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Title: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 24, 2011, 10:19:56 pm
The Cartoonist

5 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 25, 2011, 11:04:14 pm
Kick-Ass

5 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 26, 2011, 09:09:07 pm
Daredevil

2 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2011, 09:31:38 pm
G.I. Jane

Rating 4 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2011, 09:51:47 pm
Black Hawk Down

Rating: 5 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 04, 2011, 08:05:18 pm
Zack and Miri Make A Porno

Rating: 4 Stars out of 5

I'm in love with Elizabeth Banks.  :-*
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2011, 10:59:58 pm
Star Trek (2009)

Rating:5 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 07, 2011, 11:38:33 pm
Inglourious Basterds

Rating: 4 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2011, 11:11:46 pm
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Rating: 3 1/2 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 09, 2011, 08:20:28 pm
Hot Tub Time Machine

Rating: 4 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2011, 09:48:59 pm
Mr. & Mrs. Smith

Rating: 4 Stars out of 5
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2011, 10:37:07 pm
Gran Torino

Rating: 5 Stars out of 5
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2011, 09:43:28 pm
Wanted

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2011, 09:02:44 pm
Batman: Mystery Of The Batwoman

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 18, 2011, 07:59:28 pm
Batman: Under the Red Hood

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2011, 10:05:04 pm
WALL-E

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2011, 07:32:24 pm
Astro Boy

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2011, 09:22:08 pm
Adam Hughes: Drawing Good Girls (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2011, 11:05:30 pm
The Karate Kid (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 27, 2011, 12:30:24 am
There Will Be Blood (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 27, 2011, 09:35:43 pm
I Am Legend (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2011, 09:05:39 pm
Battle: Los Angeles (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 30, 2011, 10:02:39 pm
Date Night (2010)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2011, 01:46:29 am
The Rocker (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2011, 04:53:57 pm
Get Smart (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2011, 07:36:31 pm
Salt (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2011, 04:30:11 pm
Zombieland (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2011, 07:16:09 pm
The House Bunny (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2011, 11:11:40 pm
easy A

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 06, 2011, 10:58:36 pm
District 9

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Post by: Mac on August 07, 2011, 09:51:57 am
Yellowbrickroad (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)

Wow, totally screwed me out of my 1-1/2 hours of life. This movie blew. Not scary. Little if any action. All psychological and none of it makes sense. The cover is extremely misleading.

Avoid at all costs.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 07, 2011, 10:00:06 am

Yo Mac, are you getting all your rentals by way of your local Library? That's what I have been doing lately. I just wish I knew earlier that my Library was doing this before. It was during my book binge that I saw they were carrying **** loads of DVD's. It use to be just VHS, which for obvious reason never appealed to me to check out.

PS, I won't be looking to check out Yellowbrickroad.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 08, 2011, 09:31:44 am

Yo Mac, are you getting all your rentals by way of your local Library? That's what I have been doing lately. I just wish I knew earlier that my Library was doing this before. It was during my book binge that I saw they were carrying **** loads of DVD's. It use to be just VHS, which for obvious reason never appealed to me to check out.

PS, I won't be looking to check out Yellowbrickroad.

Man, I've been promoting my library for a long time. I can get just about anything. They go as far as having a process to query other libraries around the country. Even colleges. It's a goldmine
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2011, 09:33:12 am
It's a goldmine

True dat!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 08, 2011, 02:15:49 pm
Soul Surfer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_star.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_star.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif)

So this looked hopeful in the trailer, but then again, I think I confused it with Blue Crush 2. As we are watching the trailers in the beginning, most of them were from the maker of Fireproof which has  a huge religious slant and message. Unfortunately this had the same. Not overwhelming, but enough to hit you over the head. The acting was very mediocre, but the script was horrible. Despite this based on a true story, there really isn’t much to a story here. Felt I wasted a lot of time on a very bland movie.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2011, 05:34:42 pm
The Other Guys
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2011, 04:25:31 pm
True Grit (2010)
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2011, 12:27:20 pm
The Warrior's Way (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

What a visual treat. Can't really compare it to anything I've seen before. Each frame is thought out and maximized to tell this graphic story of warrior, who doesn't speak much but has become the best swordsman in the world, escapes with child in tow to America. He happens to stop in a town full of circus folks to give it an even more odd bunch of characters. The pacing is good, the action is excellent. The visuals are amazing.

Looking at rottentomatoes, this is not everyone's cup of tea. But I enjoyed it on many levels. Highly recommend it if your looking for something different.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Z8xYMomsDc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2011, 08:27:26 pm
Clerks: 10th Anniversary Edition
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Post by: Mac on August 17, 2011, 08:02:21 am
The Reef (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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I rather enjoyed The Reef. A small budget but rather high tension engaging film. Very reminiscent of Open Water, but this film kicks up the tension quite a few notches. In fact, once the boat capsizes, the tension really never lets up. While you know what’s coming, I still got involved with the movie because of the characters, the editing, the filming and the music. I recommend at least a rental for shark night movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2011, 12:08:46 pm
Clerks II
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2011, 01:01:51 pm
Your Highness (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Wow, just wow, and I don’t mean that in a good way. With the talent associated with this movie, you’dathunk this would have something to it. Nothing, nada. I didn’t even grin, let alone laugh. In fact, I turned this off after 45 minutes, it was so lame. I’m sure a lot of money was spent for this waste of celluloid. I highly advise against wasting any time with this turd.
I’m still in shock how bad this was.

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The Planet (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Ok wow squared. This was uber bad in a MST3K kinda of way. You do not want to watch this in normal view. All kinds of snarkiness needs to be added to this badly acted, bad special effects, bad sci-fi flick. I didn’t even give this 10 minutes. I fast forward through this to confirm it was bad at every turn. Thank goodness, no time lost here.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2011, 01:05:33 pm
You sure can pick 'em boy-o!!

It's awesome when you can check out DVD's at your local library. But the downside is, because it's all free, you're objectivity goes way down and are willing to watch stuff that if you had to pay for, you would be more mindful of what you're checking out. It's not just you. It applies to me and everyone else. When money comes out of my wallet, I'm more selective and critical of what I will watch. When it's free....all bets are off.  ;D
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2011, 10:11:04 pm
The Outsiders: The Complete Novel
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Post by: Mac on August 19, 2011, 09:34:03 am
You sure can pick 'em boy-o!!

It's awesome when you can check out DVD's at your local library. But the downside is, because it's all free, you're objectivity goes way down and are willing to watch stuff that if you had to pay for, you would be more mindful of what you're checking out. It's not just you. It applies to me and everyone else. When money comes out of my wallet, I'm more selective and critical of what I will watch. When it's free....all bets are off.  ;D

Couldn't agree more. It is a different mindset. Gots to go through a lot of garbage to find the diamonds. I figure I've saved myself thousands of dollars with the library.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2011, 09:35:22 am
I figure I've saved myself thousands of dollars with the library.

Word.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2011, 08:00:05 pm
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991)
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Post by: Mac on August 20, 2011, 07:49:01 am
Something Borrowed (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

This 100% chick flick and a pretty bad one at that. It's mind numbingly repetitive. Pretty early on you know the setup and of the I don't know we had a thing for each other and the rest of the movie just repeats over and over what to do. And if you thought Kate Hudson was the star, actually she's secondary and kind of careless ****. Not fun to watch. Could not recommend this for anyone.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 20, 2011, 08:23:24 pm
Shutter Island (2010)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2011, 08:57:57 pm
Dinner For Schmucks (2010)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2011, 06:57:02 pm
Tron: Legacy (2010)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2011, 05:59:01 pm
Mallrats (1995)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2011, 06:13:44 pm
Chasing Amy (1997)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2011, 07:06:48 pm
Dogma (1999)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2011, 07:47:07 pm
Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2011, 07:55:02 pm
Quarantine 2: Terminal (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Not bad... for a sequel. They really scambled to think of a new environment... an airport terminal. But it worked. Keeps you on edge throughout the movie. The fun is trying to figure out who will make it.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2011, 07:58:48 pm
Where's the Quarantine review? I need to know if it's worth checking out.
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Post by: Mac on August 29, 2011, 10:19:15 am
Where's the Quarantine review? I need to know if it's worth checking out.

The 1st one?
I can't find what I wrote about it. I liked it for the most part except the hand held crap. The found footage scenario seems to be popular and it was different. But again, it was the intensity that was maintained in a creepy situation. I recommend it. It very different the sequel here.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 29, 2011, 08:32:08 pm
An Evening With Kevin Smith (2002)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2011, 07:59:35 pm
The Departed (2006)
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Post by: Mac on September 02, 2011, 10:05:43 am
The Switch - Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Oh Lordy, I'm at a point that when I hear Aniston is going to be in the film, I roll my eyes. I had so much hope for her, but this is one actress that continually does the mediocre and in many cases does bad.

The Switch is not bad, but it's not good either. You can see the story coming a mile away. You can walk away for 15 minutes, come back and know what's going on. It's REALLY mindless fluff. Oh well, another 90 minutes down the drain with Ms. Aniston... at least I know that going in.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2011, 10:12:23 am
I'm in love with Jen, but even I can admit that she is better suited for the small screen and look forward to when that day comes. Given her track record, it's coming sooner than you think.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2011, 09:27:00 pm
Inception (2010)
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2011, 04:42:30 am
Drive Angry (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

WTF... this is the strangest ass movie... no wait. This was the cheesiest movie I've seen in some time. Yea, right up there with grindhouse Planet Terror and Deathproof, yea, those current films making homage to the exploitation movies of the past. It took me a bit to make that mental switch. I thought I was watching a standard action flick, but realized after the low budget special effects, high gore, cheesy dialog and obvious bad acting, this was grindhouse. Amber Heard is just a pleasure for the eyes. I was amazed how much women fight in this flick. I definitely recommend this for latenight grindhouse watching, otherwise this is a really bad movie.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2011, 04:44:42 am
Drive Angry (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)


I've actually been trying to get a hold of this one, but my Library branch doesn't have a copy...yet. Even with the low rating you gave it, I still want to check it out because I have heard how weird it is.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2011, 07:26:28 pm
Sucker Punch (2011)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 04, 2011, 09:36:03 pm
An Evening with Kevin Smith 2: Evening Harder (2006)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 05, 2011, 08:13:15 am
I've actually been trying to get a hold of this one, but my Library branch doesn't have a copy...yet. Even with the low rating you gave it, I still want to check it out because I have heard how weird it is.

D'uh... Amber Heard

Oh wait, you wanna watch it for it's artistic value (slap forehead)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2011, 08:18:55 am
D'uh... Amber Heard

Oh wait, you wanna watch it for it's artistic value (slap forehead)

I'm pretty sure it's not your forehead you were slapping.

ZIIIING!!!
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Post by: Mac on September 05, 2011, 08:21:07 am
I'm pretty sure it's not your forehead you were slapping.

ZIIIING!!!

Uh, she definitely has nice screen time, but she also kicks major ass in this movie. Flattens a few guys... royally.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2011, 03:39:24 am
Death Proof (2007)
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Post by: jinn366 on September 06, 2011, 08:33:04 pm
Holy Crap ! I was watching Death Proof today also . Breaking in my new 55" Samsung 3D 240hz LED TV.  Tested out the Death Proof blu-ray while doing some re-arranging of my work space.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2011, 09:25:21 pm
Phucked up minds....... ;D
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Post by: Mac on September 07, 2011, 05:53:36 am
Holy Crap ! I was watching Death Proof today also . Breaking in my new 55" Samsung 3D 240hz LED TV.  Tested out the Death Proof blu-ray while doing some re-arranging of my work space.

and?.... How'd it look and sound?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 07, 2011, 06:18:15 am
and?.... How'd it look and sound?

If ya can Jinn, post your thoughts on Death Proof here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/death-proof-(2007)/), since we have a thread dedicated specifically to this movie.
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Post by: jinn366 on September 07, 2011, 08:48:01 pm
and?.... How'd it look and sound?

Well, ya know, considering that the movie was shot with the idea of making it look grainy and old, it looked okay. Really nothing to write home about as far as the blu-ray quality. It's crisp, but no real instances of the "window effect". Audio was fine.  Watched Doomsday (see trailer below) tonight , also on blu-ray and that looked amazing, especially with the  tv converting it to 3d.  Avatar looks SICK !

If the question was aimed towards the TV, it looks and sounds AWESOME !  :D 

I'll post more later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJMjiCxHLdg
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 08, 2011, 08:17:04 am
Well, ya know, considering that the movie was shot with the idea of making it look grainy and old, it looked okay. Really nothing to write home about as far as the blu-ray quality. It's crisp, but no real instances of the "window effect". Audio was fine.  Watched Doomsday (see trailer below) tonight , also on blu-ray and that looked amazing, especially with the  tv converting it to 3d.  Avatar looks SICK !

If the question was aimed towards the TV, it looks and sounds AWESOME !  :D 

I'll post more later.

Cool, on both comments. I didn't think I need to jump to BR for those movies.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 09, 2011, 06:01:35 am
Hanna (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Hanna asks the viewer to take a huge leap of faith and believability of a petite young girl groomed to be an assassin by her dad, deep in the woods, far from any civilization. I wanted to buy into it, but it soon just got ridiculous. What little acting there was with Hanna and her assassin dad, was counter balanced with a stereotypical bad guy played by Cate Blanchette. This is not a train ride of heart pounding action as described by some. Half the movie is Hanna discovering everything new to those things she has never seen, including electricity and music. To me the tipping point was when this little girl breaks an agents neck with her bare hands and then tends to beat the crap out other much larger male agents. The fight scene with Eric Bana (Dad) and surrounding agents is actually quite laughable. Just rolled my eyes.

There are far better movies out there like Nikita and Point of No Return, to just name a few.


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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2011, 06:54:45 am
Hanna asks the viewer to take a huge leap of faith and believability of a petite young girl groomed to be an assassin...


It worked with Leon: The Professional. I thought that film was so real that I figured the movie was a documentary.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2011, 06:43:20 pm
Shaun of the Dead (2004)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2011, 02:19:35 pm
Jersey Girl (2004)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Umainebearman on September 10, 2011, 05:59:40 pm
In the last 2 nights -

Hanna - excellent from start to finish. I think the video graininess was intentional if not it still loooked pretty good. The audio was pretty good too but the real standout is the story and Saoirse Ronan as Hanna and the most excellent supporting cast. I'm thinking Mac may have watched a different Hanna or maybe just doesn't get the whole Hanna rest of the world relationship but I loved Hanna. point of no Return is pretty terrible remake of La Femme Nikita which I found pretty boring. Also neither of these 3 movies come close to the top teir greatness that is Leon.

X-Men First Class - a/v outstanding. The story is a little weak but Michael Fassbender as Erik Lehnsherr and James McAvoy as Xavier really holds it together. Kevin Bacon doesn't hurt the cause either.



Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2011, 06:08:41 pm
X-Men First Class

I put in my hold request for this today at the Library. I'm #126 in line. By the time I get this, the franchise will be onto the 3rd film.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: jinn366 on September 10, 2011, 11:53:50 pm
Not worth the wait in my opinion.  Another franchise reboot and origin retelling with some pretty bland actors and a god awful Emma Frost.

I did other things while watching this movie it lost my interest so fast.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: jinn366 on September 10, 2011, 11:54:37 pm
My last post was regarding X-men. I should use quotes more.  :P
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: jinn366 on September 10, 2011, 11:57:03 pm
It worked with Leon: The Professional. I thought that film was so real that I figured the movie was a documentary.  ;D

Uhh....they're kinda the same movie.

Regardless... I stopped watching Hanna after her and the other girl hooked up with the boys and started riding around.  Lost my interest at that point. My wife finished it and she was very disappointed by it.  Oh well.  :P
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2011, 07:29:48 pm
WarGames (1983)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 12, 2011, 07:14:24 am
Win Win (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Despite the rating, I enjoyed Win Win and would recommend it to anybody. It’s not a amazing film, but  it kept me watching at the rollercoaster of emotions and directions. Paul Giamatti picks some pretty good roles and this one fits him perfectly as a stressed out, but caring and loving family man. And his wife Amy Ryan had chemistry. Alex Schafer (wrestler) didn’t talk or act much really. While I guess this was his character, crapped on continually by his family, I just didn’t care that much for him.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2011, 07:22:38 am
Amy Ryan? I'm there. Definitely will check this one out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2011, 08:35:56 pm
Almost Famous: Untitled (2000)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 13, 2011, 05:55:05 am
They Came To Play (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

This is a refreshing documentary of the 2007 Van Cliburn Foundation s Piano Competition for Outstanding Amateurs. I'm not into classical music but do understand the talent, skill, drive and pleasure these folks go through to please themselves... and now a competition to put them in the spotlight. That is what made this docu pleasant for me. Musicians doing it for the soul. The way the docu is presented is not boring, but not exciting either. Some amazing skills displayed by amateurs. Good camera work too, when the competition kicks into gear.

I'd recommend a viewing if your interested in music and you'll be in heaven where classical music is your thing.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 13, 2011, 06:01:44 am
I need to check that one out for sure.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2011, 11:36:35 pm
Valkyrie (2008)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 16, 2011, 05:33:55 am
Trust (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I picked this up because of Clive Owen and the little synopsis I read. It turned out to be completely different. Directed by David Schwimmer (Friends), this is not a feel good movie. This is a powerful movie, but not something I'll watch again. The characterization is amazing. You see all these different emotions come out that glue you to the story. Which by the way is a immature 14 year old getting involved with 35 year old man on line, resulting in **** and then all the impacts after that. I though it reminded me of an after school special, but it's more than that. If you want to watch a drama that leads you where you don't expect, than you may want to check out Trust

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2011, 04:04:46 pm
Hot Fuzz (2007)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 17, 2011, 03:49:01 pm
Sixteen Candles (1984)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 18, 2011, 09:15:58 am
Thor (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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For those who know me, Super Hero movies are low on my list of movies to watch. So I'm going into this with a Whatevah attitude. Well, I was surprised. I liked it. 3 stars for a super hero movie is big in my book, so take that for what it's worth. The scenes of Thor's Planet, city and interiors are freaking gorgeous. Anthony Hopkins brings credence to the story. Natalie Portman balances out the arrogant but forceful Thor. The battles are very cool. For a fanboy of the superhero genre this is a no brainer... I suspect. For me I would recommend it for a good movie night.


The Hit List (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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OK, this is a B-movie with B-movie actors (Cuba Gooding Jr. & Cole Hauser). With that said, and a little leap of faith in the logic of the story's premise, this is a engaging movie to watch. There are moments where you roll the eyes, but all in all, a good thriller with interesting what-if scenario's. I think the ending is kind flakey but I would recommend this for a viewing.

Whatever happened to Gooding Jr.? He had so much potential



Trollhunter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

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There's been a lot of hype surrounding this film. So I was wondering what the buzz was. This is a film from Norway. Maybe my first? So the English translation is way worse than watching a badly dubbed Japanese film. The trailer gives hints of something cool. But after watching it last night it was just testing my patience. First problem is this is a found footage kind of film. Thankfully the shaky cam is minimal, but still there were many scenes of long boring footage. The only excitement is the tracking of the trolls in the back country. The CGI is very good and there are some cool, creepy scenes in the woods and the barren snow laden country side.  But the troll's are cartoonish. So for the little interest of the Troll encounters, I was bored.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 18, 2011, 09:29:49 am
I'm still waiting for my local Library to get Thor in. I skipped it in theaters with the intent of catching it on DVD.

As for Cuba, his career peaked with his acceptance speech at the Oscars when he won for Best Supporting Actor. What a shame. He had such a bright future ahead of himself. He was picking good, quality scripts before, Boyz N The Hood anyone? After the Oscars, he went for the paychecks at the expense of his creditably as an Actor. Really sad if you think about it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 18, 2011, 04:43:55 pm
The Breakfast Club (1985)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 19, 2011, 06:34:32 am
Monsters vs. Aliens – Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

This 30 minute piece can add to the Halloween television festivities as it was probably designed for. All the characters, and voices, are there, called in to protect the little town of Modesto where Pumpkins come alive mutated from an alien spaceship dumping their uh, waste. Not that the original movie was genius, this just seemed weak. This will probably really appeal to the young’uns crowd.

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X-Men: First Class (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Meh, didn’t do much for me even despite the pretty cool special effects. I know zero about the characters except what I’ve seen in the previous movies, and I really didn’t pay too much attention them either. The only character that stood out to me was Professor Xavier. I just thought there were a lot of cliché moments that just diluted the story.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 19, 2011, 07:30:30 pm
Weird Science (1985)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 21, 2011, 05:21:10 pm
Pretty in Pink (1986)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 26, 2011, 11:17:18 am
Red Riding Hood (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Good gawd this was bad. I knew it going in, but this was one those sacrifices you compromise for the spouse. Stupid freaking dialogue with zero caring about anyone or anything. Beautifully shot. Big Woop.

Avoid at all costs
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2011, 11:19:39 am
Red Riding Hood (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)


From the title, I take it's about a Red Headed Chick that rides a bad guy...or "hood", if that's what kids are calling it these days. Bad p0rn.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 26, 2011, 11:22:17 am
From the title, I take it's about a Red Headed Chick that rides a bad guy...or "hood", if that's what kids are calling it these days. Bad p0rn.

Good lord, I wish I was speaking of bad ****, even though no such thing exists.  ;)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2011, 11:24:20 am
Good lord, I wish I was speaking of bad ****, even though no such thing exists.  ;)

I'm gonna hold you to that when Snookie gets around to making one....or a thousand.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 26, 2011, 11:50:07 am
Ok, let me rephrase that. 'I' haven't seen any bad pron


Wait, let me take that back. At my bachelor party 25+ years ago,  someone brought in some really bad 8mm pron. I wonder if THAT is anywhere online. Is there such a site as badpron dot com? I'm not looking.

Who is this Snookie?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2011, 11:51:44 am
Who is this Snookie?

Liar!!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 26, 2011, 12:57:13 pm
Liar!!!

OK... but I wouldn't even do her with your ^%$#
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2011, 01:05:51 pm
OK... but I wouldn't even do her with your ^%$#

Double Liar!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 26, 2011, 03:36:01 pm
Bridesmaids (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

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Finally a decent and very funny movie. I heard it was good and it delivered. Some major laugh out loud moments. Not for the squimish. Typical R-rated stuff with some potty humor, but it's refreshing to see something different... from women. Definite recommendation. Rent this som****.
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Post by: Mac on October 04, 2011, 10:19:29 am
Saw lots of crap over the weekend. More of a watch out instead of any recommendations

Love N' Dancing (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Sugary, schmaltzy, chick flick that could easily come from the Lifetime channel

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Altitude (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

A sci-fi, weird stories, kind twilight zone story they decided would make a full major film treatment. Uh, no!!!
Bad dialogue and very bad special effects.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 08, 2011, 07:17:04 am
Scream 4 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Holy crap, this was incredibly bad. I see rottentomatoes has 60% approval, but that just shows me how those folks don't take much to entertain. Not so good it's bad. Just bad and complete waste of time. The opening 20 minutes was horrible. Same **** scene 3 times in a row? The acting and dialogue I actually rolled my eyes.

I saw parts of the 2nd Scream and this looked exactly like it.

I quite watching after 45 minutes.

What the hell is happening with Wes Craven? Good gawd, his last film was horribly bad "My Soul To Take"

Really Wes? Really?

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Fast Five (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

It's no secret the Fast and Furious movies are not Shakespear with academy award winning acting. What they are, is mindless, guilty pleasure, balls to the wall, adrenalin fun.

I admit, these are my guilty pleasure and Fast Five is just pure entertainment. The vault chase scene is just pure ridiculous fun.

Adding Dwayne Johnson was perfect. His bad-ass character just adds more meat to the story. So there's already talk of 6 & 7 being shot simultaneously. I believe by the same director Justin Lin

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 08, 2011, 07:37:52 am
Really? No stars? I was looking forward to checking out Scre4m. I think I still will look to pick this up from the Library. Me love Courtney long time. I definitely want to check out Fast Five too.
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Post by: Mac on October 09, 2011, 10:10:01 am
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Really? No stars? I was looking forward to checking out Scre4m. I think I still will look to pick this up from the Library. Me love Courtney long time. I definitely want to check out Fast Five too.

Really, I was ****ed at the time I wasted with what I watched. Again, this is my take on it.


What's Cooking (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

This actually my second time checking out What's Cooking. I thought my wife would enjoy it especially with the food angle (she's an amazing chef). This leans into chick flick territory, but that's OK. There are some very good ones out there and this is one of them. Following 4 ethnic families on Thanksgiving with all the trials and tribulations, it never lets up on keeping your attention. I recommend it.

And if you like this I highly suggest Nothing Like The Holiday's.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 16, 2011, 07:29:34 am
Horrible Bosses (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Meh... it was OK. I've been enjoying the R-rated crude comedies of late and Horrible Bosses was clearly riding that horse. Some of it was over the top. The 'Horrible' bosses were fun to watch in a fiendish way

EXCEPT

Jennifer Aniston as sex crazed nympho. That 1/3 of the bosses scenario I think severely hurt the movie. The employee was put off by her? Seriously? That was just stupid. It was good to see Aniston break out a little bit, but misplaced here in this movie.

I would recommend halfheartedly. Don't pay any kind of major bucks to see this.

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Post by: Umainebearman on October 16, 2011, 08:10:29 am
Limitless I would give it 4 stars but I don't see where the stars are so... yeah.


I didn't hear much about but it had a kind of intriguing premiss so I checked it out and loved it. It started out kind of slow but after a bit it moves right along and keeps making you ask "Whats gonna happen when he runs out?" and you won't be able to see it coming. Its not a huge twist but for me it was satisfying.  I don't know what it is about Bradley Cooper but he's got this thing about him that I just enjoy watching the stuff he does, even that tv show Kitchen Confidential which was really sort of terrible but fun probably because of him. He's got this weird delivery that reminds me of John Ritter for some reason. Anyway the whole cast is great and it doesn't hurt that Robert DeNiro is in it.
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Post by: Mac on October 16, 2011, 02:58:56 pm
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Limitless I would give it 4 stars but I don't see where the stars are so... yeah.


I didn't hear much about but it had a kind of intriguing premiss so I checked it out and loved it. It started out kind of slow but after a bit it moves right along and keeps making you ask "Whats gonna happen when he runs out?" and you won't be able to see it coming. Its not a huge twist but for me it was satisfying.  I don't know what it is about Bradley Cooper but he's got this thing about him that I just enjoy watching the stuff he does, even that tv show Kitchen Confidential which was really sort of terrible but fun probably because of him. He's got this weird delivery that reminds me of John Ritter for some reason. Anyway the whole cast is great and it doesn't hurt that Robert DeNiro is in it.

I rather liked this too. I actually was really grinning when DeNiro was sparring with words with Cooper. That was cherry stuff there. I definitely recommend it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2011, 09:21:13 pm
Red (2010)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 24, 2011, 06:55:09 am
Red State (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)
 
I was not sure what to expect from this movie. Mainly because I did not seek out any kind of synopsis of the story. I just knew it was a Kevin Smith movie and was getting attention for a variety of reasons.

This is not a feel good movie, but I think you will be thinking of this movie long after it’s over. I would suggest watching the “Making Of” immediately afterwards to help balance such a dark horrific movie. Some people do label this a horror movie, but not in the conventional sense. It’s the horror within people that makes this disturbing. Kevin Smith describes this well by comparing someone asking you to sit down on the chair and they immediately turn it upside down so you stick your ass into one of the legs. No sorry… didn’t mean that. Sit down. And they do it again.

You get comfortable with the direction and it changes. Nothing like he’s done before. Great performances. You buy into these people completely believe in what they are doing. And so relevant for today. I highly recommend checking this out. I’m not sure I’ll ever watch it again, but damn, I won’t forget it

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 26, 2011, 06:37:17 am
Attack the Block (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Lots of hype surrounding this movie, and after watching it last night I can see why. While it does have elements of The Warriors and Escape From New York, Attack the Block is fresh and exciting pitting street kid thugs (and one woman) against an alien invasion of some very nasty, blacker than night, with glowing massive teeth that will rip you to shreds - Aliens. The acting by a bunch of new kid actors was very believable. The aliens are done very well and intertwined in a solid action movie.

On the flip side…

I read the other day, discussions are on the way of how to remake this in America. Yesterday my reaction was of 'huh?', today I understand. Despite the skill, the story and it is a phenomenal alien movie, it suffers horribly, not only from a heavy English accent, but conversations that mostly consist of slang, and English slang at that. I literally missed the first 10 minutes of dialog, because I could not understand anything they were saying.
I then turned on subtitles (groan). But at least I now could read what I was hearing. But even with that, so much of the dialog was very specific to the English slang, and I was guessing at best what they were meaning. This really counters the otherwise excellent picture.

I can totally see them doing it over for the American audience. I just hope they focus on the magic that made this film, with excellent characters, street kid scenario, and attention to detail with tension, photography and light. 

I give this only 3 stars, but if the dialog wasn't such a hindrance, the rating would be much higher

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0gm7dHKKc
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 26, 2011, 06:48:35 am
I want to see this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 26, 2011, 08:15:57 am
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I want to see this.

Yea, let me know what you think of it.
Maybe check out the extra's. The making of the aliens is very interesting. I like how the development evolved.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 02, 2011, 07:55:23 am
Captain America: First Avenger (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I think the 40’s are one of my favorite period of time to watch in film. What I’ve been taking away from Hollywood’s perspective is a great balance of beauty, hope, America, progress and conflict. With that, the sets and costumes of Captain America are pretty cool (reminded me a lot of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow). The sepia tone throughout is a nice divergence from the typical cold blue palette. Chris Evans and Tommy Lee Jones keep this story alive. Other than that, I know nothing of the comic and this movie did nothing for me to see more. The first hour of developing characters I enjoyed, but once Red Skull revealed himself, it just jumped the shark for me. I really don’t get into the ‘evil’ characterizations like that. A lot of the action scenes appeared very CGI and stand out (they should be transparent), much like I saw in Spiderman.

Don’t take my word for it. I’m an outsider looking in.


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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2011, 09:47:11 am
I will still check this one out once my Library get's a copy. Personally, I have never liked the Red Skull character both in comic book form or movie.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 05, 2011, 07:00:52 am
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Wwwwwwow this was a horrible movie. The first 10 minutes seemed OK, and then... wow, the acting, just wow. Nothing really new by Cage, but was not expecting it this bad. I still can't believe Nicole Kidman thought this was a good idea. And Liana Liberato who just came out of Trust... acted exactly the same. Bad.

The script and direction are what truly ruins this film. Just a stupid unbelievable mess. If it was up to me, I could have easily stopped it after 30 minutes. For some reason my wife gave it 90 minutes before saying we could shut it off. By that time, it was done. The ending just confirms the idiocy of the whole film.

Stay away at all costs. This is time you would never get back out of your life.

I just knew something was wrong when I never even heard of this film before last night. Now I know.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 05, 2011, 07:14:07 am
Look, I like Nic Cage. When he is on and has the right role and movie going for him, it can be a fun ride. But that can be pushing it a little bit too because it's most likely a high priced E Ticket thrill ride movie with no substance to it. Lets be honest here, he is the most overpaid, over-hyped actor in Hollywood the past 20 years. He has more bombs attached to his name than Hussein, Jong and Bin Laden combined. So, I expect every review for his movie that makes its way here to have no stars.

I think his last great movie for me was The Rock. But this isn't a "substance" movie and I'll be the first to say it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 05, 2011, 07:56:05 am
Well then you need to watch this to see him go over the top... again.

Just be prepared for all the other sludge associated with this train wreck.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 07, 2011, 08:26:40 am
The Roomate (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

... for me was just a guilty pleasure. It’s just cheese with some beautiful women (Minka Kelley, Leighton Meester). It has little substance, little tension, but still mildly entertaining to watch. I’d never recommend this, but if you should run across it, it won’t hurt you or make you feel like you had time robbed from you. It is only PG-13, so hopefully give you some perspective on what will be presented.

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a good thing... I picked up on a song I really come to like "We Are the People" by Empire of the Sun. It worked very well in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mUDIohiK2I
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 07, 2011, 08:30:45 am
Minka Kelly is the ONLY reason why I'm even contemplating renting this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 10, 2011, 07:56:50 am
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I remember seeing the trailer and loving what I saw. Illustratively it looked phenomenal. The humor looked fun (in a kid kind of way) and I put a mental note to check it out.

Well, finally caught it over the last couple of nights (yea, sometimes I watch movies over a series of nights in pieces). The graphics were great, but immediately I noticed this movie was created for the large screen. There is soooo much detail, it really gets lost when reduced to a standard size screen. The storyline was kept simple, with interesting characters punching up the story. But unfortunately one of core pieces destroying this film is the resurgent puppet, soul-less, creepy eyed characters and in this case, the humans look downright ugly. The characterization they attach to the boy is not engaging whatsoever. He seems lifeless in many respects. It’s really hard to capture a human in animation. It wasn’t horrible, it wasn’t good either.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_aS5W___Ezk
Ugh... mortifying

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2011, 07:59:55 am
...yea, sometimes I watch movies over a series of nights in pieces.

Some times it's the only way to get through a movie that just isn't living up to the hype. I watch like this more than I'd like to.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 10, 2011, 08:21:05 am
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Some times it's the only way to get through a movie that just isn't living up to the hype. I watch like this more than I'd like to.

So do I. I prefer to seriously watch all the way through, but sometimes it's not in the cards.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 11, 2011, 05:56:54 am
The Pit and Pendulum (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

A 1961 Hammer horror movie with our hometown boy Vincent Price. I remember all these movies when I was a kid. I think mostly from the atmospheric castles and costumes that were used so effectively. And in this case the iconic pendulum about to take its next victim.

Watching it again last night was one of those times where memories are best left alone. It’s like the old Frankenstein, Mummy, Werewolf movies. You remember them as cool, but come back and watch them now and they are not nearly as cool as you thought. That’s how The Pit and The Pendulum comes across. Overly dramatic, slow and zero tension. If you've never seen a Hammer film, this is fairly representative. Dripping in color and atmosphere.

I have not taken it to the next level looking through the movies for the same sets and costumes. That's what Hammer did to save money. Shot several movies at once, with very small budgets.



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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 12, 2011, 09:46:12 am
The Change-Up (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I knew this was a hard R while sitting down. I also heard it wasn't very good. Well, thankfully I really enjoyed the movie last night. There are bust out loud moments and some moments of... Really? The first 3 minutes set the tone of the rest of the crudeness in the comedy. Ryan Reynolds always makes me laugh. There is just something about his face, eyes and timing that crack me up.

Thankfully this wasn't a thin veiled comedy but added the subtext of what would happen if you really did get a stab at your buddy's life. Grass is not always greener.

Leslie Mann is icing on the cake for adding comedy. Her delivery matches the boys. And Olivia Wilde... well just wow.

I highly recommend this. It is very R with lots of F bombs.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 14, 2011, 08:50:08 am
Prey (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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This looked like it might be cheesy, but it was not and had some good production values. Good acting and good story that was rather engaging. Some saying this was Jaws in Africa. The daughter had issues with the new  step-mom, making the tension just as thick in the isolated truck as the bad-ass hungry lions awaiting outside looking for food… any food. There were some slow moments and there were times to give leaps of faith in believability. Still a decent movie overall and recommended.

Alien Raiders (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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This came out of nowhere. Never heard of it, cheesy title… but very enjoyable. While this is an alien movie, 90% of it thriller. Enough tension to keep asking what’s going on and many moments of scares. This fall very much into the ‘Who Goes There’ story line of who is alien and who is not. The unknown adds so much to the intensity and actions these scientist take to find the last alien.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 21, 2011, 07:19:51 am
Larry Crowne (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

The one star is for Cedric The Entertainer, who really does nothing for me comedy wise, but here, he does one thing, becomes an irritating neighbor with a penchant to negotiate at his own garage sales - really well.

Another Wow, just wow. How does so much talent get wasted in such an uneventful movie. I like Tom Hanks, in particular his range of characters. Julia Roberts is herself, but she never really did anything for me. Anyway Hanks with Nia Vardalos who wrote and starred in the very amusing My Big Fat Greek Wedding, wrote Larry Crowne. I’m thinking this looked much more charming on paper than how it was executed. Taking a laid back view, like the Vespa he rides, about a middle aged unemployed man, was probably not the best of timing. Not only was it sad, not cute, it was extremely boring. I picked up a book to read after 20 minutes, my wife, thank gawd declared this crap after a half hour. It’s not bad, it’s just a vacuum. I think those people who say it’s good (there’s more than I would think) are saying it’s watchable, well, because it’s Hanks and Roberts. It’s got to be good… right?

Uh, no

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 21, 2011, 07:23:57 am
When the trailer first came out, I couldn't have been more disinterested in this movie. I'm not surprised at such a low rating.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 21, 2011, 08:13:42 am
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The Last Play at Shea is a documentary of Billy Joel’s concert event that closed Shea Stadium. It is not the concert, which is a different release, but well documented essay of Shea and its history and intermingled with this concert event. I’m not a New Yorker and certainly could care less about baseball and Shea stadium, but this 2 hour documentary was entertaining to watch. Very well done and recommend it for anyone. If your Billy Joel fan and/or baseball/New Yorker… triple score.

Spoiler (hover to show)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 25, 2011, 06:26:55 am
Flypaper (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

It took a little getting used to in this quirky independent film. With a great cast and excellent script it balanced humor and absurdity with an engaging who dunnit. It was about a half hour into it before I really got into it, but once it sucked me in, I really enjoyed it. This movie completely avoided one of my main gripes about movies. Knowing what's coming next. I didn't have a clue and that was the fun ride it took you on.

Highly recommend for a different kind of movie.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 25, 2011, 06:36:00 am
Super 8 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I had been anticipating this movie more than most over this past summer and well it just slipped through and I missed it. I got to watch this enjoyable movie last night, but honestly it did not live up to the hype I anticipated. This is a very slick (with Spielberg fingerprints all over it) film reminiscent of The Goonies, E.T., The Gate and several other family fun films. A little too slick. Several stories are woven into this Alien episode with enough scares to make this fun for adults. It's not great, but it is fun. The kid actors are varied enough to add spice and they do it very well.

I recommend it.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2011, 06:41:09 am
I've already got Super 8 on hold at my Library. But it's gonna be awhile before my turn in the rotation comes around. A lot of people before me get it first. But I can't wait to see this one as I am a big fan of JJ Abrams and Kyle Chandler.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 02, 2011, 06:45:31 am
The Ward (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

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John Carpenter’s return to horror in 9 years is just a flat, been there, done that, with minor twist at the end hoping to regain credibility. It’s filled with jump scares and darkly lit hallways. While the acting was pretty good, the story was not engaging. Half hour into, I was debating turning it off. I should have. The rest of the movie remained mediocre at best.

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I really enjoy watching Paul Rudd. Like Ryan Reynolds, they both have an aura about them that just make me laugh. Our Idiot Brother though shows Rudd in a new dimension and it’s not all that interesting. My wife found this charming and somewhat funny. I can kind of see the charm, but I see this more as a Lifetime movie. There was very little idiot, very little humor and just a flat movie. In a nutshell, Rudd is a carefree dude and that contrasts highly with his family’s chaotic, problematic family. Which then blame idiot brother, which then leads to an mile long obvious 3rd act of everybody realizing the truth.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 02, 2011, 10:30:19 am
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I had been anticipating this movie more than most over this past summer and well it just slipped through and I missed it. I got to watch this enjoyable movie last night, but honestly it did not live up to the hype I anticipated. This is a very slick (with Spielberg fingerprints all over it) film reminiscent of The Goonies, E.T., The Gate and several other family fun films. A little too slick. Several stories are woven into this Alien episode with enough scares to make this fun for adults. It's not great, but it is fun. The kid actors are varied enough to add spice and they do it very well.

I recommend it.

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Interesting... I don't think it has spoilers

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For movie fans who grew up in the '70s and '80s -- myself included -- seeing the logo for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment at the end of the credits was always the perfect capper to a cinematic experience.  The simple animation of the bicycle flying past the moon (with E.T. in the front basket, naturally) at the end of a Spielberg production like "Back to the Future" or "The Goonies" was indelibly planted in the minds of countless little future geeks -- again, myself included.

J.J. Abrams was another budding cinema fan who idolized Spielberg since childhood, so when he became one of Hollywood's hottest directors, he decided to make a film that would stand as a tribute to the films he grew up with.  But instead of just copying Spielberg, he worked with the man himself.  The result was "Super 8," which Spielberg produced and Abrams wrote and directed.  And, of course, it features that classic Amblin logo.

With "Super 8" now available on Blu-ray, DVD, and digital download, I spoke to Abrams about the best advice he got from Spielberg, lifting the veil of secrecy he likes to work under, and what having the Amblin brand on his movie meant to him.

Matt McDaniel: I watched "Super 8" again on Blu-ray, and it really holds up to repeat viewings.  Is that a particular focus of yours?

J.J. Abrams: You hope that whatever you're working on is something that will sustain, but clearly there is no — I am not sure that there's any sort of trick to that other than you try and do things that you think, "Oh, this is something that is being referenced that people won't get on first viewing, but if they watch it again, it will have more meaning."

So little tiny, subtle, stupid things that don't necessarily need to be there, but you realize later actually had some importance can be enjoyed in a different way the second time you see it. But I think what you're describing is mostly about characters, -- meaning actors who bring it to life that you relate to and hopefully that's something that "Super 8" has.

MM: It's well-known that you keep a premium on secrecy before the movie comes out and tried to let as little out as possible. Is it a relief then after the movie comes out, that you can talk about it and open up?

JA: It is! It's funny. The only reason why I try to keep quiet about things is just so that people can actually enjoy the experience of seeing a movie and not feeling like they've already heard so much about it that they don't need to see it. But it's a weird feeling because sometimes when a movie comes out, it's been something that the people working on it know intimately but it's been the kind of secret. And suddenly you're sharing it with everyone, and it's sort of this weird title wave of awareness and questions about this thing that just the editors and producers and crew and actors knew about. So it always strikes me as a little bit of a sudden step into sunlight from a sort of dark cave.

MM: So once the movie came out, were there specific reactions from fans that you saw that surprised to you, that you weren't expecting it to be interpreted or taken in a certain way?

JA: Well, there were certainly moments in the movie that I hope people would see and I didn't know if they would respond to that they did that I was thrilled about.

For example a little thing, there is a scene where they are on the train platform, rehearsing before the train crash, and Zach [Mills] -- the kid who plays Preston -- goes and he is acting as an extra in the movie and is like pretending to talk on the phone.  And it was really funny how he did it, but it was so in the background. It's always one of those things that just made me laugh. but I thought, "Well, no one is ever going to be looking at that or noticing it," and at every screening people responded surprisingly vocally to that little moment.

So there were things like that.  There were teeny detail things and I thought, "Well, I hope people get it." Then there were larger things like hoping people would understand that the creature in the movie was really kind of a representation of the loss of his mother and what that meant for the kid. And I was pleased to hear anecdotally that people did pick that up, and that it resonated for them. So of course, not for everyone, and yet I was just happy that people seem to pick up on the theme to the movie.

MM: When it comes to little details, I noticed this time around that in the dinner scene at the beginning, my family had that exact same casserole dish. So were there specific period signifiers that you wanted to use, and other ones that you didn't?

JA: Oh! Yeah, sure, how old are you?

MM: I am 35.

JA: Yeah, see when I was growing up, there were certain things that my family had, my grandparents had in their house, and they are invisible to you growing up because they are just sort of what they are. And then as you get older and time passes and you start to realize that the kind of, I guess, the kitsch value of some of that stuff.  It was important to me that the world -- the kid's rooms, the living rooms -- feel accurate. And because I grew up in this era it was very easy to look at set design and have a very strong opinion very quickly, simply because I knew what I'd seen at my home, my friend's houses. So there were details, things in the kid's rooms certainly that I knew I wanted in.

And then what was great was as I was describing the kind of stuff, we had this amazing production designer and set dressers so that what they ended up bringing to the sets were things that frankly often I had forgotten about completely. And I can sort of pick and choose what stayed and what would go away.  And it was really kind of a weird revisiting of the time in my life that inspired the movie but you can't remember every detail. And then when you start to see these toys, these games, these puzzles, these books, these posters that you knew you had or your friends had, it was kind of uncanny.

MM: There was a lot of talk about the Spielberg influences on the story and the look, but I found one of the strongest ones is just these great real performances from these young actors. Did he offer you any sort of thoughts on how to get the best out of sort of untrained kids like that?

J.J. Abrams

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JA: We did offer quite a bit of advice that was helpful.  One of the best piece of advice I think was that when you've got young actors that as a director I should feel more comfortable giving line readings when necessary, because it's an easier and faster way to communicate with the kids what you are looking for.  And it's not like you are dealing -- especially with the kids who have not done it before -- that you are not dealing with adults who have decades of experience and would somehow take it as an affront to give them a reading like that.

So that was kind of one helpful piece of advice that certainly did save some significant time in terms of being able to explain what a certain moment should be in a scene.  But as I say, the great thing about Steven is he is so wildly supportive and helpful with as a producer in every aspect of production that I wouldn't even know where to begin in terms of the stuff that he offered that I learned from him over the course of the movie. So his support is something that I am forever indebted to him.

MM: I just saw "The Adventures of Tintin," and like "Super 8," at the beginning, there is that Amblin logo and there is almost like this Pavlovian response when you see that.

JA: Yup. [Laughs]

MM: What did it mean to you to have that at the beginning of your movie?

JA: Well, I think that "Super 8" was the first time the Amblin logo existed at the head of a film and -- first of all it was a ridiculous honor to be able to have made a movie that the intent of which was to be an Amblin film, to have it then literally be an Amblin film was incredibly surreal. Growing up with Amblin as one of the main suppliers of and companies responsible for entertainment that my friends and I looked forward to and enjoyed. It was kind of amazing to be part of that legacy.

And then of course, because the movie is a Spielberg production, because whether it's "E.T." or "Close Encounters" or "Poltergeist" or "Jaws," or any other movie that clearly was at least partially an influence for this movie.  It felt like it was a way of taking what was the theoretical intent of the movie, which is, "God, it'd be great to make a movie that felt like one of those movies I used to love -- an Amblin movie."

And it literally blessed it as one of that library of movies.  Obviously, in the range of those movies whether it's "Gremlins" or "*batteries not included" or what have you, there are so many movies that Amblin was associated with, and to be able to make a movie that if you would have a shelf in your library of all the Amblin movies, I can say it's an honor to be among those films.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 02, 2011, 07:46:37 pm
28 Days Later
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2011, 10:36:21 am
28 Weeks Later
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 05, 2011, 06:25:54 am
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So Tucker & Dale vs. Evil is exactly what I was expecting. This is not academy material. It’s park your brain at the door and watch an inventive perspective on the hillbilly horror genre. It’s a freakin’ comedy folks. It’s silly, but a well done silly. It’s not horror but it is gory. Tucker & Dale have chemistry and you believe they’ve been friends a long time. The college kids are throwaways, but they are supposed to be. Tucker & Dale are the stars. Although the women are beautiful. I recommend it for just silly entertainment. Check it out.





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I try to remember movies that suck donkey, so I don’t make the mistake of picking it up twice. In the back of my mind I thought I remember the first Zombie Diary to be bad… really bad. After about 20 minutes of No. 2, I ‘m confident this was made by the same people and confirmed my suspicions’ this was pretty sucky as well. Beyond a bunch of guys (and 2 women), running around playing army and a good portion of it at night (thus the stupid night vision with tunnel vision viewing), only frustrating me. The acting is bad, the story is worse. Stay da **** away from this crap.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 09, 2011, 10:31:39 am
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I was not sure what to expect. I was pleasantly surprised. Some silliness, and some laugh out loud moments. The chemistry between Kunis and Timberlake was great. The script even better at a rapid fire pace. You need to pay attention. There was a lot of little jabs here and there that just made me grin the whole time. I do wonder how this will hold up over time. There is a lot of current fads (flash mobs, video games) that make it very relevant today. It is rated R and that's a good thing. That's the way life is. If this was kept at a PG-13, you would lose half of the charm and feel of the movie.

Highly recommend.

It does have an outtake reel. Check it out.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 09, 2011, 10:35:00 am
You convinced me at Mila Kunis. I'm there.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 09, 2011, 10:55:28 am
Duh....

... and there is some very sexy, yet tasteful neekidness
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 10, 2011, 06:05:12 am
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What a coincidence. In a recent PEOPLE magazine, the main article was celebrities worst movies... and most you've never heard of. It just so happens to point at Powder Blue for Jessica Biel. And it was on one of the cable channels last night.

I don't think it was that bad, in fact it wasn't bad, just a dark, depressing movie. Boat load of stars and they do a fantastic job of acting. Just the main story is cliched with a stripper (Biel) and those people around her. Biel's stripping alone is worth the rent. She is good very good. As the article points out, the most awkward moment is when she does a lap dance with her dad (Note: She doesn't know he is her dad).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x5Dfuhm-zwY
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 10, 2011, 06:16:21 am
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This was a nice surprise to accidentally run across. A tight thriller (horror is stretching it) about 6 women abducted and their babies surgically removed in an old warehouse. The pacing was good and the story keeps you engaged. I was really surprised to see Andy Whitfield (Spartacus) who had died just months ago from cancer.

Not a great film, but something worth spending time watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eZ4a1coI2s

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 10, 2011, 06:59:18 am
Powder Blue (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

What a coincidence. In a recent PEOPLE magazine...

Do you mean Entertainment Weekly? They ran an article on the worst of the worst for some very big movie stars last week.
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Post by: Mac on December 10, 2011, 07:04:19 am
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Do you mean Entertainment Weekly? They ran an article on the worst of the worst for some very big movie stars last week.

Probably one in the same
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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2011, 06:37:36 am
Cowboys and Aliens (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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Ever since this came to the theaters, I heard not so good stuff. It was ‘dark’. The characters were not consistent. The criticism was focused on the characters and the atmosphere of the film. I had not read the graphic comic and would guess a majority of folks had not as well, so I can’t compare if it was faithful. I can only give my first impressions.

I don’t know what people were expecting. I certainly didn’t. I mean mixing two genres like that seemed to be risky task. I liked what I saw. Not a great film, but a very entertaining one. They depict the old west, in a very gritty way. It was survival. It was not the glorified way of looking at westerns. The aliens were not E.T. either. It was pretty intense. I liked all the characters, even if it was not the typical Harrison Ford. Harrison Ford’s character did tend to go one way then the next, but in the context of the film, it makes sense. Excellent CGI.
I’m not a big fan of Western era movies, but there are exceptions.

I recommend it.
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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2011, 09:13:35 am
All Good Things (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

You would think, I mean would think, a cast with Ryan Gosling, Frank Langella, Kirsten Dunst (OK, Dunst really doesn't do anything for me actor wise), this would have some interest. Hey, it's supposedly based on true events.

Meh

What a slow, melodramatic flick. It lost me after 20 minutes. I started reading after that. My wife continued. She did not finish. Boring!!!
Gosling while weird, was trying to do that with little dialogue. The others just going through the story.

Avoid

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2011, 09:15:54 am

I started reading after that.

You're posting in the wrong thread then. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/new_tongue.gif)
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Post by: Mac on December 18, 2011, 08:02:58 pm
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Meh! Wasn't expecting much and didn't get much. While not a remake, its new story telling explanation of the apes uprising. While it desperately tries bring new interest in the overall story, I think it is way over the top and the third act just gets ridiculous.

Beautiful CGI, but there are scenes not treated well and it's cartoonish.

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Post by: Mac on December 18, 2011, 08:09:25 pm
Barney's Version (3-1/2 stars)

 Just a perfect stage for Paul Giamatti. A story taking broad strokes of Barney's life, loves and loss and beautifully presents it in a manor wondering what will happen next. The lives he touches and impacts makes this flick, rather engaging. I recommend it. It starts off slow, so give it a chance and it will get better.
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Post by: Mac on December 19, 2011, 09:55:27 am
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OK, so it wasn't on DVD, but A&E. History has shown, it's difficult at best to bring Stephen Kings books to film. Bag Of Bones fails miserably. We were set up to watch this 2 parter on A&E, so dreading the advertisement onslaught. I did remember VOD and we were able to watch this 4 hour flick in 3 hours.

Honestly Pierce Brosnan did a great job... for awhile. I would imagine a mediocre talent would have completely made this unwatchable. Anyway, Brosnan could only carry it so far and then it just completely unravels into crap the last hour.

Here's a pretty good perspective...

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By: Ryan Daley

Adapting the works of Stephen King for the big screen is always a tricky proposition. Richly drawn characters are his strong suit, but trying to convey his characters’ constant internal monologues can prove troublesome for screenwriters. This is especially true of Bag of Bones, King’s 1998 “comeback” novel about a successful writer struggling with the accidental death of his doting wife. Back in ‘98, both readers and critics lauded King’s newfound literary style, but the private thoughts and feelings of grieving protagonist Michael Noonan dominate the narrative, making for a difficult film adaptation. A&E recently bunted this Pierce Brosnan starring two-parter onto the airwaves, and in the hands of screenwriter Matt Venne and frequent King hack artist Mick Garris, King’s beautiful novel is both padded out and stripped to the bone. Out with the rich characters, in with the dream sequences. And oh, those dream sequences.

After his wife is killed by the oft-utilized CGI bus wipe, Michael Noonan retreats to a lake house to cope with the tragedy and work on his new novel. While at the lake house, Noonan encounters a host of distractions: single mom Melissa George, ghostly messages from beyond the grave…and a ****ton of visions. The paranormal activity is standard-issue King––phantom lines on the laptop, spectral fridge magnets, etc.––but the dream sequences…well, they spiral completely out of control. After a commercial-free initial 30 minutes, AMC really started packing in the ads, and sometimes, believe it or not, the dream sequences were layered three deep between commercial breaks. I’m not kidding. During Part One in particular, the prevailing pattern went: dream sequence, ponderous dialogue scene, dream sequence, dream sequence, then back to commercial. If you removed the dream sequences and commercial breaks, Bag of Bones would be 20 minutes long.

In his defense, Brosnan seems to be taking the proceedings seriously…perhaps a little too seriously. He chews every scene with a neck-vein bulging intensity, even when his dialogue approaches the ludicrous. One has to wonder if he ever got around to watching Garris’ finished product (“It’s a good one,” Brosnan bragged to Craig Ferguson last week, without a hint of irony).

Surprisingly, Garris‘ endgame flaunts some juicy gore, but it all comes in the form of insert shots, which indicates that some sad-sack second unit filmed spurting blood around a stunt double while Brosnan kicked it in his trailer with a mocha latte. But let‘s be honest, there no way that even the juiciest of gore was ever gonna save an endeavor as silly as Bag of Bones, an adaptation that was destined to be weak sauce from the very beginning. It’s one of those King movies that’s all bark and no bite. And it never really had any bark to begin with.

Score: 2 / 10

I gave it two stars. One for at least introducing me to Broadway actress Anika Noni Rose, taking the role of Sara Tidwell and doing a great job singing Frankie and Johnny

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TCTfaszUTg
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2011, 10:09:42 am
2 Stars? I had higher hopes for Bag Of Bones. I guess there is no reason for me to check it out on DVR.

My opinions are strictly for myself. If I can save you time, so much the better. I just thought the last hour ruined the decent first half. It's very un-fulfilling. You'll forget about it minutes after you watch it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 23, 2011, 09:56:38 pm
The X-Files: I Want To Believe
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Post by: Mac on December 24, 2011, 07:29:22 am
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A remake from Sam Peckinpah's 1971 classic (which I have not seen... yet) comes this reasonably gritty story. It's the classic story of what is deep inside us and what would we do to survive. Lot's of characters, mostly 1 dimensional with Alexander Skarsgard the worst. Many times he just holds this glazed crazy man look. Creepy yes, but WTF. Pretty much from the get go the movie becomes tension filled and it just gets worse as the movie progresses until 'the final siege'.

Recommend at least a rental.
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Post by: Mac on December 24, 2011, 07:42:22 am
Midnight In Paris (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

Not a bad movie, a good movie with a very interesting premise. Almost twilight zone. For a Woody Allen film, this is a bit of surprise.  Unfortunately it has Owen Wilson, who just doesn't do it for me. Anyway, Owen's character is longing to live in 1920's Paris, in a hopelessly romantic fashion. Living in current times with a fiance who he has nothing in common and parents who are even worse. Well, what do you know, one night on a midnight stroll he is surprisingly picked up, for no reason, and driven to parties and lime light where some of the famous guests include Hemingway, Picaso, Loutrec and others. All his role models and those he has adored and dreamt about. To me the core story is interesting, but none of those characters are really expanded upon. He just pretty much meets most of them. And a love interest does materialize.

But the root of it all is be careful what you wish for. Is really living in another time what you want?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2011, 07:48:34 am
I guess I'm still stuck in the past as I can't move beyond Woody's best and funniest films. Have not sought out any of his later works and even if this one got rave reviews I would still stay away. Give me Bananas any day of the week.
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Post by: Mac on December 24, 2011, 07:58:20 am
I like early Woody Allen for their goofiness. He's since matured and gone down new paths. I haven't seen many of his flicks of late, but the ones I have seen are respectable. The only element I really recognized as a Woody Allen film was the film score. Classic stuff, but it fit.

No, there is no 'goofiness' here, but as a engaging romantic film it does have it's charm. Check it out. You may fun trying to point out all the famous people Owen comes across. And the cool thing is, that's not fictional writing. It would have been very possible to have run across all those people if you were in the right place at the right time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2011, 08:01:11 am
I've heard that a lot about the writing, that it's very true to life and relocatable for sure.
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Post by: Mac on December 25, 2011, 12:08:39 pm
Colombiana (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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So a story by Luc Besson who has created hits and misses. This is clearly is a miss. A miss in story telling, dialogue and IMO believing Cataleya (Zoe Saldana) could do any of these spy things. Just think 007/Nikita/the Professional genre. And they are asking a huge leap of faith to ignore her size (she's petite when wet). Totally made this fast paced action movie to just roll my eyes. And they completely leave out any character depth. You could care less about any of them. Even Cataleya is one dimensional.

Rent at your own risk.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2011, 12:49:15 pm
Colombiana (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)


From a distance I thought it was Maggie Q on the cover. Never even heard of this movie till your review.
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Post by: Mac on December 29, 2011, 08:59:44 am
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We were just cruising through the channels and happened upon this. I knew about the series, but knew nothing of the movie. What a nice surprise. They put together a story that eased you into the clash of cultures. Often funny. And ohmygawd is Ayesha Dharker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayesha_Dharker) bee-u-tee-ful. Highly recommend for a fun entertaining flick.

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Post by: Mac on December 29, 2011, 09:03:25 am
Pavement (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Despite it having credible actors like Robert Patrick and Lauren Holly, the story is just outright stupid. For those in the genre of CSI and investigators maybe this is your kind of movie. I thought it was insulting because of the huge plot holes and leaps of faith is asked us to take.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2011, 09:10:53 am
Outsourced (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)



Did this come from the series or the other way around? Are they related in anyway?
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Post by: Mac on December 29, 2011, 09:25:09 am
The movie is 2007, so I think the series came from the movie.

I never did see the series.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2011, 09:28:37 am
I'm gonna definitely check this one out for sure. I'm probably the only one on the planet that isn't embarrassed to admit to liking the series. I miss Gupta. Funny dude/character.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2011, 12:59:43 pm
The Abyss : Special Edition
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2012, 09:22:20 am
Titanic: Special Collector's Edition
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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2012, 11:07:35 am
Apollo 18 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Man, I wanted to enjoy this...

... but, well, it to too little too late. It waited far to long to put the scare out there and when it did it was so chaotic and small, you couldn't tell what was going on. There were a few good scares, but this could have been so much more. This definitely suffered not only from the found footage hand held images, but also the bad transmission, snow, scrambling that often occurs.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2012, 11:25:48 am
What happened to Apollo 14-17, eh? (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/new_tongue.gif)
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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2012, 03:02:36 pm
prequels
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Post by: Mac on January 03, 2012, 08:49:31 am
Jumping the Broom (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Despite this clearly being a chick flick, that does not automatically make it unwatchable. In fact, I think just about anybody in a relationship or has had experience of being in a relationship will enjoy this fast paced, smartly written, witty and funny movie. While the tradition of ‘Jumping The Broom’ is a cultural heritage, it doesn’t exclude other traditions, but highlights all kinds of nuances wedding plans can go through. The basic premise of families coming from opposite sides of the track has been done before, but it's still fresh and smartly written. 

I think the characters are well written and each one adds to the story. I definitely recommend. You will not be disappointed, but instead be very entertained, which is the point of movies anyway.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 03, 2012, 06:01:51 pm
Avatar
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2012, 08:48:28 pm
The Blind Side
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2012, 09:13:54 pm
The Day After Tomorrow
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2012, 08:20:09 pm
Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2012, 07:27:12 pm
King Kong (2005)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 09, 2012, 06:28:07 pm
The Shawshank Redemption
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 10, 2012, 07:52:28 pm
Starship Troopers
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2012, 08:19:59 pm
2012
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Post by: Mac on January 14, 2012, 01:08:38 pm
Moneyball (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

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I'll admit up front. You should ignore this opinion and review. I'm not a sports guy, meaning I don't enjoy watching sports on TV. Baseball bores the hell outta me, but that's not to say there are good baseball or sports movies. I have enjoyed, though they are on my fringe of entertainment.

Quite frankly I had little clue to what was going on in this flick. I mean I know the core of the story, but knew none of the players (this was based on true events). The scenes were long and drawn out and at times where nothing was happening... just like in a real game. Pitt was great, but I'm reading about how this is Jonah Hills movie too. Really. Gawd, if he couldn't be more one dimensional with zero emotion. Dayum, he kept the same deer in headlights look through the whole movie. Yes, the story is his fish out of water, but that's all he did. My wife fell asleep halfway through. I was watching the clock by then and turned it off shortly after.

So, then I put in...

The Killer Elite (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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I wanted to like it. Dayum if it didn't have a good cast, but it all felt like I've seen it before. Hired killers, friends, one last job, blah blah blah.

I just wanted to smack Clive Owen for the ridiculous mustache.

There is plenty of action and some intense fight scenes, but really, this movie will fade away for me and be a blur just like all the other hired gun movies.

ugh

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2012, 01:11:37 pm
I've had Moneyball on hold for about a month now. I can't wait to get my hands on the movie. I love Baseball movies and I won't hold it against you because of your review. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/new_tongue.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2012, 08:37:38 pm
Gladiator
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Post by: Mac on January 15, 2012, 03:06:27 pm
Shark Night (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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Not a bad film, but just not a good one either. Shark Night is so full of cliches. Been there, done that so many times before. The kicker is this is PG-13. That alone will tell you this is not very scary in the least. Not that you need blood and gore, but when you have a PG rating, you just don't show stuff and this director does not know how to guide the audience. He's just going for the lowest common denominator and it does nothing. I was really scratching my head with the story too. Really? Hillbilly hicks studying sharks, capturing them and experimenting. Whatevah. Rent with little risk... of anything.

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Post by: Mac on January 15, 2012, 03:09:58 pm
What's Your Number (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Chick flick and not a very good one. Anna Ferris and Chris Evans have been great to watch here and in the past. In fact their chemistry is quite nice, but overall the story surrounding them is just silly and ho-hum. You know from the beginning and even some of the characters say, this is a dumb idea. The worst part is when I thought it was over it went on for like another 1/2 hour.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2012, 03:22:38 pm
It's funny the stuff you will sit through in the name of love Mac. She must be an awesome Wife with the amount of Chick Flicks you've logged in over the years.  (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_wink.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2012, 05:47:04 pm
Independence Day
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Post by: Mac on January 16, 2012, 08:44:14 am
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It's funny the stuff you will sit through in the name of love Mac. She must be an awesome Wife with the amount of Chick Flicks you've logged in over the years.

Well, first my wife is awesome, but we definitely have some decisive lines drawn on what movies we will watch together. Actually What’s Your Number was my pick. I’ve known about  Anna Faris through here goofball comedy in the Scary Movie flicks. I did not know this was a chick flick. I picked it strictly for Anna.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 16, 2012, 05:31:17 pm
The Rock
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2012, 09:19:49 pm
Blade Runner
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Post by: Mac on January 22, 2012, 02:40:05 pm
The Ides of March (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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I'm on the fence. Great acting, excellent story, but it does deal with the snake like characters of politics, which I despise. Which on one hand I've seen way to much in real life, but on the other hand is great timing for this movie. You have to pay attention to this movie. The dialog is fast and chaotic and mainly revolves around campaign teams and the strategies. The 2nd act gets into it's groove and becomes more than a political machine. It gets into characters, and slowly reveals the true nature of people. The 3rd act goes fast displays secrets and in my mind is what the movie was designed to due. Keep you glued. The last minute of the film will either make you say WTF or awesome. I say awesome.

I recommend. Get past the 100% political staging and into the meat of the movie and I think you'll enjoy this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 22, 2012, 02:48:29 pm
I'm interested in this and have it in my Que to watch.
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Post by: Mac on January 22, 2012, 02:50:01 pm
Don't Be Afraid of the Dark (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

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This is an entertaining movie from the very first shot to the last. I loved every aspect of this movie. It just drips with atmosphere, light, shadows, textures and colors. Every detail was examined. Guy Pearce and Katie Holmes are natural for their roles. The real star is Sally (Bailee Madison). She brings to the screen her small child world view. Pretty amazing to watch. The house is comfortable but in an old school gothic haunted house way. The picture was amazing. Never too dark. The creatures deliver too. Guillermo Del Toro has his talented vision invested in this and it shows. If you like creepy horror, I highly recommend.
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Post by: Mac on January 22, 2012, 05:23:10 pm
Dead End (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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I liked this very quirky movie. I had no idea what it was when I picked it up.

Essentially a twilight zone story. I won't give anything away, but let's just say when things start rolling, stick around. Something new and unexpected happens every few minutes. I had no idea where this flick was going. I probably won't watch it again. Once you know the twists, it's not as fun. But recommend it for a night of bizarre movie watching.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2012, 09:05:04 pm
Terminator
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 25, 2012, 06:27:12 pm
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2012, 09:10:42 pm
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2012, 12:32:33 pm
Terminator Salvation
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Post by: Mac on January 27, 2012, 01:23:54 pm
Final Destination 5 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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I’m not surprised about my lack of enthusiasm for Final Destination 5. It’s obvious everybody recognizes the franchise only exists to see how creatively they can kill people. While I can kind of enjoy the creative part, the lack of story or actually replication of the same story from the previous 4 makes this at best, mediocre. What makes it boring is the lack of creative kills. I swear some of the same dialog must have been used. I’m pretty sure the studios were hanging their hat on 3D pulling in the money. I don’t know how this did in the theaters but watching it at home bored me. I kinda knew it going in and well, was confirmed. I couldn’t recommend this unless you have absolutely nothing else to watch, even if it’s watching SpongeBob.

The best thing I liked about FD5 is the posters and cover work.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2012, 02:55:08 pm
I've yet to watch any installment of this series. But I aim to rectify that soon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2012, 08:41:27 pm
Toy Story
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2012, 10:42:03 am
Toy Story 2
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2012, 05:20:41 pm
Toy Story 3
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2012, 11:45:54 am
Armageddon
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2012, 09:12:50 am
Aliens
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Post by: Mac on January 30, 2012, 09:29:03 am
I imagine at some point you'll catch up watching movies in this millennial  :P
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2012, 09:33:30 am
I've been sitting on so many DVD's at home that I haven't watched in a long ass time. So, it's been cool to bust them out and mix them in with some of the newer titles I get from the Library.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2012, 01:47:52 pm
True Lies
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Post by: Mac on January 31, 2012, 04:30:26 pm
Real Steel (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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When I saw the trailer for this, I think we were being misled of what this movie was like. And thankfully I was wrong. The trailer led me to believe this was some kind of Rockem Sockem Transformer action movie. Well, it has elements of that in it, but a majority and core of the movie is delinquent dad getting back with the son he never knew. It's the relationship that builds between the two over boxing robots. All very well shot and a story while balancing on sugary sweet, adds metal to keep this from making 12 year old boys leave the room. The story is not new, just putting a different spin on it.

It's a good family pick I think even a mom could stand. I'm sure many of young boy went into the theaters expecting Transformers. I wonder what they think of it.

I recommend a rent at the very least. It was fun.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2012, 04:41:38 pm
I have this one on hold, 49th on Wait List.
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Post by: Mac on January 31, 2012, 04:45:40 pm
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Totaling loving the original Ip Man and liking Ip Man 2 just slightly less, I was excited to see a third was coming. I knew Donnie Yen had no intentions of continuing Ip Man and pretty much shut that door, so the studio's decided to make a prequel of sorts. The early years of Ip Man with a strikingly younger looking Donnie To.

Disappoint comes to mind. This is no where near the caliber of the original two. In fact, the acting is pretty damn bad in places. The story has been done a million times before in the martial arts movies. Some bad guy of the village gives trouble to the school. There are other minor stories going on, but none get that interesting.

The fights are pretty good. Wire work is limited and that's good. Can't stand that stuff. The video is clear, despite the director of photography changing perspective throughout. It starts off in filters of brown, then turns normal color and then some scenes of intense color. A little weird.

I can only slightly recommend this if your a fan of the Ip Man franchise. If your not, you still might like the basic story.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2012, 10:26:29 am
Pulp Fiction
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2012, 10:27:43 am
The Legend Is Born: Ip Man


I've been meaning to check out the Ip Man series. Just need to set aside some time to knock these out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2012, 06:57:21 pm
The Fast And The Furious
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2012, 08:24:22 am
2 Fast 2 Furious
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2012, 12:49:21 pm
Speed
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Post by: Mac on February 03, 2012, 07:24:23 am
The Thing (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Well I thought I posted about The Thing when I saw it in theaters. Guess I did that somewhere else. Picked up the movie on DVD and watched it again. Same reaction. I was hoping like hell, this would be added candy to the already amazing Carpenter version. Sadly the directors homage pretty much repeated Carpenters vision. Same scenario’s but with way less tension. When I saw it in theaters, I thought they overused CGI. Come to find out in the extra’s how much CGI was used. Not as much as I thought. They just got very good with practical’s. It’s not a bad movie, but I don’t see a reason for making it.

The extra’s do explain the why and how. They backwards engineered from the clues Carpenter presented in his movie and thus made this theory of what happened. All the influences work, but I was surprised to see them leave out a couple of key moments that helped delineate this version. They are in the ‘deleted scenes.

Recommend a rent at the very least. If you’re a fan of Carpenters Thing, you may get disappointed.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2012, 07:27:49 am
I've heard nothing but bad things about this. Even if it got good word of mouth, I'm still sticking with the original. Now, I just have to find my copy and watch it. Been long time too. Bah!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2012, 05:06:43 pm
Tropic Thunder
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Post by: Mac on February 04, 2012, 11:18:44 am
Margin Call (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings

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OK, I was honestly expecting better. Right time for this reflecting the mortgage disaster of late. Excellent cast. Not one bad player in this story. The first half is pretty interesting and thankfully they balance nicely what could have been mind numbing accounting and financial explanations to layman's terms the audience could grasp.

The second half just gets very melodramatic and slows down quite a bit. The ending just ****ed me off.
Spoiler (hover to show)

I'll say rent. I probably won't watch this again.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2012, 12:21:23 pm
Not gonna click on the spoiler, but is this anything like Glengarry Glen Ross in style and tone? The cover art makes me think it is.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2012, 12:43:53 pm
The Expendables
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Post by: Mac on February 04, 2012, 12:48:58 pm
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but is this anything like Glengarry Glen Ross in style and tone? The cover art makes me think it is.

Dunno... never saw it.

Most of the film is on two different floors of a business. Nothing exceptional to the tone.
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Post by: Mac on February 05, 2012, 09:17:57 am
Drive (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Here we go again. Apparently not seeing what a lot of other folks are saying. Consistently hearing good things about Drive. In fact being the best movie of 2011. I'm not sure what I watched but it didn't seem anywhere near the hype surrounding it.

Drive is an extremely slow, brooding movie with lots of artsy filmography. Lots of scenes of people staring... at each other... into space. Ryan Gosling says about 12 words in the whole movie. There is some driving, but this mostly about some bad people in a low on the ladder mob scenario.

I highly doubt I would ever watch this slow ass movie again. I wanted to like it, but dayum, it just did absolutely nothing for me.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2012, 09:20:16 am
Now I'm conflicted about checking out Drive. All I've heard about this is that it's so good this and so good that. Now I don't know what to expect.
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Post by: Mac on February 05, 2012, 09:21:46 am
The Big Year (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

It took exactly 15 minutes for me to turn this turd off. And I'm being generous. I would have turned it off sooner, but hoping like hell, it would improve.

First the casting makes zero sense. The Story even less... bird watching? Really. Maybe it had more, but I was not going to suffer through more time hoping for the best.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2012, 09:23:54 am
I thought the Trailer pretty much summed up how bad this one would be. I had no desire to see this one.
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Post by: Mac on February 05, 2012, 09:25:48 am
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Now I'm conflicted about checking out Drive. All I've heard about this is that it's so good this and so good that. Now I don't know what to expect.

You probably should check it out. Let us know what you think of it. I was just not feeling it... It's just my take on it. Several folks I know really enjoyed it.

I honestly cannot stand those movies that have long shots of people just contemplating stuff, which this has plenty of.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2012, 01:20:11 pm
Ocean's Eleven
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Post by: Mac on February 06, 2012, 07:25:08 am
Contagion (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

This looked good in the trailer and so, the movie delivered. This is not an apocalypse, but it sure feels like it. They’ve presented a pandemic in a very real way and it’s scary. Contagion is not an action movie. The focus is on some key people, their perspective and high level view on what they think people will do when faced with such a dire situation. Contagion makes you think. For me it’s a reminder how delicate our lives are and that such a small thing has the potential for a major and life altering impact. I think this movie will even make you think twice when you’re coughing. While watching the movie I had to cough once and it made me think.

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In Time (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

This is science fiction and it immediately puts you in the future and take a huge leap in believability. That’s what science fiction does, until it becomes true, then its non-fiction. Transaction of money has been replaced by time. That’s right. People are assigned amounts of time that they will live. When time zero’s out, you’re dead. People earn and lose time. A phone call is 1 minute of your life time taken away. Coffee is 3 minutes. Etc. The other thing is when the time standard kicks in, that’s what you will look like for the rest of your life. People don’t age. Lot's of plot holes. Ignore them and just run with it... OK

But you can still die. You are not immortal.

That’s just the foundation of the movie. The conflict is between the classes of people. Some have massive amounts of time – The rich. They potentially could live for centuries or forever. They have the good life. Justin Timberlake is on the other side of the tracks and must beg borrow and steal to find his time that constantly is running out. One lucky day and man who has had enough of life gives him all his life. Apparently some bad guys did not like that transaction and movie starts to move along with Timberlake traveling to the good life and finding out what it really means to control time like some people can do. I find the movie compelling and for me it makes me think of today with the power of the rich and what they do with it.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2012, 07:31:06 am
I already have Contagion on hold. I may look into In Time just for Amanda.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2012, 07:54:16 am
Finding Nemo
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2012, 01:19:10 pm
The Incredibles
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2012, 03:03:20 pm
Forgetting Sarah Marshall
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2012, 10:00:07 pm
The Goonies
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 09, 2012, 02:46:45 pm
The Fast And The Furious: Tokyo Drift
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2012, 12:07:03 pm
Galaxy Quest
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2012, 06:43:23 pm
The Last Starfighter
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Post by: Mac on February 11, 2012, 07:14:25 am
Dream House (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

Wow, what a cluster. A psychological thriller, that starts off bad, especially with some head scratching dialog and reactions by the characters. Then through most of the movie you just don't know what is going on. The end tries to put it all together, but it's too late. I heard the actors completely dismissed this turd.

Do not recommend at all.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2012, 07:17:30 am
Never heard of it, but the way it's constructed isn't new. I hate it when writers try to be vague about a story all the way to the end to "reveal" it. If I check out of a movie, I won't be around long enough to even care what happens.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2012, 11:02:16 am
Reservoir Dogs
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 12, 2012, 09:02:21 am
Jackie Brown
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Post by: Mac on February 12, 2012, 11:15:29 am
Parenthood - The Movie (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I thought my wife had seen most of the non-sci-fi movies, but rather taken back she did not even know about the original Ron Howard movie that was the basis for the popular TV show. So I jumped on this opportunity to sit down with her to watch it. I've always enjoyed it and sitting down to watch it years later was rather enlightening. It's still enjoyable but in a very simplistic way. After years of watching the TV show and all it's dynamics twisting and turning, makes the movie seem like a Sesame Street show. I don't know how better to explain it. It fun, easy to digest and then it's done. Some of the characters in the TV show are from movie, but wisely they re-imagined it to something not so dated. Not dated... but characters that had their limitations.

I still love Keanu Reeves discussing Garry's predicament (who I just found out is Joaquin Phoenix)

Again, a good movie, but just different in my eyes now.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 12, 2012, 11:22:40 am
Love the movie. But are you guys aware that the current incarnation of Parenthood that we all watch is the 2nd try at getting it right? I watched maybe a half an episode the first time around and it was meh.
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Post by: Mac on February 12, 2012, 11:24:44 am
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Love the movie. But are you guys aware that the current incarnation of Parenthood that we all watch is the 2nd try at getting it right?

I saw that on IMDB. I don't recall it. Something was amiss?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2012, 10:46:25 am
True Romance
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2012, 08:28:03 pm
Lair Liar
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2012, 11:45:56 am
Forrest Gump
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 15, 2012, 05:41:57 pm
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2012, 10:46:54 am
Kill Bill Vol. 1
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2012, 09:00:27 pm
Bruce Almighty
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Post by: Mac on February 17, 2012, 06:46:07 am
Paranormal Activity 3 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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Well… one, me, who blasts movies for repetition, especially sequels, rather enjoys watching the paranormal activity movies. So far, all 3 movies have repeated the same formula, with just slightly different paranormal happenings. But they have crafted the movie experience by you closely watching the screen and the story. The viewer needs to stay engaged, otherwise the viewer will miss things. And those things are what build up to some super creepy moments. With sight and sound critical components, the director masterfully submerges you into unknown territory. And it’s the unknown that scares you.

But with that being said, the magic all happens in the first viewing. IMO, once you see the movie unravel with its twist and turns and dramatic reveal, it is no longer has impact and loses its creepy factor. In fact, it’s really quite boring. I tried re-watching once and I just felt I was wasting my time.

The makers have thoughtfully balanced out the shaky cam perspective. Yes, there are moments of the photographer carrying around the camera, but it’s rather smooth, but a great deal of it includes stationary observing cameras.

Paranormal Activity 3 has its share of jump scares. One actually had the hair on the back of my neck stand up with my skin tingling. Now that does happen very often at all.

On a side note, I think it’s interesting that the official trailer for the film did not include one single scene in the movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90r3CnPI0AM

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2012, 06:50:45 am
I've been meaning to grab the entire series. Time for me to get a move on that. The trailers look good.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2012, 11:08:22 am
Kill Bill: Vol. 2
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Post by: Mac on February 19, 2012, 02:01:39 pm
Outbreak (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Outbreak came out in 1995 when talk of pandemics and Ebola was on everyone's mind. Classic case of the Hollywood reflecting current times, and yes some could say cashing in. Outbreak is very different than the recent Contagion. Outbreak is very much Hollywood stars, over the top story telling and a ridiculous plot. But Dustin Hoffman and Morgan Freeman give it conflict and passion. Donald Sutherland and Cuba Gooding Jr are very good at being cartoonish. That's an OK thing. It fits in well to the story. I recommend it. It has a little bit of everything. Love, bad guys, the army, chase scenes and explosions. Perfectly mindless entertainment.

Kevin Spacey is a hoot as a red head.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2012, 02:05:23 pm
I saw it once, but all I can remember from the movie is Marcel The Monkey and Friends.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2012, 05:29:04 pm
KISS In Attack Of The Phantoms
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2012, 12:44:37 pm
Up
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2012, 09:05:37 am
London Boulevard (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

I admittedly did not finish this movie. It may have been a good movie... but couldn't understand a majority of the dialog. The English c ****ney was just too strong. I concentrated most of my energy figuring out what was being said. Worse than reading subtitles. I had to laugh... one scene of Colin's character and a friend talking... I understood most of what Colin said, but his friend... all I heard was f uck

&^^%(&& f uck (*((&%%)((* f uck (&&^%^^
**&& f uck ^%%((& f ucker &&&* right?

I gave up after awhile, the scenes were not keeping me interested.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 25, 2012, 09:11:22 am
&^^%(&& f uck (*((&%%)((* f uck (&&^%^^
**&& f uck ^%%((& f ucker &&&* right?

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 26, 2012, 02:54:28 pm
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 27, 2012, 12:06:46 pm
Superman: The Movie
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2012, 11:44:12 pm
KISS: The Second Coming (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kiss-the-second-coming-(2000)/msg3330/#msg3330)
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Post by: Mac on March 02, 2012, 09:28:42 am
Outrage - The Way of the Yakuza (English Subtitled) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Got suckered in by the good trailer. Not so good as full length movie. I found it no different than a lot of mob movies. I've seen it all before, but this took extra effort because of the sub-titles. I can handle sub-titles, but not when the movie is mediocre at best and wasting my time.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXLuvZY8bMU
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2012, 09:31:42 am
I hate being duped by Trailers. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/banghead.gif)
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Post by: Mac on March 02, 2012, 09:32:35 am
Hugo (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I'm torn. This is a gorgeous looking film with amazing textures, photography and angles, with great sound and music.
But let's be real, this is movie for children. Yes, you could say family too, but honestly, I was bored. I so wanted to immerse myself into the flick. The characters are imaginative, but I've seen them before. The story is alright, but it is slow moving.

Not a bad, film. Just not engaging enough to keep me interested.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2012, 11:42:50 am
Appleseed Ex Machina
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Post by: Mac on March 02, 2012, 12:37:23 pm
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Appleseed Ex Machina

I really enjoyed this, but it's been awhile and I should see it again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2012, 04:57:47 pm
Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2012, 10:06:42 am
Moneyball
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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2012, 09:57:35 am
Season Of The Witch (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

This got slammed on rottentomatoes by both audience and critic. That's a major reason why I never picked it up. Well, I thought I'd give it a chance because in a recent trailer it looked good. Ya know what, I enjoyed it. Not a great film but it was an entertaining one. I take Nic Cage for what he has made of himself. Together with Ron Perlman, they made quite a pair. The photography was gorgeous. The set were amazing. It really was a throw back to the Hammer films dripping with mood. A big gripe of mine is night scenes. Many films just lose it because it's TOO dark. This film uses night to it's best lighting. The time is the late 1300's during the crusades... just an all around bleak time, but perfect set up for 'witches'.

I guess it all in being ready to watch or film or not to embrace it or dismiss it. I enjoyed it and would recommend it for a brainless entertainment.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLoKm_vUsFY
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 04, 2012, 10:10:05 am
Blubberella (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Honestly this should get zero stars but on the other hand I did grin a lot at the ridiculousness of this mess. I've heard about it, and now I now why. Everything about it job dropping with regards to grade z film, story, acting and pissing off just about everybody who watches it. Mostly fat jokes, but when Lindsay Hollister can deliver them with no problems, I think we should laugh with her. She is cute and reminds me a lot of Melissa McCarthy of Mike & Molly.

I'm biased. I like a good awful film on occasion. And this is awful. Deliberately awful and that's hard to pull off. This is filmed so much like a first time indie film, but has some budget.  :-\

I will recommend this, only if your drunk, high, or out of your mind with friends who also appreciate a bad movie.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mt-DOdPLMLI
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2012, 10:10:58 am
Season Of The Witch

The Trailer looked really good. While watching it, I noticed that Robert Sheehan was in it who is best known as Nathan from the awesome Misfits (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv/misfits-(season-1)/msg92/#msg92).
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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2012, 10:38:32 am
Yea, his part plays the kid who wants to be a man.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 05, 2012, 10:34:55 am
Superman Returns
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Post by: Mac on March 05, 2012, 10:59:14 am
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon
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I try to be fair and balanced and thought despite my dislike for Transformer I & II, maybe, just maybe 3 was an improvement. And for me, anything better would be welcome. I was not surprised that Dark Of The Moon bored me equally if not more so than the predecessors. Not only was there so much going on the screen again, it didn’t help at all, that most of the characters were like cartoons themselves. Shia Lebouf, who is dropping from my radar of any talent to watch just looked pissed through the whole thing. Yes, we had eye candy of a beautiful woman, but none of that made any sense. Why she was there… that’s his girlfriend?

I am just going to have to give up on this. It will never appeal to me.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 05, 2012, 11:12:44 am
I'm not a fan of most of Michael Bay's stuff and that's why I have avoided the Transformers series so far. I may eventually get around to checking them out for myself. But at the moment, I have better films lined up to entertain me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2012, 07:35:19 am
American Gangster
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Post by: Mac on March 09, 2012, 07:39:06 am
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Very much a throw away movie. Not good... not bad. They promoted the 3D thing pretty heavily throughout. I thought it just screamed 'Look At Me". Kind of distracting. Not that I care, but saw more 'penises' than a p orn flick. It was kinda funny though. I just think the Harold and Kumar movies have long lost their bite. The first was good, the second less and this one was luke warm.

It's worth a dollar rent... or free.


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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 11, 2012, 10:36:46 am
Footloose (2011) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I'll have to admit, this is one of the few movies I thought could use a remake. We really enjoyed this flick. Never a dull moment. It's not the Godfather, but you will be entertained from the beginning to end. The story is updated to reflect today's generation. Otherwise the story is very close in scene stealing from the original. Still, the music, the characters, all made up for a fun night of movie watching.

Highly recommend.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtjI6OHVk00
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2012, 10:39:32 am
I never in a million years would have thought you'd give the remake 4 stars. Although I like the original, this one was and still is low on my list of things to watch. Eventually I will get around to it, but it's really low as far as priority is concerned.
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Post by: Mac on March 11, 2012, 10:59:49 am
Hey, surprised myself
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 12, 2012, 03:59:54 pm
Immortals (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I have always been a fan of mythology. Immortals has the eye candy look of 300 and the Clash of The Titans story telling. I enjoyed it despite a the very basic and some would say, thin plot. But the plot is loaded with history of myth. Several scenes look reminiscently familiar from the Hercules movies I use to watch.

The stylized fights and killing are really a beauty to behold. Not the killing, but what's presented on the screen. Over the top kick ass fighting. The last scene looked incredibly brutal. I know it's actors but damn, they are going through some physical routines.

The making of reveals so much more about myth which makes the movie that more deep.

I'll be watching this again. There is so much going on, it's hard to catch it all.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 14, 2012, 07:44:44 am
Young Adult (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I wasn’t sure what to expect out of Young Adult. I remember when it came to the theaters the trailer had an odd vibe about it. Not funny but intriguing perhaps? Then right before putting this in I check rottentomatoes and was surprised again. Critics loved it, while the general population was mostly luke warm.

Well, after sitting through Young Adult, I understand both my hesitation with a weird vibe trailer and like/dislike of the viewers. I did not like most of this movie. It’s very uncomfortable to watch what appears to be a psychotic woman going through a slow meltdown. Everyone including her new found bud Patton Oswalt, who by the way was perfectly cast here, watch as this women takes each step towards the cliff. Good acting, but not a story I would want to revisit. Just leaves a nasty taste in my mouth.

Not sure about recommending it. Charlize Theron is beautiful and ugly at the same time. Fantastic actor, but the story told is not enjoyable at all and mostly very slow.


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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 16, 2012, 06:38:50 am
The Three Musketeers (2011) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Going in I knew it was stylized. It looked like an over the top Matrix/Resident Evil styling of the classic story. Well, yes it was. The photography and camera perspectives were absolutely gorgeous. The scenes were filled with texture and detail. Too bad the story and especially the dialog would only be appealing to little kids. This clearly was not for adults and actually excruciating. I gave it half hour before I couldn’t take anymore. And dayum, it had Milla Jovovich. Even then it was very hard to believe she bought into this. I can’t even begin to recommend this.

I usually don't' comment on covers, but c'mon... this is hideous!!!

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Inkubus (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Oh good gawd. As I grow older I guess my tolerance for subversive guilty pleasure SyFy bad movies is waning. This was just plain stupid. And when I say stupid I don’t mean trashy, I mean boring. Very little happens. It stars Robert Englund which like a Dean Cain or a Clint Howard flick is an immediate flag that this is low budget and probably a bad sad movie. This only took 20 minutes to realize I had to shut it off before it wasted my brain.

Duh, can’t recommend this.

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My Week with Marilyn
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So by this time I sat through a lot of crap. My Week with Marilyn is a class movie. It had style and oozed the feelings of those old time movies with interesting directors and stars as the story. Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen captured this mood earlier this year and was fun to watch, probably because of the Twilight Zone story telling. MWWM was nothing extrodinary except for Marilyn  Monroe’s difficulties of acting and being a movie star. It’s just I was not in the mood to watch this kind of movie. I may come back to it sometime and hopefully appreciate it more. I would recommend this if your into nostalgia and period movies.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2012, 06:44:56 am
I usually don't' comment on covers, but c'mon... this is hideous!!!

Yeah, as soon as I saw the cover I immediately began (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/lol.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/lol.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/lol.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/lol.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2012, 06:46:38 am
...or a Clint Howard flick....

Hey! You leave him alone, damn it! He's awesome!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2012, 06:49:40 am

My Week with Marilyn
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I definitely want to see this one. It's in my Queue. I'm kinda disappointed at the average rating since I have high expectations for this one. Like you said, you weren't in the right frame of mind when you watched this, so I'm gonna go with that.
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Post by: Mac on March 17, 2012, 12:24:08 pm
The Descendants (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

We got to see another great film this week. Personally it was very emotional for me. I don't want to give anything away, but dayum this is a roller coaster of emotions and feelings running through this flick. Get through the first 30 minutes and then it really kicks in. This is one of those movies I am so glad I got to see, but doubt, uh maybe, ever watch again. Like I said, it hits to close to home.

Highly recommend checking The Descendants out.


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The Dead (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Like vampires, Zombie flicks have eeked out every kind of iteration theme they can think of. The Dead is actually going back to the first ever zombies. I'm not talking George Romero. I'm talking White Zombie.

It doesn't get any simpler in the Dead. Everyone for the most part is dead and walking... slowly and this follows two men going from point A to Point B in Africa. Very little talking. People may be taken back by the very slow moving zombie perspective, but what makes this interesting is that tension builds and there SO MANY always around. There is no where to hide in the African country. Also, you start to realize really quick about handling your food, water and ammo.

I liked The Dead. It's not the high power, action packed that we've been use to in recent years, but it is very gory and bloody.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 17, 2012, 06:06:20 pm
Real Steel
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2012, 09:36:55 am
Cloverfield
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2012, 01:19:09 pm
Batman: Gotham Knight
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2012, 08:55:16 pm
Cast Away
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 19, 2012, 06:33:10 pm
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 19, 2012, 09:29:33 pm
Superbad
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 20, 2012, 08:11:56 pm
Predator
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 21, 2012, 05:12:04 pm
Predator 2
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 22, 2012, 11:34:11 am
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2012, 11:56:21 am
Predators
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2012, 07:42:56 pm
JCVD
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2012, 02:10:55 pm
The Incredible Hulk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2012, 09:01:27 am
Man On Wire
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2012, 08:00:50 pm
Shoot 'Em Up
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 26, 2012, 01:04:46 pm
First Blood
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 26, 2012, 04:02:54 pm
Rambo: First Blood Part II
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2012, 11:31:49 am
The Sitter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

If you liked Jonah Hill in Superbad, then you’re probably gonna like him in The Sitter playing the same character and mindset but just a little older. Even after watching the trailer, I was convinced this was just stupid. Yea, that’s my technical, critical term. Some movies suck and basic descriptions work the best. Anyway, I liked The Sitter, because of Jonah’s character. There were some truly laugh out loud moments. More than a lot of ‘comedies’ I’ve watched.

But…

There were some really bad roll my eye’s moments too. It balanced out I guess.

And a lot has to do with the R-rated, crude humor. It was done well here… with some edginess. A lot has to do with the jaw dropping stuff that comes out of Blithe’s (Landry Bender) 10 year old mouth. And Roxanne (Kylie Bunbury) is just a cool drink of water to watch. Completely ridiculous she would hook up with Noah, but that’s just the tip of the iceberg of this whacky story.

I would love have seen the stories passed around about this script. Just so much weird s hit happens throughout the night, it’s hard to summarize in a paragraph. And there is some weird stuff. The body builder portion to visit Karl (Sam Rockwell) was a surreal scene.

And speaking of Sam Rockwell, I can only think he had just a blast playing Karl. Over-the-top.
I would not recommend spending any money on this, except maybe RedBox, but still a mindless evening of fun.


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Kylie Bunbury

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2012, 11:36:09 am
I forgot all about The Sitter. Gonna go place a Hold over at the Library. Thanks.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2012, 11:51:44 am
Rambo III
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2012, 07:20:58 pm
Rambo
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2012, 07:58:31 pm
Cowboys & Aliens
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 31, 2012, 10:39:12 pm
School Of Rock
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Post by: Mac on April 01, 2012, 05:30:21 pm
Fright Night (2011) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I paid very little, if any attention to this when it came out. Partially because of the 3D thing. Yea, Fright Night pretty much did the whole in your face 3D coming at you thing.

But the two stars for the review is nice try. This was a whole lot of nothing. Little bit of vampire, little bit of comedy, little bit of special effects, little bits of character. None excelled and I guarantee I'll have forgotten most of this film by credit role.

I honestly don't remember much about the original. I think it was just as bland. Thus scratching my head on a remake. Oh well, I wasn't offended, but then again I didn't spend a dime on it.

Honestly the gag real had at least a couple of laughs.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2012, 05:58:50 pm
I'm stick of the whole Vampire genre. Seriously, has a genre ever been used and abused as this one has in such a short time frame? You'd think the only stories to be told in print, movies, games, etc....are vampire stories. Bah!
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Post by: Mac on April 01, 2012, 06:11:44 pm
Agree. Hope the 'Zombie' genre doesn't follow suit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2012, 06:43:07 pm
Agree. Hope the 'Zombie' genre doesn't follow suit.

I don't think Zombies will ever suffer with Hair Gel and swooning girls.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2012, 08:06:41 pm
The A-Team
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Post by: Mac on April 02, 2012, 10:02:37 am
Evil Dead (1983)

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I didn't give this any stars because I'm torn. Watching Sam Raimi's Evil Dead when it first came out kinda scared the crap outta me. Raimi's direction gave the horror genre a new shot in the arm. The camera use was new and the make-up was rather gruesome and in your face and like Italian horror, the camera didn't pull away from the graphic stuff.

But watching it again after almost 30 years, I'm just about yawning. Times and expectations have changed me. The indie look is so obvious here. Watching some of the Evil Dead characters and the makeup is almost laughable. I guess the first time I was shocked. Repeat viewings you easily see how the editing was key here, because the makeup is obvious. Still the milky eyes are creepy no matter how bad the rest is. The dialog and script are really bad. Lots of times you can see characters just standing there, while the action is taking place front and center.

So to be fair with the stars, yes it scared me the first time. Today, it's completely opposite.

I believe the studio's have this in the works for a remake. One of the rare times this seems to be OK with me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 02, 2012, 10:21:08 am
I'm one of the few that isn't a gung-ho fanboy that a lot others are about Evil Dead. I never bought into the praise that always seems to be heaped on this. When I first saw it, I was mildly entertained by it. Do I think the movie itself is overrated? Absolutely. I'm a huge fan of Bruce Campbell, but this isn't the be-all, end-all of the genre that most claim it to be. Out of the franchise, I'd definitely say my favorite is Army Of Darkness, which most would rate below Evil Dead and Evil Dead II. Go figure.
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Post by: Mac on April 02, 2012, 10:33:03 am
I understand. I'm don't understand the history of the franchise but Evil Dead II and Army of Darkness became horror comedies at some point and for that reason enjoy watching those more.

You'll have those people that hold onto praise for originality. Night of Living Dead has always bored me. But I do recognize it was the first and the impact on today's movies. But for me that doesn't mean I'll like it. Happens in Music and Art as well. Lots of respect for being innovative, but that doesn't mean I'll like it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 04, 2012, 06:24:40 pm
AVP: Alien Vs. Predator Requiem
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2012, 07:09:48 pm
Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2012, 07:33:49 pm
Fast & Furious
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 07, 2012, 06:49:21 pm
Fast Five
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2012, 06:03:00 pm
The Fast and the Furious

Yep. Watched it again. I have #4 and #5 still in my possession before I have to return it back to the Library. Gonna watch them all again in the next couple of days.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2012, 09:27:07 pm
Super 8
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 10, 2012, 12:02:36 pm
2 Fast 2 Furious

I don't have Tokyo Drift on hand since I had already returned it back to the Library. Bah!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2012, 06:36:12 am
Fast & Furious
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2012, 03:36:09 pm
Fast Five (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/fast-five/msg7686/#msg7686)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2012, 06:10:00 pm
Super 8 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/super-8-(2011)/msg7755/#msg7755)
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Post by: Mac on April 13, 2012, 08:23:35 am
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Exploits Of A Hollywood Rebel

If you’re unfamiliar with Roger Corman or his work, this documentary might not be your cup of tea. I have enjoyed many of his B-Movie material…. It’s kind of a guilty pleasure for me. I really don’t seek it out today, but growing up, his movies were everywhere. And like in the docu, his reign really had it’s moments, but the dynamics of that niche industry drastically changed with Jaws and Star Wars. Roger Corman is an extremely quiet, laid back man. His character is dynamically opposite of the material he produces and directs. So in some ways, this docu is dry, because it really is about him and the what and how things were done. Not so much on the movies or the particulars.

I was stunned at the impact of his work. The actors and directors that have come out of his work is amazing. I was completely blown away with Jack Nicholson’s interview which runs throughout the whole movie. Nicholson clearly points out if it were not for the years with Corman, he would not be what he is today. At one point Nicholson gets so choked up talking about his love for the man, he just stops and sobs.

Lots of other stars take their time and give their opinions and perspective on a man that made a difference.

The documentary is not for everyone, but it certainly won’t offend. Really it's not a great documentary. I was interested in learning more about the man and his ways.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 13, 2012, 08:31:15 am
Anyone that has a passing interest in the world of Film making is sure to know the name Roger Corman who has launched a thousand careers in Hollywood. His movies are fast and cheap. Yes, if you're looking for high budget productions, keep moving along as you're not gonna find them here. I will definitely check out the Documentary for sure.

Now if they would only make a Doc on Harvey Corman, I'd be all set.
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Post by: Mac on April 13, 2012, 08:39:46 am
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Now if they would only make a Doc on Harvey Corman, I'd be all set.

Maybe one day.

I would love to see a docu on Russ Meyer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russ_Meyer) or Hershell Gordon Lewis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herschell_Gordon_Lewis).

If you want to see an unusual docu on an unusual artist, check out Crumb (http://www.amazon.com/Crumb-The-Criterion-Collection-Blu-ray/dp/B003N2CVP4/ref=sr_1_2?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1334331425&sr=1-2)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 13, 2012, 08:44:27 am
I saw Crumb years ago. Don't remember much about it though. I think I was high on McDonald's Apple Turnovers at the time.
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Post by: Mac on April 13, 2012, 08:46:42 am
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Honestly… I could give two s h i t s about this. Not only not interested in super heroes, but I knew absolutely nothing about the Green Lantern. I just happened upon this on cable last night while I was doing other things. On occasion I sat down to pay attention, but that’s about it.

The dialog was horrendous. Green Hornets story appeared to be like every other super hero movie. A man suddenly thrust upon with powers. Coincidently, some other bad guy happens to make an appearance.

I dunno, it just looked bad, sounded bad and a waste of time. Hell, I don't even know if their was a girl or love interest in it.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 13, 2012, 08:51:27 am
Even  h a r d c o r e  Comic Book fans have  s h i t  on this one. So, it's not the best when it comes to representing the Superhero genre. I have no desire to see this one.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2012, 07:24:22 pm
Harold & Kumar Go To White Castle
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 15, 2012, 10:34:27 pm
Pineapple Express
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Post by: Mac on April 16, 2012, 09:05:27 am
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The premise behind Sci-fi flick, The Darkest Hour, had me intrigued. An invasion by invisible aliens and they had one mission, which was barely presented, to take earth’s resources by any means and that meant destroying all living beings when they came across them.

They did a phenomenal job of the look of the film. Placing this in Russia was different, yet nice. But for me, they had a target audience of teens and thus focused the cast on some very young people figuring out very quickly what was going on. That alone, not only reduced the leap of faith factor, but just distracted which could have been some pretty good engaging science fiction telling. I'm not saying anything about the probability or intelligence of young people actually doing this. But in Sci-fi, there is credence to a mature group tackling this and figuring things out. Just the young stars immediately tells me.... you need a HUGE leap of faith to follow this.

The idea of invisible enemy brings some pretty cool perspectives to be explored. But they kept it as something slightly more than mindless action flick.

I did like the surprises in the story. They would be spoilers if I mentioned them and thus ruin the fun. But let’s just say, I do like the direction I’ve seen in movies of late, thinking you know what’s going to happen and something else does.


Happy  Feet Two
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Hmmmm, I don’t know what happened with this sequel to the fun original. It’s always a balancing act to present a family movie that appeals to kids and adults alike. The movie seemed to go back and forth trying to appeal fully to one group then the other. It was just odd directing, camera angles and editing, following the antics of all the different characters. Amazing CGI and finally they rendered humans in a very not creepy way. One scene was extremely realistic as far as taking you out of the animation mind.

Happy Feet Two is OK but can only recommend a rent. It is geared more for very young kids
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2012, 09:14:34 am
I vaguely remember the trailer for The Darkest Hour. I may check this out eventually. I'm kinda surprised that Happy Feet Two didn't get a better rating. I now have no desire to see it.
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Post by: Mac on April 16, 2012, 01:01:22 pm
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Sunshine is one of those highly underrated sci-fi flicks that just got passed over for whatever reason. If you have not seen it and you like space sci-fi, I think you’re gonna enjoy this. From the visionary director of 28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later, Danny Boyle takes you in a whole other epic direction. Different visual style yet again. I will say that the 3rd act not only amps up the action, but the visuals really just interrupted the pace and increased my frustration, er, uh stress. After watching it for the 3rd time, *I now get what was happening. *Except for the very end. Still don’t know what the last scene meant.

A voyage of handful of people in a spaceship the size of Manhattan headed directly towards the sun to try to re-start the dying stars process naturally brings on a series of obstacles and diversions. Key to an engaging storyline, but it’s Boyles work with the actors and characters that make this a solid film.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 17, 2012, 09:17:28 pm
Captain America
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 18, 2012, 06:27:48 pm
Thor
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2012, 08:53:59 pm
Tenacious D: The Complete Masterworks
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2012, 08:57:44 pm
Tenacious D In The Pick Of Destiny
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 27, 2012, 08:16:16 pm
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 28, 2012, 07:32:41 pm
Adventureland
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2012, 07:10:10 am
The Matrix
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Post by: Mac on April 29, 2012, 06:47:46 pm
Retreat (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Essentially a 3 person ensemble play. A psychological thriller. I'm not sure what to take from it. This like the other films we watched this weekend, is NOT a feel good film. It starts off bleak and get's worse. Don't get me wrong. Great acting and story that's not only engaging, but has you guessing. The last minute will hit you from left field. Jaws a dropping.

At first I thought this had similarities to the awful Bug with Ashley Judd, Michael Shannon and Harry Connick Jr. But this is different and keeps you on edge enough to have to stay to the end to see what happens.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbt_qFSiKvk
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Post by: Mac on April 29, 2012, 06:59:01 pm
Take Shelter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Yet another psychological thriller? Uh, no... but is a psychological themed movie that moved at a snails pace. I won't give anything away here, but just the scene of opening a 'door' took about 10 minutes. Again, it was good acting and but this time the characters weren't all that engaging. Even the 'crazy' or 'truth seer' character. Several times I wanted to turn it off. Very bleak with an ultra slow build. And again, the last minute throws a huge twist into the whole context. 

Not bad.... maybe a rent for a slow afternoon.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5U4TtYpKIc
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Post by: Mac on April 29, 2012, 07:04:28 pm
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

I'll be honest, I didn't actually sit down to watch this. My wife had it on while I was working in the kitchen. I heard everything and took moments to watch. Thus I can't rate it fairly.

But what I did hear, echoed what I've heard about it. Manipulative with a very sappy story. Lot's of editorial by the child lead actor which to me, sounded like a kid was reading a kids book to kids. Ugh. I sat down to watch the last 15 and was not impressed at what I heard or saw. Very forgettable and now I'm starting to wonder about Tom Hanks and his decisions for his latest projects.

Maybe a rent if you got nothing better going on.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2012, 09:53:05 am
The Matrix Reloaded
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2012, 04:58:13 pm
The Matrix Revolutions
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Post by: Mac on April 30, 2012, 06:00:34 pm
I've got the collection of Matrx and need to break it out again. I've only seen the anime episode once.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 01, 2012, 06:39:20 pm
Tower Heist
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Post by: Mac on May 01, 2012, 07:02:34 pm
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Standard heist movie. Not sure it stand out in any way from all the rest. Not a bad action flick where the plan goes to s hit, friends cross you and you wonder how he'll get out of this. Well it is a clever wrap up. Rent it at least and enjoy the ride. I really enjoy Giovanni Ribisi and his characters, but I did have a tough time buying into his tough guy act. He really is a scrawny little man. Anyway, over the top believability, but fun ride.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2012, 07:42:45 pm
Bad Teacher
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 03, 2012, 06:18:28 pm
Paul
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 04, 2012, 05:35:34 pm
Attack The Block
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Post by: Mac on May 04, 2012, 07:04:47 pm
Interested in your thoughts on this one.
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Post by: Mac on May 04, 2012, 07:48:50 pm
 Haywire (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Talk about a major let down. With an outstanding cast, this just did not deliver. I will say Gina Carano is easy on the eyes and did enjoy watching her, but she is not an actress by any stretch. Just look up pics of her real job as MMA. This was just a dry spy thriller that bored the crap outta me. The editing sucked. Some places the pace was frenetic, other times, just overly long shots of the same thing.

The music blew. Sounded like an old 80's film or trying to capture the sound of the Ocean's series.

Between the long dry droughts of drama, a fight would break out. They were brutal, but very unnatural. Like watching pro wrestling. You throw this punch, then move here... blah, blah, blah.

Also I don't want to supply the trailer. That trailer ruined any kind of surprise in the watching the movie.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 04, 2012, 07:51:19 pm
I have Haywire on hold at the Library. Can't read any of what you wrote till after I see it, but I'm not encouraged by the 2 Star rating you gave it. *Sigh*
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 06, 2012, 01:03:05 pm
MiB: Men in Black
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Post by: Mac on May 07, 2012, 07:04:05 pm
The Hangover II (0 Stars)

I'm one of the few that thought very little of The Hangover. Way to much praise. Anyway, if I was a big fan of the original, I would be so ****ed about watching, let alone paying, for the same exact story. What a freakin rip. just a stupid waste of time an celluloid. Definitely not funny the second time around.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 07, 2012, 07:34:47 pm
The Hangover II (0 Stars)

I'm one of the few that thought very little of The Hangover. Way to much praise. Anyway, if I was a big fan of the original, I would be so ****ed about watching, let alone paying, for the same exact story. What a freakin rip. just a stupid waste of time an celluloid. Definitely not funny the second time around.

Your review sums up everything I've heard about Part II. I do like the first one and somewhere down inside me I want to see this one. But I am in no rush to do so.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 08, 2012, 11:34:15 am
The Bourne Identity
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 09, 2012, 07:40:43 am
The Bourne Supremacy
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 09, 2012, 02:50:48 pm
Crank
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2012, 06:05:44 pm
Léon: The Professional
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 11, 2012, 11:45:48 am
The Bourne Ultimatum
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 12, 2012, 11:11:54 am
Crank 2: High Voltage
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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2012, 12:21:39 pm
The Innkeepers

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I can't really rate it because I was very tired the evening I turned it on. But sitting there for 1/2 hour and absolutely nothing happening, just bored me and test my patience. Some say it's patience you need to get goodness from this. But sorry, I don't have that kind of patience and can't see this worth sitting through.

I'd say skip.


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A 1998 film, but I like enough to watch on occasion. Caught it again last night. It's get several good cameo's. It's a different kind of heist. In the middle of an steady hard rain, where the dam is overflowing and flooding the town. This movie is 99% wet. I honestly would love to know how they did all the scenes which are flood. The characters are fun and Morgan Freeman as the bad guy is lots of fun. Betty White is a hoot, Ed Asner, Dennis Quaid, and the beautiful Minnie Driver.  For some good mindless action, check out Hard Rain



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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2012, 12:30:38 pm
Another Earth

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Another movie I did not give my full attention too. I mean we watched a half hour of it and again very little happening except news snippets of another earth coming into orbit of Earth. There was maybe 25 words spoken in that half hour from the characters. The camera work see-ucked, with the some shaky cam and plain uninteresting scenes. Gawd, sometimes I hate art films. I don't think this was a Sci-Fi flick, but more of a what-if flick. Nonetheless, I do have little patience to sit through these slow ass films. Dazzle me folks.


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Yikes, hit the jackpot with crapola movies this weekend. Honestly I saw this sitting on the shelf in the library with Bradley Cooper's mug and thought my wife might like this. This was horrible. This looked and felt like a students work. The camera work was of soap opera quality and the story was just mind numbingly stupid. This took approx 15 minutes to determine fail. Since I got it for my wife I had to wait for her to call it quits. I would have done it after 5 minutes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 13, 2012, 12:31:49 pm
I've been meaning to check out Hard Rain since it came out in the theater!

D'oh!!

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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2012, 12:36:35 pm
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I want to like the Underworld movies. The first one was good, the second just seemed more of the same. This 4th one, to me, was no longer Underworld, but a Resident Evil wannabe. With today's technology, you would think they would have mastered the Lycan look. No matter what, they stand out as half assed CGI. And when they use real effects, they look even more robotic.

All I could focus on was the awesome rubber outfit Kate Beckinsale displays.
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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2012, 12:37:20 pm
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I've been meaning to check out Hard Rain since it came out in the theater!

D'oh!!

You just may like it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 13, 2012, 12:43:01 pm
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This 4th one, to me, was no longer Underworld...

This is the 4th one? Where have I been? In my defense, I lost interest in the series after the 2nd one so I never cared to follow any news after the fact pertaining to the series.
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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2012, 12:48:31 pm
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This is the 4th one? Where have I been? In my defense, I lost interest in the series after the 2nd one so I never cared to follow any news after the fact pertaining to the series.

I'm kinda the same way. I had to look it up...

Wiki

Underworld    September 19, 2003
Underworld: Evolution    January 20, 2006
Underworld: Rise of the Lycans    January 23, 2009
Underworld: Awakening   January 20, 2012
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Post by: Mac on May 15, 2012, 01:23:40 pm
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Rare Exports garnered some murmuring and buzz when it originally came out of nowhere. And by nowhere, I mean Finland. Finland is not exactly known for their films. What are they known for… Vodka? Anyway, I honestly forgot about this thinking my library would never get this. Wrongo smegma breath. Suddenly it appeared before my eyes.

The trailer looked cool, so I was, er, cautiously excited. I mean, I thought the same thing about Trollhunter… which yes, was unique, but turned out boring.

Rare Exports is a beautifully shot flick. One of the sharpest I’ve seen on a regular DVD. The direction and editing was superb. The characters were unique and interesting, in particular the kid and one of the mysterious characters (I can’t talk about or it gives away a spoiler).

Rare Exports is a bizarre, yet wildly fresh and refreshing storytelling/perspective of Santa. Yes THAT Santa Claus and his Elves. From the beginning I was sucked into this mystery that was unfolding about a fairy tale character we’ve all grown up with. 95% of the movie is in Finnish with sudden bursts of clear as a bell English discussion.

For some reason I had the idea this was a horror movie. It’s not. It’s more of a fairy tale coming to a dark reality.
 
But…

… Unfortunately the last 20 minutes suddenly takes a turn and pegs out the ol crap-o-meter. Characters suddenly figure everything out, act on it in very quick fashion and then the last 3 minutes justify the title of the film. Not that I was wondering, but they put a nice little bow on it despite it having nothing to do with the previous 1-1/2 hours.

Not a big loss. I enjoyed most of it and recommend it for something different.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pH9IyqTk1E
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 15, 2012, 01:27:57 pm
Never heard of it. The movie or this place called Finland.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 15, 2012, 01:29:26 pm
The Bourne Ultimatum (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-bourne-ultimatum/msg8602/#msg8602)

Yup...again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 17, 2012, 07:57:40 pm
MiiB: Men in Black II
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Post by: Mac on May 18, 2012, 06:30:43 am
Chronicle (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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The trailer for Chronicle is a well crafted and instantly raises some interest in the film. It helps that the idea behind the film is refreshing as well. It’s the simple idea of what-if… teenage boys suddenly acquired super-hero powers? What would they do? Good things? Bad things? Go way beyond their mean and do some over the top stuff? Keep it a secret? All these things are explored. The added interest here is one of the kids, Dane DeHaan as Andrew, lives in a very nasty home situation and is abused. So we know mentally he is unstable. He is also very annoying, as is the other lead Alex Russell at Matt. Michael Jordan as Steve seems to be the only normal kid here.

But… we do see some hefty transformation of character as the story unfolds.

Some of the scenes reminded me of my dreams about flying. Some of the scenes were just cartoonish. They did rather eye popping special effects in many shots, but had a hard time maintaining that and some scenes are obvious cranes and wires.

Anyway, this film could have got maybe 4 stars, but I gave it 2 for found footage… Arghhhhh – enough already. I cannot tell you how my face fell as the opening scene sets up the whole ‘I’m going to film everything” scenario.

There are two major cons for Chronicle... I detest shaky cam. I’ve thought about it more. Maybe, just maybe I could handle the shaky cam if they weren’t so deliberate on amateur holding the camera. They can’t focus on the subject in the lens, they wander for no reason. They zoom in and out for no reason. None of this is natural. Our eyes and mind don’t do any of this. They keep a balance. So now directors are using the tool (camera lens) to put you in the moment. Well the moment is way too long and distracts away from the intent of the film.

Secondly, I detest the idea of someone filming everything including watching someone needing help, or dying or getting their own ass kicked. This counters the balance of giving the believability of being there/found footage perspective.

I'd say rent. Rottentomatoes has a generally good overall rating. So don't let my bias against Shaky cam skew this too much.  ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Exr5B8DCH4w
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 18, 2012, 06:37:27 am
I put this on hold at the Library based on the good reviews from sites and Entertainment Weekly. I have a long wait though. It will be awhile before I get my copy to check out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 18, 2012, 12:02:37 pm
Where The Wild Things Are
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 19, 2012, 12:43:02 pm
The Losers
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2012, 07:49:25 am
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2012, 05:05:40 pm
Resident Evil
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2012, 06:21:34 pm
The Grey (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Maybe The Grey is because it's about wolf's and their grey? Maybe because the film is very bleak with little color and everything is black or white... and grey. I don't know. I'm just wondering what the title meant. I kind of liked it. I'm glad I didn't pay for it, but nonetheless it was fun to sit through. Nothing really new and you could see story lines coming a mile away, but still the adventure was fun.

A bunch of rough necks working in the Alaskian wilderness get leave and are flying home when the plane crashes and leaves 7 men alive. They just happen to land in an area dominated by wolf packs and since they are very territorial and don't know man, they are on the offensive. The rest of the story is of survival. Yep, it's that simple. Some character interaction, but beyond that, a simple story of survival in very wintery conditions against some blood thirsty wolves.

I say at least a rent and this time of year, will make thinking about winter that much more enjoyable.

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I don't care who was associated with this. This was just a lazy-ass movie. A far stretch of trying to pull a demon or the devil out of some numbers. Really lame. This was not scary in the least. Lots of shadows and what did I just see kind of scenes. They staple together a story that they  try to put a nice bow on at the end. And the end... good lord. Shoddy ass laziness. We've seen it all before, but in much better ways.

I give it 1/2 star for Wendy Glen. Just looking at her. Nothing else.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2012, 06:46:30 pm
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Your review actually MAKES me want to see this!!
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2012, 07:01:45 pm
Ok. Just make sure you watch it before 12-12-12, or who knows what unspeakable demon things will happen.

Bhwaaaa-haaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaa
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2012, 07:27:34 pm
The Devil Inside (0 Stars)

I'm watching this as i am writing and can't believe I still have it on. It is that bad. Yet ANOTHER religious spin on the devil. He's popular this weekend.

Found footage... AGAIN. Lame****inglame. About as scary as 'Scary Movie'

I've only got it on because they say the ending is horrendous.... Bad. I gotta see.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2012, 07:30:44 pm
Ed Wood "bad"? (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/thumbsup-1.gif)
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2012, 07:30:57 pm
Ok, everyone was right... That blew donkey balls
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2012, 07:32:09 pm
Not Ed Wood bad. I actually can laugh at that stuff. This is bad in just about every way
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2012, 08:38:54 pm
Resident Evil: Apocalypse
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 21, 2012, 06:55:16 pm
Play It To The Bone
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Post by: Mac on May 22, 2012, 12:04:43 pm
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Dustin Hoffman
Edward Burns
Andy Garcia
Rachel Weisz
Paul Giammatti

Before last night, I had never even heard of Confidence. This movie is just packed with a great cast of characters. Even the secondary string of characters are all recognizable and unique.
If you like sting movies like the Oceans movies or the Sting, I think you’re gonna really like Confidence. This is not a movie you take a pee break or get distracted. It’s very complicated, chaotic and frenetic. Not so much to loose it. Though I kinda did once on them explaining one of the cons.

Anyway, there is humor sprinkled throughout the intricate plot. It’s a fun ride. Most of the fun is trying to figure out when the Con is being worked for the Mark, or for the viewing audience. I have to say that Dustin Hoffman as the badass crime boss is really pushing believability. Nonetheless he is fun to watch work his words.

Definitely a rent.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 22, 2012, 07:40:17 pm
Rocky Balboa
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 23, 2012, 01:39:39 pm
Män som hatar kvinnor (Aka The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo)
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Post by: Mac on May 24, 2012, 09:25:41 am
Area 51

I’m not even going to rate this schlocky sci-fi/horror flick. It would be misleading. It’s bad in a so bad, it’s good for MST3K kind of way. Though it came out of the After Dark Original series, which does produce some good stuff, this is just funny cluster rip-off of so many movies. It’s just missing some T & A and cussing. Horrible creature effects (what’s with the walking sticks, the eyes and teeth?). I busted out laughing at the good friendly Alien. And yet a third Alien that in it’s normal state is some guy in only skin and veins without a face.

A mess with some incredibly bad acting.

Only for late night… drunk or high

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 24, 2012, 11:02:22 am
Hellboy
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Post by: Mac on May 24, 2012, 01:40:16 pm
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Hellboy

I have not watched these but thought I'd post of 'em for you if you have the time

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 24, 2012, 01:42:11 pm
Thanks dude. I'll check em out in a bit and give ya a review.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 24, 2012, 09:05:04 pm
Pearl Jam Twenty
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2012, 10:24:26 am
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2012, 07:39:05 pm
Resident Evil: Extinction
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2012, 05:54:46 pm
Resident Evil: Afterlife
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Post by: Mac on May 27, 2012, 07:43:20 am
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Hammer Studio's was founded in 1939 but did not really create until the 1950's, producing some very classic and iconic Gothic films. Some horror. They ceased production around the 1980's. Recently they restarted with various backing, with full intent to recapture what made them so successful.

The Woman in Black is not the first film by Hammer. Actually it's the 5th, but by far the most successful. I think Daniel Radcliff helped in associating a star to these relatively unknown films. Hammer produced 4 others since 2008. I've seen one, Wake Wood, but was not impressed.

The Woman In Black is dripping with long forgotten creepiness. It builds so wonderfully to some very chilling moments. I counted three times, scenes that ran a chill through me and my hair stood up. It just sucked me in so well. The movie is rich with black, whites and shadows. With crystal clear colors that paint each scene with a mood. Daniel Radcliff's character is rather laid back but with the help of Cirian Hinds as his accomplish to stop the Woman In Black, for unknown reasons, but evident in his actions.

I think Woman In Black does a great job of taking the gothic feel and updating current viewers expectations. The era is the early 1900's but the characters would be perfectly fine in today's world.

For some good ol scary fun, check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXXRS3Kghh4
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Post by: Mac on May 27, 2012, 07:49:08 am
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I give This Means War 2 stars because there were a few times I laughed out loud. But honestly this is a very dumb movie with leave your brain at the door mentality. I wasn't insulted with the dumb crap, just rolled my eyes. I doubt I'll ever watch it again.

I've never been a fan of Reese Witherspoon. She does what she always does in these movies and she seems to be herself... no surprise. This is probably a good date movie, because of the girl and guy stars. Just don't expect to be talking about it after it's over.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io3Rf21ZxIM
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Post by: Mac on May 27, 2012, 07:57:42 am
Blackthorn (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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Blackthorn is Butch Cassidy. So that's the proposition here is that both Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid survived the shoot out, escaped and left for Bolivia. Only it's 30 years later with Butch Cassidy's story. Through a variety of flashbacks we see what happened to the Sundance Kid.

Becoming James Blackthorn to hide is identity is only the tip of the iceberg. It becomes very clear through the movie, Butch Cassidy understands his past mistakes are still pursuing him and he's tired of it. Regretting so many things. Don't compare this to the original movie. No comparisons what so ever. This is pure drama.

Taking place in Bolivia, I was blown away at the scenery. This has been one of the more crystal clear DVD's I've watched in a long time. It looked HD. The whole episode of the chase on the largest Salt Flat in the world was truly fascinating.

I'm not a huge fan of cowboy movies, but since I really liked Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid, I thought this would be fun to check out. It is. I highly recommend picking it up.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2012, 08:01:41 am
I've never heard of Hammer Studios.

I have zero interest in This Means War. I thought the premise was stupid the first time I saw the trailer when it came out.

I will check out Blackthorn for sure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2012, 01:00:05 pm
X-Men: First Class
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2012, 08:34:23 pm
Bad Boys
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 28, 2012, 11:58:53 am
Bad Boys II
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2012, 11:28:16 am
Charlie's Angels
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Post by: Mac on May 29, 2012, 01:36:57 pm
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Charlies Angels

If you like this, you might like This Means War. Same Director, same feel.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2012, 07:25:39 pm
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2012, 07:27:46 pm
If you like this, you might like This Means War. Same Director, same feel.

See Charlie's Angels (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/charlie's-angels-(2000)/msg9172/#msg9172) review to determine the likelihood I will be watching This Means War.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 30, 2012, 11:47:52 am
The Fifth Element
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 30, 2012, 10:02:38 pm
Enemy Of The State
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 31, 2012, 06:38:15 pm
Rush Hour
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2012, 12:12:32 pm
Collateral
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Post by: Mac on June 01, 2012, 01:22:45 pm
A little back story before my review of FEAST and its sequels. I was first introduced to FEAST while it was being made through a reality show called Project Green Light that was show casing first time directors and the business of film making. Backed by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, this was a pretty good show. This was season 3 (2005) and I invested by time into the show. So when the movie actually hit the theaters I was psyched to see the product.

So it was a point in my life where I pretty much could do what I wanted and so on occasion a friend and fellow film buff, we would hit the midnight shows on occasion. FEAST is perfect movie for late night, especially with a drink or two.

FEAST is a horror-comedy. Lots of blood, guts and gore. Plenty of humor. Plenty of scares. But the best thing I love about FEAST is the unexpected. Suddenly something will happen and it takes a minute to go whoa, figure out what just happened and move on. Plenty of moments like that. I would give this an extreme caution because of all the crazy s h I t that happens. If you like that kind of stuff, then this is for you.

FEAST happens all in one night, in one place. A hick bar out in the middle of nowhere. There is little time for character development and I love the way John Gulager handles this. For brief moments he captures the character and spells out all the info you need to know about them. It’s funny. Believe me. So immediately the action kicks in with no stopping until the credits role. With a whole host of unique characters, something is always going on… mostly trying to figure out each other and at the same time battle the monsters.
It was fun to see the comparison of what I remember in the making of Project Green Light and the final result on the screen. John Gulager did a fantastic job, based on so many limitations, including being a first time director.
PS: John was fortunate enough to be able to include his seasoned and famous uncle Clu Gulager

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FEAST 2: Sloppy Seconds is the obvious follow up. Honestly, until the DVD came out, I didn’t know this was even being considered, let alone, made and released. FEAST II begins exactly where One left off. With many of characters gone from the first film, new ones are introduced and they are just as, if not more outrageous than the original. FEAST 2 is a direct-to-DVD sequel and probably for good reason. It’s not nearly as good, if you can call midnight movies good. They tried, I mean tried hard to make you jaw drop and you do. FEAST 2 happens mostly outdoors and in the daylight, which helps reduce a little bit of that Déjà vu feeling. Still plenty of blood and gore, but this time some skin. The humor is still present, but not as good the first time around. Again, the unexpected is what makes this movie fun. There are some scenes where you say, oh no they din’t. But yes, they did just do that.

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FEAST 3: Happy Endings is the final nail in the coff… er, uh trilogy. Again, had no idea about 2 and thus never knew about Happy Endings either. The third starts exactly where 2 left… again. It follow the same formula as the previous 2 with blood and gore, humor and skin. This time a good part is below the ground in sewers and lots of dark shots. It was OK at best. And from the ending, you just don’t know about another sequel. I doubt it, but hey, I doubted ever thinking sequels to the original were happening.

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In my defense of watching these guility pleasure cheesyass horror monster movies, it was only $5 for the 3-Pak at Wally World. Typically I could care less about extra’s but these were maybe just as entertaining as the bad movies.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2012, 01:30:18 pm
I loooooooooooved Project Greenlight!! I watched all 3 seasons and still have Season 1 and 2 on DVD. They never released Season 3 on DVD that I know of. I thought that John Gulager was the weirdest person to ever get a shot at making a movie and by far the most interesting to watch. The first two "Directors" in Season 1 and 2 were a bore.

Anyway....

I too was looking forward to seeing Feast when it came out. But the movie never got a wide release, so it never opened down here. Kinda strange that they would release the movie on DVD, but not Season 3. Bah! I want to complete my  f u c k i n g  set!!!
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Post by: Mac on June 01, 2012, 03:48:56 pm
You are spot on with Gulager. Weird, but a great show.

I either missed the first two seasons, or can't remember them.

Speakig of these kinds of shows, did you ever see the Cirque Du Soleil series The Fire Within?

Check out Feast, just so you can complete the circle of life
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2012, 03:55:48 pm
Never saw Cirque Du Soleil series The Fire Within or even heard about it till now. I checked on Amazon to see if they have Season 3 on DVD. The first two seasons came with the movie as well.
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Post by: Mac on June 01, 2012, 04:03:55 pm
I'm a huge fan of Cirque. From the actual acts, the sets, and especially the music.

The show was fascinating. From the creation of just one of the shows to gathering athletes and turning them into circus performers, to designing the act, to designing the set props. It was just a camera following around and putting it all together. They captured a lot of people and the emotions. I don't recall them focusing on the music much.

Highly recommend Fire Within... If its available.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2012, 06:11:42 am
Heat (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2012, 07:22:20 pm
go (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 03, 2012, 12:43:47 pm
Black Hawk Down (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 04, 2012, 09:00:18 am
Pearl Harbor (2001)

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Post by: Mac on June 06, 2012, 12:42:06 pm
The Eclipse (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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I picked this up thinking I might have a connection. A man who lost his wife 2 years earlier to cancer, going through life best he can. The 2nd time in weeks that I’ve watched Ciarán Hinds (The Woman In Black). Wonderful actor that has a very distinctive face and portrays the average man with great depth. He still has to deal with his step-father which views the death in very different perspectives from each other. There are elements of horror, but this is not a horror movie. All in all, it’s just OK at best. A drama that moves very slow. Aidan Quinn has aged well and does a respectable job of AH of third wheel in a love triangle.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 06, 2012, 06:37:21 pm
Kingdom Of Heaven (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2012, 07:17:20 pm
Girlfight (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2012, 06:08:03 pm
H a n c o c k  (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 09, 2012, 11:13:24 am
L.A. Confidential (1997)

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Post by: Mac on June 10, 2012, 08:48:50 am
Safe House (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

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Now THAT's entertainment. A gritty cat and mouse game of CIA, rogue agents and other nationalities on the hunt. Ryan Reynolds and Denzel Washington are excellent. Safe House brings some of the best fight scenes I've ever seen. They look so real in the sense of a fight from the perspective of a man (Reynolds) who kinda knows how to fight but realizes very quickly it survival and kill or be killed. The chases are excellent as well. So many surprises. While we've probably seen the story told before, it is just so well constructed and interesting. I would maybe compare it to the Bourne movies.

A minor distraction is the use of the hand held camera. Not shaky cam, but shots that can get a little irritating.

I highly recommend checking this out. Lots of fun, twists, gun play, action. Excellent.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2012, 08:59:45 am
Adding this to Queue. Thanks.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2012, 08:06:16 pm
The Boondock Saints (1999)

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Post by: Mac on June 11, 2012, 07:08:50 am
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When John Carter was released to the theaters it fizzled… quickly. I don’t know if it was word of mouth or media influence. Bad Marketing perhaps? Then when huge costs are associated with a flick, it becomes a bomb… a major bomb. Then I heard media was having a field day just slamming it despite whether it was good or not. John Carter for various reasons became a target of ridicule. Maybe it was targeted because it was Disney… or Andrew Stanton because of his excellent work with Wall-E.

So is John Carter any good? For me… No. I haven’t read the Edger Rice Burroughs book, and can’t compare, but the movie was just not my cup of tea. I like my sci-fi, but I’ve determined the kid focused sci-fi, leans too much into fantasy and those don’t do anything for me. When Aliens that look pretty far removed from humans… talk, it just becomes fantasy for me (The exception maybe Avatar). John Carter’s new found ability to super jump was weird, let alone his occasional spurts of super strength. The pet bulldog/gila monster was silly. To me, these things cut it down several notches. I really couldn’t get into the story, dialog or various characters.

The sets were gorgeous. The mix of late 1800’s genre with high tech sci-fi was interesting in a Jules Verne kind of way. The video was bright, super crisp and candy for the eyes. Lynn Collins is just so easy on the eyes. If she didn’t talk, I would still be happy. She is beautiful here in native costume. But that’s about it. I won’t be watching this again.

Despite my bias, I do not see reasons why this was slammed. I would think if you’re into these fantasy type of films like Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, Narnia, etc, John Carter would just add to repertory of films. It’s probably worth a rent for those who like this genre of film
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 11, 2012, 07:11:16 am
I'm on the fence about seeing this. I had no intention of seeing it in the theater, so my decision not to had nothing to do with all the bad press. If I don't have any other movies to watch and this is available, I will check it out then. For now, this isn't close to a priority for me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 11, 2012, 06:50:12 pm
Dark City (1998)

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Post by: Mac on June 14, 2012, 07:09:39 am
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Edward Furlong of Terminator 2 fame and the beautiful Cerina Vincent star in possibly one of the worst movies I’ve seen to date.

The director, Andrew Lauer not new to the industry, made this incredibly horrible film.

Believe it or not, this is a quote from Wiki. “He also had triple duties directing/writing/producing the short film The Teuhacan Project, about deaf children defying incredible obstacles in rural Mexico. Brad Pitt executive produced. Adrien Brody narrated the film with Esai Morales; Prior to that he received critical acclaim for his feature film Intermedio, a supernatural thriller starring Edward Furlong and Amber Benson.”

This is not so bad, it’s good. It’s bad. In every conceivable part of movie making. I would dare say, it looks like something from Ed Wood.

The acting is just amazingly horrific. The camera work is all over the place, but the thing that struck me as super odd is the editing. There are so many scenes where you have WTF moments.

The special effects are seriously bad. A very funny bad effect was when one of the women get cut in half. So the upper half is propped up at the waist. The other’s rush to her, behind her. Behind because it’s obvious she is in this box rig to make it look like the ground. Well the box, er, ground moves with her a little. AND the two stars behind her are also at waist height. Very funny.

The badness is very apparent within the first few minutes. I’ve got a pretty good eye on this stuff and typically would have turned it off. For some reason I kept with it to see how bad it gets. It delivers in badness all the way through. I give myself a pat on the back for sticking through it. I was able to laugh a couple of times… because it was so bad and wondered what it must have been like making the flick.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2012, 07:16:26 am
10 No Stars. That's a first. I GOTS to see this!!!!! Never heard of the movie till now.

It's hard to turn off anything with Cerina in it though. Me love her long time!
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Post by: Mac on June 14, 2012, 08:29:39 am
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It's hard to turn off anything with Cerina in it though. Me love her long time!

And the only thing nice in the flick is how tight her shirt is and that it slowly becomes less and less through the movie. Nothing graphic, but it is terribly sexy.

Oh by the way, I did see a trailer to a movie that could equal if not surpass this badness. I’ll look for it and see. It’s called Birdemic
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Post by: Mac on June 15, 2012, 06:57:36 am
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I saw the trailer to A Lonely Place to Die a very long time ago and it struck a chord in me to try to watch it. Then Nothing. It went off the radar screen. I saw no theater release. No advertising. Nothing even for the DVD release. It just happened to pop up on my library search.

It was as every bit as good as I expected. Just a tight, well crafted action thriller. The photography is amazing, not only in capturing the scope of the Scottish Highlands, but getting up close and personal to the characters.

My wife did not enjoy it as much as me. She couldn’t understand why the 5 characters would get themselves involved with the child and go through what they did. Then again, she finds Sex In The City totally believable. Gahhhh. I found the story very believable. Even the one scene where the guy pretty much sacrifices himself. There is a deep psychological reason he did it.

I highly recommend this one.

I’ll borrow from one of the Amazon reviewers that encapsulates the movie very well.

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A LONELY PLACE TO DIE is an intense action thriller buoyed by breathtaking climbing sequences and quick-paced action sequences. Set in the gorgeous Scottish Highlands, the film follows five mature adults on a climbing vacation who stumble upon a little girl buried underground, obviously a victim of kidnapping. Their decision to rescue the child propels them into a cat and mouse confrontation with the deadly and relentless kidnappers.

What elevates this sharp indie is the characters are believable and empathic, even if we don't get a lot of background we do care about them and want them to come out on top. Director Julian Gilbey expertly keeps the tension intact and elicits strong performances from his talented cast.
Melissa George (TRIANGLE, BAG OF BONES) gives an outstanding committed performance as the feisty but sensitive Allison. Ed Speelis is good as the roguish Ed who experiences a sudden and required maturity. Sean Harris oozes chilli9ng venom as evil Mr. Kidd and Karel Roden quietly compelling as Darko, the negotiator. Eammon Walker and Alec Newman round out the cast. Holly Boyd is effective as the kidnapped child.
A LONELY PLACE TO DIE is dark and an ultimate downer. Its also an expertly filmed thriller worthy of more attention.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2012, 07:53:44 am
Sounds interesting. Will definitely check this out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 16, 2012, 07:58:17 pm
Taken (2008)

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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2012, 06:00:34 pm
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Whe I saw this trailer, I got interested. Well, today, I'm still confused to what happened. Heartless is known as a horror film. I took it as a psychological horror mind trip. I don't want to give spoilers, but things are not what they are portrayed. I guess this is the point of the movie. I found it hard to follow. The editing was kind of choppy, people were introduced then never seen again. The ending I was slack jawed. What just happened.

Oh well, for an indie film, the production was excellent. But the direction is weak and the story to out there.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGcPi6bWv_k
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2012, 07:49:24 pm
Domino (2005)

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Post by: Mac on June 18, 2012, 05:58:55 am
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The Last Lovecraft
is horror comedy much in the vein as Shaun of the Dead. The two main characters live together , but tend to just get on each other’s nerve instead of the buddy scenario. It tires very hard to come off as casual humor, but I found it forced. I did smile a couple of times, but only because of my geekiness. I think many a casual viewer would find this just silly. For an independent film I thought the special effects and make-up were good enough. I mean this is a spoof and it’s laughing at itself which is a good thing for the movie to do. This doesn’t have to go straight to MST3K. It’s goofy enough without it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOWtgLneeNE
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2012, 06:41:51 pm
Up in the Air (2009)

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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2012, 06:31:24 am
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I saw the trailer to Growth sometime back on another independent film release and thought it might be good to check out. I love my library system. They seem to be able to get most of these oddball things from various libraries around the country. Growth is another horror perspective on the infection or contagion angle. The directors tried to weave in an emotional back story to tie it all together. It was OK, but either it wasn’t well told or just not that strong enough for me to care.

For a low budget horror flick, Growth has high production values. There are some very creepy scenes that will just make you cringe and I don’t think you’ll soon forget. I actually started to think stuff was crawling on my skin while watching this.

Watching the making of, impressed me even more on how talent, energy and resources put this together.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GeiPMIC8D-o
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2012, 06:47:14 am
Your Library is able to pull stuff from around the Country? Lucky. My branch will only pull from within' county limits, which I think is 27 branches.
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2012, 09:29:37 am
Yep. I realize my library system is very cool. I think the farthest library I've borrowed from was New York or Nevada.

I think I mentioned they search college libraries too.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2012, 07:32:12 pm
S.W.A.T. (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 20, 2012, 08:37:32 pm
Contagion (2011)

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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2012, 07:27:39 am
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There are a lot of dumb movies made and I would dare say if not at the least half of them are completely worthless. A given for me and it’s up to whether I should  stick around to watch the whole movie… or not. Wanderlust did something last night that hasn’t happened in a long time. Then again, I don’t watch Adam Sandler movies and I’m pretty sure this is the feeling I would get viewing those.

I detested Wanderlust.

From the very beginning, the tone of humor is not only bad, but a head scratcher. Just about every attempt at humor, I was thinking “So you thought that was funny did you.” I like Paul Rudd. He’s done some extremely funny stuff and even the stuff that was not good, was bearable. There is one scene with Paul Rudd, I believe was improvising for minutes on end and it was excruciating.

Jenifer Aniston. Same character, different movie. Ugh. Just stop already.

Wanderlust is about Paul and Jenifer Aniston, city folks that due to hard times… that have to move from the city to his awful brothers house, but instead run across this hippie community. Just imagine every conceivable hippie/commune joke possible and they put it in here. Yes, jokes from the 80’s. So yes, the writing is very lame, but to sit and watch rather good comedians trying to pull these scenes off was offensive. I wasn’t groaning. I was cringing.

While we are teased again with Aniston showing her breasts, we get nothing… again. But you do get to see a whole screen of old, fat, completely n aked folks running in slow motion... directly at you.

I will never watch this again and couldn’t even recommend a watch to my enemies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2012, 07:36:41 am
Strange, but this is the first time I'm even hearing this movie exists.
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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2012, 07:49:34 am
What I found strange too was rotten tomatoes showing the critics liked this comedy more than the audience. Not by much, but the percentages are usually flipped for this kind of thing.

The trailer sparked my interest, but this is a classic case where the it’s all very deceiving.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxKQHc-tqNM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2012, 07:53:25 am
I NEVER go by what a "Critic" says. More often than not they are nothing more than shills for Studios. I'd take your reivews more serious over all the Eberts and Travers and Reeds of the world. But I still think you dress like a nerd though. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/ThumbsUp.gif)
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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2012, 02:44:53 pm
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I guess I've only seen bits and pieces of Trading Places over the years, that being said, I'd probably would have liked it a lot more during it's original release. When Eddie Murphy was at the top of his game. Trading Places looks really dated to me. The humor is typical John Landis. I thought Dan Dan Aykroyd's character was WAY over the top in snobby young rich man. More goofy and distracting than funny. Jamie Lee Curtis was amazingly cute and sexy. Her smile can launch a thousand ships.

Overall, there are some major leaps of faith in the story telling. I mean in one minute Eddie Murphy's character is financial savvy.
There are several other's, so yea, I know they are trying to move the story along. Just ignore the blinding illogical story.

The 2nd half just goes completely off the rails.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2012, 02:49:16 pm
I looooooooooooooove Trading Places!! One of Eddie Murphy's best movies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2012, 09:04:11 pm
Man on Fire (2004)

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Post by: Mac on June 22, 2012, 02:26:26 pm
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I'm not giving any spoilers away here, Man On a Ledge is about about a jewelry heist. This is not Phonebooth, where all the action occurs in one place. We are watching two scenario's go on. The diversionary tactics of the Man on the Ledge and the heist.

Well two nights in a row watching crappy ass movies. Man on a ledge is wanting to be a big film, but the characters are so stereotypical. We've seen many of scenes before. I was bored very quickly. Nothing new for this film. In fact, most of the people come off pretty stupid. Especially the police. And we are supposed to believe what is being presented to us.

If you have absolutely nothing else to watch, then rent it. Otherwise a ho-hum flick.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 22, 2012, 06:30:22 pm
Jurassic Park (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 23, 2012, 10:22:34 am
Jurassic Park II: The Lost World (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 23, 2012, 05:35:09 pm
Jurassic Park III (2001)

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Post by: Mac on June 25, 2012, 10:02:59 am
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I gave this only 3 stars because in a nutshell, this movie is not my cup of tea. I'm not being to critical because it didn't move me one way or the other. It would be like rating Sex In The City 2. I could care less and my rating would mean nothing to anyone else.

The animation was amazing. The detail in the clothes, surrounding, water, fire, etc was amazingly real. I still have a problem with the zombie eyes that this motion capture tends to portray. It's getting better. In fact, some of the other characters didn't have the zombie look. So why did Tin Tin on many occasions?

The story is OK. It's basically a Saturday Serial movie like Indiana Jones, except with a little kid, er young adult... and a dog who after awhile just became irritating.

It wasn't bad, it wasn't great, but I know I'll never check it out again.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 26, 2012, 01:44:06 pm
Ocean's Eleven (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 26, 2012, 06:44:40 pm
Ocean's Twelve (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 27, 2012, 12:40:17 pm
Ocean's Thirteen (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 27, 2012, 06:25:19 pm
C a s i n o  (1995)

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Post by: Mac on June 28, 2012, 09:40:05 am
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Road Kill is a low budget flick made in Australia for the Fright-fest product line. It’s not scary at all, but more a WTF thinking movie. Because through most of the film, you’re going WTF, then the end reveal is wait, back-up, oh now I get it. In a nutshell this is a story of 4 friends on a road trip in the outback. All in all they stupid stuff, thus the ridiculous story. A demonic road-train truck appears and the chaotic story begins with possessions, unexplained events and general silliness. This is nothing new for Fright-fest. They are a hit and miss with their output.

Overall, this looks like it was a probably a short story turned into a full major film. It probably would have worked a lot better as a short.

Not completely horrible, except when some of the people get possessed. But if can borrow it for a boring day, than go for it. Otherwise you’re not missing a thing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 28, 2012, 11:15:41 am
GoodFellas (1990)

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Post by: Mac on June 29, 2012, 07:05:01 am
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I must have seen the trailer to this some time back and it intrigued me, because otherwise I have no idea why I picked it up from the library.

In a nutshell, this is a barebones Twilight Zone telling of just 4 individuals. I can’t talk much about it without giving spoilers. I thought the acting was pretty decent. The photography was just OK. Very bleak and grey and set in a cabin and the surrounding woods.

Stick with it. The story that unfolds gets more interesting and intriguing as it goes along. It’s a huge leap of belief, but look at it like a Twilight Zone episode. It maybe could have been better as a short film, but they still did a decent job of pacing and keeping the viewer interested.

I thought the ending fell flat for this flick, but like the previous movie Road Kill, I saw the other night, it hints at an endless cycle of a story.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 29, 2012, 08:53:31 pm
Borat (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2012, 11:13:28 am
The Fighter (2010)

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Post by: Mac on June 30, 2012, 11:38:51 am
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Well, let me start off by saying I was most likely not this movies demographic. Older and not having seen the TV show.

It wasn't horrible, I just didn't find it all that, like the over abundance of praise it's getting. It wasn't terribly funny, in fact I found it goofy. I've said it before. Jonah Hill does one character (much like a Ben Stiller). They are all the same to some degree or another in each of his films. Some people want that. I find it uninspired and not very entertaining.

After awhile I just became disinterested.

That's my take.

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Post by: Mac on July 01, 2012, 10:10:13 am
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An odd little film. It's so hot we just turned on movies for the day. Some for her, some for me. This was clearly in my wife's court. She enjoyed it. I found it nothing but fluff. No damage to brain like some of her other movies. It's watchable in a totally throw away sense. Likeable characters. Simple story of a woman determined to make it as the best stewardess ever and visit Paris, only to discover, doing it alone pretty much makes the quest empty.


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Another forgettable film. Standard fare of cop getting his wife killed because of his work, then seeking revenge. I like Vin Diesel and he does a great job doing what he does best. Being a bad-ass with a conscious. Larenz Tate as his sidekick is great chemistry.

Much of the film was dark do to night time action, but I think they could have done much better photography. Many times I got lost on what was happening.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2012, 08:31:15 pm
We Were Soldiers (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2012, 10:39:13 pm
The Score (2001)

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Post by: Mac on July 06, 2012, 12:04:27 pm
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Despite my history with my wife Janet, I thought I would give 50/50 a chance. I could take it... right? Cancer is nothing to laugh at, but the cast and director, made this a watchable film sprinkled with humor. It is not a comedy, though Seth Rogen is in it. He does what he does like in every film, play a loveable, yet rude, crude loud mouth.

I would not call this a feel good movie. I did shed a tear. There are some extremely strong emotional scenes.

I would say give it a rent at least.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 06, 2012, 12:07:21 pm
I've heard nothing but great things about this one.
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Post by: Mac on July 07, 2012, 02:00:51 pm
Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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This is clearly for the youngin's and I mean young. Kind of Willy Wonka meets The Goonies, but much sillier. But I knew that going in. I was hoping I was wrong on the kind of film it was.

Horrible hand off sequel to an entertaining first flick Journey Earth.

I about fell asleep it was so cliched and silly.
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Post by: Mac on July 08, 2012, 06:14:35 pm
Phantasm (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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I'm torn. When I originally saw this in 1979, I loved it. I got all caught up in the nightmare scenes, the odd story, the iconic symbolism (the tall man, the chrome flying orbs).

Watching it today after how many years, it just looks really amateurish. The editing is horrendous. The special effects are pretty lame and the acting is just plain horrible.

There is a underground of people who continue to love this movie, but mark this up as another bubble burst of what I use to think was extra special.

I have seen the sequel and thought I remember liking it.... buttttttt..... I thought the same about this. Ugh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJojkFFUsdo

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2012, 07:23:54 pm
I hated this when it came out. But to be honest, I remember absolutely nothing about this movie other than the dagger orb. Other than that I can't comment on this.
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Post by: Mac on July 12, 2012, 03:48:14 pm
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I knew nothing of this when I picked it up. It must of been on my list from seeing a trailer awhile ago on another film. This is bare bones cheap little indie film from Australia. The acting is great. The story, supposedly based on true events, was rather tense. None of this giant croc stuff, but just an engaging story of 4 people way out in the middle of nowhere and s hit begins to happen.

I liked it. It kept me intrigued the whole time. What would I do. I mean the boat is only, what, 15 feet away. But there is a ruthless croc that you cannot see in the muddy black water
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It's filmed well and I believed in all the characters.

I recommend at the very least to check it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjZC3yxEZTg
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 12, 2012, 04:44:55 pm
Gonna check and see if my Branch has a copy...............
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 12, 2012, 06:16:44 pm
Win Win (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2012, 08:06:04 pm
Rush Hour 2 (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2012, 08:04:24 pm
Rush Hour 3 (2007)

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Post by: Mac on July 16, 2012, 12:45:39 pm
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I was mildly interested in his history.

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A film by Ozzy’s son, Jack

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Ozzy Osbourne is one of the most iconic figures in rock and one of the founding fathers of heavy metal, however to many his Madman persona has overshadowed his considerable musical achievements. God Bless Ozzy Osbourne tells for the first time the story of his career from the founding of Black Sabbath through to solo stardom and his wider fame beyond. These were the wild days of his prodigious drug and alcohol intake, of biting the head from a dove at a record company meeting and biting into a bat on stage but also of the tragic death of Randy Rhoads and the reality TV show The Osbournes. The film follows Ozzy s torturous and emotionally fraught journey from excess to sobriety, which Ozzy regards as his greatest accomplishment. Featuring never before seen footage, new interviews with Ozzy himself, his brothers and sisters, his children, his bandmates in Black Sabbath and those who both inspired him and were inspired by him, this is the first film to take viewers inside the mind and psyche of this legendary figure.

I like Ozzy’s music both in Black Sabbath and Solo, but I don’t idolize him. So watching my first documentary on him with a good portion of him talking was quite revealing in who Ozzy is. I didn’t have this biased view of him. From the reviews of this docu, I understand nothing really new was introduced here that was not already known, and in fact some major content was left out.

But, I did find Ozzy, the man, quite ugly in nature. I can separate the man from his music. I still like the music, but find the man quite despicable. He was raised poor family, struggled with growing up, developed some very bad habits and continued that through most of his life. And you can tell from his own words, he has no regrets. I’m an abusive drunk and drug addict and accept me for who I am. I take no responsibility of my past actions because I don’t remember them. Not even the attempted murder of his wife.

If he even showed a little remorse to the impact he’s had on those around him, maybe it would be an easier thing to accept, but he just doesn’t care. If it were not for the band members of Sabbath or Sharon taking control of his life, he would be a talentless thug. Events fell in line for him and somehow all his baggage did not destroy him.

The icing on the cake of not liking him, is just watching him at home but more so on stage. IMO, you have a very old feeble man.. I found the reality show about his life embarrassing. Some of my conversations are peppered with rough language, but I find listening to Ozzy, just ridiculous. Even if you are a comedian, which Ozzy is not, and when ever other word is f-ing, then it gets tiresome and an assault on the ears. Watching him attempt to perform and sing in front of audiences even more pathetic.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2012, 01:20:57 pm
Well, what you describe is nothing eye opening. Just watching The Osbourne's and reading his book I Am Ozzy (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/books/i-am-ozzy-ozzy-osbourne/msg190/#msg190) pretty much gives you the 411 on who he is and what he is like. I'm still interested in checking out the doc, but I'm not going into it expecting some kind of revelation though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2012, 10:39:48 pm
The Wrestler (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2012, 08:07:20 pm
National Treasure (2004)

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Post by: Mac on July 19, 2012, 06:51:08 pm
American Reunion (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Not good not bad, just another iteration of the same characters, same story, just less good humor. Forgettable as soon as its over.
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Post by: Mac on July 19, 2012, 06:57:36 pm
Don't Know How She Does It (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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Writing this as we watch it.

Watching it because my wife likes these chick flicks. Sarah Jessica Parker playing the exact same character as she always does. Snore. Lots of stars, but just a soulless lifeless story. Olivia Munn is an odd cold character. She does a much better character in The Newsroom

Just check your brain at the door and snooze

edit: Ok, she fell asleep half way through. I turned it off.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 19, 2012, 07:22:21 pm
The Crow (1994)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 20, 2012, 11:18:58 pm
Tremors (1990)

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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2012, 09:29:46 am
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Great cast, decent thriller story, but this definitely shows it's age, primarily in directing. This was the slowest movie ever for a thriller. This captures the slow plodding of direction and editing of the 70's. I thought I liked it. I remember key scenes, but dayum, if there was ever a movie in need of a remake, Marathon Man is one of them.
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2012, 09:37:45 am
Conan O'Brien Can't Stop (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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I think you have to be a dedicated fan to really enjoy this documentary of his "The Legally Prohibited From Being Funny on Television Tour". I was into it at first. It appears they pretty much taped everything after his bright idea of he Can't Stop working, he's got 6 months to kill, so what do I do now. The beginning shows all the behind the scenes people, idea's being developed, getting the tour organized and such.

Then I was hoping to watch one of those shows. But no, it continues to show bit and pieces and more backstage activities, thoughts and that Conan is an average man like everyone else but has talent for entertaining. There were a couple of laugh out loud moments, but this appeared to be more of watching someone's family movies. Ugh

I'm not a talk show fan, but I do like Conan and Letterman, if nothing else is on.

I became rather bored with this a little too quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=beBkRJC6KZU
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2012, 09:52:43 am
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I give this 5 stars just for being the epitome of gore. If you have not seen this prepare your mind for the bloodiest, gore filled, disgusting, over the top, flick that is laced with comedy. To top it off, Dead Alive is the early work of Peter Jackson. Yes, the man behind King Kong and Lord of the Rings. It only takes every few minutes to see something so bizarre, you ask how can it get worse... and it does. The 3rd act is just red.

I have not seen his other bizarre flicks like Meet The Feebles or Bad Taste, but hoping I can somehow... just to say I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnCfUpw-i7A
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2012, 10:14:31 am
I watched Marathon Man back when I was just a tyke. Because I was so young, this movie of course had zero impact on me. I thought it was boring other than the scene where he is trying to escape through the bathroom window or something. That's how I remember it. I think. As for Conan, I didn't even know it was out on DVD at all. I was following the trailer and the press about this when it first became public knowledge. I still want to see this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2012, 11:07:00 pm
Haywire (2011)

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Post by: Mac on July 22, 2012, 09:11:25 am
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I really wanted to like this. The story looked entertaining... at least on the trailer it did. Unfortunately, while a decent story, it was as slow as it's main plot... that of fishing. A Shiek who's main passion to fish, employs some folks (Ewan McGregor & Emily Blunt) to bring Salmon fishing to Yemen. Without giving to much a spoiler, Salmon fishing is only the ulterior motive. He has higher aspirations for his country and future generations. Sorry, but McGregor is the same exact character he plays in all his movies. Blunt is nice to watch and the Shiek says some pretty interesting stuff, but the most exciting and watchable character who steals the show is Kristin Scott Thomas as the Press Secretary for the Prime Minister. She has some real ball busting quotes.

If you're gonna rent it, expect a slow paced movie that some will find interesting and others will find comfort in characters we've see over and over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSYuTFK8Eas
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Post by: Mac on July 22, 2012, 09:24:22 am
Lockout (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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Gahhhhh, another movie I really wanted to like, but walk away with nothing. I mean nothing. Luc Besson directing has some hits and some major misses. This just falls flat. Worst of all, it seems to be a collection of blatant ripoff in story and characters. The story follows almost exactly to a tee Escape From New York, except in space. Guy Pierice's character starts off as a mash up of Captain Jack Sparrow, Bruce Willis in Fifth Element and then transitions into Jason Bourne towards the later half. We've seen all the bad guys too. In particular the main lead bad boy brothers who act almost exactly like George Clooney and Quentin Tarantino of Dusk to Dawn.

While some of the space ship sets are cool, some are very amateurish and cheap.

My biggest complaint would be Besson's editing. I thought Tony Scott's editing was whacked out. The opening scene is so rapid fire and chaotic, I had to look away. Thank gawd he only does that crap a few times through the movie.

If you like sci-fi and want to park your brain to waste your time, then rent this puppy.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 23, 2012, 10:58:25 pm
Face/Off (1997)

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Post by: Mac on July 24, 2012, 03:38:31 pm
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I can't tell if the sequel was deliberatly trying to be camp or as usual, it is camp if Nicholas Cage wants it to be. No seriously, the acting is horrible. I have no idea what the story was going on here. It was pleasant to Christopher Lambert. I'm not a fan in any way, but hey, I recognized him. There was one cool scene where Ghost Rider climbs into a huge mining machine and turns it to this monstrous fire demon like machine. Other than that, I got nothing.

2 stars for being utterly stupid in a MST3K kind of way.

Forgot most of it already.

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Post by: Mac on July 24, 2012, 03:46:37 pm
Some Guy Who Kills People (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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This is a well done black comedy. Unfortunately I don't care for black comedies. I don't get them really. I sat through this because it was interesting and I had no idea what was to happen next (which is a big plus in my book), but when it's all done, I'm like... what? The exception is Karen Black, she was pretty damn cool in this. I haven't seen her in anything for a long time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP9rU5LvFeg

To get an idea of the black comedy, is the The Fifth that was part of the extra's here. It's got a tad more comedy... but still I wasn't laughing. I did laugh when my wife walks in half way through this. What the hell are you watching?

The Fifth

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YAnfBdImSk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2012, 08:52:39 pm
Jackass: The Movie (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2012, 11:43:41 pm
Jackass: Number Two (2006)

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Post by: Mac on July 25, 2012, 04:15:43 pm
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Messages Deleted has a good premise, with the idea like that of the Scream movies, that it's aware of itself and subjects, killers and cliche's are mirroring what's in the movies. It starts off pretty good and their are scenes that are really good. But suddenly there are scenes with famously bad dialogue and logic. It's almost like two different writers and/or directors. By the third act, all thrills are exhausted and I just want it over.

Great potential, but they blew it.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 26, 2012, 09:55:38 pm
Batman (1989)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 28, 2012, 10:15:41 pm
Batman Returns (1992)

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Post by: Mac on July 29, 2012, 09:01:01 am
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Elizabeth Olsen (sister of the Olsen twins) dominates this movie in more ways than one. If you love looking at Elizabeth, then you're gonna love this because about 1/3 of the film has her face filling the screen. That's because of the experimental stab at making the viewer believe this was taken with one shot. No edits. So to do that, you follow the 'perspective' of the camera lens looking at Elizabeth while also trying to capture what she sees.  I thought very little of one shot attempt. The camera work just frustrated me. Maybe it did add tension, but for me, it just took away from the experience, or should I say, diverted my attention.
Also, once things kick in, no more dialog. What little conversation happens in the beginning, foreshadows the complete lack of dialog.

This is supposed to be scary, but it wasn't. I thought the directors made a huge mistake in the beginning. It's the middle of the day when things happen, yet the house interior is so dark, people need to carry around lamps and flashlights.

The twist ending just made me even more frustrated. I don't know why I even gave starts to this flick. Thinking back, I just felt like it wasted my time.
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Post by: Mac on July 29, 2012, 05:50:05 pm
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A true rockumentary of one of the most amazing bands in history. Being a fan of Queen's music, I'm biased to loving this documentary. I think it might be entertaining enough for a casual music lover... maybe not.

Presented 100% by the members of the group with the occasional guest shots of prominent acquaintances, crew, friends and the like, giving this not only authenticity but an thought provoking and emotional level like no other documentary.

Starting from the very beginnings with Brian May and Roger Taylor in Smile to the very end and a little bit after Freddies death. I highly recommend checking this 160+ minute flick out. The go through every album and every major milestone in Queen's history. Fascinating to say the least. I actually had a little hard time when they got to the decline of Freddie Mercury. It was hard to watch. But like Brian May said, Freddie was inspirational. It chocked me up some. Obviously this was made after Freddies death. No one tries to put words in Freddies mouth. They use news clips of his interviews and such. The band members respectfully tell their thoughts on what was going on with Freddies professional and personal life.

I miss Freddie. I really do. I don't believe there will ever be another talent like him.

My take away from this is two fold...

Enjoy life to it's fullest
&
Whatever you do, do it well.

This all may sound cliche and say you've heard it before. But I see that as taking things for granted. Don't. Watch Freddie and the band members of Queen and be inspired.

The complete documentary is out on Youtube, or watch it on DVD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCu5Lb7VZXs
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2012, 05:54:38 pm
Why am I just now hearing about this doc? Bah! I will for sure check to see if my Library is carrying it. If not, then I will just buy it since I already own everything else of theirs. Excellent review dude.
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Post by: Mac on July 30, 2012, 01:17:26 pm
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Wrath of the Titans is the sequel to Clash of the Titans. I didn’t think Clash did all that well at the box office, but I must be wrong for them to green light a sequel. I’m a fan of Greek mythology and so I tend to be biased. It is all fantasy, which I typically don’t care for, but there is just something about the chemistry of Gods, Humans and various fantastical creatures that all have explicit meaning and inter-relationships with each other. Stories that have been created and carried through the years. Hmmmm… like religion? Nah

When I was kid I liked all the Hercules flicks and even the lame attempts at mythology with the original Clash. But today, I think if I was to revisit them, my bubble would burst and just hang my head.

The technology today allows anything imaginable to be displayed on the big screen. The way the stories are meant to told. I think today’s Mythology movies do a decent job of getting something so old, to be interesting and relevant. Maybe relevant is too deep. It’s fantasy and provides the ability to escape as movie entertainment should do.

Wrath of the Titans kicks in with story and action. They don’t have to worry too much about setting up the framework, but they still need to spell out the why and who, because Mythology can be complicated. I thought the visuals were just stunning. Despite lots of reviews saying most of the actors seem to be calling in their roles, I disagree. There is a lot of conflict going on and I think we the audience buys into it. I didn’t see anything wrong with the acting.

Mythology movies are one of my guilty pleasures. I’ll probably sit down and watch them, if I should ever run across them. I’ve owned Jason and the Argonauts since I can remember and on occasion break it out. I don’t know if I’ll own these two, but hey, if I can get a good deal, yea, I’d pick ‘em up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQckuXV6DRA
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Post by: Mac on July 30, 2012, 01:43:45 pm
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Looks good. But I'm not surprised that my city is being bypassed....again. Definitely a Rent for me on DVD. Remind me when it's out.

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I pointed this out earlier when it was coming to America… and I didn’t get to see it, because it never made it to my town. So now it’s on DVD and got to see it in the privacy of my own home. I’m glad I didn’t spend money at the theater on it. It’s not bad, but it tends to teeter on schlocky characters. Some of those actors remind me of the old classic Godzilla flicks. Seriously over doing it. But most of them were fun and interesting to watch. The monster was disappointment. I think because we see so much of it. There isn’t any long build up. No real tension. I think a lot of its power it lost there. And the creature looks like a elephant size walrus that has seriously become grotesque. It’s beautiful in all its CGI glory. Sector 7 is a beautifully photographed film. There’s an interesting technique they use. It must be filters and such, to give it this glow, warm, rich look.

I actually admire it a tad more after I watched the making of. Apparently Korea is not to huge in the movie business, but Sector 7 was their first attempt at big bucks and major motion picture launch. I do not know if they were successful. But a lot of money was spent on CGI. I believe they said, just about every scene had CGI in it.

I recommend checking it out for a rental. It’s a fun popcorn flick. There are many more better sea monster movies {cough}Deep Rising{cough}{cough} . But it’s a good attempt and in the right direction

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pz2FogQeTU
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Post by: Mac on July 30, 2012, 07:19:24 pm
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Worst Movie Evah!!!


I saw this trailer some time ago and swore it was something by The Onion or possibly MST3K, but knew they didn't exist any more. Than I discovered this was truly a full length movie. Listed as one of the worst movies ever made, I think I would have to agree. I've seen some strange stuff, but they had some creativity behind it. Birdemic is just one lazy ass directors attempt at putting something on film.

It really is so bad, you laugh at it. I did several times. That's saying a lot, because some comedies I have not laughed out loud like Birdemic.

This film should be studied for everything not to do in a film. I was able to fast forward through this pretty much because of the long scenes of well, nothing. Just taking up time on reel. Everything, I mean everything is wrong with this movie. You must see it just because you can and it's the worst ever.

Instead of post the trailer, the bit from the Soup is at least a little entertaining. But before I go, I've got another movie on order called the Room vying to be the worst movie ever. We shall wait and see, eh.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfsZ8NS03g0

OK, here's the trailer... and the movie is sooooooo much better

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jE5dJDgZ644

PS: I saw this Hour and half movie in 30 minutes. Just to let you know I didn't waste ALL of my time with this.
Oh yea, it looks like the whole movie is on youtube for those inclined
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 30, 2012, 07:29:37 pm
Your review is very intriguing and I'm always up for a laugh.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 30, 2012, 11:37:44 pm
Sin City (2005)

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Post by: Mac on July 31, 2012, 07:42:37 am
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I saw the trailer for Red a long time ago and it was powerful enough that it has always stuck with me to check it out. Well, finally after so many attempts to order it through the library or Redbox or cable, did I finally get to watch it last night. I was not disappointed. Just solid powerful, emotional characters that you sit up and notice. I think Red is a classic story of conflict and man’s conviction. The later being a tricky balance between the right thing to do and self expectation. Brian Cox is the perfect choice for a mild, yet forceful character that intends to make things right. Tom Sizemore is well chosen for the father who defends his convictions, but he and you know is wrong. So where does this lead? To a show down you hope doesn’t happen, but it does.

A simple, yet powerful emotional movie. Just every part of it from the beginning to end is engaging. The last few minutes, while manipulative, definitely eases the tension from the rest of the film.

I highly recommend checking out Red.

Not to be confused with the completely different movie with Bruce Willis


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI6TZUBW7TA
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 31, 2012, 07:51:15 am
Not to be confused with Bruce Willis'movie of the same name or the film directed by Krzysztof Kieślowski. They really need to come up with better names for their movies when so many keep using the same title. I for sure will check this new Red out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2012, 01:21:39 am
Chronicle (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2012, 01:12:03 am
Safe House (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2012, 05:21:37 pm
Batman Forever (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 03, 2012, 08:43:06 am
Batman & Robin (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2012, 07:36:38 am
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)

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Post by: Mac on August 04, 2012, 08:13:45 am
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I got Decoy Bride for my wife, because she loves this kind of stuff. My initial thought it screamed Chick Flick. Well I'm happy to say it didn't scream chick flick, but in fact was very enjoyable for me. (My wife actually fell asleep. Not bored, but just tired.)

While I really enjoyed the quirky characters, Kelly Macdonald as Katie stole my heart. Understated funny, girl next door, that is just too cute. The peope around her, in family and the island are a hoot as is the bride, groom and associates. It's silly events that occur, but so full of warmth. The old couple dancing to bagpipes actually brought a tear to my eye. It needs to be seen to see what I mean.

I laughed out loud in a few places. Again, just some good understated comedy.

I highly recommend at least a rent, with no expectations, except for an entertaining little film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KT9pD9B3TUw

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2012, 04:56:59 pm
No Country for Old Men (2007)

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Post by: Mac on August 05, 2012, 12:35:47 pm
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Carnage is essentially a play that occurs with just 4 people in one room. We have a great cast of Jodie Foster married to John C. Riley and Kate Winslet married to Christoph Waltz. I never really bought into Jodie's marriage to Riley, but once the dialog get going, it's all about what is said. This is a sharply written script. The first 20-30 minutes are frustrating and uncomfortable. But now looking back, they were supposed to be. That's the point of this movie the evolution of self discovery of each of the people and then also their relationship with their spouses.

All of it very fragile and once you get real with the subjects at hand you begin to see a bit of yourself in some of the characters. I think it's surprising how much we hide from each other or let stuff slide I should say.

Once the fighting starts, it gets interesting. And once the liqueur flows it gets more interesting. Once I get vested into it I was pretty anxious to see how it ends. I'm not giving any spoilers, but it just suddenly ends.

