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Posts: 316 (03/15/2009 6:15 PM) Herald of Galactus
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Watched "Lakeview Terrace" recently and I'm begining to wonder if Sam Jackson just keeps picking roles for movies that are idiotic. First, Snakes
on a Plane, then, Black Snake Moan, now this.
I also watched Journey to the Center of the Earth in (not) 3D, it was better than I was expecting it to be, no thanks to Brendan Frasier. Like super heroes, like Roleplaying, then come on over to Earths Mightiest and be the hero your mommy always said you'd be. |
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Posts: 4293 (03/16/2009 11:49 AM)
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Watchmen. I'd read the book a few months ago, so I could appreciate all the tricks they used to condense the plot, like going directly from the interview
to Mars. I thought it was pretty good. I couldn't stop thinking about Shrek during the hot/awkward Owl-on-Silk action, though.
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Posts: 3506 (03/17/2009 12:39 PM) |
Watched the animated Wonder Woman movie last night, the latest in DC's animated movies.
I really liked it, it had great animation, the story and characters were very good, the voices weren't as good as JLU imo, but still memorable. My only complaint is more to do with animated movies not getting enough screen time, and hour and ten minutes doesn't allow the creators to explore characters as much as the big screen equivalents can, however this particular movie doesn't suffer from it. If you like super hero action movies and great 2D animation then get this movie, the only DC animated movies I'd rate higher right now are Justice League: The New Frontier, and Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker, though they're not that far ahead. |
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Posts: 2801 (03/17/2009 12:52 PM) King of Ellipsis... |
We watched "Into the Wild" last night in my Sociology 101 class. It was a pretty decent movie. The ending was pretty sad in my opinion. Dude finally
realizes that "Happiness is only true when shared"... and then he dies alone, trapped =(
EDIT: It is St Patty's Day, and therefore I watched the essential St Patty's Day movie, The Boondock Saints. I remember when I saw it my freshman year of college... "OMG THAT WAS AWESOME!!!!"... I decided to purchase a copy and show it to my parents... WRONG, they didn't have that same reaction =( Kinda excited for "All Saint's Day", which should be coming out this year. 
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I saw Taken on monday. It's like Man on Fire, but in Paris, and the hero is a white guy.
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Posts: 2803 (03/22/2009 11:35 PM) King of Ellipsis... |
Just got back from Gran Torino.
Wow... How did this NOT get a Best Picture nomination? I loved me some Dark Knight, hell I've seen it in the theater 4 times... But this movie made it look like a kiddie movie. Clint Eastwood just got bumped up to my favorite actors list. His performance was superb. A very touching story about an old man, living in an inner city neighborhood. Beer drinking, rifle cocking, handgun slingin' Korean War vet with a lot of regret in his life. He says exactly what is on his mind, no matter how racist/ offensive it is. He has no fears, and isn't afraid to stand up to young punk, gang banging, urban troubadours who think they own a neighborhood because they act tough and carry heat. Some parts will have you laughing. Other times you'll be pissed at how some of the more decent people get treated. All in all it is a great movie. Very moving, very thought provoking. Hell, I can't even remember the last movie that was this good. Highly recommended, but be ware that Clint uses damn near every racial slur out there... except for 'porch monkey'... porch monkey never gets any love =(
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Posts: 4435 (03/23/2009 10:40 AM) Kyon/John Smith Shipper
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Saw two Harry Potter movies on Saturday, Azkaban and Phoenix.
Watching Azkaban again yields the same complaints as always, mostly regarding the lack of Mauraders subplot or context for the giant stag made of light. But I also noticed something else. EVERY SCENE. Every single scene involves a drawn out establishing shot. This would be fine if it didn't happen so often. For example. -Autumn. A single leaf falls from a tree. Pan out. Whomping Willow. It shakes off the rest of it's leaves- Switches to. -Outside the great hall. Settle on stainglass window. Ghost erupts from it. Window is still intact. Slowly pan to the actual plot of the movie- Also every scene has a pan away or fade out moment. I'm going to time it next viewing and see how much time could have been saved by not being so abundant with scenes which do nothing more than remind us we're in Hogwarts and it's MAAAAAAAAAAAAGIC. |
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Posts: 2807 (03/25/2009 11:08 AM) King of Ellipsis... |
Hmmm... Completely forgot to mention I saw "I Love You, Man" last Friday. It was pretty funny, although Paul Rudd's character had some pretty
painful dialog at points... Craig, you should go see this one... The two go to a Rush concert and sing/play Tom Sawyer while riding around town... Oh and I
guess they also do another song during the credits... which I missed =(
I was sick Monday and Tuesday, so I took the time to watch 2 of the Miyazaki films I had purchased at Best Buy. First up is Howl's Moving Castle. I thought it was a really good film. Not quite as good as Spirited Away, but pretty decent none the less. I also watched most of My Neighbor Totoro... I stopped about 20 minutes from the end. It's just too slow paced for me. Might try finishing it up tonight.
