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District 13 is still one of the more surprisingly boring action movies I've seen. Like the opening scene is fantastic and then the rest of the movie fails to come even close to that for the remainder of it's running time. The best thing I can say about that movie is that it's way better than it's sequel.
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axleblaze posted:District 13 is still one of the more surprisingly boring action movies I've seen. Like the opening scene is fantastic and then the rest of the movie fails to come even close to that for the remainder of it's running time. The best thing I can say about that movie is that it's way better than it's sequel. I had District 13 and District 9 confused in my head and this post confused the hell out of me because of this. As did the post 2 up from yours.
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Jul 8, 2014 17:45
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Marketing New Brain posted:This is what I've heard about that movie, which is disappointing since a porn addicted misogynist hasn't been explored in anything recent I can remember. Steve McQueen's Shame closely fits the bill. Also, wasn't District 13 remade in America into Paul Walker's last movie? As in, they even got the other co-star and big end baddie to recreate most of the scenes and poo poo too?
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Jul 8, 2014 18:06
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axleblaze posted:District 13 is still one of the more surprisingly boring action movies I've seen. Like the opening scene is fantastic and then the rest of the movie fails to come even close to that for the remainder of it's running time. The best thing I can say about that movie is that it's way better than it's sequel. Yeah this. I describe it as a Luc Besson cheesy sci-fi/parkour redux of an already-cheesy hong kong thriller. It's got some nice choreography at times, but the bad acting and silly plot make the action scenes out of place. I saw it once when it first came out on DVD based on the internet clips I saw of a guy doing all sorts of insane parkour poo poo, not realizing that the clips were the best part of the film.
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Jul 8, 2014 18:15
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precision posted:You know, that (RvB) is a lot funnier than I remembered. Please don't discuss anime ITT thanks
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Jul 8, 2014 19:21
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ZenMaster posted:Talked about this in the recommend me thread, but Banshee Chapter is finally up on netflix and is a creepy Lovecraftian found footage. I have seen it twice and enjoyed it both times. Bonus: number stations. To balance this out, I thought everything after the intro outside of Not-Thompson was loving worthless, and I love awful found footage.
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Jul 9, 2014 02:14
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Million Ghosts posted:To balance this out, I thought everything after the intro outside of Not-Thompson was loving worthless, and I love awful found footage. Not-Thompson was the best part of that movie, and even he wasn't very good. Mediocre at best, but better than any of the Paranormal Activity movies.
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Jul 9, 2014 04:47
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Paranormal House is sorta fun. The best part is when they have the non-crazy guy come in and check over the house and solve all their complaints. Advice like "fix your wiring in your dangerous basement" is ignored and they bring in a 'healer' to make bullshit up about feeling evil spirits.
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Jul 9, 2014 14:56
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hemale in pain posted:Paranormal House is sorta fun. The best part is when they have the non-crazy guy come in and check over the house and solve all their complaints. Advice like "fix your wiring in your dangerous basement" is ignored and they bring in a 'healer' to make bullshit up about feeling evil spirits. Do you mean Paranormal Home Inspectors? If so, I agree. I've only watched 2 episodes, but I love that the first 5 minutes of the show is just a seemingly normal home inspector coming in and basically saying that the whole thing is ridiculous and easily explained, and the last 15-16 minutes is a "paranormal team" doing "research" and having a psychic scare herself and moan in an oddly sexual way. The show isn't good, but I think the premise is so dumb that it makes it fun. edit \/\/\/\/ That's ok, I just realized that I repeated exactly what you said. Hackers film 1995 fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Jul 9, 2014 |
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Jul 9, 2014 15:09
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poo poo! sorry I watched it last night when going to bed and could of sworn it was called paranormal house.
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I watched The Delta Force over the weekend having never seen it before, and it's pretty insane. For the first hour it's a tense and rather quiet thriller, and the second hour is one of the most cock rocking, go joe, blow 'em up, america gently caress yeah movies I've ever seen this side of Team America. It's kind of hard to believe that it's actually the same film. So you should probably go watch it if you think you're weak little girl nuts can handle the sheer manitude on display.
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Jul 10, 2014 00:56
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Delta Force is basura and not even Lee Marvin can salvage it.
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Jul 10, 2014 03:16
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HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Delta Force is basura and not even Lee Marvin can salvage it. Lee Marvin's barely in it, and doesn't do anything for most of the little time he's on screen. Wasting Lee Marvin is probably it's biggest crime. You can also pin point the exact moment the movie loses it's poo poo, because it's signaled by Lee Marvin driving like a maniac with his lights flashing and siren blaring. After that title characters go and save the day with future army motorbikes and kung fu while Chuck Norris stares sternly at foreigners. Chuck Norris also totally fucks up some random people's house for no apparent reason. The movie is loving hilarious, and the schizophrenic nature of it just adds to the hilarity.
