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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 09:46:15 +0000, Invisible wrote:
> #3 Island of the Twelve Monkeys
Do you just mean "12 Monkeys", the Terry Gilliam movie? That one was
pretty hard to follow, but Gilliam tends to be very surreal.
> #2 2001 Space Oddessy.
It's Kubrick - almost gotta expect that.
> #1 Dune.
It's a classic Messiah story; the David Lynch movie was abbreviated far
too much compared to the book, I found the miniseries on SciFi to be
better...
Jim
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:52:03 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Phil Cook <phi### [at] nospamrocainfreeservecouk> wrote:
>> Does it 'star' Adam Sandler? > Yes > Go to next movie Does it 'star'
>> Vince Vaugn? > Yes > Go to next movie
>
> You don't seem to like cheesy comedies too much.
A comedy should make one laugh; I don't know about you, but Sandler
doesn't make me laugh. Nor does Vaughan.
>> Does it 'star' a singer who has decided to spread her talents into the
>> medium of film? > Yes > Go to next movie
>
> I thought 'Enough' was surprisingly good, much better than I expected.
First time I saw it, I thought it was OK. The second time I saw it, I
didn't like it - seemed to send the message that violence is OK. I know
it's more complicated than that, but still.
>> Does the director/producer's wife/husband/girlfriend/boyfriend have a
>> prominent starring role > Yes > Go to next movie
>
> I thought 'The Long Kiss Goodnight' was good. Enough to perhaps even
> deserve a second watching at some point.
Never saw it.
Jim
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:09:03 -0800, Darren New wrote:
> That, and the acting sucked. Which is hard to blame on the actors, given
> how it was filmed.
And the fact that the scripts generally sucked. There wasn't a lot for
the actors to work with, since most of the budget was blown on the
effects.
He managed to get the key elements of the story in that needed to be
there, but like I said elsewhere, the new trilogy had no 'soul' compared
to the first one.
It isn't about fan expectations - I went in with no expectations, and
still I was disappointed.
Jim
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On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:17:25 +0000, Orchid XP v7 wrote:
> I don't know about bad acting - most of the acting was fairly
> reasonable.
Were you watching the Amidala/Padme character at all? She was simply
awful, especially in ep 1.
Jim
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On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:10:01 -0800, Chambers wrote:
> Case in point: The Sixth Sense. The ending was "spoiled" for me before
> I ever saw it. Even so, I found it to be an excellent movie, and was
> still able to appreciate it.
Agreed; I didn't know the twist at the end before seeing it, but I have
been increasingly disappointed in Shamalan's movies since then. Sixth
Sense was IMO the best of them.
I've seen all of them except for Lady in the Water, and a few of them
more than once. Unbreakable wasn't bad, but it wasn't overly good
either. It's one you watch because it's got Bruce Willis and Samuel L.
Jackson in it (and more for the latter than the former IMO).
Signs was just a confusing mess IMO. I followed the story OK, but by the
time that one came out, you came to expect that there would be a twist,
so the thing that made that one interesting was trying to figure out what
the twist would be.
Jim
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 08:39:16 -0500, Warp wrote:
> Twelve Monkeys is one of the best movies I have seen. If I remember
> correctly, I have seen it 4 times, and each time I have got something
> new from it.
I thought it was a very good movie as well; Gilliam's movies tend to be
quite good. I also really liked The Fisher King.
Jim
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On Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:14:01 -0500, nemesis wrote:
> Orchid XP v7 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> Mueen Nawaz wrote:
>> > Invisible wrote:
>> >> I suspect it's actually *not* about maths, but about some theory
>> >> that
>> >
>> > Of course not. A movie about maths would be boring.
>>
>> I find it a little sad that so many people think this...
>
> yes, I remember an old Disney cartoon where Donald meets the greek Plato
> and other philosophers and discovers math and music. It was pretty fun
> for a movie involving geometric figures and tone division... ;)
I actually quite liked Flatland myself...But I can't remember which
version it was I saw.
Jim
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On Fri, 04 Jan 2008 15:30:29 +0200, Gail Shaw wrote:
> Try reading the book. The first sequel's also good, not sure about the
> other 2.
There were other sequels? I only knew about 2010 (which I quite liked).
Jim
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Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:10:01 -0800, Chambers wrote:
>
>> Case in point: The Sixth Sense. The ending was "spoiled" for me before
>> I ever saw it. Even so, I found it to be an excellent movie, and was
>> still able to appreciate it.
>
> Agreed; I didn't know the twist at the end before seeing it, but I have
> been increasingly disappointed in Shamalan's movies since then. Sixth
> Sense was IMO the best of them.
>
> I've seen all of them except for Lady in the Water, and a few of them
> more than once. Unbreakable wasn't bad, but it wasn't overly good
> either. It's one you watch because it's got Bruce Willis and Samuel L.
> Jackson in it (and more for the latter than the former IMO).
>
> Signs was just a confusing mess IMO. I followed the story OK, but by the
> time that one came out, you came to expect that there would be a twist,
> so the thing that made that one interesting was trying to figure out what
> the twist would be.
I actually like all of his movies, though The Village and Lady in the
Water aren't his best. Personally, Unbreakable and Signs are my favorites.
He focuses much more on the emotions of his characters than the events.
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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Warp wrote:
> Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> [Altough there seems to be almost universal agreement that Star Wars III
>> sucks beyond belief...]
>
> The problem with SW3 (and the previous two) is not that it was bad (it
> was quite good from all points of view, IMO)
We have differing opinions of "good" then.
Writing: Bad.
Acting: Bad.
SFX: Excellent.
Directing / Editing: Excellent (how else can you justify such horrible
movies being so much fun to watch?)
I'm still willing to watch the original trilogy every now and then, but
the new ones... It's painful to sit still through anything other than
the action scenes (which are, mercifully, plentiful).
--
...Ben Chambers
www.pacificwebguy.com
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