I recommend it if your into that kind of play drama. I think it's done well. The camera work was superb because this could have become easily a very claustrophobic film. It was not.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPX6-4Bo7XU
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2012, 12:37:14 pm
This is the first I'm even hearing about this movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2012, 06:44:01 pm
X-Men (2000)

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Post by: Mac on August 05, 2012, 07:48:18 pm
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This is the first I'm even hearing about this movie.

I believe it may be an IFC film. Not sure the even advertise.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 06, 2012, 09:05:37 pm
X2: X-Men United (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 07, 2012, 12:23:14 pm
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 07, 2012, 08:00:40 pm
My Bodyguard (1980)

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Post by: Mac on August 08, 2012, 04:08:20 pm
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This is a remake from the Troma release, which I have never seen, so I can't compare. Mother's Day is a well made film. High tension from the very beginning. Rebecca De Mornay is cast perfectly as a psychotic mother willing to do anything to help and protect her children. It's chilling actually how well she plays this role. The 3 sons are all very different, but are key to script as is the daughter. The House they break into and the guests there too, all are very well defined, despite some of their short uh, stay.

The performances are outstanding and the pacing is excellent.

This story has been played out many times before with films like Last House On the Left, Straw Dogs, The Strangers and Funny Games.

This is a grisly gory film. With the Mom portraying herself as the polar opposite, with a mom like charm, it just stands out that much more shocking to see things turn dark. This IS NOT a feel good movie. It's hard to watch at times.

I say at least a rent if you like high tension. Ya can't be squeamish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEpWE1GAWfw
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2012, 03:48:35 pm
X-Men: The Last Stand (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2012, 09:50:48 pm
X-Men Origins: Wolverine

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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2012, 09:48:43 am
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When I saw the trailer, I was intrigued. I thought it was going to be something very different than what I watched. The core of the story lies within the Circus world, which that along can be a very bizarre part of life little of us know about. Throw in a french perspective, which honestly is fairly different than American's taste range, and you have a very surreal, odd, quirky film.

The story is about as basic has they come. Two very different men love the same woman.

The director decides to add some scenes that are sometimes weird, sometimes surreal, sometimes ordinary. It's definitely a bizarre trip. I thought it was OK. I know I'll never go back to it, mostly because of the abusive boyfriend that makes this disturbing to watch.

I'd say rent for something different.

The movie comes with English audio. You don't have to read the subtitles.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKxU1FSiqGY
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2012, 09:58:41 am
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Let me start off by saying I enjoyed Deadheads. It's clearly a low budget film, but they did phenomenal work to make this look more than that. The script isn't bad and I can't believe I'm going to say it, but it's a sweet story. The zombie guy looking for his girlfriend and 90% of the movie is a buddy road trip. His new found bud is a hoot.

I think the similarities to Shaun of the Dead are obvious, but it still stand on it's own. They did a good job. If you like this and Shaun of the Dead, might I also suggest Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZK6gZn38yQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2012, 10:00:39 am
Will definitely look into checking out Deadheads.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2012, 07:52:16 am
Green Lantern (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2012, 09:11:57 pm
My Super Ex-Girlfriend (2006)

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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2012, 01:20:07 pm
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Hey, Danny Trejo is cool. In fact I started a thread on the other site of our favorite character actors. It started with Danny Trejo. For years and what seems like thousands of movies, whenever Danny Trejo pops up, you know some s hit it going down. Usually Trejo, but not before some good ass kicking screen time.

But that does not place him on a pedestal and become the star of the show. He's famous for one reason. He fits the badass image. But unfortunately, becoming a star gives you lots of screen time and dialogue to say. He's not bad, but he's not interesting either.

And I'm going to get real here. He's old and he's short. Seriously. This takes away so much to see so much of him. I never thought Machete was good because well, it sucked. Having Trejo as the lead is just an homage call. Badass is far worse than Machete. Think Gran Tarino or even more Harry Brown which was a snore fest. It just doesn't work. (OK, Gran Torino worked).

Someone put 2 + 2 together. Who's a great badass... let make a movie about a badass. Unfortunately, it's about 25 years late.

I think this was supposed to have humor. Dunno... didn't spot any except for the fanny pack and that Badass had to ride the bus to get to his asskicking

Sigh

I say skip, but watch if you must.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXAMgcniXxA
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2012, 01:28:20 pm
Never heard of it. Was this a direct-to-DVD?
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2012, 02:51:01 pm
I had not heard of it until running through Amazon.

This from Wiki...

Production was completed by May 2011. SC Films picked up sales rights to the film with plans to present it to buyers at the Cannes Film Festival.[1] The film has been sold to Wild Bunch for distribution in Germany and to Pinnacle Films for distribution in Australia. Subsequently distribution arrangements were made with Samuel Goldwyn Films for USA theatrical release on April 13, 2012 as well as Twentieth Century Fox for ancillary rights and international all media distribution.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2012, 10:13:20 pm
Jaws (1975)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2012, 11:24:57 pm
A Night at the Roxbury (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2012, 10:49:03 pm
Die Hard (1988)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2012, 01:22:53 pm
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2012, 07:08:20 pm
Die Hard: With a Vengeance (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2012, 10:19:54 pm
Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2012, 12:38:22 am
He Got Game (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2012, 10:53:39 pm
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)

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Post by: Mac on August 20, 2012, 04:26:28 pm
So this weekend movie watching proved to have some coincidence. All 3 movie's (The Raid, The Divide, The Horde) stories took place in very similar environments. A Building. For the most part, a single set. 2 of the movies had similar look and feel and flow of the movie, where The Divide starts and ends in one room... the basement.

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The Divide
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The trailer had me sucked in. An apocalypse movie with ??? for a future. The Divide immediately starts off with the people watching the city bombed and the rush to survive in the buildings basement begins.

The Divide is a movie of despair from the beginning and only turns worse. It's really survival against other humans and it turns ugly very fast. This is not a feel good movie. There is no good moments. It's a pretty sickening perspective. Michael Biehn is pissed 95% of this movie. What Roseanna Arquette was thinking when she signed on to do this absolutely horrible character is beyond me. Anyone could have played the character. Roseanna did not need this for her resume.

The other various characters quickly show their survival instincts. Some adjust accordingly, others do not.

The Divide, is not only dark visually, but dark in story telling, characters, plot. The pace is good, but it's a pace towards absolute despair.

I can't recommend The Divide.
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Post by: Mac on August 20, 2012, 05:04:02 pm
The Raid: Redemption (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I've heard rumor's about this movie for awhile. The trailer seemed to verify that it was indeed one of the most intense actions movie to appear in a long time. And, it's true.

Honestly this is a man's movie. Simple and to the point. Just action packed with a thread of a story with brothers and a pregnant wife. It immediately kicks in with a swat team raiding a gang's infamous hideout. No other gang or police have successfully infiltrated the building. I did find it odd, that normal residents lived there, but that's probably because of my lack of knowledge of this kind of life.

What I kind of discovered was The Raid and The Horde are played out like video games. Go through each level, conquer it and move up. Well, it's more than that, but that's the basic idea. The first third of the movie is bullet mayhem. I won't spoil to much, but most of the swat team get whittled down at this point. After the run out of bullets, they start using machete's. After that, it's hand to hand combat.

The Raid is choreographed masterpiece. It's none of that silly kung fu crap, where the bad guys come at you one at a time. This is amazingly realistic fighting. The fatal kills are brutal, fast and in your face. The pacing is great, with some fights interlaced with some drama.

I will say the final climatic battle will leave you exhausted. I think they have set a new bar on action.

I highly recommend checking out the Raid. I hear a sequel was being discussed before this was even released.

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Post by: Mac on August 20, 2012, 05:14:42 pm
The Horde (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I knew very little about this movie except it was about zombies. Wow, was I pleasantly surprised at the quality of this French flick. Much like The Raid, a group of thugs and cops need to needle their way out of building. Floor by floor, avoiding these super zombies.

In this film, they are not away of a killing to the head. So killing these 'super' zombies is a massive undertaking to kill just one. They just don't stop. These are the fast zombies too with rage in their veins. The hand to hand fighting is frightening. They don't know about getting infected and the consequences.

These are some of the best bad guys I've seen in awhile. Awesome conflict with cops and love the slow transition from rivalry to survival. Very bloody, very action packed. Very little let up in pace and there are many things that happen you don't expect to happen.

I'm pretty sure the director few scenes in mind from the get go. They are obviously iconic in nature. Think 'Horde'.

Again, another great action/zombie movie. Rent it now.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 20, 2012, 05:41:44 pm
The Raid is definitely on my radar. I think you posted the trailer elsewhere and it caught my attention there.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 20, 2012, 05:43:24 pm
Unbreakable (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2012, 12:28:35 pm
Minority Report (2002)

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Post by: Mac on August 21, 2012, 04:31:34 pm
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This is one of those situations with a 500 channels and nothing is on. So ran so quickly over this but stopped. I kind of remembered it. Watching it again was fun. Nothing deep. It reminded me a lot of MASH. The subtle humor is sprinkled throughout and it's just a pleasant movie to check out. Nothing to write home about, but I can't see how you would not enjoy this.

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Post by: Mac on August 21, 2012, 04:35:28 pm
Loosies (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

We saw this trailer and it looked decent. Well, they fooled me. I was bored out of my mind. This really should have been on Lifetime or one of the network channels on a Saturday afternoon. Nothing more than a down and out dude, who gets a nice girl pregnant. He pick pockets for a living but suddenly feels the need to own up to his one night stand. Even telling the girl he loves her after a few days.

Good acting, but not my kind of story.

Silly and wast of my time.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2012, 04:48:00 pm
I haven't seen Air America in probably 15 years. I can only remember bits and pieces of it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2012, 09:35:09 am
Dazed and Confused (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2012, 10:15:40 pm
War of the Worlds (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2012, 12:49:13 pm
Jaws 2 (1978)

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Post by: Mac on August 23, 2012, 04:11:13 pm
Doghouse (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)
 
Not half bad for a comedy/horror movie with busty zombies. OK, so they have a little entrails hanging from their mouths and their nails are bad. But hey, it's a whole town of hot cannibal/zombie women who have eaten the men folk just waiting for the next bus load of man meat. I'm not even going to try to explain why this happened. Just accept it. It's British comedy much like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. It's different, but I enjoyed it. The special effects are pretty decent. It definitely get's silly in places, but some of the guys getting knocked off one by one are fun.

Oh just rent the damn thing for mindless female cannibal fun.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2012, 08:33:26 pm
Total Recall (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2012, 01:52:47 pm
21 Jump Street (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2012, 10:15:24 pm
Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2012, 07:38:30 am
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Well, after finishing watching Hunger Games last night, I'm frustrated I wasted 2-1/2 hours of my time and scratching my head on the popularity of the film. For me, I think the crux is this is a Tween film. Aimed at that young consumer who feels a need to have a hugely popular vehicle to hang their hat on. Like Harry Potter and the Twilight films. Apparently there was a void and Hunger Games book and film just snowballed into a huge hit.

I found the PG-13 movie extremely slow, lacking in any kind of characters, and a story that just did nothing... where it should have. I have no idea what the book reads like, but the film lacked any kind of tension. I mean we have a story here of cultural legitimate sport where young children are gathered in a War arena, with the sole purpose to have only one survivor. Kids killing kids.

Never once, even in the 'bloodbath' games beginning did I feel tension. This was practically a Disney film with their death sequences.

This could have been so much more, but they watered down the story soooooo much for the family friendly film, it just becomes pale.

I will never watch this again and have zero anticipation for sequels. This was just not my cup of tea.

Edit: And I forgot to mention, I automatically deducted 2 stars for shaky cam. OHMYGAWD, it was horrendous. Several times I had to look away because it was giving me a headache. Totally unnecessary here.

I will, again, recommend, Battle Royale instead. Now that is a gripping and entertaining film.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2012, 10:22:29 am
Breaking Bad (Season 1 - 2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2012, 09:14:29 pm
Robin Hood (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2012, 10:24:10 pm
Jerry Maguire (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 29, 2012, 03:47:46 pm
The Rundown (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 29, 2012, 07:55:09 pm
Gridiron Gang (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2012, 08:26:14 am
Invincible (2006)

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Blue Crush (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2012, 08:53:34 am
The Mask of Zorro (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2012, 02:22:18 pm
The Green Hornet (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2012, 05:21:44 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 2)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 01, 2012, 09:43:25 pm
The Princess Bride (1987)

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Post by: Mac on September 02, 2012, 10:46:47 am
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I remember hearing Battleship getting crapped when it was announced, let alone the reviews that came in later after launch. I was thinking, maybe there are just some people that want to crap on something like this because it's what people can do. I ignore the so called critics and look for consumer reviews. It was getting about a 50-50 shot.

Well, it is as crappy as it's been labeled. It was a chore to sit through this. There is no doubt the CGI was awesome and some great eye candy, but that's about it. A very cliched set of events you see coming a mile away. The Battleship crew definitely watched Armageddon... a lot, and pretty much copied it and Independence Day and few others. The script was horrible. The acting was hit and miss. The main stars were good, but they brought in a new actor, well, because he was minus legs. Apparently that was more important than the acting.

Rhianna, well, she is beautiful and the director used her a lot in shots. Unfortunately she opened her mouth. I'm sorry, but talking ghetto was either instructed her to do it, or my belief that's the way she talks, but dayum, it sounded ridiculous in the middle of Navy environment. Either way, it was bad and distracting.

They did pay some homage to the board game, but c'mon, they are not fooling anybody. This was tent pole movie for the summer and they attached it to something different like a board game and produced crap.


I recommend a skip
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2012, 11:19:29 am
The idea of doing a movie based on the boardgame 'Battleship' was dumb right out of the box. I really don't get how these 'Suits' in Hollywood come up with and then justify their pitches to the Studios. I've heard nothing but horrible things about this movie. I feel bad for Taylor Kitsch for being the star of the two biggest bombs this year (Battleship and John Carter). I like him as an actor and he was phenomenal as Riggs on Friday Night Lights. He needs to do a better job of picking his projects or he will never recover and have a pretty short career.

Back on topic, as much as this movie has been sh*t on, I'm pretty sure I will check this out eventually.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2012, 03:14:25 pm
Lost (Season 5)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2012, 09:52:30 pm
North Shore (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2012, 01:53:22 pm
Step into Liquid (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2012, 10:55:42 pm
The Green Mile (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 04, 2012, 10:18:45 pm
Point Break (1991)

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Post by: Mac on September 05, 2012, 03:38:56 pm
Inside (À l'intérieur)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

What do I say about this film. I guess I'm getting older and find gore, for the scare, getting distasteful to me. I think it was the taboo of years ago and tried to watch it but after viewing Inside last night, I could go without. Inside was one of the most gore soaked films I've seen in a long time. I guess what turns me off is the lack of story. The twist is naturally at the end, but while watching the whole thing, the viewer is asking why. None of it makes sense. Just senseless bloodletting everywhere. In a nutshell a crazy woman wants a pregnant woman's baby. And anybody who comes within feet of the house, and mostly the pregnant woman is going to get some pretty bad stuff done to them.

Surprisingly the trailer is pretty representative what happens.

I just Didn't like it. There is suspense. My knuckles were turning white, but all said and done, I wish I didn't watch it and have no desire to see it again.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YVGswuX42x0
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2012, 03:45:41 pm
I like old school horror flicks that ask the audience to create the scare moments inside your head. Give me Poltergeist, Elm Street or Friday The 13th any day of the week. I think torture  p o r n  has saturated the market so much that it's lost it's X factor. They all blend in with the next and makes it hard to distinguish anymore.
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Post by: Mac on September 05, 2012, 04:21:41 pm
Yea, I was never into torture ****. I did like a good bloody dismemberment by an alien. That just seems surreal.

I like the 'creepy' movies to scare me. Just enough to go oh hell no, don't go there.

This stuff is just nasty
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Post by: Mac on September 06, 2012, 08:33:35 pm
Meeting Evil (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

This is essentially a play of cat and mouse between Samuel Jackson and Luke Wilson... and a good performance by Leslie Bibb. I'm not sure what I think of this. It kept me glued to the screen the whole time, but the script is uneven. Sometimes the characters do things like WTF, other times you expect them to do something and nothing.

The ending is WTF. Not satisfying because I'm not sure what happened.

I can only imagine Sam Jackson had an absolute blast with this character. Watch it for that at least.

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Post by: Mac on September 06, 2012, 08:37:28 pm
Five Year Engagement (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

This should have been good. It had Judd Apatow producing and the Segal and Blunt were a great chemistry. Unfortunately every joke was long and boring and seen before. This was one of the most blah movies I've seen in a long time.

Bored-to-death. We finally turned it off after an hour. It was just that bad.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuDpU1vzekE
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Post by: Mac on September 06, 2012, 08:41:32 pm
Piranha DD (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

I give it one star for stellar boobages and slow mo on the bounce. Beyond that even Gary Busey's strange ass could not lift this film up. The original was fun with cheese... extra cheese. 3DD is just a quick money grab. Stupid in every respect. Maybe MST3K stupid, but I'm not going to watch this again sober.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2012, 09:16:40 pm
Boobs!!!

I am sooooooooooo there. Don't need nor am I expecting any kind of plot. Don't care. Just jiggle, baby!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2012, 10:43:23 pm
The Hangover Part II (2011)

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Post by: Mac on September 07, 2012, 09:15:11 am
Quote
Boobs!!!

I am sooooooooooo there. Don't need nor am I expecting any kind of plot. Don't care. Just jiggle, baby!!

Seriously, they are not impressive and rather fleeting.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 07, 2012, 10:30:56 pm
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2011)

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Post by: Mac on September 08, 2012, 07:42:51 am
Safe (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Jason Stratham does one kind of character... and he's the best at it. His badass, action flicks are a guilty pleasure and I don't expect a whole lot except, some breaking bones, shoot 'em up and great fights. Unfortunately his movie have been hit and miss. Safe delivers. Not a deep story, but still enough variety of characters to be very fun to watch. Not only the Russian and Asian mobs pitted against each other but New York cops are in the middle of it. And finally, not stupid cops. Some pretty bad ass cops.

The fights are excellent and intense. I rolled my eyes just a little when a gun fight broke out in a dance club and the reality was lost when no collateral damage of the customers. Just bad guys getting shot.

Speaking of shooting, the kills were powerful and just enough was shown to know its serious. A little more than the typical hollywood shoot out.

I recommend it for just a guys mindless action flick. Not enough to buy, but worthy of rent.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 08, 2012, 02:47:34 pm
The Legend of Zorro (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 08, 2012, 10:23:01 pm
The Hunger Games (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2012, 10:26:14 am
The Replacement Killers (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2012, 12:46:44 am
The Girl Next Door (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2012, 12:30:39 pm
Pleasantville (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2012, 09:09:03 am
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2012, 11:52:43 am
Edward Scissorhands (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2012, 09:13:27 pm
Sleepy Hollow (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 13, 2012, 02:07:03 pm
Melancholia (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 13, 2012, 09:52:40 pm
Donnie Brasco (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2012, 12:38:17 pm
Blow (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2012, 09:22:39 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 3)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2012, 09:42:08 am
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2012, 12:13:14 am
Swingers (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2012, 10:58:44 pm
Made (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 18, 2012, 12:03:13 am
The Aviator (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 19, 2012, 01:13:14 pm
Catch Me If You Can (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 19, 2012, 03:32:25 pm
Lost (Season 6 - 2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 20, 2012, 03:40:33 pm
Ed Wood (1994)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 20, 2012, 10:46:11 pm
Mission: Impossible (1996)

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Post by: Mac on September 21, 2012, 03:30:57 pm
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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This was not bad. Far better than ST 2 & 3. But not nearly as good as the original. They make no attempts to follow the formula, which probably would have been very risky and probably fail miserably. American actors and voices created by Japanese artists and direction. I thought the CGI was pretty good. About the same as Final Fantasy. In retrospect, after all this time you would have thought they could get the dead eye problem figured out by now. Some of the detail was amazing. I remember one up close scene of a character and you could actually see the little dust particles and filaments that float around when the sun light hits it right.

I was surprised to see nudity and by golly, it was well done. Character definition was pretty good. Had their own look and sound, despite being in armor most of the time.

They only used 3 different types of bug here. Also to distinguish themselves, 99% of the story is on space ships.

I recommend it if you like sci-fi, or the original Starship Troopers. There's enough blood, guts and gore, sex and cussing to make a very respectable R-rated movie.  ;D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3823VO9gG8
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Post by: Mac on September 21, 2012, 03:35:27 pm
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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This probably should get a much higher rating. It's not bad at all but I'm not it's target audience. At least I didn't feel it. I felt old people doing old things, in a slow way. The premise is interesting, I just am not ready to even think about my or anyone else's golden years. Bar my mom, which is depressing.

I was just not in the mood for it. Maybe 10 years from now I'll watch it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDY89LYxK0w
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 21, 2012, 05:07:03 pm
Starship Troopers: Invasion (2012) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)


This is the 4th installment right?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 22, 2012, 12:25:25 am
Mission: Impossible II (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 23, 2012, 09:22:10 am
The Last Samurai (2003)

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Post by: Mac on September 23, 2012, 03:34:14 pm
Cabin In The Woods (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Saw this in the theaters (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/what-are-you-looking-at-%28multiplex-edition%29/msg7888/#msg7888) and watched it again the other night on DVD. It lost a little of the surprise when I originally saw this. By surprise, I mean, they take license with some key horror scenario's, pay homage and throw a major twist throughout the film. It's fun for horror fans. It's also unique. I really enjoyed it.

I did notice this time some of the CGI/special effects where a tad cheesy in places, but not a big deal. Just watch it for fun.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 23, 2012, 03:42:49 pm
Totally forgot about this one. Adding this to my Hold List.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 24, 2012, 08:04:08 am
10 Things I Hate About You (1999)

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Post by: Mac on September 25, 2012, 11:46:34 am
What to Expect when You’re Expecting (1 star)

One star because it doesn’t insult your senses… it just is. The women are pretty. The men are a waste of time.
When watching the trailer, I actually had the thought this may be good. I believe the movie Bridesmaids screwed with my brain, by saying chick flicks can not only be fun, but laugh out loud funny. I have watched decent chick flicks… the titles all escape my tongue, but I know I’ve seen some.

What to Expect when You’re Expecting is nothing but a mindless bore. I pretty much had this pegged within the first 5 minutes of what the rest of the film would unroll out to be. Pretty clichéd with minimal humor. Or should I say humor I found to be funny. I think I’m pretty good at knowing humor from all perspectives, from crude to goofy little cute jokes. Expecting had goofy little jokes, but none that were funny.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 25, 2012, 11:48:04 am
Never heard of it.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2012, 06:09:08 pm
Totally dug Cabin In The Woods.

I watched two Stephen King movies last night-- Thinner and Pet Semetary.  Never seen either before.  I was just in that mood but I should really hold off until it's actually October.  Horror movies are strange for me because they usually never scare me (there are some visuals which repulse me but that's not fright).  Probably has to do with the fact that I don't believe in supernatural horror things.  I lived on property with a graveyard and I was never bothered by no undead horse ghosts.  And both movies have the same issue of people doing stupid things instead of sensible alternatives, PS in particular.  I mean, ask yourself, what would you do: your baby was killed by a truck?  Do you a) make a new baby, something so common it often happens by accident and involves f*cking your hot wife at least once, or b) dig up the corpse of your son, lug him across a foreboding landscape, rebury him, and hope he's not evil?  Forgetting apparently that everyone KNEW he was dead and wouldn't believe he'd come back to life and had to have been EMBALMED and so on before being buried?
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Post by: Mac on September 25, 2012, 07:34:00 pm
I read lots of stories that are just a blast... Too read. But sometimes they don't translate to well to film.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 25, 2012, 08:57:27 pm
Mean Girls (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2012, 06:53:28 pm
Gangs of New York (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 27, 2012, 07:32:29 pm
The New Guy (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 27, 2012, 11:18:10 pm
Coyote Ugly (2000)

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Post by: Mac on September 28, 2012, 06:57:01 am
The Avengers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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I didn’t expect much and pretty much got what I expected. Then again, I’m a fish out of water. Not really getting or understanding the super hero genre. The Avengers just confused me more by presenting a huge leap of faith by accepting this team of crime fighters from vastly different backgrounds, time, worlds and philosophies.

I really enjoy the Ironman movies. I enjoyed Thor and for the most part enjoyed Captain America… on their own terms. It’s the bringing together the characters that lost me.

I really could only relate to the human characters like Stark, the girl and the archer guy. But even then I didn’t understand their skills and part of the story. Starks dialog was witty, biting and satirical. As genius as he is and makes the most logical sense, I don’t get how he just accepts Thor, Hulk or Captain America. I found that completely contrary to his character.

My favorite scene are when all the Avengers are in the lab, blaming each other. Great comments and perspectives. I just wish the whole movie had that kind of deeper meaning and dialog. I found the Avengers, just a light coating of story of a bad guy from another world planning on conquering the world and only a hint Nick Fury might have some dark secrets. It’s a pretty shallow story, just waiting for the action scenes.

So now that it’s clear I’m not able to fully appreciate this genre of movie storytelling, let’s just get to the movie itself. It’s gorgeous. The sets are gorgeous and epic in size. New York backdrop, flying aircraft carrier, jets, city block size flying metallic creatures, alien armies. And pretty much all this gets pretty torn up or destroyed.

To me the 3rd act of the movie was let’s just throw every conceivable action, graphic, special effect we can. Ramp up the chaos to a maddening pace and visual. I felt it was like the Transformer movies, where even a large screen could not hold everything going on. I’m sure this was a wet dream to those who love this genre. It just made me watch the clock.

The movie is obviously not for me, so take my opinions with a HUGE grain of salt. I suggest a rent.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 28, 2012, 07:26:03 am
#30 on the wait list. Knowing your disdain for Superhero flicks, Imma take your review with a grain of salt, pepper and sand paper.
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Post by: Mac on September 28, 2012, 07:47:07 am
Ya, it's best not even listen to me on those things.
I'm talking out my ass and not a clue.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 28, 2012, 08:36:40 pm
Mission: Impossible III (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 29, 2012, 10:02:33 pm
We Bought A Zoo (2011)

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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2012, 08:49:23 pm
Think Like a Man (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

This just blew me away with just constant humor and sharp writing. Typically movies like this come out of the gate very funny but loose steam halfway through. I found myself laughing out loud to the end. The quick dialog, great characters and comedic actors made this so much fun to watch. Hey it had two of my fav comedians Kevin Hart and Romany Malco. When these guys were on the screen, they just stole the lines.

And the fine, fine women had my heart pounding from their beauty. Of course my girlfriend Gabrielle Union was a big part of it. Though they delivered the straight lines, they perfectly set up the men for the funny.

5 friends with different women issues, Momma's Boy, The Player, The Non-Committed, The divorced man, all had great lines, some so rapid fire, it was difficult to keep up with.

I highly recommend this. Consistently funny and charming through out.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7VmU8aHAtw
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2012, 08:52:24 pm
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Interesting. Will definitely check this out. Adding to Hold List.
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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2012, 08:55:07 pm
Snow White and the Huntsman (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I guess I'm finding fantasy films for the most part are just not my thing. I thought this looked good, but just left me bored despite some very cool magical scenes. The characters were OK. Charlize Theron was awesome. Chris Hemsworth was OK, Kristen Stewart I just don't understand the praise. She's got one look of angst and that's pretty much it throughout the film.

I gave it an hour, but after little happening, I started to NOT watch it. I feel asleep the last half hour. I can't recommend this at all. Wasn't fantastical or interesting.
 

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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2012, 09:00:32 pm
Lola Versus (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

This was not a horrible film, but it wasn't much more than movie on CW or Lifetime. The constant struggle of a woman after her fiance calls off the wedding. Just about every situation has been shown in any movie before. Zero surprises.

Not bad, not good.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15kG87BW22Y
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 02, 2012, 10:03:50 am
Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 02, 2012, 10:44:21 pm
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol (2011)

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Post by: Mac on October 03, 2012, 05:41:08 pm
Finally, I got to see this...

Art of Flight (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

Probably the most artistic gorgeous film I’ve witnessed. If you watch the ‘Making of’ it becomes obvious why. The makers of the film invested in some of the best Cineflex camera’s available and used every method available to make the footage just awe inspiring. The technique’s (slow-mo, ultra slow-mo, helicopters, RC copters, cranes, attached camera’s, etc are mixed and balanced throughout.

I believe filming snow landscapes has its shares of challenges, but these guys captured it perfectly.

This is more an art film than a documentary. Pretty much just capturing amazing moments. Its artistic filming where they are capturing these athletes performing on a backdrop of earthly snow canvases, few humans get to see.

The snowboarders: These guys are true athletes and I now know what No Fear means. Jaw dropping stunts down the side of mountains.

I’m sure some people are confused by the title of flight, especially if they are not familiar with snowboarding, but flight is demonstrated in so many ways here. The hang times these guys get are just tremendous.

For a snow boarder, this is a wet dream of a film. I loved it despite I will never do it or want to do it. It was just amazing to watch. It did feel a little long towards the end, but that’s a very small nit. Most of the music fits nicely with the editing. There was one song just annoying.

Very little talking except for some comments and a voice over. The movie is all in the visuals.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh29_SERH0Y

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 03, 2012, 10:08:42 pm
Scream (1996)

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Post by: Mac on October 05, 2012, 10:03:20 am
Iron Sky (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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Watch the trailer. Yes, it is as goofy and silly as it appears and yet charming. Again, I would have loved to sat in on the creative portion of this and more so the pitching it to a studio.

I believe you will either hate it or really like it. It takes all kinds of liberties with storyline. I was intrigued to see what ridiculous thing would happen next.

Iron Sky reminds me of a cross between Sky Captain (the general look) and Austin Powers flicks. Not the obvious comedic focus on Austin, but all the humorous stuff going on in the background. You will not laugh out loud, but I think grin a lot.

I was rather impressed with the sets and CGI work for an obviously tight budgeted film. The acting… phtttt… all forgettable.

It's Rated R for language

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He_PWsJqsVY

I mentioned this earlier this year here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/all-things-sci-fi/msg10344/#msg10344) expecting something different here.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 05, 2012, 03:59:57 pm
Scream 2 (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 06, 2012, 01:35:34 am
Scream 3 (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 06, 2012, 09:15:27 pm
Scre4m (2011)

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Post by: Mac on October 07, 2012, 08:52:29 am
People Like Us (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)
Chris Pine,  Elizabeth Banks

I don't know what I was expecting when I put this, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Based on a true story, this does take twists and turns that kept me engaged. At times you could see what was coming, but most of the story is a very emotional heart tugging plot. I could relate to the children (Frankie and Sam) having the same dick of a father. All the characters including Michelle Pfeiffer as dead father's wife and Michael Hall D'Addario as the grandson with a rebel cause just filled this story out nicely.

It's all drama. Not syrupy drama. I highly recommend checking it out. It's a chick flick kinda... but more an every man's movie.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-fhfp5kWfQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 08, 2012, 10:06:07 pm
Some Kind of Wonderful (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 09, 2012, 11:16:55 pm
Batman Begins (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 11, 2012, 11:09:59 am
The Dark Knight (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 11, 2012, 11:18:58 pm
Planet Terror (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 12, 2012, 08:58:17 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 13, 2012, 08:23:13 pm
A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 14, 2012, 02:00:18 pm
50/50 (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 14, 2012, 11:28:51 pm
Prometheus (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2012, 03:34:43 pm
Alien (1979)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 17, 2012, 02:04:38 pm
Aliens (1986)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 17, 2012, 11:02:42 pm
Alien³ (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 18, 2012, 08:41:29 pm
Alien: Resurrection (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 20, 2012, 02:37:14 pm
Episodes (Season 1 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 20, 2012, 03:28:41 pm
"Couple's Retreat" is on USA right now, never seen it before but the minute I flipped to it, they showed Kristin Bell stripping out of her clothes on the beach.  Immediately thought of ChipRocks.  Now if only they show her in a waterfall, we'll both be happy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 20, 2012, 03:32:46 pm
Hey! Stop ogling my woman!!
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Post by: Neumatic on October 20, 2012, 03:45:27 pm
Hey, you want it, gotta put three rings on it!  (it's a Romney joke)
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Post by: Neumatic on October 20, 2012, 04:29:11 pm
aaaaaand she just jumped into the water in her underwear.  Another girl missing from that montage.  And pulled herself out, dripping wet, bouncy and energetic.  Terrible movie but damn I'm glad I stayed for that bit.

Seriously, this whole movie about these people's marriage problems-- just watch Kristin Bell get out of the water, how can anything be bad ina  world where THAT can exist?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 20, 2012, 10:08:41 pm
The Avengers (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 22, 2012, 10:34:32 pm
I watched Beetlejuice the other day.  I never owned the movie (and I didn't grow up with it) so I've only seen it a handful of times, I'd forgotten stuff like Robert Goulet being Jeffrey Jones' boss.  And if they ever get around to making that ill-advised sequel, they need to get Will Ferrell to play Goulet in that part.  I really don't have too much of an opinion on the movie, but I will say after the Banana Boat song I had to pause and pull up the TRS episode where they recreated that scene, just made me realize how much I miss those openings.

I never knew that Sammy Davis Jr was on the shortlist for Beetlejuice, that would have been interestingly strange.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 22, 2012, 10:43:14 pm
It's been so long since I've seen Beetlejuice, I can hardly remember much of anything from it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 23, 2012, 11:49:43 pm
Underworld (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 25, 2012, 12:20:12 am
Underworld: Evolution (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 25, 2012, 09:39:51 pm
Freddy vs. Jason (2003)

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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2012, 07:29:25 am
The Artist (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

I'll give this The Artist the benefit of doubt. I was so bored from the beginning, I did not finish. Actually no more than 20 minutes. I couldn't imagine it getting any better. It appears Oscar winning movies swing back to those I just do not care about. The Artist which, yes, a salute to Hollywood would get some recognition. I just don't see this more than anomaly.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2012, 07:34:06 am
That bad huh? I haven't seen it and personally, I don't agree with 95% of what gets chosen as the winner for Best Picture.
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2012, 08:14:47 am
Oh, I don't know about being bad. It just did not interest me in any way. The silence was deafening and the story just looked blah.

Not my cup of tea.
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2012, 08:45:27 am
Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I remember hearing about this and just rolling my eyes. Then I saw the trailer and thought maybe, just maybe this could be good.

It's not. In my mind it's a real push for a mash-up. Hey, it's hip, it's unique... that has to make it good.

The production values are excellent. The sets are great, the action which by the way is fairly bloody, and the characters are somewhat believable. But what I'm not buying is the iconic figure of Lincoln battling vampyre's. They gave it a good go. Plenty going on, but seriously, even for a fantasy or horror or whatever they want to call it, it has it's major flaw. Why they stuck with Lincoln using a hatchet as a weapon, I felt, made it look silly. Did not buy into and after awhile I was watching the clock.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zk_Q6bAjss

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2012, 08:49:42 am
I was mildly interested in checking this out. Not so much now.
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2012, 08:51:34 am
Seeking a Friend for the End of the World (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

The trailer is really a good representation of the movie. Depressing, slow and people saying and doing very dumb stuff. I can't believe any one would say and do the things these people are doing on the screen. Truly eye rolling stuff.

It's boring from the start, but we gave it 45 minutes. Gahhhhhhh, what crap

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T43InzvBm-k

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 28, 2012, 07:03:31 am
John Carter (2012)

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Post by: Mac on October 28, 2012, 02:57:36 pm
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The Madagascar movies are pure pleasure for me. Love the characters, the animation is amazing. 3 is not nearly as good as 1 or 2, but since they are great, 3 is just a little below great. I would think they have exhausted the story lines now, but I could be wrong.

3 concentrating on joining a European traveling circus allowed a whole slew of new characters and they were fantastic. I think where they missed the mark is the peak circus show. It went all Fantasia on us and I found a little odd. The color and realism going completely psychedelic.

I highly recommend this if you like great animation with funny story telling. If the 3 ever come in a decent package, I wouldn't hesitate picking all 3 up for myself.

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Post by: Mac on October 30, 2012, 06:02:10 pm
Resident Evil: Damnation (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I really enjoyed Damnation. While the plot is lifted from other similar themes and other resident evil movies, it different enough to be part of the series. The motion capture animation is excellent. The facial features are absolutely amazing. They still have not mastered the zombie eyes though. This is non-stop action packed story telling. The camera angles are cool and bring this up to some of the best Hollywood action films. I felt the last few minutes really fell flat, but other than that, park your brain at the door and sit back and get into the action.

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Post by: Mac on October 30, 2012, 06:11:07 pm
The Best Worst Movie (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I love bad movies... sometimes and love what Mystery Science Theater 3000 has done with many of them. This is a documentary on one particular movie and the legions of fans and the actors and director from Troll 2. It was very light hearted. Not bad for a documentary.

I myself have never seen Troll 2. I may have to try to check it out sometime. This movie is by the child actor in the movie who is now in his 30's. George Hardy really glued this movie together with his presence.

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Post by: Mac on October 30, 2012, 07:00:05 pm
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Chillerama is supposed to be homage to the old drive in B-type horror movies. It’s a collection of 4 very different films wrapped within a story of a Drive-in theater closing. Taking notes from the Troma team, Chillerama tried to be gross, funny and lots of sex. It was definitely gross in a cartoonish kind of way. It was really just one joke for each film where only Wadzilla halfway succeeded. Little titillation. I enjoyed the first film Wadzilla with its goofy premise, bad special effects, horrible script, etc. It’s the 2nd feature where it takes a huge right turn and never gets back its fun. I was a teenage werebear was all about male homosexuality with singing and dancing and just completely ruins the film. The 3rd, Diary of Anne Frankenstein wanted to be fun, but it was with all sub-titles and that was just way to much work for a silly underworked film like this. The last film Defecation falls squarely on a Troma salute, but not funny or entertaining at all. Thankfully it’s interrupted by a zombie attack on the Drive-in and chaos erupts.

I really wanted to believe this had entertainment value, but unfortunately it does not. After the first 25 minutes, it just sinks from stupidity to uber stupidity. Look, I know it was all about B-movies and grind house, but this really stunk.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 30, 2012, 07:16:44 pm
Resident Evil: Damnation

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 30, 2012, 07:18:33 pm
Chillerama Look, I know it was all about B-movies and grind house, but this really stunk.


....but an awesome Poster though!!!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 31, 2012, 06:56:29 am
Se7en (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 01, 2012, 08:43:48 am
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Phil Hartman (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 02, 2012, 06:21:20 pm
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Dana Carvey (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 02, 2012, 11:26:38 pm
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 03, 2012, 10:28:06 pm
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 04, 2012, 03:55:59 pm
Was surprised that Charlie Jade is on Netflix... and dumbstruck that it wasn't recommended to me since it's right up my alley.  I had to ****ing search for it, and it's just dumb luck that I knew about it (as the effects group that did the show also did Galidor).  I have the first ten eps on DVD from Paris but it takes for ****ing EVER to load those so having it streaming is very welcome.

The show starts in this sort of Blade Runner-esque dystopia.  Charlie Jade is a private investigator who turns down a case from a scared, confused young woman with no records... a ghost.  When she ends up dead, he suspects 01 Boxer, the son of the CEO of Vexcorp, a company that runs the whole world.  But when he tracks down Boxer, he winds up in the center of a terrorist attack that destroys a massive reactor and sends Jade and the terrorist responsible to a strange new world-- ours.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2012, 04:19:36 pm
Do you stream Netfiix onto your computer or your TV. I find that things for whatever reason stream faster on TV, even if they are using the same method. Go figure.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 04, 2012, 04:37:03 pm
TV.... though my Roku is a **** sometimes.  Though HD doesn't dream well at all on my TV but does great on my laptop.  Go figure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2012, 04:50:19 pm
Mines the opposite. I can have zero "connectivity" on my PC but have no problems pulling up shows on my TV at the same time. Weird.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2012, 07:39:07 pm
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 05, 2012, 08:04:45 pm
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 06, 2012, 10:09:56 pm
Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 07, 2012, 06:43:26 pm
Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace (1999)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 07, 2012, 08:35:59 pm
Re-watching Doctor Detroit, which I discovered last night.  It's very close to Night Shift, a movie my dad and I both dug ages ago.  The premise is pretty simple, Howard Hesseman plays this pimp named Smooth Walker who's been embezzling from a mob boss, so he skips town leaving the unwitting, timid teacher played by Dan Aykroyd as his "partner."  And not only does Aykroyd do it, he invents this strange "mwraw" persona that becomes a big sensation in town and he has to balance that newfound fame and insanity with his responsibilities to his college, which is of course on the line.

I actually enjoyed this movie more than I thought I would (and it has what would be a great cameo reveal if it hadn't been spoiled in the opening credits) but I have issues with it, the plot if very straight lined and you can see where everything is headed, and this is a big issue for me, the female characters are all flat.  They get to do one or two fun things but they're plot devices, they're not fully fleshed out which I have a problem with as a writer, a viewer and a person.

I think this is actually ripe for a remake, though.  I kept thinking of Donald Glover every time the driver popped up, and I was trying to think of who could be the next Doctor, and I think Bill Hader could be brilliant, not just making his own Doctor persona but making up tons of other associates and doing crazier voices.  There was one Fletch-like moment in a courtroom and just wanted more.  The movie as it stands is a great idea that should be fleshed out and explored and played with to an insane extreme.  And of course, the girls should ALL be scene-stealers and fully fleshed out next time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2012, 05:46:50 am
I haven't seen Doctor Detroit in well over 25 years. I remember absolutely nothing about the movie except the poster.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2012, 02:03:04 pm
Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2012, 09:28:26 pm
Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2012, 11:31:24 am
R2-D2: Beneath the Dome (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2012, 01:14:40 pm
Hardware Wars (1978)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2012, 02:53:07 pm
George Lucas in Love (1999)

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Post by: Mac on November 09, 2012, 04:18:40 pm
[REC] 3; Genesis (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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[REC] 3 Genesis is the unimaginative name of the obvious sequel to the Spanish horror franchise REC. The original REC had some very fresh ideas. While it did feel like many video games with the dimly lit and claustrophobic hallways and rooms, the raw footage with no named people really amped up the horror and scare points. The first sequel, which is overlaps the first movie by minutes, takes the adventure in a completely different arena with an airplane and airport.

[REC] 3 Genesis just completely jumps the rails in many respects. The director apparently said, let’s try humor. It worked for Shaun of the Dead.

Hey, let’s also through some religion into the mix. See, the people who just turned into zombies are really Satan’s children. That’s right. That’s not Uncle Floyd having a bad day. That’s really Beelzebub in Uncle’s skin. Hear me out. It makes sense doesn’t it?

Not...

… the gore and blood still fill the screen, but so does the nonsense. I’m pretty sure the core idea was to take this petite woman on her wedding day and turn her into a chain saw warrior. In her wedding dress of course. Start filming now and we’ll build a story around it.

The only good part is they thankfully dropped the found footage angle. It started off that way and was quite stomach churning, but ended once the zombie’s broke out.

It’s not horrible, it just doesn’t fit in with the previous two. And you could walk away for a bit, come back and still know what happened.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JjoiNcQWrc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2012, 09:42:45 pm
Munich (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2012, 02:51:06 pm
Cinderella Man (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2012, 10:10:00 pm
Jennifer's Body (2009)

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Post by: Mac on November 11, 2012, 05:55:28 pm
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Wow, that's 2 hours of my life I'll never get back. That See-ucked major dong. Rock of Ages is a High School Muscial, I guess for adults, because all the music is from the 80's. I would say I loved the music, but the musical just butchered the songs. I'm not a real fan of watching celebrities lip sync karaoke style old classic rock songs.

The ridiculous story produced some of the more horrible lines ever. Alex Baldwin, Russell Brand, Paul Giamatti all had vampy over the top chacracters that just made me squirm. The focus on the two young stars was typical musical story telling. I didn't think either one did terribly well and down right awful in their singing, which they did a lot.

I was sure this wasn't a movie I was wanting to see, but now I'm pissed that I wasted my time watching it.

GAWD that sucked and sucked on the sucking.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2012, 07:39:07 pm
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2012, 10:15:19 pm
Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 12, 2012, 09:41:37 pm
13 Going on 30 (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 13, 2012, 02:55:28 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 2 - 2008)

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Post by: Mac on November 13, 2012, 07:05:14 pm
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Who am I kidding. I don't care for super hero movies and especially was thinking a reboot... already?

So don't read this review because I thought it blew. First, the reboot. Really? WTF, it wasn't that long ago with the other movies, what, less than 5 years? And from what I do remember, dayum, if it's not the same story with how he became spiderman and his girlfriend and the goofy character... gahhhhhhh.

Don't even get me going on the villian. I just have to roll my freakin eyes. A talking lizard?

I think Hollywood has really lost it. Major saturation of the super hero movies... to the point of starting to do them over?

Emma Stone was my only savior in this. I could just watch her eyes all night.

So, sucky review of the year here. Take it with a grain of salt.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 13, 2012, 07:12:10 pm
You'll be happy to know they are rebooting Batman within 3 years. Hope to see you standing in line with a bucket of popcorn. No lie.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 15, 2012, 02:42:10 pm
I'm so hoping for Black Batman next time... I've got a little alternate Justice League growing in my head, black Batman, Indeterminate-Race Superman (appropriately alien), Korean Flash...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2012, 02:53:26 pm
I say go with a Korean Batman played by none other than Jim Lee.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2012, 01:26:18 pm
Sunset Blvd. (1950)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2012, 03:47:29 pm
Had a bit of an unintentional Kevin Spacey film festival over the last couple of days.

I THINK it started with re-watching Horrible Bosses where Kevin Spacey played, of course, a horrible boss.  I'd forgotten about Colin Farrell's brill and underused character in the movie, and I love that he gets to do these sorts of crazy roles, I always want to see more of him now.  And I know I could have gone for more of Julie Bowen's slutty wife character.

After that, or possibly the day before, I can't be certain, was Swimming With Sharks which I had never seen before despite liking the promos for it on various videotapes in the 90s.  And of course I remember it from "Rebel Without A Crew."  Spacey hit this great venom-spitting abusive high in this movie and I think he'd been around before then but I'm sure this is what put him on a lot of peoples' radar (whereas I don't think I've seen the actual MAIN ACTOR from that movie again).  Benicio Del Toro also has a small role as Spacey's first assistant.

I think at this point I watched the full-length trailer for "House of Cards," the David Fincher Netflix-exclusive series where Spacey is a prick in politics (I think a whole lot of these roles are "Spacey is a prick in..." but he's so entertaining to watch, I'm fine with that.  I would LOVE to see a tongue-in-cheek "Making of" where Kevin Spacey plays himself AS the **** he plays in so many movies.  But I wonder if that might get lost on people (and if I can say, I think my favourite prick role of his was as the man who invented sarcasm on Saturday Night Live, which I think he's overdue to host again).

Then poking around Netflix's menus and it's insane amount of doubles, I found Margin Call which I had never seen before, chronicling the night before the 2008 Wall Street collapse began.  It's got great people like Stanley Tucci, Zachary Quinto, Demi Moore, and Paul Bettany in it and the fact it all takes place over one night really ratchets up the "you are there" feel to it.  Unfortunately, the movie commits the sin of "tell me in plain english" SEVERAL times, and one literal "explain it to me like I'm a child" (delivered by m-f-ing JEREMY IRONS, who you'e just like "h-ll yes!" when he shows up), but they still do a TERRIBLE job at explaining exactly what the problem is.  It reminded me of something Lewis Black said, "if you have a company, and you can't explain in one sentence what it DOES, it should be illegal!"  And the low budget and style of shooting makes it feel like a movie from the 80s in a GOOD way, like the kind of serious movies that were coming out for adults t watch like "Wall Street" and the like without being crummy like the second "Wall Street."  And we seriously need more Paul Bettany in our movies.  And Jeremy Irons, 'cause he delivers a nice bit about the true nature of money at the end.

And from an unclear issue to good-old-fashioned greed, we move to C asino Jack, based on the book and starring Kevin Spacey as Jack Abramoff, and I gotta say I really liked his turn in this movie.  Abramoff apparently produced two Dolph Lungdren movies (he had a poster of Red Scorpion in the office, and I accidentally found out that movie is ALSO on Netflix!) and a big movie buff, so Spacey had a chance to pull out his impressions and I think it actually adds to the character.  The movie focuses on Spacey and his partner-in-crime (Barry Pepper, who I liked but couldn't help thinking of Denis Leary the whole time) deciding to make some extra green ripping off an indian tribe that wants to open a c asino, then they decide to get into the gambling business themselves, dealing with a Greek immagrant-turned-mobster who owns a fleet of c asino boats, and them going money crazy.  What really makes it for me is just how great and full-of-himself Spacey's character is, he's got delusions of grandeur but they're justified and he believes them, he doesn't play himself as a bad guy, just a bit of an **** who wants way too much and decides to take it (his whole justification is laid out right at the start of the movie and you could totally agree with it, which is how he draws you in).  And of course, their front guy for the c asino boats is about the best casting I've seen in a while and the role that guy needed.

I don't know what'll be next, but I think I'd have to revisit this short that came out that Spacey did with Erin Cahill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pOPJxBjHkgc&
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2012, 04:50:35 pm
Swimming With Sharks is awesome. But I'm surprised that you didn't finish your Spacey marathon with his crown jewel: The Usual Suspects. And you certainly can't lose with L.A. Confidential (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/l-a-confidential-(1997)/msg9539/#msg9539) either.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2012, 04:56:59 pm
Well, it's not really over, and I don't HAVE either of those movies (shocking, I know).  Getting the mailers would arrive after the "mood" has worn off so they technically wouldn't count.

And BTW, I can't believe "ca sino" gets censored automatically on this board.  What the heck?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2012, 05:46:41 pm

And BTW, I can't believe "ca sino" gets censored automatically on this board.  What the heck?

No sh*t. I've told the software guy that built the forum software that it's too restrictive. I can't even talk about John Lee  H o o k e r on here without some creative workarounds.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2012, 06:06:44 pm
Especially considering at the moment there only seems to be THREE of us on here and we're all adults.  I'm amazed it hasn't occurred to us to just Skype or something.  And kick it off with a curse-a-thon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2012, 06:09:08 pm
Well there is the fact that he has set it up this way so that he can charge money to unlock it to do whatever you want. F u c k  that. I have ways around it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2012, 09:42:34 pm
Chinatown (1974)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 17, 2012, 08:04:25 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 3 - 2009)

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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2012, 05:38:13 pm
Friends With Kids (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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To be honest I picked this up thinking about my wife. She looooooves this stuff. I have found most of them to be throw away and sometimes down right unbearable. Friends with Kids was a nice diversion. I wasn't even planning on watching it. With a pretty slick cast (most from Bridesmaids) and a thought provoking script, this does tackle some obvious questions. Yes, it's still a rom-com, but I found the dialogue witty and not running out of steam like a lot of these films do. It's still a stupid premise, yes I'm looking at you Sex and the City, because of two two friends who think it's a good idea to have a kid.

With Adam Scott and Jennifer Westfeldt (who I've never seen before) did have chemistry and believable characters. The rest of the cast was actually more interesting with small snippets of comedic lines. Kristen Wiig, for some reason didn't do much, which was surprising.

I thought it went on a little to long. You really knew where this was heading, but you had to watch the roller coaster of evolution to reality formulate. It just went on and on.

I will say the last 3 minutes totally f ucked this movie over. I honestly dropped my jaw. I had to look at my wife and ask if I really saw what I saw. I mean the whole movie, as I said, was fun and well written, but they suddenly didn't know how to end it. It was brash, unexpected, stupid and not at all like the rest of the movie.

Bizarre ending is all I can say.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV78ACyRh3E
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 19, 2012, 05:42:20 pm
Never even heard of this flix till now. So, does the ending negate everything that came before? Refrain from spoilers if possible. Thanks dude.
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2012, 05:43:27 pm
Neither had I.


Added the trailer.

by the way, Jennifer Westfeldt, is totally hot in the girl next door kind of way.
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Post by: Mac on November 20, 2012, 06:58:05 am
Brave - Disney/Pixar (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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Believe it or not, my wife actually sat down and watched this with me... and she enjoyed it. As did I. It's not amazing like some of the Pixar flicks. The art is amazing, the story is fun and well paced. It will please both kids and adults, which must really be a challenge.

I did find the odd turn events half way through the film to really make me do a double take. Not bad... just odd. Was not expecting that at all. I rolled with it and continued to enjoy the rest of the movie. Brave's red hair is amazing actually. It does stick out like a flame, as probably intended.

I highly recommend Brave. You won't be disappointed.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 20, 2012, 07:00:08 am
Already on my radar.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 20, 2012, 08:46:27 pm
Gone Baby Gone (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 21, 2012, 07:11:43 pm
Underworld: Awakening (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 22, 2012, 09:05:49 pm
The Town (2010)

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Post by: Mac on November 23, 2012, 10:55:21 am
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I give Magic Mike two stars... generously. Not sure it even deserves that. And not for the reason a lot of guys might think. I did not watch this as if geared for women only and shun my eyes because of male strippers.  This movie is for both genders.

The problem is it's got no story. I mean this was one boring, one dimensional story. Guy strips, has other jobs, finds a young guy to join, has a little bit of dialogue with new friends sister.

That's it at best. The dancing which all happened in one place started to bore me real quick. I have zero interest in what male strippers lives are like. It's rather mundane. It reminded me of Cocktail. Really, you're going to build a story around a bartender? Same thing in Magic Mike.

Matthew McConaughey is on the verge of doing his same arrogant, loud character over and over. Channing Tatum was decent in his role. All the other male strippers were just one dimensional and I didn't care about any of 'em.

I don't care if this movie is directed by Steven Soderbergh. That means little to me except I know he can do good work. This wasn't one of them.

Cody Horn is definitely easy on the eyes and has a little bit of Jessica Beal going on.

Oh and you do get to Oliva's Munn's mommy parts. Didn't know it until the camera came close up to her face. Her acting is OK.

B-o-r-i-n-g

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 23, 2012, 11:16:11 am
Had you given this 5 stars, I still have no desire to watch this. Swap out the actors with Playboy Bunnies and I'm singing a different tune.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 24, 2012, 08:16:12 am
Cop Land (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 24, 2012, 04:39:46 pm
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2012, 01:07:36 pm
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 26, 2012, 07:03:22 am
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 26, 2012, 07:51:36 pm
Just finished "Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter."  I knew that Timur Bekmembatov (hereinafter "Becky" as Morgan Freeman calls him) was involved but I didn't realize he directed it, but DAMN it's a real step down style-wise from Wanted, which is so funny because I'm sure that the budget was higher than Wanted had.  And the style of it felt VERY tv-movie as well.  I'm a little heartbroken, to be honest.

It's not fair to compare this Lincoln to the "proper" Daniel Day-Lewis portrayal (which I admit I haven't seen) but there's something "Abe" that's missing, probably because he's playing Abe as a character and not "Abe," if that makes sense.  And while I love Mary Elizabeth Winstead, I kept thinking she made an odd-choice of portraying depressive Mary Todd Lincoln as SMILING all the time, but then there's the time jump.  She didn't really get to be crazy, though.

I feel like the movie should have played more with the biopic conventions, in the same way that Walk Hard did.  I wonder if part of that is Timur's extent of film-knowledge and genre-saaviness... perhaps there needed to be more adaptation-ness done to the script, to suit the story for screens.  Because apparently the book is quite good, but between this and Dark Shadows might point out a weakness for the medium that Seth Graeme-Smith has... and I only say this because being able to overcome an issue like that is being aware of it, and I HOPE he gets better with the film adaptations because the dude has some crazy ideas.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 26, 2012, 07:54:58 pm
So, is Vampire Hunter a Skip then? I don't think Mac gave it a good review IIRC.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 26, 2012, 08:17:28 pm
I don't know, I liked it enough to not skip it but didn't like it enough to recommend (although Alan Tudyk popping in made me giggle).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 26, 2012, 09:00:06 pm
Drillbit Taylor (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 27, 2012, 08:09:45 pm
Surrogates (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 28, 2012, 08:11:29 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 4 - 2010)

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Post by: Mac on November 30, 2012, 01:44:59 pm
Lawless (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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I didn’t hear much about Lawless when it hit the theaters. I was mildly interested. Period films have such a specific appeal for me. Either I’m absorbed like the 1920’s of Lawless or typically they put me off. Lawless did a fantastic job of painting the time period with sets, costumes, style, etc. Unfortunately the story I’ve seen untold times before. The movie really never grabs you. Sure, there is conflict of a corrupt mob leaders coming into the backwoods during prohibition and it becomes a war of city vs. country folk, but it’s been done before. I couldn’t get vested in anybody. Tom Hardy was good as Forrest, a quiet ghost like leader. Guy Pearce was the over the top bad guy. Shia LeBeouf I was a little surprised that he had a rather wimpy character. I expected that transformation of fully taking over like Michel in the Corleone family of the Godfather. But to little too late. The rest… phtttt.

While there were a couple of brutal bloody scenes, it was not that bloody. Not a bad film and I guess intended for a new generation of film goers, because the older generation has seen this movie many times over.

A rent for a buck is decent.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2pjH_dQQDg
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 30, 2012, 02:01:30 pm
Never heard of it. Was this Direct-To-DVD?
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Post by: Mac on November 30, 2012, 02:52:24 pm
No, it was a major release. I don't recall about it's popularity or staying power
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Post by: Neumatic on December 01, 2012, 03:53:38 pm
I've HEARD of Lawless.  I just have no desire whatsoever to SEE Lawless.  What's up with all these films I should be digging not drawing in my interest at all?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 03, 2012, 09:33:08 pm
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)

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Post by: Mac on December 04, 2012, 04:17:17 pm
Paranorman (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I was really psyched to see this because I heard so much good about it. Don't get me wrong, it is a very good movie...
... but....

I find Paranorman would probably appeal the best to the tweens or early teens. It is a family movie, but it has that sugary safe look and feel all the time. The humor is OK, but not laugh out loud. All the characters are a blast. I love how they made them so different with facial features, body features and movement. Unfortunately they are stereotypical and we've seen all these characters a million times before.

Like I said, Paranorman is a fun movie, but I have two small gripes. Well, one isn't small. It's the story. It's just not that great. A boy, who because he can see ghosts, is osterized by just about everyone. The other complaint I have is the muted colors. I was expecting some wow throughout the whole movie. There are moments of brilliance, but the overall look is somewhat restrained. I guess I'm really comparing this to some other recent movies that are just amazing in color and depth like How to Train Your Dragon and Dragon Hunters.

Check it out. I know I'm being very nit-picky and I guess I had my hopes  up way high, but you won't regret checking this out.

The extra's are the making of and there are a few good clips that are interesting.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgwSpajMw3s
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Post by: Neumatic on December 04, 2012, 06:23:54 pm
Still have to watch that.

I saw Starship Troopers Invasion the other night and it literally p issed me off so much I had trouble sleeping-- so much needless adrenaline.  I don't know if you saw the making ofs, but I'm so glad I did because just about everything they were boasting about, I felt like the exact opposite was true, pretty much exclusively across the board (with the exception of maybe the spaceships, I did like those).

I also finally saw "Whatever Happened To Baby Jane" (if for no other reason than the one-page summary in "Black Dossier") and it was messed-up and crazy like I was hoping for, now I have to watch "Mommie Dearest" because there's something so cyclically wonderful about the person who played a real physically abused person in a classic film being a real-life abusive person being portrayed in another classic movie by another actress.  It's mind-bending but I like that sort of thing.

Elf is on right now.  I was never a big fan of it-- I enjoy it a little more each time I see it, but I'm still glad that they never made the sequel-- although I am curious to know if they could have actually gotten Bill Clinton to do a cameo in the UN of Santa Clauses scene (yeah, it was a real thing).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2012, 06:55:31 pm
Mommie Dearest is awesome in a bad way. Watching Faye Dunaway channeling her inner Joan Crawford is both delicious and disturbing at the same time.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 04, 2012, 08:14:50 pm
Please tell me Faye Dunaway was up to some insane sh it as well, I know it's terrible but I kinda want the crazy train to continue.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2012, 08:23:03 pm
NO! WIRE! HANGERS!!!!!!!!!!!

A little factoid about the movie, or more to the point of what the movie meant to Faye as an actress. Long before I heard it from her in print, I always thought Mommie Dearest did such damage to her career that she would never bounce back. She confirmed the same sentiment herself. It really did do a number on her after the fact. So, you can imagine how over the top she is in this that would pretty much end her career for the most part.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 04, 2012, 10:21:20 pm
I'm doing my own story on abusive parents and I'm trying REALLY hard not to make them arch but some of these old black and white performances are so wonderfully over the top I just wanna roll with them, "your daddy doesn't love you he should love ME you're just a gooey fart I shat out and gave a name to!" and so on.

Anyway, watching, I watched Tommy Boy last night and it still makes me rewind bits over and over again.  Now just some old Voyager episodes until I get tired enough to fall asleep for god knows how long tonight since I'm only on three hours from the night before.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 05, 2012, 08:52:33 pm
The Patriot (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 06, 2012, 06:43:51 pm
Braveheart (1995)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 06, 2012, 08:11:03 pm
Moonrise Kingdom.  Quite enjoying it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2012, 10:49:02 am
Old School (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2012, 03:54:13 pm
Moonraker (1979)

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Post by: Mac on December 07, 2012, 04:21:09 pm
Men In Black ³ Three III 3 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I went into this expecting little if anything. Maybe, just maybe there was a small flame of hope in me, but alas, quickly blown out. This is not nearly as good as the original and not as bad as the 2nd one, but that's not saying much.

Men In Black only has two things going for it. One is time travel and the cool sets, the other is Josh Brolin's characterization of K. Really the only thing is his voice, because K really has no personality and a deadpan face. Beyond that, this movie was made strictly for a money grab and probably Barry Sonnenfields ego. Has that man done anything of any good 'cept for the first MIB? Will Smith seemed to be forcing the humor and it made it that much more tedious to watch. Cool sets, aliens, weapons, CGI, blah, blah, blah... but what have I been saying. No story... no watchie. Even a bad story I could make fun of would of helped, but this just lacked in any kind of humor, soul or personality. Again, another movie for the tween set I believe. I could not recommend this in any way.

I doubt I'd ever turn it on again.  :-\

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2012, 05:06:09 pm
I had no desire to see this when it came out and the same holds true for the DVD. It's on the bottom of my list. Actually, it's not even on my list.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2012, 09:49:24 pm
Mad Men (Season 1 - 2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 07, 2012, 10:13:29 pm
My problem with MIB3 was my same problem with JJ's Star Trek and any other movie where time travel is a conceit-- namely that the characters have one predetermined thing they have to do and a set of instructions they need to follow in order to get to that final part.  And since they're always told in advance what to do, they just follow instructions.  There's really no room for plot twists or turns or to let the characters dictate the action.  The whole structure makes the story feel unsurprising, it's plot driven and not character driven.  Now I keep hearing that people don't care about plot, they care about characters, but I don't think that's an absolute truth, I KNOW people want to be surprised by the story and not know about what happens next.  When the plot is so connect-the-dots, it all comes down to the characters and most movies can't and don't have strong enough characters to compensate for that.

I was really hoping when Will Arnett popped up that it would be the first of a parade of wild and silly cameos.  No such luck.

I also felt that the 60s B-movie tech was severely underused.  So much wasted potential there.
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Post by: Mac on December 08, 2012, 05:16:57 am
Great point about time travel. I'd not thought of that. Couldn't agree more about plot and characters.
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Post by: Mac on December 08, 2012, 01:30:41 pm
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Huge letdown in every respect. This movie was and still is getting a lot of buzz. It's been played up for awhile about the newest kind of horror to come out in awhile. V/H/S is montage of 5 stories, laced together by a the central story of thugs raiding a house to steal some V/H/S tapes.

Let me say the shaky cam, which I knew about, was going to taint my expectations. And boy did it ever. Not only is it shaky cam but they seemed to over do it. This is probably the worst I've ever seen. So I could barely stomach that, but the real problem I STILL have is the justification of filming something either when it's so pointless like filming less than ordinary conversations like someone brushing their teeth and talking or even worse, you are about to die and you continue to hold onto a camera and film it. It's not only ridiculous, but takes so much away from the point of the movie.

The five stories vary in some degrees from boring to WTF, over the top paranormal. None of them ever caught my attention. I felt V/H/S was a complete waste of time. I hope it does not 'inspire' others, despite they are already going to make a sequel.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 08, 2012, 08:30:25 pm
Spider-Man (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 09, 2012, 12:02:05 pm
Spider-Man 2 (2004)

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Post by: Mac on December 09, 2012, 04:29:02 pm
The Dark Knight Rises

Don't blame for not reading this review. I try, but simply don't get it.

EPIC? Don't think so. The music and movie length was.

I had to look up who was being played by Bane and I was having a hard time picturing Tom Hardy, even as he was standing there. A huge bulk of a man. Mr. Hardy is not. Amazing work they did there. The one thing I did like is the brute force this villain contained. No super powers. Just a massive man. A psychotic man, but big.

Rises just seemed to go on all over the place getting very loud in places.

I don't get Batman's voice and Bane's voice was just as irritating. There were times they were talking... I just couldn't understand.

I thought the fist fighting between Bane and Batman seee-ucked. Seriously, I thought Christian Bale, I mean Batman wasn't even trying.

I did like Blake's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) character. But beyond that. This was just a overblown flick.

The toys were fun... as usual.

So for the fan, I guess this was good? For the casual movie goer, I can't imagine this even registers. I know I'll never waste my time with this.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 10, 2012, 08:33:32 pm
The Salton Sea (2002)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 10, 2012, 09:27:36 pm
Finally watching Mommy Dearest.  Insane F'ed up stuff, as I had hoped.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 10, 2012, 09:30:11 pm
Finally watching Mommy Dearest.  Insane F'ed up stuff, as I had hoped.

It plays better of you scatter a bunch of wire hangers on the floor and roll around on top of them as you watch the movie. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/darth.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on December 10, 2012, 09:41:18 pm
It's actually quite interesting how little the person who WROTE the book is as a character in the story, she's just the butt monkey who gets screamed at and slapped... which I guess was her role, but still...

I thought for sure when she was going on about the clean/dirty bathroom floor that she would have made the daughter eat off it.  I can't believe I never wrote that scene myself.

And now I can't help but notice this street she's on is the one from the Star Trek episode "A Piece of The Action."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 11, 2012, 07:34:30 pm
Boardwalk Empire (Season 1 - 2010)

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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2012, 03:17:06 pm
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Sound is every thing in this movie. The music, the sound effects, everything.

High Tension is a well crafted cat and mouse thriller from France. The French are known to produce some extreme films and this is one of them. I can’t say much about it or it would spoil the story line. There is not much dialog but that’s because this is a very visual psychological drama. Warning, this is a very gory, bloody film. I don’t believe the extreme is for the torture p orn perspective but actually to up the reality of this particular killer. Kind of a Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original) atmosphere with a Collector tension. If you have not seen either, I recommend them… though they may not be for everybody that easily get squeamish.

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Marie and Alexia are classmates and best friends. Hoping to prepare for their college exams in peace and quiet, they decide to spend a weekend in the country at Alexia's parents' secluded farmhouse. But in the dead of the night, a stranger knocks on the front door. And with the first swing of his knife, the girls' idyllic weekend turns into an endless night of horror.

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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2012, 03:21:59 pm
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The Bourne Legacy not only confused me, it bored me… a lot. I really didn’t know what this movie was doing. This was supposed to be a jumping off point based from the trilogy? Matt Damon’s face is in a picture. Talk of past secret programs was central to getting this ‘agent’. But it seemed to me Aaron Cross, the agent, had a drug addiction and through-out the movie his motivation to go places was to get his drug. The story was so chaotic and convoluted, I didn’t know what was going on. It starts off that way, making the audience try to figure things out, but by the middle of the movie where I guess things did progress more smoothly, I didn’t care.

I don’t understand the point of this movie, especially related to Bourne, where I’m actually frustrated if not mad for wasting my time. I can’t recommend this movie at all...

… except for the cool Motorcycle chase scene and the Drone attack on Aaron Cross.

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This trailer should tell you all you want to know with a edit every 3 nanoseconds...

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2012, 03:37:15 pm
I'm still going to check this out, but I never had any illusions that this would even be anywhere in the same ballpark as the original Trilogy.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 05:20:30 pm
Wow, they make those ratings BIG on the UK box... I remember when it was just a little triangle.

That creepy CGI Christmas Carol is on... not going to sit through the whole thing because it's so slick and lifeless... everything's so perfect there's no chance of surprise, you know?  No one in the background to catch your eye or the camera lingering in the wrong place... and while I do love animated films, motion capture (with the exception of Avatar) sucks, because it's basically watching actors wear suits of themselves while the camera gets in unrealistically close.  And the mouth movements... good god.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2012, 05:29:58 pm
Where's our Mommie Dearest review! Don't hold out on us!!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 05:39:42 pm
Neumie needs everything to be perfect first!

Actually, I forgot, I'll come up with something in a few.  Hold on.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 06:07:38 pm
Okay, "Mommie Dearest:"

Holy cow.  Holy freaking cow.  This was nuts.  Just over the top crazy.  It's actually listed on Netflix as "campy," which I'm sure the poor woman who actually LIVED through the experience really appreciates that and the fact that one part of it ("wire hangers") became a joke.  Or maybe it's a Mel Brooks thing where she gets power over it by belittling it.

And I should say while I am thinking about her, I didn't like her character.  At ALL.  And while they avoided the trap of her being too big of a woobie or just "pity me, my life is terrible," I wasn't exactly rooting for her, she was just the butt monkey.  Seeing her get yelled at is why we payed our ticket prices, right?  There was no build-up to her, or any sense of an "I will overcome this" or anything-- she's never really ABLE to shake off Joan's hold on her, nor does she win out at the end.  That SUCKS.  I know it's based on a real story and they did avoid falling into that trap but there wasn't any satisfying conclusion to the story.

Half of the dialogue in the movie wasn't even dialogue but insane, indecipherable cries.  From BOTH main actresses.  I feel like the daughter should have gone arch as well, that set should have had big gaping holes at the end from both women's insane overacting.  Or maybe more of a mental chess game like "Apt Pupil."

There was a call-ahead early on about Joan being unable to have children and I'm AMAZED that they didn't slip in the line "maybe God doesn't WANT you to have children."  There's also the scene after the swimming race where Joan beats her kid (before beating beating her) telling her that she'll always win because she's bigger and I SO wanted her to throw in "I'm big and you're small and I'm right and you're wrong and there's nothing you can do about it!"

And when the daughter (I can't remember her name! Which is NOT a good sign) is forced to clean the bathroom in the dead of night (which stuck in my mind because I had written a similar scene), I was first expecting Joan to make her eat off it, as the cliche goes, but when she's scrubbing, her younger brother Christopher (who disappears after that for about the ENTIRE length of the movie) steps in and she says "she'll kill you if she sees you."  Why doesn't she DO something about it?  And how come we don't see anything about the abuse HE suffered or enabled or anything?

We really should have seen more of the enabling that Joan gets, there was that scene where the interviewer walks in on an abuse scene... did she give them a pass in the press or call them out on it?  We had all those reporters and photographers fawning over her, you could have explored that a little more, after all, the daughter wasn't just in an abusive household, she was in an Old Hollywood Abuse House which is a whole different and fascinating animal.

And I'm amazed that the daughter didn't know about Joan getting drunk until she was an adult... I'd have thought it would be the first thing she'd know about.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2012, 06:28:25 pm
Spider-Man 3 (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2012, 06:31:21 pm
Okay, "Mommie Dearest:"


Admit it, this is your new favorite movie now!
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 06:34:39 pm
I actually deleted it off my queue when I was done, which I very rarely do.  I'm sure it's overshadowed by the fact that I'm working on my own abuse story (fiction, lemme clear that part up right away) that's so freakin' insane to me I doubt anyone would actually film it or buy the book.
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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2012, 06:44:06 pm
It never surprises me what interests people. Ya, the tried, true and safe are gobbled up, but I think a lot of folks like me, look for the unusual
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2012, 06:48:40 pm
Yeah, it's interesting, but I think I take it a bit too far.  Which, when *I* say it, is really saying something.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2012, 10:30:09 pm
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 15, 2012, 08:12:25 pm
Mad Men (Season 2 - 2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 16, 2012, 10:15:54 pm
Drive (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2012, 10:20:35 pm
Starsky & Hutch (2004)

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Post by: Mac on December 20, 2012, 04:31:09 pm
ted (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I was hearing good stuff about ted. Maybe it was the hype. But I walk away from ted discombobulated. I think the idea is interesting. The R-rated adult stuff is absolutely necessary. I couldn't imagine a watered down PG. But for me, there are way to many moments of crudeness. I guess, uncalled for crudeness. I love crude, but at times it seemed forced. I don't understand the infatuation with the 80's. Way too many references. Yea, the first joke or two was good, but they dive into it.

My wife hated this and I understand why. This is a movie about guys and how guys **** on each other in a friendly way. Something very foreign to women. And it was very apparent when she just didn't get the inside jokes.

I really don't think Mark Walberg has the comedic chops. I saw him in that other cop movie and that was horrendous. Walberg just seems to be acting.

I would hesitantly recommend ted. It's OK, not that great and will leave you with a lot of groans.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 20, 2012, 05:10:36 pm
This is already on my Hold List and it should be in my hands within 2 weeks most likely.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 20, 2012, 09:39:22 pm
Showgirls (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 21, 2012, 06:47:20 pm
The Mexican (2001)

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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2012, 07:31:18 am
Surviving Christmas (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

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I had never heard of this movie, but saw it in the Christmas section of the library, looked at the cast and thought why not.

Well, I'll tell you why not. This is easily one of the worst Christmas movies... or any movie for that matter. And it does not take very long at all to realize this. From the get go, something is odd. The 'humor' is groan inducing and eye rolling. It only gets worse when Ben Affleck arrives at his old house where James Gandolfini and Catherine O'Hara own the house.

We couldn't stomach anymore after 20 minutes... turned it off.

This is gawd awful and wouldn't wish this on my enemies.... well maybe I would
Bhwaaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaa-haaaaaaaaaaaa
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2012, 07:36:55 am
I remember shortly after it hit the Theaters that it was ranked as one of the worst movies of the year. I've avoided it ever since.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2012, 07:43:47 am
Lovely Molly (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

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Last night was just a s hitty night for movies. After quickly dumping Surviving Christmas (see above), we turned on Four Christmases. But thank gawd my wife fell asleep early on and turned this stupid Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon movie off and slipped in Lovely Molly. I heard a wide spread of opinions of this move, mostly bad, but thought I'd give it a shot. Well, it was bad. In acting, story telling and just plain direction. About half way into it I started to read rottentomatoes (http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/lovely_molly_2011/) and found this is the same director for The Blair Witch Project. A movie I truly never understood the praise for. Apparently from reviewers, the director Eduardo Sanchez only has one trick up his sleeve and he does the same thing over and over. It sure appeared that way. When I saw he was making attempts with music and static shots of a doorknob to look menacing, I'd had enough.

Cannot recommend this movie, even if you're a horror fan. This is not horror.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2012, 07:45:50 am
Never heard of it.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2012, 07:46:24 am
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I remember shortly after it hit the Theaters that it was ranked as one of the worst movies of the year. I've avoided it ever since.

I've often wondered the back story of some of these horrible films. Do the cast not know going in? Do they realize halfway through about their mistake. Was it money? Friendship?

I'm pretty sure I could have read the script and realized the crap.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2012, 07:50:10 am
This is pure speculation on my part, but I think for James Gandolfini, he wanted to show people that he could do more than just the 'Tough Guy' character that he has been saddled with his entire career. He was still Tony Soprano at the time and "comedy" was the easiest way to flex his acting chops. As for Ben Affleck, he has gone on record as saying that during this time he took a lot of  s h i t t y  movies just for the paycheck.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2012, 02:49:16 pm
For Your Eyes Only (1981)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2012, 09:06:57 pm
Good Will Hunting (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 23, 2012, 02:59:56 pm
Ghost World (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2012, 07:48:48 pm
The Stand (TV Mini-Series 1994)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2012, 09:08:36 am
Nothing to Lose (1997)

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Post by: Mac on December 25, 2012, 09:36:56 am
Juan of the Dead (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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Juan of the Dead is a Comedy-Horror film. Very similar in tone to Shaun of the Dead. I'm not sure I've ever seen a Cuban film before, but they made a decent stab a major motion picture. It's a mixed bag at the production value. Sometimes the scenes are done really well, other times, you can see they had to go cheap. The humor is not bad. I never laughed out loud, but you had some very unique characters in this band of Zombie Killers for Hire.

It's all subtitled with no option for voice over, so that's annoying.

The gore and blood are definitely reserved. I would say maybe a recommend to rent. While not nearly as good as Shaun of the Dead, it's not totally wasted time. It's something different. They brought some fresh idea's to zombies. I guess the one I liked that stood out is some Zombies hiss, like wounded animals, instead of the growl we tend to know.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOquktXvkT4
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2012, 09:43:39 am
I doubt my Library branch would even have this given that some of the bigger Hollywood flicks are MIA in the system.
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Post by: Mac on December 25, 2012, 09:45:01 am
Being Flynn (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I just happened across this flick with Robert DeNiro and Paul Dano. Let me preface that Being Flynn is not a feel good movie. It's depressing. But in the rare instance of a movie, the acting out between these two characters are the main point. Dysfunctional in every respect, but I think just solidifies the grittiness, dirty, depressing world of the homeless and underprivileged. I doubt I would ever watch this movie again, but glad I did see it.

I highly recommend checking out Being Flynn. There is an entertainment value here. Watching DeNiro take a character and run with it again after years of crap, is in a way fun, despite his eclectic and often times despicable behavior.

Apparently based on true events...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHZfQDgkqiM

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2012, 04:06:10 pm
Lethal Weapon (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 26, 2012, 08:01:05 am
Lethal Weapon 2 (1989)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 26, 2012, 06:32:33 pm
Lethal Weapon 3 (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 27, 2012, 06:14:09 am
Lethal Weapon 4 (1998)

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Post by: coolguy44 on December 27, 2012, 01:10:19 pm
I am watching all of the lord of the rings movies again so I am watching Lord of the Rings the Two Towers

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 27, 2012, 06:41:15 pm
Bottle Rocket (1996)

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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2012, 07:32:50 am
Rent

I'm going to fair here and not rate this because....
.... I don't care for musicals. I gave it a try because my wife likes some of them. But I let her decide that enough was enough.

I've seen less than handful I've even cared spending time with, but for the most part find them painful to sit through... especially watching on TV. Attending is another story.

We gave it 20 minutes before deciding to turn it off. Within that 20 minutes was 5 songs, so the story telling is a majority of singing. There is some dialog, but unfortunately they always burst out into song (groan). And I didn't think the 5 songs we saw where that good or that well sung.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2012, 09:34:46 am
Rushmore (1998)

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Post by: coolguy44 on December 28, 2012, 11:32:39 am
2003 Lord of the Rings 3


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2012, 03:38:45 pm
Quick Change (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2012, 09:14:21 pm
The 6th Day (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2012, 03:11:07 pm
Bowfinger (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 08:10:39 am
Stargate (1994)

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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2012, 10:34:42 am
Great Balls of Fire
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Great Balls of Fire is 1989 take on Jerry Lee Lewis rise to fame. It's the years of the first shot a recording to right after the controversial episode of marrying his 13 year old cousin. The take great liberties of excluding all kinds of details and just focus on the immediate family and Jerry's manager.

I'm not sure what kind of character Jerry Lee Lewis was. I'm sure he must have been very eclectic and bold. But in ways, Dennis Quaids portrayal is damn near clownish. I mean to the point of distracting. Maybe Jerry Lee Lewis was that bizarre. I dunno. If you watch the trailer, the only time you see Quaid portray Lewis, is very emotional. Those other moments of him just talking are what I'm talking about. Just over-the-top expressive. There are a couple of scene's that just go way over-board too. You can't miss them. I guess the director was getting a little artsy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9aobri6wyg

But I do know the som**** could play. The movie does a great job of capturing those moments of hits. While I do like his hits, the songs really started to sound the same.

Winona Ryder does a great job acting as a 13 year old. There's a lot going on with her and she portray's what I think a young female might be like in this situation.

If you like movies about music and their creators, I would suggest checking this out.

And on the same note, for those who like this genre of music, you need to check out Nowhere Boy

here's a cool video of Quaid playing with the Man.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAdS2txihCk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 10:38:57 am
I've seen this a few times, but that was yeeeeears ago. I can't remember much of it now.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2012, 10:45:10 am
The Way We Were (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

It's probably blasphemy to give The Way We Were only 3-1/2 stars. I had never seen this movie until last night. It was nothing like I thought it might be. The ending was perfect, but that is only the tip of the iceberg of a rather complicated movie. Two lovers who are so different in many respects fall for each other and try to make it work. Both very intelligent people, but at times letting emotions guide their actions. Even to the point of the getting married and then getting pregnant. I don't want to run spoilers for those like me who have not seen it, but while it's not gut wrenching, where it should have been, it still packs a punch.

I get why it was and has been classic. It's wrapped around the blacklisting of Hollywood in the late 40's, which I only heard of, a lot of the emotion was lost on me. But it's not THAT critical, because the story is about the roller coaster ride of the two lovers. Their hits and misses. Barbara Streisand brings her Jewish heritage into the story and recognize many facets with her and my wife. So, yea, I had a little stake into giving this my attention.

By the way, Ms. Streisand sets the bar on music and voice like no other. I like some of her songs, not all, but I know when a voice is phenomenal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hef39RzemJE
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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2012, 10:51:12 am
"Side By Side" by Keanu Reeves.  It's about digital vs traditional filmmaking, and unlike many documentaries it doesn't pick a side, it's just all these famous directors, cinematographers and editors on both sides saying what they love, like, dislike, and hate about the formats. And it feels VERY dense, there's very little wasted time.  Feels like a two or even two and a half hour movie cut down to 100 minutes, which I appreciate.  There's all sort of little things I didn't know about, giving a history of digital camera development, films they were used on and how people picked up on that and wanted to experiment.  This is a darn good doc and I'm only 30 minutes in (but like I said, feels much further-- in a good way).

Also never heard this great tidbit: on Scanner Darkly, Robert Downey Jr was complaining about being on his feet 14 hours a day, not being able to go to his trailer or mellow out, so he'd start leaving mason jars of urine on the set as a little protest.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 10:57:24 am
I've been meaning to check out Side By Side. I was tracking this before it hit the theater but just completely forgot about it till now. Thanks for the heads up. Adding to my Library Hold List now. That is if they have it.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2012, 11:03:54 am
Definitely check it out.  There's a bunch of stuff I'd never seen before, they show an optical printer at work which I'd never seen before.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2012, 11:13:22 am
I've never heard of it. I'm going to have to check it out too.

dayum, my library doesn't own it. Might have to make a request.

Wait, it hasn't come out yet to DVD
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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2012, 11:26:18 am
I think it's on Youtube and iTunes but seriously, the lack of DVD and Blu-Ray of it sucks (also paying four bucks for a 24 hour rental sucks)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 11:56:53 am
...(also paying four bucks for a 24 hour rental sucks)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2012, 12:04:44 pm
The library's selection... particularly with new releases... is garbage.  But the library is my friend for other reasons.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 12:06:28 pm
Doesn't your branch pull from other branches?
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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2012, 12:13:50 pm
Haven't checked that for DVDs, but I think most of those are ones that are donated, so lots of older titles and stuff no one watches.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 12:30:05 pm
We have about 20 or so branches here and each branch orders 1 movie of all the bigger releases as well as some of the minor ones. So there is always plenty of copies in circulation at any given time. I've had to have my branch order certain titles that aren't in rotation. They've ordered a few that way, but I think a certain number of request has to be put in for them to go through with ordering. So, you might wanna put in some request on your end for any titles you're looking for. Couldn't hurt.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2012, 12:34:58 pm
Yea, I do that. I think I figured what the system does... pretty close to what you said. I'll order movies coming soon (month or 2) and they always reply with Thanks for requesting, but this movie has not been released. I do think they register the request. Sometimes afterwards, when the movie does come in, winds up automatically in my queue.

Typically I'm maxed on my request and I have to go in manually.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 30, 2012, 01:44:45 pm
The Truman Show (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2012, 08:25:12 am
The Majestic (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2012, 02:52:39 pm
Six Days Seven Nights (1998)

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Post by: Mac on December 31, 2012, 03:19:08 pm
Last night was a just a night of movies and discovery. Searching through various lists to see what we could find. It was a hit and miss... as expected.

The best out of the bunch was...

The Entitled (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Not bad, but not great. It does keep the action going and mystery continually twists. But by the third act, the cat is out of the bag and you can see things coming. I was surprised this did not have a Hollywood ending. Nice surprise.

I could maybe recommend it for something to fill the time.

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We also watched....

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Aaron Eckhart has a knack for finding those movies that are different. Suspect Zero is about a using a serial killer to find a more dangerous serial killer. It's not really complicated, but how it's directed tends to muddy up the plot. I got lost a couple of times trying to figure out what we being shown. It does come together all at the end, but I was pretty much uninterested by then. If you can stick with it, you might enjoy it.

Finally, the movie we started out with but was the least interesting was...
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It's a standard Insane Asylum movie with a specific character known as The Wolf. I will admit the costume for The Wolf was pretty cool. Very intimidating. The stars of the movie were the director, writer and production partners, which tells you the acting was pretty bad. But on a good note, the women are beautiful. Brigitte Kingsley and Mercedes McNab could just stand there for awhile and I'd be happy.

(http://www.songandfilm.com/articlepics/medium%20raw.jpg)

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It didn't suck, but it's not really worth seeking out either. If you happen upon, check it out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2012, 03:24:26 pm
I've heard zero about those 3 movies. Direct-to-DVD is my guess.
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Post by: Mac on December 31, 2012, 05:21:28 pm
That would be my guess. I think medium Raw is from the Indie circuit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2013, 08:12:35 am
Air Force One (1997)

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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2013, 09:13:14 am
Machine Gun Preacher (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I knew zero about this film going in. In fact I didn't read the box synopses until about 10 minutes into the movie. My wife was really hesitant on the title alone. She thought it might be some *Troma film macho shoot'em up (Note: my wife knows nothing about Troma, but she has seen enough to imagine).

Based on a the true story of Sam Childers transformation from a low life thug into a man with a mission. This is not a feel good movie, at least in the Hollywood world. There is hope that eeks out from this film. It's hard to find, but peel away the inhumanity that is witnessed and there is something there. By and far this film brings into light a part of the world and cultural society we turn our heads too and don't want to hear about. Sam Childers becomes committed to the cause. KONY and his insane terror army are systematically invading villages, killing unmerciful anything that moves and taking the children, yes, children to bring into the army. I think you're jaw will drop when you watch a ragtag group of children caring and using machine guns.

Gerard Butler grabs onto this character and runs with it. It's a long film and it's a rollercoaster ride of locations and emotions. If you don't feel anything after this film, you've missed it completely.

I thought my wife would be turned off by the religion and finding Jesus perspective, but she didn't, because, well they don't blast it you. It exists and part of his change, which by the way takes a good amount of time to happen. The movie just takes liberties and fast forwards through time to get to the point.

I highly recommend Machine Gun Preacher. It is a sad movie in parts and rather hard to watch. But I think it is an important one. Yes, I said important.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T48oq-WlIGc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2013, 09:14:56 am
This looks very promising. Adding to my Hold List. Thanks.
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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2013, 09:24:53 am
Bodyguards & Assassins (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I picked this up based on a trailer I saw earlier. I didn't know it had one of my fav Asian martial arts legend, Donnie Yen (IP Man). People, maybe the marketing folks, are calling this EPIC. I kind of see very much like Once Upon A Time In America. Grand scale of location and the intense family struggles within and politics.

I found it very slow. The 3rd act does amp up the action. All in all, this is a fantastic film with great acting and characters. Good fighting, but, I wish they would have kept out the minimal wire work. It's not much, but it does stand out and looks out of place. The sets are pretty cool.

Not sure I'd watch it again due to the slow story telling. But I do highly recommend it if your interested in this time period (1900) of Asian culture.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjCYc_Rm3EY
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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2013, 09:33:45 am
War of the Arrows (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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Set in 1636, the second Manchurian invasion of Korea rages chaos, as villages are attacked by overpowering Manchurian soldiers. The Manchurians kidnap childhood sweethearts, Ja-in and Seo-Goon on their wedding day. In an effort to save his sister, Ja-in s brother Nam-Yi sets out to defeat the enemy and save his sister and other Korean victims with only 1 bow.

Another trailer introduced me to War of the Arrows. I loved this flick. It had me glued. The action and pacing are phenomenal. The actors are typical... a few characters stand out that you keep an eye on... and there are plenty of surprises in the story telling.

By the 3rd act, the action just jumps into high gear. It reminded me a lot of Predator and Apocolypto. The cat and mouse chase and strategy of the enemies at hand.

The photography is too cool. They way they shoot archery is pretty slick and fun ride.

I highly recommend this.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDyIjb272kU
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In the Line of Fire (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2013, 07:38:07 am
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2013, 06:59:22 pm
Me, Myself & Irene (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2013, 07:04:25 pm
Mad Men (Season 3 - 2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 03, 2013, 07:41:14 pm
O c t o p u s s y (1983)

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Post by: Mac on January 04, 2013, 03:18:41 pm
Trouble with the Curve (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

I picked this up because of two reasons, Clint Eastwood and Amy Adams. They did not disappoint. Not a stretch in acting but the chemistry was there. Totally believable of a father daughter relationship. Unfortunately, there is not much of a story to tie this together. Not an interesting one at least. Even for me who does not watch much sports movies, I saw cliche all over the place. And this is not much about sports, so if you're looking for some sports as a big component of the story, look elsewhere.

Justin Timberlake I find as a very likeable actor. Haven't seen him do any bad stuff. But the hour or so we saw, his part was minimal. Maybe the story got beyond Eastwood's character losing his eyesight and his career ending on the horizon, but this is just a slow moving, not interesting story. I most likely will never try to watch this again.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2013, 03:21:00 pm
Think you can post some of those cliches here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/creative-writing/the-sports-genre-cliche-thread/msg14411/#msg14411)? As for the movie, this is still a must-see given that I'm a huge baseball fan and sports movie nut.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2013, 10:18:36 pm
JFK (1991)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 04, 2013, 10:40:13 pm
Watched "Iron Sky" this morning, it's the long long awaited "Nazis from the moon" movie and, personally, I liked it.  It wasn't a knock-out smash or laugh out loud flick but this is a ten million dollar flick that shot in three (or four) different countries in two languages with a load of special effects without a single fail and it looks like it cost at least three times that much, so just based on that it's a real achievement.  You know the basics, that the Nazis started a secret colony on the moon, planning on returning to Earth.  Which they do.  Unfortunately for Earth, it's 2018 and  an opportunistic Palin-esque President is in charge.

There's obviously shout-outs to Downfall, alien invasion movies, the Ring Cycle, and Doctor Strangelove -- and in that vein, the whole flick has the same "war is hell and those who lead us into it doom us all" undercurrent that "In The Pirkinning," their previous film, did.  Actually, the whole thing felt like an improved, refined version of what they did with "Pirkinning."  But there's a bit of political in-jokes that fly really under the radar, Finland's role in WWII and so on, it's actually a  smarter movie than it seems at first.

And, not to give too much away, but there's a spaceship (you won't forget his name) that might be my favouriite new ship design in a long while-- though I'm sure that's partly due to the drought in design we've had these past few years.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2013, 11:16:05 pm
I think Mac started a thread on Iron Sky, but the search function is coming up empty. Mac, can you dig it up and post a link if you did start it?
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Post by: Mac on January 05, 2013, 06:57:09 am
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I think Mac started a thread on Iron Sky, but the search function is coming up empty. Mac, can you dig it up and post a link if you did start it?

I didn't start a specific thread on it, but did review it back in October (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd%27s-blu-rays/what-are-you-watching-%28dvd%27s-blu-ray%27s%29/660/).

Not sure why the search did not pick this up... twice (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/all-things-sci-fi/msg10344/#msg10344).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2013, 07:10:22 am
Thanks Mac!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2013, 01:34:10 pm
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2013, 06:40:25 pm
Bandits (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2013, 06:11:29 am
A Beautiful Mind (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2013, 09:02:25 pm
Can't Hardly Wait (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2013, 01:28:40 pm
Twelve Monkeys (1995)

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Post by: Mac on January 08, 2013, 08:50:22 am
Dog Soldiers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I've watched Dog Soldiers several times now and it's not lost any of his high velocity tension and action. It's a simple movie of a squad in the woods and run against a family of Werewolfs. The acting is good with a full intense mood. A lot happens at night, duh, the moon, but it's lit well enough to know what's going on. I think it's an excellent different take on the Wolf genre. Check it out if you like this kind of horror.

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A British Squad is sent on a training mission in the Highlands of Scotland against Special Operations squad. Ignoring the childish "campfire" stories heard about the area, they continue with their mission and come across the bloody remains of the Special Ops Squad, and a fierce howling is pitching the night sky... With two mortally wounded men, they make an escape, running into a zoologist by the name of Megan - who knows exactly what hunts them. What began as what they thought was a training mission turns into a battle for their lives against the most unlikely enemies they would have expected - werewolves.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l4BfUI_nvLk

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Post by: Mac on January 08, 2013, 08:58:48 am
The I Inside (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

This is a time travel movie, but more of a psychological thriller. It pretty much starts out running and don't walk away because so much goes on in a short amount of time, it takes full on watching to get the story. Even as much as I was paying attention, I did start to get lost in the time travel and what was real and imagined. Fun movie for the most part. Your rooting the whole time trying to figure out what is going on. The ending may disappoint, but honestly, I wasn't sure how it would end... just don't drop the ball.

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A man (Simon) awakens in a hospital not recalling the last two years as he begins to find out things from his past he discovers his ability to move from the year 2002 to the year 2000

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ttc7VqgnlB8
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2013, 10:32:55 am
I'm definitely interested in The I Inside
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2013, 02:06:10 pm
My Cousin Vinny (1992)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2013, 06:15:17 pm
I seriously need to watch some movies, but I'm not really in the mood (or I can't really choose).

Having said that, this morning in bed (cause I get up too early to "get up") I watched "Revenge of the Electric Car," which was interesting.

I was flipping around on TV and caught the Zack Snyder remake of "Dawn of the Dead," which I had never seen before.  I really dug it (especially the cinematography).  But I couldn't help but chuckle when the dad from Modern Family was one of the survivors.

And I don't want to give away the ending to two people who probably saw the movie ages ago, but those end credits-- wow.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2013, 06:28:40 pm
I can't remember if I saw Dawn Of The Dead. I may have to hit the Library and check it out regardless if I did or didn't. Mac on the other hand probably has a copy bedside. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_biggrin.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2013, 10:41:33 pm
A Few Good Men (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 09, 2013, 05:42:02 pm
RoboCop (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 09, 2013, 10:10:32 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 4 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on January 11, 2013, 04:53:20 pm
Resident Evil: Retribution (#5) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)
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Ugh, how utterly disappointing. Not sure where to begin. Looking back at what I just watched, I can only think that this is just a quick filler movie to get from Resident Evil: Afterlife (#4) to #6. Because all this was is an escape film out of a Hollywood style set (uber big and fancy). Hardly any character, let alone character development. The dialogue was abysmal. The acting by some of the new folk was just ridiculous. I was really rolling my eyes, thinking, is this a joke? Some special effects were pretty cool while others were **** poor SyFy channel quality. I don't understand. It seemed so rushed and the editing just erratically moved it along.

I couldn't recommend this except for one reason. Alice (Milla Jovovich) baddass S&M suit. Sexxxxxxy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 11, 2013, 05:02:05 pm
Hey, you know my feelings regarding the "Director" and how I loathed his filming style. But I put all that aside to check out Resident Evil and the films that followed. I've come this far, I'm still gonna check this out. I never really expect much from the series and this wouldn't be any different, even though I do like a couple of them so far.
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Post by: Mac on January 12, 2013, 08:52:01 am
House at the End of the Street (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Meh, this is a rather ho-hum thriller/horror film we've seen several times before. With a couple of jump scares, but not much tension beyond that. I think you can see story lines coming at you a mile in advance. It does have a twist and that may make it worth watching. The acting is fine by Jennifer Lawrence, Elisabeth Shue and Max Thieriot, but nothing phenomenal. I believe the target audience would be the tween crowd loving Hunger Games. Otherwise is an immediately forgettable movie the minute it ends.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w16stVhviHc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2013, 08:00:42 pm
The Living Daylights (1987)

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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2013, 08:57:32 am
Dredd (2012) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Let's make this clear, Judge Dredd (1995) is diametrically opposite of Dredd (2012) in so many areas. I know people will want to compare, but I think it's a waste of time. Talking apples and oranges. Dredd is a serious perspective depiction compared to the campy/humorous 1995 version. From what I understand the Dredd version is faithful to the UK comics. And that's fine. I liked it for what it was. I liked Judge Dredd for what it was.

I also get the comparisons to The Raid: Redemption. Dredd and his rookie Judge Anderson go investigate a triple homicide at a block. We learned from the other UK film Attack the Block that a Block is a building structure, that for the most part takes up a city block. Anyway a gang runs the block and a lock down occurs with the sole intention to kill the two judges. So another cat and mouse game occurs in the setting of one tall building. The violence is extreme. Bloody, gory and in ultra slo-motion at times. They incorporated a cleaver idea of distributing a slo-mo addictive drug as the gangs income. Time suddenly slows down in the users mind. This brings some almost poetic, surreal deaths.

I thought the pacing was excellent. The characters fun to watch, even the bad guys. I thought it was a bold move to have Dredd never reveal his face. At first I was thinking eyes express so much... but in this case a judge is supposed to engage justice and by having a faceless judge it takes away, yet adds a different dimension to the character.

I highly recommend a watch if you like action movies in this caliber. Watch it without prejudice.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqqgrUna28w
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2013, 08:58:52 am
I'm pretty low on the wait list. Should be at my Library within a couple of weeks. Can't wait.
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2013, 09:06:20 am
Looper (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I did not like this as much as I was thinking I would. Maybe too much hype, maybe I was tired. Maybe people want to be hip. I dunno. This is a time traveling, thinking sci-fi flick that pushes and pulls, and distorts the story line. Like an onion, it slowly peels back the layers of mystery waiting for the payoff. I did not see the payoff until the last minute, but in again, maybe I was tired.

I think Looper is 2012's Inception. That's fine and bring on more inspiring films like this, because my biggest complaint about sci-fi is gets to family friendly, too dum-ed down, to predictable.

I need to watch this again. I may change my rating at some point. :-\

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uIWGOKW5OM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2013, 09:07:34 am
This is on DVD already? What the hell!
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2013, 09:08:55 am
Oh dude, you are soooooo last week.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 13, 2013, 12:24:21 pm
Looper is one of those movies you can instantly see all the influences on it, from film noir to Superman to Akira to Terminator.  Well made, but it does drag in the middle (a three-act structure problem, I think).

Just started "The Frighteners."  Don't even remember the lat time I saw this flick.
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Post by: coolguy44 on January 13, 2013, 01:21:14 pm
I'm not watching anything right now!
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2013, 05:50:51 pm
Frankenweenie (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Overall I enjoyed Frankenweenie. Tim Burton's retelling of his original short with 50 more minutes. It's right in the middle there to entertain young'uns and parents will love the throwback to all the classic great horror movies, including Bambi vs. Godzilla.

It's cute with some frightening scenes. I think it gets over the top suddenly when all hell breaks lose in the town, but not a big deal. This has Tim Burton style all over it from the visuals, to sound to the music.

It is all in black and white and wonder how the younger generation will accept it. I guess they will not be to jaded like older folks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2luLW-9ySw

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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2013, 05:57:59 pm
Premium Rush (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Premium Rush is not a great film, but just a fun fantastic film from beginning to end. Huh, two Joseph Gordon-Levitt movies in one weekend. With two very different characters. Premium Rush is a fresh kind of chase movie. The photography is excellent. The chase never repetitive and it has a bad guy like I've never seen before. Kinda stupid arrogant cop, but is causing a lot of problems for the delivery. Great pacing. Mostly action but with some moments to catch your breath and take in the ride. I can easily see this as a movie that anytime it's on, I'll check it out.

A definite rent... at the very least.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pn6ie1zCkZU
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2013, 11:39:02 pm
Licence to Kill (1989)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2013, 08:15:20 pm
GoldenEye (1995)

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Post by: coolguy44 on January 15, 2013, 01:03:57 pm
The Avengers (2012)


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2013, 04:38:14 pm
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 15, 2013, 05:55:39 pm
So much Red Dwarf.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2013, 05:59:43 pm
Never heard of it. Is it about Dopey laying out under the sun and getting burned? (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/new_tongue.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on January 15, 2013, 07:12:02 pm
It's a famous, long-running British sci-fi comedy series about the last human being alive.

A small sample:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qa_gZ_7sdZg&
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Post by: Mac on January 15, 2013, 07:44:07 pm
How did Red Dwarf get in here?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2013, 10:40:48 pm
Archer (Season 1 - 2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2013, 10:59:37 pm
The Eric Carr Story: Inside The Tale Of The Fox (2000)

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Post by: Mac on January 16, 2013, 03:37:01 am
I've only watched half of the Archer Season 1 set. I'll check out the remainder this weekend
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Post by: coolguy44 on January 16, 2013, 04:13:35 pm
I am watching Captain America (2011?)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2013, 03:06:31 pm
The World Is Not Enough (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2013, 08:55:28 pm
Die Another Day (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 18, 2013, 09:14:34 pm
C a s i n o Royale (2006)

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Post by: Mac on January 19, 2013, 06:06:20 am
The Possession (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Based on a true story, this is a Jewish Horror movie. The first and probably the only one I know of. And a fine telling of creepiness. The atmosphere slowly builds up the scares. There are several scenes that are unexpected and you will just say WTF. The characters are very well portrayed. Natasha Calis as the young Em does a fantastic job slowly evolving into the possessed.

This is not a great film but a very entertaining horror movie. I highly recommend it if your into evil and possession films.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gBeG31fX40&noredirect=1
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Post by: coolguy44 on January 19, 2013, 12:15:22 pm
Men In Black 3 (2012)
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Post by: Mac on January 19, 2013, 03:15:48 pm
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Men In Black

Hey cool, why don't you expand a bit and give us some of your well thought out ideas about what you just watched. Penny Can is about thinking, writing, opinions and discussions.

Penny Can is not Twitter. We don't care you watched a certain movie. We discuss the why, when, what.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 19, 2013, 05:01:09 pm
Men In Black 3 (2012)

I'd like to know what your thoughts are regarding MIB3 as well. I'm still on the fence about seeing this. It hasn't gotten many good reviews, so I would like to hear your opinions on the movie. Rent or Skip?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 19, 2013, 08:00:59 pm
Quantum of Solace (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2013, 10:16:13 am
A View to a Kill (1985)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2013, 07:30:26 pm
Mad Max (1979)

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Post by: coolguy44 on January 21, 2013, 01:30:25 pm
Mac I think you should rent it. It is a pretty good movie if you want to know my opinions.
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Post by: coolguy44 on January 21, 2013, 01:30:42 pm
Big Bang Theory Season 1 (2007,2008)
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Post by: Mac on January 21, 2013, 03:49:42 pm
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Mac I think you should rent it. It is a pretty good movie if you want to know my opinions.

You didn't just say that did you. You're phucking with me right?

That makes zero sense. If I want to know your opinion, I can do so by watching the movie?

Get the phuck outta here.
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Post by: coolguy44 on January 21, 2013, 06:02:03 pm
you asked me if you should rent or skip the movie and I said you should rent it
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Post by: Mac on January 21, 2013, 07:38:04 pm
Men in Black III (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/what-are-you-watching-(dvd's-blu-ray's)/msg14487/#msg14487)

Here's my take.

What's yours?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 21, 2013, 11:02:14 pm
The Road Warrior (1981)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 22, 2013, 05:19:38 pm
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)

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Post by: coolguy44 on January 23, 2013, 05:17:43 am
Big Bang theory season 2 (2009)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 23, 2013, 11:08:55 am
Beverly Hills Cop (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 23, 2013, 04:32:28 pm
Archer (Season 2 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on January 24, 2013, 02:52:25 pm
Taken 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

There is absolutely nothing wrong with this film...

... except for the fight scenes, Liam Neeson looks tired, Famke Janssen looks, uh... good, Maggie Grace looks like she's learning to read, the bad guys look like, uh, bad guys.

Look, this was clearly an uninspired money grab. Liam Neeson totally looked bored, or didn't want to be there. And rightfully so.

I know many sequels use the same formula... sometimes it works, sometimes not. Taken 2 is exactly like the first one. Set up the 'Taken' and then fight the bad guys... only this time Neeson's character has extraordinary abilities. Like for instance bagged and placed in a trunk, yet he counts seconds, left and right turns, sounds of surrounding area... I'm thinking so he knows where he's being taken somehow.

Those are just some of the eye rolling moments. Within 1 hour I lost complete interest. For a loudass movie with lots of fights, shooting and car chases, this was tired.

I can't even recommend this in anyway. Just watch the first one again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2013, 02:55:29 pm
Well that sucks. I was looking forward to this one! (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_mad.gif)
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Post by: Mac on January 24, 2013, 03:00:26 pm
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Well that sucks. I was looking forward to this one!

That's just my take... It surprisingly is the No 1 in DVD sales this week. But that doesn't mean much really in the long run. Will people be watching this 6 months or a year. I highly doubt it.

DREDD performed miserably at the theaters. They are not sure why, but it did way better on DVD, enough to be now considered for a sequel.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 25, 2013, 08:31:10 pm
The Brave One (2007)

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Post by: Mac on January 26, 2013, 06:33:11 am
The Double (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I knew nothing of this movie before seeing the trailer on some recent film. I don't recall it hitting the theaters. So my wife is a huge Richard Gere fan and quite frankly, I have not seen a bad movie with him yet.

Starring Richard Gere and Topher Grace (with probably the worst haircut in cinema history), this immediately reminded me of the other Gere movie... The Jackal. The basic premise is finding a psychotic killer that no one has ever seen.

What makes this movie very interesting, and I'm not giving away a spoiler here, is from very early on, the movie reveals that Richard Gere is Cassius, the Russian killer, thought dead,  the FBI, CIA and everybody else is looking for. This brings a whole new dynamic at how you watch everybody, especially Gere play their parts.

I thought it was very entertaining. I highly recommend it for some unigue cat and mouse storytelling.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyf-YZlmw8g
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2013, 07:30:32 pm
Inside Man (2006)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 26, 2013, 09:06:42 pm
While you guys are watching serious movies, I just started watching all three Austin Powers movies.  Which will take forever because I keep rewinding.  I can't believe the first one is 15 years old.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2013, 09:28:14 pm
While you guys are watching serious movies, I just started watching all three Austin Powers movies.  Which will take forever because I keep rewinding.  I can't believe the first one is 15 years old.

Great minds dude. I actually have these on deck for sometime next week. I wanted to end my James Bond marathon with these but I had to knock off some of the movies that were sitting at the library that had an expiration date or they go to the next person on the wait list.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 26, 2013, 09:57:56 pm
They have the first deleted scenes I remember ever seeing, my best friend in high school Matt Hungate showed me the Fendi briefcase bit and and the brilliant dead henchmen bits.

Chip, I don't know if you know this but Mike Myers developed a script for a "Sprockets" feature and I was laughing the same way all the way through.  There was a scene involving a TGI Friday's type restaurant that serves monkey meat and you can choose your own which kills me every time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2013, 10:00:31 pm
I heard about the Sprockets script. Although the skits were funny, I knew that it would be a hard sell for mainstream America and that it would never get any further than that. You do know that Austin Powers 4 is coming right? Time for me to dedicate a thread to that right now........
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Post by: Mac on January 27, 2013, 11:05:44 am
Won't Back Down (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I liked Won't Back Down. Not only does it have great performances from Viola Davis and Maggie Gyllenhaal, based on actual events, the story slowly builds to a very satisfying conclusion. When I say slowly, it is very slow in the first third. Then it slowly builds to some inspiration and promise. This is a family movie that would benefit all to watch, especially those with kids. We adults can learn a lot from other peoples passion and drive. It's contagious. And Maggie Gyllenhaal character is so infectiously optimistic. I know some people would be actually turned off by the perkiness. In this case I found it essential to the story to get things done.

Many of my family members have been part of the teaching careers and I always heard how so political it is. This movie pretty much shines a light on it.

I highly recommend a rent for a rather entertaining flick.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvYPxZpstkE
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2013, 12:22:27 pm
Maverick (1994)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 27, 2013, 07:30:02 pm
Continuing my dumb comedy streak, I'm watching "Rat Race" while trying to draw Keeley Hazell and Kate Upton.  You know why.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2013, 07:48:27 pm
Panic Room (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2013, 02:24:42 pm
Flightplan (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2013, 07:16:47 pm
Bugsy Malone (1976)

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Post by: Mac on January 29, 2013, 12:08:53 pm
Arbitrage (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)
In economics and finance, arbitrage (pron.: /ˈɑrbɨtrɑːʒ/) is the practice of taking advantage of a price difference between two or more markets: striking a combination of matching deals that capitalize upon the imbalance, the profit being the difference between the market prices.

I had no idea what the title meant until I recently looked it up. It's not used in the movie, though Arbitrage is what the movie is about. Richard Gere can never seem to do know wrong. In very well crafted thriller, this is a story of a hedge fund billionare who's future hinges on one particular deal and cementing it all together with a deceitful affair that suddenly goes wrong. The cast of characters are all relevent and you keep an eye on them every moment they are present especially when around Robert Miller (Gere). In some respects this is like Wall Street with the various players driven either by greed or more important things like family, respect and trust.

Check it out. A very enjoyable film from the beginning to the end.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmJSV9ePx7c
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2013, 03:29:10 pm
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 29, 2013, 05:29:54 pm
Going through the list of films about to expire on my Netflix queue.  Just finished "The Big Kahuna" (the sound was too light on it), and now I'm doubling up the Spacey-ness with "The Usual Suspects," which I haven't sen since high school.

Gawd I can't wait for Friday-- House of Cards!  13 eps of Fincher-directed Spacey.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2013, 08:10:22 pm
Hannibal (2001)

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Post by: Mac on January 30, 2013, 05:49:45 am
Avatar

Like Chips recent viewing of Hannible and hoping for a different experience, I watched Avatar for a second time since I saw it in the theaters. I was actually a little fearful, I was wrapped up in the hype and enjoyed it on a shallow level.

I'm happy to say I loved it as much the first time. Though a little less immersive because of the 3D, I still enjoyed this film immensely.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2013, 11:48:30 am
Red Dragon (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2013, 08:36:56 pm
The Expendables 2 (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2013, 06:37:44 pm
Midnight Run (1988)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2013, 09:44:26 pm
Children of Men (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2013, 12:01:10 pm
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 01, 2013, 07:39:42 pm
I'm a few minutes from starting episode five of "House of Cards."

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Kevin Spacey = awesome, and he does this aside to the camera that immediately reminded me of Ian McKellan in Richard III (without the hump).  He just oozes sinister ambition and determination and whatever he's planning, you know he's gonna pull it off and you're just curious to know how and who will get hurt in the process.  Though I am a little curious as to what the endgame is going to wind up being, but I guess we'll have to wait for the end of season two to find out.

I also couldn't help but be taken with Kate Mara... the minute I saw her I thought "this is who I'd have cast as Lois Lane if I was doing Superman."

And a series that looks like a David Fincher movie, how can you go wrong?  I just wish he has directed episode 4, I would have loved to see how HIS Oval Office would look.

The one thing that does annoy me about the show, though, is that there are no episode names.  It seems insane in this day and age not to do it, so I have a habit of coming up with my own names like I did when I would videotape everything so I knew what the heck was on what tape.  use the old noodle a little bit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2013, 07:40:42 pm
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2013, 07:43:11 pm
I'm a few minutes from starting episode five of "House of Cards."

I've never heard of House Of Cards until you spoke of it. Is this series still on the air? HBO? Showtime? If it's either one of those, that goes a long way to explaining why I've not heard anything or seen any promos as I don't have cable.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 01, 2013, 07:47:39 pm
I don't get HBO *OR* Showtime.  It's Netflix exclusive and just came out today.  They've been promoting the hell out of it.  Netflix is keen to become HBO before HBO can become them, hence paying a premium for original content.

Thankfully though,  they put the first episode out free for everyone. (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/60698)

Unfortunately, there won't ever be a Blu-Ray or DVD release, so there's only one way to see it.  Which I guess is the point.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2013, 07:49:32 pm

Unfortunately, there won't ever be a Blu-Ray or DVD release, so there's only one way to see it.  Which I guess is the point.

If there is money to be made, trust me, there will be a release, even if there is something in the contract that says there won't be. Money talks.....
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Post by: Neumatic on February 02, 2013, 12:59:07 am
Still watching House of Cards.  I can't believe I didn't mention that besides being a producer, David Fincher freaking directed the first two (and maybe others, I haven't been checking).  It's a David Fincher TV SERIES.  And there's none of that horrible "waiting for next week" thing that I can't stand.
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Post by: Mac on February 02, 2013, 05:03:47 am
So that's the Netflix production I was reading about. It was going into some detail about how Netflix will have to pay for this, how much, etc. the owner of Netflix is determined. I can try to find it if you like.

So all the episodes are done and you watch them now, when you want?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2013, 10:21:57 am
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 02, 2013, 10:51:42 am
Mac- that's right, it's like when a DVD of the whole season comes out.

I'm reading an article on the Atlantic Wire right now.  Five new series a year?  Wonder what they could be.
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Post by: Mac on February 02, 2013, 01:57:54 pm
Paranormal Activity 4 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Let's get something straight. The Paranormal Activity movies are all the same. They have the same premise of being a voyeur and watching a family go through ghostly experiences. The scares come randomly and not very often.

Now, let me say these movies are a guilty pleasure. I typically can't stand the hand held camera crap, but these movies keep it to a minimum. The money shots are in the stationary camera's of the room, just ever so slightly seeing the ghostly apparition. Just when you think a scare should be there. It comes in somewhere else. PA4 was a blast. It's good for one watch, but after that you know what happens. With the right music and sounds and visuals, these are pretty creepy. The last minute of the film had me screaming like a little school girl.

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Oh, they are working on a Paranormal Activity 5 as we speak.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2013, 02:06:37 pm
The previous 2 posts should be moved to our Streaming Sub-Category here here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/the-best-tv-shows-on-the-internet/).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2013, 02:41:49 pm
Talk about Netflix has been movie to Netflix, Hulu & Amazon Prime Streaming News (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/the-best-tv-shows-on-the-internet/netflix-hulu-amazon-prime-streaming-news/msg16535/#msg16535)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2013, 08:25:59 pm
The Cable Guy (1996)

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Post by: Mac on February 03, 2013, 09:53:34 am
Killer Joe (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

From rottentomatoes...
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Violent, darkly comic, and full of strong performances, Killer Joe proves William Friedkin hasn't lost his touch, even if the plot may be too lurid for some.

I found William Friedkin's Killer Joe not comical in any way. I have no idea what they were seeing, except some really stupid southern rednecks that don't even know how to read, let alone arrange to hire a killer for their ex-wife/mom. This is a dark movie, but that did not entertain me at all. I watched the first hour in a slow as molasses pace and wondered why I'm watching it. Maybe I'm missing the point of the film. Maybe I just don't like Matthew McConaughey much. Either way, this reminded me of when we hear about criminals so stupid, they get easily caught. We see in news blurbs and it's interesting for 3 seconds. Yes, this one presents a very dark police/hired killer angle and McConaughey does a good creepy job... I just was not entertained by this flick in the least.

I just noticed the NC-17 rating... don't get that?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxpvzmvFHTM
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Post by: Mac on February 03, 2013, 12:43:12 pm
Doomsday Book (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Doomsday Book is South Korean film that consists of 3 vignettes  by 3 different directors tied together well, by Doomsday. The first story Brave New World is the zombie apocalypse attempting at least to trace the virus from the very beginning and watch it evolve into general public. It really tries to present it as a realist perspective like Contagion did vs. all the zombie movies already out there.

The Heavenly Creature I found to be the most interesting in story telling. The future holds robots are everywhere for just about every human need. One particular robot is bought my monks and learns everything about Buddha and Buddhism. So much so the monks believe Buddha is the robot. The robot creators and the technician have slowly realized the danger in robots becoming self aware. I especially liked the argument that develops between the tech and the robot. I kind of think it's like suddenly realizing your have a major discussion with a puppet and your getting sucked into the illusion. The photography also stand out as the best.

The third vignette is Happy Birthday about a young girl who may have accidentally ordered a destruction of Earth by Aliens. It has cuteness and humor and is way over the top, but not so much to dismiss the entire film. It's fun and strange and weird, but does not distract enormously.

The trailer mixes up all the stories, but the movie is not that way. Doomsday Book is 3 distinct full stories only separated by fade out/fade in.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GGfa0EybCI

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2013, 01:14:46 pm
Am I the only one seeing these "expanded" YouTube Screens on here? Anyone else seeing this or is it that my Browser is just very excited to see some YouTube clips these days?
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Post by: Mac on February 03, 2013, 01:58:34 pm
This is the first I've seen it.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 03, 2013, 03:59:12 pm
Yeah, that's annoying and odd... why be square when everything is wider now?  Doesn't make sense.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2013, 06:05:26 pm
The Last Castle (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2013, 08:38:52 pm
Drive Angry (2011)

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Post by: coolguy44 on February 04, 2013, 04:42:24 am
Yeah the YouTube screen is expanded
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2013, 05:58:10 pm
Roxanne (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2013, 08:25:58 pm
Punch-Drunk Love (2002)

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Post by: Mac on February 05, 2013, 03:44:11 pm
Hotel Transylvania (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

I love monster movies. This is such a treat to see a something paying homage to, but in a hilarious way to the monsters of old. I laughed out loud plenty of times throughout. It consistently stays fun and funny from beginning to end. I truly had a grin on my face the whole time.

They don't waste a second in this movie to get through the comedy. It's extremely fast paced. I imagine to keep the kids glued, but dayum, there is a ton there I know they didn't understand. I have to watch this again, because I know I missed some. While different than Frankenweenie and Paranorman, I think they are in the same genre. Hotel Transylvania is by far the best.

I believe this is the first movie with Adam Sandler I've watched... and liked (grin). Honestly, even when I looked up the voices, I still could not hear Sandler's voice in the count. He did a fantastic job.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AezBQxkMgJY
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2013, 06:44:09 pm
American Flyers (1985)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 06, 2013, 04:21:32 pm
"Seven Psychopaths."  Totally dug it.  I held off on seeing it in cinemas because I knew I would want to rewatch it again a few days later... or right after, and I didn't like the idea of waiting for the disc to see it again.  So... patience.  And I'm glad I did, I rewound parts to watch again.  Great cast... and I feel like all the parts were written FOR those actors, so it all feels natural, and of course I love Christopher Walken... he's better in this than anything else recently and while I don't want to spoil anything, Walken does something in the graveyard scene that I expect to be GIFed and tumblred to eternity.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2013, 05:51:00 pm
The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2013, 08:51:22 pm
The Day the Earth Stood Still (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 07, 2013, 02:38:47 pm
Finishing up all seven seasons of The West Wing.  There is a slight drop in quality when Sorkin left (around the time Jimmy Smits joins the cast, but then the whole show takes a different direction since it's about electing a newcomer).  Totally enjoyable show, but almost EVERY episode has a "hey, THAT guy!" moment.  For instance, this episode has Cricket from "Always Sunny," an earlier one had Abed from "Community" pop up, Al Bundy was a senator, Peggy from Mad Men is the President's youngest daughter, Lisa Edelstein from House is a lady of the night, etc.  Just about every actor has shown up in this series.

And something I QUITE like is that on Netflix, the whole series is in widescreen HDTV which is a nice way to see it for the first time, the whole series feels like a set of movies so it helps to see it in that format.

Not sure what I'll watch when it's done, but I KNOW that I'll get finished with it an hour before I hit the hay and scramble to find something else to watch.  Happens every time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2013, 04:14:19 pm
Not sure what I'll watch when it's done...

This (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/showgirls-(1995)/msg14892/#msg14892)
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Post by: Neumatic on February 07, 2013, 05:52:25 pm
Still need t put that on my queue.

Okay, I smartly put all my Political shows next to each other on my queue so I switched over to Commander In Chief, which quality-wise is such a step down.  It's no West Wing (and the sets kinda suck in comparison).  Now, I know that not everybody can be Sorkin but he sort of threw the gauntlet down and you gotta try to match that style, especially right off the heels of that show.

I'm already annoyed by the show because EVERYONE is saying that the female VP shouldn't be President, that she was just a stunt and they want her to resign and think she can't do it, then they shouldn't have freaking NOMINATED her!  Heartbeat away from the Oval is not a decision to be made lightly, but I imagine that sort of foolishness will lead many great problems for Geena Davis to clean up (this was 2005, so right when W got his second term).

Oh my GOD, everyone's so freaking condascending on the show, even to the First Husband (a set-up that never occurred to me but now I'm quite eager to see), as if they let the first mentally disadvantaged people they've ever met roam free.  What's going on?

Oh, and the Chief of Staff is Eliza Dushku's handler from Dollhouse.  I keep expecting him to ask "Madame President, would you like a treatment?"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2013, 05:56:06 pm
I'm STILL p*ssed that FOX and the public at large, cancelled Dollhouse. Ugh! I hate you all for killing off my shows!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on February 07, 2013, 06:03:58 pm
(BTW, I love that the husband on "Commander In Chief" keeps getting called "The First Lady" by his assistant, it's funnier than you think).  Oh!  And Donald Sutherland is in it, and he was SUPPOSED to be President instead.  And you know what that would mean, an America with Astro Boys and Hunger Games!

If it was all like season two with the whole espionage thing, I would agree with you.  I feel like the third season might have gone even wider in its' scope, showing Rossum having its hands in pretty much all the big nations and so on, Illuminati style.  Except that their last episode in season one locked them into the post apocalyptic future.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2013, 08:25:04 pm
i, Robot (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2013, 04:36:27 pm
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 08, 2013, 08:06:37 pm
I tried to watch Troy (the extended edition with all the extra scenes and boobery) but I couldn't get into it, even with the boobery.  Just didn't hold my interest.  What IS it about historical epics that causes the actors and writers to go all flat, they treat the whole thing too seriously, they sap the humanity and spontaneity out of the whole thing.  That sort of thing just bores me, it feels like I'm at school.  With more boobery.

So instead I'm tackling some stuff that I've been putting off (while my internet was down), starting with Resident Evil Retribution.  I actually have a little plan that'll end with Showgirls (happy, pappy?) and all tie into something that I'm writing.  So maybe I'll FEEL productive at least.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2013, 08:07:24 pm
Source Code (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2013, 08:11:25 pm
I tried to watch Troy (the extended edition with all the extra scenes and boobery) but I couldn't get into it, even with the boobery.  Just didn't hold my interest.  What IS it about historical epics that causes the actors and writers to go all flat, they treat the whole thing too seriously, they sap the humanity and spontaneity out of the whole thing.  That sort of thing just bores me, it feels like I'm at school.  With more boobery.

So instead I'm tackling some stuff that I've been putting off (while my internet was down), starting with Resident Evil Retribution.  I actually have a little plan that'll end with Showgirls (happy, pappy?) and all tie into something that I'm writing.  So maybe I'll FEEL productive at least.

Tell me you don't think Gladiator isn't a good film? No boobs there and that STILL kicks ass! I have yet to see Troy myself. It's on my Must-Watch List. So, I will try and knock that one out some time in the coming weeks. Sadly, speaking of boobs, there isn't a pair to be found anywhere in Showgirls. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/new_tongue.gif) Be sure to post your thoughts on that over in the Showgirls thread once you've finished watching it.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 08, 2013, 08:20:55 pm
Well, I imagine the people directly responsible for Showgirls feel rather like boobs...

I haven't seen Galdiator I THINK since the VHS age but I remember digging that quite a lot.  Because THAT had attitude and style and I don't remember anyone saying anything out of the blue because it sounds historical-ish like they tend to do in historical flicks.

I WILL share my thoughts on Showgirls after I see it.  No worries.  You've kept pestering me about it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 09, 2013, 06:57:44 pm
Meet the Parents (2000)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 09, 2013, 08:52:42 pm
I watched Resident Evil Retribution last night, and while the first half hour kind of dragged (and the six minute summary at the start didn't HELP), it went nuts for the rest of the run time.  I'm not a big repeater viewer of those flicks but I know there's usually something entertaining.  This flick involved an escape from a giant underwater base with recreations of suburbia, Times Square, Moscow, and Shibuya that they have to fight through cloned nazi-esque stormtroopers and mutant zombies.  And of course, it's not like Disneyworld where there's a passage underneath for the employees so they have to power through these locations.  And I have to say, for a movie involving an escape, SEVERAL characters appear and reappear constantly throughout the whole thing.  And there are quite a few plot holes and funky questions the situations raise but never address.  And like all the flicks, they end with a balls-crazy cliffhanger for what the next movie will be.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 09, 2013, 10:21:45 pm
Meet the Fockers (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 09, 2013, 11:07:24 pm
I'm still waiting for my Library to get a copy of Resident Evil: Retribution. I'm shocked that none of the branches has a single copy. Normally every big release gets about 15 copies floating around to cover most of the branches. But as of today, not a one. What the f*ck?!
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Post by: Mac on February 10, 2013, 05:39:42 am
Maybe they know it sucks  ;)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2013, 05:41:16 am
Maybe they know it sucks  ;)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2013, 03:31:45 pm
Ghostbusters (1984)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 10, 2013, 06:32:14 pm
I think I might finally watch "Killer Joe" tonight except I still have a crazy idea in my head of what it's about... and while I know it's NOT, my head keeps becoming something like Raising Arizona but with getting a hitman instead of stealing a baby.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 05:14:27 am
Ghostbusters II (1989)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 04:02:43 pm
Needing a movie to watch (I didn't watch Killer Joe yet, but I definitely have to put down what's in my head, because it involves an insane square-shaped fat suit, amongst other things) I found this movie on Netflix called "Career Opportunities."  It's basically about a kid, the town liar who loses every job he has and drives his family to their wits end (exactly where I feel I am at this point) getting his last chance at employment-- at a Target (which I was ASTOUNDED to see so prominent in the movie.  These stores must have just come out then). Basically, he's the night janitor and winds up getting locked in with a young and VERY buxom Jennifer Connelly-- and a pair of dumb-as-dirt robbers.

It's really strange seeing something that's still so ubiquitous today-- the Target superstores, which really haven't changed that much-- stocked with out of date clothes and a wall of 8-tracks and tall CD boxes.  I missed out on all that the first time around (I wasn't in the country) so this was a weird present-meets-past thing happening.

And Jennifer Connelly rides a bouncy horse.

The movie was cute, I don't know if I would watch it again but something I was pleasantly surprised by was the hiring manager at Target was John Candy-- I don't think he was in the credits.  Funny scene, and it made me realize that John Candy does a nervous, tension-breaking laugh in all of his movies.  Someone needs to put together a supercut of all of those.

And because of John Candy, I next picked out a little movie I'd never heard of before called "Going Berserk," which looks like it's an SCTV movie since it's got a lot of people from that and it's from about that time.  John Candy plays a limo driver about to get married and getting into all sorts of wacky trouble, including getting arrested and escaping from the police truck handcuffed to Ernie Hudson, who runs to see his girlfriend.  And they get it on, with John Candy on the other side of the door frame being knocked around like a rag doll, this whole thing is right in the middle of a maybe twenty minute section of the film where you're at least chuckling at any time.

I haven't finished the movie yet though, I needed to go out and do some stuff but I'll be finishing it, although this one as well I'm not sure if I'll watch again, but it's definitely worth scoping.  It does strike me as the kind of movie where the actual storyline isn't considered important as long as you're laughing.  And it's funny, I just don't know if I ever let out a big guffaw.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 04:20:55 pm
You've led a sheltered life if you've never seen Career Opportunities and Going Berserk until now.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 04:37:12 pm
Never even heard of them until now.

Bear in mind, I didn't even see the Star wars films until the theatrical rerelease in the 90s, I only knew anything about the flicks from the storybooks.  Until I was in high school I just had my small collection of VHSes and that was all the movies in the world.  And after that I didn't have cable in my room (or the computer room, where I spent most of my time) until college, so it's not like I would have come across them on TV.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 04:44:24 pm
That's just nuts!
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 04:47:01 pm
I'm sure that's one of the reasons I drew and wrote all the time, I had to make a lot of my own entertainment.  Even comic books when I was a kid were luxury items.  Of course, it took me too darn long to realize that my stuff should entertain other people as well, my talents languished when I was performing for an audience of one.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 04:47:58 pm
Better late than never, I say.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 04:57:47 pm
Man, when that Career Opportunities logo came on for the first time I thought "that 'O' looks like the Target logo, that's weird."  Wouldn't have thought it would be so prominent in there.  When I read the plot description I thought it would be like a Harrods or Macy's multi-story type affair, in the city.  And I definitely didn't think the whole thing would happen on his first night.

John Hughes did seem to fall on the "different people stuck together" plot device a lot, didn't he? I guess if it works it works.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 05:04:30 pm
John Hughes is the bomb!! Go here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/the-drive-in-theater/john-hughes-filmography/msg829/#msg829) for more.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 05:20:06 pm
You know what, there's still a few on that roster I don't know if I've properly seen. 

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 05:21:03 pm
Tsk, tsk.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 05:25:18 pm
Say Anything... (1989)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 05:27:49 pm
Back into "Going Berserk," he was just "alone with his thoughts" in front of that cruise ship.  Brilliant.

Gawd I miss John Candy.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 06:57:30 pm
I forgot to mention that I watched "Somewhere in Time" the other night.  Didn't realize it was Richard Matheson but of course it makes sense.  I had a few issues with it but I liked it... especially Arthur, I love that dude, he was popping up in everything in the late 80s and 90s.  Couldn't tell you his name for the lfie of me but he's every old gentleman with a white moustache and mane of hair, he was in Home Alone, Planes Trains and Automobiles (see how this all connects), Star Trek TNG... he's this dude, with Dr C...

(http://tng.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/s4/4x05/remember012.jpg)

Started Top Gun so I can finally knock that off my list.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 07:03:45 pm
Even money says you start quoting Top Gun this week.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 07:07:17 pm
Mr Strickland being Captain of the Enterprise... that sentence should make my geek brain explode.

I can already see shots that Star Trek 2009 cribbed.  I'll be curious to see if Pacific Rim borrows from this at all (I had been wanting to do a Top Gun brotherhood-in-arms take on Power Rangers for a while, actually-- was inspired by the remake of Battlestar Galactica).

BTW, did we all see the pictures of the Jaeger toys?  They finally don't look like Iron Giants.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 08:22:50 pm
Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 08:43:22 pm
30 minutes left in Top Gun.  We're still mourning for Goose (which I knew was coming because they said as much in Meet The Parents, if you recall).

Not sure what's gonna come up after this, though.  And I'm not getting as many annotations as I thought.  But I do dig the flick.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 09:27:10 pm
Okay, Top Gun:

Well first, I don't know how much of that I'll be quoting.  And I'm not sure when I'll see it again, but I enjoyed it.  The all-practical nature of it totally paid off (not that you could really CGI it or anything in those days), doing the whole thing in conjunction with the Navy helped lend it an air of authenticity that you can't fake.

Can I say though, what I thought it would be about was a whole gaggle of guys at the school and that they would be balanced, even with Maverick being front and center that everyone, Iceman included, would have their own arcs and failings and so on.  It was really funky when they had the curtain call at the end and I barely knew any of those other guys.

I happened to see the trailer for Monsters U earlier so now I'm actually wondering if they drew any inspiration from Top Gun, I didn't see any but I wouldn't be surprised, with the whole top 1% specialized training and so on.

Also, a little geeky thing, the ship in the flick is the Enterprise, but they also used the Ranger to double for it.  In Star Trek IV, they used the Ranger to double for the Enterprise since it was out of the country when they were shooting.  So little connection there.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 09:32:06 pm
Hiiiiighwaaaaay to the Danger Zone!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 09:35:21 pm
BTW, am I the only one who thinks that one engagement doesn't qualify Maverick for instructor status?  They just spent all that time and clearly millions of dollars training him, I think they'd get a few more years out of him to benefit from all that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 09:39:18 pm
The magic of Scientology is that they can get anyone, anything they want....even if they aren't trained for it. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/rimshot.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 11, 2013, 09:43:30 pm
FYI, when they opened the new Drive-In Theater this past summer here, the first movie played during the Grand Opening was Top Gun. My guess is that they went with that because the aerial shots were filmed here. Drive-In pics here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/the-drive-in-theater/movie-theaters-and-drive-in's/msg10752/#msg10752).
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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2013, 10:08:33 pm
I'm watching this special thingie on Netflix about Graham Chapman, but it's actually just the making of an animated movie about Graham Chapman.  He had recorded his memoirs but started doing scenes, acting out all the parts, so the producers got the Pythons to fill in the parts so it's a cartoon about Monty Python starring all the Pythons.  Sounds interesting but I have no idea when we're gonna see it.

The strangest thing so far is that there's a bit about Sigmund Freud, and the role is played by Cameron Diaz doing a man's voice.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 12, 2013, 07:32:04 pm
Deliverence now.  Followed by Showgirls.  Happy, pappy?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 12, 2013, 07:51:03 pm
Deliverence now.  Followed by Showgirls.

That's the most f*cked up combination I've ever seen put together and totally ingenious! Haha.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 12, 2013, 08:16:25 pm
And of course "Deliverence" blinked out at about an hour (not sure if I'll get the replacement yet) but now I started Showgirls thinking those dudes in the raft are gonna coast on in.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 12, 2013, 08:36:34 pm
Wow, I'm only seven minutes into Showgirls (pausing constantly to take notes) and I gotta say, Nomi acts like Lewis Black speaks.  AGGRESSIVELY!

Nomi was the one from Saved By The Bell, right?  I always had this thought, and the movie so far bears me out on this, that this is what happened to her character after the diet pills episode.  Just kept going on that crazy train.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 12, 2013, 09:26:48 pm
Funny People (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 12, 2013, 10:49:23 pm
Holy cow, I'm not even at the halfway point in this pile of dreck, but I have to share my current insane theory:

Based on the lousy food she eats, the fact she doesn't give any details about her past, her reluctance to have sex, her crazy height, her complete lack of femininity and the fact she's got a face like a horse, my current insane theory is that Nomi is a man who had a sex change.
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Post by: Mac on February 13, 2013, 01:04:22 pm
Hit & Run (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_03star.gif) (http://s74.beta.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif.html)

Hit & Run is one of the more eclectic movies I’ve seen in quite some time. It’s stars, produced, written and directed by Dax Shepard. I believe it’s his first real big studio project. He did direct a Parenthood episode and a movie called A Brother’s Justice. It stars his wife Kristen Bell, Bradley Cooper, Tom Arnold, Beau Bridges, and even Joy Bryant (Parenthood’s Crosby’s wife) as a badass coupled with Bradley Cooper.

It’s eclectic in it has odd vibe about it. It’s not really a major motion picture. It feels like a TV movie. The editing has a lot to be desired. You will tilt your head slightly with a WTF. I counted 3 scenes that for me jumped the shark. Totally out of character, way too long, and just a big distraction. Possibly padding the movie.

Hit & Run is a very talky movie. Some of it is pretty good and naturally Dax’s character has some of the best lines. Tom Arnold’s character is just weird. Funny at times, but weird.

I was entertained for the most part, but doubt I’ll watch it again. It’s just was not that satisfying

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nZlXB5okeo
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Post by: Mac on February 13, 2013, 03:14:43 pm
Chernobyl Diaries (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

From the creators of the Paranormal Activity movies, they bring this... which after it was over I realized it's a very similar formula. The shaky cam, a small group of people, a slow build up to some creepiness, camera editing to provide just enough of what-was-that? If you know the Paranormal Activity then the ending will make even more sense.

I enjoyed it somewhat. The shaky cam was minimal, but there were a few good surprises here to make it fun horror movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9xuquibQc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2013, 03:20:40 pm
I need to see about getting Paranormal Activity from the Library. You reference it quite a lot. Time I see what you're talking about.
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Post by: Mac on February 13, 2013, 06:39:00 pm
I think I've admitted the Paranormal movies are a guilty pleasure. They are all the same. Slow start, slow in the middle with moments of creepiness and a sudden end. The fun is trying to see what paranormal acitivty is occurring in the quiet shots.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2013, 09:18:27 pm
Machete (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2013, 05:14:55 pm
Little Fockers (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2013, 08:33:22 pm
Step Brothers (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 15, 2013, 08:39:12 pm
Role Models (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2013, 06:35:54 pm
Big Miracle (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2013, 09:57:16 pm
Mystery, Alaska (1999)

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Post by: Mac on February 17, 2013, 02:29:03 pm
Airborne (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I was not expecting much because I had read reviews that this was either really bad or didn't live up to quality. I'm in between. I think it had all kinds of potential but by the 3rd act is just became ridiculous. It had me in the beginning with some very interesting characters and a lot of tension. Then as the story started to unfold, it gets really silly and that's when I started to notice the cheap sets and weak effects. If they had kept it straight with smuggling and bad guys and such, it would have been interesting, but they get into some kind of voodoo spiritual body takeover, you just go WTF.

Mark Hamill has not aged well. He did OK acting, but dayum dude.

I would say maybe a rent if you can get it for free.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2013, 02:39:48 pm
I think that's why he prefers doing voice over work as the Joker. Probably pays better too.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2013, 03:05:25 pm
Miracle (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2013, 10:12:53 pm
Notorious (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 18, 2013, 08:45:27 pm
Frequency (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2013, 04:40:15 pm
High Fidelity (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2013, 09:48:14 pm
Mystic River (2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 19, 2013, 09:57:25 pm
Game Of Thrones Season Two.  Decided to buy it rather than wait ages-- I'm already waiting ages for a TV series.  And it's a purchase I'm pretty confident in.

I also intended to get "Hipsters" and "Super Zeroes" since they both came out today (and they're both AWESOME) but they weren't in any of the stores.  Which is fine by me.  I wait a bit and they might go down in price.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2013, 09:58:57 pm
I'm thinking of doing the same as it took about 3-4 months before I got it at the Library. Yes, the wait list was THAT long. I just can't see myself holding out that long again.
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Post by: Mac on February 20, 2013, 03:37:56 pm
Death Race 3: Inferno (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

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What can I say.... now they are just cranking out numbers. What's this one? Death Race XXVII?

I like the first Death Race. Thought it's mindless car  fun with lots of action. These are too, but forgettable. I can't even remember what 2 was about. 3 has the distinction to be out in the open desert. Obviously to accommodate a tight budget.

It's obvious to this viewer, the director Roel Reiné, has been watching a lot of Michael Bay movies with constant camera swing arounds. And even worse, to show his lack of action sense, quick edits to the races and fight scenes.... so much, it gets nauseating very quickly. He must have just finished watching The Expendables and took notes.

When the camera does step back, it's actually entertaining. The characters are completely forgettable and they cut back on the babe factor, which really curves my spine. The twist ending kind of makes it worthwhile.

Give it a rent for mindless ka-blams!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7rWElpyfAw
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Post by: Mac on February 20, 2013, 03:42:47 pm
Argo (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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This has been in my queue only because so much talk about how good it is and snubbed by the Oscars. Since I'm not to big a fan of Oscar caliber movies, I was mildly interested in this.

I am rather please to say, this is a very entertaining movie. It has the right chemistry of direction, story and characters where it never gets dull. Definitely raises the eyebrows with the whole Hollywood story Argo plan for rescue.

But honestly, I don't know about Oscar worthiness. Then again, I'm not sure what I would consider 'Oscar'.

I highly recommend Argo. I could easily watch this again in time.

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Post by: Neumatic on February 20, 2013, 04:05:49 pm
Argo was brill.

I'm on my last GoT episode-- I'm gonna go into the special features for sure (the "history of Westeros" in season one was quite entertaining), but after that, I dunno... maybe the Marvel movie marathon I was thinking about.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 20, 2013, 07:08:09 pm
F*ck! I didn't even know that Argo was out on DVD and certainly not in rotation at my Library. Technically it's not. They are still "on order", but I'm already 276 in line. Did I say f*ck loud enough? F*CK!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 20, 2013, 10:17:58 pm
Dances with Wolves (1990)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 20, 2013, 10:46:48 pm
Speaking of Argo, just found this page with Jack Kirby's concept art for the flick in the 70s. (http://www.buzzfeed.com/richardrushfield/the-lost-jack-kirby-sketches-for-the-real-argo-film-project)  Very cool.
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Post by: Mac on February 21, 2013, 03:18:54 am
That is cool.

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Post by: Neumatic on February 21, 2013, 04:03:16 pm
I watched the first two Iron Man movies last night, I'm gonna continue with my Marvel movie marathon but before I watch Thor I have to watch "Just Visiting" because if I don't I'll be giggling all throughout Thor, like the last time I tried to watch it (the coffee scene in Thor, all I could think of was "it's from the blue fountain!" until I couldn't hold it together anymore).  And seriously, who wouldn't want to see Thor throw up into a briefcase?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 21, 2013, 08:36:00 pm
Bridesmaids (2011)

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Post by: Mac on February 22, 2013, 10:08:23 am
Tai Chi Zero (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

Tai Chi Zero is a new perspective on age old kung-fu storytelling. Kind of a Scott Pilgrim perspective with heavy influences by video games and comic books. I’ve seen the story a million times before and just found Tai Chi Zero empty with lots of flash and ridiculousness. The reason I wanted to see this was the trailer made this out to be some major bizarre mash up of kung-fu and Steam punk. Well, the trailer lied. Steam punk is such a small portion of the film; I was bored by the time it appeared.

I will give it good marks for style and interesting photography. Less marks for over the top fly by wire fighting and the Master’s who had super hero capabilities.

Maybe recommend a rent if you’re into that specific genre of kung-fu films. Ya may like it or found it bordering on Meh, like me. Others will just hate it.


Pretty unique trailer though
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LSX_UH0F9g

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Post by: Mac on February 22, 2013, 10:20:52 am
Creep (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Creep is an obscure, but recent movie from Britain, I just happened across. The synopses of a women coming across some bad stuff in an underground subway system in London was enough to catch my attention.

It’s unfortunate, none of the people are very pleasant or you want to invest any time with. Then the story unfolds into other horror movie clichés seen many times over. There are several déjà vu moments from American Werewolf in London. But I think what really brought this horror movie down was revealing the ‘monster’, which is some kind of demented albino, diseased skin humanoid (much like The Descent’s bad people) and we watch curiously as he goes through his morbid and gory actions. I mean, it is no longer in the shadows and what will happen next. The camera actually follows it around… It breaks loose all the tension and we just then watch the grossness and dwindles into horror movie 101.

Creep could have been a whole lot better. The production value was good. The photography was good. The sound and sound effects added to the movie. The story and execution could have been better.

I recommend rent for free or wait until it comes on TV somewhere.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB6ZyhxSXJc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2013, 11:10:49 am
Do you seek these obscure titles and then hit your library? Or do you just run through the racks and see what catches your interests?
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Post by: Mac on February 22, 2013, 12:00:07 pm
It depends. I do seek and find. Other times I just happen across them.

I do glance through a couple of horror sites and hear about movies and projects that are being developed. Some sound very interesting but most are Z-grade horror fanatics dreams come true. I try to stick with the mainstream, but always have an ear open for the obscure/interesting ones.

I also just go through my libraries new listings and look for that diamond in the rough. The great thing you know about library material, you can immediately turn it off, if it just sucks, without feeling remorseful. Apparently there are other folks like me that make requests to the library and I’m in constant surprise, yet I’m delighted of what the library purchases. I have no idea what the criteria is for what the library purchases. Those Items they don’t purchase, I go through their inter-library loan and hope some other library has the movie request available.

We also have Charter Cable and they have a lot of “On Demand” material. It takes nothing but a little time to flip through them. IFC and MAX Extreme have some cool stuff on a regular basis. I typically go through the whole listing once a week.

All that being said, there is a LOT that I never get to see… I know about but may never see the light. I can’t have it all but did wish I had fear.net (http://www.fearnet.com/) or Chiller TV (http://www.chillertv.com/). And well, you know my feelings about the SyFy channel.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2013, 01:25:48 pm
We don't have a "New Listings" thingy. Maybe we do, I've just never seen it on my Library site. Or maybe I'm just looking in the wrong place. For me I have to write stuff down and post in the Hold List thread as I hear about or remember stuff I want to see.
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Post by: Mac on February 22, 2013, 02:45:26 pm
I have it several different ways. The online library has an index available on every page. It contains New DVD's which are then in rotation and Future Release DVD's, of upcoming DVD's. This is where you can put yourself in the queue, even before purchase.

But what I use most is the area they call "On-Order". This is what I sift through every day for new stuff. Maybe dig into the system and see what they might be doing.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2013, 02:51:42 pm
I only see 'On Order' when I actually remember to put my name down on a title and click 'Hold'. But as far as a wide-ranging 'On Order' list, I've never seen that on the Main page, etc....Will definitely dig further and see where else it may reside.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2013, 07:42:18 pm
Footloose (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2013, 11:04:36 pm
Footloose (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2013, 06:55:40 pm
War, Inc. (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2013, 07:00:57 pm
Just saw TPB_AFK, the documentary about the Pirate Bay, and the most I can think of it is 'this is clearly a movie shot entirely with a phone."  I did dig the title design though, I just felt that as a documentary it wasn't that exciting or interesting or thought-provoking when it really should have been all three.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2013, 07:01:50 pm
I was actually interested in seeing the doc.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2013, 07:49:34 pm
Well, I can't really figure out if it was good or bad, it was just-- this is what happened.  It felt like you were preparing for court WITH them, but... I guess I wanted more, is all.  Probably worth a look if you're interested in the subject matter, and you can stream it for free, so why not?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2013, 10:26:45 pm
Flashdance (1983)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2013, 10:49:11 pm
You gonna follow that up with "Striptease" or some other "dancy" movie?

Just finishing up Project X over here-- the one with Matthew Broderick and the monkeys in the flight simulators.  Cute.  Plus I like that the opening song is "Shock The Monkey," which I'm embarrassed to say I'm only familiar with the Don Ho cover of.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2013, 05:26:35 am
Project X is awesome. I need to revisit that one myself. As for Striptease, that one is still in hold. Ack!
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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2013, 10:36:15 am
Don Ho?

I know of him, but not know the words that came out your mouth.  :P
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2013, 10:39:04 am
Yeah, I don't ever recall hearing or even knowing there was a version sung by him.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2013, 11:39:29 am
Project X reminded me of "Rise of the Planet Of The Apes" but not in enough time for me to marathon the two together.  Of course, Project X has REAL monkeys which is kind of amazing.  Plus I like seeing sign language in movies.

I have a couple more movies about to expire on Netflix so Money Train and Out Of Sight either tonight or tomorrow.  And I've got a combination I've been wanting to do but haven't yet.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2013, 11:53:14 am
I actually have Out Of Sight on deck. Love the movie.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2013, 11:55:40 am
I hate that Netflix titles expire but I'm sure there's movies I've only seen because they were about to expire.

All the korean soaps expire first if March as well so I'll probable be double-screening for a few days (listen to a title on tv, watch a title on te laptop).
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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2013, 01:07:00 pm
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Studio Synopsis: Ten years ago, true crime writer Ellison Oswald (Hawke) made his reputation with a best-selling account of a notorious murder.  Now, desperate to replicate the success of his first book, he moves his family into a home where the previous occupants were brutally executed and a child disappeared, hoping to find inspiration in the crime scene. In the home, Ellison discovers a cache of terrifying home movies, unwittingly opening the door into a nightmarish mystery.

Sinister falls squarely on the haunted house genre. I liked it despite the occasional jump scares, ya know, the manufactured jump scares. There were scenes that made my hair on my neck stand up. I think it stands up pretty well in story telling and direction until the very end. Sinister has a creepy atmosphere. Shot a lot in dark places and night, the lighting was done very well to not loose the audience. Ethan Hawke sucks you into the mystery, to the point of seeing through his eyes. The rest of the characters did a fine job of either propelling the story or be of a warning to the viewer. If you like scary horror movies, check it out. Some very frightful stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgYxydrVlDk

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Edit: I forgot to mention, the music sounds like a direct rip-off of American Horror Story. The pulsating portion they use in the credits. Don't know which came first, but I suspect AHS.
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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2013, 01:19:24 pm
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As I mentioned in a previous post, I hear and read things in horror and sci-fi. I heard about Bait many moons ago when it was being made. Then heard it was good and then nothing. Suddenly it shows up on cable. So I jumped on this as soon as I ran across it. I happy to say, this was just a well made fun exciting movie from Austrailia. Nothing ground breaking except the idea that people are trapped inside a grocery store from a Tsunami that also washed in a 12 ft great white. Good collection of characters. Some interesting side stories to propel this along. There are some pretty major plot holes, bad reasoning and the occasional silly script dialog in the movie, but hey, don't let that get in the way. They present the shark in the grocery store as a real possibility. In fact, they should have amped it up some and had some other nastiness in the waters. The tension is high and moves along very quickly.

Oh, there were a couple of scenes where the CGI of the shark looked a little odd, but for the most part, they did a fantastic job in a realistic shark. Since this was also shot as 3D, there were some obvious "oh-no-it's coming right a you" scenes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wi4wcCVXd6o

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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2013, 01:34:14 pm
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My wife and I were really psyched to see Frank & Robot because the trailer caught are attention. Unfortunately, what the studio painted with the trailer hides so much more. Mainly it was boring. This is just a slow moving flick. But the main reason I didn't like it is the story hits too close to home. Frank Langella is an aging man with dementia. He is losing his memory and while his son is trying to take care of him, he is just a non-caring old fart. The final nail is the robot, who is obviously a person inside a plastic suit. They tried very hard to replicate the current crop of robots coming of the Japanese innovations, but I thought is was a sad attempt at trying to get the look.

Honestly we quit watching after 40 minutes. I gave it two stars, because it probably is good, with great acting, but beyond that, there was nothing compelling us to continue to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a_gAJk_CfPI

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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2013, 02:15:07 pm
I'm wondering how you would feel about Hinokio, the only other robot-in-regular-life movie I can think of off the top of my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naQB0aSPLk0

I'm gonna cut the Oscar party tonight short (not that I really care about that, but I need to make an appearance) to watch some more movies before they expire, maybe I'll see "Money Train" and "Out of Sight" and get them out of the way.  That would be nice.

I totally forgot to mention that I watched "Branded" last night, after TPB_AFK, and totally dug it.  If you remember me going on about the Cheetah's club in Showgirls, that sort of issue is totally addressed in this movie, all the fake brands are cute and interesting and there's one fast food place called TheBurger which has a convenience booth with a hole in the shape of a burger, fries, and drink where a tray comes out, it's kind of brilliant and clever.  And when the brands come to life, the way they're realized is pretty smart too.  I don't want to say too much about it but it's worth a watch at least, it's something different (it's kind of what I pictured They Live to be like) and I'm pretty proud that two dudes from my old high school made this.

What I couldn't help but notice is that Leelee Sobieski was in this and right after I watched "Project X" and I just thought "wow, she DOES look like baby Helen Hunt!"

Oh, and since I just turned Netflix on and the poster for Project X popped up, I have to say-- I miss the posters where they put a whole big blurb about the movie on there to get you excited: "When the Air Force assigned Jimmy Garret to a top secret project, he didn't know what he was in for. -- Neither did they."  I like that sort of thing.  I'm not saying it works in every case but I feel like a movie or two today could use that.  Or at least titles that make it clear that the bloody movie is about.
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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2013, 07:52:40 pm
I'd check out Hinokio. While I've never heard of it, it does have elements I'd have an interest in.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2013, 08:15:37 pm
I don't even remember the last time I saw it, to be honest.  I don't even remember how I got the DVD, it's Region 3.  But it is subtitled.  I'm sure it's streaming somewhere.

I just got back from the Oscar party so I think that double feature of Out of Sight/Money Train might be on the horizon...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 25, 2013, 07:33:50 pm
Out of Sight (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 26, 2013, 08:20:56 pm
The Wedding Singer (1998)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 27, 2013, 07:34:54 pm
So many movies, so many movies, where do I start?

Money Train
I only watched it because it was about to expire.  Never realized it took place over Christmas/New Years, but I was kinda hoping that would play in a little more, maybe with a crazy crook Santa or something.  Chris Cooper has an interesting concept of a Lethal Weapon like killer who sets people on fire, but he's not directly related to the actual robbery.  The movie is about Wesley Snips and Woody Harrelson robbing the armoured car of the subway lines, but that's the last half hour, it's like the ending was grafted on.  I thought that really should have been the WHOLE movie, since, you know, that's what we came to see.  We want a crazy robbery comedy and this was just an hour of lead-up to it.  Of course, in movies like this that are about one actual event, the whole event is so short that the rest of the movie is just wasting time.

Of course, I thought that Jennifer Lopez would have a lot more to do in this movie.  Something more along the lines of her part in...

Out of Sight

Loved it.  Loved it loved it, great snappy dialogue, and yeah, I totally felt that this was part of an expanded universe.  And I love how it was shot, it looked like a "movie" in the best possible way.

Killer Joe

Oh my god I loved this movie too.  I heard it was **** crazy, and it was, and it's got actors I love seeing: Emile Hirsch, Thomas Hayden Church, the somehow hypnotizing Juno Temple (who's kind of got a perfect body for movies, she's so short you can fit her all in frame and still see her face and eyes clearly).  And when Matthew Mac (as I'll call him because I'm not gonna look it up) gets a role that lets him actually ACT, like he does in this movie, he's really fun to watch.  He's just drippingly cold and indifferent.  He's not evil, I don't think, just direct and no-nonsense taken to the extreme.

And of course, on the Matthew Mac fix, I followed THAT up with

Magic Mike

...and he's in the first scene.  It really changes your perspective on him.  I was kind of waiting for that evil guy to show up again.  And I was really wishing that the guys Adam owed money too were the same guys who Emile Hirsch owed money to in "Killer Joe," that would have been AMAZING!

And you know from the start, somehow, that this is a real downhill spiral.  I really don't think there's a happy ending, just an escape (not to spoil it), but I honestly think the main issue, having a crooked business partner and getting into drugs, is probably common in a LOT of people's jobs.  Pizza delivery, for sure, big drug havens there I understand.  But that's not glamorous.  And there's a certain fun and glamour to the lifestyle and montage of male strippers.  And they certainly do make a point of making it feel fun and exciting and intoxicating.

And since dancing is a big part of the movie, I followed that with...

Make It Happen

...which I've known the visuals of since it came out, cause Mary Elizabeth Winstead dancing about in skimpy outfits, come on.  But I'd never actually sat and watched it and it was weak sauce.  It took forever to get to the points you knew the movie was going for.  The story is pretty simple, you have your poor but idealistic girl (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) going to Chicago to get into dance school, fails, and winds up dancing at a club.  That's the previews.  But she doesn't even get on stage until the halfway point, HALFWAY through the movie!  Half way!

There's no antagonist, there's no sense of stakes, the relationship she has with the DJ (which is totally clean, they almost imply they make out but they're smart enough not to, she's a "good girl," you see) there's no real complications or "real" drama or ANYTHING like that.  And given that it takes half the movie to get her on stage, it's just BORING.  There's two songs before she gets to Chicago, which should have been the START of the movie.  And of course, if she doesn't even make out with her boyfriend, you think we're gonna see anything good? 

Best we see is her sports bra at her final audition, that and skintight pants (and she looks UH MAY ZING), which is actually a hot sexy dance (and she even backflips, Magic Mike style!  Whoo!) but it doesn't feel like it's summing up everything she's learned.  Yeah, it's the ending from Flashdance (think about that title for a second if you don't recognize it).  Which brings up a whole other issue that I have with these types of movies, that everything revolves around one gatekeeper, which is so out of date now.  I also have the question what good the dance school really is, what do the graduates do, what is that degree worth?  And exactly what kind of work does a graduate dancer get?  How much paid dancing is there?  I thought she would recognize that she's got her career started early, you know?

Also, in the movie, Chicago is just flush with young people.  There's no ACTUAL adults, no grown people, everyone you see is young and pretty, I'm kind of annoyed by that.

I did notice that the dance club (which is kinda burlesque but not dirty burlesque, they actually DO wear clothes) has a lot of FEMALE fans, which I would have HOPED would be commented on (you know I'D comment on it), but if MEW doesn't even screw the DJ, you know lesbians don't exist.  Oh, and I ALSO wished that the DJ had mixed his own "get it on" music, that would have been GREAT!

It's weak.  Just weak.  Just look up the dance numbers, particularly the umbrella dance, which I posted in the "stripteases" thread on here, and your good.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 27, 2013, 09:33:50 pm
Singles (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 27, 2013, 10:37:18 pm
I can't remember anything from Money Train. Nothing.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 27, 2013, 11:44:39 pm
There's nothing worth remembering from Money Train.  Though I was happy to see Enrico Colantoni pop up.

Just finished Quick Change after Hit & Run.  Interesting double feature.  Dug both.  Quick Change was somehow very early 1990s.  I don't know what I mean by that.

Hit & Run (I couldn't find the thread) was cool, it was the sort of flick I feel that The Stunt People and Kwoon would make.  I definitely noticed the fact that the "finish line" was the new Starfleet Academy and they drive through the big hangar from Star Trek (and Austin Powers).  I've never seen Smokey and the Bandit but this definitely feels like what I think that movie would feel like.  And the driving was brilliant, it reminded me of the car ballet from Ang Lee's BMW film.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2013, 12:31:31 am
The Terminal (2004)

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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2013, 07:43:16 am
The Pact (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

The Pact is from a short film that did pretty well in the film festivals. Enough to say, hey, let's make a feature film. The Pact pretty much takes place in one place. A average home... but what appears to be ghosts. It is part haunted house and part 'something else' which would spoil the film. There are some good genuine scares here, but overall, this is just average. In fact the dual point of the film confuses me. It's not bad in any way, so if you're into horror films with a ghostly house, you might like this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLKZXmePTxc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2013, 10:03:59 pm
Black Swan (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2013, 08:55:03 pm
War Horse (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2013, 04:36:50 pm
Hoop Dreams (1994)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 03, 2013, 06:36:35 pm
I still haven't watched Striptease cause I know it's not gonna be good so I'm thinking I'm going to sandwhich it, put it between two good movies.  For some reason (probably b/c I heard it was based on a book) I thought it was a bad Elmore Leonard adaptation, so I think I'll watch Get Shorty in front of it and maybe Big Trouble (an Elmore-esque flick) after it.  That way I'll have a "should be" in my head, which I'm fine with.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2013, 06:38:16 pm
Get Shorty is fantastic! I need to watch that again.....for the 20th time.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 03, 2013, 06:47:35 pm
I think it's been long enough that I've forgotten everything in it-- with the exception of Danny Devito as Napoleon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2013, 11:52:44 am
The Heart of the Game (2005)

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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2013, 12:39:55 pm
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I remember the trailer because it has some eye-popping surfing waves. I like surf movies and if you do too, I suggest checking Chasing Mavericks out. Gerard Butler is real good as Jay’s mentor/teacher. Jay is played by a very likable Jonny Weston, cast from the mold blonde surfer type. Chasing Mavericks is based on the true story of Jay Moriarity climbing the surfer ladder to become one of the most notable and daring surfers in recent history. Chasing Mavericks has a Disney-ish feel. It’s very family friendly. Even Jay’s nemesis comes off as an Eddie Haskell. That’s all fine, because that allows the audience to pay attention to story at hand and the lessons Jay learns.

The surf scenes are a little different than in past movies. Really, how many different shots can you get of a surfer than wasn’t have been done already?

I thoroughly enjoyed and was entertained by Chasing Mavericks. It’s just a fun movie that is obviously pulling your heart strings.

Spoiler/Not Spoiler
What totally took me by surprise were the ending credits. Jay passed away due to an accident unrelated to surfing in 2001. I highly recommend watching the extra  ‘Live Like Jay’ to see all the real life people talking about the real Jay. Not only was it respectful, it was heart warming and emotional. Jay was unusual breed, but I say that in an extremely complimentary way. I like how he carried himself, what he did for others and his thinking in general. In hindsight, I think all the people related to making this movie did a fantastic job of capturing ‘Jay’.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jh09vEGNrXc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2013, 12:41:05 pm
This is already on my radar and on my Hold List. Looking forward to checking this one out.
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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2013, 12:42:50 pm
Skyfall (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I plugged in Skyfall this weekend and was pretty psyched to see it. Yes, the requisite action opener is there. Fun chase scene. Bond actually gets wounded. And then as suddenly as it starts, it stops. It comes to a crawl with lots of Bond gazing at things. And then a lot of talking. Way too much talking.

We don’t even see the bad guy until an hour into the flick. My point… where’s the tension? Am I bored?  Yes.

I am very disappointed at this film. Why was I hearing this was the best Bond yet? Because the last one sucked more? That doesn’t make this one better. Just different.

I just can’t imagine wanting to see this again. I’d watch C asino Royale several times over before I attempted Skyfall again. I rate this right up there with The Dark Knight as the most overrated flick in recent memory.

Note: The Theme song is excellent because of Adele’s creation and performance. The visuals were just OK.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2013, 12:45:26 pm
I don't think I've heard one good thing about Skyfall. I've heard some pretty horrid reactions toward the movie since it hit. I will check it out, but my expectations are at a all time low. Bummer. I've never heard anyone saying it's the 'Best' of the bunch.
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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2013, 12:56:33 pm
Wiki: Jay Moriarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Moriarity) from Chasing Mavericks
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Post by: Neumatic on March 04, 2013, 05:51:42 pm
I hope that by "visuals" you were referring to the title design in Skyfall and not the cinematography, because I will not hear a word spoken against it.  The actual opening titles, while I liked them (particularly when he shoots his shadows), had this thing I'm seeing a LOT of now where what SHOULD be 3D looks like 2D or 2 1/2D like Speed Racer.  The new Doctor Who theme sequence and the new Universal logo have the same problem and it annoys me like crazy.  They remind me of those terrible motion comics.

Funny that you mention The Dark Knight because I kept thinking of that movie all throughout Skyfall, there were a few of the same beats and I'll bet you anything that a bunch of those beats will be followed in the new Star Trek as well (I should really outline those two movies and write out the Trek version and see how correct I am).

Speaking of Star Trek, considering the big deal that was made about Heineken being involved in James Bond I thought that the change would be noticeable, it wasn't, and certainly not to the level it was in Trek, and I think Heineken paid a lot more to be in Bond.

What I really didn't like about Skyfall was the full circle thing.  I liked that Casino Royale was basically throwing down and saying things are different now and that last shot undid ALL of that.  It's making me want to finally crack into "Carte Blanche" (which I borrowed from my dad ages ago) to see if it does any better).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2013, 07:46:42 pm
More Than a Game (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 05, 2013, 09:41:32 am
Michael Jordan to the Max (2000)

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Post by: Mac on March 05, 2013, 09:48:17 am
Yes, I was speaking of the Title Design. No, the photography and audio are crystal clear and fine.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 06, 2013, 07:17:11 pm
Nowhere Boy (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 06, 2013, 08:02:57 pm
The Master.  Been waitin' for this one.  Can't even imagine how good this would have looked in the theater.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 07, 2013, 09:03:09 pm
Bring It On (2000)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 08, 2013, 12:27:44 am
I don't know if I've ever seen the original Bring It On the whole way through.  I am familiar with it, of course.

I finally rewatched Mr & Mrs Smith, which I'd been thinking of doing for a while.  And it's the same unfinished thought I remember it being.  I remember people going nuts for this movie, I was working at a cinema at the time and we had the film strip stretched along in the projector room so one film would show in two theaters and there were people on the floor.  And I saw it several times out of sequence and I always felt like there was a reel missing.

There's all sorts of set-ups that aren't paid off, the elevator being the main one, but it turns out that the people in charge of the two assassin companies were supposed to be divorced enemies and were recast, Benjamin Danz just disappears from the movie then pops back up again near the end, I kept getting the idea that Vince Vaughn was going to get some kind of crowning moment of awesome or betray the two... the whole thing just feels convoluted.  Everything after the fight/love scene (which btw, if there was EVER a chance to see Pitt and Jolie actually go at it, that was the chance and we missed it) nobody remembers, because it seems like a whole other movie we're just seeing the hits from and then they cut out the final big sequence from, taking down the "big bad."  There's no actual enemy they fight, just disposable henchmen.

I was also aways annoyed at the pure SIZE of their house.  It's way too big for them.  They're a bit too rich, they needed a smaller place or something more stylish that they bought and never bothered to personalize.  Maybe an old barn conversion or a refurbished old house or something along that line.

And BTW, is there anyone in the world who saw this movie that DIDN'T know the set-up?  They spent so long setting that up that it took up half the movie!

It's a shame cause this feels like the natural follow-up to "True Lies" (although Brad Pitt is far more entertaining to watch as a leading man than Arnie) but it's not put together right.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 04:28:58 am
I can't remember anything about Mr. & Mrs. Smith.
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Post by: Mac on March 08, 2013, 06:12:14 am
Ruby Sparks (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Ruby Sparks has been on my radar for awhile. The basic premise of the story is a nerdish, bookish young author is having writer’s block. In a dream, he meets Ruby, which inspires him the next morning to write everything about her. He then obsesses about her where he thinks about her fictional character all the time. At least it gets him out of his funk. To his surprise a week later, suddenly Ruby Sparks comes to exist… and not just in the author’s head. Ruby physically exists for everyone to meet. And not only does she exists, Ruby is part of the Author’s life as a girlfriend for some time.

The characters are eclectic and engaging. The story, though told before, seems very fresh. As someone said, a project by Woody Allen that never happened. Though it’s slow, I found it fun. Especially when the author starts tinkering with Ruby’s character.

I’m going to give this a thumbs up for this nice little indie movie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4RJYlSgDKM

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 07:47:33 am
This actually sounds pretty interesting and something I would like. Definitely going to check this one out for sure. Thanks, Mac.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 01:33:10 pm
The Passion of the Christ (2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 08, 2013, 02:58:51 pm
Chip's last two movies are making me think now of a combo, a movie about peppy, spirited teenagers competing to perform the best Stations of the Cross.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 03:03:04 pm
That will get you some notice.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 08, 2013, 07:41:17 pm
Totally forgot that I was going to watch The Three Amigos.  It's been long enough that I forgot enough (like the "mail plane" joke).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2013, 10:23:49 pm
Blast from the Past (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 09, 2013, 05:13:59 pm
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 09, 2013, 08:39:06 pm
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 09, 2013, 10:10:55 pm
You've seen Heather Graham in Arrested Development, right?

Oh geez, what timing, I watched "Three Amigos" last night and tonight:

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 09, 2013, 10:27:06 pm
You've seen Heather Graham in Arrested Development, right?


