lazarus
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I'll say it right now: Cameron will never top The Abyss.
Interference Random Movie Talk Episode VII: You Inglourious Little Basterds
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lazarus
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I was going to say something about wanting to wax her crescent, if you get my meaning, but something tells me I already made that joke.
LMP
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You're probably right. That's his best overall film, but Aliens and T2 are solid, engaging, sci-fi action romps that I'll probably watch forever. Game over, man, game over.
I'm guessing that you did.
lazarus
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Well it bears repeating. I mean, you can't just wax it once anyway.
LMP
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If there's one thing Pat Morita taught me...
lazarus
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You need a little more wax on, less wacks off.
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Lancemc
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I'd suggest the latter films are superior to The Abyss for that very reason. Cameron is at his best when he puts the most energy into crafting his film worlds and choreographing his spectacle and action. I think Manohla Dargis said something about the value in films stimulating the human body in addition to or maybe even instead of the common virtues in stimulating the brain. I think that's what Cameron does best in films like Aliens and T2.
lazarus
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Sorry, but I find The Abyss, while not as action-packed as those other two, to have better-drawn (and acted) characters, and a great script, so the human drama isn't engulfed by the effects, or done in some kind of pandering fashion like in T2. Also, there's a sense of wonder that at times tops Close Encounters, and I just don't get that from the ones you mentioned beyond "Wow, cool effects!"
Random. I feel bad that we (meaning my hometown, which I need to go visit) get it and I don't even appreciate that. Sorry, gang.
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Lancemc
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No, that's fair enough. I understand that perspective as well. It's just that I admire different things in his filmmaking I suppose. Probably also accounts for a few of our other differences of opinion regarding other filmmakers as well.
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I'd argue that Ripley's character arc and relationship with Newt is as well-done, if not more, than the main ones in The Abyss, but like you said, doesn't have that sense of Close Encounters-like wonder.
It's hard to compare The Abyss to the other two films outside of that aspect, but I've got no problem comparing Aliens with T2.
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How did I miss this news??
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr Plan Collaboration :: Music News :: Articles :: Paste
Wow. NOT looking forward to it. Fucking Macca.
EDIT, yes, I meant to put this in Random Music, but it's the same people reading it so whatever.
Paul McCartney, Bob Dylan and Ringo Starr Plan Collaboration :: Music News :: Articles :: Paste
Wow. NOT looking forward to it. Fucking Macca.
EDIT, yes, I meant to put this in Random Music, but it's the same people reading it so whatever.
lazarus
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Two films that are amped up but inferior versions of their predecessors?
Pretty easy comparison.
LMP
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Dylan and Macca working together must be like Spielberg and Scorsese pairing up for you.
Speaking of Spielberg, he gets a major fuck you from me for having his name attached to Transformers. God, you're TEARING ME APART, Stevie.
Speaking of Spielberg, he gets a major fuck you from me for having his name attached to Transformers. God, you're TEARING ME APART, Stevie.
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Lancemc
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For all accounts, even if Avatar fails in every other way, it seems it's going to capture that "sense of wonder" better than any of his films have since. By all accounts he's created an entire living new world for this movie, even if that's it's only real achievement.
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lazarus
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Bingo.
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I'll give you that. I'm definitely looking forward to it, certainly moreso than whatever lifeless bullshit Zemeckis has coming down the pike.
LMP
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A Christmas Carol with Jim Carrey? But he's so TALENTED.
This kid who kind of turned into my Drama/Thespian rival tries to emulate Carrey so much that now I kind of hate Carrey as a result.
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Lancemc
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Maybe not as awesome as Spielberg and PETER MOTHERFUCKING JACKSON pairing up.
I don't think I've not looked forward to an otherwise unanimously anticipated film as much as Tintin.
LMP
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The Frost/Pegg/Wright combo is really the only thing that excites me about it. And Daniel Craig, too.
Watch them get Zemeckis to do the third movie, if that ever gets released.
lazarus
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I read all the Tintin stories when I was a kid, so part of me is glad it's getting this big-time treatment, and of course part of me is very afraid.
lazarus
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Am I the only person that really liked the Lemony Snicket film? Great design in that thing, like Tim Burton if he wasn't such a goth loser.
LMP
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It got a bad rap because the kids actually were put in danger, and that can't happen because kids are so special now. I kind of liked it, but you're dead-on about the design. Reminded me more of Henry Selick than Burton though.
lazarus
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Yeah. I just mentioned Burton because it was a very design-driven film. Brad Silberling gets a bit of a bad rap. I liked Moonlight Mile a lot as well.
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I'm kind of interested in seeing Land of the Lost since it's been described as a $100 million stoner movie. Plus, I'm a sucker for Will Ferrell and Danny McBride.
You weren't Mark?
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Lancemc
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I still like Jim Carey I guess. I still really enjoy his early comedic stuff like Ace Ventura and Dumb and Dumber. And I've enjoyed him in Man on the Moon and the Truman Show. Aside from that though I don't have much praise or animosity towards the guy either way.
lazarus
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Oh god no.
LMP
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Not in theaters.
The fact that he came out with Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask in the same year is pretty damn impressive. I dug him in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine, and that's about it. I intend to watch Man on the Moon at some point though.
The fact that he came out with Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, and The Mask in the same year is pretty damn impressive. I dug him in The Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine, and that's about it. I intend to watch Man on the Moon at some point though.
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