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chronovore · « **Reply #13200 on:** March 06, 2012, 02:11:45 AM »

Gone Baby, Gone.

Felt long, baby, long. Wasn't sure where it was going to end. I don't think the main character decided correctly, in the end.

cool breeze · « **Reply #13201 on:** March 06, 2012, 02:24:26 AM »

Love Exposure

holy shit. I don't know how that managed to be entertaining for 4 hours and I still kinda want to rewatch it. the first hour is hilarious.

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I'm still laughing about the ending

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Eric P · « **Reply #13202 on:** March 06, 2012, 06:38:33 AM »

Love Exposure was awesome.

watched The Exorcist 3 yesterday. It was actually pretty good. A bit over the top in some places and really symbolically dense, but it had a lot of good going for it. Worth watching, I'd say.

etiolate · « **Reply #13203 on:** March 06, 2012, 07:19:43 PM »

I finally saw the Ed Norton Incredible Hulk movie. I liked the Ang Lee version much better. There's a bunch of nonsensical stuff in the ed norton film and the movie feels like an excuse to have a CG-fest. There's a mini war going on at a quiet ilttle college and nobody but two students notice? Then it magically starts raining? The Ang Lee film had a great tension and release vibe to it that fit the Hulk. This felt like it was just made as an easier leadup to the Avengers movie.

Bildi · « **Reply #13204 on:** March 06, 2012, 11:22:18 PM »

Rosemary’s Baby - never seen it before, but thoroughly enjoyed it. I was amazed how much better it held up than say the Exorcist (which I found pretty funny to watch nowadays). Obviously, containing virtually no special effects really helps. The end was a just a little bleh, a slight letdown from the rest of the movie.

I didn’t even know it was a Roman Polanski film until the end, and they I realised it's a classic Roman Polanski mystery movie (I generally like them, except when the ending’s kinda crap like The Ninth Gate).

Also saw Hot Shots! - still as brilliant as ever. Going to watch Hot Shots 2 tonight.

Quote from: Linkzg on February 25, 2012, 03:32:54 AM

Primer

ok

I enoyed it, but the jump in story near the end where you have to put two and two together completely lost me.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13205 on:** March 07, 2012, 08:40:21 AM »

I think The Exorcist holds up just fine on the special effects side. Most of the problems with it are just the dated style in general. Some of the reactions to things going on don't fit and the musical cues are cliche at this point. But I think that has more to do with how much the film was replicated and how familiar we've become with it.

But I do agree that Rosemary's Baby aged better overall. The situation is easy to relate to and isn't reproduced/mocked nearly as much as The Exorcist. Plus, it's just brilliantly written. I was blown away the first time I watched it because of how simple it was but it was so engaging and well written. And the ending was still shocking. I'd seen references to it before through other forms of pop culture but it's nothing like The Exorcist where it's been mocked/done so many times you know the movie from start to finish without seeing it. Seriously, who doesn't know the spider walk or crucifix masturbation? Everyone knows "The power of Christ compels you!" and "Your mother's in here, Karas."

I liked Primer a lot but the jump in logic that's needed is insane. I really want to see what he can do in his new film with a bigger budget, some experience and time to flesh out the script more. Great idea, confusing execution.

Bildi · « **Reply #13206 on:** March 07, 2012, 06:18:31 PM »

You’re right, the exorcists special effects are technically fine, I didn’t quite phrase that right (I was thinking specifically of the ‘walking down the stairs’, which is technically fine, but has aged for all the reasons you mention). It’d be pretty hard to make a film like that and not have it age at all. Rosemary’s Baby being driven by emotions and dialogue always had a better chance of aging well I suppose.

I’m looking forward to Shane whathisface’s new film as well. Despite the shortcoming, Primer was definitely impressive given his resources.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13207 on:** March 07, 2012, 07:58:32 PM »

viral marketing

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13208 on:** March 08, 2012, 06:08:47 PM »

Watched about an hour of Monsters, really enjoying it, but since I'm typing on my phone it's too traumatic to elucidate any further.

Don't worry though guys. Tomorrow night I intend to get juiced and will then light my thought rockets' fuses to send them exploding into the bruising sky.

G The Resurrected · « **Reply #13209 on:** March 09, 2012, 05:33:59 AM »

Worst movie ever!

Momo · « **Reply #13210 on:** March 09, 2012, 06:54:12 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 07, 2012, 07:58:32 PM

viral marketing

the website for the fake company is awesome

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #13211 on:** March 09, 2012, 10:43:23 AM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on March 07, 2012, 07:58:32 PM

viral marketing

Most anticipated movie for me. A lot of the Sci-Fi elements seem really inspired, especially this futuristic TED speech. It seems like Scott is jizzing all the pent up science fiction scenarios he's had over the years.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13212 on:** March 09, 2012, 03:19:22 PM »

Man, what a charming film. It pretty much ticked all the boxes for me, I loved the two characters, loved the unrequited thread that weaves its way through the whole thing like an alien rape tentacle. The ending was just great, and I almost cried in a manly fashion when she said 'I don't want to go home'.

