The Prestige 9/10
Is christopher nolan some sort of super-director?
Joke of the year.
Just found out Chronicle cost 12 million bucks. That is incredible.
[QUOTE=jaykray;37595121]Just found out Chronicle cost 12 million bucks. That is incredible.[/QUOTE]
that's pretty low budget by today's standards
[QUOTE=GodKing;37589721]Hahaha what are you talking about BB was way better than DKR
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
[B]That movie was a jumbled incoherent mess[/B][/QUOTE]
Maybe if you're an ADD kid?
It was pretty easy to follow and understand for me personally.
Batman Begins felt like the most typical super hero movie out of the 3.
[QUOTE=DrBreen;37596188]that's pretty low budget by today's standards[/QUOTE]
Yeah and it looks, for the most part, as good as films with more than 10 times the budget. Josh Trank should definitely be one to watch.
Cabin in the Woods
10/10
Anyone else catch the [sp]Boomer in the elevator scene?[/sp]
The Lives Of Others - 8/10
Brilliant German movie that I recommend you guys check out
[QUOTE=WingedTurtle;37596490]Cabin in the Woods
10/10
Anyone else catch the [sp]Boomer in the elevator scene?[/sp][/QUOTE]
Yes, and the Witch, and Tank, as well as Dollface from Twisted Metal, and a slew of other cameos throughout the movie.
just saw inglourious basterds
10/10 crazy ending and the colonel was THE SHIT
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;37594349]I disagree. I'd even go so far as to say that the newest one might be the best of the three, but The Dark Knight is really close to it, so I'm not sure.[/QUOTE]
The pacing was terrible. The plot was weak and contrived. A lot of the dialogue was ridiculous. There was barely any Batman in the film.
Catwoman felt useless and out of place, as did the plot about the Clean Slate (which is an entirely ridiculous concept to begin with).
Hathaway's overacting was literally cringe worthy. In fact, none of the acting was remarkable in any way.
Nothing anyone did made any sense. Bane leaves Batman alive with a miracle working physician in a relatively relaxed prison that we were previously told was the worst hellhole on the planet, one that you can escape from and then free the rest of the prisoners (none of the prisoners had a friend on the outside??), meanwhile completely cut off the city and threaten it with nuclear devastation, let the criminals free and tear down everyone's hope, okay I get it.. but for five months? A month would have been long enough. They left exactly enough time for Batman to recover and come back and save everyone even though Bane could have simply killed him and he would have remained a villain in the eyes of the public. Let's not forget the very forced and weak plot twist of Talia betraying Wayne after sleeping with him once (for no reason), and revealing that she's the mastermind behind the whole plot, demoting the awesome Bane to henchman status.
Do I have to mention both villains' lame deaths??? I don't even want to mention the ending at the cafe, and Robin. Are you fucking kidding me??-
At this point in the series they just shrugged and said "Fuck it" and Gotham is now literally just New York, a massive departure from the atmosphere and feeling they gave Gotham in the first film.
I have so many questions:
How the fuck do Gordon and Alfred know who Bane is and that he's a member of the League of Shadows?
How does everyone know that Bruce Wayne is Batman?
Why the hell did Gordon send every goddamn cop in the city into the sewers, including SWAT? How was Gordon, who looked as if he were going to die, suddenly incapacitate two of Bane's henchmen in his hospital room and then function normally from then on? How did Gordon survive the crash of the bomb truck, being in the back without any sort of restraint, but Talia didn't?
How did it go from broad daylight at the beginning of the stock exchange event to pitch black night in a matter of minutes?
What is the point of Bane's mask when there's seemingly no storage device for whatever medicine is administered via his mask?
How the hell did a little 10 year old kid make the jump that a grown man in much better physical shape couldn't make several times? How did Bruce survive several lengthy falls with a sudden snap of the rope around his waist and not at least sustain internal injury if not death? How the FUCK did Bruce get back to Gotham after getting out of the prison? What was the point of wasting time climbing up the bridge and marking out the Bat symbol in flammable liquid, and how the fuck did he know Gordon would be just below on the ice to light it with a flare?
After everything she did to him, what reason did Batman have to trust Catwoman and believe she'd do the right thing?
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This film is a masterpiece.
Submarine 8/10
Pretty good film for a first by Richard Ayoade.
[QUOTE=The_Marine;37596231]
Batman Begins felt like the most typical super hero movie out of the 3.[/QUOTE]
Dark Knight was a lot more a heist movie than a superhero movie.
