OT: Movies You Have Seen Lately

gregebowman · #1 January 2nd, 2004, 09:57 PM

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Originally posted by Atrocities:
S.W.A.T. Someone should have swatted this movie when it came out. What a complete waste of two hours of my life. I should sue the producers of this movie for my used up time.

No decernable plot, no purpose, just lame arsed hacked together crap.

I am to young to remember much about the TV series, but what I do recall, is a guy on top of a huge holding tank with a rifle not that that means much.

This movie is simply not good.

Unfortunately, I am old enough to remember the tv show. I think I was around 13-14 years old. Haven't seen the movie, though. Sounds like I might want to wait until it comes on HBO. It's a good thing I waited for National Security. Saw that over the holidays, and I'm glad I didn't spend any money to see it or buy the dvd. Talk about a waste of my time.

Atrocities · #2 January 2nd, 2004, 10:04 PM

Ya it is a good "free" movie to watch. Save your money and watch it on TV.

David E. Gervais · #3 January 3rd, 2004, 12:20 PM

I'm going to see LotR:RotK today. Yeah! I'm sure I won't be dissapointed.

I'll let you all know what I think tomorow.

Cheers!

DavidG · #4 January 5th, 2004, 03:23 AM

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Originally posted by David E. Gervais:
I'm going to see LotR:RotK today. Yeah! I'm sure I won't be dissapointed.

I'll let you all know what I think tomorow.

Cheers!

Well? Today is now tomorow.

I just saw this movie and it was good. However anyone who doesn't think the Last 15 minutes sucks and is totally useless obviously read the book. (at least that is what I assume) I'm assuming that maybe in the book these scenes had a bit more to them and maybe meant something. The way they were in the movie is was just a bunch of useless crap.

Without giving anything away I'll just say that once you discover the fate of Frodo the movie is over. who cares what happens after that.

Puke · #5 January 5th, 2004, 04:09 AM

yeah, i cant stand those darn book reading people who ruin my movie going experience. they either complain because a perfectly good movie ruined their favorite book, or they get all high and mighty about some lousy movie is all great and meaningfull because off odd references to important parts that were never shown.

I mean, if it wasnt good enough to be in the film, how good can it be? Progress man, progress. Now that we have moving pictures, we should burn the libraries so these holier-than-thou pricks wont ruin our time at the theatre with their incesant *****ing.

Fyron · #6 January 5th, 2004, 07:05 AM

Umm... there are a lot of things that are great in a book, but do not translate well to the movie screen at all. And then there are a lot of things that are good in a movie, but don't translate well to a book.

Atrocities · #7 January 5th, 2004, 08:04 AM

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Originally posted by Puke:
yeah, i cant stand those darn book reading people who ruin my movie going experience. they either complain because a perfectly good movie ruined their favorite book, or they get all high and mighty about some lousy movie is all great and meaningfull because off odd references to important parts that were never shown.

I mean, if it wasnt good enough to be in the film, how good can it be? Progress man, progress. Now that we have moving pictures, we should burn the libraries so these holier-than-thou pricks wont ruin our time at the theatre with their incesant *****ing.

I read the book Stargate before I ever knew it was being made into a movie. The movie was slightly differant than that book, better in many ways, but had far less depth than the book had. Still, I enjoyed the book and the movie.

I read the book Sphere long before I ever saw the movie. The book was brillant, the movie sucked *** horribly. Too short, missed many keep points, and generally was a lack luster production trying to skim through to the big bucks because of the all star cast who had no fricking clue about the hack job the movie was doing to the book. Even the writer Micheal Criton felt unsatisfied by the way the producer and director chose to make his film. They took good point out of the book, but failed to back them up with the other key points. The movie was way to short, and could have been better.
However, after seeing the movie again recently I must say that it was an enjoyable short movie.

I learned my lesson not to read the books before seeing the movies. My bad.