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Post by el woospo on Jan 21, 2014 19:31:46 GMT -5
I bought Up! along with Supervixens and few other assorted trash cinema beasts on VHS years back, not sure if I ever watched it, was that the one was simply tit shots after tit shots after tit shots? (not that that narrows it down any... also, how does one join the IFC? Up! is the one that starts with Hitler being tortured in an S&M dungeon for ten minutes before getting butt-fucked and sucking a dude off (will drinking bleach make me forget I saw that?). It gets better after that, simply because things can't get worse, and I have to admit it made me laugh out loud at least a dozen times, which isn't an easy thing for a movie to do. All you gotta do to join the IFC is be in our chatroom once we get a movie going. I'll try to find a way to get you a link to it without posting it publicly. Last time I put a public link up we got a lot of knobs in there that just wanted attention for being present. Much appreciated, by the sounds of it I did not get round to watching Up!, think I would remember an opening like that. hehe As far as IFC goes, it would be good to watch something then talk about it rather than let it fizzle out of my memory like so many IFC candidates do after I watch them... keep me posted! edit: just realised it was Mondo Topless that I got on VHS way back, I got Up! in a bargain bin on DVD, its in the 'to watch' pile in Scotland...
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Post by Mr. Bubbles on Jan 25, 2014 0:40:29 GMT -5
The Lords of Salem - ...yeah, I've got nothing.
Fuck You, although I guess its a High Fuck You
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Post by Mr. Bubbles on Jan 26, 2014 23:10:16 GMT -5
42 - A bit too Hollywood, but not bad.
Low Matinee!
The Lone Ranger - Its fitting that this movie has a lot of trainwrecks in it. Its a complete clusterfuck.
Some Ol' Bullshit!
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Feb 3, 2014 0:32:02 GMT -5
Europa Report - For a little, independent, space movie; this was surprisingly well made. Competence all around. The poster didn't sell me at all but the movie was a complete and welcome surprise.
Fully worth paying the Netflix fee for moments like these (when you run across something surprisingly good).
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Post by minasa on Feb 4, 2014 14:10:40 GMT -5
Dallas Buyers Club - it's alright. Good performances all around.
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Post by Mctenzington on Feb 5, 2014 23:04:20 GMT -5
Camera Buff
I guess it's alright. I can't say much that's bad about the film. It plays its art vs governmental control vs family triangulation well, and it's visually pretty interesting, but I just wasn't all that engaged by it. It just wasn't very emotionally insightful.
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Post by andrew on Feb 6, 2014 15:35:41 GMT -5
Summer Wars 2/5
Pretty meh. Visually interesting at points but for the must part bland.
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Post by porter on Feb 6, 2014 15:41:28 GMT -5
Grand Piano
Had I not known I would have thought this were a Brian De Palma film. Enjoyable tight paced thriller that'll have a cult following in years to come.
C+
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Post by Mr. Bubbles on Feb 7, 2014 0:31:22 GMT -5
You're Next - Cliches are cliches, regardless of how often you want to wink and nudge the audience. This just didn't do anything for me.
Some Ol' Bullshit!
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Feb 8, 2014 23:50:12 GMT -5
The Act of Killing - A really nice stroll through what utter, contemptible madness looks like. I put this up there with Jesus Camp as one of those documentaries that, not only scares you on a human level, but makes you really empathetic toward misanthropes. It shows just how important an education is; stupid, simple folk suddenly endowed with great power and authority does not mix. The main guy, especially, you just hate his guts. He's a mass murderer, who really liked what he and his buddies did, and took to heart the dramatic nature of gangster films and sought to out-do them when he was executing people. However, despite how much you want this man to die, it's so satisfying to see at the end, the last shred of humanity he has torment him. Seeing him wretch at recounting his own crimes, how sickened he was with himself, was more gratifying than any torment he could possibly endure.
I give it 4 strangled by wire communists out of 5 immolated families.
Cabin in the Woods - This had me until they introduced the Cthullu mythos as the whole reasoning for the movie. It's alright but, besides some good ideas here and there, it really shot itself in the foot for me with that concept.
This belongs on Netflix/it appeals to "that" crowd.
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Post by Dominick on Feb 9, 2014 16:59:30 GMT -5
The LEGO Movie- Fantastic movie, probably the best animated movie since The Incredibles. Managed to be a great comedy while still being heartwarming. A+
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Post by Chig Champa on Feb 10, 2014 3:23:40 GMT -5
After being abandoned by the IFC and watching all the new Dr. Who's (whose?) Netflix has to offer, I decided to check out Silent Hill: Revelation, motivated mostly by morbid curiosity. Jesus Christ, what a wretched movie. It makes the first one look like The Lion In Winter.
