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brian
United States9619 Posts
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
It was interesting. I couldn't really relate that much though. Many people would find Juno hipsterish and boring. | ||
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bardtown
England2313 Posts
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Carson
Canada820 Posts
4.5/10 Honestly, my favorite part was seeing the brief appearances of Christopher Judge (Teal'c from Stargate SG-1), and Ra's Al Ghul. Otherwise the movie was really predictable, and relied too heavily on "The Bat" to save them from EVERY situation. + Show Spoiler + And I thought the reveal of Talia should have happened about half-way through the movie if that's what they wanted to do. Bane was played up too much, and then they give him this weird sympathy card near the end -Right before he gets BLOWN AWAY- So stupid. And Talia Al Ghul is supposed to be the heir of the league of Shadows (at least according to Batman Arkham city haha) and she dies in 5 seconds. This movie separate from the other 2 in the series would be a sold 6/10, but the Dark Knight was quite a bit better, and skewed my review of this one. | ||
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7mk
Germany10157 Posts
On November 27 2012 01:25 OrchidThief wrote: Can people please stop just linking a picture and doing their text without mentioning what movie they're talking about. Half the picture links are broken. Moon annoyed me, because essentially there's not really much motivation behind + Show Spoiler + the whole clone deal. The same type of people that spends their time on oilrigs or whatever could be sent to the moon instead. And saving energy on the flight seems like a moot point since they've essentially solved any semblance of an energy crisis in that time by mass implementing fusion power. + Show Spoiler + what... because people who spend time on oilrigs are also astronauts? lol? And come on, clearly flying to the moon is hugely expensive no matter what Under the assumption that they found a way to clone that isnt insanely expensive, getting a clone to do all the work for you for free for many generations sounds like a dream come true for any greedy company I really liked the movie, but I get if people didnt find it too interesting/a bit boring, cause it doesnt have the fastest pace and all, its very possible that there are some logical flaws that I'm not aware of, i usually dont care much about that anyways, at least in science fiction, but your argument is pretty weak | ||
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EscPlan9
United States2777 Posts
On November 28 2012 07:17 Maxd11 wrote: Saw this yesterday too and I liked it. Especially the first 30 seconds or so. I saw it a couple weeks ago during thanksgiving weekend with my mom. It wasn't particularly fun or exciting, but it was interesting and the character development and acting were well done. The movie really had little to do with the flight itself, and arguably was more about Denzel's characters personal battles with his addictions than even the legal drama of what really happened during the flight. The whole flight and legal drama were just devices to keep you engaged while it centered the movie around the internal struggles within the main character IMO | ||
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obesechicken13
United States10467 Posts
Overall it was a good movie. It seems they hired a better choreographer than anything else. ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/dcEHW.jpg) The girl in white is remembering that she forgot to lock her car door. | ||
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EpiK
Korea (South)5757 Posts
![[image loading]](http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BODk3MDg2NDk5M15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMjcxMjMzOA@@._V1._SY317_CR1,0,214,317_.jpg) Killing them softly. 6/10 I came in with high expectations because I really liked Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. But everything aside from brad pitt's character kind of fell flat. | ||
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GolemMadness
Canada11044 Posts
![[image loading]](http://i46.tinypic.com/a0jqde.png) | ||
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Griffins
United States98 Posts
People can hate how hipster Wes Anderson can be, but I honestly found it to be such a well-constructed film. The pacing is amazing, seeing how compact the scenes were. The cuts are so fast the film just flies by. It manages to do back story in maybe under three minutes, and never looks back. I can't stress how impressive that is to me, and how over-indulgent people tend to be with characterization and flashbacks and what have you. Truth be told, the movie is done by someone who knows what story he wants to tell, and how to tell it. The final product may or may not be too hipster, but I think it's a good movie to watch with a girlfriend nonetheless. Then I saw Brave. So frustrated with this movie, lol. The entire story arc involving "the bear" doesn't work thematically (bravery is apparently not a theme in this movie... so I guess it's ultimately about pride?) Either way it doesn't resolve the problems posed in the first act in a direct manner. That entire part of the story is kind of a wash. The rest of the story fumbles around with a shotgun of plot devices and doesn't manage to hit anything, which is so disappointing because the main character has the marksmanship of Hawkeye. Then we simply return to the status quo for some happiness that the movie and the characters don't fully deserve. It's not that I hate princess movies or can't stand cartoons, because I thought "Tangled" was pretty great. I am okay with the feminist undertones too. It's just that the execution of the ideas really sucked. Anyway, it's too hard to explain the issues with this movie without going into spoilers. I advise watching this once with your little sister and never speak of it again. | ||
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obliged
Norway56 Posts
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CyDe
United States1010 Posts
