Topic: Movies for Home Viewing (Read 77209 times)

Lottel · « **Reply #720 on:** July 24, 2011, 02:06:46 AM »

Finally caught Green Lantern: Emerald Knights.
Nathan Fillion was Hal Jordan? Wow. It shows. He said 6 lines the whole film. Guess that's as much as they could pay him?

When was this supposed to take place? The first animated Green Lantern movie was Hal's very first day on the job, ending after he beat a newly turned Sinestro. (When asked to recite the oath at the very end, he said he had only learned it that morning.) This movie Hal's a vetran but Sinestro is still a good guy. But it's same animation and voices (aside from Fillion) and I assumed it was a sequel.

The only complaints I ever heard about the movie were about how disjointed it felt, how it was a bunch of shorts tied together with a loose plot and how that's a bad thing. I dunno. I think they pulled it off for the most part, but everything felt very... cardboardy during the inbetween bits, I guess.

Büge · « **Reply #721 on:** August 01, 2011, 08:54:43 PM »

So I finally watched Inception. Kinda knew the ending would be [spoiler]left ambiguous[/spoiler], but that didn't detract from the sheer spectacle and intriguing concept.

What was the problem people were having with the film? I thought it worked well. The only stumbling point might have been [spoiler]layer 3 not reflecting the uh, floaty quality of layer 2, but I think that can be explained away with the fact that there's a whole layer between the van falling and the snow fort, and the hotel was stable when they went into layer 3, thus they're not actually aware of themselves floating.[/spoiler]

Friday · « **Reply #722 on:** August 01, 2011, 11:16:45 PM »

the problem they had was not enough screentime for Tom Berenger

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #723 on:** August 02, 2011, 06:02:35 PM »

Just saw Natural Born Killers for the first time.

The fact that people idolize Mickey and Mallory is almost as bad as the box office success of Fight Club.

Mothra · « **Reply #724 on:** August 02, 2011, 07:28:17 PM »

Yeah, my roommate made me watch that recently. I don't get the appeal at all.

I mean I assume folks say they like it for the same reason folks say they like Saw and Cannibal Holocaust the like, for KRED, but I've started wondering if maybe they're just genuinely sadistic sociopaths and I'm giving them too much credit.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #725 on:** August 02, 2011, 08:14:54 PM »

It is almost 100% the same reason people like Fight Club.

The movie is about two people rebelling from a world consumed by media, trying to fight the system and what-have-you and go in their own direction. Don't get me wrong the film does an amazing job of critiquing modern American culture, but it does that by showing the masses, detached from the real horror of the Knoxx's actions idolizing them when in reality these are people with horrible lives, who deserve to be seen as beasts.

For gods' sake every character in the movie that tries to pay tribute to them ends up dead. It could not be any more clear that the point is not to want to be them yet no one who claims to be a real fan seems to see that.

Thad · « **Reply #726 on:** August 02, 2011, 08:31:28 PM »

Sorta like how the people who love Smells Like Teen Spirit are primarily the people it openly mocks.

Hell, Beavis and Butt-Head, for that matter.

Mongrel · « **Reply #727 on:** August 02, 2011, 09:10:48 PM »

Am I a horrible person for watching my old copy of Thin Red Line (which I hadn't pulled out in years) and blurting out halfway through HEY, I FORGOT ADRIAN BRODY WAS IN THIS!

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #728 on:** August 03, 2011, 06:20:13 AM »

I love Fight Club, personally, but I never really gathered that the viewer was supposed to sympathize with Tyler Durden on any level. I mean, he's the split personality created by the repressed, misplaced masculinity of the main character childishly lashing out at everything around him. And that the reason you're supposed to be against crass, mass commercialization isn't because Tyler Durden is against it, but because it contributed to an environment that helped create a monster like him.

Also? The last few seconds of the movie leading into the credit roll is one of my top ten favorite movie moments.

