The other side of film dissonance...

[Silver Moon]

If I live to be 150yrs I'll never understand the appeal of E.T.

What about the scene in it where they are playing D&D? That was probably the largest media exposure that our game has ever received.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

What? The Dungeons and Dragons movie wasn't enough exposure for you?

 

[Silver Moon]

What? The Dungeons and Dragons movie wasn't enough exposure for you?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that a few more people went to see E.T.

And back to the subject of films that critics raved about and I just said "Huh?', I nominate "Chariots of Fire".

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe that a few more people went to see E.T.

Pfft, maybe in your neck of the woods. Around here, you can't swing a cat around without hitting some guy making a Snails reference.

I would lump almost all of Spielberg's films in this category. Steve peaked with Jaws and Close Encounters. The only other film he's made in the last 20 years that I can really say I LOVED unconditionally was Schindler's List. I felt like a better person after seeing that. As for Private Ryan, I'll admit that the action scenes were amazing, but something just doesn't quite come together for me. Maybe it was the cheesy bookend scenes with Old Ryan at the memorial. "Honey, tell me I was a good man." I just wanted to cringe.

 

[Kahuna Burger]

Maybe it was the cheesy bookend scenes with Old Ryan at the memorial. "Honey, tell me I was a good man." I just wanted to cringe.

I did cringe... The only scene in that movie that touched me was the "dog tag poker" and one scene isn't enough to make a movie.

Kahuna Burger

 

[John Crichton]

Pfft, maybe in your neck of the woods. Around here, you can't swing a cat around without hitting some guy making a Snails reference.

Well, if we are talking pure numbers ET has the D&D movie hammered.

I would lump almost all of Spielberg's films in this category. Steve peaked with Jaws and Close Encounters. The only other film he's made in the last 20 years that I can really say I LOVED unconditionally was Schindler's List. I felt like a better person after seeing that. As for Private Ryan, I'll admit that the action scenes were amazing, but something just doesn't quite come together for me. Maybe it was the cheesy bookend scenes with Old Ryan at the memorial. "Honey, tell me I was a good man." I just wanted to cringe.

How about Indy 3 and Jurassic Park? I know the book rocked the movie but it was still a cool flick...

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Well, if we are talking pure numbers ET has the D&D movie hammered.

Yes, but if we adjust for inflation, uh, in Year 2525 A.D. dollars, then D&D will have made more space-dollars than Titanic. If man is still alive and woman survives, of course.

Anyone heard of a Kevin Spacey movie called Hurlyburly? That was just excruciating. To the cat who thought Spacey was hard to empathize with in American Beauty, see this. Everyone in this film is utterly reprehensible, and it's all delivered as this kind of Hollywood-insider-hipster crap that people in Middle America point to as the end of western civilization.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

How about Indy 3 and Jurassic Park? I know the book rocked the movie but it was still a cool flick...

I'm going to go on record as saying that I think Last Crusade was worse than Temple of Doom. And I love Connery. Last Crusade just didn't work for me. And the Hitler thing was just dumb.

Jurassic Park? OK, the dinos were as cool as anything I had imagined from reading the book. Everything else about the movie was just wrong though. The only part I felt they improved on was Ian Malcolm, the chaos theory guru. They made him a good comic voice, as opposed to a know-it-all killjoy like in the book.

 

[John Crichton]

Yes, but if we adjust for inflation, uh, in Year 2525 A.D. dollars, then D&D will have made more space-dollars than Titanic. If man is still alive and woman survives, of course.

That doesn't really jive as Titanic's space-moolah would increase at an equal rate making it still the highest grossing movie for its time.

 

[John Crichton]

I'm going to go on record as saying that I think Last Crusade was worse than Temple of Doom. And I love Connery. Last Crusade just didn't work for me. And the Hitler thing was just dumb.

Wow, that kinda surprises me. I loved all three and am biased beyond arguement so it's best that I stop there.

Jurassic Park? OK, the dinos were as cool as anything I had imagined from reading the book. Everything else about the movie was just wrong though. The only part I felt they improved on was Ian Malcolm, the chaos theory guru. They made him a good comic voice, as opposed to a know-it-all killjoy like in the book.

I was fortunate to not read the book before seeing the movie. Had I, the movie would have been total crap to me. I did read the Lost World before seeing the movie and it totally ruined the experience as the movie never stood a chance. I guess I lucked out by loving the movie then having it blown away by the novel, a trend I try to keep to. Books 99.9% trump their movie counterparts in my eyes. But we already knew that.