Bullitt (1968) 9/10
First time seeing this classic, love almost every minute. Great performances, writing, music and cinematography. The only problem is that it dragged a bit during the airport chase.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Definitely one of the most nail biting car chases ever filmed. How the heck they pulled that off in the streets of San Francisco is nothing short of amazing. It must have been a logistical nightmare to keep innocent drivers and pedestrians out of harm’s way.
And it was fun seeing Robert Duvall pre THX-1138 as the cabbie.
Where were you in '77?
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)
It’s not an especially popular opinion among “Trekkie’s” but I loved this film! Seriously, I enjoyed myself all of the way through. The performances were excellent, especially Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and Benedict Cumberbatch, who doesn’t jusy rip off Ricardo Montalbán from Star Trek II. Also, after watching The Wrath of Khan, I can safely say that I can’t grasp people saying that Into Darkness is the same film, the plot is completely different. Why does The Force Awakens get a pass from tons of people even though it is way more similar to Star Wars than this is to The Wrath of Khan? The characters are extremely well developed, and I loved that every core member of the Enterprise got a moment to shine (I loved Sulu’s speech to the Klingon’s). Overall the only problems I saw were the fakeout death of Kirk and some too obvious visual riffs from The Wrath of Khan (I don’t mind the big “KHAAAAN!” as it adds to Spock’s character in a different way than it did to Kirk in Star Trek II. Maybe it was my lowered expectations, but I adored this film, just as much as I adored The Wrath of Khan.
9/10
Not enough people read the EU.
I really enjoyed STID too. We’re gonna watch it again tonight in prep for seeing Beyond tomorrow night.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Into Darkness was the most insulting film to its fanbase until TMNT came along.
I’m a casual Star Trek fan. I like two of the six original films (Kahn and Undiscovered Country). I like two of the Next Gen movies (Generations and First Contact). TOS was campy fun but pretty stupid when you get down to it. Next Gen was pretty good but I’ve probably seen less than half the episodes. I’ve never seen a single episode of Voyager or DS9 or Enterprise.
I really enjoyed the first two Star Trek reboot films.
I don’t care if it insulted you true believers.
“Star Trek Beyond” 5/10
Not my brand of Star Trek.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
Now I’m even more excited for it! :p
I agree with the other STID lovers. Not an amazing film but very solid and enjoyable. The TWOK comparisons are blown way out of proportion.
Beyond is better though even if the stakes never seem quite as high. Also unlike STID there’s not much of a moral/message but that’s no matter (though some thematic balls are dropped). It’s just very good fun.
I don’t mind a new creative team next time though I really hope they can maintain the quality.
FWIW, on RT Into Darkness has a 90% audience score, an 86% critic score and an 80% top critic score. It has a 78% on IMDb. On Metacritic it has a 78% audience and 72% critic rating. It seems like hardcore Trek fans were pissed off by it, but generally it was well received.
Now I’m even more excited for it! :p
That is why I’m not trashing on it. It was a well made big budget movie with splosions, makeup, jokes and potentially tearful moments. It just was not the type of “Star Trek” I like. I’m the type the holds “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” as cinema art. The re-casting of the TOS characters never agreed with me. The mass destruction of men and material with star ships crashing and ripping apart does not meet with my snobbish intellectual standards. I want more in-depth moral conflicts and challenges that excite and question our perceptions of reality. This film just had too much “been there done that” for my liking.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
You can’t blame me, as a youngster with no attention span, for disliking ponderous snoozefests like 2001 and TMP. 😉
You can’t blame me, as a youngster with no attention span, for disliking ponderous snoozefests like 2001 and TMP. 😉
Not at all.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
I’ve watched both Abrams Trek films this week in anticipation of seeing Beyond tonight. I still like the first one an awful lot. I’m very ambivalent about Into Darkness. It got a whole lot wrong (mostly in the writing), but there’s enough about it that I like that I’m unwilling to write it off (mostly in the performances and direction). Undoubtably a deeply flawed film, but not a completely worthless one. If nothing else, there are some extremely striking visuals. The Enterprise falling out of warp while being chased by the Vengeance is one of the coolest space shots I’ve seen in anything.
