TV/Movies Megathread

[Tonitrus]

You know what would delight me? STOP REMAKING MOVIES.

FUCKING ASSBURGER FUCKS.

If it wasn't remakes, it'd be fucking sequels.

Star Trek: Thr Hipster Generation and Zombie Charlton Heston Returns to the Planet of the Apes.

Or crossovers....Apes vs. Terminators.

[Ed Anger]

I hate Young People.

[jimmy olsen]

Which new one?  You mean the 2011 one?  You're nuts.  That's one of the best movies of the century so far.

The 2000, Tim Burton remake had its charms.  Costume and production design for two.  Cool wirework.  And Tim Roth again.  Plus, I enjoyed the timefuckery once I figured it out.

Explain

[11B4V]

You know what would delight me? STOP REMAKING MOVIES.

FUCKING ASSBURGER FUCKS.

it's laziness IMO.

[CountDeMoney]

You know what would delight me? STOP REMAKING MOVIES.

FUCKING ASSBURGER FUCKS.

it's laziness IMO.

Even worse:  lack of imagination in a risk-averse industry.  Go fig on that one, huh?

Can't wait til Hollywood rapes the Millennial generation's childhood like they raped ours, but their little gnat brains won't remember it by then anyway.

[jimmy olsen]

Also, if King Kong didn't, it marked the perfection of Andy Serkis' craft.

It did.

[Eddie Teach]

I don't remember Gollum being in King Kong. 

[Josquius]

Just as an aside - do you guys often walk out of movies that suck? Somehow, I've never actually done that - even if a movie sucks, I tend to stay to the end anyway.

I'm SURE I remember doing it for one film but I can't for the life of me remember what.

[Scipio]

Speaking of movies..

Iron Man 2. Just about unwatchable. Mickey Rourke looked so greasy. Blah.

Rating:

Not even Scarlett Johansson in tight leather can redeem it?

Her Russian was abysmal, and remains so.

[Josquius]

Broadchurch- Interesting. British detective series which doesn't feel cheap and boring. Kind of has the aura of a Scandinavian series.

[Ideologue]

Which new one?  You mean the 2011 one?  You're nuts.  That's one of the best movies of the century so far.

The 2000, Tim Burton remake had its charms.  Costume and production design for two.  Cool wirework.  And Tim Roth again.  Plus, I enjoyed the timefuckery once I figured it out.

Explain

Iirc, the way the time hole works is the longer you wait in the future on the PotA, the further it sends you back in time, but the longer you wait in our solar system, the further into the PotA's future you go.  That's why Beppo or Chim-Chim or whoever, lost before Wahlberg, comes back after him.  And that's how Tim Roth (or his descendants and successors) are able to beat Wahlberg back to Earth.

Of course, the ending to PotA2000 is not a patch on the ending of the original, in terms of meaning the littlest thing, but that's okay, and I'm glad they tried something new.

[Ideologue]

You know what would delight me? STOP REMAKING MOVIES.

FUCKING ASSBURGER FUCKS.

Yeah, good point.  I'm really tired of all these shitty remakes my generation's thrust upon the public, like Gaslight, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Thief of Bagdad, The Magnificent Seven, A Fistfull of Dollars, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Fly, and The Thing, not to mention pastiches that just regurgitate earlier works for today's kids, like Star Wars and Indiana Jones.

In any event, I don't think anyone can claim with a straight face that Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes are such perfect films that remaking them was an insult to a whole generation of viewers.   Now, Escape?  OK, maybe.  That movie's amazing.

[Ed Anger]

I am also severely tired of the superhero movie shit.

[Capetan Mihali]

I watched Ingmar Bergman's The Silence last night.  Now thatsa movie! (It's the "silence of God.") 

The Criterion disc includes the original trailer for US release (1963), which is hilarious, just mashing up the sexy scenes and presenting it breathlessly as a soft-core movie about "those who live only for their carnal desires." 

It was considered the most sexually explicit mainstream movie of its time, and there were serious censorship fights in Europe and certain scenes were cut, but oddly not in America; I think foreign "art-house" film was just too marginal for the relevant authorities to even care about. 

Actually, that continues to be the case, where a (pretty bad) movie like Baise-moi from 2000 was hugely controversial in France, banned completely in Germany, had to make cuts elsewhere, but was just released straight-up in the US, had like 5000 ticket sales, and then disappeared completely.

[garbon]

In any event, I don't think anyone can claim with a straight face that Conquest of the Planet of the Apes and Battle for the Planet of the Apes are such perfect films that remaking them was an insult to a whole generation of viewers.