Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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Predators
This was a piece of shit. Charlie Hunnam did well. I love the ensemble crowd outside this movie, just not in it. Alfie Allen was criminally underused.
The idea of predators taking DNA from trophy prizes to integrate with their own was the best part of the movie. Also, least believable. But it’s a predator movie so whatever. Logic? Fuck off.
This was a piece of shit. Charlie Hunnam did well. I love the ensemble crowd outside this movie, just not in it. Alfie Allen was criminally underused.
The idea of predators taking DNA from trophy prizes to integrate with their own was the best part of the movie. Also, least believable. But it’s a predator movie so whatever. Logic? Fuck off.
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I'm actually jonesing to watch it a third time. There are so many hidden things that actually make the plot much clearer. Keep an eye out for...
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I think it's easy to lose track of the actual plot of the movie and how the main characters are being manipulated and it can be hard to realize what they're being manipulated to do. Big spoiler even if you've already seen it and didn't "get it."
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haha in your face, Lucas. If he hadn't sold Star Wars, after seeing this, the tone-deaf Lucas probably would have tried to add it or his own version of it into a Special SPECIAL edition, and destroy all versions of the film with the original duel. But it's too late now, George! Suck it!
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Special is still a euphemism for retarded right? I don't keep up on the current slang.
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Well, after seeing Leaving Neverland, this word gives me the shivers...
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Yeah and no...I didn't mind it. I would mind it as a replacement for the original...but as an alternative take on the encounter, it was actually pretty well done for a fan-piece.
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Await Further Instructions - low budget British sorta-horror movie where a family gets trapped in their house and the tv starts telling them to do weird shit. Good premise, very strange payoff that I still don't know if I like.
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Bless your heart
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Robocop - this is the first time I picked up Bob Morton saying he put prime candidates around the city according to risk factor, as well as it being implied he messed with Jones' ED-209 presentation so that he could get a chance to pitch his Robocop program with The Old Man.
edit: ED-209 debating with itself whether to go down the steps or not is a brilliant scene
edit: ED-209 debating with itself whether to go down the steps or not is a brilliant scene
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Finally saw Deathgasm. Goofy New Zealand made horror movie from a few years ago about dopey losers in a death metal band who discover a song/brown-note that turns everyone in their town in to zombie/demon creatures. Writer/director clearly is a fan of Evil Dead and old Peter Jackson movies... a LOT of blood, some ridiculous kills (wouldn't want to ruin them but there's a weed whacker, a fight scene involving sex toys and a dual wielding chainsaw routine). The "plot" is paper-thin (the cult/love story subplots are both super half-baked) and full of cliches to the point that it's almost satirical and the ending kinda sucks (feels like they just ran out of money). Some solid, creative gore effects though and the actors give it their all. I'm just a sucker for this kinda movie and I'm a little annoyed that I avoided it for as long as I did.
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I enjoyed this but, overall, Star Wars is dead to me. It had its day. The classic trilogy will always evoke the faded ghost of an emotional response from me but the ship has sailed.
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Yes, Morton indirectly engineered Murphy's demise but I think you are wrong about the presentation. Morton sulked like a scolded child while Jones introduced ED-209. It was only when things went south that he saw an opportunity and he went for it. Too bad about Kinney but that's life in the big city.
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Death House - starring Kane Hodder, and also small roles or cameos from Danny Trejo, Tony Todd, Sid Haig, Bill Mosely, Michael Barrymen, Barbara Crampton, Camille Keaton, and Adrienne Barbeau. Gratuitous nudity and violence were the only things that made it sort of watchable, though the ending is nuts and fully commits to being nuts, which I appreciate.
Aquaman - meh-ish. Entirely too long, and the insane amount of CG got a little overbearing at times. And the underwater hair, lol.
Aquaman - meh-ish. Entirely too long, and the insane amount of CG got a little overbearing at times. And the underwater hair, lol.
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The Captain- A German Private deserter during WWII finds a Captains uniform and assembles a random team of followers starts making up his own orders and they start to dispense their own form of justice. Did not go in the direction I thought it was going to go. Extremely disturbing especially since it's based on a true story. Recommended.
