Love this dolly shot from the 1927 film "Wings":
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Originally posted by QualityChimp View PostI forgot to mention, but after looking at how they did movie magic in the olden days, my second favourite thing was just watching Toto.
He didn't sing "Africa", but I was cracking up as the main characters would jump into song and dance and he'd happily follow them around with his tail wagging.
I was genuinely missing plot at some points as I was too busy watching Toto.
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Originally posted by wakka View PostYeah there are loads of Oz books. The original book is indeed quite different to the film. Long time since I've read it but I loved it as a kid. There is a lot more to it than the film as I remember it being pretty long.
Truly, there is no rest for the Wicked
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And despite all the adaptations, a pound of one is worth 16 oz of another...
Haha I've been watching clips of the film on YouTube so I can just playercam Toto. So funny. The dog who played him seems like such a cheerful lil hound. He's really enjoying being in the film. It seems like he did much less actual acting than dogs might now in films and they sort of just let him react naturally and get on with it.
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Recent watches include ...
Godzilla: Final Wars. Total madness. Honestly don't know how you'd go about making a film with so much going on. Every moment is entertaining ... it never lets up for 2 hours
Kong: Skull Island. Nothing too amazing but enjoyable nonetheless.
Perfect Days. Can't remember if I posted about this one but watched it again after hearing it mentioned in the most recent (and last ever) Arrow Video Podcast. Enjoyed it even more second time. It follows the simple day to day life and routine of a guy who cleans public toilets in Tokyo. And that's about it. It's very simple and totally effective. Kōji Yakusho is an absolute joy in the lead role.
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I saw V For Vendetta was leaving Prime and I'd been meaning to catch it again as I'm currently reading the comic.
Doesn't quite work and there are some little changes to the story, but I still think it's a decent watch.
Why is it that hoverboards seem even further away, but dystopian fiction always seems closer?
For example, in VFV, there's a jingoistic news station called BTN, complete with frothing persenters:
A pandemic breaks out and a political party with fingers in many pharmaceutical pies becomes the government:
The people march against the government as it gets increasingly heavy-handed with its actions and broadens its scope of what is un-British.
Oh and the year they changed it to in the movie? 2020!
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The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985).
Hadn't seen this in a long, long time so only right to revisit in its 40th anniversary year.
Pretty much the type of adventure that we all wanted to go on with our friends when we were kids, and you can obviously see the Spielberg/Donner magic weave and work its way throughout, but damn you nostalgia and older age for making it all seem that much more cheesy, corny and less well-aged, albeit with a bit of that 1980s irreverent pop-culture charm while doing so.
Ultimately a staple of the 1980s blockbuster film landscape. They might be four decades on, but for the most part, The Goonies "R" still Good Enough!
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Annabelle
Finally got around to the rewatch of the weakest of the CCU movies. It ties itself poorly in terms of explaining the origins and isn't a surprise it saw itself semi-retconned in the next film, there's no suspense and it's poorly acted too leaving a flat impression.
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
So much better than the previous film and feels really in line with the Wrong Trousers entry that it's sequelling. Loved the chase sequence, amazing it's been over 15 years since the last special but hopefully they can get another out.
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Nickel Boys (RaMell Ross, 2024)
Watched this yesterday afternoon. Ross' film adaptation of Colson Whitehead's 2019 Pulitzer Prize-winning fictional novel (based on real-life events) about young African-American boys in a racially and physically abusive reform school in 1960's America.
Without wanting to give too much away. It's really hard to fault the creativity shown here in terms of the constant flipping between 1960's and the modern day as well as the first-person POV being used throughout for the main characters (fine performances from leads Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson) but I'd be lying if I said that I didn't initially find the latter jarring to begin with and at certain points throughout the film.
That said, it is nicely shot for the most part and the viewer is left in no doubt about how brutal and devastating the story being told is. The ending also surprised me with how I didn't entirely see it coming - very well executed.
My interest in the source material is piqued now.Last edited by Nu-Eclipse; 20-01-2025, 16:39.
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The Curse of Llorona
The fringe entry of the CCU, it's also not great but I prefer it to Annabelle.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
A bit of a weird watch these days, the Austin powers have expectedly aged quite a lot thanks to how the film calls out his behaviour but then revels in it. That being said there's still a reasonable amount of fun to be had largely from the Dr Evil side of the film.
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Probably because it dials everything up, this is still the better film but again it's the Dr Evil bits that really carry it now
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Borderlands
Ropey looking, barely any plot, simplistic characters, repetitive generic action... to be honest it's probably one of the most accurate videogame adaptations that have been made. Borderlands is fun as a game but every element that makes up the fun element in the franchise is stuff that isn't suited to making a film about it. I honestly expected this to be worse given the word of mouth but it's probably about as good as a Borderlands film could be.
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