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The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

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Watched The Hangover 3 and The Heat over Thanksgiving weekend.

Hangover 3 was not very good, as I had heard. There were a few laugh out loud moments, but overall, it flopped, in my opinion. Oddly enough, I liked the direction they went, in the story, I just didn't think it had the humor that was needed.

The Heat was better than I expected, but not great. Family wanted to watch it, so I watched along with them. It was a decent way to spend a few hours, and there were some good laughs in it.
 
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Went to see Thor 2 this weekend. Any movie with two Jewish leading ladies is OK in my book.

Seriously, it was fun, although a bit long.

And as typical for a Marvel movie, there's a scene after all the credits run (in addition to the one partway through the credits).
 
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Hopkinja said:
Went to see Thor 2 this weekend. Any movie with two Jewish leading ladies is OK in my book.

Seriously, it was fun, although a bit long.

And as typical for a Marvel movie, there's a scene after all the credits run (in addition to the one partway through the credits).
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Now those scenes are actually fairly important... They kinda set the groundwork going forward here... And not just for the next movie (Captain America: Winter Soldier)... They go well beyond that... They were totally meant for the nerds of the Marvel Cinematic Universe :o
 
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Easy Rider:
I saw it once a VERY long time ago, remember liking it, but that was about it. Upon rewatch....notsomuch overall. A couple snippets were good, but overall? Meh.

Angels From Hell:
Trashy biker movie. I've seen better crappy movies, for sure. This one had the potential, it just seemed half-arsed on effort.

Olympus Has Fallen:
Helluva fun action movie. Very much worth the watch. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would, and I was expecting a decent ride.
 
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Olympus Has Fallen:
Helluva fun action movie. Very much worth the watch. I liked it a lot more than I thought I would, and I was expecting a decent ride.
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I'm with you on this one. Not sure why I originally wanted to see it but was a pretty good movie.

Saw the new Evil Dead. Eh... okay I guess. I guess I didn't expect it to be quite as gory. It was okay.
 
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Carl Panzram: The Spirit of Hatred and Revenge

Decent documentary on one really messed up guy. Confessed to many murders, rapes, burglaries, arsons, etc back in the day, wrote his autobiography at the urging of a prison guard. Definitely a dark point in MN history, given that he was born and went to reform schools here before really letting loose.
 
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Only God Forgives

Don't even bother. It's crap.
 
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Proud2baLaker said:
Almost watched that the other day. But my friend had not seen Thor yet (!?!?!) so we watched that instead. Guess I will steer clear.
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It has the Goose in it, so that's why I gave it a shot. I really like him as an actor.


Dead Man Down:

Colin Farrell, F Murray Abraham, Noomi Rapace, Dominic Cooper, and Terrence Howard piqued my curiosity on this one. I really really liked it until the last 15 minutes, when it turned into cookie-cutter action. However, those last 15 minutes weren't enough to make me noticeably like the movie any less. Farrell and Rapace did VERY well in their roles. Worth a watch.
 
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Killing Season

Travolta and DeNiro...yeah, it's about what you would expect. It's okay. IMO it seemed to me that they tried to capture the same feeling that The Grey actually nailed (great movie, btw, GREAT movie), but failed. They tried too hard, and let's face it...Travolta.
 
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I keep seeing the 47 Ronin ads and can't help but think it would actually be good if not for Keanu.
 
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Just watched the extended version of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Really cause I just got the blu-ray, but it can't hurt that the second installment begins this weekend.

First, the picture is just amazing. Second, while it only added 13 minutes of extra footage, it felt like an entirely different movie to me. It seemed to slow things down just enough, fill things out a bit, that the initial reaction I had to the film, that of jumping pell mell from one crisis to the next, was gone. And the little things that bothered me about the theatrical film, how the Warg chase, the mountain pass, and the tunnels of the goblin town were too derivative of similar scenes from the LOTR movies, didn't bother me so much on this viewing.

I enjoyed the movie much more on this viewing than when I first saw it in theaters. Now we'll see how the next chapter plays.

edit: Wow, as is often the case with music, it seems gurt and I are the same page here.

edit again: I actually liked the extended goblin town. And was laughing out loud at the dwarves in the fountain.
 
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rufus said:
Just watched the extended version of The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. Really cause I just got the blu-ray, but it can't hurt that the second installment begins this weekend.

First, the picture is just amazing. Second, while it only added 13 minutes of extra footage, it felt like an entirely different movie to me. It seemed to slow things down just enough, fill things out a bit, that the initial reaction I had to the film, that of jumping pell mell from one crisis to the next, was gone. And the little things that bothered me about the theatrical film, how the Warg chase, the mountain pass, and the tunnels of the goblin town were too derivative of similar scenes from the LOTR movies, didn't bother me so much on this viewing.

I enjoyed the movie much more on this viewing than when I first saw it in theaters. Now we'll see how the next chapter plays.

edit: Wow, as is often the case with music, it seems gurt and I are the same page here.

edit again: I actually liked the extended goblin town. And was laughing out loud at the dwarves in the fountain.
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Nerd alert!

I'm not a gamer, have never played WOW (played Warcraft a bit - the armies game), played D&D as a kid like many in the 80s, I'm not a larp'er, don't really care for other fantasy books and I don't dress up as an elf when I go to LOTR movies.

I am a huge LOTR fan though and have been since I was around 11 and my mom bought me The Hobbit and I read it in two days. I've read all of the books many, many times and know my stuff for the most part.

With that in mind, here are my (negative) thoughts of the first movie written not long after I first saw it...

http://newboards.theonering.net/forum/gforum/perl/gforum.cgi?post=545702;#545702


Warning! The review is long and this is a nerd site. While I'd probably never interact with the people of this site in real life - at least in a LOTR fan context, I feel comfortable in anonymity and sometimes enjoy posting there. For the most part though, they're even too nerdy for me.

Some had asked what my problem with the first movie was. Well, there it is...

:D
 
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I loved the new Hobbit film. First IMAX film ever actually. Awesome.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I loved the new Hobbit film. First IMAX film ever actually. Awesome.
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I'm going tomorrow. Sundance Theaters here in town.

No Imax coz I want to see it in 2D.


If the boy wants to go, maybe he'll want 3D and we'll go to the Ultra Screen.


Watched the first disc of the production videos from the first movie and just like the original trilogy, they're excellent. Started watching them last night by myself and the skater/athlete/snowboarder/emo-rocking/skinnyjeanleathercoatwearing teenager sat down and watched them with me and said "These are really interesting. Don't tell my teammates though."

:D
 
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As of now, I've got Wed. night penciled in to see the new one. Read two separate reviews so far, one says it's better than the first one, but still bad, the other raved about it.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I loved the new Hobbit film. First IMAX film ever actually. Awesome.
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It was very good. The dwarf barrel of orc death may have gotten old quick but it completely redeemed itself!

Smaug the magnificent got a huge boost in screen time and it makes the movie. All this build up, all the travels, and it all would have been a steaming pile of overindulgent **** without a menace capable of keeping all the armies as far away from a mountain filled with gold as they can get.

I couldn't help but think of this at the culmination and ultimate failure of the dwarves "makeshift" plan.
<a href="http://imgur.com/eXKpLzL"><img src="http://i.imgur.com/eXKpLzL.jpg"></a>
 
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