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[Mario Kart]

Divergent - Ugh, maybe a C-. Interesting concept and Kate Winslet is very good as the villian

Shailene Woodley is an OK actress, but she is not convincing in this role. She is just way too frail. Ashley Judd in two minutes screen time is way more bad ### than Shailene.And she looks like she is 16 and her love interest looks about 38. It is kinda creepy.

And I see there are 3 more movies in this series...Ugh

3 more in the series. I HOPE they are doing that thing I love and spltting the last one up into 2 parts. Nothing screams money grab like that.

Don't even bother guys. The Divergent book was okay, bearable to read. The second book I tried reading and had to put it down twice. Simply could not get through it.

The movie adaptation was terrible. But, all of the girls will go see the next one. This is the new Twilight but with a younger audience so it won't have the success of Twilight. (Note - I never read or saw any Twilight book/movie)

 

[Mario Kart]

I thought Her was fantastic.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

 

[El Floppo]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

Might be my favorite comedy of this century.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

Might be my favorite comedy of this century.

That sex scene could be the funniest thing ever made.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

Might be my favorite comedy of this century.

That sex scene could be the funniest thing ever made.

To this day, I can't see Matt Damon without yelling out "MATT DAAAAAAAAAMON" and laughing hysterically.

 

[El Floppo]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

Might be my favorite comedy of this century.

That sex scene could be the funniest thing ever made.

To this day, I can't see Matt Damon without yelling out "MATT DAAAAAAAAAMON" and laughing hysterically.

Me too.

 

[Cjw_55106]

Watched "Her" a few weeks back. What a piece of #### that was.

 

[cstu]

Watched "Her" a few weeks back. What a piece of #### that was.

Welcome to ignore...

Just kidding, but wow.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

 

[Cjw_55106]

Watched "Her" a few weeks back. What a piece of #### that was.

Welcome to ignore...

Just kidding, but wow.

I know it got a lot of hype and good reviews, but I didn't see the attraction at all.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

I was way too busy being stoned and drunk all the time, but if I had it to do over again...............

 

[El Floppo]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

I was way too busy being stoned and drunk all the time, but if I had it to do over again...............

I took one... focus was on foreign directors' films about the USA. Hitchcock (N by NW), Malle (Atlantic City), Herzog (Stroszek... ) and a few others... Barfly, IIRC.

It was pretty great... very low key.

 

[saintfool]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

here's the thing: with the advent of the digitial format, the cost of making movies is a fraction of what it used to be.

i love film and would have liked to give it a real try. i took some classes - film history - but never got beyond that. these days, if you have the time and inclination, there is no reason why you couldn't have a go at it. according to my friends that work in the industry, you just learn by doing it. hell, robert rodriguez made the original "el mariarchi" for next to nothing. he paid for it by being a lab rat in medical experiments.

 

[Ramsay Hunt Experience]

I took a bunch of film classes in undergrad. Film as Narrative. Auteur Theory. Film Genres. Film as Mass Communication and Screenwriting.

Some of it was depressing. Most of my classmates were idiots, so discussion was awful.

 

[SmoovySmoov]

I took a bunch of film classes in undergrad. Film as Narrative. Auteur Theory. Film Genres. Film as Mass Communication and Screenwriting.

Some of it was depressing. Most of my classmates were idiots, so discussion was awful.

So, you mean, like posting here?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Team America World Police - Outrageous, as expected. Pretty funny.

America, #### Yeah!

Might be my favorite comedy of this century.

That sex scene could be the funniest thing ever made.

To this day, I can't see Matt Damon without yelling out "MATT DAAAAAAAAAMON" and laughing hysterically.

I play Call of Duty with a dude who always yells out MAAAAT DAAAMON after every kill.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

Never took a film class. Would love to.

My buddy got a full ride scholarship to USC film school, but changed his major to graphic design.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Smoovy and I were discussing trailers with effective music. Just for fun, my favorite trailers that use music effectively:

300

Tree of Life

Where the Wild Things Are

Pulp Fiction

Edge of Tomorrow

Nine

The Departed

 

[KarmaPolice]

I took a bunch of film classes in undergrad. Film as Narrative. Auteur Theory. Film Genres. Film as Mass Communication and Screenwriting.

Some of it was depressing. Most of my classmates were idiots, so discussion was awful.

So, you mean, like posting here?

Ouch

 

[Chaka]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

I was way too busy being stoned and drunk all the time, but if I had it to do over again...............

