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Post by Sanziana on Feb 19, 2017 5:58:24 GMT -5
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is boring and overly elaborate. I watched it 3 times already forced by circumstances and I still don't remember anything about it.
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Post by Hawkguy on Feb 23, 2017 8:32:54 GMT -5
In anticipation of the upcoming sequel, here's a hot one for you: Peter Jackson's King Kong is a perfectly entertaining, even thrilling, action movie, and Jack Black was an inspired casting decision. The sequel looks badass, too. YEEEESSSS FINALLY! I really like this movie outside of its length!
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Feb 23, 2017 9:36:37 GMT -5
In anticipation of the upcoming sequel, here's a hot one for you: Peter Jackson's King Kong is a perfectly entertaining, even thrilling, action movie, and Jack Black was an inspired casting decision. The sequel looks badass, too. YEEEESSSS FINALLY! I really like this movie outside of its length! Length and unnecessary gross-out bug sequence.
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Post by LazBro on Feb 23, 2017 9:56:15 GMT -5
YEEEESSSS FINALLY! I really like this movie outside of its length! Length and unnecessary gross-out bug sequence. The movie is too long, but no, man, the bug sequence is fantastic. Shit like that is exactly why I like the movie. Extended action set pieces with little bearing on the narrative!
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Post by ganews on Feb 28, 2017 14:55:37 GMT -5
The original Christopher Reeve Superman movie had an epic score but wasn't great for me.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 1, 2017 14:59:04 GMT -5
Dune is not just a good movie, but it is also a good David Lynch movie. As Post-Lupin noted in an article on TOC (reread old Dune article comments after rewatching the film some time ago) Lynch added some Rumi-inspired stuff that wasn’t in the original book. Beyond the cast and the obvious strangeness, Dune deals not with gaining access to a world beyond ours but rather a character who’s able to fully realize what our world really is, which seems to me a very Lynchian theme. Also it’s a shame Eno’s “Prophecy Theme” never made it onto any of the later Music for Films discs (well, a shame for Eno because I’d probably actually go out and buy one of them)
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Post by Post-Lupin on Mar 1, 2017 18:49:12 GMT -5
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Post by Logoboros on Mar 2, 2017 16:48:46 GMT -5
Dune is not just a good movie, but it is also a good David Lynch movie. I love the first hour or so of Dune and find it almost hypnotically captivating. The second half, once Paul is actually leading the Fremen, I find I tend to wander off and do other things.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Mar 3, 2017 16:56:49 GMT -5
Idiocracy is a very fine spoof of aughts marketing to adolescent and young adult males but doesn’t work so well as a political satire.
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Post by Trurl on Mar 4, 2017 9:01:15 GMT -5
Idiocracy is a very fine spoof of aughts marketing to adolescent and young adult males but doesn’t work so well as a political satire. It doesn't work well as a movie, I think. Possibly because of the absence of interesting characters. It's a bunch of good gags and quotable lines, it feels like a compilation of sketches from a good quality comedy troupe than a cohesive movie.
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Post by ganews on Mar 4, 2017 9:35:25 GMT -5
Not only do I quite like Iron Man 3, I like the kid in it.
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Post by Trurl on Mar 4, 2017 9:44:36 GMT -5
After rewatching Batman Begins the other day I rewatched The Dark Knight, and honestly I prefer the former - I don't find Ledger's Joker to be particularly compelling. Most of it is the characterization I think - the Joker is presented as a trickster god, an agent of chaos, but in practice he's mostly just another mob boss; robbing banks, expanding his territory, and staging assassinations of politicians he doesn't like. The "chaos" is just window dressing on this - burning piles of money, goading Batman into revealing himself, the Philosophy 101 thought experiment on the ferries.
Ra's al Ghul works better as a foil to Batman because their goals are almost identical, there are only a few ideals separating them. There is an actual internal conflict in Batman about al Ghul that there isn't about the Joker - that will-to-chaos is not something that is part of the Nolan Batman character (the Miller Batman, sure).
