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Avengers

As good or better than any of Marvel's previous efforts. Aside from a few cosmetic nitpicks the movie was fun from start to finish.

9/10

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Koyaanisqatsi

Very cool, loved all of the imagery. 8/10

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Side note - I feel like I'm running out of movies to watch. That is, it's harder to find titles I haven't seen and am interested in. Not to sound like a film snob, but I've probably watched the major/most highly regarded films from the top directors from different countries. There are certainly many, many films I have yet to see from popular directors as well as lesser known ones, but I'm kind of unmotivated to seek out more movies. As such I find myself trying to keep pace with all the modern releases, especially independent ones.

 

“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”

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Any on these pages that you haven't seen yet George?

It's always interesting when comments on here are countered or mirrored by another set of brains seeing the same flick.

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Yea there are some movies in this thread of which I've made note.

“Grow up. These are my Disney's movies, not yours.”

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Ghostbusters II- I was told to not watch for years.

I finally did.

I loved it.

Ghostbusters is mostly Bill Murray to me.  He's on a bit of a longer leash in II and I think it works for him.

Not sure why Frink hates it.

Looking forward to Avengers this weekend.  There's a deal with K-Mart and hershey's that's worth looking into. 

And Tron Legacy = Paradise Lost.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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captainsolo said:

Batman & Robin

In a word, BALLESS!!!

It's true.  This movie has no balls.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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bkev said:

darth_ender said:

bkev said:

 

Still miss the ride.  My one true BTTF childhood soft spot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmIHlAuE2Wo&feature=related

It's just not the same, man.  I own the DVD with it, but watching it without the motion simulator would ruin any and all memory I have of it so I've chosen not to do a rewatch.

You can come to my house and watch it in my motion simulator.

Once you apologize for your negative John Carter comments, which were unfounded.*

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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bkev said:

darth_ender said:

bkev said:

 

Still miss the ride.  My one true BTTF childhood soft spot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmIHlAuE2Wo&feature=related

It's just not the same, man.  I own the DVD with it, but watching it without the motion simulator would ruin any and all memory I have of it so I've chosen not to do a rewatch.

I know, it's not the same.  I only got to see Star Tours once in the simulator, more than a decade ago.  Now I've done my very best to track down a decent version of it, with relatively little success.  This is the only way I'll ever get to enjoy for the rest of forever, but I totally understand why you don't want to watch it.  Just thought it might help :)

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xhonzi said:


Ghostbusters is mostly Bill Murray to me.  He's on a bit of a longer leash in II and I think it works for him.

Not sure why Frink hates it.
I don't hate it, but it really suffers in comparison to the original. I just didn't laugh very much.

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darth_ender said:

bkev said:

darth_ender said:

bkev said:

 

Still miss the ride.  My one true BTTF childhood soft spot...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmIHlAuE2Wo&feature=related

It's just not the same, man.  I own the DVD with it, but watching it without the motion simulator would ruin any and all memory I have of it so I've chosen not to do a rewatch.

I know, it's not the same.  I only got to see Star Tours once in the simulator, more than a decade ago.  Now I've done my very best to track down a decent version of it, with relatively little success.  This is the only way I'll ever get to enjoy for the rest of forever, but I totally understand why you don't want to watch it.  Just thought it might help :)

That's a shame. Good thing when I went to Disney I was six years old and over-obsessed with Star Wars! I rode it 7 times! (over two days)

Also good for me is I've been back three times since!

No idea when I'll be able to go again and see the new one.

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TV's Frink said:

xhonzi said:


Ghostbusters is mostly Bill Murray to me.  He's on a bit of a longer leash in II and I think it works for him.

Not sure why Frink hates it.
I don't hate it, but it really suffers in comparison to the original. I just didn't laugh very much.

You're short, your belly-button sticks out too far, and you're a terrible burden on your poor mother.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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I wouldn't put it past some clever fan to build their own motion simulator at home, and run Star Tours on it.

Where were you in '77?

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I'll play along

"The other versions will disappear. Even the 35 million tapes of Star Wars out there won’t last more than 30 or 40 years. A hundred years from now, the only version of the movie that anyone will remember will be the DVD version [of the Special Edition], and you’ll be able to project it on a 20’ by 40’ screen with perfect quality. I think it’s the director’s prerogative, not the studio’s to go back and reinvent a movie." - George Lucas

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SilverWook said:

I wouldn't put it past some clever fan to build their own motion simulator at home, and run Star Tours on it.

 http://d-box.com

No Star Tours.  Yet.

But it does run BTTF The Ride.

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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TV's Frink said:

Meh.

Come, on.  Give me a break!  We're both lawyers!

IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!

"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005

"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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Star Trek The Star Trek

Fun movie...

 

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

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TV's Frink said:


Meh.
Ghostbusters 2 doesn't have to take this abuse from you. It has hundreds of people dying to abuse it.

(defending Ghostbusters 2 with a quote from Ghostbusters)

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The Avengers.

My full review:

Holy shit.

5 vintage Captain America trading cards out of 5.

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The Avengers (2012)

Spent the entire day yesterday at an Avengers marathon hosted by my local theater chain. The movie was amazing.

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Someone said this to me today, after a third person asked the two of us to compare Avengers to Dark Knight, and I 100% agree with what he said:

The Dark Knight is the best film so far based on a comic book character, but The Avengers is the best comic book movie to date.

Also, I've decided that Joss Whedon must write all Tony Stark dialogue from now on.

"Doth mother know you weareth her drapes?" ... "That man is playing Galaga!" ... "Phil?  His first name is Agent."

All gold.  Gold, Jerry!

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Frankenstein (1931) - 5.5/10

And before anyone comes around to criticise my ranking, I'll just say in my defense that I liked Karloff's acting a lot, and the beginning (wonderfully creepy and expressionistic, that cemetery set was), but the whole comes off seeming a lot less than the sum of its parts to me.

Of course, I was kind of tired when I watched it, and I kept dozing off, so perhaps my ranking would be higher were I to watch it in a clearer state of mind.

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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II - 10 Killing Curses out of 10

Since they're like poetry, what with the rhyming and all, I find that I only need to watch three out of the six films.

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Iron Man II

 

I did not like this one too much.    

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

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^Which one?

Galaxy Of Terror (1981).

I was aware of this film for much of my life but curiosity only got the better of me last night.

Alien rip-offs in general are kind of interesting fodder and having James Cameron design the film adds curio value.

Generally speaking he does a better job, design wise, here than he did on the big budget film (imagine if Cameron had just churned out thousands of real nicely designed cheap as chips movies, instead of a handful of the most expensive movies ever made)... I'm going to that world for my holidays.

But I'm not going with the crew of the Starship Quest.

For a film like this to work the crew have to have the veneer of civility gradually eroded.

Everyone on this film is either hysterical or an arsehole before they take off (the aging Commander Livar is okay I guess but don't get too attached).

It's one of those films where random stuff just happens and actors (they aren't characters) just respond to it in an equally random way.

The sound effects (welcome back Battle Beyond The Stars laser gun noise) and the music seem to be equally randomly placed.

Maybe it's an alien toy to test if you can shuffle the elements and make sense of it all?

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