Author Topic: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread (Read 2639001 times)

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #14880 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:23:53 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on July 18, 2012, 04:23:04 AM

50/50

You know, not only was this very good, but it was not the kind of film I expected it to be. I thought it was going to be one of those "you gotta live your life while you can" movies, but it was actually more personal and more of a well done drama about human relations. I really liked it.

Just another Seth Rogan movie that is full of stupid stunts and not-funny antics. I rented this one and everyone in the room got up and left to do ANYTHING else after the first 30 minutes rather than watch this. It is not funny, it is embarrassing to watch these two actors try to be funny, and they fail miserably. Just horrible. I have now promised my family to never rent another movie with Seth Rogan in it if at all possible. He ruins every movie he is in since he can't act, and he only has one mode - humiliatingly stupid.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #14881 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:29:27 AM »

mojo in a bad mood today

did you get tdkr spoiled for you?

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #14882 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:32:31 AM »

No, I just thought it'd be fun to troll threads copy/pasting 1 star reviews from Amazon.

I loved 50/50.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #14883 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:35:15 AM »

I'm curious about this movie solely because they proudly put a 3 1/2 star review on their boxart.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #14884 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:37:56 AM »

Yeah, I loved 50/50, too. I'm a Seth Rogan apologist.

Philip Cardgage · « **Reply #14885 on:** July 18, 2012, 10:41:43 AM »

I saw it months ago, but the thing I found interesting about it is they didn't over-do the pity angle. I don't think I ever pitied JGL. His girlfriend was a filthy skank, but other than that, they never really went over the top.

I like movies that show restraint.

nice cat but chicken · « **Reply #14886 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:10:39 PM »

batman was totally ok

nice cat but chicken · « **Reply #14887 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:11:18 PM »

i like how in batman katy perry was a social lesbian but batman is the only man or bat who can redeem her

nice cat but chicken · « **Reply #14888 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:12:20 PM »

i also saw the katy perry movie. that might've been better than batman bcuz it was in 3d and batman was not in three dee

nice cat but chicken · « **Reply #14889 on:** July 18, 2012, 12:12:43 PM »

"so that's what that feels like"

Bebpo · « **Reply #14890 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:18:59 AM »

The Amazing Spiderman

Did a mid-week evening at the movies and saw this. It was actually pretty good! I liked it more than the 3 Raimi Spidermans. Raimi Spiderman was enjoyable but it always felt off. I disliked his picks for most of the actors and the movies always felt too cheesy and ridiculous. I thought this one worked better because of two things: The script & The actors. The script was intelligent for a superhero movie. Everything felt fairly realistic, flowed well, and the lines were good without being cheesy. And then the actors were GREAT. Garfield is THE BEST PETER PARKER EVER. He's so perfect for the role. Makes the Toby Maguire spiderman look even dumber. Emma Stone was great and the guy who played Dr. Conners did a very good job as well. Because this trio gave good performances and good delivery of a non-stupid script, the movie was good!

Also, like I'm noticing in a lot of superhero origin movies, the first half origin story is notably better than the 2nd half VS. VILLAIN story. I think in this case it was especially noticeable because Garfield did such a great Peter Parker that was really fun watching him discover his powers and learn to use them as Spiderman. He definitely makes a better Peter Parker than Spiderman. Spiderman still needs a bit more wise cracking in his movies.

But overall, nice movie. I think I will enjoy the next ones with this cast as long as the scripts are good.

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #14891 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:23:36 AM »

Willco would be crying if he read these posts.

Bebpo · « **Reply #14892 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:31:53 AM »

It's weird, I really like Sam Raimi, but I don't like any of his Spiderman movies (#2 is a solid film I will admit). Evil Dead series, A Simple Plan, Drag me to Hell. All fantastic stuff. I just don't like him as a mainstream comic book movie director.

Cerveza mas fina · « **Reply #14893 on:** July 19, 2012, 03:49:16 AM »

Quote from: Cormacaroni on July 16, 2012, 03:32:05 AM

I'd go for 'incarcerated terrorist' myself but yeah, soldier is very much the term his supporters would use. I've heard it's great from multiple sources so will probably check it out one of these days.

Ireland was occupied by the English.

This dude was in the Irish Republican Army.

I think the preferred term is soldier, or freedom fighter.

Or was George Washington a terrorist as well?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #14894 on:** July 19, 2012, 12:00:37 PM »

What's a movie gotta do these days to get an NC-17 rating?

