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i understood you. i still pulled it out of context to make fun.

Heartbeats

targeted at a sub-generation a handful of years younger than me. "BF" is used in the dialogue. being 19 wouldn't change my opinion. there's nothing in this movie i want. a love triangle that only makes sense as a plot device. it uses random mock interviews to break away from the main storyline. i rarely ever like this, and particularly dislike these scenes. people sharing their struggle to get over a past relationship. that's only in movies, right?

reviews talk about how cool the lighting is. i think most of this lighting is an allusion to godard. bland allusions. color filters being used as two characters pillow talk with language derived from text messaging. at first i thought a comment about the romance and obsession projected in films like Le mepris fading in an HD atmosphere. it's not a comment. it's just faded.
 
A History Of Violence. My favorite David Cronenberg movie. Really bad ass.

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hydroazuanacaine said:
sounds like you were loving your sunday, Joe.
The Great Beauty

opening scene is top notch. love how it feels so surreal, and then slowly reveals reality. on many levels. good movie. pretentious. if paul thomas anderson had been raised italian and discovered lsd late in life. i've seen this guy's other film, This Must Be the Place, liked it and was surprised by my reaction, but apparently did not post about it and don't remember much more.
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lol, sunday was a fun day indeed =)

glad to hear ya got a chance to see la grande bellezza. u know actually that is probably the last film i saw, been watching more tv shows lately but sometimes i put on the great beauty just to relax. visually, so beautiful. pretty spot on about the PTA/italian/lsd analogy. i just looked up "this must be the other place" and am quite s urprised to see it is "that" film with sean penn, i heard about that when it came out. i woulda never thought it was by same director. now that you informed me it is, makes me wanna check it out =)
 
Spider Man fucking "2." I had read "Things crashing into other things, or my superhero movie problem" the day previous, which used Spider Man 2 as an example of everything wrong with the sub-genre and Captain America 2 as an example of what's good about it (he also included "Man of Steel" in the shit category, which really won me over). An acquaintance presented us with a choice between the two, but CA was a longer drive, and since seeing the two movies back to back struck me as the perfect way to better understand what Matt Zoller was on about in his essay (and my girlfriend was offering to pay for me to tag along) I said "fuck it."

Spider Man 2 (of the series that was made because Sony didn't want to pay Toby Maguire what they owed contractually) is so terrible that we all had a lot of fun laughing at it. Everyone in our vicinity in the theater was apparently doing pretty much the same (with some busting out laughing during a funeral scene). It's sort of a live-action silly action cartoon for kids, with some Twilight level teen angst to make its PG-13 rating seem slightly more appropriate. If that's something you might enjoy wait for it to go to budget theaters. The experience of the audience all realizing they're experiencing something profoundly dumb and worthy of mockery is priceless, but the ticket isn't.
 
The new Captain America (in spectacular IMAX 3D!)

In all honesty, you don't go watching a film like this for the acting or the directing. And god knows you don't watch it for the plot. It's all about the explosions & cool 3D effects.

With this movie, with the exception of maybe one or two scenes, it was easy to forget that there anything "extra-dimensional" about it. I dunno, ever since I saw Gravity, every 3D film I check out seems to go about incorporating these special effects the wrong way. I could never imagine seeing Gravity on a flatscreen at home and have anywhere NEAR the experience I did in the theater. That's the only way to really appreciate that film, in IMAX 3D. Where as I could prbly watch a Nigerian bootleg of Captain America filmed using a potato and been equally as awed by the cinematography.

So yeah, pass.
 
Max Power said:
The new Captain America (in spectacular IMAX 3D!)

In all honesty, you don't go watching a film like this for the acting or the directing. And god knows you don't watch it for the plot. It's all about the explosions & cool 3D effects.
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Yeah, that's mostly true, though Grant Morrison (major Superman comic writer) argues superheros sometimes function as quasi-religious idols that are continually re-tooled to be relevant to contemporary culture (see "Supergods"). For me, the problem with just going for the cool 3D effects is that I find myself getting rapidly desensitized to it. IMAX theaters will soon need to require electrified nipple clamps to keep up with audience demand for intense stimulation. Zoller's article had this to say:
[superhero movies] treat viewers not to variations of the same situations (which is fine and dandy; every zombie film has zombies, and ninety percent of all westerns end in gunfights) but to variations of the same situations that feel as though they were designed, choreographed, shot, edited and composited by the same second units and special effects houses, using the same software, under the same conditions. ...

