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Post by bobharris on Aug 20, 2011 0:58:18 GMT -5
net of the Apes/Fright Night
Meh. Meh for the whole summer season.
Cap: feh+ It's hokey and old school, and that can work sometimes. But not here. Good: The peerless Hugo Weaving. He will be cast as a villain for the rest of his career. The good thing is that he will do a great job.
Bad: Everything else. Fucking montage scenes. Chris Evans' head CGI'ed onto the body of a literal 90-pound weakling. You've got to go all the way with the suspension of disbelief in these movies (Scott Pilgrim) or try and ground it in some sort of reality (Kick-Ass, Nolan's Batman). What you can't do is jump from scene to scene fluctuating between the two.
Cowboys and Aliens feh
Good: The first thirty minutes. Great cast and a good set up. Started with a cool western vibe, that I hoped would make for an interesting film once aliens were introduced. It was also cool that the "Cowboys" referred to the aliens as "demons," because an extraterrestrial threat was something that they hadn't conceived of yet.
Bad: The rest. I can't believe how quickly it crumbled. I was hoping that Favreau would at least be able to establish himself as a competent director on the rise, ready to take on some Oscar-bait shit. Nope.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes meh+
Good: Surprised here. I have not seen any of the other films and I know nothing of their... mythology, if you will. I had to get used to the rampant CGI, but I found myself actually interested in the film. Also, John Lithgow.
Bad: There are more than a few cringe-worthy moments.
Fright Night: meh
Good: Again I am foiled by a movie that starts off good. In full disclosure, I should admit that I haven't seen the original, which is weird because I thought I saw every 80's horror film that existed. Anywho, it kind of borrows from Rear Window, and that's a good thing. Only one guy knows about a vampire in his neighborhood, and no one believes him. That's not a bad premise. Even Colin Farrell, an actor that I am usually indifferent towards, was good.
Bad: Just like Super 8, it doesn't quite get there at the end and/or middle portion.
So I guess my favorite film of this summer was Thor, even though I was kind of lukewarm on it at first, and liked it more when I saw it again, half drunk and high.
But wait, there's still the fall season...
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Post by bobharris on Aug 20, 2011 1:17:58 GMT -5
Fall movies:
9/9 Contagion - Soderberg directs Winslet, Damon and Jude Law in a movie about a deadly virus, kinda like an update of Outbreak
9/23 Moneyball- Philip Seymour Hoffman, Brad Pitt, and Jonah Hill in a movie about Billy Beane. I'll always watch a baseball movie.
9/23 Red State- Kevin Smith's swan song, a horror film.
10/7 The Ides of March- Clooney directs himself and Ryan Gosling, about the campaign of a fictitious presidential candidate- I liked Good Night and Good Luck
10/7 Real Steel- No-brainer
10/28 The Rum Diary- Depp in a movie about a Hunter S. Thompson book, not playing the Hunter S. Thompson proxy-character, I think. Directed by Bruce Robinson, who directed Withnail and I, a revered cult film of some sort that I have not seen
11/4 A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas - and why not? The first one was funny (second one fucking terrible) and co-wrote by a Browns fan who posts on tOBR.
11/9 J. Edgar - Eastwood directs DiCaprio (with prosthetic makeup) in a biopic about the guy who created the FBI and was possibly a closeted homosexual cross-dresser.
11/23 Hugo - Scorsese directs a 3D movie?! Jesus wept. ^ I I CONFLICT!!1! v 11/23 The Descendants- Alexander Payne returns from a seven-year hiatus to direct Clooney and Matthew Lillard (?1!) in a movie that is NOT about The Descendents, the punk band.
12/9 A Dangerous Method- Cronenberg (a personal favorite) directs Viggo Mortensen (good), Michael Fassbender (also good) and Keira Knightley (hot) in a movie about about Freud and Jung and a hot young Russian psychiatric patient. Fuck. Yes. Forget historical accuracy, I want crazy sex scenes with KK that only Cronenberg can deliver.
12/6 Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows- Hey, I liked the first one.
12/16 The Iron Lady- Meryl Streep wins an Oscar for portraying Maggie Thatcher in this biopic. "She's not even British !$!!!" I don't want to see it.
12/21 The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo- I know nothing about the books or the foreign adaptations, but Fincher has yet to completely whiff and I still think that Zodiac is criminally underrated.
12/23 We Bought a Zoo- Looks possibly cheesy (based on the one picture that I saw). Cameron Crowe directs Matt Damon and Scarlett Johansson in a movie about people who buy a zoo or an animal shelter or something.
12/28 War Horse- Spielberg directs a movie about an actual war horse in WWI. Apparently they still used real cavalry then.
