Under the Tuscan sun - 2003
Strangely a romantic comedy that I can actually sit through. Highly recommended if you want to watch a movie with your woman.
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This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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Yes, seeing In The Line of Fire on the big screen was awesome back in the day. The chemistry between Eastwood and Russo had that magical spark, indeed. Just where does a female Secret Service agent keep all her weaponry on her, not to mention packing some serious firepower (in case if the worst senario happens to the POTUS {President of the U.S.})?Ed Oscuro wrote:In The Line of Fire
A film detailing how life is tough when you don't have a car. This one took me by surprise, there's some (some) legitimately great writing in it, and they even had me at a few moments in the romance.
Oh, and this. What's that face in the van windows doing around 2:40?
Speaking of Tom Cruise, probably The Firm next.
If you watch Sean Penn in "The Gunman" action flick, he does pack some serious firepower with that fully automatic handgun (outfitted with extended clips) quite easily. The firefight scenes in handling the current situation at hand with some Special Forces Ops team members cranks up the tension factor, especially when they're dealing with a seasoned pro gunman to begin with. Will they take him out or not?
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Traveler! You're not from Minnesota, are you?PC Engine Fan X! wrote:(in case if the worst senario happens to the POTUS {President of the U.S.})?
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Inside Out
As usual, Pixar exceeds extremely high expectations and humiliates the rest of the film industry.
A crisis in a girl's life (moving from Minnesota to San Francisco) becomes a matter of life and death inside her mind, where everything is falling apart. Since the characters and places are also a person, the traditional story of friendship and maturity (here Joy, little Riley's governing emotion, learns the importance of Sadness, until then a useless team member) becomes much more meaningful than usual and doubles as a deep psychological study.
Excellent design and animation, with depth and details compensating the lack of particularly cute characters (like the fish of Finding Nemo) or gorgeous scenery (like the desert of Cars).
Warning: neither very funny (until the end credits) nor really for children. The main topics are death and destruction, and only at the end they are accepted (not undone).
As usual, Pixar exceeds extremely high expectations and humiliates the rest of the film industry.
A crisis in a girl's life (moving from Minnesota to San Francisco) becomes a matter of life and death inside her mind, where everything is falling apart. Since the characters and places are also a person, the traditional story of friendship and maturity (here Joy, little Riley's governing emotion, learns the importance of Sadness, until then a useless team member) becomes much more meaningful than usual and doubles as a deep psychological study.
Excellent design and animation, with depth and details compensating the lack of particularly cute characters (like the fish of Finding Nemo) or gorgeous scenery (like the desert of Cars).
Warning: neither very funny (until the end credits) nor really for children. The main topics are death and destruction, and only at the end they are accepted (not undone).
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Obligatory.Ixmucane2 wrote:Inside Out
As usual, Pixar exceeds extremely high expectations and humiliates the rest of the film industry.
A crisis in a girl's life (moving from Minnesota to San Francisco) becomes a matter of life and death inside her mind, where everything is falling apart. Since the characters and places are also a person, the traditional story of friendship and maturity (here Joy, little Riley's governing emotion, learns the importance of Sadness, until then a useless team member) becomes much more meaningful than usual and doubles as a deep psychological study.
Excellent design and animation, with depth and details compensating the lack of particularly cute characters (like the fish of Finding Nemo) or gorgeous scenery (like the desert of Cars).
Warning: neither very funny (until the end credits) nor really for children. The main topics are death and destruction, and only at the end they are accepted (not undone).
Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.
An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.
Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.
Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
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Saw Mad Max: Fury Road again after getting it on Blu-ray. It still fucking rocks.
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Alexander Nevsky with my mom. Took us a number of evenings as she kept dozing off during the first half of it. The battle scenes had her wide awake, though, and for a reason. I can see how they propelled the media miles forward. Some benchmark filmmaking right there.
Nonetheless, for such a ground-breaking movie - it seems rather compromised and I read Eisenstein was told to be a good boy or else that time around. The romance/friendship arc in particular comes as tacked on for the sake of making it more like a "normal" film and either it's aged badly, or even by the 1938 standards it could make one sorry for the film.
