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Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Interesting mediation on the stages of manhood. This fit nicely in my week after watching some Malick for the first time. Beautifully shot movie with very little dialogue. Starts of with a young child and his Buddhist master, and follows him as he learns lessons about how to view/treat the world, lust, redemption, etc.. Couple scenes I am not sure that I fully understood, but I am thinking about it 4+hours after watching it. Wouldn't mind PMing somebody who has seen this one.
This was the start of my random list of foreign movies that I wrote down to catch up on. Know very little about most of these. Next up will be 4Months, 3Weeks, and 2 Days, followed by Yesterday and The Class.
Our Idiot Brother: Meh. Even with the fantastic lineup of women in this movie, it was still pretty average. A couple really funny scenes and thats about it. Could have used a bunch more of the makeout scenes between Zooey Deschanel and Rashida Jones. First movie that I've found TJ Miller entertaining. 2.5/5
Interesting mediation on the stages of manhood. This fit nicely in my week after watching some Malick for the first time. Beautifully shot movie with very little dialogue. Starts of with a young child and his Buddhist master, and follows him as he learns lessons about how to view/treat the world, lust, redemption, etc.. Couple scenes I am not sure that I fully understood, but I am thinking about it 4+hours after watching it. Wouldn't mind PMing somebody who has seen this one.
This was the start of my random list of foreign movies that I wrote down to catch up on. Know very little about most of these. Next up will be 4Months, 3Weeks, and 2 Days, followed by Yesterday and The Class.
I have seen this one (and loved it), but actually saw it when it was out in the theatres so will remember very little and likely not be at all helpful. :( I also liked 4 Months, but that's a pretty brutal movie to watch.
Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Chinatown is one of my favorites. Mandatory viewing. The Pianist is pretty good, too. John Ford is more of a filmmakers filmmaker than somebody who made fun movies for the masses. His movies taught a lot to a lot of aspiring directors. Kind of a I despise John Wayne and wonder how he would have responded if he had known his good friend John Ford was gay.I just watched In the Loop again last night and it remains the funniest film I've seen since the Royal Tenenbaums.
Our Idiot Brother: Meh. Even with the fantastic lineup of women in this movie, it was still pretty average. A couple really funny scenes and thats about it. Could have used a bunch more of the makeout scenes between Zooey Deschanel and Rashida Jones. First movie that I've found TJ Miller entertaining. 2.5/5
Hangover 2: Same as the first one. And by same I mean not nearly as good because it is pretty much identical with the element of surprise. Lets hope they don't try for a 3rd. 2.5/5
Our Idiot Brother - pretty average, but I enjoyed it - probably give it about a 6. The parts with the chicks were pretty dull and dragged it down.Hangover 2 - Admittedly I was pretty buzzed watching this but I thought it was almost as good as the first one. Zach had a ton of great lines in it and the Asian guy from Community was funny as usual.
Puncture - an old fashioned David vs. Goliath lawyer film based on the safety needle lawsuit. I enjoyed, but wasn't blown away. Still worth watching, 6.5.
Our Idiot Brother: Meh. Even with the fantastic lineup of women in this movie, it was still pretty average. A couple really funny scenes and thats about it. Could have used a bunch more of the makeout scenes between Zooey Deschanel and Rashida Jones. First movie that I've found TJ Miller entertaining. 2.5/5
Hangover 2: Same as the first one. And by same I mean not nearly as good because it is pretty much identical with the element of surprise. Lets hope they don't try for a 3rd. 2.5/5
Our Idiot Brother - pretty average, but I enjoyed it - probably give it about a 6. The parts with the chicks were pretty dull and dragged it down.Hangover 2 - Admittedly I was pretty buzzed watching this but I thought it was almost as good as the first one. Zach had a ton of great lines in it and the Asian guy from Community was funny as usual.
Interesting mediation on the stages of manhood. This fit nicely in my week after watching some Malick for the first time. Beautifully shot movie with very little dialogue. Starts of with a young child and his Buddhist master, and follows him as he learns lessons about how to view/treat the world, lust, redemption, etc.. Couple scenes I am not sure that I fully understood, but I am thinking about it 4+hours after watching it. Wouldn't mind PMing somebody who has seen this one.
