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[Walsingham]

I had to stop half way through How I live now, I found the main character unbelievably emotionally immature and over dramatic. It reminded me of anime in a sense..

 

...She's a sixteen year old girl, in the film. Who starts out with anorexia. What the hell were you expecting? Marcel Proust? It's partly what makes it interesting. It's no Red Dawn.

[Rosbjerg]

I was expecting her to act like a 16 year old girl with anorexia and not some 30-40 year old writer's teen fantasy.

 

 

It all started out all right mind you - but she goes from basically passive aggressively hating the family to this strange extreme love and pretty much sacrificing ever seeing her family again in a manner of minutes. The trek to the mountains emotional montage was sooo over the top that I had to stop the movie.. It felt her development was cliché to the point of caricature. Burning the tickets? come on - who does that?...

 

Teenagers make idiotic decisions, sure - but they hadn't imo established a realistic way for her to feel soo strong after such a short while.. Their romance development basically consisted of twilight stares and heavy breathing.

 

 

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I'm not sure if the Dark Aster was a regular Kree battleship rather than some kind of unprecedented mega cruiser or such. That's the way I rationalised it, anyway.

Infinity Stones and stuff from Thanos is what I chalk it up to.

[Raithe]

Since I'm having trouble moving around this morning, I finally got around to watching Cabin in the Woods. Definitely an entertaining one, with a lot of good performances throughout.

[Bester]

 

I had to stop half way through How I live now, I found the main character unbelievably emotionally immature and over dramatic. It reminded me of anime in a sense..

 

...She's a sixteen year old girl, in the film. Who starts out with anorexia. What the hell were you expecting? Marcel Proust? It's partly what makes it interesting. It's no Red Dawn.

 

I haven't seen the film yet, but there have been a few pictures of Seersha/Saoirse from the Berlin's Film Festival of last year and OH MY GOD WAS SHE FAT. How did she play an anorexic with those big fat arms of hers? Did she do some diet for the movie? Did the director of photography hide her body a lot?

 

I so miss her, haven't seen her movies for at least a year now, but I'm afraid of being disappointed by her new fat body or the film's script (IMDb rating not good).

 

Pls tell me she's not fat in the movie!

Edited August 18, 2014 by Bester

[Bester]

Since I'm having trouble moving around this morning, I finally got around to watching Cabin in the Woods. Definitely an entertaining one, with a lot of good performances throughout.

 

Joss Whedon is to be 'blamed' for this. He always brings the same actors from project to project cause they're his friends and they all work great together. This results in an overwhelming number of good performances and you can just see that people on the set are having fun.

Edited August 18, 2014 by Bester

[Amentep]

 

I'm not sure if the Dark Aster was a regular Kree battleship rather than some kind of unprecedented mega cruiser or such. That's the way I rationalised it, anyway.

Infinity Stones and stuff from Thanos is what I chalk it up to.

 

 

Well the net holds the Dark Astor until Ronan uses his Universal Weapon to break it.  The big gaffe on the Xandarian side was not really having a counterplan against the smaller ships since their smaller ships were caught up using the net.

[Keyrock]

 

Selfishly, I kinda hope Nic Cage never gets out of financial trouble so that he has to keep starring in these hilariously awful movies.  His accent in this trailer is

 

 

Magnifique!

[HoonDing]

Maybe I'd watch that, if it didn't have Hayden Christensen.

 

EDIT: lol, Crusaders? Would make more sense if Cage was superhero Marco Polo or something.

Edited August 21, 2014 by HoonDing

[Oerwinde]

 

 

 

I'm not sure if the Dark Aster was a regular Kree battleship rather than some kind of unprecedented mega cruiser or such. That's the way I rationalised it, anyway.

Infinity Stones and stuff from Thanos is what I chalk it up to.

Well the net holds the Dark Astor until Ronan uses his Universal Weapon to break it. The big gaffe on the Xandarian side was not really having a counterplan against the smaller ships since their smaller ships were caught up using the net.

Hopefully Xandar's pitiful defence leads them to the creation of the worldmind and the superpowered Nova Corps.

[Amentep]

 

 

 

I'm not sure if the Dark Aster was a regular Kree battleship rather than some kind of unprecedented mega cruiser or such. That's the way I rationalised it, anyway.

Infinity Stones and stuff from Thanos is what I chalk it up to.

 

Well the net holds the Dark Astor until Ronan uses his Universal Weapon to break it. The big gaffe on the Xandarian side was not really having a counterplan against the smaller ships since their smaller ships were caught up using the net.

 

Hopefully Xandar's pitiful defence leads them to the creation of the worldmind and the superpowered Nova Corps.

 

I kinda figured that was what they were setting up to be honest.

[Keeba_PMS]

I just watched a new horror movie called Oculus and it was pretty good. It had Karen Gillan(Amy Pond from Doctor Who) in it and it didn't suck. The only distracting thing was Karen trying to fumble with an American accent. Her Scottish accent came through but at the same time it was kinda adorable.

