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[quote]Professor X wrote:
…about John Carter, our entire concept of space and the future owes its existence to books like this. The problem with that…is that every movie any of us has seen has borrowed from it so much that people would see this movie as a rip off.

I haven’t seen it and probably won’t because of that. They would have had to come up with something brand new to make it work.[/quote]

You should watch it just to see how much of a hack George Lucas is (DVD will be enough to experience the FX). After that post ^ you WILL appreciate certain aspects of the movie for what they are, but in the end Carter debuted in 1912, (movie is set in 1817 IIRC), and the story will seem dated as nobody knew enough hard facts about Mars then. It’s not “better” than Star Wars, but the inspiration is clear.

Then again, they’ve yet to top Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds brilliant radio broadcast.

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Apollo 18 - far better than I was lead to believe, but for a sci-fi / horror it ventures a little too far into conspiracy theorist terror-tory and the attempt at realism sometimes leaves gaping craters in suspense.

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“The Next Three Days”

Russel Crowe plays a husband and father who plans an elaborate scheme to get his wife (imprisoned for murder) out of jail.

Long film, but a great slow-build of suspense that literally had me squirming in my seat.

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“Priest”

This movie stars Paul Bellamy, who is a great actor, but the story sucks. Take Mad Maxx Beyond Thunderdome and couple that with a typical vampire movie. Stay away from this, you are better off ironing your shoelaces.

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I thought Legion sucked.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
…about John Carter, our entire concept of space and the future owes its existence to books like this. The problem with that…is that every movie any of us has seen has borrowed from it so much that people would see this movie as a rip off.

I haven’t seen it and probably won’t because of that. They would have had to come up with something brand new to make it work.[/quote]

You should watch it just to see how much of a hack George Lucas is (DVD will be enough to experience the FX). After that post ^ you WILL appreciate certain aspects of the movie for what they are, but in the end Carter debuted in 1912, (movie is set in 1817 IIRC), and the story will seem dated as nobody knew enough hard facts about Mars then. It’s not “better” than Star Wars, but the inspiration is clear.

Then again, they’ve yet to top Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds brilliant radio broadcast.

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Bob Clampett ealry tests for a series of Jon Carter shorts. Clampett was an animator for WB and created Beeny and Cecil. Clampett was awesome I also have this risque for then Big Bad Wolf short he did

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[quote]kevinm1 wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Professor X wrote:
…about John Carter, our entire concept of space and the future owes its existence to books like this. The problem with that…is that every movie any of us has seen has borrowed from it so much that people would see this movie as a rip off.

I haven’t seen it and probably won’t because of that. They would have had to come up with something brand new to make it work.[/quote]

You should watch it just to see how much of a hack George Lucas is (DVD will be enough to experience the FX). After that post ^ you WILL appreciate certain aspects of the movie for what they are, but in the end Carter debuted in 1912, (movie is set in 1817 IIRC), and the story will seem dated as nobody knew enough hard facts about Mars then. It’s not “better” than Star Wars, but the inspiration is clear.

Then again, they’ve yet to top Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds brilliant radio broadcast.

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Bob Clampett ealry tests for a series of Jon Carter shorts. Clampett was an animator for WB and created Beeny and Cecil. Clampett was awesome I also have this risque for then Big Bad Wolf short he did

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Nice. That first clip got me thinking about how Ray Harryhausen could have done a kick-ass John Carter movie in the style of Sinbad and Jason and the Argonauts. Still love those movies. Strange that they never attempted to branch out from mythology into sci-fi. Lucas probably saw the niche. Most of his dollar was made from “homaging” classic lit and serial adaptations: Indy = Allan Quatermain; Star Wars = John Carter (with a little help from Joseph Campbell’s book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, a sterling FX team and John Williams’ golden conductor’s baton).

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Finally saw “Valhalla Rising”.

A Viking slave escapes to make his way home, and ends up with a traveling band of Christian Crusaders on their way to the Holy Land… only to find Hell awaiting in the New World.

