Movie Review Thread

In re4sponse to Econ21 and the film W.

The movie was mildly amusing, but the part with the 1% chance and the lettuce on the ham sandwich is one of the funniest things I have ever seen, especially since I could totally envision GWB doing that.

Tokyo Zombie is probably one of the funniest movies I have seen lately. Basically, 2 blue collar guys who practice jujiitsu all the time end up caught in a zombie apocolypse. The hypochondriac master tries to teach the finer points to the dimwitted student, and the practice scenes are hilarious along with the music choice.

Then rich people eventually set up a fortress and kidnap humans to pit them in death matches vs zombies to entertain the rich. The student has to battle vs multiple zombies, and eventually has to fight one that is a jujistsu master

The last 10 minutes of the movie, especially with the mute little girl, had me laughing so hard I cried.


As for The Watchman, I watched the directors cut last night and thought it was very well done. I had a problem with the ending (not the problem u might think) but I disagree that the acting was bad (I know real people who talk and act the same way Miss Jupiter does, its a regional dialect-jaw structure thing) I thought the music was very well placed in most cases and there were some highly memorable scenes, like the old withered man having his last stand vs the thugs and hallucinating he was fighting his old enemies, and nixons comments about the harvard establishment when told that we would lose the entire east coast on a pre-emptive strike vs the russians.

My problem with the ending is that, based on what the badguy did to Manhattan (manipulated him from the beginning, tried to kill him) and the fact that Manhattan was all-knowing, it made absolutely no sense to let the badguy live and to kill Rorshauch. No sense at all.

The Damned United. Pretty interesting, fun movie.

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Originally Posted by Major Robert Dump

My problem with the ending is that, based on what the badguy did to Manhattan (manipulated him from the beginning, tried to kill him) and the fact that Manhattan was all-knowing, it made absolutely no sense to let the badguy live and to kill Rorshauch. No sense at all.

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It does, Manhattan agrees it should be kept secret, and Rorshauch wants to tell the world, ruining the peace. My gripe is that it's too clean, shouldn't be bloodless in the book it's mayhem.

Sherlock Holmes. Very enjoyable, RDJ was perfect in the role. Hopefully they'll make another one.

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Originally Posted by Fragony

It does, Manhattan agrees it should be kept secret, and Rorshauch wants to tell the world, ruining the peace. My gripe is that it's too clean, shouldn't be bloodless in the book it's mayhem.

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Well I understood him killing R. to keep it quiet, but why didn't he kill the homo badguy as well? HE tried to kill Dr. M., he manipulated Dr. M for over a decade and killed people he loved all while blocking Dr. M's view of the true future . The badguy (sorry cant remember his name) is a billionaire building a new utopia and has a god complex, Dr. M should have at least killed him out of principle (sacrafice, right?)

anyway, makes me want to check out the book to see the real story. Still liked the movie, though. God, the comedian was a real dirtbag

The book is fun, some things play out differently but they did a pretty good job with the movie. Ozymandias is a much more sinister character in the book, and the Comedian is much better developed.

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anyway, makes me want to check out the book to see the real story. Still liked the movie, though. God, the comedian was a real dirtbag

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Yes he is...but the Comedian is my favorite character in the movie because he is the only one in the movie that admits he is a dirtbag...he is a monster...all the other characters are just as flawed in their own way....they are just too full of themselfs to admit it.

Dr Manhattan is the real monster, he is completely devoid of compassion. For the Comedian being a monster is a shield against the horrors of the world but inside he is suffering, he's the most tragic figure of them all.

Avatar 3D

After seeing Honey I shrunk the Kids in Disney Land, I had very high hopes for this movie and especially it's 3D attributes.In Disneyland, you really see things coming into the theater and believe that if you reach out your hand, you can actually touch some of the characters. I had that maybe once or twice during Avatar. It could've been the size of the screen which was about 2 times as big in DL.

As for the movie itself: in combination with the 3d novelty it kept me entertained all the way through. Yes, I saw some things coming from miles away

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Him getting the body transfusion, him riding the big bird, The chopper girl rescuiing them from jail and some more stuff I can't recall right away)

but I liked it. I'm a sucker for "rally the troops" movies :shrug:

Avatar 3D: Though I'd like to have seem more of the actual 3D (spears coming into the theater was something I really expected) I'll still give it a 8/10
Avatar 2d: Probably a 6,5/10

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Originally Posted by Fragony

Dr Manhattan is the real monster, he is completely devoid of compassion. For the Comedian being a monster is a shield against the horrors of the world but inside he is suffering, he's the most tragic figure of them all.

