Random Movie Talk That Probably Doesn't Deserve Its Own Thread (Page 28 of 42)

Yeah, considering it's basically Escape from New York in space, it isn't half bad.  Guy Pearce is clearly enjoying himself in his role.  I do wonder what happened with the bike chase sequence -- it feels like they green lit the pre-viz.

Make popcorn, check brain at door, enjoy.

"Seriously, who the fuck smokes anymore?"

You do know about the unrated version, right ?!    - maybe for that version they reinserted all the awesome. 

Darn it. I guess they just chose not to go the Salt route and bring out an unrated version worthy of that 2nd dipping. 

Last edited by Fido (2013-03-24 18:49:01)

Saw Lockout and can only remember the part where they jump out of the space station and go into immediate freefall, because, you know, being in orbit is just like being really reallly high up in the sky. That and the whole inanity of the let's put our dangerous prisoners in a station above the earth thing made me roll me eyes a bit.

But I vaguely remember enjoying the whole thing despite these two complaints.

I just saw Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai, which is another remake from Takashi Miike and is yet another case of the original (by Kobayashi) being much better. Throughout the whole thing, I was wondering what the point of remaking it was (besides telling the story in colour). I don't know, maybe someone who hasn't seen the original would like it (and perhaps end up preferring it due to its more modern look)?

I'm really curious how they deal with the events of Chronicles. I mean, once you've jumped down that rabbit hole, it's kinda hard to climb out again. I have high hopes, though.

I watched Hara-Kiri a few weeks ago, and I almost made a thread for it because of one scene. I've not seen the original so I can't compare, but the new one has what could be the single most depressing scene ever filmed. It got to the point where by the end I was actually laughing at how ridiculous it was.

I did really like the movie a lot, tho. I'll have to watch the original to compare. I thought they were a bit heavy-handed with the theme at the end, but Miike's version of 13 Assassins did the same thing, so maybe that's just a thing he likes to do in his flicks.

Technically it's being really really high up in the sky, while going really fucking fast. So you know...half marks for that one.

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Are those regular 'splosions or BIGsplosions?

I'm looking forward to reveling in non-content and a Darth Maul reprise.

I watched Wreck-It Ralph and Life of Pi the other day. Ralph was a lot of fun, altho I thought some of the voices were kind of weak choices.

Pi was terrific, and I quite liked the semi-ambiguous ending. However, I really don't think that ending needed 45 minutes of setup. The whole first act could go, in my opinion, with the exception of shortened versions of the interview start and the story about Pi's name.

I sort of stumbled across a diamond in the rough on Netflix yesterday. My buddy and I often watch cheesy b to z-grade movies on instant and riff on them, but we watched one called "Stake Land" that turned out to actually be really good.

The name made us assume that it'd be pretty schlocky, but it ended up being a well made character story with some nice twists on vampire lore and a post-apocalyptic setting. It's a movie that's not afraid to take its time and trusts the audience, which was far and beyond anything we were expecting. It also had setups and payoffs that worked well, and questions and complaints we made near the beginning of the film were actually answered and resolved before the film ended. It actually sort of reminded me of "Monsters", but I ended up liking this even more than "Monsters." I definitely give it my recommendation.

Apparently this was all the rage in the 1950's?

I just don't know...

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