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F*cking awesome. best movie of the year.
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Heading off to see it now. I hope I understand it.
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Don't the good guys win at the end?
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Going to see it at IMAX 8)
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Been waiting for this since I saw the trailer last year. Can't wait to see it this weekend. 8)
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F*cking awesome. best movie of the year.
Awesome. I def want to see it. Dacaprio has been one of my favorite actors since the Departed. He's come along way since that POS Titanic. Plus he's a supermodel pussy slaying machine
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Seeing it in a few days. I hope its not one of those movies where you walk out saying "what the fuck just happened"
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F*cking awesome. best movie of the year.
One movie I'm actually looking forward to and Hollywood has been putting out shit for years now , Christopher Nolan is an awesome director, I'm glad it's something to look forward to .
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Fucking Sheep. I'm watching Eclipse for the fifth time. Real man movie right thurrrr
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"What's the most resistant virus? An idea."
"Once you claim an idea its continued spread will eventually overtake you."
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Saw it today in a packed theater and no one said a word after it was over. Usually people will clap when they like what they seen on the screen. But in this case there was dead silence.
I've also been looking forward to seeing it and have heard that it was an intelligent piece of work, but I failed to see any intelligence in it at all. In fact my best description of the story is that it was pretty stupid.
Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.
And it took damn near forever for that damn van to fall off that bridge while all its passengers were dreaming about being somewhere else doing something entirely different.
The only emotional response it got out of me was the short scene where Leonardo's character finally got to see his kids again. Otherwise I could have cared less if none of them ever did wake up.
It's supposed to make $45 million this weekend and it probably will do even better than that figure, but I bet it 'don't got legs'.
I want my $3 back!
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I want my $3 back!
Hmm, maybe I should hold off spending $21.00 here in Sydney to see it.
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I want my $3 back!
Ouch!
Man I hate being disappointed with over hyped movies. I was underwhelmed by the Dark Night and can see this being a similar experience.
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For all of you who are saying that "Inception" is the "Greatest movie ever", I have four words for you- "Big Top Pee Wee"
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the previews were fucking terrible, after all of them you are left thinking 'um...ok...so...what the fuck is that movie actually about?' just an awful job on the previews so i have am left with no desire to go see it.
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Hmm, maybe I should hold off spending $21.00 here in Sydney to see it.
wow 21 smackers, holy shit. Damn going tonight and its only 10 bucks at imax.
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Saw it today in a packed theater and no one said a word after it was over. Usually people will clap when they like what they seen on the screen. But in this case there was dead silence.
I've also been looking forward to seeing it and have heard that it was an intelligent piece of work, but I failed to see any intelligence in it at all. In fact my best description of the story is that it was pretty stupid.
Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.
And it took damn near forever for that damn van to fall off that bridge while all its passengers were dreaming about being somewhere else doing something entirely different.
The only emotional response it got out of me was the short scene where Leonardo's character finally got to see his kids again. Otherwise I could have cared less if none of them ever did wake up.
It's supposed to make $45 million this weekend and it probably will do even better than that figure, but I bet it 'don't got legs'.
I want my $3 back!
Oh brother ::) You say this about every movie...Perhaps you should stick to Romance novels because I have yet to see you give a positive response to any movie...The plot, and script were brilliant and if you were payiong ATTENTION....The reason that van fell so slow was because each time they went into a another dream, time is perceived differently and is much faster the closer you are to reality and slower the deeper you are in dreams....It has plenty of legs to stand on and is getting great reveiws from everyone who is anyone....Like I said stick to romance novels or perhaps Pixar cartoons suit you better.
GO SEE THE MOVIE LADIES AND GENTS, IT'S WELL WORTH IT. WATCH IT IN IMAX...34 Dollars though :-X
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Wiggs, I understood it perfectly and still think it's a shitty movie and far less than perfect.
ANd I will admit that anything by Pixar has been far surperior.
Refer me to one of those romance novels and I'll give you a second opinion.
One good thing to say about Inception is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt finally got a big part in a major Hollywood movie.
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Wiggs, where did you pay $34 to see a movie?
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the previews were fucking terrible, after all of them you are left thinking 'um...ok...so...what the fuck is that movie actually about?' just an awful job on the previews so i have am left with no desire to go see it.
But it's Chris Nolan, you've gots to see it!
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Wiggs, where did you pay $34 to see a movie?
Sunset Station, IMAX $17 a piece for me and my wife...Not including the drink and popcorn :-X
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Wiggs, I understood it perfectly and still think it's a shitty movie and far less than perfect.
ANd I will admit that anything by Pixar has been far surperior.
Refer me to one of those romance novels and I'll give you a second opinion.
One good thing to say about Inception is that Joseph Gordon-Levitt finally got a big part in a major Hollywood movie.
Tell me 3 movies in the last couple years that came out that you liked....I hope you don't say Avatar cause I'll light you up if you do.
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Tell me 3 movies in the last couple years that came out that you liked....I hope you don't say Avatar cause I'll light you up if you do.
;D
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Saw it today in a packed theater and no one said a word after it was over. Usually people will clap when they like what they seen on the screen. But in this case there was dead silence.
I've also been looking forward to seeing it and have heard that it was an intelligent piece of work, but I failed to see any intelligence in it at all. In fact my best description of the story is that it was pretty stupid.
Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.
And it took damn near forever for that damn van to fall off that bridge while all its passengers were dreaming about being somewhere else doing something entirely different.
The only emotional response it got out of me was the short scene where Leonardo's character finally got to see his kids again. Otherwise I could have cared less if none of them ever did wake up.
It's supposed to make $45 million this weekend and it probably will do even better than that figure, but I bet it 'don't got legs'.
I want my $3 back!
5 minutes in reality = 1 hour inside first level dream.
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Wiggs, you gotta go to South Point. Much cheaper there, I think.
Only three....?!
Inglorious Bastards - Loved it
Hangover - Loved it even more
Kick Ass - Was surprised that I loved it so damn much
I gotta add a couple more .....
Karate Kid (or whatever its name was) - The training sequence bought tears to my eyes
And AVATAR - I really liked that movie!
Now here's a couple of questions for you ...... Name three of your favorite movies over the past year or so.
And ....
Do you like 3D versions of 2D movies?
Here's my personal answer on the 3D question..... Once I get into the movie (about 10 minutes after the opening credits), I could care less if I'm seeing it in 3D or on a flat screen. But I gotta admit that best 3D effect I've ever seen in a Hollywood movie was during the closing credits of Despicable Me where the Minions were "pushing" the ladder into the audience. That was done by some company in Europe (I think) and they did a damn good job creating a 3D visual.
That's an important question which you will discover later.
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BTW, Wiggs .... I was on the Avatar set and it is amazing what those guys did to create the visuals for that movie. When I was there it was just a jumbled up mess of various sized green boxes in front of a green screen, but the final visuals were amazing.
Hollywood critters can create anything now-a-days.
And everyone I'm met who is involved in that visual creation process appeared to be kids just out of high school coming to work in Levis and baseball hats.
There's a video somewhere on the net showing the details of how those visuals were created.
Amazing stuff!
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Sunset Station, IMAX $17 a piece for me and my wife...Not including the drink and popcorn :-X
I guess it more than doubled with the pop corn and drinks..
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Yea, popcorn and a drink will set you back about $9 or so.
But did you realize that in many cases all of that movie ticket money goes back to the "movie company", while the theater itself only gets the profits from the 'snack-bar' sales.
Not positive here but I think that the original Star Wars movie initiated that policy.
But I have yet to hear if any "movie company" has also demanded a percentage of those snack-bar sales.
One of these days it will definitely happen though.
