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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #450 on: July 01, 2015, 03:52:50 pm »
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I just saw Victoria. It's unfreakingbelievable, absolutely amazing. One of the most thrilling movies I've ever seen.
A single take that lasts 140 minutes!?  That's impressive in its own right.

Yep, the technical feat is very impressive, but what's even better is that I honestly forgot about it at several points in the movie.
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #451 on: July 10, 2015, 09:09:19 am »
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I just rewatched Twilight Zone: The Movie. So very '80s. But then the original source material is older and filmed in the style of their times too.

I had forgotten just how utterly offensive the racist is in the first story. Just a continuous stream of racial slurs in a public place. He was lucky the table of black men nearby were pretty mellow (but not so lucky later on obviously).

It was pretty neat to watch the third one with someone who had never seen the movie or the original show with Ron Howard. My wife just kept uttering, "What the fuck," which is a pretty good testament to how the story builds up. My wife kept yelling at the TV, "Don't go in there. Can't you see the cars?"
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #452 on: July 10, 2015, 05:01:10 pm »
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Isn't that Twilight Zone movie bad? I do recall the reboot television show was terrible in comparison to the original.
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #453 on: July 10, 2015, 07:20:18 pm »
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Movies i just like:
The Shining
The Nightmare before Christmas
The Dark Knight
The Truman Show
Memento
The Great Mouse Detective
Addams Family Values
A Clockwork Orange
The Birds
Terminator 2

Movies i want to see:
Dracula (the old one)
That Soylent Green movie
Alien 1-3
The Godfather
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
The Fog
American Psycho

Movies that i don't think are good but still enjoy:
Hook
Mrs Doubtfire
Batman Returns

Worst movie i found enjoyable:
Dude, where's my car?

Movies that i think are good but have seen too often:
Mary Poppins
Forrest Gump

Movies i watched recently and can recommend:
Kingsmen
Rango

Movies i find overrated:
Avatar
Psycho
Up!

Movies that make me want to become deaf and blind:
Underworld
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #454 on: July 10, 2015, 07:23:35 pm »
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Movies i find overrated:
Avatar

Woah, woah, woah. Who is saying Avatar is good?

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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #455 on: July 10, 2015, 07:49:06 pm »
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Avatar was godawful.  The James Cameron one, not Last Airbender... I mean, it might be, but I didn't watch it.
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #456 on: July 10, 2015, 08:09:42 pm »
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Tonight I watched Exodus with Christian Bale.

Oh, you know him?

Well if by "know" you mean "sat behind him in the theatre occasionally clamping hair samples during the noisy parts of the film" then yeah.

Fixed that for you.

Why doesn't this have any upvotes?
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« Reply #457 on: July 10, 2015, 10:41:04 pm »
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Tonight I watched Exodus with Christian Bale.

Oh, you know him?

Well if by "know" you mean "sat behind him in the theatre occasionally clamping hair samples during the noisy parts of the film" then yeah.

Fixed that for you.

Why doesn't this have any upvotes?

(Feel free to upvote the original post.) Note period INSIDE the quote marks as the sentence is a complete one.
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« Reply #458 on: July 10, 2015, 11:46:43 pm »
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Tonight I watched Exodus with Christian Bale.

Oh, you know him?

Well if by "know" you mean "sat behind him in the theatre occasionally clamping hair samples during the noisy parts of the film" then yeah.

Fixed that for you.

Why doesn't this have any upvotes?

For serious.  As a matter of point, why don't all my posts have more upvotes?
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #459 on: July 11, 2015, 10:04:48 am »
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Avatar is pretty correctly rated, as in "great visuals, nice world, awful story and boring characters". At least that seems to be the consensus from my PoV, and I mostly agree.
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« Reply #460 on: July 11, 2015, 10:13:20 am »
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I'm surprised nobody expressed disagreement with my critizism of Psycho and Up, yet.

I mean, those are far from being as bad as Avatar, but i consider Up's story to be weak and episodical for Pixar standards, while Psycho has awesome moments and actually is a movie i like, but has such an unsatisfying solution that it harms its overall score and is far from as "brilliant" as cineasts make it to be.
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #461 on: July 11, 2015, 10:25:10 am »
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Up is good.  You are Psycho.
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« Reply #462 on: July 11, 2015, 10:34:47 am »
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I'm surprised nobody expressed disagreement with my critizism of Psycho and Up, yet.

I mean, those are far from being as bad as Avatar, but i consider Up's story to be weak and episodical for Pixar standards, while Psycho has awesome moments and actually is a movie i like, but has such an unsatisfying solution that it harms its overall score and is far from as "brilliant" as cineasts make it to be.

