Author Topic: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread (Read 2631011 times)

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #2940 on:** January 10, 2010, 04:37:56 PM »

The best parts of G-Force was when it was like Splinter Cell for kids. The worst parts was the other hour, when they tried to have plot and character development and crap. Who cares? They're CG Guinea Pigs, I don't care if they always longed to be a part of a family or some BS. Also the twist-ending Transformer-esque final battle was SMH even for a kid's movie about talking rodent secret agents.

Eric P · « **Reply #2941 on:** January 10, 2010, 05:13:51 PM »

Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on January 10, 2010, 02:31:22 PM

Yeah, its a straight up dark fantasy/horror flick, albeit a PG-rated one. The only other 2009 horror flicks I liked were Carriers

carriers was really quite enjoyable and recommended to anyone looking for something a bit different with their post apocalyptica

Just saw Haneke's The White Ribbon. Very dense and disturbing without being as explicit as many of his other films

Don Flamenco · « **Reply #2942 on:** January 10, 2010, 06:52:56 PM »

Anvil: The Story of Anvil.

Loved it. It's about this 80s metal band that should have been huge, on paper, but since they didn't have management or a big break, it never happened. They were influential on GNR, Slayer, Metallica, etc. They kept on playing and releasing albums though. I thought it would be like a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary with lots of schadenfreude, but it was more about how dedicated they are. Sure, there are some cringing moments where they're like "we're still gonna be rockstars...never give up hope!" They are like 50 years old now...but the rest of it was very heartwarming and sometimes sad because they'd get fucked over by bar owners.

Was gonna see them play tonight, but I feel like shit and it was a $20 cover...so I guess they're doing alright for themselves now, heh.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #2943 on:** January 10, 2010, 06:56:11 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 10, 2010, 02:44:48 PM

Quote from: am nintenho on January 10, 2010, 03:42:06 AM
The only time I ever had a problem was when I realized that it was supposed to be an indie movie and yet the production values were so not shitty.
Why would that be a problem?

Well obviously independent movies get some extra hype for not having a lot of resources to work with. In this movie, I never felt like they had to use anything "second-hand". The special effects and the set design never felt lacking at all and the budget was sort of the unofficial max for an indie movie ($5 million). On the other hand, it is impressive that they shot the whole movie in a month and 95% was one actor.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2944 on:** January 10, 2010, 07:08:13 PM »

Quote from: Kranz Fafka on January 10, 2010, 06:52:56 PM

Anvil: The Story of Anvil.

Loved it. It's about this 80s metal band that should have been huge, on paper, but since they didn't have management or a big break, it never happened. They were influential on GNR, Slayer, Metallica, etc. They kept on playing and releasing albums though. I thought it would be like a Christopher Guest-style mockumentary with lots of schadenfreude, but it was more about how dedicated they are. Sure, there are some cringing moments where they're like "we're still gonna be rockstars...never give up hope!" They are like 50 years old now...but the rest of it was very heartwarming and sometimes sad because they'd get fucked over by bar owners.

Was gonna see them play tonight, but I feel like shit and it was a $20 cover...so I guess they're doing alright for themselves now, heh.

I've been talking about this movie for months. Fucking love it.

Bebpo · « **Reply #2945 on:** January 10, 2010, 07:42:11 PM »

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Great! I loooove Terry Gilliam's films but his last couple (Tideland, Brothers Grimm) have been less than stellar so expectations were a bit lower here but he made another great movie

It wasn't bizarro art-world pacing like Brazil but rather entertaining well paced mainstream movie with fantastic visuals like Munchausen and 12 Monkey's to a lesser degree. Was a lot of fun with good performances, a good script and neat visual design. The CG was really low-budget, but sometimes it still looked cool. Glad to see Gilliam hasn't lost his touch.

The movie really should have gotten wide release and not just be limited to art houses. It has enough mainstream appeal and big name actors to carry it.

ManaByte · « **Reply #2946 on:** January 11, 2010, 02:15:15 AM »

Star Trek II: The Second Wrath of Khan is set for May 2012.

