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Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17100 on:** May 22, 2013, 05:18:02 PM »

It looks like its definitely going to be something made by Zack Snyder. Personally I love his visuals, he's like a lowbrow version of that guy who directed The Fall and The Cell.

chronovore · « **Reply #17101 on:** May 22, 2013, 07:51:32 PM »

You're saying that you'd Enter her Prise?

Mandark · « **Reply #17102 on:** May 22, 2013, 08:34:01 PM »

Star Trek was a totally nice summer movie. Maybe it's lame to praise a movie for pacing, but after all this Nolan/Snyder/Verbinski/Lucas/Jackson stuff (some of which I liked very much) it's nice to have a well-executed action flick that zips along without ever dragging or feeling aimless.

Huff · « **Reply #17103 on:** May 23, 2013, 11:55:21 PM »

Hangover 3

Didn't really want to see it, but was heavily outvoted by my friends.

It was an alright ending to these movies, but never had a shot at being as good as the 1st. More coherent than the 2nd, but extremely predictable. None of the dialog was very funny and all of the best parts were in the previews. Probably "better" than 2, but 2 was at least funny in some parts.

Mupepe · « **Reply #17104 on:** May 24, 2013, 08:38:29 AM »

I'm not surprised. 2 wasn't horrible, it was just completely forgettable.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #17105 on:** May 24, 2013, 02:21:29 PM »

Quote from: Huff on May 23, 2013, 11:55:21 PM

Hangover 3

Didn't really want to see it, but was heavily outvoted by my friends.

It was an alright ending to these movies, but never had a shot at being as good as the 1st. More coherent than the 2nd, but extremely predictable. None of the dialog was very funny and all of the best parts were in the previews. Probably "better" than 2, but 2 was at least funny in some parts.

You need new friends.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17106 on:** May 24, 2013, 05:11:53 PM »

Don't we all.

Frankenweenie is actually pretty great. If you enjoyed Kill List you'll like this too.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17107 on:** May 24, 2013, 05:16:46 PM »

It has the same vibe as that Jonny Depp campire one he also did, and that also has a seriously horror vibe ending.

Holy shit! A seriously cool werewolf scene, I personally think that Burton and Raimi have a rivalry.

ManaByte · « **Reply #17108 on:** May 24, 2013, 10:01:44 PM »

Saw Monsters University today. Probably Pixar's best since Up. Will see it again in 3D when it comes out.

Junpei the Tracer! · « **Reply #17109 on:** May 25, 2013, 10:33:46 AM »

I liked Oz the Great & Powerful but

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At the end when Glenda told him he was good and the obvious look of disappointment on his face. I think it was odd to end it on that note with them. Really was expecting another scene to follow up on it.

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ManaByte · « **Reply #17110 on:** May 26, 2013, 01:54:27 PM »

Diunx · « **Reply #17111 on:** May 27, 2013, 12:42:17 PM »

Not seeing unless Jor El breaks into a song during his monologues.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17112 on:** May 29, 2013, 10:04:28 AM »

I thought Oz The great etc was a massive disappointment, the beginning bit was probably the best part.

VHS 2 is out next week I think. The Gareth Evans section sounds amazing.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17113 on:** May 29, 2013, 10:16:25 AM »

In other breathlessly important film watching developments: I'm watching Watchmen the Ultimate edition, in several sittings, as its over 3 and a half hours long. So far it's ok.

brawndolicious · « **Reply #17114 on:** May 29, 2013, 05:37:59 PM »

The Dying Rooms (1995)

A documentary about China's state-run orphanages and how the babies (always girls or the disabled) are often left to die from neglect in specific rooms/buildings simply due to lack of staff/funds. It's about 40 minutes long and available on YouTube but it is very hard to watch as it includes footage of babies/toddlers dying of thirst while tied to chairs and benches. It does include a short bit about the private orphanages supported by charitable donations and those kids seemed to be very well-taken care of.