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Posts: 4446 (03/25/2009 8:26 PM) Kyon/John Smith Shipper
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My entire interest in I Love You Man is the Rush plot significance and Marshall from How I Met Your Mother.
You must now reply to this thread detailing every single moment Rush were on screen or mentioned during the movie. (Also Adventureland's plot involves a kid who listens to Limelight by Rush and wants to drum like Peart. HELLYESRUSHINMOVIES!) |
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Posts: 4461 (03/29/2009 11:48 PM) Kyon/John Smith Shipper
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So. I just watched Twilight. What an odd movie. Not it's content, just it's presentation.
The first 30-40 minutes of the movie are incomprehensibly slow, dull and without any real coherancy. They move from scene to scene in a vague timeline of protagonist girl's first weeks at school where she spots a brooding pale faced boy. She dreams about him. Chases him and as the character is SO INTROVERT it's like all the colorful characters interact AT her, but she is unaffected. It takes about 6 scenes of the lead couple being next to eachother for them to act. Now, I realize that the book is 1st person, but there's a lack of narration (it exists, but is sparse) to tell us what she's thinking, so she just sulks through 30 minutes of movie lusting after a man who she does not speak with until 25 minutes in. Oh and interestingly the soundtrack to the movie also seems to impatiently wait for their chemistry, so it DOESN'T EXIST until their romance starts akwardly blooming. It's like the soundtrack composser only knew how to write angsty Hot Topic style love music, so the moments where Bella's father spends 6 minutes trying to exposit her backstory at her while she sulks is just dead silent. Due to all these flaws, and the lack of coherancy of events for the first 30 minutes, it's very MSTkable. I burst out laughing at least 4 times, most notably when Dr. Vampire strides into the room casually or when Edward angrily suggests she should just stop whining and say thank you and the Mary Sue akwardly, yet sincerely, says "Thank you" with eyes of lost wonder. After Bella says the word vampire, the movie actually starts being a movie. Which was okay. I didn't mind it. I wish I could go indepth and mock their vampire mythology or the superpower baseball, but it was all whimsical and I cannot laugh at anything which isn't taking itself 100% seriously. I doubt I'll see the sequel. But I must see this movie with rifftrax. |
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Posts: 3071 (04/11/2009 7:09 AM) 
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Just got back from seeing Dragonball Evolution several hours ago and all I can say is..... wow..... just..... wow. This movie RAPED
the original Dragonball franchise and I'm not even kidding! I'm not just saying this because almost everyone else who saw this movie felt
kinda the same way, I'm just saying it because it's how I genuinely feel. This movie blew. Hard. I don't like some of the different things
that were done in this movie. For example, Goku's meant to transform into an ape yet instead he transforms into a lizard-like being.
WHATTAHECK?!?!?! HE'S MEANT TO TRANSFORM INTO A FREAKIN' APE!!! AN APE, DAMMIT!!! Piccolo looked lame. Muten Roshi wasn't even
bald. Bulma just had one streak of blue hair hanging from her head. Those were just some of the numerous problems I had with this movie. I had a
feeling I'd be in for a crappy experience when I'd end up watching this movie since the very moment I first found out that a live action Dragonball
movie was in the works (this was about two years ago, if I remember correctly). Man, I was SO right! But that's not really much of a
surprise. Anyway, I knew I was gonna watch this movie regardless of my scepticism toward it since I'm such an avid fan of the Dragonball franchise (that
includes not only the original Dragonball series, but the Z series and, to a lesser extent, the GT series). I went into the cinema mainly with the expectation
of getting a few cheap lulz, but the movie wasn't even very lulzy. It was utterly awful at worst and cringeworthy at best. At least they kept Roshi as a
pervert. That kinda made me smile. But that's about it. And apparently, both Chatwin and Marsters (the actors who played Son Goku and Piccolo respectively)
have signed on for at least THREE more movies, with the next Dragonball movie apparently already having been green-lighted. God help us if
they're as awful as this one. The Dragonball franchise (Z in particular) defined much of my childhood, along with Sonic. If this movie did
ANYTHING even remotely good, it's that it made me realise just how INFINITELY SUPERIOR the original manga and
anime series are!
