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[Huntn]

Well DUH... I mean that part was so obvious...

Seriously, if not for the quote you posted I never would have come to that conclusion. Clearly, what Kubrick thinks is self explanatory is not the case when it comes to me.

You mentioned the "light show" so I thought I'd address it. When I first saw it, I knew he was hurtling through space, but I was not sure what to make of the room, other than he was in that place, he got old, died and was reborn as something different who could look down upon the Earth from space. How he could interact with people on Earth was unknown except I remember he gave the people (or was it HAL who got the warning?) on the 2010 expedition a warning. This discussion makes me want to see both movies again!

 

[Compile 'em all]

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Currently watching: Sinister

 

[Boogsephine]

Theater: Ironman 3 this past Thursday and Place Beyond the Pines last night.

Home: Pirates of the Caribbean (just finished the first)

I'm a huge movie buff and I hadn't seen ANY of the Pirates of the Caribbean before watching the first one the other night.

 

[twietee]

Not sure if one can completely 'understand' movies like 2001 or that it is intended to do so, Huntn. It's either you like it visually, artistically or what-not and get vastly inspired by it or not. Kind of hate it or love it thing. Of course there is a red herring throughout the whole thing and an inherend logic, but I don't think this is a movie where everything has to or can be deciphered so that you get a coherent plot or visual logic out of it. I don't see this as a weak spot at all though. It's surely not one of those favorite movies which I can watch everyday, but when I'm in the right mood this is pure pleasure for me.

I'll watch Eyes Wide Shut soon, too.

 

[Huntn]

Not sure if one can completely 'understand' movies like 2001 or that it is intended to do so, Huntn. It's either you like it visually, artistically or what-not and get vastly inspired by it or not.

It is really a pretty simple story, once you understand the meaning of some scenes, like Dr. Bowman on his death bed, being reborn into a star child. The people who have issues with it don't like the many things it might mean, as being on the vague side, because the images are absorbed without explanation.

Speaking of space movies, just watched Contact, a story written by Carl Sagan (an Agnostic), what a great movie.

 

[Huntn]

In the latest Entertainment Weekly they previewed Marvel (Comic) movies in work. Comic based movies don't seem to be abating.

*Thor: The Dark World (11/13)- More Natalie Portman!
*Captain America: The Winter Soldier (4/14)
*Guardians of the Galaxy (8/14)
*Agents of Shield (TBA)
*The Avengers 2 (5/15)
*Ant-Man (11/15)

Others in some level of planning:
*Daredevil- One of my least favorite comic-based movies.
*Punisher- One of my favorite comic-based movies.
*Blade
*Ghost Rider- stinker
*Dr. Strange
*Hulk

 

[Scepticalscribe]

It is really a pretty simple story, once you understand the meaning of some scenes, like Dr. Bowman on his death bed, being reborn into a star child. The people who have issues with it don't like the many things it might mean, as being on the vague side, because the images are absorbed without explanation.

Speaking of space movies, just watched Contact, a story written by Carl Sagan (an Agnostic), what a great movie.

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Ah, I always loved Carl Sagan; I remember watching his terrific TV series 'Cosmos' with mesmerised awe and wide-eyed wonder - what a marvellously impressive human being. (And, as an aside, what a wonderful soundtrack 'Cosmos' had - Vangelis at his sublime best); it took me years to track it down....)

 

[Huntn]

Ah, I always loved Carl Sagan; I remember watching his terrific TV series 'Cosmos' with mesmerised awe and wide-eyed wonder - what a marvellously impressive human being. (And, as an aside, what a wonderful soundtrack 'Cosmos' had - Vangelis at his sublime best); it took me years to track it down....)

In the past I saw references to Sagan as an Atheist. But in my recent surfing, someone referenced a quote attributed to Sagan, something to the effect of "I'd need to know a lot more to be an Athiest". That's how I feel too.

I did find this Carl Sagan Wikipedia article:

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed.[52]

 

[twietee]

In the latest Entertainment Weekly they previewed Marvel based movies in work. Comic based movies don't seem to be abating.

...

Others in some level of planning:
*Punisher- One of my favorite comic-based movies.

Which one? Travolta? I'd like to see the Dredd people doing a Punisher movie (I find them quite bad). Always one of my favorite comic books, most probably because I was too young to read them officially (lex mater).

