Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Cormacaroni]

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that is EXACTLY how it feels when i cum

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Trading Places - Never saw this movie before.  It was pretty good.  Before I saw this movie, people were talking up Jamie Lee Curtis' titties and I was always like wtf but after seeing this movie, now I know why.

[Cormacaroni]

first titties i ever saw in motion, life-changing obviously

[Beezy]

in which this happens

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that is EXACTLY how it feels when i cum

[Cormacaroni]

happy birthday Beez!

god i'm so lazy i can't even post in the official thread

[Eric P]

Shinjuku Mad - guy tries to figure out why his son was killed which leads him to a leftist order in late 60s Japan.  Released in 1970 but has the 60s all over it.  Good but short.  The youth in this film are all either on drugs or fucking except for the one dude who sings a song whose lyrics are "hari krishna" for like 15 minutes straight.

freebie and the bean - i'm surprised more people don't know about this film. James Caan and Alan Arkin are squabbling buddy cops in San Francisco going outside the law to take down the kingpin of a highjacking ring.  lots of car chases with lots of car crashes including one off of a highway into an apartment.  crazed.  wildly inappropriate sexual content too.

 now see here private hargrove - comedy based on the writings of a journalist who was drafted to fight at the tail-end of ww2.  Surprisingly funny.  Almost a screwball propaganda piece.  Good dialogue and Donna Reed plays a good love interest.

[Cormacaroni]

dude I saw Freebie and the Bean IN THE THEATER

[fistfulofmetal]

PRACTICAL EFFFEEECTXXXXX

[cool breeze]

other superbowl movie commercials




Fast 6 wins

[Beezy]

happy birthday Beez!

god i'm so lazy i can't even post in the official thread

Haha. Thank you oh cult grandmaster.

[Rahxephon91]

Had a marathon of movies recently:

Silent Hill-I've never seen this or played the games. So I have no attachment to the series. I liked this movie. The visuals were great and the atmosphere fantastic, with some genuinely creepy things. It just seemed to be an actually cared for and well crafted movie.

Silent Hill 2-Pretty much the complete 180 of the 1st. Feels rather cheap looking and pointless.

Iron Sky-Was this movie supposed to be funny? Jesus Christ it wasn't. What sounded like a great set-up for some fun just never went anywhere. So boring.

The FP-Now this is a fun movie, were it feels like the creators understood their premise and genre and played it up correctly. From the music to the visuals. Everything clicks and sells it's 80s dance gang genre movie. It was great.

Spawn-Man this was bad. Micheal J White can not act and the cg has aged terribly.

Equilibrium-Gun Kata is kind of silly and the movie can look pretty cheap in it's cityscape shots. But still, it was interesting movies with a well presented world. I liked it.

[Great Rumbler]

Spawn-Man this was bad. Micheal J White can not act and the cg has aged terribly.

Wrong. Go watch Black Dynamite.

[The Sceneman]

fuck Black Dynamite is so good.

And I rewatched Dredd the other day, easily the best film of 2012.

My movies of the year going back as far as I can:

1997 - Con Air
1998 - The Big Lebowski
1999 - The Mummy
2000 - Traffic
2001 - Spy Kids
2002 - Catch Me If You Can
2003 - Oldboy or Paycheck. Probably Paycheck as Oldboy is a film student type of choice
2004 - The Butterfly Effect (really it's The Aviator but that isn't as lulz entertainment as Butterfly Effect)
2005 - The New World
2006 - American Cannibal
2007 - Sunshine
2008 - Speed Racer
2009 - GI Joe
2010 - Kick Ass
2011 - Drive
2012 - Dredd

[The Sceneman]

Silent Hill-I've never seen this or played the games. So I have no attachment to the series. I liked this movie. The visuals were great and the atmosphere fantastic, with some genuinely creepy things. It just seemed to be an actually cared for and well crafted movie.

Yeah the Silent Hill film is great, and probably the most faithful-to-the-source game to film there is.

[chronovore]

Finished My Name is Bruce; fun, but wholly uneven. I know it was supposed to just be a fun, funny, self-parodying horror comedy, but it was also supposedly showing an actual small town hiring Bruce-Campbell-as-hero, and the misunderstandings which ensue. It was fun; seemed like a movie Bruce made with his friends on a lark. Eh, it was fun.

[The Sceneman]

I enjoyed that film, but yeah, "uneven" is one of the best adjectives you could use to describe it. Self parody films are pretty dicey and hard to get right (see also: Pauly Shore is Dead, JCVD) so kudos to the crew for trying, at least.

