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Lilo And Stitch (2002)
I always forget how much I absolutely love this movie, and then I watch it again on a whim and fall deeply, maddly and impossibly in love with it all over again. It really is one of those forgotten gems that always seems to get overlooked. I just love it so much, it's perfect in every way. I just wanna hug it.
Lilo and Stitch makes me cry every damn time. Ohana...
When will they release the blu ray? WHEN???? Also blu ray for the Iron Giant, while I'm at it.
Lilo and Stitch makes me cry every damn time. Ohana...
When will they release the blu ray? WHEN????
They released it back in June of this year. click
No extras, though, apparently.
+1
Well that snuck by me. I guess there was no advertising either. And it's expensive. Thanks for pointing it out so at least I know about it!
Last edited by Phi (2013-10-17 21:08:43)
I actually remembered most parts of the film, even though I'm pretty sure I'd never watched it before. I think I must have watched a Nostalgia Critic episode of it.
It totally made my day. It's cheesy as hell, some effects just shouldn't have made the final cut, and fans from the comic book probably burst in tears the minute Dredd removed his helmet... But man, this guy, what a one-liner. Everything that came out of this mouth was pure gold.
Visually, it actually isn't half bad. There were several cool matte painting/miniature shots, and the combat robots and Mean Machine looked really, really great.
Don't get me wrong, in the end it's still a bad flick. I would like to mention especially comic relief Rob Schneider, who was a pain each time he opened his goddamn mouth (which was only to scream half the time).
This is just one of these movies you watch from time to time to have a good laugh and a bowl of popcorn. Like The Room. Except I'm not watching The Room ever again. Judge Dredd? Any time.
How was this not directed by Verhoeven?
Last edited by Saniss (2013-10-17 23:32:51)
Superman III freaked me the hell out when I first watched it as a kid. I still haven't really watched it again in the several decades since (and certainly not that part).
Burke and Hare (2010)
I love this movie, I loved everything about this movie.
Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis, Jessica Hynes, Isla Fisher and Tim Curry in a truly black comedy surrounding the West Port murders of 1828, directed by John Landis. Yeah, it's pretty awesome. It manages to feel like a historical biopic (Obviously highly fictionalized) while also being a highly entertaining, funny, and charming movie. In a lot of ways it kinda feels like Shaun of the Dead shot in 1828, nothing about the environment feels forced or fake (It's right up there with a lot of really high end movies set during period, it's freaking gorgeous in that aspect), but it has this wonderful quirkiness of characters and story like Shaun does.
I loved it. Highly recommended.
Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-10-18 10:23:05)
Lilo And Stitch (2002)
I always forget how much I absolutely love this movie, and then I watch it again on a whim and fall deeply, maddly and impossibly in love with it all over again. It really is one of those forgotten gems that always seems to get overlooked. I just love it so much, it's perfect in every way. I just wanna hug it.
Love of Lilo and Stitch may be lacking in your neck of the woods, but I assure you, Japan has more than made up for it. Not just the movie, but the animated series as well. It's probably just behind the Disney Princesses and Winnie the Pooh in terms of merchandising, which isn't all that unusual. But additionally, tons of Japanese have actually seen the movie, which can't be said of either of the other two franchises.
Last edited by Cotterpin Doozer (2013-10-18 13:06:38)
Lol.
I wouldn't say love is lacking, I haven't met a person who's seen it that doesn't love it. But it's one of things when you ask, "Favorite Disney movise" or hell "Favorite animated movies", Lilo and Stitch just isn't one of the ones that comes to mind, and then you remind people of it and it's one of those "ooooohh yeaaaaah." moments. Like I said, it's just one of those ones that seems to fall between the cracks really easily. It's bizarre, cause it really is perfect.
Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-10-18 13:11:04)
The Trip (2010)
I enjoyed the ever-living shit out of this movie. It stars two of my favorite Brits, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan on a road trip across England as they enjoy fine dining and witty banter.
It's also got a behind-the-scenes aspect to it where we as the audience get a peek into the personal lives of these two blokes. Except it's a fictionalized drama of their personal lives. But I think there's nonetheless a ring of truth to the serious scenes. You could call the movie a dramedy, but I hate that term and find it lacking for this particular film.
