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Post by Deleted on Oct 19, 2016 17:56:26 GMT -5
Probably not unpopular so much as hyperbolic for most people, but: The Martian in the most re-watchable movie of the decade. I agree! It is a crowd pleaser in all the good ways. It is really funny, gives us a likeable protagonist, and a group of supporting characters who are all good to drop in on. The drama is high stakes and really feels it, but it never is too dark to where it can make it too hard to get through. Makes it perfect for a rewatch, whereas something like say Zodiac, great movie but have to be in the right mood and isn't something that you could watch again in a short amount of time.
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Post by ganews on Oct 28, 2016 8:19:02 GMT -5
Now to get really unpopular: John Carpenter's The Thing just doesn't do it for me. I just watched it again two nights ago.
I'm not totally sure why. I like the effects, the setting, the cast, the injections of humor, the jump scares, and the concept. I think one part is the ending. After the amazing blood test sequence and untying the captain from THIS FUCKING COUCH, it all falls apart to me. Wilford Brimley is running around infected somehow (wasn't he the one who realized infection was likely, freaked out, and got locked away?). The captain is not infected somehow (so how did The Thing get to the blood in the locked fridge?). We never see what happened to the black guy who isn't Keith David. The final resignation between Keith David and Kurt Russell is cool, but the preceding destruction of the base is a mess.
Alien is superior in every way.
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Post by dLᵒ on Oct 28, 2016 23:11:34 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Nov 6, 2016 19:41:31 GMT -5
"Commando" is the most boring Schwarzenegger movie I have ever seen.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 12, 2016 13:50:33 GMT -5
Fantastic Beasts sequels is going to be about evil wizard rising while under a WW2 backdrop. There will be a young dumbledore, and Johnny Depp is cast as an important evil character. All of this is JK Rowling's words and she is screenwriting the films.
I'm about to open a bag of worms here. Considering I'm going to be showing an insane amount of hypocrisy. I like films Depp has been in, in part because of the man himself. I'm going to see the next Pirates movie. However, after what has been revealed this year about his abuse of Amber Heard, I would not shed a single tear if the guy never worked again. And to see someone who is lauded as "progressive" as Rowling give her blessing and then praise the guy and seem to be super glad he is in her franchise, it feels wrong. I've always thought JK Rowling was a bit phony, that dumbeldore was only gay AFTER the last book came out. And this just kinda makes me feel like it proves that in some ways she is all talk. She actually has the power to do something about it and went the other way.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Nov 12, 2016 17:47:37 GMT -5
Fantastic Beasts sequels is going to be about evil wizard rising while under a WW2 backdrop. There will be a young dumbledore, and Johnny Depp is cast as an important evil character. All of this is JK Rowling's words and she is screenwriting the films. I'm about to open a bag of worms here. Considering I'm going to be showing an insane amount of hypocrisy. I like films Depp has been in, in part because of the man himself. I'm going to see the next Pirates movie. However, after what has been revealed this year about his abuse of Amber Heard, I would not shed a single tear if the guy never worked again. And to see someone who is lauded as "progressive" as Rowling give her blessing and then praise the guy and seem to be super glad he is in her franchise, it feels wrong. I've always thought JK Rowling was a bit phony, that dumbeldore was only gay AFTER the last book came out. And this just kinda makes me feel like it proves that in some ways she is all talk. She actually has the power to do something about it and went the other way. And just to be clear, when you say "an important evil character"", you mean "obviously Grindelwald" , right?
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Post by dLᵒ on Nov 12, 2016 21:26:34 GMT -5
"Commando" is the most boring Schwarzenegger movie I have ever seen.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Nov 12, 2016 21:40:18 GMT -5
Now that he's been properly grieved for, I can finally come here and say that Gene Wilder movies do not make me laugh at all. Blazing Saddles is funny except for Wilder's jokes. The most excruciating movie-watching experience was slogging through The Frisco Kid in a room full of girls I wanted to make out with. The Producers looks like it was made for $5 using a screenplay that had been written overnight and never revised. I haven't seen Young Frankenstein, and I'm not inclined to try. Whenever Wilder has a joke, you can see it coming from a hundred yards away - there's no surprise, no wit, just borscht-belt style setup-response comedy.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Nov 12, 2016 22:01:47 GMT -5
"Commando" is the most boring Schwarzenegger movie I have ever seen. I'm guessing you never saw Eraser, then.
