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On November 27 2012 06:04 Recognizable wrote:
Just watched The dark knight Rises
7.5/10
Did anyone else get really pissed that no one knew to crawl on their hands and feet to lower the pressure on the ice? That's like fucking high school physics yo what the hell.
I was really annoyed that they apparently spent half the budget on the fucking Bat and thus felt the need to feature it in every other scene.
Batman trapped in between a couple of tall buildings in a dark alley while being chased by the police?
However will he get out there?
Batman saving Catwoman from Bane and his comrades?
However will they get out of there?
Chasing a truck?
However will he do that?
Bomb about to explode in Gotham?
However will it get out of there?
Tunnel blocked?
However will they get the policemen out of there?
Come on...
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Yeah there was a lot of annoying stuff. In general just lots of nonsensical stuff. It was years ago so maybe I looked at movies differently but I liked The Dark Knight much more. Is there some Batman and Robin movie confirmed? Also, do the Batman movies like follow the comics or something else?
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Finally got around to seeing 1984 after several people called me crazy for not having seen it yet. Got con'd for not wanting to read the book but AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR DAT. I can easily say it's now on my favorites list. It made me shed man tears.
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On November 27 2012 06:59 Maesy wrote:
Finally got around to seeing 1984 after several people called me crazy for not having seen it yet. Got con'd for not wanting to read the book but AIN'T NOBODY GOT TIME FOR DAT. I can easily say it's now on my favorites list. It made me shed man tears.
Heard the book is much better than the movie... haven't seen the movie though.
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The book is a must read in my humble opinion, but I actually didn't know, that there is a movie. Putting it on my "to watch" list.
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Watched Flight. I thought it was a great flick.
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Yeah there was a lot more stuff I got annoyed at in TDKR than that. For me the most laughable thing was the escaping the pit prison story, which is one of the stupidest things I can think of seeing in movies. I mean really, you can see that the rope is obviously too short the very first time he does it, but apparently it's some mystery that requires spiritual growth and soul searching to discover. They make it into a facile symbolism that is the sort of thing a 2nd grader would write (you have to let go of fear, the rope symbolizes fear! that's some real next level genius writing shit there). This is leaving aside that that whole concept for the prison is fucking stupid.
Also Batman has a motivational crisis through the movie which this prison journey is supposed to be a turning point in, he cares so much about Gotham but doesn't think he can do good for it and also live his own life. So what's the big personal breakthrough he makes? Something that changes his outlook on life or his calling or how to reconcile things? No not really, it's just he really, really, really loves Gotham even more than he thought and now he's really freaking motivated so none of that shit actually matters, and because OMG there's a bomb (which also...what a really great, creative climactic conflict that was pulled out for this groundbreaking epic, really, I'm applauding. So many challenges it presents us viewers to follow up what was in The Dark Knight.).
That's my biggest example (of many) of the putridity of that movie.
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Just saw Tucker and Dale vs Evil. A surprisingly funny comedy, actually had me laughing alot. Rare in most movies these days 
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Run Lola Run
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The influential stylization is probably the most remarkable aspect of this, hand in hand with the whole "action with a hint of philosophy/reality bending thrown in" trend. Beyond the trendsetting it's pretty much an ok-good movie I guess.
Vampyr
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OK this is one of the greatest movies I've ever seen I think, the visual style is radical and also mindblowingly perfect for the story. I cannot believe this was made 80 years ago. The beginning is wild--and also incomprehensible the first time through, but I watched it again right after and it seemed perfect (and I ended up watching the whole thing again). It nails one of the prime supernatural themes/story frames (the dream? imagination? real? mix) so well and so subtly, I didn't even know it could be done that well. I'm in awe.
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Die Hard Director's Cut
10/10, absolute gem and my favourite action flick.
Hans Gruber is the coolest bad guy you could ask for, John McClane seems like an authentic, if rather capable, cop and human being and the plot isn't as ridiculous as you'd expect from a film like that.
The action always finds a perfect balance between authenticity and bad-assery, the humour is well placed and you just have to love the choice of the competent, likeable black cop and the choice to confine the action to a single building are brilliant.
Do I even have to mention the best performance by Bruce Willis ever?
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Die Hard is one of the best action movie I've seen. Breing back the 80s/90s, so many good blockbusters...
