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The most fun I had at a recent Russell Crowe flick was the "Nice Guys" with Ryan Gossling .. a quite funny black comedy, cheap to rent online if you are in the mood for light entertainment.
 
An old favorite - THEM! I can probably trace my lifetime love of creature feature movies back to a first watch of this way back in about 1969 when I was 11.
 
Awooga! Awooga!​

Another JunkMonkey Public Service Announcement!

If you are ever unfortunate enough to find yourself being given the chance to watch a 2016 film called Interstellar Wars (aka Independence Wars: Insurgence) do not take it! Please! Spare yourself a lot of pain and suffering. It is a very bad film. A very very bad film. Not one of those so bad it's funny films it's just very very very bad. Home movie bad. (Literally, I suspect, given the producer/director also 'acts' and shares a surname with one of the leads who - when she isn't appearing in s**t like this - is one of the world's foremost Parrot Vloggers). It's one of those films that make you realise what all those people who appear in the end credits of real movies actually contribute to the movie making process. People like: make up artists, continuity people, sound mixers, whatever the job description of whoever is responsible for making sure aged actors' false teeth are glued in properly... all those sort of people. They are employed for a reason!

In the whole of its 80 minute running time this film has only one redeeming feature - the (incredibly unconvincing) lesbian couple in it survive. That's it. The film doesn't suffer from dead Lesbian Syndrome.

Another film I have watched so other people don't have to.

Here to help you avoid it are its current known disguises:


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We saw Venom last Saturday: not terrible, about as expected.
More enjoyable was an old dvd we found in a used store: Death Defying Acts. Very good acting, here.
 
Lynch's Dune is not nearly faithful enough as an adaptation, however, it is absolutely gorgeous and Lynch got the look I had in my head nearly perfectly. I know Lynch has washed his hands of it, but I still think he got more right than wrong.
 
Just make sure you don't watch the TV edit. Lynch had his name taken off it and it's credited to Alan Smithee. It is pretty much unwatchable - but does include scenes and shots not in the cinema cut - some without SFX added so the Fremen's eyes are often not blue.

It's another of those things I have sat through so other people don't have to. It was hard work.
 
There's a fan edit (or was) on the internet of all the versions into one ~4 hr version that tries to remedy many of the problems. I still haven't watched that version yet.
 
Vince W said:
There's a fan edit (or was) on the internet of all the versions into one ~4 hr version that tries to remedy many of the problems. I still haven't watched that version yet.
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was that the version with hand drawn story boards and readings clipped from the audio book to fill in all the stuff missing from the book in the film? I saw bits of it used in a youtube vlog disecting the film
 
Windshadow said:
was that the version with hand drawn story boards and readings clipped from the audio book to fill in all the stuff missing from the book in the film? I saw bits of it used in a youtube vlog disecting the film
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The hand drawn bits were added for the UK television airing in order to explain some of the back story.
 
We started the Twin Peaks reboot last night: first two episodes not too bad. We appreciated Bad Dale. :cool:I'm not really a fan of camp, though I do like the apocalyptic stuff.
To me, INLAND EMPIRE is the most interesting by far of his films; Mulholland Drive, the tidiest. He gets great performances from his actresses.
 
Prompted by a discussion on a Doctor Who thread hereabouts about Universal Translators I watched The Last Starfighter with my two youngest kids tonight. The nine year old baled after the only gooey/gruesome shot in the film (he doesn't like) but 14 year old Number Two Daughter thought it was great. And it is. I was surprised how well it played. Good scriptwriting.
 
the new version of A Star Is Born.
Pro: story well told, kept me watching.
Con: didn't care about either character, didn't believe the relationship, didn't like the music.
5/10.
 
JunkMonkey said:
Prompted by a discussion on a Doctor Who thread hereabouts about Universal Translators I watched The Last Starfighter with my two youngest kids tonight. The nine year old baled after the only gooey/gruesome shot in the film (he doesn't like) but 14 year old Number Two Daughter thought it was great. And it is. I was surprised how well it played. Good scriptwriting.
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Great film. It holds up very well. I believe it was also the first film to use CGI effects. I may be wrong though.
 
Vince W said:
Great film. It holds up very well. I believe it was also the first film to use CGI effects. I may be wrong though.
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As I recall it was the first to use only CGI for model shots. Tron from 3 years earlier used a lot of CGI but nowhere near as much. Again from memory: Only 25% of the 'CGI' stuff in Tron was done in the computer. 75% was traditional hand-drawn. It was still cheaper and faster, in 1975, to get skilled animators to paint stuff than it was to do things that, these days, any idiot can do in Photoshop in minutes.
 
JunkMonkey said:
As I recall it was the first to use only CGI for model shots. Tron from 3 years earlier used a lot of CGI but nowhere near as much. Again from memory: Only 25% of the 'CGI' stuff in Tron was done in the computer. 75% was traditional hand-drawn. It was still cheaper and faster, in 1975, to get skilled animators to paint stuff than it was to do things that, these days, any idiot can do in Photoshop in minutes.
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I thought Tron had used CGI, but I knew there was something relating to CGI with The Last Starfighter.
 
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