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Speaking of potentially terrible ideas, you hear the rumor that Clooney's being asked to play Rod Taylor's part in the remake of The Birds? I'm not the biggest fan of the original, but I don't know how they could improve upon it now either.
On the flip side, Rod Taylor has a bit part in Inglorious Basterds, so that's awesome.
On the flip side, Rod Taylor has a bit part in Inglorious Basterds, so that's awesome.
I too am against a remake of The Birds. Mainly because I like the original, but also because I've hated birds since I was attacked by one at a zoo as a child...
This has likely already been discussed here or elsewhere, but how hilarious was the recent South Park subplot about The Crystal Skull? I laughed and cried.
This has likely already been discussed here or elsewhere, but how hilarious was the recent South Park subplot about The Crystal Skull? I laughed and cried.
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Blood would be my guess. Lots and lots of it. Oh Modern day cinema, you continue to amaze me
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The reason a Birds remake will fail is that i don't think the filmmakers will have the courage to leave the events without an explanation, as Hitchcock wisely did. The reason the original is so powerful is because the creatures can have anything projected onto them, a myriad of reasons for WHY.
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It's amazing how that movie got away with it, but 3 years earlier, Psycho got stuck with the cop-out "psychologist explains Norman's motives" ending.
I didn't dislike it because there wasn't an explanation, but because it felt to me that there was one, but it was poorly explained (Melanie bringing the other bird into town, and also being a creeper). Also, I can't stand Tippi Hedren, so there's that.
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The beach hug cracks me up to no end. That and IV are my favorites, but the first is definitely the best of the bunch.
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The first is probably my favorite film.
That part from 3 was a great "montage" moment, so I don't fault you for using it.
You should go to the zoo, I hear retards like the zoo.
Cool. Glad you liked it.
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The best one will always be the one in Rocky IV:
Rocky trains in the frozen countryside of Russia while Drago's in that state-of-the-art facility.
You actually see them inject steroids directly into Drago's arm
Rocky climbs a fucking mountain, then yells "DRAGGGGGGGGGGOOOOOOO" at the top of his lungs
I just... I cannot get over how awesome Rocky IV is, and we haven't even gotten into Paulie's robot yet.
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Rocky IV's training montage uberpwns all other sports montages in history.
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Rocky fucking ended The Cold War. Take that, and the Great Ronald Reagan.
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No love for 2? I always felt that was the best, if not the funniest.
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Blood would be my guess. Lots and lots of it. Oh Modern day cinema, you continue to amaze me
You know they did make bad movies in the 60's too right?
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I absolutely love 2 after Adrian gets out of her coma, but everything up until then is just depressing, and not in an entertaining way, at least not for me.
The "condominiums" line is priceless though.
The "condominiums" line is priceless though.
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Sarcasm mostly, and mostly I meant modern horror/thriller films. Which...tend to suck. BUT! I did not mean my post in any way serious, and I shouldn't have used that damned smiley. I hate it all to hell.
Ok, for you list whores:
Rocky
Rocky Balboa
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
Rocky 2
Rocky 5
3, 4, and 2 are all really close though. It's been a while since I've seen any of those three, so I'd probably rank them different had I seen them recently. 2 is the one I can remember the least, so I put it at the bottom of the three. I love 3 as it's the only film with an end fight where Rocky just kicks the shit out of someone for the entire fight.
Rocky
Rocky Balboa
Rocky 3
Rocky 4
Rocky 2
Rocky 5
3, 4, and 2 are all really close though. It's been a while since I've seen any of those three, so I'd probably rank them different had I seen them recently. 2 is the one I can remember the least, so I put it at the bottom of the three. I love 3 as it's the only film with an end fight where Rocky just kicks the shit out of someone for the entire fight.
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I'll agree with you with regard to horror. Though that's a genre I've thought has always sucked the big dong. Thrillers have fared far better in contemporary cinema however.
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That's about where I'd put them, too. Too bad 5 doesn't exist.
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Rocky
Rocky 2
Rocky Balboa
Rocky IV
Rocky III
... Rocky V... pure garbage.
Rocky 2
Rocky Balboa
Rocky IV
Rocky III
... Rocky V... pure garbage.
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Which one has Mr. T and Hulk Hogan? That's the best one fo sho.
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That's fair. Sometimes I tend to lump horror and thriller in the same category if I'm trying to talk down on horror, and when I do that I usually mean those thrillers that are really just bad horror movies in disguise. I therefore, have a tendency to forget that thillers that are NOT like that, are some of the best movies out there.
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Lancemc
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A professor of mine subscribes to the notion that horror films have very little dissimilar from pornography. I tend to agree. I could probably count the number of truly great horror films I've seen on both hands.
The same could be say of any sort of violent movie though, unless I'm not understanding what he is arguing is similar to porn. To each their own, I love horror movies as I don't feel the need to be pretentious about being entertained. Sure, the films generally suck ass, but that's the whole point.
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That's a pretty lousy point if true.
If you can get entertainment from a slapstick comedy, prime time television, a blockbuster action movie, or a comic book, there's no reason why horror films shouldn't be in the list other than "I just don't like that sort of thing". To act as if any of those have any more or less merit than any of the others just seems silly to me, as they're all complete shit at the end of the day. That doesn't mean that there's something inherently wrong with being entertained by them. 
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