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On December 26 2012 14:27 obesechicken13 wrote:
Saw Princess Mononoke
Overall the animations were great as is to be expected from Japanese movies. The story was overused though. Humans are destroying the environment. OH NO. Pokemon Voice of the Forest and Ferngully were very similar. I think the movie's overhyped.
I like Princess Mononoke though cause it's more nuanced in the telling, the industrial human settlement isn't evil or villains really, they are respectable and just trying to get along but end up in conflict, and that makes everything better and fresher and less emotionally exploitative and more poignant to me. Also the nature characters are really cool.
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On December 26 2012 14:35 itkovian wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 13:43 StarStruck wrote:On December 26 2012 10:11 itkovian wrote:Les Miserables The acting was great. The cinematography was good. The story was cool. I didn't realize there'd be as much singing as there was; probably about 95% of all dialogue was through song. Personally, I would have left a few more choice parts as spoken words, but it didn't matter that much. The singing was generally solid. The weakest being Russell Crowe, and even he did alright. Anne Hathaway probably had the most solid performance. Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Carter did a good job providing a lighter tone to the film. The movie dragged on a little long for my tastes. And I felt the climax was a little lacking. The action was weak and distracted me a bit from the movie, but its not what the movie was about, and so bears little significance other than making me cringe. There were also a couple cheesy moments, I thought could have been toned down. Overall, 8 /10 Oh, also, the over abundance of religious imagery grated on me a bit. Just too much. But maybe that's what its supposed to be like... I don't really know, it just got tiresome You didn't realize it was a musical? It's one of the greatest melodrama musicals of all time and that's what it's been about for the last twenty-five plus years when it comes to the stage, film and television. I guess your more familiar with the novel, but if you've seen the trailer you would know this one was going full-blown musical.  Don't worry, I realized it was musical, haha. I just didn't realize it was essentially alllll going to be singing. I don't watch musicals very often, so my recollection of their patterns is poor. But I figured most were about 50/50 in their dialogue delivery. I anticipated half singing, half spoken as normal dialogue. But it turned out to be like 95 / 5.
Les Mis has substantially more singing than your standard musical, the stage show is more or less entirely sung. Spewking of singing, I officially hate whoever decided to cast that movie with hollywood actors/actresses instead of people that can sing. The movie accomplished everything it wanted to dramatically, but musically was an abomination. NONE of the characters are realized musically, absolutely unacceptable for a musical, and for one as renowned as Les Mis? People should be shot for pulling that crap.
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On December 26 2012 15:04 Tibbroar wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 14:35 itkovian wrote:On December 26 2012 13:43 StarStruck wrote:On December 26 2012 10:11 itkovian wrote:Les Miserables The acting was great. The cinematography was good. The story was cool. I didn't realize there'd be as much singing as there was; probably about 95% of all dialogue was through song. Personally, I would have left a few more choice parts as spoken words, but it didn't matter that much. The singing was generally solid. The weakest being Russell Crowe, and even he did alright. Anne Hathaway probably had the most solid performance. Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Carter did a good job providing a lighter tone to the film. The movie dragged on a little long for my tastes. And I felt the climax was a little lacking. The action was weak and distracted me a bit from the movie, but its not what the movie was about, and so bears little significance other than making me cringe. There were also a couple cheesy moments, I thought could have been toned down. Overall, 8 /10 Oh, also, the over abundance of religious imagery grated on me a bit. Just too much. But maybe that's what its supposed to be like... I don't really know, it just got tiresome You didn't realize it was a musical? It's one of the greatest melodrama musicals of all time and that's what it's been about for the last twenty-five plus years when it comes to the stage, film and television. I guess your more familiar with the novel, but if you've seen the trailer you would know this one was going full-blown musical. Don't worry, I realized it was musical, haha. I just didn't realize it was essentially alllll going to be singing. I don't watch musicals very often, so my recollection of their patterns is poor. But I figured most were about 50/50 in their dialogue delivery. I anticipated half singing, half spoken as normal dialogue. But it turned out to be like 95 / 5. Les Mis has substantially more singing than your standard musical, the stage show is more or less entirely sung. Spewking of singing, I officially hate whoever decided to cast that movie with hollywood actors/actresses instead of people that can sing. The movie accomplished everything it wanted to dramatically, but musically was an abomination. NONE of the characters are realized musically, absolutely unacceptable for a musical, and for one as renowned as Les Mis? People should be shot for pulling that crap.
