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May 18, 2015 18:41:16 GMT -5
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on May 18, 2015 18:41:16 GMT -5
I mean I can totally get behind using RT as tool to view what other people think and contrast it what you think as well as learn how other people interpret movies. However a statement like "Go see X movie it has Y score on the internet" doesn't hold much weight to me. Also I wouldn't call "bad movies" objectively bad, they're bad on a technical aspect rather than an objective/subjective one. As someone who enjoys cheesy movies may view a boom mic in the shot as hilarious and a positive, I mean just look at Tim Burton's Ed Wood. Yeah, but that was intentionally bad...because that's what Ed Wood did. It's just like the Sleepy Hollow film, it was stylized after the old Hammer Films. Or Rocky Horror which is stylized after the RKO (outta nowhere) films. But that's a different ball of wax than the unintended bad-good film...like The Room, in which Tommy Waseu thought he was legitimately making a good film.
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May 20, 2015 18:13:46 GMT -5
Post by Pegasus Actual on May 20, 2015 18:13:46 GMT -5
Mad Max was indeed fantastic. And nobody is saying to slavishly follow what reviews say, and watch all movies in descending order of RT rating. But it's a useful tool if you're trying to decide what movie to watch. The only way it wouldn't be a useful tool is if there is no correlation between how you feel about movies and their score, which seems unlikely. And yes, lots of people like to make fun of shitty movies with their friends. But, usually they still recognize the movies as shitty instead of saying "well, I enjoyed the process of watching it so I guess it must be good".
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Post by Den on May 26, 2015 14:12:10 GMT -5
Mad Max kicks ass.
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May 26, 2015 18:44:40 GMT -5
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on May 26, 2015 18:44:40 GMT -5
It did 9/10 would watch again
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Post by markopolo on May 28, 2015 9:06:35 GMT -5
Movies...
I remember when I went to go see them.
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Jun 12, 2015 18:39:44 GMT -5
Post by 42 on Jun 12, 2015 18:39:44 GMT -5
Jurassic World was bad/bad
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Jun 14, 2015 2:36:14 GMT -5
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I just watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. I expected nothing and came out pleased. Okay, maybe I saw the first few seconds of the church scene and wanted to see what would happen after that.
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Jun 15, 2015 16:45:14 GMT -5
Post by Slick on Jun 15, 2015 16:45:14 GMT -5
JPW breaking all the records; people sure do love their dinosaur porn(includes me since I'm a sucker for action flicks and I liked the 3 movies for different reasons).
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Jun 20, 2015 21:35:46 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2015 21:35:46 GMT -5
I saw Ex Machina a few days ago. It was a really interesting premise with a solid start. A dude playing out a Turing Test on a state-of-the-art humanlike AI alone with his company's CEO on his private estate. The major downside is that the second half of the movie was really cringy. It's like the director wanted to put out an interesting concept, but had no idea how to properly see it through to the end. It wasn't without merit, and in all fairness the ending it got was probably the best it could have done. It's just that I wouldn't approve that script to begin with; I'm surprised that this movie is rated so highly.
That being said I should probably take a look at Her. Some guy falls in love with Scarlett Johansson's voice. I mean who wouldn't? But still, the idea of a guy falling in love with the Cleverbot app sounds like fun and inevitable heartbreak.
EDIT: Her is really good; whoever made that deserves a cookie.
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Jun 23, 2015 15:54:36 GMT -5
Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Jun 23, 2015 15:54:36 GMT -5
I just watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. I expected nothing and came out pleased. Okay, maybe I saw the church scene and wanted to see what would happen. Just watched it today, expected Mark Hamill and Sam Jackson, came out pleased.
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Jun 27, 2015 15:52:24 GMT -5
Post by GodMars on Jun 27, 2015 15:52:24 GMT -5
I saw Ex Machina a few days ago. It was a really interesting premise with a solid start. A dude playing out a Turing Test on a state-of-the-art humanlike AI alone with his company's CEO on his private estate. The major downside is that the second half of the movie was really cringy. It's like the director wanted to put out an interesting concept, but had no idea how to properly see it through to the end. It wasn't without merit, and in all fairness the ending it got was probably the best it could have done. It's just that I wouldn't approve that script to begin with; I'm surprised that this movie is rated so highly. Probably because it's one of the best science fiction films to come out in the past 15 years. I'm gonna say you probably missed something. Or perhaps you don't like hard sci-fi.
