Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[mronegative]

Maybe I need to see it again with less distractions, or it was cuz I didn't see it in a theater, but I thought Conjuring was just aight.
Like it was definitely good, but I didn't really get the hype.

 

[mastamind033]

I agree with The Conjuring being the best American horror film I've seen in years, though I did see it in the theaters and a good horror flick is always better to see in a crowded theater then at home. Everything about it was on point and I've watched it a few more times on Cinemax the last week or so and it still holds up really well. I remember a random girl sitting next to me being terrified at one point and grabbing and squeezing my arm instead of her own boyfriend's to the left of her. Also always good to see Ron Livingston in a flick.

 

[am1x90xnike]

Any Hitchcock fans? I still think he set the standard. His philosophy was perfect for horror genre 'the threat of violence is more powerful than the violence itself'. Instead of showing you every detail to get a visceral response(like a non horror film that shall not be named) he allows you to build the fantasy of what happened in your head. He also set his flicks in relatively normal places, creating that 'this could happen to you' idea. It's one thing when your at a lake house, it's another thing when your in the middle of the city.

 

[servechilled81]

Any Hitchcock fans? I still think he set the standard. His philosophy was perfect for horror genre 'the threat of violence is more powerful than the violence itself'. Instead of showing you every detail to get a visceral response(like a non horror film that shall not be named) he allows you to build the fantasy of what happened in your head. He also set his flicks in relatively normal places, creating that 'this could happen to you' idea. It's one thing when your at a lake house, it's another thing when your in the middle of the city.

I mentioned an ep. of Alfred Hitchcock Present in here not too long ago called "Bang You're Dead"  

it's one of the most suspenseful things i've watch and it's only 30 minutes, and another ep. starring Steve Mcqueen called "Man From the South"

they're both on youtube. 

 

[licensed to ball]

MrO appreciate the suggestion on Sinister. Your description of it sounds like something I've been waiting for. Will definitely check it out thanks.

CP thanks for mentioning the Conjuring, I'll also look into that too.

Judging by a quick rotten tomatoes search looks like the Conjuring was very well received. Adding that to your recommendations, looks like I'll be giving 2 horror flicks a chance shortly.

Hope they deliver.

 

[am1x90xnike]

I mentioned an ep. of Alfred Hitchcock Present in here not too long ago called "Bang You're Dead"  
it's one of the most suspenseful things i've watch and it's only 30 minutes, and another ep. starring Steve Mcqueen called "Man From the South"
they're both on youtube. 

Man Alfred Hitchcock hour is one of my favorite series. So many cameos from older flicks. He was a genius and ill watch almost anything he has put.

 

[CP1708]

Maybe I need to see it again with less distractions, or it was cuz I didn't see it in a theater, but I thought Conjuring was just aight.
Like it was definitely good, but I didn't really get the hype.

I completely lucked into it.

I am a big skeptic of horror films, they all suck, and bore me. Long gone are the days of OG Halloween, Nightmare 1, Friday 13, Poltergeist, Exorcist, etc.

Scream 96 renewed me, and guess what, saw that in theater. (The Drew scene alone had me hooked and excited with that film from go)


But I understand, Scream had so much humor and winks and nods, that it loses some of it's horror over time. Still great, one of my favorites, and I will NEVER forget seeing it, but it loses the luster for sure.

So anyways, I had zero interest in Conjuring. But my wife was salivating to see it. So I'm sittin at work 2 weeks before it even comes out, and get an email that movie screeners are available for that night, do I want 2? I email my wife, it's a Monday night, I'm thinkin she'll rather wait to the weekend, too tired, etc, she replies in seconds, hell yes she wants to go.
So we get there, stand in line, it's hot, we're tired, long *** line, etc etc, we finally get in, get our seats, let's see what this all about.

And then I see Annabell Scream 96, I'm in.

Skeptical still, but in now.

Within a few minutes, I could see this one was "different". Maybe cuz we were in the theater, or I had low expectations, I don't know, but as the story goes, and the plot works nicely, and the visuals are good, and the scares are authentic, and nothing feels forced, it FEELS like it's real. The ghostbuster dude out here fixin homeowners car. They drinkin a beer together, just regular folk. 1970's, it's real. They not tryna shove ghosts up my *** every 15 seconds.