Outstanding film!

Beautifully filmed, elegantly simple, yet cold and gritty textured. Thoughtful stretches of peace maintain a pace that some might consider slow, but only serves to present the intense bursts of violence that much better.

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Your Highness - An intended parody of pretty much every '80s sword & sorcery movie, starring James Franco, Zooey Deschanel, Danny McBride and Natalie Portman’s posterior. Funny in places, but a semi-improvised script turned this into a 190-minute-long penis joke. And if there was a dick joke that long, it would be an exercise in endurance, not a masterclass in humor.

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7 Days- a doctor kidnaps and tortures a guy who raped and murdered his little girl, intending to kill him on the seventh day - her birthday. Superb meditation on revenge, guilt, and forgiveness.

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[quote]roybot wrote:
7 Days- a doctor kidnaps and tortures a guy who raped and murdered his little girl, intending to kill him on the seventh day - her birthday. Superb meditation on revenge, guilt, and forgiveness.

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I saw it, and enjoyed it up to a point. The doc seemed out of character after a while. But then again I guess I would be too if someone killed my child.

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[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

I finally watched “Moneyball”

Boring. It’s no wonder why this movie took so freaking long to make.

Aaron Sorkin who also wrote The Social Network, wrote this thing too.

I also thought The Social Network was boring.

Maybe Spoilers

The film showed too much of Brad Pitt mulling things over, sitting in one place and sighing. Hardly any baseball action outside of TV broadcasts in the background, the scenes were deliberate and felt more like little vignettes than a combined story with a narrative.

Examples:

Billy sits in the stands listening to a game
Billy has a conversation with the scouts
Billy goes to Cleveland to talk with their GM
Billy talks to Peter in Cleveland
Billy talks to Peter in an office
Billy talks to Peter in a film room
Peter does math on a computer
Billy talks to Art Howe
Billy and Peter meet with scouts
Billy picks up daughter from Ex’s house
Billy listens to daughter sing a song
Billy goes to Scott Hattiebergs house
Billy watches practice.

Oh, it keeps going.

The whole movie, basically shot from the POV of Billy Beane.

Now if they were keeping true to the book, I guess that’s ok, but it doesn’t make for a compelling story. I wanted to see more baseball action, more interraction between the players and the manager, especially as it pertained to the wacky way they were putting their team together. There had to be confusion and dissent in the clubhouse, but the players were all portrayed as static… stagnant.

I mean, you’ve got a motherfucking acting BEAST in Phillip Seymore Hoffman playing the cagey Manager in Art Howe and you don’t let him off the chain? He looked bored. Spoke softly.

C’mon.

End Spoilers

I give it a C+

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Just want to point out that it’s not a movie about baseball, it’s a movie about how Billy Beane utilized sabermetrics and unconventional approaches to building winning teams with a very low budget. It’s a movie with baseball in it, but not necessarily about baseball

I’m reading the book now, I’m taking a sports economics class next spring, and the book’s about the process that GM Beane went through, a little history about him and some of the undervalued players, but mostly about the statistics and economics behind his decisions.

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Another Earth- ok movie. At least it was a different. The last shot was good too, leaves you with questions

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[quote]BradTGIF wrote:

I finally watched “Moneyball”

Boring. It’s no wonder why this movie took so freaking long to make.

Aaron Sorkin who also wrote The Social Network, wrote this thing too.

I also thought The Social Network was boring.

Maybe Spoilers

The film showed too much of Brad Pitt mulling things over, sitting in one place and sighing. Hardly any baseball action outside of TV broadcasts in the background, the scenes were deliberate and felt more like little vignettes than a combined story with a narrative.

End Spoilers

I give it a C+

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Moneyball was decent. Social Network I loved, have watched it probably 5 times.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
“The Next Three Days”

Russel Crowe plays a husband and father who plans an elaborate scheme to get his wife (imprisoned for murder) out of jail.

Long film, but a great slow-build of suspense that literally had me squirming in my seat.[/quote]

Yeah, good movie. A bit extreme could do without that scene that was so over the top where they are on the highway, but still good movie

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:
7 Days- a doctor kidnaps and tortures a guy who raped and murdered his little girl, intending to kill him on the seventh day - her birthday. Superb meditation on revenge, guilt, and forgiveness.

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I saw it, and enjoyed it up to a point. The doc seemed out of character after a while. But then again I guess I would be too if someone killed my child. [/quote]

[spoilers]

As a doctor (preserver of life) I don’t think he intended to kill the guy. He thought he could, but was swayed by guilt and emotions that he couldn’t articulate in words (the victim does most of the talking in the torture scenes), so he expresses them physically. After “operating on his patient” he didn’t find the solace he looked for in revenge, so he started to look for other reasons to kill - that’s why he kidnapped the mother of one of the other victims, and why he rang the cop, and his wife. Love the moral conflict between those four.

Excellent ‘anti-revenge’ movie. Solid roots in Greek tragedy with a purging of emotion at the end.

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[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:
7 Days- a doctor kidnaps and tortures a guy who raped and murdered his little girl, intending to kill him on the seventh day - her birthday. Superb meditation on revenge, guilt, and forgiveness.

[/quote]

I saw it, and enjoyed it up to a point. The doc seemed out of character after a while. But then again I guess I would be too if someone killed my child. [/quote]

[spoilers]

As a doctor (preserver of life) I don’t think he intended to kill the guy. He thought he could, but was swayed by guilt and emotions that he couldn’t articulate in words (the victim does most of the talking in the torture scenes), so he expresses them physically. After “operating on his patient” he didn’t find the solace he looked for in revenge, so he started to look for other reasons to kill - that’s why he kidnapped the mother of one of the other victims, and why he rang the cop, and his wife. Love the moral conflict between those four.

Excellent ‘anti-revenge’ movie. Solid roots in Greek tragedy with a purging of emotion at the end.

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Good points, Roy.

By the way, the BEST revenge flick (and most real and consistent in emotion) was an Australian film called “The Horseman”.

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[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:

[quote]roybot wrote:
7 Days- a doctor kidnaps and tortures a guy who raped and murdered his little girl, intending to kill him on the seventh day - her birthday. Superb meditation on revenge, guilt, and forgiveness.

[/quote]

I saw it, and enjoyed it up to a point. The doc seemed out of character after a while. But then again I guess I would be too if someone killed my child. [/quote]

[spoilers]

As a doctor (preserver of life) I don’t think he intended to kill the guy. He thought he could, but was swayed by guilt and emotions that he couldn’t articulate in words (the victim does most of the talking in the torture scenes), so he expresses them physically. After “operating on his patient” he didn’t find the solace he looked for in revenge, so he started to look for other reasons to kill - that’s why he kidnapped the mother of one of the other victims, and why he rang the cop, and his wife. Love the moral conflict between those four.

Excellent ‘anti-revenge’ movie. Solid roots in Greek tragedy with a purging of emotion at the end.

[/spoilers][/quote]

Good points, Roy.

By the way, the BEST revenge flick (and most real and consistent in emotion) was an Australian film called “The Horseman”. [/quote]

Thanks, ID -I have The Horseman on my rental list after your previous review. Rental pending, although the order I watch my movies in is… random to say the least.

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[quote]jehovasfitness wrote:

[quote]Iron Dwarf wrote:
“The Next Three Days”

Russel Crowe plays a husband and father who plans an elaborate scheme to get his wife (imprisoned for murder) out of jail.

Long film, but a great slow-build of suspense that literally had me squirming in my seat.[/quote]

Yeah, good movie. A bit extreme could do without that scene that was so over the top where they are on the highway, but still good movie[/quote]

Try the original - Anything for Her:

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