Raban · « **Reply #2947 on:** January 11, 2010, 03:04:54 AM »

Quote from: ManaByte on January 11, 2010, 02:15:15 AM

Star Trek II: The Second Wrath of Khan is set for May 2012.

That can't be the title.

ManaByte · « **Reply #2948 on:** January 11, 2010, 03:23:52 AM »

Star Trek II: The Second Wrath of Kahn
Star Trek III: Search for Spock Again
Star Trek IV: Another Voyage Home
Star Trek V: The Final Final Frontier
Star Trek VI: More Undiscovered Country

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #2949 on:** January 11, 2010, 03:29:44 AM »

Just saw Funny Games. Awesome movie. Loved how aware the movie is of its viewers, and how it toys with their expectations.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2950 on:** January 11, 2010, 10:41:55 AM »

I don't think anyone would want to remake Search for Spock or The Final Frontier.

Eric P · « **Reply #2951 on:** January 11, 2010, 10:43:10 AM »

they should remake Undiscovered Country, but instead of heavy handed cold war parable, they can make it a war on terror parable!

"the klingons are a race of PEACE, but there are extremists who seek to destroy the Federation!"

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #2952 on:** January 11, 2010, 10:46:20 AM »

oh man. Second First Contact is gonna kick so much ass.

cool breeze · « **Reply #2953 on:** January 11, 2010, 01:20:52 PM »

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

people saying this is better than Up are so right

Eric P · « **Reply #2954 on:** January 11, 2010, 01:41:07 PM »

Eric P · « **Reply #2955 on:** January 11, 2010, 01:41:15 PM »

"STEVE!"

cool breeze · « **Reply #2956 on:** January 11, 2010, 01:50:02 PM »

the movie sets things up so early on that you kinda ignore them until they resurface

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the gummy bear line was hilarious early in the movie when it seemed like a random joke they kept putting in there, and then at the end with the giant gummy bears and steve ripping out a gummy bear heart

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Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #2957 on:** January 11, 2010, 02:09:37 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on January 10, 2010, 05:13:51 PM

Just saw Haneke's The White Ribbon. Very dense and disturbing without being as explicit as many of his other films

It's not out in Seattle yet, but I'm looking forward to seeing it.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #2958 on:** January 11, 2010, 11:23:14 PM »

Just watched Primer.

I am so fucking confused right now.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2959 on:** January 11, 2010, 11:24:44 PM »

Quote from: BobFromPikeCreek on January 11, 2010, 11:23:14 PM

Just watched Primer.

I am so fucking confused right now.

That's pretty much how everyone feels after the first viewing. You'll need to watch it at least one more time to really get what's going on.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #2960 on:** January 11, 2010, 11:31:39 PM »

I'll have to. For the last twenty minutes or so I was all like "wait, wat?"

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #2961 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:02:14 AM »

Quote from: Green Shinobi on January 12, 2010, 01:59:54 AM

Goddammit, Carriers sounds EXACTLY like a novella I was going to write.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #2962 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:05:53 AM »

That's the spirit!

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #2963 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:13:10 AM »

Does it still count if I come up with an idea when that idea already exists?

...

... well then, I guess you don't want to read my novel about a cyborg that comes from the future to save a young man he was once sent to kill? Do you?

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #2964 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:18:23 AM »

I's trollin', GS. Take the wind out of me when I post something and I'll laugh in return.

BobFromPikeCreek · « **Reply #2965 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:23:26 AM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on January 12, 2010, 02:13:10 AM

Does it still count if I come up with an idea when that idea already exists?

...

... well then, I guess you don't want to read my novel about a cyborg that comes from the future to save a young man he was once sent to kill? Do you?

Cormacaroni · « **Reply #2966 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:29:51 AM »

Quote from: Green Shinobi on January 12, 2010, 02:04:26 AM

It's okay, I'll just cannibalize the best ideas and insert them into other stories.

