1,676 Reply by Invid

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"Lord of the Rings" was a game changer, I think. Before that, not only wasn't fantasy really accepted but rarely did they work visually even when they had a budget. Those movies finally did what we at the time all hoped "Willow" would do...

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1,677 Reply by Invid

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Not the wiping out part, that I know of smile

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Up to the part where they've just entered the ship. The idea of tests brought to mind an episode of the 80's Twilight Zone where all the kids get intelligent tests, and the smartest are killed so the government can keep the population stupid. It would be funny if the aliens leave these tests to see if humans have progressed to that level, because if we have they have to show up and wipe us out before we become a threat smile

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It obviously didn't get the buzz of something like Megashark which Netflix quickly got. Is it bad enough to get an official Rifftrax, which might speed up sales? smile

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1,680 Reply by Invid

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Looks like Netflix, for now, isn't going to carry Moby Dick. Too bad sad

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1,681 Reply by Invid

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Like I said, it came out the year of Goonies and I think the ads just made it seem like a poor Spielberg clone disguised as an Apple ad smile It may have vanished quickly from theaters. I'll probably watch/listen tonight.

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1,682 Reply by Invid

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Content!

I was in high school when this came out, and skipped it I think because it seemed like a Goonies wannabe. I had an Apple //c, though, so thought that was a fun touch (once Ebay came along, one of the first things I bought was an old //c portable LCD screen just because I could).

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How original? I think at first they planned on basically filming the stage musical Baum wrote, which had lots of dancing girls and little in common with the books. THAT I wouldn't mind seeing smile

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Agreed. If a different director uses the script and story boards of a classic film, what's the result? Great question! And one we now know the answer to and can more on smile

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Hmm, I'm going to have to check out your podcast. Seeing you're talking about stuff like Tarot cards, would you know by any chance any good Aleister Crowley podcasts? Ever since Thelema Coast to Coast went silent I've had to do without my magick fix smile

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I was listening to a new iRiff for the first Resident Evil movie (a rather good one by Riff a Brack, worth a buy), and the jokes comparing it to the games reminded me of a Japanese film called "St. Johns Wort". No, I'm not sure about the title either. Two game developers go to a house to map it for use in an upcoming survival horror game, and wacky low budget things happen. What makes it stand out (although it doesn't make it good) is once inside the house it is filmed as if it was an early Resident Evil style game. The cameras are fixed at weird angles, and never follows the action but instead once the action leaves view we pick it up on another camera. It's the kind of thing were your first thought is, "Hey, that's a cool idea!" Your second, after a half hour or so, is "well, I'm glad they did it so everybody knows not to do it again."

Any other movies fall in that category, even if someone in deed didn't learn the right lesson from it?

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1,693 Reply by Invid

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Double feature with Private Benjamin? Two different takes on military comedy just a year apart.

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I was amused that Teague was basically going back to the same sort of questions he asked in Wild Wild West- movie 1 has a, b, and c, movie 2 has a, b, and c, so how can you say movie 2 is bad and movie 1 is good? As if a work of art is just the sum of its parts and everything is interchangeable.

My sister and I also want to see the sequel to this, where the Africans say "hell no" to the Arks and try and fight them off smile

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Personally I'm hoping it brings on a wave of animated Yamato releases in the US. They never have given us the uncut TV shows, and even one of the subtitled films was edited a bit. As for the film... it's always possible the Japanese will ask too much money for it to get into US theaters. With luck we'll get a video release.

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Angela Lansbury sings that song in the stage version available on DVD (though not on Netflix), and I thought it was fine. There's a concert version of the musical as well, which Netflix does have although not for instant viewing. It's not a NICE, musical, to be sure, but "The Worst Pies in London" is suppose to be a humorous introduction to the character.

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I avoided Sweeney Todd as I'm a fan of the musical. If you're going to cut the songs anyways, why not just do an original take on Sweeney instead of an adaptation? You guys tackling it would force a viewing out of me, though smile

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I agree M is great, but it should be done in addition to Metropolis not instead of. Metropolis is not just an incredible accomplishment, but a fascinating failure. Having seen the new uncut print, it NEEDED a good editing even if in the end it just got bad ones. Those are the types of films I really like hearing outside commentaries on, where they can talk about what went right AND wrong.

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Just noticed the DVD of the "as uncut as we'll ever see it" version of Metropolis also comes out this week, even if Netflix doesn't seem to be getting it in. I hope that also jumps high up your to do list.

(if you assume that the newly discovered clips were the first to be cut, an interesting way to view the film since there's a noticeable quality difference in the footage is to try and guess WHY they trimmed it as they did.)

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