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Discussion in 'TV, Music and Movies' started by vmarcilfan75, Apr 11, 2008.

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  1. Clark Kent

    Clark Kent Fighter of the Nightman

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    An hour? What could you have cut out?
     
  2. Stitches

    Stitches ThePhin's Biggest Killjoy Luxury Box

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    Ex Machina - Great movie. Reading some stuff after, my mind's blown.
     
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  3. daphins

    daphins A-Style

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    Saw The Hateful 8 yesterday in Portland, 2:00 showing. That mother ****er Quentin Tarantino showed up for the 6:00 and 10:30 showing. Missed him by about 30 minutes :(


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  4. Nappy Roots

    Nappy Roots Well-Known Member

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    I don't know. Just seemed like an awful lot of filler in the movie.


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  5. Shane Falco

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    Star Wars TFA. 10/10. Awesome.


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  6. slickj101

    slickj101 Is Water

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    I've seen pretty much everything out from the whole year.

    The Big Short is probably the best of 15 imo. The Revenant and Hateful 8 at 2 and 3.
     
  7. Vengeful Odin

    Vengeful Odin Norse Mod

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    I did a "Western double feature" this weekend with The Revenant and Hateful Eight.

    I thought the Revenant was incredible, an intense film with amazing visuals and was completely engaging from beginning to end. I really liked the Hateful Eight as well, although it wasn't nearly as visually interesting as the Revenant, it was still well done and Tarrantino writes dialogue just about better than everyone. I'd probably put the Revenant ahead of the Hateful Eight, but just by a little bit. I'd recommend seeing either one of them, you won't be disappointed.
     
  8. TheHighExhaulted

    TheHighExhaulted Well-Known Member

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    The Martian was alright. Although, Matt Damon was great.
     
  9. cuchulainn

    cuchulainn Táin Bó Cúailnge Club Member

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    The Revenant today.

    Quick Question: How many times can you fire a single shot flintlock without reloading? :shifty:

    Wrong!! At least twice!! lol... was surprised at this faux pas in this movie.

    Gritty (very) movie. Often too over the top in how much abuse 1 man can take. Let's say that Hugh Glass was John McClain's great, great, great grandpappy without the witty one-liners. lol...

    Visually compelling though. There were several stills that I'd love to frame and hang on the wall just to look at. At times the movie was too artsy. It's like the director and cinematographer spent too much time trying to make each second of the film an art frame. Really gritty movie. Not really a ''Western'' if anyone thinks that. More along the lines of Richard Harris movies from the 70's - and this was actually a remake of a Richard Harris movie from the 70s... "Man in the Wilderness", both were based loosely on the legend of Hugh Glass with quite a bit of embellishment...

    DeCaprio will get a lot of praise for the movie, but IMO, Tom Hardy stole the movie and was a much more compelling character; cunning, dangerous, self-centered and evil.

    Leo tended to shoot his flintlocks more than once. After you noticed it the first time, you can't help but look for it again. He did it twice by my count. The second time while being attacked by the Arikara Indians searching for the leaders daughter.
    Apparently hypothermia didn't exist before the 1900's as back in the day, a man could jump into freezing water and float for miles. Also wood burned easier back then... also snow and ice dries wet clothing in case a man needed to strip down and dry his clothes to wear the next day.

    They spent too much time trying to establish the bond between Glass and his half-Pawnee son. It felt forced and unrealistic.
    They borrowed the death mysticism from "Gladiator" with the dead wife constantly welcoming and speaking to him.

    It often felt like they scoured old stories of surviving animal and Indian attacks and other stories and tried to put as many of them into the movie as possible.
    - Fitzgerald's healed up scalp from a Kiowa scalping.
    - Glass's bear mauling.
    - Gun powder to cauterize open wounds.
    - The "friendly" Indian who appears to save our hero and help him recover on his journey.
    - Cutting the horse open and gutting it to climb in to survive a cold winter night.
    - Glass saving the Indian girl from (another) raping and her in return saving his life later in the movie when she was reunited with her father and those searching for her.

    Conversely, the "real" Hugh Glass was mauled by a bear at the end of Summer and survived in part by having maggots eat away the rotted flesh.

    And the movie was about 30 mins too long... too much artsy visuals. The the anti-climatic ending that left you unsure of what you just spent 3 hours watching...

    If you enjoy this genre, watch "Death Hunt" with Charles Bronson and "Jeremiah Johnson" with Robert Redford, as well as the Richard Harris "Horse" movies...

    Lots of familiar faces in this movie, including Domhnall Gleeson, of General Hux fame from Star Wars TFA...
     
  10. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Saw Mad Max Fury Road. Visually awesome. Everything else was stupid.
     
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  11. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    agreed, i wanted it over so bad
     
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  12. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    13 hours..cool video game action {love michael bay} but they just forgot how to write the script and develop the characters correctly for me to give a shi$, also if you weren't up to date on your benghazi history you were toast.
     
  13. djphinfan

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    i keep hearing great things about this film..
     
  14. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    Not only did you lose me with the bold, I think you lost me forever.
     
  15. Stitches

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    I watched it last weekend with my wife and step-dad.

    My wife loved it. I had high hopes since everyone had such great things to say, but like you say beyond the visuals, I thought it was pretty dumb.
     
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  16. Fin D

    Fin D Sigh

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    I was honestly pretty excited because of the feminist undertones I heard about, but then the women were scantily clad and they needed not one but two men to save them.
     
