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Re: "What Movies Have You Seen Lately?" Thread
« Reply #640 on: Friday, March 06, 2015, 05:33:32 PM »
I haven't been able to enjoy a Ridley Scott movie for some time. He has always been hit or miss but lately it's been one forgettable flick after another. His movies always look great but the stories he tells within lack substance to carry them through. His last good one I think was American Gangster.

Exodus intrigued me like all his trailers do, but do you feel this one is worth checking out Cobra?

If you saw The Ten Commandments and like that kind of movie, yeah.  It's along the same lines, and no worse than that classic.  At least the dialog is not as silly.

- Biblical spectacle
- Terrific looks, as you'd hope from the budget
- Shallow character development, as character is subordinated to plot
- Leaps in character motivations--the story would need an extra hour of running time to develop more naturally

It's Passover/Lent time right now, so there's that too.

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Re: "What Movies Have You Seen Lately?" Thread
« Reply #641 on: Sunday, March 08, 2015, 08:34:08 AM »
Recently seen the following movies:

Foxcatcher
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
Before I Go To Sleep
Horrible Bosses 2
The Interview
The Homesman
Automata

I liked all of these, BTW.

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Automata was really good w/ its story, plot + world-buildiing in the first 2/3rds of the flick, but it unfortunately gets predictable & cliche in the last 1/3rd of the flick. Still liked it, though.


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Re: "What Movies Have You Seen Lately?" Thread
« Reply #642 on: Saturday, March 14, 2015, 06:32:52 AM »
Last night, I caught Nightcrawler.
Really good movie.
Holy crap - that movie was something else. Really twisted. Jake Gyllenhaal (spelling?) + Rene Russo were really good in this.

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« Reply #643 on: Sunday, March 15, 2015, 08:03:29 AM »
Just watched IT FOLLOWS last night. A truly great horror film. It is extremely tense through the whole film, but not overly gory. Beautifully shot and features many weird, non-specific time period touches. Is it the early 90s? The 80s? Now? The future? Hard to say, there are older and newer cars, and even one of those 90s clam-shell mirrors that is actually a type of Kindle or cell phone. I thought the world they created in this using Detroit as a back drop was really creative. Definitely recommend seeing it.

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« Reply #644 on: Sunday, March 15, 2015, 11:55:43 AM »
Oh nice, definitely into a good horror film since they are hard to come by.

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« Reply #645 on: Friday, March 20, 2015, 05:14:34 AM »
Birdman - Glad it didn't disappoint me. It was really, really freaking good. Excellent acting from Michel Keaton, Emma Stone & Edward Norton. Technical achievement (similar to Gravity) for making a great amount of the flick look like it was never edited.

The Theory of Everything - Really good movie. Excellent acting.

Kill The Messenger - Also really good movie w/ pretty good acting.

Dumb and Dumber To - Nowhere as good as the original. While it tossed plenty of jokes - some hit, some miss. Still, it's funny here and there. If you can catch it on HBO, Starz or any of those pay-movies channels (if you have them) when it gets there or get it cheap off Redbox, worth a rental.


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« Reply #646 on: Saturday, May 16, 2015, 01:08:54 PM »
I watched a pretty good horror movie last night The Taking of Deborah Logan. Basic synopsis is an old lady with alzheimer's that becomes possessed. Lot of good jump scares and tension, recommended if you enjoy horror movies.

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« Reply #647 on: Tuesday, May 26, 2015, 07:03:05 PM »
I've seen Mad Max: Fury Road three times. Love it. George Miller really went for it.

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« Reply #648 on: Sunday, May 31, 2015, 09:54:58 PM »
Shaun the Sheep.  Aardman--nothing like them.

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« Reply #649 on: Monday, June 01, 2015, 01:15:12 PM »
Shaun the Sheep.  Aardman--nothing like them.
Classic :) I love Aardman animations :)

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« Reply #650 on: Monday, June 01, 2015, 02:36:20 PM »
I've seen Mad Max: Fury Road three times. Love it. George Miller really went for it.

