Mister Jack Posted January 2, 2013 Report Share Posted January 2, 2013 I finally watched ParaNorman. I'd call it one of the best movies of 2012. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Megamind. Really enjoyed it. Loved the music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Had my little sister watching that over Xmas, think she watched it about 3 times. I'm not really a fan of Will Ferrell so it's an oddity for me. It's a pretty good multi-level film; got the jokes for kids, the jokes for adults, the breakdown of the superhero genre. Oh and it gets the origin story out of the way in the first few minutes of the film which most other proper superhero films seem to struggle with doing in the first few films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 By the time the origin story's over it's time to reboot the series. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Megamind. Really enjoyed it. Loved the music. I movie hopped to this film after seeing Tangled. Maybe after seeing a movie that I thought was on par with one of my childhood favorite movies (Aladdin) I was just disappointed with the film. Maybe I should try it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 This Is 40. It takes a while to get started and for a lot of people the ratio of drama to comedy might be a bit skewed(just like Funny People), but the drama and the comedy are solid. Really good, funny movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Up. Was on TV the other day. Can't say I was as wowed as other people, judging by what I'd heard. It was funny in a really bizarre way, and I think the perfomance by the kid was surprisingly good (owed a lot to the excellent, nuanced animation), but I wasn't really struck by the 'emotional' element. And it's not because I'm dead inside, because I totally got teary-eyed at Toy Story 3! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Wasn't the beginning like the saddest thing you'd ever seen though? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Not really. The Carl character seemed like a complete blank space at that point, so the rest just looked a bit like cliched emotional manipulation. I guess it's hard to qualify, because I get the intention behind it, but him being mute and just gawking all the time as a kid then made it seem almost like he was bullied into being with Ellie. For me, there seemed an odd disconnect between that representation and what came after. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 You're a monster with no soul. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Noooooooooooooooooo. *attempts to look sad* 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Had a friend come over to watch Dredd last night. Thought it was fantastic. Think I might watch Looper tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Please tell me your friends and you laughed at the weird hair the black thug had in the movie. It was too fucking weird and the entire theater I was at started chuckling. Also just saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Had never seen it again and fucking fantastic film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Also just saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang. Had never seen it again and fucking fantastic film. Love that film. "Bad. Sleep bad." And then he's terrible at maths later, too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 I especially loved Lincoln and Elvis popping into the hospital. And this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Yeah, Kiss Kiss Bang Band is an awesome movie. Watched it years later and it completely took me by surprise. As for the weird black thug hair in Dredd, nothing really comes to mind. Do you mean the one with long hair? It's the only one I can think of that kinda looked weird, I guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 There was one black thug with really long and really straight hair. It looked like such a bad wig. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toxicitizen Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 Went to see The Hobbit tonight. Man, that was all kinds of fun. At first it felt a bit weird, like "this looks like LOTR but doesn't quite feel like LOTR" but when things really got going that went away. 48FPS looked weird in some scenes but overall I actually didn't mind it that much. It was just different. It's actually the 3D that bothered me the most. It looked impressive in the big actions scenes and landscape shots, but I found it kind of distracting a lot of the time. I don't know, it was the first movie I ever saw in 3D so maybe i'm just not used to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 6, 2013 Report Share Posted January 6, 2013 The 48 FPS 3D really reinforced to me that passive 3D glasses are far superior to active (the 48 fps version is only displayed in active 3D, but the 24 fps version can be seen in any kind of 3D theater). With the active 3D anytime anything small moved fast, like a bird or a sword or anything, the 3D got fucked up and the depth got way off because your eyes weren't always seeing the same frame at the same time and so the different perspectives fucked up the effect. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 is the drop in resolution noticeable noticeable on the passive 3D? At home, not in the cinema. That's the only thing that puts me off passive 3D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 7, 2013 Report Share Posted January 7, 2013 (edited) Not really. Very occasionally on my TV there will be a little bit of aliasing if there's a thin line of something bright against a dark background, but I can only recall one movie where I noticed that (Avatar), and it was only in one shot. In the cinema there shouldn't be any drop in resolution because [i believe] they actually use two separate projectors, both projecting at full res. Even on the home TV, the drop in resolution is definitely less distracting than the fucked-up 3D any time something moves fast across the screen in active 3D. Contrast my one shot from one movie noticing the passive 3D against the fact that watching the Hobbit in active 3D it was noticeably messed up in every single action scene. *Edit* - I loved the 48 fps but I'll never go see another active-3D movie again. Edited January 7, 2013 by TheMightyEthan 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Brave My housemate wasn't pleased with the whole "romantic notions of scottish past based upon viewpoints of americans and scottish". Since as an archaeological student it should of course be a near documentary. She liked Meridia as a new addition to the "Disney Princesses" though. She'd noted that it could be construed as a pro-scottish independence film, until I pointed out the whole scene with the four brothers on the chess board. As for myself it was rather fun to watch, cliche and predictable in many parts but a fair few memorable moments such as the fathers impression of Meridia to the queen and the woodcarvers hut segment. The film kept a very brisk pace, in parts a bit too brisk, which in ways was good as it meant it didn't expand too much effort in the whole "always trust your mother" moral of the story which somewhat limits the target audience of the film somewhat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 I didn't get that so much as that rather than just being convinced that you're right you should actually listen to the other person's point of view and give it serious thought. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 15, 2013 Report Share Posted January 15, 2013 Brave for me was OK at best. I was REALLY looking forward to it and my ideal woman is a beautiful redhead scottish gal, but man.... this movie was just disappointing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Rango. I really liked the mix of 'ugly' animation with a lot of visual humour and a whole load of references (though, sadly, not all shot-for-shot ones). It sort of feels like a PG Tarantino film, really. I quite enjoyed spotting the little nods to past Depp films or the more obvious stuff like Chinatown and Apocalypse Now. I think W&S would get a kick out of the voice for The Spirit of the West. Since it's not actually Clint Eastwood, it's very appropriate, I might say. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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