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Blood Of The Vampire (1958)

The Curse Of The Crimson Altar (1968)

The Trollenburg Terror (1958)

The Blood Beast Terror (1968) New blu ray looks fantastic. Great to see the film like this after the poor picture on the dvds. This is an extended cut as well !

 

 

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Where were you 50 minutes ago when I didn't want to double post? =P

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Star Trek Generations (1994)

Sheesh, this came out in '94? Man how time flies. Well, my chronological journey through Star Trek has brought me here. It's been and continues to be an interesting ride. I still don't get the harsh criticisms against this film. Yeah the Nexus is a stupid mcguffin along with the excuses for why Soran has to resort to what he's doing but darn it the film isn't all bad. It had strong ties to the show which had just wrapped up and then rolled into the production of this film. We get to see the end of Lursa and B'Etor as well as see the return of Guinan after a long absence. We also see a Picard acting like himself and not the action hero of the later films. Overall I felt it stayed pretty true to the soul of the show and that's why I like it.

Outside of this film, I'm sad we never got to see any resolution with Tasha's daughter Sela. She would have made an interesting movie villain. The Generation films in general I think would have been stronger if they had all been focused on tying up loose threads from the show. Oh well.

QFT--from the way time flies to the unreasonable criticism to the wishing for some resolution with Sela...all true!

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Star Trek Generations (1994)

Sheesh, this came out in '94? Man how time flies. Well, my chronological journey through Star Trek has brought me here. It's been and continues to be an interesting ride. I still don't get the harsh criticisms against this film. Yeah the Nexus is a stupid mcguffin along with the excuses for why Soran has to resort to what he's doing but darn it the film isn't all bad. It had strong ties to the show which had just wrapped up and then rolled into the production of this film. We get to see the end of Lursa and B'Etor as well as see the return of Guinan after a long absence. We also see a Picard acting like himself and not the action hero of the later films. Overall I felt it stayed pretty true to the soul of the show and that's why I like it.

Outside of this film, I'm sad we never got to see any resolution with Tasha's daughter Sela. She would have made an interesting movie villain. The Generation films in general I think would have been stronger if they had all been focused on tying up loose threads from the show. Oh well.

Listen to the writer commentary if you can.  I'd say it's more interesting/entertaining than the movie itself.

In it, the two writers talk about maybe getting Nimoy in it and then not.  And they talk about the other writers writing a competing Star Trek 7 that got passed over.  They talk about how much easier it was to write the TNG finale than it was to write Generations. 

But I thought this was the most interesting bit- one of them says he's more of a visual guy, and that he imagines every story he's about to write as an awesome movie poster, and then he tries to write a movie that matches that poster.  His poster for Geneations- Two Enterprises.  Two captains.  Locked in mortal combat*.  In the red corner, grimacing Kirk about to destroy Picard to save the Federation.  In the blue corner, grimacing Picard about to destroy Kirk to save the Universe.  And yet, what do the two captains do when they meet?  Make egss.  The writers weren't exactly sure how they ended up so far from their target.  But this is the same movie where Picard sobs like a wee baby, so maybe that was a signpost on the way to eggmaking.

When I originally scoped my Star Trek DVD collection, I only wanted 2-4, 6 and First Contact.  I'm something of a completist, and it was hard to only buy most of a series, but I talked myself into it.  After a couple of years, I was no closer to buying 1,5 Insurrection, etc... but I felt like I really wanted to watch Generations again.  Like you, I didn't find it to be as awful as I had remembered... nor is it that good.  But I'm glad I have it in my collection and will watch it again someday.

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Also, RLM's scientific deconstruction of the speed of Soran's rocket is pretty interesting too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azSh47-oRPI

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"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

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"Apocalypto"  

Seemed appropriate to view this film tonight. Beautiful cinematography, tragic story. Mel Gibson should have gotten a lot more credit and praise for this one, but his personal problems at the time of it's release overshadowed this wonderful film.

Two eaten balls out of two.


“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Hobbit-

Not terrible.  Fun, but not the experience I was hoping for.  It's pretty tough, because most of the stuff I have to complain about comes straight from the book, but I was still hoping the Jackson team could have pulled something better off.

I still think I overall liked it, but here are the reasons I'm not over the moon.

I posted my rambling about the HFR in the 48fps thread, so this review is just about the movie part.