Apparently it was completely produced shortly before Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (goes to show the writting was already on the wall for this part of Europe), then quickly taken off screens, then brought back on when Third Reich and Soviet Union were hard at war against each other.
Nonetheless, for such a ground-breaking movie - it seems rather compromised and I read Eisenstein was told to be a good boy or else that time around. The romance/friendship arc in particular comes as tacked on for the sake of making it more like a "normal" film and either it's aged badly, or even by the 1938 standards it could make one sorry for the film.
Apparently it was completely produced shortly before Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact (goes to show the writting was already on the wall for this part of Europe), then quickly taken off screens, then brought back on when Third Reich and Soviet Union were hard at war against each other.
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I'm gonna watch this again to see if I somehow missed what everyone loves about it during my first viewing. the action scenes, while good, didn't blow me away and the villain suffered from Bane "wha'd-he-say?" syndrome.xxx1993 wrote:Saw Mad Max: Fury Road again after getting it on Blu-ray. It still fucking rocks.
granted, I did see it in 3D (only cuz there was no other option), which was more of a distraction than anything.
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Agreed.Vexorg wrote:As I've said before, the films after 4 make more sense if you think of them not as being street racing movies, but superhero movies where the heroes have the power of an infinite supply of fast cars.
Tokyo Drift is my favorite F&F cause that's the true action racing movies (NFS does the same way but the plot is uninspiring), next with 2 Fast 2 Furious. Also I recently watch the first KungFu Panda, though the final attack scene and the ending is bit flawed, I prefer the sequel.
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Mad max.......jesus the new mad max (Tom harding) is a man of very very few words and so the whole movie is nothing but cg and car/truck crashes/chases there is very little character progression I really dont understand where the director was going with this because he had some material to work with as we see max have some flashbacks of struggling to save a little boy and a woman but we see nothing come of it. It doesnt really hold a candle to the original mad max but its an ok movie if your into cgi and chases.
Battle royale 2.....no way near as good as the first and the deaths of each student were no where near as poetic infact its the same as above as in you feel no attachment to any of the cast which is quite sad.
Battle royale 2.....no way near as good as the first and the deaths of each student were no where near as poetic infact its the same as above as in you feel no attachment to any of the cast which is quite sad.
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I don't want to be "that guy," but as I understand, there was comparatively little CGI in the new Mad Max movie.
I did watch Death Wish 1 and 2 (one of the benefits of being "between jobs" is a lot of movie time).
I like Death Wish even better now that I have seen it a second time, and really got to drink it in. It is in the same class as the other cynical, depressing urban films of the 70s, like Taxi Driver and The French Connection. It's visceral, from its gut-wrenching rape scene to the tense feeling you get as you watch Bronson's Paul Kersey slowly resolve to kill criminals, whoever or wherever they may be. Is he losing his mind? Perhaps; great moments show him quaking with adrenaline and fear, and going to great lengths to cruelly blow apart anyone doomed enough to cross him.
The New York detective Ochoa is also a standout character as someone who comes across as almost completely nihilistic - not in the edgy teenager way, but someone who has done his job for so long, and has been mired in the muck for so long, that the only thing that matters is doing the job, and maybe getting his pension. He's very smart in the movie and very determined, but it feels that in the end this is just another case.
Cinematography is good and adequate - I don't notice too many tricks or hooks; then again, Michael Winner's background was documentaries, so he lends a downplayed look to the whole thing. What he does do well is give us hints of what Bronson is thinking. Since Bronson both in real life and the movies never says much, his face usually tells us a lot of what he is feeling at the moment. This is impressive since he usually hides his emotions behind a stony visage. However, I feel that this is natural since most people don't openly display what they are feeling at any given point. The times he breaks and lashes out, though, are very human.
All in all it's an extremely good movie and one that should be watched if you want to see a great character study and are a fan of visceral thrillers.