It wasn't exactly that similar. What I wanted to do was write a story about a lethal pandemic that focused only on the outbreak itself - no aftermath with survivors. That was the only goal. The actual plot points could be just about anything as long as that was the setting.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114069/

brawndolicious · « **Reply #2967 on:** January 12, 2010, 02:49:29 AM »

Quote from: Green Shinobi on January 12, 2010, 02:21:34 AM

I've also never seen Coraline. Is it really that dark a film?

It's not hard to watch.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2968 on:** January 12, 2010, 10:00:29 AM »

Everything you think is original has been done by somebody else. The point is to do it as good or better, and not like Avatar.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2969 on:** January 12, 2010, 10:15:48 AM »

Quote from: The Fake Shemp on January 12, 2010, 10:00:29 AM

Everything you think is original has been done by somebody else.

Yeah, this is something you've got to come to grips with. If you obsess over what everybody else has done and try to come up with something that's never be done before, you'll go crazy...and never get anything done.

As long as it's not plagiarism, you'll probably do just fine.

Raban · « **Reply #2970 on:** January 12, 2010, 12:57:26 PM »

Just watched Minorty Report again. Is it just me or do all films based on a PKD book have a really similar feel? All of them focus around displaying some kind of technology, and mix in this really twisted and almost stupid sense of humor (Tom Cruise chasing eyeballs, all of A Scanner Darkly, Arnold suffocating, Deckard's interview voice).

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2971 on:** January 12, 2010, 01:03:29 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on January 12, 2010, 10:15:48 AM

As long as it's not plagiarism, you'll probably do just fine.

Or in the case of Avatar, you'll still do fine!

ManaByte · « **Reply #2972 on:** January 12, 2010, 03:36:19 PM »

Haven't seen it in years, so I just watched Time After Time. You can really see where they took inspiration from when making Back to the Future. There are some things that are direct lifts from it (Spielberg watched Time After Time over and over when developing BTTF).

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2973 on:** January 12, 2010, 04:15:50 PM »

I watched that on streaming Netflix a few months back. I believe my immediate reaction was, "Wow, Nicholas Meyer made the same exact film just years later with Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home."

Eric P · « **Reply #2974 on:** January 12, 2010, 05:04:05 PM »

tonight i will be watching Jackie Chan's New Police Story on Blu.

thank you, amazon.com

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #2975 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:15:22 PM »

G.I. Joe is completely ridiculous, and that's the best thing about it. There's a point late in the film where Dennis Quaid barks out the order "Send in the sharks!", and I thought for a moment that he meant he was going to send in real, actual sharks to fight the enemy, not the jet-fighter-esque attack subs that were really sent out, and it would have fit in perfectly with what came before. Its that kind of movie.

Everything is totally goofy, but the action scenes aren't half bad, you can actually even tell whats going in them almost all the time (virtually shaky cam free). And Joseph Gordon Levitt is full-on awesome as Cobra Commander, if he ever wants a career as a voice actor for kiddy cartoon shows, he would nail it.

Its also, by PG-13 standards, pretty damn violent. There had to be like three decapitations in the film, plus a shitload of eye stabbing, torso stabbing, and stabbing stabbing.

Its not a great movie, but its way, way, way better then any film with such a dubios petagree ought to be. If there's ever a Transformers movie that's as good I will shit my pants in amazement.

**1/2

and I want EricP's verdict on New Police Story.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2976 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:20:13 PM »

Quote from: HyperZoneWasAwesome on January 12, 2010, 11:15:22 PM

G.I. Joe is completely ridiculous, and that's the best thing about it. There's a point late in the film where Dennis Quaid barks out the order "Send in the sharks!", and I thought for a moment that he meant he was going to send in real, actual sharks to fight the enemy, not the jet-fighter-esque attack subs that were really sent out, and it would have fit in perfectly with what came before. Its that kind of movie.

Everything is totally goofy, but the action scenes aren't half bad, you can actually even tell whats going in them almost all the time (virtually shaky cam free). And Joseph Gordon Levitt is full-on awesome as Cobra Commander, if he ever wants a career as a voice actor for kiddy cartoon shows, he would nail it.

