But, THERE'S NO KARATE IN THE MOVIE.
I read that the Director of The Last Starfighter is trying to get a remake off the ground.
I read that the Director of The Last Starfighter is trying to get a remake off the ground.
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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I was also pleasantly surprised! I was skeptical but Jackie Chan being in the movie swayed me. He just makes things WIN.
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Amen to dat, sistah girl!
"How Do You Know"... I was bored. :-/ Loved Paul Rudd, but I started playing Angry Birds shortly after the movie started and then browsed facebook and read a few blogs.
so I guess that means you won't be cosplaying as Reese Witherspoon's character then
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Watched a few things this weekend:
The Fall -
Saw this trailer on another movie I was watching and struck me as a mix of Adventures of Baron Munchousen and Across the Universe, which for me was a good thing. So yeah, it delivered in that sense. Less musical, more story. If you liked either of those films, I recommend it.
Salt -
Went in knowing pretty much nothing about the film. Disliked a few things (Angelina Jolie's hair, her disgusting new physique and weak delivery on the acting) but all in all the storyline was damn good. The twists, the powerful scenes were great, couple of glaring plotholes but all in all a nice little watch, worth it in my opinion. Still, not "great" cinema. Be warned.
From Paris with Love -
Last year, this became my favorite Travolta film. Being a huge Tarantino/Pulp Fiction fan, that's saying something. The gf hadn't seen it yet though, so I picked it up. Other than putting Travolta back on the "badass" map. Seriously, he was better than Cruise in the Mission Impossible series. The really nice thing about this film is that it does transcend the typical "actiony" flick that it starts off as with some nice plot turns and powerful scenes. It really was a fantastic all around film and if you have any like for Travolta, you can't miss it.
The Fall -
Saw this trailer on another movie I was watching and struck me as a mix of Adventures of Baron Munchousen and Across the Universe, which for me was a good thing. So yeah, it delivered in that sense. Less musical, more story. If you liked either of those films, I recommend it.
Salt -
Went in knowing pretty much nothing about the film. Disliked a few things (Angelina Jolie's hair, her disgusting new physique and weak delivery on the acting) but all in all the storyline was damn good. The twists, the powerful scenes were great, couple of glaring plotholes but all in all a nice little watch, worth it in my opinion. Still, not "great" cinema. Be warned.
From Paris with Love -
Last year, this became my favorite Travolta film. Being a huge Tarantino/Pulp Fiction fan, that's saying something. The gf hadn't seen it yet though, so I picked it up. Other than putting Travolta back on the "badass" map. Seriously, he was better than Cruise in the Mission Impossible series. The really nice thing about this film is that it does transcend the typical "actiony" flick that it starts off as with some nice plot turns and powerful scenes. It really was a fantastic all around film and if you have any like for Travolta, you can't miss it.
Saw Hanna this past weekend, thought it was amazing, possibly the best action-thriller that I've seen in years. It's a little hard to describe. It's like an action movie, in that the background plot really isn't that important, but it's filmed and paced like a taut, high-wire thriller with really charming considerations-of-life bits strewn throughout. This is the first film I've seen that uses the quick-cut action sequence while still managing to show a cohesive picture of what's going on. Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana are excellent, and Saoirse Ronan is incredible.
Highly recc'd.
Highly recc'd.
Convoy: I watched as a nostalgia trip. A big budget (by 1970's standards) movie about a novelty song based on the CB craze of the mid-70's. Peckinpaw used more slow mo action scenes than Snyder. I hold a mild favor for the film, even though nobody's actions make any damned sense.
Richard III: Ian McKellan's roll of Shakespeare's great villain, set in an alternative universe 1930's England. He really pulled off the seductive quality of Richard. Even though he is physically and mentally a monster, he could still woo the queen of the king that he had just killed in battle. The mishmash of WWI-WWII-1950's imagery really looked great, and the added Nazi overtones of Richard's and his close followers reflected the Evil brewing in the land.
Siege of Fire Base Gloria: A pretty straight forward war movie about the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. Starred Wings Houser (Rutger's better looking brother) and R. Lee Ermey as two marines that pretty much took over a fire base at the edge of US controlled South Vietnam, that whipped a bunch of spaced out soldiers into shape to defend the base against 5 to 1 odds. It is enjoyable, but the bad acting is really apparent. To the point that the best actor in the film is R. Lee Ermey.
Like the crooked/racist sheriff that is the major villain of the film turns out to be a decent guy, that kills the anti-hero of the story... only to happily laugh out loud for 5 minutes when he sees Rubberduck leaving his own funeral...
Richard III: Ian McKellan's roll of Shakespeare's great villain, set in an alternative universe 1930's England. He really pulled off the seductive quality of Richard. Even though he is physically and mentally a monster, he could still woo the queen of the king that he had just killed in battle. The mishmash of WWI-WWII-1950's imagery really looked great, and the added Nazi overtones of Richard's and his close followers reflected the Evil brewing in the land.
Siege of Fire Base Gloria: A pretty straight forward war movie about the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam War. Starred Wings Houser (Rutger's better looking brother) and R. Lee Ermey as two marines that pretty much took over a fire base at the edge of US controlled South Vietnam, that whipped a bunch of spaced out soldiers into shape to defend the base against 5 to 1 odds. It is enjoyable, but the bad acting is really apparent. To the point that the best actor in the film is R. Lee Ermey.
