Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 4 hours ago, Margo Channing said: I think people who bag on RFBP2 and Rambo III haven't even watched them. Instead they just form an opinion based on their reputation as "idiot action" flicks. They can't touch First Blood! (I do have a soft spot for Rambo III, like the street fight scene). I actually find First Blood to be a touching film, another in the class like Taxi Driver that viscerally explores the psychological fallout of Vietnam, and war in general. 1 hour ago, bollemanneke said: War of the worlds. Okay-ish, but I had expected it to be much better. The only character I liked in this film was the woman trying to take Rachel with her. Don't know who I dislike more, Rachel or the boy. The score was mostly appropriate and I especially loved the ethereal choir when that woman wanted to protect Rachel. The finale is totally misscored, though, unless a family reunion needs to be a gloomy affair. Shame you couldn't see the visual storytelling in this film, it's very powerful, far more than Koepp's square dialog (what dad has a scene like the sandwich one in the house?Koepp is the epitome of writers that make pure movie screenplays, hollow and devoid of human authenticity) . The music is great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,308 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Right, but I just read from two independent reviewers that the tripods looked extremely clumsy and un-futuristic. Also, how do aliens plan an invasion for years and then don't realise they'll get killed? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 58 minutes ago, bollemanneke said: Right, but I just read from two independent reviewers that the tripods looked extremely clumsy and un-futuristic. Also, how do aliens plan an invasion for years and then don't realise they'll get killed? Aww man, they're dope. They do look a little retro (inspired by classic invasion movie designs), but their looks combined with the sound effects and the occasional musical accompaniment...? You do NOT wanna mess with them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 Game Night - Enjoy a good comedy mystery film, and this is no exception. The actors played off each other really well, and I laughed a lot. The dialogue is so witty. It gets a bit too "serious" at the end for my tastes, but otherwise it made for a really entertaining watch. - 7.5 / 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 1, 2018 Share Posted June 1, 2018 1 hour ago, bollemanneke said: Right, but I just read from two independent reviewers that the tripods looked extremely clumsy and un-futuristic. Also, how do aliens plan an invasion for years and then don't realise they'll get killed? Are you saying infections and diseases aren’t realistic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Realistic and relatable? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,308 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 8 hours ago, Koray Savas said: Are you saying infections and diseases aren’t realistic? No, I'm saying it doesn't make sense for aliens not to know about them in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,317 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 The Martians not being resistant to the microbes in Earth's atmosphere is straight out of Wells' novel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 The faithfulness to the old world book as to the demise of the Martian invaders is the least of the problems in Spielberg's movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I think it's a fine movie. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I can't watch it beyond the opening salvo. If it were on TV one evening, I'd switch over after the slick highway drive camera trickery. Koepp's dialogue is just woeful. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Your loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 3 hours ago, bollemanneke said: No, I'm saying it doesn't make sense for aliens not to know about them in advance. Why? We don’t know about potentially deadly bacteria on some far off planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 9 minutes ago, Koray Savas said: Why? We don’t know about potentially deadly bacteria on some far off planet. Their craft were already here for a long time. You'd think they'd have tools on board to detect potential biohazards. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 No amount of technological sophistication was ever going to stand a chance against that awful cough going around which nobody's been able to shift. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 5 minutes ago, Quintus said: No amount of technological sophistication was ever going to stand a chance against that awful cough going around which nobody's been able to shift. You too? I've been coughing for 2 weeks now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I haven't got it, but there's four kids in our house playing relay with one 365 days per year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Sorry... summer, cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 1 hour ago, Quintus said: I can't watch it beyond the opening salvo. If it were on TV one evening, I'd switch over after the slick highway drive camera trickery. Koepp's dialogue is just woeful. I like the interplay between Cruise, and the children. Look, forget about all these Martian shenanigans, what the film really about? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 2 minutes ago, Richard said: Look, forget about all these Martian shenanigans, what the film really about? Family. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Exactly! Its about one man's attempt to reconnect with his family. Lucky for Ferrier that the Martians invaded when they did. Ok, so billions of people died, but at least dad got to hug his son, one more time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 The exchanges between Cruise and his kids have that awful stilted feeling that a fair few later Spielberg movies suffer from. I don't buy any of it. The dialogue isn't naturalistic to me and I just end up creasing up when I have to sit through that stuff. Compare it with the earthy domestic scenes in Jaws, Close Encounters and E.T., and well it's as if a different director was at the helm. Unlucky Bastard 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Spielberg became less good directing family scenes when he became a parent, I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Which is weird. I think it's more a case of his films becoming more glossy and "handsome". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I wonder if after Schindler's List and Jurassic Park, the point where Spielberg started getting in the routine of "one drama, one 'popcorn' movie", he felt a certain need to compartmentalize his sensibilities. His dramas tend to be more earthier and naturalistic, while his blockbusters are, as you say, glossier and more artificial. Of course, a fair amount of his "latter day" blockbusters have the name David Koepp on them, so there's that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Him and Kaminski Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 Red Dawn Ehhhh yeah it was alright I guess. Nice picturesque landscape shots. A bit far fetched and it's a bit stoopid sometimes. I just can't believe the US military puts up pretty much no fight in this. I'm aware this has a nostaligia following but I think they're kidding themselves. The Reds put Baby in the corner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Parker 3,040 Posted June 2, 2018 Share Posted June 2, 2018 I actually like a fair number of Kaminski's work with Spielberg: Munich, Catch Me if You Can, Lincoln, AI, Minority Report, and a couple others. The only problem I tend to have is that outdoor lighting always looks like there was just a rain or snow storm and then the sun came blaring out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Why is that a problem? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 It's not. People just like whinging. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Exactly! maybe thats the look Spielberg and Kaminzki were going for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 Rewatched two quintessential british movies with a somewhat similar premise of children, er adolescents, under pressure. Carol Reed's brilliant 'The Fallen Idol' (1948) is a few notches above Ronald Neame's more workmanlike 'The Chalk Garden' (1964) but still, the impossible dignity these movies have even at their most dramatic makes them a favourite lazy sunday watching. Both are mysteries, 'Idol' concerned with a child and how it almost causes a catastrophe because it can't comprehend adult corruption - a butler working in a foreign embassy in London falls under suspicion when his wife accidentally falls to her death, the only witness being the impressionable young boy - and it's a most interesting premise. 'The Chalk Garden' sees Hayley Mills as problem child that finds her match in Deborah Kerr's equally troubled governess. Interesting especially in the sense that such dramatics are rather unthinkable in interactions between children and adults today, but still they make for great, suspenseful entertainment. Quintus 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasey Kockroach 2,343 Posted June 3, 2018 Share Posted June 3, 2018 I'm bored, it's too hot to go outside, and I tried watching Leprechaun 3. I think I only made it ten minutes in before turning it off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,939 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Casino Royale. With live orchestra and David Arnold playing a guitar during end credits. Karol Jay and Marian Schedenig 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 He starting to look like John Williams. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,939 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Being the next John Williams for 24 years of your life can take its toil you know. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 He's looking his age, especially compared with the publicity shots for SHAKEN AND STIRRED, and TND, but Luton's finest had still got it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Arnold was such a disappointment wasn't he. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jurassic Shark 11,956 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 There can only be one John Williams. There is only one Lord of the Baton, only one who can bend it to his will. And he does not share power. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 Krull Its not a terribly good movie, but it is a terribly fun movie. The cast is easy on the eyes, even if the acting and script are rather thin and pointless. (There do seem to be some allegorical elements, intentional or no, in the story, however). Of course, the score is gorgeous. 2.5 out of 4 stars. The China Syndrome. One of my favorites. A classic of intrigue and tension. I also have this thing for nuclear power. Anyway, the film is shot magnificently, paced very well. Ms. Fonda's acting is not as good as her reputation suggests, but Jack Lemmon really carries this film. A tour de force from the veteran. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 13 minutes ago, Steve McQueen said: The China Syndrome. One of my favorites. A classic of intrigue and tension. I also have this thing for nuclear power. Anyway, the film is shot magnificently, paced very well. Ms. Fonda's acting is not as good as her reputation suggests, but Jack Lemmon really carries this film. A tour de force from the veteran. Great score! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveMc 2,674 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 What there is of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 The Stephen Bishop song SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN, is good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Sweeping Strings 2,317 Posted June 4, 2018 Popular Post Share Posted June 4, 2018 2001 : A Space Odyssey. On a 50th anniversary re-release screening. I'd never actually seen it before ... my mind was suitably blown, it's an extraordinary piece of work. Muad'Dib, Naïve Old Fart, SteveMc and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 4, 2018 Share Posted June 4, 2018 That, it is, Sweep, that it is. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 12 hours ago, Quintus said: Arnold was such a disappointment wasn't he. In the long run? Yes. Sadly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Quality, not quantity. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,449 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 Exactly. He had a quality of solace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 There's too much quantum interference, Captain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,042 Posted June 5, 2018 Share Posted June 5, 2018 David Arnold wrote some of my absolute favorite film scores of all time. He just didn't keep pumping out great work in the years afterward, like other artists who composed some of my other favorite scores of all time (Williams, Horner) did. Bummer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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