Last film you watched and your rating

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by mcjihge2 » Sun Oct 18, 2020 9:43 pm

Pitch Perfect.

Great film. 9/10. And I really like Anna Kendrick.

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by floydfreak » Sun Oct 18, 2020 10:28 pm

McQ (1974) - 7/10

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Moggy » Mon Oct 19, 2020 7:55 am

The Hunt For The Wilderpeople - 8/10

Fantastic movie that was let down by how annoying and over the top the Child Protection Officer and Rhys Darby were. The movie would have been an easy 10/10 if they had both dialled it back slightly.

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by Jenuall » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:36 am

Raiders of the Lost Ark - 10/10

Showed this to the kids for the first time over the weekend and it's still the quintessential action adventure movie. Everything about this is just all time classic status, from the fantastic set pieces to the sublime soundtrack the movie just doesn't miss a beat.

Watching it for the umpteenth time as I was it is easy to let the plot and dialog kind of just flow over you as it is so familiar but it helps to make you focus on other things like just how brilliant the more technical construction of the movie is. From a higher level the whole structure of the piece just works perfectly, there's such a confidence in the pacing and flow of the movie between action, exposition and character development. In this day and age it's much easier for people to have become a bit blasé about Spielberg as a director but when you watch something like this from his "golden era" it's impossible not to be impressed and to see that while countless imitators have come along in the last 40 years there's still something about what he achieved here that has yet to be surpassed.

Basically it's amazing and comfortably deserving of its title as GR's official number 1 movie! ;)

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Moggy » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:41 am

Jenuall wrote:Basically it's amazing and comfortably deserving of its title as GR's official number 1 movie! ;)


It's clearly the Ash of movies.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Tomous » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:48 am

Raiders of the Lost Ark is the best movie, yes.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Cuttooth » Mon Oct 19, 2020 10:50 am

It's a shame Indy is a nonce though.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Preezy » Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:41 am

It's better than Captain America, I'll give it that.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Jenuall » Mon Oct 19, 2020 11:44 am

:lol:

Also when was Indy a nonce? Is he supposed to have interfered with Short Round or something?

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Cuttooth » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:02 pm

Jenuall wrote::lol:

Also when was Indy a nonce? Is he supposed to have interfered with Short Round or something?

Marion was something like 15 when she started her relationship with 25-26 year old Indy. :dread:

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Memento Mori » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:15 pm

Cuttooth wrote:
Jenuall wrote::lol:

Also when was Indy a nonce? Is he supposed to have interfered with Short Round or something?

Marion was something like 15 when she started her relationship with 25-26 year old Indy. :dread:




During the original Raiders of the Lost Ark story meetings, George Lucas proposed that Indy "could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was 11." After Steven Spielberg protested, Lucas decided that "15 is right on the edge... Once she's 16 or 17, it's not interesting anymore."


Jesus Christ George. :dread:

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by Tomous » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:17 pm

One of the most interesting things about Raiders of the Lost Ark is that we have the transcript of the 1978 story meetings between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan. These three men sat in a room and threw out ideas before the movie was written, and it's an interesting look at the process behind one of the most influential action films of all time.

And then you get to the ideas behind Marion Ravenwood, and how the two characters know each other.

Lawrence Kasdan: I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.

George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.

Kasdan: And he was forty-two.

Lucas: He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.

Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.

Lucas: He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.

Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.

Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...

Spielberg: She has pictures of him.



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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Cuttooth » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:18 pm

Holy gooseberry fool I didn't know it was that bad!

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by sawyerpip » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:21 pm

Cuttooth wrote:
Jenuall wrote::lol:

Also when was Indy a nonce? Is he supposed to have interfered with Short Round or something?

Marion was something like 15 when she started her relationship with 25-26 year old Indy. :dread:


There's a transcript of a brainstorming session between Lucas, Spielberg and Kasdan over the story for Raiders. Lucas's initial suggestion was that Indy should have had an affair with her when she was 11. He goes on to change the story to she was 15 and he was 25, but makes the point that if she was 16 or 17 it's "not interesting anymore". :dread:

Edit: I guess this had already been covered now :lol:

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Godzilla » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:48 pm

Now the plot of Temple and Doom and Indy being super keen to visit a third world dungeon full of child slaves with his whip seems a bit darker.

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by Jenuall » Mon Oct 19, 2020 12:57 pm

Previously unreleased recordings of Spielberg and Lucas discussing the development of Temple of Doom have now come to light:

Lucas: It's really important that Indy invites Short Round back to his room after they eat the monkey brains

Spielberg: Yeah and SR is up for it, he's been teasing Indy the whole time. That "you cheat real bad" stuff during the poker game was just him flirting

Lucas: We won't show anything directly, I know it's an outrageous idea but we need to make it pretty clearly what's happening, otherwise it won't be interesting...


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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Imrahil » Mon Oct 19, 2020 1:12 pm

Yeah, they were trying for something edgy regarding Indy in the original script but it comes across a bit misjudged - especially when stacked up against the rest of the film which portrays him as an all-round good egg, which doesn't make a lot of sense. Probably the only misstep the film contains.

It's still my favourite Spielberg film. Just ahead of Jaws and ET.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by imbusydoctorwho » Mon Oct 19, 2020 3:17 pm

You Only Live Twice 9/10
Fantastic Bond film, love the Japanese setting and many great action moments.

The Spy Who Loved Me 9/10
Another incredibly enjoyable Bond film and Roger Moore's best outing as 007, also the best theme song in the series imo.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Moggy » Mon Oct 19, 2020 4:56 pm

imbusydoctorwho wrote:
The Spy Who Loved Me 9/10
Another incredibly enjoyable Bond film and Roger Moore's best outing as 007, also the best theme song in the series imo.


I didn't know Chris Cornell did the song for that movie.

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PostRe: Last film you watched and your rating
by Dual » Mon Oct 19, 2020 8:41 pm

Tomous wrote:
One of the most interesting things about Raiders of the Lost Ark is that we have the transcript of the 1978 story meetings between George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Lawrence Kasdan. These three men sat in a room and threw out ideas before the movie was written, and it's an interesting look at the process behind one of the most influential action films of all time.

And then you get to the ideas behind Marion Ravenwood, and how the two characters know each other.

Lawrence Kasdan: I like it if they already had a relationship at one point. Because then you don't have to build it.

George Lucas: I was thinking that this old guy could have been his mentor. He could have known this little girl when she was just a kid. Had an affair with her when she was eleven.

Kasdan: And he was forty-two.

Lucas: He hasn't seen her in twelve years. Now she's twenty-two. It's a real strange relationship.

Spielberg: She had better be older than twenty-two.

Lucas: He's thirty-five, and he knew her ten years ago when he was twenty-five and she was only twelve.

Lucas: It would be amusing to make her slightly young at the time.

Spielberg: And promiscuous. She came onto him.

Lucas: Fifteen is right on the edge. I know it's an outrageous idea, but it is interesting. Once she's sixteen or seventeen it's not interesting anymore. But if she was fifteen and he was twenty-five and they actually had an affair the last time they met. And she was madly in love with him and he...

Spielberg: She has pictures of him.



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