I can only hope that the majority of its twenty million dollar budget went to paying Sean Bean. ... It certainly wasn't spent on special effects... or acting coaches...
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Feb 10, 2014 9:11:24 GMT -5
After being abandoned by the IFC and watching all the new Dr. Who's (whose?) Netflix has to offer, I decided to check out Silent Hill: Revelation, motivated mostly by morbid curiosity. Jesus Christ, what a wretched movie. It makes the first one look like The Lion In Winter. I can only hope that the majority of its twenty million dollar budget went to paying Sean Bean. ... It certainly wasn't spent on special effects... or acting coaches... Pffft, you just show up late to the party. All the time. We got a movie tonight called The Divine Enforcer with the Mighty Chin, though.
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Post by George Knight on Feb 10, 2014 12:05:25 GMT -5
After being abandoned by the IFC and watching all the new Dr. Who's (whose?) Netflix has to offer, I decided to check out Silent Hill: Revelation, motivated mostly by morbid curiosity. Jesus Christ, what a wretched movie. It makes the first one look like The Lion In Winter. I can only hope that the majority of its twenty million dollar budget went to paying Sean Bean. ... It certainly wasn't spent on special effects... or acting coaches... Holy shit, I know what you mean. That movie was fucking atrocious. Wouldn't recommend it to anyone, except people with petrification fetishes... But even then it's hardly worth it.
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Post by George Knight on Feb 10, 2014 12:42:50 GMT -5
I'm a manchild that really likes watching cartoons for children, and I finally got around to watching Frozen.
Disliked it.
The animation was bland and uninteresting, outside of a few ice/snow effects which looked quite nice. Most of the film looks empty and souless. This is at it's worst in the action and musical segments, which come across as almost yawn inducing, most of them just involving one character singing and walking in front of a boring and empty background. There's absolutely nothing else going on, besides one of the main characters singing. Note that there is only one big chorus number in the movie, and there's only one or two duets. Both are forgettable. They look lifeless and dull, and fail to recreate the magic from Disney animated musicals of the 90's.
An example of what I'm talking about. They're ALL like this, minus the cool ice castle effects present in only this scene. This sort of thing would be fine in a Broadway play, but it doesn't work in an animated film. It's just lazy.:
Meanwhile, in another recent animated film....
Same could be said of the characters. They're generic and boring to look at from a visual perspective (If I didn't know better, I'd say they lifted assets straight off of Tangled), and very flat and two dimensional from a writing standpoint. Which is ironic considering this is Disney's first big 3D animated musical. There was no real character development to be found in the film, save for a small bit for Elsa that's more or less just glossed over. Many of the emotions they tried to convey came across as really forced because of it... Just like the music.
Most of the songs in the film feel rushed, forgettable, and forced. The only exceptions being Let It Go (which fell flat for me because of the lack of character development, and it lost a lot of it's emotional punch because of this) and Do You Want to Build a Snowman. (Which is only memorable because it's recycled a lot in the orchestral score.) I've heard that this film went through several writers and directors before it was inevitably released, and it makes me really curious to know if it was always intended to be a musical. It seems to me like the film was trying desperately to emulate and bank on 80's/90's Disney nostalgia, and failed to take on a life of it's own because of it. Perhaps it was just the victim of studio meddling, but it's hard to say. Every thing aspect of the film was uninspired, which is really a shame considering how great the studio's last film, Wreck-it Ralph, was. While that movie was also heavily relying on nostalgia as a gimmick, that film ultimately succeeds because of the strength of it's script and characters. It felt like the writers and director actually gave a shit about the work they were doing, unlike Frozen which comes feels like something that no one wanted to make.
As for the story, it's just as bland as everything else. The entire thing feels pointless and lacks any sense of urgency, and the way it's resolved is just as uninspired as everything else in the film. I usually don't mind this if the jokes, characters, or animation are well done, but Frozen fails to deliver in any of these categories.
6/10. It's not offensively bad or anything, but it's extremely mediocre for a Disney film. It's got "Dreamworks on an off day" quality. Kids will probably enjoy it though.
On a side note, I also took my cousin to see the Lego Movie. Fun movie with great jokes and fantastic animation, and a surprisingly heartfelt ending. 8/10
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