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Post by Spencer on Jan 16, 2017 20:07:33 GMT -5
Wait? You found the ending predictable? Jesus, I feel stupid.
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Post by Premier on Jan 16, 2017 22:11:36 GMT -5
Not like from the beginning or anything. But they did start dropping hints pretty early about her seeing the future.
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Post by Baph on Jan 17, 2017 0:38:05 GMT -5
Not like from the beginning or anything. But they did start dropping hints pretty early about her spoiling the ending.
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Post by Spencer on Jan 17, 2017 1:04:00 GMT -5
Not like from the beginning or anything. But they did start dropping hints pretty early about her spoiling the movie. Oh yes, absolutely agree there, of course. I just didn't figure out what was causing it until they revealed it. I wasn't expecting that aspect.
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Post by ToNoAvail on Jan 17, 2017 1:23:15 GMT -5
Tread lightly you fucks. I still want to see this.
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Post by Baph on Jan 17, 2017 1:30:44 GMT -5
Not like from the beginning or anything. But they did start dropping hints pretty early about her spoling the ending. Oh yes, absolutely agree there, of course. I just didn't figure out what was causing it until we revealed it.
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Post by Spencer on Jan 17, 2017 3:15:00 GMT -5
Not seeing any of your responses Baph.
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Post by Premier on Jan 17, 2017 9:10:36 GMT -5
He is editing out own comments Spencer. LOL
Baph, I actually made made my statement thinking it was spoiler free! I thought that without any more context, my statement will not be a spoiler.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 10:14:50 GMT -5
Nocturnal animals
4/5. I liked it.
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Post by agrappleaday on Jan 17, 2017 10:28:48 GMT -5
Tread lightly you fucks. I still want to see this. This
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2017 10:40:42 GMT -5
I'm not rwading their comments because I want to actually make it through awaken
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Post by Baph on Jan 17, 2017 10:43:25 GMT -5
Not seeing any of your responses Baph. Carefully read the text I'm quoting. I made no comments.
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Post by Spencer on Jan 17, 2017 12:03:49 GMT -5
That's what I get for not paying attention. I updated my own post to hide any spoilers, I think.
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Post by Baph on Jan 17, 2017 15:35:52 GMT -5
Sherlock, Season 4 and (possibly) Series Finale - The Final Problem: 6 of 10.
Yikes!!! 6 of 10 for a Sherlock episode? Unheard of. And the finale of all things. But, yes, sadly, it's accurate. Easily the least compelling, believable, and effective story line in the entirety of the Sherlock tome, and what a sour note to potentially go out on for what has been in my estimation one of the absolute best series in YEARS, any genre. Inconsistent, almost rushed, and a bit heavy handed in what felt at times almost gimmicky . . . I am disappoint!!
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Post by PatSox on Jan 18, 2017 10:39:46 GMT -5
Sherlock, Season 4 and (possibly) Series Finale - The Final Problem: 6 of 10. Yikes!!! 6 of 10 for a Sherlock episode? Unheard of. And the finale of all things. But, yes, sadly, it's accurate. Easily the least compelling, believable, and effective story line in the entirety of the Sherlock tome, and what a sour note to potentially go out on for what has been in my estimation one of the absolute best series in YEARS, any genre. Inconsistent, almost rushed, and a bit heavy handed in what felt at times almost gimmicky . . . I am disappoint!! This season was, unfortunately for me, closer to the disappointing season 3, than it was the first two. I HATED the first epsiode of this season. Liked the second and was pretty let down with the third They just.......they try to throw way too much in there, to the point where they completely over think it and convolute the shit out of things. For example, that second episode, with the serial killer and the loss of memory thing. It was going well and I was intrigued, but I was sure it was going to take some crazy left turn off the path it started and end somewhere I wish it didn't. Season 3 was nothing but that for me. Crazy twists that took the story all over the place and ending up somewhere much less enjoyable than if they had just stayed the course they started. But alas, the episode mostly stayed on track and ended up being pretty damn good, because of it. Of course there was some crazy, hard to believe angles thrown in there, but that's Sherlock. You have to be willing to accept some of that The last episode though? Holy christ. So much crazy impossible stuff going on. Another one where they way overplayed their hand and threw too much out there at once. Some of it was enjoyable and it would have me for stretches, then lose me again. It's never that I'm not following what's happening. I always get what they're going for, it's just so much of it is unneededly twisty and narratively unbelievable....even in their world of genius' and decutive reasoning and the ability to predict etc. etc. It's fucking ridiculous how far they try to take that now So if "The Final Problem" was indeed the last episode of Sherlock we ever get.........good. I think these writers have run out of good ideas. Hell they ran out in season 2. The fact that they gave me perhaps the best thing I've ever seen, in A Scandal in Belgravia, is something I'm grateful for, but now it's time to stop.......Just stop
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Post by ocmmafan on Jan 18, 2017 10:44:13 GMT -5
Nocturnal animals 4/5. I liked it. sooner is the only poster using the 5 point scale and he was grandfathered in. You have to use the 10 point scale!
