Watched Speed with Keanu and Dennis Hopper last night. Just a classic movie for good reason. Keanu is hilarious and his line deliveries are all over the map. I forgot just how good Jeff Daniels is.
"cans! there was no baby, there was only cans!"
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It's an interesting topic, as to which movies were better served by the extended editions. Some others were hurt by the added footage, and most it really doesn't matter.
Helped : Grandma's Boy, Saving Silverman, Kingdom of Heaven, Troy, Almost Famous. (off the top of my head) Watching the theatrical versions of any of these is doing yourself a disservice.
I think there must be several cuts of Aliens out there. Some I see with Ripley trying to fit back into normal life, other one have a bunch of scenes with Newt and her family.
The version on Crave right now has Ripley showing off her loader skills. I don’t remember any of that before. I don’t think it added much to the movie.
The LoTR extended versions added a lot of stuff, that I don’t think was even in the books so not sure why they were necessary. If anything, the movies should be cut back a bit. Especially the overhead scenery shots.
I have never managed to watch Lord of the Rings in full. I just don't find it very interesting. But I know that opens me up to a number of philistine labels.
I have however watched all three Hobbit movies and they're some of my least favourite movies ever
There is little to like in a movie that took longer to watch than to actually read the book.
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I have never managed to watch Lord of the Rings in full. I just don't find it very interesting. But I know that opens me up to a number of philistine labels.
I have however watched all three Hobbit movies and they're some of my least favourite movies ever
The Hobbit movies are trash compared to LOTR.
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^ Yeah I've probably watched 2 hours of Lord of the Rings combined thru all three movies and the bits and pieces I saw were all much much better than the Hobbit flicks, but I saw the latter trilogy in theatres. Harder to escape, especially when one of them was on a school trip.
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I have never managed to watch Lord of the Rings in full. I just don't find it very interesting. But I know that opens me up to a number of philistine labels.
I have however watched all three Hobbit movies and they're some of my least favourite movies ever
The LOTR trilogy is superior to the Hobbit movies in every way, and can easily stand amongst the best films ever made IMO.
The Hobbit is a short book and the story could have been told in one film.
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The LOTR Trilogy are superior to most trilogies and series in general. The only interesting parts of The Hobbit series are the ones alluding to the events to come.
Lord of the Rings is a rich Italian Lasagna, The Hobbit is a odd Filipino Spaghetti
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LOTR is going to see its second life in the next 5-10 years, as the people who were kids / young adults that got obsessed with it on release are having kids and will be showing it to them soon. Kind of like Star Wars I think. That Amazon series is very well timed.
Tonight was "Bridge On The River Kwai." I had forgotten just how good a move this was. It won best picture and Alec Guiness got best actor.
Of course this was based on a true story.
When I lived in Asia it was my goal to go and see the real thing. I almost cried walking across that bridge, don't know why, other than I saw that movie ten times as a younger guy. Also, they do not pronounce it with a hard i, as in Kwai, It is แม่น้ำแคว which is River Khwae.
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Great another completely made up scene with no relationship to the book at all!!
I'll give a lot of credit to Tolkien for (for all intents and purposes) creating a genre of fantasy world building that I greatly enjoy. However, his writing itself isn't that strong. What was left out of the movie, or added, was in service of making the story much less meandering than it actually was.
If Tom Bombadil was in the Fellowship movie, the other two films would have had their green-light revoked.
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I don't think that the original can be improved upon.
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I would be psyched if Jackson got the whole crew together again just to make a Tom Bombadil short. I need this in my life.
I feel like Tom Bombadil would be just about the most annoying character ever when translated from writing to film. He was okay in the books, but I can't imagine a character who has a song for everything and sings all the time. I'm really glad he didn't make the cut in the LOTR movies.
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I feel like Tom Bombadil would be just about the most annoying character ever when translated from writing to film. He was okay in the books, but I can't imagine a character who has a song for everything and sings all the time. I'm really glad he didn't make the cut in the LOTR movies.
It would clearly be a musical. Off off off off-Broadway.
I'm with you, it's just that I want a complete LOTR world. I also really wanted a Scouring of the Shire segment, even more than Bombadil. However, I recognize that most people don't have an appetite for a 20 hour long film.
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Also, they do not pronounce it with a hard i, as in Kwai, It is แม่น้ำแคว which is River Khwae.
