Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[fistfulofmetal]

I just watched Rango and yeah. it's pretty great.
there were some really low brow jokes in there but for the most part it's funny and the dialogue is well done.

[chronovore]

Tree of Life.

Honestly, I ended up liking it, but the space/primordial stuff just killed all forward movement. In the 2nd half, I started to understand the reason for the sidetrack, but every time another scene of astral or natural splendor showed, I felt "Oh, shit. Not this again." When it ended, I felt pretty good about the whole movie. But I don't think I could watch it again.

[Phoenix Dark]

The film has a similar feel as Coppola's Dracula. I like both as flawed movies that just entertain me for some reason. It's not a good movie but dunno man, I like it and wish we had more classic horror films like it and Dracula. I love the costumes, the atmosphere, etc 

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[Great Rumbler]

Classic Horror monsters deserve a revival, you'd think with Hollywood remaking everything they'd remake those that are both due for a remake and most fitting for such.

If The Woflman is the level of quality they're aiming for, I hope they don't even bother.

[fistfulofmetal]

Tangled was really good. what a sweet and well made little movie.

[Great Rumbler]

Tangled was better than Shrek.

[fistfulofmetal]

Mandy Moore played Rapunzel 

[Fresh Prince]

Pier Paolo Pasolini- Accatone
Still on an Italian neorealism bent. This is an interesting film. The thing that stands out is the camera work and the forced canned laughter. The story is nice and characterization is good. One for the proletariat. 3/5

Pier Paolo Pasolini- Medea
Jump shot. Zoom. Repeated scenes. I always like Medea in highschool. That crazy bitch and those weak men. The use of the satyr to demonstrate Jason's waning bestiality and turn to atheism was a nice touch. Maria Callas was gorgeous. The acting was okay and they should made a better boat instead of spending it all on costuming. The locations were superb. The editing is uneven though.  4/5

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It's basically like this

[fistfulofmetal]

Winter's Bone - didn't think much of it.

[Bildi]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I thought it'd be crap, but I came out thinking it was OK.  A lot of that is probably due to Roald Dahl's great story (I never read the book).  I also found myself thinking "how depressing that the brats remind me of four out of five actual children in 2011". 

[The Sceneman]

Tangled was really good. what a sweet and well made little movie.

.... its the worst CGI kids film since Shark Tale and Shrek 3

[Great Rumbler]

Tangled was really good. what a sweet and well made little movie.

.... its the worst CGI kids film since Shark Tale and Shrek 3

In what way is Tangled bad?

Four Lions

This black comedy is pitch-black. It also proves that terrorism can be funny. There's really not much to the story, just a bunch of British Muslims that decide they want to be suicide bombers but are way too stupid to do it right. The performances really stand out here and there are so many moments that are just laugh-out-loud funny. Without giving too much away, it's a downer ending. Should be kind of a given though.

[Oblivion]

Tangled was better than Shrek.

Tangled was waaaay better than Shrek (any of them). I'll be honest, I wasn't too hot on the trailer, but the movie was pretty damn good. It also has some of the nicest environmental art direction in a 3D movie.

[Beezy]

Tangled was really good. what a sweet and well made little movie.

.... its the worst CGI kids film since Shark Tale and Shrek 3

...joke?

[Cerveza mas fina]

Planet of the Apes

Didn't know anything before I went it, expected monkey to take over the world. But got

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monkeys merely escaping to a forest

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. Good for what it is. Wouldn't watch it again though.

[Himu]

Did you watch after the credits start

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the disease spreads to tokyo and then to the rest of the planet

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[Cerveza mas fina]

Yeah. 

It was to be expected.

[TEEEPO]

i can't decide which was better, Kaboom or Melancholia. 

[chronovore]

Did you watch after the credits start

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the disease spreads to tokyo and then to the rest of the planet

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My favorite "Keep watching through the credits!" movie was the Dawn of the Dead remake. LOL, island.

[Mupepe]

Did you watch after the credits start

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the disease spreads to tokyo and then to the rest of the planet

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My favorite "Keep watching through the credits!" movie was the Dawn of the Dead remake. LOL, island.

that and scenes of the asshole dude (dad from modern family) banging bitches on his boat.

[Mupepe]

Ravenous
Hadn't seen this since I was little but I never realized it was really a dark comedy.  Sadly, it's a pretty average one.  Entertaining but nothing special.

[TEEEPO]

fast five seriously fucking owned.

nearly a perfect action movie.

[Phoenix Dark]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I thought it'd be crap, but I came out thinking it was OK.  A lot of that is probably due to Roald Dahl's great story (I never read the book).  I also found myself thinking "how depressing that the brats remind me of four out of five actual children in 2011". 

