Author Topic: Movies (Read 308679 times)

Grefter · « **Reply #2650 on:** June 09, 2016, 07:41:46 AM »

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Apoco Lips

Get your DC bullshit out of here.

But yeah otherwise you are spot on. Movie Apocalypse is pretty true to the source material. Terrible boring nothing character who's backstory and powers change drastically as the story needs it.

Shale · « **Reply #2651 on:** June 09, 2016, 04:11:21 PM »

Quote from: Anthony Edward Stark on June 09, 2016, 07:11:06 AM

He's an outgrowth of making Magneto an actual character. They introduced Apocalypse because they needed someone who didn't really have an ethos or any goal besides to destroy things. They didn't really think out his powers or anything, so they just said he had the power of "molecule manipulation" which is basically like wishing for infinite wishes. And his backstory is really dumb and he's not interesting in any way.

It was made worse because he was introduced right when Louise Simonson took over writing the book after the first guy sucked so bad he couldn't finish a single story arc, and he'd been planing to reveal that X-Factor's big mysterious archnemesis was....The Owl. Simonson decided that comics' most villainous accountant would not make for a compelling villain but at that point she had something like nineteen seconds to come up with something better.

dunie · « **Reply #2652 on:** June 11, 2016, 02:39:41 PM »

I just saw Frederick Wiseman's The Hospital (1970, 35mm) at the Marchesa. It's a docufilm and Wiseman's cinematography's recognized for taking slow looks at institutions. In this case, he captures scenes, people, things at Met Hospital in New York. The film felt like a slow burn of nonstop melodrama, which is about right for hospital doctor and patient interactions, and a very nervewrecking moment of older hospital standards (re: no gloves for bleeding victims, surgery without knowing results first, tying almost all patients in chairs, equipment that doesn't alleviate any physical strain a patient might have). Now, I love me some melodrama and I love being melodramatic, but Wiseman captures one scene of a younger patient that is kinda the best melodrama my eye's have recently come across. And it burns for about 5 minutes or more, of a real flesh and life hipster.

Captain K · « **Reply #2653 on:** June 13, 2016, 02:09:06 AM »

Warcraft: Wasn't really interested in this but the wife wanted to see it. Turned out to be quite a bit better than I expected. It's videogamey without being cheesy - by that I mean people who enjoy videogames will appreciate it. There are subtle nods to the Warcraft game but they didn't just shoehorn in stuff. Everything is very deliberate and the world feels really fleshed out. Closest movie I could compare it to is Avatar, in terms of story quality and special effects. Recommend seeing it in the theater because the special effects are fantastic. Magic looks fucking amazing.

Didn't like the young magician at first but I grew to like him. Worst character was the halfbreed, she fails completely at acting.

and of course the ending resolves nothing because we gotta have sequels

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #2654 on:** June 13, 2016, 08:15:08 PM »

Wow, you weren't kidding. I just read a summary and they didn't even resolve as much as the actual canon ending of Warcraft 1.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #2655 on:** June 13, 2016, 08:51:15 PM »

I also saw Warcraft this last week, but I had more or less the opposite reaction: agonizingly boring movie with terrible action and uninteresting characters.

Captain K · « **Reply #2656 on:** June 14, 2016, 12:23:37 AM »

Yeah I've been reading reviews online and they're all over the place. One guy said it was as bad as the Dungeons and Dragons movie. But there's just as many people that love it as hate it. I'm not sure what's causing such bipolar responses. Almost like they're showing different versions of the film in different theaters.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #2657 on:** June 14, 2016, 03:53:06 AM »

Chris Metzen's self-insert character is now both Jesus AND Moses so that's something.

AndrewRogue · « **Reply #2658 on:** June 14, 2016, 07:00:24 PM »

Quote from: Anthony Edward Stark on June 14, 2016, 03:53:06 AM

Chris Metzen's self-insert character is now both Jesus AND Moses so that's something.

Speaking of that...

