Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[fistfulofmetal]

The Tournament

an OK action movie. it's about a tournament where 30 assassins fight to the death. it includes such famous movie stars as Ving Rhames, Kelly Hu, Robert Carlyle, and Boone from Lost. (Kelly Hu is mega hot btw).

It's has better and more interesting action sequences than The Expendables 2... and is also a better movie.

[Joe Molotov]

Sounds like a great horror movie. Or an erotic thriller.

[Barry Egan]

yay Linklater

[ManaByte]

http://www.deadline.com/2012/09/toronto-richard-linklater-completes-before-midnight-just-before-festival-begins/

I don't know if there are any fans of Before Sunrise/set here but Linklater secretly finished the third film, Before Midnight, last night. Huge fan of the first two movies, couldn't be more excited to see how they continue off the end of the second.

I had no idea he was even making a third one.  This just made my day.

No one knew they were filming it or that it was even done. They just mentioned they were going to do a third like a month ago and now it's finished.

[Eric P]

Safe is not horrible.  Has a great series of opening sequences which get the film going with some rather excellent editing and pacing and a totally atypical ending for the genre.  Totally unexpected from the guy who did Remember the Titans

[CajoleJuice]

high praise

[Eric P]

I mean it's hard to get excited, but it does some stuff which is fairly atypical for the genre.  It's not particularly smart or anything but it is very well crafted.

[CajoleJuice]

snob

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really i don't know what i was going for with my last post

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[Verdigris Murder]

Get the guy C-juice.

I'm going to watch something today, and it'll probably be a film.

[EvilBoris]

I wonder if all the tween-aided exposure for Spring Breakers (recent premieres at Venice and TIFF) could bargain Letterman into another Korine appearance

[Eric P]

For a really good horror film, check out Lovely Molly.  The colder you go into it, the more of a surprise everything will be.  Loved the ending

[CajoleJuice]

is this the same BarryEgan? (I have no idea where to put this)

http://deadspin.com/5941302/paul-thomas-anderson-waiting-for-the-master?post=52520097

That little mention of Wes Anderson was pretty nonsensical, and frankly, kind of uncalled for. You're telling me The Life Aquatic and The Royal Tenenbaums weren't bold and expansive? PTA and Wes Anderson are equals in terms of great modern, American directors; not stylistically, but in the terms of this article, they are. They both write their own movies, they only make movies that are personal to them, they both have only done one book adaptation and they both turned those adaptations completely into their own thing, etc. To look for such a difference between them is just stubborn, regardless of your opinion of their films.
The comments toward Fincher, Jonze, Nolan, Soderbergh, and Tarantino are all true though.

I enjoyed the actual post, too.

[Barry Egan]

Nope

[Verdigris Murder]

For a really good horror film, check out Lovely Molly.  The colder you go into it, the more of a surprise everything will be.  Loved the ending

Going in cold like a corpse shagger.

[fistfulofmetal]

For a really good horror film, check out Lovely Molly.  The colder you go into it, the more of a surprise everything will be.  Loved the ending

i saw the trailer some time ago. forgot all about it. thanks for reminding me because it was a pretty good movie. didn't really find it much of a horror movie, more a psychological thriller of sorts. more dread than fear IMO.

really good atmosphere thanks to the excellent sound design.

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I really liked the fine line they played between her going crazy and there being something supernatural going on.

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[Eric P]

yeah i love films like that

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so then the question becomes what did she actually capture on the tape?

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[Barry Egan]

A couple AV Club dudes saw an advanced screening of Looper and they both really liked it

[CajoleJuice]

A couple AV Club dudes saw an advanced screening of Looper and they both really liked it

Pretty psyched.

Also pretty psyched to see The Master in two days in 70mm. 

[Great Rumbler]

[Robo]

Looper looks neat, but whose idea was it to give Jimmy Kimmel a leading role in an action flick?

[Great Rumbler]

Looper has been getting excellent reviews, by the way.

[chronovore]

I want to like this, but it's pretty much superfluous.

[Joe Molotov]

Too bad they didn't get Michael Ironside as the voice of Batman.

[The Sceneman]

just watched Walk Hard: the Dewey Cox Story. Pretty damn funny. I really enjoyed a lot of the physical gags.

