Movies in General

AssassinsMace said:

Actor Ethan Hawke directed a movie he co-wrote with another actor. It was said to be one of the worst movies ever directed by an actor. I haven't seen it but it was said to have no story... literally. It was just actors acting.

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Egads... that sounds boring!

I wanted to see melodramatic performances with no story (and I really, really don't), I'd go watch theatre.

AssassinsMace said:

I don't know if you've seen The Leftovers but it's a lot of people in "mourning" over "why?" three years after the fact. Anyone know any actors knows this is their idea of a story. This is their way of jumping onto the zombie bandwagon but for actors. They don't like zombies, they don't like action, they don't like anything that takes away from them acting.

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Egads... that sounds boring!

I wanted to see melodramatic performances with no story (and I really, really don't), I'd go watch theatre.

AssassinsMace said:

Anybody watching The Leftovers on HBO? Guess what? It's by Damon Lindelof of Lost fame. It's based on a fictional book where a percentage of human beings have simply disappeared off the face of the Earth. Not sure if the book explains what's behind it but Damon Lindelof seems not to have learned any lessons. He was quoted as to saying he thinks people don't want anything explained and are just interested in the lives of the people who are affected by the disappearance of their loved ones. It's only the second episode but so far... sort of boring.

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The Novel on Which it's based has the Cause of the people who vanished being a Event like "The Rapture". A biblical event which has been the plot of a number Christian Movies. most notably the Left behind series.

Yeah that has been brought up. I heard someone say it has to be because of aliens, God, or the Devil.

I just saw on the Wesley Crusher Project on the SyFy channel their take on The Leftovers. Hopefully they'll post the clip on their site or on YouTube and I'll post it here.

The Christian tradition says it's God Calling away his Chosen.
The Word is however a double loan word taken form late Latin meaning "To carry off" and middle French meaning "seizure, rape, kidnapping"
As this is HBO And the Author definitely does not strike me as a Evangelical .....

Did that guy intentionally make himself look like a Centauri?

To be Brutally Honest, No One Knows. We know he started with normal Hair... Then it and he kept getting more and more Insane....

AssassinsMace said:

Did that guy intentionally make himself look like a Centauri?

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TerraN_EmpirE said:

To be Brutally Honest, No One Knows. We know he started with normal Hair... Then it and he kept getting more and more Insane....

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He left out the vampire teeth and the 18th century fashion.

It was an unforgettable film.

Just watched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. I guess this is sort of in parallel to Battle for the Planets of the Apes. It was an entertaining movie that had a story. Surprising since director Matt Reeves started with JJ Abrams. One thing the same is I think the music score was the same guy Abrams used for Star Trek and Lost. Meaning a lot of that slow music with a violin and single stroke piano keys. It was virtually the same music.

The thing about the original Planet of the Apes series of movies was there were powerful moments like when seeing for the first time the apes riding horses hunting humans or the apes hearing Charlton Heston speak for the first time or the Statue of Liberty buried half way in the sand. The moment in Battle for the Planet of the Apes was the whole thing about "ape shall not kill ape" sacred law. They use it in Dawn of the Planet of the Apes but the powerful culmination to that belief played out in Battle for the Planet of the Apes is lost in this movie. It didn't ruin the movie, but if it was as important as in the original Planet of the Apes movie series, this movie might've had an equally powerful moment.