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« Reply #2518 on: 1 August 2011, 20:22:09 » |
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Remember when I said I hated Pirahnas 3D? Well, here's a gore flick with an actual PROPER tone: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFFh25DmPNULooks like the whole movie is in the trailer though. I'd put Captain America beneath X-Men: First Class. It wasn't spectacular but it was a solid movie, start to finish. I actually feel like The Green Hornet was the second/third best "superhero" movie of this year, even though we should all rightly hate Seth Rogen by now. I really didn't like Thor or The Green Lantern—those movies were all special effects and I'm never impressed by special effects alone... as far as I'm concerned you should be working hard on your visual effects anyway, whether it's CGI stuff or makeup or just lining up the shot or holding the camera correctly. It shouldn't be the number one reason you're making a movie, and it should NEVER be the best part. |
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« Reply #2523 on: 2 August 2011, 18:05:08 » |
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Don't be so limiting on why you watch movies. Some movies have good stories, some movies have great visuals, some movies have snappy dialogue or funny jokes or tearjerking moments. Let yourself be surprised by what you see - don't limit yourself.
I thought Piranha 3D was brilliant. It was a lot of fun and I had a blast watching it. It might've been too tongue-in-cheek for its own good, but it had a lot of people I like in it and I was glad to see them dicking around in such a ridiculous movie. Obviously, it wasn't high art or anything like that, but I can't understand people who shut down movies like this, or Crank. You have to be able to tell the difference between a movie that just wants to have fun with itself (and accomplish what it set it out to do) and a movie that was made to make money.
That being said, Tucker and Dale VS Evil was great, and it towers above Piranha 3D as an actual quality movie. Very funny, too. Doesn't mean I don't appreciate Piranha 3D any less.
Anyway, the indie film I've been directing (and acting in) wraps up shooting on the 12th, which is terrifying and amazing to me. I get to start editing it soon. I hope I find a way to make sure all of you guys get to see it, because I'm rarely ever proud of my own work... and this time I am. Maybe it's just because such a huge amount of people are involved that I can't rag on it without bringing everyone else down with me.
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« Reply #2524 on: 2 August 2011, 19:33:24 » |
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I don't think I'm limiting myself. I'm just not a connoisseur. I'm the kind of guy that would almost never watch movies, but I'm literally surrounded by them because of where I work, and it's the only social thing I have available to me.
I go into any movie hoping to be pleasantly surprised, but mostly I'm just bored. I feel like praising everything is itself very limiting. You have a good point in that actors are allowed, and probably deserve to take on fun roles, but I really don't think the only alternative is a film "made to make money." I think all or at least most directors and producers and writers should already genuinely enjoy what they do. It's just that these people make tons of money NOT to screw anything up, and they can either resort to easy clichés that people always just gobble up, or they can make art. SOMETIMES the in-between is fun and worth watching, but I guess from there it really depends on my personal taste of what it actually is.
I admit to my own biases against certain types of films, anyway. Gore flicks no. I've never seen a horror flick in general that I thought was genuinely disturbing. Romantic comedies tend to be all the same.
I've invested a lot of my time into the superhero movies lately and I think that was probably just dumb of me to do.
I tend to enjoy animated movies, though. I tend to frown on 3D but I don't go out of my way to avoid it.
People spend money to watch these movies. I frankly don't need to spend a dime. All I offer is a few hours of my time that would probably not have been better spent anyway. That's the only reason I end up watching these movies. If they were not offered free I'd be all "This movie looks like crap," and I wouldn't see it at all. I could buy like a trade paperback novel for the price of a movie, and while THAT medium can also suffer from bad quality writing, there's less involved when it goes bad, and even when it does, I still feel like I'm at least exercising some part of my brain and fuelling my own imagination with ideas.
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« Reply #2533 on: 12 November 2011, 16:40:41 » |
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I watched it recently c/o of a friend, and I'm going to see it at this little indie theatre we sometimes hit up later this month with other friends of mine who've either seen it a few times or not at all. Should be a good time. I think it's an Alec movie. Oh yeah speaking of that theatre; After all the hype built up for me by listening all about it for a year and change, Red State was kinda "eh." I thought it was well-done but short and unfortunately for me I already knew everything that happened via podcasts and such. The characters don't really go anywhere but the movie was OK. Posted on: 10 October 2011, 21:18:34
I'm sure you guys have seen this, but I thought I'd post it anyway. http://twitchfilm.com/news/2011/11/full-trailer-for-takashi-miikes-ds-game-adaptation-phoenix-wright-ace-attorney.phpWOW. |
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« Reply #2547 on: 4 May 2012, 14:44:05 » |
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I hated The Hunger Games. It felt like a completely unoriginal mashup of Battle Royale, Battle Royale II, The Running Man, The Condemned, The Truman Show, The Blue Lagoon, and whoever designs characters for Tim Burton. At 2 1/2 hours long, holy ##### was it way too damn long - trying to focus on the society while never actually focusing on said society. On top of it, it was the first time I've ever felt nauseous while watching shaky-cam footage. I want my $9 back. Posted on: April 29, 2012, 09:21:03 AM
Avengers was AWESOME! |
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« Reply #2549 on: 18 June 2012, 06:23:11 » |
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It apparently pulled in $200 million this weekend. #####in' A. Posted on: May 06, 2012, 01:21:01 PM
My girlfriend and I went to the drive-in to watch Rock of Ages and Snow White and the Huntsman. Rock of Ages wasn't terrible, but it wore out its welcome halfway through, and if it had any balls, it would've ended at the halfway point. I can really only recommend it to fans of hair metal/80s rock and/or Glee. Snow White and the Huntsman was terrible. I feel like there's about 30 minutes of footage missing, yet because I was so bored throughout the movie, I don't give a damn enough to see an "uncut" edition. It just threw you into the world, had terrible pacing, there's two or three plot lines that are introduced yet never full explored, and this movie just gives us definite proof that Kristen Stewart can't act for #####. If anything, Snow White and the Huntsman makes me hope that I find a genie who will grant me some wishes, one of them being that Kristen Stewart is forced to only find acting jobs with terrible SyFy "Monster of the Week" movies for the rest of her days. Posted on: June 17, 2012, 09:10:02 AM
Holy ##########, Prometheus is amazing. |
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