Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

[Artemis]

I watched Fast Five yesterday and I can say with a good degree of confidence that the vault theft scene was probably the dumbest thing I've ever witnessed on film and I've seen both Van Helsing and Howard the Duck mind you.
Also not saying that the director is a hack but who films a obviously computer generated scene (talking the car off the cliff thing) in slow motion just so everyone has a better chance to observe how phoney it is?
That and the epilogue seems to run as long as the entire rest of the movie.

I thought I had already warned you about that film Willis? And in particular the suspense of belief that really, really, really doesn't happen when the two muscle cars drag a room around behind them at speed. Hollywood lately has gone to it's own place, a place beyond reality, like the pied piper of Hamlyn, but I for one am no longer following that particular tune.

[IdolEyes787]

I thought I had already warned you about that film Willis?

You know when someone tells you not to do something because it's a really stupid thing to do but then you still go do it anyway?Well that's basically how I live my life.:idunno:

Also the first 20 seconds.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6E4Oy6pFKQ

[mjmacky]

You know when someone tells you not to do something because it's a really stupid thing to do but then you still go do it anyway?Well that's basically how I live my life.:idunno:

Yet you never posted your video of you ghost riding your whip, the bicycle edition.

[Artemis]

This Means War

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1596350/

I am normally not a RomCom kind of guy and stay away from the genre like the plague since in the last few years the genre has fallen into a very predictable formula that would leave Walt Disney reaching for the airline sickness bag in most cases. This is most definitely not one of those films and I was pleasantly surprised and thoroughly enjoyed the movie.

It is a lighthearted romp, but it isn't a sappy, poignant romantic piece of drivel, it is very cleverly done.

The storyline revolves around to C.I.A. agents who have worked together for the past 10 years, they are best friends and basically do everything together, they even have a pact that they would take a bullet for each other (awwww aint it sweet). One of the agents, Tuck (played by Tom Hardy) is divorced with a son and wants to get back into the dating game so goes onto a dating website and finds someone, his partner FDR (played by Chris Pine) meets her in a video store at the same time and by a weird set of circumstances egged on by a bad best friend of the girl Lauren (played by Reese Witherspoon) she ends up dating both of them. The two competitive gungho guys that they are they compare notes about the great girl they've just met and then show each other the picture of her.......

The hilarity of the story without going into any extended spoilers surrounds two C.I.A. agents spying on each other and doing every dirty trick in the book to prevent each other from getting close to Lauren. It's well worth the watch, and your girlfriend/wife will love it too

[mjmacky]

This Means War

Took me half your post to figure out that this was the title of what you're reviewing and not a statement made in response to someone in this thread.

[megabyteme]

This Means War is watchable. I grabbed it while we were on vacation, and it provided us with ~90 minutes of entertainment-ish stuff on the screen.

[Artemis]

This Means War

Took me half your post to figure out that this was the title of what you're reviewing and not a statement made in response to someone in this thread.

If you look back through the fred previous posts have been formatted thus, by both me and other poasters, and I'm not that homicidal (much). :blink:

[mjmacky]

Took me half your post to figure out that this was the title of what you're reviewing and not a statement made in response to someone in this thread.

If you look back through the fred previous posts have been formatted thus, by both me and other poasters, and I'm not that homicidal (much). :blink:

'Cept I keep expecting them to be imdb hyperlinked or something.

[Artemis]

If you look back through the fred previous posts have been formatted thus, by both me and other poasters, and I'm not that homicidal (much). :blink:

'Cept I keep expecting them to be imdb hyperlinked or something.

Awww shucks well just for you.......

[manker]

I watched The Duellists (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/) last night, alone, in the dark and while sipping expensive dry white wine. I mention this to set the scene, I had already decided to like the film and wanted also to be in the right environment and mood to appreciate it. I didn't have an open mind going into it but this was a luxury I could afford myself given that it was set in an era I was familiar with, about a concept I'd read much about and the film itself was recommended specifically to me by someone who has watched a movie or two in their time.

The action starts right away, like right away. You have no idea how the stars of the movie can possibly survive 10 minutes, let alone eke out their existence to the end of the film. The first half hour is relentless. What struck me was the realism of the fight scenes, there was no Spartacus-esque looking to the audience and gloating or convoluted fight moves. Each duellist looked scared to fucking death, their concentration completely upon their opponent and when one of them got skewered, the fight stopped. There was no bravely battling through a severed lung - the fight was over, which is obviously as it would be.

A theme of honour ran through the film and is, of course, what the film is about - this was depicted with particular aplomb. In one of the scenes, special agent frank lundy was asked to describe honour and all he was able to come up with is that it is indescribable. Well, Ridley Scott did an excellent job of portraying its foibles and the magnificence it often inspired.

The music was horrible. I think this is why I often give up while watching old films. I don't need a harmonica, or whatever, telling me that something is going to be exciting or sad. It spoiled a lot of scenes for me and I spent too long wishing for a modern score rather than the shite that accompanied this visual masterpiece.

[spedkey]

I watched Gone last night, with Amanda Seyfried. I first downloaded to watch her acting, and more :P but the least you see is Amanda as a woman (maybe like in that movie with Megan Fox).
It's actually a good actress in my opinion, that surprised me, although in "In Time" she played a decent role.
The movie has suspense and a little drama, nothing much. It isn't a must-see movie, but for the length (1h30m) it's a good option.

[IdolEyes787]

Gone is total shite,true story. Also the user reviews on IMDB have lost all legitimacy.Actual critics on RT rated it 11% positive.

Listen I like Amanda Seyfried enough to have sat though almost the entirety of Dear John and a bit of Letters to Juliet but any similarity to believable acting that she does in Gone is purely coincidental.

[megabyteme]

I watched The Duellists (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075968/) last night[]Ridley Scott []


StorylineSet during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor.

:dave:

[IdolEyes787]

Tell the truth it was the cross swords part that drew you in wasn't it?

[manker]

Tell the truth it was the cross swords part that drew you in wasn't it?
Maybe but the balls didn't touch so it's not like it was gay or anything.

===

I kept thinking that Feraud is a perfect metaphor for Napoleon's military life. Ever advancing, never flinching from confrontation yet stubborn, cruel and oft erring in judgment. Keitel even looks like Napoleon. I don't know if it was intentional by the writers and was something Scott strived for, but if it was then I struggled for a while to fit an historical figure to D'Hubert. Wellington didn't fit and neither was he representative of the cowardly French monarchy.

I decided then that I could make it fit if D'Hubert represented all of Napoleon's adversaries at the time. The French were occasionally bested, very infrequently humiliated but usually victorious until finally routed and their leader exiled. The final scene really is Feraud's Waterloo.

Spoiler above.

[Artemis]

For a directorial first attempt, The Duellists is a tour de force, sorry for the lack of machine guns and helicopters meg, maybe when Michael Bay does the remake? It is that for the reasons manker lays out, it is a complex interplay, the battle between the two men is a metaphor for the times. Ridley Scott's next directorial foray was of course Alien which was at the time an incredible success (despite the idiotic and incessant nagging by the brandywine production team) showing both great range and flexibility and cementing his future career as one of the truly great directors.

[IdolEyes787]

Saw the movie( not literally Saw:The Movie)now read the book.

http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/2481/

Though I will be astounded if anyone has the patience.

Btw in similar vein I watched Battleship no I didn't and then I played the game didn't actually do that either and was amazed how complex the game was in comparison to the film. :O
The movie had a better soundtrack though.

I watched Courage Under Fire again and would probably give my thoughts on it if I for a minute thought anyone cared.It is also from the murky,mystical before time when Lou Diamond Phillips was still a bigger star than Matt Damon.

[manker]

Not only do I have the patience, I converted it to a .mobi and stuck it on my kindle to read in bed later.
You should get one of those, luddite.

I'm hoping it will provide some character insights which were lacking in the film. Particularly everyone in it.

[mjmacky]

Storyline

Set during the grand, sweeping Napoleonic age, an officer in the French army insults another officer and sets off a life-long enmity. The two officers, D'Hubert and Feraud, cross swords time and time again in an attempt to achieve justice and preserve their honor.

:dave:

Nailed it

[manker]

I watched Courage Under Fire again and would probably give my thoughts on it if I for a minute thought anyone cared.Do it like Brett Blewitt.

===

I don't get the :dave: thing.
Truth posted above.

[mjmacky]

I don't get the :dave: thing.
Truth posted above.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

[manker]

Doesn't help.

Perhaps it would if I hadn't seen the film :idunno:

[mjmacky]

Doesn't help.

Perhaps it would if I hadn't seen the film :idunno:

I haven't seen the film, but I have a feeling it would detract from the interpretation. You and your linear imagination.

[megabyteme]

I don't get the :dave: thing.
Truth posted above.

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

Best. Explanation. Evar. :happy:

[mjmacky]

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/insult
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/life-long
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/enmity
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/preserve
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/honor

Best. Explanation. Evar. :happy:

This plus my insinuation of linearity, I think I have turned to pure evil.

[Artemis]

¿oƃ ǝuo uı spǝɯ ɹnoʎ ןןɐ ƃuıʇɹous puɐ dn ƃuıɥsɐɯ uo ʞɔɐq ʇnɔ pןnoɥs noʎ ǝqʎɐɯ

[Snee]

Dark Shadows

Johnny Depp as nobleman turned vampire, released after 200 years stuck in a coffin, sets out to restore his family to its former glory, and on the way there he struggles to fit into the modern world, as well as tangles with the witch who turned him vampire and put him in the grave.

I liked it.

That said, myself and everyone I watched it with agreed that while it was all right, it won't fit into anyone's top ten movies ever, ever.

I liked Depp's haughty-mentalist-meets-Jack-Sparrow performance as Barnabus Collins, as well those of other actors as several supporting characters, notably Chloë Grace Moretz as difficult teen Carolyn, Eva Green as the villain(ess) and Helena Bonham Carter as drunkard psychologist Dr Hoffman. They were all, on the surface, interesting characters. The problem was that they never really went anywhere, with regards to personal development. Now, I'm not saying people have to grow and develop just because things happen to them, and don't usually subscribe to the notion of that a round character is always better, but it was all a bit flat. The main problem, I believe, was that it all became a bit repetitive, as Barnabus kept the anachronisms coming, whilst Carolyn sneered.

I haven't watched the original show, so can't really compare it to that, but what it resembled most, to me, was something along the lines of an extended episode of the Addams Family, up until the ending. Which is to say that things happened, and they were occasionally funny, as well as dark, but they didn't leave that much of an impression. That is, it started going that way after the dust had settled from the initial arrival of the governess Maggie/Victoria and the release of Barnabus.

Another issue was that it's a bit uneven and random. There were things that were wholly unexpected and that I thought were Deus Ex Machinas, that fizzled out to nothing, as well as things so predictable I could see them coming miles away (the final few frames before the end credits were one of those).

All that said, I did enjoy it, and if you like the looks of the trailer at all, you should watch it. But do note that if you have seen the trailer, there won't be much by way of surprises.

[Artemis]

All that said, I did enjoy it, and if you like the looks of the trailer at all, you should watch it. But do note that if you have seen the trailer, there won't be much by way of surprises.

I have learned over the last couple of years to not watch Hollywood trailers, they are basically mini-films, taking the highlights of the movie and also the key plot lines and turning them into a 3 to 4 minute extended trailers.
A trailer used to be a teaser, 30-60 seconds long, disjointed in both imagery and plot, to pique the interest, a driving soundtrack (not the films ) and reediting of the footage for the trailer/teaser were part of the fun. Now even that art has gone, a trailer is a lazy compact version of the film and in some cases the film is no longer a surprise after seeing the trailer.
For the image overloaded,facebook generation this maybe perfectly acceptable in their little idiot cocoons, but it is something that I find greatly irritating. Such is the state of advertising these days, your goods must be fully on view......

[IdolEyes787]

I decide which movie to go to based entirely on who has the best product tie-ins. Fucked if I'm going to anything that could only snag Taco Bell.

[Snee]

I decide which movie to go to based entirely on who has the best product tie-ins. Fucked if I'm going to anything that could only snag Taco Bell.

Then you'll be happy to know Dark Shadows got McDonalds.

[IdolEyes787]

It's now on my must see list along with Madagascar 3:Europe's Most Wanted.

[mjmacky]

¿oƃ ǝuo uı spǝɯ ɹnoʎ ןןɐ ƃuıʇɹous puɐ dn ƃuıɥsɐɯ uo ʞɔɐq ʇnɔ pןnoɥs noʎ ǝqʎɐɯ

I would reply to the content of your message, but I don't want to risk dropping my laptop again.


I decide which movie to go to based entirely on who has the best product tie-ins. Fucked if I'm going to anything that could only snag Taco Bell.

Have you or anyone else seen this one yet?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1743720/

[Artemis]

The Grey

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1601913/


The first scene in this movie is a loud raucous bar scene where the main character John Ottway walks out onto the snow and sticks a rifle into his mouth and prepares to end his life. The movie gets steadily more depressing from there.

This in no way is meant as a warning about this movie, it is just that it is a stark, brutal and visceral look at at an usual subject. How we would survive (or not) in the wilderness, in this case one of the worst case scenario's Alaska, in total isolation. This isn't the Hollywood treatment, these people live and die on the whims of nature and of course the whims of the grey, referring to the the timber wolves which are tracking and attacking the survivors.

I had read a few of the reviews of this movie before I saw it, almost all of them panning it as unrealistic for various reasons to do with the wolves themselves ( I didn't know there were so many timberwolf experts out there in intertubes land) and also the survival techniques, which from where I am sitting in a country that freezes up to subzero in winter and will kill the unwary, were bang on by the way, so I went into the movie with a preconception of Hollywood hype.

Now without trying to be odd, weird or have a great long winded interjection afterward, I have had a bit of practice with death myself, and could really empathise with Liam Neeson's character, at the true heart of this movie is how will you meet your death? Will it be with courage or a whimper? Or will you just fade away......

