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"Bridge of Spies". Well made. Engrossing. About 20 minutes too long.
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Could've lost the last five minutes of schmalz for a start.FrankBurke wrote:"Bridge of Spies". Well made. Engrossing. About 20 minutes too long.
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Easy rule of thumb - when Sorkin writes about technology it's almost all fiction. This and the Facebook movie would have been better off using fictional names & companies as the holes in the facts take away from what could be just good dramatic scenes.Donny B. wrote:Saw "Steve Jobs" and rather loved it.
Now I'm not enough of an Apple head to know what's true and what isn't....
Don't undersatnd why you would have a film written by Sorkin directed by Danny Boyle. Boyle is a fantastic visual director but Sorkin fills his scripts so much they have to have a lot of talking heads and very little visual elements. Minimises Boyle's talents in my opinion.
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Agree entirely. Loved it up until then but once the main event was over I was just itching to leave.domhnallj wrote:Could've lost the last five minutes of schmalz for a start.FrankBurke wrote:"Bridge of Spies". Well made. Engrossing. About 20 minutes too long.
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The Social Network was based on a book by Ben Mezrich though. I'd already read that before seeing the film and from what I remember they weren't different. Admittedly Zuckerberg wouldn't talk to Mezrich but I don't remember hearing that the book was inaccurate.The Doc wrote:Easy rule of thumb - when Sorkin writes about technology it's almost all fiction. This and the Facebook movie would have been better off using fictional names & companies as the holes in the facts take away from what could be just good dramatic scenes.Donny B. wrote:Saw "Steve Jobs" and rather loved it.
Now I'm not enough of an Apple head to know what's true and what isn't....
Don't undersatnd why you would have a film written by Sorkin directed by Danny Boyle. Boyle is a fantastic visual director but Sorkin fills his scripts so much they have to have a lot of talking heads and very little visual elements. Minimises Boyle's talents in my opinion.
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Saw the last Hunger games film. Won't have to go to one of them again!
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Finally saw Sicario today. Dark stuff, very well done though and brilliantly filmed and scored...
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Totally agree. V well plotted, directed & acted.Donny B. wrote:Finally saw Sicario today. Dark stuff, very well done though and brilliantly filmed and scored...
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Krampus is good fun if you enjoyed either Gremlins or Rare Exports I'd recommend catching it
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Are there any big movies opening this week? I think I heard something about a Tina Fay film or something....
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No, it's all quiet on the Galactic front...fourthirtythree wrote:Are there any big movies opening this week? I think I heard something about a Tina Fay film or something....
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Star Wars
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Decent film. Just cracking good fun.
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I'd say its a very flawed film. Fun, but flawed. I'd even go as far as to say some of the prequels were better.
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But the prequels weren't flawed at all: they were perfect sh!t. No nuggets of imperfection at all. Nothing good to say about them. They were among the worst films ever made. (why did they make them in the order 4,5,6 - 1,2,3? Because if they had made 1,2,3 first 4,5, and 6 would never have been made. Oh, okay, because Yoda in charge of the ordering was.)
Lucas has/had many qualities. But making a film with actors was not among them. They used to call him the best second unit director in America. And if you follow the edits he did on the first three films you can really see how terrible he was.
This film is a competently made entertainment, like The Empire Strikes Back was, which doesn't suffer from Abrams's biggest flaw (he can't handle a plot to save his life, he just chucks junk at the story meetings to make stuff happen and you end up with a clueless mess with no actual narrative purpose) as Star Wars has a very clear, and deliberately cliched story arc. That's the point. It's based on structural anthropological teardowns of story mechanics (Ivanovsky via Campbell). The cliched story is part of its pulpy charm, it's a feature not a flaw. Unless you don't like it which is fair enough.
Lucas has/had many qualities. But making a film with actors was not among them. They used to call him the best second unit director in America. And if you follow the edits he did on the first three films you can really see how terrible he was.
This film is a competently made entertainment, like The Empire Strikes Back was, which doesn't suffer from Abrams's biggest flaw (he can't handle a plot to save his life, he just chucks junk at the story meetings to make stuff happen and you end up with a clueless mess with no actual narrative purpose) as Star Wars has a very clear, and deliberately cliched story arc. That's the point. It's based on structural anthropological teardowns of story mechanics (Ivanovsky via Campbell). The cliched story is part of its pulpy charm, it's a feature not a flaw. Unless you don't like it which is fair enough.
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Exactly. I love that Star Wars is unapologetically schmaltzy. Although, I think they owe more to Tolkien and Kurasawa...actually I never thought about it that deeply...I never think about anything that deeply. Me like. Me no like is the height of it
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I sounded less admiring than I intended. I'm not sure what it is, but Lucas really has something.
http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/ ... ce1978.pdf
"He will dress like Bogart in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” Lucas says: “the khaki pants…the leather jacket. That sort of felt hat.” Oh, and also? “A bullwhip.” He’ll carry it “rolled up,” Lucas continues. “Like a snake that’s coiled up behind him.”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... lling-indy
I mean, that's a kind of genius.
http://maddogmovies.com/almost/scripts/ ... ce1978.pdf
"He will dress like Bogart in “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre,” Lucas says: “the khaki pants…the leather jacket. That sort of felt hat.” Oh, and also? “A bullwhip.” He’ll carry it “rolled up,” Lucas continues. “Like a snake that’s coiled up behind him.”
http://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultur ... lling-indy
I mean, that's a kind of genius.
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Massive spoilers ahead for anyone who hasn't seen the film, be warned. I did think it was good, but...
I suppose the biggest thing for me is that even after the prequels I came out of the cinema feeling in awe. After Wednesday night, I just didn't have that. I felt like I saw a good film, but nothing like before.
I suppose I should just be glad that Abrams didn't ruin it like he's ruined Star Trek.
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I suppose I should just be glad that Abrams didn't ruin it like he's ruined Star Trek.
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Awe in the sense of how much those movies sucked ass?FLIP wrote:
I suppose the biggest thing for me is that even after the prequels I came out of the cinema feeling in awe.
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No, awe in that I actually enjoyed the films for what they were as part of the wider story, even though they weren't anywhere near as good as the first films. I remember being with my friends leaving the cinema after episode 2 being deeply excited about the film and what was to come. The same friends and I went to see TFA and didn't have anything near the same reaction - I'd say we were split down the middle between my views and the current wider prevailing view.Donny B. wrote:Awe in the sense of how much those movies sucked ass?FLIP wrote:
I suppose the biggest thing for me is that even after the prequels I came out of the cinema feeling in awe.
The prequels have grown to be more critised and slated over time. So will TFA.
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