Dukester wrote:so how did he do so well with american graffiti?
what happened to that guy?
Did he write it? I ask, cause I don't know. Dialog was fairly basic anyway.
Good question, I don't know either, but it was the success of that movie that gave him the pull to do Star Wars.
Still, I saw Star Wars when it came out in 76 and I was 15. While the originals seem better to me than the last 3 prequals, the dialogue in the first three was pretty crappy. What saved him was having discovered Harrison Ford who could pull off that crappy writing.
However, I'm in agreement with the camp stating, let Lucas handle the effects and let anyone else hands the script writing.
Might be good to mention Lucas only had full hand in New Hope (of the original trilogy). Empire and Jedi was written by him but adapted to screenplay and directed by professionals. it shows.
Briefly a costume drama where the two sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scartlet Johansson) Boleyn, driven by family ambition, compete for the King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
Lions For Lambs = 6/10 - I didn't really get the point of this film and it just...ended. It seemed to rehash old (2 year old) news and ideas about the Iraq war and applying them to Afghanistan (Tom Cruise's character talked about a "new strategy" that was basically nothing more than what Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc were saying before the war even started in terms of "small mobile special forces" doing the job).
At the end didn't seem to have a point other than to say "Don't join the military if you have half a brain cause you'll die injured and half-frozen in the Afghanistan mountains and it's a waste of your potential".
Briefly a costume drama where the two sisters, Anne (Natalie Portman) and Mary (Scartlet Johansson) Boleyn, driven by family ambition, compete for the King Henry VIII (Eric Bana).
Impressed I was 9/10
Worth your time IMO
I really wanted to see this but I missed out... I'm glad to hear it was good though
Awake 5/10
It was a clever idea and would be fucked up if it happened but.... I dunno, Jessica Alba was in it
Not a movie I know, being form an old TV show it probably doesn't qualify for the thread but....... it is an old OUTER LIMITS episode I scored off the 'net somewhere a long time ago.
It's been sitting on my HDD, even through a couple of rebuilds, it's got to be a while.
Great to see again, been 40 years I suppose black and white and so crystal clear in digital (plasma and PVR technology)
Here's a pic for those of you who saw the episode to remind you.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - 8/10 - Good film, very enjoyable. Cassey Afleck got on my tits a bit but Brad Pitt was quite awesome...
Just got back from seeing Spanish 28 Days Later / Blair Witch crossover "[REC]".
You know a foreign film's good when you quickly forget you're reading subtitles.
Incredibly tense with some genuine scares.
One for Jackal I reckon.
There Will be Blood 7.5 / 10 - Great acting, interesting story, just not cohesive enough. I was also high when I watched it, tho it's because I was on a plane, so the smallish lower definition screen probably didn't help.
Also:
Lions for Lambs 8.5/10 - Excellent story great acting and a good if not much talked about point.
Dark Metal wrote:
Lions for Lambs 8.5/10 - Excellent story great acting and a good if not much talked about point.
What was the point they were trying to make? I watched it, liked it, but didn't get the point other than "Don't join the military if you have a brain."
I found the point to be that if America can't fix what's happening at home, how can they fix the rest of the world. Those two joined to make a point, that everyone in America should volunteer for a year to make the country a better place, how the Politicians are more worried about themselves then the People and the Middle class and up are mostly worried about living the good life they feel entitled to. That's what I got from it.
Live Free or Die Hard
7/10
Totally unbelievable and completely convaluted, but the stunts and effects were great, I was totally stoked to watch McClain in action again, but it didn't exactly have that "Die Hard" feel.
AvP Requiem: 2/10. An 5-ton ironclad turd. Apparently, Shane Salerno missed the day they taught storytelling at the Screenwriters-R-Us weekend seminar.
Mat Linnett wrote:Just got back from seeing Spanish 28 Days Later / Blair Witch crossover "[REC]".
You know a foreign film's good when you quickly forget you're reading subtitles.
Incredibly tense with some genuine scares.
One for Jackal I reckon.
Whoa whoa whoa. What is this? It sounds right up my alley. Is it on video?
Hogfather - I'm not sure what to rate this film. It gets slow in a few parts and there are a few bits that are badly done but I still like it. I've watched it twice and will probably watch it again. It terms of liking it, I'd give it a 7/10. In terms of film and story it probably deserves 4/10.
black and white and so crystal clear in digital (plasma and PVR technology)
