Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Fantastic flick. Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton really knocked him out of the park.
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Birdman: or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance): Fantastic flick. Michael Keaton, Emma Stone and Edward Norton really knocked him out of the park.
Cloudy With A Chance of Meatballs 2 was really cute, there's a lot of Clone High DNA in those movies.
Just saw this tonight. The plot could be summed up in 2 sentences and that's ok. Great revenge flick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Error
Dat gunkata tho
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I watched adaptation the other night. The movie's thinking would have lapped my own if I hadn't paused it a couple times to catch up. That there was a time in my life when I would have told you I hated it embarrasses me.
Yeah, that was my TNL movie pick all those years ago. Still one of my favorites.
There's only one thing better than Nicholas Cage.
There was a time in my life when I would have told you I loved it but now having rewatched it recently can tell you I didn't get half of what made it so fucking good back then. Which is embarrassing.
Both really fun movies, the boys pick them for movie night all the time.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Last movie night- Lego Movie. Fantastic. Enjoyed the stab at adult Lego collectors too.
Saw Interstellar again today, this time in IMAX. I saw it with a friend the first time and with my wife the second time. The IMAX screening was amazing. I know the movie has been fairly well reviewed but I absolutely loved it both times. One of my favorites for years I'd say.
Gummo and A Face in the Crowd. A Face in the Crowd scares the Hell out of me. It's just so God Damn disturbing.
Is Gummo worth a re-visit? I didn't dig it at all when it came out.
I like it a lot. It has a coherent plot interwoven with filthy interviews. Cat killing may turn people off. I found the main guys humanity when it came to his trans brother and the old woman on life support to be oddly touching for what this is.
Cat slayings, transvestite reveals protagonist's latent humanity, AND geezers on life support? An obvious 5/5
There's a prostitute with downs an 11 yo bangs too.
Wait, why didn't this film win oscar for best picture
Not me!Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
I'm on the fence. I like the concept of cats when they don't live in my home.
I like kitties.
I love both cats and Gummo.
The Guest - Pretty great new action thriller about a war vet visiting one of his fallen squadmates families. Fantastic synth score and some pretty awesome violence. I've heard it described as The Terminator meets Halloween, but the film it reminded me the most of in tone and aesthetic is Drive.
Cosmopolis - Not the easiest watch due to the vague plot and the attempted high concept dialogue, but something about it clicked with me. It reminded me of Cronenbergs earlier film Crash.
The Town That Dreaded Sundown (remake) - I avoid most remakes like the plague, but i heard good things about it and my housemate wanted to watch it. It's actually a pretty clever remake which acknowledges the original films existence. It's a nicely shot textbook slasher that doesn't do anything new, but does what it does do well.
What about the original? Both were on Netflix. Should've watched them.
Persistence of Vision - A documentary about the 30-year making of the film The Thief and the Cobbler. I first watched the released version of Thief back in college, and found it to be an odd curiosity with a mix of very good and very bad animation. Learning the story behind its making much later, and watching restorations of the workprints, it's much clearer that this is an unfinished masterpiece and that the released version is anything but a completion of what it was meant to be.
The doc is pretty good. It's a heartbreaking story and the film does a good job of showing just how important it was to its creators and how wrong it was that it met the fate it did. Almost reminds me of the animation equivalent of Burden of Dreams, except instead of moving a boat over a mountain, it's a bunch of people drawing pictures. It comes with a nice second disc of goodies too including the full 1992 workprint of the unfinished film as well as some long form Q&As.
I've always been interested in the making of that movie. I'll have to check this doc out.
TMNT 2014.
It was a movie. People hated on the turtle designs too much, Splinter looks like a fucking nightmare.
I saw a screener of the Miramax version years and years ago, it was wildly uneven and the narration and music were *awful*, I'd be interested in seeing this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Frogacuda
Yeah, all the dialog and those horrid musical numbers were shit they added to the Miramax version. They shit all over the original in an effort to make it more Aladdin-like than it already was or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I watched the latest version of the Recobbled fan edit (taking animation from all sources and reconstructing according to the original workprint), which has come along way and now feels like a pretty watchable, complete movie, albeit with some pencil-test shots here and there. It's actually heartbreaking how close to finished it really could have been. I recommend it. The whole thing is on Youtube and the usual torrenty places.
If you have trouble finding it hit me up. It seems to be kind of a pain in the ass in that regard.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
The workprint was still unwatchable / disjointed when I was in school, I'm glad they've kept working at it.
Yeah, they've put some real effort into it lately, including paying to get a transfer of a newly discovered 35mm workprint from 1993 (more complete than the widely circulated 1992 version and better than VHS transfers too). They've also done a much better job of hiding the seams when switching between different sources. You can still tell when it happens but it isn't so jarring anymore.
Like I said, really quite watchable now. The worst parts are the intro and the sequence with the old witch, but it's maddening how close to complete it really seems now.
Birdman. Incredible. Go see it.
Oh yeah. Isn't it great?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I think I've seen Twin Peaks the whole way through at least six times, and I'm currently watching it again - about two episodes a week at a coworkers' house. It's interesting, because we started just before they announced the 2016 episodes, and it's putting a whole new spin on my perception of the show. It's starting to transform from a show that was set in stone and made into mythology well before I ever heard of it to something that's in flux, with scenes now that might reveal themself to have even further meaning in the future. It's gone from a show that had an "ending" to a show that isn't done telling its story. It's weird and cool!
I just downloaded the "Q2" cuts that turn the show into a five hour movie and incorporate the cut scenes back in to Fire Walk With Me, I'm way excited about 'em!
The Babadook.
Yeah so that movie seriously freaked me the fuck out. It's ok though, I didn't need to sleep tonight.
I don't know where to put this so, I'm just gonna drop this here. Must read for Boogie Night fans: An Oral History
Sons of Anarchy series finale - This show was already way past its prime so considering that I they wrapped up the main story decently. The Christian symbolism and Shakespeare quote were some eye rolling shit, though.
Broad City season 1 - This was awesome. It gets compared to Girls a lot but it seems closer to Workaholics to me.
Watching "Black Books Mirror" on Netflix, it's a pretty solid little Outer Limits kind of show, a bit more grounded on Wired Magazine articles I think. Bit more British also, take that how you will.
Do you mean Black Mirror? I'm not seeing Black Books on Netflix, though I did recently watch Black Mirror and it fits your description.
Oh, fuck, you're right.
Black Mirror had a Christmas special a couple days ago, too. Good stuff.
Men in Black is not a good movie.
it falls apart towards the end. And tries a little to hard to be clever in places.
FILMAGE - the Story of DESCENDENTS/ALL
Fantastic documentary on a very important band that way too many people have never heard of. Watch it if you like music.
Fun Fact. Tony Lombardo is a huge influence on my bass style. The dude would tape weights to his right hand to make his downstrokes faster.
The Holiday - This really needed a fierce amount of nudity to make it tolerable that was never delivered on. 2/10.
Snowpiercer - Really cool! Pretty on-the-nose as far as allegory, but the visual style was a lot of fun. 8/10
Here's the trailer I forgot to post.
I need to see that movie still, how do people not know of and love The Descendants?
The film implies that the kids are finally paying attention. They're playing some pretty big shows these days. :tu:
I mostly know 'em from Suburban Home, going through their discography now.
Enjoy! is the only album of theirs I'm meh on.
I caught Dracula Untold the other day, it was....well it was a superhero movie. And it wasn't bad. I mean once you get past the premise. And some bad CG near the end. Still, entertaining.
BoJack Horseman Christmas Special!
I watched Expendables 3. What a fucking mess.
I saw Guardians of the Galaxy. It was really good! My only gripe is that blue guy's plight was tough to invest emotionally in. He only tells us that green lady's father killed his family. A scene that showed him arrested and thrown in jail for trying to exact revenge in some way (do we even learn why he was in there?) would have helped, I think. Rocket is undercooked, too. He mentions being rebuilt and put back together, but never having read the comic, I didn't get anything out of that; I don't know what his gripe with the universe is.
But it's a two hour movie with a million characters--I understand that they can't develop everyone's back stories.
Sequel-fodder, I bet!
I thought he said more than that. He was abducted and used as a lab raccoon. Fuck animal testing is his basic attitude.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
I saw the newest Home Alone movie. Not bad. Lots of homage to the Wet Bandits.
lol
I saw Gone Girl. I didn't know it was a dark comedy! I liked it.
Just saw The Guest.
Goddamn that movie was fantastic. Dan Stevens is my new favorite actor.
Man Bites Dog at a little art theater near me. Pretty funny movie with some really fucked up violence that could still be considered shocking today even through it was made in 1992. However, it has some pacing issues and would have been a better film overall if maybe 10-15 minutes were cut out.
Overall a pretty decent flick.
Her.
I really liked this movie. I had been putting off watching it for quite some time, because I thought it was going to be dumb. Instead it's a tender, well written, and very well acted story about where I believe we, as a species, will end up. If our preferred interaction with the world is through a computer (and for an increasing number of people it is) then I don't think falling in love with an AI is any weirder than falling in love with a person.
I'm glad I saw it, even if it was just for that realization.
Yeah, I thought it was a great movie, too.
Yea, Her is great.
I'm not usually in to movies like John Wick. But you can tell it was made with love and highly competent directing. Terrific acting and good characters. Didn't stray in to aloof indy violence porn (like Shootem Up).Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Joyeux Noel and Horns, both of which were fantastic.
Grave Encounters - Decent flick with a sketchy ending. Probably 15 minutes too long.
I just saw this last night, it is a comedy but I thought it was poor. It is not convincing at all but I suppose that is not the point.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mzo
Just saw We're The Millers last night. Not sure how it escaped my radar previously but I caught the "No Ragrets" thing and then kept forgetting to watch it. Really funny film!
Edge of Tomorrow was *amazing*, total recommendation. Groundhog Day / Aliens / Starship Troopers.
