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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Right chaps and chappettes, I've finally decided to embark on a mission to watch all the HARRY POTTER films. I never read the books, nor do I intend to, but succumbing to a polite request issued by the girl of my dreams, I decided to at the very least give the films a try. So, here we go:

    HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

    Not a bad film, this one. I must say I'm deeply impressed by the cast, the score (it's Williams, why wouldn't I be?) and the visuals. The story's fine, just difficult for me to get into. I'm more of a Science Fiction kinda guy and much less of a fantasy lover though I can always dig a wee bit of Tolkien (films, not the books, haven't the time nor the desire to read those.)

    So yes, it's a good film and I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more Potter.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    Right chaps and chappettes, I've finally decided to embark on a mission to watch all the HARRY POTTER films. I never read the books, nor do I intend to, but succumbing to a polite request issued by the girl of my dreams, I decided to at the very least give the films a try. So, here we go:

    HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER'S STONE

    Not a bad film, this one. I must say I'm deeply impressed by the cast, the score (it's Williams, why wouldn't I be?) and the visuals. The story's fine, just difficult for me to get into. I'm more of a Science Fiction kinda guy and much less of a fantasy lover though I can always dig a wee bit of Tolkien (films, not the books, haven't the time nor the desire to read those.)

    So yes, it's a good film and I'm certainly looking forward to seeing more Potter.

    While not perfect, I consider the Harry Potter series the finest film series ever. From the first film to the last the quality of every aspect of filmmaking is top notch. It does a wonderful job of letting the view watch the young scat mature and presenting gripping drama in a fantastic setting.

  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @DarthDimi, you are only just starting a cinematic journey that literally shaped my entire childhood from age eight onwards. The Potter films are a highly unique set, because like absolutely nothing else out there, you get to watch the same kids age from children to adults over 10 years, and that's just special. I think the quality of the films decline over time, around number 5 (the worst of the bunch for me), and they wallow in too much hormonal drama near the end, but overall a damn fine set, especially the first four.

    Philosopher's and Chamber of Secrets are for my money the closest to the feeling of the books, as they perfectly replicate the feeling of magic and fantasy that's in the text. From Azkaban onwards the films grow away from that feeling, I think, but maybe that's because I saw the first two as a nascent, wide eyed child and it's all nostalgia talking. I dunno.

    I'll always have a smile on my face when I think of Potter, because they were the books that got me into reading, Harry, Ron and Hermione were my first role models/heroes, and the stories taught me a lot of important lessons that molded me into who I am today. Without the series, I wouldn't be the same person.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989). In my personal Top 10 favorite movies. THE adventure film for me.
  • talos7talos7 New Orleans
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    Great film.
  • 001001
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    cooperman2 wrote: »
    Once upon a time in the west is often cited by critics as Leone's masterpiece, but for me the Dollars trilogy beats

    Sorry only half a post there. The Dollars trilogy beats Once upon a time hands down for me. Best of the three...For a few dollars more especially the late great Van Cleef. What charisma that guy had

    Mod edit: @cooperman2, please use the EDIT button and avoid double posting. Thank you.

    I don't like Once upon a time in the west. It's boring.Stuff the critics........
    I agree , The Dollars trilogy does beat Once upon a time and any other leone film hands down.

    The 3 films are great and it's hard to choose the best one.
  • GerardGerard
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    "Don Camillo Monsignore... Ma Non Troppo" Not the best of the series (that would be the first two movies), but still funny.

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  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, Wow, you really set me on fire for that series now! :) I've struck a deal with myself: one film per day so... I'll keep you guys posted here. HP&PS was a good start for sure! :) Thanks for the encouragement, friend. :-)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @DarthDimi, I look forward to your thoughts on each. Chamber is a crazy, epic ride, and I hope you get a kick out of it.
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
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    Independence Day: Resurgence (2016)

    Oh dear. Thank god Jeff Goldblum and his dad were in the film.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @DaltonCraig007, I was listening to a review of the movie, and when, in the spoilers section, they tried to do a summary of the plot, I was lost in a fit of laughter.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    Liam Hemsworth being in the movie tells me all I need to know about it.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @Creasy47, I'm sorry, I only know him as "the Hemsworth that isn't Chris." ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, which podcast was that?
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7, which podcast was that?

