New/Rented Movies : Pixar actually made a bad movie

[Foxton]

To start I'll continue to add a little more fuel to the fire for Transformers 3.

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Unrelated but what the hell? Winnie the Pooh? Is that still shown somewhere? All I could think of when I saw it was who's the target audience? Kids who have never seen anything to do with it? Or the kids who grew up 15 years ago? It's like that Animaniacs game that came out a while ago that was made for people who weren't even alive when it went off reruns.

 

[First Time Long Time]

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I liked Cars 2.
Thought the story was better than the first one.

 

[St. Clown]

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I just watched Amadeus for the first time. F. Murray Abraham turned in an excellent performance, almost equaled by Tom Hulce as Mozart (I didn't recognize Hulce as the same man that played Kroger in Animal House). The only drawback to the film is its length, but even that's not a weakness as you're truly brought into the story of Salieri (Abraham) plotting to destroy Mozart. It's just an excellent film all around.

 

[bigmrg74]

Watched "The Wiz" last night. Talk about a messed up movie!

 

[SteveP]

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Saw Battle Los Angeles last night and enjoyed it. A grittier Independence Day.

 

[Kepler]

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Up in the Air. First half: interesting, original, promising. Second half: spectacularly trite, predictable, and lazy. C minus, and a guttural growl for the disappointment. There is a special circle of heck for screenwriters who mail it in halfway through.

 

[The Rube]

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Up in the Air. First half: interesting, original, promising. Second half: spectacularly trite, predictable, and lazy. C minus, and a guttural growl for the disappointment. There is a special circle of heck for screenwriters who mail it in halfway through.

Really? The ending I thought they would have gone with and didn't happen made the movie go from ok to pretty good.

Finally saw Infernal Affairs. Meh. I liked it, but didn't like the non-fleshing out of the backstories (the common love interest, etc) that The Departed had. I did like the slight twist (finger tapping), though.

 

[moose97]

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Saw Green Hornet and it was fun.

Rewatched Letters from Iwo Jima and I still love that movie. The better of Letters and Flags by far.

 

[Kepler]

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Really? The ending I thought they would have gone with and didn't happen made the movie go from ok to pretty good.

For whatever reason, it telegraphed every shot. And in contrast to some of the fantastic set scenes (the 20-something's interaction with the woman, the great drop shadow of his original speech and how empty it was, many of the firings) as the movie went on the filmmaker relied on more and more cliche, safe choices (the reception, the obvious plot twist). Maybe the book just ran out of anything interesting to say midway and the director was stuck with an egg, but it was a let down because it managed for a long time to look like it might be interesting and real, rather than Script 7-B, hold the onions.

 

[Kepler]

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Rewatched Letters from Iwo Jima and I still love that movie.

Is Letters the one where they made two "halves," one with the US troops' correspondence and the other with the Japanese troops?

TCM played 1776, which I think they may do every 7/4. The best "America, Fuck Yeah!" movie ever made, and with great casting.

 

[Foxton]

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Saw Green Hornet and it was fun.

I thought it was mostly terrible till the second half and even then it was an incomprehensible mess of action. The title character was an unlikeable ***.

 

[moose97]

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Is Letters the one where they made two "halves," one with the US troops' correspondence and the other with the Japanese troops?

Correct. Flags of our Fathers is the story of the flag raising and the subsequent war bond drive by the surviving members of that group. Letters from Iwo Jima is told from the viewpoint of a grunt Private Saigo and General Kuribayashi, who is in change of the Japanese troops on the island.

Oh, and I' on a bit of a war kick right now, so have Full Metal Jacket on as I type this.

 

[bigmrg74]

I just saw transformers dark of the moon. Pretty awesome action wise. I wouldn't have picked Dempsey to be the ultimate betrayer of man who's born into the role, but I was ready to punch him in the face.

 

[REDaero91]

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Up in the Air. First half: interesting, original, promising. Second half: spectacularly trite, predictable, and lazy. C minus, and a guttural growl for the disappointment. There is a special circle of heck for screenwriters who mail it in halfway through.

The movie was much better than the book. And filmed largely in St. Louis: it was always fun when they would introduce a city--Detroit, Chicago--and we could say "Nope, that's downtown!"

Just saw Midnight In Paris on Sunday: fantastic.

 

[gojackets]

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TCM played 1776, which I think they may do every 7/4. The best "America, Fuck Yeah!" movie ever made, and with great casting.

No that would be Team America: World Police lol

 

[Transplanted Tiger Fan]

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Saw Battle Los Angeles last night and enjoyed it. A grittier Independence Day.

For your own safety, please - PLEASE do not confuse this with 'Battle of Los Angeles'!! Queued that one up on Netflix the other day, and it was maybe 3 minutes into it before I began shaking uncontrollably in a frantic search for the remote to kill it. I would do anything to have that 3 minutes of my life back.

I just saw transformers dark of the moon. Pretty awesome action wise. I wouldn't have picked Dempsey to be the ultimate betrayer of man who's born into the role, but I was ready to punch him in the face.

Agreed... 'the boy' and I saw it "indoors" (normal view), then at the drive-in (paired-up with 'Super 8'... not bad), so now we have to catch it in 3D, but having already dropped around 50-bucks on this movie, I'm not sure I want to. However, seeing Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 3D may alone justify the additional expense. She had me thinking "Megan who?" a number of times.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Brent: Next time I try to add a movie to my Netflix queue after a night at the bar. Throw something at me. That movie was terrible.

 

[bigmrg74]

Agreed... 'the boy' and I saw it "indoors" (normal view), then at the drive-in (paired-up with 'Super 8'... not bad), so now we have to catch it in 3D, but having already dropped around 50-bucks on this movie, I'm not sure I want to. However, seeing Rosie Huntington-Whiteley in 3D may alone justify the additional expense. She had me thinking "Megan who?" a number of times.

yeah, she got what her roll was, to stand there and be the eye candy. Megan seemed to think she's the next Julia Roberts.

 

[The Rube]

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Brent: Next time I try to add a movie to my Netflix queue after a night at the bar. Throw something at me. That movie was terrible.

Which one did you add? I forget.

Speaking of horrible movies, "Hobo With A Shotgun" is on its way to Chez Rube! From what I hear, it's exactly what the title says it is.

 

[Kepler]

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For your own safety, please - PLEASE do not confuse this with 'Battle of Los Angeles'!!

SyFy had the balls to release their sound-a-like the same week the real movie came out. Since it probably takes them one-tenth the time to market that a real studio does, I would expect this to happen more and more. Coming 7/26: Cowboys NAND Aliens.