I loved Second Hand Lions+2. I think if you look up "under-appreciated movies" in the encyclopedia, Second Hand Lions has got to be the very first sentence.
When the first three posters are gush over the same movie, that's kind of the opposite of underappreciated.That's a reasonable point.
great. another movie thread
Team America.I figured the satire went over your head.
I don't know if Kelly's Heros qualifies as it's epic.See my tag line
I figured the satire went over your head.Scuse the pigs whilst the hogs eat
Varsity Blues (1999)
I respect that the movie goes a good 10-12 minutes of no dialogue. Maybe I'm overestimating it, but it's noticeable and probably unprecedented.the beginning of 2010 Space Odyssey is another example of this technique
I respect that the movie goes a good 10-12 minutes of no dialogue. Maybe I'm overestimating it, but it's noticeable and probably unprecedented.If you are talking about Cast Away, I think many are aware that's the exact reason the character Wilson (the volleyball) was created. So that the Tom Hanks character would have somebody to talk to and express all his inner thoughts to when he was stranded alone. I don't know if that makes him less crazy than just talking to himself, but it seems to work better as a movie device to have Tom Hanks say something and show Wilson's reaction.
My favorite bad movie is Starship TroopersAgree that was an under-appreciated movie. A satire that works better if you think of it as a comedy, but still highly entertaining with some great action scenes.
My favorite bad movie is Starship Troopers
Agree that was an under-appreciated movie. A satire that works better if you think of it as a comedy, but still highly entertaining with some great action scenes.Great book, though.
Great book, though.
Yup, loved the book for being good. Loved the movie for being... well, whatever it was. :)I tried to read the book on a plane back in the 90's. I just couldn't get past the first chapter. I assume it got better but it was a hard read, at least for me.
I remember really enjoying The Weather Man some years ago. Hit some emotional beats when I was going through a divorce.I loved The Weather Man. Couldn’t agree more on it being under appreciated.
I also loved Observe and Report. Pretty much everything Jody Hill does is a winner, but people didn't seem to connect with that one, though I did.
I've always loved a movie called The Final Countdown.
The premise is that a modern USN Carrier (Nimitz in 1980) encounters a mysterious storm that transports the entire ship back in time to immediately prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
Once the crew/cast figures out what has happened they confront the philosophical question if whether they should prevent the attack (they have sufficient strength to easily wipe out the Japanese attack force even without resorting to atomic weapons) or let history proceed more-or-less as they know it.
One of my favorite bad movies was Yellowbeard. Graham Chapman played the main character, the pirate Yellowbeard. Marty Feldman was one of the more prominent actors in the movie, but died during the filming.I loved Father Goose
As far as underrated, the movie Father Goose starring Carey Grant is an all time classic. Very funny movie that I used to play for the kids now and then. They loved it when they were young.
Yeah, a supercarrier would be able to deal with the entire navies extant in 1941 until they ran out of ammo/avgas.These are the kinds of discussions that I think are fun coming from the premise of Final Countdown.
Maybe an enemy sub might sneak up on a single Nimitz.
But the speed makes that unlikely, and they could post Vikings around to protect the ship.
They probably would run short of avgas first.
Big fan of the movie Saharaloved it too. steve zahn is underappreciated as an actor as well, imo.
it didnt do well at the box office but I really liked it
Ammunition would be a major problem. Even in 1980 fighters mostly used air-to-air rockets not cannons and if you are spending one air-to-air rocket for each Zero you shoot down well Nimitz is going to run out of air-to-air rockets way before Japan runs out of Zeros.Strafing runs?
The other one I've wondered is what would actually be the optimal way for an F14 to take down a Zero? An F14 is obviously a vastly superior aircraft but if you can't use air-to-air rockets due to shortage then it gets trickier. If you slow down to the Zero's speed you'd be a sitting duck because the Zero would be MUCH more maneuverable. Even WWII US fighters were advised to use their superior speed and avoid dogfights with the lighter and more maneuverable Zero, for the F14 this would be an absolute necessity but it is hard to shoot down a plane when you are maintaining an airspeed 500+MPH faster than them.
