[cassievania]

loki vs hulk fight was p t good.
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[Cossix]

[Kitten ClanClan]

um okay i went and saw it and it was super ultra fun!!!!!!!

i seriously haven't felt this good in a long time. it was more or less everything i go to the theaters (specifically) to see - charming characters, crazy action and laugh-out-loud funny bits with some drama here and there (and a couple sad parts). i went away from the theater feeling great and i never fucking feel great anymore at all. gonna go see it again fairly soon. maybe again after that.
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[ghost_dinosaur]

i pretty much agree with ronk. hopefully avengers 2 ends up being like spider-man 2 in terms of studio allowing more freedom to do something idiosyncratic and be about something interesting. other than some moments in the middle this movie felt like it had almost zero personality. i find it pretty much impossible to believe only two writers worked on this. i have rarely felt more like i was watching a movie made by committee.

[Lasakon]

it was the most fun 200 million dollar blockbuster I've seen in quite a while even if it did suffer from all the problems I foresaw it having (scarjo being awful, quippy quippy quips, massively long cgi set pieces)
i just hope that THANOS is given justice in the sequel.
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[evnvnv]

you guys the turning point of the whole movie was the fact that nick fury manipulated the avengers with coulson's death to get them to fight, it is seriously not that much of a stretch to assume he was never actually dead, but was just spirited away to an unknown location (possibly to hang out with natalie portman) to be revealed in the post credits scene of some other marvel movie..

keep hope alive!!!
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[Ronk]

gonna watch thor and maybe captain america and then try to see avengers again and see if my opinion changes
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[Lasakon]

Thor is pretty bland, Captain America is a decent GI Joe movie.
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[boojiboy7]

Avengers was better than I though, but since I was expecting total crap, that isn't saying much. It didn't bore me too often, though, which is good, though at certain points the Quip-o-meter would've just needed to give up.

A few amusing (to me, the Cleveland nerd) things:

The opening scene with Black Widow or whatever in the warehouse was pretty amusing for supposedly being Russia, but totally actually being part of the building I explored here. They did cut a hole in the floor for that scene, which I am kinda not happy about, but whatever. At least we now know why the hole was there when some friends went back. God the formating in that post is a mess, but i don't care. Gonna head back soon to see what other damage they did there. Also, the scene where the Hulk falls out of the sky and meets a janitor also took place in a different part of the same complex.

The whole scene in Germany, with the Opera House, was really funny for just being Cleveland landmark the Terminal Tower and easily recognizable public square in front of it. This was genuinely really funny. Maybe in one of these Cleveland movies, Cleveland will actually get to be in them.

Some of the scenes in the last fight were from East 9th in Cleveland, but they were pretty well disguised for the most part.

[Mikey]

This just reminds me I still need to see Iron Man.

[Deets]

[boojiboy7]

When they are basically your only non-exposition dialogue, there is a lot wrong with them.

Not every line needs a witty rejoinder.

[parker]

That was not "a janitor," that was HARRY DEAN STANTON.
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[boojiboy7]

[Predator Goose]

Just came back from watching Avengers and I did enjoy it as well. It wasn't really great, but it's pretty much exactly what one would expect from a superhero appetizer platter. It's disappointing for that reason and others, but it's the kind of movie that you understand was made to check every box possible while still being palatable to 4 year-olds so you take your enjoyment where you can get it. Even enjoying it I'd still say Ronk pretty much hit the nail on the head.

The first Iron Man and Captain America are the best movies to come out of this idea. The rest, Avengers included, fall pretty far short.
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[ghost_dinosaur]

[Cossix]

Harry Dean Stanton is a goddamn American treasure, and I love Whedon for acknowledging that, however slight. Probably got more screentime than Hawkeye.

[Ronk]

saw avengers again and had a much more favorable opinion of it now that a) i've seen captain america and thor (both films i actually really enjoyed), b) i was sitting in a seat that wasn't right in the front row and c) i wasn't drunk.

my thoughts on the hulk still stand, though.

and

[Teflon]

[boojiboy7]

It's also long be Whedon's biggest crutch, so Avengers was destined to be full of them.

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[Rud31]

I saw 5 year Engagement with my visiting fiance. It was actually an enjoyable 2 hour RomCom that didn't use every good joke in the trailers (just most of them.) Nothing unexpected plotwise. A few too many Chekov's Guns.
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[boojiboy7]

[Rud31]

I'm just happy it's replaced The Holiday as her favorite movie.
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[ghost_dinosaur]

saw Haywire. soderbergh movie i have liked the most in probably over a decade. a little stylishly overwrought at times, but otherwise a nicely efficient and un-douchey genre exercise. wish he could make more of these (and fall a little less in love with tacky green or blue or yellow lighting schemes).

[allensmithee]

[remote]

I finally watched Sonatine yesterday.

My favorite part was where they pretended to be toy sumo wrestlers on the beach. Been a while since a movie made me grin like that.
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[ghost_dinosaur]

been a slow year but so far Damsels in Distress is the pretty clear winner for my favorite movie. can't get enough of that arch stifling irony!

(not sarcasm at all, i feel like i could watch that Whit shtick all day long)

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

If I stayed in the bustling town of Dubuque, Iowa I would have seen it two weeks ago.

Orlando/Winter Park is not even on the upcoming listings.

[ghost_dinosaur]

it only played in portland for a couple weeks (and will be gone tomorrow).

if it were showing any earlier than 10pm i would go see it again :-3

[Mikey]

I don't know what I expected from Beyond the Black Rainbow but being bored for two hours wasn't it.

[allensmithee]

i watched Cannibal Holocaust

it was pretty sweet.

the end i expected the professor to go talking like at the end of MGS2 and he did but only for one line so it was good.

it was pretty fucking disturbing. i like that you see the violence and horrible actions of the initial documenters after you see the effects.

it's smart!!
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[evnvnv]

Moonrise Kingdom is not a particularly good movie, but it is still better to watch it and see the good in it than to have to associate yourself with people who don't like Wes Anderson
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[Renfrew]

I watched The Wild Bunch today. I don't think I've seen any other movie that convened the crushing sense of inevitability and the "Well, this is as good a day as any to die," mentality quite as well. I feel like rewatching Extreme Prejudice now. I watched The Wild Bunch with a friend who really likes Walter Hill but kind of hates Extreme Prejudice for so directly copying The Wild Bunch since The Wild Bunch is one of his favorite movies.
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[Gorblax]

Guys guys guys Men in Black III is the best Will "America's Darling" Smith movie! Jemaine "Flight of the Conchords" Clement plays a deliciously hammy villain, Josh Brolin one again demonstrates that he is the most pro dude in the business, and the bad guy from Boardwalk Empire is charming as the Douglas Adamsesque oracle.
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[evnvnv]

http://twitchfilm.com/news/2012/06/china-beat-men-in-black.php
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[Gorblax]

The scene didn't seem particularly offensive to me but maybe I need to be more sensitive
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[evnvnv]

don't get me wrong, it's still worth seeing for all the usual reasons it just... didn't really add up to being more than the sum of its parts, for me. especially since Fantastic Mr. Fox was so great, I think I was expecting to have my mind blown.
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[This Machine Kills Fascis]

I now have plans to see Prometheus twice in one weekend.

God I hope it's good.
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