[QuickTidal]

I like the whole classic Farmboy fantasy tropes enough to be at least looking fwd to seeing it.

[McLovin]

Looks 100% bog-standard to me. I may see this if a friend wants to go or it gets a good review, otherwise I'll wait for netflix.

[Gorefest]

But...but...there's a guy with four arms! Come on people, four arms! The term groundbreaking does not do that trailer justice.

[QuickTidal]

The amount of classic fantasy films we get with big name stars (other than the LOTR or Hobbit ones) in them are few and far enough between that I'm even cool with how bog standard it looks.

That said, I've learned to really dig this type of Genre B movie. I love Wrath of The Titans, for example.

[Macros]

Will probably watch it.
Can't be any worse than In the Name of the King at least

[worry]

I'll wait till it's on Syfy and watch it in double feature with the Moby-Dick-with-dragons movie or whatever.

[Aptorian]

QuickTidal, on 15 January 2015 - 02:47 PM, said:

I love Wrath of The Titans, for example.

You don't get to criticize my love of Transformers ever again.

[Illuyankas]

Wooden acting and hilarious melodrama >>>> Directly beneath the enemy's scrotum and a really weird and disgusting scene justifying some dude banging an underage girl to her dad

This in no way suggest Wrath was anything but terrible incidentally

[QuickTidal]

Apt, on 15 January 2015 - 08:35 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 15 January 2015 - 02:47 PM, said:

I love Wrath of The Titans, for example.

You don't get to criticize my love of Transformers ever again.

I don't think I ever criticized your love of TF movies. Mostly because I was okay with 1, 3, and portions of 4.

[Aptorian]

Oh... well, in that case I take back all the bad things I've been saying about you.

[QuickTidal]

Watched BOYHOOD tonight. That was affecting to me on a level I can't explain...that was my childhood. The only difference would be that my mome didn't marry the abusive drunk, she just dated him obliviously for years. Literally everything else in that movie is my life to a T. It makes me feel better about my divorced parents and then life I lived wasn't abnormal, but normal enough that Richard Linklater was able to be specific about such things.

Also, two DAZED & CONFUSED connections.

1. The liquor store guy who sells to underagers is the same guy in both movies.
2. The school Mason attends midway through the film is the school they shot DAZED AND CONFUSED in (which makes sense as Linklater would have shot in Austin)

Great slice of life film, and more affecting to me becuase of how close it hit to home.

[worry]

Haven't seen it yet, but Hawke did a great interview with Letterman about it pre-Globes. Starts 14 minutes in:

[Tsundoku]

Briar King, on 15 January 2015 - 02:54 AM, said:

Hmm this is gonna be cool as shit or a cheese fest.

My impression is more the latter than the former. It looks worse than Eragon. I await the reviews with interest.

[QuickTidal]

worry, on 17 January 2015 - 05:03 AM, said:

Haven't seen it yet, but Hawke did a great interview with Letterman about it pre-Globes. Starts 14 minutes in:

That specific youtube clip nearly made me freak out...it's been slowed down ever so slightly and both Letterman and Hawke sound like they was talking through a thin wall of molasses...and I thought I was having a stroke.

Luckily I found the official verison of the clip and they are talking normally.

So...thanks for waking me the hell up on a Saturday worry! LOL

[QuickTidal]

I want to see it, and I've heard it's doing some pretty great numbers at the box office. I think the Oscar Nom has made more people want to go and see than otherwise might have on opening weekend.

[Macros]

Good film, Cooper is excellent in it.

[Kruppe's snacky cakes]

Apt, on 15 January 2015 - 01:16 PM, said:

When I watched the trailer for Seventh Son I thought it was going to be a surprise film adaption of the Witcher series. It almost sounds like it's about the Witcher, last of his kind, made/born to fight monsters, help man, etc. etc.

Actually, this is based on The Last Apprentice, the first book in a YA fantasy series. It's about a 12 year old boy who, due to his "seventh son of a seventh son" heritage, must apprentice to an aging witch hunter who needs to find a replacement before he dies. In the movie, 34 year old actor, Ben Barnes, will be playing our 12 year old hero (pet peeve #1). I dislike the modern trend of loosely adapting every popular fantasy book into a big dumb action movie (pet peeve #2). Of course, I'll watch this anyway. I just don't understand why Hollywood doesn't make up their own stuff, rather than adapting someone else's creation, but then making it barely recognizable.

[worry]

The One I Love -- Mark Duplass and Elizabeth Moss in what is almost a bottle episode light sci-fi relationship movie. Very good. If you liked Eternal Sunshine and/or Timer it might be for you. But don't spoil yourself ahead of time.

12 Years A Slave -- What else is there to say on this? Not much to nitpick and zero righteous reason to attempt it. Harrowing. I will say I was shocked to see Hans Zimmer did the (elegant, understated) score, hearing it as I did after Interstellar's colossus of suck.

Maleficent -- Pretty good, but pulls its emotional punches at weird moments. Patchy and underwritten in spots. Very much on the same wavelength as the Narnia movies.

[QuickTidal]

Saw THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING yesterday. Very goood, and solid performances all around. Eddie Redmayne deserves his Oscar nom for the portrayal of Hakwing which is perfect and would have been difficult. I also had no idea that both David Thewlis and Charlie Cox were in it, so that was a surprise. It's hard to watch the ALS ravage him, but the bonus is seeing him defy the odds (he was given 2 years to live and he's lived 50+) and succeed. Amazing. The score is also lovely.

[amphibian]

I have not seen American Sniper, but I'm seeing huge criticisms of it from people I respect (Saladin Ahmed being one and a few of my friends being the others) as a movie that presents a petroleum jellyfied soft focus view of a sociopath's life that incites violence against Muslims and Arabs in the dumber segments of its audience.

The movie itself may not have those intentions, but we are indeed seeing reactions from the dregs of humanity like that they want to go kill more ragheads and other horrible statements of the ilk.

So... I probably won't see American Sniper in a way that gives money to the creators. I saw The Hurt Locker on DVD and realized that it was emotion-manipulating trash that was so skillfully done that it would win an Oscar. I also avoided Zero Dark Thirty because it reeked so strongly of the same emotion-manipulating trash that I thought there'd be no chance a close to reality movie would be made.

I don't have a problem with purposely dumb action movies. I do have a problem when actual war events and the people involved within it get twisted beyond recognition to get a rise out of the worst elements of the potential audience.