To the others, bit sad I've to say, don't care for them (except Hulk - you've seen the first Ang Lee directed Hulk movie? I loved it - many didn't though).
Didn't like The Avengers, Thor and Captain America. Had hopes for Ghost Rider, since a lot of people dislike it, actually everybody who saw it, what could have been a good sign, but I fear it's just the sad truth.

But I read about a Namor installment this or next year at imdb. Hope the project is still alive.

 

[maflynn]

I watched the remade Total Recall on cable last night. Pretty good, I know it was panned pretty heavily by some but it wasn't a bad movie in its own right though it doesn't hold a candle to the original

 

[Huntn]

Which one? Travolta? I'd like to see the Dredd people doing a Punisher movie (I find them quite bad). Always one of my favorite comic books, most probably because I was too young to read them officially (lex mater).

To the others, bit sad I've to say, don't care for them (except Hulk - you've seen the first Ang Lee directed Hulk movie? I loved it - many didn't though).
Didn't like The Avengers, Thor and Captain America. Had hopes for Ghost Rider, since a lot of people dislike it, actually everybody who saw it, what could have been a good sign, but I fear it's just the sad truth.

But I read about a Namor installment this or next year at imdb. Hope the project is still alive.

I prefer to think of it as the Thomas Jane movie. It kind of felt like watching a comic like the fight with The Russian!

The Avengers was big screen action-adventure, but for some reason I was disappointed in it. Loved Thor, disliked Captain America, hated Ghost Rider.

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I watched the remade Total Recall on cable last night. Pretty good, I know it was panned pretty heavily by some but it wasn't a bad movie in its own right though it doesn't hold a candle to the original

It was ok, but as you said...

 

[twietee]

I prefer to think of it as the Thomas Jane movie. It kind of felt like watching a comic like the fight with The Russian!

Ok, that looks cheesy, but since I never saw it and you recommend it, I'll give it a shot. I've seen this one but it was unbearable and I stopped watching it after 30 mins.

 

[Huntn]

Ok, that looks cheesy, but since I never saw it and you recommend it, I'll give it a shot. I've seen this one but it was unbearable and I stopped watching it after 30 mins.

I can't guarantee you'll like it. You may feel it is cheesy, but I like the ensemble of eccentric characters, the atmosphere, and the story (as tragic as it is). It feels like a comic come to life. The Punisher claims he is not getting revenge, just punishing... right. I never saw the War Zone version. My impression is that Thomas Jane makes a better punisher than Ray Stevenson. Stevenson's best work was in Rome. Everything I've seen him since is of a lessor nature, except I liked his appearance in last Season's Dexter, and he was ok in Thor. In most of the movies I've seen him in, he has the same dour personality, nothing like Titus Pullo.

BTW, if you've not seen Rome, it is well worth the excursion, all 2 seasons of it...

 

[Scepticalscribe]

I read in last Sunday's Observer, (a wonderful British Sunday newspaper, the oldest extant newspaper in the world - apparently, it reported the death of W. A. Mozart in 1791 - and is the companion publication to The Guardian, which, as readers of the 'Hitchhiker's Guide To the Galaxy' will know was the paper which Arthur Dent read before he was persuaded to leave Earth in peculiar circumstances).....

Anyway, apologies for the digression, but last Sunday's Observer contained a small article explaining that their venerable, erudite, widely respected and hugely esteemed film/movie critic, Philip French, who has written for the paper since the 1960s, is due to retire over the summer.

Oh dear; another legend, a man whose elegant writing I hugely enjoyed and whose cinematic knowledge and critical intelligence I admired greatly - will no longer be around to enliven my Sunday reading.

 

[mscriv]

In the latest Entertainment Weekly they previewed Marvel based movies in work. Comic based movies don't seem to be abating.
*Ant-Man (11/15)

I can not imagine an Ant-Man movie being successful. Some comic characters just seem to niche to draw a large audience.

 

[twietee]

^ Yeah, forgot to mention it before. Never heard of it before tbh. But who knows throw in a billion dollars CGI and some sexbombs and even an Ant-Man will beat the almighty Avatar.

Watching the Manchurian Candidate right now. Can't concentrate too well because of Fantasy Football being updated right now.....have.....to....con......cen........trate........

