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CynicismKills

CynicismKills

Bowielee said:
Elysium screams through the entire movie: THE RICH ARE BAD AND KEEPING THE POOR DOWN.... DO YOU GET IT? DO YOU GET IT YET????? HOW BOUT NOW?
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Yeah, this. It constantly slaps you in the face with the idea and the weird over the top poor-hater Jodie Foster plays makes it impossible to forget while you watch.

Still though, I liked the movie. The only real complaint from me is the use of shaky-cam during fight scenes. I fucking hate shaky-cam.
 
Far

Far

The best part of any movie with Sharlto Copley is Sharlto Copley. I was really pumped when I heard his name mentioned as a possibility to voice rocket raccoon and then crushed when they revealed it was going to be Bradley Cooper. I think he will do fine, I just love me some Wikus.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

I still liked Elysium. I'll take a movie that's trying to say something AND still have great action, acting, and story instead of an empty action flick that's just phoning it in.
 
Shawn

Shawn

Chronicles of Riddick: Still some of the same problems from when I saw it the first time, but I suppose it's an okay movie. I think I enjoy the time that is spent on Cremetoria then I do any other part of the movie. That part felt more like what you would expect a Riddick movie to be. The rest of the film feels way too epic and even way too much out of the realm of science fiction. The Necromongers pretty much use magic, and even if their abilities COULD be explained by science there is the presence of the Elemental race that completely crosses the line into Fantasy territory. In fact I don't even know why Judi Dench was in the film at all. Her part was so small, and so useless that it all felt like the story included elements from a completely different script that can rushed and altered into production as a Riddick film.
Also... Elementals, U.V, Chremetoria, Furyans? Did the author of Ax Cop come up with those names?
 
Espy

Espy

ThatNickGuy said:
I still liked Elysium. I'll take a movie that's trying to say something AND still have great action, acting, and story instead of an empty action flick that's just phoning it in.
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Man, I don't know. There's something really obnoxious about being unable to make your points without being annoying that makes it hard for me to get through a movie.

For instance, "Butter". It's lampooning midwest culture, the Sarah Palin/Michelle Bachmans, etc, should have been hilarious instead it was just mean hearted and nasty, totally unpleasant, like the filmmakers just hate anyone who leans conservative or lives in the midwest just soooooo much that they couldn't control themselves. Thats bad filmmaking.

I can't comment on Elysium since I haven't seen it yet, however I love District 9 so I'm sure I'll watch it to see what the deal is.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

ThatNickGuy said:
Justice League: War

Well, despite my apprehensions, I tried watching this. Couldn't finish it, though. Not after seeing

Superman break Desaad's neck and the League's plan to beat Darkseid was STABBING HIS FUCKING EYES OUT.
I just have to face facts that WB and DC are not telling stories with the same characters I grew up on. Not any more. Those heroes - the good ones - exist in some forgotten parallel universe now. Between this, NuDC, and Man of Steel, it's clear that they want darker, "more mature" superheroes and I want no part of it. This is more like The Authority than The Justice League.

What's ironic is that these are the sorts of actions that my DC heroes fought against in Kingdom Come.
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Yeah. DC is dead.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

You know what comic mini-series I always wanted to see adapted? DC's Kingdom Come. But lately I'm not so sure anymore...
 
Charlie Don't Surf

Charlie Don't Surf

Espy said:
Right? Of course I used to say that about Robert DeNiro too...
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He was pretty amazing in Silver Linings Playbook last year! And good in... well. I don't want to spoil a cameo in a movie slightly recently released. But he was really good in a slightly surprise cameo in a movie released sometime in the last 3-4 months.
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Charlie Don't Surf said:
He was pretty amazing in Silver Linings Playbook last year! And good in... well. I don't want to spoil a cameo in a movie slightly recently released. But he was really good in a slightly surprise cameo in a movie released sometime in the last 3-4 months.
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Are you talking about
American Hustle
? I haven't seen it yet, but I swore I saw him in at least one trailer.
 
Espy

Espy

Charlie Don't Surf said:
He was pretty amazing in Silver Linings Playbook last year! And good in... well. I don't want to spoil a cameo in a movie slightly recently released. But he was really good in a slightly surprise cameo in a movie released sometime in the last 3-4 months.
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No, I agree, every now and then he still shows up. It's just a much rarer thing now. :(
 
Celt Z

Celt Z

Covar said:
Animation or live action, it would be impossible to nail down the look.
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I thought because of Alex Ross' realistic painting style, adapting it to live action would be easier. Animation would have to be more stylized, unless they used CGI. As it's been mentioned in other threads, the crux of the story is very pertinent to the current state of comics and story telling.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Well...that was about as bad as I expected. Nicolas Cage was so terribly hammy - even with the special effects on his head - that it was almost embarrassing to watch. And then they added Christopher Lambert to the poor Ham-o-Meter. The story was terrible, the acting from everyone involved was terrible.

