Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 4 hours ago, Richard said: So shall it be written...so shall it be done. Top film! There's a book sequel: it's called JOSHUA. @dougie, you're right. If you take away all the Rathbone/Bruce films, all the Thin Man films, all the BROADWAY MELODY OF... films, all the Universal horror films, all the Tarzan films, all the ROAD TO... films, and all the Abbott and Costello films...there weren't many sequels. All I can recall is the sequel to Father of the Bride. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Off the estimated 500000 films made since the medium's inception 750,000 are sequels. 😄 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 That's a big twinky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 2 hours ago, JoeinAR said: Off the estimated 500000 films made since the medium's inception 750,000 are sequels. 😄 Christopher Nolan is the medium? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 The Social Network Thank christ for closed captions. Is that all these American high end college students do, just throw noisy frat parties and invite lotsa strippers? I could just barely follow this muted brown pile of fudge pudge. Sorkin needs to listen to how people actually talk - the guy seems allergic to the ums, uhs and sentence breaks that people actually do. I loved The Game but Fincher's losing his coolness points really quick. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Very good movie! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 It had its moments, I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Sorkin doesn't write how "normal" people talk, thats not his style. It would be like asking David Mamet to write natural dialogue. I guess you didnt get it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Sorkin's on-screen movie people need to slowwwwww dowwwwwn and calllllllm dowwwwwn... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Watch Zodiac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Seen it. Wasn't much keen on that either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Se7en? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Maybe Fight Club for its manliness? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I like Se7en. Not so much on Fight Club. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I don't understand why men would want to fight each other like that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 You don't talk about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Because they are ashamed of such meaningless violent impulses? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Oh don't worry... it's not a threat to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 9 minutes ago, dougie said: Seen it. Wasn't much keen on that either. Well the director is sub-par. He should have stuck to making music videos. He made this one movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a truly awful film with perhaps the worst lead chemistry in the last dozen years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 54 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Sorkin doesn't write how "normal" people talk, thats not his style. It would be like asking David Mamet to write natural dialogue. I guess you didnt get it. Yeah. His writing just isn't for everyone. When you see a film scripted by Sorkin, it has this sense of "someone wrote this!" tattooed all over it. There's something to be said for films that don't feel directed and scripted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 1 minute ago, JoeinAR said: Well the director is sub-par. He should have stuck to making music videos. He made this one movie, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, a truly awful film with perhaps the worst lead chemistry in the last dozen years. Yeah I didn't like that one either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Alien³ is his best film! Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Alien 3 is fine. Panic Room was okay. The Game is fuckin' sublime. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 His films are mostly quite good. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is cringeworthy; Gone Girl is okay; Fight Club and Zodiac are excellent. His only exalted film is Seven. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 6 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Alien³ is his best film! Only on opposite Day. Seriously the most overrated director even moreso than Nolan. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Se7en is overwrought though. Its so dark and depressing it actually becomes funny. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Se7en is not exalted. Its one of those films you watch before Silence of the Lambs, not afterwards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I agree that it's funny, but not overwrought. It's a blackly comedic nightmarish symphonic poem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 2 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: Its one of those films you watch before Silence of the Lambs, not afterwards. True. In all fairness, though, very, very few films can be compared to The Silence of the Lambs in a favourable way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Just now, Chen G. said: True. In all fairness, though, very, very few films can be compared to The Silence of the Lambs in a favourable way. It's a redneck white trash version of Lambs for sure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 3 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: Se7en is not exalted. Its one of those films you watch before Silence of the Lambs, not afterwards. 2 minutes ago, Chen G. said: True. In all fairness, though, very, very few films can be compared to The Silence of the Lambs in a favourable way. This! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 How many people, so many opinions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Beloeve it or not there are people who think Sezen is better than Lambs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Opinions are like assholes. Occasionally full of crap! Just now, JoeinAR said: Beloeve it or not there are people who think Sezen is better than Lambs. This people are wrong! Factually wrong! JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Comparisons between The Silence of the Lambs and Seven are overdone, based on superficial similarities of genre and mood. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Interest Star Wars News in the original script for The Empire Strikes Back Luke Skywalker was not Darth Vader's son. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Obi-Wan was daddy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/original-empire-strikes-back-script-174700264.html Comparisons of Se7en and Lambs are fair and on point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post #SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2019 Silence Of The Lambs trancends the serial killer genre in a way Se7en never does though. Brother. JoeinAR, Chen G. and SteveMc 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 It is a great teaching tool for how a film is made and other darker things! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glóin the Dark 1,220 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 It's fair to compare them, recognising the limitations of the similarities between them. 1 minute ago, Stefancos said: Silence Of The Lambs trancends the serial killer genre in a way Se7en never does though. True. Seven transcends it in a completely different way. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 10 minutes ago, JoeinAR said: It is a great teaching tool for how a film is made. It is and isn't. I wouldn't advise a junior filmmaker to use the camera the way Demme did. I'd love to know what illegal substance he and Fujimoto were on when they decided they'll shoot the film with people repeatedly staring into the lens in close-up. Not everyone (correction: almost no-one) can pull that sort of thing off. Like all great films, it was the sort of thing that should have been a trainwreck, but wasn't. 25 minutes ago, Stefancos said: Opinions are like assholes. Occasionally full of crap! Its interesting, before I watched Se7en, a friend of mine tried to convince me that the violence in that picture is more implied than it is explicit - just like The Silence of the Lambs. And while he's certainly right with regards to gluttany (almost completely obscured in shadow), greed, lust, pride and with regards to Tracey's murder - that's most certainly NOT the case with regards to sloth. That terrified me to no end! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 My ranking of Fincher's films from best to worst Fight Club Seven Zodiac The Game Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Panic Room Social Network Gone Girl Curious Case of Benjamin Button I don't think it's fare to rank Alien3 against all the others because he was a hired gun hired late on that one, while for all the others he was in charge from pre-production to the end Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 Can’t stand Fight Club. Smug, toxic film. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 5 minutes ago, Jay said: I don't think it's fair to rank Alien3 against all the others because he was a hired gun hired late on that one, while for all the others he was in charge from pre-production to the end He is the credited director on it, I don't see what difference it makes. Most directors are hired guns. JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I'm sure you do understand the difference, and are just being contrarian as is your nature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 No, not at all. Steven Spielberg was a hired gun on Jaws. Would you discount that from a list of favourites because of that? JoeinAR and Chen G. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 LOL. I'm not going to argue with you Stefan. If you want to post your rankings of his films and include Alien 3 on it, go for it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I havent seen most of Fincher's films. He's not a director I follow much. I was just surprised by the distinction you seem to make. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,355 Posted January 29, 2019 Share Posted January 29, 2019 I think you'd like Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Game Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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