Are you going to boycott "SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY"

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WHOZIT

Thursday, June 21, 2018 4:31 AM

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Direct that rather insipid question to Whozit, the author of this thread.


SGG

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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:

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Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:

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One of your examples was IT for only 35 million dollars. You couldn't pay me to sit through that Hollywood schlockfest.

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I chose IT for a number of reasons:

1- It was a low budget film: $35 million is nothing these days.
2- It was a well-directed, well-acted, well-made Hollywood "schlock" film that grossed several hundreds million dollars. I went with friends and
enjoyed myself and I actually thought it to be a good piece of filmmaking;
a good remake.
3- It was a good story based on an iconic character

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I'm only saying that it was a good movie, not that everyone will get as much out of it as I did.

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True that. I feel that way about "Cloud Atlas."

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To this day Citizen Kane is regarded as the best movie ever made and "2001: A Space Odyssey" is somewhere near the top of that list and I absolutely hate sitting through either of them.

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Those are among the top classics of modern time, but they are from a different era, when movies were movies and delivered on a whole
different level.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, They Shoot Horses, Don't They?,
The Conversation, Raging Bull, A Clockwork Orange, The Godfather...all
movies of a different era that are considered classics, but may not be
able to stand the test of time, by today's standards.

Even Indie films from that era: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs, Going Places,
La Cage Aux Folles, Manon of the Spring, Jean De Florette....some of the
more classic Indie foreign films of our time. All excellent, but somewhat dated. Does that diminish their greatness? I think not. But, I digress.

Not too long ago, I was watching The Excorcist on TV and I found myself laughing. I saw this movie when it first came out, and I could tell you
no one was laughing. Women would watch this flick with their feet up on
their seats. Rumors of pregnant women losing their babies abounded, but
yet I laughed at it. Just how we laugh at some of the films from the 30s.

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I'm in love with Emily Blunt because of her character she played
in Edge of Tomorrow (one of the last Hollywood movies I saw and deeply enjoyed). It's actually the only thing I know her from inside and outside
of movies.

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I'm in love with Emily Blunt from just about everything she's done. She's
not only a beautiful hunk of womanhood, she can act her ass off. I first
became aware of her in The Devil Wears Prada and have followed her career
ever since. I saw one of her early movies and decided that I would follow her to "the ends of the earth." She's amazing. I believe she shies away
from political stuff, but, no matter, she's awesome.

But I mostly study film as an art form, much like people study literature;
and try not to follow their politics.

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On the flip side, I sure as hell am not going to take kindly for some grossly overpaid actor judging me or telling me how to live my life.

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Totally agree.

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Hamill still has a lot of balls though, even if it was after the fact. I love stuff he's had to say about the new movies and his character. Specifically the part where he isn't actually playing Luke Skywalker, but just another guy with the last name Skywalker.

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Again, totally agree. I admire him because he finds a way to get his
message across, with subtlety. Remember he's in Hollywood where one
wrong move could blackball him for life. I find it inconcievable that Johnson would not listen to the actor that breathed life into his
character - Luke Skywalker. I'm not saying that Hamill is some genius
actor, just that he's a professional who played this role with great
gusto for a long time. He knows his craft.

SGG

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WTFF?
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