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End Of the World
1st 30 minutes = 9/10
The rest of the movie = yawn/10
is that the correct title or did you mean 'the worlds end' or 'this is the end'?
I don't even know. The one with Simon Pegg.
The new one. You know.
this movie was bad enough for having mindless direction, but it also made the mistake of trying to make a commentary on today's youth culture and their pursuit of easy rewards from shortcuts through a mindless and repetitive collage of spring breakers partying, drinking and gun barrel fellatio
1 mind splitting hangover out of 10
Wrong.
imho this movies visual aesthetic doesn't really work on crap TV's or small laptop monitors
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Midnight Cowboy
10/10
Wow, what a fantastic film. It's the sort of film which I had a preconceived notion that i'd somehow already seen it due to all the parodys and cultural references, but that couldn't have been further from the truth.
If you havn't seen this, I couldn't recommend watching it more. It's funny, it's sad, it's heartwarming, it's disturbing, it's got great great characters and performances - even the ones who pop up for no longer than 2minutes screen time. The editing is top-notch. The music is fitting. The cinematography is interesting and well thought out. A true classic.
but did you realize it was about repressed homosexuality ?
snicker out loud.
If you look at the feet in the first picture you will find that ole Dustin despite his already vertical disadvantage next to the towering John Vioght, still has to take a few steps back up the hill to gain a few more critical inches. This concludes that there is a optimum position of altitude over distance which is called The Hoffman Point, where a basic optical illusion could help save you from looking like a child with a 40yr old face!
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just found the Epic issue of Akira online
the full color is pretty lush tho I wish they'd re-release this instead of another reissue of the b&w version -
UROTSUKIDOJI
Tentacle porn/10
Pretty disturbing and shocking, yet slightly tongue in cheek...came out at an odd time in Japanese Anime censorship laws where they could get away with showing ALOT more than usual...each scene usually ends with a woman floating in the air suspended by 20 tentacles either groping or penetrating her in some fashion - for some reason we watched the UNcut version instead of the cut (42mins taken from the original episodes)
I both highly recommend it, yet don't recommend it,,,more so don't
Aside from all the unneccesarily mad sex, it is actually quite a good film. If you enjoyed it I recommend you watch Legend Of The Demon Womb (second instalment). The rest of the series (Return of the Overfiend, Inferno Road, New Saga, Final Chapter) tend to veer off into quite flaky territory, both story and animation wise.
is this the movie that starts out with the nazis hooking up a bunch of bound ladies to fucking machines?
The original trilogy version is soooo much better than the UK cut which missed out a lot of plot/storyline. Extreme manga at its best but mainly for the lads methinx.
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Extracted - borrowing concepts from Inception, Source Code and even Quantum Leap the science doesn't get in the way of an interesting 'who done it' plot line. The good cast and sharp direction keeps this low budget sci-fi well away from feeling like a TV movie. 7.5/10
Oblivion - on a second watching, like you guys say, I now can see every other movie...
but the film still looks pretty sweet.
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hopefully there's some meth influence
Sean Booth's next career.
If Sean and Rob made crystal meth it would be pretty fucking good shit.
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MacGruber - a few laughs but not much else 4/5
The Comedy - Tim Heidecker in a melancholic indie style pseudo intellectual none comedy that doesn't quite hit the mark of what it sets out to do and as a result a lot of it feels very long winded. Still has its moments but instead of reflecting on the the behavior of the lead role after the film has finished all you think about is that there was something missing. 6/10
The Europa Report - excellent and original sci-fi kinda what Apollo 18 should have been. (good recommendation Robert Moses) 9/10
Pain and Gain - whilst not the most intelligent comedy I though Michael Bay's OTT style kinda worked and The Rock was hilarious. A refreshing change to see an American comedy that didn't have the likes Vince Vaughan or Ben Stiller and amazed that it was actually based on true events 6.8/10
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i think 'simmm' off quaristice is supposed to be 100% machinedrum + monomachine. remember some ae insider dude with a postcount of 1 showed up in a thread years ago and just dropped a bunch of knowledge. he said the clue to what was used to make that track was in the song title. i didn't get it at first but then later it hit me: simmm = machinedrum + monomachine.
not 100% proof i guess but a good theory considering the sound of that track & the gear they used to make that album.
