JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 24, 2013 Share Posted July 24, 2013 I didn't like either of origin stories. The only good Spider-Man film is the one with Alfred Molina.I've watched Iron Man 3 again last night. And still it is the most enjoyable film this summer. But I will get tired of this series soon, I think,KarolI suspect it's the last of the Iron Man films with RDJr. He'll be seen in the next two Avenger films hopefully that's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ollie 1,059 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I think 3 closed the book on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I didn't like either of origin stories. The only good Spider-Man film is the one with Alfred Molina.Yet that still had the cringe-worthy Raindrops Fallin' On My Head scene. He's really the only good thing in the film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 but that's an Academy Award Winning Song. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,800 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Yeah, from a kick-ass movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Delorean90 42 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I didn't like either of origin stories. The only good Spider-Man film is the one with Alfred Molina.Yet that still had the cringe-worthy Raindrops Fallin' On My Head scene. He's really the only good thing in the film.It's too bad neither of Elfman's montage cues got used. I liked them both a lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Sam Raimi, his humor and lighthearted touch were once appreciated at JWFan, but that was before the dark times, before Nolan. Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Good to see Spiderman getting the dismal here it deserves, I always thought it was vastly overrated. And I like Rami as a rule.I wonder if the same will happen to Inception in a few years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 It will ... the moment there's a new sherriff in town. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Nicholas Refn? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Refn? Why would you say that? He's too much of a bad boy for that.Think of an audience pleaser ... Lucas ... Spielberg ... Jackson ... Nolan ...Think Abrams, Joss Whedon ...The new sherriff may yet have to show his face ...Alex Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Nolan was considered a left-fielder with his earliest, pre-Batman films.Memento certainly wasn't seen as an audience pleaser. For a time he was the critics darling only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Nolan was never a bad boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 No, his films always made money. But he's no crowd pleaser either.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Ummm...Inception?Nolan was never a bad boy. Quentin was in the 90's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I think he's the definition of the term 'crowd pleaser'. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Yeah, but Inception is still no Avengers, Avatar, Indiana Jones, Transformers, Pacific Rim, The Hobbit, a more typical blockbuster.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Actually Inception seems to be far more universally loved then Avatar, The Hobbit, the Transformers films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 And yet it made less money than either of them...Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Batman says hi, Croc. New wave crowd pleaser by all accounts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Batman is art!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Batman is fart!KarolNah, I quite enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 And yet it made less money than either of them...KarolIt made more then the first Transformers films, just a tiny bit less then the second, and actually not that much less then the Hobbit if you consider that was a 3D film, so tickets cost more. More people probably went to see Inception.Inception's earnings are in the same general range as those films. Only Avatar made far and away more money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 OK then, Nolan is a crowd-pleaser. But still his films, no matter how successful, always felt to me like they belong to a different category than Transformers or Avatar.They just don't feel like those to me.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 They're just cynical blockbusters, which turns out to be the in thing at the moment. I think the "crowd pleaser" term has much broader meaning than you seem to believe it does. CE3K and Raiders of the Lost Ark feel nothing like Transformers and Avatar either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I think the "crowd pleaser" term has much broader meaning than you seem to believe it does. I just don't like the sound of it.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Oh please, what you're saying is you just don't like to think of yourself as being 'mainstream' Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Myself, Alex and publicist - we are of a superior kind "Homo sapiens connoisseuri".I'll dictate you what to like!Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Yeah, on the dedicated fansite of the world's most populist film composer of the biggest mainstream movies of the twentieth century. You rock star you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 You said a path of Messiah would be easy?Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 You're not the Messiah, you're a very trendy boy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I was meant to inspire good.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Anyway Karol I never had you down as a snob. When did that happen dude? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Someones got to do the dirty work, I guess.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,325 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Talking about crowd pleasers, I recently read Steven Spielberg said that, with Empire Of The Sun, he wanted to satisfy himself, not the audience. No wonder it has been my favorite Spielberg movie all this time! (and why the masses call it his least good movie)Alex - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Same goes for Tintin! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,974 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 It's surprises me to see A.I. is slowly climbing the ladder of appreciation.It might end up being one of his most interesting films, when all is said and done.Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brónach 1,301 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 These three are really good films. Empire would be my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,489 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Batman is art!KarolYeah, with a silent "F".Talking about crowd pleasers, I recently read Steven Spielberg said that, with Empire Of The Sun, he wanted to satisfy himself, not the audience. No wonder it has been my favorite Spielberg movie all this time! (and why the masses call it his least good movie)Alex - Satisfying youself throught film is one thing, and I love "EOTS", too, but a giant spectre leans (gedit?) over the film.That being said, it does balance the epic with the intimate very efectively. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Talking about crowd pleasers, I recently read Steven Spielberg said that, with Empire Of The Sun, he wanted to satisfy himself, not the audience. No wonder it has been my favorite Spielberg movie all this time! (and why the masses call it his least good movie)Alex - Sorry to piss on your bonfire, but they don't. By a Loooooooong way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Allow Alex his fantasy Lee. Don't tell him Always is less popular, or A.I. or Hook... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Crystal Skull? Okay you're right. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 As far as I've read the people who actually saw EOTS mostly thought it was very good. It's just not as well known a film as Spielberg's blockbuster stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,261 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Why in the world would anyone think that the masses consider Empire of the Sun Spielberg's "least good" movie? What bizarre fantasy world are you living in Alex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I did enjoy most of EOTS. My attention started to wane in the middle, but I often watched movies at nine on a Friday (when I was still single), and after a long workday, I got sleepy. But I own the DVD, I need to give it another chance. I finally found The Avengers on Netflix so I watched the first half hour last night, and will finish it tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 Let us know what you think of it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,261 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 I still haven't seen Empire of the Sun, I need to rectify that soon. I never have time to watch movies any more.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted July 25, 2013 Share Posted July 25, 2013 It's hard to choose between opening the hundreds of CDs and ripping them, working out, watching TV, cooking, putzing around, enjoying the nice weather, or pursuing carnal knowledge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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