The original or the remake...?

The original is amazing. I've probably watched it more than just about any movie, alongside Nightmare Before Christmas and Forrest Gump

[The Sceneman]

Did you watch after the credits start

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the disease spreads to tokyo and then to the rest of the planet

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well, duh. They didnt even need to put in that fucking epilogue, you knew that was going to happen.

I was glad when I saw the credits strted to roll, and I was like "wow, no epilogue. For once Hollywood filmmakers aren't treating me like a moron, I can put two and two together", and then BAM. Nope they have to spell it out for me. I am an idiot sitting in a multiplex, after all.

[Great Rumbler]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/ridley-scott-ready-to-direct-new-version-of-seminal-sci-fi-film-blade-runner/

Ridley Scott is producing and directing another Blade Runner!

Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat

[fistfulofmetal]

it's going to suck.

[Great Rumbler]

If Ridley Scott can reclaim the energy of his earlier works and if they find the right screenwriter, then this might be...oh, who am I kidding? This is going to suck.

[Dickie Dee]

I don't think this should be made, but Scott at least sort've sounds like he's got some energy and bawlz back doing Prometheus.

[Phoenix Dark]

it's going to suck.

So it'll be like the first one? Pass

[Great Rumbler]

it's going to suck.

So it'll be like the first one? Pass

leper PD

[Cormacaroni]

a remake of Blade Runner or another film in that milieu? Meh on the former I guess, but would be A-OK with the latter.

[Great Rumbler]

a remake of Blade Runner or another film in that milieu? Meh on the former I guess, but would be A-OK with the latter.

With Scott on-board I doubt they'd just do a straight remake. Probably some kind of sequel, maybe different characters in the same universe, expand on the ideas presented in the original. It's years away, if it even happens, so there's really no way to know for sure at this point.

[Cormacaroni]

i gave in and read the article, but it was so short on info that my excitement dropped to zero. Yeah, this may never happen, and even if it does, I'll probably still know all about loooong before I actually want to.

[Joe Molotov]

Nooooo, make Neuromancer instead! Or Snowcrash.

[Cormacaroni]

Yeah, then they would only be 20 years behind the times!

[Cormacaroni]

(if we must make a movie from a SF novel, let it be from a cutting edge one at least)

[Great Rumbler]

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[Dickie Dee]

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I really love the look of this Ghost Rider. His outfit and skull look appropriately burned, which is nice.

I'm probably gonna get burned for this, but for all his faults, I think Tim Burton would be perfect to direct a Ghost Rider movie, and get that he's just a modern day demon on horseback though on a steel horse he rides. Otherwise he's just Bad Airbrush Illustration: The Movie.

[fistfulofmetal]

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I really love the look of this Ghost Rider. His outfit and skull look appropriately burned, which is nice.

looks amazing. love the music choice as well. heard it's rated R as well. a rated R movie staring Nic Cage from the directors of Crank

it's win win win

[Diunx]

Yep, really looking forward to it specially after seeing drive angry

[Phoenix Dark]

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This is seriously the worst trailer I've seen for a new movie. This shit looks like it was thrown together in 10 minutes, and the movie looks worse. Even the shitty Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday, etc flicks had good trailers. Sure the movies sucked but they didn't look like student films

get yer shaky cam faux doc bullshit outta my Hellraiser

[Great Rumbler]

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This is seriously the worst trailer I've seen for a new movie. This shit looks like it was thrown together in 10 minutes, and the movie looks worse. Even the shitty Halloween, Nightmare On Elm Street, Friday, etc flicks had good trailers. Sure the movies sucked but they didn't look like student films

get yer shaky cam faux doc bullshit outta my Hellraiser

-$300,000 budget
-Written, shot, and finished over the course of a few weeks
-Straight-to-DVD [it was released in ONE theater back in March]

There is no amount of suffering Pinhead and his cenobite army could inflict that can compare with the agony of sitting through Hellraiser: Revelations, a desperate final cash-grab made without a single ounce of thought or discernible talent. Not only does this entry make all the other sequels seem great in comparison, you could easily confuse this for some Hellraiser mockbuster from the folks at The Asylum. 0/5

This is a movie where Asians are cast in the Mexico scenes in hopes that audiences won’t be able to tell the difference.

This is a film where the heroine learns everything about the mythology by looking up the word “cenobite” in Webster’s dictionary.

[Joe Molotov]

OMG, that new guy that plays Pinhead...noooooo. Doug Bradley was the only good thing about the later sequels, that dude was awesome. He could dish out a cheesy line with authority.

