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I'll hand it to you, that does indeed look amazing, in a very disturbing way
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I may have mentioned it in some other thread, but as a kid I thought Alien and Outland were in the same movie universe. It helped that both novelizations were written by Alan Dean Foster, but there was the same theme of evil space corporations uniting them. The idea of a series of movies, all independent but in the same "world", was great.
381 2012-10-08 21:14:04 (edited by bullet3 2012-10-08 21:15:32)
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For my birthday, I got The Raid on Blu Ray and Cabin In The Woods Blu Ray Steelbook!
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While it's definitely not a good movie, I don't think the politics or message are problematic. I have no problem with a military porn movie that glorifies soldiers and is unambiguously behind what they do. Given that literally EVERY single other war or military movie nowadays is about how the CIA are evil, and how the government and military are corrupt and out to get you, it's almost a subversion to have an 80s style "lets kill all the evil terrorists" movie.
Where it fails miserably is as you said, the complete and utter lack of story, characters, or acting.
Some of the delivery's are just so absurdly bad.
I do think there's some cool action beats, I like the whole boat rescue and assault on the compound early on, and I think the interrogation scene is very well done as well (apparently the guy was a real military interrogator, given fake information about the fake bad guy, and told to carry out a real interrogation on him).
But ya, it's a pretty big failure overall, kinda watchable once as a rental but that's about it.
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So, a random bit I heard on the radio is that Arnold Schwarzenegger is reprising his role as Conan the Barbarian in the "Legend of Conan."
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt said in the Nerdist podcast that he wrote and directed an upcoming film called Don Jon's Addiction. He also said he cast Tony Danza as his dad!
TONY DANZA!!!! 
388 2012-10-27 14:20:34 (edited by bullet3 2012-10-27 14:46:52)
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I saw CLOUD ATLAS and I'm planning to write a review, but it's gonna take some time for me to get my thoughts together.
Short version is it's awesome and you should go see it.
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I agree with Dorkman. CLOUD ATLAS is amazing and not to be missed. I need to digest it a little more, but it's probably my favorite movie of the year (so far).
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It's not released in the UK until February! Son of a crack ho!
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Well, you bastards have Skyfall already, so consider us even. 
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Ha, fair enough
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It's hard to see Cloud Atlas as a good movie, based on the trailer. I have no idea what's going on most of the time, what kind of genre it is, and who it's about.
But then again, I thought Avengers would suck.
397 2012-10-28 05:11:30 (edited by BigDamnArtist 2012-10-28 05:14:48)
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So...watched Pirate Radio last night. Loved the hell out of it. It was so charmingly quirky and indie until it was very very clearly not done on an indie budget (If you've seen, you know what I'm talking about), but even then it still felt wonderfully quirky and indie. The entire cast was amazing, but really, that much comedic talent in one place, how could it not be?
If you have no clue what I'm talking about, we've got, Bill Nighy, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Nick Frost, Kenneth Branagh, Jack Davenport, January Jones, Emma Thompson (Plus like 25 other amazing actors that I don't know by name) in this wonderfully weird little movie about a pirate radio station transmitting from a boat anchored just off the coast of Great Britain in the 60's as they bring the suppressed rock and roll to the masses, while the English gov't (Namely Branagh and Davenport) tries to take them off the air, by any means necessary. It's like a coming of age story wrapped up in a twisted history of rock and roll, all in this exaggerated universe just barely skimming the line of farcical.
I think it's needless to say at this point, but definitely recommended.
@Vidina: I have very purposefully told myself that I won't be making any judgements or really even thinking about Cloud Atlas until I see it. I just have no idea what to make of it, and any attempts to try could only be detrimental. So for now, I live in a state of forcible ignorance.
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398 2012-10-28 06:55:03 (edited by Zarban 2012-10-28 07:08:01)
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400 2012-10-28 09:54:52 (edited by bullet3 2012-10-28 09:55:26)
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