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Post by Vypernight on Jul 13, 2010 5:32:00 GMT -5
Despicable Me. It was cute, but not as good as expected, at least to me.
*Spoilers Below*
Basically, Gru was the #2 villain in the world, trying to be #1, when he counters 3 orphaned little sisters. He adopts them as part of his plan to get at Villain #1, but things fall apart pretty fast.
My major gripe was that he needed to be more of a villain. The best parts of the movie are when he was evil, such as when the youngest sister, at a fair, is playing a shooting game to win a stuffed animal. After failing, she tries again and scores a direct hit, but the target remains standing (Standard carnival ploy of a rigged target). She starts to cry, and the guy running the booth mocks her, so Gru tries, but he takes out his own gun and levels the entire booth. Suffice to say, the little girl got the stuffed animal, and the entire theater (parents and children) were laughing at that.
Unfortunately, scenes like that were pretty rare, which I think hurt the movie. Hopefully the creators will do a sequel in which they allow Gru to be his old self again.
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Post by Phys on Jul 13, 2010 20:06:03 GMT -5
Mad Max, which I finally saw for the first time. Before that, Moulin Rouge, which was far better than I had assumed it would be.
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Post by shykid on Jul 15, 2010 15:15:44 GMT -5
Bad Biology. Jazzy recommended it to me as a 'so bad it's good' movie. It was totally fucking insane. Just finished Bad Biology. That was one of the most bugfuck crazy things I have ever seen. It's ~80 nonstop minutes of pure concentrated LOLWTF with a nice, heaping side of "ewwwww what?!" I just... there are no words. |
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Post by lordy on Jul 16, 2010 5:09:52 GMT -5
District 13: Ultimatum
Not as good as the first one but the fight and chase scenes were amazing. Good mindless fun if your not wanting to watch anything too deep.
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Post by Laughing Man on Jul 16, 2010 7:38:14 GMT -5
Birdemic: Shock and Terror.
I'm sure most of you will have hear about this one, you should look it up if you haven't. It came through as part of the Wellington Film Festival this year, so I checked it out.
It's a truly abysmal movie. The plot (such as it is) makes no sense, none of the actors involved can actually act, the camera work is painful and the action (again, such as it is) is continually broken up for A. driving and B. lectures on global warming. The CG is... well, it looks like something a 12 year old worked up with Photoshop and Flash. And that's barely scratching the surface.
However; if you happen to be in a theatre full of people when you see it then Birdemic is a fantastic film. The atmosphere was great, everyone was laughing, clapping and riffing the movie like crazy. It was a bit like sitting in an episode of MST3K.
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Post by Sleepy on Jul 16, 2010 18:48:17 GMT -5
Public Enemies, with good ol' Johnny Depp as John Dillinger.
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Post by SimSim on Jul 16, 2010 18:50:17 GMT -5
Moon, was good and had a good sound track.
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Post by katsuro on Jul 17, 2010 15:06:47 GMT -5
Public Enemies, with good ol' Johnny Depp as John Dillinger. Saw that one at the cinema. The switching between different qualites of camera/film for action scenes was a bit weird. It was almost like somebody had spliced an expensive, well acted home-made movie together with a Hollywood production And Johnny Depp is 16,974,187 times better looking than Dillinger. It was still ok though. |
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Post by Deimos on Jul 17, 2010 18:36:45 GMT -5
Watching Ghost Voyage now. Its so baaaaaaaad
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Post by HarleyThomas1002 on Jul 17, 2010 19:41:52 GMT -5
A few days ago I watched Osama.
A foreign film about a poor Afghan family who disquises their daughter as a boy so she can work as a merchant.
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Post by kristine on Jul 18, 2010 12:52:38 GMT -5
District 13: Ultimatum Not as good as the first one but the fight and chase scenes were amazing. Good mindless fun if your not wanting to watch anything too deep. HEY! when did that come out? Predators - kinda fun in the military - tough-guy shoot 'em up way. spoiler parts... There was the one character though, that during the movie I thought was a badly written doctor (he didn't seem to want to treat anyone, didn't offer to help bandage or stop bleeding wounds) only to find out he wasn't a badly written doctor he was an appropriately written manipulative lying serial killer.I guess I'm just to ready to accept bad writing and get on with the movie - rather than wonder if something else is going on... |
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Post by Shane for Wax on Jul 18, 2010 18:19:30 GMT -5
Toy Story 3. I laughed a lot, prompting my mother to shush me. Apparently I am not allowed to laugh. >_>
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Post by wisechild on Jul 18, 2010 21:18:55 GMT -5
The A-Team
It was so out of it's element.
A team of mercenaries, often doing Robin Hood-like missions while on the run from the government. They over-complicate one part of the T.V. series premise while ignoring the former above mentioned part of that premise.
And it was a pop culture tease. Rendering some features of the television series into something superficial to the plot.
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Post by DeadpanDoubter on Jul 18, 2010 21:28:54 GMT -5
"The Princess and the Frog"...technically, I watched "Avatar" immediately afterwards, but I refuse to acknowledge that...thing from here on out. I have a lot of problems with "Princess" but it was astonishingly fun to watch, and I cried when Ray died. >>; My biggest beefs are 1) that Naveen is simply a darker skinned Eric from "The Little Mermaid" (dimples and all) with a Frenchish accent, and 2) the whole theme of the movie. It starts out so great, "Work for what you want! Dreaming is nothing without work behind it!" and "Women have the right to earn what they want, too", but it ended up being "lolz you just needed a man all this time to make your dreams come true!"
Feh.
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Post by katsuro on Jul 20, 2010 17:35:20 GMT -5
Last movie I saw is now Toy Story 3. It's great. It's probbaly as good as the previous 2 and nobody can fuck with your emotions like Pixar can. Go see it.
Oh and before that it was Inception. You really, REALLY need to pay attention from beginning to enda dnt ehn go watch it again paying even more attention. But the shifting gravity scenes in the hotel are probbaly worth the price of admission alone. Possibly the coolest action scene in a movie since the Matrix's "Government Lobby".
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