SilverWook

DominicCobb said:

Mrebo said:

So you’re a fan of the walkie talkies in ET? Or just annoyed with anybody who questions such a choice?

Are you talking to me? I literally said “it’s not like they’re removing guns from the movie, it’s just a poster.” There’s a big difference between a film and its marketing materials.

As for ET, I’ve legitimately never understood the walkie talkie complaint. I mean sure, was that really necessary? Nah. But honestly is it that big a deal? Judging by the reaction you see about it on the internet you’d think they’d replaced ET with the alien from Mac and Me, everyone acts like this small change ruins the movie.

It was briefly before Spielberg made sure the original theatrical would not be left in the dust bin of analog video formats. Also, South Park kind of made him regret pulling a Lucas.
In any case, how can you be on this site and not understand why altering a scene from a 1982 film twenty years later might upset someone who loved the movie?

Those are Brazilian posters for Solo, BTW. Other countries have different standards.

Anyway, is a Disney ride more sacred than a Disney movie that’s altered/censored? A lot of us have pretty strong feelings about the latter.
I still have trouble wrapping my head around a Disney ride based on a movie we can’t legally purchase on DVD or Blu-Ray. 😉

That’s ridiculous, but probably a decision made at a local distribution level. These are Brazilian posters, so I doubt U.S. posters are being changed. I’d be interested to know if international posters for other movies are regularly altered this way. I doubt it’s just Solo.
I have noticed this sort of thing before.

And AICN comment sections are as moronic as ever.

That’s presuming Luke’s X-Wing hadn’t sprung a leak sitting submerged for possibly years in corrosive salt water. 😉

I do see the point of changing the burning settler’s cabin on the Rivers Of America section of the park I first saw in the 1970’s. This was pretty disturbing to me as a little kid.

Not sure where you’re getting that idea about Broom Boy™. I just presumed he has latent Force abilities that are just beginning to wake up and nobody around him has picked up on it yet. Just like that kid from Tatooine who was pretty good at Pod Racing. 😉
It’s not like anybody is actively looking for Force sensitive kids at this point, at least not yet.

They’re not. But I doubt anyone had an issue with it until recently. It’s a slippery slope. Give an inch, they’ll demand a yard. Somebody is going to have a cow over the headhunters on the Jungle Cruise ride if they haven’t already.

If there’s a Jabba’s palace section in the forthcoming Star Wars land, forget about any slave girls.

Pirates are inherently sexist viewed through a 21st century perspective. It’s not the Privateers who ask nicely before raiding your town ride. And I was upset back in the 90’s before internet rage was a thing. 😉
Isn’t there a homage to the auction scene in one of the POTC movies though?

Sadly, that ship sailed back when they made some PC changes in the late 90’s.

At least we’ll always have Pirates of the Pancreas whenever the heck Anatomy Park opens. 😉

Mike O said:

darthrush said:

Under the Skin

Masterpiece.

Johnanson’s nude scene is what got all the press, but it’s an interesting, highly unusual film that I sort of observed at arm’s length for its technique and style rather than getting involved in it.

I wanted to like that, but it frustrated me to no end.

Terror Train- Utterly mediocre Halloween knockoff. Does almost nothing interesting with its setting, which some other directors would have a field day with. Not particularly gory by today’s standards, though too well-made to qualify as straight exploitation. John Alcott, Stanley Kubrick’s cinematographer, does conjure up a few interesting images and shadows. Otherwise, not shot with much style, uninteresting characters, doesn’t milk any of its ideas enough, and not outrageous enough to work as exploitation. Sadly, overall, just boring.

Wow. How do you go from lensing The Shining to Terror Train? A job is a job I guess. I’m curious enough to check it out now.

Where are Jake and Elwood when we really need them?

joefavs said:

I must have seen The Empire Strikes Back several hundred times by now, and I only just noticed that the “your tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker” guy has a weird flesh-colored mustache. It’s not Ratzenberger, is it? For my entire life I thought “of course it’s not Ratzenberger, Ratzenberger has a mustache.” My whole world has been turned upside-down.

Yes, it’s him. Frink ought to sneak in the Cheers theme when he gets to that scene in TRSB. 😛

He also turns up in Superman 1 and 2…


American actors could make a steady living in British films and tv when American characters were needed.

I liked that movie. It’s silly fun and has a great monster suit at the end.

Didn’t know there was a game.

So, do lie detector tests have any legal weight like they do in movies and tv?

Four words I did not need to see on CNN while eating: unprotected sex with Trump. Where did I leave that MIB Neuralyzer? I don’t need that mental image in my head!!!

Every Batman reflects it’s era.

After reading a thread elsewhere about making a Film Noir version of Batman '89, turning it a black and white movie, I watched the old open matte version DVD recently with the color in my tv turned off and it was an interesting experience. It really looks like it was shot that way.

Anyone for cake?

Haven’t we been on this mobius strip before? 😛

But we ships in motion when they enter and exit Hyperspace. Enough time to ram something before actually entering Hyperspace.

And yet, the studios keep pushing those flimsy eco cases with holes big enough for the cover art to get damaged and I end up tossing in the recycle bin for a real case. Even a pricey beast like the Halloween box set used the damn things. And good luck finding Blu-Ray cases in black to replace those with. Orange would have made more sense.

Steelbooks are to this decade what foil variant comic book covers were in the '90’s. 😛

rodneyfaile said:

I’m going to get involved with The Last Jedi steelbook next week!

I know some people dig steelbooks, but a romantic relationship seems a bit one sided. 😉

Did the well finally run dry on all those TLBT direct to video sequels? It seemed like they were coming out every year for a while.

Mike O said:

Mad Max- Having seen the sequels several times (the second is a personal favorite I’ve seen way too many times, and love it), I finally decided to tackle the original. Unfortunately, both MGM and Shout fucked up and their “original mono” tracks are downmixes. Is there ANY way to get the original mono track outside of digging up old Australian pan-and-scan VHS tape? Anyway, all that aside, it’s a fun, super-iconic Ozploitation film, albiet very slow and dated by today’s standards. Director George Miller, one of the greatest action filmmakers of all-time in the sequels, manages to get a lot of mileage out of a minuscule budget (along with Carpenter’s Halloween, I think that it’s one the most successful independent films of the era). I just wish I could watch it with the original fucking audio track.

Dragonslayer- A rarity, a genuine, proper, serious sword and sorcery fantasy flick. The fist film to use ILM outside of the Star Wars universe. The story of a sorcerer’s apprentice attempting to slay a dragon, as the title states, it’s the coolest movie dragon this side of Smaug. Phil Tippet pulled out all the stops and used every bit of special effect technology available at the time to create the might Vermithrax Pejorative, and man, is it cool. The storyline isn’t fantastic; it’s your fairly standard stuff with the wizard’s apprentice, the girl with whom he falls in love, the town offering sacrifices, etc. The performances are solid, particularly a scene-stealing Ralph Richardson. But it’s the marvelously medieval setting and grim mood that really help the film to stand apart from most knockoff fantasy features, then and now. And that dragon? Wow.

VP is probably the most frightening dragon ever captured on film. Even Smaug has to take second place.

I’ve often wondered if anybody connected to the films is among our members here.