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I liked Tron: Legacy as well. Bit silly at times, but that carried over right from the original, which was by no means a masterpiece. Legacy was a fun flick and looked gorgeous. Also, Daft Punk and Olivia Wilde in a catsuit.
Speaking of Tron, Tron 2.0 (the video game) was actually a very good game and is probably the best entry in the entire franchise. It's certainly underrated.
 
ZigzagPX4 said:
Huh, I really liked Tron: Legacy. Yet again I am reminded of my substandard taste in films. I do agree that it didn't have much substance, but the visuals and music were done very well. I feel like the popular sarcastic description for it is pretty apt: a two-hour music video for Daft Punk.
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Oh, I'm not saying I hated it :D When I said "visual party" I meant it, the visuals were very spectacular, and quite enjoyable. I watched it out to the end, mostly because of that. It was a nice sit back and shut off the brain kind of movie. Hell, I guessed from even the very start that
dad would dramatically remain in Tron-land, or die there, or something. They really confirmed it by having him outright wish to see his motorcycle :D Not that it matters

And yes, the Daft Punk comparison fits :D
 
Went to watch The Hateful Eight, really really dug it. Altho

The twist with the dude under the floor was lost on me as I had been wondering where the fuck Channing Tatum was (I saw his name on the openning credits) so I was expecting him to show up and do some shit.

Pretty good movie, the violence was brutal als always and the perfomances were top notch.
 
Yep. It is possibly my third favorite Tarantino flick which is pretty damn good considering how much I like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
 
TorontRayne said:
Yep. It is possibly my third favorite Tarantino flick which is pretty damn good considering how much I like Reservoir Dogs and Pulp Fiction.
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Seconded.
It's a great film.

My only problems with it is that it was perhaps a bit too much gore which felt a bit out of place (I feel that Tarantino's films get more bloody and gory in the illogical way as his career progresses, and that's somewhat annoying) and those narrations of his were unnecessary.





I went to watch The Revenant the other night.

It's a solid flick. DiCaprio's and Hardy's performances are very good, though I'm not the fan of the latter. Visually stunning and good music choice. I was very happy when I heard John Luther Adams' music, since I really love his work.
It's a bit weak in the plot department though, and is at moments quite over the top. I didn't really like that since given it's "natural" visuals and filming, I was hoping the story would remain more down to earth. What DiCaprio's character did is plain impossible and that ruined the *sigh* immersion.
Also, those Native Americans really felt underdeveloped.

But it's a solid film nonetheless. Watching a beautifully shot film in 4K resolution that isn't fucking 3D was a huge breath of fresh air.
 
Well, As far as I can read on wikipedia - well you know how accurate THAT can be ... but still - this is actually more or less what happend to him. I think they even left the parts with the maggots out. Now of course ... since he was alone out there, who knows if he told the truth with everything.
 
Crni Vuk said:
Well, As far as I can read on wikipedia - well you know how accurate THAT can be ... but still - this is actually more or less what happend to him. I think they even left the parts with the maggots out. Now of course ... since he was alone out there, who knows if he told the truth with everything.
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Not really, no. The whole thing is heavily fictionalized in the film.
The killing of his son is fiction - in fact, Glass having a son is fiction - at least a son who got killed in front of his father like that. Historical Hugh Glass was *just* left behind by those two men and he sought revenge for being abandoned, but in the end, didn't kill any of them, though he tracked them down.

As far as his actual ordeal goes, he basically dragged and limped and rifted down the river for a couple of hundred kilometers to Fort Kiowa. In the film he is shown as having superhuman rejuvenation abilities, with his broken leg healing itself in a very short period of time, him running and swimming and and riding and fighting and being seemingly unaffected by all the wounds of the bear attack and so on and so on.

I mean, I'm all for artistic liberties and I'm not saying that the movie is bad because of this or that seeing a two-hour-long film of showing a man dragging on the ground would be entertaining or particularly thought-provoking, but some of the stuff shown in the film really broke the (again that word) immersion for me. I was just staring at the screen at several moments thinking "Well, that's just impossible."
 
Atomkilla said:
but some of the stuff shown in the film really broke the (again that word) immersion for me. I was just staring at the screen at several moments thinking "Well, that's just impossible."
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Maybe. Like I said. Who knows for sure?

But is it really crazier than this? I can't imagine someone doing something like that, cuting his own arm of, with a dull knive for 1 hour and walking a distance of a couple of miles ... but it seems it really happend.



Which was also made into a movie.

But you are right, the Revenant has probably changed a lot of stuff for artistic reasonsons and to increase the drama. But I felt, the survivor part, was rather solid. And it felt like he was out there for weeks, if not months. They could have done it a lot worse, so much for sure.
 
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TorontRayne said:
Did you catch the time jump though? It wasn't as if his shit healed up instantly. It was far fetched and over dramatized of course.
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Yeah, I did. But it wasn't done all that well, so instead of weeks or months I felt as if they showed the thing was happening in mere days.


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Watched Django Unchained last night. For some reason, I've never seen that film.
Not Tarantino's best, but great performances all around.
 
It's a decent movie. But since I also like the old Django movies, I feel Tarantinos movie has kinda not much to do with those. I don't even know if it really needed the name Django at all ...
 
He just wanted to make the omage to old spaghetti westerns, so he picked a name. There are numerous references throughout the film to some older ones (I mean, even the guy who plays original Django appeared as a cameo).
But yeah, that's about it.
 
I like to think the original Django still exists since he was in that cameo and the new Django is like Robin taking over the Batman mantle. :)
 
Hmm, I must have missed that scene. Care to explain which one it was? I have to admit, it's been such a long time that I saw the old Django movies.
 
When Schultz and Django first met Candy some guy in the bar calls him "D-Jango" pronouncing the D, then another guy, played by the same actor of the original Django movies, corrects him.
 
I saw The Revenant the other day. Enjoyed it a lot. Not a lot of substance, but nice nonetheless. Aesthetically very pleasing. Liked Fitzgerald a lot.

Gonna see The Hateful Eight tonight. Pretty stoked...
 
dopezilla said:
I saw The Revenant the other day. Enjoyed it a lot. Not a lot of substance, but nice nonetheless. Aesthetically very pleasing. Liked Fitzgerald a lot.

Gonna see The Hateful Eight tonight. Pretty stoked...
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Heard so many mixed things about both those movies, going to see them regardless.
 
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