Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Diunx]

I'm a PTA fanboy but I admit without fear the punch drunk love is overrated crap.

[nice cat but chicken]

to me Magnolia is the only one that feels "full of itself" or overtly self-conscious. and even then not drastically, the performances are great enough to keep it buoyant through a singalong and frog rain (save maybe Julianne Moore who gets p. cringe worthy). Manabyte may be right about an inflated ego after Boogie Nights, PTA seemed pretty high in the production videos for Magnolia but I feel that for it to allow this new minimal and studied style is justification enough of it's existence.
i am still super excited to see The Master and surprised to see a negative reaction here. i've largely avoided the critical reception and had just assumed it was superlative.

[CajoleJuice]

The Master

So it was good and I found the concept intriguing, but my God, I really miss the old PTA who made Altman-esque ensemble films.

I think you're at this breaking point because The Master wasn't good. Punch Drunk and There Will Be Blood was great.

I felt the same way.

wait, which way

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

The Master

So it was good and I found the concept intriguing, but my God, I really miss the old PTA who made Altman-esque ensemble films.

I think you're at this breaking point because The Master wasn't good. Punch Drunk and There Will Be Blood was great.

I felt the same way.

wait, which way

The Master not being very good and PDL and TWBB being great.

[CajoleJuice]

:brofist

[Eric P]

hey guys, several Mario Bava films have been added to Netflix instant streaming (or should i say....instant...SCREAMING)

start with the best of this bunch
http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Bay_of_Blood/21929073

[Steve Contra]

The Master isn't very good, but it is gorgeous.  Prometheus is a really dumb movie.  Under Siege 2 is better than both of them. 

[ManaByte]

People need to stop fapping over The Master and go see Argo.

[CajoleJuice]

People need to stop fapping over The Master and go see Argo.

have you read this thread

[Bebpo]

Yeah, The Master was fanwankery. 

Just saw Argo tonight and it was totally great.  Love Affleck's range between GBG, The Town and Argo.

[Great Rumbler]

It really sucks that even PTA fans in this thread aren't too high on The Master.

[Great Rumbler]

[Diunx]

BONER!!!!

[Cormacaroni]

I'm clicking on it but it won't play!!!

[Himu]

SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

going to frostitution

[CajoleJuice]

i once saw a cool poster for shaun of the dead/hot fuzz/scott pilgrim and i was like NO I'M WAITING FOR WORLD'S END

YESSSS

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Bootleg of the new Evil Dead trailer here:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=26405

Big fan of the trilogy, especially the first one. I was worried as hell for this one but this trailer has got me fuck all excited. So many of those shots just hit home and glad the gore appears to be all nice n' splattery and non CG. Can't wait to take another twisted trip to that old cabin again.

[G The Resurrected]

Bootleg of the new Evil Dead trailer here:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=26405

Big fan of the trilogy, especially the first one. I was worried as hell for this one but this trailer has got me fuck all excited. So many of those shots just hit home and glad the gore appears to be all nice n' splattery and non CG. Can't wait to take another twisted trip to that old cabin again.

I just don't see it... I love the evildead movies and I don't get this remake at all. I see the same story elements but the tone and visuals are just off. It looks more like a torture porn film than a evildead movie. There looks to be no comedy or campiness that the original was oozing with.

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Thankfully neither Marucs Nispel nor any on the Platinum Dunes or Saw guys are behind this. Seems like Raimi, Tapert, and Campbell have been very picky about how they wanted to handle this new one. I'm kinda glad Raimi and company is letting a first time director helm this. From what I've read in interviews he seems like he gets what made the original Evil Dead. So I'll give him a shot. The restraint of CGI in the trailer is a good sign.

 As for the look, other than some tinted shots in the bathroom or cellar it looks like Evil Dead to me, only with more of a budget and better film stock.  Unlike Platinum Dunes' soulless remakes, here it looks like they're keeping the same setting (the cabin and the woods look very to the first film), and still has the basic concept of the book of the dead and tormenting demons intact. From what I've been reading, the humor is closer to the more serious first film in that it comes from a series a fucked up moments. 

It could very well suck, who knows, but this looks more promising to me than the countless shitty horror remakes that have been coming out the past decade.