Death Wish 2 is somewhat of a different beast. I remember drauch speaking very highly of the film, in a sleazy, depressing, almost-grindhouse sort of way. On one hand, I think Michael Winner matured and gained more skill as a cinematographer between Death Wish 1 and 2 (8 years difference). I think the shots and visual composition are generally more varied and interesting, and there are neat little touches throughout the movie that reinforce its main (depressing and hopeless) theme. Apparently the bizarre and disgusting denizens of Los Angeles are all just people off the street Winner filmed passing by (including the cross-dressing operatic) - it certainly paints a disturbing picture of LA's night life. The overall tone of the movie definitely reflects Bronson/Kersey's state of mind: permanently shattered and bitter, and murderously antagonistic towards the city's disgusting criminals.
On the other hand, the movie almost feels like one of those bizarre fantasies you have where everything horrible that can possibly happen happens to you. There some very dreamlike elements - from the abandoned nightmarish locations (e.g. the Hollywood Hotel) to the blunt and unambiguous -perhaps cartoonish- dialog (e.g. "Who was the perpetrator?" "He was a very good citizen!"). The cold and heartless violence, both inflicted to Kersey's loved ones and inflicted by Kersey, makes the sequel unpleasant, but not necessarily in a bad way. This movie too has a brutal rape scene, and the death of Kersey's daughter* (who survived rape in the first film). I feel it a bit much and this is probably the most tasteless aspect of the film. To Death Wish 2's credit it at least takes its subject matter deathly serious, but the ambiguous portrayal of Kersey in the first film is switched out with a more straightforward revenge tale. There is certainly no question here that the men Kersey hunts down are scum that deserve death. This is not only shown by their irredeemable behavior and attitude, but they seem to exist only at night and surrounded by pests, vermin, and squalor. As an added kick, Bronson's unremitting quest for vengeance also destroys his second chance at a new life. Bleak!
All told, Death Wish is the better and the more substantial film. People (rightly?) dislike the sequel for its cruelty and its simplistic plot. I enjoyed watching it, but it's a total step in a different direction from the first film. It's also the last "serious" movie in the series before it devolved into pure (fun!) camp in Death Wish 3.
*nothing spoiled here that wasn't flat out said in the trailer!
These are some fabulously stylized armor designs. I will have to check it out. I still need to watch my DVD copy of the Nibelungen, a similarly contemporaneous fantasy duology with political undertones - except by the great German director Fritz Lang.Obiwanshinobi wrote:Alexander Nevsky
This was a great interview. Bronson was a man's man; could anyone ever even compete? You have to love how he effortlessly intimidated Ebert the entire time.Ed Oscuro wrote:Ahh, Death Wish, gotta look that one up. Here's a cool interview (by Ebert) with the actor from '74, back at the time the film was being shot.
I did watch Death Wish 1 and 2 (one of the benefits of being "between jobs" is a lot of movie time).
I like Death Wish even better now that I have seen it a second time, and really got to drink it in. It is in the same class as the other cynical, depressing urban films of the 70s, like Taxi Driver and The French Connection. It's visceral, from its gut-wrenching rape scene to the tense feeling you get as you watch Bronson's Paul Kersey slowly resolve to kill criminals, whoever or wherever they may be. Is he losing his mind? Perhaps; great moments show him quaking with adrenaline and fear, and going to great lengths to cruelly blow apart anyone doomed enough to cross him.
The New York detective Ochoa is also a standout character as someone who comes across as almost completely nihilistic - not in the edgy teenager way, but someone who has done his job for so long, and has been mired in the muck for so long, that the only thing that matters is doing the job, and maybe getting his pension. He's very smart in the movie and very determined, but it feels that in the end this is just another case.
Cinematography is good and adequate - I don't notice too many tricks or hooks; then again, Michael Winner's background was documentaries, so he lends a downplayed look to the whole thing. What he does do well is give us hints of what Bronson is thinking. Since Bronson both in real life and the movies never says much, his face usually tells us a lot of what he is feeling at the moment. This is impressive since he usually hides his emotions behind a stony visage. However, I feel that this is natural since most people don't openly display what they are feeling at any given point. The times he breaks and lashes out, though, are very human.