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that's why I bring in my own snacks..It's ridiculous
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Wiggs, I gotta tell ya this too! Then just maybe ya won't hate me too very much for not liking Inception.
When I was in the Corps, I was the 'movie guy".
That meant that it was my job to pick that night's movie from the movie bank and go wherever I had to go to pick it up and deliver it to the other important guy we called the "projector guy".
Both of us were very important because movies in the military are very important past-times at O Clubs, Staff NCO Clubs, and the Enlisted guy's tents or shit house walls.
And if either of us fucked up just a little bit, we'd get a lot of shit the following day and that shit would continue until everyone was completely satisfied by the preceding evening's flicker on the O Club screen, or the Staff NCO wall, or the side of the enlisted men's shitter.
And I will state as a matter of fact that no-one ever complained while I was the 'movie guy'.
But on a few occasions we almost stoned the "projector guy" when the film would catch on fire (which was not a very rare occurance in tropical jurisdictions or while under hostile fire).
So I was pretty proud that no one gave me a ration of shit and one day I decided to expand my "movie guy's" duties and surprise everyone.
So I called Jack Webb's office (look him up) and asked him to come and watch one of his movies with us. (The DI)
And then I called John Wayne's office to invite him to come along also while we showed one of his old films that was shot on some of the Camp Pendleton beaches ....."Sands of Iwo Jima"
In both cases I did receive a polite reply that Mr Wayne and Mr Webb could not fly to the Orient as requested but in the case of Mr Wayne, I was invited to have a drink with him to toast the Corps at some favorite bar of his a bit north of Pendleton upon my return to the states. And in the case of Mr Webb, he did send us a copy of "The D.I" which we all enjoyed once again.
After my successful stint as the "movie guy", I somehow came in contact with Hollywood's top stunt guys and gals and was often an invited guest to many Hollywood studios and even met a couple of the owners of the Hollywood studios who gave us personal tours of whatever movie was being filmed on the lot that day with a personal introduction to the featured stars.
And I even held an Academy Award for a few brief moments when someone believed that it would be used as a weapon of destruction unless I held it tightly in my very own hands. (I even prepared a speech in my own mind while holding that little, heavy, bald headed guy while two of the principals got into a very heated argument.)
And then my family got involved - but that's another story.
So I know something about this Hollywood business and the movies they make and I also realize that we all have our own individual tastes and opinions of what we conceive to be good or bad on that silver screen.
And I think I would have lost my noteworthy and prestigious 'movie guy' reputation if I had ever screened INCEPTION on the O Club screen or the shit house wall where the real trooper movie critics sat. If they didn't like it, any left-over C-rations would hit the 'wall' .... Like shit hitting the fan or a shit-house wall, so to speak.
So as GH would probably and so aptly say.... Don't question my 'movie reviews'. I am the Wizard of Movies when it comes to judging what you see on the silver screen.
Sort of, but not always.
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I love stuntmovie war stories. He has a ton of them. I bet Stunt is the highest ranking military person on Getbig. He hates to brag but I love it
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Booked my ticket for tonight ;D
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Take a pillow, Ach.
Nah, I got a feeling you're gonna like it.
SO be somewhat gentle when you give me shit about feeling otherwise.
It might help to remember that 5 minutes is equal to one hour as Gracie so aptly states, but five minutes of that movie was more like 8 hours in a very bad place for me.
Let us know what ya think. And if you saw anything of intelligence in it.
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Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.
Jesus.... ::)
That does sound like an epic waste of time. Thanks for the heads up.
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I've been doing inception all my life.
How to convince a girl to let you f*ck her in the ass?
INCEPTION ;)
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(http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f22/hottoe/Objects/shit-brain1.jpg)
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twas good.. ending was unsatisfactory.
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Hmm, maybe I should hold off spending $21.00 here in Sydney to see it.
where the fuck do you go to the movies?
Last time i paid like $12 i think.
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where the fuck do you go to the movies?
Last time i paid like $12 i think.
9.25$ awwww yea.
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Take a pillow, Ach.
Nah, I got a feeling you're gonna like it.
SO be somewhat gentle when you give me shit about feeling otherwise.
It might help to remember that 5 minutes is equal to one hour as Gracie so aptly states, but five minutes of that movie was more like 8 hours in a very bad place for me.
Let us know what ya think. And if you saw anything of intelligence in it.
Just got back, I thought it was pretty bad ass..... BTW, for the record, in my family and group of friends.. I AM the "movie guy" - I liked it, had good acting, excellent audio, awesome visuals, and pretty original idea (although, attempts of smilar contexts have been made in past movies).
Its ok if you didn't like it, we all have different tastes.... My only beef with it.... SPOILER ALERT BELOW....
I'm not the biggest fan of movies that "leave you guessing in the end" without a definite conclusion, I know writers like to say "we'll let you decide what really happened - or what this really means" but I prefer to have all questions answered and a solid conclusion. Other than that, I loved it!
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For all of you who are saying that "Inception" is the "Greatest movie ever", I have four words for you- "Big Top Pee Wee"
Didnt he get caught whacking off in a movie theatre to which the arresting cop said
#Now I know why he is called pee wee#
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The not-so-smart people will probably think the movie is ok or hate it. The smart people will understand it and love it.
Perhaps the dumb people should choose despicable me.
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Saw it this evening. I give it 5 out of ten. The script was went downhill early in the film and never recovered. The "idea" of this film was well executed in the Matrix; it was poorly done here. Sure, the effects were good, but nothing groundbreaking (as in the Matrix) and the script couldn't keep up with the effects. You had to pay a lot of attention to this film for it to "make sense" but the effort was not worth the reward. I can see a 14 year old loving this film (like Avatar), but not an adult. I am a big fan of scifi/fantasy but this is a Netflix movie, at best. :(
Ellen Page was miscast.
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You need to watch films and make up your own mind ..listening to critics opinions is shit , that Shutter Island was touted as a great movie by film critics but was absolute horse shit.Do those guys get payed to write that crap ? ???
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Netflix movie? shutter island horse shit movie?
Some people are not for the huge complex story lines they just want action, which is understandable because action is entertaining... for the mentally challenged people.
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Yea, popcorn and a drink will set you back about $9 or so.
But did you realize that in many cases all of that movie ticket money goes back to the "movie company", while the theater itself only gets the profits from the 'snack-bar' sales.
BLOFL, yeah last time a small popcorn and small soda cost TEN DOLLARS i actually was so shocked i asked them about it because it was so ridiculous, the snack bar people told me it was cause the theater actually makes all its profits from the snack bar and that they dont actually make money off ticket sales. Wtf???? stupid as hell
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where the fuck do you go to the movies?
Last time i paid like $12 i think.
Hoyts at Fox EQ. It's like a 2 minute walk from the studio so that's really the only one I know of hah. I'm staying in Kings Cross and the only show's on here are the drunken punters falling over themselves and crying in the gutter.
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Good concept movie, seen better ones though.
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If you liked Inception, I recommend
Oh my god! That was the worst movie in the history of movies. I wouldn't tell anyone I worked on that movie,
And Bay, all movies end up being NetFlix movies
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Opinion is opinion, we're all different, we all have different taste, and we like different movies..... I'm a huge movie buff (My home collection is 300+ maybe 400, of all genres action, comedy, drama, romance, kids, etc) but I never read or watch any movie reviews, aside from the fact that I just said we all have different tastes, movie critics always have incredibly strong opinions about movies, sometimes they're just plain bitter, and I hate hearing someone tell me what I will like or dislike, you're not me, go formulate your own opinion, don't skip a movie just because someone said its bad!
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Only dumb people enjoy watching films that make no sense. They are used to not understand things and acting like they actually do, they are superficial. These are the same who will say that sfx were amazing aswell, even if they have absolutely no clue about the meaning of scenario.
