Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Groogrux]

The movie we all been waiting for!

I think I would actually watch that.

[Great Rumbler]

It's a movie about Kevin James getting beat up by UFC fighters, what's not to like?

[Groogrux]

It looks like he actually put on some muscle and lost some fat for this one.  I'm impressed by that alone.

[Joe Molotov]

Dead Poet's Society 2: Here Comes the Boom

[Boogie]

The movie we all been waiting for!

Bas Rutten?

Yeah, I'm down for this.

[Verdigris Murder]

I started watching Cell 211 last night, and tbh the first couple of minutes or so I actually found really hard to stick with. Just a bit too much really. It's an excellent film, probably due for a Hollywood remake.

[Robo]

Watched Allen's Purple Rose of Cairo last night.  Mia Farrow is great and the ending is fantastic.  Really loved it, but I just can't stand Jeff Daniels.  The man has no lips.

[Momo]

Rewatched Senna ... :'(

[ManaByte]

Marvel's 2nd (of THREE) 2014 movies is Guardians of the Galaxy with Thanos as the villain:
http://latino-review.com/2012/06/28/exclusive-marvels-2014-movie-revealed/

The third 2014 is an animated Big Hero 6 done by WDFA and directed by Don Hahn:
http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2012/06/big-ideas.html

[chronovore]

The movie we all been waiting for!

Bas Rutten?

Yeah, I'm down for this.

That is the correct response.

[BlueTsunami]

The movie we all been waiting for!

Bas Rutten?

Yeah, I'm down for this.

And I never thought I'd see a Kevin James movie where the dramatic aspect looks to be on point. He's also looking pretty buff.

[Eric P]

watched Vulgaria, the newest film from my favorite HK director, Pang Ho-Cheung.  Guys, it's bonkers, but I totally know that I missed a great deal because I don't speak Cantonese.  Vulgaria is a 90 swipe at filmmakers and filmmaking in HK aimed at culture geeks. 

Love HK Film has a great review / summary, but I can tell you that I don't think I've laughed harder this year than at that movie.  Utterly ridiculous and filthy.

[Verdigris Murder]

Thanks to the sceneman I watched Lockout, it's another Luc Besson produced film, which basically means its The Transporter/Taken in space.

The ending infers a bdsm relationship between the two main characters, and felt really forced, which led me to google 'is Guy Pearce gay' which led to to http://gay-or-straight.com/Guy%20Pearce.

Basically I think Guy needs to change a consonant.

[Himu]

Drive - stare at each other awkwardly and smile: the movie.

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Really liked it

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[Shaka Khan]

Drive was awesome. Action scenes aside, there was really great shots in that movie.

I'm going to see Safety is No Guaranteed tomorrow. Has anyone seen it? I'm wondering whether it's a genuinely good movie or an Oscar bait, considering it's from the creators of Little Miss Sunshine.

[BlueTsunami]

Speaking of Gosling, I just watched Crazy, Stupid, Love on a whim. Really dug it. Just the right amount of truth bombs and saccharine.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Is it better than the first Tobey Maguire Spider-Man movie?  I found those movies to be painfully boring, even during the action sequences.

[cool breeze]

Chronicle

I liked it.  Some weird contrivances with the found footage style and the internal logic falls apart in the last third.  Characters are kinda dumb but they're teens and that's to be expected, I suppose.

I typically don't watch found footage movies.  I've seen Cloverfield and some of Blair Witch Project.  Cloverfield explains it with "oh, you're watching classified footage," and if I'm remembering correctly, Blair Witch is a documentary.  Chronicle's way of handling it is really weird.  At first Andrew shoots everything, because because, and then the girlfriend, whose only purpose is to be a second lens, and by the end it's security footage, camera phones, etc.

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Initially I thought the girlfriend non-character would have a more important role; Andrew is jealous of...the good guy (I forgot his name) and that played into him going crazy, or something cliche like that.  Andrew didn't seem like a bad dude until the final confrontation, and his turn went from "I'm stealing money to buy my sick mother medicine" to wrecking Seattle.  During that last battle scene, I almost wanted him to "win" by realizing he's unmatched, godlike, and there's no reason to keep living his shithole life.  He gets over his super teen angst and flies off, or something like that.

