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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby notyou2 on Fri Jun 27, 2014 2:18 pm

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TA1LGUNN3R wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are far superior. I really enjoyed them. He drops almost all the pretention and just makes some entertaining movies. I could watch Django over and over. Pulp Fiction I'm not sure I'd even go back for a second run.


That's funny, I thought Django and Basterds were both almost insufferably pretentious. Django is a movie that relies on the righteous slave getting revenge on a slaver, and Basterds is just the same but with Jews and Nazis. It's like watching a propaganda film.

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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby Army of GOD on Mon Jul 21, 2014 12:18 pm

The Purge: Anarchy - 7.9/10


Ok, I admit I'm probably more in love with the concept of the movie than the actual movie, but I really enjoyed it. Enough surprises to keep me on my toes and I really like the theme of "humans are evil, the only thing that stops us from committing crime is laws" because I think it's true.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby BigBallinStalin on Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:46 pm

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are far superior. I really enjoyed them. He drops almost all the pretention and just makes some entertaining movies. I could watch Django over and over. Pulp Fiction I'm not sure I'd even go back for a second run.


That's funny, I thought Django and Basterds were both almost insufferably pretentious. Django is a movie that relies on the righteous slave getting revenge on a slaver, and Basterds is just the same but with Jews and Nazis. It's like watching a propaganda film.

-TG


Yeah, but it's an utterly awesome and epic propaganda film! I wasn't too impressed with Basterds though. Either it's because I'm a fascist, or I think the movie was too played out and the characters were too bland.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby BigBallinStalin on Mon Jul 21, 2014 1:49 pm

Army of GOD wrote:The Purge: Anarchy - 7.9/10


Ok, I admit I'm probably more in love with the concept of the movie than the actual movie, but I really enjoyed it. Enough surprises to keep me on my toes and I really like the theme of "humans are evil, the only thing that stops us from committing crime is laws" because I think it's true.


The Purge series makes no sense.

If there were 'no laws' on one day, and the risk of being attacked was high, then people would contract with defense firms to deter/attack criminals. Obviously, people are buying other security measures like electronic, metal shutters and what not, so why not hire some snipers to chill on your roof? Or pay a yearly fee to the Free Market Security Inc. who'll show up in 3 minutes after receiving your call?

Nope cuz then the movie would be over in 10 min.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby mrswdk on Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:10 pm

BBC wrote:Obviously, people are buying other security measures like electronic, metal shutters and what not, so why not hire some snipers to chill on your roof?


Sounds totally feasible on most people's salaries.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby Army of GOD on Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:11 pm

BigBallinStalin wrote:
Army of GOD wrote:The Purge: Anarchy - 7.9/10


Ok, I admit I'm probably more in love with the concept of the movie than the actual movie, but I really enjoyed it. Enough surprises to keep me on my toes and I really like the theme of "humans are evil, the only thing that stops us from committing crime is laws" because I think it's true.


The Purge series makes no sense.

If there were 'no laws' on one day, and the risk of being attacked was high, then people would contract with defense firms to deter/attack criminals. Obviously, people are buying other security measures like electronic, metal shutters and what not, so why not hire some snipers to chill on your roof? Or pay a yearly fee to the Free Market Security Inc. who'll show up in 3 minutes after receiving your call?

Nope cuz then the movie would be over in 10 min.


Have you seen either of the films? (the first one was bad)

But that's only for people who have the means. A big point of the Purge movies is that the Purge is the opportunity for rich people to prey on the poor. Those with no means for protection/security are taken advantage of by those who can contract a god damn army.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby mrswdk on Mon Jul 21, 2014 2:21 pm

I'm pretty sure that's the ulterior motive at play when BBS starts waxing lyrical about his Karl Marx utopia in which government doesn't exist. The second the barriers are raised, he's headed straight to his neighbors' places to sell them fake meat and kidnap their wives. Best hope you aren't living in Biebs' hood when the lights eventually go out.
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Postby muy_thaiguy on Mon Jul 21, 2014 9:05 pm

Sharknado, as done by Rifftrax.
9.5/10

Why? They made a really bad movie hilarious!

