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The Movies Thread

jonnyluvrod said:
This post should be law.

Jason Statham acted in some great films in his early career. Lock Stock, Snatch, Collateral...

Now he's just a puppet. Typecast with the same role over and over.
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speaking of..and in response to matherto..
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I heard there is a little extra scene in the credits with Mr. Statham as a teaser for the sequel...*dum dum dum*
 
dplane

it happens. I facepalmed. It's going back to Tokyo Drift times, shows the footage of the chase through the city where Han dies. Turns out it's Statham that kills him. Doesn't make much sense.

Honestly. I'm a big fan of the first two F&F films. The first one is actually a decent film in it's own right.

This one (6 for those asking, it's out in the UK) is basically a pisstake parody of all the others it's that bad.

The car driving scenes are appalling because you can tell they're driven very slowly and then sped up massively in the editing afterwards. There's no weight transfer or lack of grip, the cars are on rails and it just looks fucking appalling.

Then you get to the fact that Dominic Torretto has transformed from an everyday street-racing hard man to some sort of Hulk meets the Matrix superhero. The lack of realism in this is completely abject when you think of the first film.

The Rock appears to have had a lobotomy in order to play Hobbs. I know he's bulging on steroids and not supposed to be intelligent but even still, Jesus Christ.

Then most other scenes just feature Diesel or Paul Walker staring at things with a dull look on their face as if they're stoned off their tits. It's just shite.

Plus for those that have seen it:

How long is the fucking runway at the end? Me and a friend timed it at 13 full minutes for a plane to be at taking off speed heading down a strip of tarmac. Either this runway is about half the circumference of the fucking planet or they just don't care about insulting the intelligence of their audience. Actually scratch that, the audience has none.

I felt immeasurably more stupid after watching it last night, and couldn't deal with the fact that the mouthbreathing inhabitants of my town in the cinema all loved it. Can't wait to leave St. Helens.
 
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Iron Man 3 = 6/10

Parts were very good. The Mandarin seemed excellent and menacing, until.....;)

Not sure about Guy Pearce as a villain though. Found him a little disappointing and corny, and Gwyneth's final scenes were pathetic!

Robert Downey was superb again as Tony Stark. he carried the film yet again and lifted it from mediocre to good.

Better than Iron Man 2 but nowhere near the first Iron Man or The Avengers films.
 
Guys, help me decide. I'm planning on going to the cinema friday, but I'm not sure if I should go see Iron Man 3 or The Great Gatsby. Thanks. :)
 
I'm hearing very very bad things about the Great Gatsby. I loved the book and enjoyed the Robert Redford film, so I'm going to pass on the new one.
 
It isn't unfortunately, if it was I'd pick it, the plot sounds really good.

Nudging towards Iron Man 3, have the possibilty to watch it in a D-Box seat, which is really cool.
 
save your money, there is nothing good nowdays (well maybe if u are a jurassic park geek, or ironman geek, or star trek geek)
 
my 2 cent: get and old classic in bluray...(kurosawa, melville, fritzlang etc). My pick would be "high and low" kurosawa, criterion edition.

if u are looking for some american action, star trek is almost watchable. plot is thin, fights are boring but it does have the trekkie feeling.

going to the theaters these days is kinda depressing, 9 out of 10 mainstream movies are really shit.
 
Somewhat agreed, the only movies I can pick from are some Dutch overdramatized garbage flicks, Scary Movie V, Fast & Furious 6 (not the movie I'd spend money on to watch at the cinema) or a kids movie. Then there's also the The Last Exorcism and Evil Dead, but those show at midnight. So that leaves me with Iron Man 3 and The Great Gatsby as the only real options.
 
Damjan said:
Somewhat agreed, the only movies I can pick from are some Dutch overdramatized garbage flicks, Scary Movie V, Fast & Furious 6 (not the movie I'd spend money on to watch at the cinema) or a kids movie. Then there's also the The Last Exorcism and Evil Dead, but those show at midnight. So that leaves me with Iron Man 3 and The Great Gatsby as the only real options.
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Wow. Just goes to show how poor films are nowadays if that's the choice available!

Iron Man 3 then, best of a bad bunch and is half decent on the big screen.

Evil Dead and Last Exorcism 2 are terrible horror films. They're about as scary as a squirrel.
 
jonnyluvrod said:
Wow. Just goes to show how poor films are nowadays if that's the choice available!

Iron Man 3 then, best of a bad bunch and is half decent on the big screen.

Evil Dead and Last Exorcism 2 are terrible horror films. They're about as scary as a squirrel.
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Warm Bodies - 8/10

Kept the tone of the book and was very well done. Not many movies portray the book as well as this did.
 
Watched Star Trek Into Darkness at the cinema, was my first 3d-movie. The first 10-15 minutes I really fought against the 3d, it felt nearly painful, after that I tried to relax and it got a bit better. Overall I didn't like the 3d-experience: The picture seemed dimmed, zoomed and less detailed than in usual 2d-movies, and when the camera panned around the picture got blurry.