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Opinion is opinion, we're all different, we all have different taste, and we like different movies..... I'm a huge movie buff (My home collection is 300+ maybe 400, of all genres action, comedy, drama, romance, kids, etc) but I never read or watch any movie reviews, aside from the fact that I just said we all have different tastes, movie critics always have incredibly strong opinions about movies, sometimes they're just plain bitter, and I hate hearing someone tell me what I will like or dislike, you're not me, go formulate your own opinion, don't skip a movie just because someone said its bad!
And sometimes film critics have the experience, perspective, and intelligence to place a movie in context (a historical context, for example). Does the film set out to do what it purports to do? Does the script make sense (does it have too many plot holes)? Is the acting up to par? The direction, cinematography, editing, etc. How does the film compare to others in the genre? How does this film compare to the source material be it a novel, play, historical event, or another film/screenplay? It is the difference between having an impulse and having a brain. Everyone has the former, not everyone has the latter. It is easy to “like” a film when one is too daft to know any better. Like all good art, good film welcomes criticism, bad film cannot withstand it. Of course, not all film critics are created equal. Robin Wood and Richard Dyer were both excellent critics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wood_(critic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dyer
A lot of movies come down the pike that are not worth one’s time, attention, or money. Film critics are there to help us sift the wheat from the chaff. Just because a film has a big budget and names behind it doesn't mean it is any good. Finding one or two critics you respect and are in sync with is the way to use them; the rest you can ignore. For example, I don’t read him, but Peter Travers, the film critic at Rolling Stone, has a large following.
Of course a 14 year old brain is not interested in film criticism; they just want to sit down, turn their brains off, and watch. Some people (adults) like to watch with their brains turned on.
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it was good
i liked it
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Saw it today in a packed theater and no one said a word after it was over. Usually people will clap when they like what they seen on the screen. But in this case there was dead silence.
I've also been looking forward to seeing it and have heard that it was an intelligent piece of work, but I failed to see any intelligence in it at all. In fact my best description of the story is that it was pretty stupid.
Dreaming inside of a dream inside of a dream and then physically partaking as an active participant with others in that dream who are also sleeping and dreaming tended to put me to sleep too.
And it took damn near forever for that damn van to fall off that bridge while all its passengers were dreaming about being somewhere else doing something entirely different.
The only emotional response it got out of me was the short scene where Leonardo's character finally got to see his kids again. Otherwise I could have cared less if none of them ever did wake up.
It's supposed to make $45 million this weekend and it probably will do even better than that figure, but I bet it 'don't got legs'.
I want my $3 back!
Stunt, if you don't mind could you rate the movie "The Matrix" and the the movie "Momento" from 1 to 10. 10 being fucking awesome and 1 being dog shit. Thanks in advance.
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Sno, I hope this ain't a test to measure my dumbness or stupidity, but I'll try to answer anyway.
I got a strange feeling here that there is an ulterior motive in your question though ... but that's fine by me so here goes .....
I really can't answer you directly!
I can only 'rate" how I felt immediately after seeing each of those fine films .... and it's funny that you mentioned Memento.
I saw both those films many years ago and liked each of them for different reasons. But too many years have passed to rate my feelings toward each of them on a scale of 1 - 10.
But I'll tell you what I did like and did dislike most of all about each of them.
Matrix - I liked the special FX - mainly the bullets scene. I disliked the ending which I sort of recall was a telephone conversation scene. Overall - I did not like it as much as the general movie going public liked it. But I considered it to be a likeable SciFi fantasy movie.
Memento - I actually saw Memento a bit before it was released and I do recall it being very unique due to its "time sequences/editing process". This was a movie that actually made you think of logical ocurrences .... not illogical nonsense.
I don't know which version you saw though but the original was excellent
A short while back I purchased Memento for $5 at a video store and watched it only to discover that it had been re-edited .... and by doing so .... all the original 'magic' of that 1st edition was gone.
I gotta admit that I liked both Matrix and Memento, but for very different reasons.
Right now I really HATE the following bullshit which is filmed in way too many movies now-a-days .....
I don't know how many of you GetBiggers have ever blown up a bridge. or a building, or a gathering of 'bad guys'; but I've done one of the above more than once and it is impossible not too watch how much damage and destruction you have caused when the big bang occurs.
But you set the fuse properly and always watch from a very safe distance while keeping your head and ass as low as possible.
But in many of today's movies, the good gang of tough guys always set the charge and casually walk away without looking at or paying one bit of attention to the destructive explosion occurring to their immediate rear.
For one tine in one movie, I'd like to just see one of those guys turn around and look while all the others give him a ration of shit for doing so.
Even better would be to shoot that 'casual walking away from the huge explosion' scene with each of them getting blown away towards the camera in the process.
Don't kill them in the script, but make it evident that tough guys like to watch what they blow up and they know that bad things can happen while trying to look like rough and tough casually walking assholes.
Also I hate those scenes where thousands of bullets fly in your direction and no one gets hit, or panics, or shits his pants.
And don't even ask me about car chase scenes! Or killing kids on the silver screen like that Mel Gibson movie many years ago (The Patriot??). I actually got sick to my stomach in that one.
But the one scene I'll always remember was a scene in an old Paul Newman movie about lumberjacks where his brother (or best friend) gets stuck beneath a fallen tree in a river. At first they laugh at this situation, but they get serious when they realize that the river is rising and it'll take a while to pull him free. And needless to say, the brother drowns while the other bro is doing all he can to save him.
That scene haunted me for years. And still does. (I think it was The Big Trees, but I'd rather not know.
Sorry for not giving a direct answer to your question, Sno .... but I tried my best in a round about way.
Did I pass, or what?
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Since I'm on a soapbox here, I wanna say this!
Scary movies never scared me as a kid .... Frankenstein and his wife, Dracula, Wolfman, etc!
I loved those guys! And the Misses.
But then one Saturday afternoon my older cousin took me to see the Vincent Price origial version of "THE FLY' at the now gone SF Fox Theater (Google it) and in the final scene Mr Price goes into the 'fly machine' to turn himself back into a normal human being.
But something goes terribly wrong and instead of a real man coming out, a small fly flies out and the camera zooms in to show a close up shot with Mr Price's head on that little fly's body.
And that movie ended on that close-up with a pleading voice-over begging, "Help me! Help me!
And that voice turned into a "Help me, help me!" buzzing sound during the closing credits.
Years later I met Vincent Price and told him that that one scene scarred me for a lifetime and he said. "A lot of people have told me that! It scared me too when I first saw it".
The only memory I have of being scared while watching a movie. But 'sick to my stomach' might be a more descriptive term.
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Sno, I hope this ain't a test to measure my dumbness or stupidity, but I'll try to answer anyway.
I got a strange feeling here that there is an ulterior motive in your question though ... but that's fine by me so here goes .....
I really can't answer you directly!
I can only 'rate" how I felt immediately after seeing each of those fine films .... and it's funny that you mentioned Memento.
I saw both those films many years ago and liked each of them for different reasons. But too many years have passed to rate my feelings toward each of them on a scale of 1 - 10.
But I'll tell you what I did like and did dislike most of all about each of them.
Matrix - I liked the special FX - mainly the bullets scene. I disliked the ending which I sort of recall was a telephone conversation scene. Overall - I did not like it as much as the general movie going public liked it. But I considered it to be a likeable SciFi fantasy movie.
Memento - I actually saw Memento a bit before it was released and I do recall it being very unique due to its "time sequences/editing process". This was a movie that actually made you think of logical ocurrences .... not illogical nonsense.
I don't know which version you saw though but the original was excellent
A short while back I purchased Memento for $5 at a video store and watched it only to discover that it had been re-edited .... and by doing so .... all the original 'magic' of that 1st edition was gone.