The woman. She sees ****, but they don't overload it. They hide it, scare us more with our own imagination. Give us a taste, but not the whole picture. That Hitchcock.

Then the only part of the movie I don't like, Lilly Taylor falls down them steps, she in that basement, darkness, quiet, still.........and the ball comes bouncin out from behind the boxes.

I said quite simply, and loud enough for people around me to hear, "aw hell no, time to go *****" (folks laugh)

As the movie unfolds, the 19 year old girls scream and squeal, people jump, then laugh. The movie delivers, every scene. Humor, realism, scares, performances, music, it all works.


I have the blu ray, and have not yet watched it again. I don't want to. I want it to stay in my head fresh, like how I just told you. I don't want to ruin it with my cell phone, doorbell, daylight, fallin asleep on my couch. At some point, yeah, I'll throw it in, and it'll be good, but that night, it was greatness.

 

[big j 33]

http://grantland.com/features/the-best-fictional-quarterback-of-all-time/

Fitting because we were talking about Saracen and FNL recently

 

[lawdog1]

http://grantland.com/features/the-best-fictional-quarterback-of-all-time/

Fitting because we were talking about Saracen and FNL recently

Funny. Good read. I'm just glad my man Reno Hightower (aka Kurt Russell) got mentioned. I always liked that movie when I was a kid.

 

[youngdoc]

I have stopped watching horror flicks because:

1) I don't like gore.
2) they have all been boring and repetitive.
3) they don't scare me. I just get disturbed by the gore.
4) I know it's not meant to be realistic but it's annoying that the same unrealistic cliche always seems to happen. Example: someone tripping and falling while being chased by the "monster."

I watched the Purge (i know this isn't true horror genre but close enough) for fun on HBO GO just to see why it got so much box office hype. And I thought the concept was cool, but the execution was horrible. That ending just solidified why I cut back on horror movies.
I don't wanna spoil it but that had to be one of the dumbest endings to a movie I had ever seen.

If anyone has any real recommendations for a well rounded horror movie from recent years that isn't filled with cliche scenes let me know. But I've lost hope in horror movies blowing me away with great stories or twists in recent years.

Just being honest

Purge got hype because of the concept. I don't know anyone who actually liked the movie.

I enjoyed Cabin, Insidious and the Conjuring (still need to finish it)

 

[awwsome]

Christian Bale might go skinny again because David Fincher wants him to play Steve Jobs in the Aaron Sorkin penned Steve Jobs biopic Fincher is directing. I guess Fincher wants to corner the market on the tech bio flicks since he's done FB already. After the Jobs flick, maybe Fincher can do one for the Google bros to make it a trilogy...

Bale as Jobs with Fincher directing

 

[darthska]

FWIW, I'm not a horror person at all, either, L2B.

Last horror I saw was Cabin.

Freaking... TERRIBLE.

Haven't unenjoyed a movie that much since Hugo.

Bout to give American Hustle a looksie later on. My girl wanted to see it, and knew that telling me Jennifer Lawrence was in it would seal the deal. And... yep.

Also got Frozen, which I'm not excited about at all, but she swears my son is going to love it, so... I'm in. Love that kid. Not excited about hearing one or two of you basically say that it's an animated Broadway musical, but... whatever. Long as he likes it.

 

[mronegative]

I finally watched Desolation of Smaug....mannnnnn.

It only took 10 minutes for this to be better than the first Hobbit. I mean, the first one was just a video game. Bilbo would just wander around looking for items to equip, talk to all the dwarves and just bs. Then Gandalf would explain the next level or side mission, and your little dwarf homies would run through to the checkpoint. Rinse, repeat. Outside of the Gollum scene, I don't think I'd ever want to watch the first 1 again. There's maybe 45 minutes of good movie in that 3 hr thing.

