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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 20, 2014, 10:09 am
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I knew, she told me. In fact, other people were recognizing her
and congratulating her, they must have seen it in advance or
something like that. But there were so many people there who
were getting stopped and chatted up and photo'd with and I
didn't know who any of them are (I think there's another film
fest going on, so we're not getting any of the big celebs).
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 20, 2014, 9:08 pm
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As for my stripper movie, I started prep a year ago (around
festival time), so where I am now with it is WAY ahead compared
to anything else I worked on in the past. I had an insight into
how to fix the ending, and I have to fill in some spots, then I
think it's ready for some friend review. It's tricky because I
want to make sure guys love it, but I also really want to make
sure girls love it, and not just b/c a lot of script readers ARE
female, but something that they'd get together and watch, like I
think Flashdance was, Dirty Dancing was...
I sent the first 25 pages to my friend Natalie to get a read on
what she thinks, it's probably the darkest and most off-putting
stuff, so if that works, then I just gotta nail the ending
beats. Then I think I'll be open to some feedback.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 23, 2014, 1:29 am
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Okay, I'm still trying to figure out how to describe Art War...
I must relate its' awesomeness to you. But in the meantime,
here's what else I saw...
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A Story Of Children And Film
This was an okay movie... I was kind of expecting it to be more
like Miss Representation, but it was more like a collection of
great moments from great movies in which children are
protagonists. Okay, that's fine. And a lot of the movies are
classics and some of them are rare. That's great.
Unfortunately, the thickly-accented Scot who made the movie
can't stop f'ing talking to let us actually experience the
scenes! He speaks throughout the WHOLE. THING. It's really
annoying because his voice is TOO loud in the theater and
just... it isn't a great narration voice. It's a fine voice,
but, you know, there ARE professionals who do this, who are more
pleasant on the ears when it's two hours straight. Also, he
breaks a fundamental rule of voice over by DESCRIBING WHAT'S ON
THE F*CKING SCREEN! We KNOW what's on the screen! It's one
thing to give us some context, that I get, but let us watch the
freaking scenes!
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OJ The Musical
I knew this was going to be bad, but I got a ticket anyway for
one reason: Larisa Oleynik. I don't think I've ever actually
seen her on the big screen, but she glows up there, man. She's
so cute and sweet. And actually, everyone in the supporting
cast was good, and the movie did a great job of recreating the
visual aesthetic of the Christopher Guest movies.
Unfortunately, it's not as funny. AND the worst part was that
the lead, Jordan Kenneth Kamp, was just an unlikeable,
unwatchable jerk. And he's the focus of EVERY GODD*MN SCENE.
EVERY SINGLE ONE. You CANNOT get away from him, and you want to
SO bad. And what's amazing is that, at the end, he can sing,
he's wonderful, but I'm sick of him at that point.
The ticking clock is manufactured and nonsensical. The
protagonist is unlikable and I don't care if he succeeds. And
he overpowers the cast every chance he gets, it's HIS movie and
everyone else GETS to be IN it and I hate that. And like I
said, Larisa Oleynik is really good. The best friend, Malcolm
Barret, I don't know if I'd seen him in anything before but I
liked him a lot. I wanna see him in more stuff. You know who
else is in the film? Todd Barry and Paul Scheer. I love them.
What do they get to do? Nothing really. F*ck. That.
And what's worse is that these problems are an easy solve. In
the Christopher Guest films, we follow three throughlines: in
Best In Show it's the three dog couples, and in a Mighty Wind
it's the three bands. And this movie HAD the perfect way to set
that up: it was three childhood friends reuniting, they should
have had equal time. Not only would this cut down on Kamp's
screen time (I feel like if he wasn't the focus, I would have
liked him more), but it would give all the side characters more
to do because we would also get to see them around Larisa and
Malcolm, and they would get to do more because they'd interact
with those characters differently than they would with Kamp,
who's a weird-o liar.
But honestly, the script just wasn't that funny because I didn't
find Kamp that funny, I don't remember laughing much, the
premise just reminded me too much of Hamlet 2... ugh, the amount
of comedy movies in recent years that I've actually laughed at
is so low. I saw plenty of people walk out, and honestly, the
only reason I stayed was because of Oleynik. Cards on the
table, I have a role I'm writing that I want her to play (NOT in
the stripper movie just in case you're reading this, Lar) and I
wanted to make sure she still had it and she totally did. If it
wasn't for her, I might have left.
Oh, you know who else was in this movie? Crab Man, from "My
Name Is Earl." I haven't seen him in ages. Had nothing funny
to do or contribute to the film.
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The Animal Project
I got a ticket for this one because it reminded me of a story
from My Dinner With Andre, about these actors going into the
woods. IN this flick, it was about a group of actors who decide
to go out for one day in these big animal costumes and see how
it affects them. And it does. It's interesting, very
low-energy, feels kind of real (outside of one guy apparently
being bi all of a sudden)... uh, it's definitely something to
watch if it pops up on Netflix, especially if you're into acting
or self-exploration or quiet drama, but I can see how it
wouldn't work for some people. I guess I liked it.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: April 24, 2014, 12:10 am
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The Identical
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The premise is simple: Elvis' long-lost twin brother's life
story. Actually, it's not Elvis, it's an analogue of Elvis
named Drexl Hemsley. Yeah.
