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I still haven't seen Rise of Skywalker yet. I can't stand the new movies. 7 and 8 were an absolute butchering. There's very little in them that's actually original. There's so much reused and recycled junk. I have so many problems on them I could write a full dissertation on it. In my honest opinion I don't think they're star wars movies. They're a modern take on star wars from an age where people are really into action movies like marvel. It just feels so off. Even Mark Hamill has come out and criticized it, albeit more discreetly. I don't think Disney should have ever touched it. They couldn't commit to the old characters and lore, and they couldn't commit to anything new it was disastrous. I'll spare everyone else from me ranting further
 
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Force awakens is 99% a remake of New Hope. And Last JedI was a 90% remake of Empire Strikes Back
 

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Anyone else seen John Wick 3 yet? Action movies got boring and repetitive to me but this movie has some of the best and most unique fight scenes I've ever seen. Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry did some seriously intense training for this movie and it shows. Stunt doubles were only used in the most dangerous scenes.
 
Has anyone seen Detective Pikachu? Ryan Renolds was a real good voice actor in that one.
 

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1 . We don't want you to go away angry , we just want you to go away !
2.Clearly you have disregarded direct orders so I order you to do what ever is necessary to win . If I can't control you I might as well support you !
3. I was carrying and reading the book everyday, got so caught up in protecting it, I forgot to live by what I'd learnt from it.
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To do more for others than you do for yourself.”
 
Ok I am going to rant a bit here about my favorite movie series: How To Train Your Dragon

When you hear that title you may think: are you talking about that kids movie that came out a while ago? Yes, it may be directed towards kids but I feel that adults can appriciate the film to, if not for the story if for the animation. HTTYD is the most beutifully animated movie I have ever seen and while the story writing does struggle in some areas, *cough* side characters *cough*, for the most part it does a very good job at making a thrilling yet emotional story, and (quick spoiler here) the ending of the third movie I think demonstrates this best. Also may I say that (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!!!) the two most beautiful scenes in my opinion are two scenes from the third movie. While the third may not be the best story wise I think that the animation was the best, especially in two scenes: The scene where toothless and light fury were flying above the clouds, and the scene where hiccup and astrid first go down to the hidden world. I like how the youtuber “Hello Future Me” put it for the first scene (and this may not be verbatI'm as this is from memory but I fully agree with it): “the most stunning scene in the third movie was the scene where toothless and light fury were flying above the clouds, it is ambitious to make a character that can’t talk but it is even more ambitious to make that character be able to show enough emotion and to make your audience know exactly what he is thinking, and they really tried this by giving that character a scene all to him self, no words were spoken in this which was really nice. I also noticed another thing which may or may not have been intentional, through the entire scene we never see the sky above or the ocean below, that gives you a kind of Weightless-ness where you don’t know what’s up or down, and I really like that”. I fully agree with this, he also mentions the score which was consistently great throughout all three films. The second scene I mentioned hit me not because I was bewildered by the animation and them going down and see the hidden world exposed, although that was great, it was really the song that did it for me. The song they paired with it was so perfect and it always seems to simply capture my imagination. I know that I am ranting here I just don’t think the HTTYD series gets enough credit (although it does get quite a bit of credit!). I just feel like people should try the movie even if they think they won’t like it. BTW if you want to watch the review “Hello Future Me” did there is a link at the bottom. I think he does a very good job at reviewing it, and I agree with him on a lot of what he says.
 
"Yesterday is not ours recover but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”.

Ok I am going to rant a bit here about my favorite movie series: How To Train Your Dragon

When you hear that title you may think: are you talking about that kids movie that came out a while ago? Yes, it may be directed towards kids but I feel that adults can appriciate the film to, if not for the story if for the animation. HTTYD is the most beutifully animated movie I have ever seen and while the story writing does struggle in some areas, *cough* side characters *cough*, for the most part it does a very good job at making a thrilling yet emotional story, and (quick spoiler here) the ending of the third movie I think demonstrates this best. Also may I say that (SPOILERS FROM HERE ON OUT!!!) the two most beautiful scenes in my opinion are two scenes from the third movie. While the third may not be the best story wise I think that the animation was the best, especially in two scenes: The scene where toothless and light fury were flying above the clouds, and the scene where hiccup and astrid first go down to the hidden world. I like how the youtuber “Hello Future Me” put it for the first scene (and this may not be verbatI'm as this is from memory but I fully agree with it): “the most stunning scene in the third movie was the scene where toothless and light fury were flying above the clouds, it is ambitious to make a character that can’t talk but it is even more ambitious to make that character be able to show enough emotion and to make your audience know exactly what he is thinking, and they really tried this by giving that character a scene all to him self, no words were spoken in this which was really nice. I also noticed another thing which may or may not have been intentional, through the entire scene we never see the sky above or the ocean below, that gives you a kind of Weightless-ness where you don’t know what’s up or down, and I really like that”. I fully agree with this, he also mentions the score which was consistently great throughout all three films. The second scene I mentioned hit me not because I was bewildered by the animation and them going down and see the hidden world exposed, although that was great, it was really the song that did it for me. The song they paired with it was so perfect and it always seems to simply capture my imagination. I know that I am ranting here I just don’t think the HTTYD series gets enough credit (although it does get quite a bit of credit!). I just feel like people should try the movie even if they think they won’t like it. BTW if you want to watch the review “Hello Future Me” did there is a link at the bottom. I think he does a very good job at reviewing it, and I agree with him on a lot of what he says.
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Yeah, I like those movies too!
What is he wearing!?!?
 