This is not a movie for everyone, this is not a subject for everyone, but this is something that had a clarity and an honesty and is something I am still thinking about now.




So I went back to the 'reviews' and reread a few of the experts on IMDB about the totally unrealistic wolf behavior on this movie, and how it was a total fantasy. They all forgot two quintessential elements, 1. it was the middle of winter, so no food so very hungry wolves and 2. and this is the really important bit the survivors were injured, they were bleeding. Now my suggestion for all the wildlife 'experts' that poasted their well thought out reviews on IMDB is that I fly them up there when some wolves are fairly hungry only I tie a nice big fresh juicy T-Bone steak around their neck,and see how that works out? let's see how the wolves react then? Will the action be realistic? Will our reviewers become a snacky treat? I'm betting a big yes, after they piss themselves of course. It is all very well watching Animal Planet but the real thing is not predictable, doesn't follow a pattern, and isn't friendly, cuddly or cute.

[mjmacky]

Goon (2011 or 2012, whatever) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456635/)

It's a hockey movie about an enforcer. It's also the film adaptation of a book written by Doug Smith, who was himself an enforcer in the 80s.

First off, I loved the movie and I would recommend it. You don't even need to like hockey. If I were to force it into one genre, I'd be forced to call it a comedy. The main character, Doug Glatt, is a dumb, tough, and excessively polite and gentle man. A lot of this movie is driven by Sean William Scott's portrayal of this character, who couldn't think his way out of a thimble, but is just a genuinely talented and nice guy that you don't want to hate him for it. So basically, you have this sweet man mercilessly beating hockey players for pretty much the whole film. In addition, the whole cast is a collection of quirky comedic character that don't tend to fit a particular archetype.

There's a lot of punching in the face in this movie. The faces are usually unguarded while being repeatedly punched.

Finally, the movie shines because it doesn't carry a sense of taking itself seriously. There's a romantic tie in, but it doesn't draw any oxygen away from punching people in the face. You don't necessarily feel too invested in whether or not the romance goes alright, it even leads to more hilarious face punching and introspectively mumbled fucks.

I'll end it by quoting out a pump up speech from the movie:

Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Alright boys, listen up. We're sill in this thing. We just need a quick one.
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): Listen up Cash!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): We gotta work harder than them, okay?
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): Harder than them, guys.
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): You know what's hard work? Going through a divorce, she's trying to get all my money now. She can half of it, I don't give a shit. The other half, hard work, mine! Some guys on their team are fuckin' divorced. Three guys there, who's fuckin' marriages are in the fuckin' toilet.
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): We're playing divorced guys.
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Yeah!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): We gotta be fuckin' triceps, biceps, arceps hard!
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Hard!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Greek fuckin' underground gay porn hard!
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): We're all Adonis's
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Highlanders, gay porn hard!
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Gay porn hard!

[IdolEyes787]

Goon's been on my radar but your review piqued my interest enough to finally get me to watch it.

Excellent movie,very well written and although it purposely revels in (movie) sports cliches it does so knowingly and with such truth affection that the results are more a self contained mythology then the usual Hollywood saccharine ,vomit inducing stuff.

Also although it may not " take itself seriously" it's also smart enough not to wink at the camera and that's important as Seann William Scott staying rock solid(hard) in character is what really allows you to buy into everything.
In doing so Goon amazingly manages to rein itself in just enough to walk that fine line between outright farce and wishful possibility.

Not the stiff of Oscars but still satisfying to the last drop .....of blood and the occasional tooth.

[mjmacky]

Goon's been on my radar but your review piqued my interest enough to finally get me to watch it.

Excellent movie,very well written and although it purposely revels in (movie) sports cliches it does so knowingly and with such truth affection that the results are more a self contained mythology then the usual Hollywood saccharine ,vomit inducing stuff.

Also although it may not " take itself seriously" it's also smart enough not to wink at the camera and that's important as Seann William Scott staying rock solid(hard) in character is what really allows you to buy into everything.
In doing so Goon amazingly manages to rein itself in just enough to walk that fine line between outright farce and wishful possibility.

Not the stiff of Oscars but still satisfying to the last drop .....of blood and the occasional tooth.

I had a feeling you would love the movie, but am frankly surprised you saw it after me (due to its Canadianness and hockiness). It was forever on my radar after I heard an NPR interview with Alison Pill and Jay Baruchel some months back (I think it was on either Q or Fresh Air).

[megabyteme]

I saw it when it first leaked online. Enjoyed it, as did the wyfe. Sean William Scott has beaten amazing odds and become a memorable, likable, and (most shocking of all) enduring actor. :O

[Snee]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

It has Nicholas Cage in it, this time with his own hairline. He's the ghost rider again, and I guess he's a bit mental or something because of the curse, and even more so as the goatse rider. Anyways, there's some decent-looking russian - or something - woman, and she's got a son who is special, and there's some black french church-guy with guns, played by Idris Elba, who is black, and he's is trying to save them and enlists the goatse rider to help. Also, there's some bad dudes led by the woman's ex, who are trying to kidnap her son on account of working for a demon or devil or something. And that devil-demon thingie is the boy's father and wants to possess him or whatever. Christopher Lambert is a priest or similar who betrays the good guys and tries to murder the boy, but that doesn't help. There's also some hurf blurf about a prophecy. There's a bunch of nonsense with rockets and stuff, and random fighting, before it all works out in the end because the goatse rider is really very nice.

Special appearance by the bagger 288.

The plot is inane, the scenery is mostly backdrop to something cool and burning, and I guess Cage, Elba and Lambert are trying, but I think they're all a bit sleepy, except that occasionally Cage has had too much coffee or possibly amphetamine and flips.

I did, however, like the effects surrounding the ghost rider himself, even if he mostly acted like a spastic.

It's basically a movie built around one character, which isn't that unusal, but they're more honest about it than I'm used to. It doesn't help that he's only interesting when he transforms, and when he does, he's got about three lines of dialogue.

I really like the comic, at least as it was in the late nineties, and the effects does that justice, but I can't really say that the story of the original comic was that fantastic. What made it awesome was the premise, and they took that, with this movie, and added nothing of value.


Oh, and Nicholas Cage ruins cool-looking cartoony bits with shitty narrating.

[IdolEyes787]

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

It has Nicholas Cage in it, this time with his own hairline. He's the ghost rider again, and I guess he's a bit mental or something because of the curse, and even more so as the goatse rider. Anyways, there's some decent-looking russian - or something - woman, and she's got a son who is special, and there's some black french church-guy with guns, played by Idris Elba, who is black, and he's is trying to save them and enlists the goatse rider to help. Also, there's some bad dudes led by the woman's ex, who are trying to kidnap her son on account of working for a demon or devil or something. And that devil-demon thingie is the boy's father and wants to possess him or whatever. Christopher Lambert is a priest or similar who betrays the good guys and tries to murder the boy, but that doesn't help. There's also some hurf blurf about a prophecy. There's a bunch of nonsense with rockets and stuff, and random fighting, before it all works out in the end because the goatse rider is really very nice.



From the description possibly greatest movie ever.:O

[Snee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=purgXaoqhPY


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azEvfD4C6ow



Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

It has Nicholas Cage in it, this time with his own hairline. He's the ghost rider again, and I guess he's a bit mental or something because of the curse, and even more so as the goatse rider. Anyways, there's some decent-looking russian - or something - woman, and she's got a son who is special, and there's some black french church-guy with guns, played by Idris Elba, who is black, and he's is trying to save them and enlists the goatse rider to help. Also, there's some bad dudes led by the woman's ex, who are trying to kidnap her son on account of working for a demon or devil or something. And that devil-demon thingie is the boy's father and wants to possess him or whatever. Christopher Lambert is a priest or similar who betrays the good guys and tries to murder the boy, but that doesn't help. There's also some hurf blurf about a prophecy. There's a bunch of nonsense with rockets and stuff, and random fighting, before it all works out in the end because the goatse rider is really very nice.



From the description possibly greatest movie ever.:O
Except for how uninspired it was, and that it could be nearly any movie out of the Prophecy-series, if you took the goatse rider out, and added another angel or two, it was totally awesome. Yes.

[The_Martinator]

Moneyball

I like sports. I like watching sports. I like discussing sports (one sport more than any other). Because of that, this movie was not as good for me as it may have been for other people. I just think Brad Pitt has done his best work already. A long time ago.

Maybe it's just because I don't even understand everything about baseball...

EDIT: Forgot to rate it. 10/10 Amazing movie, bruh!

[mjmacky]

Moneyball

I like sports. I like watching sports. I like discussing sports (one sport more than any other). Because of that, this movie was not as good for me as it may have been for other people. I just think Brad Pitt has done his best work already. A long time ago.

Maybe it's just because I don't even understand everything about baseball...

EDIT: Forgot to rate it. 10/10 Amazing movie, bruh!

One of these statements is not like the other, one of these statements is...

[Snee]

Iron Sky

American two-man lunar expedition, one part stereotypical-sounding black man, stumbles upon nazi moon base. From there on we're launched into a fantastic plot involving a presidential election, a nazi invasion from the moon, and space-battles.

It is brilliant.

It's satirical in that it mocks several things american, and that the president is more than a little bit similar to Sarah Palin.

It also borrows influences from several directions and manages to both reference Charlie Chaplin's the Dictator, and sport certain scenery and plot elements that bring Dr Strangelove to mind.

It's an odd movie in that the plot and much of the acting is more or less B-Movie, whereas much of the effects would work in a pretty decent decent hollywood production. As a comedy it sometimes seems a bit simple, but it transcends what should make it bad, and ends up being one of the better movies I've seen this year.

I highly recommend it, only don't take it too seriously.

[manker]

Iron Sky

American two-man lunar expedition, one part stereotypical-sounding black man, stumbles upon nazi moon base. From there on we're launched into a fantastic plot involving a presidential election, a nazi invasion from the moon, and space-battles.

It is brilliant.

It's satirical in that it mocks several things american, and that the president is more than a little bit similar to Sarah Palin.

It also borrows influences from several directions and manages to both reference Charlie Chaplin's the Dictator, and sport certain scenery and plot elements that bring Dr Strangelove to mind.

It's an odd movie in that the plot and much of the acting is more or less B-Movie, whereas much of the effects would work in a pretty decent decent hollywood production. As a comedy it sometimes seems a bit simple, but it transcends what should make it bad, and ends up being one of the better movies I've seen this year.

I highly recommend it, only don't take it too seriously.After reading what you said about it yesterday, I immediately stole it off ben.
Sounds fab.

[Snee]

Goon (2011 or 2012, whatever) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1456635/)

It's a hockey movie about an enforcer. It's also the film adaptation of a book written by Doug Smith, who was himself an enforcer in the 80s.

First off, I loved the movie and I would recommend it. You don't even need to like hockey. If I were to force it into one genre, I'd be forced to call it a comedy. The main character, Doug Glatt, is a dumb, tough, and excessively polite and gentle man. A lot of this movie is driven by Sean William Scott's portrayal of this character, who couldn't think his way out of a thimble, but is just a genuinely talented and nice guy that you don't want to hate him for it. So basically, you have this sweet man mercilessly beating hockey players for pretty much the whole film. In addition, the whole cast is a collection of quirky comedic character that don't tend to fit a particular archetype.

There's a lot of punching in the face in this movie. The faces are usually unguarded while being repeatedly punched.

Finally, the movie shines because it doesn't carry a sense of taking itself seriously. There's a romantic tie in, but it doesn't draw any oxygen away from punching people in the face. You don't necessarily feel too invested in whether or not the romance goes alright, it even leads to more hilarious face punching and introspectively mumbled fucks.

I'll end it by quoting out a pump up speech from the movie:

Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Alright boys, listen up. We're sill in this thing. We just need a quick one.
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): Listen up Cash!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): We gotta work harder than them, okay?
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): Harder than them, guys.
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): You know what's hard work? Going through a divorce, she's trying to get all my money now. She can half of it, I don't give a shit. The other half, hard work, mine! Some guys on their team are fuckin' divorced. Three guys there, who's fuckin' marriages are in the fuckin' toilet.
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): We're playing divorced guys.
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Yeah!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): We gotta be fuckin' triceps, biceps, arceps hard!
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Hard!
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Greek fuckin' underground gay porn hard!
John Stevenson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0531061/): We're all Adonis's
Gord Ogilvey (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0165067/): Highlanders, gay porn hard!
Doug Glatt (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0005405/): Gay porn hard!
Watched it purely based on this review.

I don't like hockey, but I enjoyed the fuck out of it.

[IdolEyes787]

Iron Sky

American two-man lunar expedition, one part stereotypical-sounding black man, stumbles upon nazi moon base. From there on we're launched into a fantastic plot involving a presidential election, a nazi invasion from the moon, and space-battles.

It is brilliant.

It's satirical in that it mocks several things american, and that the president is more than a little bit similar to Sarah Palin.

It also borrows influences from several directions and manages to both reference Charlie Chaplin's the Dictator, and sport certain scenery and plot elements that bring Dr Strangelove to mind.

It's an odd movie in that the plot and much of the acting is more or less B-Movie, whereas much of the effects would work in a pretty decent decent hollywood production. As a comedy it sometimes seems a bit simple, but it transcends what should make it bad, and ends up being one of the better movies I've seen this year.

I highly recommend it, only don't take it too seriously.

I watched and it's epic,whatever that means, in an updated 50's flying saucer movie meets political satire sort of way.Contains some of the best comedy that you are likely to get this year but it's also a bit uneven or maybe my North American sensibilities just didn't gel with it perfectly.

I could have done without the way they decided to end it as well although I suppose that sort of thing is almost de rigueur for this sort of thing.
Reminded me a bit of the type of comedies that they turned out regularly in the early '60's The Mouse That Roared/The Mouse on the Moon,The Russians are Coming etc.

