I watched it 3 times btw and need some small revisit.
Honestly the only thing I like this version is the Tripod design, way alien-like and cute-looking. Also I like the way they look like have a cat ears if you look at them on the front, heh :3
Other than that it's completely shitty, there's SO many flaws and goofs that I don't even want to write here (the whole basement and ending scene is like the lamest thing Spielberg ever produced).
I want watch the 1953 version, already watch some previews and scenes though it looks amazing for 50's standard.
Its a good enough story and was well cast so I enjoyed this, as well as all the other movies in the series (thought the first one was great!). There was no need for the last part to be two movies though. It was mostly poorly-paced filler. I guess they followed the book too closely; the lengthy scenes they spend brooding in a dark hiding place between set-pieces may be great on the page but they make for a bland, overlong movie.
The (largely pointless) journey into the capital was set up by the gamemakers to be almost like a 3rd Hunger Games. There's no reason why a writer couldn't have whipped up a screenplay that capitalised on this and produced a movie more in the spirit of the first two.
Predictable but satisfying twist at the end wraps things up. I liked it.
its 2 hours and 12 mints movie
first 1 and half hour is the most boaring ever
but last 40 mintues was one of the creepiest
and goriest shit happns there
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
A "perfect" day in the life of a group of NGO workers in Yugoslavia in 1995, when the war is winding up. There are a team leader (Benicio Del Toro; his usual wasted appearance doesn't help him look credible as a nice guy), his former lover suddenly appearing for an inspection (Olga Kurylenko, looking appropriately out of place), a lonely "veteran" (Tim Robbins, the best of the cast), a newcomer who hasn't got used to dead people (Melanie Laurent), and a sad interpreter (Fedja Stukan).
Their mission: removing a corpse from a well before it's contaminated too badly. They mostly run around between villages, outposts and roadblocks in their offroad cars looking for a rope, a quest that progresses well from silly to irritating to sad to quite bitter, and offers a good excuse to reflect about the impact of war.
Electric Bugaloo..... ducumentary on Cannon Films. Very much worth the (fun) watch.
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
The only thing worthwhile here is the visual stunts. If there's one thing you could have improved on with modern technology and cinematography, it's the sporting aspect of Point Break. Not that the original wasn't well photographed, it's just the expansion here into a broad field of extreme sports is the only thing that makes the movie worthwhile.
In-fact, the extreme sports are the only things that keep the pace going. Every interim is filled with vapid philosophical twaddle about loving the planet, and the dialogue and delivery isn't exactly Shakespeare.
The new faces as Utah and Bodhi aren't dislikable, although the former's acting abilities are basically only a few storeys above ground zero. The plot follows the original's in a very basic format: Cop infiltrates extreme sports/criminals band, gets laid. The rest is kind of a 'version' of the events that occurred in Bigelow's film, and Ray Winstone is absolutely fucking useless and uncharismatic as you can ever be as a stand-in for Gary Busey. Just lifeless - although it's really more the fault of the director and the scriptwriter.
Would I recommend this? If you have nothing else to do and fancy a no-brainer, you could do worse. It's less boring than Spectre and the visual stunts are enough to keep you interested to see what ludicrous nonsensical certain-death risks they're going to take next. As long as you don't judge it against Bigelow's original, which is a far superior movie in every respect, it's okay to see in the theatre just the once. I imagine on a small screen it would be almost entirely worthless.
I won't be seeing this in the theater but reading about it may make me revisit/borrow the original off the net out of bordom.
Damn Tim, you know there are quite a few Americans out there who still lives in tents due to this shitty economy, and you're dropping loads on a single game which only last 20 min. Do you think it's fair? How much did you spend this time?
Strider77 wrote:Electric Bugaloo..... ducumentary on Cannon Films. Very much worth the (fun) watch.
Hell yeah motherfucker. Maximum enjoyments.
"Now, when the monkey look at you, you can tell he LOVE you, and he saying 'HELP ME, HELP ME' -"
"Is... is this fuckin monkey gonna talk?!"
"We ask them later! Now-" Spoiler
AIEEE
also, pls enjoy mah gifs, some NWS because Mathilda be naked aww sheeit but mostly Norris and co whoopin TERRORIST SCUM ;3 ;3 ;3 http://imgur.com/a/CtEn2
The plot yet simple enough, a liquid seller found an abandoned alcohol drink and sell it for some bums, but someone who already drink it will have a 'melt' effect.
The movie is amazing yet nasty and disturbing, I just don't know whether I should laughing or disgusted with every death scene. The movie also exploits the bums usual activities, like a gang rape or necrophilia sex, and the scene where the bums play a severed penis is hilarious.
Take Aim At The Police Van
A short movie, but one that packs a punch. It starts off with a raid on a police van and goes from there. A prison guard on the transport is given a 6 month suspension and he decides to take matters into his own hand to find out who was the target and who did the shooting. He finds an agency that leads to illegal prostitution and then leads to a mysterious man is behind all that is happening. That twist at the end is quite well done. Just under an hour and 20 minutes. Seijun Suzuki does a good job directing and makes me wonder by the time he was blacklisted who was editing his movies.