[chronovore]

There were a couple good gags; it was worth a spin, and the final scene and credits brought the picture together, but the whole thing lacked some edge. I also thought it tried to walk a weird line with the Chinese aspect, both casting the miners as mistreated victims worthy of respect, and then Ted Raimi comes out in "yellow-face" with a really offensive accent, with which I was uncomfortable.

[Eric P]

Fear of a Black Hat, the other early 90s hip hop mockumentary.  Good moments but not as slick as CB4.

[Mandark]

I remember that!

[Don Flamenco]

watched a br rip of the The Master last night.  Great movie!   First film i've seen in a long time...

[Great Rumbler]

Incoming Star Wars spinoff movies:

"To start with, they're going to focus on established characters and do solo films," AICN's Harry Knowles said about Disney's plans to expand their "Star Wars" empire. "The first Stand Alone film is going to center upon Yoda.  At this stage specifics are sparse, but Kathleen Kennedy is putting together a 'Star Wars' slate."

[ManaByte]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

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[chronovore]

That looks great, but I am afraid we have just seen every major scene from the entire movie. The whole YouTube should be considered a spoiler!

[Great Rumbler]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

As THR first reported, Kasdan and Kinberg are working on separate films that will serve as spinoffs of the main new trilogy. Iger told CNBC that the pair are "working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time, too."

Eat it.

[Cormacaroni]

why does everything have to be a fucking trilogy

[Cormacaroni]

don't bother answering, all i want is sympathy

[Cormacaroni]

good point

[The Sceneman]

Fear of a Black Hat, the other early 90s hip hop mockumentary.  Good moments but not as slick as CB4.

A couple of laughs in that film but a lot of the humor is very dated. CB4 is indeed superior.

Not strictly related but "I'm Gonna Git You Sucka" is a classic from around the same time

[Great Rumbler]

I think the first planned trilogy was Star Wars, although I didn't think they advertised it as such at the time. It's definitely become a phenomenon recently, even extending into the realm of videogames.

[Cormacaroni]

6-plus years is far too long to wait for the conclusion of some trivial little space opera fluff...it creates this huge weight of expectation that is almost inevitably dashed.

[Great Rumbler]

With a few changes and little bit added to the final scenes, Star Wars could have easily been a single movie. Though the idea of just doing one movie went out the window really early in the development of the story.

[chronovore]

With a few changes and little bit added to the final scenes, Star Wars could have easily been a single movie. Though the idea of just doing one movie went out the window really early in the development of the story.

I want to see that 90-minute version of the Prequels which Topher Grace did for his own studies.
http://www.slashfilm.com/topher-grace-edited-star-wars-prequels-85minute-movie/
I like the idea of taking all that unnecessary crap and bad pacing and then dashing it against the rocks of a good editing board.

[cool breeze]

Dredd is awesome

pew pe wjudgment pewIAM THE LAW

[Groogrux]

One of Harry's spies saw "Yoda Chronicles" on a white board at Lucasfilm and thought he had a scoop.

It's a LEGO Yoda movie that's going direct to DVD.

As THR first reported, Kasdan and Kinberg are working on separate films that will serve as spinoffs of the main new trilogy. Iger told CNBC that the pair are "working on films derived from great Star Wars characters that are not part of the overall saga, so we still plan to make Star Wars VII, VIII and IX roughly over a six-year period of time starting in 2015. But there are going to be a few other films released in that period of time, too."

Eat it.

The spinoffs make me nervous.  If this shit becomes so diluted like the X-Men movies and all of their spinoffs, then there really is no hope for the franchise.

Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a Yoda origins story, but I don't think we need a full-length feature film for it.

[Don Flamenco]

i watched CB4 last year...still good.  That SNL period spawned some good movies.  Wayne's World, Chris Farley's movies, Sandler's good movies, coneheads (actually I don't remember how good this movie was...)

[ManaByte]

Monty Python reunites, Robin Williams replaces Graham Chapman:
http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118049265/

Plans are for filming to begin in the U.K. this spring, with the Pythons voicing key roles as a a group of aliens who endow an earthling with the power to do "absolutely anything" to see what a mess he'll make of things -- which is precisely what happens. There's also a talking dog named Dennis who seems to understand more about the mayhem that ensues than anyone else does. Robin Williams will voice the character.

[Great Rumbler]

Please be good, please be good, please be good...

[Cindi Mayweather]

why does everything have to be a fucking trilogy

BECAUSE

it's...EPIC, man!