Glad you got me to watch it.Different definitely but mostly in a good way.

[Snee]

I knew you'd like it.

Did you watch it all the way to the end of the credits? I'm thinking it might be a clue for the sequel they're discussing.

edit: Heck knows how a sequel will live up to it, but when it ended I definitely wanted more.

[mjmacky]

Watched it purely based on this review.

I don't like hockey, but I enjoyed the fuck out of it.

In turn I am acquiring Ferrous Firmament.

[IdolEyes787]

Did you watch it all the way to the end of the credits? I'm thinking it might be a clue for the sequel they're discussing.


I have the attention span of a squirrel on crack, so no.

I have now and colour me perplexed.

[Artemis]

Safe House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1599348/

Let me introduce my treatise on this movie by telling you how deeply underwhelmed I was by it. If you wish to read on further I will explain but that about encapsulates the whole movie right there.
This movie is another spy/ counter spy plot driven drama, or at least it is supposed to be, the plot is very transparent and weak, leaving it looking like the poor retarded cousin of such offerings as Unknown or The Bourne Identity.
I was left half way through the movie with the urge to shake Denzel Washington for one one of his rare mis-steps, he is usually a much better judge of the screenplays that he signs up for. That is the weakness, the screenplay is vapid, all the rest is competent or better, although the character development is minimalist leading to two dimensional characters and somewhat childlike good guy /bad guy characterisations.
In conclusion, I can't recommend it, this is supposed to be a highbrow plot driven drama, but the plot is childlike, if you have half a brain you will be insulted.

[mjmacky]

Safe House

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1599348/

Let me introduce my treatise on this movie by telling you how deeply underwhelmed I was by it. If you wish to read on further I will explain but that about encapsulates the whole movie right there.

It was garbage, they make a couple of these movies every year that just use a different small hook. My mother-in-law eats these up which is the reason I grabbed it and watched it against my better prejudice. My in-laws also think Osama bin Laden is still running around the world and there's a huge cover-up.

[clocker]

Fastest- a documentary narrated by Ewan McGregor about MotoGP superstar Valentino Rossi.
Even if you're not familiar with or a fan of motorcycle roadracing, Fastest has some of the most mesmerizing footage you're ever likely to see.
A 350 lb. machine capable of speeds in excess of 220 mph is a magnificent thing to behold, especially in slow motion when you can truly appreciate the violence and beauty involved.

The film does not require much knowledge of the technical aspects or the history of the sport, just watch for the spectacle and marvel at the skill and bravery of the riders.
Mostly in English, there are quite a few interviews in Italian with no subtitles...kind of weird.
Doesn't really matter, the visuals are what matters.

I really enjoyed it.

[mjmacky]

A 350 lb. machine capable of speeds in excess of 220 mph is a magnificent thing to behold, especially in slow motion when you can truly appreciate the violence and beauty involved.

For a second there, I almost thought you were talking about me.

[IdolEyes787]

Crazy Stupid Love. A sort of gentle, kinda old fashion film about the many travails of love.
I liked it because it had a bad case of the uncynicals.

Steve Carell still does his Steve Carell thing but in this case it's muted and appropriate enough to the story not to bring the whole thing crashing down.
Other than that I spent half the movie trying to place who played Emma Stone's boyfriend until it finally dawned on me that it was Josh Groban.

I discovered that he doesn't even need to sing to still be highly offensive.

[IdolEyes787]

50/50 For me a very good,bordering great movie. Not great in the Summer blockbuster giant battles sort of way but in a very human one.

Going in I actually had never been a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and that goes all the way back to The Powers That Be, even though he's featured prominently in some movies that I have really liked.
Here though he loses that little bit of annoying swagger that I have always associated with him and gives such an undeniably truthful performance that it basically makes the film.

The very ending was a minor let-down but there probably really any place else to go without tacking on a lot of pointless stuff that would have lessened the impact of the preceding scenes.
As for Seth Rogen's character being too "unrealistic" I think he was meant to convey certain concepts/attitudes not be "realistic"

[clocker]

Going in I actually had never been a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and that goes all the way back to The Powers That Be, even though he's featured prominently in some movies that I have really liked.
Here though he loses that little bit of annoying swagger that I have always associated with him and gives such an undeniably truthful performance that it basically makes the film.

This "annoying swagger" is nowhere present in Brick or The Lookout, both of which I really enjoyed.

[IdolEyes787]

I don't know I still got a douche vibe off him in The Lookout.Maybe because his character was a douche.

I had to look up Brick because it didn't ring a bell and then I realized I have seen it and I'll give you that one. Weird movie though, stylish film noir for teens.

[Busyman]

Going in I actually had never been a fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt and that goes all the way back to The Powers That Be, even though he's featured prominently in some movies that I have really liked.
Here though he loses that little bit of annoying swagger that I have always associated with him and gives such an undeniably truthful performance that it basically makes the film.

This "annoying swagger" is nowhere present in Brick or The Lookout, both of which I really enjoyed.

Yeah, what "annoying swagger"....for that guy? I loved those movies.

[IdolEyes787]

It's an opinion,you don't have to agree with it.:ermm:
Anyway if you insist on disagreeing with everything I post just to be a douche please at least put some logic behind it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uy4vEGSVdk

[Busyman]

It's an opinion,you don't have to agree with it.:ermm:
Anyway if you insist on disagreeing with everything I post just to be a douche please at least put some logic behind it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uy4vEGSVdk

I wasn't talking to you and couldn't give a flying fuck whether you see logic in it.

I mean I think I've disagreed a whole two times. It ain't all o' dat so quit being the resident twunt. :dry:

[IdolEyes787]

It's an opinion,you don't have to agree with it.:ermm:
Anyway if you insist on disagreeing with everything I post just to be a douche please at least put some logic behind it.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Uy4vEGSVdk

I wasn't talking to you and couldn't give a flying fuck whether you see logic in it.

I mean I think I've disagreed a whole two times. It ain't all o' dat so quit being the resident twunt. :dry:

You quoted me in a negative connotation so whether you are willing to admit to it or not you were "talking" to me .

Anyway sorry if you see me as somehow usurping your cunt position and even sorrier for whatever happened in your life to have made you the way you are.

[Busyman]

I wasn't talking to you and couldn't give a flying fuck whether you see logic in it.

I mean I think I've disagreed a whole two times. It ain't all o' dat so quit being the resident twunt. :dry:

You quoted me in a negative connotation so whether you are willing to admit to it or not you were "talking" to me .

Anyway sorry if you see me as somehow usurping your cunt position and even sorrier for whatever happened in your life to have made you the way you are.

No you being the obvious twunt that you are is negative. Me not seeing an actor the same way as you is "nothing to get uppity about". i I mean Wtf? Were fragile feelings hurt or something?

You are pathetic. Move the fuck on.

[IdolEyes787]

Great just when I finally have the importunity to get involved in a really good blood feud I find that I lack the requisite levels of pettiness and misdirected, single-minded hostility ,not to mention interest to really make it work.:(

I dunno maybe try being less silly and see if that helps.

Great just when I finally have the importunity to get involved in a really good blood feud I find that I lack the requisite levels of pettiness and misdirected,single-minded hostility ,not to mention interest to really make it work.:(

I dunno maybe try being less silly and see if that helps.

Also obvious my face isn't anywhere in your proximity so doubtless I'm getting the full onslaught of your ....courage.

[Busyman]

Great just when I finally have the importunity to get involved in a really good blood feud I find that I lack the requisite levels of pettiness and misdirected, single-minded hostility ,not to mention interest to really make it work.:(

I dunno maybe try being less silly and see if that helps.

Great just when I finally have the importunity to get involved in a really good blood feud I find that I lack the requisite levels of pettiness and misdirected,single-minded hostility ,not to mention interest to really make it work.:(

I dunno maybe try being less silly and see if that helps.

Also obvious my face isn't anywhere in your proximity so doubtless I'm getting the full onslaught of your ....courage.

I'm taking that all that hot gobbage you are spewing means you are going to piss off then.:huh:

Faaaanfuckingtastic.

I have no interest in your dumbass internet blood feud so please take your cuntery elsewhere.:wacko:

[IdolEyes787]

I think this would be a good place to stop before you go and make an even larger ass of yourself.
I know you won't though because that's what asses do.

[ckrit]

HANDBAGS!


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Prometheus

Alien prequel(/reboot?). Archeologists find map to another world hidden in old cave paintings and whatnot. An interstellar expedition is mounted with the starship Prometheus. At the destination they find a complex of tunnels, and a crashed and ancient starship. Infectious substances and nasty creatures emerge. Hilarity ensues.

I found it to be good. While it lacked the horror of the first Alien, or the brilliant action sequences of Aliens, and the plot didn't feel as solid as either of the plots of those two, it still had its charms.

I was quite enamored by the, if somewhat sparse, usage of 3D-technology in the movie. I also liked what looked like the proto-forms of what we see in the Alien-franchise. And I didn't mind the mystery of the movie. Sometimes it's good that not everything is explained.

The effects and props worked for me, and I found the Prometheus itself believable, if unexciting in design. The one issue I had with the effects was Guy Pierce's old-man make-up, which just looked wrong.

As far as the acting goes, I don't know if I felt that anyone really shone, but performances were for the greater part solid. Noomi Rapace's accent was a bit off, but I still liked her, even if she's no Ripley. Also, Michael Fassbender makes an excellent android.

In short, I liked the movie, even though it wasn't perfect.

Seeing the IT-Crowd's "Prime" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6D9SzKwHQM) and Threesome's Ritchie on the flight deck made me smile.

[Desiree]

Men in black 3

[IdolEyes787]

HANDBAGS!


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Prometheus

Alien prequel(/reboot?). Archeologists find map to another world hidden in old cave paintings and whatnot. An interstellar expedition is mounted with the starship Prometheus. At the destination they find a complex of tunnels, and a crashed and ancient starship. Infectious substances and nasty creatures emerge. Hilarity ensues.

I found it to be good. While it lacked the horror of the first Alien, or the brilliant action sequences of Aliens, and the plot didn't feel as solid as either of the plots of those two, it still had its charms.

I was quite enamored by the, if somewhat sparse, usage of 3D-technology in the movie. I also liked what looked like the proto-forms of what we see in the Alien-franchise. And I didn't mind the mystery of the movie. Sometimes it's good that not everything is explained.

The effects and props worked for me, and I found the Prometheus itself believable, if unexciting in design. The one issue I had with the effects was Guy Pierce's old-man make-up, which just looked wrong.

As far as the acting goes, I don't know if I felt that anyone really shone, but performances were for the greater part solid. Noomi Rapace's accent was a bit off, but I still liked her, even if she's no Ripley. Also, Michael Fassbender makes an excellent android.

In short, I liked the movie, even though it wasn't perfect.

Seeing the IT-Crowd's "Prime" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6D9SzKwHQM) and Threesome's Ritchie on the flight deck made me smile.

Yes but apparently you watch anime and have serious conversations concerning comic books so I have to take everything you say with a grain of salt.

[ckrit]

Men in black 3

[Artemis]

Men in black 3

Read the title of the thread again s l o w l y, it isn't name a random film title, spamtard. :blink:

[IdolEyes787]

My Friend Flicka 19/43

[Snee]

My Friend Flicka 19/43

Touché

[IdolEyes787]

Scaramouche 19/52 .18 of those points are for the name.

The Debt 2010.
An interesting if largely lacking in excitement tale of an ill fated mission by three Mossaud to capture a Nazi war criminal know as the Surgeon of Birkenau and bring him to justice and how what happened in the past still has repercussions in the present.

I was surprised that the bulk of the movie was told in an extended flashback and that the film was more driven by the core mystery than the action.
Not a bad movie but I felt that mostly there was nothing in the characters to elicit much sympathy or disgust until it was almost too late to matter.

[clocker]

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012).
There is not the slightest whiff of irony or cynicism in this movie- everything works out exactly as you'd hope (if you're a total optimist) and the old people win.
Even the single death is a more or less happy one.

A first rate cast of British all stars- Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, etc.- are a group of retirees lured to an Indian retirement hotel run by- who else?- Dev Patel.
There are no plot twists, the entire story is laid out and progresses in a series of cliches/tropes as if in a film school outline.

And yet I enjoyed it and was glad to have been entertained.
Sometimes kind trumps epic.

[Busyman]

Keep 'em coming guys. This is a fantastic thread.

[mjmacky]

The Debt 2010.
An interesting if largely lacking in excitement tale of an ill fated mission by three Mossaud to capture a Nazi war criminal know as the Surgeon of Birkenau and bring him to justice and how what happened in the past still has repercussions in the present.

Kind of sounds like Munich being reclassified under a different film genre.

[redwhitevision]

Chronicle
(imdb link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593 )

Absolutely brilliant. The best low budget movie I've ever seen, enjoyed every second. The ending is a bit awkward but all in all this movie is different, highly recommend it.

[Busyman]

Chronicle
(imdb link : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1706593 )

Absolutely brilliant. The best low budget movie I've ever seen, enjoyed every second. The ending is a bit awkward but all in all this movie is different, highly recommend it.

Damnit! Me and wifey were watching that and never finished it. The only bad part is how they got those powers.

No one would do that shit.:ermm:

The black kid was in The Wire.

[redwhitevision]

IMHO go ahead and finish it. of course, it has it's flaws but overall i kinda liked the idea of the movie and the way the scenes were shot.

[Saborsoul]

Dark Shadows

After hearing Danny Elfman's score, I was primed for this film. To my utter amazement it began upon a hill on high, and literally crashed over the
Collinwood Clifts. Casting was workable, dear lord Mr Frid had not long passed before release. Vampire concept for Barnabus went from serious
menacing and extraordinary to cheap comedic scripting, and the Angelique character again held promise, but went downhill from intense to comedic cheapening
of the Dark Shadow series. And the totally unexplained werewolf daughter scene was the stake that killed this film for me. Dan Curtis must be rich, and senile.
Sorry this was not as indepth as I would have wished, but I'm trying to actually forget this one. Do yourself a favor Christmas gift this one to anyone you don't consider a true friend, in fact I'd send it to my old boss as a gift.

