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Don't see Wanted. Really. Just rent Shoot'Em Up.
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K9
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I enjoyed Wanted myself. It's a no-brainer of a film, but McAvoy puts in a good turn of acting and the director kept up the pace throughout. The plot is pretty thin and doesn't do much but serve as a platform for the action sequences; these are very stylised, but executed well enough that it didn't pull me out of immersion. It felt like a decent length, long enough to feel like I'd watched something, but it didn't drag or outstay it's welcome.
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schild
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I enjoyed Wanted myself. It's a no-brainer of a film, but McAvoy puts in a good turn of acting and the director kept up the pace throughout. The plot is pretty thin and doesn't do much but serve as a platform for the action sequences; these are very stylised, but executed well enough that it didn't pull me out of immersion. It felt like a decent length, long enough to feel like I'd watched something, but it didn't drag or outstay it's welcome.
Seriously, have you seen Shoot'em Up? |
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Totally and utterly awesome though |
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HaemishM
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Finally saw Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses today. God, what a piece of shit. It was a White Zombie video with too little music, too much attempt at story (for a music video - too little for a movie) and a lot of stupid, not scary gross-out shit. The only interesting part was Captain Spaulding, and he was barely in the movie. Someone please tell Rob Zombie his schtick is neither scary nor fresh.
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Oban
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Finally saw Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses today.
Dear god, why? Did someone bet you a thousand dollars that you could not sit through the whole movie? That is the only logical reason I can come up with for why anyone would watch that piece of shit. |
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In the "plate of shrimp" category, I just watched Hot Fuzz on HBO (despite owning it on HDDVD, its one of those mysteries in life why I will almost always watch a movie I already own whenever I catch it on TV as I watched Army of Darkness the other night as well) and now the original Wicker Man has just started on TMC.
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Doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, Hot Fuzz kicks ass.
Britt Ekland was mega-hot.
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Rob's Halloween remake is OK.
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Saw Hancock on Thursday. Really liked it. A lot of critics have been giving it negative reviews, I'm pretty sure it's because it's not a straightforward, "this is the superhero, these are the supervillains" type flick. The conflict is a lot more internal through most of the movie.
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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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TOTALLY AND UTTERLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK SCENE FROM SHOOT 'EM UP:
Sold. In fact, think it's selling for a fiver in my local co-op which I need to go to for beer resupply in about 10 minutes. |
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its one of those mysteries in life why I will almost always watch a movie I already own whenever I catch it on TV I am the exact same way. God forbid I get off my ass and load a DVD! But if the movie comes on cable, I am in. |
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HaemishM
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Finally saw Rob Zombie's House of 1000 Corpses today.
Dear god, why? Did someone bet you a thousand dollars that you could not sit through the whole movie? That is the only logical reason I can come up with for why anyone would watch that piece of shit. I've watched Uwe Boll movies on purpose. This did not compare to a shitfest like House of the Dead. It still sucked hard, but only in a "I've seen this shit before" kind of way. Scarily enough, watching Boll's Dungeon Siege movie, that was a movie that did not suck. It certainly wasn't great, but it could have been so so much worse. In the absence of decent fantasy flicks, it might even have been re-watchable. But those mudbaby orc-a-likes... now those were bad. |
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Oban
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Scarily enough, watching Boll's Dungeon Siege movie, that was a movie that did not suck. It certainly wasn't great, but it could have been so so much worse. In the absence of decent fantasy flicks, it might even have been re-watchable. But those mudbaby orc-a-likes... now those were bad.
Really? I might just rent that then. |
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Scarily enough, watching Boll's Dungeon Siege movie, that was a movie that did not suck. It certainly wasn't great, but it could have been so so much worse. In the absence of decent fantasy flicks, it might even have been re-watchable. But those mudbaby orc-a-likes... now those were bad.
