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In 1878 Edward Muybridge created this astonishing film of a race horse in motion, one of the very earliest examples of the medium.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA
130 years later humanity has advanced to the extent that we create things like the perfection that is Scary Movie 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDZ8M47j0I
Movies! 24 frames a second, unless you're fancypants Peter Jackson and think 24 frames isn't good enough for your genius vision and need another 24 frames a second.
Films! Action, romance, intrigue, scares, heart-warming family tales! Here's famous director and eyebrow salesman Martin Scorcese talking very quickly about movies he loves in an excellent documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0yuKp55cuw
Motion Pictures! Talk about how dumb they are these days here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEqccPhsqgA130 years later humanity has advanced to the extent that we create things like the perfection that is Scary Movie 5.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMDZ8M47j0IMovies! 24 frames a second, unless you're fancypants Peter Jackson and think 24 frames isn't good enough for your genius vision and need another 24 frames a second.
Films! Action, romance, intrigue, scares, heart-warming family tales! Here's famous director and eyebrow salesman Martin Scorcese talking very quickly about movies he loves in an excellent documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0yuKp55cuwMotion Pictures! Talk about how dumb they are these days here.
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I just saw Oldboy. Holy fucking shit. I'm still on a bit of a movie rush, the kind I usually only get in the theater.
The score. Brilliant, sad, beautiful. The performances. Just amazing. The action. Gut wrenching and well choreographed. That hallway scene. One shot. Ballsy.
And then the last 30 minutes just blew me completely away.
I now feel confident saying Hollywood should not remake this. They couldn't do it justice.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
It's also the movie that contains perhaps the finest supporting character in movies: the amazing Captain Renault, played by the incomparably wonderful Claude Rains.
He's a man's man.
He's a lady's man.
He's cool under pressure.
And he gets all the best lines.
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I did get the entire series on BD though as a Father's Day gift, so there will be some Die Hard goodness coming down the pike.
Today I saw This Is the End. If you watch the trailer and think, "Hey, that looks like a movie I will enjoy," then it is a fantastic movie and you'll love it. It is Seth Rogan and company dicking around, largely adlibbing, for two hours while the end of the world happens outside. There are many dicks. There are many discussions of dicks. Basically, Rogan has discovered a new artform and its medium is dick. If that sounds keen, go watch the movie, it is brilliant.
Anyone going O_o right now, you might wanna skip this one.
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I had thought this was a newer expression, apparently not.
And later, as she comes in with a German officer,
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I haven't seen it in ages. Completely forgot about the plot with Weasley's brother and his best friends issues with what people think of him. Still a great movie. Looking at it at this point, you can really see it's based on a Stephen King story. It's got his touch with characters all over it. They story sort of meanders about, but the confrontation at the end gives it a sense of conclusion and the ending is surprisingly downbeat. It really hits that feeling of the end of some big experience shared with others where you don't want it to end but know it has to and really melds that with the similar melancholy of the end of childhood.
The kids do good acting work for the most part. Jack Bauer being such a complete asshole is perhaps the only thing that seemed almost caricaturish, but not to the extent where it doesn't work.
Also, Jerry O'Connel is a hilariously fat kid cause holy shit, look at him now.
I think this weekend, I need to watch some B/W classics...
Apocalypse has a lot of incredible images and great performances but Full Metal Jacket has an equal amount of both plus better music but Apocalypse has Marlon Brando's monologues and so I can't choose.
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The plot was a generic stuff, but hey, I didn't come in the theatre expecting Shakespeare, I came in expecting Superman punching bad guys through buildings. And it didn't dissapoint. Sadly, I was kind of taken out of the movie by overthinking stuff. Like "Hey, why are you guys just standing in the middle of the street, when the World Breaker lands, you should get the fuck out of there." Or "Oh man, all those buildings, destroyed, think of the clean up costs" Sure, the movie didn't explain how the hell a deformed skull contains all the genetic info of an entire race, or why the hell no back copies exist, or why Krypton's space colonies would die out when cut off from the home world. But, whatever.
On a scale of Superman I to Superman IV, I'd rate this movie a II.
(I'm pretty sure you know which end of the scale represents best vs. worst)
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Dear Satan.....
I'm not saying every movie needs to be great in the same way (the Shakespeare way) but I want every movie to be great in its own way.
I watched this 1.5 times due to a massive storm knocking out power in my area. The first time through, I had no idea where they were going with things. It cut out just as Jonah Hill says a prayer. And I liked it up to that point, it was funny and charming. But holy shit, right after that scene, they turned it up to 11. Watching everybody play a version of themselves was great. Jay Baruchel came across as kinda a cunt, but everybody else was hilarious. Danny McBride scares me now.