I gotta admit that I liked both Matrix and Memento, but for very different reasons.
Right now I really HATE the following bullshit which is filmed in way too many movies now-a-days .....
I don't know how many of you GetBiggers have ever blown up a bridge. or a building, or a gathering of 'bad guys'; but I've done one of the above more than once and it is impossible not too watch how much damage and destruction you have caused when the big bang occurs.
But you set the fuse properly and always watch from a very safe distance while keeping your head and ass as low as possible.
But in many of today's movies, the good gang of tough guys always set the charge and casually walk away without looking at or paying one bit of attention to the destructive explosion occurring to their immediate rear.
For one tine in one movie, I'd like to just see one of those guys turn around and look while all the others give him a ration of shit for doing so.
Even better would be to shoot that 'casual walking away from the huge explosion' scene with each of them getting blown away towards the camera in the process.
Don't kill them in the script, but make it evident that tough guys like to watch what they blow up and they know that bad things can happen while trying to look like rough and tough casually walking assholes.
Also I hate those scenes where thousands of bullets fly in your direction and no one gets hit, or panics, or shits his pants.
And don't even ask me about car chase scenes! Or killing kids on the silver screen like that Mel Gibson movie many years ago (The Patriot??). I actually got sick to my stomach in that one.
But the one scene I'll always remember was a scene in an old Paul Newman movie about lumberjacks where his brother (or best friend) gets stuck beneath a fallen tree in a river. At first they laugh at this situation, but they get serious when they realize that the river is rising and it'll take a while to pull him free. And needless to say, the brother drowns while the other bro is doing all he can to save him.
That scene haunted me for years. And still does. (I think it was The Big Trees, but I'd rather not know.
Sorry for not giving a direct answer to your question, Sno .... but I tried my best in a round about way.
Did I pass, or what?
There is no motive with me. I really like the Matrix and Memento(Nolan brothers wrote and directed Memento). If you would have given any of these movies low ratings, then I would personally disregard your opinion on Inception. However since you rated these two movies pretty high, then you may be on to something when it comes to Inception. I will go see Inception but now I won't go in thinking I'm gonna see the best movie ever made .
Thanks
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Saw it this evening. I give it 5 out of ten. The script was went downhill early in the film and never recovered. The "idea" of this film was well executed in the Matrix; it was poorly done here. Sure, the effects were good, but nothing groundbreaking (as in the Matrix) and the script couldn't keep up with the effects. You had to pay a lot of attention to this film for it to "make sense" but the effort was not worth the reward. I can see a 14 year old loving this film (like Avatar), but not an adult. I am a big fan of scifi/fantasy but this is a Netflix movie, at best. :(
Ellen Page was miscast.
I have to agree about Ellen Page. Why the fuck did they pick her for this movie? She should be in some teenie bopper movie. She actually ruined the film for me.
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OK, Sno, I hope you enjoy it.
Another movie comment ... I think I judge films by the emotional involvement it gets out of me.
For instance, the latest Karate Kid was not a great film but those fight training scenes got me fired up. And that forced me to like it.
So if a movie makes me laugh or cry or show any other sign of emotion, I usually end up liking it a lot.
I experienced none of that while watching Inception. I only wanted them to either die or get the job done as soon as possible so that they could all wake up and get on with their lives so that I could get the hell out of there myself and carry on with mine.
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OK, Sno, I hope you enjoy it.
Another movie comment ... I think I judge films by the emotional involvement it gets out of me.
For instance, the latest Karate Kid was not a great film but those fight training scenes got me fired up. And that forced me to like it.
So if a movie makes me laugh or cry or show any other sign of emotion, I usually end up liking it a lot.
I experienced none of that while watching Inception. I only wanted them to either die or get the job done as soon as possible so that they could all wake up and get on with their lives so that I could get the hell out of there myself and carry on with mine.
the key to bringing out emotion= sappy music + video montage.
Have you ever seen Primer? people talk about movies making you think, Primer is the prime example (no pun intended). I watched that movie about 5 times until I was able to figure out the timelines. That is a brilliant movie and possibly the best time travel movie ever created.
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The problem is (and I know this is cliché) Hollywood runs out of ideas, BUT it true to some extent.
Back in the 50th there was maybe one movie release a month, today its several a week, too many people trying to make a
Buck out of movies and too many young no name directors trying to jumpstart their career, the realization is that
Most of today’s movies are badly regurgitated overhyped crap.
And I am talking about Hollywood – because there are plenty of good and solid movies – but the shame is they never make
Further than your artsy fartsy run down student cinema or Cannes.
The general population is not interested in movies like “the orphanage” they don’t see the beauty in “Lola rent” and find
Movies that require to use your brain in any way or form a waste of time.
Because let’s not forget here why most people go to the cinema in the first place, they don’t want to use their brains, they have
No fucking interest in being mentally challenged or mentally stimulated, what 99.9% of all cinema viewers look for is cheap and
Cheerful entertainment, something that makes them forget how shitty their nine to five job is and how fucking much they
Hate their boss.
The most successful movies are the once that find a happy medium, a movie were both spectrums are satisfied, the
Thick burger king munching idiot with his gallon coca cola drum and the somewhat more intellectual person that looks for a
Watertight story and believable acting.
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Sno, I hope this ain't a test to measure my dumbness or stupidity, but I'll try to answer anyway.
I got a strange feeling here that there is an ulterior motive in your question though ... but that's fine by me so here goes .....
I really can't answer you directly!
I can only 'rate" how I felt immediately after seeing each of those fine films .... and it's funny that you mentioned Memento.
I saw both those films many years ago and liked each of them for different reasons. But too many years have passed to rate my feelings toward each of them on a scale of 1 -....
I think it was called Sometimes a Great Notion but I could be wrong- I agree the scene was very very good and I also chocked when I saw it first.
As a matter of interest how did you like "The road@?
Found it:
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Hey, MON! I do pay attention to most stuff you guys say on here and I do recall that you mentioned Primer in an earlier post so I searched for it back then and either saw parts of it or read an extensive review.
Now that you mentioned it again I want to watch it from beginning to end and see if I agree with you.
Where can I find it? I'll check out NetFlix this morning.
Thanks
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Hey, MON! I do pay attention to most stuff you guys say on here and I do recall that you mentioned Primer in an earlier post so I searched for it back then and either saw parts of it or read an extensive review.
Now that you mentioned it again I want to watch it from beginning to end and see if I agree with you.
Where can I find it? I'll check out NetFlix this morning.
Thanks
Netflix has it. It is an IFC film. They say it cost them $7000 to create the film. This movie proves you don't need all of the millions spent on special effects to have a great film. Watch it and try to figure out where you get lost in the timelines. The key scene is where he explains taking a time machine with him in his time machine.
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Stark, based on my most recent HOLLYWOOD experiences, you've said some very interesting things which will take me some time to comment on, so I'll put that aside until I wake up and have a bit more time.
Thanks though.
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And sometimes film critics have the experience, perspective, and intelligence to place a movie in context (a historical context, for example). Does the film set out to do what it purports to do? Does the script make sense (does it have too many plot holes)? Is the acting up to par? The direction, cinematography, editing, etc. How does the film compare to others in the genre? How does this film compare to the source material be it a novel, play, historical event, or another film/screenplay? It is the difference between having an impulse and having a brain. Everyone has the former, not everyone has the latter. It is easy to “like” a film when one is too daft to know any better. Like all good art, good film welcomes criticism, bad film cannot withstand it. Of course, not all film critics are created equal. Robin Wood and Richard Dyer were both excellent critics.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Wood_(critic)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Dyer
A lot of movies come down the pike that are not worth one’s time, attention, or money. Film critics are there to help us sift the wheat from the chaff. Just because a film has a big budget and names behind it doesn't mean it is any good. Finding one or two critics you respect and are in sync with is the way to use them; the rest you can ignore. For example, I don’t read him, but Peter Travers, the film critic at Rolling Stone, has a large following.
