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Has anyone watched the German reboot of All Quiet on the Western Front yet? I enjoyed it even though it strays pretty far from the novel's plot and spends no time at all portraying the main characters' experiences during basic training or their sadistic drill instructor. But it is viscerally on point and the battle scenes are brutally realistic.
 
WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou said:
Has anyone watched the German reboot of All Quiet on the Western Front yet? I enjoyed it even though it strays pretty far from the novel's plot and spends no time at all portraying the main characters' experiences during basic training or their sadistic drill instructor. But it is viscerally on point and the battle scenes are brutally realistic.
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I'm looking forward to seeing it. Haven't watched yet.
 
I've seen it, solid war movie worth watching but nothing groundbreaking. It has been a good many years since I've read the novel, so the plot alterations were lost on me.
 
JackBurton said:
This won't do as well as most think. I don't think people care. That movie was a novelty of it's time. It wasn't very good.
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Depends. If James Cameron goes all James Cameron on it and its incredible, well, the people will come. If its a cookie cutter sequel of a movie that was, yeah, a 3d novelty at the time...bust
 
MindzEye said:
Depends. If James Cameron goes all James Cameron on it and its incredible, well, the people will come. If its a cookie cutter sequel of a movie that was, yeah, a 3d novelty at the time...bust
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I also really can't tell from the trailer what it's going to be about. I can't really tell from the trailer what the conflict is going to be, so I'm guessing it's going to be some super contrived plot to bring the evil humans back, leading to another "natives vs technology" fight, and ending with one of the main characters "finding their real place in the society". I mean, I'm sure it will be visually pretty awesome, but part of me just feels like the plot is going to be super cringe.
 
In that small clip though... the few scenes of CGI water in the dark and light.. looked incredible. I think Cameron pushes the envelope even further. Will people and myself included be impressed with the quality of the graphics? maybe short term, but it still looks fucking cool, and agreed being high will make this an even greater experience. I just hope I don't get sad
 
JackBurton said:
Issue is 3D was such a novelty in 2009. Not sure there's the same excitement.
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Yeah, 3D is hardly even immersive anymore compared to off the shelf tech you can buy for a few hundred bucks now.

If there's anyone I trust in that industry to out perform our expectations of him though, it's James Cameron. Dude has made a career of making blockbusters that push the technical envelop.
 
JackBurton said:
This won't do as well as most think. I don't think people care. That movie was a novelty of it's time. It wasn't very good.
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The first movie was essentially just Pocahontas in space.

And on the rare occasion I do see a movie in theatres these days, I avoid 3D like the plague.
 
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MindzEye said:
Yeah, 3D is hardly even immersive anymore compared to off the shelf tech you can buy for a few hundred bucks now.

If there's anyone I trust in that industry to out perform our expectations of him though, it's James Cameron. Dude has made a career of making blockbusters that push the technical envelop.
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Best 3D movie ever: Dr. Tongue's 3D House of Pancakes.
 
zeke said:
So I'm late to this but this Elvis movie rocks.

Only bad thing about it is Tom Hanks.

But the kid playing Elvis absolutely crushes it.
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Hanks was so bad it almost cancels out how good Elvis was and kind of ruined the movie for me.

And I like Hanks.
 
I missed out on a screening Saturday to see it with Butler in attendance...because I guess I wanted to watch the Leafs get whupped by the Kings.
 
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