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it occurs to me that The Revenant is a remake of the 1970 film Man in the Wilderness starring Richard Harris.
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Best Holiday Wishes to all from the Duval family (Jack, Alma, Buddy, Virginia and Billy) of New Orleans who appear in the film Hot Spell.
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Well, I saw STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS last night in a filled to capacity theater, and the movie surpassed all my expectations.
JJ Abrams has captured the magic of the original film and, as he did with his STAR TREK reboots, has made a movie that (I think) will appeal to both newcomers to the STAR WARS universe and longtime fans.
THE FORCE AWAKENS (Episode VII) is a genuine continuaton of the original space opera's storyline. The movie opens with the iconic screen text "A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" followed by the STAR WARS logo and the saga's trademark opening crawl (a device that was insprired by the opening crawls from the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon serials).
The opening crawl of THE FORCE AWAKENS is the first one for a STAR WARS episode with more than one phrase in all-capital letters, and it specifically asks the question on fans' minds that arose from Mark Hamill's absense from the teasers and trailers: "Where is Luke Skywalker?"
The new actors to the series are all fantastic and are are completely at home in the STAR WARS universe: Daisy Ridley as the scavenger Rey with an unknown past who is the heart of the movie, John Boyega as the defecting Stormtropper FN-2187 ("Finn") --- hardcore STAR WARS fans will recognize the 2187 reference, Oscar Isaac as General Organa's top pilot Poe Dameron, Lupita Nyong'o as the 1000 year old Maz Kanata, Andy Serkis as the mysterious Supreme Leader Snoke and Adam Driver as Snoke's Darth Vader-obssessed follower Kylo Ren. Adam Driver is amazing as Kylo Ren. And for the record, without revealing any spoilers, I was correct in my suspicion about Kylo Ren's identity (which I noted in an earler post in this thread).
Adam Driver
And, of course, we can't forget the new droid BB-8, who like R2-D2 in the first STAR WARS movie, carries important information for the heroes.
The first appearance of Han Solo (Harrison Ford) and Chewbacca was greeted by applause from the audience. And Ford has a major role in the movie, not merely an extended cameo. Carrie Fisher as General Leia Organa has a smaller but still significant role. The scenes with Leia and Han are some of the most touching ones in the movie. Leia's remark about Han wearing the same jacket is priceless. It follows his comment that she has a new hairstyle.
And the location of Luke Skywalker is finally revealed.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS is an exciting ride from start to finish. And like all great episodic stories, major plot elements are resolved with enough unanswered questions to make us eagerly await Episode VIII.
(I'm pretty sure I know the secret of Rey's identity . . .)
yeah, a lot of the reviews are positive and abrams does alotta homage to nostalgia. this is easier for abrams to pull off since abrams admitted he was not a trekker but a wookiee some time ago so it is far easier for him to do right by star wars than star trek.
the special effects alone make this worth grabbing.
I have this notion of an exchange between han and leia...
han: "so you round up a general huh? you should of married me when you could have, sweetheart."
leia: "up your blaster, you uncueth bore."
(of course, she doan really mean it)
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Move over, darling there is enough room for one more in that hexagram of yours in the TCM Lounge.
Don't hog it, Nip or I will make a Christmas voodoo doll of you, wherein you look like Bob Cratchett and you will not be getting any plum pudding this year in your stocking!
(gulp) yes, ma'am.
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I really enjoyed this take of the film, NipkowDisc. It may end up being one of the only truthful ones found anywhere without all the crappy ballyhoo. I was planning to go see it but now have my doubts. I think the kids in the family may still want to go but maybe I'll just give them the money and stay home and watch some football or basketball and down some Guinness. Thanks for a sound review.
maybe if the reviews start changiing from positive to negative it will show up somewhere sooner to grab. torrents are now too dangerous so I always look for the goodies on fire sharing sites.
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Who do you enjoy more as the lead character in a film and be specific with a film reference to back up your point.
I'm gonna go with Satan [even though I don't believe he/she/it exists] since he has a lot better music where he lives due to the clientele who end up there, and he often looks like Walter Huston, which is a lot better than looking like Tim Allen [even sans dentures].
I forgot to mention that Satan's Helpers in "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" are much more fun to watch than the toymaker elves with Santa at the North Pole.
Your turn.
a female satan? gals, stop tryin' to cut in on our action. we guys are the big baddies...and proud of it!
