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Post by Dominick on Feb 10, 2014 13:04:27 GMT -5
Now while I enjoyed Frozen, The LEGO Movie made it look like a piece of shit so I need to rewatch it sometime soon and see how Frozen holds up in a repeat viewing since my enjoyment has degraded a bit from when I saw it 2 months ago.
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Post by George Knight on Feb 10, 2014 13:08:21 GMT -5
Now while I enjoyed Frozen, The LEGO Movie made it look like a piece of shit so I need to rewatch it sometime soon and see how Frozen holds up in a repeat viewing. The DVDscreener is already out there.
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Post by Dominick on Feb 10, 2014 13:10:49 GMT -5
Now while I enjoyed Frozen, The LEGO Movie made it look like a piece of shit so I need to rewatch it sometime soon and see how Frozen holds up in a repeat viewing. The DVDscreener is already out there. It's probably hidden on You Tube by now too.
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Post by Dominick on Feb 13, 2014 13:09:57 GMT -5
I saw the Robocop reboot, and while not as bad as it could have been it's just too generic. Rental.
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Post by Dominick on Feb 15, 2014 10:23:09 GMT -5
Her- best movie of 2013 by far. Everything was fantastic about it, and the best part was that it felt like 3 hours when it was only a little under 2 hours. Better Than Sex with your OS!
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Post by el woospo on Feb 16, 2014 23:58:52 GMT -5
Filth - brilliant performance from Macavoy, wondered how they would do the tapeworm stuff, overall enjoyed very much. Refreshing to hear folk speak 'normal' with heaps o good swearing in a film. A bit patchy with clear imitations in style from various places.
Rating = a massive tape worm inside the weirdest anti-hero and two lines of ching out of a possible bender with a couple of prostitutes...
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Feb 18, 2014 15:45:50 GMT -5
Drew: The Man Behind the Poster - A decent little documentary about the quiet man responsible for all those amazing movie posters you know. It isn't anything spectacular but the subject matter is what makes the movie for me.
I give it a "More portraits of Harrison Ford than one can admit to doing".
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Post by Mctenzington on Feb 18, 2014 22:21:48 GMT -5
Drunken Angel
Strong little film from Kurosawa, a flick he considered to be his breakout and it's easy to see why. It's his first work with Mifune, and the guy's wonderful. It's got a heavy atmosphere, and a strong ending, even if it comes across as a bit too bitter and slow moving at times.
I wouldn't call it top-tier Kurosawa, but it's definitely worth checking out.
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Mar 30, 2014 1:54:53 GMT -5
Finally got around to seeing Trance and I liked it. I found the reveal to be a bit silly but the overall structure of the movie, added on top of Boyle's eclectic flair for narrative, and the soundtrack for the film really made me not care.
I give it 6 red herrings out of 8 plot twists.
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Post by Spraynard Kruger on Mar 30, 2014 22:32:51 GMT -5
frozen - mediocre, soulless, big pacing problems for the first 2 acts, third act ruined by forced twist. i feel like the movie was written with the understanding that elsa was the antagonist but once they wrote let it go they realized they needed to bank on it and made her to the deuteragonist and compensated with the thing about prince sideburns which could not make less sense, not understanding that once you change antagonists you need to rewrite basically the whole movie to account for it. youve seen it before.
the lego movie - i had more fun than the kids in the audience. one of the most genuinely inspired (and inspiring) films ive seen in a while. overused sentiment, but it made me feel like a kid again. visual style blew me away. central moral of "adult fanboys need to understand that their childhood icons cant grow up with them and that pretension is depriving a generation that still needs them as an outlet for their creativity" is a hilarious slap in the face to WB's treatment of its superhero properties.
robocop 2014 - sure was a movie.
every single fast and furious movie - disturbingly charmless. 14 hours of watching paul walker pretend to be an actor, god rest his metal endoskeleton.
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Apr 5, 2014 23:28:34 GMT -5
Finally got around to sitting through Man of Steel. Wow, talk about missing the point.
MOS is a POS. Some good ideas but just poorly executed on all fronts. Henry Cavill is decent in it, and most of the cast, but what they're spouting in this story is just so far off mark of the mythos of Superman and what he's all about. If this is a new interpretation of Superman meant for "today's audience", then I don't be around here much longer. If today's audience means "petty and vapid" and someone like Superman needs to be brought down so far where he's taught his whole life to not to save people; then fuck 'em, I say.
