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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: weazel on November 20, 2002, 09:26:46 PM
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Make decent movies anymore, and who decides a book is a classic?
Borrowed The Mummy and The Matrix from the local library today, two of the worst movies I've ever seen, I'm hoping Gone in 60 Seconds is better as it's up next...somehow I doubt it's worth the rental fee either.
Picked up Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment as well, sheesh...and I thought Les Miserables was a plodding piece of crap.
Dunno about crime, but it should be mandatory punishment for criminals to be forced to read it...or would that be cruel and unusual?
Oh well, I have Disneys Lord of the Rings to fall back on.
Grabbed it for my daughter. ;)
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I think you'll find Gone in Sixty Seconds to be even worse than the other two.
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...and if the animated version of Lord of the Rings is the same one I saw 20 odd years ago, it's going to do nothing to restore your faith. :)
Hmm... just off the top of my head I really liked Permanent Midnight with Ben Stiller. Give that one a go maybe.
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get some foreign films, they don't have as much crap in them as we put in ours these days and usually have an actual story and not just a series of special effects and violence tacked together.
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Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Looks like you want something classical. Might I recommend "Orgasmo"
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Or trying to be cute?
I've never heard of it.
Originally posted by easymo
Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment
Looks like you want something classical. Might I recommend "Orgasmo"
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I actually enjoyed "The Matrix". At least there was a possible escape behind the ludicrous stunts. I hate that it spawned a whole new generation of superhuman freeze frame fight scenes. It makes going back and watching "The Matrix" a little bit painful.
Get Amelie if you haven't seen it already. Its different... well written and well acted.
AKDejaVu
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BTW.. Orgasmo is a classic. Its the tender story of a poor Mormon boy who gets caught up in the seedy world of pornography and ends up wearing an orgasm inducing crotch weapon in an attempt to fight crime.
AKDejaVu
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Nice eye candy, but definately lacking in comparison to the original.
Chi McBride wasn't too bad, should have used him in Cages role.
I remember seeing the movie at the theatre when I was a kid, they even had "Eleanor" on display in the lobby. :cool:
Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
I think you'll find Gone in Sixty Seconds to be even worse than the other two.
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heh Deja that sounds awesome! :)
Yeah, Amelie was good too.
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Originally posted by weazel
Make decent movies anymore?...
not in america - and less and less elsewhere, as most foreign studios adopt the highly profitable american studio model of doing business
Originally posted by weazel
...and who decides a book is a classic?
if it can be published profitably after the copyright expires (i.e. if it was published before Walt Disney was founded)it is probably a classic
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were you expecting gone in 60 seconds to be good? not to ride ya but-
it just doesn't sound like the kind of thing someone would expect to be good, but rather it's more like what you'd expect to be a run of the mill hollywood crash'm, splosion, one-liner thingy they're so good at- the guy's shirt is always open, the chick has big tits so on....so on.....
'pi' was pretty good as far as movies go, also 'the cube', a belgian film called 'man bites dog' absolutely kicks bellybutton <-but that one's not for the kiddies, get the full version
seems most classic books are a shade boring, but you might like gabriel garcia marquez- he wrote some great books that are hardly describable '100 years of solitude' jumps to mind but they're all good except his latest stuff- also 'cosmic banditos' by allan weisbecker is a great book and is being republished for the first time in a long while only recently.
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Man Bites Dog is hilarious.
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Films suck. Books rule.
Books in my 'To be read pile':
Stalingrad
Cross of Iron
Goshawk Squadron
Down and out in London and Paris
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Cross of Iron was a good movie!
Tronsky
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Funniest movie ever
"If You Could see what I hear"
bonus shelly belofonte naked at 21
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Movie for wife to see
Life as a house
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Guy Flick
"enemy at the gate"
Best sex scene ever in movie. With out showing any thing.
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sci fi
Abyss
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"Chocolate"
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Those movies from India are good, where everybody dances around and the women sing in real high-pitched, nasal voices.
ra
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Did anyone see "Who is Cletus Tout?" ?
Saw it on the plane to DC. Edited for the plane, but I found it to be kinda fun and querky.
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Just watched The Professional the other night for the fourth time...violent, but a good story.
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I just saw "Shaolin Soccer"
don't watch :eek:
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Boiler Room is good
ABC
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I'm watching "There's Something About Mary" right now.
"Puffer?
"Puffer!"
