Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Enl]

That's one handsome looking movie.

[fistfulofmetal]

man when the gunshots times up with the BANG BANG sound. that was pretty awesome.

[Eric P]

Haywire was awesome.  More beautifully shot action films, please.

[Verdigris Murder]

Tbh I watched the first fight with the 'bro' and the Fassbender hotel one, and didn't bother with the rest. I loved the no-soundtrack fights though. I still think about the scene in Casino Royale with the gents killing, and how much better it would have been without goddamn music.

[Diunx]

AWESOME teaser!

Bond

[CajoleJuice]

goddamn holy shit this year fucking rules

[CajoleJuice]

Talk about not giving anything away about your movie...

[Diunx]

That looks like a 70's film

[Great Rumbler]

It's kind of hard to tell, but that's a teaser for Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie.

[CajoleJuice]

I guess I should have pointed that out. I figured everyone knew about "The Master" by now. It's just that it's purportedly a Scientology movie, and you'd have no idea from that teaser.

[cool breeze]

goddamn holy shit this year fucking rules

for real

I didn't know Skyfall is a 2012 movie until today.

[BlueTsunami]

Skyfall was off my radar, the teaser shot it near the fucking top. The sound and music mix at the end is amazingly good.

[Phoenix Dark]

Bond: meh
The Master:

Is that a Johnny Greenwood score? Sounds quite like TWBB

[Great Rumbler]

Is that a Johnny Greenwood score?

It is.

[EvilBoris]

 
 
going blank slate on all these major upcoming films motherfuckers
 

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just 'The Master' thus far

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[Robo]

Paul Thomas Anderson

[EvilBoris]

  watching footage out of context for the first time

 It sucks that I even know who's in it though. That would be a genuinely fresh theatre experience.

[Eric P]

Hey, Nerds.  Watch this ASAP.  Hidden gem.  Won't change your life, but it's definitely worth watching

http://movies.netflix.com/Movie/Jack-s-Back/70226927

Did you know the director of Roadhouse made a good film?

[The Sceneman]

getting crazy pumped to watch Rock Star on fridae nite w/ beers

[EvilBoris]

 OK, I dare take it the new AndrewDominik would be the most high profile Cannes COMP title on The Bore's collective mind so in breathless, Expendable-approved film reporting here's a bunch of fresh tweets for you folks to chew on. But seriously, a number of these film thinkers are worth keeping up with.

gemko: Killing Them Softly (Dominik): 63. Subtext, Andrew. *Sub*text. Sub.
 
GuyLodge: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (B-) Blinding dirty-70s homage taken to stylistically suspended present, all to add stunningly banal Obama surtext? Why? Still, familiarly flavourful and grubbily gorgeous, with bland Pitt a shock absorber for off-the-chain support cast. Gandolfini! Mendelsohn!

samcmac: 2nd movie in comp to throw mud in my face and tell me it's wisdom. America = money. shock and awe. C-

JonathonRomney: KILLING THEM SOFTLY is it. Incredibly tense, verbally brilliant, atmospheric, eerily languid essay on crime, violence and America. Superb turns by Pitt, Gandolfini, Mendelsohn but show nearly stolen by Scoot McNairy, who does the best weasly abjection since Buscemi...

Glenn Heath Jr MatchCuts: KILLING THEM SOFTLY (B+): Pulling yourself up by your bootstraps is a dirty & punishing game. Angry cousin to JESSE JAMES.

Michal Oleszczyk : KILLING THEM SOFTLY 5/10 Meandering subpar pulp with some asinine politics crudely pasted atop. Impressed by showy touches, though

Ben Kenigsberg: Killing Them Softly (Dominik?!): Clips of the financial crisis don't add insta-gravitas to a pseudo-edgy wiseguy drama, know what I'm sayin?

Blake Williams: Killing Them Softly - No doubting what Dominik wants you to take away from this, but it's still an exceptional, dialogue-heavy thriller. It is impressive that this movie was made without ever feeling Tarantino-esque; loved Gandolfini and Liotta; a stylized actors movie (6.6)

Robert Koehler: KILLING ME SOFTLY is just a bunch of guys talking&shooting each other, w/ some pauses for James Gandolfini's unique brand of melancholy


http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/cannes-review-andrew-dominiks-killing-them-softly-starring-brad-pitt-20120522

[ManaByte]

Talk about not giving anything away about your movie...

L. Ron biopic confirmed (but without the main character being named L.Ron of course, as PTA doesn't want to be tossed into a Scientology dungeon)

[Mupepe]

oh man, Rock Star is so good in such a bad way.  It does have the best use of Ted Nugent's Stranglehold ever.  Every time it's on I can't help but watch the whole damn thing. 

[Timber]

omg

[Dickie Dee]

Oh look, Baz Luhrmann is making his movie again

[Eel O'Brian]

3D

[Huff]

ugh can't stand tobey maguire

[Phoenix Dark]

Nothing says THE GREAT GATSBY like Jay-Z and 3D

[Robo]

Oh look, Baz Luhrmann is making his movie again

Yep.  Still, love the casting.

[Tasty]

Saw The Woman in Black. Pretty good. A few too many jump/fake-out scares though, but meh what's new.

[Diunx]

Are they stupid enough to release that the same day as Django Unchained? even the Leo boost is gonna get cannibalized.

[Eric P]

ha ha ha.

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HA HA HA

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[Timber]

No one wants to see Robert Redford being boring in an old suit. Get with the times.

[Great Rumbler]

Baz Luhrmann

[Robo]

 

[Barry Egan]

Baz Luhrmann

this.  trailer was not so hot though.

[Great Rumbler]

Baz Luhrmann

this.  trailer was not so hot though.

I'll chalk that up to it just being a poorly-made trailer.

[Boogie]

GI Joe being pushed back to June 2013 for conversion to 3D.

[Eric P]

THR reports that Warner Premiere is moving forward with an animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (1986), which will be split into a two parts. The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 is due to hit stores this fall and Part 2 will be released early 2013.

Warner Premiere also announced that Robocop’s Peter Weller will voice Batman/Bruce Wayne, and Modern Family’s Ariel Winter, will voice Robin. In addition, Falcon Crest’s David Selby, Prison Break’s Wade Williams and This Is Spinal Tap’s Michael McKean have also signed on as voice actors. Man of Steel’s Jay Oliva will be directing off a script by Warehouse 13′s Bob Goodman.

[Tasty]

Should be great. Year One was really well adapted.

[Great Rumbler]

GI Joe being pushed back to June 2013 for conversion to 3D.

Should be great. Year One was really well adapted.

In was too well adapted, actually. Had no identity of its own as an animated movie, just took even panel from the comic and put it into the movie. Of course that didn't make it bad or anything, it just felt kinda pointless since I'd already read the comic.

[Tasty]

I've actually only read a couple selections from the comic so it was great for me.

[cool breeze]

I'm glad it's split in two parts.  Those DC animated movies always have crazy fast pacing.

I saw Doom / Tower of Babel a few weeks back and they really rush through it.  Same with Year One and New Frontier.  Under the Red Hood was better because it took more liberties with its inspiration.

[Tasty]

Yeah, Under the Red Hood was the only one I felt was paced perfectly.

I didn't feel Year One rushed that much though, but that may be because I haven't read all of the source material. From what I understand the did cut a couple things too.

[Great Rumbler]

Under the Red Hood was better because it took more liberties with its inspiration.

I haven't read the comic for that, but the movie was one of the better that I've seen.

[Barry Egan]

Baz Luhrmann

this.  trailer was not so hot though.

I'll chalk that up to it just being a poorly-made trailer.

totally.  I don't think you can make a Baz Luhrmann trailer that wouldn't make his work look stupid.  I needed to see Moulin Rouge 3 times before I could really appreciate it. 

[Tasty]

Under the Red Hood was better because it took more liberties with its inspiration.

I haven't read the comic for that, but the movie was one of the better that I've seen.

Ranks with Mask of the Phantasm IMO. I might even like it a bit more, but it's been a while since I've seen Phantasm.

[Great Rumbler]

Under the Red Hood was better because it took more liberties with its inspiration.

I haven't read the comic for that, but the movie was one of the better that I've seen.

Ranks with Mask of the Phantasm IMO. I might even like it a bit more, but it's been a while since I've seen Phantasm.

Have you seen Return of the Joker and Subzero?

[Diunx]

GI Joe being pushed back to June 2013 for conversion to 3D.

New low for hollywood.

[cool breeze]

Original date would've placed it right before Spider-Man and Batman, still after The Avengers.  It's not just for the 3D.

[Tasty]

Under the Red Hood was better because it took more liberties with its inspiration.

I haven't read the comic for that, but the movie was one of the better that I've seen.

Ranks with Mask of the Phantasm IMO. I might even like it a bit more, but it's been a while since I've seen Phantasm.

Have you seen Return of the Joker and Subzero?

I didn't like Sub Zero much. Return of the Joker was pretty good.

[Momo]

THR reports that Warner Premiere is moving forward with an animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns (1986), which will be split into a two parts. The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 is due to hit stores this fall and Part 2 will be released early 2013.

Warner Premiere also announced that Robocop’s Peter Weller will voice Batman/Bruce Wayne, and Modern Family’s Ariel Winter, will voice Robin. In addition, Falcon Crest’s David Selby, Prison Break’s Wade Williams and This Is Spinal Tap’s Michael McKean have also signed on as voice actors. Man of Steel’s Jay Oliva will be directing off a script by Warehouse 13′s Bob Goodman.

God please dont have an awful artstyle

[etiolate]

Indie Games

It's a documentary about indie games, but mainly about Team Meat, Phil Fish and Jonathon Blow. The narrative follows the process of the final six months before Meat Boy's release and follows Fish and Fez up to the Pax East showing. Blow stands in as the guy who has made it and gone through the process.

The film is amusing and gets into the emotions and desperation of the process. Phil Fish talks about wanting to murder his old partner. Team Meat talks about running out of money and sacrifices made. The film tries to get intimate with those it can.

Movie made me wonder what will happen when the kids that grew up on 3d games start trying to make their own game. Braid, Fez and Meatboy are all like each guy's tribute to Mario and other games of their youth.

Oh and I enjoyed it.

[Robo]

That sounds absolutely repulsive.

[CajoleJuice]

That sounds absolutely repulsive.

[cool breeze]

The Dark Knight Rises is 3 hours long

[Tasty]

IMAX intermission.

Oh well. SUPER hyped it's 3 hours. Incredible. Nolan Batmarathons are gonna be like LOTR or Godfather marathons at this point.

[Boogie]

The Dark Knight Rises is 3 hours long

holy shite

[Tasty]

Apparently that length comes from a rough cut of the film. Final version may be under 3 hours.

Would be pretty cool if it wasn't though.

[Cormacaroni]

Why do i get the feeling that Nolan's pretention is gonna get the better of him in this one.

[Phoenix Dark]

Guess I have to add an extra 30m to my synopsis
http://www.thebore.com/forum/index.php?topic=35947.msg1266040#msg1266040