There was nothing typical about batman begins at all, you're talking as if that movie was like Xmen :v:
[QUOTE=GodKing;37589721]Hahaha what are you talking about BB was way better than DKR
[editline]8th September 2012[/editline]
That movie was a jumbled incoherent mess[/QUOTE]
It wasn't at all jumped or incoherent though. It had a shitload of things happen but at no point did it screw that up, it was always on top of things.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;37601195]It wasn't at all jumped or incoherent though. It had a shitload of things happen but at no point did it screw that up, it was always on top of things.[/QUOTE]
If that were the case, I wouldn't have 50 issues with the film. I really enjoyed the first two and I don't think they suffer from the same problems, so why would I feel this way if DKR followed suit?
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
Rusty I am really surprised on your view of this film, being the movie buff that you are
It was highly disappointing and I think a lot of people are having a hard time accepting that the mighty Nolan has fallen short this once
[QUOTE=AK'z;37600103]Dark Knight was a lot more a heist movie than a superhero movie.
There was nothing typical about batman begins at all, you're talking as if that movie was like Xmen :v:[/QUOTE]
No, if I was comparing it to X-Men... I probably would've called it a typical comic book movie.
But, I meant mostly with how the film presented itself.
Nolan showed creative restraint since it was the first entry into the trilogy, it just felt like a very average Batman film... I should've said that in the first place.
That's the only way I can describe it really.
[QUOTE=GodKing;37601304]
It was highly disappointing and I think a lot of people are having a hard time accepting that the mighty Nolan has fallen short this once[/QUOTE]
there's nothing to accept, he absolutely delivered. it was a phenomenal film and people are seeing flaws where there aren't any
of course it is a flawed film, like all films, but not at all in that way.
nothin illegal about liking flawed movies, for you see.. human beings are flawed too.
Yeah, it's almost like because of how hyped it was that even though you can say that people want to see it as flawless... that there are people who also want to see the flaws.
i disregard hype completely..
Hype will factor into it regardless.
never believe in the hype = rule for life
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
then again I do choose movies to watch when I read an intriguing opinion.
hypocrisy is best.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;37601795]there's nothing to accept, he absolutely delivered. it was a phenomenal film and people are seeing flaws where there aren't any
of course it is a flawed film, like all films, but not at all in that way.[/QUOTE]
In what way would you say that it's flawed? I wish you would support your blanket statements with examples. With you it's either "It was fantastic and worked well" or "You're retarded, the movie was bad".
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=The_Marine;37601852]Yeah, it's almost like because of how hyped it was that even though you can say that people want to see it as flawless... that there are people who also want to see the flaws.[/QUOTE]
I DON'T want to see flaws, that's the thing.. that's why it was so disappointing to me.
Cold Light of Day
4/10
what a piece of shit. nothing anyone did made the slightest bit of sense, and the writing was so laughable. [sp]theres obv some father son tension between cavil and Willis, and before willis goes to talk o his old CIA buddy, he's just like, without any sort of provocation for this, "alright, hang tight, don't go anywhere, YOURE A GREAT SON, ok brb". it's just some out of nowhere meaningless catharsis rushed in and sure enough, Bruce Willis gets fucking killed right after he says it. there's not even any sort of followup. cavill's just like welp looks like dads dead that sucks I guess, aside from some unmoving scenes about how he's angsty about his dads double life. it's so fucking pointless.[/sp]
[editline]9th September 2012[/editline]
also i absolutely love sigourney weaver but her performance in this film is so terrible and inconsistent as the snaky CIA villain lady
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[img]http://www.facepunch.com/image.php?u=129155&dateline=1319737231?timestamp=1347208934400[/img]
"YOU'RE A GREAT SON"
I Saw the Devil - 5/10
I'm really not sure why this is as highly regarded as it is. The only part of this film that really felt like it has much effort put into were the fight scenes, which are to its credit very good, but other than that the whole thing just feels rather lazy. We never really get given any chance to become invested in any of our characters; the murder of Joo-hyun's fiance; the set up for the entire film, is rushed past in the first few minutes, and next thing we know Joo-hyun's running about torturing the murder suspects without us finding out anything about him that would help us to invest in him. The way in which the revenge at the centre of the film is done had potential; Joo-hyun finds the murderer fairly early in the film and most of the film involves him repeatedly attacking and torturing the murderer, and then releasing him so he can track him down again. Joo-hyun isn't a morally positive chacter, he isn't searching for justice or a sense of closure on his fiance's death, he's simply revelling in the joy of inflicting pain on the man who wronged him. Handled better, I think this idea could have made for a really good film, but we learn almost nothing about Joo-hyun's character throughout the entire film. He doesn't feel like a monster, or indeed anything really, he's just a paper thin charcter wandering from one fight scene to the next. In all very dissapointing.
