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On December 27 2012 13:41 Xenocide_Knight wrote:Show nested quote +On December 26 2012 17:35 Tibbroar wrote:On December 26 2012 15:19 itkovian wrote: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... @ itkovian The signing was great, even for professional musician standards. This guy didn't like the singing because he's a weirdo, not because he's musically trained. The majority of classically trained musicians I know (including myself) were perfectly fine with the singing.
I'll be the first to admit I'm weird, but there's a difference between a classically trained singer and just being a classically trained musician, the former being a subgroup of the latter. I also know a lot of classically trained singers that liked the movie, I just happen to be in the group that didn't. Nothing wrong with either opinion, and I'd still encourage people to see it, hell I'd even go again because it's so brilliant dramatically, it's just not what I wanted musically.
Here's more like what I wanted...
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Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again.
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On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again.
dunno what exactly you're looking for but i can give you some ideas scattershot style.
memento was very good (chris nolan and if you like his movies the prestige also very good).
the 2nd movie in the "vengeance" trilogy by chan-wook park sympathy for mr vengeance is very good (not as great as oldboy but very good on its own).
seven is a good mindbender as well.
3:10 to yuma great western.
gladiator superb roman era movie.
and if you don't mind a slower movie with less emphasis on dialogue, give valhalla rising a chance.
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+ Show Spoiler +On December 29 2012 07:28 MoonPieMat wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again. dunno what exactly you're looking for but i can give you some ideas scattershot style. memento was very good (chris nolan and if you like his movies the prestige also very good). the 2nd movie in the "vengeance" trilogy by chan-wook park sympathy for mr vengeance is very good (not as great as oldboy but very good on its own). seven is a good mindbender as well. 3:10 to yuma great western. gladiator superb roman era movie. and if you don't mind a slower movie with less emphasis on dialogue, give valhalla rising a chance.
Thanks for the recomandation but by having trouble finding a good movie I was trying to say that I watched most of the popular films. Also I saw almost all of the Korean movies.
I'm looking for something new like the Korean vengeance movies which blew my mind away and got me thinking how the hell I haven't watched those until that time.
I'll watch Un Prophet, sounds interesting. Will watch Valhalla Rising sometime soon, thanks!
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On December 29 2012 07:34 adiga wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On December 29 2012 07:28 MoonPieMat wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again. dunno what exactly you're looking for but i can give you some ideas scattershot style. memento was very good (chris nolan and if you like his movies the prestige also very good). the 2nd movie in the "vengeance" trilogy by chan-wook park sympathy for mr vengeance is very good (not as great as oldboy but very good on its own). seven is a good mindbender as well. 3:10 to yuma great western. gladiator superb roman era movie. and if you don't mind a slower movie with less emphasis on dialogue, give valhalla rising a chance. Thanks for the recomandation but by having trouble finding a good movie I was trying to say that I watched most of the popular films. Also I saw almost all of the Korean movies. I'm looking for something new like the Korean vengeance movies which blew my mind away and got me thinking how the hell I haven't watched those until that time. I'll watch Un Prophet, sounds interesting. Will watch Valhalla Rising sometime soon, thanks!
Perfume is really good, as well as the skin we live in and Mr brooks.
Those are the real good psychotic dark themed between good and evil kind of movie.
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You've probably watched these too...pretty mainstream
I saw the devil
The man from nowhere
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Just saw TED (the teddybear one) and it was a surprisingly good movie. Enjoyed it.
Also watched Tintin - Legend of the Unicorn(?). Boring, predictable tripe. Then again, im not a big fan of tin tin anyway.
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On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again.
If you want a good Korean movie that has the violence, good plot and tension of Oldboy, try The Chaser.
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Won a few awards, it's about a rogue cop-turned-pimp that chases down a serial killer after he kidnaps one of his girls.
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X-Files: I want to believe
Imo better as a film than the 1st one. Worse for the X Files dans since it add nothing to the X-Files main plot. Entertaining enough. 3/5
Law Abiding Citizen
Was not good imo. No suspense for me all. Pretty predictable, not very exciting. 2/5
Slumdog Millonaire
Really good, entertaining from start to finish (pretty predictable final, but is a movie for the family, so i guess it's ok, i prefer lil more drama). Recommended. 4/5
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On December 29 2012 12:23 fuzzy_panda wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again. If you want a good Korean movie that has the violence, good plot and tension of Oldboy, try The Chaser. Won a few awards, it's about a rogue cop-turned-pimp that chases down a serial killer after he kidnaps one of his girls.
dude im watching The Chaser right now, holy fuck, the first 25 mins are crazy loll.