[Robo]

I watched Meek's Cutoff.  And I survived.  Someone should probably sell that shirt.

edit: I just wrote up maybe the longest post I'd ever written on this forum as an addendum to this post, but I accidentally closed the tab.  I think the Lord is telling me to shut up.

[Barry Egan]

reading reviews about Looper is making me want to revisit Brothers Bloom.  I really admired Brick despite it's flaws, and went in to Brothers Bloom with fairly high expectations.  I thought it stunk.  It even made me look at Brick with a more critical lens, and I started to suspect that Rian Johnson might be a director with a lot of stylistic techniques but not many ideas.  But alot of the reviewers for Looper seem to like Brothers Bloom quite a bit, so I think I'm going to give it another shot.

[Great Rumbler]

I really enjoyed The Brothers Bloom, even if it was highly forgettable.

[Bebpo]

Yeah, I love Brick and Brother's Bloom was just sort of ok.  Good movie, but not as good as Brick.  Looking forward to Looper though!

Also pretty psyched to see The Master in two days in 70mm. 

Doing this as well on Saturday.  Very hyped!

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Saw Bourne Legacy cause my buddy had free passes. Never seen a Bourne movie before, but I had no problem figuring out what was going on. The movie climaxes in a chase scene that has to be one of the most heinous displays of shaky cam bullshit I've ever seen. It's a ten minute incomprehensible clusterfuck. I had heard Bourne was one of the major players in the popularization of shaky cam action, which is why I'd done much to avoid the previous movies. Seems like a good choice. Fucking worst directorial trend in movie history.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Total Recall, decent and nice looking. First 30 min were good. But you cant call this science fiction, more like future fantasy.
In Time goes into category as well.

6.5/10

[Bebpo]

finished watching Lake Mungo.

Movie was unsettling and creepy as hell despite the fact that it isn't a scary story at all.  I think it's kind of a lame that most of the scares were in the (fake) post-production by messing with the musical score and non-documentary scenes.  It's like these (fake) people took a documentary that wasn't scary about a haunting and produced it into a creepy scary documentary to get jumps from viewers.

Also the twist at the end was kind of a letdown imo.  All the

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time & space

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makes it a bit too goofy to work.

But in the end it was scary, and creepy and made me feel uncomfortable, so as a horror film it's highly successful even if I think as a film it's kind of eh.

[chronovore]

Premium Rush. Joseph Gordon-Levitt was good. Michael Shannon was great. Some lovely expository graphics over shots that made Manhattan look miniaturized. Fun, plenty of fun, but pretty forgettable overall. Glad I saw it on a big screen.

[Robo]

Lincoln is a movie about a guy with a beard and a top hat.

[Phoenix Dark]

this looks awesome

[Diunx]

Lincoln is a movie about a guy with a beard and a top hat.

DDL

[Timber]

Lincoln looks so astoundingly bad.

[Timber]

What if the great emancipator... was a horse???

[Dickie Dee]

Lincoln looks so astoundingly bad.

[Verdigris Murder]

It's Mike from neighbours playing the dead rich hologram.

[patrickula]

Finally got around to watching Ronin. Enjoyable movie that was very visually pleasing, and the car chase scenes were as great as I'd heard.
It was a bit tricky to understand some of the dialogue with them crazy accents without majorly cranking up the volume but I doubt I missed a lot there anyway.

[Big Barry Jazz]

Just back from watching Dredd, and it was seriously fucking awesome. I originally wasn't sold on the more contemporary look they'd given everything that I saw in the trailers, but it works and makes everything feel a bit more believable. They also probably wanted to distance themselves from the first film with its more comic-book like appearance. It really earns its 18 rating with numerous moments when I thought the camera would cut away, but most the time they want you to see every last large, gaping bullet hole in someone. Also, probably the first time since Avatar that I actually thought the 3D was worthwhile. The whole slo-mo drug thing was clearly a gimmick but it wasn't overused and I thought it looked pretty good.

Only possible complaint I could come up with was the dialogue which was pretty hammy a lot of the time, but I assume that's Alex Garland taking the original comics as inspiration.

If you're an action film fan then do yourself a favour and go see it. I really want a sequel.

[Eric P]

I wasn't really sold on it at first but now I'm kind of excited to see it.  I think the GF and I will be checking out The Master tomorrow

[Rahxephon91]

Can't be worse then Vampire Hunter.