  17. finyank13

    finyank13 Reality Check

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    One Eyed Monster.......

    Must see...
     
  18. cuchulainn

    cuchulainn Táin Bó Cúailnge Club Member

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    You expected a mashup of Ripley and Sarah Connor? The name of the movie is "Mad Max" not Maxine.

    'Sides, most sci fi movies are based in reality... so there's that... :shifty:

    It blowed like most remakes of the past decade. This was a movie to play on people's nostalgia of the 70s and 80s for post apocalyptic movies. All that was missing from this POS of a movie was cameo of Mel Gibson cursing the Jews and calling the women "Sugar ****"... lol...
     
  19. cuchulainn

    cuchulainn Táin Bó Cúailnge Club Member

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    Stop with the selfies... :shifty:
     
  20. MikeHoncho

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    Michael Bay doesn't simply forget to "write the script and develop the characters". That's by design. His movies may as well star cardboard cutouts of characters because he demands just about the same from actual real paid actors.


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  21. djphinfan

    djphinfan Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    yeah I get it, but this was not a fiction movie, it was a true story and he failed to re inform the circumstances that were involved, and he just did a poor job making us care about the characters while the whole time their doing their dying pieces and were supposed to care..he failed..
     
  22. MikeHoncho

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    To be fair, he tends to prioritize explosions, lens flares, slow moving tracking shots and/or glistening cleavage shots. Anything beyond that would be asking for too much. His last movie Pain and Gain, a real story set in early 90s Miami, had music, clothing, dialog and cop cars from the mid/late 2000s along with street art from the modern day. Solid boobies though.


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  23. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    Watched Ant Man last night, and enjoyed it. When it was first announced, I kind of rolled my eyes because the character never appealed to me, but they did a really good job with it. Paul Rudd was great, as he always is, and I think that he was a good choice for the part. I'll be curious to see how the characters get incorporated into the future movies of the MCU.
     
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  24. Ohio Fanatic

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    Tried watching The Ridiculous 6 on netflix while my DirectTV was out. I couldn't watch more than 10 minutes. Adam Sandler movies are so terribly awful. Every once in a while he has a funny or charming (50 first dates) movies, but the rest are just the worst.
     
  25. Unlucky 13

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    It used to be that if he wasn't in control of the project, it could be really good. 50 first dates and Zohan are among the favorite movies that my wife and I have seen together. But the most recent of those is 2008.
     
  26. HardKoreXXX

    HardKoreXXX Insensitive to the Touch

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    Saw the Hateful 8 over the weekend. Classic Tarantino.

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  27. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    Short Term 12. It constantly pulled at the heartstrings....highly recommended.
     
  28. Big E

    Big E Plus sized porn star

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    Straight outta Compton it was great.
     
  29. ScottishFin

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    Deadpool

    Excellent fun and surprisingly a much better film than I expected. 90 mins of action scenes,dick and fart jokes and some plot that you wont really care about coz you will be laughing too much.

    9/10 , gets an extra point for Morena Baccarin getting them out :)
     
  30. Unlucky 13

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    Watched Jupiter Ascending last night. I knew that it had gotten some poor reviews, but I like silly Sci Fi movies so I wanted to give it a shot. Unfortunately, despite being a new, interesting idea/outline, the movie ended up being mediocre. At times it felt like a modern take on the weird, wacky sci fi movies of the 70s and early 80s, but in the end it was weighed down by poor writing and acting. No characters were really fleshed out so that you cared about them. The viewer was given almost no backstory, and I ended up just not caring as much as I could have. Then again, the actors and characters didn't look like they cared all that much either.

    4/10
     
  31. Big E

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    I can't wait to see it.
     
  32. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    Hail, Caesar!

    Incredibly meh, and I typically like Coen brother movies.
     
  33. Ohio Fanatic

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    yeah, I'd give it about the same rating. Had a lot of potential watching the previews and the special effects, but the cast stunk. Channing Tatum on space roller skates.
     
  34. Unlucky 13

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    If you exclude his small voice roll in the Lego Movie, this is the first thing I'd ever seen Tatum in. Not impressed. Hoping he'll do better in Gambit. I was actually struck by how much he looked like Dominic Monoghan (LOTR, Wolverine) in the makeup. It was uncanny.
     
  35. BlameItOnTheHenne

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    I recommend watching Foxcatcher and Side Effects (though this movie is amazing all around) then. He's really good in both. Also both Jump Street movies, if you're looking for a laugh.
     
  36. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    I am going to watch it in 3 hours and 28 minutes. Not that I am counting down or anything.
     
  37. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    Worth the wait.
     
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  38. Unlucky 13

    Unlucky 13 Team Raheem Club Member

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    Thank you, but absolutely no interest in Fox Catcher, and the Jump Street movies aren't for me. Hadn't heard of the other one before, but I'll look it up.
     
  39. Bumrush

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    The Big Short.

    Terrifying.

    Sad.

    And absolutely atrocious that half of the wall street bankers that orchestrated the financial collapse with their bond schemes aren't rotting in jail for life.
     
  40. Dol-Fan Dupree

    Dol-Fan Dupree Tank? Who is Tank? I am Guy Incognito.

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    Deadpool made $135 million during its opening weekend. Making it the largest R-Rated movie opening of all-time.

    That is so crazy to me. I remember thinking that the movie would be a huge success if it made $30 during its opening. It made over $100 million than I thought it would.
     
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