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well, it's the saturday after the big premiere and the initial fan reaction is not good. been reading some of what is being posted on IMDb. apparently the critics are full of it as usual because of their intellectual dishonesty facilitating hollywood disconnect. many posting say it is awful and a big letdown the film being essentially a millennial era remake of the first 1977 film. I guess that is why STAR WARS is back in the title. one poster said watching harrison ford's performance was like watching a grandfather clock run down.
doan think I'll even waste my time grabbing it, just the john williams music.
return of the jedi was 32 years ago. it took fuzzy-faced george lucas 3 decades to figure out the prequel films were a waste of time? and now this?
ford is right. lucas is a wookiee.
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by getting a handle on all this spam that keeps showin' up....
TCM WARS : THE SPAM AWAKENS
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Wow, Wookiees live a long time and never grey unless that is Chewbacca Jr.
I guess wookiees doan need clothes either?
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there's no puzzle. prewitt shoulda sung out to somebody about not only his own mistreatment but also about what maggio told him before he kicked off, instead prewitt takes the law into his own hands and destroys himself morally.
like warden said while staring down at prewitt's dead carcass "you just couldn't play it smart, could ya?"
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I doan know. judson was obviously a psycho and used his position at the stockade to torture and cause the death of maggio by compelling him to escape.
in turn prewitt felt compelled to avenge the death of his friend but if he felt morally corrupted by committing an act of murder then he wasn't thinking, he was reacting.
so who's to say that prewitt was anymore comtemplative in his thought processes by choosing to absorb abuse from holmes and galovitch rather than sing out about it?
warden and the other non-comms knew what was happening and did nothing. should warden really have deferred to prewitt's stubbornness and let him absorb the punishment?
prewitt was too self-absorbed proving to himself that he could take anything heaped upon him that ultimately his approach cost him everything including his life.
yet we are supposed to admire prewitt's unrelenting tenacity and hardcase-ism.
so prewitt kills himself but pearl harbor just happened so who cares?
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I didn't mean to upset you, LawrenceA, so I woan bring up star trek again in this thread.
I have no plans to see the force awakens at the movies so I would appreciate any input from those who do go to see it as to what they think of it compared to the original 3 trilogy films.
like is the new john williams score worth grabbing.
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What do you mean... millennials? Would you be interested in knowing that many of the fans of TOS loved the reboot? Including yours truly? The reboot was successful simply because the timeline was altered allowing for a fresh story about how all of the orignial crew met and how they started to work together. I found the first film exhilarating and the second film was down right exciting story-telling.
As much as I loved the original series and their at the time rather unique special effects, and then the original cast films which got better each year except for the unfortunate Star Trek V, I think the new films have captured what they can by still emphasizing story/characterizations over special effect. Are the films full of CGI? Yes. But what else would you have them do? Continue to build models? Not only are the CGI effects believable, but they are truly astounding considering what other films have done.
As far as your wanting Shatner and whomever else is still available for filming another Trek movie here are some cold hard facts:
Original cast members still alive (emphasis on "still"):
William Shatner – 84 years of age
Nichelle Nichols – 82 years of age
Walter Koenig – 79 years of age
George Takei – 78 years of age
Original cast members deceased:
Leonard Nimoy – died 2015, 83 years of age
Grace Lee Whitney – died 2015, 85 years of age
Majel Barrett – died 2008, 78 years of age
James Doohan – died 2005, 85 years of age
De Forest Kelley – died 1999, 79 years of age
So you still want to see Shatner sitting on the bridge shouting out commands while sitting in a wheelchair-like command chair?
Or maybe watching him romance another one of those green-colored Orion women?
I mean, come on, as Shatner himself once famously said: "Get a life".
my point is shatner has been deliberately locked out of star trek since 1994. they coulda done a resurrect kirk story like star trek III and shatner probably would have liked to have done it.
since 1994 paramount has conspired to not let shatner play kirk ever again!
what kind of regard is that for star trek's television legacy?
that's de fe cat ing on the original fan base...
and being 85 wouldn't hinder william shatner from reprising kirk in audio form in a star trek CD audioplay but paramount will deny millions of first generation trekkers even that.
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Thanks, lavender.
That's the best, most convincing explanation I've heard yet. Absolutely makes sense.
so prewitt expected the guards to be complete slackers in the aftermath of a surprise japanese attack?
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Prewitt was no rocket scientist. He had two skills that ensured an easy advancement in the military, boxing and bugling. He abandoned both.
he kills sgt. fatso judson, boozes it up with a nagging donna stone and then seriously wounded, tries to make it back and gets shot.
even newman's lucas jackson wasn't particularly enamored of his fortunes being such a hardcase.
but robert e. lee prewitt gets it going his own way!
"my next li..life I take up mountain climbing."
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The trailers simply look awesome, which is saying something because George Lucas had nothing to do with the picture (other than create the universe)!
