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Directed by: Sylvester Stallone
Written by: David Callaham, Sylvester Stallone
starring: Sylvester Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li,
Dolph Lundgren, Randy Couture, "Stone Cold" Steve Austin,
Terry Crews, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis,
Eric Roberts, Arnold Schwarzenegger
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Stallone, Schwarzenegger and Willis scene
Pirate Blown in Half
Airplane Scene
Terry Crews Super Gun
Stone Cold on Fire
Eric Robert's Death
Jet Li vs. Dolph Lundgren
Stallone jumps on to a plane
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19 comments:
Inception and the Dark Knight Rises. When I saw TDKR, I felt like I was part of something greater. Like I was more than just a man....
As a child, I saw The Goonies, Beetlejuice, Howard the Duck, UHF (with Weird Al), ET, and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
When I was 4 or 5 I saw Empire Strikes Back in the theater and remember being in awe.Other memorable theater experiences were Back to the Future,Batman(the first film),Jurassic Park, Pulp Fiction,and Kill Bill. I'm old.
I felt honored by seeing "Avatar" at the movies and after I saw it with my mother, I never looked back.
Assuming you're referring to memorable movies that literally no one saw in theaters but are considered by some to be cult classics I would say Team America World Police and Grindhouse.
Biggest missed opportunity. Saw Phantom Menace way to many times in theaters because people kept dragging me with them to see it, and missed Fight Club which was released at roughly the same time.
Then again the trailers for Fight Club made the film look like a maddening amalgamation of the worst bits of a Michael Bay film with the subtly contrived twists of a M. Night Shamalyan film. Proof that a film trailer can just as easily wreck a great film because it shows none of the layers below the surface in the same way it can ruin a medeocre film by showing every single compelling plot point in 30 seconds.
ha! same answer as last time for me.. Pitch Black.. we used to go every Wednesday to the movies from Uni and we saw some really rocking movies purely picking a movie that looked interesting on the posters.
Another cool one as Pulp Fiction.. which turned out to be a huge deal shortly after.
My proudest is midnight IMAX 3D Avengers, it was an experience to remember especially coming out with the highest grossing opening weekend and 3rd highest grossing box office.
Mine is, easily, Tron:Legacy at the IMAX. Not the best movie...but soooo pretty on the big screen.
Honestly? I saw Speed Racer in IMAX, that was pretty epic. All my best friends were there, we had to drive all over the county to find the theatre, and the visuals were pretty damn impressive.
I also saw Chronicle, that was pretty awesome as well, I didn't really know much about past the trailers, and i'm really glad I saw that one.
I was really happy to have seen The Dark Knight in theaters because I went to a free pre-screening two days before it was released in theaters. That was really cool.
Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Dark Knight, Pirates of the Caribbean, the first two Matrix movies, and Transformers. I love seeing movies with a lot of action in a theater.
I got the chance to catch Ghostbusters last year on the big screen. This was exciting for me because it's in my top 5 of ALL TIME! and it came out the year before I was born...so I didn't really get the chance to see it during its initial theater run.
I was lucky enough to see the midnight IMAX premiere of The Dark Knight. I had to buy my tickets 3 weeks in advance, but it was completely worth it. The IMAX filmed scenes literally took my breath away.
And finally, Toy Story and Toy Story 3. Toy Story blew my mind out the back of my skull when I first saw it, and little did I know that 15 years later, the second sequel would do the same. I'm sad I missed the 2nd one in theaters, but the 1st and 3rd installments were enough.
I saw Avatar at the Imax in 3d. It was my first 3d film and was significant because I had had eye surgery a few months before that corrected a depth perception problem I was having. The movie was fair, but the effects and presentation of the 3D on such a large screen were amazing. Think back to Joel's thoughts on the Polar Express and I'd say I had a similar experience. It's unfortunate that the movie isn't interesting enough to warrant watching at home again, but at the time, it was one of my favorite movie going experiences.
As a well and truly established Coen Bros fan by that time, my friends and I went to see the very first morning screening of The Big Lebowski when it was released in 1998. Of course, we loved it, but it only seemed to play for a couple of weeks and disappeared. It's cool that it's now become this cult phenomenon, but at the time it seemed to be hated by critics and found baffling by the few mainstream audiences that actually turned up to see it. Somehow I doubt the same fate awaits the flaming turds that Hollywood churns out nowadays...
The Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Amazing on the big screen and people applauded at the end of The Return of the King.
Also thanks to a event in the UK sponsored by a channel station (E4) I got to see Pulp Fiction for free a few months back. Everyone laughed in the right moments and was having such a great time.
Same goes for The Avengers.
The Dark Knight Rises, The Avengers, LOTR Trilogy, and some of the bad ones Vampire Assitant, Twilight(which I walked out on.)
Off topic; just discovered your show recently, and I am amazed - AMAZED that this feature is actually called 'question of the week' and not 'question of the WEAK', or, optimally 'question of the WEAK WEAK WEAK'
this movie was fucking awful. had to fast forward through most of it. just wanted to see before seeing the 2nd which i hear is much better.
Jaws, years after it was released in a small movie theater in Sao Paulo where they showed movies long after they had been released and Inception when it premiered in theaters. My all time favorite movie, presently. A real experience. I'm looking forward to watching The Dark Knight Rises too.
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