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Post by dboonsghost on Oct 23, 2014 0:30:19 GMT -5
Q: The Winged Serpent: Not nearly as much fun as The Stuff, but still very entertaining when it's on. This one has some seriously dull valleys to match its peaks, though. I try not to be that person who complains about a movie being "boring," but it was pretty boring in parts.
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Post by flapjackriley on Oct 23, 2014 2:13:46 GMT -5
Fury - Not the movie for me, that being said everything about its fundamentals are done very well; direction, acting, action, cinematography, all top notch. I just didn't like it in the end. I wish Brad Pitt would get over Hollywood's idea of Brad Pitt, that just because he looks like a movie star means he can't be the character actor he was meant to be. I went home and watched clips from Inglorious Basterds and goddamn he kills it. If he could like make a Tarantino or Coen brothers movie in between every pretentious drama crappy crap he feels he has to do, I'd be satisfied.
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Post by William T. Goat, Esq. on Oct 23, 2014 18:21:22 GMT -5
Spookies, because of the article at The Dissolve. I've seen it before. It's always had a weird effect on me: while watching it, I know it sucks, but months later, I remember the cool ideas and weird creatures, and want to see it again. Then I see it again, and remember that it sucks.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 14:52:13 GMT -5
Thief(1981) - If you like Drive, you will love this. If you don't like Drive, you will also love this and hate Drive more. This is the best Michael Mann film I have seen. While the others have left me cold, this was anchored by a great character and performance from James Caan. It was also a gorgeous film, the cinematography is fantastic, and the score awesome(though it got nominated by the razzies, because I guess liking Tangerine Dream is wrong?). Totally recommend.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 14:55:57 GMT -5
@taxman Thief is Mann's best movie, with Heat being a close second, in my opinion.
Saw a preview for Mann's new movie, Blackhat. It looks very slick, but I'm supposed to believe Chris Hemsworth is a hacker? Come on.
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Post by dboonsghost on Oct 25, 2014 15:25:46 GMT -5
No way, Collateral is a modern masterpiece. THAT'S his best movie.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 15:27:49 GMT -5
Collateral is really good. Not gonna argue that.
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Post by dboonsghost on Oct 25, 2014 15:44:13 GMT -5
Collateral is really good. Not gonna argue that. We're fighting now. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 16:02:30 GMT -5
Collateral is really good. Not gonna argue that. We're fighting now. Let's do this then. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 25, 2014 16:09:02 GMT -5
I have not seen collateral. But thief is the best of his I've seen. I don't really like Heat that much actually.
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Post by Creeper on Oct 25, 2014 23:56:39 GMT -5
Stitches...It's not great, but I do not regret watching it. It takes a minute to find its groove, but when it does there is good fun to be had.
Go ahead, watch it.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 26, 2014 0:51:24 GMT -5
Is it just a trailer? Yes, but is it fucking amazeballs? Also yes.
I so want to see this movie.
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Post by MissBeaHaven on Oct 26, 2014 23:29:13 GMT -5
Flatliners
I can't remember the last time I saw this movie, but it was a long while ago. I managed to forget how Billy Mahoney (and his red hoodie of doom) used to haunt my nightmares for years after I first saw it, but thanks to my friend and her DVD burner, I sure as shit remember now *slowly places Louisville Slugger back under bed*. He's still on my "Top Ten Hooded Things That Scare My Balls Off" list. I don't know if it's nostalgia skewing my perception, but this movie has improved on me a ton. I have always thought of it as a generally crappy flick, but after watching it tonight, I'm having trouble remembering all the reasons I thought so. I didn't remember how surreal the whole thing is, even when the characters are in reality and not 'under', everything feels really otherworldly and strange. Like a latent nauseous and foreboding feeling all the way through. The cinematography is great, and the soundtrack (which I just downloaded) is wonderful (especially this track: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCV5uZ6Hp3Q)The plot wears thin at some points (they could have omitted William Baldwin and his arc altogether without losing anything except the appearance of beautiful Hope Davis and the impetus for gratuitous T&A), but it's not as shitty as I remember it being. Sutherland is fucking great as he grows more and more unhinged (we rewound his "I'm nice, he's nice, we're both fuckin' lunatics. Can I come in please?" line about three times). Again, maybe it's just nostalgia, but I really enjoyed watching it this time around.
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Post by Generic Poster on Oct 27, 2014 8:40:36 GMT -5
Gone Girl. I had not read the book, but I thought the film did a pretty good job with the shifting viewpoints. Affleck was good (though playing a semi-likable douchebag isn't exactly a stretch for him). The plot was preposterous, but fun pulp.
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Post by repulsionist on Oct 27, 2014 11:47:56 GMT -5
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! - crisp action. fun subplots. an excellent Aardman production.
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Post by flapjackriley on Oct 27, 2014 20:53:39 GMT -5
These teenage exploitation films are...not as fun as I thought they'd be.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Oct 27, 2014 21:12:09 GMT -5
Just rewatched Ravenous for ths first time in many years. Such a strange movie: there's a lot that's good about it but the music (done by Damon Albarn, which I had forgotten) is SO weird and often seems out of place. I'm not sure if that's on purpose or not.
Either way, an enjoyable watch and I appreciate people taking on the wendigo as a subject because not many horror movies do, and many do a terrible job of it when they try.
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Post by NerdInTheBasement on Oct 28, 2014 7:11:37 GMT -5
The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! - crisp action. fun subplots. an excellent Aardman production. There's a really underrated feature, though I'd say that goes for all of Aardmans output (especially Arthur Christmas) |
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Post by Baron von Costume on Oct 28, 2014 10:36:55 GMT -5
They Came Together
Some good moments but overall pretty disappointing, didn't use the supporting cast anywhere near as well as it should have.