Yup. And in Scrubs as well. Viva la Graham!!
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Post by: Neumatic on March 09, 2013, 10:29:15 pm
I have yet to "cast" Graham in anything.

BTW, I just now got the "theme" in watching "Blast From The Past" and "Austin Powers" in one go.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 09, 2013, 10:35:20 pm
BTW, I just now got the "theme" in watching "Blast From The Past" and "Austin Powers" in one go.

It's like a hand grenade....it takes a few seconds before it explodes. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_smile.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 10, 2013, 01:48:48 pm
Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002)

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Post by: Mac on March 10, 2013, 04:05:48 pm
The Bay (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_02star.gif) (http://s74.beta.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif.html)

The Bay, directed by Barry Levinson, is 90% true based on a his work researching a Chesapeake Bay documentary. In a nutshell, he said, the documentary would not move many people, so lets take a step further. So it's not a horror film, it's more of a Contagion type of genre. This is clearly an experiment in found footage.

I was not expecting much just from this knowledge alone. I wasn't that disappointed with a ho-hum flick.

Watching the extra's Levinson talks about his ideas, motivation and interest in this kind of genre. My personal opinion, I just think he's 10 years late. He made this as authentic as possible only using possible camera's that would be used, unlike some found footage movies that ignore that rule. But so what. We've seen everything here, including one of the main head scratchers from this over used technique "Why are you filming now?" "Because I want to document everything" "You want to document us walking down a badly lit sidewalk"

It's all here with the silly premise. Let's talk about the story of nasty infection that spreads very quickly. So this balances on a horror story that 'could' possibly exist from some very real problems with nature. Nothing was made up. All the creatures exist, pollution and radiation already present.

That gave me a little chill to think this could actually happen to you and me.

What I think made this experimental film fail is a Blair Witch analogy. The build up is very slow. You're constantly waiting for very bad things to happen... eventually something happens here and there. The audience is never really terrified at what's going on. It's chaotic and there are less than a handful of very short things to make you cringe.

It suddenly ends leaving me, the viewer, a WTF moment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtgoJ_pFnQ

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 10, 2013, 04:25:32 pm
Based on your review, it sounds like something I wouldn't have the patience to sit through if it takes that long to set up something.
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Post by: Mac on March 10, 2013, 06:18:25 pm
Wreck-It Ralph

Simply, I'm not the demographic for this film. I don't play video games, which this is this movies core. The story, the jokes,  the inside jabs are all missed by me.

I watched for a half hour and while the graphics are great, everything was just lost on me.

Not even going to rate or recommend.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2013, 10:29:50 pm
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Mike Myers (1998)

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Post by: Mac on March 13, 2013, 02:35:14 pm
The Awakening (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_04star.gif) (http://s74.beta.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif.html)

The awakening is yet another ghost/haunted house tale. And rather well made, engaging and atmospheric one at that. The story slowly reveals layer upon layer of the mystery. There are a few jump scenes, but in general a creepy story. Told from a 1920's setting and a very muted color palette, it becomes its own and stands out... Much like The Orphanage or the Devil's Backbone. I can't tell much more or it would spoil everything.

I recommend The Awakening if your into the ghosts and haunted house genre.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1Bx6iBmgpc

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Post by: Mac on March 13, 2013, 02:44:15 pm
Fat Kid Rules the World (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_02star.gif) (http://s74.beta.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif.html)

Wow, talk about a big let down... For me.  I was really psyched to see Fat Kid Rules the World. It looked like the fish out of water story with drumming. You slowly realize this is one slow ass movie. The Fat Kid has zero personality that I saw. The other kid player who picks him and sets a coarse for him has no redeeming values. Maybe he's got a gold heart, but his actions say otherwise. It's just slooooooow.

I kept watching hoping it would pick up and finally when the Fat Kid sees his future in a 'punk' band (about half way through), which is one of the rare musical styles I cannot stand... I turned it off.

I could not relate to the music, the fat kid, the punk kid, the family, anything. Complete waste of my time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPk8nkM2fTs

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2013, 02:58:32 pm
Fat Kid Rules the World

This has been on my radar for a while now. I'm kinda disappointed and not entirely surprised that this didn't get good reviews across the board. I'm torn about giving this a go in spite of all the negative remarks. What to do? Ack!
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Post by: Neumatic on March 13, 2013, 04:19:27 pm
I'd never even HEARD of it until you mentioned it right now.  And from your review, I doubt I'll ever hear about it again.

I just rewatched some Black Books last night but I also re-watched UHF (in HD for the first time, I think) since it was about to expire off my Netflix queue.  I think I'm going to try to do that triple feature tonight (Get Shorty, Striptease, and Big Trouble) if I can finish my damn "homework."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2013, 04:48:01 pm
Your Homework, Mid-Term and Final is Striptease. Get to it!
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Post by: Neumatic on March 13, 2013, 05:27:44 pm
You know, I didn't realize that Rumor Willis is the daughter.  That's gonna add a whole other dimension to the flick (oh my god, can you imagine Bruno himself as the ex-husband?  If the flick WAS Elmore Leonard, I bet it coulda happened.  Bruno did get shot in the second Charlie's Angels flick, and I think that was after the divorce...)
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Post by: Neumatic on March 13, 2013, 06:21:36 pm
Actually, I gotta watch this Cirque Du Soleil movie so I can return it, then maybe Unleashed and I can have my triple feature tomorrow (I know I keep putting it off!).  Of course, this is provided that I want to watch the whole thing.  And I have to give notes tonight so maybe I should wait until tomorrow to annotate more stuff.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2013, 08:52:06 pm
Deep Impact (1998)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 13, 2013, 09:23:54 pm
Okay, I finished "Get Shorty" and just started Striptease.  Happy, pappy?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2013, 09:25:40 pm
Very.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 13, 2013, 09:28:40 pm
I believe one of the strippers was also in Showgirls.  The blonde innocent.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 14, 2013, 10:49:50 am
World Trade Center (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 14, 2013, 06:42:34 pm
Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 14, 2013, 09:42:21 pm
Big Top Pee-wee (1988)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 15, 2013, 04:53:58 pm
Side by Side (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 15, 2013, 08:41:24 pm
Homeland (Season 1 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 16, 2013, 08:19:11 am
Just watched the first season of that myself.  I was trying to explain everything that happened to my mom and I realized I forgot what actually wound up happening with the "Mike" character.

Okay, I finally did watch Get Shorty and Striptease back to back a few days ago, didn't do a proper type-up.  I had originally intended to watch Big Trouble afterwards to have a proper sandwich but it was too late to start another movie.

Anyway, I've seen Get Shorty plenty of times, but I'm always careful to space it out so I don't remember everything.  And there's a lot of memorable stuff in the flick.  For example. I did remember that Danny Devito was "Napoleon," but I had forgotten his autobiography keeps popping up-- and has the same photo on both the picture on the front and the author's photo on the back!  And I never realized in the book it's meant to be Dustin Hoffman (another famous short actor!).

I freakin' love just about the entire cast in the movie, this is one of those scripts that attracts actors because every role has something cool to say and do, and John Travolta for all the **** we give him just owns the role of Chili Palmer, not playing it as a thug or impossibly cool but as just a man with a plan and a style.  And of course, I love that whatever's thrown at him, he adapts to it and makes it his own (the "cadillac of minivans" being a perfect example). 

And of course, I love Dennis Farina in both this AND Big Trouble (though the similarity of the movies' styles is what made them the intended "bread," not Farina's involvement) and I just died laughing when we cut to him on the pot reading a book underneath the Mona Lisa.  Doesn't even have to do anything to bring the funny.  And a pretty awesome bad guy to boot.

And of course, I love Barry Sonnenfeld's style (I just remembered that he shot "Throw Momma From The Train" for Danny Devito, if I remember right) where the whole thing has this little level of unreality to it, there's style and poppy colours and specific framing and music, and I love the way the story deconstructs itself as it goes along, almost like a writing lesson.

And I also like that all the "current" movies that the characters spoke about were fake, it helps give the world its' own feel and keeps it from getting dated too much.

Now, let's contrast.

Right off the bat, I was really wishing that my memory of Striptease was faulty and that there some forgotten gem moments in there and some subtle brilliance that got overlooked.  No luck, not really.

My mind started imposing the style of Get Shorty onto this flick, I wanted fast-talking characters out-snarking each other, having conversations with enemies just because they felt like talking about something, and to be packed to the brim with character actors having their own little moments.

And how amazing would it have been to have Dennis Farina as the club owner?  The guido guy was all right, but come on, just imagine (of course, if you want to go Leonard, he could have been Marshall Cisco in the Armand Assante role, that would have been interesting too).  "Eskobar" from Get Shorty (a character actor whose name I've never caught but who's been in EVERYTHING) could have been the crooked judge at the start.  They stuck Ray Bones with that cheerful chauffeur ("they say the smog's the reason we have such beautiful sunsets!"), I would have LOVED to see him being stuck with the childish Congressman (oh, I have something to say about him).  Or perhaps Jack McBrayer (too early, I know, but still, throwing out ideas).

And thinking of character actors, Robert Patrick made me laugh ONCE, when he's dancing drunk, but it wasn't enough.  Normally I like the guy in flicks but I feel like he was wasted here.  HE would have made an interesting club owner too.I really wish our introduction to him was him stealing wheelchairs, would have made it a more impactful scene.  And he should have had multiple schemes going on.  That was a big issue for me, it felt like characters were repeating steps or wasting time in order to pad out the run time, as opposed to Get Shorty where stuff happened quick and they moved on cause they had a lot of stuff to do.  Creates an atmosphere of adrenaline.

Chili Palmer is an active character, he's got two simple goals, a want (a new career) and a need (get the money), and he gets to it and finds the best way to satisfy both at the same time.  Erin Grant on the other hand, **** just happens to her and it takes a good while before she takes active steps to do something about it.  She's also being drawn into events that don't concern her because people start using her as a pawn.  People want to use Chili as a pawn but he's always aware and playing them right back.  He can benefit from the people who try to play him, he can make that work to his advantage, which is why it's okay when things get a little big in his story.  Outside of getting her kid back (insert appropriate Arrested Development quote here), Erin has no real motivation to get involved in anything else that's happening.

The Childish Congressman is just a great example of a character wasting time, just pining over Demi Moore until the third act.  And his whole dumb drunken attitude takes on a different dimension post-W, I feel.  He was almost like a petulant child waiting to be doted on, doing stuff he shouldn't do.  When Gene Hackman did **** he shouldn't do, he made the situation worse, complicated things, got the crud beat out of him, forced the characters to react.  Congressman just kept his distance for the most part.  Burt Reynolds was kind of wasted in the role.  But at least he got paid a big salary and got to watch Demi Moore strip for eight hours a day so I guess that's something.  But my feeling is, especially in movies where there's sex or nudity or anything like that, the writing should be so good that you forget about that part.  "Closer" is a good example.  I didn't LIKE "Closer" but it was engrossing enough I had totally forgotten about Portman's stripper scene until it happened.

I'm also not that fond of the music used in the flick.  Demi Moore dances to some sad songs.  The only song I did like that she dances to is "Sweet Dreams" by the Eurythmics.  Everything else is just a bit too moody.  And one of the song repeats!  She dances in her towel to a song that she later dances to in a club.  For some reason I always remembered the scene as a song she likes coming on the radio and she's overjoyed, cranks it up and starts playing around.  "Just rehearsing" as an excuse for a brief moment of giddiness.  Nope, no dice.

She has some very sexy routines, although I note that they're not very interactive and she doesn't collect many tips, which you think would be kind of a priority since she's trying to raise money for a new attorney (the outdated "please the gatekeeper" goal where apparently your happiness depends on someone else, which you all know I don't like).  They really don't move the plot along, they're rewards to the audience for staying in their seats.  Shouldn't the movie be its' own reward?  And she's a little too good at it, there's never a line about how she used to dance as a child or a faded old ballet photo or anything like that to suggest it's a latent talent.  She really jumps right to "star" of the show without having to do anything like be a pole dancer or none of that, she's whole other levels above the rest of the girls.  Who barely get any characterization or screen time, the lousiness of their characters is more demeaning, I think, then what they do on stage.  And they're overloaded with silicon, it's gross!

And speaking of backstory, I have NO idea why Erin Grant liked Robert Patrick in the first place, they despise each other in the movie which is fine but there's no indication or reason given as to why they would have been married and had a kid together.  There's no sense of history there.  Come on, give the guy something!

See, good writing attracts talent.  This kind of flick, you gotta pay through the nose to get talent involved.  If there's any lesson to take away from all this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2013, 08:26:45 am
I can't recall who wrote the script for Striptease, but character back story and motivation was the least of their concern. It was primarily a vehicle that was going to get asses into theater seats on one hook: Demi getting naked. They (producers, writers) all knew that would "be enough" to do just that. Without story, it's nothing more than a high-priced, over-inflated " p o r n " that is soon forgotten. I thought and still do think that Burt Reynolds was the worst part of the movie for me.

FYI, great review dude!
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Post by: Neumatic on March 16, 2013, 10:05:24 am
Well, I know it was based on a book, which is where the Elmore Leonard association in my mind came from.  And the book sure didn't have no Demi.

And honestly, I'm not surprised this didn't make any money in the theaters, you saw the draw was getting to see Demi naked but I would be uncomfortable watching this in the theater with other people (that sort of thing is just not fun).  Not that I was old enough to when this came out, but it was the first "movie with adult content" I could remember being aware of (apparently Mallrats and A Few Good Men didn't qualify, in the latter's case adult stuff being synonymous with boring things I didn't understand) so naturally I'd want it to live up to that.

I'm amazed the movie didn't have either a crazy sequel hook (Demi getting tossed a g-string and hearing "Hail To The Chief" playing on a car horn) or the happy ending with Demi and her daughter in their new house, and the camera panning to a photo of Demi and the girls at the club celebrating.

What's amazing is that Burt Reynolds is pretty much forgettable, that dude's normally hilarious.  He should have been "Burt," you know?  The guy that Norm McDonald impersonates (I JUST remembered that Burt IS the owner of Chubby's, the strip club in "My Name Is Earl.")  His obsession should have at least evolved a bit, you know, find out her favourite movies or music and start liking those too, you know?  Especially if her fave movie is something like Beaches, and you cut to him crying like a baby watching it on the little TV in his limo before he's supposed to meet with someone important, like maybe the young Christian League, and that accidentally winds up working to his advantage.

BTW, it's not p o r n.  That'd happen if Demi went totally bare and/or gotten it on.

Also BTW, this is how I review/experience most movies.  It just takes a LOT of effort to retype all that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2013, 10:18:53 am
I know it's not  'p o r n'.  I was making a parallel comparison to legit  p o r n  in that no one remembers it 5 minutes after you turn it off, which Striptease is. Forgettable that is.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 16, 2013, 11:01:11 am
I gotcha.  Although even in those cases, if it's good, you'll remember it.

I'm wondering a) if I shouldn't have made this its' own thread and b) whether the actual book was bad or if this was a bad adaptation.  Maybe the book was a case of the descriptions and narrative being funny and that just didn't translate into the screenplay.

You know, I said this was the first "adult" content flick I can recall being aware of, but I saw Animal House SEVERAL times in the third grade (one of the few tapes we had at the time) and I know I was intro'd to Caddyshack a couple years later ("that must be the tea,") I guess the comedy overrid the "adultness" of those flicks.  AH really took on a whole new dimension after high school.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2013, 11:07:16 am
If it's a movie (or book) that you know will get a lot of comments, it's best to start a new thread. Feel free to start one now if you like. I have plenty to say about it. I will be revisiting the movie for myself and will start a new thread if one hasn't already been started.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 16, 2013, 11:29:29 am
The thing of it is, though, is that I felt no need to revisit it because I already internalized all the "do not do" lessons that movie gave me.  It felt redundant to watch it, you know?  It's not like all of Demi's dirty scenes aren't online in a thousand places.  That's the thing now about movies now, they can't just be watchable, they have to be rewatchable.  The only way you're going to make any money is if people want to buy your disc because they keep wanting to revisit it.  Movies are so available now that quality is even more important.  And when it comes to movies like this, you have to make the person want to continue watching.  It's like Arrested Development or classic Simpsons, you hear a few good minutes and you want to keep going.  That's the best way to fight against all these sites like Mr Skin or what-have-you that but the juicy bits up, make the movie so good those stills and little videos are advertisements for the rest of the flick.

BTW, I'm hoping you do what I did and sandwich Striptease with Get Shorty cause I'm sure I'm forgetting stuff (like, I'm now just remembering that James Gandolfini had a little girl).

Oh geez, thinking of the little girl, Rumor Willis (I don't know how it's spelled!) had ZERO presence in the movie.  I understand that she's Demi's real kid and I'm okay with her being in the movie because of that, but considering that the whole story pretty much revolved around her, I had to like her or care about her welfare or something and I didn't.  And I can't really fault her for that cause she wasn't an actress back then, she was just a little kid.  And I know the pool of young talent back then wasn't as good as it is now (cause there's more shows starring kids thanks to Disney Channel and Nick and so on, there's more opportunities for young actors and so more of them are coming through the woodwork).  I was trying to think of anyone else who could have filled that part and there were only two names, Michelle Williams (but she was way too old) or the kid from Liar Liar (and he was on a show too but I can't remember what it was), he was adorable.  Of course, they were also blonde and that wouldn't have worked.

And as I'm writing that I'm remembering the board games.  There was no commentary track (anyone really wanna hear one?) but I'll bet they couldn't get licenses from ANY board game manufacturers, hence the strange nonsensical games they were playing.  You gotta figure these days some indy designer would be saavy enough.  Heck, they could be playing Magic: The Gathering back there now or some such.  "Darlin', you're beautiful!" "I'm also a plus one mage."
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Post by: Mac on March 17, 2013, 09:58:22 am
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So I admittedly have this fondness, guilty pleasure of liking the first Silent Hill flick. So news of a sequel piqued my interest. Then I heard nothing but badness about it. Well, now that it's released on DVD, I got a chance to see it.

WTF

Seriously, this is such a cluster. It's incomprehensible. I had no idea what was going on. I swear the development of this must of been, lets think of some really bizarre images and situations...

... and then wrap a story around it. The Silent Hill people will eat this up.

I have no words, except this is a very well made piece of crap. It's movies like this that give sequels a bad wrap. Yes, most sequels are not nearly as good as the predecessor, and most are truly a waste of time, but this is just abysmal.

I have no idea why I would even begin to recommend this, even to a Silent Hill fan.

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Post by: Mac on March 17, 2013, 10:06:44 am
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I went into Life of Pi a little bit cautious. A friend of mine, a literature teacher, who loves symbolism, just loved this flick. I was thinking the opposite... I'm going to hate it because of the symbolism. Yes it does have symbolism, and while I didn't catch them all, Life of Pi will not lose you.

I found Life of Pi was of the most extraordinary films in a long time. Certainly the best of this year. I just loved every minute of this film. This is great story telling. No matter that it was fantastical, it was so much more. I got really wrapped up in the story and for two hours was transported to something I would have never imagined. It wasn't fantasy. It seemed like all of it could happen. It just appeared hyper-real. The imagery is breathtaking and I saw this with a regular DVD. I can only imagine a blu-ray version.

I can't recommend this enough. I may buy it at some point, but this definitely made my Sunday morning.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7WBfntqUoA

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 17, 2013, 10:51:17 am
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Something in your review has pique my curiosity to check this out. If you had given it just 1 Star, I would have skipped it. But 0 Stars makes me wanna check it out. Well, not really. And yet I'm still compelled to do so! Damn youuze!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 17, 2013, 10:52:14 am
Life of Pi is on my Hold List.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 17, 2013, 03:03:52 pm
You know, I think it's because the first Silent Hill came out the same time as V For Vendetta or that the posters are similar, but I can't picture either poster without imagining Natalie Portman with the no-mouth.  Gets me wondering what kind of horror flick would be good enough for her to be in (Black Swan doesn't count).

I half-watched a bunch of movies last night, couldn't really settle, not sure if that warrants discussion.  They didn't mush together interestingly in my mind or anything.
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Post by: Mac on March 18, 2013, 09:33:44 am
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Sound City is a music documentary, obviously close to Dave Grohl’s (Foo Fighters, Nirvana) heart. Focused squarely on the legendary music studio in Van Nuys, CA. The documentary is never light on music, with footage, snapshots, interviews of the key employees and artists. The studio has been a dump, but in part because of that, it became legendary on the albums produced from there. It’s kind of a symbiotic thing. Albums became legendary and in part because they were recorded with Sound City and its unique equipment and studio’s. The list of key artists are all here and have wonderful things to say about the place, so the direction slowly paints a picture of what it must have been like to be there. The film goes through some sub-genre of subjects including drumming, well, primarily because of Dave Grohl and other very influential drummers. The sound board is explored, the producers and technologies impact, drive the documentary in a linear form.

I would highly recommend this film if you like music, musicians of the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s, an interest in the recording industry… Sound City does a very good job of immersing you for a couple of hours into music. Never does the pace go to fast or let up. It’s just constantly moves forward with interesting tidbits from a whole host of personalities.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-h8cONf19A

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2013, 10:52:11 pm
Man on a Ledge (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 20, 2013, 01:48:42 am
The Da Vinci Code (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 20, 2013, 10:28:40 pm
From Hell (2001)

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Post by: Mac on March 21, 2013, 09:21:53 am
Toys in the Attic

I'm not going to rate this. It would not be justifiable to slam it. It wasn't for me. Mostly animated, some real environments, this imaginary tale are those things that happen in an attic. I will give it props for very innovative imagineering. But in my mind, the picture is focused on kids... very little kids.

I just didn't think it was that good, especially in the stop motion animation. Maybe I'm so use to good animated objects, the rawness of this one, just did nothing for me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qN4jivWZm6s

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 21, 2013, 10:06:28 am
Was this Direct-to-DVD? I've never heard of this.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 21, 2013, 03:37:52 pm
It looks like a British animated flick that was re-dubbed.  Which was odd, since kids don't know Forrest Whittaker any more than they'd know Catherine Tate or Phil Jupitus or whomever.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 21, 2013, 09:27:49 pm
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 22, 2013, 02:45:15 pm
The Social Network (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 22, 2013, 09:16:16 pm
Phone Booth (2002)

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Post by: Mac on March 23, 2013, 06:36:21 am
1941 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Wow, what a piece of crap. I could only stand about 45 minutes of this turd. I am finding this so hard to believe this was a Spielberg/Zemekis/Gale film. This was super goofy, off the weird-s***-O-Meter charts.

I picked up the 25th Anniversary DVD and it was horrendous. The film looked horrible, the sound was even worse. But I could get past that to the smelly thing of a story I was watching.

That's 45 minutes I'll never get back.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2013, 06:50:11 am
This was your first time watching 1941? And yes, it's pretty bad.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2013, 08:55:16 pm
Wayne's World (1992)

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Post by: Mac on March 24, 2013, 08:10:26 am
Zero Dark Thirty (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_03star.gif) (http://s74.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif.html)

I picked this up hearing good stuff about it. I mean we are talking about the true story about Osama Bbin Laden raid. On the box, I saw this captured 5 Oscars. For what... I don't know... Also don't care.

I must say I'm pretty disappointed in Zero Dark Thirty. The first half I found very frustrating trying to follow the narrative and the Islamic names were just a blur. Hanging on by a thread to follow the story and logic. The 2nd half or so picks up with finding bin Laden, the raid plan and the actual series of events.

I really don't get all the praise on this movie. Don't get me wrong... it was fairly decent and in a way cool to visually see what possibly may have happened when this news was being revealed to the world. Other  than that I know I'll never sit down to watch this again.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2013, 08:30:17 am
This is still in my 'Must-See' bag for sure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2013, 12:11:42 pm
Wayne's World 2 (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2013, 03:10:37 pm
Boardwalk Empire (Season 2 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2013, 04:42:13 pm
What a weird transition.  "Prohibition?  No WAY!" "WAY!" "You can't get booze in a bar, sh'yeah, right!"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2013, 04:57:25 pm
Hahaha.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2013, 05:25:19 pm
I forgot to add "Denied."  Feel like a real sphincter boy.

Okay, I'm done now.

I have NO idea what I'm going to watch tonight.  I have one movie I SHOULD watch so I can return it, but I'm not really feeling "up" for anything at the moment.  Though I'm sure I'll be craving good entertainment once I'm done with this weirdly retrotastic 1993 PSA about how to buy a computer.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2013, 05:27:26 pm
What movie is it?
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Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2013, 05:46:26 pm
Gas, Food, Lodging.  Recommended to me by someone in my screenwriting class which I'm smack dab in the middle of.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2013, 06:11:20 pm
I saw that when it first came out and I remember absolutely nothing about it.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2013, 06:24:03 pm
Wound up watching "Pitch Perfect" first.
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2013, 10:17:07 am
The Man With The Iron Fists (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

It’s pretty evident; this was a pet personal project for RZA. Writing, producing, directing The Man With Iron Fists. If I wasn’t so tired and preoccupied with things, I would have turned this crap-ola off within 15 minutes. On the rare occasion I decided to sit through this one.

Where do I begin? RZA, the rapper, maybe can rap, but he sure doesn’t know dialog, acting or a story. RZA is doing some pretty bad acting among a cast that acts just as bad. Even Russell Crowe can’t save this. It seems like an obvious homage to the schlocky chop-socky Asian movies of the 70’s and 80’s. Or RZA is so clueless and he thinks this great cinema. It’s hard to believe Tarantino put his name on this.

The Man with the Iron Fists is bloody and gory, in the cartoonish kind of way. It does not bring anything new except to remind people there were movies produced like this years ago. It just constantly appears to be an ego stroke for RZA. He even put rap music throughout. I just found that uber-odd.

The only other big name anybody might recognize is Lucy Liu, who still baffles me on her popularity.

Man with the Iron Fists has ridiculous fight scenes that defy gravity and fly through the air like chickens. The bad guy has skin of metallic gold which pushes this into the super-hero genre of chop socky. I never did like those kinds of flicks. The only way to watch them is late at night with lots of alcohol. So stupid they are funny.

I don’t recommend this anyone. Complete waste of my time


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALcQTHkUZFA

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2013, 10:21:48 am
Bummer. I was interested in this when it first came out.
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2013, 10:25:52 am
Sneakers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

Sneakers (1992) is reminiscent of the Ocean movies. It’s essentially a heist movie with technology helping out the hackers. While it has an interesting cast of characters, I would have never thought these folks would be in the same movie. Robert Redford and Dan Aykroyd? The Ghostbustes Aykroyd. Sidney Poitier, River Phoenix, David Strathairn

Sneakers does ‘sneak’ in quite a bit of mild humor (see what I did there). So it’s a very charming and timely movie. The movie is engaging and doesn’t go over the audiences heads with jargon and technology so far removed.

Check it out for a rent at the very least.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_XRqJV2zdk

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2013, 11:22:48 am
Was this your first time checking this out? I owned it on VHS back in the day. I liked it a lot. Have not seen it since the inception of DVD though. So, to say its been a long time is an understatement.
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2013, 02:21:31 pm
No, I saw it when it came out and stayed in mind as something to check out again. It holds up well.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2013, 07:55:02 pm
The Untouchables (1987)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 27, 2013, 10:24:20 pm
I remember being shown Sneakers when I was in middle school and started taking computer classes, I guess they wanted to show us what computers could do.  Didn't see it again until a couple months ago, I dug it alright but I don't know if I'd watch it again any time soon.  I guess it's a bit before my time.  I did dig their cool heaquarters, though.  Though still, a blind hacker feels like a strange stretch.

I ran through Season Five of Mad Men.  It was pretty darn good except it's been so long since I've watched the series that I had forgotten almost everything that happened previously.  I guess it takes place in 1967 or 68 since one episode involves a terrible script for Star Trek... they can't put a date on there or anything?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2013, 10:30:25 pm
Any movie that has Mr. Tibbs, Roy Hobbs, Darth Vader, Elwood Blues, Eddie Cicotte and Indiana Jones in it is an instant winner in my eyes. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_biggrin.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on March 28, 2013, 10:06:32 pm
Oh right, River Pheonix was in Indiana Jones.  Took me a second to remember that.

And I noticed that the first shot in the movie was Mockingbird Square!  So I like that!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 28, 2013, 10:30:06 pm
Snow White & the Huntsman (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 29, 2013, 01:59:33 pm
In memory of Richard Griffiths, who just passed today, I gotta revisit one of my go-to feel-good movies: Blame It On The Bellboy.

(http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/2/A70-1134)

This is one of those light, silly movies I put in when I'm feeling low or annoyed or need a quick smile, and a lot of that is due to Richard Griffiths' performance as Maurice Horton... I think the last time I saw it was when I was stranded at the airport two years ago and watched it on my little iPod screen, totally turned my entire trip around.

The story is your basic mistaken identity comedy, with three people instead of two.  Dudley Moore is looking for a villa to buy for his boss, and is mistaken for a hitman by Andreas Katsulas (the one-armed man from The Fugitive), Richard Griffiths is sneaking away for an affair and winds up meeting Dudley Moore's realtor, and Bryan Brown (FX) is the hitman, who instead of his intended target (Katsulas) winds up getting the picture of Griffiths' date, Penelope Wilton (you know, Shawn's mum from "Shawn Of The Dead").  And when they figure out they've got the wrong person, they get the identities wrong AGAIN!

And of course, the Bellboy hhhhhhimself, whhho gets the names wrong, is portrayed by Bronson Pinchot back in his prime, and he's the one that everyone remembers cause he plays it the most broad, but there's really no one in the movie I don't like seeing.

Plus, you have Patsy Kensit (Lethal Weapon 2) in her underthings and Dudley Moore (Arthur) getting his nads zapped.  Not at the same time, of course.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2013, 02:26:03 pm
Bummer about Richard Griffiths. RIP.

As for Blame It On The Bellboy, I don't think I've seen it since it first came out and that of course means I don't remember anything about it. Even the scenes you pointed out doesn't ring a bell for me at all.
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Post by: Mac on March 29, 2013, 02:31:28 pm
I know I've never seen this. Is this a remake to the Jerry Lewis flick?
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Post by: Neumatic on March 29, 2013, 02:35:32 pm
No, nothing to do with that.  The Bellboy isn't even one of the main character, he's just the one person every character interacts with, and it's his fault the whole thing happens at all.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2013, 02:45:32 pm
Waterworld (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2013, 11:20:51 pm
Total Recall (2012)

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Post by: Mac on March 30, 2013, 07:29:05 am
The Apparition (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_03halfstar.gif) (http://s74.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif.html)

The Apparition is another take on the haunted house, yet, it's not the house that is haunted... Don't want to spoil it. It's reminiscent of many other movie scenes we've seen before. This does have a few jump scares, but it's not terribly scary. I thought it was entertaining to sit through. The audio portion pushed my system with the a whole host of low rumbles, background noises, etc. That was pretty amazing how it added tension to the scenes.

You may want to watch this strictly for the gorgeous Ashley Greene.

I would recommend. I'll probably forget most of it, despite some key unique scenes.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkmzXVwLtH0

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Post by: Mac on March 30, 2013, 07:44:28 am
The Factory (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/th_HTL_03halfstar.gif) (http://s74.photobucket.com/user/Chiprocks1/media/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif.html)

I've never heard of this movie until I saw it displayed with DVD's. I had no idea what it was about except for the blurb on the back about a cop who investigates missing teen girls. Then suddenly his daughter (Mae Whitman of Parenthood) is suddenly abducted. The Factory takes the perspective of telling you everything up front. Who the abductor is, who his target is. Everything. You see it coming a mile away. That's OK, because then we can get into the meat of the characters. We've seen variations of the story many times before in other movies, but Cusak, Carpenter, Whitman and Dallas Roberts make it engaging.

On one hand I wanted to give this 4 plus stars because I like John Cusak's work. On the other hand, I've not had a movie **** me off so much with twist ending that just makes everything we just saw previously irrelevant. You may have heard me scream out "OH F UCK NO. YOU DID NOT JUST DO THAT!!!"

I like twists on occasion. But this was just stupid as ****. I think what exasperated it was the Beginning state. "Based on True Events".

Yea, OK, a sliver of the story was the concept, but do not believe this actually happened. Just slap me for even buying into it.

Can ya tell I'm ****ed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ixbx7lp4Es

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2013, 08:19:32 am
I'm interested in this one. Will check it out if my Library has a copy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2013, 03:25:20 pm
Baby Mama (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2013, 09:10:56 pm
Stand by Me (1986)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 31, 2013, 05:45:11 pm
Three O'Clock High (1987)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 31, 2013, 11:50:30 pm
The Blues Brothers

Wow, it's been a long time since I've seen this movie.  Funny, sure, catchy music for sure, star studded to the extreme (a performance of "Minnie The Moocher" by Cab Calloway himself?  You kidding?) but damn, think about how much PRODUCTION went into this freakin' movie.  The Dark Knight movies don't use as many cops or damage as many cars or the amount of action and destruction that litter this entire movie, it's insane at a level that you never see.  I mean, the big event movies now cost way more than this movie yet you never see "all out" quite like this, you know?  And you NEVER see that amount of extras, EVER.

And I will say, the movie was affective enough that, until John Belushi took his glasses off, I never noticed we hadn't seen their eyes the entire flick.  Only a great director could pull that off.

And I can't believe that Paul Reubens slipped in there, or that Charles Napier (the Col from the Austin Powers movies) is the leader of the Good Old Boys or that the leader of the Illinois Nazis is the "Outrageous" judge from Boston Legal.  And I had totally forgotten that John Candy was in there as well.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2013, 12:04:57 am
I loooooooooooooove The Blues Brothers. Everything you pointed out is spot-on. Great choice for your Sunday Night movie. I need to revisit this one soon as its been awhile since I've watched it.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 01, 2013, 01:32:27 pm
I didn't even bother trying to annotate it because even if you took that movie apart piece by piece to see how it works, I don't think you ever could figure out how it all fit together or how to recreate it.  It was a storm, like a force of nature.  Though I can see how it's elastic reality would influence stuff like The Simpsons in the future.

And I've been singing "Minnie The Moocher" to myself since that scene came up, but since I have a VERY unsuitable singing voice, I've just been doing it in the style of Tom Waits, cause I can at least do that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2013, 06:00:13 pm
The Bad News Bears (1976)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2013, 11:36:04 pm
Detroit Rock City (1999)

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Post by: Mac on April 02, 2013, 01:05:45 pm
The Collection http://www.shocktillyoudrop.com/pictures?view=image&format=raw&type=img&id=181899

The Collection is the sequel follow-up (redundant?) to the wildly imaginative and fun indie flick The Collector. I was just blown away how good the original was. It had a excellent hero and mind boggling bad guy with a cat and mouse scenario in a maze of deadly devices in a house.

Sadly The Collection jumped the rails and became the dreaded ‘sequel’. It did everything it should have not done. The inventiveness focused on the blood and gore and traps… much like saw. Throwing away the story, the characters and even caring about anything in the movie. It went over the top with special effects and just lost it’s purpose. I was so psyched to see this, thus giving me a huge disappointment. I hope the director reads the overwhelmingly bad reviews and rethinks the 2nd sequel. He says he already knows what that is going to be if it gets made.

I wasn’t looking for formulaic remake, but I was expecting brilliance along the lines of the first.

I first noted The Collection here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/all-things-horror/msg12383/#msg12383)...

I need to edit it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n08aIH-Bhcc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 02, 2013, 11:27:43 pm
Ted (2012)

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Post by: Mac on April 05, 2013, 12:39:24 pm
Cirque du Soliel: Worlds Away (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)


Cirque du Soliel: Worlds Away is an amazing visual experience. Cirque has always pushed the boundaries of ‘circus’ experience. By first developing conceptual acts and finding the athletes from around the world that can perform these jaw dropping vignettes. From the very first frame of the film I was totally absorbed into Worlds Away. The colors, the images, the sound of the songs, the acrobats are truly inspiring.

Worlds Away take select acts from their ongoing global acts and stitch them together in a quasi-story. It wasn’t real important to me, but I can only imagine to a child this imaginative story telling at its best.

I had not seen Cirque use water like this before. I guess because of the limited view to audiences, but with creative camera work, they capture every beautiful moment. Historically the stages Cirque uses are characters unto themselves. No different here except only in the functionality and the immensity in  it’s size. The battle between warriors gave hints to the massive movable floor.

I’ve enjoyed every single Cirque du Soilel program. World’s Away continues the brilliance.

I highly suggest spending some time checking it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgiLU9lNnU8

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Post by: Neumatic on April 05, 2013, 05:30:04 pm
I tried to watch one of the Cirque movies but for some reason I just wasn't into it.  Maybe there was something to knowing they couldn't fall.  Although that doesn't explain why I was so hooked by that balancing video that blew up a couple days ago, I knew if he dropped the thing they wouldn't show it, butI was blown away by how much he was able to do.

I wonder what the difference is...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2013, 05:46:38 pm
The Karate Kid (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2013, 06:16:41 pm
The Karate Kid, Part II (1986)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 05, 2013, 07:34:34 pm
Watching "The Middleman" while doing homework.  Very cute series (I really dig Natalie Morales' uniform).  This is one of those shows that the minute you see it, you know it's not getting a second season despite how smart or sweet or low-budget it is... the world just don't work like that).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2013, 07:42:12 pm
The Karate Kid, Part III (1989)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2013, 07:43:40 pm
Watching "The Middleman" while doing homework.  Very cute series (I really dig Natalie Morales' uniform).  This is one of those shows that the minute you see it, you know it's not getting a second season despite how smart or sweet or low-budget it is... the world just don't work like that).

Never heard of it.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 05, 2013, 07:57:33 pm
Not surprising.  It was a 12-episode series on ABC Family a couple years ago, it's about a young woman (Wendy Watson, who's called "Dubby" by everyone) who winds up working for a non-costumed superhero and take on, for example, a super-intelligent simian who becomes the head of the mafia or a Doctor Phil analogue who hunts people for sport.  It reminds me of The Tick with a little Assignment Earth (an unmade Trek spinoff from the 60s), and based on a comic book .

This is just making me realize that if we ever get "Chew," it'll be one season too... and that's a series I'm looking forward to (it occurs to me "Pushing Daisies" is the only quirky series I can think of that got a second series and I don't even know how that happened).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2013, 07:10:50 pm
The Next Karate Kid (1994)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 08, 2013, 12:29:42 am
Looper (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 08, 2013, 01:42:43 am
Watching some eps of Amazing Stories before hitting the sack.  The current one is with Dom Deluise as Guilt.  But holy cow, I forgot how awesome Christopher Lloyd was in the "Go To The Head Of The Class" double episode.  I feel bad that I may never get to write dialogue for the guy.

I finished up the Middleman the other day and totally dug it, wish there were more.  Especially since they brought Mark A Sheppard in as the big bad (and what a great way to hint it, they went to a mirror universe and his character was secretly a good guy).
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Post by: Mac on April 08, 2013, 09:29:02 am
Citadel (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GVXT_D2nGpg

Yet, another movie where the Block (building) is one of the characters.

Citadel is a more of focus on a man who has developed Agoraphobia while trying to wrap it up within a bleak environment and some very strange ‘children’ that live in an abandoned housing project that kill people. It starts off depressing and get worse from there. Save for a very charismatic preacher that has a mouth like a sailor.

I found it somewhat confusing mostly in the sense of what it was trying to say. There were a lot of questions with no answers. Why did the guy develop agoraphobia? What was up the children? I think a nugget of concept was there, but the film just wanders and leaves us wondering why we are even trying to follow this.

I’d say pass on this. It’s not very entertaining or satisfying.
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Post by: Mac on April 08, 2013, 09:30:38 am
John Dies at the End (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ot7kFjUcrs

This was not a good weekend to watch movies. Neither entertained me. Both just made me wonder.
John dies at the end is based on a novel by David Wong (whoever that might be) that was thought to be impossible to make into a movie. I can see why. If this movie tried to follow the book in any way, the book must of have been a head trip. Speaking of, John Dies at the End is a very ‘trippy’ movie. It’s chaotic, things suddenly happen for no reason, things suddenly stop. The scenes are very reminiscent of exploitive drug films of years ago, that just try to mess with the mind in a mental way.

It would be very hard to describe the plot of the movie.

This is directed by Don Coscarelli, who gave us the underground eclectic movies of Phantasm series, Bubba Ho-Tep and Beastmaster. So he’s known for odd films, but this just did not click. It didn’t help with the bad dialog, bad editing and the very bad special effects. No even Paul Giamatti could save this. It’s pretty bad and that’s saying a lot from a guy who like the unusual.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2013, 02:49:46 pm
The 40-Year-Old Virgin (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2013, 10:57:31 pm
The Taking of Pelham 123 (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 10, 2013, 05:23:56 pm
Just saw Witness for the first time.  Very, very good.  Though I hadn't expected Danny Glover to be one of the bad guys.

I don't know what else to say.  I guess there really isn't anything to say.  Just there's no need to remake it, you'd have nothing to gain.  And being set in Amish country means there's really nothing too contemporary in the flick.

Now I'm watching... I forget the title, but Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt as con men brothers.  Woody Allen just had a small scene as a stage director holding an audition while discovering his wife is leaving him (and now I just finished the bakery scene, geezus that was funny).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 10, 2013, 05:27:00 pm
They're remaking Witness?
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Post by: Neumatic on April 10, 2013, 05:36:52 pm
No, not at all.  Though they may want to at a future date.  My point was just that there's no REASON to remake it.  They got it exactly right the first time.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 10, 2013, 07:15:07 pm
Okay, the movie I was watching was called "The Imposters," made in 1998, and it was freakin' hilarious.  I was busting at times.  The whole movie was full of character actors and they all had their moments.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2013, 12:23:41 am
Back to the Future (1985)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2013, 06:41:54 pm
Back to the Future Part II (1989)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 11, 2013, 07:18:18 pm
Watching Castle while going over the Nashville Film Festival schedule, I figured I could make it out to a few films even if it's the final week of my class.  Of course, my definition of "a few" is NINE.  But nine over seven is a flick a day most days, so I can swing that.  And I may wind up benefitting from seeing these programs (most of them are shorts collections) in the near future... news forthcoming when it's all squared.
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Post by: Mac on April 12, 2013, 09:08:07 am
Casablanca - 3-1/2 stars

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I thought we might have developed a thread about movies we have not seen. I’m referring to meaningful movies. Missing Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo is not what I mean.

Anyway, I finally got to see Casablanca. Not that I was ever thinking I was missing something, but since the opportunity arose, I took it.

I think I understand the love for it, while I found it to be just a pulpy love story. I almost couldn’t get past the age difference of the stars Bogart @ 43, Bergman @ 27. Almost. Anyway, it was a somewhat engaging film. I learned 95% of the movie location is Rick’s Café. The interaction among the Nazi’s, Italian police and French Police was as open as it appeared.

I guess the real point of the movie is the incredible love between to the two characters. The story slowly builds to reveal what existed between the two and made it that much more gut wrenching to know or think you know, that this love will never come together to stay.

I doubt I’ll watch it again. I felt kind of spoon feed the story. In one part of the scene, they tell you what is going to happen, then a scene or to later, it happens. That happened quit a bit. Also the smoking. Good gawd, I guess cigarettes were implanted in peoples mouths back then. Finally I was a little surprised at the repetition of Bogart’s phrase “Here’s looking at you Kid”. First was cool, 2nd was I heard that before, 3rd was what’s going on. The 4th, I just wanted to punch Bogart in the throat.

I don't mean to crap on the film... I just didn't think it was all that.



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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2013, 10:07:27 am
It's been awhile since I've watched Casablanca and Citizen Kane, both movies I have been itching to re-watch again.
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Post by: Mac on April 12, 2013, 11:47:57 am
Have not seen Citizen Kane... or Gone With Wind... or Zorba the Greek.

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Post by: Mac on April 12, 2013, 11:48:29 am
Dark Feed 0 starts

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We popped in Dark Feed, well because the cover looked intriguing and it said something about John Carpenter. Oh yea, from the writer’s of John Carpentar’s The Ward. WTF does that mean? Oh I know... nothing.

Wellllllllll, that went out the window within the first 10 minutes. “I can tell that’s a sh itty story in 1 minute or less.” Yea, I’ve gotten pretty good at identifying crap movies. Not craptastic. Crap. Those that it just takes too much work to joke about and a complete waste of time.

We turned this turd off within 15 minutes. It was that bad. The acting was pretty bad. The dialog was amateur and it just looked homemade. Little attention to camera work or lighting.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2013, 01:21:52 pm
Back to the Future Part III (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2013, 09:00:13 pm
The Karate Kid (2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 12, 2013, 09:06:30 pm
That Agent Smith commercial for GE made me really want to rewatch The Matrix... I guess I'll throw that in on top of Back To The Future when I get back into movies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2013, 05:59:08 pm
Snatch. (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2013, 11:09:38 pm
Superbad (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 15, 2013, 11:08:43 pm
The Prince of Egypt (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2013, 06:29:54 pm
The Iron Giant (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 18, 2013, 10:51:26 pm
Crash (2004)

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Post by: Mac on April 19, 2013, 09:43:16 am
360 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

Despite a great cast, this movie was just an art house bore. I picked it up and saw it had stellar international cast that includes Rachel Weisz, Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law & Ben Foster. But we watched about 20-30 minutes of pure boredom and really not figuring out what was going on. I believe the director was far to focused on sets than on story.

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Couldn't even begin to recommend this snorefest.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2013, 10:10:13 am
What is it about...or suppose to be about? Never heard of this.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 19, 2013, 10:20:25 am
Never heard of it either.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2013, 10:23:16 am
With a title like 360, I'm guessing the movie goes round and round and round..........

Its gotta be about NASCAR right? VROOOOM!
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Post by: Mac on April 19, 2013, 11:32:05 am
Did you start drinking again?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2013, 12:48:34 pm
Did you start drinking again?

You're assuming I stopped.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2013, 12:56:02 am
The Bourne Legacy (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2013, 10:21:08 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 5 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on April 22, 2013, 07:01:56 am
Playing for Keeps (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ez9U9bw4XwM

About halfway through Playing for Keeps, I realized not much has gone on. It’s not a bad film, it just has very little substance. You can see scenes come from a mile away. It’s like eating Whip Cream. Very sweet with little filling. I find Gerard Butler and pretty good actor attempting many different kinds of characters in his films. Bravo. In Playing For Keeps, he was a soccer star with everything at his feet and he blows it all including losing his wife and child. Jessica Biel is a down to earth woman that had enough. 8 years or so later, Butler is trying to get back on track with some kind of life and through fate has an opportunity to coach his son’s soccer team.

All this is played out very sweetly. We like everybody including all the cheating wives and husbands. I think the biggest standout is Dennis Quad as a loud boisterous get on your last nerve character. I’m not going to spoil anything, but I’m pretty sure you can see the end coming. Try not to roll your eyes.

A simple light weight drama, that I’m sure you will forget moments after you turn it off.
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Post by: Mac on April 22, 2013, 07:03:18 am
Storage 24
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNVaEoQMarg

Storage 24 is a low budget sci-fi horror film with big ideas. The special effects (creature) are very well done. What makes this film successful is the crisp writing and excellent editing. So it doesn’t become a tired standard cat and mouse scenario with a large Alien, they stitched together a group of individuals who have relationship issues. So the movie sails along interweaving the individuals conflicts with an Alien creature attack. Perfect example of how story matters. If it was just an alien attack, that get’s old too quickly. Sci-fi needs to be more intelligent instead of eye candy. Storage 24 is engaging, has enough tension to keep you riveted. Not only does it slowly build, it maintains its excitement to the end. I highly recommend at the least checking it out.
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Post by: Mac on April 22, 2013, 07:04:38 am
This is 40 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9Vt9sP8OY8

I saw This Is 40 in the theaters. It was a rare day of nothing to do and figured I’d spend some time watching a comedy… of all things in a theater. I now remember the theater was pretty empty and I remember the 4 women sitting in front of me, only because there are many moments that are truly embarrassing for men and women. Funny moments.

So this time I sat down with my wife to watch This is 40 and probably laughed harder and longer next to her. Laughter is contagious. Despite whether you are 40 or not, married or not, man or woman, I believe you will find something to relate to in this comedic gem. Paul Rudd consistently makes me laugh regardless if the movie sucks or not. But he plays his character to its full potential. Judd Apatow’s wife, Leslie Man, plays Debbie, the 40 38 year old wife. Apatow’s kids play the kids and they do a fine job of adding realism to the family conflicts. A little perverse trivia, there is a scene where Debbie wants to give Pete a BJ then and there. The scene involves the kids coming knocking on the door during this moment. Apatow only told his kids to go ballistic on knocking on the door, but he did not tell them why the door was locked. In hindsight, that must have been weird… but it’s very, very funny.

This movie has a great cast with Albert Brooks, John Lithgow, even Megan Fox is tolerable.
Finally Melissa McCarthy gives a balls out rant that had me laughing so hard, I had tears. Be sure to watch credits.
Also the extra’s with the gag reel and the ‘lines’ portion.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 22, 2013, 07:05:01 am
Playing for Keeps


I vaguely remember hearing about this when it was coming out. I remember the Trailer giving me some kind of hope it would be a decent flick, but it wasn't on top of my priority list. I'm still kinda interested in checking it out though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 24, 2013, 06:20:22 pm
Freaks and Geeks (The Complete Series - Season 1 - 1999)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 24, 2013, 09:35:40 pm
I watched "Finding Forrester" last night since it's about to expire on Netflix (along with ALL the Viacom stuff, which blows so many kinds of chunks) and enjoyed it, I don't remember the last time I saw it (it might have even been before DVD, I'm not sure).  I KNOW I forgot that Matt Damon shows up at the end.  And I forgot Anna Paquin was in it as well.  And I was trying to finish up my own writing at the time so how can you not like having Sean Connery encouraging you in the background?  I should out some of that stuff on an MP3 for later.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 24, 2013, 09:39:56 pm
Sound City (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 24, 2013, 09:42:18 pm
I remember nothing about Finding Forrester. I know I saw it when it first came out, but I'm scratching my head trying to remember anything about it and I can't at the moment. Ack!!
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Post by: Neumatic on April 24, 2013, 10:50:51 pm
Great movie.  Worth a revisit, for sure.  Makes me miss Sean Connery, that's for sure.

Thinking of him, my local Redbox has Dragonheart advertises on it and it's never there, and I've never seen it.  I definitely want at least to draw the dragon with a word balloon saying "you're the man now, dog!"

More proof that I watch movies for different reasons.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 25, 2013, 11:10:08 pm
American Pie (1999)

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Post by: Mac on April 26, 2013, 11:22:35 am
Django Unchained (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

Django is the latest project by Quentin Tarantino. Buzz I was hearing was good. I like most of Tarantino’s work. Inglorious Bastards would probably be the only exception of not revisiting that particular project. I am glad to report, Django Unchained is thoroughly enjoyable from very beginning and maintains that movie experience throughout the entire film. There are some laughs. There are some gut wrenching scenes that are hard to watch. Every character is unique and pleasure to watch for what they do. The dialog, duh, is exceptional. Even with the harsh use of the N-word. But that only brought truth and realism to the movie. No sugar coating here. I could not believe this was a 3 hour flick. Time went so quick. Loved DeCaprio’s character, Christopher Waltz character is truly amazing. I won’t give away spoilers, except, watch Samuel L. Jackson’s character. Simply awesome.

I can’t recommend enough to at the very least rent this baby. Saying that, it may not be for everybody. 

Django Unchained
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 26, 2013, 11:32:16 am
I'm somewhere like 220 on the wait list. I may just go ahead an buy it since I already own all of his other movies (except Death Proof which I need to get as well).
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Post by: Neumatic on April 26, 2013, 11:49:13 am
I just bought "Inglorious Basterds" the other day.  Ten bucks on Blu-Ray.  So you have an idea how patient I can be.

Django's an awesome f'in movie, although I personally can't not think that it's Quentin Tarantino's response to "Wild Wild West."  Like he saw the trailer and said, "Okay, you're gonna do a western where the black guy's the hero and he's d*ckin' around with a smart white guy, THIS is how you do it."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 26, 2013, 10:35:11 pm
American Pie 2 (2001)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 27, 2013, 04:44:54 pm
Right now I'm watching Wargames since it's about to expire off Netflix.  Been a while since I've seen it (I do still have "Project X" in my head).  And I've been wanting to see this again since it's appearance in "Ready Player One" (I just got to that scene, incidentally).

BTW, can we have a moratorium on "nice of you to join us" scenes in movies now, please?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 27, 2013, 04:49:28 pm
BTW, can we have a moratorium on "nice of you to join us" scenes in movies now, please?

No! These are the best scenes ever and rank right up there with skinny dipping and shower scenes. FYI (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/wargames-(1983)/msg1672/#msg1672)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 27, 2013, 04:58:13 pm
When I do a flick like this, my guy's going to get into class on time.  Still not going to do him any good.

Thank you for bringing it back to skin, since you mentioned American Pie I was thinking about Shannon's scene and mixing it with Megan Fox's Transformers scenes and whichever ones I can mush into it, you know I'm always into making the "ultimate" versions of stuff.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 27, 2013, 06:55:15 pm
"Wargames" is over.  The only winning move was not to play.

Not on to "High Anxiety."  And I'm also starting to write my first draft of my new story, nine pages in already.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 27, 2013, 06:56:56 pm
"Wargames" is over. 

Clearly you don't watch the news. It's never over. Joshua is just napping.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 27, 2013, 07:58:21 pm
I'd like to think that if Joshua was in our super surveillance state, it would be a lot more fun and carefree.

Oh whoa, I didn't catch in "High Anxiety" the room number is 1701.  Like the Enterprise.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 27, 2013, 10:50:48 pm
American Wedding (2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 28, 2013, 03:54:45 pm
"Night Shift," old Ron Howard flick about two guys (Henry Winkler and Michael Keaton) running a hooker ring out of the NY morgue.  I used to watch this flick with my dad (we still say "that Barney Rubble, what an actor!" to each other, it's like a code).  I haven't seen this in a while, I decided to take a day to chill, but of course I'm using this time to plot out of how to lay out my outline cards (I'll share the format I end up with in the writing section).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 28, 2013, 03:56:49 pm
It's been years since I even got a whiff of Night Shift.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 28, 2013, 04:05:17 pm
I still can't say "idea man" without chuckling.  I haven't seen this in a long time either.  Which is kinda how I like it these days, I get to rediscover old stuff I liked.

"Nah-ah, get outta town!  Just you, me, and the stiffs alone here? That's gonna be radical, Chuck! That guy's dead!"
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 28, 2013, 09:21:41 pm
I was amazed to notice that it was about 70 scenes in "Night Shift."  Which is what I heard was the magic number.

Right now I'm in the middle (right after the midpoint) of "My Cousin Vinnie."  Not sure what I'll follow it up with.  But I feel like I'm in a stronger position to do my cards tomorrow (cleared off my old bulletin board earlier, darn that thing is caked with dirt!  Thankfully, I was intending to put fresh stuff on there anything.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 28, 2013, 09:31:44 pm
Vinny rules!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 28, 2013, 09:45:33 pm
Agreed.  Why don't we see Joe Pesci in anything these days?

You know, I think I have the Marisa Tomei SNL where she did the "My Cousin Vinnie" routine in the OJ Simpson case.  I just remember Mike Myers as Judge Ito fawning all over her the whole time.

I think "Stand By Me" will be next, as I picked up the Blu-Ray a week and change ago.  Be like the first time, it'd been so freakin' long.

And I heard that Eva 3 came out last week, but I won't be able to swing by and pick one up for another week or so, until I can take my car in I'm going to stay close to home.  Which suits me, maybe I'll get my first draft done (it's easy to write a script when you know what's gonna happen).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 28, 2013, 11:01:16 pm
American Reunion (2012)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2013, 12:12:44 am
For some reason, after Stand By Me, I decided to watch Mouse Hunt!  I don't know HOW those two are connected (well, River's character was bi-curious and Nathan Lane is gay, so maybe it's that...)
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Post by: Mac on April 29, 2013, 08:21:34 am
Hysteria (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFy6cfPmjd4

Just happened upon this over the weekend and it turned out to be a very entertaining film. In a nutshell, this is about the discovery of the vibrator, the sexual device for women. It a very whimsical story telling of the psychologist who developed this idea in a very accidental way. It was believed that 50% of women had Hysteria, diagnosed solely on just about any odd behavior a woman had. Women were coming to these psychologist with a variety of problems they did not know why. The remedy for relieving these women of their mental issues was for the psychologist to physically massage the woman’s mommy parts for a length of time until the women were satisfied their issue went away. 

So the new apprentice psychologist was assigned to perform this ‘massaging’ all day, every day, because his appointment book became quickly filled. Said apprentice then started to get cramps in the hand. I imagine carpal tunnel.

He fails on one influential woman and is thus quickly fired. He stays with his inventor friend who developing an ‘electric feather duster’. While goofing around the apprentice psychologist finds the vibration of the motorized feather duster very pleasing to his cramped hand. You can imagine what happens next.

Now to see how this might work instead of the manual massaging, it becomes an instant hit, not only because it works better, but faster.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2013, 08:32:36 am
I remember seeing the trailer for this when it first came out, but it totally slipped my mind. Definitely going on my Hold List. Thanks for the reminder. Good review too.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2013, 03:40:11 pm
I forgot about that too!  Thanks for the reminder.  I kept thinking it was the other one, the one with Keira Knightley.

Mouse Hunt: I figured out what the connection was last night but then I forgot it.  It made sense at the time, though.

"Stand By Me" (the song, because of the movie) has been in my head all day, though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2013, 10:46:15 pm
Tootsie (1982)

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Post by: Neumatic on April 30, 2013, 04:55:00 pm
You know, what are the odds that two days after watching "My Cousin Vinnie," I would turn on Seinfeld and catch the Marisa Tomei episode?  And on top of that, last night I had watched the "Free Will Hunting" episode of Futurama where Bender revisits the robot homeworld and the Council of Robot Elders ("silence!") and TODAY the Futurama episode that INTRODUCED all that was on.  Feel like I'm in echo chamber bubble universe.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2013, 05:18:15 pm
Echo Chamber Bubble Universe's are awesome. <-------- What I just wrote makes no sense whatsoever.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2013, 11:22:31 pm
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 01, 2013, 08:38:27 pm
Downton Abbey (Season 1 - 2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 11:23:20 am
Does Bates talk about his wife in Series 1?  Every time he mentions the unseen Vera, I just think back to "Cheers."

Last night I poked around Netflix and watched two things I found.

The first was a Louie Anderson stand-up called "Big Baby Boomer," I don't remember the last time I saw Louie Anderson in anything but it was surprisingly funny, it was all about the trials and tribulations of being old and fat and trying to get in shape, but the center of the piece was him talking about his angioplasty, which was REALLY funny ('the doctor said 'well, we're going to stick this wire up your groin...' 'Whoa, whoa... who's 'WE'!?'")

After that I found a documentary from a couple years ago called "Outrage," about all these closeted gay politicians and their double lives, and how being in the closet and denying who they were was making them vote against equal rights or even any rights for gay people.  It was pretty fascinating.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2013, 11:26:58 am
Does Bates talk about his wife in Series 1?  Every time he mentions the unseen Vera, I just think back to "Cheers."

He doesn't speak directly about her. The only info we get is from his mother when Anna seeks her out while in London.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 11:30:25 am
Okay. Sorry if I spoiled something, just when you have an unseen wife named "Vera" ...
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 02, 2013, 01:08:52 pm
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The first was a Louie Anderson stand-up called "Big Baby Boomer," I don't remember the last time I saw Louie Anderson in anything but it was surprisingly funny, it was all about the trials and tribulations of being old and fat and trying to get in shape, but the center of the piece was him talking about his angioplasty, which was REALLY funny ('the doctor said 'well, we're going to stick this wire up your groin...' 'Whoa, whoa... who's 'WE'!?'")

I have not seen Louie in years, no, make that decades. Last I remember even hearing about him was hosting some game show. But I do remember his stand-up. It was definitely centered around his physique. And I really enjoyed it.

That Outrage does sound interesting but more than likely would just pi ss me off. Listen, I can't stand politicians as is. But that kind of thinking would just boil my blood.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 01:17:34 pm
It was pretty good, I'd been meaning to watch it for a while.

I remember Louie Anderson hosting the Family Feud, but the only thing I actually REMEMBER of it was the MadTV parody where they portrayed him as sagging and wheezing and struggling to stay alive while going through the motions of hosting.  it was a little funny but pretty mean.

I think Louie Anderson is also on "Splash," which I'd never heard of until the other day and still can't believe it's an actual thing: celebrity diving competition.  WTF?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2013, 01:45:01 pm
I think Louie Anderson is also on "Splash," which I'd never heard of until the other day and still can't believe it's an actual thing: celebrity diving competition.  WTF?

It's a pathetic attempt at entertainment and not at all surprising that it's another ABC production trying to capitalize on the Dancing With The Stars. I saw the show the other day with Nicole Eggert, dressed as "Wonder Woman". Embarrassing doesn't even begin to describe the show.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 04:32:20 pm
Too hot to stay on the porch outside but too light to go into my dark office, so I'm sitting in the living room and finally listening to the table read of the lost "Middleman" episode.  Works well with an audience, and Javi can really spiel out some quick words without slipping.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 06:54:44 pm
There's a documentary series from the Science Channel I found on Netflix called "Dark Matters, Twisted But True."  Hosted by John Noble from Fringe.  That's all I needed to hear.  It's about stuff like the Philadelphia Experiment and UFOs and currently, the Russian Ape-Men.  And I was already chuckling at how absurd this stuff is (even though in high school I drank this stuff up), but they just said the greatest line I've ever heard.  If you're familiar with Fringe, then imagine Walternate saying this completely straight, without ANY sense of irony or cheekiness:

"He inserts slices of monkey testicles into the men's scrotums."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2013, 07:25:39 pm
I miss Fringe (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv's-greatest-hits-and-misses/fringe-(season-5-2012)/msg10677/#msg10677) BIG TIME! Sigh.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 02, 2013, 07:48:24 pm
I just want that cast to come back and do a little movie or something together.  Have John Noble play Anna Torv's father so they can use their aussie accents, play against type, that would be fun.

I still haven't seen the final season yet.  Should be online in a couple days if it streams on the same day it gets released on disc.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2013, 08:07:17 pm
If you haven't seen the Final season, definitely STAY OUT of that link I sent you!!! Spoiler Alert!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 02, 2013, 10:12:42 pm
The Book of Eli (2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2013, 09:43:44 pm
Finally watching Avatar: The Last Airbender since it's being booted off of Netflix (stupid contracts).  Cute, enjoyable series.  And I particularly like that the antagonists in the first season is Rufio from "Hook" and his mentor is Splinter from the Ninja Turtle movies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 03, 2013, 09:47:43 pm
Never seen it. Really don't know much about it other than the guys on TRS always bringing it up during conversations.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2013, 10:53:20 pm
Show of the Year, I think it was.  I downloaded their review to check later.  Actually, I may check it out now.

You know, with Viacom and Netflix parting ways, I realize I won't get to see Legend of Korra either, and I'm growing keen on seeing that too.

And get this: the Emperor of the Fire Kingdom is Mark freakin' Hamill!  And I knew Aang sounded familiar, he was Pablo in Backyardigans (which was on TV after my morning classes in college so I always kept catching pieces of it, I remember the penguin having such a sweet voice).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 04, 2013, 12:10:34 am
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 04, 2013, 01:36:04 pm
I'm already into season two of Avatar.  Enjoying it quite a bit.  And I love that there are more Miyazaki-esque creatures as we go along.  And this current battle has some great Matrix/Crouching Tiger style to it (there's a cool martial arts battle in every episode).  And of course since Aang is a child and a bit of a pacifist, there's always a little Jackie Chan-esque comedic spin on the battles.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 04, 2013, 03:14:44 pm
Game of Thrones (Season 2 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 04, 2013, 04:12:01 pm
Boy it's going to be a long wait for Season Three, isn't it?  Especially that ending, holy guac!  I was grinnin' from ear to ear.  And now that I know SIMON from Misfits is in it?  Oh mann.... hope I forget about that by release date.

Really need to design my House Sigil.  Though is it sad that the saying would be "Hello?"  As in Hello, Neumann...

BTW, there's some real GoT-ness going on with that last episode of Avatar I watched, flashbacks to the rise of King Ozai in the Fire Nation.  Which was seriously only missing an iron throne, but instead the King sits behind a WALL of fire and judges his family.  And there's nothing like a little sister saying "grandpa's gonna kill you" and mean it literally.
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Post by: Mac on May 05, 2013, 10:24:31 am
Silver Linings Playbook (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Surprised with the rating? Me Too!!!
I hated this movie, despite this being loved by a majority of folks. I'm at odds. I know why I didn't like it, but not sure why it's getting such high praise. I guess it's like Tom Hanks character in Forrest Gump. Bradley Cooper has a bi-polar condition, but they did not take the humorous route. It's all very serious.

I just saw a lot of unexplainable actions bringing a lot of conflict. This is a loud movie. Lots and lots of yelling. I thought it was very obnoxious.

I checked out after 20 minutes...
.... but, I did continue to stay in the room with my wife, who by the way loved this flick. I know the ending had a lot to do with it. We didn't discuss the movie, but I think I know what she likes. The ending was a clincher for her.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lj5_FhLaaQQ

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 05, 2013, 10:28:32 am
Very surprised indeed. This is still on my Must-See list. I hope it's not that bad.
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Post by: Mac on May 05, 2013, 10:30:18 am
Savages (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Well, two nights in a row with movies I never to care to watch again. Savages just starts with little information and it becomes apparent one of the points of the flick is to figure the story out as you go. Yes, you finally have a inkling by the 3rd act, why , when, where, etc...

I was not enjoying the ride. The acting was fine. The story, once you figure it out, is just another cartel and dirty deals, told a little differently.

I actually sat all the way through this to the end. Not only to be highly disappointed, but pissed I wasted 2 hours of my time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIPpdEjORas

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Post by: Mac on May 05, 2013, 10:32:07 am
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Very surprised indeed. This is still on my Must-See list. I hope it's not that bad.

Oh yea, for sure. I could have been not in the mood, my time of the month... who knows.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 05, 2013, 10:36:03 am
Savages (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)


Just now hearing about this for the first time. Would you say it falls into that Tarantino-world as far as characters go as well as how the story is structured? It's sounds like it is.
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Post by: Mac on May 05, 2013, 10:50:13 am
Yea, I guess that comparison could be there.
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Post by: Mac on May 06, 2013, 01:14:54 pm
Dragon (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Starring Donnie Yen, one of my all time favorite Asian/Martial arts actor, stars in Dragon. I was rather impressed with Dragon, for it's care and feeding of a very interesting story of a man with a horrible past trying to escape and lead a simple life. Only problem is, there are those who want him back. The fight scenes are spectacular and even more so here. Using a high speed camera and very smart investigator, they tear down the initial fight to a cellular level. Yes, cellular. It's cooler than it sounds. The scenery is just gorgeous. The actors do a great job of being very different and unique, but not so much to be silly. It had some fly by wire action, but not so much for me to hate it.

The fighting is not central, thus to me, suggesting you check it out for it's unfolding story. It is sub-titled and may put people off. I was OK with it, but for the first time, I did miss what was happening because I was reading. Had to rewind.

Anyway, fantastic Asian cinema.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmF7ovPiE_o

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Post by: Neumatic on May 06, 2013, 07:49:25 pm
Started on the final season of Avatar: The Last Airbender.  I have to say that the visuals have come along incredibly, at the start it was just an animated series with an anime look on top, but NOW it honestly looks like a legitimate anime series.  Especially since in the final season, which takes place in the Fire Nation (hope I'm not giving anything away), the characters got new designs and hairstyles (even Aang has hair), now the whole look is different, lots of reds and browns and blacks...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 06, 2013, 07:56:16 pm
I need to see if my Library has it in the system. Want to check it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 06, 2013, 08:07:40 pm
Finally sitting through the credits (has this great flute music to go with it), I notice that they'e got real Chinese martial artists doing the fights in each episode.  So that's pretty cool.

It might take a couple episodes to get into (and if you've seen the live-action movie, the first season might feel even slower) but it's definitely worth watching.  Just gotta figure out how I'm going to see Legend of Korra now.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 08, 2013, 01:31:46 am
Bob's Burgers Season 2 finally popped up on Netflix, JUST as Avatar wrapped up (nice finale!).  So smooth sailing from here.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 08, 2013, 08:32:21 pm
Troy (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 09, 2013, 10:21:14 pm
Fallen (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2013, 07:20:40 am
Training Day (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2013, 05:29:44 pm
Dark Blue (2002)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 10, 2013, 06:10:23 pm
Finally watching "Howl" since it's due to expire off Netflix in a few days.  I think I finally need to see "Hick" as well.  Although I keep thinking whenever I see Franco as Ginsberg with the beard that he's trying to look like a weird mix of Dan Trachtenberg and JJ Abrams.  If he says "manana" I'll be so happy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2013, 08:41:04 pm
Mad Men (Season 4 - 2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 10, 2013, 10:21:51 pm
I finally watched Hick and I liked it... Chloe Moretz was pretty darn good, of course, but I think I was just expecting it to be different or something.  Or a little more intense and wider-scope, it just seemed to be her in a set of cars with a small group of people.  I KNOW I expected Alec Baldwin to be in more of the movie.

No idea what I'm going to watch now.  I'm a little low on energy at the moment but not enough to warrant going to bed, but I don't think I've got another whole movie in me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2013, 10:25:15 pm
Never heard of Hick.

I say its high time you watch the Star Wars Christmas Special. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_biggrin.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on May 11, 2013, 01:18:09 am
I barely ever watch the regular Star Wars, to tell the truth.  I do remember snippets of the Christmas special though.  But having said that, I'm not in the mood to squint through low-res digitalization.

I find myself revisiting Fry and Laurie quite a bit.  Which is fine, but boy I wish there were more than four 6/7 episode series.  Come on!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 11, 2013, 10:53:59 am
I was kidding. Even I won't watch it.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 11, 2013, 10:26:28 pm
Finally watching "The Queen Of Versailles."  My friend Tess and I constantly swap around sites about mansions ("this is the kind of place I'm going to get" we joke) so natually this movie popped up.  I'd actually been meaning to watch this for a long time and finally decided to do it tonight.

Part of it sort of feels like an unfunny  white trash version of Arrested Development with the whole riches-to-rags story.  This family had seven kids, were insanely rich, and were building a one hundred million dollar mansion that was a replica of Versailles (or more accurately, the top three floors of a hotel in Las Vegas) with the fortune being made from the time share business, but then the market dropped and they lost a huge chunk of money.  And I believe this happened WHILE the documentary was shooting, that it wasn't actually intended to be about that and they just sort of rolled with it.

This is bringing up all sorts of opinions about wealth and lifestyle from me which I'm sure would bore you all, but one thing I noticed (outside of the fact that cartoons seem to be playing every time they go into the guy's home office) is that every time I see people in reality shows (or even Entourage for that matter), it seems like I've never seen anyone in a mansion know how to LIVE in a mansion, like, I don't think the size of the house naturally upgraded according to their needs, so they don't know how to use the space.  It kind of looks like a kid wearing his dad's suit, you know what I'm saying?

Oh my god, I see more dog poop in this movie than I do on my daily walks!  And all indoors!  I think that in addition to making you think more about money, about the state of the haves and have nots and financial regulation, I think it'll ALSO make you appreciate the "pick up after your dog" law in a far more favourable light.  It actually makes reminds me of the ACTUAL Versailles, since they didn't have lavatories in there, PEOPLE would just poop in the halls.  I can't believe I didn't think of that earlier.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 12, 2013, 02:16:03 am
Followed "The Queen of Versailles" with "Client 9: The Rise And Fall of Elliot Spitzer" which I thought was just going to be about the **** thing but wound up being a bit more nuanced, starting with his time as attorney general, taking on Wall Street as they were engaging in risky and fraudulent behaviour (the big crash was a few months after he resigned, they remind us) and how is aggressive style didn't serve him as the Governor, putting the whole scandal into more context.  I found it much more interesting than I thought it would be.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 12, 2013, 05:52:19 am
I need to check these out as well.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 12, 2013, 05:46:53 pm
Undeclared (The Complete Series - Season 1 - 2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 13, 2013, 06:29:55 pm
Mad Men (Season 5 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 13, 2013, 06:31:35 pm
I just read your season four review and I realized I don't remember what happens in ANY season of Mad Men.  I mean, I remember the show and events but I honestly couldn't tell you what season anything important happened (or even some of the important events).  It's almost like mood more than something I actively engage in.  I do like it quite a bit but I'm hard pressed to explain it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 13, 2013, 07:14:25 pm
The show is definitely better served in watching them in blocks. If I had it my way and I was patient enough, I wouldn't watch any of the episodes until the series was done so I could get them all at once. But, that's never gonna happen.........
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Post by: Mac on May 15, 2013, 09:28:07 am
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I like Tom Cruise movies for the most part. He seems to know how to pick worthwhile entertaining stories to tell. Beyond the trailer I saw months ago, I knew absolutely nothing about Jack Reacher. Apparently a character by Lee Child, who I have never read, developed a huge man not to be messed with. This seems to really put a lot of fans of Reacher off, since Cruise does not fit the stature of said character. This had zero impact on me. So Cruise focuses on the myth and his perceived actions Reacher is. I was rather surprised at the final product of this flick. Some majorly stupid lines and many times it really appeared they were reading directly from cue cards. The acting had a lot to be desired. I thought Rosamund Pike as Helen was quite horrible. She had one expression on her face the whole time. It seemed to be of surprise/what is going on/I can't believe this look. I find her to be quite distracting in the negative sense.

The action and character were Hollywood to the nth degree. Popcorn stuff I will forget very easily.

One of the few films by Cruise I have no desire to watch again.

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Post by: Mac on May 15, 2013, 09:35:54 am
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I give Brutal Massacre a 1/2 star for a couple of tit shots.

I picked this up because 1) the title intrigued me. 2) It has David Naughton (American Werewolf in London) and Gerry Bednob (40 Year Old Virgin) 3) Because some reviews were giving this thumbs up.

This was an absolutely mind numbingly dumb humor. Not even groan worthy. I guess I'm mostly ****ed because this has no more thought into it, then making it up as they go and thinking some things must be very funny.... at the time.

I can't imagine this having any kind of budget. This is backyard movie making folks, down to the photography, the editing and the acting. I did give it 40 minutes. 38 more than I should have.

Not even worth posting a DVD cover or trailer.  :-\
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 15, 2013, 10:24:59 am
Just waiting for my copy of Jack Reacher to arrive at my Library.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 16, 2013, 07:21:57 pm
I've never even heard of Brutal Massacre before.

I saw Jack Reacher when it was out because I needed to stay clear of the house that night, so I saw it after Django.  I'm not really in any big hurry to see it again, but it wasn't bad or anything.

Watching "The Ides Of March" now.  Enjoying it but I'm not losing my mind over it like some people seem to have been.  I do like that "loyalty" speech that Philip Seymour Hoffman just gave.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 16, 2013, 07:25:19 pm
Okay, "Ides of March" just got good in a big way.  I won't say why cause it's an hour in, but dang.  Cold.
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Post by: Mac on May 16, 2013, 07:39:27 pm
I watched Ides of March when politics were in full bloom. I found it rather timely and interesting. But no need to go back to it. Excellent flick all around though.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 16, 2013, 08:59:51 pm
It was kind of cool seeing George Clooney shoot dagger eyes, I never really see him as cold and evil.  I liked that.

Finally watching Zero Dark Thirty now.  Another good one that I probably won't watch again.
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Post by: Mac on May 17, 2013, 06:12:54 am
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I've never even heard of Brutal Massacre before.

There's a reason for that I believe...  :P
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Post by: Mac on May 17, 2013, 06:15:20 am
The Whisperer in the Darkness (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

The Whisperer in the Darkness is an homage to films of the 1930’s. Capturing the look and feel of the films of that time. Obviously the folks that put together have a love for H.P. Lovecraft, because of the care and dedication to his stories. This is the 2nd such movie conceptualizing Lovecraft’s work. Whisperer in the Darkness is unique in that it’s performed like a theater play. That alone has charm. All black and white enforce it. Then camera angles, editing, music and especially the screenplay (directly lifted from Lovecraft’s authoring) make this a solid entertaining flick.

They took the road, less is more, which adds to the mysterious nature of the events.

Until the 3rd act... While watching this, I noticed a subtle but distinct change in the feel of the movie. I discovered the reason for this in the Extra’s. I have never read H.P. Lovecraft, for reasons I don’t recall. But the creators of the film talk about how Lovecraft was not able to end his stories well. In the Whisperer in the Darkness, once the protagonist discovers the creatures, Lovecraft writes, he just runs away. The end. The movie guys did not want to go with this and wrote a 3rd act. I just found everything about the 3rd act a little off. Clearly not from the mind of Lovecraft. The CGI creature reveal at the end just adds to the eye-rolling WTF moments.

Despite the ‘play’ diverging, I found the Whisperer in the Darkness fun, refreshing and bold step away from the usual. I highly recommend it just for its unique flavor.

By the way, everything about this DVD is fun. Even the warning in the beginning of DVD's has a nice tongue in cheek slant. The extra's are cool, where it's a bunch of guys having fun, doing what they love. It shows.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd5gWGfnK5M


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 17, 2013, 05:31:21 pm
Megamind (2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 17, 2013, 06:22:10 pm
I totally forgot about Reno 911! and since it expires in a few days and I'm not in the mood for anything else at the moment, I'm gonna see how many eps I can watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 17, 2013, 11:32:50 pm
Disturbing Behavior (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 18, 2013, 06:38:21 pm
The Cell (2000)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 18, 2013, 08:55:52 pm
Back into Reno 911.  I'm not watching them all but there's a couple eps I've never seen before, including one with Ryan Stiles as their acting coach.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 18, 2013, 08:57:26 pm
Thanks for reminding me about Reno. I've only seen a few episodes. Not many. But what I did see, I liked. I may try and grab all the seasons the Library and make it a marathon run.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 18, 2013, 09:06:30 pm
It's one of those shows that I didn't think I'd dig until I caught it in reruns on Comedy Central in college and it killed me.  Totally silly.  And full of cameos: Dan Castelleneta, Key from Key & Peele, The State, Patton Oswalt, even Paul Rudd.  And I'm not telling the brilliant cameos at the end of one of the episodes.  I need to rewatch the movie too, I totally forgo tabout that.  It's one of those shows that has zero budget and its' strength is the actors and their improvisational skills (most of the show is unscripted).

You'd THINK that the sheer amount of strippers and hookers on the show would be inspiring something for my stripper script, but nothing yet.  Though the couple making out in the back of the car-- that's got to inspire something somewhere.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 18, 2013, 09:37:08 pm
awesome, the new season I started is in HD... and Jonah Hill just popped up!  I didn't realize the show was SO recent, college seems like a million years ago.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 18, 2013, 09:41:43 pm
Californication (Season 5 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 18, 2013, 11:30:19 pm
Oh my god, I totally forgot that Reno 911 is the same group of folks that did Viva Variety! until this moment brought it all flooding back.

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Post by: Neumatic on May 19, 2013, 01:29:18 pm
Oh my god, Hook is on BBC America.  Then I flipped to the next channel and there's a hot girl in a cage (it's a magic trick).  What a weird disparity.  OH!  I think this is the Magician's Secrets, I loved this when I was in High School, showing you how they did magic tricks.  Though it's widescreen so I don't know if it's new or not (the old ones COULD have been HD and I'd never have known back then).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 19, 2013, 03:16:16 pm
Gattaca (1997)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 19, 2013, 06:23:14 pm
"She's The Man" was on MTV earlier (some sort of Amanda Bynes mini-marathon or something) and it reminded me that I'd been thinking of watching "Just One Of The Guys" again.  Maybe I'll do that later.  I forget which has the worse drag voice.

Right now I've got "The Big Night" on, it's got Stanley Tucci (I think I just saw his butt) and Tony Shalhoub as immigrant brothers running a restaurant in New York.

Yeah, I definitely saw his butt.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 19, 2013, 07:48:48 pm
Okay, I liked "The Big Night," but now I decided to finally watch "Clear And Present Danger," which I'd never seen before.  I figure it's about time.  And I totally blanked on Harris Yulin's name when it popped up on screen, he's the hanging judge in Ghostbusters II, and I immediately start hearing his dialogue whenever I see him on screen (although now I'm not so certain about the name, since another character actor I like just popped up as well).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 22, 2013, 06:53:38 pm
The Nutty Professor (1963)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 22, 2013, 10:47:43 pm
The Nutty Professor (1996)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 22, 2013, 11:02:32 pm
Saw "Into Darkness" at the theater earlier (bIG big screen, f'ing finally)... though I can't think of anything to follow that up with, so I'm just watching a binge session of "Clean House" to get me into the mood for cleaning out my house in a week or so... well, it's not so much cleaning the house as basically giving it an enema.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 23, 2013, 08:14:03 am
Shallow Hal (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 24, 2013, 12:51:13 am
The Dark Knight Rises (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2013, 07:07:26 am
Signs (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2013, 03:04:51 pm
Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2013, 06:08:28 pm
House Of Lies (Season 1 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 25, 2013, 06:31:33 pm
Oh yeah, your Kristin Bell fix...

Because it was about to expire, I decided to watch "Mornign Glory" and I was pleasantly surprised how much I liked it.  First, I was amazed that it was a Bad Robot production (lens flares in the opening titles), but the whole thing felt like an upbeat 80s comedy, Working Girl-style (which I now remember Harrison Ford was in, right?) without feeling dated.  And I'm not a big chick flick guy, but this was totally enjoyable.  And Rachel McAdams is so adorable, I don't remember the last thing I saw her in but she was just scrappy and plucky and what you WANT yoru FMC to be without it feeling forced, she felt very natural.

And of course, Harrison Ford is great, just surly and grumpy and growling, spends almost the entire movie glaring and spitting venom, I almost forgot he was in the movie until he showed up.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2013, 06:34:01 pm
Oh yeah, your Kristin Bell fix...

My girl (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_love.gif), and the sole reason why I'm checking out House Of Kristen, er.....Lies.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 25, 2013, 06:42:39 pm
My head is starting to fill with ideas foe "House of Kristin."  Rrrrr...
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:02:27 am
OK, let the ****storm of *meh to bad movie watching begin.

* One was better than meh

Let's start with...

Beautiful Creatures (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

IT was pretty early on you could tell this movie was clearly aimed at tweens and following in the footsteps of fantasy Twilight. I just found it a bore. The lead character Alden Ehrenreich Picture    with a thick heavy southern drawl a complete nuisance. Not only in his voice, but his character. The only other standout character was Jeremy Irons with his cool mysterious aura. My brain checked out 20 minutes in an could care less about the rest. My wife liked it. She likes movies like this and twilight and any other chick flick no matter how bad (Sex In the City 2).

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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:09:01 am
Faces in the Crowd (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Well I thought this would be a enjoyable film since it has my girlfriend Milla Jovovich. But sadly, even she could not save this ho-hum, been there, done that thriller. Milla's character not only witnesses a murder, but the attacker attacks her, sending her over a bridge causing her head trauma and she can no longer recognize faces. Even her own. While that kind of condition is interesting to think about, it did not produce a very engaging movie. It has so many cliche's with cops and cover ups and medical conditions. It was frustrating to sit through.

I can't even recommend this. It's produces well, but you will forget about seconds after turning it off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqU6xlD6fbA

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2013, 07:12:20 am
Bummer you went 0-2 in movies lately.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:20:21 am
The Master (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

So this movie is getting all kind of praise. I thought the trailer was interesting... so why not.

I was open to anything sitting down to watch this. I didn't read the synopsis and besides the trailer, which really doesn't tell anything, I knew nothing going into this. Well after watching 30 minutes of bizarre behavior by Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman, who spouted sentences no man would ever say in everyday conversation, had my head scratching. I literally had no idea what was going on and I wasn't about to waster more of my life waiting, if ever, for anything to happen. I may have missed the greatest movie ever, but I'm not worried.

Now seeing that this was directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. it's pretty clear I'm not a fan of his material

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJ1O1vb9AUU

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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:21:20 am
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Bummer you went 0-2 in movies lately.

Ah ha grasshopper... wait, not done  :-\
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:29:43 am
Stand Up Guys

With a movie that has  Al Pacino, Christopher Walken and Alan Arkin, you would think, what could possible go wrong. Well, let me tell you. A lame ass story of some very old criminal guys. Watching Pacino and Walken was worse than watching puddles dry up. They were old, acted old, looked old and had zero of my interest. The dialog was WTF. Very slow with some pathetic characters. It was like visiting a senior citizen lunch. After watching Pacino first start out as a tired ex-parole then pop a few boner pills do get laid, it was just embarrassing. Walken looked embarrassed. I don't know what it was about this weekend of these WTF movies, but it was very disappointing. And I had not even got to what I expect to be the weirdest movie 'Cloud Atlas'. My head will probably implode from the vacuum of nothingness.

Hell Arkin, did even show up within the 25 minutes or so. Maybe he would have changed the direction. Maybe he would have slowed it down even further.

I'm beginning to think these movies are geared for the geriatric crowd. When Harry Brown came out, I thought I remember them saying this was great movie for Michael Caine. Maybe it was, but for me, it was just slow and pathetic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NApJNjPTqZs

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2013, 07:31:18 am
Ah ha grasshopper... wait, not done  :-\

Yikes!
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2013, 07:38:59 am
But wait.... there's more.

And fortunately this had some entertainment.

Parker (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Jason Statham pretty much does the same movie over and over. I know this going in and don't expect anything more... or less. This is exactly what you get. Shoot'em up, fights, minor love interest, blah, blah, blah. So if you've seen any of Statham movies, you've seen Parker. Based off of some book series, it just seemed suited to Statham. Jennifer Lopez was odd casting here. Most of the movie did take place in South Beach, and she did add some dimension to the relationship, but overall, I just thought she was eye candy. Not bad eye candy at though.

Not great, not bad.... worth picking up of an evening of entertainment.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJ4Nsu2tXTk

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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2013, 12:50:19 pm
About halfway through the new season of "Arrested Development."  Oh man, Christine Taylor still looks great.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2013, 06:00:00 pm
Saving Private Ryan (1998)

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Post by: Mac on May 28, 2013, 10:10:20 am
The Last Stand (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

The Last Stand was the last movie I watched (all the way through) this weekend... It was a tad hair above mediocre. Look, I can accept the self deprecation of being old. The Story we've seen a million times. The cardboard characters who are instantly forgettable. The Last Stand is the first full length jump back into films for Ah-nuld. So let's do a shoot-em action film with small budget. Let's hope it was small, because there wasn't much here.

This yet another movie with old guys that look and act old. I should be cheering these guys on because they are my brethren, but seriously, even though Last Stand is not, I just found this middle of the road entertainment. The action was cookie cutter. As was the story you could see coming a mile away, as was the bad guy. I guess fanatics of Ah-nuld will eat this up and welcome him back to the film, but I was bored a lot and doubt I would ever watch this again.

I literally hate Johnny Knoxville as an actor. I have yet to understand him showing up in films. I liked Jackass on occasion, but this boys acting and presence in a film always brings it down a notch. I won't call it comic relief. Knoxville is just makes me cringe and found him out of place here even in the temped film.

I can't recommend. It's not great. It's not horrible. It's just wallpaper.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxt8kRhLaMs
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Post by: Mac on May 28, 2013, 10:24:17 am
Cloud Atlas (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

I heard a lot about the chaos of Cloud Atlas. I never read the book, but I don't believe that would have helped me with this messy movie. I don't think I'm going senile, but I seemed to have seen lots of movies lately that fail to lead the viewer in any discernible direction until much after the movie gets going. I am used to films that pretty much develop a story quickly to give you an idea of what direction you're in for.

My anxiety was swiftly confirmed in the first 5 minutes. In 5 minutes, they attempted to tell 5 different stories, in 5 different time periods. With a variety of people as different characters... With zero clear connection. Maybe that clarity appeared later, but I had quite watching after 45 minutes of being totally left in the dark as to what was happening.

I usually pride myself on rather enjoying the more complex movies. Inception. Sliding Doors, Memento, Timecrimes... But if I'm lost for any length of time because the director/editor thinks it's creative, more so than adding to the story. Then the purpose is defeated.

Maybe, just maybe I'll attempt this again at some point. Right now, I just can't see 'wasting' 3 hours of my time and not be entertained.  :-\

Here is the extra long trailer.... still doesn't help

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWnAqFyaQ5s
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 28, 2013, 10:49:53 am
I'm on the fence about seeing The Last Stand or Cloud Atlas. If there is some downtime and I have nothing else to watch, I may go with these. But certainly not at the top of my watch-list at the moment. Your view on Knoxville is spot-on.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 28, 2013, 11:11:42 am
Man, I totally dug Cloud Atlas, but yeah, the connection isn't clear that early in to the movie (the protagonist of each story is the same person reincarnated, btw, and each successive person reads about the last person in some way.... it actually ties together pretty nicely, I thought).  The book is actually designed like a Russian nesting doll, like ( ( ( ( ( ( ) ) ) ) ) ), as if the later book was jammed into the middle of the previous book, so you can read any one part all the way through and then go back.  The movie is put together like it is because the story beats line up, the chase scene happens at the same point in each story, etc, so rather than go on the roller coaster six times, you take the curves together, it's a film sextet, exactly like the music the composer and Q from Skyfall are trying to write.

And I say that knowing I won't convince you otherwise of your opinion, I totally get why some people might not get into or understand the movie, I guess I have one of those pliable minds that can easily wrap around abstract concepts.

As for Johnny Knoxville, I get ya.  I did like him in "Big Trouble," but he was surrounded by talented actors and the stuff he had to do was minimal.  Was in he in The Dukes of Hazzard?  I don't remember.  He was in an actor-heavy indie flick called "Small Apartments" and he actually had a good scene where he's telling off Juno Temple, giving her character probably the first good advice she's ever heard.  It was the only scene in the movie I "noticed," and it's because of him.  So I'm willing to give him the benefit of the doubt with the caveat that it takes a pretty good director or casting agent to get the best of him on screen.
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Post by: Mac on May 28, 2013, 12:06:22 pm
Thanks  Neumatic.... Well that does changes things a tad. In the case of Knoxville, OK, I have not seen those better works. But I do now understand a bit more why someone would use him. Still can’t stand him, even if he could perform Shakespeare.

Your Cloud Atlas description does help quite a bit. Knowing that would allow me some sort of perspective. I just might have to try to watch that again, cause I was not even remotely getting that on the beginning I saw.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 28, 2013, 01:23:50 pm
I feel like I gave so much away in Cloud Atlas, but if I'm remembering correctly, I think while the SOUL is swapping from body to body (identified by a birthmark), Tom Hanks' BODY is going through a transformation to being worthy of Halle Berry, it takes six lifetimes for him to be a good enough person to be worthy OF the soul and her.

It's definitely one of those movies where the picture isn't clear until the movie is done.  And there's a little sort of Arrested Development kind of thing going on where, at least once, we get the payoff before the set-up (I'm thinking of Tom Hank's "I will not be subject to criminal abuse" bit in Sonmi's story).  It's a very non-linear movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2013, 04:18:44 pm
Kitchen Confidential (The Complete Series - 2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 29, 2013, 04:28:33 pm
Is that Bradley Cooper?  I just read and article about his current career trajectory (http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9315433/bradley-cooper-smartest-star-hollywood) that I wanted to chime in with, it's kind of an interesting contrast to the "stars-only" problem we were dissecting in the "Celebrity Meltdown" thread.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2013, 04:54:51 pm
Yup. That be Brad.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2013, 11:33:39 pm
Deja Vu (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 30, 2013, 05:51:40 pm
Episodes (Season 1 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on May 31, 2013, 10:16:13 am
It's In The Blood (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I picked up It’s In The Blood to check out this psychological horror flick, after reading the synopsis. In a nutshell, it’s a drama centered around just 2 individuals (Father & Son) and a horrific event that occurred some time ago, but that stays with them.   Not only stays with them, but starts to manifest itself to something real. There are plenty of flashback's to help construct the story.

95% of the movie takes place in one little area of some woods with just the two characters. Lance Henrickson has established himself as a horror ****. He pretty much signs up for anything that will pay him. It’s in the Blood, is a little more juicy in terms of something more than just bloody horror. He’s not a great actor, but he works as a character that has more than a cardboard character.

With chaotic editing, the movie still seems to work to scare the crap out of you. Yes, they are jump scares, but they are woven in so well, it just becomes part of the movie that the viewer is always on the outlook for the next scare. I was kind of on the edge of my seat cliché with this one.

After you figure out what the horror is, you kind of see the end coming. But the slow unravel is satisfying. It has a look of independent cinema, so maybe that held it back from any success or marketing.

I would recommend this slightly for some creepy entertainment.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xI4nPh4SZs

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Post by: Neumatic on May 31, 2013, 09:29:53 pm
I rewatched "A Fish Called Wanda" the other night since it was about to expire off Netflix.  What a classic, I find myself really missing Kevin Kline.  I know he did "No Strings Attached" (though I didn't watch any more than Natalie Portman foolin' around and saying dirty stuff like "oooh, lookit my d-ck!") and I did like him in "As You Like It" but I sort of miss the Kevin we've seen in "Dave" and "In & Out."  I'm actually a little surprised to hear that Kevin got an Oscar for his role of Otto.  Did they just stop giving Oscars for comedies?  Have comedies just been sucky enough that none of them have been worthy since "My Cousin Vinnie."  I am genuinely curious to know how Otto had survived into adulthood, he's so wonderfully psychotic and stupid.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 31, 2013, 09:40:17 pm
There are a handful of comedies that I've always thought deserved to be nominated, and My Cousin Vinny is one of them. They technically did give a best picture to a comedy, that being Shakespeare In Love. I do like the movie and it actually holds up very well to this day. But I will say that it absolutely did not deserve to win Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. Getting back to Vinny, they at least showed some love to a comedy with Marisa Tomei winning for Best Supporting Actress.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 31, 2013, 09:58:46 pm
I think one of the reasons people didn't "get" her nomination or win is because a comedy is so unlikely to win.  As for "Shakespeare in Love," isn't that more of a light-hearted period pic? Always seemed like Oscar Bait to me.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 31, 2013, 10:21:59 pm
It's a period piece in setting only. The comedy is what drove the movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2013, 01:12:48 pm
Episodes (Season 2 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 04:28:09 pm
Listening to movies on my iPod while cleaning.  It's something I haven't done since I was a kid with movies on cassette tapes (the poor man's VHS), but it's proving to be interesting to see how much is just there in the dialogue and sound effects.  It's really hammering home the idea of every character needing their own distinct voice, how scenes flow together and so on.  I like that it's forcing me to use my least reliable sense.

The first I listened to was "A Mighty Wind," which I haven't heard forever.  Outside of being dang funny (and yes, you can tell every time a different character chimes in), I love that they wrote all the music that's in there... and I'm still genuinely touched by the song that Eugene Levy and Catherine O'Hara sing together at the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QwLZfPPM7GQ

This was the first Christopher Guest movie I'd ever seen (Spinal Tap was out of print at the time) and I didn't get what the movie would be but my dad dragged me there telling me "trust me, you'll like this" and he was totally right.  And of course, my sister and I to this day will start shouting out Fred Willard lines to each other.  The best part about that is that I was explaining what this movie was to my stepbrother John and when I got to talking about Fred's character, John just went "is THAT what that's from?  Cause she does that to me ALL the time!"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2013, 04:45:47 pm
Are these "mix tapes" of your favorite movies that you put together or where they released in audio-only format?
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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 05:35:23 pm
I'll take the fifth on that.  And I'll also refrain from commenting on why I'm listening to movies instead of, you know, an actual AUDIObook of which I have several I need to actually listen to.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2013, 05:57:58 pm
Ack!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 06:01:15 pm
"Ack"?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2013, 06:12:54 pm
"Ack"?

His (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/music/ace-frehley-discography/msg5261/#msg5261) catchphrase as well as mine.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 06:20:22 pm
Was that a good ack or a bad ack?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2013, 06:34:46 pm
It's more for punctuating a joke or statement. So, definitely good. Think along the lines of a Rim shot. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/rimshot.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 06:42:48 pm
Alright, cool.  Just always immediately presume that Im being judged.

These movies-on-iPod are great because I can go through 'em so much quicker since I don't have to pause 'em to get water or Pomegranate juice or use the bathroom or do the laundry or anything.  Just when I have to vaccuum (which I'm doing intermittently).  One listened to Bicentennial Man (see what one did there?) and now I'm halfway through City Slickers II.  I wanted to listen to Anchorman but the audio was too soft.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 01, 2013, 08:18:19 pm
"Pretty Woman" right now.  Still very cute, though funny enough listening to it, the movie has a very "80s" soundtrack to it even though all we remember from the music is Roy Orbison, as if that song played EVERY time music came on.

Okay, my ears must be better than I thought, I actually managed to recognize Hector Elizondo's voice.

Mind blown that Charles Grodin was considered for Edward.  All I'm picturing now is a zany movie with his character from "Clifford" dealing with all this madcap happening (oh, and can you imagine Jennifer Connelly as Vivian?  That'd have been something too)

This is actually really reminding me of this Korean soap I watched called "Lie To Me," where a clutsy but lovable Cultural Ministry official pretends to be the girlfriend of the manager of this expensive hotel, it had that same feel to it, except they didn't care for each other for a good large chunk of the series.  And they never needed to pretend the part at the same time, so she needs him when he doesn't need her and visa versa.  And everyone else keeps trying to push them together.  Apparently pretending to be married is a real common trope in asian stories cause it happens CONSTANTLY.

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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2013, 01:56:34 pm
Killing Them Softly

I'm not going to rate this because quite frankly I quit watching after 30 minutes.... and Brad Pitt hadn't even entered the picture yet. All I saw were two low life thugs planning a to rob some guys. Seen this kind of stuff a million times before. Boring. Oh and Ray Liotta doing exactly what he does in every film.

I found Killing Them Softly to slow and boring to waste any time with. I certainly did not care about any of the characters.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDyaNnrgdp4

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2013, 02:20:43 pm
I still have a long wait to go before I get my copy of Killing Them Softly from the library. I think I'm around 54th in line which translate to about 2 months and some change. Either you are quick on the draw to reserve your copies (because you get them almost immediately) or you have no people going to your library. No matter how fast I click on the New Release button for DVDs, I still end up in the hundreds. If I'm in the 200s are higher, I don't even bother.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2013, 02:26:19 pm
No interest in seeing this movie.  Or World War Z, for that matter.  I miss cool Brad Pitt... what's the last cool Brad Pitt movie that came out?

Listening to an audiobook now that's about 20+ hours long, so no movies for me today and some of tomorrow.  Though I am going to re-see "Into Darkness" with my sister in a few hours.  Curious to see what she thinks about it.
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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2013, 04:21:56 pm
Ya, I pretty much stay on top of the releases. I check every day.

The groaner for me is people are starting to figure things out. Once available the wait list climbs pretty fast. I try to get in within the first day or two. If it's in the hundreds, I just say forget and hope I somehow run across it.

I like Pitt. He's somewhat reliable for entertainment. I wouldn't mind seeing Z when it comes out. I am hearing they altered it from the book dramatically. Not that I've read the book, but seems when you alter a story, it can go in several directions.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2013, 09:40:06 pm
Almost Famous: Untitled (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 03, 2013, 07:09:00 pm
INXS - Live Baby Live -  1991

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 04, 2013, 03:55:52 am
Spartacus: Blood and Sand (Season 1 - 2010)

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Post by: Mac on June 07, 2013, 09:57:32 am
Mama (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

I started to watch Mama with my wife in the daylight as twilight and night came. It still scarred the hell outta me. Del Toro got involved with this immediately after he saw the short film (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/short-films/mama/msg12256/#msg12256).

Actually we’ve seen bits and pieces of this story before, but it is put together so nicely with the creepy atmosphere, the photography, the music and excellent acting among the minimal cast here. The littlest girl, is by far the creepiest on screen.

Momentum in the movie starts out of the gate with a gallop and then just slowly gets faster and faster. I might take off a half star for the complete reveal of Mama. If they somehow could have kept the mysterious Mama from full visualization, I think this would have been near perfect. At the same time, I think the ending is somewhat a relief from the intense, edge of seat flick this becomes.

While the whole movie is atmospheric, there are a couple of scenes that make the hair on the neck stand up and the occasional scream.

Loved Mama. If you like this genre, I highly recommend checking it out.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icPgMEePkXU

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2013, 03:18:59 pm
Beyond the Mat (1999)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2013, 10:46:46 pm
Watching Regarding Henry for the first time.  Pleasantly surprised when a young JJ Abrams popped up in a cameo appearance.  Good movie, though.  And it's definitely hones in on something I always thought about, even as a kid, about what makes us who we are, memory and experiences and so on.  Plus it's really making me miss Harrison Ford, I know he still does stuff from time to time but he's so soulful and interesting to watch in this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2013, 11:27:06 pm
Dreamgirls (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2013, 11:28:30 pm
Plus it's really making me miss Harrison Ford...

Go watch American Graffiti.
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Post by: Mac on June 08, 2013, 12:44:50 pm
Warm Bodies (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)
Had zero expectations for this. Clearly this is riding on the coattails of Twilight crowd, which I definitely am not. Warm Bodies is a mashup of sorts. It tries to be humorous, but falls more into the 'cute' category. The production values are pretty good. It's an attempt at another angle for the zombie genre, and for those easily amused, I guess this works.

Bottom line, this is not for me. I rolled my eyes almost immediately. Lots of voice over work, well because the main character is a zombie and can't talk.... yet can narrate a movie.
Eye's are rolling

Anyway, it seems to get pretty good accolades from incidences and critics.

So don't listen to me. I'm biased and thought it would be crap from the beginning and in my mind it was.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07s-cNFffDM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2013, 12:49:13 pm
Is this suppose to be a comedy or taken "seriously" in the world of Zombies? I'm still unclear, even after seeing the trailer a few times when it came out. Is it more like Shawn of the Dead or more like Zombieland?
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Post by: Mac on June 08, 2013, 01:07:00 pm
Quote
Is this suppose to be a comedy or taken "seriously" in the world of Zombies? I'm still unclear, even after seeing the trailer a few times when it came out. Is it more like Shawn of the Dead or more like Zombieland?

I'm not sure I'd gone that far to see a separation between those two you mentioned. I find those both horror/comedies, which I find with Warm Bodies... except Warm Bodies is ultra silly and too cute for my tastes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2013, 06:30:38 pm
Big Trouble in Little China (1986)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2013, 10:10:12 pm
Unstoppable (2010)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 09, 2013, 01:20:05 pm
Well, you can say that I'm thoroughly annoyed at my Library right now. I got Malcolm X yesterday and started watching it this morning. Imagine my surprise that halfway through the movie, it tells me to insert Disc 2 for the remainder of the movie. There was no second disc. But the kicker is that inside the disc tray its labeled with a sticker that says "Disc 2 Missing". Um, WHY THE F*CK IS THIS DVD IN ROTATION FOR PEOPLE TO CHECK OUT? What is the f*cking point of stringing me and everyone else along to the point of not being able to finish the damn movie?

F*CK!!!!!!

I'm seriously peeved right now. Up till today, I had never seen the movie as I kept putting it off. Well the moment is ruined. I'm gonna go to the Library and ram one half of the movie up their asses. They will definitely be hearing about my displeasure regarding this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 09, 2013, 03:24:41 pm
Oh I hate that.  I still never finished Nixon because my disc gave up halfway through.  And that's got to be a gorramn long movie if it takes TWO DVDs to hold it.  Is it an old disc?  Seems like there should have been a rerelease or a blu-ray or something for that by now.  I'm dreading something like that happening when I finally get my hands on "The Elephant Man" (yes, I'm STILL waiting for that f-ing movie).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 09, 2013, 03:28:24 pm
It's a Special Edition DVD, and to my knowledge the second release on DVD. Our branches don't carry Blu-ray for whatever reason. Cost too much I guess. It's one thing if the DVD came with a second disc that failed to play, but another thing for someone in the branch to take the time to write out on a sticker and say "no 2nd disc". They should have written on another sticker and said "sucks to be you" to any and all people that rent the movie. I got gypped!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 09, 2013, 06:25:40 pm
I can't tell you how many anime series on Netflix are missing discs right in the middle of the run.  How are you supposed to watch anything if you have to skip a sixth of the entire series?

I finally saw "Super Troopers" last night, it just happened to pop back up on my queue.  I like that it didn't ring the same bell as Reno 911 (which I was worried it would) and I was pretty surprised to see Brian Cox in a comedy (especially since I still fail to recognize him in his cameo in Red Dwarf season seven).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 09, 2013, 11:05:19 pm
I checked to see if my Library has another copy of X and they have the original bare bones one. But I can't add that to my save list because I'm already maxed out at 25. I have to wait to pick up a Hold (which I have none at the moment) before I can add X to the list again. Soooo much work. I'm tired. I need a vacation!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 10, 2013, 05:21:25 am
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It's a Special Edition DVD, and to my knowledge the second release on DVD. Our branches don't carry Blu-ray for whatever reason. Cost too much I guess. It's one thing if the DVD came with a second disc that failed to play, but another thing for someone in the branch to take the time to write out on a sticker and say "no 2nd disc". They should have written on another sticker and said "sucks to be you" to any and all people that rent the movie. I got gypped!

Both make great points. I've haven't seen a movie on t discs in decades. WTF.

I would definitely talk to library management about their process.

Get it out of rotation in that condition.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 10, 2013, 05:51:07 am
Interstate 60 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I had never even heard of this 2002 flick before this weekend, when I just happened upon it. Let me just quickly say, I loved it. What a fantastic script with some pretty cool characters. This movie is packed with movie icons,  Gary Oldman, Christopher Lloyd, Ann Margaret, Kurt Russell, Amy Smart just to name a few. James Marsden is the character that ties all the stories together.

Interstate 60 is a road flick with morality issues around every corner. It’s not heavy handed, but it does provide food for thought constantly. And speaking of constant, the story runs evenly, never letting up, especially in the 3rd act like a lot of flicks do.

I honestly did not recognize Gary Oldman who plays O.W. Grant, the genie who grants wishes. Oldman and Chris Cooper steal their scenes. It’s all good.

Like I said, the ethics the movie explored was not bloated and bring the movie down but in fact propelled to some very interesting outcomes.

Highly, highly recommend checking out Interstate 60

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYPXn6mhT-M

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2013, 06:11:42 am
I recognize the DVD cover, but other than that, I know nothing else. My interest is piqued. I will definitely be checking this one out....as long as it's all on the same disc that is.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 10, 2013, 07:25:21 am
Ya, no two discs ****

I just noticed on the cover of the DVD, they photoshopped Amy Smart's head onto the hitchhiker's body. It is NOT Amy Smart. Look at the Youtube display.... Notice the hitchhiker's hair. Well the top too and probably other stuff.

Them sons-abit-chez
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2013, 07:56:28 am
Good eye. I never picked up on that.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 10, 2013, 02:48:20 pm
It's actually Amy Jo Johnson from "Flashbpoint" as the somewhat sex-obsessed hitchhiker.  And this movie also has Michael J Fox AND Christopher Lloyd in it, though sadly not in the same scene.  And Chris Cooper's "Will Work For Food" rant has been stuck in my head for years.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2013, 04:41:34 pm
We Are Marshall (2006)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 11, 2013, 10:03:04 pm
"Cloud Atlas" got cheap enough (thanks Father's Day and underperforming Box Office!) for me to pick the Blu-Ray up.  Dig the special features but I can't believe it has the cheap-o menu on the front.  So strange.

Still totally dig the movie, and I was catching more connections and "that was THAT guy"s than I did last time, but if it wasn't so late I would have watched "Tropic Thunder" right after.  You can take a guess why.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 11, 2013, 10:06:39 pm
Why?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 11, 2013, 10:39:09 pm
Because Cloud Atlas has all these fantastic actors in make-up as different genders and different races, and Tropic Thunder has Robert Downey Jr as an actor in make-up as a different race.  So... connective tissue, as it were.

Ah screw it, I'm watching it.  So what if it gets me energy up?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2013, 06:14:32 am
Go here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/tropic-thunder/msg5623/#msg5623) if ya dare.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2013, 07:55:42 am
Blood Diamond (2006)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2013, 10:16:27 pm
127 Hours (2010)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 12, 2013, 10:29:26 pm
I feel like I should be watching some more important or meaningful movies than my current pick with your current selection.  I'm definitely overdue for some heavier fare, just not feeling it right now.  Though I did watch Cloud Atlas last night, like I said, so that's six movies of heavy right there, right?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 13, 2013, 12:20:14 am
I just watched John Tucker Must Die for the first time in years.  Cute movie but I forgot how funny it was.

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Okay, not the cover of MY version, but how could I not post that?

I don't want to put up the trailer because it gives away so much of the movie (including some of the biggest jokes), but essentially these three girls discover that the coolest guy in school is dating all of them at the same time and decide to crush him like a bug.

Why did I ever see this movie in the first place?  First of all, the cast is HOT:  Brittany Snow, Sophia Bush, Arielle Kebbel and Ashanti are the main quartet and they're all actually quite good and pretty funny in the movie AND not afraid to be the butt of the joke (I'm amazed that those four aren't all over the place, I was pleasantly surprised to see Snow in "Pitch Perfect" and Kebbel in some indie movie last year) and I'm just gonna tell you now: there's a scene where Brittany and Sophia kiss and the less said about the Skype scene wardrobe, well... wow.  And I do have to give some props to Jesse Matcalfe for doing the main role where he basically gets humiliated for 90 minutes, usually in front of a HUGE group of extras AND crew.  That's guts.

And actually the story is pretty funny, tongue-in-cheek in a way I like and there's an attitude to it, I don't actually know how popular this movie is since I'm clearly not in the demographic that it was meant for, but I will say it's one of the few romantic comedies I like, probably because it tries hard not to be one and it's actually pretty aggressive towards romantic relationships, which I kind of like.  It's like the skeptical romcom, I suppose.

Plus, if you keep an eye open you might notice Nicki Clyne from Battlestar Galactica and Taylor Kitsch show up.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 13, 2013, 12:22:30 am
Is this the same dude from Desperate Housewives? Sounds interesting. I will add this to my Hold List and check it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 13, 2013, 12:32:22 am
I can't believe how fast you added that to your list.  It felt like "Brittany and Sophia ki--" "SOLD!"

You know, I think I've based a character on every single one of the girls in that movie... so that's probably saying something too.

Plus, it was directed by a woman as well, which I think is pretty nice.  And I checked IMDB, this made a butt-load of money so it's clearly not this little-known thing like I thought it might have been for some reason (because, you know, I never hear anyone TALK about John Tucker Must Die).  And I love that the German version is titled "Revenge Is Sexy" (I don't know why "sexy" shows up in so many translated movie titles in Europe).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 13, 2013, 05:31:41 am
I rather enjoyed John Tucker Must Die.

Haven't seen it since it came out. Might have to check into that also. My wife might actually like it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 13, 2013, 07:22:04 pm
Knuckleball! (2012)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 14, 2013, 05:45:28 am
Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

I wanted to like Hansel & Gretal a lot more than I did. While it’s not a terrible movie, I doubt I’ll ever revisit it. It suffers from a couple of things. The main problem, is it doesn’t know what audience to cater too. It’s rated R and has too much language, blood and gore & nudity to appeal to the young teen. Yet at the same time, the overall feel of the movie is the classic fairy tale that I just don’t think is that appealing to a mature audience. At times the some of the special effects work, other times it just looks hokey.

Jeremy Renner and Gemma Arteton work well as a team even if it seems they loved each other more than siblings do. I’m just sayin’. The rest of the cast is OK. Famke Janssen  unfortunately is covered as an ugly witch which pretty much negates any ‘beauty’ time she has on the screen. I guess in a away, they were successful in presenting a damn nasty witch.

Hansel & Gretel has a lot of fighting. A lot of fighting. By the end of the movie, I thought it just all blended together. The action is really too fast to take it in. The scene where they fight about 100 witches is finished before it starts.

As the credits rolled, I think I was just underwhelmed. Pretty forgettable by next morning.

This does not bode well, because Oz, the Great and Powerful is coming in and I don’t have much desire as a must see flick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9246msCh7x4

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2013, 05:47:36 am
Well that sucks. I was looking forward to checking this out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 14, 2013, 05:52:16 am
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Well that sucks. I was looking forward to checking this out.

Check it out. You may like it way more than I did. I'm pretty biased against fantasy type films. While I don't mind watching them, I don't think they are all that.

It just seemed that the studio's are appealing to a very specific demographic and up the ante a little bit, much like The Three Musketeers, The Brother's Grim, Van Helsing and A Knight's Tale.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2013, 02:41:01 pm
Freaky Friday (2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 14, 2013, 03:12:17 pm
I felt like Hansel & Gretel (which I also saw last night) was making fun of the concept of Van Helsing, especially with the black leather and the crossbows, and just taking it a step further with the frankly awesome amount of gore and blood and cursing that SHOULD be in a movie like this instead of the "cleaner" PG-13 versions of dark fairy tales we've been getting.  I just personally felt like they should have gone even further in that direction, been the "Galaxy Quest" of dark, edgy fairy tales.

I did like that Hansel has diabetes, that was a nice touch.

As for The Three Musketeers, that's a movie that totally embraced the fact it was a stupid movie and when it came out it was exactly the type of movie I needed to see, screwball and cheeky while narrowly avoiding becoming a parody of itself.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2013, 04:29:08 pm
My Name Is Earl (Season 1 - 2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 14, 2013, 04:52:22 pm
"My Name Is Earl" is one of those series I didn't expect to like as much as I did when they were promoting it (it sure didn't help that they gave away the ENTIRE pilot in the commercials) but I was way into the first season.  My interest sort of waned after that, though.  I still haven't seen the stuff after he goes to jail, although I will say I was dreading that (I'm not a big "jail" guy) and it wound up being wonderfully ridiculous, especially with Craig T Nelson as the warden.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 14, 2013, 08:06:01 pm
HELP

Good Gawd, I'm watching Breaking Dawn, Part 1, with my wife. I'm not trying to be funny, but this is excruciating. I can't believe how awful this is.

I'll continue with the IPad surfing, but no way in hell will I sit down for Part 2. She's on her own.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2013, 08:13:18 pm
I'm watching Breaking Dawn, Part 1

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Funniest thing I've heard all week. You slay me Mac.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 14, 2013, 08:30:35 pm
I can't wait to hear all your ranting and p*ssing about Twilight.  You suffered through it, you gotta tell us about it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2013, 08:31:40 pm
I can't wait to hear all your ranting and p*ssing about Twilight.  You suffered through it, you gotta tell us about it.

What he said.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 15, 2013, 02:30:21 pm
It was truly a nightmare... Only to be countered with my wife really enjoying it. It just solidly proves we have different tastes. This morning, she turned on a chick flick instead of the news. Bring It On, which I won't complain about cheerleaders, but damn, 6:30 in the morning.

Anyway, Breaking Dawn was incredibly slow... The whole time. It was alla bout long slow episodes of people, wolves, vampires telling and showing how they love each other. Forgive me if I don't know the story, but I don't care, and didn't really need to. The dialog was just mind numbing.

And I hate to be judgemental with attractiveness, but damn, this movie is filled with some ugly ass folks. Even the leads werer rather fugly.

I get where the young girls just eat this up. The beginning with the wedding took like an hour.

I completely phased out after the 'honeymoon'.

I told my wife she is on her own to watch part 2. No way I'm Gona sit through another one of those.

Phuck me
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2013, 02:32:46 pm
Phuck me

Not likely to happen if you don't watch Part 2 with her.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 15, 2013, 03:30:21 pm
I think they did a "How Did This Get Made" about Breaking Dawn.  Those guy's will probably make you feel better about having to sit through the bloody thing (or bloodless thing, I dunno).

People talking about how they feel in movies drives me up the wall, it's the total opposite of everything we've been taught: show, don't tell.  You could really go into some "An Education" territory with this premise, younger girl hooks up with a much older guy, throw in some analogues for addiction and withdrawal and so on... I could conceive of some truly juicy potential with that idea.

Also, I recall the Simpsons doing a pretty cute parody of the franchise... with the rather humourous casting of Daniel Radcliffe as Edward:

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As for what I've been watching, I needed something last night and wound up watching "The Man From Hollywood," Quentin Tarantino's section of "The Four Rooms."  Hadn't seen it in a dog's age, forgot how much I like it and how much QT was able to get from the simple premise of "drunk idiots want to do something dangerous they saw on TV."  I get the impression from the long takes and the fact that Tarantino himself is doing most of the talking that this was a quick turnaround, which is cool, but it's making me wish we had more short films of his.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2013, 04:34:20 pm
Mean Girls (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2013, 08:30:41 pm
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 16, 2013, 09:11:08 am
Good Day To Die Hard (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

By far the weakest in the series... story wise. They have gone to the edge and then jumped, especially in believability. I say this because the first Die Hard was fully successful, because you believed John McClane was the Joe Average in an extraordinary situation. Good Day just make McClane do superhuman things more than the others.

If you go into this and just look at it as a summer tent pole and ignore the past, it becomes an action packed loud movie, with a sliver of a story line you might want to follow.

I think we've just seen the most intense car chase on celluloid. Ronin has the best, but Good Day has more carnage. It's pretty amazing really.

The one thing that kind of irritated me was the constant reminder or use of McClane saying he's a Dad. The focus on that was one one time to often and lost it's humor real quick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_0K7ZfU2e0

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 16, 2013, 09:15:42 am
Still very much looking forward to seeing Good Day To Die Hard, but even before reading your review, I didn't have high expectations for this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 16, 2013, 07:43:32 pm
I kinda feel like after Mission Impossible Four that the whole spy operation and so on was done well enough to tide us over for a while. I got NO interest in seeing the new one, I had to suffer through the fourth one and I can't believe that got people willing to cut a check out for a fifth.  I'm much more interested in seeing Bruno in GI Joe.  Actually, I'm more interested in seeing him in another Looper or "real" film but we may not get another one of them for a while.

Watching the first disc of the Newsroom.  I like it but it's not up to par with The Social Network or The West Wing.  I'm REALLY curious to see what they'll do in a year or two with the reporter phone tapping and NSA spying and so on, that'll be a GREAT arc.  And Allison Pill... so cute!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2013, 12:37:45 am
Boogie Nights (1997)

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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2013, 08:31:35 am
The wife and I really enjoy Newsroom. All very interesting characters. Jeff Daniels is quite the person to deal with.

Allison Pill... too much forehead  :P

Chip... I said FOREhead.... nothing else.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 17, 2013, 09:47:55 am
My issue will Pill is that she dresses so frumpy on the show, she literally looks like she's from another show and they just popped her into that one.  Otherwise I like her, but honestly, there are some episodes where I just want Jeff Daniels monologuing.  But I do like his whole thing of being a nice guy with a "heart the size of a Range Rover" but being intensely personal and with this big barrier around himself so everyone thinks he's an ****.  I also do dig that the ultimate Capra-esque American is the one with the British accent (they do point out she's a natural born American citizen in the first episode).

My other issue is that the opening titles go on WAY too g/d long and that the captions in the show look crummy compared to the title design IN the opening credits.  But that's me being a typeface snob.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2013, 10:10:15 am
Chip... I said FOREhead.... nothing else.

Come on dude! You're cutting me off at the knees and taking away my shot for witty comebacks!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 17, 2013, 10:49:54 am
Oh, I'll cut those knees right off!  Forehead?  FOREhead?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stTEb-Y3nkI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3k6EUNHEXw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY0V2twSCtE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsKzEIwAMDM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUR_B62HBtM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx0Zazo8aW4
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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2013, 11:15:24 am
Can't wait to watch those....

Neumatic = snob, typeface at that  :o



Oz the Great and Powerful
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two stars for nice attempt... try again

I had very little hope for Oz the Great and Powerful when I slipped it in. I thought the trailers looked like they were catering to children and the one sheet has been one of the most memorable awful pieces of trash  I’ve seen in a long time. My only hopes were this is a Sam Raimi film and I heard it made lots of money. The later not being of real importance.

Well, the movie may have made lots of money, and I can only guess because of the hype. Otherwise I found myself, as I thought I might, wondering why I’m spending time watching this. Hey, when the highlight of the movie is wondering when it goes from black & white/small screen to color and large screen, that does not say much for the movie as whole.

I thought James Franco was over-acting to achieve the Disneyish character of scam artist Oz. Once he gets into Oz, for some reason everything is hyper-colorized. Garish. Obviously Raimi was trying to drive a point, but I thought it was unnecessary. It kind of reminded me of that over the top Batman movie with the colors and neon.

Also with the fantasy world, I thought they really tripped up with the special effects and sets. The sets looked, well, like a Hollywood set. Lets move from this pond set to this waterfall set, to this daisy field set. I about did a double take when Oz (Franco) and the Good Witch (Kunis) were walking through the daisy field. It was so incredibly off… I rolled my eyes. It doesn’t get any better when they get to the Emerald City.

Honestly when Oz gets to Oz and in color, it just falls flat. I had very little interest in CGI talking monkey or china doll. It lost my interest and I turned it off half way through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DylgNj4YQVc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2013, 11:24:18 am
I had very little hope for Oz the Great and Powerful when I slipped it in.

That's what she said!
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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2013, 12:10:57 pm
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That's what she said!

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_B9Lb-THOc
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Post by: Neumatic on June 17, 2013, 01:16:43 pm
I'm guessing that Oz looks a lot like Alice In Wonderland.  Which I'll bet is what Star Wars will wind up looking like, which is making me look forward to that even less.  And I know the whole garish colour scheme was to match the "classic" movie (NOT the original movie, I might point out) as if we would EVER believe the two were consistent (again, like Star Wars and how the prequels looked JUST LIKE the original movies).  Another needless prequel giving us information we don't need.  The reason people liked Wicked is because it gave us a sort of mirror image of the movie, we saw motivations, scenes, and so on, they were saying "the story you were told is BS, here's what REALLY went down."

F Oz.
F needless prequels.
Do something interesting or get the F out of my face.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2013, 04:08:47 pm
Hard Eight (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 04:53:48 pm
Magnolia (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 04:54:59 pm
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Hahahahaha. That was awesome. I couldn't;t shout my line fast enough!!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 06:26:51 pm
BTW, I love how your Lohan marathon became a PTA marathon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 06:28:29 pm
BTW, I love how your Lohan marathon became a PTA marathon.

No sh*t! And totally unintentional. It just happened. Ha.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 07:06:26 pm
I seriously need to dig up a movie to watch... I feel like I can't remember the last movie I saw even though I saw something a few days ago.  Right now I'm going through some episodes of I Love The 80s that I found.  WAY hokier and vapid than I remember, but I remember meeting my best friend the week these aired for the first time.  Now my head is picturing his baby face on there talking about the 80s even though he wasn't even there for the start, "yeah, I heard that was rough, right?"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 07:26:47 pm
The 80's were da bomb!! Hair Metal at it cheesiest and I wanted saltine crackers to go with it!!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 07:35:21 pm
They're talking about "Sixteen Candles" right now.  Never seen it.  Ever.  I do want to, though.  Don't know how it got away from me for so long.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 07:37:24 pm
Sixteen Candles (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sixteen-candles-(1984)/msg1885/#msg1885) is mandatory viewing! Get on it!!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 07:45:26 pm
Of course this is one of those I can't really "write my own version first" of.  So I guess I"m waiting.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 07:58:45 pm
Okay, started "Pretty In Pink" (also for the first time) to tide me over.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 08:01:24 pm
Once you're done with Pretty In Pink (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/pretty-in-pink-(1986)/msg2001/#msg2001), you should follow it up with Some Kind Of Wonderful (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/some-kind-of-wonderful-(1987)/msg12899/#msg12899) which is the far more superior movie of the two in my mind.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 08:10:35 pm
I'll have to add that to my queue too.  Jon Cryer just popped up and it's like baby Jon Cryer.  I'm so hoping that we see a baby Charlie Sheen pop up in a bowling shirt.

You know, not to sound like a sad song but I never went to my prom (I would have had a miserable time anyway, I wasn't anything approaching fun until years after high school) so I'm interested to see where this goes.

There was an article I just read (http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2013/06/27th-anniversary-of-ferris-bueller-retrospectiv) that started being about Ferris Bueller but wound up being about some other things, that pointed out that John Hughes characters might not be able to exist in the age of the internet.  I thought that was fascinating, as I'm watching this I'm noticing sh*t that wouldn't work now (a RECORD store?).  One thing I would totally include in a Hughes-esque story today is the Doctorow-esque idea that the main character built their own Linux laptop (heck, the protagonist in "Pirate Cinema" assembled his entirely out of free parts).  And yes, i just passed the computer "chat" scene.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2013, 08:21:24 pm
Will definitely check out the article. Anything and everything relating to John Hughes and his movies I just devour. Thanks, dude!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 08:31:33 pm
You can thank Dan Trachtenberg for tweeting it.

Oh GOD, young James Spader.  WHOA.  For a guy who pretty much only knows him from Stargate and Boston Legal... WOW.  Funky.  Though I think it's strange to show preppies and not see the grunge people, which prep was a reaction to.  There's no context for these young kids dressing up like that, you know?

And wow, smoking in high school.  NEVER happen now.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2013, 10:11:58 pm
Following up Pretty In Pink with a movie that I haven't seen in years and years.  Ferris Bueller's Day Off.  My first time watching it in HD, I'm sure.

I never got the soundtrack to this, there's music already (in the "barf up a lung" speech that I like and I have no idea what it is or who it's by).

I've noticed those little clues about Ferris' missing siblings (there's a group photo on the dad's desk at work), and I totally forgot that Louie Anderson has a cameo in the movie as well (as well as Rooney's great little muttering "look what Uncle Ed has for you ya little f*cker!")
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2013, 06:12:03 am
Snitch (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

The premise for the movie is based on the minimum mandatory laws. In a nutshell, if you get caught in a drug deal, the law says, if you can provide help (snitch) on further known drug activity, then your sentence can be reduced. Dwayne's son gets accidentally caught up in a drug set up and sentenced to Prison for 10 years. His character is willing to do just about anything to get his son out. So he becomes the Snitch.

From the opening credits, Snitch is based on true events. I was thinking, cool, bring it on. So I’m torn because the core of the story is interesting. How it was presented… sucks. I gave Snitch only 2-1/2 stars because watching it literally gave me a headache. Hasn’t the message to Hollywood sunk in that shaky cam is annoying as **** for audiences. I’m not talking found footage, which can be equally annoying. I’m talking about the director and photographer who think hand holding a camera by giving it a little extra waver here and there gives the film a more real, gritty experience. In Snitch 90% of the film is hand held. The opening raid was unwatchable. I had to turn away from it. And to further the aggravation, they thought pointing the camera at every implied movement was necessary. Swing the camera down to see the bad guy is reaching for a knife, then swing the camera over to where the protagonist is looking and then swing it back to look at him. GAWD, I hated this.

I did hang on through the movie, despite many times of thinking of turning it off. I thought casting Dwayne Johnson was a ballsy move, in the context of the movie. The obvious bulk and presence The Rock demands while on screen, was reduced to real life situation of an ordinary man stepping into some pretty nasty environments. No super hero moves, no brilliant ideas. He was just as scarred and careful as any one of us would be in the situation. Dwayne Johnson did a very good job in this role. I thought they did a fantastic job of creating a look of that would scare the hell out of most of us.

Despite the ending, I would not call this an uplifting movie in any sense.  Jon Bernthal (Shane of Walking Dead) was connection needed to the seedy world. His character is exactly like in Walking Dead. Good or bad? He did his job for the character.

I’m biased and it becomes a deal breaker for me to watch a shaky cam movie. I will never watch this movie again. Saying that, I recommend it, especially if that kind of thing does not bother you, you might end up enjoying watching the film.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rieI5g9fgRc

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2013, 06:24:12 am
I can take the 'Shaky Cam' effect to a degree. But it it's so over the top obvious and the film maker isn't giving the audience a chance to breath, than yeah, it becomes a bit too much to take in. Somewhat disappointed to hear that's where Snitch falls into. With that said, this is still in my Queue and can't wait to check it out, if ya smeeeeeeeeell...what the Rock.....is........cooking.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2013, 08:04:14 am
Quote
I can take the 'Shaky Cam' effect to a degree. But it it's so over the top obvious and the film maker isn't giving the audience a chance to breath, than yeah, it becomes a bit too much to take in.

I am extremely particular. I tend to be rather sensitive to it, thus distracting me. This is nowhere near (except for the Raid which was ridiculous) the experimental Tony Scott ‘Domino’ or ‘Man on Fire’ B.S. But yea, most of the scenes were hand held.  I see no reason why a simple conversation becomes jarring and chore to watch because the cameraman is floating around, zooming in/out.

You might watch it and ask what the hell I was talking about.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 19, 2013, 09:56:53 am
Never had ANY interest in Snitch.  Still don't.

As for shaky cam, sometimes I like it, but sometimes in the theater it makes me sick and at home disorients me because my mind steadicams it and makes me think my surroundings are shifting about.  But it it so freaking terribly to put the camera on a freaking tripod or have a SMOOTH picture in this day and age?  For god's sake.
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2013, 12:54:32 pm
Couldn't agree more.

Good gawd... Hold the phucking camera still... on a tripod Einstein
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q33mqlFziOY

Oh by the way Chip we are talking about the movie 'Snitch', not that swedish import you special ordered.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2013, 01:14:57 pm
Bite me! That Swedish Import ROCKS!!!!!! I just don't know what they hell they are saying.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2013, 02:26:44 pm
Well,you'd think after watching it 300-400 times, you eventually would pick up the language.

(Splash)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2013, 02:38:28 pm
401 as of this morning.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2013, 05:32:50 pm
Spy Game (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 20, 2013, 07:59:25 am
The Man Who Wasn't There (2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 06:01:34 am
Clash of the Titans (2010)

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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2013, 09:33:32 am
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/banghead.gif) Jack the Giant Slayer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/banghead.gif)

Why, why, why, do I keep submitting myself to these fairy tale fantasy movies. I guess I'll run across a gem? I dunno.

Stupid phucking movie about CGI giants against regular sized humans. The characters were, well, characters. Almost cartoonish, like their counterparts... the giants. I can't even say I was entertained. I kept watching the clock. Despite Ewan McGregor, Stanley Tucci and Ian McShane bringing class to this movie, it still was a childs movie.

Its not for me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ng9rjC8MOgU
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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 11:49:08 am
Well, I've been watching quite a few things but freshest in my mind at this moment is a double feature stand up that I wrapped up the night with.  The first was John Hodgman: Ragnarok.  Pretty bloody funny, it was a stand-up night he did on December 21, 2012, the last day of the Mayan calendar, talking about... well, geeky stuff, as well as how unrealistic is moustache looks and how someone pointed out it makes him look like the fellow on the Pringles can, and how after the apocalypse you should raise goats (since their unholy faces means you won't feel guilty about killing them) and rabbits (because they're easy meat and one rabbit in every warren has the gift of prophecy-- and his audience GOT the reference! They got REAL obscure references all through the night and Hodgman was genuinely surprised).

The other one was Bobcat Goldthwait... I think it was just called "Bobcat" but I've known this dude was funny for a long time, not just for Police Academy but also his stand-up, one bit he did about a guy getting eaten by a polar bear was on Shorties Watching Shorties so it was all over Comedy Central when I was in college).  Quite funny, and just vulgar and politically incorrect enough.  Totally worth a watch for sure, I feel bad for skipping over it as often as I had.

Checking my discs, I watched The Twilight Zone Movie last night.  Of course I don't remember watching it because it's not that good.  I'm happy to hear I'm not the only one, it was... I don't want to say weak, but it didn't get me like the original series did.  I can totally understand why it was made, but there are whole segments I don't care for (the Vic Morrow one, of course, since it was sadly never finished).  What's funny is that now it feels like a TV show since TV has gotten so cinematic in the meantimes (and that widescreen HD on the blu-ray... it really feels like this is what HDTV would have looked like 30 years ago).  The Spielberg sequence honestly felt like an episode of Amazing Stories.

My fave part?  Probably the cold open with Albert Brooks and Dan Aykroyd, it lulls you into a false sense of security, but that cut to the demon mask with the terrible dubbed bobcat howl... that still takes me out.  I mean, today it would be like a CGI morph and I'm sure I'd feel the same, I have no idea how to make that TRULY horrific and surprising (I can totally imagine the fangs going right through a fake Albert Brooks head).  I still think, to this day, that Aykroyd's character was also the banshee on the wing of the plane, how great would it be if THAT'S the head he turned into at the start?  He just picks some random schlub to torture to death.

I'm sure it's no secret what a fan of the original Twilight Zone I am (there are a few remake episodes that I like, including the credit card episode) so I was always thinking how to remake the movie.... my first thought would be to get someone like Jon Hamm as the narrator and stick him in a foggy desert.  Then I was thinking there'd be a Rush Limbaugh character who spews hate on the radio and it either becomes "he's Alive!" or the one where the guy shrinks... the ONE plot element I think for sure should happen is the last piece would be the broken glasses, so that Burgess Meredith character should pop up in little cameos in all the stories leading up to that, you think he's going to survive, and of course he gets the final and most famous ending.  It's the ultimate denouement.

You could even build up to that, if that's the "big d" as I call it (so I don't have to try to say or spell "denouement"), then before you have the nuclear war moment, then every story before that leads up to it.  The whole movie could be about this small town where the residents fall into the zone as the world's about to come to an end.  That could be cool.

I also think that Andrew Niccol would be an immediate go-to for the direction, he's got that classical style to it.  Gattaca looked like a Twilight Zone movie to me, get him and some bad-@ss writers and you've got my money.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 11:55:32 am
I saw Twilight Zone The Movie when it came out and remember absolutely nothing that took place. The only thing I am able to lock in on is of course Vic Marrow and the scene with the Helicopter. That's it. Describing stories that take place from the film wouldn't help me to remember any of it. I think it's time for me to watch it again.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 12:04:30 pm
It's not that memorable, it took me a while to remember I watched it last freakin' night!

The Vic Morrow thing, outside of being tragic, totally throws the movie into a downward spiral because they couldn't wrap up his story, it became sort of like torture p-rn instead of "dude learning a lesson" like it was intended to be, there's no resolution so it just feels like we wasted some time.  And if you don't KNOW the helicopter story then you're thinking that dude's gonna show up later, like as a Holocaust survivor in the old age home that Scatman Brothers visits.

You know, I get the idea of these directors loving the Twilight Zone and doing a tribute to it but the final project just didn't feel fun.  Think about Grindhouse, that movie was the directors playing tribute to something they dug and it made us feel the love that they had, "this is what we love and you're gonna have fun with us" and the Twilight Zone wasn't that.  And I am TOTALLY in the "Twilight Zone should be fun" camp.  it IS fun.  That's how I could watch it as a little kid and never get nightmares (my mom could NEVER wrap her head around that).  It's giving us interesting characters and forcing them to look into a mirror and see if they can survive what they see.

There was a book I found years ago of short stories with the Twilight Zone title and I don't remember any of the stories (I sent it to my best friend a long time ago) but I remember thinking some of them would be PERFECT for a new series or a movie and people aren't as familiar with them as the old series.  A new movie should totally find great, underappreciated stories to adapt.  For the most part.  I still say go for the glasses bit.  Because that's the trademark Twilight Zone moment.
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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2013, 12:11:06 pm
Bobcat has always made me laugh. He's almost unrecognizable today. He's sane, shorter kept hair, no snorting and growling. But still funny as hell.

A classic rant here.

Have any of you guys seen any of his movies... the one's he's directed.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 12:16:58 pm
He's bald now, I think.

Were you meaning to make a link, cause I didn't see anything.  But there's one bit I dug where he's talking about his teenage daughter helping him run lines for "Blow."

I have seen two of Bobcat's movies, I think.  "Teacher of the Year" with Robin Williams and "God Bless America."  They're both good but I really dug "God Bless America," it took an absolutely reprehensible idea (actually, both did) and made us sympathize with a person who is, by all standards of society, a monster.  Using your son's suicide for your own personal gain or going on a shooting rampage, they're darkly comic.
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Post by: Mac on June 21, 2013, 02:39:16 pm
Yea, I meant to link the YouTube.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 07:00:31 pm
Queensrÿche: Operation Livecrime (1991) VHS

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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 07:48:06 pm
The fact that you watched a VHS in 2013 is just another notch in your awesome belt as far as I'm concerned.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 08:09:37 pm
Ha. I still have a few VHS around that I'm not willing to part with just yet.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 08:24:33 pm
Same here.  Plus my VHS player is also a region-free DVD player.

Finally got my hands on the Elephant Man.  Starting it now.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 08:50:21 pm
Finally got my hands on the Elephant Man.  Starting it now.

Looking forward to your review.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2013, 10:50:24 pm
Riddick Trilogy - The Franchise Collection (2000, 2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2013, 10:56:15 pm
You know what's f'in crazy?  The movie I watched RIGHT before this was Puss in Boots, the Antonio Banderas cartoon thingie, and that's the play that Merrick is watching at the end of The Elephant Man!  Never saw that coming!

I won't lie, the Brooksfilm title at the start, especially being in black and white, totally put Young Frankenstein in my head.  Which actually wound up being rather apt when you think about it, both movies are about a brilliant unorthodox doctor finding the humanity and decency in someone that everyone else sees as a monster, and they're both done in the same black and white old-fashioned style, they're like artifacts from another time.

I'm not sure how much of a rewatch this would be for me (you could import the blu-ray since it's an A-B disc) but it's definitely something I like, the whole rescuing someone and bringing them not to a better life but the life that they deserve.  I was trying to think of what this reminded me of, and I just thought "Hugo!"  Obviously Hugo is the more palate-friendly "fun with learning!" kiddie movie with 3D but that little kernel is the same.  Now I may have wonderful synaptic connections between the two.

Now I totally get why John Hurt showed up in Spaceballs.  Of course!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 22, 2013, 07:43:54 am
Glad ya liked the movie. It's definitely a movie that doesn't need to be re-watched anytime soon. But its such a great film and an incredible performance by Hurt. Now you should check out From Hell (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/from-hell-(2001)/msg17860/#msg17860) when ya get the chance. I should have done a double feature of both movies.
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Post by: Mac on June 23, 2013, 09:24:45 am
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My wife was really looking forward to this. I liked the trailer and it did intrigue me. Unfortunately, IMO, I found the trailer providing the best moments out of this very lackluster slow movie. The acting is on par as to be expected, but the pacing is unbearably slow.

I honestly could tell this was going to be a snorefest within the first 10 minutes. I was not let down. After 60 minutes I just gave up. Like I said, the premise is interesting about a woman with depression taking drugs to help her sleep, but the side effect is sleepwalking, and the tragic event that happens one evening. I guess the rest is trying to sort out the blame, ethics, etc. I was too bored by this time to devote any more time to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFEou3MBLi4
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Post by: Mac on June 23, 2013, 09:30:19 am
The Last Exorcism Part II (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

This sequel is an obvious money grab. The first movie was OK, had some interesting bits, but Part II, had little value to add to the story. There were a couple of jump scares, and that had my attention for a little while, but the script was pretty ordinary and you could read the writing on the wall what was to come next. I did watch the whole thing, but regretted I did.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OAYsIz2FrM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 23, 2013, 06:01:06 pm
Tombstone (1993)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 24, 2013, 01:45:05 pm
Thelma & Louise (1991)

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Post by: Mac on June 24, 2013, 04:10:49 pm
Just watched a trailer Willow Creek, directed by Bobcat. Don't know dates, release, anything. Doesn't look like my kind of movie though. Found footage - Bigfoot.

I'll try to get the trailer posted.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 24, 2013, 05:26:39 pm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eHcqBIPecRE

Seems a bit different from Bobcat's other stuff, but I guarantee that there's probably no real Bigfoot in it and it's probably a big take-down of found footage movies or something.  If it's Bobcat, there's way more than what we're seeing.



Watching "Man Of The House."  Yeah, that movie where Tommy Lee Jones guards the cheerleaders.

Why am I watching it?  Simple: Vanessa Ferlito.  I revisited the Death Proof special features and was reintroduced to the rowr-worthy Vaness Ferliot (who I had a thing for when the movie came out) and Tarantino said she was in this, so I figured "why not?" when it popped up on Netflix.

And as much as I like Vanessa (and she's very much not the cheerleader type in the movie, she's got that self-confident tough Brooklyn thing going on that I like)... but there's two things that blew my mind (so far):

* Christina Milian rocked these tiny shorts in the breakfast scene.  Wow.

* The guy playing the Governor looked really familiar, and I realized a second later that it was the ACTUAL Governor of Texas.  Rick Perry!  The heck is he doing in THIS movie?  (Oh!  He was a cheerleader!  They just said!)

The movie is directed by Stephen (Steven?) Herek, who did The Mighty Ducks and Bill and Ted and so on and it's competent enough, Tommy Lee Jones is a decent straight man, the cheerleaders are cheerleader-y, they use the songs "Everybody Dance Now" and "I'm Too Sexy" (which I think is mandated by crummy movie law), one of the girls is trying to read Romeo And Juliet (you KNOW how I am about that play...

You know, I SHOULD check but I'm just guessing that Christina Milian played a high school cheerleader a couple years AFTER playing a college cheerleader in this movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 24, 2013, 08:52:12 pm
Justified (Season 1 - 2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 24, 2013, 09:34:00 pm
Just started the remake of Footloose.

I'm only ten minutes in and I am in love with the soundtrack.  Like boner love.  So glad I'm taking notes on this one too.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 24, 2013, 09:51:30 pm
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Post by: Neumatic on June 24, 2013, 09:57:32 pm
Oh I will, don't you worry.  I already added this to my queue cause I'm sure I'll want to watch it again.  I kinda like that I have no preconceptions with the young cast like I did with Kevin Bacon and so on.
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Post by: Mac on June 25, 2013, 09:25:12 am
Best In Show (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Best In Show has been hanging in the back of mind since forever. Heard mostly good about it. I had just never really attempted to seek it out. Then by chance and I had time, put it on.

So, yes, I was a little biased hearing good stuff and the cast for most part is a group of comedians I've always admired.

Honestly, I did not get it. Maybe I did get what they were doing for the plot, but didn't see the humor in it. I love dogs and get there is a fringe of characters who are over the top with dogs and likewise in their own character. That is a reality. I've met people like that and it's been seen a lot in these dog competitions, documentaries, etc. I don't get recreating these individuals. That was not funny to me. Yes, they are odd characters, but just eye rolling and boring to me. Not funny. I was bored out of my mind with the nonsensical conversations between the folks being interviewed. And the attempts at being silly, were just silly.

Highly disappointed.

I just mark this up to a cult type film that some people feel is great and unique.

I'm not one of them.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yeifMjqpsg0

Sorry, this is not funny...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQKdEdzHnfU
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Post by: Neumatic on June 25, 2013, 09:49:05 am
"You know, it's hard to believe that in some countries these dogs are eaten."

This is the one with Ed Begley Jr running the hotel, right?  Did you notice the clocks on the wall behind him?
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Post by: Neumatic on June 26, 2013, 09:18:01 pm
So I was poking around the Netflix offerings and found a NEW "Secret Policeman's Ball" recorded in 2012 for the 50th Anniversary of Amnesty Anniversary.  It was recorded and broadcast live at the Radio City Music Hall in NY and it boasts performances from Jon Stewart, John Oliver, Russel Brand, Ben Stiller, a bunch of people from SNL, David Cross and Bob Oedenkirk, the surviving Monty Python members (pretaped), Tim Roth and Liam Nesson (those crazy kids) and a bunch of British talent like Chris O'Dowd, Peter Serafinowicz, Catherine Tate, and Stadler and Woldorf were in the balcony. TONS of folks.  And Amnesty International is a very worthy cause.

The problem?  There is NOTHING funny about Amnesty International, and since a bunch of the content was to make people aware of the group and the sort of problems in the world they're trying to solve, a lot of it just wasn't funny.  Plus a good deal of comedy is based on surprise and when you know the skit is ABOUT something you can kind of see where it's going.  The only good skits were the ones that weren't about Amnesty but original comps (like the mr Show sketch) but those were few and far between.  Unlike the old ones (which are worth a watch) which had brilliant little elements like The Beekeeper sketch.

They had Jon Stewart and they made him ACT.  The perfect person to talk about Amnesty, inform us and make us laugh, and they made him do a little joke act thing.  Waste of his talent.

Honestly can't recommend this.

However, I did put in "You're Welcome America, One Final Evening With George W Bush! With Will Ferrell."  Haven't seen it in years and it's SO freakin' funny, I'm bending over laughing every few minutes, the antidote to what I just saw which was a WHOLE SLEW of comic talent.  That's saying something.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 26, 2013, 09:58:08 pm
Never even heard of the "Special" till you brought it up and after reading your review, it's definitely not something I'm ever going to visit. But I just may go ahead and check out You're Welcome America, One Final Evening With George W Bush! With Will Ferrell though.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 26, 2013, 10:02:18 pm
The original Secret Policeman's Ball was set-up by the members of Monty Python and they brought in Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, and over the years they brought in new talent like Rowan Atkinson and later on Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie.  And fantastic, famous music guests like Sting, Pete Townshend, Eric Clapton, Kate bush, Jackson Browne, Peter Gabriel, Jeff Beck...  Shout Factory put them on DVD (which is how I saw them) and they're worth a watch (I forgot to mention that the "new" special had a long performance by Mumford And Suns and Coldplay).
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Post by: Mac on June 27, 2013, 05:49:03 am
I've only know about the two Policmen's Ball from years ago (there's a joke there somewhere  :-\)

But yea, this new one doesn't sound like something to seek out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 27, 2013, 09:20:34 pm
Spartacus: Gods of the Arena (Mini-Series - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on June 28, 2013, 06:39:57 am
The Call (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif) 1-1/2 stars

Halle Berry must have the same manager as Cuba Gooding Jr. Because their choices in movie projects are definitely head scratchers. I think they are both good actors, but they consistently are getting involved in projects that not only are not propelling them forward, but actually placing them in B-actor line.

The trailer The Call sparked my curiosity. And unfortunately, that’s all it did. My fears came true. Your are essentially watching the entire movie of two people on the phone. Abigal Breslin (Zombieland and Little Miss Sunshine) was basically a blubbering mess. Except for the last part of the final act, her character did nothing but cry hysterically. Halle Berry was fine. It was just a lame construction of the script. Many times they tried to pump up the tension with heart pounding music.

The 3rd act does jump the rail in my opinion. The few minutes you will either roll your eyes or drop your jaw. Oh hell no, they just didn’t end it like that.

IMO, it just really ****ed me off.

It’s not horrible, but you might fall asleep and do not blame the messenger for the messy ending, but I would cautiously recommend this if you have nothing else.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHrZxG9W3RI
   


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 28, 2013, 06:56:47 am
Wow. That's really disappointing to hear. The trailer is what sold me on it. I guess the trailer is the best thing about the movie huh? Well, this just dropped way down on my 'must-see' list. Maybe if there isn't anything else available I may decide to check it out then.
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Post by: Mac on June 28, 2013, 08:07:29 am
Let's just say Phonebooth was way better. Whatever your views are on Phonebooth. Decent, but still trying to sell me more than it turned out to be.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 28, 2013, 04:20:08 pm
So glad my sister started with and is now obsessed with the Newsroom so I have someone to talk about it with.

Right now... some Star Trek The Next Generation.  Not a thousand percent sure what will happen after that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 29, 2013, 10:18:02 pm
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 30, 2013, 10:44:10 am
Since it was about to expire, I watched Memento last night for the first time in ages.  Still damn good (and I forgot several pieces of the film, though I did remember Carrie Anne Moss's little manipulations), but now that I think back-- I don't think they showed where the coaster that introduces Natalie came from.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2013, 10:46:37 am
Memento has been sitting on my coffee table the past couple of months. Just been waiting for the perfect time to re-watch it again.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 30, 2013, 10:49:31 am
You just watched it an hour ago!  Jeezus Lenny!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2013, 10:58:24 am
Haha. Good one.  ;D
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2013, 03:07:04 pm
The Central Park Five (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 30, 2013, 04:51:05 pm
The Dead Zone, since it's about to expire.  And maybe Communion after that.  Little Christopher Walken freaking out over strange phenomenon marathon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2013, 07:22:46 am
Bound (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2013, 02:18:44 pm
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2013, 11:04:16 pm
Burn After Reading (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2013, 06:23:31 pm
Well, they just added "Flypaper" to Netflix watch instantly so I just started that.  There's a couple flicks I'm happy to see pop up but nothing that blows my mind, just some old stuff like Antz and The Truman Show.  The cool new titles really trickled down lately.  Though Hansel & Gretel Get Baked is on there and I keep hearing about it.
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Post by: Mac on July 02, 2013, 07:57:10 pm
Let us know what you think of Flypaper.

Hansel & Gretal get baked?
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Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2013, 08:03:19 pm
I'd seen Flypaper before, it was darn good.  I'm not big on heist movies but I totally dug that one, partly because it wasn't afraid to be funny and absurd.  I remember talking about it on here and not remembering the title.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2013, 11:03:56 pm
The Good Girl (2002)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2013, 11:46:28 pm
"Confessions of a Dangerous Mind."

Haven't seen this since it came out in 2002, I'm willing to bet.  It's George Clooney's directorial debut, Charlie Kaufman writing, and Sam Rockwell starring.  I had totally forgotten that Julia Roberts was in this (I had actually forgotten everything in the movie including Brad Pitt and Matt Damon's brilliant cameos) and MICHAEL CERA is in it as well!

I had also forgotten how amazing the direction is, there are scenes where characters walk from one scene to another scene, characters reappear in different places, it's pretty astounding.  Of course it's from a Charlie Kaufman script.

I'm trying to remember if this was Sam Rockwell's first big starring role, I can't recall, I knew who he was before this and remember being excited to see him headlining a film but I don't recall for sure.

Three movies in one night, I'm on fire.

Now I'm watching "This Movie Is Not Yet Rated" which I also haven't seen in a while.  Quite interesting and still gets me riled up.  Though when this movie is still from the days where theater and video store chains like Walmart and Blockbuster were still strong, I'm curious how things have changed.  I know I never look at the ratings on anything anymore.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2013, 05:39:58 am
I have Confessions of a Dangerous Mind waiting in the wings. I just keep pushing it off for other movies as I've seen it a few times already.
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Post by: Mac on July 03, 2013, 06:49:42 am
Quote
I'd seen Flypaper before, it was darn good.  I'm not big on heist movies but I totally dug that one, partly because it wasn't afraid to be funny and absurd.  I remember talking about it on here and not remembering the title.

It certainly was different and very refreshing.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 03, 2013, 11:34:22 am
I'd not heard of the film the first time I saw it, so I don't remember why I picked it up (maybe the cast) but I was hooked right from the idea of two robberies going on at the same time.  And it definitely a great example of this standard I have about writing: it's not enough that you want to see the movie, you have to want to REsee the movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2013, 10:41:35 pm
Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 03, 2013, 11:39:19 pm
You know, Ian McKellan's brilliant and cheeky 30s era Richard III just popped back on Netflix so I'm sure I'll see it in the next few days, but it's worth a heads-up.  It's especially interesting if you plan to watch House of Cards... and you'll see why, I won't spoil that in case you don't know what it is, but you should pick up on it pretty quick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsGGjXZw1eQ

And yes, you did see Robert Downey Jr in there as Rivers (actually an amalgam of Rivers, Grey, Vaughan and Dorset, the Duchess of York is also melded in a similar way to keep the cast down and give each character more to do).  Sir Ian explained why he made these cuts and what they change in an introduction to the movie I'm reading now (though it isn't required for viewing, the intent was that everything important be on the screen).

You guys will probably dig the design of the flick as well, it's the thirties and there's a great mishmash of Allies and Nazi imagery going on (Mckellan also did the Richard III as Hitler similarity in an extremely effective way in "Acting Shakespeare" but I can't find a clip of it online) so it's got this whole WWII as a blood feud thing going on.  And it doesn't really work outside of Britain, but well known locations are swapped around so that a power plant is a prison, that sort of thing.  The show Kings kinda did that, with NY becoming Shiloh (the capitol of Gilboa) and it's something I dig seeing in movies when it happens.

It's ALSO an interesting watch since the movie is a quasi-contemporary retelling of the War Of The Roses with the Lancasters and Yorks, which, you might have noticed, were the square one inspirations for the Lannisters and Starks in Game Of Thrones.  I love it when stuff connects together like that.  I honestly feel like if I had a teacher who made connections like that, that I would have been a much better student.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 04, 2013, 01:03:27 pm
J. Edgar (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 04, 2013, 08:38:44 pm
The Artist (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 04, 2013, 11:37:07 pm
Monster (2003)

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Post by: Mac on July 05, 2013, 06:43:57 am
Identity Thief (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif) 1/2 Star of 5

This movie is so bad on so many levels. Where to begin. The script. Apparently some folks thought this was a clever script. Well, not the public at large. Not only is it sub-par, the jokes fall flat, just about every time. You have seen Jason Bateman play his character soooooo many times. He actually looks like he's calling it in.... and he's bored with it. Melissa, bless her heart and comedic skills, cannot save this one. It's very pathetic at the very lame jokes and it just continues to meander chaotically. Which brings up the sub-plots of of them being chased by the mob and a bounty hunter.

I can't express enough how incredibly lame this is, by wasting the talent on the screen.

Avoid at all costs. There is zero value in this dud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uO12W35DpsQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2013, 06:45:18 am
Ack! I just put this on my Hold List. Oh well, I have plenty other movies to watch before I ever decide to get around to this one. To bad it sucks. Sigh......
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2013, 04:51:41 pm
3:10 to Yuma (2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 05, 2013, 06:04:27 pm
Did you really not think that Identity Thief would suck?  It's one of those movies where... my mom will keep wanting to see a movie and we often go together but she gets excited for movies that you KNOW are gonna be bad (right now it's Lone Ranger) and I never know what to do in that situation.

Those last two movies are now making me think of Melissa McCarthy in a crazy western.  Big screwball adventure type thing.  A mouthy bordello madam or some such who married a (now dead) outlaw whose former partners are out of jail and hunting down the guy who screwed them over and took their loot from a big stagecoach job.
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Post by: Mac on July 06, 2013, 06:10:51 am
I was hoping it wouldn't suck. I like McCarthy and Batemen in previous work, but just assumed Thief was going to be watchable.

It is not.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 06, 2013, 08:13:05 am
21 (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 06, 2013, 04:04:05 pm
Breaking Vegas (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 06, 2013, 09:24:29 pm
Get Shorty (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 07, 2013, 09:05:59 pm
Be Cool (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2013, 01:30:45 pm
The Break-Up (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2013, 06:07:30 pm
Downton Abbey (Season 2 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 08, 2013, 06:10:34 pm
I've been neck-deep in nostalgia the last few days so I'd LOVE the opportunity to take a break from that and discuss Downton.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2013, 06:18:57 pm
I've been neck-deep in nostalgia the last few days so I'd LOVE the opportunity to take a break from that and discuss Downton.

Just started episode 1. Will probably take 2-3 days to finish Season 2.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2013, 04:59:59 pm
Killing Them Softly (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2013, 10:38:42 pm
Dexter (Season 1 - 2006)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 10, 2013, 10:41:10 pm
Going old school and finally seeing The Smother Brothers Original Comedy Hour.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2013, 10:43:19 pm
Going old school and finally seeing The Smother Brothers Original Comedy Hour.

I've seen a few episodes here and there while channel surfing, but never on DVD.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 10, 2013, 10:48:22 pm
It's unfortunately a handful of episodes but the writers include Steve Martin, Rob Reiner, and Bob Einstein and the guests include Harry Belafonte, Bob Newhart, Kenny Loggins when he was in First Edition, the cast of Hair, Liberace, the Doors, George Carlin, Mama Cass...

I remember hearing about this show way back in high school but I never found the show until now (I do also remember the Smothers Bros showing up on an episode of the Simpsons in a dream sequence about brothers but I can't remember the actual episode).

This is so old, Steve Martin's hair wasn't even gray yet!

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/steve-martin-brown-hair.jpg)
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Post by: Neumatic on July 10, 2013, 11:42:45 pm
Holy HECK.  Talk about unrecognizable!

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/guess-who-this-is.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2013, 05:28:52 am
Hahaha.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 11, 2013, 11:08:08 am
Can you tell who that dude is?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2013, 11:23:30 am
Of course.
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Post by: Mac on July 11, 2013, 11:25:13 am
Oh yea, for someone that has seen him time and time again, you get who that is.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 11, 2013, 11:39:58 am
Man, I was hoping for a "holy ****!" level of surprise (although I did pick two shots where he is making that face).

Although I notice neither of you said the name, so you could be psyching ME out, trying to make me say, well, I ain't.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2013, 11:51:57 am
It's either Danny Devito.....or Rhea Perlman.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on July 11, 2013, 12:29:57 pm
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It's either Danny Devito.....or Rhea Perlman

Dude, phttttt... wtf

You blind or sumpin... obviously that's early Richard Pryor. Duuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhh

"and tonight's weather forecast... Dark, with scattering light in the morning."
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Post by: Neumatic on July 11, 2013, 12:57:08 pm
Seriously, he looks like he could host the Dating Game, doesn't he?  He's just missing a stick microphone.  Of course, we know he wouldn't say "whoopie."
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Post by: Mac on July 12, 2013, 07:26:08 am
This reminds me of the early days of Willie Nelson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up_kwUR1Fgk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 13, 2013, 12:14:00 pm
Downton Abbey (Season 3 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 13, 2013, 11:34:29 pm
I've been watching a BUNCH of movies lately.  A brickton.  Combine being a cheap bastard who doesn't want to pay two days of Redbox and it being too hot to do anything else and that's what you get.

I can't go into all of them, but here's what I remember from this Total Recall level of brain infusion:


The Host - I can't believe part of me was looking forward to this (probably because I like both Andrew Niccol and Saoirse Ronan) but it was so... there was so much that could have been done with the premise (I made a ton of notes), but strangely the movie I kept thinking of was "Equilibrium."  It really hurt coming off of Pacific Rim because there was so much worldbuilding going on there and there was little to NO worldbuilding going on in this one.  And it really needed like a proper active climax, the whole flick felt meandering and boring.

The Guilt Trip - Watched this with my ma, somewhat appropriately enough, and it was better than I thought it would be, though I wasn't expecting much.  Streisand was certainly more restrained (I can't believe I just said those words) than something like Meet The Fokkers which I was honestly expecting this to be a reprise of) and she did little things that actually reminded me of my mom (the messages on the phone being the prime example).

Identity Thief - There's a huge action element to this that I don't remember being in any of the trailers, and I'm always happy to see Robert Patrick pop up.  But I wasn't nuts about it.  I think it was Amanda Peet playing Bateman's wife, and honestly, I would have loved a movie where it was those two on the run for some crazy reason (and not just for the potential homage to her "Whole Nine Yards" scene), she was so underused.  And you know, I loved seeing Bateman with those daughters, but that's me being a total softie.

Frankie Go Boom - Speaking of Pacific Rim... here's a movie I'd never heard of before, starring PR's Charlie Hunnam and Chris O'Dowd (!) playing brothers.  I don't want to give too much away but the movie involves O'Dowd's character, fresh out of rehab, taping his brother having sex and putting it online.  And hilarity ensues.  I liked it but there's ONE moment with ONE surprise guest star that I don't want to spoil for you, so don't watch any previews cause they'll give that away and it's such a great guffaw.  But I will say there's also a scene in the credits so make sure you stick around for it.

Mental - Watching this now and enjoying it, an Australian movie with Toni Collette (aren't they all?) that's sort of like a demented Mary Poppins, Toni plays a somewhat psychotic woman hired as a babysitter for this group of girls after their mom is admitted to a mental hospital.  And of course, the dad (who's also the Mayor of their town) is played by Anthony LaPaglia who I also love (I'm getting little flashes of 'Simon' from Frasier).  I'm so glad I saw a trailer for this because I'd overlooked it so many times and it's the kind of movie I like: about normalcy being abnormal and fighting back at how much life sucks.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2013, 05:49:04 am
I have both The Guilt Trip and Identity Thief on my Hold List. Just waiting for them to arrive. The others I never even heard of till now.
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Post by: Mac on July 14, 2013, 10:44:50 am
Dead Man Down (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)


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Dead Man Down is just north of the typical hit man movie. Colin Ferrell does a great job of displaying a character that is tormented and does what he does for several different reasons.

Stick with this movie. Like a onion it slowly reveals itself on who and why he does what he does. There's several stories going on here and they all come together. The trailer fools you a little. The action is in the beginning and the end. The middle is the reveal of events and characters. I liked it and would recommend it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq3rls47cNE
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Post by: Mac on July 14, 2013, 10:57:28 am
Movie 43 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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Well, well, well. I got to watch late one night the movie everybody has been crapping on. Well there certainly is crudeness throughout, but you know what, I've seen worse. I would compare Movie 43 to an R-Rated SNL. It's just a series of skits that skirts on edgy comedy. I laughed out loud at a few bits. Sometimes there were many "Oh no you din't" moments. It was kind of fun to see some of these celebrities do something other than what they are known for.

The first skit with Hugh Jackman and Kate Winslet had me laughing pretty hard. Then the next skit with Anna Farris has me dropping my jaw. It goes on like that. All tied together by Dennis Quaid proposing to Greg Kinnnear some movie ideas.

It wasn't horrible, but it's not for everyone. I'd watch it again someday. Just to see Halle Berry with frontal nudity displaying some of the biggest boobs ever.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VneW1vtcWY
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2013, 11:07:14 am
Still looking forward to checking out Movie 43.
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Post by: Mac on July 15, 2013, 06:08:29 am
The Sessions (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, William H. Macy, Moon Bloodgood, Annika Marks

What a truly amazing movie. All I heard about this movie was Helen Hunt had some nudity. True, but this has been one of the best drama’s I’ve seen in a long time. The Sessions is full of wit, comedy and heart. John Hawkes shines brilliantly as Mark, a man who is paralyzed from the next down since 6 years old from polio. I couldn’t wait to hear what he was to say next. I laughed out loud a lot. Helen Hunt is Helen Hunt. She does one character her whole career and it’s no different here. She just blends in with the other great actors as the emotional sex surrogate. William Macy as Catholic Priest is perfect. As always, a blast to watch. His internal conflict with his priestly duties and confidant for Mark are very intriguing.  Moon Bloodgood and Annika Marks are not only easy on the eyes, but they just fill this film with tenderness. The Sessions had it all with laughter, sadness, complexity and understanding. The script is excellent. Every character engaging. 

I can’t recommend this enough.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6T7vqxwuWEM
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Post by: Mac on July 15, 2013, 06:09:44 am
Into The White (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Yet another excellent movie. Into the White moves a little slow for my tastes, but yet it kept me glued to the screen. Like Enemy Mine and I’m sure like several other movies where enemies are face to face, depend on each other to survive. In a nutshell, 1940, 3 Germans shot down over Norway, take refuge in a shack in the  middle of desolate snow country. As do 2 British airmen, also shot down. Survival quickly becomes the first order of business. So naturally this plays havoc with what war means, the human condition, and the complexity of relationships. Never a dull moment with the constant conflicts. But the engaging part is the slow evolution of the men and their change of attitude toward each other. I didn’t know any of the actors, but they were all excellent as their own unique characters. I highly recommend Into the White.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpcFKka5MEI
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2013, 08:41:42 pm
My Name Is Earl (Season 2 - 2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2013, 11:21:37 pm
Derailed (2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 15, 2013, 11:45:22 pm
You know, one of the Friends episodes I was watching was a full 30 minutes long and I couldn't figure out what the heck was up with that, cause it's too short for a double episode, and then I remembered they did "40 minute" episodes ... and I'll be honest, I still don't know HOW they thought that would work for syndication and I'm not sure what their workaround for that was... or if the Blu-Rays have the whole length or just the syndication length eps like the original Star Trek series.

Oh, and Aisha Tyler just showed up!  Jus in time to remind me that Whose Line starts tomorrow!  Thank God cause I actually forgot!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2013, 11:49:49 pm
I don't have to worry about what TV does. I own the entire season on DVD and have my Friends marathon at least once a year since the show went off the air. Well, it's been 2 years since my last marathon and watching 3 Aniston movies this past week and a half has made me want do another marathon.....sooner than later.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2013, 11:51:38 pm
Also, those 40 minute episodes were dubbed 'Super Size" episodes and NBC did that to keep people from changing their channels at the top of the hour and it worked because it kept the show higher in the ratings while other series were struggling because of this little maneuvering.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 15, 2013, 11:53:43 pm
I can't watch a show nearly that often.  Besides, absence makes the heart grow fonder and all that.  I haven't even revisited Battlestar Galactica... or even finished the final season.

I don't really worry about the TV too much, I only flip through channels when I'm poking around in the living room (I don't have cable in my "office"), usually I just watch a disc or Netflix.  I'm like a 95% cord cutter (I did watch back-to-back American Pickers tonight, though).  And no DVR so you can see why I need to remember Whose Line.

I remember the super size push, they did another show and then didn't they start doing little SNL minisodes?  I remember those, but I don't know if you can rewatch any (also, I don't remember any of them being particularly good).
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Post by: Neumatic on July 16, 2013, 12:09:54 am
WHOA!  Mind BLOWN that Joey just said "s*it" in this episode, how did THAT happen?  I remember them dropping the F bomb in the Generation X pilot but that was before the TV ratings thing so I figured that they would have had looser standards or something, I dunno.  I mean, it's one thing for LeBlanc to do bj gestures and so on in Episodes but that was kind of weird.

OH, and it was Gabrielle Union in the episode... I remember Aisha Tyler being on the show, though, I must have mixed those two characters together.  That's REALLY embarassing (cause I do like me some Gabby Union).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2013, 12:17:08 am
There are a couple of episodes on the DVD where profanity was added. I saw all the episodes when they originally aired on TV and never was there a case of profanity sneaking onto the airwaves. I'm pretty sure whatever channel your watching right now is airing the DVD version. "Does a bear sh*t in the woods?" is one of them.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 16, 2013, 12:23:19 am
Why would it be ADDED to the DVDs?  That's weird.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2013, 12:24:21 am
Why would it be ADDED to the DVDs?  That's weird.

To get you to buy it of course, even though it was never mentioned anywhere on the DVD cover art.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 16, 2013, 12:25:45 am
And maybe something to do with the international release as well, you can get away with a little more profanity in other countries and lord knows Friends goes to a bunch of other countries.
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Post by: Mac on July 16, 2013, 05:48:07 am
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OH, and it was Gabrielle Union in the episode... I remember Aisha Tyler being on the show, though, I must have mixed those two characters together.  That's REALLY embarassing (cause I do like me some Gabby Union).

Back off man... that's my woman.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2013, 09:09:46 pm
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2013, 09:11:27 pm
Back off man... that's my woman.

