Box Office 2014

[GNG]

I'm sorry, but you can't refuse to watch a movie and then bitch and moan that it's not original. Rise of the Planet of The Apes was indisputably original and explored extremely different themes and allegories than the other POAs. Dismissing the movie because it's a sequel is more destructive to original ideas than not seeing it.

Some of the best and most important movies ever were sequels (Aliens, The Godfather: Part 2, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade). If critics and the general public demonstrably love a movie, what should the fact it is a sequel have to do with anything?

Some sequels are good but most of them blow chunks.

 

[HammerDown]

I'm a big western fan, and to me the last good, original western was Open Range. They did a good job on remaking True Grit, but being a big John Wayne fan, it just wasn't the same. I don't consider Cowboys vs Aliens or A Million Ways to Die in the West westerns.

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LN0iLJanD30]Open Range Bar Scene HD - YouTube[/ame]

Open Range is fabulous. You liked Broken Trail too, I assume. One of the best in quite awhile.

 

[Dolemite censored]

I'm a big western fan, and to me the last good, original western was Open Range. They did a good job on remaking True Grit, but being a big John Wayne fan, it just wasn't the same. I don't consider Cowboys vs Aliens or A Million Ways to Die in the West westerns.

The Sergio Leone westerns were very good to excellent.

Once Upon a Time in the West and Good, Bad and Ugly are among the top 20 all-time westerns.

Once Upon a Time in the West was not very successful at the box office but was a superior movie.

 

[Smart]

I was talking about the total cost, not just admittance to a movie. $10.50 is the average non matinee price. Add to that a drink & whatever, you are easily over $20.

Most of the time, I only go to the movies to watch them in IMAX 3D. Big epic movies like the Hobbit or comic book movies. That's usually around $17 bucks for a ticket.

That's still way too much. I can get a ticket plus popcorn (with refill) and soda (with refill) for $14 bucks at my local cinema. And my local cinema is much, much nicer than you average megaplex.

AMC and Regal are completely overpriced and unwatchable. Century is the only big chain company I'll go to, and they'll be too expensive once I can't get the student discount anymore.

 

[Dolemite censored]

Peckinpah's Wild Bunch has to be one of the top 5 all time.

 

[Chewbaccer]

How about "Unforgiven"?

I love the movie, but I thought it was released around 20 years ago?

 

[Dolemite censored]

I don't consider Cowboys vs Aliens or A Million Ways to Die in the West westerns.

Total trash.

 

[HammerDown]

Peckinpah's Wild Bunch has to be one of the top 5 all time.

Ballad of Cable Hogue and Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia are my two favorites from Peckinpah.

 

[Smart]

The fives I recommended with RT Critic and Public Fresh %:

The Lego Movie (96%, 88%)
X-Men: DOFP (92%, 93%)
22 Jump Street (85%, 85%)
Dawn of POA (91%, 92%)
Edge of Tomorrow (90%, 91%)

Dismissing these as bad or unoriginal movies without watching them just doesn't make sense. Nearly everyone that watches them loves them. Captain America is the top grossing movie, and while I was in the heavy minority, it was (89%, 94%). So people have loved the popular movies this year. The problem is something other than movie quality.

 

[GNG]

I liked this one....


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1l3TboL5MI]Low Down Yankee Liar - Shane (7/8) Movie CLIP (1953) HD - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Dolemite censored]

Ballad of Cable Hogue and Bring me the Head of Alfredo Garcia are my two favorites from Peckinpah.

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was genius.

Carrying around that stinkin head was hilarious.

 

[Chewbaccer]

Open Range Bar Scene HD - YouTube

Open Range is fabulous. You liked Broken Trail too, I assume. One of the best in quite awhile.

I actually haven't seen Broken Trail. I've been wanting to, but just haven't got around to it yet.

 

[Chewbaccer]

The Sergio Leone westerns were very good to excellent.

Once Upon a Time in the West and Good, Bad and Ugly are among the top 20 all-time westerns.

Once Upon a Time in the West was not very successful at the box office but was a superior movie.

Both are great movies, but I'm far from a movie expert, I'm not knowledgeable on directors, producers or writers or anything like that.

 

[outofyourmind]

at the Cinemark Theater they are having previews for old movies like:
Willie Wonka
Pretty Woman
Breakfast Club
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Beverly Hills Cop


Are you kidding me.
Who pays money to go see those fucking movies.
They have to be desperate

 

[Davis_Mike]

at the Cinemark Theater they are having previews for old movies like:
Willie Wonka
Pretty Woman
Breakfast Club
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Beverly Hills Cop


Are you kidding me.
Who pays money to go see those fucking movies.
They have to be desperate

I'd pay a dollar to see BHC or WW in a theater if they also had deals at the concession stand.

 

[Dolemite censored]

This:

 

[Chewbaccer]

at the Cinemark Theater they are having previews for old movies like:
Willie Wonka
Pretty Woman
Breakfast Club
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Beverly Hills Cop


Are you kidding me.
Who pays money to go see those fucking movies.
They have to be desperate

When I was in Valdosta for about 6 months they had a dollar theater that showed old movies.

It was pretty cool. Pay 1.07 to go see Smokey and the Bandit again.

 

[GNG]

I love the movie, but I thought it was released around 20 years ago?

A great movie....


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B5lFuTUhso]Great movie moments - Unforgiven 1992 - YouTube[/ame]

 

[HammerDown]

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia was genius.

Carrying around that stinkin head was hilarious.

That movie was a reflection of everything mentally ill, alcoholic and drug-addicted about Sam Peckinpah and Warren Oates was sheer fucking brilliance. About time to watch it again.

 

[Davis_Mike]

You guys are killing me with all the old westerns. I now have a craving to spend this weekend watching a marathon of westerns instead of doing some projects around the house.