Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| JULY 2014
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Frozen: 5/10. This is what happens when you rewrite a movie based around a song. Whole thing felt cheap and underbaked. This is the first time I heard the song, and holy fuck is that thing grating. It's clearly a radio hit they shoehorned in, and sounds way out of place.
Lego Movie: 7/10. Fucking slow down for 5 seconds so I can catch my breath jesus. I liked it though, I knew I was going to get a lot of self aware comedy and that was fine with me.
Life Itself: 8/10. Maybe a little too long but a nice well rounded portrait of the man, didn't always show him at his best, which I really appreciated.
Particle Fever: 5/10. A not very good documentary about the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Instead of focusing heavily on the science, which I would have liked, they play up the human element with personalities from the physics world. The problem is these people are Grade A Prime Tumblr-con NERDS so instead of learning something I'm watching nasally voiced trolls with long hair and bald spots trying to interact with each other.
Lego Movie: 7/10. Fucking slow down for 5 seconds so I can catch my breath jesus. I liked it though, I knew I was going to get a lot of self aware comedy and that was fine with me.
Life Itself: 8/10. Maybe a little too long but a nice well rounded portrait of the man, didn't always show him at his best, which I really appreciated.
Particle Fever: 5/10. A not very good documentary about the discovery of the Higgs Boson. Instead of focusing heavily on the science, which I would have liked, they play up the human element with personalities from the physics world. The problem is these people are Grade A Prime Tumblr-con NERDS so instead of learning something I'm watching nasally voiced trolls with long hair and bald spots trying to interact with each other.
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)
Rewatch. I hadn't seen this in a very long time and had forgotten just how good it was. Spectacular art direction and a contemplative nature make it one of the best films of the last decade. Highly recommended.
Don't skip Days of Heaven, the cinematography alone is some of the best ever put on film (even by the standards of Malick).
Rewatch. I hadn't seen this in a very long time and had forgotten just how good it was. Spectacular art direction and a contemplative nature make it one of the best films of the last decade. Highly recommended.
Don't skip Days of Heaven, the cinematography alone is some of the best ever put on film (even by the standards of Malick).
Yes....fuck that movie.
I'm saying I don't take Nicole Kidman or James Franco seriously as headliners.
I'm also not especially stoked about Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence. I know people say he's a promising actor outside of Twilight...but I don't believe them.
Seriously, now we just need Herzog to remake Napoleon.
It is weird that some people take the film as some sort of pro female characters Disney statement, the characters weren't even all that great. One of them tried to marry a nice guy in one night cause she was thirsty, and the other fled to a mountain so a song could drop and she can change her clothes and hair.
But yeah, pretty disappointing considering all that hype or whatever.
MightGoThere
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Edge of Tomorrow
Edge of Tomorrow: 10 Point Korean Fisherman Archer ?
MightGoThere
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Summer Haze
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I watched 2001: A Space Odyssey for the first time last night. I really enjoyed it, some sections were a little long-winded and i didn't really understand the ending at first, but i could definitely see why it was regarded as a classic after my first watch.
I ended up researching the movie for an hour after i watched it, found a bunch of different interpretations of the movie, and of the ending specifically. I found one that made sense to me and it made me appreciate the movie even more. What a great mind Kubrick had.
I ended up researching the movie for an hour after i watched it, found a bunch of different interpretations of the movie, and of the ending specifically. I found one that made sense to me and it made me appreciate the movie even more. What a great mind Kubrick had.
I just came across this Ebert article where he goes after this guy for shitting on Bergman, and this part made me lol:
r.i.p.
r.i.p.
HI. BILLY MAYS HERE
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Lone survivor
Great fucking movie
Great fucking movie
TheKaeptain
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I just came across this Ebert article where he goes after this guy for shitting on Bergman, and this part made me lol:
r.i.p.
And that's Ebert talking about his friend.
QuantumBro
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Videodrome - Well that was an interesting film. Did the last part of the film take place
entirely in that headset or was that real life mixed with hallucinations?
Death to Videodrome! Long live the new flesh!
Charles Foster Kane
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Ebert is the Citizen Kane of film critics.
You think it's just the last part that was possibly hallucinated? Mwahahahahahahahah.
I've always been partial to the idea that you can basically flip a coin on real/hallucination after the talk show appearance on any scene from that point forward. I've seen some really good arguments about the intimate scenes between Max and Nicki being the early symptoms of his exposure to the Videodrome signal, which makes that entire aspect of Max all the more fascinating to behold.
I've always been partial to the idea that you can basically flip a coin on real/hallucination after the talk show appearance on any scene from that point forward. I've seen some really good arguments about the intimate scenes between Max and Nicki being the early symptoms of his exposure to the Videodrome signal, which makes that entire aspect of Max all the more fascinating to behold.
That makes Armond White something of a William Randolph Hearst in that situation, given that he's still talking shit about him after his death.
But what movie is the Citizen Kane of movies tho?
QuantumBro
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Oh no, I understood that he was hallucinating since early on in the film; but didn't know if the last part of it was all in his head while using the headset or was after he had taken it off since he just appeared in his house.
TheKaeptain
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The Birth of a Nation.
Citizen Kane is the Dark Souls of How Green Was My Valley.
