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Movies You've Seen Recently |OT| June 2013
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The Avengers
Just seen it now, i never knew a movie could be this unbelievably boring. The praise it has gotten for being just "a very fun movie to watch" puzzles me. The entire film is all over the place.
I am not some movie snob, i enjoyed First Class, Iron Man 1, Spiderman 1 and the Nolan Batman films. Nothing in Avengers ever really felt important, the last third act of the film felt more like a video game cut scene than anything else. There is no suspense here, the costumes especially for the villain are straight out of 1970s. For a movie this expensive, you would think they would be able to portray the main villain in a more frightening way.
Comic book movies seem more and more bloated, the actors rarely look like they even care about the source material. I was half expecting Johansson to burst out laughing in any of her scenes.
But hey the people loved it and it made billions, so there is that
Just seen it now, i never knew a movie could be this unbelievably boring. The praise it has gotten for being just "a very fun movie to watch" puzzles me. The entire film is all over the place.
I am not some movie snob, i enjoyed First Class, Iron Man 1, Spiderman 1 and the Nolan Batman films. Nothing in Avengers ever really felt important, the last third act of the film felt more like a video game cut scene than anything else. There is no suspense here, the costumes especially for the villain are straight out of 1970s. For a movie this expensive, you would think they would be able to portray the main villain in a more frightening way.
Comic book movies seem more and more bloated, the actors rarely look like they even care about the source material. I was half expecting Johansson to burst out laughing in any of her scenes.
But hey the people loved it and it made billions, so there is that
TheKaeptain
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OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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Yup, the original is really good.
His body wasn't ready this year, had to pre-record a conference.
Extra Sauce
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Nice avatar UrbanRats. One of the most criminally overlooked movies of last year!
Anton Sugar
Member
I was hoping for a Punisher: War Zone situation, where it's still not a great film but enjoyable and misunderstood in some way. Nope.
Avengers, among other films over the past 2-3 years, cemented my belief that I NEED to rewatch a film before I can give an honest opinion on it. I came out of the theatre borderline loving it, but on a rewatch, really couldn't bare the hamminess and Whedonisms.
I still like it, but I don't think it's great.
Someone said he requested a week ban. That'd be bullshit if it's over that thread though, especially since the guy who started that whole shit is still here.
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
Hopefully it was just requested. He did refer to what the other poster was saying as stupid, I don't know if maybe that was it.
Dragoon En Regalia
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I tested out my Hulu+ deal by watching my first full Truffaut, Shoot the Piano Player. It wasn't anything like I expected, aside from the whole existential angle that informs the movie's message (that people love each other more for what they symbolize in their society than for their own individual selves, which are impossible to convey). The internal monologue bits sometimes reminded me of Stranger on the Third Floor, in that most of Charlie's inner dialogue works but it's occasionally blunt and boring. I could say the same for other parts of the script, and for many of the odd, abrupt cuts that don't add up to much compared to how they damage the pacing. Despite all this, the acting's stellar, the music grows on me with each passing hour (gotta listen to more Delerue), and there's a straightforward story here that gets really twisted up in the style here. It's more in line with the New Wave than what I saw of The 400 Blows, yet it's more hilarious and, by corollary, affecting than parts of Breathless. Off to a good start with this director. ****/*
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Comic book movies are shit 99.99% of the time. They are basically saturday morning cartoon caliber, just Hollywoodized.
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
I've watched a bizarre assortment of movies recently, and I freely admit this post will not have little reviews or comments (jarosh is already frowning disapprovingly) because I AM LAZY. But hey, trailer links!
The House of Long Shadows (1983) **½
Only the Young (2012) ***½
License to Drive (1988) ***
Leviathan (1989) *
The Prophecy (1995) *½
Housesitter (1992) **½
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) ****
Friday the 13th: Part III (1982) **
Friday the 13th: Part IV - The Final Chapter (1985) ***½
Friday the 13th: Part V - A New Beginning (1986) *
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) ***
Kagi/The Key (1959) ****½
Silver Bullets (2011) **
The House of Long Shadows (1983) **½
Only the Young (2012) ***½
License to Drive (1988) ***
Leviathan (1989) *
The Prophecy (1995) *½
Housesitter (1992) **½
Jiro Dreams of Sushi (2011) ****
Friday the 13th: Part III (1982) **
Friday the 13th: Part IV - The Final Chapter (1985) ***½
Friday the 13th: Part V - A New Beginning (1986) *
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013) ***
Kagi/The Key (1959) ****½
Silver Bullets (2011) **
Charles Foster Kane
Rosebud
It takes a lot of effort to link so many trailers!
I like the variety. I try to check some movies you people like (specially if I've never heard of them).
Hey, do you use any sites like letterboxd or ICM?
Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
I actually watched that before my driving test and getting my license, therefore it is a special film to me.
