Watched Focus last night, starring Will Smith and Margot Robbie (DiCaprio's wife from Wolf of Wall Street). It started out very interesting with the whole con premise, but went downhill from there into the romance territory (ugh, the acting). Should have probably gone for American Sniper instead...
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SnapSlav
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That's a perfect synopsis for why I love business that runs off itself and free market principles, and utterly despise government businesses and businesses impacted by government stepping in. Let's lower the price on oil so we can fuck over Russia for a few weeks! It'll stimulate our economy while we're at it! Yeah, not to mention all those lay-offs. Leave the business decisions to the businesses, fucking bureaucrats...
But I digress. This has nothing to do with movies, after all. Still, shit like that just incites me. ~_~
So, movies! Eh? Eh?
I'm looking forward to Lazer Team more and more now that they've released their trailer on top of their previous teaser. It looks fucking HILARIOUS! XD
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
Just ask wallstreet how it worked for the global economy to let companies run without government sanctions or regulations.
Akratus
Bleep bloop.
Mayhem, thy name is deregulation.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
Wallstreet is hyperregulated by government and has been for a long, long time. Wallstreet people just happen to be ten times smarter than government know-it-alls and run circles around them, while the government know-it-alls are every bit as arrogant, corrupt, and greedy as Wallstreet. The difference is, the government know-it-alls expect everyone else to kiss their asses for the privilege.
I saw The Avengers a couple days ago. Hmm...it was good. It's been highly recommended to me by a lot of people, but I wasn't that impressed, I guess. I mean, Robert Downey is exceptional, and he was a great choice in the first place for Iron Man. Scarlett J. is good and certainly fetching in a tight body suit. Mark Ruffalo was an interesting choice for Bruce Banner, too, I think. Most of the jokes worked. Yeah, pretty solid overall. Hardly the Second Coming, though, IMO.
Frankly, however, I'm offended by Marvel's cultural appropriation of my scandinavian heritage. The Thor and Loki in the movie aren't the real Thor and Loki.
I saw The Avengers a couple days ago. Hmm...it was good. It's been highly recommended to me by a lot of people, but I wasn't that impressed, I guess. I mean, Robert Downey is exceptional, and he was a great choice in the first place for Iron Man. Scarlett J. is good and certainly fetching in a tight body suit. Mark Ruffalo was an interesting choice for Bruce Banner, too, I think. Most of the jokes worked. Yeah, pretty solid overall. Hardly the Second Coming, though, IMO.
Frankly, however, I'm offended by Marvel's cultural appropriation of my scandinavian heritage. The Thor and Loki in the movie aren't the real Thor and Loki.
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SnapSlav
NMA's local DotA fanatic
You're confusing regulation with deregulation. Imposing the removal of certain regulations may seem like "deregulation" to you, but that's government intervention. That IS regulation. Regulation is what ruined the economy back in 2008, because taking away necessary credit scores and down payments (among many other factors, of course) was handed down from on high by big brother, NOT by the hand of the markets themsevles. Don't be absurd.
Back to movies... seriously, Lazer Team looks awesome! =D
I had an issue with that, too. I LOVED mythology when I was growing up, so I would read up on ancient mythology when I was around 10 years old, and I had a particular attachment to various cultural gods of trickery. So I loved Loki. When I learned about the Marvel Loki, I got into a BIG argument over how "Loki would NOT be subservient to anyone... even a galactic overlord!" with some friends, and nothing they offered me persuaded me otherwise. We finally reached a compromise when they said, "Marvel Loki is Marvel Loki, NOT the actual Norse God Loki", which I could begrudgingly accept.
As for the other characters from Avengers... Both Cap and Black Widow get AMAZING character development in Winter Soldier, Black Widow especially, so they're not wasted as the series progresses. I personally much preferred Norton's rendition of Banner to Ruffalo's, quite honestly, but at least the newer one was okay.
Yeah, it definitely wasn't any "second coming", but EASILY best film of 2012, without any shadow of doubt. My biggest qualms with it were its signature "Whedonisms" (Biggest of all, the no-explanations token phrase that seems all badass and cool, "That's my secret; I'm always angry" line. Just eye-roll worthy.) yet some of the film's best moments were also "Whedonisms" (Best of all, Loki's declarations interrupted by a defiant Hulk who smacks him around, pauses, then smacks him around some more, with hilarious timing.) so it mostly evens out.
Easily a 9.5/10, especially if "second coming" necessitates exceeding the 10 scale. =)
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Akratus
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You guys *do* know the marvel norse gods are not meant to be representations of the actual norse gods, right? It's a marvel spin on them. In-universe they are the actual norse pantheon, but in real life Marvel never means them as anything but a superhero variant of the actual mythology.
