Hot Heart Posted April 25, 2015 Report Share Posted April 25, 2015 (edited) There's at least one scene with many fist pumps. "Go to sleep, go to sleep, go to sleep" Yeah I'm in a "might go rewatch" kinda mood, cos yeah there's lots going on. Hehe. I was actually going to comment that that was one of my favourite "gags" but... there are so many good ones. Plus, there's kind of another level to that particular one, but I won't say more. A random thought: SPOILERS ATJ lasted longer as a superhero without powers (Kick-Ass) than one with. I didn't see that coming. Edited April 25, 2015 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Just got back from Avengers. Man, I had a blast with this movie. I like just about all of the Marvel films, more or less, but I usually like them as movie adaptations, if that makes any sense. Basically, I like them but there aren't many Marvel movies where I just feel like a comic book is coming to life in front of me. Ultron gave me that feeling, though, making it only the second Marvel movie to do so (with Guardians of the Galaxy being the first). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 I think it's cos they're started to get comfortable and make things more n more "comic-bookey" since audiences are warming up to that. Anywho, spoiler up in here if rest of world is starting to see this. I want to chat proper about this (unless we shift over to the MCU thread) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vecha Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 Noah. Very late in seeing it...and probably one of the few people on the planet who liked it(based on netflix reviews...has a 1.5 stars rating). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 1, 2015 Report Share Posted May 1, 2015 The stars Netflix shows isn't strictly what other people have rated it, it's how much Netflix thinks you will like it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted May 5, 2015 Report Share Posted May 5, 2015 Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck. It was great. Though to be honest I'm a bad judge on who would like or not like a documentary. I imagine if you're not a Nirvana fan, this isn't something you'd like. Or maybe you would. I dunno. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) I watched You're Next last night Bloody loved it. Went in expecting a decent slasher flick Got a very well written, phenomenally taught thriller. All the characters seem like real people, for better and worse. Some of them you fully hate but you empathise with. Then when they all start getting killed, it feels real. 99% of their responses are realistic, conveying panic and trauma and shock. They try to deal with things and generally fuck up. Only one character doesn't. Broadly they don't do things which are too unsafe, though there are exceptions, as always. It verges very slightly into 80s video-nasty violence too, but it never goes over the top. The violence always has a place - it tells us more about the characters or the story, every time. Plus an all-time classic ending in my opinion. The splash screen didn't work but the hints of what might happen afterwards were great Edited May 11, 2015 by kenshi_ryden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 What a weird coincidence, I watched that movie on Saturday with my wife and my sister and her boyfriend. I would have just put it in the "okay" category though: I was laughing out loud at how dumb some of the parts were, but overall it was entertaining enough. I also completely disagree that any significant portion of their actions are realistic. I mean, I get that in a situation like that you're going to be freaking out and not making the most intelligent decisions, but even really simple, obvious stuff like "stay together" seemed too much for them to manage. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 The "let's split up" thing was definitely the biggest ball-drop in terms of good writing. They were all sitting about by themselves way too often from halfway through. And the fact that anyone in the movie ever goes within eye-shot of a window after the first assault. That was just mind-boggling. IRL you'd be so paranoid about windows you'd probably crawl everywhere, if you moved at all. But I suppose I'm referring to how incapacitated a lot of them were by shock when it all started. That was really realistic. Loads of them just sat around crying/screaming until the one or two lucid people got them moving, even then they just moved somewhere else and continued crying/screaming (often alone, which was stupid). Nothing really struck me as outright dumb – what bits are you referring to? Also I liked the "twist" and the whole concept of what was going on. It was really nice and not overplayed, like a good one-room drama. I feel it would make a great stage play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 Just stuff like what you mentioned, about how they continued to hang around open windows, that kind of thing. The stuff that was dumb enough that I was laughing at was mostly decision making stuff, "we should do x", not their in-the-moment reactions. I can't think of specific examples off the top of my head, but I know I laughed a few times throughout the movie at things I don't think we were meant to laugh at. Not something that made me laugh, but just struck me as odd: Right at the beginning, when they were getting out of the dining room, why did they pick up chairs to hide behind while they ran? It left huge areas of their bodies exposed. The more obvious/safer course would have been to army crawl below the window and out the door. I do agree that stuff like the just standing around screaming during the initial bit seems pretty realistic. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 I can sympathise with laughter at the film's contrivances. I think I really needed to relax my mind last night so I fully suspended my disbelief and didn't notice anything overly flawed There were a couple of very minor actual plot holes, but it was easy to let them slide. The window thing being one of the main ones! I reckoned that the chairs let them move quicker and that their legs would be protected by the windowsill, as it was a waist-high window. IIRC the door was set quite far away from the window so they may have still been exposed while crawling? But if their legs weren't exposed then they would have been safe crawling... Anyway. In general, there was a distinct lack of safe movement in the thing. Her diving out the window when cornered by the guy was great though. If you had your head screwed on, that's totally what you would have done to escape. And it was also a realistic version of Leon's window-dive at the start of Resident Evil 4 xD 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 (edited) Yeah, there were some great