Its a great book...the movie is a gutted adaptation.
And the producers were so brilliant that they removed the entire ending, one of the finest parts of the book, which was filmed and pretty much completed btw , and decided to move it to the beginning of the sequel...WHICH WAS NEVER MADE BECAUSE THE FIRST MOVIE WAS A TOTAL FAILURE, this also made them re-sequence and reshuffle the film so that a scene that was originally 2/3rd into the film now served as the films final climax
Its a shame because the casting was pretty good...
Dragoon En Regalia
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Hey Cos: what did you think of Lloyd's The Freshman? I just viewed it—definitely a notch or two lower than The Kid Brother. Most of the problem for me was that the directors/Lloyd forgot to cut out a lot of torturous exposition and blunt moralizing that his later film ignored. Anyone paying attention can tell that the titular character's a joke and he doesn't even know it—I don't see why I should be told that again and again. I'm going to watch Safety Last! and see how that fares before judging Lloyd too harshly, but I feel pretty annoyed by what's otherwise great fun. ***/**
That Key movie looks interesting but I can't find any info on it since I don't speak nihongo.
Rewatched 3 Women and Badlands recently, mmmmm Sissy Spacek was so hot. I can't believe Jack Fisk snatched that shit up 6 years before I was born, the son of a bitch. I'd forgotten how hard 3 Women is to watch since it's mostly Shelly Duvall embarrassing herself the whole time. Interesting to learn she ad libbed most of her inane blabbering lololol.
Rewatched 3 Women and Badlands recently, mmmmm Sissy Spacek was so hot. I can't believe Jack Fisk snatched that shit up 6 years before I was born, the son of a bitch. I'd forgotten how hard 3 Women is to watch since it's mostly Shelly Duvall embarrassing herself the whole time. Interesting to learn she ad libbed most of her inane blabbering lololol.
brianjones
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I loved that she had her dress caught in the car door everytime
I liked how everything she cooked was a melt. Tuna melt, BBQ chicken melt...
Genius Party - Anthology of animated Japanese shorts, with each one being stranger than the last. There are some interesting ideas being thrown around, there's fun to be had and some of the animation is gorgeous, but the quality of the shorts is so uneven (including one short that ranks among the most boring things I've ever seen) that the total package is just underwhelming **½
The Karate Kid - Nostalgia trip deluxe. Incredibly eighties. ***½
The Karate Kid - Nostalgia trip deluxe. Incredibly eighties. ***½
BaronLundi
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Searching for Sugar Man.A confusing, manipulative and badly edited documentary the subject of which is a needlessly convoluted reenactement of an investigation about a (probably) amazing man and his story. But the audience isn't allowed to know that until midway because the filmmaker really really wished he were the investigator and his movie the investigation. It's not. If anything it demonstrates a puzzling lack of curiosity and thirst for genuine history.
It is filled with obvious and totally unnecessary lies. Lies that might just be little white ones made for the sake of drama, but does that make it better or worse ?
It is filled with obvious and totally unnecessary lies. Lies that might just be little white ones made for the sake of drama, but does that make it better or worse ?
ThisWreckage
Banned
Man of Steel
Thoroughly middling. It also boggles my mind how all of these comic book movies are dropping the ball on casting. Amy Adams looked a good decade older than Cavil and she was terribly miscast.
Thoroughly middling. It also boggles my mind how all of these comic book movies are dropping the ball on casting. Amy Adams looked a good decade older than Cavil and she was terribly miscast.
B-B-Bomba!
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Cosmic Bus
pristine morning snow
Agreed. I've only watched the Freshman once, partly because of the reasoning you gave, and partly because it fails to deliver much in the way of Lloyd's comedic strengths... which are, of course, why I enjoy his movies in the first place!
You misspelled "good." Evil Dead 2 is a comedy film, The Evil Dead is a horror and they both do what they do very well.
Bruce Campbell dies about once a year.
I've got the entire Planet of the Apes collection on blu-ray. I've yet to watch any of them except for the 1968 original.
Of course, lest we forget, the definitive Planet of the Apes spoof:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8y9rLj5_20
Just a pity that plans to stage an actual broadway version of Stop The Planet Of The Apes, I Want To Get Off never got off the ground.
Anton Sugar
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Yeah, just need to finish HaHaHa and I'll be done.
Kilgore Trout
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I watched Night and Day last night, will see Hahaha some time this weekend.
So, Night and Day felt very much like Woman is the Future of Man. The characters are the same, only Night and Day felt a little more nuanced with its approach. I think the film overstayed its welcome a little bit, but slowly observing just one man felt more natural than the direct juxtaposition of the two men--both presently and in the past--in WitFoM.
With little overt editorializing, we get to see the depths of Sung-nam Kim's lust and infatuation for a self-centered, stingy woman half his age and how he wears down her defenses towards his advances.
I might have to watch final act again, but I think that
the scenes where he's now living/married to that other student and divorced from his wife, are part of a dream.
it really is a dream,
Regardless, like in the other film, Hong lets us look at another brief period of time (In Woman the flashbacks and in this the flash forward) to provide context and illustrate how much the characters don't really change, that they seemingly lack the necessary components to live life with any sort of sustained consciousness or awareness, forever to be driven by undefined wants and desires. I think is worth nothing that in either film we never see any of the characters practice their professions, and that we have no real knowledge of their creative capacities as artists, or how their works are perceived.
The more I think about Night and Day the more rewarding it is, but it felt unnecessarily long. It's kind of hard to sustain a film for so long on such vacuous characters.
Grinchy
Banned
I went through the same thing. Seeing it in a theater was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed it. I watched it at home months later and it was barely passable. I don't really need to see all movies twice before having an honest opinion about it, but I probably do need two viewings for dumb action movies like this one.
I hate to admit this, so everyone cover your eyes, but I actually enjoyed the Wolverine movie the first time I saw it in a theater with some friends. I didn't know why so many people hated it. I didn't think it was the best movie ever made, but it seemed fun. I saw it again at home and it was such a horrible piece of shit.
OfWhiteSkinOnRedLeather
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I'm still doing it, I just didn't get a chance to watch Night and Day last week. I'll probably watch it tonight after Before Midnight and the next later this week.
I've been working like 16 hour days so I haven't watched much lately or stayed up on the film club thing, but today and yesterday were my weekend
Drunken Angel - actually watched this about a week ago. bit unfocused and that lack of focus makes sense learning that Mifune's role was expanded greatly during production. he and the doctor basically go through the same character loop 6 or 7 times before actually moving into the ending. good though.
Before Midnight - hardest to watch of the trilogy but the most...truthful I guess. I don't know if that truth is good for me though, I should probably me more Sunrise/Sunset idealistic at my age. oh well, knowing true communication between people is impossible gives me a headstart on my peers!
Die Hard With a Vengeance - aw really thought this might reach the first one. didn't at all. SLJ's pretty good with Willis and their banter along with some nice stopwatch action works great for the first hour. then after the twist it loses a wheel or two and clunks along to the somehow both abrupt and dragged-out finale.
A Dangerous Method - like my LB review for this one.
Frances Ha - Liked it a ton but more than anything else on here (or equal to Before Midnight) I feel I need to grow with it. Definitely love Gerwig.
Drunken Angel - actually watched this about a week ago. bit unfocused and that lack of focus makes sense learning that Mifune's role was expanded greatly during production. he and the doctor basically go through the same character loop 6 or 7 times before actually moving into the ending. good though.
Before Midnight - hardest to watch of the trilogy but the most...truthful I guess. I don't know if that truth is good for me though, I should probably me more Sunrise/Sunset idealistic at my age. oh well, knowing true communication between people is impossible gives me a headstart on my peers!
Die Hard With a Vengeance - aw really thought this might reach the first one. didn't at all. SLJ's pretty good with Willis and their banter along with some nice stopwatch action works great for the first hour. then after the twist it loses a wheel or two and clunks along to the somehow both abrupt and dragged-out finale.
A Dangerous Method - like my LB review for this one.
Frances Ha - Liked it a ton but more than anything else on here (or equal to Before Midnight) I feel I need to grow with it. Definitely love Gerwig.
Anton Sugar
Member
Post them! I am going through something right now where I enjoyed it, solid 7/10 movie (which is NOT bad, in my book), but all that's been on my mind since I saw it are its flaws.
Messofanego
Banned
I went to an afternoon screening of a midnight-style movie lol
Only God Forgives
Bangkok has got a very direct way of delivering justice XD
Was not expecting the plot to go that way, but then I remembered the first hallway scene and it made me go “ohhhh”. Came out of the movie with a big, dumb grin on my face.
Very pure, artistic, crime “thing” (hesitate to call it a drama or thriller, it’s only really comparable to other Refn movies). Snyder and Peter Jackson, this is how you do badass slow motion. Just like Drive, walking out of the cinema made me involuntarily want to emulate a cool walk and mysterious look Not just pure in terms of using mostly imagery to tell a story like Valhalla Rising but also very barebones in its plot.
I don’t know why people bothered pointing out Gosling has only 7 lines in the movie, when there’s enough dialogue from other characters to keep you abreast of the simple plot. Honestly, it could be a silent movie and the visual storytelling would still do its job.
Kristin Scott Thomas is a lot of fun!
