What's The Latest Film You Have Seen?

spark10036 · 04-06-2009, 07:21 PM

Natalie Portman is so cute in Garden State, I wonna buy her ice-cream...

sleepy jack · 04-06-2009, 09:06 PM

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Originally Posted by djchameleon

Garden State is an okay movie but it's very pretentious

Overrated and trite yes but pretentious? How?

**Janszoon** · 04-06-2009, 09:09 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Overrated and trite yes but pretentious? How?

It has pretenses of being a good movie.

boo boo · 04-07-2009, 03:23 PM

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Originally Posted by sleepy jack

Overrated and trite yes but pretentious? How?

When indie music is involved.....

SydMM · 04-08-2009, 06:28 AM

The Shining. At some points, it was boring, then it picked up again. Overall it was a good film but they could have taken out all those long shots of the hotel. 2 hours and 23 minutes?

djchameleon · 04-08-2009, 06:51 AM

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Originally Posted by glutoro

Saw that movie last night, I loved it. I can't wait to see if Marvel are going to make the origin movies for all the main characters.. so interesting.

In the movie for some reason they didn't stick to the original story line in the comic books. Wolverine was suppose to have gotten his blades when he was in the army not when he was a child. At least that's the way I remembered the comics.

Yeah that's how I remembered it also....he got his blades as part of the military experiment. Well that wasn't the finished cut so maybe they were going to take it out and leave it in the deleted scenes pile.

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Originally Posted by boo boo

When indie music is involved.....

couldn't have said it better myself

boo boo · 04-08-2009, 08:12 AM

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Originally Posted by SydMM

The Shining. At some points, it was boring, then it picked up again. Overall it was a good film but they could have taken out all those long shots of the hotel. 2 hours and 23 minutes?

It's a Stanley Kubrick film, that kind of stuff is his trademark.

I liked the slow pace of the film actually, the slow moving zooming shots, the idea was to capture that feeling of isolation in this large deserted setting. And I think that's one of the films strong points, traditional horror fans will surely hate this film for it's pacing and the fact that only one person gets killed. But this was never ment to be that kind of horror movie, it's a sophisticated horror film, it's not so much about what Jack goes when he does insane as it is about how he goes insane. The cinematography, the music, the setting, all the weird random stuff that just comes out of nowhere, it all contributes that that feeling, that feeling of madness.

That's the magic of Kubrick.

jackhammer · 04-08-2009, 08:18 AM

Strangely Stephen King detests this version of The Shining.

Sodacake · 04-08-2009, 10:17 AM

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Originally Posted by glutoro

Saw that movie last night, I loved it. I can't wait to see if Marvel are going to make the origin movies for all the main characters.. so interesting.

In the movie for some reason they didn't stick to the original story line in the comic books. Wolverine was suppose to have gotten his blades when he was in the army not when he was a child. At least that's the way I remembered the comics.

Wolverine always had bone claws.

boo boo · 04-08-2009, 10:39 AM

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Strangely Stephen King detests this version of The Shining.

Stephen King? You mean the director of Maximum Overdrive and screenwriter for Rose Red, Silver Bullet, Cat's Eye and Sleepwalkers? He didn't like it?

And of course he did the made for TV version which was just a piece of crap.

He didn't like it because it wasn't faithful to his work, I understand his personal dislike of the film for that reason. But it's obviously clouded his judgement.

Kubrick was never one for faithful adaptations. A Clockwork Orange was the same way. He just knew how to make them more awesome.

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SydMM Music Addict Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: South Carolina Posts: 35	The Shining. At some points, it was boring, then it picked up again. Overall it was a good film but they could have taken out all those long shots of the hotel. 2 hours and 23 minutes? __________________

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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Strangely Stephen King detests this version of The Shining. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”