Hey, at least it wasn't as questionable as Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia. + Show Spoiler +Ya, I've watched it. It's like my mom's favorite movie, and she's seen it literally 20 times, so I felt obligated to watch it once. Actually not that bad for a feel good movie
The singing in Les Mis wasn't too bad. Obviously not all top tier stuff. Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe were a little weak, but not terrible. Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried did good. And some of the younger male actors have some experience singing in theatre I think.
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On December 26 2012 14:52 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Life of Pi - ZERO / 10
That bad of a movie huh? Mind sharing why?
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On December 26 2012 14:58 ZapRoffo wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 14:27 obesechicken13 wrote:
Saw Princess Mononoke
Overall the animations were great as is to be expected from Japanese movies. The story was overused though. Humans are destroying the environment. OH NO. Pokemon Voice of the Forest and Ferngully were very similar. I think the movie's overhyped. I like Princess Mononoke though cause it's more nuanced in the telling, the industrial human settlement isn't evil or villains really, they are respectable and just trying to get along but end up in conflict, and that makes everything better and fresher and less emotionally exploitative and more poignant to me. Also the nature characters are really cool.
Yeah, Lady Ebosha seemed less evil than I'd expected.
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On December 26 2012 15:33 LaiShin wrote:That bad of a movie huh? Mind sharing why?
The movie (can't speak for the book) was a ripoff of several biblical tales, the movie Castaway, and had an ending that's exactly like a movie I saw as a child that was a survival movie (basically he told the truth but no one believed him, so then he told a second account that was so awful, they chose the first story as the lesser of two ghastly tales, intended for humor and meaning). The 3D was atrocious (I hate 3D, so I don't even dock points for it, just saying on a personal note). The entire movie was like a bad Peter Jackson filler. Billions of pan-outs to focus on nature scenes every 2 minutes. It was supposed to be a representation of the beauty of nature and the unspoken influence of God on surroundings, also a form of hope (beauty even in the face of hopelessness), but the scenes were too often and too close. It basically compensated for a weak and brief story with a bunch of pretty pictures. This movie also tried to use high quality CGI to make an unreal scenario as real-looking as possible, which sounds fine. But they screwed themselves because they incorporated semi-realistic survival scenarios with obscene bullshit and Deus Ex Machina, like finding flares minutes after he claimed that the breaching of a large sperm whale (or was it a blue whale... thinking blue.) submerged his handmade-raft in water and knocked off all supplies... Then there's when he made a raft out of floaty-rings, full-sized oars, rope, and some misc. stuff. Okay. Fine he's crafty, I'm with you. But when he outwits the Bengal tiger and traps him in the ocean in order to make him submissive (it makes sense in context), he pulls, from the lifeboat, this entire raft into the boat. Got that? A scrawny 90-pound 14 year old pulls a raft made of full oars and shit out of the ocean and into the boat. Fuckin' yeah right! Oh, and he spends days halfway submerged in the water of the atlantic ocean (on his little raft) and never catches hypothermia. And also, the water is perfectly calm and flat for days at a time. Again, middle of the Atlantic Ocean. My willing suspension of disbelief was challenged every fucking moment, that I just couldn't hold on.
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Knowing - Enjoyed it. The feeling of foreboding and characters that try their best to avert catastrophe is interesting.
I'm looking forward to Zero Dark Thirty, Django Unchained and Lincoln.
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Darkman 7.1/10
Old movie from 1990 but still the story is interesting. Would be cool if someone made a remake but it's perhaps a little bit too gory and dark for the general public. Liam Neeson looks so young in this one haha.
Taken2 6.3/10
Just another action movie with lots of "cool story bro" moments. Handgun with 100 bullets? Seriously what?
New Karate Kid 5.2/10
Portrayal of China is utter bullshit. Story is useless. Another one of those hurr durr cultural clash bullshit movies. Unoriginal and uninspiring. The kid's name is Dre? Lol you so funny.
Elf 7.6/10
Not bad, was pretty much what I expected. Will Ferrell delivers. Xmas spirit gives it some more credit.
Super Troopers 7.8/10
Finally got round to watching this. Pretty damn funny for what it is. Reminds me of movies like Oldschool and Roadtrip.
High Score 6.5/10
A guy trying to set the new world record for missile command. Runs into mostly technical issues of the arcade machine crashing. Does put into perspective playing sc1 in 2012.
