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The sense of setting and place is solid and really fun, great soundtrack, set design, and costume.
I thought the dialogue was snappy and clever. Every line David has has a double meaning and is dripping with... sarcastic menace, I guess?
What his deal is is built up slowly and the family is really well defined
And then when The Thing happens the movie goes completely insane in a way that had me cheering the whole time
I expected a taut thriller and I got way closer to an Edgar Wright movie by way of John Carpenter
I don't feel like the finale is all that good, all told, and the actual government conspiracy stuff was boring as heck.
The bar fight was probably the high point of the movie for me.
90% of the movie it's really unintrusive but does an amazing job contributing to the tension
and then for the climax it goes all out and helps pull a lot of the emotional weight of the action
the clear separation between the soundtrack while in space, while reentering earth, and then while on earth, is really really great
I went to highschool with one of those hicks who gets beat up in the bar! It was fun surprise when I watched it.
Guess he did go to Hollywood like he alwasy said he would.
The implementation of the score in the movie was, for me personally,the weakest part of the movie. The "Warning! Danger" kind of leitmotif became really repetitive and intrusive and actually took me out of the movie repeatedly.
God, that was a weird action movie. Fun though!
Fantastic, beautiful movie.
PSN- AHermano
Yeah, this is about where I'm at
I thought it was a neat premise and interesting for the first half, and then when they start to overtly explain what was happening I lost interest fast
Nothing about the last twenty minutes was very interesting for me, but I didn't hate it either
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Pacific Rim did a really good job of mixing electronic and strings, with a lot of solid melody to it
As far as pure electronic goes, breaking the medium constraint here a bit and going with DOOM
Also I know there is guitar in the DOOM OST but let's be honest, it's so djented out that the guitar track almost sounds like yet another synth patch
Yeah the cut to credits had me laughing pretty hard.
Steam
Steam
I might rewatch the first one
The other two, pretty much never!
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I'm still baffled by this
For what possible reason
It's somehow a perfect fit and far too cool for the character at once.
Why I fear the ocean.
It was... Alright. The true saving grace is the performances, especially McAvoy and Redcliffe and... That dude what plays the inspector who also was Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock.
Except for MAYBE the mom, who he apologizes to for killing her after the secret government man says that David has been programmed to kill everyone who finds out about him
He's a dude who's been fucked by the government and comes into this family's lives and tries to help them in his own weird way
he tries to leave multiple times and they keep having him stay
when the black suits come of course I'm going to root for him
he gives the kid a thumbs up for doing the right thing for stabbing him
he's the best
edit: AND he figures out a way around his programming by letting the kids think he's dead so he doesn't have to kill them
But holy shit
These accents are unforgivable
I really enjoyed Spider-Man in it
This is potentially the absolute worst manic pixie dream girl I have ever seen in a movie
I guess maybe that was because it wasn't a good movie
That would follow
i mean
you're wrong
but okay
but i ain't pickin' a fight.
you got weird turn ons and turn offs re: movies so we ain't never gonna agree
Olivia tennet is great in that movie
The Guest
How was the daughter's friend horrible
Having now seen it in a double feature with What We Do In Shadows, I can confirm that there are multiple hilarious in-jokes that would only make sense to a New Zealander that would be completely missed by international audiences. Which makes me love it even more.
Taika Waititi is a national treasure.
What a great movie.
That might be my favorite superhero movie. It's just knocking on all cylinders.