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It's better in some ways and worse in others.  The first half drags like a motherfucker.  On the whole, though, it's got an "MTV" mentality (fuck i'm old) that makes it feel a lot more lively than Raimi's.

I'm happy as long as they're both good for their own reasons.  It doesn't need to be this or that for everything, but my problem with Superman Returns is that it's Donner fanservice instead of a new vision.  So I'm glad Amazing Spider-Man isn't just Spider-Man 4 with a different cast, if that reasoning makes sense.

[Great Rumbler]

[chronovore]

I wish they'd either go further away from the original movie, or at least stick with the humor from the original. This feels like they're taking an action-comedy, and just taking the comedy out of it.

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah, I see what you mean. The story looks basically the same [except for the Mars stuff]. It still looks like it'll be a pretty good scifi-action movie and the special effects/art design look great, pretty much exactly what I like to see in a scifi movie.

[ManaByte]

I'm going to more or less back up what C-Biscuit said about Amazing Spider-Man.  I caught it today.  It's good but not great.  If you get caught up in things being different from the comics, you're going to be annoyed, because outside Spider-Man himself, things are pretty different even if they end up in the same state.  But if you just want a good, fun Spider-Man flick and can digest some Ultimate-style changes, you're going to be happy with what you get here.

I'm also going to echo C-Biscuit on highlighting Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield.  They were great and I feel like a dork for ever doubting Garfield, cuz he really nailed what he needed to do.  Lizard came off very poorly.  They left behind the only part of him that separates him from the million other mad scientist bad guys in Spidey's menagerie, so he just sort of comes off like a second-rate Raimi Ock.

Overall, thumbs up, but make sure you go in realizing that while Raimi's Spidey was a love letter to Lee/Romita Spidey, Webb's Spidey is more of a salute to Ultimate Spidey, with a dash of Ditko Spidey in for good measure.

It's Ultimate Spidey with the pre-McFarlane Ditko Lizard design. But the Lizard character is nothing like the comics.

[ManaByte]

Also this is the Stan Lee/Ditko science major Gwen. Not idiot Bendis' punk Gwen.

As long as they go all the way with the Gwen saga and toss her off a bridge at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to go Spider-Man No More I'll be fine with these movies. My friend once bitched on Bendis' forum when he tossed MJ off the bridge and said, "If you're going to throw someone Spidey loves off a bridge, kill the bitch."

They could kill Gwen at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to quit. Then introduce MJ in the fourth movie and some villain that causes him to come back.

[chronovore]

Moonrise Kingdom. My first Wes Anderson film on the big screen. It was precious, beautiful, charming, and pretty much perfect.

[Cormacaroni]

'kill the bitch?' 'idiot Bendis?' Chill dude, it's only Spider-man!

[Phoenix Dark]

Also this is the Stan Lee/Ditko science major Gwen. Not idiot Bendis' punk Gwen.

As long as they go all the way with the Gwen saga and toss her off a bridge at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to go Spider-Man No More I'll be fine with these movies. My friend once bitched on Bendis' forum when he tossed MJ off the bridge and said, "If you're going to throw someone Spidey loves off a bridge, kill the bitch."

They could kill Gwen at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to quit. Then introduce MJ in the fourth movie and some villain that causes him to come back.

Hm, I assumed she dies in this one. If that's not the case, perhaps killing her in the second film would make more sense, thus introducing MJ then - and then having her as the new romantic figure in the third film

[chronovore]

Yeah, I see what you mean. The story looks basically the same [except for the Mars stuff]. It still looks like it'll be a pretty good scifi-action movie and the special effects/art design look great, pretty much exactly what I like to see in a scifi movie.

Also, for what it's worth, Verhoeven is woefully under-appreciated.

[fart]

Yeah, I see what you mean. The story looks basically the same [except for the Mars stuff]. It still looks like it'll be a pretty good scifi-action movie and the special effects/art design look great, pretty much exactly what I like to see in a scifi movie.

