[quote]Gothic77 wrote:
Why wait for DVD?[/quote]
cuz of a hearing impairment (gotta love the subtitles) and just general pleasure of watching stuff while comfy. despite that though i broke the norm and saw this movie.
as much as i was looking forward to it, independence day was better.
schindler’s list and saving private ryan are two of the best movies ever so the problem wasn’t so much with spielberg (except that there shoulda been no music; spielberg has the gift of making an action that is better without music).
im for originality so i dont like copying. i dont like movies being made from books (the best movies ever are never books; except the notebook, but that’s a whole nother issue). although, i guess i understand adapting really great books into movies, but then remaking them seems awkward.
anyway, i wish spielberg and co had decided to start with wells’ idea then create their own living, breathing work of art (books and movies are different enough to require this, IMO). it should have been updated because we live in updated times. had wells’ novel come out today it wouldn’t be accepted, but it is accepted today because of its “classic” status (not that classics aren’t good, but they’re just different).
it had very little build-up, no climax, some silly dialogue/situations (cruise: “i’ll meet you in boston” as his kid goes running into what was known to be sure death; and he survives WTFWTFWTFWTF!). at least the silly dialogue/situations were almost as funny as episode II (tough to beat, i know). my buddy and i were irritating the surrounding audience due to unstiflable laughter at times.
P.S. as suckass as avp was it was still supersweetawesomezorz because of predator. YEEEEAAAAHHH!!11!
P.P.S. i heard it had great previews. whoever said that deserves a salad tossin by a screwdriver (king kong or whatever it’s called looks cool though).
P.P.P.S. i thought this discussion was gonna be about whether or not anybody thought this type of thing could happen in real life. that coulda been cool…
P.P.P.P.S. foreign films rule, hollywood drools. well, except for christian bale (i gotta see batmeng) and a few other rare gems.