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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 1, 2015 15:10:52 GMT -5
About 75 minutes until the end of May. Have the DVD for Ride the High Country from Netflix. Not gonna get to it tonight. Opted to go out for a fancy steak dinner instead. Now I have to wake up in 7.5 hours, so now movie for me. I'll watch it this week. And start ordering whatever next month's theme is from Netflix. Looks like you get to pick the theme, unless I'm mistaken. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 1, 2015 19:26:40 GMT -5
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 1, 2015 20:50:32 GMT -5
In honor of Mad Max: Fury Road in theatres, let's go with:
In the future, our civilization no more. Any movie set in the future where society as we recognize it no longer exists. And something else is in its place. Maybe it was a cataclysmic event or the slow grind of time. But this is not the world we know!
Because I've never seen Beyond Thunderdrome and wanted to watch it before seeing the new one, which according to everybody I know is like the best thing.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 1, 2015 22:07:22 GMT -5
Sounds like you just made Shax's day  |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 1, 2015 22:16:21 GMT -5
Sounds like you just made Shax's day A world run by a bunch of monkeys actually seems oddly similar to the present system. |
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Post by shaxper on Jun 2, 2015 10:46:33 GMT -5
Sounds like you just made Shax's day You beat me to it, my friend. My day is totally made!! |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 2, 2015 11:26:25 GMT -5
Sounds like you just made Shax's day A world run by a bunch of monkeys actually seems oddly similar to the present system. I'd prefer the monkeys. |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 4, 2015 1:01:43 GMT -5
Starting the month off as I said I would with Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. There are some movies that no words can do justice.
I did also finally manage to catch the recommended "last ride" film, Ride the High Country. And the 3rd chapter of the Samurai Trilogy arrived in the mail today, so cleaning up from previous months.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 4, 2015 18:15:46 GMT -5
I love Beyond the Thunderdome, especially the ending, and Road Warrior was pretty fun too though I've never cared for the first Mad Max.
For my lot I watched THX1138 for the first time in its entirety and it was actually pretty decent. I started it once years ago when I was in high school but never made it past the first half hour. It's still not the most enthralling film, and there are a few others with a similar concept that I enjoy more but it's really well shot and I love the use of light.
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Post by Confessor on Jun 5, 2015 8:03:27 GMT -5
I've been re-watching the first three Mad Max movies over the last fortnight...although I grew up with those movies and know them backwards.
I'm slightly surprised that I seem to be in a minority here, but my views on the first three Mad Max films are that the first one was some kind of low budget, almost art house masterpiece. Mad Max 2 had a somewhat bigger budget and, against all odds, actually managed to top the awesomeness that was the original movie, but Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome had too big a budget for its own good. The third movie was much too "Hollywood" (for want of a better word) for my tastes, with Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, a gang of cutesy lost children, and a cheesy, soft rock power ballad theme tune. I can still enjoy watching Beyond Thunderdome, of course, but I don't think it comes close to the first two in terms of scripting, set design, direction or just general, post-apocalyptic grittiness.
I have high hopes for Mad Max: Fury Road, but I've not seen it yet. I am somewhat worried about the presence of Charliez Theron and two other young glamour pusses that I saw in a trailer or making off featurette. The rest of the film looks to be Mad Max as usual, but those three look a bit like "the beautiful Hollywood people, lost in the wasteland." Hope I'm wrong about that.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 5, 2015 19:04:35 GMT -5
I've been re-watching the first three Mad Max movies over the last fortnight...although I grew up with those movies and know them backwards. I'm slightly surprised that I seem to be in a minority here, but my views on the first three Mad Max films are that the first one was some kind of low budget, almost art house masterpiece. Mad Max 2 had a somewhat bigger budget and, against all odds, actually managed to top the awesomeness that was the original movie, but Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome had too big a budget for its own good. The third movie was much too "Hollywood" (for want of a better word) for my tastes, with Tina Turner as Aunty Entity, a gang of cutesy lost children, and a cheesy, soft rock power ballad theme tune. I can still enjoy watching Beyond Thunderdome, of course, but I don't think it comes close to the first two in terms of scripting, set design, direction or just general, post-apocalyptic grittiness. I have high hopes for Mad Max: Fury Road, but I've not seen it yet. I am somewhat worried about the presence of Charliez Theron and two other young glamour pusses that I saw in a trailer or making off featurette. The rest of the film looks to be Mad Max as usual, but those three look a bit like "the beautiful Hollywood people, lost in the wasteland." Hope I'm wrong about that. It doesn't have that same grittiness, so it's very different in that aspect but I do think it took itself way less seriously and that made it a lot of fun. For my viewing pleasure this evening I chose Reign of Fire, not the brightest flick by any stretch of the word; offering no real reflections on humanity through its post apocalyptic lens but its fun none the less.  |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 5, 2015 22:47:36 GMT -5
I'm slightly surprised that I seem to be in a minority here, but my views on the first three Mad Max films are that the first one was some kind of low budget, almost art house masterpiece. Mad Max 2 had a somewhat bigger budget and, against all odds, actually managed to top the awesomeness that was the original movie, but Mad Max 3: Beyond Thunderdome had too big a budget for its own good. That seems like the standardly accepted opinion to me. |
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Post by coke & comics on Jun 5, 2015 23:34:37 GMT -5
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 6, 2015 9:24:17 GMT -5
That's a steal! I might snag that myself. |
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Post by thwhtguardian on Jun 8, 2015 18:21:43 GMT -5
Today's pick was a weird one: The Quiet Earth (1985) It's kind of like the Last Man on Earth only set in New Zealand and there are no vampires...okay so not a whole lot like the Last Man on Earth but it's about a guy who wakes up to find that the world is seemingly empty. It's quirky and the reasoning that he and the two other people he does eventually find remain alive is tenuous at best(they were at the moment between life and death when the event happened) but it had a great mood to it. |
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