Tack

The epic cut sounds promising. What is its content?

CO said:

cop out 

 Cop?

SilverWook said:

Listen to his early work on Battle Beyond The Stars sometime. ;)

 Interesting. I will.

Completely random thought; James Horner repeats himself a lot.

I've noticed this while watching films with score by him. His Aliens score has the Klingon theme from Star Trek III in there, and his Apollo 13 score just sounds like an amalgamation of all his previous scores. Titanic is one musical theme repeated over and over ad-nauseum.

Rest assured, I mainly only like his two Star Trek scores, as they're both very different from each other in terms of themes.

Of course, Leonard Rosenman was prone to this as well (He used the same theme for the apes in Beneath the Planet of the Apes and for the wraiths in The Lord of the Rings.)

Reegar said:

AntcuFaalb said:

Reegar said:

You're missing next to nothing.

I beg to differ. I, objectively, think they're better than any of the three LotR films.

 ROTJ is your favorite OT film. Of course the Hobbit trilogy would appeal to you more over LOTR.

 They have their similarities. In both the personal idiosyncrasies of each director appear (slapstick, etc.).

They also share the same problem of having a huge reputation preceding them. Of course, they might have done pretty badly had they not had two very popular brand names attached to them.

Saving Mr. Banks

Mary Poppins is one of my favorites, so I was happy to see this. It's a surprisingly dark entry into its origins. 

What can I say? It takes liberties, for sure, but it's thoroughly enjoyable. I love BJ Novak and Schwartzman as the Sherman Bros., Emma Thompson as Travers, and especially Tom Hanks as Disney.

I recommend you see it, but the experience is made better if you've seen the films, and even moreso (IMO) if you've read one of the books (which I have).

10/10 WILL watch again.

Oooh... let the argument begin!

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I feel... relieved. And yet strangely unfulfilled.

No we did not. End of story.

The Hobbit: Desolation of Smaug

I think I might actually like Bilbo a little more than Frodo. Overall, very exciting and entertaining movie, with the dwarf comedy toned down a great deal (except with one scene with Bombur where he takes out a dozen orcs in a matter of seconds), and one hell of a cliffhanger.

Also, the only off-colour joke I can think of in a LOTR movie.

9/10 Would watch again.

GAAAAAAHHH!!!

I never liked recorders. I understand.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I don't care who dies as long as it's a dignified death and isn't rendered meaningless by future sequels.

 ^This.

I'd say just add some contrast to the DVD and that's how it should look. The image quality is better on Blu-Ray for sure, but coloring is another story. It's too teal.

666?

AAAAAAAAAAAHH!!

I know I'm real.

And if you were all socks, you'd attack me right now. So some of you are still real.

I play the piano and string bass.

You know what? Disregard what I said.

I'm not against character death, it's just I think that Luke should still be the protagonist. If any other character died in service to the story, I wouldn't mind.

Those last two were from the prequels, which went way too dark for my taste.

I say not. Too dark for Star Wars.

I'm against nitpicking if someone's using it to actually hinder their opinion on a whole film. If it's in good fun, I don't mind it a bit. We have to admit the flaws in everything. I just hate the people who base their whole opinion on a film on the little things.

I prefer his work with the comic strip, though. He'd grounded himself a lot more by then.

I think that the secret can still be preserved easily. It works pretty well within what's been given (you could make a fan-edit of the existing ROTS and keep it ambiguous). You can at least keep it unsure until it's revealed in ESB. 

I think it would be more the 'prequels' and not the first three chapters of the story if you revealed everything. Meaning, often times we think of prequels as a part of the story told AFTER the events before it have already come out or been told. However, they're marketed as the first three chapters of the story, in which case way too much is revealed.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Tack said:

The original Marvel comics, much less so. They were just kind of bizarre.

If you think the main Marvel comics were bizarre*, you should see the stories Alan Moore wrote for Marvel UK.

 

*Bizarre comics are awesome, so don't knock 'em!

 I've seen some of them. Pretty weird.

I won't deny that some bizarre comics are good, but for licensed products I find it less forgivable. I enjoy the early Star Trek Gold Key comics, so I have experience with weird stuff.

So, a question that has plagued me for a while:

Was Tarkin the main villain of the original Star Wars?