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Author Topic: Movies in the Theater  (Read 106730 times)

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #740 on: April 16, 2011, 10:27:34 AM »

Because it could be Casablanca levels of technical excellence here and I'd still probably leave the theater wanting to throw up on the director until he is slowly eating alive by trace amounts of stomach acid.

There are great movies with messages I disagree with.  On the Waterfront is a thinly-veiled McCarthy apologist screed.  It's still a legitimate classic.

It doesn't sound like this movie is a legitimate classic.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #741 on: April 16, 2011, 11:09:27 AM »

Well the promotional materials for this did not make it seem like the message was even thinly veiled.  It's pretty much just a two-hour Mammonist sermon.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #742 on: April 16, 2011, 04:12:58 PM »

Well yes, it IS Atlas Shrugged.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #743 on: April 17, 2011, 06:27:07 PM »

Source Code isn't as good as Moon, but it's a pretty good sophomore effort.  The plot twists are all thoroughly predictable, but the writing is serviceable (and manages to throw a couple neat ethical questions along the way without dwelling on them) and Gyllenhaal puts in a top-notch performance.  It doesn't really feel like anything fresh or new, but it's well done and worth the ticket price -- though I don't think you'd miss much by waiting for the video.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #744 on: April 29, 2011, 07:37:30 PM »

Dear THOR MOVIE advertisers.

If you wished to reassure people that your movie is not in fact some kind of closeted tribute to white supremacy, I must point out that publishing your posters only in red white and black is NOT the best way to to do that.

Regards, etc.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #745 on: April 29, 2011, 10:42:30 PM »

They should have just spent the money on putting a Mjolnir standee on every street corner.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #746 on: April 30, 2011, 12:11:52 AM »

Didn't you get the memo, Mongrel?  White supremacists HATE Thor.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #747 on: April 30, 2011, 03:30:28 AM »

Oh I know, I'm just making fun of their rather silly poster choice.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #748 on: April 30, 2011, 06:03:58 AM »

Didn't you get the memo, Mongrel?  White supremacists HATE Thor.

If that were true, there would be fewer of them that practice Ásatrú.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #749 on: April 30, 2011, 10:17:27 AM »

In the commercial there's something about an oath to protect the peace.

I'm pretty sure Thor and his entire pantheon were all about warfare and being as violent as possible.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #750 on: April 30, 2011, 10:26:19 AM »

Reading up on Beta Ray Bill made it pretty clear that being chosen as inheritor to Thor's power requires a certain amount of omnicidal tendency.

Although I guess the original superhero Thor was a doctor so uh Dr. McNinja isn't original at all?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #751 on: April 30, 2011, 03:07:47 PM »

Reading up on Beta Ray Bill made it pretty clear that being chosen as inheritor to Thor's power requires a certain amount of omnicidal tendency.

It's more that being a superhero requires you to immediately mistake the first guy you meet for your enemy and fight him.

Although I guess the original superhero Thor was a doctor

Yeah.  Generally Don Blake and Thor are treated as separate entities -- when Blake strikes the hammer it's like he switches places with Thor -- but in the earliest comics the hammer just gave him Thor's powers.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #752 on: April 30, 2011, 03:22:51 PM »

Incidentally, the movie is pretty fun.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #753 on: May 01, 2011, 12:17:02 PM »

Although I guess the original superhero Thor was a doctor so uh Dr. McNinja isn't original at all?

Uh, no.  Thor is not a ninja, obviously.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #754 on: May 02, 2011, 12:57:26 PM »

Not until the next crossover.

ADDENDUM: I would buy that.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #755 on: May 02, 2011, 05:55:07 PM »

Thor looks like The Green Hornet in that I will see it because an average-looking movie really stands out in a sea of lousy ones.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #756 on: May 05, 2011, 11:33:17 PM »

THOR: 2011'S ANG LEE HULK
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #757 on: May 05, 2011, 11:41:27 PM »

Ok. To elaborate I walked into the theatre and there were 4 other people watching the movie. That's never a good sign. There were 3 3D effects in the whole movie and they weren't very well done. They loved a camera shot and repeated it again and again. It's where they hover the camera 3 feet from your head at a slight angle, so your head is huge compared to your feet and the landscape is at a 45 degree angle.
[spoiler]And Thor's not a god. He's an alien. With Super Sci-fi powers that we explain as magic. Sorta. This was dropped like half way through the film. I'm not sure if they were REALLY trying to make that point, but Asgard really bothered me. It's all Sci-fi turbines and glowy lights and lasers and shit. [/spoiler]  And they felt the need to explain SOME of the mythos but for the most part, if you don't know more about Norse myth than your typical person, you'll be a tad confused.


I can't even think of all the things that left a bad taste in my mouth but I can think of the TWO GOOD THINGS.
The Costume (of Thor and pretty much no one else) and the acting (of Thor. And pretty much no one else.)


EDIT:
AT THE END OF THE MOVIE [spoiler]They leave it at a cliffhanger (almost literally) and then 2 minutes later say "THOR WILL BE BACK IN THE AVENGERS MOVIE." I know he will. He's on the posters. But right after "I'm not sure I'll ever see earth again?"[/spoiler]
AND AFTER THE CREDITS?! [spoiler]The fucking Cosmic cube?! Is this what the Avengers movie will be about? Nothing with the cosmic cube has been enjoyable.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #758 on: May 06, 2011, 01:48:35 AM »

Don't listen to Lottel; he is not a well man. [spoiler]Marvel Thor was always powered by ambiguawesome Kirbytech, and that holds true here. The only increase of science was that they changed Bifrost from a rainbow bridge into a rainbow bridge with teleportation laser powered by Yggdrasil at one end of it. Since this interpretation looks cooler, makes more visual sense at the destination end, creates interesting dramatic situations, and keeps Heimdall's character from being superfluous in a movie without any invaders to defend against, I am going to call it a net improvement.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #759 on: May 06, 2011, 05:36:57 AM »

THOR: 2011'S ANG LEE HULK


yeah well

i liked ang lee's hulk too
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