parts, that part you mentioned being one of them. I also really liked how when she ran out of the house she immediately went back in the open window, reasonably thinking it would never occur to them that she would go straight back into the house. Probably the high point of the movie for me though was when her boyfriend came back and explained to her that her survival was a very crucial part of the plan, because she was to be the disinterested witness. A little bit earlier, when she was the last one left, I had said to everybody "Why are they still trying to kill her? She can't inherit anything and her survival would actually really help because she would be a corroborating witness." so it was really cool when that turned out to have been exactly the plan, and it was only her Rambo-ness that fucked it up. So yeah, it had some really good bits, there were just too many things that seemed dumb for me to call it a really good movie overall. *Edit - But as I said, it was still entertaining, it wasn't aggressively bad and I don't regret watching. I gave it 3-stars on Netflix, which according to Netflix is "liked it". Edited May 11, 2015 by TheMightyEthan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted May 11, 2015 Report Share Posted May 11, 2015 You're Next was an okay movie, but a fantastic deconstruction of horror genre tropes. As someone who thinks most horrow movies are bad but who love to see how filmmakers play with the trappings of the genre, I loved You're Next. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Hot Heart Posted May 17, 2015 Report Share Posted May 17, 2015 Mad Max: Fury Road Yes, yes, yeeeees. The hype is right. This is the best Mad Max film and totally feels like the one Miller always wanted to make. It's definitely got the same approach as 2 & 3, but without the need for the "origin story" of 1. It's got superb visuals, a heavy dose of great, crunchy, meaty action throughout (the pace almost never lets up) and still places value in developing its characters, building its world and establishing Max's "mythical" quality. Theron is brilliant (always has been) and the rest of the cast does a good job. It's actually got a neat array of characters thrown together with their own motivations and tensions. If anything, Hardy's actually the weakest part. Not that he's bad at all, just that everytime he speaks there's something "off" like he's bothering with the accent only half the time. Also, you see him like this And, from then onwards, my brain can't help hearing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) ^ As per my status, yes. Yes. Mad Max is great. My gf was flabbergasted. She had no idea what Mad Max was or how things would go down. We both came out feeling like it's one of our favourites. Also I love the feminist noise surrounding the film currently. It shows you can still make a badass, violent film which adheres to feminist (eg forward thinking and humane) principles efforlessly. A confession: I've never watched any of the other Mad Max's fully. I've watched most of Road Warrior and Thunderdome, but never the whole things. Are they worth a watch? You're Next was an okay movie, but a fantastic deconstruction of horror genre tropes. As someone who thinks most horrow movies are bad but who love to see how filmmakers play with the trappings of the genre, I loved You're Next. I guess that might be why I liked it so much. I'm so used to the run of the mill slasher shit that I love it when producers mix it up. For example, I loved that there was a reason behind every single murder. There's an actual motive behind every death in the movie. Rather than typical slasher flick "they're psychos, it's just what they do!" For this reason alone it was a really satisfying watch for me and really stood out from other horrors/thrillers. For the same reason, Funny Games (original) is one of my favourite films, and top 5 favourite horror films. But it's basically unwatchable for anyone who's expecting "a good yarn" or "a thriller". Funny Games goes way further than You're Next. It's a total and complete deconstruction of horror and how horror works. No resolution, nightmarish philosophical and absurdist dialogue, really horrific events and terrorism. It's a tough watch and barely entertaining. But as a study of the genre, a flawless masterpiece. Edited May 20, 2015 by kenshi_ryden 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 Our boss said yesterday "eehhh, it's alright". His taste in films is like pretty bad mind. Only thing we largely agree on is Star Wars hype (he's of age to see originals in cinema as a kid) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 (edited) On paper, not much really happens in it. It's simple. But it's all about the execution. Which is oh so great. What kind of films does your boss like?! PS Tom Hardy is a bit disappointing, though, you're bang-on about that, Hottie. His voice is so overdone. It's on par with robot demon Batman. But this is just a normal guy. My gf also couldn't get over his accent. It's half Australian, half American. I accepted it as some dystopian messed up variant, but she was super put off by it. Edited May 20, 2015 by kenshi_ryden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted May 20, 2015 Report Share Posted May 20, 2015 I think tom hardy is generally overrated. Can't think what I've been really impressed by him in. What should I watch to improve my opinion of him? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faiblesse Des Sens Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 Do people think he's amazing or something? He's more of the "don't really have any complaints" type to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 I don't even know who he is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post deanb Posted May 21, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 To be fair no one cared who he was until he put on the mask. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted May 21, 2015 Report Share Posted May 21, 2015 He's solid in Inception and Mad Max, real good as Bane (even though the character was horribly underwritten in the second half), but he's fucking unbelievable as Charles Bronson. I recommend people watch Bronson if they want to understand why he's such a highly rated actor. I didn't even watch the whole movie, but he's a total pro. He's been in a couple of other little things where he was good too, but I can't remember what they are. Apparently the real Charles Bronson (still in prison) liked Hardy's performance and gusto so much that he shaved off his 'tache for Hardy to use the trimmings of, and called him "Britain's number 1 actor". (That praise is probably too high, though. Hi Daniel Day-Lewis) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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