#4499337 - 12/06/19 03:01 PM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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I've heard that "Overlord" was essentially the closest we've ever been to having a film adaptation of the Wolfenstein games by ID Software. Is that accurate?
I've only played "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" on my Commodore 64 so I don't know... v6, boNes
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#4499338 - 12/06/19 03:06 PM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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I've heard that "Overlord" was essentially the closest we've ever been to having a film adaptation of the Wolfenstein games by ID Software. Is that accurate?
I've only played "Castle Wolfenstein" and "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" on my Commodore 64 so I don't know... v6, boNes Ah ok, never mind then! The PC games by ID Software are a very different animal from the 80's games.
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#4499342 - 12/06/19 04:16 PM
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Overlord definitely had that vibe and was fun to watch.
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#4499686 - 12/09/19 04:23 PM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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For me, "Unbreakable". I had no idea that I was watching a superhero origin story. I was thrilled by the end of that film.
Surprisingly, I have not seen "Glass" yet. Shyamalan's lustre has worn extremely dull for me, despite my enjoyment of "Split".
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#4499704 - 12/09/19 05:54 PM
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Surprisingly, I have not seen "Glass" yet. Shyamalan's lustre has worn extremely dull for me, despite my enjoyment of "Split". The problem with Shyamalan is he became a one-trick pony. All his films boiled down to establishing a comfortable calm through a meandering exploratory story and then slapping a "startling" twist on the plot towards the latter third. He would have done well to study Michael Crichton's "Coma" which engages not only the twist, but the masterful use of the thriller genre's plotting and pacing. I dare say "Coma" is one of the finest examples of how to properly plot such a movie--a template, even, to strive for. Both filmmakers wrote in the same genre, but Crichton was a true master.
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#4499707 - 12/09/19 06:14 PM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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I remember watching 'Coma'. It was a superb piece of entertainment. I may even look it up for a re-watch sometime soon.
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#4499718 - 12/09/19 07:39 PM
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"Flawless" (2007) starts as a nice, somewhat conventional heist drama set in the late 1950s/early 1960s with a dash of feminism. If you can read film language though, the film takes a 90° bend at some point which is masterfully announced with a single 20...30 seconds take that is seemingly irrelevant (but significant because of its length and apparent superfluousness (at first sight)). Michael Caine & Demi Moore are starring, so if you expect nothing (like I did) you will be very pleasantly surprised. This is the equally masterful opening: (oh, well, we can't set the time with this blasted forum software, here's the non-embedded link: https://youtu.be/S911KNRPA_4?t=68
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#4499721 - 12/09/19 08:06 PM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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Unbreakable was a great surprise, I so much wanted a sequel as soon as it finished. Split was great for one reason: James McAvoy. Glass, not so much. I liked McAvoy before “Split” but that movie proved to me without any doubt what an exceptional talent he is.
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#4499795 - 12/10/19 09:31 AM
Re: Movies that were totally NOT what you were expecting
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"Flawless" (2007) starts as a nice, somewhat conventional heist drama set in the late 1950s/early 1960s with a dash of feminism. If you can read film language though, the film takes a 90° bend at some point which is masterfully announced with a single 20...30 seconds take that is seemingly irrelevant (but significant because of its length and apparent superfluousness (at first sight)). Michael Caine & Demi Moore are starring, so if you expect nothing (like I did) you will be very pleasantly surprised. This is the equally masterful opening: (oh, well, we can't set the time with this blasted forum software, here's the non-embedded link: https://youtu.be/S911KNRPA_4?t=68 Intrigued. I'm in.
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#4536007 - 09/05/20 01:37 PM
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Stargate! What a disappointing trash! A trash that should never had spawned a trash TV series. Those are fighting words. Stargate the movie was a brilliant, innovative, non-deductive concept that was well (not perfectly) executed and the series that it spawned was one of the greatest sci-fi franchises of all time.
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#4536009 - 09/05/20 01:44 PM
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I can't speak for the series as I've never watched any of them but the Stargate movie wasn't trash in my opinion.
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#4536011 - 09/05/20 01:58 PM
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I'm going to try not to be cranky this time... but I enjoyed both the film, and the series.
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#4536018 - 09/05/20 02:43 PM
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The only annoying part of "Stargate" was the obnoxiously loud noise the moving lifts made. Otherwise, good movie.
Also, "Cloverfield" was good, and "10 Cloverfield Lane" was even better.
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