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« Reply #400 on: January 11, 2013, 11:41:21 AM » |
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Skyfall.
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« Reply #401 on: January 11, 2013, 07:04:11 PM » |
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Skyfall.
Story was mediocre
were you really expecting a good story in james bond movie That truth.. |
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« Reply #402 on: January 11, 2013, 07:53:51 PM » |
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Watched District 9 again. Gosh I hate that movie. Makes me feel ill.
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« Reply #403 on: January 11, 2013, 07:59:29 PM » |
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The Deer Hunter is a long movie, a bit too long. There are a lot of moments Cimino could have cut out. For instance the wedding was so dragged out and a lot of the time there were no character development. It's a great movie though, De Niro at his most handsome.
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« Reply #404 on: January 21, 2013, 12:37:31 AM » |
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Watched Plague Dogs last night. SInce I watched t without knowing much about it, the incinerator scene was grim as fuck until they found the exit.
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« Reply #405 on: January 21, 2013, 05:28:55 AM » |
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Watched District 9 again. Gosh I hate that movie. Makes me feel ill.
best movie ever! |
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« Reply #406 on: January 21, 2013, 10:01:56 PM » |
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« Reply #407 on: January 21, 2013, 10:32:18 PM » |
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if you want to make a movie about apartheid, actually make it about apartheid, and don't give me a headache.
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« Reply #408 on: January 21, 2013, 11:30:11 PM » |
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Super boring - don't waste your money. Very cliche. |
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« Reply #409 on: January 22, 2013, 08:29:43 AM » |
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Super boring - don't waste your money. Very cliche. You are pretty much describing most horror films. You kind of have to be picky with that genre and look up reviews in advance. |
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« Reply #410 on: January 22, 2013, 09:07:36 AM » |
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Watched District 9 again. Gosh I hate that movie. Makes me feel ill.
best movie ever! I really liked District 9 the first time I saw it, but somehow it had lost all of its impact on the second viewing. Maybe it's one of those movies you have to be in the right mood to enjoy. I'm actually having that happen with a lot of stuff these days... Finding Nemo was one of my favorite Pixar movies for the longest time, and I was waiting for a Blu-ray release to buy it. Now that it's actually out (and in 3D too, which is awesome!), I bought and rewatched it, and noticed a huge amount of problems, particularly with its story pacing. Such a shame, I wish I could watch it from the same viewpoint I had before and get the good experience.  |
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« Reply #411 on: January 22, 2013, 05:24:05 PM » |
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if you want to make a movie about apartheid, actually make it about apartheid.
Welp. This statement is dismissive of the entirety of quality science fiction. |
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« Reply #412 on: January 22, 2013, 05:28:39 PM » |
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TIL smithy is a nerd
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« Reply #413 on: January 22, 2013, 05:31:23 PM » |
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Clockwork orange, do androids dream of electric sheep, district 9, children of men, etc etc. All about concrete things in human nature/society that could have been set the modern world, but weren't, for the purposes of creating clarity via allegory/metaphor.
The "if you're going to write about x, make it about *actual* x that's happening now" logic scraps the entire genre.
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« Reply #414 on: January 22, 2013, 05:33:57 PM » |
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Oops, posted that before you replied. Wasn't attacking you, peanutbuttershoes, was just clarifying myself. Blah.
Today I watched Looper.
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« Reply #415 on: January 22, 2013, 05:41:51 PM » |
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WELL GREAT. I NINJAD SMITHY AND THEN NINJAD ME.
I wrote:
"Yeah, I'm joking.
Sure, for creating metaphors and showing things people wouldn't see otherwise it's great.
But what if we're just glorifying the extrapolation, people? What if we are creating generations of kiddies more and more dependent on fantasy? Isn't real life good enough?
Is this some kinda of slippy slope deal?
<looks outside>
Nope. Never mind. Continue."
But my bad timing ruined it. How was Looper?
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« Reply #416 on: January 22, 2013, 06:07:01 PM » |
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Excellent!
Every time I thought about how dumb the premise was, the image of Bruce Willis in the diner shouting "IT DOESN'T MATTER" popped into my head and I was able to focus on the characters
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« Reply #417 on: January 22, 2013, 07:33:10 PM » |
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Clockwork orange, do androids dream of electric sheep, district 9, children of men, etc etc. All about concrete things in human nature/society that could have been set the modern world, but weren't, for the purposes of creating clarity via allegory/metaphor.
i expressed myself pretty terribly. i didn't mean, "don't put aliens in your movie about apartheid", i meant "if you want to draw paraleells to something, draw them as strongly as possible and don't be wishy-washy about it". the director actually denied that he was trying to make an allegorical film, which is a fucking lie, but he's able to say it bc after the first act a lot of the metaphorical bits fade into the background. |
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« Reply #418 on: January 25, 2013, 05:13:46 PM » |
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got around to watching Looper,
really good, I wish I had seen it while it was still in cinemas now.
It's always difficult to suspend disbelief in time travel movies, but that aside Looper has some cool sci-fi themes going on, felt very original.
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« Reply #419 on: January 27, 2013, 06:19:12 AM » |
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Wow, Seven Psychopaths, I haven't found a movie that funny in so long, instant favorite
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