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I rather liked The Revenant, but it could be bias to how I’m impressed with how it was filmed for the most part, with natural lighting and still looking stunning as well as reading on how bitterly tough it was to film certain pieces.

It could had done more story wise, sure. I’m not quite sure if the repeated saying/metaphor used throughout the film made ‘sense’ or effectively tied into in the story of the film, but maybe I’m just missing it. Regardless though, it’s a revenge flick and I’m not sure if such films need all that much of compelling nature due to how inherently black and white it has to be. Kill Bill had a fun angle to it, so that’s why it tends to stand out. I just think The Revenant did its job pretty decently to pull me into a bitter and harsh environment via the character’s emotions/reactions.

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TV’s Frink said:

We watched Birdman last night. I had no idea what it would be, and I was pleasantly surprised. Some of the long takes and camera moves were just great.

Is that movie about pigeons? I’ll be damned if I’m devoting any more time to those wanna-be mailman shits

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See that’s what I thought but it was better than that…and Ezra.

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I watched the Peanuts movie because I’ve heard some great things, but I really didn’t like it. D+

Not enough people read the EU.

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Re-watched:
Star Trek IV = C
Star Trek V = C
Star Trek VI = B

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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FanFiltration said:

Star Trek IV = C

Thank you! I really don’t get the love for this one.

The movie would be an after school special if it were not for all the great humor that comes from the characters and the fact that the only time we see whalers on screen they don’t seem to be monsters, just a group or poor guys doing what looks like the only job they know how to do, like most people who violate bans on hunting or fishing.

This movie has some of the best lines in the whole franchise so it can get away with alot.

Kirk: Double dumb ass on you!

Spock: Weren’t those glasses a gift from Dr. McCoy?

Kirk: And they will be again, that’s the beauty of it.

Scotty: Hello Computer(into the mouse of an Apple 2)

McCoy😦When asked how he would advise treating a patient with modern medicine)Sounds like god damn Spanish Enqusitions to me!

Guard:How is she?

Kirk: He’s going to make it.

Guard: I thought you went in with a she?

Kirk: One Little mistake.

The movie is just what was needed after the darkness of the first three movies and helped bring some verriety and fun back into Star Trek and prove that it could do comedy. Wrath of Khan is may favorite Star Trek movie, but this is my second favorite and I am the type of person who normally hates preachy movies about saving the whales, so I would say there is a good reason people are so fond of this one.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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The Aluminum Falcon said:

Mad Max: Fury Road- 9.5/10- The basic chase, done with flair and memorability. An unexpected turn from the director of Babe: Pig in the City.

You know he did the other three Mad Max movies, right?

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joefavs said:

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Mad Max: Fury Road- 9.5/10- The basic chase, done with flair and memorability. An unexpected turn from the director of Babe: Pig in the City.

You know he did the other three Mad Max movies, right?

I know. Though, you don’t often see a director return to a genre he did when he was younger and have it be a runaway success critically and commercially. coughKingdom of the Crystal Skullcough

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The Aluminum Falcon said:

joefavs said:

The Aluminum Falcon said:

Mad Max: Fury Road- 9.5/10- The basic chase, done with flair and memorability. An unexpected turn from the director of Babe: Pig in the City.

You know he did the other three Mad Max movies, right?

I know. Though, you don’t often see a director return to a genre he did when he was younger and have it be a runaway success critically and commercially. coughKingdom of the Crystal Skullcough

Well to be fair all the stupid stuff in that movie seems to have come from Lucas’ script and since he and Lucas are such good friends and I can see why Spielberg would be blind to the faults in the scrit. I mean how many of us would go up to a friend and say “Look I know you worked really hard on this but it’s a stupid pile of garbage”? I don’t think the problem was with the direction, it was the script and the fact that Harrison Ford was just way too old to do fast paced action scenes, if you look at TFA he is always either sitting or standing still and firing a weapon in that movie, there is only really one scene that requires him to be running and even then it was a very short scene. I think a lot of factors that were really outside of Spielberg’s control(I mean unless he wanted to risk more then thirty years of friendship and I can understand why he wouldn’t want to do that over a movie)were what sank KOTCS.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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Tobar said:

There were also weird editing choices in that film. This being the best example.