Strafing runs?Agree on the air-to-air missiles. In this scenario the inventory on the ship is it, there will be no replacements.
With the greater ceiling and speed, you could be on the Zero from above and behind before they even knew you were there (I don't think they had onboard radar lol...) and it would be a lot easier for the 1941-era Americans to produce cannon rounds for the F14 than to try to produce air-to-air missiles w/o the ability to produce integrated circuits, i.e. impossible.
And since you're basically trying to make a 1-pass kill at high closing speed, I don't think you're going to be around long enough for the Zero to try to train its guns on you, fire, and hit anything...
A little OT for even an OT thread, but in the same vein there is an alternate history writer named Harry Turtledove who wrote a book called The Guns of the South (https://www.amazon.com/Guns-South-Novel-Harry-Turtledove-ebook/dp/B004JHYS12/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10CVOLXCELWEC&keywords=guns+of+the+south&qid=1706563030&sprefix=guns+of+the+sout%2Caps%2C333&sr=8-1). The premise was that some South Africans who were pissed off that Apartheid ever happened found a way to time travel, but something about the nature of it only allowed a time value of exactly 150 years prior to their current era.This is a little confusing.
So they (being racists) decided that if they could go back and arm the South in the Civil War with AK-47's, the South would win the war and it would change history such that they'd never have Apartheid.
Interesting book.
This is a little confusing.Sorry, I misspoke... They were angry about the end of Apartheid.
Are you saying racist South africans (White guys?) did not want Arpartheid to ever happen, so they went back in time and armed the American South with AK-47's in the American Civil War and somehow this prevented Apartheid from happening in South Africa? And this made the racist South Africans happy?
Sorry, I misspoke... They were angry about the end of Apartheid.Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks. Sounds like an interesting alternate history with a surprising twist at the end.
Brain fart on that one. It's been years since I read the book.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks. Sounds like an interesting alternate history with a surprising twist at the end.It is. He has another one (https://www.amazon.com/Ruled-Britannia-Harry-Turtledove-ebook/dp/B000OCXIBW/) where the Spanish has conquered the British in the late 1500s and installed Catholicism (incl. the Inquisition). The British employ a young unknown playwright (William Shakespeare) to write a play that would inflame the populous to rise up against them.
I tried to watch The Man in the High Castle, which is a streaming series on Prime, I think.Yeah I saw the previews for that show and knew it wasn't for me.
It's one of those alternate history stories where the Nazis take over the eastern United States and Japan took over the West coast. The premise was interesting enough but the end of season 1 had a twist where I said, OK I am done.
In general I've found I don't really enjoy alternate history books/movies.That's fair. I wouldn't call myself a big fan of the genre, but I can get into a book if it's in front of me. But I can understand it being a big hurdle to go against what you actually know happened in favor of "what if X did Y instead of the real thing that happened?"
I'm a huge fantasy/sci-fi nerd so it's not a matter of imagination, I think it's just that I'm willing to suspend disbelief for almost anything, right up until it's a thing that I know actually did not ever happen.
I wrote a four book series of alternate history.have you sold the movie rights?
Brad Pitt in Basterds is freakin' epic.he's even better in Snatch....another wildly underrated movie
he's even better in Snatch....another wildly underrated movieHis best line ever came in True Romance.
he's even better in Snatch....another wildly underrated movieAbsolute banger of a movie. Plus the first thing I saw from Jason Statham, who was definitely not an action star in it.
Snatch just sounds like a great movieSounds like an Erotica Flick
maybe I'll watch it some frigid dark February night
The movie where I finally became convinced that Leo DiCaprio could actually act, was Catch Me If You Can. I don't know whether or not that movie is "underappreciated" because a lot of people really like it, but it's a movie that definitely took many by surprise.Idk bc he was pretty damn good in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries. his career kind of took a turn and he was doing what I think were awful love story sh*tty movies for teenage girls like Romeo & Juliet and Titanic....but he bounced back from that and went straight back into really acting shortly after that. he went on a run with Gangs of New York, Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Shutter Island, Inception, Django Unchained....like bam bam bam bam....just really good movie and top notch performance after another.
