[QUOTE=Roll_Program;38899185]Premium Rush.
7/10 cus I love riding in the city and the acting was great.[/QUOTE]
Liked it too. Michael Shannon best actor for 2012, normally I don't follow actors but I'm going to follow his movies.
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV1zRwwpXJw[/url]
His head is huge!
The Eagle (2011) - 7.5/10
Suprisingly good. It might not look like much at the 1/4 first, but later the movie gets really interesting and depressing.y
The ending is kinda weird, though.
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;38896361]thats not even close to being the definition of deus ex machina
it explained what was necessary and nothing more
[editline]19th December 2012[/editline]
thats like saying the stormtroopers in star wars aren't fleshed out theyre just dudes hunting joe down for the bad guy.
what the fuck kind of issue does this even present.
[editline]19th December 2012[/editline]
every problem I've ever heard people have with looper are dumb complaints
its literally never not a dumb complaint[/QUOTE]
That's why I wrote script-deus ex machina.
[quote]is a plot device whereby a seemingly unsolvable problem is suddenly and abruptly solved with the contrived and unexpected intervention of some new event, character, ability, or object.[/quote]
Oh hey, what is that?
[I]new event, character, ability, or object.[/I]
Now look at that.
[QUOTE=AK'z;38899158]Saw "The Score"
now this is a heist film...
makes Mission Impossible seem like postal's ass.[/QUOTE]
a good heist movie that i haven't seen yet?
watching it tonight
[QUOTE=Killuah;38904281]That's why I wrote script-deus ex machina.
Oh hey, what is that?
[I]new event, character, ability, or object.[/I]
Now look at that.[/QUOTE]
But that doesn't happen, no part about that kid was anything like what's in that description.
The Hobbit 7,5/10
[QUOTE=Killuah;38904281]That's why I wrote script-deus ex machina.
Oh hey, what is that?
[I]new event, character, ability, or object.[/I]
Now look at that.[/QUOTE]
It's not unexpected though, there's a lot of mentions throughout the film about [sp]TK powers and a man destroying groups of people alone[/sp].
[QUOTE=Cl0cK;38905916]It's not unexpected though, there's a lot of mentions throughout the film about [sp]TK powers and a man destroying groups of people alone[/sp].[/QUOTE]
no he's absolutely right it was totally just shoed the fuck in
no buildup or context whatsoever just blip out of the blue
(if you're a moron who can't pay attention to major plot elements anyway)
[QUOTE=Cl0cK;38901836]
There's literally no character development for most of the dwarves and that's really disappointing.
[/QUOTE]
The book also didn't have any. But at least they were able to give them unique looks.
I also watched The Hobbit.
Very good 8.5.
[QUOTE=Killuah;38904281]That's why I wrote script-deus ex machina.
Oh hey, what is that?
[I]new event, character, ability, or object.[/I]
Now look at that.[/QUOTE]
Um... no. Not at all. It's mentioned at the start of the film, and it's said that it's believed most people can only hover coins. Then it's discovered that the kid's mother is TK. But she can do a lot more than just hover coins, and has used it to her advantage. THEN we finally find out the kid has super TK powers, because she had a child early and must have been the first TK person in this new TK generation to have a child (that isn't still a baby).
So uh yeah not even slightly a deus ex machina. It was present the entire movie and it totally explained and in context. Got any more 'flaws' with the movie? (Apart from the usual time travel stuff, which literally doesn't matter.)
[QUOTE=PollytheParrot;38893866]Looper 7.5/10
I really liked the concept and the acting, but the ending felt really abrupt and left a lot to be desired. Also I feel as if the backstory wasn't explained at all, really. For example how Rainman "came to power" or why he wanted to close all the loops (why not just Joe, in the interest of revenge?). Lastly the "gat men" part of the stories just felt like they plopped in there as an afterthought. Nothing they ever did seemed profound in any way, and they aren't fleshed out either.[/QUOTE]
The gat men are just fancy henchmen. Not sure what you expected them to do.
pollytheparrot lmao
dont acknowledge that literally all your complaints just got shat on and proven to be stupid just rate dumb that'll show me
at least try to defend your shitty opinions sheesh
Watched the hobbit, and i liked it!
It was more colourful then the lotr, metaphorically speaking.
Now im not saying colourful is better, just, different. It really is the best way i can explain it.
