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Author Topic: Movies in the Theater  (Read 106846 times)

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #340 on: December 04, 2009, 09:14:29 AM »

Black Dynamite is better than you could possibly imagine.

I was really expecting it to be a lot more one-note and it really astounded me. It's like Hot Fuzz but for a less distinct genre.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #341 on: December 04, 2009, 10:50:41 AM »

Black Dynamite is better than you could possibly imagine.

I'm guessing you saw it at the Landmark Riveroaks 3 because that is the closest theater that moviefone is recommending to me.  :sadpanda
It's like Hot Fuzz but for a less distinct genre.

Blaxpoitation?  Also this is the best recommendation I have seen for any film ever and I am sad I cannot see this film currently.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #342 on: December 04, 2009, 01:44:57 PM »

Not just blaxploitation. pretty much anything of that era, including shawscope, etc.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #343 on: December 04, 2009, 01:45:48 PM »

Also, do what yyler did, and torrent that motherfucker.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #344 on: December 04, 2009, 04:10:48 PM »

Black Dynamite is better than you could possibly imagine.

I'm guessing you saw it at the Landmark Riveroaks 3 because that is the closest theater that moviefone is recommending to me.  :sadpanda

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #345 on: December 04, 2009, 05:48:59 PM »

FUCK SOUP IS GOING TO FIND OUT WHERE I WORK

With Step 1 accomplished, I can commence with Step 2: Acquiring 20 feet of rubber tubing.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #346 on: December 06, 2009, 07:50:20 AM »

I thought I told you not to interrupt me during my kung-fu?

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #347 on: December 12, 2009, 01:03:57 PM »

Princess and the Frog

[spoiler]YOU WILL BELIEVE A BUG CAN DIE[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #348 on: December 12, 2009, 08:39:19 PM »

A Serious Man

Jewish: The movie!

It's really funny, but goddamn is it irritatingly open-ended--it's on purpose and it makes it better artistically, but it's still irritating a surface level.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #349 on: December 12, 2009, 09:20:09 PM »

Yeah, that whole movie felt like it was building up to something. Then...
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #350 on: December 12, 2009, 09:53:17 PM »

Kazz should also mention the movie was pretty great.  It was about as great as many old films by Disney, so I loved it <3

Also I got to eat delicious food while we watched.  And we had the theatre to ourselves.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #351 on: December 12, 2009, 10:19:10 PM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #352 on: December 12, 2009, 10:21:25 PM »

The Fantastic Mr. Fox is fucking gorgeous.  I was probably under 10 the last time I read the book, so I don't remember much of it, but bits like the tail and The Terrible Tractors hit me with fun little "Oh yeah, I remember that!" moments.  But even where it wasn't throwing out references to the source material, it stood pretty well on its own, especially in terms of animation.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #353 on: December 12, 2009, 11:03:42 PM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #354 on: December 13, 2009, 07:01:20 PM »

Alright, most accurately-named movie of the year:  Ninja Assassin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4pEKQ_zUBo

Just came out of it, and it was worth my seven dollars.

I recommend this movie to the following categories of those who:

-Watch Niku's LP's/walkthroughs..
-Like gunfights
-Like Swordfights
-Like blood
-Like Ninjas
-Like assassins
-Like the last two in intersection
-Like the last with 2-4 in complete intersection
-dislike excessive meaningful dialog (replacement killers lovers, that's you!)


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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #355 on: December 13, 2009, 08:19:42 PM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #356 on: December 13, 2009, 08:43:41 PM »

Yeah, that was an interesting comic when it started.

But then instead of actually being a story about what it really would be like if someone did that in real life... it's just turned into another superhero comic, one of those ones that just has lots of abuse of the main character, but isn't really any different.

 ::(:

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #357 on: December 14, 2009, 01:11:08 PM »



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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #358 on: December 21, 2009, 06:13:00 AM »

Avatar Is A Pile Of Horseshit

Or

Why You Should Be Rooting For The Badguys


At what point did director shorthand for majesty, magic and fantasy boil down to, "Riding Dragons"? When did any other method of capturing the method get divorced from film-making, for fuck's sake

Avatar is a movie basically entirely about riding dragons and that's pretty much it. The entire purpose of the hideous blue people tribe is to fight dragons, ride dragons and jump from tree to tree then sleep in their tree cocoon things and do it all again tomorrow whoopee.

Obviously the entire premise of the movie hinges on seeing these beautiful forest people's way of life and wanting to preserve that, but not every person going into that cinema can be guaranteed to give a shit about riding some fucking stupid stripey dragons ok! The other "aspects" of forest people life involve drinking water, jumping from tree to tree, holding bow-strings steady (the bows which are never actually used to hunt wildlife once in the entire movie) and [spoiler]enabling women to cheat on their fiances. [/spoiler]

THAT'S ANOTHER THING: I could go on for days about how every dumbfuck Hollywood movie had a scene where the handsome, roguish shithead steals the woman away from the guy with the funny-shaped head, but in this case not only were they [spoiler]actually engaged to be married but the Rival was actually intelligent, competent and arrived at a plan of action before the World Tree got destroyed[/spoiler] instead of after. I didn't like the Night Elf campaign when I played it and I sure as hell didn't want to have to relive it.

Anyway, dragons. I do not give a flying shit about dragons. These people's way of life was shitty as hell. It was arduous, lethal (they repeatedly commented on how common it was for their people to just die all the time, even if it was never shown), had no discernible point to any of it beyond getting high all the time and for fuck's sake I do not care about jumping from tree to tree, either. Make me give a shit about your dumb fucking tribal people.

As if to hammer home the point of how fucking shallow and easily amused these idiots are, at the point in the film where the main character has actually betrayed everyone he cares about and has [spoiler]gotten their second-most priceless relic destroyed[/spoiler], how does he make it up to them? [spoiler]He goes and gets a REALLY BIG DRAGON and rides it into their camp. They instantly forgive him because hey it's a huge dragon, and they enable this stupid shit to just go ahead and regurgitate the plan that the other guy already came up with and they follow him brainlessly. [/spoiler]

The real killer here is that you never actually SEE HIM [spoiler]TAME THE DRAGON[/spoiler] IT HAPPENS OFF-SCREEN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

He then [spoiler]leads something like 15 tribes in a stupid as fuck frontal assault that gets them all killed. All of them. Literally.[/spoiler] The "villain" meanwhile, promises his men that the first round of drinks is on him after they get back to base. The only assurance we have that this guy is evil is that his soldiers chuckle evilly and he shoots at the heroes for, imagine that, stealing his property. The Colonel was the one good thing about this movie and I could watch him stab that stupid fucking Displacer Beast a hundred times over and never get sick of it.

Seriously, that bit where he [spoiler]comes down out of the air and his ship explodes behind him and the rest of that fight scene[/spoiler] were the only good thing in the film. Avatar is the worst worst worst worst worst film I have seen in as long as I can remember and the closest I have ever come to walking out of the cinema mid-film.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #359 on: December 21, 2009, 06:33:51 AM »

I could feel it was candy-coated dross.  Thanks for saving me the time and money to prove it to myself.
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