What Movie Did You Just Watch

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I saw Die Hard 5 this weekend. It was pretty good

I heard... otherwise.

[Spark Of Spirit]

I saw Die Hard 5 this weekend. It was pretty good

I heard... otherwise.

It was better than 2. About the only issue was that it was too fast and the chase scene near the beginning had too much shaky cam. It wasn't as good as 1 and 3 and wasn't quite up to 4's revival but it was fun enough.

But then most people tried to tell me that 4 wasn't any good, and they were wrong. Short of a Lethal Weapon 5 (yeah right), I think Die Hard is still at the top of modern action movies.

Though I still need to see The Expendables 2.

[Avaitor]

The reception for it is insanely bad. I still want to see it just for the sake of it, though.

[Spark Of Spirit]

IIRC, the only Die Hard movie to get two thumbs up from Siskel & Ebert was 2.

It isn't one of the best action movies ever made or anything, but I didn't expect it to be. It isn't better than 1 or 3, and 4 was the better "modernization", but it was decent. It was just way too fast.

I really hope he gets to make that last film, though. The ending of this one really sets it up.

[Dr. Insomniac]

IIRC, the only Die Hard movie to get two thumbs up from Siskel & Ebert was 2.

There are more than 2 movie critics though.

[Spark Of Spirit]

Anyway, I liked it.

I also watched The Outsiders: The Complete Novel. I always enjoyed that adaption of the novel.

[Avaitor]

So I was watching The Story of Film: An Odyssey a week or two ago, and a scene of Avatar was played. Maybe it just wasn't meant to be seen on a non-HD TV, but the effects in that movie already look dated, and even faker than when I first saw it.

Not a good sign for Cameron.

[Avaitor]

My film professor showed Tree of Life this week. On the second day, only half the class showed up.

People really seem to hate this one.

[The Shadow Gentleman]

The Birds.

Jesus...

[Dr. Insomniac]

Still one of the most disturbingly mesmerizing scenes I've witnessed in film.

[Dr. Ensatsu-ken]

OMG! Its the dad from Boy Meets World! I never knew he was in this movie....

Yeah, but this is still another one I have to see.

[Avaitor]

I also did not know that he was in that.

Anyway, I didn't plan to see the new Oz movie, but DMR is making sure that it's worth a lot of extra points if you see it this weekend, and my mom does have interest in it, so we might go either tonight or tomorrow, depending on if my sister would want to or not.

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Just saw Natural Born Killers. Pretty good movie, and probably even more relevant today than it was in the 90's, though I can't help but feel that a more subtle script and less art house direction/editing would have made its satire on modern tabloid culture far better. I now find myself wondering what Tarantino's original script was like.

[Avaitor]

Yeah, apparently much of the dialogue in Tarantino's script was retained for the movie, but Stone mostly changed the events and perspective points in the film. For some reason, according to the WGA, this is enough to give Tarantino only a "Story" credit, even though it's the story that was changed the most from his script. Go figure.

I'm not sure how the movie would have been made if stuck to the original script, but I do know that Tarantino is considerably more subtle than Stone.

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And when Tarantino is more subtle than you, well...

Yeah, apparently much of the dialogue in Tarantino's script was retained for the movie, but Stone mostly changed the events and perspective points in the film. For some reason, according to the WGA, this is enough to give Tarantino only a "Story" credit, even though it's the story that was changed the most from his script. Go figure.

Ah, so it was the same thing basically, but a lot less weird. Strange that they gave him a story credit instead of a writing credit then, sounds like it should have been the other way around.