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Oh wow, Hulu has added They Live. With ads. For Hulu Plus subscribers.
Oh wow, Hulu has added They Live. With ads. For Hulu Plus subscribers.
Oh wow, Hulu has added They Live. With ads. For Hulu Plus subscribers.
I think I might watch Wild Tales tomorrow. Did anyone get around to watching it yet? A regular at work today said he loved it to death.
I think I might watch Wild Tales tomorrow. Did anyone get around to watching it yet? A regular at work today said he loved it to death.
Is that a TV feature Hulu+ detects or an option you can specify within the app itself?No ads with 3d glasses on.
Poseidon. Pretty terrible. Everything about it. No wonder it bombed so hard. 2/10
Can absolutely vouch for it. Intense stuff. Saw it last year and was impressed.So Jack O'Connell's latest Irish war drama film 71 was just released on Blu Ray. Looking for a film to see and this one might just be it. Can anyone vouch for it? Loved him in Starred Up and Skins before that and it has an extremely impressive Metacritic score. Any of you guys seen it yet? Opinions?
'71
Great film, one of my favourites of this year. Intense action combined with a heartfelt core. While it's effective as a chase thriller in The Troubles times between the loyalists/Protestants and republicans/Catholics of northern Ireland, the movie really gets down to children. These children are lost in this explosive and confused mess of war. Most of the players involved in the conflict are probably younger than 25. The utter sadness felt for such a young generation bred on such circumstances comes to a head at the climax which was quite unpredictable and tense.
Much like the battle sequence in Children of Men, this also has a guerilla style going on that makes for intense encounters. It had my pulse pounding as Jack O'Connell's (who's had a stellar year as Starred Up was brilliant) character has to navigate behind enemy lines, Die Hard-like. Jack O'Connell's physical acting is on full display here since there's little dialogue for him as it's all about staying quiet and surviving. There's a loss of innocence in such idyllic village towns becoming battlefields where everyone's on edge and sides are unclear.
One problem viewers might have is with the Irish accents. They're quite thick but it really only becomes an issue in legibility with a kid whose accent is so thick, I couldn't make head or tails about any sentence he said He's only in the movie for 10 minutes though.
CFK when was the last time you actually watched a good movie? I think every review of yours I've seen in the last couple months boils down to, "I watched this plainly shitty movie. It was shit. 2/10."
it's worrying.
Can absolutely vouch for it. Intense stuff. Saw it last year and was impressed.
I don't really have a lot to say about the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds, other than it aging about as well as a carton of milk from that same year. It's got a nice Technicolor look to it, and the Martian designs are pretty neat, but it's so clunky, stilted, and cheap otherwise. It felt like a lot of scenes existed in isolation before coming up with thin excuses to leave them in there, particularly a jarring switch from a would-be negotiation that turns into a suicide wish, with nothing in between to indicate why that would have happened to that character. It's hard for me figure out how anyone could prefer this to Spielberg's take, but I guess a neat sound effect can go a long way.
Far as I can tell, people review the last 90 seconds of Spielberg's WotW, as opposed to the film. It honestly feels like everytime somebody shits on that film, they forgot about the two hours prior to those last 90 seconds. Or they only remember 5 seconds of Dakota Fanning screaming.
The one thing I'll say about the ending in Spielberg's version is it's literally just one character too much. If they dropped that one completely, I don't think the complaints would be as fierce.
Agreed, but it still doesn't warrant erasing the rest of the film from people's minds.
I don't really have a lot to say about the 1953 version of The War of the Worlds, other than it aging about as well as a carton of milk from that same year. It's got a nice Technicolor look to it, and the Martian designs are pretty neat, but it's so clunky, stilted, and cheap otherwise. It felt like a lot of scenes existed in isolation before coming up with thin excuses to leave them in there, particularly a jarring switch from a would-be negotiation that turns into a suicide wish, with nothing in between to indicate why that would have happened to that character. It's hard for me figure out how anyone could prefer this to Spielberg's take, but I guess a neat sound effect can go a long way.
Sometimes the original is best because its the original. WotW, Red Dawn, and the Thing (Carpenter) all come to mind. The remake/sequels probably had better production values but the original is still better. Cheap, shitty knockoff watch or the coveted original? Now the Hills Have Eyes was a piece of shit someone make sparkle as a remake...
And the family is the worst part of Spielberg's WoTW. If it was Cruise alone, that movie would've been A+.
Sometimes the original is best because its the original. WotW, Red Dawn, and the Thing (Carpenter) all come to mind. The remake/sequels probably had better production values but the original is still better. Cheap, shitty knockoff watch or the coveted original? Now the Hills Have Eyes was a piece of shit someone make sparkle as a remake...
Even worse than the kids in JP
that's not the original.
I can't think of a more useless metric for being considered better simply because it was first. How the hell does that alone determine merit?
Well typically its where the idea came from and simply copying an idea doesn't make it a better idea.
I know but it was the high point and original as far as the newer one which isn't a remake but close enough. They didn't do enough to make it feel like a prequel IMO.
Well typically its where the idea came from and simply copying an idea doesn't make it a better idea.
I haven't seen Exodus but I believe a common theory is that Aaron Paul has a terrible agent and/or tanks every audition. Though Cranston's not doing too much better post-Bad, his choices at least appear to make sense.
Agreed, but it still doesn't warrant erasing the rest of the film from people's minds.