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Post by Baph on Jan 18, 2017 23:12:08 GMT -5
Nocturnal animals 4/5. I liked it. sooner is the only poster using the 5 point scale and he was grandfathered in. You have to use the 10 point scale! Agreed. Discontinue immediately.
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Post by sooner2 on Jan 19, 2017 14:37:23 GMT -5
Hah! Nice to see that despite being an old curmudgeon who writes gif-less wordy rambling reviews on often obscure ifc crap that few others enjoy... I still have been grandfathered in and given courtesy privileges to continue with my old five star system, despite now being only rarely able to review any films of note.
cheers, all. 👍
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Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2017 15:41:12 GMT -5
Fine. 8.5/10
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Post by Baph on Jan 20, 2017 17:20:55 GMT -5
Sherlock, Season 4 and (possibly) Series Finale - The Final Problem: 6 of 10. Yikes!!! 6 of 10 for a Sherlock episode? Unheard of. And the finale of all things. But, yes, sadly, it's accurate. Easily the least compelling, believable, and effective story line in the entirety of the Sherlock tome, and what a sour note to potentially go out on for what has been in my estimation one of the absolute best series in YEARS, any genre. Inconsistent, almost rushed, and a bit heavy handed in what felt at times almost gimmicky . . . I am disappoint!! This season was, unfortunately for me, closer to the disappointing season 3, than it was the first two. I HATED the first epsiode of this season. Liked the second and was pretty let down with the third They just.......they try to throw way too much in there, to the point where they completely over think it and convolute the shit out of things. For example, that second episode, with the serial killer and the loss of memory thing. It was going well and I was intrigued, but I was sure it was going to take some crazy left turn off the path it started and end somewhere I wish it didn't. Season 3 was nothing but that for me. Crazy twists that took the story all over the place and ending up somewhere much less enjoyable than if they had just stayed the course they started. But alas, the episode mostly stayed on track and ended up being pretty damn good, because of it. Of course there was some crazy, hard to believe angles thrown in there, but that's Sherlock. You have to be willing to accept some of that The last episode though? Holy christ. So much crazy impossible stuff going on. Another one where they way overplayed their hand and threw too much out there at once. Some of it was enjoyable and it would have me for stretches, then lose me again. It's never that I'm not following what's happening. I always get what they're going for, it's just so much of it is unneededly twisty and narratively unbelievable....even in their world of genius' and decutive reasoning and the ability to predict etc. etc. It's fucking ridiculous how far they try to take that now So if "The Final Problem" was indeed the last episode of Sherlock we ever get.........good. I think these writers have run out of good ideas. Hell they ran out in season 2. The fact that they gave me perhaps the best thing I've ever seen, in A Scandal in Belgravia, is something I'm grateful for, but now it's time to stop.......Just stop Mostly agree, but I think you're over-playing the critique of the season as a whole. It was certainly not season two, but it was solid and interesting and classically Sherlock. Episode three was so wildly out of character it was just shocking. It literally aborted the characters we've spent four seasons developing for cheap shock value. It made Sherlock and Microft look bumbling as they were repeatedly duped by their weird, vapid sibling and her comic book mind control BS. It was borderline cheesy at times. It made John look mean and bitter. It completely abandoned the governing logic of the series where cheap antics like jumping out of 2nd story windows without repercussion would never be entertained. I sat there for a good 5 min after it was over just confused and bewildered. Not because it was complicated. Because it was bad.
