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Reply #105 on: August 27, 2016, 04:13:53 PM

I wouldn't go so far as to call any of the plot developments in the movie twists. There's no "everything you thought you knew was wrong" moment or anything like that. It's a really well put together movie that builds up the tension throughout and there's some scenes you don't want spoiled, but as much as the trailer shows you, I don't think it diminishes the movie at all.
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Reply #106 on: September 25, 2016, 09:01:04 PM

Summer of Blood was randomly on the tv while I was getting ready for bed and I ended up watching the whole thing. I apologize in advance.
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Reply #107 on: September 26, 2016, 12:55:19 PM

Watched Mortdecai and enjoyed myself.  Not sure what that 13% on Rotten Tomatoes was about.  I could see 50-60%

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Reply #108 on: October 12, 2016, 11:04:23 AM

Eh, it's got a 29% user score on RT and 3.4 out of 10 on metacritic. So, there's no huge disconnect between people liking it and the critical reception. It's just possible, going out on a limb here, that you liked a shitty movie.

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Reply #109 on: October 18, 2016, 11:39:03 AM

New Assassin's Creed trailer is really bad. Holy fuck. I'm not creating a thread for this movie.

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Reply #110 on: October 18, 2016, 01:22:27 PM

That movie has almost no chance to be anything but shit.

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Reply #111 on: October 20, 2016, 05:57:22 PM

Just showed my class "Soylent Green". The movie really has an unfair reputation for being campy because of the way Heston delivers his last lines but it's actually a great flick. Depressing as all fuck even now, too.
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Reply #112 on: October 23, 2016, 07:31:13 AM

Jack Reacher 2. Do not go near this film. At the movies, on cable, even if it's free. 
You have been warned.

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Reply #113 on: October 24, 2016, 08:22:15 PM

Huh, explains the low score I saw in my movie app. Didn't deliver at all then? Sad.

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Reply #114 on: October 30, 2016, 01:36:03 AM

Watched the film Michael Clayton a couple of times recently after not having seen it since its original run. Very, very solid flick. One of the better depictions of the legal world with the bonus being a slow-burn thriller/suspense yarn.  Hell of a cast and Swinton is really fabulous in it (basically forgot she won her Oscar for it until I looked it up).

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Reply #115 on: November 01, 2016, 10:40:08 PM

I watched the shallows tonight. It's fascinating to watch a movie just get worse and worse and worse. At some point someone just said, "Fuck it, it's not a horror movie, it's sharknado."

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Reply #116 on: December 19, 2016, 05:32:28 AM

I should mention that La La Land is as good as the reviews suggest. Not going to bother making a thread for it because I know most here won't watch it but it's one of my favorites of the year (will probably win a ton of Oscars also not that that's relevant).
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Reply #117 on: December 19, 2016, 06:30:54 AM

Moana is perfectly good Disney kids entertainment. Frozen on the South Pacific. Who knew the Rock could sing?

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Reply #118 on: December 19, 2016, 07:37:14 AM

La La Land looks like it's a well done musical, but I fucking hate musicals with a passion so yeah, Velorath, I likely won't watch it.

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Reply #119 on: December 19, 2016, 07:59:45 AM

"Allies" featured an acceptable number of Nazis getting shot.

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Reply #120 on: December 19, 2016, 07:56:22 PM

Moana is perfectly good Disney kids entertainment. Frozen on the South Pacific. Who knew the Rock could sing?

My kids saw this and so I bought the soundtrack for my oldest. She will play it over and over if I let her. I had no idea Alan Tudyk and Jemaine Clement did character voices for it.

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Reply #121 on: December 20, 2016, 01:31:13 AM

Alan Tudyk does voices for EVERYTHING.  Seriously, look him up ;  you'll be amazed at some of the shit he's been in.

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Reply #122 on: December 20, 2016, 05:06:02 AM

La La Land looks like it's a well done musical, but I fucking hate musicals with a passion so yeah, Velorath, I likely won't watch it.


For a musical it actually doesn't have that many musical (in that characters are singing about what's going on in the story) numbers and they're mostly front-loaded. There are two right at the beginning, another not too longer after which you can see pretty much in its entirety here, and one more later one. There's a bit of dancing here and there also, and there's some other music that's worked in more naturally due to Gosling's character being a musician. Also, if you're expecting something that's just light and cheerful there's a lot more emotional weight to this movie than you might first expect and parts of it hit pretty hard.

And if you're an Emma Stone fan at all, this is her at her very best. Like even more inhumanly charming than usual.
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Reply #123 on: January 02, 2017, 10:32:44 PM

Watched Gozu on amazon prime last night. It's a Takashi Miike movie from 2003 and does some batshit crazy stuff, particularly towards the end. I really enjoyed it.

