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Metreon IMAX in San Francisco. Can't find a pic with the screen, but it's huge and wonderful.

Anything with floating heads.

TV's Frink said:

Courtesy a certain lazy good-for-nothing:

Leonardo said:

TV's Frink said:

Post that in the correct thread please.

But... there are actually two of them!

I read this post and imagined this guy saying it:

The Raid: Redemption

I'm not a fan of violence for violence's sake in movies, but when it's this well done you just have to sit back and enjoy the ride. I loved how this movie jumped right into the action without any useless exposition. The action scenes were well directed and photographed. Just an utter 100 minutes of pulse pounding action. I can't remember the last time I watched a movie and felt like I had my own ass kicked (maybe The Bourne Ultimatum).

8.5/10

Tenenbaums

BloodnoseThePirate said:

Swingers for the first time.

I really liked it. 8/10

"Watch where you're going, asshole."

"What'd you say, bitch?"

"I said watch where you're going, bitch!"

My money's on Special Edition Han. Why? He has the head movement to dodge OOT Han's shots.

The Last Wave (1977) - Peter Weir's take on doomsday theory with an Aboriginal twist. Great psychological thriller. 8/10 and nice complement to Miracle Mile. I love 70s and 80s movies so much, the ones you don't hear about too frequently but feel so grounded and authentic in how the stories are told.

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Also saw the new Spider-Man this week - meh. The origin story and first half of the movie were so half-assed. It literally screamed, "We need to get this crap out of the way so we can get to some action."

I'm surprised people are putting it above Raimi's first Spider-Man, a much better movie in my opinion. This new one just didn't have good character development. The Uncle Ben/Peter relationship was utterly botched. Lizard's motivation was paper thin.

I can't remember Peter being so open with his new abilities in the older movie. In this one he dunks from 15 feet and dents a goalpost by throwing a football from 70+ yards away. Nobody suspicious? Just lazy writing to me.

Not a bad movie, but not as good as Raimi's first two.

I hope you changed this back to the original, Senor Spielbergo. No more listening to George!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_sFW8grQtU

I doubt I buy this set until it's super cheap during a holiday sale or something. And I hope the blu-ray and geek community learned last year to not put money down for anything with Lucas' name on it until you know what's really in the package. But I trust Spielberg to do this release the right way.

I know I read a review somewhere about an HD showing of the trilogy earlier this year. Someone perhaps at AICN reported the movies were intact (truck going off cliff reverted to original shot in Raiders). The only change was the snake reflection was still scrubbed out, and that's such a small change (probably for the better).

Miracle Mile - 1988 film about a potential nuclear war looming. Very well done sort of apocalyptic thriller with a young Anthony Edwards. 7/10

zombie84 said:

Watched the first two parts of Fanny and Alexander, the mini-series version. I always thought the film was a bit slow to start, since the first 70 minutes are really nothing more than a Christmas dinner that does little or nothing to advance the plot. However, this film is about characters, and when you re-watch the film, the first part gets better and better each time as you start getting more familiar with various quirks of the cast. And you get a peak of Pernilla August's breasts, which has always been weird to me since I so strongly associate her with Phantom Menace. The final parts really pick up the pace with surprising speed, looking forward to finishing this tonight.

"Oops, the rocket went off too soon!" Maybe my 3rd favorite Bergman film (behind Seventh Seal and Wild Strawberries)

The Day of the Jackal - very interesting film about an assassination attempt on Charles de Gaulle. 8/10

 Homer: Son, there was something I was going to give you at the end of
        this trip, but since we may not survive, I want you to have it
        now.
  Bart: [gasps] A real Swiss Army knife!  Cool!
 Homer: I stole it from that Borgnine guy.
         [Scene switch to a ferocious bear]
Ernest: Don't worry, kids!  I'll take care of him with my trusty...
        [searches for his knife]...er, er, um, er, uh, hmm.

Harmy said:

I'm not watching, but my dad is, because it's his favourite SW film, the reason for which is in his own words: "because it's the one with the gungans."

facepalm.gif

*wag of the finger*

SilverWook said:

Last time I saw TPM on Spike, it was still Creepy Puppet Yoda. I missed it over the July 4 showings they were doing though.

Last time I saw TPM I decided I didn't want to see TPM again.

;)

He's just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe.

zombie84 said:

Ewan McGregor has always been pretty upfront that he thought the prequels weren't as good as the originals. He's gotten in trouble a couple times because of this.

Interesting that Daniels would have negatives views. In mean, understable, and he's always had a sort of "complicated" love/hate relationship with the series, but I hadn't heard him be completely honest before.

Terrence Stamp bashed Episode I. It seems he expected to actually be acting, instead of reciting lines to a wooden post in a blue screen stage.

Liam Neeson was so upset after the preview of Episode I he ranted that he was giving up acting forever because he couldn't stand the crappy movies he was being put in (that year, he was in both The Haunting AND Episode I). He later reconsidered.

Hayden Christensen has been very diplomatic, but he's said that he didn't get the script for Episode II until the week before filming and he was really worried that he wouldn't be able to make it believable. According to a less reported anecdote--but highly believable one--his reaction to a friend was "I'm fucked." And he was.

"Look at the moons!"  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z08pO0nDCPA

I like when he laughs at the title of Ep II. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwL8wlBMflA

Those tidbits about Neeson and Christensen are interesting.

No, it's the baby of an albino Engineer.

Christensen was good in Life as a House and Shattered Glass.

Just look at Portman - she's terrible in the prequels. I put hers and Jackson's performances at the bottom. Oh God, Samuel L Jackson. "A Sith Lord...?"

shudders

But they're certainly not bad actors by any means. They're quite good in pretty much everything else on their resumes. It's just a combination of the horrible dialogue and people probably saying, "Ah, screw it. I'll just say the lines to make George happy so I can get the hell off this green screen."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CC8THtokVdg#t=1m38s

Col. Christopher Blair!

But Hamill's best work is as the Joker. So good.