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In Reply to: A great couple a weeks of seeing movies posted by sjb on December 30, 2002 at 22:52:52:
I found Nemisis redundant and completely unispired. And I loved the original Star Trek and First Generation series.Solaris? Ah, hmmmm. Not as bad as I expected. But that didnt make it good.
And LOTR? Boring and insipid in the extreme. And a sense of forboding alluding to the evil manifestation of Dubya and his evil minions? What absolute horseshit, give me a break. Keep the political posturing to yourself or on the outside and not here.
joe
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found TTT draging on too much as well. Of course I read the book before (twice) and therefore looked at the movie with different eyes. I loved the book (it is just a fairy tail, but nice), but why drag out every little detail in the movie? Especially those fighting scenes just don't seem to end. Where are the good old movies where you see one guy swinging his sword at another guys head and then "cut" and you imagine the rest. Why do we have to be bombarded by rolling heads and blood all over the place? Is it not exciting enough without it?
What I liked though were the scenes with a long view of the scenery, since I am a NewZealander myself and I just love that country.Solaris> I am suprised that you had that film at the theatre in the states. It is very old and I thought it was all forgotten (or am I talking about another one).
Again, I read the book 25 years ago, but in this case I liked the movie. But maybe if you have not the read the book first, you might not appreciate the film as much. I can only recommend to read the book (Stanislaw Lem, Solaris).
By the way I am the one who wrote the thread about the solaris DVD, but I hadn't read this thread first when I wrote mine. Strange that this coincides.
Okay....I won't hold YOUR posturing against you when I read your posts ;-))Seriously though...it wasn't political posturing, it was how I felt when I watched the movie; so, this being the film forum, it absolutely belongs in my synopsis.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power." — Benito Mussolini.
"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the American flag." - Huey Long
The fact that you are unable to appreciate it is your loss.AuPh
...appreciate droll, uninspired, dimwittedly manipulative movies is my cross to bear.Why pray tell do characters lapse into made up languages from one scene to the next? You know, two characters engage in a dialog in english and then in the very next scene the same two characters speak in a made up tongue? And then go back to english for the next scene? Why do we see scene after scene of panoramic long shots of hills with 3 or 4 minute characters running across them in chase? Time and time and time again?
I'm trying hard to appreciate this but all it made me do was roll my eyes and long to leave the theater. Predicting exactly what would happen next and waitng through the deathly slow and dull exposition to get to the set piece battles tried my patience to the limit. And I'm not arguing for more battles or action. It's just that the artifically lengthened filler in between went no where, accomplished nothing and played as little more than a rudderless director playing for time.
Character development is not spending large amounts of time watching characters do nothing or do the same thing over and over again ad nauseum....
joe
This should be more to your liking since it probably contains all of the unsophisticated inspiration and backwoods witticism you won't find in the Rings trilogy. Sorry, but I'll stick with the droll charm of Middle Earth! ;^)
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