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10,000BC

Post by Fat Bob » 8th Mar, '08, 15:52

I usually have something positive to say about most movies, and must say, was entertained sufficiently with Independence Day, Godzilla and the Day After Tomorrow, which were by the same people.

10,000BC though, fails. the acting is crap, the storyline is crap, the dialogue is crap and altogether....save your money.
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 8th Mar, '08, 16:35

Did you like Troy?

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Spike » 8th Mar, '08, 17:09

Burbage wrote:Did you like Troy?
Definitely a boyhood hero of mine.
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Re: 10,000BC

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Bender » 9th Mar, '08, 07:46

This is a bit [smilie=offtopic.gif] , but can't be bothered starting a new topic:

Loved some of the Gerry Anderson stuff - Captain Scarlet and some of the 'supermarionation' stuff (I far prefer 'handmade special fx to cgi), and was a great fan of UFO and Space: 1999, which starred the wonderfully wooden Barbara Bain.

While on the subject of marionettes - I also highly recommend the 'Team America - World Police' movie. If you haven't seen it, get it, but be aware it contains language and (marionette) sex scenes!
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Morrolan » 9th Mar, '08, 07:54

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Re: 10,000BC

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I bet you were a strange kid who got excited when Pinochio told a lie..
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Joseph27 » 9th Mar, '08, 14:06

I was right in hearing English being spoken on the preview? This is a definite miss.

Now off topic.....Rambo...... the one positive I take from this movie is hollywoods more realistic depiction of what a 20mm round does when it enters and subsequently exits a human head. The violence was extreme and non relenting
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by TheD » 9th Mar, '08, 18:30

Rambo IV was hilarious.

Hear the italian stallion s making Rambo V

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Fat Bob » 9th Mar, '08, 19:34

Burbage wrote:Did you like Troy?
No, not particularly. Again, lack of dialogue, not enough action and a lot of poor acting and action sequences. Yawn fest really.
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 10th Mar, '08, 06:07

So here's a question. Why do people go to see movies that are crap?

And then why do most stay to the end when they do and waste three hours of their lives on them?

Do people simply go and see movies because they are on? How can we get them to do the same for theatre?

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by daffodil » 10th Mar, '08, 06:27

'Cos you don't know it's going to be crap until you go.

'Cos we are eternal optimists and think it will get better.

'Cos the person we are with is enjoying it.

'Cos not finished the bottle of wine yet.

Too busy snogging to care.

As for theatre, wasting $15 on the cinema versus twice or three times (or more)?
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 10th Mar, '08, 06:53

So you don't trust reviews? Or you don't wait for them?

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Fat Bob » 10th Mar, '08, 07:46

Reviews: always written with a bais of the writter. Titanic won several Oscars, yes? I have no interest in seeing the movie at all.

And I hadn't actually seen any reviews of 10,000BC.
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 10th Mar, '08, 08:32

Actually, I came up with a theory for a great film the other evening. It involved just pasting the first half of the Day After Tomorrow onto the second half of Titantic, to get a movie that keeps the pace up the whole way through.

Hollywood simply doesn't worry about movies being crap. They know that people will go and see them anyway, at least until word gets round that they're crap. I think at one point they were worried that the whole mobile phone thing was allowing word of mouth to spread faster than the movie could get to its break even, but they needed have worried it seems. This probably explains why so few Hollywood movies are any good.

The question is, if you can fill a cinema for a bad movie, how can we fill a theatre for a play?

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by BFG » 10th Mar, '08, 09:30

Firstly the play and the actors have to be good enough for people to want to watch.
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Fat Bob » 10th Mar, '08, 10:39

Burb, there are plenty of Hollywood movies which are good, or at least good entertainment. I've got a whole bookcase full of movies of which probably 80% are "Hollywood" movies, and I've watched a lot of them more than 3-4 times.

Though must say, did enjoy gulping down the wine and beer and snacking, though did bring the cost of the movies up a tad! :D
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 10th Mar, '08, 11:23

BFG wrote:Firstly the play and the actors have to be good enough for people to want to watch.
A condition that doesn't, apparently, apply to movies. So why?

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Burbage » 10th Mar, '08, 11:28

Fat Bob wrote:Burb, there are plenty of Hollywood movies which are good, or at least good entertainment. I've got a whole bookcase full of movies of which probably 80% are "Hollywood" movies, and I've watched a lot of them more than 3-4 times.
At the moment they come out at the rate of one or two a year. Can you think of one from last year?

I have a bookcase full of movies. Many are from Hollywood. But that collection comes from the last 70 years of Hollywood. Let's put it this way, you'll see far better movies on TCM than you will on the major movie channels at the moment.

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Fat Bob » 10th Mar, '08, 11:52

Are we talking about movies out last year that I enjoyed and have bought and will watch again? Or ones that are "good" in your eyes?
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Possum » 10th Mar, '08, 12:50

Availability/Accessibility - Theatre requires pre-planning in regards to time, place and choice. Cinemas are generally spread fairly evenly around a city and you can just rock-up and decide on the spot.
Image – Theatres are perceived as formal settings where you dress nicer, sit up straight and F&B is for the interval only. Cinemas offer a more chilled out atmosphere.
Theatres also require a greater imagination while cinema with all its special effects places the viewer in a more passive observer roll. So, build a theatre complex with shows going on left, right and center, throw in some pop-corn and you may be onto a winner :D
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Fresh Mint » 10th Mar, '08, 16:37

I had a movie frenzy in Pakistan. My thoughts, for what they're worth.

Juno - Great movie, fantastic dialogue and wonderful cameos by a raft of character actors.
No country for old men: Typical Coen brothers. Not as good as it thinks it is.
Atonement - Wonderful. Better than the book, dare I say it. Looks very Merchant Ivory.
In the Valley of Elah: Very good. How did Tomy Lee Jones not win an Oscar? I want to do rude things to Charlize Theron.

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Re: 10,000BC

Post by azzam » 10th Mar, '08, 21:27

And The Darjeeling Limited.
Enjoyed Juno too.

BTW - has anyone read the latest by the author of 'The Kite Runner'
Something about a thousand suns. (Sorry about my shite memory ) Wonderful book.
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by Possum » 10th Mar, '08, 21:39

A Thousand Splendid Suns. It was sad :(
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Re: 10,000BC

Post by azzam » 11th Mar, '08, 04:13

Yes it was sad. One ofthe very few books that have ever made me cry. But they won in the end.
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