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MongGrel

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The Hateful Eight. 6/10 Really great cinematography with really great performances where nothing happens.

I'm a Tarantino fan.

I won't spoil anything, but I'll just say 6/10 myself, but that might be lenient.

It has it's moments.

3 hours is a lot for what is in there, I'll just leave it at that.

I like setup as much as anyone, but the first hour and a half could have easily been a half hour.
 
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Into the Wild (2007, Sean Penn director/writer) 7.5/10

The rating was Rotten Tomatoes'. I won't disagree.

They did a really good job as book-->movie projects go. I read the book a few months ago. Acting mostly really good. They didn't soft pedal a lot of stuff that other people would have, got into the nitty gritty, e.g. actually filmed in Scab City, CA. I especially like the narration done by his sister (actress) here and there pretty much throughout the film. That was done with great sensitivity. It was a nice touch because it conveyed the fact that the one person that McCandless was really close to was his sister.
One of my favorites
 

Indus

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May 11, 2002
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Saw The Revenant with my wife. We both liked it a lot. She usually likes only action movies/ racing movies but she was glued in.

Overall it's a pretty badass western. I didn't think Leo and Tom Hardy could pull off being in a western but wow.

It could be shorter but awesome movie. I'll say 9.5/10 with .5 taken for the length of it. However the photography/ cinematography/ script and acting is all first class!
 

CZroe

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Jun 24, 2001
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Saw The Revenant with my wife. We both liked it a lot. She usually likes only action movies/ racing movies but she was glued in.

Overall it's a pretty badass western. I didn't think Leo and Tom Hardy could pull off being in a western but wow.

It could be shorter but awesome movie. I'll say 9.5/10 with .5 taken for the length of it. However the photography/ cinematography/ script and acting is all first class!
Not a Western.
 

Charmonium

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and it's in Russian?
I watched a few minutes at the beginning but since I'm planning to watch it in the theater, that's all I saw. It was a little annoying because it was compressed from theater format (whatever ratio that is) down to 16:9 to fill the screen. I'd rather have seen the black bars.

But to answer your question, it was in english.
 

OCNewbie

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The Visit - 7/10 - I actually enjoyed this. The twist was easy to see, but otherwise it had some entertainment and the little boy was pretty funny and the grandparents pretty damn creepy.

Man, I disagree. This was really bad. I'd say maybe 3 stars, or 4 at the absolute most. The "little boy" was a young white kid that did these really horrible, annoying freestyle-appearing raps. I found the sister annoying as well, and their mother. The grandparents, particularly the grandmother, were fairly creepy. I didn't know this was filmed in a found-footage, documentary sorta way either. I think had I known that going in, I would have chosen one of the other 4 or 5 movies I was debating watching instead.

Overall, not particularly scary, annoying characters, and just nothing impressive or surprising as far as the storyline goes.
 

ImpulsE69

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Man, I disagree. This was really bad. I'd say maybe 3 stars, or 4 at the absolute most. The "little boy" was a young white kid that did these really horrible, annoying freestyle-appearing raps. I found the sister annoying as well, and their mother. The grandparents, particularly the grandmother, were fairly creepy. I didn't know this was filmed in a found-footage, documentary sorta way either. I think had I known that going in, I would have chosen one of the other 4 or 5 movies I was debating watching instead.

Overall, not particularly scary, annoying characters, and just nothing impressive or surprising as far as the storyline goes.

Not sure what part you disagreed with, other than you didn't enjoy it. You said basically the same thing I did (never said it was scary). The difference is I don't have an issue with little white kids rapping, and the girl wasn't the normal just stand there and scream at the top of her lungs and do nothing type. *shrug* we enjoyed it. Granted, haven't liked a M. Night movie since The Sixth Sense.
 
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JEDI

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Sep 25, 2001
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I watched a few minutes at the beginning but since I'm planning to watch it in the theater, that's all I saw. It was a little annoying because it was compressed from theater format (whatever ratio that is) down to 16:9 to fill the screen. I'd rather have seen the black bars.