Absolutely worth seeing on the big screen if you get the chance for the impeccable wallpaper-worthy cinematography, doom-laden synthy/oriental Cliff Martinez greatness (a hallway scene is straight up 70’s sci-fi horror music), and getting to see all that glorious violence in gut-wrenching detail. Some of it made me wince and squirm in my seat. Refn has got a master handle on tension, there’s more of those Drive “gunshots at pawnshop” type moments here. The violence is not prolonged (except for an amazing torture sequence), it’s punctuated at just the right moments to keep each of them memorable. That sword, boy does it get some work.
Some people might say it’s style over substance, but I got more out of it than just a pretty audiovisual experience. It’s not quite a revenge thing, or a sweeping crime drama, it’s very 1-on-1 but with different characters on both sides.
Updated my favourites of the year:
Simon Killer
Only God Forgives
Mud
The Place Beyond the Pines
Upstream Color
Spring Breakers
Only God Forgives
Bangkok has got a very direct way of delivering justice XD
Was not expecting the plot to go that way, but then I remembered the first hallway scene and it made me go “ohhhh”. Came out of the movie with a big, dumb grin on my face.
Very pure, artistic, crime “thing” (hesitate to call it a drama or thriller, it’s only really comparable to other Refn movies). Snyder and Peter Jackson, this is how you do badass slow motion. Just like Drive, walking out of the cinema made me involuntarily want to emulate a cool walk and mysterious look
Not just pure in terms of using mostly imagery to tell a story like Valhalla Rising but also very barebones in its plot.I don’t know why people bothered pointing out Gosling has only 7 lines in the movie, when there’s enough dialogue from other characters to keep you abreast of the simple plot. Honestly, it could be a silent movie and the visual storytelling would still do its job.
Kristin Scott Thomas is a lot of fun!
Absolutely worth seeing on the big screen if you get the chance for the impeccable wallpaper-worthy cinematography, doom-laden synthy/oriental Cliff Martinez greatness (a hallway scene is straight up 70’s sci-fi horror music), and getting to see all that glorious violence in gut-wrenching detail. Some of it made me wince and squirm in my seat. Refn has got a master handle on tension, there’s more of those Drive “gunshots at pawnshop” type moments here. The violence is not prolonged (except for an amazing torture sequence), it’s punctuated at just the right moments to keep each of them memorable. That sword, boy does it get some work.
Some people might say it’s style over substance, but I got more out of it than just a pretty audiovisual experience. It’s not quite a revenge thing, or a sweeping crime drama, it’s very 1-on-1 but with different characters on both sides.
The whole Oedipal complex was a bit unnerving. It’s about cutting the line of violence, with Julian’s family and all his links. Very much a Greek tragedy feel. Julian stuck in the middle and no one will forgive his neutral role in this. Bangkok police getting work done!
Updated my favourites of the year:
Simon Killer
Only God Forgives
Mud
The Place Beyond the Pines
Upstream Color
Spring Breakers
John Dunbar
correct about everything
you used to be cool.
I was pretty so-so on it coming out of the theater, but I haven't been able to stop thinking about it since Friday. Looking forward to a rewatch on Blu.
Rank above or below Sucker Punch and Watchmen?
Anton Sugar
Member
I'd rather discuss movies in here vs. the official threads for them. OTs tend to have too many fans who are either too blinded to notice flaws, and too many people who are unforgiving of them.
Dragoon En Regalia
Member
Boom, finished off Bird. It blatantly ignores most of Parker's childhood, as well as his extensive involvement with Dizzy Gillespie (who gets less screen time than Red Rodney, who's comparatively less important), but oh well. Otherwise, it's a daringly low-key, bluesy biopic that avoids some cliches and falls victim to others. What can I say? It's an early Eastwood prestige pic, it bears the hallmarks. On the other hand, the pacing's decent enough, the music and visuals are stunningly good, and the acting ranges from solid to entrancing (Whitaker looks less like Parker than the actor playing Gillespie, so there's some meta-irony too). I feel like one needs to know the musician's history fairly wellat the leastto get the most out of this. ***/**
Thug Waffle
Member
The Last of Us is the best movie I've played in a week.
Discotheque
Banned
it's my favorite of snyder's films. the good actors and soundtrack worked wonders for him.
my summer movie tally is:
furious 6 > This is the End > Man of Steel >=Iron Man 3 >>>>>> Star Trek 2
Anton Sugar
Member
Man of Steel>Dawn of the Dead>300>Watchmen>Sucker Punch
Need to revisit Dawn of the Dead, though.
300 and Watchmen are kinda on equal ground for me. 300 has some of the best and worst Snyder, and I feel like he really missed the mark with Watchmen, though that needs a rewatch, too.
Need to revisit Dawn of the Dead, though.
300 and Watchmen are kinda on equal ground for me. 300 has some of the best and worst Snyder, and I feel like he really missed the mark with Watchmen, though that needs a rewatch, too.
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