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Absolutely.
But if we bring the Indy IV parallel into it once more, Landis will pave the way for Buster to be the new Blues brother and the trilogy will be about his ascent to complete franchise banality.
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I haven't heard from Landis in ages. Is he still alive?
Well, at least they have one good reason to screw it up: they miss John Belushi. What's Lucas' excuse?
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Nov 3rd, 2008 08:06 PM |
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Heh. His excuse is that Denholm Elliot is dead and Sean Connery read the script and rightly bailed...  A poor one, but as the old addage goes, bad actors in a well scripted movie will result still in a watchable movie...but even the best actors in the world when shooting a shit script cannot save it.
I think Landis is still alive, yes, but 'tis very true that he has been pretty quiet of late.
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He used to be great, before the dark times, before Beverly Hills Cop 3.
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Nov 4th, 2008 06:42 PM |
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LOL At least he stayed true to the stylistic form set out by the 1st 2 movies.. Lucas and Speilberg and a few others are in a queue at the fairground in III, apparently.
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But it was still crap. Not up to par with the great Landis movies like BB, Into the Night, Trading Places and Coming to America.
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Nov 5th, 2008 07:29 PM |
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Not to mention 'American Werewolf in London'.....
It was still better than Indy IV though. (and definitely superior to BB2000, in that while watching BHCIII, my eyes never bled and I didnt feel compelled to railway spike my eardrums out.)
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AWIL... of course. A masterpiece.
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Nov 6th, 2008 06:10 PM |
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Yup. They dont make 'em like that anymore...
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Nov 7th, 2008 12:29 PM |
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Well, not too often no.
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Nov 8th, 2008 12:40 PM |
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Well put it this way..... In places that transformation sequence had me going "how the f*** did they do that...?" for years...
Just like that bit in "The Thing" where that guy got his arms bitten/ripped off....
When I look at any other effects today, its obvious....
Usually CG bloody I.
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Nov 8th, 2008 05:34 PM |
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Hehehe... I get ya. It doesn't seem much of an effort anymore.
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Nov 9th, 2008 11:09 PM |
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Yup.... That paired with being jaded slightly by the magic days of cinema with soul, makes yawn worthy stuff of current sterile mainstream hollywood releases.
I was watching Hannibal Brooks the other day..... That bit where the officer is up on the cable car wire all that way up, knowing that if the actor fell, he wouldnt have his fall broken by a bunch of blue screen 2ft under him.. it made for genuinely gripping/compelling viewing as the context of the scene wasnt in the middle of a world where everyone can do magical ninja matrix shit...
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Nov 10th, 2008 04:16 PM |
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True. They had a similar stunt in Die Hard 4 though: the guy falling from the helicopter was a genuine fall. The problem, you never know if it IS real these days, you need to see the extras to see if it's a genuine guy falling from a building, or something easy blue screenish.
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Absolutely. When theres to much of it, it all becomes silly/too far moved from reality. Like the bit with the chopper or the Jet/truck bit in DH4...
Borders on shark-jumping..
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That bit was a little over the top. But shooting a helicopter with a car... that was classic.
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Nov 11th, 2008 06:48 AM |
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Well...he was out of bullets.
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Hehehe
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Ahhhhhh the festive season of Die Hard 1 and 2 is almost upon us once more.
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Festive season?
DH2 sucks BTW.
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