[Tiste Simeon]

If this has become a thing just to annoy Gothos, #imalloverit #whatfun

[McLovin]

Saw MILLION DOLLAR ARM.

The story is utterly predictable, but the performances were good.

#waitfordvd

[Illuyankas]

Finally got around to watching Looper. I like it!

[McLovin]

Saw NEIGHBORS. #hilarious

Saw Cap 2 again for the hell of it. #stillholdsup

[Spoilsport Stonny]

LOOPER was fun as hell. Time travel movies are awesome anyways, but I liked that one a bunch.

Just watched ODD THOMAS on Netflix last night. Pretty good film, despite the obvious cheapness of many scenes. Never read the books and didn't realize it was based off a Dean Koonts series. My wife liked it too. I recommend.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

Rageun Cajun, on 27 May 2014 - 10:30 PM, said:

OMG wtf did I create 2 weeks ago when I let my son watch those Godzilla flix? My 6 yr old since in control of my TV ATM Godzilla vs Space Godzilla...

In related news, your father of the year award is in the mail. Good on you, holmes.

[Gothos]

Rageun Cajun, on 27 May 2014 - 10:30 PM, said:

OMG wtf did I create 2 weeks ago when I let my son watch those Godzilla flix? My 6 yr old since in control of my TV ATM Godzilla vs Space Godzilla...

Give him a high five from me!

[Tiste Simeon]

Saw Edge of Tomorrow. Really good Sci-fi action flick. Great concept, visuals & by heck but Emily Blunt looked dead sexy in one of the "Jackets" as they are called...

[Macros]

Bad Neighbours.
Average, trailers showed the best parts, for example the airbags, would have been absolutely hilarious if I hadn't seen it 20 times on tv.
Still watchable but its not old school

[A Demon Llama!]

Edge of Tomorrow was really good. Emily Blunt kicking alien ass with a buster sword was just awesome. Go see it, its well worth it.

Edit: If you can don't see it in 3D. There was nothing 3D about it like most movies these days.

This post has been edited by A Demon Llama!: 07 June 2014 - 02:16 AM

[Illuyankas]

Also good if you want to see Tom Cruise die repeatedly.

[Macros]

Nah enders is pretty YA Imo.

[Morgoth]

Edge of Tomorrow was a lot of fun. Reminded me in some ways of Armor.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

This looks pretty cool, despite obvious budget issues. I'm looking forward to it.

[McLovin]

Saw EDGE OF TOMORROW.

Pretty good, although the scene of Cage going to the pub is not set up so it's a bit jarring. Bad edit?

Also, why are all alien invaders totally unstoppable killing machines, except for one secret "instant defeat" mechanism?

They're called Mimics but what were they mimicking? Runaway weed-eaters?

Lastly,

Spoiler

so by getting the Omega's blood, Cage is reset to before he gets shipped off to Heathrow, but if so then killing the Omega can't have happened yet. I suppose there's some tachyon distortion effect that can be marshaled to explain that. Also, since there's no war anymore, won't Cage repeat his entire life from this point until he dies, forever?

[QuickTidal]

Older movies that the Mrs and I watched on the cruise that we'd never seen before.

ABOUT TIME - Huh, I expected way more from Richard Curtis. Started off decent and knew what it wanted to be for the first half...and then the second half it becomes something totally else and becomes one of the most messy, convoluted, depressing films I've sat through in a while. I THINK the ending is meant to be uplifting...but instead it just depressed the heck out of us.

A DOLPHIN TALE - Meh, it is what it is. Fluff "based on a true story" about helping maimed dolphin. Hard to tell how much of it was accurate...Loved that it helped move prosthetic ahead though, I hope that part was true...and I'm convinced that the intention on the part of the filmmakers was to unite Harry Connick and Ashley Judd's single-parent statuses in a romantic way, but that thread just kind of drifts off...so I'd rather it had been ditched altogether if they weren't going to fully go through with it. Overall I enjoyed it enough to recommend it for Sunday night Family fare.

RIDE ALONG - I wanted this to be funnier than it ended up being. I like both the leads and the opening action sequence was really well done...sadly the rest of the film is a bit generic, with certain things registering for shock value comedy. Ice Cube's character is unrepentantly a jerkhole even when Kevin is earnest with him about loving his sister, Cube rebuffs him over and over and proceeds to run him through a bunch of fake shit to prove he's worthless. It's decidedly mean-spirited in that way. I don't like mean-spirited films. A few chuckle-worthy moments, but overall I'd say skip this.

Re-watched THOR 2, DESPICABLE ME, WRECK-IT RALPH...and all three still hold up immensely.

[Aptorian]

Just watched Pacific Rim. Kinda sorta didn't like that film.

I was one of the people who raised some objections about the premise when the trailers were released. None of those issues were properly addressed in the actual film.

I am going to put things in a spoiler box just in case:

Spoiler

The premise remains stupid. Why are they using giant robots against the monsters when it is shown that the most effective weapon is explosions, energy weapons and sharp objects? In the start of the movie something is said about poisonous blood or something. That is the only time that is every mentioned in the entire movie. In the rest of the film we constantly see these robots getting ripped or blown to pieces, sending blood and chunks everywhere. At no time is this shown as being a terrible thing. You have people actually walking around inside the things guts, actually eating Kaiju material for the heck of it. Obviously, these things are not poisonous so destroying them in a messy fashion is never an issue.

SO WHY THE FUCK DON'T THEY SHOOT THE FUCKERS!? It's explained in the start that it took 6 days to kill a Kaiju with conventional weapons like tanks and airplanes. How the hell do you go from shoot it to "lets create a ridiculously complicated weapons system like a giant fission powered robot" in one step? Why not just put the robot plasma cannon on a tank instead? Why not create kinetic missiles a la bunker buster to puncture the monsters vital organs? WHY NOT USE A FREAKING ORBITAL CANON TO KILL THE FUCKERS WITH PINPOINT PRECISION!?!

And why the hell was the funding for the giant mech programme scraped for a "Build a wall around the world" plan? Who okayed this idea? I mean, I get that building skyscraper robots must be very expensive but... A wall that surrounds the entire pacific rim? What? How? Why? So when it fails... why isn't the giant robot program rebooted? Why do we never hear anything more from the worlds government? Because it makes the stupid plot more plausible is the only reason I can think of and I don't like it. It's typically lazy Hollywood writing.

But hey, all those complaints above can be waved aside by one simple excuse. It's giant fucking robots punching giant fucking monsters. I am all for that.

It's just a shame then that the actual movie seems so low budget. The sets look like somebody gave Scy-fy A LOT of money but it all looks so... movie set. The script is fucking awful, it hardly felt as though they were trying. And the actors, good lord. If it wasn't for Idris Alba you could have written the entire movie off.

Pacific Rim is the best Giant Robots fighting Giant Monsters movie I have ever seen but I'd prefer to watch a Michael Bay Transformers movie all day every day over this. Transformers may be stupid movies but they are crafted on a much higher level than Pacific Rim.

[amphibian]

This is precisely why Apt's movie opinions are so regularly viewed with horror.

[Aptorian]

It is only natural for creatures living darkness, to recoil when the burning light of truth is shined upon their miserable existence.

[worry]

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