Posted on 12/10/2017 10:54:31 AM PST by Simon Green
The first that comes to mind for me: "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Sappy and overly sentimental.
(And while I'm at it, "Titanic")
These endless Batman & Superman movies really show a lack of creativity. I don’t dislike all science fiction, but some of this stuff is just poorly done.
I don’t like BIG pictures——epics with lots of action,noise,car chases, and special effects. Never have.
I go the small theaters that show a lot of foreign and independent films.
I also like a good thriller or a murder mystery.
Not that anyone’s still reading after 400 posts, but I never liked, “The Sound Of Music”.
I actually like the music from the movie - just not the movie itself.
The book for 2001 was mostly based on earlier stories written by Clarke and written down in full DURING the making of the movie; not afterwards, as you claimed.
Hollywood is not producing much of anything quality wise these days.
“Scarface”
Agreed. Al Pacino was not the least bit believeable in that role.
2001: A Space Odyssey, was published soon after the film was released.
Today, nobody can write a decent script, the actors and actresses can't act their way out of wet paper bags, and there is far to much CGI crap.
Also, when talkies were newish, though some adult situations were used, there wasn't graphic sex scenes and there wasn't any blatant bad language...though lots of innuendos.
OTOH...even without ratings, people did NOT take nor allow kids to see adult themed movies!
Today? Even some G movies are absolutely NOT for children!
Titanic.
“Grease”
Sheer torture to me, but my wife loves it.
The Sound of Music is the greatest film ever made.
The Wizard of Oz
Star Wars—all of the ones I have seen. I saw the first three multiple times as a child because my brother loved them. But I always thought they were stupid.
Do you REALLY want me to go grab my book?
Okay...went and pulled the book. The movie came out in 1968 and the book was published in.....1968! It also states very clearly, that it is based on the screen play by Kubrick and Clarke! It was NOT after the movie came out, but concurrently.
I said it was based on the screenplay, did I not?
That was the whole point.
Wow, I thought no one hated Titanic. I strongly disliked it.
The book was not released until AFTER the film came out.
Same year,different release dates.
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But it was nonetheless based on a screenplay. And just because both came out in 1968 does not mean they came out at the same time. The book came out after the movie.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29
But I did like the line, "I kill a Communist jus' for fun, but for a Green Card, I'm gonna carve him up real nice."
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