7/10
[QUOTE=Itachi_Crow;38909258]pollytheparrot lmao
dont acknowledge that literally all your complaints just got shat on and proven to be stupid just rate dumb that'll show me
at least try to defend your shitty opinions sheesh[/QUOTE]
Considering that I did and still you just tried shooting me down. I'm not arguing that its a bad movie. It's a good movie it was just not as good as some others. And what I dumb down are your posts where you literally just get all angry and I can feel your anger leaking out of my monitor. Just cool down man.
Not sure if anyone besides me would be excited about this, but the new Riddick movie got a release date :dance:
Time to go watch the first two and play through the games :v:
The only dumb thing in Looper was [sp]when the fancy gangsters with hats in the future shoot his wife and just burn the house... Why do they have to send people in the past if they can get away with just killing someone like that in the future?[/sp]
But the film was a really great watch anyways.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;38906126]Um... no. Not at all. It's mentioned at the start of the film, and it's said that it's believed most people can only hover coins. Then it's discovered that the kid's mother is TK. But she can do a lot more than just hover coins, and has used it to her advantage. THEN we finally find out the kid has super TK powers, because she had a child early and must have been the first TK person in this new TK generation to have a child (that isn't still a baby).
So uh yeah not even slightly a deus ex machina. It was present the entire movie and it totally explained and in context. Got any more 'flaws' with the movie? (Apart from the usual time travel stuff, which literally doesn't matter.)[/QUOTE]
The point is that without the super TK the whole timetravel stuff would be back to paradoxes. They even say in the movie that he is too powerful for any other strategy.
It was literally written into the movie because they needed some almighty super-uber duper excuse so they could answer every question about time travel possibilities with "He is too powerful" and that is a deus-ex-machina so bad, it is written into the movie from the very beginning.
It is the ultimate tool so the timetravel "literally doesn't matter." and you swallowed it.
It's basically "can't fight him since he is godlike ok better[sp] kill myself[/sp]"
[QUOTE=Killuah;38916140]The point is that without the super TK the whole timetravel stuff would be back to paradoxes. They even say in the movie that he is too powerful for any other strategy.
It was literally written into the movie because they needed some almighty super-uber duper excuse so they could answer every question about time travel possibilities with "He is too powerful" and that is a deus-ex-machina so bad, it is written into the movie from the very beginning.
It is the ultimate tool so the timetravel "literally doesn't matter." and you swallowed it.
It's basically "can't fight him since he is godlike ok better[sp] kill myself[/sp]"[/QUOTE]
What??? the kid being a super tk has NOTHING TO DO with the time travel element. at all, he doesn't make all the time travel paradoxes irrelevant. what are you talking about? the reason the time travel paradoxes don't matter, is because it's a FILM ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. Like Terminator 2, it has huge gaping flaws in the time travel. But it doesn't matter, because it's still a solid movie and makes sense in the movie's universe and your belief is able to be suspended. God you are being stupid
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Literally nothing you say ever makes sense. Like, ever. Ever ever. You might as well be posting gibberish all the time. And I'm pretty sure everyone else agrees.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;38916273]What??? the kid being a super tk has NOTHING TO DO with the time travel element. at all, he doesn't make all the time travel paradoxes irrelevant. what are you talking about? the reason the time travel paradoxes don't matter, is because it's a FILM ABOUT TIME TRAVEL. Like Terminator 2, it has huge gaping flaws in the time travel. But it doesn't matter, because it's still a solid movie and makes sense in the movie's universe and your belief is able to be suspended. God you are being stupid
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Literally nothing you say ever makes sense. Like, ever. Ever ever. You might as well be posting gibberish all the time. And I'm pretty sure everyone else agrees.[/QUOTE]
Too bad in the end it turns out to be a film about TK.
It has everything to do with the time travel. You would notice if you would avtually try to comprehend what you're reading.
Ok again:
They say.
In the movie.
In the friggin movie.
That they(the two/one protagonist/s). CAN'T.
As in they CAN NOT.
They can not simply kill the kid.
AND
They(the protagonists+the kids mother) can not raise him their(AKA a different, humanist) way.
BECAUSE:
He is TOO POWERFUL and everything would still turn out the same.
If that is not the ultimate end to all other possibilities the initial time travel plot gives, what is?
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
To sum it up:
"He is too mighty" is just a boring and lazy turn in the plot.
