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06/22/2015 02:23:33 PM · #1551 |
San Andreas.
Good stuff in movie theater. not sure it has the same effect if watched at home.
In Taiwan we could watch the trailer on special seats that we rolling and shaking all the time.. very impressive
I would say 7/10 |
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06/22/2015 02:28:52 PM · #1552 |
The Last Samurai 7/10
I haven't seen such a goofy plot with such a profound subtext since the Wizard of Oz. Surely this is a deliberate allegory about the shock and awe of West meeting East in Japan.
The Western man lives in the house of the Eastern woman whose husband he has killed. Western cinematic tropes force her to fall in love with him. He ends up putting on the armor of the man he killed.
The Japanese officials equate Samurais with Indians, but the Samurai equates himself with Custer.
Meanwhile, the entire Japanese section of the movie is observed by a fussy British translator who is physically impotent but represents the culture that will dominate, and even narrates the movie.
Tom Cruise's blank American stare (a la Keanu Reeves) is apposite to the Zen blankness of the Samurai.
At the end, when Western Modernism defeats the Samurai but then bows in submission to it, we see the combination that will lead to the Rape of Nanking. And this is our happy ending! No wait, the happy ending is the reunion between Cruise and his victim's wife...
wow, I could keep going about this movie...
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06/22/2015 03:09:51 PM · #1553 |
Jurassic world. 8.3/10
Taken on its own merits (something that is a touchy subject around here), this movie is an excellent popcorn flick and fun romp through the jungle |
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06/22/2015 03:24:15 PM · #1554 |
Ex Machina 9/10
A science fiction movie without space travel, alien hordes, or anything that goes BANG! In fact 90% of the movie has 4 actors limited to a moving around in a single house. It combines a thriller about robots, with a think piece on the nature of sentience. Can empathy exist without sexuality? When a technology advances to the point where it is indistinguishable from human in its actions and feelings, does the treatment of that technology require it to be treated morally, and will it reciprocate?
Beautifully shot and lit, and the limited action flows in a fairly steady line, but the viewers perception keeps twisting back and forth across the narrative line, questioning who is "real" and who is not, who is playing whom and for what ends. First movie I have ever seen where a dance scene with no conversation was a major plot twist.
There are quite a few "oh, come on, that was dumb" moments, but it is that rare movie that inspires conversations that are as interesting as the film. |
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06/22/2015 03:46:47 PM · #1555 |
Originally posted by RyanW:
Jurassic world. 8.3/10
Taken on its own merits (something that is a touchy subject around here), this movie is an excellent popcorn flick and fun romp through the jungle |
Saw it yesterday. Much better than JP 2 and 3. Loved the references back to the original. |
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06/22/2015 09:51:39 PM · #1556 |
Originally posted by Elaine:
Originally posted by RyanW:
Jurassic world. 8.3/10
Taken on its own merits (something that is a touchy subject around here), this movie is an excellent popcorn flick and fun romp through the jungle |
Saw it yesterday. Much better than JP 2 and 3. Loved the references back to the original. |
I give it an 8. Great for just fun and action, on par with the original, and better than 2 and 3 as  Elaine said. |
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07/12/2015 12:40:48 AM · #1557 |
Jurrasic world.. Pretty entertaining.. new story line is all but the fun is still alive and good..who doesn't like dinosaurs.. T rex always rules :-))
I too rate it a 8-10 My whole family enjoyed it
Inside out: Pretty darn cute, good story line, some parts were pretty hokey but for the most part the ending was my favorite of the dog and cat brains hahaha
Not one the best movies from Disney but ok...5-10
The Homesman: I love Tommy Lee Jones, but this was not his typical movie.. pretty weird really. If you like westerns its ok, but it was just weird.
