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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #480 on: March 09, 2010, 08:31:04 AM »

It's a game not a show.  Also Through the Looking Glass is a return of Alice to Wonderland, not as many years later, but still the same idea.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #481 on: March 09, 2010, 08:57:56 AM »

Plus (at least to me) there is more difference than similarity in the following two stories:

Alice has an elaborate fantasy world that is all in her mind but after experiencing the traumatic death of her family, her fantasy world is dangerous and everything has basically rotted and become poisonous, and in order to restore the happy place she once knew she has to kill everything

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Alice forgot that she visited a magical land, returns to it and saves it from political turmoil only to remember that she had been there as a child.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #482 on: March 09, 2010, 09:09:19 AM »

END OF DISCUSSION, MCE


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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #483 on: March 09, 2010, 09:13:55 AM »

what the
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #484 on: March 09, 2010, 09:33:50 AM »

WOAH THERE

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #485 on: April 02, 2010, 09:45:06 PM »

I saw Last Song today. (Not that I had a choice.) It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be and was pretty ok in the fact it wasnt a story I was expecting from Last Song though it's still a chick flick.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #486 on: April 05, 2010, 09:34:32 AM »

Saw How to Train Your Dragon on Saturday. It was pretty damn awesome. It competes with Up in my mind. Sure it's not as touching (it's pretty touching though) but it makes up for that with EXPLOSIONS! Girlfriend is loving all of the dragons (she's got a thing for silly looking lizards) and I was amazed with how the clothing and the backgrounds looked.
My prevailing thought of the whole film? [spoiler]Best movie where a kid get's crippled and no one cares EVER[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #487 on: April 05, 2010, 12:16:17 PM »

[spoiler]I heard that Hiccup doesnt lose his left foot like in the book. Does he just get crippled instead?[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #488 on: April 05, 2010, 01:15:14 PM »

There's a book?
[spoiler]And yeah. He loses his foot.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #489 on: April 05, 2010, 05:56:06 PM »

Crazy Heart is like The Wrestler with a happy ending.  Satisfyingly, the ending isn't too pat and it's not cloying.

It also features one of my favorite actors, the American Southwest, in a substantial supporting role.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #490 on: April 08, 2010, 05:59:59 AM »

[spoiler]Best movie where a kid get's crippled and no one cares EVER[/spoiler]
[spoiler][/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #491 on: April 08, 2010, 06:05:28 AM »

I stand by my point.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #492 on: April 16, 2010, 10:08:54 PM »

Saw Kick-Ass tonight.
It was a lot better than I was expecting. I heard it was  Spider-man 2 meets the Dark Knight with shittons of gore. I was relieved this was not the case.
There WAS a lot of violence but I thought it was... not tasteful but... nicely done? Some of the [spoiler]headshots Hitgirl does towards the end were just downright artistic.[/spoiler]
My favorite part of the whole movie was Big Daddy's speaking pattern. He tried to talk like Adam West Batman while in costume. It was great.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #493 on: April 24, 2010, 01:35:17 PM »

Kick-Ass the movie is better than Kick-Ass the comic.  Where the comic struggled with trying to decide whether it was realistic and down-to-Earth or crazy and over-the-top, the movie has no such confusion; it's the latter all the way.

A couple of the major plot twists from the comics are removed, and it's actually better without them, too; here you know from the beginning that Red Mist is Tony D'Amico's son luring Kick-Ass into a trap, and the story is therefore spared a twist that feels forced.  Also, in the movie, as far as we know Big Daddy is exactly who he says he is, and there's only one allusion to the suitcase full of money.

Nic Cage plays Big Daddy far differently from the burly bruiser of the comic, and the character is better for it.  He's a pencil-necked geek out of costume, and in costume he adopts a ridiculous Adam West cadence -- apparently this was Cage's idea, under the very reasonable point that anyone his age would have been first exposed to superheroes through the Batman TV show.

Hit Girl is the highlight, the thing that makes this movie different from anything you've seen before.  She nails the contradiction between childlike innocence and sociopathic violence.

All in all, the movie is perfectly cast.  Cage, Moretz, and Mintz-Plasse really shine.  Johnson's narrative voiceovers are weak and forced, but he's just fine at delivering his dialogue.

The whole thing is great fun, improves on the source material, throws in some hilarious surprises for people who read the comic and think they know what's going to happen in the last fight, and is a good movie whether you liked, hated, or never read the comic.

Oh, and there's a line in there about "those old Ditko Spider-Mans you loaned me".  Fuck yes; suck it, Stan Lee.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #494 on: April 24, 2010, 09:15:38 PM »

I heard the Adam West voice originated because Nick Cage was mocking Bale and the director loved it. Yours seems a lot more likely.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #495 on: April 24, 2010, 11:23:20 PM »

Diary of a Wimpy Kid is like Napoleon Dynamite, only longer, painfully unfunny, and starring a main character who nobody could possibly like.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #496 on: April 24, 2010, 11:30:38 PM »

So... Napoleon Dynamite?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #497 on: April 25, 2010, 09:56:00 AM »

So... Napoleon Dynamite?
No, it's longer. Can't you read?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #498 on: April 25, 2010, 10:42:14 AM »

So it's Napoleon Dynamite followed by Napoleon Dynamite.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #499 on: April 25, 2010, 02:38:57 PM »

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