just watched American Sniper.
Didn't feel at all.
I get the main character's internal struggle,
but i didn't give a shit.
Its a good movie, but not one of Clint Eastwood's stronger iteration.
Didn't feel at all.
I get the main character's internal struggle,
but i didn't give a shit.
Its a good movie, but not one of Clint Eastwood's stronger iteration.
Got sad about how shit all the movies in 2014 were, so I watched both Kill Bill's over the past two days.
God what a fucking movie. Just incredible.
God what a fucking movie. Just incredible.
Just finished watching Intersteller
wow
that last 30 minutes was poo though
and i would make sweet love to anne hathaway though omg
wow
that last 30 minutes was poo though
and i would make sweet love to anne hathaway though omg
By viakadojust watched American Sniper.
Didn't feel at all.
I get the main character's internal struggle,
but i didn't give a shit.
Its a good movie, but not one of Clint Eastwood's stronger iteration.
If you're not a white gun-totin' conservative, you might not get the feels.
By DY_nastyJust finished watching InterstellerThe space stuff: awesome.
wow
that last 30 minutes was poo though
and i would make sweet love to anne hathaway though omg
The Earth stuff: not so awesome.
Interstellar has too many ideas and fails to execute most of them.
Nolan is not the right guy for this.
That said, I am glad that there are blockbuster guys like him left that try.
Nolan is not the right guy for this.
That said, I am glad that there are blockbuster guys like him left that try.
By diprosalicInterstellar has too many ideas and fails to execute most of them.Yeah, you could tell that Nolan had 2001: Space Odyssey on his mind but that's just not his area. I'd love to see Nolan take a crack at space again but there were some pretty glaring missed marks all over this one.
Nolan is not the right guy for this.
That said, I am glad that there are blockbuster guys like him left that try.
As for American Sniper... I'm just gonna wait a few years before I check out anymore war movies depicting events 2001 and on. It wasn't a bad movie by any means (wasn't Clint's best obv).
Clint Eastwood making a war movie is like Oliver Stone making a war movie, but for the opposite slant.
By YamabroGood war movies are few and far between. Most are cliche ridden trash.I mean, it was waaaaay better than Fury but the shit belongs in the same category of applauded trash like Hurt Locker.
By DY_nastyI was offended by Fury.By YamabroGood war movies are few and far between. Most are cliche ridden trash.I mean, it was waaaaay better than Fury but the shit belongs in the same category of applauded trash like Hurt Locker.
By Yamabroi haven't seen Fury yet, but the trailers made it seem so...worthwhile and badass.By DY_nastyI was offended by Fury.By YamabroGood war movies are few and far between. Most are cliche ridden trash.I mean, it was waaaaay better than Fury but the shit belongs in the same category of applauded trash like Hurt Locker.
what a shame.
For real, there's a lot I didn't care for in Interstellar, but I didn't like the ending. Like, I really hated it. The whole black hole sling shot, all that mess, it's garbage.
After thinking on it again, the soundtrack may actually be better than Interstellar itself.
That docking scene was fucking amazing though imo. jesus fuck that had to be insane in imax
That docking scene was fucking amazing though imo. jesus fuck that had to be insane in imax
By Zero ToleranceI liked Hurt Locker. Was impressed that it was directed by a female, too.Katheryn Bigelow's true masterpiece will always be Point Break.
Bigelow's work is just so bland to me.
Interstellar is a hot mess, but I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It really is the Destiny of films. We heard how awesome it was gonna be for a long time prior to release, it came out and people immediately were like....that's it? But hype aside, it was competent and had some major "what were they thinking with this?" moments but I still couldn't hate it. I had a good time with it.
Interstellar is a hot mess, but I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It really is the Destiny of films. We heard how awesome it was gonna be for a long time prior to release, it came out and people immediately were like....that's it? But hype aside, it was competent and had some major "what were they thinking with this?" moments but I still couldn't hate it. I had a good time with it.
By YamabroI was too busy trying to pick my jaw up from the floor at the viauals to think about the plot.By psychintellectGravity is awesome.It's kind of entertaining but holy shit is it dumb.
By MorisWe really need to talk about Tim Burton consistently making crap for almost 2 decades now.
He made the best movie of his career within the last two decades though (Big Fish)
By MorisBigelow's work is just so bland to me.