Of course a 14 year old brain is not interested in film criticism; they just want to sit down, turn their brains off, and watch. Some people (adults) like to watch with their brains turned on.
Meh.....I can figure out a good plot, acting, cinematography, editing and the like all by myself.
I don't need some pretentious boob telling me what he likes.
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The problem is (and I know this is cliché) Hollywood runs out of ideas, BUT it true to some extent.
Back in the 50th there was maybe one movie release a month, today its several a week, too many people trying to make a
Buck out of movies and too many young no name directors trying to jumpstart their career, the realization is that
Most of today’s movies are badly regurgitated overhyped crap.
And I am talking about Hollywood – because there are plenty of good and solid movies – but the shame is they never make
Further than your artsy fartsy run down student cinema or Cannes.
The general population is not interested in movies like “the orphanage” they don’t see the beauty in “Lola rent” and find
Movies that require to use your brain in any way or form a waste of time.
Because let’s not forget here why most people go to the cinema in the first place, they don’t want to use their brains, they have
No fucking interest in being mentally challenged or mentally stimulated, what 99.9% of all cinema viewers look for is cheap and
Cheerful entertainment, something that makes them forget how shitty their nine to five job is and how fucking much they
Hate their boss.
The most successful movies are the once that find a happy medium, a movie were both spectrums are satisfied, the
Thick burger king munching idiot with his gallon coca cola drum and the somewhat more intellectual person that looks for a
Watertight story and believable acting.
Spot on, Stark. Great post.
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STARK, where the hell did you find that video scene!?
Damn! You brought it back to fuck me up once again, cause I know I'm gonna have to watch it just to see if it's the sickening scene I mentioned earlier.
I hate ya! But thanks anyway!
No can you find that Fly one!?
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THE ROAD .... I just saw it on video and got too much to say about it right now, but give me a bit of time to respond..... There was a lot of behind the scene stuff regarding the making of that movie which I am not privy too, but ......
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The problem with Primer was that it made no money. It was shot in 2004 and Shane Caruth, the director, hasn't made a movie since. It's a tremendous commitment timewise making a movie. Most people can't go without pay for a year on speculation that their movie project will turn a profit. If they do have the time to make a movie, they'd be smart making a film that can make money and bring them future work. Primer made no money and the producer/writer/director hasn't directed since.
Most found Primer confusing. A few really liked it. Unfortunately, not enough liked it allow the director to make another film.
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Stark, I think I read in “SAVE THE CAT” (or some other noteworthy movie script writing book) that there are only 8 possible story-lines in existence throughout the universe.
Only eight types of stories that everyone on the planet can write about.
I’ll try to find that and list them here before I sign off or shortly after.
I can’t disclose these GetBiggers but a few of us have been discussing ‘life-experiences” that would make damn good material for a movie script or a TV series, but in each case it appears that none of us believe in ourselves enough to get it written down on paper and then continue to develop it over the next few month or years or eons or whateva.
And as you mentioned sorta, this is the shit that Hollywood really needs and is searching for.
But Hollywood’s big problem is that they never listen to the ‘little guy” with just a few exceptions such as Stallone’s fight to get Rocky on the silver screen and the in-house battles over Star Wars (the original) and so many others that are unknown to us little guys.
So when Hollywood runs out of original ideas, they’ll wake up and suddenly come a searching for the little people with big wads of cash in hand.
But right now and in most cases, those high powered Hollywood hot shots who make million dollars decision to make a movie are mostly relying on the Hollywood agents to present a package for their consideration which includes the stars and all the other big time guys who will build the story from the ground floor up.
One that is done, the studio opens the sound stage and production begins. (Brief synopsis).
BUT …. Those darn agents who build these packages just won’t give the little people any consideration unless that little person has already done something Hollywood-ish to garner their attention.
But nowadays these damn sequels have not been paying off too well so now they got to start looking for something new……
But these new Super Hero movies with the skinny Super Hero stars are being shot with the hope of saving the bottom line and only time will tell if it is working.
SO Hollywood continues to search for something original. Something new!
And that “NEW” could be “YOU”!
But “YOU” don’t have the slightest idea how to proceed …. so you just sit back and hope someday someone will come into your kitchen and offer you a contract and make you the next Tom Cruise.
You gotta believe in YOU!
Once again no names mentioned but I drove a very very major star to his first interview and on the way to that meeting I sort of laughed about him possibly ever becoming an actor or a star in major motion pictures. But one thing I did not take into consideration was the fact that he had utter confidence in himself and his ability to do the impossible.
And sure enough he got that part and went on to become a major motion picture star.
So believe in yourself and go for it.
Take acting lessons or find a writer to develop your idea.
Easier said than done, but give it a try anyway.
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THE ROAD .... I just saw it on video and got too much to say about it right now, but give me a bit of time to respond..... There was a lot of behind the scene stuff regarding the making of that movie which I am not privy too, but ......
BY the way. I loved Kicked Ass as well. It was pretty motivating to watch. Amazing to find out that the lead dude who is about 20 years old just got married to a 47 year old lady who directed the first british file he was in.
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Disturbia, don't read this!
The Road. I read that book when it first came out and liked it but failed to understand all the hype over it.
Then someone told me that it was gonna be made into a major motion picture.
I like to see any movie that was made from a book I had read beforehand so I looked forward to seeing The Road on the screen.
Then one day I saw the previews at my local neighborhood motion picture show and ... "Wow! I'll be able to see it soon!"
But a couple of years managed to pass with no appearence of The Road in sight.
Then just a couple of months ago I saw it as a DVD at Blockbuster and I rented it for the evening.
And BOY!!!... That was one hell of a depressing evening! I almost turned it off but stayed with it to the even more depressing ending.
I don't recall if it ever played in a movie theater ... and I can see why! Half the people would have committed suicide before the final curtain.
It really was that depressing ..... an end of the world story about a father trying to protect his young son from cannibalism.
But I gotta admit.... I liked the acting and the depressing visuals.
I hated that Will Smith end of the world movie too. Especially the part where the dog gets kilt.
More to say, but I'm getting too damn depressed.
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Disturbia, don't read this!
The Road. I read that book when it first came out and liked it but failed to understand all the hype over it.
Then someone told me that it was gonna be made into a major motion picture.
I like to see any movie that was made from a book I had read beforehand so I looked forward to seeing The Road on the screen.
Then one day I saw the previews at my local neighborhood motion picture show and ... "Wow! I'll be able to see it soon!"
But a couple of years managed to pass with no appearence of The Road in sight.
Then just a couple of months ago I saw it as a DVD at Blockbuster and I rented it for the evening.
And BOY!!!... That was one hell of a depressing evening! I almost turned it off but stayed with it to the even more depressing ending.
I don't recall if it ever played in a movie theater ... and I can see why! Half the people would have committed suicide before the final curtain.
It really was that depressing ..... an end of the world story about a father trying to protect his young son from cannibalism.
But I gotta admit.... I liked the acting and the depressing visuals.
I hated that Will Smith end of the world movie too. Especially the part where the dog gets kilt.
More to say, but I'm getting too damn depressed.
HEY WHERE ARE YOU
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'The Book of Eli' was a similar genre as 'The Road'...post apocalyptic with bands/tribes of Mad Max-ish desperate unmerciful violent cannibals.
Book of Eli had a better storyline and was more optimistic.
