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Sweet!Yes, but it was screened at Cannes earlier this month. Knowing Que, he most likely found it on a torrent site.This doesn't open until August 21, 2009.
I did this when people came into the video store to look for family movies - recommend 80s movies. Maybe I haven't watched that many PG movies recently, but it seems like they got away with more in the 80s. In BttF, you have smoking, drinking, kind of a rape scene, and some swearing. KK might not have as much but you have Johnny rolling up a joint at the dance and Mr. Myagi boozing it up. Again, maybe it's just because I haven't been watching family movies lately or it's because pg-13 was still new back then and it took awhile before they got it right, etc.Stand By Me is an 'R' movie, and probably shouldn't be in the mix for an 8yo IMO.SouthJersey said:
He needs to hook us up with this....jdoggydogg said:Sweet!hooter311 said:Yes, but it was screened at Cannes earlier this month. Knowing Que, he most likely found it on a torrent site.jdoggydogg said:QUEZILLA said:This doesn't open until August 21, 2009.
I know, right?He needs to hook us up with this....jdoggydogg said:Sweet!hooter311 said:Yes, but it was screened at Cannes earlier this month. Knowing Que, he most likely found it on a torrent site.jdoggydogg said:QUEZILLA said:This doesn't open until August 21, 2009.
I wanted to see Terminator, but it's getting very poor reviews. Hard to believe that the guy who gave us the Charlie's Angels masterpiece could screw up Terminator. And the name McG? I love it.
I haven't seen the Egoyan trailer. But I loved The Sweet Hereafter. So I will definitely check out the new flick on DVD.
Playing at only one theater in NYC despite NYTimes' Stephen Holden calling it Egoyan's best work since Sweet Hereafter (one of my favorite films)- and I'm with you in really digging the rest of his stuff too.
NO! Absolutely not!El Floppo said:
you got a phobia about baby-sitters, or is it really that bad?
this is a much better explanation than what I gave to my wife - no robots or karate
It's definitely not worth that kind of trouble. Wait to rent it.
apparently, it opened and closed in chicago in the span of a week. ugh.
what part of "rock opera" do you not understand?
What part of "Who decided to let the ACTORS sing their parts?" do you not understand? Because it would be impossible to have The Who perform the songs? Sorry to hurt your feelings, but that movie blows.
i'm not a fan of the film. i'm not much a fan of the band either. i just don't see why you're in the least bit surprised by the decision to let the actors sing? it is true to premise of the genre.
Maybe it's just that a)I hadn't seen it since I was a tyke, and b) I guess I just expected that if you are going to let the actors sing the parts, that they could actually sing. "Uncle" Frank was horrible. Ann Margaret's only saving grace is that she is hot as hell. Jack Nicholson is just about the only one in the movie (besides Daltry) that doesn't make your ears bleed. He even sounded better than Townshend, who is also horrible.
meh. the whole thing is a bit of a trainwreck. i only enjoyed Tina Turner's bit as the Acide Queen because it's pretty obvious that she's tweaked all to hell for the performance.
Good point. She, of course, can sing. And that part was decent (although the "robot" special effects and all that stuff don't really hold up, but I can overlook that when combined with everything else). The bottom line is, I think only fans of The Who would actually say that they enjoyed this movie, and a large percentage of those would be lying to themselves. It was just bad. I might have to revisit the Ann Margaret TV scene at a later date though, when I want to beat myself up a little bit. I'm just talkin. I was sitting there with the gf trying not to say "Damn, she was fine!!!!"
I will definitely see it. But maybe I'll wait for DVD.
Excellent movie. Dafoe is one of my favorite actors. Auto Focus features another great Dafoe role.
Don't forget Platoon. I was blown away by him in that.
Yeah, but that movie doesn't hold up very well.
I don't think so at all.Tom Berenger's evil resonates forever.
A bit too much Charlie Sheen... maybe that's the "not holding up" part of it?Everything with Defoe and Berenger was/is brilliant.
Not to take this tangent too much further, but pretty much all of Platoon is cliche after cliche. The acting (other than Sheen) is superb, but the screenplay is mostly BS. 90% of Vietnam vets will tell you they hate Oliver Stone and think that movie was total crap. The Deer Hunter is so vastly superior to Platoon, I'm embarrassed to mention them in the same sentence. While some of the scenes in Deer Hunter are beyond the realm of possibility, it's simply a film with a lot more to say. Platoon is best summed up as: 1) Vietnam was a mistake. 2) the US behaved horribly, particularly to civilians. 3) only a few soldiers had a moral compass. 4) Oliver Stone is the moral authority policing America's behavior for us. 5) oh yeah, in the middle of all the bad stuff we did, a bunch of our guys were shot and killed. let's not really dwell on that though.My advice: avoid Platoon, unless you haven't been around enough to know that a few war crimes were committed (similar to Schindler's List -- is anyone so clueless that they don't realize the Holocaust was a terrible event that killed millions and should never have happened, & should never be allowed to happen again?), go watch a better movie instead. If you want to see more about how war impacts people, go rent The Best Years of Our Lives or The Deer Hunter.
The Best Years of our Lives is a truly outstanding movie.
Despite what I said earlier, this is a really
Deer Hunter >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Platoon
How did you see this? downloaded some torrents, all fake.
Great roles in the movie and great moments. But if you hold it up against Full Metal Jacket or Apocalypse Now, it hasn't aged well.
I feel exactly the same way. I just saw it last night.
I agree that Dafoe and Berenger are great in the movie.
This is all correct. The best Vietnam movies (Deer Hunter, Full Metal Jacket, and Apocalypse Now) have urgent drama that will be relevant decades from now. Platoon made a splash when it came out. But some of the dialogue and drama look very silly upon a modern viewing.