But to answer your question, it was in english.

ahh.. kickass's version sux.
thx.. will search some more
 

OCNewbie

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Not sure what part you disagreed with, other than you didn't enjoy it. You said basically the same thing I did (never said it was scary). The difference is I don't have an issue with little white kids rapping, and the girl wasn't the normal just stand there and scream at the top of her lungs and do nothing type. *shrug* we enjoyed it. Granted, haven't liked a M. Night movie since The Sixth Sense.

I just disagree with the rating you gave, that it had some entertainment (I guess that depends on what you mean by "some"), and that the little boy was funny. I don't necessarily have a problem with little white kids rapping, but this was an actor portraying a little white kid rapping. It seemed really unauthentic. I'm not sure what the point of making the boy's character a fairly clean-mouthed rapper was, but it just didn't work for me. My girlfriend also thought it was annoying. It was sorta cringeworthy when those scenes came up. I also found the girl's character to be somewhat annoying too, largely with her vocabulary.

I'm glad you liked it though. Just wasn't for me.
 
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Saw The Revenant with my wife. We both liked it a lot. She usually likes only action movies/ racing movies but she was glued in.

Overall it's a pretty badass western. I didn't think Leo and Tom Hardy could pull off being in a western but wow.

It could be shorter but awesome movie. I'll say 9.5/10 with .5 taken for the length of it. However the photography/ cinematography/ script and acting is all first class!

Bah i so want to see this. Says it started yesterday but earliest i can seem to find tixs for it is Jan 8th online. Not being shown in KC apparently. Its available on the site i use if i want to watch it, but i kinda want to see it on the big screen. Grrr its tempting me being online.
 

Muse

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Jul 11, 2001
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The Hateful Eight and The Renevant are really good, The Hateful Eight has some serious gore that I wasn't expecting
Well, it's Tarantino. You didn't expect that he'd try to outdo your sense of how awful it would get? In contrast I'll offer what I watched last night, British, a BBC production:

Exhibition (Viv Albertine, Liam Gillick) BBC 2013 8/10

Released June, 2014
1 hr 44 min
BBC
Directed and written by Joanna Hogg
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Watched last night. I had peaked at reviews at Rotten Tomatoes, maybe a good thing. I was willing to give it a longer leash, certainly. Don't know what my reaction would have been otherwise, but having read Viv A's autobio I probably would have done that anyway.

It's artistic, OK? From the getgo you are asked to be willing to give the principles artistic license, and this extends not just to the two principle characters, a long-time married couple, who portray artists and are, of course, artists in their real lives (Viv Albertine and Liam Gillick), but also extends to the director/writer (Hogg), her cinematographer, and down the line. The cinemetography is stunning and original.

It takes place in real time, there are no jump cuts, no sense of playing with the viewer's sense of time. It all takes place in the here and now, and that's London, and 90% of that is life in a London artists' multi-level home, which comes off as a big condo with a steel spiral staircase and you have the sense that it may be 3 or more levels (they have an optional elevator system).

Just when you think that there's no music in this film (95% has no music at all), they erase that notion and put some music behind it. Similarly, just when you think that every single shot is done with a camera on a tripod with no human intervention, they have a couple of dolly shots.

Much of the film is done in a way that confronts you with the stark notion that if this were being made in America you were about to be assaulted by some horror or another, something more than shocking, more than revolting, something unimaginable and sinister. IOW, at times you feel like you are in a masterfully constructed horror movie. Such is the state of the American mind, I have to think, we are supposed to be so repressed, so in denial that moments of silence threaten to bring the boogie man of reality to the forefront. However, you are a fool to think there's going to be any violence here, there is not. In this film we observe two artist-mates living their lives, making the best of things (they are well off enough), making the best of one another, doing anything they can to enliven when dullness occurs, and they show remarkable ingenuity in this regard. Really good casting and acting.
 
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Ns1

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Jun 17, 2001
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Bah i so want to see this. Says it started yesterday but earliest i can seem to find tixs for it is Jan 8th online. Not being shown in KC apparently. Its available on the site i use if i want to watch it, but i kinda want to see it on the big screen. Grrr its tempting me being online.

Limited release in two cities.
 
