Movie Thread

Discussion in 'Movies/TV' started by Puck, Jul 21, 2007.

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  1. RTH

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    Serious inquiry... was this his first full-length film based on a true event?

    All his best films... all his films?... were relatively original and fiction.

    Maybe that's the "problem".
     
  2. SawdustMan

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    Even the trailer for Dunkirk bored me to tears. Although I'm not a big fan of the war genre anyway.
     
  3. RTH

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    The event is really interesting, but... let the History Channel cover it.
     
  4. SawdustMan

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    Watched Kong: Skull Island last night.

    So torn on this one. I'm a huge fan of the giant monster genre, and it is a fun movie. But man, it was not nearly as good as it could've been. I wish it had been treated a little more seriously. It gets downright silly at times, e.g. Tom Hiddleston gas mask scene (you'll know when you see it). And John C. Reilly, while he steals the show as usual, that particular character being the comic relief feels odd considering his lot in life.

    But the biggest misstep imo is the fact that there was very little build up to or mystery surrounding Kong himself. He literally shows up right away and pretty much never goes away. Even the original '33 film did a better job on that front.

    All that said, it is still a pretty entertaining movie. The initial Kong encounter as well as the big final showdown were both pretty badass.
     
  5. SawdustMan

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    I'm just so over pretty much anything WW2. I know there are probably a million tales to tell about it, but that doesn't mean you have to make a movie about every one of them. Like I said though, not a big fan of the genre in general though.
     
  6. avvie

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    "Alien" in a much smaller space?
     
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  7. avvie

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    A couple friends of mine saw it and went wild over it, but it helps to be fascinated with WWII stuff...and they recently moved to Honolulu, so....Pearl Harbor, etc.
    I am well over WWII stuff also. I went to a film made by Ken Watanabe about the 442nd Battalion, and that was great (and Ken was there to present it, which was cool), but outside of that my only interaction with it is restoring Walter Lamb furniture pieces (originally made with bronze tubing dredged from Pearl Harbor wreckage). I REFUSE to watch anything at all that has to do with the German conflict or anything at all related to the Holocaust. I have seen and heard all I ever care to.
     
  8. RTH

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    Theme to Band of Brothers still tears up my eyes...
     
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    They have something for that.... it is called testosterone.
     
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    Pic posting fail.
     
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