All in all it's an extremely good movie and one that should be watched if you want to see a great character study and are a fan of visceral thrillers.
Death Wish 2 is somewhat of a different beast. I remember drauch speaking very highly of the film, in a sleazy, depressing, almost-grindhouse sort of way. On one hand, I think Michael Winner matured and gained more skill as a cinematographer between Death Wish 1 and 2 (8 years difference). I think the shots and visual composition are generally more varied and interesting, and there are neat little touches throughout the movie that reinforce its main (depressing and hopeless) theme. Apparently the bizarre and disgusting denizens of Los Angeles are all just people off the street Winner filmed passing by (including the cross-dressing operatic) - it certainly paints a disturbing picture of LA's night life. The overall tone of the movie definitely reflects Bronson/Kersey's state of mind: permanently shattered and bitter, and murderously antagonistic towards the city's disgusting criminals.
On the other hand, the movie almost feels like one of those bizarre fantasies you have where everything horrible that can possibly happen happens to you. There some very dreamlike elements - from the abandoned nightmarish locations (e.g. the Hollywood Hotel) to the blunt and unambiguous -perhaps cartoonish- dialog (e.g. "Who was the perpetrator?" "He was a very good citizen!"). The cold and heartless violence, both inflicted to Kersey's loved ones and inflicted by Kersey, makes the sequel unpleasant, but not necessarily in a bad way. This movie too has a brutal rape scene, and the death of Kersey's daughter* (who survived rape in the first film). I feel it a bit much and this is probably the most tasteless aspect of the film. To Death Wish 2's credit it at least takes its subject matter deathly serious, but the ambiguous portrayal of Kersey in the first film is switched out with a more straightforward revenge tale. There is certainly no question here that the men Kersey hunts down are scum that deserve death. This is not only shown by their irredeemable behavior and attitude, but they seem to exist only at night and surrounded by pests, vermin, and squalor. As an added kick, Bronson's unremitting quest for vengeance also destroys his second chance at a new life. Bleak!
All told, Death Wish is the better and the more substantial film. People (rightly?) dislike the sequel for its cruelty and its simplistic plot. I enjoyed watching it, but it's a total step in a different direction from the first film. It's also the last "serious" movie in the series before it devolved into pure (fun!) camp in Death Wish 3.
*nothing spoiled here that wasn't flat out said in the trailer!
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Finished watching Heat (1995).
The "soapie for boys" flavour hasn't quite diminished 'till the end, but what a soapie it was. Very tasty selection of tunes as well; nothing I'd expect to hear in a Hollywood popcorn movie at all (heck, I remember Armenia from that Sougo Ishii film).
The grand revelation I expected to emerge hasn't arrived after all, but it remained a possibility...
If there's one thing I consider unnecessary about it, that would the scene where Al Pacino confronts De Niro on highway. Pure fanservice and all things told had been told more convincingly by pure film ways before (in one's home he is missing, when in the other's home - the home's missing).
Val Kilmer looks pretty handy with firearms, doesn't he? Remember Steve McQueen in "The Getaway"? Something of the type here.
The "soapie for boys" flavour hasn't quite diminished 'till the end, but what a soapie it was. Very tasty selection of tunes as well; nothing I'd expect to hear in a Hollywood popcorn movie at all (heck, I remember Armenia from that Sougo Ishii film).
The grand revelation I expected to emerge hasn't arrived after all, but it remained a possibility...
If there's one thing I consider unnecessary about it, that would the scene where Al Pacino confronts De Niro on highway. Pure fanservice and all things told had been told more convincingly by pure film ways before (in one's home he is missing, when in the other's home - the home's missing).
Val Kilmer looks pretty handy with firearms, doesn't he? Remember Steve McQueen in "The Getaway"? Something of the type here.
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I recall watching Heat on the big screen...that big shootout after the bank robbery was truly epic -- haven't seen another flick with such a high intensity amount of firepower.
