Topic: Movies for Home Viewing (Read 77341 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #260 on:** March 21, 2009, 11:46:52 AM »

THERE IS NO SHERLOCK HOLMES OTHER THAN JEREMY BRETT.

_{Well... okay... Basil Rathbone can play. Oh alright, Vasily Livanov can come too.}

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #261 on:** March 21, 2009, 12:06:13 PM »

I think Hugh Laurie is allowed to do it, too.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #262 on:** March 21, 2009, 06:11:46 PM »

So I just got through Revolver with Jason Statham. I don't fully understand the movie, but it was far FAR more deep than what I was expecting compared to CRANK and fuck yeah TRANSPORTER. There's a whole section in the credits of talking with psychological experts!

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #263 on:** March 30, 2009, 06:43:38 AM »

Netflix adventures:

Sin City. Yes, I had never seen it before this weekend. Marv is the greatest character ever. Now I know why we have

. EPIC TALES OF EPIC MANLYNESS. Seriously though jumping up and dropkicking cops inside a car, oh my god I clicked rewind and watched that three times. This movie really spurred new creative thought for my Dark Heresy game. Perhaps the incredibly GRIM AND DARK theme is just so fitting for that.

Blades of Glory. This was part of a 3-movie bundle I got off Woot.com along with Team America and Superbad. While I still get stupid giggles out of Team America, I feel dumber for having watched Blades of Glory, doubly so for the magical flight ending. I fear putting Superbad into the xbox.

Royal☭ · « **Reply #264 on:** March 30, 2009, 08:27:29 AM »

Your movie reviews are almost like a rorschach test, slowly peeling away the layers like some kind of MadMaxJr onion.. Gleefully recounting the EPIC BADASSNESS OF SIN CITY HOLY SHIT HE JUST KICKED A MAN'S BALLS INTO HIS OWN THROAT OH SHIT even though it lacks vital things like energy, wit, or subtlety. I enjoyed Sin City, but it's hard to walk out of it without thinking that every human being on the planet needs to be curb stomped before they have a chance to do terrible, depraved things to each other.

Blades of Glory, on the other hand, was a marginally delightful Will Ferrel comedy. At this point I'm willing to concede that you either get Will Ferrel, or you just don't. His comedies are always goofy, irreverent farces with little thought beyond he and his friends just having the most fun they could possibly have. Yeah, it's stupid but in that intelligent stupid that Will Ferrel does perfectly. Also it has Will Arnett and Amy Poehler as a creepy, incestuous couple of evil figure skaters.

I haven't seen Superbad. It's produced by Judd Apatow and his crew, who are either saints of modern comedy or the devil incarnate, depending who you ask.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #265 on:** March 30, 2009, 08:48:17 AM »

I guess it is wrong for me to say I did not enjoy Blades of Glory, it has moments. The IRON LOTUS was pretty hardcore. I guess I also made the mistake of trying to watch something funny in the wake of Sin City. Though an army of hookers in fishnets was pretty hilarious.

Kazz · « **Reply #266 on:** March 30, 2009, 09:23:16 AM »

Sin City bugs me because it is the same story three times: a man is entirely goddamn selfless for a woman.

Büge · « **Reply #267 on:** March 30, 2009, 09:40:38 AM »

Quote from: Kazz on March 30, 2009, 09:23:16 AM

Sin City bugs me because it is the same story three times: a man is entirely goddamn selfless for a whore.

Remember who you're talking about.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #268 on:** March 30, 2009, 10:04:21 AM »

Can't hear your complaints over Marv being awesome, jumping down stairwells, dropkicking cars, and doing horrible horrible things to people who deserve it.

I like worlds that most consider to be varying degrees of evil, where the good is simply the least evil.

Kazz · « **Reply #269 on:** March 30, 2009, 10:44:54 AM »

Quote from: Büge on March 30, 2009, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Kazz on March 30, 2009, 09:23:16 AM
Sin City bugs me because it is the same story three times: a man is entirely goddamn selfless for a whore.

Remember who you're talking about.

whore just means "honest woman"

Lady Duke · « **Reply #270 on:** March 30, 2009, 12:15:10 PM »

That movie is awesome and you should feel bad for not liking it more Kazz.

Brentai · « **Reply #271 on:** March 30, 2009, 01:11:23 PM »

It really was formulaic though.

...of course, that's not the movie's fault.

Thad · « **Reply #272 on:** March 30, 2009, 05:53:32 PM »

Quote from: Büge on March 30, 2009, 09:40:38 AM

Quote from: Kazz on March 30, 2009, 09:23:16 AM
Sin City bugs me because it is the same story three times: a tough guy is entirely goddamn selfless for a whore.

Remember who you're talking about.

Fixed your fix.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #273 on:** April 04, 2009, 07:39:20 PM »

Densha Otoko: Train_Man

RENT THIS NOW.

Wow. I absolutely loved this film. And I usually could not /give/ a shit about romance films. It's the story of a guy in Japan who meets a girl on the subway then asks 2chan for advice on how to talk to her. The snippets of the people posting in his threads is awesome.

Note: Tons of subtitles. Movie includes dictionary of what the various 2ch ascii art means.

JDigital · « **Reply #274 on:** April 05, 2009, 02:06:07 AM »

Based on a true story, no less.

I saw a few episodes of the TV series. How does the movie compare?

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #275 on:** April 05, 2009, 12:48:06 PM »

I didn't know a series existed until I saw the notes in the 'special features'. I'll have to see how long the series is, if it's subtitled, and worth watching.

Kazz · « **Reply #276 on:** April 13, 2009, 07:31:17 AM »

I just watched Highlander and then One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest and discovered that both movies are about pro trolls.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #277 on:** April 13, 2009, 07:45:07 AM »

I watched The Final Countdown, an old Martin Sheen flick from 1980. (THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO)

The whole movie is shot on the USS Nimitz, featuring all the squadrons that were on board at the time. The Nimitz is sent back in time to December 6, 1941, not far from Hawaii.

Essentially the film crew got the U.S. Navy to loan them the time and effort of the ship crew to operate the ship and aircraft, all the while where any film shot where there would be crew, they were replaced with actors.

I bet our military will never allow for anything like this ever again.

Best part of the movie? Watching two F-14s take down two Japanese Zeroes. Short of blowing them up, there are no special effects in this movie. Those F-14s are flying at borderline stall speed and the Zeroes are flying at the redline.

Burrito Al Pastor · « **Reply #278 on:** April 13, 2009, 07:57:59 AM »

I was, perhaps unreasonably, disappointed by the lack of anything more substantial in the way of fighter jets v. Japanese navy.

MadMAxJr · « **Reply #279 on:** April 13, 2009, 08:07:36 AM »

Hollywood is totally welcome to revisit this movie and make a Jerry Bruckheimer version titled, WORLD WAR 2: THIS TIME IT'S SERIOUS.

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