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06-28-2014, 12:25 AM | #881 |
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Bionicle 2: Legends of Metru Nui. I got bored.
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06-28-2014, 05:35 AM | #882 |
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22 jump street...
Okay so I only recently watched 21 jump street as the missus recommended it, and it whilst not as funny as she or others had made it out to be it was still okay. Sure it was dumb, but it at least made me chuckle a bit. Oh and it's worth pointing out that my favourite part of the movie is the meta humour near the start, where the chief is about to do the classic 'movie title is a line in the movie' and messes it up, or he comments on revving a franchise from the 80's. I went into the sequel with low expectations as trailers made it look, well worse than the first. The sequel then is more of the same, deliberately so though. Sure there's dumb humour still, and this got the biggest laughs from the audience, but damn this movie is so smart and self aware! Me and my two friends sat laughing solid throughout a good 10/15 minute chunk of the film at the amount of meta humour that was going on. Sadly this seemed to be going completely over the heads of those around us, so far as for a girl sat in front to ask her friend what we were laughing at. It's not just the one section though, the film is littered with meta moments (especially the incredible end credits) and to me it transformed an at times silly and dumb action comedy into something smart and incredibly self aware. Definitely the best surprise movie for me so far, I can see why others wouldn't find it funny, but I'm a big fan of meta and anything that pokes fun at the industry and itself. |
06-28-2014, 09:02 AM | #883 |
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Saw Trans4mers last night and I'm going to put it about on par or slightly ahead of the first movie. The action is pretty good and they gave the bots enough color variance this time that you can actually tell who is doing what. My biggest gripe is that there should have been 45-60 minutes of editing done, because this movie runs waaayy too long. It's the kind of long where you start checking your watch. Other than that it was money well spent, and Dinobots FTW.
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06-28-2014, 11:54 PM | #884 |
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Despicable Me 2 - This movie turned out pretty well. I liked a lot of it better than the first one, but I felt the abundance of the Minions brought the movie down a peg to make it just a bit weaker than the first one. Yes, I know that might not make sense, but if you cut out a good 10 minutes away from the pointless minion scenes, this movie would be better than the first one as its jokes are funnier, more memorable, and its plot is better. Lucy was just awesome. However, because of the pointless Minion scenes, the movie is dragged down in a more childish manner that takes away from the over all story. I give the movie a 7/10 though, which is the same score I give the first one.
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06-29-2014, 09:31 PM | #885 |
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Edge of Tomorrow - I got dragged to this against my will but it was actually not a bad movie. It was kind of boring, but the characters were good and it was nice to see Tom Cruise not play a pompous know it all for a change. The alien creatures were kind of interesting and the concept, while not original, was well executed. The parts that were supposed to make you laugh did so and you did feel for the characters, even if the concept did ruin the stakes a bit. It isn't a movie I will ever care if I see again, but there are worse bays of movies out there to view at the moment. If you have already seen the best this summer has to offer (X-Men, Godzilla, Capt Am) you can't do wrong with this movie at all. I give it a 7/10.
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06-29-2014, 09:34 PM | #886 |
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06-30-2014, 04:21 AM | #887 |
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Watched Robocop and Arachnoquake on Bluray over the weekend.
Robocop, at almost thirty years old, is showing its age. Honestly Robocop has all of the ingredients of a bad film, the plot thin, the characters thinner and the dialogue stilted, it's a barely two dimensional satire framed with dated effects. However it's so gloriously silly and so of its time that it sorta goes right through being terrible and comes back on itself as awesome all over again. Arachnoquake tries to be self aware and tongue in cheek but it takes a certain refined intelligence for a z-movie to poke fun at itself and come out on top, and Arachnoquake is a film utterly devoid of intelligence. Honestly, Arachnoquake is way more awful than I remember it being overall. I wouldn't say it was a downright bad movie, just a sloppy one and one that isn't nearly as fun as the title. Bleh.
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06-30-2014, 02:36 PM | #888 |
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The Phantom Menace - All of this Star Wars talk has put me in the mood to rewatch the movies. Unfortunately, The Phantom Menace leaves a lot to be desired. The visuals, sound, and fight choreography are great, but once you move past them, this movie has very little substance. In fact, the movie moves so fast from one scene to the next there is no time to even enjoy the visuals. The characters are so dull and lifeless that the movie is just boring, and that is probably this movie's biggest issue. Jar Jar is beyond annoying, Anakin is a little brat you just want to spank, Padme is one dimensional, while Obiwan is just there because he needs to be in order to connect this movie with the original trilogy. Quigon is the only character that really does any thing at all, but he is just there to set up Obiwan. The sound editing in the pod race is down right incredible and the battle against Maul is fantastic. Unfortunately, Maul served absolutely no purpose. He has no character arc or anything other than to kill Quigon and then die himself. Come to think of it, aside from being boring, this movie has nothing to it. It is just made so they can make the next one instead of being able to hold its own without its sequels being there to pick up its slack. This movie sucks and I give it a 4/10.
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06-30-2014, 03:29 PM | #889 |
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That is the only one of the Bionicle movies I can actually sit through. I couldn't stand how chopped up the masks looked in the first one, and I'm not a fan of the Hordika designs in general.
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06-30-2014, 03:30 PM | #890 |
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