It might help to think of FMJ as 3 short stories tied together by a single character. Joker in Boot, Joker covering the War, Joker IN the War.
Good comedy that will no doubt get a terrible sequel made, probably with female comedians in NYC or something,
So, over the last several years, multiple people have told me that I need to watch Super Troopers. So I did.
I must now dedicate my remaining years to hunting down these fiends and exacting my revenge...
I could see a "sequel" of what's going on elsewhere with the cast of Bridesmaids. I would totally watch that.
I am basically up for any of these groups of hilarious people riffing off each other for two hours.
Also,
I don't think it's aged particularly well.
But it DID give us Brian Cox in a drunken fist-fight, so I can't stay too mad at it.
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Definitely some attitude / mood whiplash with some of the scenes. The widespread crime / vagrancy and other issues, but then people didn't have bars on their window, latchkey kids, all that stuff? Didn't seem to fit together.
And holy shit, having Bruce Willis murdering little kids? The story is basically like someone watched 'The Terminator', and thought it wasn't edgy enough. That's not cool.
Got a few others that we grabbed on the DVR - Moneyball, 21 Jumpstreet, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Running Man (always worth watching), J. Edgar, so I'll be catching up on some of my movie watchin'.
I live to see you eat that statement, but I hope you leave enough room for my fist, because I'm going to ram it into your stomach and break your god-damn spine!
Not Blade Runner...Running Man. The original, with Arnold and Jessie Ventura and all that.
A classic movie, can be watched by anyone, at anytime.
I'll take your advice on J. Edgar. I think my dish box may have fucked up taping it anyway (huge surprise there....) so it might be a moot point.
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It's criminal how good it would have been if they'd adapted the book faithfully, though. Maybe we'll get another shot at it one of these days--the time seems ripe, given that violence, dystopias, reality tv, and rage at widespread income inequality are all popular subjects for movies these days. Hard to say if the public would accept something so bleak, though (and much as I'd like them to, there's no way in hell any filmmaker would be allowed to keep the ending).
I had similar feelings about the movie. I wasn't expecting it to follow the comics closely so I enjoyed it.
But...it gave us so many good lines!
"I'll believe that when my shit turns purple and smells like rainbow sherbet."
"These shnozberrries taste like shnozberries!"
"Who wants a mustache ride?!"
The whole shenanigans bit.
"Ohhh right. Biker. I'm an idiot."
"I want a liter of cola." -Which I have used at a fast food joint and the person behind the counter started laughing.
Honestly, it's probably one of my favorite comedies.
Given these factors, you got to wonder about the moral implication of young clark fapping. He'd sort of, literally be spooging away the genetic heritage of krypton. unngghuhh... and into the sand goes several million unique potential Kryptonians.
Space Jesus is worse than hittler.
Meh some of it was amusing but the pace/comedy just died in the last half of that movie. At best I would give it a "if you have nothing else to do it is kind of amusing" recommendation.
Though, to be fair, I've never really been into Rogen and the Appatow crew. I suspect the movie was a lot funnier for people who were bigger fans of the movies most of these actors had starred in.
If you didn't see it at the right age / mindset (teen / twenties, or stoner, mostly) you just aren't going to find it that funny. Sure, there are a few decent laughs and jokes, but a lot of it is sort of geared to a particular audience.
I laughed my ASS off at that movie when I was ~20 and stoned in college. When I tried watching it with my wife a few years ago, I was kind of embarrassed for saying it was hilarious and we ended up turning it off after about a half hour. It just didn't hold up well.
Movie was over the top hilarious. Loved it. But Michael Cera... my gods he played that part so awesomely well.
I'm pretty sure the important bit there is "stoned."
Super Troopers does have one legitimately hilarious scene (the meow scene) but the rest of the movie isn't worth wasting your time on.
Oh god, I just remembered I watched Major Payne on the same day I saw Super Troopers. I have wasted my life.
I saw this movie today and that was totally me. The ONE other dude in the theater was stone faced.
No shame.
Man, I was never a stoner, but Super Troopers is still hilarious.
Maybe I just am not good at having a sense of humor, but so much is great in that movie.
To each their own I guess.
"We believe in the people and their 'wisdom' as if there was some special secret entrance to knowledge that barred to anyone who had ever learned anything." - Friedrich Nietzsche
Littering and?
He reminded me of Neil Patrick Harris in the Harold and Kumar movies.
Except not quite so much, because NPH is wonderful in everything ever. He even managed to make Smurfs not-unbearable at times.