Coming from someone who likes The Garbage Pail Kids so much I’ll take that as a
compliment.
[quote]roybot wrote:
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence flexes her acting muscles in an adaptation that succeeds in being a good movie even though the most dubious plot points of the book were retained.
The Last Stand- Arnie was past his prime before he ran for Governator. Even so, this wasn’t anywhere near the turkey shoot it was made out to be. [/quote]
I was surprised how good The Last Stand was. Guys like Arnold and Sly can get away with being older as long as they play older characters. One of the reasons I liked Rambo 4 is that Sly was playing a retired version of JR who had to step up to the plate. The Last Stand wasn’t really that different imo, an that is why it worked.
[quote]Karado wrote:
Coming from someone who likes The Garbage Pail Kids so much I’ll take that as a
compliment.[/quote]
I’ve never seen your teeth. Busted.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence flexes her acting muscles in an adaptation that succeeds in being a good movie even though the most dubious plot points of the book were retained.
The Last Stand- Arnie was past his prime before he ran for Governator. Even so, this wasn’t anywhere near the turkey shoot it was made out to be. [/quote]
I was surprised how good The Last Stand was. Guys like Arnold and Sly can get away with being older as long as they play older characters. One of the reasons I liked Rambo 4 is that Sly was playing a retired version of JR who had to step up to the plate. The Last Stand wasn’t really that different imo, an that is why it worked.[/quote]
Everyone having seen Gran Torino knows that it can be done.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence flexes her acting muscles in an adaptation that succeeds in being a good movie even though the most dubious plot points of the book were retained.
The Last Stand- Arnie was past his prime before he ran for Governator. Even so, this wasn’t anywhere near the turkey shoot it was made out to be. [/quote]
I was surprised how good The Last Stand was. Guys like Arnold and Sly can get away with being older as long as they play older characters. One of the reasons I liked Rambo 4 is that Sly was playing a retired version of JR who had to step up to the plate. The Last Stand wasn’t really that different imo, an that is why it worked.[/quote]
Yeah.
I was initially put off by the publicity. Seemed like it was a concerted push to reinvent Arnie as an Eastwood-style hero.
Rambo is probably the best fourth installment of a franchise ever made. The age of invincible heroes is past. Even Batman and Bond show their age.
Emilia Clarke has been cast as the new Sarah Connor for the Terminator reboot…
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Emilia Clarke has been cast as the new Sarah Connor for the Terminator reboot…
[/quote]
They seem to be casting a younger Sarah Connor opposite an older John Connor.
[quote]orion wrote:
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
[quote]roybot wrote:
Hunger Games: Catching Fire - Jennifer Lawrence flexes her acting muscles in an adaptation that succeeds in being a good movie even though the most dubious plot points of the book were retained.
The Last Stand- Arnie was past his prime before he ran for Governator. Even so, this wasn’t anywhere near the turkey shoot it was made out to be. [/quote]
I was surprised how good The Last Stand was. Guys like Arnold and Sly can get away with being older as long as they play older characters. One of the reasons I liked Rambo 4 is that Sly was playing a retired version of JR who had to step up to the plate. The Last Stand wasn’t really that different imo, an that is why it worked.[/quote]
Everyone having seen Gran Torino knows that it can be done. [/quote]
Eastwood can actually act though.
Roybot’s words of ignorance with my enlightened responses/
He typed: “Rambo is probably the best fourth installment of a franchise ever made”.
Wrong, the best fourth installment is Star Wars Episode IV.
And with the mostly bad reviews that no plot bloodbath “Rambo” had, and the anemic 37% rating on
RT I’d say your in the company of the very few who think this better than the first one that started
it all.
He Typed: “The age of invincible heroes is past”.
Bullshit.
We’ll have those kinds of movies around for a long time,
I’ve lost count how many fuckin’ ‘Die Hards’ they’ve made
and I won’t be surprised if Willis makes another one.
He typed: “Even Batman and Bond show their age.”
No shit Sherlock, that’s why they’ve had have different people play them
over the years…Timeless concepts never show their age anyway and as long as
these films make money they will keep making them.
Smaug was awesome.
