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Atomika
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2015. A better year for movies than some, but as always, some disappointments do happen. Tomorrowland was another paragraph in the argument that Brad Bird is a closet Objectivist. Jurassic World was a loud, ugly, misogynist bit of crap. Age of Ultron was a jumbled, overlong bit of fluff that did some damage to characters we liked, but Ant-Man was a delight and a surprise, as was Mission: Impossible 5. But I think we all know who really won the summer; just ask the National Board of Review, who just named it the Best Film of 2015:
What a lovely day, indeed.
You ready for the Holiday Season? I know I sure am.
- Krampus
- Macbeth
- In the Heart of the Sea, or, The Whale that Inspired The Whale
- The Big Short
- Sisters
- Concussion
- The Revenant
- The Hateful 8
- Star Wars: Oh My God It's Full of Star Wars
Au cinéma!
What a lovely day, indeed.
You ready for the Holiday Season? I know I sure am.
- Krampus
- Macbeth
- In the Heart of the Sea, or, The Whale that Inspired The Whale
- The Big Short
- Sisters
- Concussion
- The Revenant
- The Hateful 8
- Star Wars: Oh My God It's Full of Star Wars
Au cinéma!
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I finally got around to watching Scott Pilgrim vs The World yesterday. What a well put together movie! I'm not so familiar with the source material, but as far as a gamer/music nerd mashup goes, I was well pleased. The only bit that I found off putting was:
Is that straight from the source or did they make it up for the movie?
I also watched 47 Ronin last night. Love me some Keanu. I'll be watching John Wick finally soon. I'm pretty excited about that.
Here's a partial list "based on internet rumors" - don't know how reliable it is:
http://www.in70mm.com/news/2016/hateful_8/index.htm
The movie is super compressed compared to the comic book. Roxy takes up one of six volumes of the story
In-between all these encounters is plenty of character building and whatnot.
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is it bad that I find dramatic lines in African accents hilarious? Will Smith's "Tell de troof" in the Concussion trailer is the new "I am the captain now."
In the book
Because there is nothing that says Happy Holidays like a great big Mocha Dick.
How much money has the US government spent to get Matt Damon back? (movie wise)
He was lost in Saving Private Ryan, lost in the Bourne series, Lost in Interstellar, lost in The Martian......
Dude needs a better map or something.
If you actually liked 47 Ronin, you probably shouldn't watch John Wick. You'll die from pure enjoyment.
I'm ready.
awww only Village East?
man I wanted this shit at the Zeigfield
Don't forget Anomalisa! I didn't even know Charlie Kaufman was making a new movie until a couple weeks ago.
I actually have no interest in seeing The Revenant
It's true. Certain accents just can't help but sound a certain way no matter what.
A Christmas Horror Story looks really good.
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I'm surprised it hasn't been turned into a movie earlier, actually.
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For me it was the false report of bear rape. I was all excited for Leo to get raped by a bear and then then like someone stealing my tooth before the tooth fairy could get there, its mauled not raped and bam instantly lost me.
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It's too bad. That's what probably would've gotten Leo the Oscar too. You know Daniel Day-Lewis would've gone for it.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I hear this all the time and I can't explain it
I think people are just naturally biased in favor of hotels
And then the bit at the end where
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I realized how much I enjoyed Mad Max: Fury Road after i kept thinking about watching it after I had checked it out of a movie box. So I recently ordered it and it's on its way. Along with Outlander, AKA Beowulf but with Space Jesus.
I tried thinking of a really good, recent reboot and I'm drawing a small blank. There have been some I liked, but nothing off the top of my head that drew rave reviews.
My thoughts exactly.
Look at least you can be happy to see Thor eat a man.
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The last voyage of the Essex including extinction-causing shenanigans
Just going off of what wikipedia has to say about them, they had it coming and the whale is a hero.
Yes, it was quite dusty in there.
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Somehow in the credits flash the name "David Hayter" caught my eye.
Solid Snake produces movies?!
He also wrote the first X-Men movie!
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Like, as a story it certainly has emotion and tension and entertainment value; but it doesn't seem like it says anything beyond "fuck rats" or maybe "fuck Boston".
It says "Mr Scorsese wants an Oscar you fucks"
I feel like this particular criticism can be leveled at a lot of (otherwise good) films about organized crime.
He also wrote one of the major revisions to Watchmen as well. He's pretty well known as a script writer/script doctor, especially given more geeky films.
Yeah but at least most of those have the traditional rise and fall structure that at least says "Don't get greedy and do bad shit because crime doesn't pay". In The Departed they don't really have much of a rise, and the fall hits good and bad alike. There's not the usual playing up of the sweet-but-morally-costly life, the way there is in Goodfellas or Wolf of Wall Street or whatever.
Most gangster movies say, "This is an alluring but hollow existence", but Departed is just hollow.
It's definitely not the movie Marty Score should have won the oscar for, someone will make a time machine and give Goodfellas it's proper due. I'm guessing he got sick of losing all the time and quietly started a rumor around Hollywood he had severe butt rot and that would be his last movie.
"Organized crime, and the way we try to fight it, will fuck over everybody in the end."
But mostly, it's not a huge message movie or a sprawling epic so much as a personal movie where things end badly.
I doubt you're missing anything, it's just not really your bag.
My takeaway was that everybody loses. Some Ecclesiastes shit.