Sightly Terminator related, last week talking to a bloke in the cinema
He told me he was in with a bunch of young teens, on an adventure
Club holiday, he was helping to look after them and had taken them to
Terminator.
He'd gotten bored " You've seen one Terminator, you've seen them all"
and as heading out for a smoke, the funny thing I though
Was he sad the hardest part of looking after the teens was keeping them out
of each others rooms at night to " Stop them humping each other" ( his words) )
I just told him, you can't fight hormones.
With the new Terminator film, I'm waiting until it comes to DVD .
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
That was my plan, but a recently separated friend needed cheering up so we went to see it. I was prepared for the worst, but it was better than I expected. As chrisisall says, there's no way it would beat T1 or T2 but it does beat the next 2 films in the series. Arnie was just pure fun, but there was one MAJOR plot flaw I can't discuss without spoiling the film.
) a friend of mine who is obsessed with the Terminator movies
Sat me down and went through all the plot holes and paradoxes
Of the series once. stuff I'd never noticed or had even thought
about.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
So Lexi, was 75 inches impressive ?
I've been looking at digital projectors, toying with the idea of
a bit of a home cinema, as the screen ( with HD picture) can be
Enormous.
It was...but it could have been bigger! :v
We watched QoS right after -{
She's worth whatever chaos she brings to the table and you know it. ~ Mark Anthony
I went to a 10am screening of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation this morning.
I'm not going to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but some of the plot points eluded me. I found myself yawning during certain parts of the film. The "agent going rogue to finish a mission because of an unconcerned bureaucracy and political infighting" theme is getting a bit tiresome for me.
To be clear, I enjoy watching movies. I do not, however, enjoy the cinema because of people who just won't shut up and have to discuss every thing that appears on screen, have to get up two or three times during the movie and brush their arse across the back of my head, or can't help but read every word that appears on the screen out loud. Which is probably why I don't like watching movies with my wife, arse comment notwithstanding.
All in all, it's worth a viewing, but I would have preferred to wait until it came up on Redbox so I could rent it on the cheap and watch it on my old rear projection TV without all of the annoyances.
On my own Bond Girl scale, I'd give it a Barbara Bach.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog is too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
Citizen Kane, for the second time in a fortnight (for Uni)
Heresy warning:
I think it's overrated. I do love Welles' work (I watched Lady From Shanghai and Journey Into Fear earlier today) but from the period I much prefer, say, Casablanca or The Big Sleep to Kane- good though it is.
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0QyRksgacik
'm sure every one knows this but some of the background matt
shots used in CK, were taken fron king kong, and you can see some
Pterodactyls flying past.
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
For my son's birthday, I took him to a cinema showing the 1933 King Kong on the big screen. The house was full and everyone had a great time. These ancient films, so often seen at home these days, can't be fully appreciated unless seen as they were intended.
(This is of course true for the Bond films as well- if you haven't seen, say, YOLT in the cinema then you lose some of the experience.)
Later we went back to catch a Marx Bros double bill- A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races- again with a full house and it was fantastic seeing these as they were meant to be seen.
What isn't generally known is that Groucho, Chico and Harpo acted out the key scenes from those films on the road- playing them in front of a live audience while an assistant with a stopwatch timed the laughs. Jokes that didn't work were dropped, improvisations were tested, etc. The result was that the films have built-in pauses to allow audience reaction, to avoid one joke treading on another.
Therefore, when watching at home you will find Groucho says a joke and the camera cuts to Chico reacting for a few seconds before he replies with another funny line. In the cinema with a packed house this works perfectly while at home there may seem to be a pause.
To a certain extent this is true of the Bond films as well. For example, the Lotus chase scene in TSWLM which starts with Bond and Anya becoming aware they are being followed and ends with Bond dropping a fish on the beach works 100% better in a crowded cinema than at home.
I'm going to have to disagree with you, sir. I have to admit that I don't care for crowds all that much. Shopping for clothes, one of my wife's favorite pastimes, is lost on me. As well, the shared experience of watching a movie with a bunch of ill-mannered strangers is lost on me...because it isn't a shared experience as I am quiet and trying to watch the movie whereas my fellow movie-goers don't mind talking loudly, kicking my seat, answering calls on their cellphones and commenting at the screen. It's like a strip club without the entertaining boobs. Last time I took my daughter to the cinema to watch one of the recent Disney movies, I was distracted to no end by the little girl sitting next to me who wore flashing LED shoes that lit up upon every movement of her feet and couldn't keep her feet still for five seconds.
