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    McConaughey is really on a roll, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club and now...



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    Yeah, Interstellar looks good to me.

    I watched Divergent last night, I'm not exactly in the demographic it was aimed at, but I found it watchable.

    Also watched Die Hard the other night, get caught up in that film, and it's not even Christmas.

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    Godzilla, Lucy, or Guardians Of The Galaxy for me this weekend
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    Nice. I'd love to hear your thoughts on Lucy, Ian, if that's what you wind up seeing.
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    Just saw Melancholia. Pretty interesting. Definitely melancholy, perhaps depressing. But Kirsten Dunst was amazing.

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    You guys know the movie Moon, which someone recommended on here quite a while ago (very good film, BTW)? Did you guys know it was directed by David Bowie's son (who was originally named Zowie Bowie but now goes by Duncan Jones)? I didn't know that till now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NeonKnight View Post
    McConaughey is really on a roll, True Detective, Dallas Buyers Club and now...



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    That looks pretty good!

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    Some green screen stuff for Sin City 2

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    Under The Skin--an art film take on SF. If you like this sort of thing, you might like it, I was very indifferent on it, and really didn't care for it much. Scarlett Johannson plays the alien looking for John Does, in Scotland. It's very slow with much dialogue. A friend told me I should try Snowpiercer, though it's not out yet.

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    I've been on an old horror movie kick lately. Grew up with WKBW's Friday Night Frights, all the classics in glorious B+W. But I've got to chime in here, it seems there's a couple I missed !

    Boris Karloff in 'The Devil Commands' is one. DevilC-LC.jpg Karloff slips into madness communicating with his recently departed wife. How and the device used is over the top. Lots of neon and sparks going on ! (He disappears in the end, but there was no sequel.)

    Lon Chaney Jr. in "Spider Baby" is the other. Available at the Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/SpiderBa...-ImprovedAudio
    "Weird, funny, brutal, and twisted, three children of the Merrye family live under the care and protection of their chauffeur, Bruno, played by Lon Chaney, Jr. The "children" are afflicted with "Merrye" syndrome, a form of dementia caused by inbreeding."
    It's the Addams family gone bad, way bad! Is this really a soft-core porn flick with the good parts cut out ?? it's a weird one for sure !!! (I read somewhere Chaney was so grateful to get the part, he was clean and sober for the filming.)

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    Ended up going to see Gaurdians Of The Galaxy, top marks, really good stuff, fast paced, silly, funny with lots of fireworks. Ocassionally pause for 'touching' moment was a bit of a buzzkill but otherwise a hoot.
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    Van Gogh Painted with Pictures doc: Worth a watch:

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    You have to really suspend disbelief but I liked Lucy.

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    I just saw an advanced screening of "Dumb & Dumber To" .
    Stupid is as stupid does, again.
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    The Hobbit:The Desolation of Smaug

    I noticed I used spoiler tags in 2013 when I got around to reviewing the first Hobbit movie. No need this time, since this second one as been out for awhile, so spoils ahead everyone....

    Spoiled indeed. What Jackson has done with the trilogy, is spoil any kind of relationship he has with Tolkien. Instead what he has done is forge a new and powerfully corrupting relationship with George Lucas and his awful Star Wars prequels.

    Doesn't Peter realize Frodo learned that the ring ultimately corrupts us with all of it's seductive power?

    Pipeweed:

    Just a few good moments really. Even though it was vastly and wildly different from the book, I liked the barrel roll down the river. At least I liked a couple moments in there, when the one fat dwarf with the red hair does something slightly funny to yet another hapless orc.

    But there was so much more in that same scene that was pure absurdity, so even this brief bright moment is spoiled. (see Dark Thoughts)

    Tauriel/Kate looked cute a couple of times.

    The staircase to the secret door was super cool. I liked the way King Dwarf was carved in to the rock in an almost now you see it-now you don't way. For once Jackson added something not in the Tolkien text that works especially nicely when Thorin is saying something like "I am not like my Grandfather" and we see in profile that "Yes, you are exactly like your Grandfather."

    Smaug and the hoard. The piles and piles of gold was great. Loved the huge quality and quantity. The CGI is fantastic, and I suppose Benedict's voice is fine. But once again Jackson spoils all of that by giving Smaug way, way too much to say with that golden voice....

    Dark and Terrible Thoughts:

    Almost too many to remember! Jackson/Sauron's goal is to destroy all resemblance to Tolkien's text. In this world, Mordor is victorious.

    God I hate Thorin! I want the dwarf dead as a doornail. Even though I know my cause is hopeless, I am rooting for the ugly orcs to nail that guy. Oh no Smaug, he's right on the tip of your beautiful snout, just open your big mouth and use any one of a hundred teeth that are just like swords and snap his f-ing ugly head right off.

    Oh no, he got away, and now he's surfing on a piece of metal that doesn't melt even though it is floating on molten gold and he's slipped away again. Smaug you dumb F, you could have just blasted him with your flamethrower from hell.

    God I hate that dwarf. He sucks.

    Thorin sucks the big one, but coming in close second in suckitude is Legolas. Amazing how Legolas seems to be aging backwards. Bloom looks so old, he looks older then his own FATHER in this very movie, Thranduil King of Mirkwood.