Why the fuck did she throw the knife down on the shore like a billion feet from her when she went to put Thrall in the water? That was like, the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Like, she deserved to get murdered with that knife for that idiocy.

dunie · « **Reply #2659 on:** June 18, 2016, 01:45:35 PM »

So, Austin Film Society has an.. Austin Asian American Foreign Film Society series going on and I just saw Piccadilly by Arnold Bennett. It's a silent film from Britain, repaired/conserved. First silent film ever, music from a live DJ. I thought the film was okay. I was incredibly intrigued by how ballsy Shosho (Anna May Wong) was in terms of entitlement, which probably predates (?) the dragon lady stereotype in film. It's pretty awesome that I popped my silent-film virginity with a movie starring the first Chinese American actress though.

My friend and I went to see it because we're into surrealist film. The clothing and lights were pretty insane, man, and there were a few head-on shots of disembodied hands recording everyday human actions that was very uncomfortable to look at on 35mm. I didn't quite understand the repair process that the AFS mentioned prior to showing, but the scenes are pretty much tinted with a dark reddish/orange. Some scenes weren't salvageable in the restoration process, so they put in film from another reel (

) and at times the room switched from the burning orange to an intense blue.

Lots of people were laughing at the cinematic/acting, I think because of how uncomfortable or crude they felt about old film. Apparently these folks have never been to a play in their entire lives. A pity.

Fudozukushi · « **Reply #2660 on:** June 26, 2016, 07:01:00 PM »

Warcraft: I'll put my tent in the enjoyed it camp. Definitely helped by franchise familiarity though.

Sierra · « **Reply #2661 on:** July 02, 2016, 08:57:08 PM »

The Social Network: I don't know why I rented this one since there are few things I could give less of a fuck about than social media. Was actually good, which I guess shouldn't be a surprise since Fincher's actually an adept storyteller for someone coming out of a music video background. Not really why I'm posting about it though. Midway through the movie the guy behind Napster enters the story. Upon introduction I go, "Oh, that's a familiar name. Probably a coincidence though, since it's also not an unusual one." Keep watching movie. Then later on when this dude's in a police station he's got an inhaler out and he's going on about his allergies and hold the phone, Janine. Wiki search is go after movie: born in northern Virginia around the same time as me, transferred midway through high school and got in trouble with the FBI for hacking...holy shit, I went to elementary school with this guy.

So this was an unexpectedly surreal viewing experience.

DjinnAndTonic · « **Reply #2662 on:** July 03, 2016, 01:44:05 AM »

Is pulling out an inhaler and complaining about allergies such a rare thing among people in Virginia that it triggers elementary school memories?

Grefter · « **Reply #2663 on:** July 03, 2016, 02:21:19 AM »

It is more that the movie has the dude's real name in it innit?

Captain K · « **Reply #2664 on:** July 03, 2016, 03:23:25 AM »

Man of Steel: caught this on tv. Not too bad actually. I liked it more than Superman Returns. Thought Cavill did a fine job portraying the character. Kevin Costner death scene is all kinds of retarded, but rest of the movie seemed pretty well thought out. Which makes BvS stand out even more as being bad, because Snyder has already shown that he can create a coherent film about Superman.

Sierra · « **Reply #2665 on:** July 03, 2016, 01:14:27 PM »

Quote from: Grefter on July 03, 2016, 02:21:19 AM

It is more that the movie has the dude's real name in it innit?

Yeah, that + the above = escalation from haha funny coincidence to oh wow, this is what happened to him? Neither in a vacuum would've prompted me to actually look this up and confirm it afterward (during which process it became apparent that non-movie details were also personally familiar).

The Duck · « **Reply #2666 on:** July 09, 2016, 01:04:29 PM »

Swiss Army Man - this is a movie with punchable Paul Dano about to kill himself before he sees Daniel Radcliffe who is a farting corpse and it becomes a magical realism thing where Dano goes on an adventure with Radcliffe, teaching him things about boobs, boners, and masturbation. It is unlike anything else I've ever seen and yet I cannot figure out if the movie is good or not.

Meeplelard · « **Reply #2667 on:** July 11, 2016, 09:21:46 PM »

Inside Out: Finally got around to seeing it and yeah, it was good. I wouldn't say it was OMG AMAZING, as it was about what I expected from a quality Pixar film, but that's by no means a bad thing...in fact, if anything "typical Pixar film" is a good thing seeing as their mediocrities (let alone their failures) are the outliers here.

