The Movie House - Part 4

I like both

Also what are your stances on remakes/reboot in general, and the hate it receives?

I find it a bit tiring that people complain about things getting rebooted.
I really don't have the opinion that the originals will be less good if a bad remake comes a long and it might even add to the experience by giving it new spin.

Comic books get rebooted all the time in a sense. Doesn't chance the quality or enjoyment of the books. Even continuations like the SW prequels were shit, that only resulted in my thinking and deeming the originals to be that much superior.

Does a remake/reboot really change how you feel about a movie? I don't understand why you want to spend energy on hating a property you love before it has come out, instead of hoping for it to be good.

I think it's perfectly fine in general to remake films as long as something new is being brought to the table.

I think some of the frustration about reboots comes, not necessarily from nostalgia over the originals, but from the feeling that many producers are becoming more reluctant to fund completely new stories and worlds. It's the same with the reactions to sequels. Once something new that is successful does come along, the tendency is to squeeze it for all the money they can get rather than giving creative license to the writers to take another shot at something completely new.

As an isolated instance however, there's nothing inherently wrong with a new generation of film makers having a shot at an existing story.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Freeza wrote:The one with Connery is one of the worst films I've ever seen.

Concept is amazing and can be done much better.

Don't make me go M99 on you brah.

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Lol at this. As if I'm the only one who calls you a hipster or don't respect other's different opinions. Freeza loves Man Of Steel and I don't, never called him a hipster.

If this is stemming from the Mad Max debate, Ganso did admit he was trolling which I was calling him out for though he clarified that his initial opinion was actually genuine which is fair (though ironic that he lols at people who thinks the film is a masterpiece)

Those are just following you like the sheep they are tbh

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Those are just following you like the sheep they are tbh

Will never forget your corporate slave outburst when Tom was making fun of PES That was glorious

On topic, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a terrible film. I welcome the reboot, it can't possibly get any worse. The concept has a lot of potential.

M99 wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:Those are just following you like the sheep they are tbh

Will never forget your corporate slave outburst when Tom was making fun of PES That was glorious

On topic, League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen was a terrible film. I welcome the reboot, it can't possibly get any worse. The concept has a lot of potential.

Never a truer word was spoken imo

Also i really liked League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, maybe it's because i was like 14 at the time

dostoevsky wrote:I think it's perfectly fine in general to remake films as long as something new is being brought to the table.

I think some of the frustration about reboots comes, not necessarily from nostalgia over the originals, but from the feeling that many producers are becoming more reluctant to fund completely new stories and worlds. It's the same with the reactions to sequels. Once something new that is successful does come along, the tendency is to squeeze it for all the money they can get rather than giving creative license to the writers to take another shot at something completely new.

As an isolated instance however, there's nothing inherently wrong with a new generation of film makers having a shot at an existing story.

Wonderfully put.

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Don't call me James wrote:Rewatched Inception. My 4th time Masterpiece.

I liked it but it's nowhere near as good as Shutter Island IMO.

Loved Shutter Island.

In fact, going to be re-watching that as well this weekend. I'm on a bit of a DiCaprio marathon. Do this every year.

But I can't say I agree that it's better than Inception. Inception is one of my favorite films of all time. It's extraordinary.

Mad max was dire to me. Lot of action but the movie lacked script and suspense.
My buddies loved it but that's their taste...they love movies with absolute shet scripts .

Avengers age of ultron : watched that 3 weeks ago and already forgot the story line...that's how Interesting that movie was.

Adit wrote:Mad max was dire to me. Lot of action but the movie lacked script and suspense.
My buddies loved it but that's their taste...they love movies with absolute shet scripts .

You've obviously no idea what a script contains or how the development of a thing like that takes place. But keep going. What's wrong with the script?

This prejudice against anything action is so funny. To write a script where you can make actions tell entire stories and not rely on exposition in dialogue is amazing.

This film is one of the rare cases where it's an entirely visual form of storytelling, where nothing would be lost without the sound.

Adit wrote:Mad max was dire to me. Lot of action but the movie lacked script and suspense.
My buddies loved it but that's their taste...they love movies with absolute shet scripts .