And the "let's paint Batman as a cop killer because we can't admit Dent had a psychotic break" ending doesn't make sense to me - the idea that the myth of Dent as a white knight makes sense, sure, but saying that all his good work would be undone because he went nuts after being kidnapped, tortured, horribly disfigured and forced to listen to his girlfriend being burned to death? Why not run with that - it would show just how awful the mob guys are. Or, better yet, why not frame Joker for those deaths instead if you're going to be lying anyway?
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Mar 20, 2017 9:38:04 GMT -5
I've come the conclusion that I don't really like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I don't actively dislike it, I just don't understand all the praise heaped on it. I've seen it twice now and I'm still not sure I know what the hell was going on. RDJ was ridiculously smug, which, you know, is his whole deal, and the Gay Perry jokes are pretty cringy. I think it might be a neo-noir thing. I don't remember liking Brick that much either.
I haven't seen Nice Guys yet but I'll be sure to report back with my hottest of takes.
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Post by Celebith on Mar 29, 2017 14:23:06 GMT -5
I've come the conclusion that I don't really like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I don't actively dislike it, I just don't understand all the praise heaped on it. I've seen it twice now and I'm still not sure I know what the hell was going on. RDJ was ridiculously smug, which, you know, is his whole deal, and the Gay Perry jokes are pretty cringy. I think it might be a neo-noir thing. I don't remember liking Brick that much either. I haven't seen Nice Guys yet but I'll be sure to report back with my hottest of takes. Eh, what do you know? You're just a bear - you bite the heads off fish!
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Apr 1, 2017 16:53:18 GMT -5
I've come the conclusion that I don't really like Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. I don't actively dislike it, I just don't understand all the praise heaped on it. I've seen it twice now and I'm still not sure I know what the hell was going on. RDJ was ridiculously smug, which, you know, is his whole deal, and the Gay Perry jokes are pretty cringy. I think it might be a neo-noir thing. I don't remember liking Brick that much either. I haven't seen Nice Guys yet but I'll be sure to report back with my hottest of takes. If you didn't like KKBB... you're not going to care for Nice Guys. They're practically the same film.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 3, 2017 12:45:37 GMT -5
Oddly both IV and Justin Chang at the LA Times gave the film similar flawed-but-interesting reviews. I kind of suspect it will end up a cult classic.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 3, 2017 17:38:28 GMT -5
Dune is not just a good movie, but it is also a good David Lynch movie. I love the first hour or so of Dune and find it almost hypnotically captivating. The second half, once Paul is actually leading the Fremen, I find I tend to wander off and do other things. This is also my opinion of the book, so I guess that makes it a good adaptation.
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 5, 2017 18:00:03 GMT -5
The more distance I get from Arrival, the less I like it. In the moment it seemed pretty good - smart, good-looking, interesting - but in retrospect I can only remember the Important Film aspects, and that's always a turn-off for me. Anyone with any kind sci-fi literacy should have figured out the twist, and for said twist to be so manipulatively tear-jerky is lame. I can't imagine wanting to watch it again.
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Post by dLᵒ on Apr 5, 2017 23:46:10 GMT -5
www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/ghost-shell-4-japanese-actresses-dissect-movie-whitewashing-twist-990956Probably not unpopular here, but this interview set is fantastic; although as you can see in the comments there's still a very pervasive 'but that's how we've always done it' conservative mentality. Having read up on the spoilers I think the thing that really irritates me about this film is that they used the original story as set dressing, but didn't bother to go in deeper - or even bother to understand the original dynamic - in favor of going for a standard Hollywood rehash.
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Post by Sanziana on Apr 19, 2017 6:55:10 GMT -5
Terry Gilliam's movies are still good and he's not all burned out as people love to say nowadays.
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Post by Powerthirteen on Apr 19, 2017 17:39:29 GMT -5
The number of people who come out of the woodwork to dump on it at TOC are making me wonder if my enjoyment of La La Land actually belongs in this thread.
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Post by songstarliner on Apr 19, 2017 20:54:41 GMT -5
Terry Gilliam's movies are still good and he's not all burned out as people love to say nowadays. I do agree with you, but I have to say that as much as I love him (which is a lot - I think Tideland is amazing), I did not like The Zero Theorem. Not at all. Here's hoping it was just a hiccup.