Har har, clever...so I guess that means you won't be cosplaying as Reese Witherspoon's character then
I don't understand how the movie was so boring with such a fun cast. :-/ a whole lot of nothing happened with not much of anything resolved at the end. Bah
I wanted to see Rango over the weekend, but my friends dragged me to see Insidious instead. Holy shit what a terrible movie. Whoever the director was had no idea how to create suspense, or characters I give a damn about, or even anything remotely scary. But hey, it had lots of super loud screeching violins!
But creepy music and loud noises are what makes a movie scary, right?? I hate that scary and suspenseful movies nowadays just have lots of blood and gore and/or lots of loud noises. What happened to legitimately scary movies?
Sadly they are few and far in between. One of the problems with scary movies is the audience. There is a large, locked in audience that will go see any horror movie just because it is in that genre. So these studios know that they can put out any drivel that they desire and make their investment back.
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REC and REC 2 are to date the only really scary movies I've seen in the past couple of years. There are a couple more here and there, but those 2 stand out to me everytime.
Scream 4 definitely had its problems, but I still enjoyed it a great deal.
Watched 127 Hours the other day. Not bad, but had a really hard time watching a couple scenes.
Sin City: It was much more enjoyable at home than when I saw it in the theater. I am not cringing in embarrassment for the little old ladies that sat in front of me the first time I saw it.
I enjoyed it enough, but I liked it way more before the twists are revealed.
I liked the latter a great deal, but I agree that there should have been more of the former. Their contributions to the film's rhythm and tone were really extraordinary.
The Last Exorcism: That was really interesting, and surprisingly funny in the beginning. Not sure I agree with all the choices made by the filmmakers later, but it was a pretty good movie. Not scary, but I've found most of the good horror movies I've seen aren't frightening, but are instead good stories.
Memento: Finally got around to viewing this. I did see one scene earlier, but I just randomly landed on it and was not impressed. But this time seeing it from the beginning helped to keep me interested. It was really well done, Nolan does have a well deserved reputation.
I would like to do a Memento for Dummies edit of the film and play it strait through by chronological order.
Blood Diamond: It was much better than I expected it to be, these types of films normally get too involved in being "preachy." But the story surpassed the message.
I would like to do a Memento for Dummies edit of the film and play it strait through by chronological order.
Blood Diamond: It was much better than I expected it to be, these types of films normally get too involved in being "preachy." But the story surpassed the message.
Ah, looked up the movie version; I see the difference now. Found a pretty solid likeness:
Looks like the trick is to have a split pin for the opening face, and depend on the revolving pin to keep the pieces together.
I haven't seen a good explanation for keeping the picture intact beyond the rotating method that seems to be employed in the previous vid I posted. Some kind of sliding mechanism geared to the revolving pin, maybe?
I haven't seen a good explanation for keeping the picture intact beyond the rotating method that seems to be employed in the previous vid I posted. Some kind of sliding mechanism geared to the revolving pin, maybe?
That's actually an Easter Egg on the 2-disc DVD; clicking certain items in the right order, it will play the end credits backward, then the black and white bits, then the color bits in order.
I'll need to see if I can find the 2 disc for rent then.
Got a few last movies I watched to talk about. Been watching through the Sergio Leone westerns all year as research for my thesis film.
I've already posted on The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and on Once Upon a Time in the West, but I've also since seen
A Fistful of Dollars- to be honest, I didn't like this one as much. a little boring compared to the rest of the Man with No name trilogy. But I'l give it another chance. I've found that without fail, I've enjoyed these movies more on second viewing than on the first.
For a Few Dollars More- I've watched this one like 5 times already. Love it. And WHAT A SCORE.
Duck, You Sucker!- Not up there with the rest, but certainly enjoyable. I didn't love it like Once Upon a time in the West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly or For A Few Dollars More, but I definitely liked it. lots of fun seeing John drag Juan into becoming a great, grand glorioius hero of the Revolution by making him think he was robbing a bank.
I've already posted on The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and on Once Upon a Time in the West, but I've also since seen
A Fistful of Dollars- to be honest, I didn't like this one as much. a little boring compared to the rest of the Man with No name trilogy. But I'l give it another chance. I've found that without fail, I've enjoyed these movies more on second viewing than on the first.
For a Few Dollars More- I've watched this one like 5 times already. Love it. And WHAT A SCORE.
Duck, You Sucker!- Not up there with the rest, but certainly enjoyable. I didn't love it like Once Upon a time in the West, The Good the Bad and the Ugly or For A Few Dollars More, but I definitely liked it. lots of fun seeing John drag Juan into becoming a great, grand glorioius hero of the Revolution by making him think he was robbing a bank.
"Once"
Lovely soundtrack, MUST buy it soon.
Lovely soundtrack, MUST buy it soon.
I just rewatched the Dollar trilogy recently. Amazing films. I loved Fistful of Dollars the first time I saw it, though. So, now I must dismiss with a contemptuous wave of my hand. *waves hand and sneers*
I left that film feeling as though I've seen the enemy.
Be warned that you are seeing a fascinating look into a few specific sub-cultures by some very biased people cutting thousands of hours of footage into 1.5 hours of film to make some people look very, very crazy.
Of course I'm not saying that the people in the film aren't crazy, but shine a light on any subculture without much context or understanding and it's generally going to look freaky. Of course that rat tail kid is just freaky even with context so...
