Movie Talk

[Rip Rap]

I generally only see one movie a year in theaters, and could care less about showbiz, but I do love my growing Clint Eastwood DVD collection. Sergio Leone has long been my favorite director, but I have to say that 'For a Few Dollars More' may be a better film then 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.' It's a toss-up right now.

Also, is New Line Cinema the only genuinely independent distributor? When Mel Gibson released 'The Passion' from Icon Productions and Peter Jackson released 'The Lord of the Rings' from Wingnut Productions, they both distributed them on New Line Cinema. I remember hearing how the four mainstream distrubtors (Sony/MGM/Columbia/TriStar, AOL/Time/Warner, NewCorp/Viacom/Fox/DreamWorks/Paramount, Disney/Touchstone/Buena Vista/Miramax) thought these films would be flops. Instead, New Line Cinema has released the biggest hit of the year four years in a row. Is New Line now the dominant name?

 

[NDLyght37]

I am a strictly DVD-home theatre guy. The only time I actually go to the movies is when there's a movie out that I want to support. The last movie I saw was "Coach Carter" a few days ago, and before that "Fat Albert" with the family after Christmas.

As for New Line, they are as independent as any major company can be these days. I mean, they are owned by AOL/Time Warner (oh how I hated that merger...lol), but I don't know how that factors into their daily operations.

 

[Rip Rap]

I am a strictly DVD-home theatre guy. The only time I actually go to the movies is when there's a movie out that I want to support. The last movie I saw was "Coach Carter" a few days ago, and before that "Fat Albert" with the family after Christmas.

As for New Line, they are as independent as any major company can be these days. I mean, they are owned by AOL/Time Warner (oh how I hated that merger...lol), but I don't know how that factors into their daily operations.

You're right. 'Passion' was New Market, not New Line. My bad.

 

[the_voidoid]

I generally only see one movie a year in theaters, and could care less about showbiz, but I do love my growing Clint Eastwood DVD collection. Sergio Leone has long been my favorite director, but I have to say that 'For a Few Dollars More' may be a better film then 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.' It's a toss-up right now.

those are both great, but 'high plains drifter' puts 'em to shame. eastwood is a kick-ass director.

 

[Rip Rap]

those are both great, but 'high plains drifter' puts 'em to shame. eastwood is a kick-ass director.

Leone taught Eastwood everything he knows. IMDB say 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' is clearly his best film of all time. I just think the final shootout in 'For a Few Dollars More' is more creative and intense.

Half the people who talk about 'The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly' are obsessed with that bridge getting blown up.

 

[Irish Envy]

Saw Sharktales with my lil sprout this weekend... I loved it. LOL

 

[Guest]

Looking forward to The Ring sequel....First one was real good, man when that girl crawled out of the TV that gave me the chills lol.....

Martin Scorsese is my favorite director, Taxi Driver, Mean Street, GoodFellas ( favorite movie of all time, shot mainly in the neighborhood I grew up in) and Raging Bull. Even Gangs of New York was good, I read the book before the movie came out, and I see what he was trying to do, but in all honesty that was a very tough movie to make. His next film looks really good....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

 

[the_voidoid]

Even Gangs of New York was good, I read the book before the movie came out, and I see what he was trying to do, but in all honesty that was a very tough movie to make. His next film looks really good....http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/

i agree that gangs of new york was a pretty tough movie. the period costumes, while i assume they are historically accurate to a degree, are just kind of difficult to take seriously, all the men look like foppish dandies. also, i understand that he's a great actor, but i just can't separate the adult leo dicaprio from the bratty teenage heart-throb leo dicaprio, so it's tough for me to take him seriously. he was good in basketball diaries, though.

 

[Guest]

Yeah Basketball Diaries was pretty good. Leo's accent in Gangs was pretty bad. Daniel Day Lewis was awesome in that movie though.

 

[Irishjohn]

I liked gangs of New York but my wife hated it. One of her reasons was the costumes, she just couldn't believe they actually dressed that way.

I generally like most anything Leonardo Dicaprio does. In a lot of other years he probably would have won the Oscar for his portrayal of Howard Hughes in the Aviator but this year Jamie Foxx was just incredible in Ray.