He's not lying. He's very protective of her and has made similar threats toward me as well. I let him have Gabby because he's a cool dude. That and the fact that he can kick my ass.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 16, 2013, 10:27:35 pm
Watching Drive for the first time right now.  Yeah, I kept putting it off.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2013, 10:29:23 pm
This Drive (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/drive-(2011)/msg14806/#msg14806)?
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Post by: Neumatic on July 16, 2013, 10:33:12 pm
Yeah, that Drive.  Surprised to see Ron Perlman in the f'ing movie too!

The Alexa photography looks great, I gotta say.  And I love that the soundtrack is 80s music (Gosling's idea, I read-- he's a big fan of 80s music and that's the touch that made him do the movie) that isn't the stuff that's replayed a thousand times.

I'm also surprised that the script was only 81 pages long.  I guess you don't have to write much for silent moments.  I'm still trying to crack a hundred on my current thing (I never go all the way to 120).
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Post by: Mac on July 17, 2013, 05:35:50 am
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Yeah, that Drive.

And?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2013, 05:47:46 pm
The Switch (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2013, 10:00:12 pm
Justified (Season 2 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on July 19, 2013, 06:13:39 am
Evil Dead (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Got to watch this horror remake last night and actually anticipated something good, despite not able to come up with a reasonable idea why this classic should be remade. The trailer looked awesome. Yea, the trailer looked good. Another slap to the head on trusting trailers.

Honestly, it wasn’t a bad movie, but it was far from good. I’ll stand my ground. I see no reason why to remake it. Evil Dead 2013 brought nothing new. It’s redundant. In fact, the big Hollywood slick project sucked out any soul or passion the original did. This was just a bloody, gore-fest, with bland acting.

And the 3rd act was a true head scratcher. If you watch it I think you’ll see where it should have ended. But instead, suddenly for no reason, they do 180 turn with a character, I believe to extend the film. It made zero sense to me.

Despite everything going on, on the screen, Evil Dead is not frightening. I imagine the horror fan boys will love anything like this, but I think a majority of audiences will walk away unimpressed and forget this very quickly.

The extra’s were also boring. Just people talking about the trials and tribulations of working on a movie set. Jane Levy as Mia actually seemed to ramp up the drama queen role and how hard it was and this project was ‘work’. Yet the director talks about the actors excited and wanting to do everything themselves.

There is good makeup, but I think they blew it with portraying evil. They look more like zombies.

I would cautiously recommend this only if you have nothing else to watch. Go watch the original.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEXNgH6Oj8
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 19, 2013, 06:39:25 pm
This was already low on my 'must-see' list. I may eventually get around to it, but it's not something I'm going to waste my 'Hold' on at the Library. So, Bruce Campbell cameo?
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Post by: Mac on July 19, 2013, 07:07:46 pm
Not that I saw
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 04:13:56 pm
Thought I heard there was one after the end credits.
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Post by: Mac on July 20, 2013, 08:09:47 pm
Uh, didn't sit through them  :-\
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 08:11:46 pm
I'm the guy who sits through the end credits (or fast forwards them as need be).  They like to hide stuff at the back.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 09:19:28 pm
Just watched "The Breakfast Club," which I haven't seen in a long time.  I actually forgot about the pot smoking scene, that's how long it's been.  Can't really say much about the movie that's already been said, although it seems so strange now that this was an actual mainstream movie, it would be a festival darling in this day and age.

I'm liking the special features where Judd Nelson is just espousing love and appreciation on the other actors, I like that sort of thing.

This is definitely one of those "gotta revisit" movies for me, but I like when it's been a while so I can approach it with fresh eyes.

Hughes is one of those writer-directors I admire especially because of his work ethic, he famously wrote the first draft for this in one weekend (though you gotta figure that he'd been taking notes for YEARS and years and years... like the actual WRITING only took two days, but it had been cooking for a long time.  The whole movie has that feel to it).  But he was also constantly rewriting it on set, taping the actors to see how they spoke so all that was incorporated... I dig that.  That's what I aspire to.

BTW, you notice how FEW BOOKS are actually in the library set?  It's odd.  I remember my school library being VERY small (they built a new huge one after I left, of course) but it was a dump, little place, everything was BROWN.  I kinda miss it.

I know it's HUGE, but I gotta share this comic I found on DA, how the Breakfast Club would exist today:

(http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/290/2/d/the_breakfast_club_2013_by_formidabler-d5i4rhl.png) (http://neumatic.deviantart.com/art/The-Breakfast-Club-2013-332786217)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 20, 2013, 09:28:05 pm
More Breakfast Club here (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-breakfast-club-(1985)/msg1896/#msg1896).
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 10:33:39 pm
Staying in the 80s and watching my favourite movie:  Back To The Future.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 20, 2013, 10:36:19 pm
Staying in the 80s and watching my favourite movie:  Back To The Future.

You know where to go to add your thoughts about the movie.  :)
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 10:42:22 pm
The Clocktower.

You know, I don't think I've seen this movie since I went to Universal Studios.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 20, 2013, 11:25:03 pm
BTW, it goes without saying that you saw the Amazing Stories double episode "Go To The Head Of The Class," right?
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2013, 04:50:10 am
Love the comic strip. So true, so sad.
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2013, 09:51:01 am
Smokin Aces (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I saw Smokin' Aces when it came out and it just seemed like a great fun movie. So eventually I bought it on Blu-ray and finally watched it last night.

Time has changed it for me. It's still a fun movie, but not one worth owning.

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51dR3RU5ftL._SY300_.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohhxbsp8Mss
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2013, 09:56:30 am
I've had Smokin' Aces on my Hold List for awhile and it STILL hasn't made its way to my branch. It's not even a new release. What's the hold up! WTF!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2013, 01:49:25 pm
Office Space (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2013, 06:44:44 am
John Tucker Must Die (2006)

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Post by: Mac on July 22, 2013, 01:07:56 pm
How to Lose Friends and Alienate People
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)
We started this up, thinking, hey it’s got Simon Pegg in it. He is always flick friendly if not outright hilarious at times. It’s got Megan Fox and Gillian Anderson, Thandie Newton, Jeff Bridges, Kristen Dunst. Holy crap, it’s just a packed full of uh, hmmm, stars. Light comedy perhaps?

Well, it was anything but comedic. It has a brand of comedy that is just not funny. It falls flat. I thought rather embarrassingly by Pegg. The cast was well, just mis-cast. But then again, I don’t know who would be good in these roles. It took me as little as 15 minutes to realize this was just not an entertaining film.
My wife slugged through this. In fact I thought it was exactly her type of film, but we both agreed, it was majorly unremarkable.

(http://p.playserver1.com/ProductImages/6/2/7/6/3/4/3/3436726_300x300_1.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7jHYIEvwOE
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2013, 01:13:06 pm
This is the first I'm hearing about this movie. Was it 'Direct to DVD'? I don't remember seeing any advertisement for this at all.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 22, 2013, 02:03:18 pm
Saw that ages ago.  Didn't really leave an impression at all.  Wasn't Megan Fox's movie in the movie, like, the Mother Theresa Story or something?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2013, 02:34:00 pm
Silent Movie (1976)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 22, 2013, 09:24:43 pm
I had to watch "Get Shorty" again... something to commemorate the passing of Dennis Farina (notice that wasn't mentioned here yet).  Still a good movie, though I had already forgotten about that big prosthetic nose he wore in the flick.  I've been thinking of watching Snatch again but god knows when that's gonna be available now.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2013, 09:40:22 pm
Didn't know about Dennis passing. Nothing on the news or feeds. Bummer. RIP.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 23, 2013, 08:00:12 am
High Anxiety (1977)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 23, 2013, 04:56:23 pm
Blazing Saddles (1974)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2013, 07:57:52 am
Young Frankenstein (1974)

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Post by: Mac on July 24, 2013, 09:57:50 am
Bullet to the Head (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

What a poorly scripted, acted snorefest. There is nothing entertaining about Stallone's latest... and directed by Walter Hill.

I suspected someone within minutes of it starting. I was right. Every cliche about thugs and dark side of town was used here. Having seen those kinds of scenes many times before, this quickly faded into mediocrity. I'm baffled at the point of the movie. I quit watching after a while. It's was re-donk-ulous.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-WbmpdpKWWL4/UbnRLu3lhdI/AAAAAAAAmE0/Eoh5SPt8q-w/s1600/71FQTkEQdQL._SL1129_.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDiaXZiIJOQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2013, 10:34:53 pm
National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets (2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 24, 2013, 11:51:50 pm
I don't really FEEL like horror right now, but I just finished "Tucker And Dale Vs Evil" (Katrina Bowden, so rowr) and now I'm a couple minutes into "Cabin In The Woods."  Yellow Ranger does a sexy dance (actually, there's a yellow Ranger in BOTH those movies now that I think about it).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2013, 08:29:42 am
Wrath of the Titans (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2013, 10:40:10 pm
Jack Reacher (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 25, 2013, 11:31:40 pm
At the risk of quoting Jim Gaffigan, "hey, I just saw Heat!"

I've never seen it before.  I know, I know, after the Madonna thing does that really surprise anyone, but oh man I'm glad I waited for blu-ray because it looks AMAZING.  So sharp and clear... you know, there's so many movies where the 2:40 scope feels like you're getting picture cut off, this is the opposite, this could be on the biggest screen and you find yourself immersed in.  When we started going through locations it reminded me of seeing old IMAX documentaries with my dad.  The cinematography was astounding.

Gawd, everyone was in this.  I think I remembered that Danny Trejo was in this but I didn't realize his character was actually named "Trejo."  I also didn't realize that Robert DeNiro's character was based on a real guy, a FASCINATING guy, it sounds like.  Actually, when I first read the scene where he and Pacino sit down, I mixed the characters up, I thought for some reason DeNiro was the cop and Pacino was the crook.  That was an interesting little read (I need to find the whole script for this...).

And what TIMING... I finally got around to seeing this because I watched the big-screen revival of "The Sweeney" on Netflix and thought "this better be the Heat of Britain" because the bar for hard-nosed cops in that country got raised by Luther and, of course, Life On Mars/Ashes To Ashes, and... it wasn't, I don't think.  But it reminded me that I never saw the movie so I decided to.  But the timing... the guy who helped put the movie together was Chuck Adamson, a name that jumped out to me immediately because he was Dennis Farina's partner, then Dennis Farina popped up in the special features, like a ghost, it's almost unreal.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2013, 11:40:34 pm
Ahem (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/heat-(1995)/msg9298/#msg9298)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 26, 2013, 12:12:17 pm
Horrible Bosses (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 26, 2013, 09:38:03 pm
Justified (Season 3 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 27, 2013, 12:26:20 am
Been watching a buttload of Kids In The Hall the last few days.  I'm running out of eps.  Not sure what's gonna take its' place when it's done.
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Post by: Mac on July 27, 2013, 05:07:02 am
Heard about TNKITH reunion?

Just saw the article recently.
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Post by: Mac on July 27, 2013, 09:19:44 am
Insidious (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I swore I saw this before. I saw it time and time in the library and just figured I saw it. Well, I didn't. From the same director for the recent The Conjuring (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/what-are-you-looking-at-%28multiplex-edition%29/msg21266/#msg21266), we have a haunted house tale, no 2 haunted houses. And I'm not giving away any big spoiler, but it's not the houses that are haunted. There some definitely creepy moments and it really helps to watch this in the dark. Otherwise it does border on not being scary at all. But the 3rd act really jumps the rails in my opinion. All kinds of supposition is made it just becomes eye rolling. Watching the special features, the director and producer talk about how all the jump scares are just lazy film making. Yet, that's all this movie is. Lots and lots of jump scares. Oh well, if you like some haunted house movie genre, then I suggest checking it out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1YbOMDI59k

(http://www.polyvore.com/cgi/img-thing?.out=jpg&size=l&tid=41319043)
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Post by: Neumatic on July 27, 2013, 10:31:06 pm
I finally caught up with South Park, there was about half a season that I missed... oh man, those were funny... particularly the Honey Booboo episode, holy cow.  Also quite liked the Haunted Blockbuster episode, especially because Randy kept bringing up totally valid points regarding renting vs streaming.  The only thing that really annoyed me was the fact that their site showed the SAME baby commercial over and over... once FIVE TIMES IN A ROW in ONE BREAK.
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Post by: Mac on July 28, 2013, 08:57:34 am
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The only thing that really annoyed me was the fact that their site showed the SAME baby commercial over and over... once FIVE TIMES IN A ROW in ONE BREAK.

Tech gone awry.
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Post by: Mac on July 28, 2013, 09:05:12 am
Save the Date (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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After an ill-timed and very public marriage proposal, fiercely independent Sarah (Lizzy Caplan, Hot Tub Time Machine¸127 Hours) breaks up with her overeager boyfriend Kevin (Geoffrey Arend, (500) Days of Summer, Devil). Sarah turns to her sister Beth (Alison Brie, Community, Mad Men) for support, but Beth is too busy obsessing over the details of her own wedding to Kevin's band mate, Andrew (Martin Starr, Adventureland, Freaks and Geeks). When Sarah suddenly finds herself caught up in an intense rebound romance with the adorable Jonathan (Mark Webber, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World), she is forced to examine her own fears of commitment and vulnerability and decide if she s better off staying safely single or risking everything on love. By turns funny, sad, and sweet, SAVE THE DATE is a heartfelt and sincere comedy about the familial and romantic bonds that hold us together.

I had not even heard of this movie until last night. I found it very enjoyable as a simple, yet well scripted and acted little drama. There is a little humor, but the movie has momentum and consistently engaging scenes. I wouldn't call it a chick flick, but borders on it. It's written by 3 guys, but it's definitely a female perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfaZwTK7hIw

(http://cdn.soundtrack.net/img/movie/35310.jpg)
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Post by: Neumatic on July 29, 2013, 01:03:25 am
Haven't been able to get into anything all night, so I decided to pull out one of the go-tos: Back To School.

What do I have to say about it that hasn't been said?  Well, I noticed Timothy Stack (who Chip might recognize from My Name Is Earl) ages ago, so it took me even longer to notice that right BEFORE his cameo Bob Picardo is the guy Rodney Dangerfield's wife was cheating on with.  And of course, right after I noticed that, I MET Bob Picardo.  So now I can't see this movie without remembering him saying "what was Back To... oh geez..."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2013, 06:11:06 am
I MET Bob Picardo.

You might be interested in the I Saw A Celebrity,Get Me Outta Here!!! (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/general-discussion/i-saw-a-celebrity-get-me-outta-here!!!/msg3334/#msg3334) Thread. I just haven't updated it to include every Celeb over the years, just the most recent ones since starting Penny Can. Guess I need to include this years Comic Con.
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Post by: Mac on July 29, 2013, 11:36:06 am
The Tower (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCQ1EemWIxo

A major motion picture from Korea, very reminiscent of The Towering Inferno. Character development takes up the first 30 minutes with a handful of major characters including the fire chief, the building safety engineer and a politician or two. Once the epic tragedy begins, it’s a roller coaster ride out.

I’ve known about this film for awhile and suddenly it’s on DVD at my library. How nice. I’m rather psyched because reviews looked good and so did the trailer.
I was slowly let down though. The production value was half way between SyFy channel and a Michael Bay production. Incredible fires, but when people were in the scene, the fire suddenly takes on a CGI look. The helicopter collisions looked fantastic. I was scratching my head on the differences. Maybe they are subtle for most. I found them distracting.

The acting was across the board. Most of the major cast did some pretty decent acting. The obligatory child was horrendous. And some goofy-ass boyfriend was over the top with his reactions to everything.

Ultimately it was déjà vu with Towering Inferno. Taking cues from 9/11 and the twin towers science, they did supply some different script scenario’s.
It really was a decent attempt, but still sub-par work we have been accustomed too. Go see Backdraft, The Raid, 2012 or hell, the original Towering Inferno.
The Tower is OK at best.

(http://uk.eonefilms.com/eOne/medialibrary/eOneFilmsUnitedKingdom/eOneFilmsUK/The%20Tower/Tower_DVD_sleeve.jpg?width=300&height=445&ext=.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2013, 01:22:28 pm
I have had this in my Hold List for at least 6 months or however long it was when you originally brought it to my attention. Need to see if they have it on hand now.............
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2013, 08:10:57 pm
Spartacus: Vengeance (Season 2 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 29, 2013, 09:33:07 pm
Finally watching Archer.  My sister of all people was pestering me to watch it, and I'm digging it.  Especially digging Jessica Walter.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2013, 10:01:19 pm
Bout time dude! Don't forget, we have a threads for first two seasons.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 29, 2013, 10:05:41 pm
I had nothing to watch (I'm spoiled for choice for reading at the moment, I'm happy to say) but I was watching FrameRate and they opened with that Star Trek/Archer mash-up and thought "yeah, that's what I'm in the mood for."

I need to get around to watching a movie or two.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 31, 2013, 06:31:41 pm
Trouble with the Curve (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 31, 2013, 10:04:17 pm
Dexter (Season 2 - 2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 31, 2013, 10:39:11 pm
Taking an Archer break (since I only have a handful of episodes left) to watch some Friends and the episode with Brad Pitt just started, I haven't seen it in ages and I forgot just HOW loud that cheer was when he walked in... was this a secret when he showed up?  All I can think of now (outside of how not-fitted to the sitcom format he is) is him doing little tricks in his mind to remember who's who.

Since my head is constantly in adaptation mode, I'm remembering how insanely popular this show is in China and wondering what the heck it's like.  Can't find a copy of it online yet...

(http://english.cri.cn/mmsource/images/2008/09/15/friend.jpg)
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Post by: Mac on August 01, 2013, 01:57:32 pm
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Since my head is constantly in adaptation mode, I'm remembering how insanely popular this show is in China and wondering what the heck it's like.  Can't find a copy of it online yet...

What, more popular than the states? How so?
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Post by: Mac on August 01, 2013, 02:00:10 pm
Trance (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

What I’ve seen of directors Danny Boyle’s work, I have liked. There is definitely some chemistry that makes his movies entertaining and slightly stand out.

Trance is no different. There is an element here that makes it just a little different. Trance is a very complicated movie. There were a couple of times I did get lost. I suggest full attention with no bathroom breaks dammit. In a nutshell, James McAvoy, is part of a art heist, looses part of his memory and cannot remember where the stolen art is. The rest of the gang try several different ways to help him remember. It’s $25 Million dollars. We are introduced to Elizabeth (Rosario Dawson) and Hypno-therepist, hired to help him remember. While the movie is intriguing from the opening frame, it gets complicated with the trance. All I can say is the puzzle pieces all come together in the entire 3rd act.

I found Trance about as complicated as Inception. It’s important to figure out what is real and what has been suggested. I’m not saying the story line is anything like Inception…. The complexity is.

The photography and editing are phenomenal. Interesting angles, lighting and action sequences.

I should give an extra star just for the full frontal nudity of Ms. Dawson. It doesn’t get any better than that slow pan up gazing at a beautiful woman.

I liked Trance and would recommend this to anyone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTW1JecmZo
(http://cineplex.media.baselineresearch.com/images/638417/638417_medium.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2013, 02:14:41 pm
You had me at Art Heist. Adding this to Hold List now.....
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Post by: Mac on August 01, 2013, 02:21:56 pm
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You had me at Art Heist

Art Heist are the words that nailed it? I don't think so
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2013, 02:24:22 pm
Fine!

Rosario Dawson.
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Post by: Mac on August 01, 2013, 02:25:14 pm
Rosario Dawson... Nekkid
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2013, 02:27:30 pm
Rosario Dawson... Nekkid

SOLD!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 01, 2013, 02:46:59 pm
So surprised that she did that.  I mean, I know she bared her boobs in a couple flicks, but still.  And she's got a fine figure, lemme say.  And it's not a stick like some actresses.

Wanna see the movie.  Maybe I'll make that a double feature with "Now You See Me" (I have to group movies together now, apparently).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2013, 05:22:00 pm
Yes Man (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 02, 2013, 01:00:05 am
Grabbed a couple DVDs tonight.

The Incredible Burt Wonderstone - Thought this was gonna be more wacky and zany, screwball tricks and a magic war, Prestige-style, between Steve Carrell and Steve Buscemi.  Heck, Buscemi is barely in the movie.  Which I understand, he was doing Boardwalk Empire, but still I was looking forward to that.
James Gandolfini is the **** owner.  Kinda sucks that it might have been his last role, you know.  The movie is just sort of... unforgettable.  Like Yes Man, which we were just discussing.
I will say the Olivia Wilde was pretty darn cute.

GI Joe Retaliation - Fun fun fun.  I just for some reason can't wrap my head around seeing Bruce Willis and Snake eyes in the same shot.  It's just unreal, the same way that Avengers was supposed to be... it just doesn't compute, but in the best possible way, I was thinking "I can't believe I'm seeing this!" like I think we were supposed to be thinking in The Avengers but I didn't for some reason.  And I'm not a big GI Joe fan, don't think I ever saw the cartoon as a kid or played with the toys, so that must really be saying something.

Movie 43 -Still watching it now, and I don't want to spoil the movie but my loyalty to Chip demands that I post this:

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/K-Bell as Supergirl-web-resy.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2013, 01:16:23 am

Movie 43 -Still watching it now, and I don't want to spoil the movie but my loyalty to Chip demands that I post this:


I bow to you. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/notworthy.gif)

As for the 3 movies, they are all on my radar and I will be checking them out. PS, I looooooove you Kristen! (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/HTL_love.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 02, 2013, 01:28:14 am
Holy crud, the one where Hit Girl gets her period was directed by ELIZABETH FREAKING BANKS.  Did not expect that.  Although it was one of the only decent parts, partly because it wasn't one long one-note joke that went nowhere like some of the other skits.
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Post by: Mac on August 02, 2013, 05:52:09 am
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Holy crud, the one where Hit Girl gets her period was directed by ELIZABETH FREAKING BANKS.  Did not expect that.  Although it was one of the only decent parts, partly because it wasn't one long one-note joke that went nowhere like some of the other skits.

Yaaaa, didn't care for that skit.

I have zero desire to see Burt Wonderstone, but I am very interested in seeing GI Joe II
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Post by: Neumatic on August 02, 2013, 11:10:19 pm
I don't know why, but I got one of the songs from Charlotte's Web stuck in my head a few days ago and finally sat down and watched it again.  It's been a LONG time (and my mind was BLOWN to realize the "Outrageous" judge from Boston Legal-- the one who keeps calling Carl Sack "Mr Suck"-- is the voice of Wilbur!)... that was still good, very sweet, I remember as a kid that movie put mortality in my head in a big way, not just because of Charlotte dying (obviously) but the spectre of death is over the whole thing, and I was a morbid kid so I focused on that, even though Charlotte herself kept putting the focus on the present, the beauty of the world and the joy of friendship and so on.  I couldn't have latched onto that when I was a kid?

I remember hearing way back when I was a kid that this was a metaphor for the UN, and that got me thinking about Animal Farm, so now I'm curious about the historical relationship between these two works, which came first, if one inspired the other or anything like that...  anyone else wonder about that?
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Post by: Mac on August 03, 2013, 01:26:59 pm
Dark Skies (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I rather enjoyed Dark Skies. It's a throwback to original creepiness. I'm not a believer in Aliens... roaming around earth, but I tell you what, they present this in a very convincing way. There were several scene that just put the hair on my neck straight out. My take is that all the actors (except Russell) are unknowns. Even Keri I have not seen in years and she comes across as an ordinary Betty, which just adds to the believability and getting sucked into the scary story. Highly recommend if your into haunted houses or Alien movies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8iLp1xQtPQ

(http://wpc.556e.edgecastcdn.net/80556E/img.product/DV9RaMXnUqGedc_1_l.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 03, 2013, 01:52:23 pm
I wasn't planning on seeing Dark Skies, but your review definitely piqued my interest. Adding to Hold List. Thanks. The last thing I saw Keri in was Mission Impossible 3 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/mission-impossible-iii-(2006)/msg12545/#msg12545) and that was only a small cameo.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 03, 2013, 11:42:27 pm
I Love You Phillip Morris (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2013, 02:39:38 pm
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

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Post by: Mac on August 05, 2013, 06:58:49 am
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKNpy-tGwxE

I loved how Retaliation started off. Great chemistry between Dwayne Johnson and Channing Tatum. There was enough humor there to make me laugh out loud. Spoiler Alert: Channing doesn’t stick around long. At first I thought this could be another guilty pleasure for me… then again. No. The story becomes ridiculous with almost super hero comic inspiration. The toys and gadgets allowing the Joe to do things. The villain is right out of the comic books with his gadgets and minions. The ninja stuff just becomes a blur, slick and to the point of WTF. There’s enough boom and explosions and gun play to satisfy any testosterone laden dude. Retaliation reminds me of the Charlie Angels movies. They seem to come from the school of thought.

They even throw in the beautiful Adrianne Palicki who looks very hot in fatigues’ and just stunning in a red dress. The 3rd act just goes over the top, more than the over the top first 2/3 of the flick. Throw in Bruce Willis to do, well, not a whole lot.

For a completely forgettable action movie, I would recommend this if you have nothing else to watch.
(http://asda.scene7.com/is/image/Asda/3701286%20GI%20Joe%20Retaliation%20-%20DVD?hei=200&wid=200&resmode=sharp&op_usm=1.1,0.5,0,0)

PS: I know I watched the first one, but remember dick about it. Must not have impressed me either.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2013, 07:02:49 am
Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2013, 12:50:17 pm
Premium Rush (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 05, 2013, 03:47:54 pm
I think I discussed how mind blown I was to see Bruce Willis rockin' a Cobra lapel... loved the Cobra lapels.  Yeah, this was a cartoony movie but it's based on a cartoon based on toys.. what do you expect?  I feel like the direction these movies are going in is how batsh*t crazy it is to HAVE this sort of thing existing in the real world.  Go really self-aware, not in a mocking sort of way, but like Batman, it just breeds bigger and stranger problems.  Like "what if the guys who played with these toys as kids made them REAL as adults, and how much would the world suck because of that?"

The movie also felt a little more like Mission Impossible intercut with a completely different ninja movie.  But I don't know if I'd dig it if it was two separate movies.

I think I also mentioned how much I miss a villain that enjoys being the bad guy, when Zoltan (is that his name?) is sitting back in his chair playing Angry Birds while the bombs are dropping-- I love that.  Every other movie seems to be afraid to do something like that.  Which is a shame.  I know what movie I'm in, own up to it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2013, 09:23:41 pm
Dexter (Season 3 - 2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 05, 2013, 09:27:23 pm
That cover looks so much like my avatar...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2013, 09:42:38 pm
That cover looks so much like my avatar...

Hahahaha. True dat!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 05, 2013, 10:00:19 pm
If only I had what appears to be a sharkskin suit... I was kicking myself years ago for not cosplaying as Harvey Dent, now I should add Dexter to that list.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 07, 2013, 12:04:00 am
Poking through the back catalog of Netflix offerings (and having nothing better to do) gave me the chance to watch some titles I never gave a second glance at.

* "Running Scared" - The movie from the 1980s with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines as cops who decide to retire in Florida.  What really struck me was I can't believe what a good looking movie this was, it looked pretty darn impressive.  And it holds up all right, the most dated stuff was the stuff in Florida with the swimsuits (some of the shots with Crystal and Hines were pure homoerotic).  And Joey Pants with a red mohawk-- funky.

* I don't remember the title of this movie, but it was the one with Richard Pryor and Cecily Tyson... Pryor is a con man driving a bunch of orphan kids on a bus.  It was all right.

* Oh, "Canadian Bacon," I wasn't sure if it was the SAME Michael Moore from the docs (it was, he has a cameo) but it can't be his first non-documentary movie, it feels too professional, you know?  The only real reason I started watching it was it might be one of the latest movies with John Candy in it, and there's some cute comedy moments in it (Stephen Wright's small part as a mountie, for example-- the movie is VERY well cast)... it feels like a slight revisit of Stripes with John Candy leading a group of idiot wanna-be soldiers into Canada) and Dr Strangelove with the whole third act, including Pres Alan Alda on the phone like Peter Sellers.   And I got that little sense of revulsion that everyone thinks they're clever if they reference Dr Strangelove because IT'S clever, combined with the fact that I'm too young for old-school doomsday to have any sway over me... it's an obsolete fear.
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Post by: Mac on August 07, 2013, 05:33:53 am
According to IMDB, Writer, Actor, Producer, Director (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/index.php?action=post;topic=23.1695;last_msg=21721)

Looks like all firsts for a non-documentary

Well, now there's some trivia.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 07, 2013, 05:35:21 am
Pryor's movie is called Bustin' Loose. I've seen it a few times waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day, but I hardly remember anything about it other than thinking it was just 'okay'. Running Scared is another one I saw when it first came out and I remember even less about it. I know I saw Bacon, but remember absolutely nothing. Ack!!
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Post by: Mac on August 07, 2013, 05:38:46 am
I remember Running Scared. Most of it. Even in my mind I remember some of the dated look.

This, forever burnt into the comedy side of my brain.

(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xqVDvj-ndRc/TnzEcyCuGwI/AAAAAAAAAhg/FgsKHDTkbo8/s1600/runningscaredboobs.jpg)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 07, 2013, 03:57:52 pm
How did I forget about the booby shirts?  My mind was on Joey Pants with the funky hair 9or any hair, really) and them driving on The L.

Was this right before Lethal Weapon when that flick came out?  The fact that it took place in winter made me think of that.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 07, 2013, 05:07:51 pm
Wally Shawn popped up in a still at the end of "Canadian Bacon" as the Canadian PM, "still ruling Canada with an iron fist."  I think he was in more but they cut him for time (I would have noticed him)... what a waste!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 07, 2013, 11:56:39 pm
Eight Days A Week

No, they don't play the song in the movie.  Though the credits list a huge amount of songs, I actually don't remember hearing any over the course of the flick.

I saw previews of this when it came out (they must have been attached to some VHS) but never sought it out, even though the trailer "did it" for me.  It's a relatively low budget simple premise: high school kid spends his summer trying to win the girl of his dreams.

Said girl of his dreams: Keri Russell.

Sorry, that should be ohmigodKeriRussell.  I know I'd seen her in stuff before but this was the first thing that made me think OH MAN (this was before Felicity, though maybe not by much).  She's so cute and sexy in the movie, though you can almost set your watch to when she appears in it, she pops up, guy pines for about ten minutes, she shows up again.  I liked the movie and all (and I'd been in the mood for this kind of story for a while), and there was certainly a good amount of stuff going on, but it felt like a couple more pushes and it could really have been something, you know?  A REAL undiscovered gem.

And you know I wouldn't post this without givin' you guys something:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cncu_R55v9Y
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 06:07:25 am
Not sure if I even remember knowing about this let alone actually seeing it. Will definitely check it out.
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Post by: Mac on August 08, 2013, 07:24:48 am
Same here. I kind of remember the movie, by name only.

Gonna put this on my list as well.

By the way... THANKS FOR THAT AWESOME VIDEO.... DAYUM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 07:36:15 am

By the way... THANKS FOR THAT AWESOME VIDEO.... DAYUM

I concur.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 07:57:30 am
Taps (1981)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 10:45:50 am
Why do you think that movie's been stuck in my head for 16 years?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 10:50:12 am
Why do you think that movie's been stuck in my head for 16 years?

The Explosions? The Car Chase? The Sword Fight?
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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 11:00:41 am
No, the Keri Russell one.  And now that this thread has that made that boobie shirt image meld into my memory of that movie, now I'm gonna get a false memory of her in a sword fight.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 11:07:07 am
No, the Keri Russell one.

I WAS referring to the Keri Russell movie.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 11:10:05 am
Oh!  Cause I don't remember there being a car chase in TAPS.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 11:11:28 am
Oh!  Cause I don't remember there being a car chase in TAPS.

There isn't.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 11:24:31 am
I know, TAPS takes place on a locked-down campus.  Maybe a golf cart chase in the remake.  With the Beastie Boys blasting.  Cause they'll do that sort of BS.  And I was being cute/funny.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 05:52:54 pm
Wonderfalls (Season 1 - The Complete Viewer Collection - 2004)

(http://i.imgur.com/Ot8OUyv.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/wonderfalls-(season-1-the-complete-viewer-collection-2004)/msg22203/#msg22203)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 06:18:01 pm
Aliens is playing this weekend at the theater... so of course the weather is probably gonna be a nightmare, but I'm gonna try to get there if I can.  Haven't seen the movie in a long time, I actually don't own it!  And I gotta share this Prometheus-styled remix of the trailer, I've been watching it so many times.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_w6pw73a7A
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 06:20:11 pm
Hehehehehehehe.

Don't forget, plenty of Alien threads here. Go see the movie as it was meant to be seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 08, 2013, 06:27:51 pm
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Don't forget, plenty of Alien threads here. Go see the movie as it was meant to be seen!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In a tiny community theater at the middle of the night in terrible weather.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 06:29:52 pm
In a tiny community theater at the middle of the night in terrible weather.

That's the BEST time to see it!!!!!!!!!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2013, 11:13:24 pm
Vantage Point (2008)

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Post by: Mac on August 09, 2013, 06:55:50 am
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In a tiny community theater at the middle of the night in terrible weather.

Splain Lucy... Terrible weather.

[arms folded]
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 09, 2013, 03:42:17 pm
Red Dawn (1984)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 09, 2013, 08:19:32 pm
Terrible weather: we've been having terrible rain the last few days and we're in for a week of it.  Easy flooding and so on (you might remember the photos from a couple years ago).  House is in a fine location but the streets are another matter, and this is heavy rain with low visibility, I'm iffy about that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 09, 2013, 10:12:10 pm
Red Dawn (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 10, 2013, 01:25:48 am
Got back from the midnight showing of Aliens.  Totally enjoyed seeing it on the big screen (new digital restoration and all that) but there was stuff missing, like Newt and her family on the planet.  What's crazy is how insanely well it all holds up (I can't figure out where they got all those widescreen TVs back then), outside of the rear-projection stuff, but I like that... I like seeing that sort of thing, it gives movies texture, like when you look at a painting and can see the brush strokes.  it's character.

And I saw this at the Belcourt, this cool artsy theater and they put in this great promo material, starting off with the Alien cameo from Spaceballs, clips from Aliens on Ice, and a summary of the first flick in the style of a TV show ("previously, on "Alien").
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2013, 03:20:47 pm
Reign of Fire (2002)

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Post by: Mac on August 10, 2013, 07:35:34 pm
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Got back from the midnight showing of Aliens.  Totally enjoyed seeing it on the big screen (new digital restoration and all that) but there was stuff missing, like Newt and her family on the planet.  What's crazy is how insanely well it all holds up (I can't figure out where they got all those widescreen TVs back then), outside of the rear-projection stuff, but I like that... I like seeing that sort of thing, it gives movies texture, like when you look at a painting and can see the brush strokes.  it's character.

That sound cool.

Quote
Easy flooding and so on (you might remember the photos from a couple years ago).  House is in a fine location but the streets are another matter, and this is heavy rain with low visibility, I'm iffy about that.

Have you seen Sharknado? Sharks in the flooded streets, blah, blah, blah. I'm telling ya, be careful.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 10, 2013, 07:37:27 pm
I don't care about the buzz, I have no interest in seeing Sharknado.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2013, 07:46:19 pm
I don't care about the buzz, I have no interest in seeing Sharknado.

Uh huh. Keri Russell completely  n u d e , riding a shark bareback, falling from the sky, waving her Cowboy Hat as she cackles "Yaaaaaa-hoooooo!"  guarantees your ass is in the seat for the sequel, Dr. Sharknado-love ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on August 10, 2013, 07:59:01 pm
You don't care f I can never stand up again, do you?

You know, if they were saavy enough think to put in a crazy old Nazi scientist in a wheelchair going on about sharks...

BTW, having to space out everything suggestive on this forum just keeps making me hear that SNL skit where Danny Devito reads Madonna's "s e x" book.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2013, 11:41:01 pm
Argo (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2013, 11:32:38 pm
Hit & Run (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 11, 2013, 11:36:24 pm
Finally finished "The Wild Bunch," I think I've been holding onto it a week (I got a migraine last time I was trying to watch it).  Pretty darn cool flick.
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 06:29:12 am
The Host (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

I went into this expecting very little. While I loves me some aliens, the trailer just looked hokey. Then word of mouth was either Meh to downright awful. I place The Host into the downright awful category. Even my wife suggested turning this off after 20 minutes. I was surprised. Typically she likes or at the very least doesn’t mind these types of films. Type of film? This I think was an attempt at riding the coattails of Twilight, except with aliens. Again, a Hollywood studio at being lazy and trying to cash in on Twilight.

Let me go off on a rant here. The Twilight success has really marred the genre of horror and sci-fi. Marred in the sense that these genre’s are now littered with fluffy hollow perspective. I get some of the genre’s have been done to death and looking for alternatives, but IMO, not only has zero value but sets back the genre’s. I also get the true horror/sci-fi aficionado pays little attention to this nuisance stab at filmmaking, but I worry, a whole generation of people think this is good stuff. Hey, I like Disney like everyone else and that was good for me as a kid. But when Disney-ish mentality bleeds over into the older audiences, and regarded as good, it becomes frustrating. Just like the lame ass pop music being generated today.  That’s another rant.

I’m not going to post a trailer or DVD cover. The Host was that lame an only gets my zero star opinion.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 09:08:33 am
I agree with Mac on The Host,even though I like Saoirse Ronan enough to have actually been looking a little forward to the movie, it was bad.  There was no personality to it... I don't want to say it felt like the first draft of the story but it was a well-done presentation of the first unexplored thought that the writer had.  It kind of screamed "beginning and unskilled" to me.  There are directions for the story to go into and world-building to have fun with.  Didn't happen.  You know, these movies come off to me as being popular with high schoolers and it kinda feels like they were written at the same skill level.  Maybe that's part of the appeal.  I CERTAINLY wouldn't consider this as anything meant for an older or more sophisticated audience, not sure where Mac got that cockamamie impression.

I will say that I dig some of the style.  Not all of it (she's gonna wear those shoes on an escape?), but the Silvers (why weren't they called "Silvers" instead of "Souls?") tech, especially their cars, look darn good on screen.

I had thought for a while (and doubly so since I saw "Gattaca") that Andrew Niccol should at least be the spiritual designer if not outright director of a Twilight Zone reboot and this flick reinforces that... as well as the importance of having EXCELLENT SOURCE MATERIAL.  Where my mind went was a new series, Netflix style (since everyone watches the marathons and you don't have to worry about time slot appeal), in colour and HD but that could mesh right up against the original series and you take a look at his flicks and they fit the bill.

This skin should go onto a much better movie.  Not to be a smartass, but it needed a better "soul."
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 09:32:09 am
Is it because some books, well, should remain books? I guess to a studio, they NEVER contemplate that kind of thinking.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 09:40:34 am
I can't blame studios for thinking that, I often think "adaptation" when I read books, but yeah, some books should stay books, they make more of an impact that way.  And there's some older, influential books that SHOULDN'T be made because of what I call The Watchmen Effect, the work influenced so much afterwards that when you do the original, it just comes off as derivative instead.  I think a lot of sci-fi books fall into this category.

But I think the problem with The Host is that because the books are insanely popular, they're mistaken for good (or merely sacrosanct) and you can't even try to fix or improve them without the die-hard fans screaming for blood, so you're stuck with the flaws no matter what (DaVinci Code has the same problem).  And you KNOW that "Fifty Shades" will probably have this problem as well even though it's almost universally accepted that it's dreck.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 10:18:08 am
Its funny you mention 50 Shades. I didn't read it, but my wife just sponged them up as well as all her friends. I NEVER heard a peep about how badly it's written... until late. Now that's all I'm hearing in various situations how dreadful it really is.

I think this is nothing new, both in music and movies, people get caught up in the product, for whatever reason, and they ignore anything bad. But hindsight will eventually raise it's head.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 11:23:24 am
I don't mind the getting caught up in the product, but in the 21st century, all art and commerce is a form of discussion, Fifty Shades is a response to Twilight, the movie should be a response to the book, take what people are responding to and take out the laughable stuff, it's just another draft, really.  It should be as good the people who love it THINK it is.

Here's the best Fifty Shades thing I've seen yet.  OBVIOUSLY Not Safe For Work:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3POYx6IeeI
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 11:47:33 am
Funny stuff...

... reminds me of the KOKO The Clown Show from The Groove Tube. If you've not seen The Groove Tube, check it out. It's kind of the grandfather Movie 43. There were several more after that.

Stick with this one. It gets good about 1/2 thru.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBvpj0cCHLA

... who's that MC from your clip? I remember him from long ago doing standup.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 12:27:16 pm
* The host was Jimmy Carr.

* Well, now I have to show you this.  And fun fact: this was a REAL kid's show.  This particular bit was just a fun prank for their Christmas reel.  Can't keep secrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgbcQIT7BMc
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 03:27:38 pm
Wow, just wow
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2013, 06:47:12 pm
The Village (2004)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 06:58:46 pm
Got back from Elysium (and yes, I put some of my thoughts into the appropriate thread), watching some more Big Bang Theory (I'm so p*ssed that my barely-watched Blu-Rays are getting a little pixellated).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 07:38:56 pm
What? What's with the pixelation?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 07:43:55 pm
I dunno, the picture gets garbled and there's no scratches or dust or ANYTHING on the disc (I keep pristine discs).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 12, 2013, 08:27:32 pm
Software update to the player perhaps?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2013, 08:29:27 pm
Nope, everything else on the disc works fine and always did before.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2013, 12:26:06 am
Lady in the Water (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2013, 06:40:52 pm
The Happening (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 13, 2013, 06:46:48 pm
I have the feeling I'm about to invest in a bunch of tv shows on DVD.  As it stands, today, I got the Doctor Who episodes I missed (14 bucks, I got ten bucks off and they didn't even post it!) and Legend of Korra, Book One.  They were incidentally playing that NKOTB song when I went in, too.  I always get thrown when I hear songs I have on PA systems.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2013, 08:38:43 pm
Scandal (Season 1 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 13, 2013, 08:40:12 pm
Still haven't gotten around to Scandal.  I need to.  Political Animals is fresh on my queue but I haven't heard that much about it... not a good sign for a show starring Sigourney Weaver.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 14, 2013, 07:35:48 am
The Big Wedding
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My wife really wanted to see this especially after seeing a couple of trailers for the DVD release. I knew she wanted to see it and the cast looked good, so I was up for it. From the very beginning, something was wrong with this movie. I couldn’t quite place my finger on it, so I continued to watch. Then it slowly materialized to me. The Big Wedding had some of the dumbest, lamest attempts at humor. I can’t say comedy, because it wasn’t even in that ball park, but with the music and the direction and editing, it does come across as a rom-com. The other thing that bugged me is that all the stars were doing the same old characters they’ve done before. Diane Keaton doing her schtick, Susan Sarandon being herself, Katherine Heigl doing her lame ass whoa is me bit. And De Niro I was surprised at his horrible portrayal trying to be funny. Almost, just almost he seemed to be reading his lines.

And none of the script or dialog was interesting in any way. Man, my mind checked out of this movie within 15 minutes. I kept looking at my wife for confirmation, but sadly she was enjoying herself. She gets the celebrity sparkles in her eye and she would enjoy watching these hordes of movie stars sleep.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2013, 07:47:45 am
With the cast that you mentioned, I'm surprised that I haven't heard about this until now. I have no intention of checking this out. Ever.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 14, 2013, 08:18:30 am
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With the cast that you mentioned, I'm surprised that I haven't heard about this until now.

Ya know, this pops up in mind often. I'm somewhat of a movie buff and try to stay on top of things. So when I find out about a movie that pops up on DVD without knowing it's theatrical release, flags go up.

So when I decided to stop watching I went to RottenTomatoes. 7% critics, 43% audience.
I now know a possible reason I had not heard about it before. It stunk. It came and went probably with very little advertising.
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2013, 01:09:45 pm
The Butterfly Effect (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

‘the idea, used in chaos theory, that a very small difference in the initial state of a physical system can make a significant difference to the state at some later time
[from the theory that a butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world might ultimately cause a hurricane in another part of the world]’


I remember enjoying this the first and only time I saw it. I enjoyed it again, but not as much as I thought. It lost something. Maybe the part how he is able to alter the time line path he takes seems like a huge leap. Or maybe I don’t fully understand. Did he actually travel through time in those various time lines… or did he imagine them.

I had forgotten how this ended. They chose the easy rode and wrapped it up with a bow. I would have liked to have seen a darker version. The whole premise is he travels through time to alter certain event so other bad events don’t happen. Well Evan slowly finds out the power or the consequences of his actions typically result in worse predicaments. So what does one do? Conitnue? With the possibility it could get worse or concentrate on fixing yourself. Great premise  and a very decent and entertaining way of pulling it off.

I have not seen the sequels, but from hearing about them, I am not missing anything.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8_dgqfPXFg

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2013, 01:12:21 pm
With all this talk about Butler's these days, my initial reaction was that there was a movie called The Butler Effect. There isn't, but I am getting started on a script right now and that the new name of what I have in store.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2013, 01:15:53 pm
Saw a clip from The Butler today. I'm definitely going to keep an eye out for this when it hits DVD.

Keep working on that title.  :P
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2013, 01:19:09 pm
Keep working on that title.  :P

As you should as well.  ;)
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2013, 01:26:24 pm
Dirty Girl (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

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It's 1987 and Danielle, the high school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joan and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.

Well duh, yea, the title caught my attention. I did a quick review of the synopsis on the back and took it home. This is fairly recent indie film that was just odd. It felt like everything was shifted a little and I wasn’t catching it. The production was pretty good, but the characters were just odd. Dwight Yoakam married to Mary Steenburgen? Yea, right. Milla Jovovich as a ditsy blonde?

Essentially a rebellious teen **** (Juno Temple) who takes up an awkward friendship with a emerging chubby gay boy and they take a road trip. It kinda reminded me of Easy A, but nowhere near as good as that film. It just took forever for any of these characters to make some sort of connection. Everybody seemed to be ticked at one another. If you’re into a quirky flick, this may an option. I doubt I’ll ever return to watch it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy3eAiB5UPo

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2013, 04:57:47 pm
Malcolm X (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2013, 12:26:23 am
Django Unchained (2012)

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Post by: Mac on August 16, 2013, 12:49:54 pm
Olympus Has Fallen (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

In the competitive studio race to get the first White House attack movie of 2013, Olympus Has Fallen came in first. Weeks later, White House Down. We saw the later in the theater. We saw OHF, last night on my home theater. While a ton of comparisons can be made between the two, they both stand on their own as entertaining. If I had to choose or rank, I would give OHF the higher accolades. Both are over the top excitement, but I found OHF to be more gritty, more realistic if you will, thus mentally getting involved more. I was constantly thinking, how could this happen. Could it happen?

OHF was far more bloody, though it was CGI blood. It was way more violent than WHD. And the humor was subtle and just under the radar unlike WHD in your face humor.

Speaking of the CGI, there definitely were some scenes that were very lame in the CGI department. Most of them the big panoramic scenes. The closeup CGI was OK.

Gerard Butler makes the movie. It will immediately remind you of a Die Hard. I have no problem with that. Morgan Freeman and Angela Bassett do their thing as usual. I find myself liking pretty much anything he does. OHF is just another feather in the cap for fun, summer movie performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwx1f0kyNwI
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2013, 01:26:11 pm
I forgot all about Olympus Has Fallen. Even though I plan on checking out White House Down, I haven't heard great things about it though.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 16, 2013, 09:43:39 pm
I watched August Rush last night or the night before (I know, ANOTHER Keri Russell movie, sue me) and I didn't like it (I really didn't expect to), but I'm glad I watched it.  If that makes sense.

The movie makes choices I didn't like, some obvious choices, it was too sentimental, it kind of reminded me of "Timothy Green" in that regard, but it makes this mistake of thinking it's deeper than it is and that really put me off.  They also glossed over how dangerous being a homeless kid in New York REALLY would be (at least Home Alone 2 showed scary hookers), and... ugh, I just didn't like it.

You know, I don't think I caught Jonathan Rhys-Meyers' character's name until 70 minutes into the freaking movie.  And I get the feeling like he was supposed to be a tough rocker with a sensitive side but he doesn't, he comes off as a fey, feminine artist which is fine but it seemed incongruent, you know?

Seeing Robin Williams and Freddie Highmore on screen together, where Highmore's an orphan and Williams is exploiting him, kept making me think of Astro Boy where Freddie Highmore was an orphan and Robin Williams was a robot, and it took me hours to remember "Wait, Robin Williams was a robot in a DIFFERENT cartoon" so now they're all mushing together in my mind.  One nice little result of that is I keep thinking of K-Bell as a homeless musician.  Might make an interesting character or something.

The BIG issue that I had with the movie was, and MAYBE this is a spoiler but I doubt either of you are going to look for this movie so I'll go ahead and say it, when Rush is studying at Juilliard, it goes on long enough that you KNOW Robin Williams is gonna pop up again and cause trouble and a second after I said it, THERE he was, and that annoyed me NOT just because I saw what was coming next and you don't want the audience to EVER have that feeling, is that it made me realize how much MORE movie I had to sit through.  So that doubly sucked.

I did take a few good notes from this flick (which is why I rented it in the first place) but they were almost all re-iterating things I was already thinking of, so it was kind of a waste.

I did make up for that, though, by following up with the blu-ray of "Run Lola Run" which I haven't seen in a long time.  Heck, the only other time I saw it might have been on VHS of all things.  It was such a great blast from the past, I was surprised by how much of it I forgot and how much I remembered, how fast and energetic the whole thing was-- and it popped in such a great way.  The movie hasn't really aged a DAY since it came out, and for an experimental $2 million dollar foreign flick, that's REALLY saying something.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2013, 10:49:42 pm
Ray (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2013, 10:51:22 pm
My copy of Run Lola Run has been sitting next to my TV for quite some time. Haven't seen it in awhile. Just waiting for the right time to pop it in.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 16, 2013, 11:06:39 pm
Well, you could watch Run Lola Run now, or tomorrow morning, or tomorrow night... and your life will be drastically different based on that choice.  And what a fun ride it was, I'm noticing how much I remember from movies I haven't seen for ten years (when I watched "Free Enterprise" it was the same thing, I remembered WAYYYY more than I thought I would considering I don't even think it was sticking in my mind, but I remembered most of it, especially how 90s it was).
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Post by: Mac on August 17, 2013, 04:34:21 am
Ya know Neumatic, I think there is a whole lot of folks that love predictability in a movie ( uh, Rom-Com's Anyone?) It's a comfort thing, I guess? I think we are opposite here, enjoying those movies that we don't know what will happen next.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 17, 2013, 11:13:18 am
Predictability is fine, if it's "I can't wait for this to happen!"  This was more "Oh now, now THIS has to happen..."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2013, 12:07:30 pm
The Last Airbender (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2013, 07:37:42 pm
Mr. 3000 (2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 17, 2013, 07:41:39 pm
I wasn't aware that M Night Shyamalan directed that particular film.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2013, 07:43:14 pm
I wasn't aware that M Night Shyamalan directed that particular film.

Had he directed Mr. 3000, the movie would have had a major twist at the end revealing Bernie to be George Clooney.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 17, 2013, 08:11:37 pm
No, the twist is... he's really playing FOOTBALL!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2013, 11:20:00 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 5 - Part 1 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2013, 12:09:07 am
I still gotta START Breaking Bad.

Have you seen this yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuoZqLyMMI4
Sam Jackson does a Breaking Bad monologue.  Badass.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 05:03:35 am
I still gotta START Breaking Bad.


This is a bold statement, but I consider Breaking Bad to be THE GREATEST show ever created and when you finally get around to watching it, I'm 100% confident you will agree. I wish you and Mac would hurry up and watch it so we can dissect the hell out of it. The series has everything going for it from the stellar writing to the awesome cast of characters and the actors that bring life to them.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 05:05:42 am
Sam Jackson can read the phone book and make it Oscar worthy.
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2013, 05:47:29 am
Gawd, I wish I could watch this. My wife is highly interested too.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2013, 09:01:42 am
Once the final season shows up on Netflix I'll probably power-watch the whole thing.  I'm worried it'll Burn Notice on me, I watched all that in a few weeks, now a year or so later the new season popped up and I don't remember anything and the mood of it's worn off... that kinda sucks.

I wish someone would do impressions of these celebrities people say could read the phone book and do them READING the phone book.  That cold be funny "Aaronson, Adam.  First name in the book.  What an ego he must have."  I remember a few years ago writing or at least spitballing Ian McShane watching paint dry.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 09:12:03 am
Once the final season shows up on Netflix I'll probably power-watch the whole thing.  I'm worried it'll Burn Notice on me, I watched all that in a few weeks, now a year or so later the new season popped up and I don't remember anything and the mood of it's worn off... that kinda sucks.

I STRONGLY urge against you plowing through Breaking Bad. Every episode, because of the brilliant writing and the incredible acting NEEDS to be savored. Each episode stays with you long after you have watched it. Not many shows can do that and this one does it EVERY DAMN TIME. I find myself thinking nothing about what I just watched. Having said that, good luck in NOT being able to control yourself. The show is just like the drug they cook. One hit and you're done for, coming back for more and more and more.........
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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2013, 09:15:00 am
More reason why I don't want to be left wanting for a year or more to wait for the last season.  Had to put up with that with Battlestar Galactica (you can't leave me hanging for a YEAR with the revelation Boomer's a cylon!).  I don't know how you all were holding out all this time.  I know it's good and addictive.  I remember hearing that all writers should read the script for the pilot because someone, it might have been Patton Oswalt but I'm not sure, said "it'll ruin you as a writer.  You'll want to quit because you know you could never write anything as good as that pilot."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 09:19:32 am
There are only 7 episodes left in the series (not counting the episode that aired last week). 8 Total. So, now is a great time to go rent them.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2013, 09:23:32 am
"But when wlll they be available on streaming" is my issue.  I have it on my queue, I could start right now if I really wanted to.  But willpower man, willpower.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 09:33:21 am
It's worth owning on DVD. That's a fact. Although I get my fix through my Library, I have every intention of picking up the eventual all-in-one-mega-box set with complimentary Blue Meth, or whatever they add to the mix as bonus content and extras.
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2013, 11:38:26 am
The Hot Flashes (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8hjDrVPOJ4

I get this for my wife, only to find out she didn't have an interest in it. The Hot Flashes is an odd film. Before I fully trash it, I think it was created for some kind of Breast Cancer support.

But as a movie on it's own, this is not major movie stuff. It's more Made for TV. In a nutshell, Brooke Shields lives in a small blue collar town and accidentally forgets to re-sign up the cancer mobile. So she gets to work and enlists old high school basketball teammates to play against the current state high school basketball team for a fund raiser. There is obvious conflicts with the women, the kids, the husbands, the township, blah, blah, blah.

It's really not much.

I'm going to be shallow here (thus my being hesitant about trashing a good cause film), but the women looked worn, ragged and used. I've never seen the attraction to Brooke Shields, but she's a man baby. Camyrn Manheim and Virginia Madsen both looking tired Daryl Hannah... hmmmm, how do I say this?

Oh yea (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/duopuke.gif)

Wow, just wow. What happened to that cute mermaid? Good lord.

This movie is not easy on the eyes.

I just can't recommend this. It wasn't horrible. It was not that good and if it was trying to deliver a message, it got lost.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 11:42:40 am
You actually got all the way through the movie?
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2013, 12:03:41 pm
I was soooo tired. I found out about 2/3 into she was not caring and then she falls asleep. I decided to stay through it for the 'big' game. Gah, it was so cliche.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2013, 12:42:38 pm
Am I in the minority in thinking that Darryl Hannah wasn't that attractive back then?

This sounds like a Lifetime movie or something.  My mom's been big into those lately but I doubt even she would sit through that one... she has SOME standards.
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2013, 01:34:19 pm
Back then, hell ya, she was cute. Splash, Roxanne, and more

(http://mirror80.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Daryl-Hannah-as-Madison-in-Splash.jpg)

Today? Holy crap, it looks like Big Foot had a Hannah crap.

(http://lebeauleblog.files.wordpress.com/2012/09/daryl-hannah-plastic-surgery.jpg?w=309&h=450)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2013, 01:41:27 pm
That second pic clearly came after Kill Bill (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kill-bill-volume-1-(2003)/msg6057/#msg6057), because even with an eye patch, she was smoking hot!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 19, 2013, 05:30:03 pm
I'm just starting the fifth season of Fringe (it won't stream for, apparently, another gorram year) so I'm starting on the discs.  And while I've kept pace with the series, I've already forgotten way too much stuff about the show, including the prologue/pilot for the fifth season (where they did a big concept reboot).  I'm also straining to remember what happened with the other future because I recall there being another one but I don't remember what happened.

This is quite similar (though obviously less complicated) than what happened with Burn Notice and I suspect what will happen with Breaking Bad.  The opposite thing that could happen is I could have a rehash of Battlestar Galactica, where I stopped watching after the third season and never caught back up.  Though I heard the last season wasn't that hot anyway, so I'm not missing much, but still.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2013, 06:00:06 pm
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2013, 08:53:35 am
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 21, 2013, 09:32:33 pm
I'm at this horrible point with my instant queue where I'm so loaded on shows and not enough movies to cut them with.  Here's the problem:

* I get four discs at a time.  Usually I'll have one or two shows going at once, but I'll just get the next disc in the set and put two movies with it.
* Because I'm worried if I get the whole series at once, one disc will be missing and I'll have a gap (have discs 1, 3 and 4 but no 2) I can't jump over and nothing I can send back
* BUT I don't have an outgoing mailbox, so I can't just do two at a time because it would double the amount of drives to the post office (which is located RIGHT behind a school so there's always terrible traffic).

I suppose I should look up a buttload more movies to add in, but I'm kinda stretched to think of more titles.

As I try to figure this out, I've got "The Captains: Close Up" on Netflix which is surprisingly touching.  I don't know what I'll watch after that.  Tomorrow I'm going to go see the Cornetto trilogy at the theater.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2013, 09:40:33 pm
Even though I have a massive Hold List of titles for myself, I'm not always in the mood for what I have waiting. That's when I look at Mac's list to see if there is anything that catches my eye that I maybe didn't add to my own list earlier. I also try to think of a random actor/actress and then I search their filmography and see what movies of theirs I haven't seen. I have a whole routine about how I choose what movies to watch or hold. Some would say it's crazy, while I say it's a science.  ;D

The last thing I rely on, if none of my DVD's have been delivered to my Library is to just check on the shelves to see what titles are actually there for me to grab at. I usually try to walk out the door with the maximum allowed which is 5 titles.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 21, 2013, 09:56:44 pm
Not being in the mood is REALLY affecting my list choice right now.  I guess I should just power through but I'm into grouping my flicks now but I don't know exactly how to group them until AFTER I've seen 'em, thus defeating the purpose.

I will say searching based on actress is how I found Foxfire.  Wow wow wow young Angelina Jolie is so captivating in that.  And by captivating I don't just mean impossible not to look at, she was just so great in that.  If I had seen it when it had come out (when I was 15, I guess) I'd have been obsessed with her for life.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2013, 11:44:13 pm
Traffic (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2013, 06:50:49 pm
Ghost Town (2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 22, 2013, 10:46:04 pm
You know, it's funny that you brought up RickY Gervais because I just got back from the Cornetto trilogy and Simon Pegg's character in "The World's End," to me, I felt like it was a Gervais-style role.  Not that he's channeling Gervais or anything like that, but... you know, if you see it, you'll know what I mean.

I really dug The World's End but it didn't feel "Cornetto" the same way the first two did, and the quick pitch "the pub crawl from hell" didn't really tell you what the thing they were fighting against was (demons or something would have made way more sense for that), because they did something kind of original in TWE, the movie wasn't dripping with the amount of research and in-jokes that the other two were and that kind of affects the feel of it, you know?  And it wasn't packed with cameos like the other two, the editing and style was a bit more conservative, you could just kinda feel that it's been six years since the last movie, and the gap between the first two movies was half that.

Now I'm digging into Paul, which I know isn't Cornetto but I haven't seen it since the DVD came out so I'm overdue to watch it again.  Made me realize how much I miss Comic-Con.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 23, 2013, 12:40:33 am
Now Chip, I saw that "Race To Witch Mountain" is on your queue for some bizarre reason, I would definitely suggest watching that and Paul back-to-back.  Quite similar movies with different executions (though I would LOVE to see Annasophia Robb curse like Kristin Wiig, I kpet thinking those kids would just parrot what they hear).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2013, 06:56:10 am
Paul (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/paul-(2011)/msg8375/#msg8375) is fantastic. I wouldn't object to revisiting the movie again. I might just in fact pair it up with Race To Witch Mountain. I want to revisit the original Disney movies from the 70's, which I haven't seen since maybe the early 80's. After that, I intend to finally checking out Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson's version.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 23, 2013, 07:26:49 am
I really ish I had HD screencaps of the Rock one (instead of the stupid camera to TV screen ones I had to settle for) because I just wanna put those crazy curses in there.  Cause what could be funnier at this moment than seeing sweet little ASR yelling "what are you ****s up to now!?" and "Frog farts in boiling sh*t that was close!"

Quote from: Race To Witch Mountain"
The agents pull their weapons on The Rock and the kids.

ANNASOPHIA ROBB
(yelling)
Why don't you scrotum inspectors urinate off and have intimate relations with each other!?  In the butt!

THE ROCK
Jeesus, calm down!

ANNASOPHIA ROBB
I just said what you're thinking.

THE ROCK
(to Agents)
I wasn't thinking that!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2013, 10:15:17 am
Outlander (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2013, 04:54:26 pm
Tru Calling (Season 1 - 2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2013, 11:08:22 pm
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2013, 07:28:58 pm
Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 24, 2013, 07:42:31 pm
Finished Fringe.  Need to eat something and then I'll post my feelings about it as a fifth season and as a whole.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 06:27:59 am
John Dies at the End (2012)

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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2013, 07:48:38 am
Sleep Tight (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I just happened across Sleep Tight in the library. I didn't know anything of it, except it's sleeve synopsis. It sounded intriguing and it was. Not until I was going to write this review I thought about the similarities to Alfred Hitchcocks Psycho. It has an average man with deep dark issues. His invalid mother who he tells everything too and go do nothing about. He even threatens her at one point.

Essentially a man who feels he has nothing to live for, but uses up his time, energy, thoughts and plots to make everyone around him miserable. In one particular case a very beautiful, perky woman that he focuses on. The story telling is excellent. The tension slowly builds. The cast of characters swirling around his actions are defined and have meaning. I just really got into it despite the sub-titles.

I highly recommend this taught thriller.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqoEkBnKjGM

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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2013, 07:55:57 am
Rapture-Palooza (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

Half star for Anna eye candy

Wow, this movie seriously sucks. I thought the trailer at least looked amusing. It's got the beautiful Anna Kendrick and I thought funny Craig Robinson. He is funny, but in this movie, he is the Beast (Satan) and quite mean to Anna. Some will find it funny, I thought it veered way into meaness, crudeness, wiping out the humor.

Rapture-Palooza tried to balance between the new crude R-rated comedies and Scary Movie type slapstick. Unfortunately, the combination became really bad cheap grab for laughs. Think Disaster Movie or those ill gotten spoof rip-offs. That is Rapture-Palooza.

I couldn't recommend this to anybody.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oaS_N1zsqo

(http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51xvac5Y-3L.01._AA252_SCL_.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 08:03:20 am
Never heard of it till now, but since I'm a fan of both stars, I think I will still check this out for myself.
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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2013, 08:17:16 am
Renaissance: Paris 2054 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Renaissance: Paris 2054 is literally a Black and White Film. No gray, no color... pure black and brilliant white... and the balance is mostly very good. Renaissance is a visually stunning film. I had some issues at times, but once I got it, it was frame after frame of beauty. The story line is nothing special. It's a not to film noir placed in the future with a background of Paris. The creators said there has been enough done with New York or Tokyo, lets try some place else iconic.

The movie visuals can be jarring. The whole spatial perspective can be tricky at times. I imagine this film is not for everyone. But I do recommend it. I found it on BR for $5, so I'm gonna pick it up.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh7s32XRScQ

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjEyMzA4ODQ3MV5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMTkwNDUzMQ@@._V1_SX214_.jpg)
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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2013, 08:23:17 am
Epic

I'm not going to rate Epic. I absolutely loved the trailer. I come to find out it's the music that really caught my attention. Epic's animation is fantastic, but as I was getting into Epic, I realized this is geared completely for the very young crowd. It's more of Pixar's Cars than a Pixar's Toy Story or Incredible's. I just could not get into the childish fantasy story.

It wasn't for me, so I'm not going to give a bad rating because I didn't like it. It's probably a fantastic film for kids.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xu3JLXfuwQ
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Post by: Mac on August 25, 2013, 08:33:46 am
Snakes on a Plane (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I swore I wrote about these before.

Anyway, simply a stupid fun movie with a title that says it all.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkckhcqiwM8

The Horde (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gY4ui929TiE

again, I swore I wrote about this one too. One of the best zombie movies I've ever seen. I believe a french film, but the characters are just awesome. You have badass adult gang members, special ops, regular joes. All battling a sudden up rise of zombies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 09:15:15 am
Can't Buy Me Love (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 09:17:21 am
I almost grabbed Snakes On A Plane from the Library last week, but I already had the maximum allowed DVD's and had to put it back on the shelf. Still intending to finally check it out for myself soon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 08:48:59 pm
License to Drive (1988)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2013, 09:20:32 pm
Well, Bad Boys II is about to expire when the month turns so I'm gonna watch those two back to back, I don't think I've seen either the whole way through.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 09:31:46 pm
I can't remember what rating I gave for both, but it wasn't good, that much I do know.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2013, 09:37:24 pm
Given that I saw "Hot Fuzz" a couple days ago, that also lit a fire under my butt to finally watch these.  And the first one, you can totally tell that Bay was a commercial director, the style feel-- and this will sound off-- strangely comforting and familiar, you know?  It reminds me of the really eye-catching parts of TV when I was in high school.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 09:42:40 pm
Had to go back and re-read my reviews. Meh.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2013, 09:57:39 pm
Yeah, you're not really diggin' anything at the moment, are ya?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2013, 10:06:03 pm
Naw. I need to some good sh*t to arrive at my Library.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2013, 10:09:43 pm
Dere's always good sh*t at li-berry!  Me, I got quite a bit to watch that's about to expire.  It's usually what leads me to watch a lot of stuff, cause I really drag my feet sometimes (I forget how long I've had some of these titles, though give me credit that I DID see about half of the expiring titles already.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2013, 11:55:50 pm
Well, Bad Boys felt like it went on much longer than it should have.  Dunno why that is.  Though it did make me appreciate Hot Fuzz all that more, I knew what HF was doing but now it's more like the difference between knowing and feeling.

I don't feel like another movie so I'll watch The Thing (maybe, I've seen it before) and the other flicks tomorrow, right now Running Wilde one more time before it expires.  You know what that means: Keri Russell!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2013, 03:27:31 pm
Hardball(2001)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2013, 11:38:12 am
Adaptation. (2002)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 27, 2013, 09:05:19 pm
Bad Boys 2 right now.  Didn't know Gabrielle Union was in this one.  Rowr.

See, THIS is the kind of movie that lends itself to a TV series, as opposed to say Psycho or Hannibal Lecter, I could see this serialized like Hawaii Five-O.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2013, 09:10:50 pm
See, THIS is the kind of movie that lends itself to a TV series, as opposed to say Psycho or Hannibal Lecter,

Dude, both Bates Motel (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv/bates-motel/msg14106/#msg14106) and Hannibal (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv/nbc-orders-full-13-episode-season-of-'hannibal/msg6009/#msg6009) kicking f*cking ass. Big time! You should definitely watch both series if you can. I once felt like you did young padawan. I can't wait for both series to return.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 27, 2013, 09:21:03 pm
I'm sure both series are awesome, and I can't wait to see them, but when you watch the original movies and you think "which of these would work as a weekly series," those two don't exactly spring to mind.  So the face that they're both good is a pleasant surprise.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2013, 09:29:14 pm
Hey, I was the first one that shoot down the idea for both being turned into series. I myself didn't think it could work. My expectations have been exceeded and then some. Great serial drama that keeps you coming back for more. I'm still shocked at how NBC is getting away with some of the stuff that Hannibal is putting on the air. Definitely the most gruesome stuff ever put on regular/basic cable TV. Bates Motel was one of my favorite new shows of the year.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 27, 2013, 09:36:55 pm
I got a bunch of the new series on my instant queue, all with those red dates of when they come out.  Don't know when I'm gonna get a chance to see all of 'em, though.

Right now, I'm just eager to see Newest Latest Best, people on Twitter are talking about the pilot (it got sent to the big kickstarter donors) and I know there are a couple eps in the bag and it's been so long since we had a Totally Rad Show, NLB sounds like it'll take that place.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 27, 2013, 11:13:51 pm
End of Watch (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2013, 12:24:43 pm
Dexter (Season 4 - 2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2013, 08:53:16 pm
Just watched Trance.  Didn't really care for it-- except for one obvious part.  ANd I was a bit put off by how much Apple stuff was in it, and I'm an Apple user.  It just... took me out of it a little, you know?

Now I'm watching "Olympus Has Fallen."  Harvey Dent as President, how can you not like that?  OH SH*T, I didn't know Morgan Freeman was in this!  I love surprises like that.

You know, I pondered this once, but there has got to be, like, a fake WH building or backlot or something that they shoot these movies at... and if there isn't, they REALLY should consider making one.  It seems like something that there'd be a lot of call for, a close-enough replica that reads good on camera with extra room for lighting and camera gear and so on.  If they have a fake airport for movies, so why not that?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2013, 09:00:39 pm
I'm sure the White House is right next to the burned out Clock Tower on the Universal Lot.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2013, 09:10:12 pm
Nope.  Been to the Clock Tower.  And no, there isn't a standing fake WH.  Seems crazy to me, wouldn't it be simpler to do that than keep building and rebuilding it for movies?  And we've heard, recently, that any movie over 100 million dollars has to save the world, you have to figure that the Prez is gonna be informed of that.
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Post by: Mac on August 30, 2013, 06:26:29 am
The Innkeepers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

I picked this up based on very scary trailer. After I put it in, it looked familiar. Had I seen this before? Yes, I did (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd%27s-blu-rays/what-are-you-watching-%28dvd%27s-blu-ray%27s%29/msg8705/#msg8705).



Well, this time I did sit through the whole thing because I was waiting to be scarred. There was one jump scare. Gawd…. This did not get any better the second time for a full view. I think it was the general feel of the movie. It was almost lackadaisical. In essence you had two characters that were somewhat interested in the history of the Inn, but approached it a very slacker kind of way.

Why, as a viewer, should I be interested in the story where the main characters are not. Very little tension. The ending was real head scratcher. It’s like the director didn’t know how to end it.

Kelly McGillis’s role was kind of thrown in too. She added very little to the story. All I could think of while she was on the screen, yet another beautiful women in her young years, not aging well at all. I hate to be judgmental like that, but dayum, she was more of distraction in her looks, then the acting she brought to the story.

Very disappointed.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=endLt6cX0fk

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 06:39:13 am
Over the years, I've noticed that a lot of your 'Horror' movies you've watched get very low ratings. Why do you think that is? I know that the genre is your favorite and wonder if you have high expectations and they are just not being met for whatever reason. Maybe comparing them to older flicks that are your higher standards? Or is it just bad writing, editing, etc.... for these newer Horror flicks? Maybe all the good stuff is already in the trailers and there isn't anything else to hang a hat on? Very curious to know.
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Post by: Mac on August 30, 2013, 09:46:47 am
Good question and similar to one I’ve thought about in recent years. Mainly I’ve been thinking about the quality of movies in general. I came very close to posting my overall displeasure with finding good movies. If you looked at my ratings, I would say I’ve given about 10% of my movie watching really good marks. That means 90% of the movies just don’t do much for me. I don’t think it’s that black and white, but I do get frustrated in watching so many mediocre movies.

But I realize that occurs for any of the arts for my perspective. Music. Art. Movies. Theater. Concerts.

And then I thought, a major part of my views on quality is closely related to cost and time. For instance, I pretty much have available all the movies I would want to see. They are at my disposal for free. So I pickup just about everything that even remotely interests me. Where concerts and theater are expensive and I really have to think about seeing them before plunging down dollars. So one thing leads to the next where I only go to the top shows that are highly interesting to me. If I had every show and concert available and checked them out, I would probably come to the same unbalanced view of quality shows. So if my movie viewing was expensive, I would put serious thought into what I want to pluck down money to watch.

Now when it comes to horror and sci-fi,  we need to take into account how I’ve personally changed over time. How I’ve experienced things and matured. For example, I use to really enjoy the slasher movies in my 20’s (Why enjoy slasher? That’s a whole other discussion). But after they made so many and I’ve seen so many, my taste has changed on that experience. Pretty soon, most slasher movies are the same making them boring and then it gets worse, because they are showing violence for violence sake and foregoing a story. This has happened in sci-fi as well.  In my later years, I am definitely looking out for something I’ve not seen before (This is completely counter to me watching a favorite old movie over and over). (grin).

My experiencing a wide variety of movie styles has molded me into recognizing good movies… for my tastes. So mediocre movies are going to fail before I even put it in the player.It doesn’t take long usually for me to recognize that after a movie starts. I still have hope to find that diamond. Thus, why I keep trying to watch it all. I also realize my tastes are very personal and don’t fall into norms at times. I still am not a fan of Oscar nominated movies. Maybe as I get older I’ll view them differently. Heck, in my youth I never enjoyed classical or Opera. Now, I love a lot of classical and some Opera seems to become appealing to me. It’s a learning experience.

We’ve all made out comments about Remakes. I find 99% of them a waste of time. Rarely does the remake bring something new. But as I’ve said, it’s no skin off my back or money loss if a studio goes that route. Make a Remake of a Remake of Remake. I can decide in 3 notes or less if it’s a waste of my time.

So to bring the circle around to your question about horror (it works with sci-fi too), I have seen a lot and my developed tastes bring my expectations up very high. For horror, that’s a hard thing to do… Present something I’ve not seen before. A new idea. A new way to make it horrifying. I honestly don’t know how a person can enjoy watching so many iterations of Friday The 13th, Chucky or Nightmare on Elm Street type movies. Yes the original was new and inventive. Sequel #4 not so much. Even my fav’s like the Alien, Predator and Terminator series, I DO NOT want to watch the same thing again in the sequels or prequels. Bring something new. So yes, the writing, editing, directing have a huge impact. I just find Hollywood going for the easy buck. There are good movies being made, I just have to hunt them down and that just makes the discovery that more sweet. I think I’ve indicated that in my reviews though too. I am very happy discovering a gem and give them high marks and recommendations. I just find it difficult to get behind a mediocre movie, give it any kind of decent rating and then even think about recommending it.

I’ve been ‘spoiled on good writing, good stories and good presentation. I want the best and expect the best.

(This goes for all other genres too. Especially comedy.)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 09:55:29 am
Ya know, as soon as I posted the question to you, I immediately thought of the fact that we both get our free fill of movies at the library and it does change perception of what the movie is and isn't. If we aren't paying money for it, it's not gonna elevate it to something truly spectacular. That's not a knock against the movie, it's something within the person. It's like you pay for a good steak and enjoy every damn bite. But you give the same person access to all the free steaks you can eat, day after day, it's gonna lose its appeal somewhat.

As for me, I think I do good job of mixing new releases with the older stuff I own. That way I don't get too affected by lack of quality when I have something that I know kicks ass waiting for me the next day.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 11:11:05 am
It couldn't possibly be because people donate crappy movies to the library, could it?
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Post by: Mac on August 30, 2013, 11:14:20 am
Your libraries take donations?

I know ours does not... thank gawd.

But to the statement, I'm sure that would have some impact.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 11:15:06 am
Nope. They get all the current new releases, just as you would on Amazon.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 11:29:27 am
Lucky bastards.  We mostly get the ones most people don't want.
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Post by: Mac on August 30, 2013, 11:40:15 am
Quote
Lucky bastards.  We mostly get the ones most people don't want.

Holy crap, what kind of library system is that? I don't want to sound like I'm crapping on it, but that kind of business plan seeeee-ucks.

You going to the Salvation Army Library?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 12:02:17 pm
Personally, I was first surprised that we were even carrying DVD's to begin with, but even MORE surprised that out Library actually orders new DVD's weekly and enough copies to cover all the branches. So, for the big release titles, they order about 20-25 copies. It's crazy, but locally we went from 2 Blockbusters within walking distance as well as a Mom and Pop video store. All 3 no longer exist as of last year.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 01:39:14 pm
Public Library.  This is a red state.  And one that doesn't really care about the libraries (they're not even open on Fridays).  And I'm not talking just about my local branch, it was mostly garbage at the big downtown library as well.

I miss Blockbuster.  Especially because I could get movies the weekend before they came out for nothin' so we were always slightly ahead of the curve (I worked there).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 01:50:41 pm
Prior to Blockbuster finally closing, I hadn't rented from them in probably 15 years. Most over-inflated retail store I had the misfortune of dealing with and this was when it was "cheap". When I last rented a movie there, it was 6 bucks for 3 days, 10 bucks for video games. Over the years, the prices got even higher with more restrictions. The last times I stepped foot in BB was maybe a month before they finally closed their doors and I couldn't believe the rental prices they had for movies. $12 for one day rental for movies. $15 for games. They priced themselves out of business. Now, this was just at my 2 local stores that I did this. I don't know if this was across the country and maybe it was based on local clientele that they could raise prices so high with the amount of expendable cash and foot traffic. But still......

I loved the Mom and Pop shops we use to have. The same movie for $1.50 for a week. Sure, they had smaller quantities of the big releases, but I didn't care at those prices.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 02:24:49 pm
Holy cow, that's WAY more expensive than what my store charged (of course, being an employee I didn't have to pay crap.  I DID keep my grandfathered-in multipass, flat rate per month, I could have three out at a time with no late fees.  They were fools for letting that offer expire).  I think, were you guys part of the "no late fees" thing?  We didn't have that here (we were franchises but we spent YEARS explaining that to our customers), but what the stores that cut the fees did was transfer the late fee cost into other things ("restocking" fees and so on). 
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 11:47:35 pm
I heard Hot Coffee was pretty good and I was already interested so I decided to see it.  WOW.  VERY good, though it's one of those movies that just makes you lose all hope for civilization (to be fair, how many documentaries have happy endings?).  If you haven't seen it, for the love of all that is good and holy and just in the world when they start talking about the burns look away because they'll show you the pictures and you do NOT want to see them.  I don't know if you've ever seen a picture of, say, a distended rectum, but it felt WAY worse.

I really need to find something really positive to watch now.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2013, 11:55:07 pm
I really need to find something really positive to watch now.

That's easy! I'd go with this (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-shawshank-redemption-(1994)/msg5029/#msg5029).
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2013, 11:58:54 pm
Oh, I forgot that before I saw iSteve, which was written in three days and shot in five and you know what... it shows.  It wasn't great but there were definitely some chuckles (Jorge Garcia playing Steve Wozniak of course), I don't want to spoil it (it's really short) but the sex scene made me cackle so hard.  Given the time period it takes place in, it makes so much sense in a "this doesn't name any sense" type of way.

Maybe I'll watch Get Shorty or some Monty Python or something.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2013, 09:43:53 pm
Dexter (Season 5 - 2010)

(http://i.imgur.com/ku4m8Fs.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dexter-(season-5-2010)/msg22432/#msg22432)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 02, 2013, 12:58:24 am
After that awesome 90s concert I decided to dig out Clerks which I haven't seen in YEARS (and which Blu-Ray I hadn't **** into at all) and dug.  It's been... I don't want to say the perfect amount of time, but it took forever for me to start because I got sucked into all the special features.

Now, Clerks II... which I'll bet has been four years since I've seen last.  Kinda too close for comfort at the moment, though.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 02, 2013, 11:55:15 pm
Well, "Smashed" was quite good, although... I dunno, I'd been waiting to see it for a while so I thought there was going to be some more intensity crammed into it, you know?  Which, I know it's REALLY something to say that a movie where Mary Elizabeth Winstead pees on the floor didn't go far enough but I guess I was just anticipating much messier stuff, venom spitting back and forth and scorched earth sh*t.

But I still liked it.  I get why everyone else liked it.

Dunno if I'll watch it again though.

Followed that up with "Coyote Ugly" which is so strange insofar is it seems to glorify drinking.  I put plenty of my thoughts (though only a fraction of all the notes i took).  It was research otherwise I think I would have turned it off any number of times.

Watching Mallrats now, another flick I haven't seen in a number of years.  I remember having this movie an audio cassette when I was younger, works great with just the soundtrack.  And watching it, I realize since the mall is an 80s design and the simple style that Smith/Klein shot it in, it sort of has a little John Hughes look to it.  Nowhere near that quality, of course, but...
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2013, 10:16:59 am
Pain & Gain (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

A different kind of film from Michael Bay. I, myself, have no feeling good or bad about the man. So I was pretty open to sitting down and watching this. I just don't get the appeal. Pain & Gain leans into black comedy and quite frankly, I'm not a fan... I get it... but I don't get the appeal. What I did like is I had no idea what was to happen next. A priority in my film watching.

I almost turned this off. It just wasn't grabbing me. The characters were incredibly stupid... and this is supposed to be based on true events? Anyway, it was definitely an odd flick. I would say Dwayne Johnson did the most stretching here of his character. I've never seen him like this. It was refreshing in a way.

Despite almost turning this off and being black comedy, I would say it was entertaining. I don't feel I wasted my time... BUT, I'll probably never watch it again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEQ8jyvmYtw
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2013, 10:22:41 am
El Gringo (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

Yet another odd film. I just happened across this channel surfing looking for something I haven't seen. Kind of a mix of El Mariachi. Machete and some of the old spaghetti westerns. This had a definite feel to it. Good or bad... I dunno. They really played around with editing and camera shots.

The acting was horrendous, but I just took that as prime unintentional B-movie. The story is nothing new. The execution is. I halfway recommend this.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQvEHeuAYsc
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2013, 10:29:42 am
Howard the Duck (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

and yet another bizarre freaking movie. I haven't watched since it came out on .... VHS.

I've been working my ass off downstairs laying tile all this weekend. I'm beat and I was just flipping through channels. I landed here and was too lazy to change it. Honestly this is one dumb ******* movie. Lea Thompson looks cute and great, but beyond that an idea that just executed badly. 

I do have a guilty pleasure though of the theme song. I really like it. I believe Thomas Dolby wrote it. Tongue firmly in cheek concludes the movie.
I actually had the 45 when I collecting records.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0oeY1KMY9U
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2013, 10:56:47 am
I remember nothing about this movie.
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2013, 03:31:23 pm
Which one? Duck?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2013, 03:41:17 pm
The one with the hot duck on duck action.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 03, 2013, 04:35:07 pm
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-BeA4aq_C0Yk/T2W-3UXKhsI/AAAAAAAADu4/nskEWgp-FdQ/s1600/duckman.jpg)
(couldn't resist)

I can't tell you how many times I rewatched the first ep of Double Jump.  Will put a link in the appropriate forum.
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2013, 07:16:37 pm
Gah, love Duckman. My friend somehow recorded all the episodes onto DVD for me. Fun to break out on occasion.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 03, 2013, 07:25:19 pm
I've never actually seen Duckman.  Gotta borrow those DVDs!  (I have such a soft spot for old recordings, like a time capsule, I REALLY wish I had kept all my Drew Carey Show tapes... that sh*t was on ALL the time and now, nowhere).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2013, 09:47:54 pm
Ultraviolet (2006)

(http://i.imgur.com/i6HY0Fl.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ultraviolet-(2006)/msg22499/#msg22499)

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Post by: Mac on September 04, 2013, 03:59:04 am
I had never watched The Drew Carrey Show when it ran. Then when it came on syndication later, watched it all the time. Yea, it sucks that is not still around.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 04, 2013, 10:46:35 pm
Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 05, 2013, 12:45:19 am
Watching Clueless.  Intentionally, for the first time.  My sister used to have the VHS so I would see bits and pieces of it (and I'm surprised by how much I remember) but I'd never say down and watch it.  Very cute (and given the amount of Friends I've been watching recently, I really wish I hadn't known Paul Rudd was in this, that would have blown my mind).

I really wish I was more familiar with Emma, because I'm sure that this plays on a whole other level then.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2013, 02:39:19 pm
Clueless is one that I never got around to seeing for myself. It has been on my Hold List for quite some time. Might see about getting it to my branch this week or next.....
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Post by: Neumatic on September 05, 2013, 03:47:01 pm
Dangit, I think I had an idea of a good movie to play against it but I don't remember.  I'm certainly glad I waited though, back in the day (it came out right when I moved back to the states) I didn't really have any context for it, so I couldn't enjoy it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2013, 06:38:13 pm
21 Grams (2003)

(http://i.imgur.com/p0xMygm.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/21-grams-(2003)/msg22556/#msg22556)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 05, 2013, 07:36:38 pm
The teaser for the Ppochie-ified Robocop wound up making me revisit the original.  So I am.

I watched most of Chasing Amy last night... I think Dogma's the last in the Jersey flicks I have to watch, and I totally didn't intend to marathon them at all (I still have to watch the original Star Wars trilogy and I've been putting that off forever).

Oh, and I watched Pulp Fiction the other night.  I forgot how f*cking LONG that movie was.  Ugh.  And I gotta tell you, maybe it's because I'm more mature and Tarantino's more mature, but it didn't really work for me the way it used to.  It must be a sign of a good director if he can make his old groundbreaking works feel obsolete.  Or maybe I was just tired.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2013, 08:49:23 pm
Dexter (Season 6 - 2011)

(http://i.imgur.com/U5vScnU.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dexter-(season-6-2011)/msg22615/#msg22615)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2013, 06:54:54 pm
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

(http://i.imgur.com/h8dpqFj.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-messenger-the-story-of-joan-of-arc-(1999)/msg22586/#msg22586)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 07, 2013, 11:19:08 pm
Beowulf (2007)

(http://i.imgur.com/iSFUYE0.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/beowulf-(2007)/msg22608/#msg22608)

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Post by: Mac on September 09, 2013, 07:45:21 am
The Place Beyond The Pines (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

At times I begin to wonder if it’s me, or if I’ve watched the same movie other folks have.

Last night we sat down to watch The Place Beyond The Pines. The synopses sounded good. Rotten tomatoes had a great score (78%), so when I had enough of this snooze-fest, I am wondering what is going on. Am I missing something?

In my boredom with the movie, I do see lots of comments in Rotten tomatoes describing what I saw. But an awful lot of post were calling this ‘epic’ in nature and best film of the year. I am scratching my head.

So now you know I didn’t like The Place Beyond the Pines. I’ll tell you the many reasons why.
Ryan Gosling. For the life of me, I don’t understand the praise this guy gets. I see him do one thing in movies. Stoned face, little words. If you liked his brooding character in Drive, then you’ll like him here. He does zero for me. I honestly do not see him even act. Which bring to mind the things he does.
This script has soooo many illogical moments. Why people do things in this movie just did not make any sense. There are too many, but I can see it was to move the story along and tie it back to another moment. Still, even for a drama, the decisions and actions are head scratchers.

Also the story is very predictable. I saw stuff coming a mile away.
The movie is far too long. After 1 hour and 45 minutes, I gave up. Stopped. I’m not giving away too much, but the movie is 3 different stories. The first hour belongs to Ryan Gosling’s character. The 2nd story belongs to Bradly Cooper’s character which overlaps at times the first hour. The 3rd section then gets into the children’s lives of the first two characters. If I didn’t care about the first two chapters, I certainly didn’t care at all of the last act.

It’s a very slow movie. Some may say it was a slow build up of character and tension. Nu-uh, the movie never gets out of 2nd gear. Even when Ryan Gosling is doing all the bank robberies, it’s still a yawn fest. Believe me, the trailer tries to make it look like plenty of action... uh, no
Gawd, this movie was slow.

Ray Liotta… well, he did what he only knows. The same character in all his other movies. A low life, corrupt character. Nothing new here. In fact, there is nothing new in this movie. I feel I’ve seen all these scenes some time before, and I don’t even like cop thriller movies.
I will never watch this again.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G07pSbHLXgg
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2013, 07:52:43 am
I don't even recall hearing anything about this movie. No promotion or trailers of any kind. This is all news to me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2013, 08:42:10 am
G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)

(http://i.imgur.com/oAWyAAC.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/g-i-joe-the-rise-of-cobra-(2009)/msg22621/#msg22621)

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Post by: Mac on September 09, 2013, 01:28:32 pm
For a Good Time Call… (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

Just happened across For A Good Time Call…
When the synopses talks about two fighting girls having to live together and start a Phone Sex business, you have my attention. While not as consistently funny as Bridesmaids, it does get crude at times but with a very natural cute slant. This definitely leans more towards chick flick, but it’s one those where the guys can enjoy it to. One of the main characters Lauran Ann Miller also wrote the screenplay. She is very cute and nice to look at, but Ari Graynor caught my attention. This is very reminiscent of Two Broke Girls. One who has always struggled, the other raised with a silver spoon, suddenly without.

I enjoyed the movie throughout. Mimi Rogers was sorely underused. And Justin Long did a pretty good job at doing a cliché gay man as the 3rd girlfriend.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMZhDdNfrE0
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2013, 06:04:04 pm
Leatherheads (2008)

(http://i.imgur.com/WsXCOEn.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/leatherheads-(2008)/msg22633/#msg22633)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 09, 2013, 08:20:56 pm
I just finished "No," which I totally dug (it was sheer luck that I had even heard of this flick). 

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e0/No_%282012_film%29.jpg)

It's set in 1988 and it's about this commercial campaign to get Pinochet elected out of office.  The first twenty minutes were kind of a drag, I'll be honest, but once they start work it got good, I enjoyed seeing these guys figuring out what they were going to say and how, and they show a lot of the campaign.

It's kind of brilliant because they were using the language of commercials, specifically American commercials of that time which we're kind of in the retro mood for, AND they're using it to change history in the movie but also to inform the audience watching the movie.  The idea of TV shaping opinions is kind of all over this movie in a great way, it's even shot in 4:3 (or 1.66:1, I guess) in I don't know WHAT video format that really looks like you're watching it on TV.  And the period details are so pinned down that it feels like they were shooting it all as it was happening.

And I love what the actual campaign looked like, but I won't spoil that for anyone.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2013, 08:23:15 pm
Never heard of it.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 09, 2013, 08:38:56 pm
Me either.  And it has a 93% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.  Seriously.  Go try and find it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2013, 05:51:50 pm
Boyz n the Hood (1991)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2013, 10:16:31 pm
Bad Boys (1983)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2013, 07:42:01 am
Dexter (Season 7 - 2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 13, 2013, 06:09:35 pm
Into the Wild (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2013, 11:32:05 am
Weeds (Season 1 - 2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2013, 10:23:39 pm
Miami Vice (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2013, 09:30:08 pm
Any Given Sunday (1999)

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Post by: Mac on September 16, 2013, 12:13:09 pm
Now You See Me (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzJNYYkkhzc

I’ve been wanting to watch this flick ever since it came out at the theaters. We almost went. I’m kinda glad I didn’t go. While I enjoyed the movie, I would have felt like I paid too much.
Don’t get me wrong, I thoroughly enjoyed most of the movie. I think it tripped up in the final act. Now You See Me is a very slick, tightly told story of several heists performed through magic and illusions. The distinguishing thing here is the money is not the object. The magicians give it all away to the audiences. There’s other reasons for the heists.

It’s fun, trying to figure out who the Fifth Horseman is. All the characters were unique and fun to watch. It has plenty of action to satisfy just about everybody. It seemed to have all the right ingredients.

I just think there are some plot holes and messing with the viewing audience to make it all come together at the end. But people will most like dismiss that and just sit back and enjoy the film.

I highly recommend Now You See Me
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2013, 12:43:27 pm
Ahhhhhhhhh, I totally forgot all about this one. Thanks for the review....adding to my Hold List. Gonna see if the Library has a copy in yet.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2013, 12:46:04 pm
Ugh.....I'm 152 in line. F*ck!  >:(
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Post by: Mac on September 16, 2013, 01:26:04 pm
Let us know what you think of it next year.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 16, 2013, 08:12:57 pm
Weeds (Season 2 - 2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 17, 2013, 05:58:08 pm
Tru Calling (Season 2 - 2005)

(http://i.imgur.com/xL6LQbC.jpg)

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Post by: Mac on September 19, 2013, 05:15:33 am
World War Z (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I saw this in the theater (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/what-are-you-looking-at-%28multiplex-edition%29/) and my mind hasn't changed. Enjoyable, but not so much to want to buy it or watch it over and over.
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Post by: Mac on September 19, 2013, 05:43:42 am
Frankenstein’s Army (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMUQ2IMuz8o

Frankenstein’s Army is one messed up flick. Messed up in the bizarre sense. Messed up in the very creative sense. Messing with your mind.

A small Russian troop has slowly been fighting the horrors of war across the German landscape. They  invade a small German town where things really get bad because one mad scientist, Frankenstein, has been experimenting mashing up Nazi’s and machines.

While a lot of the scenes are ‘disturbing’, I did find myself white knuckling on occasion. It is over the top creativity with the monsters, but the confrontations do become rather visceral. It reminds me a little of The Human Centipede and it’s been a very long time since I played Wolfenstein, but Frankenstein’s Army brought back memories much like playing the game. I also find the movie much like experiencing a nightmare.

Frankenstein’s Army certainly is different. I found the extra’s “Making of” pretty interesting too. I mean, the movie is like a nightmare, but once you see the ‘normal’ people behind the making of the film, the creativity, the inventiveness by folks like you and me, it just shines a whole new perspective on a project like this.

I found it interesting and entertaining. I would recommend this if your a horror fan.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 20, 2013, 12:09:15 am
Clueless (1995)

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Post by: Mac on September 20, 2013, 05:51:55 am
No One Lives (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

I tried to find a trailer that didn't give to much away. It's better to just watch the movie quickly unfold.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4HxhzBG0ag

Didn’t think much about this movie when picking it up. I only remember the trailer intrigued me.
The synopses on the back sums it up well.

Quote
A ruthless criminal gang takes a young couple hostage and goes to ground in an abandoned house in the middle of nowhere. When the captive girl is killed, the tables are unexpectedly turned. The gang finds itself outsmarted by an urbane and seasoned killer determined to ensure that no one lives.

This is an interesting film in that at the core, it is a gory, slasher movie with a psychopath who, though has no heart, is very intelligent. The character reminds me of Chigurh from No Country for Old Men. And his targets are low life’s that get what’s coming to them. And to add some thickness to the rather straightforward story is young woman who already come face to face with the serial killer and is telling her new captors what to expect.

There is one scene in here that is extraordinary and you will drop your jaw and go “Oh, no he din’t”. You may buy into it or you may roll your eyes. You will know without hesitation what I’m talking about.

No One Lives does get very, very bloody, I think it’s more than the standard fare of mindless slasher movies. While I probably won’t watch it again, I was entertained while watching it last night.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 20, 2013, 11:43:01 pm
This Is 40 (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 21, 2013, 07:20:00 pm
Weeds (Season 3 - 2007)

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Post by: Mac on September 22, 2013, 09:12:35 am
Star Trek Into Darkness (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

A big Meh

I enjoy Star Trek, of what I've seen in TV shows, movies and such. I really liked the Abram's reboot, but I was not stoking to see this.

While I was entertained, it just didn't do much for me, especially to watch it again. It all seemed formulaic in the sense, the story throws the worst things that can happen and you know somehow, it will turn out right.

There were several things in here I didn't understand. The biggest one by far is Mr. Spock. i just don't get any of that. I'm not buying into Spock having a any kind of girlfriend. That all just seems so forced. Lastly, Into Darkness has Peter Weller as Adm Marcus who for some reason has a British talking daughter.

All minor stuff, but still a story that was watered down over two hours and just becomes mediocre for me.

It looked and sounded great though.  :P
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 23, 2013, 09:28:35 pm
Scandal (Season 2 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 24, 2013, 12:26:05 am
Man, I haven't chimed in for a while.

Well, the "big" movie-- or the one that's stuck in my head, was "Dick."  Did I mention Dick before?  I forget how I heard about it, but it was sort of a logical extension of "Clueless," it's a comedy set in the 70s where two airbrain, vapid girls take down the Nixon administration.  It came out in about 1999, but I'm glad I never saw it then because now I have WAY more context for it.

The best thing about the movie: the casting.  The FIRST scene has French Stewart as Larry King interviewing Woodward and Bernstein... played by Will Ferrell and Bruce McCullouch, bickering like children.  Dan Hadeya made a pretty good Nixon and even baby Ryan Reynolds shows up.

But my big issue with the movie was: who was the audience for this movie?  It was PG-13 but the younger kids wouldn't be aware of the details that the flick was parodying... maybe it was a nostalgia thing for the older audiences, I dunno.  I did like the idea of taking a moment in history where people just lost faith in the world and turned it into an almost an innocent romp, that was an interesting direction to go in.

Don't know if I would watch it again, though.  But it made an interesting companion piece to Clueless (though that was the superior flick).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 24, 2013, 12:28:40 am
I know the movie you are referring to. It just never appealed to me and I always bypass it on the shelf when browsing for movies to watch. Not sure if I will ever feel compelled to check it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 24, 2013, 01:02:24 am
It never appealed to me either... I was honestly just curious to see Hadeya as Nixon (I liked him).  I really wish that there weren't names in the opening credits because I was so happy to see people like Dave Foley or Ted MicGinley show up (Saul Rubinek was Henry Kissinger, brilliant casting IMHO).

Been watching a lot of Futurama while storyboarding this indie flick... saw a bunch of episodes I hadn't seen in a LONG time.  Not sure what I'm gonna do when I run out of them, though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 24, 2013, 05:43:17 am
You can watch AMC 'smega marathon of Breaking Bad, which will air every episode starting tomorrow leading right up to the Series Finale on Sunday. Sure, you will have to call in sick, skip bathroom breaks and have your food delivered to you in that time. But it's worth it.  ;D
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 27, 2013, 03:54:12 pm
Weeds (Season 4 - 2008)

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Post by: Mac on September 29, 2013, 05:25:20 pm
Iron Man 3 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Let me preface with I really, really enjoyed Iron Man. Going in with no expectations, it was a blast to watch in character and story.

Iron Man 2, I've already forgotten so much about it.

Iron Man 3 did absolutely nothing for me. It was so far removed, IMO, but maybe the 3rd story is where they wanted to be in the Iron Man world. To me as a casual viewer, Iron Man 3 had many distractions. First the kid, that came out of nowhere and didn't add much, except said distraction. Then Tony Stark totally losing his **** and getting an anxiety attack, just seemed odd. And then I am STILL having a hard time reconciling his world with Aliens and Gods from a different world. Several times it was dealt with in the movie with him shrugging it off.

The special effects just got into the Super Hero world where the Iron Man suit has a life of it's own.

Ugh.

So disappointed, I know It will be sometime before I want to spend anytime watching it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CzoSeClcw0
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Post by: Mac on September 29, 2013, 05:38:13 pm
The East (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I didn't recall why I picked up The East until the very end credits where I saw Tony and Ridley Scott Producing. I must have picked it up for that alone.

The East is about a domestic terrorist group that targets corporations and their CEO's, by providing them with a taste of their own production miscalculations that are hidden from the public. It has a great cast with Brit Marling, Alexander Skarsgård and Ellen Page. But unfortunately the movie tends to be a bit messy and I didn't quite understand what was happening the first 30 minutes. I also had a hard time believing Marling as undercover FBI. She has a family with Jason Ritter, who is only present about 5 minutes in the movie, because she pretty much ditches her family life for this investigation. Jason Ritter does seem to have only one speed though. He did the same exact character as Parenthood.

I'm glad I stuck with it to kind of get a glimpse inside a group of folks who dedicate themselves to tackle a corporation. But with no leader, justice, direction and goals can get chaotic.

The East is not a great film, but I would recommend for something different.

It mostly likely will fade away very quickly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VZpeoQsQ1w
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Post by: Mac on September 29, 2013, 05:48:42 pm
Cold Sweat (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

I am pis sed. I read just a little while ago an article on must see, but probably missed horror films. Cold Sweat got a good review. I'd like to meet the person who wrote this, because there was very little to take away from this film...

Except... if you throw all believability out the window. Even as much as I like odd films, this just didn't make sense. In a nutshell, 2 very old men, one who needs a walker, the other so fat, gets winded walking stairs, is abducting women and torturing them. They also put a Nitroglycerin solution on them, that supposedly is so unstable, anything will set it off.

This is just a silly stupid movie. The effects are horrible and editing worse. This may pass in other countries, but I thought this was well below a B-movie.

Avoid this 'recommended' horror flick.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N15yU0806vU
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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2013, 07:04:14 am
The Iceman

Another movie I picked up with very little knowledge of what it was about. In essence, based on true events of the infamous hit man Richard Kuklinski, known as The Iceman. The Iceman is play by Michael Shannon, who does nothing for me as an actor. The last movie I saw him in was Premium Rush, and while he demonstrated some acting skills, he still has one style. Pretty much stoned face or grimace. And maybe that’s why he was picked to emulate The Icemman, but to me that makes terrible, uninteresting story telling. Ray Liotta was an upcoming mob boss (surprise, surprise), getting Kuklinski on his way to his hitman career. Gawd, Liotta is one dimensional too. This all seemed so repetitive in every respect.

I turned it off after 45 minutes.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aciNNjzyS20




Empire State

And yet another movie I knew zero about, but it had Dwayne Johnson in it. How bad can It be. Well, extremely boring. This was not a weekend for any good movies. Empire State is a brink’s truck company that seems to be the center of corruption. The story dragged about a young man wanting to become a cop, but fails because of past drug bust, so he does the next thing and becomes a security guard.

I think this was going to be heist movie. I dunno. I was so bored and didn’t care about any of the characters by the time The Rock made his way on screen.

I too, turned this off after 30 minutes or so.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaycdPGK8ek
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2013, 07:26:43 am
Never heard about either one. You'd think that any movie with Dwayne Johnson in it would have gotten plenty of exposure. I can't recall one trailer or print AD for this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2013, 09:30:08 pm
Weeds (Season 5 - 2009)

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Post by: Mac on October 01, 2013, 07:16:21 am
Dont Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvPD20KFagY

Everyman’s Journey is a documentary of the current band members of Journey searching, finding and recruiting Arnel Pineda, a Filipino struggling to survive in his home land, as their singer and front man. The story is quite amazing and the documentary goes through every detail how this was accomplished. It was a slow reveal like layers on an onion, that they told the story. It was quite interesting to see the band meet Arnel the first time, try him out and the evolution that occurred there. Same with the introduction of Arnel to the fans at live shows. It was a mixed bag on reactions, but the bottom line, Journey was struggling to stay relevant and they were able to revitalize themselves with this singer. There’s no denying that trying to fill Steve Perry’s shoes is a massive undertaking. Pineda does have a great voice with exceptional range. To the point, I find it odd to watch because of that expressive voice coming out of such a small man.

The down side of the film is towards the back half of the film, things really slow down and become repetitive. Waiting for shows in the green room. Contemplating next moves, a minor cold, etc.

Most of the documentary is interesting and I highly recommend it, especially if your Journey fan like me.
 
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 01, 2013, 07:19:40 am
Didn't know about the doc. Definitely interested in checking this out. Thanks dude. Hey Mac, how many albums have they recorded with Arnel? All I know about the guy is that he is the latest singer and has been fronting the band for a while now, but I haven't (or can't remember) if they have released any new material with the guy.
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Post by: Mac on October 01, 2013, 08:13:46 am
The band has done 2 studio albums with Pineda. Revelation @ #5 and Eclipse @ #15. I have not heard either one yet. They have also done a live DVD which brought my attention to all of this.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b9/Journey_-_Revelation.jpg/220px-Journey_-_Revelation.jpg)

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8f/Journey-Eclipse.jpg/220px-Journey-Eclipse.jpg)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o42DB5gLBk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 02, 2013, 01:24:59 pm
Weeds (Season 6 - 2010)

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Post by: Mac on October 03, 2013, 11:13:49 am
The Croods (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBdiFU6DgpE

The Croods is the latest animated installment from Dreamworks. Nicolas Cage as Grug, the father, Emma Stone as Eep as the very outgoing young female, And Ryan Reynolds as Guy, a young man on his own.

The Croods is as entertaining as they come. Fun enough for kids and mature enough for adults to enjoy. Everything about this movie was entertaining, from the characters to the story to the visually stunning animation and sets.

The Croods is one of the last human families on earth. The other families did not survive nature. As the earth is still changing, The Croods home (cave) gets destroyed. They come across Guy who is searching to ride the sun. This all turns into a family road trip to new destinations. And the adventure is fun. I do see the comparisons to Avatar.

While keeping a very nice balance of Neanderthal man and today’s language, it’s a great setup for all kinds of new perspectives. There is plenty of action to keep this movie rolling. I’ve heard complaints that the Croods is riding the coattails of Ice Age. I don’t see it at all.

I laughed out loud quite a few times and in fact had a tear at the end. Loved this flick and think you will too.

(http://img3.targetimg3.com/wcsstore/TargetSAS//img/p/14/74/14749143_201308192113.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 03, 2013, 11:16:16 am
Will definitely check this out based on your review, but I'm stumped as to why I never saw any promos for this at all. Nothing. No trailers, posters, TV spots or word of mouth. This is the first I'm hearing about this. WTF!
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Post by: Mac on October 03, 2013, 12:41:14 pm
Really? While it was not promoted as well as Epic (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/movies/epic/msg13442/#msg13442), promo's were out there. It did a respectable job.... $185M (US)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 05, 2013, 02:48:57 pm
Weeds (Season 7 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 05, 2013, 05:21:38 pm
Not The Messiah! popped up on Netflix.  I've been listening to this song over and over at this point, but really, the whole show is cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGvv215yCOQ
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Post by: Mac on October 06, 2013, 09:38:21 am
This is the End (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILnE7dEhCcc

To me, This is the End is the classic case where if you have some of the hottest top talent together in 1 film, it has to be good because of the talent that just oozes out. IMO, that rarely happens and the 'stars' still need to put their best game on to make good entertainment. While bits and pieces of funny do flare up, This is the End was rather frustrating to watch. Is it because I was expecting wall to wall funny? I dunno, but I could count on one hand a mild laugh and really didn't even smile or grin through the movie. It all seems to be an inside joke being self aware. There were many times I watched with a confused mind. WTF are they doing (mostly the drug trip).

What I did like is they seemed to portray themselves how a real person would react in most situations. That was about half the time. The rest of the time was Over-The-Top silliness. And that's pretty much how I would label this.

Silly.

I was mildly entertained, but really disappointed. I doubt I'd ever watch this again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 06, 2013, 10:20:15 am
I'm still interested in checking this one out.
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Post by: Mac on October 07, 2013, 06:36:12 am
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The Kings of Summer is one of the more entertaining films I’ve seen this year. Maybe because it’s full of nostalgia for me. I could relate to most everything is this flick. Even the filler, yes, there are filler scenes, but it all related to seeing, recognizing those little things that made growing up in my teens amazing. Every character was unique and stood out. So well written. The dialog was just amazing, even down to the sarcastic gesture. I laughed quite a bit. Nick Offerman (Joe’s Dad) was a hoot. A dick, but a hoot. The script is so multi-layered and always something going on. And it scores big for surprising me at every turn. I would say you could watch it just for Biaggio, the 3rd man of the kings. What came out of his mouth always amazed… in a very strange way. Gabriel Basso (The Big C) is as good as ever and definitely shines, where he was character cast badly in Super 8. The Kings of Summer is a quirky movie, but I loved every bit of it. The trailer does it justice. I highly recommend checking this out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cio8LOCZPzw
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 07, 2013, 08:27:34 pm
Weeds (Season 8 - The Final Season - 2012)

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Post by: Mac on October 10, 2013, 06:19:29 am
The Hangover III (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLAkxSjs8ZY

I went into this reluctantly.

I watched the original, but I must be in the minority, because I didn’t think it was all that. It was decent, but not great. Hangover II I heard was repeat of the original and not very good and that was true. Rehashing jokes makes the jokes non-funny. I understand it still made money. So do to studio formula, the trilogy has to be made. It will make money. Damn the quality. And that is true.

Watching Hangover III was the longest, most excruciating experience I’ve had in a long time. As my wife said several times how stupid this was, she continued to watch it. I asked her not once but twice, we have other movies to watch. Nada. So I had to sit there for 90+ minutes and watch something less interesting than grass growing. I’m not going to get into the details, except for one. This was all about Chow, and he’s not funny. I didn’t think any of the characters were funny this time around.

I wasted too much time writing this about this crap. I can’t even recommend this to a fan of the series.


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J50vA5VLR6k

It is what it is. It doesn’t try to hide the silliness. While it falls squarely into all the other lame spoofs, I think it does so with a mocking attitude of the movies it emulates, and that just gives it some spice of entertainment that makes this not a total loss. A haunted House is only unique in the sense that it copies the filming technique of the Paranormal Activity movies with camera’s stationed throughout the house and the handheld camera. I went into this too with little expectations. It  does have a Wayan’s involved and I pretty much enjoy their brand of humor. This does not disappoint. The humor is immature and crass… a lot. Mostly sexual innuendo. There were two scenes that made me laugh so hard, I had tears. Yet 75% of movie is just meh. Not a total loss, but I sure enjoyed this a 1000 times more than Hangover III
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 10, 2013, 07:14:56 am
Hangover II still leaves a bad taste in my mouth that seeing Hangover III is very low in my must-see list. If I happen to come across a copy and nothing else to watch, I will probably check it out. But I definitely don't have it on my Hold List.
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Post by: Mac on October 10, 2013, 08:50:47 am
Neither did I.

It was very weird, the library lady was stacking like 10 copies of it on the 'new' shelf.

I just don't get how that all works. I know there is hundreds of folks waiting in queue to see it. Why didn't these go to them?

Same thing with After Earth. Lots of copies sitting on the shelf when I know there is currently a high demand.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 10, 2013, 10:56:01 am
Consider yourself lucky. It's obvious that you Library system works differently from mine. Something like "sitting on the shelf", especially for a movie that is just released will never happen here. In most cases, the wait list for titles can get as deep as 200, and that's when it's just 'On-Order' which means the DVDs aren't even in the system yet.
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Post by: Mac on October 10, 2013, 11:23:50 am
I think for the most part it works like yours. But I do think individual libraries have a silo type business plan. They somehow can 'reserve' an item outside of the system. Just for their library.

200? That ain't nuttin' .  ;) Right now The Heat is at 800+ waiting. I remember Argo had 1200 in the queue before it became available.

On a side note: On thing I kind of noticed with my system are the upcoming titles. If it's not in the system, but I know from Amazon it will be available on a reasonable future date, I can make a request for that title. They typically send back a canned response of it's not available currently. But they must put me in the system for the request because when it does get put in, I am automatically added to queue.

So lately I make a lot of title requests by going through Amazon on their titles being released in the next month or so. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 10, 2013, 11:26:13 am
I'm gonna see about requesting that I get added early for future DVD releases. I hate having to keep looking and finding out that I'm already late to the party. Let the damn library do all the work!!
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Post by: Mac on October 10, 2013, 12:57:17 pm
Just might work.

You know, I was either going to try to figure out or ask the library tech, if there is some way to alert me when they add something new to the system.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 10, 2013, 09:50:09 pm
The Lost Boys (1987)

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Post by: Mac on October 11, 2013, 06:20:56 am
Europa Report (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbw9hlBnG74

A found footage genre of film where a crew attempt to explore further reaches of the solar system by going to one of Jupiter’s moons… Europa. The film is cobbled together from all the observing camera’s. For the first time, this found footage is done in a way that doesn’t frustrate the viewer. This is not Gravity with eye candy footage. There is some impressive scenes and it all looks very authentic, to give it that science look over the science fiction look.

There can be some comparison’s to Apollo 18, a sci-fi/horror movies from a little while back, but the comparison is only in the space ship look and feel. Besides the last minute or two, do not depend on Europa Report to Sci-Fi fantasy. Europa Report is a slow methodical flick, with some pretty good moments of tension. But I feel with the found footage aspect dulls the tension quite a bit with extreme close-ups, fuzzy camera perspectives and general editing, where the viewer has to try to figure out what is going on.

I think Europa Report did a fantastic job of providing a realistic adventure to deep space.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 11, 2013, 08:42:23 pm
Near Dark (1987)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 12, 2013, 04:01:26 pm
Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 12, 2013, 10:57:12 pm
From Dusk Till Dawn (1996)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 12, 2013, 11:01:11 pm
It's a day too soon for me to watch Horror flicks (though I found my rental of Chronos didn't work in my room's blu-ray player.  Might have to upgrade the stupid software, I hate doing that).

I did watch "This Is The End."  Love the level of utter creep that Michael Cera played at-- and Emma Watson is so f'in' adorable.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 12, 2013, 11:04:08 pm
Don't let Mac hear you say it's "too soon for Horror". It could get ugly.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on October 12, 2013, 11:17:46 pm
Well, there's only a few horror movies and types that I like, I wanna make sure I don't shoot my wad too soon.  I usually just wait until the 13th(since it's my bro's birthday, and he loves and acts in horror movies, it seems like a pretty good date).
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Post by: Mac on October 13, 2013, 05:40:57 am
Nah, that sounds like a great reason for that date.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 14, 2013, 09:38:59 pm
Frailty (2001)

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Post by: Mac on October 15, 2013, 09:48:00 am
After Earth (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcNyzu4IdM

As someone simply and clearly said... Everything that could go wrong with this movie was here. Story, casting, CGI, acting, direction.

I knew going in, it did not get received well. In fact, it was so low on my priorities, I had it sitting there for a whole week and pretty much forgot about it.

Anyway, I did slip it in and from the first frame, I got a bad feeling. When pubescent Jaden Smith is doing the voice over, it sounds so wrong. Then it just continues to slip from there. This is Will Smith story and he is seriously miscasts himself as Cypher Raige, a person with zero personality, with a cringe on his face and ice cold to his son. Jaden character is 1 dimensional, and he can't even pull that off. He's wimpering and whining most of the time.

Otherwise the majority of this story is standard son trying to connect with dad in the environment of running through the jungle. Cypher literally sits in one place (his legs are broken) and does little else.

Some CGI is good, other times it's obvious.

By now we all know this project was Will Smiths desire to send his son to stardom. I doubt After Earth has tarnished Will Smith, but it sure seems a huge set back for Jaden and M. Night.

Bottom line, a very forgettable film. You don't care about any of the characters, so why would I want to ever think about revisiting this film.

The general consensus is After Earth is a turd and I completely agree.

Suggestion for Will Smith. Do what you know. Work with directors and shape your talent. I think Will Smith misfired big time and all perspectives with this project.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 15, 2013, 09:52:33 am
I've heard nothing but bad reviews about this. So, will this once and for all banish M. Night behind the counter where he can work in a video store and reminisce with customers about how he was once the "Golden Child" of Hollywood? Seriously, get this hack out of Hollywood. He is doing more harm than good to the medium that he professes to love. He peaked with The Sixth Sense. Why won't he just go away? With that said, the critical drubbing that After Earth is getting is making it hard for me to not check this out for myself.
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Post by: Mac on October 15, 2013, 10:34:48 am
After Earth teeters on being MST3K material or just boring you.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 16, 2013, 02:43:38 pm
I still don't understand why, if it's Earth, all the creatures are made up.  Shouldn't it still be tigers and lions and bears and snakes and stuff like that?  If it's different creatures, shouldn't it be a different planet?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2013, 02:55:09 pm
I still don't understand why his parents would ever name their child M. Night.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 16, 2013, 03:03:18 pm
Because he's the opposite of Charlie Day (actually, his name is Manoj, I think "Night" might be an adaptation of "Nelliate," his father's name).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2013, 06:00:35 pm
Blade (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 17, 2013, 09:15:55 pm
Blade II (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 18, 2013, 09:48:46 pm
Blade: Trinity (2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 18, 2013, 10:20:51 pm
You know, outside of the Simpsons Treehouse of Horrorses, I haven't watched that many horror movies this month (though I did revisit the Shining last night).
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Post by: Mac on October 19, 2013, 04:48:20 am
Aftershock (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ax5yTUi-wvY

I've known about Aftershock for quite some time because of Eli Roth's involvement. I'm not sure it ever hit the theaters and then suddenly it shows up at the library.

Well, aftershock is a mess. It could have been good, but the overall look and feel comes very close to a SyFy channel productions. Eli Roth just can't act. He had some production input it too and the gory scenes are his work. Many problems start with almost 40 minutes of introducing people. Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to long and they are not that interesting. Then after the Earthquake, it doesn't really know what direction to take and just tries them all. Survival, danger by buildings, danger by mob, danger by prison break, danger by one lunatic. The editing was horrible and the special effects as I've said, it reminiscent of SyFy material.

I really gave up within minutes after the quake, because it just was uninteresting.

I'll never watch this again.

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Post by: Mac on October 19, 2013, 04:59:31 am
The Heat (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST16k80bDYE

The Heat is everything we've seen before... EXCEPT with women this time around. The mixed buddy cop movie, but this time with a foul mouthed woman forced to be partner with her exact opposite.

Very funny stuff. It maintains it laughs throughout. Sandra Bullock rarely disappoints and she is great here. One of the anticipated elements is when will Ashburn let loose with cussing?

And Melissa McCarthy is just a barrage of lines. R-rated lines and it never gives up. If you've seen the outtake of This is 40, the principal scene.... that is McCarthy through the whole movie. I found that funny as hell.

Paul Fieg directed and he apparently knows his female comedy (Bridesmaids).

Must watch the extras. Though they don't say gag reel, it is all gags from the movie. I laughed more watching these.

Highly recommend.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 19, 2013, 07:28:30 pm
Blade: The Series (Season 1 - 2006)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 19, 2013, 10:10:32 pm
Just finished "The Perfect Host" (I've seen it before, but holy cow is David Hyde Pierce creepy when he wants to be), now I've finally decided to crack into "Red State."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 19, 2013, 10:18:38 pm
Never heard of The Perfect Host.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 19, 2013, 11:11:54 pm
David Hyde Pierce = psychopath torturing a guy who broke into his house.  Def worth a watch.
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Post by: Mac on October 20, 2013, 06:50:27 am
Quote
David Hyde Pierce = psychopath torturing a guy who broke into his house.  Def worth a watch.

I remember seeing the trailer many times aver the years... Just never took the step to check it out.

Should I?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 24, 2013, 10:13:15 pm
Bubba Ho-Tep (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 25, 2013, 11:06:24 pm


Cape Fear (1991)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 26, 2013, 05:01:06 pm
Duel (1971)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2013, 08:57:37 pm
The Resident (2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 28, 2013, 10:19:06 pm



The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 29, 2013, 09:25:33 pm
42 (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 30, 2013, 09:00:25 pm
The Sixth Sense (1999)

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Post by: Mac on October 31, 2013, 06:35:02 am
The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDnYMbYB-nU

This was definitely on the bottom of my list of items to watch. 1) it’s fantasy. 2) I had to read the Hobbit back in grade school and didn’t like it; sour taste.

I watched it because it happened to come on the tele, while I had to do a ton of ironing. I was a captured audience.

I will give the movie thumbs up for presenting a complicated story to a non-hobbit fan in an entertaining way. I can now put visuals to those characters I had a hard time with before when reading. Let alone all the mystical geographical places that confused the hell outta me.

The CGI work was amazing, as was the sound and photography. It all tied together quite well, despite the massive scope of the film. There is a lot going on and in many of the action scenes, it’s so massive and complicated, it gets lost on the littler home screen.

That being said, for a fantasy film, I was entertained for the 2-1/2+ hours. Peter Jackson did an amazing job.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 31, 2013, 06:45:51 am
I couldn't even remember anything about the movie and had to go back and re-read my review to jog the memory and I still can't remember any of it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 31, 2013, 10:06:04 pm
Poltergeist (1982)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 01, 2013, 09:07:21 pm
Flight (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 02, 2013, 07:07:58 pm
Oh, God! (1977)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 02, 2013, 11:30:45 pm
Oh, God! Book II (1980)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 03, 2013, 07:14:49 pm
Basic Instinct (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2013, 06:26:44 pm
Basic Instinct 2 (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 05, 2013, 08:44:53 pm
Natural Born Killers (1994)

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Post by: Mac on November 06, 2013, 08:00:35 am
Would You Rather (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it5XICr93wU

Loosely based on the simple, yet interesting moral and ethical game of making a choice given between two hypothetical questions. Except in this horror movie, everything is amp’d up quite a bit where the questions dive deeply into getting hurt very badly to death. And, the cast of players ‘have’ to act upon their decisions. Very much related to the Saw movies, Would You Rather does keep your attention. There are plenty of interesting characters, even though you know who will ‘win’. Jeffrey Combs is the only actor I recognized and he kept his typical ‘over the top’ acting to a minimum.

Would You Rather is sadistic in the sense of watching these people do things to each other or to themselves. But at the same time, like the game, it brings up moral dilemmas and that kept my attention.

Not a great horror movie. It is a semi-fresh perspective on this genre of horror film. Not a great movie, but I was still guessing throughout the new twists and turns the movie took.

I mildly recommend Would You Rather, if you like this kind of horror.
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Post by: Mac on November 06, 2013, 08:18:21 am
Monsters University (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onZe3gOhWkQ

I really enjoy most of the animated films of late, especially by Pixar. I think most of the studio’s have figured out the balance of entertaining the kiddies as well as the adults. I remember some of the original Monsters Inc, mainly because it was in the forefront of this new animated technology and providing a fun script.

Monsters University is the follow-up as a prequel  for the college years of Mike and Sully. The crossing of paths and then the eventual friendship that grows between them. The animation is flawless, colorful and sharp. The script on the other hand leans heavily towards appealing to a very young crowd. I found it very child like. Also, this is not far removed from Revenge Of The Nerds. Very similar concept and for me, nothing new story wise.

Don’t get me wrong, this is still a fun animated movie that anyone can enjoy. I can recommend this with no regrets.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 06, 2013, 08:24:59 am
I own Monster Inc on DVD, but I haven't watched it in years and really don't remember anything from it. Need to revisit that first before checking out Monsters University.
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Post by: Mac on November 06, 2013, 08:33:27 am
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Need to revisit that first before checking out Monsters University.

You don't have too. It is a prequel, thus not dependent upon in Monsters Inc. It might be better to watch University and then Inc.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 06, 2013, 07:06:14 pm
Pan's Labyrinth (2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 07, 2013, 01:12:55 pm
Girls (Season 1 - 2012)

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Post by: Mac on November 08, 2013, 06:35:10 am
The Purge (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0LLaybEuzA

I honestly was not sure what to expect from The Purge. The trailer definitely portrayed something unique. So I was intrigued. Yet as the movie progress, I got the feeling the project took the wrong turn every time it had an opportunity to be something special. The end result for the flick just becomes eye rolling. I believe The Purge was partly inspired by the classic short story The Lottery. The film makers are asking the viewer to take the leap of faith that The Purge yearly night is based on allowing people to ‘purge’ their evil feelings for 12 hours with no repercussions. Thus the remaining part of the year people have no need for violence. The movie tries to inject some morality and ethics to balance out the absurd idea. There were a couple of surprise moments, especially towards the end, but those slivers of WTF do little to give this movie any bite.

I think the main problem is most the characters react in ways I would not expect to be real. I got a feeling of The Stepford Wives for most of the people’s emotions. I was just not buying into most of what people were doing, IMO, making this a very stupid thinking film. Ethan Hawke has been in several sci-fi type films with varying degrees of success. Here, he just mangles it. Max Burholder (Parenthood), is the only other actor I recognized. He really didn’t do much, in fact his Asperger’s character in Parenthood has brought way more emotions than in The Purge.

Visually, the movie sucked. While thankfully the movie avoids the shaky cam, the director of photography takes the stance of in-your-face close-ups. Way too many scenes where faces take up the entire screen.

I can’t even recommend this film. Read The Lottery instead.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2013, 07:01:41 am
Never heard about this one. But I will say that the plot does sounds interesting though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 09, 2013, 11:47:21 pm
The Doors (1991)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2013, 06:19:58 pm
Erin Brockovich (2000)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 12, 2013, 09:20:13 am
Road to Perdition (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 13, 2013, 06:36:58 am
A History of Violence (2005)

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Post by: Mac on November 14, 2013, 07:24:57 am
Man of Steel (2013)

Again, another Super Hero movie, I will not attach a rating because I’m biased in not liking those types of films. Again, I really do like Iron Man and Thor, thus my reason of holding out hope to find another I will like.

First, the big cons. The entire film uses hand held camera work. Not shaky cam, but enough constant movement w/ minor shakes to absolutely bug the crap outta me. I had to look away at simple scenes of people talking. And the aerial shots are not much better. Using camera angles and zooms as if watching through a reconnaissance plane.

Pro: I like the way the film told the story of Kal-el’s birth, teen years, and especially his *relationship with Lois.

So I just described the two extremes.

Everything between is Meh. I really got lost on some of the story telling. I really didn’t understand Gen. Zod. I couldn’t tell if he wanted to kill Kal-el or really wanted to preserve Krypton’s culture. I’ve said this before, I don’t Michael Shannon. I don’t think he can act and he did nothing for me here. I did like Russell Crowe, Diane Lane and Kevin Costner’s presence. *I’m glad they didn’t portray Kal-el as some kind of doof.

There is sooooooo much destruction in this movie, it far surpasses anything I’ve seen in any other kind of movie. I think it was over done. The fights, the flying, the destruction became cartoonish or video game like in places. And that’s another big problem here. Lots of eye-candy with the CGI, destruction, fights and flying. I’m glad it didn’t go down the previous versions of Superman, but then again, I don’t think they went far enough. I would have liked to seen way more character from Superman.

I doubt very much I would ever watch this again. On one hand I think I know why this one of the biggest films this year, but bottom line it’s all fluff and offers very little in repeatability.

*Spoiler
Spoiler (hover to show)

Questions for fanboys (with regards to the movie)…. Why does Superman (or Batman for that matter), wear a cape? According to the movie, he could fly without it. Looks cool? Why the S on the chest? Another thing I did not understand and they tried to explain… twice. I didn’t get Jor-el’s presence in the remainder of the movie after he died. None of that made sense. How did two little human size individuals decimate an entire city? A 6ft tall individual does not bring down a towering 100 story building by hitting its side.

I gotta just quit watching these things.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 14, 2013, 07:40:46 am
I've tried my best to avoid spoilers pertaining to Man Of Steel. There is one thing that has been unavoidable and that is the destruction that takes place within the movie. This is actually something that fans of the genre and the comic books actually applaud because it is something that is always talked about. We have always done a "well if Superman was a real person, then the destruction would be so much worse than what's been depicted thus far.....". So, its inclusion beyond a plot device is also fan service as well.

As for the Cape and Logo, Batman is trying to look like a "Bat", so it makes sense. In the end, capes just look cool and it was more about creating movement and motion on the printed page more than any practical use it may bring. In theory, capes would be the worst thing a superhero could have given that it would be cumbersome and getting in the way all the time.

I have been searching in my library's database everyday for the past 2 weeks waiting for the ability to put Man Of Steel on hold. So far, still nothing. Ugh.
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Post by: Mac on November 14, 2013, 08:23:24 am
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There is one thing that has been unavoidable and that is the destruction that takes place within the movie. This is actually something that fans of the genre and the comic books actually applaud because it is something that is always talked about.

That's what I thought. I guess time will tell on how well that holds up for the whole context of the movie.



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In the end, capes just look cool and it was more about creating movement and motion on the printed page more than any practical use it may bring.

Thanks, that makes the only sense.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 14, 2013, 07:49:55 pm
See, I saw that one shot from the street level where the building tips over and it really does look incredible (though honestly, the filter on the movie makes it look like they dropped the film print in an airplane toilet, IMHO), but the REAL Superman (I heard what I just said) would hold the building UP until everyone got out.

I'm not really holding my breath to see this one.
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Post by: Mac on November 15, 2013, 06:32:57 am
Scary Movie 5 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

This series was funny and entertaining in the beginning and like any other franchise; they keep milking at any costs. They’ve gone progressively, significantly worse with each release.

I knew this while putting it in to the DVD. I was ready for nothing. And it delivered… nothing. I will say I surprised myself laughing out loud about 4 times and one of the laughs came from the opening scene with Charlie Sheen and Lindsey Lohan. Big whoop.

Otherwise I watched Scary Movie 5 while I was playing with iPad. It’s a no brainer. I can’t recommend… it’s that dumb and silly.

(http://www.coverdude.com/covers/scary-movie-5-2013-r1-front-cover-103583.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2013, 06:38:57 am
I don't think I've seen any of them now that I think about it.
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Post by: Mac on November 15, 2013, 07:44:35 am
I would definitely recommend the first Scary Movie. The humor is unique... I would say silly and lean's towards Airplane humor. Even if you don’t like horror movies, the comedy is good. Though it would be even funnier if you could see what they lampooning.

Anna Faris is a hoot and the whole movie comes from Wayan Brothers. And it was Rated R. They decided to go PG-13 at some point and lost a lot of it’s draw.

Scary Movie trailer (2000)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSWewFbFTl4
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2013, 07:48:28 am
The Limey (1999)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 15, 2013, 01:15:46 pm
I remember kinda liking the first Scary Movie, but I wasn't big on crude humour then (I'm not really that big on it now).

But Mac, did you see the horrible trailer for The Starving Games?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r8yOSMspR1k

Timely references as always.
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Post by: Mac on November 15, 2013, 03:26:26 pm
Ya, I missed that one.

and since I didn't like Hunger Games, that make all the spoofs even less desirable.

Skip
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2013, 03:52:02 pm
I'm finally starting to watch Parks And Rec.  I'm about 10 episodes in, I think... I just watched the beauty pageant episode.

I'm surprised by the cast, you know?  I've seen them all in other things and heard "they were on Parks and Rec" but the idea of all of them together.  So it's like an all-star cast right at the start (although I didn't know that Rashida Jones was in this at all, let alone a central character).

I also didn't know that it was more or less an Office clone.  Not that it's a bad thing at all (it IS by the same people who made The Office, after all).  And it's been so long since I've seen The Office, this feels very welcome.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2013, 03:57:26 pm
Starts off as a clone, but morphs into something original and special.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2013, 03:58:28 pm
Oh, I'm sure it does.  And now I'm really interested in the fact that Andy is the lead in "Guardians Of The Galaxy."

Totally happily surprised to se Louis CK in the show.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2013, 08:53:46 pm
Girls (Season 2 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 18, 2013, 11:05:03 pm
Oh my god, I can't believe I actually watched NINETY EPISODES of Parks and Rec over the last few days.  Didn't have anything to do while I was sick.  I wasn't even sure if Patton Oswalt's filibuster episode would be included (it was).  I just powered through those.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 19, 2013, 03:59:31 am
Get well soon.
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2013, 06:01:30 am
Good lord, I can't imagine doing 90 of anything.

Well, OK, some things.

Anyway, soup tends to work. Get better bud.... being sick seeeeeee-ucks
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2013, 07:12:08 am
Ip Man: The Final Fight
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Qyx0Wm90Qs

The 3rd installment of the Ip Man franchise takes a decidedly different approach including replacing Donnie Yen (Ip Man) with a even more subdued martial artist master. I found the sets striking… and not necessarily in a good way. While they tried to capture the hustle and bustle, and kinetic look and feel of a busy town, it still comes off somewhat fake and CGI.

There are several problems with 3, especially in the overall context of the film. We have a Master Kung Fu artist who is tired and seems to only want to dispense wisdom. Ip Man is sooooo laid back, it becomes boring.  Final Fight deviates from the franchise too much and becomes so faded and uninteresting.

The fight sequences fall back on the eye-rolling choreographed paces. Ip Man 1 & 2 successfully demonstrated fights that you believe would happen. Final Fight sequences become robotic and yawn inducing.

Thoroughly disappointed, mainly because I found Ip Man movies refreshing, exciting and fun to watch.

You won’t hate The Final Fight, but I doubt you’ll come away from it with anything memorable.

Donnie Yen is sorely missed, but then again, not sure he could have saved this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 19, 2013, 07:13:36 am
I still need to check out the first two installments.......
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2013, 07:33:40 am
Yes you do  ;D
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2013, 07:35:07 am
And speaking of needing to check out movies, have you guys checked out Nowhere Man or Sound City?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 19, 2013, 07:41:01 am
And speaking of needing to check out movies, have you guys checked out Nowhere Man or Sound City?

Nope (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sound-city-(2013)-1919/msg18649/#msg18649)
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Post by: Mac on November 19, 2013, 10:42:25 am
Dick

and I mean that as a term of endearment  ;)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 20, 2013, 08:46:20 pm
The Incredible Burt Wonderstone (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 21, 2013, 10:13:33 pm
Scavenger Hunt (VHS - 1979)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 21, 2013, 11:23:51 pm
I finished season one of Family Tree and... it's a mixed bag, I guess.  I mean, right off the top things start to pick up once they get to LA and more Christopher Guest regulars-- including Guest himself-- show up.  Oscar from The Office even pops in for a scene, but the show still has this problem where not enough is happening.  It's sort of like the new Whose Line?  There's just not enough funny stuff going on in an episode.  It feels more like you could pull a The Trip with this and cut the first season down into a feature length film.  But as far as I'm concerned, each episode should feel like a full length movie trimmed down to a perfect thirty minutes.  Lots of stuff going on.  Some episodes don't seem to have plots at all!

Another big issue, for me anyway, is that there's no consistency to the faux documentary aspect of the series.  I've heard comment that there's no reason for a camera crew to be following him around, and there are whole patches where the scenes are shot like a traditional series!  It's like the series was made round-robin by two different people with different styles without any attempt to mesh them together.  Any scene where they're in a car!

I feel like Christopher Guest didn't even look at any of these series like Curb Your Enthusiasm or Modern Family or Home Movies or anything remotely similar that he helped inspire-- or if he did, he didn't take notes, cause now it's like he's lagging behind when he should be light years ahead!

I also have an issue with the fake TV shows on the show... I actually like them but they're almost totally superfluous to the show at hand, and they're focused on way too much.

It's frustrating.  I had high hopes for this one, you know?  I mean, it's okay, but for something like this, that's a bad thing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 22, 2013, 05:06:28 am
Never heard of it.
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Post by: Mac on November 22, 2013, 08:24:00 am
Pink Floyd – The Story of Wish You Were Here (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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I was really doe eyed sitting down with this. Great a documentary from and about the key players of Pink Floyd about one of the greatest albums ever.

Man, was I disappointed. Very little of the 89 minutes get into the details of the songs (and to say they never got into an single song at length... most just a few seconds of a song), The playing, the technical part. But they sure had a lot to say about Syd Barrett. One of the founding members who took a quick nose dive into crazy from one too many acid trips.

If anything the documentary conceptualizes from the band members the influence, impact, fall and sadness by Mr. Barrett. I get it. He had an influence on some of the song lyrics. But dayum, this revealed little about the creation of the songs or the album.

I just walked away from this knowing little more than anyone else.

It was not very entertaining. Only slightly revealing, and honestly, rather boring. The extra 28 minutes as supplemental info, was snooze city. Both Rodger Waters and David Gilmour (separately) perform a single acoustic version of one of the songs. ZZZZZZZZZZZ. And they gave Nick Mason plenty of screen time to just go on about the music business and his role in the Floyd. Again, ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ
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Post by: Neumatic on November 22, 2013, 02:07:29 pm
Here's the Family Tree season one trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cndWAerolZA

And one of my favourite scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta8P-_iiUkE
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 23, 2013, 09:56:10 pm
Oblivion (2013)

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Post by: Mac on November 25, 2013, 01:01:32 pm
We're The Millers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vsy5KzsieQ

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I had actually grown to like We're the Millers trailer. Because my immediate initial thought was, here we go with Jennifer Aniston. So I was hoping for a fun evening with this flick.

We're the Millers is a roller coaster of really good comedy with really bad or bland comedy. It was odd. Several times I'm laughing out loud, other times, it was just groaner type humor. Jennifer Aniston didn't disappoint. She still does little to make the movie watchable. Yes, she does a strip, but at this point...  who cares.

This can be put squarely in the crude R-rated comedies that try to be edgy. Jason Sudeikis is the only consistently funny man holding this together. The two kids will easily fade into doing nothing notable.... except for the spider bite scene. It's funny and painful at the same time.

Rent it with 50/50 chance you'll really love the whole thing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 01:07:05 pm
Checked for availability at Library yesterday. Still nothing on order.
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Post by: Mac on November 25, 2013, 01:14:23 pm
The To Do List (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKGigK17eSs

And we have a follow up yet to another R-rated crude humor flick. I love a good crude humored movie, but it takes talent to keep it up through and entire film. These last two (We're The Millers & The To Do List) make a stab at it, but just can't keep the quality up.

The To Do List is about a nerdy high school girl looking to become quickly socialized to all forms of sex, so she can check off her to-do list before she hits college. So it's the classic fish out of water, where she is clueless and comedy ensues. Believe it or not, with all the various sex talk, there is no skin in this flick, to me making it odd. I've just always found the female wearing clothes or the bed sheet, during sex, just unrealistic.

So then we focus on what's said and the short comedy bits of situations.

The To Do List has some funny moments, but I don't remember any LOL moments. The cast is OK, but I did find Aubry Plaza, just with little heart, so we really don't care what happens to her. Bill Hader is perfect as the laid back, nearly homeless boss. Christopher Mintz-Plasse is completely wasted in using him in this flick. And thank gawd, Andy Samberg, was used minimally. He is not funny. He is not funny here either. Well maybe he doesn't do much.

Rent with little expectation and maybe you'll get more out of it then it deserves.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 01:33:36 pm
I've been interested in this one just for Aubry Plaza alone. Big fan of hers from Parks and Recreation.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 05:49:40 pm
Star Trek (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 25, 2013, 08:02:01 pm
Don't know where to put it, but I just got back from The Day Of The Doctor, which is the theatrical showing of a special television event that was simulcast around the world and presumably available already for download so it's kind of all three at once.  How appropriate for the Doctor.  Lemme just say, it was f'ing amazing, arguably the best Doctor Who adventure I've seen in a long time and one that just perfectly encapsulates the best of The Doctor.  I don't know how accessible it is to non-fans (it's fine for the casual viewer, I'm not a big DW history nut) given that it's a time travel story wrapped in paradoxes and timey-wimey tricks (and I love that John Hurt calls out Matt Smith for using that phrase and David Tennant washing his hands of it, even though HE'S the one who coined it).  And I'm so glad I didn't see it before seeing it in the theater because there are two moments where the audience completely lost their minds, and it's not the same seeing it on TV in your home and screaming to yourself (which the girl next to me said happened to her).

This is also one of those rare 3D movies where the 3D actually really enhanced the experience, the Gallifreyan paintings seem more unearthly and magical, the effect of rolling into the bigger-on-the-inside TARDIS works like never before, and it gives a great sense of you-are-there to all the great locations they shot at, like Trafalgar Square or the Tower Of London.

And the people who put this together also put together a playful little pre-show, with Thrax the warrior promising swift and brutal punishment on those who would use their communication devices in the viewing platform, and then the Eleventh Doctor urging us to put on your "facial furniture" (the 3-D glasses) and showing off a cute little "alien detection system" built in (and this was a great crowd, the second he told us to look to the left - which is a reference I JUST got an hour and a half later - everyone did).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 08:13:45 pm
Ya know, I've always heard about how great Doctor Who is and have always wanted to check it out for myself. But given the long history of the series, I've never known just where to start. No idea what is available on DVD and not sure if going back to the 60's is necessary or even warranted.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 25, 2013, 08:45:19 pm
The whole series starts over, in a way, with 2005.  You can literally start there and move forward.  OR, if you want, you can start with Series five, where Matt Smith starts, and if you like that, you can go back to 2005 (that's how I got my friend Sam into the series).

Oh, and if you DO decide to watch the series, do yourself a favour and AVOID looking up guest stars, cause there's some awesome (and famous!) ones that you don't want spoiled.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOtX0v2fw5M
Doctor Who 2005 preview (Christopher Eccleston)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLxBYDff6RE
Billie Piper 2005 promo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKAigvrcLoo
Matt Smith (Series Five) trailer
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 09:11:05 pm
Oh, and if you DO decide to watch the series, do yourself a favour and AVOID looking up guest stars, cause there's some awesome (and famous!) ones that you don't want spoiled.

You should know me better than that. I'm Mr. Spoiler-free!!!!!!!!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 25, 2013, 09:15:15 pm
It's hard to avoid since some of them are movie stars now.  And when I say movie stars, I mean BIG movies.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 09:19:26 pm
I've got "avoiding spoilers' down to a science.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 25, 2013, 09:24:33 pm
Cool cool cool.  Definitely a series worth checking out.

And man, I gotta say John Hurt was so good as the War Doctor, he just had this great presence, it just feels like he had been on the show for ages (he hasn't) and everything he'd done just weighs on him, you really feel glad that he's saved at the end.  He's great when he's a bit of a heartbreaker.

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2013, 10:44:50 pm
Star Trek Into Darkness (2013)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 26, 2013, 04:26:01 pm
Zoolander (2001)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 27, 2013, 08:05:13 pm
Do the Right Thing (1989)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 28, 2013, 09:54:38 am
The Wall (2012) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6EdaGqoRmY

I had never heard of this film until the Synopsis caught my attention.

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Martina Gedeck, star of the Academy Awardr-winning film The Lives Of Others, brings a vivid intensity to this mysterious and riveting tale of survival set in a spectacularly beautiful Austrian mountain landscape. In a tour-de-force performance, Gedeck stars as an unnamed character who suddenly finds herself cut off from all human contact when an invisible, unyielding wall inexplicably surrounds the countryside where she is vacationing.

I can see where people would equate The Wall to Stephen Kings Under The Dome, but beyond the mysterious presence of an invisible wall, the similarities diverge. This is a thought provoking tale of someone suddenly thrust into isolation. This is more along the line of Robinson Crusoe. I found a moment or two where the movie seems to lag. I have not read the book, but the script is so well written and photographed, from the outset I was always thinking, what would I do?

The Women reacts, rarely speaks, but the film uses her voice over of her journal to evolve the story. I was completely absorbed in the film. Actually had a tear at one point. You will know it when you see it. Her acting fully details her emotions. An amazing actress.

This all takes place in the mountains of the Alps and it is breathtaking.

I highly recommend The Wall.

(http://images.huffingtonpost.com/2013-11-16-TheWall.jpg)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 29, 2013, 05:50:43 pm
Rescue Me (Season 1 - 2004)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 29, 2013, 08:18:52 pm
Analyze This (1999)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 30, 2013, 04:49:45 pm
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 01, 2013, 06:21:01 am
Scarface (1983)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 01, 2013, 12:56:22 pm
Rear Window (1954)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 03, 2013, 06:39:42 pm
Shanghai Noon (2000)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 03, 2013, 06:41:52 pm
Rescue Me (Season 2 - 2005)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2013, 10:04:20 pm
Shanghai Knights (2003)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 06, 2013, 08:55:06 pm
Silver Linings Playbook (2012)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 07, 2013, 09:00:35 pm
G.I. Joe: Retaliation (2013)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 08, 2013, 10:35:42 am
Young Guns (1988)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 08, 2013, 07:01:08 pm
Young Guns II (1990)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 08, 2013, 09:10:30 pm
Rescue Me (Season 3 - 2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 10, 2013, 08:34:08 pm
Rescue Me (Season 4 - 2007)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 12, 2013, 12:10:01 pm
The Way, Way Back (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

(http://thumbs1.ebaystatic.com/d/l225/m/mzHLqefO_MJfl0B_UUg5S-A.jpg)

I had caught the trailer for The Way, Way Back on another movie and it looked great. Could this possibly be another great ‘kid grows in summer’ movie, like the very entertaining The Kings Of Summer.

It could have, but I felt way too much introvertness from the main character. I mean there are shy kids and there are shy kids, but this kid was just a drag to be around. It starts off slow and really doesn’t get any traction until Duncan gets a job at the Water Park.

Sam Rockwell makes this movie. One of my favorite actors and he is by far the magnet to the screen. His lines range from hilarious to heart felt. Loved his character.

There’s a lot of other crap going on with Mom’s boyfriend (Steve Carell) who is an absolute dick. He actually brings the movie down, and not in a good way.

Still I enjoyed the film. I can recommend it. I recommend Kings of Summer more.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OwNo1i3jkCo
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 13, 2013, 06:19:03 am
R.I.P.D. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

(http://www.edgenewyork.com/display/viewimage_giveaway.php?id=8707)

This is going to short and swe, er sour. R.I.P.D. is one of the ‘dumbest’ flicks I’ve seen in a little while. Quite frankly I see a lot of dumb movies and R.I.P.D. sits squarely in the pile. I like Ryan Reynolds and like Jennifer Aniston, I want them to be in good movies, but they continually cut themselves off at the knees and make bad decisions making bad movies.

The similarities to Men In Black is obvious and actually insulting. The MIB sequels are cringe inducing and R.I.P.D. has decided to imitate that crap. The CGI characters are laughable and seriously makes me think they created this movie for children. I can’t imagine grown-ups thinking this is good or worse funny. Yes, I believe they attempted comedy, but boy does it always fall flat. Horrible lame humor.

I will easily forget this one and never make an attempt to watch it again. Pure crap.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 13, 2013, 06:27:21 am
This movie has been getting R.I.P.D. since it came out. Pun intended. I have no desire to see this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 13, 2013, 07:02:21 pm
Homeland (Season 2 - 2012)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2013, 11:35:08 pm
Double feature tonight, my mom wanted to see The Great Gatsby (it was... fine!) and we'd been meaning to watch The Heat so we watched that right after.

Gatsby was, if nothing else, a ridiculously gorgeous f'ing film, though I really wish that there was some behind the scenes stuff (stupid rental flippers), because I want to see how much was actually there and what wasn't.  I mean, there were tons of shots that you know was just the actors in front of a green screen.  It's really jarring when they're in places like Time Square and you KNOW it's just two actors and some background people.  Don't get me wrong, the effects were AMAZING and the flick looked ridiculously gorgeous, but there was a certain amount of unreality to the whole thing.

I also got this whole mindset where... I know most of the actors are OLDER than I am, but I kept getting this "it's kids acting as adults!" vibe every now and then.  It's ALL on me, probably because I'm so immature and so NOT an adult... I just felt a kind of disconnect, you know?  In the same way that people who are older than you still feel older, even when you see them in old movies where they're YOUNGER than you.

The Heat was f'ing hilarious.  Apparently the idea came from the writer watching Running Scared (which I remember us talking about).  Though the feel of the flick is TOTALLY different, total screwball.  And it's a movie filled with character actors, which I appreciate and we don't get to see that often.  And dear god, almost every other word in the movie was a swear.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 15, 2013, 08:03:47 pm
Thoroughly enjoyed The Heat.

Might get around to Gatsby some day.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 16, 2013, 12:54:35 pm
Rescue Me (Season 5 - 2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 16, 2013, 10:19:40 pm
Olympus Has Fallen (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2013, 10:30:01 pm
Zero Dark Thirty (2012)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 18, 2013, 06:49:34 am
Man of Tai Chi

(http://media.aintitcool.com/media/uploads/2013/merrick/manoftaichi_large.jpg)

Starring Keanu Reeve is his attempt to get back into the Asian defensive arts genre. (Ronin 47 coming out soon). Anyway, I found Man of Tai Chi yet another take on usual Kung Fu fare. Half the movie is sub-titled and that only frustrated me. I don’t mind subtitles when the whole movie is subtitled, but Tai Chi went back and forth at length of scenes in English, then subtitled.

All in all, I was bored from the get go. I didn’t finish and now I have my doubts about the upcoming Ronin 47

25th Hour

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Ed Norton is always excellent. Unfortunately he could do very little to keep me interested in the even slower moving flick. Rosario Dawson is his counterpart, but she too did little here. After a half hour of watching very little story… I just turned it off. It apparently gets pretty good reviews, but this was just not for me.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 18, 2013, 06:58:26 am
I've never heard of Man of Tai Chi. Can't comment on that. I have seen 25th Hour, but I remember very little of that. So, can't comment on that either. Ack!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 18, 2013, 11:15:09 pm
Unknown (2011)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 19, 2013, 12:47:34 am
I got The Man Of Steel in the mail today and of COURSE it doesn't work on my blu-ray player, so I gotta camp out in the living room tomorrow to watch it (I prefer watching movies on my own TV).  That's happening a lot with new rental blu-rays, it's really annoying.  I don't know what the reason for that is, but it also happened with The Great Gatsby a week ago.

So instead I finally watched Casino, which was... it was something.  I honestly don't know what to say about it, I WILL say that I couldn't tell for the longest time when the movie took place in, until the screen actually SAID "1980," I was honestly confused if it was in the past or just incredibly gaudy.  I also never thought I would hear MULTIPLE Devo songs in a Scorcese film, but there you go.

I did finally realize that this is where the Joe Pesci Show sketch from SNL came from... when Robert DeNiro's character (we must never forget, DeNiro played a JEWISH GANGSTER) gets his own TV show, my mind kept asking "is this ACTUALLY happening?"

Call me crazy, but I think that Sharon Stone was the ONLY woman in the entire movie.  Her character went screamingly insane near the end, and that was pretty awesome.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2013, 04:46:41 am
I'm guessing you watched this (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/c-a-s-i-n-o-(1995)/msg10081/#msg10081). Couldn't tell (kinda) since the censor filter flagged your title.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 08:41:01 am
Yea, I was lost to site censoring.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 08:58:04 am
Elysium (3 Stars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RSDaRttpzk

I wanted to love this movie. I wanted to go see it at the theater. Now, I’m glad I didn’t waste my money.

I mostly enjoyed this movie, because Neil Bloomenkamp is known for putting some meat into a sci-fi flick. Note: District 9. A thinking man’s movie. And I did enjoy the depth of the movie. What throws it off balance is a couple of things. There’s significant shaky cam, especially in the action sequences to frustrate the hell out me. I had to look away from getting dizzy. I love’s me some Jodie Foster, because she’s a great actress and brings something to the screen. Well, she brought something to screen this time and it was over the top, over-acting. WTF. It was almost MST3K material. Completely destroyed any seriousness in those scenes. Matt Damon is great and totally bought into his character. I did not buy into his exoskeleton though. They spend about 1 minute introducing that and installing it on him. Otherwise, it just looked like junk hanging on him. I did not buy into it giving him super strength. That was a pretty big gap in the plot. The other big gap, and this is not really a spoiler, but through an industrial accident his get radiation poisoning and has five days to live. For some unclear reason, he is no longer sick after applying the exoskeleton.

Another gap is the Taurus space station. The design (based on an artist’s concept from the ‘70’s) is cool, but even for the layman, the design would not work. I’m not getting all geeky here. The society lives in an open air space station. It’s just odd.

All the set pieces look great from the shacks on earth to the outer and inner environments of the Taurus.

Like I said, I wanted to like this and it is head and shoulders above most sci-fi flicks, but ultimately I don’t see myself coming back to this. I’d much prefer District 9


Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 19, 2013, 11:47:03 am
Stupid web site.  Yes, I saw Ca si no.  However, I avoided the crummy follow-up Ca si yes (a joke I can only make on this site).

Anyway: Elysium:  not a great flick but man i loved the production design of it-- this is much closer to what I thought Star Trek should have felt like.  I quite liked that we were seeing plants on all the walls to make more air and little touches like that.

The space station actually would work, the walls would have to be much higher, but you don't need a roof, the spin would keep the atmosphere right in there.  I grant you it wouldn't inspire the most confidence, but that's a couple million tons of material you suddenly don't need (I can't figure out where all the metal to MAKE that dang thing came from).

Another thing I dug was seeing all the computer displays in the movie... oftentimes (like in Star Trek again) the computers don't make any sense, but these felt more realistic, probably because they were somehow less advanced, they felt like old computers with an overhaul than super-whiz-bang-special holograms or any of that garbage.  I totally giggled when we saw the source code for Elysium and it was f'ing javascript, THAT was funny.
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Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 01:24:48 pm
Are we going to have a geek b itch slap fight here?


There is no way atmosphere would stay put in that design. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/Nerd.gif)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 01:26:46 pm
Behind Elysium's Design (http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/7/4596646/behind-the-art-of-elysium)

and the Stanford Taurus (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanford_torus)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2013, 01:27:57 pm
I put in my request for the movie last week. I can't wait to see this in spite of the awesomely negative reviews.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 01:30:12 pm
Last week? That's so last month dude.... we've moved onto more recent fare.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2013, 01:31:58 pm
We don't get new DVD's as quickly as you do. It appears that you have a 3 month advantage over us here. So, I will always be a buck short and a day late when it comes to the newest releases.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 01:36:13 pm
Cause we are sitting in the friggin frigid cold or hotass summer figuring trying to stay occupied.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 19, 2013, 01:37:19 pm
Technically Mac, you're right-- the walls are too short on the Elysium to hold the atmosphere in, but theoretically, if they were high enough, they would work.  This also comes up in Ringworld and Halo.  You just have to build higher than the atmosphere reaches and it won't seep out over the sides.

Also: thanks for the link to the art page.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 19, 2013, 01:47:19 pm
I don't think the height of the wall is the issue here. It's the lack of a roof. I think we would see some leakage.  ;D

I have not seen the ringworld or halo designs  :-\
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Post by: Neumatic on December 19, 2013, 01:58:30 pm
There's no roof on the Earth.  We keep our atmosphere in just fine.  We don't treat it that well, I'll admit, but it's staying in place.

The Ringworld and Halo are much more massive, though.

(http://www.orbitalvector.com/Megastructures/Ringworlds/ringworldlansdscape.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 19, 2013, 08:55:28 pm
World War Z (2013)

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Post by: Mac on December 20, 2013, 08:10:10 am
Bad Parents (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

(http://images.redbox.com/Images/EPC/Detail370/6529.jpg)

I could tell Bad Parents would be bad in the first few minutes. The Indie look and feel was all over it. The acting was over the top bad.
I even said to my wife... "Dear, I can already tell this is going to be a boring horrible move.... let me know when see that too."

10 minutes later, she said turn it off.

What little we saw was an attempt at soccer parents and their absurd behavior. The writing attempted to make this a comedy while trying to point a shaky finger at those kinds of families. Unfortunately, there is no comedy, but sadness in the reality of our current parenting environment, realizing every line and situation is written from actual events.

It might be funny, if the absurd moments were not true, but absurdly comical.

Fail
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Post by: Mac on December 20, 2013, 09:12:25 am
Quote
There's no roof on the Earth.  We keep our atmosphere in just fine.  We don't treat it that well, I'll admit, but it's staying in place.

The Ringworld and Halo are much more massive, though.

I can't believe we are having a geek fight. It's funny as hell on Big Bang. Funny here too cause I'm saying it like a Stephen Hawking.

We have atmosphere on earth because of our massive size, thus gravity... which is holding the atmosphere down and not throwing it out into space.  The Moon or Mars don't have atmosphere's anymore, because they have minimal gravity.
The Taurus is certainly not big enough to have gravity on it's own. The Taurus has to generate gravity by spinning and I'm not sure it's the same kind of 'gravity'.

I think in the original Stanford design, it was totally enclosed, and the movie took liberties with science, design and mostly looks.

Now my friend suggested there was some kind of force field or liquid invisible glass.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 20, 2013, 09:38:17 am
You guys continue to fight. I'll be over in the corner banging Kaley, doing the only thing that matters.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on December 20, 2013, 10:03:44 am
Oh, the proverbial mental banging.... let us know how that works for ya
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 20, 2013, 10:04:18 pm
This Is the End (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 21, 2013, 09:29:52 pm
A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)

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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2013, 10:20:36 am
247⁰ (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

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I knew about 247⁰ from the horror forums. I would not in any way call 247⁰ horror. I mean, there is nothing scary. It's more thriller or survival. Simply friends who get trapped in a sauna. Sounds silly... right. Well, it's better than it sounds. 3/4 of the movie are two girls and a guy trapped in a sauna, they can not turn off (stuck at 185 but screw themselves to full heat). And it pretty much runs through every iteration of what would and could you do.

For low budget, I think this was done rather well. The acting was good, the script well written and visioned nicely. I was impressed. It kept my attention throughout.

Just a solid engaging film, and I would recommend it to anyone who likes suspense.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAZGRX0I3GI
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2013, 10:30:30 am
All The Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_halfstar.gif)

I put the date on here to highlight the fact this movie was made back in 2006, sat on the shelf, until today. It's only seen light of day because of Jonathan Levine's recent success with Warm Bodies and 50/50.

Again, swirling in the horror circles, people were getting psyched about the release. I guess I was too.

Well Mandy Lane is not all that. It's a thinly written slasher movie that spends way to much time on long shots of people drinking, smoking, swimming... essentially doing nothing but filler time for the length of the movie.

Shot with a rather grainy look, it helped in setting up the feel... sort of.

The real failure here is you do not care about anybody. All snotty nosed kids a viewer could give 2 craps about.

I was certainly rolling my eyes when the killing started. Gawd, this genre has been done to death and Mandy Lane is extremely weak portraying it.

No doubt, the title is kinda cool and retro, but that's all it's got going for it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9lA94P7shQ

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2013, 10:34:17 am
Never heard of either one till you mentioned it. Most likely will never watch 'em either based on your reviews.

EDIT: There are no copies of 247 here.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2013, 10:39:30 am
Altered (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

Call me impressed with this little unknown sci-fi flick. Until yesterday, I had never heard of it.

Altered is low budget, but extremely well written and acted film. This is one tense little movie. Beautifully and smartly shot. The special effects were amazing for a cheap film. It pretty much all occurs in one place. Wyatt house, who was, with his 4 buddies had been abducted by aliens 15 years prior. I was just sucked into all the characters and the slow but intense tension that unravels.

I highly recommend this little diamond in the rough if your a sci-fi fan, but get past the sci-fi and it's a fun ride. Warning: It does get gory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Ib1F-NT6c

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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2013, 10:41:29 am
I'd been wanting to see Mandy Lane for a long time because everyone kept talking about it online, how it was this great big thing and it was a terrible injustice that it never saw the light of day.  I didn't even finish the darn thing.

It's another movie I wish I had written out what my impression of it was before sitting down to watch it.
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Post by: Mac on December 23, 2013, 06:56:22 am
I'm finding I have to be more skeptical of fanatics. They just not only accept anything they are stoked about, but promote it too. That happens with any zealot. I see it all the time in the horror genre. And they get specialized too. Gore hounds, celebrity or director fandom, lens flare devotees
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Post by: Mac on December 23, 2013, 07:10:03 am
Prisoners (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I was torn watching this movie for most of the first half. Prisoner's is not an easy film to watch with child abduction and ripping apart of families, values and common sense. But after I vested time into it, it got easier to watch. Then it just gets really good. Good in the sense, things quickly fall apart and it doesn't go where you think it might. The acting is superb. Hugh Jackman has such intensity which is appropriate for a man losing his child. Jake Gyllenhaal is calm, until he finally gets wrapped up in it emotionally. He even maintains a tick, which I found fascinating from an actors point of view.

So I'm on the fence because of the subject matter, but it is done so well, I found it "entertaining". This is one of those movie I'm glad I watched but will probably never watch again.

I highly recommend Prisoners

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpXfcTF6iVk
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Post by: Mac on December 23, 2013, 07:15:45 am
2 Guns (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

2 Guns is another take on the cop buddy movie and it works very well. Denzel Washington and Mark Whalberg have excellent chemistry. Whalberg can spew some lines.  ;D Denzel, is well Denzel. Always good. This is a fun 'summer' flick. But it's not simple. In fact, the viewer needs to pay attention to all the back deals going on. CIA, DEA, FBI, Drug Cartels, armed forces... It does get complex.

The action is top notch and fun to watch.

Highly, Highly recommend this flick just for the fun factor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP562PeToBQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 23, 2013, 08:20:28 pm
Taken (2008)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2013, 07:24:42 pm
Taken 2 (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2013, 07:31:28 pm
Rescue Me (Season 6 - 2010 / Season 7 - 2011)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 27, 2013, 10:08:13 am
Paper Moon (1973)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 27, 2013, 10:51:14 pm
I finally saw this movie for the first time.  The teaser's been frozen in my head since I was a kid, yet I never got around to seeing it until now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UXU7LjMYug

This was my first memory of the idea that a film could do something outstandingly cool.

The movie itself-- also cool.  Gawd I enjoyed it.  I wish we had seen that in school (although those were the VHS days, so maybe it's best I didn't until now) because I could never really visualize in my head what that whole thing must have been like.  And of course, it was Ridley Scott, so the entire thing looked AMAZING and the score was just fantastic... the whole thing had this feel of inevitable heartbreak.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2013, 04:58:29 am
I've never seen it. Maybe I should.
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2013, 07:11:36 am
Was the blue/static frames, Scott coming up with idea's for Prometheus? You know... early thoughts  ;D
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2013, 07:17:46 am
Lone Ranger (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Look, Lone Ranger wasn't horrible. I have never liked westerns. It looked and sounded great. Decent acting, though it was definitely Disney-ish with lame humor. Depp seems to be doing another Jack Sparrow.

Bottom line though is throughout the movie, I was constantly asking myself... why? I don't think there was one customer out there going... let's re-envision The Lone Ranger. What a colossal waste of time. I don't know what the latest numbers were on the cost to make it, but I sure didn't see it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JjFsNSoDZK8
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2013, 07:21:25 am
Solomon Kane (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Yet another movie that wasn't horrible, but I just found it somewhat uninteresting. It had moments of coolness, but all in all I just not getting into it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIBwQsOwEeM
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2013, 07:27:31 am
The World's End (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

Probably my biggest disappointment this week. I was hearing great stuff about the 3rd installment (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz), but I saw something a lot less.

The dialog was rather snappy, in fact a little to snappy. I probably missed quite a bit from the rapid fire words out of everybody's mouth, but mostly Simon Pegg's. There was some good lines and I laughed out loud.

And those fans of the previous flicks, know these movies take a hard right into bizarreville half way through. The World's End is no different, but for some reason, I found this extremely silly. I rolled my eyes quite a bit. I don't think it is as near memorable or rewatchable as the previous two. There's not much here. 5 guys go on a pub crawl.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n__1Y-N5tQk
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2013, 07:31:28 am
Mortal Instruments

I'm not even going to rate this. Not my kind of movie. Didn't finish it.

Best I can come up with a movie geared for tweens and teens. It looked an felt like Twilight, except with good looking people. Lots of magic and spells and people turning into something else.

This fell off my "got your attention?" meter very quickly. Not a clue why I picked this up. Maybe because it was new and I liked the cover?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHlwRsl2uFk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2013, 07:34:18 am
Still waiting for my library to get copies of Lone Ranger and The World's End. Until that happens, I can't even put myself on the wait list. Ugh.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2013, 11:25:35 am
Heh... perhaps.  He did do Alien only a decade and change before.  As a kid I didn't get the whole moon landing thing (I don't think I could hear the voiceover), but the contrast between the two styles totally captured my imagination.
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Post by: Mac on December 29, 2013, 12:31:31 pm
I was kidding... unless that is actually in the film. I just figured the youtube video was a capture from a crappy VHS copy.
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Post by: Mac on December 29, 2013, 12:42:26 pm
Dark Circles (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

What a weak ass horror film. From one of the Broken Lizard alumni, this is neither humorous or scary. Watching a little bit of the extra's, Paul Soter talks about being a fan of horror genre all his life, sure misses all the marks of a quality horror film.

a couple who move to the country for piece and quiet to raise their brand new born, find unending noise from a colicky baby and new construction near by. Thus pulling the parent into sleep deprivation. And we all know what happens with no sleep. Hallucinations.... right?

Bottom line, this is just a chore to sit through watching this couple fight. The 3rd act is not satisfying at all.

Skip this snore fest.

Note: I assume the title refers to the couples dark circles under their eyes from lack of sleep. Stupid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YaAZ2a-k9Y

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2013, 06:12:41 am
Amadeus (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2013, 09:57:13 pm
Bad Santa (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2014, 10:21:14 am
Some Like It Hot (1959)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 01, 2014, 05:31:07 pm
City Slickers (1991)

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Post by: Mac on January 02, 2014, 07:28:36 am
Extract (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I've never heard of Extract until I saw it a the library. I saw that is has a decent cast with Bateman, Kunis, Wiig and Affleck.

Extract is right up Bateman's alley. It was pleasant and at times funny. Completely forgettable, but not horrible.

I would have not problem recommending Extract. Just don't expect much.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEV7KoThshg

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Post by: Mac on January 02, 2014, 07:34:47 am
Drinking Buddies (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Yet another movie I've never heard of and I know why on this one. Despite a very good cast and some decent acting, Drinking Buddies offers minimalism at it's worst. Not much goes on here. I felt like we were peaking in on some very ordinary folks, dong some very ordinary uninteresting things. I was really hoping for something... anything to happen.

Nope

Quit watching after 30 minutes of this snorefest. I have a very good idea why I've not heard of this one.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxuxkQF7Bak

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Post by: Mac on January 02, 2014, 07:50:13 am
Despicable Me 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

2 stars, 3 stars, 4 stars

Don't matter, the sequel does a find job of presenting a very entertaining follow-up. I really enjoyed Despicable Me, so I guess my expectations were pretty high.

I do NOT think 2 is better than one despite the huge praise and record setting numbers it's getting. 1 is quite a bit better. I say it because I thought 2 was more specifically geared for young people and less for older adults.

Nonetheless, Despicable Me 2 is very good and highly recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwXbtZXjbVE

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On a side note... My wife got me Despicable Me 2 for Christmas. I found out she also paid $32 for it. I about flipped. WTF. She has no idea about DVD buying. Anyway, I returned it and got it at a much cheaper price.

Next time I'm putting a Tesla on my Christmas List... she don't know.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2014, 05:20:34 pm
How I've never heard of Extract and Drinking Buddies till now is a mystery to me. They look interesting, Will definitely be checking them out for myself.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2014, 05:26:29 pm
Seabiscuit (2003)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2014, 10:16:17 pm
Snakes on a Plane (2006)

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Post by: Mac on January 03, 2014, 11:11:38 am
100 Bloody Acres

A comedy-horror film from Down Under. For the most part I’ve enjoyed Australian films. They can be quirky yet imaginative. Stylish and entertaining.
100 Bloody Acres has a little uniqueness to it. It is gory, but with lots of dark humor. There are a couple of laugh out loud moments and a WTF moment or two. It’s not as good as some of the horror-comedy showings I’ve seen (Shaun of the Dead, Tucker & Dale vs. Evil, Cabin In the Woods). The cast is great, with a unique blend of individuals. The production is very good, it’s just the story tends to flatten out through most of the middle.

I tell you what though, Anna McGahan (https://www.google.com/search?q=Anna+McGahan&client=firefox&hs=DiB&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=YgrHUoTaDMTfoASm74GQAQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1680&bih=920) had my attention throughout the whole film. Maybe it’s just pure beauty. Maybe her subtle but infectious smile. Maybe it’s just she has the perfect girl next door look. Sexy in a very simple way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukVETY6ptJM

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 03, 2014, 06:21:22 pm
Three Kings (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 03, 2014, 10:34:39 pm
American Beauty (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2014, 10:14:57 pm
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2014, 11:33:34 pm
Snitch (2013)

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Post by: Mac on January 06, 2014, 09:18:55 am
Jobs (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I was kind of expecting good things from this perspective of Steve Jobs. It was not bad, but it borders on not being a major motion picture. This would have worked well for a television movie. I like Ashton Kutcher as Jobs. I like the cast of characters that surround this movie.

