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Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Looks like her O face
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Same here. Seem hard for a modern movie to be sincerely earnest - and this movie does it.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
She's very funny. It never occurred to me that Lt. Uhuru's only purpose was repeating what she heard on the communicator until I watched Galaxy Quest.
Socrates11
Footballguy
Who knew Sigourney was that stacked and smokin'!?And is it wrong that I'm turned on by the alien chick?
Chaka
Footballguy
I love how she is the only one who can talk to the ship's computer. And she was easy on the eyes in that film too. I never really considered her very attractive but in GQ she was smoking. The make-up artist deserved an Oscar.
The Doctor
Footballguy
Quarantine 2: Terminal: pretty much the same as the first but not as good
a little eye candy but not enough
id give it a 2.5/5
a little eye candy but not enough
id give it a 2.5/5
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Someone that smart's innately attractive to me.
Chaka
Footballguy
Hesher - I am a big fan of Joseph Gordon-Levitt, he doesn't shy away from difficult roles and I think he has demonstrated a lot of range but I was disappointed with Hesher. It's not to say that he didn't immerse himself in his character but something about him didn't grab me, he just didn't seem entirely plausible. Not that Hollywood requires plausibility but I think that would have helped the character in this instance. Although it is entertaining and at times downright funny (the introduction of Hesher is terrific) but I think we have seen the 'outcast teaches us all a life lesson' theme a lot and maybe this one just didn't bring enough to the table to distinguish it overall it just didn't feel like a very tight film. Portman and, to a lesser degree, Rainn Wilson felt somewhat superfluous to the story but I will say that I found the kid, Devin Brochu, to be a really interesting character, just not enough to hold the whole thing together. Piper Laurie was very good too. It's not bad, and has it's moments but it's nothing special.
It's a film I could see people disagreeing with me on so don't let me dissuade you entirely from seeing it, but it didn't entirely work for me.
It's a film I could see people disagreeing with me on so don't let me dissuade you entirely from seeing it, but it didn't entirely work for me.
Chaka
Footballguy
Half Nelson - Gosling is my other current man-crush going right now (JGL being the other) and he doesn't disappoint in Half Nelson. It's not a great film but it is a good one. I like the way the story developed and the haphazard way in which things spiraled for the main character. I also thought Shakeera Epps was really good and her character arc was touching and troubling throughout. I liked the ending but I can see that viewing it through a different lens it could be thought to have disturbing implications. I just didn't see it that way.
Good film, worth watching.
Good film, worth watching.
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
Dont get this argument. There was character development until essentially the last 15 minutes. Why was the ending bad?? I pretty much knew before I even started the movie, that the brothers would be fighting each other.'TexanFan02 said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Speaking of remakes that didn't work - I thought Rec and Rec2 were far better than these movies.'The Doctor said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Rocky 2, 3, and 4:
Sweet Jesus did these movies terrible in a big hurry. Didn't love the first one, but thought it was good enough. Basically 1/2 theses movies are recaps and silly music video training montages, 1/4 over the top (pun intended) cheesy boxing matches, and 1/4 following characters that seemingly are incapable of learning a thing. Felt like it was a slow decent until Rocky 4 jumped the shark completely (a damn robot?). Won't be going on anymore in the series, and was surprised I got this far. Mostly I was curious how much of them I had actually seen before.
Sweet Jesus did these movies terrible in a big hurry. Didn't love the first one, but thought it was good enough. Basically 1/2 theses movies are recaps and silly music video training montages, 1/4 over the top (pun intended) cheesy boxing matches, and 1/4 following characters that seemingly are incapable of learning a thing. Felt like it was a slow decent until Rocky 4 jumped the shark completely (a damn robot?). Won't be going on anymore in the series, and was surprised I got this far. Mostly I was curious how much of them I had actually seen before.
Chaka
Footballguy
Rocky is a tremendous film from top to bottom and is worthy of all the praise it receives. Rocky II is a solid film but certainly has flaws. Rocky III is hysterically awesome, you can't take it seriously but it's just fun. The others are pretty much garbage.I am curious if some of your dislike stems from the fact that you never really sat down with them years ago when they were fresh and perhaps you are a little jaded sitting down with them now by what Stallone morphed into during his career. Possible?