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Jun 28, 2015 19:37:38 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jun 28, 2015 19:37:38 GMT -5
I saw Ex Machina a few days ago. It was a really interesting premise with a solid start. A dude playing out a Turing Test on a state-of-the-art humanlike AI alone with his company's CEO on his private estate. The major downside is that the second half of the movie was really cringy. It's like the director wanted to put out an interesting concept, but had no idea how to properly see it through to the end. It wasn't without merit, and in all fairness the ending it got was probably the best it could have done. It's just that I wouldn't approve that script to begin with; I'm surprised that this movie is rated so highly. Probably because it's one of the best science fiction films to come out in the past 15 years. I'm gonna say you probably missed something. Or perhaps you don't like hard sci-fi. I know what I saw, in hindsight I can get that I wasn't supposed to enjoy the ending. The major bugbear I had was that Nathan, the mega-genius he was built up to be, didn't do this experiment in way that wouldn't put him at risk. He knew that eventually one of the AIs he made would break out eventually; the controlled environment that led to another controlled environment. He was counting on it; and his pilot apparently caught on, too. He talked about how he would disassemble Ava and coax her to do whatever she could to escape. Yet there was no emergency fallback. No security, no medical backup, not even a known next of kin; nothing. It could be argued that Ava was his magnum opus; that there would be no point in living after one of his androids manage to escape. But even then it was annoying to think about how that this guy could be doing more for humanity in this storyline, but wouldn't.
The idea is great, I just think that it didn't have to be a "hard sci-fi" to discuss the things it was discussing. The scene where Caleb cuts himself was pointless, but it didn't completely kill my enjoyment since it was there to serve everyone behind the fourth wall. So it served a purpose even though Caleb himself would know that there would be no reason to do that. Of course the same function could be served by having him flash back to his childhood to ensure that he was, in fact, not a robot. Likewise the ending didn't have to be purposely unenjoyable, but it was. So maybe I guess I do understand why this movie was rated so highly, and maybe my gripes are relatively small considering how well-written the story/characters are. I like the subtleties, and how intelligent the movie was. My first impression was that I did not enjoy the ending, and in hindsight, knowing that it was intentional, I guess that was a silly claim to make. Still, I doubt that it needed to be a "hard" sci-fi to discuss the things it was discussing.
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Jun 28, 2015 20:25:03 GMT -5
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Post by GodMars on Jun 28, 2015 20:25:03 GMT -5
Nathan knew full well what he was doing. It was all intentional, and he knew what it meant. And, in my opinion, you should be terrified by the ending.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2015 23:39:41 GMT -5
Ip Man and Ip Man 2 (feat. Donnie Yen) are some of the most down-to-earth martial arts films I've seen in a while. Ip Man 1 is arguably better, but I think 2 had more fight scenes in it overall. Every other Ip Man Movie is not exactly designed for a Western audience; just ignore those. It's not that the fight scenes aren't as good, in fact they look like something out of any Ip Man movie:
However, it's the excessive love interests, overdone cliches, and a cheesy ending that only Chinese audiences would enjoy because it's not a trope in their culture (at least from what I assume).
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Jul 18, 2015 22:31:36 GMT -5
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Jul 21, 2015 2:02:31 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Jul 21, 2015 2:02:31 GMT -5
Age of Ultron came out strong in plenty of areas. There was a healthy mixture of action, character development, and twists; it was okay by me.
The major problem I have is that the not-Avengers fought and defeated Ultron in the end. Meanwhile, the characters everyone cared about were on clean up duty, and that part upsets me. There was constant pressure for the less popular characters to shine in the middle while everyone else was pain-stakingly whiny, and that too upset me. The movie would be worse off with excessive fanservice against none, but I felt like it was an active up-front attempt to make the unlikable characters likable. The movie's biggest weakness was when nobody that mattered did the things that mattered.
And I don't mind it if/when a movie like AoU comes out. I'm glad it went there; it made our biggest heroes severely flawed. But again, the heroes weren't heroes, and it's a noticable pattern when every superhero movie for the past ten years does this.
I was not convinced that Ultron thought he was doing the right thing. Personality-wise he was decent. Motive-wise he was a raging imbecile that shoddily served as a plot device. But hey, I guess a movie of this scale needs to jeopardize the world so people would be drawn to it.
I don't really like comic book movies for their action sequences. Nobody knows how to properly choreograph interesting fight scenes out of superhuman powers. There are movies like the Equalizer, the Bourne series, and Ip Man where the hero is a blatant Mary Sue. However, everything they do is choreographed so well that the audience can see the protagonist outwit every obstacle. The action in and of itself is what the movie leans on, and that's why those kinds of movies do so well.
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Jul 21, 2015 10:28:39 GMT -5
Post by LeGitBeeSting on Jul 21, 2015 10:28:39 GMT -5
Age of Ultron gave me AIDS.
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Sept 27, 2015 2:55:51 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Sept 27, 2015 2:55:51 GMT -5
I finally got around to watching Jurassic World. It's okay; I turned off my brain and enjoyed the ride. I caught quite a few glaring plot holes here and there, but I'm fairly certain a lot of them would be pointless in a movie about dinosaurs.