Here's a link to the NYCC panel where Campbell, Levy, and the director, Alvarez, discuss the new Evil Dead:

http://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3197910/nycc-12-watch-the-evil-dead-panel-in-its-entirety/

[Great Rumbler]

Bootleg of the new Evil Dead trailer here:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=26405

Big fan of the trilogy, especially the first one. I was worried as hell for this one but this trailer has got me fuck all excited. So many of those shots just hit home and glad the gore appears to be all nice n' splattery and non CG. Can't wait to take another twisted trip to that old cabin again.

I just don't see it... I love the evildead movies and I don't get this remake at all. I see the same story elements but the tone and visuals are just off. It looks more like a torture porn film than a evildead movie. There looks to be no comedy or campiness that the original was oozing with.

Yeah, I don't really see it either. Just looks like another generic gore movie, but maybe they just decided not to show any of the campiness.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Just saw 50/50 and it fucking wrecked me. A lot of shit in that movie hit really close to home. Hard to watch at times, surprisingly. The sunshine and rainbows ending was a bit jarring, but it worked. Shit man. Good movie.

[chronovore]

Was this already mentioned here?

[bud]

i don't really like boogie nights as much as i should because it's too long, and wahlberg is not a very good actor.

[Mr. Gundam]

It really sucks that even PTA fans in this thread aren't too high on The Master.

I'm the kind of PTA fan who loves Boogie Nights and Magnolia, thinks PDL and TWBB were good but not incredible, and was pretty "meh" about The Master.

[bud]

how much of it is about scientology?

i've been avoiding reviews and trailers (except for the first two very cool teasers).

[Diunx]

Bootleg of the new Evil Dead trailer here:

http://www.worstpreviews.com/headline.php?id=26405

Big fan of the trilogy, especially the first one. I was worried as hell for this one but this trailer has got me fuck all excited. So many of those shots just hit home and glad the gore appears to be all nice n' splattery and non CG. Can't wait to take another twisted trip to that old cabin again.

Needs more camp, will still see for the awesome looking gore.

[Mr. Gundam]

how much of it is about scientology?

i've been avoiding reviews and trailers (except for the first two very cool teasers).

It's not directly about Scientology, but The Cause is basically Scientology. The films talks about processing/auditing, subtle hints at Sea Org, changing the rules as times goes by, etc.

[CajoleJuice]

Just saw 50/50 and it fucking wrecked me. A lot of shit in that movie hit really close to home. Hard to watch at times, surprisingly. The sunshine and rainbows ending was a bit jarring, but it worked. Shit man. Good movie.

I really loved it, too.

[Mr. Gundam]

I thought 50/50 was great. HOWEVER.

If you're going to film a movie in Vancouver, set the film in Vancouver. Please stop trying to pass Vancouver off as Seattle. We're not offended if your movie takes place in Canada. Really.

[Great Rumbler]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

A surreal journey through bizarre images and disconcerting sounds. It's as if someone took the strangest and most unsettling scenes from 2001 and then stretched them out into a two hour film. It's hard to really judge this as a movie, but it is compelling as an audio/visual odyssey, which I think is more in line with what the director intended.

[EvilBoris]

how much of it is about scientology?

i've been avoiding reviews and trailers (except for the first two very cool teasers).

  mmm... and could AUS-Bore give up how much Obama figures into Killing Them Softly's message?

  i've been on total blackout just avoiding all reviews and trailers

 !
 

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Killing Them Softly actually has opened here WEEKS before US and I should feel naughty enough to see it

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[The Sceneman]

recent viewing

Small Soliders - I never realised this film was by Joe Dante. Pretty good but not as good as Gremlins 2 and Loony Tunes Back In Action.

Goofy Movie - pretty fucking intense, Disney's sexualisation of female anthropomorphic animals is pretty weird. Good songs though!

Aguirre: Wrath of God - total boss level masterpiece. Beautiful and amazing

[Mr. Gundam]

I thought 50/50 was great. HOWEVER.

If you're going to film a movie in Vancouver, set the film in Vancouver. Please stop trying to pass Vancouver off as Seattle. We're not offended if your movie takes place in Canada. Really.

So you say, but name a movie that took place in Canada that was successful in America.

