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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Eternal
Well... some of the background images were really pretty so it gets one popcorn for that. Hated everything else about it.
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Well... some of the background images were really pretty so it gets one popcorn for that. Hated everything else about it.
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Puella Magi Madoka Magica: Eternal
Well... some of the background images were really pretty so it gets one popcorn for that. Hated everything else about it.
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Glad you didn't like it. I gave Guap a lot of heat for it. But I actually ran into someone at work in real life and he said he loved the movie. I told him he's nuts, naturally.
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End of Summer
Excellent, but not as good as that one Ozu film where the people sit around,eat food, and live their life. Yeh
Miami Vice -
Rad as hell. Michael Mann's 2006 neo-noir is stylish as hell, and damn near metaphysical in some parts. Some of the most sublime imagery ever put in an action film. The story is meh, but lol who cares about that.
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The Man From London
Not enough potato eating. Still good tho XD
Белый тигр - White Tiger (2012)
Just wow, a combination of some stunning tank photography and one of the best tank battles ever filmed, with some mind bending, Tarkofsky-esque sequences, particularly the extended scenes towards the ending.
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Rampage: Capital Punishment (2014)
This is the sequel to 2009's Rampage, a very good and disturbing film about a disillusioned man who goes on a massive shooting rampage in the city. The same actor, who is very good, is back; this time mass murdering and taking hostages at a TV news station. The story is now focused on the political message he is trying to get out. Its pretty good, but not as good, disturbing, or realistic as the first.
This is the sequel to 2009's Rampage, a very good and disturbing film about a disillusioned man who goes on a massive shooting rampage in the city. The same actor, who is very good, is back; this time mass murdering and taking hostages at a TV news station. The story is now focused on the political message he is trying to get out. Its pretty good, but not as good, disturbing, or realistic as the first.
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The Imitation Game, 2014
Dir: Morten Tyldum
From the very beginning of the film, through a voice over seemingly addressed to the audience, Alan Turing, the subject of this biopic, comes off as egotistic, contemptuous and very, very smart. And throughout the rest of the film, it is confirmed: he is indeed extremely egotistical, contemptuous and smart. Except he's not just smart. He's brilliant. A genius. He is odd, socially awkward, admired yet disliked... The most Benedict Cumberbatch character Benedict Cumberbatch has ever played.
Despite the similarities with many of his previous roles, Cumberbatch plays this one with a distinct melancholy, a different kind of oddity that is noticeable in this very polished, nuanced performance: Cumberbatch's Turing is as awkward as he is elegant. He is not a very likable character, but despite not being able to really comprehend him and his character and his genius, one cannot help but feel a combination of respect and pity for him.
The other aspects of the film were not as refined as Cumberbatch's acting though. Especially because his brilliance is not as deftly explored. The film keeps a bit of a distance from its main character's most fascinating, most controversial, most stirring facets. It makes it clear that he is a gifted man but it makes little effort to actually dissect and explore that gift, that brilliance, and the many other aspects of this complex personality. The audience is made to admire him, not understand him.
Still, the film is carried out gracefully and is very moving as well. It honors a man whose existence was as tragic as it was important, and leaves an unsettling feeling for the world's inability to accept what it is not familiar with.
7.5/10
Dir: Morten Tyldum
From the very beginning of the film, through a voice over seemingly addressed to the audience, Alan Turing, the subject of this biopic, comes off as egotistic, contemptuous and very, very smart. And throughout the rest of the film, it is confirmed: he is indeed extremely egotistical, contemptuous and smart. Except he's not just smart. He's brilliant. A genius. He is odd, socially awkward, admired yet disliked... The most Benedict Cumberbatch character Benedict Cumberbatch has ever played.
Despite the similarities with many of his previous roles, Cumberbatch plays this one with a distinct melancholy, a different kind of oddity that is noticeable in this very polished, nuanced performance: Cumberbatch's Turing is as awkward as he is elegant. He is not a very likable character, but despite not being able to really comprehend him and his character and his genius, one cannot help but feel a combination of respect and pity for him.
The other aspects of the film were not as refined as Cumberbatch's acting though. Especially because his brilliance is not as deftly explored. The film keeps a bit of a distance from its main character's most fascinating, most controversial, most stirring facets. It makes it clear that he is a gifted man but it makes little effort to actually dissect and explore that gift, that brilliance, and the many other aspects of this complex personality. The audience is made to admire him, not understand him.
Still, the film is carried out gracefully and is very moving as well. It honors a man whose existence was as tragic as it was important, and leaves an unsettling feeling for the world's inability to accept what it is not familiar with.