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Post by songstarliner on Nov 12, 2016 23:31:14 GMT -5
Now that he's been properly grieved for, I can finally come here and say that Gene Wilder movies do not make me laugh at all. Blazing Saddles is funny except for Wilder's jokes. The most excruciating movie-watching experience was slogging through The Frisco Kid in a room full of girls I wanted to make out with. The Producers looks like it was made for $5 using a screenplay that had been written overnight and never revised. I haven't seen Young Frankenstein, and I'm not inclined to try. Whenever Wilder has a joke, you can see it coming from a hundred yards away - there's no surprise, no wit, just borscht-belt style setup-response comedy. WRONG, sir, wrong! Gene Wilder was the best part of Blazing Saddles. The Producers was a brilliant, game-changing comedy. Sometimes when you see a joke coming from a hundred yards away, that's the funny part.
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Nov 13, 2016 8:10:59 GMT -5
The Social Network is a good film, but I don't think it's a great film.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2016 21:09:16 GMT -5
Apparently liking Snowpiercer is dumb to many io9 commenters. To that I say fuck that. They find the science too implausible, because so much of star wars has plausible fucking science. Snowpiercer was a goddamn treat and has great action and a gripping fucked up story. Movies should be more willing to experiment like it.
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Post by ganews on Nov 23, 2016 14:51:25 GMT -5
I loved Colin Farrell as Bullseye in Ben Affleck's "Daredevil". He was the best thing in that movie, low bar though that is. Michael Clarke Duncan doing his usual thing was #2.
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Post by ganews on Dec 11, 2016 23:15:08 GMT -5
"High Anxiety" is Mel Brook's least funny comedy, by a long shot. I don't think of the dialog was shot with more than one take.
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Post by Nudeviking on Dec 11, 2016 23:26:08 GMT -5
I loved Colin Farrell as Bullseye in Ben Affleck's "Daredevil". He was the best thing in that movie, low bar though that is. Michael Clarke Duncan doing his usual thing was #2. I'd switch the rankings on those two, but for all its problems the Affleck Daredevil nailed the casting of the villains.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Dec 13, 2016 17:43:46 GMT -5
This feels more like something everyone knows but nobody says: Robert Redford is mostly a hack.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 0:43:35 GMT -5
This feels more like something everyone knows but nobody says: Robert Redford is mostly a hack. I don't feel that way at all, but at the same time I like his contemporaries a lot more, like say James Caan. Caan has been in some great films, but his later career isn't as prestigious and it does feel like he is somewhat forgotten.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 14, 2016 19:53:33 GMT -5
Civil war was in a top ten list of movies, fucking seriously? I'm tired of mediocre bullshit getting praised. It isn't a bad movie and has one super fun scene, but an actually great movie it is not. Marvel movies are the tv dinners of film. Pre processed and cooked to all Hell, enough to hold you over for the night but not something you truly wish you could have had. Someone called it a psychological thriller, fucking barely. It is a quip fest of little meaningful plot that creates character dynamics never really shown on screen and are used more so as excuses for action set pieces. The villain is once again just meh. One good scene is not a good movie.
It fucking boggles my mind that in today's age of film and television when there is more than enough awesome stuff that this is the gold standard of film in most people's eyes. We don't have to be complacent for trite bullshit anymore. The real reason why we get turds like the transformers franchise is because the "best" version of itself is this shit right here. It doesn't have anything worth while to aim for these days.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Dec 14, 2016 20:15:39 GMT -5
This feels more like something everyone knows but nobody says: Robert Redford is mostly a hack. I don't feel that way at all, but at the same time I like his contemporaries a lot more, like say James Caan. Caan has been in some great films, but his later career isn't as prestigious and it does feel like he is somewhat forgotten. What is a James Caan?
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Dec 14, 2016 20:53:39 GMT -5
Civil war was in a top ten list of movies, fucking seriously? I'm tired of mediocre bullshit getting praised. It isn't a bad movie and has one super fun scene, but an actually great movie it is not. Marvel movies are the tv dinners of film. Pre processed and cooked to all Hell, enough to hold you over for the night but not something you truly wish you could have had. Someone called it a psychological thriller, fucking barely. It is a quip fest of little meaningful plot that creates character dynamics never really shown on screen and are used more so as excuses for action set pieces. The villain is once again just meh. One good scene is not a good movie. It fucking boggles my mind that in today's age of film and television when there is more than enough awesome stuff that this is the gold standard of film in most people's eyes. We don't have to be complacent for trite buckshot anymore. The real reason why we get turns like the transformers franchise is because the "best" version of itself is this shit right here. It doesn't have anything worth while to aim for these days. What I dislike about modern blockbuster cinema is that, instead of creating compelling characters that you care about, they just have the actors deliver a bunch of Whedonesque quips. It's such a cynical way of injecting humanity into a movie.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 15, 2016 18:42:52 GMT -5
I don't feel that way at all, but at the same time I like his contemporaries a lot more, like say James Caan. Caan has been in some great films, but his later career isn't as prestigious and it does feel like he is somewhat forgotten. What is a James Caan? That's a James Caan.