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Not only that but Loki is still the bringer of Ragnarok. I stand firmly behind Marvel's Thor comics despite my strong affection for all types of mythology. I think they did Loki justice, as they did Thor, Hercules, Zeus, and Ares. As a matter of fact, Ares was one of my favorites for a short time until the Sentry ripped him in half, spending him back to Olympus for a timeout.
Watched "Wild Tales" aka "Relatos Salvajes" w my dad and brother in the cinema. Tiny lil room they set aside for such a foreign film, but hey, everyone elses loss, the movie was awesome.
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
That sounds like a porno title.
In English or Spanish? I immediately reacted to the English re-titling, because it sounded... different... "salvaje" sounds more brutal than "wild", and indeed fits the movie better.
We didn't even bother to give it a Norwegian title, but kept it re-titled in English
gordog_frohman
namhofr_godrog
I watched Thelma and Louise on Friday and have spent this entire weekend writing an analysis on the importance of the road trip archetype on the film as a whole...pretty riveting stuff.
I don't know if anyone has seen it, but it certainly doesn't cast a good light on men. Other than that it was a pretty good film
I don't know if anyone has seen it, but it certainly doesn't cast a good light on men. Other than that it was a pretty good film
Walpknut
This ghoul has seen it all
In Spanish, "Salvaje" means wild yes, but it tends to have other connotations sometimes, and with "Relatos Salvajes" sounds like one of those Porno antology "films" (of which I obviously know nothing about), ehmm.... Where the Wild things are for example is called "Donde viven los monstruos" here or "Where the Monsters live". I don't know, different cultures I guess. Maybe to some other spanish speakers from other regions it might sound tamer.
To me it sounds more brutal than tame - or sexual. "Wild" does indeed have potential to sound sexual. But yes, the Spanish-speaking world is allready quite big, with many different ways of understanding certain words. I belong to the fringe, the "2nd language"-speakers
Either way, very good movie, Argentinean, relating anecdotal short-stories that are, well, wild! I don't wanna give too much away, because the premise is allready rather simple.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I sat through most of Battlefield Earth yesterday. Wow, what a wretched movie. It was kind of fascinating seeing all the different ways it was bad, like watching a horrific car accident. The strangest thing about it is that almost every single shot is filmed with the camera tilted about 30 degrees to one side or the other. You never see anyone or any thing standing straight up and down. They're all diagonal on the screen all the time. It's weird, and not in a good way.
A friend of mine recommended What We Do In The Shadows, a vampire satire from New Zealand:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/
...so I saw that too. It's pretty funny. I enjoyed it well enough.
A friend of mine recommended What We Do In The Shadows, a vampire satire from New Zealand:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3416742/
...so I saw that too. It's pretty funny. I enjoyed it well enough.
Yeah, it's a pretty good movie, but it's definitely a female counter-testosterone rage flick. One of Ridley Scott's more interesting works.
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Akratus
Bleep bloop.
I'm buying the Universal Monsters blu ray box. Anyone seen any of those classics? Dracula, Frankenstein, Creature from the Black Lagoon?
Myself I've recently watched: All 6 original star trek movies, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, The Imitation Game, Emperor, Interstellar, rewatched Howl's Moving Castle, saw Princess Mononoke, Gone Girl, Taxi Driver. . I may have mentioned some of these before.
Wrath of Khan is definitely the high point of the old star trek movies, but I was surprised by the search for spock and the undiscovered country. The former I found to be better than I remember, and the latter worse.
The Internet's Own Boy is the interesting tale of Aaron Swartz, who was apparently the driving force behind the movement against SOPA and PIPA, and he was an activist, coder, and some other things. He commited suicide because of the pressure put on him by a trial against him for accessing and downloading a very large part of an educational database. Just a very cool snapshot of a very talented and driven individual's life, that was unfortunately cut short.
The Imitation Game I thought was a nice film. Though very obvious oscar bait. I still think Enigma has it beat. But you can kind of watch that as a sequal so at least they don't cover almost any of the same ground.
Emperor was . . nice. It's a historical movie about a man who works for the military in post-war japan, and basically has the question of whether the emperor should be put on trial thrust on him. It was interesting, but the writing could have been a bit better, and a bit tighter. The movie also looked very cheap, in that the backgrounds were done horribly. At one point I think the horizon was off, which is just shamefully amateur. The backgrounds they put in in general were obvious and ugly. Not a bad film though. Nice performance by Tommy Lee Jones as General MacArthur.
Interstellar I thought was another modern classic by Chris Nolan. My only real complaint is the "love is the greatest power in the universe, and it is probably scientifically so too!" bits. Which thankfully were very limited. But still, that was very sappy and jarring in an otherwise quite serious film. I don't care that so many people find Nolan overrated, I think he makes decent films.
