Movies you just saw

[UmphreakDomer]

Do you tend to watch movies with a professional eye or are you able to take off your AD hat and just sit back and watch?

i can lose myself in a film. even stuff that i've worked on, because the editing is so much more than what we did, at the time out of context. but, i get upset when something brings me out of it--some sort of error, and when its blatant, its jarring to me and could ruin it.

then there are things that i have to think about from a logistical mindset, and that doesnt ruin it, but is more like "i cant believe they did that. that must've been a nightmare." a la closing times square 100% down for "vanilla sky" and tom cruise running. or any part of "i am legend" where the streets of manhatten are just empty.

for the most part im pretty partial.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Silver Linings Playbook. Emotionally intense but very good

I watched it last night; very solid all around. I didn't really care for the last 1/3 after the first 2/3 was -worthy. Cooper and De Niro out-shined Lawrence though, in my opinion.

So far for 2012:

1- Django Unchained
2- Zero Dark Thirty
3- Lincoln
4- Argo
5- Silver Linings Playbook

I still have to catch Life of Pi, Les Miserables, among others.

 

[Black Irish]

"Life of Pi" was visually stunning and very involving. But I don't think I'll ever have the urge to watch it again.

 

[arrowryan]

Iron Man 3. Excellent and the best one out of the three IMO

 

[NDGOLDEN]

Iron Man 3. Excellent and the best one out of the three IMO

100% agree with you. It was an awesome movie. Good action scenes and still pretty comical

 

[TCramer]

Iron Man 3 was good, and definitely better than the 2nd. But nothing will beat the very first one.

 

[Booslum31]

Saw Gatspy last night. Started out good and then went for ever and left me empty. two and a half hours I'll never get back.

 

[IrishJayhawk]

Star Trek in 3d today. Looking forward to it.

 

[arrowryan]

I'm watching Friday Night Light (the show) for the first time. Is high school football in Texas really taken this seriously? Also, the guy with the long hair is a complete @ss hat

 

[BeauBenken]

I'm watching Friday Night Light (the show) for the first time. Is high school football in Texas really taken this seriously? Also, the guy with the long hair is a complete @ss hat

This guy?

Hahahahaha...

 

[arrowryan]

This guy?

Hahahahaha...

Yes!! Haha his picture would be right next to the definition of "douchebag" in the dictionary

 

[BeauBenken]

Saw Gatspy last night. Started out good and then went for ever and left me empty. two and a half hours I'll never get back.

I never really read the book like I was supposed to, but even I noticed a couple things different from the book. Granted they could only bring out certain parts of the movie otherwise it would have gone on for four hours.

The ending, like the book, is very anticlimactic in that the world you once saw as fascinating is now an awful, awful place again without Gatsby.

 

[BeauBenken]

Yes!! Haha his picture would be right next to the definition of "douchebag" in the dictionary

Just keep watching the whole series.

 

[arrowryan]

Just keep watching the whole series.

He does have one sexy girlfriend though. I will give him that.

His flow isn't bad either

 

[STLDomer]

They main thing they left out from Gatsby I thought was they make Nick more of a narrator than he actually was in the book and at the end they changed Gatsby's funeral which I don't really get why.

As a straight movie I would give it a B+
As a movie in relation to the novel I would give it a B-

 

[Irishnuke]

Just watched Django. Really liked the movie but I don't think it needed to be as long as it was. Also, while I don't mind the gore, I'm not really sure what it added. Guess that's just a Tarantino thing.

Also watched Silver Linings Playbook. Liked that one as well. My wife wanted to watch it and she fell asleep halfway through.

 

[arrowryan]

Just watched Django. Really liked the movie but I don't think it needed to be as long as it was. Also, while I don't mind the gore, I'm not really sure what it added. Guess that's just a Tarantino thing.

Also watched Silver Linings Playbook. Liked that one as well. My wife wanted to watch it and she fell asleep halfway through.

I agree, it's just a Tarantino thing

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Just watched Django. Really liked the movie but I don't think it needed to be as long as it was. Also, while I don't mind the gore, I'm not really sure what it added. Guess that's just a Tarantino thing.

Also watched Silver Linings Playbook. Liked that one as well. My wife wanted to watch it and she fell asleep halfway through.

Exactly! There is no realism with the violence in a Tarantino movie. Not to reality! Normaly, I don't get into movies with violence, (if it is realistic). But Tarantino's never is; sometimes when he is at his best it is almost an artistic rendering. The coriography in the fight sequence with O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) was amazing, like a celuloid painting by a master.

 

[connect the dots]

I'm watching Friday Night Light (the show) for the first time. Is high school football in Texas really taken this seriously? Also, the guy with the long hair is a complete @ss hat

You will find the answer to your question when you read the book Friday Night Lights by Bissinger. The author spent over a year living in Odessa, and marveled at the emotional investment Texas towns make in their high school football teams.

 

[arrowryan]

You will find the answer to your question when you read the book Friday Night Lights by Bissinger. The author spent over a year living in Odessa, and marveled at the emotional investment Texas towns make in their high school football teams.

That is nuts! These kids are 16-17 years old and the people in the town think they are NFL players! Let them be kids lol

 

[Buster Bluth]

Exactly! There is no realism with the violence in a Tarantino movie. Not to reality! Normaly, I don't get into movies with violence, (if it is realistic). But Tarantino's never is; sometimes when he is at his best it is almost an artistic rendering. The coriography in the fight sequence with O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) was amazing, like a celuloid painting by a master.

Tarantino has said on several occasions that he wants his gore to be (paraphrasing) "over the top" and not realistic per se. He values entertaining, not making a documentary.

 

[IrishSpartan]

I'm watching Friday Night Light (the show) for the first time. Is high school football in Texas really taken this seriously? Also, the guy with the long hair is a complete @ss hat

dont mess with Tim Riggins

 

[arrowryan]

Lyla is a total sloot for cheating on Jason. Girls like that seriously deserved to get puched in the face...hard. Especially since Jason is paralyzed! And Tim is such a great friend

 

[greyhammer90]

Tarantino has said on several occasions that he wants his gore to be (paraphrasing) "over the top" and not realistic per se. He values entertaining, not making a documentary.

Blood staining the cotton fields was genius IMO. Has that ever been done before? It seems too obvious and awesome for a film in 2013 to be the first one to ever do that.

 

[arrowryan]

OMG. Such a cheating whore

I sound like a girl watching a soap opera

 

[Bogtrotter07]

Tarantino has said on several occasions that he wants his gore to be (paraphrasing) "over the top" and not realistic per se. He values entertaining, not making a documentary.

That's what I figure. I perfer it. It is entertaining and that way it doesn't really make any bad connections for me. (All violence in movies is unrealistic, because when the metal meets the meat, there usually isn't a camera present, let alone one that can shoot over 120 fps.)

Blood staining the cotton fields was genius IMO. Has that ever been done before? It seems too obvious and awesome for a film in 2013 to be the first one to ever do that.

Agreed and agreed. That was one of a couple of things I really liked about Django. A non-racist German that abohored the South's segregation; a plantation where the brains of the operation was the "House nigger", who was propping up the degenerate plantation owner. I bet there was more that one first, oh yeah, and repeating rifles in 1858 before the 1860 Sharps repeating rifle.

 

[Buster Bluth]

Blood staining the cotton fields was genius IMO. Has that ever been done before? It seems too obvious and awesome for a film in 2013 to be the first one to ever do that.

I saw a think on Reddit that showed how Tarantino is basically a walking encyclopedia of styles/shots/dialogue/themes from thousands of movies he's watched when he worked at a film rental place.

Tarantino is less "original," and more a brilliant rehash of films that directly influenced him. A lot of times it's shot-for-shot, too. I wouldn't be surprised if the cotton dealio happened in some short film from the 1950s Tarantino loved.

Tarantino's real genius is in his script. He writes a novel for each movie and just considers that his first draft. That's unreal.

Tarantino isn't unoriginal though, he did basically invent this creative and famous shot:

 

[UmphreakDomer]

Exactly! There is no realism with the violence in a Tarantino movie. Not to reality! Normaly, I don't get into movies with violence, (if it is realistic). But Tarantino's never is; sometimes when he is at his best it is almost an artistic rendering. The coriography in the fight sequence with O-Ren Ishii (Lucy Liu) was amazing, like a celuloid painting by a master.

only since but including kill bill. he has gone to a cartoony style of blood packs as a sort hyperrealism to negate fact you are in fact watching something ridiculously gratuitous and violent. but, the first three, dogs, pulp, and jackie are all based in a very life like and true form of blood levels and reaction.

going to see star trek in 30 min.

 

[gkIrish]

Great Gatsby was great. I'm a big Jay Z fan so I loved that aspect of the soundtrack.

Has anyone seen Star Trek in 3d? I'm going to a matinee tomorrow and am curious if I should pay the extra money.

 

[Cackalacky]

Just watched Inception for the 2nd time. I am still WTF?