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Batman: The Dark Knight Returns Part 1
Saw this on amazon prime today, most excellent.
I went to see The Book of Life yesterday with the family. It blew my expectations away. Lots of humor and it was downright beautiful.
The Dark Knight Returns Part II
Wonderful, even better than Mask Of Phantasm. Warn Bros may have fucked up many times when it came to live action but the animated movies are impeccable. Enjoyed this far more than the Nolan movies.
@indzman: Last watched The Matrix at home was awesome. At cinema I most recently watched Love, Rosie which was actually pretty good!
The Dark Knight Returns Part II
Wonderful, even better than Mask Of Phantasm. Warn Bros may have fucked up many times when it came to live action but the animated movies are impeccable. Enjoyed this far more than the Nolan movies.
I watched Part 1 and Part 2 of The Dark Knight Returns a long time ago, but I agree they are great films. Warner Bros may not be doing as well as they want to in the "comic book live action movie scene" like Marvel and Disney have, but they have excel for years in the animated area. Hopefully they can keep it up.
When Harry Met Sally
Holds up incredibly well being over 20 years old. Classic movies are good no matter when you watch them. Shit like Transformers that tries to be cool by referencing flavor of the week pop culture does not hold up well. Same goes for The Avengers.
Nolan's Batman trilogy on the other hand will still be awesome 50 years from now.
The Dark Knight Returns Part II
Wonderful, even better than Mask Of Phantasm. Warn Bros may have fucked up many times when it came to live action but the animated movies are impeccable. Enjoyed this far more than the Nolan movies.
I watched Part 1 and Part 2 of The Dark Knight Returns a long time ago, but I agree they are great films. Warner Bros may not be doing as well as they want to in the "comic book live action movie scene" like Marvel and Disney have, but they have excel for years in the animated area. Hopefully they can keep it up.
Be great if they done a 2 part Knightfall like this,.Rises took concepts from it (including The Dark Knight Returns) but it was just shit imo. I know people love Nolan movies but aside from Begins, they are just shit to me. Even stuff in this, like when you think Bruce Wayne is dead, is much better done in this, as is the awesome climax fight.
Expendables 3
I must admit, I really enjoyed this. The main thing that lets it down (aside from being too long) is the use of special effects rather than pure practical effects. The cartoon helicopter fight and the building collapsing is some of the worst CGI I have ever seen. Really bad. Other than that I quite liked the story and the characters. Mel Gibson seemed to be having the time of his life hamming it up.
saw john wick the other day. it was surprisingly good. nothing complicated about it.
dear zachary was another i've seen lately.. holy hell it's disturbing.
Just came back from Interstellar.
I enjoyed it, but it's hard to recommend. It's very deep into sci-fi land - don't go into it expecting action-packed adventures or fistfights with killer robots or anything. Some of the emotional moments felt half-assed as well. Still, I really liked how they handled the 'time' elements of space travel.
Has anyone seen Nightcrawler yet? I liked that a lot. But it sort of has a personal connection to me, because as a photographer (and specifically a photographer who has been labelled by some as a "shock artist"), I like movies that explore the predatory nature of the profession.
Yeah, he wasn't a "photographer", he shot local news footage. But, same thing.
Anyway, great movie, but this sure has one of the most unlikable protagonists I've seen in recent memory. Man, that guy was a pile of shit.
But one thing I liked were the scenes where Lou Bloom would just get right up in people's faces to get the footage, and they'd just be taken aback, like, "who the **** does this guy think he is?" And then when they tell him to back the **** off and get the **** out of their way, he just has this bewildered look on his face like, "man, what an asshole." Kind of reminds me of...a little while back I watched a presentation by *a major photographer whose name I think I should leave out* and he gave an anecdote about one of his photographs. He was in India (I think) and saw a whole bunch of Indians gathering for some kind of religious ceremony in which they waded into the water carrying torches and following some big-ass (probably paper) statue of one of their gods. So he's like, "man, I've gotta get close on this". So he wades into the water with the crowd, and gets really close while firing off shots, when suddenly a group of guys start assaulting him and dunking him under the water. He recounts how he could have drowned if another dude hadn't intervened and (apparently) told the other guys to lay off him, but then he makes a comment like, "I don't know what they were so angry about."
And maybe that was a deliberate joke (if so, no one else in the audience got it, because I didn't hear anyone laugh), but I'm just thinking, "dude...seriously? You don't maybe have an idea why they might have been pissed off?"
Anyway, Nightcrawler kind of reminded me about that. But it was one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen in a while about an absolute scumbag getting successful by being the biggest piece of shit that he could possibly be.
Children of Men. I forgot how much I loved this film back when it first released.
The basic premise of the movie sort of annoys me because it's so damn silly. After all, has there EVER been a precedent for an entire species just suddenly becoming sterile at the exact same time?
But once I get past that premise, the movie is just phenomenal.
Fury.
The movie has a nice subtle gore to it that makes it seem realistic and not over the top. Lot of stretch out dialogue scenes, but they are intense as will as most of the movie. Very predictable, if you have seen a lot of movies, you'll see where the story is going in this one. Still enjoyable though.
MAJOR SPOILERS!
The scene where "the new kid" (forgot his name) is nice and sweet to a girl and forms a quick relationship to her is extremely well done and is believable. In the short time they spent together, you really did feel like they loved each other. It was execute much better than Sarah Connor and Kyle Reese relationship in Terminator 1
One nitpick I had of the movie was Brad Pitt's character death. Two hand grenades lob down in front of him and when his body is reveal later on he looks unhindered. This bug me because the rest of the crew gets kill pretty gruesomely, yet he looks uneffected. I felt like this went against his line of "Deals are peaceful, history is violent" yet he doesn't look badly killed unlike the other characters (both main and side) of the movie. I would have liked maybe half of face blown off to give the real chilling effects of war. If that did come to past, parallels could have been made of how the original gunner of the group died and how Pitt's character passed away.
This a good film, but not one you have to watch. I think I'll pick it up on DVD if a unrated edition comes out.
Interstellar. I tried not to read forum posts and reviews before I watched it. I did read some forum posts about the film being "not too scientifically accurate".
But at the end of the day I realized the movie blew me away and the forum posters were full of shit.
Interstellar. Nolan kind of hit and miss for me. This one was a miss. Too long. No emotional investment in any character. As with most of his movies, they sound like data without his emotion chip. It's great he's trying to make intelligent mainstream movies, but doesn't mean shit to me if I don't care about a single character. Overall, Rocky 4 is better.
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