So you're saying that you went to film school.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Curious - anybody in here have any film school background? Or at least film classes in undergrad?

That is one thing that I would do differently if I had a redo of college. Maybe there are some free/cheap online classes or something like that....

here's the thing: with the advent of the digitial format, the cost of making movies is a fraction of what it used to be.

i love film and would have liked to give it a real try. i took some classes - film history - but never got beyond that. these days, if you have the time and inclination, there is no reason why you couldn't have a go at it. according to my friends that work in the industry, you just learn by doing it. hell, robert rodriguez made the original "el mariarchi" for next to nothing. he paid for it by being a lab rat in medical experiments.

I bet it would be easier to put something together now. Digital technology plus a lot more avenues for marketing your product.

I was asking more since we have mostly intelligent discussions and posters in here and a large % of them seem to like stuff that would run in line with what critics like. I was just curious if that was a function of any classes that people were introduced to different stuff, or it was just a natural progression from watching a lot.

I think if I were to go back in time to school for anything it would probably be the editing end of it. Since getting into movies more and more it really fascinates me how hours and hours of reel and shaped it into a coherent movie.

ETA: right now I would be more interested in trying a podcast or something like that

 

[jamny]

Just one of those movies I never happened to see, but watched Woody Allen's Manhattan last night and loved it. Besides all of the amazing footage of NYC at the time the story really holds up well and actually must really have been ahead of it's time upon release. Great acting, Woody at his neurotic best and awesome score and cinematography. As a kid, I loved his comedies like Take the Money and Run, Sleeper and Bananas but obviously his more adult/relationship themed movies went over my head. Not sure if I ever saw Annie Hall. Gonna have to give that a shot soon.

 

[El Floppo]

Just one of those movies I never happened to see, but watched Woody Allen's Manhattan last night and loved it. Besides all of the amazing footage of NYC at the time the story really holds up well and actually must really have been ahead of it's time upon release. Great acting, Woody at his neurotic best and awesome score and cinematography. As a kid, I loved his comedies like Take the Money and Run, Sleeper and Bananas but obviously his more adult/relationship themed movies went over my head. Not sure if I ever saw Annie Hall. Gonna have to give that a shot soon.

Annie Hall is pretty great. I was always partial to Crimes and Misdemeanors as well.

 

[saintfool]

Just one of those movies I never happened to see, but watched Woody Allen's Manhattan last night and loved it. Besides all of the amazing footage of NYC at the time the story really holds up well and actually must really have been ahead of it's time upon release. Great acting, Woody at his neurotic best and awesome score and cinematography. As a kid, I loved his comedies like Take the Money and Run, Sleeper and Bananas but obviously his more adult/relationship themed movies went over my head. Not sure if I ever saw Annie Hall. Gonna have to give that a shot soon.

that run of 3 movies - Annie Hall, Manhattan and Interiors - is among the best in film history, i think. Woody has had a couple of great 3 picture runs like that but none as good.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Just one of those movies I never happened to see, but watched Woody Allen's Manhattan last night and loved it. Besides all of the amazing footage of NYC at the time the story really holds up well and actually must really have been ahead of it's time upon release. Great acting, Woody at his neurotic best and awesome score and cinematography. As a kid, I loved his comedies like Take the Money and Run, Sleeper and Bananas but obviously his more adult/relationship themed movies went over my head. Not sure if I ever saw Annie Hall. Gonna have to give that a shot soon.

Annie Hall is pretty great. I was always partial to Crimes and Misdemeanors as well.

Manhattan is awesome. RIP Gordon Willis.

Annie Hall is very funny. A must-see.

 

[joffer]

As cheesy as the underlying science is, Déjà Vu is a fun movie

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

 

[cstu]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

I didn't guess it.

 

[El Floppo]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow... decent formulaic/cliched fun. Continuity across the board was excellent.

 

[El Floppo]

KIck-### 2... woof. I remember enjoying the first one quite a bit. This one felt cheap in every way.

 

[Dan Gladden's Mustache]

As cheesy as the underlying science is, Déjà Vu is a fun movie

Love that flick.

 

[Osaurus]

KIck-### 2... woof. I remember enjoying the first one quite a bit. This one felt cheap in every way.

I liked Lindy Booth aka Night B####

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

I didn't guess it.

fair enough.

did you like the movie?

 

[jdoggydogg]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

Glad to see you liked this. The trailer didn't look like much.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow... decent formulaic/cliched fun. Continuity across the board was excellent.

