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Tomb Raider
Rewatched this just the other night and forgot how truly awful it is. Score and all.
2/10
Totally agree. Totally.
However, I loved the sequel and its score. Very fun.
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TO RON HARDCASTLE-CUTE, RON CUTE.NO actually the last film I went to see was that magnificent musical THE FIRST NUDIE MUSICAL, THE ONE WITH THOSE GREAT SONGS by what's his name BRUCE - SOMETHING. anyway me and girlfriend found the film thoroughly enjoyable but she and I was a bit disappointed. I wish Cindy Williams took it all off and she wish the lead actor Bruce Kimmel took it all off.[ha ha ha]
Well, dan, when I read "OLD yeah, back in 1931 at the majestic theatre me and my gal went to see THE BAG LADY a couple of hours of pleasant diversion." I took you at your word. But you were just kidding? Sometimes it can be hard to tell when members are serious or just joking. I have a pretty good sense of humor, but since you tell us so little about yourself in your profile, you COULD have gone to see THE BAG LADY with your girl in 1931. So little? You don't even give your gender, so, as I think I mentioned months ago, you could be danielle for all we know. And maybe even knew Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas when you took your, ahem, gal to see THE BAG LADY in 1931. That was long before my time, but my friend Christopher told me it was a pretty good year.
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Finally saw Gravity yesterday, and was surprised that so much of it left me cold, and I don't think that if I had seen it in IMAX I would have felt any different. Technically brilliant, but mostly un-involving for me.
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The Monthly Roundup: March
I watched the Francophone movies of Denis Villeneuve, who has recently made a bit of a splash with his English-language films Enemy and Prisoners. I enjoyed his first couple well enough, but Polytechnique and Incendies are both very powerful pieces of filmmaking. I'm waiting to watch his English films until they're both available domestically, since the second to be released was actually the first to be shot and I'm occasionally ridiculous about things like that.
I watched two bad Rachel McAdams time-travel movies. I watched the first couple movies of Toa Fraser; both were very good, and Dean Spanley in particular was excellent -- even made me tear up a bit.
I had a Mars-athon. Started with the Veronica Mars movie, which was a little too TV-ish and fan-servicey for a film, but was still a good time, and then caught up with a bunch of Mars genre movies I'd missed out on. Brian De Palma's Mission to Mars, while the most ambitious of the bunch, was truly awful. It tried to tackle some weighty themes, and missed the mark badly, and has one of the most idiotic scenes I've ever seen in any movie, and is occasionally laughably off, tonally. That said, it does have a couple neat sequences. Red Planet was less ambitious, but also less bad. The science was actually less stupid than in Mission to Mars, and while Val Kilmer was phoning it in, Carrie-Anne Moss actually delivered in a limited role. More importantly, it knew it was a B-movie and played as such, keeping things light and fun. Ghosts of Mars is the worst John Carpenter movie I've ever seen and probably one of the worst movies I've ever seen. The Last Days on Mars was watchable and well-produced with a decent cast, but suffers from an astonishing lack of ambition. It's the kind of thing you'll like if you like that kind of thing (which I do, so it was okay), but it really offers nothing to stand out from the crowd.
I watched The Wind Rises, which was quite good aside from the piss-poor English voice acting, and The LEGO Movie, which was a lot of fun but which I thought a little less awesome than most people seemed to. Odd Thomas, the new Stephen Sommers movie, was as bad as you'd expect from a small movie by a director with no discernible talent for anything other than big spectacle. +1 was dreadful.
On TV, I watched most of Clone High, the old cartoon from the guys behind The Lego Movie, Cloudy, etc. It was funny but I got tired of it quickly. Magic City: Season 2 continued where the first season left off: nice production, great cast, good characters, and a plot that mostly elicits a shrug. I'd have liked to see it go on but am not sorry it's gone. The winner of the month was Les Revenants, a gorgeous show with the major downfall that it ended with no resolution whatsoever, no questions answered, no sense of even temporary closure. Fortunately the second season is coming this year.
