ZombieKitten said:

sexton said:

The One I Love (2014) - Struggling with a marriage on the brink of falling apart, a couple escapes for a weekend in pursuit of their better selves, only to discover an unusual dilemma that awaits them.

I've never seen a sci-fi romantic comedy before. I liked it. 1/2

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Saw it last night. It was ok, but I really liked safety guaranteed better

I liked it just fine, but i thought it sort of meandered towards the end. Have you seen Coherence? I thought it was a slightly better attempt at the same kind of twilight zone-ish story.

damosuzuki said:

It was on HBO (or something like that), last night.

Wholly unrealistic and formulaic, but highly entertaining.

I kept thinking, 'Anna Kendrick is a mini-Tina Fey, the male lead's a mini-Dane Cook, and the leader of the Treblemakers(?) is a mini-Jack Black'.

0/5.

After 25 mins I had enough of the lame jokes so I went back to watching porn.

EvilAngel said:

0/5.

After 25 mins I had enough of the lame jokes so I went back to watching porn.

Fish Tank 4/5 Not a movie that will leave you feeling upbeat - miserable people making poor choices all the way down - but it does what it does very well.

EvilAngel said:

0/5.

After 25 mins I had enough of the lame jokes so I went back to watching porn.

I watched this last night it was average at best. Kinda low ball for a Marvel movie.

Lord is it hard to find a decent sized official poster on google. Go with this fanmade one though it is not available in imax.

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

out of

Thank God midnight showings start at 8 p.m. now. A lot better than I expected for a part 1 of an adaption of a rather short book. Jennifer Lawrence gave a flawless performance with much more asked of her than the previous two movies. Way cool extra scenes not from Katniss' point of view like it always is in the books! Book readers will likely appreciate the challenge of adapting this book more than general audiences which is why it's got a disappointing 69% rating on rotten tomatoes. Like the first two I plan on seeing this a 2nd time in cinemas, and look forward to the final film next year which comes out shortly before Star Wars takes over.

Interstellar – 3.5/5 I think it’s a lot like the final Batman movie in that it is too long, and a bit clunky & awkward in the way dialogue is used to explain some things, and particularly in the way there are some basic ‘why is that happening’ elements that don’t seem to make sense or at least aren’t explained well enough. I think his other movies (especially Memento, but also the first two Batman films & the others) had a really tight rigor in their plot that made them more satisfying the more you thought about them, and I don’t think that’s the case here. The direction it went in the last forty or so minutes also didn’t feel great to me when I was watching it, and I think I like it less the more I think about it.

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And unlike DK Returns, which I thought moved really well despite having flaws, I felt this film’s length.

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So I can’t say it’s great, but I still think it’s filled with a lot of great things & should be seen by a lot of people. I’m about to say great a lot: It has some truly great images that I thought were as good as any I’ve ever seen in a movie & that need to be seen on the biggest screen available, and a great score with gigantic, pounding organs (that did drown out the dialogue at some points) that ought to be heard on the best sound system. It has a great robot that simultaneously references 2001 & also is pretty original. And it is ambitious & epic & sprawling, & I think (despite some of the flaws brought up by people like Phil Plait - there are always flaws) it has a respect for science & scientists, unlike a movie like Prometheus which I felt was openly contemptuous. While it’s a frustrating movie in many ways, I’d say it has far more to admire in it than to fault, and the things that were admirable in it were truly great, & that makes it a movie that deserves to be watched.

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happy-go-lucky - 4/5 For the first twenty minutes: ‘I can’t take much more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddenginly upbeat woman.’ By the end: ‘I want more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddeningly upbeat woman.’

Birdman 4/5

It was great, but had the feel of really trying hard to impress me. I thought it was "stunty" if that's a word. Like the director was saying "Look what I'm going to throw at you NOW!"

damosuzuki said:

happy-go-lucky - 4/5 For the first twenty minutes: ‘I can’t take much more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddenginly upbeat woman.’ By the end: ‘I want more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddeningly upbeat woman.’

I loved this! Especially the driving instructor! When I watched Blue Jasmine the other day I kept thinking cheer up, love!

We watched a movie called "Push" or "Pushers" or "Pushed" or "Pushing" last night. I guess before I go any further, I'd better see exactly how much of the word "Push" was in the title. I'll be right back.

OK, I'm back. Did you miss me? Good. BTW, the movie was "Push".

I get unfairly criticized for not liking science fiction, or more precisely, time-travel movies. But I do like time-travel movies! That is, if they don't insult my intelligence by doing stupid stuff like claiming the moon landings were faked. And the good news is that nowhere in "Push" do they claim the moon landings were faked!