I suspect STID’s reputation may improve if the fourth film is as well-received as Beyond. I think it will probably draw a lot less hate as simply the weak link in an otherwise solid series. I think it’s premature to assess that until we know whether or not the franchise’s course has actually been corrected beyond Beyond, though (I couldn’t resist).
Into Darkness is fine but the fact that it’s a complete ripoff remake of Wrath of Kahn bothers me. I’d say Beyond is the best of the three but the trailers looked pretty bad.
Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329
If you honestly think it’s a complete remake you either don’t know what a remake is or haven’t seen the film in awhile.
Ok “complete remake” is an overstatement but c’mon, they ripped off all of the best parts of Wrath of Kahn and focused more on fan service than making an original script. Leonard Neemoy’s final cameo was also very forced and poorly done which is a huge shame.
Prequel Fan-Edit thread: http://originaltrilogy.com/topic/Yet-another-series-of-prequel-edits/id/17329
Leonard Neemoy
Your argument is invalid due to your disrespect for Spock.
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
The only thing it remade entirely from ST II was the climactic death being done exactly line-for-line. Other than that, it’s more like a paranoid conspiracy theorist’s remake of the episode Space Seed.
I’m about half and half on Into Darkness. Some good bits, some bad bits, but mostly falls flat for me. Better than most of the TNG films, but that’s not saying much.
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Into Darkness is fine but the fact that it’s a complete
ripoffremake of Wrath of Kahn bothers me. I’d say Beyond is the best of the three but the trailers looked pretty bad.
If you honestly think it’s a complete remake you either don’t know what a remake is or haven’t seen the film in awhile.
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Agreed. The worst thing about Scream 2 in my opinion was how the mystery was handled; there were no clues throughout the movie that pointed towards the culprit. I think that going the comedic route was probably a good choice though since there’s really no way to beat the first reveal. Scream is an awesome film. It’s actually where I got my “moviefreakedmind” name from.
Absolutely. The first time I saw it I literally paused the film and thought about who was the killer and came up with nothing because of the contradictory nature of things until the end and then it all made sense.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 7/10
It’s far from perfect, but it’s a ton of fun. Robert Englund as Fred Krueger isn’t in it all that much, but every scene he’s in is gold. It’s funny how cheesy it is at times, and how obvious the fire suit is when Freddy is burned by Nancy, and some characters are underwritten and others are poorly acted, but most of the film is awesome. The soundtrack, direction, camerawork and sound effects are great, and overall it’s just a really cool movie.
The burn scene may have an obvious mask, but it’s awesome. It’s the longest a stuntman has ever burned on film in a single take.
I love the film right up to the final four-ish minutes.
Ok “complete remake” is an overstatement but c’mon, they ripped off all of the best parts of Wrath of Kahn and focused more on fan service than making an original script.
There are more “best parts” to TWOK than just Spock’s death. Can’t think of what else they might have ripped. 95% of the script is original by the way. There’s just that one scene that could be considered fan service but I don’t think that’d really count as fan service because it’s only the fans who don’t like it. Making Khan the villain could qualify as fan service but his role in this script is completely different than before.
Leonard Neemoy’s final cameo was also very forced and poorly done which is a huge shame.
True but this is 30 seconds worth of a 2 hour film.
The only thing it remade entirely from ST II was the climactic death being done exactly line-for-line. Other than that, it’s more like a paranoid conspiracy theorist’s remake of the episode Space Seed.
The scene is mostly the same but “line-for-line” is just inaccurate. And there’s not much similarity to Space Seed beyond the mere presence of Khan.
