What film did you watch last night?

Raymond Lin said:
But it doesn't take away the acting from Hamill.
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You can keep saying it, doesn't make it true.

In period Star Wars was perceived as some silly little space film full of mumbo jumbo talk that was likely to flop. Hence UA refusing to fund it. Lucas who was about 30 and had a two movies under his belt cast a bunch of inexperienced unknowns on purpose. Holding him to a Oscar winning performance standard of 30 years later is still disingenuous.

Hayden Christensen can't be excused. That was a poor decision. Mark Hamill can.
 
easyrider said:
Your first points are vacuous...but you do know the Jedi and the Ewok is a social commentary about the American invasion of Vietnam?

The Americans arrived with choppers and guns and bombs and couldn't penetrate the Vietnam defence and ultimately lost the war?

Boobie traps...underground villages and wit beat the American onslaught attempts with high tech ordnance.


No mention of story of character development ? It's all technique and visuals ?
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Interesting. You preach quite a lot, but you seem to forget something.

An interpretation of the Ewok's is that it is an analogy for the Vietnam conflict.

Similarly, you can read E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (Spielberg, 1982) as being an analogy of the story of Christ.

They are interpretations, particular readings of the text. This is basic academic stuff :confused:. Opinions.
 
MagicBoy said:
You can keep saying it, doesn't make it true.

In period Star Wars was perceived as some silly little space film full of mumbo jumbo talk that was likely to flop. Hence UA refusing to fund it. Lucas who was about 30 and had a two movies under his belt cast a bunch of inexperienced unknowns on purpose. Holding him to a Oscar winning performance standard of 30 years later is still disingenuous.

Hayden Christensen can't be excused. That was a poor decision. Mark Hamill can.
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I still couldn't get over how thin Lucas was back then seeing him in those documentaries. He actually had a chin and neck!
 
Sicario. Tense and atmospheric drama about the lengths someone will go to for control and revenge. Not for the squeamish at times but full of tense moments. A very different film compared to TFA that I watched on Thursday night (7.5/10 for TFA BTW) but, IMO it was better. 8/10. Benecio Del Toro is fantastic in this.
 
MagicBoy said:
You can keep saying it, doesn't make it true.

In period Star Wars was perceived as some silly little space film full of mumbo jumbo talk that was likely to flop. Hence UA refusing to fund it. Lucas who was about 30 and had a two movies under his belt cast a bunch of inexperienced unknowns on purpose. Holding him to a Oscar winning performance standard of 30 years later is still disingenuous.

Hayden Christensen can't be excused. That was a poor decision. Mark Hamill can.
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There are plenty of film came out of nowhere with much less budget than Star Wars, independent movies, which has acting better than Hamill.
 
MagicBoy said:
There's plenty much worse as well. What's your point?
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Going round in circles.

The point was its part of the reason why I don't think Ep4 is the best Star Wars movie. Why I think acting is an important element to engage the audience, why good acting can make or break a movie.

The point is I prefer Ep7, partly because it has better acting. Acting has nothing to do with an era it's in ir genre. I enjoy ep4, but prefer ep7.
 
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Oldboy (The newer version as opposed to the Jap version).

Thought It was awesome, really loved the fight scene about half way though. would definitely watch it again.

9/10
 
I watched True Romance the other night after ridicule from the mrs having never watched it.

Totally not what I thought it would be about and I really enjoyed it, also got my kill bill fix having never watched either of them.

11/10 :P
 
MissChief said:
Sicario. Tense and atmospheric drama about the lengths someone will go to for control and revenge. Not for the squeamish at times but full of tense moments. A very different film compared to TFA that I watched on Thursday night (7.5/10 for TFA BTW) but, IMO it was better. 8/10. Benecio Del Toro is fantastic in this.
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Just finished watching this and agree, it's a great film.
 
Raymond Lin said:
I like it but it's not as great as you think it is.

I won't say it's brilliant by modern standard, I can appreciate why you think it is.
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You should have attended a lecture I had last year :D, one academic (who specialises in Hollywood / Blockbusters (among other things)) gave a lecture to us on the birth of Blockbusters in Hollywood (rising from the ashes of the 'New Hollywood') and explained how Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) was (in his opinion) the perfect blockbuster, and a near perfect film.

Gave a fantastic and engaging lecture on it, only at the end for another professor to exclaim that Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner, 1980) was better :D. Original lecturer agreed to say they were both perfect blockbusters haha.
 
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