[clocker]

Holy crap...a real post from a new person.
Wonders never cease.

[Artemis]

There's actually been a couple of real honest to goodness non-douchey members come out of the woodwork lately (plus a someone on mushrooms in the hardware section), you can color me gobsmacked. :blink:

[clocker]

I didn't get the deluxe Crayola set, so I don't have "gobsmacked".
Will Cornflower Blue work?

[mjmacky]

Aren't gobs off-white?

[Artemis]

Aren't gobs off-white?

Depends what they are gobs of. :blink:

[mjmacky]

Aren't gobs off-white?

Depends what they are gobs of. :blink:

Whatever it is, a blue hue would be a concern.

[IdolEyes787]

Aren't gobs off-white?

In your case tar coloured with an occasional dab of whatever a diseased lung's hue is .:)

[mjmacky]

Aren't gobs off-white?

In your case tar coloured with an occasional dab of whatever a diseased lung's hue is .:)

Are you inferring that I hock up pieces of my lung?

[clocker]

Not so much inferring as straight up saying it.

[IdolEyes787]

In your case tar coloured with an occasional dab of whatever a diseased lung's hue is .:)

Are you inferring that I hock up pieces of my lung?

Are you trying to say that you don't?:)

Like my gnue strategy where I end every comment with a happy face?

I figure as so few people here seem to have any understanding of the English language, in no time at all I'll be widely considered to be the most affable person on the board.:)

[clocker]

Joseph Goebbels would approve.:)

[clocker]

The Pledge (2001)- Jack Nicholson, Robin Wright, Aaron Eckhart, et al.

I've never been a big fan of Nicholson (I think Axe body spray was based on his sweat) but he's very, very good in this film (which had flown completely under my radar till yesterday).
In fact, everyone in this movie is good and it's a very high profile cast (not many films have cameos by Helen Mirren, Benicio Del Toro and a fairly normal Mickey Roarke).

Without getting too spoiler-y it's hard to summarize the plot...basically, Nicholson is a retiring Reno police detective who gets drawn into a child murder case on his last day and it overwhelms his life.
He promises the grieving mother that he will find the killer and goes to extraordinary lengths to do so.
For such a sensational premise (he's convinced there's a serial killer at work), the film is remarkably low key, almost elegiac.

For me it was a rare experience in that the questions I was asking and the details I thought important turned out to be irrelevant...the real point isn't made clear till the movie is over and the whole thing is seen in a different light.
Like I said, it's difficult to talk about without being too revealing but I recommend it as a very interesting film, if for no other reason than Nicholson's performance.

Marley (2012)
A documentary about reggae superstar Bob Marley.
I wasn't greatly into reggae music but was fascinated to see how incredibly political and influential Bob Marley was. Bono/Geldof don't even begin to approach Bob Marley in terms of activism and charisma.
Some pretty amazing archival footage and the music ain't bad either.

[clocker]

Lockout (2012)
Another shitballs stupid "action" movie, rivals Taken for improbability.
For an excellent explanation of exactly why this movie is so execrably awful read the novel Redshirts by John Scalzi (it really is a wonderful book).

Nuff said.

[Missing]

Zombieland (2009)

One of the few zombie movies I've seen. In fact I think it's the only zombie film I've watched. I actually really enjoyed it. The main character Columbus along with his male companion Tallahassee were great together. However, the two girls Wichita and Little Rock ruined the film for me with their presence. It seemed that they were just thrown in there so the main character could have a love interest with one of them. I felt that the film could have been a lot better without them and without the main character "falling" for the selfish girl Wichita.

[clocker]

Divine Madness (1980)- Bette Midler and The Harlettes.

Bette Midler is sui generis and in my experience, one of the few real "entertainers" I've ever seen.
I first saw her in New York in the 70's and was an instant fan...she would do anything to connect with her audience, they loved her and she loved them back.
No doubt, her singing is not to everyone's taste but you cannot watch this concert and deny that she didn't give your moneys worth.

Even now, thirty years later, the staging and costumes are terrific, and some of the medleys are sheer genius.

If you simply want to be entertained by a movie, I don't think you can do better.

While I'm on the genre, I'd also recommend Stop Making Sense (Talking Heads) for it's tremendously clever production, P.U.L.S.E (Pink Floyd) for it's masterful live recreation of Dark Side of the Moon and Live in Australia (The Eagles) for a master lesson in guitar by Joe Walsh (and some great classic songs).

I think I've just totally dated myself.

[Artemis]

I would have seen the movie Stop Making Sense, but I went to see Talking Heads live that year instead (imo one of the best live bands I've ever seen). :01:


Lockout (2012)
Another shitballs stupid "action" movie, rivals Taken for improbability.
For an excellent explanation of exactly why this movie is so execrably awful read the novel Redshirts by John Scalzi (it really is a wonderful book).

Nuff said.

What is so improbable about a prison in space where all the prisoners are put into to stasis? It's only a small leap from Demolition Man after all and we have already had space marines zooming around in James Bond's Moonraker. It's all perfectly feasible, I don't know why you're getting your tits in a tangle. It's sort of Snake Plissken versus homicidal Glaswegian scousers instead of the World Wrestling Federation baddies he had to deal with in Escape from New York, but apart from that it's all perfectly rational. :blink:

[clocker]

What is so improbable about a prison in space where all the prisoners are put into to stasis?
Explain why the prison is set up to repel invasion from the outside and has such easily defeated controls for the inside.

[Artemis]

/sarcasm mode off

I can think of two reasons why the controls were easy:
1.They arrogantly believed that since their victims test subjects prisoners were going to be sleeping and didn't need that much security
2. A really well designed internally secure prison would have made the story r e a l l y s l o w. In fact it probably would have ruined the whole flow of the admittedly moronic lighthearted action and repartee.

But lots of guns on the outside was really silly.......

[clocker]

Out of the 500 prisoners released how did the Sean Connery wannabe become the undisputed leader so quickly and why did he continue to let his psychotic brother fuck things up?

Also, I actually LOLed when they encountered the gravity generator...it was a direct ripoff of the scene in Galaxy Quest where Tim Allen and Ripley come to the hallway of random pistons, except it lacked the hilarious explanation.
Again, read Redshirts...it's worth it.

[IdolEyes787]

Movies don't have to make sense to be entertaining but it certainly helps.

Also Bette Midler lost me somewhere around Beaches and Wind Beneath My Wings.
Being Midler of the road doesn't suit her.


Lockout (2012)



I rewatched Drive sat through 3 hours of Tour de France and still not bored enough to download this.

Also clocker on review you were right and Ryan Gossling's character is merely empty ,not overflowing with interesting stuff going on just below the surface.

It did get me to start reading the novel though, just so I finally get a story to associate with the visuals.

[clocker]

Movies don't have to make sense to be entertaining but it certainly helps.

It's one thing to make an audience swallow improbability but once done, internal consistency is key.
Attack the Block would be an entertaining example, Primer another (but far less exciting).
Once I've bought into your premise, don't make me keep paying by heaping impossibility upon ridiculous impossibility.

Some films simply seem intent on fucking with the audience until they either walk out or become totally brain dead.

[Snee]

Battleship

Based on the game (lol), it's basically about a fleet of good guys, trying to beat a fleet of bad guys, and they have trouble finding each other.


Better than I'd thought. Unlike Transformers, it didn't re-imagine any of my childhood memories badly. And while it pretty much was a Transformers-movie without the robots, and the product-placements, it was watchable.

The acting wasn't terrible, though why the fuck someone casted Rihanna, and had her handling guns at that, I'll never know. Other than that, the casting wasn't terrible, and there were a couple of actors in it it really didn't deserve.

The plot was meh, but the effects were pretty good.


The movie as a whole went back and forth between being really dumb, and being sentimental and cheesy, but I found myself liking it as much as is possible with a movie with no depth or point.

It had no soul, really, but it was watchable.


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Cannonball Run

A Burt Reynolds classic. About a race engaging mentals and the idle rich, those who are both, and Burt Reynolds.


What makes it worthwhile is the gallery of characters. Roger Moore and Jackie Chan feature as distorted versions of themselves, Dom DeLuise is Reynold's nutjob of a sidekick, Farrah Fawcett is the love interest, and a heap of other known and unknowns (to me anyway), bring up the rear. Obviously, it's not to be taken seriously, but if you're willing to accept it for the lighthearted comedy it's intended as, without reflecting too hard on the plot or the actions of the characters, it's fairly enjoyable.

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Lockout


Surly, master of the one-liner, CIA-agent in the future played by Guy Pearce, breaks into a space-prison controlled by the prisoners, to save the president's daughter.

Essentially Escape from New York/Escape from L.A in space.



It's not good. Downright bad, in fact. Even the effects are at times cartoonish in a way that would have fit right into the Matrix-trilogy, parts 2 or 3, and there's really no logic to anything.

I thought it was great, but as more than one of the people I watched it with pointed out, you could take Pearce's character, and insert him into anything, and it'd be funny. And I really didn't expect him to be able to do that. That said, Pearce isn't quite the only thing worth watching, in there. Joe Gilgun, whom I've only previously seen in Misfits, does a splendid job as a psychotic scotsman, who plays a large part in the story. I didn't really like him in Misfits, but here, he works. Also watch out for Lennie James, Peter Stormare and Maggie Grace - essentially, like Battleship, I felt that this had a better cast than it deserved.

But, everything said, this isn't souless, or at least not as souless (?), as Battleship. And I don't care if the rest of you hate it :snooty:

[Artemis]

But, everything said, this isn't souless, or at least not as souless (?), as Battleship. And I don't care if the rest of you hate it :snooty:

Clocker REALLY hates it: http://filesharingtalk.com/threads/444081-Critically-Evaluate-the-last-movie-you-saw/page36?p=3689064&viewfull=1#post3689064

so blame him. :blink:

[Snee]

Yes. I read. And Idc.

[Artemis]

I kind of liked it, it was what Escape From New York would have been if John Carpenter was on Ketamine when he filmed it, with a healthy dash of Demolition Man's storyline heaved in for good measure, so you aren't all alone in the wilderness, and your last recommendation, Iron Sky was brill. :yup:

[Artemis]

The Hunger Games

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392170/

This is the story of a post-apocalyptic society, reformed from the ashes of the North American countries, it is called Panem, and has 12 districts and and the capitol (city). In the past there was a rebellion by the districts and after this was quelled, the hunger games were instated as a yearly tribute to the capitol. In this totalitarian society the tribute is a young male and female from each district who are chosen at the reaping to fight to the death in the hunger games until there is a lone victor.

In the movie there are strong visuals of the french upper class and it's idle rich at the time of the french revolution, as well as the obvious parallels to the gladiatorial games of ancient Rome. This is an underlying theme to the movie, the oppression of the totalitarian state which is the backdrop to the hunger games and why the poorer districts are forced to give young people each year, while standing little chance of them surviving, yet this theme is not developed at all apart from a riot happening as a result of one incident in the games there is no real political upheaval. Which is truly strange in a story that purports to be about totalitarian oppression of the masses, the theme wanders off and becomes a story of two star crossed lovers?

The storyline for this movie based on the first of a trilogy, strongly reminds me of Stephen King's early work under the pseudonym Richard Bachman, in particular the two short novels, the Running Man and the Long Walk, yet the ending is vapid and does not live up to the promise of the underlying storylines which seem to become stillborn and are left with little explanation.

The character development too, is basically non-existent leaving you not even feeling for the deaths of the characters in the hunger games, they have no real meaning since they are so two dimensional and bland.

In conclusion, this isn't a bad movie, but it could have been so much more, and for this reason I was disappointed by it. I genuinely enjoy the post-apocalyptic near future stories, and the fact that many of them are a comment on the political situation of the times, and while this movie had that potential, it went all twilight on me at the 11th hour, leaving me feeling just a bit cheated.

[megabyteme]

I agree with you, Art. I didn't dislike the movie, but it felt extremely empty, and would have been far better delivered as a Rated-R (18+) much like the Alien films. Unfortunately, the movie (and books, I believe) are targeted towards the teen summer-movie-goer crowd and not adults. Apparently, that is where the big money is to be raked in.

Regardless, the evil-opposition (ones out to get the star of the show) had FAR too much of a paperboard cut-out feel to them. Even when we see them meet their (inevitable) demise, there is a sense that we should be counting down one more so that the ending can come.

Even the "romance" was one-dimensional. There's not even any reason to be on Team-X or Team-Y as with the Twatlight series.

Empty calories, to be sure. Are there elements that could have been developed in its 2:15 run time, certainly.

3out of 5 stars. Hint: See it on medication/street drugs/alcohol and it may gain another star.

[IdolEyes787]

I would say that the new J.J. Abrams series directly rips off elements of this but I fear the wrath of Busyman.

Anyway the main romantic relationships from the book were unsurprisingly altered for movie idiot consumption as were the generated creatures and the climatic fight which proved to be the biggest letdown for me.

Ten seconds to wrap up two hours of build up.Yawn.

[stitched]

i watched "living in oblivion"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/

quote from review on the site
"Living in Oblivion is an unusual, funny, and interesting example of the movie-about-movies genre, focusing on the low budget, independent movie making scene. The lead performances by Steve Buscemi and Catherine Keener are first-rate, and the supporting cast is excellent as well. The film veers from satire to realism to surrealism in depicting the problems and tensions involved in off-off-Hollywood filmmaking"

i found it funny and entertaining, once you sit thru the beginning 7/10 may be even 8/10.

