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I know there was a similar thread to this a while back, but didn't see it anywhere. So, welcome to the new General Movie Question Thread. Ask questions that are bugging you, but not worthy of their own thread. The other day I was out with some friends, and we were talking about movies, and a question occured to me that none of them could answer. What was the first movie to be remade?
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Jun 10, 2008 00:14
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A quick search through wikipedia lead me to this Marked Men (1919) There may be earlier remakes though.
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Jun 10, 2008 00:25
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What was the first samurai movie that popularized or featured the stereotypical duel in which two samurai run past each other and seemingly miss each other as they strike, then they stand still and one falls over?
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Jun 10, 2008 00:58
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Jack Does Jihad posted:What was the first samurai movie that popularized or featured the stereotypical duel in which two samurai run past each other and seemingly miss each other as they strike, then they stand still and one falls over? Probably The Seven Samurai
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Jun 10, 2008 02:10
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Armyman25 posted:Probably The Seven Samurai There's no scene like that in Seven Samurai.
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Jun 10, 2008 02:47
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This one is kind of a weird one. What is the biggest/most popular movie not yet released on DVD? I started wondering when I was remembering how long it took for Star Wars and Indiana Jones to get on DVD. It's kind of a subjective question though.
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Jun 10, 2008 04:36
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:A quick search through wikipedia lead me to this Marked Men (1919) There may be earlier remakes though. It might not qualify as a remake per se, but the first two adaptations of Frankenstein were made in 1910 and 1915.
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Jun 10, 2008 04:53
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Jack Does Jihad posted:There's no scene like that in Seven Samurai. When the sword master samurai, Kyuzo, is introduced, the duel he has is almost exactly like that. Also, the slow motion of the death of the thief that Kambei kills when he's introduced is also similiar.
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Jun 10, 2008 05:05
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Jack Does Jihad posted:What was the first samurai movie that popularized or featured the stereotypical duel in which two samurai run past each other and seemingly miss each other as they strike, then they stand still and one falls over? I always thought the first time it was done was in Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island.
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Jun 10, 2008 07:07
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Slvbarek posted:I always thought the first time it was done was in Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island. I hope it's not. I tried watching Samurai I and it just didn't grab me for some reason. Armyman25 posted:When the sword master samurai, Kyuzo, is introduced, the duel he has is almost exactly like that. Also, the slow motion of the death of the thief that Kambei kills when he's introduced is also similiar. I don't remember Kyuzo's battle being what I'm describing, I don't think they ran past each other. I think Kyuzo just cuts the guy down when he comes near and the guy freezes then dies, but I may be remembering it wrong. It probably comes close and was most likely a precursor to what I'm describing. What I'm thinking of is two samurai who run past each other, striking as they pass one another, but you don't know who hit who. With their backs to each other there's this tense buildup where they're both still, then one falls over because he was masterfully hit by the other's sword when they passed. It's totally stereotypically and is referenced in a ton of things, but I can't find an example. It bothers me because I've seen all these older samurai movies (except for the Mifune Samurai Trilogy) and not once have I seen what I'm describing. Jack Does Jihad fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jun 10, 2008 |
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Jun 10, 2008 07:24
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This is what I was thinking of: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WhbCEi_Aac4 The actual part you're talking about is at around minute 4 if you're particularly impatient. They're not exactly running at each other, but there's still that ambiguity of who wounded who.
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Jun 10, 2008 07:44
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I'm going to watch Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima soon, and I'm wondering if it matters which order I watch them in. My wife wants to see FOOF but not LFIJ, so I'd rather just watch LFIJ while waiting for her to have time for FOOF. Are there any specific characters or situations that "cross over" from FOOF that would affect how I perceive LFIJ?
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Jun 14, 2008 18:56
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Biff Rockgroin posted:This one is kind of a weird one. Well, just in terms of the amount it gets bandied about, Song of the South has to be pretty high on that list. Hearts of Darkness has never been released on DVD, has it? FitFortDanga posted:I'm going to watch Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima soon, and I'm wondering if it matters which order I watch them in. My wife wants to see FOOF but not LFIJ, so I'd rather just watch LFIJ while waiting for her to have time for FOOF. Are there any specific characters or situations that "cross over" from FOOF that would affect how I perceive LFIJ? Not that I recall. For what it's worth, Letters from Iowa Jima is ten times the movie that Flags of Our Fathers is. Timby fucked around with this message at 19:08 on Jun 14, 2008 |
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Jun 14, 2008 19:04
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Peaceful Anarchy posted:A quick search through wikipedia lead me to this Marked Men (1919) There may be earlier remakes though. Many very early films were remade a few times because they damaged the camera negative after making too many prints, rendering it unusable. Rescued by Rover (1905, Cecil Hepworth) was re-filmed twice within a year. Otherwise, the The Great Train Robbery (1903, Edwin S. Porter for Edison) was illegally remade the following year by the Lubin Company in New Jersey. Biff Rockgroin posted:What is the biggest/most popular movie not yet released on DVD? Probably The African Queen. It's the only AFI 100 movie to not have an American DVD release. It's out in Region 2, though. The highest grossing silent film, The Big Parade (1925) isn't on DVD yet, but it's in the works. Timby posted:Hearts of Darkness has never been released on DVD, has it? It came out last year.
