The Official Movie Thread
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rms
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what kind of feelings did you have towards the main character? I hate him yet understand it at the same time it's awesome
unknown
fuck ftagn
This looks damn good (not that im a big B.A.) fan. Hopefully not filled with too much cheesimo?
Cris Cooper is the nuts btw!
http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/20986885/standardformat
Cris Cooper is the nuts btw!
http://movies.yahoo.com/premieres/20986885/standardformat
Badbird
Never banned
unknown
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rms
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I try to get my hopes up for any movie lately but Predators let me down, god damnit. Maybe if Inception gets here i'll get at least one decent movie in the movie theater in a year.
Einherjar86
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Chanakya
Orphaned Brother
I was going to ask you the same thing.
It's just a short story, Memento Mori. I found it quite an interesting read for a short story. I don't know if you'd enjoy it on account of it's simplicity.
unknown
fuck ftagn
I watched Terry Gilliam's Tideland last night. Before the movie starts, Gilliam gives a little public service announcement saying many people will not like his film and blah blah blah. After having watched it, I could understand why. It's about a little girl whose dad is heroin addict past rockstar played by Jeff Bridges, and her mom is a psycho played by Jennifer Tilly. Bridges and the little girl soon move to grandma's abandoned house on the prairie after Tilly dies.
She then roams the prairie and falls in love with a mentally challenged guy who looks close to 30. Oh and then there's the mentally challenged guy's sister who is a taxidermist (for fun?) who stuffs all sorts of things including people.
sounds like typical fair for a Gilliam movie. I thought it was good, nothing great. The little girl in the movie is great, but I could understand why some people would hate it
She then roams the prairie and falls in love with a mentally challenged guy who looks close to 30. Oh and then there's the mentally challenged guy's sister who is a taxidermist (for fun?) who stuffs all sorts of things including people.
sounds like typical fair for a Gilliam movie. I thought it was good, nothing great. The little girl in the movie is great, but I could understand why some people would hate it
panzerfaust666
German Asshole
I was going to ask you the same thing.
Psyched for this.
Valhalla rising was incredible. I cant even begin to explain how great it is,imo. Mads Mikkelsen ftw.
Blind Guardian
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I haven't seen Valhalla Rising and I wasn't intending to either before I happened to read a bit about it. From the name and the pictures I had seen I assumed it was another shitty 300-type action movie, but apparently that isn't the case at all. They really should have chosen a more subtle name, so as to not attract all the action-morons out there.
The Emptier
t3h b3aSt0rZ
God damn I can't wait for Super 8, i shit bricks when i saw the teaser a couple months back...
no country for old wainds
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mostly really like tideland don't like valhalla rising quite like inception rather like memento really like martyrs for an hour
i dunno if anyone was actually talking about criticker other than the guy who rated martyrs and mentioned PSI, but anyone who criticises that site for using a '100 point rating system' has no understanding of the site at all.
stuff i'm looking forward to seeing atm is toy story 3, dogtooth, bluebeard, prob a couple of others i've forgotten
i dunno if anyone was actually talking about criticker other than the guy who rated martyrs and mentioned PSI, but anyone who criticises that site for using a '100 point rating system' has no understanding of the site at all.
stuff i'm looking forward to seeing atm is toy story 3, dogtooth, bluebeard, prob a couple of others i've forgotten
Prismatic Sphere
We Carouse
It seems that people either like the first half or the second half better. I'm one of the second half people.
*SPOILER ALERT* Namely becuase I felt that it was fairly obvious early on that "the monster" was all in Lucie's head. This to me is the film's only real flaw and I found the second half with the reveal of the cult far more intriguing and fascinating. *END SPOILER ALERT*
By the by, if anyone wants to discuss the ending to this truly remarkable film, I'm game.
Psychonaut
God Of Emptiness
The Book Of Eli - Liked it more than I thought I would considering the strong religious tones. Beautifully shot. Gatling gun scene was a nice speaker workout.
Krigloch the Furious
Pants full of poo
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SPOILER ETC
the second half to me is just a really didactic, trying-to-be-clever treatise on why the first half was so intense and compelling. the *plot* if you want to call it that is really contrived to serve this essay (which, i'll grant you, is fairly insightful about the genre if a little obvious), and all the tension dissipates as a result of said contrived-ness. i also found the ending to be quite awful, the kind of sly, juvenile trick you'd see in a saw movie or something. it may be that it was the only way of ending it, but that only highlights the deficiencies of the allegory as far as i'm concerned.
