OT: Movies/TV Shows

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Also, I can totally understand someone liking something I don't, and am cool with it.

Why should films be any different than girl type, career choice, or ice cream flavor favorites?

I like that people like different things. Except Succession. Nobody should like that garbage.

Are we going to talk about grilled chicken sandwiches now?

 

[CH1]

I was probably late to the game on The Righteous Gemstones, but damn it's great. Very funny, but with an actual plot that would fully work as an excellent drama.

 

[SundinsTooth]

Quint's speech >>>>

Spielberg's direction on that alone puts him up there for greatest.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Quint's speech >>>>

Spielberg's direction on that alone puts him up there for greatest.

This scene too, does not appear at all in the novel.

 

[SundinsTooth]

While it was hardly a secret what had happened to the Indianapolis prior to Jaws, it wasn’t until the film’s release in 1975 that it became common knowledge. The origins of the speech come from Howard Sackler, a Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright who worked as an uncredited writer on the film. Sackler was adamant about explaining Quint’s blind hatred for sharks, and pitched the idea of making Quint a survivor of the disaster. Spielberg was receptive to his proposal, but after Sackler came back with just a single page of dialogue, it was left to another of the film’s uncredited writers, John Milius, to expand. Clearly this was a job he took very seriously given that he came back with a 10-page soliloquy more fitting for a one-man stage production than a film – a concern Spielberg raised despite enjoying his work. In the end it was Richard Shaw who had the last word, rewriting much of Milius’s contributions until he landed on the final version.

 

[zeke]

Well that scene is more about the greatness of Robert Shaw.

 

[SundinsTooth]

Well that scene is more about the greatness of Robert Shaw.

That goes without saying...but the direction there is up to the task as well.

 

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

Well that scene is more about the greatness of Robert Shaw.

He did a re-write of the monologue himself and shot the scene while he was 3 sheets to the wind so yeah, pretty fucking great.

He did make one mistake that was never caught: the date was actually JULY 29th, 1945, not June.

 

[Montana]

I found Close Encounters a bit tedious but sci-fi isn't my genre. I've only seen the first two Star Wars from the 70's, part of the one with the Ewoks, and the garbage Episode 1 with Jar Jar Binks that a friend dragged me to see.

Yeah I’m not a very big sci-fi guy either, I enjoy it when it’s done really well, or when it’s in a real world setting like Close Encounters, which I’m sure I’ll like.

Schindler's List, like Saving Private Ryan, is at times very difficult to watch but well worth the effort. Ralph Fiennes performance alone is worth the price of admission.

Yeah I’ve zero doubt I’ll enjoy that one. Love historical flicks….Neesen, Kingsley, Fiennes, Lists, folks from Judea.

 

[JackBurton]

I really disliked Shindler's ending. But great film overall obviously.

 

[JackBurton]

Well that scene is more about the greatness of Robert Shaw.

It's shocking one of the greatest supporting performances ever did not even get an Oscar nomination. I guess even back then a movie about a killer shark was deemed too silly for an acting nomination. Need serious drama!

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Schindler was another masterpiece.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I recently re-read the novel Jaws by Peter Benchley. In the book, Matt Hooper (the character played in the film by Richard Dreyfus) has a one night stand with Chief Brody's wife and only Brody himself survives at the end, with both Quint and Hooper being killed by the shark. In the movie, Hooper also survives.

I have never read a book on which a movie was made that I watched, and also will never watch a movie based on a book I’ve already read.

 

[zeke]

Jurassic Park is actually a great book.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

Jurassic Park is actually a great book.

I’ll never know.

 

[JackBurton]

I have never read a book on which a movie was made that I watched, and also will never watch a movie based on a book I’ve already read.

You can still say, "The book was better" despite not reading it

 

[JackBurton]

The lost World: Jurassic park (1997) is an underrated sequel. That scene of the bus off the cliff. DAMN! Right there with Spielberg's best action sequences.
Or maybe it was just Goldblum's dreaminess.

 

[LeafOfFaith]

You can still say, "The book was better" despite not reading it

I’m not a huge Jurassic Park fan anyway. Not really my thing.

 

[JackBurton]

Yeah I find the series merely ok. Even the first one is all amazing visuals for the time period, Film itself isn't that good IMO

 

[LeafOfFaith]

I think I saw most of the first one on tv and never seen the sequels.