Sanctum
This had more hype than it should of gotten. It's not a bad movie but not great either. I was actually predicting things before they happened. It's too formulaic.
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Sanctum
This had more hype than it should of gotten. It's not a bad movie but not great either. I was actually predicting things before they happened. It's too formulaic.
Cronicle, Its Quite Good, But I Wont Say To Much, Go See It / Download It.
Do we really need to explore every genre of film with the found footage model?Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizen
Sort of negates the premise of the whole thread then.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizen
Maybe you should start another one entitled "Stuff I like yet refuse to talk about."
The Trailer Pretty Much Explains The Movie, Not Sure What Else I Can Really Give You Without Wreaking The Story. Just Advising Its A Good Movie To See.
Your guidance councilor called and he wanted me to tell you that he doesn't see movie critic as a viable job option.:mellow:Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizen
Sort of negates the premise of the whole thread then.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizen
This sounds awesome despite your well written decrial.Quote:
Originally Posted by arg57
I've never heard of this franchise which I think is strange given the subject matter. I like vampire stuff.
I need to be more like Idol.
Wonder if a 3D version is on the internets yet.
Ok It Ends With One Family Member Having To Kill The Other. Way To Wreak The Movie...Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Your guidance councilor called and he wanted me to tell you that he doesn't see movie critic as a viable job option.:mellow:
Sort of negates the premise of the whole thread then.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizen
Hi Manker,Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
How have you not heard of this movie franchise. I liked the first one alot, the one where Selene wasn't in it was pretty lame, but it tried to create the back story that most movies seem to be doing now days with their sequels or are the prequels?
I am wanting to see this, but I hope they having cheezed up the movie just for the 3D, alot of movies have been doing that, basically making bullets & stuff wizz past your head. They make the movie on normal screens look ridiculous. This is where I liked Avatar in the sence that it was in 3D & showed the space between people & such, but not the in your face 3D that most movies are doing.
Eg Stuff Like This With The Candy Cane.
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Hai, dewd.Quote:
Originally Posted by CyberCitizenHi Manker,Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
How have you not heard of this movie franchise. I liked the first one alot, the one where Selene wasn't in it was pretty lame, but it tried to create the back story that most movies seem to be doing now days with their sequels or are the prequels?
I am wanting to see this, but I hope they having cheezed up the movie just for the 3D, alot of movies have been doing that, basically making bullets & stuff wizz past your head. They make the movie on normal screens look ridiculous. This is where I liked Avatar in the sence that it was in 3D & showed the space between people & such, but not the in your face 3D that most movies are doing.
Eg Stuff Like This With The Candy Cane.
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Yeah, I know what you mean. It's as if other aspects of a movie don't have to be structured so well because of the fantastic 3D effects. Having said that, this has been the case with stunts and action movies since time immemorial.
I probably hadn't heard of the franchise because I can't honestly remember the last time I saw a trailer. I find downloading much less of a chore than going to the cinema and films aren't my preferred medium for entertainment anyhow.
Johnny English Reborn. Given I had so little expectations going into the film, it actually turned out a lot better than I thought. Enjoyed it a lot actually.
Handsome,charming rogue with questionable grammatical skills isn't as big a party as one would like to believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Or whatever I just said but with more sense added.
Handsome too :eyebrows:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787Handsome,charming rogue with questionable grammatical skills isn't as big a party as one would like to believe.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
Or whatever I just said but with more sense added.
This just adds to the picture in my mind's eye of you as a birthright member of the idle rich, perched at the edge of a chamois leather seat, fingers poised with intent above an ergonomic and biologically designed bespoke Hello Kitty keyboard with peptide add-ons, itching to comment upon the squareness of Matt Damon's jaw and its implications regarding the validity of the Bourne franchise.
