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Talk about movies. Don't use the word "pretentious."
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I watched Half Nelson a couple of days ago. It was alright. I remember people saying how great Gosling was in it. He wasn't bad, but I wasn't exactly blown away.
Ethan isn't so much jaded and cynical but bitter and hate filled having very little of his humanity left. His whole quest is driven by a pair of hates. His racism is so extreme that he's going to kill his own niece because of her taint. And his much more personal hatred of Scar driven by his love of Martha and Scar's rape of her. Even at the end of the film, when he shows that he hasn't completely lost his humanity, the film makes clear that he can never rejoin society. He's left outside as the camera pulls back, the audience moving with the settlers representing civilization while he can not cross the threshold of the door to rejoin us.
I watched Pi the other day. It was really good and creepy. My only wish is that it was longer (although being that it was Aronofsky's first movie, I can understand that it's only 90ish minutes or whatever).
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I suspect that Margaret Rutherford was born as a 50-going-on-80 woman, though. She's a hoot, mind you.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
All this and a bunch of things that happen contribute to Alicia's mental health starting to deteriorate, and that's what the movie is all about. She's slowly slipping further and further into psychosis, but the people she's with don't really want to think about it beyond "she's a bit weird", despite her obviously getting less and less stable. It's only after she does something fairly drastic towards the end of the movie before the others start to contemplate getting her some help, but by then she's in full on mental breakdown mode and things end on a really depressing note.
It should be noted that despite being a "realistic Evil Dead", people don't get murdered in increasingle comic booky ways. The mental breakdown of Alicia is much more, uh, "mundane", which really contributes to the horror of the situation.
With these depressing realistic horror movies it's kind of difficult to recommend them because that basically amounts to "hey, go watch this movie and be bummed out for the rest of the day", but if that's your thing, Magic Magic is really well made one of those. Hell, I even remembered two of the characters' names. That usually doesn't happen with horror movies.
Where did you go to get your hands on this? It's my understanding it's not getting a theatrical release.
Rented it from the online rentery of the TV box that my ISP sent me.
The law says you cannot kill that virgin but I see a lot of lawbreakers up in this haunted house, alright alright alright.
I agree with the "MOAR CLIX"-type headline, but from what I remember of the Kilmer and Clooney movies... they may have been ill-timed, goofy, and had too much neon, but they didn't have plot holes you could fly a Batmobile through.
It's odd; I liked the actors in the recent trilogy, but the stories were not that great.
Hell, the Tim Burton ones are basically as goofy and silly as the others and the only reason to think they were any more serious is because there was no neon. It was silly comic-fun with nonsensical stuff happening all the damn time but at least it didn't pretend to be anything more.
i am fully prepared for my butt to be exploderated
edit: OMG I CAN SEE THE ROCK THIS FILM IS LOOKNG GOOD ALREADY
Dwayne Johnson is not quite as effective as he used to be in tricking me into seeing bad movies. But he's still pretty good.
Caught 1408 on cable last week--it may be because I'm a total wuss when it comes to any kind of horror in films (though I don't find Alien scary), but I enjoyed it much more than I do most psychological horror stuff. Great back-and-forth between Cusack and Jackson ("It's an evil fucking room!"), and Cusack by himself was entertaining.
ok this shits legit, i give it a pass
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Thought it was a good response.
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I cannot fathom a way for them to make a sequel that did not completely undermine the entire point/statement made by the first.
I would be way more interested in seeing the same genre deconstruction and reconstruction aimed at other genres. Although how it could be done, or if for that matter, is another question entirely.
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It was some decent action scenes, villains so monstrously and moronically EVIL that there was no possible way of them winning even if the hero did nothing (and he didn't actually do much), and a political message with all the subtly of a brick, yet without any actual teeth. Matt Damon being the only white person in all of LA aside, Jodie Foster and Sharlto Copley were the real disappointments. Foster's character was awful, and she didn't do anything to improve it, and Copley's character bounced wildly from charming bad guy crazy (mostly when he wasn't talking and just giving people the finger while he blew them up) to painful to have on screen (any time he tried to deliver some "crazy" monologue).
If this movie had been made 20 years ago then Paul Verhoeven would have directed it, and it would have been amazing.
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I have to agree to that. When Batman and Robin dodge bullets in B&R its almost believable because the thugs are shooting at them with Neon light Tommy guns while wearing dayglo makeup. You already know seriousness is out the window and realism is a dot on the horizon.
When the Cops survive their open long distance charge long enough to engage Bane's thugs in hand to hand combat at the end of DKR its ridiculous, because they paint the thugs as realistic criminals with AK-47s. You can't turn realism on and off in a movie like DKR did and not leave the audience in the lurch. Decide which you want and stick with it. In DKR case lots of dead cops and Bane triumphant.
Big WTF moment, I was expecting a ploy by Batman but it wad just dumb.
The violence in "Elysium" did remind me of "Robocop".
That scene in DKR could have been easily fixed if they just had Batman launch some smoke grenades and flashbangs into Bane's army. Adding a lot of smoke would have also helped to obscure how terribly choreographed the extras were.
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At least, it is here in the states.
Netflix here has a much reduced library, and no way of searching it that I know of. But US folks should watch it.
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So basically Neill Blomkamp is Paul Verhoeven 2.0
Dredd - Definately worth a watch -
This would be a great movie to MST3K or to watch like Evil Dead, making fun of it and getting laughs for a repeat.
Cloud Atlas - I'd take a pass -
1) It's difficult for most people to follow six different story lines simutaneously.
2) This is compounded by use of strong accents. This made it difficult to understand what was being said at all during parts of the movie.
3) They make very fast transitions between the time periods.
The stories are supposed to be interconnected, but they really felt disjointed. Rather than using subtle ideas, the director chose to have repeated phrases and the commet birthmark tie the narratives together. This made me feel like I was being bludgeoned to remember that the narratives were supposed to tie together.
Re-use of the same set of actors for almost every role grated on me as well. The makeup used to make the white male actors appear oriental harkens back to the days of blackface in the 60's and 70's. It just wasn't well executed.
Overall, I kept expecting some grand narrative to come out of these seperate stories, but I don't feel like one ever came together. It felt like Lost, teasing me with something more, but never delivering.
Safe - Strongly Recommended -
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I have enough respect for others not to do that in a theater. However, since it's on netflix and I have my own domicile, I should think I can get away with it.
You'd think, but no.
If I ever wander past your house and hear you MST3K-ing a movie, I will break your shit off. Shit will be going down.
This is weird. You must have stumbled in here from an alternate universe in which Batman and Robin was not the most terrible thing ever. You should know that things are a little different in our universe, and that trying to defend B&R in any capacity will make you sound like a crazy person.
I don't think it quite works. Blomkamp, from watching both his movies, has only the thinest veneer of a political message.
It feels like he's not even really trying to tell one, he's just using it as a backdrop to tell a sci-fi story with lots of explosions.
I probably don't fully understand Verhoeven's work, but I would say the same about it. Detroit rotting away, and being in almost complete anarchy, is such a perfect setting for a future (now current) story.
Verhoeven uses political commentary as a backdrop to his sci-fi stories. Whereas I think Blomkompf uses a sci-fi story to transmit his political messages.