Comments by "Serai3" (@Serai3) on "WatchMojo.com" channel.

  1. +David Presley Go home, comrade. Putie's got your rubles and vodka waiting.
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  2. LOL. Wow. Okay, whatever floats you boat, dude.
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  3. Says who? Their "job" can be whatever, so they certainly CAN show more of the clips. And if they'd listen to their viewers, they WOULD.
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  4. It's "Mein Herr", not "My Hair". "Jumpin' Jive", not "Jump and Dive". And where's "Me Ol' Bamboo" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang??
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  5. Yeah, that's what a lot of Tolkien readers were saying when JACKSON was making his films. A cheap horror director with no famous film to his name? OMG NOOOOOO. And look what we got. So how about holding off on the whining until you know if there's something to ACTUALLY WHINE ABOUT?
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  6. +playermartin286 Why? Who says the story can't be told again? Most classic stories are reinterpreted over and over again. How many times has Hamlet been filmed? Or Pride and Prejudice? Or Jane Eyre? Tolkien deserves to be remade many times just as much as any other great author. I'd LOVE to see multiple reinterpretations of LOTR. How about a grim and dark battle movie? Or a small, black-and-white indie version that never actually shows any of the battles at all? There could be a romantic version that concentrates on the love stories, or a madcap song-and-dance version a la Baz Luhrmann. Bring 'em on, the more the merrier!
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  7. +Walter Shmitty Watching it, I'm struck by how graceful the interaction between those two actors was. They did this amazing emotional dance, without any missteps. A testament not just to their talent, but also to a great director and editor.
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  8. Coolartist1110 We all do.  He was such a sweet and lovely soul.
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  9. Hopkins does not get the last line of Silence of the Lambs, Jodie Foster does. It's her breathless, paralyzed "Dr. Lecter?" that really sells the jokiness of Hopkin's line and reminds us that he really is going to eat that guy. (He was being witty, but he wasn't joking.) Without it, the movie would have lost its darkness at the last second, which would have acted against the overall tone of the film. Clarice was always what made Lecter believable - it was their interplay that was so stunningly successful. Without her to accept him, he would have come off as overacted and arch. But her eyes show us without doubt that he's not funny, not funny at all. (Jonathan Demme's signature of having actors play into the camera was especially revealing in this film, since we keep seeing these two as they see each other.) Only our distance can make him seem amusing - stand next to him and he'll turn his hawk eyes on you and you will suddenly be prey, and Jodie is our link to that. Such is the power of great chemistry between artists.
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  10. Yes, but it was McFerrin's version that was the massive hit.
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  11. Yep. Gimme Adam and the Ants or the Eurythmics over any of the cookie-cutter hacks pumping out yawnhits today.
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  12. So what do you want, parades?
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  13. It sounded great when Dr. Frankenstein sang it!
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  14. ***** Oh dude, GET ON IT.  It's the best film he ever made, and yes, I'm including Blazing Saddles.  (And I'm REALLY a fan of that one, by the way.) YF is more nuanced, more sure of itself, and way more clever.  It's the peak of Brooksian humor, in my view.  I never get tired of it.
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  15. ***** Oh yeah.  I saw all the big Brooks hits in the theaters when they came out.  I adore those films.  High Anxiety was great too, though that one didn't work quite so well on me since I've never been into Hitchcock, so I imagine a lot of jokes flew right past me.  But those movies were so crazily, happily insane.  (Plus, Cloris Leachman is a GODDESS.)
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  16. Dark Star is an inspiration for film students everywhere. Incredible how good it was at the same time as being almost horrifyingly cheap. Take a look at the spacesuits - those are muffin tins on the front. And of course, that alien. It's proof that the story is what counts, not the money. (Also, it's a beautiful homage to 2001.)
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  17. No, she ruined the moments just as much as this guy does. And let's remember that NEITHER of them are at fault - it's the WRITERS who pull this shit.
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  18. Apparently, no one here can extrapolate from Tolkien's stating that golden hair was almost exclusively found only in the Vanyar and those directly descended from them, like Galadriel. Everyone else had dark hair. Thus, since Legolas is in no way related to any of the Vanyar, he has dark hair. QED.
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  19. Oh, for FUCK'S SAKE. Where did this idea that a story can only be filmed ONCE come from? How many times has Hamlet been filmed? Pride and Prejudice? Jane Eyre? The stories from the Bible? It's fucking ridiculous to say Tolkien shouldn't be filmed again just because you liked Jackson's version. Of course it should be made again! The gods know we've had enough fucking Batman films, for instance. Why can't we have another version of LOTR? There are SO MANY THINGS that could be done with it. I'm loving the idea of seeing someone else's version. (And most of YOU guys were whining when JACKSON was making his version, so grow up.)
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  20. Where's All the President's Men? Or Frost/Nixon? Shattered Glass? What's with the WW2 fetish?
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  21. BigK0003 Oh, right.  Amazing how sloppy people can be.  I'd have at least asked, "This is (director guy) we're talking about, right?"
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  22. I thought that would be #1.
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  23. lurch321 I was honestly surprised at how well he did.  I mean, crap, that was an incredibly complicated script.  There were a lot of overlapping emotional through-lines happening there.  That he managed to keep and maintain them separate was impressive, I thought.  The guy's got more than people give him credit for.  Did you see the one where he played a gigolo?  Very good performance, more subtle than he normally does.