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On November 28 2012 04:04 kafkaesque wrote:
Die Hard Director's Cut
10/10, absolute gem and my favourite action flick.
Hans Gruber is the coolest bad guy you could ask for, John McClane seems like an authentic, if rather capable, cop and human being and the plot isn't as ridiculous as you'd expect from a film like that.
The action always finds a perfect balance between authenticity and bad-assery, the humour is well placed and you just have to love the choice of the competent, likeable black cop and the choice to confine the action to a single building are brilliant.
Do I even have to mention the best performance by Bruce Willis ever?
I make sure to watch this every Christmas. Nothing gets me in the holiday spirit better.
Don't know if I've seen the director's cut though. I take it it's worth my time?
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My favorite Christmas movie is it's a wonderful life. Works on me every time 
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Life of Pi was pretty good for the most part. They could've spent a little longer on how each religion affected his decisions, but aside from that it was quite well done.
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On November 27 2012 08:24 TheResidentEvil wrote:
Watched Flight. I thought it was a great flick.
Saw this yesterday too and I liked it. Especially the first 30 seconds or so.
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On November 28 2012 06:49 TrickyGilligan wrote:Show nested quote +On November 28 2012 04:04 kafkaesque wrote:
Die Hard Director's Cut
10/10, absolute gem and my favourite action flick.
Hans Gruber is the coolest bad guy you could ask for, John McClane seems like an authentic, if rather capable, cop and human being and the plot isn't as ridiculous as you'd expect from a film like that.
The action always finds a perfect balance between authenticity and bad-assery, the humour is well placed and you just have to love the choice of the competent, likeable black cop and the choice to confine the action to a single building are brilliant.
Do I even have to mention the best performance by Bruce Willis ever? I make sure to watch this every Christmas. Nothing gets me in the holiday spirit better. Don't know if I've seen the director's cut though. I take it it's worth my time?
Sure. I watch it around Christmas every year as well, but my favourite film from a purely Christmas perspective has to be Home Alone.
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My gf forced me to watch Twilight. I literally puked.
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You should probably go find a doctor for that.
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Resident Evil: Retribution
After like 10 minutes into the movie I started watching it on fast-forward and even that was unbearable so I just skipped to the last 2 minutes and my heart sunk.
Since I lack the words to fully describe this atrocity, I shall quote here a review in one of the magazines I read:
Resident Evil: Degeneration
"When someone asked on the set: Where's the script?, everyone started looking at him like at an idiot."
Usually you start the review with quick overview of the plot, here it is: lots of explosions (backwards, in slow motion), Alice dies and it was all a dream, she's in Umbrella base, she escapes, zombies in Tokio, she defeats more levels and bosses; more explosions, bang-bangs and strangest creatures and Alice is running and kicking all the time. You have to put it blantly; this movie script is a destilate. Any logic, continuity, originality, character building (widely advertised Barry Burton plays a minimal role) and taste have been taken away. What's left is a sediment of plot nonsense and large doses of ingredient which you could call Alice ex machina.
Even judging Retribution by Resident scale, so with a grain of salt when it comes to some shortcomings, you have to be merciless. With each part of the series Anderson has fewer ideas so the action becomes more linear and full of absurdity, evidently he is also less and less interested in making even the least proper of movies. If you would take away funds which went into special effects you would get a class Z shoot-em-up with disastrous acting (they probably didn't even take second shots) and script worth of every single anti-award.
The main problem isn't the fact that Retribution isn't a good movie (previous parts in the series didn't aspire to be good but at least they fitted nicely into the convention of non-requiring action cinema), but the fact that it is pitifully bad. Anderson evidently does what he pleases, without control but de facto he doesn't have any inclination to do so and he shoots movies without giving them more than 1% of his attention. Final effect comes in the form of plot mess and a story which gives you the impression it was written in a single evening, without alterations or corrections, but with a lot of resorting to resurrections, clones and impossible escapades whenever script writer has driven himself into a tight corner.
Resident Evil series start to parody itself, it can't be created seriously so it drifts towards overdrawing and ridicule, which can be clearly seen in the attack of zombie-communists with chainsaws and ushankas. In theory it can't be worse, but remain calm - there are more parts of this series before us.
Written by Marcin Zwierzchowski for "Nowa Fantastyka" 11/2012(362)
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Just saw Man on Fire. Really really good. If you enjoyed Taken, you'll most likely enjoy this as well.
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