Well, I saw District 9 a while back and declared it as my favorite movie ever. Then I saw Inglorious Basterds about a week after and declared that as my favorite movier ever. Theeen just a few days ago, I saw Zombieland (sorry, Akashayi, there was no getting around it!) and guess what my favorite movie is now? :P
Well, I saw District 9 a while back and declared it as my favorite movie ever. Then I saw Inglorious Basterds about a week after and declared that as my favorite movier ever. Theeen just a few days ago, I saw Zombieland (sorry, Akashayi, there was no getting around it!) and guess what my favorite movie is now? :P
Where the Wild Things Are?
Well, I saw District 9 a while back and declared it as my favorite movie ever. Then I saw Inglorious Basterds about a week after and declared that as my favorite movier ever. Theeen just a few days ago, I saw Zombieland (sorry, Akashayi, there was no getting around it!) and guess what my favorite movie is now? :P
Where the Wild Things Are?
Ahahaha, no. That movie looks pretty terrible, actually.
Wait, Whoopi Goldberg as the cat? Where can I get this movie? I must see it!
Heh, that was the one with Martin Short as the hatter, wasn't it?
I saw 'Passchendaele' a couple of nights ago, it was decent.I didn't even notice that coming out. Just decent? Is it a straight-up war movie, or is it about something else?
Leana and i saw Avatar 3d yesterday, it was awesome!
Just saw District 9. Amazing, amazing movie. I was blown away.
I wanted to see that too, everyone told me great about that moovie. Anyway I saw Avatar yesterday and it was sooooo amazing, the best money-spent-on-cinema since star wars III :-*yeah I liked Avatar quite a bit. More fun than I've had going to the movies in years.
Most of that was filmed near where my (now deceased *sniff*) Grandad lived Umber. He could hear the gun fire going on at all times of day and night. It was filmed on the site of the old DeHaviland aircraft factory/airfield.
I'm about to go to bed but before I do I must cry to the world that Avatar was awesome. :-*dang. i must see avatar. everyone i know is singing its praises. D;
Here's someone who isn't - it was distinctly meh. The visuals were very pretty, with great attention to detail, but frankly, it was a heavy-handed, predictable paint-by-numbers plot with shallow characters, and that beats you over the head with it's "Nature GOOD! Environment GOOD! Capitalism BAD! Hurting environment BAD! Military BAD!" Aesop.I'm about to go to bed but before I do I must cry to the world that Avatar was awesome. :-*dang. i must see avatar. everyone i know is singing its praises. D;
paha. it doesn't sound so great now. just very cliché.dang. i must see avatar. everyone i know is singing its praises. D;Here's someone who isn't - it was distinctly meh. The visuals were very pretty, with great attention to detail, but frankly, it was a heavy-handed, predictable paint-by-numbers plot with shallow characters, and that beats you over the head with it's "Nature GOOD! Environment GOOD! Capitalism BAD! Hurting environment BAD! Military BAD!" Aesop.
It's worth a watch, but not as good as everyone says it is, which is roughly something along the lines of "This movie is so good that it actually feels like it's felating you while you watch it."paha. it doesn't sound so great now. just very cliché.dang. i must see avatar. everyone i know is singing its praises. D;Here's someone who isn't - it was distinctly meh. The visuals were very pretty, with great attention to detail, but frankly, it was a heavy-handed, predictable paint-by-numbers plot with shallow characters, and that beats you over the head with it's "Nature GOOD! Environment GOOD! Capitalism BAD! Hurting environment BAD! Military BAD!" Aesop.
Well, it's basically Braveheart in spacePersonally, I'd rather a ten thousand hairy scotsmen not felate me, thank you.
I saw Alice In Wonderland last week, and it was okay. Very nice to look at, but the plot was rather boring. However, Helena Bonham Carter delivered a very entertaining performance, and some of the 3-D effects were cool.
Avatar: I sort of agree with Churba about the simplistic screenplay, but it still is a wonderful movie. It's all in the storytelling. If you think about it, a few of Cameron's films had simplistic plots and heavyhanded morals (Abyss, Titanic), but were still great to watch.A lot of people seem to say Avatar wasn't as good of a plot since it copies Pocahontas and Dances with wolves, but what those people fail to realize is that Cameron had the screen play for almost 20 years and just refused to make it into a movie until the technology could make the movie at the level he wanted.
If that's twenty years of refinement, he should pay someone who can write a decent fucking movie for him. I don't give a toss if people say "Ooh, it's pocahontas/dances with wolves/the smurfs(not kidding)" because that doesn't matter. It's ham-fisted, Preachy, has all the subtlety of a cannonball, hammers you over the head with the "Consumerisim BAD! Capitalisim BAD! Army BAD! Nature GOOD! Environmentalisim GOOD!" message has holes you can drive a semi truck through, hard-to-like main characters, and characters who are generally about as deep as a puddle of piss on a concrete floor, and whose motivations are so deep and complex that they could easily be replaced by "Err, just because?" and nobody would notice.Avatar: I sort of agree with Churba about the simplistic screenplay, but it still is a wonderful movie. It's all in the storytelling. If you think about it, a few of Cameron's films had simplistic plots and heavyhanded morals (Abyss, Titanic), but were still great to watch.A lot of people seem to say Avatar wasn't as good of a plot since it copies Pocahontas and Dances with wolves, but what those people fail to realize is that Cameron had the screen play for almost 20 years and just refused to make it into a movie until the technology could make the movie at the level he wanted.