I think the problem is there is just way to much involved with Steve Jobs life, that this movie doesn't do the story justice. They pick on some key events filled in with a variety of other smaller key events. Never lacking in involvement, just detail. I'm geeky, but they really just skimmed many events. I didn't really get a sense of what Jobs was like. Was he a total dick, was he a programmer, was he an artist.

It was clear he had drive and vision, but surprisingly it was somewhat flat. Kutcher seems to have nailed his posture, his walk, even his facial characteristics. But without a doubt, he also bring Kutcher's version to Jobs life and times.

If you have any interest in Jobs or Apple, this movie can fill in a few blanks, but it is far from being complete.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrvkCS0ZGPU

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Post by: Mac on January 06, 2014, 09:33:27 am
Devil's Pass (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

I'm not sure why I picked this up because I ordered it so long ago. I must have liked the trailer.

I did not know until the final credits rolled, this was directed by Renny Harlin. I just never would have thought he would approach a film like this. But I guess it was a pet project he was interested in.

Based 'loosely' on true events, the movie is following along a group of folks interested in solving the "The Dyatlov Pass Incident" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dyatlov_Pass_incident)

This is all shot with found footage style, but for the first time, it was well done. Very little shaking.

Except... the do continue on of the huge pitfalls of found footage. When your life is in serious life threatening situation and those around you are getting killed... no one and I mean, no one holds onto the camera to continue filming. That's just WTF.

Yea, yea, yea.... wouldn't have a film then... Whatevah!!!

Devil's Pass slowly builds in suspense. Like the Paranormal Activity movies, pay attention to the background and surround... things are going on.

But I think the movie falls completely apart in the 3rd act. Of course this is where all hell breaks loose, but boy it's a head scratcher. This part is completely made up and bears little resemblance to the rest of the movie, let alone the story. It pegs the goofy-crap-o-meter.

I won't give anything away, but the 3rd act are direct rip-off of the horror video games.

Again, not horrible. Some good scares. I'm still surprised at the Renny Harlin involvement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mbq3dR-SEr4

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2014, 09:48:23 am
I'm still on the fence about even giving Jobs a look. I already read the book and the trailer just doesn't make me want to see this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2014, 06:55:41 pm
Anna and the King (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2014, 06:11:01 pm
Bad News Bears (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2014, 11:12:04 pm
Pain & Gain (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2014, 05:00:19 pm
Glory (1989)

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Post by: Mac on January 09, 2014, 07:20:37 am
Note: I'm going to add my Netflix viewing to the DVD section. I guess I could go the television route, but my reviews are more about Movies, than TV programs.

Grabbers (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4e3izWdh9WM

I’ve heard about Grabbers many moons ago. This is a horror/comedy which seems to be heavily influenced by the likes of Shaun of the Dead. I believe this is a foreign cooperation with the U.K. and Ireland. Maybe more.

I was really surprised at the quality of the film. It’s done very well, with fun characters, decent writing and pretty impressive special effects. Grabbers is silly in the sense, the townsfolk figured out that if they get totally drunk, the alien creature will not attack them.

Mild spoiler…. But not really…. That is the thinking but not the way story roles out. The creature still attacks.

If you wanna waste 90 minutes or so with a mildly humorous sci-fi/horror movie than check out Grabbers.
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Post by: Mac on January 09, 2014, 07:23:15 am
Hypothermia (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YR3XoXMLIs

Yet another movie that was in my crosshairs, but didn’t much effort in trying to check out. Michael Rooker is about the only actor anyone might recognize. He does a decent job for his character, but the real problem for this independent film is bad writing and then applying bad editing. Very amateurish. And up to the time the creature shows it’s face, the movie maintains interest. Unfortunately the monster is soooooooo bad, it’s laughable. And the director does everything he can to build suspense, while trying to show the creature as little as possible.

This is not a very good film. It’s definitely B-movie material and very forgettable.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 09, 2014, 04:45:05 pm
Lincoln (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 10, 2014, 10:37:06 pm
Dark Skies (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 11, 2014, 11:07:41 pm
Red State (2011)

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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 12:06:24 pm
V/H/S 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3adz-HKaxik

In late 2012, V/H/S was released and sparked some creative juices into ‘a collection’ of horror ideas. Low budget with good return pretty much guarantees a sequel… which was promptly put out a year later. The original V/H/S was kind of fresh. It had a 50/50 mix of two good stories and two not very good stories. That could be because of the story or the execution or whatever.

V/H/S 2 is cash grab. It should have been a flag to some new directors a chance to run with it and prove themselves. IMO, it fails on soooo many levels. The thread of the story (watching these black market VHS tapes in an abandoned house is exactly like the first (nothing creative there) and worse, what the investigators do is completely moronic and pulls the whole movie down to laughable.

Now the 4 stories are meh at best. None scary, except for the fabricated jump scenes. Believe me I know we through out huge leaps of faith when it comes to horror. But the found footage constantly frustrates me. One of the stories tries to be creative while putting the camera on the back of a dog. Yea No. Another, a camera is a replacement for a guy who had an eye injury.

One of the main reasons, I feel they could do better is, at the core, there could be some great creative juices here. But all the stories… just end. Boom. Done.

I cannot recommend V/H/S 2
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 12:12:34 pm
The ABC’s of Death (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imYC9tbxuEw

Well speaking of a ‘collection’ of horror stories. The ABC’s of Death took V/H/S and ran with it. Where this collection has no central thread to tie them together. This is just an experiement of giving 26 different directors, from all over the world, a letter of the alphabet and build a very short story around it. 26 stories in 90 minutes. So this is just a ‘mixed tape’ of horror.

I will say some of the most bizarre ideas are presented here. Some gory. Some filthy. Some WTF. None were ever scary… but believe me, these are horror films. The Asian community proves once again, they know how to peg the goofy-crap-O-meter. Good gawd, some strange stuff here.

A few directors decided to get very ‘artistic’ shall we say and I don’t have a clue to what was happening. Some were filmed creatively, thus helping a little in the telling.
None are great… maybe none are even good. Lots of bad. I would only recommend if you want to check out the bizarre. This will suffice for 90 minutes or so.

I think I included one or two of the shorts somewhere in these threads. Dunno

I do like the One Sheet. It must have done well enough where they are working on a ABC's 2
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2014, 12:21:14 pm
Never seen VHS other than the table top machine collecting dust next to the TV.  ;D Anyway, I take it that the movie is more an anthology?
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 12:39:26 pm
Paintball (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

HD Trailer? I don't think so...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qabBbJPxFMQ

Besides the synopsis, I had little idea about this one. Never heard of it before. It wasn’t bad. It wasn’t great either. Paintball is kind of a mashup of Hostel and Cabin In The Woods.

A team of A-list Paintballers (they don’t know each other) travel by bus to a remote location for the ultimate outdoor contest against another group of A-list players. Well, it doesn’t take very long before the group realize that things are not right. The unseen enemy is using bullets and traps and camera’s to slowly take out the team. Slowly, it’s revealed this is a ‘special’ kind of setup. Don’t want to give much more away. It had me intrigued. I will recommend this just because it takes a slight different spin.
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 12:41:23 pm
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Never seen VHS other than the table top machine collecting dust next to the TV.  ;D Anyway, I take it that the movie is more an anthology?

Yep... that's what it would be (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/96371.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2014, 12:47:56 pm
Paintball actually sounds interesting enough for me to check out for myself.
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 01:18:06 pm
Fast and Furious 6 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKi5XoeTN0k

I got Fast and Furious 6 for Christmas. I was gonna get it no matter what. Just part of my guilty pleasure collection. And I am very happy I did. Fast and Furious 6 is the best so far. I thoroughly enjoyed everything about 6. I will admit, it definitely teetered on jumping the shark. The first 5 pretty much keep it basic, but 6 pushing the limits in action and story. Even bringing back someone from the dead. Well, the way they present it, it makes sense.

Someone recently asked me why there is more than one Fast and Furious? Good question. As I was thinking about it, James Bond came to mind. What is it about 007 that continues the stories? A lot, but some of the key ingredients are present in Fast and Furious. Beautiful women, amazing locales, thoroughly awesome cars (people love cars), intense action and that comes from racing cars, fights… and let me just say, 6 has one of the most intense girl-on-girl fight scenes evah. And let’s be honest, just like James Bond, men watch those films visualizing themselves as 007, same with Fast and Furious. Men put themselves into these roles and just slobber all over it. I do.

Justin Lin the director has now handled 4 of the 6 including this one. He knows what works. I believe 6 has been the most successful thus far. He has tied in the previous films and he has layed out plans for future releases. Not copying, but tying triology’s together and referencing back.

On occasion through the movie, I did get sad thinking about Paul Walker. But I’m not going to let that get me down. Instead, I’d like to thank Paul for bringing this entertainment. He will be missed.

As I mentioned, there are two scenes that just about jump the shark. I'll forgive and forget and just enjoy the movie. It's a blast.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 13, 2014, 02:35:34 pm
I finally saw La Femme Nikita, and there was one thing... I just really wish I hadn't known that Jean Reno was in the movie because he pops up in the final act in total Leon mode, and I love Leon (though I haven't seen it in years), so I feel like that could have just been such a bounce-off-the-walls happy reveal when "the cleaner" shows up.  Ugh.

What was surprising about it was how little action is actually in the movie, it feels more "cold war" in a weird sort of way, you have to go through all these hoops to perform a single action, then clean-up and go.  Which makes sense for such a low-budget movie, but I had just been expecting a non-stop roller coaster the second after she knocks off those people in the restaurant.

Also saw... I watched a LOT of movies, quite a few asian flicks that are about to expire off Netflix, so I watched those and took notes.  But the other films you might have HEARD OF that I watched...

American Beauty.  Finally saw that.  There was a special feature on the blu-ray that must have been made for a cable channel, and it actually made me glad I hadn't seen the film on DVD or worse, VHS when it came out.  I'm very fond of VHS but the movie felt SO different in 4:3.  The one thing that really annoyed me about the movie was the ending, not so much what HAPPENED to Lester but who did it.  Can I talk about it?  Well, let's just say, it felt kind of like a cop-out or a compromise to go that route because... it might have well have been Mr Furley who did it!  Which immediately brings this mental image of Kevin Spacey speaking sarcastically to Don Knotts.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2014, 02:39:02 pm
I say talk about it in the American Beauty thread just in case Mac hasn't seen it. FYI, I've had my copy of Nikita sitting on top of my DVD player for about 4 months, just waiting for me to pop in.
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2014, 04:27:21 pm
Feel free to talk about it.

I have seen it, but remember little.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2014, 04:30:01 pm
We tawkin' bout it in thread. Your name keeps coming up. No idea why.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2014, 10:42:52 pm
Citizen Kane (1941)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2014, 07:13:29 pm
Cop Out (2010)

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Post by: Mac on January 15, 2014, 07:54:08 am
Coc kney’s vs. Zombies (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q96po6oa11w
 
Is a recent release out of England that is definitely influenced by Shaun Of The Dead and is either an homage or rip-off. CvZ is a horror comedy that does a decent of job of being both. It has plenty of gore to shock the viewer and enough humor to role the eyes.

The premise of the movie are couple of young guys wanting to save their Uncle (Alan Ford) from having to move from the Senior Citizen building he lives in and hates. So the only recourse is to rob a bank to get the money to save the razing of the building Uncle lives in. Half the movie is the robbery, the other half takes place with Seniors at the housing. A bungled bank heist and then off to save Uncle all while a zombie apocalypse suddenly happens… comedy ensues. I’m not familiar with any of the actors except I’ve seen Alan Ford, I don’t know where, but he definitely shines here as hard as nails curmudgeon old man with attitude.

CvZ is not exceptional and I’ll probably long forget about it. But while I was watching it, I was entertained.

Michelle Ryan is hot though

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2014, 08:37:00 am
Your library has access to the most obscure titles. I would say about 75% of the horror flicks you have reviewed aren't even in my branch's system. Ack!
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Post by: Mac on January 15, 2014, 09:38:42 am
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Your library has access to the most obscure titles. I would say about 75% of the horror flicks you have reviewed aren't even in my branch's system. Ack!

Ah, let me clear something up. Not all these movies are from the library. While yes, I'm extremely pleased with their purchases, there is a lot still not fulfilled... like Coc kney's vs. Zombies. This was VOD from The Movie Channel.

Many of the other recent horror films have been Netflix.

I still push the library for purchases and I'm often surprised at either their purchase or borrowing extremes they do.

I could start providing the source of these movies if you'd like.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 15, 2014, 09:55:14 pm
Supercop (1992)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 15, 2014, 10:01:33 pm
(as Nick Frost) "Meet the cop... who can't be stopped."
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Post by: Mac on January 16, 2014, 07:24:26 am
Thanks for Sharing (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsyU9imkemI

I picked this up for my wife, but unfortunately she is a succubus and had me watch it with her. Within 30 minutes, I was reading my iPad.

Thanks for Sharing has a great cast Mark Ruffalo, Tim Robbins, Gwyneth Paltrow and Alecia Moore, better known as P!nk) as some very likeable characters, but the story telling is just so slow and syrupy. TFS is a small glimpse into several people’s lives and the lives they affect, that have addictions like sex and alcohol. This is a not an easy film to watch. It’s not a comedy. It is drama, with lots of folks that have problems. Not exceptional problems, just problems and I did not find that entertaining in any way. This is not a spoiler, but with 80 minutes of dreary, the last 10 minutes wraps it all up with a feel good bow.

Everyone did a fantastic job of acting, but the dialog was rough, especially between Ruffalo and Paltrow. P!nk did an outstanding job. You actually bought into her character and believed her. She had more screen time than I thought she might.

Fairly standard drama. Nothing to write home about and I’m sure I’ll forget about this very quickly.

What I will not forget about are two songs in the closing credits. Just fantastic. Good enough for me to seek out immediately and add to my collection. Go to the music threads. I’ll post there.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 16, 2014, 01:21:58 pm
Who Am I? (1998)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2014, 11:11:29 am
Once Upon a Time in America (1984)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2014, 09:28:02 pm
Friday Night Lights (2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 18, 2014, 10:35:24 pm
Unforgiven (1992)

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Post by: Mac on January 19, 2014, 09:07:12 am
Insidious: Chapter 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

I'll give the sequel to Insidious a 1/2 star, only for the corny jump scares it tries to incorporate. Otherwise, 2 is a lazy, cliche ridden, non-scary film that does nothing but make the viewer roll their eyes.

I was not on the band wagon with the first one that was getting all kinds of rave reviews for James Wan flick. IMO, it was hype because of his involvement with The Conjuring, which essentially is just more spooky house stuff.

I just think this was a money grab on everybody's part, dispensing any kind of creative thought for a follow up. Not only is this identical to the first, this time people will not be scarred, because they've just seen it.

I can't recommend this even to a horror fan.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBbi4NeebAk
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Post by: Mac on January 19, 2014, 09:17:13 am
Mud (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Up front, I'm not a Matthew McConaughey fan, except for Reign of Fire and Contact, which he does  a decent job.

But I heard and read great stuff about this little film that must have flown under the radar. Cause I heard nothing of it while it was in the theaters.

Mud is not a bad film, it was just... slow. I was waiting and waiting for something to happen. After 45 minutes of just a very slow reveal about the story, I just didn't care. Maybe it turned out good, but I didn't want to waste any more time with it.

I gave it 3 stars, because I'm sure there are plenty of folks who would enjoy this kind of drama.

Not for me.

I threw in Reign of Fire to end the night. Way more entertaining.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFBC8ohhVUs
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Post by: Mac on January 19, 2014, 09:26:58 am
Unhung Hero (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

This is one of those films/documentaries that I totally ran across by accident. While searching for something to watch On Demand, the title caught my eye... maybe some soft p orn perhaps?

First, it's a documentary, secondly it's about a guy who has a below normal p enis and his search for truth "Does Size Matter". I thought the Patrick Moote did a very entertaining documentary. I'm on the fence about docu's. This was just fun to watch him explore just about every avenue on one of man's greatest concern's. He talks to everybody and I mean everybody. His Mom, Dad, family, friends, ex-girlfriends, sex therapists, urologists, adult toys and stores, adult convention....
.... and that's in the first 35 minutes or so.

Definitely not something I would though I'd ever consider watching, but glad I did. I feel for the guy. I can't imagine what it must be like. Quite frankly.... neither did he until one of his ex's tells him he is small. That's how this all starts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghPZ3KxAYSQ
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 19, 2014, 08:04:57 pm
A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (1995)

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Post by: Mac on January 20, 2014, 09:50:13 am
Riddick (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH3O-CeZckE

The 3rd movie in the Pitch Black saga of Riddick character. To Recap, Pitch Black came out of nowhere and was unique in several ways. First, you are rooting for the bad guy. It’s about the bad guy and how he becomes the anti-hero. The photography definitely stood out. And lastly, the script was fresh on things we’ve seen before with stranded rag-tag group of people. All these things made Pitch Black unique, fun and very entertaining.

The follow-up Chronicles of Riddick, just completely left the tracks from the first one. It was very slick, big budget and way more complex with regards to the universe Riddick is dealing with. Some found this just jarring, including me. While looking back on it now, I’ve grown to like it, but it is nothing like the original.

Riddick comes back to Pitch Black. This was love project from Vin Diesel and the director. Riddick should satisfy those who were expecting something like this as the immediate sequel.

I’m on the fence. I found it too much like the original, but this time, different planet, different bounty, different creatures. Part of me wants to yell, about damn time, the other part is telling me, been there, done that.

I need to watch this again.

I will definitely make this a recommended viewing. Visually stunning. The sound is awesome. The visionary use for space and planets is pretty cool.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2014, 09:54:04 am
I've been checking up daily at my Library for the past week or so waiting for a copy to pop up. Still nothing on order. Ugh.  >:(
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Post by: Mac on January 20, 2014, 11:19:41 am
I think your library needs a visit by Vito and Baby Face Onesto
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2014, 11:44:57 am
Unhung Hero (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)


Read your review and checked out the trailer. I'll check it out for sure as it looks entertaining, but honestly, I think this is more of a mockumentary or a prank series like Jackass. I don't think this is legit at all. The set up itself SCREAMED staged. If the guy was in a real relationship with the chick, strong enough to actually get down and proposed to her in public, I highly doubt that she would reject him as she did, based solely on his dick size.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 20, 2014, 08:48:27 pm
The Quick and the Dead (1995)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 21, 2014, 08:17:18 pm
The Wolverine (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 22, 2014, 04:48:41 pm
The Cove (2009)

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Post by: Mac on January 23, 2014, 06:14:11 am
Nitro Circus (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QnjWfBAI-PE

I’ve seen trailers for Nitro Circus for a while and have been trying to figure out ways to check it out, short of buying it. Netflix gave me the opportunity.

If you like stunts, daredevils, explosions, crashes, wipeouts, and pure stupidity, this movie is for you. You could make a case how Nitro Circus emulates Jackass.  But even Johnny Knoxville, who makes a cameo, says Jackass was doing stupid personal stunts meant to fail. Nitro Circus is big stunts that are meant to succeed, otherwise death.

Nitro Circus is a family of friends who live by adrenalin rushes. Some of the stunts are pure art, some are just lunacy. The band of brothers (and sister), are there to push and outdo each other.

Nitro Circus films their stunts much like The Art Of Flight, which I highly recommend. It was shot in 3D too, but that means very little to me. The visual are crystal clear, slow mo, and about every angle possible. The pacing never lets up. The cast of characters is fairly entertaining. They could be anybody’s best buds, but with excitement issues.

Check it out. It’s mindless fun.
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Post by: Mac on January 23, 2014, 07:16:16 am
Kick-Ass 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Td921lYSBIA

I rather liked the original Kick-Ass. It was very different from the typical Super Hero movie, in that it was ‘shocking’. Yes, a little shocking to see a cute little girl slice and dice the bad guys with a sailor mouth to boot.

I was therefore expecting KA2 to entertain me as well. I was not prepared for the total lack of creativity or entertainment. Kick-Ass stunned me with entertainment. Kick-Ass 2 follows the same exact formula and I was bored. No I was apathetic. I just did not care about anything in this movie. Didn’t hate it, didn’t like it either. It was just more of the same stuff. The characters were same, but seemed more average.  The super villain, the new super hero characters… all just fading to me already.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 23, 2014, 07:33:53 am
I still want to see KA2, but my Library doesn't even have one copy on order. So, I don't see me getting around to this any time soon.
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Post by: Mac on January 25, 2014, 10:01:40 am
20 Feet From Stardom (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWyUJcA8Zfo

20 Feet From Stardom is hail to the unsung hero's of the those magnificent voices we sometimes don't hear, other times they stick out. With occasional words from some of the big boys like Bruce Springsteen, Sting, Bette Midler, but mostly from the mouth of babes. For 1-1/2 hours, I didn't find it that revealing, but more of an interesting bit of a documentary. For some reason, their future's did not include an amazing solo career. It just wasn't in the cards, yet, every one of these women are far more talented than most of the big artists that did make it.

There was a time or two where the hair on my neck stood up from such an amazing singing performance. I am going to definitely check out the soundtrack, but go a little further and try to get the albums that these artists did produce, but went no where. We have career backup sings such as Darlene Love, Judith Hill, Merry Clayton, and my favorite Lisa Fischer.



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Post by: Mac on January 25, 2014, 10:07:58 am
The Colony (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZENI7UC3WQo

The Colony's trailer sparked my interest. An apocalypse, where the earth freezes over, with most of mankind gone and few remaining trying to survive and maintain some humanity.

After The Colony ended, I thought I just swallowed a big gulp of air. It has little substance. Some tension, but something we've all seen before. Heck it has Laurence Fishburne and Bill Paxton, but still, they could not carry the mediocre story.

They cheaped out on the sets too. It's obvious the outdoor scenes were on a sound stage. To me anywise.

Very disappointed. The Sci-fi fan might give this some time to watch, otherwise.... nahhhhhhhhhhhh
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Post by: Neumatic on January 25, 2014, 06:14:51 pm
The one part I chuckled at was when Kick-@ss ad Battle Guy recognize each other.  I'm glad Clarke Duke got something to do in the movie.  But the whole thing just had this feel of uncertainty about it, like they weren't sure why the first one was such a hit or that they didn't trust themselves to get it right again.  I couldn't help but notice that they did a little tease with "Superior" and as much as I would like to see that flick (I think Nathan Fillion would be a brill choice for the role), they ain't making a Superior movie.

I've watched very little in the last few days.  Right now I'm watching the "Mitt" documentary on Netflix.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2014, 12:36:33 pm
El Mariachi (1992)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2014, 03:28:53 pm
Desperado (1995)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 27, 2014, 05:58:36 pm
I wound up watching all three seasons of "An Idiot Abroad" over the last few days.  Loud out loud hilarious, and something that I'd been putting off watching for way too long.  The premise is mind-numbingly simple, like the show's host: Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant send their mate Karl Pilkington (from the podcast, shows, and books) out into the world to see the seven wonders of the world and do insane crazy stuff that most people would only dream of doing.  And he absolutely does not want to do it.  It's brilliant, and you actually CAN see a little bit of evolution in Karl as he goes through his travels (particularly in the final season).  An absolute watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 27, 2014, 08:14:49 pm
Once Upon a Time in Mexico (2003)

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Post by: Mac on January 28, 2014, 10:14:05 am
You’re Next (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufUQWpEkbf0

I believe You’re Next was marketed pretty heavily. Why? I dunno. Did the studio try to recover their losses… by spending more. Was this actually a hit for demographic they were looking for? I dunno.

All I know was You’re Next was a complete letdown in just about everything. Except for the ‘Strong Leading Lady’, this Home Invasion film was not only cliché filled, but done badly. First the shaky cam… continually ruins movies. When hell broke loose in the movie, watching it became unbearable.

The script is about as stupid as they come. The bad guys are morons. The house guests are all unlikeable. Why would I care about any of this? The dialog is more than eye rolling.

I guess I have to hand it to marketing. They got me interested in a what turns out to be a very bad movie.

I can't recommend this to anyone.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2014, 11:05:02 am
You’re Next

I believe You’re Next was marketed pretty heavily.

This is the first I'm hearing about it. Never saw any print ads, TV spots or trailers. Nada.
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Post by: Mac on January 28, 2014, 11:51:48 am
Hmmm, maybe this is one of those perceived things. I mean me liking horror and such. I was alerted to it, but most people have never heard of it.  :-\

My bad
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2014, 07:29:33 pm
Windtalkers (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2014, 05:44:30 pm
The Watch (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2014, 09:31:18 pm
Iron Man 3 (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2014, 09:57:31 pm
Warm Bodies (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 30, 2014, 10:59:09 pm
Been watching movies like it's been going out of style.  Well, mostly because they were about to expire.  I don't think I could list 'em all if I tried.  Just a continuous feed, feels like the old days in a good way.

Right now, inspired by the Laurence Fishburne commercials, I finally went back and watched the Matrix for the first time in ages.  Now I'm watching the full-length making of they did, I always liked that.
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Post by: Mac on January 31, 2014, 06:02:20 am
Expire?
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Post by: Mac on January 31, 2014, 06:35:20 am
American Mary (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJtVBD6DlX8

American Mary was getting good buzz from the horror film community. It’s been way in the back of my radar to look out for and check it out if it became available. It did and I watched.

I rather liked American Mary. It was fresh in several ways, in particular Mary (Katharine Isabelle, who reminds me of Emma Stone quite a bit)  is a beautiful Girl Next Door who gets sucked up into the underbelly of bad medical practices… in particular… body modifications. The script unfolds like a deadly flower and the viewer is along for the ride. This movie is not for everyone. It’s gets pretty dark and bizarre. This story slam dunks my core desire of watching a movie. I DO NOT know what will happen next.

Like Mary, we discover with her the weird world of body modification and those who seek it out and act on it. I found it fascinating and repulsive at the same time.

This is a well made film with those involved caring about story, direction, lighting, sound, visuals, etc, etc.

I would not call this a gore film, but there are scenes that will make you squeamish.

I highly recommend this if you’re looking for something completely different.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2014, 06:58:28 am
Is this a Chick version of American Psycho?
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Post by: Mac on January 31, 2014, 09:16:20 am
IMO, No. American Psycho is about a, well, a psycho.

American Mary accidentally finds a niche for her Medical skills. As the story progress's, she unfortunately gets mixed up with some seedy folks and in one case, someone who **** her. She gets revenge.

She really is a decent women who is finds constant conflict on the paths she takes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2014, 10:15:12 pm
Barb Wire (1996)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2014, 09:07:22 pm
Fight Club (1999)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 02, 2014, 10:12:33 pm
Spellbound (2002)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2014, 07:45:53 pm
vv Review For Me Click

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(2000) Memento



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Post by: Mac on February 05, 2014, 10:25:13 am
Carrie (2013) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

I’ve got one word. Unnecessary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H369sxjyhx8

I kind of suspected it going in, but this is a shot for shot remake of the far superior original by Brian De Palma with Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie.

This lifeless retread is not worth the time. I’m writing way more than I should. This movie is has been basically been re-shot with only a few new touches. Besides that huge waste of resources and time, comparatively, it comes off mediocre at best. I assume they remade it for a new generation of folks who just won’t look at old classics. Their loss. If Carrie (2013) is their only introduction, then they are missing out. By using Chloe Grace Moretz, I think they believe they are being hip and relevant. While her acting is OK, I don’t believe in her character one bit. Same with Julianne Moore. I know what this character can bring, and Moore just seems to be trying to act it out. All the other characters forgettable. And what is with all the overly skinny girls in this flick. Good gawd… eat a samich.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2014, 10:34:03 am
Bummer, I was actually looking forward to getting this from my Library. Sigh.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 05, 2014, 12:22:20 pm
I was never suffering any delusions that it would be good...  and as much as I love Chloe Moretz (as an actress), she's just too cool now.  I can't buy her being unsure about herself or being intimidated by anything (Kick-@ss 2 has this same problem, when they give her character a Mean Girls subplot).  I'm still intrigued enough to check it out though, but I need to find the right (or most wrong) companion movie to watch it with.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2014, 07:34:09 pm
Flags of Our Fathers (2006)

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Post by: Mac on February 10, 2014, 06:14:04 am
Baggage Claim (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9JwZRQXzNQ

Every once in a blue moon, a chick flick comes along I can stomach. Baggage Claim is one of them . This is by the numbers story, I know I’ve seen several times elsewhere (i.e.: What’s Your Number?). About a women feeling her clock ticking and ‘needing’ to get married and the silly premise of revisiting all her past boyfriends because maybe she have missed something. So the rest of the movie is filled with those comedic pursuits. This is a definitive Rom-Com.

Paula Patton is just so pleasing on the eyes. And with her low sultry voice and neverending smile, it’s just candy time. Jill Scott, who I’ve admired for her singing for years, is a rather good actress too. And it does not hurt, she is one curvy women. She pulls off the snarky girlfriend with convincing ease. This movie is just filled with beautiful people and it has just enough of a comedic tone to be entertained. Not memorable mind you, but not a bad way to spend 90 minutes.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2014, 06:22:42 am
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say your wife picked this out for you and threatened bodily harm if you didn't watch it with her.  ;)
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Post by: Mac on February 10, 2014, 08:11:02 am
Not really. We saw the trailer on some other movie and both thought it looked fun.

My wife was the one who actually was repeatedly saying this was silly. But I know why. Cause I would comment on an occasion how hot some of the women were. Now mind you, the men are equally hot. Her commenting 'silly' was just reactionary because she watches these kinds of movies all the time on Lifetime and E. Silly, goofy chick flicks. Why this one is silly is because I'm watching it.

We are at a point where if one of us isnot interested, we don't have to sit with the other to watch it. If it saw this was as stupid as her lifetime movies, I would go do something else.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 10, 2014, 07:43:27 pm
Dexter (Season 8 - The Final Season - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 11, 2014, 10:17:25 pm
I'm rewatching the first season of House Of Cards in anticipation of the new season coming out.  I actually didn't think I'd start it this early, I was planning on starting on Friday so I wouldn't have to worry about a gap in time, I just couldn't find anything else interesting (well, I did rent Goodfellas but my stupid rental disc clunked out with a freakin' hour left in the movie.  I still don't know how it ends).

Anyway, HOC, I'd forgotten a huge chunk of it, the last thing I remembered was Frank making a fool of himself on CNN, and even then I couldn't remember the specifics of it )"I O U... A... apology?").  Totally forgot the way he conquered that at the end of the ep.  I will say that while I hadn't forgotten the FIRST thing Underwood does in the series, and I know it's coming, it still surprises me.
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Post by: Mac on February 13, 2014, 07:54:26 am
Nightmare Factory - (Documentary)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzPbIxfQXuY

I typically enjoy the behind the scenes stuff of the movies I watch. Not a must have, but some can be entertaining. Nightmare Factory is a documentary of those practical special effects guys in horror movies. This documentary primarily focused on Greg Nicatoro (Walking Dead) his partners and the K&B Effects Studio. There is lots of old 8mm footage of early years. Mixed in with some very current work and sprinkled throughout is the projects, directors and collaborators in the past 30 years.

While it was for the most part entertaining and informative, the direction and editing they took went on too long. It's kind of bloated with some discussions of people's opinions and memories of the past. I guess for the horror purest, this was just engaging. I found it a little hollow.

Still, there is enough here to keep you watching, if you like this kind of stuff.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 14, 2014, 03:28:02 pm
I watched the remake of Carrie after rewatching Ender's Game and I was expecting my mind to impose a sci-fi angle on the whole thing (CGM being genetically engineered or something like that).  But, no.  Actually, I was thinking an interesting movie to watch with the flick might be Saved!, the Mandy Moore comedy from about ten years ago, dealing with religion, high school, and so on.  But I didn't, so I can't say for sure.

I got a few pages of notes and ideas from watching Carrie which is really all I could hope for, and I might do an entry in the Creative Writing Threads about high school movies (since I somehow watched a couple of them recently).  But anyway, Carrie.  I'm definitely on the side that it wasn't updated enough, I mean, you really only need five things when you make this movie: the shower scene, the mother, the prom, the blood, the rampage.  And those are just toys.  I would have liked to (well, "liked to" sounds wrong), but it would have been interesting to see the sort of new garbage that Carrie gets, 21st century bullying, constant barrages.

There's a big issue some people (including myself) have with CGM being Carrie... she's too cool for the part.  We like her too much.  So I feel like once they cast her, they should have played with it to put us more on her side, they did kind of make her happy but I wanted to see her point of view.  There's a scene where they mentioned that she told all the girls they're going to h*ll, I want to see that scene AND get her POV and actually root for her, you know?  I want to go on that emotional journey, to break WITH her, you know?  To be on her side, but want her to join in with the rest of her classmates, truly get friends, feel accepted, and then by one act take that all away from her.  To me, at least, the rampage shouldn't have been just sheer anger and rage (although that was cool), it should have been heartbreak, like, one painful memory about one person in that crowd does them in, you know?  That's how I would have done it, at least.  I shouldn't call out a movie for not being what *I* would have wanted it to be (why should I? I could just go write my own), I'm just saying that's where my mind is.  Instead of killing them all on purpose, they all feel the pain she feels and it's fatal.

I'm probably more invested in this because I was a real loner, ignored, unliked dude in high school (can you tell?).  I didn't turn into a genuinely interesting or likable or social person until the last ten years or so, but that's probably true for a lot of people.  I was just so aware of how many ways there were to hurt this character that weren't being utilized.  You know, every act where you're ignored, or you sit down and the person sitting next to you inches away, or you're the only one who's not paired up in a class (every f'ing time), it hurts, it's like the death from a thousand cuts.  Which, I might add, would have worked GREAT with Julianne Moore's self-cutting mentality. 

I definitely want to talk about Ender's Game as well, especially the whole long game element of it, but I'll hold off until Chad posts a thread for the movie.  I don't want to spoil anything, and what I have to discuss is all interconnected.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2014, 03:29:48 pm
Haha. Seems like today is THE day for HUGE reviews. Took me half an hour to write mine for Dexter with editing and all that. Finger cramps!
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Post by: Neumatic on February 14, 2014, 03:54:57 pm
That review is TINY compared to the notes that I took on the film.  Most of which, as per usual, I'm saving for myself because, well, they're useless for anyone else.  My fingers cramp when I write by hand (which is how I take my movie notes), but almost never when I type.  Go figure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2014, 04:52:59 pm
Justified (Season 4 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on February 17, 2014, 11:32:35 am
Smiley (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it0wFv0xzKk

Smiley is a sad attempt by the studio’s to reintroduce a mythological evil, that is done far better by the likes of Candyman. This was an obvious attempt to update the story by using Skype and Social Media. Apparently I'm too old, because the key phrase is "I did it for the lulz". They even had to explain it in the movie. Jeessh.

Smiley is dismal from start to finish. Admittedly I did scream out in the first two jump scares. Then the jump scares kept coming and no longer worked. The acting is horrible, the word is many of the actors are from youtube… whatever that means… except if it means bad acting. The idea is stolen. The execution is just not engaging.  Smiley was bantered about quite a bit in the horror forums. I didn’t read details, but the buzz was there. Then reality hit and this became a big fizzle.

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Post by: Mac on February 17, 2014, 11:53:18 am
Escape Plan (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

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The last few years have not been kind to our action movie heroes of late. Sylvester Stallone and Ah-nuld Schwarzenegger star in this latest feature about what? Yes, escaping prisons. Yet another movie I will soon forget. It wasn’t bad, just not that interesting. Jim Caviesal as Warden Hobbs does his best at being an evil villain. Not bad, but I think he could of have done way more. Stallone is supposed to be this genius, along the lines of MacGyver, an expert in getting out of any man made prison. He literally wrote the book. I actually had a hard time buying into this character. Ah-nuld is super weak here. He pretty much goes along with anything Stallone’s character wants. Throwing out the occasional guffaw. The rest of the cast becomes faceless to me. Except 50 Cent. He stands out by being pretty bad… acting.

At times I was really wanting to be engaged about escapes. But somewhere mid-movie, I lost most of my interest in it. Not horrible, but not memorable either.  If you like heist movies, maybe you’ll like this escape movie.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 18, 2014, 08:04:50 pm
Man of Steel (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2014, 08:30:21 pm
The Lone Ranger (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 22, 2014, 12:00:49 am
I finally saw White House Down and liked it... I'm not sure which I prefer more, that or Olympus Has Fallen ... not that I have much intention of seeing either again, but I couldn't help but enjoy the look of the WHD sets as opposed to, well, what I remember from Olympus.  They were lit gorgeously, and it felt like we were really in those spaces, which is rare for an action movie. 

Actually, it got to the point where I thought the sets were so well-designed that they felt like TV show sets, I kept getting the sense that a lot of what's in the movie could be reused at sets for a 24 type show (every time Maggie G was telling Channing Tatum "you have eight minutes to do so-and-so" I kept thinking it felt like a skit of a show like that.  Doubling down on that whole TV feeling was all the TV actors that showed up, especially Broyles from Fringe and one of the doctors from House whose name I can't remember because I haven't seen House in years.

It was so funny that I saw this AFTER seeing the second season of House Of Cards, because Jimmi Simpson is in BOTH, playing rather similar computer hackers.  I wouldn't have noticed it if the timing hadn't been just right.

And can I just say who the big scene stealer of the movie was, for me?  Joey King.  She just rocked, this was a movie full of actors but she was the only one I got a sense of a "performance" out of.  Normally kid actors are grating, or too cute for their own good, or they can't act or just don't feel right, and for some reason, I think she was.  I liked how enthusiastic and smart she was, she was a bit of a geek without being a geek, you know, you felt protective of her, which you have to in a film like this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2014, 05:56:30 am
Still waiting for my copy of WHD to arrive. Been on the wait list for a few months now. Sigh.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2014, 07:38:44 pm
The Pursuit of Happyness (2006)

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Post by: Mac on February 23, 2014, 05:26:18 pm
Machete Kills 1/2 Star

For the beautiful women. Otherwise this was just lame ass crap.

I know it's Grindhouse. I know it's making fun, but this has little entertainment, unless you see the world through child's eyes in an R-rated world. Seriously, I'm sure he had a blast with his cast making this, but even the die hard fan of this stuff will find it difficult to pull quality entertainment from. Even dumb entertainment.

Listen up. Not one single tit shot.

Rodriguez loves the bloody mayhem to the head. Shoot it, cut it off, blow it up, burn it.... Etc, etc.

And that's one of the many problems. First time, funny. The next 100, not so much.

I didn't think much of the first Machete. Machete Kills is far worse.

Even for someone like me who enjoys the B movie on occasion, this just blows.

There's about a buck fifty in the budget and it shows. And about a weekend of drunkeness with buddies who thought your ideas were epic. Yea, not so much.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2014, 05:44:13 pm
MK2 is way down on my list of things to see. I'm not surprised one bit that RR won't offer up some T&A. Really not sure what he reasoning is, especially given the fact that his movies are Rated R. Go figure.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2014, 06:21:05 pm
I think that once you get down to the production that RR has, basically making movies out of his garage, then having girls take their clothes off feels a bit like making a dirty movie.  At least, I can see it feeling this way.

It really sucks because I used to dig RR for taking risks and being real playful, but now you've got this George Lucas thing kind of going on where he keeps mining the same ideas, shoots around locally... he's not taking any risks or playing around or growing, and that sucks.  He was one of the first to go digital and go 3D and he should be light years ahead of where everyone else is, but instead he's treading water.

I did see the GIF of Alexa Vega's bum from this movie, so... can't really think of any other reason to seek it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2014, 08:46:16 pm
This day has been a long time coming.  I'm going to pace myself (and I think, for now, it might be easy).  Yours truly just started watching Breaking Bad.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2014, 08:49:27 pm
This day has been a long time coming.  I'm going to pace myself (and I think, for now, it might be easy).  Yours truly just started watching Breaking Bad.

'Bout muthaphuckin' time!!!! ENJOY!!!! :)
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2014, 09:43:31 pm
I understand it doesn't get addictive until later on... I'm only on ep... I think I'm still on episode two (the first time Jesse starts dropping "yo yo" and "b*tch," b*tch!  Which is fine with me, I wanna ease in.  Don't want to get too drawn in while I'm still reading (as I'm already quite invested in that... but I can only read so much, I'm averaging about 100 pages a day but I still have 700 more to go).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2014, 10:17:28 pm
Don't know who you're listening too about BB, but it's addictive right out of the gate. Well, it was for me anyway.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 24, 2014, 10:26:53 pm
I somehow went back in time, and I'm still reading him as Hal from Malcolm in the Middle.  Especially when he and Aaron Paul are fighting over the baggie BC wants to flush down the toilet.

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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2014, 03:45:45 am
Ya... The final episodes are now available on Da Netflix.
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2014, 06:03:13 am
UP (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

Watched this again last night and it's great as ever. How does an animated feature make one cry... by displaying incredible emotion.

I still laugh hard at several scenes. Just love this flick

SQUIRREL!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OxYYPziLdR4
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Post by: Neumatic on February 25, 2014, 10:12:49 pm
You know, I have a big cardboard cut-out of Dug The Dog in the corner of my room (I also have a cardboard character from Juno, I wanted Ellen Page but I gave it to a friend so he could annoy another friend, so I have Michael Cera in my closet, which I totally forgot about until I was cleaning out my closet and saw a face looking at me, it made me jump).

So an update on Lethal Weapon, I told you guys about the screwy blu-rays I got.  Well, I was at Best Buy and it turns out that the directors cuts aren't on ANY blu-rays, just the DVDs.  So I bought the DVD set.  The same one I had before, but loaned to my sister, which she promptly lost.  How many times do I have to buy these godd*mn movies!?

I finally saw Thor: The Dark World... I missed it in the theater for whatever reason, so I was coming into it fresh, I had forgotten most of the trailers, but unfortunately knew about one minor role I wish I didn't, it would have been such a nice surprise.  But the flick on the whole, really well done, it managed to perform that balancing act of high fantasy with sci-fi with both working excellently.  The director did Game Of Thrones and it totally has that feel, minus Portman going Dany Targarean on us, which would have been awesome but that ain't happening in a kid's superhero movie.

Something I really dug was that the Earth-bound action all takes place in London.  It's a little thing but I liked that.  And I realized one of the huge strengths that the Marvel movies have is that all the side characters feel like they could go off and do their own thing, we get the impression taht this universe and their lives continue between movies, I love that.  It's definitely something you can sense in "All Hail The King," the short film attached to the blu-ray.  And it's one of the little reasons why I don't think that The Man Of Steel can really work as a launching platform for a shared DC multiverse the way Iron Man did-- because we don't get a sense of "that world" operating, what happens between the moments... The Man of Steel and the Dark Knight series made the world seem so much like ours that... there's no lingering flavour.  it's too close.  I don't feel happy to see those characters again the way I was when, say, Kat Dennings shows up.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 27, 2014, 06:38:36 pm
Since it was about to expire, and it had been included in an Entertainment Weekly special of wonderful, unknown movies, I finally watched Hachi: A Dog's Tale.  I knew from the start I was probably gonna cry, but dang, that just wrecked me.  And I knew the story of Hachiko so I knew what was gonna happen, but I wasn't prepared for just how much it would hurt.  Dang.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 27, 2014, 06:51:46 pm
Never heard of it till now.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 27, 2014, 07:20:09 pm
Yeah, don't watch the trailer because a) it gives away a big plot point, which if you don't know the story, is kind of a big deal, and the reason the dog is remembered almost 100 years later, and b) it totally gets the feel of the movie wrong.

It seems like one of those movies that I'd buy on blu-ray to watch when I want, but never be able to bring myself to watch again cause oh man...

I kind of wish I had A Dog Of Flanders to watch after this... seems like it would be a good companion piece.  So I'm sure I won't be able to find it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2014, 07:52:56 pm
Jarhead (2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 01, 2014, 08:13:59 pm
Got back into Breaking Bad after a few days off.  Current episode: "Better Call Saul!"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2014, 08:15:01 pm
Current episode: "Better Call Saul!"

Sounds like the perfect name for a spin-off!  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on March 01, 2014, 08:27:58 pm
He's really bringing that Morris Fletcher energy to the show (if you remember The X-Files).

I'm starting to wonder now... I wonder if Walter's cancer is getting worse because his soul has become black and evil, like a sinister twist on Capra.
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Post by: Mac on March 03, 2014, 07:13:16 am
Rush (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dA3XN54J8nY

The latest project by Ron Howard. The story based on true event of Formula 1 racing and the constant competition of James Hunt (British) vs. Niki Lauder (Austrian). This movie solely focused on these two very divergent characters. Hunt the fun loving, good looking playboy. Lauder, the strict, humorless, driven to win contender.

Focusing on the early to mid 1970’s races when controversy was raised at every corner (eh, see what I did there), makes for compelling story telling.

Ron Howard did a fantastic job of pacing and especially framing every scene. He went to great lengths with regards to photography where he gave it a 70’s color scheme, with the occasional over saturated color’s. 

I watched Formula 1 when I was kid, primarily because my Dad was into cars and racing. I never had a passion for it, but it was part of my life. Thus thinking I might enjoy Rush.

I thought Rush was OK. While I get the core of the story was 2 individuals going after each other, it just wasn’t that engaging. I thought it was all rather cliché. I’ve seen all this before in some form or another. Lauder's character is just a bore. Even when he get angry, it's a mediocre snarl.

And honestly, I have not heard about Formula 1 for quite some time. If anything, I hear about NASCAR news. I was watching Rush like I watched The Lone Ranger. Who was asking for this? Why now.
 
Rush is not bad, but very forgettable. I doubt I’ll ever watch this again. I would recommend if your racing fan.

PS: Towards the end of the flick, Howard does inject some real footage of the two drivers. He did an amazing job of casting two folks who look very much like their real life characters.
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Post by: Mac on March 03, 2014, 07:24:03 am
Nebraska

I’m not even going to rate this. It would be biased. I just am not a fan of academy movies. Nebraska is a classic case.

I just don’t get it. From the opening scene, it’s boring and drab. I’m hearing Oscar performances from Bruce Dern and June Squibb. Seriously? I’m at a loss. Dern’s character was a feeble old man, with dementia, constantly staring off into the distance with a blank look. I saw his say maybe 10 words. Acting? June Squibb I thought was cringe inducing. I was just dumbfounded this boring tripe is considered a masterpiece.

I gave it 1/2 hour before I just couldn’t take it anymore.

No rating… because I don’t particularly care for what the academy calls great work.

On a side note, I came up stairs to catch 1 minute of the awards and it was ‘Best Editing’. I think Gravity got it, but I was just thinking, how do you judge editing? Especially the other normal films? Bah-humbug

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2014, 07:26:27 am
I'm not a 'racing fan'. I've NEVER watched anything NASCAR related. No Indy, Daytona, etc.... With that said, I am still kind of interested in checking this out though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2014, 07:28:22 am
I have no desire to check out Nebraska, even after watching the Oscars last night, I still have no desire to see it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 06, 2014, 05:25:38 am
Skyfall (2012)

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Post by: Mac on March 07, 2014, 08:32:55 am
Last Days On Mars (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6JiCJ5x3Qw

Saw the trailer for this long ago and it registered in my head to check it out. Well it disappeared for like forever, until last week suddenly appearing at my library on DVD.

I’ve got to quit doing this, but I went to rottentomatoes to pre-read mass opinion about movies. It was not good. Critics = 19%, Audience = 22%. Good lord, that typically means real turds.

I did not find that… in fact I’m scratching my head on why this was given such a low rating. I have my suspicions and I’ll talk that in a moment.

This is a low budget film, but actually comes across quite professionally done. The only place I saw low budget was they didn’t take time to make Mars not look like Nevada, oh, and sudden dust storm. Otherwise, they did a fine job on CGI. The acting was done well. A great cast of characters to make the story twist and turn. The sound was mixed. I had a few moments of difficulty with the voices. Too low and/or mumbled. The story is not really new with the explorers discovering microscopic life on Mars and then getting infected. The movie does a great job of giving you the sense of loneliness, desperation and on your own.

I think where the movie gets low ratings is the huge leap of faith of humans getting infected, getting RAGE like in 28 Days Later, wanting to kill the other normal humans, all under the ability of not needing a space suit. I’m not sure what the environment is on Mars, but I assume it’s far worse than just not being able to breath.  So there’s a bit of a breakdown in believability. Still it’s a sci-fi/horror flick. This is nothing new.

I would recommend. I was entertained for 90 minutes.

PS: The special features “Making Of” and “Behind the CGI” was rather cool to watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2014, 09:53:23 pm
Metallica Through the Never (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 09, 2014, 07:50:15 pm
Elysium (2013)

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Post by: Mac on March 10, 2014, 07:28:25 am
Stevie Nicks: In Your Dreams

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LfolNXqfss

I’m not sure how you would classify In Your Dreams. I don’t regard it as a documentary, because typically there is voice over, aiding in telling the story. In Your Dreams is just a camera present capturing moments of Dave Stewart (Eurythmics) collaborating/producing  with Stevie Nicks on her latest project In Your Dreams. What I saw (first 45 minutes) is all done in the intimate confines of Stevie Nicks house.

I found some stuff interesting. The thought processes that may occur while creating music. Other times, it just felt like a fly on the wall observing little. I would think I would love this, but not so much. The reviews are mostly outstanding, so I wonder what I’m missing. Maybe just not in the mood perhaps? Then again, I did get a little frustrated with the ‘artsy’ side of the film. Several times, footage of trees in the fall or a pond shot.
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Post by: Mac on March 10, 2014, 07:40:12 am
Dallas Buyers Club (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDvPcBeOn8E

Yet another movie I just easily got bored with. I didn’t even get to Buyers Club portion, before I turned it off. I just didn’t care what was happening on the screen. I sat down to watch this… on the fence. Entertain me. Not so much. We watched the first half hour of a very sickly, skinny, pale, weak individual with aids who was in complete denial. The way he treated his friends and doctors was just horrible. I’m willing to beat this was the set-up for the core of the story of his reaction to HIV, but by that time, it lost me and didn’t want to stick around to see if it would at least entertain me. 
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Post by: Mac on March 11, 2014, 06:19:43 am
After P orn Ends (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV5lSmDWk24

A so-so documentary on a handful or two of p orn stars. Discussions of their life during their peak periods, but mostly examining life after retirement from the industry. They interviewed mostly the superstars, meaning they had long runs. The documentary jumps from actor to actor, focusing on the similar issues, that does a decent job knitting it all together. The documentary bordered on redundant after 45 minutes or so. It is all talk, a couple of promo shots and posters, with zero nudity.

What I found most interesting is that their association to p orn industry follows them around. Plenty of stories how this impacted their lives negatively and to this day still does.

Bottom line, all these people are normal everyday folks, just like you and me, who had a relatively brief life in the sex industry. Randy West made a great point. He does a lot for charity, but once the charity finds out his past, they pass on any money from what he could bring in. Yet, these same groups don’t have a problem supporting or receiving money from politicians who do far more dirty and immoral things. It is strange indeed.

The surprise of the entire piece was the beautiful Asia Carrera. I found her discussions of where her life has gone the most interesting. She was a superstar in the industry. Highly sought after. She retired, moved away to become anonymous, went to school and became a scholar, joined MENSA, married, lost her husband to an accident 8 months into a pregnancy.
They wrapped up the piece nicely with discussions about and from their kids.

Like I said, the documentary is OK. Learned a few things about the human condition. I would recommend to anyone.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2014, 06:26:16 am
Never heard of the doc before. Definitely want to check it out. I like these kinds of 'talking head' docs.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2014, 08:08:22 pm
Chasing Mavericks (2012)

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Post by: Mac on March 13, 2014, 07:26:25 am
The Best Man (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t25Of3m-3_U

I have found myself to generally like many of these romantic comedies, while watching with my wife. I know it’s usually beautiful people, in beautiful places, doing silly predictable things.

Recently I’ve been seeing trailers for The Best Man Holiday, and it looked rather fun. Well, Holiday (2013) is a sequel to The Best Man (1999). I just made assumptions going into Best Man, a certain level of goofy romantic relationships.

Let me make this clear. This is not funny. This is NOT a comedy. This is a drama. OK, so it’s a drama. But it’s bad. It’s re-damn-diculous. Everybody, and I mean every character was just rotten. Every character was either screwing over their friends, or emitted being a terrible person. There was no fun at all in this flick. How can I not sound prejudice here… hmmm… This is an all black cast and every character, except Taye Diggs, goes all ghetto in their attitude and their talking. I thought I was watching a Chris Rock flick. Maybe it’s me. Maybe that’s the way the black community acts in their element. Maybe all those other films are terribly misrepresented so they can attract the white community. I don’t know. I just found the film lame, shallow, uninteresting and a waste of time.

We do also have The Best Man Holiday sitting there, but I told my wife, if this 15 year later sequel is anything like what we just watched, I have no interest in wasting my time.

She tended to agree. I think she was on the fence. I know she kinds of likes those scandalous movies like lifetime shows, but there was little enjoyment in this flick, she may forgo seeing the sequel. I doubt it though.

You'll know if I liked the sequel with a review... otherwise, I'm not going to waste my time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2014, 06:54:54 pm
The Guilt Trip (2012)

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Post by: Mac on March 16, 2014, 08:58:13 am
About Time (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7A810duHvw

I saw the trailer to About Time many times recently on viewing other flicks. The single line "The men in this family can travel in time" caught my attention. As you can probably tell from my 5 star rating, I just found this film excellent in every respect. It is a romantic comedy that is highly understated. It's many of the side little quips that just made me burst out laughing. Important for me is how they handled the time travel, which was done in a very entertaining way, making it it's own. These men had certain set of rules to live by.

The cast is awesome. Domhnall Gleeson who I do not recall before despite being in True Grit, Dredd, Harry Potter, etc, shined in this movie as first a geek, then evolving into a humble charming man. Margot Robbie who is gorgeous, winds up playing second fiddle to Rachel McAdams. I wish it was the other way around, but McAdams did a fantastic job as Tim's love. And Bill Nighy just grabs my attention every time. He is one of the most unique actors out there. I just love his dry wit. The rest of the cast rounded everything else out quite nicely.

This is one of those perfect storms. The story is awesome and it makes you think. It slowly develops and just gets better and better. I love how they ended it.

I can't speak highly enough of this film. Check it out.


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Post by: Mac on March 16, 2014, 09:05:12 am
Inside Llewyn Davis

I'm not going to rate Inside Llewyn Davis, because I did not watch the whole thing. I wanted to like this, but it just came up short for me. I am not a fan of folk music, which this whole movie is about. We watched about 30 minutes, and it did a whole lot of nothing. The main character was just not that interesting to me.

BUT!!!!

The photography was nothing like I've seen before. Visually it was stunning. Soft muted colors that seemed to radiate in the scenes. It's hard to describe. But you will notice, it's different.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFphYRyH7wc
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2014, 03:05:52 pm
Boardwalk Empire (Season 3 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 19, 2014, 07:46:10 pm
Well, I finally saw Frozen and... it was good.  I can totally see why this movie made ridiculous bank... really, my only real issue with the movie is "why wasn't there a musical number at the end?"  They were singing their hearts out the whole movie through, so just talking at the end was really anti-climactic.  I'm thinking it's because the realized audiences really wanted to hear "Let It Go" again, but they could have made a different version of it for the whole cast to sing (which would have been great, a song about isolation turning into a song about acceptance or whatever) or something like that, but... no.

I kept thinking of Wicked while watching this movie, not just because of "Adele Dazeem" playing a misunderstood antagonist prone to big musical numbers, but because the movie felt like it was executing a similar style, a more character and relationship-centric take on a fairy tale (centering on two similar-but-different female characters)... it hit the same chord without feeling derivative or redundant, not "the Wicked version of The Snow Queen."  That's really tricky to do.  AND it was aware of fairy tale tropes and played with them, but without being self-aware like Tangled was (incidentally, you can spot Rapunzel in the coronation scene, I was so happy with myself spotting that without knowing about it ahead of time).

By the way, there's no Making Of on the Blu-Ray.  It SAYS there is, but it's actually a song and dance number with (some) of the cast (including Kristen Bell, to sweeten the deal for Chip) that I'm assuming was done by Kenny Ortega (it feels like him), and there's a thing showing the artwork for the Snow Queen ride and adaptation from way back in the day, but there's no feature showing all the voices (meaning if you watch it with anyone else, they'll keep asking "who is that?" "I don't know!") or how they did the effects (the snow and ice are amazing).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 19, 2014, 07:50:48 pm
Kriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiisteeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeen!!!! I loooooooooooove yooooooooooou!!!!!

This is on my Hold List, but I doubt that I'm gonna be seeing any time soon. Wait list is damn long and we don't have a ton of Copies floating around to cover all branches in a timely fashion. Sigh.
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Post by: Mac on March 19, 2014, 08:25:13 pm
Pick it up tomorrow. Suck on that  ;D

I keed
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Post by: Neumatic on March 19, 2014, 08:28:36 pm
Yeah, and people will be hanging on to their copies for a while.  Believe me.  It's one of those "oh, have so-and-so come over, they need to see this."  People will be holding onto it until a family get-together so they have something to do and not talk to each other.  But knowing how good the movie is and that Disney DVDs don't drop in price, I plucked down the dough and just bought the thing.

Having found a video of the cast recording their voices, now I have the urge to draw the actors as their characters (particularly K-Bell).
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Post by: Mac on March 20, 2014, 10:11:07 am
Thor: The Dark World (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I’ve said it before, I’ve never been too hip to the super hero movies. While I read some comics as a kid, I just never really got into it. But… with the deluge of these Super Heroes in movies, I’ve found a couple that stand out and entertain me, including the first Thor movie.

Unfortunately, the sequel Thor: The Dark World, did zero for me. I honestly don’t know what it is. They seem to be a lot alike, but that’s not what I’m groaning about. For one, I just didn’t care. It all seemed to be bark with no bite. Yes, the world was going to end… blah, blah, blah. Admittedly I did get confused and not understand a lot what was going on. With the 9 realms and people instantly transporting to a different place. It just became a loud, confusing spectacle. Yes, the eye candy was excellent and the scope immense, but bottom line was the story and that just makes Thor a throwaway film for me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 20, 2014, 11:04:13 am
So, NOT Oscar-worthy I take it?  ;)
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Post by: Mac on March 20, 2014, 03:33:44 pm
Uh, great Foley Artist?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2014, 04:49:27 pm
Slacker (1991)

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Post by: Mac on March 24, 2014, 09:42:03 am
Frozen (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

Simply, I didn't think Frozen was all that. I get why it was and why it did so well, but Frozen just mildly entertained me. It was cute, personally I give it less of ratings because of the singing. I am just not into movies that break out into song on occasion. I thought the story was actually edgy, especially for a child. There's death and psycho's. Not that is new to Disney films. In fact all the classics had those elements in the story.

My take away, Frozen is like the modern day Wizard of Oz.

I'm not going to Poo-poo it. It just wasn't as great as I thought it might be.

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Post by: Mac on March 24, 2014, 09:50:43 am
American Hustle (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST7a1aK_lG0

This is going to fly in the face of critics and general popularity of the film. I didn't hate this film, but I sure didn't like it either. By the 2nd act, I checked out. I just didn't care. I watched the whole thing, but nothing, even the 3rd act hooked me in.

For me it was a combination of things. Based on events in the late 60's in a major city, the film captures that time period flawlessly. Problem is, I'm not enamored with that period of time. Actually I dislike it. That is one thing that nostalgia does for me. The fashion, the look, the feel. I thought the dialog was incredibly boring. The characters, well, let's just say, I saw Christian Bale, Amy Adams and Bradley Cooper acting. Meaning, I didn't get absorbed into the character. I saw those stars spitting out lines.

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Post by: Mac on March 24, 2014, 09:57:30 am
Muscle Shoals (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UDe4JrFAIQ

I've known about Muscle Shoals ever since I've started to 'listen' to music. Typically is was from linear notes, or included in a story about an artists. I just was not sure what Muscle Shoals was. This documentary is meant to capture and present that. Unfortunately the presentation is slow, methodical, yet boring. Lot's of voice over work with the script and it just doesn't spark.

I really wanted to like this documentary, but it just didn't cut it for me. There are far better related documentaries that bring the noise and make it interesting. 20 Feet from Stardom, Sound City, to name a couple.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2014, 01:10:08 pm
Blackfish (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2014, 09:49:09 pm
Now You See Me (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 24, 2014, 09:57:58 pm
I haven't finished it yet, but I'm currently watching "The Brass Teapot" and liking it way more than I thought I would.  It's a dark comedy about a poor couple (Michael Angarano in one of his most likable roles and the always interesting Juno Temple) who find a magic teapot that dispenses cash whenever they feel pain.  As you can imagine, it gets dark pretty quickly.  What's great is that it does feel like a Twilight Zone story extended into an indie film, with some surprise actors I won't spoil for you.

And also, this happens.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hy3EPl6Gt6Q
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Post by: Mac on March 25, 2014, 08:27:31 am
Never heard of it, but you have got my attention. I need to check this out.
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Post by: Mac on March 25, 2014, 08:29:12 am
Machete Maiden’s Unleashed  (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDo-CWfe8Cw

Honestly, the title caught me. As it should. That’s what exploitation movies do. They catch you with the title and that reels you into watch the feature.

Machete Maiden’s Unleased is a documentary specifically on the exploitation movies of the Philippines. Most of these films had Women or Cage in the title (grin). I’ve known about these films ever since they came out in the 70’s, but I never paid much attention. I watched the kung fu and black exploitation movies like a mofo, but the Philippine flicks passed under my radar.

I really enjoyed this documentary. Tongue firmly in cheek with the people, directors and actors (Roger Corman, Joe Dante, Pam Grier, jack Hill, on and on), telling stories of what it was like back then developing and making these films. No blushing, just unashamed truthfulness about the business.
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Post by: Mac on March 25, 2014, 08:45:26 am
The Big Bird Cage (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)
For just being what it is and good at it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsPJScfHiPU

Well, after watching Machete Maiden’s Unleased, there is a bunch of this Caged Women exploitation movies available on Netflix. So I sat myself down to check them out. I was not surprised with anything. It was exactly as I expected. If you don’t know what exploitation is, then The Big Bird Cage would be a good primer. It’s all there. Cheap production, bad scripts, bad acting, lots of T & A. Pure Heaven. Ok, maybe it’s not great, but it’s good bad material. Pam Grier got her start in these flicks. Pretty bad acting, but then again, it wasn’t the acting that catapults her to stardom. There’s plenty of other characters to move the absurd plot along, and that just makes the movie that more enjoyable.  I would think watching these types of movies at the driven-in would have been the coolest way to watch them. But that ship has long sailed.

Note Sid Haig in here as the star and playboy type character. He's taken a diametrically opposite direction since then in his career.
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Post by: Mac on March 25, 2014, 08:54:00 am
The Big Doll House (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)
Again, stars for what it is. Goofy exploitation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELWQhK5i4q0
 
Yet another Women in Prison/Cages flick. Not nearly as entertaining as The Big Bird Cage. I think it’s due to being less crass and over the top story. This leans more towards a normal film with mostly normal folks and it’s just not as fun. It’s still exploitation and sits nicely with the rest. More of the same cast of actors. Just different place, time and story. Plenty of T & A again to keep the eyes glued to the screen.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2014, 12:05:39 pm
You know, ages ago I thought I should write a "women in prison" flick, sort of a modern day take-off of those old flicks, but I could never really get it "right," you know?  I couldn't figure out how to make it more than trash.  And now that we've got "Orange Is The New Black," which totally transformed and legitimized the idea of women in prison, anything I do would seem redundant.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 25, 2014, 06:46:02 pm
Mad Men (Season 6 - 2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2014, 03:16:44 pm
Spartacus: War of the Damned (Season 3 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on March 30, 2014, 02:44:14 pm
Wolf Of Wallstreet (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

At 3 hours of movie time, this pushed my patience. Wolf of Wallstreet is not a bad film by any means, but I didn't think it was all that. This is hyper kinetic movie that just doesn't let up in excess. I got it the first hour. Jordan Belfort (DiCaprio) and his band of merry men pushed everything to the limit through excess and greed. The 2nd hour did the same... as did the 3rd. And everybody knows what's going to happen at the end.

I still don't get Jonah Hill's popularity. While he put way more of a character into Wallstreet than say Moneyball, that isn't saying much. The first second I saw him, I had to ask, what's up with his teeth. Just odd.

And while there is a ton of characters including 2 different wives, they all blend into 2nd fiddle and background compared to Di Caprio's outrageous character.

I really did like how this started out. I did, but then it continually repeats the same things over and over. If they could have cut out so much of the repetitive scenes, this could have been awesome.

At just an OK film, the 3 hours will definitely put me off to ever watching it again.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 30, 2014, 04:27:34 pm
I've been waiting for this... I expected it to come in the mail yesterday and it didn't!  I'm still eager to see it, but since I'm racing the clock to finish all of "The Dead Zone," I guess it's nice that I don't have that distraction.

I'm annoyed to find out that "The Dead Zone" didn't have a proper finale, because they did the ending of the movie in an alternate reality episode (a very good episode), and I think all the other big movie moments were covered as well (the breaking ice, the killer cop who lived with his mama, etc).  Obviously not done as well as the movie, and Anthony Michael Hall is no Christopher Walken, but it's a nice time killer (and hey, there was an episode with Ally Sheedy, and they held a party-- where else?-- in their old school library).
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Post by: Mac on April 02, 2014, 10:30:12 am
Deathwatch
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0KQYHJ6K_s

It took me almost 2/3 of the way through last nights movie for me to remember I have seen it before. I just didn’t remember anything about it. Nothing. It didn’t get much better watching it the 2nd time. It takes place in 1 day in 1 place. 1917 and a British Unit take over a German bunker and trenches. It a fairly complex trench system adding to the ‘adventure’. It is a very wet film where it rains constantly. Thus there’s mud everywhere. So not much color to this film. Mostly in brown’s and grey’s.

It’s a slow reveal that there is an evil unseen presence. One by one the men start killing each other due to a variety of reasons.

The production is very good. One of my problems was with the Scottish accents. Missed some of the dialog.

All said and done, I was frustrated with the movie. I won’t give away the ending, because quite frankly, I’m not sure what happened. It’s a tad like a Twilight Zone story in its core story. I just didn’t get it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2014, 10:09:09 pm
White House Down (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2014, 06:51:33 pm
Fanboys (2009)

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Post by: Mac on April 07, 2014, 08:13:44 am
Hell Baby (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AaaoMfbx0o

I had seen Hell Baby trailer (Red Band) sometime ago and just laughed at the Catholic Priests characters played by Robert Ben Garant and Thomas Lennon. Some of the other scenes made me grin too.

Unfortunately, much of the ‘good’ humor is within the trailer. Hell Baby teeters on some good comedy and a lot of bad. It’s not consistent. Some scenes go on forever. I had I hopes, strictly on the trailer, but all in all, Hell Baby is extremely silly. It is rated R with plenty of language, blood and gore and nudity.

This will probably offend many a Catholic. But hey, if they can't take a joke, f uck 'em.

I’ll recommend Hell Baby… with caution. It’s not all that. It’s not a waste. You’ll laugh, but sit through a lot of bad humor in between.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 07, 2014, 08:20:08 am
I know you said it's rated R with plenty of language, blood and gore and nudity, is this an intentional comedy? A parody?
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Post by: Mac on April 07, 2014, 08:23:21 am
Rammbock: Berlin Dead (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IXStTttwV4

I had heard about Rammbock sometime ago in the horror forums. Getting good buzz. In fact, it garnered a sequel, which I believe was recently released.

I caught Rammbock on Netflix the other night. First I was surprised it was presented with subtitles. I thought most of the movies got the English treatment. I guess not.

Rammbock is done well. Unfortunately there is very little new here. Especially in the zombie genre. Rammbock does have interesting characters to keep it moving, but I was saying been there, done that. So it get a big meh from me.
Despite the ending really taking a hard left turn and sucking. I won’t give it away, but there was at least two elements where you will roll your eyes in disbelief.

I just read what I wrote. Believing in a zombie movie. Well, you know what I mean.
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Post by: Mac on April 07, 2014, 08:24:57 am
Absolutely intentional. It's nothing but parody and spoof.

Watch the trailer... it will let you in on the tone of the whole movie.
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Post by: Mac on April 07, 2014, 08:33:26 am
The Godfather (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

"nough said.

I got the Blu-ray box set deal from amazon a little while ago. I haven't watched this for years. It was fantastic.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 08, 2014, 05:23:45 pm
Good Ol' Freda (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 08, 2014, 06:47:16 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 6 - 2012)

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Post by: Mac on April 09, 2014, 06:59:20 am
Detention of the Dead
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wS66fv-BXAA


Let me start off by trying to get Chips attention, because I’m thinking he’s not all that into horror movies. Well Detention of the Dead is horror/comedy flick and think, The Breakfast Club with a very dark side… zombies.

I was rather pleased to be entertained by Detention of the Dead. I went into it with some hope of, but would not be surprised if it sucked. I don’t think it did. I’d watch this again.

Seriously, all those involved must have tackled this by watching The Breakfast Club over and over and then adapting zombies to the film. With tongue firmly in cheek, they pull off the very hard project of not being too serious and not too silly. Just enough blood, guts and gore for zombie fans, enough humor to entertain both sexes and it’s well written, well because it closely follows a classic film’s script. The production value is top notch. The zombies were rather impressive. I was over impressed with the soundtrack. I didn’t recognize a song, but loved just about everything they played.

If a studio is going to attempt reboots of sort, this is a prime example of doing it right. Different than the original, but a good, solid, entertaining story.

I highly recommend for goofy, yet entertaining fun.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2014, 07:08:07 am
The Breakfast Club with a very dark side… zombies.

You got my attention. I wouldn't say that I'm not a fan of the Horror genre. It's just not at the top of my list. But your review does intrigue me and I like seeing genre mash-ups, which this clearly fits into. So yeah, I will check with my library and see if they have a copy of it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2014, 07:10:58 am
No copies in my system. Is this a new release? If yes, then that would most likely be the reason why there isn't a copy. Just based on past history of when you watch new titles, my library is usually 4-6 months behind you when it comes to new titles.
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Post by: Mac on April 09, 2014, 10:54:10 am
This is rather a new release.

My library does not have it either. I got this On-Demand from one of the premium channels.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 11, 2014, 07:03:46 pm
Since I'm doing a write-up on it for GoIntoTheStory, I popped in "The Professional" (I haven't watched it in a long time).  I accidentally selected the theatrical cut on the menu and I don't even remember the last time I saw THAT version (probably not since videotape or when it was on TV).  Dang good movie, I really don't want to say too much because I don't want to use up all my juju here and not on my assignment, but I tell you, it's going to be hard not to just write a thousand pages of analysis and praise on this flick.
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Post by: Mac on April 14, 2014, 06:07:30 am
Grudge Match (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1bQSOBJCPQE

Grudge Match is pretty much what I expected. I wish it could have been better though. The whole movie is composed of one idea about getting two iconic celebrities together in a faux rivalry for a boxing match 30 years later. I imagine this looked good on paper. I did not find it all that interesting to watch. Yep, it’s two elderly men pretty much forced to finish an ongoing indecisive boxing match. Thankfully the movie focuses more on the character, more so than watching them prepare for the fight. These men are out of shape and it’s not really to fun to watch.

If you can believe it, Kim Bassinger is cast as an old love interest for Stallone. Yea… maybe. But dayum, Kim has not lost any of her beauty. She looks fantastic.

Alan Arkin does what he always does. Kevin Hart is the only one to bring LOL humor to the flick. Sorry, but Robert De Niro needs to stay away from comedy.

I give Grudge Match a solid Meh. It wasn’t horrible, but it’s no big deal if you miss it.
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Post by: Mac on April 14, 2014, 06:23:23 am
Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif) For the pretty young ladies.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6DYsGTMkCU

The fifth in the Paranormal Activity series, takes a serious hard right from the formula of the past flicks. Normally I would applaud this, but unfortunately, they did everything wrong possible. The Marked Ones takes a novel approach by going into the Hispanic community. This brings fresh faces and a new perspective on how a culture approach the paranormal. The minor fault here though is too much emphasizing.

The past 4 flicks were very similar in formula. I liked them though. There was slow reveal of creepiness. And the part I loved most where the static camera’s monitoring rooms and we as the viewer just paint the screen with our eyes to figure out what ghostly thing was happening.

None of that here. All gone. Not static POV. It’s all shaky cam. Which then brings back the very tired question of why are you filming certain scenes when clearly your life is in danger or there is absolutely no reason to be holding a camera. I know why its done… to tell a story, but the reasoning just diminishes credibility thus scariness.

And for some unknown reason they pus elements of “Chronicle” in this movie where one of the characters gets super powers. Yea, he can fly while skateboarding. WTF?

They introduce a lot of unexplained things, that just ends. Never follow up with it in any sense. gahhhhh

The Marked Ones really fails. It’s lazy. It’s not scary. It’s not interesting. We’ve seen it all before.

So yea, I was going in kinda expecting some goodness because of the different direction. Unfortunately it falls on the other side of the fence and splats with a loud thud.
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Post by: Mac on April 14, 2014, 08:06:57 am
The New Daughter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03halfstar.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a2rBUA7hrA

Most of the New Daughter is a creepy little fun flick. A throw away movie I’m sure I’ll forget in no time, but rather enjoyed the ride. It slowly builds up to an eye rolling conclusion, but Kevin Costner does a great job of making this all believable. I guess you could classify the New Daughter as horror film. It does have those elements, but I see it more as a thriller.

I’d never even heard of this 2009 film. Not a bad little find, I accidentally ran across. I would recommend for a couple hours of entertainment.
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Post by: Mac on April 14, 2014, 08:26:50 am
August: Osage County

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hd_uO72h1s

I picked this up solely on hearing buzz about it. I knew nothing going into it. The cast looked phenomenal.

I’m not going to rate this. Primarily because just a few minutes into it, I knew exactly what kind of film it would be and that makes me severely biased. I just hate these kinds of dramas and my slamming it with a bad rating is not fair in the context of it all. It just would show I didn’t like the film. I think it won Oscars… I dunno. I don’t care either. I just did not find this film entertaining in any way. I think I’m discovering that about myself. Flat out drama’s just don’t move me. But August, actually is worse because it hits to close to home with reality. I don’t need to sit and watch more of what is going on in my life. I guess I’m strange in that way.

I found this film to be a microscope on dysfunctional family with everything but the kitchen sink thrown in. Some very ugly people with meanness and lies dictating the dialog. I just didn’t find this enjoyable in any sense.

I will give kudos to the actors for letting themselves be displayed in the worst light possible. Not only physically, but in their portrayal of bad people. This made me think of Kramer vs. Kramer years ago. Back then a movie like that was representing current real world thoughts. It too was too close to home. My parents were not doing well and on their way to divorce. Why would I want to sit down and watch a movie about the same thing happening in front of me? It’s ugly.

So, for me personally, I hated sitting through the mud slinging. But that shouldn't impact someone else wanting to see this.
Ignore everything I just said.  :o




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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2014, 03:42:04 pm
Sheesh, Mac! You've been a busy little beaver this weekend!!!  :)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2014, 08:18:50 pm
Fast and Furious 6 (2013)

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Post by: Mac on April 16, 2014, 05:57:03 am
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

I’m not going to rate this. It’s not my type of movie. I watched for the adventure vs. the plot and it delivers. Actually it can get exhausting there is so much action going on. For the most part it was done well. Beautiful sets, gorgeous photography

But they went way overboard with the CGI. I realize 95% of the movie is CGI just because of the fantasy content. And as hard as they tried, I was still put off by the obvious CGI characters and stark contrast to real elements.

Knowing nothing about the book and the story, Desolation did appear to have little meaty content and was just one long road trip adventure. I’m sure I’m glossing over a way more detailed nuanced story, but that’s my take away from it.

Unfortunately, the movie jumps the shark for me. When the giant spiders and dragon talk and have conversations, it goes into that particular fantasy film that just makes me roll my eyes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2014, 02:34:49 pm
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug



Curious to know if you are/were a fan of the Original Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Not that it impacts anything here. Just want to know.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 17, 2014, 03:35:39 pm
Runaway (1984)

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Post by: Mac on April 19, 2014, 12:47:21 pm
Peeples (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMG1n6Yakmo

I'm apparently giving this more love than most. It was unexpected pick and we both enjoyed the mindless fun. I like Craig Robison when he is on (he was not on for Rapture-Palooza... Gawd that was awful)

Kerry Washington, beautiful as ever, and more funny than I've seen before.

David Alan Grier ALWAYS makes me laugh. Perfect for this role.

I almost was not going to watch it. It started off too close to home with Kerry's character idolizing her dad. My ex was that way and there was no comedy there. Regardless, I let it go, and it turned out fun.

Some great music in here too.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2014, 07:09:04 pm
The Butterfly Effect (2004)

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Post by: Mac on April 20, 2014, 09:03:15 am
Philomena

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rG3QP8foCvg

Yet another 'award winning' drama that bored the crap outta me. I went into this reluctantly. My wife really wanted to see this. She feel asleep about 30 minutes into it.

I think the core of the story has some meat. A very old woman, holding onto a secret for 50 years of the atrocities of Catholic Nuns selling her son for a profit. Her child hood life horrible. Depicted in flashbacks. It's the current times where the story just slowly plods along. I turned it off after 45 minutes.

I could see Catholics hating this film.
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Post by: Mac on April 20, 2014, 09:07:31 am
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1Xk-yTuFEU

I don't like Ben Stiller except in Dodgeball, where I found him a funny douche. Otherwise, he does absolutely nothing. I'm not sure why I picked this up. I tried, but when Mitty zones out and goes into fantasy situations, I just rolled my eyes. I turned it off after 15 minutes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2014, 09:09:32 am
Ben Stiller is definitely an acquired taste. I swear that I already said that before elsewhere on here. Anyway, I'm still very much looking forward to getting my copy from the Library when it comes in.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2014, 06:13:14 pm
Taken (TV Mini-Series 2002)

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Post by: Mac on April 20, 2014, 06:47:17 pm
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Curious to know if you are/were a fan of the Original Lord of the Rings Trilogy. Not that it impacts anything here. Just want to know.

Not a fan. Had an interest in it when the were released, but that about it.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2014, 10:32:19 pm
Since it's about to expire, I decided to check out Tron Uprising.  Interesting series, sort of looks like Aeon Flux mixed with Tron Legacy: very stylized, skinny CGI people with REALLY long legs.  And celeb talent out the wazoo: it's so weird hearing Bruce Boxleitner in a series again, but you've also got Elijah Wood, Mandy Moore Emmanuelle Chiriqui, Reginald freaking VelJohnson (as a skinny man, no less)... Olivia Wilde was even in an episode (and it's really weird seeing a pretty exact likeness alongside all these stylized people.

And this episode has the most mind blowing four words yet:

Guest starring Aaron Paul.

Yeah, b*tch!

Though why they cast HIM in a Disney series, I'll never know.  But his character's got a funky visual style to him, yo.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2014, 10:47:37 pm
I can't recall if I even knew about Tron Uprising. I'm guessing yes, but for the life of me, I've not heard jack sh*t about it till now.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2014, 10:56:04 pm
It's... it's made for an audience that really wanted more Tron Legacy.  Which was, apparently, not enough to support an expensive CGI show on an expanded cable channel.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2014, 11:00:47 pm
Aaron Paul's character is totally making me think of Jesse Pinkman went down Heisenberg's down path.
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Post by: Mac on April 30, 2014, 04:02:14 am
I DO remember this coming out and barely recall watching the first episode.

And Neumatic's description is spot on style wise.

For me, it was the classic me, trying to find time and be driven to watch it. Being on Disney did not help. I just fly by the channel.   :-\
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2014, 05:49:56 am
Being on Disney did not help.

Now it makes sense as to why I've never heard anything about it. I didn't even know that the channel still existed.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 30, 2014, 11:13:31 am
It wasn't even on the regular Disney channel.  It was on the second Disney channel!  So it wasn't exactly easy to stumble upon (never underestimate the power of the stumble upon).

It was also kind of flat, there wasn't even really any humour that I saw, the characters didn't seem that dynamic, and the visual aesthetic gets old after a while.  It looked like nothing else on television, but that's not always a good thing.

I will say that Fred Tasciatore did a pretty good Jeff Bridges impression in the first episode.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 03, 2014, 12:06:10 pm
House of Lies (Season 2 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on May 04, 2014, 12:23:35 pm
Odd Thomas (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DX0Vreu6eW8

Well, this was a nice little surprise. I just saw a good rating on this movie as I'm browsing Netflix and that usually means, many people like it.

A very interesting, unique story. I really like just about everything about it. Great editing, good special effects and some fun characters. Many people may roll their eyes at the story, but I was thoroughly entertained. From Stephen Summers who did a great job with updating The Mummy movies.

(http://www.futureshop.ca/multimedia/Products/500x500/M22/M2209/M2209979.jpg)

I highly suggest it, for a little something different.

PS: Watched this a couple of weeks ago. Just remembered I did.
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Post by: Mac on May 05, 2014, 08:19:10 am
47 Ronin
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8cKdDkkIYY

A Keanu Reeves project that on one hand embraced the scope and look of an epic Samurai culture, but on the other hand is too solemn and sluggish to enjoy. I remember hearing little news stories how this particular project was plagued with problems.

Regardless 47 Ronin is a gorgeous film to look at. The sets and locations do bring some emotion with the subject matter… which by the way is simply, Kai (Keanu Reeves) is a half-breed and not accepted by anyone… except the Lord’s daughter. Anyway, a ruler from another land cunningly kills the Lord, takes over and banishes the Samurai… who then technically become Ronin (Samurai without a leader). The rest of the movie is gathering up the Ronin including Kai and seek revenge and take back the palace.

There’s elements of fantasy characters sprinkled throughout. Thankfully minimally or that would have turned me off completely. Mainly because this story is based on true events.

While this looked like hundreds of other Samurai films, I was hoping for the best on a good update to the story. It just moved too slow, with little action and very little payoff. It seemed longer than it actually ran.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 05, 2014, 08:23:51 am
What you mention in your review was my biggest concern about 47 Ronin. I was marginally interested before. But if you can't get behind this, my need to rush out and get this from the Library has been put on the back burner for the time being. Sigh.
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Post by: Mac on May 06, 2014, 06:19:36 am
In Their Sleep

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZJe-ffOFLM

A 2013 French film that I recently read as must watch. I’ve seen less than a handful of French horror films, but each was better than the next. In Their Sleep is good… not great. I saw the twist way early, but that’s OK. The twist was not THAT critical to enjoying the flick.

It was all subtitled, which sucked, but nonetheless, a pretty good emotional thriller. The killing scenes were a little too realistic for me. And the French are known for being unforgiving. Once scene just tore me up. I had to look away. A first.

In Their Sleep reminded me a little bit of the old horror exploitation film Last House on the Left.

If you like who-done-it thrillers, you might want to pick this up sometime.

Currently on Netflix
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 06, 2014, 07:46:16 pm
Captain Phillips (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 07, 2014, 01:39:10 pm
Californication (Season 6 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on May 11, 2014, 08:22:54 am
Devil's Due (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_jtJvdzh7w

What a complete rip-off. Derivative of Paranormal Activity and Rosemary's Baby mashup. All with hand held camera! Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. We all still ask the question why with found footage, but these directors must have just got off the boat. Really, tape every wakening moment. Oh No... even sleep. Even waking up in the middle of the night sleep. WTF. This dumbass husband is a freakin idiot with the camera. Let's see, your wife becomes possessed and you continue to tape while the house is ripping apart and you get thrown against the wall? It get really cliche with a devil baby and anything church or religious. Zero scares in this movie because we've seen everything before. The characters are not even interesting.

Avoid at all costs. This should have never been found. I can't believe I watched the whole thing. Oh, now I remember. My wife fell asleep on me and I couldn't get up to change out the movie. Gahhhhhhhhhh, what a colossal waste of time.

(https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-JsIKXeGWM3c/Uyc_qcwp1RI/AAAAAAAABBo/zbqWhT-iGG0/s150-c/photo.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 11, 2014, 01:47:24 pm
Haven't seen it so I can't comment on it. But knowing you, there are two things that I expect to make you run away from your TV Set: Shaky cam and Found footage. It must have been a slow night if you actually made it all the way to the end of the movie.
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Post by: Mac on May 11, 2014, 05:10:27 pm
It was. My wife fell asleep on me, then woke up and started to watch for some unknown reason. Watched most of it, then fell asleep for the last 20 minutes.

Just odd all around.
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Post by: Mac on May 13, 2014, 01:14:06 pm
Tamara (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrskGoFl1v4

Was a brand new listing on The Movie Channel’s Splatterday (all things horror) listing. So I gave it a go. When it starts off with following a very tight butt on a teen girl walking down the school hall, you have my attention. Wellllllllllllll, besides a couple of brief sexy shots sprinkled throughout the movie, this was a colossal waste of time. Did the directors not see “I Know What You Did” or did they just blatantly rip-off the movie and hope no one noticed. I’m at a loss. You would think someone could site plagiarism.

Anyway, I didn’t care for any the characters. In fact, most of them were major AH. Including Tamara. It wasn’t suspenseful. It wasn’t scary. It just was… stupid.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 15, 2014, 11:09:45 am
About two weeks ago I rewatched Leon: The Professional for the GoIntoTheStory/Black List blog, and today they posted the review. (http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2014/05/classic-90s-movie-leon-the-professional.html)  It was nice getting to revisit this flick with my more educated mentality and be able to dissect it.  Of course, it was real easy getting drawn into it.

I think I saw the American cut, not the European cut, so I can watch it again sooner rather than later.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 15, 2014, 11:31:21 am
Congrats dude!
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Post by: Neumatic on May 15, 2014, 11:46:37 am
Thanks dude, ain't nothin' I ain't done before!  It was fun getting to see that movie again.

I feel like it's been ages since I watched something.  Which is TOTALLY untrue, I watched a couple movies a few days ago (apparently I'm the only one in my family who remembered "Bye Bye Love," though I totally forgot Eliza Dushku was in it and I had NO idea Mae Whitman was the youngest daughter).  I guess I haven't had anything worth writing up.

Although I just got "The Bone Collector" in the mail today, so if this copy works, maybe I'll have at least some cool notes.  Angelina Jolie usually inspires me.
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Post by: Mac on May 16, 2014, 07:47:27 am
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I haven't finished it yet, but I'm currently watching "The Brass Teapot" and liking it way more than I thought I would.  It's a dark comedy about a poor couple (Michael Angarano in one of his most likable roles and the always interesting Juno Temple) who find a magic teapot that dispenses cash whenever they feel pain.  As you can imagine, it gets dark pretty quickly.  What's great is that it does feel like a Twilight Zone story extended into an indie film, with some surprise actors I won't spoil for you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g30KBZ4m61Y

So I do 'member someone commenting on this movie. It just occurred to me. Well, I watched it yesterday and completely agree with Neumatic that it's a very entertaining film

It’s kind of a dark ‘fantasy’ film. The ‘magic’ teapot dispense money, when those around receive pain. So it dives into all areas of morality. They explore just about every kind of ‘pain’… physical and mental.

It’s not gross or sick… it’s actually laid back humor that’s entertaining. I’m not sure why it’s rated R???

My wife was walking through the house doing stuff just commenting how 'stupid' it appeared to be. Well, she eventually sat down and enjoyed it.


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Post by: Neumatic on May 16, 2014, 09:24:29 am
They might say the f word more than once (automatic R) or Juno Temple's character could be too sexually dominant (automatic R) of it could be an R because it's an indie film with no big studio behind it.  The fix for ratings has been in for a long time, but there was a quick refresher course on **** (http://www.****.com/article_21151_6-bizarre-realities-how-movies-get-their-ratings.html).
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Post by: Mac on May 16, 2014, 10:59:19 am
Thanks for that link and the refresher. It seems to me, the indie is more an influence on the R rating than anything else. Minor blood. I think I remember a few cuss words. No nudity, but implied. Regardless, the subject matter is mature. Kids would not like or get the subject.

Also a heads up, the film This Film Not Yet Rated is a interesting, yet frustrating documentary. Frustrating in the sense, how does the MPAA become what it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTL3XMDwY0c
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Post by: Mac on May 16, 2014, 11:13:07 am
This is just an observation that I’m kind solidifying in my head. When individuals (including myself) pay only partial interest to a subject, in this case watching a movie, it brings a whole different perspective to the viewer. And that is ‘interest’. My wife paid very little interest in watching The Brass Teapot. She concluded, quickly, the movie was stupid.

I’ve done this myself. If at first I don’t have an interest, I really don’t pay attention to the film. Then that furthers the idea in my mind, the movie is bad. I ‘try’ to no longer have the Ipad with me when watching movies. If I deviate even just a little, and start looking at other things, the experience of movie watching is diminished.

I’ve seen my son do this consistently and while I don’t want to say he represents youth habits of today, he seems to capture that short attention span mentality. When he lived with me (he’s now married), we would go to the movies and I swear every movie we say, he said was great. That’s because he was interested and the movie had his full attention. He’s also watched movies with me at home and when the phone consumes 75% of activities while watching a movie, he craps on the film. It was OK. It was bad.

I’m back to being old school. If I want to watch a film. It’s just me and the film. No talking. No Iphone, not games, not texting, etc.

It all comes back to multi-tasking. It can’t be done… not effectively. If you’re interested in seeing a movie… watch it. Put all other things aside.

Simple


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Post by: Neumatic on May 16, 2014, 01:25:45 pm
I saw This Film Is Not Yet Rated a couple times and it cheesed me off because a lot of the stuff they won't allow is the stuff I'm interested in playing with.  It's also in my head because (I hate bringing this damn thing up) I feel like my stripper movie would have a  big teenage audience, I think I mentioned this before, I think it'd be really popular for sleepovers and so on, but the nudity and language would make it rated R (and I don't think I could cut that down, realistically), so it would have one audience that could see it in theaters and then a whole other audience that would watch it on Netflix/disc (ideally it would have an AMAZING disc set: bts, trailers, music videos, how-tos and so on) and I have no idea how they'd discover it.

I "try" to multitask when I watch a movie, but I usually just end up watching the movie and not paying attention to my laptop (I don't really get phone calls or e-mails).  Sometimes depending on the movie, I'll have my pad out and start taking notes, but usually if the movie is really good or wonderfully bad.  There's nothing I enjoy quite like watching a lousy movie and asking myself "wouldn't it be uts if..."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 16, 2014, 10:15:53 pm
Bettie Page Reveals All! (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 17, 2014, 10:32:53 pm
Jobs (2013)

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Post by: Mac on May 19, 2014, 07:27:39 am
Her

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzV6mXIOVl4

Despite my immediate thoughts on watching the trailer for Her as being very weird, over time I was hearing pretty good stuff about the film. The other night my wife and I got to sit down to watch it. My original thoughts reigned true. I found Her to be weird with zero entertainment value. I found Her to be pathetic prophecy.  I hope like hell, our future does not look like what this film depicts.

Currently Her is science fiction, but it teeters on reality and we could see this artificial intelligence sooner than later.  Obviously Her was inspired by Siri. But taken to the next level of the voice having reason and emotions and Gawd forbid, feelings. I did not watch the whole thing mainly because it bordered to many times on being boring. Listen, most of the screen time is watching Joaquin Phoenix character face talking to disembodied voice. I did not find that entertaining, despite some of the intriguing ideas discussed.

And an unexpected distraction quickly popped up that watered down any enjoyment in the film, which there was not. Jaoquin Phoenix character wears glasses. I immediately noticed his obsession of pushing them on his face. In my mind it was an obsession because he did it so much. It’s kind of like one of my co-workers here at work. He constantly sniffs. Mostly little sniffs, but constantly. Like every minute or so. It’s really just a nuance, but it’s so unusual, it just becomes ‘loud’. Same with Phoenix pushing up his glasses. Either it’s just a by-product of Phoenix character wearing the glasses and not use to them, or it was a very deliberate action by the actor or director. I tend to think it was the later, but have no clue why it was important.

Bottom line… I found Her to be sad (pathetic), mildly boring and contained a distraction that just made me turn it off half way through. It’s not for me.
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Post by: Mac on May 19, 2014, 07:29:14 am
That Awkward Moment (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRcVgJjnFLo

That Awkward Moment is an R-Rated comedy with beautiful young people with relationship problems. We’ve seen this story a million times before where a group of guys make a pact of staying out relationships with women because there is too much drama. The Awkward Moment is where the guy discovers there is more to life than just sex. There is a vested interest both ways with the girl and guy and it’s that self discovery… of course through all kinds of barriers, road bumps, misunderstandings, blah, blah, blah. Like I said, told many times before. I laughed at several scenes, yet it’s very predictable. I wouldn’t call this a chick flick. It’s more a date movie. My wife and I enjoyed it.

That Awkward Moment has just enough freshness to be enjoyable for an age old story, but it’s nothing to brag about.
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Post by: Mac on May 19, 2014, 07:30:06 am
Swinging with the Finkels (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tKycPLM0po

By far the best of the viewing bunch this weekend. An unexpected gem. I’ve never heard of it until I ran across the listing On Demand. In a nutshell, 2 couples (one couple being The Finkels) having intimacy problems. I found Swinging with the Finkels to be a very charming, comedic date movie. Take note and not a spoiler, the ‘swinging’ is a very small part of the movie. Pivotal, but don’t go in expecting to see a lot of ‘swinging’. While comedic, they are not cartoonish and all the characters are relatable. It’s the side characters that lean on cartoonish and they only add a little spice to the story telling.

Highly recommend.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 19, 2014, 07:30:26 am
Currently have Her on my Hold List. But I'm so far back that it's going to be awhile before it even sniffs my library.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2014, 05:34:51 pm
The Shield (Season 1 - 2002)

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For the past couple of weeks, I have been debating what show I wanted to revisit. It was Nip/Tuck or The Shield. With Michael Jace (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/general-discussion/the-police-blotter/msg28351/#msg28351) being arrested today for murder, I chose The Shield.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 20, 2014, 10:28:49 pm
So tonight I selected a movie that's been sitting in my queue for a long time that I never got around to seeing.  It's about this group of Australian teenagers who go camping way out in the middle of nowhere, one last fun fling before college.  They hang out, chill, have fun sexy time, whatever.  When they get back into town...

There's no power.  There's no phone service.  No TV, no internet.
Their houses are abandoned.  The lead character's dog is dead and covered with flies.
There's one light on at the other end of town.  They go and investigate... and it's a prison.
Their town has been taken over.

It's a god d*mn AUSTRALIAN version of RED DAWN!

And I liked it a H*LL of a lot better than I did the remake (though honestly, I didn't care much for the original Red Dawn either).  I had a problem with one or two "character" scenes, but dang, when the action starts, it's awesome.  They kind of approached it more like a horror movie style and sensibility since they didn't have a ton of money for big action scenes... like, there's a sequence where they're hiding in a house and a chopper comes in low to investigate, and the kids run and hide from the light, they get cornered... it reminded me of trying to hide from a shark.

It's called Tomorrow When The War Began.  Definitely worth at least looking into.  It's metacritic rating isn't that high, so I wonder if I'm liking it so much because so much of the other action stuff I've been seeing has been even more abysmal.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2014, 03:58:14 am
Yep, I remember seeing that a few years back. Total surprise on the quality all the way around.

Definitely check it out.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2014, 06:07:02 am
The Warriors (1979)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnQcO2cd_Ic

The first and last time I watched The Warriors is when it came out in 1979. I thought it was awesome. And apparently lots of other folks have fond memories as well.

Well, out of the blue, it pops up on one of the premium On-Demand channels (Showtime, I believe). Well, there’s no discussion here. Let’s put this baby on. I’ve been thinking about The Warriors on occasion over the years and I could still hear in my head…

Ohhhhhhhhh Warriors…. Come out to plaaaaaaayyyyyy.

I knew what to expect from a film from 1979. It will have that 70’s/80’s feel and it did. It was in High Def and looked stunning.
But…

My youthful observance vs. today’s movie watching has changed me. I found The Warriors not holding up so well. I thought there was a lot more fights. More intense fights.

Not so much. The acting was really sub-par.  Swan (Michael Beck), the leader, who pretty much didn’t say anything was the most convincing. Many of the other characters were, well, characters. Cartoonish. It was kinda guilty pleasure to see the goofiness of all the different gangs in one place.

And the plot holes were galactic. I know this isn’t shakespear, but dayum. When someone shoots a revolver in crowd, everybody knows exactly who and where it came from. That’s just the beginning. While I thought I loved The Warriors, I would definitely be on board of a Remake. Yep, you heard me say it.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2014, 06:10:51 am
Adding the trailer....

Tomorrow When The War Began

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_KhErNyiq8
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 21, 2014, 07:13:35 am
The Warriors (1979)



Sh*t man, I haven't seen The Warriors since it came out. I was still in Elementary School! I remember nothing about the movie at all. I do remember the feeling of being somewhat "scared" to see it prior to going in to the theater. It just came across that this was going to be super violent and that it would f*ck me up somehow, being all impressionable as I was. As I said, I remember nothing about it. But I do remember that I think it was okay. Not bad or good. I was still in Star Wars mode, so EVERYTHING was gonna pale in comparison. I'm glad you got a chance to revisit the movie again,Mac. Dug the review.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 21, 2014, 10:59:24 am
Never seen it... now part of me isn't sure if I should.

Funny enough that the movie was directed by the same guy who directed (and wrote) Southern Comfort, 48 Hours, Streets Of Fire, Tales From The Crypt, Hard Times (quite famously) and directed Brewsters' Millions (odd that he didn't write it) as well as the pilot for Deadwood.

His name is Walter Hill and his screenwriting style is pretty much the standard/ideal that a lot of screenwriters these days aspire to: very short, sparse bursts of description, tight action, very little wasted ink.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2014, 11:04:50 am
I'm not enough of a movie connoisseur to recognize Hills directorial works. Warriors seemed average.

If you like Escape From New York, you might like this.






 Escape is far better.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 21, 2014, 11:10:54 am
Walter Hill is very no fuss no muss.  He doesn't even give his characters back stories a lot of the time, it's all just about what happens on screen.

I did like Escape From New York, Carpenter rocked that.  I definitely remember it feeling like a real, abandoned New York with decimated buildings everywhere.  They did a lot of cool little tricks to make it look good on screen (the wireframe city not being computer generated but a model with reflective paint lines all over it, for example).  I think that's one of the differences, Hill was good but I don't know if he knew any magic tricks like that.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2014, 01:09:26 pm
I think Hill at least capitalized on the current era of the time with a lot of scenes.


Trivia...
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The fight scene in the boxing ring was filmed in the abandoned grand hall of St. Louis Union Station several years before the building's renovation. While the hall was extremely dilapidated, viewers can make out the stained glass window representing New York, St. Louis, and San Francisco in the background. This window is still above the front entry into the grand hall from Market Street.

Union Station has long since been revitalized.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 22, 2014, 09:04:46 pm
Knights of Badassdom

(http://screencrave.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/knights-of-badassdom-pic-1.jpg)

I'm trying to figure out how to describe this one, it's definitely a love letter to genre fans, full of genre actors about genre things.  It's basically a horror movie about a wanna-be doom metal musician goes LARPing with his friends (Ryan Kwanten from True Blood, Steve Zahn, Summer Glau and Peter god-d*mn Dinklage) when a demonic succubus arrives to eat all their souls.  I'm actually really glad that there weren't opening credits because it kept plenty of the cast a pleasant surprise (there was one guy I kept thinking "isn't he on Mad Men?" Yep).

There was a HUGE delay with this movie, it was done quite a while ago but the release was postponed, it was sort of shuffled around, probably because it was worth buying but no one knew how to market it or how to get an audience for it, which is real ironic because on paper it's sort of all marketing (as the director had constantly been told).  I'm sure the fact that it could easily get confused with Your Highness was another issue they might have been hoping to avoid as well (even though they're only similar insofar as they're comedies with people in armour, I can see how at a glance they could be easily confused for one another, even down to the butt-kicking ingenue).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 22, 2014, 10:22:12 pm
That explains why I've never heard of this movie until now. Summer Glau's in this. That explains why this just jump to the top of my 'Must-see' movies. Library, here I come.  ;D FYI, I better f*cking meet her this year at Comic Con!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on May 22, 2014, 10:42:46 pm
There's a scene in the flick where she takes offense at her *ss being underestimated as only "plus three."

Haven't met Summer, but you can bet I took quite a few screencaps of this flick.  Haven't made her into a character, oddly enough.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 23, 2014, 12:11:57 am
Pacific Rim (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 23, 2014, 12:34:21 am
BTW, I liked Pacific Rim, but a big problem that movie has was adhering too closely to... not the source material (since there isn't one), but... it was more a pastiche of giant robot franchises (Gigantor, Evangelion, Godzilla, etc) and, to me, it carried over the same problems with them as well.  Outside of some stylistic touches, it seemed to be a massive repackage.  The tone seemed to be "try this, you'll LIKE it."  It was all on the table at once, it didn't give us, as an audience, a chance to fall in love with it in pieces, you know?  Like the original Iron Man, we get Tony, then the basics of the suit, then the prototype, then the cool suit, then the monster suit.  How To Train Your Dragon is the same way.  We got an escalation with the Kaiju, but that's not what we needed as an audience, we needed to be led down the path of discovery.
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Post by: Mac on May 23, 2014, 07:31:21 am
Grand Piano (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEoM7bM7KVw

Grand Piano is a thriller in the vein of movies like Phonebooth or Man On a Ledge. The focus is primarily between 2 people with a lot of collateral damage to bystanders. I thought the trailer was intriguing enough to check it out. Shot like a Hitchc ock film, the tension slowly builds and then becomes a roller coaster ride.

Note: my copy of the DVD had flaws and it stopped in a couple of places and I had to search for the next good scene. I may have missed some key information. The reason I say that is because the ending totally left me hanging. It just ends. Up to the credits, I was rather entertained.

The audio and in particular, the music, was awesome. The surround stood out with some interesting things going on during conversations and the performance.

Believe it or not, it gets quite chaotic in places. Difficult to follow because Elijah’s character is having a tense heated discussion while playing technically difficult concerto pieces. Just read wiki and he talks about how difficult it was to nail those performances down.

I would easily recommend checking out Grand Piano. It has a good pace, it’s tense and not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 23, 2014, 12:58:41 pm
The Shield (Season 2 - 2003)

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Post by: Mac on May 23, 2014, 01:52:50 pm
Knights of Badassdom

Saw it and well, nevermind  :-\
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Post by: Neumatic on May 23, 2014, 03:50:21 pm
It's weird to watch that movie, then watch the Comic-Con panel on the blu-ray and listen to the crowd practically stroking off the crew based on the preview, realizing that they'd probably have the same reaction to the finished product we had.
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Post by: Mac on May 25, 2014, 09:41:21 am
3 Days To Kill (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u4Q8JZfkkew

3 Days fits squarely in one of those mindless, but fun action movies. Down the road you probably won't remember much about except you can say it was entertaining.

Directed by McG and written by Luc Besson, I think the audience gets exactly what it expects.

Amber heard is breathtakingly beautiful. Badass to boot.

I found it a little boring in places. A bulk of the movie is Costner's character, 'former' agent trying to reconnect with his wife and daughter. Thus the hi-jinks starts with the juggling act of performing one more assignment, getting back with his family and fighting terminal cancer.

It tends to work. Some fun action sequences and the dialog has some eye rolling moments, but overall I would recommend.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 25, 2014, 09:44:38 am
I forgot all about this movie! Adding to my Hold List. Thanks for the reminder......intentional or not.  :)
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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2014, 11:42:13 am
Borrowed a bunch of movies from my sister, so it's a weird hodgepodge of stuff I haven't seen before/in a long time for the next couple of days.  There's a big gap in her film history from when she lost all her DVDs, and a bunch of them are cheap-o used ones (meaning there's a couple full frame movies I'm not gonna bother seeing b/c f*ck full frame)... but it's giving me an insight into my sister's personality a little bit.

The Client

I don't remember the last time I saw this flick, but I remember seeing the opening (at least) as a kid and being totally freaked out by it.  That sort of thing stays with you, man (probably because I was that kid's age).  Anyway, after seeing the rest of the flick, and hearing all those terrible accents, I kept thinking "I was traumatized by THIS?"  I can't even decide if I liked the movie or not (although I did love when Homer Simpson pops up as an aggravating paparazzi), and I can't see Anthony LaPaglia without thinking of him as Simon (seriously, him as a hitman but just playing "Simon" would be freakin' awesome, I need an excuse to put that somewhere).  And I couldn't help thinking that Anthony Edwards in this movie looks like Buster Bluth.

Storywise, I think it was a bit repetitive, "'m scared, I don't wanna talk, I need a lawyer, I'm firin' you, I"m leaving, I'm scared I need you" blah blah blah.  And kid actor + accent = awful, especially when it's a southern accent.  I think I found myself forgetting the point of the flick at least once or twice, and you know what, the important information the suicidal Orson Welles-y lawyer drops at the start, I never heard it, so not knowing that the kid knew anything made the whole thing seem a little pointless in my book.

The Hangover

Oh my god, I don't think I've seen this since it came out on DVD.  I remember where Doug was, of course (they keep dropping hints throughout the flick), but so much of the other stuff was a total blank (I had completely forgotten about the song that Ed Helms sings at the piano).  There was a bit of retroactive recognition in this movie insofar as NOW I know who Jeffrey Tambor and Ken Jeong are.

I remember this movie getting sh*t from someone somewhere about the way it treats women, basically shaming the flick for Ed Helms marrying Heather Graham because she's a stripper and "all men want strippers" and showing his wife (basically the only woman outside of Doug's fiance we spend any time with) as a cold buzzkill, and I remember taking exception then and I take exception now.  I will grant you that the movie is guy-centric and it takes place in a monument to stupid guy behaviour, but seriously, Rachael Harris's character isn't just mean, she's controlling in a crazy way (checking the credit card bills, telling him what he can and can't do), and she cheated on him without feeling any guilt about it, and realistically, if it was a guy doing that, if a woman was dating a guy who was so domineering, everyone else would be telling the girl to dump his @ss and run.  Maybe even get the law involved.  Meanwhile, Heather Graham's character might be a stripper, but we never see her do that (until the slideshow at the end, another thing I forgot about).  We see her as a nice, friendly person who's taking care of her son, doing the best she can, and is supportive, just the total opposite, and that's clearly what Helms' character is seeing.  Maybe this wouldn't be such a pronounced problem if all the women in the movie weren't all playing "complications" (basially, anyone who isn't IN the wolfpack is a complication, so that's a problem in my argument), but I could imagine a version of this where one of them is a cool girl, though in that case you might get the complaint about how it's a guy character who turned into a girl or how a guy's fantasy girl is just a dude who's okay with all their bullsh*t or something like that.  So maybe it's a Kobiyashi Maru/no win scenario with this story.

Although conversely, you could make the argument that the movie is very anti-guy, all the typical "guy" behaviour in the movie is portrayed as gut-wrenchingly stupid.  Getting so drunk that you pass out and can't remember anything?  F*cking stupid, look what's happened.  Trashing your hotel room just because it's a special occasion?  F*cking stupid, look at that nightmare?  Pretending to f*ck a sleeping person/tiger?  Absolutely stupid, and they know it, the guys are constantly seeing the results of their "guy" behaviour and are embrassed, mortified, and sometimes horrified by it.  I actually think that's kind of interesting.

Plot-wise, the detective/mystery angle totally works for me.  I remember thinking when the movie came out how it reminded me of the Red Dwarf episode "Thanks For The Memory" where the crew wakes up with broken feet, a finished puzzle, and no memory of the last few days, but the steps in The Hangover to reveal the mystery are more pronounced, varied, and interesting.  I notice in a lot of places, the answer to every clue leads to a new clue and a new complication and a new solution, which is how a good detective story works.

Thinking of detective stories that are funny...

The Big Lebowski

Dude, I actually saw this at some point within the last year or a maybe a little bit more but dude, it's a good flick, dude.

You know, there's a Coen Bros class that goes on sometimes that analyzes their films and motifs, but I'll bet I can figure out a good chunk of that on my own (same with the Pixar flicks).  Besides, it means more if YOU figure it out than if someone tells you, right?)

This is an interesting flick, it takes the structure of a noir detective story but transplants it from the dark, oozy metropolis of the depression to the sunny, lazy, intermittent sprawl of California in the early 90s (as it was the home of the people who inspired the characters).  A grizzled, tough, hard-drinking private dick is replaced with a dude, The Dude, eschewing a trenchcoat for a big, stinky sweater, and whose motivation isn't a spurned dame but a soiled rug, the ultimate needless crime, because that rug totally tied the room together.  It's really funny that the Coens wrote this flick at the same time they were writing "Barton Fink," which takes place at a time that the story would feel natural in, they were almost doing a negative of that film.

There's a real strong emphasis on the importance of characters first in this film, I think.  Looking at the Wikipedia page, a bunch of the main characters are based on real people that the Coens encountered and thought were interesting.  Putting them in a Raymond Chandler style story, which have a "hopelessly complex plot that's ultimately unimportant."  That structure also allows the characters to go through different social classes and encounter different people, leading to fascinating interactions.  That's the key there (or one of the keys), if you write your characters first, if you know who they are, know what their strengths and weaknesses are, and know how they'll interact with other people, you can figure out the plot and storyline to put them in that gives you maximum effectiveness.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2014, 12:18:57 pm
I remember very little of The Client and even less of The Big Lebowski, but you'll have to cut me some slack as I saw those in the theater. So, how long was that? Eons! I know that The Big Lebowski is something of a cult flick now (can it really be called 'Cult' if EVERYONE has seen it?). As for The Hangover. I can't remember what I put in my review. Hell, I can't even find it in the search function. WTF! But I do remember hated the sequel which was more of the same. I still have to see if I can find my review on here as I'm curious to know exactly what I said.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2014, 12:42:20 pm
I remember what I said about The Hangover... WTF.... why is everybody fawning over this as the greatest comedy evah...

Hardly registered with me. I remember it. It just didn't make me laugh that much. The Big Lebowski is like Blade Runner... I've seen it but don't understand the cult status.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2014, 12:47:39 pm
Ride Along (3 Stars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5klp6rkHIks

Another movie of exactly what appears to be... a goofy action buddy cop film. Kevin Hart and Ice Cube have great chemistry. Cube is tough as nails loner cop with and attitude and Hart is a hapless goofy wannabe. Throw them together and let the sparks fly. Wait, that sounds like Beverly Hills Cop... Oh my.

I enjoyed the 90 minutes or so. It was a decent fresh take on the tired buddy cop film.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2014, 12:51:45 pm
About Last Night (4 Stars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nNZFE3z0T7E

This remake does a great job of fleshing out the 2 couples, 4 main characters and giving them life and reality. Not this chick flick stuff. It's R-rated mostly because of the language which at times gut busting funny, but also because of the great sex scenes. The movie is an evolution of partner change over about a years times. The good stuff, the bad, the family, friends, etc, all having influence in these two couples maturing.

A fun, fun movie. Highly recommend.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2014, 12:54:57 pm
I, Frankestein

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sCUZd1iuq3o

No rating because I started rolling my eyes not 10 minutes into the film. I like Aaron Eckhart, but he has done some crap too and this is one of them.

If you liked movie like League of Extraordinary Gentlemen or Van Helsing, then you get what kind of look and feel I, Frankenstein. I wasn't in the mood for it.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2014, 02:31:34 pm
You know, I really appreciated the fact that for the newest Frankenstein movie, they cast an actor who looks like me and didn't bother to put make-up on him, that was nice, thanks guys.

Wow, I thought for sure that I was in the right place to bring up The Big Lebowski.  I will admit it's not a movie I love, but I like it more every time I see it... which is every couple of years.  I know I couldn't watch it every week.

I wasn't nuts about the Hangover the first time I saw it either, I didn't really dig it, but this time?  I guess I liked it more, maybe I've acquired a taste for it, I dunno.  I did like Zack Galifianakis less though, at the time it came out, I was a big fan of his stand-up, but now I don't know if I've ever liked his acting in anything (I did LOL though when he's talking to the guys "it's got Ten Danson as kind of Magnum PI and that jewish actor..." and I realized he was talking about his own show, "Bored To Death," which I haven't seen yet.  That was a nice stealth reference, I thought).  I think Zack is funny on his own, but when he's acting, when he's putting on a character, I find it grating.  It's like the bad southern accent version of an entire character.

I did want to make a joke about "I'm so glad they never made a sequel to the Hangover" but I forgot.  No desire to see those.

My sister does have "Old School" so I'm gonna give that a watch sometime soon (same director).  I don't remember the last time I saw that, either.  Again, probably when it came out.

BTW, I totally did not catch that all three movies I watched were mystery/detective style stories.  Totally unintentional, but interesting.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2014, 02:36:45 pm
...at the time it came out, I was a big fan of his stand-up, but now I don't know if I've ever liked his acting in anything

Clearly you've never seen Tru Calling (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/tru-calling-(season-1-2003)/msg22714/#msg22714). He's AWESOME in the series. But he did have to tailor his acting to fit within the role he was given, the same way Andy Dick had to do for Newsradio.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2014, 02:59:44 pm
Haven't seen it yet, I've been meaning to, but I don't even know if it's on my queue, I'll have to check.

I'll also have to make a thread in the Writing forum about detective/mystery stories, except I think I already shot my thinkie wad on that write-up.  Also, I probably shouldn't call it a thinkie wad.

As for Mac's comment on the perception of the Hangover, I think that the mystery/detective formula was a big reason for all the positive reaction: all the boring set-up is glossed over, and the time crunch and all the steps they have to go through means more varied and crazy scenes crammed closer together, which means quicker and crazier escalations without really having to slow down to link them more logically, that's all waved off.  There's enough connective tissue to tie everything together, but not enough for it to bring down the pace.
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Post by: Mac on May 26, 2014, 03:02:24 pm
Good point. Not thought about that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2014, 03:02:29 pm
I'll also have to make a thread in the Writing forum about detective/mystery stories, except I think I already shot my thinkie wad on that write-up.

Start the thread and just copy / paste it. I will add to the genre. It's one of the genres that I love, but kinda suck at when putting them together. So, it's definitely one I can use work on for sure.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2014, 03:07:49 pm
I'm pretty lousy at them too.  But don't worry, just like Jake The Dog says, "suckin' at something is the first step to being kinda good at something."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2014, 03:11:52 pm
The Shield (Season 3 - 2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2014, 07:40:15 pm
The Monuments Men

Not part of my sister's collection, and not something I planned for, it just happened to be a nice coincidence that we watched this memorial Day weekend.

The movie was.... okay.  Not great, not terrible.  Interesting.  I sort of got this Rosenkrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead feeling watching it, you know, most war movies are trying to be the singular voice, but this felt different... you know how every Marvel movie feels like a component part?  That's what this felt like.  Like, when they get to Normandy, you get the sense that Saving Private Ryan has already been through here.  When you see Hitler (or rather, his dark shadow) in his bunker, it feels like you're getting glimpses from Downfall (and how nuts would it have been if George Clooney got the same actress from that movie in a cameo?).  It felt like there were other war movies taking place elsewhere, which was an interesting sensation.

The other interesting sensation was, watching this with my mother, I would recognize things that she didn't.  Like, okay, Hitler's model for his grand new capitol, that's a little inside, and to be fair, I don't know if I'd have remembered that if it wasn't for Downfall where Bruno Ganz destroys an identical model in a fit of rage (and they DO cut to that destroyed model later on!)  But the Bayeux Tapestry?  I thought everyone knew what that was, it's probably the most famous if not the only piece of medieval artwork anyone can think of.

Of course, it REALLY makes me want to watch "The **** Of Europa" again, but my mom wants to see it too, so I don't know if I should hold off or presume that we'll never get to it (since we usually don't) and just watch it anyways now while I'm in the mood and can spot the same points of reference.
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Post by: Mac on May 27, 2014, 11:33:09 am
Pompeii (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UqaCUAGCOk

Pompeii is from your favorite Director to crap on. Paul Anderson doesn’t get my hate, and he doesn’t inspire or get my love either.

Pompeii is an exercise in big special effects, with a razor thing story, stolen from a host of Gladiator films. The folks were definite fans of Spartacus from Showtime. With one big difference. Very little story to grab my attention. I walk away from Pompeii with a giant MEH. I’ve already forgotten most of it, except for the over the top ridiculous acting by Kiefer Sutherland. It’s pretty humorous to watch. Carrie Anne Moss is a complete throwaway.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2014, 12:11:58 pm
I just added this movie to my Hold List last week. Not surprised at the low rating. Will still check it out when it gets here though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 28, 2014, 10:38:43 pm
Batman: The Movie (1966)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2014, 01:28:30 pm
Thor (2011)

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Post by: Mac on May 29, 2014, 02:34:24 pm
How I Live Now (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RSaxm68PPT4

Not a great film, but a very good one. Way better than I though it would be. The movie has many layers and it's a roller coaster ride of extremes. One act, the world is perfect, everybody is happy. The lovely innocence of the young.

In the blink of an eye, that goes all to hell and worse, when World War III breaks out. The atrocities of war are difficult and so see it especially happen to young ones is a very powerful statement.

Highly recommend. It's love story in the midst of a war.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2014, 02:42:21 pm
Very interested in this. Adding to my Hold List.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 29, 2014, 10:41:30 pm
I might check it out.  I find Saoirse Ronan interesting (I don't know what that means, I just find her interesting) but I don't know if I've seen her in a movie that didn't make me go "...they made this a movie?"
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Post by: Mac on May 30, 2014, 01:34:27 pm
She do go through a range of emotions in this one. And I think she highly influences the viewer. You get absorbed in her character.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 30, 2014, 07:12:07 pm
The Avengers (2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on May 30, 2014, 10:43:27 pm
Why did the Avengers thread get locked?

I finally started into Veep.  I liked it, I still haven't seen The Thick Of It (although you can buy it on Youtube now, evidently) so I can't compare the two (and I haven't seen "In The Loop" in forever), but it's funny, of course I love seeing Tony Hale play a Buster-esque character... and I never picked up before how much Anna Chlumsky looks like Starbuck.  I'm surprised that she has second billing on the show.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 31, 2014, 08:19:20 pm
Thor: The Dark World (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2014, 07:29:25 pm
The Shield (Season 4 - 2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2014, 07:46:15 pm
The Shield (Season 5 - 2006)

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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2014, 06:37:00 am
Escape from Tomorrow (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1nfU_5NWBoE

I think the marketing for Escape from Tomorrow was way more imaginative than the actual movie, because the buzz had me very interested in this film.

Sadly, I got conned into spending more than an hour with this film before I just couldn’t take it anymore. Good Gawd, what slow, boring film. And with me giving it an hour, I still had no idea what the point was. Yes, it’s kind of like a Fellini Twilight Zone, with the occasional weird, don’t blink or you’ll miss it, scare. But what I was watching was a long (it seemed long) day of watching a family of four walking through Disney World. Yep, that’s about it. Pretty much watching someone else’s vacation film. Pure monotonous hell.

I’m not sure if that was the point of the film. Disney world is kind of like an alien planet and people wandering around like cattle, perhaps? And the family was just miserable to watch. The Dad was kind of clueless, yet the mother is a hen pecking domineering helicopter mom.

I think the only thing going for it, is the idea, they made a movie secretly within Disney World. Beyond that, the movie has nothing going for it. 

Can't recommend at all.  :-\

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2014, 07:07:52 am
Well that bites. I figured you would get something out of it. Since this is in your wheelhouse, if you say it sucks, then it really does suck. Just took this off my Hold List.
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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2014, 07:15:00 am
I'm kicking myself really. Rotten Tomatoes gives it 36% and Netflix is 1-1/2 stars of 5.

I've quickly learned from Netflix, the star rating has to be at the very least 2-1/2 stars to even get the chance to be viewed. History has proven, for me,  anything at 2 stars or less is complete garbage.

I should have taken the queue.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 07:42:18 am
That might be one of those cases where the movie you imagine it would be in your head is far better than what the actual movie would be.

I saw Ride Along the other night, agree with your review.  Okay, not great.  But Tika Sumpter?  D*mn.  If only she had a stronger part to play, you could figure her "arc" pretty easily.  The movie I was picturing in my head was way more high-octane, I heard the title and thought it would be like a non-stop car chase or something like that.
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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2014, 08:00:32 am
Ride Along is High octane for Kevin Hart's mouth... but I say that as a term of endearment. He makes me laugh.

Like Melissa McCarthy, when they get going, it's an earful.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 08:03:00 am
Kevin Hart was fine, Ice Cube was fine, but the movie on the whole was kind of bare bones, but not starkly simple.  I just felt like it needed some more meat on its bones.
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Post by: Mac on June 02, 2014, 08:16:32 am
I would agree with that.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 08:35:56 am
How many times did Ice Cube deliver the same line about "you got one day to show me what you got?"  How many times?

Something I was struck by was the fact that Jason Mantzoukas was one of the writers on the flick, but all the wisdom I assumed he's been getting from making "How Did This Get Made" doesn't seem to be on display here.  There didn't seem to be any subversions of expectations or twisting the genre or anything like that.  Maybe it got weeded out through the rewrites, I dunno.  There were so few characters that you knew what role they would play and how they would act, there was no real sense of danger, the car chase at the start was neutered by the fact it kept pausing to show credits, making it feel as important as a car commercial, everyone talked about how dangerous Omar is but we didn't see anything so there was no sense of threat or danger.  And there don't seem to be any big personal stakes for Kevin Hart, the girl he's got is WAY too good for him (and her character is only "the chick," an object to protect), it's not like she's going to break up with him if Ice Cube doesn't like her, she already puts up with way too much of KH's sh*t with the video games and so on.  She's way too idealized, and I didn't get any sense of WHY she digs him, that little thing that it'd take Ice Cube the whole movie to see and appreciate.

You know what this movie reminds me of?  Meet The Parents.  Ice Cube is the DeNiro character and Kevin Hart is the Ben Stiller character, but the difference is that there are stakes: Ben Stiller COULD lose the girl if he doesn't get DeNiro's approval, and DeNiro keeps finding NEW reasons to distrust and despise him.  Ben Stiller means well but situations continued to conspire against him, and his reactions only made things worse.  AND both he and DeNiro cause trouble by operating bullishly based on incomplete/out-of-context information, which is exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a buddy cop comedy to do.

The momentum of Ride Along was a big problem, it felt like they kept starting and stopping, it was sluggish to me, and I admit that part of it was my own high-octane expectations, which is unfair, but they commit the action movie sin of returning to a location later on.  I feel like they should have gotten into the sh*t early on and had to deal with that the whole rest of the way, sort of like The Hangover.  I seriously felt like I was still watching the first act halfway through the movie!
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 04:25:36 pm
Okay, it looks like I'll only have this month to check out Nip/Tuck.  We'll see how I like it, but I think that will keep Chip and I from checking out the show together.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 02, 2014, 05:08:58 pm
Okay, it looks like I'll only have this month to check out Nip/Tuck.  We'll see how I like it, but I think that will keep Chip and I from checking out the show together.

No worries dude. I just started Season 5, with another 2 to follow. By all means start on it and once I'm done with The Shield, I will dive head first into my Nip/Tuck marathon. You have your work cut out for ya. Not sure how you're gonna be able to cram the entire series into 4 weeks. Unless you average 10 + episodes a day!!!!!  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 05:20:21 pm
This is presuming I want to watch the whole thing (you said it might put me off).  I'll bet I could manage somehow, though.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2014, 05:39:41 pm
At the moment, though, I've taken a break from all that Newhart (so much Newhart) to watch the third season of Sherlock, which just popped up.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 03, 2014, 07:13:13 pm
Saving Mr. Banks (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 05, 2014, 07:27:59 am
American Hustle (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 06, 2014, 04:23:27 pm
The Shield (Season 6 - 2007)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2014, 08:32:46 pm
Watching Episode 1 of Nip/Tuck right now... still too early in to make a definitive read of it yet (I'm at the "AmI really this ugly?" moment).  I finished the third series of Sherlock last night, not sure if I mentioned that here, but it was good.  Im definitely more interested in seeing Elementary now because Sherlock has really shifted:  the mystery used to be the central story, and now the characters are front and center and the mysteries surround them.  It's sort of the opposite of what you'd expect from a procedural, but it's effective.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2014, 09:10:43 pm
I'm very interested to see how Nip/Tuck plays out for you.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2014, 09:33:30 pm
The first episode was cool.  One of those "a pilot is a standalone movie" type approaches.  I definitely got this... not Breaking Bad vibe, but more of "a dark side" vibe.  It's the ugly twin brother of medical dramas, you know?  Which is great, because it's a mentality I want to tap for a project that I've had a recent breakthrough with.  So I'm TOTALLY in the right mindset to gleam the most from this.

And Sean, I can't think of the actor who plays him, I know I've seen him some other stuff, but he keeps making me think of Jason Bateman, which is making me chuckle.

There's one scene I heard about that I'm anxiously awaiting, the scene with Kate Mara and Sophia Bush.  In case I drop out of interest, when does anyone remember when that happens?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2014, 09:46:32 pm
There's one scene I heard about that I'm anxiously awaiting, the scene with Kate Mara and Sophia Bush.  In case I drop out of interest, when does anyone remember when that happens?

It has been a while (like 5 years or so) since I last watched the show. I think it's either Season 2 or Season 3. Pretty sure it's Season 2.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2014, 09:48:59 pm
I'll be anxiously awaiting.  Hopefully/maybe I'll forget about it and be pleasantly surprised.

It's so weird to see Kate Mara in this, she's young but she's also kind of exactly the same, I mean, her first appearance in House of Cards what, ten years later? She looks only one year older there!

This show might also give me the emotional capacity to finally watch "Orange Is The New Black," prison just-- it's one of those things that it's hard for me to watch.  Usually it helps if it's stylized (Shawshank Redemption is no problem for me, for example), but modern day, where they rock hospital scrubs (I also have an issue with hospitals) and those white cinder blocks that make prisons look like my elementary school?  Can't do it.  And I know I'm missing out on something awesome.  Maybe this will help me build my resistance.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 08, 2014, 02:03:38 am
So I watched the first six episodes of Nip/Tuck (which included the Sophia Bush/Kate Mara scene.  I knew it happened early but that was pretty d*mn early).

The show... I like it.  I don't feel filthy after watching it, there's definitely a sense of naughtiness to it, but it's not as potent as Breaking Bad was, probably because BB was making more of a bridge from the real world to the underworld, whereas Nip/Tuck plants you right into this gross world: p*rn parties, lurid sexual encounters, dark interiors (there's almost no exterior shots-- it makes the whole thing feel like this is happening in a dark room buried somewhere, a place you can't find and shouldn't want to stumble on), lesbian cheerleaders, sex addicts...

Something struck me: they can show all this gross surgery, scars, liposuctions, bruising and blood (fantastic effects work, all of it) but they can't show nudity.  Which is real weird, I noticed when we saw the masectomy patient.  We have all these patients on the show who want to achieve these bodies, and they talk about them, but we never see any of them.  I know it's because this was FX and not, say, HBO, but also because this was the infancy of MA programming, and sometimes it's effective: the shower scene with Kelly Carlson and the three-way that's all kissing all work wonderfully, but after a while, I imagine that's going to become more distracting.

I definitely dig the balance between the two doctors and that tension about the soul of their practice, the constant conflict over the types of patients they'll accept, the amount they'll let themselves be sullied in order to continue doing good or living their lives.  It feels almost like they're on the cusp, one wrong step and they're screwed.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2014, 01:08:01 pm
Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues (2013)

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Post by: Mac on June 09, 2014, 07:02:23 am
Robocop (2014) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPLSpmAtc1Q

When I heard they are rebooting Robocop, it didn’t even register as a blip on my radar, except thinking… Why?

Then the trailer came out and it did catch my attention.

Now that I got to watch it, I’m back to… why? There’s several problems. The main one is that it could not hold my attention. Listen, we’ve seen the story before. For the most part, they followed the original. This time completely foregoing the tongue in cheek angle. This version completely goes the serious route. Which is not a bad thing, they just didn’t know how to do that very well. Secondly, casting Joel Kinnaman was bad. This guys has no personality and completely for gettable and actually a little unlikeable. Gary Oldman was fine as the scientist, though under-utilized. Michael Keaton was not bad as the underhanded CEO only in it for the money. Samuel Jackson is the only standout that made me pay attention to the screen. And it’s limited his time on the screen.

It starts off interesting enough with politics, morality, ethics and such, but quickly gets reduced into a loud, explosive, shoot-em up video game. And that’s ultimately what I walked away thinking… I’m watching someone play a video game.

This was IMO, a waste of time, resources and talent.

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Post by: Mac on June 09, 2014, 07:19:51 am
The Returned (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6h5vtY5qZU

Out of nowhere, The Retuned popped up on Netflix… with a decent 3-1/2 star rating. The synopsis was intriguing. A virus that turns people into essentially raging zombies, but they discovered a serum that can ‘restrain’ the virus and bring people back to normal.

The Returned is better than I initially thought. The movie gets meaty with a lot of What-If’s. The ‘Returned’ are privileged because only certain people can get the serum. Secondly, the requirement is they have to inject it every day, or they will go back permanently to the infected state. The infected are killed, there is no saving them. So one dilemma is do you let The Returned go back to a normal life and walk among healthy folk? What are the consequences?

There are people out there who do not agree with process. Essentially they think once you’re infected, you not only lose your human rights, you are not potentially, but you are a risk to the human race, and should be put down.

I was trying to figure out what the closest thing today would be relatable. I guess it would it be, do you let go convicted murderer, rapist, psychopath? They threw in a lot reasonable logical scenarios, that really make this a thinking movie.

I highly recommend The Returned
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Post by: Neumatic on June 09, 2014, 09:22:14 pm
Okay, I finished the first season of Nip/Tuck, and I have to say, despite how dark that show is, I was smiling by the way they ended, I thought that was just brilliant.

On the whole, I'm enjoying the show more than I thought I would, so I'm happy about that, and the effects... for all the gruesomeness of it, there really hasn't been anything that made me feel sick or truly repulsed.  I'm more impressed.  The more shocking thing is how roughly the bodies are treated, but that's medicine, after all.

The only thing I'm getting a little tired of is Matt, it seems like he has a crazy new f*ck-up every couple of episodes and honestly it's wearing thin, and there wasn't much to dig about the character in the first place.  I hope that gets resolved and he gets to do something meaty and not just plot-twist-y.

And hey, is there an opposite of "natural beauty," because that's Kelly Carlson.  I have no idea what she looks like in real life, but she's always perfectly made up in everything I've ever seen in her, I don't think I've ever seen her dressed down or anything. It's strange.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2014, 12:46:26 pm
The Shield (Season 7 - The Final Act - 2008)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 12, 2014, 11:16:28 pm
Okay, I'm a quarter way through Nip/Tuck (I just finished the episode with the wife's facial reconstruction).  I'm digging the show, it's sort of settled from it's lurid-ness (well, maybe I'm just more used to it by now).  It's probably because there's no dangerous criminal element this season.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 13, 2014, 09:34:08 pm
Nip/Tuck (Season 1 - 2003)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 13, 2014, 10:43:23 pm
I can't wait to read your review, I'm finishing up season two now.  Boy, I wish that they hadn't let on that Joan Rivers was in this episode, but then they TOPPED that.  Holy sh*t!  It's very rare that I'm so happily surprised by a TV show, but this is one of those moments.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2014, 08:03:25 pm
Nip/Tuck (Season 2 - 2004)

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Post by: Neumatic on June 15, 2014, 08:27:16 pm
Jeez louise, you're catching up to me!  And I thought I was powering through all this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2014, 08:32:48 pm
Jeez louise, you're catching up to me!  And I thought I was powering through all this.

I like the challenge. Besides, I'm the best ever at catching up on DVD marathons!!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 15, 2014, 08:46:19 pm
Meanwhile I can't watch Nip/Tuck until after I eat!  For obvious reasons.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 16, 2014, 06:13:57 am
Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9KAnx4EvaE

Admittedly I sat down with Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit with zero anticipation. It’s like someone handed me the DVD and said watch it. It’s been over 12 years since the last flick and honestly, I don’t remember anything.

Well, I almost turned it off because of the boring and cliché ridden story. Wow, I could have wrote this. Uh, next scene we will have the cursory car chase. Let’s throw a motorcycle chase in as well.

There were several eye rolling moments, that really surprised me. Because the story went off the rails several times. For example, I’m not giving away any spoilers, but when Jack Ryan's wife finds out he works for the CIA, she wants to be involved in the ongoing espionage. What? And she does and all kinds of hell breaks loose. Eye rolling. As someone else mentioned, this reboot appears to be ‘wannabe’ Mission Impossible.

And you know what, Chris Pine doesn’t do much for me. Not in the sense of a leading man. I just didn’t buy into him and his character.   

I found Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit devoid of freshness and excitement and wallowing in mundane movie cliché’s. I’ve already forgotten just about everything in this flick.

Complete waste of time
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 16, 2014, 07:03:53 am
I'm one of the few that will admit to not being a fan of the Jack Ryan series. I always thought the movies were boring. Have no desire to see this one either.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 17, 2014, 09:53:24 am
Haunt (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=huCKjI2ELXA

Going by star rating on the Netflix site and moving up the popularity score website, we tuned into Haunt. From the very first scene, we knew this was going to entertain us. It IS your standard haunted house flick with ghosts, but it was still fun nonetheless. Plenty of jump scares sprinkled throughout. Good acting, though forgettable characters.

If you like the haunted house genre, then I highly recommend checking it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 17, 2014, 09:56:22 am
World War Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcwTxRuq-uk

I can't believe I actually talked my wife into watching this. She asked if it was sci-fi (in her mind, technology and usually in the future) and I told her know. I thought about it and told it's more of drama.

And you know, with a new perspective, it is a drama with some nasty hordes of sick people thrown in here and there.

She liked it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2014, 02:26:02 pm
I thought you didn't like World War Z.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 18, 2014, 03:42:34 am
I find it passable. Not great not bad.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2014, 06:33:22 am
Nip/Tuck (Season 3 - 2005)

(http://i.imgur.com/5bsV5tA.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/niptuck-(season-3-2005)/msg29033/#msg29033)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2014, 09:51:17 pm
Just started season five.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2014, 10:41:59 pm
Just started season five.

Damn bastard is pulling away as if he was racing at the Kentucky Derby!!!!  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2014, 10:46:46 pm
And I took a day off last night!

Dang I like Julian McMahon on this show, I looked him up to see what else he's been doing since (I want to see that dude in so much more) and found out who he is.  Every time you see his bare *ss on screen, remember that his father was the freakin' Prime Minister of Australia.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 19, 2014, 01:11:25 am
Nice to see Matt's still a royal screw-up.  As down as I get about myself, at least now I can point to him and say "at least I'm not THAT."
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 19, 2014, 08:44:05 am
Crawlspace (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7WWfATChYk

Is a huge lazy attempt at family abductor living in the attic of a house. “Based on true events”

Yea… right. Whenever I see those combinations in front of a film, I know they took great liberties and changed everything. This movie was ridiculous at every corner.

I love me some Lori Loughlin, who I have not seen in years, but looks amazing. She or Steven Weber as the psychotic attic dweller could not save this mind numbingly dumb film.

It starts off reasonable, but then moves at a snail’s pace with eye rolling situations with zero tension or thriller feel.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 20, 2014, 01:03:11 pm
13 Sins (aka Angry Little God, 13: Game of Death) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLaBxTeRHV4

13 Sins is a psychological horror flick that builds with intensity as a meek man, seriously in debt and his life falling apart, suddenly is offered ways to reap millions. Albeit with moral and ethical implications. Not a great movie, but a very interesting and entertaining flick. In the same genre of “Would You Rather”, “Indecent Proposal” and stretching it a bit with “The Purge”, 13 Sins is full What If scenario’s you would ask yourself and how far would you go. I believe the core of the movie is a very rich individual, with great power, is bored and pushes people to see if or how they can break them. No limits. With the understated idea of bringing out the monster from anybody.

Like I said, and interesting film. Finally a fresh diversion from tired ol bloody quick buck crap put out today. I highly recommend it. Warning, it does get graphic. Very graphic.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 20, 2014, 10:51:24 pm
Oh?  What's this that just started?  Season SIX of Nip/Tuck?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 20, 2014, 10:56:23 pm
BASTARD!!!!!!

Just a heads up, it's ending for you so you better savor it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 20, 2014, 10:57:41 pm
Hey, it expires at the end of the month, I got a deadline!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 20, 2014, 11:09:20 pm
And who's in this episode?  NEWMAN!

And I gotta say, being named Neumann, I NEVER get to do that.  EVER.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2014, 03:06:39 pm
F*CK!!!!

Looks like my Nip/Tuck Season 4 DVD set is infected with DVD Rot. Can't play Disc 1 or 2 on my DVD player or Xbox 360. Didn't bother to check the other discs. What's the point? So, I have Season 4 on hold from my Library. There are 40 copies in the system and no one on the wait list. I will bet top dollar that it's not delivered to my branch inside of a week.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2014, 05:04:26 pm
That royally sucks... and I definitely wanted to share my two fave moments from that season.

I wonder how much a used copy of that season goes for...
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2014, 05:24:29 pm
I did think about just buying another set on eBay, but even with how slow my Library is, they would deliver before I got anything from eBay. I went with the lesser of two evils.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2014, 06:01:09 pm
But then you'd need to rent it every time you wanted to go through the series... that's the convenience you're paying for there.  Instant gratification at a moment's notice.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2014, 06:07:00 pm
Yeah, but I want to keep my marathon rolling along by minimizing the break of waiting as short as possible. It will be awhile before I ever get around to having another Nip/Tuck marathon after I'm done with this current one.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2014, 06:11:42 pm
I hear that.  But I never know what I'll be in the mood for until I'm in the moment.  I've been meaning to rewatch Dead Like Me for a long time, I haven't seen it in almost ten years, I'll bet... but I got the discs on standby (and they're fine).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2014, 06:14:00 pm
You need to follow up Nip/Tuck with a heaping spoonful of Dexter.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2014, 06:21:24 pm
I think the perfect follow-up to Nip/Tuck would be engaging in rakish behaviour.

You know, I never described anyone as a rake before, but dang, Christian Troy is perfect for that word.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 21, 2014, 11:48:39 pm
Man, at this rate, I'm gonna run out of episodes of Nip/Tuck TOMORROW.  Dunno what I'm gonna do when it's all wrapped up.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 22, 2014, 05:00:37 am
That's when you're gonna be hit with a huge wave of withdrawal. You will spend the next month loitering outside Plastic Surgery Offices looking for your fix. My job here is complete.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 22, 2014, 06:56:13 am
Dallas Buyers Club (2013)

(http://i.imgur.com/32HNoeM.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dallas-buyers-club-(2013)/msg29083/#msg29083)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 22, 2014, 11:59:39 pm
Ding! Done! Finished every episode of Nip/Tuck.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 23, 2014, 06:59:26 am
In The Blood (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLj87gSx2U0

In The Blood is an attempt to put Gina Carano on the screen to show her skills as a model/actress/mixed Martial arts. She does a decent job with her character, but the story is about as bland, cliché and boring as they come. I literally put this movie on fast forward until the fight scenes. Gina Carano looks like the girl next door, but can instantly flip 180 and become this lethal badass that can kick anyone’s ass. I will never complain about watching her.  Just the lame stories they put her in.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 23, 2014, 07:11:37 am
Chef  (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuixZwiIdU

I can admittedly say, if I was watching Chef on DVD, I would have turned it off within the first 45 minutes. But since I was a captured audience in the movie theater, I sat through the whole thing.

The final result was very satisfying. Chef is a feel good story with no great consequence. Jon Favreau is writer/director/star in an homage to chef’s and cooking and self discovery.

I didn’t like the first half because a lot of it had to do with twitter and Facebook and social networks. I really didn’t understand some of the implications. The first half hour also looks exactly like a cooking show. Way to many long detailed shots of making food.  I also didn’t buy into he was once married to Sofia Vergara, and that lost some believability in the simple story of honorable chef figuring out what makes him happy.

Loved the cast with Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, John Leguizamo (always love John), Scarlett Johansen and Emjay Anthony is a great find as the Jon’s son.

In the end, I walked away happy. I think most people will like Chef.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 23, 2014, 09:17:18 am
Adult World

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtOsYUL6igc

I’m not going to rate Adult World. While it’s nothing like I thought, which was good, it just didn’t have the energy to keep me engaged. An independent film with John Cusak, who I swear is ad libbing it. Emma Roberts is thrust into the real life due to her own decisions, making this a coming of age type of film. Evan Peters (American Horror Story) does a simple support role for Emma and Armando Riesco as Rubia is by far the most entertaining, just because he’s a out there with sexual identification issues as a cross dresser. He’s funny, sarcastic and no holds barred on his thoughts.

Yet, it just felt like the movie plodded along. I didn’t see any potential for any dramatic turns, so I just stopped after an hour.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 23, 2014, 10:23:24 am
Runner Runner (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFPqyNvNzvU

I saw a trailer for Runner Runner some time ago and thought I need to check it out. I like Justin Timberlake and Ben Affleck appears to be badass in it. My library never did pick it up and I happened it across is on one of the premium channels.

I’m going to give Runner Runner just 3 stars. It’s not a great film, but it was entertaining for most of it. Affleck was good. Timberlake… well, he pretty much maintained the same face through the whole movie whether it was fear, excitement, or any other host of emotions in a thriller/heist type of movie. Bottom line, he was fairly forgettable. The woman and local were beautiful. The pacing pretty good and the viewer does need to pay attention. It gets complicated.

I mildly recommend Runner Runner
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 23, 2014, 11:02:08 am
I'm still interested in checking out Runner Runner for myself. But my Library doesn't have a copy and I've checked regularly each week for the past month and still nothing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 24, 2014, 10:51:51 pm
The Great Gatsby (2013)

(http://i.imgur.com/nwxgRsO.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-great-gatsby-(2013)/msg29133/#msg29133)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 24, 2014, 11:22:05 pm
So I found this on Netflix.  Amazingly, I'd never seen it before.

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/55/Three_men_and_a_baby_p.jpg)

You know, it's really saying something that Leonard Nimoy had such a massive career that directing one of the staple movies of the 1980s isn't even a blip on his resume.

it was very cute, though I was REALLY surprised that there was a drug smuggling subplot, does ANYONE remember that?  Or that one of the criminals was Wilson from Home Improvement?  It's weird.  And then when it wraps up, you think the movie's done, there's a montage that feels like a denouement, but then there are a couple more scenes after that!

The flick looked pretty good, the set design was fantastic (an apartment that befits an architect, an actor, and a cartoonist), the shots in New York filled the screen wonderfully.  The guys were all funny, sweet, and appropriately incapable of taking care of a child.

I feel like an idiot talking about this movie ("those men... and that baby... what a movie!") but yeah, you can totally see why this flick was a huge success when it came out (it does seem like kind of low-hanigng fruit: let's take the three biggest guy's guys try to be maternal... with hilarious results!), but it holds up well and it's put together extremely well for what should be a pretty simple comedy.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 25, 2014, 04:36:53 am
I saw this in the theater during opening week and it was HUGE!!!! It was packed and the people were laughing in all the right places. I've watched it a few times since then, but it has been years since the last time. Still held up many years later.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 25, 2014, 06:03:06 am
I saw this when it came out on VHS or cable or something. I enjoyed it. But yea, I pass by it now thinking in the back of my head, that's so girly.






I'd probably enjoy it just as much today actually. ;)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 25, 2014, 06:01:33 pm
Nip/Tuck (Season 4 - 2006)

(http://i.imgur.com/1WwDck8.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/niptuck-(season-4-2006)/msg29211/#msg29211)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 25, 2014, 06:29:37 pm
The whole thing!?  Yes!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 25, 2014, 06:58:34 pm
The whole thing!?  Yes!

That's what she said.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 25, 2014, 07:07:51 pm
I don't know why, but the minute you said that I imagined that being a line in that Natalie Portman friends with benefits movie.

God, I so wanted to mention Old Man Christian Troy, but on the off-chance you'd forgotten him, I didn't want to spoil it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 27, 2014, 06:09:50 am
Lords Of Salem (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y606RoSur8o

One of the latest projects by Rob Zombie. I really don’t know much about him with regards to his music, but I know he loves the horror genre. But just because you love it, doesn’t mean you are any good at actually producing something.

I made two mistakes. One is I did not check rating on Lords of Salem. I still believe people should decide for themselves, but when I see an overall dislike for something by the general public, something is a amiss. My second mistake is catching part of Lords of Salem in the middle while it was playing on cable. I thought it looked like something to check out. The unfortunate part is I caught one of the few scenes that made sense. Listen, there is a vinyl record they play with bizarre music and not only does it hypnotize women, apparently it was an invitation for witches to come back. Believe me, I’m stretching here trying to make sense of this film.

Lords of Salem is a mess. While there is a creepy atmosphere throughout, it just becomes mind numbingly boring with a heavy dose of tilting the head to side asking what the hell is going on. Zombie relies too much on creating iconic scenes vs telling an engaging story or even a horror story. There is zero scares, zero tension.  Apparently he uses his wife Sheri Moon Zombie in most of his films and in this case works against the film. Mainly because she’s a distraction. First we really don’t see her face because she is hidden behind thick dark glasses and that awful dreadlock hair. And she sleeps, literally sleeps through a great deal of the movie.

It’s an odd movie and would not recommend this anyone… even
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 27, 2014, 06:31:03 am
I've never bothered to check out any of Zombie's flicks, but the one thing I've always heard is that it's all style, but with no substance. He's got the look of a typical horror flick, but doesn't have the story to back it up.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 27, 2014, 07:41:24 am
Quote
I've never bothered to check out any of Zombie's flicks, but the one thing I've always heard is that it's all style, but with no substance. He's got the look of a typical horror flick, but doesn't have the story to back it up.

I had not heard that.... but it makes sense now.

Reminds me of Air Guitarist. Zombie is like an Air Guitarist. He is freakin awesome in his own mind.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 28, 2014, 07:13:22 am
Nip/Tuck (Season 5 - 2007)

(http://i.imgur.com/TSdWLkO.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/niptuck-(season-5-2007)/msg29344/#msg29344)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 30, 2014, 10:04:29 pm
Well, I'm taking a class about Pixar films this week so I read "Wall-E" ... I feel like I watched it.  Fantastic script, 95 pages and brisk as anything.  The Toy Story script is... more cumbersome.

Right now, because it's about to expire, I'm watching "Event Horizon."  And what timing, Joely Richardson is in it!  I feel like she got a new career after leaving Sean (insofar as "doomed spaceman" is a career).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2014, 10:13:30 pm
Jooooooooooooooooooely!!!

Neumatic, you've been Nipped/Tucked!!!  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 30, 2014, 11:24:37 pm
I totally forgot about this 90s club music playing over the end credits.  When I think of the late 90s, this is the sh*t I think of.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 01, 2014, 10:29:54 am
The Fifth Estate
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZT1wb8_tcYU

The Fifth Estate encompasses the beginnings of Julian Assange and the creation of WikiLeaks through the Government’s 250K + secret document scandal.

The story surrounding these events are complex and chaotic. Organized chaos. They did their absolute best to help demonstrate what was going technically in the electronic world with interesting visuals. Then they sandwiched in emotional, personal dialog for glue. It doesn’t really work. I struggled through the whole movie, not only trying to understand what was happening to who, but also wanting to be wrapped up in the intrigue.

I’m walking away remembering some of the events of what happened, but I’m also forgetting just about everything in the movie.

I definitely cannot recommend this anyone… except maybe a computer nerd.

I still don’t know what Fifth Estate means (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Estate).

(http://b-i.forbesimg.com/andygreenberg/files/2013/09/Screen-Shot-2013-09-18-at-10.28.29-PM.png)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2014, 11:09:34 am
Totally forgot about The Fifth Estate. I was marginally interested in seeing it, but after your review, it's now on the back-burner for the foreseeable future.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2014, 10:08:14 pm
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

(http://i.imgur.com/GWk7WvZ.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-wolf-of-wall-street-(2013)/msg29272/#msg29272)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2014, 12:39:44 am
Watching Pixar movies for homework.  BEST HOMEWORK EVER.

I popped open some flicks I hadn't seen in a while:  Finding Nemo, Ratatouille, and Monsters U.  Amazingly enough, there's a number of PIxar movies I don't have.  And I've been writing up stuff about them all evening, so I really don't wanna repeat myself here.  But dang these are well done movies.  I forgot how amazing they are at foreshadowing, it's masterful.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 02, 2014, 02:45:48 am
3 fine and very entertaining movies.

What homework is this now?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2014, 06:08:14 am
I'm taking a scene writing course that's all about Pixar style and method, how they approach stories and scenes.  It just started and we have people from all over the world, so it hasn't really kicked into high gear yet.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 02, 2014, 06:50:51 am
Quote
I'm taking a scene writing course that's all about Pixar style and method, how they approach stories and scenes.  It just started and we have people from all over the world, so it hasn't really kicked into high gear yet.

Didn't we talk or post about a book that's been written? Or maybe it was an article?

Edit add: This is what I was thinking (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/creative-writing/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/msg17698/#msg17698)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2014, 06:54:55 am
Didn't we talk or post about a book that's been written? Or maybe it was an article?

Edit add: This is what I was thinking (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/creative-writing/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/msg17698/#msg17698)

I was thinking the same thing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2014, 07:26:54 am
Yeah.  We haven't really touched upon those in the course (at least not yet).  Right now we're talking objective drama vs subjective drama (high stakes vs personal story), time and uncertainty.  I've definitely got those guidelines as well as the Toy Story manifesto in my head, and with all the time I have on my hands, I'm really overcompensating.

What's really funny is doing this homework I'm remembering how Pixar-ish the first half of ALCD is (insofar as a stripper story can have Pixar inspiration).  I notice that some of the things I'm having trouble with go against some of the suggestions, like having no villain.  I also noticed about the manifesto: one of the reasons I'm so attached to ALCD more than any other project I'm putting through my pipeworks is because that story has a very emotional set of rules for me, brought around by all the p*ssing and ranting I had done about sh*t like Showgirls right before starting.

One of the big issues is that we're really only analyzing the finished drafts of a couple movies, we're seeing the results of their decisions but we're not really seeing much of why those decisions were made.  One of our classmates showed us early treatments for the original Toy Story and... they're freaky, weird, and convoluted.  The final project is so much better, simpler, and different and you can see what changes they made and how the story became stronger.  Having those guidelines is one thing, seeing them in action is another.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2014, 03:58:50 pm
The Hunger Games (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2014, 10:26:18 pm
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 03, 2014, 12:04:39 am
I never even got around to watching the second one.  I don't think I revisited the first one.  I never really dug it, although I will say it's one of those stories I played around with for fun.  My version was... more twisted, drawing more inspiration from Battle Royale, Deliverance, Cuckoo's Nest, Serenity...  I don't feel like I can go back to the "proper" one.

Okay, what did I just watch?  Well, I've been trying to watch a movie every day like Tom Cruise... I mean, I watch sh*t every day for sure, but like watching a movie to WATCH a movie, work movie, that's a different story.  So ever since he was on Fallon and said he did that, I've been trying to do that too.

The one I watched today was the remake of Robocop.  And it was... fine?  It's the opposite of what the original one was, more robo, less cop, clean instead of dirty, talky instead of action... those choices bothered me but it's not like the film is a mess or anything.  It's just serviceable and safe.  Like, they say crime is out of control in Detroit but you never SEE that.  Crime happens somewhere else.  It should be like Batman Begins or something, where you can get mugged walking out of school, there's not even that many people around.  And it's too clean for a city that's supposed to be riddled with crime.  It's all weird stuff like that.

I will say that I liked seeing Michael Keaton in this one.  I liked seeing him back quite a bit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2014, 08:01:06 pm
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 04, 2014, 07:10:32 pm
12 Years a Slave (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2014, 08:12:09 am
Nip/Tuck (Season 6 - The Final Season - 2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2014, 05:12:18 pm
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 06, 2014, 09:56:19 pm
RoboCop (2014)

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Post by: Mac on July 07, 2014, 06:30:21 am
In Fear

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I’m not going to rate it because it bored me silly within the first 20 minutes where absolutely nothing happened. I turned it off. This is what I saw. A young couple on a road trip to some event, side track the first night to go to a hotel. They get lost in the maze of roads. This goes on and on and on.

I’m done

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Post by: Mac on July 07, 2014, 06:56:43 am
Afflicted (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkvCNae3Ip8

I saw the trailer for this little independent film and the way it was structured caught my attention. It’s backwards to the story. Anyway, what it had going against it was the hand held camera genre. First kick myself because I keep trying to give these a chance despite the never in this lifetime would I be holding a camera in this horrifying events. Maybe it’s a generational thing. Maybe the young kids today buy into, hell ya, I’d keep taping while watching murder or being attacked.

Really?

It just ruins the whole context of the movie.

In a nutshell, two guys embark on a world tour of traveling, where one of the two meet a mysterious woman. Immediately the next day, strange events are happening to the guy, ranging from super like powers of running and jumping to serious illness of not eating and getting blisters from the sun from only a few seconds. Yep, we are talking about a modern day, social networking, selfie vampire.

Yea, it goes there. This movie is a mashup of so many other movies and their tropes. It has promise, but in the end it lost me. We’ve seen it all before. I think people who really enjoyed this movie would be the same folks who are looking forward to the next Chucky movie. SSDD.
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Post by: Mac on July 07, 2014, 07:36:56 am
Lone Survivor (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoLFk4JK_RM

I’ve said this before, I’m not a fan of war movies. I guess the war and violence aspect. I don’t mind when they get into the meat of a story.

That being said, Lone Survivor just totally engulfed me in the events of a failed combat mission. Once the mission kicks in, the story is unrelenting.

Lone survivor opens with actual footage of Marines training for the most grueling job imaginable. What this does is give the viewer some context on how tough these guys are.

What I was thinking of while watching this conflict go on was movies like Predator with the opening gun fight is play compared to what is witnessed in Lone Survivor. The camera puts the viewer squarely in the sites of the gun fight. I was terrified. You do not get any closer than this. Lone Survivor is a no holds barred on what war is like.

Mark Walberg and the rest of the actors were totally convincing as these war heroes.

And I’m not afraid to admit I had moisture in the eyes from a couple of scenes, in particular towards the end.

This is rough movie to watch. I’m still trying to come up with a term other than being entertained. I don’t call it entertaining, but I was totally into it. I doubt though I’ll watch it again.

Highly recommend.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 08, 2014, 12:24:26 am
Double classic movie night, apparently.  First: Anatomy Of A Murder.  Ya ya had James Shtewart tryin' ta defend an army man on onna counta murrder.  Now: The Apartment.  Here's how much The Simpsons screwed me up, I keep thinking of Gil sometimes when Jack Lemmon talks.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2014, 08:37:23 pm
The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 08, 2014, 08:41:05 pm
A Band Called Death

Years before the Ramones, three brothers in Detroit started a band and became true punk rock.  But they never got a contract, never got distribution, and their master recordings sat in an attic for thirty years, until one day...

Seriously, what an awesome story.  And the music is insanely good.  The idea of creating something that's fresh and awesome THIRTY FIVE YEARS after being recorded?  That's almost impossible.  That's a level of talent that few people can truly attain.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDPDm9_nX0o
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 08, 2014, 09:05:20 pm
Need to see if my Library has this. Definitely want to check this one out.
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Post by: Mac on July 08, 2014, 09:34:30 pm
I've seen this available on Netflix. I fir some reason did not look into it. Just msy have to check it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 08, 2014, 09:44:22 pm
It's a heck of a story.  And the music just rocks.

Now I'm watching a three-part documentary (it must have been on PBS) about superheroes, I think the first episode is all about The Great Depression.  Enjoying it.  I might draw while I listen (edit: I am drawing now.  And the doc series (3 parts) is called Superheroes: The Never-Ending Battle).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2014, 05:07:32 am
Spring Breakers (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2014, 07:47:57 pm
The Heat (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2014, 09:22:47 pm
Firefly (Season 1 - 2002)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 11, 2014, 09:30:23 pm
You've seen Firefly before, right?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2014, 09:32:45 pm
You've seen Firefly before, right?

This will probably be the 10th time I've watched it from start to finish.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 11, 2014, 09:44:42 pm
But this is the first time you're reviewing it?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 11, 2014, 10:09:00 pm
Yep.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 12, 2014, 03:44:25 pm
Well, little bit of an update about my watching habits.

I finished the third season of Wilfred this morning while waiting for a webinar.  I'm really curious to see how/if things wrap up.  I keep thinking what an interesting series it is, since it's sort of comedy but sort of drama but not what I would call a dramedy... the fact that there's a mystery that drives the direction of the series is a great touch.

Also, Elijah Wood's character has an awesome last name.

I've been meaning to watch Detective Dee And The Mystery Of The Phantom Flame since it expires in a couple days, but I haven't really been able to bring myself to watch it.  I've been putting it off forever.  I tried the other night, but the HD wouldn't buffer and it looked like garbage.  I'm too old to squint through that nonsense.

Right now Forever Young is on, and I'm having a small case of temporal vertigo seeing Elijah Wood drop from 30 years old to 12.
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Post by: Mac on July 14, 2014, 07:28:07 am
The Raid 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pg6IiGjJyM4

When The Raid: Redemption came out in 2011 by Gareth Evans and starring Iko Uwais… it was surprise hit. It was no surprise about an immediate sequel. Bringing the two together again, Raid 2 takes a completely different direction. No longer confined to just one Block (building), this story takes us, story wise, 2 hours later, all over the city.

The Raid was a surprise not only because of its realistic fighting (vs. the typical choreographed martial arts) but because of it’s amazing stunts (fighting). The Raid 2 has even more fighting, but it does look more choreographed.

I would say The Raid 2 is more brutal. Not for the faint of heart. Not 1 but 3 scenes of people getting their faces blown away with point blank guns.

The Raid was a simple story of fighting the bad guys that took over a building. The Raid 2 is way more in depth with multiple stories primarily conflict between 2 mob families. There is a ton of ‘unique’ characters involved here with their varied back stories. This makes the sequel way different than the original with a rollercoaster of action, then talking, then action, then talking.

The typical showdown will not disappoint. There’s two actually, but the last one is over very quickly, but very satisfying.

Edit added: I forgot to mention the number of fights that occur in very tight quarters. It starts with an amazing fight in a bathroom stall. Then you have the all out fight of  1 vs. 4 in a moving car, and then the classic fight of 2 vs. 1 in a narrow hallway. You don’t think about later, how they must have captured that action. Truly amazing.
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Post by: Mac on July 14, 2014, 07:34:19 am
Anchorman 2

Simply… I tried. Hated it. Sorry, that is just stupid humor. Some work, most of it doesn’t.
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Post by: Mac on July 14, 2014, 08:08:38 am
Non-Stop (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiHDJ19A3dk

It appears Liam Neeson is sticking with his mature badass action niche. While he’s good at it, the movies are starting to blur between them.  Whether it be in a plane, a car, a building.

Non-stop due to its single set location of a plane, tries to be a whodunit thriller. While the beginning intrigued me, I kind of lost interest half way through. Non-stop relies heavily on ‘texting’. Yes, I said texting. You essentially read through the intrigue between the sky marshall (Neeson) and the bad guy’s texts. Since I don’t do texting much and nothing with social media, I found this new trope silly. It’s appearing more and more in movies, in particular the Afflicted I recently reviewed and in part to last nights The Raid 2. I have a feeling this will be used more and more like the found footage trope.

So I spent a whole paragraph on one little nuance. This must be in part that I found Non-Stop to be disappointing and forgettable.

Don’t get me wrong, Liam Neeson doing action flicks is fun. I just hope he takes more time and picks more interesting stories.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2014, 08:46:36 am
Not expecting much from Non-Stop, but still looking forward to checking it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 14, 2014, 03:47:07 pm
Right now, I'm watching the old South Park episodes on South Park Studios/Hulu.  I will say that one thing I DO like about Hulu is that there's a timer on the commercials, so I know how long they'll last (and when I should put my headphones back on).  I'm on season one, and I haven't seen these eps in forever (I remember having some of them on tape, the ones where Matt and Trey did those cheesy openings).  I'm not planning on watching EVERY episode, but there's definitely a few I wouldn't mind seeing again.

What's great is that since I'm in the 90s (and I've been in kind of a 90s mood recently), I'm reverting to that creative mentality that I had back then (I wasn't as talented back then, or that sophisticated, but I was kind of boundless and enthusiastic in a way that I'm envious of today.  I honestly thought I could do anything).

I also happened to find out that Nick shows the last five episodes of the current Turtles series (which I haven't seen in a while), so I checked out the newest episodes.  They still rock.  It's such an expressive series, look at this!

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/tmnt-series_edited-1.jpg)

I'm really annoyed that they don't release the full seasons on DVD or Blu-Ray because I would totally buy them, this show I think is the best Turtles has ever been (it really is just a mash of the best elements from all the various versions of Turtles, but together by a truly talented and enthusiastic cast and crew).  It's definitely the best Michealangelo that's ever been done, even the other Turtle actors admit it.


On  the movie side, I got this movie from Netflix a couple days ago called "Would You Rather," and I couldn't figure out why I got it.  Well, I put it in and Brittany Snow's in it, so I must have ordered it while watching Nip/Tuck.  It's also got Jeffrey Combs (aka the creepy dude from The Frighteners) as the creepy villain and tons of character actors like John Heard (the dad from Home Alone), Enver from Dollhouse, Sasha Grey, and Crab-Man from My Name Is Earl.  Yeah.  Interesting line-up.  Unfortunately the movie was f*cking boring, 40 minutes in I still felt like I was in act one.  Didn't even finish it.  I think I'll let my imagination run with what could have been.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2014, 03:51:26 pm
Cool Screencaps! I've never seen any of the Turtle episodes. But with the way they look in those screenies, I'd be open to checking it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 14, 2014, 04:26:58 pm
It's a neat show, and EVERYONE'S in it: Seth Green is the new Leo (replacing Jason Biggs), Rob Paulsen, Sean Astin is Raph, Greg Cipes, Mae Whitman as a fantastic April, Nolan North, Kevin Michael Richardson is Shredder, Phil LaMarr, Kelly Hu is Karai (Shredder's daughter!) freakin' h*ll, guest actors included Lewis Black for some reason, Corey Feldman is Slash, Danny Trejo is Newtralizer... it's nuts!  Everyone wanted in on this series.

The last five episodes (including the Emmy-nominated "Wormquake") are on the Nick streaming site here. (http://www.nick.com/videos/ninja-turtles-videos/)  If I had to pick one, probably check out the Michaelangelo episode "Pizza Face," it's a zombie horror episode with Mikey's trademark sense of weirdness.  "Newtralizer" is a more action-centric ep, with Slash and Newtralizer teaming up to wipe out the Kraang.

Here's a shot from Pizzaface.  Totally reminded me of the Scarecrow in Batman Begins.  John "Bender" DiMaggio plays the big bad in the ep, took me forever to figure that one out.

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/pizzafaces.jpg)
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Post by: Neumatic on July 14, 2014, 07:11:22 pm
I'm being utterly charmed by Ernest & Celestine right now.  Apparently I'm having an animation-centric couple of days.

(http://www.dvdactive.com/images/news/screenshot/2014/5/ernestcelestinedvdf.jpg)

The animation is just spectacular, it looks like storybook illustrations brought to life, paintbrush strokes, watercolours, impressions of details.  It definitely strikes me as something that would make a great showcase for 4K tvs in showrooms, it's a gorgeous, sharp looking movie that's just entrancing to the eye.

Much like "Would You Rather," I have NO idea how I found this title.  Not a clue.  I know I'd never seen a trailer for it or anything.  But I'm totally glad it came.  You know, if I ever have kids, they're gonna have the most amazing selection of viewing materials.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2014, 04:05:24 pm
Race to Witch Mountain (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2014, 09:31:21 pm
Serenity (2005)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2014, 03:59:59 pm
Under The Dome (Season 1 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on July 17, 2014, 07:21:12 pm
Okay, I"m gonna throw this idea out at ya: the Race To Witch Mountain cast (why isn't is SPACE mountain) in the Firefly verse.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2014, 07:59:53 pm
Mind..........blown.
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2014, 09:02:48 am
Under The Skin (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoSWbyvdhHw

Scarlett Johansson stars in this Mystery/SyFy flick. I refuse to give credence to ‘horror’, because I saw nothing like that. Under The Skin has been a buzz ever since it made the movie festival circuits. Most of it was positive and suggesting it’s unique and not been seen before.

Despite the rather high praise Under the Skin gets on Rotten Tomatoes, I am totally confused for the accolades. It’s been a long time since I’ve been this bored in a movie and you’d thing with Scarlett Johansson fully naked, several times, I might give it a break. I’m not. The nakedness was just simply nakedness without any titillation.

Under the Skin is clearly an independent, low budget, art house film. While the production was top notch, the story is very basic and repeated over and over and over. Johansson is an alien, in human camouflage, as Ms. Johansson (very pretty woman, right), who prowls the city streets in a white van seducing men to their death. For what reason she kills is unknown. Very little dialogue, so we have the typical go to of lengthy shots of her face, or driving the streets, whatever, to build up film length. I have always found this process reducing the effectiveness of the story. If it’s a short story, long drawn out scenes are not going to make it better.

I’m highly disappointed and will never revisit Under The Skin. Just because of the numbers, I’d keep an open recommendation to check it out. It floats some people’s boats. Just not mine.

The trailer pretty much catches the tone of the movie. If you liked it, you get 90 more minutes of it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2014, 09:19:20 am
.....with Scarlett Johansson fully naked, several times.

That's all I need to hear. Adding to Hold List in 3....2.....1
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2014, 09:21:38 am
#87 on the Hold List with a whopping total of 1 DVD in circulation. Ugh!
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2014, 09:22:13 am
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That's all I need to hear. Adding to Hold List in 3....2.....1

Oh, did I forget to mention, full on frontal male nudity with erect tions... twice. Yea, it goes there.
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2014, 09:22:39 am
Bad Grandpa .5 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Wow, I hope this 'unseen' footage from the motion picture is no indication of the pace and stunts of the movie.

.5 was just a snore fest. I really wanted to like it, but damn Knoxville as Grandpa was just not doing much that funny. I turned it off after 20 minutes.

I'll still give the movie a chance if it should become available, but I am no longer actively seeking it out.  :-\
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2014, 09:23:33 am
Oh, did I forget to mention, full on frontal male nudity with ****s... twice. Yea, it goes there.

Ack! I'll do the laundry at such time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2014, 09:24:43 am
The movie is awesome and funny as hell. Not sure what this .5 is.
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Post by: Mac on July 21, 2014, 10:21:22 am
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The movie is awesome and funny as hell. Not sure what this .5 is.

