The Ultimate Movie Thread of Ultimate Destiny

Exactly. I know a good action movie when I see one. I don't expect a deep, profound story from a good action movie, but I do expect things to make sense.
'Battleship' sucks because of horrible acting and because the story goes everywhere and nowhere at the same time. Take that scene where our rebel/hero breaks into a supermarket to steal that chicken thing for a blond he just met. Is this movie a comedy? No, it's clear that this movie takes itself very seriously, so that fucking supermarket scene should just have been edited out. It's not like it develops character 'cause these actors excel at being one dimensional and boring. Does Rihanna do anything more than shoot guns and follow orders, do weactually learn anything about her. Definitely not in the first 40 minutes when you need to present and describe your characters for your story to make sense. And that rebel Hopper dude has a high military rank even though he can't control himself for one minute and makes horrible decisions? Yeah, that really works well. Let's just add some explosions so the viewer doesn't think about everything too much.

Bad bad movie. Avoid at all costs.
 
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...That's because the man is a substandard, cliché, kitsch, director. I hate cheese for the sake of cheese, why can't Rodriguez, and his buddy Tarantino make something heartfelt and thoughtful - and no Django Unchained doesn't count IMO, though it was a better attempt.
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Yeah, you'd think they would just get tired of doing the same thing over and over. I feel like I've seen Tarantino's entire bag of tricks several times over, not to mention his friends/imitators.

At least Tarantino has a bag of tricks though. Peter Jackson just has a bag with some excrement in it.
 
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I got a real good chuckle at the "That doesn't make sense" "Doesn't make what?" part. XD

Very clever figurative speech about the problems with the film. Not that they apply strictly to Man of Steel though, more like any film.
 
alec said:
'Battleship' sucks because...
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With all this discussion, I watched some of it last night. It does indeed suck. It sucks so bad it's almost funny, actually. Frankly I don't know why they even bothered with any kind of plot or personal character relationships. It would be a better movie if you got rid of every last bit of dialogue and kept only the action, so it was absolutely nothing but action from start to finish. I skipped out when the giant, flying, mechanical bowling balls with jagged metal tails started ripping things up. Then I checked back in for the last 20 minutes or so.

Rihanna's a horrible actress, too.
 
alec said:
And that rebel Hopper dude has a high military rank even though he can't control himself for one minute and makes horrible decisions? Yeah, that really works well. Let's just add some explosions so the viewer doesn't think about everything too much.

Bad bad movie. Avoid at all costs.
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Terrible movie, agreed. The only part I remember is the Amputee.

The double amputee is a real Colonel who isn't retired. Frankly, he's chubby.
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I want to see, and would believe, this guy tromping around the hills of Hawaii kicking alien ass.
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UniversalWolf said:
alec said:
'Battleship' sucks because...
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With all this discussion, I watched some of it last night. It does indeed suck. It sucks so bad it's almost funny, actually. Frankly I don't know why they even bothered with any kind of plot or personal character relationships. It would be a better movie if you got rid of every last bit of dialogue and kept only the action, so it was absolutely nothing but action from start to finish. I skipped out when the giant, flying, mechanical bowling balls with jagged metal tails started ripping things up. Then I checked back in for the last 20 minutes or so.

Rihanna's a horrible actress, too.
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Some of the best action movies worked like that. So yeah. But they also had good actors.
 
Not a movie, but I started watching Batman: The Animated Series again. I'm not sure if the site I'm using is technically "legal", but it all seems legit, especially since there is no way to download anything you watch. To be safe though, I won't post it up. You can TG me if you want.

As for movies, I watched Meet The Millers. Wasn't a bad comedy at all. And that's saying something, since every comedy I've seen for the last 5 to 7 years seemed to be generic or something I've heard/seen before.
 
I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel a few days ago. What an absolutely wonderful film. Just brilliant. It's entered my top 10 post-haste.
 
Lol, forgot people don't really know what that means here. It's an old internet acronym (used back in the late 80's--very early 90's before Windows was around) for an "email" or private message sent from one computer to another. Originally it meant "Telegram".

So, you can PM me if needed.
 
I saw two movies. Asphalt Jungle is a John Huston heist noir from 1950. It's...sort of mind-blowingly amazing. I think if you're a Tarantino fan who loves Reservoir Dogs, you ought to see Asphalt Jungle, because there's a clear line of influence there. Then I saw City of Ember, which I'd say was not bad, despite Bill Murray's character being sadly one-dimensional. It's a bit of a waste of his talent. It's a movie about a couple fo spunky kids, but the kids are solid and not too precious or precocious, so they're not annoying. As a PA story that takes place in something like a Fallout vault, it has some interest. It actually reminded me a lot of Logan's Run.

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I saw The Grand Budapest Hotel a few days ago. What an absolutely wonderful film. Just brilliant. It's entered my top 10 post-haste.
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I'm glad you liked it. IMO, Wes Anderson is the most original creative genius making movies today, and I try never to miss seeing his films on a big screen. I always feel bad for people who can't or won't appreciate him.
 
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I might be a little late to the party, but boy did that Godzilla movie suck ass.... the best line of the movie: "where is Godzilla?".
And those flying Shrimps were the most forgettable things ever, the characters were bland and we spent 3 fourths of the movie with them, and the acting was phoned in at best... only thing it was missing was a hube "JOIN THE ARMY" banner at the end...
Also, I have never seen Baking Bread, but if Malom's dad acting is this bad there too I doubt I'll be able to take that show seriously....
 
Watched Last Action Hero with my brother and a friend tonight. It was 2 hours and 10 minutes of "Get to the choppa!" "Everybody get down!" etc.

. . from us. The movie was nice too.
 
Two oldies come to mind: Birdman of Alcatraz (1962) and Twelve Angry Men (1957). Another personal favourite of mine would definitely have to be The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), which has a fantastic soundtrack by Peter Gabriel.
 
I just rewatched Akira. The 25th anniversary edition, to be exact. I don't care what the internet concensus is, I simply do not see it as being better than Ghost in the Shell. That one is definitely my favorite anime of all time. This one was good too, but it didn't resonate with me, personally.
 
Thanks @Byzantine! There's great atmosphere in those old movies from the sixties, I'm afraid that gentle charm has been irrecoverably lost. Here's another two tips for such movies:

On the Beach (USA, 1959) - post apocalyptic sci-fi, with excellent Gregory Peck. The deepest despair and sad expectations of inevitable end are depicted through a group of last survivors, who luckily escaped the nuclear hell of WW3. Now, when the radioactive winds are slowly spreading across the globe, those people are resignedly waiting for inevitable end of mankind. Great, slow-paced and highly underrated movie IMO, definitely worth of watching!

La Jetee (France, 1962) - Another post apo story revolving around fictional WW3, where the city of Paris has been destroyed completely. Very untraditional movie, it's basically a slideshow of static black-and-white images lasting 28 minutes. The same story appeared later in 12 Monkeys; this old French movie caught my interest much stronger though!
 
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I'm watching a fan edit right now, of Kill Bill. It combines the two movies and rearranges scenes in chronological fashion. Besides that being a cool way to reconstruct the film, the movie(s) remind me that female heroines are quite cool. And it's too bad we don't see too many of them.
 
Indeed. Lately within this last decade or so film-makers have been breaking away from that whole "you have to be a man to be strong and fight" thing other film developers established in the 40's and 50's. The female roles were always either just a love interest for the protagonist, support roles, or your common "helpless female" who needed rescuing.
 
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