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Raiders of the Lost [Movie Thread]
Bogart
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGpq-LDV6jUThis is the thread in which you all have terrible opinions about movies, unless they chime with my own, in which case, congratulations, you're right. Describing something as pretentious or overrated, or use of the phrase "that's just your opinion" is punishable by death, or such a dirty look I swear you will shrivel and leave out of sheer embarrassment.
Anyway, movies. Moving pictures at 24 frames a second, unless you're Peter Jackson, in which case it's 48 frames a second and we'll all just have to get used to it.
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Here's my crazy opinion: I prefer Godfather 1 to Godfather 2.
Also, he missed something that someone in the comments picked up on.
"Say to them: 'For the generations to come, if any of your descendants is ceremonially unclean and yet comes near the sacred offerings that the Israelites consecrate to the LORD, that person must be cut off from my presence. I am the LORD.
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I am under the assumption that this makes me a bad person.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
I get why a lot of people prefer Last Crusade, but the score in Raiders is amazing. So Raiders takes the crown.
There will be no Iron Patriot in Iron Man 3. The much discussed pics were of a suit for War Machine that has been all star spangled. That's a stunt man in the suit giving Don Cheadle a break, not James Badge Dale as many assumed.
Not bad, per se, but wrong.
But that's okay. Crusade is a pretty decent movie.
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This is what I came into this thread to see.
It's fucked up in the best possible way. I feel like this is how I would've felt leaving the original Alien back in 77'.
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Implying only gets you so far with movies, especially when you're trying to appeal to the mainstream audience. Those seem like really good ideas, I'd like a movie exploring the Engineer's and their "black goo" but it shouldn't have needed a separate movie to explain this, a few brief flashbacks would have been sufficient, like in the prologue.
It would be good thing to explain why the Engineer's head exploded, as well. It self destructing from being disgusted by its "resurrection" is a brilliant concept which lt loses its potency if the audience doesn't know why when they have very little knowledge about the Engineer's culture.
My dad took my mom to see Alien back when it was first released. I still remember him describing seeing it for the first time.
Everyone was blown away and utterly horrified. He was like (paraphrased) "You know, you expected aliens to kill you. Fine. You didn't expect them to rape your throat and then tear their way out of your chest. It was visceral and insane."
In response to MalReynolds from the previous thread:
Yes it is. It's the movies fault for being a poorly written mess that was about nothing.
Cause the reality is a guy just killing people like he's fucking Jason.
This film introduces a lot of interesting concepts... and then does absolutely nothing with them, in fact it completely fucking forgets them as characters are just killed off to up the body count.
Me, too.
Just pages upon pages of this stuff. Continuity errors, plot holes! Oh my! :shock:
Somehow, somehow, it still manages to entertain!
Many films have mistakes like that. IIRC there's a car being driven on a scene in LOTR.
And now I'm going to watch Alien.
Theres a transit van driving along in the horizon during one of the battle scenes in braveheart.
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it'll never catch on.
In Kirk's defense, the roman pulled a lightsaber on him first.
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I will preface this by saying that I love all Indiana Jones movies to the point of offering physical violence to anyone who would disparage them. Although I did lobotomize the part of my brain that had previously remembered seeing something about space aliens.
Last Crusade is really where the Lucas/Spielberg collaborative effort hits their stride. The previous two movies were exceptionally good, but they don't match the quality of the story telling in the 3rd.
Anyway, I loved the movie. I thought it was better then Avatar by leaps and miles. It's probably the best new sci-fi film of the decade.
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So of the two and half years of this decade its the best new scifi? Bold.
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Shall be seeing it again today
Daring.
Perhaps, even, debonair?
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I thought that much was obvious
Did you miss all the scenes with David ham-handedly explaining the theme?
This movie gives no answers because the writer didn't bother to come up with any.
As to you final point, no. Just no. John Carter was better than this and John Carter wasn't all that good.
Best new sci-fi film of the decade? Aside from it only being a sorta-new intellectual property, does it actually beat out Inception?
I don't need to see any other action films for the rest of the year. In fact, I can unwatch what I've seen up to now.
I thought it did. But, you know, opinions, assholes, etc.
John Carter is a planetary romance. It's more fantasy then sci-fi.
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