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On January 03 2014 08:27 VayneAuthority wrote:Show nested quote +On January 03 2014 05:49 Mothra wrote:
Anchorman 2 was painfully unfunny. Too bad because there was a lot of acting talent in it. I love Will Farrell but the material he had to work with was embarrassing. was pretty much the same as the first one, don't know why you expected any different lol. with that said, it was alright, nothing special and not terrible. in b4 how good the first one was when they are literally the same
I never watched the first... oh well.
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Short Term 12
Pretty good writing, some genuinely moving scenes, but a terrible Hollywood ending.
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Holofcener writes wonderful dialogue and is superb at observational comedy, but I still liked Please Give more.
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The Wolf of Wall Street was really good. If Jonah Hill isn't at least mentioned as a best supporting actor nominee I'll be highly upset. And that "cerebral palsy stage" scene...instant classic.
But as a whole, I feel it was a little bloated, and in parts poorly edited (people shifting positions shot to shot, that sort of thing). It's just one big romp of debauchery, and in the end I felt both sympathetic toward and repulsed by Jordan's behavior.
They could have cut out a few of DiCaprio's speeches. One of them ran pretty long, and the camera work became repetitive.
Still, Scorsese and DiCaprio can't go wrong. Shutter Island, The Departed, and now The Wolf of Wall Street are three of my favorite movies.
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Killshot
Watched it on the tv last night, never knew it existed and I like everything Gordon-Levitt is in, so it was a treat. Plus Mickey Rourke and Diane Lane - you can't go wrong.
Overall it was nice, especially seing Gordon-Levitt playing such a wackjob character.
It was entertaining, but nothing groundbraking. Just a one-timer.
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Maybe its just my old school movie ways but Blue Is The Warmest Color was horrible. These new movies dont have any cinematic merit, its just filming chaos, and then tie a nice orange and blue filter around and call it good. And every scene with Adele was "OK. Act shy."
Ugh when I skip TO the ridiculous sex scenes you know theres a problem. Brokeback mountain is so much better in every way and dealt with the social issue much better. And had actual cinematography.
Anyone seen Her or Wolf of Wall St? I might check one out tonight.
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Jon Dies at the End - 8.5/10
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The movie was pretty funny and interesting. The story was a bit crazy, so I can imagine that it wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea. It felt like a very successful mix between stoner comedy and futuristic fantasy. Overall, I'd rank this movie significantly above average in terms of entertainment.
The Exam - 5.5/10
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Overall the movie manages to keep up the excitement throughout the whole run. However, sometimes the characters acted rather questionably. Additionally, you'll wonder what exactly is the point of "the exam" the whole time. The revelation at the end was better than I expected, though.
Cypher - 7/10
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If you like movies where you're not sure what exactly happens and why, you will probably enjoy Cypher. It's not the pinnacle of filmmaking, but still better than your run-of-the-mill hollywood movie and the usual mindless blockbuster. It's made well enough to keep up the suspense till the end. If you decide to watch it, do yourself a favor and don't watch the trailer.
Only Lovers Left Alive - 0/10
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On a scale from 1 to 10 this movie is a solid ZERO. I have no idea how it got a 89% fresh rating on rotten tomatoes. Maybe it was rated based on past accomplishments of the director. Maybe it was rated solely by the stupid fraction of the highly pretentious hippster crowd. The fact of the matter is: This movie did NOTHING right. It is literally a waste of 2 hours of your life.
For the first 60 or so minutes nothing happens. You're (poorly) introduced to the two main characters and watch them do absolutely nothing. If the movie ended here one could claim that it's an atmospheric movie made to evoke emotions not through a story, but through visually and auditory stimulating your senses. The problem with this is that the (admittedly really good) soundtrack lasts for only about a minute out of those 60 and that the relayed atmosphere is far beyond melancholic and well into the area of making you feel like cutting yourself. If it had ended there the movie might qualify for about 2/10 points. However, the director decided that 60 minutes of boringness are not enough, so he throws in a story. The story itself is plain stupid (not to mention boring) and the characters act and talk so unrealistically that it makes you wonder if they are supposed to be brain damaged. Additionally, the director decided to add some more "substance" to his movie and throws in some "social criticism". This however, is done in a completely lackluster way. The "criticism" basically consists of two short sentences and calling humans zombies half a dozen times randomly during the 122 painful minutes of this colossal monstrosity.
The whole movie felt like the director had no idea what he wanted to make. Do not watch this piece of shit!
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Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10
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Iron man 3 was a horrible sequel.
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On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10
Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there.
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Third Madoka movie. Well, the twist did a really good job, and I only figured out most of it about four minutes before it happened. The animation is... well, fucking amazing. Everything looks beautiful, and the fight scene was exciting all throughout. The story is pretty strong, though you will have to turn parts of your brain off for it near the end. Overall, really great watch.
8/10
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On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there.
saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut.
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On January 07 2014 09:15 jeeeeohn wrote:
The Wolf of Wall Street was really good. If Jonah Hill isn't at least mentioned as a best supporting actor nominee I'll be highly upset. And that "cerebral palsy stage" scene...instant classic.
But as a whole, I feel it was a little bloated, and in parts poorly edited (people shifting positions shot to shot, that sort of thing). It's just one big romp of debauchery, and in the end I felt both sympathetic toward and repulsed by Jordan's behavior.
They could have cut out a few of DiCaprio's speeches. One of them ran pretty long, and the camera work became repetitive.
Still, Scorsese and DiCaprio can't go wrong. Shutter Island, The Departed, and now The Wolf of Wall Street are three of my favorite movies.
It was pretty messed up. I liked it.
It's obviously a fictional story and some parts seem too over the top. It's an entertainment movie and you should treat it as such. If you enjoyed "catch me if you can" you might enjoy this too.
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On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut.
Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for.
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On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for.
Exactly. The movie aimed to be a certain kind of movie and it more than did a great job of doing what it set out to do.
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On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for.
But he still makes a good point that you shouldn't say "turn off your brain." You can say that you might enjoy movies that have a lot of cool fight scenes.
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On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for.
Except that even the fight scenes were boring, and there were hardly any of them. It's just garbage.
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On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for.
So you would be watching a two hour film full of crap just to see a few action sequences? It's like watching an erotic film just because there are boobs and sex scenes in it. If you wonna see boobs go to the internet, but don't claim the film is good just because there are boobs in it.
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Now that we are in 2014, my top 5 best and worst movies from 2013:
Best:
1) Before Midnight
2) Europa Report
3) A Touch of Sin
4) Garden of Words
5) Dallas Buyer's Club
Worst:
1) Movie 43
2) This Is the End
3) The Family
4) The Colony
5) The Last Stand
Not the greatest year for movies so far. Hopefully I still have yet to see the best of them.
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On January 08 2014 09:40 Cheerio wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for. So you would be watching a two hour film full of crap just to see a few action sequences? It's like watching an erotic film just because there are boobs and sex scenes in it. If you wonna see boobs go to the internet, but don't claim the film is good just because there are boobs in it.
No, it's like claiming that the erotic movie is a good erotic movie because it doesn't really try to inflate what it is and is doing a good job at what it's supposed to do. Nobody said it was the best movie ever, just that it was good at what it intended to do.
Anyway, I saw a couple of movies recently.
Anchorman 2 - 4.5/10 (being generous)
It was really funny and there were parts of it that were absolutely hysterical, but it was just not even close to being on par with some of Will Ferrel's other movies. Thought it was highly overrated and just really not that good in general. The jokes were pretty juvenile and it just wasn't that great of a movie. It wasn't really trying to be serious though, and succeeded in low brow humor.
The Departed - 8/10
Thought it was pretty good. The storytelling in the beginning wasn't great and was kind of hard to follow, but about halfway into the movie (a little less) it got really good. Thoroughly enjoyed it and thought that it was overall a great movie.
Hobbit Part 2 - 5/10
To be completely honest, I thought this movie dragged. I don't really like what Peter Jackson did to The Hobbit. He is dragging it out unnecessarily and it's just not doing the book any justice. I don't think the book is that great, but it's much better than the movies. Just a classic example of a director milking a book/series for as much as he can get out of it. I didn't enjoy the movie that much, thought it was pretty childish in a lot of parts and way over dramatic, and the ending kind of sucked. I even got so bored during the movie I fell asleep, which I rarely do. There was almost nothing to keep me engaged during the beginning of the movie (the tension felt in the book during the scene with the elves is just completely lost in translation) and the entire part with Bard and whatever wasn't in the book as far as I remember. It just didn't feel serious and a lot of what made Bilbo an enjoyable character just kind of got lost with the movie. It was better than the first part, but that's mostly due to not having a 30 minute unnecessary introduction of every single dwarf.
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On January 08 2014 09:40 Cheerio wrote:Show nested quote +On January 08 2014 09:18 Pibacc wrote:On January 08 2014 08:54 Cheerio wrote:On January 08 2014 06:54 Dark_Chill wrote:On January 08 2014 04:16 Cheerio wrote:
Watched Pacific Rim, the crappiest blockbuster of all times. Basically every scene without a kaiju in it is shit. And it has 7.1rating on imdb... wow.
Man of Steel was good though. 7.5/10 Pretty sure Pacific Rim should have been rated higher. It had more or less everything you wanted once you turned off your brain. "Why didn't he pull out the sword earlier?" "Make the reveal cooler, who cares about sense". "Why are all the speeches taken out of the big book of cliches?" "Because this is a movie about robots and monsters fighting, we want to gear everything to the transformers audience so hard they'll all go back to playing Duke Nukem". "Why did the story include needlessly dramatic romance and a rivalry so pointless and unexplored you forgot about it instantly?"... Okay, well that was stupid, you have me there. Overall, the movie did everything the intended audience would enjoy, though probably could have a laser sword to get a few more points in there. saying that film is pretty good as long as you turned off your brain is like saying the picture is beautiful as long as you keep your eyes shut. Not every movie has to be some master piece of story telling. Some movies are made simply for cool fight scenes. That's exactly what Pacific Rim was made for. So you would be watching a two hour film full of crap just to see a few action sequences? It's like watching an erotic film just because there are boobs and sex scenes in it. If you wonna see boobs go to the internet, but don't claim the film is good just because there are boobs in it.
Are you telling us you watch porno's for the plot and good acting?
Pacific Rim was essentially just a porno for action scenes and robots fighting aliens, why the hate?
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