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Bunk
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Saw 300 on the weekend. Personally, I loved it. Its a movie entirely about style over substance, but in this case i think it worked beautifully.
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Saw 300 on the weekend. Personally, I loved it. Its a movie entirely about style over substance, but in this case i think it worked beautifully.
Fucking-A yeah. However, it is not Gates of Fire so if you read that, don't expect it. If the Greeks broke phalanx as much as the Spartans did in this movie, "phalanx" wouldn't have survived as a military term. |
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I have to second everybody's raves about 300. If you want eye-candy this has more than five or six big summer blockbusters... and the plot will follow close enough to Herodotus to never completely upset your suspension of disbelief. Leave the cerebral cortex at home and find a nice seat for the lizard brain. Buy it some popcorn, too.
I was deeply satisfied with Zodiac, too. This film takes place in the Bay Area of the 1970's. It was filmed there. David Fincher has invented a time machine and brought along his tight and occasionally ostentatious visual style. As has been mentioned, the ending sucks... but we know the ending sucks: it's a docu-drama examination of an unsolved case. The genius of this film, and one I'd like more historical pieces try, is its absolute adoration of detail. It cares as much about portraying each aspect of the killer's many crimes as it cared to construct a time machine to film in San Francisco in 1972. You'd be hard pressed to wring a clearer portrayal from the case files themselves.
If the cerebral cortex is tired of being left at home, Zodiac is a movie it'll love.
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Going to watch it tonight or tomorrow (The Host that is).
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Damn you all and your love of 300. Now I have to find a babysitter.
Fuckers.
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« Last Edit: March 12, 2007, 05:48:34 PM by Evil Elvis »
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I get it in on Friday, so I'll probably check it out at some point. |
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So you were watching The Riches as well? Yeah it looks fairly slick. Insert the hatred for Tarintino being associated <here>. |
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Hey guys, I just found out about this really cool site, come check it out!EDIT This made more sense when I thought the last post was regarding WUA linking his blog. Anyways. I'll see Grindhouse. I expect to be disappointed, and that it'll be Rodriguez and Tarantino masturbating over old crappy 70s B movies, but Rodriguez has more than earned my loyalty and him doing zombies just isn't something I'm willing to miss. |
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« Last Edit: March 12, 2007, 09:43:50 PM by Llava »
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HaemishM
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Rodriguez does better 70's B movie masturbation than Tarrantino. Contrast Kill Bill with anything Rodriguez has done.
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I guess I'm a bit too young. I just don't "get it". 70's double feature? Who cares? Cinema artists and people remembering the "good times," I guess? Pass.
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I saw Shooter last night with Mark Wahlberg. I enjoyed it purely from a mindless action movie standpoint. One thing though: The politics aren't at all subtle in this movie. If you vote Republican it will probably piss you off since some of the dialogue could have been written by Haemish.
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HaemishM
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I hope that I'd be able to write a more subtle movie than Shooter. Fuck, the trailer alone told me the entire plot, including the likely villain.
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I hope that I'd be able to write a more subtle movie than Shooter. Fuck, the trailer alone told me the entire plot, including the likely villain.
Well the movie is basically "The government is evil and not to be trusted!" It mentions Abu Ghraib, Iraq and the WMD argument in dialogue. I happen to agree to an extent but I'm not used to movies being so blunt in their politics. |
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Llava
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Anyone see TMNT?
I hear it was awful.
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Anyone see TMNT?
I hear it was awful.
All the reviews seem to center around "Looks cool, but the storyline and dialogue are so horrific you stop caring." |
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Anyone see TMNT?
I hear it was awful.
All the reviews seem to center around "Looks cool, but the storyline and dialogue are so horrific you stop caring." The revews are not so far from the truth. |
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Some other trailers have just been released for a couple movies I'm keeping an eye on. The first is Sunshine. Ok, yeah the something about the trailer reminded me of the painful experience of watching The Core, only in this case they're trying to reignite the Sun instead of jump starting the Earth's core. So why am I interested in this one? Because it's being directed by Danny Boyle, best known for directing Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, and my personal favorite movie of his, Shallow Grave. Saw that sunshine trailer and wasn't impressed.
My favourite band did the closing music for Sunshine and have their own little-seen trailer for the movie ... I think it works better with their music: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zP5QoM2wK9UThe bizarre thing about Sunshine is the release dates - it's like Children of Men all over again - they're releasing it this month EVERYWHERE in the world except the USA, which has to wait until September! It's getting good reviews anyway. |
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I expect the psuedo-science is going to prevent that movie from being watchable for me, no matter how good the rest of it is.
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Grindhouse absolutely, positively fucking ruled. I have to say that I've found no movie more enjoyable over this last year; there have been better movies but not movies that were more fun to watch. Neither Rodriguez nor Tarantino nor the actors took themselves seriously at all; the annoying pretentiousness of some Tarantino films is nowhere to be seen in this one. The film quality was crap, the special effects were clearly fake, the writing was shallow and cliched, all of it was on purpose and all of it worked great together.
