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[skimom2]

Eva Mendes?

Yep. I had a brain fart--lol.

 

[skimom2]

Dope

Comedy / drama about three 90's obsessed hip hop geeks that find themselves in a sticky situation. Pretty funny. Zoe Kravitz is in it. She looks just like her mom (Lisa Bonet).

I've wanted to see that since it first came out

 

[Grandpa]

Misconduct. Josh Duhamel and Anthony Hopkins.

Jumbled, chaotic, tedious mess.

 

[blunthead]

Titanic (1997). For a reason I cannot recall I wanted to not like this movie when it came out. I assume that's because I haven't really liked James Cameron's writing (still don't). But damn if this isn't an incredible movie. The scenes of the engine room alone are worth the price of admission (remember, that's not an actual Titanic engine room; Cameron created that). The romance, which imho is insipid, is not the fundamental story. The real story is the tragedy, which the viewer subliminally realizes while being caught up in the rest. I think this is great direction. Apart from the engine room I haven't mentioned the other special visuals, which I think are essentially flawless.

 

[kingricefan]

Titanic (1997). For a reason I cannot recall I wanted to not like this movie when it came out. I assume that's because I haven't really liked James Cameron's writing (still don't). But damn if this isn't an incredible movie. The scenes of the engine room alone are worth the price of admission (remember, that's not an actual Titanic engine room; Cameron created that). The romance, which imho is insipid, is not the fundamental story. The real story is the tragedy, which the viewer subliminally realizes while being caught up in the rest. I think this is great direction. Apart from the engine room I haven't mentioned the other special visuals, which I think are essentially flawless.

Everybody knows what happens to the ship, and yet by the time you get to that part you've forgotten about it, so it still comes as rather a shock. I think the most disturbing scene for me was

Spoiler: spoiler

the victims floating in the water, like human popsicles. I mean, when they say that X amount of people went down with the ship, in my mind that meant that they went down, not floated atop the frigid water. It was heart-wrenching to me.

 

[kingricefan]

Watched The Fly with Jeff Goldbloom on bluray last night. I forgot how disgustingly gross this movie is, and yet it touches your heart with the tragedy that is at the center of this remake. I don't think there's any other movie that has really gross moments in it and yet will bring a tear to your eye.

 

[skimom2]

Titanic (1997). For a reason I cannot recall I wanted to not like this movie when it came out. I assume that's because I haven't really liked James Cameron's writing (still don't). But damn if this isn't an incredible movie. The scenes of the engine room alone are worth the price of admission (remember, that's not an actual Titanic engine room; Cameron created that). The romance, which imho is insipid, is not the fundamental story. The real story is the tragedy, which the viewer subliminally realizes while being caught up in the rest. I think this is great direction. Apart from the engine room I haven't mentioned the other special visuals, which I think are essentially flawless.

I thought pretty much the same when the movie came out: I'd heard about it ad nauseum for so long that I vowed never to see the damn thing. I eventually did, when my girls went through their Titanic phase, and it wasn't horrible. The first hour wasn't my favorite, but once the ship starts to sink I quite like it. And

Spoiler

the mother putting the two little ones to bed and singing when she knows they are going to die

always makes me cry.

 

[muskrat]

Titanic (1997). For a reason I cannot recall I wanted to not like this movie when it came out. I assume that's because I haven't really liked James Cameron's writing (still don't). But damn if this isn't an incredible movie. The scenes of the engine room alone are worth the price of admission (remember, that's not an actual Titanic engine room; Cameron created that). The romance, which imho is insipid, is not the fundamental story. The real story is the tragedy, which the viewer subliminally realizes while being caught up in the rest. I think this is great direction. Apart from the engine room I haven't mentioned the other special visuals, which I think are essentially flawless.

So now, at the end of The Unsinkable Molly Brown, when Debbie Reynolds is in the lifeboat, all gloating and beaming, saying ,"I'm unsinkable!", I'm just like, "Good for you. Too bad all the poor people sank like freaking stones, ya annoying chit."

 

[sam peebles]

Watched Trainkwreck and the most recent Mission Impossible.

Both of them were kinda...bleh. Not bad, but I have no desire to see either again and I doubt I'll remember much about them.

 

[danie]

ya annoying chit

Hahaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

 

[Neil W]

Titanic (1997). For a reason I cannot recall I wanted to not like this movie when it came out. I assume that's because I haven't really liked James Cameron's writing (still don't). But damn if this isn't an incredible movie. The scenes of the engine room alone are worth the price of admission (remember, that's not an actual Titanic engine room; Cameron created that). The romance, which imho is insipid, is not the fundamental story. The real story is the tragedy, which the viewer subliminally realizes while being caught up in the rest. I think this is great direction. Apart from the engine room I haven't mentioned the other special visuals, which I think are essentially flawless.

It was a clever idea to give us characters who we cared about in order for us to personally identify with someone as the tragedy played out, but for them not to be real-life people, which would have generated accusations of insensitivity.

My personal Titanic anecdote is actually about Spartacus. Having never seen the whole thing, I went to see the remastered version at our local multiscreen several years ago. I got there early, sat in the centre of an emty auditorium, and buried myself in my book for 20 minutes. Or so I hoped.

After 5 minutes, this bloke comes in, has a good look round, comes up the stairs halfway, and sits right next to me. In an empty cinema. I nodded acknowledgement and pointedly carried on reading. No matter, to him.

"This is a long film, isn't it?" he said.
"Mmhmm."
"They don't do that many long films, do they?"
"Nmm."
"Titanic was long, wasn't it? Over 3 hours."
"Mmhmm."
"Mind you, they cut it for TV. It was less than two hours."

