Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Mr. Gundam]

Looper Well that was absolutely fantastic.

[Phoenix Dark]

Damn the redhead from Zero Dark Thirty is crazy hot dat mouth

Jennifer Ehle is the hottest woman in it. Oh boy, she was originally cast as Catelyn Stark in Game Of Thrones and was in the original pilot but backed out afterwards 

Stannis is in Zero Dark Thirty

I'll post my thoughts on the movie tomorrow, too tired. Suffice to say I really liked it

[Diunx]

Damn the redhead from Zero Dark Thirty is crazy hot dat mouth

Jennifer Ehle is the hottest woman in it. Oh boy, she was originally cast as Catelyn Stark in Game Of Thrones and was in the original pilot but backed out afterwards 

Stannis is in Zero Dark Thirty

I'll post my thoughts on the movie tomorrow, too tired. Suffice to say I really liked it

Damn! a fapable Lady Stark would have been awesome!

[The Sceneman]

Rewatched Johnny Mnemonic.....

this. fucking. scene.



DO YOU HAVE PARENTS AND STUFF?!?

[Beezy]

Damn the redhead from Zero Dark Thirty is crazy hot dat mouth

Jennifer Ehle is the hottest woman in it. Oh boy, she was originally cast as Catelyn Stark in Game Of Thrones and was in the original pilot but backed out afterwards 

Stannis is in Zero Dark Thirty

I'll post my thoughts on the movie tomorrow, too tired. Suffice to say I really liked it

Bert Macklin in Zero Dark Thirty

[fistfulofmetal]

Dredd

fucking bad ass fucking awesome

[fistfulofmetal]

This is probably Lena Headey's best role I've seen her in. She's completely menacing and believable as a psychopath. Karl Urban is equally as great as Dredd.

One aspect that I enjoyed a great deal was how the events of the movie weren't some big epic journey to save the world. They could have easily turned this into that but they reined it in and made the story just a single event that bares very little effect on the outside world. Dredd sums it up perfectly in the end:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Drug bust"

[close]

I see this movie being a cult hit and seeing as it wasn't very successful, it'll remain on it's own.

[Groogrux]

Damn.

I hadn't planned on watching Looper mostly because the previews for it aired every five minutes last year on Gamestop's TV service and I got annoyed with seeing the odd-faced computer graphic JGL, but after all of you guys and a few friends on FB talked about how good it was, I decided to check it out.

That was a pretty decent movie.

[Verdigris Murder]

This is probably Lena Headey's best role I've seen her in. She's completely menacing and believable as a psychopath. Karl Urban is equally as great as Dredd.

One aspect that I enjoyed a great deal was how the events of the movie were some big epic journey to save the world. They could have easily turned this into that but they reined it in and made the story just a single event that bares very little effect on the outside world. Dredd sums it up perfectly in the end:

spoiler (click to show/hide)

"Drug bust"

[close]

I see this movie being a cult hit and seeing as it wasn't very successful, it'll remain on it's own.

I have arrived at a profound conclusion: both The Raid and Dredd were as you guys said, man vs building.

But if was the above vs each other The Raid would probably be a spindly, but ripped too fuck ant against a beetle. They would fight on a log.

Also holy shit at the massive films leaking !

[fistfulofmetal]

Dredd

I think this may be the best movie from 2012 that I've seen. This movie executes on its concept nearly perfectly and there's very little I can fault it on. It's a 90 minute movie that doesn't feel short thanks to a reasonably slow pace that works to the films benefit. A lot of action movies recently have fallen into the trope of being non-stop balls to the wall action, and while there is a place for that, Dredd keeps the pace low. It really does evoke the vibe of older action movies like Die Hard, Robocop, and even Assault on Precinct 13.

One aspect that works really well is how they do not attempt to characterize Dredd beyond the basics. I will say he does go through a slight arc over the course of the movie but it's not huge. Judge Anderson is where we see the grand arc and it works well for her character. The fact that they never use it as the focal point of the movie makes it affective. It comes out in bits and pieces as the movie goes and when it ends you feel there has been enough payoff to justify it.

Dredd is also just a damn fine film to look at. The effect of slow-mo is damned great and how they use it to give us slow-motion action sequences is genius. I genuinely enjoyed that they took an action movie trope and figured out a way to work it into the movie and it is completely effortless. They never over-use it as well so the handful of times it comes up have weight behind them. Especially the final one. It's beautiful and brutal and works amazingly.


So yeah. I loved Dredd.