Eel O'Brian · « **Reply #14895 on:** July 19, 2012, 12:16:05 PM »

I want to see that, looks like it has a real Jim Thompson vibe

Matthew Mcaunsahsdadghahee has talent, this might be one of the rare times you get to see him use it

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14896 on:** July 19, 2012, 12:36:16 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 19, 2012, 12:00:37 PM

What's a movie gotta do these days to get an NC-17 rating?

"graphic aberrant content involving violence and sexuality, and a scene of brutality"

More graphic, aberrant, and brutal than Saw apparently!

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #14897 on:** July 19, 2012, 12:37:38 PM »

Well alright, then!

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #14898 on:** July 19, 2012, 12:40:54 PM »

Juno Temple

Eric P · « **Reply #14899 on:** July 19, 2012, 01:11:00 PM »

Tasty · « **Reply #14900 on:** July 19, 2012, 01:25:07 PM »

Seeing it Tuesday at 2:45pm at the Providence IMAX. If you wanna meet Andrex: The Legend LIVE and in PERSON, then you can be there. I got four other people to come, it's gonna be great.

$10 a ticket for IMAX ain't a bad deal.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14901 on:** July 19, 2012, 01:29:15 PM »

Quote from: Eric P on July 19, 2012, 01:11:00 PM

Looks better than The Avengers

Barry Egan · « **Reply #14902 on:** July 19, 2012, 01:53:15 PM »

Quote from: Andrex on July 19, 2012, 01:25:07 PM

Seeing it Tuesday at 2:45pm at the Providence IMAX. If you wanna meet Andrex: The Legend LIVE and in PERSON, then you can be there. I got four other people to come, it's gonna be great.

$10 a ticket for IMAX ain't a bad deal.

Cool, I didn't know the Bears movie was in IMAX.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #14903 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:02:11 PM »

Holy shit, I live 45 minutes from Providence. I'ma stalk yo' ass Andrex. Then I'm gonna dip my dick in yo' shit and make love to you when you want me to

CajoleJuice · « **Reply #14904 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:11:58 PM »

The 13-theater cineplex in Lincoln Center in NYC has two regular theaters and one IMAX of the trilogy starting at 6 pm, and then the other 10 theaters get midnight showings, and then there's another IMAX showing at 3:50 AM.

Holy shit.

Tasty · « **Reply #14905 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:13:43 PM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on July 19, 2012, 02:02:11 PM

Holy shit, I live 45 minutes from Providence. I'ma stalk yo' ass Andrex. Then I'm gonna dip my dick in yo' shit and make love to you when you want me to

The Prov Place bathroom stalls are pretty nice, I'll see you there.

Quote from: Barry Egan on July 19, 2012, 01:53:15 PM

Quote from: Andrex on July 19, 2012, 01:25:07 PM
Seeing it Tuesday at 2:45pm at the Providence IMAX. If you wanna meet Andrex: The Legend LIVE and in PERSON, then you can be there. I got four other people to come, it's gonna be great.

$10 a ticket for IMAX ain't a bad deal.

Cool, I didn't know the Bears movie was in IMAX.

I'm waiting for the spinoff, FurryCity.

Momo · « **Reply #14906 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:16:46 PM »

Jumanji reboot

Mupepe · « **Reply #14907 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:29:15 PM »

All IMAX showings are sold out Friday and Saturday in Houston. Half of Sunday is already sold out. Showings are pretty much 24 hours a day all weekend. The first showings start at 4am and the last are around 1am. And in 2D there are showings every 30 minutes or so 24 hours a day.

Diunx · « **Reply #14908 on:** July 19, 2012, 02:46:28 PM »

I really hold my friends can hold on until saturday to see it! Don't wanna go to the theater alone.

In times like this I could really use a GF

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14909 on:** July 19, 2012, 04:42:25 PM »

Quote from: Momo on July 19, 2012, 02:16:46 PM

Jumanji reboot

gtfo it was a fun movie, and what kid didn't fall in love with Dunst after that

Momo · « **Reply #14910 on:** July 19, 2012, 04:44:40 PM »

Thats exactly why I laugh. I loved Jumanji, even loved the less than stellar animated series. I DONT want a reboot, I want a continuation where they just find the board game after the last owners dumped it. I don't want a retelling.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #14911 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:00:29 PM »

Have you seen Zathura, Momo?

Tasty · « **Reply #14912 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:01:00 PM »

How can you reboot something that isn't even a franchise? If it's just one movie I think the correct term is remake.

