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

[rck3sactown]

I watched Out of the Furnance on Sunday, that movie was nothing like what the commercials made it seem like its going to be. I thought it was going to be a one man against the clan movie and he was going to get his Jason Statham on. Was pretty good though.

Not enough people died. Thats what it was lack RCK

But.......

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

William Dafoe dies.
Casey dies.
The bartender dies.

Woody dies.

basically everyone but Bale and Whitaker.

 

[mronegative]

I watched Captain Phillips last night I was not entertained. I didn't get to finish it but from how much of it I did watch it seems that once again the machine has chosen incorrectly.

I didn't get what the big deal was about it and was kinda letdown for a lot of the movie, but the last 20 minutes, especially the last scene really pulled it up for me. Like, I didn't think it got snubbed for anything, it was just a good little movie. You just gotta realize Barkhad is the main character, not Hanks.

Animated films are nice chill experiences for me. Sit back, nothing heavy, no need to deal with possible bad acting, just a decent script, some laughter and cool images. I really don't check for animated films outside of Pixar though. That crew is amazing at what it does.

If it wasn't for Pixar, I don't think I woulda watched more than 2 or 3 animated movies for just about all of the 2000s. But the last few years, there's been some Pixar-ish movies like Wreck-It Ralph and Lego Movie and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and How to Train Your Dragon and ParaNorman. I tried to sit through the Madagascars etc with my niece, but I end up never really looking up from my laptop. Those are just feeding kids sugar through the eyes, but the Pixar and Pixar-ish flicks are like a good meal at a theme park to me.


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So uh...TIL that a really great show, The Colony on Discovery channel, never came back after season 2, because rumor has it, while they were filming, one of the applicants got hit in the head by a hostile, fell down a flight of stairs and died. :x It was imo...the greatest survival show I've ever seen, and maybe the most impacting real world science thing outside of Mythbusters? But it ain't worth someone's life.

The whole setup to the show was a social experiment to document how a group of smart, skilled people would survive in an apocalyptic scenario. And it was real people like electricians, mechanics, practical scientists, doctors, engineers...hell there was a martial artist. The kind of people you'd wish you had if you were in that situation. And just seeing how they'd rig up car batteries they found, and build up defenses. I mean, I got more out of that then watching someone drink piss to survive the Congo. And it wasn't a show where they just subtly make fun of paranoid obsessive people and gun/food collections.

The best part about it was that there wasn't a prize at the end. It was about the experience. And it was unpredictable. The people in the experiment had no clue when hostiles would come to test their defenses, or nature would just be a ***** and knock them down a peg. I recommend those 2 seasons to anyone. Shame it ain't coming back, but if that happened, I get it.

 

[servechilled81]

^bruh the Colony is my one true love.... 

  I still check for updates from time to time even though I know it's never coming back

you still up on Big Brother?  this season of BBCA is soooo boring.  After that cluster **** that was last seasons BBUS, i don't know how much patience I have with this show anymore

 

[lawdog1]

I didn't get what the big deal was about it and was kinda letdown for a lot of the movie, but the last 20 minutes, especially the last scene really pulled it up for me. Like, I didn't think it got snubbed for anything, it was just a good little movie. You just gotta realize Barkhad is the main character, not Hanks.
If it wasn't for Pixar, I don't think I woulda watched more than 2 or 3 animated movies for just about all of the 2000s. But the last few years, there's been some Pixar-ish movies like Wreck-It Ralph and Lego Movie and Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs and How to Train Your Dragon and ParaNorman. I tried to sit through the Madagascars etc with my niece, but I end up never really looking up from my laptop. Those are just feeding kids sugar through the eyes, but the Pixar and Pixar-ish flicks are like a good meal at a theme park to me.


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I forgot about some of these. Wreck-it-Ralph is the best non-Pixar Disney animated film in years. I would say since the Lion King. ParaNorman and its predecessor movie from the same studio, Coraline, are also both really, really good. Pixar is the gold standard for animation, but other studios have been getting better at it.

On Pixar, in addition to the reasons other people have already mentioned as to why they're good, the animation itself is truly amazing. The worlds they create are beautiful. Even when Wall-E is cruising around through mountainous piles of trash, it looks amazing. So, not that it would be reason alone to watch the movies, but they're impressive on a purely visual, artistic level.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

One last thing about animation, I really enjoyed this one based on the graphic novels. Very unique story & art.

