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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #360 on: October 22, 2009, 02:37:27 PM »

But is it as good as Groundhog Day?
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #361 on: October 22, 2009, 10:37:41 PM »

You can't force me to make that choice! :humpf:
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #362 on: October 22, 2009, 10:43:28 PM »

Watched the Devil's Backbone tonight.  It was damn good!
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #363 on: October 23, 2009, 01:55:36 AM »

Groundhog Day is 1/100th the movie Blue Brothers is
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #364 on: October 25, 2009, 05:37:36 PM »

And still quite good.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #365 on: October 25, 2009, 07:11:02 PM »

And yet... Ghostbusters leaves them both in the dust.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #366 on: October 25, 2009, 07:29:22 PM »

And yet... Ghostbusters leaves them both in the dust.

 
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #367 on: November 01, 2009, 08:01:57 PM »

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies:

This would be the weekest DCU offering yet if not for the top-notch voice work.  Brown, Conroy, Daly, and Pounder all reprise their roles.

As far as plot, there isn't much of one; as far as script, it's corny as hell and poorly suited to the calibre of the cast.

And speaking of the cast...with the exception of the three principals (Brown in particular really hits it out of the park; he gets a complete character arc from smug, scheming Lex to fucking crazy supervillain Lex), they're all totally underutilized.  I saw in the credits that Jennifer Hale played Starfire, but I can't remember Starfire actually saying anything.  Alan Oppenheimer gets a neat cameo as Alfred, but is only in it for a minute.  Levar Burton gave a very nice interview a few weeks back about playing Black Lightning, which was about 100 times as many words as he actually spoke in the role.

The problem is that the movie is basically one long fight scene, crammed full of whatever characters they thought would be cool to include, whether or not they're used in any meaningful way or even make sense in the story.  (Superman actually says, in dialogue, that it makes absolutely no sense for Mongul to be there.)

I haven't read the source material, but I have a hunch the dialogue's pretty true to it.  Berkowitz (who has the screenplay credit) has written perfectly good DCAU stuff in the past, so I'm assuming the utterly hammy one-liners are Jeph Loeb's.  They'd work all right coming out of Adam West's mouth, or Diedrich Bader's, but they're all wrong for the Kevin Conroy Batman.

All in all, a disappointment with some real potential and some neat fight scenes.

My ranking of the DCU movies to date: New Frontier > Gotham Knight > Wonder Woman = Green Lantern > Public Enemies > Doomsday.

Next up is a Crisis on Two Earths adaptation by Dwayne McDuffie, based on a story he'd planned for JLU.  I have much higher hopes for it.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #368 on: November 04, 2009, 10:17:53 PM »

I haven't read the source material, but I have a hunch the dialogue's pretty true to it.

The movie was almost scene-for-scene exactly the same as the comic, including the villains who are there for no good reason.  My least favorite part was probably how Power Girl came off as very weak-willed throughout most of it - her confidence is one of her main personality points.

In other news, I finally saw Rocky Horror Picture Show today, for my Survey of Digital Film and Video Production class. I'm also supposed to watch The Big Lebowski by Friday, so I hope I have time tomorrow.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #369 on: November 08, 2009, 07:19:44 PM »

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #370 on: November 08, 2009, 08:59:15 PM »

So walmart is selling the Ringu collection(Ringu, Rasen, Ringu 2 and Ringu 0) for $4
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #371 on: November 08, 2009, 09:47:43 PM »

Rasen is better than Ringu 2, fuck the popular opinion.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #372 on: November 09, 2009, 02:51:37 AM »

Superman/Batman: Public Enemies:

This would be the weekest DCU offering yet

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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #373 on: November 21, 2009, 03:17:45 PM »

Inglourious Basterds is not just my favorite Tarantino film, but it is a strong contender for the coveted honorific, "Kazz's favorite movie."
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #374 on: November 21, 2009, 06:47:49 PM »

I'm not sure I want to see that movie. From what I've heard, it's a revenge fantasy about Jews beating up Germans.

There's something really, really wrong with that.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #375 on: November 21, 2009, 07:36:55 PM »

It's Jews beating up Nazis, during World War 2.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #376 on: November 21, 2009, 07:48:14 PM »

There's something really, really wrong with that.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #377 on: November 21, 2009, 08:48:05 PM »

There's something really, really wrong with that.
You're really selling that umlaut in your name. :mystery:
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #378 on: November 21, 2009, 10:29:35 PM »

Girlfriend is getting me Star Trek: The Blu-Ray and UP: The Blu-Ray.
Looking forward to watching THOSE again.
And I've had this BR Player for over a year now and haven't watched any rays, regardless of color.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #379 on: November 30, 2009, 08:53:39 PM »

really, really wrong

Wikipedia article on Quentin Tarantino




...non-mocking response: yeah, that's kinda the point.  It's a propaganda film about propaganda films.  It's an over-the-top good-and-evil story with no in-between; you're supposed to root for the bad guys and hiss at the soulless monsters who deserve the violent deaths they get -- and then realize how expertly you've just been manipulated.
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