Repo! The Genetic Opera. I very much enjoyed it, but I can certainly see how the Hot Topic crowd would exploit it. I'm glad I remained blissfully ignorant of that though, because it probably would have cheapened the film for me.
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The Crazies. It was more or less exactly what I expected it would be. I did enjoy the ending.
Despicable Me. It was a cute, run-of-the-mill family film. The kitten booklet thing was almost sickeningly adorable. The part at the end with the unicorn book... well... I doubt I was the only adult in the theater that entertained the idea of him putting his you-know-what through that hole.
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I seemed to remember the 'narratives' The Man being different in the book, and how it turns out the whole family was following them at the end seemed....unnecessary.
Re-read the end of the book. They dumbed it down and blatantly explained it in the film, but the Man's mistrust of people in general prevented the family from intervening sooner. In the book the boy sees one of their kids at one point, and they hear their dog at another, at which point the Man gets paranoid and makes them hurridly move on.
It's all classic McCarthy, really. He aims to depress, and he always succeeds. The only giant difference I noticed was the over abundance of flashbacks featuring the wife. There should have been three at most, and very short ones at that. Otherwise it was a beautiful adaptation and I'm happy to own both the film and book.
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A long, long time ago, I once saw a film called Surf Ninjas. It was a crappy, early 90's, Rob Schneider, ninja film. I didn't remember much about it, but the other day I was flipping through channels and came across it. The first thing that I noticed that I hadn't been aware of when I saw it as a kid, was that it has the guy who played Willie Loomis on Dark Shadows in it. I fucking love Willie Loomis, so I decided to watch the whole thing.
The movie is bad. The dialogue is terrible, and the acting is even worse. So, I never expected to laugh, which is why when the one section of this film that actually is funny came up, it caught me completely by surprise, and had me bending over, gagging, with lemonade dripping from my nose. Now, without further ado, I present to you: MONEY CAN'T BUY KNIVES.
DUDE, me too! you have to read the comic book next it's so different!
By different you mean a hundred times better.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
Yeah pretty much, I hated how they made the ending so happy in the film and how they portrayed V as a "good guy" but I probable never would've read the comic without having seen the movie.
The best line in that movie "One thing is true of all governments – their most reliable records are tax records." lmao
Don't get me wrong, it wasn't a bad movie. It just wasn't V For Vendetta.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
I would have liked the comic more if the art wasn't god-awful.
Were we reading the same comic graphic novel?
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
I honestly couldn't imagine reading that story with the art in any other style.
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“I always believe the movies I've made are smarter than the way they are perceived by sort of mass culture and by the critics,” Snyder said, a statement he immediately followed by saying, “Also, ‘It looks like a video game.’
David Lloyd has since grown a bit as an artist, but his style represents everything that I don't like about dark-age comics. You have to understand it's entirely a case of personal taste. I felt the same way about the art of Watchmen as well. The only reason I felt I could let that slide was the irony present in drawing that particular story in such a cliched style.
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The only art I've really hated in any must have graphic novels I've obtained is The Dark Knight Returns. I can barely stand that pile of overhyped shit without the stinky artwork.
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It's...odd. It definitely doesn't feel like a kids' film, but it's still a kids' film?
I dunno. The humour made me smile a few times though.
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Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
If we were girls, we could get popular by doing anything:
rock band, jazz band,
karate, kendo, mahjong, cyborg, synchronized swimming...
On the other hand, high school boys are
useless outside battle and sports anime.
But they're recklessly trying to make a slice-of-life anime about us.
Ah, we are high school boys,
the miserable high school boys.
Saw Inception. It was pretty good, it made me think without being pretentious. The 5-layer thing was done pretty well, I liked how they kept cutting between realities. I saw the Dom Cobbs (terrible name)-did-inception-on-his-wife thing coming a mile off, but it didn't stop me enjoying the film. Also <3 gravity switches.
I'd have to see it more than once to form a proper opinion on it, but it's the closest thing we're going to get to Psychonauts: The Movie.
Watched Wolf Man. It was alright. I liked the atmosphere and style.
Oh, and Clash of the Titans and The Men Who Stare at Goats.
To Hell with CotT. Fancy puppet show with Sam Worthjackshitington. MWSaG was meh. It seemed silly and rather overrated to me. Did have its funny moments, though.