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The Rite (2011)-It suuuuuuucked. It wishes it was the exorcist worse than the exorcist 2 does.
You think you’re some kind of Jedi, waving your hand around like that? -Watto
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Hail, Caesar!—Oh. My. Lanta! Perhaps I’m simply not erudite enough to like this movie. Don’t get me wrong, it had some good parts, but as I was sitting in the cinema, my wallet $30 lighter from the tickets, watching this pretty terrific cast making this movie about making movies…I found myself wanting to drift off to sleep…This. Never. Happens. My philosophy is, if I’m going to pay the cash to watch a movie in the theater, I’m going to remain alert and attentive during the entirety of the show.
I would like to plead with the movie-watching community that if you (or a loved one) wants to see this movie, for the love of all things holy and the cash you’re about to lose, please, please, please watch this at a friend’s home. You know that friend who occasionally rents movies from the Redbox. Don’t YOU rent it…let some other schmuck rent it for you so you won’t have to harbor such remorse and pain from dropping the cash equaling “dinner with your dame.” You’ll still never be able to get back the 1 hour and 46 minutes this movie figuratively steals from your life, but at least you won’t have paid to lose it!
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I didn’t like it at all.
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Guardians of the Galaxy
Decided to give this another chance after everyone on this site said how good it was, and well, it was a lot better than I remember it. Not as great as everyone says it is, but good. The first two acts are pretty damn good, but the third act is just bad. Acting was good all around. I found myself liking Drax and Gamora more this time around.
3/4
Not enough people read the EU.
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Yeah I’ll give you that. Third act is pretty meh while the Dark Aster is falling and all that. But Groot’s death was sad and I like everything after the ship hits the ground. I’d probably give it B out of 7 Good Star Balls.
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Cinemanovels (2013) – C
King Kong (1976) – C+
The Claim (2000) – B
Adaptation (2002) – A
Cold Mountain (2003) – A
The Princess Bride (1987) – B+
The Outsiders (1983) – B
Arthur (1981) – B
Far from the Madding Crowd (1967) – A-
The Witches of Eastwick (1987) – B
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prisoners of the lost universe
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World of Tomorrow (2015)
Fuck Bear Story, aka. the bullshit short film which seems to have hypnotized everyone into believing it’s greatness when it’s worse than most pre-film Disney shorts.
World of Tomorrow is great. It’s funny, bizarre, even surprisingly atmospheric at times. Most of all, I didn’t feel like a first grader being read a storybook by his teacher who proceeded to give him a sad lip pout at the end, which is even worse because the teacher who did said lip pouting is going to get an assload of awards and praise for doing nothing at all but telling a story with a fucking music box and not even attempting to try anything and I know that this is going to seem really really badly written but I’m in such a blind fucking rage that I don’t fucking care because I want people to know that the Oscars have always, and will likely forever be, on the wrong side of history maybe not every time but especially this time because I’ll likely always remember World of Tomorrow for being great but I’ll just remember Bear Story as that stupid, sappy, manipulative piece it really is I mean I didn’t think Richard Williams’ new film was anything special story-wise but it’s Richard Williams so it looks fucking amazing because he has fucking talent that extends past knowing how to badly puppeteer some bears across the screen and I know I’m trivializing the work of people here but I don’t care because good work goes into bad films constantly so there.
Yeah. World of Tomorrow. That guy from “Rejected” has come a long way. Or maybe not. I don’t know. Where’s the Tylenol…
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
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WoT was absolutely wonderful. Hertzfeldt does amazing work.
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
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WoT was absolutely wonderful. Hertzfeldt does amazing work.
Yes he does, my friend.
Yes he does.
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
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While we’re on the subject, I thought Inside Out's win was an absolute crime.
Boy and the World was a far superior film with a more impactful and earnest story.
I’m tired of Pixar winning for just showing up.
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While we’re on the subject, I thought Inside Out's win was an absolute crime.
Boy and the World was a far superior film with a more impactful and earnest story.
I’m tired of Pixar winning for just showing up.
Yeah, I thought that was pretty silly as well. All around not my favorite year for the Academy…
I’m just here because I’m driving tonight.
