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I've never understood this. How is The Purge an example of a good idea?
The Monuments Men - Spectacularly lacklustre, in every department. A half-arsed callback to golden age of Hollywood-era war films that provided Clooney with an opportunity to sport a moustache. They really shouldn't have bothered with this one.
God bless you.
The rumors went around when its release was delayed. Tried to watch it twice thinking maybe I was just tired the first time. If I had to guess I'd say it looked like they tried to take the high road and just tell the 'real story' without taking any dramatic license.
The Challenger Disaster (2013) - 7/10
Nice no-frills TV movie revolving around the US Space Shuttle incident in 1986. William Hurt plays the physicist Richard Feynman, who is called onto the investigative committee assembled to deduce the cause of the accident even as the guilty parties conspire to cover things up and shift blame. A thin-ish plot with some minor political intrigue, all held together and made compelling by solid performances from the cast, especially Hurt.
You'd think after this many callow efforts he'd thrown the whole directing thing down a hole.
Actually Good Night and Good Luck was quite good I guess.
Good Night and Good Luck was a decent enough history lesson.
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit- Nauseating Americana; US guardians of the world and pioneers of virtuousness and justice nonsense. Exactly the type of film Battleship brilliantly ridiculed (only everyone seemed to miss the satire there). Formulaic rubbish that has been done a hundred thousand times before. Don't bother.
In my arms! I'm not alone in believing it was an absolutely huge pisstake!
People should seriously consider a thing when they rated a movie.
If you see a B grade movie and rated it as "not good" because you compare them to Oscar's nominated movies, it's not going to be pretty. You should really rate a movie in consideration with their intended audience.
Movies like Transformer, Spiderman, Battleship, Pacific Rim shouldn't be taken seriously, and should be judged on explosiveness and coolness level.
Some of us really taking rating a movie too seriously sometimes.
If you see a B grade movie and rated it as "not good" because you compare them to Oscar's nominated movies, it's not going to be pretty. You should really rate a movie in consideration with their intended audience.
Movies like Transformer, Spiderman, Battleship, Pacific Rim shouldn't be taken seriously, and should be judged on explosiveness and coolness level.
Some of us really taking rating a movie too seriously sometimes.
Yeah but some B grade films are just shit. In fact a lot. I appreciate Pacific Rim. But a film like Transformers is bland and humorless.
We've said this already, I can't keep repeating it: Pacific Rim is this generation's Citizen Kane.
Right, a friend of mine who's a teacher has to show his students some films based on a theme imposed by the education ministry. The theme is: "The objects that invade us: iconic objects, worship of icons"
"We are surrounded by objects of all sizes, origins and of different worth. Whether they were made by an individual or via an industrial process, their existence, their apparent necessity and their proliferation lead us to question the rapport we have with objects"
Can you guys suggest a few films that would stick to this film? I thought of Fight Club, which has a whole part about consumerism and shit, but right now I can't think of others.
Right, a friend of mine who's a teacher has to show his students some films based on a theme imposed by the education ministry. The theme is: "The objects that invade us: iconic objects, worship of icons"
"We are surrounded by objects of all sizes, origins and of different worth. Whether they were made by an individual or via an industrial process, their existence, their apparent necessity and their proliferation lead us to question the rapport we have with objects"
Can you guys suggest a few films that would stick to this film? I thought of Fight Club, which has a whole part about consumerism and shit, but right now I can't think of others.
But you love Harmony Korine, right?
Eat Pray Love : the object - foreign culture, worship of icons - foreign culture, iconic object - Bali
If it doesn't have to be a physical and literal invasion, you could have said America too was invaded with culture and beliefs from faraway country, things like Karate kid is an invasion to the kid's belief and in an ideal world he could have been a kungfu champion, properly embracing a culture beyond his native (boxing probably) culture
I don't think so, you just have to look at it from a different PoV
Sure citizen kane was a masterpiece, but I'm sure transformer was a masterpiece from a CGI perspective. They're set out to grab alot of cash, entertain (subjective) and they do exactly that : making money.
There's a time for drama, and there's a time to be excited with blockbuster movies where you can expect big budget and a good cgi for the next 2 hours
Toy Story, Toy Story 2, Toy Story 3.
The Seventh Continent
Yeah Toy Story is one of the films suggested by the ministry, good call!
What's this my Scandinavian friend?
Michael Haneke's take on the sterile routines of modern society, about a middle-class family stuck in a go-nowhere existence that decides to destroy themselves. Just as cheerful as it sounds.