BZZZZTTTTTTT
shrecking hilarious! :D
If you've never seen it, get it.
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Don't watch "The Royal Tenenbaums". That was absolutely the wost movie I have ever watched. It ranked right down in the cellar with "Gone in 60 seconds".
I did enjoy "Oceans Eleven" for being a fantasy flick for robbing a casino though. I still have to sit there and watch "Top Gun" whenever it comes on as well as "Bat 21".
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ahhhh The Royal Tenenbaums was a great show!
Haven't seen Bat21 for a bit I wonder if it's aged well .....
Tronsky
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Read any of the books by Stephen Hunter about "Bob the Nailer," an ex-Marine corp sniper. Good reads all of them, if a bit violent.
Shuckins
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Originally posted by H. Godwineson
Read any of the books by Stephen Hunter about "Bob the Nailer," an ex-Marine corp sniper. Good reads all of them, if a bit violent.
Shuckins
I love those books! I keep wondering why a movie deal hasn't been reached.
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Top Secret. Kinda getting vintage, but always awesome.
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Starship Troopers- the gore more than makes up for the lack of a credible story line :)
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Fight Club was ok. Had a nice and pertinent message. Too bad Brad Pitt was in it, though.
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MT,
Yeah, great reads, all of them. Have you read "Hot Springs?" It's a story about Bob's dad, during the late 40's when Hot Springs, Arkansas was THE gambling center of the U.S.
A movie? I sort of doubt it...after the sniper mess in Maryland especially. A shame. Hunter's character is based, rather loosely, on a real sniper from Arkansas whose moniker was the "White Feather Sniper" because he always left a white feather at the scene of his kills.
Regards, Shuckins
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It was almost a movie.....
Hunter's books would make great movies. Why hasn't it happened
Hunter's day job is movie critic, and in a sense, each of his books is written by someone who has thought a lot about what makes a movie great. You can just tell his books would make killer movies, easily. However, no one's done it.
The closest call was "Point of Impact," which has been danced right up to the bedroom, so to speak, but never over the transome. In Hollywood, the project was last known as Shooter which was Officially Pronounced Dead by online Hollywood reporters November of 2000.
A year or so earler, whoever owns the script worked through several rewrites (!) and worked up a deal to get Keanu Reeves to play Bob Lee Swagger. Generally, Hunter fans disapproved. Keanu was too young, too pretty, to Gen-X'y for many. At the last minute, Keanu signed different contracts for double or triple the millions to do Matrix sequels, and he became unavailable.
But, Hollywood reported days later, the project was not dead. Al Gore's college roommate, Tommy Lee Jones, is now cast as Bob Lee, as soon as another rewrite is completed to match the age perspective of the star (ie put it back to the way Hunter wrote it). William Friedkin was going to direct. Friedkin and Jones had just completed "Rules of Engagement," a strong thriller in which Jones plays a military lifer, convincingly. The novel fans generally approve of the casting, judging from my emails.
Any way, latest word from the link above is that the project is in storage. Brighter things glittered in the spotlight that guides the folks who invest money in movies. Someday, they'll turn back Bob Lee Swagger's way.
Hunter did write a "novelization" of a movie. It was called "Target," is a good read, and a paperback copy irregularly sell on eBay for big bucks.
I pictured Sam Elliot as Bob Lee Swagger.
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sry but "the matrix" was amazing to me...
one of the most original plot ideas ive seen in years
yeah you all might say the effects were hokey.... they were the first to use them so they were pretty cool looking.
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Originally posted by weazel
I'm watching "There's Something About Mary" right now.
"Puffer?
"Puffer!"
BZZZZTTTTTTT
shrecking hilarious! :D
If you've never seen it, get it.
"Frank and Beans!!":D
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Originally posted by RightF00T
"Frank and Beans!!":D
What the F*** is Brett Favre doing here LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Is that ........ hair gel.... cool i need some
I was just taking a leak
i know you belong with Brett Favreerrr (wisconsin joke) :D
i love that movie...
how about that visual of the old bag and her boo**** LMFAOPMPASTC
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Office Space - Does anyone at your work say "Someone has a case of the Mondays? No. Hell no. I think you'd get your bellybutton beat for saying something like that."
Try the remake of "Twelve Angry Men" with George C. Scott, Jack Lemon, James Gadolfini.
Momento
Mulholland Drive was...well, interesting. :)
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