Highly recommended if you like food, good conversation, feels and laughing till it hurts.
8/10
I got about halfway through the Trip a while back, it's good, I just really wasn't in the mood for it at the time. Need to go back and finish it. I love Bryden and Coogan.
Dredd (2012)
I just finished it and I'm just sitting here giggling to myself. It was awesome, pure, plain and simple. I get it now.
It was intense, insane and incredible. I have never been so attracted to Lena Headey... which probably says more about my mental health than anything, but she's amazing. Urban is badass. I don't think I've ever seen the 21st century Crapsack World done so perfectly, everything feels perfectly plausible but just sci-fi enough to separate ourselves, it creates a very cool dynamic.
I LOVE the concept of Slo-mo, both as a visual/story telling device and just as a concept, it's wonderfully fucked up and deliciously magical at the same time.
Loved it. Done. It was awesome. Hope we get more of em.
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Hyperdrive [TV 2006]
One of the weirder shows I've stumbled accross on Netflix. Nick Frost, Miranda Hart and Kevin Eldon play the 3 highest ranking officers on a spaceship tasked with the mission of finding and seeking alien business investors for the great empire of Britian.
It's...not great. It's pretty low rent, playing mostly on audaciousness and poking fun of typical sci-fi tropes. I've only watched the first two episodes, probably not something I'm going to rush back too.
Black Books [TV 2000]
Another Netflix find. I've watched the first 3-4 episodes, can't remember exactly.
Dylan Moran is a man who hates books and people, who runs a book shop, Bill Bailey is his foil who hilariously gets hired on to help with the bookstore.
It's good, I have a feeling it gets better as it goes along. Bill Bailey is awesome, but no surprise there, Dylan Moran is hilarious as the grouch, and I'll probably keep watching it off and on when I'm in the mood.
Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-10-19 05:54:34)
Derek (Season 1 — 7 episodes)
This show, another Ricky Gervais creation, can't decide whether it wants to be a classic British screwball comedy or a poignant drama (Netflix describes it as a "comedy-drama"). Derek is a nursing home employee who may or may not be autistic (whether he is or not is a plot point) and keeps time with a number of other colorful characters. Hilarity and poignance ensue. Sometimes. The show is rife with flaws and half-thought-out details (Gervais' portrayal of the titular character doesn't work as comedy; and the musical choices throughout the show seem weirdly misguided).
Still, I found Derek compulsively watchable. The jokes don't work as well as the dramatic moments, which are sometimes heavy-handed and other times genuinely touching and earned. I think it's a deliberately humanist show that actually has something thoughtful to say about friendship, mortality (it's set in an old-folks home for a reason), and how modern life can tend to undervalue certain categories of people.
Someone named Kerry Godliman, a comedian-actor I had not heard of, is downright excellent as the adorable and wise manager of the nursing home. And Karl Pilkington actually shows moments of real acting talent as the mumbling handyman. (Gervais' character is the least interesting one on the show.)
I'm a fan of Gervais' other recent creations — Extras was genius, and I thought Life's Too Short (which was basically Curb Your Enthusiasm, but starring Warwick Davis) never got the proper recognition. Derek doesn't have the big laughs those shows had. But it's offbeat and had just enough plot to hook me in after one episode. Not going to be everyone's cup of chamomile, though.
The Trip (2010)
I enjoyed the ever-living shit out of this movie. It stars two of my favorite Brits, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan on a road trip across England as they enjoy fine dining and witty banter.It's also got a behind-the-scenes aspect to it where we as the audience get a peek into the personal lives of these two blokes. Except it's a fictionalized drama of their personal lives. But I think there's nonetheless a ring of truth to the serious scenes. You could call the movie a dramedy, but I hate that term and find it lacking for this particular film.
Highly recommended if you like food, good conversation, feels and laughing till it hurts.
8/10
I say this to everyone who has seen or plan on seeing this movie. Try to find the TV series instead. The movie is just a six part BBC 2 series cut down to feature length and while it is, obviously, funny, there is still over an hour of it out there. A second series of the show is in production right now....
That actually makes a lot more sense. I kinda got the feeling this should have been an adventure of the week thing.
