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Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« Reply #3452 on: July 22, 2016, 08:48:17 am »
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Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« Reply #3455 on: July 26, 2016, 04:35:05 pm »
Feels like ages since I've watched a movie.  Between all the conventions (Republican, Democrat, Comic, and Star Wars), I've been overloaded with news, panels, and commentary and there's another week to go.  I miss movies!

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« Reply #3456 on: July 27, 2016, 03:46:06 am »
I've deliberately am avoiding the politics. There is so much news now. And the local competition is just horrible with their campaigns. I get so disgusted.

I watched bits and pieces (> 15 min) of various movies on vacation, but nothing worth talking about.

My wife watched Hello, My Name Is Doris with Sally Field. She liked it. I was bored with it.


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« Reply #3457 on: July 27, 2016, 08:05:12 pm »
Lost in the Sun (3 Stars)



Trailer led you to believe more I think. Too slow for my taste. All kinds of emotional changes here. Major evolution of character... But all in a sad way.

Ya might want to give it a go.
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« Reply #3458 on: July 31, 2016, 04:40:17 pm »
The Green Room 4 Stars



An incredibly tense thriller with Anton Yelchin. Excellent directing with very interesting characters... On all sides, including the hunted and the hunters.
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« Reply #3460 on: July 31, 2016, 08:20:42 pm »
After all this time, I'm starting to watch movies again.  Feels like ages.  A couple titles were about to expire off of Netflix so I rewatched Bowfinger, Addams Family Values, and The Replacements, which I hadn't seen since it came out.  The only thing I remembered about that movie, outside of seeing it with my dad in our movie-going phase, was the dancing bit.  Outside of Keanu, I had forgotten EVERYONE who was in the movie (Jon Favreau as a crazy ex-SWAT cop, Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans of all people, Jack Warden...).  Total guy movie.

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« Reply #3462 on: August 04, 2016, 11:02:56 pm »
I watched Harbinger Down last night, and while I was kind of excited for it, I just didn't care for it.  I've been meaning to watch it for a while, but I saw all this stuff on Youtube about Phil Tippett's "Mad God" project (which I also need to see), so I thought I would give HD a shot.  It had the problem that a lot of these passion project movies have, which is that they're made by people who are passionate but not professional writers.  There wasn't anything wrong with it, they didn't make any big errors, but it could have done with a few more passes on the page.  The creature effects are awesome, but there are so few of them, that the characters really needed to work and they just didn't.  They barely held my attention until the monster first shows up, and you kind of know everyone's thing right away.  Which isn't a bad thing if you ENJOY them doing their thing, but I didn't.

The effects, though, are great.  The whole movie was made as a response to the remake of The Thing doing CGI effects, they wanted to make a movie with practical creature effects, and more power to them that they did it.  But what we got was just a carbon copy of The Thing, just on a boat.  BTW, the boat and the whole opening shot is CGI, which really contradicts the "we're analog" battle cry of the movie.

I think the problem might have been that they were trying to prove that "The Thing" works, but we already proved "The Thing" worked in the 80s.  You don't need to confirm it.  I wonder what would have happened if they had tackled a more modern idea with old-fashioned effects, prove that those old ways of doing things are still relevant.


That was last night.  Right now I'm watching Comet a romance movie by... Sam Esmail.  That's right, Mr. Mr Robot.  And 20 minutes in, so many of the trademarks are there, the off-center cinematography, the narrative jumping, the super-intelligent anti-social protagonist... it's actually making me think of Sherlock Holmes, in a funny way.  Did reading Sherlock Holmes back in the day feel like how we feel watching Mr Robot today?  Just a strange thought.

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Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« Reply #3463 on: August 08, 2016, 04:18:34 pm »
I was excited too, to be able to check out Harbinger. And like you, just a big yawn. Been there done that

Might I suggest Blood Glacier. From what I remember, not bad for a foreign film... Cept, the creature effects were pretty bad.
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Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
« Reply #3464 on: August 09, 2016, 02:22:59 am »
I've been doing pretty good on watching movies these last few days.  One a day, on top of catching up on episodes of various shows like SCTV, Outer Limits, New Twilight Zone, and Digimon Tri.

The flicks have been... nothing on anyone's radar.  You guys (probably) know that I enjoy a good mediocre movie, I don't know why.  Laughably bad is good, but I'm talking 'fine."  So the last few days I saw Plain Clothes, a flick about an undercover cop going back to high school to find out who murdered a teacher.  It's got George Wendt, Abe Vigoda, and a couple other character actors (and Reginald velJohnson as the chief, that was an "in" for me!) and I think it's MEANT to be a comedy, but I don't really remember laughing.  It wasn't even a parts movie.  I don't know if i would watch it again, but I sat through the whole thing and I don't really have any complaints.

Another one was Moving Target, which I didn't realize was a TV movie.  Teenage Jason Bateman is this musician whose parents send him to this really upscale snooty camp for professional musicians, but dude ain't up for that!  He wants to chill with his own band, do some gigs, meet girls, right?  So he skips out early, but when he arrives home, his parents, his dog, his whole life... is gone.

And finally, a more modern proper movie.  Albeit one almost 20 years old.  Netflix added all the Albert Brooks movies, so I checked out The In-Laws.  I enjoyed it, funny and had a real nice pace to it, everything moves along at a nice clip, good cast (baby Ryan Reynolds is in it!), though the one thing I kept thinking was that it was this kind of role that made Pixar pick Brooks for the role of Marlin in Finding Nemo, it's very similar.

BTW, thinking of Pixar, I couldn't help but think of Toy Story 3 while watching Digimon Tri, there's sort of the same thing going on there with the human characters growing up but the digimon being stuck in that sweet, childish attitude and slowly discovering that it doesn't really conform to their current situation. The format is also really different, I think the "series" is actually a bunch of movies that were cut into pieces, so the pacing is off.  The old show was very episodic and set in a magic world, for the most part... very quest-like, and this is much slower, strolls along, and the attitude is different.  Of course, part of the attitude change is because it's in the original Japanese and not dubbed with gags and jokes.  But the animation is smooth, lots of "magic hour" shots, detailed backgrounds... there's also only the first two "movies" up, so this is all leading to something but I don't know what yet (or when that will be available).  At least now I can discuss it with my cousin Efe, who told me about it in the first place.
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