Also, for what it's worth, Verhoeven is woefully under-appreciated.

it's true. people think of him as a B-movie guy, but he's actually a really cool subversive director who makes interesting intellectual points but happens to like and use the visual and thematic (and gory) language of b-movies really really well

what's odd is that this is the polar opposite of tarantino. people think of him as this cool intellectual subversive who uses b-movie vignettes to get an intellectual point across. in fact, it's just a hack who makes b-movies that are reminiscent of older, better b-movies.

[ManaByte]

Also this is the Stan Lee/Ditko science major Gwen. Not idiot Bendis' punk Gwen.

As long as they go all the way with the Gwen saga and toss her off a bridge at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to go Spider-Man No More I'll be fine with these movies. My friend once bitched on Bendis' forum when he tossed MJ off the bridge and said, "If you're going to throw someone Spidey loves off a bridge, kill the bitch."

They could kill Gwen at the end of the third movie, causing Spidey to quit. Then introduce MJ in the fourth movie and some villain that causes him to come back.

Hm, I assumed she dies in this one. If that's not the case, perhaps killing her in the second film would make more sense, thus introducing MJ then - and then having her as the new romantic figure in the third film

They've already said Emma Stone is signed for three movies. Which is fine, because she looks so much like Gwen that it's perfect casting. It's not like putting a redhead wig on Billy Corgan in the Raimi movies to try and make MJ.

I think the main thing that makes this one a bit better than Raimi's is that Garfield gets both Parker and Spidey right, when Maguire never managed to in three movies (almost in Spider-Man 2 with the train, though). Both his Parker and Spidey are just about perfect, and in a movie called "SPIDER-MAN", they'd better get "Spider-Man" right. I always bugged me that Maguire's Spidey wasn't much of a smart ass at all. I think he only tried to crack one joke in each movie.

Spidey was mouthing off to villains in the comics before Deadpool was a sketch on Liefeld's trapper keeper.

[patrickula]

Saw Moonrise Kingdom - It's crap. Danger 5 has more believable dialogue and less stilted line delivery. A total waste of the great adult actors and the softcore CP shit is creepy. Yeah I know that stuff happens, I don't really need to see it filmed during a fluffy movie for the entertainment ( ) of an adult audience. Yes there were plenty of unfluffy/dark moment attempts in the dialog but the movie did  not allow me to take it seriously in the least. It was almost completely unfunny to me as well (though some of the audience was laughing anyway).
Wes Anderson hasn't made any great movies since Tenenbaums and this one is the worst of the lot. It's like he doesn't interact with any actual humans and is forgetting more of their ways with every movie. or he's trying to recapture some magic and failing VS making something in a different style than the one he seems to be getting worse at. I really love those two great movies of his too  :'(

[Robo]

You're a liar.  The Life Aquatic and Fantastic Mr. Fox are amazing.

I saw Ted over the weekend.  I laughed sometimes; sometimes not.

[Eric P]

Wait did you want to see Ted or did you just go for the air conditioning?

[Robo]

Air conditioning.  I wanted to see Magic Mike but it was veto'd by my closeted gay friends.

[patrickula]

I definitely liked and enjoyed Fox and Aquatic but they aren't GREAT to me like Tenenbaums or Rushmore  Not like I expect him to hit a home run every time but it's been awhile... I'd be happy with another Mr. Fox now.

[Eric P]

Air conditioning.  I wanted to see Magic Mike but it was veto'd by my closeted gay friends.

there's a movie that would have benefited from imax 3d

[TEEEPO]

i had seen Cosmopolis nearly a month ago but thought i'd comment on it now since i've been on a Cronenberg kick as of late. it's a movie that'll only appeal to Cronenberg fans seeing as it's very similar in tone to his previous works, most notably eXistenz and Crash, while at the same time making you feel like you've been dropped mid semester into a graduate Harvard philosophy class on the constructs of a modern capitalist society. not a moment goes by without the film shoving some theory or thought down your throat which leads to the film exhausting any energy it has halfway through its duration. even with all that has been said, it's nice to see Cronenberg return to form and do what he does best, completely deconstructing reality. it might help if you're a fan of the author whose book the film is based on, but even for my girlfriend who has read alot of his work, it was a difficult viewing.

i also managed to see Keyhole yesterday. it's worth watching if you're a fan of Guy Maddin and even serves as a great introduction to his work but for the first time, the dream like aesthetics and qualities which are found throughout all his movies have transcended beyond just the film's looks resulting in a story that is as fragmented and confusing as our very own dreams.