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Post by PatSox on Jan 20, 2017 18:06:42 GMT -5
Well the inevitable happened. Those "For your consideration" oscar screeners went out and some blessed dickhead leaked a bunch of them out. So I now have a good library of movies I hadn't seen yet, ready to be watched
Been waiting to do a top movies of 2017 list until I could see more of the supposed good ones. On tap, Patriots Day, Hacksaw Ridge, La La Land and Moonlight. Still holding out for Jackie, Nocturnal Animals and Silence though
Reviews forthcoming
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Post by Baph on Jan 20, 2017 23:04:47 GMT -5
Moonlight looks good. I'm interested.
Silence is also highly promising. Remember "The Mission"? Feels a bit like that mixed with Last Samurai.
Patriots Day might be solid. I bet you'll enjoy it being close to home there.
Hacksaw Ridge looks weird.
La La Land makes me want to suicide, HARD.
Nocturnal just makes me hard. So, probably catch that at some point.
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Post by PatSox on Jan 21, 2017 13:10:48 GMT -5
Patriots DayBeing from Massachusetts, I was certainly one to question whether it was too soon to make a film about what happened only a few years ago, on that horrible day in 2013, when a couple radical assholes decided it would be cool to take life and limb from a bunch of random innocent people who where just trying to enjoy an annual road race. But ultimately I felt it's a story that needs to be told. Sure we all saw it play out on the news and the internet, but still, there were some remarkable details and people involved who deserved to have a light put on them the way only a dramatic feature film can do. All they had to do was be respectful and be sure not to distort and exploit things, and while I know that some things were tacked on and amped up for dramatic effect, I'm glad to say that that was achieved The film doesn't pull many punches in the first act, showing the mayhem and carnage those bombs caused. The sheer terror and shock was palpably on display. It was not fun to watch that recreated. The toughest moment I found to be the murder of M.I.T. campus police officer Sean Collier. The movie humanized him earlier, with a few scenes of him with friends, and with a girl he was interested in and his excitement that she was going to an upcoming concert with him. And then you see the cold brutal way they just walk up and kill him......because they only had one gun and wanted to get a second one.......and the fuck heads didn't even get it. The kid, full of bullets, fought them off long enough to where they had to give up and flee the scene, without what they came for. I've actually spoken to his mother, since then. She's a customer of mine. My technicians have gone in to her home and seen the pictures of him she has on display, it's heartbreaking. She's very proud of her son and the movie shows why she should be And pride is what I felt watching this. Reminded of how the people of my state came together and responded. How the Watertown police took these guys down, while under siege from home made I.E.D's these guys had stored up for their next conquest which was going to be Time Square in New York. You're reminded of how much worse this thing could have gotten. The very end becomes more of a documentary, where they show actual police, FBI, survivors etc, talking about what happened and what it's been like since. Policeman almost teering up, talking about how great it made them feel having people lining the streets cheering them on. A victim who lost a leg shown crossing the finish line of the Marathon, a few years later, hugging his girlfriend who also lost both her lower legs, crying like a baby in each others arms. David Ortiz saying, "this is our fucking city!" All of it transcended corniness and melodrama and fell right in to...awesome. I was actually hoping for more of it. I wanted to see the Bruins game that happened just days later, where the singer of the national anthem sang the first verse and then happily stopped as the crowd just took over and loudly finished the song on their own. I do think that will definitely be in the other movie being made about this, where Jake Gyllenhaul plays one of the victims. Can't wait for that one too Shit, I went from thinking one movie about this was too soon, to wanting to see another. Guess that means this was done right. Still, I won't let all that curve my review score. As a movie it was good, not the most amazing thing ever filmed or anything like that. The shameless local pride factor does add .5 though, so we'll give it an 8.5 / 10
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Post by PatSox on Jan 26, 2017 8:51:02 GMT -5