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exactly...

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He saw the true face of the 20th century and chose to become a reflection, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke, that's why he was lonely. Heard joke once: Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says "But, doctor...I am Pagliacci." Good joke. Everybody laugh. Roll on snare drum. Curtains. Fade to black.

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That also happens to be my favorite scene.

edit hmmmmm maybe Dr Manhattan's transformation

daybreakers:

It was an awesome movie, it will make you jump at times, and it's very original, i didn't expect at all what happened in the movie, go see it right away. /review

Bladerunner. Pretty epic, if a little slow. Would have been pretty out there back in the day. The crazy Japanese guy with his origami is awesome.

My thoughts copy/pasted from the movie thread on Civfanatics:

Saw Daybreakers tonight. I haven't laughed that hard in a long, long time. You know a movie is bad when you can tell down to the scene when the director stopped caring about the movie. Seriously, the movie spends the first hour establishing that you catch on fire when exposed to the sun, and vampires will do anything possible to stay away from sunlight, and yet there are scenes in the end when vampires are clearly standing directly in the sunlight but nothing happens.

Definitely a check in the so bad it's good category, and as such will probably result in a cult classic.

The Hurt Locker.

Great war movie.

9/10

Avatar is the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time. wow.

I prefer the version where its adjusted due to time.

Rank Title
1 Gone with the Wind
2 Star Wars
3 The Sound of Music
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
5 The Ten Commandments


http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

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I prefer the version where its adjusted due to time.

Rank Title
1 Gone with the Wind
2 Star Wars
3 The Sound of Music
4 E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial
5 The Ten Commandments


http://boxofficemojo.com/alltime/adjusted.htm

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That's a cool list. :2thumbsup:

You can't exactly adjust due to time, because so many more movies come out now. It'd be like saying that the ford model-t is the best selling car, adjusted.

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Originally Posted by Hooahguy

Avatar is the 2nd highest grossing movie of all time. wow.

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Unfortunate, I know:no:

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The Hurt Locker.

Great war movie.

9/10

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??? I'm sorry, Ijust don't see how anyone can take that movie seriously. One HMMWV running around on it's own does not survive Iraq, nor do it's occupants. You don't have to be military to know that it would be suicide.

And something civilians don't know: EOD are seriously the laziest pieces of :daisy: in the Army. Which is sad cuz I worked security detail for a Navy EOD team and they were highspeed, highly motivated, ready-to-go dudes. I have literally waited 3 hours just for Army EOD to get into their vehicles and roll out the gate after calling in a suspected EFP.

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You can't exactly adjust due to time, because so many more movies come out now. It'd be like saying that the ford model-t is the best selling car, adjusted.

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Actually. Divide each movie's gross by number of movies in the release year then that'd resolve that issue.

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??? I'm sorry, Ijust don't see how anyone can take that movie seriously. One HMMWV running around on it's own does not survive Iraq, nor do it's occupants. You don't have to be military to know that it would be suicide.

And something civilians don't know: EOD are seriously the laziest pieces of :daisy: in the Army. Which is sad cuz I worked security detail for a Navy EOD team and they were highspeed, highly motivated, ready-to-go dudes. I have literally waited 3 hours just for Army EOD to get into their vehicles and roll out the gate after calling in a suspected EFP.

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I said I thought it was a good movie....not an army procedural video.

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A lesser version?

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Its one of those movies where you already know everything its going to happen from its 1 minute trailer.

I got a friend who said "OMG OMG OMG, Taken is like teh best movie ever, none other can compare to it, you must see it! You'll love it, CMON DO IT!"

So I went and saw the one minute trailer. That's a trailer basically like to any average suspense movie trailer I ever saw. And so I proceeded to tell (more or less) the entire story based on the trailer, which went something like this: "There's this daughter who happens to be the daughter of a ninja, and while travelling in Paris, his daughter is kidnapped by some stupid Russian or Ukrainian East European gang for women's trafficking, and when that happens, the ninja snaps out goes to Paris and basically kills everyone in his way, rescuing his daughter in the end."

