Movie Thread

[tifosi77]

Signed up for HBO Max. In The Heights this weekend.

[NTP66]

and the perfect length.

That’s what the cephalopod said.

[NTP66]

Today is the 28th anniversary of me seeing Jurassic Park in the movie theater on opening night.

[tifosi77]

Yeah, sequel discussion notwithstanding, the original JP is a masterclass in filmmaking. Everything about it - cinematography, editing, sound, pacing, all of it - is superlative film-school type stuff. Like, "Oh, you would like to make a movie? Here are 8-10 films you should study inside and out, backwards and forwards <list includes JP>."

[nocera]

I liked In The Heights but I found it difficult to separate it from the Broadway version. Every change was amplified and it took me out each time. Some changes I agreed with while most I found unnecessary. My attachment to the Broadway show definitely hurt my enjoyment of the movie. My guess is those who don’t know the show will like it more.

[robbiestoupe]

My Octopus Teacher (Netflix) was outstanding. Highly recommended.

If you liked that, check out the less well known My Life as a Turkey. Not a joke, very good documentary. Might be tougher to find it though.

[tifosi77]

We watched "In The Heights" tonight............ oh man, what a wonderful picture. Such a great adaptation. Never gonna listen to '96,000' again and not think of Busby Berkley.

We did not like it - one bit - when Abuela Claudia died. We have an actual 'Abuela Claudia', and it gave us a sad.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I think my favorite series of scenes ever in a movie are in Willy Wonka when the golden ticket craze is on up until Charlie finds the ticket. Some of the absolute best comedy scenes ever written

[NTP66]

The Dead Don’t Die was so weird.

[nocera]

We watched "In The Heights" tonight............ oh man, what a wonderful picture. Such a great adaptation. Never gonna listen to '96,000' again and not think of Busby Berkley.

We did not like it - one bit - when Abuela Claudia died. We have an actual 'Abuela Claudia', and it gave us a sad.

Were you familiar with the play? And yeah that spoilered scene hit hard. That was a positive change from the stage version

[dodint]

We watched "In The Heights" tonight............ oh man, what a wonderful picture.

Most unsurprising post of the week right here.

[nocera]

Came across this on Reddit:

Titanic Director James Cameron Reveals He Wanted 'Jurassic Park', But Steven Spielberg Beat Him To It
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/0 ... 64996.html

"I tried to buy the book rights and he beat me to it by a few hours," Cameron revealed.

"But when I saw the film, I realised that I was not the right person to make the film, he was. Because he made a dinosaur movie for kids, and mine would have been aliens with dinosaurs, and that wouldn't have been fair.

"Dinosaurs are for 8-year-olds. We can all enjoy it, too, but kids get dinosaurs and they should not have been excluded for that. His sensibility was right for that film, I'd have gone further, nastier, much nastier."

[dodint]

Good.

[blackjack68]

Cameron would’ve ruined that movie like many of his films have been bloated garbage.

[NTP66]

I couldn't even imagine Jurassic Park being done by him. Don't get me wrong, I do love some of his other stuff, but Jurassic Park is the movie that I judge all others by. It's what got me into really going to the movies on a consistent basis.

[meecrofilm]

In looking back through his filmography, I was surprised by just how few movies (given his name-recognition) James Cameron has actually directed. The first Terminator is also his only proper film that clocks in under 2 hours. I have no doubt an early-90s Cameron JP would've been a good film, but yeah, not the type of film it deserved to be.

[AuthorTony]

If Piranha II: The Spawning is any indication what JP could have been...

[tifosi77]

We watched "In The Heights" tonight............ oh man, what a wonderful picture. Such a great adaptation. Never gonna listen to '96,000' again and not think of Busby Berkley.

We did not like it - one bit - when Abuela Claudia died. We have an actual 'Abuela Claudia', and it gave us a sad.

Were you familiar with the play? And yeah that spoilered scene hit hard. That was a positive change from the stage version

Paciencia y fe!

I've had the OBC album since forever, and had seen a small handful of numbers staged (I don't think they ever filmed ITH the way they filmed Hamilton, so I'm left with their appearances on The View and Ellen and whatnot). So I'm not really sure how that change is, er, changed.

Also, I have higher expectations of Muzak hold music now.

[tifosi77]

James Cameron should've directed the sequel. Jurassic Parks.

[nocera]

James Cameron should've directed the sequel. Jurassic Parks.

That's one way to ensure they never happen.

[dodint]

I often wonder if the decline of the subsequent JP films has anything to do with Crichton not being around to help out.

Maybe not. I thought he died closer to 1998 than 2008. Huh.

[nocera]

HBO Max Isn’t to Blame After ‘In the Heights’ Fizzles at the Box Office
https://variety.com/2021/film/box-offic ... 234995410/

“Our experience, which is backed up on ‘In the Heights,’ is that if the movie hits a high level in theaters, it hits a high level on the service,” Goldstein told the outlet. “If it hits a low level in theaters, it hits a low level on HBO Max. They’re really very comparable.”
That suggests that “In the Heights” failed to draw a big audience on HBO Max in addition to striking out with ticket buyers. And that’s a problem.

I get that it's LMM, but are we really shocked that a musical about minorities living in a very specific neighborhood in a very specific city failed to draw a wide audience?

[dodint]

I figured the exposure it was getting on Twitter, etc. was a bit outsized.

[nocera]

The article mentions it as well but ITH has a built-in audience who was going to see it. It failed to generate much outside of that audience which is the issue. I bet WB figured that they'd get the Hamilton audience. That didn't happen.

[tifosi77]

That's a shame, because it really is a fabulous movie.