Random Film Thoughts Thread

[Black Narcissus]

I don't want to start a particular thread for every random movie, just a brief observation.

My favorite George Clooney film and performance is 'From Dusk Till Dawn'...He was still a tv star and seemed more willing to take chances. It seems like he is above these genre films now, and it's a damn shame. He was the best in it.

 

[Boy Scout]

I think people generally overstate how bad movies actually are. That isn't to state that awful movies don't exist, but I don't think that every movie that has even major problems are outright terrible.

 

[titansupes]

I think people generally overstate how bad movies actually are. That isn't to state that awful movies don't exist, but I don't think that every movie that has even major problems are outright terrible.

Internet folk and nitpicking/extremism. We live in the 'blogger' age where everything is either the greatest thing ever or the worst thing ever.

 

[gwynplaine]

I was just thinking that I would like to see a Columbo film or series of films with Mark Ruffalo or Sam Rockwell.

 

[StarLord]

I don't want to start a particular thread for every random movie, just a brief observation.

My favorite George Clooney film and performance is 'From Dusk Till Dawn'...He was still a tv star and seemed more willing to take chances. It seems like he is above these genre films now, and it's a damn shame. He was the best in it.

I agree and it would be great to see Clooney get back in the Tarantino/Rodriguez game. (Spy Kids doesn't count)

 

[Schlosser85]

I'd really like to see Christian Bale and Tom Hardy butt heads again in better roles (or where Hardy has a better role, as I thought TDKR wasted him).

I can really imagine them being awesome as clashing submarine officers in some K-19/Crimson Tide-style movie. Just imagine this claustrophic, intense submarine thriller, and Bale and Hardy getting up in each other's face and having a hardass contest. I'd watch the **** out of that.

Also, it's equally easy to picture either one of them as the "good guy" or "bad guy" in the situation (quotations because in the movies I referenced, it's not quite that cut-and-dried, but one character is a little more sympathetic).

Basically I'd just like to see Bale and Hardy work together again. They have some similarities in their demeanors and acting styles, IMO, and they seem to get along well (something neither necessarily always does with their co-stars).

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

I don't want to start a particular thread for every random movie, just a brief observation.

My favorite George Clooney film and performance is 'From Dusk Till Dawn'...He was still a tv star and seemed more willing to take chances. It seems like he is above these genre films now, and it's a damn shame. He was the best in it.

Same here. Loved his cockiness and confidence and his love for his brother no matter how nuts he was

Internet folk and nitpicking/extremism. We live in the 'blogger' age where everything is either the greatest thing ever or the worst thing ever.

Hit the nail on the head.

 

[KRYPTON INC.]

With film and TV now converging in so many ways I think it's about time that some series that warrant it, that have the sizable audience necessary should use the last episode of the season to lead into a film. That's what X-FILES: FIGHT THE FUTURE should have been but wasn't since it just wasn't very good.

 

[Black Narcissus]

Sean Penn has great performances under his belt, but I still find him best when he played the coward crooked lawyer in Carlito's Way.

 

[CyclopsWasRight]

What's the deal with long belated sequels or original cast members returning to roles after significant amounts of time?

Dumb and Dumber To with Carrey and Daniels
Terminator Genysis with Arnie
Star Wars Ep IV with Han, Luke and the others
Blade Runner sequel with Deckard
Bloomkamps Aliens sequel with Ripley and Hicks
Creed with Rocky

I'm half expecting a BTTF IV with Marty and Doc at this rate

 

[sueb1863]

What's the deal with long belated sequels or original cast members returning to roles after significant amounts of time?

Dumb and Dumber To with Carrey and Daniels
Terminator Genysis with Arnie
Star Wars Ep IV with Han, Luke and the others
Blade Runner sequel with Deckard
Bloomkamps Aliens sequel with Ripley and Hicks
Creed with Rocky

I'm half expecting a BTTF IV with Marty and Doc at this rate

It's even worse when the sequel is supposed to take place *before* the original movie. The Civil War movie Gods and Generals (2003) is supposed to take place before the movie Gettysburg (1993) but was filmed ten years later. They used most of the original Gettysburg cast and the time difference is pretty noticeable, especially in Jeff Daniels who starred as Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain. There wasn't much they could do about it except ignore it.

On the original topic, I think it's about time for a new big screen version of "A Tale of Two Cities" and I think James McAvoy would make an interesting Sydney Carton.

 

[Black Narcissus]

I would like to see Jeff Goldblum work with more great directors. He seems to only show up with Wes Anderson.

 

[Victarion]

I'll be disappointed if the Resident Evil movies don't end with an adaption of the island from Resident Evil 4 and a delightfully hammy Lord Saddler villain.

 

[DyeLorean]

I hate that same honk sound in every damn film. Movies that cost millions and millions and they still use those 100 year old stock sounds.