And the name is a misnomer. Hard to be a tornado full of sharks when it's actually a hurricane full of sharks. Still though, incredibly funny! They'll be doing the 1998 Godzilla in August, live nation wide.

How to Train Your Dragon 2:
9/10
The first one, despite a very cliché plotline, was actually done incredibly well. The second one, the worst parts in it are just as good as the first movie, the rest being better. Animated or not, definitely a great movie for the whole family. Funny moments, touching moments, sad moments, and epic moments throughout the film! My only REAL issue is that there wasn't enough interaction between the MC and his love interest. Also, this film is incredible in 3D. The visuals are just stunning!
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby nietzsche on Tue Jul 22, 2014 12:52 am

How to Train Your Dragon 2:

It's a cartoon.
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Postby Army of GOD on Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:03 am

For the record, I am very excited to see the James Brown movie.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby muy_thaiguy on Mon Jul 28, 2014 10:07 am

nietzsche wrote:How to Train Your Dragon 2:

It's a cartoon.

Aw, how adorable! You're stalking me over a movie that you have never watched and basing it on only a single factor! Oh do go on, please! I insist!
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby betiko on Mon Jul 28, 2014 4:52 pm

mrswdk wrote:I watched Pulp Fiction the other day and thought it wasn't really up to much. Anyone else think so?

My main problem with it is that Tarantino obviously wants it to seem deep, meaningful and introspective, but he doesn't actually have anything to say. He just writes some abstract conversations that he thinks sound deep, chucks in a reoccurring Bible quote and reckons that he has written a work of philosophical genius, much like a teenager posting obscure song lyrics on their Twitter because they think it makes them sound deep and mysterious.

It's a shame because the action and cinematography is pretty entertaining, but it's spoilt by all the lame attempts at pretending that the film has something important to say.

6/10.


I don t agree. That movie is probably tarentino s best. You don t need to look too deep in the conversations; they are just there to create the atmosphere, the aesthetics and a particular form of humour. He doesn t pretend to be philosophical about anything with his dialogues.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby betiko on Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:10 pm

TA1LGUNN3R wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are far superior. I really enjoyed them. He drops almost all the pretention and just makes some entertaining movies. I could watch Django over and over. Pulp Fiction I'm not sure I'd even go back for a second run.


That's funny, I thought Django and Basterds were both almost insufferably pretentious. Django is a movie that relies on the righteous slave getting revenge on a slaver, and Basterds is just the same but with Jews and Nazis. It's like watching a propaganda film.

-TG


Side note: I think TG has great taste in movies, music and women.

By the way... Speaking of tarantino: I did like deathproof. Everybody said it was such shit that I was greatly surprised when I saw it. Just a fun movie with no pretention. Great car chasings with hot chicks and funny tarantino dialogues.

Inglorous basterds: tarantino s worse movie

Django: not bad but not even close to tarantino s best movies

Kill bills: they are actually pretty cool. I just love how he brings all the action. I am not a fan of fight scenes, but those ones are always fun to watch.

Jackie brown: it was ok but pretty meaningless, not enough personality

Pulp fiction and reservoir dogs definitely his bests.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby betiko on Mon Jul 28, 2014 5:18 pm

Cloud atlas: 6/10
I was really thinking that this was being a fantastic movie really under rated after the first hour... But the watchkovskis (however you spell it) failed. The movie is not bad, but I thought it would brick in together much better towards the end. It s all a bit in the "matrix mindblowing kinda thing". They tried to renew themselves with a very original concept (6 storylines narrated together taking place in 5 different centuries and with basically the same actors).
Anyone saw this movie and has an interesting read on all of it?
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby Army of GOD on Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:15 pm

betiko wrote:
TA1LGUNN3R wrote:
mrswdk wrote:Django Unchained and Inglorious Basterds are far superior. I really enjoyed them. He drops almost all the pretention and just makes some entertaining movies. I could watch Django over and over. Pulp Fiction I'm not sure I'd even go back for a second run.