Part 1of 4:

Dickie Dee · « **Reply #17115 on:** May 30, 2013, 11:44:28 PM »

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #17116 on:** May 31, 2013, 12:18:08 AM »

holy fuck

imagine using Oculus Rift with that

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17117 on:** May 31, 2013, 12:35:30 AM »

Del Toro needs to sell that thing to Disney Land.

Eric P · « **Reply #17118 on:** June 01, 2013, 07:38:06 PM »

scream 4 is definitely a scream film. i don't know if that's a good thing though.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17119 on:** June 02, 2013, 03:29:39 AM »

Jack the giant slayer is eye-poppingly camp. Hopefully this is just Singer ejecting his boxed up gayness so there won't be any gay-bleed into the next X-men.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #17120 on:** June 02, 2013, 03:39:06 AM »

Saw Star Trek, its fun. Not as good as the last one but fun.

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Kahn was cool.

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Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #17121 on:** June 02, 2013, 05:32:23 AM »

Recent stuff

Star Trek-It's pretty, the characters are if not simple exaggerations, and some of the action is cool. The plot is dumb and has almost the same character arcs from the last movie. Khan was pretty pointless ,but effectively menacing. It was just kind of ok.

Oblivion-I like the little plot point that basically the world was invaded by Tom Cruise Death Squads, but I don't know. Obviously, the movie is visually cool, but I say that because it tires really hard, but yet in the end the movie looked kind of boring. Kind of a cool twist, but I don't know, I just did't feel anything. It's like the movie wanted to be this smart thinking sci-fi movie without the thinking.

Fast and Furious 6-Just stupid fun. The cast is great. The action is great. It's just a well made action movie that really knows how to use it's cast.

Pain and Gain-I don't know what to feel. It's like a bro black comedy without all the subtle darkness from a black comedy. Look at all these terrible things that these dumb bros are doing! That's the movie. I mean the Rock is as entertaining as ever and it's not a boring movie, but it's not good thats for sure.

Eric P · « **Reply #17122 on:** June 02, 2013, 06:06:01 PM »

saw iron man 3 today. was pretty cool. didn't get the villain's motivation at all. was it just revenge?

Rahxephon91 · « **Reply #17123 on:** June 02, 2013, 09:13:58 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on June 02, 2013, 06:06:01 PM

saw iron man 3 today. was pretty cool. didn't get the villain's motivation at all. was it just revenge?

Wasn't that he wanted to prove how awesome he was and cover up the virus' problems.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17124 on:** June 03, 2013, 08:44:30 AM »

Escape from L.A. was added to Netflix Instant today.

Eric P · « **Reply #17125 on:** June 03, 2013, 09:07:21 AM »

Quote from: Rahxephon91 on June 02, 2013, 09:13:58 PM

Quote from: Eric P on June 02, 2013, 06:06:01 PM
saw iron man 3 today. was pretty cool. didn't get the villain's motivation at all. was it just revenge?
Wasn't that he wanted to prove how awesome he was and cover up the virus' problems.

maybe? i did go to the bathroom during one scene so i may have missed the motivation.

other than that, i enjoyed it.

fun spectacle

ManaByte · « **Reply #17126 on:** June 03, 2013, 01:40:29 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #17127 on:** June 04, 2013, 07:05:03 AM »

Seems as good a place as any for this:
http://www.cracked.com/article_20453_6-spectacularly-bad-ideas-movies-convinced-you-are-badass.html

Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 03, 2013, 08:44:30 AM

Escape from L.A. was added to Netflix Instant today.

For what sin are you planning to punish yourself? Horribad movie, and I am particularly lax when judging Carpenter.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17128 on:** June 04, 2013, 06:58:16 PM »

It's actually improved with age, unlike Kurts wife.

Polari · « **Reply #17129 on:** June 04, 2013, 07:21:41 PM »

I just watched Confessions, that Japanese one from a few years back. It was alright, but soundtrack was a little jarring (Western rock/pop songs that weren't always suited to the scenes they were used for) and the ending was waaaay overcooked. The opening half hour is brilliant though.

