Ice Cube is first and foremost the big nope… fuck that dude.
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I thought that was the coolest car as a kid, watching the series again a few years ago it’s obvious it was a terrible car, for something that looks like it’s supposed to be a sports car it was constantly outrun by land yachts and looked like the suspension was lousy.
Not to mention not nearly bland looking enough for a P.I. who doesn’t want to get made following someone.
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From the article:
What’s unclear, at least now almost two years away, is which version of the film will come to theaters. The prevailing thought is it’ll be the 1997 Special Edition, George Lucas’ preferred version of the movie, with those added scenes and enhancements. However, just last month, Lucasfilm president Kathleen Kennedy was on hand for a very rare screening of an original print of Star Wars, long before anything was changed on it. Not even “Episode IV: A New Hope.”
What? I saw Star Wars at least 25 times in the theater in 1977. It has always said “Episode IV: A New Hope” at the beginning.
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Apparently that was added in 1981, but that’s before my time so I can’t really say…
Now if they can package that up on Blu Ray…no, I’m sure it would be a Disney+++ pay per view only…oh well, rips of the Japanese laserdiscs are still somewhere around.
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Wild. I don’t remember noticing it being changed.
Memories are BULLSHIT.
I do remember a gag in the original that is not in any of the currently available versions: When Han and Chewy are running from the stormtroopers on the Death Star, and a trooper says over coms “Close the blast doors!” and Han and Chewy jump through just as they close, in the ‘77 cut it holds on the closed doors a beat and you hear the trooper say “Open them! Open them again!” and it got a big laugh.
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Even worse, they edited out the part immediately following that.
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I saw the new Fantastic 4 movie today. It’s pretty good. It is easily the best Fantastic 4 movie ever made. Low bar, but still . . . it’s a good movie. Is it a great movie? Meh, probably not. But it’s pretty good, and I’m good with that.
I won’t put any spoilers here, but what I liked best is that rather than trying to ground the story in some version of our real world, this movie leaned hard into the comic book world of the Fantastic 4, and I think it really worked. Let’s face it, this superhero team, in the comics, is a little goofy and very comic booky. The other F4 films (with the possible exception of the Roger Corman one) tried very hard to distance themselves from that goofiness and tried to make it seem like something that was taking place in our world. This movie made no bones about what it was. Goofy, dated costumes, pretty black-and-white takes on right and wrong, lots of fun scenes of just silly F4 superhero fighting (Reed stretching, Johnny flaming, Sue invisibling, Ben clobbering) and I found it refreshing after all the dark, brooding, moody, reluctant superheroes of the last few years. It also had heart, and it managed to get me to care about what happened to these characters.
Pedro Pascal was great, as usual, but Vanessa Kirby, in my opinion, was the star of the show. I wasn’t that familiar with her, but I thought she was great.
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More than 800 people of various nationalities and social background inhabit Lochergut, a tower block in the heart of Zurich. The whole city is reflected in this urban microcosm which unfolds its charm in high concentration. A declaration of love to multiculturalism, tolerance and eccentricism.
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Sounds like why Ant Man did so well, initially. It was Oceans Eleven, with a weird superhero twist, and Paul Rudd was Paul Rudd and no one tried to connect it to anything.
The third one had none of the redeeming humor of the first two and was just a desperate attempt to shoehorn this wacky ridiculous character into the main line.
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I really enjoyed this Bollywood film, Maharaj, on Netflix.
It resonnated a lot with all that is happening with Trump; how people can stand up and show truth to power. I know it has probably lots of historical issues, but the themes of it were comforting to me right now by showing a way forward from oppression and patriarchy.
Plus -
- Bollywood dance numbers!
- Hot hot bad guy!
- Holi celebration!
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Watched Krull last night…
I was quite surprised to see that Chapelle Roan had time traveled to play Princess Lyssa…
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I love Krull. It’s definitely a movie with issues, but i have always like the mix of fantasy with sci-fi and the glaive weapon is dumb as hell yet so rad.
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Yeah, it’s a fun movie for sure… The Glaive is insanely pointless yet incredibly cool… I mean… WTF…
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It’s not Great Cinema™, but I enjoyed it. It was one of the first movies I bought on DVD, actually. Weren’t Marshall and Anthony both fairly well-known Shakespearean actors at the time? ISTR reading that somewhere.
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I am unsure… I don’t either actor other than from that movie… seems possible, as lots of Shakespearean actors were probably trying to replicate what Sir Alec Guinness did in Star Wars, thinking it would be fun to do a sci-fi/fantasy movie, plus it might be profitable.
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I found this interesting. Although the title and lead picture are misleading.
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