Movie review thread...
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@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All except Ferris Buellers Day off
Seen all. Including with my kids. 80s = awesome.
Speaking of 80s, watched Commando with my youngest. What a totally shit but awesome film. Arnie still couldn’t act to save himself and the plot is insane but you can’t help but be entertained. As for Bennett
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All but E.T.
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Return of the Jedi... I think that might be the only one I saw at the movies, but... I had the “Storybook with cassette” long before. Fucking official merch Spoiler.
Anybody remember those? Super-abridged kids book of the plot, with a cassette of key dialogue and special effects. That was my first exposure to Star Wars. -
@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Return of the Jedi... I think that might be the only one I saw at the movies, but... I had the “Storybook with cassette” long before. Fucking official merch Spoiler.
Anybody remember those? Super-abridged kids book of the plot, with a cassette of key dialogue and special effects. That was my first exposure to Star Wars.Cassette? Sure it wasn't the record version (I had a record version and a pop up book too) or were you one of those fancy rich fellas?
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@booboo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Snowy said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Yep, all of them.
I was obviously more into movies then, than I am now.You've had 30+ years to inadvertently stumble upon them on TB
Yep, but I saw them all in the eighties so don't ask me any questions.
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
100%, but really disliked Ferris B.
My adolescent self thought his girlfriend was hawt. Nice bedroom eyes. She was Jean Claude Van Damme's wife in Timecop
She was married to Jason Connery (son of Sean, and played Robin Hood) and is currently married to Brian Henson (son of Jim).
Yep, I wiki-ed her. She appears to have given up acting.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Return of the Jedi... I think that might be the only one I saw at the movies, but... I had the “Storybook with cassette” long before. Fucking official merch Spoiler.
Anybody remember those? Super-abridged kids book of the plot, with a cassette of key dialogue and special effects. That was my first exposure to Star Wars.Cassette? Sure it wasn't the record version (I had a record version and a pop up book too) or were you one of those fancy rich fellas?
Hey, Mr "All the rest at the movies"... Lord Muck, with your going to the Movies every week.
Shit - I don't think I've seen that many movies at the cinema in my life. Literally. -
@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
100%, but really disliked Ferris B.
My adolescent self thought his girlfriend was hawt. Nice bedroom eyes. She was Jean Claude Van Damme's wife in Timecop
She was married to Jason Connery (son of Sean, and played Robin Hood) and is currently married to Brian Henson (son of Jim).
Yep, I wiki-ed her. She appears to have given up acting.
I would
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@voodoo said in Re: Movie review thread...:
100%, but really disliked Ferris B.
Yeah never got the hype for that film. I also hate Mathew Broderick which may be a reason.
But I actually did enjoy another 80s classic Project X, which he starred in.
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@Nepia said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@Kruse said in Re: Movie review thread...:
Return of the Jedi... I think that might be the only one I saw at the movies, but... I had the “Storybook with cassette” long before. Fucking official merch Spoiler.
Anybody remember those? Super-abridged kids book of the plot, with a cassette of key dialogue and special effects. That was my first exposure to Star Wars.Cassette? Sure it wasn't the record version (I had a record version and a pop up book too) or were you one of those fancy rich fellas?
But yeah, this reinforces the whole theory of "George Lucas is a shit director/producer - but he had one good (plagiarised) idea for a movie, and saw the future of merchandise"
A pop-up book with LP, or Read-Along StoryBook with cassette...
... I mean, who thinks that shit up. Only somebody who has more to make out of selling this shit, than of box-office ticket sales.
I decided to re-watch the sequel-Trilogy this weekend, but have only got as far as the first one. And one of my first thoughts was "yeah, pretty shit story, totally relying on callbacks to the first/original trilogy, but you can see the merch-opportunities everywhere" - particularly, video games. That unnecessary flying of the Millenium-Falcon into the crashed whatever, dodging beams/etc... looked custom-made for a video-game level of games released in about... 2005.
And then thinking back to the prequel trilogy - I had the same very strong thought about a couple of scenes... particularly somebody on a conveyor belt, dodging stamping presses and buckets full of molten lead, or some shit - and just thinking "this is what somebody who saw a video game 15 years ago would write into a script so that a video game based on the movie could include it as a level".
I genuinely hope this doesn't "trigger" all the ridiculous usual suspects who have inexplicably strong feelings about these movies into reminding us of their views... again... but... Yeah. George Lucas looks to be a merch genius, even realising that video games were the new "merch gold mine", albeit with his ideas of video games typically being about 15 years behind the curve.
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@antipodean said in Re: Movie review thread...:
@MN5 said in Re: Movie review thread...:
All except Ferris Buellers Day off
All except E.T.
ET was farken great
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