That just made me laugh and reminds me of something from Scandinavia and the World.
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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I haven't seen it, but...
Taken 2: Taken it 2 the Max.
Taken 2: Taken it 2 the Max.
Frankenweenie
This was alright. It is better than Tim Burton's more recent films, with a fun style, interesting characters and details that feel more like Burton of old. However, what good is there is a shallow sort of good, with the script containing good ideas but not really exploring them to a fuller extent. In short, better than Burton recently, but still not at the level he was.
This was alright. It is better than Tim Burton's more recent films, with a fun style, interesting characters and details that feel more like Burton of old. However, what good is there is a shallow sort of good, with the script containing good ideas but not really exploring them to a fuller extent. In short, better than Burton recently, but still not at the level he was.
Not exactly setting the bar here.
Prometheus: Fantastic film full of silly plot holes but still a fantastic film. Why would the alien even bother with the shuttle when there were other options available makes me shake my head.
Amazing Spider Man: Loved it, better than the old series.
Looper: cool movie but too violent for no real reason.
Amazing Spider Man: Loved it, better than the old series.
Looper: cool movie but too violent for no real reason.
the movie is literally about professional murderers trying to kill each other and the ghastly, horrible, gruesome future.
Honestly, there wasn't really a lot of violence. It was only a small part of the movie (sometimes in chunks, like the epic scene with Willis near the end), but when it happened, it was violent, yes.
You have to realize, though, that this was a film noir movie with a sci-fi setting. It's going to be dark. It's going to be violent. And most of the characters will be very broken and flawed. And also, pretty much what Charlie said above.
I get that some people (like you) need to have all their movies chock full of violence and gore or they don't feel satisfied. I get it, you need your blood lust or who knows what you will do right?
And yes, it was a movie about harsh killers in a dystopia, but it wasn't a mindless movie like the expendibles 2 (Have not seen it, maybe I'm wrong, it could be an intelligent look at the mercenary life style)
I think that movies have been getting more and more comfortable with showing too much violence, I don't want to see it nor do I need to see it. The violence there, for the most part, didn't serve the purpose of making me emphasize with the characters or give me a better understanding of the situation they were in. I hated the bruce willis scene at the end where he takes care of business, it added a cheap cherry to what had otherwise been a nice gelatto. It was silly putty in an otherwise nice sculpture. It was the salt in the hookers naval.
Fun Fact!
Thanos' little right hand Chitauri is played by Alexis Denislof
In other news, I watched Looper today.
Best time travel-centric movie featuring Bruce Willis since Twelve Monkeys.
But for real, though, it was a great movie. Which, BTW is not very graphic in its violence at all.
Hearing you say this about Charlie Don't Surf brings me massive amounts of laughter.
But you didn't hear me say it and I didn't hear you laugh.
Come on, Charlie wants to fuck the police, of course he's a violence addict.
Wesley Wyndam-Pryce is someone I would quite happily take to bed, so that works out quite well!
... I remember the days when I used to be heterosexual.
North_Ranger
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I hope your fiancée doesn't mind sharing, then.
Congratulations on that, by the way...
After twenty movies they really needed to do something to shake up the Bond formula. It was getting to be tedious.
I loved the hell out of Casino Royale and watched it four times.
I could have done without Quantum of Solace.
I have to disagree. Looper was INCREDIBLY violent. That was kind of one of the points of the movie. It had more unsettling and outright HORRIFYING violence than some slasher movies.
a guy gets mangled piece by piece as he tries to run away as his past self gets surgically dismembered. the blunderbusses pretty much tear people in half. a child pulls the blood out of a living human being and pops him like a balloon. Get the fuck out. It's incredibly violent.
it doesn't have to be shown on screen in lingering detail to be disturbing violence. I also left out the whole murdering a child part and Old Joe's rampage that ends in him just covered in blood.
Again, this is kind of a dumb argument, but the crux is is "Yes, it's pretty disturbingly violent" and "No, I don't think it's just violent for the sake of being violent"
Yeah, it was really a fantastic film. I found that the biggest thing it suffered from was people acting like they were in a horror movie and doing the obviously wrong thing to do instead of the obvious right thing to do. Lazy writing with that. Overall though, very, very good.
North_Ranger
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Slumdog Millionnaire
A touching, thought-provoking love story that touches on a lot of issues both political and emotional. There's no easy laughs to be had, and there's always the feeling that something bad is going to happen just because the lives of the protagonist and his love interest seem to be treated like shit by everyone else - including the brother who is a Grade-A douchenozzle.
A touching, thought-provoking love story that touches on a lot of issues both political and emotional. There's no easy laughs to be had, and there's always the feeling that something bad is going to happen just because the lives of the protagonist and his love interest seem to be treated like shit by everyone else - including the brother who is a Grade-A douchenozzle.
North_Ranger
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Die Hard
Yippi-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Yippi-ki-yay, motherfucker.
Goon
I really, really liked it. It was what I like in a sports movie. Funny and satirical of the subject matter and just a little bit serious when it wants to be. It's Canadian as fuck though as warning to anyone not Canadian who would ever watch it.
When Sean William Scott plays his first farm league game, the announcer's reaction to the national anthem performance may be one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my entire life. I was gasping for air I laughed so hard. And Georges Laraque playing, basically, Georges Laraque was a treat for an old Oilers fan to see.
I really, really liked it. It was what I like in a sports movie. Funny and satirical of the subject matter and just a little bit serious when it wants to be. It's Canadian as fuck though as warning to anyone not Canadian who would ever watch it.
When Sean William Scott plays his first farm league game, the announcer's reaction to the national anthem performance may be one of the funniest things I've ever heard in my entire life. I was gasping for air I laughed so hard. And Georges Laraque playing, basically, Georges Laraque was a treat for an old Oilers fan to see.
I can't fucking wait for Seven Psychopaths
One of my favorite reviewers described it as Pulp Fiction meets Adaptation.
That and the golf course line were my two favorite bits in the movie.
When Goon was announced, I was disappointed as soon as I heard it wasn't this...
Breathlessly. Charlie Kaufman has never written a boring movie.
trying to balance my love of Walken and my ability to avoid everything about honey boo boo