The Films Thread

[harv]

Am watching a film called Contracted at the moment and it's excellent! It's about a girl who shags a necrophiliac at a party just after he's shafted a corpse at work in the Morgue and she's contracted a disease lol

[Dragontao]

Not exactly a film, but this is proably as scary and well done as anything I've seen in a horror film in recent years:

http://vimeo.com/82920243

[harv]

Have now watched all 3 Hangover films, the last one was nowhere near as good as the first two and the second one was the best of the lot imo. Although the very end of the third one was hilarious lololol

[jman]

Cant believe Hollywood are going to ruin one of my favourite films ever and bring back the Goonies  

Hey you guyssss... why does it even need a sequel?!?!? It's gonna suck

[harv]

Watched both Airplane films these last couple of days, the first one is still the best by miles. Might have to watch the Naked Gun films too now.

[Late]

"Star Wars episode VII" cast

[harv]

I'm guessing Daisy Ridler will be playing Princess Leia..? Should be a key character in the next film going by the end of Return Of The Jedi. She should have The Force coming out of her ears.

About bloody time they started work on the last film, they should have done that before fucking about with I to III.

[harv]

Ooh! And my claim to fame, my Dad fixed Kenny Baker's (R2D2) car when he was a mechanic and he drove with wooden blocks on the pedals

[Late]

I'm expecting the new film to be set a couple of decades after Return of the Jedi.
Makes little sense having Mark, Harrison, and Carrie back in the film if they're setting it right after ep6. Seems much more likely they'll be playing older folk as the new generation go off on adventures.

Going with the canon from the books, I reckon the main focus will either be on Han & Leia's kids or on Luke's academy - or maybe both, and will probably involve a gifted Jedi student going to the dark side.

Whatever the plot, though, you can pretty much guarantee a cubic f*cktonne of screenflare, with Abrams in charge.
Still, he makes a decent flick, so I'm looking forward to this

About bloody time they started work on the last films, they should have done that before fucking about with I to III.

Corrected for you.
Lucas always said it was supposed to be a 9 part story, split into three trilogies (there's speculation he only came up with that after the first film came out, but he's certainly been saying it since the 70s.
I believe Disney are planning on doing significantly more than three more films, though.



(In the books Han & Leia had three kids - the eldest two being twins (a boy and a girl), the youngest being a boy very strong in the force.
Also in the books, Luke set up a Jedi training academy on a remote planet.)






EDIT - Ah. I've just seen that Disney have said the film will be set 30 years after RotJ.

[Late]

It's puntastic/cheesy/clichéd, but you would've thought they'd have waited until Sunday (May the fourth) to make their Star Wars announcement.

[Dragontao]

I'm guessing Daisy Ridler will be playing Princess Leia..?

Unlikely as it's episode 7 and the original cast are all going to be appearing in it. So I think Carrie Fisher will still be Leia. I think there may be Leia's and Han's offspring.

[Dragontao]

Perhaps I should have read Late's post first lol.

But yep, originally three trilogies were planned. I'm not sure the rumours that this was something Lucas came up with after the first was released is true, as it was always known as episode 4. I'm old enough to have seen the original at the cinema and still have the programme (you used to get programmes for some films back then). Also read the comic book adaptations of the film and read the books, which were originally called the adventures of Luke Skywalker when Lucas first came up with the idea I recall (though no book was ever released as such as far as I recall).

[Dragontao]

EDIT - Ah. I've just seen that Disney have said the film will be set 30 years after RotJ.

With the original cast in it, it's the only way to explain how rough Han, Leia and Luke look now 

[Late]

I seem to recall a documentary (I think in the vhs box set) saying he only decided to call it episode iv after he'd finished making the first film.

[Late]

Recently watched the RoboCop remake.

I'm a big fan of the RoboCop films (or the first two at any rate - you might struggle to find a fan of the later ones) and recently rewatched them on BluRay. Even a few decades after they were first released, they still stand up well today. The only thing letting them down is the effects on ED209 (looks like the crappy old Jason & The Argonauts stop-motion type films).

It's a tricky one, this. I enjoyed it, but not as much as I enjoyed the original. The problem with these remakes is they can never seem to make up their mind whether to tell the same story in the same way, or take it in a whole new direction.
With RoboCop they went the rather familiar way of putting their own spin on it but largely being the same film - and with a few of the classic lines thrown in, for fans of the original to spot/enjoy. I quite like that - but on the down side it makes you think more about the original, and then you can't help but compare them; and you find yourself expecting certain lines in certain situations, and then you're disappointed when the new cast don't say them.

But the effects for ED209 (and the effects throughout the full film) were good!

All in all, I enjoyed it, and if you don't compare it to the original (or haven't seen the original) then it's a good film. And in a couple of years' time, when it's on BluRay I'll keep an eye out for it - but only if I see it cheap. It's good, but not good enough that I'm paying full whack for it.
I'd buy it for a dollar, though.