Blarghagh Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 For the first time in living memory, I've seen 2 movies from start to end. First I went to the cinema and saw Star Wars VII and then my brother gave me a voucher for one of those streaming movie services that danish cable providers offers, so i could see 'Minions'. I loved those little yellow buggers, their antics, pseudo language and the humour. Ex Machina. I really liked it despite some things that don't seem very plausible to me. Also maybe I'm strange but I did not feel attracted to ''Her'' at any point in the movie and immediately identified ''her'' as diabolic and manipulating machine. For the first time in living memory, I've seen 2 movies from start to end. First I went to the cinema and saw Star Wars VII and then my brother gave me a voucher for one of those streaming movie services that danish cable providers offers, so i could see 'Minions'. I loved those little yellow buggers, their antics, pseudo language and the humour. Minions was surprisingly good. Awesome soundtrack too. Saw Mad Max Fury Road and Edge of Tomorrow too, both good.
Fighter Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 Spring. It's fairly unique romance/horror movie. Fairly light on the horror but doesn't pull punches with some of the visuals. Some unnecessarily drawn out bits in the beginning. I enjoyed it.
Blarghagh Posted January 4, 2016 Author Posted January 4, 2016 Hateful Eight. Absolutely fantastic first half with mystery, intrigue, compelling (though not likeable) characters and bucket loads of tension. Then everyone dies for no reason and it gets boring as heck. 1
Hurlshort Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Hateful Eight. Absolutely fantastic first half with mystery, intrigue, compelling (though not likeable) characters and bucket loads of tension. Then everyone dies for no reason and it gets boring as heck. You have to think about it almost like a horror movie. The expectation is that everyone is going to die, many of them in unfortunate ways.
Blarghagh Posted January 4, 2016 Author Posted January 4, 2016 I did think about it like a horror movie. It's hard not to if you've ever seen The Thing. The difference is that The Thing's deaths were surprising and well plotted, whereas in the Hateful Eight they were boring, unsatisfying and some of them downright laughable. It answers (terribly, I might add) the narrative questions you care about about forty-five minutes before the climax and then has a longer ending than Lord of the Rings, just bloodier. It doesn't help that the great Tarantino dialogue stops in the second half too, so it doesn't even have that to lean on. Great first half, though.
Hurlshort Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 I was pretty satisfied by the way Channing Tatum went out. Despite seeing it come a mile away, it was worth the price of admission. I think I had a pretty good idea he would die that way as soon as I saw his name in the credits. But yeah, it's not my top Tarantino film. It's right in the middle of the pack for me.
majestic Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) Hateful Eight. Absolutely fantastic first half with mystery, intrigue, compelling (though not likeable) characters and bucket loads of tension. Then everyone dies for no reason and it gets boring as heck. So it is essentially like most recent Tarantino movies except the "everything's falling apart" bit at the end was moved to the 45 minute mark? Damn shame. Edited January 4, 2016 by majestic 1 No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
kirottu Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 I saw the new Star Wars movie today and it was much better than prequels. John Boyega is now a honorary Finn and by that I mean a finnish person. 1 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
ShadySands Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 (edited) I liked him in Attack the Block Does that make me a hipster? Edited January 5, 2016 by ShadySands 1 Free games updated 3/4/21
Hurlshort Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 I've never heard of that, but I'm now curious. So I am a hipster wannabe. 2
teknoman2 Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 edge of tomorrow is actualy based on a manga. i know because i read it long before the movie came out and while they changed the name of the mc, Rita Vrataski remains the same in both The words freedom and liberty, are diminishing the true meaning of the abstract concept they try to explain. The true nature of freedom is such, that the human mind is unable to comprehend it, so we make a cage and name it freedom in order to give a tangible meaning to what we dont understand, just as our ancestors made gods like Thor or Zeus to explain thunder. -Teknoman2- What? You thought it was a quote from some well known wise guy from the past? Stupidity leads to willful ignorance - willful ignorance leads to hope - hope leads to sex - and that is how a new generation of fools is born! We are hardcore role players... When we go to bed with a girl, we roll a D20 to see if we hit the target and a D6 to see how much penetration damage we did. Modern democracy is: the sheep voting for which dog will be the shepherd's right hand.
Sarex Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 edge of tomorrow is actualy based on a manga. i know because i read it long before the movie came out and while they changed the name of the mc, Rita Vrataski remains the same in both The manga has a heart-rending ending though. "because they filled mommy with enough mythic power to become a demi-god" - KP
sorophx Posted January 6, 2016 Posted January 6, 2016 Attack the Block was terribad. Hateful Eight is widely considered to be the best Tarantino movie in ages, which I cannot agree with. I liked the first half, but then the flippin' signature "buckets of blood" part begins, and it ruins everything. there used to be a difference between Rodriguez's and Tarantino's movies in that Tarantino's movies were more grounded in reality. but as time goes by, Tarantino seems to be leaning towards wacky stuff more and more. such a shame. Walsingham said: I was struggling to understand ths until I noticed you are from Finland. And having been educated solely by mkreku in this respect I am convinced that Finland essentially IS the wh40k universe.