SPOILERS FOLLOW throughout:

Talking creatures.  Trolls, Goblin Kings, etc... are all extremely verbose.  Yes, I realize this is exactly the same in the book.  But it's such a tonal shift from LotR where the beasts are beasts.  And a troll named Tom, really?  I realize that they couldn't have removed the talking without totally rewriting the scene and that probably wouldn't have ended well...  But talking trolls?  Maybe the whole story should have been told by Bilbo to Frodo and Pippin, and when the trolls talked to Bilbo, who believes all good stories should be exaggerated, it cuts back to some doubting younger hobbits and Bilbo saying "it's my story, let me tell it" or something like that.  Maybe not that exactly, but I guess I think the disconnect between the Hobbit and LotR can be explained by Bilbo being an unreliable narrator.  

The "Gimli is funny and short" bits are some of my least favourite of LotR, so I figured 12 Gimlis would only increase the dwarven humour.  I was prepared for it, but I still don't really care for it.  Some of it was legitimately funny, but it's not the droid I'm looking for.

Bilbo gets himself in trouble, and the dwarves heroically run in from the right side of the frame to save him.  Seems like I saw this once more than I needed to.

Radagast.  This sequence seemed longer than it should have been.  The whole time I thought, "I'm gonna fan-edit this whole scene out of the movie".  Unfortunately, at least parts of it become necessary once he runs into the party.  But still, it was too long and too weird for my tastes.

The "MY NAME IS ROBIN.  YOU KNOW, LIKE BATMAN AND ROBIN.  GET IT?" (or Moneypenny) scene in this movie for me was instead at the start.

FRODO: Well... see you later, Bilbo.
BILBO: Where are you going, my lad?
F: Well, it's the morning of your birthday party, so even the casual viewer probably knows that I'm going to go sit under a tree and wait for Gandalf to come at the start of Fellowship.
B: I don't know.  You can't trust an audience to get these things unless they're YELLED AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS.  I SAY, WHERE ARE YOU GOING?
F: TO WAIT FOR GANDALF.  YOU KNOW, *WINK, WINK*.
B: OKAY, TRY TO NOT HAVE ANY ADVENTURES!  (giggle)

I have seen the Gollum act before, and I was prepared to not be amazed.  But so help me it was amazing.  Best part of the show.

Unfortunately, I felt like every possible cameo had already been shoehorned into the movie before then, so I wasn't sure if Gollum wasn't deflated a bit by that.  Again, I'm struggling with this...  I know a lot of Jackson's goal was to show the seeds of LotR during The Hobbit, so the mini-council' scene was just that and there's no reason to think all of those characters couldn't have been there... but I was still thinking young Chewbacca might have shown up at any instant.

The stone giant scene could have been cut with no great loss, I think.  And I think the dinner party scene overstayed its necessary.

That is to say, I at least partially agree with the "movie is too long for its own good" and "why is this 3 movies again" sentiments that are about.

10/14 party members

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"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM

"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.

Rewrite the Prequels!

 

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Basically you hate J.R.R. Tolkien's Hobbit and wanted a prequel to Peter Jackson's LOTR trilogy.

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FanFiltration said:

"Apocalypto"  

Seemed appropriate to view this film tonight. Beautiful cinematography, tragic story. Mel Gibson should have gotten a lot more credit and praise for this one, but his personal problems at the time of it's release overshadowed this wonderful film.

Two eaten balls out of two.


You know, this is one of the best films I never finished watching. I saw the first hour and a bit and was floored--if quite disturbed. His directorials efforts tend to dwell on brutalism more than is sometimes necessary. But it was a great film from what I saw. I borrowed this last year to finally watch it again but just never got around to it. The performances and photography were way more than I expected going in.

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Minecraft: The Story of Mojang (2012)

I bought Minecraft very early on while it was still in beta and remain fascinated with it to this day. Suffice it to say I've been looking forward to this documentary for some time now. Especially since I backed the Doublefine Adventure Kickstarter and have seen the quality of 2 Player Productions videos.

It covered a long stretch of time and touched on a lot of the different aspects of the game and community. I just wish it had covered more. There were some pretty important things that they never discussed at all. Stuff like the mod community which is what I think has kept Minecraft so fresh to this day. As well as the whole Yogscast controversy right after Minecon was over. That was pretty big news at the time but it's completely ignored. Lastly, the biggest omission was never talking with or talking about C418! His music is a very iconic part of the game. But overall I really enjoyed it and look forward to more from 2 Player.

Indie Game: The Movie (2012)

I actually caught this on Netflix last week. This was another good documentary about games and the people behind them. I had no idea indie game developers were so neurotic but thinking about it, it makes sense. It was a really interesting peek into their world.

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Tobar, as a gaming fan those sound interesting, especially Indie Game. I want to see that film. On my tentative to-watch list.

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I just added Indie Game to my queue a few weeks ago.