Kenny Powers
Footballguy
I dont really know how to answer this. If there wasnt "character development" in the last 30 minutes or so of the movie, there were family struggles that were answered.You pretty much answered you own question in the spoiler. I saw Tommy's run to the finals being based on his rage and pure physicality, not his background. As far as his fighting/strategy vs his brother, again, you answered your own question and not only did I think it was apparent in the movie, but I thought it was a fitting ending.'TexanFan02 said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Not really. Never got into Stallone films for the most part, so I couldn't really comment about what he morphed into. Probably more to do with me not getting into sports movies in general, and now seeing a lot of the cheesy cliches that this series probably had a big hand in creating. As I stated in my first Rocky post, I just didn't like the characters - a lot of that had to do with the writing and them being in similar situations in every movie. I think Apollo was the best character, and I could have used more of him in 2 and 3, but even he meets his demise because he didn't learn a thing from the first movie. Combine all that will really bad boxing matches (was there even one attempt to block a punch in the whole series?) and I was done.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
That was explained on the beach and during the event. His dad and his brother left. He never got over it. And he felt guilty for living when the rest of his unit was killed and then going AWOL. Plus, a lot of children of drunk abusive parents end up with huge chips on their shoulders. I'm not sure they could have explained it any more clearly than they did.'TexanFan02 said:
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I can't remember most of this movie, but I do remember liking it a lot.
'TexanFan02 said:
That was explained on the beach and during the event. His dad and his brother left. He never got over it. And he felt guilty for living when the rest of his unit was killed and then going AWOL. Plus, a lot of children of drunk abusive parents end up with huge chips on their shoulders. I'm not sure they could have explained it any more clearly than they did.
Really? The emotional parts are why we are still talking about this pic.
Socrates11
Footballguy
'TexanFan02 said:
That was explained on the beach and during the event. His dad and his brother left. He never got over it. And he felt guilty for living when the rest of his unit was killed and then going AWOL. Plus, a lot of children of drunk abusive parents end up with huge chips on their shoulders. I'm not sure they could have explained it any more clearly than they did.
I thought it was - Dad, Mom, Tommy, and Brendan. Dad's a drunk and beats Mom and the kids all the time. Brendan was the oldest and fell in love with the chick he would marry. He couldn't take Drunk Dad anymore and ran off with the girl around age 17, leaving Mom and Tommy to get knocked around. Tommy and Mom soon reach their limit so they run away from Drunk Dad and pretty much live in squalor, soon to find out that Mom gets sick (cancer?). Tommy does the best he can helping his Mom, but they never hear from nor get any help from Brendan. Mom dies and Tommy joins the Marines.
D_House
Footballguy
The actress that played the Mother was tremendous in this. Bin Won is the actor that played the role of the son, he's the star of The Man From Nowhere, a solid action/revenge flick that's also on Netflix streaming.
packersfan
Footballguy
Another great Mann film. The Miami Vice vibe is evident but it's still extremely well done. Far superior to the Norton remake in my opinion. I also think Collateral is an outstanding film. Fox and Cruise are both terrific and Mann does his typical stellar job of directing.
packersfan
Footballguy
I caught "Somewhere" on cable last night. Well acted and well cast and the father-daughter scenes were well done but overall it was just pointless and boring. It struck me as one of those films that thought it was far deeper than it really was. It also felt like a student film. If Sofia Coppola was Sofia Smith I doubt the film would ever have gotten made.
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jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I've only seen Collateral once, and I liked it enough to watch it again some time.
snogger
Footballguy
My favorite of them all just for that reason.. Lots of
action, and throw in the match with Hulk Hogan and it is one of my all time favorite 
Movies. 
Apple Jack
Footballguy
It took some patience, but it did end up getting into the ballpark she was looking get it to. I think there was a good bit of industry insularity in it, but that it was still palatable to somebody not in it. She seems to like to run Hollywood people up the flagpole, starting with Spike Jonze and Cameron Diaz in Lost in Translation.'packersfan said:
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Finally caught Star Trek J.J.Abrams style last night. Disclaimer - I love the Star Trek franchise, though never wore a costume or went to a convention - that's just weird.
I had to quickly accept the reboot was changing a lot of what I knew. I got over that pretty quick. I think the people they had playing the various roles - except for Chekov who was annoyingly bad - did a fine job. I get why Leonard Nimoy was in it, but I really hate that as much as I hated the Star Trek Generations way they put Kirk in it. Anyone watching these movies with an ounce of love for the preious installments knows the original characters - they don't have to keep showing up to make the new ones more legitimate.
