Movie review thread...
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I finally saw Goon, and liked it for the most part. There is a mandatory love interest, but this sureasshit ain't a chick movie. Lots of slo-mo punches to the face with blood flying, and very foul language.<br />
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The plot is very simple (and based upon a true story): a bar bouncer (Stiffler from American Pie playing it really-really straight and earnest) who can't skate is recruited by a hockey coach to become the team enforcer. The whole thing is targeted to a showdown with the league's resident (and surprisingly eloquent and philosophical) heavyweight champion (played by Liev Schreiber, who might be the best thing in the film). I especially love the "realism" that the final game, where the showdown occurs, isn't a championship final, but instead a must-win playing for the 8th and final playoff spot. Is it as good as Slap Shot? No. Is it worth seeing? There were several laugh-out-loud moments, so I say "Definitely," even if some of the hockey culture will be lost on viewers. 7/10. -
Not sure what to make of this news, to-day...<br />
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[b][url="http://www.aintitcool.com/node/59381"]Disney Buys Lucasfilm For $4 Billion! STAR WARS EPISODE VII Scheduled For 2015 Release![/url][/b] -
Saw Skyfall last night. Liked it.<br />
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Although, I must be getting old because it's getting increasingly difficult for me to suspend belief when it comes to some of the more nonsensical plot developments.<br />
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Watched Prometheus the other night.<br />
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As someone not massively into Aliens (so miss most of the issues some mentioned in the other thread) I quite liked it. -
Watched Spider-man. Garfield is excellent as was Stone. They have obvious chemistry and that continued off screen. I hated Dunst' Mary-Jane so it was good to see a female lead add to the film. This was far from perfect but it worked and considering its predecessors were 5min ago it held its own. Ifans lizard was under used though the only scene worth watching was when he sniffed out "Gwen" in the Oscorp building. That was genuinely creepy.<br />
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If they can pull off a sequel like Spider-man 2 and improve on the first instalment again I reckon it could potentially be a great franchise.<br />
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Watch Total Recall, it had Kate Beckinsale in it, it was awesome! <img src='http://www.daimenhutchison.com/rugby/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/man_in_love.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':man_in_love:' /><br />
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Saw Dredd 3D last night. Reminded me of The Raid a bit but with a '80s (?) comic book character. Urban did well as Judge Dredd. 7.5/10
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[i]Witness[/i]<br />
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Michael Mann has a short documentary series on HBO about war correspondents. First stop is Juarez.<br />
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Episode was outstanding. Grim but constantly beautiful. Very immediate but with perspective from narration and editing. Every single shot was 1000x better than anything in that piece of shit [i]Looper[/i].<br />
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Critics must be suffering from the soft bigotry of diminished expectations, because [i]Looper[/i] was a thoroughly mediocre film. Not an interesting idea or shot in it.<br />
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Crap. 5/10<br />
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I enjoyed Looper in the sense that I was absorbed for most of it. (7/10) Naturally there were convoluted holes & inconsistencies and logical improbabilities/impossibilities, but I thought that time-travel would be the extent of it. The intersection of telekinesis was probably a bit much, made me think the writer did a mash-up of the Twilight Zone's [url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Good_Life_(The_Twilight_Zone)"]It's a Good LIfe[/url] with Anakin Skywalker's amazing midi-chlorians and maybe some X-Men mutations. The kid actor was pretty damned terrific, too. It didn't make a lot of sense, but as I say, I found it nevertheless absorbing and was entertained. -
The debut film by Stanley Kubrick, Fear and Desire, has just been released on DVD. Apparently Kubrick wanted it buried, and is kinda ashamed of it. There's a feature commentary about it at Grantland:<br />
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[quote][color=#2A2A2A][font=Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif][size=3][b][size=5]Before Kubrick Was Kubrick[/size][/b]<br />
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[url="http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/8599030/the-career-director-stanley-kubrick-first-film-fears-desires-last-eyes-wide-shut"]http://www.grantland...-eyes-wide-shut[/url][/quote]<br />
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It's definitely a good read, but what got me jazzed was a sidebar link to a documentary film called Kubrick's Odyssey. It postulates and examines the theory that Kubrick faked the Apollo moon landing. (The director of the doc believes man got to the moon, but that TV footage was faked.) I've heard the theory for years and dismissed it out of hand. Maybe I'm the last guy to see this documentary? The director here breaks down The Shining as a film that has very little to do with the Stephen King novel, and everything to do with Stanley Kubrick and his symbolic confession about selling his soul to the devil. After viewing the doc, I am still skeptical, if not completely dismissive, but nevertheless found the thing strangely, unbelievably, utterly compelling. If you are a Kubrick fan, a movie fan, or a NASA fan, even if you find it laughable, you will probably be mightily entertained.<br />
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Video here:<br />
[url="http://vimeo.com/34039692"]http://vimeo.com/34039692[/url]<br />
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(The doc may very well be a hoax perpetrated by the director against the audience, but apparently, this is Part One of a series of documentaries planned about Kubrick's films by the same director. Maybe that's a hoax, too. If true, I can't wait to see the others!) -
Just saw Looper, thought it was a decent film and kept me entertained, the storyline was not what I imagined and I always enjoy it when that happens. The weakest part of the storyline was the boy although he put in a great performance.<br />
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As Red Terror said the time travel throws up inconsistencies - but find me a time travel movie that doesn't. -
Crikey, a Zombie that can run and think...there goes rule number 1!
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Tim you should have added vampires as well...
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That's not that many original ideas left, and I don't mind that if the execution is good. Nothing wrong with cliche as long as it's entertaining.<br />
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The thing I liked about that trailer was the horde/insect like wave of humans, that seemed pretty cool. Unusual film for Pitt to get involved with these days. -
Vampires, Aliens, Zombies, Werewolves, Sharks, Snakes, Dragons, Futuristic, Post-Apocolyptic, Time Travel etc....any genre can be seen as tired and over used, but like Kirwan says, if done properly, can still be awesome.