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Has anyone seen Detective Pikachu? Ryan Renolds was a real good voice actor in that one.
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I’ve seen it. First Pikacho movie I’ve ever seen. I liked it a lot
 
I haven't seen any of the John Wick movies, though I hear they're amazing.

Alien and Aliens anyone?
 
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I’m watching Davy Crockett right now. I didn’t know Buddy Ebsen was in it
 
Lost interest in Star Wars after the first 3, Episodes 4, 5 and 6. They dragged them out too far apart. Now The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit were done right. Two related stories,Three movies each, and each of the three released with a year of each other. That's how you keep interest in a saga.
 
I cannot believe that they're making a 2nd Avatar. That's gotta be the biggest grab for money I've yet seen. The first one was so unique and good that there is NO WAY it can be improved.
And could Independence Day PLEASE stay dead? The first one was great. Why did they have to go and muddle it up?
 

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I cannot believe that they're making a 2nd Avatar. That's gotta be the biggest grab for money I've yet seen. The first one was so unique and good that there is NO WAY it can be improved.
And could Independence Day PLEASE stay dead? The first one was great. Why did they have to go and muddle it up?
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Disney has no original ideas.
 
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I know right?? Why do you think they're making live action versions of all of their movies?
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Let me think of a movie they haven’t made/ are planning on making into live action... hmmm
 
Lost interest in Star Wars after the first 3, Episodes 4, 5 and 6. They dragged them out too far apart. Now The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit were done right. Two related stories,Three movies each, and each of the three released with a year of each other. That's how you keep interest in a saga.
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The Lord of the Rings was a wonderful trilogy movie. But oh boy, The Hobbit move was FLOP. It was horrible. I supose you might not understand if you’ve never read the books, but in the movies they completely ruined the plot. The went WAYYYYY to far with the creative licensing thing. They stretched it out, added a bunch of stuff that wasn’t supposed to be there, took out a bunch of stuff that was supposed to be there. Made up a bunch of new characters, ruined or replaced many of the characters that where supposed to be there. Yeah... it was just bad. The only characters that were really accurate to the book were Bilbo, Gandalf, bomber and balin.
 
Which remakes do all think were actually good? I feel like 75% of new movies are just remakes and 90% of those have been awful.
 
Which remakes do all think were actually good? I feel like 75% of new movies are just remakes and 90% of those have been awful.
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The Lion, The Which and the wardrobe. It is not a new movie, but the chronicles of narnia is technically a remake of the really old BC version (no animation so it was basically done with puppets and was barely better then black and white).

With the new narnia series, the lion, the which and the wardrobe was pretty good, prince caspian ehhh, not so much, the voyage of the dawn treader was the worst (not near as bad as The Hobbit though! :joyful
 
The Lion, The Which and the wardrobe. It is not a new movie, but the chronicles of narnia is technically a remake of the really old BC version (no animation so it was basically done with puppets and was barely better then black and white).
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That's a great one. Love that whole book series really well done. Usually I find book series drag out and flop at the end but book 7 was phenomenal. The movie was fantastic they really did it justice and it stayed true to the book.
 
That's a great one. Love that whole book series really well done. Usually I find book series drag out and flop at the end but book 7 was phenomenal. The movie was fantastic they really did it justice and it stayed true to the book.
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Yes, the horse and his boy was one of my favorites (really really entertaining and I laugh every time I read it). I don’t know, puddleglum in the silver chair was great. They were all good.
 
Yes, the horse and his boy was one of my favorites (really really entertaining and I laugh every time I read it). I don’t know, puddleglum in the silver chair was great. They were all good.
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I wasn't too crazy about that one, but it was good. Very interesting to see a different perspective on everything. I read the series chronologically so the magicians nephew first, and that being the first one from a completely different perspective was fascinating. The only book I didn't enjoy was the silver chair. Didn't finish it I found it too boring, nothing was happening. Might have to give it another go though.
 
