Only God Forgives: A 4 minute music video turned into a 90 minute movie by extending every cut.
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Only God Forgives: A 4 minute music video turned into a 90 minute movie by extending every cut.
It's a piece of shit.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
In other news, download Oblivion NOW! I thought that movie was really fun to watch!
Glad you said it. That's the only thing I can say when referring to this movie. Have not seen it, but that's what hits my mind when I read this title.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jumper Bones
Enjoyed This Is The End.
Need to see Superman.
Saw Pacific Rim(job) tonight
pretty entertaining, special effects were bonkers
I feel like we need some sort of standardized rating system for movies here. I'll throw this out there:
My buddies and I have, since high school, used the Hustler magazine movie rating system. I think it works better than stars or thumbs up or down or whatever. A movie can get one of 5 ratings.
Totally limp
1/4 erect
1/2 mast
3/4 erect
Fully erect
so, Pacific Rim - 3/4 erect
Pacific Rim - If you want to see godzilla monsters fighting gigantic mechs, this is your movie. See it in 3D and enjoy. There's thankfully very little attempt at some sort of dumb love story, primarily just big things fighting. Fucking rad. Great score that has Tom Morello on it too.
I too am fried on cocktail liberals but I had no idea you'd cotton to Republicans.Quote:
Originally Posted by splat
C'mon SOMEBODY see "wolverine" this weekend!!!
I know it will be terrible, but I want so bad for it to be good
Took the wife, and daughter to a last minute movie.
They wanted to see The Heat with Sandra Bullock, and Melissa McCarthy.
It had its stupid parts for sure, but I laughed really hard at a lot of it..
Must recommend.
I liked End of Watch.
Yo! bobby, dude...CURRENT movie thread.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
I liked it as well. Now on Netflix streaming
watched wolverine last evening. I don't really know what to think... It certainly was better than the last one, but still could have been better. they always ruin these movies with the god-damn love interests.
I'd give it a partially erect rating
Hmmm "better than the last one" isnt really saying much..
So, is your rating 1/4 erect? Or half mast. big difference
ha, that was the joke. the first one was a pile of steaming shit!Quote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
i'd give it a 3/5 for not enough cool action, kinda dumb ending.
If you just saw this in a theater, you must live in Latvia. That said, I really enjoyed it. Great dialogue and solid acting. Not a "thinking" movie but very entertaining, none the less.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bobby Stainless
Saw a screening for "We're the Millers" last night. Definitely this summer's must-see comedy and incredibly funny. Jen Aniston makes every women in their 40s hate her.
SPOILER ALERT dont read if you want to see Wolverine
Which ending? the lame one on the plane? or the one after some of the credits had rolled with Magneto and Professor X???Quote:
Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
or just the stupid fight with the giant conputer generated, somehow all adamantium, robot samurai with the flaming swords who could somehow steal Logans regenerative powers through his claws???
END SPOILER I'd give it 1/4 erect. the fight on top of the bullet train made it move a little bit
The stupid fight with the cg samurai. Dum way to end. Like a frail old guy could take those kinds of falls or hits, even in a suit...Quote:
Originally Posted by Diamond Joe
Train scene was cool Tho.
Must see suggestion of the summer: 'the way, way back'
Funny and endearing. Nice to take a break from the summer fluff and watch a great movie with soul
The Conjuring was a solid flick. I recommend it
I agree with Pet...The way way back was very good.
The kid with the eye patch was hilarious!
Seriously.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
I had some high expectations, but was disappointed. At least I had some good beers while watching it so not a complete waste
on the better: Wasteland - brit crime flick. enjoyable, not fantastic.
beers is good.
I saw 2 Guns Yesterday, it was OK. But i am getting a bit Jaded, so maybe its good. Typical Walberg Lots of Shooting, dry humor. I recommend it.
Thank for info on Pacific Rim.
I will go watch that next Tuesday for 4.25$ at the drive in. Not that the Money matters but I like the drive in and when I pay 4.25 I feel satisfied that I got Value.
I also Saw Lone Ranger, It was OK. and it was a different twist on the classic Lone Ranger Story Line. = Its OK to see within the current crop of movies.
I went to see "Wolverine" last weekend, big thumbs down.
Hugh Jackman didn´t even get his kit off properly FFS, where´s the fun in that????
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Originally Posted by Hugh Conway
I just saw Only God Forgives tonight and was completely enthralled.Quote:
Originally Posted by abraham
If you're not a fan of the films of Alejandro Jodorowsky (whom the film is dedicated to) or Gaspar Noe (who is thanked in the end credits), then I could see where folks would end up not liking it.
