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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:37:26 PM #131: |
Simoun posted...
Brick Rating: 87/100 A Top Ten movie of 2005. Great, and almost subtly comedic in the mature tone it takes. Consistently engaging, punctuated by great acting... and the mash-up of noir and high school drama is fantastic and unique. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Snake5555555555 02/21/18 12:42:46 PM #132: |
Bill Murray as Garfield
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:43:33 PM #133: |
Xeybozn posted...
Villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: 72/100 There are some damn good villains in the MCU. Robert Redford, Hela, Tony Stark... the list goes on. But the biggest issue with Marvel is that they just horribly mistreat the villains at the end of each film. Where Marvel Comics will always be superior is in the treatment of villains. Think of a cinematic universe as a wrestling show. You have to build your villains so that they stay in line with your heroes. The greatest wrestling feuds are built on more than one match-up. They are predicated on the notion that a babyface and a heel will collide and evolve with each individual meet. Loki, no longer a simple villain, is a clear example of how allowing a character to develop gives you the freedom to explore dynamic characters. Forcing characters to confront the consequences of their actions is the truly relatable side of storytelling. We are forced to all the time. A weak storyteller can't juggle the notion that at the end of the day, the hero doesn't stop the villain. Sure, there are times when you can punctuate the gravity of a situation with a death, but that sort of final permanence is so overused that the audience is inured to its gravity. Death in comic films should be a last resort. I'll leave you with this: in comics we have death all the time. But the difference is this: the characters who die have hundreds of issues under their belts. Those deaths have so much more meaning because the characters have had more than half an hour of on-screen antics to build their emotional resonance within us. So we can kill Superman and have it mean something in a comic. We can't do that in a film when we've known the guy for 2 installments. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:45:07 PM #134: |
NFUN posted...
The Martian Rating: 84/100 I've never read the book (I've always thought it was too non-sci fi for my tastes), but this movie was a great sci fi version of the Cast Away plot, mixing in Apollo 13 a bit. I greatly enjoyed all of the little pieces that felt real in the movie. Whether the science was sound or not, the presentation had a heft of authority that really drew me in. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:45:39 PM #135: |
Snake5555555555 posted...
Bill Murray as Garfield Rating: 55/100 I think he was fine, but that movie was just so bad that I can't really say I spent much time thinking about his performance in particular. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Anagram 02/21/18 12:49:30 PM #136: |
Sixth Sense twist
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:50:17 PM #137: |
Anagram posted...
Sixth Sense twist Rating: 70/100 It's iconic and it worked spectacularly. It also has become trite and ruined by pop culture. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 02/21/18 12:51:42 PM #138: |
scarletspeed7 posted...
Jesse Custer (miss that user so much). same here hope to see him back sometime --- Khal Kirby, warlord of the Super Star Khalasar PSN/Steam: CheddarBBQ https://goo.gl/Diw2hs ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 02/21/18 12:53:03 PM #139: |
Quicksilver in the X-Men movies
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PumpkinCoach 02/21/18 12:54:39 PM #140: |
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Simoun 02/21/18 12:55:38 PM #141: |
Assassination of a High School President
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Snake5555555555 02/21/18 12:58:00 PM #142: |
The Doors
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:58:09 PM #143: |
Johnbobb posted...
Quicksilver in the X-Men movies Rating: 85/100 For DoFP, he was fantastic, but for Apocalypse I needed... something more. What I hope is this: Quicksilver slowly begins developing a personality more akin to his behavior in X-Factor. The thing about Quicksilver that makes him work so well is his arrogance. But I think breeding that into him over time is fine. I'll point to this page as the greatest comic interpretation of Quicksilver ever: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_upF4Etvqv9Y/TI6O8uKYduI/AAAAAAAAGCo/e1l_HJZm3jI/s1600/pms3.jpg --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:58:43 PM #144: |
PumpkinCoach posted...
Culloden (1964) Rating: 50/100 Never heard of it. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 12:59:27 PM #145: |
Simoun posted...
Assassination of a High School President Rating: 50/100 I've always heard this was pretty shitty, so I've never bothered watching it. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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trdl23 02/21/18 1:00:38 PM #146: |
Pulp Fiction
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 1:00:41 PM #147: |
Snake5555555555 posted...
The Doors Rating: 53/100 I actually like Oliver Stone. I love Val Kilmer. This is not the reason why. Also the movie is a bit misleading, as it says it's about The Doors, and yet it's really just a movie about Morrison. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 1:02:06 PM #148: |
trdl23 posted...
Pulp Fiction Rating: 79/100 It had enjoyable parts and intriguing characters, but something didn't quite click for me in the way that it did for others. I've watched it again since my first viewing and it still didn't reach me the way it did other people. I think I just didn't find Travolta and Uma Thurman that engaging, honestly. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Simoun 02/21/18 1:02:22 PM #149: |
Darnit. I'm really curious to hear from someone who's seen that movie. Like, people love Brick cos its Noir and highschool. So why can't people like Assassination of a HS Pres for being Chinatown in Highschool.
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 1:03:43 PM #150: |
I think Bruce Willis was my clinching reason not to watch it. Aside from Die Hard, I can't name a single good Bruce Willis role.
