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Lesson Of The Evil (2012) - Brutal as fuck and I love it/10

[B]August Osage County[/B] This has been buzzing around a bit for a while so I deceded to check it out to see if the building hype was justified. A quarter of the way in I was thinking this is good but not classic but slowly this started to build in to something huge. The film starts with a quote from TS Elliot and its really the backbone of what happens from that moment to the end. A family with some fucked up shit is brought back together at the house of the matriarch due to a circumstance. Everything comes out as tempers flare, secrets revealed and the illusion of family and what it means is stripped bare. Tension is high and the searing, sweaty heat of the mid west make this an excellent setting for such vitriol. Meryl Streep is firing on all cylinders and Julia Roberts matches a performance right back at her which really shocked me. Supporting cast do their job just fine but its the heavier undertones that really strike hard about what family is. These characters are all very hard people and if theres a lesson to learn its don't fuck up kids because they will turn out just the same. The musical score is wonderful. This film is absolutely brilliant, watch it. Jewdozer signing out. [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=Rofl_copter;43744437][B]All Is Lost[/B] So I watched this with my dad because he really wanted too see it with me, and he really appreciated it for all the in depth boating stuff since he's been in situations like this. Robert Redford is pretty amazing in this, especially considering he's the only person you see in the entire movie. The ending segment was really really well done with all the imagery and was heart wrenching to say the least, and I thought how they basically [sp]left it up to you to determine the outcome[/sp] was cool. Overall it's well worth a watch, it may seem a tad slow to people during certain parts since it has next to no actual dialogue but if you like cast away type movies and Robert Redford at his top you'll like it. It's somewhere around an 8-9 for me.[/QUOTE] Theres part of me really wants to see that but then the idea of watching a man fight nature for 90 mins puts me off. So many films like this are average but everybody says this is a cut above the rest. [highlight](User was permabanned for this post ("jewdozer" - Rusty100))[/highlight]

Why was Jewdozer banned to begin with?

Going back to Dredd, it inspired me to read about its universe on the net, and fuck do I hope for a new Dredd movie now. There's an entire wasteland out there along with few other mega-cities, just hot damn.

[QUOTE=Bat-shit;43749428]Going back to Dredd, it inspired me to read about its universe on the net, and fuck do I hope for a new Dredd movie now. There's an entire wasteland out there along with few other mega-cities, just hot damn.[/QUOTE] Oooh, that reminds me, watched that movie two weeks ago, it's damn satisfying. 7.5/10

[QUOTE=redBadger;43749255]Why was Jewdozer banned to begin with?[/QUOTE] Something about bigotry.

So i've been in a Jonah Hill streak. This is the End : 7.2/10 Effects were just, not well made, although i liked how theres shitloads of celebrities dieing. Ending made no sense to me either. Yet it was fun to watch them struggle 21 Jump Street : 8.1/10 It was amazing. AMAZING. I'VE had loads of fun watching it, althoufh i'm hiding the high numbers to class a+ titles such as The Wolf Of Jump Street : 9.1/10 Makes me wonder why Leo still couldnt get an oscar. Film was great, although it was too long.

I wouldn't be surprised if he won this year, seeing as it was a genuinely good performance, and he admitted he was going to take a break from acting for a while. The academy has been known to throw a couple of bones for things like that.

he wont win if he wins i'll watch transformers 4 in the theatre [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] oh crap, why did i do that :(

[QUOTE=AK'z;43750441]he wont win if he wins i'll watch transformers 4 in the theatre [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] oh crap, why did i do that :([/QUOTE] and you have to sit on the front row

[b]Tangled[/b] Good · State-of-the-art animation · Good humor, often absurd. Had me laughing out loud once. · Very lively characters, best I've seen in animation lately. · Maximus the horse felt an afwul lot like Hercules' Pegasus. CRANK UP THE NOSTALGIA DIAL · Story surprisingly not worn out, Disney at it's finest. Wat · 'Mick' charachters as the thugs. Reeeaaally? [b]9/10[/b]

