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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #640 on: December 17, 2010, 07:53:53 PM »

A lot of the scenes are actually still in 2D. There's even a disclaimer at the beginning.

On that note:

TRON LEGACY 3D: HOLY SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #641 on: December 17, 2010, 08:13:38 PM »

soundtrack of tron is awesome, visuals are pretty sweet, everything else is weak. I recommend watching on as big a screen as possible
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #642 on: December 17, 2010, 10:24:26 PM »

A lot of the scenes are actually still in 2D. There's even a disclaimer at the beginning.

Before or after you buy the ticket?

(this question is rhetorical)
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #643 on: December 18, 2010, 01:03:27 AM »

I'm a little curious if Quorra looks Like Motoko Kusanagi on purpose

unless i'm the only one that sees the similarity
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #644 on: December 18, 2010, 07:22:18 AM »

Only the character's concept artist knows for sure!
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #645 on: December 19, 2010, 12:40:09 AM »

Saw Tron in 3D.

Great movie. Was distracted by the ever growing headache I was getting.

I am, apparently, not compatible with 3D.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #646 on: December 19, 2010, 02:14:43 AM »

I only see out of one eye so... 3d not so fun for me.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #647 on: December 19, 2010, 07:19:46 AM »

You'd figure it'd be just a 2D movie, only slightly dimmer if you watch it through the glasses, though.

As for Tron, there were a few plotholes you could drive a bus through, and what exactly [spoiler]happened to Tron at the end[/spoiler] left me going WTF, but overall I found it enjoyable.  The visuals were great, the soundtrack was used well, and Jeff Bridges was playing his Kevin Flynn as the Dude.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #648 on: December 19, 2010, 09:11:48 AM »

I only see out of one eye so... 3d not so fun for me.



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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #649 on: December 19, 2010, 06:32:54 PM »

Voyage of the Dawn Treader: I saw three writers credited at the end, and it explained a lot.  It's got its moments where it's really on, but it's also got moments of tremendously, unbelievably cliche dialogue (shit like a character fainting and somebody saying "Was it something I said?", or "Stop it, both of you!  Don't you see what's happening?").  It also tries to graft a plot backbone onto what's essentially an episodic story, complete with pointlessly throwing a collection quest on top of a story that's already a damn collection quest.  For the most part this doesn't help, though there's some rejiggering of the order where it works better: Eustace spends more of the story as a dragon than in the book, and the Island of Dreams is turned into the climax of the story, which mostly works except that it fucking cribs the summoning of the monster straight from Ghostbusters and then Eustace sword-fights glowy green gas.

Oh, and the glowy green gas just represents pure evil.  Or temptation, or sin, or some generally abstract badness.  It may be the least subtle Narnia movie yet (though, in fairness, the least subtle bit, Aslan's "I am known by another name in your world" speech, IS straight out of the book).

On the plus side, the kid who plays Eustace is perfect.  Hammy as hell, but that's exactly what the character calls for.  He scowls and he shouts and he tantrums and he really steals every scene he's in.  Oh, and Simon Pegg replaces Eddie Izzard as the voice of Reepicheep.

All in all, pretty meh and kind of a mess, but there are bits that work pretty well.  Don't know if we'll see any more after this (though [spoiler]Jill Pole gets a namedrop[/spoiler] at the end), but Silver Chair is a much more straightforward story.  Hell, the two after that are, too.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #650 on: December 19, 2010, 07:35:32 PM »

I saw Tron: Legacy twice (which ought to communicate my opinion on it), once in 3D and once in 2D. I preferred it in 2D, because the movie is already dim enough without taking the glasses into account.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #651 on: December 21, 2010, 07:17:16 PM »

Re: Tron

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #652 on: December 21, 2010, 08:13:41 PM »

More anecdotal movie reports.

Haven't seen Black Swan yet, but I hear it's Good and Intense. About what I'd expect from Aronofsky. Seems to be doing well so far, thankfully; I remember some people speculating it would do very poorly. (Apparently The Wrestler just bombed here.)

I know nothing about The Fighter, but it also seems to be doing well.

Now that it's Christmas week, Tangled and Narnia are suddenly doing much better business than last week.

I saw the last ~10 minutes of Yogi Bear 3D, and left the theater a broken, weeping shell of a man. Based on both a direct and an overheard conversation, the best that can be said for it is that it's better than "Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Movie" was. If this is true, "Avatar" must have been some kind of a god-damned war crime.

Burlesque still selling well, also still pulling in a surprising number of little old ladies. I gather it seems like great fun while you're watching it and shortly thereafter, but within 24 hours or so you'll increasingly realize it was actually terrible, which explains the reviews vs. word-of-mouth issue.

I didn't see Tron in THX the first time, but that's okay, because we can hear the soundtrack of the THX screening in the lobby rather clearly. I don't recall this happening for anything else.