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  24. Patsy W   It got pooh-poohed by critics when it came out, but it's since then that it's acquired a reputation for being OMG AWFUL.  I think it's because it's such a hellaciously complex story that most people's brains give out trying to follow it.  Doesn't make it a bad movie, though, LOL.
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  25. Lisa Mccall Got to see them live here in L.A back in the 80's.  OMG SO HOT.  The Boomtown Rats opened for them, too.  Good times!
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  26. He especially hated how Kubrick turned Wendy from a strong, protective presence to a whining ball of tears and snot. I love Shelley Duvall, but I gotta agree with King. They really massacred that character. It's a shame, too, because she was such a great foil for Jack in the book, she held her own against him and won.
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  27. Oh, and I would have substituted Dick Van Dyke's "Me Old Bamboo" (from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang) for the one from Mary Poppins. It's better choreographed and more physically impressive.
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  28. MsBamafanatic It's one of the few movies where his basic oddness makes the character seem MORE ordinary instead of less.  Don't know how he did that, but it was lovely. 
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  29. It got panned at the time by some because it was so different from 2001. I thought it was AWESOME. The only thing I would have changed was in the slingshot sequence - I would have had all the exterior shots be completely SILENT, as they would be in reality. Not only would it have been more accurate, it would have been WAY more effective when they cut to the interior of the ship where everything as SO LOUD OMG because of the maneuver. But other than that, yeah - it kicks major ass, that movie.
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  30. See Craig Ferguson for why criticizing Connery's accent in Red October is so futile.
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  31. Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure:  "They get better." The Princess Bride:  "As you wish." And yo, a little clarity.  With half of these, I had no clear idea WHICH line was supposed to be the last.
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  32. "It's not every day that someone has the c-bomb dropped on them five times in as many seconds." It is in Ireland.
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  33. What a childish comment.
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  34. Jesus, do any of you READ? The reason Fear and Loathing starts with that line is that THE BOOK STARTS WITH THAT LINE. So does A Clockwork Orange - the line "There was me, Alex..." is the first line in the book. I haven't read High Fidelity, but I'll bet that book starts with the movie intro, too. The Body, Stephen King's story that was the basis for Stand By Me, ALSO starts with the same line as the movie.
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  35. More faithful but not as good in cinematic terms. That's the problem with adaptation - faithfulness does not necessarily translate to quality. No book can ever reach the screen unchanged, whether in small ways or large. They're two different media with different requirements.
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  36. Also, Android with Klaus Kinski. One of the best films I've seen about AI. Very small independent, one of those movies that proves the script is the point, not the money. Check it out.
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  37. +Janina Klopfer His voice is not particularly memorable. It's nice, but it's not iconic.
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  38. Jesus Christ, who pissed in your Cheerios?
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  39. Yeah, especially since it happened TWICE. It speaks to his arrogance that despite being a devout Catholic, he told himself that god just didn't like that take.
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  40.  @jean-baptistegrenouille1431  Indeed, one could say all the members of the Fellowship were heroes in one way or another. What's really weird is when people have this idea that somehow Sam could have done what Frodo couldn't, which is the worst kind of nonsense. Sam would never have volunteered for the Quest in the first place, and he certainly couldn't have taken the Ring all the way to Mordor and destroyed it. After all, Tolkien's whole point was that nobody could have done it - The Ring was simply too powerful for anyone other than Sauron to wield it. It would have bee no more possible for Sam to destroy it than it would have been for him to pluck the Black Tower up by the roots and chuck Sauron himself into the Sea. I find it fascinating that although Tolkien was writing a fantasy, the psychological motivations of his characters are so much more more realistic than anything you find in the comic book crap being purveyed today, which has conditioned so many people into thinking two-dimensional stories invented for ten-year-olds are actual literature.
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  41. WatchMojo has a talent for ruining jokes, fucking up songs, and just in general doing everything in the most annoying way possible.
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  42. No, that's a pretty bad plastic surgery job. But I agree she shouldn't be on the list, especially when Cher is still around.
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  43. LOL. It's so cute how you pretend to have an ethos. * pats your widdle head *
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  44. Did DS9 predict how annoying Google Glass would be to everyone else around the idiot wearing them?
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  45. Perfect Sense did the same to me. Great movie, but damn, I can't watch it again. It's just too plausible, and that ending. ARGH.
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  46. Gunman610 He was BRILLIANT on WLIIA.  I especially love his Paranoid Man - cracks me up every time.
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  47. No 59th Street Bridge Song? Sorry, can't be complete without looking for fun and feeling groovy...
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  48. lurch321 That was "Spread" (LOL title) from 2009.  It's one of those low-key movies that are about a specific person instead of some big story.  So the film was all on him, basically.  He had to carry the thing, and I think he did really well in an understated performance.  He's better than people realize.
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  49. When Haley Joel Osment was offered the role of Harry Potter, he turned it down, saying, "Some books should stay books." He was so right. Some things should just be allowed to stay what they are.
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  50. Lisa Mccall It's one of my fondest concert memories.  Adam was BEYOND HOTNESS.  He was NUCLEAR.  * sigh * And then there was the time I rang up Robert Plant's purchase WITHOUT leaping across the counter and tearing his clothes off.
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