[QUOTE=LaTrefle;43750122]So i've been in a Jonah Hill streak. This is the End : 7.2/10 Effects were just, not well made, although i liked how theres shitloads of celebrities dieing. Ending made no sense to me either. Yet it was fun to watch them struggle 21 Jump Street : 8.1/10 It was amazing. AMAZING. I'VE had loads of fun watching it, althoufh i'm hiding the high numbers to class a+ titles such as The Wolf Of Jump Street : 9.1/10 Makes me wonder why Leo still couldnt get an oscar. Film was great, although it was too long.[/QUOTE] Because he always stays Leo. You won't see him do something like Sunset Unlimited or The Machinist, he's always playing roles where he is somehow badass, cool or melodramatically relateable, basically just adding facettes to his ego but never really doing out-of-Leo characters. Well except Gilbert Grape but we already talked abou this a week ago. [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] [QUOTE=AK'z;43750441]he wont win if he wins i'll watch transformers 4 in the theatre [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] oh crap, why did i do that :([/QUOTE] Well Toxx.

World's Greatest Dad. Best film I've seen this year. Granted, we watched it while high, but I don't think I've ever liked a film in the same way. So good. [editline]1st February 2014[/editline] 9*/10

[QUOTE=lapsus_;43751023]· State-of-the-art animation[/quote] [I]Tangled[/I]'s budget has been estimated at $260 million dollars, which would make it one of the most expensive productions in movie history [quote]'Mick' charachters as the thugs. Reeeaaally?[/QUOTE] at least Ron Perlman did their voices

Tangled is the second most expensive movie ever made. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End is the most expensive ($300m). The reason being they had to create so much new technology to make it look how it did. One of the majors ones being hair. It took years and years to get just the hair right. Pretty crazy. Paid off though, the film is beautiful. Im in love with how Tangled looks honestly. The best looking CGI film I've ever seen, and not just because of fancy tech- it's how they used it. The use of CGI and 3D animation combined with the style of oil painting and stuff, it just looks so stunning. need to watch it again. Imo it's absolutely one of Disney's best films and one of the best animated films ever.

[QUOTE=Killuah;43751169] You won't see him do something like Sunset Unlimited[/QUOTE] sunset wasn't unlimited also saw the documentary [B]The Thin Blue Line[/B] note - it is NOT this: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/The_Thin_Blue_Line.png[/img] [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thin_Blue_Line_(1988_film)[/url] great errol morris strikes again. It's not your average in your face, action, tension crime documentary. In the way the interviews unfold the picture of how the justice system royally SCREWS up here is just sickening. You've got the murdering lunatic and innocent person in two corners, you can easily tell by the way they convey their words whose really sick in the head. The police are knuckleheads as per usual. The grinding reality here shows because at the time, the innocent fella was still in jail and had been for a while. That's the disturbing fact, but it gets much worse when the fucko who did it is recorded the most pathetic speech to mock the dude. He's laughing and not giving a shit, sometimes he moans about a traumatic experience as a kid. I can kind of get that, but nothing can screw your head up to find it funny to get away with murder only to later get convicted for something unrelated. He was sentenced to death last decade so... I dunno. The doc is superb though, very well constructed re-enactments. Thoroughly dug this one.

midnight came after and it was amazing :~)

jack reacher 8/10 gave it such a high score because it was consistently entertaining through the whole movie. few movies barely hold my attention for more than 5 minutes. i don't really like tom cruise but he did great in this movie.

Spanish Inn. 8/10

Just saw Frozen, I haven't seen their most recent "princess" movies, think the last one I saw was Mulan. Was pretty blown away by Frozen. Looked amazing, loved that it took place in a Nordic country and I liked how it was more than your usual "prince and princess" story. At times it was really moving too, like when the deterioration of Anna's relationship with her sister is condensed into the 3.5 minute soundtrack/montage. The part where the sit back to back to each other separated by the door really tugged on my heartstrings. Gave me some slight Up flashbacks. Absolutely loved the music, so many memorable tracks. It was great!

The Matrix: 8/10 It's not the absolute masterpiece it was when I first watched it (which was when I was about 11 or 12, granted) but it's still a great film. It's still interesting as a concept, it's still action-packed and still good, even if some of the holes are more apparent now that I'm older (especially the whole raison d'etre for the Matrix itself).

