Amazing film is what it translates to.
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Wow, can't say that was expected.
Just watched Machete. I really wish I saw it in theaters, it was awesome. Climax was a bit hard to keep track of all the major character though, and one got screwed over pretty badly, not even having a decent standoff. |
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I added some fitting music to the chase scene in The Third Man. You know, there is a cinema in the centre of Vienna who plays the movie every week since it's premiere and it's so great to watch this on the screen. (there is one scene in the movie where Holly and Anna run into a cinema, that's the one)
the thirdd maan Hochgeladen von wsnderes. - Sieh vorgestellte Filme und komplette TV Shows an. |
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Finally got around to watching Piranha 3-D . The 3-D effects were typically delightfully obvious, but at least it embraced it's blatancy. The big gorefest attack near the end went on a little too long, but it was surprisingly gorier than I expected. A couple of the deaths were pretty nice for being more than just "someone gets eaten."
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Buried. Ending Spoilers ahead!
Fuck man, why did he have to die. Part of me knew it wasn't going to work out, but the other part was rooting its hardest for Paul. The whole movie was a tease, but the ending was so brutal. Doesn't even seem like his last will would be found either. Aside from that, I was surprised the movie kept my suspense while the whole time in a single space, and you only see one person. |
Wow, didn't expect that, guess that's good enough motivation to watch it now.
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Does anyone think Skyline had a 'superhero' like feeling at the end?
I didn't like it that much. |
I watched Inception last night. I enjoyed it. It wasn't life changing or anything, but it was well written, well acted, and well directed.
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I agree completely. I went into that movie with the mindset that it would be mind-blowing and amazing, but it didn't do any of that - not even the twist. It was a very good movie but didn't live up to the hype (for me).
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I don't believe any film will live up to the hype created around it, because I believe that that hype is just a marketing device. Sometimes it may appear to live up to the hype through a placebo effect.
I saw The Iron Giant again. I was looking after my nephew, and he wanted to watch a film, so we watched that, and I will say, I enjoyed it. I've also been watching Saxondale with my brother. Saxondale easily competes with the character of Alan Partridge. He's just as funny. |
I saw The Black Swan/The Deadly Swan/The Dark Swan. Whatever that movie is.
It was good, but I still didn't like it. Lots of the camera work was a little too full of Natalie Portman's face looking distraught. |
Rage.
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I just wasn't all about it. I acknowledge it's good. Ballerinas and all.
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I don't think that the script was anything to scream about, I'll admit to that. In the hands of a lesser director it could have easily been tv movie of the week material. But everything was so well executed, and some of the scenes were amazingly designed, and beautifully shot that it rose well above the constraints of the script for me.
The final dance scenes, the Black Swan scenes, for instance, were mesmerizing. |
I also couldn't get it out of my head that the director sounded virtually identical to Tommy Wisseaux.
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HE MEANS THE BALLET DIRECTOR, PEOPLE. NOT DARREN ARONOFSKY.
That never occurred to me, but yes, he does. |
The Men Who Stare At Goats.
What an odd little film. Not 'intentionally quirky' odd, just 'does things that don't mesh with the others' odd. |
No. It was definitely intentionally quirky. Not a great film, but it was amusing enough.
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I thought that it started out well, but when the helicopter came and took them to the centre, it seemed to go no-where.
I originally watched the film after reading the book, which is not a whole lot like the film, but the film doesn't really pretend to be a lot like the book. |
I'm aware that the quirkiness was intentional. I just wanted to make it clear that that wasn't what I was referring to.
It had a good soundtrack, and a nice message, but some of the scenes just seemed unnecessary or out of place. Maybe it was trying to recreate the jumbled, cluttered memories that are put into memoirs, but some bits, like the bit where the journalist goes through the wall at the end felt like they had been injected at the last minute. |
But.....it's not really a memoir, and it's just supposed to be silly.
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Bildungsroman. Whatever.
I got the silly, I really did. But then the 'feel-good' (hate that term) ending implies that they weren't silly after all. The film itself can be silly, sure. But stop trying to inject some kind of message at random intervals. Dun't work that way. |
Not trying to be a dick, but I honestly have no idea what message you are talking about.
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I think MeechMunchie is basically saying that The Men Who Stare at Goats wasn't very cohesive, which it wasn't. It didn't all work. The message: war is bad.
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I'm not even sure that was the message. I thought it was just supposed to be a silly movie.
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I'm happy for it to be that. I like silly. Silly is good.
So here I am enjoying my silly movie and rockin' out to Boston and occasionally snorting at something George Clooney says. Then after they make it to PSIC I see Bill all despondent and downtrodden, and then the Cloonester starts dying of cancer, and I'm like, what the funk? Then they free all the prisoners and the goats and fly off into the sunset, and the message seems to be, 'It doesn't matter if what you believe in is crap, sometimes it's just the belief itself that's important'. Woah, what happened to the silly movie I was enjoying? Why is it all happy and meaningful? If it was going to be that could they have told me at the start so I could be in the correct state of mind by the end? Then Reporter Guy starts running towards the wall and I think, 'Oh, it's cool. I probably just read the scene wrong. Look, it's all right, they're going to do a big joke for the finish. He's going to hit the wall, tumble backwards, the pictures will fall on his head and he'll say 'Ow'. The end. Oh, he just went through the wall. Wait, what? I thought the entire movie was about the Jedi stuff being bollocks? Obviously I'm exaggerating slightly for comic effect, but you get the idea. If you think I'm overreacting, rest assured I'm as surprised as you are. Ziggy, thanks for summing up my posts so eloquently. It wasn't cohesive. |
Yeah.....but......it's not as if it was the first time they showed the stupid Jedi shit working. So, it didn't surprise me. It just seemed like more silliness.
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I watched The Green Hornet.
Kicked ass, loved it. |
Bit late on that front... but yeah, as I said it was pretty cool.
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Speaking of late, I caught The A-Team. Nice and action packed throughout, but I was disappointed at the lack of a needed cameo. Of course, after finishing the movie I found out he turned down a cameo role, so I enjoyed it a lot more the second viewing.
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Watched The Host.
Them Koreans aren't bad movie makers. |
This obviously isn't something that I've just seen, but I heard some interesting news about the upcoming Dark Tower movies that Ron Howard is making. Apparently he just offered the role of Roland to Javier Bardem, and I'll say this: seeing Javier Bardem playing Roland is about the only thing that could drag me to a theatre to see this movie after the travesty that was the final four books of the series.
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Blah blah blah Wizard and Glass was really good.
Until the Wizard of Oz thing. |
Wizard and Glass would have been fine if it wasn't one giant revision of the past. Also, if it wasn't a Dark Tower Hardy Boys story.
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I watched a bunch of episodes of The Ricky Gervais Show last night. It gets really, really uninteresting upon repeat viewings of episodes I watched before Autumn.
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The Curious Case of Bejamin Button.
Now that's a f***ing good movie. |