Just finished TMNT, ahhh not bad…
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Im not listening Roy [/quote]
Join us, D.
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It’s actually 1 book into 6 movies. Even worse :([/quote]
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Tolkien’s original work was 1 book. It was later broken up into 4. [/quote]
The Hobbit was always a separate book, the LOR was one book that was later broken up. At least that was what I always read. [/quote]
You could be right. I’ve always heard it was 1 book not 2, but I’m not a LOTR purist or anything… I really don’t know for sure. I could probably ask someone, I work where LOTR is published. [/quote]
The hobbit was the first one he released and then he wrote LOTR. I have read both in excess of 10 times over the last 25 years. I can read the Hobbit in one night sitting, and stretching it out over three movies is a bit much. HOWEVER I am going into this series not be a fan-boy and yell about little things and added character. Tolkien is dead so expanding on the story line really doesn’t bother me. I have enjoyed the series, has Jackson taken liberties of course, do I believe he is that far off the mark, No I do not. I will be going to see this with a few pieces of sushi and scotch in my belly, I will sit back and enjoy the fuck out of it and I could give two shits what anyone else thinks. 
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Ya, I’ve read the Hobbit, Fellowship, and Two Towers. I never did get to the Return of the King. Part of the issue for me (and a lot of people) is I saw the films first.
I agree for the most part about adding characters/changing the story. Sometimes the little details annoy me, but for the most part Jackson has been fine. His job is to make money after all. It’s obviously worked. [/quote]
See I had to read the Hobbit my freshman year of HS in 1987 (wow I’m getting old) and I enjoyed it so much but left me hanging. Especially in terms of the 5 armies battle at the end. That was why I picked up the LOTR on my own and started reading cause I wanted more. [/quote]
Have you read the Silmarillion? I’ve heard that’s out there. [/quote]
I read parts of it, but didnt really do much for me. I read a lot of books and enjoy that medium of entertainment with my busy life. Its a way to escape reality and so I enjoy that aspect of reading. So I really never read Non-Fiction, I have enough of real life that I dont want to read about it. The Silmarillion reads like the bible. [/quote]
Exactly. It’s the Bible of Middle Earth. I just about managed to get through it by using it as a reference text for LOTR and that was just dipping in and out. Peter Jackson said that there’s no chance of an adaptation as the Tolkien estate own the rights and they hate the movies.
[quote]SexMachine wrote:
I just saw Apocalypto. I thought it was pretty good. It meets a very high standard in realism and authenticity. Excellent portrayal of the Mayan religious cult and a brutal human sacrifice scene. Easily the most realistic portrayal of late Toltec and Mayan civilisation in a film. Anyone seen it?[/quote]
I enjoyed it immensely.
After everything he’d been through, that scene where he sees the European ships in the lagoon gave me an odd sense of awe and foreboding simultaneously.
Anyone like David Cronenberg’s films? I ordered a few DVDs from Amazon recently and decided to get the Criterion Collection Bluray of Cronenberg’s Videodrome with James Woods. I haven’t seen Videodrome in years and I’m looking forward to seeing it again. I think it’s a particularly relevant film today due to the emergence of snuff violence on the internet such as Islamist murder videos, Narco snuff and even the Canadian serial killer Luka Magnotta who filmed and uploaded his murder to the internet. There’s a whole subculture of people who are into this stuff with websites like BestGore dedicated to it. It’s very much like the concept of Videodrome. Great film but ultra-weird.
Apocalypto is one of my favorite movies. I wish Mel Gibson would direct more films.
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Anyone like David Cronenberg’s films? I ordered a few DVDs from Amazon recently and decided to get the Criterion Collection Bluray of Cronenberg’s Videodrome with James Woods. I haven’t seen Videodrome in years and I’m looking forward to seeing it again. I think it’s a particularly relevant film today due to the emergence of snuff violence on the internet such as Islamist murder videos, Narco snuff and even the Canadian serial killer Luka Magnotta who filmed and uploaded his murder to the internet. There’s a whole subculture of people who are into this stuff with websites like BestGore dedicated to it. It’s very much like the concept of Videodrome. Great film but ultra-weird.
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Not a fan of Cronenberg, but I did enjoy a rather underrated movie starring him called Nightbreed. Directed by Clive Barker.
In the Line of Fire, pretty good movie with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich.
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In the Line of Fire, pretty good movie with Clint Eastwood and John Malkovich. [/quote]
Oldie but goodie. I recall Malko was disturbingly menacing.
[quote]dt79 wrote:
Apocalypto is one of my favorite movies. I wish Mel Gibson would direct more films.[/quote]
I didn’t like Braveheart. It thought it was terribly corny. And The Passion of the Christ was good in terms of the realism and use of Aramaic. But beyond that I didn’t like it much. But Mel is clearly capable of making interesting films and he has a knack for realism and depth of plot and character that you don’t often see in big budget, mainstream films nowadays. It will be interesting to see what his next film will be like.
Saw Unbroken last night. Good movie, it will keep your attention throughout the entire film. I thought the movie spent more time on the prisoner scenes than it needed to but worth going to see overall.
Jodorowsky’s Dune. Its a documentary about the first director who tried to make Dune, but Hollywood scuttled his project and then let Lynch complete fuck it up. I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
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Jodorowsky’s Dune. Its a documentary about the first director who tried to make Dune, but Hollywood scuttled his project and then let Lynch complete fuck it up. I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/[/quote]
Where did you watch that?
I’m the one person who absolutely hates every Lynch movie and thinks he’s a moron, but kind of liked Dune.
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Jodorowsky’s Dune. Its a documentary about the first director who tried to make Dune, but Hollywood scuttled his project and then let Lynch completely fuck it up. I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/[/quote]
Where did you watch that?
I’m the one person who absolutely hates every Lynch movie and thinks he’s a moron, but kind of liked Dune.[/quote]
It was on DirectTV. I forget the channel, probably IFC or SciFi. You need to find it. The team he assembled for his project was insane, including Orson Wells, H.R. Giger, and Salvador Dali.
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Jodorowsky’s Dune. Its a documentary about the first director who tried to make Dune, but Hollywood scuttled his project and then let Lynch complete fuck it up. I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/[/quote]
Where did you watch that?
I’m the one person who absolutely hates every Lynch movie and thinks he’s a moron, but kind of liked Dune.[/quote]
You should watch The Straight Story. It’s his most literal (and best) movie. No signature art school dream logic wankery.
[quote]MaximusB wrote:
Saw Unbroken last night. Good movie, it will keep your attention throughout the entire film. I thought the movie spent more time on the prisoner scenes than it needed to but worth going to see overall.[/quote]
The vast majority of the book focuses on Zamperinini’s imprisonment and the damage it did to him.
It’s why I don’t want to see the film. The book was enough for me.
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I didn’t like Braveheart. It thought it was terribly corny. [/quote]
Agree. The historical inaccuracies, and Gibson’s overacting are annoying as well.
The soundtrack, however, is quite good.
[quote]jjackkrash wrote:
Jodorowsky’s Dune. Its a documentary about the first director who tried to make Dune, but Hollywood scuttled his project and then let Lynch complete fuck it up. I really, really enjoyed this documentary.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1935156/[/quote]
Me too. I am a huge Dune fan and it was an excellent documentary.