Albeit, there are some movies that I will say are a shared experience such as when I saw Indiana Jones for the first time and everyone cheered at every escape and booed at the villians at every scene and screamed in horror when the faces melted. I hope to have that same experience with my daughter as we bought tickets to a Disney cruise this December where, as I understand, my daughter and I will see Star Wars VII together in the on board theatre.
I'm a big fan of the Marx Brothers but I don't need audience participation to know when to laugh. I do appreciate the amount of research that went into the timing of the jokes. I didn't know they did that and I thank you for pointing that out to me. I still don't see the point, from my perspective, of being annoyed by other cinema patrons when I have a large rear projection tv wired for 5.1 surround with a subwoofer that kicks you in the chest in my refinished basement.
All that said, I appreciate your point of view and I hope that you didn't find anything offensive in my opinion.
For my son's birthday, I took him to a cinema showing the 1933 King Kong on the big screen. The house was full and everyone had a great time. These ancient films, so often seen at home these days, can't be fully appreciated unless seen as they were intended.
(This is of course true for the Bond films as well- if you haven't seen, say, YOLT in the cinema then you lose some of the experience.)
Later we went back to catch a Marx Bros double bill- A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races- again with a full house and it was fantastic seeing these as they were meant to be seen.
What isn't generally known is that Groucho, Chico and Harpo acted out the key scenes from those films on the road- playing them in front of a live audience while an assistant with a stopwatch timed the laughs. Jokes that didn't work were dropped, improvisations were tested, etc. The result was that the films have built-in pauses to allow audience reaction, to avoid one joke treading on another.
Therefore, when watching at home you will find Groucho says a joke and the camera cuts to Chico reacting for a few seconds before he replies with another funny line. In the cinema with a packed house this works perfectly while at home there may seem to be a pause.
To a certain extent this is true of the Bond films as well. For example, the Lotus chase scene in TSWLM which starts with Bond and Anya becoming aware they are being followed and ends with Bond dropping a fish on the beach works 100% better in a crowded cinema than at home.
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog is too dark to read. - Groucho Marx
I have a foot in both camps, I think cinema is a crowd or " event", it's
Nice to hears an audience gasp at some stunt or all laugh at some
great one-liner.
Although I do like to sit undisturbed, to really hear every line, and get
The full impact of the music score.
Sadly if you are unfortunate enough to go to a film with a rowdy audience
it can spoil the whole film
( I once got a round of applause from a movie audience for putting out three
Yobs, as the Young girl working in the cinema was getting no cooperation from
Them ) )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I remember reading a couple of stories about the Marx Bros.
Once being kept waiting in an executives office for a long time. When the
Movie executive finally call to see them. He found them all sitting naked
By the fireplace, beside a big fire. Mainly made of his desk, chair and other
Bits of furniture. )
On meeting a priest in a lift, The priest thanked Groucho for all the laughter
he'd brought into the world. Groucho responded by thanking the Priest for all the
Laughter he and the church had removed ! )
"I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
I saw Gone Girl last night, I was really impressed with it up until the last 20 minutes which was rather rushed and the worst ending they could have gone with. X-(
I watched "Goodnight Mr Tom " last night ,starring the wonderful John Thaw . I have seen this film about 6 times now .If you have never seen it ,it is well worth a watch (I wont spoil it ) but I never fail to shed a sneaky tear,when I watch John at his best .
Mission impossible - Rogue nation. It certainly delivers the hoods, great fun - you know what you're getting. Tom still looks great at 50-ish too.
The trailers were for SPECTRE and The Man from UNCLE - while the former looks brilliant on the big screen, the latter just looked like a poor pastiche sadly- it had such great potential too.
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Yup, my feelings too. It's nowhere near as bad as it could have been (or as the critics said).
He told me he was in with a bunch of young teens, on an adventure
Club holiday, he was helping to look after them and had taken them to
Terminator.
He'd gotten bored " You've seen one Terminator, you've seen them all"
and as heading out for a smoke, the funny thing I though
Was he sad the hardest part of looking after the teens was keeping them out
of each others rooms at night to " Stop them humping each other" ( his words)
I just told him, you can't fight hormones.
With the new Terminator film, I'm waiting until it comes to DVD .
Sat me down and went through all the plot holes and paradoxes
Of the series once.
about.