Momo · « **Reply #14913 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:14:34 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on July 19, 2012, 05:00:29 PM

Have you seen Zathura, Momo?

I have not! I have a general idea what it is, does it live up to Jumanji?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #14914 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:39:48 PM »

Zathura was a pretty good movie. Maybe not as good as Jumanji, but I liked it.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #14915 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:44:45 PM »

Yeah, it was a fun movie, you should definitely watch it if you liked Jumanji.

Momo · « **Reply #14916 on:** July 19, 2012, 05:50:15 PM »

I'll try and find it tomorrow to watch saturday morning, thanks

Huff · « **Reply #14917 on:** July 19, 2012, 06:28:31 PM »

Watched Immortals last night since it's on netflix streaming now. I thought it was horrible outside of the main dude. The story didn't seem to make any sense, the actions of the gods didn't seem reasonable, the bad guy sucked

i wouldn't have minded all the negatives if at least the action was good. but it was barely there and mostly boring. more 300 less talking

Robo · « **Reply #14918 on:** July 19, 2012, 06:29:29 PM »

Quote from: Premium Lager on July 19, 2012, 03:49:16 AM

Quote from: Cormacaroni on July 16, 2012, 03:32:05 AM
I'd go for 'incarcerated terrorist' myself but yeah, soldier is very much the term his supporters would use. I've heard it's great from multiple sources so will probably check it out one of these days.

Ireland was occupied by the English.

This dude was in the Irish Republican Army.

I think the preferred term is soldier, or freedom fighter.

Or was George Washington a terrorist as well?

Timber · « **Reply #14919 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:29:53 PM »

PTA jacks off on titties, faces and asses.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14920 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:39:49 PM »

Robo · « **Reply #14921 on:** July 19, 2012, 07:41:42 PM »

Barry Egan · « **Reply #14922 on:** July 19, 2012, 09:14:55 PM »

bud · « **Reply #14923 on:** July 19, 2012, 09:16:39 PM »

i've seen the teasers, but i'm not watching this. it looks excellent, though, judging from the trailers.

it's pretty cool that it's, apparently, similar to the story of hubbard and scientology. it's a fascinating, hilarious cult.

in other news:

Quote

According to my source at FilmNation, the possibility of any trailer or related publicity material coming out in the fall of 2012 is still vague, possibly unlikely. At the most we may finally see a release date.

The film still does not have a U.S. distributor which seems to be holding up a release date of the now-completed film. Possibly, the difficulties of The Tree of Life and its polarizing effect on the box office may be an underlying issue.

When asked for any kind of teaser image or information, I was told that there still is nothing in the public domain that they could release.

I would not expect to see To the Wonder until 2013. This poses another potential problem, since Knight of Cups is also headed by FilmNation, it is also likely that the marketing concern of "too much of a good thing" would push that film well into 2014 (Malick's lengthy post-production notwithstanding). But that's just conjecture . . . I bet you would never see the day when there was too much Terrence Malick for the market to handle!

http://www.terrencemalick.org/

EvilBoris · « **Reply #14924 on:** July 19, 2012, 10:53:17 PM »

Would that be trailer #2 or #3? just help me out guys so i can pat my back about how much OUT OF CONTEXT footage of a HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MOVIE THAT WILL CERTAINLY JUSTIFY THE EXCITEMENT OF NOT KNOWING which I have not seen a flicker

This is MORE my kinda film news reading :
http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/robin-williams-to-play-dwight-eisenhower-in-lee-daniels-the-butler-20120719

Momo · « **Reply #14925 on:** July 20, 2012, 01:44:08 AM »

Cant find it, will have to get it next week

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #14926 on:** July 20, 2012, 03:46:12 AM »

Quote from: Enl on July 16, 2012, 04:55:36 PM

Thomas Jane returns as The Punisher... in a short film.

NSFW

I watched Punisher: Warzone last night, and was struck by how much of a gay couple Castle and Microchip are. Quite overtly brave for a Marvel IP to wear its pink heart on its sleeve. Although tbh the trauma of witnessing your wife and children gunned down in front of you would probably turn must people gay.

HyperZoneWasAwesome · « **Reply #14927 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:10:44 AM »

halfway mark of the year, so there's semi-detailed Chinese box office #'s available. Which for China they rarely are, also of note, China only allows commercial theatrical exhibition of 20-non Chinese films per year, so these ten films listed should be about all of the movies featuring whiteys put out in China so far this year.

