[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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On the topic of Drive, woman sues FilmDistrict over Drive, claims she expected Fast and Furious style thrills and was mislead.
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Heh, so the last movie I watched on Netflix was True Grit. Now it's giving me some selections that are like True Grit including the 2001 parkour adventure, The Musketeer.
What?
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Heh, so the last movie I watched on Netflix was True Grit. Now it's giving me some selections that are like True Grit including the 2001 parkour adventure, The Musketeer.
What?
I don't think I ever saw The Musketeer since 2001, when I saw it in theater. But 14 year old me loved it.
Speaking of Musketeer... how about the Three Musketeers RELOADED coming out soon, a Resident Evil take on what will be a Dumas (now pronounced - dumb ass) classic.
It's in 3D
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Philosopher B.
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Seen clips of it before, but this was the first time I got to watch it all the way through. Quite good. I fucking love the story about how some people thought the guy who 'played' McCarthy was too over-the-top. I can see where they were coming from, though. I mean, fuck, that greasy hair, with the one curling isolated strand ... it still blows my mind anyone had to listen to that lout, much less fear him.
Seen clips of it before, but this was the first time I got to watch it all the way through. Quite good. I fucking love the story about how some people thought the guy who 'played' McCarthy was too over-the-top. I can see where they were coming from, though. I mean, fuck, that greasy hair, with the one curling isolated strand ... it still blows my mind anyone had to listen to that lout, much less fear him.
Lady seriously needs to relax ... preferably with Drive's hella chill, uber stylin' soundtrack.
Good lord man. Why would you put yourself through that?
So is the whore in the alley, but you don't just go putting your junk in it.
Maybe not you.
On the movie though, I think a lot of what made the original (remake) work so well is we're dropped in with a bunch of guys who've spent a lot of time together. They're friends, acquaintances, irritants etc all to each other. That's where all the tension comes from when no one know who's who anymore. Having an outsider amongst a bunch of people she doesn't know (and we're never given a reason to care about) just fucking doesn't work. The Thing itself devolves into a random movie monster that rampages about as well. There's even a scene in the new one that's just the fucking raptor, kitchen scene from Jurassic Park. Ugh. The ending is also the fucking most contrived garbage fucking ever.
It's terrible. Funnily enough, the CG, which is the part I expected to hate most, is the least of this movie's issues. It actually doesn't look that bad.
On the movie though, I think a lot of what made the original (remake) work so well is we're dropped in with a bunch of guys who've spent a lot of time together. They're friends, acquaintances, irritants etc all to each other. That's where all the tension comes from when no one know who's who anymore. Having an outsider amongst a bunch of people she doesn't know (and we're never given a reason to care about) just fucking doesn't work. The Thing itself devolves into a random movie monster that rampages about as well. There's even a scene in the new one that's just the fucking raptor, kitchen scene from Jurassic Park. Ugh. The ending is also the fucking most contrived garbage fucking ever.
This alien, that when it absorbs you, it absorbs all your knowledge, memories and personality in order to perfectly mimic you doesn't know which FUCKING EAR TO PUT AN EARRING IN? ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME?
It's terrible. Funnily enough, the CG, which is the part I expected to hate most, is the least of this movie's issues. It actually doesn't look that bad.
Green Lantern
Yep, finally saw it. 'Legally obtained it' last weekend and watched it with a friend.
We came to the conclusion that it's not honestly a bad movie. It's also not a very good movie. It just feels like a very rushed movie. And they spend far too much time on Earth, when the best stuff was on Oa. What could have been a great 5-minute training montage with Kilowog lasted maybe a minute. Mark Strong was awesome as Sinestro, but the character had almost nothing to do.
Honestly, though, it was impossible to be either surprised or disappointed since I knew I was expecting a bad movie. Though surprisingly, that's worked in my favour at times. I walked into both Fantastic Four movies with very low expectations and thought they were fun. Not great by any means, but fun.
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Yep, finally saw it. 'Legally obtained it' last weekend and watched it with a friend.
