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Films

I've just watched "The Odd Couple" for the first time in years. Still an absolute classic that had me laughing out loud, from some of the fantastic one-liners thrown in to the excellent performances of Matthau and Lemmon. A Neil Simon classic.
 
Watched A Serious Man by the Coen brothers last night. One of the worst Oscar-nominated films I have ever seen. I loved No Country For Old Men, but this was dire.
 
And the Screen Unseen was War On Everyone, allegedly a comedy; the only redeeming feature were the Glen Campbell songs throughout. Do yourself a favour, buy a copy of Glen Campbell's Greatest Hits and listen to that instead, thus avoiding a load of rather unfunny racial stereotype "jokes" and some other "humour", the punchlines for which you last saw coming over the horizon when you were wearing short trousers. Utter pish.
 
Saw the new Magnificent Seven this afternoon. There's some bits added to the original, there's some bits left out & there's some subtle twists to the original plot. Very interesting to see the film after the trailers where the soundtrack from some parts have been mated to other scenes, so what you think you've seen in the trailers you don't actually see in the film; given the amount of trailers I'd seen I was pleasantly surprised that I hadn't seen the whole film in bits.

Will it replace the original in anyone's affections? Probably not. Was it worth watching? Hell yes; very entertaining for me and for the first time in a while I didn't check my watch during the film.
 
The Magnificent Seven is Lady Doon's favourite film.
We saw it yesterday and her verdict was that is far enough away from the original to be good.

We were interested to hear what they did to the music.......James Horner's work is pretty good.
Well worth seeing IMO.
 
Rented the Stephen King horror film 'Cell' with John Cusack and Sam Jackson Saturday, started oK but went downhill fast to 'turkey' category.......2/10 give it a miss.:angry:
 
I went to see "Jason Bourne" the other day. Typical Bourne Fest but enjoyable nonetheless. I had to be told by the missus to shut up when I pointed out what I saw as glaring plot holes and one of the action scenes went on so long we both actually started laughing but otherwise not too bad. A good fun bit of escapism.
 
Magnificent Seven. Good but not quite great. It so could have been though. Very good cast, they kept it classic western, no nods to modern pc views. Two flaws for me. An iconic moment in the original western was Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen totting up the 7 by raising an extra digit on their fingers each time someone was recruited. No words, just fingers. They didn't do that.

Next, more criminal, the music. Actually THE music. One of the best scores of all time but they didn't use it. They could have updated it, used bits of it, but no. They ignored it and used some generic, forgettable bit of stuff. How could they? Imagine remaking Jaws without throwing in the de de, de de de de, Star Wars without Darth Vaders death march. In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, "big mistake, big, huge".

Go to see it though, still good.
 
Anyone seen The Girl With All The Gifts. Really enjoyed the book so am interested to hear what the film is like
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Magnificent Seven. Good but not quite great. It so could have been though. Very good cast, they kept it classic western, no nods to modern pc views. Two flaws for me. An iconic moment in the original western was Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen totting up the 7 by raising an extra digit on their fingers each time someone was recruited. No words, just fingers. They didn't do that.

Next, more criminal, the music. Actually THE music. One of the best scores of all time but they didn't use it. They could have updated it, used bits of it, but no. They ignored it and used some generic, forgettable bit of stuff. How could they? Imagine remaking Jaws without throwing in the de de, de de de de, Star Wars without Darth Vaders death march. In the words of Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman, "big mistake, big, huge".

Go to see it though, still good.
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Didn't stay until the end then? ;) They did use it, but only over the end credits, which personally I liked; if they use it all the way through they get accused of just copying, take the slightly more difficult route of changing it & risk getting panned was braver and in keeping with the other changes I felt, but each to their own. :thup:

Free State of Jones was interesting, good but dragged on a bit.

Deepwater Horizon was excellent and was one where the end credits caught us by surprise, which is always a good sign I feel.
 
Watched The Girl On The Train last night. Not read the book so can't compare.

Not as good as Gone Girl but a good watch nevertheless.
 
I did stay to the end as I wanted to check out the names of some of the actors. 20 seconds of iconic music used over the closing titles doesn't count in my eyes. I wanted it as they were galloping over the range, sweeping vistas etc. I didn't expect them to use the exact same music but I did think they would use the gist of it in an updated score. Have the key notes and chords underlying the new music. Enough to send a shiver down your spine.

I thought they did the rest of the film brilliantly by not copying the original step by step. I just love that music, it is my phone ringtone, and it just would have elevated the film to another level. Of course, each to their own as you say. (incidentally, there could be some great follow up films with the characters that survived. I will not name any, spoiler, but the opportunities are there and I would pay to see them)
 
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