No, I get the reality of it. It just grates on me when they try to make Vancouver look like Seattle just by throwing the Space Needle into a shot of Gastown.

Or they could, you know... film in Seattle.

[Robo]

Aguirre: Wrath of God - total boss level masterpiece. Beautiful and amazing

 

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Looper was pretty good. Really cool, unique premise. Liked how, on multiple occasions, the movie overtly acknowledges how dumb it is to dissect the holes time travel introduces as a plot device.

[Cerveza mas fina]

I thought 50/50 was great. HOWEVER.

If you're going to film a movie in Vancouver, set the film in Vancouver. Please stop trying to pass Vancouver off as Seattle. We're not offended if your movie takes place in Canada. Really.

So you say, but name a movie that took place in Canada that was successful in America.

No, I get the reality of it. It just grates on me when they try to make Vancouver look like Seattle just by throwing the Space Needle into a shot of Gastown.

Or they could, you know... film in Seattle.

Shit that sounds cheap and grating to watch.

[The Sceneman]

Rumble in the Bronx was filmed in Vancouver too iirc. Yeah, not quite New York

I'm assuming Canada is cheaper to film in than the US.

[Great Rumbler]

That movie was very polarizing for me. I thought some of it was absolutely brilliant while others were just trying too hard in ways. Dude's definitely a good director though, he just needs goof direction.

I'm of two minds about it, myself. As a surreal audio/visual experience, I found it to be very compelling. I had originally intended only to watch part of it last night, but instead I ended up watching the whole thing. As a movie, however, it's maddeningly vague and dreamlike, ultimately never developing the themes and ideas hinted at early on.

[Mandark]

Argo was a lot of fun.  Sort of Charlie Wilson's War + heist movie.

John Goodman

[Phoenix Dark]

nerd alert

  can't wait

[Bebpo]

Sinister

WTF!  How is this getting more positive-than-not reviews at RT?  It was pretty damn weak for a horror film.  Not scary, felt like 3 hours in 100 mins, had lots of plot points that went nowhere, and in the end you're like "why did I bother watching this".  Plus points for Ethan Hawke because Ethan Hawke is the man, but otherwise it was a let down of a film from a horror watcher like myself.  Can't really recommend at all.

[Himu]

RUMBLE IN THE BRONX

[Himu]

Is Surf Ninjas on netflix?!?!?!?!?!

[Great Rumbler]

Is Surf Ninjas on netflix?!?!?!?!?!

No, but Surf Nazis Must Die is.

[nice cat but chicken]

I also love how the kid in the wheelchair is constantly pushed over and kicked  It also seems like it never fazes him as he always has a smile on his face.

the only thing that kid seems to care about is his cushion. as i remember it at least, probably due a rewatch.

[Van Cruncheon]

watched prometheus. not as bad as feared, but ouch at the continuity errors/cuts and the waste of charlize theron in a red herring role. needs a director's cut baaaaaad.

[Verdigris Murder]

I think the fundamental problem is that the Lost writer didn't really have a chance to fully explain why Lost was so massively shit.

[Eric P]

You know, I don't think I've ever seen a movie so racist that I've literally stopped watching it a quarter of the way in

but hey, if anyone wants to see a movie tha

OH MY GOD THIS MOVIE JUST PULLED THE REVERSE RACIST CARD AS I WAS LITERALLY TYPING THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE

The Revenenat.  Fuck this movie.

[cool breeze]

I think the fundamental problem is that the Lost writer didn't really have a chance to fully explain why Lost was so massively shit.

the Lost writer wasn't given the chance to fully work his magic into the Prometheus script.  Recently there's been more about the original script and it sounds like his greatest contribution was

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replacing all the direct Alien references with black goo.  It's why black goo is as versatile as oxyclean.

In the original script, the David attaches a facehugger to Dodson, and later when Dodson is sleeping with Shawna, it bursts out of him during.  That's also how Shawna knew what would happen to her and went for a c-section.

