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Post by SmashTV on Jun 19, 2017 14:24:24 GMT -5
The Shining... *dodges thrown trash* let me explain. The original story is my favorite book of all time. The characters feel fleshed out, the scares are subtle and intimate, and unlike most Stephen King books it doesn't sour as you get to the end. My problem with the movie is that it takes one of my favorite characters and doesn't really do him justice. Jack Torrance, while this abusive alcoholic, is such a great character. In the book he tries to make up for past mistakes, genuinely happy with his family for the first time in years, and when he finally goes insane it's after hundreds of pages of subtle pushing that got him there. In the movie I felt like the character he is at the beginning acted more like he is half way through the book. He was already snappy at his family and Nickleson played him half insane (or that could be because Nickleson always plays his characters like that lol). I have a lot more complaints about the movie but those are better served for a future essay for school lol. It is one of those that fall into the "great movie, but a terrible adaptation" category. I think that both the film and the book are great, but yes, the book certainly has more dimension to it. Stephen King has always been quite vocal about his dislike of Kubrick's adaptation, although I think he's mellowed in recent years. One of mine is the original 'Italian Job' with Michael Caine - a random old man is brought into the film for two scenes at the end to plant a bomb or some sort of scrambling device (I forget which), with no explanation who he is or how he got to Italy. He's got pretty much one line - 'Bloody foreigners!' - before he vanishes from the rest of the film. 2012 - it's an out and out piss poor film from start to end, but an uptight ex husband saves the main characters and proves he's not so bad, dies later in the film and receives zero mourning from his wife and stepkids!
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Jun 19, 2017 15:36:17 GMT -5
Spider Man 3: Harry's butler and his reveal... "Harry..., so that whole hating Spider Man thing you've been obsessing over, the hideous facial injury you now have and the complete mindf*** you've been though? I probably should have mentioned that it totally wasn't Spider Man that killed your father. He died via his own weapon..... my bad...." To be fair, in the second film he was attempting to get Harry to stop obsessing over Spider-Man. The line "Your father only obsessed over his work" was pretty subtle in telling Harry that he was going down a path he didn't need to go down.
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Post by Evil Homer on Jun 19, 2017 15:48:32 GMT -5
Furious 7 , in the scene Shaw is Hobbs office , Shaw says " like I said Im looking for the team that crippled by brother" which would have been fine if he had said that line previously , not saying it was a really great movie otherwise though- just that line just irks me a bit
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Post by WoodStoner1 on Jun 19, 2017 17:33:23 GMT -5
The prequels for being the prequels.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 19, 2017 18:01:30 GMT -5
Furious 7 , in the scene Shaw is Hobbs office , Shaw says " like I said Im looking for the team that crippled by brother" which would have been fine if he had said that line previously , not saying it was a really great movie otherwise though- just that line just irks me a bit The arbitrary killing off of characters for the sake of it in the later movies in that series irks me. {Spoiler}Fast 5 - Vince, killed in a half-assed "redemption" story arc.
Fast & Furious 6 - Giselle, because how else can we resolve the fact that her love interest dies in the next chronological instalment without her being around?
Fate of the Furious - Elena, because we gotta give Dom a kid to fight for without having the mother in the picture.
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jun 19, 2017 18:05:49 GMT -5
Furious 7 , in the scene Shaw is Hobbs office , Shaw says " like I said Im looking for the team that crippled by brother" which would have been fine if he had said that line previously , not saying it was a really great movie otherwise though- just that line just irks me a bit Truck drivers attempting to save a load of TV/VCR combos with their lives at the beginning of the first one.
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Post by agent817 on Jun 19, 2017 21:17:02 GMT -5
Furious 7 , in the scene Shaw is Hobbs office , Shaw says " like I said Im looking for the team that crippled by brother" which would have been fine if he had said that line previously , not saying it was a really great movie otherwise though- just that line just irks me a bit It was changed in the extended cut, which made even more sense. Look here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 21:31:38 GMT -5
The prequels bother me for two reasons: One, Leia shouldn't remember her mother, and two, Yoda didn't train Obi-Wan.
I also hate Prometheus for ignoring/retconning AVP. Even if you thought it sucked, it happened. A good filmmaker can make a good sequel to a bad movie.
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Post by Porky's Butthole on Jun 19, 2017 21:37:06 GMT -5
Before I say mine, I want to stress that I love the books and the movies, but....
Harry Potter and the Deus Ex Machina
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2017 21:45:59 GMT -5
The Dark Knight. They couldn't have found a different actress to replace Katie Holmes? Maggie Gyllenhaal isn't nearly as attractive.
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Jun 20, 2017 1:49:21 GMT -5
The Dark Knight Rises: I don't know who that guy in the mask was, but it sure wasn't Bane. Maybe it was his cousin, Enab. Or Bane-zarro. But definitely not Bane.