DECEMBER TBA: Carnage- Polanski directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly in a comedy (?) about two sets of parents who have to deal with each other after their kids get in a playground fight. Apparently, it all takes place in one apartment and is based on a play that starred James Gandolfini, Jeff Bridges, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis. Doesn't sound like Polanski's standard fare, intriguing.
Should be cool.
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Post by vecseysbeard on Aug 20, 2011 1:45:13 GMT -5
13 Assassins
Just finally saw it. Netflix.
Good times.
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Post by e0 on Aug 20, 2011 5:21:32 GMT -5
Current must see movies for e0: Life in a Day: I'm a sap and something that real just will hit me hard. I want to understand all these people and I won't, you won't no one will. The East is going to be underrepresented, same w/ Africa, but a project this awesome is art. Everything collected from Youtube in a massive campaign, some 24+ mill videos submitted and supposedly a website will be started to peruse after it runs theaters. www.youtube.com/user/lifeinadayThe Devil's Double: OWNAGE (DON'T LOOK OJ) Last summer blockbuster e0 went to, Cowboys and Aliens (I would watch Olivia Wilde watch paint dry). It sucked. Movie to take a bitch to, Crazy, Stupid, Love Fall, well that is coming, sometime in September or some shit. I'll think about it more after Toronto.
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Post by e0 on Aug 20, 2011 5:43:50 GMT -5
Also, FWIW: Moneyball may have the worst trailer I have ever seen. That said, every critic that went into it after THE BLIND SIDE wanted to hate it, but it is getting very good September blockbuster reviews.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 20, 2011 9:37:15 GMT -5
DECEMBER TBA: Carnage- Polanski directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly in a comedy (?) about two sets of parents who have to deal with each other after their kids get in a playground fight. Apparently, it all takes place in one apartment and is based on a play that starred James Gandolfini, Jeff Bridges, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis. Doesn't sound like Polanski's standard fare, intriguing. Jesus WTF'd. My watch list for 2011 is currently empty. A quick IMDB scan suggests this is justified.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 20, 2011 13:44:03 GMT -5
Looking through IMDB's decade rankings, it seems to me that IMDBers tend to do a really good job of identifying each decade's best. There's a lot of crap mixed in, but I don't see much missing. 60s: www.imdb.com/chart/1960s70s: www.imdb.com/chart/1970s80s: www.imdb.com/chart/1980s90s: www.imdb.com/chart/1990s00s: www.imdb.com/chart/2000s10s: www.imdb.com/chart/2010sMost of the standout movies missing from those lists, IMO, are comedies, which tend to be more subjective, I guess, even though I know I'm right and you/they're wrong. Best movies missing from those lists, IMO, in chronological order: Lolita (1962) Fistful of Dollars (1964) That Obscure Object of Desire (1977) Airplane! (1980) Miller's Crossing (1990) Serial Mom (1994) Office Space (1999) Being John Malkovich (1999) The Royal Tenenbaums (2001) Adaptation (2002) American Splendor (2003) Team America: World Police (2004) The main point of ^ = other people providing lists of great movies not popularly regarded as being that great
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Post by vecseysbeard on Aug 20, 2011 16:56:43 GMT -5
Matt Damon needs punched in the throat and then stomped on his gonads.
He's degraded into a bigger douche than Affleck.
Stop telling me I'm the reason for all the worlds ills in some sort of passive-aggressive, dimestore liberal douche-laden script
You know what was great about Outbreak? It was a monkeys fault. Know what sucks about Contagion? It's white peoples fault. Douche.
I don't care about animals. I do but not like that. Take your zoo or rescue shelter or whatever the hell thats supposed to be about and shove it up your every-widening ass, Damon. And Crowe, you peaked a decade ago. Go write for Lifetime. Douche.
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Post by JayAre on Aug 20, 2011 17:07:51 GMT -5
There must be some kind of mistake, I don't see Teenwolf mentioned anywhere
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 20, 2011 17:15:08 GMT -5
Sounds to me like an important film, George.
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Post by e0 on Aug 20, 2011 19:54:49 GMT -5
DECEMBER TBA: Carnage- Polanski directs Kate Winslet, Jodie Foster, Christoph Waltz, and John C. Reilly in a comedy (?) about two sets of parents who have to deal with each other after their kids get in a playground fight. Apparently, it all takes place in one apartment and is based on a play that starred James Gandolfini, Jeff Bridges, Marcia Gay Harden and Hope Davis. Doesn't sound like Polanski's standard fare, intriguing. Jesus WTF'd. My watch list for 2011 is currently empty. A quick IMDB scan suggests this is justified. Don't worry, after Totonto I'll get at least one movie on that list just like last year for you.
