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TV's Frink said:

They made what, three of those Expendables movies?  And now seven Furious movies?  The action movie ain't going away.

 It's funny. The first "The Fast and the Furious" was a mid-level cops and robbers movie about drag racing.

Now they're the most insanely over the top action films out there. Makes me long for the subtlety of the Brosnan Bond films.

I'm not sure exactly what mainstream american presence means, but the "Taken" phone speech has some massive recognition.

I agree 100% that toning down action films (and horror films) that plainly SHOULD be "R" films to be PG-13 has seriously damaged lots of films. I also think there's something vaguely immoral about it.

I watched "Dredd." There's a dude who's shot and dies crying in a puddle of his own blood. I watched "Man of Steel" where tens of thousands of people die off camera and no one seems to mind, or "Expendables 3" where people die and it's funny.

Which film is REALLY inappropriate for children? The one where violence is awful, or the one where violence is fun?

Missy Elliot, they embraced, carnally. 

...where he finally found love.

Rewatched this movie for the first time in easily 15 years. It's especially cool sense I stayed a week at Carcassone castle, where they filmed the final battle.

Excepting the awful awful hair, it's aged pretty well.

I want to ask my more film savvy colleagues, this movie will occasionally have really weird looking closeups. The rest of the cinematography is fairly standard, but these bizarre, kinda-fish-eye looking closeups pop up again and again. 

What are they doing? 

Since twinkie guns were banned...

Hang in there dude. Good luck. 

My boy got his measles mumps rubella vaccinations today! 

It's been put off for health reasons, but now I am SO happy. 

Nocturnaloner said:

imperialscum said:

The only film of PT that can be fixed by editing is TPM.

 I'm not even with you on that one.  Having Anakin be born on Tatooine, and sticking us as viewers on Tatooine, again, was a terrible idea.  Casting him as an 8 year old, golden haired chipmunk with a cringeworthy love interest 10 years older than him, was a series of terrible ideas.  To make matters worse, Jake Lloyd was terrible, and there's no getting around that.  Not to say I didn't enjoy parts of all the prequel movies, but none of them can be truly fixed. 

Jake Lloyd was just fine. Find me an actor in all of stage and film who could deliver those lines in a way that DOESN'T make them awful and insipid.

"Spinning! That's a good trick!" 

...and a baker's floppy hat...

I'm watching the career of Cary Fukunaga with great interest.

Between his visionary 'Jane Eyre' (amazing to breath some life into that old chestnut) and "True Detective" I'm very into this dude's work.

EyeShotFirst said:

I think most of the directors I love are hit and miss, so I will also list the films I love the most from them.

All directors are hit and miss.

Even Hitchcock made "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (twice, mediocre both times). Spielberg made Jurassic Park 2. Lucas made a couple bad ones later in his career too if I recall righ. 

How many artists have more than a couple masterpieces in them? Especially in film, where even the strongest director is still making a collaborative piece of art.

Nocturnaloner said:

I dunno.  How about some specific examples?  The only thing that comes close in my mind to a movie series that succeeded purely on the strength of brand and CGI would be Transformers. 

 They made "Battleship."

Also, the PT and the LOTR started the trend of planning 'this is going to be an epic series/franchise/trilogy' before even one movie was successful. 

Baker never forgave that. He...

skyjedi2005 said:

Wedge was a main character in the books.  He has been erased from the new movie.

Some no name dude leads rogue squadron.

 So a man in his 60s with no life ambition, skills, or achievements other than leading a certain squad of spaceships for the last three decades is a compelling character? 

Honestly, I'm glad we won't be seeing "Aging No-Dreams Wedge."

Even in a parody, these lines are better than "I hate you" "From my point of view the Jedi are evil."

So Roy decided he must...

Anyone ever read the webcomic “Darths and Droids?”

It’s EXTREMEMLY high concept. The premise is a role playing game group are playing the story of (roughly) the Star Wars movies, with no pre-knowledge, as the story takes place in a world where the Star Wars movies don’t exist.

There’s also several sub-storylines involving glimpses into the lives of the players, that we only get bits and pieces of.

Its extremely funny, with jokes being about Star Wars, sci-fi cliches, RPGs, and all sorts of other things.

Re-reading a lot of their archives though, it occurred to me that despite being intentionally silly, the plot they put forward for RotS is in many ways, more dramatic and easier to invest in emotionally than the actual movie, and contains some really bitchin’ dialogue over the final lava duel.

His most prized shirt was...

TV's Frink said:

STILL THE WRONG TOAD!!!

TV's Frink said:

TheBoost said:

I recommend both ritalin and lengthy hynotherapy.

 ALL HAIL THE HYNOTOAD

 

 That wasn't a typo for Hypnotherapy... it was a type for GYNOtherapy. Sheesh.

...so Mega Man used a...

You think the NFL has it bad? Over in the WWF they've had to deal with EVIL TWIN REFEREES!

...The Circle Store. Then Mega...

DrCrowTStarwars said:

I really wish the NFL would take real action on this issue of the type that major league baseball did after the 1919 world series.  I mean it's bad enough that the games are getting long and longer as more and more things are reviewed, but now that cheating seems to be something the league doesn't even bother to punish and a team and a coach is allowed to just get away with it scott free, I have to wonder what the point of watching a "sport" where the outcome is rigged is.

 All they did was cheat to win a football game. It's not like they wore BEATS brand headphones or something awful.