On November 27 2012 08:49 Mirham wrote: Just saw Tucker and Dale vs Evil. A surprisingly funny comedy, actually had me laughing alot. Rare in most movies these days  Heh, yeah, this was a pretty good one. I liked a lot of the satyrical horror in it, and if you enjoy black comedy, this is definitely a movie for you. I feel like it went a bit off the rails near the end, and started to get rather poorly written at some points, but as and for a comedy, it was above average. + Show Spoiler + I do wish the bad guy, the kid, died in a more horrible manner. I mean, he was the only truly crazy one, all the other kids were just fucking dumb, but I wanted to see this guy like... get strangled by his own leg, or something. So I've been watching a shitload of movies lately, and have found quite a few gems; I'll split it up over multiple posts, with one movie per post (since I like doing a bit more than just a rating). First off, I'll go ahead with "Love and Death:" ![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/73/Love_and_death.jpg/220px-Love_and_death.jpg) So this is a Woody Allen movie, from 1975, so before he went a little over the edge. Now, I very much like Woody Allen's early films, and it's been a while since I've seen this one... I can safely say that this is certainly the peak of his work. Very funny, very silly, lots of satire, lots of references, and a lot of philosophy. The great thing about all of this is that it is not too much in one direction; in some of his movies, for instance "Sleeper," it is just so zany and crazy that it is difficult to take it as anything more than a comedy. (For reference, I am of the opinion that while comedies are 'fun' movies, they tend to be pretty awful 'movie' movies.) Another example is "Take the Money and Run," which I happen to adore, but often times the humour in it is like... too weird. Too out of the ordinary. Allen tends to fill a similar character in many of his movies, at least the comedies. The kind of wimpy, complaining, 'New-York-Jew' persona. Nervous, neurotic, stuttering, etc. He pulls it off, for sure, but at times, I'm sure that some may find it annoying (personally I don't). However, in this movie he doesn't over do it. It's still there, for sure, but not so much as to be the sole source of the humour. Diane Keaton, a favorite of Allen, also plays a role in this movie, Sonja, the lover of Allen's character, Boris. She does it quite well, and overall the acting throughout the movie, at least, certainly not distracting (many times I find myself irritated by comedies where acting is overdone or just unnatural). In addition, Allen seemed to have hired many foreign actors, and I very much enjoyed seeing all these burly, stereotypical Russian men contrast with Allen's aforementioned style. Now, if you've ever read any of Woody Allen's books, like Without Feathers, or Getting Even, you'll notice that his writing style is one of ridiculous or absurdist humor. Which, in my opinion, works wonderfully in print (and I'll admit that I've burst out laughing multiple times while reading his books), but is a bit... dangerous, I think is the right word, to do in movies. It's just harder to do. Especially when you are attempting a somewhat coherent plot (however, Monty Python's Flying Circus does a wonderful job at this.) Another thing that you'll notice about Woody Allen, or at least something that I have noticed, is that he is a definite philosopher. He talks about god and death and many other idealogical topics in many of his movies and his books. Sometimes it's funny, as in many of his short stories and plays, and other times... it's really not. At all. Like in "Crimes and Misdeamenors." And that's what is so great about "Love and Death." Its humour is often absurdist, but not overly so or out of place. I, for one, also saw a lot of humour that reminded me either of Benny Hill or of Groucho Marx. Yet, there was still very much original humour as well. Then there is the philosophy of it: the movie is ridden with philosophy. However, it manages to pull it off for this main reason: it's ironic. It makes fun of itself. It doesn't try to subtly slip profound statements into everday mundane dialogue. There are clear "monologues" and soliliquays. Take this quote for instance: Boris: Murder's immoral. Sonja: Immorality is subjective. Boris: Yes, but subjectivity is objective. Sonja: Not in a rational scheme of perception. Boris: Perception is irrational. It implies immanence. Sonja: But judgment of any system or a priori relation of phenomena exists in any rational or metaphysical or at least epistemological contradiction to an abstracted empirical concept such as being, or to be, or to occur in the thing itself or of the thing itself. Boris: Yes, I've said that many times. It actually does mean something, but in an overtly, over-the-top, obfuscated way. I love it. Lastly, there are the references. Anyone who is a Ingmar Bergman buff will see several shots throughout the movie that either refer to, or make fun of, Bergman movies (such as the perpendicular face merging shot of "Persona," I believe the film was.) And at the end of the movie, + Show Spoiler + Boris is dancing down the street with Death, an obvious reference to Bergman's "Seventh Seal." TL;DR All in all, one of my favorite comedies, and definitely the best Woody Allen movie. If you've never seen any, and don't want to stray too far into the ridiculous or out of the ordinary, I very much recommend this. It's highly original, relatively artistic, and had me laughing out loud with everything from referential to philosophical to visual to absurdist to sexual to intellectual humor. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17257 Posts
![[image loading]](http://collider.com/wp-content/uploads/premium-rush-poster.jpg) Premium Rush Silly flick. But it was fun to watch so I won't say a bad word about it. | ||
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Emzeeshady
Canada4203 Posts
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Hamsterdam
New Zealand59 Posts
![[image loading]](http://wae.blogs.starnewsonline.com/files/2012/07/safety-not-guaranteed-trailer.jpg) Safety Not Guaranteed A fun flick with a pretty cool premise, and some oddly relatable characters. 7/10 | ||
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Glioburd
France1911 Posts
![[image loading]](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/63/In_Bruges_Poster.jpg) In Bruges. I didn't what to expect from this movie, and then good surprise. Pretty funny, interesting atmosphere and the actors perform well . | ||
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Godwrath
Spain10126 Posts
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aike
United States1629 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17257 Posts
On December 05 2012 19:51 Godwrath wrote: Just watched resident evil 4. I was laughing like a maniac through the movie so i wouldn't cry. Worst movie i have ever seen. You should probably skip 5 then. This series keeps going downhill at ever-increasing rate. | ||
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Scarecrow
Korea (South)9172 Posts
On December 05 2012 22:05 Manit0u wrote: You should probably skip 5 then. This series keeps going downhill at ever-increasing rate. Yep, 5 somehow made 4 seem not so bad. It seems to be a habit with this franchise | ||
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