Keep in mind that it'd still be Canadian rich, so that's like a quarter millionaire or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
I would but I just re-watched Good Will Hunting and am currently struggling with the concept that it could be possible for both Ben Affleck and Robin Williams to star in the same movie and not have it suck.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
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Originally Posted by mjmackyKeep in mind that it'd still be Canadian rich, so that's like a quarter millionaire or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by manker
The worst part about this is that fewer Americans are now motivated to come to Canada and embarrass themselves for our entertainment.Quote:
On February 8, 2012, 1.00 Canadian Dollar(s) = 1.00 U.S. dollar(s), at an exchange rate of 1.0030 (using nominal rate).
I re-watched Pitch Black, last night.
Been working my way through a lot of old sci-fi movies again, lately.
It's basically the one movie starring Vin Diesel I know of that isn't shit.
It's a sci-fi movie in the same vein as alien.
Spaceship crashes, survivors are stranded on desert planet that turns out to have some really nasty inhabitants, and thus hilarity ensues as the survivors try to get past the native fauna and off the planet.
Rhada Michell never looked better, the environments feel believable and while just as uncomplicated a story as described above, that also works. Basically a low budget sci-fi horror done really well.
The sequel(s, if you count the anime) sucked, though. But another one is in the works and hopefully they'll do it right again, assuming they ever finish it.
I would have made it clear if it was an exchange rate joke. Toronto still emptied much of my bank account while I was there. They are so welcoming, I thought they were prepared to valet my car at the border, and all without expecting a tip.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes
I gave it a view through based on my enjoyment of A Prairie Home Companion, but even if you're a fan, this documentary isn't really worth your time. They play back a little bit from their shows, but the rest of it seems to focus heavily on Garrison's dual fixation on NY and simplicity. I already kind of knew what he looked like, but while watching him in this, I couldn't help but see that a fat Drew Carey had a child with Michael Moore, who then aged 50 years and lost some of the baby weight.
I think about the only thing I took away was a quote like "an English major prepares you for impersonating authority", which he said after dictating the musical direction to the musical director of their program. Anyways, I just happened to catch it on Hulu last week, but it wasn't really rewarding. Just venting I guess.
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Originally Posted by manker
Damon's Bourne like Cruise's Ethan Hunt seems to condemned to the same redundancy bin, both apparently to be superseded by Jeremy Renner.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVPpc4pk6RE
Now all Renner has to do is talk the Broccolis into casting him as Bond and he will have the spy genre entirely to himself. :mellow:
Re-watched the Matrix trilogy.
No point in summarizing any of that. If you missed them you were probably making your man a sandwich or something and have more important things to do now, like shop for shoes or make another sandwich.
The first movie, the Matrix is pretty good. While I wasn't as distracted by all the neat environs and innovative action-scenes as the first time around, and thus noticed how poor some of the acting was, it's still a good story.
The other two, Matrix: Reloaded and Matrix: Revolutions, get worse, and the bits where characters are replaced with CGI-doubles, which gets more and more common as the story rolls along, are downright bad.
That said, The Animatrix, a compilation of short animated features in the Matrix-universe, which I also watched, is better than both sequels, and worth a watch for those who'd like the see more of the story.
Re-watched The Painted Veil, powerful romance with excellent cinematography.
Watched The Grey, it was good,but not what i was expecting from the trailer
My latest watch has been In Time, now I know this movie has been panned by the critics and there is some wooden acting ( Justin Timberlake in particular was trying to make his own forest) but this is a clever reimagining of the Robin Hood storyline.
It has been said that Sci-Fi reflects the time that it was created in, in terms of socio-political comment, and In Time is an interesting counterpoint to the current 1percent debate, while at the same time putting a spin on the concept of wealth.
In this imagined future too nobody wins, the wealthy are bored by their existence, and the fact that they have to constantly be careful, and must at all times be safe, while the poor, who are literally living day to day, always feel that they do not have enough time.
