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fred79
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posted November 11, 2014 06:19 PM |
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never saw it.
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artu
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My BS sensor is tingling again
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posted November 11, 2014 08:50 PM |
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Edited by artu at 20:51, 11 Nov 2014.
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fred79 said:
artu said: Oliver Stone movies are usually good but never great, in my opinion.
nbk is a great movie, in my opinion. just because it attacks the viewer with the idiot rationale and backward morality of the masses, doesn't mean that the "poke in the eye" isn't wholly justified. i think more movies need to be made, with that "poke in the eye" theme in mind.
in fact, i'd say, a "chainsaw to the brain" is required, at this point in time.
I don't criticize him for being direct, his characters sometimes seem to only exist to represent a point of view, while it is okay to do that on the side, a character should be "a character" first, with genuine motives, psychological depth and originality. Of course, he doesn't do it on a propaganda movie level of low, as I said, he is good but not great.
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fred79
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posted November 12, 2014 06:43 AM |
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artu
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posted November 12, 2014 01:50 PM |
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Automata was not a bad movie, the iRobot/Blade Runner influence is quite obvious and it's definitely not a masterpiece but, overall, it was a decent sci-fi. I think a lot of the dialog was written intelligently, although the plot had a few logical holes in it, nothing too devastating.
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kipshasz
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Elvin's Darkside
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posted November 13, 2014 10:38 AM |
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regarding super hero movies
some pretty interesting thoughts on the subject.
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"Kip is the Gavin McInnes of HC" - Salamandre
"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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xerox
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posted November 15, 2014 02:21 AM |
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Edited by xerox at 02:23, 15 Nov 2014.
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Guardians of the Galaxy. It's a trip on puns, tropes, cringe and a load of statist propaganda. 2/5
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Pawek_13
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posted November 15, 2014 10:23 AM |
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Edited by Pawek_13 at 01:20, 16 Nov 2014.
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Yesterday I watched "Interstellar". It has the most accurate black hole animation ever created (at least according to some newspaper). Otherwise, it a really good film. Leading cast was good, it had a few nice plot twists and was really likeable, although it had a little bit of scientific problems (like the quite long explosions in space). I recommend it to all Nolan fans.
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xerox
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posted November 15, 2014 10:27 PM |
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Edited by xerox at 22:39, 15 Nov 2014.
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Finally watched Gravíty and I really regret not seeing it on the cinema. A simple but really AMAZING movie, one of the best I've seen. The sound and visuals are amazing. The story is simple yet an excellent depiction of how powerless we are in space, and how much we should appreciate Earth. Very difficult film for me being a person with control issues to see.
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Over himself, over his own
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AlexSpl
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posted November 16, 2014 11:30 PM |
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Edited by AlexSpl at 23:31, 16 Nov 2014.
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You'll probably like this movie if you're still in your twenties:
Noruwei No Mori
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artu
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posted November 17, 2014 03:23 AM |
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The Rover was an interesting film. We are in a dystopian near-future, it's not jungle law like in Mad Max but it's obvious something went terribly wrong with the system. Everything people use, the furniture, the clothes, the cars, they are all dusty, dirty and old. It's Australia but people will only accept US dollars which is also referred to as "useless paper." Most people are armed and everybody is distrusting and gloomy. There are still police but the rule of the land is closer to a Wild West mentality.
The Anti-hero's rover gets stolen and he wants to get it back from the thieves. That's it. The film trusts the audience's intelligence, not everything about this world is explained and not every situation the character finds himself is elaborated. People don't constantly talk. Yet, it's all coherent and everything makes sense. The intentionally slow tempo of the film is very fitting in that sense and a very well executed decision.
If you're looking for something unconventional and dark, the Rover is worth the time.
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fred79
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posted November 17, 2014 04:22 AM |
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Edited by fred79 at 04:23, 17 Nov 2014.
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watched "unforgiven" today(not the first time). good movie. i liken it to "taxi driver"; as it builds up the whole movie, just to unleash at the end.
but i've seen other movies that sell a badass, who is only a badass at the end, because they are forced to, for one reason or another.
it's no "taxi driver" though; don't get me wrong.
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AlexSpl
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posted November 17, 2014 09:49 PM |
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Just watched If I Stay. One of those movies that make you stronger.
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kipshasz
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posted November 18, 2014 07:17 PM |
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saw Watchmen , the "ultimate cut" edition.
Pretty interesting expirience, nice visuals and all. for once in the genre, the story was actually interesting.
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"Kip is the Gavin McInnes of HC" - Salamandre
"Ashan to the Trashcan", "I got PTSD from H7. " - LizardWarrior
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artu
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posted November 22, 2014 11:44 PM |
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Are the younger people in the Expendables 3, the new action stars of America? I never heard or seen them in any other movie before.
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blizzardboy
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Nerf Herder
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posted November 23, 2014 08:11 AM |
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Coraline is a really good movie.
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Zenofex
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posted November 23, 2014 08:43 AM |
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blizzardboy said: Coraline is a really good movie.
Aye, it really is. The better Tim Burton without Tim Burton.
Watched The Grand Budapest Hotel yesterday. If taken as a stand-alone movie, it's quite good, even recommended. If you have watched another Wes Anderson movie (any of his movies), it's the same thing in different environment. This is certainly one of those directors who can be creative once and no more than once.
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artu
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posted November 23, 2014 12:00 PM |
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I saw Lucy, I'm very disappointed. In the beginning, the director (Luc Besson of Leon & the Fifth Element) gives the impression that this is going to be an original movie, an unusual cinematic language with all the documentary editing and all, and although the movie opens up really fast, you have no problem being drawn into it. Yet, the Hollywood formula prevails again; what we basically have is another super-hero movie, because apparently, when you start to use more than 20 percent of your brain, you can make atoms fly and all that snow! So, it's another over the top, bad guys dropping like flies and cars exploding like fireworks action movie. I am amazed that they spend millions and millions of dollars on the variations of the same old movie for years now, what a waste.
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blizzardboy
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posted November 23, 2014 10:14 PM |
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I never expected Lucy to be that good.
Btw, From Paris with Love is a really good shoot-em-up spy/adventure/comedy movie. I don't really understand why the reviews were mediocre. Maybe the key is to not take it seriously.
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Doomhammer
Known Hero
Smasher of pasties
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posted November 24, 2014 12:37 AM |
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Ninja turtles is awesome dudes, cowabunga man
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artu
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posted November 24, 2014 02:31 AM |
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blizzardboy said: Maybe the key is to not take it seriously.
Maybe, the inflation on the amount of movies that we're not supposed to take seriously is the problem. After the latest developments in CGI technology, the action movies that are over the top and overblown are so many, they started to cause nausea. "So, bad it's good" or "it's a deliberate parody of the cliches" gets old real quick and under normal circumstances, these kind of movies should be the exception. You cant have one decent spy movie and 20 Johnny English movies, parody cant be the norm. It's like, Tarantino turned the B-Movie into an art form and that's fine but now, we have 50 movies out there doing the same thing, claiming it's stylish when there are not many A-Movies anymore. I want films that I CAN take seriously.
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Are you pretty? This is my occasion. - Ghost
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