[TakingBackSunday]

I keep getting invited to go see Moonrise Kingdom but I have absolutely no desire to.  Wes Anderson 

[Robo]

I keep getting invited to go see Moonrise Kingdom but I have absolutely no desire to.  Wes Anderson 

Sounds like a complicated form of self-loathing.

[Huff]

Everyone of my friends enjoyed Ted, even the ones talking shit about it before seeing it. Still going to wait til its on HBO before watching it.

Also, Thor sucked

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

There's a theater in walking distance showing Moonrise Kingdom...still not going to bother to go see it. 

[cool breeze]

Amazing Spider-Man

I really liked it.  It has problems and it felt cut to bits, jarringly jumping between scenes, gaps where you felt like something should've happened, overall sense you're missing information, but what worked really worked for me.  It's like a collection of great scenes at times.  And I thought it had exceptional action scenes that nailed Spider-Man's style.

Two scenes I thought were hilarious

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SWAT team unloading assault rifles at the Lizard.  Captain Stacy shooting pieces off the Lizard like Clarence in Robocop.  At least they attempted to take him down before dumping responsibility to the costumed vigilante dude.

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Biggest criticism is that

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Lizard felt like a rehash of Goblin from the first movie, eerily so.  Some of Doc Ock from SM2 in there too.  That aside, the Lizard was the most disappointing part.  Conners played well as another father figure to Peter, and ultimately led to confrontation with Uncle Ben.  Lizard played well as an imposing villain for Spider-Man to fight.  Just his evil plan and motivation and everything didn't play.  Post credit scene didn't make help any.

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[Shaka Khan]

I saw Safety Not Guaranteed and really liked it. I mean for starters, I love Aubrey, even when she's simply playing April, but I realized the entire story revolves around that really old hilarious ad that went viral, I instantly let my guard down. It's just all so weird, because after I had my laugh the first time I say the ad my mind quickly started to wonder who could possibly post that and what's his story (assuming it wasn't simply a prank, which it probably was). Little did I know that someone would create an entire movie to flesh it out. It's just... So romantic, you know?

The characters were overall great, the side story that parallels the main plot was sweet and had a point, and it had an interesting conclusion. I highly recommend it, doubly so if you like Aubry Plaza and remember the magazine ad.

[ManaByte]

Amazing Spider-Man

I really liked it.  It has problems and it felt cut to bits, jarringly jumping between scenes, gaps where you felt like something should've happened, overall sense you're missing information, but what worked really worked for me.  It's like a collection of great scenes at times.  And I thought it had exceptional action scenes that nailed Spider-Man's style.

Two scenes I thought were hilarious

spoiler (click to show/hide)

SWAT team unloading assault rifles at the Lizard.  Captain Stacy shooting pieces off the Lizard like Clarence in Robocop.  At least they attempted to take him down before dumping responsibility to the costumed vigilante dude.

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Biggest criticism is that

spoiler (click to show/hide)

Lizard felt like a rehash of Goblin from the first movie, eerily so.  Some of Doc Ock from SM2 in there too.  That aside, the Lizard was the most disappointing part.  Conners played well as another father figure to Peter, and ultimately led to confrontation with Uncle Ben.  Lizard played well as an imposing villain for Spider-Man to fight.  Just his evil plan and motivation and everything didn't play.  Post credit scene didn't make help any.

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My friend made a funny point tonight: "Made the last three look like B movies. Fitting since they were made by a B movie director."

[Cerveza mas fina]

Why go to a Wes Anderson flick if you don't like him anymore? I mean I don't go to Tim Burton or Johny Depp movies anymore for exactly that reason.

Anyhoo.

