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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
Black Barney wrote: My buddy saw Spotlight and said it was better than Mad Max. I need to see it badly.
If they meant the original Mad Max, then sure. Fury Road? No. Spotlight is great, though, and you should see it badly.
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I think it can be a contender in the same way Crash was.
Also, I would love it to win only to see James Cameron totally lose it
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The premise of this film is that there is a seance in the woods with three chicks. One of them cuts her hand (obviously) and summons a demonic looking 2 foot tall elf. Said elf is interested in one of the main chicks and followers her around killing her friends. Also, there is a subplot that involves Nazi's dabbling with the occult, some fucked up twist and turns involving incest and oh, the main actor is Grizzly fucking Adams. Yep, Grizzly Adams stars in this thing. He looks like "The Dude" from the Big Lebowski and his defining character trait is that he is ALWAYS smoking a cigarette. Needless to say this movie is a fucking disaster on every level. Horrible acting, really slowly paced, terrible special effects and a plot that is way more in depth than one could ever possibly imagine. It didn't really go over that great with the crowd. In the beginning this lady just straight up drowns a cat in a toilet for no goddamn reason and nobody wants to see that shit. Then the elf is trying to rape people...yeah it was fucked up. It has some laughs and is completely ridiculous, but it's not the almighty "so bad it's good" film it was cracked up to be.
Next up I went to the movies to check out Krampus. This is a film I've been really excited to see because obviously I enjoy Christmas horror films. Overall, the film is disappointingly uneven. It does quite a few things right, but there are too many flaws to overlook. I found the family to be fleshed out and well done. These people have problems with one another (which is the main cause of the horror in the film). Thankfully they look like real people and not magazine cover models. The actors look like regular folks and I appreciate that. Hell, even Adam Scott, who has leading man charisma was given a toned down, gray scruffy beard look. In a horror film if you don't care about the characters the film degrades almost instantly. I can honestly say, that I felt bad for the horrible shit that was happening to this flawed family. Another big positive was the use of practical special effects. There are some really awesome creature effects in the film. Really imaginative, fun, stuff. However, this leads to one of the biggest negatives...the editing. Sweet lord, the fucking editing. Anytime anything remotely frightening or action-y happened, the film went into shaky-cam bullshit mode. You could barely tell what was going on. The second half of the film is pretty much ruined by this. I miss the days when directors knew how to properly film an action shot. Anywho, the movie takes it's time to build up to the horror (which is fine), but it ultimately leads to a "bar up the house and keep out the creatures" affair. Overall, I'd call it a good film, but nothing great. For me it missed the mark a few too many times. Still, you could do much worse than this for Christmas Horror film.
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You have to make something like the Batman films to be able to mount and produce something like this in Hollywood. No studio in their right mind would green light something this heady, long and ambitious otherwise.
Lots of big science talk that may or may not be accurate, that's all above my pay grade. But I bought it, and I LOVED the realistic but highly stylized production design. GOD those robots. Fucking amazing
Bits of it reminded me loosely of Haldeman's The Forever War, the time dilation and its effects in particular. "It's going to cost us 51 years..."
The weak part for me was exactly the same thing as in Sunshine though- crazy dude in the third quarter jeopardizes mission. It didn't need that conflict. At that point we were 2 hours in and that added 15-20 minutes that wasn't really necessary. That said, the docking sequence that led up to was awesome.
Above all else, I loved that it had a huge, expansive scope in terms of ideas and storyline, but it was still a very human, very intimate story about regret, lost time, parental love and pioneering.
Great movie. Lots to think about and ruminate on, none of which are the usual nitpick nerd things.
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