Really? I might just rent that then. Burt Reynolds is the king of fantasylandwhatever in the movie. I'm not touching this one. |
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HaemishM
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Oh I didn't say it was great. Just that it didn't suck nearly as badly as I expected it to. Liotta and Lillard chewed scenery just because they liked the taste of it, and there was much silliness. But it's probably on a par with the D&D movie, only without the Wayans Bros. sidekick humor thing.
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Liotta fucking ruined this movie for me, worst evil sorcerer ever.
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Oh I didn't say it was great. Just that it didn't suck nearly as badly as I expected it to. But it's probably on a par with the D&D movie... Uh, it was only as bad as the D&D movie and so therefore it's not that bad? Remind me to never, ever trust Haemish's taste in movies.  |
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HaemishM
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For Uwe Boll, the D&D movie is a huge step up in quality.
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DraconianOne
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Seriously, have you seen Shoot'em Up?
I have now. Excellent recommendation Mr S. |
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Samwise
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
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Chimpy
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
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Samwise
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No.
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Merusk
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
There is a Dragonlance movie? There's a cartoon that came out not too long ago, but reports are it's awful. Like D&D movie Awful, with crappy animation to boot. Ed: And I just read the top customer reviews. Hickman has a very long review that's getting bumped as useful because it's her, but even she couldn't give it 5 stars. |
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
There is a Dragonlance movie? There's a cartoon that came out not too long ago, but reports are it's awful. Like D&D movie Awful, with crappy animation to boot. Ed: And I just read the top customer reviews. Hickman has a very long review that's getting bumped as useful because it's her him, but even she he couldn't give it 5 stars.  |
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Lantyssa
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It was dreadful. Do not rent.
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Thats a real shame. I would love to see a well done Dragonlance live action film. Dragonlance is one of my favorite IP's!  |
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
Can you enumerate the ways in which it could have been worse? Other than tentacle rape? I am having trouble thinking of anything worthwhile that came from that steaming pile. |
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For some reason I thought both of them were women. Meh. Maybe it's because the heroes get overemotional and angst-ridden about every single stupid thing. Yes, I'm one of those heretics who was not only unimpressed with Dragonlance, I just plain didn't like it. |
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Samwise
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I just watched the Dragonlance movie. It was.... well, it could have been worse, I guess.
Can you enumerate the ways in which it could have been worse? Other than tentacle rape? I am having trouble thinking of anything worthwhile that came from that steaming pile. They could have completely cocked up the plot and given ALL of the roles bad voice actors and clumsily rewritten dialogue rather than only about half of them. As it was they hit the major plot points better than the LotR movies did, and the only characters I thought they borked were Tas and Flint. The animation couldn't have been any worse, that's for sure. Stick figures would have been an improvement. The fact that they couldn't pick one animation style and stick with it just made it all the more glaring. (I did, however, approve of the excessively bouncy boobs.) |
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Mazakiel
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Saw Hellboy II earlier. Loved it. I liked the first one quite a bit, and this one was a pretty big improvement on top of that. Unless you absolutely hated the first one, it's worth checking out.
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Saw Hellboy II earlier. Loved it. I liked the first one quite a bit, and this one was a pretty big improvement on top of that. Unless you absolutely hated the first one, it's worth checking out.
Yeah, I thought it was pretty good stuff, although still a little uneven. Definitely an improvement over the first one though, even if its tone is still completely different from the comics. |
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Saw Hancock, it was great! A couple of lines made me spit coke out of my nose when I wasn't ready. My child liked it too, not a true family movie, but a decent super hero movie.
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Hellboy II... definitely uneven, but overall really good stuff.
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Hellboy II... definitely uneven, but overall really good stuff.
I enjoyed hellboy but you can't ask a lot of it. At it's core it's an oldschool action movie, I would almost say buddy cop style and then add monsters. Graphics and special effects were great, fight sequences were fun and interesting. The jokes were cornball but fun and that plot was hokey and shallow BUT it was a good time. s good as if not a little better than the first. |
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