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The Lion, The Which and the wardrobe. It is not a new movie, but the chronicles of narnia is technically a remake of the really old BC version (no animation so it was basically done with puppets and was barely better then black and white).

With the new narnia series, the lion, the which and the wardrobe was pretty good, prince caspian ehhh, not so much, the voyage of the dawn treader was the worst (not near as bad as The Hobbit though! :joyful
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I don’t really like any of the Narnia movies, maybe because I watched them so much I got tired of them to the point where all the characters are sooooo annoying IDK

Which remakes do all think were actually good? I feel like 75% of new movies are just remakes and 90% of those have been awful.
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The Aladdin remake was pretty good. It is pretty hard to ruin Aladdin though
 

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I don’t really like any of the Narnia movies, maybe because I watched them so much I got tired of them to the point where all the characters are sooooo annoying IDK
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Moving pictures change the written word. The ability to read the written word surpasses the moving picture.
 
Anyone else seen John Wick 3 yet? Action movies got boring and repetitive to me but this movie has some of the best and most unique fight scenes I've ever seen. Keanu Reeves and Halle Berry did some seriously intense training for this movie and it shows. Stunt doubles were only used in the most dangerous scenes.
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John Wick 1 I had absolutely low expectations, and came out amazed at how awesome a film it was.

John Wick 2 I was very excited for and came out disappointed at how bad it was.

John Wick 3 I had no expectations for, but the dog fight scene was awesome sauce.

Lost interest in Star Wars after the first 3, Episodes 4, 5 and 6. They dragged them out too far apart. Now The Lord of The Rings and The Hobbit were done right. Two related stories,Three movies each, and each of the three released with a year of each other. That's how you keep interest in a saga.
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The Hobbit was terrible. It was one book, and not a long one at that. When they made LotR, they had to pull material out because there was too much written material. The Hobbit was the opposite. They had to stick stuff in so it could be a three part cash grab.

The Tolkien movie was really good.
 
The Hobbit was terrible. It was one book, and not a long one at that. When they made LotR, they had to pull material out because there was too much written material. The Hobbit was the opposite. They had to stick stuff in so it could be a three part cash grab.

The Tolkien movie was really good.
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If you watch the movie and don't hold it to the book it's great. If you do it sucks. I watched the hobbit trilogy before reading the book and loved it, thought it was fantastic. But wondered about how they got so much from one book. Then I read the book and was like oh. They took their creative license on that one. I still enjoy watching them, I just look at them as something different. Almost like a fan fic just a professional movie.
 
Anybody know of any good fish movies? And I've already seen finding nemo/dory to don't say that plz. Lol
 
Anybody know of any good fish movies? And I've already seen finding nemo/dory to don't say that plz. Lol
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The incredibly Mr Limpet! Man I love Don Knotts he was incredible. What a legend.
 
I agree with all that's been said about the Hobbit. On it's own, the series wasn't bad, but compared to the book...Nah

On another note, What about the Harry Potter flicks? I haven't seen them mentioned yet. I found then entertaining, being a Muggle
 
I agree with all that's been said about the Hobbit. On it's own, the series wasn't bad, but compared to the book...Nah

On another note, What about the Harry Potter flicks? I haven't seen them mentioned yet. I found then entertaining, being a Muggle
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The Harry Potter movies are great. My whole family watches them, they're a lot of fun to watch. One of the few great examples of movies based on books being done right. Wish we lived in a world like that I wanna teleport places in an instant. However I am very tired of Rowling trying to retcon everything. Can't stand that.
 
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The incredibly Mr Limpet! Man I love Don Knotts he was incredible. What a legend.
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Now that you said that, I can’t get the “I wish I were a fish” song out of my head
 
The Aladdin remake was pretty good. It is pretty hard to ruin Aladdin though
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I can't bring myself to watch the Aladdin remake. As much as I adore Will Smith... No one will ever, ever, EVER be the Genie but Robin Williams (God rest his soul).

I can appreciate the moviemaking magic of the LOTR series, but OMG I had to watch the first one three times to stay awake through the whole thing, and now I only like The Return of the King.

Avatar was made even more great at the time because I kept a reef tank and I knew exactly where they got half of their flora inspirations from. I was like "Oh look! Palys!" " Oh look! Christmas tree worms!"

I loved Maleficent, and I was expecting to be disappointed in Mistress of Evil but I loved it too.

coralbandit Dirty Harry needs no further discussion lol. Besides, Unforgiven was the best Eastwood movie. I liked his Westerns better. Pale Rider was another great one. I didn't get any of your line references lol... How about one for you: "She done R-...U-...N-...N-...O-...F-...T..."
 

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I can't bring myself to watch the Aladdin remake. As much as I adore Will Smith... No one will ever, ever, EVER be the Genie but Robin Williams (God rest his soul).

