I hear a lot of people hated Forrest Gump, and I don't get why. Maybe you have to be a Baby Boomer to appreciate it properly.
I think it was a combination of: - the reactionary message - the rather crude 'if you sleep around you'll get AIDS and die, BITCH!'
Reactionary message? And I always thought that the business with Jenny was more along the lines of "shit happens."
I think the film would work well mixed with the soundtrack to 'Team America' - particularly 'America! Fuck yeah!' over a montage of Forrest and his staunch right wing views prospering while poor old Jenny - the hippie - dies in a ditch.
Dude...I do NOT see where you're getting that. Jenny was tragic because she was looking for something she had all along, right there in front of her...not 'cuz she was a hippie. Forrest even spoke at an anti-war rally. He didn't CARE about politics, he was a guy just getting by.
With all due respect, Nemesis never should have been made. The entire premise was faulty and no amount of tweaking would have made it better. I also thought Superman Returns was an excellent film. It could have been cut a bit more in places but overall it was a worthy successor to the first two Reeve films.
LOTR trilogy--do it exactly as they did on the "How it should have ended website"! War of the Worlds (newest version)--once Tom Cruise gets to Boston and delivers the daughter and finds out the son is still alive...after all that...he walks up to his ex-wife and bitch-slaps her!
Fantastic Four - include footage from Mr. Fantastic & the Invisible Girl's honeymoon! (nudge, nudge, wink, wink...say no more).
Mr. Fantastic: Oh baby, have I got a surprise for you...(stretching sound) Mrs. Fantastic: Hey! That's not where that goes! Mr. Fantastic: Well, dammit, turn visible!
Alien Resurrection: Lose the CGI Aliens and go back to the suits. Don't kill off Michael Wincott so early. Reeker: Do something more with the concept then turn it into another 'slasher movie by numbers'. Good idea wasted. Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy: Leave it as a book. Batchelor Party: More amazing scenes of drug fuelled Donkeys.
Years ago, the Beeb did a series of these, with Brian Blessed as Peppone. Usually, I hate adaptations of books I love, but these worked - each story had, IIRC, about 50 minutes. Pity it didn't get a longer run.
Brazil End the movie as Lowry and Jill drive off into the sunset in the truck, instead of returning to Sam in the chair with Hauptman and Jack staring into his vacant eyes. Heh. Okay, so it's just a variation on Paladin's Casablanca ending. [What's that? They already did my version?] Good topic, Clyde, but nothing springs to mind, and I gotta boogie.
Well.... Wash doesn't DIE! Fercryinoutloud! Ahem. Um...where was I? Oh yeah... My memory for a lot of this stuff is not so good but on the more familiar films: 1 Kirk's scream is cheesy - cut it. Or at least make it more of a growl than a yell. 2. Recast Kirk's son. No one in the known universe bought that boi as an offspring of Jim Kirk's loins. 3. Re-cast Savik in ST3. 4. Ditch the pajama uniforms in ST:TMP 5. you see where this is going....
I liked Kirk's yell. And I agree about Wash. Should've been Simon. If anyone's going to drop to the floor of the engine room with Kaylee, it should be me.
It's just too bad "Star Wars" was made back before CGI. That would be so much better a movie if it was faggoted up with lots of pointless CGI.
^That could still happen except George Lucas is completely opposed to changing even the smallest detail of any of his movies. Can't say I blame him, most legitimate artists feel the same way.
First time I saw Tron I thought the movie should've been called Flynn. That or switch character names.
Star Wars I-III: Do everything with models, and cut the stupid jokes. And don't have Anakin build C-3PO. And don't make him a whiny little bitch. [action=mburtonk]goes to find other movies...[/action]
Heat: Cut a lot of Waingro's plot. McCauley has a very convincing reason for wanting to break his personal code to go and kill Waingro--a character who is essentially there as a plot signpost. Unfortunately, the film-makers didn't trust us to follow that, so they added a lot of superfluous stuff to make us hate Waingro. However, since McCauley never knows about that stuff, it's all a bit pointless when considering his motivations. That time would have been better spent tightening the pace or giving more time to Cheritto. SW1-3: Make Vader less whiny. Everything else is window dressing compared to that. LotR:FotR: We went from "Come back! Come back! To Mordor we will take you," to "Give up the Halfling, She-Elf!" Blade Runner: Tidy up the replicant numbers. L.A. Confidential: Exley cuts a deal with Smith at the end. That's far more true to the character of the original book, and the plot of the film. Die Hard: Very slight cut. Reduce the length of the gratuitous shot where Powell shoots Karl. It's important for character development, but it's a little ghoulish to ask us to cheer it--better to focus on Powell than Karl. Also, cops on the ground are portrayed as helpless because they are incompetent. Instead, portray them as highly professional but simply outmanoeuvered, out-planned and out-thought by a superior opponent.
