Yesterday J. Edgar , well made biopic, a bit like the one he already made about Hughes but still quite good.
Today; The In betweeners movie , Skins with a generous dollop of Benny Hill, sappy at times, but very funny most of the time.
Yesterday J. Edgar , well made biopic, a bit like the one he already made about Hughes but still quite good.
Today; The In betweeners movie , Skins with a generous dollop of Benny Hill, sappy at times, but very funny most of the time.
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Rundskop (Bullhead in english) was nominated for the academy awards, best foreign film
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Last night Mission Impossible - the ghost protocol . Improbable, and at the very end unnecessarily sappy, but otherwise 2 hours of entertainment. I thought this one was better than the last one I saw in this series, which was number 2 IIRC.
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Season of the Witch.
It stars Nicolas Cage, but I think he was upstaged by Ron Perlman. It was a pretty good movie, wasn't expecting much and was pleasantly surprised. Its one of those movies that designed to make you guess who is evil and who is really evil, and of course everything comes out within the last few minutes and its nothing any one was expecting. For once, that kind of plot worked ok.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
Been a while since I posted, so this is not what I saw today but recently..
Drive - Excellent film, really got me into it. Great soundtrack too!
The Truman Show - seen it before, still very good.
Chinatown - seen it before as well, but very good as well!
Ratatouille - way more entertaining than I had expected
Margin Call - pretty good, reminded me of the time I visited the ING trading floor at the beginning of the crisis (of course they did not know it was crisis yet, then)
The Ides of March - pretty good as well
The original Cape Fear - I had seen the more recent one, and I liked this one a lot too. It was different at enough places to still be exciting!
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Man, I really thought that film was shit. The only reason I saw it in cinema is because I had free tickets, and the only thing amusing about it was the endless list of clichés and how crap it was. In my humble opinion, of courseOriginally Posted by Ominous Gamer
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BigRatatouille - way more entertaining than I had expected
Loved it, one of my fave Pixars.
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Cinema to see J Edgar, starring Di Caprio, directed by Eastwood.
Meh, slow-burning biopic, not an awful lot happens in it. Intelligent enough, and I guess faithful enough to the life of J Edgar Hoover, but this is not my kind of movie. My other half really enjoyed it though; this is more up her street.
Gets a 5.5/10 from this reviewer.
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Adjustment Bureau, starring the ubiquitous Matt Damon.
Not bad. Relatively interesting premise; that fate is in fact part of a Big Plan as executed by the mysterious and hidden Bureau.
Felt it could have offered an awful lot more though, the premise wasn't tossed around and played with enough. The story and characters didn't grab me to any great extent.
6/10
A Team.
Considering I've never sat through a full A Team episode, the movie was alright. Flowed nicely and was entertaining, even if it was one continuous "not even remotely possible" idea.
"In a field where an overlooked bug could cost millions, you want people who will speak their minds, even if they’re sometimes obnoxious about it."
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
just saw Mission Impossible. First scene is a very elaborate jailbreak--highly appropriate considering that's the only way they coulda gotten so damned many iPhones and iPads into futuristic spycraft
"One day, we shall die. All the other days, we shall live."
Act of Valor
Good movie overall. It occasionally has an "America! Fuck Yeah!" feel to it, but it doesn't dominate the movie. Some complained of the acting; I thought it was ok. Many of the actors are/were active duty Navy SEALS, contributing to both points above. Most of it felt realistic, and the plot was not too convoluted. My biggest gripe was that I couldn't identify the multiple characters well, diminishing the connection with the audience. Overall, it seemed very respectful of the men and women who've served, and not just those in the armed forces.
Family is watching all the Harry Potter movies this week. I may get around to a full review once we are done with them all, but I wanted to give a sneak peak into the mind of a 2 year old.
Dumbledore being murdered translates into "Santa died!"
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I just finished watching Happy Feet 2. The movie was so funny especially Ramon.
Anyone seen Iron Sky yet? (I'm looking at you, Nessie.) Is it good or just farcical? I think it's a killer premise, but I'm worried they'll screw it up... and at least here it will probably take some effort to actually see it in theaters. So, worth a try?
You may find the director's IAMA interesting. http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comment...lm_about_moon/
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AFAIK it's only been screened at the berlinale, not out in cinemas yet. Looking forward to it, but it will be at least 2 months!
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Yeah, but I'd just kinda assumed that digital copies had leaked. Not that I watch such copies, but I'll gladly take reviews from others who have.Oh, well, guess I'll have to wait and see.
As Flixy said, it has been shown to select audiences in middle Europe, but Nazi sympathizers such as yours truly won't get to see it for awhile now. The people making it weren't a band of ferocious neo-Nazis, and it received good reviews from Finnish journos except for a lame third act. Apparently they've made it "topical" with contrasts to the US of 2018. It won't be as respectful to the Holocaust as Der Untergang, I am sure, but I also assume it won't be offensive except out of lack of technical skill.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
X-Men: First Class
Good night, and good luck. Liked it, but of course I also agree with them. Most amusing was that apparently test audiences thought McCarthy was overacting, and a generally over the top part. Funny thing is, that's not an actor, they only used archive footage of him
Capricorn one. It's about a fake mars landing conspiracy. I liked the first half a lot, going into the 'why' of the faking, and how the astronauts deal with it. Unfortunately the second half is just a standard government conspiracy, good guy on the run chased by black helicopters film, which was not so entertaining.