Kurt Russell horrorish western Bone Tomahawk, and Green Room (one of Anton Yelchin's last movies) are both available on Prime as well and are both highly recommended.
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Reply #124 on: January 07, 2017, 12:06:41 PM

Caught Criminal last night on HBO Go.  I really don't want to live in a world where Costner is allowed to do things, or be seen by people.

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Reply #125 on: January 07, 2017, 12:17:10 PM

Cooties is fucking great. Kid zombies, funny lines, complete throwaway movie, but absolutely worth watching.

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Reply #126 on: January 27, 2017, 02:13:13 AM

Chan-wook Park's latest movie The Handmaiden is now available to rent or stream digitally on Amazon. Probably his best work since Oldboy though nowhere near as crazy.
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Reply #127 on: January 27, 2017, 03:39:34 AM

Chan-wook Park's latest movie The Handmaiden is now available to rent or stream digitally on Amazon. Probably his best work since Oldboy though nowhere near as crazy.

Only in the USA it seems (same goes for the bluray release in english)  Ohhhhh, I see.
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Reply #128 on: March 16, 2017, 05:14:40 PM

Moana is perfectly good Disney kids entertainment. Frozen on the South Pacific. Who knew the Rock could sing?

My kids saw this and so I bought the soundtrack for my oldest. She will play it over and over if I let her. I had no idea Alan Tudyk and Jemaine Clement did character voices for it.

Jemaine's voice stands out as the big shiny crab for the entire number. I recognized it right off in the theater.

Tudyk voices the chicken. His lines were all "bawk" and "bawk, bawk".
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Reply #129 on: March 17, 2017, 06:24:45 AM

They show Tyduk recording in the extra materials.  He looks right into the camera and says, "Yep, went to Juliard to do that."

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Reply #130 on: April 12, 2017, 06:47:25 PM

Forgot we had a useless movies thread.

Obscure, excellent horror movies. I'm filling up my media center genre by genre. Go.
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Reply #131 on: April 13, 2017, 12:28:44 AM


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Reply #132 on: April 13, 2017, 04:28:46 AM

Forgot we had a useless movies thread.

Obscure, excellent horror movies. I'm filling up my media center genre by genre. Go.

I'm not sure where to start since I think we might have different definitions of obscure, excellent, and probably even horror. Also you mention filling up a media center but honestly you might find a $4.99 monthly sub to Shudder worthwhile for convenience, a lot of obscurity, and because some nights instead of watching an excellent movie you might feel like watching Mountain of the Cannibal God because you don't know anything about it but you see it has Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in it.
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Reply #133 on: April 13, 2017, 06:02:04 AM

Blood and Donuts is semi-obscure, decent horror comedy from the mid 90s. So half of each of your criteria.
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Reply #134 on: April 13, 2017, 12:30:32 PM

honestly you might find a $4.99 monthly sub to Shudder worthwhile for convenience, a lot of obscurity, and because some nights instead of watching an excellent movie you might feel like watching Mountain of the Cannibal God because you don't know anything about it but you see it has Ursula Andress and Stacy Keach in it.

I'd never heard of Shudder but it sounds pretty awesome; I've burned through most of the good horror on Netflix it seems like.  Need to research whether it'll work on all my various devices.

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Reply #135 on: April 13, 2017, 03:21:52 PM

If worse comes to worse it's available as a channel on Amazon also although it's missing some of the stuff you'd get subscribing directly through Shudder (and subbing to one doesn't give you access to the other). There's a seven day free trial though (on both Amazon and on Shudder.com) so if nothing else you can test it out.
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Reply #136 on: April 18, 2017, 07:15:38 PM

The Void was good. I'm glad it didn't go out of the way to explain a bunch of shit.
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Reply #137 on: April 19, 2017, 03:33:00 AM

Not gonna bother to bump the thread, but the latest Star Trek was Beyond Terrible.

Better than New Trek 2, but not by much. Jesus Wept, this franchise needs to STOP.

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Reply #138 on: April 19, 2017, 03:41:18 AM

It looks interesting but my wife won't go in for horror/ survival movies. I'm curious about the twist, though I suspect we see it in the last trailer.

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Reply #139 on: April 25, 2017, 09:58:19 AM

The Void was good. I'm glad it didn't go out of the way to explain a bunch of shit.

Seconded this. It was worth the streaming rental. Good horror in the John Carpenter Prince of Darkness vein. Acting was a bit low fi but the visuals were good.

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