interesting, I seem to remember something slightly different, that the user claimed that the Simmm was a more direct reference to an obscure synth, the same synth they used in Fermium. Something about those very crunchy sharp FM sounds don't sound like either Elektron box to me, but I have no i idea what they actually are. If i were to guess I'd say they came off some Yamaha TX fm rack unit
now this has been said I can totally hear it albeit with some very nice post production mastering
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Kick Ass 2 - lacking the dark violent novelty of the first but just as witty and action packed 8/10
The Baytown Outlaws - better than average entertainment with a half decent cast 6.8/10
The Conjuring - shit/10
Reanimator - forgotten how quirky and well paced this B horror classic is 9/10
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sorry to be a political cunt, but Team America is pretty decent but watched it recently and it has aged very poorly. The part where they show Hans Blix just makes me cringe, as if the south park boys actually believed in the whole WMd myth for iraq.
well so did most of the US at the time!
When you see that footage Michael Moore making an ass of himself at the Oscars to a cringing star studded audience you realize now that he was totally correct and TA had these pussies down for what they really are.
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It's a bit long but being a big Robocop fan I was riveted plus Weller goes on about loads of other cool shit too from William Burroughs to art history.
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Trance - well made, well acted and well directed and although the concept was good (with elements of Shallow Grave) the writing was atrocious to the point of piss taking plot twists towards the end whilst trying to be more intelligent than it actually was. 5/10
Spring Breakers - Although lacking the dark humor of Korine's other films he manages to win with style over substance which I think few directors could have pulled off with such convincing authenticity giving the movie an original sexy cool edge even if it's a little padded out in places. Great cinematography tho I wasn't too sure I could take Franco seriously looking like that. 8/10
Pacific Rim - Flawed silly and cheesy but awesome on IMAX. 9/10
boogie nights
8/10
probably the best role i've ever seen matt damon or mark wahlberg in.
ahem Matt Damon???
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These animated films by René Laloux are brilliant. Never seen anything like it, but I can't really find anything similar.
not quite as arty however.....
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I know this isn't a Movie News thread, but...
Man of Steel director Zack Snyder just came out and rocked our worlds at Comic-Con. Not just announcing that Batman will be in the Superman sequel — which he did with a cool-looking metallic Superman-Batman logo that drove the crowd nuts. But that was not the biggest deal.The biggest deal was, Snyder brought out Man of Steel actor Harry Lennix (General Swanwick) to use his cool voice to read the following piece of dialogue:
"I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you."Yup. Batman's speech from Dark Knight Returns. Snyder said the movie won't be an adaptation of this film... but it will be inspired by it. The crowd lost their shit.
http://io9.com/theyre-doing-a-superman-batman-movie-but-thats-not-851711013
I thought Man of Steel was a very half arsed high budget, appallingly edited mish mash and I can't believe they are letting Snyder loose again on this one! I enjoyed Watchmen and 300 but he had it easy adapting almost exactly from a comic book for the screenplays however Man of Steel felt more like Sucker Punch.
This will be disposable tosh.
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Re: Refn - the one about that fighter dude. Also, I hear those Pusher movies are good.
avoid the UK remake of Pusher it's shite
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i just forced myself to watch blade runner again, entirely this time.
ok, the whole film's purpose is contained in the final "fight" against roy batty, the replicant. why did he save deckard? what does his final speech mean? (these are rhetorical questions, don't answer me).
while these are interesting questions, i don't think they were treated properly. basically the philosophical questions put by the film are: what is human nature? what is consciousness? what is Good? i don't want to over-intellectualize this but, hey, the film does, imo, a very bad job at questioning these.
besides, i couldn't stand the soundtrack by vangelis.
the film leaves me the taste of an ambitious project that was ruined by poorly thought out ideas and an unbearably slow pace.
no the whole films purpose is in the final scene (origami?) and with regards to Roy Batty he knew he was dying and didn't want to die alone which is a very human trait coming from a replicant which questions their right to life ect.
Watch it again but stay off the sugar puffs.