The space time change was necessary to make the reboot work I guess. I can go along with it. I just hope that in doing it they really don't go near any of the original movies at all. if the next movie is their version of Khan in this new universe I will not be happy. Just ignore the rest of the timeline from this point and make up your own. The effects were very good and I was entertained. It was, in the end, a better movie than most of the TNG movies that all felt to me like just extended television episodes.
I'll give it a B+. Bones was outstanding as was Scotty. They nailed those roles.
I had to quickly accept the reboot was changing a lot of what I knew. I got over that pretty quick. I think the people they had playing the various roles - except for Chekov who was annoyingly bad - did a fine job. I get why Leonard Nimoy was in it, but I really hate that as much as I hated the Star Trek Generations way they put Kirk in it. Anyone watching these movies with an ounce of love for the preious installments knows the original characters - they don't have to keep showing up to make the new ones more legitimate.
The space time change was necessary to make the reboot work I guess. I can go along with it. I just hope that in doing it they really don't go near any of the original movies at all. if the next movie is their version of Khan in this new universe I will not be happy. Just ignore the rest of the timeline from this point and make up your own. The effects were very good and I was entertained. It was, in the end, a better movie than most of the TNG movies that all felt to me like just extended television episodes.
I'll give it a B+. Bones was outstanding as was Scotty. They nailed those roles.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
I just can't stand the stupid documentary style camera work. And cool it with the light flares for cripes sake. I watched this again the other night and the camera moves around so much in a scene it makes it feel more frenetic than necessary.
saintfool
Dead sexy
maybe not so much hollywood but the notion of celebrity and privilege really. i think her bio-pic of marie antoinette kind of explores it in a historical context. i haven't seen it in years (and didn't much care for it as an adaptation of a really fine novel) but "the virgin suicides" could be seen as brushing against it too.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Hmmm. I didn't get that at all. When I think of camera work like that I think of the Bourne movies. Good movies but that camera work drove me insane. Didn't get that same feeling here.
Chaka
Footballguy
There is no reason they could not plausibly work Khan into the reboot. The Eugenics Wars occurred, and Khan's people shot themselves into space, long before Kirk was born so they would still exist in the reboot universe.
hooter311
Footballguy
Rocky 4 is a 5 star film if there ever was one. Works beautifully as a Cold War metaphor, robot and all. This was propaganda at its absolute finest.Rocky 5 and arguably Rocky 2 are the only ones that suck.
ETA:
From IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089927/faq
A more symbolic explanation of how Rocky defeats Drago despite Drago's seemingly overwhelming strength advantage is tied up in the theme of the film. Rocky IV is largely a metaphor for the tensions between America and Russia which existed in the Cold War. Stallone himself has stated (in the famous Ain't It Cool public Q & A; see here) that the film isn't one to be viewed entirely literally, that is not exclusively about revenge or boxing, but rather an examination of the opposing sides in the war. The seemingly invincible Ivan Drago obviously symbolizes the Soviet Union, and his line "I must break you", perfectly represents his nation's sentiment toward America (or at least America's notion of the Soviets' intention towards them). During the fight Drago is far superior to Rocky in terms of firepower and strength, just as the Soviet Union was over America. However, Rocky's seemingly endless stamina and inability to lose is an obvious symbol for American national pride and heart, and the nation's unwillingness to be bullied or intimidated by a superior force. Rocky defeats the superior fighter because he has more heart; an obvious metaphor for the possible outcome of the War. In addition, Stallone has suggested that he intended the film as a message to the Russian people that there is more to life than military might, and that there could be a magnanimous solution to the tensions behind the Cold War. This is represented by the fact that not only do the initially hostile crowd begin to cheer for Rocky, but even Drago himself comes to respect him by the end of the fight. All of this depends upon a symbolic reading of the film, where the fight between Drago and Rocky is not so much a depiction of a real conflict which the audience is supposed to take literally, but a metaphorical examination of a real situation in the world at large.
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packersfan
Footballguy
I thought it was often heavy-handed and amateurish. The scene of him driving around in circles. I get it; he's going nowhere. The endless scenes of him literally sitting in the apartment doing nothing? He must be all empty inside. I think there was about 30 minutes of good material in the film which was entirely the stuff with him and his daughter. Everything else just felt like filler. Although I did chuckle at the hanger-on buddy who's so clearly a pedophile and was all over Elle Fanning.
Chaka
Footballguy
None of that is exactly subtext while watching the film, it's all painfully obvious. Stallone isn't exactly Kafka when it comes to the use of metaphor. Forgetting the painful metaphors of IV there is pretty much zero difference between III & IV except Mr. T >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Dolph Lundgren. And thank God we don't have to endure a ham handed Stallone speech at the end of III either.
