Got to watch proper Star Wars with the ironing tonight. Watched the Special Edition updated for DVD version. Enjoyed it much more than Episodes 1, 2 and 3 although Robot Chicken skits kept popping into my head. Like Ponda Baba the architect.
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Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View PostApparently I'm a slow ironer.
Also it has mounted up of late with Mrs Thistle being crocked as she usually does it.
What was this thread about? Oh yeah, have Smokey and the Bandit and Cannonball Run been mentioned yet? My younger self wouldn't forgive me if I didn't say Lassie Come Home.
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Originally posted by Lang Spoon View PostThere's tits in that. Or was that the Pope Must Die? Both utter shite obviously, but to 13 year old me, that was a very good reason to watch a film. Often more than once.
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Like the Only Fools and Horses Christmas special To Hull and Back made the same year, National Lampoons European Vacation to my mind looks really washed out compared to what would come before and after. Maybe I wore the tape out, particularly the scene in Germany where Rusty is preoccupied when the fight breaks out, but although it's daft I love it.
I was delighted when I learned from a website which song Rusty was signing on the train to Italy. "Is it YOUUU? Or is it you? Or you?... It's ME!"
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Well, if we're doing naff 80s films with gratuitous topless scenes, the scene in Purple Rain where The Kid gets Appolonia to purify herself in Lake Minnetonka... that got some hammer at the time, eventually it looked like Prince was making her strip in a snowstorm.
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Originally posted by jwdd27 View PostWell, if we're doing naff 80s films with gratuitous topless scenes, the scene in Purple Rain where The Kid gets Appolonia to purify herself in Lake Minnetonka... that got some hammer at the time, eventually it looked like Prince was making her strip in a snowstorm.
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'The Keep' by Michael Mann and 'Dune' by David Lynch...Two movies that cry out for a 'Final Cut' job, bumped up to the 3h long movies they were before being turned into a mess by the studios.
Still, there are genius moments to be salvaged...
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I loved Dune much later in life, so wasn't too offended by the rainy Arakkis ending, Kyle Mclachlan being not very Paul Atreidis. But it is hella boring. It might make more sense if recut by Lynch, but I don't know if there's any cure trying to translate a book that's half internal monologues that isn't painful and exposition heavy. Maybe if the Giger designed Jodorowsky madness got off the ground something might have happened to make it watchable. Even allowing it being butchered, it's Lynch's least Lynch film. I really dislike the effects and most of the set design. And the white desert warriors. But the Guild Navigators, they did look fantastic.
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The Dune mini-series was a better adaptation (the Fremen look like a desert tribe...) despite the cheapo set/effects (excellent costumes mind). I just have a thing for the Dune universe, the desert aspect, the mysticism and destiny angle, the navigators thinking ships away in space...
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