Just got back from Man of Steel and wow what a clusterfuck! Watching it was like eating a chocolate roll made from a tiramisu and I can't believe they gave Snyder the budget to get away with all that! That shite acting from a decent but totally miscast cast says it all imho and the editing was done by a dog with sissors. This again adheres to a comic fanatic friend of mine's theory who says Marvel are trying to make definitive movie versions of their heroes and continue to combine the story lines where DC films tend to be hugely flawed so people dismiss them quickly so they tell the same story again later on with another half arsed effort as the hero is always bigger then the film and people will always flock to it. 5/10
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The Tall Man - quite an original spooky thriller with a twisty plot. I'm surprised this one slipped under the radar and I'm surprised that Jessica Biel can actually act! 7.7/10
The Girl from the Naked Eye - Sin City esque mid budget action thriller that whilst doesn't stand out in any particular area seems to be greater than the sum of its parts as it never pretends to be what it isn't even with obvious nods to other films. The cool stylish vibe keeps you going and the characters in it are quite amusing even if it gets a little long winded in places. 6.9/10
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Blade Runner is a clunky masterpiece that need's to be watched a few times to appreciate the subtleties and even though the imagery has been ripped off sooo many times it still sets the standard which is quite amazing given it was made in 82. It's predominantly an expensive art film with a subtle insight into the human condition.
i don't get why the first hour of the film needed to be that slow. it's not like the pace was decisive to tell that story. the film is mainly to be taken literally, so those very long city landscape shots are nothing but descriptive, contemplative, their only purpose is to set the mood. which is why the film is so dumb imo.
so I take it you didn't get the ending?
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So will Pacific Rim or Lone Ranger be a bigger piece of shit bomb? Pacific Rim basically looks like Evangelion without the license, but damn LR cost $250 million?!
I've just had to turn down two tickets to the Pacific Rim European 3D IMAX premier on Thursday in London
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Olympus has Fallen - better than average action blockbuster but the Die Hard clichés spoil what could have been half decent and I wasn't sure about Gerard Butler either 6.5/10
The Losers - great cast, shit film 4/10
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25 peas in a pot noodle!
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the worst thing I found about learning music theory is using a traditional instrument and spending more time learning the chords and scale placements then having to learn to play them well and getting stuck into bad habits
to get around this I highly recommend Tenori-On which is also available as an app and anything with a 'force to scale' you can transpose
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Star Trek, the undiscovered country. Quite good, better than the last two certainly. A good ending to the entire old generation thing, though it still has some weird non consistencies but nothing too serious.
Gene Roddenberry died during the making of this film. I'm not sure how much input he had in the way it was going but apparently the movie was intended to be sort of a parallel to the berlin wall falling. The original script made the Enterprise crew seem a lot less racist/xenophobic than they do the way it was shot. For example the part where Kirk says 'Let them die!' to Spock had Kirk making an embarrassed/saddened expression realizing what he had just said, but it was cut shorter to make Kirk seem even less empathetic than it was originally written.
From what i remember reading in the original plot it was actually the Federation and not the Kilingons at all that end up hatching the conspiracy. We are misdirected by the bald Klingon in the original version of the film thinking he is a bad guy but actually ends up working with Kirk at the end to fight the evil conspirators in the federation
I'm probably one of the only people i know who really likes Generations, I think it's a worthy bridge movie to bring both star trek universes together. In some ways it's more similar to an episode of the series than any of the movies are. Probably in part why it was so widely hated. The action was minimal and instead it aimed for a more emotional/scifi driven plot.
Plus it's the longest stretch of time we get to see Data turn on his emotion chip, something they never let us see the way we do in the movie.
The other TNG movies take a sharp turn into later period Deep Space 9 action driven plots. I still enjoy watching them but they definitely feel totally different tonally to the actual series.
First Contact probably being the best, Insurrection is passable (but also ludicrously plotted) and Nemesis is absolutely awful. Nemesis is very much trying to ride the coat tails of Wrath of Khan but fails in just about every way. Red Letter Media's 1 hour long review of it is better than the movie itself.
Generations should have been good but the ending/climax was very badly put together especially the final Kirk scene which should have been epic was just meh.
Currently working my way through the Original remastered series, kinda not sure if I like the charm of the shitty late 60's SFX better.
the full color is pretty lush tho I wish they'd re-release this instead of another reissue of the b&w version
If it was next Thurs I'd be all over it. 
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