Netflix -

Apparently bits and pieces that didn't make the final cut... for whatever reason.

Netflix has two actually (Bad Grandpa .5). One is 30 minutes, the other is 89 minutes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 21, 2014, 10:39:00 am
Definitely give the movie a shot. You won't be disappointed.
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Post by: Mac on July 22, 2014, 07:05:16 am
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Definitely give the movie a shot. You won't be disappointed.

When I first read this, I thought you said... "This Definitely has the money shot".

Uh, What?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 22, 2014, 07:06:14 am
RIO 2
No rating... wasn't for me (adult).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkZM1Zc0mBU

A recent sequel to the much better RIO original. RIO 2 comes off more like a children’s movie that they would crank out for a Saturday morning. It’s pretty apparent from the very beginning about the not appealing to adults too. I’ll say it. A money grab.

I recommend checking out RIO. It was fun and entertaining for adults too. I recommend passing up on RIO 2
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2014, 03:06:13 pm
Catfish (2010)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2014, 05:44:25 pm
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Season 1 - 2008)

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Post by: Mac on July 28, 2014, 06:58:32 am
Near Dark (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaO4Y_249U8

We wanted to watch something different than the normal scheduled stuff including the binge watching Lost. I noticed Near Dark in the OnDemand and thought we would both like it. My wife had never seen it. I barely remembered it from when I first saw it.

Well, it might be a cult classic, but I was bored silly. To me it did not age well. For the time, it might have been good. Today.... phfffffttttt. The acting is horrible. Just horrible. The story wasn’t so great either. I was just constantly rolling my eyes how bad this was. We gave it an 50 minutes  and then I determined that was enough and would not get any better.

Casual Sex (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFL4ATmHkFI

We then gave Casual Sex a go. It’s squarely captures it’s time during 1988 with the hair, the music, the dialog. A very light comedy with Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson. Remember Victoria? It also had Mary Gross from SNL and Andrew Dice Clay. I have never liked the Dice Man. I think his schtickt was good for 15 minutes and then I was done. But I tell you what, the only thing I really laughed at was Dice. He was so ‘that’ douche guy. But yea, it was mindless and not really that entertaining.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 28, 2014, 01:26:11 pm
Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (Season 2 - 2008/09)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2014, 09:58:50 pm
Pompeii (2014)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 05, 2014, 06:39:17 am
Noah (2014) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_OSaJE2rqxU

Admittedly I sat down with Noah expecting a big Ho-hum. I’ve seen the trailers. I’ve seen the CGI spectacle. What I wasn’t expecting from this biblical tale were giant rock creatures (Watchers) that aid Noah in his appointed assignment to build an Ark. Funny how the trailer completely hides this little, er huge detail. The Watchers are a prominent part of this telling of Noah.

My jaw just hit the floor. WTF was I watching? Part of my mind, I’m thinking a tale such as Noah is epic in scope, if you really think about. But it is a short story in the bible. So people have a huge opportunity to fill in the gaps with their own vision. Never in my lifetime would I have envisioned giant rock creatures.

Every frame comes off as an art film. Lots of visionary details, especially in the background. While I do consider Noah a fable and not a true story (I'm sure that's blasphemy to many a Christian), I still was confused at Aronofsky’s telling. In a way I see the fantasy, but I guess I just wasn’t prepared.

I’m not an Aronofsky (Director) fan. Haven’t liked one of his films. Noah is no different. I’m pretty confident I’ll never repeat watching Noah.
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Post by: Mac on August 05, 2014, 06:49:20 am
A Good Old Fashion O rgy (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYlr_aDlkvo

I forget where I saw the trailer to this little gem, but once I saw it, I sought it out through my library who was able to find it at some small library in the states.

I like Jason Sudekis. His style of humor just makes me grin the whole time. No different in this odd film about a tight group of friends who decide to have the last great party as an o rgy, And surprisingly they do. While there are some few raunchy R-rated moments, this movie leans more into the PG-13 category. A nice balance is maintained without getting ridiculous and consistently maintaining the comedic edge.

While not as good as some of the current classics like 40 Year Old Virgin or Bridesmaids, I really enjoyed A Good Old Fashioned O rgy. I highly recommend to check it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2014, 06:56:47 am
Noah (2014) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Wow. This is very disappointing to hear. I've been patiently waiting for my copy to arrive at the library. The air just went out of the balloon. Sigh. Based on what you wrote Mac, it sounds like Noah meets Lord of the Rings.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 05, 2014, 07:05:43 am
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Wow. This is very disappointing to hear. I've been patiently waiting for my copy to arrive at the library. The air just went out of the balloon. Sigh. Based on what you wrote Mac, it sounds like Noah meets Lord of the Rings.

You know, I was thinking about posting something like that. You're spot on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MpnKN4nhII
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 05, 2014, 07:08:35 am
Watchers battle + flood scenes

Spoiler (hover to show)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 06, 2014, 09:24:37 am
Alien Abduction (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/ThumbsDown.gif)

This soared to the top of the Netflix ratings for some reason. What that might be is a total head scratcher. This movie sucked dong. First, it's a Found Footage, which should be lost again and it's shaky cam with distortion in those key moments. Whenever the Aliens are around, the clarity goes bad.

Stay away from this turd. The acting is horrible and just a complete waste of time. I watched 45 minutes of it. Apparently I will not get that time back.

Ugh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT5j2XvdLnQ
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 06, 2014, 02:36:33 pm
Hahaha! I love Mac's new way of rating a movie! Priceless!  ;D
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Post by: Mac on August 06, 2014, 03:15:36 pm
Hey, it's with our own stash of smileys. We don't have one taking a dump.  :-\
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2014, 09:01:29 pm
The Terminator (1984)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 09, 2014, 08:19:47 pm
I just now figured out that the DVD set of Boston Legal I got (used) is missing a disc.  So now I gotta keep my eye out for a replacement.  Dangit!  The only reason I figured it out was that I've been re-watching the series and noticed that there was an episode that I saw once but never again... now I know why!)

Did I tell you guys about these shelves?  I went to the antique mart a month or so ago and one of the stalls (the whole place is divided into stalls for different venders) had furniture from the 80s, and there was a cool stand-up bar with glass doors that would be an AMAZING case for blu-rays and box sets.  There was another shelf next to it that was also kinda 80s but I don't remember much about it, that mini-bar was the thing that stayed in my mind.  It's too bad I don't have enough car space (or probably not enough scratch) to get my hands on it.  But I also don't have much room for it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 09, 2014, 09:51:55 pm
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2014, 08:07:17 pm
Terminator 3: Rise Of The Machines (2003)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 11, 2014, 08:03:39 am
Need For Speed (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsrJWUVoXeM

I had no delusions with my expectations on this film. The movie is a nod to the video game of the same name. I played the game years ago when it first came out. I’ve since seen the vast improvements. The movie does a nice job of placing the viewer in the action and believe me Need For Speed is chock full of action. I’d think comparisons would be made to Fast and Furious and I get that…

… bottom line, I enjoyed it a lot, despite, the shallow story, we’ve seen many times before. Aaron Paul acts exactly as he does in Breaking Bad. Nothing revolutionary there.

The stunt work is phenomenal. And watching the Making Of… all of it was practical. They stayed away from CGI.

This is just mindless, loud fun. Getting from Point A to Point B.
I would definitely recommend this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 11, 2014, 08:04:50 am
Oculus
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYJrxezWLUk

I had to look up the definition of Oculus
1:  a circular or oval window
2:  a circular opening at the top of a dome
3: eye

When this came out to the theaters, it was getting good buzz. The trailer was scary and movies like Sinister and The Conjuring were hot commodities. We were excited to sit down and watch this.

But as Oculus slowly dragged on, our anticipation completely dried up. Oculus is not scary. It is not creepy. It is a convoluted mess. This is because his story building is based on telling two events at the same time, with the same people. The kids when they were 10 and 11 years later. In fact, they creatively overlapped scenes. But these flashbacks and overlapping totally sucked the suspense out.

Where it really fails is having an inanimate object as the source of evil. This did not even come close to working. The evil could have been easily in the desk or coat hanger. I think they messed up because the movie gives the impression the kids were having mental problems.

The production is top notch. The visuals and sound were excellent, but the story telling just gets mangled.

Finally, what I continually find interesting is the discrepancy between audience and film critics. Oculus rates 74% for critics and 54% for audience. I agree with the audience numbers. Whereas Need For Speed as numbers of 22% for critic and 62% for audience. Again, I agree with the audience. Rather diametrically opposite of the critics.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2014, 02:46:54 pm
Terminator Salvation (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2014, 06:25:34 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 1 - 2008)

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Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2014, 12:42:06 pm
Been watching cable TV all morning.  It sucks!  There's nothing onnnn!  And there's no closed captions either.
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2014, 12:50:54 pm
Same here. I rely OnDemand and Streaming more and more.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2014, 12:55:15 pm
And it's such a nightmare scrolling through a thousand channels and finding out there's nothing on!  Meanwhile at home, I can pull up Netflix, Youtube, Vimeo, whatever!  This feels so primitive... overblown primitive.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2014, 12:57:23 pm
It could be worse. You could be forced to get up and change the TV channel knob manually.....one station at a time. Ahhhhh.....the 70's! Good times!  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2014, 01:04:50 pm
Then we wouldn't have central air in the house and I wouldn't have to wait for the delivery guy.  Or I would have a thousand comic books because they were cheap and plentiful.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2014, 01:57:55 pm
Tru dat!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2014, 04:29:26 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 2)

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Post by: Mac on August 13, 2014, 10:58:11 am
I attempted to watch some foreign films with sub-titles. I can handle sub-titles typically, but these just didn’t have much to hook me. Intriguing and good production, but the way they unfolded the story, just had my head bobbing (for sleep).

Special ID with Donnie Yen (Asian) Gritty underbelly of Hong Kong with gangs and detectives.

The Last Days  (Spanish) A mysterious form of agoraphobia spreads across the planet, leaving the entire popular trapped inside of buildings. In an apocalyptic Barcelona, Marc will go on a dangerous journey to find his girlfriend Julia)

Kill Zombie (Netherlands) Horror/Comedy in the vein of Shaun of the Dead

I didn’t finish any of these. They just moved to slow.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 13, 2014, 11:25:13 am
I got two samurai movies in the mail... I usually try to space those kinds of things out.

I tried watching Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid last night.  I never really felt the draw of it until I realized what it was: Steve Martin intercut with footage from old film noirs, so he could do scenes with Bogie and other classic stars.  Okay, that's interesting.  Unfortunately since it was 1982, the big stars are in a corner, in another room, and they're usually just giving a muted reaction to something that Steve Martin has to set-up, it gets old REAL fast.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 13, 2014, 01:07:29 pm
Ever seen Zelig?

Man it's been a long time for me. Don't even remember the plot.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 14, 2014, 06:24:34 am
Four Rooms (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Pd2pGkq54

Just surfing Netflix looking for a comedy, ran across this one that sounded promising. Some decent celebrities with 4 vignettes by 4 directors.
 Directors; Quentin Tarantino, Robert Rodriguez, Alexandre Rockwell, Allison Anders

This movie was just utterly strange and not in a good way. I found it to be a mash up of a Pee Wee Herman movie and over the top I Love Lucy episode. Tim Roth was kind of a charismatic Charlie Chaplin. In the beginning I actually thought he was playing someone with mental problems. I guess it was just a caricature. We gave this movie 2 rooms worth and that was a struggle. We were constantly saying WTF WTF. It kind of came across as a Play but on film and the special effects were cheesy. Except for the nudity, nothing about this entertained me.

For me, I would not recommend this to anyone. But ya never know, this just might entertain you in a different way than me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2014, 07:02:32 am
I think I have only seen it one time and I didn't care for it at all. I was very interested in Four Rooms when it came out because of Tarantino and Rodriquez being attach to it. But as you pointed out, it just doesn't work at all. I couldn't even recommend this to fanboys of T&R to see this. Not worth the time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2014, 02:26:56 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 3)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 14, 2014, 08:48:43 pm
I decided I need something different, so right now I'm on episode 3 of "The Spoils Of Babylon."  Not sure what my opinion of it is, but it's... interesting.  Certainly a crazy cast:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkGEg4evHMY

And the trailer doesn't even include Eric Jonrosh himself, the man who controlled every aspect of the production.  Sometimes violently. He carried a gun.

Okay, there's a chunk of the story where Tobey Maguire marries an English woman, who's portrayed by a mannequin, but the mannequin is voiced by Carey Mulligan.  Weird sh*t.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 15, 2014, 01:03:26 pm
The Girl on the Train (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RvNXkfsvXhk

I don’t recall how ordering this came about. Besides picking it up, I must have thought at some point it was interesting enough to request it.

Glad I did. A very well done cat and mouse noir mystery. I could see Quintin Tarantino writing something like this. A lot of dialog. No, nothing but dialog. Which in this case. And the way it’s constructed is unique. From the very beginning the protagonist is sitting in the detectives interrogation room beginning to review details of how he got there. Then in rather well structured but without warning pace, the story is slowly peeled away by different scenes and different points in time.

It all comes together in a very satisfying way. I really enjoyed The Girl On The Train and would recommend it to just about anybody that’s interested in mystery thrillers.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2014, 02:10:36 pm
Adding to my Hold List. Thanks
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2014, 07:49:48 pm
Breaking Bad (Season 4 - 2011)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 17, 2014, 08:06:12 pm
Starting to watch Akira Korusawa's Ran.  Well, I'm half an hour into the film but an hour after I started, I keep pausing it to doodle things.  Getting a ton of ideas, including several robots.  I need to find something to listen to b/c of all this dead air.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 18, 2014, 03:59:53 am
Dead air?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 18, 2014, 07:14:57 am
Lewis Black: Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

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I’ve been a fan of Lewis Blacks standup since I can remember. His perspective on all subjects with that kernel of truth is so insightful …. Everytime. I just happened to flip on the latest (2013) standup that Netflix has made available. This time his discussion is about those things that reflect on his age. Parents (who happen to be in the audience), younger generation and some politics.

My wife finally sat down about 15 minutes into it. Amazingly she has never seen, let alone, ever heard of Lewis Black. While laughing a lot, she was asking what’s wrong with him? Meaning his short fuse, exaggerated frustration and all out shaking. I then attempted to let her know, this is Lewis Black’s shtick. This is what he does and what he’s known for. This is what people come to see. Black losing his s hit. He is one of the top comedians in the country. She did see the recent piece of Lewis Black paying tribute to Robin Williams, which is diametrically opposite of his stand up.

Regardless if she caught onto that, she laughed a lot.

I would say this is not Lewis Black’s best. He’s done better, maybe because of the subject matter of politics. Don’t get me wrong, Old Yeller is classic Black and funny as hell. I highly recommend it.

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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2014, 04:22:18 pm
I saw this the other day.  I dug it.  The other night I revisited Patton Oswalt's Finest Hour, god d*mn I was laughing so hard I could barely breathe. 

Last night I watched Ran.  That movie is two hours forty minutes.  It took me about FOUR hours to get through it because I kept pausing to take notes and draw.  Got some great drawings, enjoyed the movie (there were some FANTASTIC, amazing set pieces in the flick.  Armies and armies of samurais actually there), but it was taxing.  It's going to take me some time to go through all those notes and doodles, but I think there's some interesting groundwork there.  I just wish I could have gotten some proper screencaps.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 18, 2014, 09:34:41 pm
I haven't seen Ran in years. Only saw it the one time, but I do remember really liking it.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 18, 2014, 09:57:32 pm
Ran was freakin' amazing.

I think tonight's movie is another one that's gonna be take me all night with all the notes I'm taking.  Heck, I'm not even paying that much attention to the story, the movie in my head is already starting to take over and I'm barely half an hour in.  I dig when this sort of thing happens.
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Post by: Mac on August 20, 2014, 02:57:24 pm
Wolf Creek 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4bqeT5edbs

Wolf Creek was a minor break out sleeper for an Australian film. It was a slow but gory reveal. 1 was as rough as this one. I've slowly become less and less a fan of slasher movies. I'm not sure why I turned this on. My wife for some reason stayed awake to watch the whole thing.

This is not for the squeamish. You never get to know the victims and the killer is sub-human, no matter how well we get to know the guy. There are elements of other films clearly copied. Duel for the truck & car chase. Alien even for one iconic scene.

All in all, I can't recommend, unless you're a gore hound. I'll never watch this again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2014, 07:39:56 pm
The Last Stand (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2014, 09:54:52 am
Breaking Bad (Season 5 - 2012)

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Post by: Mac on August 22, 2014, 11:39:29 am
The Den (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2GirTaN1fY

Never heard of this film. We both read the synopses (A young woman studying the habits of webcam chat users from the apparent safety of her apartment witnesses a brutal murder online and is quickly immersed in a nightmare in which she and her loved ones are targeted for the same grisly fate as the first victim.) and thought, let’s give this a shot.

Well, 10 minutes of watching the beginning told me everything I need to know... I don’t want to waste my time watching it. This may appeal to today’s youth because it was clearly scribed from that point of view, but IMO, this just displayed utter disregard for story telling and the main point… scare me. Which it did neither one.

Believe it or not, The Den is completely told from the view of a laptop, which is very limiting, claustrophobic and uninteresting. Yes just another version of found footage taping genre. People looking into a laptop and the camera view from the laptop. The slow unfolding of a woman making random contacts around the world pathetic and meaningless. It was empty and void of a point, let alone a story. It just made me sad to think, this is how a great deal of people communicate and interact with other humans now. Which leads to something just as sad. It’s getting good reviews. People think this a pretty good movie. Typically I count on people having common sense and seeing when a movie sucks, but this one baffles me. Maybe I am in the wrong? Nahhhhh. The Den is just not meant for me.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 22, 2014, 01:10:03 pm
Watched "Harlock-Space Pirate" last night.  Whoa.  Whoa whoa whoa.

This is a serious "show off your home theater" movie, the effects are just insane!  When I think of what I want the new Star Wars to look like, space-wise, THIS is what I was thinking of.  Everything's detailed, high def, clear.  The people are somewhat stylized (kinda Final Fantasy looking) and the story is... the quintessential Japanese in outer space style story, but oh man.  All my notes were basically about how fantastic this thing looks.

The story involves a young man who joins up on the crew of the Arcadia, a "cursed ghost ship of the stars," it's got this clockwork HR Giger quality to it, it exudes black smoke so it's always in shadows.  Oh man.

Here's the trailer, but I don't think it does the flick justice at all.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vdw0If6Zzg
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Post by: Mac on August 22, 2014, 03:01:43 pm
Good Gawd that looks fantastic. I'm going to put this at the top of my list to check out.

Does it have English VoiceOver?

Maybe I'll check this out with Appleseed: Alpha
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Post by: Neumatic on August 22, 2014, 03:23:14 pm
I'll bet it was 3D in Japan, that must have looked freakin' amazing.

And yeah, there's an english voice-over.  No idea who was in the cast, though.
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Post by: Mac on August 22, 2014, 04:24:06 pm
Gah, I find it, but damn expensive.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 22, 2014, 06:20:10 pm
probably an import disc.  I'm honestly amazed this slipped onto Netflix (or anywhere in the states) without anyone noticing.
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Post by: Mac on August 23, 2014, 04:03:11 am
WHAT!!!

You didn't say anything about Netflix (did you?).

Just bookmarked that sonzabi tch. I'll watch this weekend probably.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 23, 2014, 01:02:28 pm
I might not have said anything about Netflix, I keep forgetting you have it.  Yeah, it's on Netflix.

Okay, I watched a flick last night called "Female Convict Scorpion."  Chick in jail turns herself intoa  bad*ss killer.  Catonese flick, kind of stylized, I think they were going for a Tarantino sort of thing, it was made in 2007 but if I didn't know that, I would swear it's from the 80s (except for the moment where someone uses a cell phone).  The prison stuff was cool... and the fight scenes in there were brutal, there was a mud wrestling sequence that was awesome and not played up for sex appeal at all, and then there's a cool battle in the shower room (spray of blood against one of the disgusting plastic curtains).  But once she gets out of jail at the halfway point, for me, the flick lost steam.  There was a cool sword fight, but it got into very obvious wire fu and just fell apart into incredulity.  I couldn't keep myself interested in the second hour.  Didn't even finish it.
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Post by: Mac on August 24, 2014, 09:32:19 am
Well, I've got a full blown cold and it's currently 100+ degrees. WTF.
So I don't feel good and want to do absolutely nothing but watch some movies.

So here we go.

Papillon (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DARD1l-tr6g

I've never seen this all the way through believe it or not and it's been on my list forever. Finally got to sit down and watch this amazing movie. It was a lot rougher and rawer than I thought it would be. Papillion (which I've always thought was a place), never catches a break... excepting for the village he washes up on. By the way, I don't understand the disappearance of the village at all. WTF

I just thought Dustin Hoffman was great and Steve McQueen was outstanding. He totally made me believe his pain and anguish. The makeup dept did an outstanding job with all the different phases of his transformation.

Loved this movie, despite it being fairly difficult to watch.
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Post by: Mac on August 24, 2014, 09:36:52 am
Don't Blink (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrnNjHJp16U

Ok, this one is just weird. In a twilight zone way. I just knew it, they would not reveal the who, why, where of people just disappearing. So though it successfully pulled me through the story, the ending see-ucked.

A group of friends on a retreat at some large log house hotel, where people just suddenly disappear. This of course plays some major mind trips on the surviving members.

It's OK at best, but I'm pissed we spent money on it.
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Post by: Mac on August 24, 2014, 09:43:41 am
Sabotage (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HDArXZgrsE

Wow, this blew chunks. Not only is it a story we've seen many times over, but it was just brutal as the story goes on. The acting was OK, but the dialog was eye rolling. And for some reason, the cussing was just excessive as it gets. Did not care for one characters here. They were all douche's. And they spared no expensive in finding some butt ugly women. And seriously Arnie looks and acts old. He still demands respect on the screen, but he is not what he was years ago. So quit acting like he can.

I couldn't recommend this to anyone. It's not entertaining. It's all been seen before. Wasted my time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2014, 10:44:29 am
Papillon (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

You love the movie, but only 2 Stars? I haven't seen this in 20+ years. Only saw it once, but remember liking it.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 24, 2014, 12:19:37 pm
I trust you will be adding to the "prison genre" thread what wisdom you've gleamed from Papillon?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2014, 12:28:52 pm
I trust you will be adding to the "prison genre" thread what wisdom you've gleamed from Papillon?

Yes. Go to prison. Pay your dues. Don't get shanked.
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Post by: Mac on August 24, 2014, 04:35:48 pm
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You love the movie, but only 2 Stars? I haven't seen this in 20+ years. Only saw it once, but remember liking it.

D'oh, my bad. I forgot to edit the code.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2014, 05:28:03 pm
Breaking Bad (The Final Season - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 08:51:11 am
Still have a full blown cold square in the middle of the hottest days this year. I am getting better.

So checked out Doc of the Dead (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (Netflix)

I was actually not expecting much and quite the opposite happened. It was very entertaining bringing in every big name related to zombies. I found it fun and very interesting. With tongue in Cheek, they did a great job of talking about every angle related to zombies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfQMuCju5FQ
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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 08:54:45 am
Then I quickly followed this up with another documentary Inside Pixar (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif) (Netflix)

A reasonably short doc on the Pixar Story. Probably not comprehensive, but more than satisfy's getting a full taste of the workings of Pixar. Really enjoyed it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86GBn_pbVj8
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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 09:01:08 am
Well, I said it and I did it. I watched Harlock: Space Pirate (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif) (Netflix). It certainly was a gorgeous film. I thought it was a tad long. I also thought it was a little confusing. I don't do well with complex family and waring factions. One thing that bugged me was how Captain Harlocks ship literally rammed other ships. I know, I know it's a throw back to pirate ship battles, but that just kinda bugged me. This ship was pretty much indestructible.

Regardless, I was entertained. I suggest it a viewing as well.
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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 09:05:05 am
Vanilla Sky (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (Netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k09OX40NLUw

I think I saw Vanilla Sky when it first arrived. I don't remember a thing. Yesterday, I thought, let's give it a go. This time around, I stuck with it, because it can be a very confusing, bizarre film if you don't pay attention. When it all started to be revealed in the 3rd act, it just had me hooked. I didn't know about the sci-fi angle, which hit me from the left. I really loved this film.

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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 09:16:28 am
The Magnificent Seven (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXFJdiGoWA

4 Stars? Hey that's saying a lot for me. Not too much a fan of the cowboy movie, but this is a classic for a reason. While I thought it a little long with too many slow spots, this was pretty interesting drama. There is constant reminders The Magnificent Seven was rewritten from The Seventh Samurai, which is highly praised and I have yet to see. I just might have to check it out sometime. Great characters and watching the making of shed some light on a movie that might have been completely different, if it wasn't for Yul Bryner.

I did not know there was 3 sequels and a TV show.

Anyway, I picked this up recently because of my interest in Steve McQueen. It's very true... This guy is nothing but cool. I'm also checking out The Thomas Crown Affair and rewatching Bullitt.

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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 09:20:46 am
The Art of the Steal (Netflix)

I started this and didn't finish. Not that it was bad, just didn't hold my interest. Also, I'm sick and it's hard to concentrate on much. But I know some of you guys are heist fans and thought I throw it on here. Kurt Russell always entertains. I may come back to this a later time.

Anyways, check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UbqvELZ1-P8
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2014, 09:57:30 am
Vanilla Sky (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (Netflix)


I saw this when it first came out on DVD. Don't remember much other than I thought it was just 'okay'. But I might be compelled to give it another go after your review.
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Post by: Mac on August 26, 2014, 10:36:20 am
I get why some people 'hate' it. For me, this particular time, it was entertaining.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 26, 2014, 02:29:26 pm
Gorram, I thought *I* watched a lot of movies last night!  Geez louise.  And the headache I was nursin' afterwards... I can't imagine what your head was doing to you.

I'm sure I've seen that Pixar documentary.

I re-watched X-Men First Class the other night, I haven't seen it since it came out (and my hearing aids were real wonky back then, too!) so it was pretty fresh.  I still stand by my original assessment, that it feels more like a retro James Bond film than an X-Men flick (the Hellfire Club was based on the British Avengers).  My other big issue with the flick is that I just don't really have any emotional connection of The First Class, they're kinda shoved in there.  It's more of Xavier and Magneto (and they're not even friends for that long, I always thought of them as being friends for years and years).  The lack of X-Men in the past in Days Of Future Past... I'm totally fine with (DOFP answered a lot of my issues with this flick).

I watched... there were a couple dinosaur documentaries on my queue that were about to expire, so I watched those.  One was an IMAX documentary that was freakin' gorgeous, they shot in IMAX 3D and put the dinos in real landscapes... fantastic results, even if the CGI was a little wonky.  Donald Sutherland narrates wonderfully, and says words in Spanish.

The others were some less visually dynamic National Geographic specials.  They were interesting, too... one was about Dinosaur mummies (which are apparently a thing) and the other was "Dino Death Trap!", where they discover, basically, Dinosaur Pompeii.

What else, what else...?  Dirty Dancing.  Never seen it before, my sister used to watch it all the time.  All I remember is that Newman was in it (the name Newman also pops up in X-Men First Class).  it's supposed to be 1963... aka the first season of Mad Men... doesn't feel like it at all.  I suppose because they're out in the mountains, it's sort of out of touch with the rest of the world.  Cute movie.  Gave me a couple notes ona  few more things I could do with my script.  Very good soundtrack.  Didn't realize that Kenny Ortega choreographed the dancing in the flick either.  BTW, another movie where all this training happens in a weeks' time... in a remote location! (First Class again!)

After that I saw "How I Live Now."  It was pretty balls.  No desire to see it again, though.  My big issue (outside of Saoirse's gross green nails) is that the love story was the weakest part of everything and that was the main engine.  Come on!  I definitely found myself thinking of Tomorrow When The War Began (with the jet fighters flying overhead), Edge Of Tomorrow (the destroyed English fields totally reminded me of that flick, which also took place in England), "School's Out Forever" ... it just seemed redundant.  It was well made, I'm just not nuts about it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2014, 08:48:18 pm
You both are beast the last couple of days as far as cranking out movies. Me? I'm the low man on the totem pole with just Breaking Bad. Ah, it's good to be me!!!  ;D I've actually been pulling back a lot the last few days as I'm trying to savor it. Only 2 episodes left. F*CK!!!!! (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/banghead.gif)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2014, 08:49:17 pm
F*CK!!!!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2014, 02:22:00 am
You know what might scratch your itch?  The original Life On Mars.  I've been meaning to revisit it myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhffuKpgVyM

It's on Hulu and DVD and it's freakin' AWESOME.  It's set in the 70s and they pull it off like Mad Men, making the past feel like an entirely different planet.  The soundtrack is amazing (yes, they play Bowie in the first episode), and it's got this great hard edge to it, like Breaking Bad or The Sweeney.  And the ending... well, it's famous.

There's also a spin-off/sequel of the show called "Ashes To Ashes," which is set in the 80s and has more of a Miami Vice/Moonlighting vibe to it, and goes into insane mindf*ck territory.
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2014, 07:05:19 am
Blood Glacier (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpFm3cavn1A

Well… I sat down to check out this little fright fest, an import from Austria. Not sure Austria is known for their horror movies. Wait, didn’t even know they made movies.

There was blood and there was a glacier.

This is a straight up Grade B horror flick. Nothing more. Nothing less. They did what they could with I imagine a minimal budget. The various creature effects were all practical. Decent, though sparse. The English overdub just solidified the B grade journey. I don’t think any of the voices fit the person talking.

I liked the core concept of millennia old germs that become exposed from a receding glacier. So when critters like mosquito’s and rodents get infected, the virus mutates out of the host with some pretty monstrous results. John Carpenters The Thing had an obvious influence here with the remote setting and the chaotic development of the creatures.

I was entertained, but not much I would write home about.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2014, 02:21:47 pm
Orange is the new Black (Season 1 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2014, 02:57:25 pm
I'm curious to hear what you think about the show.  I couldn't get through it.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2014, 05:54:38 pm
So I received the blu-ray set of Stargate Atlantis in the mail today and am checking out a couple episodes.  I didn't think I had forgotten much (which is why I haven't revisited the series in a long time).  But I HAD forgotten that I was the first person to ask them a question at their first Comic-Con.  I really hope that footage isn't on disc.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 30, 2014, 06:14:37 pm
Dude, if it's not on the disc, look for it on YouTube and then post it here!!!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on August 30, 2014, 07:48:54 pm
Man, this show is 2005, so it's in HD but there's still SOME shots that are just... really funky looking.  Low-res, washed out, weird... all kinds of things.  What a difference a decade makes.  And it's hard to not notice the sets are painted wood, you're just... when "they" complain about "HD ruining movie magic," this is what they're talking about.
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Post by: Mac on August 31, 2014, 06:04:56 am
Sometimes it's our memories we not pluck with. I've been disappointed as much as pleased revisiting some of my 'Fav' shows.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 31, 2014, 07:23:19 am
I think it's more of me realizing how bad my TV reception and DVR quality was.  I worked nights when the show was on so I had to tape everything I wanted to see, and the tapes looked like garbage.  But even when I watched the proper discs later, you could see through these kinds of things.

It actually has me wondering is I should get Smallville on Blu-Ray or not, since it'd be the same thing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2014, 08:20:52 am
I've never seen one episode of Smallville. Shocking, I know. I have been meaning to grab them from the Library, but I always have another higher priority pick above it. Really not sure when I will ever get around to finally watching the series.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 31, 2014, 09:51:53 am
There's a recurring joke in the BTS of Atlantis when they show off high tech military gear, "this is in case we're attacked by Smallville."

Smallville... I have the first four seasons on DVD, I got them real cheap, and the fifth season's when I stopped watching, a bit after Erica Durance/Lois Lane's stripper episode.  The show was fine but it just took for-freaking-EVER to get anywhere.  They were so bound into continuity and stuff like that, so the show really couldn't take any risks or do anything really interesting, and when you're against stuff like Battlestar Galactica, that's an issue.  It's a cute show and all, and kinda works better on its' own, but... you want more.

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Post by: Neumatic on September 02, 2014, 07:20:16 pm
I may have to put Atlantis on hold for a while as I checked my Netflix queue and saw that Battlestar Galactica is expiring at the end of the month.  Bugger!  It may be a case of it "unexpiring" once I touch it (like Mythbusters just did), btu I guess I'll have to switch focus.  Luckily there's only forty episodes, I can do that, a couple a day... or even just one a day after my "movie of the day," plus a day or two of **** marathonning.  That can work.

Luckily, a voice in Atlantis I just now realized might be perfect for a character I've been having trouble with.  And a voice in Galactica is another one I need to reacquaint myself with (for the same script), so I guess that times out right.

I think I'm going to skip the miniseries, though, since I've seen that more often than regular episodes.  I might circle back around to it once I'm done, but thee are other expiring titles I have to consider.  Galactica's just the "work" one.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2014, 07:42:50 pm
Ahem (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/bargin-bin/ebay-treasures/msg30868/#msg30868)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2014, 08:03:39 pm
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 02, 2014, 08:41:10 pm
Luckily Caprica in on streaming as well, I have been meaning to watch it (I never have).  Thanks for the reminder.

In other "watching" news, I saw a couple flicks... I DO try to watch at least one movie a day, since it's like my "job" (or the thing I was meant to do... consume and create).  Endless Love was... nothing to write home about, I don't even think I got any good notes or ideas from it.

Last night I watched Noah.  There were rock monsters in it.  Seriously, what the h*ll?  The rest of the flick looked dang good, though I kept thinking "Game Of Thrones" until something Aranofsky-esque happened (like the time lapse sequences, which were awesome).  One thing that kept bugging me was how modern everyone's clothes were, they were more like ragged recreations of clothes we have today rather than clothes that would have existed after only 10 generations of human beings.  And naturally, I kept doing the Troy McClure as Noah bit from The Simpsons to myself.

I did like the movie, it was pretty bad*ss, particularly once they're in the water and they go stir-crazy.  I don't want to spoil anything about it (spoilers for one of the best known books ever written), but Noah's convinced that he and his family will be the last human beings, and there's something so **** about that and accepting that, and the movie (and Crowe) sell that so well.   And it was almost two and a half hours long and it just flew by in the best way possible, I really appreciate that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2014, 05:03:13 am
Chuck (Season 1 - 2007)

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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2014, 06:18:28 am
Noah just didn’t do anything for me. I don’t view it as a positive or negative with respect to a religious perspective. I think a lot of people are attracted to the epic visual CGI spectacle. The giant rock creatures threw a serious curve at me and pretty much ruined it. I tried to unsee them while watching and concentrate on the story I know and it was just OK.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2014, 02:35:43 pm
Chuck (Season 2 - 2008)

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Post by: Mac on September 09, 2014, 10:24:41 am
Welcome to the Jungle (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRzSImxqQtA

So I sat down to this flick and pretty much was shaking my head with my jaw dropped on how completely odd this film was.

If you could imagine a mashup of Lost + Simpsons + Lord of the Flies

I mention The Simpsons because of the over the top, but rapid fire joke scenes.  It's like Simpsons coming to life.

Every scene was unexpected and ... bad. I never laughed, but it was like a train wreck. I guess I applaud Van Damme, for being self deprecating. He's in it only about a 1/3 of the movie. The rest of the characters... I dunno. It was just so weird. I'll mildly recommend because it's so different... but bad.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2014, 10:58:02 am
Never heard of this and I'm still intrigued to check it out myself....warts and all.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 09, 2014, 09:07:49 pm
Chuck (Season 3 - 2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 10, 2014, 01:45:52 am
(http://www.mr-taiger.de/TV_Serien/Andromeda/andromeda_poster_400_567.jpg)

So I got the first disc of Andromeda in the mail and checked it out... now, I remember seeing all three of these episodes way back when, and it's a LITTLE better watching them in order with a proper presentation and in 16:9 rather than whenever they aired in syndication in 4:3.  The show was created by Gene Roddenberry, and it's sort of like the story of Excalibur: a captain of an advanced starship falls into the event horizon of a black hole and is recovered centuries later, after his galaxy-spanning civilization has collapsed and the universe has fallen into a dark age.  He recruits the scrappy crew of misfits who rescued him and seek out to restore the Commonwealth.  So it's sort of Star Trek meets Star Wars, I suppose.

That being said, I still have a couple issues with the show, but I'm going to stick with it to see where it goes (I feel like this is where I dropped off when it was on, since I never knew when it was on).

Here's a HUGE problem: Star Trek got SO MUCH stuff right in terms of design, from uniforms to ship design to computer interfaces to aliens and so on... and Star Trek was still on, so they had the best people.  So the sets-- something about the Andromeda Ascendant interiors didn't feel right, they were real "set with prop" (and didn't match the exterior at ALL).  Oh, and worse, there's no sense of place on the ship, you can't tell where anything on the ship is.  They have this big docking bay (big enough for the Eureka Maru, an actually good looking ship inside and out), but we have no idea where it is.  There's no windows on the ship, so we don't grasp the scale of the thing (and the CGI zooms around way too fast to give anything any sense of weight).  And the ship suddenly grows fins for some reason.

And while I'm talking about the visuals, the effects... I think that they did the effects in SD so the show is interlaced (I'm so sick of that) and the ship footage looks more like Babylon 5 than Battlestar or even Firefly, which came out one year later.  One year.

And the SCALE of things is really weird.  Star Trek takes place in a Type II Civilization in the late 2300s.  Andromeda takes place in essentially a Type IV Civilization in the year 11,000 or even 13,000, but there only seem to be three majour species, and they're even more connected to the present than Star Trek (there's a basketball hoop on the ship, Harper refers to a Harley Davidson motorcycle even though Earth was apparently a desolate wasteland when he grew up there).

The uniforms... I realize that the uniforms were just designed with what would look good on Kevin Sorbo in mind, but they don't feel like actual uniforms an organization would have people wear.  But I will say that Rommie knew how to fill out a red leather uniform:

(http://andromeda.borderline-angel.com/Images/Rommie/rommie003.jpg)
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Post by: Mac on September 10, 2014, 11:18:57 am
Draft Day

I knew full well what I was walking into watching Draft Day. Surprisingly my wife wanted to watch it, mainly because of Kevin Costner. I got exactly what I expected. Bad for me… I would think great for a football fan. Draft Day takes place in about a 24 hour period. From very early morning day of draft to draft spectacle that night. The movie focus’s on the behind the scenes wheeling and dealing of a lead coach (Costner) for Cleveland Brown’s, playing business games with players and other team coaches. Now throw in a lot of drama from his (ahem, young) girlfriend/associate that announced she is pregnate. The drama with the assistant coach (Leary). The drama with the drafted and traded players. The drama with the Coach’s Mom.

Ya see, there was a lot of drama and s hit that went down on this one day. Which to me was eye-rolling, but I guess for sake of an entertaining movie for all, it kept it chugging. I admittedly did not understand about a 1/3 of the movie. I know nothing about trades and NFL, etc. In fact, the first 15 minutes were total Latin to me. I about gave up on it. BUT… I persevered and stuck with it.

Draft Day seems a lot like Trouble With The Curve. Very focused on inner workings of a sports franchise. From this Sports Challenged Mind, the movie was OK. In fact my opinion doesn’t matter with regards to the point of the film. Costner and Dennis Leary were as great as usual. I never bought into Jennifer Garner being Costner’s love interest, let alone a football fanatic. But there were plenty of excellent small character parts for the players and coaches.
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Post by: Mac on September 11, 2014, 06:35:45 am
Brick Mansions (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVeI-VVUsLM

Brick Mansions is one of Paul Walkers last films before his accidental death. I did indeed pick this up to watch Paul Walker. Unfortunately Brick Mansions is an extremely weak film in just about every respect. Not surprisingly Paul Walker is the only thing that has a chance of shining. Brick Mansions is wall to wall cliché’s. We’ve seen everything before, and here, it’s so lazy and bad. The script and dialog is eye-rolling. The acting is just solid B Movie MST3K material. Brick Mansion is apparently a remake of B12, which I did see, but don’t remember. There’s just a razor thin story created strictly for David Belle’s stunt and choreography of Parkour (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkour) (military obstacle course training).  This gets old real quick.

I recommend this only if you have nothing else to watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2014, 06:51:12 am
Saw the trailer when it first came out. Nothing in it suggested this was going to be any good. Still have no desire to watch it in spite of it being one of Paul's last films. I do like Walker and don't really want to watch something supremely bad that it tarnishes the memory of what I consider to be a overwhelmingly positive film career.
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Post by: Mac on September 12, 2014, 11:33:10 am
Captain America – Winter Soldier

Ya know, I just gotta quit picking these up. Not gonna rate it. No my cup of tea.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2014, 12:00:03 pm
Captain America – Winter Soldier

#162 on the Hold List. Pfftt!!!!  >:(
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2014, 07:16:57 am
Observe and Report (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 14, 2014, 06:56:46 pm
Chuck (Season 4 - 2010)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 15, 2014, 08:59:11 pm
Intermittent episodes of "Parks And Rec."  I really should get some screencaps, considering how many of these actors are in movies and I like to draw my ideas out, I SHOULD be able to draw them.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2014, 09:07:39 pm
Intermittent episodes of "Parks And Rec."  I really should get some screencaps, considering how many of these actors are in movies and I like to draw my ideas out, I SHOULD be able to draw them.

A few of the P&R threads have tons of kick ass screencaps posted.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2014, 09:45:33 pm
Noah (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 15, 2014, 09:59:14 pm
Gonna take my own.  And what luck, the first episode I picked is the one that introduces Rob Lowe and Adam Scott, I literally couldn't have picked a better choice. 

I also forgot Rob Lowe's character was named Chris, which is weird because I should remember THAT.

On top of that, I ALSO forgot that Natalie Morales was on the show... I feel like they wanted her to be a recurring character but she wound up having a different gig.

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/forum-posts/natalie-morales-on-parks-and-rec.jpg)
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Post by: Mac on September 17, 2014, 08:25:59 am
Godzilla (2014) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-EEqJ9HyTk

Let me give some perspective. I cannot stomach the Japanese view of Godzilla. I find them silly, childish and jaw dropping in trying to pass off a man in a rubber suit. Let’s not even talk about all the iterations of various enemies of Godzilla. I kinda liked Roland Emmerich’s version. Kinda, it still had some faults. This was dull and unimaginative. I was really hanging my hat it bringing something new. The director was a fan or watched every Japanese version of Godzilla and then created a paint-by-numbers script. You don’t see Godzilla for an hour into the movie. Godzilla’s enemy gets way more screen time. To me… it was just an Americanized version of the Japanese Godzilla. Minus the man in rubber suit. But still, I thought Godzilla looked so wrong. It had a tiny little head. Just so weird. Nemisis was a direct rip-ff from Cloverfield. While the CGI was good, it still was some monsters crashing all over buildings, just like in the Japanese versions. It was almost comical. So why does Pacific Rim look and feel so different? I'll have to think about that.

There is absolutely nothing in Godzilla that allowed me to like it. I can’t recommend this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 17, 2014, 08:39:26 am
I had no desire to see this one at all. Your review just confirmed what I already suspected.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 17, 2014, 11:28:03 am
There was a video online that was just all eight minutes of the movie that Godzilla is in.  That was fine.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 20, 2014, 01:14:00 pm
Chuck (Season 5 - The Final Season - 2011/12)

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Post by: Mac on September 21, 2014, 03:28:32 pm
Omnivores (Fangoria) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEpgGsVgANI

A Spanish horror film that is hard to watch, but you must like a train wreck.

The subject matter is very disturbing and the way it's presented in the movie is intriguing. In particular, the editing.

In a nutshell, a chef is asked to attend a new fad of dining where it's invite only, in a secret place, different each time. Once he's in, he asked to write about the experience. It's not long before he finds out some of its unique, unsavory side. The customers are there for the human flesh. Where it gets interesting, early on, the editing cuts in and out of the dark side of the operations of capturing people and preparing them, contrasting that telling the story of a people going to what is thought, basic dining. The movie is graphic and disturbing in content, but it had me hooked. It's not simply straight horror, there is a full circle story here, that gets complicated. What would you do?

I thought the ending copped out and they could have done better, but overall, it's an amazing kind of horror. Mental.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 24, 2014, 06:07:37 pm
Game Of Thrones (Season 1 - 2011)

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Post by: Mac on September 25, 2014, 11:14:42 am
Blood Lake: Attack of the Killer Lampreys (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/RollingOnTheFloor.gif)

TMZ Reacts to "Blood Lake: Attack Of The Killer Lampreys"
This TMZ review video is just as good as any trailer out there.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj5jpfYu7I8

Wow, and I thought Sharknado was a perfect storm. Blood Lake is Sharknado’s little mentally challenged brother. Everything, and I mean everything in Blood Lake is Z-movie material. I can’t tell if it’s brilliantly developed that way, or like all other movies, they did what they could with their budget, seriously attempting a horror movie.

But I would say, just about every 5 minutes, you will yell out WTF. None of it makes sense. The acting appears to be a bunch of amateurs, despite Shannen Doherty (who looks like she’s been rode hard) and Christopher Lloyd. The editing is just classicly bad. The direction worse and the story is over the top. The special effects… well, guess what… they suck. I’m not going to get into details, but only say, if you liked Sharknado, Blood Lake will slip in nicely to an evening of jaw dropping illogical entertainment.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2014, 12:43:08 pm
At no point do I think anyone involved were attempting to make this anything but insanely dumb.  I am curious to see Ciara Hanna and Christopher Lloyd, though (I love Christopher Lloyd, obviously, and Hanna's been growing on me).
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Post by: Mac on September 25, 2014, 03:22:18 pm
Well then, you might want to skip this one. I had to look up who was Ciara. My gawd, she had the worst lines, the worst acting and the worst reactions ever. My wife and actually pointed out the 'dumb blonde' character has nothing on this one. It was epically bad.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2014, 07:00:17 pm
I'm sure.  I'm hoping Pernicious (another film Hanna is doing) winds up being at least decent.  I am curious to see what she can do with the right material, maybe if only to justify my little crush.

Intermittently watching the last season of How I Met Your Mother... and right now Bryan Cranston popped up!  In front of a green screen and probably wearing a wig.  Just thought that would be worth a mention.

The last season is REALLY strange, the entire thing takes place over the course of one weekend, with a couple flashbacks and flash forwards).  It's very weird, I can't imagine what this must have felt like watching over the course of a whole year.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 25, 2014, 07:14:21 pm
I stopped watching HIMYM after the Third Season I think. It just got lost in the glut of new and old shows at the time. I have every intention of revisiting the series once and for all. No spoilers.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2014, 07:22:49 pm
No worries.  I wouldn't want to spoil it.  But oh man do you have a tall mountain to climb to watch all of em!
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Post by: Mac on September 26, 2014, 09:38:18 am
The Dead 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nc2Ug7PSxo

The Dead 2 is the sequel to ... duh.... The Dead. From the same directors, but different story, no, different location. The story is pretty much a mirror image of the original, except of an African slant, and Indian slant. I rather enjoyed the first one by the Ford Brothers. This one is sluggish, boorish and repetitious. The movie moves as slow as the zombies. There is very little tension. And the story is linear. Get from point A to point B. You can easily fill in the middle. I can't recommend this flick whatsoever.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2014, 09:49:42 pm
Lone Survivor (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 27, 2014, 06:09:26 pm
Game of Thrones (Season 2 - 2012)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 28, 2014, 08:50:46 pm
Watching Divergent right now.  This movie is serious p*ssing me off... not sure if I'm going to get through the whole thing.  I do like those black jackets, though...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 28, 2014, 10:02:04 pm
Why you p*ssed off?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on September 28, 2014, 11:07:45 pm
It's so f*cking stupid.  Everything is arbitrary and pointless. 

Right off the bat, there's this voice-over that tells us about the caste system, and that there's people with no caste.  "Everyone knows where they belong... except me."  You JUST SAID there are other people who don't belong! This is THREE minutes in!

And nothing happens!  You know what happens when you have a movie all about training?  It means THERE'S NO STAKES!  I don't care about ANYTHING that's happening right now.

I am digging the production design though, especially the clothes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 29, 2014, 05:52:31 am
Haven't seen it. Is this the one with Kate Winslet?
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Post by: Neumatic on September 29, 2014, 06:52:12 am
Yeah!  I kept seeing her and thought "...is this Kate Winslet?  What's she doing in THIS movie?"
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 29, 2014, 07:02:01 am
I've long given up having any interest in these Teenage genre movies. They are just not for me.

I am torn on The Maze Runner, but I'm thinking I'll be ultimately disappointed I wasted any time with it.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 29, 2014, 07:48:37 am
I've actually heard decent things about the Maze Runner, but I also turned down free tickets to see it.  Mostly b/c if I do see it, I want to be able to take notes and caps, which I obviously can't do in a theater (not that I'd want to).

These movies suck, but as a SF fan as well as a masher, I like trying to find "parts" in them and there were some good ones here, mostly costumes and locations like The Pit.

(http://kissthemgoodbye.net/movie/albums/Divergent/Divergent_2014__1080p_KISSTHEMGOODBYE_NET_0927.jpg)
(http://kissthemgoodbye.net/movie/albums/Divergent/Divergent_2014__1080p_KISSTHEMGOODBYE_NET_0924.jpg)
(http://kissthemgoodbye.net/movie/albums/Divergent/Divergent_2014__1080p_KISSTHEMGOODBYE_NET_0820.jpg)
(http://kissthemgoodbye.net/movie/albums/Divergent/Divergent_2014__1080p_KISSTHEMGOODBYE_NET_2115.jpg)
(http://kissthemgoodbye.net/movie/albums/Divergent/Divergent_2014__1080p_KISSTHEMGOODBYE_NET_2359.jpg)

Story-wise, though, it was annoying because everything was so arbitrary and pointless.  They have a train that runs and but doesn't stop.  WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT?

Your caste is picked for you, but you have to choose, and most people wind up in the caste they were born in... so what does it matter?  She could have just CHOSEN her caste in the first five minutes and saved us a WHOLE heap of time!  And it's not like you can try out these lifestyles beforehand and make an informed choice, it's pick something and deal with it, no backsies, which is about the stupidest f*cking way to do anything.

Also, okay, so Shailene Woodley joins this stupid daredevil military group called Dauntless, which is the army, despite not showing a SINGLE ounce of interest in daredevilry or talent for fighting or sense of injustice or ANYTHING.  They're told the group are the peacekeepers for the society, but... the society seems fine!  The point of the caste system was to make it a utopia because each caste looks out for the others.  There's NOTHING for them to do INSIDE the city, and there's no outside invaders.   They say there COULD be, but it's been over a hundred years since they heard from anyone.  There's no sense of foreboding about that or anything.

They keep making this big hoopla (or hoop-blah) about the caste-less people, but... the casteless people just look like homeless vagabonds.  I don't think I saw them NOT getting help in the form of food and goods and whatnot from everyone else.   There's abandoned skyscrapers EVERYWHERE, so I guarantee they all have roofs over their heads at night too!  It's not like they're dangerous outlaws like Reavers or anything.  They're not even exiled, which would have ACTUALLY been an interesting stake.  One character commits suicide rather than risk getting cut from the team and be casteless.

Oh, THAT'S a problem too: of all the people they take in, they'll only accept 21 people.  Instead of scoring on a percentage system, they'll throw out perfectly good candidates (or accept really terrible ones) based on everyone else's performance.

And these Dauntless idiots don't understand the difference between an acceptable dumb teenage thing to do, like hopping on a moving train, and stupid pointless risks like jumping through empty roofs, standing in front of people throwing knives, etc.  There's almost NO adults in this caste, and I guarantee it's because they all killed themselves doing stupid Jack*ss stunts.  They sure as sh*t weren't being killed in the line of duty.

AND there's a whole thing about mind-controlling drugs to.
WHY!?
If you're locked into the caste system and believe it, wouldn't you ALREADY be easily manipulated?  Isn't an army with nothing to do, that DOESN'T question orders, ready to obey the bad guy without being doped?

Oh, and this movie also commits the big sin of the main character being special and everyone telling her that she is and how special it is that she's special.  Because a test said so.  F*CK YOU!  You know what makes someone special?  ACTION.  DOING SOMETHING.  STANDING FOR SOMETHING.  Being special because of a test reminds me of Penn Jillette's bit about horoscopes being racist: you're assigning an arbitrary value and qualities to someone based on how they were born.

Even though I don't really dig The Hunger Games, at least THAT movie had dramatic tension and made sense: Katniss is special because she hasn't been dehumanized by the system.  She's special because she VOLUNTEERS for the games to save her sister, which is a practical demonstration of the main dramatic issue of the story:  sacrifice two kids NOW or we'll kill all your kids.  That's the thing that audiences reacted to.  So many YA dystopia novels don't have that, they have arbitrary rules and screwed up societies, but they don't FORCE an issue like that.  Divergent is just "make an arbitrary decision NOW because I said so."
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 29, 2014, 09:15:09 am
Quote
They have a train that runs and but doesn't stop.  WHAT THE F*CK IS THAT?

Your caste is picked for you, but you have to choose, and most people wind up in the caste they were born in

At first, I thought you took a left turn and started talking about Snowpiercer (which I hope to pick up real soon), with the same core story. But just realized, it was coincidental.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyWfZ9866DE
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on September 29, 2014, 09:42:17 am
It's JUST coincidental..  Snowpiercer can't stop for a reason (it'll freeze and they can't restart it).  The train in Divergence, which is literally just the L, just doesn't stop.  For no reason.  They built a train but forgot to put the brakes in, apparently.  It's totally pointless.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 29, 2014, 09:53:41 am
Quote
It's JUST coincidental..  Snowpiercer can't stop for a reason (it'll freeze and they can't restart it).  The train in Divergence, which is literally just the L, just doesn't stop.  For no reason.  They built a train but forgot to put the brakes in, apparently.  It's totally pointless.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2014, 05:14:45 pm
Game of Thrones (Season 3 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on October 01, 2014, 10:02:16 am
Think Like a Man Too (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8b6kVSZNLE

Is the obvious sequel to the hit flick Think Like a Man. I really the sequel as much as I enjoyed the original. The cast is outstanding and funny. Kevin Hart just cracks me up looking at him. This story takes place a little later, with some of the folks now married and in a different location… Vegas. So while some stuff if predictable, I still laughed out loud often. A simple, yet funny movie to park the brain. I probably won’t remember much later on, but I will remember enough to tell people to see it.
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Post by: Mac on October 04, 2014, 11:06:33 am
Print The Legend (Netflix; Documentary) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeqT2NvTFSw

I have a huge interest in 3D printing. I did it years ago and to see it come into the home is fascinating. When this arrived on Netflix, it got a solid rating, so I decided to check it out. It starts off pretty good and it does not repeat itself. It does follow about 3 companies (1 large, 2 small) and their evolution and conflict with each other.

If your looking to see what details about the printing, forget it. This docu is all about business and the people.

I thought it was a little long at 99 minutes.

It was OK. I think the nerdist is going to love it, but from someone just interested in the technology, this was not that fulfilling.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 04, 2014, 03:59:12 pm
Boardwalk Empire (Season 4 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on October 07, 2014, 07:35:58 pm
In lieu of watching ACTUAL movies, I've been watching a lot of "Best Of The Worst" and I've been cracking the h*ll up.  I actually hit myself on the nose from laughing so hard (at a scene from the old Captain America where he steals a car and it's like something out of the Simpsons.  Amazing).
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Post by: Mac on October 08, 2014, 09:24:57 am
Big Ass Spider Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WeRW_dClNkI

In the vein of horror comedy, akin to Eight Legged Freaks, we have a very tongue in cheek flick where you park the door and just watch the absurdity fall over you.

It is what it is. Greg Grenberg is a great casting choice. Just enough acting with wink to the audience, providing enough humor and not over doing it. The special effects are sometimes awesome often mixed with really bad CGI. Again, making this just a fun goofy movie.
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Post by: Mac on October 08, 2014, 09:31:00 am
Space Station 76 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmxH5wN9pwE

I saw this trailer to Space Station 76 a while back and the whole time thinking it was some kind of youtube or SNL bit. Especially with Liv Tyler. Well, come to find out it's a major motion picture. I sat down with it the other night, hoping for the best.

What I got was a boring, unfunny snoozer. I thought every joke missed the punchline. It was like someone wrote a comedy, but just never got how to deliver the humor. I gave it half hour before I was completely uninterested and didn't want to waste any more of my time.
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Post by: Mac on October 08, 2014, 09:33:49 am
Transformers something or other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8UzkxNrCJI

Honestly, I was kidding myself. Didn't like any of the previous ones, so why waste my time with this one.

I quit after 20 minutes or so. Not for me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 08, 2014, 11:15:15 am
I still haven't seen any of the Transformers or Twilight movies. Just thought I'd let you guys know this.  :)
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Post by: Neumatic on October 08, 2014, 11:27:38 am
It's amazing how little comedy there is in comedy scripts... I've been reading a few specs and the jokes are so few and far between, it's strange... especially to me, because I can't stop crackin' wise.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 08, 2014, 11:32:27 am
That is where casting is HUGE for a comedy. There is only so much one can get on the page and even then it's not guaranteed to be funny. But you get the right actor or comedian signed to the movie and they have other comedic actors to feed off of as well as a Director that has comedic sensibilities, you have improved your chances greatly at delivering a funny movie.
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Post by: Mac on October 08, 2014, 01:11:59 pm
Quote
There is where casting is HUGE for a comedy. There is only so much one can get on the page and even then it's not guaranteed to be funny. But you get the right actor or comedian signed to the movie and they have other comedic actors to feed off of as well as a Director that has comedic sensibilities, you have improved your chances greatly at delivering a funny movie.

And not one of those people are remotely considered to deliver comedy. You have the rare gem like a Leslie Nielsen where the stars aligned with good writing and taking a chance with characterization.
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Post by: Mac on October 13, 2014, 10:18:17 am
Million Dollar Arm (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRl0Q50pRdU

Remember, from my perspective, sports movies don't do much for me. Tie that in with a Disney-fied flick and this could go one of two ways. Really good or really bad. It was good. It entertained me throughout. I didn't even know the true story about this, but it was pretty easy to see the outcome. So not many surprises. Well, no surprises, except realizing how heavily populated India is. The movie has to completely rely on the actual story and good acting. I would recommend this film to anybody.

I doubt I'll remember much of it down the road, but still it kept my attention and entertained me for two hours.

Note: Disney = No boobs, cussing, blood, guts or gore. I'm just saying.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 13, 2014, 10:48:44 am
Knowing your disdain for Sports flicks in general, I'm very surprised and encouraged by your review for this. This is still on my Hold List and I'm eagerly waiting my copy to arrive.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 13, 2014, 07:36:00 pm
Her (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2014, 06:30:13 pm
Gravity (2013)

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Post by: Mac on October 17, 2014, 07:52:02 am
Mr. Peabody and Sherman (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMl2tTVwsZA

I’m not sure why I was excited to see Mr. Peabody and Sherman. It might be due to nostalgia? It might be taking a very so-so cartoon and turning it into a updated, smart, fun ride of a film?

So I finally got to pop it in last night. It wasn’t bad. The movie seemed to be aiming right, but just missing the mark. I laughed out loud several times, but it was brief. The challenge for a family film like this is to not only entertain the kiddies, but the adults as well. So the overall feel was a Saturday morning cartoon, with occasional obscure adult subject matter. The movie paid homage to Indiana Jones and similar adventures consistently… and I liked that. A very colorful, slick film. The jokes were pretty fast and furious. I probably missed a lot, especially the subliminal stuff. For instance I had to stop the film within the first few minutes of the movie to take a call. Where I stopped it, there hung, way in the background, slightly out of focus a painting of Bullwinkle (the original show that hosted the shorts for Peabody & Sherman). Normal watching, there’s a good chance I would have missed that.

I’ll recommend it and I’ll try to watch it again sometime. Just because I know I missed some stuff.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 17, 2014, 07:15:12 pm
Escape Plan (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 18, 2014, 12:43:09 pm
Orphan Black (Season 1 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on October 18, 2014, 02:19:42 pm
X-Men: Days of Future Past (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsjtg7m1MMM

So I enjoyed this one. I think it's due to a lot less CGI world and worked hard on the characters. And for such a chaotic story telling, Brian Singer pulled it together to make sense.

Good gawd Jennifer Lawrence is a beautiful woman.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 18, 2014, 03:04:47 pm
X-Men: Days of Future Past (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)


2 Stars is "Good" in your book? Ack!!
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Post by: Mac on October 18, 2014, 03:33:43 pm
Double 'ack'... I forgot to change it to 3.

I always copy the 2 star link and modify the number. My bad.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 21, 2014, 04:50:24 pm
Days Of Future Past was one of those rare movies that actually fixed the issues I had with the previous movie.  That's a heck of an accomplishment.

I'm still into my run of Stargate Atlantis on Blu-Ray (finally getting to episodes I've never seen before), but all of a sudden one of my brand-new discs wouldn't work in my player!  So now I'm in the living room watching it on the big TV... I guess I need another sftware update on my office player but it's really stupid that an error like that would just happen halfway through the set.  I can't think of what might have been different.  So I'm stuck here for the next five forty-five minute episode runtime.

Something I dig about the show is that Jason Mamoa from Game Of Thrones is one of the regulars, but it's so strange because he's a big skinnier, younger, and... well, kind of genial.  it's weird to see a dude I'm so used to being a strong, silent brooding type smiling, cracking jokes, rocking this awesome six shooter laser thing...

(http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a390/shippychick/Jason/Dex.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 21, 2014, 05:13:43 pm
He's gonna make a awesome, bad-ass Aquaman and make EVERYONE forget all about Superman and Batman.
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Post by: Mac on October 23, 2014, 09:48:23 am
Snowpiercer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVGMMFjva58

Besides Green Inferno, Snowpiecer probably had the greatest amount of buzz I’ve heard in a long time. Most of it was business crap, but every once in a while, the discussion on a good/bad movie would filter through and it was mostly good. Snowpiercer is based on a graphic comic created in France over 30+ years ago.

I didn't realize til the end how well woven story elements were. Something happened earlier in the film, comes full circle and gets revealed later. A lot of little quirks revealed.

I’ve been patiently waiting for this flick. In fact my expectation was so high, I was ready to buy this when it was released this past Tuesday. I got a copy in from the library release day and sat down to watch this puppy. I don’t think I’ll be buying the movie, but that doesn’t discount I was highly entertained in this journey of the lower class fighting their way from the back of the train to the front. Each car in this high speed non-stopping train held a very specific purpose. Prison,  School, water, spa, drug den, etc. It’s a big freakin train. Some scenes and characters in this flick were very surreal. The Children’s school scene caught me by surprise. Tilda Swinton as a over the top buck toothed snoB with heaping amount of cold hearted arrogance stole the scenes when she was present. The movie is full of very weird and wonderful scenes. One that baffled me is the guards having a bloody battle with the lower class. When the train approaches a very dangerous, potentially fatal part of the track… everything stops and in fact, the people huddle together.

I found Snowpiercer very new and refreshing in telling it’s story. There are elements of Noah’s Ark, the Great Escape and other epic story lines, but they are weaved so nicely into this new story.

I highly recommend check Snowpiercer out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 23, 2014, 11:06:29 am
Still waiting for my copy at the Library. Very much looking forward to seeing this.
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Post by: Mac on October 24, 2014, 10:03:28 am
Witching & bi tching (Netflix) (4 Stars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ivHEza4t0wY

WTF... What the F.... WTF.

Witching and bi tching flew to the top of the recommended list in no time, so I thought I'd check out the noise. And wow, what noise. This WTF mayhem from beginning to end. It is truly unique mixture of humor, witches, heist and million other subjects. It's just impossible to give a description and not sound like I was crazy. The 3rd act is truly money shot. The first two acts will grab you if you are so inclined and it just doesn't let go. I really enjoyed the ride because I didn't know where it was going. If you've seen Peter Jackson's early work like Dead Alive, you get a sense of the realm Witching and bi tching is in.

I didn't like the only option of sub-titles. Sometimes the dialog was going at machine gun pace and it's hard to watch the screen where the good stuff is. Each scene is well thought out and amazing to behold. Great odd characters and some rather funny, OMG moments.
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Post by: Mac on October 24, 2014, 10:13:21 am
Neighbors

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO5Gq5hdFRY

I'm not gonna rate Neighbors because I pretty much hated it from the beginning based on the subject. I do not think I am the demographic for this film.

When Seth Rogen exploded onto the screen, I really liked his persona. But ya know what... It's getting old really fast for me. I would compare it to Adam Sandler. Keep doing the same stuff over and over and you lose me. Seth's character is exactly the same as so many other flicks he carries. To some that is perfect. In Neighbors, it just bored me. I'll say seeing his huge walrus naked body making love to a woman is definitely a barfing moment. WTF.

I just didn't think much of the material was good. This is low brow comedy with heavy emphasis in the most basic R-rated subjects. Not much new really. I was watching the clock within 15 minutes and turned it off after 30.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 26, 2014, 10:16:16 pm
So I'm back to Atlantis and guess who showed up as a regular to replace the city's chief physician: Jewel freakin' Staite!  Love her!

(http://dvdbash.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/stargate-atlantis-s4-jewel-staite-2-dvdbash-wordpress.jpg?w=584&h=876)

There was an episode where she wears the earlier version of the uniform and she was so cute in it.

(http://www.stargatecaps.com/sga/s4/410/mortalcoil0568.jpg)
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2014, 03:55:16 am
Cute... And Hawt
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Post by: Neumatic on October 27, 2014, 10:49:01 am
She also rocks a leather jacket too.  No leather pants, though.
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Post by: Mac on October 30, 2014, 09:52:59 am
The Exorcist

and

The Sixth Sense

It's been awhile for both of these. I will admit, they have lost some of their awesomeness. Especially The Sixth Sense. While I remember the twist, it just made it that much harder to believe in it. And the reality is this movie is mostly Bruce Willis and Haley Joel. I found it just a tad boring. I know there was some serious editing going on here to guide the story, but watching Willis's character react to things was just a head scratcher.
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Post by: Mac on November 01, 2014, 04:32:19 pm
Resident Evil

Just because... It a guilty pleasure of mine... The series. Total cheese.
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Post by: Mac on November 01, 2014, 04:39:33 pm
Sex Tape (3 Stars)

This is another attempt at an R-rated comedy driven by current events. It ok. I think it try's way to hard to be funny. Also don't think Jason Segel or Cameron Diaz are that particularly funny. It is a light comedy, but trying to be a rude R. I did laugh out loud a few times. Not horrible, not great. Rent it to waste a couple hours

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 05, 2014, 01:48:25 pm
Orphan Black (Season 2 - 2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 11, 2014, 12:10:43 pm
Okay, I'm finally on the final disc of Stargate Atlantis, and the first episode?  Oh boy... first we get Jewel Staite in a really nice dress (and eatin' strawberries), but the episode also has Dave Foley as the antagonist AND Bill Nye and Neil deGrasse Tyson.

(http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/Pic-CollSwan/Picture44.jpg)
(http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn229/Pic-CollSwan/Picture81.jpg)
(http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd58/FenRiR_FoXz/Keller%20-%20Kaylee/Brain%20Storm/JennB36.jpg)
Damn that bug!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2014, 01:42:30 pm
Yowza! I know what I want for Christmas.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on November 11, 2014, 02:17:40 pm
Topped by the choker/corset thingie she's rocking in this episode.  D*mn I wish I could take blu-ray screencaps.

(http://images1.cliqueclack.com/tv/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/sga5121208.jpg)
(http://hive.themiscollection.com/A/!AFS/StargateAtlantis-Dr.JenniferKeller/4.jpg)
(http://hive.themiscollection.com/A/!AFS/StargateAtlantis-Dr.JenniferKeller/10.jpg)
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Post by: Neumatic on November 11, 2014, 02:52:06 pm
Oh, the episode after that one is pretty interesting... it's called "Vegas," and it basically puts the characters into a CSI-type show... if CSI were tracking down vampires from outer space.  And they actually shot it in Vegas, too!  Though it looks like only two of the cast actually went there, I'm willing to bet whenever someone else from the cast pops up, it's an interior shot in Canada.  Which makes sense, I guess.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2014, 03:02:44 pm
I still need to watch the series. But the Screenies will hold me over till then. More please.  :)
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Post by: Neumatic on November 11, 2014, 03:19:45 pm
Oh, if I had them, I would share them (I gotta figure out how to draw her, too).  I gotta say, she was cute in her scrubs, too.

Now, I'm close to wrapping up the series, and I still don't know if it had a proper finale or not... this stand-alone reminds me of when Enterprise did their mirror universe two-parter, and given how fast Universe came out after this, I'm sure they were planning on the switch of moods.  But I'm not sure, since both Universe and SG-1 ended with cliffhangers (which, now that the series is DOA, will never be resolved).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 13, 2014, 09:51:37 pm
Under the Skin (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 14, 2014, 06:42:15 pm
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 15, 2014, 12:10:46 am
Been watching a buttload of Continuum recently.  It's this awesome Canadian series about a cop from the future who's stuck in the present.  Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lk_UElPrW6A

There's a real cinematic quality to it, the show looks great (and I bet it would look amazing on Chip's new telly), the effects are dang sharp.  It's a great "show off" show, the sort of thing that should be playing in Best Buy to show off their screens.  Plus it's an easy show to fall into, it falls into this nice middle ground where it doesn't feel like a thirty-hour movie but it doesn't feel like a procedural show... it just feels like itself, does that make sense?

Plus Rachel Nichols is good... I just saw this episode where she had to say goodbye to her son, it was wonderful.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2014, 09:29:00 pm
Is this on DVD? I want to check it out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2014, 10:00:40 pm
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)

(http://i.imgur.com/VFQdPqm.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/x-men-days-of-future-past-(2014)-2840/msg32068/#msg32068)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 15, 2014, 11:06:52 pm
It should be on DVD, but I'm watching it in HD streaming and it's gorgeous.  I'm actually trying to dissect the style of it a little bit to figure out the best way to describe it, I have at least one idea that would look good in this show's style and attitude.
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Post by: Mac on November 16, 2014, 12:33:21 pm
Let's Be Cops (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKIAZjs__Xc

I remember seeing the trailer and laughing. Put this on my list to check out from the library. I found Let's Be Cops to fun entertaining diversion. It's not great, but the chemistry between Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr., to be very believable. I imagine it's hard to find the right folks to put together a buddy movie, and they seemed to have been successful here. There are several laugh out loud moments. The writing could have been a little tighter, but that's just a minor criticism. It's mindless fun, funny stuff. I recommend checking it out.
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Post by: Mac on November 16, 2014, 12:38:43 pm
Tammy (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8rdSExn2xw

I like Melissa McCarthy, but Tammy misfires on every piston. It's just not funny, and Ms. McCarthy is constantly in the wrong direction. I believe Tammy is trying to find humor in a loser and then balancing that with sympathy for her character. Susan Sarandon is the other half of the travel flick here and she does not offer enough counter punch to Tammy's character to care about either one. It's just an unguided attempt to capitalize on Melissa's comedic chops, where it fails pretty much at every line. I wanted to turn it off after 20 minutes but my wife continued... until she fell asleep and I had to endure another 45 minutes of whole lot of nothing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 16, 2014, 12:44:05 pm
Let's Be Cops (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)


... the chemistry between Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans Jr., to be very believable. I imagine it's hard to find the right folks to put together a buddy movie, and they seemed to have been successful here.

It's because of their chemistry on New Girl (hell, the entire cast has awesome chemistry), I have every intention of getting this from the Library.
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Post by: Mac on November 16, 2014, 12:44:35 pm
The Damned (aka Gallows Hill) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif) (Netflix)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGl9_5s7U7U

I was just surfing around and ran across this flix that had 4 stars. In Netflix world, that's rare. So knowing practically nothing, we gave it a chance.

Not bad little horror/possesed film. While this is a foreign film, I couldn't quite figure by who (thus the duel title). Half the film was in English, the other half was subtitled. They were in Colombia, but with American, English and Hispanic actors. While I probably won't remember to much as time goes on, I was entertained for the 1-1/2 hours watching it in the dark.

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Post by: Mac on November 16, 2014, 12:46:13 pm
Quote
It's because of their chemistry on New Girl (hell, the entire cast has awesome chemistry),

I did not know that. Don't watch that show.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2014, 12:56:58 pm
Did I mention that I saw "Stretch" recently and totally dug it?  I was watching all these pilots for class and seriously needed a break from all that TV and decided to chill out and watch some movies.  Ironically, the movie made me more excited to write than the entire week-long writing class, even though the movie had NOTHING to do with the pilot I was working on.

Anyway, trailer.  Red-band, NSFW:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpJv56s6g8U
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Post by: Mac on November 16, 2014, 01:01:28 pm
OK, adding that sombi tch to my queue.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2014, 01:11:20 pm
Chris Pine is epic in that movie, arguably the best work I've ever seen him done.  And he's not even listed in the credits!
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Post by: Mac on November 17, 2014, 09:51:17 am
Begin Again (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTRCxOE7Xzc

I knew the instant I had seen the trailer for Begin Again, it was right up my alley. We almost say it when it the theaters. Then recently my wife watched it on the plane ride home. I knew sound was a major factor for this movie, so I wasn't go to sit through it on the plane. I finally got to see it in my man cave... and it sounds awesome. The sound track is very good and I intend to seek the songs out.

The movie itself was too long and meandered here and there. They could have cut so much out and kept the pace from creeping along in places. I actually kinda groaned at the appearance of Cee Lo Green. It didn't add anything but his name to the credits. And Adam Levine is not a very good actor. He tried to show pain and sadness, but I just saw his attempt at acting. He was in the movie waaaaaaay to long. Despite liking the songs he sings. Mark Ruffalo just can't seem to do wrong. I like him in everything. He is excellent here on a tired old man losing his family and mojo with the recording business. This is a sappy feel good movie and there's plenty of elements present to make Begin Again a movie of hope.

I highly recommend it.
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Post by: Mac on November 18, 2014, 01:13:11 pm
How to Train Your Dragon 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9a4PvzlqoQ

I loved How to Train Your Dragon. It’s got dragons… oh, and a coming of age story that pleases just about every generation. I was thinking slam dunk liking the sequel. I do and I highly recommend it. But I don’t like it enough to purchase a copy. With the lazy title of 2, we continue the story 5 years later with Hiccup, Toothless and the gang. Dragons are everywhere and a new Dragon Hunter is on the horizon.

The original set the bar high on story and entertainment. 2 does a commendable job, I just wasn’t enthralled with it. The look is as gorgeous as ever and the setting is right up there with Avatar. I guess what I felt was the original had growth. While 2 plateaus out in story and proceeds with just conflict. Not a bad thing, just different.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 18, 2014, 01:57:53 pm
I still need to grab the first one from the Library. It's actually on my Hold List. Better late than never.
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Post by: Mac on November 20, 2014, 07:35:22 am
Into the Storm (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57Vkp77tVTM

I wanted to like this, even for its cheesy obvious rip-off of Twister and other disaster movies. This movie, forgive the pun, sucked. Wow, we are talking MST3K material here. The acting was rather funny in a sad way. The script was just ludicrous as hell and we have my favorite genre of hand held camera’s, which alone… that sucks, but the ever ridiculously stupid justification of video tapping everything. I really lost it when two kids are trapped under rubble and the family finds them, to have the brother do what? Help rescue… uh, no, video the event. WTF!!!

The special effects were half ass. Many a time, this was SyFy quality material. In other words, laughable.

I recommend not wasting any time with this unless drunk, stoned or housebound by a blizzard.
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Post by: Mac on November 20, 2014, 07:40:11 am
Journey to the West (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmKrgPr7PA8

Depending on your point of view, Journey to the West is the best or worst movie you've ever seen. From the director who brought us Kung Fu Hustle, which I love, come Journey to the West. It is jaw dropping in just about every scene. How does one come up with this stuff. The CGI is amazing. The visuals... amazing. The Story... I have no clue... just go with it. If you like the bizarre, you might want to check this one out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 22, 2014, 08:50:55 pm
Parkland (2013)

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Post by: Mac on November 24, 2014, 11:30:54 am
Multiplicity (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdH5mQiHToI

We watched the 1996 movie Multiplicity recently because it was nasty outside and my wife had not seen it. I still can’t figure out her humor. I thought this would be right up her ally on cute, slightly stupid humor. It did not. She found it OK, but lost some interest about half way through. She was not watching the subtle nuances of such a story of cloning. Michael Keaton was the perfect candidate for this movie. I loved all his iterations of clones. They dabbled with some of the complexities of duplicate humans, but for the most part glossed over seriousness of it. I’m glad I got to see it again after all these years. It was fun to watch.


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Post by: Mac on November 24, 2014, 11:32:58 am
Blue Ruin (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8MHgTAJQCI

Surfing through the ‘recommendations’ on Netflix, I ran across this 4 star movie called Blue Ruin. I’ve discovered just about anything on Netflix with a 4 or 5 star is what it is… good. There are exceptions. The counter works two. I will no longer waste time watching anything with 2 stars or less.

Knowing nothing going in can be interesting. This little indie did test my patience. I don’t think there was any talking the first half hour. We just watch Dwight (Macon Blair) go through some pacing, slowly growing in tension a plan of killing someone. The movie downshifts and we are slowly revealed what’s going on with Dwight. Another slow burn with tension until the last minutes. I’m glad I stuck with it, but it was a little too slow in pacing. There is a lot of surprises and it get unexpectedly bloody at times. Definitely gringe worthy. I would recommend it. If you like thrillers, which make you think, you just might like Blue Ruin


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 25, 2014, 07:02:37 pm
Snowpiercer (2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on November 26, 2014, 12:41:29 am
I'm watching Multiplicity now, and man, it's like they didn't even clean the film before scanning, there's lack pops all over the place.
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Post by: Mac on November 26, 2014, 09:12:57 am
Quote
I'm watching Multiplicity now, and man, it's like they didn't even clean the film before scanning, there's lack pops all over the place.

I noticed that too.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 26, 2014, 09:03:37 pm
The other thing that really annoyed me was the sound mixing, I missed os much of the dialogue because it was soft or understated.. I had to switch the subtitles on, but I only did that about 3/4 of the way through the flick.
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Post by: Mac on November 28, 2014, 04:28:28 am
Yep again.

I turned the soundbar up. There was only a couple of scenes that blew us against the wall.  :-\
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Post by: Mac on December 01, 2014, 12:05:22 pm
Happy Christmas (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njsI7SZGom8

Definitely an indie film that looks, sounds and feels like an indie film. Happy Christmas is small snapshot of time between in-laws around the holidays and it is about as boring as watching grass grow. Somehow labeled as a comedy, which there is none, this is just watching ordinary people go through ordinary motions. It was like watching a home movie. It was shot horribly and from what I can tell, it was semi-improvised. None of this warranted hooking me into devoting time to see what happens. I cannot recommend this anyone, unless you go for these slightly left of center melodrama’s.

Not Safe For Work (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx-rsYul2q4

… was our follow up to happy Christmas, to see what might have some entertainment value. It worked. This is a nicely understated thriller about an individual who accidentally witness’s a crime in the building and from there it’s a cat and mouse game with wits. It wasn’t over the top action, or spy like skills. It was pretty much earth bound in reality. It was tense with a slow reveal. Time went very quickly. I would easily recommend this little thriller nugget.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 01, 2014, 08:28:50 pm
Battleship (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 05, 2014, 12:06:36 am
Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 07, 2014, 12:16:21 am
So I'm watching a buttload of Stargate and we just had baby Grace Park in an episode, and the NEXT episode is the first appearance of David Hewlett's character.  He's played as a one-off *sshole character, so it's still pretty amazing that he wound up being a cast member on the spin-off.  We've also had John DeLancie as a guest villian in quite a few episodes, so that's cool.  Love that dude.
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Post by: Mac on December 09, 2014, 10:34:31 am
Dawn Of the Planet of the Apes (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I didn't care to much about the first one. Dawn did not fare as well either. In fact, I was getting irritated how long the movie was carrying on. There's not to much to the story. It doesn't get any simplier than this, and it just seemed built up more than it was. If you get past the amazing CGI, I found Dawn to be standard fare story telling.

November Man (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jREIRTyj9Mk

Pierce Brosnan as an agent doing one more job. Hmmmm… that’s not a new story. November Man has plenty of action and Brosnan is good, but the story is middle of the road. I saw it a week ago and can’t remember much about it. I do remember liking it, and not hating it. So it must be decent to watch… right?

Houdini (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Within minutes, I knew I wouldn’t like it. It was just filmed and edited in a way that bugged the hell out of me. I would say we watched about 20-25 minutes before agreeing to turn it off and quit wasting our time. I’m fascinated with Houdini, but this story telling was over the top Hollywood style, it just turned me off.

The Calling (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztoYxksdwZI

Another standard fare of small town cop suddenly investigating a big time serial killer that suddenly materializes in her area. We get to know the killer rather early, so the rest of the story is how will we (the audience) figure out with the cop, who it is. The Calling is a slow ass movie. Everybody seems to be on Fargo time. I stuck with it, but there were times the pace could have picked up.

If I stay (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aE_4mxeWI2A

Clearly targeted for young folks, but with adult themes, still came off as PG. Dealing with death, afterlife, love and loss and what could be, are the central themes. If it wasn’t for the subtext of music, I would have abandoned this flick. The boy is in a band and the girl, with classical aspirations, conflict and yet connect. It wasn’t bad, but the movie definitely leans in the Hallmark movie genre.



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Post by: Neumatic on December 09, 2014, 04:45:31 pm
I kept wondering what happened to Chloe Moretz, it used to be that she could do no wrong with her film choices, but now her flicks are just OK.  Maybe that's just the law of averages catching up, so it shouldn't feel that strange.

I've been watching so much freakin' Stargate recently, I feel like I gotta switch and watch some proper movies, just marathon them.  I just gotta pick the right ones.  (I think they'd all be streaming, which I'm actually trying to cut down on a little since, like I said, I've been streaming so much freakin' Stargate)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 09, 2014, 05:16:23 pm
Last Passenger (2013)

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Post by: Mac on December 10, 2014, 01:32:01 pm
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqRRF5y94uE

Man, I remember just getting all excited about hearing they decided to do a sequel to Sin City. Then it seemed like forever to get going and finally made. By that time, I was all indifferent.

My worst concerns came true. Actually, it's worse than that. A Dame to Kill for is not only an exact copy of the original, they did things and left out things that made the sequel worse. The constant narration throughout the movie was exhausting and just got on my every nerve. While I'll admit, the first Sin City was no Shakespeare, Dame was absolutely mind numbing on it's dialog. I only give it two stars for the more nudity they throw in here.

Bottom line, watch the original. Dame has lost whatever creative mojo the original had. Soooooooo  disappointed.

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Post by: Neumatic on December 10, 2014, 03:15:56 pm
Agreed.  Here are the big thoughts I had.

* That doctor that JGL goes too!  Oh how I wish he wasn't in the opening credits, cause it would have been such a great surprise!

* Alexa Vega as another non-stripping stripper.  Only four seconds, but still...
The whole non-stripping stripper thing REALLY stood out more in this one since Eva Green was pretty much naked in the entire flick.  It had this effect of making the saloon feel more like a TGI Fridays than a seedy, lurid joint where all the worst elements of the city collide.

* Oh how I wish that Clive Owen had been able to show up, how great would that have been.

* Juno Temple and Ray Liotta.  I liked seeing them act together.

* Robert Rodriguez and Frank Miller recreating a scene from the first flick, I thought that was a cute touch.

* There was so much violence and it was all so similar, it became pointless.  There's only so many heads that can be cut off or eyes being shot out before you stop caring.  I was really annoyed by how many people died, not because I have an issue with violence or anything like that, but because it made everything seem pointless since everyone freakin' DIED.  Everyone dies, so what do I care?  AND the "good guys" can kill without stakes, it felt like there were no stakes to anything.  And the way the characters were walking into dangerous situations without a care, it didn't feel real.  I know the stories were about the ONE person who could do that and why, but when you have so many characters who CAN do that, it just makes the place feel like a video game.

* Every woman is a **** or a stripper, and every guy is a crooked cop, a mobster, or an assh*le.  A premise like that should invite all kinds of people, different types, so we can see how it f*cks them up, makes them compromise themselves, sullies their souls, etc.  The potential of this kind of story engine is undercut when the characters are all identical.  The closest we got to something like that was JGL.

* There were so many moments watching the movie where it felt like I was watching one of those old full motion video games, you could see where the characters weren't attached to the floor, or where the artistic style undercut the reality of the settings ("we're not in a mansion, because the windows are all white even though it's night).  Even though the effects have gotten much better than the first flick, it's still not the same as being in actual, interesting locations.

* I wonder how many people noticed Lady Gaga.
Which also makes me wonder why Danny Trejo hasn't been in any of these movies.
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Post by: Mac on December 10, 2014, 06:14:40 pm
Good notes and all agreeably accurate.

Such a shame.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 11, 2014, 12:01:57 am
You know what, we're talking about Robert Patrick on the Terminator 5 thread, makes me remember I was wondering why Robert Patrick isn't in this flick, he's kinda perfect for a Sin City movie (and he was in the first Spy Kids).

Oh, I gotta mention that I saw Orgazmo for the first time in ages the other night...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C47IzqSZBsQ

It was the first time watching it that I started paying attention to the story structure of it, as well as realizing how much that flick influenced me.  The only thing that bugged me is that I used to have the VHS and I remember a couple of the music cues being different and even though I couldn't remember what the songs were, just that the music felt wrong and out of place.  I will say, one thing I never noticed before is that the dude getting molested by the cop is Eric Stough, the dude who's the inspiration for Butters on South Park.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 11, 2014, 05:59:46 pm
From Dusk Till Dawn (Season 1 - 2014)

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Post by: Mac on December 11, 2014, 06:36:44 pm
I'm waaaaaaaaaiting
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 12, 2014, 06:28:58 am
The Fault in Our Stars (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ItBvH5J6ss

I picked up Fault for my wife to watch at her leisure. Well, she wanted to watch it with me last night. “Wanna watch the dead people movie with me”. Gahhhhhhhhhh. She said and I was not particularly wanting to watch it. It turned out pretty much how I thought it would. This hits to close to home and my wife doesn’t seem to get that. Even after all these years, the ‘subject’ is difficult enough, let alone a movie clearly pulling on every emotional string it can. Yes, there is laughter, sadness, love and loss. The acting is very good. The script I found to be realistic. I liked it and hated it at the same time. I’ll never watch it again because of my perspective of cancer which overrides movie entertainment. That means I can recommend it, but with caution… lots of tears.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 12, 2014, 07:33:18 am
Subject matter was an immediate turn-off for me. But it was the endless parade of TV spots that absolutely made this something annoying long before I would ever check out. Not my cup of tea. Will never watch this. Glad you were able to get something out of this and wasn't a complete bust for you though.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 13, 2014, 09:08:59 pm
Neighbors (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2014, 11:22:07 pm
The Legend of Billie Jean (1985)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2014, 11:57:41 pm
More Stargate SG-1... now gotten to season 8, where sh*t is finally in HD.  Which is nice.  And we've gotten to the introduction of both Dr Elizabeth Weir AND Pete, meaning all the DeLuises have been represented on the show.  I have fuzzy memories of watching these episodes, but it's been a long time (and those were real crummy SD via lousy cable, while this is HD over streaming.  Not Blu-Ray, but a massive step forward).

So I'm happy about picture quality now, but this season's supposed to be wonky because it's about the time Richard Dean Anderson's daughter was born and he started taking more time off.  The next season is the "soft reboot" with Ben Browder, Claudia Black, Beau Bridges, and Lexa Doig joining the cast.  And the show's kinda losing that X-Files feel that the earlier seasons had, which is kind of a shame.

Funny thing I noticed in this particular episode, Amanda Tapping's character is in a false reality where she's living on a farm... and it's the same farm from Continuum, which Amanda Tapping directed multiple episodes of!


Edit:

Oh man, Pierre Bernard just popped up!  I remember him getting this gig because of his segment on Conan.  Included below:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0nwauJbi5Q
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 16, 2014, 10:23:33 am
Guardians of the Galaxy

I liked the music  :-\
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 17, 2014, 04:45:19 pm
Okay, season eight of Stargate wrapped up at just the right time: I finished my holiday shopping, sent off my gifts (I have SOME wrapping to do, but I can knock it all out in a night). Basically, all the hassle and... bassle?... of the holidays is done so I can relax, watch Christmas movies and enjoy them, do my annual binge of "Bleak Expectations" (my fave Xmas tradition)... so I ran out of SG-1 episodes at the right time.

Well, okay, there ARE two more seasons of SG-1, but they didn't realize that when the wrapped up season 8, so they wrapped sh*t up pretty well, there were essentially two double-parters that felt like little movies that wrapped up all the dangling plot points.  The first brought and end to the war between the Goa'uld, the Jaffa, the humans, the Replicators, Anubis, Ba'al, the Ancients, and Issac Hayes for some reason.  The second was a time travel time/alternate history story where the SG-1 team goes back in time to ancient Egypt to grab a ZPM from Ra, but get stuck there and basically change the future.  It's really an excuse to revisit and play with events and characters from the movie and first season but taking place in 2004 instead of 1994 and 1996.

What's really interesitng, I thought, is that the time travel element means that both double parters end with the SAME scene!  It was such a perfect way to end the show, they did it twice within the same month (I love that they make a joke about that later in season nine or ten in "200," shoehorning in the new characters with RDA blurting out "you weren't there!").

I'm happy to delve into the final two seasons, but this is the perfect break point, I can wait till January to get into it (and give my streaming a break, because... d*mn).  Plus outside of the mandatory Xmas movies, I've been meaning to revisit LOTR and Star Wars for the first time in at least five years and the weather is sh*tty enough to make that kind of day acceptable.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2014, 04:50:25 pm
I wanna see you tackle both LOTR (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-fellowship-of-the-ring-(2001)/msg14160/#msg14160) and Star Wars (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-(1977)/msg13588/#msg13588). Personally, I have been contemplating Star Wars myself for obvious reasons.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 17, 2014, 04:59:36 pm
Like I said, I haven't seen Star Wars in at least five years (I really wish I had the tapes) and LOTR... I don't know when.  I feel like we watched it in the store way back when, but I don't remember when that was and obviously I couldn't dive in and pay attention.  And those movies are so freaking LONG, I really need to set aside time for that.

With Star Wars, I'm gonna try to go retro with it, a whole "prequels never existed/kid in the 70s and 80s" mindset.  I was watching my nightly compilation of commercials from the 80s and the Return Of The Jedi commercial came on, it just made me grin, "oh my god, a new Star Wars movie." So I want to put myself in that mood and watch those.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2014, 05:23:59 pm
With Star Wars, I'm gonna try to go retro with it, a whole "prequels never existed/kid in the 70s and 80s" mindset.

THIS ^^^^^  :)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 17, 2014, 05:41:33 pm
If only the prequels were as easy to forget as Indiana Jones 4.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2014, 06:16:36 pm
....Indiana Jones 4.

What are you smoking? Never happened. See.......forgotten.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 17, 2014, 06:27:50 pm
I have NO idea when the last time I saw any of the Indy flicks was... I don't even own 'em.

I also forgot that I made custom DVD covers for the Star Wars trilogy... so instead of that lousy Photoshop artwork, it's the original posters.  I like that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2014, 06:32:10 pm
I own all 4 Indy flicks as well as Young Indiana Jones series. I have been on the fence about doing a marathon for the better part of 3 years and I still can't pull the trigger on it in large part because of Indy 4. Sure, I can skip it, but knowing I have it.....I'm gonna be compelled to watch it again in spite of it's massive flaws.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 17, 2014, 06:33:42 pm
Isn't there a Rifftrax or something of it?  Can't you do that?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 17, 2014, 07:47:33 pm
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 18, 2014, 01:25:10 am
It's relatively old movie night tonight apparently.

A Knight's Tale -- it's been a long time since I've seen this but I remembered pretty much all of it, story and dialogue wise (though Netflix cropped it to 16x9, cutting out my fave Easter egg: the London Eye in the skyline of medieval London).  One thing I didn't notice in my younger, dumber days is how much the jousting sequences were shot like drag races, any time there was jousting, it had the energy of something like Days Of Thunder, and the cameras captured the horses like they were high performance machines, which they kinda are.

Following that movie, I found another flick from 2001 that I'd been meaning to see but never got around to called Get Over It, this cute 90's ish high school movie... it actually kind of reminded me of the edgier, energetic, MTV version of High School Musical (basketball player secretly joining the theater group to get close to a girl) with an interesting cast: Ben Foster, Kirstin Dunst, baby Mila Kunis (and baby, they got a bathing suit scene), baby Zoe Saldana, you got Colin hanks right before he started sounding like his dad, Shane West doing, like, an *sshole version of Rob Lowe's character from Parks And Rec, gay Martin Short... and Sisqo, who I kept thinking just showed up on the set and once they figured out he wasn't going to leave, they started finding stuff for him to do until he became part of the story.

And finally, the "oldest" movie, I just this minute wrapped up BASEketball, which I haven't seen forever.  The soundtrack, however, was one of the first CDs I bought and still gets play on my iPod frequently... and now that I think about it, I can fill in the missing gapes in that soundtrack now since it's so much easier to hunt for music on the net.  I still have my three quarter sleeve Beers shirt in my t-shirt archive (yeah, I save my old interesting t-shirts.  One day when I have space and cash, I'm gonna turn them into a wall display or something like that.
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Post by: Mac on December 18, 2014, 08:34:46 am
No one will ever be able to slam you for your taste in variety. I salute you.




 :P
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Post by: Mac on December 18, 2014, 08:57:29 am
Jersey Boys
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DbURfiUWVtg

Checking this movie was strictly based on holding onto hope. I like most movies in the music genre. Not musicals… movies about music. On the flip side, watching a music movie on an artist I really don’t like can be an exercise in fairness and bias.

So picking up a movie based on a play I’ve never seen and group (Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons) I can’t stand was taking somewhat of a chance of ever enjoying. Clint Eastwood directing a movie about a musical group is kind of a head scratcher too. Not seeing the connection.

Thankfully Jersey Boys is not a musical. Any sign of someone just bursting out into a song would have been an immediate ‘STOP’. Jersey Boys is apparently a faithful telling of the rise of the Frankie and the boys. If you like Frankie Valli’s songs, your gonna love this movie. They sing all the hits plus some. And they are presented in a variety of ways. Audition, concerts, TV shows, state fairs, etc. Personally, I cannot and have never been able to get past Valli’s voice. It’s just mind boggeling. I’ve heard Dr. Demento acts become big one hit wonders, but his voice is what propelled continual hits and stardom. The very first scene we Frankie sing caught me by surprise. I had forgotten Valli’s voice, until that very first moment and I burst out laughing. I pretty much laughed out loud every time he sang. I was getting tired of not believing my ears.

At first I was somewhat intrigued by the formation of the band. It’s really no different that many of the Behind the Music stories we hear of musicians. About half way through, I was realizing not much new was happening. The story kind of stagnated and it just totally lost my interest. I think I did watch 3/4 of the movie, I just was not going to put myself through more of that cat-getting-run-over-singing.

Seriously people, how do you not laugh… hard when Frankie Valli sings “Walk Like a Man, Talk Like a Man” in that cartoonish falsetto voice.

I’m not going to recommend this movie, but if you like their music, you may enjoy the film. Warning… it is R-rated for language. So you grandma and grandpa’s that think Frankie is so dreamy, be prepared to hear some major Jersey sailor talk.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 18, 2014, 09:02:35 am
Who's Frankie Valli?  ;)
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Post by: Mac on December 18, 2014, 09:43:18 am
Quote
Who's Frankie Valli?  ;)

Ummmm... No one. Fiction.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2014, 06:19:10 am
Divergent (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Boorish.

I tried, I really tried to like Divergent. But I just found it to be cliché and uninteresting. Once you get past the long, but simplistic view of a re-organized society, due to a futuristic war that devastated the earth, well, at least Chicago, the 2nd act is all about training. Ugh.

This is the second movie in about a week that stars Shailene Woodley. I’m guessing Hollywood embracing her as the next upcoming attraction. I find that she is extremely limited acting range. She had the same blank expression throughout both movies. The occasional smile, but little else.

This is how she looks in every scene...

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I also understand the studios are clearly driven to find these pre-adult movie series as bread and butter. And imagine the audience is buying into the phenomena big time (based on that Hollywood article) posted the other week. Not only did I find myself thinking, I’ll forget everything about this movie the moment the credits role, but I was forgetting what I just watched 15 minutes earlier. This movie is so milk toast.

I try not to make judgment’s on movies I have yet to see, so I least give them a chance. I did it with Twilight, Hunger Games and now this series. These movies are just not my cup of tea and I will no longer even waste my time watching the rest and hope for change.

I stayed engaged for about half the movie, than just gave up caring. My wife continued to watch while I played on the iPad.  :-\
 
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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2014, 08:55:25 am
This movie p*ssed me off so much I HAD to get through it.  The big problem this movie had was that everything in it was arbitrary and meaningless.  Unlike Harry Potter or Hunger Games, there was no reason for anything in the movie to be the way it was.  I could have sworn I posted my rant about this flick up here before, but since I didn't:

Every important thing in the movie, I just thought "...why?" That one guild was going to brainwash the peacekeepers and take over the city. Why?  What were the bad guys planning on doing that was going to be so different than the way things were currently being run?  And it seems to me that if you have an army full of adrenaline junkie teenagers vying for an actual war, it would be pretty easy to get them to take over.  Maybe they would just want to because they're *ssholes who only know how to fight.

The train NEVER stops. WHY!?  When you see the army guys jump off the train at the start, you think "oh, that shows that they're ballsy and exciting" but no, it's because that stupid train NEVER STOPS.  What is the POINT of a train that doesn't stop?

You choose what guild you're in at 18, without ANY experience or information, and you have to stay there forever. WHY?  And it's not like the sorting hat in Harry Potter, where you're selected based on characteristics you might not be aware of, you get to pick yourself!  And they said most kids stay with their own guild, like, 99% of the time, so why is it even worthy of a ceremony?  There's not even like a freakin' career day or anything like that.  What if the kids had to spend a month in each of the five guilds to see how it works, then they pick?  Or the guilds make an offer, like an NBA draft?

This is supposed to feel like The Hunger Games, I guess, but the Hunger Games started really simply:  Katniss volunteers to take part in a competitive slaughter to spare her little sister from having to go through it.  Simple.  High stakes.  Whatever the h*ll is going on here?  Not simple.  Stakes feel low, interest is VERY low.  I could give two sh*ts about what happens to any of these characters.  Especially because it's training.  F*CK action movies where it's all training.  You know why?  Because training means "this sh*t doesn't really count."  F*ck you!  If it's a movie, it should count!  No one really dies in this movie, one or two might to show that sh*t's getting intense, but Hunger Games?  22 kids die, and you meet them, and you don't want some of them to die (and you don't want the *sshole ones to kill the sweet ones). 

The army guys really annoyed me, because they couldn't distinguish between brash behaviour and unacceptable risks.  "Hey, go get your knife while everyone is throwing knives in that same direction."  How about no?  I'll go into the line of fire to rescue a baby, but that's a baby and the enemy is throwing knives and won't stop.  Here?  That's just a f*cking knife and I can wait three minutes for everyone else to stop.  That's a simple risk/benefit analysis I did there.  Also, if I was in a situation where I desperately needed a knife, I would not throw it away.  All this training is doing is teaching me how to dispose of something in the most violently effective way possible.  I'm only going to throw away my knife once I'm certain I don't need the knife anymore, so retrieval is a very low priority for me.  Especially when there are other knives whizzing about.

Okay, here's one: they had this leaderboard thing, only the top 21 recruits would be accepted. That's so arbitrary

What if you had a lousy year and only 7 people were qualified, would you take on 14 unqualified people because they were still in the top teir?  What if there was a person who came in 22nd on year, but scored the same as someone who came in 15th another year... would HE be kicked out?  If it's a dead man's boots kind of thing, do you have to keep requalifying every couple of years?  Is that why there's no old people in the army?

And they keep threatening to cast you out of your guild, but it's not like the guildless people are thrown out into the wilderness to become cannibals, they're just kind of downtrodden homeless.

And WHY are there homeless people if there are empty skyscrapers EVERYWHERE?  Insert problem A into problem B, then go get a drink.

And you can't threaten the main character with that and make it effective because she's kind of Amish, she's used to living a selfless life with very little. She would be FINE.  And since her old guild already helps the homeless people all the time, she'd be back with her family, essentially.  If she was a spoiled aristocrat, THEN there'd be something interesting going on.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2014, 09:13:11 am
Spot on.

I do remember turning to my wife asking, what is the point.

And maybe I'm missing the big question, but why are Divergents being sought out and killed? Did I miss that part? Or did they say and I just thought... huh?
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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2014, 09:15:51 am
I think it's because Divergents would just bring up the same points we just did and that would cause their sh*tty society to fall apart.

BTW, since you weren't paying attention, maybe it never occurred to you, but I was convinced that the whole final bit was going to turn out to be the final test/simulation that Shailene was doing in that chair.  It felt so obvious, that it was strange when it wasn't.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2014, 12:22:58 pm
Yea, sorry I missed that.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2014, 12:40:52 pm
Eh, you're more sorry you had to watch the film in the first place.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2014, 03:08:30 pm
Yep..

... And my wife kinda liked it. Gahhhhh.

She does like Lifetime movies that spoon feed some batsh*t crazy simple stories. So I'm not surprised.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2014, 10:54:43 pm
I'm pretty sure you had a previous rant about the movie. I remember it. It wasn't in a specific thread dedicated to it. I think the 3 of us were talking about Hunger Games and Divergent came into the conversation and thus your rant. I did check to see if my library had a copy of the movie a couple of weeks ago. They don't. No sweat off my back. It wasn't a priority-watch for me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2014, 09:08:31 pm
The Office - The Complete BBC Collection (Season 1 & 2 and Xmas Special - 2001-2003)

(http://i.imgur.com/mh3jYX6.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-the-complete-bbc-collection-(season-1-2-special-2001-2003)/msg32585/#msg32585)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2014, 01:37:49 am
It's the last week of the month, so as per usual I'm going through and watching all the movies about to expire.  But for some reason, there are a TON of them this year.  And there's very little rhyme or reason to what I'm picking.  I finally saw things like Kramer Vs Kramer and Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.

As Chip has probably figured out if he's checked my DeviantArt feed, the big thing for me was rewatching The Breakfast Club.  Obviously it's an engrossing movie, but for some reason I really reacted to it this time.  I actually spent a good portion of the afternoon running a thought experiment, trying to figure out if John Hughes actually could have made a sequel to the flick and digging through the Hughes style.  It was quite helpful, actually.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2014, 06:27:12 am
Haven't been on DA for quite some time. Glad to hear that you watched TBC and got something out of it this time around, more so than the last time at least. I've always wondered if there would be a sequel when John was still alive. Well, the sequel was in my head and that's the furthest I wanted it to go. I never wanted to see an actual sequel on film because I liked imagining where the characters were in life and if they kept in touch years later.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2014, 01:12:24 pm
Oh, I always get something out of The Breakfast Club, but this is the first time I've ever actually played with it.  And while the sequel game didn't create anything concrete (it was more of "what would happen if these conditions changed?"), there were a couple interesting observations and ideas that came out of it.

Anyway, here's one of the new pieces I did... some studies of a basket case:

(http://th08.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/361/d/4/she_doesn_t_talk_by_neumatic-d8bhyma.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2014, 01:20:06 pm
Very cool. I like it!!
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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2014, 01:59:23 pm
Thanks.  Between the watching, the drawing, and the analysis, I feel like i've spent so much time in Breakfast Club world that it's tricky transitioning out of it.  I'd watch the flick again, but I have a pile of other things to watch and not a lot of time left to watch them.
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Post by: Mac on December 28, 2014, 06:32:51 pm
Nice drawings

Not much time? The flicks closing out on Netflix?
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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2014, 06:57:37 pm
Flicks expire on the first... lots of Universal flicks, I notice (I'm watching Backdraft for the first time, I also re-watched Frighteners the other day).  I've still got a list of flicks like Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Chronicles of Riddick, 12 Angry Men, etc to watch.  Hopefully the cull means the spots will be filled by fresh content that I will also need to clear out time to watch.

The drawings... I have no idea how long it takes to do them, time just disappears when I draw.  But not TOO long, especially on a face-to-face basis, the minimalistic style I've developed over the years is to be the most accurate but least time consuming method possible.  The thinking is I want to be able to be out in the world and draw whatever I want before it disappears (I have a couple characters inspired by people I've just seen out in the wild).  I rarely draw people off movies live though (details, like brick windows and things like that, I will doodle).  I prefer to have screencaps so I can practice and take my time.

(I made a note to myself to draw Ally Sheedy as she appeared in Wargames once I have a moment).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2014, 07:45:59 pm
WarGames (1983)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 28, 2014, 10:42:24 pm
More Universal flicks:

Backdraft - Never seen it before.  Good flick, and it freakin' FELT like a movie, everything had a great scope to it, nice and big without being overdone or overblown.  And I definitely got the feeling that it was a movie that came out of TONS of meticulous research, articles, and experience, with a story designed to showcase all of that.  As opposed to another movie about research and public service...

The Hard Way - What a cheezy movie... a Hollywood actor shadows a tough, gritty, real New York cop.  Well, New York was tough and gritty, but the "real" world fell into so many Hollywood tropes it felt ridiculous.  But I just saw Frighteners so I thought "okay, let's get some more Michael J Fox."

I will say, it's neat seeing New York when it was still dirty, disgusting, loud, crime-ridden... I'd like to see a movie in the scope of Backdraft in THAT New York.

The Mighty Ducks - Seen it so many times, but this might have been the first time in HD (I never noticed that the duck on the jersey is wearing a District 5 jersey... it was a nice touch).  It was one of those flicks from when kids' movies still looked like proper movies, with a more-than-decent score and some interesting cinematography in some parts.  Plus baby peter Bishop.

Actually, it was funny seeing this right after The Breakfast Club, with Emilio still having this "success at any cost" mentality drilled into him.

Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels - this is wrapping up right now.  Still stylish and awesome, but I'm getting the idea that the music was added after the fact, sort of like Clerks.  I don't know if that's true or not, but I can't really imagine a movie this cheap and scrappy being able to afford all those rights.  Still an awesome movie, although it's hard to watch casually since there are so many twists and turns that there are some moments where you're trying ot figure out why they're doing some specific thing.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2014, 10:36:24 pm
The Breakfast Club (1985)

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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2014, 12:08:02 am
Okay, I want to say that I finished off my list with Chronicles of Riddick but I didn't really finish it.  The only thought I have about it is that I never saw Dune, and yet all the Necromonger stuff, to me, is pure Dune.  That's kinda it.  Maybe I'm tired.  Saw a LOT of freakin' movies.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2014, 06:10:55 am
Ya movied out?

Happens to me a lot.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2014, 12:40:47 pm
Delivery Man (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yGAktL45XNQ

Vince Vaughn, to me, is one of those actors that perfectly nails that one character. Not much else beyond that. Delivery Man I picked up because the library delivery is running short and saw this on the 'Recently Returned' shelf. My wife loved this movie, so if you've been figuring things out with us, when it comes to comedies, we are opposite.

I think I laughed once, but I think I just more bored of Mr. Vaughn and his one shot persona. The story is ridiculous with him fathering 500+ children through a sperm donations being misused at the clinic.

All hilarity ensues, when he finds out many of the kids want to find out who their 'father' is, despite the anonymity clause. His friend (Chris Pratt) defends him. The story is tangled in Vaughn's character down on his luck and life hitting him wrong at every turn, including his family, his girlfriend.

But understand it get wrapped up very nicely, with a bow, at the end.

The movie is sugary all over. How could you not love this hapless bub.

I didn't. I got a little bored mainly because you can see the twists and turns coming a mile away.

I recommend it slightly, if you have nothing else. It's probably a great date movie... for her.
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2014, 12:55:44 pm
Bad Words (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXoZCAVTzEQ

ODD

I'm trying to think of other things to say about Bad Words. It reminds me a lot of Bad Santa, because Bad Words is a black comedy with Jason Bateman as an all out dick, who slowly befriends a 10 year old.

I liked it because of Bateman's quick stinging one liner's, and I didn't really know where the story was going.

Understand, this is raunchy R-rated movie with.... Bad Words, by everybody. The premise is silly with Bateman's character participating in eighth grade spelling bee's. Quickly I found myself trying to figure out why he's mad at the world, doing what he's doing with the spelling Bee's and being a major @sshole.

I mildly recommend this. I wouldn't recommend it to my mom. It's got a number of LOL moments and I like Jason Bateman.

As Bateman said in the extra's, there were several other folks that passed on this project before he picked it up. I can see why. I don't think many folks could have treated this material as well as he did.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 31, 2014, 03:49:08 am
Weird Science

Hadn't seen it in a while, and there are worse movies to wrap up the year with (I think it's gonna be all Twilight Zone tomorrow).  And I definitely enjoyed this movie more this time than I have in the past, probably because I'm still in Hughes mode.  Definitely funnier than I remember, why I'm sure I looked like this:

(http://www.emilysbrother.com/penny/old-dude-laughing-in-wierd-science.jpg)

I seriously watched that second sequence so many freakin' times, I don't know why but it killed me, little things like the picture dancing, the dude watching TV, Robert Downey Jr screaming "I'm sh*tting in my pants!"


Also, I found out it happened to be Vernon Wells' birthday (the dude from Mad Max who's the leader of the bikers in this flick).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2014, 03:02:52 pm
Caps (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/weird-science-(1985)/msg10974/#msg10974) if you want 'em.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 31, 2014, 04:35:08 pm
Amazingly enough, I've never felt much of a demand for caps from this movie (Kelly LeBrock isn't really my cup of tea).

You know, I totally forgot that there was a Weird Science TV series.  Never saw it, but I remember ads for it in a bunch of comics.  They did a Ferris Bueller one as well which was also garbage, but it got me thinking maybe I should turn my high school script into a pilot (I got so many d*mn characters!), to actually do that kind of shared universe that the flicks are supposed to have.  Sort of a mix between continuing story and anthology series, a minor character in one episode could be the main character in another episode, that sort of thing.
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Post by: Mac on January 01, 2015, 12:26:57 pm
Interesting concept.
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Post by: Mac on January 02, 2015, 07:59:54 am
The Equalizer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

This is a long trailer, hope it doesn't give to much away


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VjctHUEmutw

So I might be a little biased, with thinking Denzel Washington can do no wrong in his movies. Anyway, I found The Equalizer to be a finely crafted flick. The action was awesome, the characters fun to watch, and thoroughly engaging from beginning to end. A massively entertaining film. Chloë Grace Moretz is in the movie and it's because of her prostitute characters McCall (Washington) comes out of retirement. IMO, she added very little to the film and realistically she is in it a very short time in the beginning and end.

There is not a whole lot new here, but Denzel pulls off this pretty slick of machine hit man that is fun to watch. Next time you go into a big box store for home improvement, you might look at tools a little differently.

Highly recommend The Equalizer.
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Post by: Mac on January 02, 2015, 08:07:27 am
The Maze Runner (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwwbhhjQ9Xk

My son invited me to go see this when it hit the theaters and it was one of the few I wanted to see. But timing was wrong and we missed it. I got to see it last night and loved it. I was hearing that is was not a washed out Twilight or Hunger Games genre film. While it is PG-13, it does get nasty and intense. The Maze Runner has deja vu moments of movies like The Cube and Lord of the Flies.

I need to call my son to find out about the book(s)? No spoilers, but the movie indicates this is just Phase 1.

Unfortunately like Divergent, some things just don't make sense. Some major plot points. I'd spoil it if I talked about them, but maybe we can talk later.

Maze Runner was a fun, exciting and many a time, intense sci-fi flick. Check it out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2015, 08:41:32 am
Waiting for Equalizer to show up at my Library. The Maze Runner isn't even in the system yet, so that's gonna be a long ways off for sure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2015, 07:13:45 pm
22 Jump Street (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 02, 2015, 10:05:42 pm
Justified (Season 5 - 2013)

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Post by: Mac on January 04, 2015, 08:46:28 am
Mystic River (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvQaTV_lBuk

Last night, because our plans changed, we stayed home, cooked a good meal and decided to check out some movies on Netflix. I focused all my attention on only looking at 4 (of 5) stars or better. Mystic River came up. Let's try it.

Man, what a powerful film. The acting was through the roof on this very unflinching look into crime within a tight nit Brooklyn neighborhood. From the first scene, the story caught my attention. My wife, more than me, loved this film.

Made back in 2003, I do recollect the title, but never made time to check it out... until now. Great cast, tight directing and editing, just made this for a great whodoneit.

Highly recommend.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 07, 2015, 06:47:02 pm
A glut of stuff.  It's too freaking cold to go out, so Netflix it is.  I thought it would be a nice change of pace.

One is "Bubblegum Crisis 2040," an anime that is so 80s despite being made in, like, 1999.  It's also REALLY REALLY Blade Runner.  Which, I know Blade Runner is big in Japan and tons of anime draw inspiration from it, but dang, one of the characters is named Priss for crying out loud.  It definitely makes me feel like a kid, it's the exact same kind of anime I was watching when I was re-learning how to draw after moving back to the states.  I've been doing a few little doodles and notes while watching.

And I'm noticing little things like the Mac OS/9-inspired computer interfaces as well, it's very familiar.  And there's also something wonderfully charming about hand-drawn computer displays.

The whole run of Friends is also on Netflix, so I've been watching that as well.  It's the first time I've seen the show in HD and it's funny seeing all this detail that was always just a soft blur in the background.  And it looks like the whole thing was shot in 16:9 so there's no/very little head cropping going on.  Though I'm only watching the later seasons, I don't know how it looks in the early seasons.  And it's all regular-length episodes too, so the 40 minute ones, which I think are on the DVD, aren't on here.  So that sucks.

It's funny watching it noticing things I hadn't picked up before, like just how often p*rn makes its way into the proceedings.  I mean, I remember the episode where they got the dirty channel for free by accident on TV and didn't want to change the channel, but honestly, Chandler puts in a dirty videotape every couple of episodes!

On the subject of HD remastering of old shows, I was disappointed but not surprised to find out that there isn't going to be an HD remaster of Deep Space Nine.  Star Trek The Next Generation on blu-ray did terrible sales because they were so freakin' expensive and the show was on TV ALL THE TIME.  You could get it on Netflix, Amazon, and it was on BBC America all the time, so it's real unlikely many people were going to pay 80 bucks a season for that.  And Next Gen was more straight-forward in terms of what the workload was, DS9 had so many CGI effects and visual tricks it would have been a much bigger workload, and the show isn't as widely adored as Next Gen.  It's a shame, because that was the most cinematic Trek series.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2015, 07:53:52 pm
Love Friends. One of my all-time favorite shows. Very curious to see how much of an improvement the show is with HD. I think, given how many times I've watched the series over the years, it would be jarring to see. But in a good way.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 07, 2015, 08:06:56 pm
It looks pretty good, I have to say.  It's not jarring, but it's unusual seeing it fill up a whole 16:9 screen.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2015, 08:33:09 pm
The aspect ratio is another thing that intrigues me.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2015, 03:33:39 am
A site discussing and illustrating the differences in the Friends aspect ratios. (https://weltretter.wordpress.com/2014/12/04/the-real-life-drawbacks-of-aspect-ratio-preservation/)

BTW, I've been noticing R Lee Fleming Jr's name in the credits as the story editor, he's the guy who wrote "She's All That" so he really was one of the voices of the 90s.  I remember that name because I kept thinking "R Lee Ermey" and imagining THAT dude writing all these spunky teen movies.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2015, 06:51:54 am
Hahahahaha, Now THAT was funny!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2015, 06:51:19 pm
Homeland (Season 3 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2015, 07:49:46 pm
Netflix just added the eight season of Psych. It's been so long since I've seen the show, I had totally forgotten that Anthony Michael Hall had been intro'd in the last finale.  And he's freakin' hilarious on the show.  In a show full of funny people, he gets to be insane and weird on a whole different level.  "You're here wasting taxpayer funds writing a letter to your imaginary friend Raoul, a hariless wolf who lives in your pants!"

It's funny seeing him so soon after watching all those John Hughes movies again, but it's actually reminding me of why he didn't last on SNL: when he was young, he could really only do a couple things because he was read as a kid, now that he's an adult, he can explore that range more.  He's kind of a bully on Psych, which is something he could never really play before.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2015, 08:18:54 pm
Don't forget, he played a bully in Edward Scissorhands. He actually alienated a lot of fans back when the movie came out because of that role.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2015, 08:38:35 pm
It's been years upon years since I saw Edward Scissorhands.

Oh man, THIS episode is a court episode, and the lawyer-- Ralph Macchio!  We also got Ray Wise, Kurt Fuller, Alan Ruck, and Korra herself!  Dang.
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Post by: Mac on January 12, 2015, 09:23:55 am
Tusk (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdofQpt70dk

The latest film by Kevin Smith is his first outright horror project. If you don’t count pseudo-horror Red State.

From the moment I heard about rumblings of this project to finally watching it, I’ve been shaking my head in disbelief. While I can say I watched it, I won’t have any desire to watch it again or even recommend it for that matter. Tusk is just a bizarrely odd film. People are comparing it to Human Centipede and I get why. I just am having a difficult time wrapping my head around Kevin Smith devoting time, resources and money to this. He’s way more talented. As Justin Long says in the ‘Exras’, Kevin needs to lay off the pot.

What praise the film does get besides portraying WTF creepy ick factor, is the acting by Justin Long and Michael Parks. Yea, not so much. Parks barely speaks clearer than a mumble and has almost zero facial expressions. He does, but I’m not giving him credit for something more than normal acting. And quite frankly, Justin Long's character is a dick and could care less what happens to him. It's just not entertaining.

Johnny Depp as Inspector Guy Lapointe is really the only ray of light here. His acting and accent seem to be right out of a Pink Panther film. Thus giving the film, I guess, its comedic perspective?

You do finally get to see the body mutilation in all it’s glory, which then the film focus’s squarely on. Despite the special body makeup done by guru Robert Kurtzman, I just found myself snickering at the work. Maybe that was Kevin Smith’s direction?

Bottom line, I was disappointed. Maybe not in the movie, but the fact this is a Kevin Smith movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2015, 10:51:57 am
Have not seen this and as big a fan as I am of Kevin's more "mainstream" flicks, I have no desire to see this at all. And I totally agree with Justin about 'laying off the pot'. His interviews and public speaking engagements for the past few years have been nothing short of embarrassing because he is always stoned. It was funny at first because I thought it was more of an act. But over the years, it has become quite clear that it is not given his advocacy for all things marijuana.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 13, 2015, 05:02:55 pm
So I spent, like, an hour going through Amazon's rental directory only to find out that I can't stream rentals on my computer, even though I CAN stream HD Prime stuff.  P*sses me off, but hey, it's gonna save me money so screw Amazon.

Let's see, I finally watched "A Long Way Down," which I didn't realize was a Nick Hornby novel.  It's about four people who meet on New Years Eve intending to commit suicide.  I've been kinda down recently, and the flick tapped into that i a nice way, it kind of reminded me of Patton Oswalt's bit about taking his depression out for a spin for a while.  I'm not going to say the movie made me feel BETTER, but I enjoyed letting other people be down for me.

I followed that up with "The Trip To Italy," and they just did a Pierce Brosnan impression (Pierce was the lead in "A Long Way Down") and it sounded perfect.  I mean, most of the impressions in the movie are spot-on, but it was just funny hearing it so soon afterwards.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2015, 07:32:37 pm
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)

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Post by: Mac on January 14, 2015, 07:33:34 am
I've seen the Netflix list of A Long Way Down several times. Several times I've read the synopsis and several times I've passed. Still not sure I want to check it out.
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Post by: Mac on January 14, 2015, 07:41:31 am
This is Where I Leave You (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH0cEP0mvlU

Yet another charming gathering of a dysfunctional family. With a great cast (Jason Bateman, Tina Fey, Jane Fonda, Adam Driver, Dax Shepard, Timothy Olyphant, Ben Schwartz) and sharp writing and editing, This is Where I Leave You, is an entertaining 2 hours I think most people will find some relatable scenarios. Surprisingly the writing remains consistent throughout. Not like the typical, where all the good stuff happens in the beginning to suddenly turn a corner and get serious and ruin the flow. Jason Bateman does his best Jason Bateman. Not a bad thing and in this particular movie, I’d hate to see him attempt some other character. The editing was great. This is nothing but dialog, so keeping up with all the interactions could get overwhelming, but don’t.

Highly recommend This Is Where I leave You for light comedy and entertaining flick.
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Post by: Mac on January 14, 2015, 07:43:06 am
Deliver Us From Evil (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBxTF_DxN8k

Supposedly based on true events, which I’m sure this movie took great liberties with, is based on Boston Cop getting entangled in a paranormal case. As one of the producers said… The Exorcist meets True Detective. Honestly, I had preconceived ideas about Eric Bana. For some reason, I thought he was a some B-actor, doing brainless action movies. And he might be. But I really enjoyed his character here. While this movie has a ton of jump scares, the overall feel of the show was dark, and that is a good thing. His relationships with his wife, kid, partner and priest are well developed and you care about everybody.

This movie does go over the top with paranormal stuff, but just enough to make it cheesy fun and not eye-rolling WTF. For a good detective thriller with some paranormal thrown in to liven things up, I found it very fun to watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2015, 11:35:08 pm
Californication (Season 7 - The Final Season - 2014)

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Post by: Mac on January 17, 2015, 08:32:54 am
Gone Girl (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esGn-xKFZdU

My wife was super psyched to see this. See, she follows Hollywood celebrities and hype. I on the other hand, knew very little if anything going into it, except it has one of the highest reserves in the library. Oh, and it gets lots of praise.

When Gone Girl finished, I was really thinking I'm becoming that guy. Who goes against the grain. But reading reviews, I'm happy to say, I'm not alone. A lot of people saw what I saw.

I hated Gone Girl for so many reasons. The story is absolutely f*cking ridiculous. The plot holes are as big as the grand canyon. I found it very confusing. Why are people doing this? Why aren't the cops doing this? On and on.

The only redeeming value is Ben Affleck's acting. Oh, and Tyler Perry is pretty cool. All the rest are stiff or non-existant. Very early on I asked my wife if Rosamund Pike's character is a robot. I was being a smart ass, but at the same time, I found her zero facial expressions Stepford Wife like. She was absolutely horrible. The detectives side kick was what... a lost puppy dog?

I don't understand the praise. Unless we have gotten to a point of plot's dumbing down so much, something like Gone Girl is embraced with enthusiasm.

I hated this movie. Would not and could not recommend this movie to anyone and I certainly will never let it take over 2+ hours of my life.

Good gawd this was a long ass movie.  :-\
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2015, 09:02:24 pm
Caprica (Season 1.0 & 1.5 - 2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 17, 2015, 10:06:07 pm
I've only seen the first episode of Caprica.  And I forgot that my sister worked with Eric Stolz!  I never told her he was in this series.

I've been watching The Simpsons most of today, I needed some GOOD episodes after that awful alien episode from Sunday night.  Nail the coffin for the show.  Although I did have some thoughts about how to inject some new life into it... (http://emilysbrother.kinja.com/people-get-such-a-****-bug-up-their-ass-about-the-si-1680230240)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 18, 2015, 11:34:49 pm
Grudge Match (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 21, 2015, 05:49:32 pm
Lockout (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 21, 2015, 11:42:04 pm
Battlestar Galatica (Season 1 - 2003 / 2004)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2015, 10:59:15 pm
Battlestar Galatica (Season 2.0 & 2.5 - 2005)

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Post by: Neumatic on January 25, 2015, 08:43:49 pm
So I've been watching a couple episodes of Friends, and I'm on "The One With The Birth Mother" and I couldn't help but notice that the dude who screwed up the files was Jerry from Parks and Rec.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 25, 2015, 09:30:59 pm
Jerry from Parks and Rec.

 ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on January 26, 2015, 12:49:42 am
Okay, because I'm working on that stripper movie, I forced myself to watch Lap Dance, that recent stripper flick with Carmen Electra.

Dudes, it's awful.  Let's talk about the obvious, the actual stripping.  This movie makes the stripping in Sin City 2 look like sequences from Flashdance.  There's no actual dancing, there's barely music, you know what the strippers do for most of the scene ANY time we're in the strip club?  Take a guess.  They're SITTING!  They're f*cking SITTING!  I can't recall a scene in the club that didn't involve staying on their butts!  And not like sitting in a lap working up a custie, in a chair chilling out.  The few moments where there's girls performing, it's not really dancing so much as making something that could be construed as part of a dance, shot in slow motion.  SOOO MUCH OF THIS MOVIE WAS IN SLOW MOTION, to drag sh*t out longer than it needed to (and this is on top of redundant scenes and a slogging pace). 

There's a few shots of bare breasts, but they're brief, and there's shots of butts and legs but none of it is sexy, and yeah, I suppose you can make a point that it's not supposed to be, but still, there's NOTHING going on.  There are tons of scenes where it's built out of little elements, mostly in slow motion, to make you FEEL like something lurid is going on but isn't.  They made whole "sexy" sequences out of what would be the "establishing" shots in another flick, the little glimpses you see before say, the main character goes out on stage and does a pole dance and wins over the crowd.  She doesn't do that.  She doesn't win the crowd over, and she doesn't dance, and she doesn't get **** or anything and I remind you the WHOLE point of this movie was this girl becoming a stripper and the sh*t she had to deal with.

You don't feel like anything's lurid, honestly, you feel kinda disgusted by these bodies, I think.  First, they're all that super tight belly and giant fake breast Pam Anderson clone types and it just hurts your soul a little to see them, and the way the movie is shot robs anything that might be appealing about them straight out.  You see a shot of a butt and you don't think "nice butt," you think "why would anyone look at anyone's butt, ever?  There's flesh and stuff smushing together very slowly right in the center of the screen."

A massive chunk of this movie either had shots where there was a light shining right into the camera, or where everything was happening in shadows.  The plot is insultingly predictable (based on a true story) and happens at a crawl... ugh.

I don't know why I was concerned about this movie.  This movie was every bad thing I expected it to be and more, and honestly, if I didn't have to, I wouldn't have given this a second glance.

Life is too short to give this movie a try, I promise you there's nothing to gain from this flick.
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Post by: Mac on January 26, 2015, 03:49:06 am
Well you painted a pretty good picture. Have zero reasons to see it.
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Post by: Mac on January 26, 2015, 09:44:49 am
I Give It a Year (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Od8DhL1hyfw

Well this is embarrassing. Looking for a movie on Netflix we ALL could watch, I turned to 'Romantic Comedies' and my wife picked I Give It a year. Turns out the daughter did not want to watch after all. Anyways, the embarrassing part is we saw the movie before and did not realize it until the very end. I now see why we don't remember it, because it is a lite comedy and full of fluff. It's not bad. There are some laugh out loud moments and I can summarize this movie with one word... Inappropriate. The characters are constantly saying inappropriate things and thus the comedy.

If you want a few chuckles and little else, I give It a Year will work.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2015, 09:51:15 am
I Give It 3 Stars (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)



Fixed it for ya.  ;D
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Post by: Neumatic on January 26, 2015, 10:50:31 am
I despise things that are listed as comedies that aren't funny (Peter's Friends, for example).  Just own up and call it a drama, there's nothing wrong with that!

I think today I'm going to burn off the last episodes of Primeval and Wild China... all the other expiring BBC titles I couldn't get into.  fter that, I might rent a couple flicks off Amazon (I got it to work) and trim that watchlist down a little.
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Post by: Mac on January 26, 2015, 12:40:27 pm
Quote
Fixed it for ya.  ;D

Tanks
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Post by: Mac on January 27, 2015, 12:02:45 pm
As Above, So Below (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_nostar.gif) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

My heart sank with the first frames of this motherf*cking, hand held camera, piece of sh*t disturbing, useless, pointless, dickless, freaking bit of so called cinema.

I’ve seen the trailer, but I guess I put it out of my mind it’s all hand held. So like every other lame hand held flick, the producer’s are going for cheap realism. I would really love to sit on the meetings where movies like this get green lit. What is the goal? Make it for $5 and get a profit of $7? Set the bar really low and hope for the best. Or people today are willing to plop money down on this kind of crap (21 Million Dollars I guess). I watched about 30 minutes of it. About a fourth of the story made little to no sense. Stuff would suddenly happen with no follow-up of why. People made (ridiculous) statements and everybody around just agreeing and nodding their head. Me talking to the screen: WHAT? That made no sense on what you just said.

The camera work is what destroys any tension, scariness or dread. Blair Witch started the hand held craze 16 years ago. And since then, it’s been milked to death. It no longer works. If I can’t tell what’s going on because of in your face, jerkiness and high speed panning, then you lost the main reason to watch a scary film.

I have no idea about the title except it has the words Above and Below to state the obvious. Is it a biblical term?

Again, I will continue hoping for the best and expecting the worst. Some day’s I’ll find good material, but my patience gets shorter and shorter more often.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 27, 2015, 06:39:29 pm
Just started season four of Primeval (expires in a couple of days, you know).  After three seasons in SD (and the last one inexplicably in 4:3 despite coming out in 2010!) the show is finally in HD and big budget (and that's saying something for a show that had dinosaurs in it).  They built some stylish new sets and brought in some new cast members (Alexander Siddig included, yay)...

The show is shockingly similar to an idea I had been working on at the same time, about a team of scientists who track down dinosaurs who break into the modern day via random wormholes.

I gotta say, my favourite thing in the show is Ben Miller, he's a wonderful a**hole of a character, the boss who really doesn't want to be there and deal with this sh*t.  He's just so entertainingly annoyed.
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Post by: Mac on January 29, 2015, 07:49:14 pm
Rudderless (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

Directed and partly written by William H Macy, hits this amazing story out of the park. Billy Cruddup just brings so many dimensions to the story. What appears as a simple story quickly evolves into a multi-layered emotional story. The movie has a great cast. Direction is phenomenal and the music... Oh the music. I'll be buying this soundtrack. It just sounds moving and heartfelt.

I honestly did not want this film to end. Inspiring in a musical sense is a major understatement. I don't want to give spoilers away, so I won't talk about the twists and turns.

Lawrence Fishburne and Selena Gomez are great little touches to part of these men's life.

I cannot recommend this movie more. It's a must see.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2015, 07:55:31 pm
Never heard of it. How old is it? Will be checking Library for a copy for sure.
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Post by: Mac on January 29, 2015, 08:02:12 pm
Just released on DVD in the past week or two.

One of the trailers is Boyhood. Never heard of it. But it appears I'll be checking that one out too.  ;D
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2015, 09:15:03 pm
Boyhood I've known about for a while. But I won't be seeing that any time soon. When I went to place my spot on the wait list a couple of weeks ago, I saw the longest wait list ever for my Library. It was over 350 people. F*ck! Normally a "long wait" is about 150 on average. I've never seen it break 200, let alone 300 before.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 29, 2015, 09:55:09 pm
I've actually heard Boyhood isn't that hot.  Yeah, the story of them shooting it over 12 years is interesting (though as Red Letter media points out, not technically original), but the flick itself is apparently poorly written, drags like crazy, and apparently we just don't like the kid at the end. 
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Post by: Mac on January 30, 2015, 04:00:40 am
Damn you trailers  >:(
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 30, 2015, 08:51:10 pm
Jimi: All Is by My Side (2013)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2015, 10:19:14 pm
47 Ronin (2013)

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Post by: Mac on February 01, 2015, 01:05:27 pm
Hercules (2014 w/ Dwayne Johnson) 3 Stars

I was hoping I'd like this. Don't see to many Hercules movies investing any time in. This had a nice spin of everyone including Hercules, thinking he is immortal, or at the very least, the Gods enriching him with certain powers, except his posse. The movie throws some mythology at the viewer, but to pint out, this may or may not have happened. Hercules is mostly about a man and his group defending villages and communities. A lot of fighting. I liked it. I think because it did not get into fantasy and mythology.

Chocolat (4 stars)

I've seen Chocolat before and loved it then. Like wine, this movie is just so pleasant to watch. All the earmarks of story told many times over of drifters not welcomed by some in a small town. You have the bad leader and his followers, you have love, you have kids who hold things together. Highly recommend.

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Post by: Neumatic on February 02, 2015, 11:57:55 am
So my internet yesterday was sh*tty and it's still a bit screwy today (constantly dropping my HD signal) and it wasn't that hot the day before either.  And since I had no interest in watching the Superb Owl, I wound up watching all of Fargo.  I know I'm one of the last people on this boat but dang I liked it (I knew I would, that's why I bought the set).  It really did feel like watching a 10+ hour movie, and there were all these little things that pushed that impression:

*the writing, obviously, it felt very Coen-y, a good chunk of the show is characters talking and telling hokey parables yet you continued listening to what they ahd to say, captivated

* the camera work (there were neat things like seeing the family in the house across the street that a Coen Bros movie would do but most movies won't, but that sort of thing seemed to drop off a little as the show continued).  There are great shots at the opening of the episodes while those opening cards appeared ("this is a true story" etc) that leave you wondering what's going to happen, and for the most part the cinematography looks like a film.  There are some moments that have that "heads in a room talking" thing going on, but that's a problem of scale, at 10+ hours it's hard to avoid that entirely. 

* the casting... not just having Billy Bob Thornton and Martin Freeman as the main actors, like a proper movie would, but the minor roles over multiple episodes being filled by actors like Oliver Platt, Key and Peele, Stephen Root, Adam Goldberg, etc... it felt like the people who would show up in a movie, not on a TV show.  I love that.

It's stuff like that that really makes it feel like I've stepped into a movie and could walk around that world like it was a video game and you wouldn't see any seams.  I think that's real cool.

Oh, and it's a little thing, but the fact that there are no real opening credits, just titles, is another thing that helps break the "TV" feel.  I'm kind of obsessive about those sorts of things, I like how HBO doesn't have credits over footage, that helps with my suspension of disbelief, but you still have opening sequences every hour.  Here, the opening titles are so threadbare that they don't really register the same way.  They feel more like chapter headings more than anything else.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2015, 12:57:34 pm
Battlestar Galactica: Razor (2007)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2015, 05:57:13 pm
Battlestar Galatica (Season 3 - 2006)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2015, 09:02:23 pm
The Equalizer (2014)

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Post by: Mac on February 06, 2015, 07:53:47 am
The Guest (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0E2Qh6wLS4

I don’t remember ordering this. I didn’t read the back cover to what this was about. Going in totally blind. So viewing The Guest was a rollercoaster ride with liking it… not liking it... liking it. It did provide one of my essentials of not knowing what would happen next. From the folks who brought You’re Next, which was a fun ride, we get another slightly off center fun ride of an action flick. I didn’t care for the beginning, then it got good and some direction, then it does a 180 with… What???, then it barrels along in the 3rd act to completely go off the rails.

Dan Stevens does a reminiscent job of channeling a Robert Patrick Terminator into his character. There are a ton of scenes just watching Steven character go through facial changes. These few seconds seem to be core to the story telling.

While this is a 2014 movie, I found it odd, no intriguing, they would use 80’s electronic type of music. Again, I think it was to emulate the original Terminator movie. It’s not jarring, just noticeable. This is not a deep movie of a stranger coming to a family claiming he was close friends with their son who was killed in the war. Good looking, emotional and convincing, the family accepts him to stay. The story get thin quickly when you realize, there is no further discussion about the lost son. It was just a vehicle to kick start the story.

The guest is cold and brutal in a very subdued way. There were quite a few kills that surprised the hell outta me.

Like I said, it’s a decent fun movie, despite the WTF, IMO, Freddy Kreuger, last 20 minutes.

I recommend as a guilty pleasure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 06, 2015, 09:21:41 pm
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2015, 09:02:44 pm
Horns (2013)

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Post by: Mac on February 08, 2015, 09:38:10 am
John Wick

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvaftiAu7mw

I don't ever remember seeing a trailer for this film. It must have come and gone.... quick. The only thing I heard was it was bloody.

And it is. I don't know if John Wick is a graphic novel or a novel or what. The movie definitely had a style. It reminded me a lot of the recent movie The Equalizer. A simple story of a hit man who quit, but ran into the wrong folks and revenge takes place.

The style kinda reminded me of a Sin City. The action scenes were over the top with John Wick typically only using a hand held gun and shooting everybody in the face or head. Definite kills I would say. Keanu Reeves does his best impersonation of himself. Same quiet, but deadly driven individual. Reeves has gotten older and I think he's expanded a tad.

The soundtrack is a constant gut thumping techno pop and rock. I liked it.

It does have the occasional tongue in cheek humor. Not to much... just right.

I liked John Wick for a simple, park your brain, action flick
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Post by: Neumatic on February 13, 2015, 07:20:10 pm
Going through the final seasons of Stargate SG-1.  Wrapped up season nine (some of which I had seen) and season 10, which I had entirely missed the first time (except for the 200th episode).

Season nine, especially the start, has an interesting feel since Amanda Tapping wasn't in the first five episodes (she was preggers) so in addition to bringing in Ben Browder as the new lead, they also brought his co-star from Farscape Claudia Black in to fill the gap.  Combine that with Beau Bridges and Lexa Doig joining the cast, the show sort of has a half-old half-new energy to the whole thing.

A recent episode had John Noble in it, which I was very happy to see, but I had NO idea that Morena Baccarin from Firefly is one of the big bads in season 10.  We also had Louis Gosset Jr, Wally Shawn, Robert Picardo, the cigarette smoking man from The X-files... it's an element of the show I love, that sort of foster home for sci-fi character actors.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2015, 10:47:10 pm
Million Dollar Arm (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 14, 2015, 08:25:12 pm
Autómata (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 16, 2015, 01:43:40 pm
Well, with the exception of the last two movies (Ark Of Truth and Continuum), I just wrapped up all ten seasons of Stargate SG-1.  If eel like I saw the last episode before, but I wasn't sure.  It was real nice, just following the characters through the rest of their lives... in a way.  It was understated in a real nice way.

I just keep thinking I want to see Ben Browder lead another series-- he's due, this was almost ten years ago!  Outside of Doctor Who and Chuck, I've barely seen the guy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2015, 01:50:12 pm
He was in Chuck? I just wrapped that series a few months ago and I can't picture any scenes with him in that at all. Was it a walk-on cameo or something?
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Post by: Neumatic on February 16, 2015, 01:52:01 pm
Episode 5.11.  He's Erin Cahill's partner in crime, they were driving a bloodmobile type thing.  I forgot he was in that episode too, Erin surprisingly gets more screen time.  But she is a hot chick, and the show IS Chuck...

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Post by: Mac on February 16, 2015, 02:09:05 pm
Get On Up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptGSENcXeI

Not even going to rate it. I turned it off after 20 minutes. While I didn't hate it, I didn't like it one bit. James Brown is from the south and he has a thick southern accent and pretty much grunts while talking. Dayum, I couldn't take that for long at all. I missed a lot of what he was saying. What little I saw, James Brown is a dick. Also the movie is chaotic. It flips all over time, without cause... that I can see. It was not hard to decide early on... that I would waste my time on this.
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Post by: Mac on February 16, 2015, 02:13:20 pm
Hector and the Search for Happiness (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWFVAIbIkS4

I rather enjoyed Hector. A man realizing he doesn't have much of life, starts a search for what is Happiness. It's kinda of travel movie. It's mostly a feel good movie. There are moments where it does get intensely dark. I found it entertaining and would recommend to anyone.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 16, 2015, 06:03:25 pm
Well, I watched The Ark Of Truth and now I'm halfway into Continuum (which is only in SD, for some insane reason).  The series was free on Amazon Prime, the movies I had to pay for.  They cost about the same as a Blockbuster rental back in the day, but back in the day I had that grandfathered-in membership thing where I paid a flat fee and could take whatever I wanted for as long as I wanted, sort of like Netflix's envelope dealie. So it's a big adjustment renting movies on a per-movie basis this way.  And I can see it getting expensive fast.  So I gotta pace myself (I got a hundred titles queued up on my Amazon list, so that could be 400 bucks.  I figure if I hold out, some might show up on Netflix or I might find a cheaper option somewhere else (bargain bin disc or something).  Depends on the flick, I guess.  I just wish there was a way to know for certain what title was going where so I could do this sort of thing more intelligently.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2015, 05:10:56 pm
Battlestar Galatica (Season 4.0 & 4.5 - 2008/09)

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Post by: Mac on February 18, 2015, 09:52:02 am
The John Wick Kill Count... SPOILERS!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoO-w7Z7Yv4

I told ya, one bloody movie.
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Post by: Mac on February 18, 2015, 12:32:30 pm
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FcK_UiVV40

What I thought when I sat down to watch Predestination was going to be another time travel movie. What I got was a lot more complex mind bending experience. If you like Christopher Nolan movies, I’m going to guess you are going to like Predestination from The Spierig Brothers. Based on Robert A. Heinlein’s All You Zombies, which has no zombies. Zombies are the collective faceless culture of the future. Predestination deals with the paradox’s of time travel and ups the ante with some pretty wild thinking. I seriously need to watch this again, because when the movie starts to unfold the story lines in front of you, it’s pretty wicked in the end result.

A big chunk of the movie is a set up in the beginning by UnMarried Mother telling a story in small bar. Every frame of this film is essential, so nothing is insignificant.

Highly recommend Predestination. This is a thinking man's sci-fi.
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Post by: Mac on February 18, 2015, 12:37:59 pm
A Million Ways to Die in the West (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhmP8UYtipA

This movie got majorly crapped on in the theaters and reviews today. I can kind of see why, but honestly it was mindless funny, but crude stuff for couple of hours. I’ve seen far worse, and I’m talking about not being funny. In fact, I wish they got more crude. It’s starts off crude, then get’s all relationship telling and it looses it’s mojo. I’m not going to say stay away. It’s not The Princess Bride, but it isn’t crap either.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 18, 2015, 05:13:47 pm
If only the Doc's cameo hadn't been ruined for me... just like... I won't say which recent thing.
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Post by: Mac on February 22, 2015, 07:27:43 am
Housebound (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji8Tsuj3u0c

Housebound had some buzz a few months back about it's combination of humor and horror. And recently on Netflix, it shot up to the top of the popular list.

Hmmm, I can't call Housebound a horror movie and the humor is just so little inclusive throughout. I was thinking for a bit Housebound was reminiscent of C*ckney's Vs. Zombies, but that movie, the humor was more deliberate.

Housebound did a great job of twists and turns and I had no idea where it was going. Lots of surprises (story telling, not scares), especially in the 2nd half. But this movie just was way too long. Just when I thought it was wrapping up, they start a whole new chapter out of nowhere, I'm guessing for a dramatic and whiz bang ending.

I never did care for the main character. She is actually quite a pain in the ass and think the movie was trying to drive the point that this rebellious character would be the anti-hero.

Ultimately Housebound was meh. Way to long and I'm not sure I'd recommend it.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2015, 01:18:38 am
Needed a break, I've been doing some... well, let's call it high-intensity leisure, going through my backlog of books and movies and trying to clear out some space.  Combine that with some cabin fever from being stuck in the house, and I was feeling a bit burned out.  So I decided I'd just take today off.

Wound up watching the first season of Bates Motel.  I waited until there were two seasons up because I knew I would go right through them, I'm already half-way through episode 9 and there's only 11 more to go.

I'm never staying in a motel again.  Or going to Oregon.

I have to say that the show is an interesting reshuffling of the project, it's interesting to see actors in these roles doing different things, on those sets.  And they did a brilliant job recreating the house and the motel and updating it, I actually wasn't sure if it was Universal Studios or not (it's not, it's Canada).  And I would never have thought that the kid from Finding Neverland would be a spot-on Norman Bates.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2015, 06:20:54 am
Bates Motel is f*cking awesome. It's been a drag waiting for Season 3 to arrive. Just a little bit longer.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2015, 01:09:05 pm
I love how there are little nods to Psycho in the execution, there are shots that echo the movie, especially when we're in the house.  And when that dude was shot in the neck, the music definitely echoed the famous string music while being it's own thing.  Norman leering at his teacher at the end of season one (one season in a day!) definitely had a Hitchcockian type feel to it.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2015, 02:20:04 pm
I'm into season two, right after Bradley shoots the guy and goes to Norman for help, all I can think is "okay, oxygen tank girl is the ONLY person in the town who hasn't killed anybody yet, and no one's actually gotten into trouble for any murders yet, so... what's the big deal?"
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2015, 02:46:29 pm
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Post by: Neumatic on February 23, 2015, 08:16:48 pm
Aw man, I'm almost done but I still have about four days until House Of Cards... no idea what I'm gonna watch in the meantime.
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Post by: Mac on February 24, 2015, 10:30:49 am
The 100 Foot Journey (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6H8pAKKkgQ

Picked this up because I saw Helen Mirren on the cover. I like her stuff. Anyway, come to find out that my wife really wanted to see this.

Based on the best seller, 100 Ft is a gorgeous film to watch. Set in a small town in France, we essentially have a culture clash. I was very interested to see how this played out. I would have never thought about an Indian Family taking their culinary experience to a diametrically different location. It came down to the Indian family creating a restaurant 100 ft across the road from a French restaurant (which Helen Mirran runs and owns). The pacing is awesome, never slow or bogged down and fast enough to see the evolution of the characters. You care for each an every one. I was fascinated by the different perspectives. 100 Foot reminded me somewhat of Chocolat. Fish (culture) out of water. But driven with respect by all. Thoroughly entertained the entire time.

Highly recommend.

Appended note: One tiny, tiny little flaw and that was Charlotte Le Bon losing track of her French accent. It goes from Full french, to the English with French accent to full on American. Again, very minor. I just noticed it because it took me out of the movie only for a moment.  ;)
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2015, 11:25:33 am
Lucy (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVt32qoyhi0

The latest film by Luc Besson and starring Scarlett Johannson and Morgan Freeman. I think any of us who saw the trailer was thinking, finally a badass female lead. Ya, not so much. I wanted to like Lucy. I had high anticipation and it starts out like I expected. But… once Lucy gets the chemical induction, it just runs off the rails. I seriously don’t know what the last 10 minutes were. Like the recent Limitless, Lucy is given a drug that enhances her brain power. Lucy revolves around the idea of humans use 10% of their brain and what if… what if they 30%, 50%, etc. Well the movie attempts to present it’s ideas in less than this very short running movie time. I get what Luc Besson was trying to achieve, but he was trying to keep it a balancing act of taking what might be very complicated, dumbing it down into a mindless action flick. As usual, Luc Besson has an eye for the screen and the imagery is imaginative and beautiful. The concept and believability are missing.

What really killed it for me was Lucy’s character through the last 3/4 of the movie. Scarlett is absolutely brilliant and believable in the beginning. The situation she’s thrown in is terrifying and she translates that so well. But, literally, in a blink of the eye, once she takes the chemical, her character becomes this emotionless robot. Except for one small moment of talking to her mom, we see no emotion. Like Keanu Reeves in the Day the Earth Stood Still, the uber wooden character just destroys the story.

I was so disappointed. She is not a badass. She uses her mind to do things, including moving things and people and from I can tell, control time. For me, it went way beyond taking a leap of faith, and became a silly brainless movie.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 25, 2015, 12:54:34 pm
Well, that's disappointing to read. I was looking forward to this. I will still check it out, but my enthusiasm for this just plummeted.
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2015, 01:17:05 pm
I'll be interested to hear what you have to say.

I started thinking more about this more. For instance, what if I watched The Fifth Element last night. Never seeing it before. I mean seriously, that is a weird movie and being in the right mood would be an uber silly movie. Would I think it's like this movie and silly as hell, or is The Fifth Element that good no matter what?

Maybe, just maybe you'll really like Lucy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 25, 2015, 01:20:33 pm

Maybe, just maybe you'll really like Lucy.

It would be better if I Loved Lucy.  ;D
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2015, 01:25:28 pm
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/slappingfaceoverandover.gif) It would be better if I Loved Lucy.  ;D (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Smilies/0%20All%20Smilies/slappingfaceoverandover.gif)
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Post by: Neumatic on February 25, 2015, 06:40:18 pm
Riiiickyy.... I wanna use a hundred percent of my braiiiiiiiinn...

You know, I honestly can't tell you how few movies I put off or just plain never watch because I can't get in the right mindset.  This is why binging TV came from and center for me, I already know what it's going to be and I can fill hours with it.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 25, 2015, 11:32:48 pm
Doing my monthly "watch it before it expires" purge.  Just watched Seven, which was still awesome.  And nice three days before House Of Cards returns.  Hopefully my mind will connect the two.

Now I just started The Graduate.  Never seen it before.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 25, 2015, 11:56:38 pm
Okay, I wasn't really getting into The Graduate (what did I tell you, not in the mood!) so I switched to another expiring movie, See No Evil Hear No Evil, which I just realized four seconds after turning it on ALSO has Kevin Spacey in it.
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Post by: Mac on February 26, 2015, 03:41:52 am
Graduate feel dated?
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Post by: Neumatic on February 26, 2015, 03:57:14 am
No, I'm just not in the mood.  And I was a little distracted, I can't read Dustin Hoffman as a young man, he's over a decade younger than I am in the flick but he still reads as a full adult to me.  Makes it a little harder to get into it.
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Post by: Mac on February 26, 2015, 06:29:07 am
Yea, I get it...

From Wiki...

Quote
There are considerable age discrepancies between the lead roles and the actors who portrayed them. Benjamin Braddock says, "I will be 21 next week "; at the time of filming, Dustin Hoffman was 29. Mrs. Robinson states, "Benjamin, I am twice your age." Anne Bancroft was 35, only six years older than Hoffman. Mrs. Robinson's daughter Elaine is 19 and was portrayed by Katharine Ross, who was 27 at the time. Elaine May, who portrayed Elaine's college roommate and delivered a note to Benjamin from Elaine, was 35 at the time and only seven months younger than Anne Bancroft.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 26, 2015, 07:23:15 am
Wow, didn't realize that.  It kinda makes it worse.  Which is funny because if it was a stage play it would be fine for me, I think it's just the suspension of disbelief issue.  I don't know if the even had actors as old as 21 actually headline movies back then.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 26, 2015, 05:33:02 pm
Battlestar Galatica: The Plan (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on February 27, 2015, 12:38:00 am
Just started House Of Cards Season 3... and there's one thing that put a big smile on my face: despite the fact it's a cr*psack nihilistic world, Colbert is still on TV!  And not just in the background, Colbert is taking on Pres Underwood about his really sh*tty term so far.
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Post by: Mac on February 27, 2015, 07:35:19 am
Whiplash (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_jQycdQGo

Got to see Whiplash last night and I was hesitant about seeing it. I saw the trailer. Not a big fan of abusive teaching. Don’t believe in it. Doesn’t work for me and I at the core don’t think it works for most. I’m sure there is the random few who would benefit from this kind of teaching.

J.K. Simmons embraces this warped character and demands all the screen time. Loved that. Miles Teller does a fantastic job as a newbie drummer in core band. But what is missing is what makes him tick. Whiplash is all about conflict, so what drives Andrew to make the decisions he does. Even dumping his girlfriend, to become one of the best? Really the same thing for J.K. Simmons character. Why is he like that? How did he become that way. None of this is ever fleshed out.

There is plenty of eye rolling corny stuff in this movie. Blood on the kit, making a point by kicking out a student, not because he’s out of tune, but too weak to stand up for himself? WTF. The car accident… are you kidding me? Punching through a snare?

I viewed Whiplash through my movie spectator eyes and not my drumming eyes. If this was a movie only about drumming, it would be boring. I found Whiplash entertaining but in a very Hollywood unbelievable kind so way. You have to have these over the top characters to make it interesting, or it just becomes ordinary life on the screen and that’s not very entertaining.
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 10:43:50 am
Birdman (no rating)

I pretty much knew Birdman was not for me. It won an academy award... I think. Any, immediately this comes off as an art film with the much talked about long walk through scenes. Not only did I find this distracting, to the point of not 'listening' to the movie, it just seems so unnatural. It's real apparent when scenes which we are accustomed to different camera angles, we find in Birdman, the cameraman actually swings back and forth between the people talking or worse where the camera circles around the people talking.

I just didn't find Birdman interesting in any way.
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 10:49:49 am
Horrible Bosses 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utriEZFno0E

The best thing about the sequel to Horrible Bosses is the soundtrack. 2 is a pale compared to the original. I don't know how they lost course so quickly. Horrible Bosses had 3 bosses that were over the top, funny, and entertaining to see. Horrible Bosses just about tosses the idea of 'Bosses' and goes with a single jerk. Chris Pine being the jerk. The rest of the movie is rinse and repeat.

I found myself laughing just a few times.

Meh... at best
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 10:55:59 am
The Devil's Hand (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

A horror movie that we've seen many times before. An present day Amish community going to extremes to keep their people pure. Some nonsense about an ancient myth that comes true. 6 girls born on the 6th day of the 6th month. It happened and the Elder's want them gone.

The production is decent. But it's that kind of movie where the last 5 minutes totally pulls the rug from under the viewer. Pissed me off.
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 11:41:28 am
A Walk Among the Tombstones (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I had about zero enthusiasm to watch Liam Neeson in another Taken-esq flick. It was supposed to have a film Noir feel. I just thought it was another mindless less than action flick from Neeson. I've seen way better with The Equalizer.

Don't expect much. I'll forget most of this within days.
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 11:51:31 am
Close Encounters with the Third Kind (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Just for grins, I found this in the library with the 30th anniversary 3 Disc set. I wanted to mostly watch the extras.

I was torn watching this again after so many years. I remember when it came out and just loved it. Today, I see with a different perspective. I just think the movie went overboard with Richard Dreyfuss character trying to recreate Devil's Tower and not knowing why.

But my biggest complaint is his relationship with his family. Man, he just pretty much crapped on them and left them for his quest. Maybe that wasn't a big deal back then? It just struck me as very odd.

Still the movie sets the standard for direction and impact of cinematography. I just don't think today I'd give it the praise it gets.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 01, 2015, 02:56:29 pm
D*mn, you're watching a buttload of movies, Mac!  Sorry the good ones have been few and far between.  Seems like you're powering through a list, though... I gotta get back on that myself.  I should be well-rested enough to return to high-intensity leisure.

I should have been done with House Of Cards by now, but I've been watching so much Star Trek the last few days.
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Post by: Mac on March 01, 2015, 07:34:22 pm
Yea, we had a snow storm recently and just became couch potatoes. Also it just becomes a feast at the library.

I do have a couple of good reviews coming up though. It wasn't total bummage.
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Post by: Mac on March 02, 2015, 05:20:16 pm
Big Hero 6 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IdMPpKMdcc

I remember one of you guys posting the trailer for Big Hero 6 and immediately knew it was a must see. I did and so glad. It turned out to be one of the more entertaining films in animation in a long time. It really is geared for a young crowd, but as the practice of late from studio's provide entertainment for adults. Disney knocked this out of the park with awesome animation and story, though not new, that was just a fun ride. The characters were awesome. Even the bad guys.

I also remember, I believe Neumatic talking about San Fransokyo. At the time, I really didn't pay attention, but NOW I get what he was saying. It's an awesome mash up. The more I think about it, animated towns have been done a million times and slightly different  ways with old charm or new contemporary. This mashup is refreshing and blast to go through. It's done a lot.

I highly recommend Big Hero 6

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Post by: Mac on March 02, 2015, 05:28:05 pm
The Boxtrolls (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2dFVnp5K0o

And yet another major animated story. I loved Boxtrolls. I knew way back when I first saw glimpses of this, it would be something very different, and it is. What creative imaginations in every set, every scene. There is sooooo much going on.

I think what it is with this 'kids' movies, I'm finding myself feeling like a kid. Not difficult stuff, but just a comfortable entertaining time. I get lost in these worlds and that's what films are supposed to do.

Another highly entertaining flick... for everyone.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2015, 06:13:06 pm
Battlestar Galactica: Blood & Chrome (2012)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 03, 2015, 01:10:24 pm
The Big Bang Theory (Season 7 - 2013)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 06, 2015, 08:18:45 pm
I want to talk about Amy Heckerling's Vamps but I don't want to say too much.  I don't even want to post the trailer because so many cast members are wonderful surprises.  It's just a shame more people don't know about it.

Right now I'm on the second episode of "The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt," Tina Fey's Netflix series.  It's real cute, Ellie Kemper from The Office plays this chipper, upbeat Indiana girl who's been living in a bomb shelter with a doomsday cult, now she's out in New York.  It obviously reminds me of that Brendan Fraser movie "Blast From The Past," but the family that Kimmy works for totally reminds me of Mean Girls.

I know that they said that the content isn't going to change, but I wonder, little things like maybe being able to get more music rights or being able to stretch out shooting schedules to go on more locations or get some interesting guest stars... I can see that sort of thing happening just as a byproduct of not having to adhere to a weekly release schedule.
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Post by: Mac on March 07, 2015, 04:11:53 am
We will be checking out Kimmy Schmidt soon, I'm sure.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 07, 2015, 11:56:25 pm
Gone Girl (2014)

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Post by: Mac on March 08, 2015, 02:26:37 pm
The Remaining (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPzzO92stsI

I'm still torn about watching The Remaining. There is no indication this is a Christian Faith based movie. The trailer makes it look like a horror film reminiscent of The Darkest Hour. And the movie does drive forward with a horror theme, interlaced with discussions about God, the Rapture, the Bible and of course the remaining. Are they saved or are they God's throwaway. While not preachy and in fact, some interesting ideas that might actually tick some Christians off. The acting was OK. The special effects where rather impressive. But overall, The Remaining is just OK. They smart enough to not stick with the POV shaky cam. That would have been a deal breaker and good cause to stop watching it. The end is left open which again will irritate some folks. Not me.

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Post by: Mac on March 08, 2015, 02:29:44 pm
Dracula Untold (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZFZxEnB7ws

Honestly the scope, the sets, costumes, etc looked rather impressive. But I sat there for the first 20 minutes and this movie didn't even come close to moving my meter. I was bored from the get go. I didn't care to waste any more time with it and hope for the best.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 12, 2015, 08:37:27 pm
Black Sails (Season 1 - 2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 15, 2015, 06:29:06 am
Divergent (2014)

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Post by: Mac on March 16, 2015, 08:31:31 am
This was a horrible weekend to sit down to movies. Friday night we wasted a lot of time sitting through beginning of movies to determine we are wasting our time. Sat through the beginning of 3 movies that wasted pretty much our whole night.

Nightcrawler was just a weird premise with a very creepy Jake Gyllenhaal character that we had no interest in continuing with. Turned it off after 20 minutes.

Then tried Kill the Messenger with Jeremy Renner. This is all drama that just bored the hell outta me. I stuck with this for a half hour waiting for ‘something’ to happen. It didn’t and I turned it off.

Then we tried Blue Jasmine, a Woody Allen film and again, we were not feeling it. Another movie we were forgetting as we were watching it. It was not our night for DVD movies from the library.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2015, 08:34:02 am
I have Nightcrawler on hold at the library. I'm still interested in checking this out. The other two I've never heard of.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 18, 2015, 10:03:36 pm
Fury (2014)

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Post by: Neumatic on March 19, 2015, 10:41:22 pm
Watching The Equalizer... it's like half a good movie... but I'm too overpowered by the other half.  There's a real sense of "and then" storytelling going on, you know?  I'm bored with it when the tension should just be racheting up more and more.  I was expecting more along the lines of say Taken or Kiss Of The Dragon meets Man On Fire, with Chloe Moretz being a bit more of a guide/sidekick, leading Denzel deeper down the rabbit hole (she's only in a couple minutes of the movie).

The thing is, the stuff that's well done is really well done, but it doesn't... I guess it doesn't sync up right, you know what I mean?  When it fires on all cylinders, you're just left wondering why it wasn't firing.  It's distracting like that.
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Post by: Mac on March 20, 2015, 06:26:02 am
Penguins of Madagascar (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10OTg6lD4Jc

I’m a sucker for Madagascar series. Great funny characters that entertains kids and adults alike. Dreamworks has hit Penguins out of the park. The jokes are machine gunned at the audience as is the rapid pace story telling. Then it only ramps up during the action chase sequences. I was constantly laughing out loud. Consistently funny.

The Theory of Everything (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

I wasn’t really sure what to expect when sitting down to watch this. I knew the basics. It’s the formative years of Stephen Hawkings school, doctorate, finding his first wife, Jane. And then of course the disease that changed his life forever.

The beginning I felt was a little iffy. I’m glad I stuck with it because it does become engaging. I have attempted to read his one of his books, A Brief History of Time. My only other experience of Hawking is seeing photo’s in his current state of. Which doesn’t reveal much. This is where the movie shines. There is a person under that almost catatonic state. I don’t know who Eddie Redmayne is, but he did an amazing job from the beginning of an awkward youth to a man that can reveal his emotions only with his eyes.

Theory is not any easy movie to watch. While I was entertained going through everything with the characters, I doubt I’d watch it again. It’s a tough watch.

Flu (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

I had heard about Flu and by chance I went to the Korean center of our library. Yes, our library has a special center for Korean, Chinese and Hindi. Apparently we have quite the community here in St. Louis. Anyway, I plopped the movie in and was rather impressed with the production. This was a legitimate feature flick with good acting, good characters and good production values. Unfortunately  the story telling wasn’t engaging with something serious like pandemic. I got bored rather quickly.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 20, 2015, 11:43:44 am
The Theory Of Everything was fine, but I have no desire to see it again.  My big issue was with it being nominated, I don't feel it deserved it because Eddie Redmayne wasn't making any acting choices that any other actor wouldn't make, the story and the direction didn't feel unique... it felt like you could have anyone make the movie and it would have been the same movie, and I feel like nominations and awards should be for those who break the mold and deliver something only they can make.

Also, a huge problem I had was the same problem I had in the first episode of Kyle XY.  In this case, Hawking is losing his ability to speak and to express himself, but there's so much silence in the film that it undercuts that.  He should have been talking a lot, throughout the film, been part of conversations, so we really feel the loss when he can't speak anymore.  (In Kyle XY it's the opposite, the character is supposed to be mute for the first half of the pilot, but since we're hearing voice-over the whole time, it's not a surprise to us when he starts talking. The moment is totally undercut).

Also, the way Hawking presented his information changed dramatically when he lost his voice.  Because he spent so much time in his head, he did more thought experiments and since he couldn't converse, he could go at his own speed, so he had all these breakthroughs, but because it was so much effort to put them down, he had to simplify the ideas, and I think that's a big reason why he's so well-known, not just his ideas but the way he gets them across.  I just didn't get that feeling watching the movie.  The whole thing felt more like "isn't it sad he can't walk?" not "look how not being able to move changed so much in his life and everyone elses!"
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Post by: Mac on March 20, 2015, 12:13:55 pm
I agree with everything you say. Yea, I'm not going to be thinking his acting was out of the park. He nailed Hawking, which essentially is a fairly inanimate. At least in the movie, we see some expression of this human through at his eyes.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 20, 2015, 10:58:04 pm
House of Lies (Season 3 - 2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2015, 11:10:09 am
I'm Still Here (2010)

This has been on my radar for the past 5 years and I had every intention of checking this out a lot sooner. But for whatever reason, I just never bothered to pull the trigger and seek it out. Maybe there was something internally telling me not too. I should have gone with my gut and stayed away. You all know that I will stay to the bitter end, anything that I start, I see through to completion. This is one of those rare cases where I couldn't. The movie is a joke. It's bad. I've already wasted enough time talking about it. Not gonna bother giving the movie its own thread or even rate it since I couldn't go beyond the first 30 minutes before calling it quits.
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2015, 12:16:00 pm
I dunno... it took me forever to understand I don't have to sit through til the bloody end.

There is just soooo much stuff out there, then to sit through crap.

Wednesday night, I started 3 different movies on Netflix. It was pretty clear, fairly quickly, it was not going to get any better than what I had seen in the first 20 minutes. So I was a little frustrated of wasting an hour of my time starting stuff, I would not finish.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 27, 2015, 10:45:15 pm
Boardwalk Empire (Season 5 - 2014)

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Post by: Mac on March 29, 2015, 03:38:02 pm
Animal (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

This is a solid good B Movie. Real good production value. Acting is very good. They should have had far less creature. It's not real good and it would have only helped to be an intense unknown.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5oqL27Wgxs
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Post by: Mac on March 29, 2015, 03:41:01 pm
House at the end of Time - (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clEBwkjs0sQ

A very good creepy haunted house movie. It is hispanic and only english subtitles. But there isn't a whole lot of dialog going on. Just some very good scary situations going on. Highly recommend.
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Post by: Mac on March 29, 2015, 03:48:58 pm
Transcendence (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCTen3-B8GU

I swore I wrote about this. Maybe I just thought about what little I could write about an unbelievably bad movie it was. The acting was OK. The story was just ridiculous. Quickly forgotten and in no way endorse this lame crap.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 03, 2015, 08:14:05 pm
Foxcatcher (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 04, 2015, 10:52:11 pm
Downton Abbey (Season 5 - 2015)

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Post by: Mac on April 05, 2015, 05:49:31 am
I'll write more later

Interstellar - meh
Wild - snore
The Imitation Game - Entertaining
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Post by: Neumatic on April 08, 2015, 01:39:52 pm
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who didn't care for Interstellar.  F that S.  Up its' A.

I actually wanted to bring up a book I read called "Ark," and this seems like as good a place as any, because it reminded me of Interstellar in that it's about a crew of astronauts trying to find a new home for humanity.  But instead of the world drying out, this time it's flooding, life on the seas is WaterWorld, life on land is Children Of Men, and a group of young people are brought together as candidates (think Ender's Game) to crew a one-way spaceship to a new world for humanity... and things just start going downhill from there.  I liked it, I'm glad I read it, though I don't think I'll read it again (it takes a lot for me to want to re-read a book) so if either of you want to read it, lemme know.

I watched... well, quite a bit of stuff recently, but my big thing is that Halt And Catch Fire just came on Netflix.  Perfect timing since I got a new computer.
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Post by: Mac on April 08, 2015, 03:46:53 pm
Damn if Ark does not sound familiar...

... Old book?
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Post by: Neumatic on April 08, 2015, 04:08:50 pm
Recent, just not well known.  Got it on the discount shelves new, but picked it up b/c it sounded interesting (it totally was, it's a qucik enough read but it covers a HUGE period of time and a LOT of sh*t that goes on in space and on Earth.  Total entropy, things just keep gettin' worse and worse.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 10, 2015, 12:32:12 pm
The Interview (2014)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2015, 11:30:01 am
Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014)

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Post by: Mac on April 12, 2015, 05:39:08 pm
Ouiji 0 Stars

Man, did the trailer sell me a line. Ouiji is an incredible lazy film. The worst kind. Let's pick out a film title and then build a script on it. Horrible dialog. Nonsensical reasoning for... Anything. Man, they really loaded on the crap in scenes and my jaw just dropped. Every cliche in the book is here. Not even the jump scenes were scary. I've seen scarier Bugs Bunny videos.