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Bullshit. Inside Out was fantastic and one of Pixar’s best. They don’t just win for showing up. The crap Good Dinosaur wasn’t nominated and the pretty good Monsters Univeristy wasn’t nominated either.
Maybe you didn’t like it, but others definitely did for more than just supposed blind allegiance to a studio.
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Remember when Beauty and the Beast went toe to toe with non animated films? Sure, it lost out to a horror movie in disguise, but what an achievement!
Fencing animated features off into their own sub category, when there’s barely a handful of studios making nearly all of those movies, kind of stacks the deck.
Where were you in '77?
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Stacked up against the other nominees, Pixar just didn’t bring enough to the table. Inside Out was decent but nothing spectacular. I would have actually preferred The Good Dinosaur to have gotten the nomination this year.
But of course, the voters don’t care about the animation category so they just picked whatever was most popular/whatever their grandchildren liked the best.
Fact is, and I hate to say this, Pixar has slowly been declining in quality over the years. John Lasseter always said they’d never do sequels unless there was a good reason and they’d found the right story. Now we live in a post-Cars 2 world and the future isn’t looking that bright.
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Stacked up against the other nominees, Pixar just didn’t bring enough to the table. Inside Out was decent but nothing spectacular. I would have actually preferred The Good Dinosaur to have gotten the nomination this year.
But of course, the voters don’t care about the animation category so they just picked whatever was most popular/whatever their grandchildren liked the best.
Ridiculous.
You may not feel this is relevant, but do you have kids? Specifically, a young daughter or two?
Inside Out was great.
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I’m not saying it’s a bad film. But it’s the story of a spoiled upper middle class girl who throws a fit because she doesn’t want to move to San Francisco. Which, who could blame her? But still, it’s nothing groundbreaking.
Meanwhile, out of nowhere, Brazil produces this beautiful look at the life of a little boy growing up in a third world country. Doing so through his innocent eyes in a touching and brilliant manner.
It’s no contest. But the Academy went with the same old. At least Boy got nominated.
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cough Herman’s Head cough ; )
Where were you in '77?
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I’m not saying it’s a bad film. But it’s the story of a spoiled upper middle class girl who throws a fit because she doesn’t want to move to San Francisco. Which, who could blame her? But still, it’s nothing groundbreaking.
Meanwhile, out of nowhere, Brazil produces this beautiful look at the life of a little boy growing up in a third world country. Doing so through his innocent eyes in a touching and brilliant manner.
It’s no contest. But the Academy went with the same old. At least Boy got nominated.
I have not seen the other movie and make no judgement on its relative merits. But you really would have preferred The Good Dinosaur be nominated over Inside Out?
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Yeah but that comes down entirely to my own personal preference. Inside Out was more emotionally impactful but The Good Dinosaur hit all the right notes for me.
It combined Dinosaurs with Westerns while also fostering the same sense of peril you’d get from an '80s era Don Bluth production.
Stack onto that it was a road picture and had more beautiful art direction (in my opinion) than Inside, it ended up my favorite of the two.
But I certainly don’t begrudge Inside for snagging the nomination. It was the clear choice there.
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You are (obviously, said Ric) entitled to your opinion, but I thought The Good Dinosaur was crap.
(I didn’t see it. My wife, whose opinion I trust more than yours (sorry!), said it was beautiful but had nothing else going for it.)
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Yeah, but she married you… So…
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The Dark Knight (2008) – C
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – B+
Klute (1971) – B-
Real Time (2008) – B
The Good German (2006) – B
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) – D
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – B-
Of Unknown Origin (1983) – B
The Firm (1993) – B-
Rush Hour (1998) – C+
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I watched Watership Down (1978) for the first time about a day ago. It was fantastic, and watching the Criterion BD helped the experience a lot. That film is on my “favorite animations” mental list now. 10/10 😃
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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
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Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – B+
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – B-
Don’t do drugs, unless you’re with me.
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The Dark Knight (2008) – C
Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994) – B+
Klute (1971) – B-
Real Time (2008) – B
The Good German (2006) – B
Godzilla, King of the Monsters! (1956) – D
A Clockwork Orange (1971) – B-
Of Unknown Origin (1983) – B
The Firm (1993) – B-
Rush Hour (1998) – C+
Seriously, what films do you give A+ to?
Not enough people read the EU.