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#6661 Illuyankas

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 08:25 PM

I will be nice to the obviously seriously ill Apt here and confirm that Pacific Rim does not hold up well after time.

Unfortunately it's still better than Transformers, as is, for example, pond scum.

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Posted 18 June 2014 - 08:27 PM

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#6663 QuickTidal

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Posted 19 June 2014 - 10:27 AM

I see that Apt has venuted back into his crack stash.

:rolleyes:

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 06:30 PM

Movie night with the Mrs. My choice to pick aaargh. swhy I come here.

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Posted 20 June 2014 - 06:31 PM

I have amazon instant video

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Posted 21 June 2014 - 12:25 PM

Saw MALEFICENT with the MRs. at the Drive-in last night. Really good. Better than I had expected!

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Posted 24 June 2014 - 05:42 AM

Briar King, on 24 June 2014 - 04:17 AM, said:

Burt Wonderstone is really funny. Jim Carrey steals the show!

I thought it was half-baked. There were some funny bits, but the ending came off as evil, rather than funny. That kind of thing happened often enough that I was wondering if some parts got chopped out in editing or the script got changed around to please someone else.

Carrey is very funny in this though. He really did a good job with the character.

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Posted 26 June 2014 - 10:25 AM

Aside from the fact that stupid Shia Labeef is in this...this looks great! WWII Tank warfare.

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#6669 drinksinbars

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Posted 27 June 2014 - 01:31 PM

watched the Raid 2. Awesome movie, quite different from the first, but very very good watch.

#6670 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 27 June 2014 - 04:52 PM

Saw TRANSFORMERS 4 last night.

Dialed down: Male gaze, racist and toilet humor.
Dialed up: Robots, explosions, and runtime.

Easily the second-best of the franchise (I still love the first, and despise 2-3.) The pacing is much better than the last couple films (it didn't feel like an almost-three-hour movie) and the plot was less nonsensical. Sets things up nicely (I guess) for the rest of the trilogy. If you hate Bay's TF films, this one won't change your mind; they are what they are at this point.

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Posted 27 June 2014 - 05:35 PM

Good to hear that Salt-man! The Mrs. and I are going to see it tomorrow night at the drive-in!

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#6672 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 27 June 2014 - 07:43 PM

Just make sure to get comfortable first.

I should add that Kelsey Grammer and Stanley Tucci were fanastic. Mark Walhberg was surprisingly wooden (though I confess I haven't seen much of his work) but the scriptwriter certainly didn't do him any favors.

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 05:43 PM

Salt-Man Z, on 27 June 2014 - 04:52 PM, said:

Saw TRANSFORMERS 4 last night.

Dialed down: Male gaze, racist and toilet humor.

What about plain old idiotic humor? The only genuinely funny scene in #1 was when the bots were shuffling around Sam's yard trying to be quiet enough to avoid waking up his parents. Everything else, including John Turturro's entire plot-line, was ridiculous slapstick that didn't belong in a movie that wasn't supposed to be a comedy. I remember walking out of the theater in disgust as soon as the end credits started to roll and the parent characters were still doing some sort of sitcom routine... Yeesh!

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 06:23 PM

QuickTidal, on 26 June 2014 - 10:25 AM, said:

Aside from the fact that stupid Shia Labeef is in this...this looks great! WWII Tank warfare.

I guess, but after MONUMENTS MEN, is there really anything new or interesting left to say about WWII? I think we need a moratorium for maybe 10 years or so.

How about someone going back to WWI and adapting THE GUNS OF AUGUST? Yeah, pretty tall order, but surely someone's up to the challenge...

OK, I think I got it, but just in case, can you say the whole thing over again? I wasn't really listening.

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 09:15 PM

WW1 has already had Atonement, Legends of the Fall, All Quiet on the Western Front and many more. It's picked over.

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 09:25 PM

Tattersail_, on 20 June 2014 - 06:30 PM, said:

Movie night with the Mrs. My choice to pick aaargh. swhy I come here.

And to make sure I don't bring over something she's already seen is the reason *I* come here.

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#6677 worry

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 11:14 PM

Instead of making another war movie maybe they should make a peace movie. Really makes you think huh?

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Posted 28 June 2014 - 11:35 PM

upworthywort, on 28 June 2014 - 11:14 PM, said:

Instead of making another war movie maybe they should make a peace movie. Really makes you think huh?

like...

THE FLOWERS OF THE NAVARONE

BAND OF HARPISTS

SAVING PRIVATE SCHOOL SYSTEMS

DAS HANDSHAKE

WHERE EAGLES CHAT WITH ONE ANOTHER

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