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Surlyboi
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Cloverfield.
Goddammit, I have to wait 'til January.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Selby
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Goddamnit, but what a pair of shitty shit shit shit films. Michael Bay needs to be facefucked by an Alien facehugger until his death. There was no reason for Transformers to be MORE campy than the goddamn cartoon. I caught this on a cross-country flight last week. I was glad I didn't pay any kind of cash for it as it was one of the dumbest things I watched. I mean, Hotrod came on afterwards and I enjoyed THAT more than Transformers. |
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Nerf
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Saw Hitman tonight, I'd say I was sorely disappointed, but I figured it was going to be shit walking in.
He's a tip to any hitmen-in-training here, if you're trying to avoid capture, shaving your head daily so the extremely conspicuous barcode tattooed onto the back of it is painfully visible is probably not the best idea, at the very least, wear a goddamn hat.
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Samwise
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Yeah, that pissed me off throughout the entire movie too. Way to kill my suspension of disbelief, fuckers. Aside from that it was pretty all right in an action movie sort of way.
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Nerf
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Actually the most exciting part of the movie for me was the urban youth's who got in a fight in the back of the theatre about 2/3 of the way through. I LOVE Arlington!  |
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Rasix
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I enjoyed "No Country for Old Men". Thumbs up. Javier Bardem was awesome.
It was a little too cerebral for my father-in-law, he came away from it partially confused saying "what a weird movie". Heh, old people.
PS: Fuck 3 Doors Down. Ads are bad enough, but recruiting-drive, jingoistic, shit rock is more than I can take.
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« Last Edit: November 25, 2007, 06:50:05 PM by Rasix »
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Live Free or Die Hard might be the most outrageous action movie I've ever seen. Seriously. And it's pretty good too! If outrageous action movies are your thing.
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Velorath
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PS: Fuck 3 Doors Down. Ads are bad enough, but recruiting-drive, jingoistic, shit rock is more than I can take.
Any time I walk through the Snack Bar at work, I'm forced to endure hearing Citizen Soldier (we also got popcorn bags advertising the Nationial Guard). Fortunately it's so fucking bland it's easy to tune out. |
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Velorath
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More shit I'm looking forward to: Be Kind, Rewind. (Really wasn't expecting to be interested in this one, as I'm not a Jack Black fan, but the trailer looks good). Wristcutters. (Mentioned this one before, and it's already out, but finally found an actual trailer for it to link to). JunoIn Bruges. (Site isn't in English, but the trailer is). Honorable mention goes to The Eye (can't find the new, longer trailer online yet) if only because even when these remakes of Japanese horror movies completely fail, I find them to at least be interesting failures. |
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Megrim
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Caught Michael Clayton as part of my study-avoidance psychosis. Very good film.
I saw this tonight (lol Australia). This film deserves more then two posts on f13. |
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Bunk
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Saw Beowulf in IMAX 3D last night. As a movie overall, I'll give it a meh. The action scenes were really well done. The other six minutes of the movie just didn't really do much. :P
As for a movie going experience though - the 3d was fucking mindblowing. This is no longer the days of red and blue glasses with Jaws jumping out at you. I'll say the movie is worth seeing for that, but if you can't see it in 3d - it's probably skippable.
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HaemishM
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More shit I'm looking forward to: Be Kind, Rewind. (Really wasn't expecting to be interested in this one, as I'm not a Jack Black fan, but the trailer looks good). Jack Black has really gotten on my tits lately, with his one note comedy act. But I love Mos Def, and that looks really goddamn funny. Wristcutters has Tom Waits AND it looks interesting. What more could you want? Juno looks really funny. The same chick that was in Hard Candy, the director of Thank You for Smoking and Dwight Schrute? That's gold, Jerry. In Bruges could be funny, despite Colin Farrell. The Eye, though, just looks like another Japanese horror movie made by people who don't understand Japanese horror movies. You know, like the Grudge. |
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Surlyboi
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Agreed with those that dug Michael Clayton. Brilliant flick.
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Tuned in, immediately get to watch cringey Ubisoft talking head offering her deepest sympathies to the families impacted by the Orlando shooting while flanked by a man in a giraffe suit and some sort of "horrifically garish neon costumes through the ages" exhibit or something. We need to stop this fucking planet right now and sort some shit out. -Kail
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Riggswolfe
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I find myself oddly looking forward to Sweeney Todd. I like most Depp and Burton team-ups but this particular one didn't appeal to me until I saw the trailers.
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Mazakiel
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Echoing above, No Country for Old Men was an excellent, excellent film. Javier Bardem did kind of steal the show, too. I'll hopefully see it again soon.
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Lakov_Sanite
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I find myself oddly looking forward to Sweeney Todd. I like most Depp and Burton team-ups but this particular one didn't appeal to me until I saw the trailers.