Its also, by PG-13 standards, pretty damn violent. There had to be like three decapitations in the film, plus a shitload of eye stabbing, torso stabbing, and stabbing stabbing.

Its not a great movie, but its way, way, way better then any film with such a dubios petagree ought to be. If there's ever a Transformers movie that's as good I will shit my pants in amazement.

**1/2

GI Joe is basically everything that Transformers should have been. There's no breaks in the action to [attempt to] develop characters that no one cares about, there's no breaks from the action to focus on the main character's parents, there's no breaks from the action to have some American Pie-esque humor, there's no break from the action for...well...ANYTHING. It's one big action scene from beginning to end and it's cheesy, cheesy fun.

Die in a fire, Michael Bay.

Also, it's "pedigree".

Diunx · « **Reply #2977 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:29:50 PM »

The Doctor was also pretty awesome on that movie, I hope they keep them as the villains for part 2.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2978 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:32:15 PM »

Quote from: Diunx on January 12, 2010, 11:29:50 PM

The Doctor was also pretty awesome on that movie, I hope they keep them as the villains for part 2.

After seeing how much it cost versus how much it made, it looked like there wasn't going to be a sequel, but apparently they're doing one anyway with the writers of Zombieland penning the script.

Raban · « **Reply #2979 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:33:27 PM »

I like GI Joe aside from Cobra Commander sucking ass. The plot should have been non-existent instead of endangered species level of absent, since the dinner party scene was beyond stupid.

My idea of a perfectly plotless action movie based on a license? Mortal fucking Kombat. Not an ounce of story in that film.

Diunx · « **Reply #2980 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:52:14 PM »

The women of G.I.Joe>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>Megan Fox.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2981 on:** January 12, 2010, 11:55:54 PM »

The only thing I didn't like about GI Joe was:

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Baroness not really being evil, just mind-controlled.

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Laaaaaaame.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #2982 on:** January 13, 2010, 12:12:55 AM »

My only gripe with G.I. Joe was

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all of it, holy shit

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Diunx · « **Reply #2983 on:** January 13, 2010, 12:14:44 AM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on January 13, 2010, 12:12:55 AM

My only gripe with G.I. Joe was

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all of it, holy shit
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smh

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2984 on:** January 13, 2010, 12:19:25 AM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on January 13, 2010, 12:12:55 AM

My only gripe with G.I. Joe was

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all of it, holy shit
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Wrong.

GI Joe: Rise of Cobra was basically a live action episode of GI Joe: The Animated Series, meaning that it was AWESOME.

Mr. Gundam · « **Reply #2985 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:40:43 AM »

Watched The Hurt Locker again tonight. Still absolutely brilliant.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #2986 on:** January 14, 2010, 02:04:37 AM »

The Onion's AV Club just did a write up on G.I. Joe, the author compared to an irony and musical free version of Team America, which is so brilliant I wish I'd thought of it.

Also, Lee Byung-Hun was pretty awesome. Made those movies like JSA and A Bittersweet Life look like piles of crap.*

*

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oh my fuck no.

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Great Rumbler · « **Reply #2987 on:** January 14, 2010, 10:23:48 AM »

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If this was a real G.I. Joe adaptation, Wayans and Nichols would’ve come out at the end and told us to stay away from downed power lines, and that if a stranger offers us candy, we should give it to a friend we don’t like.

Mupepe · « **Reply #2988 on:** January 14, 2010, 11:17:48 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on January 10, 2010, 07:42:11 PM

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

Great! I loooove Terry Gilliam's films but his last couple (Tideland, Brothers Grimm) have been less than stellar so expectations were a bit lower here but he made another great movie It wasn't bizarro art-world pacing like Brazil but rather entertaining well paced mainstream movie with fantastic visuals like Munchausen and 12 Monkey's to a lesser degree. Was a lot of fun with good performances, a good script and neat visual design. The CG was really low-budget, but sometimes it still looked cool. Glad to see Gilliam hasn't lost his touch.

