Thursday Next Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 Hmmm, I never got the impression he was a "baddie" in the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 24, 2012 Report Share Posted April 24, 2012 I don't remember the movie that well, but in the TV show he was the primary antagonist of the Avatar and his friends (though he was a protagonist in his own little sub-plot, with the Fire Nation hierarchy being his antagonist). In the movie did they turn that admiral guy into the main antagonist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 Smokin' Aces  Damn, What was the guy smoking when he made this film? It had maybe two or three decent moments but it was such a poorly-paced clusterfuck of a shit story that hinges on a dumb twist. Although, it's quite an accomplishment to include so many characters yet not a single one about whom you could give a fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 I swear I just saw it for Alicia Keys. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted May 27, 2012 Report Share Posted May 27, 2012 Heh. Fair enough. She did look good, and Jason Bateman was completely unnecessary but good. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Finally saw Green Lantern. It's just as bad as people said. Special effects were good, but the rest was so horrid. And Blake Lively was just unnecessary, about as unnecessary as Gossip Girl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 Green Lantern pissed me off, especially because I had watched the animated First Flight movie beforehand and thought that one was really good, not to mention I had already been wanting a Green Lantern movie for a long time. The one we ended up with was like a slap in the face. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted May 29, 2012 Report Share Posted May 29, 2012 I saw The Vow with my wife. A chick flick so bad, even she (the target demographic) didn't like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted June 9, 2012 Report Share Posted June 9, 2012 John Carter. Â Just, I could go on about how the movie fails in a lot of regards with only a few redeeming qualities. However, what frustrates me the most is how my father, after how I kept telling him to rent the movie from Redbox, just desperately wanted to buy it. At the end of it all, he tells me the movie does suck and I give an appropriate, "I told you so." Â At least the female lead was attractive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted June 30, 2012 Report Share Posted June 30, 2012 I got this copy of The Matrix on Bluray for Christmas and I had never seen it. It's pretty lame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted August 31, 2012 Report Share Posted August 31, 2012 I finally watched The Lorax. Wow. Did they shit on Suess's grave and smear the buttcheeks all around in the poo like a canine with a scratchy ass. I couldn't even finish it with only 20 minutes left to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 (edited) The Girl (It's a TV film but it counts.) Â Despite being about Hitchcock and his relationship with Tippi Hedren - a topic ripe with potential - it is poorly conceived and written. As someone who wrote essays on Hitchcock while at university, I feel it does a disservice to everyone involved and feels very much like a 'years later hearsay' portrayal rather than something researched. It's well-known that Hitchcock felt actors should be treated like cattle and that he had an 'obsession' with ice cold blondes, and could become quite controlling. Vertigo is as close a manifestation of these psychological issues as you'll ever see. Â The film ignores crucial information (as well as facts) to up the drama and craft a story, but also turn Hitchcock into a real villain. There's no subtlety or depth: Hitchcock is a pervert that wants to sleep with Hedren (which later includes outright demanding sexual favours), while she's the poor, tortured innocent. I don't dispute that she was innocent (and a terrible actress), but Hitchcock was never so overtly sexual. It would've been far better to see his 'frustration' done psychologically. He makes her suffer through a violent scene over and over, but it's not done in order to enchance a performance (like Kubrick deliberately 'torturing' Shelley Duvall on The Shining, for example); he's just being a dick. I don't believe that she would've stuck around for years if the treatment were that bad, unless she was obsessed with the fame that came from being Hitchcock's 'girl'. Unfortunately, that's a side we never see developed. You're just told what to think. Â Overall, it loses any legitimacy and impact, by being too one-sided. Â (I would've stopped watching it, but we were at a family friends' house...which just made me extra angry. ) Edited December 29, 2012 by Hot Heart Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chewblaha Posted December 29, 2012 Report Share Posted December 29, 2012 Thor. Â Movie sucked. Funny Stan Lee cameo, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 Thor. Â Movie sucked. Funny Stan Lee cameo, though. Â I forgot the Stan Lee cameo, what was it in that movie? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 He had the pick-up pull on Thors hammer and it pulls off the bumper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 I can't believe that man is 90! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted January 3, 2013 Report Share Posted January 3, 2013 I would have put Thor in OK movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorgi Duke of Frisbee Posted January 4, 2013 Report Share Posted January 4, 2013 Les Miserables. It's a disaster. Awful staging, awful cinematography, sub-par singing, and the source material itself isn't very good to begin with. Â Oh yeah, and Jack Reacher. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Gangster Squad. Â I had no intention of seeing this film, but a few other friends wanted to see it and half of us had the Orange Wednesday deal (2 for 1). Unfortunately, to take advantage of the deal, you can't pre-book, and none of the guys thought to get tickets ahead of time, so we wound up in the front row. You may have seen my friend's tweet that his neck was as strained as the dialogue. That said, it's not a contributing factor to why I disliked the film. Â Put simply, it's a big dumb action film dressed up in a sharp 1940s suit. Not even Ryan Gosling and the few well-done comical beats (as you might expect from the director of Zombieland) can redeem this one. It makes The Untouchables - an inescapable comparison - look like high art. It's got a squad of token characters, with on-the-nose motivations and backgrounds, and is bursting with every cliche imaginable. The 'finale' had me cringing nearly the whole time. And when it has a crescendo that builds to the final punch... Â Doesn't help that I can't stand Sean Penn either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well that sucks. When I saw the first trailer for Gangster Squad I really really wanted it to turn out good because I like 1940s noir. I wasn't expecting the greatest movie of all time but I was hoping it would at least be entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted January 17, 2013 Report Share Posted January 17, 2013 Well, you might enjoy it as a mindless action film, but '40s noir, it certainly is not. In its favour, I can say that it has a good cast (though, mostly wasted), it's fairly interesting visually, and the action scenes are particularly 'crunchy'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P4: Gritty Reboot Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Gangster Squad. Â I had no intention of seeing this film, but a few other friends wanted to see it and half of us had the Orange Wednesday deal (2 for 1). Unfortunately, to take advantage of the deal, you can't pre-book, and none of the guys thought to get tickets ahead of time, so we wound up in the front row. You may have seen my friend's tweet that his neck was as strained as the dialogue. That said, it's not a contributing factor to why I disliked the film. Â Put simply, it's a big dumb action film dressed up in a sharp 1940s suit. Not even Ryan Gosling and the few well-done comical beats (as you might expect from the director of Zombieland) can redeem this one. It makes The Untouchables - an inescapable comparison - look like high art. It's got a squad of token characters, with on-the-nose motivations and backgrounds, and is bursting with every cliche imaginable. The 'finale' had me cringing nearly the whole time. And when it has a crescendo that builds to the final punch... Â Doesn't help that I can't stand Sean Penn either. So is it one thumb up or two? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 You know my friends can't stand Sean Penn, but I think it's because of politics. He might be an unapologetic democrat or something because the entire family of my friends hate him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 It's because he's a dick. He was punching photographers before the paparazzi were cool to punch. Kinda well deserved hate. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waldorf and Statler Posted January 18, 2013 Report Share Posted January 18, 2013 Really? On a scale of Morgan Freeman to Quentin Tarantino how much of a dick is he? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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