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Star Trek is a movie about a guy who keeps falling off of ledges and living while other people fall off of ledges and die.

Every dramatic scene in the movie involves someone falling off a ledge.
 
Skyfall (2012) It was very good and fast paced. Dench was great in her role, she turned out an excellent performance. I'm glad to see Mendes career didn't go to the dumpster after American Beauty, I really loved that one. I hope he gets more opportunities to show what he can do. A couple of things bothered me (
some things a little too convenient and others timed too perfectly
), but nothing that can't be overlooked. 8/10
 
Watched Skyfall a few days ago. Brilliant movie; great acting, plenty of action, moving story (especially at the end) and great effects. The music was pretty good, too. Regardless of whether or not you're a Bond fan, I suggest you go out and see this.
 
It Happened One Night (1934) I liked the fact it didn't end all sappy. It was handled very nicely. The characters were fine and I appreciated they didn't fall in love right away like in Notorious, there was a build up to it. It did have old man/woman cliches, but it's understandable due to the time. 7/10
 
Don't know where to post this, but is it just me or is 2014 shaping up to be rather great?

- Bond 24
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- RoboCop
- Captain America 2
- The Hobbit 3(?)

What else?

Also, when is the Oscars usually?

How is 2013 looking?
- Django Unchained
- Iron Man 3
- Monsters University
- Man of Steel
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- The Wolverine
- Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
- Thor: The Dark World
 
Liquidsnake said:
Star Trek II the wrath of Khan is still the best ST movie. Its God Tier.
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I've never actually seen any of the old Star Trek films (and only a few episodes here and there from the shows), but I had the television on beside me as I was doing some work, and I couldn't help but notice that they had some pretty fucking beautiful imagery going on.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
I hope so, because I saw it as a kid and I thought it was the slowest fuckin' thing this side of Bicentennial man.

Star Trek: The Motionless Picture
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The slowest scene is the ship moving in the beginning, and that works because it illustrates the difference between the ship moving at normal speed, and then creates a greater dramatic effect when the ship goes to warp.

The plot around Voyager is one of the best in ST history, and is also an unintentional foreshadowing of the Borg.

It's my fav'rite.
 
Anastacio said:
Don't know where to post this, but is it just me or is 2014 shaping up to be rather great?

- Bond 24
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- RoboCop
- The Avengers 2
- The Hobbit 3(?)

What else?

Also, when is the Oscars usually?

How is 2013 looking?
- Monsters University
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The Avenger 2 will be boring and ugly shit just like the first. Hobbit 3 will also suck ass.
 
Secret Fawful said:
The slowest scene is the ship moving in the beginning, and that works because it illustrates the difference between the ship moving at normal speed, and then creates a greater dramatic effect when the ship goes to warp.

The plot around Voyager is one of the best in ST history, and is also an unintentional foreshadowing of the Borg.

It's my fav'rite.
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You pass the good-at-watching-movies test.


Also,
Earth is saved by a penis
.
 
From Up On Poppy Hill - After Goro dropped the ball with a deeply medicore (at best) adaptation of Earthsea, Miyazaki's kid gets another chance to direct. This time he's adapting a high school romance comic set in the early 60s, which I suppose translates as being kept on a short leash, but the end result is quite well done so, hey, I guess it worked. The story is in the vein of Only Yesterday or perhaps Whisper of the Heart and time period makes for an pleasant background to the proceedings, with people being excited for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics and the song "Sukiyaki" playing on more than one occasion. Recommended, especially for Ghibli fanatics.

I recently saw a half-dozen Ghibli flicks theatrically as well. Nausicaa and Laputa still completely rule and were wonderful to see theatrically. Also, gotta love Joe Hisaishi's synth sounds on Nausicaa! The Disney dubs of Totoro and Spirited Away are adequate but still not what you could call great, though the strength of the films themselves means the flicks are still eminently enjoyable. Princess Mononoke is still a beautiful film that I don't particularly care for; I mean, I like watching it okay and it's nice to see Miyazaki let the violence fly, but I don't think it really comes together well and it definitely suffers when being seen almost immediately after re-watching Nausicaa. Finally, Howl's Moving Castle continues to be lovely and basically incomprehensible. Nice to watch and all but, yeah, large swaths of the finale don't make a whole lotta sense.

Skyfall was a lovely way to spend Bond's 50th anniversary of adventures on the silver screen, managing the neat trick of doing all the same old things while also putting new spins on them, all while looking terrific. Quantum of Solace grew on me over time but is still disappointing considering how badass Casino Royale was, so I'm delighted that Skyfall lived up to all my own self-imposed hype.

Man, Wreck-It Ralph really is a pile of fun. My favorite cameo: Beard Papa, who left me leaving the theater desperately craving cream puffs. They also get bonus points for having Jerry Buckner (with Gary Garcia there in spirit) performing the end theme.

