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Re:Ask Matty
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"Do you prefer straightforward storytelling or more experimental attempts at telling the story? "
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"Hulk was fucking awful... I considered it but I've never gotten Ang Lee. I've never been in to any of his movies, that I've seen, so I left it off. "
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The Incredible Hulk
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"Planet of the Apes - Tim Burton.The Brothers Grimm - Terry Gilliam Bad News Bears - Richard LinklaterPsycho - Gus Van SantMost Woody Allen Movies Strange how great directors fuck up so many remakes. What do you think? "
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Shoot 'Em Up
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"Imagine if the big ending in Hot Fuzz got turned in to an almost-2 hour movie, but more ridiculous.Then make that movie a whole lot stupider and you get this one.It wasn't bad... I guess. It was well made. Roughly every action scene had a gimmick and each one was clever. Mostly, though, the movie was fucking weird. Weird that it got made, weird that someone could think of it in the first place... everything that happened was weird...If it had been half an hour shorter it might have played as a brilliant satire on modern action flicks... but it was too long, the plot (while retarded) was too talked-about, and the score was too serious. At some point in between writing scenes about sniping babies and having sex during giant firefights, he tried to make things make sense. And, again, it was just fucking weird. "
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Almost Famous
Re: Top Five Movies About Music
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"Almost Famous - Philip Seymour Hoffman, explaining the relation of the music geek/journalist to the bands they revere is the moment that this film grows from an excellent comming-of-age story in to a profound and incrediby insightful examination of pop music, people who make pop music, and people who love pop music. Heartworn Highways - Country music was the original punk rock. it was honesty, gritty, rebellious, and aimed at the lowly. Then, it became the most commercially consistent and artistictically-lifeless genre of music not sung by earnest teenage boys. However, country as country was still exists. Rebranned as Americana or another half-dozen other names, there is a thriving community of artists blending folk, Hank Williams era country, and Buddy Holly era rock'n'roll, in to music too twangy for most, and too honest for CMT. This film follows some of the first, and some of the best, very early in their careers. If Townes Van Zandt's sing-along with his elderly ... "
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Re: Re-makes.......
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""I would say another argument against remakes is the fact that studios are only going to greenlight so many movies a year and by doing so many remakes and sequels that is just that many less potentially more interesting original ideas that have been denied production." Now that I can see. Good point. "
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3:10 to Yuma
Unexceptional, but good.
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"This flick is solid all the way through. Great performances across the board, well paced, and well shot. It's just not great. It's a middle-of-the-pack film with a wonderful cast, but it never rises to the level of it's talent. It lacks flare - visually, while competent and well shot, there's nothing especially interesting. The acting, which, again, is the only exceptional part of the film, simply doesn't have an interesting-enough story, engaging-enough screenplay, or cleverly-staged-enough scenes to make this movie as good as I wanted it to be. Entertaining, nonetheless. "
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"You're right that adding more gore and blood to make them modern is asinine. That's bad direction, though, and bad directors are gonna make shitty movies regardless, remake or originals. I'm not convinced that even the shittiest, most blatant attempts to cash-in remakes are a bad thing, though.Mainly because I'd seriously doubt that a terrible remake would damage the respect people hold for the original, and it might drive people to the original. Like The Invasion. It was an awful movie, but my roommate went out and rented the old Invasion Of The Bodysnatchers, which he'd never seen before, just to compare. Nobody dislikes the original because of the crappy remake, and now some new people (at least one) have watched an older movie they probably would never have seen and loved it. So who loses there? Everyone who wasted their time on the new one, sure, but that's true of any bad movie, remake or not, and the original flick has some new fans. So they can rema ... "
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"If you can have remakes as good as Halloween, why not?The classic horror movies, Halloween included, become more dated, and in turn less effective, every day. If somebody sees Zombie's flick, then watches the original, and appreciates it versus thinking it's just an old boring horror film, that's ideal.I adore Psycho, but what are the odds that any casual movie-watcher is gonna be even remotely scared by it? Same for so many of the great horror flicks. I don't think remakes are anything to worry over. A good remake will both be a new film to love, and will up the respect the original gets from people who aren't horror fans necessarily. A bad remake will at least leave people saying "They fucked that up. It wasn't nearly as good as the original." "
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Re: Top 5 Guilty Pleasure films
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"Red Dawn... fucking love this flick. So much 80s cheese. Charlie Sheen shoots a commie with an arrow. So rad.Factory Girl.... everyone hates it, I dig it. Anything with Warhol's name on it, and I'm in.. and I feel like the film really got Warhol. Hackers... there's pretty much nothing good about this movie, but I love it so much. I can't even really say why. I'll watch ten times in a row without getting sick of it, though.Open Water... There's so much in this movie that I hate. Typical indie pointless close-ups (zoom in on keys turning!), pointless nudity, laugh-track worthy marital dialogue... but for some reason, as a whole, I really love this film.Most Owen Wilson/Ben Stiller/That Crew In General movies... they've had some classics, sure (Zoolander, Dodgeball)... but I adore their crappy pictures just as much. Starsky and Hutch? Love it. Night at the Museum? Kept me entertained, thoroughly. Shanghai Noon? Ate it up. Wilson, or Stiller in a flick, an ... "
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Halloween
Different flick, great flick.
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"This isn't a remake as much as it is a genre pic... it just so happens that Halloween IS the genre. It manages to give you the backstory without being sympathetic, convenient, or trite (Hannibal Rising couldn't pull it off) and when we cut to 15-years-later, it's the Michael everyone knows, done about the best as it's been done since the original. Whether it was worth making is arguable, but it's definitely worth seeing. "
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"I don't see the point of such an expansive list. Trying to word this properly... the 100 greatest directors is, essentially, name every director you can think of with more than one great film under his belt and then order them, right? Obviously that's not strictly, across the books true, but if you're allowing for 100 directors, you're not making any tough cuts. It's really just, think of directors. As for the top 10, the important part, I don't see anything very risky there. PJ and Fincher haven't earned their way on there yet, but other than that, it's the list you usually hear. Generally, at least. "
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