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Beamer
DOOP Secretary
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Austin Powers. Comedy is practically the only genre I like, and I hate all these other franchises.
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Lionel Hutz Esq
Bending Unit
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« Reply #15 on: 10-06-2003 00:39 »
« Last Edit on: 10-06-2003 00:39 »
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This is very hard:
The Mummy? Forget it. Nice enough, but it's a remake, come on.
The Matrix? You make me laugh. Two words. Keanu Reeves. In Seattle this summer, they did a play of "Point Break." The Keanu Reeves Character was new each night, and didn't know his lines and read them off of cue cards. It was very scary how well it worked.
Austin Powers? AbFab skewered the 60s better, and it seemed to be inversely funny to its order. 2nd was 1/2 as funny as 1, 3rd was 1/3 as funny as 2.
Now, Back to the Future, you are more on the right track. Fairly original idea, well done, the episodes fit together well, good jokes. But lets not go to far.
Lord of the Rings? Has potential, although a lot of my friends who have read the books have had problems with it. Still, beautiful movies, well done, and, so far (for a non-tolkien person), a great story that flows. Problem? We still have to see the third. Axe me again in January.
The Godfather? This is hard. The Godfather 1 & 2 are posibly the two best movie story ever told in the US (I would recomend "My Mother's Castle"/"My Father's Glory" or "Jeane d' Florette" and "Mannon of the Spring" from France to see two other woderful operatic pairs). If you ever get the chance, watch them together, it is an amazing experience. And try to watch them and not be effected by them. Great movies. The Problem? Part 3. Oh, what could have been, but what we got.
And the there was Star Wars..., but, let's be honest here, there are two Star Wars. 1) The original Star Wars, which dazzled and blew away what a movie was and looked like. But also had a heart felt, if simple story that you cared about. Then there is the modern Star Wars, which is still amazing eye-candy, but apparently the story is that the whiniest kid in the universe grew up to be the most evil. [I so wish that Lucas would just admit Ep.1 was a failure, cut it to 20 minutes (good bye Jar Jar), and append it as a introduction to Ep.2. Cut 10 minutes or so of Ep. 2's love story, and you have a good movie. Then what is supposed to be Ep.3 can be Ep. 2, and you set up Anakin's Fall (he should turn evil at the end of the movie.) Leaving you Ep. 3 to tell the story of his rise as Vader and of Amidala being killed in a heroic attempt to hide the children (Curtain fall). Instead we will get all of that smashed into two hours.] Still, the first are the movies that first swept me away as a ten yearold, and cause me to love movies. So, it gets my vote..., but If Part 3 didn't exist, The God Father would get my vote.
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ShineFusion
Professor
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Originally posted by Asylum-Fry: That reminds me, when is Episode 3 coming out in theaters? I'm guessing May 14th 2005.
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Space Potato
Crustacean
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I Like Star Wars. Jar Jar Binks Must Die! I heard a rumor that Lucas WAS gonna do three sequels to the original but decided not to. THE BASTARD!!
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Tweek
UberMod
DOOP Secretary
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Originally posted by Asylum-Fry: What is it with you people and Jar Jar Binks? There's nothing wrong with him! Jar Jar Binks sucked even more that the Ewoks, and they sucked in a major way. I'll let somebody else post the quote from SpacedThat said I still voted for Star Wars
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Melllvar
DOOP Secretary
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« Reply #25 on: 10-06-2003 12:52 »
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Done and done, as requested, Tweek. Originally posted by Asylum-Fry: What is it with you people and Jar Jar Binks? There's nothing wrong with him! "Jar Jar Binks makes the Ewoks look like fucking Shaft." Can't argue with that. Having said that I voted for Star Wars.
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DotheBartman
Liquid Emperor
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Lets see...
The Mummy: haven't seen
The Matrix: Can bite my shiny metal ass. Honestly, its the worst kind of shitty special effects movie. The concept was sorta interesting but apparently plagerized and in all honesty similar concepts had been done before (check out "Dark City" from just a couple years before Matrix, much better film), so even without the plagerism it wouldnt' have been very creative. The special effects wont date well either.
The Godfather: Pathetically, still haven't seen
Back to the Future: Love the first film anyway. Its not even really so much about sci-fi: its just a medium with which to show the simple idea of having a kid actually see what his parents were like at his age. Its so simple, charming, and has such great humor and characters that it absolutely works, and of course the sci-fi elements like the delorean are cool. The sequels are also fun, but a bit iffy since they take away so much of that simple charm. The second movie sort of becomes an action/time travel movie, and the third is honestly just kind of weird and seems like a tangent. Still, all enjoyable movies, and again the first one rocks.
Lord of the Rings: Overrated but good. I'd have to say that it does a good job of having GREAT special effects, but being artistic rather then technical (unlike say The Matrix) with them and also using them as part of the storytelling instead of "stopping" the action to show a good special effect (again The Matrix does the opposite). I think they'll be looked on as the definitive film versions of those stories 20, thirty years from now.
Austin Powers: seen only two and three. Fun and generally funny films, but they're just distractions really. I don't think they'll date well.
But the winnner is....
STAR WARS!
Okay, Phantom Menace was pretty bad, and Attack of the Clones had some iffy acting from Anakin (but was fine otherwise IMO), but otherwise you can't beat this classic series. Granted I'm not unbiased, as I nearly wore out my tapes of the trilogy as a kid, but they're just great. Great characters, sci-fi simplified, just lots of fine and even uplifting in places (the message that "the good guys will ultimately win", etc). Its amazing how well they've dated too. Even with the special edition changes most of the effects are just models, sets, props, etc, and most (not all but most)of it doesn't seem very dated at all. Another series that will stand the test of time, and deservingly so.
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Wonderbee31
Starship Captain
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I'm throwing my vote in with Star Wars, because of all the movies out of this bunch that I've seen, it was the one that impacted me the most upon it's first scene. I mean, you see the small ship fly by, okay, cool, then the Star Destroyer flies by, and by, and by...I mean the first time in a theater, it felt like 5 minutes, but it was a cool 5 minutes. And from that point on, I bought into the whole thing, and swallowed it like a thirsty man drinking water by the gallon. It was just a fun story, those first 3 movies, however, the "prequels" have almost put it down for me. But, for now, Star Wars is the best in this list.
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Zemeckis
Crustacean
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BTTF all the way!!! Bob Zemeckis movies rule all!!!
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Asylum-Fry
Liquid Emperor
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Originally posted by Space Potato: They should make a family guy movie Ha ha ha... oh shit they really are. Well, I'd say it's more worth the money to make a FUTURAMA movie. But that is not the point.
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