Mongrel · « **Reply #729 on:** August 03, 2011, 07:34:28 AM »

The point about Fight Club is that it's inherently making fun of the people who like the idea of Fight Clubs. Which is easy to do if you're dumb. It provides entertainment for the dummies who don't "get it", and the dummies who do "get it".

Overall, I always liked it, because it's simply fun. It has fun with itself, it has fun with the viewer, it flows very well, and never stops providing entertainment.

It does provide social commentary - only never the one a given viewer actually wants it to. I can get behind that kind of trolling.

Brentai · « **Reply #730 on:** August 03, 2011, 08:23:42 AM »

I liked Fight Club as a movie. Attaching any further purpose than that is like taking Muse's lyrics seriously.

Büge · « **Reply #731 on:** August 03, 2011, 08:40:19 AM »

Quote from: Mongrel on August 03, 2011, 07:34:28 AM

The point about Pulp fiction is that it's inherently making fun of the people who like the idea of Fight Clubs. Which is easy to do if you're dumb. It provides entertainment for the dummies who don't "get it", and the dummies who do "get it".

Overall, I always liked it, because it's simply fun. It has fun with itself, it has fun with the viewer, it flows very well, and never stops providing entertainment.

It does provide social commentary - only never the one a given viewer actually wants it to. I can get behind that kind of trolling.

Mongrel · « **Reply #732 on:** August 03, 2011, 08:47:18 AM »

Okaaaayyyy. That's kind of funny, but who changed my post? Because I know I typed "Fight Club" (original post now fixed).

Classic · « **Reply #733 on:** August 03, 2011, 09:06:37 AM »

Quote from: Brentai on August 03, 2011, 08:23:42 AM

I liked Fight Club as a movie. Attaching any further purpose than that is like ??? seriously.

Fight Club combines every juvenile male fantasy I care to list all into one. Excelling at traditional violent masculinity, being Robin Hood, being Brad Pitt, secretly being capable of or living out said fantasies.

Just the idea that not only would an individual be able to be a "moral" compass for a world that generally seems stacked in favor of the already privileged (never mind that the people who like this are crackers) but that even their extreme apparently insane efforts to impart morality and more egalitarian standards to the world (if not moral) meet with success.

As it stands, Tyler Durden doesn't... "eliminate the fractures to his psyche" as some sort of penance for his own crimes, but instead he claims the fruits and self-determination of his amoral counterpart. The psyche doesn't mend because he shoots himself in the head or because he repents, it mends because he decides that being an insane terrorist is something he wants to control rather than be controlled by.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #734 on:** August 10, 2011, 08:26:19 PM »

It is retarded how huge the drop in quality from Robocop one and two to three is.

Almost as retarded as Robocop 3 is.

Smiler · « **Reply #735 on:** August 10, 2011, 09:37:35 PM »

Dude did you see the ending? It totally made up for everything.

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #736 on:** August 29, 2011, 07:40:52 PM »

Oh hey I remember seeing What Dreams May Come a really long time ago, wasn't that pretty good?

Right it's a drama staring Robin Williams and that sums it up perfectly.

Thad · « **Reply #737 on:** August 29, 2011, 08:59:32 PM »

Dead Poets' Society is pretty great.

Büge · « **Reply #738 on:** August 30, 2011, 06:08:01 AM »

One Hour Photo Scene

Lottel · « **Reply #739 on:** September 01, 2011, 09:42:57 PM »

So finally I watched Zebraman after a year of owning it. I picked it up for a few bucks at a local shop and I heard it briefly mentioned in one place on the internet 7 or so years ago. I put it in expecting a silly Japanese Kamen Rider-esque action comedy.
It sort of was, I guess. But so much more. Seriously the first hour and a half was one of greatest movies I've ever seen. Then there was about 10 minutes of what the fuck am I watching followed by another 10 minutes of amazing movie. I really wish that one scene was a little different, but it was an interesting commentary on American heroes, I think. Very Burton Batman.

If you guys come across this, pick it up. ~~Last I checked it wasn't on Netflix.~~ Jesus tits. It is on Netflix. Watch it.

Apparently last year they made a sequel. I need to hunt me a copy down.

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