Before I finally watched all six Star Wars films, when I was around 16-17, I had heard beforehand (both as spoilers and warnings) about VI's sibling twist and Ewoks. Even then, that didn't help the deflating feeling of actually watching the film.
Before I finally watched all six Star Wars films, when I was around 16-17, I had heard beforehand (both as spoilers and warnings) about VI's sibling twist and Ewoks. Even then, that didn't help the deflating feeling of actually watching the film.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
I will never understand the distaste of RotJ. That third act is so masterfully cut between three battles I can barely breathe.
Agreed. The Ewoks are totally fine. Also the banter between the leads is phenomenal and I will always love the speeder bike chase.Quoting Skitch (view post)
last four:
black widow - 8
zero dark thirty - 9
the muse - 7
freaky - 7
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Also, Jabba the Hutt.
Williams' score is actually memorable!
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It's not like Empire introduced one of the most iconic themes.... :|
“What we are dealing with here is a perfect engine, er... an eating machine. It's really a miracle of evolution. All this machine does is swim and eat and make little sharks and that's all.”
Oh, I liked the third act fine. It's the stuff before that.
Midnight Run (1988) - 9
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) - 8.5
The Adventures of Robinhood (1938) - 8
Sisters (1973) - 6.5
Shin Godzilla (2016) - 7.5
I meant in comparison to The Force Awakens which is what I assumed this comparison came out of what with this being the Episode VII thread.
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The TFA score is very, very good. I adore the new themes.
Its suggested a bit more today who Rey's parents are by JJ.
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Would have to be granddaughter though. She wouldn't have even been alive when Obi-Wan died.
These aint it cool talkbackers!
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Why couldn't he have had her on a planet near a black hole where the gravitational pull was so strong time went by slower? Heh.
Why couldn't we not give a shit because Episode 7 made its own name for its... oh wait never mind
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Huh, so I only just now realized that The Force Awakens was rated PG-13. o.O
I remember when it was notable that Revenge of the Sith was rated PG-13, since it was that much darker than the other ones, all of which had been rated PG at the time. But I guess nowadays, ANY big blockbuster just received the PG-13 by default. PG-13 is the new PG, just as PG is the new G.
It's funny to think how every single new Disney animated or Pixar film that comes out nowadays gets rated PG, whereas if these same movies were being released in the 90s, they would've EASILY been rated G, ala The Lion King, Aladdin, etc. Hell, I don't even know how a movie can get a G rating anymore!
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As far as I can tell, the only two major studio releases in 2015 to get a G rating were The Peanuts Movie and DisneyNature's Monkey Kingdom. Looks like in 2016, so far, the only one is an IMAX doc about how pretty Earth is or something.
Anymore, I think there's some sort of stigma about something about a kids' movie getting a G rating or a live-action film of basically any value to someone over the age of five getting a PG rating. No developmentally age-appropriate child would be caught dead taking their birthday party to a wimpy little G-rated flick and no teenager's being impressed on a date that doesn't deliver a solid PG-13 experience. Call it coolness inflation in the age of the dark and gritty.
Most of the Marvel bullshit would have been rated PG if it were released before this millennium. Some of the violence gets a little intense sometimes, I guess, but it's not like they're not designed for six-year-olds.
hell this last season of Agents of SHIELD was way more gruesome than any of Marvel's movies have been.
The severed arm perfectly acquitted itself, because of the simplicity of its wishes and its total lack of doubt.
This is such a weird post after:
X-Men Apocalypse is a billion times more gruesome than anything in that show.
So you obviously didn't watch X-Men Apocalypse.
X-men Apocalypse has a prolonged fingernail torture scene?
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In the opening scene, people got their bones crushed into repulsive contortions and their skin melted off. []Way more gruesome.
Ah. I guess I'll have to see it. Sounds more graphic than previous X-Men movies, but violence is odd in that more graphic doesn't always mean more grisly. For example, Deadpool and Blade are so bloody that they earn R ratings, but they're rather over-the-top cartoon violence, so nothing in those movies made me flinch and grimace like the more realistic human-on-human violence on SHIELD, which had a character spending half an episode getting interrogated while metal spikes are being shoved under her fingernails, or someone slowly bleeding from the gut Reservoir Dogs-style, or getting autopsied alive, etc etc.
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Totally agree. And yes, Apocalypse actually set me back a bit because I wasn't expecting this level of violence. I was expecting something on the lines of X2's violence where wolverine stabs people but it's bloodless. it definitely caught me off guard. Esp the opening scene.
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