Since it was brought up on the cast, here is the TRON Legacy trailer:
Holy Craaaaaaaaaaap, its time to start getting hyped about this movie.
Possibly he’s referring to the “Picture Pages” that Bill did in the mid 70’s/early 80’s? It was part of the Captain Kangaroo show that I watched as a kid. He did different stuff but occasionally did a “which of these things” type activity.
hi Audra,
Jason Momoa is Hawaiian
…can’t seem to find any picture to link here… but here’s his website :
Yes indeedy! Best to start a new post with “spoilers” in the title in Non Science Fiction, as 'Talos mentioned.
For anyone who’s curious or interested, generally speaking, Citizen Kane is heralded as a film for it’s qualities as a film, not necessarily it’s story. Visually, it’s very impressive. As a narrative, I tend to agree with Sean.
If you are interested in an awesome classic movie, I recommend the AFI top 100 #2 Casablanca. My Film professor always said it should have been #1.
Similarly, I consider “The Last Crusade” to refer to the actual man, the last “Crusader” we see at the end of the film, not the last quest that Indy went on. But I like your thoughts TPR
Y’know, it’s interesting that the people who will hold this up as a paragon of filmmaking will poo-poo works like Avatar, when they’re essentially the same sort of ‘style over substance’ films.
I think a lot of that has to do with what goes into making either film. When I was in film school we had to shoot our first projects on film. Not tape, analog or digital. It was expensive, frustrating, and difficult. The reason they made us do this was in part because we needed to learn how to work with film. More importantly, we needed to learn to respect what we were doing. If you’ve invested $100 for 5 minutes worth of film, you suddenly become much more attentive to what you’re doing.
Citizen Kane represents a significant amount of work in terms of lighting, cutting, editing, acting, directing, etc. I think the reason that people get up in arms about films like Avatar is because it doesn’t feel like the same kind of sacrifice. We see this all the time. People get mad when someone else figures out how to do something better. We have a tremendous sense of fair-play (except when we want the upper hand). It doesn’t seem fair that when James Cameron decides he wants a slightly different angle, he doesn’t have to go back and shoot it, and he doesn’t have to pay all those SAG fees again, and he doesn’t have to hire the whole crew again, he just needs to get the one guy who does the Camera keyframing to come in, do some adjustments, and send it off to the Render Farm. That’s not fair!
Avatar is the same (or more) amount of sweat, blood, and tears in entirely different ways than Citizen Kane, and that’s why (IMO) the old Guard will never appreciate it as they do other films.
See Sean…you’ll like Citizen kane, cuz it’s like Transfomrers…if the sled was a robot, the newspaper was Megan Fox and Kane was Opitmus Prime… 
Citizen Kane is a revolutionary film. It’s also a terrible frakkin movie.
Casablanca is just…awesome. I love Casablanca. It’s so good.
Y’all were wondering who will be playing Smurfette in the new Smurfs movie? Turns out it’s doe-eyed diva Katy Perry.
Katy Perry will be the lending her voice for the Smurfs movie as the new sexy vixen, Smurfette. The beautiful 25 year-old “I Kissed a Girl” singer will be joining a talented ensemble voice-cast of Alan Cumming, Jennifer Lopez and George Lopez in the Belgian-native cartoon series. The Hanna-Barbera production will be featured on the big screen mid-next year. According to postchronicle.com, the shooting will begin on July this year and “How I Met Your Mother” actor, Neil Patrick Harris will be cast as the Sony project’s live-action character.
I didn’t realize there was only one flesh-and-blood actor in the movie. Does that mean no Azrael?
I really enjoyed Citizen Kane, and not from a film nerd perspective either, simply as a movie. Treasonous as it may sound, I found it far more enjoyable than Transformers 2 and 3.
I really enjoyed Citizen Kane, and not from a film nerd perspective either, simply as a movie. Treasonous as it may sound, I found it far more enjoyable than Transformers 2 and 3.
Not sure what you mean by Transformers 3, but I agree. Citizen Kane has an amazing story.
yeah, she’s known for her huge eyes…lose myself in them completely…her eyes…yep. definitely
Thank you! I can’t wait for this!
Citizen Kane wasn’t derivative; Avatar is. Don’t get me wrong, I think Cameron was fantastic in the Herculean task of directing Avatar; I also think Avatar was probably the best experience I had in watching a film in a theatre in a long while. But for me at least, the mark of a great film is its characters and rewatchability, and I have absolutely no desire to rewatch it ever (heck, I can’t even remember the characters’ names in the movie, which isn’t a good sign).
Though obviously, a lot of people have rewatched it and loved it too. So it’s just me.
Who’s directing The Smurfs? With all this talk of Alice in Wonderland (which, much like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, is the kind of story that is perfect for Tim Burton), I wonder just how kickass it would if Tim Burton directs Smurfs?
IMDb says The Smurfs movie is being directed by Raja Gosnell, whose credits include such fine films as Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2 and Beverly Hills Chihuahua. Yeah.
And to link it back to Avatar, I just remembered that the young dorky scientist dude who arrives with Sam Worthington’s character (see, coco, I can’t remember their names either) at the beginning is in Katy Perry’s “Waking Up in Vegas” video. Shiny!
There are plenty of so-called classic films that I’m perfectly fine with only seeing once in a lifetime. Citizen Kane is certainly among them, as are most of the films we watched as part of the Classic Sci-Fi arc. But no matter how many times I’ve seen The Princess Bride or Shaun of the Dead, I have to stop and watch them if I run across them on TV. I’m just shallow like that.
Ha! oh, 'talos…
I’ve got to both agree and disagree with you TPO, as a kid I always tried to see if I could “see” the bridge from all the angles, and was just convinced that it was really hidden. But that doesn’t bother me as a viewer, because as I said in an earlier comment, this is all about faith, which is something that I find appealing. Even though I keep looking for the outlines, I’m OK with the lines not being there 
(this kind of reminds me about the ideas with the BSG finale and a number of people being very disappointed and/or angry that there was a mystical bit to all of it)
OK, I’m really not sure what you mean by derivative here. Perhaps you could explain what you mean by derivative? And how you can apply that to fiction?
EDIT: I removed stuff so I don’t look as stupid.