Plot summry: A teachers prove to the students that a dictatorship can reoccur in Germany gets out of hand.
Just finished watching this, it sure has an intersting story but I felt like it lacked something and it didn't deliver the feeling that the whole situation was possible or real(I know it isn't but great movie do give you that feeling). There were bits of boring parts after the first half passed and for me + Show Spoiler +
I'm really glad this movie was as long as it was because it didn't really have me convinced in the first hour or so, but as it goes on everyone just becomes more and more human and interesting and dynamic and the story unfolds so well. Basically how an epic should be, and that's doubly so for the production--it's just amazingly done. I wish big movies based on true stories could be done like this today, but they just almost uniformly have so much less personality now.
On August 17 2013 11:08 noodlesoup wrote: The Purge--just watched it with my sister and cousins. But gah, the movie was really psychotic and I think the writer is freak. We watched it because our friend gave us a copy, and we even regret that .......we watched it, can't believe I endured it. I thi....nk it's something not new, I kind of think that it's similar to Hunger Games but in a poorly psychotic approach.
It actually pretty awful compared to other american slasher films .. its below mediocre level ..
"awful..." yah, that's the perfect description about this movie....Ugh. It wasted my time.
Just watched Kick Ass 2 Almost as good as the first one, I find the message behind the story (are you drawn into superhero life because your real life is boring? are you ignoring the real life) was a little bit muddled towards the middle of the movie The action scene on top of the van looks extremely fake as well (surprisingly bad)
But the puns and jokes are just damn funny. Some were a bit immature but so many were awesome. Laughed damn hard throughout the movie
On August 20 2013 14:08 ETisME wrote: Just watched Kick Ass 2 Almost as good as the first one, I find the message behind the story (are you drawn into superhero life because your real life is boring? are you ignoring the real life) was a little bit muddled towards the middle of the movie The action scene on top of the van looks extremely fake as well (surprisingly bad)
But the puns and jokes are just damn funny. Some were a bit immature but so many were awesome. Laughed damn hard throughout the movie
8/10 for me because of punks and hitgirl
The van sequence is nothing compared to the first movie where it had more bad CGI with the blatant green screen. Besides that small problem, both movies were great for what it is.
On August 20 2013 14:08 ETisME wrote: Just watched Kick Ass 2 Almost as good as the first one, I find the message behind the story (are you drawn into superhero life because your real life is boring? are you ignoring the real life) was a little bit muddled towards the middle of the movie The action scene on top of the van looks extremely fake as well (surprisingly bad)
But the puns and jokes are just damn funny. Some were a bit immature but so many were awesome. Laughed damn hard throughout the movie
8/10 for me because of punks and hitgirl
The van sequence is nothing compared to the first movie where it had more bad CGI with the blatant green screen. Besides that small problem, both movies were great for what it is.
I disagree, kick-ass 1 had the charm and earned the jet pack scene for just being lame but awesome at the same time. The van scene in 2 was cringeworthy, as was the motherrussia destruction in the suburbs. Not a fan of the hit-girl vs motherrussia fight scene end either. still adored the movie though.
Some movies dont need good pace or plot to be great. Im talking about Lost in Translation, About Schmidt, (to some extend) 5 centimeters/second and some other underrated Japanese animated films. Only Yesterday is one of those kind.
It tells the story of a 10 years old girl growing up with tons of new things in life (like boy's crush, summer vacation, trouble with math or even periods etc), and simultaneously a 27 years old version of herself with new concerning about career, late marriage, feelings. I can totally relate to many things in this movie, even though it's set in a very old time and place (60s something in Japan)
On the surface, Only Yesterday is a super boring, slow-place animated film to most of the viewers but it actually has way more substances than many others that Ive watched. And it's only animated because that deliver the mood & characters better. I dont think any kid could have enjoyed or grasped any idea from this film lol
9/10. Quite possibly the best Ghibli's, up there with Grave of the Fireflies
On August 21 2013 01:51 StarStruck wrote: I'm getting really tired of the superhero/comic book template. It's all the same premise and to me it's getting stale.
While I agree that there have been a bit to many super heroes movies in the last 10 years I wouldn't exactly put kickass in that category. (haven't watched the 2nd)
Most superhero movies are comicheroes converted into a movie. Kick ass was just a moving comicbook.
On August 21 2013 04:07 Arceus wrote: Only Yesterday
Some movies dont need good pace or plot to be great. Im talking about Lost in Translation, About Schmidt, (to some extend) 5 centimeters/second and some other underrated Japanese animated films. Only Yesterday is one of those kind.
