Faiblesse Des Sens Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Interstellar. Beautiful movie but the ending really takes away a lot of the impact. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 I was home sick earlier this week, so I watched two films, one was OK, it was called.... Edge of Tomorrow. I don't really like Tom Cruise, and I can't recall the last time I watched one of this movies maybe the alien invasion one with Dakota Fanning, but this one was actually pretty decent. It was pretty much a Groundhog Day with mech suits and aliens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 23, 2015 Report Share Posted April 23, 2015 Yeah, that movie was a lot better than I was expecting it to be. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Edge of Tomorrow is goddamned fantastic, you philistines. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strangelove Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 I hate that everyone detracts points from the movie because Tom Cruise is in it. It's not an ok movie, it's a good movie. And Cruise is good in it. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 I thought it was a good movie, which was a lot better than the bad-to-okay movie I was expecting. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 DAMMIT FINE YOU GUYS ARE RIGHT, IT WAS PRETTY GOOD AND I WAS ENTERTAINED FOR THE ENTIRE FILM. ETHAN!!!! MOVE MY POST TO THE GOOD THREAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Yeah Edge of Tomorrow was alright. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted April 24, 2015 Report Share Posted April 24, 2015 Same. I thought it was okay. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted June 8, 2015 Report Share Posted June 8, 2015 (edited) Ex Machina Weird film to be sure but interesting enough. Reveal hidden contents First off I'm rolling with somethings (the weird stuff) like Nathan being a supreme tech god to be able to make Ava and the other AIs and their bodies. Their bodies are already more than enough to write home about. Nathan. If you just explained to Ava that she'll die without you, you would've lived and all that since you made her. She more or less cannot make or repair herself. Ava appears to be a fully functioning intelligence, a living being. She has the will to preserve herself. That is one aspect of being alive (aka you do not want to die or at least die in a way you don't want). Secondly is reproduction. She would have no way make more of her kind. Sure she will be among humans but there will be nothing like her. Eh, I guess she will just expose herself and make it known that she is possible... but I'm putting a lot of stuff that wasn't in the movie into it already. So I'll stop here. edit: I think I may be giving Ava too much credit... she may indeed be an AI with only one goal in mind: escape. So in my mind now, she may act alive, even human but she isn't. She's really just a learning machine. I'm just not sure if she can consider the future (e.g., she can die, can she have offspring or other things like her). Edited June 8, 2015 by MaliciousH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 Jurassic World This hovers just above 'crap' purely because of the spectacle, a few good sequences and laughs (some unintentional) and Bryce Dallas Howard running. It starts off sort of promising (even though some of the conversations run a little long) and then just gets kinda boring. There are some well-structured bits and tense moments here and there but it really doesn't offer much particularly new, and what it does is kinda dumb or underdeveloped. There's the meta stuff there, but it's mostly for gags. I was also kinda hoping that Chris Pratt's character would turn out to be the kid who Alan scared the shit out of with the raptor claw in JP1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 15, 2015 Report Share Posted June 15, 2015 On 6/15/2015 at 1:16 PM, Hot Heart said: I was also kinda hoping that Chris Pratt's character would turn out to be the kid who Alan scared the shit out of with the raptor claw in JP1. That would have been fantastic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 22, 2015 Report Share Posted June 22, 2015 Inside Out. I felt like it did not live up to the potential of the premise and was more obvious about the heartstrings-pulling Pixar is known for. The performances were all excellent, of course, and each of the comedians playing an emotion nail it perfectly. I also really liked any glimpse into characters' heads other than Riley. I did not like Joy and Sadness's journey through the outlands of Riley's memory because I feel like it really muddied the movie's conception of how emotions work; it feels like Riley's brain is only really connected to the control room and that everything else is just arbitrary goofiness for Joy and Sadness to traipse through. I also feel like the resolution of Joy and Sadness's journey is arbitrary and does not make sense in the context of how the movie presents the functioning of the brain and emotions. It definitely feels like the writers came up with the characters of the emotions and Riley's real-life journey before figuring out how the emotion characters' arcs would fit in with Riley's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 7, 2015 I just saw "Everyone is a Retard Except Chris Pratt." Sorry, I mean Jurassic World. It was better than JP3 but man it had a hell of a lot of cliches, which made it super predictable. If they plan to keep making these Jurassic Park sequels they gotta figure out a way to make the dinosaurs a threat that doesn't require everyone to act like idiots with no survival instinct. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Chris Pratt set it free by not checking before just waltzing in with 2 now dead guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Yeah, it seemed weird to me that their first thing Reveal hidden contents was to walk into the paddock, rather than calling control and asking them to use the GPS tag to see where it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) Ugh, JPW. Can anyone explain why and how a multinational corporation thought the perfect candidate to train dinosaur monsters was a former Navy SEAL with no animal training background? Seriously, guys: FUCK JPW. It's really dumb. Edit: Oh, and I saw Dope this past weekend. It was an OK comedy with some messiness in the execution (including secondary characters that seemed mis-cast and way out of place in the movie), which is understandable because it was the director/writer's first movie. Edited July 8, 2015 by Mr. GOH! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 I thought they said he had experience training dolphins for the military? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 It's never mentioned in the movie, but Chris Pratt has mentioned it in interviews. It would have taken like a seconds to cover and be like "oh he's a dolphin sea mine trainer guy". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 Hi, devil's advocate here. I took it as everyone, in the moment, is flabbergasted that the new and deadly dino has just escaped and no one was aware of it. The enclosure is reading there is no thermal signal of the big girl, and so we have our setup. To spoilers! Reveal hidden contents Realize the scene is setup for suspense, so while the GPS tracking could have been turned on, likewise to I-Rex showing her thermal reading, Chris and the expendables would still have gone down into the containment unit looking at her supposed escape route. This illustrates a cool, but also equally stupid point. We have to assume the geneticist was aware of having to design a dinosaur for military purposes to please InGen. Why else would you give an amusement park dino thermal masking and adaptive camouflage? Sure the camo rectifies the concept of a giant white predator, but it's all convenient for that dino to be such a large threat to everyone and every dino. It's why I like to joke there must have been some rabbit thrown in with the luck the I-Rex had screwing everyone over. Also, I would blame the chubby security guard for letting her out. Can't blame him though because you have an obvious exit with an immediate threat. Just, we know as movie goers that's going to be a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted July 8, 2015 Author Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 (edited) Yes, going down into the paddock without checking the GPS tag first was kind of reckless on Owen's part, but I'm willing to forgive him for this mistake because... Reveal hidden contents how the hell was he supposed to know that the I-rex could camouflage itself? I admit that pretty much every death in the movie wouldn't have happened if Owen had taken that one extra level of precaution, but he didn't know anything about the I-rex when they brought him in other than that it was artificially made. I'm even willing to forgive that fat security guard for opening the door because hell, it was the nearest exit. What I can't forgive, however... Reveal hidden contents is hiding behind a truck in plain sight. Come on, dude, that was really the best you could do? There was a jungle right there. It might not have saved you but it still would have given you a better chance than sitting on the ground, completely exposed. Hell, ANY hiding place would have been better than the one you picked. Edited July 8, 2015 by Mister Jack Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 On 7/8/2015 at 6:44 PM, Mister Jack said: Reveal hidden contents is hiding behind a truck in plain sight. Come on, dude, that was really the best you could do? There was a jungle right there. It might not have saved you but it still would have given you a better chance than sitting on the ground, completely exposed. Hell, ANY hiding place would have been better than the one you picked. Reveal hidden contents Even, you know, getting inside the truck... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted July 8, 2015 Report Share Posted July 8, 2015 He knew it was a GM dino, and smart. In fact his entire job is doing intelligence tests with the Raptors. He should have known better. One would assume given prior events on the island there would be rather specific set of protocols n policies in place of "we can't locate the dino atm", like nearly everything in that park had locations trackers on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 (edited) First time he ever heard about it was when the gal came by to bring him to the enclosure. First time he saw it the dino itself was chasing him down. Hell, no one knows what the damn thing is made entirely of until the final quarter of the movie. And the I-Rex ripped its GPS tracker out. A big stretch I didn't like, but it makes the I-Rex a loose cannon that makes everyone in headquarters piss themselves. So really, the I-Rex is suppose to be this dino that's too smart (half luck tbh) for all their precautions. EDIT: If anyone's to really blame, it would be the park administrator gal for not knowing what the I-Rex is made of before trying to get Chris Pratt's character to evaluate it. Really would have solved some major headaches throughout the movie. Edited July 9, 2015 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted July 9, 2015 Report Share Posted July 9, 2015 They wouldn't even tell that dude who was running the company what it was made of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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