[QUOTE=GunskiMod;29338570]I didn't like Star Wars 4-6, but loved 1-3.[/QUOTE]
Yeah the originals were way better. Too bad George Lucas made shitty sequals with horrible effects including boring characters like Luke Skywalker.
/joke
i'd give shawshank a 7 out of ten. there wasn't anything wrong with the film, it was just pretty mediocre, or at least to me. things were fairly predictable, and i had seen much better, more emotionally meaningful movies.
just about every zombie movie that wasn't night of the living dead, dawn of the dead, 28 days later, or planet terror. there's a huge amount of potential symbolism with zombies - for instance, dawn and 28 were both heavily political - but a lot of movies waste that potential and instead use zombies as a medium for mindless gore and violence.
[QUOTE=Simski;36837097]Well since the movie was made in 1968, it was a movie produced long before mankind's first visit to the moon, and even before mankind had even managed to experience much travel in space at all. How living with zero gravity, the effects of the vacuum of space, space ship travel, and technology in general would be like in the future had not only no real world examples yet, but Clarke's theories and his hypotheses for how things would work were not only very accurate but even helped solve many design problems when mankind actually first went into space.
Yes the whole later parts of the movie where he goes through the whole LSD trip thing I can understand why you'd dislike, but such displays were not very common at the time and fascinated many viewers, and it was a scene based on part in the book with hypothesized alien intergalactic travel which was described with such complexity that it would have been impossible to accurately recreate on screen with the current technology available at the time they created this movie.
The most interesting things about this movie to me wasn't the actual encounter with the monolith during the latter parts of the movie, it's how believable its depiction of astronauts, space travel, and life on board of a space ship is despite being made before any of these existed. This, and for being the pioneer of depicting sentient AI systems as defying human orders and killing off humans due to malfunctions, and in a very believable way.
[sp]/Fanboy rant[/sp] :v:[/QUOTE]
summed up my views just about perfectly.
it seems that a lot of people don't like 2001 because of the slow pace of it. for me that was part of what made it brilliant - it emphasized the carefulness and calculation of space exploration, and hence our dependence on technology and assumption that it will function predictably (this is referring to hal in comparison to humans but it could be applied to the relationship between aliens and humans in he film as well). it set a tone of patience and isolation.
part of the reason i love it so much is because of the contrast between the book and movie's styles as well. the movie was more minimalistic while the book was quite explicit with information and more of your standard sci-fi novel. it was like looking at two completely different versions of the same story, each emphasizing opposite aspects. if you've only seen the film you've only heard half the story.
Well it's probably not that popular around here, but a lot of people I know love Easy A.
I like Emma Stone and she did a good job, but what the hell was the movie about. It was just really stupid and random. The pacing was terrible. And they tried way too hard to make all the characters likeable.
[QUOTE=kevlar jens;35099396][B]The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)[/B] - Didn't like it one bit. The mix of Swedish and English was really wierd. Craig didn't seem Swedish at all and the girl's Swenglish sounded like French at times. I think moving the entire story over to the US would have been better.
[B]Rise of the Planet of the Apes[/B] - Just very forgettable and uninteresting. I couldn't even care for the monkey.
[B]28 Days Later[/B] - The dad was like the only likable character. The rest of the cast were dumb and unlikable. And the part where the protag goes on a barechested predator-y hunt on the army lads was just too terrible.
[B]The Social Network[/B] - Stupid concept, and at times laughable execution- I just couldn't take any of the collage brats seriously.
[B]Black Swan[/B] - Didn't like it.
[B]The Hurt Locker[/B] - Awful. I don't understand how this rocked the Oscars back in 10. Unlikable protag resulting in the whole film lacking any sense of suspense.
[B]The Dark Knight[/B] - It's a good film, I give it a 8/10, I just don't think it's an amazing 10/10 film like so many do.[/QUOTE]
you're the chief of nitpick central, yes?
All of the Star Wars movies - All of the acting is wooden, the story is made of straw, the special effects do nothing to save the films, the only thing that very nearly does is Harrison Ford, without him the movies would've failed completely.
Superbad. Just can't find having to feel ashamed for other people funny anymore, dunno why. Loved 21 Jump Street though, if only because it had some awesome lines in it.
[B]Hurt Locker[/B]
What a piece of fucking heroic, propaganda bullshit. I don't need films to be true to life, films are fiction afterall but this was like having a bag of dog shit thrown at my eyes. The timing was terrible, if I found out in time it was commissioned by the dept of defence to get the public back on side over the Iraq war I'd be totally unshocked.
The predictable Oscar celebration of this brain rape was disgusting because as usual, if you want an Oscar, do a film about Jews geting killed, blacks getting hated on, homosexuals getting a bad deal or some other 'pull on my heart strings' bullshit to sell tickets and disks. Fuck this film and fuck the Oscars.
