inoccent
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Post by inoccent on Nov 27, 2015 21:36:39 GMT -5
Just watched Mockingjay part 2 and I felt very ehh by it. It lined up with the book but idk. Just meh
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Post by Morkim on Nov 27, 2015 22:01:53 GMT -5
Just watched Mockingjay part 2 and I felt very ehh by it. It lined up with the book but idk. Just meh Sent from my Nexus 5 using proboards I felt that way about the book ending. So that lines up. |
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Post by Jindred on Nov 27, 2015 23:04:35 GMT -5
Just watched Mockingjay part 2 and I felt very ehh by it. It lined up with the book but idk. Just meh Sent from my Nexus 5 using proboards I don't wanna watch MockingJay pt 2 because of one major happening in it.. I know it's coming and I'm not sure I want to see it.. reading it hurt enough.. |
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Post by Morkim on Nov 27, 2015 23:13:27 GMT -5
Just watched Mockingjay part 2 and I felt very ehh by it. It lined up with the book but idk. Just meh Sent from my Nexus 5 using proboards I don't wanna watch MockingJay pt 2 because of one major happening in it.. I know it's coming and I'm not sure I want to see it.. reading it hurt enough.. PM me. I bet I know what it is. |
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inoccent
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Post by inoccent on Nov 28, 2015 11:07:34 GMT -5
Just watched Mockingjay part 2 and I felt very ehh by it. It lined up with the book but idk. Just meh Sent from my Nexus 5 using proboards I felt that way about the book ending. So that lines up. The acting, cinematics, and everything about the movie was great. But I hated the story to begin with so that's probably the reason for my meh reaction. Sent from my Nexus 5 using proboards |
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Post by xdeadlyxmirage on Nov 28, 2015 20:22:52 GMT -5
 It's a Wonderful Life is one of the few classical Hollywood films that I particularly like. Anyway, I'm curious as to how many people (especially younger people) have seen this. I didn't get around to watching until I was assigned it in my Existentialism class. However, the impression I've gotten from people in generations before mine is that it's a classic everyone's seen. I'm not sure that's the case, even though I think it should be. |
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Post by Morkim on Nov 28, 2015 20:39:53 GMT -5
It's a Wonderful Life is one of the few classical Hollywood films that I particularly like. Anyway, I'm curious as to how many people (especially younger people) have seen this. I didn't get around to watching until I was assigned it in my Existentialism class. However, the impression I've gotten from people in generations before mine is that it's a classic everyone's seen. I'm not sure that's the case, even though I think it should be. I'm 28 and have been watching it every year as long as I can remember. |
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Post by Juggs on Nov 29, 2015 12:26:30 GMT -5
It's film season! Major spoilers ahead for the films already out, some speculation on the Star Wars plot that is unconfirmed and already on the internet everywhere. Spectre Total garbage honestly. It's on par with Quantum of Solace and Die Another Day for competition to be the worst Bond Film ever made. The story and cinematography were boring, the opening was incredibly slow, and they even managed to ruin Christoph Waltz and Blofeld. His character had no depth and no obvious reason to be doing anything to Bond. You could tell Waltz was acting at an oscar-worthy level with lines that he knew made no sense to him or the audience. Daniel Craig phoned it in, Judy Dench is dead, so that's ruined, and none of the secondary characters other than Lea Seydoux (10/10) are even slightly memorable. Seydoux has probably launched her career even higher with an awesome part in a shit film. Ralph Fiennes is good to, which was surprising after how poorly he did in Skyfall. If Sam Mendes gets to pick the new bond or direct or write, I won't be seeing the next Bond film. He's 2/4 with one great start, two complete let-downs and one decent summer action flick last year. I really hope he leaves with Daniel Craig. Mockingjay pt 2 A refreshing surprise from the god-awful first part. All I'm left thinking is that at least things happened in this film. Jennifer Lawrence and Harrelson are as good as ever, and the film deserves praise for sticking to a complicated, well-written story. This trilogy never got over losing Phillip Seymour-Hoffman, who was out-doing Lawrence and stole Catching Fire. The final in a trilogy is all about action and closure, and I think it delivered really well. I just hope that future book-to-movie adaps will abandon the awful Harry Potter model. It has never produced anything but a garbage exposition dump into an action movie. Spotlight This has, sadly, been my favorite film of the year so far. I am in school studying journalism though, so you might not enjoy it for the same reason I did, and if you didn't like Woodward and Bernstein or Frost/Nixon, don't go see this. It's not really about the Catholic Church, and critics who bash/support it's focus on the Globe are right with either angle. Consumers who wanted a Going Clear redux were always going to be disappointed; Hollywood couldn't released that in the United States, the church is too popular. Go read leftist conspiracy theory websites if you're looking for that.
The Force Awakens I'm growing increasingly concerned with Abrams' Star Wars adap this Christmas. First it was the rampant commercialization that doomed the prequels before they even started, and nearly corrupted the original trilogy as well. Then my ire shifted towards the leaked plotline that Kylo Ren is either a one-off like Darth Maul or is Luke in disguise, which I sincerely hope he isn't. Abrams needs to develop his own Vader: a respectable bad guy to build around. If I don't see old Mark Hamill walking around Tatooine within the first 30 minutes of the film, I might walk out.
Side note: Battlefront is AWESOME. I can't recommend it highly enough. I won't be able to get on till Christmas however, and I'm on XBONE, so table all game requests for now.
The Hateful Eight Just in case you're curious:
1. Kill Bill
2. Kill BIll 2
3. Pulp Fiction
4. Inglourious Basterds
5. Reservoir Dogs
6. Jackie Brown
7. Django Unchained
8. From Dusk Till Dawn
For all you purists who've seen the other ones... too bad. I haven't. Where will H8 land on this list? My guess right now would be between RD and JB, but I wouldn't be surprised to see Hateful 8 blowaway my expectations and sit as high as third after all is said and done. While Django was entertaining, it didn't deliver the way a Tarantino film usually does, and I suspect that his second take on a western will pull this off brilliantly. Hateful 8 doesn't feel like another write-off to me. Maybe I'm dead wrong and it's on par with the ones I haven't gotten to yet. Fingers crossed. |
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Post by Jindred on Nov 29, 2015 14:09:11 GMT -5
I keep watching the Bond films thinking that I like them, but recently have realized something.. They are really boring movies! I have a hell of a time staying awake during them, as well as I barely care about or remember the stories. I just watched skyfall last week and I can barely remember the plot. I had to fight just to stay awake through it, all so I could go the next day to watch specter with some friends. I ended up deciding not to waste my money going as after I finished skyfall I realized how I just wasted almost 3 hours watching a movie I didn't enjoy at all.
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Post by Juggs on Nov 29, 2015 14:45:32 GMT -5
Totally agree
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