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Mrb1p

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Watched stand up guys yestersday... Fun movie :laugh: Watching Pacino and Walken go all terminator at the tender age of "almost dead" at the end was something to behold :laugh: Sure the movie is not original and the story is predictable but I think it has just enough swagger that I am able to appreciate it. Walken is amazing as a badass :laugh:
 
Tabarouette

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i'm re-watch Godfather 1 and 2 and I tried to watch 3 last night, I had to stop halfway through and I don't know if I'll ever watch the rest

I get that "the character changed as he got older" but the change Michael got is way too drastic, he's suddenly a happy fun guy who makes jokes in an american accent who smoked 50 cigars a day for 15 years... i'm sad
 
MasterDecoy

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Bask said:
i'm re-watch Godfather 1 and 2 and I tried to watch 3 last night, I had to stop halfway through and I don't know if I'll ever watch the rest

I get that "the character changed as he got older" but the change Michael got is way too drastic, he's suddenly a happy fun guy who makes jokes in an american accent who smoked 50 cigars a day for 15 years... i'm sad
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its really not that bad...

and the last two scenes are two of my favorites scenes of all time. powerful, powerful ****.

if only for closure, watch it
 
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I watched the new Divergent movie. It's mostly quite bad, though partly redeemed because there's a scene where Jai Courtney gets killed.

Grade: D
 
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Watching Interstellar, in a tie with Gravity for worst hyped movie I've seen this decade and WTF is up with that robot? Worst droid since Twiki
 
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MasterDecoy said:
its really not that bad...

and the last two scenes are two of my favorites scenes of all time. powerful, powerful ****.

if only for closure, watch it
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It's a bad movie, especially compared to the first two. At one point it gets difficult to even follow the plot, too convoluted for my liking. Some scenes you don't even know if they are in Italy or back in America, the story has holes everywhere. Also they had to come back and add dialogue after the movie was already shot for audiences to better understand the plot, so you get a bunch of scenes with characters in the distance and you hear dialogue between them. You could tell the dialogue doesn't match the body language, even Coppola said it was a mess at one point. Didn't like the Sofia Coppola casting, didn't think she was good. The movie still has some great scenes and elements because of the great actors though.
 
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Adriatic said:
It's a bad movie, especially compared to the first two. At one point it gets difficult to even follow the plot, too convoluted for my liking. Some scenes you don't even know if they are in Italy or back in America, the story has holes everywhere. Also they had to come back and add dialogue after the movie was already shot for audiences to better understand the plot, so you get a bunch of scenes with characters in the distance and you hear dialogue between them. You could tell the dialogue doesn't match the body language, even Coppola said it was a mess at one point. Didn't like the Sofia Coppola casting, didn't think she was good. The movie still has some great scenes and elements because of the great actors though.
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Yeah for sure.

Those last two scenes tho... Perfect....
 
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A guy on Neogaf posted this :

Furious 7: shockingly outrageously amazing #1
Just saw the special secret unofficial world premiere at SXSW. First public screening of the film.

This is maybe the best summer popcorn blockbuster action flick of the last ten years. No joke. Fast Five was a lot of silly fun, and 6 had some fun moments too if a little bogged down in familial sentimentality, but 7...

It pulls a little from all the previous films and includes a lot of nods, but without feeling like retreading ground lazily. Everything is an escalation of previous events, a completely ludicrously insane escalation that effectively makes Furious 7 a superhero film. And what a goddamned awesome superhero film it is.

The set pieces never stop, and get crazier at each step. The cinematography is fast without being unintelligible and has a hyper-kinetic inventiveness that adds incredible oomph to the fight sequences for a big budget hollywood flick. It's not The Raid 2 or anything, obviously, but it feels influenced by it to some degree (like Winter Soldier). I think they might be figuring out how to do action again in the big leagues.

If you thought that climaxes of #5 and #6 were over the top, zany, and insane, that's pretty much the resting pulse rate for #7. And it's all broken up by amazing '80s Schwarzenegger-style testosterone-fueled one liners and smirks and stares at the camera, and actually tight on-point humor. Also one of Jason Statham's most badass roles across his entire career.

It's a true love letter to Paul Walker.
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You guys can't even begin to comprehend how hyped I am
 
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Re-watching GoT before season 5 starts. It's amazing all the foreshadowing there is that I never noticed because I didn't know what was coming. Show might be better the 2nd time!
 
WhiskeySeven*

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Spearmint Rhino said:
Watching Interstellar, in a tie with Gravity for worst hyped movie I've seen this decade and WTF is up with that robot? Worst droid since Twiki
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Gravity was a great, and taught, experience, not at all comparable to Interstellar.
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Yup.

POS.

I hate everyhting about this movie.

Every damn thing.
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I wouldn't say it's that bad - decent flick but it was very ambitious and some of the set pieces were marvelous. Standard Nolan.

I watched John Wick last night - fun action movie, very stylized - which gives it a lot of points, it didn't try to be grim-dark-serious.
 
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A guy on Neogaf posted this :

Furious 7: shockingly outrageously amazing #1
Just saw the special secret unofficial world premiere at SXSW. First public screening of the film.

This is maybe the best summer popcorn blockbuster action flick of the last ten years. No joke. Fast Five was a lot of silly fun, and 6 had some fun moments too if a little bogged down in familial sentimentality, but 7...

It pulls a little from all the previous films and includes a lot of nods, but without feeling like retreading ground lazily. Everything is an escalation of previous events, a completely ludicrously insane escalation that effectively makes Furious 7 a superhero film. And what a goddamned awesome superhero film it is.

The set pieces never stop, and get crazier at each step. The cinematography is fast without being unintelligible and has a hyper-kinetic inventiveness that adds incredible oomph to the fight sequences for a big budget hollywood flick. It's not The Raid 2 or anything, obviously, but it feels influenced by it to some degree (like Winter Soldier). I think they might be figuring out how to do action again in the big leagues.

If you thought that climaxes of #5 and #6 were over the top, zany, and insane, that's pretty much the resting pulse rate for #7. And it's all broken up by amazing '80s Schwarzenegger-style testosterone-fueled one liners and smirks and stares at the camera, and actually tight on-point humor. Also one of Jason Statham's most badass roles across his entire career.

It's a true love letter to Paul Walker.
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You guys can't even begin to comprehend how hyped I am
 
Spearmint Rhino

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ThaDevilGirl said:
If you didn't see Gravity at IMAX I feel bad for you. Best experience I ever had at the movies.
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It's funny you mention that cause when I watched Gravity it felt like I was a watching an IMAX movie, the visual effects were amazing and no doubt a great cinematic experience but as a movie I've watched porn that had a more interesting plot, characters and script

As for Interstellar could only suffer through 2 hrs of an orange-mumbling MM in the one sitting, will try and watch the rest today
 
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