Plus it's quite short, and has lots of mexicans.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13213 on:** March 09, 2012, 03:45:00 PM »

Quote from: Bildi on March 07, 2012, 06:18:31 PM

You’re right, the exorcists special effects are technically fine, I didn’t quite phrase that right (I was thinking specifically of the ‘walking down the stairs’, which is technically fine, but has aged for all the reasons you mention). It’d be pretty hard to make a film like that and not have it age at all. Rosemary’s Baby being driven by emotions and dialogue always had a better chance of aging well I suppose.

I’m looking forward to Shane whathisface’s new film as well. Despite the shortcoming, Primer was definitely impressive given his resources.

Definitely agreed. Rosemary's Baby is fairly universal. I love the ostracized and isolated feeling it gives you throughout the film. You can totally feel her emotions that basically boil down to "what the hell is going on that everyone seems to know but me???"

As far as Monsters.... Oh God I hated that movie. Mainly because the trailer sold it as a completely different type of movie. I ended up bored and PO'ed

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13214 on:** March 09, 2012, 03:56:47 PM »

Don't worry, I felt the same way about Driver, but that was actually a shit film, hoisted up into the filmic heavens by people with more taste in their little fingers than they have in the rest of their bodies.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #13215 on:** March 09, 2012, 03:57:35 PM »

Has anyone seen The Raid?

Mupepe · « **Reply #13216 on:** March 09, 2012, 04:45:48 PM »

Quote from: Martin Raperman on March 09, 2012, 03:56:47 PM

Don't worry, I felt the same way about Driver, but that was actually a shit film, hoisted up into the filmic heavens by people with more taste in their little fingers than they have in the rest of their bodies.

I liked it but it wasn't the insane life changing film that certain people make it out to be. I'll probably never watch it again.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13217 on:** March 09, 2012, 05:02:22 PM »

Or anywhere else, really.

Flannel Boy · « **Reply #13218 on:** March 09, 2012, 09:13:38 PM »

I watched In Darkness. I don't have anything to say except that Robert Wieckiewicz, who played the lead, struck me as the perfect stereotypical 40-year old male Pole--a bit fat, a bit short, a bit balding, a bit ignorant, and a bit anti-Semitic with a round face centered by large round nose. Basically Borys in 15 years.

And

Agnieszka Grochowska

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13219 on:** March 10, 2012, 02:56:08 AM »

http://whogottherole.com/movie-tv-news/forest-whitaker-to-star-in-movie-the-butler/

the next "black people serving white folk" to clean up at the box office/Oscars

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #13220 on:** March 10, 2012, 03:08:29 AM »

Why do the X-Men films always leave me cold? X-Men: First Class, like some of the others that preceded it, has some decent action scenes, a great cast, and a semi-intelligent script with lots of subtext, some of it at least reasonably clever. But there's no flavor to it, it feels like a piece of finely honed product more then a real movie, the characters have no depth, even the reliably awesome Micheal Fassbender (who's great here) gets the biggest arc but is basically summed up as "the wrathful superpowered jewish dude". Making a 1960's James Bond film (replete with evil super submarine) but with comic book heroes sounds like a great idea, but watching the finished film feels like all the inspiration stopped at the premise.

Its still a competent film in many respects, but anything that wastes so much potential to make something that's only just competent can't help but register as a dissapointment.
2.5/5

And now I'm placed in the difficult position of explaning exactly how and why Ghost Rider: Spirit of Venegence is so much better then X-Men: Cipher Characters. To begin with, there's nothing as appealing as a really great batshit Nicolas Cage performance, as there is here, after reigning in his naturally ocurring crazy for far too long Mr. Cage spares no effort here and the result is a lot of fun and actually is thematically appropriete, he's matched, if not in volume but at least in oddball charsima by a very fun Idris Elba turn (why ain't this guy a huge star yet). There's also a rather kooky tone that's remeniscent of Nevedine/Taylor's pretty good Statham epic 'Crank' (not quite as nutty, and nowhere near as off kilter as Crank 2, but in the same neighborhood). Unlike Crank, Crank 2, or Gamer, there's actually technically competent action scenes here, especially the Road Warrior inspired finale which is pretty badass.

Bottom line, I haven't enjoyed a Marvel branded film this much since Punisher: War Zone, if you agree that was also better then all of The Avengers leading films up till then you'll probably dig this too.
4/5

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Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13221 on:** March 10, 2012, 03:20:03 AM »

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Venegence>X-Men First Class?

