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ovid9 wrote:Your's too?????? Mine is amazing at it! And then she wonders why I hate every movie. I don't its just so many of them are not enjoyable, even in a laugh at terrible way that it just seems like I hate them all!

Every so often she picks one that surprises me, but mostly....ehhhhhh.

I think they're testing us. See just how far they can push before we pull a Peter Griffin.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BtFScDdki0[/video]

Mine puts up with me, so try to handle the shitty movies best I can. But...that's usually not quietly.

Her , 4/10 gat damn painfully slow and way too passive , high point a sex crazed Olivia Wilde mmmm

Elephant Man (1980)

10/10

If you haven't seen it you're missing out.

Grand Budapest
7.5-8/10 (?) Usually quirk-as-F Anderson flick with great visuals and a engaging story (and surprisingly funny dialog) that never veers too far into land. I enjoy a number of his films; but sometimes I get tired of the weird for the sake of being weird shtick combined with the really low key tones he sets in most of his work. For reference, I dig Royal Tennenbaums, Bottle Rocket and Fantastic Mr. Fox. I didn't like Life Aquatic or Darjeeling.

Non-Stop- 4.5/10 Not as bad as I was expecting, but not very good either.

Movie wastes a decent suspense thriller plot in the last 20 minutes with complete stupidity. Up to that point it was at least mediocre, again, not good, but if you sort of just shut your mind off and enjoy the thriller aspect it wasn't horrible. The climax is so dumb it wastes all the lukewarm goodwill which took my score from a 5.5 to a 4.5. Its really stupid.

I'd feel bad if I paid money to see it, but got it through netflix so meh, no biggy.. If you're bored and there's nothing else you feel like watching its not horrible, which is faint praise I realize. The bonus is its only 1:46 which is still about 15 minutes too long, but its a whole lot better than 2 hours which would have been miserable.

new Red Dawn: surprisingly good. very entertaining. solid 7.5/10

still, every time the homeland invasion plot comes up, i.e. thousands of DPRK paratroopers lofting over suburban areas, or the russians in CoD:MW2, i laugh my ass off. no amount of EMP in the world could disable our side that bad while allowing their side to operate

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:new Red Dawn: surprisingly good. very entertaining. solid 7.5/10

still, every time the homeland invasion plot comes up, i.e. thousands of DPRK paratroopers lofting over suburban areas, or the russians in CoD:MW2, i laugh my ass off. no amount of EMP in the world could disable our side that bad while allowing their side to operate

Lawl is that how they do it? I love how the poor North Koreans have become the universal bad guys because they don't go to movies so you can piss them off and won't lose any money. They aren't a threat to anyone but themselves and South Korea. And they are a very real threat there, but to US soil? Yeah, not so much. lol

I'll probably see that sooner or later. It looked atrocious, but as a turn your mind off and enjoy the booms it might be ok.

funny you should say that, given the recent headline

(this link puts it to rest as really bad sensationalist reporting, but it was funny while it lasted...i immediately thought, "what about team america: world police? that didnt bother them? lol)
http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/no-north ... gan-movie/

thats how russia did it in CoD as well. over the EAST coast, to boot.

do people realize the amount of coordination and support an offensive like that would involve? also there was a conspicuous dearth of fighter opposition. which of course the deployed forces and air guard, if it came to it, would have a field day with transport aircraft. they would probably make a game of it and argue over shots.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:funny you should say that, given the recent headline

(this link puts it to rest as really bad sensationalist reporting, but it was funny while it lasted...i immediately thought, "what about team america: world police? that didnt bother them? lol)
http://thediplomat.com/2014/06/no-north ... gan-movie/

I saw that headline floating around a lot. Clicking that link right now was the most I'd cared.

yeah, i mean, even if true, lol, man, just....lol

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:new Red Dawn: surprisingly good. very entertaining. solid 7.5/10

still, every time the homeland invasion plot comes up, i.e. thousands of DPRK paratroopers lofting over suburban areas, or the russians in CoD:MW2, i laugh my ass off. no amount of EMP in the world could disable our side that bad while allowing their side to operate

By far the most positive review of that movie I have read!

it was what it was. and it did it well, i thought. i never saw the original though, which is a sin, i understand.

As a fan of the original, the new Red Dawn felt icky. I understand it's probably OK if you haven't seen the original, and are capable of not paying any attention to the way shit plays out. Even as a non-tactician it bothered the hell out of me on that level. And then the "relationship" aspect of it about drove me over the edge.

The wife thought it was OK.

Watched The Cooler over the weekend. Probably a 8/10 or so. I tossed it in my queue when we watched a documentary about the rating system and it had the main actors babbling about how hard they had to fight to try to keep the nude scene because they felt it was relevant to the story. Maria Bello - "I fought hard for my bush!" Ultimately, they lost and the studio cut the nude scene to get a "better" rating. It was still an epic awesome slow burn style movie. Some of it was predictable, but the ending was an unforseen twist that really drove home the overall point. Alec Baldwin played a major fucking asshole, which he seems to excel at. And William H. Macy somehow managed to pull off both the luckless sad-sack routine, and the super lucky, nothing can bring me down dude in the same role and make it totally believable. I'd watch it again in a heartbeat, even without the nude scene.

Fucking ratings board.

nightflameauto wrote:As a fan of the original, the new Red Dawn felt icky. I understand it's probably OK if you haven't seen the original, and are capable of not paying any attention to the way shit plays out. Even as a non-tactician it bothered the hell out of me on that level. And then the "relationship" aspect of it about drove me over the edge.

The wife thought it was OK.