The Road: budget: $25 Million Domestic gross $8 Million Worldwide: $26 million
Book of Eli: budget $80 Million Domestic gross $95 Million Worldwide: $155 million
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F*cking awesome. best movie of the year.
trailer looked good till i saw the guy floating down the hallway, will give this one a pass, but i'd still watch it if it came on hbo.
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trailer looked good till i saw the guy floating down the hallway, will give this one a pass, but i'd still watch it if it came on hbo.
HBO should have it in about 6 months. They are showing the trailer which means that they will also show the movie.
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Funk, he is floating down that hallway because the car he is sleeping in is falling off a bridge.
Make sense?
Possibly not!
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'The Book of Eli' was a similar genre as 'The Road'...post apocalyptic with bands/tribes of Mad Max-ish desperate unmerciful violent cannibals.
Book of Eli had a better storyline and was more optimistic.
The Road: budget: $25 Million Domestic gross $8 Million Worldwide: $26 million
Book of Eli: budget $80 Million Domestic gross $95 Million Worldwide: $155 million
Saw them both, liked them both.
The Road was a more stark, unforgiving movie, Book of Eli was way more Hollywood, but a good effort.
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Funk, he is floating down that hallway because the car he is sleeping in is falling off a bridge.
Make sense?
Possibly not!
No gravity.
I fight scene inside a dream, inside a dream. that's happening inside another dream with no gravity. f*cking cool.
Taking from the beginning, they are sleeping inside a 747.( 1 level dream)
Dreaming that they're inside a van that is falling.(2 level dream)
That's why there's no gravity. ( 3 level dream)
What would happen if the plane when down? you know free falling?
How that would affect the third level dream?
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Gracie, wasn't level three the snow battle scenes?
Shit, now I am feeling dumb just discussing this.
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Gracie, wasn't level three the snow battle scenes?
Shit, now I am feeling dumb just discussing this.
Yes, we should just stick to discussing oiled men in thongs.
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Hey, while we're on this subject, here's an added attraction some of you may want to read and make your own additions to it....
These are some upcoming movies I’m looking forward to seeing and some movies I ain’t…..
I wanna see:
M.Night’s Shama …something…. The Devil: About five people stuck in a high rise elevator with the devil and the resulting consequences. I want to see this even though he hasn’t made a good movie since the one with the dead Bruce Willis guy. And I do plan to figure out who the devil is before his ID is disclosed in the movie. I'm pretty good at doing that as it usually turns out to be one of the stars whose name is above the title.
The Social Network or another very long movie title: A movie about the guys who created FaceBook and all the background you want to know but were afraid to ask.
Eat, Pray. Love …… I have no idea what this one is all about but I like Julia Roberts and I have a feeling that this one will be a tear-jerker whick will tear my heart apart.
Nowhere Boy … a story about the Beatles or one of the Beatles or one of the guys who lost the chance to be one of the Beatles. I never was a Beatle fan so this is a chance to catch up.
Valhalla Rising – A mute Scandinavian savage known only as "One Eye" escapes his captors and begins the long journey home, only to find himself lost in an unknown land full of GetBiggers. I like these kind of find yourself stories but I have heard that the movie ends before he actually finds himself. I’m curious to see if it all works out for the guy who had a miserable existence while in the earlier phases of his life. Plus it’s Swedish (I think) and I’m Swedish too.
Charlie St Cloud … About a brother who loses his younger brother in a car accident and still plays baseball with him (or something like that). I read the book and hated it but I wanna see if and how they make the movie better.
Dinner for Schmucks … An up-and-coming executive receives his first invitation to his boss' "dinner for idiots," a monthly event that promises bragging rights to the exec that shows up with the biggest buffoon. Looks good and I like it when dumb people are portrayed by smart actors in a funny movie. It sounds like an average evening meal around my house when I was just a kid.
I don’t wanna see but will probably see the following anyway:
Machete: Double crossed and forced to run from the cops, Machete, a renegade Mexican Federale and tough-as-nails vigilante for justice, is out to settle the score. These tough as nail guy movies bore the shit out of me for some reason. Maybe I’ve just seen too many of them where they can dodge a million bullets without shitting in their pants but never brag about it.
The Expendables - A group of mercenaries is hired to infiltrate a South American country and overthrow its ruthless dictator, but find themselves caught in a dangerous web of deceit and betrayal. Ditto as above! These old farts ought to move aside and give the new kids a chance to dodge bullets and maybe even shit their pants in the process. At least let them try to make it look real for Pete’s sake.
FinalNote: There’s a prison movie coming out of Sweden or one of those Norwegian places that has Hollywood talking, but I forgot the They title of that film. Any GetBig movie fans have any idea of what movie that one is? HINT -The actors are the actual prisoners except for the lead actor. Some claim it is too much like Un Prophet (The Prophet) which I think was one hell of a great movie.
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Gracie, wasn't level three the snow battle scenes?
Shit, now I am feeling dumb just discussing this.
Yes. My mistake he was preparing the kick on the second level dream.
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BTW, Only Me (Good Old Only Me!) is one of the guys who was involved with "Dinner For Schmucks" but I'll let him tell you that story!
No, you assholes! He was not one of the Schmucks! (Could have been a good one though!)
Is a Shmuck related to a Smurff .... which will also be showing at your neighborhood theater soon. Only would have been a great Smurff too.
And ask Only to tell you about Meet the Fookers. I never met them or seen that one either when it first came out but I'll be looking real close in every scene when this next one arrives.
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A potentially good movie coming out in 2011 is Rise of the Apes. I believe it parallels Conquest of the Planet of the Apes, which means it's a prequel to the original 1968 POTA.
The apes are slated to be CG. I'm uncertain if the whole movie is. I don't think Avatar style CG animation meshes 100% with real life filmed characters. The best I've seen as far that goes was District 9, but those weren't very human-like, so there's less scrutiny.
It will be director Rupert Wyatt's 2nd film. He made a prison break movie called the Escapist that is worth seeing.
It has a non linear story which is interesting throughout.
I wasn't to keen on Tim Burton's remake of the original POTA although he obviously delivers on a lot of his other movies.
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BTW, Only Me (Good Old Only Me!) is one of the guys who was involved with "Dinner For Schmucks" but I'll let him tell you that story!
No, you assholes! He was not one of the Schmucks! (Could have been a good one though!)
Is a Shmuck related to a Smurff .... which will also be showing at your neighborhood theater soon. Only would have been a great Smurff too.
And ask Only to tell you about Meet the Fookers. I never met them or seen that one either when it first came out but I'll be looking real close in every scene when this next one arrives.
Are you having one too many martinis right now?
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STARK, where the hell did you find that video scene!?
Damn! You brought it back to fuck me up once again, cause I know I'm gonna have to watch it just to see if it's the sickening scene I mentioned earlier.
I hate ya! But thanks anyway!
No can you find that Fly one!?
oh no problem I just checked it out on youtube its easy to find, but yes i got that feeling back when I watched this the first time, very very
moving and EXTREMLY well acted.
Its mind boggling that some green behind the ears skinny jeans wearing metro sexual pussy who plays a completely forgettable scene in a completely
overhyped and equally forgettable vampire movie can be somewhat compared to such legends as newman, I mean how can you even
talk about the new actors who have NOTHING going for them self apart a nice face and body which strong and talented actors like newman and de'neiro.
Forget it.
In fact I would like to go even futher, at least with strong actors in the past a man was somewhat portrait like I personaly feel a man should be portrait, strong but not an asshole.
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Saw them both, liked them both.
The Road was a more stark, unforgiving movie, Book of Eli was way more Hollywood, but a good effort.
Agreed. I liked "The Road" better simply because I thought the acting was better along with it made me "feel"/become more emotionally involved than "Eli". Both were good though.
