Amadeus

This is the Pet Sounds for the ones born after 1985. A piece of art which the olders tell you sucks because it is beyond their understanding. But later on, when critics begin to focus on its intentions rather than its "conventional missteps", it will be the one movie in the franchise the robots will be talking bout in the future.

Don't know if anybody's already told you that April 2017 is the biggest box office April ever domestic. Despite some weak weekends April made it to $800m.

buhuhu... the movie is not that... and not that.. and not that... lol

I too was eight when I watched this -- that is: open minded. George Lucas is a so called auteur, "a singular artist who controls all aspects of a collaborative creative work". Watching TPM is reading his mind. he borrows, he steals, he makes choices that conventionally are not very wise. he even changes the genre of the whole saga. But he's a very talented director and producer, and he understands the medium. He did put very much into TPM, and with an open mind (that is not comparing it to the so called "tone" of the OT) you'll see it's a marvelous achievement.

Just a thought about the dialogue. Maybe George Lucas actually perfected the Star Wars dialogue in The Phantom Menace. Many of the lines spoken in the OT were very much Fortune-Cookie-talk. Very many many many of the spoken lines of dialogue in The Phantom Menace could very well be something you'd find on the paper note inside of Fortune Cookie. They are vague but still universal. It's very little chat in the dialogue. The lines that are spoken are bare to the bone and they define the characters more not less. Obi Wan saying "We don't have much time" is not plot driven but, rather, character driven... Impatient the young padawan is. Qui Gon saying "I don't sense anything" is not plot driven but, rather, character driven.... He's one with the force, but the force he's with is not the way of the force all the other Jedi are in. Anakin saying "I don't like sand" is not plot driven but, rather, character driven... Jar Jar saying "we are warriors"... These lines are just as cinematic as they are dramatic. The Phantom Menace is what Star Wars really is. At least from the point of view of a director who's grown up and realized he wanted to make something that could speak to everyone. Like it or not. (I too agree it's etnocentric). But trust me: checking the MCU conventions is not a bonus. The dialogue in GOTG will be dated very soon. But the verbal language of TPM will forever last.

There is so much enthusiasm put in ESB-soundtrack. It's almost like Williams found out that this saga (including the prequels, PLEASE) may be something after all, something that may actually be relevant 100 years from now, a time when movies (as we know them today) actually may not even exist. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-ENSnF8XnY

A competent or mildly interesting effort that will usually feature at least five worthwhile moments? or an admirable effort that aficionados of the genre will probably find quite watchable? or remarkable one way or another, yet also flirts with the humdrum or the half-assed? :)

Complaining bout TPM soundtrack at #23 and not ROTJ at #21 is like saying HELP! is a better Beatles album than The White Album because HELP! has more hits. Williams was (again) in full bloom here, more dynamic than ever, and because of the soundtracking process of the late 90's the music is much more dot-on-dotty with the frames herein than in any other Star Wars movie. Sure: Empire Strikes Back got the hits but The Phantom Menace is an album.

The Master A+ (Sustained beauty and originality; produced with precision, executed in a unique way) Prometheus A (Original idea/-s, executed with great skill and ambition) Holy Motors A Place Beyond the Pines A Brave A- (Very good! Conventionally precise and flawless OR unusual story executed in a solid but also original way) Sinister A- Eat Sleep Die A- Life of Pi A- Django A- Call Girl A- Mud A- Skyfall B+ (Good/Flawed but original) Perks of Being a Flower B+ Flight B+ Silver Linings B+ Lincoln B+ Magic Mike B+ Cabin in the Woods B+ Argo B+ Amour B+

ah... that was not bad at all

It's definitely an issue

Exactly... So what's the point of having the "Grade it"-section at the top of the page when 1) Grades do not say very much 2) When nobody says what the A B C D E and F actually mean (Awesome, Bullshit, Carbonara, Dogshit, Efferent(!)?)... The statistics say a lot more when people know what alternative they've actually answered with.

domestic box office 2017 will pass 3B on sunday. One day earlier than 2016 I think (and that year began with a friday)

Fact is that I have developed an assessment model (which I use when I grade/assess my students papers), and have been using this on films since 2009/10. And as for myself it works quite well to see which movies that stood the test of time and those that I loved upon first viewing but now thinks are just ookiedookie movies. The only movies which my model didn't work on was Kick Ass and Lucy which i still enjoy so much.

Isn't functional and/or entertaining (but forgetable/flawed) pretty positive? Subjectivity is just an excuse. Doesn't exist. Everything can be assessed empirically.

Moderators really should change the rating system. For me an A-movie is Very Good (>8/10) or Fantastic >9/10) A B-movie is honorable/good but flawed (>7/10) A C-Movie is functional/entertaining but forgetable, original but flawed (>6/10) A D-Movie is mediocre/boring but not without virtues (>5/10) An E is bad at core (≈4/10) An F is so bad it's good (<3/10) But some users are giving B's as if that grade meant the movie's fantastic. Wouldn't it be better if the grades read?: Masterpiece (an original idea executed in an original way with precision and determination) Fantastic! Very good! Good! Functional/Honorable Mediocre/Boring Bad Very bad! Useless!!!

In case I've missed some kind of aggressive negotiation here I just want to remind you that the amount of beer/wine you drank on BatB-weekend was the right amount. Be careful with your drinking.

The title of this thread....

back in 1963 or 1962 The Beatles' manager bought a couple of copies of their first single. It reached #16 on the other side of the atlantic.

The force is strong with 2017. IF boss baby and power rangers somehow manage to pass 100m we're 25% there already. 2013 at this point had only 4 movies that grossed/were about to gross >100m: OZ, Identity Thief, GI Joe, croods.

The shroud of the dark side has fallen: The use of orange/red in Star Wars. When the clone wars begin AOTC gets very orange/red. Just as much as it is the color of dusk (and the downfall of the republic) it's just as well the color of war Yoda sitting alone while; allies and friends has left him. Obi Wan thinking the clones were a great idea! Yoda knowing the worst is yet to come. Great distance between them. Green guy knows he can make some good money on the war (greedy). Palpatine wearing that poker face. Bail Organa in despair. And then the movie gets much brighter when Anakin and Padmé're getting married in the morning(?) Dawn of Looove....

Yeah, landing scene on the beach was so rocking my boat as well... I'd say that landing was even more convulsive than the landing on omaha beach in saving private ryan. But when they landed on the beach the fouth fifth and sixth time the boat wasn't very rocked any more. But first hour was definition of boat rocking!

Get Out was awesome. Just got released here. It rocked my boat

Rock my boat?

1,100 billion it will reach. Summer's here and the time is right for racing in the street.