It's been mentioned several times on the last few pages but how about Her?
Perhaps that's taking the theme a tad too literally though.
Perhaps that's taking the theme a tad too literally though.
He's the epitome of empty and boring. He has nothing to say but because he was a skateboarding protege from New York people will put up with his odious films and screenplays. And Larry Clark probably tried to feck him because God knows he likes young boys with their dicks out.
I don't think so, you just have to look at it from a different PoV
Sure citizen kane was a masterpiece, but I'm sure transformer was a masterpiece from a CGI perspective. They're set out to grab alot of cash, entertain (subjective) and they do exactly that : making money.
There's a time for drama, and there's a time to be excited with blockbuster movies where you can expect big budget and a good cgi for the next 2 hours
They don't entertain, the shit ones like Transformers and the dull Pirates of the Caribbean sequels were boring as feck. There are good dumb films but the majority of them are loathed for the right reasons; they're tedious money grubbing affairs made by untalented, unimaginative cretins.
Her's a brilliant film.
He's a living treasure.
Hudsucker Proxy is pretty much a satire of this theme. If you haven't seen it, it's kind of an absurdist screwball comedy from the Coen Brothers centred around the manufacturing industry.
Something to do with computers (Social Network, Her, Tron), something to do with drugs (Trainspotting, Requiem for a Dream, Basquiat), something to do with guns (Elephant, Blue Caprice).
Sky1981's lack of questioning is the root of all evil.
I thought Caché was tedious as hell but I've the enjoyed the rest of what I've seen from him.
Rosebud also spring to mind, oh, and...
Would probably go down well in the classroom.
That film almost made me wanna kill myself though, the mise-en-scène was almost profoundly depressing. I couldn't finish it.
I thought Caché was tedious as hell but I've the enjoyed the rest of what I've seen from him.
Rosebud also spring to mind, oh, and...
Would probably go down well in the classroom.
I nearly had Crash in my top 20 movies. Elias Koteas is an absolute legend.
Yeah Citizen Kane is the first one in the list suggested by the ministry, Crash is a good call as well though I wonder how old his students are, might be too 'shocking' for them!
Thanks for your help guys!
Thanks for your help guys!
Ok, sorry, I don't usually do this, but I saw this the other week and it's still bothering me so it gets a review:
The Amazing Spiderman 2.
A film talked up as being amazing by my friend (who happened to be a girl who fancies the guy who plays spiderman), which upon viewing, left me on numerous occasions staring at the screen in sheer genuine disgust.
A film that raises provoking thoughts and questions, such as:
There are two types of cheesyness in films. The bad kind which makes the film inadvertantly entertaining due to it's laughable stupidity and over the top cliches. For example, just about every single other superhero film ever.
Or, the other bad kind, which makes the film indavertantly shit with it's overbaring focus on girlfriend issues, unacceptably dumb characters, or relentless insistence on driving home points everyone already gets and doesn't care about. For example, The Amazing Spiderman 2.
2/10
The Amazing Spiderman 2.
A film talked up as being amazing by my friend (who happened to be a girl who fancies the guy who plays spiderman), which upon viewing, left me on numerous occasions staring at the screen in sheer genuine disgust.
A film that raises provoking thoughts and questions, such as:
- Why Harry breaks into the maximum security section of a maximum security prison all by himself, in order to rescue Electro, in order to get Electro to help him break into...his own office? An office Peter Parker routinely breaks in by doing things like:
- giving a fake name at reception
- Peering round corners
- Just strolling in and about the building freely whenever he feels like it
- Why I'm supposed to route for Spiderman when every single Spiderman villain is less of a jerk and easier to sympathise with than Spiderman
- Why his girlfriend doesn't break up or stay angry with Spiderman for not attending her father's funeral, after being responsible for his death, but will break up with him when he turns up late for dinner.
- Why Spiderman puts up with his random, stuck up, constant pain in the arse girlfriend in the first place.
- Why any of that entire ridiculous opening scene needed to happen, other than to set up the equally pointless and stupid closing scene.
- How someone can work out that two planes are going to collide at an exact point in time, using only an analogue watch...which they only even use after telling everyone this information
- giving a fake name at reception
- Peering round corners
- Just strolling in and about the building freely whenever he feels like it
- Why I'm supposed to route for Spiderman when every single Spiderman villain is less of a jerk and easier to sympathise with than Spiderman
- Why his girlfriend doesn't break up or stay angry with Spiderman for not attending her father's funeral, after being responsible for his death, but will break up with him when he turns up late for dinner.
