The Movie Thread

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217258#msg217258 date=1312169090]
I can't wrap my head around how they made a movie called "Cowboys and Aliens" unbearably boring.

Because, like Snakes on a Plane, it was all too forced maybe?  I haven't seen Cowboys and Aliens, so I'm just going off what I've heard, but that's what I'd assume is the culprit.
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The problem is that they've got this great premise, but they don't do anything with it. It's just a straight-forward western with aliens.

[HeK]

Killer Elite (2011) Movie Theatrical Trailer HD - Robert De Niro Clive Owen Jason Statham

Epic tough-guy movie.

[KarthXLR]

Watched John Carpenter's The Thing. Really good for a horror movie. Grotesque special effects.

[Black Aspen]

Watched John Carpenter's The Thing. Really good for a horror movie. Grotesque special effects.

That's one of my favourite movies of all time.  There's prequel coming out sometime soon, also called "The Thing".  Takes place three days before the events of the Carpenter film.

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217334#msg217334 date=1312217978]
Watched John Carpenter's The Thing. Really good for a horror movie. Grotesque special effects.

That's one of my favourite movies of all time.  There's prequel coming out sometime soon, also called "The Thing".  Takes place three days before the events of the Carpenter film.
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The Thing (2011) Trailer

[zaneyard]

watchmen was awesome

[Spore]

watchmen was awesome

Easily one of my top 3 favorite superhero movies.

[Vandamguy]

Hesher - Official Trailer [HD]

is gon be watched toooniiiiiiteee

[[SiN] Merc]

watchmen was awesome

Saturday Morning Watchmen

[at0m]

Merc link=topic=947.msg217482#msg217482 date=1312254173]
[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=947.msg217351#msg217351 date=1312224409]
watchmen was awesome

Saturday Morning Watchmen
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[Squishy3]

[quote author=[SiN] Merc link=topic=947.msg217482#msg217482 date=1312254173]
[quote author=zaneyard link=topic=947.msg217351#msg217351 date=1312224409]
watchmen was awesome

Saturday Morning Watchmen
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[/quote]i thought everybody who's been to this forum has seen that

[KarthXLR]

Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

[Ianki]

Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

You're a horrible person.

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217619#msg217619 date=1312344278]
Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

You're a horrible person.
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Mind giving some reasons?  :-\

I really want to know why this is such a highly rated movie.

[HeK]

[quote author=Ianki link=topic=947.msg217623#msg217623 date=1312344947]
[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217619#msg217619 date=1312344278]
Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

You're a horrible person.
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Mind giving some reasons?  :-\

I really want to know why this is such a highly rated movie.
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Because it's genuinely unique and creative; it strongly conveys emotion.

[Luinbariel]

[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217624#msg217624 date=1312345310]
[quote author=Ianki link=topic=947.msg217623#msg217623 date=1312344947]
[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217619#msg217619 date=1312344278]
Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

You're a horrible person.
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Mind giving some reasons?  :-\

I really want to know why this is such a highly rated movie.
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Because it's genuinely unique and creative; it strongly conveys emotion.
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This exactly.

At first when we started watching it I also hated it. But as it went on the idea became so... fucking awesome that I had to love it. It's so fucking unique. And at the risk of sounding silly, I think it explores the desire to know what it's like to be someone else, to be another sex, to be anything in a way that people might not expect; literally, through their eyes.
I also thought it was funny that after living it up as someone else, when they go back to their own lives, they are "dumped in a ditch". Way to symbol.

[KarthXLR]

[quote author=HeK link=topic=947.msg217659#msg217659 date=1312376572]
[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217624#msg217624 date=1312345310]
[quote author=Ianki link=topic=947.msg217623#msg217623 date=1312344947]
[quote author=Karth link=topic=947.msg217619#msg217619 date=1312344278]
Being John Malkovich was beyond terrible. If I could express how much I hated the film in words, I would.

If you enjoyed it, PLEASE EXPLAIN WHY

I can't wrap my mind around how anyone could enjoy such a bleak, mean-spirited, unlikable film such as this, and yet it has critical acclaim! Why!?

You're a horrible person.
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Mind giving some reasons?  :-\

I really want to know why this is such a highly rated movie.
[/quote]

Because it's genuinely unique and creative; it strongly conveys emotion.
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This exactly.

At first when we started watching it I also hated it. But as it went on the idea became so... fucking awesome that I had to love it. It's so fucking unique. And at the risk of sounding silly, I think it explores the desire to know what it's like to be someone else, to be another sex, to be anything in a way that people might not expect; literally, through their eyes.
I also thought it was funny that after living it up as someone else, when they go back to their own lives, they are "dumped in a ditch". Way to symbol.
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Glad to finally get a reason. But I guess I'm in a very small minority here.

[zaneyard]

started watching "The Pacific" last night

holy shit this is intense.

[Trace]

started watching "The Pacific" last night

holy shit this is intense.

It's pretty good, but I liked Band of Brothers better. To me the story in Band of Brothers flowed better because the characters weren't in different places, The Pacific feels disjointed to me in that sense.

[Ianki]

Just watched Captain America.

I can't believe no one told me that the android human torch made a small cameo.  This entire thing was a giant love letter to 1940's comic books.  Even the plotting is the same quick-plotting, 100 pages of exposition in a single-frame style story telling of those real early comics.  Wonderful.




If i had 100 million dollars, i would make a live action recreation of the human torch/namor fight over new york city.