We came to the conclusion that it's not honestly a bad movie. It's also not a very good movie. It just feels like a very rushed movie. And they spend far too much time on Earth, when the best stuff was on Oa. What could have been a great 5-minute training montage with Kilowog lasted maybe a minute. Mark Strong was awesome as Sinestro, but the character had almost nothing to do.
Honestly, though, it was impossible to be either surprised or disappointed since I knew I was expecting a bad movie. Though surprisingly, that's worked in my favour at times. I walked into both Fantastic Four movies with very low expectations and thought they were fun. Not great by any means, but fun.
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Sounds like my prom night.
X-men First Class
It was a good origin movie for Magneto and the Prof and overall a good super hero flick but unless they are planning an X-men First Team movie there are few good reasons for some of the choices they made.
And January Jones sucked as Emma Frost as did the lame ass diamond effect.
It was a good origin movie for Magneto and the Prof and overall a good super hero flick but unless they are planning an X-men First Team movie there are few good reasons for some of the choices they made.
And January Jones sucked as Emma Frost as did the lame ass diamond effect.
Batman Year One
Man, other than the nonsensically Frank Miller Catwoman prostitute garbage, it was pretty God damn good. It actually kind of makes me sad that Bryan Cranston wasn't cast as Gordon in the Chris Nolan Batman movies. Not to shit on Gary Oldman, but fuck, Cranston is Gordon.
The Catwoman short was....uhh....odd. Fully 1/5th of the 15 minute short was dedicated to awkwardly animated strip teases.
Man, other than the nonsensically Frank Miller Catwoman prostitute garbage, it was pretty God damn good. It actually kind of makes me sad that Bryan Cranston wasn't cast as Gordon in the Chris Nolan Batman movies. Not to shit on Gary Oldman, but fuck, Cranston is Gordon.
The Catwoman short was....uhh....odd. Fully 1/5th of the 15 minute short was dedicated to awkwardly animated strip teases.
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I... completely agree. I can be absorbed in a dumb movie, and then analyze it. Ditto for books. I mean, isn't that the standard mode of operation? Watch/Read, then analyze later. And there are many cases where I was way into a movie in the theater, only to realize how stupid it was on reflection.
North_Ranger
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Johnny English Reborn - Loved it. Not the least because I enjoy Rowan Atkinson in the roles he was best known before that whole Mr Bean schtick - deadpan snarkers.
North_Ranger
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Me too, Shegs. For me there was an added bonus in the translation: a couple of months back when the True Finns - an ultra-nationalist, anti-EU, conservative populist party - won the elections, they launched a term called "jytky", to mean a victory or a landslide gain. In JE:R, the phrase "five-star turd" was translated as "jytkypötkäle", a "jytky huge lump of shit" 
Winnebago Man. A documentary which has the director seek out and talk to Jack Rebney, a man who became famous after a video tape circulated where he is cursing like a sailor during a Winnebago promotional video. It's a beautiful film which can be hilarious and at times uncomfortable.
What comes as a complete surprise is the depth of the man. What starts out as a man just swearing on video suddenly becomes an in depth look at a man who is well read, articulate, and strongly opinionated.
Over all, I loved it.
What comes as a complete surprise is the depth of the man. What starts out as a man just swearing on video suddenly becomes an in depth look at a man who is well read, articulate, and strongly opinionated.
Over all, I loved it.
Moneyball
Not the kinda movie I'd ordinairly watch, but a bunch of friends went to see it and dragged me along.
And it was...okay. It felt a little unfocused, to be honest. At one point, Pitt is arguing with these guys, then the coach, etc. And then those parts are left to the wayside without much follow-up or conclusion. And there's just way too much stock footage of the games that they reference, especially toward the end of the game series.
I thought it was good and got my $5 worth. I just don't think it was the bees knees that critics are raving.
Not the kinda movie I'd ordinairly watch, but a bunch of friends went to see it and dragged me along.
And it was...okay. It felt a little unfocused, to be honest. At one point, Pitt is arguing with these guys, then the coach, etc. And then those parts are left to the wayside without much follow-up or conclusion. And there's just way too much stock footage of the games that they reference, especially toward the end of the game series.
I thought it was good and got my $5 worth. I just don't think it was the bees knees that critics are raving.