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PROMETHEUS 3D. 2 out of 10
Nice sound design and 3D is okay, but boy oh boy is it a stupid film. Most of it makes no sense, and it's filled with idiotic, unlikeable characters (considering it's touted as man's most important mission, you'd think they would have assembled a team with some intelligence). Thankfully, I got the 3D Blu-ray second hand, and didn't pay much for it.
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Apr 1, 2014 - 1:11 PM
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PROMETHEUS 3D. 2 out of 10
Nice sound design and 3D is okay, but boy oh boy is it a stupid film. Most of it makes no sense, and it's filled with idiotic, unlikeable characters (considering it's touted as man's most important mission, you'd think they would have assembled a team with some intelligence). Thankfully, I got the 3D Blu-ray second hand, and didn't pay much for it.
I just watched Prometheus over the weekend...first time I have watched it since I saw it in the theater. I enjoyed it more the second time through, and apparently WAY more than you did. I would probably give it a good 7/10 and am looking forward to the second one. I thought it was visually stunning, and very well acted for the most part. A few questionable choices were made by the characters, but hey...they are only human right?
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WHERE DOES IT HURT-72- This comedy takeoff of the dark satire THE HOSPITAL-made a year before with George C SCOTT is a funny cynical look at a hospital lead by PETER SELLERS, who take advantage of the patients for everything they are worth.A solid cast of familiar stars. who faces you all know but not their names except for Peter and a young PAT MORITA are in top form. Helped greatly by a very sharp and funny script which delivers some great comic dialogue and hilarious situations.In some ways it is a bit ahead of it's time before Saturday night live and the modern humor of AIRPLANE and it's followers, very raunchy. Sexual, but tactful and incisive on all the problems of modern day social establishments and it's failures. Except for BEING THERE and his PINK PANTHER films of the 70's it is PETER'S best role during his last decade. Film has been very obscure since it's release and would be a pleasant surprise for both comedy lovers and Seller's fans that takes a look at 70's corrupted mores just like yesterdays news. Over 40 years later sadly nothing has change.
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jedizim: Re your I just watched Prometheus over the weekend...first time I have watched it since I saw it in the theater. I enjoyed it more the second time through, and apparently WAY more than you did. I would probably give it a good 7/10 and am looking forward to the second one. I thought it was visually stunning, and very well acted for the most part. A few questionable choices were made by the characters, but hey...they are only human right?
I immediately bought "Prometheus" on Blu-ray and enjoy it on my 55" Samsung with a staggering all-Klipsch audio system, and while it's far from being as bad as many here like to think, it's still far from perfect -- someone in continuity should have spoken up to avoid some of the most obvious inconsistencies (e.g. Without being fed, how did Noomi's 1 pound "baby" grow up in just a day to weigh probably more than 100 pounds? With absolutely no sign of there being less gravity than what we have on Earth, how did Noomi successfully jump a 15 to 20 foot chasm? When the alien ship is falling to the ground at the end, why not just turn to the side to avoid being squashed?).
Another film that many here seem determined to hate is Joseph Kosinsky's "Oblivion," which I like more each successive time I see it, and with apologies to those who've seen me make this comment before, I feel strongly that it is science fiction with a heart and the ending always makes me cry.
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Finally caught up with "Star Trek into Darkness" on cable.
While there are always going to be films one dislikes to one extent or another, and for various reasons, the above is surely one of the most grueling I've ever sat through. Twenty minutes into it, and I couldn't wait for it to be over, though I stuck it out to the end and am still kicking myself for wasting more than two hours of my time.
Mindless, pointless kineticsm, without a shred of feeling, and fake "Star Trek," to boot. Anybody who actually PAID to see this thing ought to have the word "sucker" tattooed on his or her head for life.
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Otherwise, not one of Eastwood's best movies. 