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Post by Spraynard Kruger on Apr 17, 2014 19:11:02 GMT -5
captain america: the winter soldier - best deus ex movie thatll ever be made. also best "dark and gritty" superhero movie ive seen so far, to be honest. probably the first time ive been genuinely impressed with the mcu past a conceptual level. chris evans is killing it as cap, theres some really solid character interaction going on between the three heroes this movie focuses on, and surprisingly solid and at points visceral action with a lot of great practical stuntwork. went a lot of places i frankly never would have imagined a marvel movie (let alone a captain america movie) would go but didnt lose its heart like some other franchises have.
points against: the correlary to the war on terror drone strike hijinxs got maybe a bit too on the nose, there are points where you could argue it veered on too brutal in the combat, and despite being one half of the title the winter soldier wasnt actually in this movie very much.
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Post by Mctenzington on Apr 18, 2014 0:10:25 GMT -5
Short Term 12
Pretty strong film, owing a lot to a myriad of committed performances. The script is well thought out, though the film does fall into a lot of the 'indie movie-isms' we've come to expect. A lot of handheld shallow focus, lazy use of form, a lot of people resting their heads on others, reverby guitar/synth soundtrack, that dumb looking up and someone and smirking. It all kinda piles up, and renders an otherwise sincere film about childhood trauma as a bit fake and forced.
That said, the two sequences wherein kids express their pasts through the use of art are fantastic.
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Post by el woospo on Apr 18, 2014 1:26:05 GMT -5
Captian Yank 2 Winter Chevy - Okay I spose, first half tried to be all espionage thriller type then by the numbers ending. Enjoyed well enough, pointless 3d on worlds 'biggest' screen but fx were good enough and action was understandable, as in, could see the majority of what was going on. Cap still seems to be a rather ... boring? ... hero. Negative points for 'hail hydra' and falcon blokes entrance. Neutral points for Wargames. Plus points for Jim Ramsey and Furious Blokes Chevy fight... or probably not.
rating = better than the iron bloke films but with less charisma...
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Post by PoopaPapaPalpatine on Apr 18, 2014 23:32:50 GMT -5
captain america: the winter soldier - best deus ex movie thatll ever be made. also best "dark and gritty" superhero movie ive seen so far, to be honest. probably the first time ive been genuinely impressed with the mcu past a conceptual level. chris evans is killing it as cap, theres some really solid character interaction going on between the three heroes this movie focuses on, and surprisingly solid and at points visceral action with a lot of great practical stuntwork. went a lot of places i frankly never would have imagined a marvel movie (let alone a captain america movie) would go but didnt lose its heart like some other franchises have.
points against: the correlary to the war on terror drone strike hijinxs got maybe a bit too on the nose, there are points where you could argue it veered on too brutal in the combat, and despite being one half of the title the winter soldier wasnt actually in this movie very much. Couldn't have agreed with you more on the movie. Some really solid writing and character interaction throughout where everybody had something to do and wasn't lingering about due to contractual obligations. Along with the talent casted in this movie; that really sold it. I was never really sold (and am still, partially) on Chris Evans being Capt. America but he showed he had some acting capability in this that I was, kind of, taken aback by. It makes me wonder what he'll do later in his career when he's older and can't run off rooftops and bulk up Pumping Iron-style anymore. Oh, and I loved the brutality in this movie; it was graphic and violent but not to the point of grotesque and gory (When people were shot, you saw them bleed). It gave the movie weight, consequence, and a pertinence which really drove home the spy/political intrigue in a comic world. My only gripe is that the movie was doing so well with moral ambiguity in having to do what is necessary (even if it isn't right) that it gave Cap's dilemma a legitimacy and an importance to the character, that when the great reveal came along, that grey area the movie deals with is suddenly split to black and white and made the rest of the movie very dry. It just became good guy vs bad guy after that and almost undermines all the great stuff that came before it. Even though I'd like to have seen that theme of 'what is good?' and 'what is evil?' subject carried throughout the film and see that turmoil and conflict within all the characters the movie follows (military types), I thought the whole thing worked overall in the grand scheme of things. Here's hoping the next Cap film doesn't drop the ball. Movie gets 4 people getting kicked into 5 jet turbines.
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