#4457066 - 01/12/19 10:13 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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Comedy/horror and kung fu/horror
both more fun genres than you think
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#4457074 - 01/12/19 11:44 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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Tinker, Tailor was not *anything* like as good as the original book, or even the TV series. I did manage to watch it all the way through, but not on the first viewing. Was disappointed in it.
This is why I am more prone to reading books than watching movies. Pick any movie, that you enjoyed, that was based on a book. The book is always better, even if the movie was good. The Green Mile would be a good example.
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#4457106 - 01/13/19 11:51 AM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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It does seem like the classic comedy movie has long been dead. I mean the kind of movie that is funny the whole way through, not just the part from the movie trailer they show on the commercial. I know I have not been part of a target demographic for quite some time, but most of the younger people I have talked to can't seem to name one good comedy classic of late either. Snatch is my favourite comedy, and it’s from 2000. Pretty much the whole movie is extremely quoteable and One of Brad Pitt’s best roles, IMO. «D’ya like dags?»
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#4457115 - 01/13/19 12:38 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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Gerard Butler. It's like they keep pushing him as an A list action star when he is a D list daytime movie chap.
He USED to be A-list a few years ago. Now he just gets lead roles in mostly box office bombs. And he owes his entire former A-list status on exactly ONE film: 300.
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#4457117 - 01/13/19 12:41 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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This is why I am more prone to reading books than watching movies. Pick any movie, that you enjoyed, that was based on a book. The book is always better, even if the movie was good. The Green Mile would be a good example.
I've not read "Fight Club" but the author was quoted on many interviews saying that he felt the film was better than his book! As for me personally, I think 2001: A Space Odyssey the film is better than the book but then again this is Stanley Kubrick we are talking about.
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#4457118 - 01/13/19 12:57 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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Gerard Butler. It's like they keep pushing him as an A list action star when he is a D list daytime movie chap.
He USED to be A-list a few years ago. Now he just gets lead roles in mostly box office bombs. And he owes his entire former A-list status on exactly ONE film: 300. I liked him in Beowulf and Grendel.
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#4457150 - 01/13/19 05:37 PM
Re: Film genres that seem to be dead
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Gerard Butler. It's like they keep pushing him as an A list action star when he is a D list daytime movie chap.
He USED to be A-list a few years ago. Now he just gets lead roles in mostly box office bombs. And he owes his entire former A-list status on exactly ONE film: 300. I liked him in Beowulf and Grendel. +1
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