If that's twenty years of refinement, he should pay someone who can write a decent fucking movie for him. I don't give a toss if people say "Ooh, it's pocahontas/dances with wolves/the smurfs(not kidding)" because that doesn't matter. It's ham-fisted, Preachy, has all the subtlety of a cannonball, hammers you over the head with the "Consumerisim BAD! Capitalisim BAD! Army BAD! Nature GOOD! Environmentalisim GOOD!" message has holes you can drive a semi truck through, hard-to-like main characters, and characters who are generally about as deep as a puddle of piss on a concrete floor, and whose motivations are so deep and complex that they could easily be replaced by "Err, just because?" and nobody would notice.Avatar: I sort of agree with Churba about the simplistic screenplay, but it still is a wonderful movie. It's all in the storytelling. If you think about it, a few of Cameron's films had simplistic plots and heavyhanded morals (Abyss, Titanic), but were still great to watch.A lot of people seem to say Avatar wasn't as good of a plot since it copies Pocahontas and Dances with wolves, but what those people fail to realize is that Cameron had the screen play for almost 20 years and just refused to make it into a movie until the technology could make the movie at the level he wanted.
again, since it was created such a long time ago it was more in the age of people wanting effects and not storyline (which i have come to the conclusion that we are at such a level now that people actually care about story) and i dont think he really re-wrote it much from the time he came up with the storylineIf that's twenty years of refinement, he should pay someone who can write a decent fucking movie for him. I don't give a toss if people say "Ooh, it's pocahontas/dances with wolves/the smurfs(not kidding)" because that doesn't matter. It's ham-fisted, Preachy, has all the subtlety of a cannonball, hammers you over the head with the "Consumerisim BAD! Capitalisim BAD! Army BAD! Nature GOOD! Environmentalisim GOOD!" message has holes you can drive a semi truck through, hard-to-like main characters, and characters who are generally about as deep as a puddle of piss on a concrete floor, and whose motivations are so deep and complex that they could easily be replaced by "Err, just because?" and nobody would notice.Avatar: I sort of agree with Churba about the simplistic screenplay, but it still is a wonderful movie. It's all in the storytelling. If you think about it, a few of Cameron's films had simplistic plots and heavyhanded morals (Abyss, Titanic), but were still great to watch.A lot of people seem to say Avatar wasn't as good of a plot since it copies Pocahontas and Dances with wolves, but what those people fail to realize is that Cameron had the screen play for almost 20 years and just refused to make it into a movie until the technology could make the movie at the level he wanted.
Saw Inception not too long ago, and I agree with a review I read that the film looked very good but was emotionally lacking at points. Excellent editing and action sequences, though.(http://bit.ly/bF26J3)
I want to see Scott Pilgrim vs. the world.the only problem is i hate the lead actor (not to mention can never remember his name) due to his voice and overall acting like a pussy
It looks real fun! :D
Nobody's perfect. ;)
Well, to be fair, It's EXACTLY his kinda role - Kinda hopeless guy awkwardly going after the girl of his dreams.Nobody's perfect. ;)
Michael Cera is perfect.
Perfectly pathetic. He ruined that movie for me.
Well, the movie wasn't my style that much anyways. Too hipsterish.
Well, to be fair, It's EXACTLY his kinda role - Kinda hopeless guy awkwardly going after the girl of his dreams.
Seriously, that's Cera in every movie.
Though, I do think that the Cera-hate is getting a little too trendy-bullshit for my taste, to the point where I've spoken to people who hate him for being a terrible actor, and not funny - without seeing 99% of his output. Usually, they've only seen one movie, or a few episodes of Arrested Development, if anything at all. Nothing against you, CDSM, just as a general comment.
Though, I'd really like you to define hipsterish - From what I've seen and noted as is generally thought to be "Hipster", this movie is damn near the perfect antithesis of it. Big Marketing Machine, Midnight releases, Massive special effects and CGI, Mainstream pop culture references and some really big, well known bands working with it(for example - Beck wrote all of the music for Sex bom-omb, though the actors actually performed it for the movie) for a start. I mean, Fair enough you don't like the movie, it wasn't perfect, but hipsterish it most definitely was not.
Well, I've seen several of his deals, including, on a regrettably bored and forlorn late afternoon-evening, Year One. Of course, I disliked him from the instant I saw him, so I guess I still fall into that mold.Nah, that's entirely fair. Like I said, it's just the people who do it because it's trendy, they piss me off.
Hipsterish is like emo, it means whatever you want it to me in a vague, undefined sense.I don't think that's valid - I mean, yeah, emo - as an example - can mean whatever you want, but it's not like you're going to call the happy, socially and academically successful jock who listens to hip-hop and has no significant personal problems an emo, it's the kid with few friends, listening to My Chemical Romance alone in their room, with the goth-ish clothing, writing shitty poetry about pain and suffering, then scratching themselves for attention and calling it cutting, that who you'd call emo. If you distill down to the shared properties of the people you call Emo, you come to a decent definition.
It was based on a hipsterish comic book, anyway.
As for the comic book - Well, it wasn't really hipsterish, again. It lacked everything that one would think of as the properties of a hipster work, other than that it wasn't mainstream, until you consider the medium - In the comic book world, it was VERY mainstream, some seriously hot property. Again, I don't think it's hipsterish, and really, if you apply the definition too broadly, you end up with a useless definition.
^Good one, on Paprika. I loved that film! Same dude did Millenium Actress and "Perfect Blue." Both good films, also.
All of Satoshi Kon's movies are fantastic... Perfect Blue, Milenium Actress, Paprika, and Tokyo Grandfathers. It's a real shame that dude is gone.