Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I'm glad Star Wars has been mentioned as part of this discussion - I maintain that while I may never see something with quite the impact that the opening of A New Hope had on a 6-year-old me again, I remain a cinemagoer in the hope that I might . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 A New Hope is such a lame title. It's called Star Wars! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I was afraid if I said 'the first film' it might sound like I meant The Phantom Menace . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 No one here thinks THAT was the first film! Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Does anyone in the real world actually think that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 "Saga" people do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 What type of people are these? Depressions? Severe mental issues? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Brainwashed followers in the Cult of George's Vision. His devoted subjects who dogmatically believe Star Wars is about the tragedy of Anakin Skywalker. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 LUCAS MA SHAKTI DE! Gruesome Son of a Bitch 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Lucy - even allowing for the fact that it's sci-fi, this is still utterly fucking ludicrous. If you can make it all the way through without any desire to 'snortlol' derisively, you're a better man than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Yes, when you are young, the experiences of watching movies and listening to music are new and therefore make a deeper impact on a young and 'virgin' mind. Everything is still magical. I wish I could have as intense experiences as when I was still in my adolescent years. This post made me genuinely sad. I'm sorry you've lost the ability to do that Alex. I will never give you a hard time about being impossible to please anymore. But you may be able to get it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 What? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Yes, when you are young, the experiences of watching movies and listening to music are new and therefore make a deeper impact on a young and 'virgin' mind. Everything is still magical. I wish I could have as intense experiences as when I was still in my adolescent years. This post made me genuinely sad. I'm sorry you've lost the ability to do that Alex. I will never give you a hard time about being impossible to please anymore.But you may be able to get it back.Well, I didn't really lose anything. It's only that after 50 years of experiences, it's getting harder to be impressed, which is only normal. It doesn't mean I never get 'affected' anymore. However, the chances that I'm going to have incredible intense experiences with something like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang are very slim today. On the other hand, sometimes certain events occur that makes us much more susceptible than usual. The period when my mother was dying, for instance, was an astounding time for me as a music listener.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 It was actually a similar situation that shook me out of being mostly unimpressed with anything that didn't have some nostalgic meaning for me. That worship of "the good old days". I know what it means to feel like there's not much more to see that's worth seeing. But obviously I now rant and rave against such feelings. So it may very well come to pass for you as well that a general sense of wonder can be recovered even if it's been absent for a long time.I'm a born-again kid, and hope to stay one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 This sense of amazement can happen in videogames too.I have fond memories of games I played younger but the magic of wonderment can still happen. I had that with the Dark Souls series.Yes, when you are young, the experiences of watching movies and listening to music are new and therefore make a deeper impact on a young and 'virgin' mind. Everything is still magical. I wish I could have as intense experiences as when I was still in my adolescent years. This post made me genuinely sad.BTW Alexcremmer has always sounded that way ever since he joined the MB so it's not newOk, well Jurassic Park left me a bit cold for a Spielberg movie when I first saw it in cinema, but it's an absolute classic to some. Is it because JP is just not as good as Jaws, Raiders and Tod or I was too familiar with the Spielberg tricks by then? Would JP have left a deeper impact if I had been 10 when I saw it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I was fifteen and was bitterly disappointed by the family-friendly cuteness of JP though that may have been helped by the fact that i watched BLOODSPORT and EVIL DEAD movies all the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I prefer The Lost World. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 The Lost World is a drag. It spends the first hour foreshadowing monsters that we've already seen and setting up characters that we don't care about. I appreciate the San Diego T-Rex rampage at the end though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I didn't realise JP and its sequel were back in theatres! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Jason will need to move these posts. They are incorrect Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Well, this is an offshoot of the GotG discussion so it's allowed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 You are the one responsible for this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 I make the rules for this thread:Older movie discussion allowed if it's an offshoot topic to a current release discussion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Fascist! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 Anyone seen Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles reboot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Thats not a movie I would admit to having watched Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 I saw the commercials, so yes, I saw it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted August 31, 2014 Author Share Posted August 31, 2014 You can use the excuse that you wanted to see if Megan Fox acting has improved Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 Wayne Gretzky? On steroids? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 31, 2014 Share Posted August 31, 2014 You can use the excuse that you wanted to see if Megan Fox acting has improvedI just want her to start a porn career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 BTW Alexcremmer has always sounded that way ever since he joined the MB so it's not newWhy would it be new? And is this all you have to say? Once again, you aren't contributing much, MK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Mark King? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 KM stopped being interesting years ago. I'm not far off it myself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 It was actually a similar situation that shook me out of being mostly unimpressed with anything that didn't have some nostalgic meaning for me. That worship of "the good old days". I know what it means to feel like there's not much more to see that's worth seeing. But obviously I now rant and rave against such feelings. So it may very well come to pass for you as well that a general sense of wonder can be recovered even if it's been absent for a long time.I'm a born-again kid, and hope to stay one.And because you are like a little kid, you are deeply impressed with anything that crosses your path?"The worship of the good old days"? I don't let nostalgia to cloud my view. Again, when I was a little kid, movies like Chitty Chitty Bang Bang gave me what I needed. When I got older I looked for other things. I became more critical. I'm not going to delude myself by going berzerk on a mediocre film that I once liked as a kid.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dixon Hill 4,234 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 It's not about going berserk about things you liked as a kid or being deeply impressed by everything, but trying to be as receptive to anything new as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 New things suck. They don't make 'em like they used to! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 Sin City: A Dame to Kill ForDecent flick, nothing to write home about. Could have waited until it came out on home release. Nowhere near the level of the first one. Still visually interesting to look at, but the issue was with the stories. Compared to the first movie, I didn't find the narrative all that interesting. Seemed more scattered and nost as cohesive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,000 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 How is the score?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nightscape94 965 Posted September 2, 2014 Share Posted September 2, 2014 I'm not intimately familiar with either score, but based on my cursory movie-going experience it sounded exactly like the first movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not Mr. Big 4,639 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Guardians of the Galaxy Considerably more creative and edgy than the other movies from Marvel Studios. The visuals are creative, the characters are memorable and it has genuinely funny moments. The plot isn't all that great though, with a relatively generic MacGuffin and some choppy transitions between scenes. My biggest problem with the movie was the finale, which embraces the generic Marvel-isms it had been avoiding beforehand. Tyler Bates' score is a mixed bag. There are some surprisingly decent cues (mostly residing in the more tender moments) but there are some genuinely awful ones too. The cheap sounding synthetic low brass music accompanying Ronan's scenes is appalling. There are also many moments when the music doesn't line up with what's happening onscreen. I wonder what a more competent composer could have done with this movie.Movie- 4/5Score- 1.5/5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The score did not bother me at all. Isn't that a good sign? I only noticed music during one of the last scenes when there was a wondrous moment enhanced with magical synth sounds. Yes, the main story, together with a general lack of drama, were the weakest elements of Guardians but the movie excelled in fun, colorful characters and fantastic settings.Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The pop and rock classics on the 'mixtape' have much, much more impact than any of the scoring IMO. But as I've said elsewhere on this board, scores tend to just wash over me nowadays anyway. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The pop rock songs are meant to be noticed. The real score needs to disappear as being just a part of the whole, especially in this kind of movies. It's purely functional. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 It's very reminiscent of Watchmen, where the songs and the Philip Glass music have a lot more impact then Tyler Bates' score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The pop rock songs are meant to be noticed. The real score needs to disappear as being just a part of the whole, especially in this kind of movies. It's purely functional. Yeah I don't know why so many of these composers make all this music that draws attention to itself. It's like those bloody Star Wars movies with that friggen catchy music all over the place. It's just so unrealistic for there to be all that happy jolly music everywhere. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 Different approach. Some directors want to hear the music but many want it to be 'invisible'.And to be honest, I don't think there are too many people who notice the wall to wall score in the Star Wars movies either. If music is meant to draw attention, it isn't pulled back in the background suppressed by FX, sound design and dialog but it's placed onto the foreground where it gets enough room to shine, like that Phillip Glass segment in Watchmen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,352 Posted September 7, 2014 Share Posted September 7, 2014 The Guest - knowing, deliberately OTT thriller that ends up as a sort of homage to the 'charming psychopath home invasion' sub-genre (Sleeping With The Enemy, Unlawful Entry etc) and also earlier horror-thrillers, but also a bit wilder and stranger than those. Ironically after what I said above, the score in this IS noticeable - a synthy tribute to the sort of thing John Carpenter and James Cameron used to have in their movies, and the soundtrack songs all seem to be from the 80s. Standout performance from Downton Abbey's Dan Stevens in the title role. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Mark 3,631 Posted September 13, 2014 Author Share Posted September 13, 2014 I saw Teenage Mutant Ninja TurtlesI have an excuse, my friends asked me to go and he took his kidsThe film had a few fun action sequences, like one sliding down a mountain sideThe origin story of the Turtles is presented in a cute wayMegan Fox will never be a great actress but she improved enough to be case in other rolesBrian Tyler's score is actually decent, it has a theme and sound more traditionnal. It made me want to check it out outside of the film Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 I saw it last night. I loved it! Sure it's not great, but made me feel like a kid in 1990 again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted September 14, 2014 Share Posted September 14, 2014 CGI monstrosities and Megan Fox made you feel like a kid in 1990? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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