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null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Fri, 14 Jun 2013 06:13:27 +0000

I'm watching Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. It is now on Netflix Instant! It's a weird fuckin movie, tho. I can understand why people didn't like it. They made some really strange and bad decisions with this flick, right from the opening. It starts with an opening credit sequence that is mostly static shots of buildings at night. It's actually kinda cool looking, but it goes on for what feels like a half hour while the cheesiest theme music ever created plays over the top of it. The music is this big brass fanfare that segues into some corny 80's synth pop and doesn't match what's on screen even slightly. Imagine the Superman fanfare playing over the night shots from Koyaanisqatsi. The music and visuals aren't up to those levels, tho...

Also, the movie appears to have had a decent budget, but the action sequences feel like a waste of effort. There's an action sequence where they're breaking into a building, but the 'badguys' that are chasing him are guard dogs, and it's mostly played for weak laughs. There are armed guards in the place, tho, and they could have had an actual action sequence. They end up having like 5 huge, fireball-in-the-sky explosions in that scene, but most of the action is him running from and spouting off bad one-liners to a couple of dogs. It's just weird...

Wilford Brimmley's character gets some decent dialogue moments, but I don't think he's gotten up out of his chair even once. They cut to him for exposition and then they cut to one of their lame non-action action sequences. Or a training sequence. Not a montage, tho. Just one thing. In fact, the movie plays out mostly like this: Remo talks to Wilford or his sidekick, Remo gets trained to do something stupid like stand on one foot, Captain Janeway (who is in this movie!!!) finds some important file or piece of info, Remo learns how to climb things, Wilford talks to his sidekick about bad guy, Remo learns how to breathe, Captain Janeway talks to someone about some important information...

The movie spins it's tires for the ENTIRE first two acts. The opening action sequence is pretty cool, and filled me with hope that this would be a decent film. I remember liking it when I was a kid. 8 year old me had poor taste in action movies, obviously. I still have about a half hour to go, so maybe it will become amazing. I recommend watching the first 20 minutes because it has one good, though simple, fight scene and the theme music is about as 80's as it ever got.

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null@example.com (Trey) — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 22:30:18 +0000

So Spielberg and Lucas have figured out what some of us already knew - the film industry is "imploding".

"I think eventually the Lincolns will go away and they're going to be on television," Lucas said. "As mine almost was," Spielberg interjected. "This close -- ask HBO -- this close."
"We're talking Lincoln and Red Tails -- we barely got them into theaters. You're talking about Steven Spielberg and George Lucas can't get their movie into a theater," Lucas said.
"I got more people into Lincoln than you got into Red Tails," Spielberg joked.

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null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Mon, 27 May 2013 04:39:34 +0000

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This is a clip from After Earth. FYI, in case you wanted to see it without seeing anything pre-release.

That said, what little hope I held for this movie has flung itself out of a hole in a giant bird's nest and dashed itself on the large branches and rocky ground below.

EDIT:

And here's the trailer for Europa Report. Looks similar to Apollo 18, but the blurbs in the trailer all say it's supposed to be a really good, smart movie. Hopefully it won't suck. It looks interesting, otherwise.

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null@example.com (fireproof78) — Thu, 23 May 2013 20:25:37 +0000

Ok, I missed that part.
Carry on

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null@example.com (Jimmy B) — Thu, 23 May 2013 14:56:55 +0000

Yeah, we've talked about it in another thread and I posted the teaser trailer in the Cool Trailers thread too. It's the final part of the Wright-Pegg-Frost 'Cornetto Trilogy' that also included Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz. I can't wait to see it

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null@example.com (fireproof78) — Thu, 23 May 2013 05:14:03 +0000

Anyone else seen Simon Pegg's new project?
http://www.wired.com/underwire/2013/05/ … d-trailer/

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null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Tue, 07 May 2013 05:54:46 +0000

I didn't know if I should post this in here or in the 'dubious musical' thread, but fits here better I think. There was once a thread about film soundtracks I thought, but I couldn't locate it.

The New Superman Theme

I liked it in the trailer and I like it even more on it's own.

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null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 02:31:52 +0000

Just watched "Sleepless Night" on netflix instant. Pretty damn solid French action / thriller from 2011. One of those films where you think you know what's going on, but then some new complication or turn of events happens. The movie mostly takes place at one location, not unlike Die Hard. You see the same familiar areas over and over and end up getting a pretty good sense of the place they're in. Keeps you on your toes and you never really know what's about to happen.

Highly recommend checking it out. It got a lot of pretty good reviews as well. Wish I could have seen it in a theater. That would have been intense.

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null@example.com (redxavier) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 12:09:13 +0000

Saw GI Joe Retaliation this past weekend - much better than the first movie and I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It has its problems, some inherited and some of its own, but I liked it.

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null@example.com (Squiggly_P) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 03:55:22 +0000

Just finished up Point Blank, the french action thriller. I really liked it the first time I watched it, but on second viewing the various plot holes started to pile up. Lots of times when people shouldn't know where someone else is but somehow manage to show up just in time, some of that weird behavior from the badguys where they do the exact opposite of what would help them get away with their plans, etc. There are some really great suspenseful action scenes, however, and at least one really great plot twist that you don't see coming, possibly because it happens so early in the movie. It's weird to have a huge thing like that happen halfway through the movie and not toward the end.

Overall it's a decent flick if you can look past the three or four really massive plot holes. My suggestion is to only watch it the one time...

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null@example.com (BigDamnArtist) — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 02:44:34 +0000

Faldor wrote:

Squiggly_P wrote:
This has happened to me a number of times where I've watched a movie years after it came out and some guy that had a bit part in that movie is now a big star. You see them and you're like "OH SHIT, IT'S WHAT'S HIS FACE FROM THAT OTHER THING.
for reasons I can't really explain I watched the tomb raider movie the other night and was shocked to realize the villain was Ser Jorah from Game of Thrones, his side kick is the Guy from Green Wing and James Bond is in it putting on a silly voice

I have a sudden urge to go re watch Tomb Raider...can't say why...

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null@example.com (Lamer) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:12:25 +0000

Tomahawk wrote:

I fucking bought the Hunger Games Blu-Ray based on critical acclaim and general public praise.

I watched 2001 expecting "the best movie ever made"...

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null@example.com (Tomahawk) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 23:00:50 +0000

I fucking bought the Hunger Games Blu-Ray based on critical acclaim and general public praise.

Guess I'm not listening to any of those fuckers ever again.

.. The movie was alright, but not worth buying. Maybe netflix instant or potential rental.

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null@example.com (Marty J) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:36:30 +0000

The world of The Hunger Games (only the movie - I haven't read any of those books) seems pretty interesting, but the plot doesn't have enough substance to it. It reminds me a little of The Chronicles Of Riddick. The action can be entertaining, but it's a one-time watch.

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null@example.com (MadBadCoyote) — Sun, 21 Apr 2013 17:03:07 +0000

I'm with ya on hunger games. I thought it was pretty meh. Haven't checked out the books tho