Miscellaneous Movie Musings - Page 58

Not Afraid · 07-18-2006, 10:57 AM

Yeah, I can name 10 fantastic covers off the top of my head, and there's much much more where those came from.

innerSpaceman · 07-18-2006, 02:30 PM

Covers are not like sequels. Thousands of covers are fantastic, and it's one of the beauties of song that they can be adapted and performed in many wonderful ways ... some of which will do credit to the original version and others that, according to tastes, even surpass.

M. Night's got full faith and credit with me. The Village may not be his best, but I'm one who liked it very much. This puts him in a rare (um, party of one) film director category for me: I like every single one of his films.

flippyshark · 07-18-2006, 04:00 PM

Just a thought - Will there ever be another thread devoted to a single movie or filmmaker (other than Pirates)? M. Night seems worthy of his own topic, to be sure. (My own views on him are conflicted as can be.) This particular thread is amazing, but, pretty daunting if a month from now I want to find out what people were saying about Peter Weir a while back.

Cadaverous Pallor · 07-18-2006, 04:03 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by flippyshark

Just a thought - Will there ever be another thread devoted to a single movie or filmmaker (other than Pirates)?

Well, yes, all you have to do is start one.

€uroMeinke · 07-18-2006, 04:10 PM

I kind of take this particular thread as a "what have you seen lately" sort, but I see Flippy's point - and I believe ISM had expressed similar concerns earlier. I'm not sure how you could control this as the nature of these boards sort of leaps about as our own unique synapse firings take us.

But for these ambiguous threads we could creat some caps (maximum post count) to keep them from getting too unwieldy - certainly many of the other boards do this. Granted our traffic is much more moderate, but perhaps this is ripe for discussion?

Alex · 07-18-2006, 04:20 PM

You can do that (MP's cap was for system performances reasons and "moving on" was a secondary hoped for benefit that never arose) but in my experience you'll just end up with Miscellaneous Movie Musings II.

Matterhorn Fan · 07-18-2006, 04:19 PM

Thread Pudding?

Flippy, meet the Search feature. It's right under the word "Swag" at the top of your screen.

Matterhorn Fan · 07-18-2006, 04:22 PM

But somewhere in there, some smart-aleck might title it Miscellaneous Movie Mushings.

Gemini Cricket · 07-18-2006, 04:49 PM

I think we should discuss the fate of this thread. How about we start another thread about this thread? Ha ha. It matters not to me. I thought we needed a random thread about flicks. If we didn't we would have had about 50 threads about each individual movie...

I'm a sucker for dog movies. I just watched 'Eight Below'. I thought it was okay. Kinda slow in places. It's my very first Paul Walker movie. He's hot. The dogs were absolutely beautiful. I teared up a couple of times.

innerSpaceman · 07-18-2006, 05:05 PM

Oh yeah, I knew you wrote "remakes" and I meant "remakes" when the spirit of Lisa made me type "sequels." (actually I'm just unbelievablypostDisneylandbirthdayTired).

I'm gonna start an M. Night thread after Lady in the Water comes out. It won't be about one movie, but neither will it be about all movies. It will be a compromise thread.

07-18-2006, 10:57 AM	#1
Not Afraid HI! Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 17,108	Yeah, I can name 10 fantastic covers off the top of my head, and there's much much more where those came from.
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innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Covers are not like sequels. Thousands of covers are fantastic, and it's one of the beauties of song that they can be adapted and performed in many wonderful ways ... some of which will do credit to the original version and others that, according to tastes, even surpass. M. Night's got full faith and credit with me. The Village may not be his best, but I'm one who liked it very much. This puts him in a rare (um, party of one) film director category for me: I like every single one of his films.
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flippyshark Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 2,852	Just a thought - Will there ever be another thread devoted to a single movie or filmmaker (other than Pirates)? M. Night seems worthy of his own topic, to be sure. (My own views on him are conflicted as can be.) This particular thread is amazing, but, pretty daunting if a month from now I want to find out what people were saying about Peter Weir a while back.
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€uroMeinke L'Hédoniste Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: A.S.C.O.T. Posts: 8,671	I kind of take this particular thread as a "what have you seen lately" sort, but I see Flippy's point - and I believe ISM had expressed similar concerns earlier. I'm not sure how you could control this as the nature of these boards sort of leaps about as our own unique synapse firings take us. But for these ambiguous threads we could creat some caps (maximum post count) to keep them from getting too unwieldy - certainly many of the other boards do this. Granted our traffic is much more moderate, but perhaps this is ripe for discussion? __________________ I would believe only in a God that knows how to Dance. Friedrich Nietzsche
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07-18-2006, 04:20 PM	#6
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	You can do that (MP's cap was for system performances reasons and "moving on" was a secondary hoped for benefit that never arose) but in my experience you'll just end up with Miscellaneous Movie Musings II.
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Matterhorn Fan Double Agent Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Back East Posts: 2,071	Thread Pudding? Flippy, meet the Search feature. It's right under the word "Swag" at the top of your screen.
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Matterhorn Fan Double Agent Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Back East Posts: 2,071	But somewhere in there, some smart-aleck might title it Miscellaneous Movie Mushings.
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07-18-2006, 04:49 PM	#9
Gemini Cricket ... Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 13,244	I think we should discuss the fate of this thread. How about we start another thread about this thread? Ha ha. It matters not to me. I thought we needed a random thread about flicks. If we didn't we would have had about 50 threads about each individual movie... I'm a sucker for dog movies. I just watched 'Eight Below'. I thought it was okay. Kinda slow in places. It's my very first Paul Walker movie. He's hot. The dogs were absolutely beautiful. I teared up a couple of times.
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07-18-2006, 05:05 PM	#10
innerSpaceman Kink of Swank Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Inner Space Posts: 13,075	Oh yeah, I knew you wrote "remakes" and I meant "remakes" when the spirit of Lisa made me type "sequels." (actually I'm just unbelievablypostDisneylandbirthdayTired). I'm gonna start an M. Night thread after Lady in the Water comes out. It won't be about one movie, but neither will it be about all movies. It will be a compromise thread.
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