I caught that this past Saturday in the theatre.
The action was outstanding.
Awesome movie.

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« Reply #651 on: Monday, June 01, 2015, 04:04:19 PM »
Just watched IT FOLLOWS last night. A truly great horror film. It is extremely tense through the whole film, but not overly gory. Beautifully shot and features many weird, non-specific time period touches. Is it the early 90s? The 80s? Now? The future? Hard to say, there are older and newer cars, and even one of those 90s clam-shell mirrors that is actually a type of Kindle or cell phone. I thought the world they created in this using Detroit as a back drop was really creative. Definitely recommend seeing it.

I watched this last night, and pretty much agree with everything you said. I thought the simple horror concept they used was pretty clever, it definitely felt like they were taking from 80s and 90s horror films like Friday the 13th and Nightmare on Elm Street but like you said without all the gore.

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« Reply #652 on: Monday, June 22, 2015, 04:23:45 PM »
That sounds cool, I'll have to check that out.

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« Reply #653 on: Sunday, July 12, 2015, 07:48:36 AM »
I just watched The Impossible. I'm not a fan of disaster movies in general but since this one is based on a true story I gave it whirl. What an emotional trip.

This is how I want all disaster movies to be. It's not about heroes or villains. It's about survival and finding your loved ones.

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« Reply #654 on: Sunday, July 12, 2015, 08:36:29 AM »
Good movie.  Saw it a couple of years ago.  I remember the news story on that tsunami too.  It looked completely different from what I imagined one would look like.  It's not very high, looking more like a spill than a disaster from a distance; but such a massive volume of water still razes everything near the coast and a ways inland.

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« Reply #655 on: Sunday, July 12, 2015, 01:11:06 PM »
That movie annoyed the hell out of me. :P

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« Reply #656 on: Wednesday, July 15, 2015, 12:50:29 PM »
Ex Machina was pretty good. Saw that last night.

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« Reply #657 on: Saturday, July 25, 2015, 08:00:23 AM »
Maggie was decent I thought. For those who don't know, it's an Arnold Swarzenegger movie that takes place in a world where zombies exist (sort of a post-cleanup setting). Abigail Breslin (the younger of the two girls in Zombieland) plays his daughter. Don't expect action or thrills though, this one is very much about mood, and has some long, drawn out scenes with little to no dialogue. It wasn't amazing, but was enjoyable.

Super Fuzz was so stupid. I hadn't seen it since I was really young and would watch it almost daily (along with Caveman, starring Ringo Starr). A cop is exposed to radiation and gains superpowers (invulnerable, can run fast, can do almost anything), but he loses them when he sees the color red. I think I only made it to the end because of nostalgia and a morbid curiosity of exposing all the scenes I remembered for just how bad they actually are.

The Atticus Institute was an ok found footage movie. It wasn't terrible but it doesn't stand out either. It's a mix of mock interviews and hospital video archive of them interviewing and experimenting who they thin may have ESP, telekinesis, or similar abilities.

Jurassic World was as dumb as I thought it would be, and I loved it.

Mad Max: Fury Road was great, not sure why but I didn't expect much out of it.

Fast & Furious 7 was exactly what you'd expect from another F&F movie, ridiculous and entertaining. I've never been a car person, but every time I watch one of these movies I almost feel like one.

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« Reply #658 on: Saturday, July 25, 2015, 08:49:07 AM »
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Jurassic World was as dumb as I thought it would be, and I loved it.

Mad Max: Fury Road was great, not sure why but I didn't expect much out of it.

Fast & Furious 7 was exactly what you'd expect from another F&F movie, ridiculous and entertaining. I've never been a car person, but every time I watch one of these movies I almost feel like one.

Heheh!  Plot, who cares; dinosaurs are da bomb!

Mad Max was like one long chase broken up by a bit of story here and there.  Unbridled mayhem porn.  It was nicely done.  Gotta give it that.