The movie could have been good but Burton needs to stop using Depp, period. Also Helena Bonham Carter, so it's a corpse bride reunion but really I just think Burton would be better served getting some fresh faces in his pictures. Sweeney Todd might have been a good movie but right now there's just a touch too much familiarity with the actors to make such an oddly dark movie really strike a cord. |
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Echoing above, No Country for Old Men was an excellent, excellent film. Javier Bardem did kind of steal the show, too. I'll hopefully see it again soon.
Was indeed a very affecting film. I'm still digesting it a bit, but I love the Coen's style and the acting was fantastic. Made me want to pick up the book. |
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stu
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Same here. I saw it more than a week ago and I've still been thinking about that one. After seeing Brolin play the sleazebag doctor in Planet Terror, I started to really look forward to No Country For Old Men. I'm usually biased towards the Coen's work though.
A couple of my friends loved this movie and some of them just seemed confused after watching it because the third act isn't run-of-the-mill. I'll probly see it again.
From what I've read about the book, it's more interested in who gets the money rather than the ends each character comes to.
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« Last Edit: December 02, 2007, 01:59:12 PM by stu »
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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schild
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No Country For Old Men was easily the best movie I've seen this year.
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LK
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Saw Hitman. Thought it was nice.
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Nerf
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Saw Hitman. Thought it was nice.
Better man than I, I almost yelled out "Put on a fucking for wig for christsake!" more than once. Edit: He really should've shot some people in the nads, I don't know a soul that's played hitman without shooting people in the nads. |
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No Country For Old Men was easily the best movie I've seen this year.
It is a great movie. Got to watch it a couple weeks back when my work got it in. I didn't get to dry run it (had other work to do that night and by the time I got finished, Enchanted was the only movie left for me to dry run), so I had to watch it a couple days later with customers in the theater. For some reason, the best moment for me was when the credits came up and the old couple a row in front and off to the side of me, who had been talking through the whole movie, started getting upset at what they thought was a terrible ending. They were expecting a clean-cut, happy ending somehow, and after the annoyance they provided I took a shameful sort of pleasure in the fact that they got the exact opposite. |
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rk47
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Golden Compass was horrible. I'm glad I was on for a 1-1 birthday treat from my neighbor...I was SO glad the movie was over.
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Colonel Sanders is back in my wallet
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MrHat
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Nerf
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All I can say is Fuck Yeah, let's hope it's superbad funny |
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stu
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Has anyone here seen Bladerunner: The Final Cut yet? I'm a Bladerunner geek, so I'm gonna have to check it out- hopefully this weekend now that it's making the rounds in my area.
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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stray
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At the risk of alarming the MPAA, I downloaded a copy just recently.
Fucking thing turned out to be in Italian though. So no, I haven't seen it.
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stu
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Call thee poleeece.
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Dear Diary,
Jackpot!
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Golden Compass was horrible. I'm glad I was on for a 1-1 birthday treat from my neighbor...I was SO glad the movie was over.
I became apprehensive after I read New Line hacked the director's version to pieces and made them re-shoot some things. For example (and I'm being deliberately vague to avoid a spoiler), there's a scene with a bridge that in the book leads to an awful and shocking event. Someone who's seen the film wrote that it appeared it was filmed to show what the book says, but had been recut so that the bridge just leads to a place someone is travelling to. Read the books if you haven't. |
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schild
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Motherfucking Funny Games.
I am all over that shit. Tim Roth is back in something invoking the spirit of Clockwork Orange. Fucking awesome.
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I love the Pullman books (the last gets a bit much) but the film version of The Golden Compass is just shitty filmmaking at almost every level except for the visual design and effects. Terrible screenplay, awful direction. If you haven't read the books, you won't know what's going on and you won't care whether you do or not. The conclusion was also just insanely bad, and probably is where the studio shat on the film in the worst way.
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bhodi
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Wait, Wait. Jumper? I've read that book back in high school. Neat. Should be good. Maybe. |
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Evil Elvis
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Sam Jackson AND Hayden Christiansen? It's an acting tour de force!
Actually, it looks like it might be ok.
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Samwise
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Golden Compass had some good bits and some meh bits. The visuals were for the most part great, particularly the steampunky sets and the daemons. The script... I have to agree, weak. Very little character development. I vaguely remember caring what happened to Roger when I read the books, but in the movie he was just a funny-looking Princess Peach that I sort of hoped would die so there would be more screen time for polar bears beating the shit out of each other. Also Sam Elliott, who does not require on-screen character development time because he plays the same character in every movie he's in, and that's okay.
The new Harold and Kumar movie will be awesome. It can't not be. Even if it's just a retread of the first movie right down to the NPH cameo. The first movie is good enough to be worth retreading.
My enjoyment of Sweeney Todd will be diminished by having seen a really good stage version recently in which the lead did a really convincing portrayal of a sociopathic barber WITHOUT chewing the fuck out of the scenery. From the casting and the trailers I'm pretty sure the movie is going to be your typical Burton "dark fairy tale" romp with Johnny Depp in a fright wig and too much makeup. He needs to mix it up a little.
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