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Jul 10, 2014 04:02
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Thanks for the Paranormal Home Inspector mention because its great. The house inspector just being a boss and pointing out obvious explanations, the awesome reenactments, the psychic and paranormal investigator, the sweet Canadian accidents. I'm just sad that there are only 13 episodes.
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Million Ghosts posted:The hype probably comes from Nihei's other stuff like Blame! and Biomega, which are super far from anime 101 and are more weird cyberpunk scenery porn with super loose stories. Sidonia isn't that so much. But i'll stop runing this thread with anime babble. A blame show would be really awesome it'd basically be a cross between a super depressing Wall-E and that discovery channel show about what the world would be like if all the humans died how would nature take over except set on a Dyson sphere.
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Marketing New Brain posted:This is what I've heard about that movie, which is disappointing since a porn addicted misogynist hasn't been explored in anything recent I can remember. Porn is incredibly weird and complicated (socially speaking, not just the stuff I'm personally into) and I was hoping it would explore the incredibly distorted nature of it and its effect on male sexuality. Doesn't sound like the movie did that at all. Romancing the Stone, and its sequel Jewel of the Nile, are pretty good setups for The War of the Roses. The first two establish Douglas and Turner as people who play romantically interested characters, and then War of the Roses blows that poo poo up. Doctor Butts fucked around with this message at 16:26 on Jul 10, 2014 |
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Jul 10, 2014 16:24
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girth brooks part 2 posted:I watched The Delta Force over the weekend having never seen it before, and it's pretty insane. For the first hour it's a tense and rather quiet thriller, and the second hour is one of the most cock rocking, go joe, blow 'em up, america gently caress yeah movies I've ever seen this side of Team America. It's kind of hard to believe that it's actually the same film. Delta Force is my favorite 80s action movie. Chuck Norris has a dirt bike that shoots rockets from the front AND mortar rounds from the tail pipe. Anyone who can't appreciate that has no soul. Also the quite fantastic theme by Alan Silvestri is my go-to workout song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQUeQOIlcDM
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Raskolnikov2089 posted:Delta Force is my favorite 80s action movie. Chuck Norris has a dirt bike that shoots rockets from the front AND mortar rounds from the tail pipe. Anyone who can't appreciate that has no soul. I just watched it for the first time last night and the only thing I didn't care for was the repetitive music. Every time a bad guy was punched, shot, etc. the same song started back up. Good guys regroup and look at each other.... same song.
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I'm watching Nature's The Mystery of Eels, and it has one of the most flat, unenthusiastic-sounding narrators I've ever heard. His words are that of someone passionate about their subject (which he claims is genuine), but his voice sounds like he's reading a phone book while on lithium. Also, it's less of a documentary on eels, and more on local commercial eel fishing, which is disappointing. Edit: This is why I should really read the member reviews before watching random documentaries; every one of them are on how insufferable the narrator is. Paper Kaiju fucked around with this message at 02:36 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 02:31
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Paper Kaiju posted:I'm watching Nature's The Mystery of Eels, and it has one of the most flat, unenthusiastic-sounding narrators I've ever heard. His words are that of someone passionate about their subject (which he claims is genuine), but his voice sounds like he's reading a phone book while on lithium. Also, it's less of a documentary on eels, and more on local commercial eel fishing, which is disappointing. On the other hand, imagine the sort of person genuinely interested in eels.
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Jul 11, 2014 03:49
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It's been done http://youtu.be/0AckvdGbk4w
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Out of the Furnace got added and it's well worth a watch.
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Finally got around to seeing [REC] 3: Genesis and was pleasantly surprised that it ditched the found footage format and was actually pretty funny. It says a lot about the state of found footage horror movies when the entire pre-credit sequence of [REC] 3 is making GBS threads on the entire sub-genre and then completely drops the gimmick. If you aren't familiar with the [Rec] series the first two are really well done Spanish found footage zombie movies and I recommend checking them out and if you hate subtitles the American remake Quarantine is watchable and nearly identical to [REC]. Speaking of Quarantine, I've heard surprisingly okay things about the sequel which looks to have nothing in common with [REC] 2. Can anyone speak to the quality of Quarantine 2?
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bartok posted:Speaking of Quarantine, I've heard surprisingly okay things about the sequel which looks to have nothing in common with [REC] 2. Can anyone speak to the quality of Quarantine 2? I enjoyed it. It wasn't up to Quarantine 1's level, but that's a high bar.
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Jul 12, 2014 09:59
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Quarantine 2 should have been a scifi channel release. Garbage.