But this wasted no time. It got into the action and story immediately. You actually knew who the bad guys were, and felt like every scene mattered towards getting to the end. I knew it was off on a good foot, cuz when they started getting confused the Mirkwood forest. **** was comedy. (why did they all sound like Gollum though? )

My biggest issue in the first film was that all these dwarves were so interchangeable and pointless. They were annoying and stupid in the first one, cuz the movie had no point and no direction. They weren't going anywhere especially important, or doing anything especially necessary, but had to stop every 5 minutes to try and be funny. But now I love em. All their little antics. The dwarf staircase to the weapons. The toilet. All of that. Here, they have real **** they're trying to get done. They just happen to have their own quirky little badass ways of doing them.

They have real, distinct personalities now. And the movie doesn't waste time with them. It shows their personalities during the action. And Thorin was so blah to me before, but he turned into a mini-Leonidas on this one. Radagast is still my dude. And I ain't even mad at the dwarf that looks like they forgot his dwarf makeup.

But um...the barrel chase... I don't even care that random YT footage was cut in. That was so good. So good. Better than anything in the first movie.

And the elves...Tauriel was so good...and honestly so necessary. Since I knew they made her up, I just tried imagining the story without her, and it'd be so emotionally hollow for so much of it. No wonder they put her in. And Legolas was half badass, half unintentional comic relief. Why does Orlando Bloom look like a vampire now? And when he hits that forever alone/Sting in the rafters, I knew he was gonna be good. At one point he did everything short of saying 'nobody makes me bleed my own blood.' I mean, he has a lot of signature action scenes, but there's a fight in this that's probably the most un-fantastically savage fight they've had in these? It was just cool. And Lee Pace's real face was cool too.

There's just really good moments all around. Laketown was well done, and kinda showed me how much I missed humans being in this story. Sauron, the unholy ghost was ******* awesome. Smaug was ******* awesome. Gandalf did somethings. The fights were awesome. Everything felt connected. There weren't stupid scenes overextended because they need to pass the time. They didn't have little callbacks to the originals that felt out of place, or there just to be there. Everything branched out and meant something to the story right in front of you, and to what you knew was coming later.

It was so good, I had to find the song at the end. So good, when it was done, my first reaction was...I could watch the whole thing all over again right now. I know it's sacrilege, but it's kinda right there with the originals imo. It's not as deep or layered. There aren't the great performances or the 'damn...we just got Shakespeare from a fantasy film' moments. Nah...it's more like the Curse of the Black Pearl version of Middle Earth mixed with Deathly Hallows. And there aren't the great characters...everyone's kinda just a different level of 'oh, hey it's that one.' But it's just fun and well done and easy to watch, like I expected these to be.

I'd almost recommend people skip all of the first 1 except the scene with Bilbo and Gollum. They'd be fine. And anything they don't quite understand, they'd probably just fall asleep through the explanation anyways. The first one is a good way to turn people off from ever watching the 2nd one.

Now, I've never read the book. And it felt like response for the movie was Man of Steel-ish. That...it's better than what we got before, but nah. But I think that was a mix of people, like me, who didn't like the first one and were over the whole prequel idea...and then people who were mad that Jackson stretched 7 pages into 3 hours/just want it to be over with already....LOTR fans who are stuck in "not as good as the OGs" mode...and diehards who hated the changes and the fact that their fun little book was a 10-hr serious epic now. And I could understand people not really caring for Bilbo or Thorin, cuz I mean...I don't really, but I still really enjoyed it. 8.5/10

And Laketown...I saw two black people and a hispanic person. It's a New Middle Earth Order.

 

[venom lyrix]

man IDK how yall watch the LOTR movies...I couldn't get passed 20 min mark of the first one until I said I'll never make it nor will I watch another one of these films again

 

[green rhino123]

word

i fell asleep during on of the LOTRs in the theater - woke up & the joint was still going! argh

 

[Chester McFloppy]

Why does Orlando Bloom look like a vampire now?

For some reason, they decided to make him wear colored contacts.

From:

to

For a guy who cares about the small details, I have no idea why Peter Jackson went with those contacts. Makes him look like Louis from Interview with a Vampire.