[Verdigris Murder]

Lincoln looks so astoundingly bad.

It's probably better than Seven Psychopaths.

[nice cat but chicken]

Finally got around to watching Ronin. Enjoyable movie that was very visually pleasing, and the car chase scenes were as great as I'd heard.
It was a bit tricky to understand some of the dialogue with them crazy accents without majorly cranking up the volume but I doubt I missed a lot there anyway.

i rented this often when i was twelve.
always thought of it as a david mamet screenplay but i see now that he just did rewrites under a pseudonym.
i remember the dialogue being pretty well written but i haven't seen it in years.

[nice cat but chicken]

like i think as a twelve year old i enjoyed its gritty realism.

[Great Rumbler]

Explorers

No other decade of movies matches the level of awe and wonder at space and the unknown like the 80's and Explorers fits right in alongside movies like The Last Starfighter and E.T. The first hour and a half a pretty great, if a little rough in spots, and the last hour certainly isn't bad, but there's not much they can do to hide the fact that the movie's production was halted three months ahead of schedule by the production company. Probably could have been a great movie, but there's nothing that can be done at this point to make it anything other than a fun little movie that starts with a lot of promise but isn't able to carry through on it.

[Phoenix Dark]

Prometheus

I forgot to mention I saw this last week. So much potential, so many beautiful shots...but my god the plot and writing fail. I've never seen a movie with characters who act so dumb to advance the plot. And the end is basically a cock tease for a sequel. Bleh, I'll pass. It's not some horrible movie, there are some good moments. But Fassbender and Elba are really the only noteworthy cast members/characters, as everyone else is completely forgettable and stupid.

This is basically a bad sci fi adaption of Jurassic Park btw. The music sounds very similar, and more than a few scenes remind me of it. That hologram scene where Guy Pierce explains the goal/objective reminded me of the Mr. DNA scene in Jurassic Park 

[Rahxephon91]

Starship Troopers Invasion-Honestly, pretty decent. Some of the action was pretty lolworthy which is a good thing in my book. It had boobs, so thats good. It had Big Boss and some mechs, also a postive. Cool look armor, another point. And it honestly looked pretty good in terms of the cg.

Pretty much the best thing those Appleseed CG people have done.

[Tucah]

Punch-Drunk Love. I've never seen it before despite being a big fan of PTA's other films and I loved it. It was refreshing to see Adam Sandler in a different, darker sort of role and I found his character fascinating. The movie was compelling throughout (and weird to see a 90 minute PTA movie, hah), great use of color and an absolutely perfect final shot.

Now to rewatch some more PTA films in preparation to see The Master sometime this week

[Barry Egan]

Punch-Drunk Love. I've never seen it before despite being a big fan of PTA's other films and I thought I loved it. It was refreshing to see Adam Sandler in a different, darker sort of role and I found his character fascinating. The movie was compelling throughout (and weird to see a 90 minute PTA movie, hah), great use of color and an absolutely perfect final shot.

niiicceeeeee

probably seeing the master tonight 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

The Raid

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. That was awesome.

Also, groaned pretty heard when I saw Mike Shinoda's name on the box, but the soundtrack was actually pretty decent.

[Mr. Gundam]

Sleepwalk With Me

If you've heard the This American Life episodes it's based on, you know what's gonna happen, but still very cool.

[Eric P]

i am watching Detention.  Dane Cook is in this.

edit: this was definitely directed by guy who makes a music videos.

the title song is a remake of  Hanson's Mmmmbop and the film is really into 90s revival.

Is this Scream's Scream?  More like Scream 3's scream.

edit: oh it references scream.  a lot.  This isn't horrible but it is very...inward facing. 

edit: jesus this soundtrack. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701990/soundtrack  I can't tell if this film is brilliantly horrible or horribly horrible.  maybe both

edit: the family guy of slashers?  That may be the most accurate way of putting it thus far.  It's got a lot of jokes, many of which fall flat, but there are so many of them that they do hit occasionally. 

edit: of course there is a ron jeremy cameo

edit: this film leaves me very conflicted.  on the one had it's actually amazing in its own way.  on the other hand it's way too much like watching a bunch of different youtube videos and .gifs strung into film form.  it's not....horrible and it is really creative.  this must have been a hell of a lot of fun to write.