The other F word - documentary about punk rockers, older ones, who have kids and have to balance their bands, which have become their jobs, and the constant touring, with being a father, and their own past of kicking against authority with being a father who has authority over his kids. It's well made, has a lot of interesting people in it (especially if you are into the music), members from Pennywise, Black Flag, Adolescents, Rise Against, Blink 182, TSOL, Bad Religion, NOFX, Rancid... And it just so happens they were following Jim Lindberg (pennywise) he quit the band, which gives an interesting angle on that, too. I recommend it!
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V-day was free redbox movie day for us, so...
Smurfs:
Didn't grow up with smurfs, had no knowledge of them beyond they were blue going into this movie. Thought it was barely alright as a kids movie, a little to slow at points, but Scarlett has requested it several times in the past few days after watching it. Brandy understood far more of the little things they threw in than I did
Dolphin Tales:
Hometown movie, but I just wasn't feeling it. You know through the entire movie exactly what to expect in the next scene, nothing exciting, nothing that made me want to log into their website and view the poor creature. But the hero was casted perfectly, they used God.
Hangover II:
Not as good as the first. I kinda hate some of the characters now, not as believable as the first movie either. But it was extremely entertaining to watch, well worth its time as a late night movie.
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COLOSSUS: The Forbin Project
What an absolute gem of a movie. Makes you wonder how many more there are out there... Information ceases to be when it is forgotten.
In the future, the Berlin wall will be a mile high, and made of steel. You too will be made to crawl, to lick children's blood from jackboots. There will be no creativity, only productivity. Instead of love there will be fear and distrust, instead of surrender there will be submission. Contact will be replaced with isolation, and joy with shame. Hope will cease to exist as a concept. The Earth will be covered with steel and concrete. There will be an electronic policeman in every head. Your children will be born in chains, live only to serve, and die in anguish and ignorance.
The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
Fetih 1453, for a Turkish movie about the conquest/fall of Constantinople this is a remarkably evenhanded narration. It has some skin crawling lows, one of which the viewer is treated to at the very beginning, when the viewer is explained in true Kim Jung Il fashion that miracles happened on a global scale when Mehmet the Conqueror was born. After that it's quite decent most of the time. What was a bit silly was that the city was still shown as if it was a metropolis with the kind of decadent court life you'd expect in Imperial Rome a good 1000 years earlier. And really, they should fucking forbid child acting in Turkey. Children in Turkish movies are used for no other reason than to show the humanity of the big hero and its makes you want to pluck out your eyes if you see it happening again.
I also seem to remember people being held for ransoms and sold into slavery after the siege. That got the 'cute little blond girl' do-over.
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Chronicle...we liked it a lot.
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The kid is having a day with Grandma, and V for Vendetta is on TV. Now I want to make Eggs in a Basket.
Yeah, Tom Cruise really fucked that franchise over when he turns MI2 and MI3 into... well "watch Tom Cruise fly through the air and shoot guns." Totally ruined the team of spies dynamic that I loved in MI1. I saw Ghost Protocol the other night, and it was pretty good. Not as good as the first one, but still pretty good. I actually left the theater wondering why the hell I had to piss so bad, and why my watch was displaying off by an hour, the time flew by so fast. Very enjoyable.
How have I not heard about this film? Anyway, thanks, I'm pulling it down right now... I'm gonna get a kick out of seeing some of those guys with the wife and kids.
Now, I'm off to see Act of Valor. Starring real SEALs, and the action scenes were [supposedly] shot while using live ammo!I sure as the hell hope so, or I'm gonna be pissed... something about seeing an action scene with actual recoil on the guns has me practically salivating. (Poor reviews not withstanding, and I'm a little disappointed to here that it's not the next BHD... you got real SEALs, live ammo, and can't match BHD? <grumble> ... but I bet it'll be HUAHtastic anyway.)
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Change of plans... ended up seeing "Gone" instead. Meh. Thoroughly predictable "thriller"/suspense movie that really could have done so much more. Probably not worth seeing unless you get a really cheap ticket or your date really wants to see it for whatever crazy reason. <sigh>
Oh well, I guess I'll have to get my vicarious kill on some other day...
"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."
-- Thomas Jefferson: American Founding Father, clairvoyant and seditious traitor.
Only hours before it got an Oscar for best movie, I saw The Artist and I must say that I am not very surprised it got the big prize. They pull off something quite amazing in a very limited format, black and white, no sound other than the orchestra (99% of the time) a sappy story and still they somehow keep you interested in watching on. There are some real funny parts where you get the distinct idea the movie is screwing with your head (like when you're watching an audience watching a movie) and there are some funny jokes with texts in the back ground that 'accidentally' describe what you're seeing.
Today it was time for The Woman in Black, nothing too surprising or new there. Radcliffe does a decent job though reviving the hammer house of horror genre. I was surprised to see that he's actually grown into an attractive adult and he almost makes you forget the Potter thing. Which would have been easier if one of the supporting actors wouldn't have been the guy who played Snape in those.
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I'm curious about the Artist, and am planning to see it tomorrow. I was also amused to find out that the Oscar-winning soundtrack was played by the Brussels Philharmonic, which I've seen perform a few times, playing (other) soundtracks while showing film fragments, which was very impressive, and at the World Soundtrack Awards a year and a half ago.
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What you describes totally reminds me of Bakemonogatari; descriptive all-text slides briefly interrupting the scenes, the constant change of tempo and the symbolism everywhere in a heavily dialogue based soup that mainly suggests to mess around with your mind. If there's an anime that people here should watch besides Hayao Miyazaki works (as you like Pixar, you'll love this), it's Bakemonogatari.
Tomorrow is like an empty canvas that extends endlessly, what should I sketch on it?
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