I can appreciate the moviemaking magic of the LOTR series, but OMG I had to watch the first one three times to stay awake through the whole thing, and now I only like The Return of the King.

Avatar was made even more great at the time because I kept a reef tank and I knew exactly where they got half of their flora inspirations from. I was like "Oh look! Palys!" " Oh look! Christmas tree worms!"

I loved Maleficent, and I was expecting to be disappointed in Mistress of Evil but I loved it too.

coralbandit Dirty Harry needs no further discussion lol. Besides, Unforgiven was the best Eastwood movie. I liked his Westerns better. Pale Rider was another great one. I didn't get any of your line references lol... How about one for you: "She done R-...U-...N-...N-...O-...F-...T..."
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Yes. Robin Williams is irreplaceable as the genie but if someone had to replace him Will Smith would do the best job
 
I can't bring myself to watch the Aladdin remake. As much as I adore Will Smith... No one will ever, ever, EVER be the Genie but Robin Williams (God rest his soul).

I can appreciate the moviemaking magic of the LOTR series, but OMG I had to watch the first one three times to stay awake through the whole thing, and now I only like The Return of the King.

Avatar was made even more great at the time because I kept a reef tank and I knew exactly where they got half of their flora inspirations from. I was like "Oh look! Palys!" " Oh look! Christmas tree worms!"

I loved Maleficent, and I was expecting to be disappointed in Mistress of Evil but I loved it too.

coralbandit Dirty Harry needs no further discussion lol. Besides, Unforgiven was the best Eastwood movie. I liked his Westerns better. Pale Rider was another great one. I didn't get any of your line references lol... How about one for you: "She done R-...U-...N-...N-...O-...F-...T..."
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Oh brother where art thou
1 Heartbreak Ridge
2 Under Siege
3 Book of Eli
 
Who's excited for Quiet Place II? I know I am.
Anybody here seen The 6th Sense? Fantastic movie. The twist at the end really got me.
So yeah, in terms of CGI, acting, and just movies in general, the Hobbit trilogy is amazing. Unless you compare it to the book. And let's be real, no one is ever going to make a book to movie adaption that stays to the story 100% and satisfies the "It's not as good as the book" people.
 
And let's be real, no one is ever going to make a book to movie adaption that stays to the story 100% and satisfies the "It's not as good as the book" people.
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The Green Mile, excellent movie & stays very close to the book
 
I saw Episode IX recently and it was OK, I mean it was entertaining but the storytelling was awful.
 
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I enjoyed it more the second time because I knew exactly what to expect. The first time I was so pessimistic about it I couldn’t enjoy it. With movies these days you just have to go in expecting a fun time, not a masterpiece
 
Who's excited for Quiet Place II? I know I am.
Anybody here seen The 6th Sense? Fantastic movie. The twist at the end really got me.
So yeah, in terms of CGI, acting, and just movies in general, the Hobbit trilogy is amazing. Unless you compare it to the book. And let's be real, no one is ever going to make a book to movie adaption that stays to the story 100% and satisfies the "It's not as good as the book" people.
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Are you being serious about 6th Sense?

Coradee is right about The Green Mile. And Stephen King's is a difficult head to get into in terms of putting what he puts in your brain onto a screen.

I can hardly watch horror flicks since I had kids. I was all about it until they got to be school age and something broke when I watched Saw IV and my brain said NO MORE.
Here's a movie that IMO didn't get enough acclaim... probably because it is too heart-wrenching:
Savior (Dennis Quaid). I don't think anything on screen has made me cry like that. Except maybe Steel Magnolias.
 
Are you being serious about 6th Sense?

Coradee is right about The Green Mile. And Stephen King's is a difficult head to get into in terms of putting what he puts in your brain onto a screen.

I can hardly watch horror flicks since I had kids. I was all about it until they got to be school age and something broke when I watched Saw IV and my brain said NO MORE.
Here's a movie that IMO didn't get enough acclaim... probably because it is too heart-wrenching:
Savior (Dennis Quaid). I don't think anything on screen has made me cry like that. Except maybe Steel Magnolias.
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I take it you don't like it?

The Green Mile, excellent movie & stays very close to the book
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Okay, well, there won't be a second movie that stays close to the book .
I've not heard of that one actually.
 
Coradee is right about The Green Mile. And Stephen King's is a difficult head to get into in terms of putting what he puts in your brain onto a screen.
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With the exception of The Stand, I have yet to see a King book make the transition to film. I don't know if it's the actors, writers, directors, or what, but every King movie I've watched doesn't even come close to the book. I'll use the latest, The Dark Tower as an example. Baaaaad movie. I've read (listened to the unabridged audio books) the entire series, and what they released in the theaters is an abomination!
 

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