CM7 said:

movies that dipict greys as being malicious.

fed my fears as a child...

How do you know that greys arent malicious? You make it sound like you've had contact with aliens. Well have you?

SUPRMAN said:

Aelis said:

Me too The only exception being The Godfather. I really liked that adaptation.

The movies may not be so bad themselves, but after reading the book they usually disappoint. Of course, adapting a book is not easy. It's a completely different art form, and we as readers also tend to create our own movie in our heads while we're reading, but the movie should simply capture the feeling (of the book).

However, I will still continue reading the books first. I always love to get to know the original story.

The Godfather is an excellent book.

I don't own it, but I should. Great movie of course.

Oh! I forgot! I love what they did with The Reader as well. A very good adaptation, in my opinion.

Yeah, you probably should if you find it to be excellent I want to own more books I consider good. Lately I've just been borrowing them from the library. I don't like that.

chocolate1 said:

Aelis said:

Me too The only exception being The Godfather. I really liked that adaptation.

The movies may not be so bad themselves, but after reading the book they usually disappoint. Of course, adapting a book is not easy. It's a completely different art form, and we as readers also tend to create our own movie in our heads while we're reading, but the movie should simply capture the feeling (of the book).

However, I will still continue reading the books first. I always love to get to know the original story.

• I'm a big Stephen King fan. Although I watch the movies, I usually complain. There is a handful that aren't so bad, but I hate most of them.

• "The Amityville Horror" was a good book. But I didn't see the movie until years later, and I was so disappointed.

• I read "Water for Elephants" a few years ago, and refuse to see the movie. They cast that sparkly vampire as the lead!

• I've never seen any of the "Hannibal Lecter" movies, but read all the books.

I'd much rather read.

Reading is often a much better experience

For instance, Chocolat is a great book and it had lots of potential to make a good movie. The cast was excellent, but the movie is still so weak because some aspects of the story that were neglected (maybe due to censorship, don't know) are just too important.

paintedlady said:

SUPRMAN said:

The Nazgul would have killed the eagle and the hobbit(s) and taken the ring. To risky to send it on eagle.

I thought the eagles shredded Nazgul batwings? Ah... my nerd is coming out... damn.

Sorry to correct you guys but the Nazgul are the Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine.....

Whereas the gigantic flying pterosaur-like, or wyvern-like creatures that the Nazgul rode are called 'Fell beasts' or 'Hell-Hawk'

andykeen said:

paintedlady said:

I thought the eagles shredded Nazgul batwings? Ah... my nerd is coming out... damn.

Sorry to correct you guys but the Nazgul are the Ringwraiths, Ring-wraiths, Black Riders, Dark Riders, the Nine Riders, or simply the Nine.....

Whereas the gigantic flying pterosaur-like, or wyvern-like creatures that the Nazgul rode are called 'Fell beasts' or 'Hell-Hawk'

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wow. Impressive!

Seldom do I notice these types of things. I hope it doesn't make me unobservant. I usually let the story take me. Unless it's a b-movie...it usually works out.

I did take a history of cinema class. Was taught "willing suspension of Disbelief" It's the concept that U enter a movie with. U're prepping for the movie and in your head, your preparing for watching a movie and all it entails and that your brain tells itelf"this is a movie, not everything is gonna be perfect, great, or even work at all in actual reality...be prepaared, pay attention, and LET IT RIDE"

of course there are occasions where it doesn't work. After I learned of this, I just let it ride now...really. At the end of the day...it's a movie...not a documentary(the old kind, not these new theatrical kind) Gotta confess...was roped into watching Ramona & Beezus(cuzzin's kids)...and was doing this kind of "couldn't happen, happened this way mistake mistake mistake" the whole time. Like when the paint in th garage fell...first...who has that much pint...and when does paint collect pretty blob after pretty blob on a car in said garage.

okay i'm gonna try and get this thread back on topic and i'm gonna tackle a movie that most love 2 death but i gotta point it out.

Return of the jedi!! the fucking ewoks beat the hell out of STORMTROPPERS?!!??!!!

really? seriously?

L4OATheOriginal said:

okay i'm gonna try and get this thread back on topic and i'm gonna tackle a movie that most love 2 death but i gotta point it out.

Return of the jedi!! the fucking ewoks beat the hell out of STORMTROPPERS?!!??!!!

really? seriously?

Don't sleep on the fuzzy ones!

chocolate1 said:

L4OATheOriginal said:

okay i'm gonna try and get this thread back on topic and i'm gonna tackle a movie that most love 2 death but i gotta point it out.

Return of the jedi!! the fucking ewoks beat the hell out of STORMTROPPERS?!!??!!!

really? seriously?

Don't sleep on the fuzzy ones!

don't sleep? hell i wanted 2 stuff them furry bastards and make them into teddy bears

L4OATheOriginal said:

chocolate1 said:

Don't sleep on the fuzzy ones!

don't sleep? hell i wanted 2 stuff them furry bastards and make them into teddy bears

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It's not a movie, but I think Lost has a terible storyline.