[megabyteme]

i watched "living in oblivion"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/

quote from review on the site
"Living in Oblivion is an unusual, funny, and interesting example of the movie-about-movies genre, focusing on the low budget, independent movie making scene. The lead performances by Steve Buscemi and Catherine Keener are first-rate, and the supporting cast is excellent as well. The film veers from satire to realism to surrealism in depicting the problems and tensions involved in off-off-Hollywood filmmaking"

i found it funny and entertaining, once you sit thru the beginning 7/10 may be even 8/10.

Thanks for contributing, stitched. For future note, this section strongly favors original thought/writing. There is a rate the movies thread (but I can see that you were trying to go beyond that). All I'm saying is that your effort was appreciated, but we are looking for yet another notch up in this thread. :)

[IdolEyes787]

Forum Nazi.


Forum Nazi.

I heard that The Bourne Legacy isn't very good so 4/10.

[Artemis]

Forum Nazi.


Forum Nazi.

I heard that The Bourne Legacy isn't very good so 4/10.

Just because you couldn't get your jackboots on in time, doesn't mean you have to sulk. :blink:

[IdolEyes787]

Don't make me hurt you.

[Artemis]

:naughty:

[IdolEyes787]

:wacko:

I watched the Total Recall remake which was basically as God awful as you would expect anything done by Len Wiseman(excluding Kate Beckinsale) to be.

Every single thing that they deemed to change from the original was made infinitely worse.

Colin Ferrel makes a decent action hero type and is plenty "likable " enough but as stated in almost every review ,the whole thing takes itself far too seriously and yearns for the simple dopiness of Arnold's one-liners and a translocation of the second act to Mars.

So in conclusion , if nothing else this proves that throwing money at a guy (Wiseman) who turns out shite medium budget movies ,will in the end get you nothing more than a shite big budget movie.

[stitched]

i watched "living in oblivion"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0113677/

quote from review on the site
"Living in Oblivion is an unusual, funny, and interesting example of the movie-about-movies genre, focusing on the low budget, independent movie making scene. The lead performances by Steve Buscemi and Catherine Keener are first-rate, and the supporting cast is excellent as well. The film veers from satire to realism to surrealism in depicting the problems and tensions involved in off-off-Hollywood filmmaking"

i found it funny and entertaining, once you sit thru the beginning 7/10 may be even 8/10.

Thanks for contributing, stitched. For future note, this section strongly favors original thought/writing. There is a rate the movies thread (but I can see that you were trying to go beyond that). All I'm saying is that your effort was appreciated, but we are looking for yet another notch up in this thread. :)

ok thank you ,next time i will write a little more in detail.

[Artemis]

:wacko:

I watched the Total Recall remake which was basically as God awful as you would expect anything done by Len Wiseman(excluding Kate Beckinsale) to be.

Every single thing that they deemed to change from the original was made infinitely worse.

Colin Ferrel makes a decent action hero type and is plenty "likable " enough but as stated in almost every review ,the whole thing takes itself far too seriously and yearns for the simple dopiness of Arnold's one-liners and a translocation of the second act to Mars.

So in conclusion , if nothing else this proves that throwing money at a guy (Wiseman) who turns out shite medium budget movies ,will in the end get you nothing more than a shite big budget movie.

On the subject of cringemaking remakes, another I am truly dreading (no pun intended) is Judge Dredd. The original was a hammy take on the classic 2000 A.D. comic hero, but the trailer I have seen for the remake, totally ignores most of the original storyline and becomes yet another Hollywood 're-imagining'.

[megabyteme]

Thanks for contributing, stitched. For future note, this section strongly favors original thought/writing. There is a rate the movies thread (but I can see that you were trying to go beyond that). All I'm saying is that your effort was appreciated, but we are looking for yet another notch up in this thread. :)

ok thank you ,next time i will write a little more in detail.

:chapeau:, stitched.

[IdolEyes787]

Wow nobody's posted in this thread for like 6 years.

Star Trek Into Dumbness (Star date something or other)

I enjoyed much of the movie even though it broke the cardinal rule of good science fiction in that it lacked any imagination or originality.:mellow:
Actually ironically the "good" parts were the refurbished ones and the "bad" parts were everything else which basically amounted to a bunch of contrived and silly excuses for FX action sequences that weren't intrinsic to the story and were basically just there to be there or sell Coke or something.

I will mention that I thought the inversion of the Kirk/Spock scene directly stolen from Wrath of Khan was pretty well done unlike what comes after that didn't really add anything except destroy almost 50 years of what Mr Spock's character is supposedly all about and make me wish the movie was 15 minutes shorter.

Other than that the cast impersonates well .The one notable exception being Sherlock Holmes Benedict Cumberbatch which obviously therefore makes him the best thing in the entire movie.

If I were to rate it I'd give it a

[halo9176]

I saw the new Star Trek movie... IdolEyes you really did the topic justice and tore the movie a new whole lol.
As someone who cannot remember much of the original series or Star Trek Wrath of Khan, I have to say I really enjoyed it. It got me very excited to the possibility of more ST movies, even possibly a new TV series.
Movie itself was a lot of fun and wasn't complete fluff.. unlike Iron man 3

IM3 was a typical action adventure with absolutely no thinking necessary.

[IdolEyes787]

The Trouble with the Curve.

Man I really wanted to like this movie as I'm all about the hokey but this film isn't anywhere near getting it right.

The main problem is that it insists on concentrating on stuff that no one watching really cares about like the estranged father/daughter relationship(gee don't know how that's going to turn out?) or the sparks between the daughter and the guy from N Sync and leaving the good stuff to a 2 minute side note at the end.
Also Timberlake seems to be acting in a totally different movie or maybe he was simply reliving his hosting of the Espy Awards where being preternaturally glib is seen as a virtue and the fact that Eastwood is basically redoing Walt Kowalski from Gran Torino doesn't help much either.

Anyway liked the Latino kid who should have featured much more prominently if not for the delusions of the writers and director who strangely believed that the "twist" telegraphed as it was, still needed to be shot as a surprise.

My advice is to watch The Natural several times even though Redford is himself miscast and then find a Justin Timberlake Cd to smash.

[megabyteme]

The Trouble with the Curve.

We enjoyed it as a time-passer. It was interesting that both Adams and Timberlake both had their own level of charm, but together they did not seem to have any real chemistry. Eastwood is slightly more likeable than seeing Nicholson repeating the same character over and over and over. However, it would be nice to see him attempt something a bit different.

That peanut guy scene was telegraphed to an embarrassing level. They would have done better by not introducing him at all, rather than the peanut "fastball". :pinch:

FTMP, Timberlake isn't too bad, he's just no Marky Mark. :no:

[pootystomp]

FTMP, Timberlake isn't too bad, he's just no Marky Mark. :no:

Still can't believe he was cheated out of an Oscar nom for The Happening

[IdolEyes787]

Let's compare Timberlake to Wahlberg.

Timberlake: Mickey Mouse Club,N Sync,solo music career that anyone who isn't ghey would be ashamed of garnered him 5 Grammies,a bunch of shite movies and The Social Network, won him a couple Emmys,rich as fuck,travels the World mostly at other people's expense, now only works because he wants to, married to that hot piece of ass Jessica Biel.

Wahlberg: Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch,underwear model, for ever great movie he's been in like The Departed or Three Kings he's been in one like Planet of the Apes or The Other Guys but still nominated for 2 Oscars,produced several well received TV series,travels the World mostly at other people's expense,rich as fuck and now only works because he wants to, married to hot piece of ass fashion model Rhea Durham.

OK whatever we think about them ,clearly there are no losers here.:mellow:

Next up Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Johnny Depp.:mellow:

[pootystomp]

Next up Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Johnny Depp.:mellow:

Easy, DiCaprio wins.

Every good thing about Depp is negated by every pretentious scarf he wears. If my math is correct, that would be a wash.

[IdolEyes787]

Next up Leonardo DiCaprio vs. Johnny Depp.:mellow:

Easy, DiCaprio wins.

Every good thing about Depp is negated by every pretentious scarf he wears. If my math is correct, that would be a wash.

DiCaprio - Critters 3
Depp - Nightmare on Elm Street
Point Depp

DiCaprio -currently dating his 3rd or 4th Victoria Secret model
Depp - currently dating Amber Heard who's bisexual
Point Depp

DiCaprio - 3 Oscar nominations.Best known for Titanic
Depp - 3 Oscar nominations.Best known for Pirates of the Caribbean
Point Depp

Depp-voluntarily chose to live in France
DiCaprio - did not
Game set and match DiCaprio:mellow:

[Stehle]

Game set and match DiCaprio:mellow:

Agreed! :)

[Stehle]

"Warm Bodies"

Caught this one last night amid a bleak outlook for little screen watching. I was pleasantly surprised at this horror/comedy/romance. Being an avid TWD (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520211/) fan, but am not into all zombie movies. It was a relaxing way to pass a Saturday night. Nicholas Hoult did a nice job with his character and I soon found myself getting lost in the story. The director Jonathan Levine weaved in and out of flashback sequences, but they were not overly done and added to the pace of the story in general. All in all, not to shabby if you to tend like this genre. :)

(WWZ (http://www.worldwarzmovie.com/) promises to be a bit more intense.) :alien:

[megabyteme]

"Warm Bodies"

I started to feel that the genre was exhausted, and reluctantly gave it a watch. I was pleasantly surprised.

[mjmacky]

I don't think I can get tired of zombie movies, for that would be like getting tired of movies with people in them. I live in a brain dead world with a minority of functioning survivors, so there is no exhausting the suspense of belief.

[IdolEyes787]

Olymputz Has Fallen or setting the bar for taking over the White House movies really,really low for White House Down.

While I understand (and generally appreciate) the visceral appeal of the lone wolf/one man army type of movie, this film is total shite.
OK maybe if you had never seen a movie or read a book the constant use hoary old cliches might not offend you, but for anyone who has.....

To whit (spoilers)

The disgraced agent , thrust by Fate into one last chance,against all odds chance for redemption.:mellow:
The President's son emerging from the car just in time to witness his mother's death.Also the President's son knowing of the only place to safely hide in White House.:mellow:
The traitor who enables all the bad stuff to happen . In this case not even given the pittance of a motive for his betrayal.:mellow:
The faithful and long suffering wife who of course is also a lawyerdoctor.:mellow:
A poorly thought out failed rescue attempt by the best equipped and most highly trained soldiers on the planet.Not to mention if the "Hydra" was such an awesome defensive weapon why wasn't the White House equipped with in in the first place?:mellow:
After all other enemy opposition has been eliminated,a final hand to hand confrontation between hero and villain.Of course no matter how old or out of shape the villain is he is also the enemy most skilled at martial arts.:mellow:
The bomb thingy gets defused but not until there are only a handful of seconds left.:mellow:
Bejesus Christ they were so lazy they even recycled the villain from Die Another Day.:mellow:

Not for nothing but seriously I could write a better script than this and would probably do it for a lot less as well.
Also I'd have the good sense to have the hero own a cute dog and at some point lose his gun and have to use a sword and also include some gratuitous nudity of some up and coming starlet who when she does become famous will probably never take her clothes off again.

[megabyteme]

and coming starlet who when she does become famous will probably never take her clothes off again.

I was ready to start hating her, but this story refutes the earlier "leaked" report: http://www.gossipcop.com/emilia-clarke-refuses-sex-nude-scenes-game-of-thrones-topless-refusing-naked-season-3-oona-chaplin/

http://i43.tinypic.com/11viamt.jpg

[IdolEyes787]

White House Down

This movie wants so badly to be Die Hard that I bet it has a John McClane poster on it's bedroom wall.It even finds a way to get Tatum into the iconic white tank top by the end.:mellow:

Anyway I more or less enjoyed it if there are some real problems preventing it from being anything more than a decent time-waster.

Among these problems is that unlike the original Die Hard it veers over the line of plausibility way too much,the comedy isn't well incorporated and so seems really out of place,the "bad guys" aren't nearly interesting or demonstratively "bad" enough,a lot of the secondary characters eat up screen time for no real purpose and any action sequence that doesn't end with mass CG destruction ,even the ,what should have been climactic battle between Cale and Stenz basically director Emmerich leaves to just fizzle out.

Channing Tatum is OK as is Maggie Gyllenhaal in what is essentially Die Hard's black cop role but as stated earlier the movie really could have used Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber instead of James Wood basically mailing it in.The less said about Jamie Fox's Jordan wearing President probably the better.

Still all in all ,infinitely better than Olympus Has Fallen and if I have nothing better to do I wouldn't be entirely adverse to watching it again.

[megabyteme]

White House Down's

I was expecting it to be a documentary on the Bush years. :idunno:

[IdolEyes787]

The Lone Ranger

Too much farce,not enough heroics.Loved Pirates,hated this.

Anyway everyone is horrible in this,even Depp whose attempt at a Native American accent is a constant source of irritation but worst offender is Armie Hammer as the titular hero.Simply no charm to his character.
Other than that the movie has no sense of place as it's apparently trying and failing to simply mimic the lightening in the bottle that was the original Pirates of the Caribbean.

One sort of expects that as a Western/ comedy it would fall short of the benchmark that is Blazing Saddles but what is truly amazes is that Blazing Saddles also supersedes it as simply a Western.:mellow:

Also surely someone must have seen how badly out of place and not to mention pointless considering the target audience, the inclusion of The William Tell Overture is? So why did they still include it when something actually rousing ( like the Pirates theme) might have gone a long way into rescuing the silly climax?

Really,really bad.So bad I resorted to fast forwarding through parts.I would be seriously surprised if come next Spring this movie isn't nominated for a bunch of Razzies.

Anyway don't take my word for it.

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/the-lone-ranger-20130708

[pootystomp]

The Lone Ranger


Absolutely awesome beginning and ending action sequences, the middle two hours was a joke.

[RhuBarb]

Was looking foward to seeing The Lone Ranger, thanks, not sure if i'll bother now, that is a scathing review, ouch ..

