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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #420 on: January 12, 2010, 10:48:02 PM »

Just saw Daybreakers, which was pretty good. If you haven't heard about it, it's a movie where years ago Vampires took over the earth and people are farmed for a food source.  The movie is about when the supply of humans run low and the effects it has on Vampire society.

The movie starts with a BANG! (Explosive suicide) and has a lot more explosions throughout. Seriously. Explosions everywhere. Which is a good thing this time. I'm kinda of squeamish and I was expecting a lot of blood. But I could not prepare for the AMOUNT OF BLOOD OH GOD LOOK AT THE BLOOD. And the gore was everywhere. EXPLODING GORE! Body parts! BLOOOOOOD.

Acting was good, story was good, visuals were good. Had a touch of humor, a tiny bit of a moral, and a decent ending.

Main Guy's name is Edward though.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #421 on: January 12, 2010, 11:01:29 PM »

I want to see it primarily because it's directed by the Spierig Brothers who made Undead, an interesting and fun but flawed film.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #422 on: January 12, 2010, 11:13:07 PM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #423 on: January 13, 2010, 01:15:03 AM »

My mother, who is in charge of premiering movies in our city's greater area and generally loves 99% of movies, said Daybreakers was awful
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #424 on: January 13, 2010, 06:15:42 AM »

Well, since 99% of movies are awful, it proves your mother has bad taste?
Is that how this works?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #425 on: January 13, 2010, 06:47:29 AM »

I was intrigued by the premise of Daybreakers, but it didn't look like a movie I would enjoy too much, so I'll probably catch it online while cross stitching.  Maybe I'm just ignorant of vampire stuff but I hadn't heard anybody address what the previews talk about before.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #426 on: January 13, 2010, 12:13:25 PM »

I finally watched Aliens, and then saw Avatar in 3D the next day; it was an interesting juxtaposition. James Cameron certainly likes his Chekhov's Guns. Also, the humans technical and aesthetic design was almost identical in the two films, save for advances in what technology could render; I kept waiting for the Weyland-Yutani logo to pop up somewhere in their base. (They did refer to The Company, though.)

All the parts of the movie with humans in it were fun if you like that kind of stuff; I was :want: in ever scene with the gunships. All the parts with the Na'avi were pretty much shit, on so many levels I can't even begin.

Honestly, it's a new iteration of Phantom Menace. It's awesome now because it's technically unprecedented; in five years this technology will be common and the movie will be shit.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #427 on: January 13, 2010, 01:28:10 PM »

Well, since 99% of movies are awful, it proves your mother has bad taste?
Is that how this works?
More like "easily pleased" and also I forgot to mention that she is totally on board with the Vampire Craze Sweeping The Nation
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #428 on: January 13, 2010, 02:07:49 PM »

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #429 on: January 13, 2010, 05:10:22 PM »

Sherlock Holmes is a good movie, go see it.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #430 on: January 13, 2010, 05:20:05 PM »

I DONT BELIEVE YOU
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #431 on: January 13, 2010, 05:25:22 PM »

Sherlock Holmes is a good movie, go see it.

It IS a good movie. It far exceeded my meager expectations. Which were EXPLOSIONS: IN ENGLAND.

I do have to say though, out of the two, Daybreakers deserves your money more. An original movie like that doesn't come around too often.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #432 on: January 15, 2010, 07:15:01 PM »

Really enjoyed Avatar! Bad guy could've been a bit less cartoonishly evil, and I wish they'd gone into the escapism angle a bit more, but on the whole, the thing was ridiculously entertaining.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #433 on: January 24, 2010, 09:52:54 PM »

The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus is a Terry Gilliam movie.  It's beautiful and it's weird and it has big, broad ideas that don't really work out to a very sensible or well-plotted story.  All the actors do great work, though their characters, toward the end, start doing a bunch of shit that doesn't make any sense.  Tom Waits as the devil is a highlight, but Verne Troyer, surprisingly enough, turns out to be a good actor, and newcomer Lily Cole is more than just an incredibly gorgeous face.

My favorite bit is like a CG version of Gilliam's old animated Monty Python segments.  Seriously.

Everything to be said about how Ledger's death hangs over the film has been covered in every single review of the film already.  There are a couple of scenes that are eerie or disturbing in this context, and I think they work well for it without crossing over into being maudlin or exploitative.  Ledger does decent work; not his best but quite good.  His three doppelgangers do an admirable job of playing his character; I think I like Depp's portrayal best but I think Farrell does the best job of mirroring Ledger.

...mirroring.  No pun intended.  Really.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #434 on: January 24, 2010, 10:41:46 PM »

Yeah, Imaginarium was very good.

Also, Kabbage, they wasted a fucking hour on "escapism", what more do you want
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #435 on: January 25, 2010, 02:25:28 PM »

Tom Waits as the devil is a highlight,

Did he do it in his Rowlf the Dog voice?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #436 on: January 25, 2010, 02:42:46 PM »

Also, Kabbage, they wasted a fucking hour on "escapism", what more do you want

I dunno, it was just that the escapism bit never really went anywhere. Jake shows up on Pandora with busted legs and a dissatisfaction with his society, meets a sassy scientist who doesn't give a shit about her real body but loves her Navi form, then gets plugged into a fake body that lets him do everything he's ever wanted and live in a completely different world. Every now and then someone would remind him to eat or shave or do his work, but he cared less and less about that the longer he spent out in the jungle.

Finally, he saves the day and the magic of nature makes his avatar into his real body. He never really has to face reality, he just successfully escapes it.

Seemed like they were going somewhere with he and Dr. Augustine not really wanting to go back to their bodies, yet always having to. Cameron definitely focused on what he should have, but I was hoping he'd have something to say about that particular element of the story.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #437 on: January 25, 2010, 03:08:11 PM »

Sigourney Weaver does NOT look like someone who's sixty.  I think that's the real special effects miracle here.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #438 on: January 25, 2010, 08:53:11 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0D8IRIYBSnk

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #439 on: January 25, 2010, 09:55:48 PM »

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