Black folks who spend their whole lives and time helping white people through their trials and tribulations.... the magical negro. Hence, I don't do see these types of movies with Mr. Smith or any other Black's who've achieved "stardom". Black males dressing in drag.... men who have to put on a dress to find their backbone. This speaks volumes and explains a lot.....

I too don't bother with American films anymore, it's very hard to get me out of my house to see a movie these days.

I'm suprised these two haven't been mentioned prior ot page 5:

1. Dumb damsel in distress- Who stands there to watch others be eaten and killed.

Or chooses to run away in high heels where she will invariably trip and fall, thereby imperiling the whole group because no one leaves a blonde behind . . .

2. Running from a moving vehicle by running down the middle of the street. Why make it easy?

Use sidewalks, shrubbery . . . .

Try taking a right angle off the roadway.

Subheading - People who can outrun speeding cars for blocks as the car is chasing them, or conversely they can run and catch a fleeing vehicle.

ANY movie where you sit in the audience and scream "DON'T GO IN THERE!!!" at the screen...

SUPRMAN said:

I'm suprised these two haven't been mentioned prior ot page 5:

1. Dumb damsel in distress- Who stands there to watch others be eaten and killed.

Or chooses to run away in high heels where she will invariably trip and fall, thereby imperiling the whole group because no one leaves a blonde behind . . .

2. Running from a moving vehicle by running down the middle of the street. Why make it easy?

Use sidewalks, shrubbery . . . .

Try taking a right angle off the roadway.

Subheading - People who can outrun speeding cars for blocks as the car is chasing them, or conversely they can run and catch a fleeing vehicle.

And the gratuitous sex scene during an attack: alien, monster, nuclear, homocidal maniac...

It doesn't matter; they just needed to shag right then and there!

I agree with so many on here but it took me a few moment to lock into a few that really do irk me.

1st Star Trek XI, love this movie but I'm bias about it anyway. But that star that exploded threatening to destory the entire galaxy is hard to get past, even knowing why it was said, it brings up a whole host of other questions of why does this star need to be a black hole.

Inception, love, love this movie, but I don't care what the director said, those kids at the end were dressed the same way doing exactly the same thing they were doing when he last saw them, and the little boy saying they're building a house on the hill synched for me.

morningsong said:

I agree with so many on here but it took me a few moment to lock into a few that really do irk me.

1st Star Trek XI, love this movie but I'm bias about it anyway. But that star that exploded threatening to destory the entire galaxy is hard to get past, even knowing why it was said, it brings up a whole host of other questions of why does this star need to be a black hole.

Inception, love, love this movie, but I don't care what the director said, those kids at the end were dressed the same way doing exactly the same thing they were doing when he last saw them, and the little boy saying they're building a house on the hill synched for me.

???

I don't think such a star exists. That could threaten a galaxy? How? Even if it became a black hole it wouldn't threaten the entire galaxy.

How many black holes are there?

To use a technical term, gobs. Astronomers have discovered several dozen likely "supermassive" black holes in the cores of fairly nearby galaxies, plus many more in the distant objects known as quasars. They have discovered perhaps a dozen or two likely stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way galaxy (plus one in a satellite galaxy), and a few possible intermediate-mass black holes in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Yet these don't even qualify as the tip of the iceberg - more like a tiny ice chip. Supermassive black holes may inhabit the cores of all galaxies with central bulges of stars, and thousands of stellar-mass black holes may inhabit the Milky Way, with thousands more in each of billions of other galaxies.

http://blackholes.stardat...lack-holes

SUPRMAN said:

I'm suprised these two haven't been mentioned prior ot page 5:

1. Dumb damsel in distress- Who stands there to watch others be eaten and killed.

Or chooses to run away in high heels where she will invariably trip and fall, thereby imperiling the whole group because no one leaves a blonde behind . . .

2. Running from a moving vehicle by running down the middle of the street. Why make it easy?

Use sidewalks, shrubbery . . . .

Try taking a right angle off the roadway.

Subheading - People who can outrun speeding cars for blocks as the car is chasing them, or conversely they can run and catch a fleeing vehicle.

u mean like in christine? dude running down the road in the middle ..IN THE DARK lol

SUPRMAN said:

morningsong said:

I agree with so many on here but it took me a few moment to lock into a few that really do irk me.

1st Star Trek XI, love this movie but I'm bias about it anyway. But that star that exploded threatening to destory the entire galaxy is hard to get past, even knowing why it was said, it brings up a whole host of other questions of why does this star need to be a black hole.

Inception, love, love this movie, but I don't care what the director said, those kids at the end were dressed the same way doing exactly the same thing they were doing when he last saw them, and the little boy saying they're building a house on the hill synched for me.

???

I don't think such a star exists. That could threaten a galaxy? How? Even if it became a black hole it wouldn't threaten the entire galaxy.

How many black holes are there?

