I haven't seen it. I take Steve's word on it.Maximum Overdrive always makes me laugh, so I consider it a success--lol! It's awful in a hilarious way, and the soundtrack ROCKS (love AC/DC)
The movie that didn't make it for you
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I've said this before so I'll say it again. Having watched a SK movie or two, I had no desire to read the stories. Why would I want to read something I'd already seen on the silver screen? The operating assumption here is that a movie should follow a story to the letter and if not, hell's bells. The only time I read a book after a movie...is in the case of Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey. Actually, maybe I read the book, my Aunt Bea saw I had it, and asked to borrow it as she'd seen the movie and couldn't make heads or tails out of the ending. I think I had that ending in mind when I got to the top of the tower, truth be told. I did see the movie years later.
If you were to post this same question...that I'd need to go back to read again...so this might not make sense...but say if you ask the non-reader about the movie, I'd hazard they'd say they loved it. Doesn't movie sales support this idea? How do ticket sales compare to books sales? So yay, verily, let us go then, you and I, and hold God to the 7-day timeline when a thousand years is like a year (or a day) to the Big Guy and ignore the rock in the garden.
If you were to post this same question...that I'd need to go back to read again...so this might not make sense...but say if you ask the non-reader about the movie, I'd hazard they'd say they loved it. Doesn't movie sales support this idea? How do ticket sales compare to books sales? So yay, verily, let us go then, you and I, and hold God to the 7-day timeline when a thousand years is like a year (or a day) to the Big Guy and ignore the rock in the garden.
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Hm. I saw "The Bible," directed by John Huston, in 1966. The Catholic school still made me read that book.
Side note: At that time, Bill Cosby's album, "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow... RIGHT" was popular, and we liked it a lot. He did a Noah skit where God says, "Noah!" Hm. Whatever. "Noah!" "Who is that?" "It's the Lord, Noah." "....... RIIIGGGHHT."
So my parents and I are watching the movie, and Huston, playing Noah, is out in the lumberyard or wherever. And then the voice comes down, "Noah!" My dad and I start snickering, and you could hear scattered muted laughing around the theater. Everyone else was wondering, what the hell? Then again, "Noah," and we couldn't hold it back any longer.
Side note: At that time, Bill Cosby's album, "Bill Cosby is a very funny fellow... RIGHT" was popular, and we liked it a lot. He did a Noah skit where God says, "Noah!" Hm. Whatever. "Noah!" "Who is that?" "It's the Lord, Noah." "....... RIIIGGGHHT."
So my parents and I are watching the movie, and Huston, playing Noah, is out in the lumberyard or wherever. And then the voice comes down, "Noah!" My dad and I start snickering, and you could hear scattered muted laughing around the theater. Everyone else was wondering, what the hell? Then again, "Noah," and we couldn't hold it back any longer.
This was a great read (okay audio) but when i sat down with my bucket of popcorn to watch the much anticipated WWZ i nearly threw said bucket of popcorn at the screen. What a load of drivel - AND NO 'BATTLE OF YONKERS!' I was actually depressed for days -
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Grandpa,have to add that I just rented the Hobbit..couldn't make it to the movies,so watched it tonight..and am pretty disappointed.This,after I spouted off earlier in this thread about the need for directors to have some leeway..but good lord,this was beyond the pale.They spent so much time screwing around with the new lady elf and her new infatuation with Kili and that whole mess,the ridiculuous river chase and interminal time spent in river town..and the nonsense with Smaug and that whole chase scene.Jackson has gone way over the line,clearly sacrificing the story for silly "cool" video effects.I think he forgot what people loved about the original LOTR series,and that was sticking pretty close to the story line.Such a shame..there are little moments,like when Bilbo sticks his head out of the forest canopy,they could have made a great visually stunning movie but instead it is the same old action movie cgi schlock..
The Running Man was awful.
And since it was made in the 80s, it has one of those awful, too loud 80s music soundtracks. So many 80s movies have those terrible synth soundtracks that are so loud, they overpower the movie.
And since it was made in the 80s, it has one of those awful, too loud 80s music soundtracks. So many 80s movies have those terrible synth soundtracks that are so loud, they overpower the movie.
I tried to like Jackson's The Hobbit after our total buy-in of LOTR.
Let's just say there was a good 20 minutes during the movie that the main battle was between me and Morpheus, and we didn't watch The Desolation of Smaug, and we're wondering if we even want to watch the video now.
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Yeah,twas the desolation I was referring to,but you are absolutely right, the first in the series was no better.. disappointed..