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You know..I used to hammer new video games for sucking so much...then I decided that possibly, it was I who was doing the sucking. I think I just grew cold to them.
I feel the way about new SW stuff. I was a fanboy at one time, but that pretty much died when Episode I came out. I endured the 90's "Special Olympics" edition and remained true...but Ep I killed it.
The new movies are mostly street-trash, not sure if it them or me that is doing the sucking this time.
Oh...and Robocop, still of the best films of all time.
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As someone who gives zero fucks about Star Wars and never did, Force Awakens and Rogue One are decent popcorn flicks. They have issues (the later favoring jerking off fanboys with stupid easter eggs over writing and characterization... plus the already-aging-like-milk Tarkin/Leia CGI) but they at least try to evoke a lived-in world and feel like they're made by adults rather than looking like a Gamecube-era Nintendo game took a shit on a high school drama club production of Star Wars (prequels). I haven't seen (and don't plan to see) Last Jedi or Solo though and I gather they didn't fare as well. My wife stopped giving a fuck and she was the only reason I saw the first two.
Speaking of my wife, we went and saw Long Shot this evening. This would be the Charlize Theron is the smoking hot potential presidential candidate who falls for her unattractive speech writer (Seth Rogan). You know... that old chestnut. Anyway, it was a totally serviceable date movie with a couple of good laughs. Seth Rogan's pothead laugh haunts my fucking nightmares normally but he plays a good charming oaf. It made my wife happy and it didn't suck so I figure a night well spent.
Speaking of my wife, we went and saw Long Shot this evening. This would be the Charlize Theron is the smoking hot potential presidential candidate who falls for her unattractive speech writer (Seth Rogan). You know... that old chestnut. Anyway, it was a totally serviceable date movie with a couple of good laughs. Seth Rogan's pothead laugh haunts my fucking nightmares normally but he plays a good charming oaf. It made my wife happy and it didn't suck so I figure a night well spent.
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Episode VII and Rogue One were indeed watchable...I didn't love either one, but I did enjoy them enough to see them. If the movies following those two had been at the same level, I would have been ok with it. Sadly, Episode VIII is an absolute train wreck and I skipped over Solo entirely.
I have zero hope for IX...and even less for whatever trash they come out with after that.
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The House that Jack Built
I knew it was Lars Von Trier, but uhg. It's bizarre at every moment. Tense, great acting. but I couldn't finish it. I just wasn't feeling it, and you really need to be in that state of mind for art piece films.
I knew it was Lars Von Trier, but uhg. It's bizarre at every moment. Tense, great acting. but I couldn't finish it. I just wasn't feeling it, and you really need to be in that state of mind for art piece films.
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von Trier is hit or miss. The Nymphomaniac movies and Antichrist are not for me. But I loved Breaking the Waves. Dancer in the Dark was hard to watch because it was sad.
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Krull - funny how reviewers slammed it for being derivative at the time, it's basically a breath of fresh air now. Really love the wide landscape shots as well.
The Road to El Dorado - showing this in class, I think some boys are having their sexual awakening with the wide-hipped native girl.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - first time I've seen this, boy howdy what a shame I missed this during my childhood. Basically a family film and yet in one scene Steve Martin's character says 'fuck' like 20 times. Maybe that's why I never saw this on TV.
Harry Potter 1 - gay as fuck when I was 12 and gay as fuck now, turned it off at 40 mins.
The Road to El Dorado - showing this in class, I think some boys are having their sexual awakening with the wide-hipped native girl.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles - first time I've seen this, boy howdy what a shame I missed this during my childhood. Basically a family film and yet in one scene Steve Martin's character says 'fuck' like 20 times. Maybe that's why I never saw this on TV.
Harry Potter 1 - gay as fuck when I was 12 and gay as fuck now, turned it off at 40 mins.
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How old were you when I was in the theater watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles? (wow that lack of the oxford comma, so grating). You were just born, right? Until you master time travel, you will need to come to grips with this annoying detail: the experiences in your life are dictated by time.
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Err, thanks to the power of syndication and Blockbuster and HBO and Cinemax, there were lots of movies made before I was born that made up my childhood. Robocop, T2 and Toxic Avenger, for example. Watched those so many times. PT&A definitely should've been watched by young me.