Interstellar is a hot mess, but I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It really is the Destiny of films. We heard how awesome it was gonna be for a long time prior to release, it came out and people immediately were like....that's it? But hype aside, it was competent and had some major "what were they thinking with this?" moments but I still couldn't hate it. I had a good time with it.
Bigelow's early career was legit as fuck though. Point Break, Near Dark and Strange Days are excellent genre films. She really needs to ditch the political shit, and go back to her roots.
By harSonBy MorisWe really need to talk about Tim Burton consistently making crap for almost 2 decades now.
He made the best movie of his career within the last two decades though (Big Fish)By MorisBigelow's work is just so bland to me.
Interstellar is a hot mess, but I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It really is the Destiny of films. We heard how awesome it was gonna be for a long time prior to release, it came out and people immediately were like....that's it? But hype aside, it was competent and had some major "what were they thinking with this?" moments but I still couldn't hate it. I had a good time with it.
Bigelow's early career was legit as fuck though. Point Break, Near Dark and Strange Days are excellent genre films. She really needs to ditch the political shit, and go back to her roots.
I didn't like Bigfish (besides it looking great) and I think the main reason I enjoy any of his work is because of nostalgia.
I need to check out Near Dark and Strange Days.
By MorisI didn't like Bigfish (besides it looking great) and I think the main reason I enjoy any of his work is because of nostalgia.
I need to check out Near Dark and Strange Days.
Strange Days is written by James Cameron, and outside of the fact that it's a legitimately good film, it's definitely refreshing to see a genre film that doesn't shy away from Race and Gender. It's quite political as well, but in a different way than her later films. Near Dark is just a damn good movie, and Bill Paxton is awesome in pretty much everything he's in.
By harSonBy MorisWe really need to talk about Tim Burton consistently making crap for almost 2 decades now.
He made the best movie of his career within the last two decades though (Big Fish)By MorisBigelow's work is just so bland to me.
Interstellar is a hot mess, but I enjoyed it despite its flaws. It really is the Destiny of films. We heard how awesome it was gonna be for a long time prior to release, it came out and people immediately were like....that's it? But hype aside, it was competent and had some major "what were they thinking with this?" moments but I still couldn't hate it. I had a good time with it.
Bigelow's early career was legit as fuck though. Point Break, Near Dark and Strange Days are excellent genre films. She really needs to ditch the political shit, and go back to her roots.
Her early work was really good. I hate her new movies. Very bland films with little to no style.
Big Hero 6 just opened here, okay movie.
it's not. far from it.
By YamabroBy psychintellectGravity is awesome.It's kind of entertaining but holy shit is it dumb.
it's not. far from it.
By diprosalicBig Hero 6 just opened here, okay movie.By YamabroBy psychintellectGravity is awesome.It's kind of entertaining but holy shit is it dumb.
it's not. far from it.
It's dumb as fuck. Like really fucking stupid when you stop and think about how everything is happening.
By diprosalicwhat do you mean?
The space stations being so close. The debris staying on the same path. Why was a medical doctor even up there? She isn't an engineer. Her whole back ground was just there to give her a shit story to make us feel like she's been through so much and she has to make it.
It's dumb but entertaining. Nothing more than a fun romp with a fat chick. Yeah you're getting some pussy but it's a fat chick.
i disagree, things like that don't bother me at all. the themes of letting go, humanity/evolution, the role of technology were very well executed and underlined with beautiful images. nothing dumb about that.
it is not really a film about astronauts, or space.
admittedly he went with simpler ideas but it's amazingly executed, i prefer that to Interstellar.
it is not really a film about astronauts, or space.
admittedly he went with simpler ideas but it's amazingly executed, i prefer that to Interstellar.
Grantland wrote an article about Selma in the context of historical fiction and 'historians' needs to eviscerate movies based on the accuracy (or their version of accuracy) of the movie.