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On December 29 2012 08:50 ETisME wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 07:34 adiga wrote:+ Show Spoiler +On December 29 2012 07:28 MoonPieMat wrote:Show nested quote +On December 29 2012 07:09 adiga wrote:
Looking for a movie that will blow me away like Oldboy.
I'm in need of good movies which I find it really hard to find lately. Every time I want to watch a movie I get tired of searching for a good movie after an hour of searching.
Please help me out.
Edit: A movie that will get me exited once again. dunno what exactly you're looking for but i can give you some ideas scattershot style. memento was very good (chris nolan and if you like his movies the prestige also very good). the 2nd movie in the "vengeance" trilogy by chan-wook park sympathy for mr vengeance is very good (not as great as oldboy but very good on its own). seven is a good mindbender as well. 3:10 to yuma great western. gladiator superb roman era movie. and if you don't mind a slower movie with less emphasis on dialogue, give valhalla rising a chance. Thanks for the recomandation but by having trouble finding a good movie I was trying to say that I watched most of the popular films. Also I saw almost all of the Korean movies. I'm looking for something new like the Korean vengeance movies which blew my mind away and got me thinking how the hell I haven't watched those until that time. I'll watch Un Prophet, sounds interesting. Will watch Valhalla Rising sometime soon, thanks! Perfume is really good, as well as the skin we live in and Mr brooks. Those are the real good psychotic dark themed between good and evil kind of movie.
everything about The Skin I Live In was amazing. highly recommend
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On December 27 2012 14:09 GhandiEAGLE wrote:
Note: Made this a seperate post because it is irrelevant to the former
Recently saw The Grey. Came in expecting to be a bad movie that was worth seeing only due to the presence of Liam Neeson, but surprisingly I was completely blown away. It was very deep and philosophical, every single character developed beautifully, the scenes were beautiful, and in the end it really made me think. I absolutely recommend it to many people, although if you are a bit squeamish, this movie has some gore and might not be for you. My advice is to watch it when you are really in the mood for something deep, and especially watch it at night. I feel it loses a lot of its effect if there are a bunch of bright lights. 10/10 IMO
I still can't hear some of the things people say. I must have weird ears or something.
Didn't really expect the ending.
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Just watched Seeking a Friend for the End of the World.
The ending was unsettling, but I liked it. I mean, you know it's coming, but it still felt so harsh. It felt really.... un-hollywood I guess.
The rest of the movie was alright. Kind of interesting and sometimes funny. I went into it thinking it would be a comedy, but it wasn't. It was more like a romance.
6 /10
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Dredd
9/10
Sick action flick in a sci-fi environment, liked the 2 vs 1000 story style. Would recommend to anyone who loves gun fights, blood, and just typical bad-assery
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December 29 The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012) - 7.0/10
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Some of this movie was good. Far too much of it was gratuitous action scenes filled with predictable bullshit and stupid one liners. Perhaps the worst moment in any movie ever is when + Show Spoiler +Gandalf cuts up the big goblin, and then the goblin says "Well, that'll do it."
One of my main issues watching this was that it's basically people get in trouble and then Gandalf saves them at the last second. How many time does this need to happen in this movie? The only time I can think of when this DOESN'T happen is during the most pointless scene of the movie, when they're walking along the cliffs, and the mountains turn out to be stone giants who start attacking each other for some reason. It does nothing to advance the plot, nor does it have anything to do with anything else in the entire movie.
The classic "Bunch of characters so none are fully developed" is in full effect here. There are a bunch of dwarves. Is there really any difference between most of them? Even Thorin is basically just a caricature. Warrior guy who seeks revenge and has a change of heart regarding a character he thought to be weak. That's some fascinating stuff. And speaking of which, that's the ending we get? He comes to accept Bilbo? Everybody knew that was going to happen. Very disappointing.
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Man when I saw the Dark Knight Rises I was banned but now I can say what I thought. Really disappointing. The film looked like a 2 hour long trailer. The pacing was awful, the music was really badly used. Story was kinda interesting and Bane was a cool character (I actually liked the voice) but the film was so much more like the first of the trilogy. 1st and 3rd...bad...2nd...the best superhero film of all time.
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Van Gogh (Pialat)
The last three months of Van Gogh's life, in Auvers-sur-Oise.
The movie could disappoint people expecting what I guess most director would do with such a subject. There's very little painting in here, Pialat rightfully resists the temptation to "esthetize" (no clue about this verb^^) his shot to explain Van Gogh's painting. What he is interested in his how Van Gogh lives the rejection of society, his lack of success, the idea that he is a parasite. In this view, the film is absolutely perfect, never had an era been reconstructed that well. The dialogue and performances in particular are simply stunning, with Dutronc being simply incredible. A few scene, like when Van Gogh suddenly jump in the Oise, or the ending, are among the most emotionnally powerful moment I've seen in a movie.