 

[meast]

man IDK how yall watch the LOTR movies...I couldn't get passed 20 min mark of the first one until I said I'll never make it nor will I watch another one of these films again

Same here. First time I tried, I was at my boys house and he just got the DVD. Started the movie at 10pm and I sat there thinking this would be a normal length movie. All I remember was waking up and saying "this !@#$ is still playing?!?! @#$% it, I'm going home" Never attempted to watch it again.

Random comment, but I have never seen one Harry Potter movie. I find all that crap boring (magic, wizardry, etc..) Apparently, I am missing out on some of the greatest movies lol 

 

[green rhino123]

dudes be straight recycling my comments

 

[CP1708]

CP you think you could shoot me a copy of that spreadsheet? Curious to see which production company has the most hits.

Absolutely.

Do you have an email address you can PM me? I tried pasting the text in a PM, but it looks like one of Proshares baseball articles when I do that.

@JohnnyRedStorm

Alright man, sent to ya, let me know if you have any problems with it or questions, etc.

 

[macbk]

Watched Blood Diamond last night, second viewing in a very long time. Forgot how awesome it was.

Never seen The Last King of Scotland, but could Leo have beaten out Whitaker that year? Same for Dijmon over Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine.

And another note from that years awards; how the hell did Wahlberg get nominated for Best Supporting over Damon and/or Nicholson?! Makes zero sense...

 

[CP1708]

Posted this in the Comic Movie Thread so dropping in here as well.

To go off what RFX posted last night, I have these down for the next 3-4 years.

Captain America 2-- April 4 2014

Spiderman 2 -- May 2 2014
Godzilla -- May 16 2014
X-Men: Days of Future Past-- May 23 2014

Transformers 4-- June 27 2014

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes-- July 11 2014

Guardians of the Galaxy-- August 1 2014
Ninja Turtles-- August 8 2014
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For-- August 22 2014

Interstellar-- November 7 2014
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1-- November 21 2014

Fast and Furious 7-- April 10 2015
Avengers: Age of Ultron-- May 1 2015
The Fantastic Four-- June 19 2015
Ant-Man-- July 31 2015
Bond 24 -- November 6 2015
Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2-- November 20 2015
Star Wars 7-- December 18 2015
Mission Impossible 5 -- December 25 2015

Superman/Batman-- May 6 2016
Captain America 3-- May 6 2016
X-Men Apocalypse-- May 27 2016
The Amazing Spiderman 3-- June 10 2016
The Flash-- 2016????

Wolverine II -- March 3 2017
Fantastic Four 2-- July 14 2017
Justice League-- 2017????
Star Wars 8 -- 2017????

Amazing Spiderman 4-- May 4 2018
Unnamed Fox/Marvel -- July 13 2018

 

[lawdog1]

Watched Blood Diamond last night, second viewing in a very long time. Forgot how awesome it was.

Never seen The Last King of Scotland, but could Leo have beaten out Whitaker that year? Same for Dijmon over Arkin for Little Miss Sunshine...

I hear you, but Arkin's performance is LMS was awesome. Can't really say he was undeserving of the award. Never saw Last King of Scottland, so can't comment on that.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Last King was a solid movie but Whitaker's performance as Idi Amin was riveting (as Foxx's Ray was). Leo was no where close to deserving that year's Oscar either.

Been hearing about this flick for a minute & just thought to look for the trailer. Nice cast. Plus it's always good to see Andy Garcia. Man his beard's got a lot of grey in it...

 

[danger style]

Leo was nominated for the wrong movie that year. His performance in The Departed >>> Blood Diamond. Hell, it might be his best performance ever imo. It still wouldn't have beaten Forrest Whitaker though, so I guess it doesn't matter

 

[mronegative]

For some reason, they decided to make him wear colored contacts.

The hell.

...

Leo was nominated for the wrong movie that year. His performance in The Departed >>> Blood Diamond.

I agree. I mean, I haven't seen Blood Diamond since it came out, but I just remembered Leo's South African accent puttin me off hard. When he and Matt didn't get nominated for Departed, I was convinced Marty was gonna lose again.