Some key quotes:
http://grantland.com/features/selma-oscars-academy-awards-historical-accuracy-controversy/
Some key quotes:
That definition may sound reasonable on the surface, but it proceeds from an enduring fallacy about historical drama shared by almost everyone who complains about it — namely, that the reason drama “bends truth” is that it requires shortcuts to keep things moving swiftly and neatly. There is no acknowledgment — because there is no understanding — that sometimes historical fiction departs from facts in order to reach for abstract, thematic, or complexly intuitive truths that even the most diligently fact-checked histories and biographies can fail to illuminate. A baseline belief that history books and historical fiction are both after truth but use different means to reach it would be a more respectful place to start a discussion of Selma (or any other film that deals with real events). But instead of a conversation, what we have now is a ritual awards-season indictment, one that starts from the self-regarding premise that Hollywood writers and directors are by and large too lazy, stupid, pandering, or corner-cutting to do the nitty-gritty work of historians or journalists, and that they must therefore be caught out and scolded because otherwise the public — which in this line of thinking is also lazy and stupid — will be hoodwinked by them.
The need to refute Selma’s presentation of history before the cultural establishment — namely, the Academy — might confer a permanent endorsement on it was echoed in the same newspaper just over a week later by columnist Richard Cohen, who complained that the film “tarnishes Johnson’s legacy [in order] to exalt King’s” and ended by invoking the Oscars and claiming that “if it wins, truth loses.” On Salon, Zelizer, the author of a just-published book about Johnson, claimed that the movie makes the president seem “hostile to civil rights” (it does not). Updegrove wrote on Politico that it “humanizes Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.” (an odd phrase to use about someone already widely seen as human) while turning Johnson into “an obstructionist” (it does not). And in the Times, Dowd charged that the movie turns Johnson into a “faux … vile white villain,” a charge that is, at best, so uncomprehending of or inattentive to Selma, and at worst, so dishonest that in either case it ought to disqualify anyone who makes it from writing authoritatively about issues of truth or accuracy in the pages of a national newspaper. As the film critic Sam Adams noted on Twitter, “the only way to come out of Selma seeing LBJ as the movie’s villain is if you expected him to be its hero.”
I would add that the only way to come out of Selma viewing it as a pack of lies is if you walked in expecting to see a documentary.
DuVernay’s understanding of the importance of legacy to men in power is profound — she grasps it not just as an aftereffect, but as a motive. And the issue of legacy may be why so many of Selma’s attackers, who speak the language of establishment power, are bent on invalidating the film. The old saw that history is written by the victors is particularly relevant here, because Selma is the first mainstream movie about this era to raise the question of who, exactly, gets to claim ownership of that victory. To many historians and politicians, the triumph of civil rights is that, after much toil and strife, they were bestowed from above; to many African Americans, however, the victory is that those rights were taken — wrenched, with tremendous will, persistence, and effort, out of a system that was not in an immense hurry to offer them up. The former stance has long been the vantage point offered by most white filmmakers who have tackled this history. So it’s little wonder that DuVernay’s movie, the first on the subject by a woman of color and the first not to view mid-20th-century civil rights purely as an example of presidential, judicial, or legislative beneficence, has distressed those who, even 50 years later, would be far more at home in a room with President Johnson than with Dr. King. They are unnerved not only that Selma threatens to become “official” history, but that it represents a sea change in who has custody of that history.
http://grantland.com/features/selma-oscars-academy-awards-historical-accuracy-controversy/
Stick to basketball Grantland.
Anyways, I watched Birdman. It was pretty good until it started wanting the viewer to know film is also an art. Godard and Truffaut already proved that in the 60's.
As someone that's in filmmaking I get what it was trying to say but there's nothing bold in the film. Especially the forced "I'm an actor" scene in the bar.
Oh and Edward Norton isn't getting enough praise.
Anyways, I watched Birdman. It was pretty good until it started wanting the viewer to know film is also an art. Godard and Truffaut already proved that in the 60's.
As someone that's in filmmaking I get what it was trying to say but there's nothing bold in the film. Especially the forced "I'm an actor" scene in the bar.
Oh and Edward Norton isn't getting enough praise.
February picks:
What We Do In The Shadows
Feb 13, 2015
RT: 93%
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS chronicles the adventures of four vampire roommates trying to get by in a modern world that's not always hospitable to the undead. Clement and Waititi, creators of the HBO hit series "Flight of the Conchords," co-wrote, co-directed, and co-star in this hilarious send-up in which an endearingly unhip quartet of friends reveal to us or, rather, to the documentary crew that's filming them, the details of their daily-make that nightly-routine. Ranging in age from 183 to 8,000, and in appearance from adorably youthful to Nosferatu-crusty, they squabble over household chores, struggle to keep up with the latest trends in technology and fashion, antagonize the local werewolves, cruise clubs for lovely ladies, and deal with the rigors of living on a very, very strict diet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBc1Dk0hwI
Fifty Shades of Grey
Feb 13 2015
RT:80%
Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FDTMRK7-24
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Feb 13, 2015
RT:80%
Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aObTGLTfuk
'71
Feb 27, 2015
RT: 97%
'71 takes place over a single night in the life of a young British soldier (Jack O'Connell)
accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971.
Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, he must survive
the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-BaKfl1Ms4
What We Do In The Shadows
Feb 13, 2015
RT: 93%
WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS chronicles the adventures of four vampire roommates trying to get by in a modern world that's not always hospitable to the undead. Clement and Waititi, creators of the HBO hit series "Flight of the Conchords," co-wrote, co-directed, and co-star in this hilarious send-up in which an endearingly unhip quartet of friends reveal to us or, rather, to the documentary crew that's filming them, the details of their daily-make that nightly-routine. Ranging in age from 183 to 8,000, and in appearance from adorably youthful to Nosferatu-crusty, they squabble over household chores, struggle to keep up with the latest trends in technology and fashion, antagonize the local werewolves, cruise clubs for lovely ladies, and deal with the rigors of living on a very, very strict diet.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3uBc1Dk0hwI
Fifty Shades of Grey
Feb 13 2015
RT:80%
Literature student Anastasia Steele's life changes forever when she meets handsome, yet tormented, billionaire Christian Grey.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FDTMRK7-24
Kingsman: The Secret Service
Feb 13, 2015
RT:80%
Based upon the acclaimed comic book and directed by Matthew Vaughn, Kingsman: The Secret Service tells the story of a super-secret spy organization that recruits an unrefined but promising street kid into the agency's ultra-competitive training program just as a global threat emerges from a twisted tech genius.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aObTGLTfuk
'71
Feb 27, 2015
RT: 97%
'71 takes place over a single night in the life of a young British soldier (Jack O'Connell)
accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971.
Unable to tell friend from foe, and increasingly wary of his own comrades, he must survive
the night alone and find his way to safety through a disorientating, alien and deadly landscape.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J-BaKfl1Ms4
I'm going to watch "50 Shades" with a chick. Not sure which one but I am going to see it and laugh the whole time.
Jupiter Acending.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
By YamabroJupiter Acending.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
I was sooo disappointed that this turned out bad. When the first trailer hit, I was so stoked. Shame.
By reiloBy YamabroJupiter Acending.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
I was sooo disappointed that this turned out bad. When the first trailer hit, I was so stoked. Shame.
I've been telling people (on that other site) for a year it was bad.
Hitman reboot trailer, starring Rupert Friend (who plays an awesome CIA badass in Homeland):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxyH9x7rks
Looks... okay?
I'm super excited for Kingsman though, which comes out Friday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxyH9x7rks
Looks... okay?
I'm super excited for Kingsman though, which comes out Friday.
By YamabroBad-bad or Speed Racer-bad(good)?By reiloBy YamabroJupiter Acending.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
I was sooo disappointed that this turned out bad. When the first trailer hit, I was so stoked. Shame.
I've been telling people (on that other site) for a year it was bad.
By reiloI'm super excited for Kingsman though, which comes out Friday.I don't see many movies in the theatre but I'll probably try to catch this one. Looks fun.
Trailer for Amy Schumer's Trainwreck: http://time.com/3705308/amy-schumer-trainwreck-trailer/
Lebron's hairline and bad acting makes a cameo.
Lebron's hairline and bad acting makes a cameo.
By DY_nastyNot even so bad it's good.By YamabroBad-bad or Speed Racer-bad(good)?By reiloBy YamabroJupiter Acending.
This is my second viewing of the movie. I watched it last year with a professor of mine that worked on the film.
It's still bad but a lot of the story was cut to make it more actions focused. There was a couple of scenes between Jupiter and her Dog that got cut. They added in more shirtless Tatum. Eddie Redmayne had a lot of three scenes cut. People will never get to see how awful he really is.
I was sooo disappointed that this turned out bad. When the first trailer hit, I was so stoked. Shame.
I've been telling people (on that other site) for a year it was bad.