Dakota Fanning and some dude get paired together on account of they have super powers. But not cool super powers like the ability to fly, or X-ray vision, or shooting ice out of your fingers. No, Dakota Fanning can sort of see the future, and the dude can sometimes make stuff move (hence, he is called a "Mover"). Unfortunately, he usually can't make stuff move enough to do anyone any good. So when we meet him, he has just lost $5,000 in a Hong Kong dice game because he couldn't quite make a 2-ounce dice piece move 1/8 of an inch. Not much of a Mover, huh?

I just looked him up, and the dude is an actor named Chris Evans. Apparently he has been in lots of comic book movies based on comic books that I have heard of, as well as this one which was based on a comic book I never heard of.

Anyway, despite Evans being, like, the WORST Mover in the history of moving, The Division is after him. God only knows why, although it might be because his dad was allegedly a Master Mover (good thing he wasn't a Baiter, amirite?!?). So for some odd reason or another, The Division's resident Black Guy/Future Seer knows that Dakota Fanning is going to come see Evans and team up to help find some other girl. This other girl is also some great something-or-other and is to this point the only person to ever survive being given The Solution, which is some kind of drug meant to increase the powers of gifted people but to this point has immediately killed everyone that got injected with it.

Now, the first thing I have to say about these alleged superheroes is that they are really, REALLY piss-poor superheroes. Take for instance Evans' dad - although he was allegedly The Greatest Mover Of All Time, he was easily killed by about three Division B-team members. Yet later in the movie, The Division's own Master Mover is able to single-handedly destroy three dozen Asian Assassins, by both catching their bullets in his hand, and then Moving them at great speed into non-moveable objects, resulting in three dozen Asian Assassin deaths. If you ask me, they should have been dissecting THAT guy, but then what kind of a movie would we have had?

My favorite dudes in the movie are The Bleeders. They can scream at a really high volume, which causes things to break, so that's why they are called The Bleeders. There are only three Bleeders in this movie - a Hong Kong dad, who is the Master Bleeder (yech, that sounds bad), and his two sons who are intense tattooed dudes. They make you die by melting your brain with their screaming. In other words, they are the movie version of Pearl Jam. (EDITOR'S NOTE: Let the record reflect that Saturday night, I heard the first Pearl Jam song that I have ever liked. I wish I could remember its name.)

I forget how the two brothers died but rest assured, they did. However, NOTHING could top the way Daddy Master Bleeder died. He got pissed at Evans for some reason and yelled so loud that a bamboo building collapsed on him. He yelled himself to death! It was pretty awesome.

There are some minor points I could quibble with because as we all know, pretty much every form of time-travel is impossible for humans to understand, and therefore make sense of. And there were several plot holes, like for instance what happened to the gangsters that Evans lost $5,000 to, and had sworn to break all his bones? They just kind of disappeared after Evans was unable to move that 2-ounce die. It would have made sense to see Evans develop his moving powers on them, bashing in some skulls in imaginative ways. Instead, we see Evans go from unable to move a 2-ounce die to being able to control multiple handguns through space and time,

But nonetheless, the characters in this movie are really pretty cool. I liked the Shifter guy, who was the only one using his powers as they should have been used. That's right - he was gaming casinos and rolling in beautiful women. But he left it all to help Evans, which in and of itself is actually a pretty big plot hole.

This is a good movie that ultimately delivers a satisfying ending. I won't give it away, but do you remember The Black Guy from The Division I mentioned earlier? Yeah, guess what happens to him.

I give this movie 2.666667 falling bamboo buildings out of a possible 5 falling bamboo buildings.

The Station Agent

3.5/4

cute

That Bobby Cannavale was so soft looking, he got a bit more angular lately, like in Blue Jasmine

ZombieKitten said:

damosuzuki said:

happy-go-lucky - 4/5 For the first twenty minutes: ‘I can’t take much more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddenginly upbeat woman.’ By the end: ‘I want more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddeningly upbeat woman.’

I loved this! Especially the driving instructor! When I watched Blue Jasmine the other day I kept thinking cheer up, love!

I wish I had her in our office. Not sure how that would settle out long term, but to quote directly:

damosuzuki said:

ZombieKitten said:

I loved this! Especially the driving instructor! When I watched Blue Jasmine the other day I kept thinking cheer up, love!

I wish I had her in our office. Not sure how that would settle out long term, but to quote directly:

Zoe: You can't make everyone happy.

Poppy: There's no harm in trying that Zoe, is there?