Idk bc he was pretty damn good in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries. his career kind of took a turn and he was doing what I think were awful love story sh*tty movies for teenage girls like Romeo & Juliet and Titanic....but he bounced back from that and went straight back into really acting shortly after that. he went on a run with Gangs of New York, Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Shutter Island, Inception, Django Unchained....like bam bam bam bam....just really good movie and top notch performance after another.I never saw Basketball Diaries and wasn't particularly impressed with him in Gilbert Grape-- yeah yeah I know, any time an actor plays a special needs character everybody goes crazy for it. I didn't.
Sounds like an Erotica FlickI hope I'm not disappointed
His best line ever came in True Romance.great point. True Romance was awesome and Pitt & Gandolfini were great in it and it was way before either because hugely famous.
He plays a stoner and when his roommate is leaving he takes a bong hit and says "get some beer . . . and some cleaning products." His stoned interactions with the mafia hitmen are hilarious too.
Actually True Romance fits this thread. Great cast including James Gandolfini (pre Sopranos fame) as a mobster/hitman.
Idk bc he was pretty damn good in What's Eating Gilbert Grape and Basketball Diaries. his career kind of took a turn and he was doing what I think were awful love story sh*tty movies for teenage girls like Romeo & Juliet and Titanic....but he bounced back from that and went straight back into really acting shortly after that. he went on a run with Gangs of New York, Catch Me if You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond, Shutter Island, Inception, Django Unchained....like bam bam bam bam....just really good movie and top notch performance after another.Gotta see that,also want to catch The Revenant that LD was in. About real life bad ass Hugh Glass 1820s fur trapper left for dead after a grizzly attack
"Hidalgo"There was a time I got into slow, quiet 3-hour movies, and Hidalgo was one of them. It's really good.
My favorite bad movie is Roadhouse.You're in luck (or cursed), they're doing a remake this year. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Dalton. Co-starrring Conor McGregor. Set in the FL Keys.
great point. True Romance was awesome and Pitt & Gandolfini were great in it and it was way before either because hugely famous.Have never seen that,emptying the job jar and filling it with Flicks I have to see
You're in luck (or cursed), they're doing a remake this year. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Dalton. Co-starrring Conor McGregor. Set in the FL Keys.Looks like a cross between Cocktail and Roadhouse. I'm gonna go ahead and call it Cockhouse.
Looks like a cross between Cocktail and Roadhouse. I'm gonna go ahead and call it Cockhouse.The producers are probably mad they didn't think of this, lol.
I don't think Cabin Fever (horror) gets the appreciation it deserves.
Roadhouse, like Red Dawn, should have never been touched......
Haven't been able to get myself to watch the remake of Roadhouse. As you said probably should never been touched.
Roadhouse, like Red Dawn, should have never been touched......
100% agree. Not at all a horror film fan, and this was one of only two horror movies I've ever liked.I 100% agree about Cabin In The Woods. It flipped the horror genre on its head. I saw it in the theater and thought I was in the wrong place at first. That is one of my favorite recent horror movies.
Cabin Fever (2002) masters a morbidly unsettling comedy that most all other horror movies cannot sustain for a full movie. I didn’t find anything frightening about Cabin Fever, which is how horror movies aim to be remembered by. Instead, it’s Cabin Fever’s balancing of weird situational humor with its few terribly sad scenes where its victims fall helpless to their fates that makes this a memorable, underrated accomplishment for the horror genre.
And wouldn’t you know, a completely unnecessary, charmless, and very poorly received remake was released in 2016 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sieu-nuNnrQ).
The other horror film I like might be just as underrated - The Cabin in the Woods (2011).
Haven't been able to get myself to watch the remake of Roadhouse. As you said probably should never been touched.
Ah, that makes a lot more sense. Thanks. Sounds like an interesting alternate history with a surprising twist at the end.Turtledove is the king of alternate history fiction.
It's not out yet, March 8th is the release date. Be sure to mark your calendar! :)Keep seeing it show up on my Amazon Prime page so I assumed it was out
(https://i.imgur.com/TkGvRO9.png)It's been a couple of years, it's in the honey dew jar
Hey, Oddball, this is your hour of glory. And you're chickening out!
