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Postby Army of GOD on Sun Aug 10, 2014 10:23 am

Watching any show or movie with dubs is an abortion. Subtitles or bust.
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Postby nietzsche on Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:25 pm

Army of GOD wrote:Watching any show or movie with dubs is an abortion. Subtitles or bust.


Not yours.


And to be honest, even with subtitles I think a lot will be lost. Perhaps not in any movie in Spanish, but with that one, I think it will.
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Postby Army of GOD on Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:28 pm

Is this movie as bad as the White Ribbon?
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Postby nietzsche on Sun Aug 10, 2014 12:30 pm

Army of GOD wrote:Is this movie as bad as the White Ribbon?


The White Ribbon is not bad.

But El Secreto de sus Ojos is much better.
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Postby Phatscotty on Tue Aug 12, 2014 10:12 pm

Of the Tarantino films, True Romance is easily my favorite. And this is the main reason I think Commissioner Gordon (Gary Oldman) is one of the best actors out there; since he oft plays parts you would never even know it was him.





James Gandolfini played a much more sadistic character. There are way too many great actors and actresses in this movie to name them all.

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Postby muy_thaiguy on Mon Sep 29, 2014 1:01 am

Godzilla (2014) Review

I rented, and yes, I'm a cheap bastard. Anyways, onto the review.



This movie starts out in a drama movie fashion (drama isn't really my thing, so I kind of blanked out for those parts) with the wife of what we assume is the protagonist, getting trapped and killed by a nuclear fallout in Japan. Fast forward years or so, the guy is regarded as an old loon by most. He believes there is more to what caused the nuclear disaster than an earthquake and has been gathering evidence of it. His son, who is in the military and an explosives expert, goes to Japan to bust his father out of jail. They talk for awhile, and their discussion leads to them going to the radioactive area to get some personal belongings from their old home. While there, the Japanese government picks them up (after finding out the air is actually quite safe), and are brought to a government facility where the government is examining a gigantic egg thing. From there, is where things get going. We have 2 large insect monsters (MUTOs are they are called, which is a nice reference to the original movies) terrorizing Japan and later San Francisco, and than we get our first good look at the King of Monsters, Godzilla himself, and holy crap he looks awesome! And freaking gigantic!



I will say this, when people complain that Godzilla isn't in the movie enough, I have to agree. The drama stuff is okay, but most people came to see the legendary giant lizard duke it out with other monsters. Anything else should have been secondary.



Back on topic, when we do see Godzilla, he begins duking it out with the other monsters. And let me say, it's SO much better than a guy in a rubber suit. The effects and design are simply amazing! I won't spoil anything else, but man! When the movie actually gets to Godzilla, then it becomes amazing! Before that, it's not terrible, but it takes too long to get to Godzilla. Also, a cameo of sorts, with a little Japanese kid in a hat and redcoat. Not annoying like the "original" was at least, but it was a cameo.



All in all, an 8/10. The fight scenes were amazing, the designs, and the special effects were great! It gets 2 taken off because lack of Godzilla early on, but otherwise, if you like Godzilla movies, check it out! And yes, it is SO much better than the 1998 version that went by the same name but failed to live up to it.
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Postby Phatscotty on Sat Nov 01, 2014 1:11 am



FURY: AWESOME movie! I would describe it as emotionally raw, spiritually challenging, and blurred moralities . Can't help but recognize it's not really just a movie, that it was a reality for virtually an entire generation. Just once though I wish they would have yelled 'Damn Socialists!' instead of 'Freakin Nazi's!' (National Socialist German Workers Party) The film showed how real it was and how real it can be when a government puts it's people all in, and then things don't turn out as planned. It was interesting to see the soldiers always trying to justify their religion, their spirituality, their relationship with Jesus, and to see in the extreme how it can totally depend on what's going on around a person and where one is, and not just what one personally thinks or feels. Even though it's another WW2 movie, it's set in a different way and a new perspective that I haven't seen on film , the part of the war where America was winning and Germany's defeat was imminent, but Hitler would not surrender and sent everyone possible to fight down to the young teenagers and old men. And the movie did a great job hitting on the constant frustration and breakdowns of human beings who were in a place they did not want to be, doing things they did not want to do, but things they knew they had to do.
I wanted to give it a 9, but after reflection and a couple reviews and analysis, 8.75/10. I am the king of 'wait for Redbox' but this is one to experience in a theater. I'm gonna see it again.



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Postby betiko on Sat Nov 01, 2014 5:00 pm

I heard fury is not that great.

I m looking forward to see interstellar next week.
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Postby Army of GOD on Sat Nov 01, 2014 6:41 pm

Dear White People - 6.3/10. Ugh, I really enjoy the theme and what the movie tried to do but man, the movie was just boring and a half an hour too long for the most part. A ton of cheesy scenes, too much drama and not enough comedy.
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Postby Phatscotty on Sat Nov 01, 2014 8:05 pm

betiko wrote:I heard fury is not that great.

I m looking forward to see interstellar next week.


Well now you heard different about Fury, but I can see the Frenchmen perspective. When you do get around to seeing it, just fast-forward through the dinner table scene where they are drunk and talking about France....

