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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
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Mr. White wrote: I know a few people who even if they hate a certain type of film...still go see those types of films. My question is why? I mean, if you're tired of, say, Marvel films...why keep going to the theater and watch them? Granted, it's their lives, but I don't get it. Life seems too short to spend it doing stuff you say you don't enjoy.
Have we lost our ability to entertain ourselves in any other capacity besides consuming media?
I guess not.
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I'm one of these people. Go back 25 years and I hated Drama movies and never watched them. Then I watched The Remains of the Day and couldn't believe how much I liked it. Now I love dramas. I think by avoiding something you think you hate all the time, you don't challenge yourself to trying new things and might not ever grow as a person. I went to see musical documentaries that I typically always hate. I saw AMY, I saw one of Katy Perry...a concert one on U2. All things I should hate on paper but I liked them all (and i LOVED the one on Amy W).
That being said, there's just so way I'm going to see another Transformers movie. I'm happy I skipped the last two.
I used to do this with video games too. i HATE fighting games and sports games but once in a while I used to try to see if I might like it. I bought Street Fighter IV...I bought NHL09 (or one of them, I can't remember). HATED both of them. Now I don't download demos for this stuff anymore. On Xbox One they give us free weekends sometimes with these games where you can download it for free and play it over an entire weekend. I skip out on those too. Life is too short.
Anyway, with movies I think it's good to challenge your horizons but with video games it's not worth it.
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What a lovely, uplifting and positive picture...I liked just about everything about it. I loved that the bad guy had a totally valid point. I loved that it had a very 1980s adventure movie vibe. I loved all the Brad Bird fan service. It was fun but poignant and it had a serious message that was just preachy enough to register with children, but not so much that it was irritating.
But it was a critical and commercial flop, so once again people's clamoring for new IP and fresh ideas seems to be not very earnest. BRING ON THEM TRANSFORMERS MOVIES!
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Terrance Stamp plays the title role well enough, as an aging ex-convict on a mission. Peter Fonda plays his opposite in many respects, and conveys a sense of sad and anxious nostalgia for the glorious and distant past of his character. Lesley Anne Warren looks great for her age, but her character is not much more than a way to link the characters. There are a few familiar character actors, one of which stands out as an amusing sociopath channeling Ben Stiller.
There is some action, but the movie spends a surprising amount of effort on really fleshing out a few key characters. And there is a devastating but well-earned reveal near the end that makes the character work well worth the time. The expected finale happens off-screen and that actually works just fine. Overall, I liked The Limey, but I won't need to see it again.
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It's supposed to have a legendary commentary track, where Soderberg and the screenwriter really get at each other, but I have yet to see it with that audio track on.
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Gregarius wrote: I love The Limey. I agree with your observations except one: I have and will enjoy watching it more than once.
It's supposed to have a legendary commentary track, where Soderberg and the screenwriter really get at each other, but I have yet to see it with that audio track on.
I still have a few days before I need to bring it back to the library, so I will give it another watch with that commentary track.
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Anyway, it's bad and disappointingly so. It is more or less a remake of the original Terry Nation script for "The Daleks", their first appearance opposite William Hartnell's first doctor from the first season.. The TV version is actually superior in pretty much every way apart from seeing the Daleks in color. It's also strange to see that it is totally Doctor Who, but with subtle things messed up. Like that they call him Doctor Who, which is just odd. And the fact that he has a moustache freaks me out. It brings forward the original concept of him being a grandpa and his companion a granddaughter, which is always sort of weird even in the First Doctor/Susan dynamic. It is very much like watching a film version of a comic or something where they've sort of just played fast and loose with the property.
The story is more or less intact though down to fine detail, although the TV show didn't have groovy lava lamps for set decoration. And the Thals didn't look as lame.
But the Daleks look great, and they are all over the place in it in many colors. So that's cool, although just like with the show, if they speak for more than a couple of lines you start to realize how annoying they can be. I love them, don't get me wrong, but when they are exchanging six, seven lines of dialogue with another, it's just sort of grating.
Fun fact- Amicus paid Terry Nation 500 pounds for the rights to make three Dalek movies. Talk about going cheap in the sales.
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boothwah wrote: . If I wanted high brow cinema I'd go the art show crap they run on Saturdays.
lol "high brow crap"!
You're the second person in 24 hours that took an unsolicited swipe at "art" movies in their review of Deadpool. Hilarious.
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The Big Lebowsky: Even though it has an increasingly complex plot, this is not a film about anything in particular. Rather, it's more about an attitude, a way of seeing life than anything else. Which I think is really interesting and fun but, sadly, I don't think I'm the audience for this. I was left a bit...confused, not feeling I quite got the film. I had a similar experience with Fargo which I attributed to me not understanding its very American context but it might be I just don't get Cohen Brother films. Kind of a shame, really.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: This is another film with a complex, flip-flopping plot except this one is full of flashbacks, flashfowards, illusions and dreams, none of which are meant to be followed literally. It's more about vignettes or small scenes that give up a full picture of a very human relationship and by human I mean "flawed" because everyone is incredibly flawed in this movie if not outright fucked up! The entire opening of the film is a continuous stream of red flags and danger signs yet by the end of the film you feel things might be worthwhile despite all those problems and baggage. It's kind of easy to empathize with it, actually, because we have all been like that at some point of our lives.
Fairly depressing film though, Carrey looks like he's going to hang himself at any given moment and while there's humour and love the pessimistic undercurrent is massive.
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boothwah wrote: . If I wanted high brow cinema I'd go the art show crap they run on Saturdays.
lol "high brow crap"!
You're the second person in 24 hours that took an unsolicited swipe at "art" movies in their review of Deadpool. Hilarious.
I think there is a reason that crapping on art movies happens so often. If a comedy is bad.. no big deal, we kind of expect that. A bad horror movie... eh, that's ok too. Even an action movie or romantic comedy if they're badly done there is still an audience and a place for that.
But a bad art film... that's the worst thing possible. A good or great art film can be better than anything but when they stink good fucking lord do they stink. It's because they reach so high that they have the chance to sink so low (hey! who let Bono use my fucking keyboard!!).
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Who sees bad art movies anyway? The only reason you would ever see an art movie over something mainstream is cuz EVERYONE is talking about it. You don't gamble on art movies.
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Black Barney wrote: You don't gamble on art movies.
Where were you in my twenties?
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Gregarius wrote: I love The Limey. I agree with your observations except one: I have and will enjoy watching it more than once.
It's supposed to have a legendary commentary track, where Soderberg and the screenwriter really get at each other, but I have yet to see it with that audio track on.
I got through two thirds of a second viewing last night, this time with the commentary track on. It's definitely memorable. Starts out in the middle of an ongoing conversation with the writer loudly swearing, and both guys talking about technical difficulties happening right then during the recording of their commentary. Things settle down after a while, but from time to time, the writer starts getting really worked up again about parts of his script that were left out of the movie. Apparently there was more character work for the other characters, even the hitmen. Soderbergh opted to leave most of that out because he wanted to focus more on the protagonist. But the writer can't quite let it go, especially since the few negative reviews of the movie tended to say that the script was underwritten. Soderbergh stays pretty calm, but the writer sometimes raises his voice and swears about their artistic differences.
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