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Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince (2009)- Dark from start to finish in sepia tones, fitting for this part of the story. Helena Bonham Carter is one of those one of a kind actresses. Significant event in this story.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt1 (2010)- Some good necessary stuff, some drag and much gravity. The real show is in Pt2.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt1 (2010)- Some good necessary stuff, some drag and much gravity. The real show is in Pt2.
Re: The Hobbit Movies- pure money grab, detestable. I really hated the changes, deviations from the book. 👀
JBGoode
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Agree 100%. I'm really curious to see what Amazon is going to be doing to Middle-earth.
That’s it exactly, “punching up”, “over the top” that chase scene down the river escaping the woodland fairies, in barrels (one of several examples) BARF. 🤮
Khalanad75
macrumors 6502a
Went and watched it last night. Enjoyable and makes you think about things a bit.
ucfgrad93
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Agreed, way too much stuff was added. The Hobbit would have been better off as 2 movies instead of 3.
JBGoode
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Oh, I think that has been on my Prime watchlist for a while but seems to come and go because I looked for it once and it was only available as a purchase or rental and I didn't want to actually pay to see it. I think it was there for free recently and I may need to watch this.
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Queen6
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One of Rob Zombie's better films, I rate The Lords of Salem and The Devils Rejects above the rest maybe also Halloween. This one just didn't meet the expectations of the mob, 2nd Halloween no as really felt like his heart wasn't in the film.
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Queen6
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After some due consideration; pretty poor films in general of recent I'm putting this here as Space 1999 is easily film quality and then some.
If your into SciFi, action and adventure Space 1999 is an absolute must, all our hopes and adventures....
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If your into SciFi, action and adventure Space 1999 is an absolute must, all our hopes and adventures....
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fat jez
macrumors 68020
It was meant to be 2. Then I think they looked at the takings for LOTR and thought "Let's milk this"
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Pt2- ((2011) Thrills, chills, and visuals. Gringot’s escape, McGonagall vs Snape, McGonagall calls forth the Stone Men, Mrs Weasly vs Bellatrix Lestrange, Snape, Neville Longbottom! Great ending to the series! 🥳
What I’m not clear about: If Voldemort had horcruxes all around…
www.harrypotterfanzone.com
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What I’m not clear about: If Voldemort had horcruxes all around…
did any of his soul remain in his body? It appears that soon after Nigini is capatated, destroying the last horcrux was it the spell Harry had directed at him or was without a soul, his body could not sustain itself any longer?
Lord Voldemort’s Horcruxes
Learn about the enchanted objects Lord Voldemort created in an attempt to achieve immortality.
www.harrypotterfanzone.com
How Harry Potter Survived The Killing Curse in The Deathly Hallows
How did Harry survive?
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Blowback
macrumors 65816
I remember this...and both of the leads from 'Mission Impossible' Husband and Wife team.
Queen6
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1st season of Space 1999 remains to be very solid SciFi, has easily stood the test of time. As a child I always looked forward to the next episode. Pity they don't make the same quality of performance now, sometimes the magic occurs; Altered Carbon season one, naturally they couldn't leave well alone with season two, hence no season three...
Space 1999 you could get invested in the characters with a great sense of immersion that has never waned to this day.
Q-6
I don’t know man, I’m a huge fan of Rob Zombie, with the ‘Halloween remakes’ ‘House of 1000 corpses’, but this one looks like I might need to keep the lights on and phone a friend when I’m done watching it. 😁
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Crowbot
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He's such a LOTR geek. 🙂 The actors who played Merry and Pippin were on and stumped him on a trivia question (that I got right).
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mikzn
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Nobody - 2021 - starring Bob Odenkirk & Connie Nielsen
Not a bad movie - enjoyed it - has a very similar story line to "A History of Violence" 2005
Not a bad movie - enjoyed it - has a very similar story line to "A History of Violence" 2005
Interstellar (2014)- Again… This is an impressive story and movie. There is some real gravity here, Earth circa 2070ish, is dieing, a crew goes on a mission to seek a new world for the human species, and time is the challenge, the enemy. This story revels in human emotions, family bonds, love, deceit, betrayal, and includes a hard core time paradox which is explainable.
One amazing thing in our lifetimes is how CGI has advanced from cartoons to seamlessly, photorealistic environments. However as explained in the following link, Nolan’s choice of practical effects and on location shooting, makes the presentation feel more real.
Christopher Nolan Shows How He Filmed Interstellar Without Using Green Screen
Christopher Nolan went to great lengths to avoid using green screen as much as possible on Interstellar. Watch as he explains how he did it.
www.cinemablend.com
The primary critique directed at the movie seems to be the sound track, a constant background of music, sometimes bordering on or becoming oppressive that sets a tone for the story.
- The Earth is dying and must be abandoned.
- Cooper is a retired astronaut and now farmer watching his crops die.
- Murph, his daughter talks about a ghost in her bedroom.
- This “ghost“ sends them a binary message of geographical coordinates.
- Coop and Murphy drive to it and locate a secret NASA facility underground.
- …where Dr. Brandt an acquaintance of his, tells him about the mission to save humanity, Plan A relocate the humanity to another planet. Plan B is to take human embryos to another planet to get a fresh start. Brandt is working on technology to harness gravity as a propulsion force to power manned vehicles out of our atmosphere into space and carry humanity to a new home.
- Cooper the only one available with previous space mission experience volunteers to lead the mission.
- Convientently a worm hole appeared in the vicinity of Saturn 40 years ago. It is speculated that an advance civilization placed this worn hole for our use to provide a viable option for humans to relocate.
- Later in the story Coop finds himself in the Tesseract, a device created by 5 dimensional beings, which allows him to send a variety of messages back to his daughter.
- To solve the gravity engine equation, quantum data is required, that can only be retrieved from a black hole. Coop and his robot end up entering a black hole (not voluntarily), the robot grabs the quantum data needed. Coop uses the Tesseract to send this data via the Tesseract to his daughter through an identical wrist watch he gave her.
- Coop of the future sends himself the coordinates of the secret base which results in him leading the mission.
- Coop speculates that the advanced civilization who placed both the wormhole and the Tesseract, might be “future” us. The second paradox would be why would we have to save ourselves if we survived into the future before this?
It was “ok”.