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zombie84 said:

Tobar, as a gaming fan those sound interesting, especially Indie Game. I want to see that film. On my tentative to-watch list.

If you haven't already, you should think about becoming a Slacker Backer for Double Fine's project. 2 Player Productions has released 7 episodes so far covering the development of the game. They're usually around 30 minutes long and detail what happened that month. It's extremely engrossing.

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The Hobbit

Too lazy to type detailed thoughts, but overall I thought it was great. Not a 9/10 like FOTR, but about an 8. A bit slow and overstuffed in the first two acts, but still a fantastic experience. Only thing I would say is, based on Bilbo being more of a supporting player, the movie could have been called, The Fellowship of the Dwarves. :P

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The Hobbit.  I don't have time to write an extensive review, but I will just say that I should never have worried.  I greatly enjoyed it.  It seems those who criticize it expected it to be more like LOTR or more faithful to the book.  Again, it's a different tale than LOTR, and to expect the same thing defeats the source material.  But I also thought that it was surprisingly faithful to the book for an adaptation for film, and all expanded material made sense in context of the greater conflict of the series.  My biggest disappointment was that Riddles in the Dark skipped several riddles, but it of course makes sense that we're not trying to put the audience to sleep after an already lengthy film.  But definitely it was wonderful!

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Sphere

A really good book, and a really mixed film that is nonetheless a personal favourite of mine. The first half of the film is simply outstanding, one of the best hour's of cinema sci-fi that I have ever had the pleasure of watching. The mystery, the wonder, the terrifying possibilities, all with top notch visuals and acting. The second half doesn't do justice to the set up, despite being faithful to the book--I guess some things just worked better in text. A flat third act, but the first half of the film is so damn good. An underrated gem with some incredible flaws.

Ernest Saves Christmas

What can I say? It's an Ernest movie. This is one of the better ones. It's silly and dumb, but also honestly funny in places, in that Jim Carrey-Three Stooges sort of way. I probably wouldn't bother with this if I didn't grow up watching these films, but it's nice to revisit once every decade or so.

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Agreed on Sphere, both the book and the movie.

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I received a Blu ray order of Marvel Super Hero films, and I just finished watching them.

Iron Man 8/10

The Incredible Hulk 7/10

Iron Man II 6/10

Thor 7/10

Captain America 7/10

 

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The Hobbit

Too lazy to type detailed thoughts, but overall I thought it was great. Not a 9/10 like FOTR, but about an 8. A bit slow and overstuffed in the first two acts, but still a fantastic experience. Only thing I would say is, based on Bilbo being more of a supporting player, the movie could have been called, The Fellowship of the Dwarves. :P

MY ONLY COMPLAINT WAS THE HOBBIT FEET.  THEY WERE MUCH BIGGER IN THIS MOVIE THAN IN THE LOTR FILMS.  I FOUND IT RATHER DISTRACTING.  I SPOKE TO A FEW PEOPLE AFTER THE MOVIE WHO SAID THE SAME THING.

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"A Hard Day's Night"

A film I never tire of seeing. 10/10

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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The Lion in Winter (1968) 9/10 - Powerhouse performances with a great production and script. I feel like good straight plays always make for great dialogue driven films.

Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) 9/10 - ...as is further evidenced by this film. Simply incredible performances. Amazing dialogue. Who could have thought real estate could be this interesting?

Solaris (1972) 8.5/10 - Very interesting film. Much better than the Clooney/Soderbergh version. Some of the narrative issues are still there, though. And I get what Tarkovsky was trying to do with the deliberate pace, but sometimes things go on for far too long. Still, great production.

Oklahoma! (1955) 6.5/10 - Far too stupid a film to be this long. Well made, though.

Les Miserables (2012) 9.5/10 - I went into this knowing next to nothing about it. And I thought it was amazing. Incredible performances, production, cinematography, music, etc. Great story. I'm not a fan of musicals, but this was top-notch. I think the fact that the music was recorded live on set helped immensely. Musical films tend to feel extremely fake to me (see above). But this just felt like they were using a different narrative technique, one very lyrical I might add. It didn't feel like a "musical." It felt like a film. And a great one at that. I saw it with my aunt, who is a big fan of the show. She had mixed feelings. But if you haven't seen the show, I would highly recommend this film. Certainly one of the best this year. 

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I highly recommend you check out the 1998 Les Misérables starring Liam Neeson. It's a direct adaption of the novel and is not a musical. Love that film.

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Bad Taste (1987)

This isn't actually the last movie I saw - I watched it about three weeks ago, actually. However, I was dying to rate it here, so what the hey - better late than never.

2/10

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At least the fellow responsible for that film was never heard from again. ;)

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