It was...but it could have been bigger! :v
We watched QoS right after -{
I'm not going to spoil it for anyone who hasn't seen it, but some of the plot points eluded me. I found myself yawning during certain parts of the film. The "agent going rogue to finish a mission because of an unconcerned bureaucracy and political infighting" theme is getting a bit tiresome for me.
To be clear, I enjoy watching movies. I do not, however, enjoy the cinema because of people who just won't shut up and have to discuss every thing that appears on screen, have to get up two or three times during the movie and brush their arse across the back of my head, or can't help but read every word that appears on the screen out loud. Which is probably why I don't like watching movies with my wife, arse comment notwithstanding.
All in all, it's worth a viewing, but I would have preferred to wait until it came up on Redbox so I could rent it on the cheap and watch it on my old rear projection TV without all of the annoyances.
On my own Bond Girl scale, I'd give it a Barbara Bach.
in which they are sent on an official mission is MI2.
Heresy warning:
I think it's overrated. I do love Welles' work (I watched Lady From Shanghai and Journey Into Fear earlier today) but from the period I much prefer, say, Casablanca or The Big Sleep to Kane- good though it is.
'm sure every one knows this but some of the background matt
shots used in CK, were taken fron king kong, and you can see some
Pterodactyls flying past.
(This is of course true for the Bond films as well- if you haven't seen, say, YOLT in the cinema then you lose some of the experience.)
Later we went back to catch a Marx Bros double bill- A Night At The Opera, A Day At The Races- again with a full house and it was fantastic seeing these as they were meant to be seen.
What isn't generally known is that Groucho, Chico and Harpo acted out the key scenes from those films on the road- playing them in front of a live audience while an assistant with a stopwatch timed the laughs. Jokes that didn't work were dropped, improvisations were tested, etc. The result was that the films have built-in pauses to allow audience reaction, to avoid one joke treading on another.
Therefore, when watching at home you will find Groucho says a joke and the camera cuts to Chico reacting for a few seconds before he replies with another funny line. In the cinema with a packed house this works perfectly while at home there may seem to be a pause.
To a certain extent this is true of the Bond films as well. For example, the Lotus chase scene in TSWLM which starts with Bond and Anya becoming aware they are being followed and ends with Bond dropping a fish on the beach works 100% better in a crowded cinema than at home.
Albeit, there are some movies that I will say are a shared experience such as when I saw Indiana Jones for the first time and everyone cheered at every escape and booed at the villians at every scene and screamed in horror when the faces melted. I hope to have that same experience with my daughter as we bought tickets to a Disney cruise this December where, as I understand, my daughter and I will see Star Wars VII together in the on board theatre.
I'm a big fan of the Marx Brothers but I don't need audience participation to know when to laugh. I do appreciate the amount of research that went into the timing of the jokes. I didn't know they did that and I thank you for pointing that out to me. I still don't see the point, from my perspective, of being annoyed by other cinema patrons when I have a large rear projection tv wired for 5.1 surround with a subwoofer that kicks you in the chest in my refinished basement.
All that said, I appreciate your point of view and I hope that you didn't find anything offensive in my opinion.
Nice to hears an audience gasp at some stunt or all laugh at some
great one-liner.
Although I do like to sit undisturbed, to really hear every line, and get
The full impact of the music score.
Sadly if you are unfortunate enough to go to a film with a rowdy audience
it can spoil the whole film
( I once got a round of applause from a movie audience for putting out three
Yobs, as the Young girl working in the cinema was getting no cooperation from
Them )
Heck, no way- you go right ahead.
I must correct what I said above, though- it wasn't an assistant with a stopwatch but the writers themselves.
Once being kept waiting in an executives office for a long time. When the
Movie executive finally call to see them. He found them all sitting naked
By the fireplace, beside a big fire. Mainly made of his desk, chair and other
Bits of furniture.
On meeting a priest in a lift, The priest thanked Groucho for all the laughter
he'd brought into the world. Groucho responded by thanking the Priest for all the
Laughter he and the church had removed !
Not as good as the first one but I like the partnership between Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.
Jaws 3
Godfather 3
Smokie and the Bandit 3
The last three Star Wars films
Like MilliniumForce, I thought it was a great film up until the last
20 or 30 minutes, then it turns a bit Poo.
The trailers were for SPECTRE and The Man from UNCLE - while the former looks brilliant on the big screen, the latter just looked like a poor pastiche sadly- it had such great potential too.