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#5481 Destiny

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 07:24 PM

I just saw Thor for the first time. I feel like I shouldn't have bothered. It was about the most cliché-filled puke inducing garbage I have ever seen. The only worthwhile thing about it was Chris Hemsworth.

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 09:27 PM

Destiny, on 11 August 2012 - 07:24 PM, said:

You kind of have to be into the THOR comics. Otherwise, yeah you are wasting your time...

it's a very good representation of the source material.

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 10:25 PM

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:

You kind of have to be into the THOR comics. Otherwise, yeah you are wasting your time...

Tbf, I don't think that's necessarily true. I saw it with two people with no investment at all in the comics, of whom my brother was outright sceptical because he thought the comic was silly, and they both loved it.

My brother has since read and enjoyed some of JMS' run on the comic, so it did good there.

I think you need to be able to suspend any innate cynicism, though. Which, I know, me saying that...

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Posted 11 August 2012 - 11:24 PM

polishgenius, on 11 August 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:

I agree fully with you. It was a goofy fun time and wasn't pretending to be anything other than "dimwitted, but really good looking god gets exiled on Earth".

I've yet to see Captain America, which I want to have under my belt before I tackle The Avengers.

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Posted 14 August 2012 - 02:17 AM

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Posted 15 August 2012 - 06:46 PM

Yeah I guess I made the mistake of expecting it to be more like the Spiderman or Batman adaptations. If I'd know I shouldn't have taken it so seriously I wouldn't have been so annoyed and disappointed. Ah well... at least I got 2 hours of the lovely Chris Hemsworth out of it Posted Image

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Posted 16 August 2012 - 03:03 PM

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:

Destiny, on 11 August 2012 - 07:24 PM, said:

You kind of have to be into the THOR comics. Otherwise, yeah you are wasting your time...

it's a very good representation of the source material.

polishgenius, on 11 August 2012 - 10:25 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 11 August 2012 - 09:27 PM, said:

You kind of have to be into the THOR comics. Otherwise, yeah you are wasting your time...

Actualy i think that familiarity with the source material only detracts from the movie, in that you know how much better it could and should have been.

I was okay with THOR. The Earth segments were uniformly lame but the Asgard segments bordered on awesome at times.

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Posted 16 August 2012 - 04:24 PM

Asgard was quite nicely done.

Captain America on the other hand, to be honest I couldn't finish the movie. Crap + a wide display of all hail america. Was just too much for me at least.

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Posted 16 August 2012 - 05:04 PM

To be fair, it is Captain AMERICA.

But to your point, yeah, it could have been a lot better.

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Posted 16 August 2012 - 08:50 PM

I liked Cap the best of all the pre-Avengers movies, but even then would only give it like a B. Whereas The Avengers itself was better than everything else combined, so none of these disappointments should discourage anyone from seeing it.

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Posted 16 August 2012 - 09:00 PM

I haven't seen the avengers yet, and haven't seen the second hulk movie, but of the pre avengers Iron man was far and away my favourite (the first one for sure, maybe the second as well)
Then Thor
America was bottom, enjoyable but less so than the others

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Posted 20 August 2012 - 10:35 PM

Saw [REC] the other night. Was actually pretty fun to watch! The girl just turned away from the TV and curled up in the corner of the bed for the ending though

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 12:46 AM

Just watched A Tale of Two Sisters....... well, I'll just recommend it for anyone who's ever seen a real east-asian psychological horror and liked it. One of those few films I considered turning off due to tension.

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Posted 21 August 2012 - 01:00 AM

Indeed. Those are both top tier recent horror...especially Two Sisters.

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 05:47 AM

Easy A

Predictable enough comedy.it was avqerage but the things limiting the movie for me are problems inherent to the very of this kind of film.

First of casting,I love the girl who plays olive (Emma stone??) but she's simply too pretty to be the girl who's never noticed. But the movie machine being what it is, producers were never going to cast someone who fit the storys bill.
The rest of the cast is solid enough, and pheobe is, imo, very good in her small part.

Second, characters, the best friend is simply too iritating to be believable as the beet friend of "quiet and reserved" olive
The parents, yes they were going to have to be slightly quirky and liberal parents, but in my experience people with parents that are the "fun" parents generally are considerably more outgoing than the initial portrayal ot Olive. But they were there for comic relief and to be used to extend to story slightly so they didn't bother me that much. Her friend really just grated on my nerves.

Biggest flaw - peoples reaction at the whole premise of the movie. People have sex, get over it, it was never such a big deal when some people at my school had had sex and many hadn't, the rumour mill in the movies school is just retarded.
If American high school is anything remotely like that in real life my kids would be homes schooled.

But its a comedy, so things are supposed to be slightly over the top and ridiculous so I guess I just never really got the whole American high school pistache, and never have in any movie.

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6/10 because it still amused me

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 05:52 AM

It's kinda like Mean Girls Light, which is still pretty decent IMO. I'd give it a 7 to your 6, so just a bit better (most of it resting on Emma Stone, though I liked her parents and brother too). That said, if you think American public schools are weird when a student has sex with another student, just imagine how we react when home schoolers have sex with their classmates. Police are usually involved.

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 05:54 AM

I think I graded it a 5 or 6. Despite Aly Michalka and Emma Stone's presence and those are two very beautiful young women.

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 06:12 AM

Emma stone being pretty was the problem for the story
Aly Michalka being annoyig was a problem. <-- Fullstop there

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 06:20 AM

Macros, on 23 August 2012 - 06:12 AM, said:

Emma stone being pretty was the problem for the story
Aly Michalka being annoyig was a problem. <-- Fullstop there

Been a while, but yes I'd agree. Still. Damn.

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Posted 23 August 2012 - 02:26 PM

Macros, on 23 August 2012 - 05:47 AM, said:

Biggest flaw - peoples reaction at the whole premise of the movie. People have sex, get over it, it was never such a big deal when some people at my school had had sex and many hadn't, the rumour mill in the movies school is just retarded.
If American high school is anything remotely like that in real life my kids would be homes schooled.

Completely agree with your review. Funny movie, but peoples' reactions were ass-backwards to what would have happened in real life.

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