Rant over.
[QUOTE=fingerinmum;36854947][B]Hurt Locker[/B]
What a piece of fucking heroic, propaganda bullshit. I don't need films to be true to life, films are fiction afterall but this was like having a bag of dog shit thrown at my eyes. The timing was terrible, if I found out in time it was commissioned by the dept of defence to get the public back on side over the Iraq war I'd be totally unshocked.
The predictable Oscar celebration of this brain rape was disgusting because as usual, if you want an Oscar, do a film about Jews geting killed, blacks getting hated on, homosexuals getting a bad deal or some other 'pull on my heart strings' bullshit to sell tickets and disks. Fuck this film and fuck the Oscars.
Rant over.[/QUOTE]
Wow are you retarded.
The Hurt Locker was very anti-war.
[QUOTE=Webby2020;36855015]Wow are you retarded.
The Hurt Locker was very anti-war.[/QUOTE]
Retarded? No, I posted an opinion you didn't agree with. I articulated myself well and did it without sinking to personal attacks, I suggest you do the same when replying to posts.
[QUOTE=WubWubWompWomp;36853438]All of the Star Wars movies - All of the acting is wooden, the story is made of straw, the special effects do nothing to save the films, the only thing that very nearly does is Harrison Ford, without him the movies would've failed completely.[/QUOTE]
but Luke... Yoda... Leia... whaaaat
Harrison Ford was an amazing supporting role, but he by no means carried that movie.
wrong thread
[QUOTE=sp00ks;36874277]The Dark Knight Rises: 8.5/10
Very good movie, although there were parts that made no sense, and the whole love story with Tate felt weird.[/QUOTE]
You rate it 8.5 and you didn't like it, how the fuck does that work?
[QUOTE=Skidd;36874384]You rate it 8.5 and you didn't like it, how the fuck does that work?[/QUOTE]
Shit, posted it in the wrong thread.
It was supposed to be in that "rate the last movie you watched" thread.
the whole damn twilight saga. Oh yeah a hot teenage girl is in love with a hot vampire dude yeah thats the type of shallow crap our teenage girls need to love these days. if that guy wasnt "hott" the girl woudnt want a damn thing to do with him. laughs. i hear the books are deeper then the movies anyways.
oh and on a religious side. the damn firepoof movie. everyone thought ooh it was a great movie. it had terrible acting low production values. the wife was an unlikeable character at all. and it just was an unrealistic potrayal of a marrage. any idiot who thought that movie was great is just a religious moron no offense. whats sad is the movie they made before it facing the giants i thought was pretty good...
I hated forrest gump, it was retarded.
Avatar - Too boring and it was a mix of dances with wolves, Gears of War and had the vehicles from Halo wars in it.
Up - I don't see the big deal about it.
Rise of the Planet of the Apes - It tries to make you value an apes life over a humans.
[QUOTE=grabinpeelz;36910243]I hated forrest gump, it was retarded.[/QUOTE]
how can you find such an art-film retarded
[editline]24th July 2012[/editline]
your opinion is just wrong
Rudy
The less inspirational football movies I could do with the better
the fucking hunger games, i remember like half of fp had a hard-on for it when it came out in theaters and it was shit imo.
The Godfather Part II
I like this movie, but not as much as most people do.
The last three Batman movies, Avatar, and Inception.
The Hunger Games,
Titanic
All of Nolan's Batman movies
Inception
Hurt Locker
oh and finally that dreadful Twilight saga which is worse than even the Hunger Games.
[QUOTE=DTkach;35098733]2001:A Space Odyssey.
Most boring movie I've ever seen. It just screamed "I'M BEING ARTISTIC~~~~" to me to the point that I wanted to punch the screen.[/QUOTE]
It's a slow movie. You're just easily irritated.
Oh and all of the Harry Potter movies. All of them.
Oh and Lord of the Rings. All of them.
[QUOTE=Doozle;35098867]Avatar and Inception.
Both visually spectacular, but both had to be honest pretty crap stories. Avatar was some hippy dippy pocahontas shit and Inception was just a bit stupid.
Inception was good but no where near as good as every said it was.[/QUOTE]
Some movies are retellings of older movies or stories. Like the movie "Old School" was a comedy version of Fight Club. So yeah, Avatar is a retelling of Pochahontas, but I think it made up for it for being visually orgasmic.
Old School is comedy Fight Club? Where the hell did you get that?
[editline]29th July 2012[/editline]
I mean, really.
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well..
I didn't like The Usual Suspects. Big Kevin Spacey fan too, it's among his worst along with "Life of David Gale".
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