In real life, the L.A. Sheriff's department is authorized to use weapons on-board a helicopter which has been going on since the mid-1980s -- so such a firefight would be over really quick if the Sheriff's helicopter was deployed during a massive gun battle like that portrayed in the film (of course, the bad guys were using armor piercing rounds which gave them the upper hand easily over with what the police had been issued).
Nowdays, American law enforcement do have access to high powered weaponry if the need arises -- no matter what the situation is. Interesting to learn that U.S. law enforcement use cheap and crappy ammo for shooting at the range and target practice but save the more expensive and better ammo for when out on patrol/on the beat (where it really counts).
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In real life, the L.A. Sheriff's department is authorized to use weapons on-board a helicopter which has been going on since the mid-1980s -- so such a firefight would be over really quick if the Sheriff's helicopter was deployed during a massive gun battle like that portrayed in the film (of course, the bad guys were using armor piercing rounds which gave them the upper hand easily over with what the police had been issued).
Nowdays, American law enforcement do have access to high powered weaponry if the need arises -- no matter what the situation is. Interesting to learn that U.S. law enforcement use cheap and crappy ammo for shooting at the range and target practice but save the more expensive and better ammo for when out on patrol/on the beat (where it really counts).
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Speaking of soapie... Guns of Navarone. Started out strong(and reminded me a lot of Inglourious Basterds), but boy did they lay on the Hollywood camp ultra thick in the end. Forced love scene, grenades taking out everyone in thirty feet radii(fall over everyone!), etc.
The setup was good, at least.
Now, Gone Baby Gone, that film was great. Especially the ending, loved the moral ambiguity.
The setup was good, at least.
Now, Gone Baby Gone, that film was great. Especially the ending, loved the moral ambiguity.
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The 1983 Breathless remake. Not having watched the original, I thought of Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia first (the way he drives the car around talking to himself made me so).
Nothing pretentious overall. The lack of synth pop tunes makes that decade's America seem like such a pop music wasteland...
Frantic - Emmanuelle Seigner sure can walk on high heels (one of those rare women's virtues that do nothing for me). Contrary to the opening credits, not her first movie, though (I saw her in Godard's Détective before).
So the fim is good (if you liked Chinatown, Repulsion or The Tenant, you shouldn't need much recommendation), but I found it personally touching in a way similar to Brave the movie. I like to think it's not only midlife crisis on my part.
Didn't recognise Dominique Pinon when I saw him! Well played...
Nothing pretentious overall. The lack of synth pop tunes makes that decade's America seem like such a pop music wasteland...
Frantic - Emmanuelle Seigner sure can walk on high heels (one of those rare women's virtues that do nothing for me). Contrary to the opening credits, not her first movie, though (I saw her in Godard's Détective before).
So the fim is good (if you liked Chinatown, Repulsion or The Tenant, you shouldn't need much recommendation), but I found it personally touching in a way similar to Brave the movie. I like to think it's not only midlife crisis on my part.
Didn't recognise Dominique Pinon when I saw him! Well played...
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The Green Inferno is a huge piece of shit.
Godzilla was an inside job
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The Green Inferno
A group of university activists from New York go to Peru to stop a mining operation which would endanger natives. Their return flight crashes in the middle of the jungle, and the aforementioned natives eat most survivors.
Quite successful as a nostalgic reconstruction of the cannibal exploitation subgenre, adapting it well to a contemporary setting (e.g. smartphones) and to contemporary characters while respecting all traditions (for example the final debriefing and the sequel hook).
What's missing is a genuinely morbid attitude, with regard to sex and nudity (natives are implausibly modest and only passionate about their barbecues, and even the female activists are butchered fully dressed) and violence (there are even offscreen deaths!). Roth seems more interested in irony and character development; he is successful at that, but the overall result is unbalanced and terribly restrained.
A group of university activists from New York go to Peru to stop a mining operation which would endanger natives. Their return flight crashes in the middle of the jungle, and the aforementioned natives eat most survivors.
