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Random Stranger posted:Yeah. It doesn't have such a deep and complex story than you can't tell it in two hours on screen. There aren't big movements in the plot that necessitate breathing room. Splitting the book into two movies sounds like it's going to drag a ton. I actually knew someone at the time Fellowship came out that was pissed Fellowship wasn't it's own trilogy.
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Electromax posted:This might've been posted already, but it's one of my favorite books I read as a kid so I'm hoping the adaptation can do it justice. There's a lot of content stuffed in the book across a lot of years, even for 2 films. They don't look real. The kid on the left looks like a mannequin.
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Why the gently caress wasnt Derry Maine blasted off the map after all that went in there? Child eating clowns, shitweasels, etc. Gotta nuke it from orbit, it's the only way to be sure.
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Wasnt lotr the most read book of all time after the bible?its cultural footprint even before the movies was huge.
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ChainsawCharlie posted:Wasnt lotr the most read book of all time after the bible?its cultural footprint even before the movies was huge. I'm not sure, I know Dune is the best selling Sci-fi novel of all time though and it's cultural footprint is negligible compared to the Bible.
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Just watched ID4 and the sequel is coming up next. I did not remember that the lines "welcome to Earth" and "now that's what I call a close encounter" were said one right after the other with nothing but a small pause in between. They gave us little flags to wave for President Pullman's speech and a bunch of people screamed "AMERICA!"  Some crowds are great.
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I remember when (white) people would quote it as "Welcome to Erf" which always struck me as super racist, since Will Smith has pretty clear enunciation both in general and specifically during that line.
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Guy Mann posted:I wouldn't quite say nostalgic, a big part of IT (and The Body/Stand By Me) is that the idyllic 50s were actually terrible and that people were just so repressed and/or damaged that they were willing to pretend problems didn't exist rather than confront it. Yeah, nostalgic was the wrong word. 50s flavoring, maybe.
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Skwirl posted:I remember when (white) people would quote it as "Welcome to Erf" which always struck me as super racist, since Will Smith has pretty clear enunciation both in general and specifically during that line. Welcome ta erf is just loving funny even if it's super racist
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Jun 24, 2016 04:21
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Well bad news the second one sucks, though that still wasn't the worst double feature I have ever seen.
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Ammanas posted:Welcome ta erf is just loving funny even if it's super racist It's like if I said "I'll be back" post in an effete French accent. Only, and you know, more racist.
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The second one is better than the first but I'm drunk but I liked it way more. It was more compact and not like a typical Emmeich. It's better. Like an Emmrich indi movie.!
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Actually you're wrong and the second one was far more longwinded and overstretching itself than the first. I also had a few of those so-called adult milkshakes so The next time you think it's compact just think of that family of four kids + the busfull of boy/girl scouts that Jeff Goldblum's dad adopts after driving them to Area 51. edit: things I liked + the spaceship design that alternated between tadpole, frog, and walking hand + some of the shots of the final boss + everything with that goofy scientist from the first movie who totally didn't die turtlecrunch fucked around with this message at 05:56 on Jun 24, 2016 |
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ID4 sucks poo poo after the aliens attack.
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ChainsawCharlie posted:Wasnt lotr the most read book of all time after the bible?its cultural footprint even before the movies was huge. I think Don Quixote may be number two.
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ID4.2 is big, bombastic, and dumb as gently caress but I enjoyed the hell out it.
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muscles like this? posted:It's funny how they're jumping all over the place in this series. They started with the second book, used the first book for the sequel and now the third movie is the fourth book. I read somewhere that the third book was a bit too close to National Treasure with the mason stuff. Of course they aren't making another sequel to that actively so that seems like an opportunity.
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Is the final boss a godzillia sized exosuit think I saw that in the trailer and got super interested, worth the movie if thats all I want to see?
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It gets about 13 minutes of screentime out of the 2+ hours, there's a few different sequences with it, all at the very end.
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Can we judge movies based on their theme songs? Because I didn't even know Fall Out Boy was still a thing let alone enough of a thing to do the theme song to one of the most anticipated (?) movies of the summer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AQ44nPrRTM
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GrandpaPants posted:Can we judge movies based on their theme songs? Because I didn't even know Fall Out Boy was still a thing let alone enough of a thing to do the theme song to one of the most anticipated (?) movies of the summer. I don't know if I'm jealous or not that you missed out on their song that sampled the Munsters theme from last year.
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Enos Cabell posted:They could be ditching the framing story. There's a lot in the book that can be excised, but the framing is practically the entire point of the story.