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Post by e0 on Aug 20, 2011 19:56:52 GMT -5
There must be some kind of mistake, I don't see Teenwolf mentioned anywhere The new Teen Wolf was a series on MTV, not a movie Jay Are. That said, from what I have seen of the chick that starred in it, she's going to end up one of the hottest chicks in Hollywood when she is no longer 19[/img]
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 20, 2011 22:13:40 GMT -5
Kick-Ass came from Toronto?
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Post by e0 on Aug 20, 2011 22:40:49 GMT -5
Black Swan!!!
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Post by JayAre on Aug 21, 2011 9:18:41 GMT -5
I was talking about the top films of the 80's!
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Post by e0 on Aug 21, 2011 17:15:45 GMT -5
And decade w/ Back to the Future, Star Wars and Indiana Jones in it's top ten should be burned and forgotten.
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Post by Orenthal on Aug 21, 2011 19:02:46 GMT -5
Final Destination series kills both the naughties and the teenies.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 30, 2011 9:07:04 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on Aug 30, 2011 9:51:16 GMT -5
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Post by bwwyyyy on Sept 1, 2011 16:06:11 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on Sept 1, 2011 21:35:32 GMT -5
<-- will read this thread at a later date. Links better not suck bow.
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Post by bobharris on Sept 9, 2011 11:14:36 GMT -5
You know what was great about Outbreak? It was a monkeys fault. Know what sucks about Contagion? It's white peoples fault. Douche. OK so I saw Contagion last night: Heh- Good: Well made, not overly flashy, great cast. Sometimes feels very realistic about how things would turn out in this situation. I still think Winslet is hot. Bad: Not exactly sure what they're trying to say with Jude Law's character, it kind of takes away from the main plot. Also, Soderberg's trademark musical score. It can be good (Out of Sight, Ocean's 11 [first movie only!]), but here it often seems a bit out of place and can be distracting. Confused: SPOILERish NFG's comment up there. When I first read it, I figured he knew something about the plot that I didn't. But I didn't want to spoil it, so I didn't really look into it. Now, however I am curious about what you're talking about NFG. And how you came to that the conclusion? I did not get that impression from the movie, like at all.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Sept 9, 2011 14:38:29 GMT -5
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Post by e0 on Sept 9, 2011 15:21:00 GMT -5
<-- completely shocked by review of Warrior and may go see it. I mean no one is going to review a movie w/ that subject matter well (especially a year after The Fighter) unless it is really good.
Also, NFG loves Ron Paul, ignore him.
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Post by e0 on Sept 9, 2011 16:27:20 GMT -5
BTW: No matter how much Oscar Hype (plus w/ out Toronto none of it is real hype yet) The Help gets I will not see it in theators.
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Post by e0 on Sept 9, 2011 16:50:59 GMT -5
Yeah, Twitter world as all over this today. One of the more amazing things I’ve seen in awhile.
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Post by e0 on Sept 9, 2011 22:15:58 GMT -5
<-- completely shocked by review of Warrior and may go see it. I mean no one is going to review a movie w/ that subject matter well (especially a year after The Fighter) unless it is really good. Also, NFG loves Ron Paul, ignore him. We almost called an audible and saw that instead, kinda wished I had. You're right about The Help. What's with this security check shit? Make it stop.
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Post by bobharris on Sept 9, 2011 22:22:38 GMT -5
<-- completely shocked by review of Warrior and may go see it. I mean no one is going to review a movie w/ that subject matter well (especially a year after The Fighter) unless it is really good. Also, NFG loves Ron Paul, ignore him. We almost called an audible and saw that instead, kinda wished I had. You're right about The Help. What's with this security check shit? Make it stop. Good lord, I'm fucking retarded. This ^^^is actually me responding to e0y. But since my phone didn't have me logged in, I thought that we had to do this security check shit every time we posted. Then they asked for a name, and I thought they wanted the person's name who I was quoting for some reason. Hence guest e0 responding to real e0. I didn't realize I was guest posting, and now I can't delete my shame. Guess I lose the internet. To be fair I am drunk and browsing on my phone. I am also driving.
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Post by bwwyyyy on Sept 9, 2011 22:30:55 GMT -5
No, bobharris.
You win again, bobharris.
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Post by e0 on Sept 9, 2011 23:42:52 GMT -5
13 Assassins Just finally saw it. Netflix. Good times. BTW: I finally watched this and it was absolutely awesome. Miike is the shit. And it didn't make me want to rip my own eyes out like the craziest movie of all time, Audition. Seriously, the 40 minute battle scene I watched twice.
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