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I thought the series started slowly but by the end of the first season it had become a first-class SF dystopia. (Most of the good parts of the early episodes were the hints at the things to come, rather than the plot-of-the-week). The second season was also at a very high level. At the same time, "Epitaph 2" was completely redundant. I would have preferred the series ended without it (or without the scene tacked on the final episode). As it was, it was a great ending, but the addition only trivialized it.
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Probably the most entertaining and enjoyable movie in year. It's rare to see an entertainment these days.
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Pretty good. They learned from the mistakes of the second (i.e., have an interesting villain) in #3, and learned more from #3 (i.e., it's the Impossible Mission Force, not just Tom Cruise).
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Owen was a better Woody than Kenneth Branagh was. I liked it, but I'm a big Woody Allen fan, and a fan of Paris.
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The show might have sucked, but this is just a great title sequence. [youtube:32b4jrok]Hj-QRfTjjDg[/youtube:32b4jrok] As was this: [youtube:32b4jrok]fpivIYJFjd4[/youtube:32b4jrok] -
Film Serial Franchises That Died After One
RealityChuck replied to Edgy MD's topic in Film Review Forum
John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Sequels have little to do with whether the material it follows is any good, right? In Hollywood anyway every flick is a potential series.You're correct about the quality -- sequels are often made from awful films. But the main factor is the profitability. There used to be a fairly reliable formula about how much money a sequel would make, given the box office of the first film. If that number was less than what the film would cost, the sequel wasn't made. I'd say that formula is no longer reliable, but the principle remains the same: if the first film tanks, no one's going to invest in the second in the hope it will do better. -
Film Serial Franchises That Died After One
RealityChuck replied to Edgy MD's topic in Film Review Forum
Battlefield Earth. Mention of a possible sequel was made during production, and it's clear from the ending that Travolta could have come back as the villain. The fact the the film got some of the worst reviews in human history, and was a flop of impressive magnitude put an end to that pretty quick. -
Film Serial Franchises That Died After One
RealityChuck replied to Edgy MD's topic in Film Review Forum
Elektra. -
Film Serial Franchises That Died After One
RealityChuck replied to Edgy MD's topic in Film Review Forum
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension promised a sequel, though I don't know how serious they were. -
So-so film. Competent, but not memorable in any way.
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Excellent film. Did you recognize the actor who played the bodyguard? Hint: Serenity
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Not as wild or funny as it should have been.
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I was sorry to hear that about Campbell. I saw the movie a few weeks ago. It's a different animal from the John Wayne version, and is definitely superior. I would include it as a classic western (though the Wayne version was very good, too). The main thing is that it was made with a more modern sensibility for "realism" and "grit" (not in the sense used in the film). Wayne was a more traditional western.
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Second-best baseball movie Ron Shelton ever made.
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themetfairy wrote: This reminds me of a comment I heard when The Tudors was running. You can't really complain about spoiler alerts if you've done your history homework. The silliest example of this was when people complained about an Australian writer giving away the ending to Burke and Wills. I pointed out that this was like a US writer mentioning that Lincoln was shot at the end of a biography.
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The trailer is one of the best of all time. Stay till the end; I was completely underwhelmed -- until the surprise. [youtube:2omfuygt]6CloKbXtD28[/youtube:2omfuygt]
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Not a terrible movie, but immensely overrated. Wayne gave much better performances for Ford in Fort Apache and She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (both of which show a much more nuanced view of settler-Indian relations). Rather dreary overall, which may account for its critical acclaim. That and the fact that it wears its message on a big neon sign that flashes throughout.
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My favorite Lumet film because it didn't go out of the way to hammer home its points.
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I tend to agree with Andrew Sarris's assessment of him: Strained Seriousness. His films just tried too hard and nearly always left a bad taste in my mouth. He was Stanley Kramer's more talented twin: I have a MESSAGE and here is the MESSAGE. Other than The Anderson Tapes and Dog Day Afternoon, his films were never anything I looked back at with delight. And some -- like Network and The Verdict -- are badly overrated. A good director, certainly, but he never achieved greatness.
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Emma Stone comedy where one innocent lie makes her life and reputation spiral out of control.
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Surprisingly good film. Witty, and used the animation well. The minions were delightful.
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Nice concept, poorly executed. It didn't help that the previews gave away the most important twist. It's inferior in every way to the similarly themed Despicable Me, doing what Chuck Jones used to call "radio with pictures" instead of using the animation with any imagination at all. The opening, pre-credit sequence is up there as the most unnecessary piece of film ever projected. It said nothing that couldn't have been picked up later, and did it with a tiring voice over narration (did they not see Up to show how to do that right?): 1M-vN6tbNxY
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Pretty good, especially if you ignore the clunkiness of the concept. They managed to keep all the needed exposition (and a lot was needed) to palatable chunks. Loved the ending, especially because people are going crazy trying to figure it out. But it doesn't matter if it was the lady or the tiger - I mean, if the top fell or not. The ending was delightfully ambiguous and I loved that. Anyway, the falling top meant nothing - he could dream it fell, too. Biggest flaw was the section in the snow - you couldn't tell who was who.
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Who is Harry Nillson -and why is everybody talkin about him?
RealityChuck replied to a topic in Film Review Forum
We once shared a table of contents with his only published SF story. I loved his performance in Son of Dracula.. And I love his "You're Breaking My Heart" and many of the songs of Son of Schmillson (and album that oddly parallels Elton John's Honkey Chateau. -
They remade this? Who played Keith Moon?