Howl's Moving Castle was touching for me, because I was hit by this surprising nostalgia. I hadn't seen it since highschool, and I might've missed the last 10 or 20 minutes back then even. It's great, but wasn't as amazing as I remember. Still really great, but not top 10 great as my memory had inflated it.
Princess Mononoke was. . I don't know, I feel as though this is one of those rare movies were you see great quality and talent behind it but it doesn't grip you. I liked it, and was taken by the story, but I was also kind of bored at the same time? I don't know how to explain it best. Still like an 8 out of 10.
Taxi Driver was actually kind of similar. It wasn't that gripping for me, but I did watch the whole thing and could see what made it a classic.
Edit: Right now I'm watching Miracle Mile from 1998, on a recommendation of Jay Bauman from RLM. So far it's got great tension, good story. Great eighties flick.
Myself I've recently watched: All 6 original star trek movies, The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz, The Imitation Game, Emperor, Interstellar, rewatched Howl's Moving Castle, saw Princess Mononoke, Gone Girl, Taxi Driver. . I may have mentioned some of these before.
Wrath of Khan is definitely the high point of the old star trek movies, but I was surprised by the search for spock and the undiscovered country. The former I found to be better than I remember, and the latter worse.
The Internet's Own Boy is the interesting tale of Aaron Swartz, who was apparently the driving force behind the movement against SOPA and PIPA, and he was an activist, coder, and some other things. He commited suicide because of the pressure put on him by a trial against him for accessing and downloading a very large part of an educational database. Just a very cool snapshot of a very talented and driven individual's life, that was unfortunately cut short.
The Imitation Game I thought was a nice film. Though very obvious oscar bait. I still think Enigma has it beat. But you can kind of watch that as a sequal so at least they don't cover almost any of the same ground.
Emperor was . . nice. It's a historical movie about a man who works for the military in post-war japan, and basically has the question of whether the emperor should be put on trial thrust on him. It was interesting, but the writing could have been a bit better, and a bit tighter. The movie also looked very cheap, in that the backgrounds were done horribly. At one point I think the horizon was off, which is just shamefully amateur. The backgrounds they put in in general were obvious and ugly. Not a bad film though. Nice performance by Tommy Lee Jones as General MacArthur.
Interstellar I thought was another modern classic by Chris Nolan. My only real complaint is the "love is the greatest power in the universe, and it is probably scientifically so too!" bits. Which thankfully were very limited. But still, that was very sappy and jarring in an otherwise quite serious film. I don't care that so many people find Nolan overrated, I think he makes decent films.
Howl's Moving Castle was touching for me, because I was hit by this surprising nostalgia. I hadn't seen it since highschool, and I might've missed the last 10 or 20 minutes back then even. It's great, but wasn't as amazing as I remember. Still really great, but not top 10 great as my memory had inflated it.
Princess Mononoke was. . I don't know, I feel as though this is one of those rare movies were you see great quality and talent behind it but it doesn't grip you. I liked it, and was taken by the story, but I was also kind of bored at the same time? I don't know how to explain it best. Still like an 8 out of 10.
Taxi Driver was actually kind of similar. It wasn't that gripping for me, but I did watch the whole thing and could see what made it a classic.
Edit: Right now I'm watching Miracle Mile from 1998, on a recommendation of Jay Bauman from RLM. So far it's got great tension, good story. Great eighties flick.
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It's difficult to explain how bad this movie is, without coming off like you got an agenda, like you hate John Travolta, or got an anti-scientologist agenda or something, you have to swear by the sun and stuff "nono, it's REALLY bad! Everything about it is bad! Bad dialogue! Bad sound design! Bad application of visual filters! Bad, bad, bad!"
It's the only movie that I know of, that is SO remarkably bad, that you get physically ill from watching it (the sickness enducing angled cameras - that are ALWAYS at an angle. I might have to rewatch to make sure _all_ scenes are at an angle, but I seem to remember nearly all of them, perhaps with a few minor exceptions :think: )
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What's wrong with hating Travolta? That guy has long ago exceeded his date of expiry.
UniversalWolf
eaten by a grue.
I feel more pity than hate for Travolta. And scientology or no scientology, Battlefield Earth is Bad with a capital B.
As a fan of Saturday Night Fever, I don't think I could ever really hate Travolta. He's contributed a few good moments to the world of movies. Not to mention Welcome Back, Kotter:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072582/
As a fan of Saturday Night Fever, I don't think I could ever really hate Travolta. He's contributed a few good moments to the world of movies. Not to mention Welcome Back, Kotter:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072582/
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