It made the whole movie, strictly staying in the movies reality, kinda pointless. Sure we are having the joy of watching the story, but inside of the movies reality, what was all the action for? To save the kid?
[QUOTE=Killuah;38916361]Too bad in the end it turns out to be a film about TK.
It has everything to do with the time travel. You would notice if you would avtually try to comprehend what you're reading.
Ok again:
They say.
In the movie.
In the friggin movie.
That they(the two/one protagonist/s). CAN'T.
As in they CAN NOT.
They can not simply kill the kid.
AND
They(the protagonists+the kids mother) can not raise him their(AKA a different, humanist) way.
BECAUSE:
He is TOO POWERFUL and everything would still turn out the same.
If that is not the ultimate end to all other possibilities the initial time travel plot gives, what is?
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
To sum it up:
"He is too mighty" is just a boring and lazy turn in the plot.
It made the whole movie, strictly staying in the movies reality, kinda pointless. Sure we are having the joy of watching the story, but inside of the movies reality, what was all the action for? To save the kid?[/QUOTE]
What do you mean they CAN'T kill him? That's what Bruce Willis is trying to do...
He fails, but he physically can kill the kid, to change the future. That's what he's trying to to. The whole conflict is that it is difficult and then young Joe stops him. It has nothing to do with the kid's TK in the past preventing him. It's literally because Joe see's how this would play out if old Joe doesn't successfully kill the kid and kills the mother instead. That whole sepia scene is not an actual series of events, it's young Joe's prediction of them. It wasn't necessarily going to happen that way. But he physically could kill the child. It was just difficult. I think you are kind of being dumb and taking everything that happened too literally again.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;38916471]What do you mean they CAN'T kill him? That's what Bruce Willis is trying to do...
He fails, but he physically can kill the kid, to change the future. That's what he's trying to to. The whole conflict is that it is difficult and then young Joe stops him. It has nothing to do with the kid's TK in the past preventing him. It's literally because Joe see's how this would play out if old Joe doesn't successfully kill the kid. But he physically could kill the child. It was just difficult. I think you are kind of being dumb and taking everything that happened too literally again.[/QUOTE]
Did you miss the scene when that one dude comes to the farm and points the gun at the kid?
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
MAybe I just hate this "powerful kid" trope that pops up here and there in some movies.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
Also, honestly now: Who didn't see the TK become a major thing the very moment they mentioned how weak it was in most people?
[QUOTE=Killuah;38916544]Did you miss the scene when that one dude comes to the farm and points the gun at the kid?
[/QUOTE]
Yeah, and he physically could have shot the child, the kid went off because he fell down the stairs and got mad. You absolutely can shoot the kid before he goes berserk. You are being incredibly illogical about your dislike for him. Why is a powerful child inherently a negative thing??? It was done really well. That's an insanely broad thing to dislike...
The Hobbit
[b]7,5/10[/b]
I really liked the movie, it is really a worthy prequel to the Lotr trilogy. It was a pretty lengthy movie but it didn't feel like it was dragging on. It was not slow paced at all as people claim it to be. The plot is pretty easy to understand yet pretty interesting. They did a great job on depicting Erebor and how it got destroyed, I liked the background story a lot.
The movie is certainly different from the Lotr series but in a good way, you see more of Middle earth and it's creatures, like the rock giants. Middle earth is still as amazing as it used to be, the landscapes and sceneries are stunning and ridiculously awesome. I got several chills just looking at the scenery. Furthermore the soundtrack is absolute superb and fits so well, it's also a nice thing that they used some of the old tracks, for instance when Bilbo finds the ring.
The characters are really likeable, Bilbo is a worthy protagonist and overall just a likeable character. The dwarfs are also well presented, even if there are 13 of them. I thought that they would do a terrible job on introducing them and giving each one a personality but they managed to pull it off. They seem more like a group with a few that stand out with their characteristics. Some dwarfs fell short in the story, still they are really great. The whole acting was amazing. Besides all the costumes are so bloody detailed and well done.
The things I disliked is that some of the action scences were a bit overtop, like when they escape from the goblin caves or the thing with the trees. It looks great visually but I found it exagerated, also there were to many CGI effects for my taste. Nearly every goblin and orc is animated, they don't look bad but some more real costumes would have been neat, especially for the main antagonist. Razog or whatever his name is felt a bit out of place, he's a boring character and a dumb villain. Still they used him quite well.
