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Topic: Critic's Critical Conner
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Tue 06/09/15 08:37 AM

Hangover 3

UGH...boyfriend dragged me to that....I did NOT wanna spend money on it, knew it would be horrible. Actually fell asleep, and I have never done that in movie theater before.

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Ugh...I didn't make it through the 1st Hangover noway
I was at friends house. I excused myself, & went into the kitchen and washed dishes.
I can't expose my brain to garbage...
rofl So here we are in " Critics Critical Corner "

* Most Hollywood movies are catered to the 25 yrs old & younger set. It had been that way a very long time, from back when all or most of the money made was in theaters. So they were the target audience, because of being the majority going*

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Tue 06/09/15 08:39 AM


Hangover 3

UGH...boyfriend dragged me to that....I did NOT wanna spend money on it, knew it would be horrible. Actually fell asleep, and I have never done that in movie theater before.

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Ugh...I didn't make it through the 1st Hangover noway
I was at friends house. I excused myself, & went into the kitchen and washed dishes.
I can't expose my brain to garbage...
rofl So here we are in " Critics Critical Corner "

* Most Hollywood movies are catered to the 25 yrs old & younger set. It had been that way a very long time, from back when all or most of the money made was in theaters. So they were the target audience, because of being the majority going*


Yep, Hollywood is like Logan's Run, once you reach 30 you no longer matter.

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Tue 06/09/15 08:46 AM



One thing I learned: When going into a big budget Hollywood movie "Based On History or Fact" - don't expect accuracy or the film not to take liberties, things are going to be changed whether to make it more dramatic or to make the story flow. I love Tim Burton's Ed Wood, but they changed a lot of how things happened in Wood's and Lugosi's personal lives.

Also when a film, especially horror says "Based On A True Story" chances are it wasn't, or something sort of vaguely kinda happened to the writer when he was a kid, or happened to someone he knew, or were stories told to him by family members.

Sure I agree.. 'some liberties', but there is down right nauseating ill
look at the ( latest) "Titanic' (there are 3-4 previous ones) . The latest one, the main characters didn't even exist.


My disliking of Titanic wasn't so much the inaccuracies, but the fact it was just plain dull.

But yeah. Like some adaptations from books. Some go so far from the book you wonder why they bothered. Simon Birch was based on John Irving's book A Prayer For Owen Meany. The author asked them to change the name of the movie. The first half of the movie is fairly close to the book, after that it goes off on its own.

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They sure did , tale ' poetic license '.
This is a big disadvantage for people who actually READ :banana: .
You sit there watching the movie & have one " OH HELL NO! " mad moment after another.

Even a simple classic sci-fi like 'ET' was inaccurate. The movie was made almost entirely from ' Elliott's ' perspective & not ' Elliott's & ET's ' slaphead

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Tue 06/09/15 08:59 AM

Hangover 3

UGH...boyfriend dragged me to that....I did NOT wanna spend money on it, knew it would be horrible. Actually fell asleep, and I have never done that in movie theater before.


The first Hangover film is a classic (to me it is). I know it isn't for everyone but I love the first one.

But 3? I consider it one of the worst films made.

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Wed 06/10/15 05:17 AM
Edited by 2OLD2MESSAROUND on Wed 06/10/15 05:18 AM
I enjoy some of the old movies - just because they're attempting inventive genre and movie techniques for their era...but some of those remakes just 'FAIL' and do it so royally horrible as with >>>



Sure there were those lustful scenes that droned on & on & on where Kong was perceived stroking Jessica's body and that alone sold theater tickets and Jeff bridges look 'HOT'...but this was just one horrible movie! Too many lousy written lines/scripts - and her non-stop screaming; grated on the nerves!

Should movie's stay true to the books that they make a screen play/movie from? How much true factual data do the producers/directors/stage props need to follow?

For instance; 'Wizard of Oz'...no ruby slippers in the book - they were 'SILVER' WTH???

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Fri 12/25/15 10:44 PM
I watched a very very depressing movie called 'Magnolia.'
I had no idea what it was as about. I borrowed it. And there was no write up on the case.
It may be the most depressing movie I ever seen.


Magnolia (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnolia_(film)/

Magnolia is a 1999 American drama film written, produced, and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Jeremy Blackman, Tom Cruise, Melinda Dillon, Philip Baker Hall, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ricky Jay, William H. Macy, Alfred Molina, Julianne Moore, John C. Reilly, Jason Robards, and Melora Walters. The film is a mosaic of interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Magnolia was a critical success. Of the ensemble cast, Tom Cruise was nominated for Best Supporting Actor at the 72nd Academy Awards, and won the award in that category at the Golden Globes of 2000. It was Robards' final feature film. Anderson once said, "I really feel... That Magnolia is, for better or worse, the best movie I'll ever make."[3


They lie ^^^^^ :tongue:
Geez. Do not ever watch it. noway

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Tue 05/24/16 07:23 AM


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions_for_Lambs/

Well..this is 88 minutes & money
I will never never get back.
I assumed it was a war movie.
( as advertised, 2007)
It seems Robert Redford was the director, producer) & actor, trying to make a anti war statement & failed miserably.

I kept wishing him & Tom Cruz would just shut up & leave the real acting to Meryl Streep


$63.2 million in the box office slaphead

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Tue 05/24/16 07:26 AM
Edited by mightymoe on Tue 05/24/16 07:26 AM

EXODUS (Of Gods & Kings)

It is not only Biblically inactuate, it is Historicaly inaccurate.

One man's role, they replaced with a woman.
I don't see the point of even making the movie, unless it is to deceive & confuse people.
Special effects couldn't fool a teenage.
Sound track is off.
Costumes are the only thing they MAY have gotten right.
:angry:



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Tue 05/24/16 07:28 AM

Night......( something)? I really do not know.

Night of the Lepus?

Were there killer rabbits?!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yww2x3bm9k

....The terror is rabbits.

It makes the trailer freaking funny.


how many Knights did the rabbit kill in Monty Python?

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