Oh forgot to post this but django unchained was fucking fantastic. Basically everything you'd expect from Tarantino but a lot more really hilarious scenes. I'd give it a 9.
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hahaha rusty has to wait a month to watch it
Dredd
9/10
Would have given it a 10 out of 10 but the fact that the whole movie was only one mission or whatever the fuck they call it kind of pissed me off. I would have preferred more.
[QUOTE=Corporal Yippie;39021180]whats he been doin lately besides boring legacy[/QUOTE]
he hasn't been in a worthwhile movie since 25th hour...
[QUOTE=AK'z;39022782]he hasn't been in a worthwhile movie since 25th hour...[/QUOTE]
You didn't like Moonrise Kingdom?
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets with swedish speach. 4/10 because of the horrible dub. :v:
With english it's maybe 6.5/10. (A little too childish for me, the later ones are better.)
[QUOTE=postal;39022816]You didn't like Moonrise Kingdom?[/QUOTE]
arhhghg
hasn't had a worthwhile "leading role" in a worthwhile movie.
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
forget it... :(
[QUOTE=The First 11'er;39022680]Dredd
9/10
Would have given it a 10 out of 10 but the fact that the whole movie was only one mission or whatever the fuck they call it kind of pissed me off. I would have preferred more.[/QUOTE]
That movie was terrible.
it fuckin owned
The Shawshank Redemption
10/10 as always
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
I would rate this movie
reservoir dogs 8/10
good feels for the characters, easy to relate to each of their situations and great acting all round
Drive: 5/10.
Gosling had a very forced personality which created an artificial sense of tension, calm and awkwardness.
Oh, and of course there's a kid thrown in to represent ~ innocence ~.
you suck
[QUOTE=Roll_Program;39023848] created an artificial sense of tension[/QUOTE]
what a load o' waffle
[QUOTE=AK'z;39018487]the things that hit you were "running", "petting animals" and "ceasing from moving".
That seems to be a bit much considering all the "narrative core" to be ruined at that point.
I was assuming people didn't like the movie for its concept but now the reality is, is that people care more about action cliches than actual content.[/QUOTE]
You are so dense sometimes AK'z, when you have an opinion of something, and people perfectly counter your arguments, you still refuse to even acknowledge them at all. You discount them entirely and continue to pretend that no negative (or positive) arguments have even been made.
Before you say this sounds a lot like me, I always back myself up with counter points (that make sense, even if you don't agree with them). You don't present counter points. You just declare the illegitimacy of any points that are made toward you, and continue to rant on about how something is still good or bad despite it.
If you can't articulate your own thoughts, you probably are wrong about them.
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Prometheus was, for the vast majority, nonsensical. From little things like character interactions to bigger things like the overall plot. Everything said in the redlettermedia why video is a great example. But let me ellaborate on a few.
WHY, if the two characters are scouting the alien ship, with a complete 3D map, and constant navigation by their captain, do they get lost? How is it physically possible to get lost with an in depth 3d map? One character claims they have been walking around in circles. How exactly do you do that? Fifield's wrist gadget has the entire map on it. I'll tell you why they got lost. Because they needed to get lost to die in the way the script wanted them to. Even though it makes literally no sense for them to have gotten lost.
And the geologist turns from a gaping pussy afraid of dead aliens, to a 'vicious alien enthusiast' the second terrifying worms come out of sinister black goo, only because the plot required him to so that he could die.
It's inconsistencies and logical nonsense like that that plagues the whole ENTIRE FILM. Oh, you know... just like most of Lost. There are of course bigger ones that most people mention but there's plenty more smaller events that are like that too. Almost every single character interaction makes no sense. Name me a scene where two people talk, and I'll tell you why it made no sense. Go on.
And I didn't notice these things after the movie. I noticed them while I watched it. Every few minutes I was thinking '...hang on... why?'.
I still like it for it's direction and visuals. But the script was just horrendous and inconsistent and illogical and it broke the film.
Samsara 9/10
Baraka was simply better but i liked the different things they tried to show in Samsara
Looper was just awesome. 8.7/10 from me.
Blue Velvet was great as well, but hard to rate. Around 8.5/10
[QUOTE=Xephio;39024653]Samsara 9/10
Baraka was simply better but i liked the different things they tried to show in Samsara[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
I've seen both in 70 mm before.
Baraka is probably the most perfectly fimed film in history.
django unchained
9.5/10
god damn that was a good fucking movie
tarantino at his finest
Les Miserables
9.5/10
Victor Hugo's book is my favorite novel of all time, and this film adaptation of a musical adaptation of it was superb. Just ran a bit too long at parts, but the cinematography really added something special to a classic story. Also, Borat.
Rusty I think you just hate Ak'z because you're both the same kind of person but have different tastes. Granted you're better than Ak'z most of the time but there's a few issues you still suck at backing up
[sp]Anne Hathaway was pretty good in Dark Knight Rises[/sp]
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;39025530]Rusty I think you just hate Ak'z because you're both the same kind of person but have different tastes. Granted you're better than Ak'z most of the time but there's a few issues you still suck at backing up
[sp]Anne Hathaway was pretty good in Dark Knight Rises[/sp][/QUOTE]
I do not agree, I think she's a bad cringeworthy actress. Not to mention the character of catwoman is inherently bad and one dimensional. "Purr maybe I suck ya dick? Nevermind I robbed you!"
