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Lady Door · « **Reply #1750 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:06:15 AM »

This is not a new movie, but it is my official "hey, it's Christmas" movie, and I've broken it out for the first watch of the season. It is by far my favorite.

Love, Actually.

SHUT UP. I'm allowed to like chick flicks.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1751 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:55:09 AM »

Quote from: Lady Door on December 03, 2012, 12:06:15 AM

CHICK FLICKITY FLICK FLICK

Well, if I told Idun she was allowed to be girly, who am I to tell you otherwise. At least Love, Actually is pretty good!

Grefter · « **Reply #1752 on:** December 03, 2012, 12:58:22 AM »

Needs more Princess Bride all up ins.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #1753 on:** December 03, 2012, 01:08:14 AM »

Wreck-It Ralph- Great movie. They took what is a pretty gratuitous concept and worked it out fantastically. Setup is great, just the transition from there to Sugar Rush feels a bit rushed but getting to it quickly was worth it. They used the classic characters in clever ways as well.

Pretty much all the original characters were great. Vanellope was adorable. Villain was hilarious. Sour Bill is awesome. I should avatar him.

My one problem with the movie is that Jack McBrayer (Felix Fixit) is playing Kenneth, pretty much. A bit distracting, since it... I dunno. Hard to tell if the character was crafted to him or he just decided to go that route. It sort of fits but is also sort of just... meh. Also kinda iffy on Jane Lynch's voice (in general) but it fit the role.

Fuck it. Time to go to Tappers.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1754 on:** December 07, 2012, 04:25:29 PM »

Dead Poets Society: Rewatched for the first time since I was in high school. Still an amazing film, perhaps moreso than the first few times I watched it as a kid. Do highschoolers count as kids now? They certainly count as people who did not appreciate this film enough, that's for damn sure.

Twilight: Gave up watching it when the rifftrax mp3 wouldn't sync up with the film. This is the lovestory of our age, everyone, and like everything else CaptainK likes, it is goddamn terrible.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1755 on:** December 07, 2012, 04:29:46 PM »

It amazes me you even bothered, rifftrax or not.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #1756 on:** December 07, 2012, 05:05:12 PM »

Expendables 2: So...the first was disappointing, being a movie that tried to have actual plot, characterization, and make the characters look like "Yeah, we're awesome" and all that, and had freaking ERIC ROBERTS as a villain against an all-star action movie cast...

...this movie is loaded with silly one liners, gives Bruce Willis and Arnold actual roles (if still overall minor), a female who actually compliments action scenes as opposed to sitting on the sidelines, CHUCK NORRIS appearing to the song from The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, and Van Dam as the villain, which is far more acceptable!

This is what the first movie should have been. It's self aware, campy, plot is basically just there for a vehicle of "Go here for next action scene" and basically embraces the spirit of an action movie. THIS is what I was expecting; a movie that is nothing but embracing all the Action Movie Cliches.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1757 on:** December 07, 2012, 11:39:39 PM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 07, 2012, 04:29:46 PM

It amazes me you even bothered, rifftrax or not.

The things you'll do when someone else is choosing the film.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1758 on:** December 12, 2012, 05:13:21 AM »

Lincoln: The acting was good, but I didn't realize going in that this was an alternate reality piece. I mean, there wasn't a single vampire in the movie!

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Seriously though, I don't really like historical movies because there's no suspense. You already know the North won the war and that the thirteenth amendment passed, so it just kind of goes through the motions. The acting was very good. Sally Field will be a serious contender for the Oscar this year.

Cotigo · « **Reply #1759 on:** December 12, 2012, 02:54:09 PM »

Quote from: Captain K. on December 12, 2012, 05:13:21 AM

Seriously though, I don't really like historical movies because there's no suspense. You already know the North won the war and that the thirteenth amendment passed, so it just kind of goes through the motions. The acting was very good. Sally Field will be a serious contender for the Oscar this year.

Titanic was bad because you know the boat's going to sink. James Bond was bad because you know James Bond lives. Does Kevin Bacon escape from LA? The answer is yes it is the name of the film.

Captain K. · « **Reply #1760 on:** December 13, 2012, 05:16:48 AM »

Ah, but Kevin Bacon *didn't* escape from LA. He wasn't even in that movie, therefore he must have already died.

Sierra · « **Reply #1761 on:** December 13, 2012, 11:01:45 AM »

Nobody escaped from L.A. because there was no such movie. There was only Escape From New York.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1762 on:** December 13, 2012, 11:45:03 AM »

<Ciddy> I am become Ciddy-kins, retconner of worlds.

