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Not too bad, if at all a little slow but worth a watch.
Predictable but descent story line and and old (chick flick) movie for sure.
7/10

City of God - 9/10

Life of Pi. 4/10.

racist.

Actually the Indian chap was the only reason I get it 4.

I wouldn't know, going to watch it this weekend

Doombrain wrote:Actually the Indian chap was the only reason I get it 4.

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i fuck men...

Django Unchained - 8 /10

I feel like some dialog was sacrificed in exchange for gore. Regardless, pretty solid acting from everyone involved. Samuel L Jackson's character gave the score an extra point.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
7/10

A film that has the feel of a Hollywood thriller while getting you to think more than one of those does.

The Girl Who Played With Fire
6/10

Sequel to the above that gives you more of pretty much the same just not quite as good.

The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest
6/10

This is another sequel making this a triliogy. Again it's not as good as the first film, but the good aspects of it make it more different to the original than the second film. One of the bad guys is pretty impressive and it features some pretty good fighting action for a change.

Looper
7/10

Has some great moments including some pretty cool sci-fi dialogue, but in the end the story doesn't turn out as good as I was expecting and hoping it to
A lot of suspense and it's unpredictable practically all the time which is interesting.

DTS somehow missed the point of Looper entirely.

i thought it was just another time-travel paradox movie with telekinesis thrown in for fuck knows what reason. good acting saved it from being complete crap, but only just. did i miss the point, too?

Zero Dark Thirty = LOL!! - An even bigger slab of propaganda than Black Hawk Down. It's a very interesting story that's highly entertaining with good acting and production values but all that goes in the toilet due to the fact that this movie is nothing more than a pro-Muricuh/pro-torture/pro-Gitmo commercial. I doubt a single yank will notice that part cause muriuch kicks sand-ni.gger ass and for that reason alone it'll be considered for an Oscar.

This could have been a good film if it were just about the events that happened and not about American foreign policy. Tell me how Osama Bin Laden was captured and killed, not how you wish the detainee program was in full swing.

And I could not stop laughing at them shooting OBL's corpse in the chest over and over again:

Bang! Bang! "Holy crap!" Bang!
Bang! "What?" Bang! Bang!
Bang! Bang! Bang! "Is that Osama Bin Laden?" Bang! Bang!
Bang! "Dunno...let me get a closer look." Bang! Bang! "Yep...it's him." Bang! Bang!
"Cool!" Bang! Bang! "We're gonna be famous!" Bang! Bang!

With this movie and The Hurt Locker it's looking like Kathryn Bigelow is worse than Micheal Bay at trying to start USA! USA! USA! chants in American theatres and her career has been nothing but trying to show why authoritarianism is good for you. What a dumb bitch.

Now I just can't wait for the movie depicting the events of 9/11 from the terrorist's perspective, showing all the hard work that went into planning and executing the hijackings with a huge cresendo of music at the end when the terrorists achieve their courageous goal of revenge by flying airplanes into the WTC.
Maybe, just maybe, that film will balance out the horribly disproportioned piles of bullshit thrown about in our daily discourse about world events. But I doubt it.

This is what 99% of people in Europe think when they hear an American (you normally hear one before seeing one).

menkent wrote:i thought it was just another time-travel paradox movie with telekinesis thrown in for fuck knows what reason. good acting saved it from being complete crap, but only just. did i miss the point, too?

It wasn't about time travel at all, it was about age/wisdom/authority and making your own choices. That's why when they're talking in the diner Bruce Willis starts shouting IT DOESN'T MATTER, because that isn't the point and obviously time travel will never make sense if you try to work it out.

Doombrain wrote:This is what 99% of people in Europe think when they hear an American (you normally hear one before seeing one).

Sweet! My new wallpaper, thanks...

Doombrain wrote:This is what 99% of people in Europe think when they hear an American (you normally hear one before seeing one).

you missed out:

The Possession

Don't know why I keep bothering with these.
Probably hoping that one will suddenly live up to The Excorcist, if only slightly.
But yeah, they never do. Some laughs to be had.

4/10

feedback wrote: It wasn't about time travel at all, it was about age/wisdom/authority and making your own choices. That's why when they're talking in the diner Bruce Willis starts shouting IT DOESN'T MATTER, because that isn't the point and obviously time travel will never make sense if you try to work it out.

You nailed it feedback

phantasmagoria wrote:
you missed out:

I thought I held some pity but then again I just find this rather sad

feedback wrote:

menkent wrote:i thought it was just another time-travel paradox movie with telekinesis thrown in for fuck knows what reason. good acting saved it from being complete crap, but only just. did i miss the point, too?

It wasn't about time travel at all, it was about age/wisdom/authority and making your own choices. That's why when they're talking in the diner Bruce Willis starts shouting IT DOESN'T MATTER, because that isn't the point and obviously time travel will never make sense if you try to work it out.

What good film isn't about wisdom and making your own choices?
Looks like either you're wrong, or that filmmaker decided to make a point that didn't need to be made

Maybe it's an American thing? I heard that they call anything over 20 years old, like a building, "old" and have a negative attitude towards age.

Time travel does make sense.

Also, @ Doombrain thinking he knows "what 99% of Europeans think".

The Hobbit 6/10

It has dwarf singing songs which is godawful, but it entertains all the same. Not as boring as i was led to believe either, i was pleasantly surprised really.

Life of Pi 7/10
I chose to watch it as a visually pleasing film about nothing. The religious thing was confusing and not needed (just like in real life). I wonder why they felt they had to emphasize it so, i read the book seven eons ago but i don't remember the religious deal being so overt.

You reminded me that I have a coworker who is fucking NUTS about Jesus. The college I work for is technically part of a christian organization, but we are quite secular and part of my job indeed is making sure that all the course content is up to snuff. This new-hire PhD coworker is crazy about Jesus, like, more than our reverend. I'm pretty sure all her clothes have a bible verse quoted on them or say "JESUS". She's teaching a literature course next term and was asking me about what kind of books/short stories to recommend and how to teach them. Then she started asking if she could make the course text a Christian evangelical book and I was like... um no, this is a secular school and your job is not to make them Christian, it's to teach them how to appreciate literature. So she's like

"I see, thanks for the advice"

and I'm like "it isn't advice, you can't teach that"

so she's like "I see, thanks for your advice. How about ______?"

*I look up the book on amazon, find that it's another christian evangelical book*

"No, again, you shouldn't teach something like that as a course text. If you wanted to use excerpts from it to demonstrate literary technique that's ok, but not as the main text. use something respected and classic."

"ok, how about life of pi? It's got some good religious themes..."

*le sigh*

anyway she ended up going with... The Alchemist. Never heard of it, looked it up- hey, another book about religious themes. Fuck these Jesus freaks.

Life of Pi - 5/10 - i can imagine how some people would go gooey for this movie but tbh i couldn't wait for it to end. every time the guy went into eastern mystical babble mode i kept thinking of that guy Mohinder from Heroes who annoyed the fuck out of me with his "we are all connected... everything happens for a reason... etc etc" malarkey

what did you think of the 3d (assuming you watched it in 3d)? almost tempted to go and see the hobbit just for the 48 frames/3d thing, but the running time put me off.

Quite liked the use of 3D in the Hobbit actually, they're careful with using it in the sense that there's no shit flying in your face or anything. Most of it is pretty subtle

You're right about the running time though, sitting still for three hours would have been about an hour too much for me had i not seen it with my new year's hangover still largely intact.