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cbrunny

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Mocking Jay 2. 4.5/10, generously. Felt like a movie that should never have been made. Very bad pacing. Very very bad pacing. Taunted people that aren't superfans or haven't watched the first three in the last week. Plot was muddled and the main characters storyline could have not existed at all for this film and the outcome would have been more or less the same. Some decent action scenes. Some head scratching plot points. And way too freaking long.

I thought some parts were well done and my wife had a good time. I got to eat lots of movie theatre popcorn. The people around us were nice. That factors in I guess. Lol
 

Charmonium

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I'm a pretty big Tarantino fan myself, and still have never watched Django Unchained all the way through. Somehow I had trouble getting into it myself and never bothered again.
Same here. I made to the part where
they're traveling and they kill some slaves at a cabin.
 

Ichinisan

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Have been watching Breaking Bad finally after all this time.

9.4/10

People have always raved about that one over time I'd spoken to.

I was so far behind the show at the time I had never bothered, just finished off season 4.

Going to watch 5 and start Better Call Saul, and catch up on that after.

You're in for a treat.
 

MongGrel

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Same here. I made to the part where
they're traveling and they kill some slaves at a cabin.

Sometimes I'm just not in the mood for something in particular genre wise I guess, it wasn't really anything specific in DJango.

Gonna give it a go again soon, I really wasn't in the mood for Fury either the first time I watched it. I liked it better the second time through.
 

Charmonium

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Saul was so much better than I expected.
It really is. I was a little bummed at first because I knew there was no way they'd capture the same kind of tension they did with Breaking Bad, but I was surprised. It was a slow at the start but they more than make up for that.
 

motsm

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I liked "Inglorious Basterds"

He didn't direct "True Romance," but he wrote it. That's one of my favorite films. Amazing theme by Hans Zimmer. Incredible cast.
The theme is Zimmer's take on a Carl Orff song that was used in Badlands. A movie that covers some similar themes, and from what I understand it was used as an homage.

https://youtu.be/DYqWIC4DM34?t=188

If you haven't seen Badlands, I'd recommend it.
 

DigDog

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since it's being ignored in the other thread, here is my review for The Expanse http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3230854/reference

i watched the first episode of The Expanse.

i also read the whole set of wikipedia pages about the show, writers and books that the material derives from.

so, two entirely separate things; first, the science.
i love correct science. i also tolerate so-so science, as long as it's not preposterous. i accept that Expanse has dedicated a fair amount of research and they are trying to stick to realism.
second, the actual storytelling and direction. i find the expanse to be just horrible in this respect.

every bad move you can make in filmmaking, they make it. shoveling a ton of characters in the first episode. having deaths and accidents happen to characters who the viewer barely knows at all. big developments to a story that has yet no foundations.
or, as one would say, a clusterfuck.

there are a few interesting establishing shots (say, the crane hands manouvering the huge mineral chunks in the space station, where the guy's arm gets hurt), but they are just shoveled in, and they have no importance asides from the fact that "we can science". could not grasp a single metaphor if there was any.

the dialogue is horribly PG13; even a man who's arm has been torn off has no more intense dialogue that "hey, where's my new arm".
i'm not looking for coarse language, i'm looking for emotion.

good film is about a director telling the viewer "hey, i am going to tell you a story. sit down and watch". and like every story, it needs a beginning, a development, and an end. this series just started with compressing a ton of BS into a single episode where so much stuff happens, i would need to watch it maybe five times to begin understanding what is going on.

same for characters. characters which are unusual need careful introduction, they are not to be just thrown on the screen, assuming the viewer will tolerate them. Expanse completely misses this point, and shovels in weird characters, vistas, environments, languages, themes, sex, violence, all at once.

go to youtube, find a song you like, go to settings, and play it at 2x speed. that's what The Expanse feels like.

would not recommend. 5/10
 

DigDog

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oh btw, i also found time to watch Blood And Bone http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346631/reference

a low quality fight film. the story is nothing to write about (decent but uninspiring collection of character bits from other films you have seen before), but the fight scenes are riveting.
while i would actually recommend it (7/10), i suggest you just google "blood bone fight scenes", someone made a 10min video with all the fights, and that's 99% of what the film has to offer.
 

zinfamous

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That's funny, because JB is considered by many to be his worst film. I've never met anyone that actually liked it other than myself. I didn't know you existed.

what? Jackie Brown is, by far, my favorite Tarantino flick. I don't think it is his best film, but is definitely my favorite.