This was the start of my random list of foreign movies that I wrote down to catch up on. Know very little about most of these. Next up will be 4Months, 3Weeks, and 2 Days, followed by Yesterday and The Class.
Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Chinatown is one of my favorites. Mandatory viewing. The Pianist is pretty good, too. John Ford is more of a filmmakers filmmaker than somebody who made fun movies for the masses. His movies taught a lot to a lot of aspiring directors. Kind of a I despise John Wayne and wonder how he would have responded if he had known his good friend John Ford was gay.I just watched In the Loop again last night and it remains the funniest film I've seen since the Royal Tenenbaums.
I am going to have to disagree pretty strongly with the bolded. Ford was a hugely popular director in his time and proably produced 5-10 crappy westerns or dramas or comedies for every film admired by the film snobs.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
High Life...Pretty much your standard bank heist gone awry movie, although the drug addict angle makes it a little less standard. At only 78 minutes, once the ball gets rolling the movie goes by quickly and also has solid dialogue. The main reason to watch this though is Timothy Olyphant steals the show once again and is great as usual. In his post-Justified fame, I cant see Olyphant playing a morphine addict in 1983 planning to rob ATMs too often. Solid low budget dark comedy with some action that is worthwhile with an entertaining role from Olyphant...3/5
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
I just remember being bored with Monsters and thinking that it was definitely a movie they should have stayed away from showing the monsters, as they were quite ridiculous.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
I just remember being bored with Monsters and thinking that it was definitely a movie they should have stayed away from showing the monsters, as they were quite ridiculous.
I didnt think the monsters were great or anything, but what was so bad about them? They appeared to be like above-ground octupus'...and as someone said earlier in here, they were essentially photoshopped into the movie. I liked it for what it was.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
I just remember being bored with Monsters and thinking that it was definitely a movie they should have stayed away from showing the monsters, as they were quite ridiculous.
I didnt think the monsters were great or anything, but what was so bad about them? They appeared to be like above-ground octupus'...and as someone said earlier in here, they were essentially photoshopped into the movie. I liked it for what it was.
Think you answered your own question. I think these types of movies only work if there is decent acting and they withhold the monsters or if the monsters end up looking kinda cool. Just didn't think this one was worth the viewing.
Started in with a couple movies from John Ford. Over the last couple days I watched The Searchers and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. I know he is a movie icon, but I have trouble watching John Wayne and his seemingly same in every movie acting/mannerisms. Thought Searchers was a typical western, but was surprised I liked Liberty Valance as much as I did. Combination of having Jimmy Stewart balance out
Wayne's bravado and the interesting balance of the old America vs. new American ideals. One of the few of the genre I would watch again. Grapes of Wrath is my last stop for the director, but I have to wait for the library to get that one to me. In the meantime I will also get in my Polanski movies. On tap for him is Repulsion, Chinatown, and The Pianist.
Chinatown is one of my favorites. Mandatory viewing. The Pianist is pretty good, too. John Ford is more of a filmmakers filmmaker than somebody who made fun movies for the masses. His movies taught a lot to a lot of aspiring directors. Kind of a I despise John Wayne and wonder how he would have responded if he had known his good friend John Ford was gay.
I just watched In the Loop again last night and it remains the funniest film I've seen since the Royal Tenenbaums.
I am going to have to disagree pretty strongly with the bolded. Ford was a hugely popular director in his time and proably produced 5-10 crappy westerns or dramas or comedies for every film admired by the film snobs.
Figured it was obvious that I was referring to how they're viewed now. And when I say filmmakers filmmaker, I'm referring to his contemporaries who started doing the wide angle sparse thing and taking productions out of LA. I don't care for the guys movies, just have a good friend who teaches film and I've heard that able him ad nauseum.Actually now reading back, I just misstated what I meant. He obviously paved the way for westerns with john Wayne and they were wildly popular and successful.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
I just remember being bored with Monsters and thinking that it was definitely a movie they should have stayed away from showing the monsters, as they were quite ridiculous.
I didnt think the monsters were great or anything, but what was so bad about them? They appeared to be like above-ground octupus'...and as someone said earlier in here, they were essentially photoshopped into the movie. I liked it for what it was.
Think you answered your own question. I think these types of movies only work if there is decent acting and they withhold the monsters or if the monsters end up looking kinda cool. Just didn't think this one was worth the viewing.