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Posts: 496 (04/11/2009 8:09 AM) |
I went to see "Knowing", the Nicolas Cage movie, yesterday. I enjoyed it right up to around the last 10 minutes, where, in the words of my friend
"this is where it gets a bit silly". All I could think of was seven stars, seven stones and one white tree.
Still, some good sequences with planes & trains (underground that is - I shall be planning where I stand on the Underground platforms next time I'm there so I have room to dodge overturned Tube trains!). I also quite like Nicolas Cage - he has something of the Jimmy Cagney about him (if that's who I mean - he of "It's a Wonderful Life"). Maybe it's the accent. Plus he exec-produced the short-lived Dresden Files, for which I shall be forever grateful. Next plan is to see "Let the Right One In" (Swedish vampire film) - I may have to go by myself, not sure how many of my friends will be up for that one... In the meantime, "The Devil's Backbone" awaits on DVD (Guillermo del Toro) - just as soon as I finish "Sapphire & Steel" boxset. DW
I am the terror that flaps in the night. I am the substantial and inescapable penalty for early withdrawal. I am Darkwing Duck!
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Posts: 3525 (04/11/2009 12:52 PM) |
Rishi, just so you know, Oozaru Goku was covered in fur, had red eyes, and the same snout as the anime and manga, only differences were his size, his lack of a
tail, and the fact that his clothes regenerated, Goku must be related to Bill Bixby, clearly...
Anyway, as you can tell I also saw Dragonball, and as a fan of the series I was actually surprised to see how much of the original manga made the cut. And yes, it's no surprise that the movie was crap, but seriously, Rishi, at least they didn't turn Piccolo into business suit wearing fat Simon Pegg with an Irish accent like a certain Street Fighter movie that recently came out did to their main antagonist. Seriously though, this movie would be bad even if they did stay completely true to the manga, the fights were lame, hard to see thanks to bad lighting, over killed special effects flooding the screen, and some shockingly bad wire fu, but also the acting is mostly terrible, full of cliches and no character development, you don't even see Piccolo on screen enough to relate to him or hate him or anything. The romance between Bulma and Yamcha comes out of no where, neither have the same personalities as their manga counterparts, in fact they don't really have personalities other than cocky smugness and greed. Piccolo, for when we see him, is the best acted character, James Masters doing a damn good job as him, but he just doesn't seem all that important to the story other than he's gonna kill everyone. The costumes are pretty cool though, I like Goku's belt and Mai's outfits for...um...well they're just pretty sexy and cool. Also, an aside, what's with Hollywood not liking Chinese dresses anymore? Neither Chun Li nor Chichi wear them in their movies even though it's hard to find images without them in their source material, and the only character in a martial arts movie that will be wearing one from what I can tell is Mai Shiranui in the King of Fighters movie, and she doesn't where one in the games...go figure. Anyway, yes, Dragonball...avoid it if you don't like Dragonball anyway, if you do consider it the reason why there wasn't one up until now.
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Posts: 3072 (04/11/2009 1:53 PM)
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Robobotnik wrote:Yeah, I noticed all of that about Oozaru Goku. I just still thought it was kinda weird.  I like that they stayed true to certain details though, such as Goku
getting the four-starred dragonball from Grandpa Gohan, Yamcha starting out as a bandit (albeit a goofy one) and that bikini magazine that Muten Roshi had.
Anyway, I hope the sequel takes place in the Vegeta/Saiyan saga of DBZ. That might make it worth watching, I guess.....
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Pic related. 
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Posts: 5722 (04/11/2009 2:02 PM) |
Rishi wrote:Ahem! Wolverine and Star Trek my friend! What's your problem!?
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Posts: 3074 (04/11/2009 2:11 PM)
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HyperSonic2003 wrote:Prefer the comics. HyperSonic2003 wrote:Not a trekkie. I am a massive Star Wars fan though. Peace out! 
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Posts: 339 (04/11/2009 2:56 PM) tsss
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grand torino.. saw it via bootleg dvd
Emo Bub 04/28/2008 - ??/??/????
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Posts: 4325 (04/11/2009 3:03 PM)
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Blade Runner, original edition. Odd movie, but visually pretty amazing. Found Deckard's inner monologue obnoxious. Perhaps is used to Rorschach's. Must
investigate further.
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Posts: 5725 (04/11/2009 4:28 PM) |
Rishi wrote: Fair enough...fair enough.
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Posts: 3410 (04/11/2009 11:33 PM) Resident |
Definetly going to see DB:E now. Possibly Friday. I'll need a good time when no one else is in the theater so my friends and I can MST3K it up.
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