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Post by Sanziana on Apr 19, 2017 23:05:23 GMT -5
Terry Gilliam's movies are still good and he's not all burned out as people love to say nowadays. I do agree with you, but I have to say that as much as I love him (which is a lot - I think Tideland is amazing), I did not like The Zero Theorem. Not at all. Here's hoping it was just a hiccup. I still have to watch The Zero Theorem, but yes, Tideland is so amazing.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Apr 20, 2017 13:12:47 GMT -5
Dune is not just a good movie, but it is also a good David Lynch movie. As Post-Lupin noted in an article on TOC (reread old Dune article comments after rewatching the film some time ago) Lynch added some Rumi-inspired stuff that wasn’t in the original book. Beyond the cast and the obvious strangeness, Dune deals not with gaining access to a world beyond ours but rather a character who’s able to fully realize what our world really is, which seems to me a very Lynchian theme. Further support from this: here’ s what Lynch told one Sean O’Neal in GQ: Something something kwisatz haderach.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Apr 20, 2017 14:54:24 GMT -5
Terry Gilliam's movies are still good and he's not all burned out as people love to say nowadays. I do agree with you, but I have to say that as much as I love him (which is a lot - I think Tideland is amazing), I did not like The Zero Theorem. Not at all. Here's hoping it was just a hiccup. Zero Theorem was such a disappointment. Started out pretty strong and the rest of the film was like watching a balloon deflate in slow motion. Gilliam's legendary budget issues became more and more apparent as the film went along.
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Post by repulsionist on May 21, 2017 22:07:37 GMT -5
Re. Prometheus and Covenant. Why are you nerds swarming around this corpse to see if the creator has breathed new life into it? Find a new host to feed on! Or go dig up something else.
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Post by repulsionist on May 22, 2017 12:36:40 GMT -5
Did Inland Empire ever get a physical home release in the US? Yes, I watched on DVD from the library. I hope my sincere interpretation was correct here. If not, then apologies to you.
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Post by ganews on Jun 1, 2017 22:16:21 GMT -5
Everybody likes to say that the MCU movies have lousy villains, that they're the weakest part of the movie. And sometimes that's true, but is that fair overall?
Solid, interesting villain different from the protagonist (+1) Thor/The Avengers Captain America: The First Avenger Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
Well-performed villain who is dark reflection of protagonist (+0.5) Iron Man The Incredible Hulk Iron Man 2 Iron Man 3 Captain America: The Winter Soldier Avengers: Age of Ultron Ant-Man Doctor Strange
Pretty generic super-powered bad guy villain who wants revenge (-1) Thor: The Dark World Guardians of the Galaxy
Something else (0) Captain America: Civil War
11 out of 14 get a positive score, that's a pretty good track record.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 1, 2017 22:44:56 GMT -5
None of the Iron Man villains are good, they're just stereotypical scummy businessmen, ALL OF THEM ARE BUSINESSMEN! Well and Mickey Rourke who is just weird.
Winter Soldier is weird for me because I dont see Bucky as a villain considering he was brainwashed and the Robert Redford reveal was so late, that there is no real main villain of that film and probably why it works so well for me. It was just a good overall conspiracy plot where having a main villain didn't matter. It took the MCU's main weakness and turned it around to something else.
Look, I like Cory Stoll but he was a total meh villain in Ant Man.
The only good or interesting villains are Loki, Red Skull, Guardians 2, and Ultron. Just that in Thor and Age of Ultron the movies kinda sucked and wasted good villains, thankfully Loki got his due in Avengers.
I have not seen Dr. Strange and will never rewatch Hulk.
And even though you gave a lot of films 0.5 it was for the same trope, that shows just how generic and lame the MCU villains are.
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Post by ganews on Jun 2, 2017 8:07:03 GMT -5
None of the Iron Man villains are good, they're just stereotypical scummy businessmen, ALL OF THEM ARE BUSINESSMEN! Well and Mickey Rourke who is just weird. Indeed ALL OF THEM except for 1/3 and also the other 1/3 that was both a conspiracy plot and a businessman who gave himself biological super-powers. But the REST OF THEM are stereotypical scummy businessmen played by a Jeff Bridges.
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