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Watched 'Chronicle' yesterday. Was really good stuff, glad I bothered to watch it in the cinema rather than waiting for dvd release. Good for those who liked cloverfield or just those who like superheroes.
Going to see Woman in Black and Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (3D) over the next week. The former I saw on stage and am going to see with a few people who were mentally scarred by seeing it performed, so it should be a fun experience. The latter, I've obviously seen before but the 3D remastering looks pretty darn special. Will report back. |
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Note: It is done similarly to Cloverfield, but the cameras aren't always as shaky, annoying, or vomit inducing, although there are a few scenes like that. Basically: If you like decent character development, and you like action or hero type movies, go see Chronicle. |
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I saw what you did there, but got so much more.
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I watched all six Star Wars a few weekends ago for the first time and yes they were all great
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02-19-2012, 01:52 PM | #307 |
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Finally saw The A-Team the other day. All i can say is "i love it when a plan comes together"
@soulmaster Glad you liked Star Wars. i still feel the prequels are inferior to the original trilogy but that is only my opinion. i am hoping you saw ROTJ without the "NOOOOO" added in. |
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Actually, a more serious thing: Did you watch it from Episode 1-6 or did you watch it in the release order, 4-6 => 1-3? |
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Have you ever watched them 1 -> 6, Loki? I've seen the movies at least 30 times, but never watched the saga chronologically, only in order of release.
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Well, it's not really possible to watch them story chronologically for me since I already saw the first three prior to the prequel three.
The reason I ask is because he said this was his first time. Watching stuff from 4->5->6 was a big deal because of the ending of Empire Strikes Back. But by watching the prequels first, it kind of ruins the whole secret. So I wonder how people actually watch the series and how they might feel about it. |
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Ohhhhh yeah, that's right. I'm of the opinion that if someone is forced to watch the prequels first, they might not be able to suffer their way to A New Hope and beyond.
I didn't even conceive of it as possible that someone could watch Episode 1 as their first Star Wars movie.. it seems so wrong. |
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It really depends on the franchise. With Star Wars or with Fate/stay night, you really have to watch things in the order they came out rather than watching them in their in-universe chronological order. But with other things like the Lord of the Rings universe or the Chronicles of Narnia, you're okay reading some of those out of order. (Like The Hobbit, which you can read before -or- after LotR. Or like The Magician's Nephew, which you can read before -or- after The Lion, the Witch, & the Wardrobe.)
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I dunno, I'd say that the order to read Tolkien is pretty much Hobbit -> LotR -> Silmarillion. Otherwise, you miss a lot of stuff.
Agreed on Narnia, though. Within a certain degree of reasonableness, of course. |
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I agree with everything you are saying... except about the Hobbit. If you read LotR before you read the Hobbit, then there isn't really any reason to read the Hobbit at all. The major plot points are covered, and all the secrets of the Hobbit are revealed - and most of them are revealed in a single chapter, at the Council of Elrond when they recount the history of the Ring. The reader is supposed to have a respect for the Council, a fondness for Bilbo, a sense of dread concerning his lie and the Ring, and an awe for the interconnectedness of Tolkien's universe before he reads LotR.
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Apart from The Hobbit being the best book in the series, you mean.
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Well, Lord of the Rings is the best book in the series. The Hobbit is charming but is not as substantial.
I still read the Hobbit even though I've read LotR, I'm just saying that if I were to recommend reading the books to someone, I would always suggest starting off with the Hobbit, and then going to LotR. And then if they loved it, they should read the Silmarillion. From a purely plot perspective, LotR completely covers the Hobbit. |
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And you are right the prequels do indeed ruin the ending of Empire Strikes Back. i truly wonder what Lucas was thinking when he did the prequels. |
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Wait ... 1971? Really? That's pretty awesome if true. The only other possibility I can think of is that you're referring to when it came out on VHS remastered (pre-Lucas editing shit in) which iirc was ... 1995? Or perhaps you're referring to the original VHSes (non-remastered) which ... iirc came out some time in the late '80s. (I remember the video rental store had them no later than 1991, so, they must have already been out by then.) But yeah. If you mean you saw it in theaters in '77, then that's pretty rad.
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I watched "the Muppets". I was a pretty big fan of the old muppet movies like “The Muppets take Manhatten” and “The Muppets Christmas Carol”, so I wasn’t expecting much of one starring Jason Segal – boy was I wrong. The film has its emotional highs and lows, I nearly shed a tear once or twice. The film doesn’t take any liberties, the whole style of humour and storytelling is a real homage to the original muppet movies and really does Jim Henson proud. Its relationship to the original films is a lot similar to Toy Story 3 and its predecessors. If you haven’t seen it yet, I’d suggest giving it a look. My only criticism is Miss. Piggy's voice, I preferred her old voice.
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Recently saw 50/50 starring Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
I really liked it, and especially liked it more than I thought I would. It's too touching and not lightheartedly comic enough for me to buy, but I'd strongly recommend it to anyone. |
03-17-2012, 12:44 AM | #324 |
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Finally saw Cloverfield last week. That was an interesting movie that i ended up enjoying.
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Saw it a couple of weeks ago, but I did see Chronicle. Great movie, IMO.
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