Maybe spoilerish
I could see book purists being a little miffed about the way the Smaug plot was rewritten for the big screen, but it gave him so much screen time, and the action was awesome(literal gold dragon so cool). I always loved the scene from the book/original movie, but I think people forget how short/small a part it actually was, and Jackson clearly wanted to change that.
[quote]Karado wrote:
Wrong, the best fourth installment is Star Wars Episode IV.
[/quote]
um, that was the first Star Wars movie.
The World’s End
Didn’t like it as much as the reviews, but the script was pretty damn great at times
[quote]red04 wrote:
Smaug was awesome.
Maybe spoilerish
I could see book purists being a little miffed about the way the Smaug plot was rewritten for the big screen, but it gave him so much screen time, and the action was awesome(literal gold dragon so cool). I always loved the scene from the book/original movie, but I think people forget how short/small a part it actually was, and Jackson clearly wanted to change that.[/quote]
I thought the same thing.
Hated the way it cut off at the end though.
[quote]PB Andy wrote:
The World’s End
Didn’t like it as much as the reviews, but the script was pretty damn great at times[/quote]
My sentiments exactly. It didn’t really pop like Shaun of the Dead or Hot Fuzz, but it had a decent script and a few moments.
[quote]Karado wrote:
Bullshit.
We’ll have those kinds of movies around for a long time,
I’ve lost count how many fuckin’ ‘Die Hards’ they’ve made
and I won’t be surprised if Willis makes another one.
He typed: “Even Batman and Bond show their age.”
No shit Sherlock, that’s why they’ve had have different people play them
over the years…Timeless concepts never show their age anyway and as long as
these films make money they will keep making them.
[/quote]
Some superlative nit-picking going on here…
I was referring to the shift from invulnerable screen heroes who recover immediately from any injuries they might sustain to the modern depiction of heroes like Bond in Skyfall and Batman in the TDK trilogy. While they were once infallible, they are now shown to be affected by age in a more believable and lasting way. I was NOT talking about a long-running franchise getting old or actors having to be replaced due to age or wanting to move on, nor was I talking about actors like Bruce Willis and Arnold Schwarzenegger riding out their signature franchises even though they are way past their physical prime. That is asking the audience to ignore the obvious aging of the lead actor - again not what I was talking about.
Edit: The most interesting thing about the Die Hard movies is that McClane’s imperviousness to injury grows as he gets older.
You have a point with Star Wars in that it has a four attached to the title. Shame the prequels were shot after A New Hope (which is really the start of a new trilogy) and Lucas hadn’t written them when the ORIGINAL* trilogy was being filmed. The ORIGINAL* trilogy is also a stand-alone story arc that doesn’t require the viewing of the prequels to make it work (the general consensus is that the prequels sully the rep of the ORIGINAL* trilogy.
- Emphasis on ORIGINAL to drive home the point that the majority of people do not consider ANH to be a fourquel.
Your dumb ass must consider The Fellowship of the Ring to be the fourth installment of The Hobbit saga, John Carpenter’s The Thing a sequel to The Thing 2011 and X-Men, X-men 3.
I appreciate the attempt at enlightening me, but not being a contrarian snob myself, I tend not to take lessons from them. Nothing personal.
[quote]StevenF wrote:
[quote]Karado wrote:
Wrong, the best fourth installment is Star Wars Episode IV.
[/quote]
um, that was the first Star Wars movie.[/quote]
Right. The chronology of a movie series is always established by the first movie to be released. They could release ten prequels after it but that first flick will never be called “a sequel to”…
I also don’t consider those prequels when talking about the original Star Wars. They were forgettable imo.
[quote]MytchBucanan wrote:
I also don’t consider those prequels when talking about the original Star Wars. They were forgettable imo.[/quote]
Yeah. There’s no point to making a prequel beyond exploiting the goodwill of the audience, unless you have something that truly enhances the original. A very difficult thing to do.
[quote]Karado wrote:
Prometheus sucked, I’m surprised that uninspired piece of shit
made enough money to even justify a sequel…Ridley Scott has always
been a hit or miss director for me anyway, but I’ve seen better films on teeth.
[/quote]
Prometheus 3 is a classic:
