Recently Seen Films

[Smiley]

Super 8 was super great. ;>_>

Took me all night to come up with that one.

[Alexia_Ashford]

Glad to hear about Super 8. I've been keeping my eye on that one.

[I_Am_Nemesis]

Well this is from IMDB, best answer I could locate.

Contrary to popular belief, the reason George Lucas created the title card "Episode IV" in the first film was as a homage to 1940's Saturday afternoon "cliffhanger" serials, like the Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon. He also used the "text crawl" the same way each of those series opened up new chapters. He did not at the time have Episodes I, II, and III already planned. In fact, at one point, 20th Century Fox wanted the "Episode IV" title removed so as not to confuse moviegoers. There are some prints of the film that do not have that title card.

Oh brilliant cheers for that mate! thats interesting actualy because I noticed there were continuity errors between the old and new trilogy (i know they are part of the same series but they just seem like two) so this would explain that.

[Wrathborne]

Well Lucas didn't have all the stuff for eps 1-3 written out when he did 4-6.

He had some crude plot outlines but that was it. Contrary to popular belief when he wrote the first 3 films...well, he didnt write all of it, Lawrence Kasdan did a lot of it too, but Kasdan didn't have any part in eps 1-3. Kasdan was also the guy who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark from the hundreds of hand written pages of ideas and scenes given to him from Lucas and Speilberg.

Lucas had all kinds of weird ideas for the series that were never used, oddly enough a lot of these ideas were mostly planned to be used.

Darth Vader being someone else entirely rather than Luke's father, Han Solo dying rather than being frozen, Luke getting his hand put back on instead of an implant, Yoda looking more like a pig/bug eyed alien played by a midget, The planet of the ewoks was actually supposed to be the planet of the Wookies in ep 6, hell at one point Luke was a woman and Princess Leia was removed entirely, all kinds of weird stuff.

The amount of success in the first Star Wars series simply came from Lucas being forced to 'wing it' on a lot of character, setting, and story choices.

Isn't the net a great source of info?

[Mr. Spencer]

Last night I watched Soldier, featuring Kurt Russell and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. I'm surprised no-one mentioned this in that thread about the Resident Evil films, I really enjoy the movie and it's considered a sidequel to Blade Runner. It's even written by David Peoples, one of the screenwriters for Blade Runner.

Plus there's some nice references to BR too, like Russell's character having fought at Tannhauser Gate and the fact that he and his human grunts are all replaced by replicant troops, bred for combat. It's fantastic to see him wage his one man war against the replicant forces on the planet he was stranded on, I really like the film.

It's got a nice selection of supporting actors including Gary Busey, Jason Isaacs and Sean Pertwee. Busey plays a somewhat reserved role as commander of the human soldiers and he's actually a pretty likeable character. Isaacs plays the villain card as well as he always does. If you haven't seen this film, go watch it now.

I watched Robocop for the first time in...god knows how long. Damn you, Spencer.

It starts.

[nemesiswontdie]

Holy shit, Blade Runner was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw&feature=related

I got teary eyed at the quote. B-E-A-UTIFUL!

[Scream]

Soldier wasn't bad - I didn't know about the relation to BR, which funnily enough I've only seen once.. I wouldn't argue with imdb about Soldier's low rating though, just not worth it

I also just "tried" to watch Robocop for some reason - great movie, when I was young I always found the first few scenes deeply disturbing when he gets gunned down. Though I say tried to watch because its difficult to watch it with anyone now without them falling asleep - everyone has seen it before - even when I say "you saw robocop when you were 5 years old, you haven't REALLY seen Robocop"...

Robocop 2 was also kinda disturbing when I was young too with all the drug use by that kid etc.

Robocop 3 can't even remember except it was shite right? That was the one with the jetpack?

Rewatching Star Trek TNG season 4 last episode now..

[Mr. Spencer]

We don't talk about RoboCop 3.

Holy shit, Blade Runner was amazing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_saUN4j7Gw&feature=related

I got teary eyed at the quote. B-E-A-UTIFUL!

About time you finally watched it!

[I_Am_Nemesis]

Well Lucas didn't have all the stuff for eps 1-3 written out when he did 4-6.

He had some crude plot outlines but that was it. Contrary to popular belief when he wrote the first 3 films...well, he didnt write all of it, Lawrence Kasdan did a lot of it too, but Kasdan didn't have any part in eps 1-3. Kasdan was also the guy who wrote Raiders of the Lost Ark from the hundreds of hand written pages of ideas and scenes given to him from Lucas and Speilberg.

Lucas had all kinds of weird ideas for the series that were never used, oddly enough a lot of these ideas were mostly planned to be used.

Darth Vader being someone else entirely rather than Luke's father, Han Solo dying rather than being frozen, Luke getting his hand put back on instead of an implant, Yoda looking more like a pig/bug eyed alien played by a midget, The planet of the ewoks was actually supposed to be the planet of the Wookies in ep 6, hell at one point Luke was a woman and Princess Leia was removed entirely, all kinds of weird stuff.

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Also I saw a film called Basement today with Danny Dyer.... it was absolutely shocking, terrible acting, story, characters everything about it seemed poorly executed and very low budget. I expected more from it to be honest especially since Dyer is pretty famous now

The amount of success in the first Star Wars series simply came from Lucas being forced to 'wing it' on a lot of character, setting, and story choices.

Isn't the net a great source of info?

just remembered I had a DVD box set of the first 3 films and a bonus dvd with a feature long documentary abour the original trilogy. Very interesting stuff. It explained all the problems they faced during pre production, production and post production for the first film. Apparently there was even a time where Han Solo had green skin and gills. It explained a lot of what you just mentioned as well. Apparently Harrison Ford wasn't originally going tom play Han Solo as Lucas wanted only unknown actors. there was footage of Kurt Russel auditioning for the part instead. I have to say though that George Lucas is quite an inspirational man

[Scream]

Didn't Freddy Krueger audition for Luke Skywalker?

[BBboy20]

Super 8 was super great.

[I_Am_Nemesis]

Just saw the Coen Brothers version of True Grit..... the ending was crap and the film wasn't all that great either except for some good acting and cinemaphotography, so all in all was pretty dissapointing really

[Wrathborne]

Just saw the Coen Brothers version of True Grit..... the ending was crap and the film wasn't all that great either except for some good acting and cinemaphotography, so all in all was pretty dissapointing really

They followed the book dude, and yes I highly disagree with ye on this subject.

[jimmyjoejangles]

We don't talk about RoboCop 3.



About time you finally watched it!

hear hear

[jimmyjoejangles]

wasn't all that great either except for some good acting and cinemaphotography,

isn't that what makes a good movie?