Locke - 4/5 Tom Hardy drives a car for 90 minutes or so. Managed to be more interesting than most movies I feel.

I saw a swedish movie that was mostly set in a car, pretty depressing but compelling

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387151/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_30

Guardians Of The Galaxy 7.5 / 10

I enjoyed it. I liked the Racoon character.

Brendan said:

Le Week-End [2013] (Idea from this forum)

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It's easy to fall in love in the City of Lights but to stay that way decades after it crumbles down a steep brick road is something profoundly different.

Contemplating an oft-delayed empty nest, a different career or a complete closure, flirting behind layers of beige paint, escaping to places that never were, and cruelly attacking and avoiding what is feared can no longer even be detected in themselves. Awkwardly juxtaposed around a slice of serendipity, the surface elite blank walls all remaining pretense when a small get-together is so clearly felt in a former perspective.

Well planned at times and as spontaneous as a dance alongside a Parisian jukebox at others (nod to Jean-Luc Goddard's "Band of Outsiders"). The final ambiguous steps will likely always float as mighty as Fred Astaire taking on a ceiling. 5/5

I love this movie. I plan on rewatching it soon.

damosuzuki said:

happy-go-lucky - 4/5 For the first twenty minutes: ‘I can’t take much more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddenginly upbeat woman.’ By the end: ‘I want more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddeningly upbeat woman.’

This is one of my favorite films of the last ten years and my assessment after seeing it the first time was practically the same as yours. Sally Hawkins won me over so much, I began seeking her out in other films which I would not have seen otherwise. I'd recommend Made in Dagenham if you want to see Sally front and center in another good movie--although admittedly not as awesome as Happy-Go-Lucky.

Interstellar (2014)

The movie length didn't bother me at all. In fact, this may have been the fastest three-hour movie I've ever seen--I was completely engaged from start to finish. I agree with the criticisms about the sound mixing though. 1/2

X-Men Days of Future Past

It was alright

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I really liked the way they made it seem like one long shot and Michael Keaton playing the role added another layer to the movie, of course. I was entertained all the way through and even laughed out loud a few times.

3/4

Big Hero 6 (2014)

This was pretty good, but it would have been nice if the characters were in any way at all related to their comic book counterparts. 1/2

Habit (1995) - Recovering from the death of his father and the breakup with his girlfriend, Sam finds solace in the arms of the mysterious Anna.

This is one of my top ten favorite vampire movies. I love that it's rough and gritty and looks like it was made for $100 on the streets of New York City. It takes place in the autumn beginning on Halloween and ending at Thanksgiving so this seemed like a good time of the year to rewatch it.

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sexton said:

damosuzuki said:

happy-go-lucky - 4/5 For the first twenty minutes: ‘I can’t take much more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddenginly upbeat woman.’ By the end: ‘I want more of this relentlessly cheerful, maddeningly upbeat woman.’

This is one of my favorite films of the last ten years and my assessment after seeing it the first time was practically the same as yours. Sally Hawkins won me over so much, I began seeking her out in other films which I would not have seen otherwise. I'd recommend Made in Dagenham if you want to see Sally front and center in another good movie--although admittedly not as awesome as Happy-Go-Lucky.

Thanks for the recommend - I'll check it out. I've been pining to go back into her world since watching it. I have the feeling that I may have picked up on something you'd said about this movie some time back, and always had kept it at the back of my mind as something I wanted to see. Mike Leigh is a bit of a blind spot for me (think i've only seen Naked).

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Under The Skin - 4.5/5. Really liked it a lot, my movie of the year, maybe (never did catch up with Boyhood). I thought that the few effects scenes were incredibly well done. One in particular was genuinely creepy & disturbing, amplified by the fact that the rest of the film was so spare.

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damosuzuki said:

Under The Skin - 4.5/5. Really liked it a lot, my movie of the year, maybe (never did catch up with Boyhood). I thought that the few effects scenes were incredibly well done. One in particular was genuinely creepy & disturbing, amplified by the fact that the rest of the film was so spare.

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I totally agree with your praise for this film. It clearly appeals to only a certain demographic judging by the love it or hate it reactions it has received.

Whiplash (2014) - A promising young drummer enrolls at a cutthroat music conservatory where his dreams of greatness are mentored by an instructor who will stop at nothing to realize a student's potential.



Very intense movie and performances by Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons. I may get the big band jazz soundtrack. 1/2

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0/5.

Absolutely horrible. Horrible director, bad acting and dialogues that make no sense. I think Scarlett is great eyecandy, but this movie sucked so bad I couldn't get passed the 30 min mark.

sexton said: