Never seen Six Days Seven Nights, so I didn't think it would be fair to mention.
And I rather liked Cowboys & Aliens. It's by far the best western flick I've ever seen in the theater. And make no mistake, in tone and pacing and feel it is very much a western that just happens to have aliens. Which may be why so many people didn't care for it.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:15 am
by Troy
Another good book that I picked up for the road is "The Forever War". There are some significant similarities. It is available on kindle cloud reader, and is just darn good science fiction.
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Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:17 am
by GORDON
Regarding Henry is a good movie, and there was nothing wrong with Cowboys & Aliens.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 11:18 am
by GORDON
What is it with this thread and derails? First there is hating on Orson Scott Card, and now Harrison Ford.
There's a book and movie called Ender's Game. Discuss.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 12:21 pm
by TPRJones
Good book. Hollywood will screw up the movie.
Posted: Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:56 pm
by GORDON
I am 99% sure they will screw it up. However, I was 99% sure they would screw up Lord of the Rings, and they did, but it was still awesome.
I will cling to that 1% of hope until it is time to let it go.
Nice that they gave away the ending right there in the trailer.
Why in the fuck do these asshole idiots do that.
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:39 pm
by Malcolm
Calling "spoiler" on a book that's been out for how many decades?
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 6:43 pm
by GORDON
I can count on one hand the number of people i know who have read it, and most of those are people on this forum. In fact, i dont think i know anyone i know irl that have read it.
And there was the big shocking ending, right there in the trailer.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:08 pm
by Malcolm
If they don't know it's the ending, they won't know the difference ... until they pay full price for theatre admission.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:23 pm
by TheCatt
Yeah, I dont think it's a spoiler if you don't know better.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:32 pm
by GORDON
Ehhhhhhh.
I tend to remember things I see in trailers, and during the movie I will wonder when that scene is coming up, and then, in a sense, it is a spoiler. In Iron Man 3 I knew the suits were going to show up and save the day. I knew the house was going to blow up. My wife had LOTR: TT spoiled for her because the trailer showed fucking Gandalf alive and wearing white.
There were a couple trailers before IM3 that I said to myself, "They just showed the ending..." One was for Fast & Furious 6, (which granted, I will never watch, even though now I know that at the end a big ass tank comes out of the back of a semi on the highway and starts fucking shit up, and there is a dramatic moment when a chick gets whipped through the air and she is caught by our hero and saved), and... what was that other movie........
I don't remember. It was something, but it looked like they gave away the entire story plus the end in the trailer. of course I could be wrong, and that was a trickfuck.... but odds are, these idiot assholes do that to get asses in seats. And I don't like it.
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:43 pm
by Malcolm
I've read a few studies that show spoilers increase cinematic enjoyment. Yes, really.
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Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:44 pm
by Troy
That's a really bad trailer.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 7:51 pm
by TPRJones
Can't get it to play for some reason, stupid YouTube. But I will in general side with GORDON on this one. I usually forget so it's no big deal for me, but I hate it when the marketing assholes give away the game. If they marketed The Sixth Sense the way they do these movies these days, the trailer would include Bruce Willis realizing he's been dead the whole time.
I do like it when I think it's been ruined and then I find out it was a fakeout, where they twisted it to make it misleadingly appear to be the climax when in fact it was emphatically not. But that is rare, because marketing wonks are too stupid to pull that off without expert help.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 8:14 pm
by Leisher
If they marketed The Sixth Sense the way they do these movies these days, the trailer would include Bruce Willis realizing he's been dead the whole time.
Ha!
Apparently, I was immune to the "mystery" of that trailer.
Wasn't I Gordo?
And both points being argued are valid.
-Marketing guys suck.
-People who didn't know it was a spoiler would have had the movie spoiled by Gordon.
Posted: Tue May 07, 2013 9:19 pm
by GORDON
Leisher wrote:
If they marketed The Sixth Sense the way they do these movies these days, the trailer would include Bruce Willis realizing he's been dead the whole time.
Ha!
Apparently, I was immune to the "mystery" of that trailer.
Wasn't I Gordo?
And both points being argued are valid.
-Marketing guys suck.
-People who didn't know it was a spoiler would have had the movie spoiled by Gordon.
Yeah, Leisher guessed it ahead of time and shared. And you KNOW that's one of the worst movies to have spoilered in like the last 25 years