Net_Wrecker
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Badlands is probably my lowest ranked Malick, not saying it's a bad movie, it's great, but I prefer what his style evolved into after the 20 year gap.
Yes follow it up with Days of Heaven and continue to go in order. The best is yet to come IMO with The Thin Red Line and The New World, but go in order.
Escape Goat
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I tried watching Frozen but got bored during the wolf chase scene and turned it off.
The film actually moves away from common fairy tale tropes. None of your criticisms really cover the growth of the characters. Seems like a very lazy argument against the movie.
Charles Foster Kane
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The trope subversions end up feeling gimmicky as fuck in Frozen. Like it could only kind of work for one viewing if at all.
Murder. She Wrote
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Ip Man 2 or as I like to call it, How The Humble and Noble Chinese Overcame the Brutal White Devils.
I don't get why Ip Man 2 has a higher rotten tomatoes rating than the first Ip Man. First one is so much better (but still not that good, and replace white devil with racist portrayal of the Japanese).
I guess this is how minorities feel when media portrays their race with stupid stereotypes. Except the white people in this film were saturday morning cartoon villain bad.
I don't get why Ip Man 2 has a higher rotten tomatoes rating than the first Ip Man. First one is so much better (but still not that good, and replace white devil with racist portrayal of the Japanese).
I guess this is how minorities feel when media portrays their race with stupid stereotypes. Except the white people in this film were saturday morning cartoon villain bad.
Femmeworth
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*nods*
What's the film criticism equivalent of deep focus?
I'm saying I don't take Nicole Kidman or James Franco seriously as headliners.
I'm also not especially stoked about Pattinson as T.E. Lawrence. I know people say he's a promising actor outside of Twilight...but I don't believe them.
i don't think that Nicole Kidman gets enough love as an actor. she's in some shit, but she's also in Birth, Eyes Wide Shut, Stoker, To Die For, Dogville, and probably a couple other good movies. she takes chances and succeeds most of the time.
Franco is good at acting. remember that scene in spiderman when he said so good? that's what i say whenever i see him in a movie or show.
idk about Pattinson. i've heard he was good in The Rover.
reading about 2001's different theories was a hobby of mine for some time, and it always baffled me how the most plausible explanation,
the black alien monolith lands on Earth to jumpstart the human evolution, in three different phases, until the astronaut ends the cycle by finally transcending into the final phase, which is becoming a cosmic being)
Hell, it stopped working even before the movie ended. The villain reveal was so groan-worthy.
First is better but 2 has Sammo and a couple of good fights!
Sub_Level
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That was hard to watch. Goddamn commies.
kurisu_1974
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De vierde man (aka The Fourth Man), Paul Verhoeven's 1983 adaptation of a Gerard Reve novel; Jeroen Krabbé is great as an alcoholic bisexual writer that gets involved with a mystery women who's former husband has died under mysterious circumstances. As he gets more involved, he gets paranoid and descents into madness. I liked it.
Texas Chainsaw 3D (John Luessenhop, 2013)
The story starts off really suspenseful, but then it turns into generic slasher territory for a while which I didn't care about since the characters were undeveloped. However, once that part was over and it went back to the story, it got good again. I will admit a lot of potential was wasted though. For a sequel to a slasher film, it was surprisingly enjoyable.
The story starts off really suspenseful, but then it turns into generic slasher territory for a while which I didn't care about since the characters were undeveloped. However, once that part was over and it went back to the story, it got good again. I will admit a lot of potential was wasted though. For a sequel to a slasher film, it was surprisingly enjoyable.
Eh, some Chinese movies (especially mainland, in case of older ones) have that propagandistic vibe going on, but i find it funny more than anything, as long as the film itself is fun to watch.
If you compare Armour of God 1 with Armour of God 3(Chinese Zodiac) it's actually facepalm worthy.
I haven't seen IpMan2 yet, but in that case, it's not like romanticizing and desperately trying to sell you a national hero, isn't something very common to every country.
obin_gam
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I saw A Serbian Film again. Second time since it got releaseed way back when.
Still awestruck by the technical beauty of - the cinematography, the acting, the music - all top notch.
Surprisingly I remembered it as more brutal than what it was. Probably because I was in a state of chock the first time I saw it haha. Don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I didnt flinch once during it this time... (and yes it was the uncut version)
Still awestruck by the technical beauty of - the cinematography, the acting, the music - all top notch.
Surprisingly I remembered it as more brutal than what it was. Probably because I was in a state of chock the first time I saw it haha. Don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing that I didnt flinch once during it this time... (and yes it was the uncut version)
kurisu_1974
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Serbian Film was so cheap and obvious, it had zero effect on me. Except maybe boredom and a case of SMH.
Anyone here see the Russian film 'Hard to Be a God' yet? Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdoPsnMFW3M
I've heard good things about this.
I've heard good things about this.
Messofanego
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For anyone in London (UK), Norte The End of History will be showing on Friday 18th July at ICA Cinema 7pm, and seems to be only showing for a week until 27th July. That's really short, but maybe makes sense for a 4 hour epic with a small foreign distrib push.
http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html/?viewListing=MTA3&cat=1
http://www.newwavefilms.co.uk/view-film-detail.html/?viewListing=MTA3&cat=1
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