It was.... better than I thought it would be, but the opening
just annoyed the heck out of me. I just didn't like it, it was
Christianity on overload and I just felt that you can't possibly
hope to nail the scene where parents decide to give up one of
their kids, they could have skipped it and had us slowly
discover the truth with the main character, that would be fine.
The other thing that annoyed me was the voice-over. It was
grating, just a loud annoying fake southern accent, and it was
mostly there to describe what we were seeing. We didn't need
it, and it undermined a couple scenes: for example, when the
dude goes up on stage for the first time, it doesn't matter if
"rock and roll was born that night," it just matters that the
moment is important for HIM, and we can TELL that without having
someone flat out TELL us.
The dialogue was just... very flat, it was people saying exactly
what they needed to say. Now, this annoyed me, but Titanic had
the same problem and that's one of the most popular movies of
all time, so maybe it's a personal annoyance. It just didn't
feel inspired, there was no subtext. The filmmakers cited "The
Notebook" as a reference in the Q&A afterwards and I wasn't
surprised, it was THAT level, and I just felt like... they could
have fixed that.
Of course, the movie got picked up, so who the f*ck cares what I
think?
I will say that the music was very good. They wrote about 30
original songs for the movie and did a dang good job recreating
the feel of Elvis.
Now, here's the f'ing crazy bits.
As you can see from the picture above, the lead looks JUST like
Elvis. Well guess what, he was THERE. And he saw my sister and
walked up to us and gave us a "Neumann!" like from Seinfeld.
Seriously, that happened.
Now that dude was good in the movie, the movie had a good cast,
but I kept wanting to turn to my sister and ask "you know Ray
Liotta?" "You know Seth Green?" "You know Joey Pants?" on and on
and on.
Oh, by the way, my sister and my mom were talking CONSTANTLY
throughout the movie. I felt uncomfortable because there was a
dude sitting next to me who kept looking at them because they
were distracting him.
#Post#: 27818--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: April 24, 2014, 4:18 am
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Haha. You need to put your Sister and Mom in their place. Out in
the car, if they are going to talk throughout it all! Talk (pun
intended) about getting an earful for you! They talk and talk
and you still have to deal with sh*tty narration all night long.
I think everyone that ever decides on using narration should be
forced to hire Morgan Freeman, even if the story says otherwise!
Just sayin'. I'd say out of the movies you mentioned, I'm
interested in checking out The Identical. I'm a sucker for
anything Elvis-related.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: May 23, 2014, 8:15 pm
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(I feel like we need a sticky thread of misc movie news, little
things about movies that aren't important enough (to us) to
warrant a whole thread).
Okay, I just saw a photo from A Million Ways To Die In The
West... d*mn. Oh d*mn I wish I hadn't seen that. I had BETTER
forget that by the time the blu-ray comes around (cause I ain't
seeing it in the theater) because... oh, that would have blown
my mind if it hadn't been ruined. Oh god.
#Post#: 28468--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 23, 2014, 9:59 pm
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date=1400894148]
(I feel like we need a sticky thread of misc movie news, little
things about movies that aren't important enough (to us) to
warrant a whole thread).
[/quote]
Feel free to start a thread and name it accordingly. Does make
sense to small information type stuff. I'll sticky it.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: May 30, 2014, 1:13 am
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I finally got around to seeing [i[X-Men: Days Of Future
Past[/i]... I wanted to see it on the biggest screen before it
got displaced (which meant 3D b/c I'm not paying full price for
a small screen, screw that sh*t). But oh man, I dug it. i
haven't seen the 3rd X-Men since it came out (and I've tried my
best to forget it because it was garbage), I didn't see the
Wolverine flicks (my dad gave me the last one on Blu-Ray, but
the rated version and I never swapped it out, it's still in the
plastic), and I don't really remember First Class (and my
hearing aid didn't work, so I didn't REALLY see it when I saw
it) so... it feels like an eternity since I was in the X-Men
world. X-2 was the last solid point for me, really. So almost
ten years later, seeing them all come back, ugh that was great.
And now the effects, if you've seen the Sentinel bunker attack
clip online, THAT'S the X-Men I remember from a kid, now the
movies can REALLY show them. You take that, you bring in the
original movie X-Men and then the best bits of First Class, it's
almost like a singularity film, which I think is really great.
It feels like that core is back. Not the core cast, maybe the
core ideals, but that center, that indefinable thing that makes
the X-Men movies the X-Men movies.
Something I'd have to rewatch and check, but I thought was cool,
was that the future stuff matched the original movie style, and
the past sort of matches the Matthew Vaughn style. And I feel
like... they did SOMETHING to the Lower Level set when they
rebuilt it, they might hvae made it a lighter colour, because it
looks like the one in the original but it also does feel like
something that would be "futuristic" in the 70s as well.
#Post#: 28578--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 30, 2014, 7:17 am
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I'm very much looking forward to X-Men: Days of Future Past. I
will no doubt Buy the DVD when it drops for sure. I'm a fan of
the series. As for both Wolverine flicks, they aren't perfect,
but they delivered for me for the most part. And about X-Men:
The Last Stand, I too avoided the movie forever based on what
people were saying. I had to go back and re-read my review to
understand why I dug The Last Stand
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/>and having done so, I kinda want to watch the movie again.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: May 30, 2014, 6:34 pm
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I'm darn certain I'll be buying the Blu-Ray... right after I get
some other blu-rays I want. The Wolverine thing, though... I
only want to see the Unrated version, which naturally isn't the
one I have. Darn darn darn.
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