[IdolEyes787]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

I started off hating this movie but by the end it had totally won me over. The scripts not great but some of the performances are,especially Logan Lerman who so transforms from the cocky,unlikable schmucks he played in The Three Musketeers and Percy Jackson that it frankly boggles my mind.
Also boggling to my mind is that a generation of people wouldn't immediately recognize "Heroes" by David Bowie.

Anyway coming of age for the win or something.

[mjmacky]

I started off hating this movie but by the end it had totally won me over.

Was it the actual ending that sparked the thought that it had won you over? It's been a while, but I recall the actual reveal being quite powerfully presented.

[IdolEyes787]

Was it the actual ending that sparked the thought that it had won you over? It's been a while, but I recall the actual reveal being quite powerfully presented.
It wasn't the ending although the reveal was pretty well done.Basically the movie began with me thinking that the writer was more interested in his own cleverness than he was with telling a good story but somewhere along the way I found that I truly cared what happened to these characters.
I think that is largely in fact due to shit writing where none of them are presented with having a mean bone in their bodies. So shit writing 1 - logic 0.

[mjmacky]

Was it the actual ending that sparked the thought that it had won you over? It's been a while, but I recall the actual reveal being quite powerfully presented.
It wasn't the ending although the reveal was pretty well done.Basically the movie began with me thinking that the writer was more interested in his own cleverness than he was with telling a good story but somewhere along the way I found that I truly cared what happened to these characters.
I think that is largely in fact due to shit writing where none of them are presented with having a mean bone in their bodies. So shit writing 1 - logic 0.

Now that I know you'll answer with sincerity, what inspired you to watch it in the first place? For me it was actually Emma Watson with short hair. That's just how shallow I was walking into it.

Mostly though, it was how they presented the ease and gratification for those who reach out that resonated and kept me from watching it at high speed.

[IdolEyes787]

I'm always sincere,just not always serious.

To answer your question though,as I apparently live in or around 1952,the movie was on TV and I thought it might be better than a repeat of Storage Wars or the other mind numbing shit that was currently on so I decided to take a chance on watching it.

I know this makes less sense than going on IMDB and perusing the insightful critiques of a bunch of tweens and taking their word as law or seeing what a bunch of dubstep loving Romanians are currently making the most popular movie on some bt site but that's just how me and Ward Cleaver do things.

Although Emma Watson might also have had something to do with it.

[Vestibule]

You had me at David Bowie... but Emma Watson with short hair has convinced me I'm missing something... I will watch and let you know...
Thanks for the insight, otherwise I would have been stuck in the Beav's aw shucks moment, forcing my kids to watch the Honeymooners...

[mjmacky]

but Emma Watson with short hair has convinced me I'm missing something... I will watch and let you know...

I tend to like cute girls with boyish looks, which is probably because I'm a secret gay... or it might have something to do with an unhealthy, unrequited obsession with a tomboy during my youth. It's probably the secret gay thing. Also reference Portman in V for Vendetta. Just look, she has "man" in her name.

[IdolEyes787]

I tend to like cute girls with boyish looks, which is probably because I'm a secret gay...No that would require you liking cute boys with girlish looks.If it's any consolation pedophile is still on the table though.

[megabyteme]

If it's any consolation pedophile is still on the table though.

Of course pedophiles use a table- how else are you supposed to fuck someone under 3' tall? :unsure:

[megabyteme]

BÃ*i vi?t khá hay, hihi

Easy for you to say. :mellow:

[IdolEyes787]

Drinking Buddies

Olivia Wilde was hot as fuck but the movie literally had no laughs,no drama,no ending and no real point so again thanks for nothing penis.

I would go into greater detail but basically "Olivia Wilde was hot as fuck" was the entire plot synopsis.:mellow:

[mjmacky]

that would require you liking cute boys with girlish looks

Not when it's secret.

[megabyteme]

The Wolverine- There certainly is something lost when watching a superhero/special effects-based show via early release Cam (no direct audio line) download. While not a complete disappointment in terms of (I'm grading on a curve because it is a superhero story) story, it was so predictable that I thought the end surprise had been revealed roughly 15 minutes before it actually had been- with suspicions VERY early on.

The acting is on par with any of the other X-Men movies, and a few of the characters are either likable or interesting enough to keep the show going. The modern day Japanese environment works well for creating an out-of-his-element backdrop, which helps add to Wolverine's sense of mortality. Another wise move was the choice of writers to limit the number of mutants. This helps the show seem a little bit more level-headed than some recent offerings which feel the audience wants to watch super combatants hurl buildings, planes, and mountains at each other for 2 hours and call it entertainment.

I will give the show another viewing once a Blu-ray surfaces, and expect to enjoy the show more than I did this go around. Certainly not my least favorite of the Wolverine-included shows. I'd strongly encourage those waiting impatiently on the fence to hold out for at least a really good TS, or preferably a DVD/Blu-ray copy. I would not tell anyone to spend their last $12 on a movie ticket- even for the "theater experience". It doesn't rate that highly, IMO.

It was quite a bit better than the most recent Superman, though.

As with most (not-intended-to-compete-for-an-Oscar) movies I watch, I give these shows a "What did you expect from a superhero movie?" bump, which takes it from about a 6-ish to a 7/10 show (factoring in the improved sound and special effects). If you are one who enjoys this kind of show, chances are you will like this one just fine.

[IdolEyes787]

Nice review but as much as I like Asian people wielding sharp objects I feel I would probably want to hurt myself if I gave in and watched this.

At some point I think you have to stop following the masses especially if the masses are headed off a big cliff.

[Stehle]

"The Croods"

Another whimsical approach to explain very early development of mankind. This movie was very entertaining and had a decent moral for the grand kids, (who watched it 5 times over a few days....YAY!) and I think the voice over of Nick Cage & Emma Stone magically grabbed them from the start. (R. Reynolds and many others were also in there to fill it out.)

All in all it was pretty well done if you like that sort of thing. :)

(I must confess I myself watched it twice with them... and enjoyed it both times.) ;)

[IdolEyes787]

The Wolverine- There certainly is something lost when watching a superhero/special effects-based show via early release Cam (no direct audio line) download. While not a complete disappointment in terms of (I'm grading on a curve because it is a superhero story) story, it was so predictable that I thought the end surprise had been revealed roughly 15 minutes before it actually had been- with suspicions VERY early on.

The acting is on par with any of the other X-Men movies, and a few of the characters are either likable or interesting enough to keep the show going. The modern day Japanese environment works well for creating an out-of-his-element backdrop, which helps add to Wolverine's sense of mortality. Another wise move was the choice of writers to limit the number of mutants. This helps the show seem a little bit more level-headed than some recent offerings which feel the audience wants to watch super combatants hurl buildings, planes, and mountains at each other for 2 hours and call it entertainment.

I will give the show another viewing once a Blu-ray surfaces, and expect to enjoy the show more than I did this go around. Certainly not my least favorite of the Wolverine-included shows. I'd strongly encourage those waiting impatiently on the fence to hold out for at least a really good TS, or preferably a DVD/Blu-ray copy. I would not tell anyone to spend their last $12 on a movie ticket- even for the "theater experience". It doesn't rate that highly, IMO.

It was quite a bit better than the most recent Superman, though.

As with most (not-intended-to-compete-for-an-Oscar) movies I watch, I give these shows a "What did you expect from a superhero movie?" bump, which takes it from about a 6-ish to a 7/10 show (factoring in the improved sound and special effects). If you are one who enjoys this kind of show, chances are you will like this one just fine.

The movie fell apart badly at the end as someone decided that all the 12 year olds in the audience must be incensed that up to that point it wasn't comic booky and dumb enough.
So the old guy's "plan" because he needed Wolverine alive so badly was to suppress Wolverine's healing ability and then send most of Japan off to kill him .OK let's go with that.:unsure:
Also it's probably just me having unfortunately seen stuff that isn't entirely shit,but this sort of thing demands that the "hero" through his basic awesomeness defeats the villain single-handedly and not himself require saving every 5 minutes by members of a J-Pop girl's band.He should also not have gotten the girl.
I agree with you though that the movie gained from limiting the mutants,now if they could only have limited the number of giant robots.

Anyway I liked the title character,the immortality aspect,everything in the wild or having to do with swords,most of the angst, although I found Famke Janssen.'s stretched- back post facelift face pretty disturbing and not a whole lot else..

I also found how you devoted half your post, purportedly reviewing a movie, talking about TS mildly offensive.:)

[megabyteme]

I also found how you devoted half your post, purportedly reviewing a movie, talking about TS mildly offensive.:)

It was a word of caution that a fair amount of the show hinges on the special effects and sound. I also suggested that people should not spend their hard-earned (versus stolen) cash on a theater seat. Waiting for a good quality download is the best balance between the two.

See if I ever review another movie for you and the three others who read this stuffs. :snooty:

[IdolEyes787]

Now I find it mildly offensive that out of the entirety of my post you only deemed to make comment on that.:)

Anyway to further my point on why I think it was a bad idea to have Wolverine bed his damsel in distress.
Wolverine is being presented as an idealized version of the selfless hero and therefore as much as he deserves a "reward", he can never under any circumstances be allowed to have any (reward) beyond simply doing what he knows to be right.:)

If you don't understand this,it's probably because the closest that you've ever come to doing anything heroic is refusing that fourth donut at lunch.:)

[megabyteme]

Now I find it mildly offensive that out of the entirety of my post you only deemed to make comment on that.:)

Anyway to further my point on why I think it was a bad idea to have Wolverine bed his damsel in distress.
Wolverine is being presented as an idealized version of the selfless hero and therefore as much as he deserves a "reward", he can never under any circumstances be allowed to have any (reward) beyond simply doing what he knows to be right.:)

If you don't understand this,it's probably because the closest that you've ever come to doing anything heroic is refusing that fourth donut at lunch.:)

As a story device, heroes can have moments of happiness, but it must always be taken from them. Now give me that donut back. :ermm:

[IdolEyes787]

Only in this particular case it wasn't taken from him,he simply walked away from it.Likely because after seeing her father he realized she probably wouldn't age well or maybe the idea of listening to that accent for the next 40 years made trotting off to face unknown peril seem suddenly attractive. :unsure:
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Man of Tai Chi

I know because a lot of you filesharing types are mindless lemmings you are going to want to download this but be warned that except for a couple of cool fights which btw strangely get increasing shitter instead of better as the movie progresses,this is basically shite and even worse than that it is shite that needed to meet the approval of some dictatorial wank Chinese film approval committee or whatever those heathens are currently choosing to call their particular form of mind enslavement.

On the plus side it isn't French.:)

I would review it further but obviously as with the case of MBM,my words are wasted so I won't.

[Vestibule]

What? It's not French? Well forget it then! Re: Wolverine...
watch the spoilers boys... I have not seen it yet....

[megabyteme]

Only in this particular case it wasn't taken from him,he simply walked away from it.[...]
I would review it further but obviously as with the case of MBM,my words are wasted so I won't.

Heroes can never live the "Happily ever after life". Their calling is more the greater good. However, a guy's gotta eat. :naughty: And, just like in the Bond filums, the ladies know that there is no settling down.

And Wolverine is more of a self-centered emo than the shining, selfless hero type.

[IdolEyes787]

Wolverine ain't Bond.Bond's womanizing is intrinsic to the character.Besides spies by definition lie and betray so it doesn't diminish his heroic appeal.
Wolverine on the other hand is a solitary,mostly noble if conflicted figure whose path was partially carved by the loss of his one true love.Bringing in other women dilutes his singularity of purpose.

Nerd factor 10.

Also heroes can be happy,they just place duty first.

[megabyteme]

His one true love was dead (oops...sorry, babe. Told ya to sleep on the couch when I've been drinkin'. :blushing: ), and the damsel had no expectations of anything long-term (*cough*slut*cough*). Turning her down for some kind of hermit's vow would have been more silly. Besides, what better way to protect her than to throw his body on top of her- you know, incase somebody throws a grenade, or something.

I'm beginning to think you are just jealous of her. :ghey:

[IdolEyes787]

Turning her down for some kind of hermit's vow would have been more silly.



Yeah because in a movie based on a guy who is immortal and has claw-like things that come out of his forearms which he uses to fight ninjas and giant robots, silly is clearly something they were trying hard to avoid.:mellow:

Anyway donut boy I think the point that you are missing here is that it is a movie not real life and the only thing we ask of the people or giant robots on the screen is to remain true to their character and not be wandering around willy nilly doing things that go against their nature just because the script writer lacked the wherewithal to find a better way of tying them emotionally together than some quick off camera anal sex and maybe a dirty sanchez.:)

[Busyman]

Only in this particular case it wasn't taken from him,he simply walked away from it.Likely because after seeing her father he realized she probably wouldn't age well or maybe the idea of listening to that accent for the next 40 years made trotting off to face unknown peril seem suddenly attractive. :unsure:
......................................................
Man of Tai Chi

I know because a lot of you filesharing types are mindless lemmings you are going to want to download this but be warned that except for a couple of cool fights which btw strangely get increasing shitter instead of better as the movie progresses,this is basically shite and even worse than that it is shite that needed to meet the approval of some dictatorial wank Chinese film approval committee or whatever those heathens are currently choosing to call their particular form of mind enslavement.

On the plus side it isn't French.:)

I would review it further but obviously as with the case of MBM,my words are wasted so I won't.

Thanks. This doesn't bode well for Keanu and his shit acting and now, it seems, shit directing.

I do wanna see 47 Ronin tho'. I saw 46 Ronin and liked it so since 47 is moar, hey why naut?

[torrentus]

Just few weeks ago was in cinema and watched The Great Gatsby (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1343092/) and I must say that it's one of the best movies I saw in last time. There were som funny moments like Jay-Z soundtrack (for the time the story tells very funny) and black guys driving a car and hearing rap music. generally nice story, Dicaprio plays amazing role (his last movies will be better and better), can only advice for all to see.