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GrandpaPants posted:Can we judge movies based on their theme songs? Because I didn't even know Fall Out Boy was still a thing let alone enough of a thing to do the theme song to one of the most anticipated (?) movies of the summer.
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Gonz posted:Robert Langdon is back. Is Dan Brown really still making a career out of writing the same book over and over, just swapping out the names and locations with whatever age-old religious conspiracy he looked up on Wikipedia this week?
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"Missy Elliot and Fall Out Boy do the theme song for the new Ghostbusters" sounds like a bad joke from 5 years ago.
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turtlecrunch posted:Well bad news the second one sucks, though that still wasn't the worst double feature I have ever seen.
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Skwirl posted:I remember when (white) people would quote it as "Welcome to Erf" which always struck me as super racist, since Will Smith has pretty clear enunciation both in general and specifically during that line. I just assumed it was people mashing Will Smith's character up with his Fresh Prince of Bel-Air character in their memory. Len posted:I don't know if I'm jealous or not that you missed out on their song that sampled the Munsters theme from last year. Being unaware of something related to Fallout Boy is always something to be envied.
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Sinners Sandwich posted:Is the final boss a godzillia sized exosuit think I saw that in the trailer and got super interested, worth the movie if thats all I want to see? Maybe They went back to their Godzilla '98 roots...It does get to gently caress some poo poo up and it looks cool.
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raditts posted:I just assumed it was people mashing Will Smith's character up with his Fresh Prince of Bel-Air character in their memory. I haven't watched the movie in 18 years and I think in my mind I was picturing him saying it during that scene where he has a cigar in his mouth, so "earth" wouldn't have been said correctly in that case.
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Hostile V posted:I'll bite, what was the worst and were the two movies actually in the same series? Yes they were. It was 21 Jump Street and 22 Jump Street, because the jokes are virtually identical.
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I gotta watch those again. They're loving great. Thanks OP.
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CelticPredator posted:I gotta watch those again. They're loving great. Thanks OP. I'm eagerly awaiting for Hill and Tatum to trip balls on some alien drugs.
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The thing that always bothered me the most about Independence Day was the part in which Randy Quaid flies his jet into the ship and blows it up. As he pulls up and starts advancing on it, the plane climbs at an agonizingly slow rate, giving him time to deliver (in the exact same cadence and pitch) both lines they came up with for his heroic moment. "In the words of my generation... UP.. YOOOOOUUUUURRRRSSSSS!!!!!!!!" *ninety minutes pass* "HELLO BOOOYSS!!! I'M.... BAAAA-AAAAAAACK!" *seasons change* *plane hits weapon and explodes* That sequence is very bad to me
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Do you think they ever approached Cousin Eddie about being in the new one? Hollywood finds ways to work with Polanski, so don't tell me it couldn't be done.
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Lotish posted:I haven't watched the movie in 18 years and I think in my mind I was picturing him saying it during that scene where he has a cigar in his mouth, so "earth" wouldn't have been said correctly in that case. Judge for yourself.
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Cacator posted:"Missy Elliot and Fall Out Boy do the theme song for the new Ghostbusters" sounds like a bad joke from 5 years ago.
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Jack Gladney posted:Do you think they ever approached Cousin Eddie about being in the new one? Hollywood finds ways to work with Polanski, so don't tell me it couldn't be done.
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smackfu posted:I read somewhere that the third book was a bit too close to National Treasure with the mason stuff. Of course they aren't making another sequel to that actively so that seems like an opportunity. From what I remember the 3rd book was especially savaged by critics as being absolute trash so that might be why they avoided it. I never saw the second movie but I read the first book, does the plot still revolve around the (not real) Illuminati and they're goofy brands that are words that look the same upside down?
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ALFbrot posted:The thing that always bothered me the most about Independence Day was the part in which Randy Quaid flies his jet into the ship and blows it up. As he pulls up and starts advancing on it, the plane climbs at an agonizingly slow rate, giving him time to deliver (in the exact same cadence and pitch) both lines they came up with for his heroic moment. It's a repeat of Will Smith getting two one-liners in a row – "Welcome to Earth" and "Now that's what I call a close encounter" – earlier in the film. The movie should really have done that a third time to make it more clearly a motif.
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muscles like this? posted:From what I remember the 3rd book was especially savaged by critics as being absolute trash so that might be why they avoided it. Each book/movie has a different evil secret society with a different cartoonish henchman antagonist. Angels and Demons had the Illuminati and a swarthy arab assassin, DaVinci Code had Opus Dei and an evil albino killer.
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