Indie Game 6.0/10
Really wasn't as good as the hype. Just a lot of very nice video editing and playing up the emotional part of it a lot. They make it sound like they're prison inmates or some shit. If you chose to make a game yourselves then put up with it. Especially Phil Fish who's a whiny little bitch acting like he's the second coming of Christ after winning some award. Serves him fucking right that his game crashed like a fucking trainwreck since all he seems to do everyday is just cosmetic bullshit.
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On December 26 2012 15:19 itkovian wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 15:04 Tibbroar wrote:On December 26 2012 14:35 itkovian wrote:On December 26 2012 13:43 StarStruck wrote:On December 26 2012 10:11 itkovian wrote:Les Miserables The acting was great. The cinematography was good. The story was cool. I didn't realize there'd be as much singing as there was; probably about 95% of all dialogue was through song. Personally, I would have left a few more choice parts as spoken words, but it didn't matter that much. The singing was generally solid. The weakest being Russell Crowe, and even he did alright. Anne Hathaway probably had the most solid performance. Sacha Baron Cohen and Helena Carter did a good job providing a lighter tone to the film. The movie dragged on a little long for my tastes. And I felt the climax was a little lacking. The action was weak and distracted me a bit from the movie, but its not what the movie was about, and so bears little significance other than making me cringe. There were also a couple cheesy moments, I thought could have been toned down. Overall, 8 /10 Oh, also, the over abundance of religious imagery grated on me a bit. Just too much. But maybe that's what its supposed to be like... I don't really know, it just got tiresome You didn't realize it was a musical? It's one of the greatest melodrama musicals of all time and that's what it's been about for the last twenty-five plus years when it comes to the stage, film and television. I guess your more familiar with the novel, but if you've seen the trailer you would know this one was going full-blown musical. Don't worry, I realized it was musical, haha. I just didn't realize it was essentially alllll going to be singing. I don't watch musicals very often, so my recollection of their patterns is poor. But I figured most were about 50/50 in their dialogue delivery. I anticipated half singing, half spoken as normal dialogue. But it turned out to be like 95 / 5. Les Mis has substantially more singing than your standard musical, the stage show is more or less entirely sung. Spewking of singing, I officially hate whoever decided to cast that movie with hollywood actors/actresses instead of people that can sing. The movie accomplished everything it wanted to dramatically, but musically was an abomination. NONE of the characters are realized musically, absolutely unacceptable for a musical, and for one as renowned as Les Mis? People should be shot for pulling that crap. Hey, at least it wasn't as questionable as Pierce Brosnan in Mamma Mia. + Show Spoiler +Ya, I've watched it. It's like my mom's favorite movie, and she's seen it literally 20 times, so I felt obligated to watch it once. Actually not that bad for a feel good movie The singing in Les Mis wasn't too bad. Obviously not all top tier stuff. Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe were a little weak, but not terrible. Anne Hathaway and Amanda Seyfried did good. And some of the younger male actors have some experience singing in theatre I think.
I actually think that for the general public it works very well, but I'm several years into a voice degree, and I have very distinct opinions in what sort of singing I want for that show. Honestly, I don't even like most of the singers that do it on broadway, I want a nearly operatic sound in that show. Suffice it to say, none of the cast meet that standard. Unfortunately, what I want and what most people want in that show differ, so it sucks to be me, I was waiting for that movie for over a decade too...
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On December 26 2012 16:19 MountainDewJunkie wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 15:33 LaiShin wrote:On December 26 2012 14:52 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Life of Pi - ZERO / 10
That bad of a movie huh? Mind sharing why? The movie (can't speak for the book) was a ripoff of several biblical tales, the movie Castaway, and had an ending that's exactly like a movie I saw as a child that was a survival movie (basically he told the truth but no one believed him, so then he told a second account that was so awful, they chose the first story as the lesser of two ghastly tales, intended for humor and meaning). The 3D was atrocious (I hate 3D, so I don't even dock points for it, just saying on a personal note). The entire movie was like a bad Peter Jackson filler. Billions of pan-outs to focus on nature scenes every 2 minutes. It was supposed to be a representation of the beauty of nature and the unspoken influence of God on surroundings, also a form of hope (beauty even in the face of hopelessness), but the scenes were too often and too close. It basically compensated for a weak and brief story with a bunch of pretty pictures. This movie also tried to use high quality CGI to make an unreal scenario as real-looking as possible, which sounds fine. But they screwed themselves because they incorporated semi-realistic survival scenarios with obscene bullshit and Deus Ex Machina, like finding flares minutes after he claimed that the breaching of a large sperm whale (or was it a blue whale... thinking blue.) submerged his handmade-raft in water and knocked off all supplies... Then there's when he made a raft out of floaty-rings, full-sized oars, rope, and some misc. stuff. Okay. Fine he's crafty, I'm with you. But when he outwits the Bengal tiger and traps him in the ocean in order to make him submissive (it makes sense in context), he pulls, from the lifeboat, this entire raft into the boat. Got that? A scrawny 90-pound 14 year old pulls a raft made of full oars and shit out of the ocean and into the boat. Fuckin' yeah right! Oh, and he spends days halfway submerged in the water of the atlantic ocean (on his little raft) and never catches hypothermia. And also, the water is perfectly calm and flat for days at a time. Again, middle of the Atlantic Ocean. My willing suspension of disbelief was challenged every fucking moment, that I just couldn't hold on.
