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#3921 HoosierDaddy

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 03:14 AM

I was in a weird mood this morning when I tried to watch it. But, I don't think that was it. Just an extremely choppy re-entry into the universe, with some jaw-droppingly bad moments, in my opinion. The jaw-droppingly bad was courtesy of the three detectives from the first movie (where you goin? Nowhere. Where? Nowhere! See, that's brilliant stuff in the first.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 05:36 AM

Tiste Simeon, on 13 March 2010 - 03:03 AM, said:

Okay??? The film is a masterpiece that finishes off the show in a fantastic way!

Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, and I did like it a lot. But it was a little jarring having seen the final ep of Firefly minutes beforehand. It didn't have near enough of the jocular fun that the show had, and it was much too dark I thought. Mal basically spent the whole movie yelling at people and being all conflicted. I was hoping the men with the blue hands would show up, but alas, they didn't. The Reaver thing was a great plot point, albeit wayyy out of left field, and it finished it off in a very good way, but...I dunno. I guess I just didn't enjoy it as much. Hopefully it gets better on a second viewing.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 02:53 PM

I see your point, but good old Joss Whedon has a way of lulling you in with humour and entertainment and then slapping you round the face with dark violent stuff.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 04:08 PM

First of all, Serenity is awesome. Second, I liked it a lot better the second time I watched it.

Watched Law Abiding Citizen last night. Pretty interesting, but nothing great.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 06:15 PM

Oh, yeah, if anyone else sees the Alice in Wonderland movie, and has either met me in person or seen my picture, the scene I filmed is right at the end of the movie, just before the credits, (there are ships involved, one of which I was a crewmember for) and I don't know if my face is visible or if Tim Burton held a grudge and cut me out. So keep an eye out.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 06:16 PM

were you hairy at the time?

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 06:19 PM

Of course. I also had a top hat, and am most likely to be spotted when the camera is behind Alice's right shoulder as she climbs some steps. But I could be stopped other places too. Possibly coiling a rope up.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 08:50 PM

I wish you had said this before I saw it.

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#3929 Illuyankas

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 08:54 PM

I wish I'd found out where my scene was before you saw it.

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Posted 13 March 2010 - 11:16 PM

The Hurt Locker, on dvd. Good movie, but after seeing it, not sure it deserved the hype... still have to see A Single Man and a few of the other Oscar candidates, so can't judge it entirely, and of course it somewhat lacks the whole Iraq = Vietnam 2 feeling you people in the US may have.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 12:15 AM

Dammit Illy now I'm going to have to watch it again...

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 06:45 AM

Just saw Alice In Wonderland, and what a piece of crap that was. As a fan of burton's movies I must say I was very disappointed. Not only was the movie poor in its own right, but it would seem to me that the people making it had not read the book at all. I understand it's meant as a sequel and all that, but the only character even remotely like how they were in the book was the red queen.

Not to mention it was about as predictable as my breakfast and lacked the humour of the book. Well, in fact it lacked humour at all.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 11:30 AM

Yeah, definitely giving that thing a wide berth. Tim Burton has completely lost the plot, and hasn't made a good film for years.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 01:49 PM

Tapper, on 13 March 2010 - 11:16 PM, said:

The Hurt Locker, on dvd. Good movie, but after seeing it, not sure it deserved the hype...

Exactly how I felt about it. It's a good, solidly done movie, with good actors, good pacing, interesting characters... you can't really find many (if any) points to criticise in it, but... it's not more than simply "good". Definietly not something to deserve all this hype and an Oscar IMO...

Also, finally got to see Sherlock Holmes - and I loved it. Just what I needed after a very stressful week - brains out, popcorn in, and let yourself be entertained.

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Posted 14 March 2010 - 05:34 PM

Dag, on 14 March 2010 - 01:49 PM, said:

Tapper, on 13 March 2010 - 11:16 PM, said:

The Hurt Locker, on dvd. Good movie, but after seeing it, not sure it deserved the hype...

I saw The Hurt Locker a while ago. It's got major, major problems in terms of what the characters do in terms of behavior within the military and within the story itself, but in spite of that, it's a good movie. It's not a great movie, but of the nominees I saw (6 of 10) it was the best movie in terms of tension and gripping of the audience. UP! and District 9 were both better movies and I suspect that Up in the Air or A Serious Man might also be. D9 suffers from it being SF, like the criminally overlooked Moon and UP! has this weird cachet of not being a serious movie as it's animated and Pixar.

I don't have a problem with the Oscar, because I understand who the voters are (older white people who don't know squat about much) and I can't help but give Bigelow retroactive love for Point Break - easily my favorite movie of all time. "UTAH! Gimme two!"

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