The only catch is you have to be fond of (or at least tolerant of) kitsch. If you can't watch a bad horror movie and at least chuckle at the badness, you probably don't have the mindset that would enjoy Grindhouse.
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TMNT was amazingly bleh.
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Grindhouse absolutely, positively fucking ruled. I have to say that I've found no movie more enjoyable over this last year; there have been better movies but not movies that were more fun to watch. Neither Rodriguez nor Tarantino nor the actors took themselves seriously at all; the annoying pretentiousness of some Tarantino films is nowhere to be seen in this one. The film quality was crap, the special effects were clearly fake, the writing was shallow and cliched, all of it was on purpose and all of it worked great together.
The only catch is you have to be fond of (or at least tolerant of) kitsch. If you can't watch a bad horror movie and at least chuckle at the badness, you probably don't have the mindset that would enjoy Grindhouse.
I like what I'm hearing. Won't get to see it in theaters though. (sadface) TMNT being "blah" isn't surprising. The original movies haven't held-up and watching them with my kids (who enjoy them) I realized I only liked them because I was such a huge geek at the time. They're really awful movies. |
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If there was a movie designed for a shared theater experience I would say it was grindhouse. The audience reaction and commentary was as much fun as the movie, once everyone realized what kind of movie it was going to be it got pretty relaxed.
It was very good in that, like most Tarantino sutff, it was different enough to feel new and give you that,'WTF?' thought. I really doubt it will stand up to any test of time though and I felt that the whole thing was just too long.
Kurt Russel is still da man though.
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I didn't like Planet Terror that much, to be honest. There's been too many fairly well done zombie movies that incorporate humor, campyness, gore, etc. that have been released lately.
Always nice to see Michael Biehn working, though. How the fuck was that guy never a huge action star??
Really liked the fake trailers. Machete (before movies) was great and funny, always nice to see Danny Trejo. The three trailers between movies were alot of fun. "Don't" (Shaun of the Dead director) is funny shit. "Thanksgiving" (Eli Roth from Hostel) managed to be great satire of the old 70s/80s slasher films, while still creeping you the hell out. The Rob Zombie one for "Blonde Werewolves of the SS" was a little bizarre. Greatest Guest Actor evar, though.
Really, really liked Deathproof. Kurt Russell is the man. Great setup for the action bits. The car chase and stunts were amazing. Zoe Bell does some amazing shit, and is stunningly attractive in a very genuine way.
Can't really talk too much about why I liked Deathproof without getting into spoilers....
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I heard an interview with Rosario Dawson, and she specifically mentioned the car chase. Said something along the lines of Tarrintino sat down and watched all of the 'greatest car chase scenes' over and over to find what made them so good and incorporate them into the Deathproof one. Damn you all for making me consider finding a babysitter for the kids. That shit's expensive, and I don't trust teenagers. :-D
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Rumor has it that Machete is actually going to be made as a direct-to-DVD movie.
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Ok, now for a quick question:
You mention Machete as the "before the movies" trailer. I havent managed to watch both prints we got at my theatre yet, but the one print we have had "Hobo With A Shotgun" as the before the movie trailers, and I cant recall even seeing a trailer for Machete. Makes me wonder if different prints got different trailer sets.
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Ok, now for a quick question:
You mention Machete as the "before the movies" trailer. I havent managed to watch both prints we got at my theatre yet, but the one print we have had "Hobo With A Shotgun" as the before the movie trailers, and I cant recall even seeing a trailer for Machete. Makes me wonder if different prints got different trailer sets.
Interesting. Was definitely the Machete trailer.... Came on right before Planet Terror. Never saw anything for "Hobo with a Shotgun" (which sounds funny as shit). I don't want to say too much, again, because some of it is very funny for shock value. Couple of bits in the Machete trailer were hilarious. |
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Murgos
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We had Machete in our theater I saw it in Florida. Didn't see anything about Hobo with a Shotgun.
I wondered what Zoe Bell was doing in the movie as 'Herself', right up until the car chase and then I figured it out.
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We had Machete in our theater I saw it in Florida. Didn't see anything about Hobo with a Shotgun.
I wondered what Zoe Bell was doing in the movie as 'Herself', right up until the car chase and then I figured it out.
Hobo with a Shotgun is only on some Canadian prints of Grindhouse (the trailer was the winner of some sort of contest). |
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If there was a movie designed for a shared theater experience I would say it was grindhouse. There was maybe 10 people in the theatre when I went. And everyone kept picking different parts of the movie and laughing the references that were inserted or utilized. Honestly, I can't say I've ever been more happy to spend $8 on a movie in YEARS. The other half had a hard time watching Planet Terror due to raging hormones (she said it was much easier to tolerate back at Comicon last year than today) but she loved watching fast cars get beat the fuck up in Deathproof. The trailers were great on their own. I was only slightly miffed at the "missing reels" sections (I know why it was done), but to be honest, if they didn't do that the movie probably would have gone on 4 or more hours, and 3 hours 20 minutes is a LONG time to sit in a theatre without getting up and going to the bathroom. |
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Saw Hot Fuzz yesterday. One of the funniest movies I've seen in a very long time. If you like budd/action/cop films you absolutely have to see this.
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