4-10
Unfinished Business; a lot of nudity in it, funny, nothing more, nothing less a good movie to rent if your bored kinda of thing 5-10
Message edited by author 2015-07-12 00:42:31. |
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07/12/2015 02:47:02 AM · #1558 |
It Follows: truly scary, very simple premise, very well executed. 9/10
No Country for Old Men: well made, great characters, eclectic ending. 8/10 |
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07/13/2015 02:56:46 PM · #1559 |
Noah 6/10 ... another in the So bad it's good??? category.
An enthusiastic attempt to use the fantasy genre to explain the huge gaps in the original myth, including Giant Stone Angel Bugs and Magic Eden Seeds. Methuselah plays Yoda, I mean Gandalf. |
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07/13/2015 03:21:52 PM · #1560 |
Minions (with my almost-4-year-old and a crowded theatre of families with little kids).
Easily a 9/10 given that I fit into on both target audience parameters(parent of a little kid, and someone who enjoys these movies on their own). Likely a 6.5/10 if I didn't know what I was getting into.
If you're interested in this movie, you know what you're in for. This just gives you what you expect it would, the minions being minions in their cute bumbling-through-life way.
Fantastic sense of humor about itself, lots of adult jokes in there (such as the minions coming through a manhole on Abby rd and being stepped on by 4 people walking across it; and a sign for Nixon citing "A Name you can Trust"). |
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07/15/2015 03:45:57 PM · #1561 |
Minions!!
I totally agree with Ryan, to me that was the best movie yet this year and I really had to go to the bathroom bad because we were all dying laughing. Went twice to see it.
My daughter didn't really get some of the older adult jokes but once I explained them to her and what it was about it was great! loved the abbey road scene.... it is a true fun movie for all ages, if you love the minions you will even love them more in the movie. just great and a must see. truly good entertaining.
It was funny about the Nixon thing because a few kids behind us go.. "whos Nixon?"
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07/15/2015 03:53:10 PM · #1562 |
| Gone girl 5/10 - I just didn't get the purpose. No conflict resolution. You basically just gain insight into two characters and I fail to see the appeal. |
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07/15/2015 04:08:17 PM · #1563 |
| went to see Terminator: Genisys yesterday - fantastic. Rebooting the franchise by using existing in-world physics (time travel) to create a new paradox/storyline that fits with the original but deviates in its own way. Anything you thought you knew from the first is tossed out. Ideas you talked about after seeing the 2nd/3rd were implemented in some ways and resolved. A new story has hatched and from it a new possibility for the "world" of terminator. I'm pumped for the sequel (they announced the plan for a new story trilogy of movies). |
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07/15/2015 10:36:06 PM · #1564 |
Originally posted by Mike:
Gone girl 5/10 - I just didn't get the purpose. No conflict resolution. You basically just gain insight into two characters and I fail to see the appeal. |
Have to agree. I rented for an airplane trip and got home and couldn't remember that I had even seen the movie. I kept thinking all I was remembering were scenes I had watched as previews - so once back home hemmed and hawed about renting. Finally did - then realized I had seen on the plane and wasted money twice. Dang it. |
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07/15/2015 10:41:18 PM · #1565 |
Originally posted by Jules1x:
Originally posted by Mike:
Gone girl 5/10 - I just didn't get the purpose. No conflict resolution. You basically just gain insight into two characters and I fail to see the appeal. |
Have to agree. I rented for an airplane trip and got home and couldn't remember that I had even seen the movie. I kept thinking all I was remembering were scenes I had watched as previews - so once back home hemmed and hawed about renting. Finally did - then realized I had seen on the plane and wasted money twice. Dang it. |
Penny and I loved that movie. But then, we don't count "resolution" high on our list of things a movie has to accomplish. Begins-and-endings can be so boring :-) |
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07/15/2015 10:59:56 PM · #1566 |
Originally posted by Bear_Music:
But then, we don't count "resolution" high on our list of things a movie has to accomplish. Begins-and-endings can be so boring :-) |
I agree it was really good besides that. :P |
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07/16/2015 11:46:22 PM · #1567 |
Trainwreck 9/10
I thought there would never be a good romantic comedy again. I was wrong. The writing is impeccable. Amy Schumer and Bill Hader are really funny comedians. Turns out they're really good actors, too.
