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#273581 by Bookwyrm83
Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:32 am
Watched Hard Candy with my girlfriend last night. She hadn't seen it before, and she watched it with her usual placid face. When the end credits rolled, her face morphed into a disturbed grimace, and she remarked, "Well, I wouldn't want to meet her!"

Love it. :mrgreen:
#273622 by Tyroshai
Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:32 am
I was up most of last night with godawful toothache so to quell boredom I (finally) sat through Sucker Punch which was pretty ridiculous from start to finish, but the soundtrack, CGI action scenes and of course- the boobs and bums were considerably redeeming. :P

Also, I watched Unstoppable which was surprisingly good, actually. If you want an impending disaster/action movie then this'll do, although the dialogues between Denzel and Chris Pine's characters is a wee bit weak at times...Still I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it, after seeing the trailer a while back which didn't do it much justice at all IMHO.
#273649 by Telescopes Are Gay
Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:45 pm
Moon is a great movie. A definite recommend.

Sucker Punch
Some people said that this movie marked the death of film making. Hyperbolic fucking nonsense. It's by no means a masterpiece, nor is it the worst thing since Plan 9. It's a popcorn flick that stimulates the most primitive, reptilian sides of a male adolescent's brain.

World of the Dead: Zombie Diaries 2
Forgettable. Tried to up the ante in terms of tone from the last movie. 1/3rd of the movie is shot in night vision and there's a subplot that runs parallel with the main one that ultimately goes nowhere. (It also has a "twist", but I figured it out within the first 10 minutes). If you want a gritty zed movie, watch the pilot for The Walking Dead.

Yellowbrickroad
Had a lot of promise. The mysterious allure to what happened will grab you in initially, but it squanders around the 3rd act. Speaking of terrible 3rd acts...

Insidious
The movie's tension and build up gets ruined by Tiny Tim. (I still recommend it though)

Limitless
I remember seeing the previews and thinking it would be terrible. I was pleasantly surprised though as the movie does shed light on the consequences of addiction. People will think the ending is a cop out, but I think it just shows that people are by their nature, habitual, and will keep up their habit if it gives them a leg up in the world, despite the consequences...kind of like steroid use. :lol:
#273650 by EphelDuath666
Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:48 pm
I don't really get what's wrong about enjoying a mindless flick now and then. Yeah, enjoying the Transformers movies is a guilty pleasure but one I don't feel ashamed of by any means. I'm 29, why would I give a shit anyways? But anywhoo...I actually 'grew up' in the 80's so I know all the stuff and grew up watching the Transformers cartoon series, had all the toys, etc. I actually just bought all seasons of that show last year and watched the first 2 not long ago. Even if I have strong nostalgic feelings for that show and the franchise I will admit that the movies are super-silly but then again, so was the show. If you rewatch the show now then you will realize that it's not an easy task to make a movie out of that material, a movie that will actually work in the 21st century too. It always depends on how you look at things. If you expect a Transformers movie to have a mindfucking story like a Nolan or Aronofsky flick then that might just be somewhat unrealistic thinking. Besides, Hollywood needs a mindless blockbuster flick now and then in order to finance the smaller, more clever stuff. It's the same in the music business or any other business. You need at least a few commercially successful products to be able to finance other projects.
#273651 by Octillus
Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:54 pm
I love a well done imaginative blockbuster. They just don't come around all that often... I mean the first Die Hard is one of my favorite movies of all time, but because I like that doesn't mean I'm in love with shit like Sucker Punch. Stuff like that actually gives me migraines.
#273654 by Octillus
Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:25 pm
Okay, I liked the hell out of the first Iron Man. I find that to be more enlightened and elevated than 90% of the garbage (and its mediocre sequel) that is thrown out now.
#273655 by EphelDuath666
Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:34 pm
but that movie has Jeff Bridges in it. You can't judge a movie with Jeff Bridges in it by normal standards because he's awesome :P Aside from that I don't think it was any less silly than most other special effects blockbusters in recent history, to be honest with you. It just had actors in it that can still act. The last Hulk movie is the same kind of example. What would that movie be without Norton and Roth? But good actors don't make the plot less silly.
#273658 by EphelDuath666
Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:27 pm
not compared to sucker punch, no. I haven't seen that one and have no desire to. Not comparing it to anything actually, I'm just stating that Iron Man has a pretty damn silly plot too and I certainly see that movie in the 'mindless fun' category. Ain't nothing wrong with that. I personally can enjoy movies like Transformers, Iron Man or Tron Legacy for what they are and on the other hand I can enjoy movies like The Fountain, Moon or Children of Men for what they are. I just don't judge them by the same standards and know that it's movies with waaaay different approaches for waaaaay different audiences.
And yeah, there's certainly movies I'd like to stay extremely far away from, such as the Twilight movies, the Harry Potter movies or 99.99999% of the musicals (Tim Burton's stuff excluded). I wouldn't go as far as putting my judgement on people who like these movies though...
#273659 by Octillus
Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:30 pm
On an individual basis? No, of course not, but the more money sunk into mediocrity, the more mediocrity that will be paid for.
#273661 by EphelDuath666
Mon Jul 04, 2011 3:41 pm
I don't think so. There's always gonna be mediocrity and there always has been. It might be worse than ever right now but that's because the studios want to make money since it's not the nicest time for them economically and I guess you can't blame them for it either. But there's been crap in the 80's, there's been crap in the 90's (lots of it) and there's always gonna be crap. And I'd rather see legends like De Niro, Malkovich or Pacino in shitty movies and see them still working than seeing them completely off the screen and unemployed too.
#273668 by Octillus
Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:37 pm
yeah, you have a valid point. I'm just getting burnt out on summer movies increasingly fast, and I do not personally understand how people enjoy things, but that's just how I'm wired.
#273670 by AlucardXIX
Mon Jul 04, 2011 4:42 pm
Octillus wrote:On an individual basis? No, of course not, but the more money sunk into mediocrity, the more mediocrity that will be paid for.


The problem with this statement is opinion. Your opinion is that movies like Transformers are mediocre, yet there are plenty of people out there who would disagree with you. Probably more so than people who would agree with you, seeing as the franchise is a fucking cash cow.

It's a known fact that the movies are not masterpieces, they don't have thought provoking stories or characters you can exactly relate to. Do we honestly need to be in a constant state of "sophistication"? Just because someone enjoys watching a movie with a lot of explosions in it or playing a first person shooter game does not make them any less "sophisticated" as the person who resents such things.

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