PatD

Another Bold Statement:

To borrow a line from Henry Kissenger: cinematic history will regard Kevin Smith with far more kindness than his contemporaries. His comedies are some of the smartest, sassiest, and most enjoyable to come out of the 90's and 00s. And it is idiotic to compare him with the scale of Scorsese or Tarantino (in order to make him look absolutely at his worst). If critics are going to be fair--try John Landis or John Hughes. His is a unique voice in Hollywood and film would be much poorer without him.

Sean O'Hara

I've never watched anything by Landis or Hughes that looked like a sitcom the way Smith films do.

duff beer

the prequels will be seen in a better light in the future

taffer

Are you implying that the sequel trilogy is going to make the prequel trilogy look like a masterpiece in comparison?

hanshotfirst1138

If a person tells you that film is inherently better than digital, then frankly it's either snobbery or foolishness at this point. Too many Oscar-winning films by top filmmakers have been shot and made digitally to make that argument anymore. That said, I personally have an aesthetic preference for film and its look, but digital is getting closer and closer to being able to emulate it so precisely as to render the whole thing pointless, and given they Kodak probably won't make it to the end of the year, rendering the whole thing academic. IMO, most of the issue with digital will be solved with time (and probably very little of it) in terms of both image capture, resolution, and display (DCP) to the point where film will be a nostalgic thing and little else. Personally, I find the image of Ansel Adams or FW Murnau using digital technology and computers intellectually abhorrent, but I think that's just a knee-jerk reaction. They'd probably have been all over it (Adams likely would've been all about HDR, and I can totally see a perfectionist like Kubrick or Disney jumping all over 4K). Film is basically the horse and buggy now, I think it's just a matter of time.



When the audience talks through movies and behaves like idiots, then frankly I could do without them, but when they're well-behaved and properly react to films (I've seen this with some horror and action flicks, cheering or reacting in just the right places), they're definitely welcome, IMO, and nothing is better than having someone like-minded to talk about, and sometimes at best even argue about a movie.

Damn, WTF is with iOS 8? They really didn't think about forums when designing it apparently. Dear Lord, how cumbersome.

Solid Snake

I've no problem w/ the use of digital. My issue with it is that it's not perfected enough to handle certain things that film has done. But it's getting there. Ever so quickly.

what about iOS8?

Double_Oh_7

Kevin Smith is the worst director ever.

PatD

Worse than Edward D. Wood Jr? Worse than Uwe Boll? Worse than whoever it was directed Manos: Hands of Fate?

Solid Snake

I think the director of Manos was an insurance salesman from El Paso. That's all I got. White guy, I think. Was in it too. Never seen the film aside from images of it. It's getting a remastered BD too.

DaveyJoe

He was a fertilizer salesman.

Ash Ketchum

How dare you! Ed Wood was a genius who was way ahead of his time. Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid! Your ancient juvenile minds...

inri222

dhmac

You mean the Battle of Stirling Bridge which Mel Gibson got so completely wrong that he left out the most important aspect of it: THE FUCKING BRIDGE!

( Read about how it really happened here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stirling_Bridge )

dhmac

I think Ed Wood is one of the greatest comedy directors of all time and "Plan 9 From Outer Space" is one of the best comedies ever made.

DaveyJoe

That's the one, awesome battle scene.

Giantrobo

-The fact that many SFX Companies can't get the eyes right on CGI characters is fuckin' retarded in this day and age. CGI characters with "Dead Eyes" is just lazy.

hanshotfirst1138

I didn't say it was at all historically accurate, but as a piece of filmmaking, it's pretty damn brutally exciting.

hanshotfirst1138

Maybe it's the one thing computers can't master. Frankly, I'd feel more comfortable if there was SOMETHING they couldn't do to replace us .

Ky-Fi

I'm not sure. I'd have to think about that.....

OldBoy

The Godfather Part II is better than I.

rocket1312

The only thing bold about that statement is the bold font you used.

Seriously though, while I personally prefer the first film, you are hardly the first person to say this.

hanshotfirst1138

Most people cheat and basically think of them as one film. I've done it more than once. Although they have two different producers and were made a year or so apart, they feel very much of a piece.

rocket1312

This is exactly how I feel. Part II may be better written, less pulpy, and more artfully made, but like you said, it's story is completely redundant.

JeffTheAlpaca

Why is every movie now 2 hrs +?

I thought this was Hollywood and not Bollywood.

inri222

Wes Anderson has not made a good film since The Royal Tenenbaums