Cmdr_King · « **Reply #2668 on:** July 15, 2016, 07:20:55 AM »

Ghostbusters 2016-

From memory, probably better than Ghostbusters II anyway?

There's a pile of small issues in the movie, mostly flaws in timing, extraneous and distracting jokes, characters never quite coalescing. Like, it could have been great but needed another pass each on the script and in the editing room.

But damned if Thor doesn't make a great big dumb blonde. Holtzmann is also consistently awesome. And openly hitting on the other Ghostbusters. Thumbs up.

Vote for the best cameo: Sigourney Weaver.

dunie · « **Reply #2669 on:** July 15, 2016, 05:14:33 PM »

Quote from: Meeplelard on July 11, 2016, 09:21:46 PM

Inside Out: Finally got around to seeing it and yeah, it was good. I wouldn't say it was OMG AMAZING, as it was about what I expected from a quality Pixar film, but that's by no means a bad thing...in fact, if anything "typical Pixar film" is a good thing seeing as their mediocrities (let alone their failures) are the outliers here.

I mostly enjoyed moments during the abstract thought segments.

Hunter Sopko · « **Reply #2670 on:** July 16, 2016, 01:00:10 AM »

Ghostbusters-

Was really good. I enjoyed it. CK's right in that there's some legit criticisms you can level at the movie, but they honestly didn't take away from my enjoyment of it. Kevin and Holtzman both make the movie. Everyone's cameo was great except Dan Akroyd's (a little too cutesy). The bust of Harold Ramis was a great Easter Egg.

Movie had a great sense of comedic timing in its dialogue in general. That's usually where the movie shined in its comedy, rather than the original's great one-liners and quotables.

Shale · « **Reply #2671 on:** July 18, 2016, 01:56:19 AM »

I mostly agree with Sopko - not the same style of humor as the original ("that would have worked if you hadn't stopped me" wouldn't fit in this script), but that's a difference, not a flaw. Feig & co. nail the tone they're going for, and Hemsworth and McKinnon being awesome sure doesn't hurt.

SnowFire · « **Reply #2672 on:** July 18, 2016, 05:08:28 AM »

I really liked the 2016 Ghostbusters. I am, however, the reverse of CK on this one... Holtzmann / McKinnon was the weakest character by a lot for me, and Sigourney Weaver's cameo was neither funny nor particularly fitting. Wiig & Hemsworth were the stars. Also, "better than GB2" is damning with faint praise, since GB2 was not actually good, and GB2016 is a lot better than that.

Also, looking at the audience reviews fills me with despair, as the crowd that really, really hates the movie is in full force. I guess I'll grant that *one* of the jokes they complain about wasn't very good, but sheesh. (The, uh, targeting of the Ghostbusters in the final confrontation. Hur hur I get it thx, except it doesn't make any particular sense because the villain isn't a chauvinist and is also a ghost, which makes it less funny. Flip side, compare it to Abby reading the comments to the YouTube video... that both made perfect sense "in setting", was funny, and was a nice shot across the bow at the haters.)

Grefter · « **Reply #2673 on:** July 18, 2016, 12:04:00 PM »

Just got out of it now. I am with Sopko as well.

I think your tiny text would have happened even with a male cast Snowfire, because it was a PG summer movie and that is what happens.

I am all about Holzman and Kevin. It helpsa bit that they both easily get the best action sequences, but the characters in general do it for me. The toast at the end by Holzman is those feels for all those introverts.

Leslie Jones was enjoyable but I don't know how strong the stereotype plays out? Patricia's opening sequence is pretty well done and anchors her really personably from the outset in my opinion.

I dug that the villain was the same personality type as internet edgelords without being about them.

Captain K · « **Reply #2674 on:** July 18, 2016, 11:19:06 PM »

Fuck you guys for making me briefly consider seeing the new Ghostbusters.

Toy Story 3: Did not care for it. This movie is dark as fuck. Like I would not take small children to see this because the incinerator scene would probably give them nightmares for weeks. And even though there's a "happy" ending, it's bittersweet because now you know what's going to happen the next time a child grows up.

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