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Title: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on May 27, 2013, 01:38:27 PM
A thread to talk about movies you've recently seen. Expect a post from me at least weekly, since I go to the theater every Sunday, but I'd like it to be the movie equivalent to the "Now Playing" thread—except, obviously, for movies you've recently watched.

First post! I just saw The Great Gatsby. I'm not entirely sure what to think. The movie kept losing me then winning me over back and forth throughout the course of it, so much that I'm not sure where I stand now that it's finished. I rolled my eyes near the beginning and cried at the end, but still my feelings are mixed. Leonardo DiCaprio did amazing as Jay Gatsby. I think that with a different director this could've been a great film, but in the end it fel really shallow.

Also, I liked the juxtaposition of the old setting with modern music in theory (especially since Fitzgerald used new and unaccepted music as a theme in the novel), but in the end it, for the most part, was pretty awkward.

So yeah, as a whole I think I had more problems with the film than things I liked. Oh, and I should mention I haven't yet read the novel, so you can take my words with a salt shaker.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: spoon on May 27, 2013, 01:55:05 PM
I liked what Baz Luhrmann did with it. He did a somewhat similar thing with Romeo and Juliet, modernizing it and whatnot. Dicaprio was in that too.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on May 27, 2013, 03:23:02 PM
in the end it fel really shallow.
Isn't that the whole point of Gatsby?

The last film I saw was Sebastiane, directed by Derek Jarman. It is an account of the martyrdom of St. Sebastian. It's ambitious and all, scripted entirely in Latin (allegedly the first English film to do so), but it basically amounts to 80 minutes of artsy gay erotica and I just didn't find it very interesting. It does have some beautiful individual moments (the close up of a tiny spider spinning web on a guy's fingers, for example) but then there's 10 minutes of naked guys splashing each other with water in slow motion and I just don't care about that. It ends (of course) with the martyrdom by arrows, which is unflinchingly shot and viscerally powerful, but I would have cared more if I hadn't been exposed to 75 minutes of sweaty gay men beforehand. Elsewhere, I said "this whole film could be reduced to a 10 second shot of a flaccid cock being squirted with ketchup" and I think that about sums it up.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on May 27, 2013, 03:59:21 PM
Crudblud watches gay porn.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 02, 2013, 07:28:17 PM
Just saw After Earth today. It was terrible. Jaden Smith did a pretty bad job, the writing was stiff, sometimes bland and sometimes horrid, the directing was crap and the story was incredibly predictable. Will Smith did good for what he could, but it could not salvage that film.

On the bright side, I could kind of see myself watching and making fun of this if I could find someone else to.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 02, 2013, 07:30:09 PM
Just saw After Earth today. It was terrible. Jaden Smith did a pretty bad job, the writing was stiff, sometimes bland and sometimes horrid, the directing was crap and the story was incredibly predictable. Will Smith did good for what he could, but it could not salvage that film.

On the bright side, I could kind of see myself watching and making fun of this if I could find someone else to.

Mystery Supes Theater 3000
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 02, 2013, 07:58:59 PM
Just saw After Earth today. It was terrible. Jaden Smith did a pretty bad job, the writing was stiff, sometimes bland and sometimes horrid, the directing was crap and the story was incredibly predictable. Will Smith did good for what he could, but it could not salvage that film.

On the bright side, I could kind of see myself watching and making fun of this if I could find someone else to.

Mystery Supes Theater 3000

Even though I wouldn't be very entertaining I would love to do that. I have this tradition with a friend I know online where we watch every Microsoft 'announcement' livestream (be it E3 or otherwise) and make fun of it the whole time. It's great. We were making dog jokes before they were cool B[
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: markjo on June 02, 2013, 08:51:48 PM
Just saw After Earth today. It was terrible.

In that case, I guess I'm glad that I saw Now You See Me instead.  The surprise ending wasn't that big of a surprise, but it was still a fun movie.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 02, 2013, 08:53:48 PM
Just saw After Earth today. It was terrible. Jaden Smith did a pretty bad job, the writing was stiff, sometimes bland and sometimes horrid, the directing was crap and the story was incredibly predictable. Will Smith did good for what he could, but it could not salvage that film.

On the bright side, I could kind of see myself watching and making fun of this if I could find someone else to.
That's disappointing. It had terrible reviews on RottenTomato too but I thought it looked decent. Guess I won't be seeing it then.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on June 02, 2013, 10:01:31 PM
I thought it be alright as well (like, Oblivion levels of 'alright'). Didn't quite expect it to be as bad as everyone says it is.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 03, 2013, 07:47:35 AM
M. Night Shyamalan is awful.  I don't know why people still see his movies.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on June 11, 2013, 01:25:45 AM
Fast and Furious 6 was alright for some great action set pieces. The script was incredibly dumb (like, I was laughing in the cinema dumb).  The way they flipped the tank also took me straight out of the movie.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: ataraxia on June 11, 2013, 04:50:06 PM
I think the could have done a better job emphasizing the meaning of certain colors in the book. And I don't just mean the green light.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on June 12, 2013, 04:42:52 AM
M. Night Shyamalan is awful.  I don't know why people still see his movies.
Especially not when they're Will Smith vanity projects.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on June 14, 2013, 12:49:22 PM
The Gatekeepers

A new documentary comprised mostly of interviews with former leaders of the Shin Bet, Israel's security agency. The subject is fascinating, the interviews and previously unseen archival footage (according to the director who did a little Q&A afterwards) are compelling, unfortunately the presentation features unnecessary and ridiculous graphics as seen on shows like CSI, I was almost expecting one of the interviewees to don a pair of sunglasses, spout a cheesy one-liner and then hear Roger Daltrey scream YEAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH. It's actually quite bizarre that the director, an Israeli who spent some three and a half years doing interviews, collecting archival footage and so on, and chose to pare it down to this 90 minute package with goofy CG graphics and tacky "docu-pop" music, it's almost like he has no respect for the subject, even though he showed a great deal of passion during the Q&A. I hope that the complete and unedited interviews are made available on their own at some point, the film itself is ultimately disappointing and not worth the price of admission, I feel.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 17, 2013, 12:53:44 AM
Saw Man of Steel today. It wasn't very good. I think Henry Cavill was pretty great as Superman, but the whole start of the movie was really awkwardly paced and kinda dumb and deus ex machina-y.

Also, that wasn't Timothy Olyphant as Zod?!

Potential spoilers (highlight to read): The whole opening sequence on Krypton felt way too generic-action-blockbuster-like, Timothy Olyphant...er, Michael Shannon was not very unique or interesting as General Zod, the whole movie's pacing was weird, there was way too much focus on action, Superman hardly did any fucking life-saving, completely content to demolish an entire city and buildings to crush his enemies, showing very little compassion. Seriously, we have a couple brief scenes from before he's Superman of him being heroic, but once he dons the suit and cape I'm sure the casualties he helped incur way outweigh those. I would've loved to see him saving people as he fought, going out of his way to protect them and not destroy half of fucking Metropolis.

That said, the super-fight-scenes were pretty sweet, and there was a serious moment of "...woah" when Superman did what he didn't want to do and finished Zod. Just the way he did it, how out of desperation it was. It was a seriously well-done moment. Until they made nothing of it and cut to the end.

The end was probably the best part. With Kal showing the government that he won't let them track him, but showing that he's placing his trust in humanity to let him work on his own terms. It was a pretty heartwarming moment. Followed by an incredibly predictable joke.

So yeah. Basically the only real good part is the latter part of it.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on June 17, 2013, 02:56:07 AM
A lot of people have been saying the same things.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: hoppy on June 17, 2013, 05:30:29 AM
I just watched Grease on AMC over the weekend. It was fun to watch again. A light hearted musical love story. Normally something like this is enough to make gag, but it was fun to see a young John Travolta and Olivia Newton John again.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 17, 2013, 06:43:27 AM
I loved Man of Steel, which is surprising since I normally hate Superman's character. I honestly want to see it again in theaters.

(Near the end of the movie, I really doubt there were still people in those buildings, Supes.)
AND YOU THOUGHT ZOD LOOKED LIKE TIMOTHY OLYPHANT?! What's wrong with your eyes?! Olyphant is gorgeous, that guy looked like a psycho Roman general.

But I agree that the pacing at the beginning was a bit too fast for my tastes. It almost seemed like they were trying to shove everything into this movie just in case it didn't do well and they didn't do another one.

Also, Lane was terrible. That line after they kissed was extremely stupid and ruined the whole moment. "They say it all goes down hill after the first kiss." Are you fucking kidding me, Lane?

Henry Cavill was perfect. I'm super impressed that he hid his accent so well. I couldn't help but laugh when the Englishman said, "I was raised in Kansas, I'm as American as it gets."
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 17, 2013, 07:16:21 AM
(Near the end of the movie, I really doubt there were still people in those buildings, Supes.)

Maybe not, but I find it hard to think of the entire city and all those skyscrapers totally evacuated, especially since you see people running around and I'm fairly sure you can see people in buildings in bits when the camera follows Superman or Zod through a building they're flung through. I could be wrong, though.

And Michael Shannon looks to me like Timothy Olyphant with a squished head, so yeah. Though I don't think he was very good still.

I didn't like Lane much either, though I'm glad she wasn't a damsel in distress. And I wouldn't call Cavill perfect, but he was definitely good.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 17, 2013, 07:18:01 AM
Cavill was Stephenie Meyer's first choice to play Edward in Twilight.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Blanko on June 17, 2013, 07:18:30 AM
Cavill was Stephenie Meyer's first choice to play Edward in Twilight.

Why do you know this
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 17, 2013, 07:19:43 AM
...I don't know.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: markjo on June 17, 2013, 07:26:19 AM
And Michael Shannon looks to me like Timothy Olyphant with a squished head, so yeah.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that he looks more like Joaquin Phoenix than Timothy Olyphant.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 17, 2013, 07:40:44 AM
(Near the end of the movie, I really doubt there were still people in those buildings, Supes.)

Maybe not, but I find it hard to think of the entire city and all those skyscrapers totally evacuated, especially since you see people running around and I'm fairly sure you can see people in buildings in bits when the camera follows Superman or Zod through a building they're flung through. I could be wrong, though.
If there were people in danger then Superman was concerned as seen with the bit with Zod. I will agree that I am getting a little tired of big battles in major cities and all the collateral. Buildings being destroyed gets to be a bit old.

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And Michael Shannon looks to me like Timothy Olyphant with a squished head, so yeah. Though I don't think he was very good still.
I liked Zod. He had a very true motive which was commendable in it's own way. Sometimes his lines were delivered a little cheesy (the bit on Krypton where he shouts, "I will find him," to Lara comes to mind).

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I didn't like Lane much either, though I'm glad she wasn't a damsel in distress. And I wouldn't call Cavill perfect, but he was definitely good.
He looked the part and was very American poster boy. Christopher Reeve will always be the true Superman in my mind, but Cavill did great at being sweet/naive/pure.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Mugthulhu on June 17, 2013, 07:49:42 AM
Is his Clark persona an awkward clumsy dork in this film as well?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 17, 2013, 09:42:05 AM
Is his Clark persona an awkward clumsy dork in this film as well?
I wouldn't say clumsy or much of a dork, although you only see Daily Planet Clark with glasses at the end of the movie. Farmer Clark is basically Superman without the costume (sweet/pure/naive/American).
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Particle Person on June 17, 2013, 09:58:05 AM
There is one part where he doesn't really hide his English accent. When he's teaching himself how to fly, and he falters, he shouts "NUUUUUUUUUUU" in a very English way.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on June 17, 2013, 10:54:43 AM
There is one part where he doesn't really hide his English accent. When he's teaching himself how to fly, and he falters, he shouts "NUUUUUUUUUUU" in a very English way.
We Englishmen are known for shouting "NUUUUUUUUUUU" when we falter.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 17, 2013, 09:19:21 PM
And Michael Shannon looks to me like Timothy Olyphant with a squished head, so yeah.
Maybe it's just me, but I think that he looks more like Joaquin Phoenix than Timothy Olyphant.

Aha! The evolution goes Timothy Olyphant -> Joaquin Phoenix -> Michael Shannon. I see now!


If there were people in danger then Superman was concerned as seen with the bit with Zod. I will agree that I am getting a little tired of big battles in major cities and all the collateral. Buildings being destroyed gets to be a bit old.

Yeah, but my problem wasn't that he didn't care as his written character, it's that they only showed him caring when it was absolutely necessary so we could still go "oh yeah see superman is caring". Only big plot things like that. You don't see little scenes of him stopping a wall from crushing someone in the middle of the fights, stopping a stray whatever from decapitating a person, etc. I would've loved if they'd had little moments during the battles that showed that protecting people was his #1 priority. It's the old "show, don't tell" saying. Snyder simply told us "yeah he protects people" with in-your-face "superman is saving these ppl now" scenes, but didn't show us that during the huge, catastrophic battles where he'd have to be most careful. He went crashing into an iHop where debris flew everywhere and there were clearly people at the tables inside, smashing a ton of tables and seats that could have logically had people in them (though they didn't because movie luck) and all he did was cast a glance at that one guy who went to school with him for some sort of comedic effect or something and then continued throwing Zod and himself through more buildings. He does not come off as that caring of a hero, even if he by definition is because that's what it says in the script.


I liked Zod. He had a very true motive which was commendable in it's own way. Sometimes his lines were delivered a little cheesy (the bit on Krypton where he shouts, "I will find him," to Lara comes to mind).

I dunno, he was so boring. Zod is an iconic Superman enemy, and this Zod literally felt like generic military bad guy #4276. There was nothing unique about him at all. Though I liked the "what you took from me was my soul" bit.


He looked the part and was very American poster boy. Christopher Reeve will always be the true Superman in my mind, but Cavill did great at being sweet/naive/pure.

Actually yeah, I guess my main problem with him wasn't his fault so much as Snyder's directing. I would've loved to see more of that actually come through, but the story and directing didn't really let it because there was so much "yeaaah big action scene nao be srsfays again".
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 18, 2013, 04:20:58 AM
More of it come through? The fights were about half of the content or less in a 2 1/2 length movie. You know there needs to be action in a comic book movie, right?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 18, 2013, 05:46:05 AM
Yes, but a lot of the rest of it was stuff that did next to nothing to show his humanity or were build-up or preparing you for action scenes. I guess it says something about the film that the thing I most took away from it was the action scenes and very little good characterization for my nickname counterpart. :[ And I was incredibly optimistic about the film because of Nolan's involvement.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 18, 2013, 06:23:41 AM
Yes, but a lot of the rest of it was stuff that did next to nothing to show his humanity or were build-up or preparing you for action scenes. I guess it says something about the film that the thing I most took away from it was the action scenes and very little good characterization for my nickname counterpart. :[ And I was incredibly optimistic about the film because of Nolan's involvement.
I thought they did what they could in the time they had. Again, I think the problems that the movie had (lack of better characterization and awkward pacing) came from trying to put a whole condensed story into one movie in case they didn't do anymore.

I think it was great for what I expected it to be. And it's the first time I ever really liked Superman so yay.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 18, 2013, 06:55:02 AM
Well, that's good then. :]
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on June 18, 2013, 07:30:43 AM
Haven't seen Man of Steel yet, but I'm already disappointed they used Zod instead of a villain that hadn't been in the movies before. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they avoided the obvious choice of Lex Luthor (who is potentially an awesome villain, as in 52, but is generally used poorly in the films and probably deserves a break from such abuse) but why not go for broke and pick someone like Darkseid? If, as rooster suggested, the people behind the film are concerned that they might not get a sequel, why not bring a "new" villain into the mix?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on June 18, 2013, 10:42:44 AM
Haven't seen Man of Steel yet, but I'm already disappointed they used Zod instead of a villain that hadn't been in the movies before. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they avoided the obvious choice of Lex Luthor (who is potentially an awesome villain, as in 52, but is generally used poorly in the films and probably deserves a break from such abuse) but why not go for broke and pick someone like Darkseid? If, as rooster suggested, the people behind the film are concerned that they might not get a sequel, why not bring a "new" villain into the mix?
Possibly since they wanted a Krypton relevant story. The plot made sense in that it focused on Jor-El and Zod at the beginning and just followed through with that conflict. The movie really focuses on Krypton and the Kryptonians' future. They could have gone a different route, but then it wouldn't have been a very good origin story.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on June 18, 2013, 01:39:14 PM
Haven't seen Man of Steel yet, but I'm already disappointed they used Zod instead of a villain that hadn't been in the movies before. Don't get me wrong, I'm glad they avoided the obvious choice of Lex Luthor (who is potentially an awesome villain, as in 52, but is generally used poorly in the films and probably deserves a break from such abuse) but why not go for broke and pick someone like Darkseid? If, as rooster suggested, the people behind the film are concerned that they might not get a sequel, why not bring a "new" villain into the mix?
Possibly since they wanted a Krypton relevant story. The plot made sense in that it focused on Jor-El and Zod at the beginning and just followed through with that conflict. The movie really focuses on Krypton and the Kryptonians' future. They could have gone a different route, but then it wouldn't have been a very good origin story.
That makes me curious to see it, since it sounds like the plot actually justifies yet another retelling of the origin story by way of going into Kryptonian history, though by now I think we should just be able to get down to Superman kicking ass in the name of justice, all five of the people in the audience who don't know the origin story already will not be too greatly inconvenienced by this, I'm sure. Again, if the plot justifies telling the origin again, fair enough, it's just that comic book movies keep rebooting things and repeating what we already know when they could be telling interesting new stories.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Mugthulhu on June 18, 2013, 02:57:41 PM
The Incridible Hulk did this pretty well, I think. Even though it's not a sequel to the Eric Bana movie, but rather more like a reboot, it's not an origin story. The scenes during the opening credits explained the origin well enough.

Also, Avengers Hulk is best Hulk ever.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 19, 2013, 01:35:04 AM
I just watched the entire Police Squad! series (which is admittedly only 6 25-minute-long episodes) yesterday with my 13-year old nephew. our ribs

Seriously, it is so purposely campy and "bad" that it's just amazing, and the amount of jokes and visual puns and background things you won't even notice is stunning. Apparently they cancelled it because the joke density was so high that they couldn't possibly find a way to fit in a laugh track so that audiences back then would know when to laugh. It was just too quick-fire and packed with entendres and subtle things for them to keep up with at the time. The show was ahead of its time. :[

But seriously, I'm going to be watching these again for sure, probably several times. I very much recommend them to anyone who likes humour (give a few episodes a chance, they get better as you go along IMO), particularly more absurd humour or just general rapid-fire and visual jokes. Not to mention that episode 5 has the greatest fight scene I've seen in my life

Also, it stars Leslie Nielsen when he was still amazing. What more reason do you need?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: markjo on June 19, 2013, 10:50:23 AM
If you like Police Squad, then you should check out Airplane! and Top Secret (assuming that you haven't already).  Both are earlier movies by the same Zucker/Abrams/Zucker team that did the Naked Gun series.  It also pays to actually read the credits because they usually slip in a few gags there too.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on June 19, 2013, 07:14:54 PM
If you like Police Squad, then you should check out Airplane! and Top Secret! (assuming that you haven't already).  Both are earlier movies by the same Zucker/Abrams/Zucker team that did the Naked Gun series.  It also pays to actually read the credits because they usually slip in a few gags there too.

I really can't second this enough for both movies, and I would add the less well-known but utterly hilarious Kentucky Fried Movie to the mix.  Also, fix'd.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 19, 2013, 07:51:39 PM
Don't forget the great Movie series!  Date Movie, Epic Movie, Meet the Spartans, Disaster Movie, etc.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on June 19, 2013, 08:07:29 PM
Shut up Moobs.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 19, 2013, 10:36:54 PM
I actually have seen Airplane! multiple times, I love that movie. I haven't heard of Top Secret!, though, interestingly. My gut tells me to be immediately skeptical because Leslie Nielsen isn't in it. :[ But I will check those movies out after I watch the Naked Gun series!
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on June 20, 2013, 12:00:51 AM
Leslie Nielsen was in Spy Hard.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on June 20, 2013, 06:30:20 PM
Leslie Nielsen was in Spy Hard.

It's true.  Nobody but the Zuckers could actually make him funny.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 23, 2013, 01:24:03 PM
The best thing that came out of Spy Hard was the theme song (http://#ws).

And I just got back from seeing World War Z. I've never read the book, so judge accordingly. The best things about it were Mireille Einos and Daniella Kertesz, in my opinion. Mireille is just an amazing actress who I think is generally terribly underrated and should get more screentime in things, and I've never seen Daniella before but she was a brilliant actress emotionally and was just awesome overall. I hope she goes on to do more movies.

Otherwise, the movie was...alright, I guess. It didn't bring anything new to the zombie genre, it was pretty much a standard zombie flick. I'd mostly say it's average because the first half or two-thirds was kind of below average, while the last third was pretty good. Basically, a bit after Daniella comes in it starts to pick up.

Brad Pitt was...Brad Pitt, I guess. He can be good, but he tends to play the same character (perhaps himself) a lot and I think he's kind of overrated a lot of the time. He was basically pretty standard action movie fare.

So yeah, it was alright, wish the whole thing had been as good as the last third was.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on June 24, 2013, 09:20:11 PM
Just downloaded and watched Warm Bodies. Cue emotional in-tears Supes.

Seriously, though, that was a really good movie. For those who don't know, it's about a zombie that's just a little bit more human than the others, in that he can consciously think (albeit not having much control over his actions), who falls in love with a human that he sees. I'm not going to say any more, in the off-chance that any one of you actually does see it, but it's basically a romance film with comedy (and arguably horror). I was a bit skeptical but also excited by the concept, so I went in with pretty high expectations, and it pretty much met and possibly exceeded them for me.

It's just a really sweet, emotional movie. It's not perfect, there are several "funny" parts that are painfully unfunny and/or very out of place, but then there were plenty of parts that genuinely made me laugh out loud, which I never really do when I'm alone. The most important part about it was the romance, though, and as a romance film I just love it. It's not exactly mind-blowing, I know, but I left the film in tears and teared up at various parts of it. It was just really heartwarming, sad at parts, and overall good.

I kind of want to read the novel now.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 07, 2013, 03:37:07 PM
Huh, forgot to update last week apparently.

Last week I saw The Heat. It wasn't very good. It had its funny moments and it had its "I'm trying really hard to be funny so I'm going to run this joke into the ground" moments. It was pretty meh, basically.

Just got back from The Lone Ranger. I've not seen much of the old series, so I can't speak for that, but this wasn't very great either. I've got extremely mixed feelings about it, because the parts that were bad were excruciatingly painfully bad. But the parts that were good were very, very good. For example, I loved the final showdown honestly, but plenty of parts had incredibly forced and stupid attempts at humour (like Tonto putting a bird cage on his head because his "bird" is scared of cats). Silver was weird, but his inexplicable randomness grew on me a little and by the end I was laughing at some of his parts. Depp didn't do horrible as Tonto, but their shoehorned attempts at making him silly were incredibly tiresome. If he'd played it straight with some funny moments that would've been pretty cool. He wasn't like Captain Jack like a lot of people are trying to pin on him, but he did have that same constant need to be somewhat funny. Armie Hammer (manliest name evar) was alright as The Lone Ranger, but I guess it says something that I really don't have anything good or bad to say about him. He was nothing special.

Basically, meh. I'll give them credit in that they didn't make it a John Depp film—The Lone Ranger was still the focus of the film, maybe Tonto was almost equally so. It's hard to say, since I kept going from groaning to laughing to enjoying it to groaning again. If you like good parts in-between bad parts, then go ahead.

But again, I'm not very familiar with the original series. Only familiar enough to have gotten incredibly excited and pumped up when William Tell Overture played. :P
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on July 08, 2013, 04:15:47 AM
I just saw Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter.  I heartily enjoyed it.  I was expecting something with its tongue more in its cheek; I really wasn't expecting a straight-up modern action movie twisted with a costume drama, which was what this essentially was (there was humor, but no more than in your average Lethal Weapon or Die Hard film).  In the end I think it was to its benefit that it took itself so seriously.  Benjamin Walker was good in the title role; you'll be saying "Daniel Day Who?"  I also enjoyed that that one McPoyle brother who was also Mary on Psych played one of Lincoln's closest friends (turns out his real name is Jimmi Simpson; who knew?)  Now, like a lot of these costume dramas, and come to think of it a fair number of action films, it does get a bit slow in the middle, but it was always interesting to me.  I just enjoyed the way they added all these vampire elements to the well-known story of Abraham Lincoln's life.  The movie climaxes in a long and dazzling and magnificently improbable final action scene aboard a train on its way to Gettysburg that is worth the price of admission alone (protip - I watched it free on HBO On Demand so I mean that metaphorically).

My grade: B+
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 08, 2013, 07:34:36 AM
Yes! I didn't understand the terrible reviews, I enjoyed it exactly as you did. :D It was a weird situation where playing such an absurd premise straight just worked out fantastically for it. It was just ridiculous fun.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 09, 2013, 04:52:11 PM
Just watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape This movie's got a weird place in my heart, since I'd seen bits and pieces as a child and my mom always talked about how it was her favourite movie. So I've had this weird place for it in me where it was a bit of a childhood legend, but I didn't fully understand what it was about. Finally decided to give it go and sit down and watch the whole thing now that I'm older.

Just...wow. It was amazing. So depressing, but at the same time pretty uplifting and just...good. At the end I wasn't sure if I should be crying or if I should be smiling. A bit of both, I guess. John Depp was really good but Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing. Wow. Just...wow, I guess. It's a weird movie to try to sum up. It's nothing huge, no big spectacle, just a small story about a small, troubled family in a small neighbourhood. And it was brilliant.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 15, 2013, 02:57:58 PM
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)
Anderson's follow up to the magnificent There Will Be Blood is definitely a bizarre experience, and I'll need to see it again, possibly more than once, before I really get it, but it is a beautiful film. Overall impression good.

Tideland (Terry Gilliam)
Like many who have negative opinions of this film on first viewing, I was told "it's a different film the second time you see it." Well, that's entirely true, the world of Tideland is so baffling, jarring and uncomfortable on a first viewing that a lot of the allusions and thematic links are indecipherable, if indeed they are noticed at all. I did not find it to be a masterpiece, and certainly not among Gilliam's best work, but it does a very good job of maintaining the seemingly impossible tonal balance it strives for and is impressive on that level alone.

The Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton)
I have mixed feelings about this, but my overall impression is good due in no small part to Robert Mitchum's incredible performance as the insidious Harry Powell. For a film made in the 1950s it's actually quite surprising to me just how dark it gets, but the many cheesy parts do show its age and it's not such a comfortable fit for me.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: markjo on July 15, 2013, 04:22:22 PM
I actually have seen Airplane! multiple times, I love that movie. I haven't heard of Top Secret!, though, interestingly. My gut tells me to be immediately skeptical because Leslie Nielsen isn't in it. :[ But I will check those movies out after I watch the Naked Gun series!

Top Secret! is an early Val Kilmer movie.  Omar Sharif does a good cameo as well.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 15, 2013, 10:35:37 PM
Feeding Frenzy by Red Letter Media. It wasn't a bad movie for a bunch of hack/frauds that film with local actors and limited budgets/sets. Had a good amount of their brand of humour, although you didn't need to be someone that has watched everything Plinkett to get it. The movie proves that they know how to construct a movie competently.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 16, 2013, 07:49:52 AM
Feeding Frenzy by Red Letter Media. It wasn't a bad movie for a bunch of hack/frauds that film with local actors and limited budgets/sets. Had a good amount of their brand of humour, although you didn't need to be someone that has watched everything Plinkett to get it. The movie proves that they know how to construct a movie competently.

As opposed to the idiots from That Guy with the Glasses.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 16, 2013, 09:58:52 AM
the idiots from That Guy with the Glasses.

Some (i.e.: two or three) of them have talent, unfortunately they are being directed by Doug Walker, a man who can't write dialogue or narrative, direct, act, tell a joke, construct a likeable persona, analyse narrative with any intelligence or logic and many other things, but he has somehow developed a devoted cult of idiot followers who go out of their way to praise him every time he takes a shit. That community presents quite a bizarre situation, and their response to any criticism is "it's free entertainment so you can't complain about it."
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 16, 2013, 10:49:01 AM
I don't think he's too bad when it comes to his straightforward (albeit lighthearted) reviewing or critiquing, as I do think that he raises some good points, and I can almost always understand his reasoning, even if I don't agree with it.  The bigger problems start when he goes more and more into his own fictional little universe, such as the skits, the storylines, the long meandering jokes, etc.  In short, I guess you could say that I like to hear his opinions.  I don't like to see his comedy routines.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 16, 2013, 07:19:10 PM
Watched Pacific Rim on Sunday. I thought it was pretty awesome. It had hints of mecha anime in it, mostly certain wide shots of the Jaegers that looked very stylized somehow. It was mostly its own kind of movie, though, and it was great. It was a big robot action movie that wasn't necessarily dumb. They sacrificed as little physics as they could (though they still obviously sacrificed quite a bit) and it was about as realistic as it could be without becoming boring.

Now, this is proof that you can have a movie with giant robot fights without being big, explosive, and stupid like, for example, Michael Bay's Transformers films. It had a pretty interesting and original plot, concepts, characters, and so forth. And quite importantly, the funny bits weren't obnoxiously stupid and predictable one-liners. They were funny, thought-out, and—while not necessarily complex—original or not overdone. It also had the first two "nerd" characters that I've liked in quite a while.

So, long story short, I liked it a lot. :] Would love to see again.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 16, 2013, 07:30:58 PM
It had a pretty interesting and original plot

lol

Just kidding, I'm sure it's fine.  I'll watch it sometime.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 16, 2013, 08:06:14 PM
Interesting is subjective, but I'm not so sure about original. The movie is definitely an original work that doesn't borrow too heavily from any other genre, but the plot is somewhat hackneyed (Spoiler: they literally do the ending to The Avengers). It's not a problem because it's designed to be simple, I mean the movie came in at 2 hours and barely half of that was spent on characters and establishing the world.

For what del Toro accomplished, it was pretty good. Hopefully it pulls in figures that encourage the making of these movies (even though a Godzilla reboot is coming soon). I'd really like to see the world fleshed out more, but that's unlikely as they effectively rule out a sequel and a prequel comic has already been done.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 16, 2013, 08:34:30 PM
I guess I can see your spoiler-point there. I didn't even think about that for some reason, but it is incredibly similar, isn't it?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 17, 2013, 09:25:24 PM
Much ado about nothing, the Joss Whedon version. Very enjoyable movie for something filmed in 12 days. It wasn't hard to follow even though I haven't read any Shakespeare since high school. Nathan Fillion was fantastic and provided most of the comedy. I recommend it if you're at all interested in whedon or Shakespeare.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 19, 2013, 07:08:32 AM
The Conjuring. A good modern horror movie, even though it feels old. Effectively builds up jump scares but ultimately relies too much on them to really scare me. If they're your thing then cool, but I prefer something that fucks with my head. Actors were good, and I enjoy watch vera farmiga in just about anything. The ending was also surprisingly happy.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 21, 2013, 01:19:00 PM
Behind the Candelabra (Stephen Soderbergh)

Surprisingly moving depiction of Liberace's relationship with Scott Thorson. It originally had problems with funding because it was "too gay" but I'm not sure I understand that criticism, certainly there's homosex in the film but it isn't gratuitous, you can see Matt Damon's nipples in a couple of shots and that's about it. Mostly it plays out as a black comedy about excess, loneliness, superficiality and greed. Highly recommended.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 21, 2013, 01:22:02 PM
^ I want to see that. Been a while since I've been scared and I've heard good things.

So I saw Office Space yesterday. It was pretty funny. I don't think there were any moments I actually laughed out loud or did more than crack a smile, but it was pretty entertaining and I liked the characters. Bill Lumbergh made me almost laugh just by speaking. But yeah. Pretty nice.

Just saw R.I.P.D. today. It was pretty horrible. I was incredibly bored and cracked a smile exactly twice through the whole movie; the rest of the time my dad and I were sitting there with straight faces, bored. It was incredibly predictable, boring, badly-acted and had terrible, generic one-liners and it was just incredibly boring and you should not see it. Do not listen to those who say Jeff Brdiges' character is funny sometimes. The cowboy character is too over-the-top and ridiculously safe and boring that it's really taxing on your ears trying to watch him.

Worst movie I've seen in quite a while, partly due to just being so goddamn tedious. :]
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 21, 2013, 02:07:38 PM
The Conjuring. A good modern horror movie, even though it feels old. Effectively builds up jump scares but ultimately relies too much on them to really scare me. If they're your thing then cool, but I prefer something that fucks with my head. Actors were good, and I enjoy watch vera farmiga in just about anything. The ending was also surprisingly happy.
I also want to see this.

I just saw Pacific Rim. Good stuff. The protagonist could have been a better actor but his attractiveness made up for that a little, I guess. I loved the way the kaiju and the jaegers looked. The whole drift thing was a little weird and the fight to see if someone was drift compatible seemed silly. But overall, I was very entertained. I even got a little choked up over little Mako.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 21, 2013, 02:08:51 PM
Worst movie I've seen in quite a while

If this is true, then you need to up your intake of terrible movies.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 21, 2013, 02:13:06 PM
What's been worse in recent months?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Thork on July 21, 2013, 02:13:43 PM
I fancy seeing Rush when it comes out. Ron Howard usually does a good job.

RUSH Trailer (2013) (http://#ws)
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 21, 2013, 02:18:08 PM
I fancy seeing Rush when it comes out. Ron Howard usually does a good job.

RUSH Trailer (2013) (http://#ws)
Aside from that fact that car racing is extremely boring and uninteresting, this looks good. Although it might be difficult for me to see that guy as anyone other than Fredrick Zoller.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Thork on July 21, 2013, 02:20:01 PM
I fancy seeing Rush when it comes out. Ron Howard usually does a good job.

RUSH Trailer (2013) (http://#ws)
Aside from that fact that car racing is extremely boring and uninteresting, this looks good. Although it might be difficult for me to see that guy as anyone other than Fredrick Zoller.
Take your boyfriend.

The trailer focuses a lot on the action but much of the story is about James Hunt being awesome.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 22, 2013, 08:36:04 PM
What's been worse in recent months?
I would hazard a guess at After Earth, or perhaps Sharknado.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 22, 2013, 08:53:43 PM
What's been worse in recent months?
I would hazard a guess at After Earth, or perhaps Sharknado.

Grown Ups 2.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 22, 2013, 10:24:46 PM
What's been worse in recent months?
I would hazard a guess at After Earth, or perhaps Sharknado.

Grown Ups 2.

deer piss
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 23, 2013, 08:05:36 PM
I would hazard a guess at After Earth, or perhaps Sharknado.

Hmm, you may be right after After Earth, that was pretty terrible. I think they may be on about the same level, though. I don't know. Horribly unfunny things are worse for me to sit through than things I can at least make fun of, so maybe that makes my memory of After Earth a bit better. :P And don't you dare insult Sharknado.


Grown Ups 2.

I had the good fortune to not see that, but yikes, I bet you're very right about that
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: hoppy on July 24, 2013, 04:01:49 AM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: squevil on July 24, 2013, 08:12:44 AM
Just watched What's Eating Gilbert Grape This movie's got a weird place in my heart, since I'd seen bits and pieces as a child and my mom always talked about how it was her favourite movie. So I've had this weird place for it in me where it was a bit of a childhood legend, but I didn't fully understand what it was about. Finally decided to give it go and sit down and watch the whole thing now that I'm older.

Just...wow. It was amazing. So depressing, but at the same time pretty uplifting and just...good. At the end I wasn't sure if I should be crying or if I should be smiling. A bit of both, I guess. John Depp was really good but Leonardo DiCaprio was amazing. Wow. Just...wow, I guess. It's a weird movie to try to sum up. It's nothing huge, no big spectacle, just a small story about a small, troubled family in a small neighbourhood. And it was brilliant.

Try black balloon if you liked it. A similar film from Australia.

I watched jack the giant slayer last night. I was suckered by the trailers but it wasn't bad.
I don't watch regular tv so I do watch a lot of movies.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 24, 2013, 09:33:33 AM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.

That movie is retarded.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 24, 2013, 02:18:43 PM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.

I can't say that quote made me want to watch it at all X.x
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 24, 2013, 02:24:44 PM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.

I can't say that quote made me want to watch it at all X.x

It's basically a precursor to American Pie and similar fare. Not very interesting.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Chris Spaghetti on July 25, 2013, 08:41:19 AM
Started watching Sherlock last night, looks good
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 25, 2013, 06:01:49 PM
Synecdoche, New York (Charlie Kaufman)

Certainly a highly interesting and ambitious film, I'll need to see it again at some point to really confirm my thoughts about it, maybe more than once.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: squevil on July 26, 2013, 02:15:19 AM
I had that isuue with Cloud Atlas, I never did decide if I liked it or not.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 26, 2013, 05:36:12 AM
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry)

The overall idea of the film is pretty clever, but I think it would be more interesting in practice if we remained with the lead the whole time and didn't really know what was going on elsewhere. Unlike some other Charlie Kaufman-penned films I've seen, such as Synecdoche, New York and Adaptation, this doesn't really have much depth once the twists are over and done with (it's more of an "oh, I see" rather than a "wait, what?" kind of thing). I still don't know what's really going on in those films by the time they're over, but here everything seems very much cut and dried on a first viewing. Probably his most popular work because it's basically a feel good movie underneath all the psychological bafflement, and possibly also because it stars Jim Carrey. Overall it was a decent watch.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Adolf Hipster on July 26, 2013, 05:52:15 AM
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: hoppy on July 26, 2013, 06:06:13 AM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.

I can't say that quote made me want to watch it at all X.x

It's basically a precursor to American Pie and similar fare. Not very interesting.
It is better than American Pie. It is about teenage high school guys in the 50's in Florida. They go to Porky's, a country redneck dive bar, and Porky a big fat redneck, nasty sob. Rips all the guys off for about $100. The movie shows the guys hijinks in school, and their efforts at getting revenge on Porky. It is funny.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 26, 2013, 06:34:09 AM
Porky's is funny as hell, Mrs Ballbricker, the gym teacher who gets horny around dirty underwear. Several lol's again.

I can't say that quote made me want to watch it at all X.x

It's basically a precursor to American Pie and similar fare. Not very interesting.
It is better than American Pie. It is about teenage high school guys in the 50's in Florida. They go to Porky's, a country redneck dive bar, and Porky a big fat redneck, nasty sob. Rips all the guys off for about $100. The movie shows the guys hijinks in school, and their efforts at getting revenge on Porky. It is funny.
It's a movie that I would expect Hoppy to find funny.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 28, 2013, 10:02:31 AM
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

Another Charlie Kaufman film! I complained about Eternal Sunshine's lack of genuine depth, this has depth in spades, buckets, skips, ocean liners, whatever comes after that. I don't want to gush, even though I already have, so I'll just say that I think this is a work of brilliance, pure and simple. Instafaves, for certain.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 28, 2013, 11:17:32 AM
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

Another Charlie Kaufman film! I complained about Eternal Sunshine's lack of genuine depth, this has depth in spades, buckets, skips, ocean liners, whatever comes after that. I don't want to gush, even though I already have, so I'll just say that I think this is a work of brilliance, pure and simple. Instafaves, for certain.
I looove that movie.

I just started watching Firefly. It's a good show with great characters. I love the run down lawless future theme. It appeals to me more than the clean technology of Star Trek. Although I'm not really into the River storyline. I find that to be a tad boring and generic. I just watched the episode where she randomly slashed Jayne, that was a pretty intense moment so she got points for that.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 28, 2013, 03:06:06 PM
I thought Being John Malkovich was pretty good. :D And I really wanna start watching Firefly. Saw the first episode and thought it was pretty nice.

Last night I watched The Invention of Lying. It was alright. I love the concept, but everyone telling the truth all the time got boring since it played out as "spewing out whatever's on your mind" most of he time, whereas people should still be able to...you know...not say anything. It grew more entertaining once Mark learns how to lie. Seeing people blindly accept whatever he says has awesome moments, like the whole first scene with Louis C.K. And to its credit, there was one scene that actually made me cry and feel a bit despaired. I never thought Ricky Gervais would ever be able to bring me to tears (but then again, the ending of The Office...but those were happy tears!)

Just watched The Wolverine. It was better than I expected! I did have kinda low expectations, to be fair. But still, it had quite a few giggles from me and I liked Hugh Jackman as Logan more and more as it went on (it felt like he'd lost the portrayal at first). It wasnt hugely awesome or super smart, but still, I liked it and I liked Mariko and I liked the whole setting and story.

And my God, that post-credits scene had me thrilled. The ad on the TV in the background as itnwas going on made me gasp a little, then a smile slowly spread across my face as it dawned on me what would be in the next X-Men movie.

Spoiler: Logan meets two surprise characters, and in the background was an ad. It was an ad for Trask Industries. A.K.A. the company that will make the Sentinels.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on July 28, 2013, 03:08:47 PM
Oh, and just so people know, I'd like if you bold movies/shows you mention, because that way it makes it easy to scroll through the thread and see what's mentioned, if something catches your interest, for ease of finding things, etc. I'll by no means force anyone to, obviously, especially as it's annoying sometimes of you're quick replying, and annoying as hell if you're on a mobile device, but yeah. :P Just in case anyone wondered or wouldn't mind doing so!
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on July 28, 2013, 03:11:55 PM
I thought Being John Malkovich was pretty good. :D And I really wanna start watching Firefly. Saw the first episode and thought it was pretty nice.

Just watched The Wolverine. It was better than I expected! I did have kinda low expectations, to be fair. But still, it had quite a few giggles from me and I liked Hugh Jackman as Logan more and more as it went on (it felt like he'd lost the portrayal at first). It wasnt hugely awesome or super smart, but still, I liked it and I liked Mariko and I liked the whole setting and story.

And my God, that post-credits scene had me thrilled. The ad on the TV in the background as itnwas going on made me gasp a little, then a smile slowly spread across my face as it dawned on me what would be in the next X-Men movie.

Spoiler: Logan meets two surprise characters, and in the background was an ad. It was an ad for Trask Industries. A.K.A. the company that will make the Sentinels.

You need to watch Firefly if you enjoyed the first episode. Some of the later episodes are just fantastic.

Moviebob said the Wolverine was another alright X-men movie and also made a point about staying for the post credits scene. Not sure when I'll get around to seeing it.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Foxy on July 28, 2013, 03:54:32 PM
Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze)

Another Charlie Kaufman film! I complained about Eternal Sunshine's lack of genuine depth, this has depth in spades, buckets, skips, ocean liners, whatever comes after that. I don't want to gush, even though I already have, so I'll just say that I think this is a work of brilliance, pure and simple. Instafaves, for certain.

So glad to hear this, another one of my favorites up there with The Master and Mulholland Dr.
I have also been meaning to see Synecdoche, New York for some time now, but haven't gotten around to it. I will probably be checking it out soon.


I thought Being John Malkovich was pretty good. :D
I looove that movie.

Since you liked Being John Malkovich, then I would recommend Adaptation if you haven't seen it. I think it is nothing short of brilliant and is also one of my favorite films. It's also directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 28, 2013, 04:45:17 PM
It's true, Firefly just keeps getting better with every episode.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Saddam Hussein on July 28, 2013, 04:50:33 PM
That franchise was crassly commercial.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 28, 2013, 08:12:15 PM
Since you liked Being John Malkovich, then I would recommend Adaptation if you haven't seen it. I think it is nothing short of brilliant and is also one of my favorite films. It's also directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman.
Seconding this.

Oh, and just so people know, I'd like if you bold movies/shows you mention, because that way it makes it easy to scroll through the thread and see what's mentioned, if something catches your interest, for ease of finding things, etc. I'll by no means force anyone to, obviously, especially as it's annoying sometimes of you're quick replying, and annoying as hell if you're on a mobile device, but yeah. :P Just in case anyone wondered or wouldn't mind doing so!
You're not the boss of me, Snupes! Also I'm used to italicising titles and I think it looks better so deal w/ it gurlfreyyyynd.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: rooster on July 28, 2013, 09:03:55 PM
Crudblud, I have a hard time imagining you say guurlfraaynd now that I know what your voice sounds like.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 28, 2013, 10:33:04 PM
Crudblud, I have a hard time imagining you say guurlfraaynd now that I know what your voice sounds like.
I have a decent falsetto, not that gurlfraynd/freynd is something I say very often (or at all) but I can pull it off.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Sir_Drainsalot on July 29, 2013, 07:46:01 AM
I watched There Will Be Blood all the way through.

I'm finished.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Crudblud on July 30, 2013, 10:07:25 AM
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Good. Nothing much more to say about it than that, just a good, solid piece of filmmaking. I especially liked the close-up shots of the crow with action taking place in the background.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Genius on July 30, 2013, 11:33:49 AM
Now you see me

It's getting rotten reviews but I loved it. I guess it's because I'm the "genius". I don't think people understand how hard it is to cope with being stupid when you actually know you're stupid.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: squevil on July 30, 2013, 05:03:17 PM
i watched looper tonight and really enjoyed it. im a big sci-fi fan anyway.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Sir_Drainsalot on July 30, 2013, 05:58:06 PM
i watched looper tonight and really enjoyed it. im a big sci-fi fan anyway.

Yeah it's a good one that. I liked how the whole time travel thing was kept to a bare minimum plot device - other films make you sit through 20 mins of technobabble and handwaving as someone explains how the time machine works. This was just 'it's a bloody time machine, you get in it, and you go back in time'. Job done. Why can't other films be so simple?
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: squevil on July 31, 2013, 02:19:57 AM
Yeah they very much enforced that a few times in the film that it just works so deal with it. It was nothing like the terminator where you just wanna punch your brain because it is just wrong.
Your head is cloudy; that explanation is good enough :P
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on August 02, 2013, 09:40:56 PM
13 Assassins. Great samurai film that I enjoyed. The costumes, sets, fight choreography, direction and characters are things that stick out as the more enjoyable parts. Despite large fight sequences, you can easily tell who is who and what is going on. Every samurai has a personality and gets at least some characterisation. Have to watch it with subtitles but that didn't tarnish it for me.
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Chris Spaghetti on August 03, 2013, 05:43:09 AM
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Good. Nothing much more to say about it than that, just a good, solid piece of filmmaking. I especially liked the close-up shots of the crow with action taking place in the background.

I needd to watch more Bergman. The Seventh Seal is the only one of his films I've seen
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Supertails on August 04, 2013, 03:16:24 PM
Just watched The Conjuring. It was surprisingly good! I can't say I was terrified, but there were creepy moments and, in a surprising contradiction to most horror films, the movie itself and characters were good. I really loved the cinematography or direction of the filming, because there were many shots that had me all "wow, that was really cool." In particular were several shots that were simply one long shot going through the entire house with different things going on, as well as some that shifted perspective and followed things upside-down to right side-up and such. But the characters were nice and it felt like a real family instead of disposable characters. It's also interestingly just as much about the process of tracking down and discovering the "spirit" and the techniques used to do so. It's got nice, well-timed humour (one part in particular was so perfectly done that I, along with most of the theater, was laughing out loud).

So, while I didn't get all the scares I was hoping for, it was really good. The sticking to real effects rather than digital and little homages to old-school horror was nice and made it feel like a classic in a good way. But still, it was great just from the filming. So I don't know if I can say it was amazing since I'm not sure it offered anything really new in the way of plot, but I think it was good enough because there was nothing that wasn't done well. It may not have been the best horror movie, but it was a good movie overall—I even got all teared up during the climax. Usually it's hard to get me to care for horror characters because they're idiots, whereas this family was not. :]
Title: Re: Just Watched
Post by: Vindictus on August 04, 2013, 03:26:59 PM
Just watched The Conjuring. It was surprisingly good! I can't say I was terrified, but there were creepy moments and, in a surprising contradiction to most horror films, the movie itself and characters were good. I really loved the cinematography or direction of the filming, because there were many shots that had me all "wow, that was really cool." In particular were several shots that were simply one long shot going through the entire house with different things going on, as well as some that shifted perspective and followed things upside-down to right side-up and such. But the characters were nice and it felt like a real family instead of disposable characters. It's also interestingly just as much about the process of tracking down and discovering the "spirit" and the techniques used to do so. It's got nice, well-timed humour (one part in particular was so perfectly done that I, along with most of the theater, was laughing out loud).

So, while I didn't get all the scares I was hoping for, it was really good. The sticking to real effects rather than digital and little homages to old-school horror was nice and made it feel like a classic in a good way. But still, it was great just from the filming. So I don't know if I can say it was amazing since I'm not sure it offered anything really new in the way of plot, but I think it was good enough because there was nothing that wasn't done well. It may not have been the best horror movie, but it was a good movie overall—I even got all teared up during the climax. Usually it's hard to get me to care for horror characters because they're idiots, whereas this family was not. :]

Minor spoilers:






The ending was too happy for my tastes. It really didn't feel like an appropriate ending for the movie.
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Post by: Crudblud on August 05, 2013, 11:32:11 AM
The Virgin Spring (Ingmar Bergman)

Good. Nothing much more to say about it than that, just a good, solid piece of filmmaking. I especially liked the close-up shots of the crow with action taking place in the background.

I needd to watch more Bergman. The Seventh Seal is the only one of his films I've seen

I certainly want to see more, this is the only one I've seen so far, I recommend checking it out.
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Post by: Supertails on August 09, 2013, 05:57:53 AM
Oh, watched Lincoln the other day. It was good.
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Post by: Chris Spaghetti on August 09, 2013, 07:56:21 AM
Oh, watched Lincoln the other day. It was good.

Loved Lincoln. It felt like a 19th century West Wing.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 09, 2013, 08:16:20 AM
Oh, watched Lincoln the other day. It was good.

Loved Lincoln. It felt like a 19th century West Wing.

That is precisely what it was.
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Post by: Ocius on August 10, 2013, 11:12:21 AM
Just caught up with every Breaking Bad episode. Yea bitch!
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 10, 2013, 12:14:24 PM
Pink Floyd – The Wall

The movie definitely has flaws, some of which carried over from the album on which it was based.  There's a lot of repetitiveness, the lyrics get overly personal at times, the quality of Roger Waters's vocals tends to vary between "okay" and "shit," and as Parsifal has pointed out before, it's hurt by the very limited creative input from the other band members.  Also, they did a lot of editing and remixing of the songs that I don't think really improved them.  But despite all that, it was still an interesting movie, and I admire the makers for taking as many risks as they did.  The two highlights were Bob Geldof's performance as Pink and Gerald Scarfe's creative, twisted animation.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 10, 2013, 05:56:38 PM
Also, in before Crudblud.
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Post by: Vindictus on August 10, 2013, 06:41:35 PM
Pan's Labyrinth again. This time with Guillermo giving a prologue regarding his weight loss while making the movie.
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Post by: Crudblud on August 11, 2013, 03:25:27 AM
Also, in before Crudblud.
I haven't seen and have no plans to see that film. Your awful taste in everything is safe on this occasion.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 11, 2013, 09:17:05 AM
Also, in before Crudblud.
I haven't seen and have no plans to see that film. Your awful taste in everything is safe on this occasion.

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Post by: Beer w/Straw on August 12, 2013, 12:12:26 AM
Black Sheep is a highly intellectual environmentalist film that brings attention to the dangers of genetic engineering.

Trailer:  Black Sheep (Comic Creature Feature) - Official Trailer (http://#ws)

Full movie: Black Sheep (Film complet) - 2006 (http://#ws)
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 12, 2013, 06:23:49 AM
This video contains content from The Weinstein Co., who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.

The trailer, though...yes, this looks like a very cerebral work.
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Post by: Genius on August 12, 2013, 06:55:59 AM
Black Sheep looks stupid.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 12, 2013, 07:08:21 AM
It looks like quality entertainment.
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Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on August 12, 2013, 08:03:02 PM
Black Sheep was good.  I love Chris Farley.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 12, 2013, 08:13:52 PM
Black Sheep was good.  I love Chris Farley.

The guy who was in jroa's old avatar, right?
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Post by: Blanko on August 13, 2013, 07:37:47 PM
I started watching Mad Men. It's really good.
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Post by: Supertails on August 13, 2013, 07:45:23 PM
I started watching Mad Men. It's really good.

lol
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Post by: Blanko on August 13, 2013, 07:46:10 PM
I started watching Mad Men. It's really good.

lol

snupes
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Post by: Particle Person on August 13, 2013, 08:04:04 PM
I've watched all of Mad Men, but I'm not sure why. Every character leads such an ordinary life, at least by television standards. It's basically a soap opera.
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Post by: Blanko on August 13, 2013, 08:16:33 PM
It's not the ordinary lives that make soap operas bad.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 13, 2013, 08:31:14 PM
The characters in soap operas don't live ordinary lives.
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Post by: Foxy on August 14, 2013, 08:38:43 AM
Mad Men is great. I've watched all of it for this reason.
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Post by: Particle Person on August 14, 2013, 11:22:11 AM
The characters in soap operas don't live ordinary lives.

I probably don't have nearly as much experience with the genre as Saddam does, but unless I'm mistaken, soap operas usually concern people's ridiculous love affairs, which, while exaggerated, are far from impossible. Although, now that I think about it, I remember catching a glimpse of one of my mom's favorite soaps as a child (As the World Turns, maybe) just in time to see one of the characters finding a portal to hell in their closet.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 14, 2013, 12:29:58 PM
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090707183945AApJ98p (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090707183945AApJ98p)
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Post by: Particle Person on August 14, 2013, 12:40:42 PM
Yes. Now that was quality television.
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Post by: Supertails on August 14, 2013, 12:49:10 PM
I kind of want to watch that now
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 18, 2013, 04:11:24 PM
The Clones of Bruce Lee

This is one of the best terrible movies I've seen in recent memory.  You can actually just watch it here:

The Clones of Bruce Lee (http://#ws)

And no, there aren't any higher-quality versions of the film.  That's the best we get.  But it's a small flaw when compared to the hilarious nonsense of the film itself.
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Post by: Chris Spaghetti on August 20, 2013, 02:17:38 PM
Just watched the brilliant Soviet-era Winnie the Pooh (Or Vinni Puh) "Quick Piglet, fetch your gun!" Wait, what?
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 20, 2013, 03:51:34 PM
But the three clones of Bruce Lee!  Who don't really even look like him at all!
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Post by: Genius on August 20, 2013, 03:55:21 PM
I just watched t.v. It was boring. I turned it off.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on August 21, 2013, 09:30:43 AM
Force-feeding the bronze men the poisoned grass!  And the film producer randomly deciding to have his lead killed off!  Ah, screw you guys.  You don't know what you're missing.
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Post by: spoon on August 22, 2013, 11:34:08 AM
I just watched Oldboy on Netflix. Besides the shitty English voiceovers, the film was excellent. I loved the choreography in the fight scenes, considering the lengths of the cuts. Very impressive. This film and 13 assassins are probably my two favorite foreign made films, and they're both on Netflix, so woo!
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Post by: Supertails on August 22, 2013, 10:53:57 PM
So I watched Kick-Ass 2 last weekend and it was alright-ish. It wasn't as good as the first, but I did like the fight scenes better at least. And Chloë Grace Moretz never disappoints. How can you not love Hit-Girl?

On Sunday I saw Elysium. I liked it quite a bit better than people were saying. It wasn't amazing, no, but the story was pretty nice and I thought a lot of the acting was superb. Jodie Foster was just superb and dominated her role. Matt Damon did surprisingly well, too, being more than just a generic action person. Sharlto Copley was really enjoyable too, even though for some reason I didn't recognize him at first. But yeah, it wasn't anything brilliant but it was better than your average action movie and I enjoyed it. :D
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Post by: Vindictus on August 23, 2013, 02:59:18 AM
A lot of people really disliked Jodie in it.
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Post by: Crudblud on August 25, 2013, 10:44:00 AM
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson)
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Post by: squevil on August 25, 2013, 11:52:39 AM
Just watched season 1 and 2 of the walking dead. I love it. It's lost but zombies.
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Post by: Chevalier on August 28, 2013, 04:04:41 AM
Sunday watched "Turbo" the snail in Kino with my 4 yrs old son. Great movie for kids but a bit wtf? for adults

Yesterday watched "Elysium". Great movie, disgustingly rich and egoist people against poor people. Future technology rendition is interesting
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Post by: rooster on August 28, 2013, 02:11:54 PM
Sunday watched "Turbo" the snail in Kino with my 4 yrs old son. Great movie for kids but a bit wtf? for adults

Yesterday watched "Elysium". Great movie, disgustingly rich and egoist people against poor people. Future technology rendition is interesting
Why say Kino? I thought the word was Cinema in French whereas Kino is German.
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Post by: Crudblud on September 01, 2013, 09:36:10 AM
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam)

Certainly the most inventive handling of lead actor death I've ever seen. I was not sold on this film at the start, but as it kept rolling along and sneakily building itself up I became more and more engrossed, and by the end I was thinking "Gilliam, you magnificent bastard, you've done it again." I'll have to see it again before I'm entirely sure, but I think it's a safe bet to say that this is an awesome film.
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Post by: rooster on September 01, 2013, 09:41:07 AM
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (Terry Gilliam)

Certainly the most inventive handling of lead actor death I've ever seen. I was not sold on this film at the start, but as it kept rolling along and sneakily building itself up I became more and more engrossed, and by the end I was thinking "Gilliam, you magnificent bastard, you've done it again." I'll have to see it again before I'm entirely sure, but I think it's a safe bet to say that this is an awesome film.
I felt like I was on drugs when I watched that one. Too weird for my tastes.
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Post by: Supertails on September 07, 2013, 07:38:33 PM
Just watched The World's End. Now I'm miserable. It was the funniest movie I've seen in a long time...and it made me realize that that's the first time in a long time I've felt really "happy". Like, contentedly sitting there laughing, talking with my sister and nephew afterwards and smiling, laughing with them, just feeling real happiness. I thought I've been happy from time to time, had good moments in-between all the gloominess, but feeling that again made me realize that I've only had moments where I'm not *totally* miserable. I remembered what it felt like to not be depressed for a few hours, and now I'm right back into it and it only feels worse than ever now that I remember that feeling. Now I feel kind of empty.

Sorry for the emo whining and stuff, but I don't really have anywhere else to turn right now and I need to get it out somehow. For what it's worth, the movie was amazing.
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Post by: rooster on September 07, 2013, 07:46:57 PM
Whoa, Supes. Chickens are kinda my thing.
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Post by: Crudblud on September 08, 2013, 02:28:54 AM
Insidious (James Wan)

Or Ineffective Jump Scares: The Movie. This is yet another lame, poorly paced, no-atmosphere modern horror film with terrible CGI effects that failed to make me even slightly uncomfortable (and I scare pretty damn easily!). It feels like a collection of rejected nu metal music videos, especially towards the end, and all that's really needed to complete the look is for Jonathan Davis to show up in a kilt and shout at the camera. Unfortunately that's as close to atmosphere as the film ever really gets past perhaps the first 10 or 20 minutes, and even they are only halfway serviceable. If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of. Watch Poltergeist instead.
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Post by: Sir_Drainsalot on September 08, 2013, 07:12:04 AM
On Elysium, I thought it was good, but not so much compared to District 9. I can't help comparing them as they have such similar themes and visual styles. In fact with Elysium there's this sort of staleness about the whole concept. You know the whole most of the world is a wasteland except for a few rich folk who live in luxury....but the downtrodden masses will one day rise up etc etc.....yawn, been there, done that so many times. I felt they could have explored the regular population on the station much more, heck you barely see them. I got the impression the folk living there weren't actually evil and meant to be demonised. Maybe what could have happened is one of the refugees could have met a resident, and the residents having been indoctrinated to believe the refugees are the evil ones, gradually comes to sympathise with them and helps bring them medical care. You could do a lot of juicy stuff with that setup. Show the residents being taught a line about how everyone on earth is suffering but it's their own fault for being feckless and all they need to do is 'work hard' and earn their way onto the station where the successful people live because they deserve it.

As it was I still enjoyed it, standard dodgy sci-fi physics and orbital mechanics aside. Just seems there's been a missed opportunity to explore some deeper stuff instead of more generic shootouts.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on September 08, 2013, 07:19:49 AM
If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of.

Well, there's RiffTrax.  They might do it someday.
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Post by: rooster on September 08, 2013, 08:16:50 AM
If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of.

Well, there's RiffTrax.  They might do it someday.
MST3K is still around they just go by Rifftrax now. But it's still Mike, Servo, and the guy who did later season Crow. They broadcast live all the time too. I already mentioned this but I get to see them live again next month cause they broadcast out of a Nashville movie theater. :D


Anyway... Insidious was a huge disappointment to me cause the ending was just plain dumb. There's a second one coming out soon which I will still have to see of course. I must watch all scary movies.
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Post by: Crudblud on September 08, 2013, 08:53:26 AM
If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of.

Well, there's RiffTrax.  They might do it someday.

Yeah, I just meant with MST being typically focused on older films and all.
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Post by: rooster on September 08, 2013, 09:08:23 AM
If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of.

Well, there's RiffTrax.  They might do it someday.

Yeah, I just meant with MST being typically focused on older films and all.
I think the main reason for that was money. It's probably too expensive to license the modern stuff. They do everything now which still includes older films.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on September 08, 2013, 09:42:10 AM
If MST3k came back 20 years from now, this is the kind of film they would be making fun of.

Well, there's RiffTrax.  They might do it someday.

Yeah, I just meant with MST being typically focused on older films and all.
I think the main reason for that was money. It's probably too expensive to license the modern stuff. They do everything now which still includes older films.

That's right.  Simply recording an audio track of riffing on a movie has no legal restrictions.  It's when you include the movie itself that you have to start jumping through hoops.
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Post by: Particle Person on September 08, 2013, 04:23:52 PM
I've nearly finished watching all that's been released of the BBC production Sherlock. Renowned vampire/actor Benedict penguinersnatch is great for the role.
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Post by: Supertails on September 09, 2013, 03:13:41 PM
I've nearly finished watching all that's been released of the BBC production Sherlock. Renowned vampire/actor Benedict penguinersnatch is great for the role.

Martin Freeman is very good as Martin Freeman with a different backstory.

Yesterday I watched The Way Way Back, which is Jim Rash's (a.k.a. Dean Pelton) directorial debut, and it was very wonderful. It was kinda slow at first, but I got plenty of laughs from it and felt warm and fuzzy inside and I think it was the first time I've ever seen Steve Carell actually act. Definitely my favourite role of his, even if he wasn't the main character. Maybe especially because of that.
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Post by: Crudblud on September 24, 2013, 02:49:22 PM
A Field in England (Ben Wheatley)

A group of deserters from the English Civil War go insane in the middle of a field. It was pretty good.
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Post by: squevil on September 24, 2013, 03:48:30 PM
Yeah the way back is good I own that on DVD.
I watched oblivion last night. It's a sci-fi with Tom Cruise. Isn't too bad but I'm glad I did t buy it.
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Post by: Roundy the Truthinessist on September 24, 2013, 04:04:59 PM
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.  Exactly what it says on the tin.  The bed eats fried chicken (but not the bucket, or the bones), flowers, and oh yeah... PEOPLE!  And it had a magic sheet that is able to stretch out and retrieve fleeing victims.  It helps if the victim's legs have been partially dissolved by magic acid.  Oh, and there's this guy who has his hand eaten, except for the bones...

My friends, this was a classically, gloriously bad movie.
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Post by: Crudblud on September 30, 2013, 05:37:01 PM
Death Bed: The Bed That Eats.  Exactly what it says on the tin.  The bed eats fried chicken (but not the bucket, or the bones), flowers, and oh yeah... PEOPLE!  And it had a magic sheet that is able to stretch out and retrieve fleeing victims.  It helps if the victim's legs have been partially dissolved by magic acid.  Oh, and there's this guy who has his hand eaten, except for the bones...

My friends, this was a classically, gloriously bad movie.
Oh yeah, that film, man, that fucking film. I'm surprised someone else here has seen it, I thought I was alone here in my taste for Z-grade entertainment.

The Man Who Wasn't There (Ethan & Joel Coen)

Sort of like a noir riff on Albert Camus's L'Étranger, but more than different enough to be its own work. Billy Bob Thornton's central performance as Ed Crane is brilliant, communicating effortlessly that he is a man going through the motions of a normal workaday life he has somehow projected himself into from the margins of society, or perhaps even completely outside of it. With its distinctive camera work, performances, deadpan black comedy and eerie tone it has all the hallmarks of a great Coen brothers film, and lives up to their acclaimed works like Fargo, Barton Fink and The Big Lebowski. I think folks should done get it watched, yessir.
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Post by: Supertails on September 30, 2013, 06:14:58 PM
Since I forgot to post, last weekend I saw Prisoners. It was very good. Easily the best actual acting I've seen Hugh Jackman do, and I love Jake Gyllenhaal in mostly anything, so.
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Post by: Thork on October 03, 2013, 01:49:28 PM
I love Cyanide and Happiness.  :D

Cyanide & Happiness - Tunnel of Love (http://#)
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Post by: Thork on October 03, 2013, 01:56:03 PM
Meh. One more

Cyanide & Happiness - Repulsel (http://#)


heh heh heh!  :D
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Post by: Sir_Drainsalot on October 03, 2013, 04:29:35 PM
Recently watched both seasons of Black Mirror. I'd compare it very favorably to the original Twilight Zone with a bit of The Outer Limits. Of 6 episodes 5 were consistently excellent with only one rather duff one. There's one in particular (White Bear) that was just fucking horrible to endure for the last 20 minutes or so because you know fine well the 'satire' is biting extremely close to reality. Well, that's true of pretty much all of it, but damn if that episode didn't make me want to take a shower and keep thinking 'my fellow man couldn't be *that* callous surely....'. Great stuff.
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Post by: Chris Spaghetti on October 04, 2013, 01:37:12 AM
Black Mirror is fantastic, but I'd agree with the duffer episode (Let me guess, the one with the cartoon bear?) They're always very, very sharply written and generally make you feel quite uncomfortable watching it .White Bear and 15 million credits in particular really stuck with me.
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Post by: Crudblud on October 04, 2013, 06:29:28 AM
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

Probably the most bizarre film I've seen since David Lynch's Inland Empire. I'm not familiar with Carax's previous work, but if this is anything to go on he has a penchant for creating strangely compelling drama out of thin air. Characters drop in and out, weaving around the central character, the chameleon Mr Oscar (Denis Lavant), and though we spend less than 10 minutes with any given one they all seem to be fleshed out by their particular episode rather effectively. There are many things we obviously never find out about any of them, but not so much as to make them appear two-dimensional. Lavant's central performance is a veritable masterclass, playing no fewer than 11 characters, each one with their own distinct aesthetic and personality, each one totally believable.

Intriguing, enigmatic, unpredictable, and yet with the utmost craft and focus, this is a film I highly recommend.
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Post by: Foxy on October 04, 2013, 07:01:30 AM
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

Probably the most bizarre film I've seen since David Lynch's Inland Empire. I'm not familiar with Carax's previous work, but if this is anything to go on he has a penchant for creating strangely compelling drama out of thin air. Characters drop in and out, weaving around the central character, the chameleon Mr Oscar (Denis Lavant), and though we spend less than 10 minutes with any given one they all seem to be fleshed out by their particular episode rather effectively. There are many things we obviously never find out about any of them, but not so much as to make them appear two-dimensional. Lavant's central performance is a veritable masterclass, playing no fewer than 11 characters, each one with their own distinct aesthetic and personality, each one totally believable.

Intriguing, enigmatic, unpredictable, and yet with the utmost craft and focus, this is a film I highly recommend.

This sounds like something I need to see.
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Post by: Thork on October 05, 2013, 12:41:04 PM
Classic Cyanide & Happiness - Superjerk Saves the Day (http://#)
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on October 05, 2013, 02:37:06 PM
Okay, Thork.  This isn't the "Post YouTube videos" thread.
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Post by: Supertails on October 06, 2013, 01:29:48 PM
Just watched Gravity. It was so so good. I was really skeptical at first because the trailers weren't very good and Sandra Bullock, but it was actually pretty amazing. The atmosphere (ohoho) was fantastically whatever the opposite of claustrophobic is, and the music and its juxtapositions were jarringly excellent. I want to check out this film's soundtrack, actually. And Sandra Bullock was surprisingly really really good. George Clooney, too, but he usually is anyway. But anyway, yeah. I like how much of space they got right, too, even if it wasn't 100% accurate all the time. It was just awesome and I kind of want to see it again sometime.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on October 06, 2013, 02:10:18 PM
George Clooney, too, but he usually is anyway.

After all, he is George Clooney.  Ha ha ha ha ha.
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Post by: Supertails on October 06, 2013, 02:18:23 PM
George Clooney, too, but he usually is anyway.

After all, he is George Clooney.  Ha ha ha ha ha.

what is this
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on October 06, 2013, 02:20:20 PM
You don't remember the brief, yet glorious period when George Clooney joined this website?
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Post by: Supertails on October 06, 2013, 02:42:14 PM
Vaguely, now that you mentioned it. Should I be looking up his profile and relishing the awesome?
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Post by: rooster on October 06, 2013, 02:43:44 PM
You don't remember the brief, yet glorious period when George Clooney joined this website?
I do not remember this.
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Post by: Mugthulhu on October 06, 2013, 02:49:33 PM
But then again, it was George Clooney, Hah hah hah hah
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Post by: Supertails on October 06, 2013, 03:12:45 PM
Was is account deleted? I see no evidence of his existence. :[
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on October 06, 2013, 03:24:02 PM
You don't remember the brief, yet glorious period when George Clooney joined this website?
I do not remember this.

You weren't here.  It was four years ago.
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Post by: Mugthulhu on October 06, 2013, 03:27:54 PM
George Clooney was the best.














But then again, he is George Clooney, hah hah hah hah hah!
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Post by: Crudblud on October 12, 2013, 06:40:53 PM
The Master (Paul Thomas Anderson)

My second time through this wonderful film breezed by in all of 10 minutes, it seemed, even though it is over two hours long. Two thumbs way the fuck up. Would give it three or four thumbs if I had some lying around spare.
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Post by: Crudblud on October 18, 2013, 11:41:24 PM
Barry Lyndon (Stanley Kubrick)

Possibly the only film I've ever seen with good child actors. I was expecting to be bored with a three hour long costume drama, but it's a good story told with the utmost care by Kubrick, as one comes to expect from him. Ryan O'Neal's central performance can be a little shaky once or twice near the beginning, but as the film progresses he's basically as solid as the other components of the film. Really fantastic and I wholeheartedly recommend it.

Days of Heaven (Terence Malick)

I can already see why Malick is such a polarising filmmaker just from this first experience with his work. On the one hand you've got some of the most beautiful cinematography, a good story and a fantastic sense of atmosphere; on the other you've got some very hokey performances, goofy narration in a nigh incomprehensible accent and Richard Gere (not a fan, sorry). Still, I did come to be moved somewhat by the characters, Sam Shepard's dying farmer in particular, and the final 30 minutes is this wild escalation of crazy scenes which makes for a pretty spectacular sequence. Recommended with some reservations.

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder)

Despite the just plain unnecessary epilogue, I think this is a magnificent piece of work, and it seems that most people agree with me, at least on the latter point. It's moody, dreamy, crazy film noir and one of those films that is a commentary on film itself, or rather the film industry and the ephemeral nature of stardom, and the lengths people may go to to hang onto it. In the manner of Siskel and Ebert: two thumbs way up!

Trois couleurs: Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski)

Masterful character study. Just really fucking good. See it (and the above films, of course) for yourselves, you lazy bums.
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Post by: Thork on October 20, 2013, 12:43:07 PM
Cyanide And Happiness- Burn Victim (http://#)
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Post by: Mugthulhu on October 20, 2013, 12:45:52 PM
Okay, Thork.  This isn't the "Post YouTube videos" thread.
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Post by: Thork on October 20, 2013, 12:50:55 PM
 :(
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Post by: DDDDAts all folks on October 20, 2013, 01:55:09 PM
Just watched After Earth starring Will Smith and his son.


It was crap. It's one of those films that are frustrating because you know it could have been made so much better.
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Post by: Foxy on November 01, 2013, 12:03:10 PM
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

Probably the most bizarre film I've seen since David Lynch's Inland Empire. I'm not familiar with Carax's previous work, but if this is anything to go on he has a penchant for creating strangely compelling drama out of thin air. Characters drop in and out, weaving around the central character, the chameleon Mr Oscar (Denis Lavant), and though we spend less than 10 minutes with any given one they all seem to be fleshed out by their particular episode rather effectively. There are many things we obviously never find out about any of them, but not so much as to make them appear two-dimensional. Lavant's central performance is a veritable masterclass, playing no fewer than 11 characters, each one with their own distinct aesthetic and personality, each one totally believable.

Intriguing, enigmatic, unpredictable, and yet with the utmost craft and focus, this is a film I highly recommend.

I finally saw Holy Motors and I completely agree with what you have written. I absolutely loved it. This film was nothing like I expected, in the best possible way, of course. It is certainly the most wonderfully intriguing film I have seen since seeing The Master last year. I will definitely be seeing this again real soon, and hopefully more of Carax's other work.
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Post by: Crudblud on November 01, 2013, 09:06:32 PM
Holy Motors (Leos Carax)

Probably the most bizarre film I've seen since David Lynch's Inland Empire. I'm not familiar with Carax's previous work, but if this is anything to go on he has a penchant for creating strangely compelling drama out of thin air. Characters drop in and out, weaving around the central character, the chameleon Mr Oscar (Denis Lavant), and though we spend less than 10 minutes with any given one they all seem to be fleshed out by their particular episode rather effectively. There are many things we obviously never find out about any of them, but not so much as to make them appear two-dimensional. Lavant's central performance is a veritable masterclass, playing no fewer than 11 characters, each one with their own distinct aesthetic and personality, each one totally believable.

Intriguing, enigmatic, unpredictable, and yet with the utmost craft and focus, this is a film I highly recommend.

I finally saw Holy Motors and I completely agree with what you have written. I absolutely loved it. This film was nothing like I expected, in the best possible way, of course. It is certainly the most wonderfully intriguing film I have seen since seeing The Master last year. I will definitely be seeing this again real soon, and hopefully more of Carax's other work.