That's funny, I thought Django and Basterds were both almost insufferably pretentious. Django is a movie that relies on the righteous slave getting revenge on a slaver, and Basterds is just the same but with Jews and Nazis. It's like watching a propaganda film.

-TG


Side note: I think TG has great taste in movies, music and women.

By the way... Speaking of tarantino: I did like deathproof. Everybody said it was such shit that I was greatly surprised when I saw it. Just a fun movie with no pretention. Great car chasings with hot chicks and funny tarantino dialogues.

Inglorous basterds: tarantino s worse movie

Django: not bad but not even close to tarantino s best movies

Kill bills: they are actually pretty cool. I just love how he brings all the action. I am not a fan of fight scenes, but those ones are always fun to watch.

Jackie brown: it was ok but pretty meaningless, not enough personality

Pulp fiction and reservoir dogs definitely his bests.


Death Proof is kind of an odd film but I love it...definitely underrated though. The beauty of Jackie Brown is the characters (specifically Samuel L. Jackson's, Jackie Brown and De Niro's) not so much the story.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby nietzsche on Mon Jul 28, 2014 6:24 pm

betiko wrote:Cloud atlas: 6/10
I was really thinking that this was being a fantastic movie really under rated after the first hour... But the watchkovskis (however you spell it) failed. The movie is not bad, but I thought it would brick in together much better towards the end. It s all a bit in the "matrix mindblowing kinda thing". They tried to renew themselves with a very original concept (6 storylines narrated together taking place in 5 different centuries and with basically the same actors).
Anyone saw this movie and has an interesting read on all of it?



It's all about eastern spirituality/philosophy. The concepts it deals with as far as I can remember is reincarnation, "everything happens now", "oneness", everything connected, etc. The same actor playing a different role means the same soul having a different reincarnation, sometimes carrying issues from life to life.

With these kind of movies is difficult to know how much the author of the original idea and screenplay as long as the director believes or understand these concepts or are just simply borrowing an idea in order to appear deep.


About Tarantino: Best is Pulp Fiction, then is Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. From there there are some good ones, others that are not as good, but contain the same sort of feeling. I mostly agree with all you said. There's another movie, written by Tarantino that I really liked: True Romance.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby betiko on Tue Jul 29, 2014 2:32 am

nietzsche wrote:
betiko wrote:Cloud atlas: 6/10
I was really thinking that this was being a fantastic movie really under rated after the first hour... But the watchkovskis (however you spell it) failed. The movie is not bad, but I thought it would brick in together much better towards the end. It s all a bit in the "matrix mindblowing kinda thing". They tried to renew themselves with a very original concept (6 storylines narrated together taking place in 5 different centuries and with basically the same actors).
Anyone saw this movie and has an interesting read on all of it?



It's all about eastern spirituality/philosophy. The concepts it deals with as far as I can remember is reincarnation, "everything happens now", "oneness", everything connected, etc. The same actor playing a different role means the same soul having a different reincarnation, sometimes carrying issues from life to life.

With these kind of movies is difficult to know how much the author of the original idea and screenplay as long as the director believes or understand these concepts or are just simply borrowing an idea in order to appear deep.


About Tarantino: Best is Pulp Fiction, then is Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. From there there are some good ones, others that are not as good, but contain the same sort of feeling. I mostly agree with all you said. There's another movie, written by Tarantino that I really liked: True Romance.


Yes, of course I got the whole reincarnation stuff. Nevertheless, I don t see the link between all the characters a given actor plays. Take tom hanks... He can be a bad guy or a good guy.
If this is all borrowed to easter spirituality, then karma isn t operating as bad things done in previous lives don t grant them "bad birth" in futuristic storylines. The whole scenario that looked like a well oiled war machine is actually not well thought through. Ido. T know, given that nothing is in order, I might need to put all 6 timings to see how they all actually evolve.. But it feels like karma isn t working properly.