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Jun 14, 2008 19:13
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FitFortDanga posted:I'm going to watch Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima soon, and I'm wondering if it matters which order I watch them in. My wife wants to see FOOF but not LFIJ, so I'd rather just watch LFIJ while waiting for her to have time for FOOF. Are there any specific characters or situations that "cross over" from FOOF that would affect how I perceive LFIJ? Really don't even bother watching Flags of Our Fathers. They're completely independent movies, and frankly Flags is a too long and not particularly interesting
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Jun 14, 2008 19:17
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Timby posted:Well, just in terms of the amount it gets bandied about, Song of the South has to be pretty high on that list. FitFortDanga posted:I'm going to watch Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima soon, and I'm wondering if it matters which order I watch them in. My wife wants to see FOOF but not LFIJ, so I'd rather just watch LFIJ while waiting for her to have time for FOOF. Are there any specific characters or situations that "cross over" from FOOF that would affect how I perceive LFIJ?
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Jun 14, 2008 19:19
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One question... where can one find the films of Len Lye on DVD? I know Cultoons Vol. 3 has his creepy "Peanut Vendor" stop-motion short, but none of his other works seem to be available like his hand-painted shorts. Kind of annoying considering Norman McLaren's complete works are out in one DVD set and Stan Brakhage is represented with a "greatest hits" DVD from Criterion.
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Jun 14, 2008 19:32
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Stupid I-just-ought-to-google-it question: what is mise-en-scène and why is it important?
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Jun 14, 2008 21:12
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Domukaz posted:Stupid I-just-ought-to-google-it question: what is mise-en-scène and why is it important? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scene
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Jun 14, 2008 21:30
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Jack Does Jihad posted:I hope it's not. I tried watching Samurai I and it just didn't grab me for some reason. Maybe it's not from a movie, but from the manga 'Lone Wolf and Cub', which originally came out in 1970, sold millions of copies, and has influenced artists, film makers, producers and directors across the world. Almost every samurai and ninja cliche you can imagine appears in this epic story -- obviously before they were cliches. Including many fights like the one you mention Then again I guess if there's a movie older than 1970 where this sort of fight occurs, it invalidates this theory
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Jun 15, 2008 00:24
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Domukaz posted:Stupid I-just-ought-to-google-it question: what is mise-en-scène and why is it important?
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Jun 15, 2008 02:47
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For example of mis-en-scene: In this shot in Citizen Kane, Kane is closer to the camera than Leland, and being shot from a low angle, making Kane a larger presence as well. You can also note the light color of Kane's shirt as opposed to the dark color of Leland's jacket, etc.
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Jun 15, 2008 14:56
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Og Oggilby posted:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mise_en_scene Satch posted:For example of mis-en-scene: To me, the term has two uses: 1. to describe the set up of a scene, and b. to indicate that the scene was intentionally set up in a certain way for a specific effect. There's another thread about Brazil and "how he does it". Gilliam is an obsessive genius at setting up scenes and filling the screen with items and details to manipulate and control the viewer's emotional and intellectual response. This attention to detail is probably also why Gilliam makes the producers and investors so angry, hehe.  Kubrick's got so many examples. The setting, the arrangement, the lighting, the maps on the wall with blinking lights, the postures of the men. Hope I'm not breaking tables 
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Jun 15, 2008 16:17
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With Aguirre, the Wrath of God which is the original audio? German or English? Does it really matter which one I choose?
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Jun 20, 2008 00:10
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Sporadic posted:With Aguirre, the Wrath of God which is the original audio? German or English? I think it's like some of the Italian Spaghetti Westerns where the language is all dubbed from an internation cast. However, even though they were shot speaking English, the German dub is the intention.