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Quarantine 2 has some interesting ideas but most of them are abandoned or don't go anywhere. The movie also goes out of it's way to really overexplain what was going on in the original film. It doesn't help that the movie just isn't very well made overall. So yeah, pretty bad, but I still liked it more than [REC]3, which I felt taunted and then abandoned the series roots in favor of making a bad Buffy episode (it didn't help that the found footage opening was better made than the rest of the movie).
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axleblaze posted:Quarantine 2 has some interesting ideas but most of them are abandoned or don't go anywhere. The movie also goes out of it's way to really overexplain what was going on in the original film. It doesn't help that the movie just isn't very well made overall. So yeah, pretty bad, but I still liked it more than [REC]3, which I felt taunted and then abandoned the series roots in favor of making a bad Buffy episode (it didn't help that the found footage opening was better made than the rest of the movie). The big reveal in [REC]2 kinda rubbed me the wrong way. I enjoyed that [REC]3 was self-contained and much lighter in tone. I think it is a good palate cleanser considering the upcoming [REC] 4 is a direct sequel to the second film and allegedly the end of the series.
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Does anyone know if Rapture-Palooza is worth a watch?
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Timeless Appeal posted:Does anyone know if Rapture-Palooza is worth a watch? No. Maybe leave it on when you're cleaning.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Does anyone know if Rapture-Palooza is worth a watch? I had a few laughs but overall I was really disappointed. When it comes to post-apocalyptic comedies released in 2013 I'd say stick with This is the End and The World's End.
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Timeless Appeal posted:Does anyone know if Rapture-Palooza is worth a watch? I was bored enough to turn it off and I really rarely turn off movies.
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Jul 13, 2014 00:12
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The day Netflix pulls in IMDB or RT ratings is the day I'll watch a gently caress ton of movies. I can not stand their own ratings. Just watched A Lonely Place To Die. It was fun. Lots of thrilling mountain climbing stuff, lots of GoPro shots.
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I really liked Sightseers. I don't want to say too much about the plot, as I think it's best to go in blind. Netflix description is all you need. Make sure to turn on the subtitles if you're an idiot like me that can't understand British accents.
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Howdges posted:I really liked Sightseers. I don't want to say too much about the plot, as I think it's best to go in blind. Netflix description is all you need. Make sure to turn on the subtitles if you're an idiot like me that can't understand British accents. Agreed about this. I'll have to watch it again--I can't tell whether it had any depth or was merely entertaining. But I liked it a lot.
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I put Disney's Tarzan on to entertain a toddler and ended up digging it myself. The toddler found other entertainment The animation still looks really good with the 3d type effects, I was impressed. Shame about the soundtrack though, and I'm someone who unironically enjoys Phil Collins most of the time.
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Nobody really talks about Tarzan but I think it's up there with the other Disney greats like Lion King and Aladdin. For what it's worth I actually enjoyed the heck out of the soundtrack, though I don't like Phil Collins in general. Also, what happens to the bad guy at the end is pretty frickin dark.
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Nobody really talks about Tarzan but I think it's up there with the other Disney greats like Lion King and Aladdin. For what it's worth I actually enjoyed the heck out of the soundtrack, though I don't like Phil Collins in general. Also, what happens to the bad guy at the end is pretty frickin dark. The music isn't bad, just kinda repetitive. I had subtitles on so it probably made me focus on it more because it had the lyrics. Yeah that ending with the lightning flash  Fuckin leopards, poor babby gorilla/Tarzparents
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SolidSnakesBandana posted:Nobody really talks about Tarzan but I think it's up there with the other Disney greats like Lion King and Aladdin. For what it's worth I actually enjoyed the heck out of the soundtrack, though I don't like Phil Collins in general. Also, what happens to the bad guy at the end is pretty frickin dark. It's definitely the last hurrah of the epics that put Disney back on the map in the 90s. After Tarzan it was a bunch of faux-anime attempts at making ~serious adventure movies~ without musical numbers (Atlantis, Treasure Planet), Poochie-style attempts at being edgy and modern (Lilo & Stitch, which is a great movie regardless), desperate attempts to cash in on their former glory (Brother Bear), and whatever the gently caress Home on the Range was before they gave up and switched to CGI.
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...of SCIENCE! posted:It's definitely the last hurrah of the epics that put Disney back on the map in the 90s. After Tarzan it was a bunch of faux-anime attempts at making ~serious adventure movies~ without musical numbers (Atlantis, Treasure Planet), Poochie-style attempts at being edgy and modern (Lilo & Stitch, which is a great movie regardless), desperate attempts to cash in on their former glory (Brother Bear), and whatever the gently caress Home on the Range was before they gave up and switched to CGI. Yeah I think they really lost something when they stopped making musicals. Back in the day, every year the 'song of the year' would usually be the slow song from the most recent Disney film. I think they finally are back to form with Frozen.
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So I didn't know it existed until last week but The Birthday Boys is pretty good; kinda like a rougher, less cynical Mr. Show.
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