Bebpo · « **Reply #17130 on:** June 06, 2013, 04:30:37 AM »

The ABCs of Death

Ummm

........................................

Yeaaaaaah

26 short films by 26 directors. Maybe 1/3rd have legitamite value and even then it's mostly cinematography/visual value as in terms of interesting horror stories there's maybe like 2 out of 26. There's some creative stuff, 2d animation, claymation, 4th wall breaking, lots of twilight zone stuff. The couple of serious torture porn pieces feel totally out of place with how silly the set is as a whole (though the Libido one is pretty well done for the fucked up thing it is). Apparently the main takeaway is that Japanese horror directors are fucking insane. The last piece especially was just WTF; though I like the Jidai-geki one, it's sort of works. The Nuptials one was probably my favorite with Dogfight & Orgasm having GREAT GREAT GREAT cinematography. Gravity gets an award kinda for leaving the most to imagination. uhhh, yeah there was a lot of shitty ones in this and I'm pretty forgiving about horror. The Japanese FARTING combined with the last Japanese one...smh :\

If someone did a recut of this with only the ones of some value it'd be worth a watch for horror/twilight zone lovers and would only be an hour long. At two hours with all the stuff in there it's definitely a tough recommendation. I think what it actually does the most is make me want to make my own 4 min horror film because I'm pretty sure I could do better than some of these. So gj film for the creative boost. Will start on the script tomorrow.

Also between VHS and here, it's kind of strange but I don't like Ti West's shorts at all even though I am a huge fan of all his feature films. Ti West's strengths are building and keeping tension and creating creepy creepy atmosphere through it. In like 5 mins he can't do that so his stuff kind of sucks. Although the VHS one wasn't 'bad' and did a good job at creating tense atmosphere for the 15 mins, but it definitely needed more time and comes off as a half-finished concept.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17131 on:** June 06, 2013, 04:44:09 AM »

VHS 2 is out today guys!

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #17132 on:** June 06, 2013, 05:54:54 AM »

Gangster Squad

Super cheesy, but good ole fun. Every scene just goes a bit over the top to be a serious movie.

Sean Penn is good in this.

headwalk · « **Reply #17133 on:** June 06, 2013, 06:02:10 AM »

i'm going to raise the make the ultra controversial statement that lindelof has no idea what he's doing.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17134 on:** June 06, 2013, 06:03:43 AM »

Yes. Iwentinwithserioulsylowexpectationsespeciallybecauseoneofthestarsbeatswomenbutwassctuallyhighlyentertaineditsthecerebralequivalentofgettingacheapblowjobfromastupidyethotgurl.

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17135 on:** June 06, 2013, 06:04:45 AM »

I'll be trying out new forms of conjoining words today.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17136 on:** June 06, 2013, 09:06:00 AM »

Quote from: headwalk on June 06, 2013, 06:02:10 AM

i'm going to raise the make the ultra controversial statement that lindelof has no idea what he's doing.

Not controversial.

ManaByte · « **Reply #17137 on:** June 06, 2013, 12:38:09 PM »

Steve Contra · « **Reply #17138 on:** June 06, 2013, 12:42:31 PM »

It's funny, all the characters in the movie look better cast than Superman. He just sort of looks like Superman from the trailers and that's about it.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #17139 on:** June 06, 2013, 01:58:40 PM »

OMG

someone made a Superman movie...

...and remembered to put action in it

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #17140 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:08:37 PM »

I remember when Superman Returns came out and there was all this talk about how we could FINALLY do a Superman movie right due to technical advances, CG, etc. And instead we got 4 minutes of Superman carrying a space shuttle around and an hour and a half of bad real estate schemes

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #17141 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:09:45 PM »

-Superman deflected a bullet with his eye
-Superman stopped an airplane from crashing
-Superman lifted a mountain

And that was pretty much all that Superman got to do.

