teenalphabro Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Twelve Angry Men: This is one of the best movies ever made. Films Watched: 83 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
You Know Who Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Twelve Angry Men: This is one of the best movies ever made. Sing it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 The Nightmare: Ironically drifted off a little bit watching this and awoke to a terrifying image. Feature Films: 106 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rjoyadet Posted July 27, 2015 Report Share Posted July 27, 2015 Mask of Fu Manchu: Once I got past the overt racism I had fun with it. Fu Manchu's daughter was the most fascinating character in the movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 28, 2015 Report Share Posted July 28, 2015 The Rover: Well, leave it to the Australians to make a post-apocalypse just a little bit bleaker. Feature Films: 107 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Jodorowsky's Dune: This is a really good documentary, and it puts a lot of things into perspective. Would Jodorowsky's version of Dune have been better than Lynch's version? Who knows? But all I can really say is that this documentary was outstanding. Films Watched: 84 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 The Hunger: my favorite part (other than the Sarandon/Deneuve love scene) is when young Ira from Mad About You and young Willem Dafoe calls Sarandon a "stupid junkie." Feature Films: 108 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davedevil Posted July 29, 2015 Report Share Posted July 29, 2015 Paper Towns - The novel is one of my favorites and this was a good adaptation. Saw it with my best friends (one of whom also loves the book) since grade school and it was a fun time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 The Sound of My Voice: whoa Feature Films: 109 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 The Death of "Superman Lives"; What Happened?: (none of that is a typo; that's the actual name of the movie, right down to the semi-colon.) Jon Schnepp, the Metalocalypse guy, put together this documentary about the failure of the fabled late-1990s event picture to launch. It's a fascinating behind-the-scenes that sheds a lot of light on the Hollywood studio system of the time, and has in depth interviews from pretty much every major player involved. Tim Burton clearly has no idea why anyone would want to talk to him about a movie he didn't make 15 years ago, and then proves why people want that when he gives passionate and detailed answers to every question thrown at him. Every writer (there were three drafts) has stories of the process; Colleen Atwood goes over the costume designs (the one we've seen online was a very early proof of concept); there's tons and tons and tons of concept artwork, all of which is gorgeous; and everyone, absolutely everyone, has a "Jon-Peters-is-a-crazed-preposterous-clown" story. Peters himself is interviewed, and at the very least proves to be an entertaining crazed preposterous clown. Kevin Smith comes in and tells the same "giant spider" story he's been dining out on for the past fifteen years, and adds virtually nothing else to the film but his name (as soon as the movie went into production, his script was thrown out on the basis of not being very good, and he had nothing at all to do with the actual production of the movie; even he, here, describes it as fanfic), but everyone else gives a lot of detailed, interesting insight into what it takes to navigate Hollywood and attempt to pull together a gigantic production that would have been among the most expensive movies ever made. Also, we finally see the final Superman suit here for the first time, and it really wasn't bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 I saw that recently, too. I liked it a lot. I want to see the alternate universe where the movie was made. And yeah, the Superman suit they showed at the end there was actually pretty cool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 I suspect it would have been an interesting movie I would have liked at the time but which didn't hold up well. However, I am kinda bummed that I live in a world where Christopher Walken never played Brainiac. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 I suspect it would have been an interesting movie I would have liked at the time but which didn't hold up well. However, I am kinda bummed that I live in a world where Christopher Walken never played Brainiac. I watched it on the plane trip back home from SDCC, an yeah THAT made me laugh out loud. The Walken-Brainiac head on spider-legs, fucking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted July 30, 2015 Report Share Posted July 30, 2015 Well, spider-Walkens are the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Well, spider-Walkens are the fiercest killers in the animal kingdom. Yeah, I think the movie would have been weird and problematic as hell, but Walken as Brainiac could have legitimately been awesome. I think it was said best in the documentary when they said that no matter what, it would have been a really interesting movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted July 31, 2015 Report Share Posted July 31, 2015 Justice League Gods and Monsters: about as good as the mid-level pre New 52 animated films they put out. About as good as one of the multi-episode JLU arcs. Just nothing to really set it apart. Not as good as the introductory comic books. Feature Films: 110 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donomark Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Justice League Gods and Monsters: about as good as the mid-level pre New 52 animated films they put out. About as good as one of the multi-episode JLU arcs. Just nothing to really set it apart. Not as good as the introductory comic books. Feature Films: 110 Documentaries: 7 Shameless Plug: http://thebatmanuniverse.net/justice-league-gods-and-monsters-9/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation Had me glued to the screen for the entire run time; I didn't even want to leave to take a wee despite being desperate to go by the end, in case I missed something. Never seen Rebecca Ferguson in anything before, but she was amazing here as Ilsa Faust. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Hell Comes to Frogtown: I haven't watched this since its original VHS release. Holy crap... Feature Films: 111 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonC Posted August 1, 2015 Report Share Posted August 1, 2015 Slow West: A western that I got taken to at our local indie cinema tonight., Ostensibly about this naive boy from Scotland who's come over to the West to find the girl he loves, but really about something else entirely. You knew things weren't going to end well, but they kind of did. Sort of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Ant-Man: Surprisingly good. Is it the best MCU movie so far? Hell no. But its still pretty good. Movies Watched: 85 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted August 2, 2015 Report Share Posted August 2, 2015 Apocalypse Now: I feel like I need to drown myself in the strongest Irish whiskey available. Films Watched: 86 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teenalphabro Posted August 3, 2015 Report Share Posted August 3, 2015 Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation: Hot DAMN that was a good movie! Films Watched: 87 Repeats: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dread Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 Pixels: this was a lot of fun. More serious than I expected. Kevin James plays the President of the United States. That's a pretty crazy sentence to type. Davin LOVED it. More than Avengers 2 and Guardians of the Galaxy. I had a pretty amazing moment explaining who Max Headroom was to him. Feature Films: 112 Documentaries: 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Posted August 6, 2015 Report Share Posted August 6, 2015 X-Men: Days of Future Past - The Rogue Cut: Turns out this wasn't just a matter of splicing Anna Paquin back into the movie. This version of the film is nearly twenty minutes longer, bringing it up to two and a half hours. This allows Singer to slow things down and get more into the details of the world, and to better explain exactly what the hell is going on here (for people who aren't familiar with the source material, this can actually be a very confusing movie; this cut is much, much clearer about the future awfulness, exactly how Kitty's plan works, and how the changes affect future events). If you were wondering how much darker and grimmer the future scenes could get, the answer is tons. Tons more darker. The fights with the Sentinels are even more brutal than they were originally, and everything is terrible, all the time. Rogue doesn't actually add anything. Her contributions are minimal and easily excised; she's here precisely because hey, wouldn't it be great to have Anna Paquin back so now we have all the original X-Men from the first movie here, but I can definitely understand the decision to cut her scenes. She doesn't even appear until nearly two hours in. If anything, her introduction serves Xavier, Magneto, and Iceman far more effectively. In fact, Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen are given more to do in this cut, which is great to see, since they were so wasted originally. All in all, it straddles a line between being a cleaner, superior cut of the film, and being far too long. Two and a half hours is an awful lot of X-Men movie. The original cut was pushing it in that respect. However, the storytelling in this cut is improved to the point that it pretty much counterbalances things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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