What was the last movie you watched?

No Coder

TFlyer said:

Saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed it, watched it again tonight and still enjoyed it. I did enjoy the book more but the movie is still extremely fun.

I have re-watched this after seeing it the cinema and loved it even more. It's my fav movie of the year. I've read some terrible reviews, but they have mainly been from those who've read the book. I haven't  read the book, so it's a stand alone movie for me and as someone who grew up in the 80's, it captures all the best from 80's adventure movies.

TFlyer

No Coder said:

TFlyer said:

Saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed it, watched it again tonight and still enjoyed it. I did enjoy the book more but the movie is still extremely fun.

I have re-watched this after seeing it the cinema and loved it even more. It's my fav movie of the year. I've read some terrible reviews, but they have mainly been from those who've read the book. I haven't  read the book, so it's a stand alone movie for me and as someone who grew up in the 80's, it captures all the best from 80's adventure movies.

I have read the book, and I went into the movie knowing that it wouldn't be and exact interpretation of the source and I enjoyed it immensely. I went back and re-read the book after seeing the movie in the cinema as well. I got the blu ray yesterday and re-watched it at home and I feel no different about loving the two for what they are. The book is amazing and the movie is extremely fun and entertaining. There are some pretty big changes that were made in the movie especially regarding one of the main High-5 members. I suggest you read the book, I don't think it will ruin your opinion of the movie, I just think the people who didn't enjoy it were elitist. The author Ernest Cline was involved with the book to film interpretation so if he didn't like it he wouldn't have signed off on it. 

Also the book would've translated into a less family friendly feature, there are more sexual references/innuendos and f-bombs in the book. So they definitely took that into account. 

dankind

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

F Me In The Brain

I also have been avoiding it -- one of my buddies told me it was awful.  (We both loved the book)

I am glad to read here that people are liking it...I hope I will as well, the book was fun.

Pap

Touching the Void (2003)

TFlyer

F Me In The Brain said:

I also have been avoiding it -- one of my buddies told me it was awful.  (We both loved the book)

I am glad to read here that people are liking it...I hope I will as well, the book was fun.

I understand that some people won't like it no matter what anyone says and that is unavoidable. The book will always be better because when you read any story your mind creates what you are reading for you so you build up what you personally think is the best possible version of the story and there is no way that anyone will ever be able to recreate that. But the way I look at book to film adaptations is this, the book will always exist, and you can always go back to it and revisit what you loved in the first place. So you go into the movie with an open mind and understand that it was someone else's mind that created the world and not yours so there is no way for it to be as good as the one you thought of when reading it and you just enjoy it for what it is. 

All that being said (if it made enough sense) I can discuss it more in depth with the differences from book to film I just don't want to spoil it for anyone. Some of the major differences were in the challenges (how Parzival got the extra life coin, the characters of Daito and Sho...and what happens in the big fight, etc). 

tbergs

TFlyer said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I also have been avoiding it -- one of my buddies told me it was awful.  (We both loved the book)

I am glad to read here that people are liking it...I hope I will as well, the book was fun.

I understand that some people won't like it no matter what anyone says and that is unavoidable. The book will always be better because when you read any story your mind creates what you are reading for you so you build up what you personally think is the best possible version of the story and there is no way that anyone will ever be able to recreate that. But the way I look at book to film adaptations is this, the book will always exist, and you can always go back to it and revisit what you loved in the first place. So you go into the movie with an open mind and understand that it was someone else's mind that created the world and not yours so there is no way for it to be as good as the one you thought of when reading it and you just enjoy it for what it is. 

All that being said (if it made enough sense) I can discuss it more in depth with the differences from book to film I just don't want to spoil it for anyone. Some of the major differences were in the challenges (how Parzival got the extra life coin, the characters of Daito and Sho...and what happens in the big fight, etc). 

This makes complete sense to me. I've learned the movie is rarely even close to the book. I was initially disappointed in the Lord of the Rings trilogy when it came out because I had just re-read the entire series so it was fresh in my mind, but overtime I've come to appreciate how great both are in their respective mediums.

PJ_Soul

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

No Coder

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

Yeah, I can understand that not all of his films hit the spot, but those 3 you mention are all excellent movies IMO. Obviously not to all though

dankind

No Coder said:

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

Yeah, I can understand that not all of his films hit the spot, but those 3 you mention are all excellent movies IMO. Obviously not to all though

I hate all three of those films with a passion. The only good thing about Schindler's List is Ralph Fiennes' performance. That was a revelation. The red girl, the "this car!" "this pin!" blahblahblah bullshit speech, the ash falling like snow are all marks of a filmmaker who doesn't respect his audience's intelligence. The first 25 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (except for the incredibly stupid helmet gag for the groundlings) are good; the rest have the same issues as Schindler's List for me. "Earn this!" Fuck you, SS! No one with an IQ over 80 needs that explained to them. Catch Me If You Can was Mamet lite. Drivel.