Watched The Cooler over the weekend. Probably a 8/10 or so. I tossed it in my queue when we watched a documentary about the rating system and it had the main actors babbling about how hard they had to fight to try to keep the nude scene because they felt it was relevant to the story. Maria Bello - "I fought hard for my bush!" Ultimately, they lost and the studio cut the nude scene to get a "better" rating. It was still an epic awesome slow burn style movie. Some of it was predictable, but the ending was an unforseen twist that really drove home the overall point. Alec Baldwin played a major fucking asshole, which he seems to excel at. And William H. Macy somehow managed to pull off both the luckless sad-sack routine, and the super lucky, nothing can bring me down dude in the same role and make it totally believable. I'd watch it again in a heartbeat, even without the nude scene.

Fucking ratings board.

I think that's cause he doesn't have to act to play that role.

nightflameauto wrote:As a fan of the original, the new Red Dawn felt icky. I understand it's probably OK if you haven't seen the original, and are capable of not paying any attention to the way shit plays out. Even as a non-tactician it bothered the hell out of me on that level. And then the "relationship" aspect of it about drove me over the edge.

yeah if id seen the first id probably hate it. but all the plot and character stuff i normally look for in a movie gets suspended for stuff like this. so like a 7.5/10 and that 10 would be a 4/10 overall, if that makes sense.
headshot was a nice touch.

For old dudes like myself; the new RD is an abortion of a remake. Your adjusted rating of 4/10 is being generous

Perfect Sense
5-6/10

Eva Green is a stunningly beautiful young thing

ovid9 wrote:Non-Stop- 4.5/10 Not as bad as I was expecting, but not very good either.

Movie wastes a decent suspense thriller plot in the last 20 minutes with complete stupidity. Up to that point it was at least mediocre, again, not good, but if you sort of just shut your mind off and enjoy the thriller aspect it wasn't horrible. The climax is so dumb it wastes all the lukewarm goodwill which took my score from a 5.5 to a 4.5. Its really stupid.

I'd feel bad if I paid money to see it, but got it through netflix so meh, no biggy.. If you're bored and there's nothing else you feel like watching its not horrible, which is faint praise I realize. The bonus is its only 1:46 which is still about 15 minutes too long, but its a whole lot better than 2 hours which would have been miserable.

I was looking forward to this film in a "shut off the mind" sort of way and was sadly disappointed. I felt the same way about Taken 2; tbh. I feel like Neeson had a great formula in Taken 1 (quiet badass runs around foreign lands kicking everyone's ass) that has not been utilized since. The Grey was ok but even it was bogged down in character development and unnecessary sadness and mopery when he could have been biting the throats out of rabid wolves

ShaneV wrote:"Hey Optimus Prime, how's it going? I like your laser beam! So you're a robot, right? What's that all about? Say hi to your mother for me."

This is exactly what I expected from this movie.

Telephant wrote:

ShaneV wrote:"Hey Optimus Prime, how's it going? I like your laser beam! So you're a robot, right? What's that all about? Say hi to your mother for me."

This is exactly what I expected from this movie.

My understandig is that that quote is approximately 25 times more coherent than the actual movie ended up. Even people that liked the other three, and there are some of those, lord knows how, say this one is a trainwreck.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:new Red Dawn: surprisingly good. very entertaining. solid 7.5/10

still, every time the homeland invasion plot comes up, i.e. thousands of DPRK paratroopers lofting over suburban areas, or the russians in CoD:MW2, i laugh my ass off. no amount of EMP in the world could disable our side that bad while allowing their side to operate

You're way too generous with your scoring, and this is coming from the dude with Wolverines as his avatar.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:headshot was a nice touch.

Yeah that part actually threw me, did not see it coming. It just really pales in comparison to the original. I read that movie went through re-write and editing hell. Apparently it was supposed to be the Chinese instead of the DPRK. That movie has the potential to be awesome.

The opening reminded me a lot of COD:MW as well, with the Russians para-trooping in. The idea of that is intense, if only it was used properly. I would love to see someone make a Red Dawn with some real grittiness and a decent script.

nightflameauto wrote:

Telephant wrote:

ShaneV wrote:"Hey Optimus Prime, how's it going? I like your laser beam! So you're a robot, right? What's that all about? Say hi to your mother for me."

This is exactly what I expected from this movie.

My understandig is that that quote is approximately 25 times more coherent than the actual movie ended up. Even people that liked the other three, and there are some of those, lord knows how, say this one is a trainwreck.

The last one I saw was borderline racist with the rapper robots.

Telephant wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:

Telephant wrote:

ShaneV wrote:"Hey Optimus Prime, how's it going? I like your laser beam! So you're a robot, right? What's that all about? Say hi to your mother for me."

This is exactly what I expected from this movie.

My understandig is that that quote is approximately 25 times more coherent than the actual movie ended up. Even people that liked the other three, and there are some of those, lord knows how, say this one is a trainwreck.

The last one I saw was borderline racist with the rapper robots.

That was painful.

And you got to witness the moment where, for me, the movie universe stopped mattering. All the build up for Devastator, just to see him turned into a testicle joke.

Those motherfuckers put out an article today saying that critics don't wanna have fun and judge every movie as if it were a Scorcese film. Um, motherfucker, I just got done doing an Avengers marathon and loved it. I know fun. Transformers movies aren't even a joke at this point. It's like Michael Bay has went full trolltard, knows it, and is loving every second of it. He even made a public statement: "Let them hate. They know they'll see it anyway."

Not me, Mr. Holier Than Thou. You lost this potential money trail.

Grr. Fan rage, building.

i gotta watch the OG red dawn now.