Heck, I used to do this, and I was born considerably later.
When I saw Star Wars for the first time, the day after it opened, I went to the theater in the afternoon (the howling mobs that were there for opening night were gone) and sat through it twice.
I don’t particularly like Pitt but I do agree with your evaluation of the film.
I began to read the book thinking it was going to be tongue in cheek, or humorous. It turned out to be many things, sad, horrifying, intriguing, you name it. Since I have a dog the segment in which a K9 handler shot her captain because he had refused to let her try and rescue her partner from the G;s was the worst. She had to listen to the screams of the dog as it was eaten alive, and she counted being hung as a price worth paying for her revenge.
The problem with making the book into a film would be that it’s not a single narrative, it’s a series of war memoirs.
Me, too! I liked Helen Hunt, and I have a weird fascination for tornadoes. It wasn’t Casablanca, but I didn’t go in expecting high art; I just wanted to see some creepy clouds and scary funnels. And I got what I wanted.
I generally don’t watch movies that are based on board games. It was absurd when Connect Four hit the theaters and no one saw the first three.
I saw the WWZ movie first, and liked it enough to read the book. I had also heard interviews with the author which revealed that actual military higher-ups were so impressed by his understanding of disaster dynamics he’s been an invited speaker at West Point and is considered an expert on emergency preparedness. I really liked the book. It is unique and haunting.
But I really liked the movie too. They are nothing alike but if you can get past that, I think it’s possible to enjoy both.
Every time I keep seeing the title Twister I keep thinking that someone somewhere made an adaptation of the board game, a la Clue or Battleship. [carpet game?]
I suppose you are right, but I read the book before the movie, so I liked it first.
Yep, that is what I mentioned.
That is amazing, I had only seen about half, or less.
Thanks for those other two books, I have added them to my cart.
He wrote even more books about great films.
The cow jokes were hilarious. The idea was kinda stupid, but …
This is the only Steve Martin movie I was able to watch all the way through. My favorite exchange, just because it was so unexpected.
Butler: You and your wife are expected for dinner.
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr : My wife won’t be coming.
Butler : Oh, I trust she is not ill?
Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr: She’s not ill, she’s a cheap, vulgar slut.
Butler : Ja, I have heard this.
The movie that makes me angry is also a Best Picture winner. Birdman is such transparent pandering to the Academy voters, it is an insult to people who actually go to movies to be entertained. La La Land for the same reason, although I’ve never watched it all the way through.
That was my reaction to Black Swan.
oops! I forgot Birdman, I somehow managed to watch it all but it was a struggle, I think I saw the last 20 minutes or so solely to be able to bash it to my heart’s content without anybody saying that I was criticizing it without having watched it.
Another person who found Birdman boring as all get-out. Hated, no, but utterly forgettable. There was no Best Picture nominee that should not have beaten it soundly that year.
It’s not my most hated movie, but I would have thought somebody would mention that psychopath Ferris Bueller and how they don’t care what he did on his day off.
I went into this movie knowing nothing about it, and I really enjoyed it! Why did Ebert hate it?
As for Twister, I just found it stupid and boring. The characters were as thin as tissue paper, and flying cows and noise aren’t very entertaining for me. Isn’t this another movie where Helen Hunt ran around bra-less in a thin T-shirt? That small detail po’d me more than it should have. If you’re a real tornado hunter, you’re going to dress for it, dammit.
He just did. It’s silly and has some ridiculous plot points. He wasn’t in the mood for it. He did not give it ZERO or 1 star. He gave it 1 1/2.
Perhaps he liked the comic?
I find that unlikely or he would have mentioned it, I think. I believe he read comics as a kid growing up in the 1950’s who likes movies so much.
Not sure.
That one scene was white-knuckle can’t look, but can’t look away. The rest of the movie was highly disappointing. I wouldn’t give it zero stars, but if I were to watch it again, that abortion scene is the ONLY thing the movie has going for it.
I bought the Alien Quadrilogy DVD box set, with the four canon Alien movies. The fourth one was SO BAD I actually threw away the disc lest its presence in the box set contaminate the other films. I mean, part 3 was not very good; but it was a masterpiece compared to part 4.
Battle Royale II: Requiem : possibly the worst movie I’ve ever seen. I know the original director died early in filming, but that’s no excuse. For frame of reference, I consider the original Battle Royale a 5-star movie, easy.
Bad Guy : totally unredeeming, vile, and without any worthwhile quality–sick movie with sick message . I have this reaction to a number of Ki-duk Kim films.