Amy Schumer WINS. She came into a field crowded with comedy greats like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and she just Carol Burnetted their butts. She wins. |
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08/01/2015 10:53:36 AM · #1568 |
Get Hard
This movie we got a kick out of,I thought it would be very funny, but it was not and it kinda let me down a bit, but we did have our laughs all the way throughout which made up for the other stuff I was kinda expecting. The movie relationship between the two was really fun to watch as the main character got "tutored" for prison, No story line has not been hit on that yet and this movie pressed its limits and I think it did a fine job at that, a very good rental.
As he was prepping him to go behind bars and the things that he had to do was just funny in general you couldn't help but either be embarrassed a bit or just shake your head. I thought it was fun to follow, and it was different than what normally is out there, so that was refreshing, The language was sure wayyy over board and very hard straight up excessive sexual humor, homosexual wise and with racism dialog with very awkward situations, I did not care for some of it was very low-brow kind of rude/crude humor.
Then it would straighten up and then a funny scene would hit again, it was the awkward situations which brought out both characters to their strongest acting skills and it was fun to see the growth from the other movies they did.
If you love Will Ferrell and Kevin Hart (which I did not care for the last few movies of Kevin Harts) this one he did well in, you will not be disappointed. It was entertainment.
I would not suggest it for young ones or younger teens or prudes.
For me it was a 7
Message edited by author 2015-08-01 10:57:01. |
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08/02/2015 08:05:44 AM · #1569 |
Saw Mission Impossible:Rogue Nation, with my 12 year old yesterday.
If you are a fan of James Bond style international action and intrigue, you are going to love this.
What really makes this movie watchable is the humor element, and rapport between Tom Cruise and Simon Pegg. Alec Baldwin, Rhames and Renner have great supporting roles. Definitely one you need to see in the theatre, for full effect.
Message edited by author 2015-08-02 08:06:35. |
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08/02/2015 03:49:00 PM · #1570 |
Originally posted by posthumous:
Trainwreck 9/10
Amy Schumer WINS. She came into a field crowded with comedy greats like Tina Fey and Amy Poehler and she just Carol Burnetted their butts. She wins. |
You might like this recent interview with Amy Schumer and Judd Apatow on "Fresh Air" ... |
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08/24/2015 03:42:25 PM · #1571 |
| Not a movie, but HBO's The Brink is hilarious. |
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08/25/2015 08:56:54 AM · #1572 |
Originally posted by tome:
Not a movie, but HBO's The Brink is hilarious. |
Yes, it's really funny
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11/04/2015 08:21:47 AM · #1573 |
San Andreas
Tons of packed action, the graphics were just awesome, story line was good, 9+ One of the better movies lately I have seen loved it
Spy
I really love Melissa McCarthy, just a funny movie, I have not seen a bad movie from her yet.. fun to watch 8
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11/04/2015 02:58:51 PM · #1574 |
We saw The Martian last weekend, and I really enjoyed it. I'd rate it 8 of 10... just call me the Len Goodman of movie ratings :-)
I told my wife that she was an honorary geek now, since she was picking apart the science after seeing it. I told her that living with geeks for so long has warped her, LOL.
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11/07/2015 02:28:02 AM · #1575 |
Ha ha ha, Fritz...... I went searching for this thread because I just came home from seeing The Martian (yeah..... we Aussies are a bit behind sometimes).
I wanted to hear what other people thought of it.
So apart from kirbic..... what did others think of it?
I had sooooooo many times where I called BS, but then again I really know nothing about Mars or space travel, so I have zero qualifications.
Apart from my many, many doubts, I loved the movie, it had so many nail-biting moments, yet also a lot of humour I had not expected.
8.5 / 10 for the entertainment value from me. |
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