Miscellaneous Movie Musings

[Not Afraid]

Soooooo, you wonder why Hollywood lives sequels? Half of thosse on the list are sequels.

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by scaeagles

I thought Titanic sucked. Hated everything about it.

I thought I was the only one who hated Titanic. I thought the whole thing was just horrible, and endless.

[Not Afraid]

Another Titanic hater here. Dullsville.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by katiesue

I thought I was the only one who hated Titanic. I thought the whole thing was just horrible, and endless.

Same here. Big yawner.

We watched Ghost World last night. Not a bad little movie. Kinda Daria meets Harold and Maude. Definitely aimed directly at teenages, it could have gone a little deeper than it did. But enjoyable none-the-less.

[Alex]

Two Towers is 12 and Fellowship is 17.

Here's the list if you adjust for inflation:

1. Gone with the Wind - $1,293,085,600
2. Star Wars - $1,139,965,400
3. The Sound of Music - $911,458,400
4. E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial - $907,867,700
5. The Ten Commandments - $838,400,000
6. Titanic - $821,413,700
7. Jaws - $810,704,400
8. Doctor Zhivago - $794,466,900
9. The Exorcist - $707,639,500
10. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - $639,470,400


Saw The Da Vinci Code last night. It does a lot to mask the terrible writing of the novel but not nearly enough and is about 40 minutes too long. The movie (and the book) should have ended when a certain person is arrested as the rantings of that arrestee create seeds of doubt that would make for an interesting "Lady or the Tiger" debate if the movie ended there. The final revelations are just stupid so they can be easily cut.

I actually enjoyed the movie pretty much from the time they left the Louvre to that arrest. One big question though that I wonder about:

Spoiler:

For a man that apparently knew pretty much everything about the Priory of Sion from their historical origins, there administrative structure, their membership, their artifacts, and so on how did it escape his notice that most of them live within five minutes of a particular church?

Also, how would a DNA test proving relation to a woman in a French sarcophogus (with an unsupported claim she is Mary Magdalene) prove descendency from Christ?

[Alex]

Originally Posted by Not Afraid

Soooooo, you wonder why Hollywood lives sequels? Half of thosse on the list are sequels.

And the number is 7 if you could movies that are sequels or produced sequels.


I liked Titanic (though I have seen it since I saw it in the theater). My dislikes on the list are Episode 1 and Episode 3 which I despise. I'm all not a big fan of Return of the King and thought it a mess of the movie displaying the uncontrolled extravagance that Jackson would put on full display in King Kong.

On the inflation adjusted list the only movie I don't like are Gone with the Wind and Snow White. I find The Exorcist suspensfully made but since I never found it remotely scary it loses something for me.

[mousepod]

I'm waiting for Titanic II

[Not Afraid]

While waiting for Chris' plane to arrive so I could go to the airport, I watched a portion of "Guess Who's Comming to Dinner" on TCM. I forgot how much I LOVE that film. Lucky for me, I have a $50 Amazon credit so I bouth a copy of it today - along with a few other classecs, including the Film Noir box set that includes Detour.

[Alex]

Originally Posted by mousepod

I'm waiting for Titanic II

You're in luck.

[scaeagles]

Why is it not so hard for me to imagine that movie could be made?