To a New Yorker like you, a hero is some type of weird sandwich, not some nut who takes on three Tigers.
I think we'd all expect a rather trite story line (well known) with some kitschy acting and a lot of fight scenes. It's not meant to be an artistic masterpiece.If you want to learn a whole lot more about both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons, the Trinity Site in New Mexico is open twice a year and they do a great presentation.
I'm still wondering why Oppenheimer was thought to be some great movie, I think it went over my head.
Incidentally, the Hiroshima weapon was based on uranium and the design was never tested, they "knew" it would work, it was a rather simple design. They didn't spend much time on any of that. Maybe I said this.
If you want to learn a whole lot more about both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki weapons, the Trinity Site in New Mexico is open twice a year and they do a great presentation.There's museums in Oak Ridge, TN and of course Los Alamos, NM that are very informative on the topic.
I'm far from a nuclear physicist but the general principle is that to get a bomb you need to compress fissile material into a dense enough mass. The untested bomb was a "gun type" bomb in which a fissile uranium "bullet" was fired into a tamper to cause the requisite compression.
The tested version, "gadget" as the test bomb was known, was an implosion weapon in which the detonation of a sphere of conventional explosive around a fissile core led to the nuclear explosion.
The Last Starfighter was great, loved that movie. It was in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the mid 80s alongside Krull and Beastmaster, I probably saw each of those 20 or 30 times.
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The Last Starfighter was great, loved that movie. It was in heavy rotation on HBO and Cinemax in the mid 80s alongside Krull and Beastmaster, I probably saw each of those 20 or 30 times.Is this the movie where the video game is basically a recruiting tool and when the kid wins he gets visited by beings from another planet who need him to be a pilot and save them?
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True Romance is up there. Dennis Hopper's speech when he knows he is going to die is one of my favorite scenes ever.I love that movie and agree, this scene is great. Hopper does such a great job. He knows the Christopher Walken character is going to kill him so he just doesn't care.
Cincy & 847Which is Statler and which is Waldorf?
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Is this the movie where the video game is basically a recruiting tool and when the kid wins he gets visited by beings from another planet who need him to be a pilot and save them?Exactly. As a brand new teenager in 1984, spending tons of time at the arcades, this was a dream scenario for me! :)
Is this the movie where the video game is basically a recruiting tool and when the kid wins he gets visited by beings from another planet who need him to be a pilot and save them?Yes that is the movie
And Another movie known more for its stunts. Mission Imposdible: FalloutLove that scene. Dude is amazing, does all of his own stunts- most of which are insane. Tom Cruise is one of the most underrated actors period, with tons of underrated movies. The Last Samurai, Collateral, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, and Jack Reacher- all slept on imo.
https://youtu.be/FXkQKd94N1A?si=LwRjb2NeZ_FgFb9f
It's been a couple of years, it's in the honey dew jarI have the DVD sitting on the DVD player right now. One of my all time favorite movies.
Exactly. As a brand new teenager in 1984, spending tons of time at the arcades, this was a dream scenario for me! :)
Yes that is the movieThanks, thought so.
Love that scene. Dude is amazing, does all of his own stunts- most of which are insane. Tom Cruise is one of the most underrated actors period, with tons of underrated movies. The Last Samurai, Collateral, Edge of Tomorrow, Oblivion, and Jack Reacher- all slept on imo.
I've got an idea we'll make a movie and he'll be the greatest race car driver. We'll make another movie and he'll be the greatest jet fighter. We'll make yet another one and he'll be the greatest trial attorney even tho he never tried a case previous,somebody get me a bucket
The 28 Most Underrated Movies Ever Made | Marie Claire (https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a14009/most-underrated-films-of-all-time/)I was gonna scoff at the source being Marie Claire, but that's a very solid list. A couple of clunkers but of them solid-to-very good movies and largely underappreciated.
The 28 Most Underrated Movies Ever Made | Marie Claire (https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/news/a14009/most-underrated-films-of-all-time/)Why I haven't been participating in this thread... I've only even seen 4 of those.
