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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #520 on: September 10, 2010, 06:47:06 PM »

And the trailers were about 10000000000000000000000000 times better than either movie.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #521 on: September 10, 2010, 06:57:49 PM »

But by that math Machete will be...
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #522 on: September 11, 2010, 06:47:06 AM »

Now if only we could get this one made into a full length movie:

Werewolf Women of the S.S. Trailer

I mean 1:28, come on.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #523 on: September 11, 2010, 08:26:40 AM »

Man, if they're gonna fuckin' make Machete, they better make that too.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #524 on: September 11, 2010, 11:14:50 AM »

Best part of the trailers was dipping out to go to the bathroom right after Planet Terror, not knowing about them, and coming back in to someone fucking a turkey.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #525 on: October 15, 2010, 06:00:32 PM »

Finally got around to seeing Up last night.  I don't know.  It feels like Pixar made this incredible and agonizingly beautiful animated short, and then some fucking automaton from corporate saw it and demanded that they pad it out with about an hour of formulaic buddy-movie bullshit so they could sell tickets.

The oppressive mediocrity of the film's second act doesn't mar the wonderfulness of the first - it's that good - but I'm still a little pissed off about it, on principle.  It's like somebody just showed me an Imperial Faberge Egg, but with a bunch of colored soup cans tied to it.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #526 on: October 15, 2010, 09:55:18 PM »

I liked the third act in spite of my cynicism. Maybe that counts for something.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #527 on: October 16, 2010, 05:40:29 AM »

Well, I didn't "dislike" any part of the movie.  Yeah, the beginning was stronger than the middle, but that didn't drag down my opinion of the movie as a whole.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #528 on: October 16, 2010, 07:08:42 AM »

I liked the third act in spite of my cynicism. Maybe that counts for something.

you're a cynic?

something about this strikes me as a paradox
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #529 on: October 16, 2010, 08:19:25 AM »

Yeah I guess I should make it more clear that I didn't "dislike" any part of the movie either.  I didn't really "like" the buddy movie parts either though... most Pixar movies, honestly, feel to me like a decent but forgettable waste of two hours.  There's a pretty direct correlation between how much I'll think a Pixar movie deserves its company's reputation and how much it deviates from the "two polar opposites learn to overcome their differences via a series of misadventures" pattern.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #530 on: October 16, 2010, 10:51:51 AM »

Formulaic, sure, but it had heart.  The protagonists NEED each other in a way they don't in, say, the original Toy Story.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #531 on: October 16, 2010, 03:14:28 PM »

Finally saw How to Train Your Dragon.  Talk about a movie with fucking heart.  Chris Sanders is basically the best and I hope he doesn't get screwed over with whatever his second Dreamworks movie ends up being like he did with Disney.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #532 on: October 16, 2010, 03:29:03 PM »

Plus, as has been mentioned before, it's a kid's movie where [spoiler]the protagonist loses a limb at the end, and everybody's cool with it.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #533 on: October 17, 2010, 06:54:52 PM »

I'm a few behind on the direct-to-video DC movies; just caught Crisis on Two Earths.

It's effectively a lost episode of Justice League -- the voices are all different and Green Lantern is a white guy, but it was originally written as a bridge between season 2 and JLU, and it's clearly still the same basic script.  And it's pretty good!  I would say it's the best original story the direct-to-videos have done (and probably second-best overall, after New Frontier).

James Woods steals the show as Owlman -- sure, he's generic Burn-It-All-Down Nihilist Guy, but he plays it with such growling, understated menace.

And as for his foil, Batman -- he does some seriously un-Batman things.  I mean, he got pretty dark and manipulative on the JL toon, but he crosses some lines here.

It's streaming on Netflix.  Worth a view.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #534 on: October 22, 2010, 02:05:51 PM »

Plus, as has been mentioned before, it's a kid's movie where [spoiler]the protagonist loses a limb at the end, and everybody's cool with it.[/spoiler]

Oh yeah. I have a phobia about that sort of thing happening to me and it was very shocking to have that happen in the last couple minutes of what was ostensibly a children's movie. Jaw, dropped.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #536 on: October 28, 2010, 01:49:32 PM »

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a Pixar movie deserves its company's reputation and how much it deviates from the "two polar opposites learn to overcome their differences via a series of misadventures" pattern.

This is why I love the Incredibles and think Wall-E was an enjoyable but forgettable waste of two hours.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #537 on: October 31, 2010, 12:48:31 PM »

About a half-hour into 28 Weeks Later I was sent into a frothing, uncontrollable, bloodthirsty rage.

I guess in that sense it's a movie that really hits home.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #538 on: November 04, 2010, 05:07:10 AM »

For those of you that like music and have netflix instant watch, I recommend this documentary about Harry Nilsson. It was great; sad, happy, shocking, loving... man, probably one of the best music Doc's I've seen all year, if not longer.
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Re: Movies for Home Viewing
« Reply #539 on: November 12, 2010, 11:04:04 PM »

Gran Torino has probably the wildest tonal shift of any movie I've seen besides Deliverance.  The first half is a comedy -- a dark one, sure, but unmistakably a comedy.  Clint Eastwood growls one-liners, and is a generally hilarious cantankerous old man.  (I'm not the first one to say he's Old Bruce Wayne, and I'm sure I won't be the last.)

The second half is not funny, and, like Deliverance, the lighter nature of the first half makes the darkness of the second all the more effective.

Eastwood's a hell of a director and a hell of an actor -- he shows some literal acting chops, putting more nuance in the movements of his mouth than most actors pull off in an entire performance.

It's a damn fine film.  Plot's rote enough, but the presentation is excellent.
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