Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[sb]

 

finally saw all the harry potter movies. dont know what all the fuss was about. the movies were average. i thought the final film would have more action but it was a let down.

my rating: 6/10

I have to agree. I was a huge fan of the books growing up but I never really liked the films.

i have heard similar comments from people that read the books.

 

[toogoon23]

 
i have heard similar comments from people that read the books.

From my experience the book is always better than the film. The only exception I can think of is The Graduate with Dustin Hoffman where the film is superior. 

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I liked Fight Club the movie better than the book.

 

[auszero]

I liked Fight Club the movie better than the book.

So did the author of the book.

 

[cronicmolemolereturns]

Again.. Jonah Hill deserves awards for his supporting role in Wolf of Wall st.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

I liked Fight Club the movie better than the book.

So did the author of the book.

Yeah, it's the ending and the overall flow of the movie that does it for me. Fincher did a great job putting that story together on screen, and that ending is so much more fulfilling than in the book.

 

[lawdog1]

I've read all the Potter books and seen all the films. While I've enjoyed all the movies, they pale in comparison to the books.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Jesse Plemons has a face for radio.

 

[crazy ebw]

Plemons ain't no Jedi

 

[iYen]

 
Can someone give me a spoiler free review of Elysium?

It's awesome.

 

[jayfiend]

Elysium started out slow IMO. But it ended very good.

 

[diabolicaldeezy]

Just Finished Wolf 

 

[noskey]

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

at the rumor tho.

 

[kspar]

 

 
a while ago some of you said i should look into battlestar galactica (tv serie). there are like a couple different ones on imdb. which one should i start off with? this one?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407362/

good lookin' out 

 

elysium was great. 

 

[youngdoc]

I was disappointed by Elysium. It was ok but not great. Im not sure what was missing exactly but I never felt invested. I expected more

 

[kspar]

I was disappointed by Elysium. It was ok but not great. Im not sure what was missing exactly but I never felt invested. I expected more

they did kinda rush it. like the people in power were said to be very strong etc. but it took like a few dudes to take them down. 

 

[danger style]

Caught Inside Llewyn Davis yesterday.

It was alright, I really enjoyed the music and the performances were great, but I don't know if I was completely satisfied with the narrative.

 

[danger style]

quenEXCLUSIVE: Here’s a bit of fun gossip surfacing in Golden Globes weekend. Whenever Quentin Tarantino completes a new script, it’s an event accompanied by great fanfare, partly because his scripts are so damned fun to read. The drums have begun beating on his next film. Here’s what I am hearing. None of it is entirely confirmed but I believe it. It is definitely a Western, and the working title I’m hearing is The Hateful Eight. Tarantino has finished a draft, and is in the process of showing it to a handful of actors he wants for the picture. He usually does this, gets feedback and goes back in and hones his work. I’m so far hearing he’s got two actors in mind.

bdernOne isn’t a surprise: Christoph Waltz, whom Tarantino helped transform from an Austrian character actor into a two-time Oscar winning star of Inglourious Basterds and Django Unchained. The other name I’m hearing is Bruce Dern. I sure do hope the latter is true. Here is a guy who, at the age of 77 and after a career worth of distinguished mostly supporting performances, has emerged as a Best Actor frontrunner in Alexander Payne‘s Nebraska. I sat with Dern recently, and he is as razor sharp as ever and has an encyclopedic memory for Hollywood lore and his place in this world. This has made him the perfect candidate for a ‘comeback’– he is still so on his game — and a handful of directors who are resourceful in their casting like Payne and Tarantino are very astute in recognizing that. Tarantino likely has several months left to hammer out the shooting script so nothing gets finalized until then. At that point, Harvey Weinstein gets involved in funding it, most likely with a partner for foreign territories. Sony Pictures was the most recent partner, with Django Unchained, after Universal shared Inglorious Basterds with TWC. No comment from the principals on this, but stay tuned.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/que...reating-buzz-and-another-turn-for-bruce-dern/

News isn't concrete enough to warrant a thread but..

 

[crazy ebw]

Sounding like a classic

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Tarantino appeared on Leno back in November & spoke briefly about his next project being a western (53 second mark).






He was once rumored to be trying to adapt Elmore Leonard's 40 Lashes Less One. Not sure if this is what he's working on.

http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplayl...re-films-of-quentin-tarantino-20130327?page=2

But it seems like the one that got closest to production was one of Leonard’s westerns, the 1972 novel, "40 Lashes Less One." The book concerns two prisoners — an Apache and a black former soldier — that while on death row, are given a chance to be set free if they can hunt down and kill the five worst outlaws in the west (shades of “Kill Bill,” and now ‘Django’). In 2000, rumors were flying that Tarantino was clandestinely making the film in Mexico, and in May 2001, a vague post on QT’s former writing partner Roger Avary’s blog led people to think the film would be playing at Cannes. However, Cannes came and there was no sign of any Tarantino film. Soon the call came from his people to confirm that there was no such film in the works. That said, there was some fire where there was smoke. In 2007, Tarantino said he now owns the rights, had completed 20 pages of a script, and “still might do it sometime.” Whether that’s the case still is a bigger question. He may have scratched his western itch with “Django Unchained” (then again, maybe not; see below) and he told Charlie Rose in 2009 that he will never direct another adaptation, having felt in retrospect, slightly emotionally removed from "Jackie Brown" because it was not his own original work. If he changes his mind about that for anything, we'd guess it’ll be for another Leonard adaptation, but our gut says that this particular title is too close to his other work to become a priority.

 

[jj jumpman 23]

suggestion: watch the movie Gravity if you haven't already.
thank me later.

 

[Hahahaha]

Anchorman 2 was painful to watch. I was bored the entire time. Two hours and very few laughs. Wish I never saw it. Huge fan of the first but this was a tragedy.



Kanye's part was so small and he was still awful I couldn't believe how bad he was in such a short role

 

[CP1708]

Fassbender now being in talks for Star Wars.

Thrawn please.

 

[sb]

Plemons ain't no Jedi

 

[japanair21]

Fassbender now being in talks for Star Wars.

Thrawn please.

Fassbender would be a perfect member of the Sith.