Movie review thread...
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Obviously if you went anti fern and read the article, your know that it was about the flow of the movies, nothing to do with two bad guys being tricky for audiences
The problem is that the sequence was originally shot for The Two Towers, as it is in the book. Since The Two Towers couldn’t sustain a seven-minute 'wrap’ after Helm’s Deep, we thought it would be a good idea to save it for the beginning of the Return of the King,” he told Ain’t It Cool News back in 2003.
“The trouble is, when we viewed various ROTK cuts over the last few weeks, it feels like the first scenes are wrapping last year’s movie, instead of starting the new one. We felt it got Return Of The King off to an uncertain beginning, since Saruman plays no role in the events of ROTK (we don’t have the Scouring later, as the book does), yet we dwell in Isengard for quite a long time before our new story kicks off.
“We reluctantly made the decision to save this sequence for the DVD. The choice was made on the basis that most people will assume that Saruman was vanquished by the Helm’s Deep events, and Ent attack. We can now crack straight into setting up the narrative tension of ROTK, which features Sauron as the villain.”
Tom wasn't missed, even by me as a Tolkien nerd. But scouring of the Shire was, that is a proper ending to the series.
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@Machpants said in Movie review thread...:
Obviously if you went anti fern and read the article, your know that it was about the flow of the movies, nothing to do with two bad guys being tricky for audiences
The problem is that the sequence was originally shot for The Two Towers, as it is in the book. Since The Two Towers couldn’t sustain a seven-minute 'wrap’ after Helm’s Deep, we thought it would be a good idea to save it for the beginning of the Return of the King,” he told Ain’t It Cool News back in 2003.
“The trouble is, when we viewed various ROTK cuts over the last few weeks, it feels like the first scenes are wrapping last year’s movie, instead of starting the new one. We felt it got Return Of The King off to an uncertain beginning, since Saruman plays no role in the events of ROTK (we don’t have the Scouring later, as the book does), yet we dwell in Isengard for quite a long time before our new story kicks off.
“We reluctantly made the decision to save this sequence for the DVD. The choice was made on the basis that most people will assume that Saruman was vanquished by the Helm’s Deep events, and Ent attack. We can now crack straight into setting up the narrative tension of ROTK, which features Sauron as the villain.”
Tom wasn't missed, even by me as a Tolkien nerd. But scouring of the Shire was, that is a proper ending to the series.
Yeah is that where Saruman was behind the scenes and causing trouble after he’d lost his powers ?
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Jurassic Park
Finally got around to watching this. Even now the quality of the dinosaur models, animatronics and green screen is top notch.
The development of suspense is really well done, but overused. The movie feels too long as a result.
I can't think of a director that does movies with kids better than Spielberg.
That said, it reaffirms my belief that kids ruin everything.
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The Day After Tomorrow
Easily the dumbest big budget movie I can recall watching. The whole thing is like some purple haired social studies undergrad tried to write a post grad science paper. Or document Al Gore's wet dreams.
Either way it's catastrophically stupid.
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@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
The Day After Tomorrow
Easily the dumbest big budget movie I can recall watching. The whole thing is like some purple haired social studies undergrad tried to write a post grad science paper. Or document Al Gore's wet dreams.
Either way it's catastrophically stupid.
I’m sure its not as bad as Armageddon
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So have any of you Snyder fans actually watched
Star WarsFireflySeven Samurai/The Magnificent SevenRebel Moon yet?Watched it, it's not very good, but better than his superhero stuff.
The man needs a writer and dog collar that zaps him every time he adds a long unnecessary slow mo. Without the slow mos this movie would be a tight 90 minutes.
The cast range from pretty good (the main chick) to average (the main baddie, the other main baddie, the farmer mate) and to we have no idea as they're not fleshed out (every other character in the Magnificent Seven team).
So a 5 1/2 out of 10 for me - which for a Snyder film for me is basically an 8/10.
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@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Thinking about investing in some art.
You're a funny guy Tim, that's why I'll kill you last
Are you telling the truth?
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@MajorRage said in Movie review thread...:
@canefan said in Movie review thread...:
@Tim said in Movie review thread...:
Thinking about investing in some art.
You're a funny guy Tim, that's why I'll kill you last
Are you telling the truth?
I lied
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@Nepia Rebel Moon looked like a poor man's star wars with shades of several other Sci fi movies and a touch of Harry Potter.
I watched Silent Night, which was a poor mans John Wick / Nobody...seems the gang bangers at the centre of the film graduated from the same marksmanship school as the storm troopers of Star Wars.
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@taniwharugby said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia Rebel Moon looked like a poor man's star wars with shades of several other Sci fi movies and a touch of Harry Potter.
I watched Silent Night, which was a poor mans John Wick / Nobody...seems the gang bangers at the centre of the film graduated from the same marksmanship school as the storm troopers of Star Wars.
It wasn't until I was listening to a podcast and they discussed the fact the film is mostly no dialogue that I realised it was no dialogue.
TBF, direct shots to the head have little effect anyway so there could have been a lot of hits.
As I said above, watch Woo's earlier movies instead of Silent Night.
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@MN5 said in Movie review thread...:
It’s like he looked at latter day Marlon Brando and then thought “hold my beer”
I suspect rather that he looked at latter-day Marlon Brando and thought “hold my beer” but said "where's a slab?"
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Old Dads. Had some very funny moments and unfortunately very relevant themes but dragged on and got boring. They need to keep films like this tighter and shorter but I guess alot of it has to do with watch minutes etc.
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@Victor-Meldrew said in Movie review thread...:
@antipodean said in Movie review thread...:
Or document Al Gore's wet dreams.
I feel sick
First to the gallows
PEST
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@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
So have any of you Snyder fans actually watched
Star WarsFireflySeven Samurai/The Magnificent SevenRebel Moon yet?It's definitely not as good as I was hoping but decent enough. At least those bad South Africans were killed.
The R rated version might be more interesting.
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@Bovidae said in Movie review thread...:
@Nepia said in Movie review thread...:
So have any of you Snyder fans actually watched
Star WarsFireflySeven Samurai/The Magnificent SevenRebel Moon yet?It's definitely not as good as I was hoping but decent enough. At least those bad South Africans were killed.
The R rated version might be more interesting.
I made the mistake of watching a Snyder cut once, never again.
Speaking of Snyder ...
Aquaman: The DCEU went out with a whimper, hopefully the DCU under Gunn will be better.
Very average movie, would have been worse if not for Momoa and Patrick Wilson.
Kidman looks like she was CGI. Still funny that Aquaman is half Aussie and half Kiwi.
Best thing about it, less than two hours long.