GTFO

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #13222 on:** March 10, 2012, 06:08:07 AM »

Just watched Wild at Heart for the first time. Damn that was good. I love how some of the characters came off as creatures. Also love the metal concert turning into an Elvis jam sung by Nicholas Cage.

Eric P · « **Reply #13223 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:05:13 AM »

john cusack as nixon?

Groogrux · « **Reply #13224 on:** March 10, 2012, 09:40:29 AM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on March 09, 2012, 05:02:22 PM

Or anywhere else, really.

Sandler trying to redeem himself for all the shitty films he's done over the past few years.... I don't know if it will help or not.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13225 on:** March 10, 2012, 10:09:57 AM »

I don't get the x men first class love either. I'm supposed to praise a very average flick because they somehow succeeded in making an x men film that isn't total shit? It is really nothing special. Disposable fun that I forgot ten minutes after I finished.

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #13226 on:** March 10, 2012, 02:20:48 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on March 10, 2012, 09:05:13 AM

john cusack as nixon?

haha, that was my only take away from that as well. WTF?

iconoclast · « **Reply #13227 on:** March 10, 2012, 05:08:35 PM »

Watched Suicide Club last night. My god, that movie is complete garbage - one of the worst I've seen in years. I went in with relatively high expectations as well, considering it's from the same director who did Cold Fish.

Eric P · « **Reply #13228 on:** March 12, 2012, 10:04:03 AM »

Dream Home. I hadn't seen this Edmond Pang film yet so when I found myself with some spare time yesterday I decided to give it a whirl. It's fucking crazy. A woman has her heart set on home ownership in HK. She wants to live with a view of Victoria Bay which we are told will cost something in then neighborhood of $3,500 USD per square foot. So she works 3 jobs and finds a sugar daddy and basically hustles and hustles and hustles for the money. Then something in her just....snaps and she just starts murdering people in the building. These death scenes are done in one of a few ways. They're either fucking hilarious like the extended kill scene that happens at the end going for over the top in The Story of Ricki Oh mode or they are just extremely violent and brutal in their realism (people take a long time to die and fight for their lives). This is a very very very good movie blending slice of life, satire and horror all wrapped up in a commentary that would make Jimmy McMillan happy. Really downer ending too.

Check out the opening scene for the film here

Eric P · « **Reply #13229 on:** March 12, 2012, 10:21:11 AM »

Oh, I also went to Lincoln Center to see The Last Screening as part of the annual Rendezvous with French Cinema series. It has some GREAT acting and some GREAT directing and GREAT production design but a HORRIBLE script / plot.

A guy who works at a repertory movie house is soon to be out of a job. The owner is selling the building because it's not profitable. The man has a secret. He's been killing women and cutting off their ears and keeping a shrine to old movie stars in the basement of the building. He has a wall of 8 x 10 photos of famous actresses where he's attached the ears to the photos. It's...about as goofy as it sounds to be honest and the audience laughed when it was first seen. There's some back story about the guy's mother being a film obsessive who wants her son to become an actor, but when he fails she kills herself (? motives are really murky in this) which tries to offer explanations as to why this guy is crazy now, but it's not a very convincing script.

The best reason to watch this is to see Pascal Cervo's excellent turn as the killer. The second best reason to watch this is because of the attention to detail put into the various victims. Violent death sucks in this movie. Violence is not glamourized and most of the actual killing happens off screen or in far away shots. We are sometimes given a few shots of the aftermath or these long, lingering shots as a person dies (really chilling) but this isn't a film which revels in murder.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13230 on:** March 12, 2012, 01:19:44 PM »

Quote from: Mupepe on March 10, 2012, 10:09:57 AM

I don't get the x men first class love either. I'm supposed to praise a very average flick because they somehow succeeded in making an x men film that isn't total shit? It is really nothing special. Disposable fun that I forgot ten minutes after I finished.

It's the probably the adolescent X-men fanboy in me that makes me love First Class so much.

Although, that adolescent X-men fanboy is also slightly raging at the lack of actual First Class characters.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13231 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:23:30 PM »

gtfo!

cool breeze · « **Reply #13232 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:54:39 PM »

I like first class a lot but it's true. Movie is great when it focuses on Charles and Erik. All the kids stuff is bad.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13233 on:** March 12, 2012, 03:56:47 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on March 12, 2012, 03:54:39 PM

I like first class a lot but it's true. Movie is great when it focuses on Charles and Erik. All the kids stuff is bad.

I would tend to agree with that, the kids just weren't very compelling or well developed.

Kevin Bacon was awesome as a Nazi, though.