Rewatched Toy Story for the first time in a while a couple of nights ago when it was on TV. It may not be my favorite Pixar movie, but I'm surprised just how well it has held up technically for being 20 years old now. There are occasional immersion breaks like overly pixelated textures every so often, but I've seen much newer movies look a lot worse.
They're making a sequel to Independence Day?!! HERES- wait no, that's fine.
Will they have the balls to just remake the good half of that movie, or are we going to get another dose of knocking an alien in power armor unconscious with a right hook?
"Oh no you did NOT shoot that green shit at me!"
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!"
^Maybe not because Will Smith's character is dead in this one. They built up some interesting alternate history for this movie since the war of 1996, including a nation of alien survivors in the congo or something. Might actually be good.
I am only old enough to remember seeing the original trilogy in 1997 at the movies. A nice treat to see the original movie in the way it is supposed to be. Dvd5 was the version I viewed it in and enjoyed it. Some of the wonky cgi is gone again and that made me quite happy. Now I just need the other 2 movies.
Did you see the trailer? Deciding what looks worse: This or Batman & SuperMan DP Wonder Woman.
That Batman vs Superman thing looks ungodly shit. Zack Snyder + Ben Affleck looking like a barrel of shit in a superhero outfit (again) + disgusting overuse of CGI in place of any actual plot or cinematography. I'm not even sure a super DP of Wonder Woman could save it.
Maybe Pixar wanted to get rid of a troubled production; there's no other good reason to release prematurely a film that with a few more iterations of rewriting would have been a masterpiece, reducing it to a traditional coming of age story with many half-baked scenes.
The best things are the astounding hyperrealistic style, which unfortunately doesn't include the cute and "cartoony" characters, and the general premise of evolved dinosaurs, which includes disturbing characters and behaviours. Most humorous moments and characters are out of place and there are serious plot holes.
lilmanjs wrote:Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars V2.5
I am only old enough to remember seeing the original trilogy in 1997 at the movies. A nice treat to see the original movie in the way it is supposed to be. Dvd5 was the version I viewed it in and enjoyed it. Some of the wonky cgi is gone again and that made me quite happy. Now I just need the other 2 movies.
How is the quality? I always wondered how they got rid of the CGI and kept it at 1080p.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
lilmanjs wrote:Harmy's Despecialized Star Wars V2.5
I am only old enough to remember seeing the original trilogy in 1997 at the movies. A nice treat to see the original movie in the way it is supposed to be. Dvd5 was the version I viewed it in and enjoyed it. Some of the wonky cgi is gone again and that made me quite happy. Now I just need the other 2 movies.
How is the quality? I always wondered how they got rid of the CGI and kept it at 1080p.
The quality was quite great. The version I saw is not done by Harmy for the encoding to fit on a 4gb dvd, but looked quite good. Probably a re-encode from whatever master file Harmy made. Will for sure grab all of them. There are of course a couple spots that you could tell had some faded color, but that's probably from the prints and other materials used for this. Sound quality was pretty good as well. I would have to recommend grabbing them.
I finally got around to watching the third & fourth Transformers movies the other day and couldn't help but notice how many people die in them. That's surprising for a franchise based on a kids toy line. It makes all the comic relief segments so much darker, not to mention ole' Oblivious Optimus' hilarious, smug dialogue.
Counting implied deaths Bodycounters. com lists Transformers at 2,019 deaths, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at 7,049 deaths, & Transformers: Dark of the Moon as featuring 129,017 deaths.
I don't know about Age of Extinction but judging from the carnage in Hong Kong at the finale I'd say it's pretty far up the ladder. Sweet!
Did you see the trailer? Deciding what looks worse: This or Batman & SuperMan DP Wonder Woman.
That Batman vs Superman thing looks ungodly shit. Zack Snyder + Ben Affleck looking like a barrel of shit in a superhero outfit (again) + disgusting overuse of CGI in place of any actual plot or cinematography. I'm not even sure a super DP of Wonder Woman could save it.
I can't say that I disagree with you, here. Even though I didn't think that "Man of Steel" was as awful as you portrayed it, this atrocity just makes me raise an eyebrow and ask, "Why?"
8BA wrote:I finally got around to watching the third & fourth Transformers movies the other day and couldn't help but notice how many people die in them. That's surprising for a franchise based on a kids toy line. It makes all the comic relief segments so much darker, not to mention ole' Oblivious Optimus' hilarious, smug dialogue.
Counting implied deaths Bodycounters. com lists Transformers at 2,019 deaths, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen at 7,049 deaths, & Transformers: Dark of the Moon as featuring 129,017 deaths.
I don't know about Age of Extinction but judging from the carnage in Hong Kong at the finale I'd say it's pretty far up the ladder. Sweet!
The Bayformers series is just well-improved and filled with action , the third and fourth movies is a example of "Just shut your brain off and go watch the movie!" type.
but mostly Norris and co whoopin TERRORIST SCUM ;3 ;3 ;3 