True romance was good, but to tell the truth I watched it in theaters when it came out and never watched it again... That was over 20 years ago lol.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby nietzsche on Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:38 am

betiko wrote:
nietzsche wrote:
betiko wrote:Cloud atlas: 6/10
I was really thinking that this was being a fantastic movie really under rated after the first hour... But the watchkovskis (however you spell it) failed. The movie is not bad, but I thought it would brick in together much better towards the end. It s all a bit in the "matrix mindblowing kinda thing". They tried to renew themselves with a very original concept (6 storylines narrated together taking place in 5 different centuries and with basically the same actors).
Anyone saw this movie and has an interesting read on all of it?



It's all about eastern spirituality/philosophy. The concepts it deals with as far as I can remember is reincarnation, "everything happens now", "oneness", everything connected, etc. The same actor playing a different role means the same soul having a different reincarnation, sometimes carrying issues from life to life.

With these kind of movies is difficult to know how much the author of the original idea and screenplay as long as the director believes or understand these concepts or are just simply borrowing an idea in order to appear deep.


About Tarantino: Best is Pulp Fiction, then is Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. From there there are some good ones, others that are not as good, but contain the same sort of feeling. I mostly agree with all you said. There's another movie, written by Tarantino that I really liked: True Romance.


Yes, of course I got the whole reincarnation stuff. Nevertheless, I don t see the link between all the characters a given actor plays. Take tom hanks... He can be a bad guy or a good guy.
If this is all borrowed to easter spirituality, then karma isn t operating as bad things done in previous lives don t grant them "bad birth" in futuristic storylines. The whole scenario that looked like a well oiled war machine is actually not well thought through. Ido. T know, given that nothing is in order, I might need to put all 6 timings to see how they all actually evolve.. But it feels like karma isn t working properly.

True romance was good, but to tell the truth I watched it in theaters when it came out and never watched it again... That was over 20 years ago lol.


I know you lived in India trying to make it in Bollywood but the idea of karma is not completely agreed by all the spiritualism proponents. Some say one creates karma by carrying over issues. You probably are aware of the idea of everything being a play in which we help ourselves get over issues.

As I said, its unclear to me if the writer of the movie is proposing a whole theory or just borrowing parts of what he knows/agrees upon.

I havent watched True Romance in a long time either but I remember enjoying it and only knowing it was written by Tarantino later.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby Dukasaur on Tue Jul 29, 2014 4:53 am

nietzsche wrote:
betiko wrote:
nietzsche wrote:
betiko wrote:Cloud atlas: 6/10
I was really thinking that this was being a fantastic movie really under rated after the first hour... But the watchkovskis (however you spell it) failed. The movie is not bad, but I thought it would brick in together much better towards the end. It s all a bit in the "matrix mindblowing kinda thing". They tried to renew themselves with a very original concept (6 storylines narrated together taking place in 5 different centuries and with basically the same actors).
Anyone saw this movie and has an interesting read on all of it?



It's all about eastern spirituality/philosophy. The concepts it deals with as far as I can remember is reincarnation, "everything happens now", "oneness", everything connected, etc. The same actor playing a different role means the same soul having a different reincarnation, sometimes carrying issues from life to life.

With these kind of movies is difficult to know how much the author of the original idea and screenplay as long as the director believes or understand these concepts or are just simply borrowing an idea in order to appear deep.


About Tarantino: Best is Pulp Fiction, then is Reservoir Dogs and Kill Bill. From there there are some good ones, others that are not as good, but contain the same sort of feeling. I mostly agree with all you said. There's another movie, written by Tarantino that I really liked: True Romance.


