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Nobody mentioning the entire scenes from ANTR replicated almost exactly in Titantic?
I just watched them back to back. I used to think Cameron is a very original writer/director but there is obvious plagiarism here in multiple places.
Edwards explaining the ‘mathematical certainty’, she’ll sink, the ice on deck football (soccer) scene, the ‘there’s another lifeboat for daddies over there’ scene.
I’m ignoring some other identical scenes which are probably more down to historical record “iceburg dead ahead”, when the lifeboats were tied together and questioning whether they would be swamped, but the cinematography is also identical and didn’t need to be.
It seems incredibly lazy of Cameron just to lift these scenes out words and all. I know he’s said he was a fan of ANTR. Sure he was, it must have saved him hours of writing time.
I think this film shows the military coping too well. In the first two movies it looks like the world has been overcome. Few humans left, no aircraft in the skies. And yet here we have a military coping and understanding the enemy. I can’t imagine how it went from this to Armageddon.
There was another British comedy from the 1970s and 80s called Last of the Summer Wine. This reminds me a lot of that. It was fairly slow paced too and about the day to day happenings of three male friends. The comedy comes from knowing the characters so well that you can predict what they will do in a certain situation. And the running jokes. It also shows the eccentricity of people which is really interesting to watch.
I’m not recommending that other show, it’s probably terribly dated now.
Saying the film is finished after the acting part is over is too simplistic. All of the editing, sound effects, score etc is done later. I don’t pretend to know how much each part would take for a film like this but the Marty scenes would only represent a small part of the total time, budget etc.
Maybe the Doc has managed to send his whole lab back in time but the final task is miniaturising it and sending living things? It seems unlikely that the first ever time he’s used his Time Machine is with Einstein aboard. You would send objects first.
Me too. You know it’s psychological torture don’t you? We don’t know what the production crew were telling them off camera. The whole thing is a pressure cooker and I think for people to get emotional is understandable. You live in the 2020s, accept it. Plus some of the emotion was acting to get sympathy and sway the voting.
I think they should have kept the songs to an era. To have it all over the decades just made it like any other soundtrack. This film lost some of the good hooks that the other two did.
Not even Best Donkey?
Ireland still has those little cottages but a lot aren’t lived in. You are more likely to see a bigger house built in the last 20 years built behind them on the same plot of land.
In the sequel they join the Avengers.
I liked it. Highly original and centred on the characters, not CGI Marvel crap.
I wish they hadn’t called it a black hole. It’s basically a ‘rip in space/time’ isn’t it. If they called it the rip, or the anomaly then it can just sit there next to earth and their laughable science works because hey it’s not something we know the science of.
Risky Business is definitely a comedy.
Yes my 12 and 14 y.o. thought it was great. They had watched the original.
Fantastic
They feed liquified dead people to the living people.
Yes this is what I thought too. It’s very funny that with the world about to end she is so hung up on that and tells everyone she meets.
I think it was more of a comment on the bureaucracy of the UN will always mean they are too late to be effective. They had 6 months and they attempted to launch just a few days before impact.
I think that guy was trying to get into her pants.
On a serious note, why did “The Life of Adele” become “Blue is the warmest colour” in the UK/USA? That second title is a bit rubbish if you ask me.