Sad, sad, sad. To think they can try a shovel this drivel and people buy into it. I'm sure some did, but I think most see the lazy attempt here.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 12, 2015, 08:52:02 pm
So after sitting on the disc for a week (a week), I finally saw Birdman.  Now, Mac might not have dug it, but I quite enjoyed it.  I loved the energy of having the continuous camerawork, I know there was a lot of digital trickery involved, but even still the actors were running through entire scenes, which is great, it was actually LIKE theater.  And keeping the camera going from one scene to the next, traveling around the theater was great, it kept us in the moment, kept the energy high, having people hustle around or the camera switch to another person... I dug it.

The roving camera kind of reminded me of Gravity (even though there's certainly other flicks that have used the extended one-shot trick).  It also seemed like a great way to revitalize the theater-centric film, there's been a bunch of movies that are about the theater or take place in the theater, but the style made what's essentially a talky dark comedy visually compelling (as well as the visuals, it's just a great looking flick... and the digital photography and digital lighting, combined with the cinematography, really created this great "you are here" feel.  I honestly didn't realize until watching this film "oh yeah, real life IS one long unedited cut!"

Oh and not for nothing, I also really dug how Riggen shouted down that critic by tearing apart her article, how it was labels and opinions, no analysis or anything.  But that's a personal thing.
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Post by: Mac on April 16, 2015, 07:33:22 am
The Badadook (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5WQZzDRVtw

Yet another example of over-hype. The Badadook has been getting rave reviews on the inner circles of the horror community, mostly by critics. Watching it last night my excitement slowly dissipated into frustration. Today, I’m not sure what I watched. Was it real and there was a badadook? Was the women going crazy? Was the woman circling down into her son’s extreme behavior?
The movie is really just about the mom and her son and it all takes place in the house. The son has behavior problems dealing with imaginary monsters. Only to escalate when she begins to read him The Badadook. Then the rest of the movie is watching a stressed out mom on little sleep trying to keep her job, trying to deal with her son and it seemed to me that the audience was doing a lot of watching this mom trying to sleep.

Gawd, how boring is that. I think the critics liked it because of the psychological aspect. I think indie audiences are liking it because it’s different and artsy. But I think what will happen is when the masses start watching this, they, like me will be scratching their heads and ask WTF?

I will give this just a hint of recommendation. I didn’t like it and will never attempt again. Maybe others might find some entertainment out of it.

Note: There is one scene I loved solely because it tested out my sub-woofer for a long extended grumbling sound effect that just shook everything in the room. The scene was effective.

Oh, on a side note too, this movie is heavily dependent on sound effects. I think it’s effective and truly the only thing that propels the horror aspect.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2015, 10:23:20 am
Never heard anything about this. Was this released in theaters? For something getting rave reviews, I'm kinda surprised that this is the first I'm hearing about the movie.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on April 16, 2015, 11:19:13 am
Ya know, I am not sure about the wide release. It probably was an indie thing and darling at the festivals.

Note: Badadook was released on Netflix the same day as DVD release
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Post by: Neumatic on April 16, 2015, 01:10:28 pm
That same day release is more an indication of WHO the distributor is rather than any sign of quality.  And yeah, I recall the Babadook being released and getting a LOT of talk.  Though I hadn't seen it.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 18, 2015, 08:21:17 pm
Turn: Washington's Spies (Season 1 - 2014)

(http://i.imgur.com/aoGm2n2.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/turn-washington's-spies-(season-1-2014)/msg34386/#msg34386)

Click Me For Review ^^
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 23, 2015, 06:45:25 pm
A Walk Among The Tombstones (2014)

(http://i.imgur.com/Ti0yaRD.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/a-walk-among-the-tombstones-(2014)/msg34408/#msg34408)

Click Me For Review ^^
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Post by: Mac on April 23, 2015, 06:48:22 pm
Good Gawd, I thought I saw this? Yea, that's a question. If I did see it, I don't remember anything. Maybe I passed it up do to Liam's predictable movies of late.u

Edit: I did see it. Just saw the trailer and remembered... Not much. I guess I didn't write a review either.m :-\
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Post by: Neumatic on April 23, 2015, 11:14:19 pm
I had totally forgotten that I'd seen a different Liam Neeson movie, the one where he gets amnesia (ironic, I guess).  I caught it on TV at a restaurant and realized "I've seen this before."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 26, 2015, 09:15:23 pm
The Punisher (1989)

(http://i.imgur.com/U8dVIxg.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-punisher-(1989)/msg34427/#msg34427)

Click Ne For Review ^^

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Post by: Neumatic on April 27, 2015, 08:42:04 pm
Now that the film fest is over, I can jump back onto Netflix... I got movies about to expire, but right now I'm watching Star-Crossed, which is like the CW version of "Alien Nation."  It's... well, I'm getting a couple of ideas off it, and I love sci-fi and futuristic stuff, and it's only 13 episodes, so...

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on April 30, 2015, 08:31:42 pm
The Woman In Black 2: Angel Of Death 2 Stars

2 is just lazy. It's clearly a copied formula from the first one. Minus the creepy atmosphere. A few cheap jump scares, new characters and 40 years later. Same setting... Ugh.

Utter waste of resources. Shot very well, but Ya know, that's all it has. Go watch the original.
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Post by: Mac on April 30, 2015, 08:40:36 pm
Unbroken 3 Stars

I had a little hope for Unbroken. It looked pretty good in the trailer. The true story of Louie Zamperini. Olympian, war hero and hostage. But I found plenty of problems to make this forgettable. While the Zamperini goes through some amazing and shocking moments, they get lost in the long boring sequences. It does not help casting Jacj Oconnell. I really don't know who I he is, but he brought little to the role. I thought many of the scenes I've seen before. Olympic underdog, stranded on the ocean, war camp were all déjà vu for me. Unbroken just hold my attention.
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Post by: Mac on May 03, 2015, 06:12:27 pm
Scenic Route Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb7Hrtwzwjs

Caught this last night and loved every minute of it. Don't let the trailer fool ya. 99% of this movie is in the desert with just Josh Duhamel and Dan Fogler and an engaging script. The 3rd act is a dozy. It's simply one set with two actors. Sometimes the stark storytelling can be so powerful.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2015, 07:17:05 pm
Finishing up M-M- Max Headroom. Headroom. Headroom. I should point out that this is the drama/sci-fi series, not the weird interview series where the whole concept seems to be confusing the h*ll out of famous people.

I'll be honest, I wasn't expecting the show to be any more than an interesting little facet from the 1980s, interesting style but quickly boring and to be remembered only as a weird dream, but honestly, I dig it.  There's a real techno-phobic feel to it, the show is all about technology stealing our souls, being brainwashed by TVs, having our dreams stolen out of our heads, humanity being destroyed in the quest for corporate dominance.  My big surprise is that there are episodes where the titular Max barely even appears, the hassle of shooting all his stuff in advance and putting it in keeps him in the sidelines.

I really dig the style of the show too, it's gloomy, old school cyberpunk where the closest thing to the sun is the bleached brightness of cathode rays spitting data and stock footage into murky, foggy interiors.  The model cities (which I adore, even if they are cheesy) are like Blade Runner on a budget, TVs jammed into wood frames to create the illusion of massive billboards.

It's interesting that there didn't seem to be any film copies of the show, the whole DVD set is copies of broadcast tapes, there's a VHS softness to the whole thing, it makes the show feel more like a weird artifact from another time.
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Post by: Mac on May 03, 2015, 07:27:23 pm
I barely remember the show. I certainly don't remember what you describing. I'd probably watch an episode   :o
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2015, 07:35:00 pm
Well, the show was like a tiny part of the Max Headroom zeitgeist, most people knew him from the Coke commercials that Ridley Scott directed... (http://www.bleedingcool.com/2012/06/01/the-ridley-scott-max-headroom-coke-commercials-that-led-to-prometheus/)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6m5yIK3af8

and he had an interview show that I think was on Cinemax or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exixvphzc98

But this was a straight-up hourlong sic-fi drama, shown on ABC, I think, with a proper cast (Jeffrey Tambor was in it for crying out loud), mythology, etc... aping the Ridley Scott style pretty darn well for a cheap show made in Canada.
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Post by: Mac on May 04, 2015, 10:39:30 am
Fury (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKu5lGfRBxc

I’ve had many opportunities to put this flick in the player before, but the core of me is just not interested in war genre films. I’ve liked some of the classic’s like Von Ryan’s Express and the Great Escape. So sat down to Fury and was really enjoying this story unfolding. All the guys playing new characters. Brad Pitt running the show with his faithful, skillful, but jaded comrades. Shia LeBeouf, Michael Pena and Jon Bernthal exploring characters that had me glued to the screen. Logan Lerman as Norman, one of the central characters, I was flip flopping on liking. Sometimes I’m thinking, who is this guy, other times he’s nailing how I probably would act.

The action is intense. In particular there is one scene with a Tiger Tank that honestly had me on the edge of my seat.

War is brutal and illogical. A lot doesn’t make sense outside of war, but once immersed in it, things change. Again, ‘Entertained’ might not be the right word. I doubt I ever watch this again… because it’s rough, but I was definitely absorbed in the movie. So all in all, this was a massive surprise for me. Highly recommend.

Add edit: Just read Chip's review (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd%27s-blu-rays/fury-%282014%29/msg34053/#msg34053) and completely agree with his take.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 05, 2015, 06:47:28 am
I actually thought you had already seen the movie prior to me checking it out for myself. I even did a search for your review and couldn't find it. Now I know why. Ack! Glad you liked it. Kind of surprised that you ranked it so high given the fact War movies are not your thing. But I shouldn't be totally surprise that Fury somehow manage to get under your skin given how different it is from your typical war flicks.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 05, 2015, 09:24:43 am
Well, that's probably it. It is different than other war movies. I was engaged in the characters and the story.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 05, 2015, 09:08:45 pm
Been inspired all day today, adding a buttload of notes and ideas to my sci-fi series concept, so in the meantime I've got some 30 Rock playing to give me something to listen to.  Never seen it before, but after "Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt" I'm real eager to get into it.

Aubrey Plaza was in an early episode!  Hopefully there will be more pleasant surprises as the series continues (I keep hoping Scott Adsit will do the Beymax "falalalalala" but I know it'll never happen).
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Post by: Neumatic on May 07, 2015, 11:38:49 pm
A flick called "Pretty Persuasion" from 2005 with Evan Rachel Wood.

Dudes.  Holy f*ck that ending.  I don't wanna say anything.  You gotta watch it.  It's smart, funny, and dark.  I remember seeing the case all the time at the video store but never picked it up.  BIG mistake.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 08, 2015, 06:16:14 pm
Interesting.

Adding to hold list......
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 09, 2015, 04:07:52 pm
The Roosevelts: An Intimate History (2014)

*Place holder for DVD Cover*
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2015, 12:10:52 am
Taken 3 (aka Tak3n - 2014)

*Place holder for DVD Cover*
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Post by: Mac on May 10, 2015, 05:32:42 am
You've already seen this... Twice.




  ;)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 12, 2015, 12:26:17 am
Along with my rentals, I've been watching quite a bit of Babylon Five and I totally forgot that Bryan freaking Cranston was in an episode.  Since I assume neither of you watch the show, here's a clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEhWjI0OFlM
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Post by: Mac on May 14, 2015, 10:03:34 am
EXTRATERRESTRIAL (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif) (netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtXj7ZmhPAg

A little buzz on this in the sci-fi discussions. Well, little talk is about right. Extraterrestrial is a lazy cliched project. Every single scene and character has been done over and over. The character, I either don't care much for or are real douche's. Several times I thought it jumped the shark with outrageous reactions from the characters. This was a yawn fest from the beginning. IMO, the directors love and watch a lot of horror/sci-fi and just regurgitated scenes from past movies and slapped them here and there to make a silly movie. Can't recommend at all.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 14, 2015, 04:08:26 pm
Whiplash (2014)

*Placeholder for DVD Cover*
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 16, 2015, 12:28:03 am
Boyhood (2014)

*Placeholder for DVD Cover*
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 18, 2015, 07:39:49 pm
[REC]4 Netflix 4 stars

The 4th (duh) in this unexpected success series. But this time taking it aboard a large transport ship. With the rage virus getting out of hand in major populations, a doctor tries experimenting on patients and monkeys. Bring aboard the only survivor of the first encounter in a apartment complex.

Way different setting, but still creepy and claustrophobic.

Thank gawd,  they learned from their past mistakes and removed the POV shaky cam BS

I give it 4 stars despite the narrow jump of repetitive story telling.

Fun characters. Excellent makeup. Good pacing.

Recommend if you like rage plague, claustrophobic movies.
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Post by: Mac on May 18, 2015, 08:30:40 pm
The Hybrid Netflix 3 stars

Well the hybrid is a well produced sci-fi, only problem is it suddenly takes a WTF change of direction in the middle.

Mercenaries infiltrating in Russian territory, come upon a bunker with strange experiments. So the first half is a war flick in the Russian countryside, then a switch is turned and it we go underground fighting something unknown. It was on the way to being very good and 4 stars, but the sudden change without explanation brings it down a notch.
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Post by: Mac on May 20, 2015, 06:02:00 am
Crawlspace Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Taytaf42Y

This Australian film is a mashup (rip-off?) of several films including Aliens, Resident Evil and Event Horizon. Taking bit and pieces and weaving a different kind of story. It’s not bad. There was several jump scares and just an overall dread hanging over a rescue crew that didn’t know what they were getting into. Yet another very claustrophobic film (see [REC]4). In fact, I don’t remember any of the characters fully standing up as most of the movie is in maze of tunnels, pipes, ducting. There is one WTF scene with a gorilla. It was just so odd, it defeated the scariness.

I would recommend Crawlspace, just because it’s well made and a little different.
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Post by: Mac on May 21, 2015, 07:58:45 am
Zombeavers Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7onFrBK_hKE

Another horror movie with lots of buzz over the last couple of years, finally available… on Netflix. Zombeavers delivers a full B-Movie experience. The fine line of comedy horror is tough to capture. Nothing LOL, but plenty of smirking, grinning and chuckling. None of the characters are likeable. Lots off inane dialog. The Beavers are puppets for crying out loud. Gratuitous nudity for no reason. Plenty of beaver jokes and they know it. Winking at the audience, you knew this would happen.  It’s one of those movies soooooo stupid, it’s fun. A rare find indeed. I highly recommend for a couple of hours of eye rolling entertainment. Granted you have to be in the mood and mindset for this film.

Just saying Zombeavers makes me smile.
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Post by: Mac on May 24, 2015, 02:17:42 pm
Below (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif) Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk57TzUtP88&spfreload=10

I thought I've written about this before when I originally saw it. The other night we decided to watch this again. Me again. Wife first time.

Below is a great little film about a submarine haunted by ghosts. It's so understated. Lots of characters and the set is well, just the submarine. With eerie sounds of the deep adding to the creepy factor, I just cannot praise this film enough.

I don't know why that trailer says HQ, it's pretty soft looking to me
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Post by: Mac on May 24, 2015, 02:26:28 pm
The Wedding Ringer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG5CnCgnplU

Wow, what a disappointment. I loves me some Kevin Hart, but dayum, even he could not save this mess. I don't know who Josh Gad is but I found him completely unfunny. And then to cast Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting as her fiance? Never ever. I just find that to be ridiculous casting. Kevin Hart has a machine gun mouth and I caught most of it, but I missed quite a bit too. He is funny, but struggles like crazy to keep this funny.

From what I can tell, either people love or it gets a big MEH!!! I honestly got bored with it and quit half way through.  Maybe others will find it enjoyable.
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Post by: Mac on May 24, 2015, 02:36:32 pm
American Sniper

I'm not going to rate this because you all know I don't like war movies (except fury). That skews my opinion. I'm glad I got to see it, but I honestly don't understand the Oscar praise for it. Yes the characters seemed real and legit and in horrible conditions, but quite frankly, Bradley Cooper did a lot of screen time without saying anything. He probably nailed Chris Kyle, but I found him to be a jerk. Yes, a jerk. I know, I know he's a hero with 160 documented kills and we need guys like him in the services. But as far as entertaining, this was not for me. He choose the violence of war over his family. He thrived on the 'Legend' and constantly left his family to get back to war. He says he did it to protect his brother in arms, but a lot of it was ego.

Anyway, that is Chris Kyle. And I just did not get much pleasure out of watching it. Thus not the rating.

I in fact would recommend Enemy at the Gates and Shooter and several other films that actually entertained me with similar themes.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 24, 2015, 06:08:17 pm
Josh Gad was in The Book Of Mormon as well as Frozen.  I think he might have been  in the Ashton Kutcher Steve Jobs flick as well.  I still think it's early on in his career, people are still trying to figure out what to do with him.

I haven't been in the mood to watch much recently, but I did see a few awesome flicks but I don't really have the energy to describe them.  I did see a flick called "Naked Weapon" that was awesome, despite having almost no nudity or weapons in it.  Just a buttload of amazing martial arts fights with beautiful women.  It's sort of like the Hong Kong version of "La Femme Nikita," down to the fact that Maggie Q is the lead.  And the whole thing is in English, which is REALLY strange.  Definitely worth checking out, though the quality of the movie depends on what kind of DVD you get.  The movie was made in 2003 and it looks like some sort of lost artifact from the 80s.

I saw "Let's Be Cops" and didn't like it... well, outside of any shot that Nina Dobrev was in.  I had actually planned to listen to the commentary track while watching another flick but the d*mn commentary was just the director explaining what was happening on screen, like we're idiots.  It was more like the "Descriptive Audio Track" meets "movies for dummies" track, which... you know, F*CK that.  The only reason to put a commentary track on the movie is to tell insane jokes and anecdotes about how much fun you had making the movie.  Don't have that?  Don't bother.  Really, if the commentary had just been the cast getting drunk and chatting, then they might have had something.

Eh, at least I got some notes and ideas out of it.

Then there's some other stuff that's just not worth my time mentioning... h*ll, I can't even remember the rest of them.

I have Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu waiting for me.  Iv'e heard it's a classic must-see kung fu flick, but I can't get myself excited for it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 25, 2015, 03:39:15 am
Half a loaf of Kung Fu? Not heard of that one. Got me intrigued.

Naked Weapon... Same thing... Now I need to put an APB on these.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 25, 2015, 09:24:20 am
Half A Loaf Of Kung Fu is the movie that made Jackie Chan a star.  I made it a point to add other famous martial arts movies to my queue, though the only other one I can think of off the top of my head is Wheels on Meals, another must-see classic.  I will say that HALOKF was made in 1978, and released by a tiny little DVD company, so the movie looks... a little wonky (2.35 cropped to 4:3, a ruddy transfer, etc).

Naked Weapon was apparently a mistake on my part, I was supposed to be looking for Naked Killer, but dang, "Weapon" was exactly the kind of happy surprise that I was hoping for when I added all these obscure flicks to my queue (I basically went through Netflix's foreign categories and added anything that sounded interesting or bizarre).

Here's the Naked Weapon trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHEamqsx2hg

And, if you like, here's a quick mashup i put together of the Naked Weapon trailer with the Charlie's Angels trailer (http://www.youtubedoubler.com/?video1=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DyBVM-oXoYaQ%26spfreload%3D10&start1=&video2=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DLw1GrVUHU3M%26spfreload%3D10&start2=51&authorName=Charlies+Angels+%282000%29+x+Naked+Weapon+%282002%29), just mute the NW side.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 27, 2015, 07:17:20 pm
Hot Tube Time Machine 2 (0 Stars)

The Original did have its moments of goofy charm and humor. I liked it.

The sequel was a bad decision all around. John Cusak opted out for good reason. 2 just tried sooooo hard it failed miserably. I don't think it had a plot. It was constant shot gun jokes about dicks and farting, hoping something sticked. Nothing did.

Avoid at all costs.  :-\
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Post by: Mac on May 28, 2015, 06:53:20 am
The Skeleton Twins (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQJ6vb-Pzb8

Throw this in and see what sticks. For me, not so much. I think my wife enjoyed it. Siblings who reconnect after 10 years. Both on the verge of committing suicide. It starts off this way and I had a feeling, the whole movie was going to be depressing. And it is. There are moments where brother and sister support each other and have laughs, but overall context, these people had a horrible childhood and manifests elements in their daily lives.

The story is realistic and acting is well done, I’m just not into those kinds of stories. I’ll forget most of what went on, because there was a lot of mundane dysfunctional family moments that just didn’t interest me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 06, 2015, 09:26:42 am
Nightcrawler
Homeland (Season 4)
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
Interstellar
Quiet Riot: Well Now You're Here, There's No Way Back
The Wedding Ringer
House of Lies (Season 4)
Need For Speed
Birdman
Episodes (Season 3)
Game of Thrones (Season 4)
Avatar (Re-watched)
Sound City (Re-watched)

Here's what I have watched while I was away. I will be doing reviews for these when my hand stops cramping. I've been typing non-stop on Penny Can for the last 90 minutes.  ;)

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 06, 2015, 11:41:58 am
Good lord, you be a typing fool.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 06, 2015, 11:49:41 am
Out of the Dark (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif) Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kRea2b9_lY

Not a bad mystery semi-ghost story. Julia Stiles does a great job of balancing motherhood, career and loyalty to her dad, family and the the business.

Great production with an creepy environment in the jungles of Colombia. The ghost children were creepy as f*ck. I was entertained the whole time.

I would definitely recommend this one
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Post by: Neumatic on June 06, 2015, 12:45:27 pm
So many freakin' movies and TV shows.  Some good, some bad, some that made great parts flicks, and some in-between.  I'm not quite sure where to start.

Okay, I'll start with a show I'd never heard of, from the  early 60s called "Do Not Adjust Your Set."  I was prompted to borrow it because Mark Hamill tweeted about it.  It's like "At Last The 1948 Show," a proto-Python black and white low-budget variety show featuring Eric Idle, Michael Palin, Terry Jones, and David freakin' Jason! (aka DANGER MOUSE!).  Even the show band is ironic, each week they do their own goofy little song and the first one is a little ditty you might have heard of called "The Monster Mash."

Anyway, it was a real interesting find, about nine episodes, and worth checking out alongside At Last The 1948 Show (which features John Cleese, Graham Chapman, Tim Brook-Taylor and Marty Feldman, and definitely has that insane Python feel to it.

Uh, what else, what else..?

Okay, there was this dopey little movie from 1983 called "Private School" which I thought was gonna be a dumb T&A type movie, and it kinda was, but I checked it out because it has an adorable young Phoebe Cates and Matthew Modine, and it's sort of like Caddyshack in a boarding school, with all the goofiness you'd expect.  Not great, but I don't regret watching it.  And the soundtrack, holy cow, I want this soundtrack, it was great.  There should have been an option on the DVD to just listen to the music, there's Rick Springfield, lots of Bill Wray, Earl Klugh, and Trio's Da Da Da which I hadn't heard in years.  So I definitely liked that.

...and that's all I can think of at the moment.  Barely scratches the surface, but it's been a while and I don't even have notes on some of the things... when I remember more, I'll add.
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Post by: Mac on June 06, 2015, 12:50:10 pm
Focus (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCRgtdAuBo

I recalled when the trailers for this came out, much discussion on what the movie is really about. Well, the trailer captured the movie which was also didn't know what direction it wanted to go.ma love story or con game flick.

Focus isn't a bad movie... It is a cute movie. I doubt I remember much about in a short time. Will Smith is charming, but maybe a little to cute.

There is one solid scene at the a football (final 4, I believe), that played out unbelievably well.

With one of the main mechanisms of the con artist con each other... A lot, you catch on quick, that the con is more important than anything else, including love.

Again, not a bad movie, just a meh movie.
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Post by: Mac on June 06, 2015, 12:53:34 pm
Private School... Hah, I do remember that one. Your description helped.

Those other shows I've never ever heard about. Sounds kinda interesting.
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Post by: Mac on June 06, 2015, 01:09:48 pm
A Trip to the Moon Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FrdVdKlxUk

Georges Meilies directed this 12 minute silent film. The French have a way of being artistic and it's all over this film. It looks and feels like a play. This version is restored to a clean scratch and dust free quality. Funny, they gave this piece a dialog. With character voices, crowds and sound effects. A good decision. I think I found it more interesting than watching a silent film with music and try to figure out what is going on.

Netflix also has a colorized version with a modern music track. That didn't interest me at all.

It was kinda cool to see a historically significant film.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 06, 2015, 02:13:43 pm
Well, is the Netflix version... is it based on or a reproduction Mellies' original hand-painted film (did you see Hugo? They talk about painting all the frames by hand), or is it something they figured out on their own?
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Post by: Mac on June 07, 2015, 01:01:25 pm
I don't know about any of that.

The updated soundtrack turned me off.
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Post by: Mac on June 07, 2015, 01:07:50 pm
Jupiter Ascending (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLyk00gFPdQ

Honestly I'm in the very early part of watching this movie and I'm bored.

Within the first 10 minutes, you Elaine the dialog is laughable. Then the characters add on another layer of WTF. There's been times I wanted to bust out laughing.

The Washoskis do know how to manipulate imagery. But what do we say about movies? It's the story dammit.

I'll slog through it to the end... I think... But man, this blows.

Edit: I was just thinking, some of the sets have a very Terry Gilliam-esque look to it. You'll know it when you see them. Sure enough, there's the man himself as Signet. Wonder what input he had on design?
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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2015, 01:56:18 pm
I will say, the flying scene above the city at dawn?  That's totally what Superman should have looked like, that was freakin' amazing.  But I kept getting this feeling of imbalance, for all the thought they put into the big imaginative sequences, there were scenes that were just two people in a room talking.  As opposed to The Matrix, where the big scenes and the little scenes were crafted with equal care.  There was also the problem where I knew what was going to happen before it happened, I knew the exact moment that the bad guys were going to drop in on Sean Bean, etc... the Wachowskis are better than that, they committed some real obvious errors in the flick.

I wil last, as cool as it looked in 3D, it's also the movie that made me swear off the movie theaters except in extreme cases, because I just thought I would have had more fun with this at home, it felt like a total parts movie, I wanted to soak up the detail, brainstorm about the world, follow stray thoughts down the rabbit hole, doodle... sh*t that you just can't do in the movie theater.
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Post by: Mac on June 07, 2015, 04:02:43 pm
Troll 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif) Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KCct4RwLNM

Ceremoniously dubbed as the worst movie evah is Troll 2... with no trolls... no acting, no talent and no budget

It IS bad, but I've seen far worse. How this got the title as worst, I dunno. I guess it's taken on the badge over time.

I thought I'd sit through it during my sick days and missed about a quarter of it... sleeping. And all I get to say is 'Saw it'. Big whoop. Not even worth discussing.

Check out the original... Troll... it's better.

Wait... what... I don't know that... Never saw it. I just figured anything and everything is better than this trash.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 07, 2015, 04:46:21 pm
Never seen it, but I saw the doc about it... I'm blanking on the exact title, but it's something like "Best Worst Movie."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2015, 10:32:08 am
The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies 3 1/2 Stars

Now I understand why people were voicing their concerns about how Peter Jackson could get 3 movies out of so little content. Five Armies is nothing more than a 3 hour fight fest and I found myself bored a lot of times. What made The LOTR Trilogy so good was that the fight scenes were of a decent amount of time. But 3 hours is just begging for fatigue from the viewer.

The Wedding Ringer 2 Stars

Meh. Waste of time. There are at least 5 of these types of movies every year and even though I've never seen said 5, I can tell you they are probably way better than this turd.

Need for Speed 2 Stars

For a racing flick and fast cars, this was beyond boring. It was poorly written and even worst, poorly acted from all those involved. For Aaron Paul, he looked as if the was sleepwalking through this. Hey, it's a paycheck gig. I expected this and yet I was hopeful it would be better than this. Sigh.

Punisher: War Zone 1 1/2 Stars

With two previous Punisher movies in the books, I expected this to be a drastic improvement given the fact that they producers, writers and director had the blue print of what NOT to do in a movie about Frank Castle. Nope. Turns out this is the worst of the bunch. I just heard this morning that Punisher is suppose to be a major character in Season 2 of Daredevil. Hopefully with him being a secondary character here, they might just get it right because obviously he can't carry the story on his own in big budget flicks.

The To Do List 2 Stars

What a waste of talent by all those involved here and what a waste of time for me. Boring and stupid. I found very little to laugh at or like here. Aubrey Plaza is so much better than this garbage. Did she even read the script before signing on?
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Post by: Neumatic on June 10, 2015, 10:49:32 am
Saw the first season of Sens8. The best way to think about it is Netflix's version of Heroes, but it's not entirely accurate.  It's also kind of like Cloud Atlas, except that movie only had 6 storylines and they were all in sync with each other (the story beats happen at the same time).  This is different.  There are action moments, especially near the end, but I wouldn't call it an action series.  People's stories hit different high and low points at different times, so it feels a little more "real," but it also keeps you from being able to remember which episode is which.  But after a couple episodes, you get into the groove of it.

Of course, a huge benefit of being a Netflix show is that you CAN watch until you get into the groove of it.  Watching only an hour a week, the show would be doomed.  Also, being a Netflix show means a big budget means that unlike Heroes where you had LA doubling for New York and Tokyo and wherever else, this really is an international show, Chicago was shot in Chicago, Kenya was show in Kenya, Seoul was shot in Seoul, etc.  That makes a BIG difference.

The big problem is that with 8 storylines, but your general audience only able to follow three at a time, without a cause-effect connection between them, some characters get left on the curb, we lose Lido or Capheus or Sun for a while so we can focus on Wolfgang or Mile or Riley.

Another problem *I* have is the opening titles, they're in courier, you KNOW I hate Courier for opening credits, I think it's lazy and unattractive, and the grubby variant they use looks like the kind used in comic book ads in the 90s.  Not good.  The show deserves better.  Also I'm not as nuts about it visually as I am for other shows, but I can't think of a better option at the time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 11, 2015, 10:46:22 am
I just watched the first 2 episodes of Other Space and I love it. I'm a fan of Paul Feig and having Milana Vayntrub (AT&T's Lily Adams) is a bonus. Her commercials are always entertaining and she does a great job here as Tina. I watched via Roku through the Yahoo app, the only place you can catch the series and it looks amazing on my TV. The sets may look "cheap", but it's an awesome looking "cheap".  ;D I'm sure that I will burn through the remaining 6 episodes today.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 11, 2015, 11:03:00 pm
The Target Shoots First

This documentary, which is free and downloadable on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/58192159) is a fly-on-the-wall documentary about the Columbia Record Club in the early 90s... we get to see the inside of the distribution warehouse, how all the shady deals work, and there's even a few famous faces in there.  But what really surprised me was how much it FELT like having a job... we always see jobs and shows about jobs, but this one has the meetings, the memoranda, the training seminar BS, the office folk, everything.  An interesting little watch, for sure.
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Post by: Mac on June 12, 2015, 03:21:08 am
With Sense8, it was tightly woven, unlike this story here, that story there.

Which becomes one long movie. I only watched 4 hours, and that alone was too much movie.

I'd been thinking about this. Way would a show like Breaking Bad work well with me, but these other series seem like too much movie, that could be told in a much shorter time?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2015, 10:26:26 am
Nightcrawler 3 Stars

This could have been so much better had they gone the way I had envisioned it. When Jake's character hires the guy that will listen to the police scanner and direct him to the locations, I had it in my head that the intern, who is used and abused throughout the entire movie would one day rise up and use the same tactics against him employer to usurp his throne and business. For me this would have been the way to go and given the viewer a much better ending.

Delivery Man 3 Stars

I wasn't expecting much from this Vince Vaughn flick, but there was enough to entertain me throughout. I think the premise was interesting, but I think it would have worked a lot better if instead of him "fathering" over 500 kids, it would have been better to have a smaller number like 50. This way it would given him more opportunities to bond with the majority of his kids as he plays 'Guardian Angel'.
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Post by: Mac on June 12, 2015, 03:17:42 pm
I found Nightcrawler just an odd unentertaining flick. I did not sit through its entirety.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 12, 2015, 03:57:39 pm
I still haven't seen "Starbuck" yet, I feel like I should watch that before Delivery Man, at least so I can play with my own take on how to adapt it.

I watched *batteries not included last night for the first time since... who knows, really?  I was a little hesitant about revisiting it because I was sure it wasn't going to be great (I only really remembered three things from when I saw it as a kid, I wasn't even nuts about it back then).  Most of the things I would have assumed about the movie and the little alien saucer Von Neumann probes turned out to be right, and really, outside of the idea that maybe the saucers are full of tiny little robot Fraggles, there wasn't anything I couldn't have assumed.  I was surprised just how much personality the robots had (and how weird it is that they didn't have names or anything), they somehow managed to be distinct and identifiable despite being flying saucers.  That was interesting.  You know that if they made the movie nowadays that it would be CGI creatures that could do way more but have much less soul.

I was surprised to see Brad Bird's name as one of the writers... it got me thinking that maybe the saucers and the Iron Giant are from the same planet.  Entertaining little thought.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2015, 07:01:39 pm
Begin Again (2013)
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Post by: Mac on June 12, 2015, 08:32:20 pm
Your description of the saucer identities makes a lot of sense. Years back I had a thorough graphic book on the animation and animators of Walt Disney's movies.

I distinctly remember that part of training was to take a bag of flour and animate to show all sorts of emotions and character. Sounds exactly what they did I batteries. The viewer had to be able to know the character of each saucer. It makes great sense.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 12, 2015, 08:40:14 pm
Yeah, it's so nuts now that with all these people making CGI and special effects, how little real animation training seems to be happening, you know?
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Post by: Mac on June 13, 2015, 05:23:49 am
Yep, that's what makes the Pixar and Disney movies way more entertaining than a Transformer movie. The directors know that characters are an important component of a story.

By the way again, I re read some of my posts and the are written like I a moron. That's because at times I'm sitting on the couch replying on the IPad. I just type and send without checking. This iPad keyboard sucks. I should do better :-\ so I'm not a moron, just an impatient moron
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 13, 2015, 06:01:04 am
Dude, I'm the worst when it comes to not proof reading my post. I type and post without ever re-reading and then stumble back into old posts only to find plenty of mistakes, be it spelling or structure or both. Sigh.
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Post by: Mac on June 13, 2015, 08:04:29 am
I hear ya.

What makes so horrible for me is, one of my past lives I worked with technical writing groups. We worked for this. It just rips me up when I see someone post their thoughts in Twitter language or whatever the f@ck they are trying to say.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 13, 2015, 08:18:18 am
Normally I'm good at proof reading when writing. But when it comes to forum posting, I've had quite a few posts that got lost due to browser fail when it crashes. It got to the point where I just want to get it posted should another crash happen, so as to lock it in. I always intend to fix the mistakes afterward....but I always forget to do so.
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Post by: Mac on June 16, 2015, 06:11:53 am
Monsters: Dark Continent (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o28JLTalNM

This has to be the biggest disappointment this year. I just don’t understand what happened here. The trailers want you believe there is a ton of Monster roaming going on. There is some roaming, but that's it. All just background visuals.

Back in 2010, Gareth Edwards produced an small budget, indie film, that had a large scope. Monsters is not a great film, but a rather entertaining one. Monsters had a very intimate feel, following a photographer around to research the giant ‘Monsters’ in the infected zone.

Monsters: Dark Continent goes completely off the rails. It’s a chaotic mess. It has about 1% to do with the original. The creatures have literally become background images flailing away apparently saying “hey, isn’t this movie about us?”. Instead, we get this headache inducing, hand held camera work of a war in an eastern country. The troops don’t care about the monsters. They actually are standing under them looking in awe… and that’s it. No danger from the creatures. Monsters: Dark Continent is more akin to Apocalypse Now, American Sniper and few other war films. This has zero to do with an alien invasion.

Abysmal movie. I can’t even recommend it to the war genre aficionado’s.

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Post by: Mac on June 16, 2015, 06:23:46 am
Project Almanac (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Yih-CxTWsw

I knew little about this movie, except reading the excerpt on the back. It sounded interesting. Young kids discover a time machine and make attempts to go back in time to change things, until they figure out the dark side to such an adventure.

I stuck with this movie for 45 minutes and then just said F*ck it. Gawd, the hand held camera is killing me I tell ya. And they still have not figured out that the idea someone will always be holding a camera in all situations is just flat out illogical and brings the movie down to it’s lowest common denominator.

Project Almanac I guess is marketed to the Tween crowd. I was constantly rolling my eyes at the dialog, logic and pure stupidity of story. Hated the characters. Even the pretty ones. I just don’t have the time to waste on films I hope to get better. Project Almanac I just stopped. Monsters: Dark Continent I literally fast forward through the last 1/2 hour. I didn’t miss a thing.

Frustrating night of movie watching.
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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2015, 06:56:35 am
Kingsmen: The Secret Service (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kl8F-8tR8to

Honestly, I’m trying to process what I just saw. While it appeared to be fresh and innovative cinema, I have seen core elements before in Austin Powers, Shoot ‘em Up, Mission Impossible, The Avengers (British spy), etc, etc. Overall Kingsmen is a breath of fresh air and highly entertaining. It would have helped knowing going into it, this was over the top in every respect. I honestly don’t know how Samuel Jackson did his thing with a straight face. OHMYGAWD.

The script was a blast “Did I just kill him?” “Yes, he died when you shot him in the head”

The church scene is the new bullet time of cinema. And the female villain with the legs…. Wow. Elegant, sexy… deadly.

Kingsmen is by far one of the most violent movies I’ve seen in a long time. Violent in “over-the-top, graphical,  cartoonish” way.

I think what makes it work for me are these sophisticated British men cloaking incredible talents, emotions and purpose.

The reason I don’t give this 5 stars is I’m just not into the fantasy, almost super hero type of characters. That’s just me. But at the same time, more movies like this that are fresh, new, different need to be made. There is so much redundancy in films today, I’ll gladly accept something different.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 17, 2015, 11:37:00 am
I took my mom to see Avengers: Age Of Ultron for mother's day (it's wha she wanted!) and afterwards she kept trying to figure out why Sam Jackson's character wasn't gay anymore... it took me about ten minutes to figure out she thought that Kingsman was part of the Marvel universe.  That was funny.

I thought that the lithp wath a great choice... they explained it in the special features, that no matter how rich and powerful Valentine got, he'd still have this thing that he knew other people would be judging him for.


I think I coined a term for the cinematography used in the Church scene, but I can't remember what it was...


Gazelle was FINE.  Sort of an interesting update to Jaws from Bond, and I loved that she was a little more guns-ho than Valentine himself.

You know, you talk about the "did I kill him" moment, I saw this at a packed theater and everyone was blown away when that happened.  But afterwards, going to the car, I realized that moment always happens in movies at that same time, EVERY time.  The difference is how masterfully it was done in this case, you forgot that it was gonna come and you were surprised how it happened (I don't want to say too much b/c I don't think Chip has seen it).


You mention all these influences, and I can think of a few more.  What Mark Millar is really great at, I think, is taking all these concepts that we've seen before and finding a different twist to them, figuring out what other movies aren't saying, usually taking them to a sort of Swiftian conclusion, and I dig that.
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Post by: Mac on June 17, 2015, 12:01:56 pm
Amen brother.

Thanks for keeping this one flagged for a must-see. I'm glad I did see it.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 17, 2015, 12:51:17 pm
You know, I never read the book, but apparently the dud in the beginning was Mark Hamill, the actor from Star Wars, worth saving for the new world.  When hey developed the movie, they realized they needed a professor, but decided it should still be Mark.  Which I think is a really funny story behind his being cast.


Also, there was a script out there years ago that actually got bought but never developed about modern day celebrities being knights of the round table, it was sort of like Ghostbusters with a scientist, a rock star, a businessman etc having to sword fight.  And included in the group was Michael Caine as himself!  There was even a scene at Madame Toussaud's where he fights a wax figure of himself from Get Carter.
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Post by: Mac on June 18, 2015, 07:29:57 am
Welcome to me (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0KEe-hMsLg

Great cast with Kirsten Wiig, James Marsden, Tim Robbins, but dayum, this movie just shoots out crooked and found zero entertainment. Kirsten Wiig has some major psychological issues and that alone is uncomfortable, but when she wins the lottery and decides she can now do things she wants to do… pilot the ship, it becomes about those around her too. They are being led by a crazy person and how far does one go for the money.  I knew something was wrong with this movie before it started. Watching the trailers to support Welcome To Me were very odd and uninteresting. Flagging, to me, that’s what I should expect on this disk. It was and I saw the strangeness immediately into it. It took my wife about 20-25 minutes to put up with the bizarre plot. Then we both blessed it as bad and turned it off.



The Lazarus Effect (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ks6JqLzVTA

Wow, what an amazingly lazy ass attempt at movie making. There is not one new thought here. The characters are over acting or calling it in. The subject of bringing back a loved one from the dead is so cliché. You saw everything coming a mile away. What an incredible waste of my time. Luckily it was only 83 minutes, including the credits. Steer clear of this turd. Not scary, not interesting. Nada
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 18, 2015, 08:46:42 am
Man, it seems lately you have been grabbing from the Sh*t pile at the library.
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Post by: Mac on June 18, 2015, 09:39:55 am
Amen to that... I'm getting really frustrated with wasting my time. I guess the good part is I'm not paying for any of this sh*t.
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2015, 07:03:55 am
Chappie (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyy7y0QOK-0

The director who brought us District 9 and Elysium, now brings to the screen something déjà vu. Not a far cry from Bloomkamps first two movies is Chappie, a sentient robot, set in a less than perfect society.

Chappie has elements of some pretty good ideas. I just don’t think they were brought to the screen very well. I really struggled getting through the first half of the film. It’s slow with setting up the characters, set and story line. But once the ball gets rolling, it hits a very good stride. I have to love Chappie because it does make me wonder what will happen next around every turn. The basic premise alone, of a robot newly born sentient robot getting hijacked by gangs in the hood immediately throws a curve ball. Chappie is pretty expressive for what limited physical clues as to what is going on. Chappie can easily be recognized as yet another unique blend of the other characters. The ‘normal’ humans (Sigourney Weaver, Hugh Jackman and Dev Patel) become the odd characters out on the screen.

I did find it humorous the idea that gangsters essentially raise Chappie and he grows mature with their culture. The mannerisms is comical.

Chappie is hit and miss. Some very good stuff with some underdeveloped material. I would definitely recommend Chappie
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Post by: Mac on June 19, 2015, 07:13:59 am
The Wrecking Crew

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhl-3EOYTkc

Until last night, I’ve never heard the term The Wrecking Crew. This is a documentary of the core group of musicians (Wrecking Crew) who pretty much played on just about every major album and tracks that came out of the west coast in the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s. Even the wrecking crew did not know they had the moniker at the time. They are not even sure who exactly was considered part of the group. But it appears to have been anywhere from 10-30 core individuals. Tight, tight group that knew each other and could handle any style thrown at them. So they developed a culture of creativeness, tightness and dependable. They were a hit making machine and everybody wanted them.

The documentary is OK, with some core folks sitting around a table talking some revealing moments in their career. Lots of snap shots, some old home movies of studio work. I wouldn’t call Wrecking Crew fascinating for the average viewer, but for me it was like opening the doors to something I didn’t even know was there.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2015, 08:16:53 pm
Ender's Game (2013)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 20, 2015, 07:31:23 pm
John Wick (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2015, 11:14:38 am
McFarland, USA (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 21, 2015, 05:54:42 pm
Let's Be Cops (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 22, 2015, 07:40:15 am
Blackhat (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VGIHBgj45g

I really wanted to like Blackhat. The trailer looked exciting. The espionage sounded interesting. But whole context of the film is misguided. First, the casting of Chris Hemsworth as the c*cky technical hacker was just not connecting in any way. Viola Davis just seems to have a constant scowl. But the heart of the story and the story telling might have sounded good on paper, but watching blackhat became about as exciting as what it was trying portray. Watching someone write computer code. Ugh. Michael Mann tried to shoot artistic frames and keep the editing at a pace to keep it interesting, but honestly… it just isn’t. The artistic shooting started to bug the hell outta me. Since I was already bored with the story, the artistic framing, just got on my last nerve.
By half way through Blackhat I was bored. And when the main purpose of the plot is revealed, I was saying out loud WTF. Seriously? Blah, blah, blah is main reason all this hacking is going on. I thought I was watching a missing episode of a Roger Moore 007 flick.

I can’t recommend to anyone except maybe a techie coder.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 25, 2015, 09:53:38 pm
Lots of input over the last week and change.  Too hot to do anything except watch TV and movies.  I haven't even been able to go out and walk every day, the ONE thing I do that gets me going.

Halo Nightfall bears special mention.  You can buy it in HD but only rent it in SD, apparently.  And it looks real muddy in SD, which is a shame because the only real saving grace of this... "movie" is the location work.  It must be Iceland and in the previews it looked pretty gorgeous, but on DVD?  Too much is missing.  The story is... minimal, it's not confusing (I don't know Halo but I wasn't lost about any of the details), but to me Halo is a big action adventure extravaganza and this is... people walkin' around.  At least Halo: Forward Unto Dawn (which I also didn't like) had an appearance by Master f*cking Chief in the final act.  This didn't have that.

Oh, and worse, this thing had COMMERCIAL BREAKS.  No commercials, but there were fades in and out of black that were so clearly meant to transition to commercials... which I presume to mean that Microsoft's TV thing they're doing will have ads.  Which sucks.

And this movie has the Scott Free logo at the start... but I don't think Ridley Scott did anything with this.

if this is meant to be the big intro to the Halo tv series (which it can't be because almost every character DIES), it doesn't work.


Right now I'm watching the pilot of Dirk Gently, I've been waiting to see this for a while.  it's based on a series of books by Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy) about a detective who works by exploring the interconnectivity of all things.  Which doesn't really make sense until you see it in a action.  Just remember, there are no coincidences.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 27, 2015, 09:32:27 am
The Americans (Season 1 - 2013)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 27, 2015, 10:14:41 am
Cake Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3IsUOSHlnU

My wife wanted to jump on this since she saw the trailer and now it suddenly appears on Netflix.

Let me start off by saying Cake is truly a standout performance for Jennifer Aniston. Though I give it 2 stars because the entire movie is difficult to watch, her performance is miles above most of the mediocre stuff she gets involved with. I will remember this performance.

I say it's difficult because it's pretty clear from the very first frame Claire (Aniston) is in constant pain. 100% of her screen time, there is pain going on. This is her struggle... to get through the day... and get through nights. Her only refuge is drugs and the occasional pool. The movie slowly, and I mean slowly reveals what the pain and scars are all about. But the focus is mostly how Claire is p*ssed at the world and she is major dick to everyone she comes across. At some point she does try to change her way because she knows she is losing people around left and right.

And then the movie suddenly ends.

This was not an enjoyable 90 minutes. It was a little interesting, but more frustrating.

The only reason I would recommend is to watch Jennifer Aniston perform a character unlike she's done before.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 28, 2015, 11:05:37 pm
I have this on hold. I think I'm #2 in line. Should have it some time this week or next. Looking forward to it just to see what Jen brings to it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 28, 2015, 11:56:10 pm
I have ZERO interest in seeing this flick.  I've heard nothing positive about it and it sounds like the kind of boring "pain is drama nothing happens" lazy bullsh(t that I just despise.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 30, 2015, 06:09:02 am
Dressed to Kill (1980)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VxG57Uf7iMU

Michael Caine, Angie Dickinson, Nancy Allen

I remember when Dressed to Kill came out in 1980. It was either praised or slammed for its literal attempt to emulate Alfred Hitchc*ck. Brian DePalma created an erotic thriller with interesting camera work. I watched this because it suddenly appeared one of the retro cable channels that are commercial free and unedited. I go there almost every night just to see what might pop up. My wife had never seen it and it slowly got her attention.

Honestly, I think it’s very dated. It looks, sounds and feels like an 80’s movie. The dialog is just verging on silly in parts. The camera work and acting are overdone. It’s still a good movie, but not sure I would watch it again.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 01, 2015, 01:45:26 pm
The Americans (Season 2 - 2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 02, 2015, 08:21:53 am
Right Kind of Wrong (Netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4E1tvJQRFUE

I rather enjoyed this little romantic comedy. Surprisingly my wife was ‘meh’ about it. I don’t know any of the actors except for Will Sasso and Catherine O’Hara. To me Right Kind of Wrong has a slightly eclectic spin of humor, different than your typical rom-com. The dialog was snappy and consistent. The players were unique and fun. And probably the most stunning location’s I have ever seen. We were constantly going “wow” with each new background. That was formula to the story and you knew it would get from Point ‘A’ to Point ‘Z’. And that’s OK, with this kind of film.

I would definitely recommend Right Kind of Wrong to just about anybody. Light hearted fun.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 02, 2015, 05:53:49 pm
Draft Day (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2015, 02:55:14 pm
Kill the Messenger (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 04, 2015, 03:31:49 pm
Couple things I've seen recently.

First, I finally saw "The TV Set," which is one of those movies that wasn't big (I don't even know if it was theatrical) but I keep hearing about.  It stars David Duchovny as a writer working on a pilot, and the cast is full of fun actors: Fram Kranz, Ioan Gruffud, Lucy David aka Pam from The Office, and Sigourney Weaver is freaking amazing in this.  I love her character, she's just such an awful person.  "If you can't sell fifteen **** on an island..."

I also finally saw "Chappie."  I don't remember if we talked about it, but I was honestly expecting this movie to be a comedy.  I mean, how could I not?  A robot with a mind of a child joins a gang that's populated with actual rappers?  That sounds funny.  I never wrote down what I thought the movie was going to be because I thought it was so obvious, but I was wrong.  I guess I thought that the story would be organized differently, I think a rewrite would have brought the flavor out some more.

Don't get me wrong, I dug the movie.  I especially liked Sharlto Copley's portrayal (and I wish I could see some footage of him acting in the role pre-CGI), and when Chappie was in pain, there was actual pain and torment going on.  I had totally forgotten that Sigourney Weaver was in this as well, and I kept thinking how amazing it would be if she was her character from The TV Set in here as well.

I did get some good notes and ideas, but oddly enough no drawings.  All the other movies in this series I wound up drawing stuff and having ideas for designs.  Not so much this time, but this movie is far more ground in reality.  It actually seems weird that this movie came AFTER Elysium, not before.  This seems like the more logical follow-up to District 9.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 05, 2015, 05:27:33 am
I wrote down my thoughts about Chappie here. It was highly unpredictable, but I think it missed the mark on the overall presentation. Still a good movie, just not great.

The DVD I had contained just a very small amount of footage of him creating Chappie. It was mostly visual, and we've seen most of it before.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 05, 2015, 12:06:17 pm
Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 06, 2015, 10:50:23 am
The WorId’s Fastest Indian Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02Yy1vihIKs

I swore I wrote about The World’s Fastest Indian before. Especially because this is one of those rare movies I really like. Based on the life story of New Zealander Burt Munro taking a ‘road’ trip to Bonneville flats in Utah to see how well his modified 1920’s Indian motorcycle will do. The movie nicely moves between 3 main acts. First we are introduced to the nuance character of Burt Munro and the community he lives in. Then the road trip across the ocean to L.A. and then to Bonneville and the character’s he interacts with. Finally, it’s all about how this man got his name into the record books.

I believe it’s a Disney film. My wife had not seen it and saw that it recently popped up on Netflix. She enjoyed despite knowing nothing about land speed records or motorcycles. I believe because Fastest Indian does an excellent job of storytelling and Anthony Hopkins magnetizes you to the screen and it will appeal to just about everybody.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 07, 2015, 06:51:05 am
Lucy (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 07, 2015, 09:28:10 am
Get Hard (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEqrpuU9fYI

(http://cur.cursors-4u.net/smilies/images1/smi20.gif) Gawd, why do I keep doing this to myself. I was so hoping Get Hard would at least entertain me. Kevin Hart tried so hard to keep this going and be funny. Will Ferrell I guess was doing his usual funny schtick, but it didn't impress me.

I laughed out loud twice. Once by Hart and once by Ferrell. Otherwise Get Hard is one trick pony with constant dick jokes, homosexual jokes and racism. This might of sounded funny as hell on paper, but I just the movie was a mess. I'm confident I won't remember a damn thing in 24 hours. I stuck through it 3/4 of the way through and lost interest and started reading on the iPad.

This is heavy R because of the language.

I personally wouldn't recommend this.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 07, 2015, 08:09:08 pm
Cake (2014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 09, 2015, 07:51:08 am
Under the Electric Sky aka Electric Daisy Carnival Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icDEYGe7o4U

A documentary on the rave culture, in particular the Las Vegas Rave event called the Electric Daisy Carnival. I was bored and decided to watch something music related and Electric Sky had a good rating. Granted I know nothing about the music and even less about the culture. I didn’t even know there was a culture. This documentary threads together about 5 different groups who love rave. The EDC takes place in Vegas and I was just blown away at how huge the 3 day event was. 300,000 people is serious stuff. So as the documentary builds stories up to the event, the spectacle kicks in at EDC. Dressing up, love, drugs, inhibitions out the window. The lights, pyrotechnics, stages, art, performers… were simply jaw dropping. The promotors went all out for this. Watching someone receive their ticket was in a customized box was just a pre-cursor to such a big event. If you’re interested in the DJ’s, they would only show about a minute of each one. There was simply too much to cover

Music – I’m meh about it. Honestly I don’t get it. It moves me for about a song or two. I especially don’t get the culture, but I know it’s not for me. I know there is a country culture, there is a pop culture, there is a rock culture, etc. I just find rave music monotonous. They did at one point say rave music evolves and grows and that it incorporates about every kind of genre. They gave an example with a country pop song, which I actually found to be good. But 99% of it was just thump, thump, thump.

I watched 80% of the documentary. I found it starting to get repetitive. I’m still amazed at the size of the event and this was spearheaded and organized by one person with a vision. The throngs of people watching someone spin records is just not adding up in my head. Oh well. Not a total waste of my time. I learned some new things.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2015, 10:46:10 pm
Falling Skies (Season 1 - 2011)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 10, 2015, 11:27:45 pm
Man, I've had some severe watcher's block recently... I just can't get into anything.  It totally sucks.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 11, 2015, 07:20:59 am
"Watcher's Block"

Good name. I get that once in awhile. More that I'm getting older.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 12, 2015, 02:02:40 pm
Seventh Son (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXiNkOjM7oM&spfreload=10

Not my kind of movie. Just too much fantasy and Jeff Bridges talks like his lower jaw juts out to give him character. It does, but in a bad way. Juliane Moore is over acting... not a big fan of her's anyway.

I watched it for the dragon, but not so much here. Wasted my time with this mess.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 12, 2015, 02:11:00 pm
The Pact (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ztc5Nq1JL4

This recently came on, or shot to the top of popularity, on Netflix. With it's sequel the brilliantly titled The Pact 2

Admittedly the first one was engaging for a low budget film. I don't think they did a good job of showing the audience what was paranormal. Throwing in a real killer was a curve ball. Plenty of jump scares. Made us watch even more. Overall it was OK. I didn't feel cheated like I did with Pact 2.

The Pact 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJNB7MZffek

This one just P*ssed me off. We immediately followed the original with the sequel. Good gawd this was a money grab. They sure didn't put any thought to the story. Some of the most lazy script writing. I was constantly shaking my head.... "That would never happen". But thy manipulated the story with illogical direction, story and editing, just so they could get from point A to Point Z. I was pretty disappointed very early on. My the end I just didn't care. Honestly there should have never been a sequel.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2015, 10:45:47 pm
Falling Skies (Season 2 - 2012)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 15, 2015, 06:37:00 am
These Final Hours Netflix (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jozEpGIrzeU

Despite the very grim nature of the movie, it was still fascinating to watch. With very little detail, present day Earth as we know it, is experiencing a cataclysmic event. There is no escaping it. Everyone will perish. The earth will burn up. I believe something like a cosmic meteor hits earth and the impact is circling the world. The movie takes place in Australia, one of the last places to exist, so there is about a 12 hour time span where we follow one individual who is trying to deal with this. It's fascinating on how is coming to terms with it, the people he knows (sister, Mom, girlfriend 1 & 2, best friend, and especially a 12 years old girl he doesn't know.

He initially leaves the love of his life. All he wants to do is not feel the pain of the end. What he winds up doing is experiencing huge amounts of pain and darkness on his escape. You realize at the end, he should have stayed where he was.

Many, many times I asked myself, what would I do.

Highly recommend These Final Hours.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 17, 2015, 05:57:46 pm
Saturday Night Live: The Best of Gilda Radner (1989)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 17, 2015, 10:22:23 pm
Watched a buttload of movies recently.  But not in the mood to talk about all of 'em.  At least not yet.  Busy, is all.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 18, 2015, 02:04:32 pm
5 Flight Up (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PreX3h3QYHY

I give it only 2 stars because this was boring as ****. I thought casting was horrible. I never bought into Morgan Freeman and Diane Keaton being married to each other... for 40 years.

Like a lot of folk are saying this comes off more of a play. Some one turned a play into a movie... and it doesn't work.

Both Freeman and Keaton are great people and fine actors. It felt like we the viewers were flies on the wall watching a  a snapshot of a very mundane pair of people. It started of with little and maintained that pace.

We quit half way through.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 18, 2015, 09:41:40 pm
Chappie (2015)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 20, 2015, 08:44:31 am
Justified (Season 6 - The Final Season - 2015)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 20, 2015, 10:13:52 am
Run All Night (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uDuFh-nC-c

With an amazingly witty title, I just may be able to remember the plot of this one. Oh wait, that’s right. This is just like all the other Liam Neeson movies. So if you’ve seen any of his movies in the past few years, you’ve seen this one. There might be some cool moments of fighting, but beyond that it’s pretty formulaic with defending and rescuing the family members. Ed Harris is looking and sounding bad. Might be getting to old. While I didn’t mind spending 90+ minutes watching it, I can’t recommend it. Neeson has gotten into a serious rut.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 25, 2015, 07:27:55 am
Falling Skies (Season 3 - 2013)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 25, 2015, 02:40:15 pm
Maggie (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ5Vz8qE8R8

An attempt to put a spin on zombies as cancer. From the first scene this is a very dark and foreboding movie. And I mean dark in the visual sense too. Not only is there lack of color, but it's just darkly toned.

This movie moved at a snails pace and it was just to much testing of my patience.

No thank you
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 25, 2015, 02:45:12 pm
EX MACHINA (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02halfstar.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bggUmgeMCdc

Another slowly paced sci-fi flick. But at least it was a thinking bit of science fiction. The introduction was clumsy, but once you got into the meat of the story it got interesting. It's pretty heady stuff.

Can man build a sentient robot?

A slow movie all set in one location with 3 characters. Interesting but not re-watchable for me.

And yes, unbelievable CGI. Pretty slick.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 25, 2015, 03:46:45 pm
Note that the robot is the only member of that cast to not be in the new Star Wars.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 29, 2015, 12:48:30 pm
Stretch (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceJa68mIDu4

Easily one of the best movies I’ve watched this year. A fun ride from beginning to end. It has such a unique style. I’m typically not a Patrick Wilson fan. But dayum, he was funny here. I know what made this movie so fun for me. I didn’t have a clue what was going to happen next (except the end). I can’t recommend this enough. My wife gives it a ‘cute’. And that’s good from her. It can get over the top and little silly, which she doesn’t like. But the movie moved along well enough for her not to dwell on the goofy.

Check it out.

Kung Fu Killer (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEH4hW9ZjZc

Silly title, but a very fun and slightly unique action packed Asian martial arts film. Donnie Yen is as cool as usual. Several things caught my attention to enjoy the film than the typical ho-hum highly choreographed fight flick. When Donnie Yen’s character get’s into a prison fight, typically guys will come at him one at a time. Not here. These guys all attacked at the same time and bet the crap out of him. He still kicked everyone’s ass, but at least it looked real.

The Kung Fu Killer is unique as well. A cripple that overcame his disability and over the years excelled in all area’s of the arts. So we get to see a variety of fights with different styles and weapons. The set locations were pretty awesome too. The big question mark is why this Killer snapped and decided to go after the Master of each discipline. Ah, does it really matter. No. These movies are the new generation of Martial Art films that really are engaging, well produced, shot well and great characters.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 29, 2015, 12:59:08 pm
Love Stretch.  Can you believe that this flick almost didn't come out at ALL?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 29, 2015, 01:05:21 pm
Hey, I remember you talking about this flick and kept it in the back of my head all this time. My wife and I were surfing Netflix and told her about how the rating system seems to hold true. She said, let's find a 5 Star. I told her there were many, but she has either seen them or might not like them. As we were discussing that, Stretch came up and I just hit go.

I did not remember it almost didn't get made.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 29, 2015, 06:44:38 pm
It was only five million bucks, the issue isn't getting made, it's that it almost wasn't released.  Apparently studios bury movies all the time.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 29, 2015, 08:04:05 pm
Get made, then buried? I've heard they sit on the shelf... Never understood that either.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 30, 2015, 08:45:14 am
It Follows (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CJIZ66UbbNc

It Follows has been quite the buzz in the horror community. Hearing it did very well at all the film festivals. It’s a better than average independent film. I’m not sure if it ever made it to the theaters. Delivered on DVD this week, my wife and I sat down to watch it… knowing absolutely nothing about it.

In short, I’m torn. It had many interesting elements and yet the end totally sucked. Especially the last minute. Negating the rest of the movie.

The director was either deliberately paying homage to John Carpenter and films of the 70’s or unconsciously following that time and style. It was very obvious and distinctive. Down to the editing, acting, and even the music.

It follows leaned heavily on the music and sound effects. Sometimes quite unnerving. There were quite a few unexpected jump scares. Without the music, it would almost be laughable. It Follows is one those stories that starts with a bang and doesn’t make any attempt to tell the viewer the origins or why stuff is happening. One of the core elements of the story is you can pass the ‘It’ to someone else if you have sex with them. No explanation why, what, etc. Just go with it.
I was thinking about the core of the story. The idea of ‘something’ following you and if it touches you, you will die… horribly. So in essence, you become increasingly paranoid. Constantly on the move. While ‘It’ moves at a walking pace, it still provides incredible tension.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 30, 2015, 03:11:54 pm
The 100 (Season 1 - 2014)

(http://i.imgur.com/A6BG33E.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-100-(season-1-2014)/msg35136/#msg35136)

Click Me For Review ^^
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 30, 2015, 05:31:00 pm
Apparently The 100 just keeps getting better and better.  I keep hearing blurbs about how good season 2 is, so if you're already on a five-star for S1, I can't imagine how much you'll love S2.  I've only seen the first episode, but I totally dug it and was meaning to jump in and see the rest.  Don't know why I didn't.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 01, 2015, 10:48:51 am
Batman The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and Part 2 (2012 / 2013)

(http://i.imgur.com/pBfXLfI.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/batman-the-dark-knight-part-1-and-part-2-(2012-2013)/msg35145/#msg35145)

Click Me For Review ^^
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 03, 2015, 08:58:20 pm
Unbroken (2014)

V for Vendetta (2005)
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Post by: Mac on August 04, 2015, 10:08:31 am
Reclaim (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_yXXaZRMpo

Reclaim isn't a great movie, but it's entertaining from beginning to end. John Cusack is tackling projects of late as a bad guy and he does a pretty good job here. It's not deep or that complex. You pretty much know where things are headed.

I recommend for just summer fluff.
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Post by: Mac on August 04, 2015, 10:13:05 am
Danny Collins (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AndERTFMYd4

I picked this up not knowing to terribly much about it. After I read the synopsis, I pretty much was not buying into it. Honestly, I'm not a fan of Al Pacino. I certainly am not going to buy into him as an aged rocker. Just like I'm not going to be buying into Meryl Streep as a rocker in Ricki and the Flash.

I wasn't into this 10 minutes, then knowing I would never finish it. Pacino looked and acted tired and not caring. Why should I. Did not finish.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 04, 2015, 08:46:22 pm
So much stuff over the last week.  Nothin' to do but watch stuff.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day Of Camp
Hi-larious and weird.  Won't say anything more, I don't want to spoil anything.  I will say that I watched an actual movie from the 80s after this and was disappointed that the "smashed pottery" sound effect didn't go off when something broke.  I'd just gotten so used to that.

[b[True Detective Season One[/b]
Finally saw all this, took me two days.  I liked it, but I don't know if I'd ever rewatch it.  And it's not the nihilism or anything like that, they did everything extremely well, but... it wasn't something I felt compelled to continue.  That's the sign of a good show, to me, that you can't wait to hit that "next episode" button.  I didn't really feel that with this.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 09, 2015, 08:11:24 am
Sucker Punch (2011)

My Second Review (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sucker-punch-(2011)/msg35193/#msg35193)
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Post by: Mac on August 10, 2015, 07:20:24 am
Into the Grizzly Maze (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bP4XCk25Qzs

Ok the trailer looked good and the cast even better. James Marsden, Thomas Jane, Piper Perabo and Billy Bob Thornton. The problem is the story and the execution of the movie. It’s chaotic, but more importantly…cheap. It’s a head scratcher for sure. It’s hard to believe these folks participated in such an indie feeling film.

Grizzly is essentially Jaws. Down to Billy Bob Thornton as Quint. Grizzly is not a horrible film and it can be entertaining, but there is enough oddness about it that it almost overrides the focus on the story.

The Prince (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdZuyp6DpnI

Saw a trailer for The Prince from Reclaim, another John Cusack film. Prince also has Bruce Willis… I’m guessing, because this movie sucked dong so bad, we were way beyond rolling our eyes a half hour into it. None of the dialog was believable. The lead actress whoever she was, was unbelievably bad with over-acting. She just totally derailed any attention I was giving to the story. We turned it off before even seeing Willis or Cusack.

I would avoid at all cost.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2015, 12:39:51 pm
Big Nothing (2006)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 11, 2015, 02:30:35 pm
Since I was at my dad's, I used his HBO on Demand to watch some flicks I'd been interested in (I was also experimenting with his motion-smoothing TV, it "undoes" a lot of movie magic and I find the results kind of fascinating).

Anyway, I checked out:

Banksy Does New York: A documentary (not authorized by Banksy) about his 30-day residency in New York, putting up one new piece of art a day, and the people tracking it down, appreciating it, destroying it, or trying to make a dirty little profit on it.

Going Clear: Pretty interesting... a good deal of it I knew already, but I know appreciate how hard it is to know any of it.  It's actually shocking that some of that stuff is just allowed to go on.   There was a good deal of footage that I don't think was meant for regular people to see, personal and professional.  And the professional stuff was real interesting, it was like a mix of the Emmys, Christian Television, and corporate training videos fused together.  With just a dash of fascism and 1980s sci-fi book cover thrown in for good measure.

Game Change: the HBO flick where Julianne Moore plays Sarah Palin and Woody Harrelson as the dude who decided she should be the nominee for VP.  And you totally get WHY he picked her, too, which is great because then you really get to be on the same page as him as he realized what a giant F'ing mistake it was.  Tom Hanks was one of the producers and they do a little Forrest Gump thing going on, the way that they put the actors into real footage.  There wasn't a lot of it, but what was there was interesting (it didn't seem like a particularly expensive flick, I think most of the cash went to the actors).  But something I thought was real cool was that they put the real footage of Biden in with Moore so they were talking to each other, I liked that, because whenever you see one of these flicks and the REAL person appears, you think "oh, they're not going to have any direct interaction with the people on screen, and that scene changed that perception.  Of course, it happens at the CLIMAX, but still..
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Post by: Mac on August 11, 2015, 05:00:35 pm
I found Game Change not only interesting, but entertaining.

Soooooo, what is Going Clear about?
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Post by: Neumatic on August 11, 2015, 05:15:06 pm
Oh, sorry... s c i e n t o l o g y.
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2015, 07:42:03 am
Sharknado: Feeding Frenzy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KbSMLf24vvk

A pseudo documentary of the behind the scenes of cultish Sharknado series from Syfy. I say cultish merely because of its popularity and reputation it is building. 

I gave up on SyFy long ago because of its ridiculous course of providing absurd ‘sci-fi’ films. I was mostly getting tired of the bad graphics. I for some reason didn’t mind the absurd core story or the bad dialog and actors. But Sharknado is the perfect storm. The B-movie is back and amped up quite a bit. So the occasional nutty movie is fine by me. This documentary is people talking about the development and evolution of the series and its popularity. How people got involved and why. The movies are less than skin deep in plot and this documentary is no better. Just some interesting takes on bad movies. Totally tongue in cheek approach and that made this documentary somewhat entertaining to watch.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2015, 07:10:04 am
Catwoman (2004)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 13, 2015, 05:43:29 pm
The Call (2013)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 13, 2015, 08:43:20 pm
On episode three of... Orphan Black.  AM I crazy or are there zero seams in the effects?
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2015, 06:19:04 am
Quote
On episode three of... Orphan Black.  AM I crazy or are there zero seams in the effects?

 ? ? ? Not clear on your question.
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Post by: Mac on August 14, 2015, 06:21:05 am
Fire with Fire (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9Auh9MI-Kw

Finding Fire with Fire is a result watching other movies with Bruce Willis and John Cusack. These trailers are trying to generate viewership of these lesser known movies. Many of these recent films I’ve never heard of and I always think…. “There must be a reason I missed this“… And typically it’s true. They are pretty bad and quickly fall. Fire with Fire is not a horrible movie, it’s just one I’ve seen a million times over. The bad guy is stereotypical. The cops are definitely stereotyped. That's the main reason I do not watch cop shows. It's pretty much been done to death. There was just enough ‘normal’ action to keep me awake and the acting was pretty good. Otherwise Fire with Fire is very forgettable.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 14, 2015, 05:52:02 pm
On the final episode of season one of Orphan Black...enjoying it, though as much as I enjoy whenever Matt Frewer shows up, it's a bit weird becuase he's the only recognizabel actor on the show... it kinda breaks the illusion for me a little.  Still, good choice for the character of Dr Leekie.

I'll also say that I think Felix is turning out to be my fave character, just because he's such an unpredictable character... and any time he teams up with Alison, that's a fun time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2015, 09:45:45 pm
The Marine (2006)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 15, 2015, 01:52:44 pm
12 Rounds (2009)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 16, 2015, 07:13:59 pm
Ex Machina (2015)
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Post by: Mac on August 17, 2015, 08:02:39 am
The Pyramid (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq8Nw84krbY

I should actually make attempts to have the studio pay me to sit through garbage like this. In one sense The Pyramid is so ridiculous its MST3K material, yet it takes itself seriously. I probably should relax and accept The Pyramid as one of those awful B-movies and laugh.

This movie was obviously pushed through as a major film with a micro budget. The story and the dialog are beyond any rational story telling. Stuff happens to the characters and they respond with inane responses. They do it so quick; you would think the audience wouldn’t catch it. REALLY?

The POV hand held camera is used 50% of the time. Thankfully it’s somewhat steady. But what is ridiculous is when it’s used. There were scenes where it was implied someone is holding it, but all the characters are on screen. The audience won’t know… check.

The CGI of the creatures was a little better than SyFy channel stuff. Money saved… check.

All I can say is the trailer did its job by getting my attention. Problem is I’ll never get those 2 hours back
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 17, 2015, 08:33:49 pm
Faster (2010)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 17, 2015, 08:53:04 pm
Well, I've been watching a bunch of Frasier alongside the Kevin Smith/Matt Mira podcast "Talk Salad and Scrambled Eggs."  So that...

But I also watched two flicks straight, "Find Me Guilty" and "The D*mned United," both of which I'd seen before and both which I still enjoyed immensely.  Recommend both, actually.

I still have two "parts" flicks I need to watch and note that I'm not in the mood for, "Natural City" (which I saw ages ago) which is a kind of Blade Runner-esque flick from Korea, and "Kite."  Weather's been kind of lousy so maybe I'll luck out and get a day where the only thing worth doing is to watch flicks.  And I still have a couple more flicks in my backlog to go through as well.  Which is hard when I find myself watching "just one more episode" of Pinky And The Brain or Holmes Inspection.
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Post by: Mac on August 18, 2015, 12:26:45 pm
Cold Comes The Night (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WwCW7Fypao

A bland and preposterous thriller in which Alice Eve and Bryan Cranston play unlikely partners in crime. Bryan Cranston does a silly ‘Russian’ accent that just sound cartoonish. Maybe it’s because I know him so well, I see him emulating a character instead of becoming the character. Cold Comes The Night is a slow preposterous thriller. I was constantly yelling at the screen…. REALLY? I’m not sure who Alice Eve is, but she did nothing for me. Despite her life threatening situation, I never felt from her that urgency. Cold is a slow ass movie. It never really picks up from the turtle pace unraveling. Even though Cranston’s character was a soul less killer, his vision problem really water’s down any kind of thriller atmosphere he should bring.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2015, 07:13:44 am
American Sniper (2014)
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Post by: Mac on August 19, 2015, 09:38:55 am
The Expendables 3 (Netflix)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xD0junWlFc

Expendables is a great idea, but executed so poorly. Still, the only thing I remember about 1 & 2 it a that they were edited so badly you couldn't tell what was going on. Thus negating the point of the movie. Tough macho men fighting with lots of explosions. Well, it happened so fast and so up close, that was all lost.

Apparently when they got to #3, they heard the people. The editing is much better.

But... that' about it. Sure, there were a few cool stunts and they did make all the explosions look real. But there is laser thin idea of a story here surrounded by old & young guys and chicks, kicking ass. You could literally walk out the room, come back in 15 minutes and you'd still be good. I had it on while I was doing other things. I don't remember the first two, but I'm willing to bet... same stories.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2015, 10:57:07 pm
The Maze Runner (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 20, 2015, 05:42:18 pm
Get Hard (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 22, 2015, 12:04:39 pm
A Million Ways to Die in the West (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2015, 10:10:06 am
Tron: Legacy (2010)

My Second Review (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/tron-legacy-(2010)/msg35361/#msg35361)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2015, 11:19:30 am
3 Days to Kill (2014)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 25, 2015, 08:08:02 pm
Ugh, I got my new mailers from Netflix in the mail and two of the DVDs are scratched to h*ll... The Young Ones and F For Fake... both of which I'm sure are out of print.  And I can't report the damage for a couple days for some reason.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2015, 01:10:44 pm
I watched two "parts' movies in a day, which I almost never do... I just wanted them out of the house.

Insurgent.  Thank god there aren't gonna be any more of these movies, f*ck these boring-*ss movies... god d8mn, even the ending has a cahracter... in this case, pretty much god-d8mned GOD telling the main character that she's special, because she apparently hasn't heard that enough.

I really only watch these flicks for the production design, and while there didn't feel like a whole lot of it, I still love those coats (it seems so werid to me that those coats weren't designed for Star Trek).  I got quite a few pages of doodles and ideas out of it, so I guess it wasn't a total waste, but I'm glad I never have to dip a toe into that world again.

Vampire Diaries... okay, I got less parts from this flick, but what a relief after Insurgent to watch a flick with personality and character to it.  Fighting, teenage attitude, monsters, blood, Gabriel Byrne...  I will say that like Insurgent, an hour went by before I had an inkling of what the plot was, but I minded far less with this flick.  And okay, I gotta bring up Zoey Deutch.  I'd heard that name before but didn't know what she was in, the whole time watching this flick I thought "she looks like a young Rose Byrne but sounds like Ellen Page" and it turns out that she's Lea Thompson's daughter... so now you KNOW she's gonna be in my head whenever I toy with Back To The Future stuff.  Gotta keep it in the family, at least.

Meanwhile, the first disc of The Young Ones (which I've never seen) and F For Fake will hopefully be replaced.
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2015, 01:12:05 pm
In my book, you just did a brutal session.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2015, 01:17:06 pm
Oh my god, I'm so p1ssed off right now... it's a one-spoon day and I spent it in unbearable traffic, just clogged concrete arteries... I wanted to do ONE simple errand and it drove me god-d8mn insane.  This is more a result of that than those movies, but seriously, fvck Insurgent and all that telling a character they're special because they're the main character.  H3ll, spoiler alert for Vampire Academy, Zoey Deutch gets told she's special, but only near the end by the villain after Zoey has proved she's the most butt kickingly awesome best friend guardian high schooler through action.

Ah well, at least Insurgent gave me inspiration for what might be the uniforms for my sci-fi series...sorta Trek, sorta not.  That's a not insignificant "win" in my book.
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2015, 01:24:20 pm
Well then, you did get something out of the experience.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2015, 01:29:33 pm
That's why I put myself through that ordeal.  And why I take notes and scribbles and screencaps.  Though that makes the experience last longer.

Of course, oftentimes I can come up with fixes, play with scenes and so on to make the movie I'm watching more fun.  Couldn't do that with Insurgent.
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2015, 02:49:35 pm
Well, that has been part of my mantra for quite some time. At the very least, take something, anything good from the experience.

But sometimes that take away, is too recognize crap, and not waste my time with it.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 28, 2015, 03:04:22 pm
I take it as a failure that I couldn't make the Divergent movies entertaining, even in my own head.  There was no "what if this happened?" or "what if we swapped out this character with this other character" or anything like that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 31, 2015, 10:56:56 am
Falling Skies (Season 4 - 2014)

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Post by: Mac on August 31, 2015, 12:03:20 pm
Willow Creek (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPlc9UY2iuQ

You may or may not know Bobcat Goldthwait has been directing films for quite some time. Yes, THE Bobcat. I’ve heard bits and pieces of his promoting these films with not really too much of an itch to see them. God Bless America is in my queue in Netflix and Willow Creek became available sitting on the shelf at the library. Within 3 seconds of the movie starting, I knew I would ‘hate’ it. I wouldn’t of cared how good a movie it was… it was the hand held POV B.S. I’ve loathed from the beginning. I skipped a chapter or two to only find out the whole movie is hand held. And from the look of it, no more than the price of a camera it cost to produce this turd. And I mean turd as a term of endearment.

Simply, it’s a story of a couple going in the woods to capture images of Big Foot and it goes bad. Bad for the audience because I could care less about the couple. Only made worse by the razor thin story.

Spoiler alert: The last 20 minutes is the camera inside the tent, capturing the couple and their reactions as they hear sounds outside the tent. Gahhhhhhhhhh… yes, there is something outside, but one long ass shot of watching them freak was just stupid.

What I’m blown away by is the rating in Rotten Tomatoes with Critics loving it at 86% and audience @ 34%. 

I can’t recommend at all…
BUT…

If you’re a fan of stuff like Blair Witch (Crap IMO), you just may find this entertaining.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 31, 2015, 12:39:10 pm
I remember hearing about this, it seems like a weird movie for Bobcat to direct (as opposed to "World's Greatest Dad" with Robin Williams, "God Bless America," and several stand-up specials).


Anyway, what have I been watching?  Uh... re-watching a lot of stuff, I'm still making my way through Orphan Black and the third season of Pinky and The Brain (yes!), but I've finally decided to rewatch all of Deep Space Nine from the start, the first time I've done that since... probably the 90s when the show was syndicated and I could see an episode every day.  I don't know what's taken me so long.  I will say that the interlacing on Netflix... ugh!  The opening battle sequence in the first episode was just a bunch of horizontal lines!  They seriously need to de-interlace these shows, or even better, upscale them to 720 so they match TOS and TNG.

Amazingly, I have most of the seasons of DS9 on DVD... except for the last two.  I might have to get them and just watch those, there's just so much junk at times.
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Post by: Neumatic on August 31, 2015, 08:16:54 pm
Holy sh1t look who just showed up on Deep Space Nine.  Jonathan freaking Banks.

(http://ds9.trekcore.com/gallery/albums/1x13/battlelines108.jpg)

This is the ep where Kai Opaka dies, leading the way for Nurse freakin' Rached to become space pope.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 01, 2015, 10:39:21 pm
Man of Steel (2013)


My Second Review (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/man-of-steel-(2013)/msg35427/#msg35427)
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Post by: Mac on September 03, 2015, 09:59:30 am
The Gunman (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug9xufczPVE

Going into The Gunman clueless, except for the trailer looking interesting, I had early doubts. The beginning is fairly ambiguous. You really don’t know much going on or why. We are given hints here and there. Stick with it. It all plays out over the remainder of the movie. Rottentomatoes percentages slam The Gunman. I’m not sure why. I didn’t love it, but I sure was entertained. I think Sean Penn does an awesome job of smart, action character. Much like Liam Neeson has done (and overdone). The Gunman is multi-layered with his intense love for his woman vs. his dark side of doing business. Great action pieces punctuate the movie.

If you don’t lose interest in the first 30 minutes, you really might like this flick. I definitely recommend it.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 03, 2015, 10:24:19 pm
I Am Chris Farley

Oh my god, I am chuckling SO hard so much at this movie.  It's probably about to go real dark cause there's only 20 minutes left but holy sh1t the stuff that happened off-camera is just killing me.  Especially Mike Myers' shower story.  I will say nothing more about it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 05, 2015, 09:06:08 pm
Don't You Forget About Me (2009)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 06, 2015, 05:41:44 pm
Hercules (2014)
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Post by: Neumatic on September 06, 2015, 10:57:04 pm
Orson Welles' F For Fake.

A movie about a magician and a faker making a documentary about a famous art forger.  I was worried I might not be able to see this, it's a Criterion Collection release, which means limited copies, and the first disc I got from Netflix was in real bad shape.  Luckily they had a second, which is great because they don't replace discs anymore, which sucks.

It's been on my list for a long time, but I moved it up because Tony Zhou from "Every Frame A Painting" mentioned it as a big influence in one of his more recent episodes.  What's really striking is how energetic and modern this movie feels, Welles was always three steps ahead of the game, but there's a playful vibrancy to this film that I can't remember any film, let alone any documentary from this time having.  It's like MTV editing ten years early.  And you can't help but feel that even now, with video essays and everyone on Youtube talking about stuff, this movie takes them ALL to school and shows you how it's done.

Definitely worth watching if you can get your hands on it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 08, 2015, 11:19:18 am
Bad Words (2013)
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Post by: Mac on September 08, 2015, 12:52:19 pm
Mad Max: Fury Road (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjBb4SZ0F6Q

This is one of less than a handful of movies I really wanted to see. I didn’t make it to the theater, but this weekend I finally got to see it at home. Fury Road is extreme in every sense. Characters, Makeup, sets and settings, cars, culture, music. I’m pretty sure you’ll be physically and emotionally exhausted when all is done.

I don’t give it 5 stars because, well, the story. It’s razor thin. It’s simply a story of survival. It’s not multi-layered full of nuance. It’s in your face… survive getting from point A to point B. I probably should watch it again to re-valuate it. The action is fast and furious and sometimes stuff comes at you and gone before you know what happened. Tom Hardy (Max) says about 5 words in the whole movie. Charlize Theron, is one of the toughest women characters I’ve seen on screen. Yet you do get glimpses of her vulnerable side.

I just had a blast watching the different makeup of the vehicles. Some designers must have had a ball creating these monsters. Costume design… same thing.

Every scene is meticulously framed for maximum visuals. And it never looses momentum with being utterly in awe of what your watching.

I haven’t heard anything substantial about a sequel, but I can’t imagine that would NOT happen. Not that I want it to. I’m just saying Mad Max was a huge summertime hit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2015, 08:23:53 am
Code 46 (2003)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2015, 06:11:09 pm
When the Game Stands Tall (2014)
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Post by: Neumatic on September 12, 2015, 07:03:13 pm
Well, I got ten minutes into "Clear History" when the disc gummed up and klonked out.  And this disc, which can't be more than 2 years old (the movie came out in 2013), looks pristine. NO clue why that happened.  And frankly, I wasn't enjoying the flick enough to continue.  So that's the end of that.

I got other stuff I should be watching, I just can't pick.
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Post by: Mac on September 14, 2015, 01:11:01 pm
Beyond the Reach (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

Warning: It's not a deep story, so the trailer just about shows you the movie.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qlFGI5n_C8

Another one of those where I saw the trailer on another movie. Never hearing of this release before then. Soooo, I automatically am leery of the overall product being good. Well the production value is good. The story has been told before of man hunting man. It’s just they go over the top. Due to a set of unfortunate events, things get out of hand, and Michael Douglas who is uber rich must protect his reputation and then makes a sport out of hunting down the only man, Jeremy Irvine, that knows what he has done.

This movie contains a lot of unbelievable circumstances, hoping the audience doesn’t think about them… to much. For instance, to start off, The Hunter forces the hunted to strip… without shoes. I wouldn’t have been able to walk 10 feet, let alone run and jump the whole desert.

It’s mindless fun and I would give it a slight recommendation

The Mercedes they drive is cool. You only really see the outside, but it is cool.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2015, 09:35:20 am
Watchmen (2009)

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Post by: Neumatic on September 17, 2015, 10:57:53 pm
Since I'm not gonna get any mailers until next week, and I need a break from Deep Space Nine, I found myself binging Caprica.  Will probably get through the whole thing over the weekend... I just wanted to make sure I could before it expires.  Digging it.
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Post by: Mac on September 18, 2015, 06:00:13 am
Police Story (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqnB6vTlIq0

I’ve not seen a Jackie Chan movie in years. I don’t know if that’s due to him being absent or more of I’ve moved onto other actors. Police Story is not a good way to get back to Jackie Chan, and it’s not so much because of him, but I blame it on the very vague story. I watched it for 45 minutes and the only thing I got out of it was the sub-plot of having generational gap issues with his daughter. I also blame horrible direction. Wow, from the rapid fire editing and going back and forth between hand held camera and a standard, which both distracted me so much, I just turned it off. Jackie also probably didn’t say 10 words in that time.

I can’t recommend at all.
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Post by: Mac on September 18, 2015, 06:13:11 am
The Suicide Theory (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif) Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFPPZJdi0Zc

The Suicide Theory shot up the popularity charts on Netflix. So naturally I’m curious to all the hubbub. Suicide Theory has a very interesting premise. A somewhat young man enlists the work of a hired hit man to kill him (essentially suicide). That catches your attention as well as the hit man’s. The thing is the young guy is cursed and cannot die. So his theory is he has to be in an emotional state where he does not want to die… like he currently does. I guess the thinking is he will be more vulnerable to the curse.

So this plays out interestingly as the thug hit man slowly understands the guy can’t seem to be killed and he has to work at this particular hit. It’s not easy money.

Then it’s revealed the man is gay, so the hit sets up a rendezvous with another man hoping to put him in a state of ecstasy. Again interesting. But unfortunately it quickly evolves into gay relationships and gay bashing and hatred and none of that entertained me. The story gets derailed and loses me.

Maybe I'll try picking it back up and see if plays out with the suicide thing. It has potential... I just lost patience with it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 18, 2015, 04:46:27 pm
The Boy Next Door (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 21, 2015, 12:29:53 am
Garden State (2004)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 25, 2015, 10:41:29 pm
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst (2015)


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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2015, 10:46:20 pm
I'm kind of half-watching "The Grandmaster" since it's about to expire, but I'm not really into it.  I have Adam Savage's old podcasts playing in my ear in the meantime.  That's apparently the mood I'm in.  I watched a bunch of Counting Cars and American Pickers in the last day or two, and been pecking at a couple flicks and haven't really been able to get into anything.

I'm happy to find out Mr Robot is going to be on Amazon Prime, but not until next year.  I wanna watch it!  And I have no idea when Mad Men or Halt And Catch Fire are renewing on Netflix, it feels like it's been too long.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 25, 2015, 10:53:59 pm
I'm surprised you have the patience to wait a year to see Mr. Robot. I will be buying it on DVD when it drops. Can't wait for Season 2.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 25, 2015, 10:55:05 pm
Patience plus poor cash flow.  I got expensive dental appointments coming up and that's gonna tie up my finances (though considering I made a fifteen hour playlist for a two hour session, I might be overestimating things).
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Post by: Neumatic on September 26, 2015, 12:04:26 am
Poking around Netflix I decided to stat a documentary called "Just About Famous," it's about a convention of celebrity impersonators, including DeNiro, Hef, Obama, and KISS!

But there's ONE dude, not a lookalike, but someone who works for the convention who's being interviewed who is a FANTASTIC lookalike. more so than the actual impersonators, but the person he looks and sounds like is one of the actors from Christopher Guest movies, so my mind keeps thinking that's what the movie IS when it isn't.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2015, 12:06:32 am
Never heard of it. Need to add this to my Library Hold. Hopefully they have a copy.
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Post by: Neumatic on September 26, 2015, 12:12:59 am
I'd never heard of it before.  It's all right.  KISS hasn't shown up yet.  But now I just wanna see the mockumentary version, get the Christopher Guest ensemble to do this.  There's tons of actors who can do impressions of other actors (WAY better than these guys, I hate to say).
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2015, 09:42:39 pm
Big Game (2014)
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Post by: Mac on September 28, 2015, 08:22:49 am
Time Lapse (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YhP-VfH81E

Two factors here to lead me to check out Time Lapse. First, it deals with time travel and 2nd, it was on Netflix with decent ratings. Time Lapse tackles time travel in a unique way. More of a Twilight Zone or Outer Limits story telling.

Essentially a scientist developed a (large) camera that can capture polaroid’s of events that will happen 24 hours later. When 3 friends across the way from their apartment, discover the now dead scientist invention camera, the dynamics of the individuals change very slowly at first, escalating into very unexpected territories.

What I found interesting in this theoretical time travel scenario is the idea that the camera captures an image 24 hours in the future and if the scene is different in any way, that would mean their future is at risk. Maybe they would die or vanish because the future path of the camera capture is different than the future path of the individuals.

Time Lapse does play with some complicated theories that the individuals try to control or use to their advantage. The ending has several nice twists.

I recommend Time Lapse, especially if you’re interested in the time travel genre of flicks.
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Post by: Mac on September 28, 2015, 08:30:05 am
The Loft (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgQUVXwkfNk

We started The Loft looking for a fun thriller. It is a fun ride, but in a very Lifetime B-movie kind of way. Outward The Loft looks and feels great, but once you start to step back and think about what these guys are doing and saying, it becomes ridiculous.

Great cast and good acting... mostly. The one blonde couldn't act to save her life... wow.

So it follows a formula that works. Immediately start off with a dead girl and then the rest of the movie unfolds leading you to believe anybody and everybody did it at some point. With duh, the big reveal at the end. Like I said, it’s cheesy fun.
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Post by: Mac on September 28, 2015, 08:48:15 am
After (2014) (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bz4jVO27bhM

Yet another Twilight Zone-ish story of a couple arriving on a bus to their childhood hometown. They are strangers to each other but lived by each other.

Only to discover the town’s people have completely vanished. The 2nd act is them slowly seeing and hearing events within the town that affected them. Also the town is surrounded by an encroaching wall of dark clouds. While adding more questions to this odd phenomena, making it a little more clear, they are in a different reality. Are they dead? Are they in coma’s?

The 3rd act brings about a monster from the dark clouds. The girl starts to remember some stories very similar she was told as a child.

After, is done very well. Great acting, good editing. Decent special effects. I liked the way the story unfolded. The ending had a little to be desired, but still and effective and entertaining film. Recommend.
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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2015, 06:12:55 am
Furious 7 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Skpu5HaVkOc

As you guys know, the Fast and Furious franchise is one of my guilty pleasures. I’m very forgiving with the simple and cheesy storytelling. Furious 7 is wall to wall action. James Wan directing wanted to make sure he was noticed and he did do that. I believe Furious 7 set records and one of the biggest summer movies this year.

Furious 7 introduces Jason Stratham… as a bad guy. A very, very bad guy. And I was quite pleasantly surprised with also introducing Kurt Russell to the series. Kurt’s appearance balanced out the lack of The Rock’s sorely missed presence. The Rock is here, but only the beginning and end. There is good amount of humor that made me smirk and giggle. And I have to say the special effects are absolutely amazing. When the movie does get out there with a parking lot crumbling or a highway stunt work, it looked very real and not cartoonish.

Furious 7 takes the James Bond and Mission Impossible theme’s and ups the ante quite a bit with car chases, heists, beautiful women, locations and naturally… the action. One of the better girl slug fest in Hollywood. Believe it or not, the slow point in the movie was a warehouse battle with lots of bullets flying. But the reason it was slow was because a lack of cars. This scene actually appeared meh and appeared like a lot of other films.

Finally, I thought the ending symbolic tribute to Paul Walker was beautiful and classy.

Check it out.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2015, 07:00:39 am
I thought you saw this in the theater. Well, knowing that you're a huge fan of the series, I may have just assumed you saw it in the theater.
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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2015, 07:41:03 am
It's just I find it very difficult to sit in a theater on a gorgeous day.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2015, 07:45:07 am
I find it difficult to sit in a theater when people are texting, talking, kicking the back of my seat, walking in front of me, trying to claim the armrest (both sides), leaving theater unclean, audio not being loud enough and price gouging for cost of tickets.
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Post by: Mac on September 30, 2015, 10:13:13 am
Quote
I find it difficult to sit in a theater when people are texting, talking, kicking the back of my seat, walking in front of me, trying to claim the armrest (both sides), leaving theater unclean, audio not being loud enough and price gouging for cost of tickets.

That too.




I thoroughly enjoyed watching this at home.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 02, 2015, 07:05:56 pm
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTHOdjil-R4

I happened to see that Dark Matter appeared on Netflix (no sign of Killjoys though), so I decided to give it a go, wound up watching the whole first season in about two days.

I don't know if any of you guys have heard about this show, but it was created by Syfy to win back the fans who moan on endlessly about the cancellation of Farscape and, more importantly, Firefly.  Which is to say that the show is shockingly similar to both of those shows.  The character of Three in particular is straight-up Jayne, for example.

This is what I call a mash-up show, you can identify almost every piece in it from somewhere else, and weirdly enough, I don't have a problem with that.  My real issue is that all the parts come from the same type of genre, and the secret to a successful mash-up is finding contradictory pieces, making things that shouldn't work together work together.  It's not peanut butter and chocolate, it's peanut butter and peanuts.  But hey, if you're ion the mood for peanuts...

I think because I binged the whole thing, I was more forgiving of it, I just went with it.  I'm okay with having a character who's a carbon copy of Jayne because hey, Jayne was a fun character (plus the actor isn't Adam Baldwin, so you don't have that weird "I like the character but I don't like him" dynamic, so no guilt).  But it did take a couple episodes before I stopped thinking of the "original" actors, if that makes sense.  Like, One feels like Peter from Heroes, Two feels like Lexa Doig (her character even has android abilities), Three is Jayne, Four is like D'Ago from Farscape, Five to her credit starts out as River but becomes her own unique thing, more than any other character (she's my fave), Six kept making me think of Keith David, the Android reminded me of Thelma... it was like character actors being replaced by similar character actors.  The ship looks like the Nostromo from Alien, the space stations look like the Starbases from Star Trek, and so on and so on...

I was actually starting to wonder if some of the things I had problems with were intentional, that everything was obvious because it's expected and the show didn't want to give away any clues or impose anything onto the characters.  The characters don't have memories, so why shouldn't they be broad archetypes?  If the ship were sleek and advanced, or too rudimentary, it might tell them something about the outside universe, so of course it should look like every other spaceship from movies and TV and video games.  The characters don't have names, so the episodes shouldn't have titles (this actually REALLY bugs me when episodes don't have titles, I wound up making up my own, but in keeping with the style of the show, they're all questions).

But maybe I'm giving the show too much credit.  It can't all be deliberate. Can it?  The show doesn't feel like it's smart enough to be pulling that off, but could it be?

I WAS happy to see Stargate regulars Torri Higginson and David Hewlitt show up.  Hopefully season two will include more guest stars but we shall see... the show hasn't really distinguished itself as something to draw guest actors to, to make them say "I wanna do that."

I took a lot of notes (and got a lot of screencaps) watching the show, and it really started making me think how I take and play with parts, wondering if I'm doing enough with them, using them to their full potential and so on.  Because I want to do a space show, I don't think I've made any secret about it... I wanna do the next Star Trek.  And this is making me really appreciate how much wider a range I'll have to cover in order to create something unique.

Is the show worth watching?  For you?  I dunno.  I'll definitely watch season two when it streams.  I just enjoyed having something to watch, it was a B-show set on a spaceship that looked good and kept a continuous story going.  That's what I was in the mood for.  And while it's TV-14, there are elements that are going into more R-rated territory (zombies and severed limbs, there's bloody kills, there's a sex robot in an episode).  It feels like it could be a good base for something interesting to build off of.  We'll see.
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Post by: Mac on October 03, 2015, 05:22:21 am
I believe I actually started this some time back. I remember I was intrigued, but for some reason didn't go back. I'll give it another try.

Right now I've got to think of something to write up for the poltergeist reboot... Ugh... Maybe not. Don't want to waste my time.
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Post by: Mac on October 07, 2015, 06:58:10 am
The Identical (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ShZUmceRE

Thoroughly enjoyed this movie best described as a mash-up of ideas. Take the story of Elvis and mash his story into another parallel story.

It becomes obvious we are looking at Elvis’s life but told from a parallel world with a twin brother, separated at birth. The execution is done very well. BUT!!! There is plenty of cheesiness in bits and pieces, some in the dialog and the songs are either great or just too damn cheesy. And maybe that’s by design.

Ray Liotta is fantastic as the fire and brimstone preacher. He demonstrates every kind of emotion, I’ve never seen from him before. Ashley Judd works fine as the preachers wife and Blake Ryan as Ryan Wade & Drexel Hemsley (aka Elvis) did a great job of displaying determined but shy individual that evolves into a someone who understands his purpose.

I just love the way they played around with elements from Elvis life and incorporated into these two individuals lives. The music they presented was interesting because they did not stick with the Elvis genre, but updated it with a more contemporary sound from the 70’s & 80’s. Cool enough just to be a little different.

I highly recommend The Identical.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 07, 2015, 06:58:16 pm
I met that dude at the premiere... it's really strange in real life.  And doubly so when he calls out your name from a distance, it's a real "what the h3ll?" moment when Elvis references Seinfeld ("Newman!") right in front of you.

I'm into the final stretch of Deep Space Nine episodes, and it looks like the whole back-end of the season seven is a continuous story, which feels VERY modern, like BSG (which was created by a lot of the same people only a few years later).  Given that the story has been building up for a few seasons, it meshes real well with the rest of the show.  The most jarring element of season seven is Ezri.  Now, I LOVE Ezri, but she's new and in every episode and there's more focus on her than other characters, so things feel a bit unbalanced.  If she had been intro'd a season earlier, it might not have been as bad, the creators said they wished they had the idea earlier since she's such an interesting character, but any earlier, it might not have been Nicole deBoer, who's perfect in the part and cute as a button.  But it also makes me think of Seven Of Nine, she was intro'd halfway through Voyager's run and it felt like the whole show tilted towards her.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 09, 2015, 07:33:23 am
Orphan Black (Season 3 - 2015)

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 10, 2015, 09:28:13 pm
Cop Car (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 11, 2015, 06:50:11 pm
Spy (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on October 12, 2015, 02:45:52 am
I'm sad to say, but I finally ran out of episodes of Jeeves And Wooster.

I'm trying to figure out how to describe this show... it's real mellow, the only thing that occurs to me is a mix between Frasier and Downton Abbey (in fact, a couple episodes are shot in the same location).  The show takes place in Edwardian England (and later, Prohibition-era New York), centering around dim-witted Bertie Wooster and his loyal and cunning valet Jeeves, played by Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry respectively.  I was actually interested to discover that the actors weren't keen on doing the show, but decided to do it when they realized no one else could do it as well.

The show took one liberty from the original books and adapted Hugh Laurie's musical talents:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ_R8QBeYvs

The quick dry wit is on at full force in every episode, and the scripts delight in delicate dialogue and plot twists, misunderstandings and plans within plans going awry.

The only real issue with the show is that parts get recast from series to series, including important parts like Aunt Agatha and J Washburne Stoker.  It's not that the other actors don't do a fine job, but it's strange not to have that consistency.

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Post by: Mac on October 16, 2015, 01:13:40 pm
I really don't have much of anything late to review. I've been watching stuff, but it is really lame.

Tremors 5: Bloodlines

It's just fodder like the last 3 have been. Cheap and rather blah

Insidious 3

Good lord, I knew it would not register much on my entertainment scale, but dayum, this is just lazy ass movie making.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 17, 2015, 10:09:22 am
Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 18, 2015, 10:18:57 am
Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)


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Post by: Mac on October 20, 2015, 06:59:59 am
The Gallows (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00halfstar.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_8OKImO2pc

Gahhhh, genre tired hand held POV crap. It’s actually worse than that because none of the characters are likeable. You wait for them to die… with glee. I’m only assuming that is what happens because more than 25 minutes and I was done. This is not scary. Horrible acting, horrible visuals and the list goes on. Stay away from this very tired, boring waste of time.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 21, 2015, 07:37:43 am
Run All Night (2015)
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Post by: Mac on October 22, 2015, 08:04:33 am
The Overnight (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R54tN3njkpE

Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling (Orange is the new Black), Jason Schwartzman & Judith Godreche

I picked this up because I like Adam Scott and Taylor Schilling. They pretty much act as themselves here and not much new. Reasonable humor in their delivery.

The whole movie is 90% in one setting over one night. A young couple move to L.A. looking for friends and bump into another young couple that have more than ‘friends’ in mind. What I liked about The Overnight is that is did not follow a preconceived formula of how you think a story about swinging might turn out. There’s interesting twists and turns to keep the viewer engaged. The movie definitely has an indie feel to it, but production is very good.

The Overnight is not a great movie, but it entertains and there are a few laugh out loud moments.
I’d recommend it.
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Post by: Mac on October 26, 2015, 10:24:37 am
Kung Fury (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) Netflix and You Tube and ElRay, etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bS5P_LAqiVg

Just watch it in all it's amazing jaw dropping weirdness. It's really a short and thank goodness, because it's just an extreme every second for it's 30 minutes run.. no more, no less. Kung Fury is taking Monty Pythonism to the next level. Made to look like an homage to 80's exploitation films, you will either turn it off quickly or sit there and grin saying WTF every 30 seconds.

Every scene and every line should not be missed. This is so far over the top, I cannot even begin to describe it. Let's just say Laser Raptors and Kung Fuhrer live in the same world.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 26, 2015, 04:56:19 pm
Hitman (2007)
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Post by: Neumatic on October 26, 2015, 10:30:00 pm
Man, sorry I haven't been updating with what I've been watching... I've sort of been all over the place with my viewing... the last thing I watched was The Rewrite, which I dug but it paled in comparison to the energy and atmosphere of Begin Again, which I also saw recently... so last night I started mashin' the two together on paper, "what if the strengths from Begin Again infused into the boring parts of The Rewrite" etc (now I actually liked the Rewrite fine, it was a mellow film and I had a few issues with it, but I've watched it twice, so...)

But that little mental exercise (and typing exercise) really got my creative juices flowing.
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2015, 12:14:51 pm
Tell me more about Rewrite, because Begin Again is in my top 5 must watch movies of the last few years.
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2015, 01:03:11 pm
Tomorrowland (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Another flick I swore I wrote about immediately after watching, but alas… I did not. I believe one of the main reasons is because I was bored silly with ‘teen’ flick. I had been hearing from day one how Tomorrowland was unclear who it was intended for… and now I see and agree. I said Teen flick because that’s the way it came across. Like Twilight and The Hunger Games, the story seemed to focus on that young crowd set. Visually it was eye popping with soooooo much going on. Flying around, running past and through and in and out. It was exhausting. I imagine that appealed to a much younger crowd. But the story would just fly over their heads. The young female lead just seemed to be a very wrong cast selection. Didn’t buy into her personality at all.

Since I’m not buying into her or the story, that leaves me with little to grab me into the flick. Love everything Brad Bird has done up to this point, but sadly, I’m not even going to recommend this flick
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Post by: Mac on October 27, 2015, 01:17:28 pm
Pitch Perfect 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqCYlxcq84c

Honestly enjoy these flicks. It’s light hearted comedy with good singing and dancing. And some good looking women. Not a deep story… just park the brain at the door. Surprisingly this was directed by one of my  girlfriends Elizabeth Banks. Who is also in the movie along with John Michael Wiggins as judging commentary. There one liners alone pay for the movie. If you remember the character Brittany from Glee saying totally off the wall comments, this is kind of what they do.
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Post by: Neumatic on October 27, 2015, 02:13:41 pm
I imagine that mixing Tomorrowland and the new awful Fant4stic movie would yield some interesting fruit.  We shall see.

Okay, for The Rewrite... well, here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL-tP03XoH4

This is so not Begin Again (i could write pages about how much I loved Begin Again.. and I have, so...), and this flick is almost like the other side of the coin in terms of execution... it's more quiet, more pages, smaller.  I kept thinking it could use the adrenaline rush of Begin Again and wound up writing a bit about that, how I would have liked to see them do things like pitch their stories off index cards like they do at Pixar...

The movie is more quiet and mellow, because it takes place in a small town (the one Rod Serling comes from... The Twilight Zone is an element in the flick).

Big thing about the flick: the cast.  Hugh Grant, Marisa Tomei, JK Simmons, Allison Janney (a little Juno reunion... or re-Jun-ion, if you like), Chris Elliot... plus the younger cast I'm sure will be in more stuff in the future.

There's also this "I don't give a d@mn" attitude in the first half of the flick that I like, how Hugh Grant does everything in his power not to have to do his job, that actually connected to me in a funny way, I remember being young and stupid and thinking I didn't need to learn anything or that I couldn't learn anything worthwhile in a classroom, so it was interesting turning that around and having a teacher think that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 30, 2015, 05:53:36 pm
Love & Mercy (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 02, 2015, 12:19:47 pm
Wish I Was Here (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 05, 2015, 05:07:23 am
I Am Evel Knievel (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 06, 2015, 07:08:56 pm
Identity Thief (2013)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2015, 08:10:47 pm
Z for Zachariah (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on November 09, 2015, 07:21:44 pm
Wrapped up watching season two of Gortimer Gibbon's Life On Normal Street.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90l3nHoIbbY

Wow.  I remember season one having very wonderful emotional moments (particularly the final ep), but season two... wow.  The show feels more like an indy film than before, which is great (the cinematography is actually much improved)... there are a couple plots that feel a bit contrived (one had the exact plot of a Simpsons episode), but they still manage to wrangle something special out of it.

The big thing that struck me was what happened in the last few episodes... since I'm sure neither of you are gonna watch it, I'll just say it: one of the parents dies.  And not in the finale, the show makes the characters deal with that for a few episodes.  It's surprisingly poignant for a family show, doubly so for a show that has cloning, magic, imaginary friends made flesh, etc.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2015, 12:30:34 pm
Batkid Begins (2015)
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Post by: Mac on November 10, 2015, 04:30:05 pm
Vacation (2015)

It was not as terrible as I was hearing. It wasn't great, but I enjoyed parts. Several laugh out loud moments and even tears. Surprisingly the foul mouthed younger bully kid made me laugh a lot... And I felt guilty afterwards.

Chevy Chase and Beverly D' Angelo looked horrible and not terribly funny.

Seriously, it probably should have not been made. Ya just don't mess with classics.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 10, 2015, 04:38:44 pm
Definitely curious to take a look at it.

My big thing about the Vacation reboot isn't messing with a classic, it's that we already have a new version of the Griswalds: the Pritchetts from Modern Family.  They're the family everyone knows and identifies with (my dad is very Jay, especially with his dog, for example), they're omnipresent, and they even go on an expensive vacation every year.  And the stories and jokes come from real experiences and insights in real families, sort of like Lampoon's old movies were based on anecdotes and horror stories sent in by their readers.

I said it when it came out, "Little Miss Sunshine" was sort of the indie film version of Vacation (they did abandon a dead family member and run off).  So... what do we NEED a new Vacation for?  What itch isn't being scratched?  I mean, you can comment on these films, like "We're The Millers," but... that's kind of it.
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Post by: Mac on November 13, 2015, 10:25:53 am
Extinction (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZoSD-riiy0

I found this horror/sci-fi flick refreshing. The story is post zombie apocalypse and for some unknown reason, the ice age came roaring in. So the story is only two men and a girl left on earth. By the way, the two men live in two different farm houses, right next to each other …. And they hate each other passionately.

Thus the core of the story is why are the men like this. Also, they are not alone. Something else survived and it’s about to get real.

Definitely work check out.

The Final Girls (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zreNh78kTjg

Yet another interesting concept. This is 100% tongue in cheek comedy about horror. There have been similar movies, but Final Girls is more winking at the camera and just being over the top. The first two acts are just a blast with setting the tone and describing what’s going on. I think it really stumbles in the last act. A group of kids somehow get sucked into a classic slasher movie. For the most part it’s understood the movie has to run it’s course. You can’t change it. BUT… they do change it and it gets chaotic and messy.

Overall, it was still refreshing and fun.

Inside out (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Of all the movies I watched this time around, I was really looking forward to this. Great word and saying it’s the best yet from Disney/Pixar.

Not so much. Inside Out leaned way more into the childrens territory. There are adult things buried in the story, but I still felt like I was watching a Saturday Morning kiddie cartoon. Inside Out is still very good, and would recommend. But it definitely, for me, it does not have re-watch-ability

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Post by: Neumatic on November 14, 2015, 10:31:42 pm
Well, last night since it was on my queue and I never saw it, I checked out "Major League."  Didn't really care for it.

Today I was checking out Amazon Prime, discovered they had just added a new Shaun The Sheep special.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsKEP2C0eGA

Loved it.

And now, since it just became free on Prime, I'm checking out Ex Machina.  Been waiting to watch this one.  So far, quite cool.  And a nice little preview for Star Wars, since the two male leads in the flick are both in The Force Awakens.  So strange that the only one not in Star Wars is the robot.


Oh!  and I forgot to mention "W/ Bob And David" on Netflix.  Funny, sharp... but only FOUR episodes!  Still, it's pretty impressive considering Bob O was doing this show and Better Call Saul at the same time.
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Post by: Mac on November 15, 2015, 05:50:22 am
Terminator: genysis 1 Star

Spelled right? Anyway, I think I remember crapping on this back in the early days of promotion. Well ive pretty much forgotten about this one until it showed up at the library.

In a word: Suck. This was so uninteresting, confusing, cliche and a waste of my time. I have no interest in revisiting this flick. The movie steals from the past and offers nothing new with terminators... Except... They really f*cked with the past movies. The kicker is the characters constantly explaining what they are doing, what happened in the past. Holy crap, this became a convulated mess.

With all new actors in all the major characters, I just felt that much more disconnected. Ahnold was amazingly blah... Not that I was expecting much from a terminator, he was just a cameo in the overall scheme, IMO.

Hated this movie.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 16, 2015, 09:50:46 pm
Wrapping up the last season of Voyager.  Not sure if I'll watch Enterprise after this.

However, I was watching an episode and guess who showed up:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WImd0wSLbe0

Damm1t Jerry!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 17, 2015, 09:01:38 am
The Big Bang Theory (Season 8 - 2014)
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Post by: Mac on November 17, 2015, 10:20:44 am
Dark Star: H.R. Geiger's World (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1MXYaQA04U

you can find the documentary on youtube

(http://ia.media-imdb.com/images/M/MV5BMjM5MzU5ODUyMl5BMl5BanBnXkFtZTgwODA1MDAxNTE@._V1_SY317_CR3,0,214,317_AL_.jpg)

What a snore fest. A majority of this documentary literally follows Geiger around his home. The man and his art are very interesting, but the documentary choose to focus on his sunset years which doesn’t say much, because he’s pretty much done with art. Just taking it easy. He doesn’t talk much and when he does, it’s in slurred German. He’s in terrible health. I’m just not interested in watching an old man walk around the house.

There is some video of his productive years, but it’s just being shown without explanation.

I was just bored silly where I should have had my mind spinning with all his unique art
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 20, 2015, 08:16:04 pm
Southpaw (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 21, 2015, 06:52:32 pm
Furious 7 (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on November 21, 2015, 08:21:36 pm
Finished the first season of "The Man In The High Castle" last night (thanks to seeing the first two episodes in advance via previews) but since it JUST came out last night, I won't say anything spoiler-y about it.  There are some character who I don't like, but I liked it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 21, 2015, 08:55:04 pm
I want to see this, but I'll be waiting for the DVD release.
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Post by: Neumatic on November 21, 2015, 09:25:28 pm
That's gonna be a long wait, dude.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 22, 2015, 09:23:00 am
The Death of Superman Lives: What Happened? (2015)

(http://i.imgur.com/VT0W24p.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-death-of-superman-lives-what-happened-(2015)/msg36130/#msg36130)

Click Me For Review ^^
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 24, 2015, 05:26:52 pm
Tomorrowland (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 26, 2015, 11:18:13 am
The November Man (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 30, 2015, 12:27:32 pm
Banksy Does New York (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 30, 2015, 07:24:26 pm
The Expendables 3 (2014)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 01, 2015, 07:25:30 pm
Terminator Genisys (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2015, 01:12:15 pm
Focus (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 06, 2015, 06:13:55 pm
San Andreas (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on December 07, 2015, 11:47:12 pm
So many movies I should talk about... and many more I'm forgetting.

In The Expendables 3 thread, I mentioned this awesome documentary on Netflix called "Electric Bugallo: The Wild Untold Story Of Cannon Films."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igpjqRDgDI

This flick was nuts because the circumstances were nuts.  The only way I can describe this flick is like if Bowfinger was real.  The stories and projects they made, and how they made them... I was falling over laughing.  Def worth a watch.
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Post by: Mac on December 10, 2015, 10:11:34 am
No Escape (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOjj07EuO50

I saw the trailer for No Escape sometime back and the one scene of Owen Wilson throwing his young daughter off a building top caught my attention, in particular. Despite not being a fan of Owen Wilson (he’s run his course as far as I was concerned), I decided to give this a try. I rather enjoyed. Except for the calm before the storm in the first 15 minutes, this is a knuckle ride action film. I found myself clenched many a time just because what was happening on the screen. Simply, a family arrives in a foreign country to start a new job and coup uprising occurs as they arrive. The acting was awesome. Very realistic on everybody’s part. Meaning, not some glorified Hollywood script, but the people acting like I would think in this brutal situation. Even the young girls did a fantastic job.

Pierce Brosnan was icing on the cake. He just added to excitement.

I highly recommend No Escape.
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Post by: Mac on December 10, 2015, 10:13:45 am
Quote
So many movies I should talk about... and many more I'm forgetting.

In The Expendables 3 thread, I mentioned this awesome documentary on Netflix called "Electric Bugallo: The Wild Untold Story Of Cannon Films."

This flick was nuts because the circumstances were nuts.  The only way I can describe this flick is like if Bowfinger was real.  The stories and projects they made, and how they made them... I was falling over laughing.  Def worth a watch
.

I'm gonna hunt this down and check it out.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 13, 2015, 10:27:36 pm
So in the mountain of movies I've been watching, I checked out About A Boy for the first time in ages.  As good as I remember (although I kept thinking throughout the entire flick "WHAT A LOVELY LOVELY DAY!" and I haven't even SEEN Fury Road yet, which is just telling how pervasive that flick is).

There's a series I'm toying with and I kept picking up little insights and observations that were helpful, and it was only an hour after I did that when I finally realized "oh yeah, they made a series out of this movie."

So I'm watching the show now.  The first episode... I remember stop-starting it twice, it follows the plot points of the first movie, kind of, but without the emotional weight... it's inferior, even with Jon Favreau directing.  I just couldn't help but compare.  But after that point, I started being able to appreciate it on its' own accords... it literally didn't have to be About A Boy, it could have been anything, really.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 13, 2015, 11:16:01 pm
The first season of About A Boy was fun, guilty pleasure show for me. Really liked it. The second season was f*cking awful. I didn't make it past the 4th episode before I quit. Soon after it was cancelled and rightly so. It was a massive nose dive from the previous season and man, was it boring.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 13, 2015, 11:29:04 pm
Wow, shocked to hear that.  Haven't gotten to that point yet, don't know how I'm going to react to that.  They must have changed showrunners or something, I don't know.  But it looks like Netflix only has season one, so I guess I won't have to worry about that.

Seriously, I adore the US Marcus, he's such an energetic ball of weird.  It's America so everyone is more egotistical (even Fiona), convinced they're right, getting into fights, and just being more upbeat.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2015, 01:00:28 am
You know, I don't recognize Adrienne Palicki as Dr Sam at all.  Probably the dark hair.

I'm enjoying the show but my stupid brain keeps cranking, doing a compare and contrast with my own concept which I KNOW is totally different but... something about the core concept, the two totally different personalities taking care of a weird kid (a girl, not a boy in my case) has my damage-control impulses firing.
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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2015, 01:04:16 am
Mississippi Grind (2 Stars)

Ya know, the acting was good. The photography, a little to much in the face, but the down fall was the slow pace and lack of any excitement. This comes off as a talky film, which done right is enjoyable, but I got bored way to early to maintain interest.

Self / Less (2 Stars)

Another Ryan Reynolds film. Man, I really wanna like anything he does but I can't. He just picks some strange parts for himself. A sci-fi flick of putting a rich mans mind into an ordinary mans body. It's been done many times before, so very little new here. And it takes forever to peel back any understanding of the back story of Reynolds Character.

 The Transporter: Refueled (3.5 Stars)

An attempt to re-start the Transporter franchise, with an new star. I'm a sucker for these car movies, but this reinvention was just Meh. Didn't care for this guy all that much. Just a pale comparison to Jason Stratham. The photography great. God car stuff, beautiful women. And I actually liked them bringing in The dad character. I would recommend. Not great, but not horrible either.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 14, 2015, 01:08:39 am
Man, we're all up late tonight.

I'm not even that big on the original Transporter movies... I don't know why anyone would see a Transporter movie that didn't have Statham in them (and those flicks were very obvious riffs on the Clive Owen "The Hire" series).

Self/Less was Tarsem, which I don't think anyone picked up on because it doesn't look like a Tarsem flick or anything.

And I have NO idea what Missisippi Grind is... info?
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Post by: Mac on December 14, 2015, 09:48:28 am
Mississippi Grind

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Ben Mendelsohn, Ryan Reynolds
Down on his luck and facing financial hardship, Gerry teams up with younger charismatic poker player, Curtis, in an attempt to change his luck. The two set off on a road trip through the South with visions of winning back what's been lost.

Mendelsohn is absolutely great in Bloodline (Netflix). Reynolds and Mendelsohn share a good chemistry here. It's just a slow talkie film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ooca5idaNSk
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2015, 07:30:21 pm
Black Sails (Season 2 - 2014)
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Post by: Mac on December 17, 2015, 06:31:54 am
Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDofO3P2HpE

I rather enjoyed the first installment of the Maze Runner. Despite it being focused on a teen future, they were grown up enough to have mature attitudes... there were enough elements to be fresh and engaging throughout.

The Scorch Trials took a hard right turn, was lacking in any kind of story, let alone a continual story from the first movie. It appears that all the kids do was run for their lives. Bored me to death. This segment was devoid of freshness and appeared so cliché from just about everything else we’ve seen in the past. The movie is so disjointed. Suddenly they are in a rave community? WTF,
I have no idea what the title has to do with story. I thought there would either be a ‘trial’ or the kids would be tested in the Scorch. I guess the title means something else.
The only saving grace, I find Dylan O’Brien as Thomas, an actor to keep any eye on. He did a lot with the first movie. This one, he could barely sustain with the direction and story.

Can’t recommend Scorch Trials.
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Post by: Mac on December 21, 2015, 10:54:04 am
Blondie's New York: The Making of Parallel Lines (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hNVLGNmof6Y

I’ll admit when Blondie hit big with Parallel Lines, I was there eating it up. I liked the slick punk sound. Not much into punk, but Blondie was not only eye-catching but ear-catching as well.

This is an excellent documentary going track by track on the development of Blondie’s break-out album. This documentary does what I like. Gets into the details of how it was made, add some passion and opinions on what happened and it cooks into a very interesting piece.

Highly recommend. You might like it even if you’re not a Blondie fan.


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 21, 2015, 07:01:07 pm
Pixels (2015)
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2015, 06:05:57 am
So many movies I should talk about... and many more I'm forgetting.

In The Expendables 3 thread, I mentioned this awesome documentary on Netflix called "Electric Bugallo: The Wild Untold Story Of Cannon Films."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-igpjqRDgDI

This flick was nuts because the circumstances were nuts.  The only way I can describe this flick is like if Bowfinger was real.  The stories and projects they made, and how they made them... I was falling over laughing.  Def worth a watch.

Did I say before I watched this? Brain fart here. I did enjoy it. I so remember the Golan Globus names in all the movies I watched. Apparently though they put out a lot more product than I was ever aware of. I guess it would kind of fun to watch a lot of those over, but then again, they might be so stupid, it would be only the nostalgia I love.
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Post by: Mac on December 22, 2015, 06:26:50 am
Let Us Prey (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Cskj8Asas

Ran across this because of the 4 star rating on Netflix. I’m discovering the rating system is still iffy. But in general 3+ stars is typically worth watching.

Let Us Prey is surprisingly similar to the Last Shift which I watched a few weeks ago. At the very core, horror at the lone police station. Both very well done, but gory. Beyond that, the movies are unique enough to be very different. Let Us Prey has a medium size cast with a handful of fun characters. In a nutshell, the Devil or the Angel Gabriel comes and pays a visit to the police and criminals of this particular police station. It gets very dark even for those who we think are normal people. Far from it. The devil want’s you to know you can hide that darkness, and goes a step further for you to relive things and regret. This is not for everyone. If you like horror with devil themes, you might like it.

Last Shift (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p0KIrh8hyM
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 22, 2015, 07:34:40 pm
Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2015, 08:12:22 pm
Flippin' through TV and "My Love Don't Cost A Thing" is on, never seen it before.  My first thought ("damn Christina Milian is fine") is quickly replaced with "hey, Kenan Thompson is in this movie.  So is Kal Penn.  Kenan and Kal are in this flick."  I might wind up watchin' this.  My pickings lately have been scarce, though I did restart "About A Boy" already as my relax watch.
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Post by: Neumatic on December 22, 2015, 08:47:27 pm
Oh my god, Steve Harvey is the dad in this movie!  What timing!  I'm expecting him to call each character by the wrong name.
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Post by: Mac on December 23, 2015, 07:46:14 am
Roger Waters The Wall (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lH-NRg6w5bA

This is the brand new concert/movie of Roger Water’s epic The Wall. I’m not sure where the concert is, but from a brief dialog to the audience, I’m suspecting France? The Stadium is huge. And the crowd is just beyond anything I’ve ever seen (except maybe Woodstock). I guess European concerts do things bigger over there. And The Wall is mind boggling expansive.
The sound could not get any better. All the instruments and singers are perfectly balanced. There’s plenty of sound effects with planes and pigs, etc and they come through beautifully to compliment the music. The music is iconic and doesn’t need rehashing here.

The visuals on the other hand are mostly new with a borrowing of past concerts. They use projection visuals onto the wall so wonderfully. It’s eye popping. The seamless integration of the physical wall and the visual graphics is flawless.

Waters makes some minor additions to the Wall with extended acoustics to some of the more popular songs. Nice, nice touch.
The photography is perfect. Getting in close when they need. Focusing on the musicians when appropriate, getting a long shots of the stadium or in closer getting details on the wall. No quick editing. It just flows so nicely and presents as if you can imagine yourself there.

Edit add: The movie begins and ends with pseudo movie story lines to bookend the Wall's theme. Nicely done.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 23, 2015, 08:28:12 am
Hopefully my Library will be ordering this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 23, 2015, 07:53:37 pm
Runner Runner (2013)
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Post by: Neumatic on December 23, 2015, 08:54:47 pm
The Mummy was on TV today, man, I haven't seen that in ages.  I remember it being enjoyable, but d6mn, it was fun.  It was a nice change of pace from the THREE movies that have been on constant rotation on every channel for the weekend.
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Post by: Mac on December 24, 2015, 01:42:29 pm
I love The Mummy
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2015, 03:12:55 pm
The Last Kingdom (Season 1 - 2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 25, 2015, 09:16:22 pm
Ant-Man (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 26, 2015, 11:04:41 pm
Jurassic World (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 28, 2015, 09:07:18 pm
Maggie (2015)
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Post by: Mac on December 30, 2015, 11:12:31 am
Working overtime through the holiday's. just no time to give good full posts

Backcountry (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

Imagine Open Water, but in the harsh mountains with a bear. It's a little independent film, but done very well. Based on a true story. Many parts that had me on edge.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=46uwmzTf5nA


The Best Offer (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

Nice surprise. I can't talk much about it without giving out spoilers. It was done very well with, IMO, a Hitchcoc kian look and feel. The music was subtle but awesome. I actually saw the ending coming but it still played out quite nicely. I highly recommend.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJGleGyahC8


Trance (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

I might have talked about this before. Saw it again and it was better the second time around. Loved it the first time. Great heist movie with a lots of twists, misdirections and a naked Rosario Dawson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvTW1JecmZo

Finally,

The Red Road (Netflix series) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

Binge watch worthy. My wife loved it. I thought it was very good, but it is standard rebel, bad cop with lots of little intricate quirks to make the story interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qt9dUBKOLHM

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Post by: Neumatic on December 30, 2015, 11:17:03 am
I really didn't care for Trance, outside of the magnificent naked Rosario Dawson.

The Best Offer sounds interesting, though.
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Post by: Mac on January 03, 2016, 07:17:18 am
Broadchurch 4 Stars (Netflix)

4 Stars from my wife. We surfed Netflix and ran across this 5 Stars series. Started it and my wife finished the 1st season (8 episodes) later that evening.

It was good, but, one, I can't sit for that long on any movie or show. And two, it was a detective show. They just don't hold my interest.

My wife is trying to determine to start Season 2. The weather is decent, so it makes it harder to spend sitting down all day.
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Post by: Mac on January 03, 2016, 07:23:13 am
A Walk in the Woods 3 Stars

Robert Redford, Nick Nolte star in this buddy/travel flick. It was ok. Nothing unexpected. Both actors had a handful of quick quips that made me laugh out loud. Nolte's voice was unrecognizable and at times a bit hard to understand. Other than that, this was a pleasant Senior movie. I doubt I'll remember much of it. And nothing to write home about. Check it out if you have the notion or time.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 03, 2016, 01:10:01 pm
Well, after so much MST3K (latest one: "I Accuse My Parents!," which I'd already seen and forgotten about), I decided I need to watch a real movie.  So I poked around my Netflix queue and watched Nanny McPhee.  Why!?  Well, first, I've been throwing around ideas for a project that would require subverting the kinds of tropes found in the "magical British nanny" genre of movie, so it was a work decision, but also because I had watched Love Actually recently and there were a couple Love Actually people in it (Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, and Thomas Brodie Sangster).  Kelly MacDonald was in it as well, you know I like her, and Angela Lansbury was their Aunt who.. I can only describe her as if Sam The Eagle from the Muppets turned into a woman and then turned into a human.

it was... it was cute.  Colourful as fvck, like, a Nickelodeon movie, the end of the flick even had light bright neon gunk the kind that would fall over guests at a Nickelodeon event.  There was a real sense of... everything felt very designed and specific, you know?  Intentional, not natural, and I guess that's okay for a movie like this... right?  It was like a live action cartoon world.

I got some good notes off of it.. I wish it was more dark (the kids scare off the first nanny, who runs off screaming "they've eaten the baby!"  You kinda want that level of dark insanity to continue, but it doesn't), and I think Nanny McPhee was a witch, but it would have ben epic if she was just an evil witch, like the villain in any other kid's fantasy movie who's compelled by some unseen force to do good, so she's repenting but still doing evil, wicked things.  That could have been fun.

Oh, and weirdly, after this I decided to watch some Cheers, which I hadn't seen in forever, and lo and behold Emma Thompson was in an episode as... Nanny G!  Frasier's first wife.  That was a very weird coincidence.
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Post by: Mac on January 04, 2016, 08:07:37 pm
Did any of you guys already talk about...

Making of a Murderer

Because, I've heard from 3 seperate friends, in the last week, this is a must see.

I tell ya, I've binge watched 5 hours this far. I'm fascinated and disgusted at the same time. The cast of characters is mind boggling.

I need to get some sleep, wake up and finish this mofo. I'm torn about this documentary. It is soooo fascinating and I see why people are talking about it. There is so much slime oozing from show, I need to take a shower and get the stank off.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 04, 2016, 08:14:25 pm
I've heard SO much about this.  Curious how it compares to The Jinx, I'm sure it's apples and oranges.

Everyone is so p1ssed and angry about this, and given how angry I got at a documentary about monuments turning into right-wing paranoia, I can't imagine how I'll react to this.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2016, 08:15:23 pm
Never heard of it. I think you're both making this sh*t up as some sort of prank.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 04, 2016, 08:17:44 pm
It's real.  And apparently the documentary might have left some information out (http://www.pajiba.com/netflix_movies_and_tv/is-steven-avery-guilty-evidence-making-a-murderer-didnt-present.php).  Spoiler alert, obviously.
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Post by: Mac on January 04, 2016, 08:27:05 pm
Not gonna read that.

But ya, I am soooooo pissed. Not even sure I can sleep.
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Post by: Mac on January 04, 2016, 08:57:29 pm
One of the 'themes' through every episode is "I don't know", said from so many perspectives


Gahhhhhhh, I have to go to bed. I cannot wTch this all night.

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Post by: Neumatic on January 05, 2016, 01:49:40 am
I'm having enough trouble sleeping without getting all riled up about sh1t.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 06, 2016, 06:08:32 pm
Man, I couldn't sleep at all last night (doo doo doodoo doo) so I watched a bunch of stuff.

First was this TV movie from about ten years ago that was "Digitally remastered" (which I guess means they made it not look like TV) that just popped up on Amazon called "School Of Life," where Ryan Reynolds plays a cool teacher who turns out is dying of lung cancer.  It was okay.

Then I saw this documentary called The Cutting Edge: The Magic Of Movie Editing that someone had thrown onto Youtube, it's from about maybe 2003... it's real interesting.  Just search for that and it should come right up.

And then, thankfully, Netflix just added the tenth season of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia" so I watched that, exactly what I needed.  Funny, with some real impressive work in the "Charlie Work" episode, where the entire third act is one long continuous take.  They've really been stepping up their game.  And honestly, I'm amazed that the show's been on for ten years with the 11th about to start.
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Post by: Mac on January 06, 2016, 06:45:31 pm
3 nights of binge watching is sweet/sour. Finished Making of a Murderer

I can't do this very often. My ass hurts from doing nothing but sitting from waking up, til bed.


Yet, winter is coming. Gawd, what to do
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Post by: Neumatic on January 06, 2016, 06:48:06 pm
I was in bed for so long by legs turned to f'in jelly.  I feel like an astronaut who just got back on Earth and has to get used to gravity again.  Except I don't trop things quite as often.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 06, 2016, 08:45:59 pm
The 100 (Season 2 - 2014 / 2015)

(http://i.imgur.com/wMrSz8j.jpg)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2016, 05:21:51 pm
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2016, 08:51:18 am
10 Years

(https://michelleleighwrites.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/10-years-cast.jpg)

What a cast!  Look at them!  Oscar Isaac aka Poe Dameron!  Chris Pratt aka Starlord!  Kate Mara from House Of Cards and the unseen Invisible Girl!  Channing Tatum and his wife!  Aubrey Plaza, Rosario god-d@mn Dawson, Justin Long, Anthony The Falcon Mackie, Ron Livingston and other names I'm sure I'm forgetting in a movie that's.... well, it exists.

I'm sure some people like it, in fact, finding that image I came across a blog entry of someone who loved it.  I mean, it's well cast, it's well made, it felt real, like an actual night with all these characters, and maybe it's because I never did the whole HS reunion thing, but it just didn't do it for me.  I honestly don't know why.  So don't take my word for it, you may see this and you may really like this.  I may revisit it and really like it.  I just didn't this time.  Who knows why.
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Post by: Mac on January 08, 2016, 10:00:03 am
Scouts Guide to a Zombie Apocalypse
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5e7Mr7eVTk

I don't know what I was thinking by picking this up. I was holding onto hope it would be a good horror comedy like Shaun of the Dead?

Well the opening scene did give me hope. I pretty much giggled through this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfP_GdRFZL0

Unfortunately it does not maintain. The humor is groan inducing, especially with the character 'Augie'. He's the whipping boy of the show, but man he's bad in every respect. Just not funny. And David Koechner has never impressed me. He's got on style and I don't think he's got much comedic talent. But in falls right in line with how mediocre this flick is.

The production is very good and the CGI for the zombie kills rather impressive. Beyond that, my mind wandered.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 08, 2016, 11:58:31 pm
Pump

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTytxMdlazM

I kept seeing this pop up on Netflix and decided to watch it.  Dang.  It's one of those movies that makes me angry but also hopeful, the idea that we're shockingly close to being able to be independent of foreign oil but barely anyone realizes it, and that we're kind of being lied to about it.  I gotta give this movie credit, I thought it would be going on about how the climate is off the cliff, or about how the electric car is going to save us, but it's not.   The central thrust is that it just makes obvious economic sense considering how dependent the economy is on a dwindling resource we have to import from people who don't like us, and that while electric is great, there's a slew of better, easier-to-create, cleaner fuels out there that we can use today, except that a monopolistic stranglehold is keeping us from having a choice.

I was shocked, SHOCKED to find out that because of the fuel crises in the 70s and 80s, a ton of cars... and in fact, most cars after 2006 are FlexFuel, even if they're not marked, and that oftentimes the difference is just a little code in the computer.  You can plug your laptop into your car and change the settings, and suddenly your car can run on any fuel mixture (ehtanol, methanol, gasoline) that you put in there.  And there are services that can do this for you.  This totally reminded me of DVD Region-coding, how the only thing that kept people from playing DVDs from anywhere in the world was a little switch or bit of code you could change.  Exact same thing here.

And apparently, there's also code in some cars that makes them read dirtier for using ethanol... which reminded me of that crap that VW was caught pulling, cheating on their emission readings.  And how both of these things were discovered by people messing around and modifying/hacking stuff they owned, which right now voids the warranty BUT would be straight-up illegal under the terms of the TPP.

And by the way, combine this with everything else from the last decade or so... Enron, the f'ing banking crisis... doesn't it seem INSANE that these big issues, that caused so much destruction and heartache... were man-made?  And not like "oh, we're all culpable."  No, a couple as$holes in a room somewhere, looking out for themselves, create this kind of destruction.  Just because.
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Post by: Mac on January 09, 2016, 06:08:37 am
Dayum, thanks for the review. I have not seen this in my surfing, but now, I just may check it out.
Honestly, I would probably have by-passed this on my own
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Post by: Neumatic on January 09, 2016, 02:28:18 pm
If you by-pass anything, it should be that code in your car that keeps it from using cleaner, more eco and waller friendly fuels (although that is technically illegal).
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Post by: Neumatic on January 09, 2016, 06:38:52 pm
Lemony Snicket's A Series Of Unfortunate Events
(I gotta figure out how Mac does his formatting)

(http://www.themoviebuff.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/12.jpg)

Continuing my British Nanny thing (I guess), I've had this disc for... I don't even know HOW long and never saw it.  I know I've seen bits and pieces and I was aware of various visuals and bits, but I never sat to watch it.

It's kinda weird to see that the girl is Emily Browning, the girl from Sucker Punch (and more mature films that I haven't seen, and this might make it harder)... and Chip's proposed de-make of Sucker Punch kept popping into my head, I would totally suggest Chip seeing this flick, not just for a more natural (and stil stylized) take on Browning/Baby Girl but I also kept thinking about her brother, he's adorable (and I realized when he put this blue coat on that he looks like a human Paddington Bear, no WONDER he's so cute!)... it's been a long time since I saw Sucker Punch, but Baby Doll tries to save her little sister, right?  In the start of the movie?  Maybe you switch it around, it's her little brother that she fails to save, so he keeps popping up in all those fantasies (he's a trench soldier, a knight or a monk in the dragon era, that kind of thing... still 13 or whatever he is in this movie, so it's real scary and important that THIS time she save him).

I don't know what I can say about Jim Carrey, but when I was talking about playing with Nanny McPhee's style to make her more like Nosferatu-like, they totally did that with his make-up (I think they won an Oscar for it), lots of weird, natural extensions giving him sharp edges, funky textures on his clothes and so on... brill work on the practical side.  I'm not nuts about Olaf but the other characters that he plays ironically feel a bit more natural, for some reason.  Maybe it's because Olaf views those other roles as temporary os they don't have to be bombastic all the time, you know?  THOSE people are allowed to have weaknesses, to NOT be the center of attention.

And Billy Connelly... so sweet.  I wanted to just watch a movie with him with the kids going to Peru, which the movie freakin' TEASES us with, "they went with him to Peru and had many wonderful adventures, the end.  Oh how I wish I could tell you that..."  The movie does this a lot, "I urge you to walk out of whatever theater, living room, or airplane you happen to be watching this in."  It reminds me of the old Grindhouse movies, you know?  "Never before has a movie THIS shocking been allowed out, you MUSTN'T watch it, for it will drive you MAD" etc etc.  Though not as bombastic.

Oh, an d can't believe I saw this whole movie without realizing that Craig Ferguson plays "The Person Of Intedeterminate Gender" in the acting troupe.  The cast is actually pretty darn good, though there's ONE that makes you stop and go "...how did they get HIM in the movie?"  I won't tell you who, you'll spot it when it happens.  Because it happens after a rather strange twist, where you think "are they really gonna go there?"

The production design on the flick is pretty dope, sets, costumes, the sound design (the ruined houses creak and squeak just a BIT too loud)...  it feels KINDA Tim Burton-y (I caught Barry Sonnenfeld's name in the credits), it's very stylisha nd worth watching the flick just to drink in the world it takes place in.

The only thing that was an issue for me was that the movie was a bit repetitive, but I realized at the end that it's based on THREE books in the series (there's apparently 13 books with 13 chapters each... they must be short), and similar things happen in each one... I think this is why Netflix is turning it into a series.
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Post by: Mac on January 10, 2016, 05:19:18 am
Paddington Bear... Funny.

My format... Just select  14 pt and Glow... I might change the default color of Glow.
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Post by: Mac on January 12, 2016, 07:17:50 am
Slow Learners (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYNusXkYo6g

I gave it 3 stars because while the first half is funny and witty, like many comedies, takes a sudden right turn into seriousness and loses its mojo. This looks like a play turned to film. Has an indie look and feel, but done very well. I like all the major players. There’s a ton of little quips that just made me laugh.

Essentially two very dorky mature friends trying to become accepted. Direction is fine, but there is one point where suddenly everything changes. This happens over the summer and it just seems a little chaotic. It’s the geeky dork awkwardness that brings the laughs. A couple of over-the-top scenes, but it’s all tongue in cheek stuff.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 12, 2016, 01:35:33 pm
It's Gonna Blow!!! San Diego's Music Underground 1986-1996 (2015)
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Post by: Mac on January 13, 2016, 11:54:46 am
The Martian (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ej3ioOneTy8

This provided exactly what I thought it might be. Nothing more, nothing less and it was entertaining as hell. I loved it. It was over before I knew it. Ridley Scott knows space. I was completely fascinated with the this man’s journey. It wasn’t so dumbed down for everybody, but it wasn’t too technical to lose you either. I highly recommend checking out The Martian.
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Post by: Neumatic on January 13, 2016, 04:58:25 pm
(this forum's been down all day for me).

Yeah, the Martian was fun.  I saw it in a full theater and everyone was lovin' it, laughing along and everything.

I've been... well, I saw a ton of movies over the weekend, work movies, parts movies etc so I needed a serious break, so I've been watching Person Of Interest for the first time, even though I know that we're no big on procedurals right now.  What's made me want to watcht his is because I know that much like Fringe evolves from The X-Files into something bigger, this series does the same thing, turning into a show about artificial intelligence and so on (JJ Abrams executive produces this show, too).

And hey, Enrico Colantoni has a recurring role.  I love him (who doesn't like him?)
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Post by: Mac on January 21, 2016, 08:14:08 am
I watched a (as my buddy says) sh*t-ton of movies, because it’s cold outside with snow and crap.

But unfortunately, they are all very forgettable.

Visions (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)
Billed as horror, but essentially a Lifetime movie. Cookie cutter story of a pregnant woman moving to a small country town, with her husband, and strangeness ensues. She’s seeing premonitions. None of which are scary, but making her look crazy. It all suddenly comes together in the last 10 minutes. Gawd I was bored.

Curves (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)
Another Blumhouse horror movie. Again, not horror, but a psychopathic killer stalker. Even though 3/4 of the movie occurs in upside down truck, it constructed well enough to keep the viewer engaged. Ultimately its nothing new.

Hotel Transylvania 2 (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)
I admittedly love Hotel Transylvania. Though Adam Sandler is in it, voice only. The sequel is incredibly pale in comparison. My only thinking is they used all the great jokes in the first one. This story was weak and not very funny. I won’t be revisiting this. I’ll go back to the original.

Paranormal Activity: Ghost Dimension (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)
I believe this is sequel #792. They are all the same, with slightly different nuances to distinguish it from the others. In this sequel, a camera is found that can see the ghosts. By now, I know what to expect and the scare factor is pretty much gone. Sure they do some jump scares and those got my wife, but the creepiness factor is non-existent.
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Post by: Mac on January 21, 2016, 09:24:04 am
Everly (Netflix)

Totally unexpected. This is a Salma Hayek tour de force... or just plain cheese.

Seriously, one of the most violent, bloodiest movies I've seen in quite some time. It all takes place in one large apartment and the body count is astronomical. IMO, this is an homage to Quintin Tarantino's Kill Bill. The similarities are very clear. There is some humor, some over the top violence. It's definitely not deep.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCWXWgg5H9g
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Post by: Neumatic on January 23, 2016, 05:56:50 pm
I watched a LOT of Person Of Interest in the last week or so, I think I mentioned that.

And also?  A lot of Alan Rickman movies.  I've had Marvin The Paranoid Android on my trunk for the last ten years, though it took me a day or two to realize that it was part of the reason I kept dwelling on his passing.  I could talk about Galaxy Quest and Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, but I have to mention Gambit.

Oh, you hadn't heard of Gambit?  I don't blame you, it's a 2012 movie, scripted by the Coen Bros and distributed by a couple movie houses you've never heard of.  It's okay, but Rickman is pure Rickman in this, and it's a shame it's not better known because the shot of him naked behind a glass desk should have been included in every eulogizing article about the man, that scene killed me laughing.

Yesterday, I also watched two perfectly composed movies back to back: Galaxy Quest and Hot Fuzz.  Talk about movies where everything is set up and paid off wonderfully.  It's one of those things that you're in awe of when you see and wonder how it's gone, but feels like it's impossible to teach.  You can only learn how to do that through practice.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2016, 06:50:01 am
The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2016, 06:51:15 am
Everly (Netflix)

This has been on my radar for a long time. Still waiting for my Library to get me a copy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 25, 2016, 09:18:32 pm
Trainwreck (2015)

Vacation (2015)
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Post by: Mac on January 26, 2016, 03:57:53 am
The Walk 5 stars

From the very first frame, I was totally absorbed into The Walk. This is story telling at its finest. All the characters are unique and interesting. Zemekis knows how to weave everything together seamlessly. His understated special effects are transparent and put you in places unimaginable. Petite takes you from the first inspiration to the final vision of the walk across The Towers. I really enjoyed this film. I'm not sur how it did in its theater run, but now on DVD, I highly recommend. Joseph Gorden Levitt is just a blast to watch.

The only thing I remember, when it was out, that some people got sick in the theater from the 3D high wire scenes. In 2D, the scenes got to me.

Check it out.
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Post by: Mac on January 29, 2016, 09:58:15 am
The Intern  (3 stars)
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZU3Xban0Y6A

The Intern reminds me of those quaint cute movies with Rock Hudson and Doris Day. This is mildly amusing. It won't hurt you to watch, nor will it inspire or make you laugh. It's just a normal MOR comedy.

Kill Me Three Times (4 Stars) Netflix

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTab9pk-O8Q

I originally queued this up in Netflix because it had 4 stars. Then last night trying to figure out what to watch I noticed Simon Pegg's name. I found Kill Me Three Times highly entertaining from beginning to end. The movie makes you try to figure out what happens, and then eventually puts all the puzzle pieces together. Very original and fresh.

Note: the sets /scenery are freakin' amazing.

I highly recommend
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2016, 08:48:51 pm
Fantastic Four (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on January 29, 2016, 08:54:14 pm
What about Trainwreck or Vacation?  Or did you already write them up?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 29, 2016, 08:57:41 pm
I'll have those up tomorrow. I was swamped at the time and couldn't do any reviews and just wanted to log it in as to what I watched last week.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2016, 05:07:47 pm
Heist (2015)
(http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvJDL8v8lTk

Robert De Niroand Heist should be an easy win given his track record in the same genre (Heat, The Score). But this was a very lazy and weak attempt by whoever wrote and directed this. It's not horrible, it's just incredibly predictable. I had this all figured out within the first 10 minutes of the movie. I only stayed to the end to see if I was on point. The answer was of course yes. To say this is a 'Heist' flick in misleading. There is nothing remotely close to what the name implies. It's a smash and grab and somehow ends up turning into Speed, minus any of the thrills of a runaway Bus. The only surprise this movie offered up were the amount of familiar, named-actors that popped up throughout the movie. Since I never bothered to even look at the DVD cover art or watch the trailer, I had no clue who was in this beyond De Niro. As for the movie, definitely a Skip.
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Post by: Mac on February 01, 2016, 01:27:12 pm
Burnt (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiGJlUVQDGk

Burnt is really not as horrible as a two star, I just did not care for it at all. I guess Burnt reflects a little bit of reality TV with the very obnoxious pot throwing chef's we see far too often. Ive found this is more for show. The chef's I've listened to say that kind of ball busting chef is rare at best.

Burnt has Bradley Cooper as 'THAT' chef. He was disgusting person in his early years. Screwed some people over. Rehabilitated himself and the movie picks up on the journey to become a 3 star restaurant. It doesn't get any better for him. He is still a self centered jerk and steps on everybody around him. And really, the audience won't care to much about the other characters as well. This movie is total conflict and I didn't find it entertaining in the least.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 02, 2016, 12:17:39 am
My day, or evening or whatever you'd call this (my schedule's been messed up for ages) has been binging the first season of Better Call Saul.  I'd only seen the first two episodes at the premiere, so this is my first real big dive into it.

I like it, but it's not Breaking Bad.  The big difference is that BB started basically with the gun being fired, the whole thing was drenched in adrenaline and anticipation, the bad choice was already made and we were watching people scurry for five seasons.  That's exciting.

Better Call Saul is different, and that's not a bad thing, but it definitely feels like it has a more leisurely pace.  We know he makes bad decisions and winds up in hiding, but we're not sure how, we don't have the same clear and rising stakes that Walter had, and I think that realization is affecting our perception somewhat.  If it was from someone else, we wouldn't care, but it's still the BB verse.  Stuff has to be introduced and led into before things can collide, so it feels like there's not as much stuff happening.  And the show is more episodic than BB was, or at least, it FEELS like it is.  BB was probably more episodic than I'm remembering, but that's the funny thing about follow-ups, sequels and so on, you have to follow what was and what people THINK was.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2016, 06:10:56 am
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
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Post by: Mac on February 03, 2016, 09:20:53 am
The Visit (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_00star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsULFGldi8

Easily the dumbest movie for 2016. It will be hard to beat this tired hand held crap. Everything, and I mean everything, is just lame. From the kid characters to whom I'd love to beat with the side of a cow, to the mom, to The Grandparents. I can only imagine, M. Night, thought about the core story, which is fine, but nothing new, and just ran with everything around it.

Not scary. You can figure out the twist fairly early on. I was watching the clock at 45 minutes... hoping like hell, all the 'scary' didn't happen the the last 5 minutes. Well, just very little scary.

How does this man continue to be in Hollywood?
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2016, 09:05:36 pm
Amy (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2016, 09:29:41 pm
The Walk (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 05, 2016, 09:31:08 pm
The Martian (2015)
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Post by: Mac on February 08, 2016, 12:53:10 pm
The Last Witchhunter (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66nnRrNydu0

Ugh, dammit… I wanted to like this movie, but it’s just so overblown with story, eye candy fantasy bits and pieces, I just wound up falling asleep to boring ass movie.

Only from watching the extra's did I realize this was Vin Diesel pet project. He always wanted to do this kind of fantasy, sword and socrery kind of flick. Well, he got his wish. He's fine in it and does well. It's just all the extra nonsense that just pulls this down to a big meh!!!
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Post by: Mac on February 08, 2016, 01:22:49 pm
Southpaw (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mh2ebPxhoLs

I have avoided picking this up. There was just something about the trailer that told me I wouldn’t be interested. But surprisingly my wife did want to see it. So, I did, and we really enjoyed it. Though not a deep movie, it has plenty of emotions swinging in all directions. One scene, I did get moisture in my eyeballs. The director is a fan of the boxing genre and has been taking notes from past flicks (Rocky & Raging Bull). You can see hints and allegations towards those films. So this comes off as a slightly paler version of these films. Great cast, with Forest Whitaker just awesome in his roll as mentor. 50 cent character is a total dick, but a necessary element. Rachel McAdams and Oona Laurence as his daughter did an amazing job.

My only criticism is the time line of events. They throw this ridiculous downfall to launch the story and hope the audience doesn’t catch it. We are talking a boxer like Mikey Tyson pulling in major coin, living in luxury and it all disappears within weeks of his wife’s death (spoiler alert). I’m sure it was demonstrate contrast of being at the top shooting to below bottom feeder with nothing, including losing his daughter based on a ridiculous court judgment.

Otherwise, take the leap of faith, ignore that little bit and enjoy the flick.
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Post by: Mac on February 11, 2016, 07:55:59 pm
Man Up (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SycIWnKMP7Y

I'm liking just about anything Simon Pegg does. Man Up is a witty, fast talking comedy. Light on the comedy. It a misadventure in one night. Man up is a horrible title, and I guess it refers to the last 10 minutes. The chemestry between the stars works, although it's a chaotic roller coaster. I enjoyed it from beginning to end. I'd highly recommend Man Up for a decent little comedy adventure.
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Post by: Mac on February 11, 2016, 08:02:08 pm
Freaks Of Nature 1 Star, 3 Stars, 5 Stars

rED bAND TRAILER
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTkns9zwxTo

I'm lost for words what this movies does. I guess it's meant to be. Zombies, Vampires, Werewolves and Aliens, all driving this over the top ridiculousness. I guess it all depends on your state of mind. If your high, then you'll love it. If you go in not knowing, you'll probably hate it. I found it soooooooo unpredictable, I enjoyed it.  It has a ton of cameo's, that for the most part take advantage of iconic characters.

For something completely different, check out Freaks of Nature.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 15, 2016, 05:42:44 pm
A couple movies.  I can't recall all of them, but here are some.

Princess Of Thieves

This is one of those movies I'd seen bits and pieces of over the years but never got the whole way through.  It's a really simple premise, what if Robin Hood and Maid Marian had a daughter.  It's cute, they do co-opt some imagery and style from Prince Of Thieves, particularly the arrow splitting, and I definitely got the impression they were trying to put in some funny Rickman-isms into Prince John's dialogue ("ill have his head and yours on a plate. Two heads are better than one.")

But the big reason to watch the flick is the lead, Gwyn.  That story I had heard before, but it's still so cute.  She was just this fifteen year old girl who took a break from school to make a movie, and everyone on the cast and crew were captivated by her, they kept asking "who is that?" "she's only 15, she's so talented!" and in the BTS footage they keep talking about how she's going to be a big movie star one day, they just know it.  Her name?  Keira Knightley.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zm_UVC01-14

Rebuild Of Evangelion 3.33

Definitely strange.  Gorgeous, the first Eva movie (and one of the few anime movies in general) to be in 2.35 widescreen, and it looks fantastic.  Story-wise, they've created something different than anything that the show or the other movies have done before, by going so far into the future.  But this is also the first of these Rebuild movies that doesn't adapt episodes, so while the other movies were dense with plot twists and events, this movie feels sluggish. Likewise, we covered a lot of ground in those movies, went to different places and saw all these characters.  This movie feels almost anemic. There's almost no one on Earth, it feels like.  Whole cities get decimated but we don't know if there were people there so we don't know if we should care or not.  The movie is a technical marvel but it's pretty weak.  Only parts worth seeing are the Eva battles that bookend the flick.


Okay, that was movies, I also watched SHOWS, I finally wrapped up Mad Men but it was only eight episodes, it felt real blunted.  Taken as part as a whole season, it might not have been so bad, but it was just too little and so much felt like it SHOULD have happened, but didn't.  I gotta say, I was disappointed.

I also watched Bates Motel, season three is going full Psycho, which is great.  But it reminded me of something I had thought when I first turned it on:  sadness that they couldn't use the score or the Saul Bass visuals.  I thought that those opening credits from the movie would have looked dope on TV, but now with Norman killing people, I really wanted that "reek reek reek!" Psycho music playing, and maybe some of those non-sequiter visuals.  Those are trademark Psycho.  I hope someone does a fanedit where they put that in.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2016, 07:06:05 am
Extinction (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on February 18, 2016, 06:19:49 pm
Watching this documentary "The Secrets Of Highclere Castle" which is quite fascinating (Highclere is where they shot Downton Abbey) and it's interesting as fvck.  One thing I didn't know was that the Fifth Earl of Carnarvon is the one who helped discover King Tut's tomb, which is why all the dogs on Downton Abbey have Egyptian names.

Another TIR (today I realized) moment came in the kitchen, they were talking about how when Earls and Lords and so on would go on holiday and find a chef they liked, they'd just hire that chef and bring him back to the House.  And I realized that's why there are so many references to "I must get the recipe" in Harker's journals in "Dracula," it's the poor man's version of hiring the chef!
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Post by: Mac on February 21, 2016, 02:54:47 pm
Everest  3 Stars

The movie is essentially two parts. The first part of getting to know all the characters. I guess I shouldn't say characters? This is based on true events. The second half then gets into the actual climb and it relies on visuals, even though there is plenty of missteps. They did a reasonably good job of putting you squarely in the middle of this trek. Things suddenly take a turn for the worst. I yelled out several times "oh hell no".

I had some difficulty hearing a lot of the dialog whenever they were out in the elements of the mountain side. I mean, it was a constant howling wind, though real was hard to understand folks talking.

I guess the core of this story is asking why anyone attempt these kind of deadly adventures. It takes a special kind of person to want to do Everest.

Not a great movie, but it had me on edge at times. I check it out if you can.
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Post by: Mac on February 21, 2016, 03:05:17 pm
Knock Knock 1 star.

1 star for a nice sex scene, but anything before and after was cheesy, silly and head scratching. Especially to Keanu Reeves heading up this project. The dialog was funny, but not intentional. The girls are beautiful, but I don't believe for a second they are femme fatale.

Based off a long forgotten 70's exploitation flick Death Match, it's apparent, the story has little complexity to it and should have stayed forgotten. Keanu way over acted and under acted, depending on the scene. Just seriously unbalanced. We got bored and noticed stupid things like, despite most of it happening through one night, the girls had amazing skills at destroying the house, torturing Keanu.

Can't recommend Knock Knock at all.
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Post by: Neumatic on February 21, 2016, 04:37:04 pm
What We Do In The Shadows

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAZEWtyhpes

This is one of those movies that's perfect for watching on blu-ray, because you just want to stay in that world and see more of the characters, and there's tons of special features, deleted scenes and so on.  That's all I'll say, I don't want to spoil it for anyone else.  But I'm now REAL excited to see the sequel, "We're Wolves."
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2016, 09:16:26 am
From Dusk Till Dawn (Season 2 - 2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 23, 2016, 05:36:17 am
Burnt (2015)
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Post by: Mac on February 25, 2016, 09:59:02 am
Black Mass (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE3e3hGF2jc

Didn't care to much for this. Despite it being a true story, there was not one person I was invested in or rooted for. I really didn't care about any of these people. We've seen the story before in the much better Departed and Godfather.

Mob bosses got start somewhere and this is the Whitey Bulger and his thug life and surrounding posse. It's rough and not in an entertaining way.

I'll forget about this movie non to soon.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 26, 2016, 04:02:50 pm
Jupiter Ascending (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on February 26, 2016, 05:20:20 pm
Hackers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ql1uLyuWra8


Oh myg od, I saw Hackers for the first time the other night, b/c it as about to expire off Netflix.  SO many notes.  It was the first movie I watched with my second computer screen so I could take screencaps and take notes (I was taking so many notes), I even doodled a little, i felt like I was in a little cyber-techn-hackerjacker cocoon, it was great.  The movie was balls-up weird and goofy in the best possible way (and I had a How Did This Get Made? to listen to right after, that **** me up!  Particularly them pointing out that Matthew Lillard's character is dressed like Ray-Ann from "My So Called Life" and June calling 90s fashion "disgusting.").

Matthew Lillard might have been my fave part of the movie, the weird slightly omnisexual maybe-stoner maybe-homeless guy, in the same vein of Michelangelo from Ninja Turtles or Shaggy from Scooby Doo (who he's been playing for years) that modern movies never seem to include even though they're so much fun on screen.

The ancient tech is also wonderfully absurd, there's that funky glass spercompuer called "The Gibson" that Penn Jilette guards from INSIDE, there's all these old Macintoshes and geeks aweing over a 28.8 kbps modem (28.8!), tiny lcd screens, floppy disks!

And tes, hot young Angelina Jolie is in this movie, and she looks good, if not slightly weird, but that became a low priority for me as the weirdness increased.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 28, 2016, 05:55:35 am
The Sitter (2011)
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Post by: Mac on February 28, 2016, 06:55:55 am
Our Brand Is Crisis (3 Stars)

Crisis is an odd little film. There's a couple of scenes that just seemed weird and out of the place. Crisis is a behind the scenes look at marketing a politician... In a different country. To me, this demonstrated how all politicians in any country is the same. But, I also had nothing invested in a politician from another country. I really didn't care about anyone here or the outcome.

What it did reveal to me is this whole process is transparent a very carefully orchestrated wrapping. And disgusting. Like our 'Politician' thread, it's clearly revealed that the campaign has nothing to do with reality. You have to look at our on going campaign debates and wonder is there anything true, let alone of value.

Check the movie out. It's mostly entertaining. It has a lot of relevance, especially now.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 28, 2016, 07:57:46 am
I haven't seen this yet, but I'm aware of it and the one thing that hit me during the initial press release was how relevant this movie is during this of all campaign cycles. My library doesn't have a copy yet. Glad to hear that you like it as I wasn't sure it would pass mustard with you.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 01, 2016, 03:43:44 pm
Kill Me Three Times (2014)
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Post by: Neumatic on March 02, 2016, 08:18:30 pm
Well, I spent Super Tuesday in my digital cocoon (and quite frankly, judging by the results, i may just stay in there for the next four years).

I decided I wanted to knock some flicks out of my list, so I picked one called "All Cheerleaders Die!" because there's a snappy title.  It's sort of "The Craft" meets "Bring It On," this group of popular "boyz are dogz and women are b1tchez" cheerleaders are killed in a road rage accident and the gothy outcast brings them back to life... except now they're hungry for blood.  That happens at the MIDPOINT of the movie.  Feels like it's a bit too late of a start.  And while I enjoyed it, and it DID have a wicked sense of humour at times, I was expecting something more like "Detention."  AND it got a bit too serious at times, which kind of took me out of the whole thing.  Might be worth a look, but I don't think I'd see it again.

And that movie, particularly the beautiful women in their underwear covered in blood, reminded me of another movie in my queue, "Pernicious, " which I didn't even finish.  It's about three girls who go to Thailand for the summer as english teachers, even though every single person they meet in Thailand already speaks english fluently, and wind up being haunted by an evil statue of a creepy little girl and start killing men and each other.  It's kinda f-ed up.  Not nuts about that one either, but hey, two flicks knocked off my queue in one night.

But now, ho ho, I got rental discs in from Netflix (with sh1t like Foxcatcher), I bought a small pile of DVDs (seasons of shows like The Goldbergs and motherfvckin' FARGO and so on, I'm good for a while.
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Post by: Mac on March 04, 2016, 09:50:46 am
Creed (3 stars)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ9OhBYjTds

Let me preface with, I was probably not in the mood to watch this movie. There is absolutely nothing wrong with the film. It just didn’t spark me in any sense like I thought it would. Acting is good. Story is simple. The fight scenes were filmed in a very interesting way. Bottom line, I watched and thought meh. I see rotten tomatoes has a very high rating, so I must be the minority. I didn’t think it was all that.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 04, 2016, 07:11:31 pm
Been watchin' that season two of Fargo, there.  It's a bit more stylized and different than the original, what with takin' place in the 70s and all, but it's still good, yeah?  That weird band DEVO even has a song in this scene I'm watchin'.

I don't wanna say much cause I don't wanna go runnin' round spoilin' things for y'all, but I should point out to ol' Chip there that Col Tigh from that Battlestar Galactica is in the series.  And so are tons o' other recognizable folks, but I thought ya might like hearin' that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2016, 07:31:38 pm
I have yet to check out Season 1. I'm behind on a lot of movies and shows that I'm slowly crossing off my watch list.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 04, 2016, 07:38:48 pm
Fargo season one is great.  Better than True Detective.

And if you don't know who plays Reagan in season two... I'm not gonna tell you.  But it's brilliant.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 06, 2016, 07:23:40 pm
99 Homes (2014)
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Post by: Mac on March 07, 2016, 10:11:33 am
You guys should know I don't write a review about everything I watch. One, they are typically so bad, there is no value in it. And two, sometimes I just don't have the time. There is far more crap out there than good stuff. Writing reviews about bad movies is like herding cats. It's just a waste of everybody's time.

That being said, I won't write about Pod and Pay The Ghost (Nicholas Cage). Both a waste of celluloid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKeEvWeDwng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYkoAc-So1Y
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Post by: Mac on March 08, 2016, 09:51:03 am
Hell and Back (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HtWHUpRXl2E

I remember commenting a while back, I'd look forward to see this, and then suddenly it appears on Netflix. An R-rated (language) heavy stop motion animated ambitious movie. I was torn. In one respect I know these kinds of movies involve a ton of work and imagination. The story is fun, but just not fully fleshed out in it's comedic role. I enjoyed it, but I felt at times they go for the lower common denominator on the screenplay.

If your looking for something new and different, I'd suggest checking Hell and Back. You might enjoy.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2016, 09:57:03 am
You guys should know I don't write a review about everything I watch. One, they are typically so bad, there is no value in it. And two, sometimes I just don't have the time. There is far more crap out there than good stuff. Writing reviews about bad movies is like herding cats. It's just a waste of everybody's time.


Believe it or not, I don't review everything either. Yes, if I somehow manage to get through a sh*tty movie, I will review it. But there are the occasional clunkers that even I can't get through. The latest movie that I bailed on after 20 minutes was last week and it was MI-5 (2015). Awful. Stupid. Dumb. And yes....sh*tty. Kit Harington better hope that Game of Thrones runs for 30 years and that he is alive and on the show because his movies absolutely suck.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 08, 2016, 10:43:36 am
Obviously I don't either.  But Mission Impossible Five was bad?  You're the first person I've heard say that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 08, 2016, 11:08:35 am
Obviously I don't either.  But Mission Impossible Five was bad?  You're the first person I've heard say that.

Different movie. Kit....not Tom.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2016, 10:22:33 pm
Downton Abbey (Season 6 - The Final Season - 2016)
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Post by: Neumatic on March 14, 2016, 11:04:12 pm
Season two of "halt And Catch Fire" just dropped on Netflix, so you know what I'm doin' for the next ten hours (already started episode two).
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Post by: Neumatic on March 15, 2016, 09:51:26 am
So guess what happened literally ONE MINUTE after I posted that?  Correct, my internet went down until 4 in the fvcking morning.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 15, 2016, 09:55:31 am
Call Cameron, she does house calls.  :)  ;D
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Post by: Mac on March 15, 2016, 01:19:24 pm
Crimson Peak (3 Stars)

https://youtu.be/4zBlG8Lv01k

The latest film by Guillermo del Toro. I’ve known about Crimson Peak when he first batted around the project years ago before Pacific Rim and Mouth of Madness. While I like hearing about the project, I keep removed from specifics. So it was a total surprise to find Crimson Peak a love story and less of a ghost story. In a sense this was kind of disappointing. While the film looked incredibly gorgeous, the story just barely had a hold on me. I didn’t feel the love or the hate, or the dread or fear throughout. I was just kind of passively watching it.

Not a horrible film, but one of del Toro’s least memorable and entertaining.
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Post by: Mac on March 15, 2016, 01:26:30 pm
In the Heart of the Sea (1-1/2 stars)

https://youtu.be/8L4KvJv_O-c

I did read from one critic,  Ron Howard's In the Heart of the Sea was an awful film. I did not read either good or bad from other sources. Still I went in, somewhat interested in the story that would inspire Moby Dick. Holy Crap… yawn. Man, I could barely sit through this snore fest. Yes the actual activity of hunting a whale is hard to fathom, but everything else that was stuck between it was just a waste of time. There was some butting of heads of captains and shipmates, but dayum, it was on a Disney level. Bottom line, I thought this was nice looking mediocre film, that I’ll never watch again.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 15, 2016, 07:00:02 pm
Cameron can't even keep Mutiny online.  Although she probably could with a modem from the 21st century.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 16, 2016, 08:08:25 pm
Hitman: Agent 47 (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 17, 2016, 11:14:10 pm
Everest (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 19, 2016, 04:38:37 am
Ted 2 (2015)
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Post by: Mac on March 19, 2016, 09:31:29 am
The Big Short (2 Stars)

https://youtu.be/pAcs51tG5sI

I should have known. This was an academy darling. I did not think it was all that. In fact, I'll be very critical. The story was extremely complicated. I'm willing to bet most audience members could not tell me the detail or even the high level process that goes on behind the housing bubble as much as they tried to explain it in the movie. There is a ton of terms I've never heard and don't understand. Even as they were tearing down the 4th wall and having Anthony Bourdain and Selena Gomez dumb it down, I didn't understand but just bits and pieces of this industry.

I thought most of the actors were acting. They all tried to stand out as unique characters and just took it in as Steve Carrell, Christian Bale and Ryan Gosling working a character. I just never got absorbed into the crisis or the people. The only character I liked and thought was natural was Brad Pitt. I just felt the movie left me baffled, pissed and feeling like I wasted my time.

I almost turned this off after 15 minutes just on the way they filmed and edited this. Thankfully it phased out the hand held shaky cam and cut back on the odd quick edit. Finally getting into the meat of the story. But as I said, a very complex confusing story.

I can see why the Academy liked this movie, but that's exactly why I didn't.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 20, 2016, 01:02:08 am
Gonna post my thoughts about Jurassic World in the appropriate thread.
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Post by: Mac on March 20, 2016, 06:58:34 am
Room (1 Star)

Gawd, this movie sucked. It tested my patience like I've not witnessed in a long time. Another Academy winner?

It did not help just a few hours before, we were sitting in the theater, watching a movie about people held up in one small room bunker.

Different reasons, but still, a majority of a one room play with a lot of talking. But Room totally bored the hell outta me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 22, 2016, 03:06:16 pm
The Americans (Season 3 - 2015)
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Post by: Mac on March 23, 2016, 09:54:42 am
He Never Died (Netflix) (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://youtu.be/WyWralJ2pkk

A Henry Rollins film. A strange film. A black comedy. Honestly I never quite got black comedies. I gave it a shot and just never connected. Even though this was very different, which I tend to like mostly, but this was just not that interesting. Rollins character has social problems. From the synopsis, he's also a cannibal. I gave the movie about 45 minutes before becoming frustrated and turning it off. I never saw any cannibalism. I really didn't see much in story either.
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Post by: Mac on March 23, 2016, 09:59:39 am
I also watched again some old movies I love.

