[real_jamicus]

[chevluh]

Saw it yesterday and really liked it, actually. If nothing else the visuals are really, really beautiful but that's far from the only thing I liked.

[winkerwatson]

I liked Prometheus. Looking for ward to the inevitable extended cut.

It seems divisive.
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[notbov]

Okay, now that I've seen Moonrise Kingdom (almost by myself in a huge stadium theater, bless that single other soul in there with me), I can see where you're coming from. I thought it was good, just not great, like it's teetering on the edge, but can't quite make the last push. Still very much enjoyed it. I loved how Social Services was villainous to the point where she comes in at the end wearing a cape and just how unhinged Bill Murray was.

As an aside, after seeing this digitally projected, I'm gonna miss seeing stuff on film in a couple of years when everyone finally gets done going all digital cinema on us. Well, new stuff anyway.
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[Ronnoc]

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is serviceable as far as trashy, high-concept action movies go, but there is a action scene set during a stampede that is one of the most amazing/stupidest things I've seen on the screen in a while. Timur Bekmambetov does the Timur Bekmambetov thing, also

[ghost_dinosaur]

[Ronnoc]

I don't know if that's praise. I mean, I don't like any of his movies, but I don't think it's because of the Timur Bekmambetov thing.

[Tulpa]

Not really sure what his thing is since I've only seen Wanted and Night Watch but uh I didn't mind Night Watch too much as a bunch of campy action shit happening.
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[Ronnoc]

You should watch Day Watch because that movie is KRAZY

[Tulpa]

I couldn't find a torrent that wasn't dubbed :(
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[ghost_dinosaur]

[boojiboy7]

[Predator Goose]

Yeah, looking for movies with a desired language track can be a pain in the ass sometimes. Right now I've been looking for Under Siege with the Japanese audio to no avail (seagal voiced by the Japanese Solid Snake, Akio Otsuka so).
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[notbov]

Brave is pretty good, kinda formulaic and totally Miyazaki-lite, but mostly in a good way. With that said, if a movie beats me over the head with its themes and metaphors this hard ever again, I'm pressing charges.

It will also be remembered fondly as the source of 2012's Best Fishing Montage.

(save a couple of bucks, the 3D wasn't that great)
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[CubaLibre]

I really wanted it to deal with the actual political consequences of a person of substance shirking the role thrust upon her by circumstance for basically selfish reasons, threatening to spark a war that will kill many for the sake of not marrying some lame icky guy.

But it's Disney.
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[ghost_dinosaur]

seeking a friend at the end of the world is manic pixie dream girl overload. cranked up just the tiniest bit more and it could have been a hilarious parody.

at least, if keira knightley didn't sell the role about a million times harder than it deserved.

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[notbov]

If the movie weren't so relatively lean, we could have seen, at the very least, the build up to that, instead of going from "skeptically restless" to "WAR!". They're also aqfully accepting of this solution coming out of the blue.

I'm inclined to agree with the AV Club's review of this, where it's noted that the main and sub (the clans) plots feel kind of stitched together in a slap dash manner. The short before the movie (La Luna) seems to get some of the family dynamics better than the feature did.
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[option]

La Luna was more of the same art-school nonsense I had to sit through countless times in college, but with Pixar's budget... terrible and worthless.


From reading production interviews it seems Brave had a pretty rough time getting put together, changing director and key staff a few times throughout. It doesn't really excuse it, but I guess it would explain the hodgepodge nature of the movie in general?

[Predator Goose]

So, the new Judge Dredd movie looks like it just straight up stole the plot to The Raid. Just added in a whole bunch of plot noise.



Edit: No idea why that didn't embed properly. Youtube didn't seem to flag it as disabled by request.
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[Dracko]

Dredd was in production way before The Raid, which owes a huge debt to John Carpenter and John Carpenter's influences anyhow. Gareth Evans has addressed and acknowledged this. Please be less Internet.
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[evnvnv]

john carter is a bad movie. you heard it here first
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[special blend]

made it about 25 minutes into the Fountain lol
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[ghost_dinosaur]

liked snow white and the huntsman a bit more than prometheus, as far as the charlize theron double bill going around goes. weirder visuals, prettier costumes, just as dumb a script but somehow less insultingly so. maybe worse acting but idk i don't care much about that.

felt legitimately grossed out at a few parts, which is tough for me to say about any movie.

maybe i just like shitty reimaginings of fantasy standards more than i do sci-fi stuff, generally speaking.

[allensmithee]

i'm gonna see them in a triple feature ft. something that deserves my money and then those two
maybe today i'll do this after i wake up
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[boojiboy7]

[evnvnv]

[allensmithee]

[remote]

[cavefish]

we live in an era of useless remakes and prequels

[Dracko]

[Rud31]

[remote]

[Tulpa]

http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2006/04/13/alex-in-the-chelsea-drug-store/

not a movie I watched today but this is cool
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[notbov]

The Stallone Dredd movie was on an HBO channel I decided to watch the second half and I don't think I've seen a movie in a while that felt so ineptly made and amateurish. That new Dredd movie already looks better from a production design standpoint and I guess not having Rob Schneider is a good start too

I'm mostly ready for access to HBO/Skinimax to ruin a bunch of crappy mid 90s movies for me
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[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[Winona Ghost Ryder]

[Predator Goose]

As far as viking cartoons go I was surprised to find that I liked How to Train Your Dragon more than I liked Brave. The former was cheaper, but it seemed like a more filled out setting. Brave felt more ambitious and vibrant to start, but turned out thin with pacing problems and an overabundance of jarring pop music. Worth a watch, good for kids, not really great in the long run. Looking over their catalog I was also surprised at how much that describes most Pixar films for me. I could have sworn the excellent ones outweighed the mediocre and bad.

And as a sidenote: Pixar should be barred from making sequels.
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[evnvnv]

[Predator Goose]

So I also just watched Two Mules for Sister Sarah. I don't think I've ever seen an action movie where the hero is so honest, blunt, bitter and angry about his giant case of blue-balls.
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[parker]

Great isn't it?
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