Interstellar - can't wait! Almost 3 hours long. I heard Nolan describe the movie as the mirror opposite of Inception. Rather than moving inwards as far as possible, Interstellar travels outwards beyond imagination. I anticipate Zimmer's music just as much as the movie. But really I think this is about Nolan coming out as thee premier movie director of the time.


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Postby Army of GOD on Mon Nov 10, 2014 10:42 am

Interstellar - 7.5/10

ugh, ok. It was visually really really well done. Plot wasn't even that bad. In general I liked it. But the science was really shoddy ("if we keep on saying 'relativity' and 'quantum' then we can convince the audience that we're not bullshitting!") and there was a lot of cheese.

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Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Mon Nov 10, 2014 12:59 pm

Army of GOD wrote:Interstellar - 7.5/10

ugh, ok. It was visually really really well done. Plot wasn't even that bad. In general I liked it. But the science was really shoddy ("if we keep on saying 'relativity' and 'quantum' then we can convince the audience that we're not bullshitting!") and there was a lot of cheese.

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The whole "love is a quantifiable force" thing almost ruined it for me. Also, too loud.

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Postby Army of GOD on Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:14 pm

way too loud. I listened to one critic (Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post) talk about how Nolan always suppresses the dialog with loud background music and I totally agree. Can't hear anything for a lot of the movie.
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Postby strike wolf on Mon Nov 10, 2014 1:26 pm

betiko wrote:I heard fury is not that great.

I m looking forward to see interstellar next week.


Fury isn't for everyone. It's brutally violent and not in any kind of cool way. It's tremendously gruesome. IF you can stand that, I would say watch it but it's not for everyone.
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Postby AndyDufresne on Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:12 pm

I watched Snowpiercer on Netflix. It was okay, worth the random watch.


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Postby owenshooter on Mon Nov 10, 2014 2:36 pm

AndyDufresne wrote:I watched Snowpiercer on Netflix. It was okay, worth the random watch.


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Postby nietzsche on Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:35 pm

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Postby TA1LGUNN3R on Mon Nov 10, 2014 5:38 pm

Army of GOD wrote:way too loud. I listened to one critic (Ann Hornaday from the Washington Post) talk about how Nolan always suppresses the dialog with loud background music and I totally agree. Can't hear anything for a lot of the movie.


Yep. What's worse, the theatre I was at had it playing in another room right next door at like 20 minutes ahead of us, so all the quiet parts were hard to discern with the continuous bass hum of the action sequences blocking stuff.

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Postby Lootifer on Mon Nov 10, 2014 11:21 pm

Regarding Tarantino.

[I think at least... lots of spouting opinion as if its fact in here] His genius is not in story telling or action sequences (I really couldn't get into Kill Bill, but that's probably because I am not a fan of the underlying genre) but in his ability to craft dialog, and to a certain extent characters.

Pulp Fiction wasn't a masterpiece because it was deep or philosophical (though it may have had some interesting themes bubbling away), it was brilliant because of the dialog (and the most famous (Ezekiel) isn't even the best: foot massage, five dollar milkshake, bad joke, Christopher walken watch scene, dead nigga storage, restaurant robbery, etc etc). Same applies to Reservoir Dogs.

Similarly Inglourious Basterds wasn't brilliant because of the robin hood story line, it was brilliant (in my mind) because of Waltz's character and dialog, along with some brilliant backup dialogs from Pitt and others (though to be fair their characters lacked a little, and I did think the woman in red story rather dull).
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Postby Dukasaur on Mon Nov 10, 2014 11:38 pm

Lootifer wrote:Regarding Tarantino.

[I think at least... lots of spouting opinion as if its fact in here] His genius is not in story telling or action sequences (I really couldn't get into Kill Bill, but that's probably because I am not a fan of the underlying genre) but in his ability to craft dialog, and to a certain extent characters.

Pulp Fiction wasn't a masterpiece because it was deep or philosophical (though it may have had some interesting themes bubbling away), it was brilliant because of the dialog (and the most famous (Ezekiel) isn't even the best: foot massage, five dollar milkshake, bad joke, Christopher walken watch scene, dead nigga storage, restaurant robbery, etc etc). Same applies to Reservoir Dogs.

Similarly Inglourious Basterds wasn't brilliant because of the robin hood story line, it was brilliant (in my mind) because of Waltz's character and dialog, along with some brilliant backup dialogs from Pitt and others (though to be fair their characters lacked a little, and I did think the woman in red story rather dull).

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Postby Army of GOD on Sat Jul 25, 2015 11:59 pm

Godfather Part II: 8.9/10


Finally watched it for the first time in my adulthood and man, it's such a good film. De Niro and Pacino kill it without ever being in the same scene. They're really the only actors in it that dominate the entire movie...
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Postby riskllama on Sun Jul 26, 2015 12:08 am

best sequel ever made, you stoopid shit...
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Postby jonesthecurl on Sun Jul 26, 2015 2:05 am

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Postby khazalid on Sun Jul 26, 2015 12:24 pm

'it follows'

cool film. creepy and clever.

and soundtracked by fkn disasterpeace. boom.

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Postby nietzsche on Sat Oct 29, 2016 3:53 pm

khazalid wrote:'it follows'

cool film. creepy and clever.

and soundtracked by fkn disasterpeace. boom.



yep, it was good.
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