A24 4,339 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, Tom Guernsey said: Yeah but did you enjoy it? 😜 Somehow he was able to keep on watching, so either someone forced him, or maybe there was some element of entertainment after all. Tom Guernsey 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 3 Popular Post Share Posted March 3 Confession time: I kinda like the first Jurassic World. It's a stupid movie but at least it's dumb popcorn fun and very watchable. The sequels are atrocious though. FK is one of the worst movies of its year and Dominion manages to waste its cool premise with an idiotic plot about genetically modified locusts. Tallguy, Nick1Ø66 and Naïve Old Fart 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick1Ø66 4,718 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 6 minutes ago, Edmilson said: Confession time: I kinda like the first Jurassic World. It's a stupid movie but at least it's dumb popcorn fun and very watchable. Yep. I liked the first one as well! Likeable characters, fun, didn't take itself too seriously, and had just the right amount of callbacks without being obnoxious...more 'homage' than strict fan service. I actually think it's the best since the original JP. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 2 hours ago, A24 said: Somehow he was able to keep on watching, so either someone forced him, or maybe there was some element of entertainment after all. It was a deal. I watch JW: FK with my girlfriend, and afterwards she would let me do things to her like you wouldn't believe. I've had worse deals Edmilson 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 21 minutes ago, Naïve Old Fart said: It was a deal. I watch JW: FK with my girlfriend, and afterwards she would let me do things to her like you wouldn't believe. I've had worse deals And the best part is: there is another movie in this trilogy for which you can cut a similar or even better deal! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Guernsey 2,286 Posted March 3 Share Posted March 3 I still can’t forgive them for calling the first one Jurassic World when it’s literally the first movie in the series about an actual operational park. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,399 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 I love Jurassic World. It's the only one that comes close to Jurassic Park for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 I do admit I like Jurassic World a bit (lot) less after I saw this video: Thanks to Ryan from the Pitch Meeting channel for linking to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 4 Share Posted March 4 A wonderful film, directed by Hungarian Gábor Csupó. Only worth watching for JNH’s action packed score. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted March 5 Share Posted March 5 On 03/03/2024 at 3:21 PM, Naïve Old Fart said: You just know that a film is in trouble, when you care more about computer animated animals, than real, live human beings. Such was the curious case, last night, of me vs. JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM. It started off ok, with people getting some bones from a dead dinosaur, and then being eaten by a (very much) alive one. Turns out, some old geezer (an American with a very bad English accent - go figure) wants to get a bunch of Dinos from Isla Nubar to the mainland to put them in some park or other. Meanwhile a young, and well dodgy geezer (an Englishman with a very bad American accent - go figure) wants to get his mitts on some Dino DNA so he can create the ultimate fighting machine. Sound familiar? Enter the two leads from JURASSIC WORLD, to thwart said young geezer's plans. Throw in a "fuck off" mansion, a cute little cloned kid (no, I'm not making this up!) and a couple of nondescript intern types, plus the guy from JURASSIC PARK who's named after a Steely Dan song, and you've got yourself a cracking movie. You think..? As usual, the dinosaurs are up to ILM's best. It's the actual people who let the side down. Howard is very pretty (especially in her white cashmere sweater), but she's so stiff that you'd be afraid to look at her the wrong way, lest she falls over, and smashes into a million pieces. Pratt is handsome, and buff, and all that, but he has all the charm and charisma of a two-day-old egg salad that has just been put into the "reduced" section of your local supermarket. Added to this, the interns are forgettable, with the male intern doing his darnedest to out-scream Chris Tucker, and the (usually) great talents of Jones, Cromwell, and Spall, are completely wasted. The cinematography is serviceable, and the sound design is adequate, but there's absolutely no sense of wonder. There is not one original shot, or visual (or intellectual, for that matter) idea, in this film. All it really did is to make me want to watch the first one, again. Please note, all further directors of the Jurassic Worldiverse: there's a damn good reason why Spielberg shot JURASSIC PARK in 1.85:1. Watch it, and realize! I've not seen #6 on the list, but it can't be any worse than this... can it..? I liked Jurassic World. Fallen Kingdom was passable entertainment. Was put off Dominion by how many reviews cited the unnecessarily long runtime and the clearly disinterested performances. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Last night... Fart TV presents The Wednesday Night Movie. This week, THE MUMMY (1999). GIGGLE! at some really ropey CGIs. Even allowing for 1999, it was pretty shite. CRINGE! at John Hannah coming off like a fucking eejit, when he's trying to be funny. BE IMPRESSED! at Adrian Biddle's lush cinematography. SCRATCH YOUR HEAD! at the, frankly, very odd editing. SWOON! at Jerry's magnificent, sweeping score. ROLL YOUR EYES! as an old dude who should know better, comes over all peculiar, whenever Rachel Weisz is on screen Ok, it could have been better, but it's a fun ride, that passes two hours, quite quickly, and happily. Nothing special. Film: 4/10 Score: 8/10. I've really taken to this score, in the last few years. Book your seats for Saturday night, and THE MUMMY RETURNS. Sweeping Strings and Tom Guernsey 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 8,017 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Watched The Mask of Zorro last night on the 4K Blu-ray. Despite some of the anachronisms of its era, it is a delightful film. Charming, well-paced and scored. I had a blast. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted March 7 Share Posted March 7 Ghost rider. Yeah, i'll just forget this garbage and listen to the score, shall I? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,363 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 15 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: Last night... Fart TV presents The Wednesday Night Movie. This week, THE MUMMY (1999). GIGGLE! at some really ropey CGIs. Even allowing for 1999, it was pretty shite. CRINGE! at John Hannah coming off like a fucking eejit, when he's trying to be funny. BE IMPRESSED! at Adrian Biddle's lush cinematography. SCRATCH YOUR HEAD! at the, frankly, very odd editing. SWOON! at Jerry's magnificent, sweeping score. ROLL YOUR EYES! as an old dude who should know better, comes over all peculiar, whenever Rachel Weisz is on screen Ok, it could have been better, but it's a fun ride, that passes two hours, quite quickly, and happily. Nothing special. Film: 4/10 Score: 8/10. I've really taken to this score, in the last few years. Book your seats for Saturday night, and THE MUMMY RETURNS. Not forgetting those icky flesh-eating beetles. The ropey CGI in this has hopefully prepared you for the absolute STATE of the Scorpion King in Returns, lol. Edmilson and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 2 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said: Not forgetting those icky flesh-eating beetles. The ropey CGI in this has hopefully prepared you for the absolute STATE of the Scorpion King in Returns, lol. I don't think anything could prepare me for that I've not seen TMR, but I have seen that CGI. Hopefully, the rest is better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 8 Share Posted March 8 3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: I don't think anything could prepare me for that I've not seen TMR, but I have seen that CGI. Hopefully, the rest is better. It's not. It's a truly bad movie but still somewhat entertaining thanks to Alan Silvestri's wonderful score (on par with the Goldsmith, as egregious as that opinion may seem). Tallguy and Naïve Old Fart 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post filmmusic 1,836 Posted March 9 Popular Post Share Posted March 9 Classic! I don't even love the movie but I bought it nonetheless to support magnificent restorations, like the Arrow is one (unlike the latest Cameron 4Ks which seem to be awful!) Nick1Ø66, Naïve Old Fart and JTN 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS is dark, magnificent, gripping stuff. Denny Zeitling's score is brilliant. Nick1Ø66 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,836 Posted March 9 Share Posted March 9 It was alright I guess... JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Nick1Ø66 4,718 Posted March 10 Popular Post Share Posted March 10 On 7/3/2024 at 10:26 AM, Naïve Old Fart said: Fart TV presents The Wednesday Night Movie. This week, THE MUMMY (1999). THE MUMMY is a fantastic flick. Better, and certainly more fun, than the last two Indiana Jones movies. Naïve Old Fart, filmmusic, JTN and 2 others 4 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 11 Share Posted March 11 It was cute, but Annette Bening was absolutely annoying with her constant grinning, like an imbecil. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rough cut 1,714 Posted March 12 Share Posted March 12 Moonwalker (1988) IMDb I saw this in the local cinema yesterday. First time on the silver screen for me. The audience applauded at the end which I thought was cute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badzeee 110 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 Jack Arnold's production of Richard Matheson's The Incredible Shrinking Man, courtesy of a nice blu-ray from Arrow Films. Being menaced by a giant cat is one thing, but the spider... the SPIDER... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 13 Share Posted March 13 The whole "spider" thing still gives me the heebeejeebees. Brilliant film. Tallguy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Snow white and the huntsman. Jesus, make this stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JNHFan2000 2,966 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Charlize Theron is the best part of that film. Together with some really lovely moments from Howard's score Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 15 Share Posted March 15 Movie is garbage. JNH's score has some great moments but also some annoying Zimmer temp track. bollemanneke 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 THE MUMMY RETURNS LAUGH! as you realize that the CGIs are actually worse than they were, two years before SMILE WRYLY! at the sight of a CGI Scorpion King being a better actor than its live action counterpart CRINGE! as poor ol' John Hannah is still a dick, for trying to be funny. Stick to rom-coms, and Rebus, my man BE DISAPPOINTED! because Rachel Weisz is definitely not as hot as she was, in the original ADMIRE! Alan Silvestri's score. It's no way as good as Jerry's, but it channels a little bit of Jerry, a soupçon of JW, and a shedload of Rózsa COVER YOUR EYES! at the sight of a topless Arnold Vasloo. Honestly, dude, no-one needs to see that LOOK PUZZLED! at the thought that someone in Hollywierd thought that The Rock could act DON'T GIVE ANY SHITS! as you cannot be bothered to care about anything happening on screen THANK WHATEVER DEITY YOU WORSHIP! as the end credits start to roll What the chuffin' 'eck was all that about?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 The Mummy movies that followed it (Tomb of the Dragon Emperor and the Tom Cruise reboot) manage to achieve the spectacular feat of being even worse than Return. Just utter and complete shit all around. And worst of all: they don't have a score as good as Goldsmith's or Silvestri's as their saving grace. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Oh, dear. I have TOTDE, but I've not watched it. I couldn't give a rat's ass about the Tom Cruise one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 The Cruise reboot is probably one of the worst movies I ever saw. Just absolutely horrendous, with an ugly cinematography, laughable CGI and worst of all: it's boring! At least the 1999 and Returns were somewhat entertaining (even if in a "Syfy original" kinda way), the reboot is just mind-numbingly tedious. The only good thing that came out of that crap is this: Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 I'm confused. Is it meant to sound like this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Well, back in late 2016 some idiot at Universal uploaded to the internet a version of The Mummy trailer without music or sound effects. Of course it was taken over, but before that the internet had already replicated it all over Twitter, YouTube, etc. Now it lives as a hilarious meme, and the most memorable thing about that movie. Tom Cruise's screams as the airplane falls is one of the funniest things I ever saw, especially if you imagine him at a recording booth screaming like that. Naïve Old Fart 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 @Edmilson, have you seen the video for 'Start Me Up', but without music? Funny as. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,356 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 1 hour ago, Edmilson said: Tom Cruise's screams as the airplane falls is one of the funniest things I ever saw, especially if you imagine him at a recording booth screaming like that. Pretty sure some of those are just stock sounds. For example the "hmph" as the lady gets pulled out of the plane, I feel I have heard that on https://soundideas.sourceaudio.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bollemanneke 3,349 Posted March 16 Share Posted March 16 Live by night. Great movie! Score was above and beyond what I was expecting. To hell with Rotten Tomatoes, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 ALL IS TRUE - A beautifully directed and acted film by Kenneth Branagh about the old Shakespeare. I loved it. Tallguy and Glóin the Dark 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,399 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 3 hours ago, JTN said: ALL IS TRUE - A beautifully directed and acted film by Kenneth Branagh about the old Shakespeare. I loved it. Damn it. Starz. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 1 hour ago, Tallguy said: Damn it. Starz. The channel? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tallguy 3,399 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 49 minutes ago, JTN said: The channel? Yes. I don't have it. I suppose I can wait for a free trial. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
filmmusic 1,836 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 7 hours ago, JTN said: ALL IS TRUE - A beautifully directed and acted film by Kenneth Branagh about the old Shakespeare. I loved it. Never heard of this. How is the score by Doyle? edit: never mind. I just listened to it at spotify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,544 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 34 minutes ago, filmmusic said: Never heard of this. RT likes it, but it made about two shillings thrupence ha'penny at the box office. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,339 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 Only 6.3 at IMDb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 4 hours ago, filmmusic said: Never heard of this. How is the score by Doyle? edit: never mind. I just listened to it at spotify. Nothing special. 2 hours ago, A24 said: Only 6.3 at IMDb. Never listen to scores. I watch a film if I’m interested in the story or the director or the actor or the music. I’m the judge if I like a film or not. 3 hours ago, Naïve Old Fart said: RT likes it, but it made about two shillings thrupence ha'penny at the box office. Yeah well Avatar 2 made more than a billion and it doesn’t make it good. Just because a film is a financial failure it doesn’t mean it's worth watching. 2001 ASO and Blade Runner flopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Marian Schedenig 8,200 Posted March 23 Popular Post Share Posted March 23 21 minutes ago, JTN said: Never listen to scores. Are you sure you're on the right website? Tallguy, A24 and JTN 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edmilson 7,466 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 23 minutes ago, JTN said: Never listen to scores. Then what are you doing here? JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,339 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 31 minutes ago, JTN said: Yeah well Avatar 2 made more than a billion and it doesn’t make it good. Just because a film is a financial failure it doesn’t mean they aren’t worth watching. 2001 ASO and Blade Runner flopped. 2001: ASO was the second highest grossing movie of 1968, not much behind Funny Girl. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chen G. 3,949 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 2 hours ago, A24 said: 2001: ASO was the second highest grossing movie of 1968, not much behind Funny Girl. But given how much it cost, it wasn't a success. It took for reruns well into the 1970s for it to really make any decent profit. I also think its noteworthy that Kubrick never again undertook a Cinerama project, nor another special effects-heavy project: shortly after 2001 he would reject Lord of the Rings. It doesn't seem the painstaking effects work was something he enjoyed or saw much success in. JTN 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTN 2,031 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 2 hours ago, Edmilson said: Then what are you doing here? Enjoying the company of good people like you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,339 Posted March 23 Share Posted March 23 3 hours ago, Chen G. said: But given how much it cost, it wasn't a success A weird thing to say since figures show it was a success. But, yeah, haters will be haters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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