Dr. Awesome
Footballguy
The first one and the newest one are his best. The others range from okay to downright terrible. If you haven't seen Rocky Balboa don't let the others scare you away.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yeah, the movie isn't really hiding the fact that it's a propaganda movie. Stallone might as well have said "Communism's bad, mmmkay" at the end.
packersfan
Footballguy
"Rocky" is a classic. I thought "Rocky 2" was solid and "Rocky 3" was terrific and great fun. "Rocky 4" was awful in my opinion and "Rocky 5" was easily one of the worst films I've ever seen. It was so amazingly bad I have no interest whatsoever in seeing the last one.
Apple Jack
Footballguy
All that stuff you're referring to as filler was what built the character. You might not have liked it and were looking for more action, but that's not what this was about. It's about a guy who has nothing going on intellectually or creatively and literally just drives around because he is so barren that it's all he can think to do. I don't think it's necessarily anything more or less. That was all necessary to put you there. It's a character study, not really a conventional linear story. And I didn't interpret Chris Pontious as a pedophile at all. Just a pretty funny knucklehead friend. Seemed good-hearted to me.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Poltergeist:
Had never seen this movie before last night. I definitely would put this one more in the "fun" movie than name it as a top horror movie. There were a couple of creepy moments - mostly at the end (who the #### would have a toy clown that creepy in their room?). Other than that the f/x were silly enough to get the wrong reaction from me. I didn't get the Evil Dead campy vibe, so I have to think it was just a victim of not having the means to make what they wanted to do actually work. Less would have been a lot better here.
Had never seen this movie before last night. I definitely would put this one more in the "fun" movie than name it as a top horror movie. There were a couple of creepy moments - mostly at the end (who the #### would have a toy clown that creepy in their room?). Other than that the f/x were silly enough to get the wrong reaction from me. I didn't get the Evil Dead campy vibe, so I have to think it was just a victim of not having the means to make what they wanted to do actually work. Less would have been a lot better here.
packersfan
Footballguy
He seemed awfully chummy with the daughter. Just struck me as funny.
I agree the filler stuff was about developing the character but I just felt like it was often heavy handed. It's not so much that I wanted more action; I just wanted something more interesting to watch. Like I said, the father-daughter scenes were well done. There was a lot of meat there. But the rest of the film lacked substance for me. I felt like Coppola was just too heavy-handed with what she was doing. I think she had the germ of an idea for a film but not enough material to really make it work.Apple Jack
Footballguy
Fair enough. I imagine I'm not the only person who found those elements essential to the character and the film, nor are you the only person who found it lacking substance, heavy-handed, and boring. And everybody who saw it likely falls into one camp or the other.He seemed awfully chummy with the daughter. Just struck me as funny.
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Chaka
Footballguy
The clown and the guy peeling off his face were both
In fact that movie is money top to bottom. However I can see that the effects may not hold up so well after 30 years (My goodness has it really been that long). It seems like you are just now getting to some films that really helped to define genres. It's a shame you never saw them when there wasn't such a glut of films that parrot them screaming for our attention. Rocky and Poltergeist are terrific films but in today's universe of CGI monsters and bloodspatter and highly stylized MMA intense fight sequences I can see how they would fall short for today's viewer.I felt the same way about 'older' films when Rocky and Poltergeist were new on the market. As I get older I find I have a much greater appreciation for the films that I thought were old when I was young (did that make sense?).
The Doctor
Footballguy
classic filmwatch it whenever its onThe clown and the guy peeling off his face were both
I felt the same way about 'older' films when Rocky and Poltergeist were new on the market. As I get older I find I have a much greater appreciation for the films that I thought were old when I was young (did that make sense?).
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I liked the movie a lot despite some very corny scenes. Looking forward to the sequel.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Can't sleep. Clown'll eat me.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I've only seen two Sophia Coppola films: The Virgin Suicides and Lost in Translation. I thought Suicides was very interesting. But Lost in Translation was a lot of style over substance.He seemed awfully chummy with the daughter. Just struck me as funny.
packersfan
Footballguy
I liked "Lost in Translation" quite a bit. I thought Murray was perfectly cast and Scarlett Johansson was great too. I thought that film did a much better job of presenting emptiness and loneliness than "Somewhere" did which tread some of the same territory (Hollywood star feeling lost and not knowing where his life is going etc.).
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