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the only thing you can rely on is yourself because ebert is dead

[QUOTE=Pops;46878054]the only thing you can rely on is yourself because ebert is dead[/QUOTE] Not saying I don't agree with the arguement against RT here however you can't rely on yourself if you've never seen what you're wanting a rating on. Some people don't have time to check off steaming piles of shit.

[QUOTE=Pops;46878054]the only thing you can rely on is yourself because ebert is dead[/QUOTE] Even Ebert had shit taste sometimes. For example, 1 star for Blue Velvet, 2 for Die Hard. 3 out of 4 for Speed 2.

[QUOTE=Demeschik;46871684][b]The Guest (2014)[/b] At first I was confused why it'd be compared to Drive, I think I saw such a comparison here. And then it hit me like a fucking speeding truck.[/QUOTE] How? I mean, it didn't hit me like speeding truck. The first half - yeah, I could see some comparisons there. Especially in music choices, "nice" protagonist, sometimes with colors and not being shy of violence. But while Drive dealt with tiny subtleties, delicate subtexts and somehow a very romantic (not necessarily in a love meaning of the word) way, The Guest was exactly like a speeding truck, ramming everything straight in your face. What kind of spoiled the film for me was [sp]the experiment thing. It's banal, it's the simplest of cliches. The best way of dealing with this would be saying ABSOLUTELY nothing - it'd have to be up to viewer why some people seeming like military are after him, why is he murdering and why he is superhuman. Sure, the conclusions would be similar to what was presented in the film, but the ambiguity would make all the difference.[/sp] I'm not saying it's a bad film, however. I'm even convinced that along with Drive it may become a cult classic, and I can easily see why. For what it's trying to do it's doing quite well, I missed action films with sheer brutality and characters you may actually care about - and while stylistic choices were pretty good let's not pretend it's anything else than good action thriller (with long build-up, but exciting pay-off). It's still among the better films of the year. Give it a try to free your mind after long day.

[QUOTE=Joz;46878663]How? I mean, it didn't hit me like speeding truck. The first half - yeah, I could see some comparisons there. Especially in music choices, "nice" protagonist, sometimes with colors and not being shy of violence. I'm not saying it's a bad film, however. I'm even convinced that along with Drive it may become a cult classic, and I can easily see why. For what it's trying to do it's doing quite well, I missed action films with sheer brutality and characters you may actually care about - and while stylistic choices were pretty good let's not pretend it's anything else than good action thriller (with long build-up, but exciting pay-off).[/QUOTE] What I saw in Drive was just Thief (1981) with better camera work. It never grabbed me as much as it did other people, but I just don't like Refn's works in general. It's not just [sp]"David's" (notice the quotation marks? yeah, they tried to play on him having no real name too)[/sp] niceness, it's the way he came into the family's lives. He's an outsider, protecting the family in his own way, [sp]with dire consequences for him and the family[/sp] Look at Dan Stevens, and now look at Ryan Gosling. A point there, too. I don't think it's accidental - same year he was in A Walk Among the Tombstones he looked drastically different. Look at his character's behaviour when he's not with the family. Drive didn't have a deep or complex plot, it was banal too. It [i]was[/i] a callback movie, after all. The Guest is a dumber movie, in a sense, but the reason for that is that it took after dumber movies of the previous era. All I'm saying is, if you have seen both movies, you'll start noticing the similarities one after another, and not just in the soundtrack.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;46878598]Even Ebert had shit taste sometimes. For example, 1 star for Blue Velvet, 2 for Die Hard. 3 out of 4 for Speed 2.[/QUOTE] out of the majority of his reviews only a handful I really really disagree with. I don't care that much for "die hard, blue velvet, speed 2" to get worked up about ratings. one thing he was good at is finding those really obscure films from world cinema that you never see get reviewed. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] he gave The Master a bad review, but then included it in his best of year movies..

