Pacific Rim. Fun movie, but pretty standard and predictable plot really. Worth it for the effects in my opinion. Also cool to see Charlie Day play in something else than It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia.
Plus the film’s entire aesthetic is something to truly fucking behold. The plot was an excuse to finally allow artists to go all out and follow their hearts and that alone deserves attention.
I watched one of my favorite Films of all time.
Metropolis (1927)
This movie is amazing, that along with Freaks (1932).
You people need to watch the Phantom Carriage, that movie is really good… Oooh and M.! Also if you’re into horror movies watch some Giallos! as long as you guys don’t mind dubbed movies because almost all Giallos are Italian. Don’t watch Giallo, though. They made a Giallo movie named Giallo and it’s terrible. Also One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest is amazing! OH, and watch the original Little Shop of Horrors (1960). My movie theater near me are playing Some Like it Hot, The French Connection, To Kill a Mockingbird, Pulp Fiction, Fight Club, AND Vertigo. All great films! You should watch them. Especially Vertigo!
Naked Gun. Very funny.
I love all the little jokes, like how the credits include “man and woman deleted from fireworks scene”. The scene with the student driver was my favorite, though. “Now, extend your middle finger…”
Leslie Nielsen was a comedic genius.
Oblivion. Cool movie, really, and beautiful as well. Feels like a cross between the twilight zone and the jetsons.
I’m starting to wonder, though, why are so many protagonists named either “Jack” or “Jake”?
Kick-Ass 2. Was pretty good, but the IMO the action wasn’t as good as the first one.
Pain and Gain. Pretty good, not great. Worth seeing once. Those characters were such morons…
7 Below
Had great potential to be good, wasn’t. Badly done jumpscares and a scene with the overdone mirror scare. Not to mention the obvious budget restrains which have caused it to go forward “too fast”. Feels like they tried to squeeze as much as possible into an 1½h film.
Oblivion. Not bad, but not great either. It misses just slightly, with pacing issues and an unneeded action sequence just near the end. The initial voiceover wasn’t needed either, seeing as how they repeated themselves another hour (or less) into the movie.
^that whole movie reeked of modifications from test audience complaints. There’s a gem in there somewhere behind all those flabby voice over tracks and all those filler shots. I bet an afternoon in an editing suite could fix that movie right up.
Agreed. I love it when shit starts to get real absurd and then they roadrunner freeze frame it with a caption to remind you it’s a true story.
Just saw Speed Racer. God damn it I was lied to, I was told it was bad. I fucking love this kind of shit, I want more. The pallete was dead on, the cast was dead on, every single shot was dead on, Giacchino’s score was dead on, every fucking part of the movie was dead on. It wasn’t just a Speed Racer adaptaiton, it was an homage to all the animation of that era around the world from Astroboy to the Wacky Races. Fuckin’ just UMPHH.
I didn’t even dislike it. I just thought it should have been better. A couple more days in editing could definitely make the movie better for me. Though I wouldn’t take out the filler shots. I thought it was beautiful visually. Just the right amount of camera time for the scenery. The ending just needed cleaning up, and the beginning needed the monologuing removed.
Well, remember the writer of Oblivion wrote Tron: Legacy. Lengthy exposition seems to be his trademark.
It just didn’t need to be narrated (finally remembered that word) at the beginning. They repeated it word for word around 45 minutes later.
Rush.
Very good, Daniel Brühl makes an absolutely top notch Niki Lauda, and Hemsworth a great Hunt. My friend said he noticed Hunts accent slip on odd occasion, but I certainly didn’t find it that bad. Obviously the racing footage is great, if lacking a little in the sense of speed. And the odd occasion where cgi is used looks rather unconvincing actually. I would say it was over dramatised, but making a film of that era it comes out as a good balance between that and historical. I would happily watch a documentary on the subject matter, so I guess I’m coming at it from a different angle than the wider audience.
Overall, thoroughly enjoyable, 8.5/10
I most recently rewatched “Flight of the Navigator”. Watched it as a kid and it was one of my favorite movies as a child.
Looking back on it now as an adult, I found this movie to be rather disturbing for reasons not touched on in the movie. I’ll explain (spoilers ahead, but this movie is 27 years old and most people have probably already seen it, but just warning ahead if you have seen it):
In the movie, 12-year-old David Freeman is abducted by an alien drone ship powered by an artificial intelligence nicknamed “Max” and returns to the home planet of “Phaelon”, around 4 light years from Earth, for study. Then David is returned to Earth a couple hours later. However, due to the theory of relativity, even though David is only gone for a couple hours from his perspective, eight years have passed on the planet Earth. All this is done during a jump cut so the audience doesn’t know it happened and neither does David until everything is suddenly different. The police are called who help David find his family, now 8-years-older, and NASA gets involved because David has not visibly aged at all. While being studied at NASA, the ship that had abducted him calls to him. Escaping from his room, David boards the ship and they escape NASA. The ship had its star charts erased after crashing and being taken by NASA for study so needs the star charts it had placed in David’s brain as a backup. Then, using David’s “inferior brain”, they travel the world looking for David’s home. Along the way, the ship informs David that usual procedure is to return specimens back to their home planet by traveling back in time and depositing them where they found them, but the human body was deemed far too fragile to withstand the effects of time travel. At the end, David realizes that this family from 8 years hence is not his family and demands the ship take David back to when it found him. The friendship David and the ship had formed makes the ship comply with David’s demands and the ship returns David (safely) to 8 years ago.
All fine and dandy (the time travel effect returning David to 8 years ago was VERY cool to watch even to this day). Or is it?
The family from 8 years hence actually IS his family. The timeline he was experiencing was his timeline; the theory of relativity however, caused him to essentially skip over 8 years of Earth’s history in a matter of hours. At the end of the film, David’s family is pleading with David to exit the ship (even though NASA had them surrounded) and return to them, but David doesn’t and demands the ship return him.
Now, what happens to David’s family from the 8-years-hence timeline? From their perspective, doesn’t David disappear at that point permanently, the parents’ last glimpse of their long-lost son disappearing back inside an alien spacecraft never to be seen again? Sure, David returns to 8-years-ago and meets up with his family, but this is his family in a new timeline (where David didn’t go missing for nearly a decade–and has a souvenir from his journey with the alien ship). They go out on a boat to celebrate the 4th of July and everything seems like a happy ending with David smiling to the alien ship as it creates a rainbow in the night sky amongst the fireworks.
But David’s original family is now mourning over the loss of their son to the alien spacecraft and potentially has to deal with constant hounding by the press and government for who knows how long? I questioned it as a kid but now I find it rather disturbing. Still a good movie, though, and is highly quotable in my family. 
Bumping. I am thinking about going to the movies, something I haven’t done in ages, and am looking for recommendations. The following movies are at my local theater:
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2, Don Jon, Insidious: Chapter 2, Planes, Prisoners, Raja Rani, Runner Runner, Rush, and The Wolverine.
Are there any moves in this list that you would recommend?
Pentagon Wars. The hilarity of the whole thing is tripled when you keep in mind that the shit shown in the film did actually happen (more than less)
I still cannot get to watch it, along with Riddick. This needs to be rectified asap.
That’s why this shit ended up in coughdeleted cough extended scenes. Btw, he is killed by the same person both in the book and in the film.
I really liked The Wolverine. Couldn’t even keep up with how many Yakuza he cut up.
I also want to see Don Jon at some point.