7.5/10
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Efter brylluppet(aka After the Wedding)
(2006, Denmark)
Directed by Susanne Bier
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Susanne Bier
7/10
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(2006, Denmark)
Directed by Susanne Bier
Written by Anders Thomas Jensen and Susanne Bier
7/10
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (1998)
Watched with my lil bro tonight, first viewing for the lil sonnuvab!tch. Screwball tale of intrigue, pornography, kidnapping, nihilists, & white russians. Fun, screwball, lil bro couldn't stop laughing bout Walter Sobchak & 'Nam
They call Los Angeles the 'City Of Angels,' i didn't find it to be that, exactly
Rating: 10.0 / 10
I watched The Big Lebowski and wasn't entertained. Around the part where he vists the wife of that guy who pissed on his mat (I found they drew out the mat stuff as well), I shut it off. Maybe I should give it another whirl.
I still have yet to see The Big Lebowski. While it's admittedly pretty low priority, my girlfriend's absolute hatred of it doesn't help. Maybe I should check it out this weekend when she's out of town.
Under the Skin - 7/10
I checked this movie out because of the three critics that I closely follow, two of them listed it among their favorites of the year (Bob Chipman and Chris Stuckmann). I don't know exactly what I was expecting going into this, but a quiet, introspective, methodically shot / staged art house film was certainly not it. It was narratively reminiscent of Wings of Desire (even if it ended up at a polar opposite conclusion about humanity) and stylistically reminiscent of The Tree of Life, it is a haunting, intelligent film that will stick with you long after the credits fade to black.
Under the Skin - 7/10
I checked this movie out because of the three critics that I closely follow, two of them listed it among their favorites of the year (Bob Chipman and Chris Stuckmann). I don't know exactly what I was expecting going into this, but a quiet, introspective, methodically shot / staged art house film was certainly not it. It was narratively reminiscent of Wings of Desire (even if it ended up at a polar opposite conclusion about humanity) and stylistically reminiscent of The Tree of Life, it is a haunting, intelligent film that will stick with you long after the credits fade to black.
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I still have yet to see The Big Lebowski. While it's admittedly pretty low priority, my girlfriend's absolute hatred of it doesn't help. Maybe I should check it out this weekend when she's out of town.
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8/10 Barbara Streisand sure can talk. Not one of my favorites of hers but was worth the watch.
8/10 Barbara Streisand sure can talk. Not one of my favorites of hers but was worth the watch.
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Boyhood
What's the verdict of the movie on here? I liked it but I felt it wasn't really as deep as I hoped it'd be. They could've done more with the 12 years they used. Was still a good movie, I loved Patricia Arquette in it.
What's the verdict of the movie on here? I liked it but I felt it wasn't really as deep as I hoped it'd be. They could've done more with the 12 years they used. Was still a good movie, I loved Patricia Arquette in it.
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Leningrad Cowboys go America
A genuinely hilarious comedy from Kaurismaki. Definitely going to watch more from him, as this and Match Factory Girl are absolutely sublime. Kaurismaki takes the banalities of modern day existence and makes them funny.
Wild Tales (in Spanish Relatos Salvajes)
It's an Argentine black comedy drama film. 6 shorts stories, unrelated, with extreme situations where the main character takes drastic decisions. Hilarious. It's like a good Cohen brothers black comedy, but with an Argentine touch.
It's an Argentine black comedy drama film. 6 shorts stories, unrelated, with extreme situations where the main character takes drastic decisions. Hilarious. It's like a good Cohen brothers black comedy, but with an Argentine touch.
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Planet of the Apes (1968)
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A normal man? For me, a normal man is one who turns his head to see a beautiful woman's bottom. The point is not just to turn your head. There are five or six reasons. And he is glad to find people who are like him, his equals. That's why he likes crowded beaches, football, the bar downtown...
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Little Caesar - 5/10 - I was really into gangster films (esp. The Godfather) in my teens, and have seen almost all. I like Edward G. Robinson, and this was on TCM, perfect timing. It's good.
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Faces (Cassavetes) - 5/10
I couldn't finish this the first two times, especially the distorted images that were giving me headaches. Now, I've fully completed everything Cassavetes directed. Really wish the sound was improved.. It's a drunken movie, a lot of dialogue you can't hear (footstomping and someone else talking simulatenously), this is one of the least structured films. I liked John Marley. I know Seymour Cassell was a good friend of J.C., but I think he's a bad actor. And both he and Lynn Carlin nominated for an Oscar..? She didn't say more than 3 words.. I make this argument all the time, but I hear a great line, and then poof, it's shut, instead of going deeper, instead of opening something blindfolded.
I couldn't finish this the first two times, especially the distorted images that were giving me headaches. Now, I've fully completed everything Cassavetes directed. Really wish the sound was improved.. It's a drunken movie, a lot of dialogue you can't hear (footstomping and someone else talking simulatenously), this is one of the least structured films. I liked John Marley. I know Seymour Cassell was a good friend of J.C., but I think he's a bad actor. And both he and Lynn Carlin nominated for an Oscar..? She didn't say more than 3 words.. I make this argument all the time, but I hear a great line, and then poof, it's shut, instead of going deeper, instead of opening something blindfolded.
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