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Opinion is opinion, we're all different, we all have different taste, and we like different movies..... I'm a huge movie buff (My home collection is 300+ maybe 400,
I couldn't find 100 movies that I liked well enough to buy.
If you have 300-400 movies, to me, you are more of a follower/groupie who really just likes everything so your opinion is somewhat....you don't really have one...
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I couldn't find 100 movies that I liked well enough to buy.
If you have 300-400 movies, to me, you are more of a follower/groupie who really just likes everything so your opinion is somewhat....you don't really have one...
LOL, you make a good point.
No seriously, I dunno if I'm a groupie, there a lot movies that I like, and a lot movies that I highly dislike, there are also movies that I just won't watch cause they will scare me - no seriously, I don't own much horror cause I freak out - lame but true.
I've been collecting buying movies for over 10 years, its one of my past times. In the realm of movies and true movie collections - 400 is nothing! Just cause you can't think of 100 movies that you'd like to buy, doesn't mean thats the consumer standard. Think of it as a hobby of mine!
Some of the movies I own are very mainstream, some are a little more deep, and some are very dumb. I get what I enjoy, has nothing to do with being a follower, did you miss the part that I rarely read movie reviews and decide on myself.
And yes Bay I do agree many critics actually have the background and experience to judge many aspects on movies that we tend to miss out, but I prefer choosing for myself thats all really.
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Just got back from Inception. Hated it
Reminded me of the Matrix, which I also hated. very hard to follow and got sick to my stomach from vertigo from the screen shaking so much :-X
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best movie I've seen in years - brilliant story and killer effects
if you didn't like the movie it's probably because you couldn't keep up
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore might be more your speed . . .
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best movie I've seen in years - brilliant story and killer effects
if you didn't like the movie it's probably because you couldn't keep up
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore would be more your speed . . .
Lol.
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Magalodon, How do you know about Rise of the Apes already?
My family is up in Vancouver making that movie at this very moment and I will be heading up there in August and possibly visit the set to tell some original Planet of the Apes stories as some Marine Corps buds of mine played major part in that original production..
I think that the original title of this new one was called "Caesar".
Gonna star James Franco who was really great in The Pineapple Express ... another great movie that I really enjoyed.
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I couldn't find 100 movies that I liked well enough to buy.
If you have 300-400 movies, to me, you are more of a follower/groupie who really just likes everything so your opinion is somewhat....you don't really have one...
Agreed right back....most movies I watch i forget i even saw them on the way home, very few movies these days stick with me.....especially the CG laden shit.
Expensive cartoons
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I'm looking forward to Rise of the apes! Love that series! Charlton Heston - classic!
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As I'm typing this, I'm currently watching Predator: The Ultimate Hunter Edition on Blu Ray!!! Just picked it up today, Arnold is always going to be the KING!!!
FUCKING AMAZING!
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Although various friends and family members have been involved with the Planet of the Apes series since it originated, I never was an Apes fan.
But the one scene I'll always remember was the beach scene in which Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty disclosing the fact this was all occuring on planet earth.
Are you aware that Quincy Taylor was one of the featured apes in the movie that starred Mark Wahlberg?
I spent a few hours in the make-up van watching the experts create the apes that looked pretty convincing in real life too. And a couple of those apes strangled me for a photographic memory.
Fun times watching them create that movie.
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But the one scene I'll always remember was the beach scene in which Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty disclosing the fact this was all occuring on planet earth.
One of the greatest scenes ever in movie making history!
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Although various friends and family members have been involved with the Planet of the Apes series since it originated, I never was an Apes fan.
But the one scene I'll always remember was the beach scene in which Heston discovers the Statue of Liberty disclosing the fact this was all occuring on planet earth.
Are you aware that Quincy Taylor was one of the featured apes in the movie that starred Mark Wahlberg?
I spent a few hours in the make-up van watching the experts create the apes that looked pretty convincing in real life too. And a couple of those apes strangled me for a photographic memory.
Fun times watching them create that movie.
I wasn't aware that Mr. Taylor was part of the 21 century POTApes. However now that you mention it, the resembles between him and the Apes is uncanny.
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Stuntmovie, I've known about it for several months but don't remember where I first heard about it.
Looking forward to some stories if you visit the set.
Gorilla's shoulders are nose level high, kind of narrow, and positioned a little forward in real life. They've been giving the gorillas broad human shoulders, longer neck, and shoulders thrown back.
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Will do, Meg.
I can tell you some past "Apes" stories if you want to hear some.
My best USMC bud was Jack Tyree who was one of the very first apes in the original and he called me from the studio because he had been sitting in a make up chair for many hours getting made up to look like an ape and they allowed him to make phone calls during that long a boring process. He invited me to take some leave and be an ape in that movie but I was overseas at that time and turned it down.
Jack was very well respected within the Hollywood movie making industry and was often called upon to attend to problems that some of the studio heads wanted 'fixed' quietly.
And I often went along for the ride (so to speak). Back then those 'problems' were usually drug related among working, top billed stars with a current movie in production, or with the son or daughter of some important person, or merely to settle domestic disputes that were causing problems on the set.
Jack would settle the problem quietly and the studio hot shots were very grateful, so Jack worked constantly on and out of the studio environment.
And any friend of Jack's was always treated like a major star himself, so I always had free reign to roam around the studio lots when I visited Jack while was doing crazy stuff making movies. And I myself met some major stars in the process and was invited to partake as an extra in a few movie scenes of movies I never saw.
Dr. Chimps may recall this one - the title of which I have long forgotten. It was a best selling book and an eventual movie about a bear and her cub who were disfigured in a forest fire and were believed to be monsters killing campers (or something like that).
It was filmed in the high Sierras and the script called for a number of long distant shot bear scenes so Jack invited me to be one of those bears for a couple of weeks during the shoot.
At first I thought .... Academy Award nomination on it's way! .... but then reality set in and I declined once again.
Those next few years Jack appeared in many movies along with the likes of Goldie Hawn, Anthony Quinn, Burt Rynolds, Jack Elam, Bill Smith, and many others who knew Jack personally and invited him to participate in their next production.
And on those occasionally rare weekends, Jack and his stunt-guy pals would "barrow" the studio's movie making gear and make motorcycle movies of their own in the Hollywood hills which would eventually be seen on your local drive-in movie screens and throughout the Orient.
I played the part of a dead guy once in one of those.
Got lots of these kind of movie making stories but I don't want to put you on dreamland's Level #3 where it's sometimes impossible to come back!
Movies teach us the damdest things!
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stunt, can you please explain how you went from military to hollywood. I'm missing the connection here.
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Mon, I never went Hollywood. I liked guns and stuff like that way to much back then.
But when I was a kid I did everything I could to sneak into the studios, but was only successful a few times.
Then while in the Corps, some best buds went into Hollywood (see above) and became very successful as stunt guys and trouble fixers.
I would visit on off-duty weekends and participate in their 'shenanigans' (sonetimes reluctantly) and meet a lot of the major players in the process.
Had lunch at very private tables at a couple of the major studios commissaries with the studio president and in one case - with the studio owner. All the stars would walk by and sort of bow in passing while we continued talking about what was shooting on the lot that day.
And then following lunch, Jack would head off to do his thing on one of the sound stages while I did my best to visit all the rest.
My only restriction was to never enter while the red light was on.
On some weekends I'd attend movie-planning meetings with the stunt guys who borrowed stuff and made weekend mlovies on their own.
At one such meeting I had the honor of meeting Sean Flynn at his dad's bungalow outside of Universal Studios and saw some very original paintings that are sometimes displayed in the world's finest art galleries.
Years later my nephews and nieces got into various entertainment fields and have been very successful ever since.
