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Author Topic: Movies in the Theater  (Read 100074 times)

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Rosencrantz

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #280 on: August 05, 2009, 04:33:30 PM »

Ouch.

Considering that it was almost two and a half hours long...
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #281 on: August 15, 2009, 04:16:29 PM »

ponyo is ok but I'd recommend it behind like every other thing miyazaki has made. a lot of time is spent in which nothing really happens.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #282 on: August 15, 2009, 05:08:46 PM »

a lot of time is spent in which nothing really happens.

You have described most Ghibli flicks. Note, I do not think is a slight in the slightest.

Going to see Ponyo tomorrow. Shame on you all for not supporting its American opening weekend release.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #283 on: August 15, 2009, 06:59:59 PM »

What the hell is ponyo.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #284 on: August 15, 2009, 07:06:47 PM »

A Studio Ghibli film, obviously.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #285 on: August 15, 2009, 08:17:01 PM »

I saw Ponyo today. It was tremendously implausible - are they really asking me to believe that a six year old kid knows the names of Devonian period bony fish?

It was good. Not the best. Ending theme music was insultingly bad. Liam Neeson did good voicework.

Alternate title: "The Little Water Genasi".
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #286 on: August 15, 2009, 09:56:04 PM »

a lot of time is spent in which nothing really happens.

You have described most Ghibli flicks.

Hahaha, that's exactly what I thought as soon as I read that too :D
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #287 on: August 16, 2009, 10:53:13 AM »

I saw Ponyo today. It was tremendously implausible - are they really asking me to believe that a six year old kid knows the names of Devonian period bony fish?
A six-year-old kid with a lavishly illustrated science book that happens to strike his interest will probably memorize everything in it. (For me, it was astronomy.)
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #288 on: August 16, 2009, 06:01:49 PM »

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand saw Ponyo. Beautiful, charming, nonsensical, pointless; I loved it.

Easily the highest turn out of any Miyazaki film I've seen in theaters. The crowd at my showing seemed to love it, as well.

I was dreading the song at the end, but it wasn't so bad. The song that plays at first is basically just an English version of the original. Then came the... remix. At least it was tacked on the end.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #289 on: August 18, 2009, 07:03:49 AM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #290 on: August 18, 2009, 06:48:43 PM »

Ponyo
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #291 on: August 18, 2009, 06:56:27 PM »

Ponyo
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I cannot read the name of that movie without hearing "PA PA PA PANYO PANYO PA".

I'd post that in the Nerd thread but, you know.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #292 on: August 20, 2009, 02:28:55 PM »

So a pair of chinese people invited me to a movie. At first they said it would be The Time Traveler's Wife but at the end it wound up being G-Force. My eyes didn't  bleed, and next to the decidedly unfunny goings-on of Muhammad's life and trying to put together an LP of Sid Meier's Colonization I actually found myself enjoying it. I need to do something actually fun.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #293 on: September 02, 2009, 09:17:13 PM »

to everyone who is down on ponyo (not necessarily you guys) i hate you forever because sometimes a movie is allowed to simply be the most adorable thing in existence.

thirst could probably be tucked in enough to lose a half hour or so and come out better for it in the end, but it's still a damn fun flick.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #294 on: September 04, 2009, 08:33:24 PM »

I just saw Inglourious Basterds.  It's hilarious and horrifyingly violent.

And THE BEAR JEW reminds me of the Scout in his mannerisms.  He is the best character other than Brad Pitt's.  The big villain isn't Hitler, although he is a target, but rather a whimsically evil SS officer called Landa aka 'the jew hunter'.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #295 on: September 05, 2009, 06:49:20 AM »

And THE BEAR JEW reminds me of the Scout in his mannerisms.

I believe Scott Ramasoomalair took that idea and ran with it in his most recent comic. And by "ran with it," I mean, "put a token effort into."
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #296 on: September 09, 2009, 04:35:33 PM »

I liked Inglourious Basterds.

It was very Tarantinoey. Which means that I was unspeakably entertained for most of it and tried my very best not to be bugged by the few parts where Tarantino was practically nudging me in the side and whispering "Hey you - yes, you, there, in the theater, watching this movie - you are more like a Nazi, and also Hitler, than you realize!"

It meets with my approval and I think I would like to watch it again sometime. I am looking forward to the supposed prequel.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #297 on: September 09, 2009, 04:38:15 PM »

I was thinking it should be an hour longer.

Typically, Tarantino brought out a bunch of really interesting characters and then murdered the lot of them.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #298 on: September 09, 2009, 05:16:20 PM »

watching a tarantino movie requires shutting off the part of your brain that appreciates taste

i'm saying this as a fan of pretty much every movie he's made including jackie brown

Tarantino does pulp. Sometimes there is a message but mostly it is "hey wow when i cut this guy blood shoots out like five feet that is pretty awesome" or "dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks dicks."

Not all of his violence is for it's own sake, but a lot of it is. Kill Bill was essentially an entire film(s) made about meaningless violence. AND IT WAS AWESOME
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #299 on: September 09, 2009, 05:47:18 PM »

He needs to choose his targets better, really.
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