Miscellaneous Movie Musings the Sequel

[cirquelover]

I watched the movie Untinkable last night, from my Nteflix que. At first it was a very intriguing movie, if a little brutal for my tastes. I actually started to enjoy the ride but then it all came crashing down. I actually hated all the characters by the end and the end just left you hanging there. Arghhh, that was a frustrating movie!!

[Moonliner]

During the Macy's Thanksgiving parade today I saw a preview for the Yogi Bear Movie.


Anyone want to take bets on how many Razzies this one walks off with? I'm guessing four nominations and two wins unless they have a category for worst use of 3D in which case I'll up it to three wins.

[Alex]

Oh my. They made a Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots movie. The world can now end complete.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAhQA...layer_embedded

And it's Touchstone so I'll be required to see it.

[innerSpaceman]

oh, i never mentioned that i saw Tangled a while back, and thoroughly loved it.

The songs weren't exactly top drawer, but it was a completely enjoyable Disney fairytale - the first done in CGI, and it looked beautiful. Not only that - I had to see it in 3-D (the only showtime that worked for me), and I was surprised and delighted to find one sequence in particular that was beyond gorgeous and stunning in that overused gimmicky format.

A very worthy addition to the canon, imo. I wish they'd kept the original title. The Shrekishness implied by the name change simply wasn't there. (whew)

[Alex]

Ok, this version of the Yogi Bear movie intrigues me. I might be willing to see it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6w0r...ayer_embedded#!

[Prudence]

Is there an organized Tron2 outing? No?

We saw Tangled this past weekend. Much better than the last one.

[Ghoulish Delight]

I can't find any word about a US release at all, only a UK release in March, but there is a movie out in Japan based on Murakami's novel, Norwegian Wood. And it's been well received so far. I intend to find a way to see it.

[innerSpaceman]

Love this tale of opening day from a commenter to the link in the post above:

Originally Posted by woid

I'm one of the few living geezers who actually saw the full version — on 2001's opening day in New York, which, as I'll never forget, was April 4th, 1968. I saw it again shortly after the cuts were made. They were obvious — and to me, at least, not an improvement.

The first time HAL opens the pod bay doors, and the pod launches, we see the whole sequence in what seems like real time — very slow and stately. In the original cut, the subsequent pod scenes were handled the same way. I'm sure the repetition got a lot of criticism, and made that an easy target for cutting. I thought it was audacious and brilliant, and that it added to the suspense and tragedy when Dave goes out to rescue Frank's body, and has to deal with the same slow procedure.

Other cuts were not so obvious, though HAL's cutting of Frank's radio was another one that would have been better left in.

Getting back to 1968: I left the theatre in the psychedelic trance that 2001 (especially on the big screen) can invoke... Walked out into Times Square, and felt like I was in a dream state — it was eerily silent, shockingly different from the usual bustle of voices and cars. Down into the subway, also weirdly still. Then I saw somebody's copy of the New York Post, with a giant black EXTRA headline. Martin Luther King had just been shot in Memphis, and the news had broken during the couple of hours I was in space.

[innerSpaceman]

Well, don't be too excited. The footage has been found, and in reportedly pristine condition - but there's no plans for you to be able to see it - in fact, the documentary in the works that might have featured some or all of it has been cancelled. So, for now at least, it might as well still be buried in the salt mine.

I hope there's a way to see it someday.

[€uroMeinke]

The Tron remake they should have made: