Did you see it?
If not, I dare you to see it.
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Did you see it?
If not, I dare you to see it.
Fine, I'm-a see it Saturday.
Robocop 2014: Holdercop
This movie is a Hollywood remake about Hollywood remakes. When it puts The Ship of Theseus problem to Robocop, it also puts it to Robocop. How much of Alex can we replace before he is no longer Alex? Or of Robocop before it's no longer Robocop? Is there an essence of a person? Of humanity? Of a movie?
And the in-jokey reference to the classic "combat model" Robocop that tested well with audiences being thrown out for the black model is a call-out to internet babbies whining about how the movie isn't Robocop without it. There are lots of neat parallels between the production of robot bodies and the production of film, too.
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Finally got around to watching my copy of Unforgiven that I got for Christmas. Good shit, haven't watched that in years.
The final Hobbits movie was a bore.
Saw of first episode of The Returned remake. It seems to follow the French one's story almost exactly but it's missing some of the surreal atmosphere.
Watched the wolf on wallstreet. It was pretty good.
I wonder how much these movies also reflect on hollywood. They seem to really enjoy making them. The greed and the drugs.
Wolf is interesting. I'm sure it was fun as shit to film. I enjoyed it the time I saw it in the theatre but have no desire to see it again. The good parts can be google image searched.
Many drug/power movies are like that. I enjoyed blow but I have no desire to see it again.
These things seem to ride the line between saying the drugs made the person fall apart and the government is dicks, and people are dicks.
So and so didn't even really fuck up too bad until he started doing dumb shit like taking his boat in the storm.
also, I wonder how brows see his league of fuck ups as role models?
Brows. I love it.
Saw Chappie yesterday. Not amazing, but way better than I was expecting based on all the hate it's been getting. And I was shocked that I didn't totally despise the Die Antwoord people (although that guy Ninja remained pretty annoying throughout). Chappie himself was fine...I didn't see all the Jar-Jar comparisons some reviewers were making.
Early on the movie was, of course, a blatant ripoff of Short Circuit and Robocop. Obvious parallels: Hugh Jackman = Dick Jones, The Moose = ED209, Chappie = Johnny 5, including an Indian (looking, anyway?) creator who drove a white van filled with spare robot parts. And so on.
But as Chappie went on it became more and more its own movie until I wasn't even thinking about it's influences anymore. The ending was a little TOO happy mommy robot with the Die Antwoord chick's face was beyond stupid. She should have just stayed dead, but overall, very decent flick. Certainly better than Elysium, but it can't touch District 9.
Anchorman 2: It had its moments, but can't hold a candle to the first.
Horns: This was pretty good. Strayed from the book a bit but was still enjoyable.
Perfect Blue is just as good as I remember it being. Maybe even better. Also, The bathtub screaming shot from Requiem for a Dream was lifted directly from Perfect Blue. Never noticed that before.
Apparently the director of Requiem bought the US rights to Perfect Blue so he could lift shots for Requiem and Black Swan whole-cloth.
Saw (and really liked!) Chappie! It is Short Circuit x Die Antwoord x Metal Gear Solid.
I like the way Sigourney Weaver says "Ash".
Perfect Blue is fucking awesome :tu:
The man is happy, rich and lived a life full of experience and beautiful women. Why wouldn't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Even now he's making money off of public speaking and this movie (which were currently talking about).
Hard to dispute his approach worked.
I watched Melancholia. The opening with the limo being too big for the dirt road has to be one of the best first shots ever. That's pretty much the whole movie (and the history of Western civilization) right there.
I wanted to high five the screen after it insisted on showing all three characters being incinerated before fading to black because they, and we, don't deserve something nicer.
I started to watch that a while ago, but I turned it off halfway through. I think my daughter had woke up from a nap or something.
I should probably start it over.
Nymphomaniac is FILTHY, it rules.
Monday night my son and I marathoned the Mad Max trilogy.
Yesterday we watched The Matrix trilogy and all four Terminators.
I suppose time has softened me towards sequels no one likes. Trinity's 20 minute death monologue still annoys me and the silliness of T3 seems even more silly, but I'm over lamenting not getting the stories I wanted and more into trying to appreciate the story the writers wanted to tell, as far as Matrix R & R go anyway.
Drew making drew posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Drewbacca
Mad Max 2 can suck it though. 1 and 3 are great in completely different ways.
Road Warrior was the first one I saw. Being roughly the same age at the time, feral kid appealed to me.
You don't like the Road Warrior, and you like Thunderdome? I am as confused as I have ever been.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Just watched the trailer for the new Arnold movie. It looks...interesting.
Thunderdome is batshit stupid and falls into so bad its good territory for me. Road Warrior is kinda lost between not being good and not being so bad its good.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
Your Thunderdome explanation makes perfect sense, but I just can't agree with the rest of it. Road Warrior is in my top 5 list, probably.
I need to rewatch them as an adult. It has easily been 20 years since I've seen them.
Just got back from seeing Kingsman. I really liked it! Was a heck of a lot of fun, and did some things you feel like you never expect most mainstream movies to do. And OMG I was/am so in love with Gazelle. (In some small ways, she reminds me of Gogo Yubari from Kill Bill—who, shockingly, I also love.)
Just got back from It Follows, as a suspense movie it does well. The cinematography, sound direction and soundtrack were out of this damn world though. I need the OST.
Mood Indigo.
I'm not sure what the fuck I just saw, but it had the second best Audrey ever and I'm going to watch it again.
Top three Audrey list
1. Hepburn
2. Tautou
3. II
Audrey from Twin Peaks.
She was in some shitty movie I saw recently. It took me a long time to even recognize her. :(
There was a Twin Peaks episode of that "Psyc" show, she looked very much like herself. /that show is not funny at all though
All the talk about The Jinx made me get HBO.
just finished watching the series. Holy fuck.
I've been meaning to watch it. Somebody told me the ending is like seeing a glimpse of true evil.
I've never heard of it before today and I like it already.
I think Adnan killed them all, not Robert Durst
Of course.
I didn't like The Jinx. I mean, the interviews were mesmerizing, but all the extra stuff, like the re-enactment clips and Jarecki's sideburns, were distracting.
I liked it, but not as much as most people. It reminded me of The Thin Blue Line a great deal.
It happens way before that. His eyes are fucked up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chux
Did anyone else watch the Tim Roth series Lie to Me? It was like House, except with facial tells instead of medicine. I was tripping out over the many mannerisms they brought up in that show the Durst displayed in the interviews.
Things like saying no while nodding yes or the quick scrunch of the face indicating disgust when a person's name was mentioned.
Lie to Me was good stuff. I was very disappointed when it got cancelled.
I watched the original Odd Couple movie on Netflix a few days ago. Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon had great chemistry. Hilarious and charming movie. I also like Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in the older series.
Saw Furious 7 in IMAX last night and loved it to death. Not ashamed to admit I teared up at the end.
Lucy - This starts with a bang but goes full retard by the end.
Kahaani - Great, suspenseful movie.
Enemy - One of Jake Gyllenhaal's better performances. And props for letting Toronto play itself.
A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night - Even if you're sick of vampire movies, this one's different enough to be worth checking out.
It Follows...- Went to see this yesterday and was disappointed. Saw positive hype for an R rated movie so I gave it a go. Terrible acting and a completely silly 3rd act. The soundtrack was STUNNING though. It was the only redeeming quality of it.
It's a Netflix curiosity at best.
Proper thread this time!
Saw Interstellar finally. Didn't like it as much as Gravity! I'd heard the opposite expressed repeatedly. I liked it ok though! I don't know if there's a single Christopher Nolan movie I love, come to think of it.
The robots were cool.
I enjoyed that movie. But I hated most of the main story beats. Especially Matt Damon's betrayal and everything about the "tesseract" other than the effects.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
I liked Memento and Following, bit his big budget stuff hasn't ever done anything for me.
I liked Interstellar a lot too.
There are some interesting ideas in the movie but I found that the whole premise was kind of hinky. Gravity and Intersteller both had their wonky little secular-spiritual flourishes, but Intersteller was way more far out there with it.
A more apt movie to compare it to might be Children of Men, maybe? That one stuck to its guns.
Children of Men was great, I love that one shot toward the end.... it is like Gears of War roadie run.
I watched Gravity just the other day. It was pretty bad.
You make me sad.
I think Gravity does exactly what it sets out to do.
Interstellar tried way too hard to be 2001 without any subtlety. And with real science or something? And/or the power of love?
I caught interstellar at the dollar theater recently, it wasn't much of a story but Nolan does a great job setting a dreadful mood and the robots were cool. I definitely wouldn't have cared if I saw it at home on my dinky tv.
It was that love shit that threw me right out.
Trying to watch Tusk. Justin Long is awful in this.
Re: Interstellar- Love created black holes apparently.
Sentimental, melodramatic yuckiness is part of what turned me off to Gravity. "When ye git tuh heav'n, giv m'daughter a hug fer meh." Only that Christmas song about the kid buying his dying mother a new pair of shoes to wear for her meeting with Jesus does harder heart-strang-tuggin'.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
And with the incessant music. BWEH-WEEEH. BWEH-WEEEH. I understand that she is in danger! I do not need twelve straight minutes of movietrailerbass peals to remind me!
Watched this last night, I have discovered I have a knee-jerk hate reaction to the term 'podcast' when said out loud outside of the context of an actual internet radio show.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
Two docs: The Act of Killing Ken Burns's Emperor of All Maladies. No amount of cancer-eaten kids turned my stomach like The Act of Killing did. Seeing the guy heaving at the end was something I'll never forget. It's like guilt is a Miyazaki-esque black goop growing in our intestines, brought up and out by confession of sin. Holy shit.