    The only thing more absurd then his looks are all the pyrotechnics he pulls off when fighting hordes of orcs. Never a scratch on him, yet every single orc (except the awful Orc leaders) fall like bowling pins.

    God I hate Legolas now. Can one of you orcs just fucking grab him, while the rest of you rip his smirking face off?

    Yeah, I get it. Jackson got his little reference to Gimli in there. haha.

    Oh god, it's hopeless. No way to defeat Legolas and Thorin now. (this sucks)

    Now that I think about Smaug's vast horde, and I contemplate the pile of suck that I have not even mentioned yet, I realize it's hopeless.

    I surrender to Jackson and Mordor and George Lucas.

    The Desolation of Smaug? No.

    More like The Desolation of Tolkien.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Ended up going to see Gaurdians Of The Galaxy, top marks, really good stuff, fast paced, silly, funny with lots of fireworks. Ocassionally pause for 'touching' moment was a bit of a buzzkill but otherwise a hoot.
    I went in expecting to be disappointed and .... I wasn't !

    I'm not into Marvel/comics so I can't comment on the 'finer points' of the flick, but it's just about non-stop action ! Having a CGI raccoon as one of the main characters sounds nuts - but it works ! They really pull it off ! He's almost the star of the film ! (Oscar nomination at least)
    The Groot character, seemingly out of Maleficent, was Robert Downey Jr. ??? Hard to tell it was him. "I am Groot". Not much of a talker.

    A fun, silly, summer b movie, but that's not a bad thing in this case. 5 out of 7 Raccoons !

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    Quote Originally Posted by tom unbound View Post
    The Groot character, seemingly out of Maleficent, was Robert Downey Jr. ??? Hard to tell it was him. "I am Groot". Not much of a talker.
    Unbelievably it was Vin Diesel
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    The Others--Nichole Kidman plays a woman with two kids in a big mansion waiting for the father to come home from war. It's sort of a ghost story done somewhat in a Hammer vein.

    Of Unknown Origin--Peter Weller plays a NY businessman with a large rat problem, sort of silly, but sort of ok too.

    Blue Ruin--the better one of the bunch is a mystery crime story involving two families and their ongoing feud. Not much dialogue, but had some tense moments.

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    Quote Originally Posted by hippypants View Post

    Blue Ruin--the better one of the bunch is a mystery crime story involving two families and their ongoing feud. Not much dialogue, but had some tense moments.
    Good one! It would make a great double feature with Cold In July.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NogbadTheBad View Post
    Unbelievably it was Vin Diesel
    Oops ! Sorry, I was 100% wrong. Thanks !

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    Saw The 100 Foot Journey yesterday, and I recommend it. A nice romance, and a foodie movie for sure.

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    Watched Paul Newman and James Mason in Sydney Lumet's THe Verdict (1982) last night.

    A great Boston movie with quite possibly Newman's finest performance as an alcoholic attorney who suddenly develops a conscience.
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    Quote Originally Posted by hippypants View Post
    Of Unknown Origin--Peter Weller plays a NY businessman with a large rat problem, sort of silly, but sort of ok too.
    Talk about a flashback. First saw that on TMC over 30 years ago.

    Finally saw Captain Phillips and Elysium. Both were awesome. I know some creative liberties (no doubt due to the book) were taken with Captain Phillips, but I didn't care. Helluva movie. Elysium looked like it jumped right out of the pages of Heavy Metal circa the late '70s/early '80s.

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    Quote Originally Posted by nosebone
    Watched Paul Newman and James Mason in Sydney Lumet's THe Verdict (1982) last night.
    One of my all-time favorite movies. One of the great Paul Newman's finest roles.

    Some fairly new movies I have watched recently:

    What Doesn't Kill You - a true story about a recovering alcoholic trying to leave behind his life of crime and devote his life to being a good father and husband. Mark Ruffalo, Ethan Hawke. The writer/director, Brian Goodman, is the man whose story is portrayed.

    Transcendence - Johnny Depp as a scientist who becomes an artificial intelligence. I have seen critics blast Depp for his acting in this, but I think he was spot on as a scientist and spot on as a machine. I don't know what people expect of him. He's criticized when he's over the top (Pirates of the Caribbean, Lone Ranger) and he's criticized when he's subtle. I'm more critical of some of the movies he has chosen to be in, than of his acting in those movies. Not a perfect film, but certainly worth watching. The wife and I spent the whole film trying to guess who was playing the female lead. It was an actress neither of us could recall hearing of, Rebecca Hall. Turns out she has been in movies I have seen, but my memory of movies and actors is not especially good. The movie gets bonus points from me for the featured soundtrack song, "Genesis" by Jorma Kaukonen.



    Divergent - Mediocre futuristic sci-fi about a post-apocalyptic future where people are divided by class based on their primary virtue. Sucker that I am for futuristic movies, I found it fun to watch, but not deep. In Shailene Woodley, Hollywood has found yet another actress who can look and play someone younger than she is. I thought I had never heard of Woodley, but it turns out she was in The Descendants a few years ago, and I had merely forgotten her. I could say more about the plot, but I don't want to spoil it for people who haven't seen it. Flawed, but worth watching for entertainment.
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    Divergent is another of the ever increasing teen-lit movies with little plot or character development and wholly simplistic societal segmentations (see Hunger Games & Twilight). I for one hope this fad goes away soon.
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