Django was good, but I don't think it was great. I'm not such a fan of Jamie Foxx, but Christopher Waltz and Leonardo DiCaprio are two of my favorites. The problem is, I don't know who I'd have rather had in place of Jamie Foxx. /shrug

I'm hoping Walton Goggins gets a decent chunk of screen time. He was excellent in Justified.

This. i'm really excited for Hateful Eight. Only recently started watching Justified (been putting it off since the first season, when they were very briefly on Netflix then permanently moved to Amazon). We are now hooked (well, near the end of season 5 already).

Boyd is goddamn awesome.
 
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Sometimes I'm just not in the mood for something in particular genre wise I guess, it wasn't really anything specific in DJango.

Gonna give it a go again soon, I really wasn't in the mood for Fury either the first time I watched it. I liked it better the second time through.

I love Django right up until Christoph Waltz's character gets killed. I really don't enjoy the rest of the movie, and actually when I have re-watched it I turn it off after that point.
 

Charmonium

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oh btw, i also found time to watch Blood And Bone http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0346631/reference

a low quality fight film. the story is nothing to write about (decent but uninspiring collection of character bits from other films you have seen before), but the fight scenes are riveting.
while i would actually recommend it (7/10), i suggest you just google "blood bone fight scenes", someone made a 10min video with all the fights, and that's 99% of what the film has to offer.
Check out Kingdom on Audience Network (Directv) I think. You can find it elsewhere too. It's about the MMA scene and it's pretty good story.
Boyd is goddamn awesome.
Yeah. There are several characters on Justified who are awesome. Love that show. Still one of my all time faves.
 

Zeze

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What is the difference between film and flick?

MY personal usage of 'flick' is something that's easy to watch, entertaining, and sometimes forgettable.

Something About Mary is a great comedy flick.

There Will Be Blood is not a flick, but a film.
 

Zeze

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I liked "Inglorious Basterds"

He didn't direct "True Romance," but he wrote it. That's one of my favorite films. Amazing theme by Hans Zimmer. Incredible cast.

I think Inglorious is Tarantino's finest. That opening scene alone is simply brilliant writing. I couldn't even fathom writing something like that, creating tension by switching between languages.

Also Landa is one of the cinema's best villain. He's not two dimensional, furious, and evil. His professional facade & friendliness keeps you guessing what he thinks.
 

purbeast0

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justified was a great series and i was sad to see it come to an end. i liked every season of that show and while i also liked SOA a lot, Justified never went off the seep end like SOA started to towards the end.
 

Chiropteran

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Star Wars The Force Awakens

8/10

Excellent return to the style of the original trilogy. Deducting a point because it almost has too many references to the originals, but still an excellent solid movie.
 

CZroe

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MY personal usage of 'flick' is something that's easy to watch, entertaining, and sometimes forgettable.



Something About Mary is a great comedy flick.



There Will Be Blood is not a flick, but a film.


The thing is, Zinfamous was not really distinguishing them like he thought. He needs to re-read.
 

TwiceOver

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justified was a great series and i was sad to see it come to an end. i liked every season of that show and while i also liked SOA a lot, Justified never went off the seep end like SOA started to towards the end.

Honestly the dialog writing was some of the best I've ever seen. The story was wishy washy, but the dialog 2nd to none.
 

Squeetard

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Jessica Jones 9/10
Binge watched season one. I was totally done with the superhero genre until this one. Great story and writing. Tenant was off his meds, hehe. Really loved this.
 
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