Supermovie Topic

[Mysterious F.]

Really? I heard the majority of fans who saw the film didn't like it. Anyway:

• It looks ugly, moving through very disgusting makeup, obscure looking sets, laughable costumes, and mediocre special effects for a big-budget film.
  
• The script is an insult to the English language. So bad, in fact, we can just throw good acting out the window from the get-go.
  
• Can anyone make any sense of the plot? The novel is supposed to be incredibly long and complex, and it's incredibly wrong-headed for a movie not even two and a half hours to try and contain all of it. Several plot points and characters simply come and go without actually amounting to anything at all.
  
• Director David Lynch and producer Dino De Laurentiis can't agree on what direction this movie should go; Lynch wanted another one of his gloriously obscure films, but Dino wanted a new Star Wars. It just ends up all over the place.
  
  I'm sure it would be a lot easier to follow if you read the books; I haven't, though, so I couldn't.

[The Glamour Nazi]

I meant geeks would linch you for bashing Dune altogether. I'm sure they hated the movie, but it's still Dune. I read part of one of the books and liked it, so long as you don't bash the books you're fine.

But yeah, judging by what you say I wouldn't like the movie.

[Mysterious F.]

So in honor of today's Oscars, my ten best and ten worst Best Pictures:

The Best:
1. Sunrise (1927-1928) - Sublime.
2. The Last Emperor (1987) - Visually magnificent.
3. The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) - Amazingly touching.
4. Unforgiven (1992) - Powerful stuff.
5. All Quiet on the Western Front (1929-1930) - The most influential of all war films.
6. Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - The desert! The desert!
7. Gone with the Wind (1939) - No one doesn't give a damn about this gem.
8. Out of Africa (1985) - Streep and Redford! What a couple!
9. Mutiny on the Bounty (1935) - So what if it is innacurate?
10. Annie Hall (1977) - There's a spider in the bathroom.

The Worst:
74. Forrest Gump (1994) - Stupid is as stupid does.
75. The Greatest Show on Earth (1952) - Backstage circus melodrama.
76. The Hurt Locker (2009) - OMG another bomb! Didn't see that coming...
77. Chicago (2002) - Most of the numbers are just awful.
78. Cavalcade (1932-1933) - The maid's voice is so annoying...
79. The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003) - I prefer playing video games to watching them.
80. Cimarron (1930-1931) - The only movie about cultural acceptance that is loaded with stereotypes.
81. No Country for Old Men (2007) - It failed to thrill me or make me think about anything.
82. Crash (2005) - Magic invisible blankets can defeat bullets!
83. Gladiator (2000) - I am not entertained!

[MagmarFire]

• Can anyone make any sense of the plot? The novel is supposed to be incredibly long and complex, and it's incredibly wrong-headed for a movie not even two and a half hours to try and contain all of it. Several plot points and characters simply come and go without actually amounting to anything at all.
  
• Director David Lynch and producer Dino De Laurentiis can't agree on what direction this movie should go; Lynch wanted another one of his gloriously obscure films, but Dino wanted a new Star Wars. It just ends up all over the place.
  

Sounds like a bad case of adaptation decay. Yikes.

[Mysterious F.]

Also, on Dune, there are times when you randomly here what the characters are thinking during a scene.

Saw another Best Picture winner today - Shakespeare in Love. (1998) Yes, that's right, the movie that won over Saving Private Ryan. Shakespeare, while experiencing writer's block during the writing of a new play, Romeo and Julliet, falls in love with a young woman who disguises herself as a man in the Theatre in the Round. (Remember, women weren't allowed to act back then) Most of the movie is taken up by pretentious Shakespeare references (Shakespeare tells her than he loves her while she is on a balcony) and middlebrow messages about artists and underdogs and what have you. Still, the cast if fairly excellent and sometimes the film manages to be affecting, and at least it stayed true to the artist and the spirit of his material, unlike another overrated Best Picture winner, Amadeus. (1984) 5/10

I have 18 winners left to view, and plan on finishing by the end of the year. You can see what you have and have not seen on this checklist.

[Mysterious F.]

My DVD purchases today:

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) 10/10
The Far Country (1955) Blind Buy 9/10
Mulholland Dr. (2001) 9/10
My Neighbor Totoro (1988) 9/10
Two Lovers (2008) Blind Buy 9/10
Unforgiven (1992) 10/10

[The Glamour Nazi]

I love my Neighbor Totoro.

[Mysterious F.]

I thought most of you would enjoy this.

Norton's list goes to show that I still really need to see Ruggles of Red Gap, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and The King of Comedy.

[Pale Dim]

I saw "How to train your Dragon" last night (on a date with my new GF), and I found it pretty enjoyable! There are sme parts that kids shouldn't see however, but nothin too gruesome!

Funny movie. If your into humor, go see it.

[Hi no Seijin]

It has dragons in it, and it's by Dreamworks.  Of course I plan on seeing it.

Did the dragon from Shrek get a cameo appearance?

[Pale Dim]

Sadly, I can't say that she did. But it's still worth watching.

[The Glamour Nazi]

I saw "How to train your Dragon" last night (on a date with my new GF), and I found it pretty enjoyable! There are sme parts that kids shouldn't see however, but nothin too gruesome!

Funny movie. If your into humor, go see it.

If you read the book "How to Train Your Dragon" then go see it just to see how they completely mutilated the story.

If there is anything to go on by the commercials then it's been gutted so bad 4-kids wouldn't recognize it.

Not saying it wouldn't be good. Just not true to the original story.

I mean, what happened to Toothless? He's like, 9 feet tall! He was only about 3 in the story.

XD Sorry, rambling.

[MagmarFire]

It has dragons in it, and it's by Dreamworks.  Of course I plan on seeing it.

Ditto. I want to see it. :<

If you read the book "How to Train Your Dragon" then go see it just to see how they completely mutilated the story.

If there is anything to go on by the commercials then it's been gutted so bad 4-kids wouldn't recognize it.

Not saying it wouldn't be good. Just not true to the original story.

I mean, what happened to Toothless? He's like, 9 feet tall! He was only about 3 in the story.

XD Sorry, rambling.

Wait, it's based on another story?

Wow, talk about epic adaptation displacement.

[Twilight Wolf]

Happened to me with both Twilight and Watchmen. Sort of.

[The Glamour Nazi]

Wait, it's based on another story?

Wow, talk about epic adaptation displacement.

Yeah, i told my friend about it, he read the book and was like, "OHEMEFFGEE TIHS MOVEE SOCKS"

So yeah, I doubt the movie was horrible, but the book was better. (Usually how it is.)