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/star-wars-force-awakens-review-848963
http://www.ew.com/article/2015/12/16/star-wars-force-awakens-review
I think abrams musta gotta lotta help from lawrence kasdan.
but hey, if itza good film so much the better for this aging trekker.
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I hate to sort of agree with Nip, but I concur that the Abrams TREK movies were very disappointing. I'm not a trekkie/trekker fanatic, but I did watch the old show and Next Generation, as well as the other movies, and enjoyed them. I was excited when news first broke about J.J. Abrams rebooting the films, with a big budget and new cast. But after watching it in the theater, I left empty and annoyed. The whole thing had been dumbed down and reeked of focus-group filmmaking. The old stuff wasn't Shakespeare, but it had it's own internal logic and integrity, which seemed to be the first things Abrams threw out, in favor of nostalgia fan-service and half-baked teen soap opera angst. I skipped the next film until the disc came out, but was no more impressed when I finally saw it. Abrams' MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE entry was passable, and SUPER 8 started out strong but kind of floundered in the last third.
So I'm dubious about the new STAR WARS as well. It's getting decent, but not exceptional, praise so far. That's about the best that can be hoped for. And before someone tells me how much New TREK made at the box-office, that is in no way an indicator of quality. McDonald's earned billions of dollars last year. That doesn't make it taste any better.
mcdonalds has sucked for decades. burger king is so much better. my sister recently got a take-out from burger king and she could easily taste the superiority. for example, mcdonald's spindly fries very quickly become waxy and dried out while burger king fries are tender and delicious for a good long time.
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maybe I'm wrong? I have to grab it when able and give it a look.
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paramount would never have found it necessary to slouch back to the tos visual look if they hadn't of killed off shatner as kirk in generations...
and deliberately decided to keep him dead! that move is what has crippled star trek to the present.
STAR TREK
1966 - 2009
does paramount think they've waited shatner out long enough yet so he's now too old to ever effectively play kirk again???...
the skunks!
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sure. successful with millennials.
but the heart of true and genuine star trek is still with us...
William Shatner!
and all the millennial era cgi HS can't negate that.
paramount would never have found it necessary to slouch back to the tos visual look if they hadn't of killed off shatner as kirk in generations...
and deliberately decided to keep him dead! that move is what has crippled star trek to the present.
STAR TREK
1966 - 2009
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I think you mean JJ Abrams, the one responsible for the most successful STAR TREK movie to date.
sure. successful with millennials.
but the heart of true and genuine star trek is still with us...
William Shatner!
and all the millennial era cgi HS can't negate that.
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I watched "The Mole People" and thoroughly enjoyed it and particularly Frank Baxter.
I think I would rather have seen more Baxter and less Svengoolie.
I have friends who are not that funny, who could take over his bits easily. And the make-up stinks!
dam right. svengoolie and his rubber chickens are lame. the three best horror TV hosts I know of are philadelphia's Dr. Shock (I caught his very first show on WPHL Channel 17), the drop dead gorgeous Elvira cassandra peterson and the great Commander USA.
quite frankly, svengoolie is the lamest most unfunny horror TV host I have ever seen. koz is a total putz.
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I totally agree with your criticism of the guest programmers. There have been a few choices that were unexpected, but the one guest I distinctly recall having more original choices, or at least one, was Bill Hader, I think, when he chose to show SLITHER, a fun, obscure seventies James Caan flick. Hader is a bit of a film geek, and worked in the industry behind the scenes before joining Saturday Night Live, so maybe that's why his knowledge may be a little more idiosyncratic. The Criterion website has an enjoyable section of videos featuring celeb guests going through the Criterion catalog, picking out titles and commenting on them. Hader's is one of the best.
bill hader is very smart and I hope he he gets a chance to do more Herb Welch.
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Yes, I noticed it as I proofread my post after writing it.
That's when I corrected it as you can see in my edited post.
Thanks, Nip for keeping me on my toes!
I used to think it was per instead of pre too.
STAR WARS: THE FORCE AWAKENS
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Roddenberry also saw his show as "Captain Horatio Hornblower in outer space" and that is always why Shatner's Kirk was the guts of original star trek and that is why paramount removing shatner in 1994's Generations was such an abomination to the original fan base.
they kicked out shatner whether he wanted to go or not and this has had the effect of alienating first generation trekkers like myself and crippling star trek in total...
BRING BACK SHATNER AS KIRK!...and then we'll talk about considering anything called star trek.
we want a most fine valedictory encore exit worthy of Mr. Shatner as kirk...and if we doan get it, star trek continues to rot, that's all.
paramount thinks they can go on with just the millennial fans? fine. lets see for how long.