Repo! is a mess. The tone is woefully inconsistent, a lot of the musical numbers don't work, and the way the movie continually shows something in the comic sequences then IMMEDIATELY covers the same information in dialogue is annoying. Without Anthony Head, the movie would have been absolutely worthless. The Hot Topic faithful will thankfully completely forget this movie in 5 years' time. I admire its ambition to create a unique world and make something resembling a mainstream rock opera, but it failed.
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I was just insulting the movie, not you.
I'm sorry a negative opinion of the movie is just insults without credibility
Kinda strayed from negative to insulting don't you think?
I hope bad movies are forgotten so people don't waste money and resources to make them. And things annoyed me and were exceptionally bad about it.
I'm not going to claim that Repo! is some masterpiece of cinema. There are quite a few plotholes, and quite a few groaner moments.
That doesn't change the fact that I found it to be a lot of fun. I'm more than ok with other movie makers taking this sort of chance.
I'm still hoping for a director's cut, that hopefully inserts some scenes to fill up the gaping holes in the plot.
But we still cool, Chuck. We both hate transformers 2, that's all we need.
That doesn't change the fact that I found it to be a lot of fun. I'm more than ok with other movie makers taking this sort of chance.
I'm still hoping for a director's cut, that hopefully inserts some scenes to fill up the gaping holes in the plot.
But we still cool, Chuck. We both hate transformers 2, that's all we need.
Now that I'm more awake, more comments about the new Disney movie:
-I liked that there was a nod towards the bigotry of the time. It wasn't stated out right, but it was a kind of a shitty, "diplomatic" remark by a real estate agent who lived in Tiana's town.
-Tiana's spoiled, white best friend wasn't just a hollow, bratty girl. There were little traces of depth and kindness in her. She wasn't there just to be a a foil and a rival like I thought.
-The whole message was really valuable, and the villian provided a great contrast to that message.
-WOOOO, Dr. John!
-The Zydeco number was very enjoyable.A big swarm of fireflies was a good choice to portray the Cajun people--close-knit and oh-so-brilliant... although missing a few teeth.
-The old New Orleans houses were beautifully done. The backgrounds as a whole were very cool. I especially liked the graveyard.
It really nice to see my home in a Disney cartoon. I, who usually dislike "princessy" stuff loved this new take on a Disney 'princess'... kind of in the spirit of Mulan. I'd recommend it.
I agree. Saw it on opening weekend. It isn't of the same quality as say, Aladdin or Lion King, but its incredibly enjoyable. I loved it. I made a concious effort to revert to a 6yr old kid again rather than watching it as an animation student. The remarkable thing is that it was good enough I still felt like a little kid when I left the theatre.
Some of the musicals seem extremely forced, and that's my main issue with it. It also has too many comic relief characters so non of them gets to shine as "The" comic relief character. When Ray first shows up I thought to myself "Oh god. Another comic relief character? And an annoying one to boot?!" But I wound up actually really liking him.
There were some fantastic animation jokes in there too. Prince Naveen flipping the pages, Dr. Facilier flipping the cards, Carpet from Aladdin and Neptune from Little Mermaid both show up in the background. John Musker, Eric Goldberg and Ron Clements all appear as background characters, and my favourite joke was the "Firefly Five plus Lou", a reference to the Firehouse Five plus Two, a jazz band made up of animators and writers at Disney way back in the day.
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JCM
JEAN CHARLES - Great movie about the life of the Brazilian who after being immobilized by British police, was shot 8 times at point blank range.
I was dragged there expecting anti-Brit police propaganda ala the 3-4 music videos about him by the Pet Shop Boys and others, plays or the statue of him, instead I saw a great flick about him and two cousins trying to survive in the UK, highlighting the life of Brazilian immigrants, their flaws and their never-changing carefree fun ways, and also on the tragedy that is life, that in its apogee, with everything planned in front you, can be taken away.
BRÜNO - The extended cut with commentaries and "a making of" video feed playing alongside, really Sacha Baron's best work.
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Philosopher B.
Miracle on 34th Street Can't believe it took me this long to see this movie. I've heard so many people recommend it, I went into it kind of skeptical. It just about won me over by the end. Loved the guy who played Santa. He was spot on.
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Wyrminarrd
Watched "Outlander" yesterday. It's a movie about a man who crashes his spaceship on Earth around the year 700 AD (apparently Earth is supposed to be an abandoned colony) and who with the help of some vikings must hunt down the creature that caused the spaceship to crash. The movie is actually fairly good and well worth watching if you like premises like this.
How's the acting?
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Wyrminarrd
How's the acting?[/QUOTE]
Fairly good, the movie stars James Caviezel with John Hurt and Ron Perlman being other notable actors in it. There is perhaps a bit to much difference between the accents of some of the vikings but I'm usually not bothered by such things and could therefore ignore it.
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I completely agree with this.
This too, though it is a toss up between D9 and Inglorious Basterds, for me.
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Now I'm glad to see my opinion was validated.
I completely agree with this.[/quote]
/agree.