The only cars that are going to stay intact enough to keep driver control at ludicrous speeds, after hitting the ground at over 25 mph on a parachute, are monster trucks and Baja-racing buggies and pickups.  And then they all landed close to each other, away from the rocks and trees, facing the same direction . . . ugh!  All the other impossibilities didn't get in my way of enjoying this for what it was.  But when they reach too far like that, they ruin it for me.

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« Reply #659 on: Saturday, July 25, 2015, 04:20:49 PM »
The only cars that are going to stay intact enough to keep driver control at ludicrous speeds, after hitting the ground at over 25 mph on a parachute, are monster trucks and Baja-racing buggies and pickups.  And then they all landed close to each other, away from the rocks and trees, facing the same direction . . . ugh!  All the other impossibilities didn't get in my way of enjoying this for what it was.  But when they reach too far like that, they ruin it for me.

I did get a laugh out of that scene. The one guy won't jump, and they tell him the parachute had automated guidance, and he doesn't need to do anything. I didn't see anything that could guide their location in any way. There were plenty of other ridiculous things too, like when Letty gets caught by a group of security guards and a prince's high class party and managed to knock them all out except the one play by a real life MMA fighter. In so many other movies I would let these things bother me, but similarly to Jurassic World, I let the dumb stuff slide and enjoy the action.

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« Reply #660 on: Sunday, July 26, 2015, 06:44:36 AM »
Maggie was decent I thought. For those who don't know, it's an Arnold Swarzenegger movie that takes place in a world where zombies exist (sort of a post-cleanup setting). Abigail Breslin (the younger of the two girls in Zombieland) plays his daughter. Don't expect action or thrills though, this one is very much about mood, and has some long, drawn out scenes with little to no dialogue. It wasn't amazing, but was enjoyable.

Mad Max: Fury Road was great, <snip>

I agree w/ all of this.

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« Reply #661 on: Sunday, July 26, 2015, 07:18:24 AM »
I did get a laugh out of that scene. The one guy won't jump, and they tell him the parachute had automated guidance, and he doesn't need to do anything. I didn't see anything that could guide their location in any way. There were plenty of other ridiculous things too, like when Letty gets caught by a group of security guards and a prince's high class party and managed to knock them all out except the one play by a real life MMA fighter. In so many other movies I would let these things bother me, but similarly to Jurassic World, I let the dumb stuff slide and enjoy the action.

There is such a drive to fill the time and the screen with new ever-crazier stunts that logic and reality go out the window.  After a while, it just gets funny.  It's not much different from Sharknado, or any more credible.  I'm guessing audiences are as much to blame for that as producers.  This seems to be what we want.

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« Reply #662 on: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 03:31:58 PM »
So I have made a goal to pick up terrible movies based on videogame licenses and cringe while watching them. I've been building up a little collection of these.

Last night I watched In the Name of the King A Dungeon Siege Tale, directed by none other than Uwe Boll.

Jason Statham plays a character everyone calls "Farmer", even his wife and son. Ron Perlman shows up with a pig on a leash. Ray Liotta is the main bad guy that looks like he'd fit better in some Vegas lounge than a medieval fantasy world. Burt Reynolds is the king and he grumbles a lot.

It's bad. Real bad. It wants to be Lord of the Rings so badly but it fails at every turn.

Next up I'll watch Bloodrayne.

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« Reply #663 on: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 07:11:02 PM »
At least Bloodrayne has Kristanna Loken to gawk at.

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« Reply #664 on: Thursday, July 30, 2015, 09:20:17 PM »
At least Bloodrayne has Kristanna Loken to gawk at.
I didn't expect the topless sex scene that just came out of nowhere for no reason, but hey that was a plus.

They didn't shy away from blood and gore effects which was pretty entertaining, too. Most of the time movies don't do that. Want to see a guy get a sword through the face? Bloodrayne has you covered.

I'd rate it higher than In the Name of the King. Bloodrayne gives off a weekend afternoon TV series vibe, like Xena or something. But longer and with more blood. It's bad but you can still find some enjoyment in it.

