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  • #16
    Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

    Originally posted by solovsfett View Post
    Agreed, Bladerunner is great. The fact Ford is in the sequel should end the argument as to whether Dekkard was a replicant obviously.
    I loved the ambiguity. But as a friend of mine remarked, "if he's not how can you explain the unicorn?" The only explanation is coincidence, which is weak.
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    • #17
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      Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
      What would be REALLY cool is to see an old B&W movie, maybe a double feature, complete with the newsreels they played at the time. Public Enemy, Scarface, She Done Him Wrong, etc.
      Years ago, there was a traveling production of Napoleon (1927 French, both B&W and silent) that was shown on three screens at once that had a live orchestra with a score by Carmine Coppola. Amazing experience. I saw it at the Chicago Theater as mentioned below.

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      Film historian Kevin Brownlow plundered the film archives of Europe for all the "Napoleon" footage he could find and made some lucky discoveries of scenes that were thought to be completely lost. Then he rebuilt "Napoleon" into a reasonable facsimile of its original version, complete with the famous three-screen, hand-tinted triptych that ended it - an effect that anticipated Cinerama.

      This version played to great acclaim at various small film festivals, and then movie director Francis Ford Coppola got the idea of presenting it properly, with a full orchestral score. He commissioned his 71-year-old father, Carmine, to compose the score, and in January the Coppolas presented "Napoleon" in Radio City Music Hall with Carmine conducting the American Symphony Orchestra.

      "We hoped to play one weekend and maybe break even and pay for printing the scores," Carmine Coppola remembered. "We had to extend for three weekends. We have been totally sold out. You're talking about a $25 top price."

      The story is much the same here in Chicago, where "Napoleon" opens Thursday at the grand old Chicago Theater, a landmark movie palace that opened six years before "Napoleon" did. Carmine Coppola will be in the pit conducting a 60-piece orchestra and the theater's own restored original Mighty Wurlitzer organ.
      The movie itself was really good, and in the setting described above, absolutely fantastic!
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      • #18
        Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

        Originally posted by solovsfett View Post
        Agreed, Bladerunner is great. The fact Ford is in the sequel should end the argument as to whether Dekkard was a replicant obviously.

        I enjoyed the book but the movie is better. Same with Minority Report.
        I thought I read the director or writer said in an interview years ago that Dekkard was a replicant at least for the purposes of the story he was making.
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        • #19
          Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

          Originally posted by FreshFish View Post
          Years ago, there was a traveling production of Napoleon (1927 French, both B&W and silent) that was shown on three screens at once that had a live orchestra with a score by Carmine Coppola. Amazing experience. I saw it at the Chicago Theater as mentioned below.
          That is Abel Gance, right? That would be so wonderful.

          The snowball fight is one of my favorite scenes in all movies. There are special effects in that movie the impact of which have still never been matched, all done with 20s tech.

          Fun fact: the original intended runtime of the Napolean Cycle was 36 hours.
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          • #20
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            fwiw in an interview Ford said he believed he was human. He might have just been playing coy but he said sans smirk.

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            • #21
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              Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
              fwiw in an interview Ford said he believed he was human. He might have just been playing coy but he said sans smirk.
              I doubt Ford even understands the question. He was very pretty and he had 2 or 3 dramatic signature moves. But I'm not going to listen to his commentary on the Director's Cut. He's the Joe Morgan of movies.
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              • #22
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                Over a week, watched episodes 1-4 of The Vietnam War, & then Apocalypse Now Redux. It made the movie worse, or maybe just more real and frustrating. Anyway, less enjoyable somehow when it's less a fable and more a mirror.
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                • #23
                  Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                  I loved the ambiguity. But as a friend of mine remarked, "if he's not how can you explain the unicorn?" The only explanation is coincidence, which is weak.
                  That's true. I love Ridley Scott movies generally but I think he was almost too in love with the idea of Dekkard as replicant and because of that we have the incongruity between his dream and almos' character leaving the origami unicorn and the reality that Dekkard is human but maybe becoming LIKE a replicant in terms of his cold/aloof demeanor while batty became more human at the end in allowing Dekkard to live.
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                  • #24
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                    Buster's Mal Heart:

                    A family man's chance encounter with a conspiracy-obsessed drifter leaves him on the run from the police and an impending event known as The Inversion.

                    There is a part in the movie where it blatantly rips-off another well-known movie, I won't spoil it. However, other than that, I thought the movie was well done. Totally a mental drama/character study type of movie. It's a thinker. Would recommend.
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                    • #25
                      Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                      Originally posted by solovsfett View Post
                      That's true. I love Ridley Scott movies generally but I think he was almost too in love with the idea of Dekkard as replicant and because of that we have the incongruity between his dream and almos' character leaving the origami unicorn and the reality that Dekkard is human but maybe becoming LIKE a replicant in terms of his cold/aloof demeanor while batty became more human at the end in allowing Dekkard to live.
                      There were many ways for it to go, which is why I preferred they leave it open ended. I like loose ends.
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                      • #26
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                        Dr. Strange was very good. Bizarre and sometimes disorienting but good.
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                        • #27
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                          Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                          Dr. Strange was very good. Bizarre and sometimes disorienting but good.
                          So Doctor Strange was strange...

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                          • #28
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                            Pirates of the Clones: Vertical Limit

                            Holy FSM has this series gone full Star Wars prequels, and worst of all it's self-aware of it. There were a couple of scenes that sort of recaptured the magic of the first movie, but otherwise yuck. Shame, as it was a waste of Javier Bardem and Geoffrey Rush (though I'm sure they're counting their money and laughing on their way to the bank). And the big climax was a total ripoff of a marginally better bad action movie.

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                            • #29
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                              Battle of the Sexes. Fantastic film and performances. Loved it
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                              • #30
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                                Kingsman 2 won the weekend by only $32,000. Don't feel bad for the It gang though. Now the highest-grossing horror movie both domestic and internationally, the film just passed Empire Strikes Back. American Made finished #3 a whole $139,000 out of first.

                                American Made was good, but entirely fluff. Basically cotton candy. Sure it tastes good, but there's absolutely no substance there.

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