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I think I was right. Hollywood came up with a script that sucked. Green lit it. The movie it self sucked. In a dire attempt to make money on it they called it Point Break. Now at a whopping 4% on rotten tomatoes.
 
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Making a Murderer - On Netlfix - This has gotten alot of attention lately. I think I heard about it on NPR. Then I mentioned it to my brother and he said that he already started watching it. I have to be careful about spoilers so I'll say this. Episode 1 was awesome. Episodes 2-10 were a mix of great and pointless. The last 9 episodes could have been 40 minutes instead of 60 and that would have helped immensely.

Oh, what is it about? It's about a guy who was wrongfully convicted of rape and sent to jail for 38 years. Served 20 before DNA got him out. Ya, no spoilers since that is episode 1. What is amazing is the gross negligence on the side of the government. The rest of the series is what this show is really about. It's about how he was accused of murder. What's crazy is that it sounds like he was framed! I can't get more into details without spoiling too much. But he was accused in 2004 and it seems as thorough the entire ordeal starting at that point was documented. So it is pretty in depth.
 

DigDog

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Jun 3, 2011
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so i watched Seventh Son (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121096/reference

fantasy shlock about witches and witch-hunters.
much bad about this film; pretentious, infantile, predictable, insipid writing and lacklustre acting.
Jeff Bridges (of all people) is a old, grizzled and yet supple and athletic witch-hunter whose combat prowess is second only to Neo in the 2nd/3rd Matrix. He has a young and sensitive apprentice who is both a love interest of a villain-who-will-inevitably-turn-ally, and has a "special gift" who inevitably becomes the McGuffin that saves the day. (i told you it was predictable ..)

But, along with all the bad, there is some good.

First off, Julianne Moore; not doing any sex scenes, sadly, but still smoking hot at 55yo.
And, some pretty decent fight scenes, nice photography, decent CGI, interesting costumes, and some really nice sets.

And it's got this gorgeous beauty in a lead role:
Alicia-Vikander.jpg

Alicia Vikander, which i believe is swedish for Guaranteed Boner.

all in all, i would say 6/10 - if you are in the mood for some hack & slash fantasy, this will fill you up good.
 

KeithTalent

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so i watched Seventh Son (2014) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1121096/reference

fantasy shlock about witches and witch-hunters.
much bad about this film; pretentious, infantile, predictable, insipid writing and lacklustre acting.
Jeff Bridges (of all people) is a old, grizzled and yet supple and athletic witch-hunter whose combat prowess is second only to Neo in the 2nd/3rd Matrix. He has a young and sensitive apprentice who is both a love interest of a villain-who-will-inevitably-turn-ally, and has a "special gift" who inevitably becomes the McGuffin that saves the day. (i told you it was predictable ..)

But, along with all the bad, there is some good.

First off, Julianne Moore; not doing any sex scenes, sadly, but still smoking hot at 55yo.
And, some pretty decent fight scenes, nice photography, decent CGI, interesting costumes, and some really nice sets.

And it's got this gorgeous beauty in a lead role:
Alicia-Vikander.jpg

Alicia Vikander, which i believe is swedish for Guaranteed Boner.

all in all, i would say 6/10 - if you are in the mood for some hack & slash fantasy, this will fill you up good.

Have you seen Ex Machina? She is incredible in that. Beautiful and nomination worthy.

KT
 

A Casual Fitz

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Unknown - 5/10 I kept waiting for Liam Neeson to turn into his Taken character and he sort of did by the end. It was a predictable action thriller that I somewhat enjoyed.
 

KeithTalent

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The Big Short - 8/10: I worked in the investment industry for many years and lived through our firm trying to survive the MBS and CDO nonsense, so am very close to the subject matter. Being so close to it made some of the "dumbing down" scenes a little painful, however I think McKay presented them in the most fun way possible. Most of the acting was great, specifically Gosling and Bale, and while the directing was a bit erratic, overall I found it extremely entertaining. The stuff they show in this movie is a lot of the reason I left the industry, it just took me a while get the balls to do so.

KT
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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as above so below - 2/10 - started out pretty cool with a good atmosphere but then the last 15 minutes or so was like wtf, then the very end was even more like wtf.
 
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