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Post by madness50 on Jun 20, 2017 4:55:30 GMT -5
Napoleon Dynamite: Movie was fine, but the annoying douchebags at my high school ruined it for me. All those morons did was randomly, non stop say, "Gosh, idiot!" I hadn't even seen the movie yet and I already f***ing hated it already lol.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Jun 20, 2017 9:00:48 GMT -5
The Dark Knight Rises: I don't know who that guy in the mask was, but it sure wasn't Bane. Maybe it was his cousin, Enab. Or Bane-zarro. But definitely not Bane. But it was at least better than Batman & Robin's slobbering retard version, right? That sure as hell wasn't Bane either. That was Bane in looks only.
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Post by thirteen3 on Jun 20, 2017 9:09:21 GMT -5
The Dark Knight Rises: I don't know who that guy in the mask was, but it sure wasn't Bane. Maybe it was his cousin, Enab. Or Bane-zarro. But definitely not Bane. Posh Robocop was the highlight of the movie for me.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 20, 2017 9:13:24 GMT -5
The Dark Knight Rises: I don't know who that guy in the mask was, but it sure wasn't Bane. Maybe it was his cousin, Enab. Or Bane-zarro. But definitely not Bane. But it was at least better than Batman & Robin's slobbering retard version, right? That sure as hell wasn't Bane either. That was Bane in looks only. I mean you could argue at least he had the look... Dark Knight Rises Bane doesn't even have that they tried to make him more like he is in the books... but his plan doesn't make a hell of a lot of sense... and well... spoilers for a 5 year old movie... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}it's not even his plan. He's a henchman again I mean I don't care either way I didn't like either movie.
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Post by Hit Girl on Jun 20, 2017 15:27:53 GMT -5
Titanic, for giving Rose the smartass line where she says Bruce Ismay named the ship Titanic because he basically had a small dick. In fact he named it after a race from Greek mythology.
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Post by Zone Was Wrong on Jun 20, 2017 15:33:58 GMT -5
The prequels bother me for two reasons: One, Leia shouldn't remember her mother, and two, Yoda didn't train Obi-Wan. I also hate Prometheus for ignoring/retconning AVP. Even if you thought it sucked, it happened. A good filmmaker can make a good sequel to a bad movie. Technically Yoda trains everybody while they're younglings. So technically Yoda did train Obi-Wan. On point with Leia/Padme though, that will always bother me. That and the lost the will to live bs the Droid lists as cause of death.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2017 15:45:49 GMT -5
The prequels bother me for two reasons: One, Leia shouldn't remember her mother, and two, Yoda didn't train Obi-Wan. I also hate Prometheus for ignoring/retconning AVP. Even if you thought it sucked, it happened. A good filmmaker can make a good sequel to a bad movie. Technically Yoda trains everybody while they're younglings. So technically Yoda did train Obi-Wan. On point with Leia/Padme though, that will always bother me. That and the lost the will to live bs the Droid lists as cause of death. Yes, but he says Yoda was "THE Jedi master who instructed me" not "A Jedi master who instructed me". You would think that logically a Jedi would think of the main person that trained them as THE Jedi master that instructed them.
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Post by RedSmile on Jun 20, 2017 17:25:01 GMT -5
The prequels bother me for two reasons: One, Leia shouldn't remember her mother, and two, Yoda didn't train Obi-Wan. I also hate Prometheus for ignoring/retconning AVP. Even if you thought it sucked, it happened. A good filmmaker can make a good sequel to a bad movie. Technically Yoda trains everybody while they're younglings. So technically Yoda did train Obi-Wan. On point with Leia/Padme though, that will always bother me. That and the lost the will to live bs the Droid lists as cause of death. Leia probably remembers her adoptive mother from Alderaan, not Padme. My gripe is Obi Wan not remembering R2D2. He may have technically "never owned a droid" before, but there's no good reason for him to forget R2.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Jun 20, 2017 17:48:55 GMT -5
Technically Yoda trains everybody while they're younglings. So technically Yoda did train Obi-Wan. On point with Leia/Padme though, that will always bother me. That and the lost the will to live bs the Droid lists as cause of death. Leia probably remembers her adoptive mother from Alderaan, not Padme. My gripe is Obi Wan not remembering R2D2. He may have technically "never owned a droid" before, but there's no good reason for him to forget R2. IIRC Leia's adoptive mother was still alive up until Alderaan's destruction, it would be difficult for her to confuse the two. The R2 thing does bug me though, especially with Threepio in tow. Your discover your former best friend's son in possession of his father's astronech droid (that accompanied you on many missions) and his mother's protocol droid (also built by his father) and nothing stirs in your memory? Come on. Or worse, you do remember them but don't mention those facts to him at any point?
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