Tangled: Okay, I've seen this four times now since June. It's really fucking good. I'm starting to think the people disappointed are just wistful for their childhoods--this is way better than Disney's Cinderella and such. Rose-colored glasses and the such. So many good parts, and great characters, even if the plot cheats about 10 minutes from the end... and then again 5 minutes from the end. But the movie was so good I can forgive that (as opposed to Superman: The Movie where I like the end because of the plot-cheating).
Favorite villain end of any Disney movie also--and I don't mean the falling.
Cajungal
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I also like Tangled a lot more than I thought I would. At first I was super skeptical. I've watched it a lot, because I enjoy just looking at the backgrounds and drinking in the detail. It's really pretty. I can see what they mean now--that they wanted it to have the warmth and beauty of their old 2D movies. The lantern scene is great and the first scenes of Rapunzel leaving the tower are lovely. I'm really glad they took away the prehensile qualities that her hair had in one of the trailers. That didn't appeal to me.
Paranormal Activity 2: Hey look, likeable characters! I actually give a shit what happens to them this--oh fuck, there's Meeka from the first movie.
It's funny; this one took a poorer pace than the first film, and didn't do as good a job with its set pieces (except a certain kitchen incident), but I think I cared for it more. I think? I don't know; the experience was totally different. Saw the first in a theater with plenty of people, so it really got under the skin. The second couldn't have the same effect with us sitting alone in our living room watching it off Netflix while the heater occassionally blasted loudly and the rats were occasionally cheeping and wrestling across the room. That said, I don't think I'd feel this one was silly if I watched it a second time, whereas Rifftrax ripped the first one to shreds and I can't take it seriously anymore.
But seeing it, and hearing Spoony's glowing review, may push me into the theater to see the third.
It's funny; this one took a poorer pace than the first film, and didn't do as good a job with its set pieces (except a certain kitchen incident), but I think I cared for it more. I think? I don't know; the experience was totally different. Saw the first in a theater with plenty of people, so it really got under the skin. The second couldn't have the same effect with us sitting alone in our living room watching it off Netflix while the heater occassionally blasted loudly and the rats were occasionally cheeping and wrestling across the room. That said, I don't think I'd feel this one was silly if I watched it a second time, whereas Rifftrax ripped the first one to shreds and I can't take it seriously anymore.
But seeing it, and hearing Spoony's glowing review, may push me into the theater to see the third.
Reel Steel - It was a bit uneven. It was set in the too near future, that kept taking me out of the setting. I just don't think we'll go from Asimo to one story tall, 1,000 pound, rock-em-sock-em robots (with a rich history) with in 8 years...
I enjoyed the main actors. The robot effects were good, especially the animatronics. But wow, this film gets really schmaltzy, like Ricky Schroeder in The Champ...
I enjoyed the main actors. The robot effects were good, especially the animatronics. But wow, this film gets really schmaltzy, like Ricky Schroeder in The Champ...
Necronic
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Watched Bridesmaids yesterday. I liked the actresses/acting, there were some pretty funny parts in it, but the movie itself was pretty bad. It was like they got to the last 20 minutes and were like "ok lets just wrap up all the story lines at once with no real effort." Was pretty lazy.
The Three Musketeers - I personally liked it! Although, disclaimer, I like just about every movie I see, so I'm probably not the best critic....But, still, I thought the movie was fun! Lots of good action scenes. Some of the most fun swordplay sequences I've seen in a while. Funny moments popped up here and there, also a bit of romance, which wins me over just about everytime, heh! The costumes were stunning, I loved the period details in them. It was also nice to see some characters that are often forgotten in other film versions (Planchet for the win!!). Also, Orlando Bloom is awesome as a bad guy! I was worried at first, but I thought he did a really good job at being Duke of Buckingham (minus, of course, the difference of Buckingham from the book to the movie..and really if you want accuracy of book vs. movie stick with the 1973 version). If you want to just go see a fun action movie, I would definately recommend it.
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Philosopher B.
In Bruges is fucking genius.
'I'm sorry I called you an inanimate object. I was upset.'