[QUOTE=Demeschik;46879563]It's not just [sp]"David's" (notice the quotation marks? yeah, they tried to play on him having no real name too)[/sp] niceness, it's the way he came into the family's lives. He's an outsider, protecting the family in his own way, [sp]with dire consequences for him and the family[/sp] Look at Dan Stevens, and now look at Ryan Gosling. A point there, too. I don't think it's accidental - same year he was in A Walk Among the Tombstones he looked drastically different. Look at his character's behaviour when he's not with the family.[/QUOTE] The point is - with Driver's "care" you could see something behind that dead-eyed stare, that he had some inner motives for protecting Carey Mulligan and doing what he did throughout the entire film. Here, at the beginning - yes I felt that sort of protection but [sp]later he turned out to be just a deluded psychopath with any indicator suggesting his positive attitude is when he said that he tried to protect them, but it could've been a lie told to "protect the experiment", or some other bullshit[/sp] About the physical similarities between those two - yeah, they're handsome and its meant to show a drastic contrast between how you approach a guy like that, with more positive emotions despite both of them being murderers. I doubt if that is a connection with Drive, not really.

[B]American Sniper - 9/10[/B] Clint Eastwood is far better as a director than as a tough-guy actor. What a great movie. I thought it did an excellent job telling a personal war story without an excessive amount of baggage one way or another. [sp]The ending was heartbreaking, but handled very well.[/sp]

[B]Nightcrawler [/B] holyshit/10 I heard it was good, but it still surpassed my expectations. Such a well made, well acted and gripping piece of cinema.

[QUOTE=PieClock;46878431]Not saying I don't agree with the argument against RT here however you can't rely on yourself if you've never seen what you're wanting a rating on. Some people don't have time to check off steaming piles of shit.[/QUOTE] when i say rely on yourself, i mean like "it stars this person/the effects looks good/it's directed/written by x" for example, fury has a hella good cast, a great director (who also wrote the screenplay), and the special effects looked fantastic from what i could tell in the trailer. those traits would imo guarantee a good flick. really though your best bet is just to ask friends or family if they've seen whatever movie you're interested in seeing.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 4/5 Despite the fact that I liked the movie (I wanted something funny, and it delivered), I really wish there was something more to it. The plot started out with an interesting premise- a crummy thief manages to bullshit his way into acting gets shipped off to LA for a shoot with a PI consultant who stumbles into a crime sounded excellent. Unfortunately, the whole acting part of it is brushed under the carpet and the movie's plot zig zags away from there. Yeah, I know [sp]it was all a ruse[/sp], but I really wish it was a bigger part of the movie. And even the big kicker could have been pushed further back, letting the relationship between Harry and Perry develop a little more. Even then, they could have made a very good straight noir movie with all the material they had, but no. It shouldn't be all that surprising, given that this is Shane Black. It's like watching Iron Man 3 again. It's good, it changes everything in the plot as it goes, but you do wish it was something more. As much as I bitch, however, this was a good movie. A hilarious movie. RDJ was still RDJ at points, but even then, he's still very entertaining and shows a little more depth than normal, so that was nice.

[QUOTE=AK'z;46879723]out of the majority of his reviews only a handful I really really disagree with. I don't care that much for "die hard, blue velvet, speed 2" to get worked up about ratings. one thing he was good at is finding those really obscure films from world cinema that you never see get reviewed. [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] he gave The Master a bad review, but then included it in his best of year movies..[/QUOTE] Roger also gave bad/mediocre reviews for A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, The Warriors, The Untouchables, Escape From New York, and The Usual Suspects. Meanwhile, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Junior, the Lara Croft film adaptations, and 2012 all got good reviews. Not to mention he gave a perfect score to Mad Max 3. Roger kind of had shit taste.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;46881012]Roger also gave bad/mediocre reviews for A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, Full Metal Jacket, The Warriors, The Untouchables, Escape From New York, and The Usual Suspects. Meanwhile, You Don't Mess With the Zohan, Junior, the Lara Croft film adaptations, and 2012 all got good reviews. Not to mention he gave a perfect score to Mad Max 3. Roger kind of had shit taste.[/QUOTE] yet a large quantity of non-hollywood films get noticed because of his work. plus everyone has a few movies they like that the majority don't. [editline]8th January 2015[/editline] also usual suspects wasn't that good :/