There should be praise for keeping close to the originals; though maybe it pandered too much to them. One instance is fine and enough to go "haha this is the same universe and we're in the future", but the third time was more of a "I SWEAR WE WATCHED THE SOURCE MATERIAL- look at that relic! Now look at the subtle product placement! Back to the movie-"
The movie was great working with the idea it was given, but it was so hellbent on fabricating more of the original that made it became predictable in a lot of scenes that were supposed to be tense. The way characters were built up made it obvious who would live and who would die. Then again this movie's purpose was to reboot a franchise, not challenge easy money. I give it an ECH/HRN.
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Sept 29, 2015 18:14:53 GMT -5
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Post by GodMars on Sept 29, 2015 18:14:53 GMT -5
The Martian comes out on Friday, Oct 3rd. If you aren't planning to go see it, you're doing it wrong. Also, Sicario.
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Oct 1, 2015 10:38:15 GMT -5
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Oct 1, 2015 10:38:15 GMT -5
3nd? And I know I'm going to watch it.
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Oct 1, 2015 11:14:14 GMT -5
Post by LeGitBeeSting on Oct 1, 2015 11:14:14 GMT -5
I'm going into the Martian blind. The only thing I know about it is the poster.
Let's see if Ridley Scott is still the Sci-fi master. I didn't mind Prometheus that much. It was perfect until they landed on the planet.
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Oct 1, 2015 11:22:45 GMT -5
Post by GodMars on Oct 1, 2015 11:22:45 GMT -5
Heads up: The Martian was filmed in native 3D, and is not so 3D conversion hack job. It's meant to be seen in 3D.
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Oct 1, 2015 16:21:05 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 16:21:05 GMT -5
Oh no. I remember the last time Matt Damon was a character in a movie about space.
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Oct 1, 2015 17:07:03 GMT -5
Post by LeGitBeeSting on Oct 1, 2015 17:07:03 GMT -5
Oh no. I remember the last time Matt Damon was a character in a movie about space. Hey. Interstellar had a top tier movie soundtrack and was gr8 despite Matt Damon's character.
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Oct 1, 2015 18:02:00 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 1, 2015 18:02:00 GMT -5
Oh no. I remember the last time Matt Damon was a character in a movie about space. Hey. Interstellar had a top tier movie soundtrack and was gr8 despite Matt Damon's character. No, it wasn't that. The last time Matt Damon was marooned on a planet on his own, with no human contact, it didn't end well. Also Sean Bean's in this movie. That means he'll probably get arrested in the end for stealing the declaration of independence, like in every movie.
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Oct 1, 2015 21:34:51 GMT -5
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Oct 1, 2015 21:34:51 GMT -5
Well The Martian isn't really about space though so it'll be okay. Also it's funny as hell, at least the book was and reviews I've seen so far say it keeps the humor strong.
So it's like if Cast Away met Interstellar met Apollo 13. Book was great and I hear the movie is great. Can't wait to see it
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Oct 2, 2015 23:13:57 GMT -5
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Post by ChloeB42 (Alexcalibur42) on Oct 2, 2015 23:13:57 GMT -5
Just got out of The Martian. So good. I give it a 9.3/10 Great acting, great story, they made it feel very believable and the visual effects were amazing. Long run time, but it doesn't feel long. One thing that I did notice, a small thing, but it irked me. I saw the reflection of a cameraman in the helmet of Matt Damon... Whoops
Edit: also it has a great comedic element, not overbearing and felt very natural. Also the theater I went to, don't know if others are doing it, gave us a pretty cool Ares III patch
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Oct 3, 2015 4:56:36 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 3, 2015 4:56:36 GMT -5
Couldn't sleep. Stumbled across Nostalgia Critic's latest video. Ended up watching Thank You For Smoking. The movie's about Harvey Dent being a PR agent for a major cigarette company, and what he has to deal with on a regular basis. It's brilliant; I love it. Check it out.
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Oct 4, 2015 21:16:21 GMT -5
Post by LeGitBeeSting on Oct 4, 2015 21:16:21 GMT -5
I actually really felt the entire duration of the Martian. It's sorta just okay for me however I did get glassy eyed when he found the Pathfinder. My disappointment probably just stems from expecting more from Ridley Scott sci-fi. One thing that does separate Marvin the Martian from it's other spess travel peers in recent years (Interstellar comes to mind) is the lack of (perceived) pretense so the general audience might like this one more. Hopefully for Neil DeGrasse Tyson's sake it does re-ignite America's interest in spess travel. The movie's about Harvey Dent being a PR agent for a major cigarette company, and what he has to deal with on a regular basis. Does half his face get burned off by a cigarette butt?
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Oct 9, 2015 14:03:54 GMT -5
Post by Pope Leo VII on Oct 9, 2015 14:03:54 GMT -5
I just watched Kingsman: The Secret Service. I expected nothing and came out pleased. Okay, maybe I saw the church scene and wanted to see what would happen. Just watched it today, expected Mark Hamill and Sam Jackson, came out pleased. these are the sort of reviews that will get me to throw this on my tv.. pirated this a ways back and havent gotten around to seeing it. Was surprised to see such good reviews on rotten tomatoes // imdb. Looks like it likes up to them
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