Only move that beats up is The Incredibles. Maybe Toy Story too, I haven't seen those movies since I was 4.
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« Reply #463 on: July 11, 2015, 10:41:17 am »
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Toy Story 3 is incredible.
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Re: Movies: Any movie buffs?
« Reply #464 on: July 11, 2015, 11:36:43 am »
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There has been excitement for the new Star Wars movie. Have you felt it?
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« Reply #465 on: July 11, 2015, 11:42:23 am »
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Movies i watched recently and can recommend:
Kingsmen

Yes. This movie was excellent.  One thing about it, it was a very self-aware movie, so some parts were over the top, but I think they had a good balance.
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« Reply #466 on: July 11, 2015, 01:26:25 pm »
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I'm surprised nobody expressed disagreement with my critizism of Psycho and Up, yet.

I mean, those are far from being as bad as Avatar, but i consider Up's story to be weak and episodical for Pixar standards, while Psycho has awesome moments and actually is a movie i like, but has such an unsatisfying solution that it harms its overall score and is far from as "brilliant" as cineasts make it to be.

Only move that beats up is The Incredibles. Maybe Toy Story too, I haven't seen those movies since I was 4.

Really? I hated, hated, hated Toy Story. The cowboy was driven by nothing but envy, and later maybe the instinct to save his shiny plastic skin. The spacemen was a deluisional moron. And both were so very, very in love with themselves. Plus, the humans were very ugly. I found Toy Story to be a depressing, boring movie where i couldn't relate to any of the ethically repulsive protagonists at all.

It's like Aladdin, which i adore, but the fact that Al was such a liar and got himself in deeper all the time was not understandable to me as a child.

Toy Story 2 is a different thing, but i watched that when i was allready an adult, so that was under other circumstances.
Edit: haven't seen part 3, but i had the impression it went on where 2 left
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« Reply #467 on: July 11, 2015, 02:07:15 pm »
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I think Psycho is a good movie but doesn't really age well. The sort of fumbly ending and explanation was probably shocking at the time, but because it's a movie that has set up so many cliches it now feels kind of like a poor excuse for the whole plot.
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« Reply #468 on: July 12, 2015, 06:12:46 pm »
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I'm surprised nobody expressed disagreement with my critizism of Psycho and Up, yet.

I didn't see any criticism of those movies. I only saw you said they were overrated, which is fine. Whether or not a movie is overrated is a personal thing. Did you see a shitload of hype and then thought the movie didn't live up to the hype? I can't tell you you're wrong.

Now if you actually said some negative things about the movies, then we can have something to base a discussion on.

I for one thought Psycho was a bit slow in getting to the point (though the shower scene at the beginning was plenty shocking, especially when you consider that up until then, movies simply didn't do that). It's still a cool story with some good shots.
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« Reply #469 on: July 12, 2015, 08:14:08 pm »
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I watched John Wick lat night and it was surprisingly watchable. The action wasn't made terrible from too many cuts, and in fact a lot of the action was shot in longer shot letting you actually see what's happening.
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« Reply #470 on: July 16, 2015, 11:00:54 am »
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Holy crap, there's a dramatic telling of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I must go see this!
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« Reply #471 on: July 16, 2015, 11:13:35 am »
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Holy crap, there's a dramatic telling of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I must go see this!

Is that the experiment where every kid went dark when they got power and prisoners actually went dark too?
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« Reply #472 on: July 16, 2015, 11:52:16 am »
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Holy crap, there's a dramatic telling of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I must go see this!

Is that the experiment where every kid went dark when they got power and prisoners actually went dark too?

I'm not sure what you mean by going dark.

It did show that people's behaviors changed when placed on either end of a power relationship.
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« Reply #473 on: July 16, 2015, 12:10:21 pm »
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Holy crap, there's a dramatic telling of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I must go see this!

Is that the experiment where every kid went dark when they got power and prisoners actually went dark too?

I'm not sure what you mean by going dark.

It did show that people's behaviors changed when placed on either end of a power relationship.

Yes, that experiment went pretty dark from my understanding of it.
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« Reply #474 on: July 16, 2015, 09:38:31 pm »
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Holy crap, there's a dramatic telling of the Stanford Prison Experiment. I must go see this!

I have seen the german original of the movie and it wasn't very good. Just too much added to the truth. In case you are talking about the american remake, which i assume, i can't say much, but i read the critics were even worse.

Edit: Oops, sorry, there seems to be a third movie. I don't know anything about that one. The others were called "Das Experiment" and "The Experiment". I think the third is "The Standford Prison Experiment".
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