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Just watched Evolution for the first time. Pretty fun movie.
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1,553 2015-06-28 14:36:35
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Pretty nice movie night this evening. Watched both "Heavenly Creatures" and "Taxi Driver" in what amounted to 4 hours of studying troubled characters. Really recommend both. "Heavenly Creatures" in particular starts off a bit off-kilter tone-wise, but once you get into it and the story progresses I really fell into it quite nicely.
Taxi Driver is, in a general sense, the slow-jazz version of Nightcrawler with De Niro substituted for Gyllenhaal. Also very recommended. Martin Scorsese has a very memorable and well-acted cameo that I wasn't expecting.
1,556 2015-07-11 13:45:26
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Genisys is like a really bad youtube fan film. Looks like garbage, the writing/acting is bizarrely trying to be Whedony-self-aware which is like the worst idea on the planet for a terminator movie. Not a single memorable action sequence, and the first hour is largely people standing around giving boring exposition. I don't even feel comfortable calling it a movie. Like, it makes Terminator Salvation look good, and that movie is a total piece of shit.
T3 looks downright great by comparison now. I'm also thinking we need to step back and stop giving popular tv directors big franchise movies, because if Alan Taylor is anything to judge by, these guys have no idea wtf they're doing.
1,557 2015-07-11 15:07:22
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I had no idea who the director was, but I just got out of the movie and it did indeed feel like a mediocre two-part episode of a television series. And such an ugly thing to look at, too.
1,559 2015-07-12 15:30:09
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A big problem is that small-to-mid-range genre movies don't exist anymore for the most part, which means up-and-coming filmmakers don't have a chance to hone their craft and develop a voice.
James Cameron didn't jump straight into mega-budget filmmaking, people forget he started on Piranha 2, then Terminator, then Aliens. It wasn't until the Abyss he was really working at a scale comparable to a modern-day blockbuster (even that was only 70 mil, so about 140 mil today, not even on the higher end of a lot of these movies).
If he jumped straight from Terminator to T2, or Titanic, it probably wouldn't have been nearly as good
1,560 2015-07-12 16:44:53
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I don't think you can use Cameron as a comparison, as he was writing his films. Piranha 2 was the only time (I think) he was basically doing work for hire. The rest were original projects he somehow got funding for. Even Aliens was a case of talking the studio into resurrecting an old movie.
1,561 2015-07-12 20:39:40 (edited by fireproof78 2015-07-13 18:26:52)
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1,563 2015-07-13 14:00:44
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Guys. Not to be the asshole, but spoiler tag that shit or move it to the spoiler thread for JW please.
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1,564 2015-07-13 18:08:07
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Boter, formerly of TF.N as Boter and DarthArjuna. I like making movies and playing games, in one order or another.
1,565 2015-07-13 20:02:40
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It must be an expectations thing. I saw it in theaters, and thought it was horrid. That was even without ever playing the games, just taking it at face value. Maybe I could watch it now and enjoy the badness.
1,566 2015-07-14 11:08:09
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I do enjoy Wing Commander for the badness, but the one thing that stuck out to me was the aliens (don't ask me to recall their names-I never played the game). I just never bought them as a villain.
Beyond that, it was ok sci-fi action.
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1,567 2015-07-14 13:52:42
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They're mostly absent as well. The visual effects didn't quite work for them, so that's probably why they are hidden or sir not appearing in this film. I warm to the movie with each viewing, perhaps because I'm just a sucker for space combat movies. There are a few great scenes that I picture in my mind when I think of the movie - there's a great bit at the end I always like for instance. I like the cocky pilots bantering stuff too.
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1,568 2015-07-15 19:49:15
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I'm always a fan of pilots in space, so that's why I enjoy it so much.
It just could have done better with a different villain, but it does lend something to their menace that they are hardly present.
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1,571 2015-07-19 09:31:29
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1,573 2015-08-01 13:05:44 (edited by Abbie 2015-08-01 14:36:21)
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