What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Evenbob

This is Spielberg's new movie? Really?
What's it about, just more CG nonsense.

A 1989 old fashion animation version for British television

One of my all time favorite movies is Full Metal Jacket
Just saw this on youtube, its really good
Some interesting tidbits
R Lee Emery was only on set for training the actors and technical bootcamp advice.
He wanted the part, during training the actors, he got all dressed up as a drill sergeant, did his drill instructor bit training the actors, Kubrick saw this and gave him the part.
Most of R Lee Emery's dialogue was ad libbed
Kubrick is known to take numerous takes of one scene. 30 takes is not unusual. R Lee actually lost his voice sometimes due to so many takes
One actor once complained after so many takes that he didn't know what the director wants. Kubrick looked up from his camera, "How about better acting"
This was all filmed in London
Kubrick rarely travel more the 20 miles from his home.
He wanted to do a Viet Nam movie.
He doesn't really travel.
So they had no choice but to shoot it in London.
All the outdoor scenes, London.

The Johnny Depp Alice sequel is bombing badly on
opening weekend, it got scathing reviews. Depp
is on a roll, that's 3 flops in a row and his wife
is all over the front pages claiming he's a drunk
and an addict and beats her all the time. He
was 50 and married a kid in her 20's and it didn't
work out? Who could have seen that coming.

Quote: Evenbob

The Johnny Depp Alice sequel is bombing badly on opening weekend, it got scathing reviews. Depp is on a roll, that's 3 flops in a row

Presumably you are referring to "The Lone Ranger" and "Dark Shadows" but since the first Alice made a billion dollars, he really made 10 non-Pirate films, none of which can be called a raging "success".

He pashed (tongue kissed) an Australian TV host live on the air.
He is the dog house with his wife with whom he has no Pre-Nup.
He is the dog house with the Australian Federal Police and called an Australian Minister "an exploded tomato".
Wonder how he will be with a California Family Court Judge???

Full Metal Jacket: realsim works. Exhausted actors, hoarse DIs, generalized disorientation and frustration.

Just watched The Walk on DVD. I'd give it a 7 on the 0 to 10 scale. I probably would have liked it more in a theater. I've heard some movie viewers got physically sick due to vertigo. The walk itself I totally applaud. The take-away I get from the movie was just installing the wire was the much bigger challenge than actually walking it.

I am not saying everybody will like this movie, but I can't help but like a movie about somebody who juggles and rides a unicycle.

There's some interesting pictures and a story on the actual events here.



The world was a very different place in 1974.

It was a very impressive film on IMAX 3D. Too bad the first 2/3 of the film was rather dull.

Quote: ddloml

It was a very impressive film on IMAX 3D. Too bad the first 2/3 of the film was rather dull.

I've heard that complaint before but I enjoyed the whole movie. The movie was not just about "the walk" but also about the walker and the preparation that went into the walk. I would agree that the middle part about the challenges of setting up the wire maybe ran a little too long but the walk itself was only so long so they had kill the time somehow.