Movies in General

Jeff Head said:

The wife and one of my sons took me to a double feature today.

Edge of Tomorrow and Maleficent.
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Thanks for the review on Edge of Tomorrow, Jeff. I'm not a Tom Crash fan, due to the butchering of Mr. Phelps in Mission Impossible I (they should have left Phelps as the best of the best), and I generally skip his movies. But after reading your review on FB, I held my nose and watched it. Your review was right on, as the movie was very enjoyable.

TerraN_EmpirE said:

I always liked the goofs from Jurassic Park.
the most Gauling being the Raptors. First when we open we see Dr. Grant and Sadler working a Velocaraptor in Montana... VelocaRaptors were native of China and Asia not the Americas. Next when we see the Raptor its to big. The JP version are two two meter tall. The real thing was barely one meter you average wild turkey in the same weight class and hight. Saving grace by luck as the movie was released Jack Horner founth the Utah Raptor in the US which against all odds just happened to fit the bill.
then the killer claw. Its curved and smooth in the inside your not going to gut anything with that blade.
finally by the time the movie was out we learned that Raptors were feathered. Oops.

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I could never forget in Jurassic Park, how they could let the microphones be visible at the top of the screen considering the amount of money spent on the special effects.

If you watch the "Aliens" movie there's a seen when Private Ricco "Frosty" Frost got burned by a flamethrower from one of his own fellow Marines which caused him to fell over the rail. Watch closely as there's a leg sticking out from one of the set workers (probably pushing out a burning dummy down for the scene).

My wife and I watched Monuments Men tonight.

It was a great flick.

Clooney, Damon, Murray, Goodman, abd Bonnevile were all outstanding...among others.

The story is based on actual events in World war II when the US and allies set up the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA), in the march across Europe, to try and find, protect, and retrieve, paintings, sculptures, and other art and literary treasures being taken by, or destroyed by the Nazis. Supposedly 80% of the movie is true to fact.

Anyhow, it was very worthwhile and I would recommend it.

I thought that you would like that one Jeff, it was a excellent movie, and tasteful in that they laid off the Gore fest often seen in war based movies.

Jeff Head said:

My wife and I watched Monuments Men tonight.

It was a great flick.

Clooney, Damon, Murray, Goodman, abd Bonnevile were all outstanding...among others.

The story is based on actual events in World war II when the US and allies set up the Monuments, Fine Arts, and Archives program (MFAA), in the march across Europe, to try and find, protect, and retrieve, paintings, sculptures, and other art and literary treasures being taken by, or destroyed by the Nazis. Supposedly 80% of the movie is true to fact.

Anyhow, it was very worthwhile and I would recommend it.

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We also watched the monuments men last weekend. Although I liked it very much, I did have some mixed feeling toward what they were doing, especially when they asked the field commander to spare an ancient building in the middle of a battle. I liked the response by the commander and agree with him 100%. The commander asked the monuments men how he could tell the family of the soldiers that their sons died because someone wanted to save a building. Even at he end of the movie, they try to justify loss of life to save art is something worthy. From that point on, I had this one question in mind: how can you view art more important than human life? Art is such a subjective matter and changes all the time. What was viewed as art yesterday becomes garbage today. And as long as human exists, we will create more art. Human life is the most important thing.

vesicles said:

I did have some mixed feeling toward what they were doing, especially when they asked the field commander to spare an ancient building in the middle of a battle. I liked the response by the commander and agree with him 100%. The commander asked the monuments men how he could tell the family of the soldiers that their sons died because someone wanted to save a building. Even at he end of the movie, they try to justify loss of life to save art is something worthy. From that point on, I had this one question in mind: how can you view art more important than human life?

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Amen vesicles...and I actually said "Amen" out load when that commander made his statement...and got a punch in the arm from my wife. LOL!

For the soldiers involved, particularly the British soldier, who chose to go into the German town and defend the art...that is fine. His choice, and I respect that he felt so strongly about it. And it cost him his life in the movie.

However, you cannot adjust even tactical fighting strategies to save art. Once the enemy knows of it, they will use it to their abject advantage and your disadvantage....and that will cost life...and could even have direct impact on the overall war..

While I agree that saving priceless art, sculptures, literary artifacts, etc. is valuable and worthwhile, it can only be accomplished in the context of defeating the enemy who is trying to destroy your very life and culture.

I personally believe that that part of the film, where the commander of the unit was indicating that saving this art was in essence, equated to saving civilization, was probably part of the 20% that was not as true to events.

MwRYum said:

The only think I know is that Harrison Ford's shoes is pretty big one to fill...like, who you could imagine to fill in as the new Indie or Han Solo, y'know?

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The toughest part is trying to replace iconic characters like Indie and Han.

For Indie and Han let's start with how old is he suppose to be and when?

I'm not a casting director nor am I knowledgeable enough on actors. Now this could be because I watch Justifed I kind of like Timothy Olyphant for both.

He's going to have to do something about that southern drawl though there could be someone that's a better fit I just can't think of one right now. I'm going to have to watch more tv and movies.

[video=youtube;wVT0B3pPsa8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wVT0B3pPsa8[/video]

[video=youtube;zP7e5NQgwXw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP7e5NQgwXw[/video]

Nathan Fillion is another actor I could see play Indie

[video=youtube;ept-VZcss-U]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ept-VZcss-U[/video]

Transformers this weekend! I can't wait!

I don't care what others have been saying about the franchise, I love it. Except Shia Labeouf (he irritates me to no end...), I love the movies. I don't know what the big fuss is about the 2nd one, but I like them all! Let's face it, this is a franchise that is created based on a toy line and aims to showcase robots. It is not intended to win Oscars and move you like "Gone with the Wind". And I love Bay's decision to focus on the robots and make them the emotional center. That is indeed the direction to go. Some critics seems to be bothered by the fact that the movies make human dispensable. I think that is goal all along since this is a movie about robots! To them, human is like annoying ants. Dispensable indeed. For its intents and purposes, it achieves its goals gloriously. And I love it!