Starwars Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Saw The Force Awakens. Really disappointed in that it turned out to be a fanboy movie. I liked the humor in it, and the new characters were all-right (but felt pretty flat, Han Solo pretty much was the heart of the movie) but the rest of it was completely forgettable. I'll take the prequels over this any day of the week. With all their failings, you at least got the sense that they wanted to do... *something* with it. The Force Awakens is soulless, lacking an identity of its own. But it all looks like the old movies so it's got to be GREAT right! Wohoo! Urgh.. Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0
kirottu Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 I'll take the prequels over this any day of the week. Whatever you say Satan. 2 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
Starwars Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 (edited) If that means God and heaven are as toothless, non-offensive, boring and *safe* as the Force Awakens, by all means, send me straight to hell. Edited January 9, 2016 by Starwars Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0
kirottu Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Midichlorians. 2 This post is not to be enjoyed, discussed, or referenced on company time.
WDeranged Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Force Awakens was a solid 8.5 for me. It'd be a 9 if not for the giant CG muppet Voldemort...I dunno wtf they were thinking there
ShadySands Posted January 9, 2016 Posted January 9, 2016 Saw Star Wars part 1 part 4 part 2 again (third time) and I must say it holds up less and less on repeated viewings much like the Abrams Trek films Free games updated 3/4/21
Blarghagh Posted January 10, 2016 Author Posted January 10, 2016 Really? I enjoyed it much more the second time, unencumbered by expectations.
Agiel Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 Force Awakens was a solid 8.5 for me. It'd be a 9 if not for the giant CG muppet Voldemort...I dunno wtf they were thinking there I don't know. It was a hologram in-universe, and it might turn out to be a "Wizard of Oz"-situation and he's actually six inches tall. Quote “Political philosophers have often pointed out that in wartime, the citizen, the male citizen at least, loses one of his most basic rights, his right to life; and this has been true ever since the French Revolution and the invention of conscription, now an almost universally accepted principle. But these same philosophers have rarely noted that the citizen in question simultaneously loses another right, one just as basic and perhaps even more vital for his conception of himself as a civilized human being: the right not to kill.” -Jonathan Littell <<Les Bienveillantes>> Quote "The chancellor, the late chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any state, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody. When it is naked, yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the Eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any state, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of Man...that state is obsolete." -Rod Serling
PK htiw klaw eriF Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 I saw hateful eight and laughed way too much. Overall it was pretty good, but the ending was too predictable after chapter 4. At any rate was a good time and will probably watch again sometime. "Akiva Goldsman and Alex Kurtzman run the 21st century version of MK ULTRA." - majestic "you're a damned filthy lying robot and you deserve to die and burn in hell." - Bartimaeus "Without individual thinking you can't notice the plot holes." - InsaneCommander "Just feed off the suffering of gamers." - Malcador "You are calling my taste crap." -Hurlshort "thankfully it seems like the creators like Hungary less this time around." - Sarex "Don't forget the wakame, dumbass" -Keyrock "Are you trolling or just being inadvertently nonsensical?' -Pidesco "we have already been forced to admit you are at least human" - uuuhhii "I refuse to buy from non-woke businesses" - HoonDing "feral camels are now considered a pest" - Gorth "Melkathi is known to be an overly critical grumpy person" - Melkathi "Oddly enough Sanderson was a lot more direct despite being a Mormon" - Zoraptor "I found it greatly disturbing to scroll through my cartoon's halfing selection of genitalias." - Wormerine "I love cheese despite the pain and carnage." - ShadySands
WDeranged Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 Force Awakens was a solid 8.5 for me. It'd be a 9 if not for the giant CG muppet Voldemort...I dunno wtf they were thinking there I don't know. It was a hologram in-universe, and it might turn out to be a "Wizard of Oz"-situation and he's actually six inches tall. Yeah I actually expect something like this, I'm just hoping they ditch the full CG for his character, too late to change the name though...
Starwars Posted January 10, 2016 Posted January 10, 2016 CG Muppet Voldemort and his trusty servant Kylo Ren who throws temper tantrums, slicing up equipment with his lightsaber and can't even manage to overpower two people who've never touched a lightsaber before, even though he's fast enough to deflect laser blasts and can freeze people (and laser blasts for that matter) in mid-air. What a team! Listen to my home-made recordings (some original songs, some not): http://www.youtube.c...low=grid&view=0
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