Critically Evaluate the last movie you saw.

[IdolEyes787]

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

[mjmacky]

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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)

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: Alright boys, listen up. We're sill in this thing. We just need a quick one.
John Stevenson: Listen up Cash!
Gord Ogilvey: We gotta work harder than them, okay?
John Stevenson: Harder than them, guys.
Gord Ogilvey: 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: We're playing divorced guys.
Doug Glatt: Yeah!
Gord Ogilvey: We gotta be fuckin' triceps, biceps, arceps hard!
Doug Glatt: Hard!
Gord Ogilvey: Greek fuckin' underground gay porn hard!
John Stevenson: We're all Adonis's
Gord Ogilvey: Highlanders, gay porn hard!
Doug Glatt: 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.

[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.

[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.

From the description possibly greatest movie ever.

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.