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Now go and watch Jack The Giant Killer.
I thought all slayers were girls of a normal size????
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Mrebo said:
Jack the Giant Slayer
It was great fun. A healthy number of scenes obviously made with 3-D in mind (I saw it in 2-D). All the characters were the flattest of archetypes but it didn't matter. The Princess Bride came to mind in terms of story-telling, superficially the framing, and obvious silly tone (though it didn't have the quality of characters and wit). There were definitely laugh-worthy moments. The CGI was decent, it worked for the movie. The end of the movie felt a touch too contrived but could set things up for a contrived sequel ;0 All in all I would highly recommend it. Just old-fashioned fun.
I also got around to seeing Seven Samurai. It was entertaining. Some of you have recommended it as a model for a Star Wars movie, but I'm afraid I'm lacking in imagination. However, Kikuchiyo reminded me of Anakin - with occasional flare-ups of Jar-Jar.
The Star Wars/Kurosawa connection is more obvious in some of his other samurai films like The Hidden Fortress. My favorite storyline in the old Marvel comic is unabashedly a Seven Samurai homage...
Did Ewan have any lines in JTGS that would be of use in fan edits?
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Hey they got Bucky O' Hare on the team!
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Jaxxon...not Bucky...
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Yes, but the Lepus Carnivorous came first.
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well obviously. It was a joke.
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Yes, but the real Jaxxon looks over my shoulder at the most inopportune times and sees this stuff. ;)
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Actually, a lot of people think Bucky O' Hare was based on him. I'd believe it. Someone who grew up in the late 70s using an at the time obscure SW Marvel character as the inspiration for an early 1990s cartoon character, makes sense.
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Roy Thomas said in a 1987 interview that Jaxxon was a pure Bugs Bunny homage. In issue #16, he is captured and interrogated by alien goons named "Fud" and "Dafi". (Even when I was 11, I caught on to that.) So the circle is now complete. :)
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I though it was Jazz Jackrabbit standing next to Han there. ;)
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Saw the remake/prequal/whatever "The Thing.'
Not great. But DARNIT why can't scientists in movies act the slightest bit like real scientists?
If you're dissecting an alien, ok I can live with that no one takes the most basic safety precautions. I can accept that the idea of contamination to the specimen is ignored.
BUT THEY DON'T EVEN TAKE ANY PICTURES? Geez Louise.
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Still better than Prometheus.
I do hope for a directors cut because despite it's flaws it looks like it wasn't bad until the suits fiddled with it.
Don't the team film it and keep written notes?
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CP3S said:
I though it was Jazz Jackrabbit standing next to Han there. ;)
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NOPE NOPE NOPE that's Sonic the Hedgehog with guns. And a damn good game at that.
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I liked the use of both language and perhaps subtle sexism to increase the paranoia.
I think the creature effects were awesome.
I wish this wasn't a prequal. If it had just been another movie based on the same novella (happens all the time) I think I would have liked it more. The prequal aspect felt forced somehow. Maybe I brought with me an anti-prequal spirit.
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Moonraker
I watched my newest LD purchase, and was floored at how good the sound was. Easily the best the film has ever sounded in any format. The video was merely passable but with perfect color timing.
The film's biggest flaw is the uninspired script. It's merely by the numbers doing what the public likes. It is TSWLM II in space, in other words YOLT III. All had the same director. Wood returns from Spy as the screenwriter and again shows promise with come of the basic characterizations and plotting which are of course jettisoned because in these films you can't get too detailed. The pacing is very relaxed which if off putting for many. Then add the odd feeling of having such a lavish production in France and it already sticks out from the others. Then add the silly over the top humor bits and the ludicrous space battle climax that overshadows all of the realistic majority of the film. If you could somehow excise the Bondola, pitiful Jaws humor and space laser battle the inherent realism of Moonraker could be better seen.
Bond does some actual spying for a change. Moore is in his in between period with some of his early darkness and later 80's era redundancy because of the watered down script. Lonsdale makes a great villain and needed more to do. It's a dated film that has some spark to it is properly noticed. It isn't bad by any means nor does it deserve to be hated by many who either haven't seen it in years or haven't seen it at all. It is a better film overall than FYEO. It was the last time Bond films had grand scale or any sense of the Harry Saltzman mad imagination.
Moore in space is worth a million Skyfalls.
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The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker were my kind of Bond film.
Bond films as straight espionage thrillers are kind of dull.
America as her superheroes we have Holmes, The Doctors whom and Bond (sadly nobody seems to be interested in John Steed, Bulldog Drummond, Nayland Smith, Adam Adamant or Dan Dare anymore).
The only problem I had then as now is Roger Moore bless him is not sexy and Bond needs to be sexy. Ray Stevenson a few years back doing all that stuff way back then would have been ideal.
Break nay shatter the Nth walls if you must.
Pun me till my ears fall off but please raise my interest... if you catch my drift?
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I think the creature effects were awesome.
That's what I was most disappointed with in the film. They shot the film intending to do it for the most part with practical effects and then erased all that hard work and replaced it with CGI.
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^And that there is the reason why I will never watch The Thing.
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DuracellEnergizer said:
^And that there is the reason why I will never watch The Thing.
I think you're denying yourself something of a treat in this film based on that prejudice.
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Perhaps. The '82 film wasn't really my cup of tea in the first place, though, so I'm not that interested in revisting the storyline anyway.
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America as her superheroes we have Holmes, The Doctors whom and Bond (sadly nobody seems to be interested in John Steed, Bulldog Drummond, Nayland Smith, Adam Adamant or Dan Dare anymore).
You left out Biggles!
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FanFiltration said:
Bingowings said:
America as her superheroes we have Holmes, The Doctors whom and Bond (sadly nobody seems to be interested in John Steed, Bulldog Drummond, Nayland Smith, Adam Adamant or Dan Dare anymore).
You left out Biggles!
Clearly you are interested in Biggles so I saw no reason to include him.
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I watched Spiders 3D in the theatres recently.
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Was that a SEO picture?