[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Most feel that it was "more of the same thing", but that's exactly what I look for in a sequel that I enjoy the first part from.
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Jiarn
I'm Senor King of horrible horror movies but I can very much distinguish between the horrible good and the horrible bad. This was just a solid little horror movie.
Yep, I agree with that sentiment. They missed a couple of issues to adapt, but I can understand for time reasons. Still loved it.
Shannow
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Yup. but everything else was pretty much spot on perfect.
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Jiarn
You want to have the hots for Meryl?
Watch RED.
Watch RED.
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Jiarn
You're right, I confused her with someonelse.
True Grit
Like just about every Cohen Brothers movie, the ending is a bit unsatisfying, and doesn't quite live up to the awesomeness of the rest of it.
Like just about every Cohen Brothers movie, the ending is a bit unsatisfying, and doesn't quite live up to the awesomeness of the rest of it.
The Notebook
(on Valentine's Day). And it was...surprisingly decent. It's not the OMG best movie EVAH, but it was well-acted enough and such.
Paper Man
It's too bad this got bad reviews (27% on Rotten Tomatoes?!) because I really enjoyed this. Not as over the top silly as I expected but more down to earth and quite heartfelt.
Hatchet 2
FUCKING AWESOME. Not quite as good as the first one but still awesome. Between this series and Frozen, I think Adam Green (writer/director) is gonna be one to watch for in horror.
Fistful of Dollars
Reckon I been in a western mood with playing a lotta Red Dead Redemption. Damn good movie to watch, y'ask me. Though it's not quite as good as what I watched in my Film/Literature class:
Yojimbo
Holy crap, do I regret not seeing this sooner. It was extremely well shot, funny, invovling, etc. Loved it and will definitely be buying it at some point.
(on Valentine's Day). And it was...surprisingly decent. It's not the OMG best movie EVAH, but it was well-acted enough and such.
Paper Man
It's too bad this got bad reviews (27% on Rotten Tomatoes?!) because I really enjoyed this. Not as over the top silly as I expected but more down to earth and quite heartfelt.
Hatchet 2
FUCKING AWESOME. Not quite as good as the first one but still awesome. Between this series and Frozen, I think Adam Green (writer/director) is gonna be one to watch for in horror.
Fistful of Dollars
Reckon I been in a western mood with playing a lotta Red Dead Redemption. Damn good movie to watch, y'ask me. Though it's not quite as good as what I watched in my Film/Literature class:
Yojimbo
Holy crap, do I regret not seeing this sooner. It was extremely well shot, funny, invovling, etc. Loved it and will definitely be buying it at some point.
Really? How so? I can't think of a Coen Bro's flick that had a bad ending, True Grit ended on the perfect note as far as I'm concerned.
figmentPez
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I watched "Where the Wild Things Are" last night, and I really liked it. Max's anger reminded me a lot of my own childhood, I threw a lot of fits. I wasn't a biter though, I tended to throw things. I broke a few of my favorite toys throwing them at my older sister. In some ways it was tough dealing with my own memories, especially when the wild things started acting the same way. Overall I really enjoyed it's look at childhood.
Honestly its kind of hard to explain, I'm not really even sure why that ending bugged me.
But don't get me wrong, I love Coen Bros' movies. There is something about the way they write though, where it often seems like they kinda just end it in a rush. I don't think that's ACTUALLY what's happening, because in a way, it gives the ending a little more believability when we don't know everything that happened to the characters afterwards, we don't know if they lived happily ever after and what not. I definitely think they do it on purpose, and I expect it from them going into their movies, but it still tends to leave me a little unsatisfied at the end of it.
Or they just stop the movie without really giving you any closure at all like in No Country for Old Men. (Which I also LOVED.)
Anyway, True Grit was great, and I seriously didn't even realize that was Matt Damon until yesterday!
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Jiarn
All the BLU-RAYs I ordered for my new PS3/TV came in and I'm going to be marathoning them all soon.
Planet Hulk
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 1
Iron Man 2
Watchmen
Fifth Element
Pandorum
Evil Dead
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Aeon Flux
Hellboy 2
Have seen them all before but will be posting small commentaries on them all shortly I'm sure.
Planet Hulk
Incredible Hulk
Iron Man 1
Iron Man 2
Watchmen
Fifth Element
Pandorum
Evil Dead
Scott Pilgrim Vs The World
Aeon Flux
Hellboy 2
Have seen them all before but will be posting small commentaries on them all shortly I'm sure.
Did you watch the extended cut that came out a few years ago?
They were kinda hamstrung with the source material in both No Country... and True Grit. Unlike the John Wayne version there was no happy ending outside of basic survival.
I thought it was just delicious when One Armed, Spinster Mattie called Frank James "trash" to his face.
Yep, the Redux version. I think it was a little over 3 hours.
Saw Gigi the other day, it is a cute film, but it barely qualifies as a musical. I really don't see how that film swept the Oscars.
Then add in the subject matter of sending a young teenager off to be the consort of a 40 year old millionaire... She was mature for her age... Icarus would be proud.
Then add in the subject matter of sending a young teenager off to be the consort of a 40 year old millionaire... She was mature for her age... Icarus would be proud.
Man I miss that guy.
I hope he is still around, and just not bringing up that sorted part of his past.
figmentPez
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I watched District 9 today, and... meh. It had some good moments, but overall I wasn't impressed. Maybe I just wasn't in the right mood for it, or got distracted too much while trying to watch, but it didn't draw me in. I didn't feel like the movie's world made sense. I never connected with the main character (or any character for that matter). It was a lot of special effects, swearing and gore, but very little real content.
I felt similar. I thought they were going to do more with the documentary style and the apartheid parallels, but they dropped all that pretty quick, and launched into explosions and giant robots and a pretty cheesy plot. It was like watching two different movies.
figmentPez
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I really would have liked a more thoughtful examination. Especially one that didn't break out of the documentary style. It was pretty early on that they started in with shots that couldn't have been gotten by the documentary crew. That really broke things for me.