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RicOlie_2 said:

Well, for starters, I'd like a million dollars. That's just for starters, though.

A million dollars?! That's basically chump change in this day in age! I'd go for no less than 50 million dollars*.

*Not true, actually. I'd take whatever I can get. 

^^I did say that was just for starters.

V/H/S Viral (2014)

As has been the pattern with this series, some pretty entertaining shorts packaged up with a seriously awful wrap-around story.  I'll give a B+ to the magician short, a B to the parallel dimension (yes, DE, it's true) short, a B+ to the skater short (with the + for the whole thing taking place in broad daylight, bravo!), and a D- to the wrap-around (with the - for the VHS conceit being completely abandoned).

Room 237 (2012)

An absurd "documentary" covering several ridiculous theories about the things Kubrick was trying to say in The Shining.  The theories are entertaining for a short while but grow tiresome (especially the one from the Sandy Hook truther where he's convinced Kubrick faked the moon landing footage everyone saw).  The use of completely unrelated movie footage, the terribly mismatched soundtrack, and the utter lack of visual shots of the theorists (audio only) drag the grade down even further.  I give it a D.

Ryan McAvoy said:

DominicCobb said:

Mad Max (1979) ...this film would not be remembered today if it weren't for its sequel and its discovery of Mel Gibson. B-

I'd disagree with that one point. The amazing way the chase scenes are shot would be influential regardless of what came after. Those shots of the camera seemingly inches from two cars bumper-to-bumper grinding metal are breath taking. Tarantino would still have based the chase in Death Proof on it... but then again he knows all films, from ever ;-)

It probably would have had an impact, but, as you mentioned Tarantino has seen everything and loves referencing obscure stuff. I just don't think it would be the cult classic it is today - because it isn't even really the cult classic it is today today. When people think of Mad Max, they don't think of Mad Max, they think of The Road Warrior.

DominicCobb said:

Ryan McAvoy said:

DominicCobb said:

Mad Max (1979) ...this film would not be remembered today if it weren't for its sequel and its discovery of Mel Gibson. B-

I'd disagree with that one point. The amazing way the chase scenes are shot would be influential regardless of what came after. Those shots of the camera seemingly inches from two cars bumper-to-bumper grinding metal are breath taking. Tarantino would still have based the chase in Death Proof on it... but then again he knows all films, from ever ;-)

It probably would have had an impact, but, as you mentioned Tarantino has seen everything and loves referencing obscure stuff. I just don't think it would be the cult classic it is today - because it isn't even really the cult classic it is today today. When people think of Mad Max, they don't think of Mad Max, they think of The Road Warrior.

 Truth.  It's surprising how many people don't even realize they've never seen Mad Max.

Jetrell Fo said:

darth_ender said:

atheists will value love for its evolutionary/survival value

This statement is absurd.  Atheists value love like any other human being may or may not.  Where did you even get this idea from?

 It certainly is absurd when you take it out of context and interpret it differently than intended.  Well done.

A theatical YouTube Poop wouldn't be all that bad, actually (provided it was done well, of course).

I'm pretty sure Two Girls One Cup had a limited theatrical run.

TV's Frink said:

I'm pretty sure Two Girls One Cup had a limited theatrical run.

I really wish I didn't know what that is. 

Chaplin (1992) - A

The Ruling Class (1972) - A/A+

Cube (1997) - A

Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985) - B

Black Angel (1980) - A+

Mississippi Burning (1988) - A+

Dennis the Menace (1993) - B-

Rollerball (1975) - C

Loch Ness (1996) - C-

"Theatrical run" makes me think of exercise. I detest exercise.

You should learn to ride a horse, then you wouldn't have to walk anywhere.

*imagines self riding on a small pony inside house, particularily to the bathroom*

Interstellar.

Okay I am a huge Nolan fan and I defended both The Dark Knight Rises and Man of Steel.  I also believe Person of Interest is one of the best TV shows ever made, so please remember that.

Am I the only one who wasn't blown away by this movie?  For one thing it needs an editor.  I mean what this story boils down to is the type of thing Doctor Who or Star Trek would do in one forty-five minute episode.  Second the acting is just not that good, everyone is either whispering or crying their eyes out and there is no middle ground and that gets old real fast.  Then there is just how full of it's self this story is. This movie so badly wants to be 2001 but it just isn't, it has nothing that interesting say and it doesn't trust the viewers to work out even the most basic plot point on our own, things are explained in detail several times in a row and the ideas are not that interesting or complex to begin with.  I really wanted to like this movie and the idea of treating faster then light travel in a realistic way is something that I think was long overdue, but then it throws the realism out the window in the last act for the dumbest ending I have seen since the theatrical cut of Blade Runner.  By the time Anne Hathaway was babbling about love controlling time and science answer to it and people where becoming psychic and figuring out things they had no way of knowing I gave up.

I am sorry to say this but the movie was way too long, the good idea it had were smashed to pieces by other ideas that were some of the dumbest I have ever heard and the robots look like something made out of garbage by an eight year old.

There are some very nice looking shots in this movie and there are some truly great scenes like when our hero watches the messages from home but that but that isn't enough to hold this movie up and by the last hour or so I was just waiting for it to end and I just don't understand why so many people seem to love this movie.

I wanted to like this movie, I really did but in the end I was just bored.

Oh and the less said about the stupid idea that if there was a food shortage every nation on earth including the terrorists would just throw away their guns and ban war and that they wouldn't fight over food the better.  That has to be one of the dumbest things I have ever heard in my life.

Sadly a movie that should have reminded me of 2001 just ended up reminding me of Star Trek Voyager, what a shame.

4.0/10

SilverWook said:

DrCrowTStarwars said:

SilverWook said:

Well, isn't it that way in the comics? I liked team ups when I was a kid. That's what made the first Avengers film so much fun. And I don't think it's ever been done in movies before.

It may have been done to death since the 70's, but this crossover was a pretty big deal when I was a kid.

There is already connective tissue between GOTG and the rest of MCU, but I don't want to see them turn up on Earth unless there's a darn good reason.

If there's ever a crossover with the Avengers, it should be on GOTG's turf. Then they end up needing Starlord and company's experience to survive, after getting their asses handed to them of course. ;)

 How did they get a whole comic out of that.  I mean I love Spider-Man as much as the next guy but I fail to see how he would last five seconds in a battle against Superman.

 Supes and Spidey have a brief tussle, before teaming up against Lex Luthor and Doc Ock, didn't have quite the same ring to it. ;)

IIRC, Lex zapped Spidey with red sun radiation, which briefly made it a fair fight.

 Okay, that makes a lot more sense.

No doubt his expectations were too high and he ruined the movie for himself.

Trident said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

TV's Frink said:

I'm pretty sure Two Girls One Cup had a limited theatrical run.

I really wish I didn't know what that is. 

 What's so bad about knowing what a theatrical run is?

 *snickers to self about that video being mentioned in the same sentence as the word "run"*

RicOlie_2 said:

No doubt his expectations were too high and he ruined the movie for himself.

 Not really, if Micheal Bay had directed this movie I still would have felt like throwing up when all that insanity about love controlling the laws of time and space showed up.

That is the kind of garbage that is it were put in a Disney movie it would get called out for the badly written sap that it is but because Nolan made it this trash gets a pass for some reason.  Every time he does something no matter how stupid it is it gets praised as the greatest thing the human race has ever produced when if you had Micheal Bay make the exact same movie it would have a 12% on RT.

People say that like Nolan's movies because it is cool to like them not because they really think they are any good.  He's a name brand at this point, not a director.  He needs to stop trying to make deep epics and start making smaller films that have to stand on their own merits.