[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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It was amazing. AMAZING! It was seriously a lot of fun. I totally play on watching it again very soon.
It was amazing. AMAZING! It was seriously a lot of fun. I totally play on watching it again very soon.
Hm, that's a good point. It is very aesthetic but dry.
Manhunter is another of those movies I own but haven't seen yet. I got it before I knew it was part of the continuity, just because it was in the bargain bin and I wanted that movie that had William Petersen pre-CSI. Kati has watched it, she thought it was entertaining.
--Patrick
It's technically out of continuity though; Red Dragon is in canon with the other Hannibal Lector movies. Which is unfortunate, especially if it's the better movie.
Frozen:
Ok... this movie deserved all the praise it got. I went in knowing nothing about it, and it was pretty damn good.
Ok... this movie deserved all the praise it got. I went in knowing nothing about it, and it was pretty damn good.
I enjoyed that Disney was able to poke fun at themselves and subverse their own tropes. We have a princess that actually becomes Queen, two star crossed lovers falling in love at first sight, getting engaged, and everyone mentioning what a -BAD- idea that is. Even at the end, when I thought the movie was going to backtrack on itself a bit and fall into the 'true love's kiss' trope to break the curse, it pulled a fast one, and it was Anna's love of her sister that broke the curse. Overall, really, really enjoyable. Even the snowman that I was certain was going to be an annoying as fuck character turned out to be really endearing and funny.
I watched Star Wars, that's a pretty good movie.
Devil's Pass: Note, there is no place in the movie called Devil's Pass. There is a Mountain of the Dead, but no Devil's Pass.
Found footage movie about five college students who go to make a documentary about a mountain range in Russia where nine hikers died mysteriously in 1959. On their way, they run into people warning them not to go, and inconsistencies about how many bodies there were, strange noises, natives who talk about a meeting of this world and the spirit world. On the first morning on the mountain, the kids wake up to find enormous footprints around their camp, but no tracks leading in or out. Then later two of them find a huge metal door leading into the mountain, but don't tell the others ...
Alright, the Netflix menu has a screencap for this that shows two human-ish monster creatures. This shot was what made me decide to give the movie a try despite having two stars. I will tell you now that shot is NOT IN THE MOVIE because that's a shot of people in prosthetics and make-up and the monsters in this are entirely CGI. Goofy CGI; like at one point one waggles its face in front of the camera practically screaming "WOOGA WOOGA WOOGA!"
Bad acting, douchebag characters. Some neat ideas, massive spoilers:
I really don't see why this needed stupid monsters. It would've been a better movie if they just took the stuff they wanted to work with and did their found footage movie based on that.
Found footage movie about five college students who go to make a documentary about a mountain range in Russia where nine hikers died mysteriously in 1959. On their way, they run into people warning them not to go, and inconsistencies about how many bodies there were, strange noises, natives who talk about a meeting of this world and the spirit world. On the first morning on the mountain, the kids wake up to find enormous footprints around their camp, but no tracks leading in or out. Then later two of them find a huge metal door leading into the mountain, but don't tell the others ...
Alright, the Netflix menu has a screencap for this that shows two human-ish monster creatures. This shot was what made me decide to give the movie a try despite having two stars. I will tell you now that shot is NOT IN THE MOVIE because that's a shot of people in prosthetics and make-up and the monsters in this are entirely CGI. Goofy CGI; like at one point one waggles its face in front of the camera practically screaming "WOOGA WOOGA WOOGA!"
Bad acting, douchebag characters. Some neat ideas, massive spoilers:
After being chased into the door by a man-made avalanche and what is essentially the KGB, the surviving filmmakers are trapped inside the steel door which leads deep into the mountain. They find a hidden lab, long abandoned, which has a couple items of interest--a portfolio about the Philadelphia Experiment involving teleportation experiments that caused people to either fuse with a navy ship or go mad and mutate into CGI monsters, two bodies of said mutated monsters, and their own camcorder, which even has footage of them finding their own camcorder. CGI teleporting monster chase ensues and they get trapped in a natural cave which ends in a teleportation wormhole. They decide to visualize where they want to appear, outside the locked bunker, and succeed--only to teleport unconscious to 1959, where they're discovered as mutants when the other hikers are found.
I really don't see why this needed stupid monsters. It would've been a better movie if they just took the stuff they wanted to work with and did their found footage movie based on that.
Zappit
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Saving Mr. Banks. Phenomenal movie. Tom Hanks is very enjoyable as Walt Disney, and Emma Thompson is fantastic as the tortured P.L. Travers. The whole thing is a journey for Travers to eventually deal with a horrifically tragic past. I will seriously never be able to watch Mary Poppins the same way again knowing the true backstory to it. It's just heartbreaking.
