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Forum: General Movie Discussion 14 hours ago
Replies: 14
Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after you r
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after y

I think I hit my apex on fiction when I read Thomas Pyncheon's Gravity's Rainbow, which was long and obtuse. I spent too much time reading a book that didn't deliver what I wanted.

The...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 20 hours ago
Replies: 32
I don't know how to hate films
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: I don't know how to hate films

I'd feel awful naive if I liked everything I saw. An lot what's out there is derivative dreck, like bad TV....a waste of brain cells and life time. I don't dislike many movies I see because I do...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 20 hours ago
Replies: 14
Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after you r
Posted By skizzerflake
That's kind of a "sez who?" question. Why evoke...

That's kind of a "sez who?" question. Why evoke a name from a well known book and then do something else? Just make up your own name, if you want to make up your own plot.

As far as the "high...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
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Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 14
Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after you r
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after y

They're such different literary forms that it seems hard to compare them. Books are something you take in portions, a chapter or two at a time compared to one compressed time span, generally less...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 14
Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after you r
Posted By skizzerflake
Movies Based on Books - Should you see the movie before or after you r

This popped into my head, reading the various positions on the worth of the Dune movies and its obvious corollary issue. So, someone writes a book and it's popular. Years later, someone else makes...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 day ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
This debate requires a much longer retort than...

This debate requires a much longer retort than I'm willing to do, so, instead, I'll look to the biggest box office hits of 2023. Yes, of course I do know that there is an audience for something that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
>>>>There's art, as in paintings, sculptures,...

>>>>There's art, as in paintings, sculptures, photos installations, etc, something that can be funded by an individual. I know a bunch of people, including myself, that do that and the whole...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 2 days ago
Replies: 75
The best final line of a movie.
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: The best final line of a movie.

I had to check back for my old favorite, the last line in Casablanca...."Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship", Rick (Humphrey Bogart) to Renault (Claude Rains) after Rick...
Forum: The Television & Music Forum 3 days ago
Replies: 3
Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Quiet on the Set: The Dark Side of Kids TV

When my kids were kids, I recall some of those shows and it does seem like the casualty rate is very high. The hype made it seem like those kids were "living the life" when some of them not just...
Forum: Games and Tabs 3 days ago
Replies: 2,475
Have you watched it?
Posted By skizzerflake
Forum: Games and Tabs 3 days ago
Replies: 2,383
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Like or dislike?

Dislike

Raw Oysters
Forum: Games and Tabs 3 days ago
Replies: 2,383
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Like or dislike?

Like (If they're hot dogs)

Pickled Beets
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 days ago
Replies: 81,273
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Rate The Last Movie You Saw

:popcorn::popcorn:
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire - Saw it last night....not surprisingly, I was underwhelmed. I was not interested in other movies that were showing and my expectations of this...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 32
I don't know how to hate films
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: I don't know how to hate films

I've seen plenty of movies that I hate, but that's sorta OK. If I hate a movie, that's a strong reaction and I might see it again eventually to see if it really is as awful as I thought it was. ...
Forum: Games and Tabs 5 days ago
Replies: 2,475
Have you watched it?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Have you watched it?

No

The Birth of a Nation, the 1915 version.
Forum: Games and Tabs 5 days ago
Replies: 2,383
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Like or dislike?

Like. They're way better than transit and beat walking, especially on rainy nights.

Lacrosse
Forum: General Movie Discussion 5 days ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
Art isn't under any obligation, but movies...

Art isn't under any obligation, but movies definitely are. They are multi-million dollar projects, investments underwritten by people with money, who want to make a profit. They are shown,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
Boredom in a movie is multi-faceted for me. I...

Boredom in a movie is multi-faceted for me. I liked the boredom in the ultimate of boring movies, My Dinner With Andre....not so much in Dune 1 or 2. That's a completely subjective response....it...
Forum: Games and Tabs 1 week ago
Replies: 2,383
Like or dislike?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Like or dislike?

Dislike

Canned clam chowder
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
I doesn't do anything to or for them. It's just...

I doesn't do anything to or for them. It's just my snooze factor being expressed. People can like or dislike what they want. Dune movies have done nothing for me.
Forum: Games and Tabs 1 week ago
Replies: 2,475
Have you watched it?
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Have you watched it?

Capote yes, The Swans no.

The Day the Earth Stood Still
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 75
The best final line of a movie.
Posted By skizzerflake
It's just a matter of what is the current version...

It's just a matter of what is the current version of shock. Nobody declares "God's Wounds", AKA Zounds, any more, not to mention "Snails!" (God's nails), not to mention Thunderation or Great Horn...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 69
Dune was boring
Posted By skizzerflake
I can't define boring, but like porn, I know it...

I can't define boring, but like porn, I know it when I see it. Or course, it's the fault of the whole chain....producing, writing, directing, acting. You'd think they'd watch the movie before the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
Replies: 12
Tartarian vibe movies
Posted By skizzerflake
Re: Tartarian vibe movies

Here you go. One of those truly bonkers Russian conspiracy theories. Read it at your own risk. Just watch out for the "Mud Flood".

https://www.historydefined.net/inside-the-empire-of-tartaria/