The one saving grace? The special effects and action was surprisingly spectacular...for what little there was. Still incredibly hokey, but pretty good. But seriously, Ghost Rider itself was only in the movie MAYBE 15-20 minutes tops. Must've had some major budget issues.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

ThatNickGuy said:
Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Well...that was about as bad as I expected. Nicolas Cage was so terribly hammy - even with the special effects on his head - that it was almost embarrassing to watch. And then they added Christopher Lambert to the poor Ham-o-Meter. The story was terrible, the acting from everyone involved was terrible.

The one saving grace? The special effects and action was surprisingly spectacular...for what little there was. Still incredibly hokey, but pretty good. But seriously, Ghost Rider itself was only in the movie MAYBE 15-20 minutes tops. Must've had some major budget issues.
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I find it funny that regular old humans were more of a challenge than any of the demons in the first movie.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

In reverse chronological order from this morning to a few weeks ago:

Diggers
While this has some comedy in it, it's mostly played straight, and Paul Rudd does a great job in a dramatic turn. Someone from the New England area might take issue with his accent, but to my ear as a Canadian, it's spot on.

Carrie (1976)
Figured since this was on Netflix I'd finally check it out. Didn't disappoint. I'm not actually one for horror when it's played straight; I like my horror with a heaping helping of comedy or just over the top zaniness, but this delivered in that the majority of the film was just high schoolers being high schoolers, and it made you feel bad for Carrie in a very real way. Even though its one of the most iconic movie scenes and so you know what's coming, the big awful prank still gets you, and the hell she unleashes on her classmates is still pretty disturbing (By today's standards it kind of seems tame, really, but its shot in a way that makes it way more horrific than stuff 10x as graphic from today).

Idle Hands
Speaking of horror with a dose of comedy, for some reason I got to thinking about this movie recently and decided to pick it up cheap off amazon with the Evil Dead trilogy. I remember liking it as a kid who was probably too young to be watching it. It definitely doesn't hold up to those standards, because like everyone else I was an idiot when I was 13, but it has some bits which make it still enjoyable, despite its many, many faults.

The Evil Dead (1981)
After I saw Evil Dead the Musical, and having already seen Army of Darkness multiple times, I decided to just go buy Evil Dead 1 & 2. I kinda think Evil Dead 1 is totally skippable since it doesn't fit the atmosphere of the other two movies in the series, but as a horror movie its okay. I realize their intention was not to make a comedy with this one. I can see where some of the stuff in Evil Dead could be legitimately scary if it had the budget of the sequels, or for that matter the effects of today. So in that regard I'm somewhat intrigued to see the remake from last year. But like I said, I like my horror best when its served with comedy, so....

Evil Dead 2...is much superior to its predecessor. It gets the comedy right, it gets the horror right. It's everything I hoped it'd be. Army of Darkness is still my favourite out of this trilogy, but I know I will be revisiting this movie over and over again. Definitely worth finally picking up on bluray.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

True confession, I was extremely disappointed in Army of Darkness when it first came out. After waiting so long for the sequel, it felt like the pendulum swung way to far to the comedy side and away from the horror side.

Now, put away the pitchforks: once I basically started viewing it as a live action cartoon, I learned to enjoy it more.
 
Krisken

Krisken

Bowielee said:
True confession, I was extremely disappointed in Army of Darkness when it first came out. After waiting so long for the sequel, it felt like the pendulum swung way to far to the comedy side and away from the horror side.

Now, put away the pitchforks: once I basically started viewing it as a live action cartoon, I learned to enjoy it more.
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To the lumber yard!

 
Dave

Dave

Staff member
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug. Fucking hated it. Everything about it was a deviation from the book and just fucking stupid.
A run & fight between the dwarves and Smaug? Gandalf being trapped? A fucking Elf/Dwarf love story?!?!?

Bad, bad, bad.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Oscars short animated films 2014: Great stuff, my favorite one had to be "The Missing Scarf" a blender animated film narrated by George Takei, or "Room on the Broom" a CGI/claymation short based on the kids book of the same name narrated by Simon Pegg.
 
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