... It's an entertainment factory in which the audience is both consumer and product. Its purpose is not just to please consumers but to condition and create them.

The fat bottom lines guarantee that neither studios nor producers nor writers nor directors will feel much pressure to make superhero films great, as opposed to better than expected. The movies are are "different" from each other in the way that burgers sold by global fast food chains are "different". It's the Big Mac vs. the Whopper vs. the Dave's Hot 'N Juicy from Wendy's. As cold as this strategy is, it works. The audience seems to have no interest in demanding better films, much less excellent ones. It settles for OK and better-than-OK. As long as the films aren't unbearably bad or unnnervingly personal, they're content.
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That assessment is pretty spot on. Very well said.

It's no secret that Hollywood loves re-using old ideas to death, this semi-recent superhero revival being a prime example. However, what made the original Captain America so successful in the 40s was that he was relatable as a patriotic figure due to the audience's backdrop being WWII. You can't replicate that same connection in modern times.
 
Went to see Oculus the other night. It's from the producers of Paranormal Activity/Insidious etc. Pretty much what I was expecting, an average psychological/supernatural thriller.

I did see the trailer for the new Godzilla film while watching, though. Having grown up loving some Godzilla films, hopefully this one is more akin to the older series of films. Unlike that 1998 pile they called Godzilla.
 
Captain America 2. Enjoyed the movie but I kinda didn't like GSP's role lol.
 
Bardeaux said:
Went to see Oculus the other night. It's from the producers of Paranormal Activity/Insidious etc. Pretty much what I was expecting, an average psychological/supernatural thriller.

I did see the trailer for the new Godzilla film while watching, though. Having grown up loving some Godzilla films, hopefully this one is more akin to the older series of films. Unlike that 1998 pile they called Godzilla.
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green day soundtrack ftw
 
John Dies at the End on netflix the other day

in two minds about it... its a shitey mess, but its good... in the shit way. coulda ended up a cult classic
 
ColtDan said:
John Dies at the End on netflix the other day

in two minds about it... its a shitey mess, but its good... in the shit way. coulda ended up a cult classic
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I saw the movie inebriated and was sort of confused, but had a lot of fun nevertheless. Then I listened to the audiobook and realized it wasn't just the drugs that flummoxed me: they cut some plot points from the story.

Whatever though. The story was written by the editor of Cracked magazine, and though I've never read that publication its name is an apt description of JDATE's mind-warpingly absurd approach to comedy. I'd recommend it to anyone with at least somewhat adventurous tastes who plans to watch it high or better. Better yet, though, read the book or download the audio version.
 
Tyrannosaur

everything in this movie is ugly. "tyrannosaur" is a pet name of grotesque affection. reminds me of that short story where a man finds a rotting horse in the middle of the road. he pours gasoline on it and sets it aflame before going to bed, so he can see what it looks like when he wakes up. i imagine both are commenting along the lines of the contrast ugly provides being a necessity for beauty to exist. the short story is better. in plot, this movie is like a failed paul thomas anderson character sketch. the main character is boring and there are movies much cooler at being ugly.

the bad guy is abhorrent. like, truly abhorrent. he's an extremely unenjoyable aspect of the film. i have a take on his role in things. there's the lady who remains capable of love after enduring so much abuse but with a face no one but an old, dried-up alcoholic would kiss kinda ugly. he's a different kind of ugly.
 
Watched Cameron crowe's Singles on my flight yesterday. 90's Seattle rom "com" with cameos from plenty of bands from the time. Reinforces why Eddie vedder and Chris Cornell's acting careers never went any where.

Goes without saying that the soundtrack is epic.
 
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