Watched the theatrical cut of Star Wars this weekend - finally reclaimed them on DVD. It is great.
This is a fun game to play when you watch it - try to imagine you’re seeing it for the first time on May 25, 1977. You have no previous cultural history with it. You have no idea what you’re in for. You may not have even wanted to go - you might have wanted to see Smoky and the Bandit, which also opened that weekend.
When you’re done, you probably won’t leave thinking “I wish this movie from 1977 was more filled with disparate visual effects from four different decades”, or “I wish R2 was hiding behind rocks after the Sand people attack” or “man this X-wing battle is boring”.
You certainly won’t leave thinking “I wish Han shot first”.
It’s wonderful when 85% of a movie looks like it was shot between 1975-76, and then has a bunch of lightsaber effects that look like they were done in Adobe After Effects.
If you have the capability, I highly recommend downloading the despecialized editions of the original Star Wars trilogy. It uses the blu-ray releases as a base, but cuts out all the "special edition" crap that Lucas added, so you're left with an HD cut of the original theatrical release. It's by far the best way to experience the original movies
Not sure if people on here like war movies, but I just watched "The Forgotten Battle" and thought it was well made. Pleasantly surprised, as I hadn't heard much about it.
I watched a pretty good movie on Netflix tonight called the Last Full Measure. Based on a true story about a medal of Honor recipient from the Vietnam War.
The soundtrack was overzealous but you can't miss 6 great supporting acting roles by some great actors.
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Yes, offensive movies are still being released, just like offensive movies are always
released, but for the most part they don't become offensive over time, they are already offensive at the time of release and people just ignore it. People just tend to see the problems more clearly in older films, because the tropes aren't the ones we're used to ignoring today.
Avoid being offensive is hardly sound advice for filmmakers. Some notably offensive (at the time) movies:
Bonnie and Clyde
Midnight Cowboy
The Exorcist
A Clockwork Orange
The Life of Brian
The Last Temptation of Christ
Natural Born Killers
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Not a movie but a musical.. Book of Mormons the first time it was in Calgary. I have never ever seen so many people walk out before. and tix weren't cheap!
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Not a movie but a musical.. Book of Mormons the first time it was in Calgary. I have never ever seen so many people walk out before. and tix weren't cheap!
We saw it in New York. I felt like people were trying to gauge the rest of the crowds reaction before they started laughing. No one left that I could see and everyone seemed to be laughing and enjoying it after the initial “can I like this?“ period. Well worth it.
We saw it at the Jubilee, and there were several older couples who "booked" it outa there at the intermission. I'm not sure what they were expecting to see, but this apparently was not it. I loved it, of course, because I have impeccable taste.
We had two older women sitting next to us, that looked like they were on their way to “knitting and tea” with the Ladies. I didn’t think they would make it 10mins, but they had a blast.
I took my 80 year old grandma to Book of Mormon and she loved it. In fact, the first time I went, she bugged me for not inviting her because she’d been wanting to see it so bad.
