Ender:
So no, I don't got it, I don't got it.
No, you don't.
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.
If "I Gur" is spelled wrong then I got it first time, if it's spelled right then I don't got it.
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See, I'm pretty sure I'm the only one around here who'll get it.
Unless you know of another?
It was pretty cool back when I lived in Detroit to hear that language being spoken by random people at Wal-Mart, who would never in a million years guess that I could understand exactly what they were saying.
I assumed it was a typo for imgur -- the image hosting website. What am I missing?
My Neighbor Totoro (1988)
After experiencing the utter devastation that is the Grave of the Fireflies over a year ago, I finally decided to return to Studio Ghibli. What a wonderfully enchanting film.
Darth Ender said :
I got it, I got it!
Great shot kid, that was one in a million!
Here is the total list of movies I've watched since last Wednesday. Due to the sheer amount, I won't say what it is about them I like/dislike, I'll just give them my rating (rounded off to the nearest whole number).
The Lost Boys (1987) - 8/10
Forbidden Planet (1956) - 6/10
Highlander III: The Sorcerer/The Final Dimension/etc. (1994) - 5/10
The Lion King (1994) - 9/10
The Barber (2002) - 5/10
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) - 7/10
The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 7/10
Rear Window (1954) - 5/10
The Limey (1999) - 7/10
Pet Sematary (1989) - 6/10
Children of the Corn (1984) - 7/10
Bad Boys (1983) - 7/10
The Dark Angel (1987) - 7/10
Aladdin (1992) - 8/10
Mystery Date (1991) - 6/10
Predator 2 (1990) - 6/10
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - 4/10
The Shining (1980) - 6/10
The Village (2004) - 5/10
Run (1991) - 6/10
The Mask of Zorro (1998) - 8/10
The Hitcher (1986) - 7/10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 8/10
Psycho (1960) - 8/10
The Frighteners (1996) - 8/10
Dirty Harry (1971) - 6/10
Misery (1990) - 8/10
Batman Forever (1995) - 4/10
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - 8/10
Blair Witch trumping Dirty Harry makes Bingo sad.
DuracellEnergizer said:
Here is the total list of movies I've watched since last Wednesday. Due to the sheer amount, I won't say what it is about them I like/dislike, I'll just give them my rating (rounded off to the nearest whole number).
The Lost Boys (1987) - 8/10
Forbidden Planet (1956) - 6/10
Highlander III: The Sorcerer/The Final Dimension/etc. (1994) - 5/10
The Lion King (1994) - 9/10
The Barber (2002) - 5/10
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) - 7/10
The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 7/10
Rear Window (1954) - 5/10
The Limey (1999) - 7/10
Pet Sematary (1989) - 6/10
Children of the Corn (1984) - 7/10
Bad Boys (1983) - 7/10
The Dark Angel (1987) - 7/10
Aladdin (1992) - 8/10
Mystery Date (1991) - 6/10
Predator 2 (1990) - 6/10
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - 4/10
The Shining (1980) - 6/10
The Village (2004) - 5/10
Run (1991) - 6/10
The Mask of Zorro (1998) - 8/10
The Hitcher (1986) - 7/10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 8/10
Psycho (1960) - 8/10
The Frighteners (1996) - 8/10
Dirty Harry (1971) - 6/10
Misery (1990) - 8/10
Batman Forever (1995) - 4/10
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - 8/10
Adjusted the scores on a few of those ;-)
The Lost Boys (1987) - 0/10... just for the dayglo Saxophone scene alone
Rear Window (1954) - 10/10... an audacious masterpiece of suspense and filmmaking artistry
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - a billion out of/10... films don't get no better than this
The Shining (1980) - 6/10... yes for the european cut but 9/10 for the longer US cut
Rest of the scores are more or less bang on. Impressive viewing, I went through a phase of watching a critically lauded old classic I hadn't seen everyday. Great way to discover things... and some overated tosh too lol
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It is written :
Raiders is a proper cinema classic, TOD is a scruffy. flawed, racist, roller-coaster ride after too much junk food, TLC is a by the numbers, boring dumbed-down remake of Raiders. Both TOD and TLC are as guilty as KOTCS of being not worthy to stand near Raiders.
"Indy, I love you, you're my best friend!... I'm all right, kid."
^ Your argument is invalid ;-)
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I saw that film 17 times in the cinema, not because it was particularly good but because Harrison got his tits out and my hormones were lit up like a Christmas tree.
So thanks for the memories.
Ryan McAvoy said:
The Lost Boys (1987) - 0/10... just for the dayglo Saxophone scene alone
Bingowings said:
It is written :
Raiders is a proper cinema classic, TOD is a scruffy. flawed, racist, roller-coaster ride after too much junk food, TLC is a by the numbers, boring dumbed-down remake of Raiders. Both TOD and TLC are as guilty as KOTCS of being not worthy to stand near Raiders.
I've never been bored by The Last Crusade. Connery is annoying though in TLC. Agreed though that Raiders is by far the best of the bunch.
Ryan McAvoy said:
DuracellEnergizer said:
Here is the total list of movies I've watched since last Wednesday. Due to the sheer amount, I won't say what it is about them I like/dislike, I'll just give them my rating (rounded off to the nearest whole number).