Like I said in my review, this is by no means a sci-fi/thriller/horror movie which one would expect by a movie called "Monsters" at face value. The title characters/actual aliens are very much a backdrop of this movie. I personally expected more monsters in the movie going in myself, but that wasnt the case, and for some reason it didnt bother me because the rest was interesting enough. Yeah, the monsters arent all that cool or vicious or groundbreaking, but I didnt care maybe 1/2-2/3 of the way thru this. I wont argue the acting was even above average, but the 2 characters kept me interested with the monsters backdrop. I dunno, I liked it. I can see if someone wanted an alien movie with all kinds of action and killing of people, but I didnt need that to enjoy this one.
I thought this was going to be just another documentary celebrating Ozzy but it really covered a lot of ground and was very thorough in examining his life. Even if you're not a fan of his music it's still an amazing no-holds-barred documentary about a guy who has had an incredible life. Ozzy and his family are as real as I've seen them. I would give it a 10/10 but I thought it passed too quickly over the post-Randy Rhoades 80's years, but from Ozzy's reactions it's obvious they are still very hard years for him to think about.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Exactly what I thought. The rate he was going with the stocks, he would have easily had that money in a few days without having to borrow money. Evidently the drug wasn't that helpful with simple math. But hey - that would have made for a boring movie I guess.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Exactly what I thought. The rate he was going with the stocks, he would have easily had that money in a few days without having to borrow money. Evidently the drug wasn't that helpful with simple math. But hey - that would have made for a boring movie I guess.
yeah, poorly written plot device, but it served it's purpose. There were a few others but they didn't take away from the movie too much.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Ah, that's right. I thought you were asking about a later point in the movie. But you're right, he could have paid him off much earlier.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Ah, that's right. I thought you were asking about a later point in the movie. But you're right, he could have paid him off much earlier.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Ah, that's right. I thought you were asking about a later point in the movie. But you're right, he could have paid him off much earlier.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Ah, that's right. I thought you were asking about a later point in the movie. But you're right, he could have paid him off much earlier.
Because it's a ####ty movie.
The biggest issue I had with it was that the idea that we only utilize 20% of our brain. That has been proven to be 100% false. Unfortunately the entire story is based on that idea. But whatever, it's a movie.
I enjoyed Limitless Cool storyline, loved the effects and how they differentiated the people when they were on and off the drug. Solid job by Cooper. Fun movie, definitely worth checking out. 3/5
The Russian was after NZT, not money. Eddie was with Van Loon working on the Van Loon/Atwood merger at the time that he was supposed to meet with the Russian. Eddie later met with his lawyer for the possible murder case. During which, the lawyer stole Eddie's NZT stash, as he was really working for Atwood (who was dying of NZT withdrawl). Both the lawyer and the man in the coat (the guy who chased his girlfriend) were working for Atwood the entire time.
So he couldn't pay off the Russian because: (1) he didn't get the $40 mil as the merger was never completed and (2) he didn't have the NZT stash to pay off the Russian when he needed it.
The Russian only found out about the NZT after Eddie failed to pay him off and he came after him. This was before Eddie's meeting with DeNiro. By that time he had already turned the Russian money into a couple of million dollars by stock trading. He could have paid off the Russian and continued on without being pressured and eventually dropping the pill on the ground for the Russian to find.
Ah, that's right. I thought you were asking about a later point in the movie. But you're right, he could have paid him off much earlier.
Because it's a ####ty movie.
The biggest issue I had with it was that the idea that we only utilize 20% of our brain. That has been proven to be 100% false. Unfortunately the entire story is based on that idea. But whatever, it's a movie.
The new Planet of the Apes uses the same premise but a whole lot better. Just wasn't much good in this.
Monsters...I probably liked this more than I should have knowing it was basically "freestyle filmmaking" and I dont think there was even a script for the dialogue for the most part. Cinematography was quite good all things considered. It was different than I expected, and more of a journey type drama with monsters/aliens as the backdrop than the suspense sci-fi/horror you would expect with a movie like this. I thought the 2 leads did well enough to keep it interesting. Lack of chemistry didnt bother me because that wasnt really what they were going for IMO. Reading back, I didnt takeaway the immigration angle others did here. I thought the point of the ending was that as humans or maybe Americans, we fear what we dont understand or even vilify something undeserving of it. Either way, I enjoyed this more than most apparently....3.4/5
I just remember being bored with Monsters and thinking that it was definitely a movie they should have stayed away from showing the monsters, as they were quite ridiculous.