There were some loose ends like the necromancer in the abandoned fortress, although they will surely expand upon that in the next movies.
Anyway I definitly recommend it to everyone, also Gandalf is a badass.
Spoiler question
[sp]Why could Gandalf not ask his eagle friends to bring them to Erebor instead of walking the whole goddamn way. It makes no sense, they could have brought them at least near the mountain. It's just a bit weird from a logical standpoint.[/sp]
[QUOTE=junker|154;38919288]The Hobbit
Spoiler question
[sp]Why could Gandalf not ask his eagle friends to bring them to Erebor instead of walking the whole goddamn way. It makes no sense, they could have brought them at least near the mountain. It's just a bit weird from a logical standpoint.[/sp][/QUOTE]
[quote]
The Lord of the Eagles would not take them anywhere near where men lived. "They would shoot at us with their great bows of yew," he said, "for they would think we were after their sheep. And at other times they would be right. No! we are glad to cheat the goblins of their sport, and glad to repay our thanks to you, but we will not risk ourselves for dwarves in the southward plains."
"Very well," said Gandalf. "Take us where and as far as you will! We are already deeply obliged to you.
[/quote]
Yeah, I just read about it. I never read the Hobbit book and it seems like Gandalf made a deal with them and all this was never shown in the movie. Which is kind of dumb.
Thanks anyway.
SOLARIS
I liked it. 7/10 because I got to see George clooney's ass one too many times.
Dark City 8/10
I love it to death but I acknowledge it has some flaws.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=lapsus_;38920534]SOLARIS
I liked it. 7/10 because I got to see George clooney's ass one too many times.[/QUOTE]
As a movie it is ok but i really really dislike it for changing the point of the book so much.
[editline]21st December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=junker|154;38919288]The Hobbit
[b]7,5/10[/b]
I really liked the movie, it is really a worthy prequel to the Lotr trilogy. It was a pretty lengthy movie but it didn't feel like it was dragging on. It was not slow paced at all as people claim it to be. The plot is pretty easy to understand yet pretty interesting. They did a great job on depicting Erebor and how it got destroyed, I liked the background story a lot.
The movie is certainly different from the Lotr series but in a good way, you see more of Middle earth and it's creatures, like the rock giants. Middle earth is still as amazing as it used to be, the landscapes and sceneries are stunning and ridiculously awesome. I got several chills just looking at the scenery. Furthermore the soundtrack is absolute superb and fits so well, it's also a nice thing that they used some of the old tracks, for instance when Bilbo finds the ring.
The characters are really likeable, Bilbo is a worthy protagonist and overall just a likeable character. The dwarfs are also well presented, even if there are 13 of them. I thought that they would do a terrible job on introducing them and giving each one a personality but they managed to pull it off. They seem more like a group with a few that stand out with their characteristics. Some dwarfs fell short in the story, still they are really great. The whole acting was amazing. Besides all the costumes are so bloody detailed and well done.
The things I disliked is that some of the action scences were a bit overtop, like when they escape from the goblin caves or the thing with the trees. It looks great visually but I found it exagerated, also there were to many CGI effects for my taste. Nearly every goblin and orc is animated, they don't look bad but some more real costumes would have been neat, especially for the main antagonist. Razog or whatever his name is felt a bit out of place, he's a boring character and a dumb villain. Still they used him quite well.
There were some loose ends like the necromancer in the abandoned fortress, although they will surely expand upon that in the next movies.
Anyway I definitly recommend it to everyone, also Gandalf is a badass.
Spoiler question
[sp]Why could Gandalf not ask his eagle friends to bring them to Erebor instead of walking the whole goddamn way. It makes no sense, they could have brought them at least near the mountain. It's just a bit weird from a logical standpoint.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Gandalf knows the journey must happen. It is implied in the scene when [sp]Bilbo is about to reveal his ring and Gandalf refrains from asking him what's in his pocket. The Dwarves would've known the ring.[/sp]
[QUOTE=lapsus_;38920534]SOLARIS
I liked it. 7/10 because I got to see George clooney's ass one too many times.[/QUOTE]
that one sucks, watch the original. it owns hard
The Eagles are not a taxi service
[QUOTE=Killuah;38920819]Dark City 8/10
I love it to death but I acknowledge it has some flaws.
[/QUOTE]
why mention flaws then refuse to say what they are. :-(
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