And there were only 3 scenes where the 3d payed off and added something to the experience so imho it was not worth all the trouble and considerable reduction in picture quality and also not worth the extra-cost.

The movie was imho better than the first, it was more tense and the villains were better but:

1. Why use Khan again like in Star Trek 2 and why use the identical death-sacrifice of Spock only with Kirk doing it?... This recycling of old ideas is a bit lame. A bit more creativity and original ideas could be expected.

2. When they let Kirk die I first thought: "WTF, they really mean business this time and let the captain die, what an awesome "We don't give a f..."-moment, similar to the effect the destruction of Vulkan had in the first movie. But then they got all whimsy about and backed off, saving Kirk's life again.

3. Khan used Scotty's transbeam-technology to beam to Cronos, and when Kirk got there he instructed Zulu to give a message to Khan that he should surrender... What the hell? How stupid is that? Giving him notice of their appearance and warning him only would have caused him to use his transbeam-technology again and beam anywhere in the galaxy or into the Enterprise and doing either all kinds of damage or get lost again. It was a totally destroying the plot-moment.

4. Khan hid his crew in those rockets? Why? Did he really think he can walk out with those rockets, did he really thinking no camera would catch him hiding them there? Again a major what the f...-idea.

5. Khan taking revenge on the admirals was all nice and well, but then what, what was his plan? Simply going to Chronos and doing nothing? He had no plan, he just beamed to Chronos and did nothing till Kirk captured him, From a calibre like Khan I would expect making big plans and not only simply taking revenge and be done with it.

6. And what was that with Spock screaming "KHAAAAAAAN" like Kirk did in star trek 2? He completely gave up all of the decades-long-training of mental control he learned on vulcan... Didn't make any sense at all.

But there were things I really liked:

1. The destruction of Vulkan and the disappearance of the influence of the peace-loving vulcans and the near destruction of earth in the first movie of the reboot, caused the military to gain much bigger influence. I really liked to see that play off, all that military control and conspiracy and the tenser atmosphere.., and I loved seeing the actor of "Robocop" back in a big movie...

2. I loved the humour all through the movie, especially around Scottie.

3. The action was nice, Khan's martial arts, all the explosions and star ships crashing on earth... the flying through space in spacesuits-action.. good stuff.

Verdict: Good action, good humour, good setup and atmosphere, but badly thought out main-plot and lame recycling of old ideas, and in one important aspect wrong characterisation of an important character, leads to a 6/10 from me.
 
Watched a couple of movies recently.

Oblivion : 5/10 - Didn't really enjoy it and felt I'd been down this path before with these movies.

Iron Man 3 : 7/10 - I thought it was quite alright, I think RDJ does a great job as Stark, him with the little kid was really funny. And as for The Mandarin, I thought that was brilliant. :D

But agreed it ain't no Avengers.


FD
 
Warm bodies What a ridiculous plot, imho a really bad movie because of the imho awful plot and idea. Has though some nice tame comedy and some good chemistry between the two main-characters. Really liked to watch Teresa Palmer, she's lovely. But oh, my god, what an awfully ridiculous story. 4/10
 
Sucker Punch 8/10

the acting somewhere is great somwhere is poor tho i dont understand the 6/10 on imdb damn give credit to this movie, very rare example of when hollywood delivers some meaningful message to the audiance, and the OST is awesome :)
 
Milanista said:
I'm hearing very very bad things about the Great Gatsby. I loved the book and enjoyed the Robert Redford film, so I'm going to pass on the new one.
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Me too. I recently purchased the blu ray with Farrow and Robert as Jay and Daisy. The cinematography is superb and I enjoyed the film overall. with it's ennui.

Currently Amazon are holding their summer sale here in the UK.

Ranges from Eureka Masters of Cinema, Studio Canal Classics ie The Pianist, Le Mepris etc etc are all reduced as well as more mainstream titles.

This is for any Tolkein fans who may or may not be disturbed by the liberties Jackson is taking with The Hobbit.

YouTube - The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug - Official Teaser Trailer [HD]
 
The Flowers of War : 9/10

what a great movie, it's really underrated, great performance by Christian Bale and the Chinese crew ..
also the picture is great ..
war scenes at the beginning remind me of Saving Private Ryan ..
but this movie has more emotions ..
 
The Best Offer / La Migliore Offerta (2013) : 9/10

As always, Tornatore and Morricone ..
this time the movie is somehow different from all previous Tornatore's movies .. the ending makes it different ..
 
dplane said:
Realy? Care to explain?
Everyone I've talked says it kinda blows so figured I'd wait for blu release.
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Hard to explain on phone but the storyline. Dialog, acting, tone of movie and action sequence is hands down amazing. The stroke the right balance of blending a bit of dark knight town, great acting by everyone except lewis lane and the battle sequence? Finally cgi tech had caught up and does superman battles justice.

Epic in soon ways. You got to see it. Tons better then iron man, star trek etc. This is probably movie of the year.

It has Chris Nolan scripting touch and zachs awesome action sequence all in one package
 
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