Movie review thread...
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<p>I always wonder how, er, hard some of those sex scenes in movies would be to act out...I mean line me up with a naked sex scene with say Kate Beckinsale and/or Sophia...theyd probably be over quickly at any rate!</p>
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<p>I saw an interview with Samuel L Jackson last night and he was explaining its awkward apologising in advance for getting "excited" in a sex scene and even more awkward apologising to the lady involved for not getting "excited".</p> -
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<p>How do people like Roger corman and Asylum make any money? Their films are always bad and I cant recall ever seeing one being shown at an actual movie theatre, where does the money come from?</p>
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<p>I think it's a couple of things, Corman mostly produces stuff for cable now, and the stuff he produces rates pretty well. But the key is that they both produce stuff so cheap therefore DVD rentals/digital downloads/tv showings etc ensure they make healthy profits.</p> -
I recall Cormann once saying that he makes a profit about 80% of the time. But, that was before illegal downloading took off and I don't know how that affects films like his.<br><br>What's hilarious about his films is that they were once shown at drive ins. Can you imagine how it must have been like driving past while the Hot Box was showing?
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<p>This article on <em>The Burbs</em> is a good read.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://thequietus.com/articles/16396-the-burbs-overview'>http://thequietus.com/articles/16396-the-burbs-overview</a><br><br></p><p></p><blockquote class="ipsBlockquote">One of the most mind-warpingly compelling near-misses of this neververse was a version of Steven Spielberg's [i]Close Encounters Of The Third Kind[/i] written by everyone's favourite Bresson-loving Calvinist Paul Schrader. In Schrader's predictably more severe interpretation, the protagonist was to be a Saul/St Paul surrogate who works for the government debunking UFO sightings before an encounter with a bright light in the sky converts him into a believer, a zealot. This defiantly theological blockbuster – and likely audience repellent – eventually foundered over a basic disagreement between Spielberg and Schrader over the director's fetish for American suburbia. As Spielberg worked to relocate the soul of the movie from the arthouse to the multiplex, the two men clashed. Schrader said, "I refuse to send off to another world, as the first example of Earth's intelligence, a man who wants to go and set up a McDonald's franchise." Spielberg replied, "That's exactly the guy I want to send."</blockquote> -
<p>The Good Lie - based on the true story of the Lost Boys of Sudan, who in war torn Sudan and focusses on a small group who end up in Kansas. Often amusing and heartwarming, but ultimately a sad story of the by-product of war </p>
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<p>Some may not like it, but I did.</p> -
Everly - Salma Hayek kicking ass and shooting shit up Tarantino style, I liked it.
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<p>in a continuing trend of watching everything 7 years after everyone else, i watched "No Country for Old Men" last night.</p>
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<p>What the actual fuck? it was ticking along nicely. And then everything happened off screen. And then it stopped? For the first 2/3 of the movie i thought i was awesome. And then it finished and i was scratching my head wondering what the fuck i had just watched. Did they just not have any idea how to end it, so thought "fuck it, we'll do nothing and call it art"</p> -
It was about the sheriff and the world changing around him and him realising that he was too old to deal with it anymore wasn't it? All the other stuff was a side story about how drugs had transformed his sleepy border town and the money had corrupted people .
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<p>yea, i got that theme. But if he's the protagonist, then jesus they spend a lot of the movie hiding him. I could have sworn Josh Brolin was the protagonist, because i'm pretty sure Bardem is the antagonist. But from what you're saying, time is the antagonist. </p>
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<p>Guardians Of the Galaxy. Complete let down. the trailer makes it look it's not too far off the realms of other Marvel movies, but turns out it's not even close. Far more of a modern day star wars than anything else. Has nothing on the likes of Iron Man, Avengers, Captain American etc. Chris Pratt is perfectly cast but that is literaly it. I'd give it a solid 1.5/10.</p>
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<blockquote class="ipsBlockquote" data-author="MajorRage" data-cid="473276" data-time="1424654310"><p>Guardians Of the Galaxy. Complete let down. the trailer makes it look it's not too far off the realms of other Marvel movies, but turns out it's not even close. Far more of a modern day star wars than anything else. Has nothing on the likes of Iron Man, Avengers, Captain American etc. Chris Pratt is perfectly cast but that is literaly it. I'd give it a solid 1.5/10.</p></blockquote>
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<p>Not trolling in the slightest. Hated it. <strong> Different strokes and all that.</strong></p>
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<p>Actually, saw American Sniper a week or so a go too. That was awesome.</p>
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<p>Ae, although I can't believe you kept watching it. TBF I kept watching Mulholland Drive but that was only because I wanted to see Naomi Watts nudity in the lesbian scene and that dick Lynch made the DVD without chapters!</p>
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<p>Guardians is probably the second best Marvel movie after the Avengers for me.</p> -
I'll take the psycho raccoon over Robert Downey Jr any day. The CGI tree was also a far better actor than Chris Hemsworth.