I've seen it twice, and it was every bit as fun the second time.

 

[El Floppo]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow... decent formulaic/cliched fun. Continuity across the board was excellent.

I've seen it twice, and it was every bit as fun the second time.

definitely fun. not worth the extra $$ for 3d, IMO- nothing terribly 3d relevant in it.

Spoiler

I wish it wasn't so patently a Groundhog Day v Starship Troopers mashup... but it could do a lot worse for source material.

 

[cstu]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

I didn't guess it.

fair enough.

did you like the movie?

Absolutely. Up there with This Is The End and The World's End as my favorite comedy last year.

 

[Fly]

Smoovy and I were discussing trailers with effective music. Just for fun, my favorite trailers that use music effectively:

Requiem for a Dream should probably be included here, no?

 

[El Floppo]

Been in a binge this weekend, with the wife and kids out of town.

Joy Division... doc about the band, with all of the key living participants (other than Curtis' ex-wife, who was quoted pretty extensively). I picked up my first JD record after they were already done in 1982- loved the cover (of course) of Unknown Pleasures and bought it sound un-heard. Loved it and bought Closer the moment I had enough money. Was bummed they were done and especially finding out about Curtis, but moved on to New Order and a few other Factory REcords bands. Thought the movie did a decent job telling the story from a first person point of view, even if after Control and 24 Hour Party People, there wasn't a lot of new info for me to mine. There were a fair number of live performances I hand't seen before... which was cool.

CBGB... bio-pic about the club and Hilly Cristal. Made me wish I went there more, and was old enough to have gone there in it's prime. By the time I got there in the mid=late 80s it felt kinda... done. Saw the Rollins Band do an amazing show there in the mid-90s... but other than that nothing memorable. I guess like Cristal's life, there was a little too much dead boys for my liking. Lots of cameos, and some great casting for a lot of the bands (David Byrne in particular). Definitely interesting if early punk/new-wave is or was your thing, and did a decent job telling the story of the place.

 

[Riversco]

I was thinking of renting Filth starring James McAvoy but I don't think it comes out until next week?

 

[KarmaPolice]

I was thinking of renting Filth starring James McAvoy but I don't think it comes out until next week?

yep. comes out Tuesday

 

[jdoggydogg]

Watched Edge of Tomorrow... decent formulaic/cliched fun. Continuity across the board was excellent.

I've seen it twice, and it was every bit as fun the second time.

definitely fun. not worth the extra $$ for 3d, IMO- nothing terribly 3d relevant in it.

Spoiler

I wish it wasn't so patently a Groundhog Day v Starship Troopers mashup... but it could do a lot worse for source material.

I agree it's derivative - although the same could be said for countless movies. But the writing and the pacing are better than most action movies.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Smoovy and I were discussing trailers with effective music. Just for fun, my favorite trailers that use music effectively:

Those are just the first examples that occurred to me.

 

[Fly]

Smoovy and I were discussing trailers with effective music. Just for fun, my favorite trailers that use music effectively:

Got it. I wouldn't have thought of Where the Wild Things Are but that's a great example.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

I didn't guess it.

fair enough.

did you like the movie?

Absolutely. Up there with This Is The End and The World's End as my favorite comedy last year.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

Glad to see you liked this. The trailer didn't look like much.

Probably didn't have much to work with. Most everything out of Bateman's mouth is so very, very wrong.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

Glad to see you liked this. The trailer didn't look like much.

Probably didn't have much to work with. Most everything out of Bateman's mouth is so very, very wrong.

So it has a bit of Young Adult in it.

 

[jdoggydogg]

Smoovy and I were discussing trailers with effective music. Just for fun, my favorite trailers that use music effectively:

That Where the Wild Things Are trailer really chokes me up, actually

 

[KarmaPolice]

Bad Words:

I really liked this one. Thought Bateman was great in it.. Not hard to figure out what was going on or his motivations, but so many great scenes made it well worth the trip for me. I think I had tears from laughing within the first 15 mins. Definitely need to be a fan of darker/uncomfortable/crass movies. Even more wrong than the adult/kid relationship in Role Models, but sweeter on a level too. 7.5/10

Glad to see you liked this. The trailer didn't look like much.

Probably didn't have much to work with. Most everything out of Bateman's mouth is so very, very wrong.

So it has a bit of Young Adult in it.

Way worse, from what I remember of Young Adult.