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  • #151
    Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

    The Purge:

    It was okay. With the right writing, it really could have been 2.5 hours instead of 1.5 and be a great movie. Needed more character development. However, with that short of a time, they overdid the foreshadowing, accelerated/scrunched the characters' personalities, etc. Took away from the movie. It does pose quite the moral dilemmas, and the "what would YOU do" in its most basic form, though. Worth a watch if you have nothing else going.
    Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
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    • #152
      Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

      Surprise, surprise.

      The new Robocop movie gets a favorable 3-star review:

      The 1987 “RoboCop” was a good movie, if you like bad movies. And who doesn’t? The remake is something quite different: thoughtful, grounded, more interested in questions of free will and emotions versus technology than it is in goofy satire.

      ...


      The earlier film was painted in the broadest strokes, with a ludicrously wicked corporation and a no-nonsense shoot-’em-all hero, but Padilha works more subtly: This is a superhero film for grown-ups that reflects a moment when drone usage is hotly debated and it’s no longer ridiculous to contemplate a man who might have several metal limbs.

      The director isn’t a master of action scenes, though these are competently executed, particularly a mass shootout in a darkened space. Where Padilha really succeeds, though, is in his warmth, his wondering about the human element amid technological frenzy.

      Far from being a rock-’em-sock-’em B-movie, this “RoboCop” wants to know what it’s like to be a person without a body, how that person might appear to his own son (pretty much like the same old dad in a cool new outfit: kids adapt) and how he might rebuild a life with his wife. The movie doesn’t have the soul of “Batman Begins” and its sequels but it’s miles better than “Transformers” or “Iron Man 3,” which was pure pandering fantasy meant to make adolescent boys feel rocket-fueled and quip-empowered but never tied down to any icky feelings or interior conflicts.

      ...

      “RoboCop” is topically up-to-the-moment but stylistically it’s retro. Far from using the story as an excuse to string together cheap thrills and blowout spectacle, its hero has all the heart of the Tin Man.
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      • #153
        Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

        The local critic ripped it for being too serious, whereas the original had some funny (sometimes unintentionally so) moments in it.
        Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
        Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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        • #154
          Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

          If you are going to a Robocop movie for the message you are doing it wrong.
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          • #155
            Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

            If anyone wants to watch it, apparently there are a few threads telling you where you can see it for free!

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            • #156
              Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

              Originally posted by Handyman View Post
              If you are going to a Robocop movie for the message you are doing it wrong.
              I don't think anyone was expecting anything even remotely good with this reboot...
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              • #157
                Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                I might see it...I never thought the original was all that special.
                "It's as if the Drumpf Administration is made up of the worst and unfunny parts of the Cleveland Browns, Washington Generals, and the alien Mon-Stars from Space Jam."
                -aparch

                "Scenes in "Empire Strikes Back" that take place on the tundra planet Hoth were shot on the present-day site of Ralph Engelstad Arena."
                -INCH

                Of course I'm a fan of the Vikings. A sick and demented Masochist of a fan, but a fan none the less.
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                • #158
                  Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                  Saw the new Robocop, loved the original as a youngster. The new one is definitely less comic-book-ish but has a few elements cooler than the first. Nothing great, but enjoyed it.

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                  • #159
                    Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                    Took the kids to the Lego movie. I noticed them giggling more often than during any family movie since probably Despicable Me. For me it was fine with a few slow spots about 2/3 of the way in.

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                    • #160
                      Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                      Kick A* 2:

                      It was okay. Some parts captured what made the first one so great, and other parts took what made the first one great and just went overkill on the bit. For the most part, the violence (which was the "controversial" subject of the sequel) just didn't seem as funny. It had a darker feel to it. In the first one, it was all hilarious. And the dark moments in the first one had some real feel behind it, whereas in the sequel it felt "necessary" and therefore uber-scripted just to have it in there.

                      I DID like how they treated Hit Girl's character/real-life persona. Really fleshed out what someone like that might go through in that life scenario.
                      Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                      Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                      • #161
                        Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                        Ender's Game with Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley. Just awful.

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                        • #162
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                          No... just no. Space Jam 2 on the way.
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                          • #163
                            Re: The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

                            Originally posted by Slap Shot View Post
                            Ender's Game with Harrison Ford and Ben Kingsley. Just awful.
                            You expected anything else? Rumor has it that back in 2000, Orson Scott Card wanted the kid who played Anakin in The Phantom Menace to play Ender.

                            Not that I care, as I always thought that series was grossly overrated.

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                            • #164
                              Originally posted by ShirtlessBob View Post
                              No... just no. Space Jam 2 on the way.


                              Nope. Bogus report, thank god.
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                              • #165
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                                Finally FINALLY saw LA Confidential.

                                That's a really good film.
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