[The Sceneman]

yep Dredd was fucking awesome. One of the best action movies of recent years.

watched some stuff

Toy Story 2: pretty revolting. The human characters were sooooooo ugly and the toys weren't much better. Stinky Pete was cool but hearing Woody talk just made me think of Tom Hanks' ass face the whole time. A classic this aint.

Die Hard 2: doesn't have the same tension as the first film and kinda goes all over the place but there's some great shootouts and set pieces. The finale is pretty badass. The reporter woman made my pants inflate like an airbag





Casino: not as good as Goodfellas but really gripping mob flick and I found all the workings of a Casino to be really interesting. The violence was a bit much even for me sometimes... some really heavy shit. Sharon Stone's character was definitely the low point of the film. I know she was supposed to be a bitch, but man.

[Phoenix Dark]

Casino has some great parts but overall isn't particularly great. Plus Pesci's voice over is horrible

[The Sceneman]

Martin Scorsese films are like pizza, even when they're average they're still pretty good.

[Steve Contra]

Not really, Scorsese has made a few pieces of shit.

Casino...eh.  Soundtrack was good, and it was pretty, but other than that it seemed like it had been done before.

[Steve Contra]

Kundun, The Departed, King of Comedy are all pretty bad (especially The Departed).  Bringing Out the Dead is completely uneven and crazed, but worth watching.

[Great Rumbler]

I really wanted Hugo to suck. I was fucking disappointing as all hell when it came out with a 100% tomatometer.

Because it's actually a really good movie. How terrible!

[Steve Contra]

It's fucking terrible?  I dunno, long, overwrought, turns a taut thriller into a boring meditation on daddy issues?  Plus movies about Boston are invariably bad because Boston sucks.

[Olivia Wilde Homo]

Casino felt like a carbon copy of Goodfellas.  It almost felt like Scorsese felt like he had to make another movie with De Niro and Pesci about gangsters.

[Mr. Gundam]

I thought The Departed was great. One of the few remakes of an Asian film that doesn't completely fall flat.

[Phoenix Dark]

The Departed is great. IMO the hate it gets from a minority of folks is butthurt-itis. Great acting, darkly funny script, and a plethora of memorable scenes. Do I think Scorsese should have won the Oscar for something much better, years ago? Fuck yes. But it was a damn good film that should be judged on its own merits - not his past work, or the films it's based on.

[cool breeze]

flipping between Shame and Something Borrowed on TV.  Something Borrowed is considerably more cynical and unsettling.

[Steve Contra]

The Departed is great. IMO the hate it gets from a minority of folks is butthurt-itis. Great acting, darkly funny script, and a plethora of memorable scenes. Do I think Scorsese should have won the Oscar for something much better, years ago? Fuck yes. But it was a damn good film that should be judged on its own merits - not his past work, or the films it's based on.

Butthurt 

I just don't think it's very good.  I'm a big Scorsese fan otherwise.

[Phoenix Dark]

http://newsradio1310.com/evil-dead-remake-cgi/

I'm actually gonna see this. The red band trailer is very good. Looks like the original Evil Dead, not the cheesy sequel.

[Phoenix Dark]

Forgive me, I'm a veteran of the Evilbore Departed Wars of 2006

[Bebpo]

Departed was awesome and I have no interest in watching the original because I love me my sexy DiCaprio screentime.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Django Unchained screener!

[Vertigo]

Yeah I saw that up over the weekend

Avoiding it though, I want my first viewing of it to be at the cinema. In The UK we get the film on the 18th of january so it's not too long to wait.

[fistfulofmetal]

http://newsradio1310.com/evil-dead-remake-cgi/

I'm actually gonna see this. The red band trailer is very good. Looks like the original Evil Dead, not the cheesy sequel.

If that is true then I am vindicated. Only one shot in the trailer looked amiss, the one where the person is on fire. Everything else looked legit.

Me
GR

[Eric P]

that johnny knoxville, ahnold movie is directed by Jee-woon Kim?

 The Last Stand
 
2012 Doomsday Book (segment "Heaven's Creation")
 
2010 I Saw the Devil
 
2008 The Good, the Bad, the Weird
 
2005 A Bittersweet Life
 
2003 A Tale of Two Sisters
 
2002 3 Extremes II (segment "Memories")
 
2001 Coming Out (short)
 
2000 The Foul King
 
1998 The Quiet Family
 
mind blown

[Vertigo]

January is good though as lots of screeners leak I've got Zero Dark Thirty lined up for this evening but on sunday evening me and the missus watched

Hitchcock - Interesting movie but my what an odd tone it has. It feels very TV movie. But the cast is solid great to see Danny Houston on screen, Hopkins is good as Hitchcock and Mirren is also watchable. But the film has no tension to it. At the end it's all a bit 'ok'. Could have done with being longer instead of merely perfunctory.