I hadn't seen The Parallax View in a while so it was nice to re-visit the flick, admire how awesomely paranoid it is, and to see the magnificent testing montage sequence in 35mm. Meanwhile, I hadn't seen the other half of the double feature, Three Days of the Condor at all and I basically enjoyed the hell out of it.

Finally, Stunt Rock is the stunt rockingest film every made about stunt rocking. Just look at the trailer and see for yourself! I'd been wanting to see this flick since seeing the epic clip show documentary Not Quite Hollywood and I was in no way disappointed. I'm now anxious to see more Brian Trenchard-Smith flicks like The Man From Hong Kong and Death Cheaters.

FnordChan
 
Anastacio said:
Don't know where to post this, but is it just me or is 2014 shaping up to be rather great?

- Bond 24
- The Amazing Spider-Man 2
- RoboCop
- Captain America 2
- The Hobbit 3(?)

What else?

Also, when is the Oscars usually?

How is 2013 looking?
- Django Unchained
- Iron Man 3
- Monsters University
- Man of Steel
- Oz the Great and Powerful
- The Wolverine
- Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
- Thor: The Dark World
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2014 has very little for my taste at this point, but then it is early. 2013 could be awesome (again, for my taste):

Elysium
300: Rise of an Empire
The Last Stand
Mad Max Fury Road
Empires of the Deep
Machete Kills
The Hobbit: There and Back Again
Star Trek 2
Trance
The Iceman
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For
Riddick
Under the Skin
Welcome To The Punch
Bullet to the Head
Kick Ass 2
The Iceman
The Place Beyond The Pines
Orion
Gangster Squad
The Baytown Outlaws
Only God Forgives
Blood Ties
Snow Piercer
The Tomb
Ten

+ some foreign films
 
Wild Strawberries (1957) Such a warm film with great performances. It does not feel like a 50s movie. A great retrospect on this man's life. I liked it more than Persona or Cries and Whispers. 10/10
 
House of Wax (2005) - Forgettable. Won't watch it again. Seeing Paris Hilton give a blowjob sort of off camera gave me a smirk, I guess. I'm a bit curious about the 1953 movie with the same name. Is it any good?
 
Nlroh said:
Perhaps it's because it has no character development and it's just meaningless fights with generic enemies.
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Buckethead said:
Not sure how you can call Avengers boring but it's definitely superficial and overrated.
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It's boring in that it is predictable and lacks any sort of tension whatsoever. None of the characters are that fleshed out. The movie looks boring as well, just some of the most obvious set design ever (admittedly this plagues all of Marvel's movies). It succeeds in bringing all the superheroes together for a big romp, but that's its only positive.
 
Buckethead said:
Not sure how you can call Avengers boring but it's definitely superficial and overrated.
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Avengers acclaim and praise was one of the bigger head scratchers for me this year cause honestly i still dont see what was good about it. Poor production values, poor cinematography, everything felt like a super generic Hollywood action movie right down to the dialog and story. I was entertained while i watched it, but its super high RT % and making a billion dollars seems ridiculous to me.
 
why couldn't they just
unleash the hulk from the beginning
?

because he seemed like a pretty nice dude. not sure what could've gone wrong.
 
I was excited to see the movie(Avengers) too. I saw it right after watching Prometheus in theaters. I did two movies in one day. It was like night and day the quality of one film to the other. I mean one felt real and genuine for even how out there it was, and one was just fake all over my face i couldn't believe it. Im gonna go with pure star power being the overriding factor why Avengers did gangbusters.
 
ViewtifulJC said:
I can handle all the Avengers hate, but let's not pretend Prometheus wasn't anything except a crock of shit once that second half hit.
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I liked it more than Avengers, but i am also not a big Alien nut so i wasn't as offended as others. I just like Ridley Scott stuff in general.
 
Yeah, I don't get why Avengers was viewed by many as a great movie. I suppose expectations for blockbusters were lowered with movies like Transformers or Pirates of the Caribbean. It wasn't trash, it was just decent. It did have a couple of awesome shots, but that was it. The villain is one of the least remarkable I've seen in a movie of its type.
 
~Kinggi~ said:
Avengers acclaim and praise was one of the bigger head scratchers for me this year cause honestly i still dont see what was good about it. Poor production values, poor cinematography, everything felt like a super generic Hollywood action movie right down to the dialog and story. I was entertained while i watched it, but its super high RT % and making a billion dollars seems ridiculous to me.
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I've been trying to think about any redeeming qualities for months, and I just can't find them. Even Scarlett looked awful compared to her Iron Man 2 look.
 
The movie should of just been about David doing Android stuff, quoting LoA and shit. That would've been interesting.

"The trick, William Potter, is not minding that it hurt..."
 
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