Movie Thread

[dodint]

Pamela Anderson peaked on Home Improvement.

[nocera]

Pamela Anderson peaked on Home Improvement.

[tifosi77]

She was on Dallas, but I don't remember any of her other pre-NG credits.

Anna Nicole worked as a bit part casting specifically because it played up type. But if they type a farcical person in one of the 'straight' roles, I'm not sure how it works.

[nocera]

Presley must have been an odd choice because she didn't have a comedy background at all. It's sort of the opposite of casting Michael Keaton as Batman. Anna Nicole Smith was great in 33 1/3, by the way. I bring her up only to say that it's not like Naked Gun is above casting somebody like Pamela Anderson.

[eddy]

Watched raiders of the lost ark due to our exchange student hearing about Indy but never seeing it. It went over very well. I'm not sure why I never noticed this before, but this movie really does look like it was filmed like a spaghetti western. It's just a perfect movie. I don't think there's any doubt that today's attention span is much shorter than it was when this movie came out and you can really see how much attention to detail is missed these days in film because of it.

[tifosi77]

Raiders is surely on my perfect films list.

[eddy]

Spielberg's next movie is an original UFO movie! Can't wait.

[LeopardLetang]

I really liked Zone of Interest. Kinda one note but i think it was executed excellently and i thought it looked gorgeous

[nocera]

Spielberg's next movie is an original UFO movie! Can't wait.

Awesome. I'm all for more Spielberg and Aliens. Can't go wrong. Close Encounters, ET, War of the Worlds, Crystal Skull

[eddy]

Tarantino is not going to make The Movie Critic now, apparently he's changed his mind.

[dodint]

Oh no.

[meow]

Watched raiders of the lost ark due to our exchange student hearing about Indy but never seeing it. It went over very well. I'm not sure why I never noticed this before, but this movie really does look like it was filmed like a spaghetti western. It's just a perfect movie. I don't think there's any doubt that today's attention span is much shorter than it was when this movie came out and you can really see how much attention to detail is missed these days in film because of it.

Mrs meow got us tickets to see raiders in theatres last Father’s Day. I may have shed a tear or two during

[nocera]

Tarantino is not going to make The Movie Critic now, apparently he's changed his mind.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s putting too much pressure on the script because of his stupid 10 movies only rule. Imagine if other great directors stopped after 10. No Jurassic Park or Schindler’s List. No Goodfellas or Casino. No GI Jane or Prometheus…

[eddy]

Tarantino is not going to make The Movie Critic now, apparently he's changed his mind.

Wouldn’t be surprised if he’s putting too much pressure on the script because of his stupid 10 movies only rule. Imagine if other great directors stopped after 10. No Jurassic Park or Schindler’s List. No Goodfellas or Casino. No GI Jane or Prometheus…

That rule of his is so stupid that I hope this is reason (and I'd rather get another kill bill )

[NTP66]

I enjoy his movies, but he seems like somebody I'd want to punch in the face.

[Nuge]

I enjoy his movies, but he seems like somebody I'd want to punch in the face.

I agree with this. His movies aren’t that good for him to be so pretentious.

[tifosi77]

They all have memorable scenes and dialogue, but I haven't liked an entire film of his since Jackie Brown. And that was a very long time ago.

It's not output that diminishes quality. It's self-indulgence. That's why I think post-9/11 Spielberg is a more successful (in both senses of the word) filmmaker than latter Ridley Scott and James Cameron (even though JC has only just made his 10).

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[NTP66]

lol, I just watched that trailer and don't know what to think.

[tifosi77]

Classic Movie Weekends continued today with "North By Northwest". My favorite Hitchcock movie, my favorite Hermann score, a Saul Bass title sequence, the best suit in cinema history, Captain Nemo/god's voice actor as the Big Bad, a top-notch blooper, and the greatest visual metaphor ever for an ending. Bring it.

The entire movie is dependent on the bad guys ignoring their own intelligence on " Kaplan". We find out almost immediately that Vandamm knows Kaplan (who they believe to be a government agent) already has passage booked to Rapid City, SD, which is the exact piece of random-ass podunkery where their lair is located. Like........... maybe kick this one over to Plan B fellas. But nope, the movie ends in South Dakota. Even if they had killed Kaplan/Thornhill at the beginning, the "US Intelligence Agency" apparently already knows the bad guys will be at Mount Rushmore by the end of the week with plans to leave the country. Everything that happens in the movie is entirely incidental to the outcome as regards Vandamm. And yet the coppers seemed prepared to let him vamoose until Thornhill rescued Eve. The feds were nowhere to be seen before our heroes started climbing down Rushmore. Here's a thought: Maybe the instant the airplane's wheels come to a stop after landing, swarm the f**king place. But no.

The whole crop duster scene - among the most iconic 4 minutes in movies - makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Vandamm thinks Thornhill is Kaplan, but the whole point of the remote meeting is Thornhill wants to meet Kaplan. So the bad guys arrange the meeting............... who do they think is meeting who? Kaplan wants to meet himself? Thankfully, the villains are well-connected in the assassin crop duster pilot community and can quickly cobble together an impromptu death by strafing run.

How does the Professor get in contact with Eve to arrange the cafeteria incident?

4 stars out of 5

[eddy]

We had a foreign exchange student stay with us over the last couple weeks and raiders and Jurassic Park were the two American movies she asked to watch after seeing ET and Tin tin back at home and enjoying Spielberg. It was a cool experience watching those with her for the first time.

[mikey]

Defense attorney Edith James from "The Thin Blue Line" is one of worst characters in cinema history...what an incompetent boob she is...

[tifosi77]

Isn't that a documentary?

[mikey]

Yes, am I being detained because documentaries aren't cinema according to some film court decision? haha

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I guess you’re not technically wrong but I don’t think any reasonable person would consider someone from a documentary a “character” in that way