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love me some Dune

  On 12/7/2013 at 8:25 AM, zaphod said:

have not. should i? i see it's available free from project gutenberg. might check that out. never heard of this writer.

I love it. Would be a great film or play. Check out "Jurgen, Comedy of Justice" by Cabell on Gutenberg as well, if you have not. Adult fantasy at its finest.

  On 12/7/2013 at 10:08 AM, MadameChaos said:

 

  On 12/7/2013 at 7:20 AM, Atop said:

Tis a shame I am the only fan of Dune.

I like Dune even though I acknowledge it's a bad film. Sting is brilliant in it.

 

I would never call it a bad film, only a film that is missing scenes due to poor planning and a vision not shared by all participants. If you know the story, the missing scenes are not necessary imo. One scene that makes the whole film brilliant is the one where the doctor is taking care of Baron Harkonnen's nasty skin. I love many other scenes but if you cannot appreciate the originality and atmosphere of that scene, it should be watched again.

  On 12/7/2013 at 2:25 PM, lumpenprol said:

 

So I just saw Gravity, finally.

 

Great film! It was probably more of an 8/10, but I'll give it a 9/10 for being groundbreaking and ballsy. Lovely CG for the most part, better than Avatar for example. Some of the dialogue was clunky and the ending went a bit too over the top, but I really admired what they were trying to do with the film as a whole. Gave me some big feels from time to time, too. Would recommend it to anyone.

 

My wife, being a country girl, didn't understand any of it. "So...they're on another planet right?" Um...

 

Yeah I felt the same way. Like a new genre that could be filled with original film ideas.

Hopefully your wife felt/understood the tension.

That seems inescapable.

  On 12/7/2013 at 7:08 PM, TRiP said:

love me some Dune

cheers indeed...

"We have just folded space from Ix...Many machines on Ix. New machines.

Better than those on Richese."

Tetsuo 10/10

this was the first movie i ever watched in a drive-in and it still holds up. badass dance moves and a then unknown van damme doing his best gay impression of a guy feeling electro-rap a lil' too much

i rate this movie: electric

this was on adult swim so i decided to dive in. haven't seen it since... forever. mind-bending animation about some kind of power that takes over kids and makes them into ultra-violent type machines. good but also meh

trailer

Watched Hausu last night. Hausu/10, straight-up mental and very amusing.

thor 2 - really fucking cool, i'm kinda sorry now that i watched this on a relatively shitty rip. the only boring part was natalie portman.

gravity 8/10

i'm gonna start by saying that george was rubbish in this. it reminded me of his performance in a recent commercial i saw him in, very poor. does he really have any interesting in acting anymore or just pushing coffee? i really don't know. sandra was brilliant though and the CGI was beautiful. 3D is a bit crap though.

when you consider that basically every fucking thing in the film was 3d apart from their faces, it becomes a bit mind boggling...

er, and to clarify, by 3d I mean vfx. Not the silly glasses.

  On 12/9/2013 at 2:28 PM, lumpenprol said:

when you consider that basically every fucking thing in the film was 3d apart from their faces, it becomes a bit mind boggling...

 

er, and to clarify, by 3d I mean vfx. Not the silly glasses.

yeah, i wish they made life in 3D, wouldn't that be amazing. Lol at your Dune fix BTW. very funny. maybe a little bit true.

I saw Annie Hall yesterday for the first time. Brilliant 10/10 I want to see all such movies ever.

Sharknado

........./10

Gremlins. i just found out today that steven spielberg did it. or maybe i had just forgotten.

anyways

QUESTION

can anyone think of other movies that take place during Christmas that aren't Christmas movies?

Finally saw Brazil. It was good

  On 12/10/2013 at 7:03 AM, yek said:

Gremlins. i just found out today that steven spielberg did it. or maybe i had just forgotten.

Spielberg was just an executive producer. Joe Dante directed and Chris Columbus wrote it.

Killer Joe - William Friedkin's dark comedy (?) about dumb trailer trash. McConaughey was surprisingly good as a disturbed detective. Thomas Haden Church did a good job as an oblivious drunk too.

  On 12/10/2013 at 7:03 AM, yek said:

QUESTION

 

can anyone think of other movies that take place during Christmas that aren't Christmas movies?

Die Hard

Hook

Edward Scissorhand

Brazil

Batman Returns is an awesomely terrible Chrimbus movie.

Black Christmas

P2

Prometheus

Gremlins

Narnia 1

Assault on Precinct 13 (remake)

Silent Night Deadly Night

Tales From the Crypt (pilot)

how could i have forgotten about Die Hard!

mixed nuts yo

  On 12/10/2013 at 7:03 AM, yek said:

can anyone think of other movies that take place during Christmas that aren't Christmas movies?

home alone!

surely Home Alone has more than enough dollopings of yuletide spirit to count as a Christmas film? It certainly is in my books, and a dam good one at that!

  On 12/10/2013 at 11:05 PM, AJW said:

surely Home Alone has more than enough dollopings of yuletide spirit to count as a Christmas film? It certainly is in my books, and a dam good one at that!

indeed!

gravity - 7.5/10 - it's quite gripping for the most part and the are scenes that are simply incredible (like when she just keeps spinning and spinning and getting more further away, and everything gets silent and the part where she picks up the radio signal from earth) but then there those enormous slabs of typical holywood cheese that ruin everything, the jump scare, cheesy zoom in on the tear (could be so much more effective without it), dream clooney, "i'm draggin you with me so i'm letting myself go" and more. when dream-clooney tells her to use the landing stuff to get to the chinese station the movie is basically over, you know that after a few more butt clenching action sequences she's gonna make it and everything's gonna be alright, the tension is lost. technically it's impeccable of course, the sound design and the visuals are 10/10.

can't possibly be worse than the Matthew Broderick version

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