[IdolEyes787]

Words I don't want associated with anything I'm doing :Baz Luhrmann and Jay-Z.

Anyway Leonardo DiCaprio was having this argument with a guy in a bar about who had the best life and after Leo said "I dunno but just yesterday I was riding this sweet hoverboard off the coast of Ibiza while my Victoria Secret model girlfriend looked on from the yacht" the other guy knew anything he said afterwards was basically pointless.


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[megabyteme]

hoverboard

Since the "hoverboard" only goes up, it's basically just a very unstable ladder. One that is more likely to make you face plant than the cheapest one from Wal Mart.

And, since I have (well, it is on my Christmas list) the cheapest ladder (practically) at home- which rules out the unnecessary inconveniences of travel to this "Ibiza" place (like that is a real place...), wouldn't want to pay for fuel on some big behemoth, slow-moving, Titanic wanna-be (we saw what happened last time he was on a big ship), and can only imagine how many passengers his "model" girlfriend has ferried around the harbor---I have to conclude that my life is at least marginally better than his. :snooty:

And even if it isn't, my life is still FAR better than Idol's. :dry:

[IdolEyes787]

Red Dawn the recent one with Thor

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen mostly due to the fact it's basically content to just lay there and flop around while in the process dumbing down the original.
Which may have been silly but was never condescending or dumb.

Anyway the "new" one goes cardboard character,explosion,annoying and intrusive music telling me I'm suppose be feeling something at this point,rinse and repeat.
I'm not even exaggerating when I tell you that I can't believe people of the extremely limited talent of the writer and director actually are able to find work.

[mjmacky]

Red Dawn the recent one with Thor

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen

So, you admit there was some entertainment in watching a guy rape a bunch of women into lust, then watching a pig get human dick fucked.

[megabyteme]

Red Dawn the recent one with Thor

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen

So, you admit there was some entertainment in watching a guy rape a bunch of women into lust, then watching a pig get human dick fucked.

Yeah, yeah, we've seen your high school graduation party tape. :no:

[mjmacky]

So, you admit there was some entertainment in watching a guy rape a bunch of women into lust, then watching a pig get human dick fucked.

Yeah, yeah, we've masturbated to your high school graduation party tape. :no:

Because you shouldn't be modest about voluntary admissions.

[IdolEyes787]

Red Dawn the recent one with Thor

Literally the worst movie I have ever seen

So, you admit there was some entertainment in watching a guy rape a bunch of women into lust, then watching a pig get human dick fucked.

I'll admit that neither exist purely to insult my intelligence.

I think what really bothers me about this and the new Kick- Ass movie is another example, is how gutless the mass market movies have become.

Like in this Red Dawn remake they find a more sanitized way of dealing with the "traitor" thing which was obviously one of the more lasting images from the first film.
That it was originally nasty and left a bad taste in your mouth was sort of the whole point.
They also kind of blend this new take into Lea Thompson's demise except Thompson's death was poignant in how it really gave you a sense of trying to at least make your death worth something.
................................

Kick-Ass 2

A tepid remake where the producers are clearly simply trying to check all the boxes of what make the first one successful.The problems are though that while a little girl who is a stone cold killer and who swears like a sailor is interesting,a teenager who does so not so much.
Also in a monumentally bad decision they try to give the story some heart which if you think about it , is really the antithesis of the original concept.

That and everything is basically done at half measures and for something as absurd as this to work,you really have to go at it balls out and you either find an audience or you don't..

[megabyteme]

and for something as absurd as this to work,you really have to go at it balls out and you either find an audience or you don't..

Finally, someone gives Oleg dating advice he can use.

[mjmacky]

The problems are though that while a little girl who is a stone cold killer and who swears like a sailor is interesting,a teenager who does so not so much.

Someone's with me on this. Bring in more little girls!

[megabyteme]

The problems are though that while a little girl who is a stone cold killer and who swears like a sailor is interesting,a teenager who does so not so much.

Someone's with me on this. Bring in more little girls!

An entire army of teen, toned, testy, street urchins out in force for good. :w00t:

[IdolEyes787]

I just rewatched the original John Milius Red Dawn and if anyone requires any proof that the current style of movie making is terribly inferior to that of a couple of decades ago,compare this to the 2012 version and look no further.

Coincidentally I could have replaced "movie making " with "Charlie Sheen" and it would still be as true.:mellow:

[philquad]

but bratts pitt can kill 1000 zombies & not get bitten?
thats tougher than troy

whats wrong with charlie anyway?

[megabyteme]

whats wrong with charlie anyway?


http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/bfb12aea47/charlie-sheen-s-winning-recipes

[philquad]

ok, you win

[IdolEyes787]

but bratts pitt can kill 1000 zombies & not get bitten?
thats tougher than troy

whats wrong with charlie anyway?

I'll I've got to say is that he's very fortunate that he's handsome.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcRYL_G33vg

I'm pretty sure that the average non-professional schmuck off the street could deliver a better audition than that.
Somewhere in an alternate universe, Brad Pitt is no doubt a mediocre waiter.:mellow:

[megabyteme]

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Brad Pitt is no doubt a mediocre waiter.:mellow:

Two words: NAILED. IT.


In contrast, this one has no future...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k62rN3UHBs

Obviously slept with the producer for whatever bit part she got. :no:

[dion09529]

Somewhere in an alternate universe, Brad Pitt is no doubt a mediocre waiter.:mellow:

Two words: NAILED. IT.


In contrast, this one has no future...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k62rN3UHBs

Obviously slept with the producer for whatever bit part she got. :no:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-PDArBZrz8#t=31

[IdolEyes787]

Clearly she also slept her way to a college degree if she thinks becoming a French citizen is a smart idea.

http://www.starpulse.com/news/Joe_Bowers/2013/09/09/natalie_portman_plans_to_become_a_fren

[ziggyjuarez]

Pain and gain - 4/5*
The rock,mark wahlberg and the other black dude really did a good job being muscle bound idiots.there crazy schems had me interested im the outcome.that is somthing most films fail to do.didnt even see the end but fuck it.hella funny.watch that shit.

[removalsexpert]

Boss 2013! The ever greatest movie of akshay kumar:)

[IdolEyes787]

Machete Kills

Drawn in by the possibility of sex,violence and Mexicans I made the huge mistake of watching some of this movie.

Suffice it to say that Uwe Boll would be ashamed to attach his name to this horrible hodgepodge of grotesque yet ultimately pointless characters,unexciting over the top action and unfunny farce.

"Machete Kills" is exploitation cinema, in the same way that a teen who pays $28 at the mall for a Sex Pistols T-shirt is a punk rocker." ie neither have any real heart in it.

[piercerseth]

Machete Kills

Yep, fucking awful. You'd think a guy who made El Mariachi for 50 cents could put out a stronger effort. CG blood/gore is a real turnoff. Doubly so in a 'exploitation' flick. Triple-y when Tom Savini himself guest stars in said movie. Take the money alloted for Gaga's makeup & wardrobe and create some practical fx. Karo syrup is cheap.

[megabyteme]

"Machete Kills" is exploitation cinema, in the same way that a teen who pays $28 at the mall for a Sex Pistols T-shirt is a punk rocker." ie neither have any real heart in it.

In his defense, Rart got his on sale. :yup:

[mjmacky]

So I'm reading this right, a sequel to Machete was actually produced?

[IdolEyes787]

I prefer the term "vomited forth".

Anyway I'm certain that there won't be a third as I will personally see to it that Rodriguez burns in Hell first. :)

[mjmacky]

You know when someone keeps harping on a joke when they don't realize that they have become the joke? That's what this situation sounds like.

[yoyoman123]

thor 2. 6.5/10. The first one was an 8 but this one felt like they were miking it. Oh we found the stone to restore darkness and bring destruction to the whole world. OH noes we lost it.. Then they had another preview for the next movie which was about some cubes which could destroy the whole galaxy.

[Snee]

I'll give your post a 3/10, mostly because you used an arbitrary grading system with a whole two pointless points of reference.

[IdolEyes787]

thor 2. 6.5/10. The first one was an 8 but this one felt like they were miking it.

Good point except for the fact you could say the same about practically any movie series where everything that really needed to be said was said in the first movie.
The exceptions to the rule ( Aliens,The Dark Knight,Godfather 2 ,Terminator 2,The Road Warrior etc)either left something unsaid,went in a totally different direction or had an infusion of funds to dramatically up the overall quality.

[Artemis]

The prequels really get on my tits too, where a good movie cannot have a sequel because it came to an end i.e. everyone is dead ala The Thing, so the writers create a prequel to the story. These prequels range from bad to what the fuck were you thinking George Lucas? :blink:

[mjmacky]

The prequels really get on my tits too, where a good movie cannot have a sequel because it came to an end i.e. everyone is dead ala The Thing, so the writers create a prequel to the story. These prequels range from bad to what the fuck were you thinking George Lucas? :blink:

Something bled my eyes the other day. Sex in the City prequel. I thought the movie releases were a distinct marker of cultural failure.

[megabyteme]

Something bled my eyes the other day. Sex in the City prequel.

Oh fuck, the man fortress fell quickly. :console:

[mjmacky]

Something bled my eyes the other day. Sex in the City prequel.

Oh fuck, the man fortress fell quickly. :console:

I'm not sure what you mean by that, so I'm just going to blindly elaborate. I saw something on the Hulu or Netflix posters. That's all there was to it.

[indost]

Recently saw 'Prisoners (2013),' both Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal acting was good and gripping throughout the movie.

[Stehle]

Recently saw 'Prisoners (2013),' both Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal acting was good and gripping throughout the movie.

Yes, but the whole thing (storyline/plot) such as it was... was a bit too creepy if you ask me.

(...but then again your not, so never mind my idle ramblings... I'm on some heavy meds anyway.) :alien:

[Stehle]

"Lone Survivor"

IMHO.. an Oscar contender! It affected me much in the way of "Hurt Locker" did... a true war drama (not for the squeamish), very well done, great special effects and stunts.

Same roller coaster ride, mans inhumanity to man, mans humanity to man, war is just pure evil, military snafus, etc, etc.... and based on a true story.

If you go for that sort of thing you'll know what I mean. ;)


(Beat the Disney® crap I watched... hands down!) :alien:

[Artemis]

If you want a military snafu you should research the American invasion of Kiska, in the Aleutian Island chain during World War II. It was believed that the island was being defended by 3,500 Japanese, so an invasion force of 70,000 was sent..... to an island that had been abandoned by the enemy weeks before. To make matters worse 122 servicemen died during the unnecessary invasion, some to friendly fire, but a large percentage got lost and drowned in the swamps.

[Stehle]

If you want a military snafu you should research the American invasion of Kiska, in the Aleutian Island chain during World War II. It was believed that the island was being defended by 3,500 Japanese, so an invasion force of 70,000 was sent..... to an island that had been abandoned by the enemy weeks before. To make matters worse 122 servicemen died during the unnecessary invasion, some to friendly fire, but a large percentage got lost and drowned in the swamps.

I believe I heard of this... what a tragedy! :(

That is "Military Intelligence" for you... an Oxymoron if I ever heard one! :yup:

[Rart]

Watched Her the other day.

It was a little weird seeing Joaquin Phoenix demonstrating signs of empathy when the last movie of him I watched was Gladiator.

Regardless, Her is easily a contender for best movie of the year, and easily one of my favorite movies of all time. It was fucking brilliant. Not excessively devoted to either the romantic aspect or sci fi aspect but seamlessly blending them together, Her was a brilliant look into the human identity and the future of society and was incredibly thought provoking on many levels far surpassing those of the average and common "futuristic" movie. At the same time though its much more than just a philosophy or "what if" exercise as many of these movies tend to be, as Her manages to be incredibly endearing and entertaining at the same time.

In addition my number one complaint with most movies is that while they can have a great premise and are entertaining from the outset, have trouble following a logical progression and closing it out. Her was brilliantly thought out from beginning to end, and while the ending isn't exactly fairy tail, is incredibly well thought out and logical conclusion to the movie that doesn't at all feel forced.

And to round it out, the performances by Joaquin Phoenix and Scarlett Johansson are excellent. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to film so many scenes where you are essentially talking to yourself with no one else around, but Joaquin Phoenix pulls it off perfectly. And I would certainly not mind having a Scarlett Johnasson computer sending me off to bed.

Her was a brilliant, bittersweet movie on the notions of human identity and society, and is easily an Oscar contender. Would recommend it to anyone, even if you aren't really a fan of romantic movies (like me). It might look like a chick flick at casual glance, but it is much, much, more than that.

[IdolEyes787]

... even if you aren't really a fan of romantic movies (like me).

I know this makes sense so feel free to discount it.Could it possibly be that you are actually a fan of "romantic movies" and up until Her you just hadn't found the right one?
Sort of like being at party with a bunch of fugs when suddenly the most beautiful girl you've ever seen walks in the room.
I'm guessing,and it's just a guess,that given that scenario you didn't spend all the previous time saying "Hey,I'm not a fan of women".

As Pablo Picasso use to say to me, perspective is everything or something.

[Rart]

I was under the assumption that if you don't like the majority of romantic movies, then you aren't a fan of that genre. An exception to that doesn't change your overarching view of the genre as a whole if there were many more that you didn't like.

I don't think I've ever said that "I'm not a fan of women" after seeing a couple of uggos. Maybe you have with your confused sexuality or something (not that there's anything wrong with that). I'm sure you'll find what you want eventually buddy.

[bizzehdee]

Last movie i saw the the "desolation of smaug". As packed as it was, and as enjoyable as it was, it seemed to suffer from "middle movie" syndrome a little bit, where nothing of any importance or any furthering of the story happened at all, the entire movie could have been condensed down to an additional 15 minutes in the 1st and 3rd movies and the only thing of any note that would have been missing, would be about 400 million dollars from a film companies bank account.