Yes! I thought you would love it, and I'm glad you did!

Most recently I saw Eyes Wide Shut and Les yeux sans visage (Eyes Without a Face), but I can't really think what I want to say about either of them right now.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 01, 2013, 09:19:17 PM
I didn't particularly like Eyes Wide Shut.  It wasn't terrible, but it seemed a bit too slow and overly surreal for me.
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Post by: Foxy on November 01, 2013, 09:22:46 PM
Eyes Wide Shut is my favorite Kubrick film. I have yet to see Eyes Without a Face. I've been meaning to, so I will hopefully see it very soon.
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Post by: rooster on November 01, 2013, 09:50:11 PM
I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(
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Post by: Vindictus on November 01, 2013, 11:39:50 PM
I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(

And you liked Prometheus and Into Darkness.. I'm starting to see a trend here.
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Post by: rooster on November 01, 2013, 11:46:42 PM
I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(

And you liked Prometheus and Into Darkness.. I'm starting to see a trend here.
They're entertaining, they don't even come close to favorites though.

But yes, I like sci-fi.
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Post by: Vindictus on November 02, 2013, 12:18:49 AM
What are your favourites?
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Post by: Crudblud on November 02, 2013, 02:23:28 AM
Wait, what? What was surreal about Eyes Wide Shut?
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 02, 2013, 05:59:22 AM
Wait, what? What was surreal about Eyes Wide Shut?

That may not have been the right word.  Maybe it was just too weird.
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Post by: Blanko on November 02, 2013, 06:16:03 AM
I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(

Inception isn't bad because it's surreal.
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Post by: Supertails on November 02, 2013, 07:12:36 AM
Inception isn't bad
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Post by: rooster on November 02, 2013, 07:13:21 AM
I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(

Inception isn't bad because it's surreal.
It's atleast part of the reason for me.

Hmm favorites... True Grit, 3:10 to Yuma, Love Actually, and others that aren't really coming to me. I can enjoy a lot of movies and it kinda depends on what genre I'm feeling but those are probably my favorite.
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Post by: Crudblud on November 02, 2013, 09:08:02 AM
Wait, what? What was surreal about Eyes Wide Shut?

That may not have been the right word.  Maybe it was just too weird.

I can't help but think that this verdict is coming mainly from the visceral impression made by the orgy sequence, even though that is only maybe 10 minutes out of a 160 minute film.
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Post by: Supertails on November 02, 2013, 01:42:23 PM
orgy sequence

wat

And I was going to try to watch this 'soon' >:[
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Post by: Vindictus on November 02, 2013, 09:36:32 PM
The Unbelievers, Australian premiere with a post viewing Q&A with Laurence Krauss. It was quite good, although most people there were (predictably) the wrong sort of people to be watching it. Not very heavy on the science, which is probably a good thing as 90 minutes is not enough time to adequately (and more importantly, to keep it interesting) explain science to people with no background in it. It's great for creating discussion and getting people thinking and reading more on the topic. It was also nice that the documentary never really focused on the existence of God or anything like that, but rather the clash between religion and science in the 21st Century. It also spends a surprising amount of time in Australia before jumping over to America, which is somewhat jarring as America can be quite crazy with their Atheism hate.

In any case, it's a good documentary whether you're religious or not, but it's best shown to people that wouldn't otherwise be thinking about these things. 7/10.

I really don't like Kubrick very much. I'm not a fan of surrealism. For example, I hate Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind and Inception.

I haven't seen a good movie in awhile. :(

Inception isn't bad because it's surreal.

What's wrong with Inception?

Love Actually

Ugh. It's just trying way too hard to make you feel something, and it does it in the most superficial way. It was on in the background the other day, and it reminded me how much I dislike these kind of romantic comedies.
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Post by: rooster on November 02, 2013, 11:04:30 PM
Meh, it's the only romantic comedy I like so it's a favorite of mine.
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Post by: Crudblud on November 03, 2013, 01:23:51 AM
orgy sequence

wat

And I was going to try to watch this 'soon' >:[
Well, if nudity and sex are hang-ups for you, I don't think you would have made it that far into the film anyway.
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Post by: Mugthulhu on November 03, 2013, 04:00:20 AM
The trailer for I, Frankenstein.
...
Why does this film exist?
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Post by: Crudblud on November 03, 2013, 06:49:24 AM
The trailer for I, Frankenstein.
...
Why does this film exist?
I hope it is either really awesome or a spectacular failure.
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Post by: Supertails on November 03, 2013, 07:19:27 AM
The trailer for I, Frankenstein.
...
Why does this film exist?

ohmygod I've been saying Aaron Eckhart has the perfect Frankenstein's monster head for forever

Also, because every graphic novel ever must be made into a movie, clearly.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 03, 2013, 08:51:08 AM
Wait, what? What was surreal about Eyes Wide Shut?

That may not have been the right word.  Maybe it was just too weird.

I can't help but think that this verdict is coming mainly from the visceral impression made by the orgy sequence, even though that is only maybe 10 minutes out of a 160 minute film.

Partially, but I thought there was a level of overall weirdness to it as well.  Character motivations, for example.  I could never shake the feeling that real people would never be saying or doing these things.
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Post by: Foxy on November 03, 2013, 11:06:25 AM
I could never shake the feeling that real people would never be saying or doing these things.

I have never been able to understand this complaint about films. Eyes Wide Shut is not a documentary.
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Post by: Saddam Hussein on November 03, 2013, 11:43:11 AM
No, but it's not absurdist either.  Or at least I don't think it was supposed to be.  My suspension of disbelief was severely challenged.
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Post by: Supertails on November 03, 2013, 12:23:50 PM
So I just saw Ender's Game. I thought it was pretty good. I actually cried at the end. I was incredibly skeptical and apprehensive, seeing as this is one of my all-time favourite books, so maybe that even worked in my favour, but I still enjoyed the film and I thought some of the acting was really great. The characterization, too. It never felt like they were changing too much to appeal to a wider audience or dumbing it down too severely. It also helps that with this kinda stuff I keep in mind that they do need to make cuts and changes to translate it over to movie form—especially since such a big part of the book is in Ender's thoughts and what goes through his mind—but I think they did a pretty decent job. There were several parts I would've done differently (particularly his Mind Games and some points of emphasis), but yeah. 'Twas still enjoyable. :]
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Post by: Vindictus on November 03, 2013, 12:39:57 PM
So I just saw Ender's Game. I thought it was pretty good. I actually cried at the end. I was incredibly skeptical and apprehensive, seeing as this is one of my all-time favourite books, so maybe that even worked in my favour, but I still enjoyed the film and I thought some of the acting was really great. The characterization, too. It never felt like they were changing too much to appeal to a wider audience or dumbing it down too severely. It also helps that with this kinda stuff I keep in mind that they do need to make cuts and changes to translate it over to movie form—especially since such a big part of the book is in Ender's thoughts and what goes through his mind—but I think they did a pretty decent job. There were several parts I would've done differently (particularly his Mind Games and some points of emphasis), but yeah. 'Twas still enjoyable. :]

Is the book worth reading now that there's an 'alright' movie adaption? Reddit seems to have a huge hard on for this book/movie, and I want to see if it's worth investigating.

Thor: The Dark World. I like that they're trying to do something different with each movie, instead of trying to make the first one again. It was completely silly and over the top, but it was also fully aware of it so it didn't suffer for it. Christopher Eccleston is good, but could have used more screen time. Both Chris and Tom are good, especially Tom. Idris Elba was enjoyable as well. The beginning does drag a bit and some of the editing felt a bit disjointed. Minor point, but Stan Lee's cameo was more enjoyable than it typically is.

7/10, another Marvel movie worth seeing. I enjoyed it more than Thor.
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Post by: Supertails on November 03, 2013, 12:43:37 PM
Thor is out? Huh, it wasn't at the theater...

And I think the book's always been worth reading! I'm surprised anyone on the Internet has that much love for the movie, it wasn't much more than 'pretty good' and I can't say how much I would've liked it if I hadn't loved the book. But I think I'd still say go for the book; the movie far from captured everything. I'm gonna go read it again myself, since it's been years since I read it.
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Post by: rooster on November 03, 2013, 02:36:56 PM
Thor is out? Huh, it wasn't at the theater...

And I think the book's always been worth reading! I'm surprised anyone on the Internet has that much love for the movie, it wasn't much more than 'pretty good' and I can't say how much I would've liked it if I hadn't loved the book. But I think I'd still say go for the book; the movie far from captured everything. I'm gonna go read it again myself, since it's been years since I read it.
It comes out on the 8th for us. Thor is my favorite Marvel character so I'll definitely be seeing it.
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Post by: Supertails on November 03, 2013, 03:07:40 PM
Really? Why's he your favourite? His mythos has never really been all that cool to me, it's a bit too much a straight rip of the Norse mythology with a couple of Marvel twists thrown in. I mean, I love Norse mythology, but he always struck me as one of the lazier Marvel characters.
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Post by: rooster on November 03, 2013, 03:17:10 PM
Really? Why's he your favourite? His mythos has never really been all that cool to me, it's a bit too much a straight rip of the Norse mythology with a couple of Marvel twists thrown in. I mean, I love Norse mythology, but he always struck me as one of the lazier Marvel characters.
For exactly that reason. I was obsessed with mythology as a kid and it's what got me into history in general. A mythological character interests me more than their originals.
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Post by: Vindictus on November 03, 2013, 03:20:41 PM
Loki is good in it, especially now that he isn't the main villain. It allows for fun dialogue between him and Thor.
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Post by: Supertails on November 03, 2013, 04:21:33 PM
Nothing will ever top "...he's adopted."

@Rooster: Fair enough, it is pretty interesting. I've always just been a little disappointed because there's not a whole lot of major development or new background they can do with him since it's all pretty established.
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Post by: Vindictus on November 03, 2013, 04:28:47 PM
Nothing will ever top "...he's adopted."

Eh, I wouldn't be so sure. There's at least 2 Loki moments in Thor 2 that were similarly humorous.
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Post by: rooster on November 03, 2013, 06:00:18 PM
Nothing will ever top "...he's adopted."

Eh, I wouldn't be so sure. There's at least 2 Loki moments in Thor 2 that were similarly humorous.
Good. I fell in love with Hiddleston after Thor but I wasn't crazy about him in The Avengers.
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Post by: Crudblud on November 30, 2013, 01:10:17 PM
Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson)

Knowing that he can do fantastic work like this makes Adam Sandler's film choices even more depressing.
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Post by: glokta on February 15, 2014, 06:50:51 AM
just picked up True Blood seasons 1-5 boxset..just started season 5 today 8)
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Post by: Space Cowgirl on February 15, 2014, 09:02:17 AM
I like True Blood. The next season will be the last.