The movie really should have gotten wide release and not just be limited to art houses. It has enough mainstream appeal and big name actors to carry it.

I saw this a couple nights ago. It has a pretty decent wide release now I think. Nothing crazy, but a decent amount. It's playing in like 6 theaters in Houston and none of them are the art houses.

This movie is pretty damn great. Way more accessible than any other Gilliam film. With a good marketing push as Heath Ledgers final performance and with the big names of Johnny Depp, Jude Law and Colin Farrell, it could have done pretty well I think.

I thought the CG was pretty awesome and fit the movie perfectly. It was a pretty dark, yet whimsical tale. So the CG is pretty much what I imagined it to have.

They also worked around Ledger's death pretty great. It didn't feel compromised whatsoever. Some say the "workaround" was planned, but I don't know. I can't really tell to be honest. And that speaks to how well it was done anyways.

Oh and Lily Cole is so fucking hot in this movie.

I love this movie though. Go see it!

Eric P · « **Reply #2989 on:** January 14, 2010, 11:56:19 AM »

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Mars Attacks!: Bryan Cranston, the amazing star of Breaking Bad, has joined the cast of Pixar's first live-action film, John Carter of Mars. The film focuses on a Civil War veteran (the amazing Taylor Kitsch) who somehow ends up on Mars, fighting in the planet's own war. Cranston will play a Civil War colonel who goes to Mars with him. Once on the red planet, they start a high-school football team and start cooking meth.

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/#ixzz0cbgJhzNd

well there goes my hopes for a good A Princess of Mars movie

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #2990 on:** January 14, 2010, 12:17:16 PM »

House of the Devil wasn't that great.

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2991 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:17:04 PM »

Quote from: mojovonio on January 14, 2010, 12:17:16 PM

House of the Devil wasn't that great.

You're not that great, but I won't hold it against you.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #2992 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:18:16 PM »

The title sequence was great.

Eric P · « **Reply #2993 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:19:24 PM »

i liked most of it, but the end was pretty special

The Fake Shemp · « **Reply #2994 on:** January 14, 2010, 01:21:49 PM »

Yeah, the last fifteen minutes or so is

ManaByte · « **Reply #2995 on:** January 15, 2010, 02:15:49 AM »

Star Trek II is now June 2012. No script or story yet.

They should have Shatner play Harry Mudd.

Hitler Stole My Potato · « **Reply #2996 on:** January 15, 2010, 06:26:59 AM »

I don't give a fuck what everyone else says, Envy is pretty damn funny. Yeah, THAT Envy. The 2004 Ben Stiller and Jack Black comedy about vaporizing dog shit. I don't know why I find this movie enjoyable and 95% of the rest of the population out there can't stand it but after catching it again last night on TBS I'm sticking to my opinion.

Normally I don't like either of these guy's films (especially Stiller) but there's something about watching Stiller's out of control slow burn in this one that just cracks me up.

Eric P · « **Reply #2997 on:** January 15, 2010, 08:15:10 AM »

caught Stray Dog at the Film Forum last night. Still my favorite of the Post War Kurosawa crime films, though it was like a new experience because i had confused its ending with High and Low, as it has been a number of years since I've seen either.

tonight I'm probably going to the IFC Center to catch Hausu

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Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #2998 on:** January 16, 2010, 12:33:02 AM »

I didn't get to see Book of Eli like I wanted today so I should be seeing it tomorrow. Unfortunately our local theater isn't playing ANYTHING else I want to see like A Serious Man, The Road;etc. and we have enough money to see two movies tomorrow.

Fuck.

Raban · « **Reply #2999 on:** January 16, 2010, 01:27:05 AM »

Quote from: Himuro on January 16, 2010, 12:33:02 AM

I didn't get to see Book of Eli like I wanted today so I should be seeing it tomorrow. Unfortunately our local theater isn't playing ANYTHING else I want to see like A Serious Man, The Road;etc. and we have enough money to see two movies tomorrow.

Fuck.

A Serious Man was sooooo goooooood

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