Well, it was (ironically) a disneyfied version of the events that transpired. Supposedly Travers never really forgave Disney for ruining her story.
Indeed, she didn't like what Walt was doing with her story. The film does address that, by the way.
At the film's premiere, she clearly is annoyed with the songs and the various element that Walt did with it, but it becomes a cathartic experience seeing her father vindicated through the positive turn of Mr. Banks. In short, they preserve the fact that she did cry at the premiere, though here it is presented through the lens of sad cartharthis rather than just her frustrated experience working with Disney.
If it is any consolation to accusations of disneyfication, the film plays both Travers and Disney evenhandedly, Travers with her concern and her grating attitude with others and Walt with his whimsy along with his very controlling nature.
Slowly catching up on movies.
This Is The End was fucking hilarious. Definitely something I could watch more than once.
Lego Movie I thought was a little slow to start but I ended up loving it. It looked awesome and the voiceover work was great.
Muppets Most Wanted was pretty good, though I'm not sure if I liked it as much as the previous. The music was great, but again I think the previous movie's was better.
This Is The End was fucking hilarious. Definitely something I could watch more than once.
Lego Movie I thought was a little slow to start but I ended up loving it. It looked awesome and the voiceover work was great.
Muppets Most Wanted was pretty good, though I'm not sure if I liked it as much as the previous. The music was great, but again I think the previous movie's was better.
I didn't like it nearly as much as you apparently did. There were a few things that made me smile, but I was pretty bored throughout. I thought it was going to have more of the Mystery Inc charm I've come to love but it was a straight more old school shilly Scooby Doo crossover. SO FUCKING SHILLY.
Did you notice this Nick?
A good portion of the female cast of Young Justice watching Wrestlemania.
I did! Thought it was a hilarious extra Easter egg.
Godzilla: Final Wars. Not the best in the series, certainly not the worst. If I was to rank it against the other films of the Millenium Series it would probably be tied or between Godzilla 2000 and Godzilla vs Megaguirus. The worst of that set being Giant Monsters All Out Attack! and the best being the Tokyo S.O.S. and Godzilla X Mechagodzilla films.
In agreeance with this, though I would like to say Final Wars had some of the best action scenes in the series. And yeah "All Out Attack" was just okay. Plus its weird how they made King Ghidorah a good guy, every other movie he's this crushing alien force but not in this one.
He was in prison for being too badass. One of the greatest things I've ever seen on screen.[DOUBLEPOST=1395948726,1395948523][/DOUBLEPOST]
Noah. I'm sure some folks don't like all the things added to a Biblical story for entertainment's sake, but all in all this was a great movie.
GasBandit
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From what I read on Salon, it manufactures industrialist villains out of whole cloth (as in, not based on anything in the story's source) and makes them super hyper dirty-polluting-angry-mean-and-beastly industrialist people, to contrast with the earth-friendly agrarian vegetarian magic-trees-make-everything-work-out hippy noah types, and turns a religious story into another story about how human endeavor ruins the earth. Which is a common thread in most watermelon environmentalist screeds.
So you were okay with the whole "man builds a boat and loads two of every animal onto it to escape god's wrath" part... but the NEW stuff is what pushed it too far?
The Onion reviews Noah, and it is excellent. "If you look beneath the surface, it can be seen as an allegory for the New Testament..."
GasBandit
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A lot of people had problems with Peter Jackson shoe-horning in the warg-riders battle scene and the superfluous Eowyn-Aragorn love triangle into Two Towers, too.
Eh, there is a strong "take care of the earth" message in Genesis, and you can find lots of stuff form Jewish Scholars that dig into that. It's no weird stretch to think it's part of why there "needed" to be a wiping clean. But I'm sure Fox News and it's aged viewers will rage against anything daring to insinuate humanity hasn't always treated the earth with great respect.
Er, did you actually read my post or just glance at it?
I didn't say anywhere in there that I had an issue with it.[DOUBLEPOST=1396290159,1396289989][/DOUBLEPOST]
Ah. Yeah, that's pretty much exactly how it is. Cain's descendants are, evil, ruinous bastards and Noah's family is all about that Earth.
I had never heard this term, but for the too-lazy-to-click folks, I discovered it means "green on the outside, red on the inside."
--Patrick
GasBandit
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Or more literally, communism/social justice/anticapitalism disguised as environmentalism. But yes.
I'm surprised you never heard it before, I've used it pretty liberally (drum fill) over the years.
Wait, Gallagher I or Gallagher II? Could decide whether I go and see this.Gallagher's in this?! AWESOME!