There's a surprising lack of The Sheik talk in this thread...
They never sent me my DVD and I forgot about it. I guess The.Sheik.2014.1080p.WEB-DL.x264 it shall be.
Just watched a Ray Harryhausen doc on netflix and now want to watch one of his movies. Neither netflix nor amazon have any. Wtf.
sheik is on netflix, btw
I was watching Kickboxer last night and wait a minute...
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Tong Po wardrobe malfunction?
Love transcend time and space baby.... so after not seeing her dad for 80 or so years, she tells him to GTFO because she has her family now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Anthony
I really like that movie. But if they took out that one speech Anne Hathaway made about landing on the right planet I would've liked it a lot more. Maybe even loved it.
Jupiter Ascending.
LOL
That said, this movie is exactly a live-action shoujo anime with a budget, so I'm glad it exists.
Was I the only one bothered that they needed a huge rocket to escape Earth's gravity and get into space but that smaller ship could do it on the other planets? Why build the rocket when they had a ship capable of making orbit on it's own?Quote:
Originally Posted by Diff-chan
Fuel.
That's why you'll never be a spaceman, Timber.
God.
Someone needs more Kerbal.
One of the planets had something like 1.2x Earth's gravity. Why didn't they need all that fuel to leave that planet?Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Why burn all your ship's onboard fuel the first time you leave the Earth? Why not stick a booster on your spaceship and have that be your 'freebie' takeoff?
But they didn't use that ship after getting to orbit, it was just a taxi to get to the main ship in orbit. Then that ship had 2 smaller ships that contain enough fuel to break orbit on 2 more planets. Why not build one of those smaller ships on Earth and use it for taxi purposes? It's size alone tells that it would need less conventional fuel to break orbit.
Because our generation is so specialized that the person that wrote the script never had a job or education that taught basic physics or history.
It's an overall problem with entertainment these days.
I don't think the majority of writers were ever especially scientifically minded or had jobs as astrophysicists at any point in film history. And the Nolans wrote that movie. Jonathan went to Georgetown and Christopher seems like a smart guy. I'm sure they've had a physics class or two.
Plus, this is what consultants are for. Nobody is an expert on everything (except you, ofc).
maybe its just fucking laziness then?
That's probably a pretty safe bet.
Watched the the rising dead watchtower movie. It was ok. But you never worried about the lives of the actors. And the production felt like one of those sci-fi channel movies.
The zombrex commercial was clever though.
Just saw a pretty ok piece of OZ fan-fiction called Whiplash.
He really was channeling ol' Vern, short of raping his students.
Someone recommended Paprika in response to a rant I went on about how joyless, gray, literal, and undreamlike Christopher "Fax Machine" Nolan's dreams are in Inception. Paprika is the exact opposite of all of those things and of Inception. I think it's my new favorite animated thing and one of my new favorite movies about movies.
Kon was an original. One of the best filmmakers we've ever had.
I thought most people around here shit in Paprika. I love it. For a while I'd put it on before going to sleep.
I caught the missed keystroke when I went back to italicize Paprika, but it made me giggle so I left it.
It bored me to tears, but I might not have been ready for it at the time.
Birdman. Not that it matters in the end but Keaton losing the Oscar to that Hawking guy already seems like an all time fuckup from them. Great film.
Same. Probably overdue for a revisit.Quote:
Originally Posted by YellerDog
Buffalo '66.
i always thought this was Christina Ricci at her hottest.
Time hasn't changed my mind.
p.s. Is this a shifter car?
I liked her in Black Snake Moan myself. Actually I like her in everything. Give me all the Riccis.
Too damn thin in BSM.
Agreed there is no bad Ricci. This chubs form is just my fav.
And I guess she was 17 when this was made...
She was hottest in Prozac Nation because she was naked
She was naked in Black Snake Moan too.
She does it for the art, God bless her.
Watching the Nic Cage version Left Behind. It's been a long time sice I've watched a made for tv movie. It certainly feels like I'm watching one now.
Quantum of Solace. I think this was the worst Hollywood movie I've ever seen! It wasn't so-bad-it's-good, but it is so forgettable that it's memorable. Its anti-entertainment was the most entertaining thing about it. I was told the writers' strike happened while the screenplay was being written. It shows. You can feel the lines that were supposed to be punched-up, the lines that were only supposed to stand in for better ones, the lines that were weren't meant to be more than "joke goes here" markers.
I admit I couldn't follow the plot. I can never follow the plot in movies like this. The first Mission Impossible was the first time I remember giving up trying to follow an action movie and they've been successfully clubbing me into intellectually forfeiting ever since.