It also occurred to me that the name "Tron Legacy" actually has a bit of a double meaning - since Tron is the oldest program in the Grid, he is actually a legacy program.

Also, I enjoyed summarizing the plot of the movie to a coworker in the form "Jeff Bridges has a disc that Jeff Bridges wants so that Jeff Bridges can escape from the world of Jeff Bridges to the world of Jeff Bridges, but Jeff Bridges is hiding it so that Jeff Bridges...." etc.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #653 on: December 21, 2010, 08:20:12 PM »

I gather it seems like great fun while you're watching it and shortly thereafter, but within 24 hours or so you'll increasingly realize it was actually terrible, which explains the reviews vs. word-of-mouth issue.

So, Rocky Horror.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #654 on: December 22, 2010, 01:57:13 AM »

Yeah, Tron Legacy.  I had actually never watched Tron in full until Sunday, and saw the movie on Monday, so that may color my opinion.  Oddly enough I had always recognize quotes from Tron as being such without ever actually having watched the damn movie.  I guess there aren't too many movies out there where people want people in the games until they die playing.

Anyway, the Legacy.  One of the best jumpstart sequels out there, imo, though the movie itself might be a little shaky.  It actually, and this is really a feat when you think about it, it actually captures the original look and feel of Tron perfectly using modern technology.  Which is amazing because the entire look and feel of the original was based around shitty 1982 CG graphics.

At times it revels in its own kitschiness a little too much, but that's okay because honestly, there's really nothing in the world kitschier than Tron anyway.

I'm really, really glad I decided to catch the original first, though, because the sequel doesn't exactly do a good job of getting newbies up to speed.  You get a really vague summary at the beginning and then it jumps directly to AND HERE'S EVERYONE TWENTY YEARS LATER (except for Lora/Yori who I guess was put on a light bus).  The rest you're left to puzzle out yourself.  What's up with the laser?  When did Jeff Bridges get a bunch of Matrix powers?  Why is Tron so fucking important?  (Hint: He's not.)

By now you've probably all caught it already anyway, but in case for some reason you haven't made up your mind - if you liked the original, see it, if you didn't, don't.  It really is a Legacy movie.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #655 on: December 22, 2010, 07:22:33 AM »

At some point during the movie, I realized that Tron Legacy wasn't a sequel so much as it was a remake/reconception of the first film.

At the very beginning, when the TVs are explaining what happened to Kevin Flynn, they don't mention anything about the acts of corporate sabotage and betrayal that was the plot of the first film.  In fact, it shows that the film was also a film in their universe, which seems to have inspired Kevin Flynn to try to create the grid himself.  Hell, he even names his new creation CLU, after his program that gets eliminated at the beginning of the first film.

The other things I noticed were how much the first half of the movie follows the story of the first film.  Sam attempts to sabotage Encom, has a discussion with someone who works there in his a-typical apartment, "That's a big door", gets zapped in, is captured and then forced to play disc, followed by the light cycles, which he then escapes from by driving out a hole blasted in the wall.


Officially they might bill it as a sequel, but considering the cult status of the original and how much even the studio didn't even seem to want to let people see it before Tron Legacy came out, it almost feels like they were taking a stab at just recreating the whole thing, with a few nods for fans.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #656 on: December 22, 2010, 09:17:37 AM »

It actually, and this is really a feat when you think about it, it actually captures the original look and feel of Tron perfectly using modern technology.  Which is amazing because the entire look and feel of the original was based around shitty 1982 CG graphics.

Right; Tron is actually PERFECT for the "everything is really fucking blue and orange" aesthetic in modern movies.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #657 on: December 22, 2010, 10:14:39 PM »

True Grit was great. It was described to me as The Coen brother's most broadly entertaining movies and I'd agree with that. As a matter of fact, pretty much the only person I've heard say anything bad about it was an 80 year old men who loves The Duke and wont even give this version (which is actually a more faithful adaption of the source material but thats an entire different arguement) a chance.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #658 on: December 22, 2010, 10:25:59 PM »

Yeah, True Grit was absolutely amazing. Westerns aren't dead yet.

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #659 on: December 22, 2010, 10:26:22 PM »

I only see out of one eye so... 3d not so fun for me.



B-b-but it's not even Christmas yet! :gasp:

That's what you get for opening your presents early!  :disapprove:

I like how you take a problem that I've had since birth, that upsets me to no end, has had to be operated on multiple times,  and causes me major grief and sometimes physical pain and just throw jokes at it, shows you've got class....

Fuck-face.

Ahem, Saw True Grit with James, I loved it. Funny comment in the theater at the end "Man, I loved that movie but it ended like a book, I hate books!" Soooo, as long as you don't mind books I guess it's OK....
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