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[Eric P]

excision means "to cut away"
at 120 minutes it's still too long by about 30 minutes
as this started off as a short film that's been expanded to "feature length" and even then it's way too repetitive

[Eric P]

Some Guy Who Kills People - Not.....horrible which I guess is the new good for indie horror comedies.  This is a bit quirky and a bit too sun shiny in production staging for my tastes and it's more like a "little miss sunshine meets revenge slasher" than anything else.  It has some pretty good performances by the bit players and people really do give it their all but it's not a great film.  I wish I could recall where I read the recommendation for this to see what they saw in it.

I'm really 0 for 3 with horror films right now and it's kind of killing me.

[Great Rumbler]

If you want a good horror comedy [one that's recent, anyway] watch Tucker & Dale vs. Evil and The Cabin in the Woods.

[Robo]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

A surreal journey through bizarre images and disconcerting sounds. It's as if someone took the strangest and most unsettling scenes from 2001 and then stretched them out into a two hour film. It's hard to really judge this as a movie, but it is compelling as an audio/visual odyssey, which I think is more in line with what the director intended.

I watched this over the weekend.  I'm a sucker for intense, minimalist visual aesthetic (owing a lot to Solaris in this case, among others) and the sort of atmospheric dread that this flick trades on, though I think it would've been beneficial to let up now and again as it starts to become a monotonous slog after an hour or so.

[Enl]

Beyond the Black Rainbow

A surreal journey through bizarre images and disconcerting sounds. It's as if someone took the strangest and most unsettling scenes from 2001 and then stretched them out into a two hour film. It's hard to really judge this as a movie, but it is compelling as an audio/visual odyssey, which I think is more in line with what the director intended.

I watched this over the weekend.  I'm a sucker for intense, minimalist visual aesthetic (owing a lot to Solaris in this case, among others) and the sort of atmospheric dread that this flick trades on, though I think it would've been beneficial to let up now and again as it starts to become a monotonous slog after an hour or so.

Saw this a couple of weeks back too. I thought visually and aurally the film nails what it was trying to do. The last 40 minutes or so was a feast of 80s retro scifi weirdness.

I do think the film suffers from an incredibly slow moving first 1/3rd where the plot moves at snail's pace. I can normally stomach slower paced moves, but other than establishing the setting and story the plot barely moves forward. They could easily have shaved off about 20 - 30 minutes of the first 50 minutes without losing anything. Other than that it's still an interesting watch for sure.

[chronovore]

Rewatched PROMETHEUS. I didn't hate it nearly as much as I did in the theater. There is still a mess of stuff which doesn't make a lick of sense, but it was less overt than I recalled it being.

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Someone said the trinity of pilots went cruciform before sacrificing themselves. They don't. They just raise their arms, though it doesn't make much sense. "Banzai!" I guess.

Additional footage of the Engineer stalking through the lifeboat was more reminiscent of the ending sequence in Alien, on board the Narcissus. Very evocative of Ripley's final escape.

Still want to know how the geologist managed to be entirely lost despite all his mapping goods. Still want to know why the biologist thought the cobra-like pose of the albino alien snake was an approachable body language. Still want some resolution about "Every King has his reign, and then he dies..." but the Engineers are not interested in passing on their reign either, much like Weyland.

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[The Sceneman]

just saw Dredd in 3d. Action movie of the year. Near perfect in a lot of ways

[Great Rumbler]

just saw Dredd in 3d. Action movie of the year. Near perfect in a lot of ways

*high-five*

Also, look up The Raid: Redemption, if you haven't seen it already.

[Verdigris Murder]

Some Guy Who Kills People - Not.....horrible which I guess is the new good for indie horror comedies.  This is a bit quirky and a bit too sun shiny in production staging for my tastes and it's more like a "little miss sunshine meets revenge slasher" than anything else.  It has some pretty good performances by the bit players and people really do give it their all but it's not a great film.  I wish I could recall where I read the recommendation for this to see what they saw in it.

I'm really 0 for 3 with horror films right now and it's kind of killing me.

Grave Encounters, although made in that quaint little country Canada is well worth a watch, it's better than VHS. Also Abraham Lincoln VH is not really horror, but is a fuck ton better than it deserves to be.

[cool breeze]

Iron Man 3 trailer



because even if you're sick of all the comic movies, at least this is a new movie from Shane Black.

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Wintertime.  Safe bet it takes place during Christmas.

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[Diunx]

Awesome trailer!