It had potential, but I think they threw that out the window when they hired Paris Hilton. With the exception of Anthony Head, Terrance Zdunich, and (sometimes) Paul Sorvino there was little actual singing talent involved. There was the one song with Shilo and Blind Mag on the stairs that I enjoyed, but it was just a reminder that the only good songs in the film are too short to enjoy for long. To those who think Paris Hilton was perfectly cast: I'm sorry. But there are plenty of people with actual talent that could have played someone who is scripted to be a waste of space. It doesn't have to be a matter of type casting.
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JONJONAUG
Finally saw "Let the Right One In" in full with proper subtitles in original language (which was a pain in the ass to obtain, needed to download two video files then put them together in VirtualDub then find a separate subtitle file).
Amazing, AMAZING film, great to see that everything I've read about it (and have talked about with others without actually seeing the film in its entirety myself) is right.
Also:
Amazing, AMAZING film, great to see that everything I've read about it (and have talked about with others without actually seeing the film in its entirety myself) is right.
Also:
Stupid ass forum search said:
Seems pretty dead on to me. ^.~[/QUOTE]Nobody in foreign films minds blatant, terrible stereotypes of Americans.
In America...
That is just soooo wrong. I have brown hair and the vest is also an American Flag. Stupid foreign cartoons...
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Philosopher B.
Saw Sherlock Holmes. Was absolutely fantastic. See review here:
http://www.halforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11301
http://www.halforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=11301
Sherlock Holmes was a blast.
We also saw The Princess and the Frog today, and while I could've accepted a shorter swamp section, and perhaps nixing the "being human" song, this movie was overall a delight. Clever and different, and a lot of well-rounded characters. Probably the best Disney villain in a LONG time.
We also saw The Princess and the Frog today, and while I could've accepted a shorter swamp section, and perhaps nixing the "being human" song, this movie was overall a delight. Clever and different, and a lot of well-rounded characters. Probably the best Disney villain in a LONG time.
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Philosopher B.
Finally got around to seeing Tropic Thunder. I mean, I liked it overall, but some of the material worked for me, some didn't. For instance, I loved the discussion about how you should never go 'full retard', but the stuff with Ben Stiller's character recreating Simple Jack for his captors, eh. I've never really watched much with Ben Stiller in it. It's not that he bugs me, so much as I don't find him particularly compelling. Plus I thought they could've used Jack Black better. Robert Downey Jr. and Brandon T. Jackson had some of the standout performances, to me. I also honestly think I would have benefited from seeing the theatrical cut, as I imagine that was a bit tighter. Still, 'twas a pretty entertaining movie. I'd see it again.
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Kitty Sinatra
Gonna be watching a lot of 007 soon. Bought all 22 of them for Christmas (for someone else, but I'll be borrowing them, still). I wonder if I've actually seen them all before or if there's one or a couple that I've missed.
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I'm leery of Sherlock Holmes. I was a big fan of the books. I read all of them. Even the ones by Doyle's daughter before 7th grade. But this looks all XTREME!!11!!
As far as recent movies:
Fingers (1978): This movie has "overrated" written all over it. Sure, it was nice to see an indie that pushed the bounds of acceptable cinema in 1978, but the story was flat-out boring. It was yet another pic examining a picture of failure. In fact, it feels a little like Rusty Venture was inspired a little by Jimmy Fingers. It's worth a watch for the freeze frame of fringe late 70s thought, but don't expect to be wowed by any great depth or even good photography.
As far as recent movies:
Fingers (1978): This movie has "overrated" written all over it. Sure, it was nice to see an indie that pushed the bounds of acceptable cinema in 1978, but the story was flat-out boring. It was yet another pic examining a picture of failure. In fact, it feels a little like Rusty Venture was inspired a little by Jimmy Fingers. It's worth a watch for the freeze frame of fringe late 70s thought, but don't expect to be wowed by any great depth or even good photography.
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JCM
The people in the theater I watched it in were laughing non-stop, and thats with most depending on the portuguese subtitles.
Its pretty much the best comedy (until 500 days of summer) movie that has come out lately.
Seems pretty dead on to me. ^.~[/quote]Nobody in foreign films minds blatant, terrible stereotypes of Americans.
In America...
That is just soooo wrong. I have brown hair and the vest is also an American Flag. Stupid foreign cartoons...
[/QUOTE]Amen.Everyone knows americans have superhero alter-egos and impossible musculature
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No Country for Old Men Another Coen winner. I'm not typically a fan of the unbending primal force killer character, but the Coens (and Bardem probably more than the Coens) pull it off decently. Not perfectly, because again, I find the unwavering "principles" of Chigurh to be a little stupid. Scary, but stupid. I'm not quite inclined to rate it as highly as the critics have. Partly because it felt that instead of the Coen's typical meaningful weird, we got some weird for weird's sake, which is kind of dumb writing. Cinematically, it's beautiful. Like Raimi, the Coens really know how to use camera motion and camera placement. Unlike many other modern directors, they're fans of distance, which always makes the world feel more identifiable.