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"Luckily, the lady they love is made of steel."
Metallurgy fail.
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1244668/reference
I`m always a little proud when german movies are half decent. This one is fun, although its strenghts are more in tone than in complex characters. Left me with a warm and fuzzy feeling. And it always helps when you like the love interest.
Trailer with english subs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua86x-J4ubA
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The Call
Thriller in the vein of "Cellular". Small movie with a surprisingly engaging plot and solid performances which ultimately is completely let down by having a 13 year old, who has watched nothing but teen slashers, write the ending.
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Syl wrote:
I`m always a little proud when german movies are half decent.
Syl, did you see The Door ("Die Tür") with Mads Mikkelsen? I quite liked that one.
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No, haven´t seen this one, i´ll give it a go, thx
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Stoker... ambitious, inventive cinematography in the vein of A Single Man and Mr Nobody. And a Clint Mansell score.
not long to go now...
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To The Wonder
Terrence Malicks new film. Beautiful visuals and sound design, but the rest of it does not have nearly the appeal I found in Tree Of Life.
The characters in The Tree Of Life are shown minimalistically, we see only glimpses of their lives, but they do feel like living, breathing people that we follow through moments, and I could connect to the main story of family, brothers, and the religion aspects.
Here there are not really even characters, basically. You don't really know the first thing about them. They don't say much of anything, they don't do much of anything. Where Tree Of Life showed characters in life both old and young, and where you could get atleast a sense of where they fit in to the world of the film, here we just spend time with characters with unknown backstory, unknown work descriptions, unknown friends, unknown interests, unknown everything. Tree Of Life showed us moments through life of the characters doing things or being exposed to situations and choices. To The Wonder feels flat and one-dimensional, characters frozen in time. The film ponders what love is, but we hardly see anything resembling love in the film, other than people kissing or running through windswept fields.
To sum up, if you really love the look of beautiful cinematography shot masterfully on film (I could spend the entire film just looking at the color, highlight saturation and shadow detail in it), see it. If you thought the Tree Of Life was unrewarding storywise, this is far more abstract and almost non-dimensional.
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Haven't seen it since I was 8, saw the Stan Winston School bts today (Which is pretty cool to see btw, check it), thought I'd give it a rewatch. Still a damn fun little movie. Wish we had more like it today.
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I agree, loved Small Soldiers as a kid, and it holds up quite well. It's unusually dark and messed up for a kids film, people getting shot with nail-guns, psychotic killer Barbie dolls who try to cut your throat with scissors, wish Pixar was doing stuff like this
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The Call
Thriller in the vein of "Cellular". Small movie with a surprisingly engaging plot and solid performances which ultimately is completely let down by having a 13 year old, who has watched nothing but teen slashers, write the ending.
I agree. The movie was ok until that last third and the morally repugnant ending. Not the best edited movie and it has a really intrusive score by John Debney but it was enjoyable enough until then. Also, the director has an alarming fascination with 16 year old Abigail Breslin being in her bra for the last half hour.
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Recently saw the Bling Ring. I was incredibly disappointed, though it might have been worth the $5 to hear Emma Watson's Valley accent for two hours.
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Jimmy B wrote:
TechNoir wrote:The Call
Thriller in the vein of "Cellular". Small movie with a surprisingly engaging plot and solid performances which ultimately is completely let down by having a 13 year old, who has watched nothing but teen slashers, write the ending.I agree. The movie was ok until that last third and the morally repugnant ending. Not the best edited movie and it has a really intrusive score by John Debney but it was enjoyable enough until then. Also, the director has an alarming fascination with 16 year old Abigail Breslin being in her bra for the last half hour.
Sometimes they hire composers for films that really don't need a noticeable score, and because of the big composer they feel like they have to have him write extensive music for the film, ultimately making it inappropriate.
I recently rewatched Deep Blue Sea, and whilst Trevor Rabins score is pretty darn good (back when he and others didn't just rehash Hans Zimmer), my god it sticks out like a sore thumb. The most epic music is playing for really unremarkable scenes and sequences. Slow motion + epic music does not make everything exciting or awe-inspiring.
Just had to mention it since it was on my brain. Also the bra I didn't really even notice, I guess at that point I was just thinking "yeah, this is pretty much what a nondescript slasher film would be doing. Strap 'em to a chair in a dirty basement."
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Recently saw the Bling Ring. I was incredibly disappointed, though it might have been worth the $5 to hear Emma Watson's Valley accent for two hours.
That was actually somewhat on my radar (cause it's got women in it most likely...), but now I'll probably skip it.
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On a whim, I decided to watch Aliens over the weekend. I realized that although I've seen this movie literally dozens of time when I was a kid, aside from my older brother's favorite catchphrases, I didn't remember anything about it.
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Allison wrote:Recently saw the Bling Ring. I was incredibly disappointed, though it might have been worth the $5 to hear Emma Watson's Valley accent for two hours.
That was actually somewhat on my radar (cause it's got women in it most likely...), but now I'll probably skip it.
I'd say it's worth a matinee ticket or a rental (do those still exist?), but not full price. It just seems lazier than Sofia's other films as far as characterization goes.
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Battle Royale (2000)
It reminded quite a bit of Red Dawn. It's a murder fantasy with all the moral ambiguity wrung out of it* for our hapless heroes but with still enough Lord of the Flies bite to make it interesting social satire about high school.
* The only real fault with the film is how the opening claims that the youth is out of control, but we see only one character act out violently before the students are shipped off.
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Battle Royale (2000)
It reminded quite a bit of Red Dawn. It's a murder fantasy with all the moral ambiguity wrung out of it* for our hapless heroes but with still enough Lord of the Flies bite to make it interesting social satire about high school.
* The only real fault with the film is how the opening claims that the youth is out of control, but we see only one character act out violently before the students are shipped off.
The rest were shipped off due to preordering Grand Theft Auto V and its clear association with high school violence 
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Zarban wrote:Battle Royale (2000)
It reminded quite a bit of Red Dawn. It's a murder fantasy with all the moral ambiguity wrung out of it* for our hapless heroes but with still enough Lord of the Flies bite to make it interesting social satire about high school.
* The only real fault with the film is how the opening claims that the youth is out of control, but we see only one character act out violently before the students are shipped off.
The rest were shipped off due to preordering Grand Theft Auto V and its clear association with high school violence
In the book, they actually make a big deal about how the country has banned both rock music and violent video games since they're a bad influence
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In the book, they actually make a big deal about how the country has banned both rock music and violent video games since they're a bad influence
I'm sure that worked out well...
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Inglourious Basterds...WAYDM bate if I ever saw it 
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Zarban wrote:
Meh.
Yeah. Still don't get the obsession people have with this film.
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Primer is an interesting time travel film to me primarily because it's about time travel.
I know what you mean, but I'd argue that it's really a character drama about a friendship that deteriorates. The science fiction events that occur are very secondary to the way the characters react to them. The film maker is so uninterested in the time travel, that he barely explains what's even going on.
It IS interesting to see a realistic depiction of a garage-based start-up that drives that fractured relationship, tho.
Buster Keaton was the greatest.
It's 45 minutes long. It's on Netflix, Amazon Instant, YouTube, and Vimeo. Go watch it now.
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