[Phoenix Dark]

The Shining

Saw it for the first time last night. I had seen many of the iconic scenes from it before, on tv or in spoofs, but I didn't really know what the overall plot was. I was rather surprised at how unsettling and suspenseful the film was; it might have the best music in a horror film I've seen, in terms of creating atmosphere and giving further weight to the scares. In short I thought it was great

[Joe Molotov]

i am watching Detention.  Dane Cook is in this.

edit: this was definitely directed by guy who makes a music videos.

the title song is a remake of  Hanson's Mmmmbop and the film is really into 90s revival.

Is this Scream's Scream?  More like Scream 3's scream.

edit: oh it references scream.  a lot.  This isn't horrible but it is very...inward facing. 

edit: jesus this soundtrack. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701990/soundtrack  I can't tell if this film is brilliantly horrible or horribly horrible.  maybe both

edit: the family guy of slashers?  That may be the most accurate way of putting it thus far.  It's got a lot of jokes, many of which fall flat, but there are so many of them that they do hit occasionally. 

edit: of course there is a ron jeremy cameo

edit: this film leaves me very conflicted.  on the one had it's actually amazing in its own way.  on the other hand it's way too much like watching a bunch of different youtube videos and .gifs strung into film form.  it's not....horrible and it is really creative.  this must have been a hell of a lot of fun to write.

Scott Pilgrim vs Freddy vs Jason?

[fistfulofmetal]

The Shining

Saw it for the first time last night. I had seen many of the iconic scenes from it before, on tv or in spoofs, but I didn't really know what the overall plot was. I was rather surprised at how unsettling and suspenseful the film was; it might have the best music in a horror film I've seen, in terms of creating atmosphere and giving further weight to the scares. In short I thought it was great

now watch this and prepare to have your mind bloooowed







RE: Detention

hmm, from the director of TORQUE.

i guess I have to see this movie.

[Eric P]

i am watching Detention.  Dane Cook is in this.

edit: this was definitely directed by guy who makes a music videos.

the title song is a remake of  Hanson's Mmmmbop and the film is really into 90s revival.

Is this Scream's Scream?  More like Scream 3's scream.

edit: oh it references scream.  a lot.  This isn't horrible but it is very...inward facing. 

edit: jesus this soundtrack. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1701990/soundtrack  I can't tell if this film is brilliantly horrible or horribly horrible.  maybe both

edit: the family guy of slashers?  That may be the most accurate way of putting it thus far.  It's got a lot of jokes, many of which fall flat, but there are so many of them that they do hit occasionally. 

edit: of course there is a ron jeremy cameo

edit: this film leaves me very conflicted.  on the one had it's actually amazing in its own way.  on the other hand it's way too much like watching a bunch of different youtube videos and .gifs strung into film form.  it's not....horrible and it is really creative.  this must have been a hell of a lot of fun to write.

Scott Pilgrim vs Freddy vs Jason?

only moreso

with a smaller budget

but the film looks really really really really good

[patrickula]

Finally got around to watching Ronin. Enjoyable movie that was very visually pleasing, and the car chase scenes were as great as I'd heard.
It was a bit tricky to understand some of the dialogue with them crazy accents without majorly cranking up the volume but I doubt I missed a lot there anyway.

i rented this often when i was twelve.
always thought of it as a david mamet screenplay but i see now that he just did rewrites under a pseudonym.
i remember the dialogue being pretty well written but i haven't seen it in years.

There were definitely some great scenes and the script didn't seem bad or anything. It's just that my inability to understand some of it (Netflix on my TV's shitty player so no subs) didn't stop me from following the plot.

[Verdigris Murder]

For a really good horror film, check out Lovely Molly.  The colder you go into it, the more of a surprise everything will be.  Loved the ending

i saw the trailer some time ago. forgot all about it. thanks for reminding me because it was a pretty good movie. didn't really find it much of a horror movie, more a psychological thriller of sorts. more dread than fear IMO.

really good atmosphere thanks to the excellent sound design.

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I really liked the fine line they played between her going crazy and there being something supernatural going on.

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Just finished this. The first film I had no idea about before the watch for maybe years.



It was most excellent, made moreso by Tortoise doing the sounds. I really like Tortoise, but Brad Interior is better.

Aso the sister was THIN AS FUCK.