One thing I'm learning is Uwe Boll has no idea how to end a movie. NotK was bad and really cheesy, but Bloodrayne has this fucking weird montage of gore effects from earlier scenes in the movie, plus one thats like some deleted scene they didn't put in the proper place, and then she rides off into the mountain pass. Like...what the hell was that about?

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« Reply #665 on: Friday, July 31, 2015, 06:33:08 AM »
i remember next to nothing about this movie, except her.  Must have been a really memorable plot.  :P

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« Reply #666 on: Friday, July 31, 2015, 07:34:07 AM »
i remember next to nothing about this movie, except her.  Must have been a really memorable plot.  :P
I remember Ben Kingsley and thinking "Sir Ben Kingley? WTF is he doing here?"

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« Reply #667 on: Friday, July 31, 2015, 11:02:14 AM »
I remember Ben Kingsley and thinking "Sir Ben Kingley? WTF is he doing here?"

Kingsley is like Michael Caine--having work is what matters.  Quality is secondary, even though both are talented actors.

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« Reply #668 on: Saturday, August 01, 2015, 12:39:35 AM »
Kingsley is like Michael Caine--having work is what matters.  Quality is secondary, even though both are talented actors.

Not long ago I heard that Samuel L Jackson is the highest grossing film star in history. It's mostly because he'll be in almost anything.

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« Reply #669 on: Saturday, August 01, 2015, 07:30:22 AM »
Not long ago I heard that Samuel L Jackson is the highest grossing film star in history. It's mostly because he'll be in almost anything.


Yes, him too.  :D  

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« Reply #670 on: Friday, August 07, 2015, 12:03:35 PM »
Not long ago I heard that Samuel L Jackson is the highest grossing film star in history. It's mostly because he'll be in almost anything.

Pretty much. That's a very misleading thing they've been saying. Half of those movies he's had bit parts or supporting roles.

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« Reply #671 on: Friday, August 07, 2015, 12:34:01 PM »
I just got back from seeing Ant-Man today, it was great. Had a bunch of funny bits, good action, Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas were really good in it. It's really crazy to see Marvel taking old super hero comics which seem like a silly premise today, and then magically pulling them off into well realized and decent movies.

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« Reply #672 on: Saturday, August 08, 2015, 12:30:56 PM »
I had no idea this existed!


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« Reply #673 on: Sunday, August 09, 2015, 12:02:05 AM »
I wish I still had no idea that existed.

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« Reply #674 on: Sunday, August 09, 2015, 07:18:48 AM »
I wish I still had no idea that existed.

That's just about what I thought too.  No more blissful ignorance.

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« Reply #675 on: Sunday, August 09, 2015, 01:04:12 PM »
I didn't know Hannah-Barbera was still around and pumping out stuff like this.

Apparently, LEGO made a couple of Justice League animated movies too.

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« Reply #676 on: Monday, August 10, 2015, 10:24:06 PM »
Ant-Man was amazing. Hilarious too. My favorite Marvel film. More than Guardians.

Fantastic 4 was so awful. :(

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« Reply #677 on: Saturday, August 29, 2015, 06:45:20 AM »
San Andreas (not the GTA).  Disaster movie--we all know how those go.  Huge budget, lots of action and fun SFX.  Decent cast, plot holes, predictable.  And I will always remember it as the movie who introduced me to Alexandra Daddario.  That has got to be the hottest chick in creation.  I was getting turned on just by watching her, and that never happens anymore at my age.  :)

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« Reply #678 on: Saturday, August 29, 2015, 11:17:51 AM »
San Andreas (not the GTA).  Disaster movie--we all know how those go.  Huge budget, lots of action and fun SFX.  Decent cast, plot holes, predictable.  And I will always remember it as the movie who introduced me to Alexandra Daddario.  That has got to be the hottest chick in creation.  I was getting turned on just by watching her, and that never happens anymore at my age.  :)

I first noticed Alexandra in True Detective Season 1.

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« Reply #679 on: Saturday, August 29, 2015, 01:31:16 PM »


Yeah, nobody is going to argue, Cobra. :)