[Dracko]

[Flylighter]

I would totally see this:



if the entire movie was as full of innuendos as this.
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[Dracko]

haha tony scott

Also:

[elvis.shrugged]

That thread Adi made n the Axe made me watch The Lady Vanishes. WHAT A MOVIE. Thank you, SB. It was so light and fun and mysterious and well-directed.
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[JoeX111]

[Dracko]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00tf1mv/There_Will_Be_Blood/
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[Shiren the Launderer]

I watched Black Dynamite and it was the baddest movie I've seen in while. It manages to parody and pay tribute to blaxploitation films at the same time. The soundtrack was recorded on vintage equipment and instruments and all the musical cues are from 70s library music funk (Drama Suite!). It looks like it was also filmed on period-accurate film?

[Dracko]

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[cassievania]

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[Dracko]

I feel like a beer.
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[Lick Meth]

[sawtooth]

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[sawtooth]

http://www.hulu.com/studio/criterion-collection
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[elvis.shrugged]

Netflix streaming has an metric fuck-ton of Criterion movies, too. It's really incredible.
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[remote]

Been waiting for this shit for over a year.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Yeah, those last two trailers make me smile!
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[CubaLibre]

Guess I need to watch Blood Simple.
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[evnvnv]

interesting opportunity for trailer comparison


definitely makes the film look a whole lot goofier, but still kind of intriguing....
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[Lasakon]

Hell in the Pacific was fantastic, but its ending might be the most tacked on in film history.

[Flylighter]

Well I wasn't sure what to expect from Scott Pilgrim exactly, but I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it. I especially liked the directing. If you're on the fence about it, go see it.
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[secondpillow]

Saw Scott Pilgrim. Got angry before the credits came up. This movie panders to gamers in the worst way possible. Do you think that hearing mario music in a movie is HI-LARIOUS? Do you think that fight scenes in movies should look like trailers for No More Heroes? Do you think that giant computer generated gorillas fighting dragons for no reason is AWESOME? Then this is the movie for you.

[sawtooth]

looks like someone hates fun.
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[Ronk]

as probably one of the only ones on this board who has read and actually liked the story and characters in the comics, i came away from scott pilgrim a little disappointed. edgar wright's signature quickness was all here, and there are some fun moments but i get that due to time they're cramming everything into one super highly stylized video game Twilight for nerds.

yeah the fight with the twins got kind of what the hell for a minute.

dug the music though. and at least the game came out of this movie so that's something.
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[Broseph Stalin]

no one else saw the expendables? :( i am very disappointed
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

What could have been Return of the Jedi:

After the release of “Empire” (which was shaped by material left over from that first Lucas treatment), talk turned to a third film and after a decade and a half the partners could no longer find a middle ground.

“We had an outline and George changed everything in it," Kurtz said. “Instead of bittersweet and poignant he wanted a euphoric ending with everybody happy. The original idea was that they would recover [the kidnapped] Han Solo in the early part of the story and that he would then die in the middle part of the film in a raid on an Imperial base. George then decided he didn’t want any of the principals killed. By that time there were really big toy sales and that was a reason.”
The discussed ending of the film that Kurtz favored presented the rebel forces in tatters, Leia grappling with her new duties as queen and Luke walking off alone “like Clint Eastwood in the spaghetti westerns,” as Kurtz put it.

Imagine if that story was used.

And if Lynch or Cronenberg didn't turn down the offer to direct.

Christ!

[jdoe]

Yeah, Scott Pilgrim is gratuitous in the worst way. Fan service for people who loved the comic and people who like Zelda music. I don't know how you can argue the game elements are a metaphor for the romance or some nonsense when Ramona is more of an object than a character.

All of the terrible dialogue in the comic becomes much worse when spoken out loud. It's telling that the only jokes that work are the ones that Edgar Wright put in. There's also a lot of great editing that does work with content, but that's not enough to make the content good.

For what it's worth, Edgar Wright had a Q&A after my showing and said he made the movie for teenagers, so maybe it does succeed on that level.

[secondpillow]

There is fun in scott pilgrim. Let's say that this fun is a single corndog. But this movie is also brimming with bad ideas. Let's say that these bad ideas are five gallons of neon razzleberry cheez-glo sauce dumped on top of that corn dog. There was a good scenario, a likable core cast, half of a good squadron of bad guys, and a bit of fun fight scene time. There were also overwhelming amounts of garish special effects that distracted me from the action rather than accenting it, self-admittedly terrible music (Scott says of his band, "We're terrible," and they are) that the movie still expects us to think of as awesome, etc.

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[Ronk]

[jdoe]

I did see the movie under the worst possible conditions. The theater was almost entirely composed of mega-fans (because of the Q&A) who laughed at every single reference to the comic/videogames. The movie isn't a disaster and I agree, Patel, Lucas Lee, Todd, Knives and Wallace were great. I just wish the movie makers had put their effort into a similar project that wasn't based on a pretty mediocre source. I find it impossible to separate the movie from the comic since the movie's major problem is its faithfulness (the first and second book is almost exactly translated). If only this had been a movie that was as well directed and energetic but didn't have to deal with garbage like "if your life had a face I would punch it."

[Flylighter]

For the record I had no reference to compare it to. Never read the comics.
Also there was a kid in the front row on his laptop playing Starcraft II. christ
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[skelethulu]

It just ended up like Unsold Nintendo Shirts From Hot Topic: The Official Movie Of The Videogame. All that extra text and zelda music, man, what the fuck. Trying too hard for laughs. The funniest part of the movie was the trailer where everybody in the theater was getting all tense about some weird alien / hell elevator movie and then the screen says it's by M Night and everybody laughs.

However, I liked Chris Evans in this, in particular the clip from his movie about the two clicks (still not looking forward to him as Captain America). And Wallace was well played by Culkin; he had the look of somebody familiar and Just Gay Enough.

I left disappointed.

That said, having read the comics, seen the movie, and played the game, I can say that here is the best way to experience The Scott Pilgrim:

1) have somebody tell you their favorite stuff from the comics
2) Watch the trailers for the movie
3) Play the game with between 1 and 3 friends
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[Flylighter]

My dream is to make a montage of theaters' reactions to the M Night movie preview. I made this big buzzer sound as soon as M Night's name showed up on screen and it was entirely appropriate.
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[skelethulu]

Oh and hey asshole young people who get put in charge of post production for something like this: do not put onomatopoeia as giant text overlaid onto your shots. When watching a movie we can actually hear the sound effects.
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[JoeX111]

[jdoe]

Because I like Edgar Wright? And I didn't expect it to be such a direct translation of the comic? I don't hate Scott Pilgrim, by the way. The general concept isn't that bad, Bryan Lee O'Malley just doesn't have the drawing/storytelling chops to go anywhere interesting with it. This movie seemed like an instance where another artist (who is more skilled) could give a poorly executed concept a second chance.

[Dracko]

A History of Violence is a monumentally awful comic. Same deal with Road to Perdition. Both are probably worse overall than Scott Pilgrim.

That didn't stop the films from being pretty damn grand in their own right. They were directed by David Cronenberg and Sam Mendes respectively.

Edgar Wright has had a pretty decent run on comedies. Why not hope against hope that adapting a rom-com comic would turn out semi-decent?
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[Shiren the Launderer]

Two word summary of North Face: Nazi alpinists. If that alone doesn't sound enticing, I'd also add that the climbing scenes are well shot and tense.

[Ebrey]

[Dracko]

The Oldboy manga is pretty bad, yes.
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