It tells the story of a 10 years old girl growing up with tons of new things in life (like boy's crush, summer vacation, trouble with math or even periods etc), and simultaneously a 27 years old version of herself with new concerning about career, late marriage, feelings. I can totally relate to many things in this movie, even though it's set in a very old time and place (60s something in Japan)
On the surface, Only Yesterday is a super boring, slow-place animated film to most of the viewers but it actually has way more substances than many others that Ive watched. And it's only animated because that deliver the mood & characters better. I dont think any kid could have enjoyed or grasped any idea from this film lol
9/10. Quite possibly the best Ghibli's, up there with Grave of the Fireflies
I find it "funny" how you mentioned Grave of the Fireflies. I saw it yesterday and mostly found it horrible (not bad, but sad), emotionally. Sure, it was good. I rated it 8/10 in the excel-file where I write down all my watched movies, but it was so damn sad with no real glimpses of light at all. You get told in the first scene how it's gonna end, so it's not like there's ever any hope. It just made me angry and sad. All I want to do now is to stop all wars because they are so pointless and cause nothing but destruction and misery.
I much prefer the movies from Ghibli aimed more toward children. My all time favorites are Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ）. They are movies made of positive feelings, and I prefer to feel happy to feeling sad or angry.
My next Ghibli movie is gonna be My Neighbour Yamadas (guessing the English title), because that's the only unseen DVD I have on my Ghibli shelf at this moment. From the front cover (I never read backside text, too many spoilers) I have a feeling it's gonna be quite different from Grave of the Fireflies. If I see Only Yesterday in a store sometime, I'll be sure to pick it up.
On August 21 2013 04:07 Arceus wrote: Only Yesterday
Some movies dont need good pace or plot to be great. Im talking about Lost in Translation, About Schmidt, (to some extend) 5 centimeters/second and some other underrated Japanese animated films. Only Yesterday is one of those kind.
It tells the story of a 10 years old girl growing up with tons of new things in life (like boy's crush, summer vacation, trouble with math or even periods etc), and simultaneously a 27 years old version of herself with new concerning about career, late marriage, feelings. I can totally relate to many things in this movie, even though it's set in a very old time and place (60s something in Japan)
On the surface, Only Yesterday is a super boring, slow-place animated film to most of the viewers but it actually has way more substances than many others that Ive watched. And it's only animated because that deliver the mood & characters better. I dont think any kid could have enjoyed or grasped any idea from this film lol
9/10. Quite possibly the best Ghibli's, up there with Grave of the Fireflies
I find it "funny" how you mentioned Grave of the Fireflies. I saw it yesterday and mostly found it horrible (not bad, but sad), emotionally. Sure, it was good. I rated it 8/10 in the excel-file where I write down all my watched movies, but it was so damn sad with no real glimpses of light at all. You get told in the first scene how it's gonna end, so it's not like there's ever any hope. It just made me angry and sad. All I want to do now is to stop all wars because they are so pointless and cause nothing but destruction and misery.
I much prefer the movies from Ghibli aimed more toward children. My all time favorites are Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ）. They are movies made of positive feelings, and I prefer to feel happy to feeling sad or angry.
My next Ghibli movie is gonna be My Neighbour Yamadas (guessing the English title), because that's the only unseen DVD I have on my Ghibli shelf at this moment. From the front cover (I never read backside text, too many spoilers) I have a feeling it's gonna be quite different from Grave of the Fireflies. If I see Only Yesterday in a store sometime, I'll be sure to pick it up.
Dude you can't see it do you? That is EXACTLY what the movie is hoping to achieve, to make you sad and to give you the feeling of wanting to end all the wars. Both of them you experienced while and after watching the movie so I would say it's a great movie.
On August 21 2013 04:07 Arceus wrote: Only Yesterday
Some movies dont need good pace or plot to be great. Im talking about Lost in Translation, About Schmidt, (to some extend) 5 centimeters/second and some other underrated Japanese animated films. Only Yesterday is one of those kind.
It tells the story of a 10 years old girl growing up with tons of new things in life (like boy's crush, summer vacation, trouble with math or even periods etc), and simultaneously a 27 years old version of herself with new concerning about career, late marriage, feelings. I can totally relate to many things in this movie, even though it's set in a very old time and place (60s something in Japan)
On the surface, Only Yesterday is a super boring, slow-place animated film to most of the viewers but it actually has way more substances than many others that Ive watched. And it's only animated because that deliver the mood & characters better. I dont think any kid could have enjoyed or grasped any idea from this film lol
9/10. Quite possibly the best Ghibli's, up there with Grave of the Fireflies
I find it "funny" how you mentioned Grave of the Fireflies. I saw it yesterday and mostly found it horrible (not bad, but sad), emotionally. Sure, it was good. I rated it 8/10 in the excel-file where I write down all my watched movies, but it was so damn sad with no real glimpses of light at all. You get told in the first scene how it's gonna end, so it's not like there's ever any hope. It just made me angry and sad. All I want to do now is to stop all wars because they are so pointless and cause nothing but destruction and misery.