Listen guys, STID isn’t perfect. Dislike it all you want, dislike the Khan stuff all you want. But to say that the whole film is a rip-off is just flat out not true. And I really don’t get how you could hate a whole movie for one scene and the name of the main villain. (I’m not saying this to anyone in particular.)
Ok “complete remake” is an overstatement but c’mon, they ripped off all of the best parts of Wrath of Kahn and focused more on fan service than making an original script.
There are more “best parts” to TWOK than just Spock’s death. Can’t think of what else they might have ripped. 95% of the script is original by the way. There’s just that one scene that could be considered fan service but I don’t think that’d really count as fan service because it’s only the fans who don’t like it. Making Khan the villain could qualify as fan service but his role in this script is completely different than before.
Leonard Neemoy’s final cameo was also very forced and poorly done which is a huge shame.
True but this is 30 seconds worth of a 2 hour film.
The only thing it remade entirely from ST II was the climactic death being done exactly line-for-line. Other than that, it’s more like a paranoid conspiracy theorist’s remake of the episode Space Seed.
The scene is mostly the same but “line-for-line” is just inaccurate.
“I think you’d better get down here”
“You’ll flood the whole compartment”
“Ship out of danger”
There were a quite a few lines taken from WOK
And there’s not much similarity to Space Seed beyond the mere presence of Khan.
I should’ve clarified. It’s more like Space Seed than it is WOK. They meet Khan and his crew is frozen. Khan stays on the Enterprise for a bit.
Listen guys, STID isn’t perfect. Dislike it all you want, dislike the Khan stuff all you want. But to say that the whole film is a rip-off is just flat out not true. And I really don’t get how you could hate a whole movie for one scene and the name of the main villain. (I’m not saying this to anyone in particular.)
I don’t hate the film at all, but most of my complaints stem from the bleakness of it. It’s a downright paranoid film about how the utopian Federation is actually super corrupt and menacing because it’s secretly run by the Illuminati (Section 31). It’s a decent space-action movie.
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) - 7/10
It’s far from perfect, but it’s a ton of fun. Robert Englund as Fred Krueger isn’t in it all that much, but every scene he’s in is gold. It’s funny how cheesy it is at times, and how obvious the fire suit is when Freddy is burned by Nancy, and some characters are underwritten and others are poorly acted, but most of the film is awesome. The soundtrack, direction, camerawork and sound effects are great, and overall it’s just a really cool movie.
The burn scene may have an obvious mask, but it’s awesome. It’s the longest a stuntman has ever burned on film in a single take.
I love the film right up to the final four-ish minutes.
Oh I don’t think the scene sucks merely because the burn mask is obvious. I was laughing with joy the whole time Freddy was on fire! “I’ll kill you slow!” And I too don’t really get the final five minutes. The closest I can chalk it up to is that it’s Marge’s dream, since she’s too blackout drunk at that point to remember any previous events from the film. But even that’s a stretch.
Not enough people read the EU.
My problems with Into Darkness all center around the unbelievably poor writing. Abrams has a long history of employing bad writers and then overcoming that with style over substance. To him, as long as it feels right, it doesn’t matter if it makes sense. The writers don’t have even a basic grasp of science. Back in the first film, a single star goes supernova and that literally threatens THE ENTIRE GALAXY.
Look at the introduction of interplanetary transporters. It’s incredibly stupid and something that’s far too advanced for even that period of time. Just transporting something between two planets in the same system would be miraculous but to do that between planets that are in completely separate quadrants of the galaxy? Virtually impossible. Not to mention the rippling effects that would have on galactic civilization as a whole. Who needs starships when you can beam to wherever you need to go even if its on the other side of the galaxy.
Then you have Khan’s miracle blood that can bring people back from the dead. Solely introduced just so they can ripoff WoK and then immediately bring the character back to life afterward. Completely undermines the scene and is unfathomably cheap. Then the miracle cure for death is immediately swept under the rug and will never be brought up again.
I won’t even get into the idiocy of Benedict as Kahn. It was a crap script for a crap movie.