The only thing he said in the end: "...Ninja?"

Me: "Isn't he some American agent?"

Friend: "Yeah, ex-CIA."

Me: "See? Predictable."

Then he went on to rant at me as I didn't like movies. Eventually I went to see it and I smirked as 98% what I predicted was correct, minus the Eastern European group, which was Albanian. Other than the fight scenes, the plot has holes the size of the ozone and is significantly rushed and curiously everything happens in the right time to fit the purpose of the desperate father. Just another average suspense movie with good fight scenes.

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i saw Red Cliff last night.
one word:
epic.

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I saw the Asian version (Both movies totalling 4 hours or so)

And as a RTK fan, I was overwhelmingly disapointed. While the plot build was pretty good (The part in the second movie where Zhuge Liang steals the arrows and Cao Cao kills Cai Mao and Zhang Yun was indeed epic), the fighting was SO ridiculous I was switching between laughing out loud and opening my mouth in bewilderment. In the first movie the whole formation was ridiculous beyond measure. What the hell is wrong with those horses? If they went against the shields, it'd be a :daisy: rout. Instead their just running in circles like they are in some track. (:O) And then the shield ranks mysteriously reform to have some ad-hoc duels between Shu Generals and random Cao Cao's soldiers. I was facepalming so heavily.
Then battlescenes in the second movie like the disembark in the attack against Cao Cao. I was with my mouth opened in amazement on how the film basically ripped off "Saving Private Ryan's" Omaha Beach scene and pasted it in Ancient Chinese settings with flaming catapults (OMG ROFL) to do the work of artillery.

Then things like Xiao Qiao doing something to Cao Cao which nobody could very well figure out what it was, but which made Cao Cao unable to simply tell his Generals to sally out and attack without him (Quite honestly I'm still trying to figure how what happened to Cao Cao there).

Things like Sun Quan and Zhou Yu being in the middle of the battle (And actually killing dozens of soldiers!). That's like seeing Roosevelt and Patton grabbing a Thompson SMG and disembarking with the troops in Omaha Beach and single-handedly wiping out half a platoon of Germans.

Things like Wu troops doing Roman formations (Omg...)

Things like Zhao Yun being the all-time world champion of pole vault. Using a spear to go over the large wall of the fort.

Worst of all is the fate they give to Cao Cao in the end. That is SO UNREALISTIC I wanted to roundhouse kick John Wu and toss him into a pool of acid and lava. NEVER in any alternate dimension would Cao Cao be captured by Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and Liu Bei and happen what it did. I would have broken the DVD to a thousand pieces if I had just a DVD.


Though, to be fair, I do understand that people who are not familliar with the time period like it. They are pretty epic battle scenes. They are just so unrealistic and over the top for a person that takes interest in the time period and was expecting to see a realistic portrayal of the battles that, it ruined the entire movie.

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Though, to be fair, I do understand that people who are not familliar with the time period like it.

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yup, thats me. :yes:

I seen Sherlock Holmes and thought it was brilliant. The story was mediocre and the ending was predictable, what redeemed this movie and made it really good was the portrayal of Holmes and Watson. Holmes is an arrogant, egotistical, anti-social, substance abusing, adventurous genius with many traits making him seem borderline, if not completely, insane. In other words, he is Holmes, just with less controversial drugs than cocaine or morphine. Watson has an interesting personality, and Jude Law plays the long suffering friend perfectly, but most importantly, he's actually quite smart, not just a bumbling idiot to act as a foil to Holmes' genius. Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law also work together really well and makes the friendship between Holmes and Watson seem real. Hopefully the obvious sequel provides a better story for these two brilliantly portrayed characters to act in.

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Originally Posted by Ronin

I said I thought it was a good movie....not an army procedural video.

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I didn't say it should be. I said it's ridiculous. I'm also just on principle against any idolatry of EOD.

Baise Moi, forgot all about it, raunchy as only the French can and will make it. Incredibly violent and cynical. I didn't expect to see (forced) penetration forgot about that as well. This movie is kinda evil, there is no comic relieve just a rampage of loveless sex and mindless violence. It is strangely fascinating and not a bad movie at all, but I got my limits and I can't watch rape especially when it's so graphic, much worse then the rape scene in Irreversible which was horrible enough as it is. I watch movies for fun not to be tortured.

