hellboy wrote:Fair enough. I think Kittaan is the only one old enough here to have actually seen it in the 70s
I did actually.
Saw it here when it came out:
The Cinerama Dome. Saw many a movie there back in the day. Imagine a time when if you wanted to see a movie, you needed to go see it in a theater or wait a couple of years to see most of it, interrupted by many commercials on network TV. Yuck.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:04 am
by Ravenpig
FWP
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:09 am
by hellboy
Kittaan wrote:
The Cinerama Dome. Saw many a movie there back in the day. Imagine a time when if you wanted to see a movie, you needed to go see it in a theater or wait a couple of years to see most of it, interrupted by many commercials on network TV. Yuck.
Plus a year or so waiting for it to come out in Oz. There's probably half a chance Superman didn't get released in Australia until the 80s. I do remember when I saw it the first time when in the early 80s it was new to VHS.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2014 4:23 am
by not tyson
hellboy wrote:
Kittaan wrote:
The Cinerama Dome. Saw many a movie there back in the day. Imagine a time when if you wanted to see a movie, you needed to go see it in a theater or wait a couple of years to see most of it, interrupted by many commercials on network TV. Yuck.
Plus a year or so waiting for it to come out in Oz. There's probably half a chance Superman didn't get released in Australia until the 80s. I do remember when I saw it the first time when in the early 80s it was new to VHS.
21 December 1978, 20 days after the world premiere.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 1:40 am
by basejumper
Kittaan wrote:The Cinerama Dome. Saw many a movie there back in the day. Imagine a time when if you wanted to see a movie, you needed to go see it in a theater or wait a couple of years to see most of it, interrupted by many commercials on network TV. Yuck.
Ahh, the good old days!
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 2:32 am
by Calfium Jay
I saw Superman 2 in 1981 at the cinema. It was my friend's birthday party.
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Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2014 5:31 am
by N.Y.H.C.
Calfium Jay wrote:I saw Superman 2 in 1981 at the cinema. It was my friend's birthday party.
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I saw Jurassic Park during an elementary school trip. BP, *before pubes.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 10:41 pm
by UndKeineZwEier
Gone Girl was great.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Sat Nov 01, 2014 11:53 pm
by UndKeineZwEier
Man, I could've sworn I knew Rosamund Pike from something other than Doom, but nothing I'm seeing is really standing out to me. I feel like she was on some TV show or something.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Sun Nov 02, 2014 8:34 am
by N.Y.H.C.
UndKeineZwEier wrote:Gone Girl was great.
word. that blonde is a crazy bitch lol
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:59 am
by N.Y.H.C.
watched this for the first time over the weekend. Jack is still numeral uno, greatest actor of all time. no?
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Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 8:20 am
by not tyson
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was fucking amazing, must have blown a lot of deaf peoples minds
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 11:21 am
by liz
not tyson wrote:Dawn of the Planet of the Apes was fucking amazing, must have blown a lot of deaf peoples minds
Oh snap. Finally saw it last weekend. My ape language skills are also inadequate it appears.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Mon Nov 03, 2014 5:09 pm
by Ettan
6th time I'm re-watching The Office (US). Easily my favorite comedy series.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:02 am
by Calfium Jay
INTERSTELLAR
(I saw it for free so spare me the "derr you hate Nolan so why pay to go see it anyway??" crapola).
It's no secret that I'm NO fan of Nolan. But for now I'll pass on the pedantic, holier than thou rhetoric regarding my dislike of this "boy genius" and cut straight to the chase. And anyway I love deep space exploration film shit so.....
I was expecting something.....grand (?) Ambitious, yet subtle. Something that made a bold statement about the human condition and our place in the grand scheme of things. Or, hell, just a damn good ol' fashioned SPACE FILM!!! Something I could.............sink my teeth into even on a "popcorn" flick level.
Unfortunately, Nolan's Interstellar failed to provide substantial intellectual fodder or pure cotton candy entertainment. It's a herky jerky pastiche of styles, that wears its influences heavily on its sleeve - from cold, clinical Kubrick to the schmaltzy childlike wonder and misty eyed sentimentality of Spielberg and Shyamalan. And therein lies the problem - it doesn't know where it wants to go, who it's trying to impress or where its heart is.
We get characters whose actions and intentions shift wildly from one minute to the next, confusing, muddled editing, contrived plot points and bucket loads of thrown up text book physics.
Try as I might I just.......didn't care in the end. Although I can thankfully say I made it all the way through, despite a nagging desire to get up and walk out 15 minutes before the end (like several patrons during the screening I attended).
The special effects were passable but hardly "WOW"!!! And the ending (or resolution) was.....yeah, best left unsaid.
Interstellar was NOT the film I had hoped it would be nor was it anywhere NEAR the film it tried to be (probably because it tries so hard to be so many things at once).
Can only manage a 3.5 / 10 for this one.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:18 am
by Calfium Jay
You may even say it was a waste of time and space!! (HA!!)
<rolls around on the floor in hysterics>
Hokey pokey sentiment and crudely thrown together text book science - swimming in the murky waters of a bloated tv movie of the week.
And comparisons to the great 2001 are hilarious. It's not even a notch on the belt of Kubrick's masterpiece.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:19 am
by PRS
I came back from a screening of this too. Overtly ambitious, too fucking long (what's with that useless cameo scene with MD?), extreme ends of genres (sci-fi one minute and then soapy drama the next) and completely missed the mark.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:30 am
by not tyson
I read a sentence or two, you fucks should spoil your shit.
Will probably see it Sunday with an open mind.
But seriously, fuck you both.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 10:57 am
by lo7us
Well FUCK! Ihave tickets to see it tonight in IMAX. I really hope that I'm not disappointed.
/deep breath
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 12:12 pm
by hellboy
I hate Nolan so much I go out and see his movies on opening night
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 6:32 pm
by Ravenpig
But it was free!!
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:28 pm
by Calfium Jay
hellboy wrote:I hate Nolan so much I go out and see his movies on opening night
I got offered a free ticket when somebody else ditched. I have a week off work and wasn't doing anything at the time so...
Anyway, if nothing else it was good for a laugh.
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:32 pm
by Calfium Jay
not tyson wrote:I read a sentence or two, you fucks should spoil your shit.
Will probably see it Sunday with an open mind.
But seriously, fuck you both.
There's not a single spoiler in my review so go easy with the " fuck yous ".
Re: What are you watching? Film/TV
Posted: Thu Nov 06, 2014 8:46 pm
by Kittaan
Calfium Jay wrote:There's not a single spoiler in my review