[B]Jurassic Park 3[/B] - 4/10 Good cinematography, pretty great effects. Shite storyline, miserable acting, bad scripting, "comedy" and one of the worst antagonists of all time. A scientifically inaccurate fish eater.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46881230][B]Jurassic Park 3[/B] - 4/10 Good cinematography, pretty great effects. Shite storyline, miserable acting, bad scripting, "comedy" and one of the worst antagonists of all time. A scientifically inaccurate fish eater.[/QUOTE] but it was better than the lost world

[QUOTE=Pops;46881426]but it was better than the lost world[/QUOTE] Oh by a mile, definitely [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] Only redeeming part of that one was the Mom n' Pop Tyrannosaurs

[QUOTE=Pops;46880857]when i say rely on yourself, i mean like "it stars this person/the effects looks good/it's directed/written by x" for example, fury has a hella good cast, a great director (who also wrote the screenplay), and the special effects looked fantastic from what i could tell in the trailer. those traits would imo guarantee a good flick. really though your best bet is just to ask friends or family if they've seen whatever movie you're interested in seeing.[/QUOTE] I understand this, and it's what I do, but for the general film audience it's just easier to look at the reviews because they don't know who directs what and so on. I mean if I took a film recommendation from friends or family i'd be more likely to end up with cancer from watching it than enjoying it.

I like all jurassic park films

I like all films [editline]7th January 2015[/editline] not

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;46881230][B]Jurassic Park 3[/B] - 4/10 Good cinematography, pretty great effects. Shite storyline, miserable acting, bad scripting, "comedy" and one of the worst antagonists of all time. A scientifically inaccurate fish eater.[/QUOTE] The river scene is fucking boss.

Watched "The Guest". It was alright. I see where people are pulling the drive similarities from but really story wise they're pretty different. Enjoyed the soundtrack.

I still uphold that Jurassic Park has some of the best CGI, like, ever. And that was over 20 years ago.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;46882482]I still uphold that Jurassic Park has some of the best CGI, like, ever. And that was over 20 years ago.[/QUOTE] does it [t]https://i.imgur.com/MnLDkC5.jpg[/t]

I rewatched Edge of Tomorrow a few days ago and it's still a great movie, but there is one thing I want to talk about. Tom Cruise is dying a lot in that movie, often at the hands of Rita, but there is one death that really made me think. There is this scene where Tom [del]rolls under a truck[/del] tries to roll under a truck and gets killed. But this time the movie doesn't immediately jump back to the beginning of the time loop but actually shows moustache guy's reaction to it. "Now what the hell were you thinking??" This implies that every single timeline he dies in actually keeps existing and only his mind travels to a new one. That means that all those times Rita killed him there is actually a scene we don't see where she realizes that she keeps on existing and has to deal with the consequences of killing Tom. Actually this also means there are thousands of timelines where the aliens won and wiped out humanity and the last scene of the movie is [sp]playing in one of only 2 timelines where the aliens didn't win[/sp] [editline]8th January 2015[/editline] Holy shit, that also means there are a bunch of timelines we never see where [sp]an alpha and later the whole alien race got killed.[/sp]

[QUOTE=Marc Laidlaw;46882575]does it [t]https://i.imgur.com/MnLDkC5.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Yes, it does.

into the woods so reprehensibly bad. like i am just very angry and upset having had to sit through two hours of that. the worst musical i have ever seen. piercing, annoying singing, completely dumb lyrics that most of the time made no sense at all, uninspired boring music that just went on and on and on, a nonsensical plot, christ everything was just so awful i almost left the cinema and would have if i wasnt a completionist to an apparently masochistic degree if you like musicals do not see this movie

Now the decent song just needs to get stupidly popular and it's complete.

[QUOTE=LTJGPliskin;46882776]Yes, it does.[/QUOTE] get ur eyes checked

Batman Forever - 6.5/10 I was surprised that I actually liked this. I had heard so much shit about it but it really wasn't that bad IMO. Yes, it was a lot different than any of the better batman movies, but on its own it wasn't too bad. Batman and Robin - 3/10 I regret everything.

[QUOTE=Butthurter;46883268]fill in the slot of frozen[/QUOTE] i hope this doesn't become a thing because frozen wasn't that great also sean connery inspired that song title [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjdT-AU3Q34[/media]