Quite successful as a nostalgic reconstruction of the cannibal exploitation subgenre, adapting it well to a contemporary setting (e.g. smartphones) and to contemporary characters while respecting all traditions (for example the final debriefing and the sequel hook).
What's missing is a genuinely morbid attitude, with regard to sex and nudity (natives are implausibly modest and only passionate about their barbecues, and even the female activists are butchered fully dressed) and violence (there are even offscreen deaths!). Roth seems more interested in irony and character development; he is successful at that, but the overall result is unbalanced and terribly restrained.
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In most of Eli Roth's flims, nudity is going to be a given if it deals with the horror genre as they both go hand-in-hand. But ultimately, it's up to the director himself/herself to call the shots to include it in the film or not.
Say for example, the uncut NC-17 rated version of The Doom Generation has a bit more scenes dealing with the shapely Ms. Blue character (played by actress Rose McGowan) and her former lover and his motley gang at a vacant wherehouse area whereas the theatrical R rated version release of the same name clocks in at a taut & modest shorter 1 hour and 5 minutes tops in duration. You'll find the recurring $6.66 theme going on as well within this film indeed (considering that when this film was released on the big screen back in 1991, the U.S. minimum wage was locked in at $4.25 USD an hour). Nowadays, it's $15.00 USD an hour for minimum wage like in San Francisco.
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Say for example, the uncut NC-17 rated version of The Doom Generation has a bit more scenes dealing with the shapely Ms. Blue character (played by actress Rose McGowan) and her former lover and his motley gang at a vacant wherehouse area whereas the theatrical R rated version release of the same name clocks in at a taut & modest shorter 1 hour and 5 minutes tops in duration. You'll find the recurring $6.66 theme going on as well within this film indeed (considering that when this film was released on the big screen back in 1991, the U.S. minimum wage was locked in at $4.25 USD an hour). Nowadays, it's $15.00 USD an hour for minimum wage like in San Francisco.
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recently i wasted time with these piece of shit movies (uggggh)
Paper Town
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Avengers 2
Fast 7
teen movies in this generation is Pure Shit
i really miss my old Generation life
Breakfast club
sixteen candles
ferris buellers Day off
weird Science
etc
i liked Mean Girl too
Paper Town
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Avengers 2
Fast 7
teen movies in this generation is Pure Shit
i really miss my old Generation life
Breakfast club
sixteen candles
ferris buellers Day off
weird Science
etc
i liked Mean Girl too
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Long flight over the pond:
Jurassic World: Some intense moments, and nothing unpredictable really. Despite the "don't play god" message hitting us again, like they were beating a dead dinosaur, it was entertaining. The romance element was truly horrible.
Entourage: I don't think it deserved to do so poorly at the box office. Nothing amazing - basically a few episodes strung together. Some laughs. Lots of girls of a caliber I will never bang. And some feel good bromantic moments. Not a rewatcher, but it worked on the plane.
Jurassic World: Some intense moments, and nothing unpredictable really. Despite the "don't play god" message hitting us again, like they were beating a dead dinosaur, it was entertaining. The romance element was truly horrible.
Entourage: I don't think it deserved to do so poorly at the box office. Nothing amazing - basically a few episodes strung together. Some laughs. Lots of girls of a caliber I will never bang. And some feel good bromantic moments. Not a rewatcher, but it worked on the plane.
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Mississippi Mermaid by François Truffaut. The suspense is there, but cinematography seems behind its times (what's with the talking heads and so many scenes I can only guess merely illustrate the book?) and it all just seems to be one of those utterly pointless screen adaptations in the vein of Closely Watched Trains.
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Somewhere, Bryce Dallas Howard is facing herself in a mirror and openly questioning: "Why do I suck as an actress?"GaijinPunch wrote:Jurassic World: The romance element was truly horrible.
