June 3, 201313 yr Shutter Island was Scorsese, not Nolan. :razz:Ouch, you're right of course. Now that I think of it, that's interesting considering it was the only film out of the list where I did really care for the character. I wouldn't have called this out as Nolan's problem on my own, but considering that...I thought Shutter Island coming out around the same time as Inception proved to be perfect directorial counterpoint. Both films dealt with reality/unreality and memory. Shutter Island remains one of my top Scorsese films of a time. "He could climb to it, if he climbed alone, and once there he could suck on the pap of life, gulp down the incomparable milk of wonder."
June 3, 201313 yr Watched Prometheus. Some good acting, and good CG, but strange plot. 6/10 "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti
June 4, 201313 yr just watched The Great Gatsby..the new one, it's quite nice. If you have read the book a couple of times, you would really appreciate what a great job Luhrmann did. 'Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.' T.S. Eliot
June 6, 201313 yr just watched The Great Gatsby..the new one, it's quite nice. If you have read the book a couple of times, you would really appreciate what a great job Luhrmann did. Yeah I liked it as well. Don't really understand the criticism it gets.
June 13, 201313 yr Hoodwinked & Hoodwinked too. Better than i thought. Pretty funnyAgreed. I really didn't expect much out of them, but they weren't bad.
June 15, 201313 yr Man of Steel was disappointing-- too similar to Transformers, in that it was more action scenes and CGI than philosophy and moral conflict. Very black and white, not enough grey. While it wasn't as "deep" as the trailers made it out to be, it was entertaining nonetheless. 6/10. Disclaimer: The only knowledge of the Superman lore comes from Smallville, and I'm sure that show has its fair share of "inaccuracies." I also understand that as a movie they're limited in how much time they can dedicate to certain aspects of the film. Things that would've made the film better: [spoiler=Spoiler]1. Make the setting linear, as opposed to jumping all over the place as if it's Pulp Fiction.2. Cut out the whole Krypton destruction intro scene. Nobody gives a shit about Krypton unless there had been an entire film dedicated to Krypton before this to develop an emotional attachment to the planet and its inhabitants.3. Focus a lot more on Clark's upbringing for a good portion of the beginning of the film. Smallville did a good job of this, basically showing how Clark developed morality which basically set the stage for all the show's future conflicts where his morality is tested.4. Seal Zod into the Phantom Zone, as opposed to killing him. Superman shouldn't kill under any circumstances.5. Cut out more than half of the action-packed CGI sequences. I didn't find them exciting at all. However, if the entire film had been leading up to one final (albeit brief) battle, where the outcome is genuinely uncertain, then the action scenes would be exciting.6. Make Zod's "evilness" more morally ambiguous and grey. The film's conflict centered on "how do we stop this bad guy?" as opposed to "what's the right choice for Superman?/how does he cope between his humanity (nurture) vs his origin (nature)?" They had the opportunity to make the central conflict of the film the latter, but instead they pretty much just had a random priest say "have 'faith' now and figure the rest out later and hope for the best!" and then Superman was like, "all right well that's good enough for me!" *gets into fights destroying dozens of skyscrapers and causing dozens of thousands of casualties* Could've made a nice trilogy if they did an entire first film dedicated to Krypton, second film dedicated to Clark in his childhood/adolescence, then meeting Zod and becoming friends/allies with him, final film Clark reluctantly choosing his path and defeating Zod
June 16, 201313 yr Watched Warm Bodies. Was actually pretty good, interesting take on the zombie scenario. 6.5/10 "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti
June 16, 201313 yr saw the latest die hard9/10 due to some over-dramatizations or some silly things but It was like, a comedy mixed with guns and violence. I loved it.
June 16, 201313 yr saw the latest die hard9/10 due to some over-dramatizations or some silly things but It was like, a comedy mixed with guns and violence. I loved it. You liked that shit fest of a movie?
June 16, 201313 yr saw the latest die hard9/10 due to some over-dramatizations or some silly things but It was like, a comedy mixed with guns and violence. I loved it. You liked that shit fest of a movie? yeah i heard it was pretty bad as well "It's not a rest for me, it's a rest for the weights." - Dom Mazzetti
June 17, 201313 yr I just don't like action movies with stupid comments every other second.Which kind of stupid commetns? I dont really like some lines in many movies either. Watched branded. The only good thing was it's animation of what only the protagonist sees. The movie was awful; i'd give it a 2/10
June 17, 201313 yr Listen, Bruce Willis isn't too old. He's getting to that age where they can do some fantastic things with him ;)
June 22, 201313 yr Hell yes, I love that movie. :thumbsup: Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually...
June 26, 201313 yr under the dome - still not a movie but yolo [spoiler=1st episode spoilers, book talk]kinda cheesy acting like w/so many stephen king adaptations but alright. definitely nothing special but it's probably they best they can do w/the budget they've got. i'm kinda unhappy with some of the decisions though. i wish the actual dome showing up was a lot more chaotic and stuff. there was like two scenes with it whereas there were a bunch more in the book that were also more interesting. also the two big changes (the radio station, junior) were definitely rubbish. i understand execs want to avoid the controversy of the christian rock station preacher drug lord but come on it would've been rad. and yeah junior keeping a corpse in his kitchen to chat to and everything is a bit gross but i dunno if keeping a live women locked up in yr half flooded fallout shelter is really more desirable. sleep like dead men wake up like dead men
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June 26, 201313 yr I watched Wish You Were Here last night. It's a 2012 Australian film. Kind of a strange story. You almost don't know what's going on the entire time because the writers choose to give the audience the most minimal amount of information imaginable as we watch the truth slowly unveil itself through flashbacks as the pressure builds on Dave (Joel Edgerton) to protect his family. Not sure how I'd rate it yet.
June 26, 201313 yr saw the latest die hard9/10 due to some over-dramatizations or some silly things but It was like, a comedy mixed with guns and violence. I loved it. You liked that shit fest of a movie? yeah i heard it was pretty bad as wellI kept hearing bad things, but I enjoyed it. It was weak for a Die Hard movie, but it was pretty good as an Action movie.
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