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| The Last Movie You Watched; And how was it? | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 29 2011, 10:37 AM (20,139 Views) | |
| Snowman | Feb 5 2012, 05:44 PM Post #241 |
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The Matrix: Reloaded -- It was alright. Not as good as the original, but I enjoyed it. The Matrix: Revolutions -- Lolwut. Definitely the worst out of all of them. Still, it's better than having no conclusion to the series at all. Rise of the Planet of the Apes -- I liked the original PotA more, but this one was still pretty good. I liked the references to the original movie. It was cool seeing some quotes in reversed situations, too. |
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| MrMarill | Mar 21 2012, 01:12 AM Post #242 |
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Watched the Lord of the Rings series (extended). It's funny to see just how much more climactic each one gets. The third one I thought was the best just for the entire ending sequence with Frodo and Sam and the ring. That part was simply fantastic. The amount of analogies and meaning in stuff is ridiculous. I would say some of the stuff, but lolspoilers. Anyway, if you haven't got round to watching them yet, I definitely recommend them. They're very good. Now to read them! |
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| Pwner | Mar 21 2012, 01:32 AM Post #243 |
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Jack of Some Trades
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Se7en. Long overdue since I think I'm a film buff, but I've always been interested by concepts like the seven deadly sins and the nine circles of hell and things of that nature. Morgan Freeman is fantastic as always, young Brad Pitt was good too. But who I thought stole the movie was Kevin Spacey as the killer, with his cold, calculating look and monotone way of speaking. Great movie, see it sometime. |
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| DarkFlashlight | Mar 21 2012, 02:12 AM Post #244 |
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I saw The Descendents. It was good, but I don't know if it was Best-Picture-nominee good. It just seemed like one of those movies where the plot setup and the plot itself are the same thing, so you keep waiting for it to start, and halfway through realize it already did. |
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| DarkFlashlight | Mar 24 2012, 05:33 AM Post #245 |
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Dat Hunger Games. Review be spoiler-free, yo. My biggest problem was that the end seemed rushed. The pacing was fine until it decided everything after the climax should be shoved into like 7 minutes. Something else is that most of the characters were never developed. There are 24, and like 8 get names in the movie. I don't know if the book was like that too or not. I realize they can't Battle-Royale-it and follow 42 characters' plotlines, but for a morality play based on mortality, you'd think you'd want to care more about the dead people. On the other side, you have the fact that it's actually sickeningly violent, which is weird for a PG-13 movie. Legitimately, if they hadn't used a shaky action cam for the murder scenes to slightly mask what was happening, it probably would've been rated R. I don't know if violence is necessarily good or bad, but it was impressive that it was able to pull it off so emotionally heavily. The acting is good, and Woody Harrelson is cool. Lenny Kravitz is there for some reason. It manages to set up the Capitol's weird postpostmodern style pretty well, but hardly spends any time in the individual districts, so there's not a ton to compare it to. Then most of the movie takes place in the woods, so artistically it has a certain timeframe of creativity, but it capitalizes on it. (Maybe too much, the Capitol gets surreal-style weird.) Possibly most importantly, but the thing people care least about, is that it does the Orwellian authoritarian future thing without overselling it into cheesiness. However, what people seem to commonly miss in their interpretation of its message is the stress on increasing interest in brutal violence in entertainment [which is highly hypocritical]. I don't really know how that gets overlooked, seems how that's the point, but everyone seems to get stuck up on the whole government thing. I realize I only mentioned specific things, so a verdict is hard to pick out, so it's solid, but not perfect. 8/10 And I forgot to give The Descendents a number, so: 7/10 |
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| MrMarill | Mar 24 2012, 09:29 AM Post #246 |
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I'm going to see Hunger Games today cuz erryone else is and erryone else is also saying that it's basically the coming of a new Messiah, so w00t. |
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| Bigcalv2002 | Mar 24 2012, 06:17 PM Post #247 |
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Da resident crazy canuck!!
