| # | Author | Message |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Fri 1/18/2008 12:16p | <Well then you won't like I Am Legend much either.>
Thanks so much, DAR.
May I call on you for more movie going advice in the future?
*rolls eyes* |
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| DAR
Fri 1/18/2008 12:26p | You're not fine with the destruction of New York, that's a very valid reason for not wanting to see the movie. As much as I love JJ Abrams work and I probably will see it sometime, I was never a fan of Blair Witch or any of the Godzilla films.
All I'm saying is that if a film shows the destruction of another city the thinking shouldn't be well at least it wasn't New York. Remember the Day After Tomorrow, in addition to being just an awful film, that featured the destruction of New York, I wasn't crazy about that being depicted. Likewise Transformers, which I loved overall final 25 minutes featured buildings being destroy and that got a little unnerving. It shouldn't matter what city it is. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Fri 1/18/2008 1:54p | Don't you know sarcasm when you hear it??
[with apologies to Charles M. Schulz] |
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| DAR
Fri 1/18/2008 2:21p | Sure, but there was nothing really sarcastic about your posts. I simply responded with a quite brillant retort. |
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| Dabob2
Fri 1/18/2008 3:22p | They like to use New York because it has iconic structures that can fall. When the Empire State Building or the Statue of Liberty or the Brooklyn Bridge gets "destroyed," it resonates because people recognize and have a feel for those structures.
Quick, somebody besides DAR name a famous skyscraper in Milwaukee. |
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| TheRedhead
Fri 1/18/2008 3:25p | "In fact, I saw a clip from the movie of people running away from a giant dust and debris cloud [from a falling skyscraper] -- just like the images we saw from 9/11."
I was one of those people. Ran and hid inside a parking garage as that scary dust cloud roared by (and I mean roared). It's odd to see that identical shot in an entertainment movie.
It's just funny to think that there was once a point where studios were scrambling to edit the word "terrorists" out of tv shows set in NYC. Now we have a movie where the Brooklyn Bridge gets blown up, an act that we (in NYC) were TERRIFIED of happening every day for months. 6 short years ago.
But I'm not complaining. I'm just not sure how I feel about it. It's something that is so part of who I am now that I can't watch my city getting blown up. And part of me is upset that the entire country seems to have moved on and can find enjoyment in watching NYC SPECIFICALLY get blowed up real good. I hurt, why don't you?
But part of me is also glad that the country has moved on, and that maybe we have finally gotten back to "normal." Finally the country can watch a cloud rising over downtown Manhattan and not get completely depressed. I dunno. It feels weird. |
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| BlueOhanaTerror
Fri 1/18/2008 5:56p | >>>Can someone explain the title to me..
'Cloverfield'
I don't get it....<<<
Yeah. It was a random name that Bad Robot (Abrams' company) gave to the movie while in development, as for a while it was untitled.
Cloverfield is a road on the major intersection of where Abrams' offices were located until just a couple of months ago, when they moved onto the Paramount lot. But they are currently building a permanent complex near that same intersection.
It's very funny to me that nobody has bothered to post this anywhere.
It's very much like how BUENA VISTA DISTRIBUTION got its name.
For those who don't know the story, it was told to me by Frank Yablans, who was in the room at the time...
Walt and his guys had been hunkering down for hours suggesting/tossing around names for their new Distribution company, to free themselves of RKO. I think this is around 1953. Anyway, they're deliberating and Walt was getting cranky. He looks out the window onto the street (the studio is located at the intersection of Buena Vista Street and Alameda).
Walt just turned around and said "Let's just name the damn thing 'Buena Vista'."
And that was that.
More or less the way CLOVERFIELD got its name.
:) |
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| DAR
Fri 1/18/2008 6:06p | <<Quick, somebody besides DAR name a famous skyscraper in Milwaukee.>>
Technically we only have one really. I probably work in the second or third tallest building there. |
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| Jim in Merced CA
Fri 1/18/2008 11:10p | BlueOhanaTerror -- thanks for sharing the story about Walt and Buena Vista...
But to name a movie 'Cloverfield' for the reason you've written...
Stupid... |
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| WilliamK99
Fri 1/18/2008 11:19p | Actually, from reports I have read Cloverfield has a valid reason for the name and it would be a spoiler for me to tell you why the movie is entitled Cloverfield.
I have no problem with them destroying cities in movies, especially NYC, because I can switch between what is real and what is fiction. Others cannot, and want to get offended by works of art. I say just go with the flow and enjoy yourself, escape from reality for 90 minutes, because after all, isn't that the reason why people go to the movies? |
