Red Mosquito

Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Besides Jurassic Park, is there a film series or franchise out there for which everyone agrees that the first movie is the best of the lot, hands down? I have never, ever heard anyone try to make the case that any of the other JP films come close to sniffing the original.

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Matrix

JuanHamm wrote:JP 2 and 3 really aren't that bad, especially compared to the JW movies.

Really it would be impossible to replicate the sense of wonder that made JP so special.

bart wrote:I read the Lost World the day it came out, thought “wow what an obvious lazy money grab,” went and saw the movie a few months later and thought “wow actually the book wasn’t so bad.”

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Besides Jurassic Park, is there a film series or franchise out there for which everyone agrees that the first movie is the best of the lot, hands down? I have never, ever heard anyone try to make the case that any of the other JP films come close to sniffing the original.

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Matrix

tragabigzanda wrote:

Jorge wrote:Did anyone watch that movie Crawl from a few years ago, where these people get caught in a hurricane and there's a massive flood and there's alligators everywhere?

Yeah Anders has seen it 108 times

Jorge wrote:Jaws

VinylGuy wrote:The first three of Die Hard are great and the fourth one is fun enough.

The last one is a piece of shit

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Besides Jurassic Park, is there a film series or franchise out there for which everyone agrees that the first movie is the best of the lot, hands down? I have never, ever heard anyone try to make the case that any of the other JP films come close to sniffing the original.

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Matrix

blueviper wrote:I’ve see the first Jurassic World movie to know this was going the way of the fast and the furious.


JP 1 seemed to be the most realistic of the series. Nothing too nuts, well except for dinosaurs.

The trailer for this latest World movie has unrealistic cycle chases, and a character doing an impossible leap from building top to building top. Of course she probably runs from it like nothing happens.

I’m waiting for a velociraptor to take control of a car and chase the main characters off the top of a parking garage , fight in mid air, then crash into a skyscraper and still get up and continue a fight.

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Besides Jurassic Park, is there a film series or franchise out there for which everyone agrees that the first movie is the best of the lot, hands down? I have never, ever heard anyone try to make the case that any of the other JP films come close to sniffing the original.

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Matrix

Planet of the Apes
The Godfather

That’s not to say the sequels are garbage or anything.

Anders wrote:

wease wrote:

tragabigzanda wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Besides Jurassic Park, is there a film series or franchise out there for which everyone agrees that the first movie is the best of the lot, hands down? I have never, ever heard anyone try to make the case that any of the other JP films come close to sniffing the original.

Beverly Hills Cop
Die Hard
The Matrix

Planet of the Apes
The Godfather

That’s not to say the sequels are garbage or anything.

Both The Godfather and The Godfather Part 2 is in the running for the best movie ever.

Planet Of The Apes is a very good one.