To use a technical term, gobs. Astronomers have discovered several dozen likely "supermassive" black holes in the cores of fairly nearby galaxies, plus many more in the distant objects known as quasars. They have discovered perhaps a dozen or two likely stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way galaxy (plus one in a satellite galaxy), and a few possible intermediate-mass black holes in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Yet these don't even qualify as the tip of the iceberg - more like a tiny ice chip. Supermassive black holes may inhabit the cores of all galaxies with central bulges of stars, and thousands of stellar-mass black holes may inhabit the Milky Way, with thousands more in each of billions of other galaxies.

http://blackholes.stardat...lack-holes

EXACTLY!!!! But it's the foundation plot for the whole story.

morningsong said:

SUPRMAN said:

???

I don't think such a star exists. That could threaten a galaxy? How? Even if it became a black hole it wouldn't threaten the entire galaxy.

How many black holes are there?

To use a technical term, gobs. Astronomers have discovered several dozen likely "supermassive" black holes in the cores of fairly nearby galaxies, plus many more in the distant objects known as quasars. They have discovered perhaps a dozen or two likely stellar-mass black holes in the Milky Way galaxy (plus one in a satellite galaxy), and a few possible intermediate-mass black holes in the Milky Way and other galaxies. Yet these don't even qualify as the tip of the iceberg - more like a tiny ice chip. Supermassive black holes may inhabit the cores of all galaxies with central bulges of stars, and thousands of stellar-mass black holes may inhabit the Milky Way, with thousands more in each of billions of other galaxies.

http://blackholes.stardat...lack-holes

EXACTLY!!!! But it's the foundation plot for the whole story.

You sure it wasn't a solar system? Obviously that would be severely affected.

SUPRMAN said:

morningsong said:

EXACTLY!!!! But it's the foundation plot for the whole story.

You sure it wasn't a solar system? Obviously that would be severely affected.

No, Spock says the supernova threatened the entire galaxy. Maybe I should have used supernove instead of star. But yes, the solar system would have rolled better.

SUPRMAN said:

morningsong said:

I agree with so many on here but it took me a few moment to lock into a few that really do irk me.

1st Star Trek XI, love this movie but I'm bias about it anyway. But that star that exploded threatening to destory the entire galaxy is hard to get past, even knowing why it was said, it brings up a whole host of other questions of why does this star need to be a black hole.

Inception, love, love this movie, but I don't care what the director said, those kids at the end were dressed the same way doing exactly the same thing they were doing when he last saw them, and the little boy saying they're building a house on the hill synched for me.

???

I don't think such a star exists. That could threaten a galaxy? How? Even if it became a black hole it wouldn't threaten the entire galaxy.

Maybe a black hole would suck in the entire galaxy with its intense gravity...in twenty billion years or so

In general, I like Something's Gotta Give (I LOVE the decor of the house in the hamptons) but I can't imagine ANY mother dating the guy her daughter used to date especially when hot ass Keanu Reeves is trynna get it. I know they didn't have sex but they were gonna and they had kissed. I dunno it skeeves me out.

SCNDLS said:

The movie Just Wright we already covered

And can you really disable a car with a banana in it's tailpipe???

Beverly Hills Cop is also guilty of the unloading several clips from an automatic weapon yet don't nobody get hit and the cops hold 'em off with six shooters

The fuckery starts at 9:20

NDRU said:

SUPRMAN said:

???

I don't think such a star exists. That could threaten a galaxy? How? Even if it became a black hole it wouldn't threaten the entire galaxy.

Maybe a black hole would suck in the entire galaxy with its intense gravity...in twenty billion years or so

Nope.

The massive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy isn't consuming the galaxy inside out.

We'd collide with another galaxy first. (Galaxies do collide, but you would think with all the space out there that they would simply miss each other. )

Generic Small Town Boy™ loses his parents essentially because some Evil No Motive Bad Guy® had to start the plot some how.

Generic Small Town Boy™ leaves the small town and travels the world, joins a group, finds a funny sidekick.

Generic Small Town Boy™ discovers a thing or two about himself, perhaps that his real parents somehow has family ties to the Evil No Motive Bad Guy®, or that they at the very least were royal and that he is the real crown prince of Generic Universe™.

Generic Small Town Boy™ falls in love with Generic Big Breasted Girl with No Personality as Super Power©, but must rescue her from Evil No Motive Bad Guy®.

Generic Small Town Boy™ becomes hero of the day, Evil No Motive Bad Guy® is killed or saved from the evil side. Generic Big Breasted Girl with No Personality as Super Power© realizes she loves Generic Small Town Boy™.

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SUPRMAN said:

I'm suprised these two haven't been mentioned prior ot page 5:

1. Dumb damsel in distress- Who stands there to watch others be eaten and killed.

Or chooses to run away in high heels where she will invariably trip and fall, thereby imperiling the whole group because no one leaves a blonde behind . . .

2. Running from a moving vehicle by running down the middle of the street. Why make it easy?

Use sidewalks, shrubbery . . . .

Try taking a right angle off the roadway.

Subheading - People who can outrun speeding cars for blocks as the car is chasing them, or conversely they can run and catch a fleeing vehicle.

you missed my post back on page 4

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