Movies - General Discussion

[jaadam4]

I watched a surprisingly good movie in Warrior.

Great all around flick.

[Coop]

Cody - read one review that really panned Prometheus because of gaping plot holes. Haven't seen it yet myself.

With regard to streaming - I've done it, and do while traveling but I have become somewhat of a blu ray snob. Once you watch stuff in hi def it's hard to go back.

[Cody_Russell]

Cody - read one review that really panned Prometheus because of gaping plot holes. Haven't seen it yet myself.
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yea, 30 more good minutes added to this movie would have made it one of the better movies of the year

[Cody_Russell]

"The Grey" with Liam Neisen ... thought it was ok, had its strengths and weaknesses.

[Passepartout]

Have saw "What To Do When You're Expecting, The Hunger Games, MIB 3, and Posthamanus by Ridley Scott." And that is four movies in one month.

[Tony G]

were any of them good?

[Tom]

Is Prometheus in any way related to Alien (storywise, not just because Ridley Scott directed both)?

[Tony G]

prequel

[Cody_Russell]

"21 Jump Street" LOVED this movie!!! Watch it!

[Cody_Russell]

about time, love the Jurassic Park franchise. 1st movie is a classic, I love the 2nd film ... 3rd one kind of sucked ... hope Spielberg has more influence in making the 4th

'Planet of the Apes' writers are taking on 'Jurassic Park 4'

http://insidemovies.ew.com/2012/06/21/jurassic-park-iv-apes-writers/

[WingsFan]

OK, since I joined Netflix I have really caught up and I cant really give a review (lol to many) I have been watching about 3 movies per week. I will try to just copy my 1 star to 5 star rating - Keep in mind these are movies I picked that I really wanted to see.



All Good Things
You rated this movie: 3.5


Let Me In
You rated this movie: 4.0


Rampart
You rated this movie: 2.0

Abduction
You rated this movie: 3.0

Crazy, Stupid, Love.
You rated this movie: 4.0

The Notebook
You rated this movie: 4.0

The Vow
You rated this movie: 2.0

The Ides of March
You rated this movie: 4.0

Martha Marcy May Marlene
You rated this movie: 3.0


The Descendants
You rated this movie: 3.0

Like Crazy
You rated this movie: 4.0


Take Shelter
You rated this movie: 4.0

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
You rated this movie 3.5

Young Adult
You rated this movie: 2.0

Gone
You rated this movie 3.5

Life as we know it
You rated it 1/2 (This movie sucked)

Safe House
You rated this movie 3.5

[Cody_Russell]

sounds like "The Amazing Spiderman" is going to be a romance superhero movie.
I think I'll REALLY like it cuz the director also directed "500 Days of Summer"... it will be interesting to see how similar the 2 movies are, and I'm hoping they are similar!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0948470/reviews

[Cody_Russell]

after "The Dark Knight Rises", this is the movie i'm most looking forward to ... sick of all of the sequels!!
Director of "Atonement", one of my favorite movies
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rPGLRO3fZnQ"]ANNA KARENINA - Official Trailer (2012) [HD] - YouTube[/ame]

[*JD*]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nYvrS-jlcI&feature=share"]Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future (Spliced footage) - YouTube[/ame]

[Topweasel]

Eric Stoltz in Back to the Future (Spliced footage) - YouTube

It's one of the many perfect examples that you have to get casting right. Fox was always their first choice and managing to get him into the movie after all the effort and production was well worth it. Stoltz might have made a decent enough McFly to make a profitable movie. But Fox made McFly a Iconic character in an Iconic movie.

It's one of the things about the remake spree that really bother me. When you take a either an Iconic character or an Iconic movie, you screw with the balance when recast if you don't do it properly. If it was hard enough to do the casting right the first time in a 14 million dollar, what's the likelihood you can take an already great character and movie and actually improve on it, with bloated budgets that just beg for more studio oversight?

Not that I am saying they are remaking it. Just something you realize when you see the casting problems that many movies have gone through. Like the Keven Spacey or Burt Reynolds Han Solo, or the last minute change to James Earl Jones for Vader on Star Wars. Sometimes its just sheer luck that they get it right. What makes a Director/Writer/or Producer think they can pull of again or even one up it? Is it ego?