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 )
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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 )
"What's a cubit?".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.
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..I remember reading "Bored of the Rings" circa 1976!
However, I'm not a fair judge, and i couldn't appreciate it fully because I read LOTR after I read the lampoon. It was actually the original Bakshi cinematic adaptation, which I thought was quite visually inventive while dreadful in the storytelling, which lead me to read the books to get a glimmer of sense of what was going on..
I tried to like Jackson's The Hobbit after our total buy-in of LOTR.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..