    @DarthDimi, it was the review of the amazing ComicBookGirl19. Here's a link to the video:

  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thank you, sir. Incidentally,

    I just watched HARRY POTTER AND THE CHAMBER OF SECRETS

    Great film, this. Like a roller-coaster ride of magic. I love the cast and the effects. Sheer magic indeed.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    @DarthDimi, I'm glad you enjoyed it! That's the movie that cemented my absolute love for John Williams early on. It includes my favorite piece of music from the series and in movie composition in general, entitled "Reunion of Friends."



    It plays during the ending scene where
    Hagrid returns to Hogwarts and the staff and students all toast him.
    It's a track that instantly takes me back to being a kid again, so enamored with the world of Harry Potter and feeling so connected to a bunch of characters I didn't even know, but felt like I was the best of friends with. Truly a magical film, and probably my favorite of the eight movies, hands down, for the magic, the moments, the music, and especially because it's the final movie the incomparable Richard Harris starred in. What a master, and the epitome of everything a big screen Dumbledore should be.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    THE NAKED FACE (1984) , written and directed by Bryan Forbes. An overall weak and generic murder mystery, with a score and the cinematographery that evokes a television production. It is a treat to see Roger Moore (the lead as a psychologist) in a period sandwiched between OP and AVTAK (and he looks better here than in either of those). And it's also nice to see Rog To share screen time with such legendary and accomplished professionals as Rod Stieger, Eliot Gould (who phones it in) and Art Carney. I was surprised that Roger held his own. Not to mention, we get to see Moore and David Hedison together one more time. Overall an amusement, nothing more.
    "Bastards!"
    I agree. It's good to see Moore play it serious, and quite differently from his normal fare (he probably realized the Bond gig was coming to an end shortly and wanted to try to branch out), but the film was only just average imho. Very tv-like and I didn't like the repetitive score at all.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7,
    I need your help man, concerning The Prisoner Of Azkaban.
    At the start of the movie, Pa Weasley refers to when Happy defeated Voldemort 13 years ago. That's the part I don't understand. Wouldn't Harry have been a baby 13 years before? Or did I miss something in the first film?

    Thanks, mate.
  • Lancaster007Lancaster007 Shrublands Health Clinic, England
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    @BrtadyM)Bondfanatic7, Voldermort tried to kill Harry, but the curse backfired and Voldemort was no more! That's how Harry, indeed a babe-in-arms 'defeated' Tom Riddle.
  • JohnHammond73JohnHammond73 Lancashire, UK
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    Just realised I posted this in the wrong thread.
    Had a watch of a few 70-'s disaster type movies recently.

    Airport
    Airport '75
    Earthquake
    Rollercoaster

    Continuing with the 70's theme, I've also watched The Omega Man and Soylent Green. Good stuff.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    TAKEN

    My fourth viewing or so. It is a damn fine action thriller that didn t need any sequel.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    GET CARTER (1971)
    Love this thriller, Director and writer Mike Hodges did a great shop on this. Michael Caine is brilliant as Jack Carter. Avoid the atrocious remake with Stallone!
  • jake24jake24 Sitting at your desk, kissing your lover, eating supper with your familyModerator
    edited July 2016 Posts: 10,591
    Thunderfinger wrote: »
    TAKEN

    My fourth viewing or so. It is a damn fine action thriller that didn t need any sequel.