[pebbles1]

Frozen Ground- Nic Cage in a true-life serial-killer thriller. Everything about the movie sounds mediocre, and in truth the content is very clichéd, but this is one of those films that is so old-school and solid that it makes for a very satisfying B-movie.

R-rated film, and yet the sadistic sexual violence of the true life mass killer is downplayed as much as possible on screen. Instead a lot of casual nudity occurs in the seedy Anchorage, Alaska 'adult' entertainment venues where the killer stalks his victims. Frozen Ground is the opposite of gratuitous, probably because the writer/directer is treating the subject matter with respect, in honour of all the people that were murdered.

The story of a very nasty true-life crime, told by decent Humans.

[cuty1964]

I agree with Bizzehdee. The desolation of smaug left you hanging and no closure.. something is just missing...

[diagaro]

Captain Phillips - the most critical thing about the whole experience was getting a dl copy with subs for the Somali dialogue! Even the full Bluray didn't have Somali only subs, simply went for the 1080p x264 and all was good. Note to management dudes at Maersk - one guy with an RPG would sort any future problems (I've obviously spent tooooo much time with BF4).

[IdolEyes787]

Captain Phillips - the most critical thing about the whole experience was getting a dl copy with subs for the Somali dialogue!.

Yeah that was the difference between it getting that Oscar nomination and being left out in the cold.

[Stehle]

Captain Phillips - the most critical thing about the whole experience was getting a dl copy with subs for the Somali dialogue!....

...and here I thought after watching it ...WOW...everybody must know Somali! :oops:

(It was a good movie... even if a little one sided... vocally speaking of course.) :alien:

[wibble140]

Last film I watched was Despicable me 2

[Snee]

Ok. How did you like it?

[landjungle8199]

Lifeforce on Blu-Ray. Utterly mental film - well worth a watch!

[Stehle]

My Way (or "Mai wei")

A friend had recommended this WWII epic that was made a few years ago. Inspired by a true story, the director and actors did a brilliant job of weaving a story that both elicits emotion for the main characters and realism in the battle sequences heralding the whole war is futile and an atrocity that we don't often feel in films in our role as a spectator.

If you like to be moved emotionally, like epic war movies (not for the squeamish) this in my opinion is one you might like. :)

*Note: This story is done in native language(s), well subtitled, but you may want to pass... if you can't read.

[fullmore]

Lone survivor. While its no Saving private Ryan, it is a good film.

[megabyteme]

Old Boy (2013) (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1321511/)

Being a fan of the original, I saw no way that the 'Merkin version could add to the already great (and twisted) show. Someone did, apparently. Spike Lee was tapped to direct. I guess if you are trying to redo something for people who do not want to read subtitles, might as well bring in a recognized (once) name. Throw in Josh Brolin (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000982/?ref_=tt_ov_st), Elizabeth Olsen (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0647634/?ref_=tt_ov_st), and Samuel L. Jackson (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000168/?ref_=tt_ov_st) , how can it miss?

It is no secret that this show was/is both a box office and critical failure. No one really likes it. I expected to hate it, but I was curious enough to try it. I believe the biggest reason it failed was that it insulted the original just in the effort to try to remake it. The audience the studio was hoping to interest really did not want it to be remade. How can such a film hope to be successful?

If this film had been created on its own as an original, it would still have been an unexceptional movie. I do not think it would have been a hit, it just did not have enough heart. The emotion of the original does not exist. Brolin tries, but he just does not have the chops. At the same time, I do not believe Lee was trying to get raw emotion out of the characters. This is puzzling since much of the original feeds on tension. Jackson did not put much into this film, either. He really has not bothered in quite some time, and unless he does soon, I could not give a fuck about seeing him in anything again. Ever, really. The only actor who played well enough in this show was Elizabeth Olsen. She did a nice job and I would not mind seeing her tits in another film.

The show itself, as for attempting to stand as a different film than the original fails in its lack of originality. While it would have been difficult to remake such a fan favorite into something new without angering the core fans, there were few risks taken here. While not a shot-for-shot ( :sick: ) remake, the twists added were minimal, uncreative, and lacking brilliance. Done smartly, there was room to surprise.

Ultimately, I did not hate the experience as much as I expected, I just felt like I had not experienced anything new, nor was there anything improved by the remake. It is difficult to give this anything above a 2/5.

[abaccusnzb]

great flick. The Art of the Steal.

[laststop]

The Lookout (07 or 08). Pretty decent but I found it predictable. It's a little like Memento.

[megabyteme]

The Lookout (07 or 08). Pretty decent but I found it predictable. It's a little like Memento.

I know what you mean. The main character is a lookout. How freakin' predictable is that. Totally, like.

[Stehle]

"Oculus"

Great storyline, perhaps a new storyline with a few old twists. Told through many flashback scenes... though melded into present circumstances with deadly consequences.

Probably one of the best so far of that genre for me in 2014, (Though it came out on 2013), not bad at all.

You may not look too deeply into mirrors for a while.*

*(I never really got over my LSD experiences with them.... and this just renewed them.) :alien:

(...or maybe it was just good seeing Sissy Spacek alive....) :alien: ...for a while that is.

[megabyteme]

I'll look into it...

[IdolEyes787]

I'll look into it...

It's violent and unsavory so obviously.

[megabyteme]

That was just a play on words. Of course I'm going to watch something liken to a violent acid trip. Duh. :dry:

[IdolEyes787]

That was just a play on words. Of course I'm going to watch something liken to a violent acid trip. Duh. :dry:

Obviously,because it's like a mirror to your soul.
I mean assuming you have one,atheist. :)

Edit:No,your children have informed me that you do have a soul,it just happens to be black as hell.

[megabyteme]

That was just a play on words. Of course I'm going to watch something liken to a violent acid trip. Duh. :dry:

Obviously,because it's like a mirror to your soul.
I mean assuming you have one,atheist. :)

Edit:No,your children have informed me that you do have a soul,it just happens to be black as hell.

Yeah, well, so are their bruises. :snooty:

[Stehle]

Wasn't on a trip, but it seemed like one.

(The Exorcist taught me to stay away from certain hallucinogens.) :alien:

[piercerseth]

Wasn't on a trip, but it seemed like one.

(The Exorcist taught me to stay away from certain hallucinogens.) :alien:

We were someplace around Barstow Amityville when the drugs began to take hold. :crazy:

[Stehle]

Wasn't on a trip, but it seemed like one.

(The Exorcist taught me to stay away from certain hallucinogens.) :alien:

We were someplace around Barstow Amityville when the drugs began to take hold. :crazy:

YES!!...and that was probably where we looked into it...

(WOW... you where you there too.) :alien:

[piercerseth]

YES!!...and that was probably where we looked into it...

(WOW... you where you there too.) :alien:

When I heard about Alexander Shulgin's passing yesterday I thought of you Stehle pouring out some ayahuasca for your dead homey while watching Poltergeist or some shit in the dark.

[megabyteme]

Have you had a chance to watch Adam's Apples yet, ps?

[piercerseth]

I certainly did. Meant to get back to you on that; Netflix was giving me trouble so I had to track down a 9 year old scene release. Enjoyed it even more when I realized it was Hannibal Lecter in the Book of Job. The Coen brothers' A Serious Man had been my favorite riff on the theme up until this.

[megabyteme]

Pleased you enjoyed it. I've seen it 3 times now. Have found more and appreciate the film more each time. Amazing to see Mads play the polar opposite of Lechter. Funny he also has his part of cannibalism in Green Butchers- which makes his role in Hannibal almost eerily natural.

I am working my way through the Mikkelsen collection and plan to do a write-up of the best when I've seen the majority. He's really at the top of my list for favorite actors right now.

[Stehle]

"Transcendence"....what can I say... {sigh}...great premise. Could have been a great scifi film.... but what I saw last night fell flat.

High hopes and perhaps a lesson in the state of CGI last year. Johnny D you failed me again. 'nuff said. :bye:

(I even made that special "Movie Theater Butter" popcorn dammit!) :alien:

(...to be fair and perhaps even more critical... the popcorn was much better.) :alien:

[All]

You say Divergent, but mention Johnny D. Do you mean Transcendence?

[Stehle]

You say Divergent, but mention Johnny D. Do you mean Transcendence?

Yes, yes I did!

(It's been edited, thank YOU!)

(I knew I took too many... going to lay down now. Thanks again!) :alien:

[IdolEyes787]

You say Divergent, but mention Johnny D. Do you mean Transcendence?

He basically lost me at "I like 24" anyway.

[Stehle]

You say Divergent, but mention Johnny D. Do you mean Transcendence?

He basically lost me at "I like 24" anyway.

Sorry about that, my apologize, (was way to much early celebration this morning), but when you said you had 23 drunken sailors lined up for the 4th of July festivities... I passed out.

(How does that work? Do you all take turns?) :alien:

(I will admit as a member of "The Cult of Jack"...after a brief encounter in that shadow world of mine (all organic herbs, shrooms, tonics & stuff), I went to bed last week chanting "Chloe, Chloe, Chloe..."...weird huh? It must be those eyes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloe_O%27Brian).) :alien:

[megabyteme]

Just watched Noah. Without exaggeration, one of the worst movies I've seen in my life. Not a single positive thing to say about it, TBH.

If Emma Watson had been sucking my balls and Jennifer Connelly tongued my ass through the entire film, their efforts could not save this. It really is that bad.

[IdolEyes787]

Haven't and won't see it after reading about the ludicrous CGI (http://www.vulture.com/2014/03/noah-giant-rock-monsters.html) but I'm pretty sure that purely as a platform for entertainment I could fix the movie with four simple words.

Van Damme as Noah.

See this is why I'm a genius high powered Hollywood executive and you're you.

[megabyteme]

As hard as it may be to believe, but even the sheer screen presence and unhinged groinal area of Mr. Damme could not right the ship on this massive floater.

The most offensive thing about this (besides the script) is that if you do not like the movie, it must be that you are just a fanatical Bible-thumping purist. Not true. This is just insultingly bad. The CGI creatures weren't even the root of all evil, as Keanu's recent 47 Ronin, with all of its unnecessary add-ins, bests it 10-fold. As weak as 47's story was, it had lots more going for it than Noah.

I even like most of the actors in Noah- they were the bigger draw to the show than the story. Who really gives two squirts about Noah's story, anyway? The acting was fine, TBH. Although it would not have mattered since the characters were all one-dimensional. Shit actors would not have hurt this. The problem exists from lack of interesting storytelling- not the fact that there were silly CGI characters, or that it strayed from the Bible.

[Stehle]

Just watched Noah. Without exaggeration, one of the worst movies I've seen in my life. Not a single positive thing to say about it, TBH.

If Emma Watson had been sucking my balls and Jennifer Connelly tongued my ass through the entire film, their efforts could not save this. It really is that bad.

So, if I understand you right... I should just cancel the 1080p download? :lol:

Wait! If I viewed it as a parody or comedy might that work? :wacko:

(Thanks Meg, pains back and I needed a good a good laugh today.) :alien:

[IdolEyes787]

As hard as it may be to believe, but even the sheer screen presence and unhinged groinal area of Mr. Damme could not right the ship on this massive floater.

The most offensive thing about this (besides the script) is that if you do not like the movie, it must be that you are just a fanatical Bible-thumping purist. Not true. This is just insultingly bad. The CGI creatures weren't even the root of all evil, as Keanu's recent 47 Ronin, with all of its unnecessary add-ins, bests it 10-fold. As weak as 47's story was, it had lots more going for it than Moses.

I even like most of the actors in Moses- they were the bigger draw to the show than the story. Who really gives two squirts about Moses' story, anyway? The acting was fine, TBH. Although it would not have mattered since the characters were all one-dimensional. Shit actors would not have hurt this. The problem exists from lack of interesting storytelling- not the fact that there were silly CGI characters, or that it strayed from the Bible.

Noah.Moses was some other water related Old Testament guy.

Since the Tour de France starts today(poor little Mark Cavendish (http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2014/jul/05/mark-cavendish-crashes-marcel-kittel-tour-de-france-stage-one):cry:) I suggest you watch this.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3511812/

It's not so much about cycling as it is about corruption and power.

[megabyteme]

It lacks all creativity needed for parody, and is simply too boring to work on any other unintentional levels.

Don't say I didn't warn you... :no:


Noah. Moses was some other water related Old Testament guy.

See, I did that intentionally to show I'm no Bible thumper. :snooty:

[IdolEyes787]

See, I did that intentionally to show I'm no Bible thumper. :snooty:

Yeah I was worried for a minute that you were. :eyebrows:

[megabyteme]

As for watching Noah for a laugh when you are in pain, I'd liken this idea to giving yourself a vegetable oil enema while suffering from a bad case of food poisoning.

[IdolEyes787]

As for watching Noah for a laugh when you are in pain, I'd liken this idea to giving yourself a vegetable oil enema while suffering from a bad case of food poisoning.

Just so I'm getting this straight,so Noah is basically on a par with The Shawshank Redemption then?

[Stehle]

As for watching Noah for a laugh when you are in pain, I'd liken this idea to giving yourself a vegetable oil enema while suffering from a bad case of food poisoning.

Just so I'm getting this straight,so Noah is basically on a par with The Shawshank Redemption then?

HEY! I kind of liked that one. (SK's novella too: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from the "Different Seasons" book.)


As far as rain goes for the "Noah" disaster this may make the movie a little more bearable for me...



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[IdolEyes787]

Just so I'm getting this straight,so Noah is basically on a par with The Shawshank Redemption then?

HEY! I kind of liked that one. (SK's novella too: Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption: A Story from the "Different Seasons" book.)




I'm rifting.Don't bug me.

[megabyteme]

As far as rain goes for the "Noah" disaster this may make the movie a little more bearable for me...



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Well, the green 28oz enema concept will change how I think of rappers referring to "making it 'rain' " on strippers...