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Undercover Boss: Kylo Ren
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drealmer7: I've stayed far away from anything new star wars because I was under the understanding that JJ Abrahms was in charge of the new series and he's just a ruiner.
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Breja: Not that I agree with your hate of Abrams (seems we can't agree on anything), but you don't need to worry about that - he was only directing the first movie. I don't think he will have anything to do with any more, at least for the time being. Anyway, no director is really in charge of anything when it comes to Star Wars right now. They are only doing what the whatever commitee Disney has overseeing this tells them to do. The Rogue One reshoots and then the way they fired the two guys originally making the Han Solo movie made that pretty clear.
right, so he did direct the first one? which means I'll never watch it

which means I'll not watch any of the others after it

Along with the Lady Snowblood movies, I have yet to watch the Okatsu movies

Quick-Draw Okatsu, Okatsu: The Fugitive...is there another? not sure, I have to check

as well as

Ohyaku: The Female Demon
Post edited August 31, 2017 by drealmer7
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drealmer7: right, so he did direct the first one? which means I'll never watch it

which means I'll not watch any of the others after it
You won't be missing much. But you can watch Rogue One, it has nothing to do with the new trilogy and it was pretty good. And there will be more of those standalone movies, with Solo and Obi-Wan. And I'm pretty sure the rest of the new trilogy won't really reuqire seeing the first movie. It's not like it had much of a story, and what it had was a rip-off of a story you already know anyway.

Still, while Force Awakens is really weak, I don't get your crazy hate for Abrams. His first Star Trek was good, Super 8 was really good, even Mission Impossible III wasn't bad (at least for that franchise). Unless you just hate his keyboard music.
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Breja: I don't get your crazy hate for Abrams. His first Star Trek was good, Super 8 was really good, even Mission Impossible III wasn't bad (at least for that franchise). Unless you just hate his keyboard music.
OMG the first Star Trek he did is abominable and blasphemous disrespect for the original stuff. Atrocious. He is THE RUINER.

Never saw Super 8 (no interest)

MI III was bad

Armageddon is the only thing remotely bearable of his and it's pretty bad too, only slightly made better by the stellar cast
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Breja: I don't get your crazy hate for Abrams. His first Star Trek was good, Super 8 was really good, even Mission Impossible III wasn't bad (at least for that franchise). Unless you just hate his keyboard music.
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drealmer7: OMG the first Star Trek he did is abominable and blasphemous disrespect for the original stuff. Atrocious. He is THE RUINER.
He did admit that.
I think you are going a little overboard here. Every director makes a piece of shit or two in their careers. The one pet peeve I have is condemning something they haven't seen just because they heard it was bad or they didn't like the guys other work, or the movie poster was stupid. PLEASE don't be the dork that does that. :P I'm not saying you would like it, but at least you can say "I watched it and it sucked." When I rip the LOTR movies I do so after having watched all of them.....and wishing I hadn't. :P
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tinyE: He did admit that.
I think you are going a little overboard here. Every director makes a piece of shit or two in their careers. The one pet peeve I have is condemning something they haven't seen just because they heard it was bad or they didn't like the guys other work, or the movie poster was stupid. PLEASE don't be the dork that does that. :P I'm not saying you would like it, but at least you can say "I watched it and it sucked." When I rip the LOTR movies I do so after having watched all of them.....and wishing I hadn't. :P
oh it's almost something I'd NEVER do, but I do it for JJ Abrams and M. Night Shyamalan and Joss Whedom. I've watched enough of their stuff to know they are just horrible writer/directors and have no desire to waste any more of my time on their shit
Post edited August 31, 2017 by drealmer7
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Breja: I don't get your crazy hate for Abrams. His first Star Trek was good, Super 8 was really good, even Mission Impossible III wasn't bad (at least for that franchise). Unless you just hate his keyboard music.
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drealmer7: OMG the first Star Trek he did is abominable and blasphemous disrespect for the original stuff. Atrocious. He is THE RUINER.
We're not going to agree on anything today, are we? :D
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timppu: [...]
Grave of the Fireflies (not sure if there are two separate movies of this, one with live actors and one animated?)
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Aye, there is. See the animated one.

(there is 3 film, actually, but only 1 animated)
Post edited September 01, 2017 by amok
I watched the animated The Grave of the Fireflies with my mum and she found it way too slow.

Any Studio Ghibli films I have not seen yet are certainly on the list to see some day.
Post edited September 01, 2017 by Themken
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drealmer7: OMG the first Star Trek he did is abominable and blasphemous disrespect for the original stuff. Atrocious. He is THE RUINER.
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Breja: We're not going to agree on anything today, are we? :D
peanut butter cookies are yum?
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Breja: We're not going to agree on anything today, are we? :D
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drealmer7: peanut butter cookies are yum?
Nope :D

Let's try the bare minimum here - oxygen is usefull?
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drealmer7: peanut butter cookies are yum?
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Breja: Nope :D

Let's try the bare minimum here - oxygen is usefull?
hahahaha, OKAY, it seems we've discovered the issue

your brain lacks peanut butter cookie influence
Right now I have between forty and fifty classics I'm quite curious about.

Let me just post the first half, which are the most recently added to my watchlist:

The Red Balloon (1956, Albert Lamorisse)
The Defiant Ones (1958, Stanley Kramer)
A Short Film About Killing (1988, Krzysztof Kieslowski)
The 39 Steps (1935, Alfred Hitchcock)
Being There (1979, Hal Ashby)
The Big Heat (1953, Fritz Lang)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937, David Hand)
Night of the Living Dead (1968, George A. Romero)
No Way Out (1950, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949, Robert Hamer)
Come and See (1985, Elem Klimov)
Inherit the Wind (1960, Stanley Kramer)
Anatomy of a Murder, (1959, Otto Preminger)
Knife in the Water (1962, Roman Polanski)
La Grande Illusion (1937, Jean Renoir)
Sunrise (1927, F.W. Murnau)
When the Wind Blows (1986, Jimmy T. Murakami)
The Conformist (1970, Bernardo Bertolucci)
I'm a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932, Mervyn LeRoy)
The Wages of Fear (1953, Henri-Georges Clouzot)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955, John Sturges)
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HereForTheBeer: Godfather
Godfather 2

Been so long since I've since 2001: A Space Odyssey that it will be like watching it for the first time.
Have you seen The Godfather Part III or do you have no interest in seeing it because a lot of people talk down about it?
I don't know, rather than looking forward to watching them, I'm usually more worried they won't hold up to the big hype anymore or they will reveal what a philistine I am, getting bored by supposedly great classics. ;)

Some classic movies I haven't seen yet and probably should one day include The Seven Samurai, Dr. Strangelove and Apocalypse Now. (There are lots more, but these come to mind right now.)
Post edited September 01, 2017 by Leroux