I watch movies regularly. I still enjoy going to the movie theater, and I'll watch movies on my own at home and I also regularly watch a movie with a friend online on Fridays. This month in new releases I've seen Paint, Renfield, Dungeons and Dragons, and The Super Mario Movie. Of those 4 I liked Dungeons and Dragons the most but none of them stuck to me.
With my friend, we watched the Twilight movie series, at my suggestion. I had never seen them and wanted to see if they were as bad as people said. Turns out they are.
Right now my most anticipated movie is Barbie, followed by Asteroid City. I'll put an asterisk on Asteroid City because I am feeling more and more that the director, Wes Anderson, is becoming a parody of himself. Still, I'll go in with an open mind. Oh, and Saw X because that movie series is ridiculous and jumped the shark so long ago so it's funny to see the next chapter of the gorey soap opera its become :p
Some of my favorite movies coming immediately to me are Inglorious Basters (cannot go wrong with Tarantino), Max Mad: Fury Road, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Prisoners, and Wreck-It Ralph. All of those movies made me leave the theater saying holy shit...
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I'd like to talk about this book - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wimpy_Kid_Movie_Diary
It's pretty smart. Jeff Kinney makes 4 bestsellers, then 3 motion pictures, then 3 books about those motion pictures. Then another motion picture, another BOOK about that motion picture, and by now he's already made 12 bestsellers.
If you need references on the movies - they're AWESOME!!!!!
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Movie - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZVEIgPeDCE
Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2: Rodrick Rules - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfRGA3koZs
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If you like 1990s black (15+) comedy, try Friday. Rated idfk I'm not American
If you like action, try (you guessed it) Die Hard 1-4. The 5th one is garbage. All Rated R
if you like comedy adventure, try the first 2 spongebob movies. Rated PG
If you like just straight comedy violence, try the Home Alone movies. Rated PG
if you like fantasy, try spy kids. Rated PG
Drama/thriller? The Good Son. Rated R.
Coming of age? Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Movie. Rated PG.
Space fantasy? Star Wars franchise. Probably Rated PG.
Family comedy romance (jesus christ!!)? Are We There Yet. Rated PG (should be PG-13)
Buddy cop story? Rush Hour. Rush Hour 2. Rush Hour. All rated PG-13
documentary? This Film Is Not Yet Rated. Not Rated. The irony in THAT
Something you've already watched Lazytown's New Superhero.Leave a comment:
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I recommend Dark Star, John Carpenter's first film. It's quite funny to me.Leave a comment:
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I haven't watched any movies lately. Perhaps this thread can give me some inspiration.
What I usually do is hang out in front of the TV and see what kind of programs come on, like series, talk shows, funny shows. I watch detective lately.Leave a comment:
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It's hard to overstate the impact Alien had on almost everything horror/scifi. It was coming on the heels of the benevolent ETs in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" and decades of Godzilla and Dracula/Wolfman type movies. Horror and sci fi movies were not actually scary for adults. Until Alien. Nobody saw that without jumping out of their seat several times during the film.
Well Jaws did it for non-sci fi first I suppose. I knew adults decades later who still would not go in the ocean after seeing Jaws and finding out real great white sharks can actually get significantly bigger than the one in the movie. I grew up in the Northeast U.S. and a large great white killed five or six people in a row there one year early in the 20th century. It even swam miles up a river/creek and got someone in what they thought was a safe area far from the ocean. After seeing Jaws people would read about sharks to try to dispel their fears and find out these huge things really were out there and they really did eat people.
This isn't a bad trailer, they don't show you the "monster", which is a prerequisite for a decent horror trailer, but it doesn't compare to the Alien one IMO.
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Hyping up? I don't understand what you mean.
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Woah. That's honestly really hyping up. And trailers nowadays do kinda suck, which is why whenever a movie from the 80s-00s gets a modernised trailer I hate itTrailers back then were much better than trailers today. They were not overlong, did not give you the sense that you had seen the whole movie just from watching the trailer, and made you want to go see the movie. The main thing trailers do today is make me not want to watch the film.
Here, in my opinion, is the best trailer of all time, the height of the trailer art, from 1979.
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Trailers back then were much better than trailers today. They were not overlong, did not give you the sense that you had seen the whole movie just from watching the trailer, and made you want to go see the movie. The main thing trailers do today is make me not want to watch the film.
Here, in my opinion, is the best trailer of all time, the height of the trailer art, from 1979.
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One thing I noticed is how crappy trailer editing is. Take Die Hard's US trailer for example. From 1:28-1:31, they just cut through the "motherfu___r" with a loud explosion so that audiences didn't hear the f bomb. At 1:33 of the SAME trailer, they did a crappy editing of the word 'sh**' and just muted everything. The 80s trailers were always goofy
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