The Movie Review and Discussion Thread

[surfdude12]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Is it OK to read that before seeing the film?

No, IMO. Its loaded with spoilers.

But definitely read it after you watch the film!!

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

The Fountain

5/5[/SIZE]

Glad you liked it. Sorry about the DVD. That sucks.

You wanna talk about the film, or do you wanna wait?

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

i haven't seen Sound of Music in a very long time, but i don't believe it has the following:

1) large explosions!
2) Harrison Ford!
3) CGI!
4) swearing!
5) nudity!
6) people breaking s***!
7) shaky cam and / or quick cuts!
8) a crappy sequel!
9) made within the last 30 years!

and those are all requirements for the imdb top 250

Duh. You forgot car chase.

[Denoku]

I'm a little behind on this but I finished "Unbreakable" last night. A really great story of rebirth and trying to find your place in the world. This movie was just great, M. Night Shamalyn did a great job directing this. The comic book allusions, the colors, the way he directs the camera was just great. I haven't seen too many of M's movies but this would probaly be my favorite.

4.5/5

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Glad you liked it. Sorry about the DVD. That sucks.

You wanna talk about the film, or do you wanna wait?

hmmm... i'll say let's wait i'm gonna watch it again tonight. we can discuss then
and is there a Fountain thread or will we have to make one so we don't get this thread off topic? (a la Triangle)

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Duh. You forgot car chase.

can't believe i forgot that one

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

i was totally expecting you to say something other than the villain! i felt

[Show spoiler]Lotso

was the best villain - by far - in the entire trilogy, and maybe even the best in Pixar's history (although Hopper may still beat him out, i'm not sure...)

Lotso is a great villain. He is actually EVIL, where as some of the others are just kinda scary.

[Show spoiler]Lotso actually tried to kill the crew. Not hurt, KILL

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Lotso is a great villain. He is actually EVIL, where as some of the others are just kinda scary.

[Show spoiler]Lotso actually tried to kill the crew. Not hurt, KILL

was it just me or did you absolutely LOVE

[Show spoiler]seeing Big Baby sitting on the swing set just staring up at the moon, and then the scene pulls back and you see how dark, silent and creepy the playground is and Big Baby just staring off into space...

. i think that might just be the "darkest" Pixar scene to date

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

worst film I've seen in recent memory - 0/5 stars.

Just my personal opinion. Everyone is free to disagree:
-no likeable characters, other than

[Show spoiler]Rorshak dude

who was semi-likeable, but was

[Show spoiler]shat on

at the end.
-torture porn without any purpose, such as

[Show spoiler]the dog chewing a kidnapped girls' bones

or

[Show spoiler]the naked couple who i couldn't give two shi%s about doing it in the cockpit

. That imagery is ok, as long as there is some purpose behind it.
-Dr Man-whatever: full of holes.

[Show spoiler]he's god, he's not god, he only sees HIS past and future, yet he sees everyones past and future....
His powers are never explained (ok they don't need to explain every detail), but they weren't even explained on a general level. Then his emotions were supposedly toyed with based on how he got his powers...another plot line that was not explained nor made sense. Later in the movie, after his emotions were toyed with, Manhattan has an epifany, based on the past of another..wait?!?! i thought he only saw his own past...my bad...this isn't supposed to make sense

-I got so bored I watched most of the film on 1.5x speed on the PS3 (fastest speed where you can still read subtitles) <-- a retort of all the "2001 and TWBB is soooo slow and boring" posts

Did you dislike Sin CIty for the same reason? I did. Senseless violence, for the sake of violence.

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Dang it. Tell us a little more about The Conspirator.

This basically explains it. The Lawyer and the people who are there to find her guilty or not are all northerners. So you can already tell how the trial is going to be.

It was directed by Robert Redford and the houses and streets you see is my city of Savannah

Justin Long was suposed to be here for it but he got in a car wreck in LA

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0968264/

In the wake of Abraham Lincoln's assassination, seven men and one woman are arrested and charged with conspiring to kill the President, the Vice-President, and the Secretary of State. The lone woman charged, Mary Surratt, 42, owns a boarding house where John Wilkes Booth and others met and planned the simultaneous attacks. Against the ominous back-drop of post-Civil War Washington, newly-minted lawyer, Frederick Aiken, a 28-year-old Union war-hero, reluctantly agrees to defend Surratt before a military tribunal. As the trial unfolds, Aiken realizes his client may be innocent and that she is being used as bait and hostage in order to capture the only conspirator to have escaped a massive manhunt, her own son.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by surfdude12

No, IMO. Its loaded with spoilers.

But definitely read it after you watch the film!!

Thanks

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

hmmm... i'll say let's wait i'm gonna watch it again tonight. we can discuss then
and is there a Fountain thread or will we have to make one so we don't get this thread off topic? (a la Triangle)

Wait for the BD to arrive.

There is a Fountain thread.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by iam1bearcat

was it just me or did you absolutely LOVE

[Show spoiler]seeing Big Baby sitting on the swing set just staring up at the moon, and then the scene pulls back and you see how dark, silent and creepy the playground is and Big Baby just staring off into space...

. i think that might just be the "darkest" Pixar scene to date

Yeah, that was creepsville big time.

[SquidPuppet]

Originally Posted by tommyboy81

This basically explains it. The Lawyer and the people who are there to find her guilty or not are all northerners. So you can already tell how the trial is going to be.

It was directed by Robert Redford and the houses and streets you see is my city of Savannah

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0968264/

Thanks. That actually sounds pretty good.

[tommyboy81]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Thanks. That actually sounds pretty good.

Justin Long was suposed to be here for it but he got in a car wreck in LA. I believe he was suppose to present it.

After that trial is when it was decided to have cases with people as the jurors

[Batman1980]

Lotso was just a demented toy that had almost no power once his minions betrayed him, I would've liked him a lot more if the good guys

[Show spoiler]had actually been burned at the end.

Would've made him a much more effective villain in my eyes.

[Foggy]

Originally Posted by Gandalf Stormcrow

Lotso was just a demented toy that had almost no power once his minions betrayed him, I would've liked him a lot more if the good guys

[Show spoiler]had actually been burned at the end.

Would've made him a much more effective villain in my eyes.

And would of ruined an entire 2 generations for the rest of their lives

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by SquidPuppet

Wait for the BD to arrive.

There is a Fountain thread.

i guess i could. watching the full screen dvd was horrid so i don't know if want to live through the pixelated mess of bad pq again so i might wait... monday isn't so far away and i was supposed to get Revanche in the mail today, but it still hasn't arrived i was looking forward to finally seeing it on blu-ray and not netflix instant.

ah, good to know there's a Fountain thread
i'll have to look into that when the time comes.

[iam1bearcat]

Originally Posted by Foggy

And would of ruined an entire 2 generations for the rest of their lives

yep. would've ruined my life for sure.
gandalf, you're a dark, disturbing man my friend!

[Batman1980]

Originally Posted by Foggy

And would of ruined an entire 2 generations for the rest of their lives

I love toys too, even at the age of 30 but they're just toys and I think most people would've been able to handle it. The good guys can't always triumph.