I fell asleep during it.
Did you wake up at the beginning?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Nice.
Watched Roman Polanski's Tess of the d'Urbervilles. Can't say I loved it, but the photography was a lot of fun to look at. So was Tess. What a cutie.
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For -- The Marv/Nancy sequence was bad fan fiction, kinda wish they'd have brought Clive Owen back for his bit.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt's part was by far the best.
The Skeleton Twins- Liked it a lot. Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader should have really good movie careers in front of them. Impressive stuff.
Saw Unbroken and The Interview while I was in CA for Christmas.
Unbroken apparently left a lot out of the book (can't blame Jolie since there was A LOT of shit that happened), but it got the point across. Louis Zamperini was a BAMF. Unreal what that guy went through. Going to buy the book so I can read in more detail what happened to him.
The Interview was what I expected. Not great, but entertaining. However, I felt it was more of my patriotic duty to see it. Fuck North Korea. Freedom of speech is one of the things that make this country so great.
Rumor is that she handed in a 3+ hour movie and the studio said uhhhhhhh no and did major edits.Quote:
Originally Posted by Type Ryan
There's a good change North Korea didn't do it. Evidence that security firm Norse has points to an inside job by a former employee with help from a few people.
I've been on the false flag tip for a little bit now.
Just when you thought things couldn't get worse, we're LOTRing our own history. Sexy Sexy founding fathers. I hope Ben Franklin has a smoldering pout and rides a flaming horse off a cliff and teleports to England to confront the king.
that music, lol
Didn't Mel Gibson do this like 15 years ago?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Black Mirror is some great shit. Just watched the Christmas "special", more harsh tokes from the future!
Finished off Season 1 of The Wire last night, what a good show. I used to watch Homicide: Life on the Street pretty religiously in high school, it's nice to have a much grittier version. I'd only seen season one previously, so on to the next season.
Inception - pretty good. Not at all difficult to follow. People made me think this was the second coming of Primer. I'll probably watch the version with the documentary shoehorned in before returning the disc.
Guardians of the Galaxy - What the fuck is wrong with you people? They hit you with a bunch of feels in the last 20 mins of the movie (including a rousing "lets do this" speech) in an effort to make you forget that the movie had no character development for an hour. Bands tend to play their best songs in the last 5-10 minutes of a set, because that's what people remember when they go home. That and the first song, usually. Apparently it works for movies too, or I don't think anyone would have recommended this for me to watch.
It was amusing throughout, that's what.
I had one chuckle, and it was when big dude called the raccoon a "strange little beast" or w/e. The rest of it was just so, so bad.
I was buoyed on the Comic Nerd Bullshit, but I don't think it's a movie I'm going to watch again! Pratt is kind of a skinnier milder Chris Farley or something.
I'd have really dug this movie about 15 years ago.
Post-credit Howard the Duck audience trolling gets a lot of points from me. It was a nice trick.
I was in the other room not smoking pot. I noticed dude was there, but what'd he say?
I forget. I remember the audience I was in was ready to see some Avengers 2 stuff or something and got pissed, it was great.
Only because going back 15 years the graphics would have been amazing. I don't think I really got it, and this is from someone who really liked the avengers.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Oooh wait I found that del toro guy ok, and Dewey cox wasn't bad.
Foxcatcher - A slow, creepy, intense build up. The three main actors were great. Hard to believe it's based on a true story.
The Imitation Game - I went into this kind of blind. I knew that Alan Turing created the Turing machine to break the Enigma codes. I really had no idea what the actual story behind it all entailed. Left feeling pretty shitty about humanity. I really like the movie though.
Pee Wee's Playhouse (all): This show is filthy. I can't believe my parents let me watch it, much less that it was on for as long as it was.
Dr. Pee Wee and Pee Wee Has a Toothache are top tier.
I just saw The Shining for the first time. Yes, I'm 30. I'm now questioning every decision I've ever made. How many other movies have I just never seen?
We've got this guy in the office who hasn't seen shit except for the Transformers movies apparently. Dude didn't know Blade Runner, 2001, GHOSTBUSTERS. He's from Ohio.
A lot of Mormons don't have much movie knowledge.
I watched Ascension on the SyFy ap since it was freeeeeee. I enjoyed it well enough.
Lots of butts and blowjobs in 1960s space.
SciFi Channel has butts now?
Lots of them! Mostly blonde lady butts. A+ would recommend to a friend. Tricia Helfer had paper thin excuses to drop trow.
This past weekend I introduced my teenage nephew to Alien and Aliens for the first time. He'd been playing Alien Isolation and Colonial Marines recently and had only just found out that the games were based on actual movies (WAT), so it was up to me to make up for my sister's shitty-ass parenting. We had a marathon and then hit up Five Guys for burgers. It was fucking awesome watching those movies with someone who had never seen them before.
Soon we're doing Predator 1 and 2. I'm totally schooling this kid in 80's action and horror.
Predator 2 lost in New York is so weird.
Danny Glover's 'too old for this shit' carries the movie well.