Himu · « **Reply #13234 on:** March 12, 2012, 04:11:09 PM »

holy shit Hugo was amazing

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13235 on:** March 13, 2012, 03:25:15 AM »

I was gonna watch Futuresport last night but ending up reading up on ICBMs instead. Maybe tonight

cool breeze · « **Reply #13236 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:43:10 PM »

I may be forgetting some, but in the past week I saw:

Fright Night
surprisingly decent. felt a bit too long, but it had David Tennant, so that's nice.

In Time
Fucking awful.

Pirates of the Caribbean 4
Netflix randomly sent me this. Won't watch. Sending it back and canceling my account.

Eric P · « **Reply #13237 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:50:30 PM »

Quote from: Linkzg on March 13, 2012, 02:43:10 PM

Pirates of the Caribbean 4
Netflix randomly sent me this. Won't watch. Sending it back and canceling my account.

that's a pretty strong reaction

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13238 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:56:10 PM »

Pirates 4 was at least better than Pirates 3.

cool breeze · « **Reply #13239 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:57:42 PM »

PotC3 was that bad

really I just switched back to streaming only. I only do the dvd/blu-ray option every 3rd or 4th month to catch up on movies I've wanted to see. technically my account was already canceled sometime last week, and I'm pretty sure PotC4 wasn't on my list (last I checked Beginners was the top), but it was sent anyway.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13240 on:** March 13, 2012, 02:59:20 PM »

POTC3 is the worst film I've ever seen in a theater. And I saw Crystal Skull in a theater.

60% of the audience were little kids asking their parents "where's Jack?" for the first 30m of the film

Momo · « **Reply #13241 on:** March 13, 2012, 03:19:40 PM »

Mupepe · « **Reply #13242 on:** March 13, 2012, 03:57:28 PM »

I didn't think 3 was THAT bad. Then again I watched it at home, totally not sober, BS'ing with friends at the same time and I don't think any of the movies were REALLY good. It felt on par with the rest. And the CG at the end was bad but I actually loved how ambitious the climax was even though the execution was flawed to say the least.

etiolate · « **Reply #13243 on:** March 13, 2012, 04:05:50 PM »

I liked the third more than the second. The second was just ridiculous stunts that left me blah. The third just dragged a bit. The fourth was tighter than the previous two.

Mupepe · « **Reply #13244 on:** March 13, 2012, 04:17:50 PM »

I tried watching 4 but as soon as I turned it on I felt my mind groaning thinking "ugh, this shitty universe again" I really have no desire to see anything POTC related at all.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13245 on:** March 13, 2012, 10:25:07 PM »

I liked POTC2 a lot more than POTC1 *shrug*

Diunx · « **Reply #13246 on:** March 14, 2012, 01:35:14 AM »

The hell?

Momo · « **Reply #13247 on:** March 14, 2012, 07:21:37 AM »

Bullshitship has a new trailer

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13248 on:** March 14, 2012, 07:54:11 AM »

POTC2 was awesome because I took a a girl to the film then I took her home and porked her afterwards. Otherwise all the films are shit

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #13249 on:** March 14, 2012, 08:00:42 AM »

Riggins :'(

It really has been all downhill for him since high school

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #13250 on:** March 14, 2012, 08:53:36 AM »

Drive

Eeeeeehhhhhhhhh

The Sceneman · « **Reply #13251 on:** March 14, 2012, 09:37:38 AM »

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13252 on:** March 14, 2012, 12:50:08 PM »

Eric P · « **Reply #13253 on:** March 15, 2012, 07:02:41 AM »

wrong thread

Momo · « **Reply #13254 on:** March 15, 2012, 08:05:50 AM »

Robo · « **Reply #13255 on:** March 15, 2012, 12:46:17 PM »

Watched a few through the week:

Pusher - Refn's first flick; has none of the visual flair of his later movies, but his knack for intensity is very apparent. Wasn't much on-board for the whole ride, but the ending is excellent.

Moneyball - I think popular opinion on this is that it wasn't deserving of its best picture Oscar nomination, but I'll need to disagree. Probably my single favorite sports film after The Damned United.

Bob le Flambeur - I've seen this one before. I just love it, and now it's on Netflix streaming.

Diunx · « **Reply #13256 on:** March 15, 2012, 03:52:47 PM »

The Grey was awesome!

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #13257 on:** March 15, 2012, 04:31:00 PM »

POTC is a fun movie.

As long as you forget that there are three sequels.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #13258 on:** March 15, 2012, 08:25:17 PM »

The Adventures of Tintin

Spielberg just doesn't have it like he used to. All things considered, Tintin was kind of disappointing. Not a bad movie, certainly better than Indy 4, but the direction outside of the action scenes felt flat, the dialogue was oddly stilted, the stakes hardly ever felt particularly high, and it seemed to be too light on adventure [especially for a movie with ADVENTURE in the title].

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #13259 on:** March 15, 2012, 08:27:00 PM »

sort of like the lack of true lore or timelines in the LEGEND of Zelda

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