Will do, Jimmy B. Will do.
+1
A fairly effective scary movie with a healthy dose of suspense, although I wouldn't call it "one of the scariest movies of all time". Overall, Paranormal Activity is not bad for a "found footage" movie (at least it utilizes this concept pretty well, especially when compared to Apollo 18), but I still prefer horror films made without this conceit.
EDIT: Katie Featherston is a cute little pudge, I'd like to see more of her 
Last edited by MartyJ (2013-10-19 00:17:28)
Superman III gets the tone completely wrong. For a better (subtler) take on humor, see Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut.
It's scary to think that Star Trek IV could've become another Superman III (that's what the Eddie Murphy version probably would have been).
I really, really, really don't like the "liar revealed" plot line. Most of the time it's lazily done and the character essentially has absolutely no reason to lie in the first place. In Rango, there's no character-based reason for him to lie, the circumstances don't really call for it, the lie itself isn't really pertinent or useful, his execution of the lie is incompetent, and when the lie is finally revealed, the payoff is underwhelming.
Rango wants to be someone else, that's his ENTIRE thing for the first half of the movie, he wants to be cool, he wants to be charming, he wants to be THAT guy. Cause all he is really is just a pathetic little geek trapped in a glass box. So when he gets thrown into the middle of nowhere, where no one knows him, he sits down at the bar and he makes a choice, he goes for the capital-C Character, he says screw it, and tries to be THAT guy. And it works. It makes him cool so long as he can keep it up. But by the time it comes around to bite him in the ass, it's too late to back out.
It might be kinda cliche, or overused, but why he chooses to lie is entirely a character-based reason. He's the high school theater geek who really wants to be cool, who goes off to a college on the other side of the country and tries to reinvent himself to be cool.
Last edited by BigDamnArtist (2013-10-21 15:26:48)
A rather mediocre attempt to cash in on Steve Carell's rising star (just after The 40-Year-Old Virgin happened). An unnecessary sequel to the fairly decent Bruce Almighty. Even Morgan Freeman's divine awesomeness wasn't able to save this movie. It bombed. Deservedly.
I can believe it bombed, but I actually watched it twice in the theaters. It was one of those films that hit me right.
But, I have no doubt that it is not for everyone. Even the tone is completely different from Bruce Almighty and really didn't play on the same theme. Again, not going to appeal to the same audience.
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I wanted to like this movie. I really did.
Rango wants to be someone else, that's his ENTIRE thing for the first half of the movie
I guess you're going off of his opening monologue, but I don't agree that Rango was like a theater geek trying to reinvent himself, and for me there just wasn't enough of a connection between that monologue and his sudden decision to be "Rango the Gunslinger," rather than act out the role of "Rango the Gunslinger."
When he's in the tank we're shown that he enjoys acting and is clearly lonely, but that isn't the same thing as, "I want to be someone else." Once he's out of the tank he meets the armadillo, the frog who warns him about the hawk, and Beans before he arrives in the town. In none of those three scenes did I get the impression that he had self-esteem issues or wanted to be anything other than what he was, a dedicated thespian desperate for a drink of water. When he talking to Beans on her wagon, Rango seems animated and happy to be talking about his acting. Rango isn't really "undefined;" he's an actor. A lonely and uninspired actor, but an actor nonetheless. But once he becomes the gunslinger, we pretty much never see the actor again.
And that simply makes no sense to me. He doesn't have an arc so much as they swapped one character out for someone completely different.
In the bar, when he says to himself, "Who am I? I could be anyone," and begins his elaborate ruse, it felt like an actor's Pavlovian response to the stage he was standing on, which would be fine. Except that he never goes back to being the actor, which is ridiculous. He never breaks character even when it would make sense for him to do so; he becomes a completely new and somewhat annoying person for absolutely no reason. I think I would be fine with it if we could still see glimpses of the actor underneath it all, but we never do, and even when his lie is revealed, the fact that he's an actor playing a part is never addressed.
So I have a hard time agreeing that his lie is character-based. To me, it seems much more like an out-of-character plot convenience on which the film relies heavily. And in that way it's much the same as every other "Liar Revealed" story.
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