Cube (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://youtu.be/Esjc0rPj3K4

and

Titan A.E. (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://youtu.be/8E_t8D-18Qo

I've not seen Titan for a very long time. It looked and sounded gorgeous. The detail is amazing and it's not lost one bit of charm. The combination of 3D and traditional animation works. A little odd, but it works.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 23, 2016, 06:35:44 pm
I think I bought Titan A.E. as a blind buy. Watched it once back in the day. Don't remember much of it. Might need to revisit it again soon.
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Post by: Neumatic on March 23, 2016, 07:05:36 pm
Joss Whedon doing his on take on Star Wars with Don Bluth animation.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2016, 11:55:54 am
Black Mass (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2016, 09:31:05 pm
Straight Outta Compton (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on March 24, 2016, 10:15:21 pm
You know what movie makes an interesting double feature w/ Straight Outta Compton?  That's right, the true tale of the hippinest hoppinest truly dangerous rap group around... CB4!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 26, 2016, 08:22:15 am
Spectre (2015)
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Post by: Mac on March 26, 2016, 03:07:25 pm
Spotlight (4 stars)

https://youtu.be/EwdCIpbTN5g

I really enjoyed Spotlight, despite the subject matter of the Priest abuse of children. The focus of the movie was about the inner workings of a paper, the investigative team and their search. They hear a nugget of info, enough to be intriguing, and then it starts to hit them over the head like a shovel. It was totally engrossing and never gave up. The cast was excellent.

It did reveal, a little, of how and why all this abuse got hidden. They gave you some idea of the time and culture of the Catholic Church and it's loyal parishioners'. I still find it unbelievable. There's one story they uncover a family had 7 of it's children abused. How, how, how?????

Yea, I know this was an Academy award winner... so I guess I don't hate 'em all.  :-*
I was a little flummoxed at the ending. I was expecting way more. I guess they were going for a satisfactory ending and leave 'em wanting more.
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Post by: Mac on March 27, 2016, 07:10:45 pm
Secret In Their Eyes (3 Stars)

Worst movie title ever. I don't remember even as I look at the cover.

Despite not being a genre I get into, not a bad flick. The last 20 minutes have some nice twists. Julia Roberts completely embraces looking her worst. So beyond that shallow observation, the story is very engaging. I'did feel cheated at one point and it was not explained why people did what they did.

A big con to the movie is Nicole Kidmans character. This is a rather gritty film and Kidman stands out totally out of place. Extremely clean and almost glowing. What she wears is even odd. Her character likewise just sticks out. Beyond that, a very decent thriller.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 28, 2016, 10:37:04 am
Falling Skies (The Final Season / Season 5 - 2015)
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Post by: Mac on March 31, 2016, 05:55:04 pm
The Green Inferno (2 Stars)

In the horror circles, Eli Roth's The Green Inferno has been floating around without a studio for a year or two or three. It was considered the holy grail of gore hounds. This is Roth's attempt to revive the 70's cannible genre. Back in my youth, I watched a few to test how much I could take. Roth's contemporary take falls way short. It has zero chemistry and absolutely zero atmosphere. there is essentially minimal story. The movie is completely relying on the gore and that just get tiresome, especially when you don't care about any of the characters.

While the news of this film picked my interest when I first heard about, I guess I've just grown out of this gore stuff.
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Post by: Mac on March 31, 2016, 06:08:09 pm
Point Break (2 Stars)

I remember commenting about watching the trailer for the remake of Break Point and thinking this just might be a worthwhile remake.

WRONG

Man, this was disappointing. Razor thin story only to weave a series of extreme sport stunts together. I've seen far superior documentaries of extrem sports that were way better than this weak flick. And while the dialog was minimal, that's good, because it wasn't really that engaging. In fact, silly at points.

I can't recommend this version of Point Break. I don't remember anything about the original. Some claim it's a classic, but I sure hear a lot of folks say it was lame as well.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2016, 08:00:29 am
Bridge of Spies (2015)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2016, 08:24:29 pm
The Big Short (2015)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 02, 2016, 10:30:57 am
So I saw "Thirteen Ghosts" finally, it's always been on my list.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sijGQLYnWVE

So it's basically the every haunted house movie ever made, the weird relative dies ("I didn't know you had an Uncle Cyrus"" "yeah, he was an oddball") who leaves the family behind a weird house that they decide to move into immediately but oh ho oh, it's haunted.  But what makes this different is the insanely awesome production design.  The start feels like a Guillermo Del Toro movie like Hellboy, so right off the bat, awesome, and the house?  Oh man, the house is the main reason I wanted to see this.  Every movie the haunted house is like a big gothic mansion with poor lighting and cobwebs and creaky floorboards, the good old stuff.  But this freakin' house is a mechanical glass thing and it's AWESOME.  Oh my god, it's that straight up early 21st century "let's overdesign sh1t" mentality that I miss.

Cast?  Awesome, Matthew Lillard as a psychic version of, well, Matthew Lillard, Tony Shalhoub is the stressed out father/lead, Shannon Elizabeth (who apparently has Lebanese ancestry, I didn't realize... though she and the son disappear for a HUGE chunk of the movie, that's a bit distracting.

I have to say, though, spoiler alert for the ending, but it's not like you can't see this coming, Embeth Davitz plays Tony Shalhoub's dead wife who's one of the thirteen ghosts (and btw, all the ghosts look AMAZING in this movie) and at the end she's like an angel and I found myself thinking "...this is the ending from Casper."  Which led to my mind mashing up that old Casper movie in with this one, which made me chuckle way more than I thought it would.  I mean, the idea of a cartoon character ghost fighting a real horror movie ghost, who would have thought of that?

Colbert!  Literally the next day!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_M-AnFs7E_4

So last night I watched Pirates Of Silicon Valley, another movie I've been putting off forever and wrapping up the Steve Jobs movie trifecta (which made me think that someone has to be editing these movies together into an ultimate cut).  That movie had me right at the start by casting JG Hertzler as Ridley Scott, for ONE line, but still... genius.  And dang, I had no idea John DiMaggio (Bender from Futurama) played Steve Ballmer.  Also brilliant.

What's really striking about this movie is that it's the only one made before the endgame was clear, it came out in 1999 so the book must have been a year or so before that, the movie ends with Bill Gates' appearance at an Apple keynote, that famous "we're putting Microsoft on Apple."  The iMac isn't even something that exists in the timeline yet, it's kind of amazing to realize that.

And of course my brains tarted mashing THAT, too... I liked Anthony Michael Hall as Bill Gates, but I started thinking of Noah Wyle's Steve Jobs being a different kind of ghost hunter in Thirteen Ghosts, which made Matthew Lillard the Bill Gates of ghost hunters.  That could lead to something weird too.
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Post by: Mac on April 02, 2016, 03:39:37 pm
Loooooooove 13 Ghosts.

One of the rare re-makes that is in the stratosphere better than the original. I own this one and watch it fairly regularly.
Good review.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 02, 2016, 03:47:30 pm
I still hate that I missed having the chance to have dinner with Tony Shalhoub, he did a play for my parents' work thing.  I did get an autograph out of it, though, on the program.

But 13 Ghosts, okay, there's no explanation given as to how someone becomes a ghost, like it's an ordinary thing, I kept asking myself about that and realized "it must be Casper rules," which is a stupid thing to say, and then Embeth Davitz comes back like the mom in Casper!  It was too unreal.  (this is also revealing how many times I'd seen Casper, cause I kept thinking of bits from that movie and putting them in here, like Eric Idle getting cut in half by the glass wall or Father Guido Sarducci stepping onto that Black Zodiac combination lock thing and THAT being what twists his body all around).

Oh, there's one moment that, when I think about it, makes no sense: the bathroom scene. It's an awesome visual, except for the face that THAT GIRL DIDN'T LIVE IN THAT HOUSE!
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 02, 2016, 08:54:39 pm
Rocky Balboa (2006) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/rocky-balboa/msg37312/#msg37312)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 02, 2016, 10:47:09 pm
I got tons of discs, but I've been streaming the last few days.  Archer and Bob's Burgers just dropped new seasons on Netflix so I'll have H Jon Benjamin's voice in my head for a while now, but they also added Animaniacs, which I never really saw the first time around (I do love Pinky and the Brain though, but in the first couple episodes the voices are real raw and weird).

And there's a whole bunch of movies I'd never seen before... like real obvious ones like The Money Pit (which I just watched) and now Harry And The Hendersons.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 02, 2016, 11:16:47 pm
How the hell have you managed to deprive yourself of Harry And The Hendersons all this time? What the f*ck!!!!
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Post by: Neumatic on April 02, 2016, 11:46:20 pm
I didn't live in the states for half of my childhood!  There's a whole bunch of movies that everyone saw as kids that I missed.  I never had a chance to dive into pop culture until I was 15.  I didn't even see Star Wars until I was in high school, when they did that theatrical release for the Special Edition (so you could argue I never technically saw Star Wars).  And of course, there was no internet to really check the backlog of all the staples that I had missed, so there's always been this big gaping hole in my rep that I've been slowly filling.  Stuff like the Joe Dante flicks (I've still never seen Innerspace), the John Hughes flicks, the Alien movies, Indiana Jones, etc.  For a good chunk of time, all the movies I knew about were the ones we had on videotape.  Same with TV, I've never seen an episode of The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air or Voltron or Space Above And Beyond, which always kind of captured my attention.
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Post by: Mac on April 03, 2016, 07:02:48 am
Age of Adaline (3 Stars)

I was really disappointed early on with the Age of Adaline. While promoted as a love story, which it is, is only towards the very end we see this. I found Age of Adeline very depressing. It appears the story would have elements of Picture of Dorian Gray, where Adeline stops aging. So this brings on some interesting concepts. Unfortunately this film and story focuses on the idea of Adeline living a life of avoidance because she knows all those she knows and loves (including her dog) will ultimately die. So she runs away constantly. She puts up walls with men she meets and goes as far as running away from her daughter.

I wasn't looking for sappy stuff, I just was not embracing this meek, coward woman. That's not interesting... To me. It does eventually materialize the realization of her actions. And a real nice twist with an old love.

But overall, it's depressing and not very entertaining to watch.
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Post by: Mac on April 03, 2016, 01:40:11 pm
Sinister 2 (2 Stars)

I don't know even know what we watched Sinister 512.7' Insideous 12? This was a total mess. None of it made sense. Just stay away from this repetitive money grabbing crap.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 04, 2016, 01:01:20 pm
Creed (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/creed-(2015)/msg37333/#msg37333)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2016, 06:02:30 pm
The Duff (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-duff-(2015)/msg37337/#msg37337)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2016, 09:13:26 pm
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-(1977)/msg37350/#msg37350)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 07, 2016, 02:54:51 am
You know, I haven't watched the old trilogy since the announcement of TFA.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 07, 2016, 05:42:23 pm
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-v-the-empire-strikes-back-(1980)/msg37357/#msg37357)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 08, 2016, 07:28:32 pm
Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-vi-return-of-the-jedi-(1983)/msg37374/#msg37374)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 08, 2016, 11:49:03 pm
Meanwhile I'm watching The Expanse.  Many thoughts.  Many many thoughts.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2016, 10:43:37 pm
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015)

(http://i.imgur.com/fK9JXah.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens-(2015)/msg37389/#msg37389)

Click Me For Review ^^


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2016, 12:01:03 pm
Self/less (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/selfless-(2015)/msg37466/#msg37466)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 12, 2016, 11:00:58 am
I watched the first half of the CNN documentary series "The Seventies."  The first episode focused on TV in the 70s, which made me think this might b e alighthearted and somewhat trashy "junk" doc, but no no no, we follow that up with two episodes about Nixon (Watergate in one, and Vietnam in the other), and episode four was about murderers and cult leaders.  Quite engrossing, and makes me very happy I missed that decade.  Curious to see what the back half will be.

I also checked out a late 90s staple that I'd never seen before: Half Baked.  Yeah, somehow missed that too.  I can totally understand why this was on Comedy Central all the time in the 90s, I mean, how could it not be?  It was also VERY 90s, man, I mean, you look at Jim Breuer man and he's all wauugh and he's all messed up and high man, haw.  I mean, what could be more 90s than paying attention to Jim Breuer?  Plus they were really going all out in that hippie era iconogrpahy that the 90s counterculture brought back with a vengeance.  I literally felt like I went back in time, it's so stuck back there.  But that's not really why I didn't care for it, I'm just not a huge fan of pot-centric humour... it's like watching a comedy about Star Trek fans if you're not into Star Trek.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 14, 2016, 07:11:30 pm
Sicario (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sicario-(2015)/msg37496/#msg37496)
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Post by: Mac on April 15, 2016, 09:36:23 am
The Hateful Eight (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://youtu.be/6_UI1GzaWv0

I really enjoyed Tarantino's Hateful Eight. It is a Tarantino movie in every respect. Dialog, intrigue, blood, great characters. It is a long movie, but it move's and turns and it's over before you know it.

Highly, highly recommend.
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Post by: Mac on April 15, 2016, 09:40:15 am
The Forest (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://youtu.be/6hW8hUcXR-A

The Forest is decent horror story. Not great by any means and for me, was lacking direction and editing. There are some scenes I just didn't understand. How they related to the story or what it was trying to tell the audience. There are several 'jump' scares and they did make my hair stand up. And you saw it coming... but still scarred the crap outta me. Not a bad movie, but one I probably won't remember in the future... except it was in the forest.  ;)
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Post by: Mac on April 15, 2016, 09:46:14 am
Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I know you guys love this, so I'll be kind. No actually I enjoyed it quite a bit. I was actually take back how much it echoed the first Star Wars (ep 4?). I mean there was a ton of scenes that were deja vu. Cantina, attacking the star planet, I'm your father... blah, blah, blah.

And I guess that's why I liked it. I haven't seen the first one in years and this was just kind of a cool re-imagining of it. Nostalgia.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2016, 10:09:40 am
The Divergent Series: Insurgent (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-divergent-series-insurgent-(2015)/msg37517/#msg37517)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 18, 2016, 10:44:46 am
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-1-(2014)/msg37538/#msg37538)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 20, 2016, 07:32:19 pm
I don't know where to put up what little I have to say about "Demimonde," because I saw it in the theater, but in a festival and I know if anyone sees it, it'll be in home release... but oh man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtF1vT9_mBA

Without giving too much away, it's basically like Hungarian Downton Abbey with more murder and a sex scene set to electric guitar.  But this is exactly why I can't watch movies in the theater anymore, especially foreign movies, I kept wanting to take notes!  I kept thinking "okay, who would be in the American remake?" "what if I changed this?" etc etc  What's really striking is that I didn't come up with this movie myself given how many of the elements I like are in there.


I saw a ton of short films, of which I'm not going to do a write-up because I already did, but I'll keep a lookout for the good ones in case they pop up online and share them (I already shared two).  But I needed something light to watch, so somehow that turned out to be watching the Cube movies in reverse order.  I don't know how that qualifies as "light," but there you go.

Cube Zero

I actually don't hate Cube Zero, it's probably my second favourite Cube movie (and btw, how come they don't keep making Cube movies?  It's a bunch of people in a maze of death traps, there should be dozens of those movies now). The only issue I have with it is brining the theocracy into it, Cube is about math, giving the Cube a purpose (and people who can change the conditions of the test) just doesn't fit.

Having said that, I love the villain, Mr Jax.  He doesn't belong in a Cube movie at all, but he's just such an old fashioned unapologetic villain that I want more of him.  I can't believe there's not a supercut of all this guy's scenes, he's just having so much fun.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPMlwMEs8fg



Cube 2: Hypercube

The most logical expansion of the Cube concept, a fourth dimensional cube that crosses time and space.  It follows the whole "math" heart of the original, but the fact that it's all theoretical means they have to make some stuff up.  And the traps, what few ones there are, don't really feel "real."  And of course, there's no real "solution" to fourth dimensional stuff, so no "exit," so if there's no clear endpoint, what is the point?


Cube

The original and best.  I love this movie, and it had been a good while.  And I had forgotten how adorable Nicole deBoer was in it (she still is, let's be fair).  And early David Hewlitt, who never appears in enough stuff as far as I'm concerned.  It's jsut sucha  good, solid tight film that escalates and expands very naturally.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2016, 09:10:28 pm
I envy you that you get this Film Festival every year and that you are able to cram so much in in such a short amount of time.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 20, 2016, 09:42:42 pm
And we get free ice cream too.  Of course, I don't particularly like that brand...
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 20, 2016, 09:52:48 pm
Pawn Sacrifice (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/pawn-sacrifice-(2014)/msg37554/#msg37554)
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Post by: Mac on April 21, 2016, 08:06:33 pm
Ip Man 3 (3 Stars)

http://youtu.be/gDjw4vaaxsY

The trilogy wraps up with the presence of Mike Tyson. I found his presence surprising and interesting. Thankfully it was minimal. I did roll my eyes when I first saw him come into scene. It was brief. Then a a fight between Donnie Yen and Tyson. They amped up the punch sounds, only to put a fine point on Tysons power vs. martial arts would be an interesting mix. Still Tysons lisp just kills me.

The story is like a million others. 3 is probably the least creative of the trilogy. But still, head and shoulders above most martial art films.
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Post by: Neumatic on April 23, 2016, 08:29:56 pm
Mike Tyson in a kung fu movie?  That's ludicrith.

Okay, Purple Rain was on TV today... I don't know how much I missed, I have no idea what was happening, I have no idea if I would watch it again, but... it was inteesting.  Catchy tunes, and VERY 80s.  One of those staples I had just never gotten around to watching.
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Post by: Mac on April 24, 2016, 05:34:50 am
Quote
Mike Tyson in a kung fu movie?  That's ludicrith

Ok, I did a spit take
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Post by: Mac on April 24, 2016, 05:28:35 pm
The revenant ( 3 Stars )

Meh... The revenant is entertaining, in a watch once kind of way. There is not much of a story, except for the intense rivalry. DiCaprio probably says a whole ten words in the flick. I imagine the script very short with full visionary story telling from the director.

A very brutal and savage time. I probably would have not lasted long living at that time.

I dunno, I'm glad I saw it, but probably won't watch it again. Like I said. The story is pretty basic. Not complex and just moves at a decent pace.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 25, 2016, 05:41:41 pm
Game of Thrones (Season 5 - 2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/game-of-thrones-(season-5-2015)/msg37629/#msg37629)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 25, 2016, 08:09:58 pm
Oh, I forgot to mention freaking Ninja Turtles, I wrapped up season five of Ninja Turtles the other night.  The first show I've watched on a  weekly basis in ages and fvck that, I'm not doing that again, it took FOREVER.  I did like it, though.  I started watching live because they brought on my favourite character, Fugitoid, and had an actor I love, David Tennant, giving him life.  He takes over the "mentor" role from Splinter, leading the Turtles around outer space on a mission to save the Earth.  And the guest cast this season was brill, Ron Perlman was a bad guy, Peter Stomare was a king bug thing, they brought back the 1987 Turtles and Krang (and took the p1ss out of them wonderfully), Zelda Williams was Mona Lisa, Worf from Star Trek was the main alien bad guy, Gilbert Gottfried was Krang subprime (I'm sure he's been on the show before, but it's still pretty brill casting), and they re-imagined Tokka into a giant lava Gamera, which I'm all for.

But oh man, the TIME it took to watch this show, live, oh that sucked, I'm not doing that anymore.  Binge watching all the way, baby.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 25, 2016, 09:30:56 pm
When given the chance, I always go with Binge watching.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 25, 2016, 09:57:59 pm
Same here, never again with this nonsense.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2016, 08:21:27 pm
Okay, so the art/option/whatever for "Documentary Now" has been on Netflix for what feels like ages, and while I read the description, it never really grabbed me.  Until I took a closer look at the artwork.  I thought it was two old ladies.  No, it's Bill Hader and Fred Armisen dressed as old ladies.  Now I HAD to watch it.  I just finished that first episode, the Grey Gardens parody and I'm starting the second one.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2016, 11:57:41 am
Concussion (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/concussion-(2015)/msg37688/#msg37688)
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Post by: Neumatic on April 30, 2016, 09:21:27 pm
Since it was about to expire, I tried to get into The Guillotines.  And I'm sure it's fine, but I just wasn't getting into it tonight.  Probably better than I think it was, but... I guess that's for me to find out.

Why I bring this up is because the first fight scene, while having an insane amount of Fast And Furious/Iron Man dazzle going on for something set several hundred years in the PAST, feels like what you'd imagine the Knights Of Ren were like in their prime, goin' after dudes and using super powers.  Even their outfits feel like what you'd want.  So I recommend Chip check out at least that first bit.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2016, 09:54:03 pm
I've never heard of the movie and I don't subscribe to Netflix. If it's on DVD at my Library, I'll give it a go.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 30, 2016, 10:48:27 pm
I could've sworn you were on Netflix.  I'm sure it's on DVD (in HD it looks dope).  Cinematography is gorgeous, it's like a western except, well, there's more green.

Here's the US trailer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvBiRmjYLFY
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 01, 2016, 08:33:09 am
Uh, that would be me. Netflix and martial arts.

I gotta queue that up.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 01, 2016, 10:17:41 am
Steve Jobs (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/steve-jobs-(2015)/msg37698/#msg37698)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 08, 2016, 06:37:31 pm
ZOOMBIES[/glow] (Netflix)

http://youtu.be/Qvjnwn1rc_w

This was B-Movie to the max. I watched most of it, but eventually just found something else. It was the so bad, it's good. This would be bottom of the barrel SyFy material. I just had to post this because of the silliness... Of the title
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Post by: Neumatic on May 09, 2016, 08:24:43 pm
I'm about halfway through The Almighty Johnsons.  It's a bit of a slow burn, really only becomes what you expect it to be around episode 8 (which, to me, is what I imagine something like Almost Human feels like).  It's a New Zealand show about a band of brothers who are all descendants/reincarnations of Norse Gods, and their big quest to find Axl/Odin's soul mate Frigg, and the trio of Goddesses trying to stop them.

Season one is a bit... it took a while for me to get into it, but season two feels more like the high concept show you expect it to be.  I don't think there are even any visual FX in series one.  Once they introduce Eva into the mix, then things really start cooking.  And they sap up the Gods vs Goddesses conceit of season one, and let the characters decide their directions, which I quite like.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jv1ED0EW55g
Series Two Trailer, which is more energetic. I also HAD to make a GIF of Colin/Loki dancing.

And I gotta say, I had no idea Michelle Langston was in this show, but guys, holy cow Michelle Langston.  Unreal babe.  Wow. 

(http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a257/DCform2/After%20the%20Power%203/Almighty%20Johnsons/Ep%201x1/almightyj-1x1-ml12.jpg)

And of course, Keisha Castle-Hughes as Gaia is adorable and I'm glad they shifted her away from being "the chick best friend" into someone a bit damaged and unhinged, that's far more interesting.  But at the same time, it's so obvious that she's Frigg.  It's such an obvious inevitability that I don't understand why the show hasn't addressed it just to say or even suggest otherwise.

(http://img.poptower.com/pic-88239/keisha-castle-hughes.jpg?d=600)


I don't know if I love the show, but it's growing on me more and more, and I like all the cast members and characters, so that's something.  I definitely want to see more of them, especially Olaf the hippie stoner oracle and wonderfully evil Loki, who does great sh1t like speaking at Axl's class only to go on gleefully go on about how futile their chosen profession is and how it's an anvs siphoning their lives away.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 12, 2016, 06:47:15 pm
Fifty shades of Black (1 Star)

http://youtu.be/J1pOTTcdRO8

Yep, another spoof  by Wayans. His work has become lazy... Just like Sandler. Throw away jokes every time. This time spoofing a movie that was mediocre. Regardless, a waste of celluloid. The only saving grace was the beautiful Kali Hawk.

I knew it would be lame, but didn't think this lame. I laughed once. But most of the time watching the clock.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 12, 2016, 10:07:33 pm
After Earth (2013) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/after-earth-(2013)/msg37903/#msg37903)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 13, 2016, 06:42:12 am
Deadpool (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://youtu.be/Xithigfg7dA

Besides posting the fun, cool opening credits to Deadpool, I rather enjoyed this flick. For me, it was all about the character. Much like Iron Man, it was about the man. Not the 'super hero'. Deadpool was over the top, unfiltered funny stuff. And blood-yyyyyy. It starts off with fantastic pacing and never lets up. The quality of the story remained consistent. Ryan Reynolds knows how to deliver comedy and drama equally well.

Coming from a guy who is not into super hero comics or movies, this indeed surprised me. Like Iron Man, I see the reason for Deadpool's 'suit'. I never understood any of the other super hero's 'costumes'.

It was pretty awesome that movie does tongue in cheek sarcasm a number of times with regards to Reynolds and his other movie.

I definitely could watch Deadpool over again.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 13, 2016, 07:40:45 am
I've been wonder for the past few months what you're perception of the movie and the character would be. Me, I 62 on the wait list at my Library, but I'm looking to pick this up off eBay at a good price. So, whichever comes first......

That's what she said.  ;D
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 13, 2016, 08:25:15 pm
JOY

http://youtu.be/uR-2TiQVY-k

Not gonna rate it. Never was in my radar to watch. My wife really wanted to check this out. Speaking of checking out, I did it within 10 minutes. My wife hung in for 45 minutes before she fell asleep from boredom. And the movie didn't even get to the core story of Joys invention.

Gawd this was a weird ass flick. They focus on the turbulent dysfunctional family and that just did nothing for me. An eclectic direction... But mostly uninteresting story. I guess they were trying to make this more than it was.
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Post by: Neumatic on May 13, 2016, 10:22:31 pm
Joy had this funky thing going on where it ... I don't want to say celebrated the mundane, but I thought it was interesting that things we don't give a second look at were emphasized, specifically soap operas and the home shopping network.  I never think about home shopping or the amount of work that goes into just putting it on or how much money it pulls in, but dang if seeing that revolving stage and all those people at the phones and all the wardrobe and make-up people... I thought that was kind of neat.  And fitting for a movie about the creation of a mop that we really don't think twice about.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 15, 2016, 06:25:58 pm
Wild Country (2 Stars)

http://youtu.be/WKUNtJ8kn70

The premise of a bunch of youths doing a retreat (overnight camp) in the Scotish country side, which is nothing new, but it had promise...

...until... You saw the beast in all its glory during the day. Wow... Really bad stuff. First half of the film is at night and there is some good creepiness going on. Daylight and full on view of the creature is laughable.

The Scotish accent is so thick, had to turn on the subtitles.

The ending does a right upper cut and cements this film as shifting into total WTF lameness. Production is pretty good. As is the acting. The other things I mention just makes it unbearable to recommend.
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Post by: Mac on May 15, 2016, 06:38:03 pm
They Look Like People (0 Stars)

http://youtu.be/MrsUOmKlAzI

Man, I'm pissed at myself for sitting through this. My spidey senses knew very early on, this might suck. But it had a pretty good rating on Netflix. From reading the synopsis, the film might offer up some revealing ideas. People is an indie film and it certainly looks and feels full on indie.

People is like the movie Bug. An old movie exploring similar traits of paranoia. Bug pissed me off as well. Yes there are strange things that revolve around people that are paranoid, but how does one express that in the movies to the audience? If the film can keep the audience intrigued, then it may deliver some entertainment. But if the audience knows the people on the screen have problems, then IMO, we are just watching a sad thing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 17, 2016, 06:25:05 pm
I got no creative juju today... it happens, frustrating though as I set myself an impossible writing goal that I would really like to meet.  I got a little out yesterday but I just can't today.  But thankfully it's new movie day so I checked Netflix and Amazon and look what's on Amazon Prime.  HUMANS!  I've been wanting to see this for ages, it was on my disc rentla queue but I need something new weird and cool right now.  I just started it.  Can't wait.

I also saw, for the first time, this flick called Conspiracy.  This is one of those flicks that had been staring at me for years in the video store but I never picked up, despite being Ken Branaugh and Stanley Tucci as Nazis (the flick also has Bates from Downton Abbey in it AND Colin freakin' Firth as the dude who wrote the Nuremberg Laws). It's basically the true story of a bunch of high-ranking Nazi officials meeting in secret to create the legal framework to allow for the holocaust. Disturbing but interesting stuff, as they go from the start where they're denying a group of individuals rights, then segregation, then discussing sterilization, and eventually mass slaughter, and how easily dehumanization leads to annihilation. Very compelling watch, especially with these actors we like campaigning for such horrible things.  Also on Amazon Prime.  Also worth watching.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 17, 2016, 08:00:23 pm
The Witch ( 1 star)

http://youtu.be/YjBN0ByAqDk

The trailer is somewhat intriguing. The critics and reviews are high praise.

I was bored outta my freakin mind. I just don't get it on occasion. This reminded me a lot of The Blairwitch Project. I remember the hype and when I finally saw it, I thought WTF. 99% hype, 1% scary? Same here. The dialog was rather troublesome understanding. It was early English and I just didn't understand the thinking at the time.

A single family crumbling horribly from superstition and religious beliefs after the sudden disappearance of their new born. It goes back to parnoria.

Peppered with strange sounds and strange music with jump scares. Another wasted evening.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 17, 2016, 10:36:45 pm
Digging Humans.  It's what I needed for my unintended night off.  And hey, Gunnar from Nashville is going to be in season two, along with Carrie Anne Moss.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 20, 2016, 11:31:25 am
Mojave (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://youtu.be/xq9mAa1Dhkg

I wanted to like Mojave more than I did. The trailer looks cool. Cat and Mouse thriller. The chemestry just never kicked in. Not a bad movie by any means, but I'm not writing home about it. Well. maybe I'm writing home to Penny Can  ;)

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 20, 2016, 01:36:27 pm
I gotta tell you guys about Look Who's Back.  It's basically Borat meets the "He's Back!" episode of The Twilight Zone and it is hilarious and a but unnerving.  The basic story is that Adolph Hitler wakes up in 2014, where he's mistaken for a comedian doing a bit.  A free-lance director in need of a gig decides to take him on a tour of Germany.  I don't want to say anything more because I don't want to ruin it, but watch it.  Absolutely watch it.  Don't watch a trailer, don't look for scenes on Youtube, just watch the movie.  It's one of those that's best to watch cold.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 20, 2016, 02:44:12 pm
Ok, in the queue... Based on youy recommendation. I've seen the title and image breezing through, but never clicked on it.

Bring on the weirdness
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 20, 2016, 06:45:04 pm
It was really weird seeing it so soon after the serious, but also wonderful Conspiracy, which was about the lawyers and higher ups in the Nazi party who created the legal framework to allow the holocaust to occur.  And on top of that, it's interesting in the current context of American authoritarianism that we're in the midst of, which allows someone like Trump to rise so high in the political sphere.  Definitely food for thought.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 22, 2016, 08:42:41 am
No Escape (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/no-escape-(2015)/msg38025/#msg38025)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 23, 2016, 07:32:27 pm
Joy (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/joy-(2015)/msg38050/#msg38050)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 25, 2016, 12:46:29 pm
We are Still Here (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://youtu.be/W9MkCNj0Rd8

This shot up the popularity chart on Netflix, so I gave it a shot. It's definitely an indie film with OK acting and a haunted house plot we've seen plenty of times. I gave it a 3 because it legitimately gave me some pretty good scares. We did watch it in the dark (a must do) and let the story work.

It's not great, but it is fun. The creepy ghosts were very well done. To bad it was done on such a low budget.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 26, 2016, 09:53:10 am
Hush (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04star.gif)

https://youtu.be/Q_P8WCbhC6s

I thought I wrote about this. I just noticed it shooting up the Netflix list. I watched it a few weeks ago. A very nice surprise on how well it's done.

A home invasion genre where the lone female lead is deaf. The intruder figures this out very quickly and decides to play games with her. I was totally involved and on the edge of my seat. What is she going to do now? or She should be doing this. So well done.

Highly recommend it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 26, 2016, 07:12:08 pm
Sisters (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sisters-(2015)/msg38106/#msg38106)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 26, 2016, 07:47:39 pm
Dramaworld: Season One

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkqH7z_GBOg

Stumbled upon this last night on Netflix and wound up going through the whole series (it's not particularly long). I don't know how well this plays to people who don't watch K-dramas (I've seen a couple, though I've only ever finished "Lie To Me" and quite enjoyed it), but if you do know the genre, it's very cute.  I especially loved how other drama stories were going on in the background, meet-cutes and so on.  And you know me, the idea of being "in the movie" is a big one for me, so this show absolutely scratched that itch.

It's also pretty interesting insofar as it's a bilingual show, Claire doesn't speak Korean, and other characters can't speak English, but because of the nature of their universe, they can all understand each other perfectly.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 27, 2016, 03:16:37 am
That last statement picked my interest.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 27, 2016, 10:45:43 pm
The Hateful Eight (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-hateful-eight-(2015)/msg38126/#msg38126)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on May 30, 2016, 04:19:25 am
Let me start off with best of the movie watching and go down from there.

Krampus (4 Stars)

http://youtu.be/h6cVyoMH4QE

4 stars Because this was off the weird-sh*t-O-Meter. A Christmas movie with a horror dark side. Though PG-13, this is too rough for little kids. The creative visuals were very good. Trying to create a new "mythology" with the character Krampus and his minions was rather successful. It had tones of Christmas Vacation, Gremlins and just a hint of comedy. But implies some pretty nasty stuff.

How to be Single ( 3 Stars )

http://youtu.be/RrDI4-BSovs

Single started off decent but then got very complicated with all the variety of people and hook ups. My wife loved it. I just thought it became boring after awhile. BUT... When Rebel Wilson was on screen, expect some very quick laughs.

Vatican Tapes (2 Stars)

http://youtu.be/Yelog-WwqD4

A decent horror film with religious possession and  excorcism. Some decent scares. I wouldn't watch it again.

Ride Along 2 (0 Stars)

http://youtu.be/iWfmmwdCHTg

Wow, just wow. How can you have some talen like Kevin Hart and then not be funny in the slightest. This was pathetic in every sense. I couldn't believe I was watching this soulless money grab. I couldn't believe thes guys signed up for this crap.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 01, 2016, 07:11:01 pm
East Side Sushi (4-1/2 Stars)

http://youtu.be/HPM0NCe9dIU

What an amazing little surprise. Literally all I knew was the DVD cover and knew it was about the desire to be a chef. Little did I know this a story of two cultures (Hispanic and Japanese) coming together and becoming something new. All the characters were fantastic. It was a fun, even paced story. I think the thing that struck me is the Hollywood element was removed. All the people act and react the way normal folks would.

Very reminiscent of a similar movie... The 100 Foot Journey

Highly recommend for just good story telling and entertaining look into two different worlds... Than my own.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2016, 02:14:20 am
(https://fuiteru.files.wordpress.com/2016/03/cyh.jpg?w=800&h=444)

Okay, I have to talk about Click Your Heart because, well, it's weird enough to talk about, and I'm apparently the only one here who likes K-Dramas, so I feel safe spoiling some things.

The idea of the show, what made me click it, is that this very short series is like a "choose your own adventure" game, you make choices and the narrative unfolds. That's interesting, it's a bit of a rarity and something I find to be worth checking out.  How it works is that you watch your typical 12 minute K-Drama episode and at the end, you're presented with a choice, does the lead character do A or B.  Each choice will take you to a different episode.  Except they don't tell you which episode corresponds to which choice, and the episodes have no titles, so there's no way to ACT on your decision.  It would be like it you were reading a choose-your-own-adventure book and they didn't give you page numbers, it makes the choices pointless and you're basically forced to go through the whole thing linearly.

And let me talk about the endings.  This is just your typical high school setting "who will the sweet clumsy new girl end up with."  A series of decisions you make (but not many, because there are only seven episodes and FOUR endings) lands her with a different guy.  Ending 1 gets you the handsome baseball player who wants to be with you despite what the team things, ending 2 gets you the childhood friend who always loved you, ending 3 gets you back together with your ex but with a new, better understanding and a stronger heart to the relationship, and ending four you discover the free spirit guy who makes you smile [I[IS A GOD-D6MN GHOST!  HE'S A GHOST HE'S A GHOST HE'S A GHOST[/I] THEY ACTUALLY WENT THERE HE'S A GODD6MN GHOST AND THERE IS ZERO SUPERNATURAL ANYTHING IN ANY OTHER PART OF THE SHOW, it is not a reality that even supports the idea of ghosts, there is no mention that he is a ghost in any of the other endings and the character isn't even dead so there's no logical ghostly reason why he should be a ghost.  I guess after three endings in a row they just stopped giving a sh1t or they had a deadline but what the h3ll was that?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 02, 2016, 03:33:09 am
I've never heard of anything like this. You have way more patience than I.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 02, 2016, 11:48:59 am
The idea of "choose your own adventure" movies has been toyed with for a while, they did this with "Return To House On Haunted Hill," which had multiple endings, bits you could skip, and ways you could "die," just like a video game.  And I remember playing the Star Trek CD ROM games as well, though those were mostly on rails, there was usually only ever one right decision, though it wasn't always obvious (like a "guess which hand" part, the correct answer was to punch the guy in the face).  As a writer I think those things are interesting because it forces you to think about multiple options for your characters, more like real people rather than elements in a story.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 03, 2016, 10:13:43 am
I do recall video games that had this feature. Just hearing it for the first time with movie features.

Sounds like the same gimmick as 3D. Once they figure out how these gimmicks can work seamlessly, both could be really cool innovations.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 03, 2016, 12:55:37 pm
Some Like It Hot

http://youtu.be/rI_lUHOCcbc

I've never seen this all the way through. It is a rather great movie... Considering its age. Many things are very relevant today. Tony Curtis just cracks me up. His Cary Grant impersonation is very funny. Also him trying to bed Marilyn Monroe, acting as a gay rich man, is classic.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 03, 2016, 01:28:14 pm
. (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/some-like-it-hot-(1959)/msg24877/#msg24877)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 03, 2016, 05:38:52 pm
Quote

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Oh wow, forgot about this. Ok, You liked Lemon. I liked Curtis. Glad I saw it.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 03, 2016, 06:54:19 pm
This is one of those movies that's so well known I'm honestly not sure if I've ever seen it.  I had to, right?
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Post by: Mac on June 04, 2016, 05:17:15 am
That's exactly what I thought
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 05, 2016, 10:50:27 am
Gods of Egypt (3 Stars)

https://youtu.be/IJBnK2wNQSo

Gods of Egypt got slammed by the critics and mildly appreciated by audiences. I really enjoyed it. Taking clues from the Matrix movies with stunning visuals. And for a movie about mythology, it makes sense. It funny how I really enjoy a fantasy film with mythology, but super hero movies don't move me. My upbringing certainly had a bearing on that. I read mythology as a kid. Not so much comics.

I'm not sure GOE is real mythology. It appears to be newly created, but using classic gods in their roles. GOE follows typical story lines of man and gods, adventure with tasks to perform. All the standard elements. I know I could watch this again with no problem... Make it a marathon with the Titan movies.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 05, 2016, 11:49:52 am
This was on my radar as a potential parts movie, there HAS to be something interesting in there, but after the opening to Ivan Ooze... I mean X-Men Apocalypse, which is this pretty awesome Ancient Egypt superpower scene, I think I now have a bit of an appetite for this kind of flick
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Post by: Neumatic on June 05, 2016, 08:55:02 pm
My internet's been real crummy the last few days, but now I'm back into Netflix (though my list isn't showing up!) and poking through the offerings.  One caught my eye, an old documentary (listed as a "mockumentary") called Alien Autopsy: Fact Or Fiction.  Guys, this sort of thing used to be my sh1t.  I used to love stuff like this, the secrets of the pyramids LIVE, Beyond Belief, etc.  I never truly believed it, but it was always interesting... and pretty sensationalized, since it was FOX.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 06, 2016, 03:44:29 am
What is it about those kinds of things? I too use to watch shows like that. Today I just don't do it, but I do pause and think about watching them as I browse over it.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 06, 2016, 12:01:07 pm
Trumbo (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/trumbo-(2015)/msg38242/#msg38242)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 08, 2016, 07:44:00 pm
Prides and Prejudice and Zombies

https://youtu.be/foGraEVNI0s

 :-\ Pure absurd dumbphucary. Within minutes, I knew this was not for me. A major motion picture with lots of money thrown at it, but found this gory, dark comedy a mess. Hell they must have used the word Zombie in the first 10 minutes to meet a quota. Neither scary, nor funny, but the eye rolling will get redundant very quickly. Lots of Austen Characters and dialog... Some zombies... A complete waste of time

I stopped after 25 minutes. 20 minutes to long.
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Post by: Mac on June 10, 2016, 07:51:49 am
13 Hours:  The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://youtu.be/4CJBuUwd0Os

Not a big war fan, but 13 Hours is very relevant to me. I thought I'd give it a go. Intense film, from front to back. They do not shy away from gut wrenching realities of war. All the characters were believable and you invested in them. So yes, I did sit on the edge of my seat a number of times.

But the downside is 13 hours is 2-1/2 hours long and very exhausting. Throughout the movie is tension and each passing conflict gets more and more intense and violent. The entire movie is from the view of American's. The enemy is faceless and not even sure who, what or why. They intermingle with friendlies. Your attention has to be 100%. I have no idea how they slept, relaxed or thought of anything else except what was in front of them.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 10, 2016, 07:58:43 am
I have this on Hold and I'm looking forward to seeing this for myself.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 12, 2016, 08:01:53 pm
Orange Is the New Black (Season 3 - 2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/orange-is-the-new-black-(season-3-2015)/msg38347/#msg38347)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2016, 05:52:38 am
Zoolander 2 (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/zoolander-2-(2016)/msg38357/#msg38357)
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Post by: Neumatic on June 14, 2016, 06:44:16 pm
So two movies are about to explire off Netflix.  Flypaper, which I've already seen (but I'll give it a rewatch for old time's sake), and Charade, a 1963 Cary Grant/Audrey Hepburn movie that I've never seen before.  And I wanted to.  So I turned it on, and THIS is what it looks like.

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ck9K0AHWEAAgM3O.jpg:large)

Every second the picture turns into this interlaced nightmare.  This might be the worst transfer I've seen on Netflix.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 14, 2016, 07:21:15 pm
Hmmmm, that's odd. Never run across that.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 14, 2016, 07:55:44 pm
Hmmmm, that's odd. Never run across that.

You've come close. How can you forget those 2 P!nk DVD Concerts from 6-7 years ago. Not as bad, but still bad in my book.
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Post by: Neumatic on June 14, 2016, 08:19:45 pm
Even TV shows don't interlace as bad as that.  I've seen it one other time with the Village People flick.  Unbearable, unwatchable.  There's no reason for 480i in the 21st century, all these old TV shows and so on need new transfers appropriate for today's screen technology.

Anyway, back to Mr Robot.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 15, 2016, 08:31:28 pm
Dirty Grandpa (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dirty-grandpa-(2016)/msg38387/#msg38387)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2016, 04:40:11 pm
The Revenant (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-revenant-(2015)/msg38415/#msg38415)
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Post by: Neumatic on June 18, 2016, 07:20:30 pm
Finally wrapped up the first season of Voltron Legendary Defender.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXW1waqRCb0

I didn't grow up with the show, so outside of the visual of the five lions, I really didn't know anything about the show (or the reboot) going in.  I certainly didn't know that the creators of Avatar and Korra were involved, and you cal tell by the quality of the character writing.  It feels more east-meets-west than the Avatar saga.  It actually reminds me less of watching anime and more like seeing the Saban adaptations of anime that used to air on Fox, where they would take a less strict approach to translating, getting the gist across but making up their own dialogue and characterization.  I actually really appreciated that, it's not done much in anime anymore.

The CGI is real smooth, it doesn't stick out, but it does make me realize how less animated the hand-drawn stuff is, but I think that's because I'm so aware of animating bodies and body language right now, I must just be more sensitive to it.

They also got a pretty sweet voice cast, including Steven Yuen, Jeremy Shada, Tyler Labine, they even got Norman Reedus in an episode, which just makes me think "how? and why?"
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 19, 2016, 08:06:17 am
I think one of the creators of Voltron lives and works here in St. Louis.

I know squat about the series.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 19, 2016, 09:46:13 am
I know squat about St. Louis.  ;)
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Post by: Neumatic on June 19, 2016, 12:12:53 pm
I understand that St Louis has spirit.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 19, 2016, 03:39:11 pm
Good lord, should I even ask what your guys impression of St. Louis is?


Nah...
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 20, 2016, 10:32:11 pm
Deadpool (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/deadpool-(2016)-3292/msg38453/#msg38453)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on June 24, 2016, 06:56:55 am
The Finest Hours (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://youtu.be/-1QOTS-OkIg

First I was a tad surprised when the Disney logo started. I did not make the connection when I saw the trailers back when. Then all hopes were dashed when this movie is straight down the middle as a Disney flick. It's safe and mediocre at best. The production is amazing and it looks fantastic. The CGI work is transparent. But the story seriously lacks emotion and caring. I could not believe the two main characters are major wimps. The strongest eye catching characters was the fiance of Chris Pine. By then it's too late, to care about any of them. The action kicks in about 45 minutes into the movie, and like I mentioned before, I never felt tension, dread... anything.
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Post by: Mac on June 24, 2016, 09:19:34 am
Sugar Coated (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (Netflix)

https://youtu.be/NzRa0E7RhBM

So my recent heart incident was not surprisingly a wake up call. So understandably, I'm pretty alert now... to all things health. My wife and I are taking a much closer look at EVERYTHING we put in our bodies. While we were definitely doing good, we have so much more and sugar is one of those sneaky items hiding behind all kinds of marketing. I still need to teach my wife, just because the label says 'Heart Healthy" with a cute iconic symbol of heart, does not mean in any way that's true.


Currently Sugar Coated is a new documentary on Netflix that is getting a lot of attention and good reviews. Deservedly so, it's in your face revealing all the different perspectives of Sugar and Health. It's a little dry, but some good graphics to help explain the science.

This movie is really an eye opener... for me. In my mid 20's I remember a video of a health advocate simply show how much fat was in a McDonald's Quarter Pounder. In that instant, I layed off fast food. I still go, but it's probably less than 4 times a year and always a last resort. Seriously, I can visual fat when eating food. Looks like I'll now be doing the same with sugar.

Now that I'm in rehab, I'm going to taught all the good and bad of 'cardio' and 'nutrition intake'. So right now Sugar and Sodium is high on my list. I've already seen a change
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Post by: Mac on June 30, 2016, 12:12:25 pm
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://youtu.be/-lE9sImhnLw

I kinda knew going into this, WTF was kinda meh. And well it was Major Meh. Man, I just lost interest so fast. Yes, a fish outta water/culture clash story. Nothing new. And the humor was so understated, I'm not even sure if there were jokes.

My wife enjoyed it, but I lost interest pretty quickly into it. Reading my iPad sitting with her. Once or twice I looked up because maybe something of interest happened, but ultimately it is very forgettable.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 30, 2016, 10:26:30 pm
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-(2015)/msg38529/#msg38529)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 02, 2016, 09:16:49 pm
I finally got around to watching "Trumbo."  Okay, not great.  Didn't realize that Louis CK and Alan Tudyk were in this (not enough, though).  John Goodman was in it, which is awesome... I don't know who the dude who played John Wayne was, but he was PERFECT.  And the movie makes sure to remind you that John Wayne and Ronald Reagan were @ssholes.  Speaking of which, you know how Bryan Cranston is always showing up in his tighty whities on TV?  Well, this is a movie so BARE BUTT!  And it looks as crummy as you;d imagine.

I wish I had something more substantial to say, about the whole political climate at the time or the insane work schedule that Trumbo put himself through for so long, etc etc, but... no, I think I said it all.  See it it you like.

There's GOT to be more stuff that I've seen, given how much TV I watch, but I straight up can't honestly remember what else I watched.
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Post by: Neumatic on July 03, 2016, 02:07:53 am
So, this series has been sitting on my queue for a while, and after watching and enjoying the reboot of Voltron, I decided to finally check it out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saxtE2YcPH4

Gargantia on The Verdurous Planet

Gorram what a beautiful looking show.  This is the high quality benchmark that I've dreamed of seeing, and I'm amazed that they can do it on a  weekly basis (good on you, Production IG).

The show concerns a young pilot named Ledo, the pilot of one of a fleet of hundred of black battle robots fighting a very intricate and wel-animated war among the stars.  Until things go wrong in a big way and he's lost in the depths of space and crash-lands in the ocean on a distant planet called Earth.

It's sort of like Waterworld by way of Miyazaki with a Gundam-meets-Iron Man mecha.

There's also... you remember how I was talking about enjoying the bilingual element of Dramaworld, there's something like that going on here.  Ledo doesn't speak Earth, so he requires Chamber's booming voice to translate until he starts getting a handle on the language.  it's interesting to hear him speak english and know the difference between him speaking his own language to Chamber and grunting out broken english when he deals with the others.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 03, 2016, 11:54:31 am
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I finally got around to watching "Trumbo."  Okay, not great.  Didn't realize that Louis CK and Alan Tudyk were in this (not enough, though).  John Goodman was in it, which is awesome... I don't know who the dude who played John Wayne was, but he was PERFECT.  And the movie makes sure to remind you that John Wayne and Ronald Reagan were @ssholes.  Speaking of which, you know how Bryan Cranston is always showing up in his tighty whities on TV?  Well, this is a movie so BARE BUTT!  And it looks as crummy as you;d imagine.

Similar thoughts. I did enjoy it probably a bit more than you and would recommend. But it remains to be seen how much how I remember over time and really liked it.  ;)
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Post by: Mac on July 03, 2016, 12:05:49 pm
Bone Tomahawk (4 Stars)

https://youtu.be/0ZbwtHi-KSE

Admittedly, not too much of a Western Movie fan. But this does star Kurt Russell, thus skipping the bias. But I really enjoyed Hateful Eight, and Russell plays a similar character.

I read a review on RottenTomatoes and ran across this pretty short but clear wrap up...

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Huge kudos to first-time writer-director S Craig Zahler for attempting a movie that’s equal parts charming, strange, goofy, unpredictable and genuinely horrifying – and largely pulling it off.

I was not prepared for the humor. It's very understated, but I did find myself grinning a lot through the flick. The script and the story are excellent. Not your average western flick. It's also kind of in 2 parts. The first 1/3 is in town setting the stage. The last 2/3 is the trek to rescue some people. If your looking for something just left of center, check out Bone Tomahawk.

Great support cast from Mathew Fox, Patrick Wilson and Richard Jenkins.

Warning: There is one killing scene that's pretty damn brutal. Gonna be hard to remove that from my memory.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2016, 12:12:15 pm
Never heard of this but your review sold me on it. Putting it on hold at the Library now.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 03, 2016, 12:13:55 pm
Triple 9 (2 Stars)

https://youtu.be/JzUtr5sjRvU

Triple 9 has a great cast with Kate Winslet (Totally unrecognizable), Casy Affleck, Aaron Paul, Woody Harrelson, Norman Reeds and Chiwetel Ejiofor, but unfortunately that does not add up to a great movie. I really wanted to like this movie. It starts off pretty good setting the stage for a heist that goes wrong. But then somewhere along the line, the movie gets totally bogged down with confusing direction and edits and story telling. It's just a mess I soon got bored with. I can't recommend this in the least.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 03, 2016, 12:27:52 pm
In the Heart of the Sea (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/in-the-heart-of-the-sea-(2015)/msg38544/#msg38544)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 05, 2016, 06:35:17 pm
Southbound 3 Stars

https://youtu.be/skNeUjtjD6Y

A horror anthology that was sitting on the library shelf. I knew squat about it. Cool cover.

This is a unique independent film that has 5 directors for 5 very bizarre stories that they mesh together with a highway tying it all together... Very loosely. A Twilight Zone feel to some of the stories. There's some pretty cool horro concepts, but unfortunately, the indie amateur aspect diminishes the horror. Also this has one of the most creative scary evil presence I've seen in awhile.

I was rather impressed with the CGI and practical effects. Very convincing
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 10, 2016, 06:38:43 pm
The Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-maze-runner-the-scorch-trials-(2015)/msg38608/#msg38608)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on July 10, 2016, 06:44:25 pm
I've been watching The Almighty Johnsons off and on for the past month and finally finished it last night.  Rather bittersweet ending, I thought.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bd80D347iSI

The New Zealand series follows the story of a family of brothers who are the reincarnations of ancient Norse Gods.  When the youngest, well-meaning slacker Axl turns 21, he gets the spirit of Odin and is set upon a mission to find his Frigga, the woman who will be his wife.  Of course, the family doesn't know about the family of goddesses out to stop them.

Cute, funny, quirky.  Good cast all around.
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Post by: Mac on July 12, 2016, 07:12:56 pm
Ratter 03 stars

https://youtu.be/DMD4xc8a6Pg

Gawd this movie sucked donkey balls. Mainly for the boring. But throw in plenty of ill conceived story telling with 100% hand held camera. There is zero tension. Zero. We watch way to much of her doing excersises, talking to other people, mundane every day stuff. You see the camera is always on her. Now it took me a while, but I slowly figured out someone can't be THAT self centered to video every waking moment of themselves. Then it becomes apparent, someone hacks into her accounts and monitors everything she does, and that is what the audience is watching. Zzzzzzzzzzz
It's funny, the trailer is a tad more exciting than the actual movie... Because of the trailers suspenseful music. Seriously, this movie is a whole Ottawa nuttin, and I've wasted too much time already on this review.  :-\
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Post by: Mac on July 12, 2016, 07:46:37 pm
The Mermaid 3 stars

https://youtu.be/nSgtN7Z6NjI

A 2016 Stephen Chow film. Nough said. I can't even begin to express what goes on in this flick. The director of one of my fav Kung Fu Hustle, goes off on a wild tangent. Pretty much you have to see it, to believe it. This goes way overboard with the visuals and looks silly plenty of the time. Other times the CGI looks great.

If your in the mood for something completely different and silly, check out The Mermaid.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 12, 2016, 09:36:40 pm
Ratter 03 stars

That's some David Fincher-ian rated movie.  ;)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 13, 2016, 07:42:27 pm
Australiens 4 stars

https://youtu.be/vnGEnQQvLb0

With a name like Australiens, you know what your about to watch. B-movie celluloid... But will it be good or bad.

I rather enjoyed this import. It's goofy as hell, but creative. A mashup of Monty Python mad MST3K and plenty o Mars Attacks.  The absurdity is taken with a grain of salt, but I found it entertaining. The special effects are cheap and compliment the low budget flick.

each character more weird than the next. Funny too. I read this was made for 20K. It has won a ton of indie awards.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2016, 06:05:28 pm
Spotlight (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/spotlight-(2015)/msg38629/#msg38629)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 16, 2016, 02:07:20 pm
London Has Fallen 5 Stars

https://youtu.be/yJaVR3ZXJjs

I don't know if the stars were aligned, the universe was in sync or I was just highly entertained by well done B-movie. Nah, it wasn't a B-movie, but it wasn't Oscar material. As someone said, Die Hard In London. Because Gerard Butler's character, as he says, is not a super hero. He's just very good at what he does. The action is intense and constant. The kills are actually entertaining. I mean, we are talking Al Queda type baddies, and it actually gave me a sense of pride to see an American fight back and he does it in some spectacular ways.

I just loved this movie from front to back.

It's more of the same of Olympus Has Fallen, but that's OK. I parked my brain and just enjoyed the ride. And what a ride it is.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 16, 2016, 02:46:11 pm
Our Brand Is Crisis (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/our-brand-is-crisis-(2015)/msg38647/#msg38647)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 20, 2016, 05:51:03 am
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/13-hours-the-secret-soldiers-of-benghazi-(2016)/msg38660/#msg38660)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 22, 2016, 08:48:17 am
All Things Must Pass: The Rise and Fall of Tower Records (2015)

(http://i.imgur.com/XU7WB7J.jpg) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/all-things-must-pass-the-rise-and-fall-of-tower-records-(2015)/msg38676/#msg38676)

Click Me For Review ^^


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Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 24, 2016, 03:22:35 pm
Eddie the Eagle (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/eddie-the-eagle-(2016)/msg38703/#msg38703)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 26, 2016, 01:24:39 pm
Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/scouts-guide-to-the-zombie-apocalypse-(2015)/msg38726/#msg38726)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic 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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Post by: Mac 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.


https://youtu.be/L6vBnnryIug
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on July 27, 2016, 08:05:12 pm
Lost in the Sun (3 Stars)

https://youtu.be/fpp5m6c0-jc

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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Post by: Mac on July 31, 2016, 04:40:17 pm
The Green Room 4 Stars

https://youtu.be/Q8XSARX3DQg

An incredibly tense thriller with Anton Yelchin. Excellent directing with very interesting characters... On all sides, including the hunted and the hunters.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 31, 2016, 07:51:20 pm
The Mechanic (2011) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-mechanic-(2011)/msg38794/#msg38794)
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Post by: Neumatic 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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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 04, 2016, 10:43:17 pm
10 Cloverfield Lane (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/10-cloverfield-lane-(2016)/msg38812/#msg38812)
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Post by: Neumatic 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.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac 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.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic 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.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 09, 2016, 03:43:54 am
I believe of the Albert Brooks movies, the one that stands out was Defending Your Life. I believe it was from my Lutheran upbringing, I always imagined this is what I would have to do.

Interesting concept.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 10, 2016, 12:05:07 am
Two movies, both very much under my radar, and both worth checking out.

The first is a found footage movie called Blackout, which takes place over the course of a week after Britain's entire electrical grid is taken down and people start to scrounge for supplies and fight to survive as crime breaks out.  It's one of those movies that made me forget where I was and just became engrossed in those events, you know?

The second one, which I'm still watching is called The Conformation.  I thought it would be one of those religious-y Lifetime-y dramas, but it's not.  It's got Clive Owen, who I love, as this screw-up divorcee father taking care of his sone for the weekend, who winds up on a quest after his tools are stolen from his trunk.  I'm actually surprised how much I like it, it's quiet but not boring, you know?  Though I will admit that I'm susceptible to dramas more when I'm sleep-deprived, which I totally am, so...
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 12, 2016, 12:40:47 pm
I saw the Blackout scroll by. I just might have to check it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 12, 2016, 12:48:04 pm
The Fundamentals of Caring (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif) (Netflix)

https://youtu.be/BSXn-lIs4Y0

This really starts off dismal. I thought Paul Rudd was going to be experimental and be grim and sad, etc.

Stick with it. Once the story starts to peel back the layers, it gets very good. All kinds of emotions including the funny man (on occasion) doing his thing.
Selena Gomez is good and gives us a raw side of character.
Craig Roberts as Trevor with Rudd, gives us handful of emotions. First, he's a dick, then he's caring, then he opens up and everything in between.

I was hesitant to start this. I just thought it would be indie drama. The movie is done very well, with great pacing and providing the viewer a chance to tag along for the emotional ride.
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Post by: Mac on August 12, 2016, 12:51:26 pm
Summer Camp (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_02star.gif)

https://youtu.be/aDZFR0Wiri0

Not terrible, but just nothing really new... except, the 'RAGE' goes for a little while and then it does wear off some people and they become themselves again.

It's just been more of been there, seen that.

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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 14, 2016, 07:06:26 pm
Bone Tomahawk (2015)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/bone-tomahawk-(2015)/msg38879/#msg38879)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on August 19, 2016, 09:23:35 am
Watching a couple Netflix movies totally based on stars and the synopsis.

Tallulah


https://youtu.be/8WSz2s-Gemc

I just found this movie frustrating to watch. There is no redemption. It's mostly about horrible people making horrible decisions. I couldn't recommend this to anybody.

A Case of You

https://youtu.be/kPemerpMqM0

I thought I'd like this. I like Justin Long and his work. His character this time just seemed so at odds with himself. In one sense he seems he know what he's doing and the bulk of the story is his wanting to meet this girl and he just goes overboard with bad decisions. Maybe this stuff happens in real life?

It wasn't bad, just badly constructed.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2016, 01:12:11 pm
Kung Fu Panda (2008) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kung-fu-panda-(2008)/msg38905/#msg38905)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 28, 2016, 05:19:20 pm
Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kung-fu-panda-2-(2011)/msg38953/#msg38953)
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Post by: Mac on August 28, 2016, 06:30:32 pm
How To Kill Your Neighbors Dog 5 Stars

https://youtu.be/4-Q90TQB70M

Love this movie from beginning to end. So well written. Every scene is so well constructed with great dialog. It's multi-layered, expertly tied together. I thought it would be understated humor, but there are a few LOL moments.

Kenneth Branagh is fun trying to figure his life and work out. Great characters throughout.

I highly recommend How To Kill...

PS: while finding the trailer on YouTube, I did find the whole movie available. If you want to watch it on a computer  :o
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 29, 2016, 12:17:29 pm
Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/batman-v-superman-dawn-of-justice-(2016)/msg38962/#msg38962)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on September 01, 2016, 09:34:36 pm
Oh man, I've been wanting to watch this for a while, and it suddenly popped up on Netflix.

I think we've talked Black Mirror before, right?  Well, before that, the creator Charlie Brooker created Dead Set, a show about a TV studio under attack from a horde of zombies, and the only safe place is filled with even worse people.  That's right, we're hiding from the zombies in the g-d BIG BROTHER HOUSE!

You might... no, probably, might need to watch with captions.  Thick chavive accents abound.


Just finished it.  Guys.  Watch this f'ing show.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 02, 2016, 03:41:03 am
Added it to my queue. Thanks for the heads up.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 02, 2016, 09:33:06 am
The Boss (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_01star.gif)

https://youtu.be/yakeigyf0vc

When Melissa McCarthy is in a groove with the right material, she is awesome. Well The Boss ain't IT. I maybe smiled once. A lot, and I mean a lot of over the top silliness. Actually I think the R-rating language only helped this turd. Peter Dinklage is just creepy as hell in this role. Kristin Bell,  beautiful, but a wasted role for her. She really doesn't do anything except take the punches from The Boss.

Can't recommend in the slightest.
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Post by: Mac on September 02, 2016, 09:37:38 am
The Jungle Book (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_04halfstar.gif)

https://youtu.be/5mkm22yO-bs

Not a perfect movie, but damn near it. I guess it was just the right place at the right time watching this fantasy film. I got totally absorbed into the story and the characters. This movie must be 95% CGI, but it is amazing and totally believable. Loved the talking animals. Great characters. The kid was good. The action was awesome.

This is the way to tell a classic story with live action.

Highly, highly recommend. Lots of fun.
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Post by: Mac on September 09, 2016, 08:02:30 am
A Hologram for the King (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_05star.gif)

https://youtu.be/UW4OE1egbHs

I gave Hologram a five, not because it's perfect, which it isn't, but because I was entertained the entire time. Fascinated as well. A microcosm of culture differences. The story is interlaced with several different sub-stories. A perfect vehicle for Tom Hanks.

I highly recommend Hologram.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on September 09, 2016, 03:11:10 pm
You know, I never thought I'd see the day when Tom Hanks would be in a Saban film.

So... I've seen some stuff.  Enough that I've forgotten some,.  I haven't been totally up with my movie-a-day, but I haven't missed THAT much.

Some to mention, "Shelter."  I wanted to watch this for a while, but I was sick and it was somehow appropriately depressing for my mood.  Dramas work best for me when I'm feeling odd, sick, depressed, or if I can't sleep.  Maybe it makes me more vulnerable, I dunno.  I watched it for research for one my pilots and now it's infecting it.. too much, I need to hold back.  Still, good movie.

There's a movie I never even heard of that was on TV earlier, Neil Simon's London Suite.  I missed a chunk of it... how much, I'm not sure, but there's something very appealing about seeing comedy I'd never seen before with Frasier, Kramer, and Elaine from the same era as their shows were taking off.  It definitely caught my attention, though I can't tell you if I liked it or not.  It was a very passive watch.

I also saw the first season of "Catastrophe" (six episodes, Amazon Prime) and dug it.  I was scratching my head trying to figure out how it works, it's so... not low key, but you want to go to the next episode without feeling "I HAVE to watch the next episode."  No cliffhangers or suspense, just laughter.  My only real issue was the time jump between seasons one and two, which I guess corresponds to how they were making the show IRL, I'm not sure.  But I liked how we were seeing the beginning of things, them tyring to make this unusual arrangement work, making stuff up as they went along... and then we jump past a whole mess of things that would have made interesting episodes.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 10, 2016, 10:31:18 am
The Ones Below (http://i74.photobucket.com/albums/i266/Chiprocks1/Star%20Ratings/HTL_03star.gif)

https://youtu.be/mkbT3WoPSzc

Not my first choice of movies to watch, but my wife thought it might be a horror film. I'm starting to see more and more films labeled as horror films, where they clearly are not, but just disturbing thrillers.

The Ones Below is a slow burn, that you can see coming a mile away. So in one way, it's what you expect, but the anxiety it brings is satisfying entertainment.

It seemed to have an odd cadence and look. Minor surreal moments.  Very awkward discussions and meetings.

Nonetheless, I didn't hate it. I just doubt I'll ever watch it again.
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Post by: Mac on September 11, 2016, 09:44:45 am
Quote
Oh man, I've been wanting to watch this for a while, and it suddenly popped up on Netflix.

I think we've talked Black Mirror before, right?  Well, before that, the creator Charlie Brooker created Dead Set, a show about a TV studio under attack from a horde of zombies, and the only safe place is filled with even worse people.  That's right, we're hiding from the zombies in the g-d BIG BROTHER HOUSE!

You might... no, probably, might need to watch with captions.  Thick chavive accents abound.


Just finished it.  Guys.  Watch this f'ing show.

Thanks for the heads up. Loved it. Though I never watched Big Brother, I probably missed a lot inside BB stuff. Nonetheless, another series of what if, interesting characters, and gory as hell.

Honestly, the first 5 minutes I almost said no way, with the hand held, talking to the camera bullsh*t. But that was just to introduce. It settled into decent presentation.

Another interesting study of what is important to people before, during and after social destruction.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 11, 2016, 09:48:44 am
Angry Birds

https://youtu.be/5rVXGnSkyRg

I enjoyed the first hour or so, then it devolved into chaotic mayhem with the birds invading pig city.
I never played the game, but realistically, to create a major motion picture out of a game app will carry it only so far before it gets thin.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2016, 05:55:13 pm
11.22.63 (TV Mini-Series 2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/11-22-63-(tv-mini-series-2016)/msg39067/#msg39067)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 12, 2016, 07:32:46 pm
The Meddler (0 Stars)

https://youtu.be/XbN58_kYZrU

F*ck me, this was my version of being in hell. This was 100% Susan Sarandon. Non-stop talking with a New York accent. And there was nothing of interest in her life. I found JK Simmons was the only color in this gawd awful bland movie. And that was short.

So this is not aimed at me. Chick flick only. I shouldn't judge, but I did have to sit here with it on. That's on me.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2016, 07:03:29 am
Risen (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/risen-(2016)/msg39087/#msg39087)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 21, 2016, 07:15:40 pm
Popstar

The Nice Guys


No rating. Neither one interested me in the least. I could tell 10 minutes into each and turned off.

https://youtu.be/SBzSsr3Co3w

https://youtu.be/WVd-EuoEf3U
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Post by: Neumatic on September 21, 2016, 08:12:16 pm
I was doing really well for a while with watching a movie or a new show every day until this awful month came around.  Now it feels like ages since I've seen anything.  I'm in this lousy paradoxical situation (my whole life is full of stupid catch-22s).  I want comfort stuff, but my comfort stuff is old movies, and I'm tired of old things because I feel like I'm living in the past.  I need something new, but I can't think of anything new that's exciting me.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 22, 2016, 03:44:42 am
That's so coincidental of your view about old movies. Same here. There is comfort, yet that damn thought of twilight zone reliving the past.

I would like to see new stuff, or at least new stuff to me... It still could be years old and I've never seen it, but it's been ultra sucky for awhile.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 23, 2016, 10:56:44 am
ARQ (Netflix) (5 Stars)

https://youtu.be/JY0DGLrd9GY

All I knew was this was some kind of time travel movie. Did not know it was Netflix Original or that fantastic.

ARQ is that movie we talk about... A great story line. Much in the vein of Edge of Tomorrow (Live. Die. Repeat), we have people caught in a time loop and they become aware. Never to repeat, but each loop brings a new twist. It was very cool how they not only progressed the story, but changed it... And brought elements back around. Very well done. Highly recommend. Not so sci-fi to turn those who like drama more, off.




And on a tangent note, Netflix just added a another time travel type movie, I thought was really well done.

Time Lapse

https://youtu.be/_YhP-VfH81E

Check this one out as well. Very interesting turns.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on September 27, 2016, 09:44:26 am
The Conjuring 2 (3 Stars)

https://youtu.be/VFsmuRPClr4

I've watched about every kind of horror movie. They change, evolve, become a fad, fade away, etc. I just find it difficult anymore to find a good creepy horror story.

Conjuring 2 is more of the same from the Original. This time, based on what they say is biggest most investigated paranormal activity. Whether that's true or not... who knows. The movie was pretty sub-par when it came to the scare factor. Lots of dialog between the occasional ghostly apparition. I'm sure I'll forget this movie very quickly.



Vintage Tomorrows (4.9 Stars) Netflix

https://youtu.be/58MBd0tLeJs

The title sure does not indicate to those this is a documentary on Steampunk. That's OK, the title makes total sense. I love Steampunk.
I gave this a rating short of perfect because the docu was to short. At 67 minutes, there is just too many Steampunk fingers reaching out into culture. On the other hand, for those who don't know what 'it' is, this is quick, short and pretty good shotgun of Steampunk tendencies.
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Post by: Mac on September 27, 2016, 07:25:53 pm
Cell (1 star)

https://youtu.be/BCns4w3GA9A

Yep this got a whopping 8% on RottenTomatoes. And it's evident pretty quickly why. Just can't believe Cusak and Jackson signed on for this. Have not read a Stephen King book, and the Cell might be a good read? Maybe not. But the story and dialog are just abysmal. The so called Zombies are an attempt at a new spin on the rage type virus, except it's through a signal from Cell Phones. Instantly.

These are the worst Zombies evah! Seriously grade B movie making.

I'm going to attempt to watch the whole thing... Just to see how bad it remains.

Of course I'm typing on my iPad and paying minor attention to this shitty ass story.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 29, 2016, 10:33:29 pm
Now You See Me 2 (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/now-you-see-me-2-(2016)/msg39176/#msg39176)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 02, 2016, 11:43:29 pm
London Has Fallen (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/london-has-fallen-(2016)/msg39197/#msg39197)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 05, 2016, 03:03:22 pm
Hail, Caesar! (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/hail-caesar!-(2016)/msg39218/#msg39218)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 06, 2016, 07:40:43 pm
Precious Cargo (1 Star)

https://youtu.be/g5Gc2qoLvvM

I give Precious Cargo 1 star for being incredibly campy trying to be serious. The director must have taken a bunch of notes from some seriously bad action films. Gawd awful dialog with lazy action sequences makes Cargo mind numbing dumb. Willis called this one in for a paycheck. He's not in it much, and surprisingly, he's the high point.

The action scenes teeter on coming from Naked Gun. A boat chase scene feet apart and they shoot a ton of bullets without hitting anything. It's laughable.

But the core problem is, not one person is likable.

Can't even recommend this for mindless fun.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 07, 2016, 08:49:34 pm
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kung-fu-panda-3-(2016)/msg39237/#msg39237)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on October 07, 2016, 11:26:58 pm
The Grinder is on Netflix. Freakin' finally.  It's making the evening fly by slowly... if that makes sense.  I thought it was much later than it really is, and I've seen so many episodes.  Enjoying it, though it's different than what I expected.  Fred Savage is cracking me up, freaking out over everything.  And of course I still love Natalie Morales.
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Post by: Mac on October 13, 2016, 06:21:51 pm
Ghostbusters (2016) (2 1 stars)

A movie review by James Berardinelli
Let me begin this review of the 2016 Ghostbusters remake by pretending there was no 1984 iteration. How enjoyable would the film be if it didn’t have such enormous baggage, if it didn’t emerge under the long shadow of a beloved predecessor? The answer to that hypothetical is disappointingly prosaic: this is a mediocre horror/comedy that deserves neither high praise nor disparagement.

I saw this review, which is way more detailed, but I read the first lines and it simply said what I witnessed.

I'll forget this in very short time.

I never laughed once. The jokes were very lame. So much talent. Very little entertainment. Why do studios keep relying on these crutch projects.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 15, 2016, 05:33:19 pm
Race (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/race-(2016)/msg39291/#msg39291)
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Post by: Mac on October 16, 2016, 03:24:11 pm
Misconduct (4 Stars)

I saw this trailer some time ago and it looked interesting. Great cast.

It turned out to be as interesting as the trailer portrays. Lots of twists and turns. You can kinda figure out the who done it, but it's still a great ride.

https://youtu.be/chZ7CYBDgPY
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2016, 07:00:03 pm
Resident Evil: Retribution (2012) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/resident-evil-retribution-(2012)/msg39298/#msg39298)
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Post by: Neumatic on October 16, 2016, 09:02:52 pm
I got straight up no idea what I'm gonna watch tonight.  Nothing's really piquing my interest, even though "Dark Matter" and "Legens Of Tomorrow" just dropped and I really do want to watch them... I'm not in the mood.  I'm not even in the mood for my go-to feel good.  No clue what I'm gonna watch.

The one thing I've been enjoying recently isn't even a movie, it's a book, "All Creatures Great And Small," and I'm not even in the mood to read THAT.  Very frustrating, to need something and not know what it is.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 18, 2016, 06:58:30 pm
Neighbors 2

https://youtu.be/X2i9Zz_AqTg

Really? Really? A sequel? Gawd this blew. The original was wildly mediocre. This is just downright awful.
I gave it 20 minutes... then off.

And on a side note, I find Chloe Moretz less and less of an actress. She does one character and not all that well or interesting. Of course that could be said for Zac and Seth as well.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 19, 2016, 01:28:01 pm
Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids (Netflix)

https://youtu.be/XlT7UQm5pfY

This is straight up an experiment in new music for me. I know only 1 Timberlake song the old band was considering. Other than that, I wouldn't know one if I heard it.

This concert is getting great reviews and honestly I like his acting skills and his personality.

Unfortunately, I just cannot connect with his music. It's definitely not what I thought it might be. I would love for somebody to tell me what style it is.
Also, I'm not a big fan of the male falsetto (except maybe Steve Perry).

He has a hell of a support band and singers and dancers. He himself, comes off as very well produced. I just was not finding the chemistry. I was yawing pretty early on.
That's me. I'm sure he has a huge fan base and that's great. Creativity and he did appear to be doing it all live. Can't say that about a lot of other pop acts.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on October 19, 2016, 06:42:56 pm
I don't know what you would call his music (maybe adult contemporary), but oh man, I liked it.  Totally digging it and the stage work was great... that big moving platform was nuts... what a cool idea, too!  Everyone gets a good view with that thing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 25, 2016, 06:08:15 am
Captain America: Civil War (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/captain-america-civil-war-(2016)/msg39371/#msg39371)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2016, 09:23:41 pm
Triple 9 (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/triple-9-(2016)/msg39386/#msg39386)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on October 28, 2016, 08:47:09 am
Yea, didn't care for either. I barely remember it, but I just reread my review and the do recall the midway through getting so disappointed with the horrible editing and bogged down with uninteresting stuff.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 07, 2016, 05:53:16 pm
There's a documentary about Aardman on Netflix.  Wallace and Gromit are the cover art, you can't miss it.  18 minutes into the hourlong program and I'm just diggin' it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 12, 2016, 05:20:48 pm
Money Monster (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/money-monster-(2016)/msg39517/#msg39517)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 12, 2016, 11:06:44 pm
Red Dwarf XI

(http://digitalspyuk.cdnds.net/16/40/980x490/landscape-1475767896-reddwarf3.jpg)

Been waiting for this!  I was fascinated by the idea that they shot two seasons of the show back to back last year, so the studio audience got to see episodes 2 years in advance.  That's kind of crazy.  They did it that way because it's so hard to get the cast together, and so they could afford to build all the sets, prosthetics, models, and VFX the series needed.  And it really did pay off, the model shots look fantastic (they are in 4K) though they re-use a lot of them, and some of the computer graphics are so good, I thought they were real models.  It helps that the Thunderbirds-y "model" look is part of the show's aesthetic.

Speaking of aesthetics, when I watch Dark Matter (another SF show I adore), I keep thinking "this is like what Red Dwarf would look like if it was made today."  And RD does look like that now, way more neon and light lines than in Series X, which had a more Jeunet & Caro style.  But unlike the dark world of Dark Matter, RD looks brighter and clearer than I remember it ever looking... maybe a bit too much.  Cheapness, gritness, poor cameras... those were hallmarks of the show in the 80s/early 90s.

But the episodes, how are they?  You know, I'm not digging them as much as I did series X, which only had one clunker, "Dear Dave."  There aren't clunkers per se in this one, though I don't really care for "Twentica," but "Can of Worms" might just be the funniest episode of Red Dwarf ever... and the first one that where the storyline centers around the Cat.  The bit where he talks about his night of passion is absolutely priceless (raving about how big poles come ouf of the girl's back and stick themselves down your throat), and the birth scene is brilliant.

The weird bit is how many guest stars they got this season.  For the last four smegheads in the universe, they meet a TON of people.  Butler is brilliant, the GELF costume looks shockingly good, the Rimmer monster is freakishly interesting, the mechanoid designs... but I have to point out the brilliant design of the crewman who was created in a bio-printer which jammed:

(http://www.ganymede.tv/wp-content/uploads/vlcsnap-2016-10-09-19h11m30s526.png)

And they get great jabs about him in.  "you look like you're wearing a toupee made of face!"
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 13, 2016, 05:34:42 am
Man I watched a little of Red Dwarf back in the day. I honestly don't remember what year that was. I liked it for what it was.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 13, 2016, 05:46:43 am
Sausage Party 3 Stars

https://youtu.be/9VoNgLnjzVg

I remember the first time I saw the trailer, and thought this was just a short. Not a full length flick... right?
Then folks talked about really wanting to see this, because I was not all hyped about it to much. Finally sitting down to watch it, I was entertained. It did maintain the humor. It's just not great. Novel... yes. We don't get to many adult animated flicks.

There is the subtext of religion and racism. You'd be a total idiot if you got offended by them. Why are you watching an R-rated cartoon and getting offended by some of the content?

Anyway, see it for a 90 minutes of funny escapism.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 14, 2016, 06:55:48 pm
Independence Day: Resurgence (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/independence-day-resurgence-(2016)/msg39542/#msg39542)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 15, 2016, 06:00:59 pm
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/popstar-never-stop-never-stopping-(2016)/msg39547/#msg39547)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 18, 2016, 09:29:59 pm
American Heist (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/american-heist-(2014)/msg39562/#msg39562)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 18, 2016, 09:58:22 pm
I need something to watch on my weird off-hours, and something upbeat and fun (and new), so I started on Legends Of Tomorrow.  Now THIS is moe like it, THIS feels like I'm a kid reading a comic book again.  The shared universe stuff, the high concept stuff... totally feels like an issue 1.  The spaceship stuff is also making me feel like a kid watching Star Trek and so on, so... yeah, this is totally a show made for me.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 21, 2016, 07:54:40 pm
Attack On Titan (live action) 4 stars

https://youtu.be/InF16sp7J0M

Not a fan of anime, but I have been aware of this super popular series. So I was interested in a live version.
These (Act I and II) flicks appeared on my libraries queue. Just watched the first one. To say Asian flicks can be weird, is an understatement. The fantasy/sci-fi/horror genre, is old school for me. It's been a long time since I've seen a flick like this. Uber strange, but very entertaining. Rotten tomatoes reviews is slamming them hard. I guess they are being compared to the anime/manga. I don't know. I found the production high, the characters engaging... mix in high action and rather gory and graphic... and 90 minutes flew by.

Waiting on the 2nd one.

Maybe I'll see if the library has the series.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 21, 2016, 09:59:31 pm
I tried to watch the series and I couldn't get into it, the art style was just os grotesque.  And I'm not even talking about the monsters, I'm talking about the human characters!  They look real freaky!

It's an interesting twist on the kaiju series concept, replacing monsters with just giant naked human beings... makes it very distinctive.  And evidently it's inspired by a painting by Goya:

(http://i.stack.imgur.com/58vDg.jpg)

I think I'll be interested in checking out the movie.  I've been sitting on the sequel to the live-action version of Gantz, another series I couldn't get into... though I still haven't seen the FIRST live-action movie.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 22, 2016, 12:20:54 pm
Ok, this is weird you mention Goya.

Just this past weekend, I got in on the middle of Why Horror? on Showtime. I've only seen the middle portion. But they brought up Goya and few other early depictions of horror artists. Because before movies, there were pictures.
Pretty decent documentary actually. They/he gets into the science, psychology, physiology of people 'entertained' by horror. I don't feel so weird anymore.
Ah hell, I never did. I knew most of this stuff.

https://youtu.be/XzEzcjETxws
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on November 22, 2016, 12:26:04 pm
Quote
I tried to watch the series and I couldn't get into it, the art style was just os grotesque.  And I'm not even talking about the monsters, I'm talking about the human characters!  They look real freaky!

Well the live action sounds like it follow the series or graphic novels. Those giants came in all different sizes, human like, freaky human like, etc. Very gore filled and gross
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 02, 2016, 05:00:00 pm
Hillary's America: The Secret History of the Democratic Party (2016)

I'm all for bashing Hillary as she deserves everything that comes her way. But this movie really isn't that good. Feels very amateurish and poorly constructed. Granted, there are a couple of spots that were genuinely funny....but that doesn't make a movie good in my eyes. I give this one 2 Stars. Skip.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 04, 2016, 05:58:17 pm
Zootopia (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/zootopia-(2016)/msg39631/#msg39631)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 05, 2016, 05:47:27 pm
Nerve (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/nerve-(2016)/msg39634/#msg39634)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 07, 2016, 12:54:02 am
Finally had time to catch up on some movies.

I saw Pete's Dragon and The Jungle Book, both very well made remakes of movies I dug as a kid (the original Jungle Book is one of my faves).  I don't have much to say about them outside that I liked them, and I'm quite looking forward to the sequel to Jungle Book, the plot points from the original movie kept making me think of the original, to it's detriment.  I want to see what those characters could do without needing to hit those old story point (Kaa, for example, is only in one scene, and that's only because he/she was in the original movie).

But the movie I just watched that I can make more comments on: Yoga Hosers.

I didn't hate it.  I totally get the appeal of the characters and the cartoonish world they inhabit, but I didn't feel like the rest of the movie lived up to that standard.  if it had, I think it could have really been something.

A big issue with the movie is that outside of the Colleens and Guy LaPointe, there aren't any characters who last throughout the movie.  It's almost like a road movie, but with only a few locations.  I won't even fault Kev Smith for putting his friends in the movie, he always does that, but there's no consistent villain throughout the piece, the Bratzis don't count as villains, really.  They needed a human person constantly causing them issues.  Tony Hale's awful girlfriend could have been this, but it doesn't go anywhere.

I think that issue is connected to the other issue: the story.  The movie feels like a mash-up of two movies, when I think it could have just been the "Gremlins" style story and have been stronger for it.  The whole idea of the girls wanting to go to a Grade 12 party, or deciding to have the party at the Eh-2-Zed, and the monsters attacking it, would have been enough.  It feels really weird that it doesn't happen that way.  I get that maybe he didn't want the structure to feel predictable (a trap I fall into all the time, avoiding the predictable and making things messy), but it gets away from simple, clear character goals.

Oh, and there was something that kept bugging me throughout the movie and I couldn't put my finger on it: it was that Lily Rose Depp looks a lot like Annasophia Robb.  Like, a lot.  It was rather weird.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 08, 2016, 08:39:26 am
Batman: The Killing Joke (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/batman-the-killing-joke-(2016)/msg39655/#msg39655)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 08, 2016, 10:23:25 pm
Ages ago, I added "Bounty Killer" to my Netflix queue, and since it expires in about a week, I decided to watch it.

I wasn't expecting too much, and to be honest, I don't know how "much it is, and I guess I was in the right mood for it, but I was pleasantly surprised.

I was basically trying to be a Mad Max western, which itself is cool (and this was before Fury Road came out, so you can't really compare it to that) and it had your typical B-movie premise of bounty hunters going after white collar criminals who f*cked up the world economy and destroyed the world.  I was expecting to take my headphones off halfway through, but I enjoyed it...

ESPECIALLY the deaths.  Holy cow, watch this movie JUST for the deaths.  Insane, awesome bloody gags.  Someone seriously needs to make a supercut of them.  And that climactic battle... honestly wasn't expecting that, very different visually from anything I'd seen before or had been expecting from a movie like this... see it for that.  But it makes me wish that the movie had been more clever, you know? Just a little more.  I honestly felt that, with a  little more, it could be a real undiscovered gem.  But for now, it's a total parts movie.

I can't say I recommend it or not, but... if it sounds interesting, check it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 09, 2016, 03:14:00 am
It expired... can't find it.  :-\
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 10, 2016, 08:09:28 am
Day Of The Triffids (2009 TV series)

The series is a long movie split into part 1 & 2.

As a kid, I loved the 1961 movie, based on John Wyndam's novel. It holds up surprising well.

I heard about British TV version, trying to get it from my library, to no avail. It suddenly pops up on Netflix. I loved the take on this version. They updated the story to current times and expanded several characters. It occurred to me, DOTT, is very much like the Walking Dead. Mash-up some Alien, and you have some pretty interesting story telling. Again, it appears some humans can be more monster, than the monsters.

Great cast with Eddie Izzard, becoming The Evil Bad Guy. It moves along quite nice and they did a decent job of showing Triffids.

This could easily be made into long series like the walking dead.

https://youtu.be/7FtGLdBtwzI
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 10, 2016, 08:49:48 pm
Ghostbusters (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ghostbusters-(2016)/msg39670/#msg39670)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 11, 2016, 03:18:22 pm
Mechanic: Resurrection
3 Stars

https://youtu.be/G-P3f_wDXvs

Really should be 2 stars. While the first remake was reasonable, though still inferior to the original, no one was screaming for a sequel. How and why this got green lit is a head scratcher. It's a cookie cutter by the numbers action flick, completely devoid of the soul of The Mechanic premise.

Jessica Alba is absolutely horrible in this. They padded this movie with a lame attempt at some kind of personal relationship, which never displayed any kind of chemistry.

Watch it with zero expectations.

I will say the locations are exotic and easy on the eyes. Though some are obviously fake
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 13, 2016, 03:31:57 pm
A Christmas Horror Story (3 Stars) (Netflix)

A anthology of 4 stories horribly edited together. I say horribly, because when one of the story lines builds steam, you're suddenly thrown into the next story and this editing style cycles through the whole flix. It's produced pretty well. Some stories are stronger than others. The one with Santa Clause and zombie elves is off the goofy-crap-O-meter, unless you like that kind of thing. William Shatner is thrown in to 'loosely' tie things together. It revolves around the key figure Krampus, which by the way is another film and far more entertaining.

Slightly recommend.

https://youtu.be/7Z3ybMTpqFw
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 13, 2016, 03:38:41 pm
Bad Moms (5 Stars)

https://youtu.be/IHBLbGvwO6I

I loved Bad Moms. I laughed out loud a lot. It's right in line with 40 Year Old Virgin and Bridesmaids. It's just full of small quips that totally unexpected. My sides were hurting with the uncircumcised discussion. Highly recommend. Very R-rated, as it should be.

All the characters made me laugh, but Kathryn Hahn's character just nails it every time.

https://youtu.be/ZoBXTcatYhM
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 14, 2016, 07:30:51 am
Star Trek Beyond (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-trek-beyond-(2016)/msg39693/#msg39693)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 15, 2016, 02:35:02 pm
Don't Breathe 3 Stars

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=76yBTNDB6vU

Hype and marketing on this was pretty heavy. It looked like it maybe rather a fun tense thriller. There are elements of intensity, but overall its fairly predictable. Well made with good intentions, but not great. There is a interesting twist in the middle that changes things.

In fact I would recommend Hush, which is way more intelligent and absorbing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 16, 2016, 02:54:06 pm
Spectral (Netflix) 5 Stars

https://youtu.be/rmC3ZhIHHi4

Just arriving on Netflix a few days ago, I decided to check Spectral out. I've got a freakin cold, stayed home from work on one of the worst weather days.

Spectral is so well done. Mashup Final Fanrasy:Spirits Within, Aliens And it has a the look of Enemy At The Gates. The visuals are superb. The story is mostly solid, though I still don't quite understand how the compensates were created. Pretty interesting science behind it as well.

 Anyway, I highly recommend this sci-fi flick. Netflick created yet another great film.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 16, 2016, 06:56:41 pm
Michael Jackson Journey Showtime

https://youtu.be/Dtm0Rfo4kEM

A documentary chronicling Michael Jackson's beginning with the Jackson Five through winding down with a great deal time examining Michaels first solo album Off the Wall. They dissect each song off this album, its construction, sound and impact. With just a touch of discussion with Thriller.

It's put together by a ton of folks involved with Michaels life or even people hevely affected musically by him. On occasion Michael or his words are interjected.

I enjoyed it because of Michael the artist... period.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 16, 2016, 07:13:06 pm
Watched this a while back and enjoyed it. I reviewed it, but can't find it anywhere on here.  ???
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 21, 2016, 09:04:27 pm
Game of Thrones (Season 6 - 2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/game-of-thrones-(season-6-2016)/msg39745/#msg39745)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 21, 2016, 11:03:38 pm
I still haven't gotten around to watching this, even though I've had the blu-rays for a couple weeks now.

I DID watch season 2 of Man In The High Castle... I still don't know what I think of the show, because I don't like Juliana or Frank, but I do love Smith and Togomi... and the alternate history stuff is fascinating to me.  Season two is all about the future, what's going to happen to the first generation born as Nazis, especially in regards to Thomas.  I thought it was pretty interesting that the German Nazi children had their own version of open-minded drug-assisted hippie-ism, and that while our universe was having the Cuban Missile Crisis, their universe had their own version with the Japanese trying to sneak a nuclear bomb into The Reich.

And I really want to know Smith's backstory, how he went from an American soldier to the head of the American SS.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 23, 2016, 08:57:48 am
Get A Job 2 Stars

https://youtu.be/eXmOmdzsQVs

We saw this trailer recently on a DVD, it looked cute... it looks cute... right?

Great cast.... check. Story... blah

Watching the trailer, I'm thinking they created another movie about lazy millennials. Funny moments I could laugh at.

I had never heard of this movie. It was easily available. The trailers before the movie all really sucked... not good signs.

It took about 15 minutes to figure out the trailer showed all the good parts and story just plain sucked. All the dialog and side stories between the good moments just sounded bad. 45 minutes into we stopped. We just watched mis-aligned stereotypical millennials who just did not get the real world. we just got bored way to early. I would hope the movie made a turn, but I just didn't care.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 23, 2016, 09:11:59 am
Sully  2 Stars

https://youtu.be/mjKEXxO2KNE

I'll be honest, I got this for my wife. I had little interest in seeing Sully.

Sully is perfect in recreating the events to the plane 'landing' in the Hudson River. Stitching before, present and after events that led up to the disaster. Problem is, it was only a plane disaster. No one killed, because pilot Sully perfectly landed the plane on a river. Very little action. The movie transitions from being a hero, to the airline company and insurance companies focus on Sully's decision, thus wrecking a plane.

They get into some engineering details that will bore the hell out of anyone. They try to balance the story of a reserved man that doesn't understand the attacks from different folks. This is just a drama movie, yes with good acting, but about something that just was not much.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 23, 2016, 08:11:54 pm
I thin "Get A Job" was made, like, two years ago.  It's been sat on all that time.  There are movies like that which never even get released.  More than we think.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 24, 2016, 04:17:12 am
Yea, I've read a the occasional story of movies like that.

Our local on-air movie critic would talk about those. He would also give a heads up of movies that would not allow pre-screening of certain films for movie critics. His take, the movie was probably going to turn out bad, because the movie studio knew they had a dud. Hopefully not allowing bad reviews buzz not take hold until they got some of their money.

On a completely different tangent, I just read Passengers (out now), took 10 years to get the screen. I think there's a whole book on telling those movie stories.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2016, 09:18:22 pm
The Shallows (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-shallows-(2016)-3412/msg39778/#msg39778)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 26, 2016, 02:43:42 pm
The Magnificent Seven 2 Stars

https://youtu.be/deSRpSn8Pyk

I admittedly am not a fan of the western film. There are some exceptions. after a couple of decades, I recently revisited the original. Loved it. I was not sure about this remake. Was it necessary?

I enjoyed the reimagining of some characters like Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt.

Beyond that, my questioning the remake was realized. This version is very forgettable. It's a predictable movie focusing on action over character. The 3rd act is just hailstorm of shooting.

Back to old school for me and suggest skipping this and pick up the original. It is way more fun and engaging.

https://youtu.be/bG-ZxrG7htU



https://youtu.be/G-MVReDrRwo
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 26, 2016, 07:57:33 pm
Cold In July 5 stars Netflix

https://youtu.be/UO63ccU6ce0

Just browsing around Netflix looking for 4 or 5 star movies we found this thriller Cold in July.

It is excellent. What starts out as pretty stand home invasion slowly evolves into a complicated story of corruption from police, Irish Mafia and old friends who wound up on opposite sides of the law.

Highly recommend.

Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 27, 2016, 07:57:15 pm
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens-(2015)/msg39795/#msg39795)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on December 29, 2016, 07:31:06 pm
I.T. 4 stars. (Netflix)

https://youtu.be/hfnDTvbtDUI

I.T. Just came to Netflix at the same time the library got this.

I was rather impressed how timely this is. Written like it was today, dealing with a psycho invading the lives of a wealthy executive and hi family through his smart home, social media and surprisingly his car. Pierce Brosnan is excellent and acting and reacting in ways I would expect. Taut thriller that keeps things moving.

Highly recommend.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 29, 2016, 09:36:07 pm
Good to know.  Once I burn through my expiring titles, I'll check it out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 01, 2017, 01:30:28 pm
Kubo and the Two Strings (5 stars)

https://youtu.be/p4-6qJzeb3A

I loved Kubo. It's a throwback to story telling the Disney way. It's for family and there are a ton of teaching moments. Not over the head stuff, but just great ways to present life lessons.

Naturally the graphics and stop motion animation are fantastic.

Highly, highly recommend this one.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 01, 2017, 01:45:34 pm
Devil's Knot 3 stars

https://youtu.be/lLG_RokHHRI

I've started this one before and needed it early. This time, for New Years Eve, we settled in and put it on again to watch the whole thing. My wife promptly fell asleep early and wound up riding out. Based on the true story of the West Memphis Three, this was recreation of the event and the trials following. Good cast, edited well and gave what I guess is a good sense of the times and what people did and thought. Mostly it's getting in deep of the various factions investigating the case. Reminiscent of Making a Murderer

Spoiler (hover to show)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 03, 2017, 07:46:44 pm
Search Party 4 Stars

https://youtu.be/MhAwUeNYqd4

I'm torn... Search Party is one of the most unpredictable movies in some time. I can't even imagine pitching this film. So that's part of the charm of this over the top buddy road trip.

In the vein of The Hangover, which I didn't care for, Search Party made me LOL a number of times.

I think you really need to be in the mood for a silly film like this or it's just becomes a stupid film. T.J. Miller had the best quips and he's just goofy to look at
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 05, 2017, 02:50:51 pm
The Nice Guys (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-nice-guys-(2016)/msg39851/#msg39851)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 07, 2017, 06:37:24 am
Cabin Fever (2016) (-10 Stars, they owe me for taking some of my time. Can I get some money back?)

https://youtu.be/scJIYwH6keM

Yep, that says 2016. A shot for shot remake of the 2002 Eli Roth original. Roth's is not great, but not bad. I was flipping through the channels and ran across this thinking it was the original.

I spent a total of 5 minutes with this. That's all it took to see how bad it is or wasting my time with a repeat of a sub-par b-movie.

I don't understand either the exact remake or remake of something not that old. What are people, studios, directors thinking when going down this path?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2017, 03:39:24 pm
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/neighbors-2-sorority-rising-(2016)/msg39874/#msg39874)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 07, 2017, 10:25:32 pm
Sausage Party (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/sausage-party-(2016)/msg39878/#msg39878)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 07, 2017, 11:08:13 pm
(https://ewedit.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/maximum-ride-02.jpg?w=612&h=612)

Maximum Ride.

This movie sucks.  This movie sucks sucks sucks.  It's based on a book by James Patterson, who also sucks. Sucks sucks sucks.  The movie is made by a company I've never heard of,  by writers and directors I'd never heard of, and stars actors I'd never heard of (though I can't blame them for that).

The movie is 83 minutes long, and nothing interesting happens.  Interesting things THREATEN to happen, sure.  But they don't.  There's moments for banter.  There's no banter.  There's moments for action scenes.  There aren't REALLY any action scenes, more like action suggestions.  There's moments where you expect characters to let out cliched, tripe platitudes and attitudes, be moody arrogant teenagers who say the things other moody arrogant teenagers say.  But they don't.

This is the laziest YA movie I've ever seen.  It's not infuriating or arbitrary like the Divergent series, which can at least keep my attention by p*ssing me off by being frustratingly stupid.  It's just BORING.

So the movie is about these five sexy-ish teenagers who can fly.  And some have other powers.  And they've been hunted by the organization that made them, and when one of them is kidnapped, they go to rescue her.  Well, they INTEND to rescue her, but a lot of that involves them sulking around a cabin.  They're also being hunted by a maybe-wereworlf, I'm not sure.

The kids are cute, Angel and Gazzy and Nudge.  So naturally they're not in much of the movie.  And they certainly don't do anything interesting.  There could have been a fun B-plot of the kids trying to hide out in a regular school, trying to pass off as regular kids and shenanigans ensue, and maybe they do a Home Alone thing when the gov't agents come after them, that could be cute.  Nothing like that happens.

Bland boy man and not Jennifer Lawrence are on the actual mission, and stop to save a girl from an assault and not Jennifer Lawrence is shot.  Okay, THAT could be interesting if she died, no one would see that coming.  But she's taken care of by the victim and her mom, who's a doctor, who patch her up and get a clue into what she really is.  And then they're gone, we never see them again.  What the f*ck was the point of that?  For THAT, they could have had the mother/daughter team up with them, teach them how to be a family and sh*t like that, maybe there's other kids they have to rescue and the doctor mom agrees to take care of them.. something like that.

No, the plot is by the book and boring and not surprising in a way that's weak sauce even for a predictable dumb YA movie.  I never would have known that this was a movie if it hadn't been on Netflix.

Quite honestly, what this movie needed was Cro and Servo in the corner.  I kept thinkingI would see them.



Right now, I'm watching...

(http://www.latina.com/sites/default/files/styles/main-image-article/public/eugenio-derbez-loreto-paralta-instructions-not-included-0115-main.jpg?itok=V1SSDQjA)

Instructions Not Included.

Oh my god, this movie is SO cute!  It's bilingual, so even if you have the captions on you need to listen to it.

The movie involves a lothario slacker who one day gets a daughter dumped off on him by a former lover.  At first he becomes determined to take her back, but is soon heads over heels for her.  The two together is worth watching just by itself, but it's also very touching and sweet and emotional.  This was a HUGE success, and quite honestly if I had known what it would be like, I would have jumped on it much earlier.

I'm not done yet, but I know I'll be watching this again.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 08, 2017, 07:35:11 pm
The Legend of Tarzan (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-legend-of-tarzan-(2016)/msg39890/#msg39890)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 15, 2017, 01:15:06 pm
Deepwater Horizon (5 Stars)

https://youtu.be/S-UPJyEHmM0

Man, I loved this movie. Based on true events, this was just a riveting film. Several times my jaw just dropped. The story, acting, editing and pace built up like a runaway train. The visuals were truly stunning. They did not spare BP either. They made it quit clear about who was responsible.

Mark Wahlberg and Kurt Russell were solid as were the rest of the crew of the drill rig.

Note: the end credits might **** you off to know the BP guys getting off from charges and one even continues to work there.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 15, 2017, 01:20:06 pm
Secret Life of Pets (4 stars)

https://youtu.be/UZJVc_JTI_w

Well, it's only inevitable a movie like Secret Life of Pets gets made. And only in it's animated way to give the pets all very distinctive characters. I really enjoyed this flick. It's standard now to just have the best quality from Disney and Pixar... right?

I LOL quite a bit. Saw a lot of my pets in this movie. Saw a lot of other peoples pets as well. In typical fashion, there's plenty of action to spice it up and some fast quips to entertain the adults. Check it out... it's fun
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 16, 2017, 10:31:43 pm
(http://mac.h-cdn.co/assets/16/11/640x320/landscape-1458234644-gallery-1458167637-thewitch-r2-2101.jpg)

The VVitch

This movie was amazing.  Oh man, I'd been sitting on this for a while and I knew it would be good, but it was just dynamite.  And it seems like so long since I put on a movie just to watch a movie, without taking notes or disassembling it or anything.  Felt like a special occasion, you know?

I won't spoil anything because it's worth seeing blind, but it actually reminded me of The Shining, a family in isolation slowly going insane together, the frustrated father who can't do anything, the weird madness that's just outside the periphery... to say nothing of the incredible lighting ,cinematography, editing... it was a slow, compelling burn.  And that ending?  Wow.  Wow wow wow.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 17, 2017, 10:52:18 pm
Black Sails (Season 3 - 2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/black-sails-(season-3-2016)/msg39934/#msg39934)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 18, 2017, 07:42:41 pm
Warcraft: The Beginning (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/warcraft-the-beginning-(2016)/msg39938/#msg39938)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 18, 2017, 09:51:46 pm
Did I talk about The Heartbreak Kid from 2007?  It's okay, not great, a couple laughs but worth seeing just for Malin Akerman.  A) she's hilarious and b) she has surprisingly racy sex scenes in it.  Naked, dirty talking, thought you might appreciate.  I have no idea if I'd watch it again, but I thought she was pretty bold in it, left nothing in the tank.

Other than that, I've been going through my backlog of foreign films on Netflix while listening to episodes of Dinner For Five on Youtube.  Multi-screens, people!  I'm in the hive!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 22, 2017, 07:49:47 pm
Cheap Thrills 4 stars

https://youtu.be/cNedTBz-OGQ

I don't know what I was expecting, but it sure wasn't what I watched. Starts off innocent enough and slowly boils to cringe inducing new directions.

13 Sins is a similar concept where each successive challenge is ramped up. Cheap Thrills becomes psychological real quick. What would you do?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 22, 2017, 08:00:10 pm
Keeping Up With Jonses minus zero star

Wow, what crap. This was easy to recognize as complete garbage. I turned it off in less than 15 minutes. Starring Zach Galifianakis, Jon Hamm, Isla Fisher and Gal Gadot. All trying to be funny.

I don't like Zach Galifianakis. I never found him funny and what I've seen, he only plays the one bizarre character from The Hangover.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 22, 2017, 08:24:30 pm
I saw this on display at the store and had completely forgotten it was a thing.  I'm not surprised it was terribly, wasn't it also held back?  Feels like a movie that might have been held back.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on January 23, 2017, 03:38:55 am
Not sure about that. I read a critics review, trying to be kind, by saying this might play out better when it gets to the the TV. I understand the thought, but don't think about that much anymore.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 24, 2017, 09:05:26 pm
Kick-Ass (2010) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kick-ass-(2010)/msg39972/#msg39972)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 25, 2017, 06:45:54 pm
Kick-Ass 2 (2013) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kick-ass-2-(2013)/msg39978/#msg39978)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2017, 10:31:17 pm
Dredd (2012) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dredd-(2012)-3435/msg39983/#msg39983)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2017, 10:56:29 pm
House of Lies (Season 5 - 2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/house-of-lies-(season-5-2016)/msg40013/#msg40013)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 01, 2017, 08:44:14 pm
We're the Millers (2013) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/we're-the-millers-(2013)/msg40018/#msg40018)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 02, 2017, 07:58:09 pm
Train To Busan

https://youtu.be/pyWuHv2-Abk


Out of the blue, Train popped in the queue. I was pleasantly surprised at how well I liked it. Essentially it's World War Z... on a train. Good story, decent CGI and paced well. Some of the more scary and vicious zombies I've seen in awhile.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 04, 2017, 06:59:31 pm
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back 2 Stars

https://youtu.be/ZlfmmiD62fo

Wow... just mediocre at best. Every scene is cookie cutter and we've seen a million times before. Devoid of interest. Cruise needs to drop this series. The first was ok, this just totally wasted my time.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on February 04, 2017, 07:03:40 pm
Part of me is disappointed that it's not "Never Reach Back."  Every title should have the word reach in there.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 04, 2017, 09:45:39 pm
The Magnificent Seven (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-magnificent-seven-(2016)/msg40042/#msg40042)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 06, 2017, 08:16:26 pm
Meskada 3 stars

https://youtu.be/ZRHovcAkNh8

3 stars for 90% of a pretty decent low budget FBI investigation of a child mistakenly killed over a simple robbery in another town.

The ending reallllllllly sucked.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 08, 2017, 07:00:42 pm
Matchstick Men 3 Stars

https://youtu.be/zDoOdd00nHM

I've heard about this film and that's about my extent of my interest.  With absolutely nothing on, we just put this on and rolled the dice. My first surprise was to see Ridley Scott directing. I've liked Sam Rockwell and he didn't disappoint. Nicolas Cage, meh, he's a little better than usual. I guess I rather liked it because of it's unpredictability. It did go on a little long, but overall a solid entertaining film.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 08, 2017, 07:14:04 pm
Desierto 2 Stars

https://youtu.be/VEt8Mhya3vI

I've seen trailers way back for this, eventually giving up on it. Then it pops up at the library and I'm surprised... it's far less than I was expecting. It doesn't get any more simplistic. A lone Rogue, yet psychotic gunman, hunts illegals crossing the border. Very little dialog, with nothing but cat and mouse survival. It gets pretty repetitive. You also know how it's going to play out. Very little surprises.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on February 14, 2017, 06:14:53 pm
The Girl On The Train   (0 Stars)

Good lord... an incredibly dull Lifetime wannabe flick. It starts off slow and just never does anything of interest.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on February 16, 2017, 05:36:41 pm
While I saw it in the movie theater, I thought I should mention that I saw THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE the other day (I took my mom for Valentine's Day b/c that's what she likes to do).  It was adorably awesome, but it struck me later that it connected to two other Batman movies I saw.

First, the whole plot with forming the bat-family reminded me of "Batman Bad Blood," which was about Batman disappearing and Dick Grayson temporarily taking over the mantle with Damien serving as his Robin.  they introduced Batwing and there was a lesbian Batgirl/woman (I can't remember), so... yeah, similar but different.  And I now realized how much better that movie would have been if they had **** a couple jokes.

The second one I just happened to get the disc of in the mail when I got home from the movie: Return Of The Caped Crusaders, an animated throwback to the 66 Batman series (although it doesnt' take near enough advantage that the Batman '66 comic series did.  I would have loved to have heard Adam West mention "that immortal assassin Ra's Al Ghul and his sinister League of Shadows!").  Lego Batman brought back a ton of obscure villains (like Clock King, King Tut, Calender Man, and Vincent Price's Eggman) and all of them were in ROTCC too!  They found some cute things to do, but it felt like... it could have been a LOT more fun.  It was offbeat and weird, though.

The issue I have with all of those direct to DVD DC films is that they're just so flat to me... the animation is so stiff, the scripts aren't that detailed... it always bugged me, but after LEGO BATMAN you realize that these should be the definitive Batman movies and aren't.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 18, 2017, 09:54:39 am
Ash vs Evil Dead (Season 1 - 2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ash-vs-evil-dead-(season-1-2015)/msg40086/#msg40086)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2017, 11:22:12 am
Purple Rain (1984) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/purple-rain-(1984)/msg40124/#msg40124)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 25, 2017, 07:11:50 am
Ben-Hur (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ben-hur-(2016)/msg40127/#msg40127)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2017, 05:31:29 pm
Finding Dory (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/finding-dory-(2016)/msg40145/#msg40145)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Mac on March 06, 2017, 06:56:19 pm
Allied (1 Star)

Manchester by the Sea (1 less star)

I'm not going to waste time typing about two movies that thoroughly bored me in different ways. I had hopes for Allied, but it was just a slow moving, silly attempt at Casablanca wannabe?

Manchester by the Sea, I seriously tilted my head, because I couldn't believe how bad it was. I loves me some Casey Affleck, but wow, not only did I think he was bad with his lines, but his character had zero interest for me. Just a lot of depressing sad looks. I quit after 30 minutes.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 06, 2017, 10:41:03 pm
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back(2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/jack-reacher-never-go-back-(2016)/msg40163/#msg40163)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 10, 2017, 06:35:53 pm
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/keeping-up-with-the-joneses-(2016)/msg40172/#msg40172)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 11, 2017, 07:18:08 pm
Mechanic: Resurrection (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/mechanic-resurrection-(2016)/msg40181/#msg40181)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 13, 2017, 07:26:04 pm
Suicide Squad (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/suicide-squad-(2016)-3458/msg40186/#msg40186)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 17, 2017, 07:19:01 pm
Bad Moms (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/bad-moms-(2016)/msg40193/#msg40193)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on March 17, 2017, 10:09:29 pm
Oh man, I made the mistake of checking in on the Power Rangers on Twitch marathon, and I wound up coming across the episode "Trouble By The Slice."   The one where the Rangers get baked into a pizza and the Red Ranger threatens to toss your salad! (https://clips.twitch.tv/DrabEvilDogeHoneyBadger).

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C7LqZVCVsAAOhkm.jpg)

This is the zaniest, weirdest, goofiest iteration of the show I can remember and I've been hooked all evening.  Not just the silliness, but you know I'm a HUGE fan of all the old school effects, there's weird composite shots and model shots and hand-drawn animation, weird robot and creature designs... there's a shot where we see a real car roll down the highway, then a whip pan hides a transition to a toy car shot on a model street looking up at the robot fight, there's a stage shot of a fight that we pull out from and it's happening on the robot while the city is in flames... mooks throw up grappling hooks to climb the robot and in the next shot it's tiny little army figures painted weird colours hanging on fishing wire off the robot suit... I love that sh*t.

(Watching it in the living room was fine, up close in my room, the interlacing is f*cking killing me)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 28, 2017, 04:12:39 pm
Bad Santa 2 (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/bad-santa-2-(2016)/msg40215/#msg40215)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2017, 02:12:07 pm
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/manchester-by-the-sea-(2016)/msg40221/#msg40221)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 05, 2017, 10:52:13 am
Max Steel (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/max-steel-(2016)/msg40226/#msg40226)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2017, 10:05:14 am
Hacksaw Ridge (2016) 
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/hacksaw-ridge-(2016)/msg40235/#msg40235)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 10, 2017, 08:54:17 pm
I could spiel about my issues with Crusade, which I finally saw, but... I'm not in the mood to.

Last night, I checked out the "private detective" season of Archer.  I swear, every time I forget how funny the show is, and I wind up bent over laughing my butt off.  Having Patton Oswalt, JK Simmons and Keegan Michael Key as recurring characters was a great treat.

Right now, I'm watching the second season of Documentary Now!  All I need to say: Bill Hader as Spaulding Grey.  Dang.

Edit: Oh my god, there's an episode where they're The Talking Heads.  Amazing.  Here they are on Seth Meyers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcLDzcmkSqI

Edit again: OH MY GOD it gets BETTER!  Fred Armisen as David Byrne as TOM WAITS!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 12, 2017, 06:05:54 pm
War Dogs (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/war-dogs-(2016)/msg40252/#msg40252)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 16, 2017, 09:42:11 am
The Jungle Book (2016)  (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-jungle-book-(2016)/msg40268/#msg40268)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 16, 2017, 10:45:25 pm
So, I have a pile of movies I SHOULD be watching but for the last few days it's been TV shows (since so many are dropping on Netflix at the same time) and the new MST3K.

I did manage to take a little break to try and watch "Dad's Army," which is surprisingly/unsurprisingly boring.  It's baed on an old famous British sitcom about the old farts left behind to keep Britain safe from Nazi invasion.  And actually, the real ones were pretty bad-@ss.  If England fell, they would have been the Maquis, the resistance, and they were ready.  But that never happened, so instead our memory of them is fuddy duddies pretending to be at war, which is what this movie feels like.  Which would be fine if it was funny, but... it's not.

It's got Bill Nighy and Toby Jones, which is the main reason I picked this up, but they feel wasted.  There just aren't enough jokes.

I don't know what I was expecting, but you know what I could have gone for?  An old fogey version of Stripes.  That would have been fun.  Then I remembered "oh yeah, just about everyone from Stripes is dead.  That's depressing."  But something like that, real screwball and slapstick, politically incorrect, ribald to a certain extent (one of them SHOULD be a dirty old man, hitting on the teenage girls working as medics and so on)... PERSONALITY, you know?  That's what's seriously lacking from this movie.

On top of that, Britain does WWII a lot.  A LOT.  And it gets exhausting.  But as the generation who fought fascism and created the welfare state die off, that stuff starts to be taken for granted.  So there's a real opportunity to explore that, how bad things were, how everyone fought to save the world, make it a better place and so on, and if we can laugh while we do it, that'd be great.

I'm about halfway done with it, I'm going to let it simmer in my mind and see if I can come up with some interesting ways to play with it, something to mash it up with... maybe it'll spark an idea.  You know I can't just let a bad movie be.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 17, 2017, 06:18:56 am
My backlog is starting to pile up as well. I may have to start dropping stuff that I watch live and just wait for the eventual DVDs to better manage this stuff. It gets complicated juggling Live TV and DVDs. Sigh.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 18, 2017, 07:34:44 pm
Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-iv-a-new-hope-(1977)/msg40279/#msg40279)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 19, 2017, 07:19:48 pm
Star Wars: Rogue One (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-rogue-one-(2016)/msg40283/#msg40283)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 22, 2017, 12:07:48 am
You guys know that I try to hit up the local film festival every year... well, this year it's a no go.  And I was fine with it until I saw the list of movies (yeah, they're showing The Void.  How can I miss that?), it just made me wistful.

One big reason is that I'm working a lot (a lot) and I've got a proper holiday coming up, so I can't really justify taking a week off (or on-and-off) to live in the movie theater.  Plus, the schedule doesn't come out early enough for me to clear out single days for single programs.

But the other big reason is that they changed the venue.  For many years past, I could just drive five minutes out of my way and get there, no problem.  But because the theater is being renovated, they moved the festival 20-30 minutes away to a different theater with zero bars or restaurants around.  It's a terrible location, so here's hoping they move back next year.

While I'm sure that the big titles will get some kind of release, it's missing the short programmes that really bums me out.  They're always weird and different, and there's always a ton of crew and creatives there to talk to.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2017, 05:13:56 pm
Passengers (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/passengers-(2016)/msg40307/#msg40307)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 29, 2017, 05:25:48 pm
Semi-Pro (2008) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/semi-pro-(2008)/msg40310/#msg40310)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2017, 01:40:24 am
(https://i1.wp.com/i.imgur.com/LNmhurZ.jpg)

The War Doctor, Vol 3: Agents Of Chasr

Man, after this I only have one more series of War Doctor to go... though I don't think I'll crack into those episodes for another month or so.  After that, no more new John Hurt content.  Which obviously makes me sad, especially since his voice is just so pleasing to the ear (he also gets a classic "Doctor" retort, "I'm in charge." "Keep telling yourself that, in the meantime do as I say!").

I gotta give series three big props for bringing in the Sontarrans.  Not that I'm a massive fan of the Sontarrans, I'm just happy to have villains besides the Daleks in an episode.  I love the Daleks fine but EVERY episode?  I know it's the Time War, but still...

We also got to go to Earth for the first time in the series, which was cool.  Little things like that make this feel a bit more like classic Doctor Who, which I think is important.  The War Doctor is starting to become more like the true doctor, he doesn't retort "don't call me that!" every time, even the way he outsmarts the bad guys feels very proper Doctor compared to how I recall the first two series.

I'm hoping that the final series does something special... the kick of it is that since the War Doctor's story and the time war wrapped up in "The Day Of The Doctor" ... what can you do to give the audience a satisfying conclusion?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 03, 2017, 06:29:28 am
I'm still trying to carve out a good chunk of time so that I can finally sit down and watch the Doctor Who series.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 03, 2017, 09:55:17 am
You know, I found a bunch of reaction videos on Youtube recently of people starting the show for the first time, so you'e not alone.  It is striking though how women and men respond to different things.

The funniest of them though is this one girl, Bianca, she's like an exposed nerve or something, everything makes her cry like a  crazy person, it's kind of amazing.  "Blink" was particularly hilarious, just because all she said was 'b*tch," "Nooooo b*tch," "d@mn b*tch" ... it was like watching Jesse Pinkman was Doctor Who.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 07, 2017, 05:45:02 pm
Doctor Strange (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/doctor-strange-(2016)/msg40323/#msg40323)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 10, 2017, 07:14:42 am
Killing Reagan (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/killing-reagan-(2016)/msg40327/#msg40327)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 16, 2017, 07:30:30 pm
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/deepwater-horizon-(2016)/msg40340/#msg40340)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 18, 2017, 11:12:24 pm
Because it was about to expire off Netflix, I rewatched Before I Disappear which I hadn't seen since it was on the festival circuit.  I know I mentioned it at the time on here, being a fan of the Oscar-winning short film it was based on.

Here's my two fave bits: the "shut the f*ck up!" scene and the dance scene right after it.  Lucky I found those on Youtube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CO4YpdhcDgs

And here's the original scene, with the same actors in the same location doing the same thing to the same song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHFtKYPrE0

(little bit of trivia: that little girl is Dora The Explorer).
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 20, 2017, 06:56:43 am
Gong to put this on my Hold List. Thanks.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 31, 2017, 03:11:14 pm
Mars (TV Series 2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/mars-(tv-series-2016)/msg40375/#msg40375)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2017, 08:14:07 am
Assassin's Creed (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/assassin's-creed-(2016)/msg40378/#msg40378)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 01, 2017, 07:30:45 pm
Daddy's Home (2015)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/daddy's-home-(2015)/msg40382/#msg40382)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 16, 2017, 08:24:21 pm
The Founder.  Finally got around to seeing this and I liked it a lot, particularly the stuff in the first act where they showcase what a game changer the original McDonald's was ("What's this?" "Your food." "I just ordered it." "And now it's ready." "I don't think so.") and how they figured out how to make it work right.  I love that kind of thing.  I'm so happy that Keaton's back, and Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch are perfectly cast as the brothers.

I will say that one annoyance I had was the flick was how many people were introduced with their full name, it was distracting because you know they're all real people.  Just felt a little unndatural.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIZLRnO2hFU

Momma O Papa  yeah, I watched this whole thing on a plane.  No subtitles.  Which probably tells you a lot about me.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jd2mC8ZBm3U

Suddenly Seventeen- A funky Chinese flick, sort of a mix between 13 Going On 30 and The Nutty Professor.  After being dumped by her boyfriend after she proposes to him, she drowns her sorrow in magic chocolate (yeah) and wakes up with her 17 year old mind in her head.  And hysterics ensue.


Oh HELLO! On Broadway

Was very pleasantly surprised to see this pop up on Netflix, because I really wanted to see the show.  Freaking hilarious, and I'm not going to tell you anything about who else was in it or what it was about.  Just go see it.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2017, 05:08:34 am
Totally forgot about The Founder. Need to see if my Library has a copy yet.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 17, 2017, 09:07:19 pm
Jason Bourne (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/jason-bourne-(2016)/msg40467/#msg40467)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 26, 2017, 10:35:02 pm
Office Christmas Party (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/office-christmas-party-(2016)/msg40495/#msg40495)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 29, 2017, 12:46:09 am
Power Rangers 2017.  Very Breakfast Club, to the point where the auditions were literally sides from that movie (and Trini is so Allison).  Chip, you'd probably like this flick on that alone.  But honestly, on the whole it's a watchable movie, far less Chronicle or Transformers than the trailers suggest.  Very much into the drama and emotion of the characters, even if they are vastly different than the originals.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 29, 2017, 05:20:48 am
Even though I have never watched a single Power Rangers episode, I have every intention of checking out the flick. Bonus points for TBC reference.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 29, 2017, 08:48:39 am
I think some of TBC wound up IN the flick by accident, I wont say more.

Not seeing the show probably helps, the attitude/style of the movie is quite different (though not as dark as the promo material suggests).  Just very different, especially Billy.  I did enjoy Bill Hader as Alpha way more than I thought I would.

And it feels like ages since I've seen a blu-ray with this amount of promo material, I gotta give it up for that.  And the cast is adorable behind the scenes, joking and laughing.  I definitely want a sequel (which apparently they are working on, they want to have Lord Zedd and Tommy in it) just to see those actors again.

Side thought, Naomi Scott was in another movie called "Lemonade Mouth" which is somehow MORE Power Rangers than the actual Power Rangers movie.  And follows the same basic premise, a group of ethnically diverse kids from different walks of life end up in detention together and join up to form a team.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 15, 2017, 07:05:31 pm
Arrival (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/arrival-(2016)/msg40547/#msg40547)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 08, 2017, 04:31:04 pm
Patriots Day (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/patriots-day-(2016)/msg40589/#msg40589)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 19, 2017, 08:31:42 pm
Logan (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/logan-(2017)/msg40615/#msg40615)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 24, 2017, 08:58:04 pm
It feels like ages since I sat down and just watched one movie after another movie after another.  And it helps that these aren't parts movies, but still new movies I hadn't seen before.

I finally caught "Passengers" and it was... fine.  Nothing really jumped out at me, even the ship interiors were somehow... if not mundane, I'd seen a lot of that design motif, but I have investigated a lot of futuristic architecture designs and the Avalon interiors fit those established aesthetics quite well.  But nothing struck me as "oh, I never thought of that."  I can forgive that since they had a really small window of time to design everything (odd for a script that's been around for ten years), but at the same time...  And also, the sets were big so there weren't that many of them, so this massive Titanic-in-space spaceship didn't really feel BIG to me.  Maybe I'm a tough audience for that kind of thing now.

Pratt and Lawrence were fine in the flick, but you put those two together, you expect at least the "cut loose and have fun" scenes would be off the wall, but they weren't.  It seemed like their personalities could have come out a bit more.

I kept thinking I liked the script better than the movie, even if I can't remember exactly what was different in the script.

And of course, I kept thinking of "Red Dwarf" the whole way through, what with the one lone man coming out of stasis on a massive starship in the middle of nowhere.  I was trying to think of other "episodes" that might come up after the ending of the movie.

Then I rewatched the old Ghost In The Shell movie from 1995, which I hadn't seen in a long time.  I got the Mondo steelbook with the awesome cover, but I hasn't **** into it before.  What's funny is that seeing it this time, the movie was far more straightforward than I remember.  Sometimes my mind wanders when I watch anime movies.

Now I'm finishing up A Hologram For The King.  Interesting.  Definitely something different than I'd seen before, so worth checking out.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2017, 09:22:10 pm
I put in a hold request for Beauty and the Beast a while back and got the notice today that it was in. Turns out it was some bullsh*t direct-to-dvd version that was piggybacking off of the Emma Watson version....the one I wanted to see. I told them "thanks...but no thanks. No desire to watch some lame version. Keep it".
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 24, 2017, 09:26:50 pm
If it's the French one, that's on my list.  Curious to see that before the Disney version, which I am curious about.

And I totally forgot about The Good Place being on Netflix, starting it now.  Always good to see Chip's wife on telly.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2017, 08:51:57 am
Hahaha.

Amen brother!
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 08, 2017, 05:42:56 am
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kong-skull-island-(2017)/msg40717/#msg40717)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 10, 2017, 06:39:39 pm
The Great Wall (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-great-wall-(2016)/msg40729/#msg40729)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 18, 2017, 06:56:35 pm
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017)  (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/king-arthur-legend-of-the-sword-(2017)-3507/msg40750/#msg40750)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 21, 2017, 06:43:05 pm
John Wick: Chapter 2 (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/john-wick-chapter-2-(2017)/msg40761/#msg40761)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 30, 2017, 06:21:39 pm
Ghost in the Shell (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ghost-in-the-shell-(2017)/msg40784/#msg40784)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 01, 2017, 06:10:31 pm
A Dog's Purpose (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/a-dog's-purpose-(2017)/msg40787/#msg40787)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 14, 2017, 09:57:45 pm
Split (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/split-(2016)/msg40834/#msg40834)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 15, 2017, 11:12:19 am
The Founder (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-founder-(2016)/msg40838/#msg40838)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 22, 2017, 07:51:43 am
All Eyez on Me (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/all-eyez-on-me-(2017)/msg40853/#msg40853)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2017, 05:14:16 pm
Baywatch (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/baywatch-(2017)/msg40861/#msg40861)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 27, 2017, 10:21:53 pm
CHiPs (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/chips-(2017)-3520/msg40868/#msg40868)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on October 31, 2017, 08:43:02 pm
So I finally saw the 1931 Dracula, the classic with Bela Lugosi and it was... ..boring.  I mean, Bela Lagosi was good but and there were a couple interesting visuals, but on the whole, it was just... boring.  It wasn't scary, the cinematography wasn't that dramatic... I know they were still learning the language, but then you compare with the Spanish version on the same disc, shot on the same sets and it's just so much creepier, the photography is more dynamic... it's nuts.  It's a superior remake made at the same time.

So now I'm watching the 1992 Francis Ford Coppola Dracula (which I've seen before) and I dig it so much, it's so nuts, creepy, overdesigned and theatrical, full of practical tricks and constantly messing the the audience's heads (the shadows not matching, Gary Oldman being slid around on a track, etc).  I always thought this was parodying the original but so much of this ISN'T part of the DNA of the original, and I guess I was just disappointed.  Plus Gary Oldman doesn't chew scenery, it devours it like a glutton convinced he's starving.  Plus Keanu Reeves is kind of adorable, Harker's kind of a thankless role but he's so darn likable and "aw shucks" that t makes the part memorable.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 04, 2017, 06:26:54 pm
Aftermath (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/aftermath-(2017)/msg40887/#msg40887)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 08, 2017, 05:43:45 am
Alien: Covenant (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/alien-covenant-(2017)/msg40897/#msg40897)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 10, 2017, 06:09:32 pm
The Huntsman: Winter's War (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-huntsman-winter's-war-(2016)/msg40902/#msg40902)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 11, 2017, 07:32:41 pm
The Fate of the Furious (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-fate-of-the-furious-(2017)/msg40907/#msg40907)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 18, 2017, 11:01:44 pm
Tomorrowland

You know I fancy myself as a bit of a futurist, I love the future, the possibilities of tech and how we can change our society... so it's a strange oversight that I hadn't seen Tomorrowland.  I hadn't heard great things about it so I wasn't dying to see it, but then this scene appeared on TV the other day and needless to say, it caught my attention.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ciAIyzjxi0

That's pretty awesome, right?

I see that, and I want to go there.  I want to know more about that world, I want an adventure there.  I appreciate that they can't show a LOT of that, realistically (and financially), so I know we'll only spend a little time there.  But it'll be worth it, right?

No, not really.  You know what happens when they get there?  Over an hour and change into the movie?

It's empty.

Well, not "empty."  Hugh Laurie, who's criminally underused, and two guards are running the show and do... not much... show us a machine that shows the Earth is going to end.  And there's a fight scene and an explosion and that's kind of it.

And you know what sucks, especially about them turning it into a dystopia?  The movie rails against dystopias earlier, and Britt Robertson has an entire monologue where she complains about how you can't promise something shiny and awesome and not deliver, basically repeating my rant about the movie IN THE MOVIE!

There are SO MANY POSSIBLE IDEAS left on the floor that it's frustrating as all get out.  This is straight up what I call a parts movie, little moments I like, lots of ideas coming to my mind, but a movie I will probably never see again (and thus take twice as long to watch it in order to strip it bare for parts).

The premise is that all the smart people decided to go to another dimension and really explore their futuristic ideas and see if they could really save the world.  It's a bit Bioshock, but whatever.  The premise of the movie is that Jules Verne, Thomas Edison and Tesla were some of the first members of the society (and built a pretty sweet brass rocket to go there), and then at the 1960s World Fair, they recruited a bunch of inventors and forward thinking people and brought them over to Tomorrowland to build and design it.

Either of those ideas sound like an AMAZING movie!  You would watch either of those, right?  60s free-thinkers hanging out with old steampunky inventors debating about what the "future" is?  Or present day dreamers visiting a functioning Jetsons future and figuring out how to save our world?  Or you could explore the idea that utopias and futurism has always had a white ethno-centric bias and foreign cultural voices and ideas need to be explored and brought in (I will give the movie credit for suggesting that in the denouement).

What's really galling about that is that it's Brad Bird directing and co-writing, and Pixar is one of the most enviable think-tanks of the 20th century.  If anyone is qualified to tell a story like that, it's someone who worked in that environment and they barely even TRY.  Just lip service.

You could also have a whole thing about private vs public ownership.  This movie was made in 2015, privatization of space and all these other arenas was definitely happening, there's something in that you could make a movie about!  BTW, Britt Robertson's dad in the movie is an unemployed NASA engineer, who has to be really bad at job hunting because Elon Musk or someone should be able to use those talents.  Heck, I kept thinking "how would Elon Musk fit into the world?"

Also, there's this cool little girl robot with a weird British accent named Athena, I liked her.

George Clooney was good, but he doesn't show up until an hour into the movie.  I forgot he was in the movie until he showed up again.

You know what I want, right?  Something I thought for sure would have been made by now... something I'm trying to write (and to take a line from the movie, "I'm tired of waiting for someone else to make it for me")... remember 2015 from Back To The Future II?  That's what I want.  Just a whole movie, in a place like that.  Not a dystopia, not an action movie, just... I wanna hang out in the future for a while.  Flying cars, robots, hanging gardens, weird clothes etc.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 22, 2017, 09:27:29 pm
After two years of waiting, I finally got to see all of Red Dwarf XII.

(https://www.comedy.co.uk/images/library/comedies/900x450_eps/r/red_dwarf_1205.jpg)

Worth the wait.  "Time Wave" is the only bad episode in the bunch (and it's just REALLY bad), but everything else is solid.  Some of it is straight up classic Dwarf.  I still have an issue with the cinematography and lighting, it's a bit too cinematic and dark for a comedy, and something about the set design makes it look kind of cramped... it's strange.  Every decision makes sense and works, but at the same time... it don't gel, if that makes sense.

I also have to say that the special effects are really solid in this and the last series, the model shots are still on point (although the model itself isn't that highly detailed), the new ships and space stations are ridiculously detailed and snazzily designed.

(http://www.ganymede.tv/wp-content/uploads/cured2.png)

"Cured" has the cast trapped on a remote outpost with clones of Hitler, Vlad The Impaler, and other famous evil characters... who are evidently cured.  It is bizarre, and I feel like they might have been able to play up the Agatha Christie meets The Thing motif they were going for.  It also really made me miss the gross-out monsters that the series used to have.  There were episodes that were straight-up horror, and it felt like this would have been right up that alley.

Also, the backstory given to the base stuck out to me, it feels like the writers (writer, actually) is trying to fill out the missing history of Earth and the universe.  Very odd.  Not complaining, they just do a bit more of that this series than in the previous series.

"Siliconia" is the source of the famous image of the crew as mechanoids:

(http://cdn-static.denofgeek.com/sites/denofgeek/files/styles/article_width/public/2017/07/final_v3a1239.jpg?itok=7BWf4mui)

I'll admit, when I first saw the picture, I was expecting something like "Fear Of A Bot Planet," with the crew in disguise as Mechanoids.  Instead, they're transformed and put through the paces they'd been putting Kryten through over the last 30 years when they're abducted by the Mechanoid Independent Liberation Front (the "MILF").  Mechanoid culture is always interesting when it's explored, but I think there could have been more there.

I also straight up forgot that Chris Barrie is an expert impressionist, so his Mecha-Rimmer quickly adopts Kryten's voice into his own.

"Time Wave" is the odd one out, it feels like a script from a completely different series.  The crew boards a ship from a society where criticism is outlawed.  It feels like some personal (and poorly conceived) tirade against participation trophy culture (which at this point I'm not sure even exists).

What's really galling is that this REALLY undoes something core to the heart of Red Dwarf: the fact that the crew are the last human beings in the universe and come across remnants of human society and the detrius they leave behind: robots, rogue AIs, broken ships, genetically engineered life forms, etc.  They had a bunch of clever ways to bring new characters into the mix, but just having a ship pop through a time hole seems just lazily.

I also didn't care for how flamboyalty effeminate the ship's captain was played as.  Terribly campy in a homophobic way, and it went on for so long.

"Mechocracy." Awesome episode.  After a near-disaster, the vending machines, lifts, and other mechanical elements go on strike when they realize they'd be left behind and demand equal rights and a representative on board.  Realizing what awesome power controlling all the machines on the ship would bring him, Rimmer decides to run for Machine President with Kryten running against him.  And there's a great cameo at the end by the one tie-breaking vote.  What's nice is that it was written and filmed two years ago (seasons 11 and 12 were filmed back to back because it's just so hard to get that cast together), so there's nothing Trump-y or May-y or Brexit-y in there, it's purely about politics without being contemporary politics, which is such a nice change of pace.

Also, Rimmer's brilliant promotion/demotion bit is so classic Dwarf (and he and Kryten look good in suits).

"M-Corp."  Finally installing long needed software updates, Red Dwarf's aegis changes from JMC to M-Corp, the universe's most powerful Apple-esque corporation that puts Lister in a microtransaction-powered nightmare where everything is M-Corp (and the way they show how he can't perceive non M-Corp items, including his friends, is wonderfully low-tech funny).  And another great shout-out to the earlier series with the ending.

"Skipper."  If this winds up being the last episode of the show (unlikely, I believe I heard DaveTV is big on doing series XIII), it's an amazing finale.  They way they demonstrate anti-causality, where you end up doing the opposite of whatever you intend to do, is equally brilliant and hilarious.  This is what Red Dwarf always did best, give us an insane SF premise and explain it using screwball humour.

The second half of the episode has Rimmer using the anti-causality rift to skip from dimension to dimension (hence "Skipper"), hoping to find a universe where he's not such a loser.  What follows is like a live-action version of "Crime And Punishment" from The Simpsons, and an excuse to bring back not just Holly and Captain Hollister, who hadn't been on the show since 1998![/i]. but they also rebuilt sets from the 1980s seasons AND used in HD-ified model footage from the 80s as well.  As a long-time fan, it's pure fan-service but it works perfectly in service of the story.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on November 26, 2017, 10:49:25 am
...where is everyone?

Anyway, you remember that video I posted on the "Hollywood strip scenes" thread with the girls in the jungle?  Well F me because I sat through that whole movie, to steal a line from Nostalgia Critic, "so you don't have to."

(https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTk2NDQ0MzIzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMDcxNTgyNw@@._V1_SX888_CR0,0,888,380_AL_.jpg)

Inara The Jungle Girl (2012)

Look, I knew this movie was going to be garbage, the question was more "is there going to be anything worthwhile in this?"  It's an excuse to have a movie with beautiful women (and they are pretty beautiful) in skimpy leather outfits in the jungle, and it certainly does have that... although they don't show up until 30 minutes into the 80 minute flick.  That's not good.  And they're all shot rather wide.  If you're gonna make this kind of movie, it should be shot more... I don't want to say exploitatively, but get someone who shoots a lot of fashion and glamour.  Think "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue" video with leather loincloths... if you're going for exploitation, go for the gold, you know?

(I should also point out that there's no nudity in the flick either, which... you kind of expect that, right?  At least a minor character undressing to go in the water or something.)

The movie starts with this direct to camera monologue from a soldier we never see again and then cuts to this Ennio Morricone style theme, and I got this sense that they were trying to go in a Quentin Tarantino direction.  Okay, that's cool, that'd be a fun way to go about this.  But here's the problem: the main actress can't act.  At all.  She's basically shouting/asking every single line that she delivers,  and I think that the directors/editors realized this so they cut as much dialogue as possible.  As a result, the movie is silent for HUGE chunks of time.  Which, as you can imagine, undercuts the whole dialogue-dependent Tarantino effect.

Also, being silent means that you have NO clue who most of the characters are.  The web site lists them all AND backstories, and I genuinely wonder if they had a whole big established world that they couldn't afford to put on screen or if they were just really overcompensating for having girls run around in bikinis for the whole movie.

The plot is basically Avatar, disgraced soldier is injured on a mission, taken in by a tribe of natives and eventually defends them against the bad guys she was once a part of.  They snuck in a scene that's basically the "I dare you to do better" Captain Kirk bit from the 2009 Star Trek, and the worst fight scene I've ever seen.

(Side thought, another reason to do a movie like this: an excuse for fight scenes.  This is the exact kind of flimsy pretext that martial arts guys would hang a movie on as an excuse to show off all the battles they can do.  The fights in this ranger from decent to high school play quality... in the same shots!)

So the movie is mostly quiet, the score's all right, I'll give them that, but it's also BORING.  While the plot is straightforward, it's mostly "and then" storytelling, meaning scenes don't really influence the next scene, and combine that with the fact that every scene fades in and fades out, you feel like you're watching disconnected scenes.  We also don't see IMPORTANT moments, it's like the movie is happening off-screen.  The main girl is in a loincloth bikini, right?  Kind of the reason for the movie to exist.  But it's never shown/explained WHY.  She's in a crash, but her clothes aren't ripped (and she's not visibly HURT either), so we never know WHY she has to change clothes.  Given that she's transitioning into a different world, you kinda want that scene, right?  Even if she doesn't kill the animal (or Costume Store Employee) she gets the skins from, you want that bit.  It's like the first time Batman gets the batsuit or something, it should be a moment.

Like, I don't care if the movie is cheap or dumb or made for a purpose (tittilation, showing off fight scenes, whatever), but you have to put in the right moments and obey simple rules of narrative storytelling.  I don't mind a bad movie, but I really hate missed opportunities, and this movie is full of them.  Example, there's this tribal dance scene, but it doesn't affect the plot in any way, it's just there.  Well, you have the modern girl there, have her have to dance.  She winds up doing something dopey like the Macarena and that "angers the gods" or something. It felt like the movie is just a checklist of scenes they need to have, with not much thought to "what can we DO with these scenes?"  Which is always one of the first questions you should ask when dealing with something this trope-y.  What are the opportunities here that we can play with?  How can we put our own unique stamp on it?

And the reason I bring this up is that I feel like this is the kind of genre where you could make a good movie, a swashbuckling jungle adventure, but I don't know if anyone's ever actually done that yet.  I suppose, like I said about Tomorrowland, "I'll just have to make it myself."
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 05, 2017, 06:20:41 am
I think I need to check out this movie for myself now.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 06, 2017, 04:42:29 pm
The Jungle Girl movie? I think I still have it, I can send it to you.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2017, 06:21:24 pm
Pete's Dragon (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/pete's-dragon-(2016)/msg41023/#msg41023)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2017, 07:09:26 am
Rewatched Dawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/dawn-of-the-planet-of-the-apes-(2014)-2917/msg33329/#msg33329)

Betcha can't guess what's next for me to watch.....
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on December 31, 2017, 06:17:15 pm
That third one is in my bag waiting for me.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 31, 2017, 08:39:46 pm
War for the Planet of the Apes (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/war-for-the-planet-of-the-apes-(2017)-3534/msg41041/#msg41041)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 13, 2018, 08:43:41 am
Point Break (2015)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/point-break-(2015)/msg41134/#msg41134)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 13, 2018, 09:52:34 am
I think I've spoken about this film before, but I rewatched it last night and I'm surprised that it actually stuck with me.

Room In Rome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKtFSJyiYEY

I was always in love with the lighting and cinematography of this flick, it looks ridiculously beautiful... real life chiaroscuro, I don't know how they managed to pull it off, and of course I'm enchanted by Elena Anaya in the flick (she was Dr Poison in the Wonder Woman movie).  Partly by her adorable accent but also just because of the sheer force of personality she exudes in every moment of the flick.

It's hard to summarize the plot of the film without it sounding like a prono (two women return to a European hotel late at night, fall in love, there's a lot of sex, they're **** throughout almost the entire thing, and they use Google Earth a lot more than you'd expect), but don't let that throw you.  I mean, it may make you want to see the movie more, but it's not that kind of movie.  I think they may have gone above and beyond in every other category because of that premise, but the results... dang.  The skin practically glows (this is the counterpoint to "potato skin," something I deride a lot of flicks like Sucker Punch for having), you can see the slightest changes in light... there's a lot of darkness but it doesn't feel like anything's being hidden, you're not seeing a big wall of black anywhere.

Now, I saw this on Netflix and apparently the disc is really hard to get now, so I don't know if you'll be able to swing it.  But if this sounds interesting, see it, and it's one of those movies I recommend seeing in HD because of the cinematography and colour space that it utilizes.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 14, 2018, 04:48:11 pm
Why Him? (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/why-him-(2016)/msg41141/#msg41141)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 21, 2018, 08:57:32 pm
Orange Is the New Black (Season 4 - 2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/orange-is-the-new-black-(season-4-2017)/msg41289/#msg41289)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2018, 06:53:18 pm
Keanu (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/keanu-(2016)/msg41325/#msg41325)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2018, 05:45:56 am
Get Out (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/get-out-(2017)/msg41352/#msg41352)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 31, 2018, 05:25:02 pm
Bleed for This (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/bleed-for-this-(2016)/msg41405/#msg41405)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 03, 2018, 02:08:43 pm
Power Rangers (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/power-rangers-(2017)-3549/msg41414/#msg41414)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on February 07, 2018, 03:20:42 pm
Scorched

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6mZ4guAJK8

This is a flick from 2003 that I've had on DVD since... well, 2003.  The premise involves three bank employees (Woody Harrelson, Alicia Silverstone, and a third guy who's not a name actor) who each recognize a different weakness in their bank's security and decide to exploit it, and wind up robbing the bank on the same weekend.  That SOUNDS like that... Patrick Dempsy movie, I think it was... but it's not.  They're all completely unaware of each other.

The movie is... it's not good and it's not bad, per se, there's nothing that really stands out, and maybe it's a sense of familiarity that allows me to watch it.  And a sense of nostalgia.  It's definitely of an era, in terms of both the glut of indie movies of the time (which could also just GET known actors) AND the subject matter in particular.  This scene is about the most early aughts thing I can imagine:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C4o-zcihGN4

It's a trope that's so unrealistic and probably a bit of wish fulfillment, but I feel like I missed out on never having the cute tomboy housemate who's in love with me but I'm too dumb to realize it.  I had to make a supercut of Rachael Leigh Cook in this movie, I was always crushing on her character (to steal a line from Frasier, "she's ounces of fun").  It also struck me watching this that I cannot get a bead on her voice AT ALL, I've always wanted to base a character on her but I can't figure out a way to do it.  It's like doing an impression, if there's nothing to build off of or explore, you can't do it.  I have that issue with her.

John Cleese is also in this movie doing a classic over the top villain.  That infomercial bit I posted above has always been one I liked, but I had totally forgotten about the girl scout cookies.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2kcu-IpfoY

I love psychotic John Cleese... it's so strange that he and RLC's character don't have a dialogue scene together, that would have been great.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2018, 05:38:27 am
You had me at John Cleese Villain.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on February 08, 2018, 12:53:48 pm
I literally watched it again last night when I got home from work just because I wanted something on in the background, which I think is why I keep it around.  I like a good background movie.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 08, 2018, 06:31:57 pm
The Foreigner (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-foreigner-(2017)/msg41447/#msg41447)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 15, 2018, 06:54:05 am
Wonder Woman (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/wonder-woman-(2017)/msg41476/#msg41476)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 17, 2018, 12:52:44 pm
A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/a-bad-moms-christmas-(2017)/msg41488/#msg41488)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 19, 2018, 06:53:46 am
Spider-Man: Homecoming (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/spider-man-homecoming-(2017)/msg41493/#msg41493)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on February 20, 2018, 10:03:34 pm
Mom and Dad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPVicWnq_BU

I had no idea this was out already, I heard people going nuts about it , and of course the big draw is Nic Cage going nuts for 90 minutes... which isn't true.  He loses it halfway through the movie, which is fine (a whole movie would have been overkill), but it feels like he's not even in it that much until that second half.

The premise of the movie, if you didn't see the trailer, is that humans start savaging and killing their children.  Just their children, the other ones they don't care about.  Which is one of those premises that's so brilliantly simple it makes you wonder how no one did it before.

I liked it.  And I had no idea that Brian Taylor from Crank directed it.  You can definitely feel it.

The issues I thought I would have with the movie weren't there, which is good... but I still had some issues with it.  The main thing is that the daughter is the main character, and if you don't like her (or have a REASON to like her), you're kinda bored.  She was okay, not great, but I didn't really appreciate coming in that she was going to be the one I'd have to care about the most.

I can't really go into more issues without getting into spoilers, so I'll avoid them... but for the few issues I did have, I also enjoyed the ever-loving S#!T out of this movie.  Definitely worth a rent at least.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 24, 2018, 09:02:28 pm
Battle of the Sexes (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/battle-of-the-sexes-(2017)/msg41516/#msg41516)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 02, 2018, 06:20:55 am
It (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/it-(2017)/msg41548/#msg41548)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 04, 2018, 08:12:05 pm
Jessica Jones (TV Series Season 1 - 2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/jessica-jones-(tv-series-season-1-2015)/msg41551/#msg41551)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 19, 2018, 09:56:28 pm
Homeland (Season 6 - 2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/homeland-(season-6-2017)/msg41598/#msg41598)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on March 25, 2018, 09:23:09 pm
A couple things recently, but here are two wildly different ones.

Vanya On 42nd Street

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4WceRNb7e0

I added this flick to my queue ages ago, so while I kind of knew what it was about, it was quite different than what I expected but also very enjoyable.  I feel like, had I known it was also a "My Dinner With Andre" reunion, I would have remembered that.  And I suppose it's technically a sequel as well, since they're playing themselves again.

The film... I don't even know how narrative it is, is the actors coming together to rehearse Uncle Vanya and hoping to gain some insight from it and from themselves.  I can't really say too much about it, but it's one of those movies I can see playing in the background over and over...

Two little bullet points about the film:

One, Wally Shawn gets angry in a scene, meaning he's more like the Wally we know in Princess Bride and Clueless and all that, but he screams "you ruined my life!" and since then, in my mind I've been hearing him do lines from "What About Bob?"  But I haven't recorded my impression of that yet.

Two, way back when I got this, I was ordering a block of movies and I think I mish-mashed a couple premises together, and after this movie I started writing down what I thought it was going to be, and it ballooned from there.



Game Over, Man!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7ZHi_dDSnQ

When I write a movie, I'm obsessed with the idea of "get to," every scene should have a get to, "this is the scene where we get to do this," etc.  Game Over Man, while not a fantastic movie, is a great example of this.  I think just about every scene had something fun for the actors to do or for the audience to see, all the characters... even the minor ones... had some business that they could brag about,  "I'm the guy in the movie who does X.," I'm big on that.

And while the premise is clearly Die Hard, they also are very aware of it so there are a ton of twists and turns... possibly too many?  You're never left waiting for a scene to finish, which is something that drives me crazy in movies.

The movie is also full of character actors I like, which is always a bonus, and oh man, the hotel manager... he caught my eye and I couldn't stop watching him, he seemed really familiar and I couldn't place my finger on it until halfway through: it's Daniel Stern.  Epic.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 29, 2018, 08:25:41 pm
Stranger Things (TV Series Season 1 - 2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/stranger-things-(tv-series-season-1-2016)/msg41636/#msg41636)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on March 29, 2018, 09:09:28 pm
Better Call Saul, Season Three

Oh, Jimmy...

I can see why the writers were having trouble that season, there's just... tragic stuff going on here, the stuff between Jimmy and Chuck, what Jimmy does to get those old ladies to stop hating on that one of them, Nacho and his dad... you kinda don't want it to happen, but you know it has to.

You know what the tragic thing is?  Jimmy is a good lawyer, he's got a view of it that no one else does and it actually is helping reform him.  He's not particularly noble or anything, but I definitely agree that the legal profession needs Jimmy McGill.

And that Blockbuster bit made me so insanely nostalgic... though I was checking those cases to see if they had the holes for the yellow locks.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 03, 2018, 07:35:00 am
Daddy's Home 2 (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/daddy's-home-(2015)/msg41649/#msg41649)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 04, 2018, 02:29:09 pm
Blade Runner 2049 (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/blade-runner-2049-(2017)/msg41656/#msg41656)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2018, 06:41:32 pm
The Shape of Water (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-shape-of-water-(2017)/msg41664/#msg41664)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2018, 07:35:49 pm
Thor: Ragnarok (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/thor-ragnarok-(2017)-3570/msg41667/#msg41667)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 06, 2018, 07:37:55 pm
Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens (2015) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-vii-the-force-awakens-(2015)/msg37389/#msg37389)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2018, 06:57:54 pm
Star Wars: Episode VIII - The Last Jedi (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/star-wars-episode-viii-the-last-jedi-(2017)/msg41683/#msg41683)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 09, 2018, 09:40:51 pm
Finished the first two seasons of Travelers... you may have noticed that I made a thread for it.  Love the season finale, and VERY happy to see that the show is coming back WITH Erick McCormack returning to star AND direct an episode.  I was concerned about that given the Will and Grace revival, this is an hourlong show which aren't easy to make (even if there are only 13 episodes per season).  I definitely don't want to lose MacLaren because he's the glue of the show, but honestly I dig just about all the characters on the show.  And if you don't like them, well, they can be over-ridden (case in point, one character I was kind of weak on wound up becoming one of my favourites).

I was thinking I would follow the show up with Legion, but I think you need something less strong to clear the palette first.  I tend to forget that.  But oh man, it feels like ages since I just binged a show like that one, no notes, no GIF-making, no screencapping...
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 11, 2018, 07:12:16 pm
Legion was by far one of the best new series I watched last year. It's fun, but it's very serious. A lot of undertones at work with each episode that really makes the viewer think and think hard.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 17, 2018, 09:50:55 pm
I'm working my way through Everybody Wants Some and I'm not quite sure how I feel about it.  I love all the music, and there are LONG  music sequences in it (I assume that's why they needed Paramount monty to get this finished), but it feels like it might be trading on that a bit too much.

The movie is about a college baseball team sharing a house together and trying to get laid, and I get the impression that it's trying to be a bit like Dazed and Confused, but... and maybe this is because I'm just not a macho guy's guy... I'm bored with the guys.  There are some interesting characters, and it feels like I'm hanging out with them (which I guess is the idea of the movie, a mood piece more than a story piece) but... these aren't the people I'd normally hang out with.

I suppose the other issue with comparing it to Dazed And Confused is that that cast is famous... and they might have been at the time, or at least relatively well known younger actors, whereas I don't know who ANYONE in this movie is.  Maybe that'll change in the future, retroactive recognition, but I dunno.  The only one I really kinda like is the stoner with the beard, and I can't even tell you that much about him.

The picture is also REALLY clean, and I guess I expect there to be a certain amount of film grain and a dip in image quality... and I guess it would have been really easy to just add fake film grain on and lean on it, so I give them credit for not doing that...   I dunno, it just feels like something's missing.  The secret ingredient.  Or maybe I just can't see it.

Also, I should point out I'm almost an hour into this movie now and the love interest hasn't shown up yet.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on April 29, 2018, 10:20:36 pm
So on a lark and an oooooold recommendation from an old friend, I had the Emanuelle movies on my Netflix queue and one came in.  And I'm rolling through it and it's... well, there's some gross stuff, BUT all of a sudden I see this steam room and I think "that looks REALLY familiar."  And then there's a pool and I thought "that looks a lot like the pool and the chairs and OH MY GOD THEY SHOT A DIRTY MOVIE AT MY OLD HOUSE!"  That might have been THE most mind blowing thing to have EVER happened to me.  Especially because the movie is supposed to take place in New York and the house is in Italy.  And it's not like they dug the pool and did a scene there, it's 17 MINUTES of screen time!

And you know what?  The house BARELY changed in the 20 years or so since that movie and the time I lived in it.  The freaking standing scale and pool basket are both in the same places!  It was a mix between sentimental nostalgia and abject horror.  WOW.
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 30, 2018, 06:53:57 am
That's awesome. A friend of mine had Alan Funt's Playboy Candid Camera shoot a segment inside and outside of their house and that too was surreal to see after the fact.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 14, 2018, 08:32:59 pm
Atomic Blonde (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/atomic-blonde-(2017)/msg41903/#msg41903)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on July 29, 2018, 05:38:19 am
Black Panther (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/black-panther-(2018)/msg41922/#msg41922)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2018, 10:39:05 am
LBJ (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/lbj-(2016)/msg41932/#msg41932)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 02, 2018, 05:56:03 pm
47 Meters Down (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/47-meters-down-(2017)/msg41936/#msg41936)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 03, 2018, 04:36:51 pm
X-Men: Apocalypse (2016)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/x-men-apocalypse-(2016)/msg41938/#msg41938)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 06, 2018, 07:09:08 am
Game of Thrones (Season 7 - 2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/game-of-thrones-(season-7-2017)/msg41944/#msg41944)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 09, 2018, 08:29:52 pm
Terminator 2: Judgement Day (Blu Ray Version)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/terminator-2-judgment-day-(1991)/msg41956/#msg41956)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 11, 2018, 07:52:28 pm
Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/guardians-of-the-galaxy-(2014)/msg41964/#msg41964)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 12, 2018, 07:39:00 pm
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-(2017)-3591/msg41967/#msg41967)
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Post by: Neumatic on August 12, 2018, 11:13:16 pm
(http://cdn.wegotthiscovered.com/wp-content/uploads/The-Skin-I-Live-In.jpg)

The Skin I Live In

There's ONE thing in this movie that I can't wrap my head around, that breaks this otherwise incredible movie for me, and I can't tell you what it is unless you see it.

You should see it.  if you like totally f*cked up stuff (it kinda reminds me of Nip/Tuck with sexy Frankentstein).  Plus Elena Anaya is amazing in this movie as the patient.  Antonio Banderas is awesome, music is brill, cinematography is awesome.  It's... something.  Definitely glad I saw it.  But I just can't wrap my head around that ONE thing.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 21, 2018, 07:47:57 am
The Post (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-post-(2017)/msg41975/#msg41975)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 23, 2018, 05:40:51 pm
I, Tonya (2017)
0 Stars out of 5

This is a very rare occurrence. I didn't finish the movie. I stopped it after maybe 30 minutes. I thought it was boring AF and the acting beyond hammy. Originally I wanted to see this because of Margot Robbie in spite of hating everything about Tonya Harding and even she couldn't save it. Don't waste your time with this one. SKIP! This movie doesn't deserve it's own thread.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 23, 2018, 06:45:17 pm
I enjoyed the movie, I think the hamminess was part of the fun, BUT the whole time I was watching it I kept thinking that Margot Robbie reminded me of Jamie Pressley... so I kept thinking "I want to see the My Name Is Earl" version of this.  The second I pictured Earl and Randy as the two guys, like... my mind went there and refused to leave.  You ever have that experience?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 25, 2018, 01:36:20 pm
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/murder-on-the-orient-express-(2017)/msg41995/#msg41995)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 26, 2018, 07:13:31 pm
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/three-billboards-outside-ebbing-missouri-(2017)/msg41999/#msg41999)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on August 26, 2018, 11:42:38 pm
(https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTB6m7DkKBfhQWq45Qou21vQui9lWAn_o9cVzkiUw6lu9aBcZWq)

The Blue Lagoon (1980)

I know it sounds like a transparent lie, but I swear I was watching this for research because I had an idea that would be drawing reference from it.  Obviously this movie is famous for it's nudity so I don't need to say anything about it except of my GOD there was so much nudity.

I liked it... there was a lot of "and then" storytelling which kinda bugged me, it felt very disconnected and I guess you can get away with that in a "hot stranded couple go skinny dipping and hook up" movie, but it makes it hard to tell where you are in the story.

Right off the bat the move threw me for a loop because the first thing you see is this etching of a city street and it just looked like the opening to Cheers, the theme song started playing in my head.  And the opening titles and the stuff with the boat looked like Treasure Island, it looked like something from the 60s and this was 1980, and I have no idea if that was intentional or not.   Like, "hey, we're referencing these classic adventure yarns but doing our own thing with them."

I also gotta say, Richard (I know his name because Brooke Shields screams his name about a thousand times)... his voice, I don't know if it was the audio quality from the time period or whatever, but I kept making me think of Greg Brady.  He sounded like Christopher Daniel Barnes to me, I kept expecting him to start monologuing like Spider-Man (he was the voice of Spider-Man).

Oh, and there's one thing I couldn't help but notice: their sh*t holds up AMAZINGLY.  Like, they're learning about the stages of life through these opticon photos, right? They don't even YELLOW after al the years on that island under that sun.  Clothes too, when they wear the nice ones, no moth holes or nothing.  Kinda took me out a little bit.

I thought I had Return To The Blue Lagoon as well but I don't, I gotta get that.  And I might throw in The Sleeping Dictionary too for good measure (plus I saw another Emily Mortimer movie recently so I thought maybe I could do a fun little mash-up too).


(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C9j33xyVoAAXAjr.jpg)

Morgan (2016)

Luke Scott doing a sort of Ex Machina meets... 24, I suppose... remix?  Contained thriller, few sets, character actors (including a nice appearance by Paul Giamatti).  A decent watch, nothing that really surprised me.  Mild recommend, if you like this sort of genre.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 02, 2018, 07:49:43 am
Justice League (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/justice-league-(2017)/msg42010/#msg42010)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 03, 2018, 11:51:20 am
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle-(2017)/msg42014/#msg42014)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 11, 2018, 09:27:23 am
The Hitman's Bodyguard (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-hitman's-bodyguard-(2017)/msg42023/#msg42023)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 12, 2018, 07:16:33 pm
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/valerian-and-the-city-of-a-thousand-planets-(2017)/msg42029/#msg42029)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 15, 2018, 05:14:59 am
Tomb Raider (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/tomb-raider-(2018)-3604/msg42034/#msg42034)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 19, 2018, 06:41:16 pm
Borg Vs. McEnroe (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/borg-vs-mcenroe-(2018)/msg42039/#msg42039)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 23, 2018, 06:58:05 pm
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/kingsman-the-golden-circle-(2017)/msg42047/#msg42047)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 26, 2018, 05:19:15 pm
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/avengers-infinity-war-(2018)/msg42053/#msg42053)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on September 29, 2018, 06:35:43 pm
Deadpool (2016) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/deadpool-(2016)-3292/msg42056/#msg42056)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 04, 2018, 08:35:13 am
Deadpool 2 (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/deadpool-2-(2018)-3611/msg42068/#msg42068)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 14, 2018, 06:09:01 am
American Assassin (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/american-assassin-(2017)/msg42083/#msg42083)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 16, 2018, 11:18:40 am
Fahrenheit 451 (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/fahrenheit-451-(2018)/msg42087/#msg42087)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 19, 2018, 05:20:46 am
The Commuter (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-commuter-(2018)/msg42091/#msg42091)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 23, 2018, 08:08:57 am
Eighth Grade (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/eighth-grade-(2018)/msg42096/#msg42096)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 25, 2018, 06:34:06 am
Ready Player One (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ready-player-one-(2018)/msg42100/#msg42100)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 26, 2018, 07:08:59 am
Ant-Man and the Wasp (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ant-man-and-the-wasp-(2018)/msg42103/#msg42103)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on October 29, 2018, 08:19:43 am
Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/solo-a-star-wars-story-(2018)/msg42109/#msg42109)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on November 30, 2018, 06:36:53 pm
Ocean's 8 (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/ocean's-8-(2018)/msg42186/#msg42186)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 02, 2018, 06:37:32 pm
Game Night (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/game-night-(2018)/msg42190/#msg42190)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 11, 2018, 04:34:01 am
The Office (Season 1 - 2005) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-1-2005)/msg9494/#msg9494)
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Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 15, 2018, 02:53:43 pm
The Office (Season 2 - 2005) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-2-2005)/msg9666/#msg9666)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 15, 2018, 08:11:54 pm
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/jurassic-world-fallen-kingdom-(2018)/msg42228/#msg42228)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 20, 2018, 01:19:30 pm
The Office (Season 3 - 2006) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-3-2006)/msg9667/#msg9667)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 24, 2018, 03:38:05 pm
The Office (Season 4 - 2007) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-4-2007)/msg9870/#msg9870)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on December 29, 2018, 05:25:32 am
The Office (Season 5 - 2008) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-5-2008)/msg9997/#msg9997)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 04, 2019, 09:38:08 am
The Office (Season 6 - 2009) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-6-2009)/msg10354/#msg10354)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 19, 2019, 09:10:03 am
The Office (Season 7 - 2010) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-office-(season-7-2010)/msg10567/#msg10567)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 26, 2019, 03:48:02 pm
The Office (Season 8 - 2011) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv's-greatest-hits-and-misses/the-office-(season-8)/msg707/#msg707)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on January 28, 2019, 06:11:12 pm
Coco (2017) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/coco-(2017)/msg42322/#msg42322)
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Post by: Neumatic on January 29, 2019, 05:49:11 pm
(https://i2.wp.com/33.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lqilczbJI71qznxvw.jpg)

Children Of Dune - Episode One, The Children

I've been waiting to see this, I ordered the blu-ray from freaking Germany since I'm such an HD snob.

And it's an interesting flick, though if you don't know what Dune is, the movie is NOT going to explain it to you.  Luckily I did, but let me give you an example.  The basics; spice is a drug that only grows on one world, it's instantly addictive, but it gives you the power to move through space.  At no point in the first episode do we see spice, spice being mined, people using spice, people being addicted to spice in any way, or spice being used to bend time.  We don't even see a space ship until 30 minutes into the first episode, and it's already travelled.

I know this was made for SciFi channel back in the Galactica days when they were doing real sci fi hard but at the same time, you want that general audience to be able to watch it.  I feel like they could have done more to adapt this and make it work as a standalone thing.

Something I was struck by was how much this looked like Game Of Thrones, the throne room in particular.  But there were little touches, it looked like a rip off except it came out seven years to so before GoT filmed.  There's even a face dancer and a scheming little person.

Also, James McAvoy is in it.  And Susan Sarandon plays the scheming evil queen of the universe.  And the lead character is kind of an evil messiah, so... it's odd.


(http://movieholichub.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Criminal-Movie-02.jpg)

Criminal

I found this in the 5 buck bin and was amazed, it came out 2 years ago (that's a short window of time) and had Gary Oldman, Tommy Lee Jones, Gal Gadot, Kevin Costner, and Ryan Reynolds in it.  And the conceit?  That a dead spy's memories are transplanted into an insane criminal so that he can complete his mission?  That's INSANE.  I had to get it.

Well, the truth is the idea is insane, and the movie sadly isn't.  It's... fine.  It's done like Bourne or any other spy drama, they do the action right and they take it seriously but not too seriously to be melodramatic.  So it's just... fine.  It's watchable but there's nothing in there to make it memorable or worth recommending to anyone.   The fact that it wasn't bad was a disappointment.  Which is always the risk with the five buck bin.  Ah well.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on January 29, 2019, 06:51:08 pm
Okay addendum to "Criminal," there's a deleted scene where Tommy Lee Jones goes to the hospital to visit HIS MOTHER!  His MOTHER!  This movie was made in TWO THOUSAND SIXTEEN!  They filmed this scene before they cut it, it's the only time that actress appears in the movie!  They had meetings and casting sessions where they said "Who could play Tommy Lee Jones' mother?" "In a flashback?" "No" and they put it in front of cameras and filmed it and edited it and colour timed it and at no point did they say "hey, this is INSANE!  Do we need this scene?"
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 07, 2019, 11:35:39 am
The Office (Season 9 - 2012) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/tv's-greatest-hits-and-misses/the-office-(season-9-2012)/)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 16, 2019, 06:46:46 pm
Halloween (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/halloween-(2018)/msg42388/#msg42388)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 22, 2019, 04:54:52 pm
The Predator (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-predator-(2018)/msg42392/#msg42392)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 24, 2019, 09:39:57 am
The Equalizer 2 (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-equalizer-2-(2018)/msg42437/#msg42437)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on March 30, 2019, 03:23:24 pm
Peppermint (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/peppermint-(2018)/msg42448/#msg42448)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 01, 2019, 07:00:39 am
Venom (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/venom-(2018)/msg42450/#msg42450)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on April 09, 2019, 05:44:07 am
Stranger Things (Season 2 - 2017)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/stranger-things-(season-2-2017)/msg42454/#msg42454)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 11, 2019, 08:28:27 pm
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/spider-man-into-the-spider-verse-(2018)/msg42521/#msg42521)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on May 12, 2019, 07:00:36 pm
...what up, danger?
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 29, 2019, 09:04:49 pm
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/bohemian-rhapsody-(2018)-3656/msg42554/#msg42554)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on May 30, 2019, 07:35:26 pm
Glass (2019)
 (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/glass-(2019)/msg42557/#msg42557)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 04, 2019, 09:31:17 am
Captain Marvel (2019) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/captain-marvel-(2019)-3661/msg42566/#msg42566)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 05, 2019, 07:51:25 pm
Aquaman (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/aquaman-(2018)/msg42570/#msg42570)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 07, 2019, 07:58:36 am
Creed II (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/creed-ii-(2018)/msg42573/#msg42573)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on June 08, 2019, 03:55:32 pm
The Meg (2018) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/the-meg-(2018)/msg42576/#msg42576)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Neumatic on June 09, 2019, 11:22:40 am
Austin Powers: International Man Of Mystery

I saw it pop up on Netflix, and I got a wild hair up my butt to finally extend it and put the deleted scenes back in.  It only wound up taking half an hour, which was way less than I thought, but I had to lose one scene (the "we're called flight attendants now!" one was too low res and the audio too blown).  I put the Rob Lowe scene after the destruction of the base rather than break the flow, and moved the "wife of the henchman" scene to after the credits.  I was able to find a widescreen version of the Chrisdtian Slater cameo, which is nice.  Ther others are in 4:3 but they work all right.  I'll do a few more tweaks but aside from that, I think it came out pretty good.

I don't know when or if I'll do the other ones though.  I mostly did this one because those extra scenes are as baked into my brain as the actual movie is.

Still funny.
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 05, 2019, 05:52:17 pm
Avengers: Endgame (2019) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/avengers-endgame-(2019)-3672/msg42629/#msg42629)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 10, 2019, 03:25:40 pm
Veronica Mars (2014) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/veronica-mars-(2014)/msg42632/#msg42632)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on August 24, 2019, 06:39:45 am
Shazam! (2019) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/shazam!-(2019)/msg42645/#msg42645)
Title: Re: What Are You Watching? (DVD's & Blu-ray's)
Post by: Chiprocks1 on February 13, 2020, 05:25:41 am
Terminator: Dark Fate (2019) (http://pennycan.createaforum.com/dvd's-blu-rays/terminator-dark-fate-(2019)/msg42949/#msg42949)