 

[calikev34]

well aware I'm late but wow
awesome movie.
i dare you to watch this and tell me you still think Nic Cage cant act

 

[sb]

I'm truly surprised by how many of you have actually seen/watched all those animated movies outside of with your kids or what not.

I've only seen a couple, but only because I have a daughter. I never watched Toy Story 1 or 2, but I saw 3 when I had a little girl pining for it.

I think I own just about every animated film to ever come out thanks to her, but I haven't watched more than a couple, but the last couple days, I've seen some of you guys comment on multiple Pixar/Disney films, and I would not expect that.

missing the boat on those animated films.

 

[CP1708]

Wreck it Ralph, I saw that one too.

So I guess I have seen a few, but I know I would have seen none if not for having a little girl.

And Ralph was excellent too.

 

[rck3sactown]

^CP, what about Up or Wall-e?? 

 

[CP1708]

Haven't seen either.

 

[fraij da 5 11]

Just saw this on reddit...

[h2]Newsies - 1992[/h2]

[h2]Velet Goldmine - 1998[/h2]

[h2]American Pyscho - 2000[/h2]

[h2]Thr Machinist - 2004[/h2]

[h2]Batman Begins - 2005[/h2]

[h2]Rescue Dawn - 2006[/h2]

[h2]Terminator Salvation - 2009[/h2]

[h2]The Fighter - 2010[/h2]

[h2]The Dark Knight Rises - 2012[/h2]

[h2]Out Of The Furnace - 2013[/h2]

[h2]American Hustle - 2013[/h2]

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[h2]Exodus - 2014[/h2]

 

[CP1708]

So I mentioned the top box office films and those that I have not yet seen.

They are:

Frozen
The Passion of the Christ (will never watch)
Alice in Wonderland
Shrek 3
Up
Monsters U
The Incredibles
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
The Hobbit 2 (I will get to this one)
Night at the Museum
Cars
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
Lego Movie
Shrek 4
Brave
Castaway (seen bits and pieces over time, but never start to finish)
The Lost World
Madagascar 3
Kung Fu Panda
The Lorax
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Gone with the Wind



Fairly easy to see the genre I skip the most when watching films.

 

[rck3sactown]

Bale in the Fighter 

x a billion

@CP1708  maybe get your daughter to ask you to watch those two with you someday, they are classics for that genre.

 

[am1x90xnike]

I watched the Broad City pilot, something about females with that workaholics humor isn't attractive to me, I literally cringed...then again 2014 tells me I'm sexists so eh. Semi funny, you gotta be ready for women being vulgar, not clever vulgar either just straight Richard jokes with females.

Out Of the Furnance was an indie movie with big names. Cool, wished Bale murked more people.

I want to watch Captin Phillips but y'all are making me not want to.

I'm a huge fan of animated films, saw Lego in theaters. Having seen Frozen but I hear great things. How To Train Your Dragon 2 will be seen in theaters.

 

[darthska]

It's pretty close-minded not to be interested in animated movies, you're doing yourself a huge disservice.

I think it's narrow-minded to consider it narrow-minded that someone has preferences that rule out an entire genre. 

Not everyone likes horror. Some people are too serious to appreciate a good comedy. Some opt to stay away from blockbuster Michael Bay type flicks.

And for some people, cartoons are still just cartoons, and they simply have no interest.

That's not narrow-minded at all.

"You don't like EVERYTHING? Well you're narrow-minded."

Yeahno.

 

[big j 33]

I didn't say anyone is narrow-minded if you don't like everything, you're just twisting my words. I dislike the horror genre.. but I've seen many classic horror movies along with recent highly regarded horror movies and they're still not my cup of tea. To completely avoid a genre because you don't see the appeal, that's close-minded to me. Just watch it at least.. give them a chance.. the thing with the animated "genre" is they cover various actual genres.

The Incredibles is a superhero movie that happens to be animated. Wall-E is a movie about a robot that happens to be animated. Up is a buddy road-trip movie that happens to be animated. And so on, so it's not the same thing as disliking one particular genre.

And from CP's explanation, he didn't even see the appeal of animated movies and was surprised that so many adults without children would sit down and watch them. That's where the close-minded comment came from. Don't latch on to that one comment and think I'm being an elitist, because I'm not going to have that conversation.. just surprised that he avoids Pixar and great animated movies.