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Jun 20, 2008 00:29
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FitFortDanga posted:I'm going to watch Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima soon, and I'm wondering if it matters which order I watch them in. My wife wants to see FOOF but not LFIJ, so I'd rather just watch LFIJ while waiting for her to have time for FOOF. Are there any specific characters or situations that "cross over" from FOOF that would affect how I perceive LFIJ? The most is a marine who sets off a flamethrower into a bunker. Letters is a far better film in terms of..well everything really, pacing, characters and so forth. Flags was a bit too hammy on the whole "Heroes are not what they're cracked up to be" and was really stretching this to an absurd point. Plus the narrative was too scattered to hold much interest.
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Jun 20, 2008 07:34
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When was the first The Thing made? I heard once that John Carpenters The Thing was a remake.
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Jun 20, 2008 08:27
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The story that The Thing comes from was originally a pre-war short story, "Who goes there". That was adapted to a somewhat traditional 50s monster movie in 1951 as "The Thing from Another World". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who_Goes_There http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0044121/
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Jun 20, 2008 08:38
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Ape Agitator posted:The story that The Thing comes from was originally a pre-war short story, "Who goes there". That was adapted to a somewhat traditional 50s monster movie in 1951 as "The Thing from Another World". Its funny, I knew that The Thing and The Thing from Another World were almost nothing alike but I never realized just how close The Thing was to the original novella Who Goes There.
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Jun 20, 2008 10:32
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What was the first movie to have the line, "It's quiet... a little too quiet"?
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Jun 20, 2008 15:08
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Sporadic posted:With Aguirre, the Wrath of God which is the original audio? German or English? This is funny because I asked this same question in a previous "questions too short for their own thread". Anyway, the audio is looped, so the "original" audio doesn't really matter because neither version is the actual original audio anyway. Pick what you will. Having seen it now with both audio tracks, I personally prefer the german version with subs simply because Kinski sounds better to me in German than English (which is what was originally suggested to me too).
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Jun 20, 2008 22:27
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InfiniteZero posted:Having seen it now with both audio tracks, I personally prefer the german version with subs simply because Kinski sounds better to me in German than English (which is what was originally suggested to me too). I think in the German version Kinski's character is dubbed by someone else.
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Jun 20, 2008 22:36
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Is the cut of Robocop on the Steelbook edition the same as on the Criterion DVD? This is edition I'm referring to: http://www.amazon.com/Robocop-Anniversary-Collectors-Peter-Weller/dp/B000QQH4YS/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1214011359&sr=8-1
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Jun 21, 2008 02:24
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Rorschach posted:Is the cut of Robocop on the Steelbook edition the same as on the Criterion DVD? It's got both the theatrical cut and the cut from the Criterion DVD on it.
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Jun 21, 2008 03:25
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For you older goons, I've always been interested about peoples thoughts regarding the original Star Wars (A New Hope) when it was being shown in theaters, back in 77. How long did it take to become a huge phenomenon after its initial release? Was there alot of hype and advertising for it, or did it just kinda pop up outta nowhere? Was it the most awesome thing you ever saw or did you think it was a bit overrated?
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Jun 21, 2008 06:47
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What are the major differences between Blade Runner: Final Cut and the older versions? I have the Director's Cut on DVD, and have been considering picking up the Final Cut, but not sure if it's needed.
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Jun 21, 2008 06:54
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nitty gritty titty posted:What are the major differences between Blade Runner: Final Cut and the older versions? I have the Director's Cut on DVD, and have been considering picking up the Final Cut, but not sure if it's needed. Get it. Get it. Getitgetitgetit. There are a number of reasons I say this (getit). It has a remarkable transfer (getit). If you pick up the BluRay version, you get all the other versions (getit). If not, the four disc that includes the old Director's Cut is only $23 on Amazon right now (get it). And the supplements for all the versions are substantial and worthwhile (getit). For a breakdown in terms of scenes (might be more than you want to know if you want to see it), Wikipedia has it detailed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blade_Runner_(versions)#Differences Here are some screens of the differences as well. http://www.schnittberichte.com/schnittbericht.php?ID=4589
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Jun 21, 2008 13:45
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nitty gritty titty posted:What are the major differences between Blade Runner: Final Cut and the older versions? I have the Director's Cut on DVD, and have been considering picking up the Final Cut, but not sure if it's needed.
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Jun 21, 2008 18:34
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Oddly enough the first time I've heard that they're making a Time Traveler's Wife movie was in a gaming magazine that said it was supposed to come out in early June. Obviously that didn't happen and when I looked up the release date its marked for Christmas. Is there any reason for this delay or did the studios just think it will fare better as a holiday movie?
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Jun 22, 2008 02:39
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I just saw Chinatown for the first time. Is The Two Jakes worth seeing, or was it just Nicholson needing money to buy another mansion?
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Jun 23, 2008 08:21
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