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Simoun 02/21/18 1:17:11 PM #151: |
That's funny because I started watching it because he was the principal.
Anyways, rate Hudson Hawk :) --- It's not so cliche anymore when it's happening to you. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 1:19:10 PM #152: |
Simoun posted...
Hudson Hawk Rating: 50/100 Never seen it. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Anagram 02/21/18 2:23:33 PM #153: |
A Nightmare on Elm Street (the series)
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scarletspeed7 02/21/18 2:24:22 PM #154: |
Anagram posted...
A Nightmare on Elm Street (the series) Rating: 11/100 I really don't like slasher horror (again). --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Johnbobb 02/21/18 2:41:45 PM #155: |
TV/Film Mercs
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Anagram 02/21/18 2:59:27 PM #156: |
The fact that the Algerian government sent people to inspect Star Wars in the Tunisian desert because they were worried that the Jawa sandcrawler machine was secretly a new type of tank and the entire movie set was just an elaborate disguise (yes this really happened)
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JONALEON1 02/21/18 3:01:05 PM #157: |
The Miz
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DeathChicken 02/21/18 3:48:34 PM #158: |
Jacob's Ladder
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Raka_Putra 02/21/18 6:19:24 PM #159: |
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
scarletspeed7 posted... Raka_Putra posted...World War Z Yeah, I agree. Maybe one day they'll do a TV adaptation that's closer in style to the book. --- Fuhlt nicht durch dich Sarastro Todesschmerzen, So bist du meine Tochter nimmermehr-- eeeeeeeeeeeeeeehr. ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Simoun 02/21/18 8:06:21 PM #160: |
Hard Boiled
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NFUN 02/21/18 8:40:45 PM #161: |
the graduate
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trdl23 02/21/18 9:58:28 PM #162: |
Dustin Hoffman
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 12:12:48 AM #163: |
Johnbobb posted...
TV/Film Mercs Rating: 50/100 I have no idea what this is. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:52:28 AM #164: |
Anagram posted...
The fact that the Algerian government sent people to inspect Star Wars in the Tunisian desert because they were worried that the Jawa sandcrawler machine was secretly a new type of tank and the entire movie set was just an elaborate disguise (yes this really happened) Rating: 62/100 That's a cute anecdote that I will promptly forget after this rating. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:52:50 AM #165: |
JONALEON1 posted...
The Miz Rating: 3/100 A terrible, terrible actor. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:53:50 AM #166: |
DeathChicken posted...
Jacob's Ladder Rating: 70/100 Not even sure what level this movie works on, Thriller, Drama, maybe it doesn't work on either. Something about the film works though, unsettling, creepy and engaging. A movie I'll never rewatch. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:55:17 AM #167: |
Raka_Putra posted...
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Rating: 94/100 Almost everything about this film works perfectly in unison to create a world where everything stylistically and thematically fits together like a puzzle. So many minor characters are engaging and fresh, and the main characters are also pretty great. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:56:15 AM #168: |
Simoun posted...
Hard Boiled Rating: 79/100 Everything about this movie is well-made and well-filmed, but I think it's a little too intense for me personally. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:57:27 AM #169: |
NFUN posted...
the graduate Rating: 75/100 I love Simon and Garfunkel, but I think I had to listen to the line "Are you going to Scarborough Fair?" way more than any sane man should in that film. Also, plastics. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 10:59:31 AM #170: |
trdl23 posted...
Dustin Hoffman Rating: 38/100 Sounds like he's kind of a scuzzy person based on recent reports; that's really sad, as I used to find him to be a really terrific actor with a body of work that includes a 100 million dollar grossing film in each of the last 6 decades. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Simoun 02/23/18 11:24:04 AM #171: |
Thirteen Ghosts. the new one
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scarletspeed7 02/23/18 11:34:09 AM #172: |
Simoun posted...
Thirteen Ghosts. the new one Rating: 14/100 Bad. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Simoun 02/23/18 11:52:24 AM #173: |
Buster Keaton
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Anagram 02/23/18 12:43:19 PM #174: |
Daphne from Scooby-Doo
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Cybat 02/23/18 1:13:49 PM #175: |
The matrix (not the movie, the actual simulation itself)
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JONALEON1 02/23/18 5:41:22 PM #176: |
Walton Goggins
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scarletspeed7 02/24/18 11:04:08 AM #177: |
Simoun posted...
Buster Keaton Rating: 63/100 I respect his influence on the medium, but I don't have particularly strong feelings about him as an actor. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/24/18 11:04:30 AM #178: |
Anagram posted...
Daphne from Scooby-Doo Rating: 58/100 From a movie point of view, nothing special. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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scarletspeed7 02/24/18 11:05:08 AM #179: |
Cybat posted...
The matrix (not the movie, the actual simulation itself) Rating: 55/100 A pretty dull simulation, honestly. The robots had the ability to make anything and they went with the real world. I'm not a fan of the Sims. --- "Reading would be your friend." ~Dave Meltzer ... Copied to Clipboard!
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Anagram 02/24/18 11:05:29 AM #180: |
Fred from scooby doo
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