They had to add in a whole 'I want to erase my past' thing for her just to make the character slightly more interesting, even though the past she wants to erase is kind of the thing she is still doing. ie catburglaring and swindling people.
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
and her reason being 'girls gotta do what a girls gotta do!' like that isnt the lamest and most nonsensical excuse in the book.
everything she did in the movie could have been written around robins character and worked better.
I saw Monsters Inc. again in 3D because I'm a sucker.
Monsters Inc. - 9/10
Now that I think about it, I'm pretty sure this is one of the few Pixar movies with an actual major plot twist, if not the only one.
I also saw Paul again at a Christmas party.
Paul - 8.5/10
Graeme's drawing of Paul was priceless.
Today I saw Promised Land.
Promised Land - 7/10
I actually liked it more than I probably should have, but what the hell.
Saw Premium Rush today.
8/10.
Good thriller, but it was 95% chase scenes and it ended at a kind of weird point. I would've liked to see more of what happened after the climax, rather than just a few smooches and a crying Chinese chick.
Casino
10/10
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
7/10
Revolver:
ray liotta and jason statham / 10
I found this movie very confusing, but I liked it, a few twists, and not your average fight-fight shoot-shoot jason statham
[QUOTE=BigJoeyLemons;39026018]Saw Premium Rush today.
8/10.
Good thriller, but it was 95% chase scenes and it ended at a kind of weird point. I would've liked to see more of what happened after the climax, rather than just a few smooches and a crying Chinese chick.[/QUOTE]
rather shitty plot though
[QUOTE=Rusty100;39024461]-essay about characters getting lost-
[/QUOTE]
oi I'm not dense, I'm just not uptight.
and I assumed they got lost because the place wasn't scanned completely yet.
as far as I'm concerned, you're moaning about menial action cliches rather than actual conceptual ideas.
I assumed people had better priorities, turns out instead of acceptable comments about the "viability of the plot", people get affected by about the tiniest details.
Nitpicking/pet peeving is what it is.
Let's talk dialogue then,
[sp]captain talking to rapace's character[/sp]
bit cheesy, but it leads to him sarcastically asking if she's a robot. Earlier we see her mingling secretly with Fassbender's character about matters we have no clue about yet.
I'm conceding the [sp]"zombie"[/sp] sequence because Ridley admitted in the commentary that it was there solely for action purposes, imo put in by the studio. Even then... not enough to warrant a consensus disappointment.
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=thrawn2787;39025530]batman 3[/QUOTE]
how did bale go from being a pit in asia to america in 5 minutes?
[QUOTE=AK'z;39026397]oi I'm not dense, I'm just not uptight.
and I assumed they got lost because the place wasn't scanned completely yet.
as far as I'm concerned, you're moaning about menial action cliches rather than actual conceptual ideas.
I assumed people had better priorities, turns out instead of acceptable comments about the "viability of the plot", people get affected by about the tiniest details.
Nitpicking/pet peeving is what it is.
Let's talk dialogue then,
[sp]captain talking to rapace's character[/sp]
bit cheesy, but it leads to him sarcastically asking if she's a robot. Earlier we see her mingling secretly with Fassbender's character about matters we have no clue about yet.
I'm conceding the [sp]"zombie"[/sp] sequence because Ridley admitted in the commentary that it was there solely for action purposes, imo put in by the studio. Even then... not enough to warrant a consensus disappointment.
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
how did bale go from being a pit in asia to america in 5 minutes?[/QUOTE]
he didn't get there in 5 minutes he breaks out of prison with heaps of time left, like, weeks.
so, uh. public transport? a plane? a plane and then he probably travelled there though the secret tunnels that factually exist that lead to wayne mansion as stated in batman begins
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
and as for conceptual ideas in prometheus they were dull at best. the whole 'where do we come from' thing isn't an intellectual premise as it only asks questions that everyone has already asked, and it does nothing to answer them even in it's fantasy premise. it literally just spawns more questions. and they never get fleshed out. it's a slasher movie posing as having an intellectual premise when in fact it only serves to give characters a reason to die graphically. and yes, a movie should leave you with questions. but it should also answer some of it's own questions. which prometheus does not do. it's a poor man's idea of philosophy. ridley basically says hey. where DO we come from? maybe these dudes made us? but why? i don't know. think of all the possibilities! but yeah i'm not sure the lead character should probably ask them. and then get no results. and then fly off into the sky!
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INTRIGUING!!
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
hell batman 3 has more philosophical substance in it's plot than prometheus which just poses to have some without actually containing any. at least in batman you have character depth and things like responsibility and sacrifice. when you get down to it, prometheus doesn't really have any. everyone gets killed idiotically on an alien planet and then one flies away in search for 'answers'. batman decides his whole life is to serve and protect after childhood trauma, and sacrifices everything he's built to save the city, enduring hardship after hardship with an ultimate unwavering goal in mind, for better or worse.
and then charlize theron gets crushed by a giant ship because she can't run sideways and nobody learns anything about the engineers apart from 'this was a military base i guess and they died'.
[editline]30th December 2012[/editline]
basically you view both of those movies the complete wrong way around.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;39026547]batman decides his whole life is to serve and protect after childhood trauma.[/QUOTE]
batman begins ain't batman 3
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