Posted on 03/01/2014 7:11:00 PM PST by SeekAndFind
I read the book Dune, enjoyed the movie but you should really check out the SciFi TV mini-series Dune and Children of Dune. They followed the books pretty well and it’s much better than the movie (6 hours for each mini-series to flesh out the stories instead of 2 hours for a two 300 page novels)
King Kong and Vertigo should have been there too.
Imho, given the competition.
5.56mm
Yes. I posted a link to a wiki article about it somewhere in this thread.
Can't agree more...one of the few films I walked out of the theater pissed...
The ending was so over the top, weird, strange, bizarre, thing I have ever seen...
Steven Spielberg’s absolutely ruined the movie with his ET / Close encounter type ending...
I'm sure Stanley Kubrick was spinning in his grave...
1999 - Fight Club was about 1000 times better than lameass best picture winner American Beauty, but I really shouldn’t even talk about Fight Club.
I hated AI. I still have bad feelings from the crushing sadness of waiting 10000 years to have just one day with the mother who abandoned you.
He thought A.I. was the best picture of the last decade. Here.
Sometimes, it's a visual thing. A critic likes the cinematography and just ignores everything else.
I have never seen “Fight Club” but “American Beauty” was likely the worst movie I ever saw. It was even more stupid than “Dances With Wolves” and that is really, really stupid.
That’s an idiotic assumption to make of someone who saw it.
And opinions vary. Thanks for sharing yours. But I wouldn’t call it “idiotic” even if I thought it was...
I still have bad feelings from the crushing sadness of waiting 10000 years to have just one day with the mother who abandoned you.
Yeah, I'm watching the film and the the AI kids fall off the statue of liberty base into the water and sinks down to the bottom and sees a statue of the blue fairy ... and all of a sudden the movie cuts to a scene of flying gray aliens in a clear space ship, going to a archeological dig in a glacier (I guess)...
I'm thinking...WTH, did they screw up the film and got something mixed up in the projection room...
Second worst film ever made was "The Fountain"...
The only person in the theater who wasn't grumbling at the end was the down syndrome kid...who liked the colors and visuals...
Everybody else was "what in the hell did I just watch"
It was indeed the John Wayne one...I liked it. It reminded me a bit of “Lonesome Dove”, and I really liked the old guy and the indian. The thing with losing his teeth in a poker game was hilarious!
I don't think there are any flaws. I just remember seeing it in the theater when it was first released and thinking this is the greatest movie ever made! Then I watch it years, no, decades later with my kids and saying to myself, did I really think this was the greatest film ever made?
I think my worldview has changed since the sixties.
It's a good movie, just not world class, best movie caliber.
Just my opinion.
Well its regarded as world class, the world over. :)
A.I. was flawed but still a much better film than it was received as.
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