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I believe in general to truly enjoy movies from these era's you have to move past your preconceptions, and take them for the classics that they are, far more inventive and capable of transporting us to another world more easily and believably than the current crop of schlock, that is simply trying to out effect each other in a 'my one's bigger than your one' contest while sacrificing any real character development or depth and layering to the movie.
@Glod: One of Star Wars' greatest feats was how far forward it pushed special effects at the time. When comparing a classic to newer films, it is VERY important the viewer keeps in mind all of the new ground/next-level that film brings to the genre. One of the characteristics of the Sci-Fi genre is, of course, special effects. Lucas developed (or improved) so many techniques with these movies that he started Lucasfilm which is still one of the largest, most advanced production companies in the world. Not only were the SE's ahead of their time, but the creation of multi-channel theater sound resulted, as well.
Movies are remembered for what they contributed to the body of works as a whole, and Star Wars is undeniably one of those films that sent permanent ripples through the industry- and changed consumers' expectations as to what could be done from that point on.
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The latest film was "Trade",it's an awesome movie...about child trafficking.
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The latest film was "Trade",it's an awesome movie...about child trafficking.
Awesome? From that, can we assume a high amount of interest in the subject matter? :unsure:
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If you like children, then you should also think child trafficking is awesome. It supposedly reduced the occurrences of child injury and death
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Good point. Hopefully a cop won't issue them tickets for walking in a manner he doesn't like... Feet- one in front of the other. No shuffling!
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Die Hard 2
After long tym :-)
It is better than Die Hard 1
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Die Hard 2
After long tym :-)
It is better than Die Hard 1
No you liked it better than Die Hard 1.
The only thing "better" about Die Hard 2 was that ,as is pretty requisite for sequels, everything was "bigger". Other than that all it did regurgitate,not expand,on everything that happened in the first movie.
That and all without the presence of Alan Rickman who was obviously the best thing in the original.
Yippy-Kay-Yay Motherfucker.
I watched I Am Number Four .
Sort of set a new high water mark for stupid but was still well done.
The story is about a largely unlikable hero with a hot but bland girlfriend battling aliens with a little transmogrification as a bonus which as I said was technically well done but jaw-droppingly silly yet oddly familiar.
Then the credits rolled and I saw that it was produced by Michael Bay and then everything made sense.:mellow:
After that I downloaded Restraint a little known Australian film starring Stephen Moyer aka " Bill"from True Blood which desperately tries to be a smart kidnapping story but in the end was pretty flat and ultimately unrewarding.
On the plus side it had the woman from I Am Number Four naked. :idunno:
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Eagle Eye // 2008
Eagle Eye is about the negative extremes of social media, written by an over protective mother. Having said that it was a decent watch for a lazy Sunday and LaBeouf was actually tolerable.
The Experiment // 2010
About a group of people who volunteered for an experiment about psychology responses. Couldn't help but notice this is a religious film set in the present.
Spoiler:
Show
"Red" light represents God, Prisoners are civilians and the Guards are the church
Bit of a WTF moment at the end. It's as if the author/writer got bored and said fuck it I know a perfect way to ruin it.
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Eagle Eye // 2008
Eagle Eye is about the negative extremes of social media, written by an over protective mother. Having said that it was a decent watch for a lazy Sunday and LaBeouf was actually tolerable.
You really got that the premise of the movie was to demonstrate the negative extremes of social media?
I thought it was just an easy hook to hang a bunch of silly,clearly impossible stunts on.
Also killing off the only non-one dimensional sympathetic character was just more talentless contrived attempt at easy audience manipulation and added nothing to the story.
About LaBeouf he irritates me less than Justin Timberlake,another "actor" who I can't figure out why he has a career so I give him that.
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iLOVENZB
Eagle Eye // 2008
Eagle Eye is about the negative extremes of social media, written by an over protective mother. Having said that it was a decent watch for a lazy Sunday and LaBeouf was actually tolerable.
You really got that the premise of the movie was to demonstrate the negative extremes of social media?
I thought it was just an easy hook to hang a bunch of silly,clearly impossible stunts on.
Also killing off the only non-one dimensional sympathetic character was just more talentless contrived attempt at easy audience manipulation and added nothing to the story.
About LaBeouf he irritates me less than Justin Timberlake,another "actor" who I can't figure out why he has a career so I give him that.
Negative extremes of social media ???? Really ? And here was me thinking it was another rehash of the government is watching you/rogue computer storylines and a plot that required a great deal of suspension of belief, or maybe I just didn't strike my head against the door the requisite number of times first ?
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Also killing off the only non-one dimensional sympathetic character was just more talentless contrived attempt at easy audience manipulation and added nothing to the story.
Before the peremptory bumping off of said multi-dimensional character, he did manage to deliver a brilliant line in characteristic southern drawl:
'If you're staring at me, it better be because I'm the goddamn suspect. Because if I don't get some good leads soon, you're all gonna be demoted into something that's gonna require touching shit with your hands. '