Yeah and given that the director has final call, those can be laid at Spielberg’s door but I don’t think that is enough to declare that Spielberg is washed up and can’t do this type of movie any more. I mean just look at his other film from around that time The Adventures of Tin Tin, there he is not bogged down by a Lucas script or and aging star and it has the sense of energy and fun that I expected KOTCS to have. I think Spielberg can still do this type of movie, he just needs the right type of support in order to get it done.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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Tintin is not at all a good example to use. I love the Tintin books and I wanted to love that movie but it was so hard. That movie couldn’t decide on which side of the line it wanted to be on. They went through a lot of trouble to make the characters look hyper realistic and mocapped the actors performances and then the next second they had them running around getting into Looney Tunes level antics. Captain Haddock getting caught up in the plane’s propeller being the best example of this.

One of the best things about the book series is that they feel authentic. The characters were always treated like real people and not cartoon characters. They sometimes got into some fantastical adventures but it always felt grounded. The movie did not. It was basically a continuation of the zany antics that started in the KotCS.

For my money, this is the ultimate Tintin experience to be had outside of the books.

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Tobar said:

Tintin is not at all a good example to use. I love the Tintin books and I wanted to love that movie but it was so hard. That movie couldn’t decide on which side of the line it wanted to be on. They went through a lot of trouble to make the characters look hyper realistic and mocapped the actors performances and then the next second they had them running around getting into Looney Tunes level antics. Captain Haddock getting caught up in the plane’s propeller being the best example of this.

One of the best things about the book series is that they feel authentic. The characters were always treated like real people and not cartoon characters. They sometimes got into some fantastical adventures but it always felt grounded. The movie did not. It was basically a continuation of the zany antics that started in the KotCS.

For my money, this is the ultimate Tintin experience to be had outside of the books.

I think you missed my point. That being that Tin Tin had a lot of the energy that was missing from KOTCS and the lack of energy made it a chore to sit through. I am not requiring you or anyone to like Tin Tin or think it is a good movie and you are welcome to say that I am not allowed to enjoy it, but it has to be said that the pacing was much better then KOTCS’ and it had more of the classic adventure serial feel. The point I was making was that the direction is a huge improvement over KOTCS, and that has nothing to do if you like the style of animation or you think it was a realistic film.

The problem with KOTCS was it took forever to get anywhere and once it did half the time they had to replace the star with CGI and he lumbered around at such a slow pace it was hard to believe he was able to escape any of the bad guys and they had to keep turning Indy into a cartoon to do half the stunts any way, so if they are going to do that I say just make the whole film a cartoon, and it’s not like classic adventure serials and the Indy movies had not mixed slapstick with the drama in the past.

I am have read the Tin Tin comics too and there is a ton of slapstick in them so I didn’t have a problem with that, and they didn’t feel like a tour of the real world because they were packed with racial stereotypes and cliches. I am not saying they were bad, they were a product of their time and I don’t think the film was out of touch with the feel of the books at all.

Feel free to disagree with me about the film if you didn’t like it, but I don’t think you have to like it to see that Tin Tin just had more energy and passion behind it then KOTCS and it was paced a lot better, so over all I would say the direction is a lot better in Tin Tin then it was in KOTCS. In Tin Tin the action is exciting and moves the plot forward, in KOTCS it was slow and the camera didn’t move much and in the end a lot of the scenes put me to sleep. That is what I mean when I say Tin Tin proves Spielberg can still direct this type of film, I didn’t say he should write or animate it, because he never did that in the past.

I am an idiot who likes the worst garbage ever made, I admit that, and so I must also admit I enjoyed this film. Having said that I don’t think you have to enjoy it to see that it was better directed then KOTCS.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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Speed Racer.  I know people hate this movie… I can’t help but love it.

I think i would have liked it better if the time I tried to watch it at home it didn’t give me a splitting headache and make me almost throw up. I know that is a cliche a lot of people use when talking about modern movies, but in my case with this film it is 100% true. I can’t remember if there was anything wrong with the acting or the story or not, I just remember having to shut it off because of how sick it made me feel. In this case duplicating the look of the cartoon just didn’t work for me. I really wanted to give this movie a chance, but I just wasn’t able to, sorry.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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I’ll give you that Tintin was better paced than KotCS. My point still stands though that he’s forgotten what made his first films great. The Indiana Jones franchise has always been somewhat realistic when it comes to their action set pieces. Even if some of what he does isn’t possible in real life the films make you believe that someone could do that. A lot of the time Indy falls flat on his face or just barely makes it out alive. There’s a charm to that. Now his action films are filled with ridiculous cartoon antics.