10/10
The Lady of Shanghai (Welles)
Orson Welles is engaged by the wife of a very rich man as a sailor on his boat.
A classic film noir, but unperfect. The performances are mostly good, except Rita Hayworth whom I've seen better, the movie is extremely well shot (obviously), but I think Welles obfuscates on purpose a story which is not that complicated compared to for instance The Big Sleep. The movie ends up really good, but not the best of its genre.
7.5/10
Batman (Burton)
Batman vs the Joker, Burton's style.
Goofy, funny and overall less serious than its famed (lol) successor, despite old special effects, it remains clear that Burton is a lot more talented than Nolan. He is visually ten times more inventive, and his character have much more flesh than Nolan's one. My main grip is that Nicholson's performance isn't that good, and the writing is clearly not perfect. Still enjoyable.
5.5/10
Inception (Nolan)
Something pretty uninteresting happens, it has to do with dreams and explosions.
Finally saw the last Nolan movie I "needed" to see, and clearly not his best (to be clear, it's a lot better than Begins, but worse than Memento and The Prestige). I don't really want to start a retarded debate on the script, but fore me the whole movie's inanity is perfectly summed up by the moment when Tom Hardy, after accusing Gordon-Lewitt of having no imagination, shows that he clearly is not lacking any by summoning... a bigger gun.
Anyway, rather bad action scenes which are badly justified by a convoluted plot, not very well told by long-ass dialogue tunnels (Nolan's trademark). Only one character is kinda fleshed out (Di Caprio), for everything else Nolan counts on the charisma of his cast which kinda work if you're generous (the actors are charismatic, with one exception). The system to get a climax is an obvious trick and he's way overused in the movie, to the point the cut gets annoying... The whole premise is not far from retarded, or at least extremely pretentious and uninteresting. Oh and the ending is annoying as hell + Show Spoiler +but I have an answer for myself : it keeps on spinning, because this is a move
3/10
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^ you should rewatch Inception. When I first saw it I thought it was pretentious and shallow. I thought it was overhyped. For some reason I think the good reception other people gave it might have subconsciously put me off. But after rewatching it...I was hooked, rewatched it like 3 times. It is such an emotionally harrowing and strong film with incredible music, if you just put yourself in the right place to watch it. The depth of emotion in the scenes leading up to the moment where Cobb's wife jumps off the building is profound...allowing the film to smooth over the cracks caused by that terrible young female character who is taught to be the architect...and allowing the film to be so much more than just a big budget action film (filling very much the same role as the matrix in that regard). When you just allow yourself to contemplate some of the bigger concepts raised in the film, you realise it's incredibly generous to people who think and don't just watch...and make an effort to approach it from the right angle. It's kind of like The Trial with Orson Welles. You get from it what you put in.
Also, James Bond Skyfall, quality film. Easily the most deep and clever Bond film made yet. Extremely well-acted villain. Relatively down-to-earth goings on making the film more about the people than ever. Doing better than almost any Bond film to avoid pacing issues (which are endemic in the series). The Craig series is already poised to rival Connery and is above the other Bonds so far, in my opinion. 9/10 for me.
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On December 30 2012 21:43 sc4k wrote:
^ you should rewatch Inception. When I first saw it I thought it was pretentious and shallow. I thought it was overhyped. For some reason I think the good reception other people gave it might have subconsciously put me off. But after rewatching it...I was hooked, rewatched it like 3 times. It is such an emotionally harrowing and strong film with incredible music, if you just put yourself in the right place to watch it. The depth of emotion in the scenes leading up to the moment where Cobb's wife jumps off the building is profound...allowing the film to smooth over the cracks caused by that terrible young female character who is taught to be the architect...and allowing the film to be so much more than just a big budget action film (filling very much the same role as the matrix in that regard). When you just allow yourself to contemplate some of the bigger concepts raised in the film, you realise it's incredibly generous to people who think and don't just watch...and make an effort to approach it from the right angle. It's kind of like The Trial with Orson Welles. You get from it what you put in.
I complettely disagree on everything, there's absolutely 0 emotion, and Hans Zimmer music is absolutely atrocious as usual. I have no intention of rewatching it, I don't think I missed some essential concept...
Also The Matrix is very shallow, but at least the fight scenes are good.
Edit : and comparing this thing with The Trial is a huge joke.
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