Gentlemen Broncos
A weird film that shares Napoleon Dynamite's fascination with rural America and the humorless oddballs that supposedly live there. I liked it in places, specifically the science fiction scenes with Sam Rockwell, who's one of my favorites. Mostly, it felt like a retread of the same uncomfortable humor from Napoleon Dynamite.
5/10 boules.
The only science fiction I need involves Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan.
A Goon in a Gaggle of 'em
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
doubleKO said:
E.T. (1982)
I had fond memories of watching E.T. as a child. Then I watched it again. 4/10AVGN said:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
Ziggy Stardust said:
greenpenguino said:
Ziggy Stardust said:
doubleKO said:
E.T. (1982)
I had fond memories of watching E.T. as a child. Then I watched it again. 4/10AVGN said:
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was eXpecting it to be.
“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison
FanFiltration said:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Were you expecting it to jump of of the screen, raid your fridge, kick your dog, and give you herpes?
Cuz if that's the case, I agree with you. It wasn't THAT bad.
TheBoost said:
FanFiltration said:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Were you expecting it to jump of of the screen, raid your fridge, kick your dog, and give you herpes?
Cuz if that's the case, I agree with you. It wasn't THAT bad.
Agreed.
BloodnoseThePirate said:
TheBoost said:
FanFiltration said:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Were you expecting it to jump of of the screen, raid your fridge, kick your dog, and give you herpes?
Cuz if that's the case, I agree with you. It wasn't THAT bad.
Agreed.
So very agreed.
Of course, I only saw the workprint without the special effects... and the only part I enjoyed about it was seeing the work in progress of an unfinished film. That was pretty interesting.
CP3S said:
BloodnoseThePirate said:
TheBoost said:
FanFiltration said:
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
Not as bad as I was expecting it to be.
Were you expecting it to jump of of the screen, raid your fridge, kick your dog, and give you herpes?
Cuz if that's the case, I agree with you. It wasn't THAT bad.
Agreed.
So very agreed.
Of course, I only saw the workprint without the special effects... and the only part I enjoyed about it was seeing the work in progress of an unfinished film. That was pretty interesting.
You didn't miss much, The CGI was bawls. (Not in a good way)
i liked wolverine
just watched rashomon
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I love anything by Kurosawa. Especially 'Yojimbo': 10/10 balls.
In fact the first film in the Sergio Leone Dollars trilogy took the story directly from it. Luckily it led to 'The Good, The Bad and The Ugly' My current favorite movie. (Also 10/10 balls)
I just got back From 'X-men: First Class'. I don't want to set anyone's expectations too high but, wow. Best movie I've seen in a long time. Sure there were cheesy bits but overall it felt like an adult film that presented some tough moral questions while keeping your attention at the same time. It felt like a compacted version of the other films with a 60s vibe throughout.
8.5 out of 10 balls.
BloodnoseThePirate said:
Sure there were cheesy bits but overall it felt like an adult film that presented some tough moral questions while keeping your attention at the same time.
Hawt.
I might go see it. But I really hated the last two ones. They were crap.
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Really, you can ignore all the Xmen films that came before and pretend this is the first. It's almost like a reboot ala Star Trek 2009.
As it stands it is a better movie than all of the others. There are some slight inconsistencies but also a few nods and winks to the other films.
Like Star Trek 2009 it's something that fans and non-fans should both enjoy.
Last movie seen - Monsters.
Interesting. 3 balls.
I was expecting a bit more to happen and the story was a bit depressing, but I enjoyed it.
greenpenguino said:
I might go see it. But I really hated the last two ones. They were crap.
I agree (if you mean X3 and wolverine). In my opinion, It's better than any previous X-men films, and to compare it to other Marvel films, I thought it was much better than Thor and at least on par with the first Ironman although they feel like very different movies.
Saw a double feature at the drive-in last night:
X-Men: First Class - 9/10 balls. Even after hearing good reviews from people, I was still surprised at how good this was. Better than every X movie so far, and in fact better than any movie I've seen in a long time. So great.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - 9/100 balls. On Lamer Tides is more like it. Terrible - just no excuse for how boring this movie was. Awful.
Wargames
8080 balls out of 8080
Apparently a lot of drive-ins had that double feature. Either that or you live really close to me.RedFive said:
Saw a double feature at the drive-in last night:
X-Men: First Class - 9/10 balls. Even after hearing good reviews from people, I was still surprised at how good this was. Better than every X movie so far, and in fact better than any movie I've seen in a long time. So great.
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides - 9/100 balls. On Lamer Tides is more like it. Terrible - just no excuse for how boring this movie was. Awful.
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asterisk8 said:
Gentlemen Broncos
A weird film that shares Napoleon Dynamite's fascination with rural America and the humorless oddballs that supposedly live there. I liked it in places, specifically the science fiction scenes with Sam Rockwell, who's one of my favorites. Mostly, it felt like a retread of the same uncomfortable humor from Napoleon Dynamite.
