TV/Movies Megathread

[Neil]

They did it with the DVDs.  It's all about the cash.

what year was that, though? i mean, maybe after lucas is dead.. but he seems a little senile at this point. removing moles on leia's face, whitening her teeth? adding scuff marks to the shoulders of stormtroopers? nuuuuuuuu??

2006, two years after releasing the flawed version.

He might be senile, but that just makes him easier to manipulate by the money-grubbing sycophants that surround him.

[Syt]

http://www.tgdaily.com/games-and-entertainment-features/58253-lucas-needs-to-stop-the-madness

As you probably already know by now, there's been an absolutely hilarious disturbance in the Force.

Yes, George Lucas in all his eminent wisdom has inserted some fresh audio in the new Blu-ray version of Jedi, making Vader scream, "noooooooo" in a very un-Darth way.

On YouTube, somebody already included the Star Wars "nooooo" in The 100 Cheesiest Movie Quotes of All Time, along with "you had me at hello," many of the scenes from Batman and Robin, a number of scenes from the Nicholas Cage laugh-fest The Wicker Man, and of course numerous other Lucas bon-mots from the Star Wars films.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTiAS7cdsYc&feature=player_embedded

It's such an '80's action thing anyways. You know, it's the cop's last day on the job before he retires, he's killed, and his partner screams, "nooooooo," up to the sky. 



But anyways, the point the fans are trying to make is that filmmakers should leave well enough alone, and while it will obviously fall on deaf ears with Lucas, Spielberg recently reassured the geek community on that Ain't-It-Cool-News there won't be any digital changes to the Jaws Blu-Ray. (Spielberg also mentioned he regretted the previous changes he made to E.T.)

In a 2010 L.A. Times interview, Jaws producer Richard Zanuck thought of adding CG sharks and 3D to Jaws, but this would obviously be a very bad idea. 

The fact that the shark wasn't working, and Spielberg downplayed it, making the fear of the unknown, actually made all the difference. Spielberg even said on the documentary The Universal Story, he felt Jaws would have made half the money if he showed the shark as much as originally planned.

Sting once said you never finish an album, you abandon it, and as much as people hate deadlines, if we don't have 'em, we can end working on things forever. This is why filmmakers don't go back and watch their old movies, because all they see are the mistakes. 



Funny enough with Jaws, Spielberg ignored the advice of a test screening audience, and added one of the scariest scenes in the film, when the head pops out of the boat scaring the sh*t out of Richard Dreyfuss, and everyone in the audience.

But as Joseph McBride reported in his biography of Spielberg, before that, there was a note from someone in the audience from that first screening: "This is a great film. Now don't f*ck it up by trying to  make it better."

[viper37]

If it's indeed in the movie, I don't like it.  The whole scene's intensity whas with Vader thinking in his mind what's happenning, what's his choice, what should he do, the whole moral conflict that goes on in his head.
I still hope it ain't true...

[Josquius]

I'm really getting into the American Shameless.
Its...strange. It is so much more gritty and realstic in tone in many ways yet the American setting gives it a bit of a disconnect with the reality I know which makes it less relatable.
So many of the plots are the same as the British one only grittyised and Americanised a bit and they all happen in a different order (Monica showed up uber early), it all feels kind of like some sort of alternate universe story. Like Superman: Red Son but Shameless.

[BuddhaRhubarb]

Hanna was decent, though obviously the script got "hollywooded" (dumbed down for supposedly unsophisticated America audiences.) a bit, but the great performance from the kid makes up for the lapses for the most part.
The hippy family was funny. Overall a winner... glad they didn't go with the alt. ending.

7.4637 Red Headed Cougar CIA agents with wildly fluctuating accents who can run in heels just as fast as a swedish tween super soldier in boat shoes  outta 10

[Eddie Teach]

The Warrior's Way. Kinda like what Shanghai Noon would be as a comic book movie. Watchable enough for my tastes, didn't blow me away though.

[mongers]

Watched 'The Lost Eagle' barely tolerable and it's disappointing the director of 'The Last King of Scotland' couldn't have done better.

[Ed Anger]

Last man Standing. Yes, I know it is Yojimbo. I don't care moviefags.

Hickey is my hero.

[Ideologue]

Last man Standing. Yes, I know it is Yojimbo. I don't care moviefags.

Hickey is my hero.

It's a hell of a film.

[Ed Anger]

Last man Standing. Yes, I know it is Yojimbo. I don't care moviefags.

Hickey is my hero.

It's a hell of a film.

I'd like to take the soundtrack and use it when I'm arriving to oversee my worker bees.

HICKEY IS HERE.

[Scipio]

Last man Standing. Yes, I know it is Yojimbo. I don't care moviefags.

Hickey is my hero.

It's fucking brilliant.  Walter Hill is my favorite living director of westerns.

[CountDeMoney]

You guys are kidding, right?  You're talking about Walter Hill's Bruce Willis-driven Last Man Standing, right?  The one that out-noirs film noir itself?

[CountDeMoney]

The Devil's Own.

While Harrison Ford never makes a bad movie, and holy shit Treat Williams actually did something since 1941, I truly grow tired of Hollywood's consistent portrayal of the IRA as some sort of terrorist organization.

[Ideologue]

You guys are kidding, right?  You're talking about Walter Hill's Bruce Willis-driven Last Man Standing, right?  The one that out-noirs film noir itself?

The one that's great?  Yes.

[The Larch]

The Devil's Own.

While Harrison Ford never makes a bad movie, and holy shit Treat Williams actually did something since 1941, I truly grow tired of Hollywood's consistent portrayal of the IRA as some sort of terrorist organization.