TFlyer

tbergs said:

TFlyer said:

F Me In The Brain said:

I also have been avoiding it -- one of my buddies told me it was awful.  (We both loved the book)

I am glad to read here that people are liking it...I hope I will as well, the book was fun.

I understand that some people won't like it no matter what anyone says and that is unavoidable. The book will always be better because when you read any story your mind creates what you are reading for you so you build up what you personally think is the best possible version of the story and there is no way that anyone will ever be able to recreate that. But the way I look at book to film adaptations is this, the book will always exist, and you can always go back to it and revisit what you loved in the first place. So you go into the movie with an open mind and understand that it was someone else's mind that created the world and not yours so there is no way for it to be as good as the one you thought of when reading it and you just enjoy it for what it is. 

All that being said (if it made enough sense) I can discuss it more in depth with the differences from book to film I just don't want to spoil it for anyone. Some of the major differences were in the challenges (how Parzival got the extra life coin, the characters of Daito and Sho...and what happens in the big fight, etc). 

This makes complete sense to me. I've learned the movie is rarely even close to the book. I was initially disappointed in the Lord of the Rings trilogy when it came out because I had just re-read the entire series so it was fresh in my mind, but overtime I've come to appreciate how great both are in their respective mediums.

Glad it made sense...see I grew up reading LOTR and The Hobbit, those stories mean a lot to me. When the movies came out it was a huge deal to me and I didn't even have any sort of negative thought in my head towards them because I knew they would be special in their own way and like I said earlier I would still have my own built up fantasy world in my head with the books. It was the same thing with the Harry Potter films, yes they all changed things/left things out but you have to be able to enjoy things and not take them seriously. 

F Me In The Brain

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

I liked Shaving Ryan's Privates but I thought Catch Me If You Can is a perfect example of a movie brutalization of a good book.
Schindler's Fist was a bit too much for me.

KC138045

F Me In The Brain said:

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

I liked Shaving Ryan's Privates but I thought Catch Me If You Can is a perfect example of a movie brutalization of a good book.
Schindler's Fist was a bit too much for me.

Poncier

The Snowman
Not bad.
Val Kilmer on the other hand, not looking or sounding so good.

KC138045

Poncier said:

The Snowman
Not bad.
Val Kilmer on the other hand, not looking or sounding so good.

Yeah ho looked pretty rough in that movie.  Didn't even recognize it was him at first.

Poncier

KC138045 said:

Poncier said:

The Snowman
Not bad.
Val Kilmer on the other hand, not looking or sounding so good.

Yeah ho looked pretty rough in that movie.  Didn't even recognize it was him at first.

It almost seemed like his lines were dubbed in too. Something very wrong about his mouth when he spoke, on top of how rough he looked overall.

PJ_Soul

dankind said:

No Coder said:

PJ_Soul said:

dankind said:

I’ve been avoiding Ready Player One. Eventually, it will be on Netflix or something, and I’ll see it then. 

I don’t like most of Spielberg’s work. Jaws, Raiders of the Lost Ark, E.T., and Munich are probably the only films that I would say are essential to the canon. I do enjoy Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Color Purple and Empire of the Sun as well, but I wouldn’t say they’re masterpieces. His nineties and early aughts films are sentimental pap. 

Schindler's List didn't do it for you?? Saving Private Ryan? Catch Me If You Can?

Yeah, I can understand that not all of his films hit the spot, but those 3 you mention are all excellent movies IMO. Obviously not to all though

I hate all three of those films with a passion. The only good thing about Schindler's List is Ralph Fiennes' performance. That was a revelation. The red girl, the "this car!" "this pin!" blahblahblah bullshit speech, the ash falling like snow are all marks of a filmmaker who doesn't respect his audience's intelligence. The first 25 minutes of Saving Private Ryan (except for the incredibly stupid helmet gag for the groundlings) are good; the rest have the same issues as Schindler's List for me. "Earn this!" Fuck you, SS! No one with an IQ over 80 needs that explained to them. Catch Me If You Can was Mamet lite. Drivel.

Holy movie snob.

TFlyer

this one really does have one of the best theme tunes...

tbergs

TFlyer said:

this one really does have one of the best theme tunes...

Yep and Dr. Quinn looks good in this one.

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