But, he made the story up?
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The Host (2006) - 4.5/10
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Not scary to be a horror movie, not funny to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama; incoherent; uninteresting, one dimensional characters; terrible pacing... Just bad overall. I have no idea how this is so popular.
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Taken 2
Pretty bad. Action sequences were great, but that's Luc Besson for you, apart from that I didn't like it at all. Liam's daughter was crappy character and they made her into almost a lead. I liked her portrayal in the first installment, when she was dumb, giddy and spoiled teenager. Now, all of the sudden she decides to toughen up and what not, this dialogue made me facepalm hard:
Dad: "Go to the US Embassy, you'll be safe there."
Daughter: "Hell no, I wanna help!"
Dad: "OK, grab the grenades and a gun from my case and come help me out then."
Then she goes throwing grenades all over Istanbul rooftops and what not. WTF?!
Me no like.
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On December 26 2012 19:04 GolemMadness wrote:The Host (2006) - 4.5/10 Not scary to be a horror movie, not funny to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama; incoherent; uninteresting, one dimensional characters; terrible pacing... Just bad overall. I have no idea how this is so popular.
Cause the father lost his daughter and struggled to get her back, at one point being drilled into his skull. The movie stood out, and that's why it was popular and I enjoyed it, at least a 7.0/10
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On December 26 2012 19:04 GolemMadness wrote:The Host (2006) - 4.5/10 Not scary to be a horror movie, not funny to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama; incoherent; uninteresting, one dimensional characters; terrible pacing... Just bad overall. I have no idea how this is so popular.
yeah, 100% agree. Never understood why this is the most popular of BongJoonHo's movies.
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On December 26 2012 19:58 KentHenry wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 19:04 GolemMadness wrote:The Host (2006) - 4.5/10 Not scary to be a horror movie, not funny to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama; incoherent; uninteresting, one dimensional characters; terrible pacing... Just bad overall. I have no idea how this is so popular. Cause the father lost his daughter and struggled to get her back, at one point being drilled into his skull. The movie stood out, and that's why it was popular and I enjoyed it, at least a 7.0/10
Bad stuff happening to a guy = a stand out movie...?
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On December 26 2012 16:19 MountainDewJunkie wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 15:33 LaiShin wrote:On December 26 2012 14:52 MountainDewJunkie wrote:
Life of Pi - ZERO / 10
That bad of a movie huh? Mind sharing why? The movie (can't speak for the book) was a ripoff of several biblical tales, the movie Castaway, and had an ending that's exactly like a movie I saw as a child that was a survival movie (basically he told the truth but no one believed him, so then he told a second account that was so awful, they chose the first story as the lesser of two ghastly tales, intended for humor and meaning). The 3D was atrocious (I hate 3D, so I don't even dock points for it, just saying on a personal note). The entire movie was like a bad Peter Jackson filler. Billions of pan-outs to focus on nature scenes every 2 minutes. It was supposed to be a representation of the beauty of nature and the unspoken influence of God on surroundings, also a form of hope (beauty even in the face of hopelessness), but the scenes were too often and too close. It basically compensated for a weak and brief story with a bunch of pretty pictures. This movie also tried to use high quality CGI to make an unreal scenario as real-looking as possible, which sounds fine. But they screwed themselves because they incorporated semi-realistic survival scenarios with obscene bullshit and Deus Ex Machina, like finding flares minutes after he claimed that the breaching of a large sperm whale (or was it a blue whale... thinking blue.) submerged his handmade-raft in water and knocked off all supplies... Then there's when he made a raft out of floaty-rings, full-sized oars, rope, and some misc. stuff. Okay. Fine he's crafty, I'm with you. But when he outwits the Bengal tiger and traps him in the ocean in order to make him submissive (it makes sense in context), he pulls, from the lifeboat, this entire raft into the boat. Got that? A scrawny 90-pound 14 year old pulls a raft made of full oars and shit out of the ocean and into the boat. Fuckin' yeah right! Oh, and he spends days halfway submerged in the water of the atlantic ocean (on his little raft) and never catches hypothermia. And also, the water is perfectly calm and flat for days at a time. Again, middle of the Atlantic Ocean. My willing suspension of disbelief was challenged every fucking moment, that I just couldn't hold on.
