I saw The Conversation awhile back, and I enjoy name dropping it every time people talk about how we have no privacy anymore because the government can figure everything out about you.
So youāre saying the dog doesnāt talk?
Laaaame.
thats stupid because by youre logic a boy and his dog isnt believalbe
I recommend this movie to people who want to waste 1.5h of their time watching both bad acting and bad camera work.
This Bā¦ C-movie contain long scenes of a man learning weapon disarming techniques, running around in the snowy mountains of Afghanistan, performing really bad gun scenes and even badly edited explosions which look like theyāve been taken from the effect menu in Windows Movie Maker.
To be honest, it look like a High School project.
Rewatched Primer. Still donāt really understand what the hell is happening after about the 45-50 minute mark. Time travel makes my head spin unless itās done simply like in most movies where it happens.
Edit: Does anyone know of any good time travel movies that arenāt really that well known? I like the idea of time travel but I think Iāve watched most of the most popular ones.
I remember watching Primerā¦
The only thing that confused me was how so many people were confused by it. I experienced the same confusion when I watched Inception.
The show Lost, however, is an entirely different story.
OH GOD YES
Inception wasnāt that difficult to understand, but Primer is I think. Maybe if I took the time to chart the story out or something it would makes some sense, but just watching the movie doesnāt really work for me. Thereās way too much going on and thereās not really all that much overt explanation. I can get the general gist but the details and how they all fit together to get to what happens I really just canāt get.
Although my family is what youāre talking about with Inception. They canāt follow the plot of that and they always bring up the Matrix as some impossible to understand movie.
āNo one can be told what the Matrix is. You have to find out for yourself.ā
āThe Matrix is an artificial reality created for humans which are being used as batteries for sentient machines. There, now was that so hard?ā
Earlier drafts of the screenplay actually had the humans being hooked to the machine for the purpose of using their brains to process information- i.e. todayās cloud computing. Of course, the studio was like āpeople wonāt understand thatā so they changed it to the battery thing, which is completely scientifically impossible.
Iāve heard that the matrix is supposed to have a really complex, confusing plot or something. Iāve never understood how.
Using human brains to do calculation would be pretty useful if we could actually understand how the brain works to be able to harness its power. Though it probably would never happen because of the ethical violations and stuff.
I never really understood why people think itās so super complicated either, Pyro. Itās pretty straightforward.
Iron Sky: Directorās Cut.
This version is even better than the original cut. It adds or extends a lot of scenes that help flesh out the pacing and characters. The ending is the same, though, in how it feels jarringly dark and serious compared to the rest of the film.
āJagtenā (aka āThe Huntā).
People can be really shitty.
Captain America: The Winter Soldier.
Itās just as good as the first movie, but it does seem to be much more action-orientated than any of the other Marvel movies so far. Itās not a bad change, but it doesnāt really leave quite enough room for character development IMO.
Alien, after neglecting it for toooo long. Good stuff.
However, Iām still wondering why Ripley was so bent on rescuing Jones. I mean, I love cats as much as the next guy, but in that situation, Iām fairly sure I would prioritise my own survival over the animalās, especially given that if I die, the catās probably gonna die anyway.
Either we both make it out, or We both go down together!
On a related note, I finally saw Prometheus yesterday. Iāve come up with a theory as to that ādeaconā at the end-- I argue that this is the vanilla, unhybridized form of a heinous creature which the āEngineersā augmented into xenomorphs (in order to increase survivability in whichever environment the creature would land).
A weaponized version of the monster would be granted smaller impregnation-vectors (facehuggers, check) and shorter gestation times (premature chestbursters, check). Otherwise, that creature from Prometheus would have evolved through natural means.
fast five
never get tired of watching it
I watched Ju-on the other day with some friends, and they were all scared shitless.
Am I the only person in the world who had a good hearty laugh when watching it?
Not laughing at it because it was bad, mind you, it was a very solid well made movie, I just found it fucking hilarious for no apparent reason.
I also watched Braindead, The Thing, Un Chien Andalou, The External World, part of The Exorcist and part of Monster House, but I donāt have any musings to share about those.
Boyhood. Overhyped, yes, but pretty awesome nevertheless.
I never thought I would enjoy a movie with Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette, but thereās always a first for everything, I guess.