The story revolves around Will Salas a young man from the ghetto in a future where time is the currency, as in time on your life clock, when this reaches zero you're dead, you grow to 25 then you get an extra year when the clock starts. In this world everything costs time, a drink of coffee, a bus ride, rent, all cost units of time off your life clock, while working means you are paid time, so everyone works or finds a way to gain more time and in the ghetto everyone is existing day to day. The few rich are immortal or nearly so from all the years they have, but of course this is at the expense of the poor people 'timing out'.
Once Will Salas discovers the essential truth, that the rich gain wealth from the death of others, and that noone has to die, he begins a fight to overthrow the system by giving back time to those who need it and in this the story is the quintessential Robin Hood storyline, in that not only does he rob from the rich to give to the poor, but he is also trying to bring down a corrupt system.
For the interesting social comment and the retelling of Robin Hood, this movie is worth a look, I enjoyed it, while at the same time having to forgive it's very matrix like acting, a good yarn even if parts of it were crappily done.
Drawn Together - The Movie
Kind of like south park but with less language and more nudity.A big difference addressed in the cartoon, They don't try to bullshit some meaning at the end Of the show like SP.For this they get cancelled.In reality and in the toon.I would only suggest this to drawn together fans.Even said, This is not as good as the television show.
Take Shelter- Michael Shannon, Jessica Chastain.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get you.
A blue collar Ohio husband (with a family history of mental illness) begins to experience apocalyptic visions and struggles to protect his family...but from the coming horrors or from himself?
Take Shelter is the best movie I've seen since Rise of the Apes.
Not at all the same kind of thing mind you, but equally impressive.
Shannon and Chastain are great, the story engrossing.
You should see it.
I misread the title and got all excited there for a moment when I though it might be a Fast and Furious spinoff.
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You haven't been taking prose lessons recently at the mjmacky school of obfuscation at all? :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I would challenge you to a fight but I'm afraid the result would end up looking like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sqFjsmPpUU
Btw little known fact but they had to remove all wet paper bags from the vicinity before they were able to complete that scene.
The thing
and it's..............
Spoiler: Showanother movie
I dunno, I always saw myself as the hero of a fightscene similar to this :Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0XXrtJ82VQ
Unfortunately though, I'm all out of doggy bags. :idunno:
Who would be the cop and who would be the rapist between you and Artemis? You should have saved this one for me, as an indirect way of calling me a violent mulleted rapist.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
I think it's his way of calling me a violent mulleted rapist. :blink:Quote:
Originally Posted by mjmackyWho would be the cop and who would be the rapist between you and Artemis? You should have saved this one for me, as an indirect way of calling me a violent mulleted rapist.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
You're both wrong and clearly over-think too much which is no doubt why one of you wastes a lot of time watching shit and deluding himself that it's good.
That was merely my way of bringingbadawesome 90's cinema to the masses with an added bonus of wasting a bit more of my life.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vMKN1tYknE
Btw the difference between this and something like A Serbian Film is clearly art was involved here.
The one problem I have with that fight is the last attack, he throws his opponent away from him, which would far lessen the impact of the face punch. Everything else was fine, including the excellent dub work.Quote:
Originally Posted by IdolEyes787
Additionally, I think Idol is asking me to start a new campaign to get him to watch something.
The Help
Very good movie!
Hugo - wasn't very impressed to be honest.
The Woman In Black 2012, Radcliff was ok and it was a good film, but the original is better
Finally saw Superfly (on the big screen, no less). Such an awesome movie. The soundtrack, the characters, the action, everything was so cool. Definitely worth checking out. As much as it hurts to say it, I think I like it better than Shaft. Speaking of which, that's another worthwhile film to see.
Big mamas house - I know I'm late...I liked it.
Moneyball, 7/10 ... pretty good
Never too late for a classic.:mellow:That and Little Man are clearly the best two cinematic examples of a concerted attempt to set back the Civil Right's Movement several decades.Quote:
Originally Posted by ziggyjuarez
Also did you even bother to read the thread title?If you did I don't see how you could possibly think you could somehow be "late".