If everyone was thinking like yourself then all the zombie-movie genre is automatically crap. ( http://www.cracked.com/article_18683_7-scientific-reasons-zombie-outbreak-would-fail-quickly_p4.html )
So saying a movie is bad because it's science fiction isnt really valid points.
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Looper - 5/10
It is impossible to make a time travel movie that makes complete sense, but the whole premise of this one makes no sense at all. + Show Spoiler + They have the technology to travel in time but not to dispose of a body? If they can teleport someone to such a precise location in space/time, why even bother hiring people to kill them? Why not teleport them into a volcano or in the middle of the ocean or to the Earth core or dinosaurs? Why must the loopers kill their own future selves? Why not let someone else do it? How come murder/disposing of a body is so complicated in the future but the dudes who came for the old Joe have no problems shooting his wife for no reason? And that retarded scene where a guy's body parts were disappearing because his younger self was being mutilated.. It implies that he is connected to his young self and is affected by what's happening to him in the past, but how the hell he would even end up escaping if he had no limbs all his life?
Memories of murder - 7/10
It was good, but I don't quite understand why some people would give it 10/10.
Battleship - 6/10
Totally retarded plot that makes no sense, but as opposed to Looper which tries to be so clever and serious and fails this one is pure trash and does not pretend to be anything else. Great for watching over a beer with friends, super bad for watching sober and alone. Bonus points for making a reasonable plot element based on the Battleships game :-)
Appaloosa - 4/10
Poor story, poor pacing, poor characters. Viggo Mortensen is cool though.
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Y'day night I watched Dredd with 3 friends. All 3 rated it with a 80+ score and I thought it was crap, 48/100 from me.
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On December 26 2012 20:02 EpiK wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 19:04 GolemMadness wrote:The Host (2006) - 4.5/10 Not scary to be a horror movie, not funny to be a comedy, not serious enough to be a drama; incoherent; uninteresting, one dimensional characters; terrible pacing... Just bad overall. I have no idea how this is so popular. yeah, 100% agree. Never understood why this is the most popular of BongJoonHo's movies.
Because underneath it all it is is a political commentary of the American occupation of South Korea and it also references a real occurrence of the U.S. government dumping toxic waste in S.K. waters.. mostly because they can.
And on top of it all is a mutant fish with pretty decent CG and what you come to expect from B-movie Korean acting. I thought it was fairly enjoyable.
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Chronicle - Mediocre imo. Granted, it had some pretty cool scenes, by the characters felt so flat to me. I am actually suprised that they are making a sequel, as I really don't see what they could really do with it.
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Sympathy for Lady Vengeance - Not bad, although pretty slow for the first half of the movie. I feel like this movie and Mr. Vengeance just get overshadowed so much by Oldboy (and for good reason, it's quite a ways better than the others in the series).
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Safe - Typial Statham movie. I just really found the story to be completely dumb. Some guy comes across a little girl and is willing to randomly beat the shit out of cops/gangsters to save her from them, for no reason? wtf.
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Total Recall - Just gonna wiki this, "A factory worker, Douglas Quaid, begins to suspect that he is a spy after visiting Rekall - a company that provides its clients with implanted fake memories of a life they would like to have led - goes wrong and he finds himself on the run." Some of the scenes were really breathtaking though, the CG was really impressive. Definitely gives the sense of this massive futuristic city. I felt let down though. The plot "twist" (is you really wanna call it that) didn't end up making much sense. Kinda became a clusterfuck after that.
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Occupation: Fighter - Follows a lower tier fighter, Chad George, through 8 months leading up to his next fight. Pretty interesting. Just goes to show how much hardship you go through since you get paid shit to fight unless you in a big organization like the UFC. That said, the last few scenes disappointed me. They follow him for 8 months and then you don't even see any of the fight (maybe there were copyright issues or some bullshit) so all you get is a textbox, that was pretty shitty. Would recommend to MMA fans though.
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