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 11/10
everything was just perfect ok
and oh man the ending was so intense
[QUOTE=ThisGuy0;37604832]I Saw the Devil - 5/10
I'm really not sure why this is as highly regarded as it is. The only part of this film that really felt like it has much effort put into were the fight scenes, which are to its credit very good, but other than that the whole thing just feels rather lazy. We never really get given any chance to become invested in any of our characters; the murder of Joo-hyun's fiance; the set up for the entire film, is rushed past in the first few minutes, and next thing we know Joo-hyun's running about torturing the murder suspects without us finding out anything about him that would help us to invest in him. The way in which the revenge at the centre of the film is done had potential; Joo-hyun finds the murderer fairly early in the film and most of the film involves him repeatedly attacking and torturing the murderer, and then releasing him so he can track him down again. Joo-hyun isn't a morally positive chacter, he isn't searching for justice or a sense of closure on his fiance's death, he's simply revelling in the joy of inflicting pain on the man who wronged him. Handled better, I think this idea could have made for a really good film, but we learn almost nothing about Joo-hyun's character throughout the entire film. He doesn't feel like a monster, or indeed anything really, he's just a paper thin charcter wandering from one fight scene to the next. In all very dissapointing.[/QUOTE]
Thank fuck there's somebody else out there that doesn't think this movie is TOTALLY BRILLIANT SO SCARY.
You forgot to mention the absolutely awful and cartoonish bit with the[sp]cannibals[/sp]though.
[QUOTE=ThisGuy0;37604832]I Saw the Devil - 5/10
I'm really not sure why this is as highly regarded as it is. The only part of this film that really felt like it has much effort put into were the fight scenes, which are to its credit very good, but other than that the whole thing just feels rather lazy. We never really get given any chance to become invested in any of our characters; the murder of Joo-hyun's fiance; the set up for the entire film, is rushed past in the first few minutes, and next thing we know Joo-hyun's running about torturing the murder suspects without us finding out anything about him that would help us to invest in him. The way in which the revenge at the centre of the film is done had potential; Joo-hyun finds the murderer fairly early in the film and most of the film involves him repeatedly attacking and torturing the murderer, and then releasing him so he can track him down again. Joo-hyun isn't a morally positive chacter, he isn't searching for justice or a sense of closure on his fiance's death, he's simply revelling in the joy of inflicting pain on the man who wronged him. Handled better, I think this idea could have made for a really good film, but we learn almost nothing about Joo-hyun's character throughout the entire film. He doesn't feel like a monster, or indeed anything really, he's just a paper thin charcter wandering from one fight scene to the next. In all very dissapointing.[/QUOTE]
Funny you mention that film as I saw [B]'The good the bad and the weird' [/B]from the same director and I felt exactly the same about that too. It also wandered from one fight scene to the next until it ended at the point where I wanted to eat my own head. Good write up btw, more posts like this and we might actually get something from the ratings here.
twelve monkeys- 7/10
interesting film, one of Bruce Willis' better roles with brad pitt playing a crazy (literally) support role. also handled the concept of time travel very well, which is not easy to do!
troll hunter-8/10
started off a bit uninteresting but once it got going it was great. excellent parody of all these found footage films going around while also legitimately being by far one of the best found footage films out :v:
the last house on the left (1972 version, 2008 uncut rerelease) 7.5/10
honestly quite underwhelmed by this in some ways, but in others exceeded my expectations. there was a lot more to it than most horror films, the characters were interesting and the buildup was great. I was however disappointed in the lack of gore and such. almost all of it was done off camera/covered by camera tricks. I understand why, I mean they only had an $87000 budget which is tiny but still. this was the unrated, uncut, appealed and denied several times for being too disturbing version! I expected more. maybe I set my expectations too high for a 1970s zero budget horror movie. ah well. the film didn't focus on gore though which I liked, it's just that it did at times feel as low budget as it was. for instance [sp]when the girl gets stabbed a good 5 or 6 times and has no stabwounds, when weasel gets his dick bitten off there is zero blood, and when krug gets killed by a chainsaw his entire body is hidden by a desk, so you only see the bloodied edges of him[/sp] I also hoped the [sp] rape scenes and torture scenes[/sp] were longer and more graphic.
I liked how they even managed to get a fair bit of lightheartedness and comedy In the film which almost made the violence seem even worse, the two police officers clearly being comic relief. they were placed very well (usually during sadistic scenes) which provided a good contrast, pretty clever. the soundtrack did a similar job.
which reminds me. I fucking loved the soundtrack on this film. easily one of the greatest I've heard. some seriously good songs, some excellent pieces to create atmosphere... very very good. its released as an album so ill probably try to get it sometime.
Im gonna watch the remake of this at some point as well because is like to see how they handle it on a bigger budget so they can display the violence more. also apparently the cinematography is slower and forces.you to watch I think? kinda in a voyeuristic style I assume. which will be cool. hopefully its still a good film tho.
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