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I'm sort of interested in this. I always considered Hostel to actually be a rather well-made if incredibly unsettling movie, and the holocaust subtext was handled very well. That guy who played the lead, Jay Hernandez - I've never seen him before or since, but he gave a surprisingly good performance.Ixmucane2 wrote:The Green Inferno
A group of university activists from New York go to Peru to stop a mining operation which would endanger natives. Their return flight crashes in the middle of the jungle, and the aforementioned natives eat most survivors.
Quite successful as a nostalgic reconstruction of the cannibal exploitation subgenre, adapting it well to a contemporary setting (e.g. smartphones) and to contemporary characters while respecting all traditions (for example the final debriefing and the sequel hook).
What's missing is a genuinely morbid attitude, with regard to sex and nudity (natives are implausibly modest and only passionate about their barbecues, and even the female activists are butchered fully dressed) and violence (there are even offscreen deaths!). Roth seems more interested in irony and character development; he is successful at that, but the overall result is unbalanced and terribly restrained.
That said Hostel II was total garbage so I suppose I should approach this one with caution.
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Recently watching Elysium.
The trailer looks promising for a so-so movie. Though Damon's acting was incredible and the story was quite good and satirical for humanity nowadays, the ending feels like Blomkamp didn't have a idea how to end the movie.
The trailer looks promising for a so-so movie. Though Damon's acting was incredible and the story was quite good and satirical for humanity nowadays, the ending feels like Blomkamp didn't have a idea how to end the movie.
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Ha ha, brilliant!copy-paster wrote:Though Damon's acting was incredible
Genuinely one of the funniest things I've ever read on the internets!
You're right about the movie though, it sucked hard.
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I don't understand people who don't like Elysium.
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Liked the interesting new material. Having an upside down world is just nuts. But there is a lot of drawn out "not needed to be in the movie" scenes where something more interesting could have been put in its place.
3/5.
Liked the interesting new material. Having an upside down world is just nuts. But there is a lot of drawn out "not needed to be in the movie" scenes where something more interesting could have been put in its place.
3/5.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
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i'll tell u why8BA wrote:I don't understand people who don't like Elysium.
most of them expected a better movie then District 9 ..so if its not better
then it sucks hard and shit like that
just ignore them
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In 20 years it'll have a gazillion fans & they'll be like, "It's a masterpiece of science fiction", but right now it's new & therefore must suck the bollies.
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Sicario
A clearly exemplary story of relatively good guys (the main point of the film) against a very evil Mexican drug cartel: a FBI agent who should get a life (Emily Blunt) is attached to a task force consisting of a reckless "government consultant" (Josh Brolin), a weary man of action (Benicio Del Toro) and a team of Delta Force commandos who compared to them are nice and reassuring. Their operations are rather successful, but at what price?
The script and direction balance, or at least mix, realism (more regarding drug cartels than USA government agencies) with spectacular coolness (action scenes first and characters secondarily), and drama with ultraviolence; on the whole, a surprisingly coherent treatment of concrete problems (what to do about drugs and criminals and immigrants?) and moral issues (what violence is justified? Which laws can be broken for a greater good?).
Excellent photography, except for a night scene where two jarringly different effects are used to portray night vision devices which should be all identical, and very tight editing (probably with many scenes and dialogues on the cutting room floor).
A clearly exemplary story of relatively good guys (the main point of the film) against a very evil Mexican drug cartel: a FBI agent who should get a life (Emily Blunt) is attached to a task force consisting of a reckless "government consultant" (Josh Brolin), a weary man of action (Benicio Del Toro) and a team of Delta Force commandos who compared to them are nice and reassuring. Their operations are rather successful, but at what price?
The script and direction balance, or at least mix, realism (more regarding drug cartels than USA government agencies) with spectacular coolness (action scenes first and characters secondarily), and drama with ultraviolence; on the whole, a surprisingly coherent treatment of concrete problems (what to do about drugs and criminals and immigrants?) and moral issues (what violence is justified? Which laws can be broken for a greater good?).
Excellent photography, except for a night scene where two jarringly different effects are used to portray night vision devices which should be all identical, and very tight editing (probably with many scenes and dialogues on the cutting room floor).