The Lost Boys (1987) - 8/10
Forbidden Planet (1956) - 6/10
Highlander III: The Sorcerer/The Final Dimension/etc. (1994) - 5/10
The Lion King (1994) - 9/10
The Barber (2002) - 5/10
Bringing Out the Dead (1999) - 7/10
The Blair Witch Project (1999) - 7/10
Rear Window (1954) - 5/10
The Limey (1999) - 7/10
Pet Sematary (1989) - 6/10
Children of the Corn (1984) - 7/10
Bad Boys (1983) - 7/10
The Dark Angel (1987) - 7/10
Aladdin (1992) - 8/10
Mystery Date (1991) - 6/10
Predator 2 (1990) - 6/10
Metalstorm: The Destruction of Jared-Syn (1983) - 4/10
The Shining (1980) - 6/10
The Village (2004) - 5/10
Run (1991) - 6/10
The Mask of Zorro (1998) - 8/10
The Hitcher (1986) - 7/10
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) - 8/10
Psycho (1960) - 8/10
The Frighteners (1996) - 8/10
Dirty Harry (1971) - 6/10
Misery (1990) - 8/10
Batman Forever (1995) - 4/10
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - 8/10Adjusted the scores on a few of those ;-)
The Lost Boys (1987) - 0/10... just for the dayglo Saxophone scene alone
Rear Window (1954) - 10/10... an audacious masterpiece of suspense and filmmaking artistry
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) / Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) - a billion out of/10... films don't get no better than this
The Shining (1980) - 6/10... yes for the european cut but 9/10 for the longer US cut
Rest of the scores are more or less bang on. Impressive viewing, I went through a phase of watching a critically lauded old classic I hadn't seen everyday. Great way to discover things... and some overated tosh too lol
I picked up the European cut of The Shining on HD DVD since it was cheap to get. (And region free.) Interesting to see what Kubrick shortened or totally deleted, but the U.S. cut is what I'm used to.
The theories people come with about what the movie means get stranger and stranger!
Where were you in '77?
My own personal theory is that Kubrick wanted to make a haunted house movie, but instead of crafting his own original story, he just took King's novel, turned it inside out, and filmed the result.
I grew up generally disliking the shorter European cut of The Shining and didn't even know about the original 25 minute longer US cut until I saw it at the cinema last year. All the problems I had with the film melted away when viewing it.
If memory serves, we see more Scat Man so he doesn't seem so random (Plus we give more of a sh*t when he dies), we see Danny has an imaginary friend and is far from 'normal', we learn early on that Jack is an alcoholic and has probably physically abused Danny and most importantly it has title cards explaining jumps in time.
A frequent criticism of the film is Nicholson's performance, which is justified by viewing the European cut as it appears random and incomprehensible. But when we see a big black title card saying "A month later" or "The next day", we can then juxtapose the before and after the card in our minds, to chart his mental decline.
btw the 2012 documentary 'Room 237' about all the obssesive Shining conspiracy theories, is really wonderful. It presents the theories and the people who put them forward without comment. So you can view them as geniuses or people who have lost all sense of perspective/reality and are just seeing patterns in the essentially random (I'm in the latter camp). e.g.
^ One theory has it that this was Kubrick 'deliberately' putting a sexually suggestive image in our minds and another is that the carpet was a reference to Kubrick having faked the moon landings...
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I've seen Room 237 once already, but I may have to get the home video release to watch the extras.
The latest "theory" I've stumbled across online trumps them all.
I've played the "Redrum" mod for Duke Nukem countless times over the years, and I still get lost in the Overlook. ;)
If anyone has the Blu Ray, and could take a couple high quality screencaps of a specific scene, please send me a PM? I don't have a Blu Ray drive for the PC yet.
Where were you in '77?
DuracellEnergizer said:
Ryan McAvoy said:
The Lost Boys (1987) - 0/10... just for the dayglo Saxophone scene alone
Surely that's a type-o and he meant to say 10/10? If not, my reaction is the same as yours!
Not a typo lol. My Zero is based on...
this jacket,
Keifer's mullet,
and as above this sequence,
...oh and every other frame of the movie.
I grew up in the 80s and have fond memories of the music and films (SW, Raiders, Goonies etc etc). But this film makes me think I'm wrong and that the decade should be nuked from orbit... it's the only way to be sure ;-)
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Look... back then I had to take what I could and seeing a very muscular man wiggle about with a tube voluntarily held between his lips was a special moment back then.
I was infatuated with a chap who was a dead ringer for the younger Mr Sutherland (that's two generations of Sutherland interest) and Jason well... not only is he the son of the Exorcist but as he got older he grew up to be very easy on the eye.
The film was bobbins though, even if it did pave the way for Buffy the television show, via the movie.
I didn't like Lost Boys or The Goonies
"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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Ryan McAvoy said:
Not a typo lol.
But... those are the GOOD things about the movie!
Recently watched Seven Samurai, American History X, the Pianist, Casablanca and Django Unchained.
Fascinating to see how the way we read lines has evolved. Had to struggle to comprehend dialogue in Casablanca due to accents and rapid delivery, and in Django Unchained it was hard to not understand anything.