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Hollywierd Observations
Watched "The Last Samurai" with Tom Cruise last night...
Good movie...I now rename it, though...
"Dancing With Fujis"
Kind of like "Dances With Wovles", but different...
I've got Hollywood's number...no creativity since 1922... lather, rinse, repeat
... just like hair shampoo
Terminator 1,2,3
Batman 1,2,3,4
Superman 1,2,3,4
ROCKY 1,2,3,4,5 (5 Rocky movies....arrrrrrgh)
Star Wars 1,2,3,4,5,6
Star Trek 1,2,3,4,5,6,7....... (not that I mind the Star Trek sequels...can't
get enough of Mr. Spock...)(me too...Htos1)
Then there are the sequels that are hidden...
Like... "Dances With Wovles", and now "Dances With Fujis"
Kind of like:
Terminator 1,2,3, where men fight machines...
and...
Matrix 1,2,3, where men fight...uh...machines
I won't ruin the movie for you ("Dances With Fujis", that is) if you
haven't seen it... its a good flick and worth a pass by the CPU & DVD...might
even watch it again...
Just odd how Hollywood seems to reoccur again and again, each time with the
proverbial "gimmee" hand turn palm outword, expecting the public
to cough up more cash for the same old hash...
Gotta make good on that billion-dollar movie set, I guess...
Dr. Jeckel and Mr. Hyde...
Oh, now we call it "The Hulk"...
Where's my second Spiderman movie, guys???????
Oh, too busy re-hashing the old Dracula tale...
Did anyone notice there were TWO movies about Christopher Columbus that BOTH came
out in 1992???
Or, did you notice they have ALREADY re-made DUNE...
I think they need to do a "Lone Ranger" movie... NOT a comedy...
TONTO, in all his politically incorrect stature...they did and redid and redid
Zorro...what
the hell???
How about "The Green Hornet?"...I'll sit thru a Jackie Chan movie if
they do that... maybe George Clooney could be The Green Hornet for us, too??...or
maybe Val Kilmer??... or...hmmmm...Michael Keaton???... (they were stretching
our patience by making Michael Keaton into Batman...trying to re-do the Comic-relief
Batman of the 1960's...no humor, though...just a comedian who kicked people's
ass... much more realistic to real life... "this is a hard room...")
How many more "Three Muskateer" movies will America pay for?
and they re-did The Alamo... (without John Wayne...)
We can't get enough of Dirty Harry Callahan...we ALL want to be him
And that lone stranger, high plains drifter, hang 'em high, pale rider dude...a
psuedo hero with no name, blazing guns, a poncho, and a hand-twisted cigar...
more, more, more, please...
We've went to Mars I dodn't know how many times... in the 50's we had H.G.
Wells War of the World's... in the 90's we had Arnold Swarzenegger and Total
Recall,
not to mention "The Red Planet" and various other Martian Chronicles...
How many times can a human being be lured to chomp popcorn while watching outlaws
rob a train? or, murder someone on the Orient Express?... we had Gene Wilder
and
Richard Prior do "The Silver Streak two or three decades ago... we had Kirk
Douglas and Burt Lancaster do "Tough Guys" shortly after, then Steven
Segal did a ditto-ditto to his "Ender Siege character, and transformed
those navy ship sets to a moving train set... Hollywood is a genius at fooling
mother
nature and the American public
How about "Dracula - Men In Tights?"
Robinhood has been a complete hash hash hash hash over the years
and how many more times do I go out during intermission and grab a movie-size
box of Raisanets while watching (fill in the blank)
and here's a movie-set match from hell...must be Hollywood NEVER takes down those
sets...
I don't know how many times I've seen similar sets in sitcoms on TV... like,
the inside of Archie Bunker's house... wasn't that about the same as the "Married
With Children" set..??... entrance to screen right...stairs to unknown
bedrooms upstairs and to the center...kitchen to the left... hmmmm... Bill
Cosby used that
set, too...
and...how about this one... remember the original episode of Star Trek where Captain
Kirk gets transported to the same planet with the GORN??...that green-faced grunter
that got blown to bits with sulphur, coal and salt?
in that set, the duo fight it out over a movie set that is a cliff of rocks
that to screen left is low to the ground, and to screen right, drops off...
straight,
shale-like rocks......saw that set in a "Colt Seaver's Fallguy episode
one time...and I've seen it in other places...
remember the seens in the Star Wars movie where young Anakin is racing his wat-cha-ma-callit,
and he enters into that cavern system where he has to bank up and fly sideways??...ahhh...Lara
Croft, Tomb Raider used that set, too...when she was being pulled out of danger
by the sled dogs...
remember the set where Princess Amadala and a couple others were walking down
a huge set of stairs...a very regal set indeed...we all thought it looked new
and exciting didn't we?...except those of us who had seen the 1960's movie "Anzio" where
the lead character comes in the front doors of the mansion, and walks UP the
exact same stairs...
not sure what you call these occurances, but I have seen so many movies, I have
noticed hundreds of set crossovers...
how many more movie sets are either in downtown New York, or downtown Los Angeles?...how
many more Beverly Hills shots can we get on film before America gets pitched in
the dumpster for good??...
"Set Sniglets..." ...perhaps I will even make up my own word for what
I have observed... a "Set Sniglet" would be the experience a movie goer,
or TV watcher finds themselves caught up in when they suddenly are swept away
by the "Deja Vu" of "hey, I saw this set in another movie"...
or..."Hey, isn't "The Last Samurai" remarkble identical to "Dances
With Wolves" ????? (ie the name "Dances With Fujis")
I am at the least, rather observant....
Been watchin' the governemnt the same way...just another movie set... George Washington
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,
16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,28,29,30,
31,32,33,34,35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44..... sequel, sequel, sequel, sequel...
Solomon said in the book of Ecclisiastes
"Vanity, vanity, all is vanity, there is no new thing under the sun."
How true, even today...
Jimboleon Siskelbert
Live long professional movie critic, live long and prosper...