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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Chiprocks1 Date: May 30, 2014, 7:06 pm
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How long do we have to wait for an all-in-one DVD set that
collects ALL MARVEL flicks into one nice shiny package (XMen,
Captain American, Iron Man, Thor, Avengers,
etc.............................................................
.)?
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: May 30, 2014, 8:03 pm
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Well, they made that Phase One briefcase dealie when the
Avengers Blu-Ray came out. But obviously that doesn't work
cross-styudios (it's why Firefly and Serenity will never be
packaged together officially.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: June 6, 2014, 7:36 pm
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I saw "The Edge of Tomorrow" ... today! I totally dug it,
though I'm not big on war (and the idea of living through that
over and over is my definition of h*ll, which is partly why I
don't believe in it), the movie worked pretty d*mn awesome. I
heard it described as "video game: the movie" in the best
possible way (and totally works the idea of "success is 99%
failure) , and it totally works on that level. But video games,
you can turn off, you can take a break. Here? There's no
escape. I don't want to give anything away about it, but
definitely worth seeing on the big screen.
Totally made me think of Starship Troopers as well, the suits
they were totally remind me of the suits they were meant to be
wearing in the original movie and will probably be wearing in
the reboot.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Mac Date: June 23, 2014, 1:38 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Chef[/glow]
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HTML https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLuixZwiIdU
I can admittedly say, if I was watching Chef on DVD, I would
have turned it off within the first 45 minutes. But since I was
a captured audience in the movie theater, I sat through the
whole thing.
The final result was very satisfying. Chef is a feel good story
with no great consequence. Jon Favreau is writer/director/star
in an homage to chef’s and cooking and self discovery.
I didn’t like the first half because a lot of it had to do with
twitter and Facebook and social networks. I really didn’t
understand some of the implications. The first half hour also
looks exactly like a cooking show. Way to many long detailed
shots of making food. I also didn’t buy into he was once
married to Sofia Vergara, and that lost some believability in
the simple story of honorable chef figuring out what makes him
happy.
Loved the cast with Dustin Hoffman, Oliver Platt, John Leguizamo
(always love John), Scarlett Johansen and Emjay Anthony is a
great find as the Jon’s son.
In the end, I walked away happy. I think most people will like
Chef.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Mac Date: June 23, 2014, 1:47 pm
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[glow=red,2,300]Edge of Tomorrow[/glow]
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I too saw it this weekend with my son. We both dug it as well.
Wasn’t expecting humor, but there is plenty of understated humor
here. The ending, well… I think they hollywooded it out. I’m
thinking the novel “All You Need is Kill” may have something
provided an alternate ending?
I was pretty confident we would not be watching a redundancy
with the notion of living the days over and over again. Like
Ground Hog day, Cruise’s character learns, sometimes quickly,
how to do things differently and that is what propels the movie.
It takes some solid right turns at the right places and keeps
the viewer engaged.
The aliens are intense.
Edge of Tomorrow is a thinking man’s sci-fi. Pay attention
because you are thrust all over in place and time and to see how
the story unfolds.
Highly recommend
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: June 23, 2014, 1:50 pm
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Well, the book is Japanese, so yeah, I'll bet that the
denouement was just added in. They're not afraid to end their
stories with everyone being dead.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Mac Date: June 23, 2014, 1:54 pm
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We have some great films that don't end all nice
The Thing (best movie evah)
No Country for Old Men
etc...
I'll bet the studio's told him to make it happen. Nice ending.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: June 23, 2014, 6:14 pm
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I'm not talking a dark ending, I'm talking "the characters die
and that's IT." All our movies, even the dark ones, have this
beat called the denouement, the happily ever after moment...
without it, the endings seem abrupt and confusing. So they
needed to add one to Edge Of Tomorrow but they didn't have
anyone left to cut to.
Think of Sunshine, everyone on the spaceship died, but then we
see Earth and know there's hope, and we see the Sydney Opera
House deep in snow, and it was a dangling thread they'd
established earlier: EOT didn't really have that so they had to
play around to put that emotional beat in there.
#Post#: 29117--------------------------------------------------
Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Mac Date: June 24, 2014, 5:53 am
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I've not heard that word before. I understand the meaning.
Learn sumpin' new everyday.
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Re: What Are You Looking At? (Multiplex Edition)
By: Neumatic Date: July 20, 2014, 6:36 pm
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Not sure where to post this since it covers a couple areas, but
since I saw it in a movie theater, I'll post it here.
Monty Python Live (Mostly)
And it was: broadcast from the O2 live to theaters around the
world and Gold Television in the UK, the final night of Monty
Python's (probably) final show. Amazingly, for 1.30pm on a
Sunday, the theater was PACKED with people. I swear, I thought
the place was full, and I still saw swarms of people flow in.
Being live meant there were some issues, the sound kept cutting
in and out for the first ten minutes (in every theater around
the world!), the image had this watery wavery quality every now
and then (like a heat mirage), but at least it was uncensored.
They cursed a LOT, the poor TV viewers had to hear the beeps
over and over. Of ocurse, the TV viewers had programming during
the intermission, we poor suckers in theaters around the world
had to spend a whole half hour playing with our phones and
watching a big countdown clock.
Eric Idle was all over this one because there were so many
musical numbers (and there was a whole dance troupe as well),
and the sketches... well, we've seen them all before, but they
were all fun. The only one they really changed was Blackmail,
and that was pretty fun (a mystery guest!). And there were
quite a few enjoyable technical fouls: forgotten lines,
uncontrollable laughing, ad-libbing that stopped the flow dead
in its' track (particularly in the dead parrot sketch), and Eric
Idle trying to keep his fake moustache on without touching it.
Priceless.
It'll be on DVD and blu-ray, I'm sure, so I won't spoil [more
of] it, but definitely worth checking out. Though not as
original and fresh as "Not The Messiah."
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