t'tool
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Post by t'tool on Feb 1, 2015 6:50:20 GMT
i watched it too it was pretty cool and billy-goated up
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Post by Laurence on Feb 1, 2015 8:30:08 GMT
yeah nightcrawler is rad. that big chase towards the end is all kinds of awesome
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Post by Puggalo4Lyfe on Feb 2, 2015 6:01:59 GMT
I just watched john wick. I had to google afterward if it was originally a comic book because it seemed a little cartoony, which is fine, but they kept inserting interesting little elements that led to nowhere which forced a rushed ending and a thin plot. it's almost as if the producers said 'okay you got an hour and a half, no more, get on it.' I really wish they would've taken their time with it. it had so much potential to be awesome. I could see a lot of cool sequels coming from it too if they didn't billy-goat it up. also cast members from the wire keep popping up together in places I don't really expect which is pretty cool I guess.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2015 6:41:20 GMT
Nightcrawler is a 8/10. I love Gyllenhaal, he plays a perfect sociopath. There are some parts of the movie which are kinda weird and if you were to nitpick the rating might go down, but if you watch for pure entertainment its billy-goatin A.
Right now I just finished watching Predestination. It was ok, 6/10 for me. I kinda had a problem going into this movie because I knew the plot gimmick, and it kinda made the twist null. Apart from that, the story is alright, and the acting is alright. Good for a Sunday afternoon.
Currently waiting for Interstellar to be available.
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Post by t'tool on Feb 3, 2015 17:14:33 GMT
I just watched Snowpiercer, I quite liked it. There's nothing subtle about it, its class politics is pretty hamfisted but that's the point because it's a rockin pulp fiction with lots of interesting bits. Why are those 2 asians such cool characters?? The moral dilemmas are pretty powerful.
I watched John Wick too and thoroughly enjoyed it although I can't even remember why since it's a completely generic revenge action movie. Better than The Equalizer which was quite decent.
Man there's been a lot of good movies this year!
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Post by Russ on Feb 5, 2015 11:31:00 GMT
I watched John Wick too and thoroughly enjoyed it although I can't even remember why since it's a completely generic revenge action movie. Better than The Equalizer which was quite decent. for me it was the cast (motherbilly-goating ian mcshane), music, colour composition and the way it was filmed. plus the world too, the whole all-reaching continental scene, how everyone was just so blasé about murder, the fact that its just how it is. instead of taken where its just 'im going to kill you' and 'the only thing that matters is me killing you' john wick actually had surrounding elements, explored the environment. sort of set it apart from a lot of the recent action revenge flicks ya know? plus it was nice to see keanu in something
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Post by Roger Force on Feb 6, 2015 7:21:12 GMT
Nightcrawler is way better than birdman. That movie messed me up.
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Post by Special Agent Dr. Dana Scully on Feb 6, 2015 13:03:09 GMT
i disagree, i just watched birdman myself. very much my kind of movie!
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Post by Special Agent Dr. Dana Scully on Feb 6, 2015 13:04:12 GMT
tho it was a bit self-indulgent and lost focus i thought
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Post by abbey on Feb 6, 2015 16:32:48 GMT
tho it was a bit self-indulgent and lost focus i thought Soooooo self-indulgent. If I could pick and choose scenes from Birdman, I'd say it was great. Ed Norton and Emma Stone were really fun to watch. The public nudity scene is ace. But then I remember that the rest of the movie might as well be Keaton jerking off. It was so boring, watching him deal with the same thoughts and delusions over and over. Then it ends how we all knew it would. He embraces the birdman. I was so happy to leave the theatre.
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Post by Roger Force on Feb 6, 2015 17:42:41 GMT
I dunno, pretty sure he ascended himself above birdman at the end.
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Post by Russ on Feb 6, 2015 18:04:10 GMT
he dead thats what i got from it at the end
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Post by zztopsfirstalbum on Feb 6, 2015 19:13:59 GMT
he dead thats what i got from it at the end qft
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Post by Benjaman on Feb 6, 2015 21:49:15 GMT
wow i just wrote out a big post about the movie and then the forum stalled so i lost it billy-goat here is a condensed and less good version birdman either 1) lives in a universe where the ending makes literal sense (he has superpowers, end of story) or 2) lives in a universe like ours (where the ending is just a mundane realization but because of movie magic we perceive it as superpowers). in either case the realization is that he has worth as a person which is why his daughter sees his powers at the end. either because theyre literally there or because it's a metaphor. or w/e. i think it's the second one. taxi driver comparison: the reason i disagree with the taxi driver comparison is because i think the end of taxi driver is similar to point #1 stated above. it isnt that travis is dead, he just lives in a different world than us. i mean like- over the course of the movie we are led to believe he is a nut who thinks a rebellious reckoning is going to elevate him. and in our real world it wouldnt, in our real world he is crazy. his sort of dissonance would not be rewarded in our (real) world. but him, and betsy and sport and iris, live in a world that rewards dissonance. and so when he does act on his plan he is rewarded. because it's dissonant as well. it isn't what you expect.
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Post by Puggalo4Lyfe on Feb 7, 2015 9:16:29 GMT
just watched whiplash. really good billy-goating movie
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