5 Year Engagement.

The rom com you can take your lady too and have more laughs then her.

[patrickula]

I liked the last few Wes Anderson movies enough for them to be at least worth seeing (before Moonrise), and I've held out hope that he'd really excel again. Various positive reactions to Moonrise Kingdom increased my interest also.

And I saw it for free thanks to a friend's extra passes.

[Cormacaroni]

Since people have seen Spidey now, and it's the 4th of July...

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I think it's time to salute the Great Noo Yawk Brotherhood of Crane Operators 

no, what a lot of cheese
 

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[Cerveza mas fina]

You're off the hook Patrickula, for now.

[EmCeeGrammar]

Transfomers  3 is on netflix steaming.
Was motherfucking pathetically lol. 
 I would compare it to playing music so loud the speakers can't handle it and whatever sound is coming out is just a blair of obnoxious screeching.  It really is mere noise.  Oh and they made it so the robots bleed red now. 

[Mupepe]

Watched the Straw Dogs remake.

Was structured pretty well, kept most of the plot subtle with the exception of the coach character who was over the top (James Woods? Weird.)

I was really surprised by how much I liked this remake.  I didn't particularly care for the trailers but it was a pretty good movie. 

The Amazing Spiderman
Liked it a lot more than the Raimi ones but I never cared much for them.  Worth seeing even though the lizard is The Goblin, schizophrenia and all.

Ted
I can't stand Seth Macfarlane but this was actually a good movie.  The plot was well conceived and executed.  A lot of the humor was too family guy-ish for me, but there were a surprising amount of laughs.  I really liked it.

[cool breeze]

Since people have seen Spidey now, and it's the 4th of July...

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I think it's time to salute the Great Noo Yawk Brotherhood of Crane Operators 

no, what a lot of cheese
 

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haha

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it managed to out cheese those moments from the Raimi movies.

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[Bebpo]

Beasts of the Southern Wild

Really good personal film.  The script (which was based off a stage play) is fantastic and the child actor and her father are SO GOOD.  The film really develops the relationship between the two in a very authentic and touching way.  The musical score was great and so were the GIANT DINOSAUR BOARS.  As a tale of a little girl living in the bayou, the film is a great adventure.

[ManaByte]

The Amazing Spiderman
Liked it a lot more than the Raimi ones but I never cared much for them.  Worth seeing even though the lizard is The Goblin, schizophrenia and all.

Well that's sort of how the Modern Lizard is in the comics, especially recently. The Lizard in the movie had the look of the Ditko Lizard, but the personality of the modern McFarlane Lizard.  And a majority of the Spidey villains are the scientists the go nuts and schizo. They need to do Mysterio in one of the movies.

I've seen it twice now (only paid for it once though) and it makes the Raimi movies look like made-for-ABC Family TV movies.

[fart]

what the hell? you let manabyte on here?

Q: DO YOU STILL BELIEVE IN ALIENS?!?!?!

[Dickie Dee]

[Great Rumbler]

[ManaByte]

They're going to need to hand out tissue packets and lotion at the Warner panel next Saturday.

[Momo]

I actually read that just dont care enough for marvel to be a part of this conversation

[fistfulofmetal]

watching Transformers 3 

[Great Rumbler]

So when will we finally get to see Clown 9 in a Spider-Man movie?

[fistfulofmetal]

watching Transformers 3 

I assumed when people said this was a bad movie that it was just because it was super dumb. But NOPE. The way this movie goes from scene to scene is so very awful. The entire first hour is like a collection of scenes that make absolutely no sense. I'm just sitting here puzzled wondering 'WHY IS THIS HAPPENING?' 'WHAT IS GOING ON?' WHO IS THAT?' there's no logic to how it proceeds.

Then the big action finale starts and it goes on and on and on and on and it ends up being boring because it's not building up to anything. It's like a mini movie inside this movie.

They seriously had no idea how to end this movie. Optimus just fights, loses. Then Megatron saves the day? And challenges Optimus. Then Optimus puts him down like a bitch. Then there's a huge and a kiss and the movie ends.

UGH and this was supposed to be BETTER than the last one?