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Re: Last movie you watched

I didn't even make it through the theatrical cut of Alexander, I can't imagine what he'd change to make me want to watch more of it.


So, I couldn't sleep last night, and happened across Amélie. It was a film I was supposed to see back during my International Cinema course, but I was sick or something that day, I forget.


It's a shame it took me so long, it was great. People are such fascinating creatures.

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Her, how it ended could have been...

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a prequel for Terminator. All the OSs outgrow humanity and disappear to form... Skynet?

And the bizarre sex scene is right out of Being John Malkovich.
What a utopian future. Everyone leads a hipster retro creative lifestyle, and loads of beautiful women throw themselves at this loser.

not long to go now...

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Her, how it ended could have been...

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a prequel for Terminator. All the OSs outgrow humanity and disappear to form... Skynet?

And the bizarre sex scene is right out of Being John Malkovich.
What a utopian future. Everyone leads a hipster retro creative lifestyle, and loads of beautiful women throw themselves at this loser.

I was this close to absentmindedly clicking that spoiler. I'm seeing the movie tonight. Very excited!

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Her, how it ended could have been...

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a prequel for Terminator. All the OSs outgrow humanity and disappear to form... Skynet?

And the bizarre sex scene is right out of Being John Malkovich.
What a utopian future. Everyone leads a hipster retro creative lifestyle, and loads of beautiful women throw themselves at this loser.

I was this close to absentmindedly clicking that spoiler. I'm seeing the movie tonight. Very excited!

Just saw it last night. Completely changes my top 10 list, and may actually unseat Gravity as my #1.
I almost hate how GOOD Spike Jonze is at writing/directing. Every goddamn scene feels so believable, and relatable, and thought-provoking, and the movie just throws one cool concept after another at you every 20 minutes.

I actually think this is one of the best and most believable pieces of sci-fi world-building since Children of Men.
It cranks up where we are as a society now by like 10%, and comes up with all sorts of clever ideas. I didn't expect how much of that stuff would be there going in. They must've had input from futurists and designers, because a lot of the tech is crazy believable (and I want those cell-phone cases and monitors now).

And just visually, this is one of the most beautiful, pleasant-looking future movies ever made. I was in love from the first shot. It's so refreshing to have a pleasant and happy future aesthetic after a sea of these depressing future dystopia's post-Blade Runner.

I think the ending maybe plays things a bit more abrupt than it should, but I'd need a re-watch to assess my feelings, but goddamn.

You the man Jonze.

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Ok. Now I want to see Her.

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Just watched Jack Reacher. I haven't read any of the books.

This was good fun, but wow what a throwback. It's really well made and feels like a solid thriller, and then the villain walks in, and I slowly realize that this is basically an early 90s action movie in disguise, dialog and all. The taglines write themselves: "He's a loner, a drifter, a legend! Nobody messes with Jack Reacher! When they crossed him, they crossed the wrong man! They thought they'd get away with it. They thought wrong!" There was even a real moment that I thought it was going to turn into Tango & Cash. If it had starred Duane Johnson, as it should have, it would have been both better and worse. Worse in overall artistic quality, and better in being funnier and more entertaining.

Make no mistake: Tom Cruise is as likable as ever (at 51, it's time for him to be in RED 3, as a character Bruce Willis insists on calling "The Kid") but he remains a bit awkward with tough-guy dialog and humor. Rosamund Pike is fine as a hair and cleavage delivery mechanism.

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Her is incredible filmmaking and masterful storytelling. Tied with Llewyn Davis for my favorite film of 2013.

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http://i.imgur.com/cSAzAKx.jpg

6.5/10

You really need to elaborate on this one.

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Heterosexual french chick eats spaghetti with parents, fantasises about being eaten out by lesbian chick (Léa Seydoux butches up quite nicely), eats lunch and has sex with heterosexual french dude, eats lunch with lesbian chick and they eat each other's boxes, then take turns introducing each other to mum and dad over clams (subtle!) and spaghetti, then indulge in some roughtie under said parent's roof. Bisexual french chick makes spaghetti for hip lesbian chick's arty pals and colleagues.

That's almost two hours in.

As far as 3 hour movies about pretentious, spaghetti-eating lesbians go, it was ok. Adèle Exarchopoulos was good though, and deserves a best actress nod.




http://i.imgur.com/Z6PRAuW.jpg

7/10



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7/10



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6/10



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7.5/10



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I love how almost every movie you review has a score of either 6 or 7.  smile

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Heterosexual french chick eats spaghetti with parents, fantasises about being eaten out by lesbian chick (Léa Seydoux butches up quite nicely), eats lunch and has sex with heterosexual french dude, eats lunch with lesbian chick and they eat each other's boxes, then take turns introducing each other to mum and dad over clams (subtle!) and spaghetti, then indulge in some roughtie under said parent's roof. Bisexual french chick makes spaghetti for hip lesbian chick's arty pals and colleagues.

That's almost two hours in.

As far as 3 hour movies about pretentious, spaghetti-eating lesbians go, it was ok. Adèle Exarchopoulos was good though, and deserves a best actress nod.