Wait, I didn't realize we were talking about Joe Pesci.(https://i.imgur.com/xITsA7o.png)
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Never saw the soup nazi episode but heard it was funny.Part of it is on YouTube
I have my doubts.
Kramer was the only talent
(https://i.imgur.com/xITsA7o.png)The better quote, IMHO, is the Judge's response to Pesci's comment:
A bit of an odd movie, one of Spielberg's first, called "Duel".good call I loved duel
Best Road Trip Movies: Duel Review - The News Wheel (https://thenewswheel.com/best-road-trip-movies-duel-review/?fbclid=IwAR0W1-ZHbx1pI7UI_f8lGO65gpq3x5fYHP8S4_lWYdOUQChzXUJvMjZjFvQ)
1971, Universal TV purchased a short story called “Duel” that had originally appeared in Playboy magazine. They hired the author adapt his own work into a teleplay, shot the project in 13 days, and aired it as an episode of ABC’s Movie of the Week series. The reception was so positive that they decided to lengthen the running time from 74 to 90 minutes and distributed it in Europe as a feature length film. Duel attracted some positive reviews overseas, but in all honesty, we probably wouldn’t be talking about it at all in the year 2014 if not for the fact that it was directed by a 25-year old film school dropout named Steven Spielberg.
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The Most Underrated Movies of All Time - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/list/ls061657031/)I hope one of the two is Cinderella Man.
I've seen two of these.
Yeah, I really liked Cindy Man, I'm not sure why that was unappreciated.It's not fast paced enough for the generation. Personally, it's in my top 5 all-time.
I liked Draft Day
Back on topic, I liked the movie "Draft Day" quite a bit.
Half of Eastwood's lines are him growling.yep reminded me of my father
Half of Eastwood's lines are him growling.(https://i.imgur.com/3AKlBp7.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/NRy2Hr8.png)I can't help thinking they might have escorted her to the barracks...
I can't help thinking they might have escorted her to the barracks...classy
Josey Wales "Nothing Extra" (youtube.com) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyPZFi2b380)I love the old Indian in that
Not really under appreciated, but I watch it every time.
I love the old Indian in thatNative American.
Native American.they will always be known as Indians to me sorry
Or you could guess where in India he hailed from.
Either/or.
look like brothers to mekeep it clean,lmao so ya march out a porky's reference.stick to pot stirring you're not a good mall cop
keep it clean
This is the underappreciated movies thread, not the hotties thread
they will always be known as Indians to me sorryBecause.....
Because.....because thats what John Wayne called them
"Indians" is just easier to say, and most folks now what you mean in context. I make some effort to use the term preferred by some group, but I personally don't care.Theres overs 4 million Indian Americans in the US
Just like it's the Cleveland India......oh wait a second.Its Indiana not NativeAmericana
Theres overs 4 million Indian Americans in the USOK, I can admit sometimes I can come across as an arrogant know it all, so I apologize for these next couple of comments
Just how and when did they vote to decide what they want to be called?
Show me the source of that decision.
Its the Atlanta Braves not the Atlanta Native Americans
"Indians" is just easier to say, and most folks now what you mean in context. I make some effort to use the term preferred by some group, but I personally don't care.Yeah. That's called respect.
OK, I can admit sometimes I can come across as an arrogant know it all, so I apologize for these next couple of commentsI didnt give the name Indian to anyone
Well, see there is also this country that exists that we like to call India, whose immigrants would also like to lay claim to the Indian American name.
If you are going to give a name to a people, it might help if you do not mistake them for people from half way around the world.
OK now that out of the way, I have to admit the Cleveland Guardians and Washington Commanders names have grown on me. Neither one was my favorite choice when the made the name change, but part the process is just getting used to the name that they chose.
Washington especially seems to be slow itself to embrace its new name. Putting a generic W on its helmet for now. But I have a hunch it could all be part of a long term marketing strategy. Give fans about 5-10 years to get used to the new name, then change the team colors to look more like a Naval Commander Uniform and change the helmet to a classic Navy ship or something like that. I could be wrong. We will see.