5/10 boules.
Gentlemen Brocos- Just the Sam Rockwell Bits- 10b/10b
The other bits- 3b/10b.
That's my opinion. If you agree come over here and blow on this friendship rock with me. Puwh, puwh, puwh.
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
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Is that anything like splitscreening?
bkev said:
The only science fiction I need involves Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan.
On that note, I made a list of movies to see with my 8 year old son now that he's old enough. It started when we were at Universal Studios and I got my picture taken with Doc Brown. I figured it was time to show the little man Back to the Future.
I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to the BDs, but I couldn't find a deal on them, so we just rocked the older DVDs. I put a really nasty scratch in BTTF(1) that made the "I didn't have enough time to make a proper model of town square" scene skip and freeze a lot. But the PS3 just played through it LIKE BUTTAH. We were about to start the 2nd one this weekend, but ran OUTTATIME. Which was just as well, because Amazon had the BD set for $25 yesterday and I ordered it. So we can watch 2 and 3 a la mode (from the French, meaning "covered in ice cream").
The important bit is this: It was really awesome to watch it with an 8 year old seeing it all for the first time. He got really worried when *26 YEAR OLD SPOILER* Marty pushed his dad away from his grandpop's car. He was following the plot really well and kept asking questions right as the movie would answer them.
It never struck me before how carefully structured a lot of the dialogue is. Watching it with my son drove home how intentional (and expository) the dialogue is laid out to make sure you're tracking with the paradoxes and general threats to the space time continuum.
Which is slightly odd since the heart of the movie seems more to be- "What if you could go to highschool with your parents?" (Also see the vastly inferior: 17 Again) and not "What are the consequences of using a time machine and changing the past?" Inasmuch as heavy exposition is considered a bad thing, this movie still works extremely well.
At least, on my 8 year old son. And his pop.
4 out of 4 balls
IT'S MY TRILOGY, AND I WANT IT NOW!
"[George Lucas] rebooted the franchise in 1997 without telling anyone." -skyjedi2005
"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
bkev said:
The only science fiction I need involves Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan.
Now in 3D!
I've never been comfortable with the language. My parents had to tell my brothers to be very careful when quoting BTTF, a lot of what he says isn't nice.xhonzi said:
bkev said:
The only science fiction I need involves Darth Vader from the planet Vulcan.
On that note, I made a list of movies to see with my 8 year old son now that he's old enough. It started when we were at Universal Studios and I got my picture taken with Doc Brown. I figured it was time to show the little man Back to the Future.
I've been looking for an excuse to upgrade to the BDs, but I couldn't find a deal on them, so we just rocked the older DVDs. I put a really nasty scratch in BTTF(1) that made the "I didn't have enough time to make a proper model of town square" scene skip and freeze a lot. But the PS3 just played through it LIKE BUTTAH. We were about to start the 2nd one this weekend, but ran OUTTATIME. Which was just as well, because Amazon had the BD set for $25 yesterday and I ordered it. So we can watch 2 and 3 a la mode (from the French, meaning "covered in ice cream").
The important bit is this: It was really awesome to watch it with an 8 year old seeing it all for the first time. He got really worried when *26 YEAR OLD SPOILER* Marty pushed his dad away from his grandpop's car. He was following the plot really well and kept asking questions right as the movie would answer them.
It never struck me before how carefully structured a lot of the dialogue is. Watching it with my son drove home how intentional (and expository) the dialogue is laid out to make sure you're tracking with the paradoxes and general threats to the space time continuum.
Which is slightly odd since the heart of the movie seems more to be- "What if you could go to highschool with your parents?" (Also see the vastly inferior: 17 Again) and not "What are the consequences of using a time machine and changing the past?" Inasmuch as heavy exposition is considered a bad thing, this movie still works extremely well.
At least, on my 8 year old son. And his pop.
4 out of 4 balls
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doubleofive said:
I've never been comfortable with the language. My parents had to tell my brothers to be very careful when quoting BTTF, a lot of what he says isn't nice.xhonzi said:
[Back to the Future]
4 out of 4 balls
It's true, and this was a concern for me as well. I watched this a tonne at more or less the same age and got in trouble for quoting "Let's see if these ba*ds can do 90!" because I hadn't heard the word before. And I likewise learned "OMG!" from Superman.
My son didn't seem to pick up on it. I did explain to him in full detail what manure is and what the joke is when Biff slams into it and yells, "Oh s***!"
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"Yeah, well, George says a lot of things..." a young 1997 xhonzi on RASSM
"They're my movies." -George Lucas. 19 people won oscars for their work on Star Wars (1977) and George Lucas wasn't one of them.