- Why Spiderman puts up with his random, stuck up, constant pain in the arse girlfriend in the first place.
- Why any of that entire ridiculous opening scene needed to happen, other than to set up the equally pointless and stupid closing scene.
- How someone can work out that two planes are going to collide at an exact point in time, using only an analogue watch...which they only even use after telling everyone this information
There are two types of cheesyness in films. The bad kind which makes the film inadvertantly entertaining due to it's laughable stupidity and over the top cliches. For example, just about every single other superhero film ever.
Or, the other bad kind, which makes the film indavertantly shit with it's overbaring focus on girlfriend issues, unacceptably dumb characters, or relentless insistence on driving home points everyone already gets and doesn't care about. For example, The Amazing Spiderman 2.
2/10
Yeah The Purge is a fecking stupid idea done poorly.
The Lego Movie
Brought me a lot of joy this movie, an excellent idea about a toy that is regarded as one of the most popular to ever be produced, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed playing with as a child. The story line was light-hearted in one way but still made you feel for the lego pieces, and the ending left a nice little message. One of the better animated films I have seen of recent times.
8/10
Brought me a lot of joy this movie, an excellent idea about a toy that is regarded as one of the most popular to ever be produced, and one that I thoroughly enjoyed playing with as a child. The story line was light-hearted in one way but still made you feel for the lego pieces, and the ending left a nice little message. One of the better animated films I have seen of recent times.
8/10
Yeah it was very good. I also liked that everyone was culpable...to a large extent. Revenge eh.
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Yep, a very well rounded and well thought out movie, glad you enjoyed it.
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Captain America 2: The Winter Soldier
Think this might be the best effort from Marvel yet (this or the first Iron Man). Decent plot, action packed and Robert Redford to add some gravitas.
Very enjoyable.
Think this might be the best effort from Marvel yet (this or the first Iron Man). Decent plot, action packed and Robert Redford to add some gravitas.
Very enjoyable.
Trust Me (2013) - 7/10
So very close to being one of those terrific movies that takes everyone by surprise. Nothing like what the trailers sell it as.
So very close to being one of those terrific movies that takes everyone by surprise. Nothing like what the trailers sell it as.
Some things I watched on Netflix
Ordinary Decent Criminal - Seems to have been written by a 14 year old during the height of Brit Pop after watching Lock Stock and some threesome porn. Smug, nonsensical adolescent gangster fantasy set in that parallel universe Ireland populated entirely by Americans and Brits doing comedy accents. Kevin Spacey has two wives for absolutely no reason, the rest of the cast seems to be bafflingly made up of Scots and Colin Farrell is the only Irish person in Ireland in a tiny early bitpart that somehow hasn't stopped them promoting it as a Colin Farrell film. Christoph Waltz is also in it, but that's still no reason to see it. 4
Cool World - 4 years after Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ralph Bakshi convinced Hollywood to make a live action/animation horror movie, only they didn't trust him to do it, and then decided half way through that they actually hated the idea and so the resulting clusterfeck makes precisely 0 licks of sense. Brad Pitt and Gabriel Byrne try desperately to inject some plausibility into a ridiculous, wilfully unexplained situation whilst Kim Basinger wanders around in a Valium haze having feck all idea what she's doing. Even the animation somehow manages to look like it's been cobbled together 4 years before Roger Rabbit, rather than after. The plot, or what there is of a plot, for some reason revolves around a Toon Town-esque universe called Cool World where the only law is that humans can't sleep with cartoons....Me neither. fecking terrible. 2
Sin City - Thought I'd revisit this before the new one comes out. The bookended sequences involving Micky Rourke and Bruce Willis are really good, and still hold up viscerally. The middle bit with Clive Owen mahoganologing his way through Frank Miller's wet dream, not so much. 7.5
Extract - Mike Judge's spiritual sequel to Office Space. Pretty fun. Nothing amazing but a solid Judge film with some great lines here and there. Ben Affleck seems ridiculously miscast as a laidback goodtime junkie, whilst Jason Bateman is now far too well cast as the same Jason Bateman character Jason Bateman's been playing since Jason Bateman became famous for playing a variation of Jason Bateman in Arrested Development. 7
Hamlet 2 - Don't know. Turned it off after 15 minutes. It looked unforgivably evil.