Howard Alan Treesong · « **Reply #17142 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:10:32 PM »

yeah, and two of those are like ... 10 second CG test footage reels. WHERE DID THE BUDGET OF THAT MOVIE GO

Steve Contra · « **Reply #17143 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:14:25 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on June 06, 2013, 02:08:37 PM

hour and a half of bad real estate schemes

Someone heard that Will Rogers quote and was like "man, that would make a great Superman movie" and it cost 200 million dollars.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #17144 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:22:22 PM »

Quote from: Howard Alan Treesong on June 06, 2013, 02:10:32 PM

yeah, and two of those are like ... 10 second CG test footage reels. WHERE DID THE BUDGET OF THAT MOVIE GO

To Tim Burton and Kevin Smith.

Yeti · « **Reply #17145 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:28:53 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 06, 2013, 02:09:45 PM

-Superman deflected a bullet with his eye
-Superman stopped an airplane from crashing
-Superman lifted a mountain

And that was pretty much all that Superman got to do.

He got to be a baby daddy too.

Steve Contra · « **Reply #17146 on:** June 06, 2013, 02:34:14 PM »

Remember the cast of Superman Returns?

Superman

Lex Luthor

Lois Lane

Jimmy Olsen

The other characters

What great casting!

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #17147 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:05:51 PM »

Only Kevin Spacey's picture works, Contra. Not that I mind considering he carried the movie

Steve Contra · « **Reply #17148 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:06:43 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 06, 2013, 03:05:51 PM

Only Kevin Spacey's picture works

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AdmiralViscen · « **Reply #17149 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:08:35 PM »

I recently rewatched the first two movies and cannot fathom why they thought Returns should be a direct follow-up.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #17150 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:10:09 PM »

Quote from: Steve Contra on June 06, 2013, 03:06:43 PM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 06, 2013, 03:05:51 PM
Only Kevin Spacey's picture works
thatsthejoke.gif

Himu · « **Reply #17151 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:14:54 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on June 06, 2013, 12:38:09 PM

good lord this looks amazing

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #17152 on:** June 06, 2013, 03:15:55 PM »

Quote from: Steve Contra on June 06, 2013, 03:06:43 PM

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on June 06, 2013, 03:05:51 PM
Only Kevin Spacey's picture works
thatsthejoke.gif

my bad brehs

ManaByte · « **Reply #17153 on:** June 07, 2013, 03:01:57 PM »

That clip

nudemacusers · « **Reply #17154 on:** June 07, 2013, 03:05:44 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on June 06, 2013, 02:09:45 PM

-Superman deflected a bullet with his eye
-Superman stopped an airplane from crashing
-Superman lifted a mountain

And that was pretty much all that Superman got to do.

yeah I remember sitting in the theater when the bullet to the eye scene happened, and think "ok, let's do this"

... $:-\$

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #17155 on:** June 08, 2013, 12:11:09 PM »

VHS 2 is an absolute blast.

Beezy · « **Reply #17156 on:** June 08, 2013, 01:07:49 PM »

Quote from: Verdigris Murder on June 08, 2013, 12:11:09 PM

VHS 2 is an absolute blast.

How is it compared to the first? Is it on netflix?

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #17157 on:** June 08, 2013, 01:15:44 PM »

Quote from: Beezy on June 08, 2013, 01:07:49 PM

Quote from: Verdigris Murder on June 08, 2013, 12:11:09 PM
VHS 2 is an absolute blast.
How is it compared to the first? Is it on netflix?

It's on-demand right now. 10 bucks on itunes.

Eric P · « **Reply #17158 on:** June 08, 2013, 09:48:26 PM »

watching Identity Thief with the girlfriend.
it's so fucking bad

fistfulofmetal · « **Reply #17159 on:** June 08, 2013, 09:53:56 PM »

trying to rent vhs2 to watch but when i went to create an apple id to rent it through itunes its not fucking sending me the verification email.

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