Killing Them Softly

Loved this. 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' is one of my favorite movies ever so was really looking forward to this.

I love films about low level criminals and the world they inhabit so this was a treat. Storyline is two guys are hired to turn over a mob run card game which they do Brad Pitt is brought in to track them down that's it.

In the background of the movie the first major glare of the world financial crisis are discussed and the presidential debates with McCain and Obama fill the radio and TV. It's hard to discuss moments as I like people to see them for themselves, but it's the characters that matter here James Gandolfini's rambling hitman is terrific he gives us dizzying little stories about his love life as he wallows in his own self pity.

Ben Mendelsohn as a druggie and one of the robbers is amazing. His sweaty face takes over every scene his in, when one character remarks that he smells like shit you believe him. The rest of the main cast Ray Liotta,Richard Jenkins,Scoot McNairy are also fantastic. And Pitt? Man, is he both cool and ruthless in this, and of course ever the professional.

I can see why a lot of people hated this on release. It's talky,there is no gangster glamour here,just desperate and greedy men making mistakes.

[Cerveza mas fina]

Departed is one of my all time favourites.

So many great perfomances, from the smug damon you just want to cockpunch to dicaprio who is reminscent of hia basketball diaries role to nicholson being batshit.

Baldwin, sheen, marky mark effin amazing shits.

[Vertigo]

Yeah I prefer the Departed to Infernal Affairs.

When I first saw The Departed I feared that they were not going to go through with a certain character death. I was delighted when it happened on cue. Don't think the audience was excepting it though.

The screams that rang out. 

Though they just couldn't leave it and have Matt Damons character get away, so we had the funny if slightly implausible Mark Whalberg scene.

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Yeah I saw that up over the weekend

Avoiding it though, I want my first viewing of it to be at the cinema. In The UK we get the film on the 18th of january so it's not too long to wait.

I'd see it in theaters, but it comes out in this country in March and I leave in February. Won't be in theaters when I get back to Canada. This is the best this could've played out for me.

[Eric P]

departed is horrible

worst thing?  that fucking blast of flogging molly or whatever it was that kept playing over and over at super high volume

[Cerveza mas fina]

departed is horrible

worst thing?  that fucking blast of flogging molly or whatever it was that kept playing over and over at super high volume

 

Thats great music. Sets the irish tone.

[Eric P]

i think you'll find me in the "agree to disagree" camp

The Departed is a fantastic flick that is unfairly hated on cause of koreaboos.

Infernal Affairs is from Hong Kong.

also the departed thinks you are fucking stupid (of course...)

final shot of the movie?


http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0407887/quotes
ctrl+f "rat"

i mean, seriously.

[Cerveza mas fina]

The rat ending wasn't very subtle but it was funny.

PS: hong kongrea, who cares 

[Barry Egan]

"the rat stands for obviousness"

[ToxicAdam]

The Departed is an editing marvel. The clip that Scorcese goes at for the entire movie  is ferocious. The story and the characters? Eh, not so much.

[Joe Molotov]

I know, right?

[Eel O'Brian]

departed's ok, not a favorite but i'd watch it again

same for casino, although i can go the rest of my life without seeing pesci's weird shapeless body again, keep your shirt on dude

bringing out the dead plays like an attempt to recapture those episodic-style 1970s films, i like it for that, but it is kind of disjointed

[Great Rumbler]

It's so totally inexplicable. I guess The Good, the Bad, and the Weird is in a somewhat similar vein [though not really], but how did he get involved with this movie in the first place?

[BobFromPikeCreek]

I thought Django Unchained was surprisingly just ok. Weird. Just didn't have that Tarantino feel to it for some reason. Maybe it's because Sally Menke died? I don't know. I do tend to enjoy his movies more on second viewings though, so I'll reserve judgement until then.

Also, omg. That accent.

[Great Rumbler]

Just wanna say that the bag scene from Django was hilarious.

[Steve Contra]

departed is horrible

worst thing?  that fucking blast of flogging molly or whatever it was that kept playing over and over at super high volume

[BobFromPikeCreek]

Just wanna say that the bag scene from Django was hilarious.

  That was pretty great, yeah.

[chronovore]

Evil Dead redband trailer looks like a legitimately scary, spiritually true remake of the original. I am excited to think about seeing an Evil Dead movie in the theaters -- unfortunately, it will probably not come to Japan for 6 months to a year.

