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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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crazy canuck

Quote from: Tyr on November 09, 2014, 05:27:04 PM
Shawshank Redemption - I thought I'd seen this before. Turns out I haven't. I think I got it mixed up with the Green Mile. Yet I expected everything that was going to happen. I think its one of those films where The Simpsons and the like have satirised it so much that it is just part of standard cultural knowledge.
I kind of zoned out with the big important speech where Morgan Freeman is told where to go. I was expecting him to have forgotten the place to go or something bad to happen.
Good overall.

One of the all time great movies.  Too bad the Simpsons ruined it for you.

celedhring

Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that has been imitated and referenced so much that people watching it now for the first time will probably think it's tripe.

It's the "Seinfeld is unfunny" phenomenon: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

Martinus

Quote from: celedhring on November 10, 2014, 04:47:03 AM
Shawshank Redemption is one of those films that has been imitated and referenced so much that people watching it now for the first time will probably think it's tripe.

It's the "Seinfeld is unfunny" phenomenon: http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SeinfeldIsUnfunny

Yeah. It's like watching one of the early HBO shows or playing Dune 2. Generally, game changing/genre defining works usually end up being surpassed by their imitators.

lustindarkness

TWD. [spoiler]Does Eugene survive the beating? Will he keep his "TN top hat"?  :D Will they turn back? What about that massive herd? What happens to Beth? Will finding out who's corpse Carol and Daryl are burning help answer some questions? Gabriel and the gang back at the church? You have many questions? Well, we will just get more questions until the mid-season finale, I think we will get more of these cool character backstory episodes of each group, that is why they split them up to begin with.

How about Eugene watching Abe and Rosita? What a creepy :perv:.

Oh, and I loved the water cannon "washing off" a walker's head! :punk:[/spoiler]
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Savonarola

I watched Gerald McBoing-Boing again.  It struck me that with it's limited style of animation (like in the later Hannah Barbera Cartoons) and message that even oddballs have value (like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer); it seems to belong to the 1960s.  In fact it comes from 1950, when Bugs and Daffy were gleefully shooting at each other with shotguns.  It's well ahead of it's time; but it's too bad it's time ever had to come.   :(

(To be fair it's much better than almost any cartoon from the 1960s; with the obvious exception of
Bambi meets Godzilla .)
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Josephus

Homeland. [spoiler]If Brody really was alive I would have thrown my TV out the window[/spoiler]
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Eddie Teach

Quote from: lustindarkness on November 10, 2014, 09:30:43 AM
TWD. [spoiler]
How about Eugene watching Abe and Rosita? What a creepy :perv:.
[/spoiler]

I'm guessing he doesn't get to do that anymore. :(
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Syt

It seems that Jonathan Nolan has been signed by HBO to adapt the original three Foundation books for TV.

I foresee a drab colored series with sterile environments and stone faced monologuing characters spouting trailer quotes.
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Ideologue

The Criterion sale just started and I'm flat busted. :(
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MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Syt on November 10, 2014, 11:27:59 PM
It seems that Jonathan Nolan has been signed by HBO to adapt the original three Foundation books for TV.

I foresee a drab colored series with sterile environments and stone faced monologuing characters spouting trailer quotes.

That doesn't seem like the most obvious series to choose for TV.
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celedhring


Syt

I just don't "get" the Nolans. They have many fans and their movies make a lot of money, but they completely fail to engage me on an emotional level, and I often find their works dour and pretentious. Dark Knight is a bit of an exemption, because of the Joker who brings in an anarchic/emotional element.

Again, as they have a large following, I presume the fault lies with me (though I guess I now know how people feel who just can't stand any Tarantino movie).
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Ideologue

Quote from: Syt on November 11, 2014, 03:39:05 AM
I just don't "get" the Nolans. They have many fans and their movies make a lot of money, but they completely fail to engage me on an emotional level, and I often find their works dour and pretentious. Dark Knight is a bit of an exemption, because of the Joker who brings in an anarchic/emotional element.

Again, as they have a large following, I presume the fault lies with me (though I guess I now know how people feel who just can't stand any Tarantino movie).

I dunno.  I wish I could generalize.  I wanted to say "It was Jon's fault!" but he wasn't there for Batman Begins (Chris' worst), and he was there for The Prestige (Chris' best).  I wanted to say Chris is better when he's working off an established story, but Begins is based on a specific Batman comic (sort of) and Inception isn't based on anything (well, except the Matrix :P ).

That said, I don't think any of his movies are bad, although Goddamn does Batman Begins come real close.

I think the overarching thing about the Nolans is how loud and bullying they are with emotionalism, not that they lack it.  Everything has got to be super on-the-nose.  That turns some people off, and some people like it.  I usually like it, though it can get too abrasive, as it does in Interstellar.
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Viking

I have not seen Interstellar.

My impression of Chistopher Nolan is that he is much better a directing scenes than he is at directing movies. His best movies (Inception, The Prestige and Memento) are movies where the audience doesn't know what is going on during the film or where the scenes don't really need to connect to each other. In The Dark Knight he had a solid story to hang his scenes on, Batman Begins and Dark Knight Rises are films where he tries to contort the story (to it's detriment) to fit around his scenes.

This works in Memento because it is backwards, it works in Inception because dis-connected scenes are the plot and it works in The Prestige because we don't know what is going on.
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Martinus

Hmm, Prestige must have completely pass me by. Is it worth watching? The trailer looks interesting and I am looking for an entertaining flick to watch today, as we have a public holiday.