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[Enl]

Not expecting anything from the new Hellraiser since the only reason it was shot was so Dimension could keep a hold of the rights to the franchise. Wish they went with that remake instead with the Martyrs director attached.

[chronovore]

http://www.deadline.com/2011/08/ridley-scott-ready-to-direct-new-version-of-seminal-sci-fi-film-blade-runner/

Ridley Scott is producing and directing another Blade Runner!

If Ridley Scott can reclaim the energy of his earlier works and if they find the right screenwriter, then this might be...oh, who am I kidding? This is going to suck.

This, times 100. There is no way this can end well. If you want a sequel to BR, go read the Jeter books, and bring a dick-stapler with you for added pain. Some would say it's redundant, but I found the dick-stapler to take some of the edge of the Jeter books.

[HyperZoneWasAwesome]

Yeah, Ghost Rider looks hot.  Neveldine/Taylor have never gotten a decent budget before, but even the cheaply made Gamer and Crank's were highly entertaining.  And if its true that they'll be a R-rated Marvel film, well, that's just 


also, Tony Jaa is now shooting Tom Yum Goong 2 (AKA, the sequel to The Protector / Where's my Elephant).  The forecast predicts pain.

[chronovore]

Were -any- of the Hellraiser sequels from 3 onward worthwhile? I saw 3 and was like, "I'm out."

[Joe Molotov]

Were -any- of the Hellraiser sequels from 3 onward worthwhile? I saw 3 and was like, "I'm out."

No, but I still watched them.

[Cormacaroni]

Clive Barker seemed genuinely distraught about this one when he found out (via the trade news - no-one even bothered to consult him on this). Apparently he sold all the rights long ago and bitterly regrets it now.

[Joe Molotov]

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This movie looks pretty good, plus my two favorite actresses together in a movie.

[fistfulofmetal]

i bet the Peter Ward reveal would have been really cool if they hadn't spoiled it in the trailer

[Phoenix Dark]

 

I watched almost half of it. There are like 3 sex scenes in the first 20min

[Himu]

amazing film

did you play the game?!?!

[Himu]

http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/547307

[Robo]

That game is amazing.  Play the whole way through to the end - totally worth it.

[Himu]

I did the game in one sititng. amazing.

[Himu]

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

I thought it'd be crap, but I came out thinking it was OK.  A lot of that is probably due to Roald Dahl's great story (I never read the book).  I also found myself thinking "how depressing that the brats remind me of four out of five actual children in 2011". 

The original or the remake...?

The original is amazing. I've probably watched it more than just about any movie, alongside Nightmare Before Christmas and Forrest Gump

I know this will probably get me killed, but I really like the Tim Burton version. It's not a remake at all, it's an adaptation of the book, much closer than what the original movie set out to do.

I love both films. The original is clearly more close to my heart for obvious reasons but the Burton version is still great.

The one area the original is best at are the songs and choreography during said songs. It's a much better musical, so to speak. In the Burton version, all of the Oompa Loompa's are cgi of one dude, and it lacks the panache the original had. But if you like the book like I do, the Burton version is worth watching.

Still my favorite song in a film music:

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[Phoenix Dark]

omg

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[Great Rumbler]

Fright Night [2011]

A pretty good horror-comedy. It hit a lot of the right notes and had a nice balance of horror, comedy, and a little dash of drama that worked. Collin Farrell and David Tennant really hit it out of the park. 3D was pretty garbage, most of the time you couldn't even tell it was there. Except for in the final scene, there was a cool bit of 3D there. Not really worth paying the extra money though. But the movie itself is good stuff, definitely worth watching for fans of fun horror movies.

[Enl]

Fright Night [2011]

A pretty good horror-comedy. It hit a lot of the right notes and had a nice balance of horror, comedy, and a little dash of drama that worked. Collin Farrell and David Tennant really hit it out of the park. 3D was pretty garbage, most of the time you couldn't even tell it was there. Except for in the final scene, there was a cool bit of 3D there. Not really worth paying the extra money though. But the movie itself is good stuff, definitely worth watching for fans of fun horror movies.

I really enjoyed it too. It's one of the better horror remakes I've seen in recent years. Despite some pacing issues in the 3rd act and some awful, in your face CG at the end, the movie was quite a fun ride. I really liked Farrell as Dandridge and Tennant was pretty funny (but as a fan of the original I can't help prefer the Peter Cushing-esque Roddy McDowell). I was kinda likng where they were going with the new Evil Ed but that ended much too quickly. It doesn't hold a candle to the original but it's still a fun horror on its own.