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Originally Posted by Jolt

I saw the Asian version (Both movies totalling 4 hours or so)

And as a RTK fan, I was overwhelmingly disapointed. While the plot build was pretty good (The part in the second movie where Zhuge Liang steals the arrows and Cao Cao kills Cai Mao and Zhang Yun was indeed epic), the fighting was SO ridiculous I was switching between laughing out loud and opening my mouth in bewilderment. In the first movie the whole formation was ridiculous beyond measure. What the hell is wrong with those horses? If they went against the shields, it'd be a :daisy: rout. Instead their just running in circles like they are in some track. (:O) And then the shield ranks mysteriously reform to have some ad-hoc duels between Shu Generals and random Cao Cao's soldiers. I was facepalming so heavily.
Then battlescenes in the second movie like the disembark in the attack against Cao Cao. I was with my mouth opened in amazement on how the film basically ripped off "Saving Private Ryan's" Omaha Beach scene and pasted it in Ancient Chinese settings with flaming catapults (OMG ROFL) to do the work of artillery.

Then things like Xiao Qiao doing something to Cao Cao which nobody could very well figure out what it was, but which made Cao Cao unable to simply tell his Generals to sally out and attack without him (Quite honestly I'm still trying to figure how what happened to Cao Cao there).

Things like Sun Quan and Zhou Yu being in the middle of the battle (And actually killing dozens of soldiers!). That's like seeing Roosevelt and Patton grabbing a Thompson SMG and disembarking with the troops in Omaha Beach and single-handedly wiping out half a platoon of Germans.

Things like Wu troops doing Roman formations (Omg...)

Things like Zhao Yun being the all-time world champion of pole vault. Using a spear to go over the large wall of the fort.

Worst of all is the fate they give to Cao Cao in the end. That is SO UNREALISTIC I wanted to roundhouse kick John Wu and toss him into a pool of acid and lava. NEVER in any alternate dimension would Cao Cao be captured by Sun Quan, Zhou Yu and Liu Bei and happen what it did. I would have broken the DVD to a thousand pieces if I had just a DVD.


Though, to be fair, I do understand that people who are not familliar with the time period like it. They are pretty epic battle scenes. They are just so unrealistic and over the top for a person that takes interest in the time period and was expecting to see a realistic portrayal of the battles that, it ruined the entire movie.

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That is...disappointing. Romance of the Three Kingdoms is my all-time favorite book, and when I first saw the movie poster in a London undergroud station I was, to put it lightly, super excited (we almost missed our train because I absolutely had to stop and look at the poster. I'll probably see it anyways but...come on! From you description it sounds a lot more like Dynasty Warriors than Romance of the Three Kingdoms.

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I seen Sherlock Holmes and thought it was brilliant. The story was mediocre and the ending was predictable, what redeemed this movie and made it really good was the portrayal of Holmes and Watson. Holmes is an arrogant, egotistical, anti-social, substance abusing, adventurous genius with many traits making him seem borderline, if not completely, insane. In other words, he is Holmes, just with less controversial drugs than cocaine or morphine. Watson has an interesting personality, and Jude Law plays the long suffering friend perfectly, but most importantly, he's actually quite smart, not just a bumbling idiot to act as a foil to Holmes' genius. Robert Downey Junior and Jude Law also work together really well and makes the friendship between Holmes and Watson seem real. Hopefully the obvious sequel provides a better story for these two brilliantly portrayed characters to act in.

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I thought the movie was pretty good, I just couldn't stand the unnecessary violence, particularly the boxing scene. I know Holmes is supposed to be an accomplished boxer, but truly, how did that scene advance the plot in any way? Also don't recall the American from A Scandal in Bohemia (can't remember her name) ever showing up in another Holmes tale, let alone being some sort of criminal mastermind thief (or Holmes's love life, for that matter). From what I hear though, the unnecessary violence is really just the directors style, and so I'm hoping they can him for the almost certainly inevitable sequel :2thumbsup:.

Swallow Grave, now that is how you do it, from the time Danny Boyle still made good movies.

9/10