I didnt think the monsters were great or anything, but what was so bad about them? They appeared to be like above-ground octupus'...and as someone said earlier in here, they were essentially photoshopped into the movie. I liked it for what it was.
Think you answered your own question. I think these types of movies only work if there is decent acting and they withhold the monsters or if the monsters end up looking kinda cool. Just didn't think this one was worth the viewing.
Has anyone ever kept watching a bad movie just to see how bad it can be?
Country Strong
Paltrow was so miscast, so inauthentic that it seemed an SNL parody. Every syllable uttered by her rang utterly false.
Tim McGraw, the Tin Man from "Wizard Of Oz" moved more fluidly than he did.
About half-hour before the film ended I wondered if the filmmakers would go all-out bad cliche with Paltrow giving an over-the-top comeback performance in front of a jammed house and then OD'ing.
Has anyone ever kept watching a bad movie just to see how bad it can be?
Country Strong
Paltrow was so miscast, so inauthentic that it seemed an SNL parody. Every syllable uttered by her rang utterly false.
Tim McGraw, the Tin Man from "Wizard Of Oz" moved more fluidly than he did.
About half-hour before the film ended I wondered if the filmmakers would go all-out bad cliche with Paltrow giving an over-the-top comeback performance in front of a jammed house and then OD'ing.
Had more heart than most comedy movies, but don't think it made the movie any better. What I found endearing about Rudd's character at the beginning of the movie wore out it's welcome 1/2 way through. Maybe that was the point - I started to feel like one of his sisters and was ready to pass him on to somebody else. Had a couple laughs, but ended up bored by the end of the movie as it turned into a soap opera as everybody's life is effected by Rudd's inability to keep his mouth shut. Again, it's probably the point, but was just annoyed at that his character didn't change at all during the movie. I guess the writer and director are big on idealistic hippies. Hoping for more laughs with this cast and in the end thought it was just average. 5/10
ETA: Oh yeah - it was also weird to see E.Banks looking like Parker Posey and Rashida's glasses were really creepy.
Started off good but later was pretty weak. Charlie Day ruined the movie with his whiny voice and the ridiculous idea that Aniston would be hot for him. A few laughs here and there.
Has anyone ever kept watching a bad movie just to see how bad it can be?
Country Strong
Paltrow was so miscast, so inauthentic that it seemed an SNL parody. Every syllable uttered by her rang utterly false.
Tim McGraw, the Tin Man from "Wizard Of Oz" moved more fluidly than he did.
About half-hour before the film ended I wondered if the filmmakers would go all-out bad cliche with Paltrow giving an over-the-top comeback performance in front of a jammed house and then OD'ing.
Has anyone ever kept watching a bad movie just to see how bad it can be?
Country Strong
Paltrow was so miscast, so inauthentic that it seemed an SNL parody. Every syllable uttered by her rang utterly false.
Tim McGraw, the Tin Man from "Wizard Of Oz" moved more fluidly than he did.
About half-hour before the film ended I wondered if the filmmakers would go all-out bad cliche with Paltrow giving an over-the-top comeback performance in front of a jammed house and then OD'ing.
Here's the pitch meeting for Country Strong:"So, you know how like country music is really popular? Well, we make this movie with country music and stick Gwyneth Paltrow's bony ### in there and then...ehhhhh who gives a ####?"
Ended up loving this movie. Not sure it really needed the other earth as part of the story arc, but it did bring up the 'what if' scenario that added a little more tension to the relationship and plot. The main question I had was what did she write in the hand of the other janitor. It was flawed, but there were a handful of great scenes that overcame any of the plot's shortcomings. I am sure this will end up on my favorites list at the end of the year. 8/10.
As will:
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil:
This is the Shaun of the Dead for the redneck/Wrong Turn horror movies. The concept is so simple and brilliant, and it is an absolute blast to watch. 7/10
Lars von Trier or not, this sucked. It would actually have been an ok movie without ridiculous sci-fi angle, but that ruined it. I'm being generous with the 5, only because I thought there were interesting moments in the movie and I did like the first half. The second half was utter garbage and the sci-fi part was laughable.