[Phoenix Dark]

Killing Them Softly

There's a good movie in here...unfortunately it's kind of drowned out by a rather meh script and some uninspired direction. Multiple scenes drag imo, and while Pitt and Gandolphini are great I felt the rest of the cast was forgettable. I love the gritty feel and the focus on low level con men, but imo the script just lacks enough punch to make it work consistently.

Not a bad heist flick, but the problem is that so many are better.

[Beezy]

Saw Jack Reacher after Django last week. It's not an action movie so I don't know why they advertised it as one. It also felt and looked like it was filmed in the early 90s. Really odd movie.

[Cerveza mas fina]

The rat ending wasn't very subtle but it was funny.

PS: hong kongrea, who cares 

Worst use of that smiley ever 

 

Waddya mean my nicca be like ooooh

[Bebpo]

Killing Them Softly

There's a good movie in here...unfortunately it's kind of drowned out by a rather meh script and some uninspired direction. Multiple scenes drag imo, and while Pitt and Gandolphini are great I felt the rest of the cast was forgettable. I love the gritty feel and the focus on low level con men, but imo the script just lacks enough punch to make it work consistently.

Not a bad heist flick, but the problem is that so many are better.

It's not a heist flick though.  The reviews that knock the film seem to go in looking for a standard mob heist film.

It's a character piece as a metaphor for how frightening and inhumane capitalism is when it's brought down to its core level of brute force machine efficiency at the cost of humanity and community/society benefit.  Pitt's character is the core of "fuck everyone else, I gotta make my buck" and the ending from

spoiler (click to show/hide)

his killing of the young guy to his speech at the bar

[close]

just hammers in that point.

I agree some scenes go on a little long and overall I think the story could've used a little more meat to it; also the political message is hammered in so hard in the first half it feels a bit tacky.  But still, I found it to be a darn interesting film that also had beautiful cinematography, great direction and fantastic editing.  Then again Jesse James was very similar and was my favorite film of 2007, so I'm a big fan of how he makes his movies. 

My top films of 2012 were:  1) Moonrise Kingdom, 2) Killing Them Softly, 3) Django Unchained, 4) Argo, 5) Cabin the Woods.

[Dickie Dee]

Casino >>>> Goodfellas

[Bebpo]

End of Watch

Great pace to it.  Really entertaining and later intense.  Also pretty realistic and brutal.  Both leads were great.  Definitely enjoyed it.

[Great Rumbler]

Looks like the next movie project for the Nolan brothers is going to be scifi:

According to multiple sources, Nolan has set his sights on a sci-fi project titled Interstellar, which he is in talks to direct and produce. The project involves time travel and alternate dimensions in a story that sees a group of explorers travel through a wormhole. The script is based on scientific theories developed by a Kip Thorne, a theoretical physicist, a gravitational physicist and astrophysicist at Caltech.

Sources say that dealmaking has been underway for months and is described as very complex.

Interstellar is set up at Paramount but would be made by both Paramount and Warner Bros., where Nolan and his Syncopy banner are based and for which he has made the three Batman movies as well as Insomnia and Inception. (The Prestige was made for Disney.)

The script for Interstellar was written by Jonathan Nolan, Chris' brother, who worked on The Dark Knight Rises and The Dark Knight, as well as Prestige. Jonathan Nolan (known as Jonah) also has a "story by" credit for Memento, Chris Nolan’s breakout movie.

Steven Spielberg was previously attached to direct Interstellar and produce with Lynda Obst. It is unclear if Spielberg will remain involved, especially considering the director's planned next movie, Robopocalypse, was delayed indefinitely on Wednesday.

[CajoleJuice]

yeeeeeeeaaaaaaa

[Phoenix Dark]

Nolan>Spielberg

[Great Rumbler]

That was on Spielbergs obscene list of movies he wanted to direct, I'm pretty happy Chris picked it up first.

Like James Cameron, he's got an incredibly long list and most of them will never actually get made. This news does please me greatly, though, not the least of which because I love space exploration movies more than just about anything else.

[Phoenix Dark]

I mean in the last 15-20 years or so, of course

[Great Rumbler]

Just looking at the past 15 years [1998 to present, which would include Nolan's entire filmography], you get:

Nolan: Following, Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, Inception, The Dark Knight Rises [8 movies]

Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Minority Report, Catch Me If You Can, The Terminal, War of the Worlds, Munic, Indian Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, The Adventures of TinTin, War Horse, Lincoln [11 movies]

Yeah, I'd take Nolan over the past 15 years in a heartbeat, even though I did enjoy most of Spielberg's movies during that same time frame.

[Great Rumbler]

Here's some additional information about Kip Thorne [the guy whose scientific research is the inspiration for the movie] and a bit more about the development of the movie itself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kip_Thorne