CP, as for your list, I'd say Up, Monsters U (but watch Inc first), The Incredibles, Lego Movie, Castaway, Gone with the Wind, are the ones you should definitely make an effort to see.

 

[licensed to ball]

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

 

[rck3sactown]

The Cabin in the Woods is cool.

Sort of in the same vein as Purge in terms of gore/not quite being a horror flick.

 

[noblekane]

Whats a horror movie without the gore?

Suspense/thriller

 

[licensed to ball]

The Cabin in the Woods is cool.

Sort of in the same vein as Purge in terms of gore/not quite being a horror flick.

Saw it.
Meh.

Unique, and Better than I thought...but still not nearly as great as I heard others say it was.

 

[darthska]

I didn't say anyone is narrow-minded if you don't like everything, you're just twisting my words.

I'm twisting words that you didn't say? Isn't that... literally... impossible?

Should I have prefaced with "It's like you're saying"?

Depepnding on perspective, I was either twisting your words around, or offering my interpretation of your words. Just depends on how abrasive of a perspective you want to have. 

 Me personally? You will seldom see/hear me tell someone "HEY!! You're twisting my words around!" I understand that when they say I said something that I either didn't say, or didn't intend to convey, they're offering their interpretation of what I said.

Simple. Not everyone is out to get you; no need to be defensive.

"I didn't SAY you were out to get me."

Not explicitly. "You're just twisting my words around" is a defensive response, though.

At any rate...

And from CP's explanation, he didn't even see the appeal of animated movies and was surprised that so many adults without children would sit down and watch them. That's where the close-minded comment came from.

CP, as for your list, I'd say Up, Monsters U (but watch Inc first), The Incredibles, Lego Movie, Castaway, Gone with the Wind, are the ones you should definitely make an effort to see.

I know what went into the dialogue; I read the whole thing.

It's not narrow-minded at all for someone to rule out cartoons just because they're not a cartoon person.

Again, not everyone has to literally try out EVERYTHING in order to avoid being labeled narrow-minded.

"I didn't say everyone has to try out EVERYTHING."

Seems like that's what you're saying. If someone simply doesn't like animated... or blockbusters, or indy, or porn... they're narrow-minded, and they need to broaden their horizons by watching at least ______ (how many we talking?) flicks in each and every single genre before deciding which ones they do and don't like.

And I disagree.

Someone thinks cartoons are just cartoons? Awesome. Sure, I know there are some good flicks they're missing out on, but if they're comfortable missing out on them because they still just see them as cartoons, for kids, awesome. That's not an issue of narrow/closed-minded; I see that as simply having preferences, nothing more, nothing less.

 

[licensed to ball]

Whats a horror movie without the gore?

Suspense/thriller

Not really.

Drag Me To Hell was pretty good to me.
Horror.
Not exactly too filled with gore.

28 Days Later and 28 Weeks Later
Might not have been literally horror flicks as much as they were zombie thrillers but they were very entertaining to me. They had a lot of horror type moments. Sure a little gore but I thought the story lines were the bulk of the focus so I didn't mind. I thought the cinematography along with the story was a awesome for those 2 flicks, not to mention the great musical scoring.

2 of my guilty pleasure movies.
I enjoyed them a lot because they weren't filled with constant cliches. They brought something fresh to the "horror/thriller" category (at least to me) and I respected it.

 

[mronegative]

you still up on Big Brother?  this season of BBCA is soooo boring.  After that cluster **** that was last seasons BBUS, i don't know how much patience I have with this show anymore

I was honestly about to ask you. Yeah, racist house really put me off it. And the whole outside of the summer...I was gonna pass on it. Rather watch other ish.

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I have stopped watching horror flicks

I mostly feel the same way. I mean there'll maybe be 1 horror movie I really like a year?

I'd recommend Sinister, though. For me, the best horror think I've seen in a really long while. Really smart, really clever, and there's no gore. It's really aware of what horror movies are like today, but it doesn't try to be precious about it like Cabin in the Woods, which I know turned a lot of people off. It doesn't suddenly become a comedy. And regardless of the genre, it's just a well made and well written movie on its own.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Just saw this on reddit...

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...

 

[CP1708]

Loved Sinister, but Conjuring is best I've seen since Scream.