What do you mean? The movie was complete suspense, I was on edge the entire time

Lacked script and suspense

I'm on phone so can't type much. What lacked in the script? Story. Why should action and story be mutually exclusive? Why can't we have both.. This is were this movie failed. It had action but don't tell me there was an ounce of suspense or story. Most interesting character on that movie was Furiosa and then that Guitarist... Tom hardy should ask himself what was he doing in that movie.

I understand why many like movies like that though. That's just not my taste though, I enjoy movies with a story mainly..
If its predictable which most action movies are now days then it gets really boring for me at least.

Adit wrote:I'm on phone so can't type much. What lacked in the script? Story. Why should action and story be mutually exclusive? Why can't we have both.. This is were this movie failed. It had action but don't tell me there was an ounce of suspense or story. Most interesting character on that movie was Furiosa and then that Guitarist... Tom hardy should ask himself what was he doing in that movie.

Before you start throwing around your obviously very wrong complaints. You should get some facts straight. Story and plot are not the same. Story is something that isn't shown on screen at all times. Story is what you can read from actions that are now shown in film, things that are spoken.

There is a lot of subtle elements of story in the film throughout, you just have to intelligent enough to put them together without being forcefed this information.

Little girl example

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Another great element of how George Miller has subtlety incorporated story elements is this

The many mothers:

The writing on the wall and Angharad.

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There are so many story elements placed throughout the film. You're pretty much confusing Story and Plot with expositional dialogue, which is not the case in this film.

Mad Max has so much story in every image. It trust the viewer to form the story by themselves instead of letting the directer feed it to the viewer with a spoon.

From what I gathered the plot of Fury Road is just Max helping Furiousa and some other slave women and leading them to safety from the evil guy, and they drive and fight around in the desert mainly.

So maybe that's all Adit felt he got from it?

El Gunner wrote:From what I gathered the plot of Fury Road is just Max helping Furiousa and some other slave women and leading them to safety from the evil guy, and they drive and fight around in the desert mainly.

So maybe that's all Adit felt he got from it?

Plot =/= story

And if that's how you look at a film I feel sorry for you. All films can be said to be like that unless it only relies on plotheavy storytelling like Gone Girl does.

El Gunner wrote:From what I gathered the plot of Fury Road is just Max helping Furiousa and some other slave women and leading them to safety from the evil guy, and they drive and fight around in the desert mainly.

So maybe that's all Adit felt he got from it?

Me n my mates were talking about the movie for a few hours at a bar. Felt it was insane but at the same time forgettable. Didn't regret watching the movie though.

Don't call me James wrote:

Great Leader Sprucenuce wrote:

Don't call me James wrote:Rewatched Inception. My 4th time Masterpiece.

I liked it but it's nowhere near as good as Shutter Island IMO.

Loved Shutter Island.

In fact, going to be re-watching that as well this weekend. I'm on a bit of a DiCaprio marathon. Do this every year.

But I can't say I agree that it's better than Inception. Inception is one of my favorite films of all time. It's extraordinary.

ffs need to watch this and inception very soon

Holiday soon

A simple plot does not equate to lacking a story. To be fair, you're far from the first or most prominent person to imply or suggest as much; I've seen fairly major reviewers follow that same line. However, a well executed but simple plot can still provide a compelling and engaging story, particularly if it contains strong unique characters who develop and evolve throughout the film. Fury Road pulled this off magnificently and certainly was not lacking a story.

Freeza wrote:

El Gunner wrote:From what I gathered the plot of Fury Road is just Max helping Furiousa and some other slave women and leading them to safety from the evil guy, and they drive and fight around in the desert mainly.

So maybe that's all Adit felt he got from it?

Plot =/= story

And if that's how you look at a film I feel sorry for you. All films can be said to be like that unless it only relies on plotheavy storytelling like Gone Girl does.

lol don't be so hasty to go on the attack, I haven't seen it yet.
I was just simply putting down the plot like I heard of it, and I didn't say plot = story. I know the difference between a plot and a story.

edit: think you misinterpreted my post

In the most simplest terms, plot is what happens, story is what it (the film) is about.

Yeah, the plot is basically the outline of how the story progresses.

David Bordwell is probably the most regarded in film theory on this subject.

Plot = Explicitly presented events.
Story = Presumed and inferred events.

@ElGunner. Was more directed at Adit, but I commented on your post because it gave a good option to comment rather than his did. I know you haven't watched it yet, and I'm disappointed