At that point I'd had enough.

"Actually, they didn't cut it. Movies are filmed at 24 frames per second, and they're shown in the cinema at 24 frames a second. But TV shows them at 25 frames a second because electricity is at 50 cycles [I remember reading something to that effect, although I was essentially bullshitting that bit] and the frame rate differential is so small that it makes no perceptible difference to the viewer - persistence of vision isn't affected once you're over 48 frames per second which, with the twin bladed projector shutter doubling each projected frame up from 24 frames per second to 48 images per second, is the case. But that frame rate differential of 1/24 - one additional frame very second - it makes a significant difference to the subjective length of a 3-hour-plus movie. So while it's over 3 hours in the cinema, it's under 3 hours on TV, but you haven't missed a single frame - it's not cut at all. Same on DVD/Blu-ray, they are also viewed at 25 frames per second as they are dependent on the same 50 cycles - "

He got up and moved somewhere else.

 

[blunthead]

It was a clever idea to give us characters who we cared about in order for us to personally identify with someone as the tragedy played out, but for them not to be real-life people, which would have generated accusations of insensitivity.

My personal Titanic anecdote is actually about Spartacus. Having never seen the whole thing, I went to see the remastered version at our local multiscreen several years ago. I got there early, sat in the centre of an emty auditorium, and buried myself in my book for 20 minutes. Or so I hoped.

After 5 minutes, this bloke comes in, has a good look round, comes up the stairs halfway, and sits right next to me. In an empty cinema. I nodded acknowledgement and pointedly carried on reading. No matter, to him.

"This is a long film, isn't it?" he said.
"Mmhmm."
"They don't do that many long films, do they?"
"Nmm."
"Titanic was long, wasn't it? Over 3 hours."
"Mmhmm."
"Mind you, they cut it for TV. It was less than two hours."

At that point I'd had enough.

"Actually, they didn't cut it. Movies are filmed at 24 frames per second, and they're shown in the cinema at 24 frames a second. But TV shows them at 25 frames a second because electricity is at 50 cycles [I remember reading something to that effect, although I was essentially bullshitting that bit] and the frame rate differential is so small that it makes no perceptible difference to the viewer - persistence of vision isn't affected once you're over 48 frames per second which, with the twin bladed projector shutter doubling each projected frame up from 24 frames per second to 48 images per second, is the case. But that frame rate differential of 1/24 - one additional frame very second - it makes a significant difference to the subjective length of a 3-hour-plus movie. So while it's over 3 hours in the cinema, it's under 3 hours on TV, but you haven't missed a single frame - it's not cut at all. Same on DVD/Blu-ray, they are also viewed at 25 frames per second as they are dependent on the same 50 cycles - "

He got up and moved somewhere else.

Fascinating.

 

[Neesy]

It was a clever idea to give us characters who we cared about in order for us to personally identify with someone as the tragedy played out, but for them not to be real-life people, which would have generated accusations of insensitivity.

My personal Titanic anecdote is actually about Spartacus. Having never seen the whole thing, I went to see the remastered version at our local multiscreen several years ago. I got there early, sat in the centre of an emty auditorium, and buried myself in my book for 20 minutes. Or so I hoped.

After 5 minutes, this bloke comes in, has a good look round, comes up the stairs halfway, and sits right next to me. In an empty cinema. I nodded acknowledgement and pointedly carried on reading. No matter, to him.

"This is a long film, isn't it?" he said.
"Mmhmm."
"They don't do that many long films, do they?"
"Nmm."
"Titanic was long, wasn't it? Over 3 hours."
"Mmhmm."
"Mind you, they cut it for TV. It was less than two hours."

At that point I'd had enough.

"Actually, they didn't cut it. Movies are filmed at 24 frames per second, and they're shown in the cinema at 24 frames a second. But TV shows them at 25 frames a second because electricity is at 50 cycles [I remember reading something to that effect, although I was essentially bullshitting that bit] and the frame rate differential is so small that it makes no perceptible difference to the viewer - persistence of vision isn't affected once you're over 48 frames per second which, with the twin bladed projector shutter doubling each projected frame up from 24 frames per second to 48 images per second, is the case. But that frame rate differential of 1/24 - one additional frame very second - it makes a significant difference to the subjective length of a 3-hour-plus movie. So while it's over 3 hours in the cinema, it's under 3 hours on TV, but you haven't missed a single frame - it's not cut at all. Same on DVD/Blu-ray, they are also viewed at 25 frames per second as they are dependent on the same 50 cycles - "

He got up and moved somewhere else.

Well - that worked, didn't it? Good on you! Well done!

 

[Neesy]

Fascinating.

 

[DiO'Bolic]

‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (1992)

Wasn't impressed, but what surprised me in addition to all the now big-name cast members, were the uncredited ones that I noticed had parts... Ben Affleck, Alexis Arquette, Seth Green, Ricki Lake, and Slash (as the DJ).

 

[Doc Creed]

The Big Lebowski on Sundance.

 

[Tery]

‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ (1992)

Wasn't impressed, but what surprised me in addition to all the now big-name cast members, were the uncredited ones that I noticed had parts... Ben Affleck, Alexis Arquette, Seth Green, Ricki Lake, and Slash (as the DJ).

Yeah, the movie is meh. But the TV series made up for it.

 

[morgan]

The Big Lebowski on Sundance.

A classic!

 

[Doc Creed]

A classic!

"Am I wrong? Am I wrong?"

 

[Tery]

I'll have a White Russian, please