The Film Thread

and if nobody in here has seen Erin Brokovich, I’d recommend it. While Julia Roberts hasn’t done much in film for a while, she’s quite good in this one.

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My Cousin Vinny is really underrated.
Great fun

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Personally, I always prefered this scene.

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Marissa Tomei… she did a film called “Only You”

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My god, but Triangle of Sadness is fucking garbage.

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Unpopular opinion, but Grand Budapest Hotel is a pile of bollocks too.

What a disappointing movie night.

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It wasn’t as good as I expected it to be.

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Disney has been so much a part of my life for so many years. It’s getting to this point now:

angry mob GIF by MASTERPIECE | PBS

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they’re not remaking this one anytime soon

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No, they’re trying to take my beloved splash mountain off me. But then they’re replacing it with Tiana and she’s the best princess there’s ever been. I’m rather split on the subject.

Is Splash Mountain from a Disney movie or is it just a generic name they had for a ride?

Edit: I remembered I have google.

Updating ride names seems pretty logical to me. Keeps it relevant for the kids coming to the park.

The Next 3 Days

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That’s one way of looking at it. TOUCH the Enchanted Tikki room and I’m supergluing myself to Jose.

Was based on The Song of The South and the stories of Uncle Remus. There’s nothing racist in / on the ride, why change it? Ah, Disney.

Ah yes, why update, modernize, and try to connect with new generation when you have a ride opened in … checks Google…1989.

Yeah, ever seen the queue for Dumbo? So big they have 2 in WDW. Walt himself said Disneyland will never be finished as long as there is imagination in the world. But don’t touch my Tiki Room!

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Responding to a comment in the TV thread about new star wars films being announed…

Reading up on this now and it’s 3 films being commissioned, but not a trilogy.

1 - the dawn of the Jedi
2 - about the New Republic, tying up the threads fo the Mandalorian and upcoming Ahsoka storylines
3 - a sequel of sorts of the last on of the last trilogy with Daisey Ridley being touted to come back to lead

I have so much negativity about that last trilogy that its really only the first one that piques my interest.

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I still want to see a road movie with the Cantina Jazz Band on tour playing worse dives than Mos Eisley. For comic relief they could have Jar Jar Binks as their manager.

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I’m deeply fascinated with anything Star Wars but they’ve got their work cut out to get close to righting the mess of the last trilogy and such.

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I was chatting to Mitch Benn (the comedian) a few weeks back on the subject of fanwank: overly obsessing over minor continuity and “canon” in Sci-Fi and Fantasy films and TV.

I think the general consensus was that writers should simply ignore it. Fan fiction has its place and that place is not anywhere near a $100million production budget.

If they are redoing Star Wars then by all means have elements like Jedi, light sabres, “the force” and what have you. But just remember that it’s an action adventure film and ignore the baggage. Have new characters and a new story. Go back to Kurosawa if needs be but I don’t think anyone should have to have a full knowledge of Jedi hierarchy or Empire history to enjoy a couple of hours escapist thrills.

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