But something strange did happen along the way. You gotta read my original post about Jack calling me from the ape make-up chair getting ready for the original movie ..... "I'm in make up getting made ready to look like an ape for this new ape-movie with Chaleston Heston!"
And then almost 50 years later, I get a cellphone call from my nephew saying ," I'm in make up getting made ready to look like an ape for this new ape-movie with Mark Wahlberg!"
Deja-vu, all over again!
So now I do unimportant stuff when called upon ... Stunt-coordibnator, motion capture rope puller, script possibility listener,script reader, and deep thinker.
And I still sneak on sets whenever possible.
And I still keep my pistols clean too.
And I always shake hands and buy a drink or a soda and say, ""Thanks!" to anyone in a US military uniform.
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Sorry, Doc! You're probably still sleep'en so I did my own research and found the monster movie that I was invited to 'star' in for a formidable distance from the camera lens.
It was called "The Prophecy"
John Frankenheimer updates the mutant-monster films of the 1950s with a modern environmental twist in this well-meaning but cliché-ridden late-'70s horror film. Robert Foxworth is so earnest it hurts as a rabble-rousing ghetto doctor who packs up his pregnant wife (Talia Shire) and heads out to the Maine woods to investigate claims of environmental pollution. That's the least of his concerns when a gooey mutant grizzly goes on the rampage and he joins forces with Native American activist Armand Assante (wearing his humorless resolve like war paint) to get out of the woods. Frankenheimer is a good director saddled with a bad, blunt script, and like a pro he delivers the requisite gore and even racks up the tension in a terrific opening chase. But even he can't overcome the clumsiest collection of deformed woodland creatures to claw their way through a monster movie. -
I could'a been a conten'da and referred to you all as "the little people". (Inside joke there some place.)
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Just saw it. Good movie, not great. It was worth the money.
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Just saw it and it bored me silly, wasnt remotely complex but they made it out as if it was and dragged it out to 2 and a half hours, before halfway through I could tell exactly how it would end, the only curveball they through was that he ran the inception on his wife.To me it seemed like they wanted this mass complex plot (which wasnt at all complex) so lets spread it out with tons of meaningless action and bulletfiring where nobody but one semi important guy gets hit, wouldnt watch it again if you paid me.
I'm not the biggest fan of movies that "leave you guessing in the end" without a definite conclusion, I know writers like to say "we'll let you decide what really happened - or what this really means" but I prefer to have all questions answered and a solid conclusion. Other than that, I loved it!
Lol?All questions were answered and it had a definite conclusion.Maybe you walked in to the wrong movie?
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Just saw it and it bored me silly, wasnt remotely complex but they made it out as if it was and dragged it out to 2 and a half hours, before halfway through I could tell exactly how it would end, the only curveball they through was that he ran the inception on his wife.To me it seemed like they wanted this mass complex plot (which wasnt at all complex) so lets spread it out with tons of meaningless action and bulletfiring where nobody but one semi important guy gets hit, wouldnt watch it again if you paid me.
Lol?All questions were answered and it had a definite conclusion.Maybe you walked in to the wrong movie?
No I definitely walked into the right movie.... If you paid close attention, you would notice...
SPOILER ALERT.....
That that spin top (dradle?) looked like it may start to fall over, but the screen then just goes blank, so you never really know if the spin top drops (its reality) or if it keeps spinning (its a dream)
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Just saw it and it bored me silly, wasnt remotely complex but they made it out as if it was and dragged it out to 2 and a half hours, before halfway through I could tell exactly how it would end, the only curveball they through was that he ran the inception on his wife.To me it seemed like they wanted this mass complex plot (which wasnt at all complex) so lets spread it out with tons of meaningless action and bulletfiring where nobody but one semi important guy gets hit, wouldnt watch it again if you paid me.
Lol?All questions were answered and it had a definite conclusion.Maybe you walked in to the wrong movie?
not everyone can be as smrat as you
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not everyone can be as smrat as you
tru dat
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Arch, Correct me if I'm wrong but it wasn't the 'spinning' of that "dradel" that revealed reality, but the fact it was there at all.
That 'idea' alone (right or wrong) convinced me that this movie was worthless.
P.S. This possible 'stupidity' on my part does not give you the right to call me an asshole or an extremely stupid person or 'un-AMERICAN' with evil intents. That right is only assumable by other individuals who can convince me otherwise and there is nothing of intelligence in this movie that could be used by others to convince me otherwise.
Now to continue my 1st level of dream-land.
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LOL, you make a good point.
No seriously, I dunno if I'm a groupie, there a lot movies that I like, and a lot movies that I highly dislike, there are also movies that I just won't watch cause they will scare me - no seriously, I don't own much horror cause I freak out - lame but true.
I've been collecting buying movies for over 10 years, its one of my past times. In the realm of movies and true movie collections - 400 is nothing! Just cause you can't think of 100 movies that you'd like to buy, doesn't mean thats the consumer standard. Think of it as a hobby of mine!
Some of the movies I own are very mainstream, some are a little more deep, and some are very dumb. I get what I enjoy, has nothing to do with being a follower, did you miss the part that I rarely read movie reviews and decide on myself.
And yes Bay I do agree many critics actually have the background and experience to judge many aspects on movies that we tend to miss out, but I prefer choosing for myself thats all really.
A totally legitimate choice. I just had to respond to the idea that a film critic is just some guy with an opinion. His/Hers is an informed opinion and that is what makes it useful. A doctor is a just a guy with an opinion too, but I wouldn't substitute my medical judgement for his if I got sick.
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Arch, Correct me if I'm wrong but it wasn't the 'spinning' of that "dradel" that revealed reality, but the fact it was there at all.
That 'idea' alone (right or wrong) convinced me that this movie was worthless.
P.S. This possible 'stupidity' on my part does not give you the right to call me an asshole or an extremely stupid person or 'un-AMERICAN' with evil intents. That right is only assumable by other individuals who can convince me otherwise and there is nothing of intelligence in this movie that could be used by others to convince me otherwise.
Now to continue my 1st level of dream-land.
When did I ever call you un-american or stupid or an asshole?
SPOILER ALERT
I thought Leo specifically said that if it kept spinning he was still in a dream? Hence the scene where he spun it and had his revolver in hand, and when it toppled over he put his revolver away?
But then again Ellen Page had a Chess piece, how you gonna spin that? So I could very well be wrong!
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You Never did, ARCH! Sorry for the mis-understanding!
That was merely my failed attempt at trying to throw some humor towards a common problem that is often pretty evident on this Board..
An attempt to describe some of us GetBiggers who show some form of discontent towards anyone who thinks differently about various subjects or individuals than they themselves do - which sometimes seem pretty damn evident on this board.
I'm gonna ask for a third opinion regarding our conflicting opinion regarding that 'spinning top/chess piece'. I'll do my best to read the script and let ya know.
Kind of interesting that I disliked that movie but continue to discuss it a lot here and with friends who have also seen it.
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You Never did, ARCH! Sorry for the mis-understanding!
That was merely my failed attempt at trying to throw some humor towards a common problem that is often pretty evident on this Board..
An attempt to describe some of us GetBiggers who show some form of discontent towards anyone who thinks differently about various subjects or individuals than they themselves do - which sometimes seem pretty damn evident on this board.
I'm gonna ask for a third opinion regarding our conflicting opinion regarding that 'spinning top/chess piece'. I'll do my best to read the script and let ya know.
Kind of interesting that I disliked that movie but continue to discuss it a lot here and with friends who have also seen it.
Not the best Source but: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inception_(film)
Cobb carries a spinning top to test whether he is dreaming or awake, which spins or topples respectively.
Cobb spins the top to test reality, but is distracted by his children. The top begins to wobble, but the scene cuts to black which leaves the question of whether Cobb is still dreaming.