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The Muppets movie. Quite funny, brought back lots of memories for me. Aah nostalgia! :D |
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| Snowman | Mar 24 2012, 07:16 PM Post #248 |
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day -- I really liked it. I doubted any sequel to the original could be as good, but this one was still good. Apollo 13 -- Watched it in history class. I had seen parts of it before, but never the whole thing straight through. I thought it was a great movie. I don't know how accurate it is, but it was good. Also, re: Hunger Games, I know some people who saw it. Well, I know six girls who all saw it at midnight. All they had to say about it was "OMG CUTE GUYS" though so all I know about the movie is that and what Darkie said. Also, these people had read the books, so you'd think they'd be interested in more than OMG CUTE GUYS, but eh. I don't know if I'll see it. |
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| failureatlife | Mar 24 2012, 07:45 PM Post #249 |
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Indiscriminately discriminates
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I watched The Breakfast Club last night. sooo guuuuud |
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| tfghost92 | Mar 24 2012, 08:52 PM Post #250 |
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swag on this dick, bitches
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Katniss Peeta Cato Clove Rue Foxface Glimmer Thresh Marvel those should be the only ones you know the names of in THIS movie (in Catching Fire, they reveal others names) The rest of them [spoiler=Spoiler]are killed either during the Cornucopia battle (such as the nameless kid (until the next book/movie) that throws the knife at Katniss as she escaped the Cornucopia) or killed later on by Cato and the careers.[/spoiler] |
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| BigMac | Mar 24 2012, 09:24 PM Post #251 |
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Real Trill Shit
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I'm starting to understand how non-Harry Potter fans felt last summer with all this Hunger Games stuff. |
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| Snowman | Mar 24 2012, 09:48 PM Post #252 |
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It could be different in your area, but here I've only heard people like HG because "OMG CUTE BOYS", but people liked Harry Potter because "OMG HARRY POTTER". It wasn't really ever about seeing a movie based on hotness/cuteness/attractiveness of main characters. I guess a lot of movies are starting to be about that now, though. =/ |
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| DarkFlashlight | Mar 25 2012, 02:21 AM Post #253 |
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The people I know that love The Hunger Games don't like it because of the people's looks. Those are the Twilight fans. The fans I know mostly like the serious elements of the plot and characters. @Ghost But only Katniss, Peeta, Cato, Rue, and momentarily Clove and Thresh were important. Glimmer and Marvel were pretty much just extras with names who meddled around with the main characters. Hunger Games is honestly probably better than Harry Potter. It's more serious, relevant, and cinematic. I realize it's getting a ton of attention, mostly by teens, and is infecting social media like swine flu, but at least it's actually good. Now I have to speedread the book in under 7 hours to beat my older sister's time. |
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| Pwner | Mar 25 2012, 02:49 AM Post #254 |
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Jack of Some Trades
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I would like to read the book before I see the movie, but I'm not too excited because I hear that it's generally emotionless and doesn't have good writing. |
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| MrMarill | Mar 25 2012, 10:30 AM Post #255 |
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No, that's completely incorrect. I watched it last night and I thought, considering it's apparently aimed at teens, the writing and narrative was excellent. They managed to keep it all round one character and you really did care for her. Katniss's actress outshined the rest of them. Two things before a quick review. First, people like it for the looks? That's just stupid. I haven't heard anyone here saying that, but no one's really been going "OMG HUNGER GAMES" that much either. Secondly, like three of the guys look the damned same in the actual Hunger Games, and everyone looks normal, really. Not incredibly attractive but not ugly. Eh. Quick review, anyway. It was pretty good. I feel that the book will probably be a lot better in that the movie did rush over a few things. The main problem I feel it had was the fact it was aiming for a PG-13 release, and if it had been a 15 or a 12 or something then they could have done so much more. As it was, all the violence happened off camera or, as Darkie said, with a camera so shaky you couldn't see. For a movie supposedly aimed at teens, it had a lot of deeper meaning behind it. The most obvious being that western civilisation treats the lower class like dogs and so on, with the dystopian society. There's also a few others, but I feel I'm spoiling it then. I really liked the Dr. Seuss style of the people in Capitol. Reminded me a lot of The Grinch, and that book has a serious undertone of the same thing as well (no srsly, it's studied at university levels) so it could have been intentional. Tbh, I feel most of the people hating on it are just assuming it's another teen romance novel made into a book lah dee dah when it's really not. The story is predictable and a little cliche'd at time, but you really care for the characters and the narrative and style is quite original. Not gonna give a number, but I'd recommend watching this. |
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