Grefter · « **Reply #1763 on:** December 13, 2012, 12:33:24 PM »

Quote from: Jo'ou Ranbu on December 13, 2012, 11:45:03 AM

WATCH LOOPER WATCH LOOPER WATCH LOOPER WATCH LOOPER WATCH LOOPER WATCH LOOPER

NotMiki · « **Reply #1764 on:** December 15, 2012, 05:43:37 AM »

The Hobbit: in sum: good!

The beginning at Bag End is particularly good. I was really hoping the song the dwarves sing about trashing Bilbo's house would make it in. It's in, and it's better than I could have hoped. The shot selection does a great job of playing up Bilbo's exasperation and the humor of the whole thing. It's delightful, probably the best sequence Peter Jackson's ever directed.

Most of the movie grounds the grandiose setting with humor, to great effect. If you're not a fan of entertaining but superfluous action sequences, though, the movie will begin to drag somewhere in the mines. Movie reminded me of the island in King Kong in that respect.

Two gripes: the LotR victory lap material was a bit forced, and Thorin was miscast, or if not miscast needed to be told to look more regal and less surly more often.

Dark Holy Elf · « **Reply #1765 on:** December 15, 2012, 06:32:17 AM »

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I was really hoping the song the dwarves sing about trashing Bilbo's house would make it in. It's in, and it's better than I could have hoped.

yessss

Is the Gollum sequence good? That was pretty easily my favourite part of the book.

NotMiki · « **Reply #1766 on:** December 15, 2012, 07:33:07 AM »

It was ok, but I thought the movie's take on the scene was too light - both figuratively and literally. Gollum is delightfully creepy and mercurial, but the riddle contest never feels like a life and death affair.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1767 on:** December 21, 2012, 12:53:02 AM »

Conan the Barbarian (v.1982)- So I'd never seen this. It's... I hesitate to say good exactly. But this movie really oozes love from it. The guys writing this and doing the sets and action and music and all that wanted more than anything to make a grand adventure that would be remembered for years to come. And obviously they succeeded there. But yeah, despite being such a product of its time the care taken with things really gives it a boost.

Sierra · « **Reply #1768 on:** December 21, 2012, 09:25:52 PM »

I wouldn't hesitate to call it good. It knows exactly what it wants to be and accomplishes that with aplomb. Doesn't make Arnold talk any more than is really necessary and has just enough dramatic weight to not be pure, brain-dead spectacle. The music in particular is possibly the most effective soundtrack I've heard in a movie (it's that or Wrath of Khan).

Admittedly music goes much further towards making a piece of entertainment work for me than it probably should.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1769 on:** December 21, 2012, 09:31:00 PM »

<Ciddy> Music nerds are the best nerds.

Idun · « **Reply #1770 on:** December 24, 2012, 03:57:21 AM »

The Wind that Shakes the Barley - 4/5. Great film about the Irish War of Independence and its Civil War. Also best watched after Hunger, a film I saw quite some time ago now.

Speaking of---

CT

when you see this, you got any movie suggestions for Scotland cinema?

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1771 on:** December 25, 2012, 07:07:21 AM »

Skyfall- So like... what were they going for with the title drop in the second half. That is a fucking weird place to take a goddamned bond movie. I think there's a joke here I'm not in on.

Rest is pretty great, last half has moments, just... weird man.

Jo'ou Ranbu · « **Reply #1772 on:** December 25, 2012, 03:53:08 PM »

Quote from: Cmdr_King on December 25, 2012, 07:07:21 AM

Skyfall- So like... what were they going for with the title drop in the second half. That is a fucking weird place to take a goddamned bond movie. I think there's a joke here I'm not in on.

I'm pretty sure the joke is making people think about it.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #1773 on:** December 26, 2012, 04:41:44 AM »

Les Mis- That youtube commenter was right. Just give Anne Hathaway the Oscar now.

Idun · « **Reply #1774 on:** December 26, 2012, 04:46:36 AM »

Wooh! Glad there is great feedback. Going to see it this weekend with the Hobbit!

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I love the new roles that Hathaway plays these days.

Magic Mike - 3/5. Sexy, sexy, sexy. Abrupt end? Bah. Movie where I finally like McConaughey? (SP, wtfever, I don't remember actor names...)

Avengers - 4/5. Funny, funny, liked intermittent parodies... SMASH.

Batman Rises - 3/5. Boring. Bane, liked. Series of events at the end happened way too quickly. Uprising in the city almost unbelievable until I remember them playing on Gotham's civil issues. Mmm, eh. I would have given it less of a score had I not enjoyed Alfred so much.

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