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Post by LazBro on Dec 16, 2016 0:48:30 GMT -5
This feels more like something everyone knows but nobody says: Robert Redford is mostly a hack. In saying this do you refer mainly to his acting or directing careers, or both? I have no opinion on him as an actor. As a director, when I look it up, I can't say it's the strongest list, but I give him a pass, because Quiz Show for whatever weird and random reason is, like, my favorite movie ever.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 16, 2016 0:57:40 GMT -5
Civil war was in a top ten list of movies, fucking seriously? I'm tired of mediocre bullshit getting praised. It isn't a bad movie and has one super fun scene, but an actually great movie it is not. Marvel movies are the tv dinners of film. Pre processed and cooked to all Hell, enough to hold you over for the night but not something you truly wish you could have had. Someone called it a psychological thriller, fucking barely. It is a quip fest of little meaningful plot that creates character dynamics never really shown on screen and are used more so as excuses for action set pieces. The villain is once again just meh. One good scene is not a good movie. It fucking boggles my mind that in today's age of film and television when there is more than enough awesome stuff that this is the gold standard of film in most people's eyes. We don't have to be complacent for trite buckshot anymore. The real reason why we get turns like the transformers franchise is because the "best" version of itself is this shit right here. It doesn't have anything worth while to aim for these days. What I dislike about modern blockbuster cinema is that, instead of creating compelling characters that you care about, they just have the actors deliver a bunch of Whedonesque quips. It's such a cynical way of injecting humanity into a movie. that does bug me so much. It worked in buffy and Angel because you got actual character development to go with it. Whereas with the MCU they only have 2 and a half hours to tell a full story and just fuck it up. Ever increasingly the MCU feels like some weird mix of TV and film, you get the big budget of movies but try to create a whole big thing over all these movies and it just comes out as this middling mixture of the two. You don't really get great individual films that stand well on their own, and neither do you get some grand epic scale universe.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 25, 2016 14:13:22 GMT -5
The trailer to Alien: Covenant looks way too similar to Prometheus.
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Post by rimjobflashmob on Dec 25, 2016 14:16:02 GMT -5
The trailer to Alien: Covenant looks way too similar to Prometheus. And/or every other Alien movie. Clueless space team + OMG xenomorph + spooky corridors with water dripping everywhere Bleh
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Dec 25, 2016 15:10:18 GMT -5
The trailer to Alien: Covenant looks way too similar to Prometheus. Maybe Ridley Scott will surprise us. Maybe...
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Dec 26, 2016 13:31:21 GMT -5
The trailer to Alien: Covenant looks way too similar to Prometheus. The more I watch the trailer, the more perplexed I am by it. Why give away so many kills as well as the new alien incubation method? Why open the trailer with a chestburster sequence instead of building up to it, if you really want to show it. It feels like damage control after the negative response to Prometheus. "See, we actually have aliens this time!"
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2016 14:44:33 GMT -5
Still has the same problems of dumbass people getting themselves in the same dumbass scenarios. On a planet that doesnt seem too much different. And yeah, now that you mention it, it does reveal a whole lot.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Dec 26, 2016 15:26:28 GMT -5
Well, I don't have a problem with horror movie characters occasionally doing something stupid. Hell, if it wasn't for John Hurt's character stupidly putting his face near the open alien egg, this entire series would have never happened. All genre movies have certain dumb conventions that are a part of their DNA. As long as there isn't a scene of a biologist trying to pet a creepy looking alien snake, I'm good.
EDIT: There better be a good explanation for the shower scene. Nobody is horny enough to have sex while a penis-headed monstrosity is on the loose.
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Post by Dellarigg on Dec 26, 2016 16:53:15 GMT -5
EDIT: There better be a good explanation for the shower scene. Nobody is horny enough to have sex while a penis-headed monstrosity is on the loose. No kink-shaming.
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