[QUOTE=The_J_Hat;43750388]I wouldn't be surprised if he won this year, seeing as it was a genuinely good performance, and he admitted he was going to take a break from acting for a while. The academy has been known to throw a couple of bones for things like that.[/QUOTE] I would be. The problem with Leo here, is that many of his performances were genuinely good, but every year there's always someone better that year, like Forest Whitaker in 2007 or Ralph Fiennes in 1994 (although even he was snubbed for Tommy Lee Jones, but I guess Acadamy was too sensitive to award anyone for playing a nazi). This year is even tougher than before - we have Chiwetel Ejiofor, a brilliant actor, newcomer to Hollywood with stunningly haunting role in 12 Years a Slave (which is most likely to win Best Picture), we have Christian Bale with his top notch performance (he was the best aspect of American Hustle), there's also Bruce Dern aka the dark horse (he may win simply by being on second place on most lists, it happened several times when there were few main candidates for some award), and obviously Matthew McConaughey, with 2013 being definitely his year, playing sick man in a movie about important social issues (something that Academy loves), and after Golden Globes I think he has the biggest chance to win. Don't get me wrong, I liked Leo's performance in Wolf of Wall Street, he absolutely nailed it; but the only way I see him getting an Oscar this year it's going to be jumping on the bandwagon "Poor Leo, he still doesn't have an Oscar", it's specially loud this year.

Ender's Game 7/10 I am a [B]huge[/B] fan of the book, I'd even go as far as to say it's my #1. So I was ofcourse interested in how they'd do this movie, and like most high budget teen movies from books, I braced for disappointment. It was better than I thought it'd be, they conveyed the story fairly well with the short time they had. Here are some of my biggest gripes with the movie. [sp]They never even mentioned Demosthenes and Locke, both who have an enormous part in the book, and its sequels. This was a fools mistake, and if they plan on making sequels it will will bite them in the ass.[/sp] [sp]They kind of pussified the actual story, in the book Ender actually kills the first bully and Bonzo (he doesn't know but they tell him after the last fight). That fact really changed my view of Ender in the books, showed that deep inside Ender was a killer. In the book Ender jams Bonzo's nosebone into his own brain, and killing him brutally, it wasn't an accident like in the movie.[/sp] [sp] They should've made Battle School a lot more interesting and fun, they went like 1 chapter/minute in that part. And it's a really important part, showing how Ender learned his strategies, how he day after day analyzed the Rackham vids. They also fucked up Dragon army's battles. Those fights were really important to show off just how fed up Ender was with everything, but they just zoomed past it like it meant nothing.[/sp] [sp] Bean as far a I remember, did not start at the same time as Ender. He actually didn't contact Ender until way later. Bean has his own parallel book to Ender's game, and I hoped to see some nudges to that book, but saw none. They should've focused more on Bean and less on Petra, considering that Bean was many more times smarter than Ender ever was.[/sp] [sp]Ender never get's exiled in the movie.[/sp] [sp] They never "explain" the Ansible in the movie (Not sure if Ansible is a common English term for "Faster than light communication" if that's the case then I guess no explanation is needed). And they also should've mentioned that Mazer Rackham had traveled in relativistic speeds for a long time to stay young, so he could teach the next strategist. So they also fucked up the relativistic time dilation.[/sp] Long story short: It's an OK movie, it tells the story quickly. The fight scenes were absolutely superb, much like I imagined them while reading the book. If you liked the movie, I strongly recommend you read the book. It's way darker, much more interesting and tells the story from Ender's own mind. The only way to successfully create a good rendition of Ender's Game, is to like, make it a long HBO series with a rating R So yes, like most of the cases when it comes to movies like these, [I]the book is better.[/I] /rant

[QUOTE=booster;43753760]Ender's Game 7/10 So yes, like most of the cases when it come to movies like these, [I]the book is better.[/I] /rant[/QUOTE] I'm just wondering how a non-reader feels about the movie. I've read the book and I felt like it followed the book closely, but I also felt that they left so much essential detail that it must have looked like a mess for the viewer. Definitely agree with the series thing. Or maybe splitting it up in two parts. It was visually stunning though, and I thought the kid that played Ender was really good.