Yes, of course I got the whole reincarnation stuff. Nevertheless, I don t see the link between all the characters a given actor plays. Take tom hanks... He can be a bad guy or a good guy.
If this is all borrowed to easter spirituality, then karma isn t operating as bad things done in previous lives don t grant them "bad birth" in futuristic storylines. The whole scenario that looked like a well oiled war machine is actually not well thought through. Ido. T know, given that nothing is in order, I might need to put all 6 timings to see how they all actually evolve.. But it feels like karma isn t working properly.

True romance was good, but to tell the truth I watched it in theaters when it came out and never watched it again... That was over 20 years ago lol.


I know you lived in India trying to make it in Bollywood but the idea of karma is not completely agreed by all the spiritualism proponents. Some say one creates karma by carrying over issues. You probably are aware of the idea of everything being a play in which we help ourselves get over issues.

As I said, its unclear to me if the writer of the movie is proposing a whole theory or just borrowing parts of what he knows/agrees upon.

Best theory I found:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/10/27/cloud_atlas_meaning_what_does_the_wachowskis_movie_say_about_reincarnation.html

The Wachowskis have suggested that each actor in the movie plays a soul that evolves across time. As they told The New Yorker, “Tom Hanks starts off as a bad person … but evolves over centuries into a good person.” The soul depicted by Hanks goes from being a murderous quack (Dr. Henry Goose) to a physicist (Isaac Sachs) to a cockney gangster (Dermot Hoggins) and finally to a troubled tribesman of the post-apocalypse (the Valleysman Zachry); the soul played by Halle Berry goes from being a young Polynesian native to a Jewish composer’s wife (Jocasta Ayrs) to an investigative reporter (Luisa Rey), and so on.

But is it that simple? If Hanks always plays the same soul, then what happened between 1970 and 2012 to turn him from a whistle-blowing scientist into a murderous memoirist? Hanks’ progress, if indeed it’s from a “bad person” to a “good person,” hardly seems to follow a linear path. Also: the filmmakers decision to use nearly all of their actors in multiple roles is arguably as confusing as it is clarifying. Are all the characters played by Hugo Weaving the same soul? Perhaps—they’re certainly all evil. But what about Halle Berry? In 1973, when she’s a muckraking journalist, and in “106 years after the Fall” (well into the future), she’s heroic. But in the 1930s she’s the mostly silent and occasionally adulterous wife of an egotistical composer.


There may be a way to resolve this question. Perhaps only some actors play the same soul across time—including Tom Hanks and possibly Hugo Weaving—while other actors play different incarnations of the same soul (i.e., the soul with the birthmark). This interpretation might also help explain how the filmmakers see the six storylines connecting. There are essentially three main characters in each story. One, who the Wachowskis have said embodies “the Everyman,” is played by Tom Hanks. The second is a force of conservatism, evil, and oppression, who is represented (because it’s a Wachowskis film) by Hugo Weaving. The third is a force of good who can see beyond superficial differences of race, sexual orientation, and genetic engineering, and who is represented by various actors, all of whom own the birthmark: budding abolitionist Adam Ewing, the composer Frobisher, journalist Louisa Rey, fabricant Sonmi, and hero of the future Meronym. (Note: These characters have the birthmark in the book, and some certainly have it in the movie. Do they all? We can’t quite remember. If you do, let us know in the comments.)

Interconnectedness

However they work, exactly, the device of actors playing multiple characters across time and the device of repeating the birthmark across time both convey one of the film’s major themes: The interconnectedness of all human life. This theme is also underlined by events in each narrative. One individual’s actions—Sonmi’s standing up against an oppressive corporatocracy, or Robert Frobisher’s completion of his haunting sextet (itself about eternal recurrence)—are shown to have effects reaching far into the future. Frobisher’s sextet is heard again and again across the film, and Sonmi’s rebellious speech seems to eventually become scripture to the people of the future. And it’s not just their words and speeches that resonate down the ages, but also their stories: Just as in Mitchell’s novel, each character tells his or her own story, and each of these stories is shown being read (or in some cases, watched) by the people of the future. Our actions, the movie seems to be saying, don’t just affect our present: They’re shaped by mankind’s past and will in turn shape mankind’s future.
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Postby betiko on Tue Jul 29, 2014 5:36 pm

Thanks duka, interesting review.
So for those who ve seen it... Do you agree with my 6/10?
Didn t you think that it starts great but that it s a bit disapointing in the end?