Ended up disappointed in this one. Wished I hadn't heard anything about it before popping this in tonight. Kept hearing comparisons to 80s movies like E.T. and Goonies and how it was so refreshing to have that again. Really? To me it felt like War of the Worlds meets Battle: LA with splash of Close Encounters. Maybe started off centered around the kids, but it quickly turned into a typical loud action/sci-fi movie. Might have liked it more if they fleshed out the kids a little more, but they were happy to have them as one-note characters for the most part. Does the one kid with the fireworks have any dialogue that doesn't have to do with setting some off? Of course we have the Chunk of the group that has to stop in the middle of the action to steal a soda out of the fridge. Just had a hard time caring about any of them. Then we have the ending of the movie:
The alien could have made a spaceship to go home at any point, but he had to wait until a kid yelled at him to do so? Just terrible
This was one of those movies that I watched for entertainment and enjoyed it like I was 12 years old again. I probably could be critical, but that never occurred to me.
Cool. I am just curious what people saw in this that was above and beyond other summer fare. Seems like people got ET and Goonies out of this when I got War of the Worlds and Cloverfield. I guess it hinges on how much you liked the kids?
Possibly. I thought the kids were arguably the best part so at least for me that was a big reason why I really liked it.Havent seen Cloverfield but I didnt get a WotW feel at all. WotW felt like people were running to stay alive, Super 8 felt more like trying to figure out what exactly was going on and for those who knew there was an alien, finding out more about that.
Just watched this and I agree with Kenny.To me, this is a top-to-bottom homage to Spielberg and not much more. Everything from the music to the editing to the camera-work, art-direction, writing, and even acting and casting seemed like it was pulled from 70s and early 80s Spielberg; it was uncanny, especially when we weren't seeing the monster and the action revolved around the townspeople. Hell- he even chose to make it a late 70s period piece. Mash-up ET, Goonies, Close-Encounters and even a little Iron Giant (I know, not Spielberg) and that's pretty close in feel to what this was. In feel though- I enjoyed the movie, but it felt a little bit bereft of the emotional sledgehammering Spielberg typically piles on and this actually suffered a bit from it's lack (along with some plot holes/choices that seemed weak). Also, once I saw the trainwreck the "mystery" of the movie became immediately evident and boiled down to one of two options: who is the antagonist- the monster or the air-force? Getting there was pretty cliched, but still enjoyable- again, when seen as stictly an homage piece.
I agree that the characters were a little flat (outside of the main two kids), but that didn't bother me much- I wasn't watching this for a great character study and I enjoyed the kids friendships and the way the love-interest played out- all in a nostalgic kind of way (which is true of why I enjoyed the Spielberg homage- brought me back to being that age and enjoying the larger than life, non-subtle ways Spielberg made movies that hold less appeal to me now as an adult).
fwiw- I guess the monster looked like it was designed by the same folk who did the Cloverfield monster.... but I don't see WotW in there at all, or anything else from Cloverfield (which I hated) other than having monsters in the storyline.
and KP- regarding your spoiler issue:
The way I saw it, the monster had been a prisoner so couldn't make the ship until it escaped... and I think they mentioned it needing some more things for it while still a prisoner. So after it escaped, it was busy gathering up all the things it needed for its ship which coincidentally culminated after the encounter with the boy. The boy's necklace was the final piece the thing needed before it was finished- very Spielberg right there, but kinda fell short for me.
My main issue was this- wtf was the air force doing? they seemed like a big, loud plot device to get in the way of the rest of the plot with explosions and not much else relating to reason. did they hvae a plan to catch the alien? if not, then what were they doing- trying to kill it 30 years after catching it? why? jst because it had escaped?
Started off good but later was pretty weak. Charlie Day ruined the movie with his whiny voice and the ridiculous idea that Aniston would be hot for him. A few laughs here and there.
Lars von Trier or not, this sucked. It would actually have been an ok movie without ridiculous sci-fi angle, but that ruined it. I'm being generous with the 5, only because I thought there were interesting moments in the movie and I did like the first half. The second half was utter garbage and the sci-fi part was laughable.
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Almost watched this one last weekend. Will be very soon. 