I don't overly like being called "white" and I don't have any particular affinity to Angles, Saxons, or the Caucasus mountains.you need to contact that mysterious person who just decides these things
Yet here we are.
There is no "who" trying to change the term, there are a lot of folks who think it should be more accurately employed. Fine with me, whatever.but my point is who has been appointed to decide to change names of something
I figure all this name changing surely is going to eliminate racism etc.
Yeah. That's called respect.If the Indians in this country had some big convention and voted to use a certain name then no problem I would respect that
Society, over time, decides terms and usage. This isn't something new. Language evolution.well we need to tell society were still using this word so go change something else
but my point is who has been appointed to decide to change names of something
If the Indians in this country had some big convention and voted to use a certain name then no problem I would respect thatIt's called an emergent phenomenon. Social change isn't always "decided" by anyone--things change and we all just sort of adjust.
instead one day somebody just decides this with no real authority
It's called an emergent phenomenon. Social change isn't always "decided" by anyone--things change and we all just sort of adjust.not saying the gov should control language
I, for one, don't want to live in a totalitarian state where all use of language and naming is tightly decided by some central authority. That would be doubleplus ungood, I'd say.
not saying the gov should control languageWell, I'm pretty sure "Indian" has been out of favor for at least a couple of decades now.
just that all of a sudden one day its unacceptable to use a certain word but no one really knows who decided or why
Well, I'm pretty sure "Indian" has been out of favor for at least a couple of decades now.and yet nobody knows who decided this
Society, over time, decides terms and usage. This isn't something new. Language evolution.Yes, as old folks like longhorn320 die off so does that old terminology.
Yes, as old folks like longhorn320 die off so does that old terminology.right you are now a a butt hole but soon after my passing you will be poo poo head
Evolution
and yet nobody knows who decided thisPeople in this thread keep using the term "evolving" about changes in language. Evolution is not a top down process decided upon by a committee. Evolution just sorta happens. Some people maybe deliberately wanted the change and attempted to start using it, but they couldn't "decide" that everyone else change; if people didn't like it they wouldn't use it. But it seemed to resonate with enough people that it caught on. And then the result is that people using the old term stick out as oddities and outliers.
out of favor with who?
folks on an Academy Awards show?
Well, I'm pretty sure "Indian" has been out of favor for at least a couple of decades now.Not where I live.
Most of us adhere to at least many social "norms". These aren't decided by some official body of course. We put the fork on the left in a place setting. I used to put it on the right because I'm right handed. We don't chew with our mouths open. We don't use certain words in "polite company". We take our hate off at the table. We face forward in an elevator.don't piss into the wind
It goes on and on, just a means of playing well with others. The penalty of noncompliance can be not being invited over any more, which for some no doubt is no penalty at all. I personally find it easier to "get along" in life by complying with most such norms.
(https://i.imgur.com/IE8Pac5.png)you want to give us a clue?
This one is more a forgotten movie than underappreciated.
I will around 12 o'clock if I'm not high.when are you posting pics of The Guns of Navarone
Do real lawyers cringe at the inaccuracies in lawyer/courtroom drama shows and movies, or do they just see it as "Hollywood" entertainment?Huh? Wha.... I thought you were a chemist with Proctor & Gamble whipping up colorings and aromatics. Didn't know you were an Esquire tooAs an attorney and a huge film buff, I mainly just see legal inaccuracies in films as Hollywood misunderstandings of what attorneys and judges do for a living.
Do real lawyers cringe at the inaccuracies in lawyer/courtroom drama shows and movies, or do they just see it as "Hollywood" entertainment?A bit, but it's not like they get other things right. I would say that working in criminal law gave me a great appreciation for A Few Good Men. Having a deadbang loser of a case, a sweetheart plea deal, and an unreasonable client who won't accept anything hit me right in the heart. Also, most criminal law type shows and movies are too serious. They don't capture how funny it is - Better Call Saul got that right.
That was the writings of someone else of course. My son is a lawyer, and I've stayed at HI Expresses a few times.Otter:
So I watched the RoadHouse remake on Prime last night....
aside from some cliches and the way Conor McGregor walks, they did a good job of not forcibly recreating the original. It's its own thing.
A lot of fighting, different backstory, etc. It was fun.
Do real lawyers cringe at the inaccuracies in lawyer/courtroom drama shows and movies, or do they just see it as "Hollywood" entertainment?
The Road House remake, to me, was disjointed, confused, lack any coherent plot, and in general suffered from poor writing. I'd maybe give it a D, probably not.
There are inaccuracies and incorrect tropes in just about any aspect of a movie. As an electrical engineer/computer programmer, I see them all the time, and just have to laugh. I'm not talking about Science Fiction, I'm always willing to give a lot of leeway in those areas, but more like everyday science/engineering/computer/digital stuff that is just so wrong.That's how this works now! We have generative AI to enhance video. Trained on the most photographed people in history...
A favorite example occurs in police/military shows where they're watching video from a random security cam, and then the captain/major/general or whoever's in charge says something like, "wait, back up, and enhance. Enhance. ENHANCE!!!"
And then all of a sudden, taken from this super-low-resolution, grainy, distant screen still, they produce a perfect high-res rendering of the suspect.
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That's how this works now! We have generative AI to enhance video. Trained on the most photographed people in history...Ha, good point.
...which is how Taylor Swift will be arraigned for murder when AI "enhances" her face into the video.
The original RH was far far far better than the remake, in my opinion.I agree
one of the reasons I don't watch moviesOh I watch them - usually a decade or more after they come out.But at the speed our culture is speeding ahead......or backwards I can't keep up with any of it especially cinema.Seems like you always have to pay for it one way or another
lazy in my opinion
Adam West agreed to do the film "Batman" (1966) partly with a stipulation to have more screen time as Bruce Wayne than he did on the television show. Reportedly, being told by producers that without his involvement in the film, the part of Batman/Bruce Wayne would be recast had a little something to do with it, too.The film's first premier was actually right here in Austin, Texas. It was a condition from local Austin boat manufacturing company "Glastron Boats" who built the bat boat for FREE, with only the stipulation that the film premier in Austin.
Producers were unhappy with the sound made when Batman was hitting the rubber shark in one scene in the film. West said he told them the sound doesn't matter because the shark looked so fake anyway.
West claimed he had to run around with the prop bomb for five hours to film the scene where Batman has to get rid of a smoking bomb. "It's a good thing I was a jock, or I don't know if I would have been able to do it," he added.
Originally planned as the pilot film for the TV series, the movie was instead produced between the show's first and second seasons. The producers took advantage of the larger budget to have a number of new Bat-gadgets constructed, such as the BatBoat.
As part of the promotion for the film, West and Burt Ward were sent to New York City on a bus to make appearances at various theaters. Ward noted they were supposed to hit 36 theaters, but, due to the popularity of the show and being mobbed by fans, they only made it to 33. At one point, fans even tried tipping over the bus. West would exit the bus first and quickly race through fans, but Ward was stuck picking up the rear. He was subsequently drowned in fans. West remembers it as a fun football play.
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we have a star wars thread?nope but get creative
well, I never appreciated Star Wars much.Thats just because your brain is frozen from all those Iowa winters
Thats just because your brain is frozen from all those Iowa wintersHe drinks way too much antifreeze to have brain freeze.
I will probably buy and try the Blue Milk.Just buy some Lucky Charms and only eat the warm-colored marshmallows. Blue milk!
But I'm a total Star Wars geek, so no surprise there.
He drinks way too much antifreeze to have brain freeze.Brain farts perhaps never brain freeze
He then said "OK, Rodney, now do your bit." Dangerfield pounced into the room and delivered a perfect take, even improvising the line about getting a free bowl of soup. From then on, whenever Dangerfield was in a scene, Ramis never said "Action." He just said, "OK, Rodney, do your bit."I still think some classic lines were delivered by Chevy Chase when he's practicing at nite before the big match with Smails. When he smacks the ball to into cover at the base of the tree and he's fumbling around trying to find it. Then comes up with a ball "Titleist ya it's mine" like it would be anyone elses. Or when he drills the ball into Karl's maintenance shack and finds it in his take out of fried chicken and asks - "can I have a ruling on this" damn things were a blast back then