Also HAWK THE SLAYER rifftrax
Good lord was that terrible, Jack Palance chews three movies worth of scenery.
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Post by haysoos on Oct 28, 2014 11:46:59 GMT -5
Last night I watched 2 Guns with Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg as undercover agents who independently are infiltrating a Mexican drug cartel, screw it up, and end up on the run from their own agencies, the cartels, the CIA and seemingly everyone else in the universe. So are forced to become buddies.
It was a hell of lot more enjoyable than I thought it was going to be. The action set-pieces are pretty inventive and exciting, and Mark Wahlberg (who I usually can't stand) was quite good as a cocky, overconfident Naval Intelligence officer. Plus Bill Paxton and Edward James Olmos!
I also watched The Brass Teapot, wherein a likeable, loser couple stumble upon a magic teapot that could be the end of all of their problems, or the beginning of their doom...
This one was also very enjoyable. I'm a sucker for cursed magic item stories in general, and the vagaries of how this one works play right into my preference for tales in which people do believable, plausible or even logical things, but they still turn out to be wrong. It's also amongst the only movies I've seen Juno Temple in where she doesn't actually get naked, but it's still one of her sexiest roles - possibly because she doesn't use the baby voice she seems to affect in most of her movies.
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Post by Generic Poster on Oct 28, 2014 13:21:19 GMT -5
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Post by The Radio Cat on Oct 28, 2014 17:57:20 GMT -5
I watched the original The Evil Dead for the first time, I'm going to try and watch the other two by Halloween if time permits. I finally took the time to just force myself to watch it, and I enjoyed the overall insanity of it. I'm not a HUGE horror guy but I can't escape these. I had thought about skipping the first one and just starting on the second because I heard it's something of a reboot but I decided to go all in.
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Post by NerdInTheBasement on Oct 31, 2014 18:54:49 GMT -5
Birdman was underwhelming, a well-acted, but really lacking scripting wise. It did remind me that Emma Stone is enormously talented, ditto for Michael Keaton.
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Post by ganews on Oct 31, 2014 19:31:10 GMT -5
Watched Alien last night. Why does Ash try to suffocate a dazed Ripley with a rolled up magazine instead of just choking her out?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 1, 2014 2:28:10 GMT -5
Watched two movies for Halloween, was going to be three but for some reason the sound on From Hell was terrible. Anyway, one of them, The Thing, I have already seen, so I'm not going to talk about that. The other is one I was watching for the very first time, Jacob's Ladder. JL was really good. I was hoping it was going to freak me out more, but it didn't, not a bad thing though! For sure, it is very freaky at times, most notably the scene at the party, but when it was over It was actually a very beautiful tale. Jacob had to come to terms with his past, so that he could be able to move on towards the afterlife. Shed his baggage. I hope that when I'm on my deathbed I will be able to do that before I croak, and hopefully without angels trying to push me that way. This is a movie that does very much require a second viewing, because everything is thrown into a different context. I also really like the twist, of how he was really dead was all along, but without everything being fake. It wasn't, what he did experience in purgatory(or whatever you want to call it) was happening, just by the hands of the angels. It wasn't all a dream, he was really experiencing, but at the same time it wasn't the "real world". It makes it to where the twist actually feels like what went on mattered. That it wasn't all just some dream. And on top of the fantastic story, the score was great, the acting superb, and the effects just downright awesome.
The only thing I'm wondering is not even about a criticism or anything close to that. It is just that I haven't really read up on the film yet, since I tend to do that only after I watch. His friends in purgatory were really his friends right? Since they did all seem to die at the same time. Those weren't just Angels, right? I can understand them faking his ex wife, but it seems to me that his soldier buddies dropping the suit and also exploding in a car, weren't just angels. But them also moving on. Either to hell(car), or to heaven(just coming to terms with what happened and not dwelling on it anymore). [/spoilers] |
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Post by Dellarigg on Nov 1, 2014 9:32:18 GMT -5
The Loved Ones, an Australian horror that I might've seen mentioned on here or the other two sites. It was mostly torture porn, with a teenage boy as the victim making a refreshing change, but it had some tongue in cheek moments and was over and done with in 80 minutes. It's not a ringing endorsement, I realise, but it'll do.
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Post by Creeper on Nov 2, 2014 19:02:53 GMT -5
Saw Annabelle the other day. There were some good jump scares but it was only a mediocre film overall. Worst part was we went to a matinee and the theater was pretty empty. It would have been alot more fun if there were people jumping and laughing all around you.
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Post by Gregson on Nov 3, 2014 13:18:44 GMT -5
I watched Pontypool for the first time last night! I watched it after it being recommended many times somewhere on the threads.
I loved it! I'm glad to see it got mostly good reviews, although some couldn't handle the idea of a 'zombie' movie without seeing any zombies! Loved the 'less is more' nature of it. Perfectly strange but not so out there that it's impossible to wrap your head around. Apparently the post-credits scene was originally the ending? huh, It is interesting to see how the whole idea could be taken to a new level. also apparently there was supposed to be a trilogy but it looks like that is all but abandoned as far as I can find.
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Post by MrsLangdonAlger on Nov 3, 2014 22:05:27 GMT -5
I watched Pontypool for the first time last night! I watched it after it being recommended many times somewhere on the threads. So glad you liked it! |
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Post by Gregson on Nov 4, 2014 10:27:35 GMT -5
I watched Pontypool for the first time last night! I watched it after it being recommended many times somewhere on the threads. So glad you liked it! I thought I remembered you recommending it, thanks! It was a fun movie. |
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