The Hunger Games: Catching Fire This wasn't what I expected at all. I liked the first movie but thought this was was just going to be a lame excuse to do more of the same, when in reality the actual games took a back seat to the story and characters. That mixed with some fantastic visuals and performances make me see why everyone liked this movie more. Speaking of visuals; I really liked how the entirety of the games were shot in IMAX. It looked great and gave that section of the movie a sense of scale in a way. [URL="http://u.cubeupload.com/callumshell1/TheHungerGamesCatchi.jpg"]This[/URL] shot especially stood out to me, and the entire ending sequence. The CGI too was pretty impressive, some of the best smoke effects I've seen in a movie. One complaint I have though is that the ending felt very rushed. I know they want to set up the next one but it could have been handled better.

[QUOTE=Swebonny;43754036]I'm just wondering how a non-reader feels about the movie. I've read the book and I felt like it followed the book closely, but I also felt that they left so much essential detail that it must have looked like a mess for the viewer. Definitely agree with the series thing. Or maybe splitting it up in two parts. It was visually stunning though, and I thought the kid that played Ender was really good.[/QUOTE] Couldn't agree more, the actor played Ender perfectly. And even if it sounds weird [sp] the queen was visually stunning. Even if she was a dying queen.[/sp] And the fights were done so well, I was on the edge of my seat at times. They really captivated you. If they ever plan on making Ender's Shadow (The story about Bean), they will have to up the rating, because that book is fucked up at times. [editline]2nd February 2014[/editline] Also, they really should've mentioned the factions on earth and their role in all of this. Also a big part of the books.

They changed a lot of stuff pretty needlessly as well. They never explained that the ships were travelling at lightspeed and the first generation trash they sent out first was arriving at the formic homeworld first. For some reason they decided to give the ships faster than light travel in the movie, and have ender be transported to some random formic colony when in the books he was merely transported to Eros in the Sol system, which was where the war started in the first place. They also for some reason decided that the first invasions would be in the earths atmosphere all independence day like, when a big chunk of the books is explaining what happened during the first and second formic invasions (they were in space), and analysing the footage which leads Ender to figure out exactly how the formics thought and how they worked as a species. In the book, all of the workers are essentially mindless drones with a few queens - that is why they go around in swarms - and that is also why they attacked the humans at Eros, they thought they were just killing some mindless drones to say hello and that they were in the neighbourhood. The formics were actually disgusted with themselves when they realised they had actually murdered sentient independent beings. Crucially though, I feel that although the movie looked good and had the general shape of the story, it completely missed the entire point of the book, about learning who your enemy is and how to defeat them, but also living with the fact that you have destroyed the enemy you have learned to know and love. For some reason they stripped almost all of that stuff out of the movie, even though it was absolutely vital and the real reason the book was even written in the first place. The book is also a lot more brutal and it really gets across how violent and tortured the kids are. In the books the launchies are also much much younger, but having a bunch of 6-10 year olds killing each other brutally isn't exactly good for a movie. 6/10, because the visuals are very nice, and a lot of the locations were just as I imagined them to be. Some of the acting has its moments, and some of the battle scenes are really amazing. [editline]2nd February 2014[/editline] There is absolutely no chance for sequels because they stripped out all of the important stuff like Locke, Demosthenes, and Peter becoming the Hegemon. Not that the other books would translate particularly well to movies, because much of it is about humanism and alien minds, not pew pew action.

Just finished watching '12 Years A Slave'. Absolutely amazing film. Incredibly done!

[QUOTE=SeamanStains;43754540] There is absolutely no chance for sequels because they stripped out all of the important stuff like Locke, Demosthenes, and Peter becoming the Hegemon. Not that the other books would translate particularly well to movies, because much of it is about humanism and alien minds, not pew pew action.[/QUOTE] That's a shame. I'd love to see how they'd do Jane and the piggies.

[B]Thor 2[/B] Well the first romp was good fun and this is more of the same except its a much more simple idea than family feuds. This time the usual tried and tested superhero format of good vs evil with evil beating down good and then good becoming the underdog before winning was used soyou have exactly the same film as all the other Marvel shit. The bad guys looked like something borrowed from doctor who cutting room floor and the big dick wasn't particularly menacing at all. The lack of chemistry between Hemsworth and Portman was obvious, these 2 don't work well together. Overall I was rather disappointed after enjoying the first one. Bring back Ken Brannagh.