TOP 10 NON-CHINESE FILMS 2012 (to 30 June 2012)

Titanic (1997) (RMB934.0 million, $146 million)
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (RMB679.2 million, $106 million)
The Avengers (RMB564.8 million, $88.5 million)
Men In Black 3 (RMB496.2 million, $77.8 million)
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (RMB387.8 million, $60.8 million)
Battleship (RMB306.4 million, $48.0 million)
John Carter (RMB264.4 million, $41.4 million)
Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (RMB186.8 million, $29.3 million)
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (RMB175.1 million, $27.4 million)
Wrath of the Titans (RMB160.1 million, $25.1 million)

TOP 10 CHINESE FILMS 2012 (to 8 July 2012) [* still on release]

Painted Skin: The Resurrection (RMB516.6 million, US$81.0 million) *
The Great Magician (RMB173.8 million, US$27.2 million)
Mission Incredible: Adventures On The Dragon's Trail (RMB165.4 million, US$25.9 million)
Guns and Roses (RMB151.0 million, US$23.7 million)
Love (RMB136.6 million, US$21.4 million)
The Viral Factor (RMB129.4 million, US$20.3 million)
I Do (RMB85.32 million, US$13.4 million)
Black & White Episode I: The Dawn of Assault (RMB85.18 million, US$13.3 million) *
All's Well, End's Well 2012 (RMB84.44 million, US$13.2 million)
Love in the Buff (RMB70.79 million, US$11.1 million)

box office returns in China are up 42% over last year. Making China the 2nd largest and easily the most rapidly expanding film market in the world.

Diunx · « **Reply #14928 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:39:14 AM »

God fuck!!! gotta stay out of facebook tdkr spoilers all over that motherfucker.

Robo · « **Reply #14929 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:40:10 AM »

GOD FUCK!!!

Momo · « **Reply #14930 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:56:35 AM »

FUCKING GOD!!!

Anyone have a condom?

Verdigris Murder · « **Reply #14931 on:** July 20, 2012, 10:58:39 AM »

Also I'm going to get drunk and watch The Raven tonight.

Fifstar · « **Reply #14932 on:** July 20, 2012, 05:08:59 PM »

Just watched The Shelter. Good movie, although I'm not quite sure what to make of the final ending.

ManaByte · « **Reply #14933 on:** July 21, 2012, 03:48:09 PM »

LOTR music from when Gandalf fell to the Balrog in a Superman trailer?

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14934 on:** July 21, 2012, 05:15:58 PM »

Baffling music, and a teaser that shows next to nothing. The Superman Returns teaser was way better, and arguably one of the best teasers of all time

You can't have a Superman trailer without Superman music...

ManaByte · « **Reply #14935 on:** July 21, 2012, 05:19:55 PM »

Snyder is making a Superman movie without Superman music...

Cindi Mayweather · « **Reply #14936 on:** July 21, 2012, 05:23:09 PM »

Quote from: Phoenix Dark on July 21, 2012, 05:15:58 PM

Baffling music, and a teaser that shows next to nothing. The Superman Returns teaser was way better, and arguably one of the best teasers of all time

You can't have a Superman trailer without Superman music...

That teaser was boring. The new one is much better.

Phoenix Dark · « **Reply #14937 on:** July 21, 2012, 05:25:28 PM »

Quote from: ManaByte on July 21, 2012, 05:19:55 PM

Snyder is making a Superman movie without Superman music...

I liked 300 but I have a feeling this will be a disaster. Superman is obviously popular, but not as much as Batman, Spider Man, Iron Man, etc. A good Superman film would certainly do well but unlike other heroes, I don't think there's away breathing room for an average to bad film - this will bomb.

Diunx · « **Reply #14938 on:** July 21, 2012, 07:03:03 PM »

Shitty teasers, movie is gonna be terrible since Shitnyder is directing it, I hope it has some cool fights at least.

Tasty · « **Reply #14939 on:** July 21, 2012, 11:35:15 PM »

Quote from: Oscar the Grouch on July 21, 2012, 11:13:32 PM

I love the Superman music, but fuck the Superman music. After Singer's shitpile, the last thing we need is more Donner Superman fanfiction.

Too bad it's Snyder, though. Literally zero chance of it being good.

Yup.

Wish someone good was directing it. Really wish DC had their stuff together in the movies.

But their games and animated shows and movies and comics are pretty good, so overall I let it slide a bit.

News:

Author Topic: Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread (Read 2639001 times)