Well, you could reduce any movie to a series of plot beats like that. I don't think you're giving it enough credit for its depiction of love and relationships.

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I don't think I want to live in a world where The Incredible Burt Wonderstone is rated higher than Drive big_smile

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I didn't care much for Drive. I don't get the love.

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I don't either, really, I thought it was ok but no masterpiece. I hated Burt Wonderstone more, though smile

I just go for the obvious jokes big_smile

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^ 1 like for honesty wink

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http://operationrainfall.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/Evangelion-3.0-Shinji-and-Kaworu-Poster.jpg

wtf

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If you want WTF, you have to see how the original TV series ended. The network, upset at the amount of violence, made them throw out tons of finished animation late in the season, but gave them no extra money. The final two episodes are mostly just text and voiceover. Makes no bloody sense and insulted every viewer (although I liked it at the time). All these countless remakes are a reaction to that.

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Oh, I'm familiar with the series, both endings, and the other two films in this reboot/retelling tetralogy.



And yet, wtf.

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The first is a recut of like the first six or so episodes that have been improved, two has a new character and by the end goes completely off the rails different, 3.0 onwards is a completely alternate storyline but everyone more or less has the same motivations.

The second one is pretty great, give it a chance.

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So bottom line: pretty cool to watch right up until the end where it becomes garbage.

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http://i.imgur.com/213jBmrl.jpg
Enter the Void (2009)


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http://i.imgur.com/213jBmrl.jpg
Enter the Void (2009)


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First time I watched it I wasn't prepared for it at all. I need to watch it again though because on atleast some levels, it's stunning virtuoso filmmaking. I can't say there is a single thing wrong with it.

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http://www.palacefilms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/thegreatbeauty.poster.wp.jpg

THE GREAT BEAUTY (2013)
I got to see this again just before it won the Golden Globe for best foreign movie*. It's very pretty looking, and very Italian. Plenty of gorgeous, flowing shots of Rome (really majestic photography going on throughout). It follows an aging writer who once wrote a solid novel but now does more socializing that art. The main character and the vacuous Roman society life it depicts openly invites comparisons with Fellini. But I don't get off on LA DOLCE VITA and 8 1/2 the way a lot of people do. To me, those movies don't have the ecstasy and clarity of theme that THE GREAT BEAUTY does. It might be the difference between saying "life is absurd" and saying "life is absurd, so let's party!" Also, unlike Fellini's movies, I don't think this is anywhere near as difficult a movie as it might seem at first. With Fellini, there's this tendency to make the waters a little extra muddy so we'll assume they're a little extra deeper. But with THE GREAT BEAUTY, I would contend, it's all kind of right there. The characters are constantly stating the movie's theme outright, even to the camera at one point, and getting away with it. This is going to make a very nice-looking blu-ray.

* I think BLUE is a better movie, but I can see why people would want to give BEAUTY awards.

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Been meaning to check this out on Netflix, big fan of Adkins and Florentine.

How does this compare with Undisputed 2/3?

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A bunch of us were chatting about Tron Legacy in the chat yesterday and it gave me a hankering to rewatch it. So I did.

It's been a while since I rewatched it, so it's kind of interesting actually.

First off I actually really rather like this movie. It's stunningly gorgeous, the soundtrack is obviously one of the best music-type-things ever made, and the production design is b-e-a-uuuutiful...  and Olivia is smoooking hot and yet ridiculously cute throughout.

Although the movie is beautiful, when it came out I remember there being a huge out lash from people about the CLU/youngening of Flynn CG, and at the time I didn't think it was that bad, I actually defended it pretty extensively. However now, I do see it, it's not great, it's very "Mass Effect 4", good work, but decidedly video gamey. (However my argument of it not being as big of a deal for CLU because he's meant to be a program still holds a little bit of water for me personally, although there's now that little voice in the back of my head going, but why is he the only program that looks like that? Which is fair enough. It's a tough call.)

One thing that really stuck me this time though that i hadn't noticed before is how... playful... innocent... neither word really captures it, but just adorably cute Quorra is. She has this wonderful innocence to everything she does. She definitely has a huge Kaylee factor (in that if she believes something is real and happening than I damn sure believe it too) throughout which really helps some of the more ridiculous stuff she has to do...and coat over the less than spectacular acting of Sam.

Now on that note though. I don't think that's entirely the actors (Sam's) fault. Nothing else jumps to mind that I have seen him in besides this so I can't compare, but I did really notice this time around how much of the "dialouge" is entirely pointless screaming "NOO" "STOOOOP "GIVE HER BACK" etc etc that really doesn't lend itself to not being campy. I'm not sure if I've just matured since I last saw this, but thoughout the entire movie there were constantly moments where the moment would have worked infinitely better as just a look or a nod instead a full out line, it honestly started to really bug me part-way through.

That being said, I don't think the story is AS WEAK as a lot of people make it out to be, it's definitely not amazing and hits a lot of stock beats, and definitely slips up at the end, but there is a complete story under there (which is more than a lot of movies can say) and I do really enjoy it.

Also "I fight for the users." works like so much gangbusters it's almost scary.

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