Adaptation - Really liked it. But then I like Kaufman. The film suddenly changing when his 'brother' agrees to help him is clever, but (understandably) fecks with the pacing. 8.5
Ordinary Decent Criminal - Seems to have been written by a 14 year old during the height of Brit Pop after watching Lock Stock and some threesome porn. Smug, nonsensical adolescent gangster fantasy set in that parallel universe Ireland populated entirely by Americans and Brits doing comedy accents. Kevin Spacey has two wives for absolutely no reason, the rest of the cast seems to be bafflingly made up of Scots and Colin Farrell is the only Irish person in Ireland in a tiny early bitpart that somehow hasn't stopped them promoting it as a Colin Farrell film. Christoph Waltz is also in it, but that's still no reason to see it. 4
Cool World - 4 years after Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Ralph Bakshi convinced Hollywood to make a live action/animation horror movie, only they didn't trust him to do it, and then decided half way through that they actually hated the idea and so the resulting clusterfeck makes precisely 0 licks of sense. Brad Pitt and Gabriel Byrne try desperately to inject some plausibility into a ridiculous, wilfully unexplained situation whilst Kim Basinger wanders around in a Valium haze having feck all idea what she's doing. Even the animation somehow manages to look like it's been cobbled together 4 years before Roger Rabbit, rather than after. The plot, or what there is of a plot, for some reason revolves around a Toon Town-esque universe called Cool World where the only law is that humans can't sleep with cartoons....Me neither. fecking terrible. 2
Sin City - Thought I'd revisit this before the new one comes out. The bookended sequences involving Micky Rourke and Bruce Willis are really good, and still hold up viscerally. The middle bit with Clive Owen mahoganologing his way through Frank Miller's wet dream, not so much. 7.5
Extract - Mike Judge's spiritual sequel to Office Space. Pretty fun. Nothing amazing but a solid Judge film with some great lines here and there. Ben Affleck seems ridiculously miscast as a laidback goodtime junkie, whilst Jason Bateman is now far too well cast as the same Jason Bateman character Jason Bateman's been playing since Jason Bateman became famous for playing a variation of Jason Bateman in Arrested Development. 7
Hamlet 2 - Don't know. Turned it off after 15 minutes. It looked unforgivably evil.
Adaptation - Really liked it. But then I like Kaufman. The film suddenly changing when his 'brother' agrees to help him is clever, but (understandably) fecks with the pacing. 8.5
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The best film I watched all year. Beautifully simple but just deep enough for you to gain a great emotional connection to the characters. I cried at the end and I am not ashamed was absolutely wonderful watch for me. Hooked from the beginning. I'm not even the sentimental type but the futuristic technology definitely caught my interest initially then everything else took over. Phoneix is phenomenal aswell.
Afflicted
Two best friends see their trip of a lifetime take a dark turn when one of them is struck by a mysterious affliction. Now, in a foreign land, they race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely.
It was OK nothing special, not a big fan of found footage films and this did nothing to change that, not terrifying has some of the review would have you believe, well I did not think it was, has the film went on you saw what was going to happen.
The acting was decent enough and the basic story was solid enough, could of been don much better, but for a low budget film it was OK
5/10
Two best friends see their trip of a lifetime take a dark turn when one of them is struck by a mysterious affliction. Now, in a foreign land, they race to uncover the source before it consumes him completely.
It was OK nothing special, not a big fan of found footage films and this did nothing to change that, not terrifying has some of the review would have you believe, well I did not think it was, has the film went on you saw what was going to happen.
The acting was decent enough and the basic story was solid enough, could of been don much better, but for a low budget film it was OK
5/10
The Way of the Wicked.
After a series of inexplicable murders sweeps a small, isolated community, Father Henry goes to a local police detective with a theory on why the murders are occurring.
Vinny Jones and Christian Slater star in the film about the devil.
First time I have watched Vinny in anything but a hard man role, he was OK wont win an oscar but he was OK.
The film itself was OK , not much of a story, what there was was decent enough and a twist at the end which I did not see coming.
Not the best devil film I have seen but not the worst.
4/10
After a series of inexplicable murders sweeps a small, isolated community, Father Henry goes to a local police detective with a theory on why the murders are occurring.
Vinny Jones and Christian Slater star in the film about the devil.
First time I have watched Vinny in anything but a hard man role, he was OK wont win an oscar but he was OK.
The film itself was OK , not much of a story, what there was was decent enough and a twist at the end which I did not see coming.
Not the best devil film I have seen but not the worst.
4/10
My son saw it and was underwhelmed. He found the message a bit twee and patronising. He said it could have been a great film but was just OK.