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  • #916
    Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

    "Triangle" (2005). Another unexpected pleasure from the Netflix urgent queue. Starts out looking like the 400th identical "six yuppies on a three hour cruise let's examine their issues through pop-out horror" and then at about the 30 minute mark you start noticing -- whoa, not only is the acting atypically good, but the plot's interesting and puzzling, and the scares are kinda creepy. By the end I was genuinely fascinating by the movie's central dilemma which, while not completely original, still was built out with enough depth to keep you guessing and caring. Solid A, and I'm as surprised as you are.
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    • #917
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      Saw Iron Man 2 and was disappointed. Liked the first significantly more than this one.
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      • #918
        Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

        Saw your repeat post and was disappointed. Liked the first significantly more than the sequel.
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        • #919
          Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          Saw your repeat post and was disappointed. Liked the first significantly more than the sequel.
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          • #920
            Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

            Originally posted by Kepler View Post
            Saw your repeat post and was disappointed. Liked the first significantly more than the sequel.
            Oh, I don't know. I sort of enjoyed the sequel's character development more. And the cameo by Bill Murray was worth the price of admission.
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            • #921
              Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

              Originally posted by ScottM View Post
              Oh, I don't know. I sort of enjoyed the sequel's character development more. And the cameo by Bill Murray was worth the price of admission.
              It was obviously just a hollow attempt to milk a cash cow, relying on special effects and very light on plot. I am intrigued though with the working title for the completion of the trilogy, "Chinese Democracy." It concerns me that Michael Bay is directing.
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              • #922
                Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                Originally posted by Terrierbyassociation
                Saw Iron Man 2 and was disappointed. Liked the first significantly more than the sequel.
                Agreed. It was okay...but nothing special in my eyes.
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                • #923
                  Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                  I too saw Iron Man 2. It was entertaining (total popcorn movie) but was pretty awful. Sam Rockwell was f-ckin' terrible.
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                  • #924
                    Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                    Originally posted by GreatLakerMohawk View Post
                    I too saw Iron Man 2. It was entertaining (total popcorn movie) but was pretty awful. Sam Rockwell was f-ckin' terrible.
                    That was Sam Rockwell? He looked sounded and acted completely different to his role in Moon.

                    Which is to say, he laid a stink bomb in Iron Man 2...Val Kilmer Batman kind of stink bomb. He's capable of so so so much more.
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                    • #925
                      Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                      Originally posted by Terrierbyassociation View Post
                      That was Sam Rockwell? He looked sounded and acted completely different to his role in Moon.

                      Which is to say, he laid a stink bomb in Iron Man 2...Val Kilmer Batman kind of stink bomb. He's capable of so so so much more.
                      He's on a pretty solid down streak yet will keep getting roles because he ends up in blockbusters.

                      Other Sam that sucks: Sam Worthington - he's AWFUL.
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                      • #926
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                        Originally posted by GreatLakerMohawk View Post
                        He's on a pretty solid down streak yet will keep getting roles because he ends up in blockbusters.

                        Other Sam that sucks: Sam Worthington - he's AWFUL.
                        What else has he been in lately where he's mailed it in with this level of force?
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                        • #927
                          Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
                          To be fair, The Departed sucked without using any CGI at all.
                          I liked The Departed until the end.

                          Spoiler alert, highlight the text below.

                          The ending was the least creative piece of **** I've ever seen. It was basically like he kept stretching it all out until he said, "oh ****, I haven't figured out the ending yet.... Well, let's just kill everyone." It was so lazy it wrecked the movie for me. There are ways of killing off everyone and that was the laziest way to do it.

                          But before that, the story was well done, the acting was great, and overall I thought it was pretty good.
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                          • #928
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                            Originally posted by Terrierbyassociation View Post
                            What else has he been in lately where he's mailed it in with this level of force?
                            To be honest, I was thinking of Sam Worthington - but Sam Rockwell was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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                            • #929
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                              Originally posted by GreatLakerMohawk View Post
                              To be honest, I was thinking of Sam Worthington - but Sam Rockwell was in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
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                              • #930
                                Re: New/Rented movies: Here comes the movie to change all movies

                                Originally posted by dxmnkd316 View Post
                                I liked The Departed until the end.

                                Spoiler alert, highlight the text below.

                                But before that, the story was well done, the acting was great, and overall I thought it was pretty good.
                                Have to agree. I tend to like Nicholson more when he's depraved and crazy. The end was just ... awful relative to the rest of the flick.
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