[Woldan]

Blown Away. (1994) Not bad, IMO one of Tommy Lee Jones best performances.  The explosions were pretty weak though, can't stand those Hollywood fireball explosions. Real explosion with nitro look different, way more shockwave, no fire. 
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45ldbKfmY4

[Volourn]

"I saw Man on Fire again the other night. Damn that's a good movie, Denzel Washington's best*."

 

I agree that was a fantastic movie and definitely one of his top 3.

[Monte Carlo]

Blown Away. (1994) Not bad, IMO one of Tommy Lee Jones best performances.  The explosions were pretty weak though, can't stand those Hollywood fireball explosions. Real explosion with nitro look different, way more shockwave, no fire. 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L45ldbKfmY4

 

Wow Hollywood lionized the IRA. Oirish terrorists are obviously good terrorists.

[Raithe]

Heh, this review of the new Sin City amused me..

 

 

 

I can't really say that I enjoyed Sin City: A Dame to Kill For, but I paid attention all the way through. This was one of those films which proved objectionable pretty quickly, but which was chock full of visual and structural storytelling techniques I wanted to absorb.

 

I guess my experience was a little bit like stepping up really close to a painting in order to see the paint rather than the picture.

 

Regarding the picture: the movie earns its R rating with violence, nudity, language, and drug use. The final line of narration, tells us that Sin City leaves its stain on everyone, and that pretty much summed up my experience.

 

Regarding the paint: Structurally, it's a neat sort of palindrome. Story A begins, Story B begins, Story C begins and ends, then Story B ends and finally Story A ends. Visually, it is brilliantly composed. We move freely from hyper-realistic black-and-white scenes to heavily stylized silhouette animations, and we cover lots of middle ground as well. Each shot works in very strong support of the story. And as stories go it's horribly dark, and it's never actually happy, but it's powerful and well told.

I saw the 3D version, and I think the 3D added a lot. Looking way up as naked Josh Brolin gets blown through a window, and then tracking him down... well, the 3D really sold that for me.

 

Sin City: A Dame to Kill For was not really that much fun for me, not in the usual sense, but I reveled in the art. It clears the Threshold of Disappointment, but only barely. I may study stills or scenes from it at some point in the future, but I never actually want to watch it again.

 

 

 

[Monte Carlo]

I didn't really like the first movie so I think I'll give it a miss.

[Woldan]

Wow Hollywood lionized the IRA. Oirish terrorists are obviously good terrorists.

In which part of the movie did they lionize the IRA?

[Monte Carlo]

IIRC the protagonist is an ex-IRA man who redeems himself by becoming a bomb disposal officer.

 

Let's imagine a movie where an ex-ISIS guy moves to America and becomes a SWAT team guy. All those beheadings are now null and void, I suppose. Hollywood has a rich tradition of viewing the bovine thugs of the IRA as resistance fighters and marquisards. After 9/11 I know more than a few Brits who felt 'now you know what it feels like."

 

Beantown bars have passed the hat round for 'The Boys' since time immemorial. For many years Americans provided money that murdered British and Irish civilians, to a neo-Marxist terror group.

[Woldan]

Well, the protagonist said his bombs never claimed any civilians lives, thats why he is the good guy and the IRA bomb guy who only cared about killing as many people as possible is the bad guy.

If the ''War'' of the IRA was justified or not - debatable, but portraying them as evil incarnated would be wrong. I'm not interested in starting a discussion about this political topic though. 

Edited August 23, 2014 by Woldan

[Hurlshort]

Let's not forget that LOST had a character that was an Iraqi torture expert who was redeeming himself, so in 20 years we might see an ex-ISIS in a hollywood flick doing the same.

[Woldan]

Also in the movie ''The jackal'', in the end the ex-IRA terrorist played by Richard Gere was also the good guy, and very few people had a problem with it. Its easy to forgive movie characters who are trying to redeem themselves through heroic actions for the greater good. 

Edited August 23, 2014 by Woldan

[Monte Carlo]

^ I think that rather proves my point. Ex-IRA men are knuckle-dragging street thugs, not dashing espionage paramilitaries. Even Burn Notice had a glamorous ex-IRA 'operative' as the protagonist's girlfriend. Let's not even start on the risible season of Sons of Anarchy set in Ulster.

 

I could go on. The point is that the IRA tickles the anti-Colonial nut-sack of a certain type of American, and they get too romantically gooey about the idea of the brave IRA, sitting in the woods, sniping at redcoats. Not the psychotic thugs planting bombs in hotels and shopping centres.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

I watched Django Unchained. Was pretty fun.

[Monte Carlo]

The bit with the ill-fitting hoods, with Don Johnson and Jonah whatshisname arguing with the KKK, made me fall about laughing. It was almost Pythonesque.