAY more quotable than parts 1 and 2 combined! I just like part 2 a bit more.
I'll confess that I've never seen the other two. But that begs the question of what you thought of the recent remake?
Also: Big Lebowski. I like the feel and tone of the movie more than the movie itself. Which I'll elaborate on in the other thread.
Shockwave wrote:
I'll confess that I've never seen the other two. But that begs the question of what you thought of the recent remake?
Also: Big Lebowski. I like the feel and tone of the movie more than the movie itself. Which I'll elaborate on in the other thread.
I haven't seen it. My penchant for gore isn't what it used to be, so when I heard several reviews from friends and critics alike all saying that this movie is intensely, relentlessly gory, it actually makes me want to stay away. Like, I used to love the Hellraiser movies, but nowadays, I can't stomach them so much. Also, I'm told the remake lost all the humor of parts 2 and 3, and that's basically what made the series so endearing to me. If I can't hear Bruce Campbell saying, "Groovy," in it, then I don't wanna know about it!
. . . actually, I do know that Bruce shows up after the credits to do just that. But y'know
Mako Crab wrote:Wreck it Ralph- My most recent favorite. I love this movie. I always get teary-eyed at the end.
Recently,I saw that "Life of Pi" movie on cable. I thought the more was pure awesome from start to finish. Visually it was epic. I loved the twist in the story at the end. where there were two stories & the 2nd story was the real story.
I mentioned a few posts ago that I really enjoy "The Phantom Menace". Let me expand that and say that I enjoy all three Star Wars prequels immensely. The major flaw in Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith is that Hayden Christensen isn't a very strong actor, and since he's a major character, that's obviously a problem. But he does well enough in most scenes to get by, even if Ewan McGregor and especially Ian McDiarmid outclass him. But then those two outclass everyone else in episodes 2 and 3 anyway, with the exception of Christopher Lee.
I love the visuals of all three films. What a vast, expansive set of worlds and environments. What a vast canvas for the drama to play out against. That's a big part of what sci-fi is about to me: seeing all these strange worlds and creatures that could never exist in real life. I think we get so jaded by the fact that there's so much of it now, but the Star Wars prequels really do an outstanding job. John Williams brings his A-game to scoring all three movies. The effects mostly hold up, though there are some clunky animations, particularly in episode 2. I love the drama, I love the idea and visualization of Jedi "in their prime". The Qui-Gon/Obi-wan fight versus Darth Maul, and the combo of Yoda vs. the Emperor and Anakin vs. Obi-Wan are all outstanding. But the scale of the battles between the droid armies and their opponents in 1 and 2 are impressive as well.
So yeah, probably in the minority on this one, but I'm glad the prequels got made. I still think Empire is the best, though it has some problems as well. (How long was Luke on Dagobah? Compared to what happens to Han Solo and the others, it can't be more than a few days, and yet he's a full Jedi by Return, without any further training?) And the X-wing battle at the end of episode 4 is iconic, and makes that movie unique by virtue of it being the only one that doesn't end with a major lightsaber duel.
I just watched 1,2 and 3 this past week. Now I need to watch 4,5 and 6 while the prequel characters and plots are still fresh in my mind.
Tigermegatron wrote:Recently,I saw that "Life of Pi" movie on cable. I thought the more was pure awesome from start to finish. Visually it was epic. I loved the twist in the story at the end. where there were two stories & the 2nd story was the real story.
Pi never says the second story was real. He says neither story can be proven, and neither explains the cause of the ship wreck. The whole point is for the audience to decide which story they prefer. But yeah, I'd have to agree, "Life of Pi" is a great movie.
I recently rented the Evil Dead reboot/sequel and I gotta say, I fucking loved every minute of it. Yes, it's more gorey in the original, but it's not...It does it in ways you expect, I guess. It takes everything from the originals and tries to distinctly one-up it. This is a movie that KNOWS you already saw the original and you're expecting it to play out like a shitty reboot, and then it takes those notions and throws them against the wall and vomits blood all over them.
And I dunno what everyone is saying about the humour, but to me, the humour in this series was always fucked up zombie demons saying shit like "Your mother sucks cocks in Hell!" That's hilarious, not scary, and I was super relieved to hear something like that spewed out in the very beginning of the movie. That's the point where I sat down and said, "Okay, I'm in."
BWprowl wrote:The internet having this many different words to describe nerdy folks is akin to the whole eskimos/ice situation, I would presume.
People spend so much time worrying about whether a figure is "mint" or not that they never stop to consider other flavours.
On the other hand, I've never had a cubicle job, and I still love Office Space to no end.
As for the Evil Dead remake, I saw it in the theatres and give it a hearty "It's okay!" The first two Evil Dead movies had a lot more originality going for 'em. I felt each one gave me something is never seen before. The new one was done pretty well, yeah, but it didn't feel as much like an Evil Dead movie as it did a generic horror movie.
Dominic wrote: too many people likely would have enjoyed it as....well a house-elf gang-bang.
Shockwave wrote:Office Space. Having worked the cubicle life for most of my career, I found this to be hilarious because most of it's true.
Preach it, fellow cubicle worker! That movie was funny before I had an office job, but since I've had one it's become extra hilarious. So much of the humor comes from how close that movie hews to reality.
I even suffered the fate of Milton once and ended up in the basement. Before I went to college, years ago, I had a job at a place that manufactured capacitors, and part of my job was to repair the testing strips that they would put these capacitors in before running them through heat testing in what were essentially giant ovens. The heat testing was done in the basement, and I was sitting in a metal cage beside the HVAC units down in a dimly lit basement, repairing these boards. I was still getting paid, thankfully! But I always feel for poor Milton when he's banished to the basement, because I've been there man!!!
I have to talk about Star Wars here. The original, episode 4, the one I saw when I was six years old at a rainy drive-in movie theater and have loved ever since. The one which, oddly, I still don't own on DVD, something I need to remedy asap.
After years of intending to do this, I finally sat down and started to watch all six Star Wars episodes in chronological order. For episode 4, we ended up borrowing a neighbor's VHS copy, while 5 and 6 we checked out from the library. And despite the fact that I've seen A New Hope a dozen times, or two dozen times, or whatever, I don't think I've actually watched it since the prequels came out, because the experience of viewing it was completely different this time around. Suddenly all those mentions of the Imperial Senate were no longer just words, because I'd seen the Senate in episodes 1, 2 and 3. Suddenly all the truths and half-truths in Ben Kenobi's story to Luke are glaringly obvious, because I've just seen what happened and know he's not being entirely honest with Luke. The fight between Obi-Wan and Vader on the Death Star seems slow and ponderous contrasted with the fight on Mustafar, and we realize how much age has affected Obi-Wan, and how much the mechanical limbs have robbed Vader of so much of his power. All of Luke's mooning over Leia is extra-icky because we know they're siblings (though to be fair, we knew that by the end of the original trilogy. I'm waiting to be really squicked by the big kiss in the medbay in Empire).
But the best part of episode 4 is the end, the X-Wing attack on the Death Star. I was watching it last night and even though I've seen it so often, I'm still tensing up and rooting for the pilots, and metaphorically on the edge of my seat with the drama of it all. That whole attack sequence is a near-perfect bit of filmmaking, still amazingly effective almost 35 years after it was made and after all the many sci-fi movies since which offer more spectacle and far more amazing visual images. And the award ceremony that follows is exactly the right way to end the movie, allowing us to celebrate the win with the characters.
But I always feel for poor Milton when he's banished to the basement, because I've been there man!!!