    Definitely. The sequels got progressively worse with each outing, and tainted what could have been a great legacy.
  • Mathis1Mathis1
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    Oops, just re-read my post. Meant to say "job" not "shop"!! Cant understand why they wanted to remake Get Carter. Bizarre decision! The only reason to do a remake would be to improve on the original. There was no improving on Hodges film!
    Must mention the music by Roy Budd. Great theme!
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

    Wow, is it the best in the series? For me it's certainly the best of the first three. Fascinating dark ride, this. My only beef is that Rowling takes so much from other properties. We all know the name Harry Potter was stolen, no matter what she claims. And the Dementors bear an uncanny resemblance to Tolkien's Nazgûl IMO. I still liked them, though. Williams is on fire once more.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    HARRY POTTER AND THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN

    Wow, is it the best in the series? For me it's certainly the best of the first three. Fascinating dark ride, this. My only beef is that Rowling takes so much from other properties. We all know the name Harry Potter was stolen, no matter what she claims. And the Dementors bear an uncanny resemblance to Tolkien's Nazgûl IMO. I still liked them, though. Williams is on fire once more.

    Good film. My favorites of the series are Deathly Hallows Pt. 2, Prisoner of Azkaban, and Goblet of Fire.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7,
    I need your help man, concerning The Prisoner Of Azkaban.
    At the start of the movie, Pa Weasley refers to when Happy defeated Voldemort 13 years ago. That's the part I don't understand. Wouldn't Harry have been a baby 13 years before? Or did I miss something in the first film?

    Thanks, mate.

    @DarthDimi, I'm happy to help. The lore of the story goes like this (minus later revelations/spoilers):
    Harry's parents were heavily involved in the movement to defeat Voldemort and his Death Eater soldiers, and after a series of conflicts with him and those forces, they were driven into hiding in a secret home of theirs at Godric's Hollow for a very specific reason, where their primary purpose was to protect Harry at all costs. One dark night, Voldemort was able to locate them, came into their house and killed both James and Lily with the killing curse. As he came upon baby Harry in his crib to deliver the same killing curse, however, the spell mysteriously backfired on him, and destroyed him instead of Harry, leaving only a lightning bolt scar on the child's forehead.

    As Harry grew up isolated from the wizarding world, his name was unknowingly becoming legend, as he was the only wizard to survive a killing curse, and against the most dangerous wizard of the age, in Voldemort. This is why, as he grows up and travels to the wizarding world for the first time, everyone is so amazed by him, and call him "The Boy Who Lived." He's the great survivor. It's so tantalizing and fascinating for wizards and witches to see him in the flesh because why Harry survived the curse is a great mystery, making him almost mythic in the eyes of his people.

    Following Voldemort's run in with Harry as a baby, he had no physical form for a long time, and so he went in search of one, which is why he eventually chose Quarrel as a host from Philosopher's Stone, enabling him to face Harry again.

    Why all of this is will be revealed to you later. ;)
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    Thank you, @Lancaster007 and @0BradyM0Bondfanatic7. That was helpful indeed, chaps. :)
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited July 2016 Posts: 28,694
    @DarthDimi, glad you liked Azkaban too! I hear from many, many people all the time who say that one is their favorite. I think part of the reason why that may be is because it takes a breather from the Voldemort storyline/arc and gives us a look into Harry's past and that of his parents, as well as their own allies when they were in Hogwarts.

    As for the Dementors, the creation of them is interesting. There's plenty of great documentaries out there featuring Rowling where she goes into her influences and what events shaped the books as she wrote them. One of these such features was made just as she was coming to the end of the books, I think, and she shared how the creation of the Dementors came about.

    The whole reason Rowling began writing the books in the first place was because she had children with a man who later abandoned her, and she began Potter as a way to try and take care of her and her kids above all else. Her messy situation with her then husband obviously led to a great period of depression and struggle for her, which shaped parts of Azkaban. She made the Dementors a physical manifestation of what her depression felt like at that time, adding into the story ghostly figures that come upon the characters and suck away all their happiness. A beautiful and tragic detail in the Harry Potter lore, and Rowling's own life. She's a helluva strong woman.

    I look forward to hearing your thoughts on Goblet of Fire. This is where the Potter series starts to really get darker. This film is one hell of a ride, with Harry in the center of a great set of trials, literally and figuratively.
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