I much prefer the movies from Ghibli aimed more toward children. My all time favorites are Whisper of the Heart (耳をすませば) and My Neighbor Totoro (となりのトトロ）. They are movies made of positive feelings, and I prefer to feel happy to feeling sad or angry.
My next Ghibli movie is gonna be My Neighbour Yamadas (guessing the English title), because that's the only unseen DVD I have on my Ghibli shelf at this moment. From the front cover (I never read backside text, too many spoilers) I have a feeling it's gonna be quite different from Grave of the Fireflies. If I see Only Yesterday in a store sometime, I'll be sure to pick it up.
Dude you can't see it do you? That is EXACTLY what the movie is hoping to achieve, to make you sad and to give you the feeling of wanting to end all the wars. Both of them you experienced while and after watching the movie so I would say it's a great movie.
My grandmother who is a survivor of the Tokyo firebombing refused to watch the film. I mean, when I tried to talk to her about the war, she broke down in tears. I mean, she lost her father, was starved, lost her best friend to an atom bomb, and her brother who was going to be a kamikaze went insane and even tried to kill her with his officer's sword. She explained the whole situation to be hopeless, both the war and the post war reconstruction.
And this may not count as a movie, but I did watch the live action series about two weeks ago. It is mostly told from the aunt's perspective. Highly recommended as well.
Plot summry: A teachers prove to the students that a dictatorship can reoccur in Germany gets out of hand.
Just finished watching this, it sure has an intersting story but I felt like it lacked something and it didn't deliver the feeling that the whole situation was possible or real(I know it isn't but great movie do give you that feeling). There were bits of boring parts after the first half passed and for me + Show Spoiler +
the sucide
at the end was not really necessary.
You should watch it. Good movie. 7/10.
The Wave was an actual experiment at a school in California in 1967 (The Third Wave). Just FYI.
I finally got around to Breakfast Club. Have to say, I didn't like as much as I was hoping I would. Maybe I would have found it more valuable in high school
OK this Godard political thriller kind of thing is fascinating, pretty terrible, yet also strangely effective in retrospect. I would only recommend it to serious aficionados. If you want to scare someone away from ever watching a French art film again, show them this, hehe. Now my inessential deeper look for the interested:
First off, it's terrible because the plot is absolutely impossible to follow, characters seem to come and go at random, you have no idea what any of them want or are doing, they continually go off on random philosophical and political musings right in the middle of the action, basically everyone I watched it with including myself fell asleep or almost fell asleep in the middle. I mean I've watched obscure movies before, but this one is REALLY obscure (and it's chock full of references, 90% of which are meaningless to the modern viewer).
My sister called it what happens when a noir is brought into daylight, which I thought was a very good description. It was heavily inspired particularly by The Big Sleep. It is filmed very brightly and vividly, yet it maintains the twisty obscure motives. But that all just seems bizarre and off the rails in broad daylight. It's could even be seen as Godard riffing on the genre, that's how over the top everything is--the femme fatale is the protagonist and once we see her completely for the whole movie it makes you take a whole different look at the idea, in this movie you really can't trust anyone because you don't even understand what they are doing, the plot twistiness is taken to an extreme etc..
That sort of takes it into the fascinating and weirdly effective territory--I feel like I got the sense and feeling of the whole thing even though I didn't understand large chunks of the action. The way it incorporated politics too--it was like everything was potentially part of this either fascist right, or socialist left plot and it was all blurred who was who, but there was a sense of just foreboding conspiratorial menace in everything. It even felt prescient, since it's set in the near future 1968 but was made in 1966, and it basically predicted the political upheaval getting serious in the exact right year. While watching it they would mention things like Chicago, political uprising in France, and reference with 2 characters named Richard Nixon and Robert McNamara and I was like oh yeah it's 1968, the DNC, Paris, Nixon's running for president and it's a movie about political conspiracy. But then you realize it was made in 1966 and you are like, wait what?
It's also effective in creating a super stylish, colorful day-noir visual style, and for that it's awesome. A very interesting, complicated yet also snooze-inducing watch.
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