Take guy ritchie movies. I just love them. Multiple storylines crossing during full movies, and everything adds up great, everything is a well oiled mechanic with a purpose. The wachovskis, or maybe just the author of the book, didn t manage to get such a good result out of all this.

Matrix reloaded and matrix revolutions were pretty crap anyway. At least cloud atlas was better than these two.
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Postby Dukasaur on Tue Jul 29, 2014 7:44 pm

betiko wrote:Thanks duka, interesting review.
So for those who ve seen it... Do you agree with my 6/10?
Didn t you think that it starts great but that it s a bit disapointing in the end?

I would probably agree with you on the 6/10. What really surprises me is the number of people who either love or hate this movie. It's made all kinds of Best Movie lists and all kinds of Worst Movie lists, which makes no sense at all. It's definitely not bad enough to hate and not good enough to love. 6/10, yes. Maybe edging towards 7 without quite reaching it.

Was I disappointed at the end? Not really. I had disappointments mixed with pleasures pretty much all the way through.

The different stories were what made the ups and down. On the Up side, the Sonmi (Seoul) story was top notch. It was almost enough to make a good short film by itself if everything else was stripped away. On the Down side, the San Francisco story and ship story were catastrophically dull, full of cliches and predictable characters.

In between the extremes above, the asylum story and the Edinburgh story had interesting plot twists that made mild Ups, while the post-Apocalyptic story was full of promise that never materialized, getting less interesting the longer they dragged it out. It had some cool imagery and was almost believable, but in the end I would include it with the Downs.
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Postby nietzsche on Wed Jul 30, 2014 12:48 am

Dukasaur wrote:
betiko wrote:Thanks duka, interesting review.
So for those who ve seen it... Do you agree with my 6/10?
Didn t you think that it starts great but that it s a bit disapointing in the end?

I would probably agree with you on the 6/10. What really surprises me is the number of people who either love or hate this movie. It's made all kinds of Best Movie lists and all kinds of Worst Movie lists, which makes no sense at all. It's definitely not bad enough to hate and not good enough to love. 6/10, yes. Maybe edging towards 7 without quite reaching it.

Was I disappointed at the end? Not really. I had disappointments mixed with pleasures pretty much all the way through.

The different stories were what made the ups and down. On the Up side, the Sonmi (Seoul) story was top notch. It was almost enough to make a good short film by itself if everything else was stripped away. On the Down side, the San Francisco story and ship story were catastrophically dull, full of cliches and predictable characters.

In between the extremes above, the asylum story and the Edinburgh story had interesting plot twists that made mild Ups, while the post-Apocalyptic story was full of promise that never materialized, getting less interesting the longer they dragged it out. It had some cool imagery and was almost believable, but in the end I would include it with the Downs.


I think people get disappointed because they don't see any conclusion. I too thought it was good but meh, more like Ok. Less annoying than Inception.

BTW, Dukasaur, you were the one that said you're gonna watch In Bruges, have you?
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Postby Dukasaur on Wed Jul 30, 2014 1:34 am

No, I haven't come across it anywhere.

99% of the video stores have died. There's only left in my area that I know of, and both have a pretty limited selection.
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Re: AoG's (and whoever) Official Movie Review Thread™

Postby nietzsche on Wed Jul 30, 2014 2:56 am

Dukasaur wrote:No, I haven't come across it anywhere.

99% of the video stores have died. There's only left in my area that I know of, and both have a pretty limited selection.


I see. They probably have it in VHS and you're looking for it in betamax.
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