Is better than almost any movie I've seen. I'd pay to see an episode at the theater.
Posted on 09/13/2009 2:58:46 PM PDT by JoeProBono
Is better than almost any movie I've seen. I'd pay to see an episode at the theater.
Naw, 24 is good but Wizards has everything 24 has and it’s more entertaining.
So, you’ve never seen ‘Bull Durham’ then, yes? I think that is possibly the very best baseball movie ever made, even if Kevin Costner didn’t like his own performance (and said so on the DVD commentary).
Yes, there is another downside to BD: it’s the movie on which Tim met Susan.
I was awestruck when I first saw ‘2001’ (I was 12, so that had a lot to do with it). It was only later, when I realized the trend Kubrick was pursuing that I realized that this was the first of his ‘I totally hate my actors in particular and every human being in general’ pictures.
Add to this that the film still doesn’t make sense, even after I read the book.
They could have altered the book if they didn’t believe in its message, happens all the time—look at the Tom Clancy adaptations.
No. Not even close.
And after that asshat Tim Robbins has opened up his yap (Mr. “cold wind blowing”) too many times, I can’t watch it.
"They've Killed Fritz!! They've Killed Fritz!! Those yellow stinkin' lousy fairies! Those horrible atrocity-filled vermin! Those despicable animal warmongers! They've killed Fritz!"
Uh yeah, ok. But wouldn’t making Andy guilty be a totally different movie? That wouldn’t have been following the book at all, because the whole turning point was finding out he really did not do what he’d served 20 years for. Finding out he had done it....that’s not a slight director’s change, that’s a totally different movie.
“Manos” lol.
Shawshank was good but not even close to best.
The Simpsons had a nice little parody with Bart leading the takeover of Kamp Kristy and becoming the Colonel Kurtz (Brando) character. Good times...
Torgo!
>>> “Apocalypse Now” and “2001” are my all time top 2 movies. <<<<
I’m a bit of an Apoc Now! freak.
Saw it on opening night (Oct 3, 1979) at DC’s Uptown Theater, then went the next night and saw it again (the 30 year LA opening anniversary was last month).
Have bought every VHS and DVD release since then, I stopped counting after watching it more than 35 times.
Wikipedia has a pretty decent page on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_Now
Oddly enough, I also saw “2001” at the Uptown on a school field trip. The teacher thought we should see it, and I’m glad he did!
As Wikipedia says:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey_%28film%29
The film’s world premiere was on April 2, 1968, at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C.. Kubrick deleted 19 minutes from the film just before the film’s general release on April 6, 1968.[23][24] It was released in 70mm format, with a six-track stereo magnetic soundtrack, and projected in the 2.21:1 aspect ratio.
There are plenty of ways to slant material, spin material, revamp material. Although I dislike the concept of his innocence, I never said they had to alter that part to make a better movie.
It's fine to disagree with someone--just disagree with what they actually type.
Then that scene at dinner later on when the other inmates told him he ought to have played something by Johnny Cash instead.
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