I totally dug it, as it contained lots of elements culled from some of my favorite directors: I saw bits and pieces of Stanley Kubrick, Ridley Scott, Neil Jordan, David Lynch, David Cronenberg, Peter Greenaway, Brian DiPalma, Dario Argento, Ken Russell, Alan Parker, Luc Besson, Johnnie To, Sam Peckinpah, John Woo, Wong Kar Wai, Jean-Pierre Melville, Paul Verhoeven (his Dutch language films), and Ryuhei Kitamura floating throughout the film, which was totally cool to me. Heck, several times during the film I thought "this hella reminds me of Jororowsky" and "wow, this scene brings to mind Gaspar Noe's Irreversible" and then their names popped up in the credits.
The crazed mother character was a throwback to obsessive mother exploitation films (The Baby and countless others), not to mention some of the more psychotic characters that have populated David Lynch's early films, not to mention turning Willie S's Oedipal complex on its head; the key fight sequence reminded me of scenes from Aragami; the use of lush, saturated colors recalled The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover, as well as the films of Argento; lots of shots reminded me of early D. Lynch, especially the karaoke moments. The violence harkened to Noe and some of the other New French Extremity directors; I was also reminded of Charles Bronson's body of work from the late '70s and early '80s for some reason (perhaps it was the whole revenge motif). The score/music was amazing and used to wonderful effect throughout the film (too often in Hollywood films the score is underplayed or too overpowering and is not used to good effect, here it actually added a ton of depth to the film).
The film was like a giant homage to the modern greats of cinema, imho.
In many ways (to me, at least), Refn is a more visual Tarantino (I always have viewed QT as a more dialogue-driven director, whereas Refn is definitely placing the majority of his emphasis on the look of the film and the composition of the shorts--something that a lot of the French and Italian directors I admire have done over the years, having the images move the story along in lieu of copious amounts of dialogue; don't get me wrong, I love dialogue, but Refn's films are impactful with minimal dialogue, which is cool).
While not as gripping as Drive, Only God Forgives reinforces that Nicolas Winding Refn has become one of my favorite directors, a dude with what is becoming a signature vision that can be seen throughout all of his films from his early Danish drug saga Pusher to his paranoir Fear X, in Bronson and into Valhalla Rising.
Nice film critique parody. Well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
well, when nothing happens, it's really easy to impose a critique on something. I was running about 9:10 that dookey would love it.
PS
I forgot to include Terrence Malick and Sergio Leone to the list of obvious influences on NWR and Only God Forgives.
FWIW, saw trailers for these last night. They look intriguing and all are opening in the theaters soon:
But you left out Michael Bay and M. Night Shyamalan.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Holy fuck Zhang Ziyi is still so hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by dookey67
Seen Elysium - cool flick in the action / effects but weak predictable story and plot. Oblivion was much better.
I kind of agree on Elysium. It was a cool flick. I would have liked to have seen more of the space ship and more expansive view of what Earth was like.
It was cool how they made LA seem like it was Mexico. Matt Damon was basically the only white dude around!
Kruger was a total bad ass though.
The earth didn't look that bad to live on, it looked like Juarez, like they couldn't of made an Elysium on an island or something???
I, too was disappointed in Eleeeeeeeeeeesium (as opposed to Elisium, the way I've always pronounced and heard Elysium); let my expectations run away with me. Character development - zilch; story - brief/truncated; silly robot talk by all humans (not just Matty Boy) - WTF. Don't know if I'd go so far as to say Oblivion was better, though
Sci-fi, one of my favorite genres. ....almost always a letdown.Quote:
Originally Posted by PB
med-bays, got em in every home in elysium, but not even a single one on earth?!? dumb
Lovelace - Amanda Seyfried sucks a mean popsicle.
The whole technology of Elysium seemed a hodge podge of improbables - the med-bay technology seemed so far above anything else, I could only conclude that visiting aliens had left them behind for some silly reason.Quote:
Originally Posted by My Pet Powder Goat
Finally saw Pacific Rim: Top Gun with giant robo and monsters. Great FX, but the character development was seriously lacking and the dialogue was pretty bad (not Transformers bad, but close...why can't they spring for a decent script to match the FX in films like these?)
Finally saw Iron Man Three: started out sluggish, but picked up nicely. Definitely an improvement over Two, but not as stellar as One. Still, it was one of the better "Summer Blockbusters" this year.
Saw Woody Allen's latest film, "Blue Jasmine", last night. While I'm slightly indifferent due to his way of just ending a movie without resolve, Cate Blanchett gave one hell of an Oscar-worthy performance. She goes through an incredible downward spiral similar to the Sara Goldfarb character in "Requiem for a Dream." Decent movie but wait for the DVD.
Elysium was horrible. I am embarrassed for myself for spending money on that piece of shit. Hear I thought, hey its got Jodi Foster, she was in Contact which was one of the best scifi movies ever, its got Jason Bourne, and its by the District 9 dude which was a pretty decent movie, what can go wrong? Everything apparently.