Movies that would be GREAT, if not for one thing...
03-02-08, 04:33 PM
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Originally Posted by j123vt_99
Really? I thought it was one of the best animated films outside of Pixar
obviously aimed at 3D...
but very good...
03-02-08, 05:34 PM
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Originally Posted by scott1598
amen! i still can't understand the controversy with the ending.
03-02-08, 06:22 PM
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Originally Posted by zombiezilla
Would anyone care to enlighten me as to what the ending was supposed to signify/teach/inspire/reveal/whatever? In spoiler tags for those who haven't seen it yet, of course. I loved it, until the final scene...and then, I was thinking, "You've got to be fucking kidding me?!?" I would've thought much more highly of this film had the prior scene (with the boys on bikes) been the final scene.
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03-02-08, 07:47 PM
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Okay, these will probably earn me a virtual knee in the groin, but...
I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but to me the ending just screams 'We ran out of ideas!'.
The 1980 Flash Gordon would've been brilliant if they'd left out some of the head-palm worthy lines by the two American leads. Or at least gotten an actor to play Flash who had an ounce of charisma.
I love Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but to me the ending just screams 'We ran out of ideas!'.
The 1980 Flash Gordon would've been brilliant if they'd left out some of the head-palm worthy lines by the two American leads. Or at least gotten an actor to play Flash who had an ounce of charisma.
03-02-08, 07:49 PM
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Originally Posted by Dr Mabuse
the editing of 'Man On fire' was one of the best things about that films to me...
you have every other director on earth, and every other editor in earth, doing what is essentially 'i'm supposed to expect to be normal editing of a film'... 'this is the way its' done'...
Tony Scott is doing his own thing and it's awesome... i really liked 'Domino' for the same reason...
if you pay attention... and get past 'other people don't do it this way' and 'i'm not used to seeing this'... there is real depth to that work Scott is doing...
03-02-08, 08:19 PM
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Originally Posted by chris_sc77
Beowolf-The horrendous Animation.
Contact-"I sat through that entire film to see the aliens and it was her goddamn father!"
Superbad-The presense of Bill Hader ruined the film for me.
Man on Fire-Editing
Contact-"I sat through that entire film to see the aliens and it was her goddamn father!"
Superbad-The presense of Bill Hader ruined the film for me.
Man on Fire-Editing
03-02-08, 08:35 PM
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Originally Posted by Brack
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03-02-08, 08:43 PM
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^I thought the tommy Lee Jones character worked really well in the novel. However I don't think it worked in the film. Same with the ending. I couldn't even understand most of what Jones was mumbling in the film for some reason.
There were parts of the film though that worked better than in the book so I guess it balances out almost.
There were parts of the film though that worked better than in the book so I guess it balances out almost.
03-02-08, 09:19 PM
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Originally Posted by eiker_ir
Bourne Ultimatum and the annoying camera movement all the time for no reason
03-02-08, 09:31 PM
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Originally Posted by zombiezilla
Wow. Now I REALLY think it would be great without that part. In fact TLJ's character was the most boring thing about this movie. I could've enjoyed this more without his whiny downbeat old man. Oh, and I guess that's where the title comes from, eh? How clever. By all rights, it should be called "No World For Old Men."
I believe Chigurh is the main character anyhow, because everyone in the movie is affected by him.
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03-02-08, 09:37 PM
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Originally Posted by Rammsteinfan
Remove Julia Roberts from any movie she is in and it has to be better...?
I think A.I. would of been better with the last 20 minutes or so removed.
03-02-08, 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by Lastyear
The reason was to put the viewer into the action.I think it worked exceptionally well.I didn't find it annoying at all.
that aspect won it the oscar after all...
03-02-08, 11:48 PM
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Into the wild could've been an alright movie, but for some reason Sean Penn decided to break the fourth wall for no reason. I couldn't pay attention to the movie after he did that.
03-03-08, 08:34 AM
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Originally Posted by project86
Into the wild could've been an alright movie, but for some reason Sean Penn decided to break the fourth wall for no reason. I couldn't pay attention to the movie after he did that.
03-03-08, 08:41 AM
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Originally Posted by wewantflair
AI, but for the last 10 minutes.
Or 20 minutes. First time I saw it, it felt like an old Disney movie. You think its over...Bam more conflict...think its over BAM another scene.
03-03-08, 11:15 AM
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The Score has three great performances by three actors who represent the best in naturalistic acting for their generation - Marlon Brando, Robert De Niro, and Edward Norton. Then there's the terrible, unbelievable overacting of Angela Bassett...
03-03-08, 11:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Groucho
The Score's biggest problem? The tell-all trailer. 
03-03-08, 12:42 PM
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Originally Posted by RichC2
While that problem still exists, I'm still amazed at just how bad they were in the late 90s and early '00s -- The Score, Arlington Road, What Lies Beneath, etc;
03-03-08, 02:39 PM
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While I think the movie is already great, Batman Begins would have benefited from an actress with a little more gravitas than Katie Holmes. In the same vein, the X-Men movies could have done with someone other than Halle Berry as Storm. I think both actresses dragged down their movies.