Anyway, I never said it was garbage. There was a lot to like but it went too far for me.

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Yeah I get your point now. Oh and I wasn’t saying that you were calling the movie garbage, I was being sarcastic about my own taste in films. That doesn’t always translate very well into print but being sarcastic about myself tends to be how my sense of humor runs, sorry about that.

I have read the Tin Tin comics and i will grant you the film isn’t the same animal as the comics, but then again I don’t think it is any more farther removed from it’s source then the James Bond films are from the novels they are based on so I really enjoyed it for what it was and to me it had the heart and pace that KOTCS lacked. Maybe it is more in line with the film serials Indy is based on then any of the Indy films ever were and I just can’t see it because I have seen some of the serials as many times as the Indy films, all I know is that for me it proved that Spielberg can still tell a classic adventure story.

Still i can understand your point of view, I just don’t see it myself. To me it just doesn’t feel that far removed from Last Crusade or Temple of Doom. Granted those were both sillier then Raiders, but I still think they are good films but I know a lot of people don’t.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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The Sting (1973) = C-
This film seems overrated to me. The sets and make up are horrendous, and it looks like a cheap television production. The style of the opening credits, where they used quick clip shots of the actors from later in the film, reminded me of the opening credits for Love Boat and Fantasy Island. The characters are not very likable and the plot is dragged out with average screen writing. The only thing it really has going for it is the cast. Not as good as I was expecting.

Paper Moon (1973) = A
This film was well acted, written, directed. It truly captured the feel of the great depression era.
Much more then I was expecting!

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Watched the first 40 minutes of John Wick. Pretty run-of-the-mill revenge violence movie. Any reason to keep watching?

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If you haven’t gotten to the night club scene yet then yes.

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FanFiltration said:

The Sting (1973) = C-
This film seems overrated to me. The sets and make up are horrendous, and it looks like a cheap television production. The style of the opening credits, where they used quick clip shots of the actors from later in the film, reminded me of the opening credits for Love Boat and Fantasy Island. The characters are not very likable and the plot is dragged out with average screen writing. The only thing it really has going for it is the cast. Not as good as I was expecting.

Really? Have you seen many TV productions from the 1970s? Also the cutting perfectly captured the feel of a 1930s movie and the dialog has a real punch to it. Maybe it wasn’t your cup of tea but The Sting is a long way from being badly made or cheap. I only saw it for the first time a few years ago and it is one of my all time favorite films now. To each their own and I guess if you compare it to something made today it looks like it was made for Tv, but it is a period piece that takes place in doors so I do have to wonder what you were expecting from a 43 year old film of this type. Did you expect them to spend money where it wasn’t needed and ad car chases and explosions just to make the movie look like it cost more?

I am not trying to be insulting, I am just wondering what you expected from a movie of this type and age. At the time it was made Hollywood was still recovering from the problems of the late 60s, so things were having to be kept on budget but I have to say if you have seen any photos of the 30s, this film does look like the 30s, only in colour and if you watch a lot of films from the period it has the same style of editing.

At least I think that explains why people love this film so much.

Sorry I just reread what I wrote and I noticed that it may come off as too combative, that was not my intent. I was simply trying to explain why this movie is so loved and understand what you mean by saying that it looked cheap. I know people who don’t like The Sting but I have never heard anyone accuse it of looking cheap before so I was trying to understand that.

Sorry if I gave the impression this was personal or I was rude in any way.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.

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Citizen Kane, just now. It’s still great, in case anyone was wondering.

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joefavs said:

Citizen Kane, just now. It’s still great, in case anyone was wondering.

I remember I was 16 the first time I saw it, i got the DvD out of the library and I wasn’t expecting it to live up to the hype but I spent all afternoon and evening watching the movie four times in a row and then when the Bluray came out I forked over $55 for the deluxe boxset, I never do that.

To this day it is my favorite movie of all time. it’s not just a great drama film but it is also a lot of fun to watch with plenty of funny moments that are full of energy and it is never chore to watch. Film making at it’s best.

My ratings for the Star Wars movies. EP1 4.5/10. Ep2 4.0/10. EP3 2.0/10. EP4 9.5/10. EP5 10/10 EP6 8.5/10 EP7 8.3/10.