[Great Rumbler]

Actually, you can probably blame J.R.R. Tolkien for trilogies. What a loser.

[ManaByte]

Harry Knowles is full of shit as always:
http://insidemovies.ew.com/2013/02/06/star-wars-spin-offs-young-han-solo-movie-boba-fett/

Not a Yoda movie. A Young Han Solo movie set before Episode IV and a Boba Fett movie set during the Original Trilogy.

[Great Rumbler]

Swashbuckling smuggler/mercenary Star Wars movies?! ZOMG

[Boogie]

Actually, you can probably blame J.R.R. Tolkien for trilogies. What a loser.

Actually, you can't blame him either.  He wrote The Lord of The Rings as one volume/story.  It was the publisher who insisted it be broken up into three separate books, IIRC.

[Great Rumbler]

Then I guess we should blame George Allen and Stanley Unwin.

[cool breeze]

one of the stand-alone star wars movies will be about young Han Solo set between the prequels and original trilogy.  the other follows Boba Fett between episodes 4 and 5.

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=99975#lToEGQswyBTJ08PE.99

the Han Solo movie will probably have young Lando, young Chewbacca, young Greedo, young Jabba, and the millennium falcon.  he either gets the ship at the end of the movie, or they stretch it into the Young Solo Trilogy and tease it.  Han tells Lando, "one of these days I'll get your ship."  Lando's like "you'll have to shoot me first!."  Han looks at the camera, "you know me--I always shoot first!"  Then he winks at Greedo, who happens to be standing there.

Disney can't wait for Viper Probe Droid's Day Out

[TakingBackSunday]

Bradley Cooper as Solo plz

[ManaByte]

There will be a Die Hard 6:
http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60809

[Cormacaroni]

Actually, you can probably blame J.R.R. Tolkien for trilogies. What a loser.

Actually, you can't blame him either.  He wrote The Lord of The Rings as one volume/story.  It was the publisher who insisted it be broken up into three separate books, IIRC.

Yeah, he only says this is in preface to every edition    Lay ye not The Matrix at the Master's feet Great Rumbler

[Dickie Dee]

Just imagine the reverance that'd be held for The Matrix if they had stopped at the first.

Though they still probably would've made another by now even if they'd initially stopped

[Momo]

Eh, it's good that they made Matrix sequels. The Matrix is just a series of copies of other's ideas introduced to new audiences. That they went so off the rails after that tells me all I need to know about the makers.

[Cindi Mayweather]

Holy shit at Han solo movie news

[Great Rumbler]

Eh, it's good that they made Matrix sequels. The Matrix is just a series of copies of other's ideas introduced to new audiences. That they went so off the rails after that tells me all I need to know about the makers.

But they also made Speed Racer, therefore your argument is invalid.

[Verdigris Murder]

Paranormal Activity 4 actually isn't half bad, and the Kinect thing is pretty cool.

[Mupepe]

I was bored to tears by PA4.  I actually liked the previous 3.  4 somehow made even less sense than the previous movies which is quite a feat.

[Great Rumbler]

Stuart Freeborn, the British pioneering movie makeup artist behind creatures such as Yoda and Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, has died. He was 98.

[Momo]

Eh, it's good that they made Matrix sequels. The Matrix is just a series of copies of other's ideas introduced to new audiences. That they went so off the rails after that tells me all I need to know about the makers.

But they also made Speed Racer, therefore your argument is invalid.

No this supports my argument. =P

My argument is they only make good stuff when they work off established material =P

[Mupepe]

I watched The Master last night.  Disappointed would be an understatement.  It feel incomplete for some reason and the pacing is extremely inconsistent.  It's the first time a PTA film has really let me down.

[Verdigris Murder]

I was bored to tears by PA4.  I actually liked the previous 3.  4 somehow made even less sense than the previous movies which is quite a feat.

I watched it with expectations of zero fun, it's not a patch on 3, and wtf at the way they just stopped watching the recorded footage. Idiot yanks.

Shame about The Master, I was kindof looking forward to catching that.

Also the dog part in ABCs of death is awesome.

[Verdigris Murder]

Yeah, the ending of PA4 was actually shit.

Crowds of witches, and bullshit plot catatonic wankery.

[Verdigris Murder]

I've also just decided that I'll re-register on neogaf if I receive the following:

A written apology from Opiate, in which he regrets his insolent simplicity, and why he looks like a homosexual serial killer of transsexuals. A bit like that guy in The Sandamn Dolls House book.

Egg roll and the Dutch guy. Make it so.