 

[Scepticalscribe]

^ Yeah, forgot to mention it before. Never heard of it before tbh. But who knows throw in a billion dollars CGI and some sexbombs and even an Ant-Man will beat the almighty Avatar.

Watching the Manchurian Candidate right now. Can't concentrate too well because of Fantasy Football being updated right now.....have.....to....con......cen........trate........

The 1962 version of The Manchurian Candidate was a very thought provoking - and pretty controversial - movie in its day, with a very good cast. However, I haven't seen the more recent adaptation (And, an aside: Why on earth does Hollywood insist on doing what are usually inferior re-makes of perfectly good movies?)

 

[Huntn]

I can not imagine an Ant-Man movie being successful. Some comic characters just seem to niche to draw a large audience.

Although I read some comics as a kid, Ant Man eluded me, don't even remember it. The premise of being able to change one's size, and Hollywood's tendency to change everything around from the original source, it remains to be seen if they'll be able to do something successful with it.

Watched the Bird Cage... love Nathan Lane and seeing Gene Hackman in drag.

 

[mscriv]

Although I read some comics as a kid, Ant Man eluded me, don't even remember it. The premise of being able to change one's size, and Hollywood's tendency to change everything around from the original source, it remains to be seen if they'll be able to do something successful with it.

Ant Man is in the Marvel Universe and was mainly associated with the Avengers.

From Wikipedia

Ant-Man is the name of several fictional characters appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. Ant-Man was originally the superhero persona of Henry Pym, a brilliant scientist who invented a substance that allowed him to change his size. Henry Pym was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby and first appeared in Tales to Astonish #27; his first appearance in the Ant-Man persona was in Tales to Astonish #35.

After Pym retired his Ant-Man identity, successors Scott Lang and Eric O'Grady have used Pym's technology to take on the role of Ant-Man.

Over the years a variety of characters have assumed the title of Ant-Man, most of whom have been connected with the Avengers.

The Wiki Article mentions the movie...

On October 15, 2012, Marvel and Disney announced that Edgar Wright's Ant-Man would hit theaters on November 6, 2015, after the release of The Avengers 2. In January 2013, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige confirmed that Ant-Man will start "Phase Three" of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Hey, maybe they can pull it off. I could see the character being featured in the Avengers ensemble cast, but having his own solo movie is another thing.

 

[Tsuchiya]

Saw Star Trek Into Darkness this morning.

It was an enjoyable movie, though I think that a linear plot and poor character development stops it from being better than the original.

 

[Huntn]

Hey, maybe they can pull it off. I could see the character being featured in the Avengers ensemble cast, but having his own solo movie is another thing.

What did you think about Avengers? Avengers was ok, but I prefer the single hero movies because they can spend more time developing and exploring an individual hero.

Saw Star Trek Into Darkness this morning.

It was an enjoyable movie, though I think that a linear plot and poor character development stops it from being better than the original.

Will probably see this in the theater, when it finally opens here...

 

[mscriv]

What did you think about Avengers? Avengers was ok, but I prefer the single hero movies because they can spend more time developing and exploring an individual hero.

I like both. I think they are doing a great job of setting up the ensemble movies by first releasing the solo movies. This way people who may not be comic people can get to know the characters first and then enjoy the packed action of the team movie. It's a pretty basic formula that the comic industry has followed for years.

 

[Scepticalscribe]

Saw Star Trek Into Darkness this morning.

It was an enjoyable movie, though I think that a linear plot and poor character development stops it from being better than the original.

What did you think about Avengers? Avengers was ok, but I prefer the single hero movies because they can spend more time developing and exploring an individual hero.



Will probably see this in the theater, when it finally opens here...

I'm looking forward to seeing Star Trek Into Darkness when the opportunity to do so presents itself.

Re heroes, I actually prefer intelligent ensemble movies; there is more to watch, more to think about; unless they are truly outstanding, individual hero movies often bore me, I'm afraid....

 

[twietee]

Re heroes, I actually prefer intelligent ensemble movies; there is more to watch, more to think about; unless they are truly outstanding, individual hero movies often bore me, I'm afraid....

(had the same thought)

I'm sure she wasn't talking about an assemblage of superheros, teaming up to fight the evil from outer space. But then again, the world is full of wonders.

 

[firstrev360]

Iron Man

I just watched Iron Man 3 last week. Love the movie!