MoonlightThis is a tough one to describe. Any theme I mention will give you the wrong idea of what this is about or what it's like. Like if I say it involves drug dealers and junkies, you may get a certain expectation. If I say it's a coming of age drama, involving a kid in grade school and high school dealing with bullies and a broken home, you may have a particular notion of what other films you can compare it to. If I say it's about someone conflicted by their sexuality, not sure of what they want, and if they deserve the ridicule they fear if they are in fact a certain way, you would probably have a specific idea of what kind of movie this and who it's for. You would be wrong, every time This is a unique story, told in a unique way. Yes, it involves some homosexuality and all the tension and stigma that comes along with that, in a rough inner city setting. So if you can't handle that, don't bother. But know that you will be missing out on some excellent story telling. This movie is just as much about that as it is about dealing with despair and bullying and a fear of opening up to people. It shows you why it can happen. What it can do to you. And it does it in a way that most movies wouldn't dare to. The director of this must have had full autonomy, because he lets scenes, not so much drag on, but.....ferment. I expected scenes to cut, when they didn't so many times. I expected so many things to turn or twist certain ways, and they didn't. He just let things play out in such a real way. When he did edit and use a little flair, it was through imagery and use of an excellent soundtrack that set such a mood and kind of put you in the main character's head, so you could kind of feel what he was feeling Great movies are often the kind that can present a person and a personal experience so different than your own, yet make you understand and make you care, just as much as if it were something farm more familiar and personal. And that, along with a multitude of excellent performances, is why this movie is great. And why you should see it 9/10
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Post by boboplata on Jan 26, 2017 10:00:22 GMT -5
Patriots DayBeing from Massachusetts, I was certainly one to question whether it was too soon to make a film about what happened only a few years ago, on that horrible day in 2013, when a couple radical assholes decided it would be cool to take life and limb from a bunch of random innocent people who where just trying to enjoy an annual road race. But ultimately I felt it's a story that needs to be told. Sure we all saw it play out on the news and the internet, but still, there were some remarkable details and people involved who deserved to have a light put on them the way only a dramatic feature film can do. All they had to do was be respectful and be sure not to distort and exploit things, and while I know that some things were tacked on and amped up for dramatic effect, I'm glad to say that that was achieved The film doesn't pull many punches in the first act, showing the mayhem and carnage those bombs caused. The sheer terror and shock was palpably on display. It was not fun to watch that recreated. The toughest moment I found to be the murder of M.I.T. campus police officer Sean Collier. The movie humanized him earlier, with a few scenes of him with friends, and with a girl he was interested in and his excitement that she was going to an upcoming concert with him. And then you see the cold brutal way they just walk up and kill him......because they only had one gun and wanted to get a second one.......and the fuck heads didn't even get it. The kid, full of bullets, fought them off long enough to where they had to give up and flee the scene, without what they came for. I've actually spoken to his mother, since then. She's a customer of mine. My technicians have gone in to her home and seen the pictures of him she has on display, it's heartbreaking. She's very proud of her son and the movie shows why she should be And pride is what I felt watching this. Reminded of how the people of my state came together and responded. How the Watertown police took these guys down, while under siege from home made I.E.D's these guys had stored up for their next conquest which was going to be Time Square in New York. You're reminded of how much worse this thing could have gotten. The very end becomes more of a documentary, where they show actual police, FBI, survivors etc, talking about what happened and what it's been like since. Policeman almost teering up, talking about how great it made them feel having people lining the streets cheering them on. A victim who lost a leg shown crossing the finish line of the Marathon, a few years later, hugging his girlfriend who also lost both her lower legs, crying like a baby in each others arms. David Ortiz saying, "this is our fucking city!" All of it transcended corniness and melodrama and fell right in to...awesome. I was actually hoping for more of it. I wanted to see the Bruins game that happened just days later, where the singer of the national anthem sang the first verse and then happily stopped as the crowd just took over and loudly finished the song on their own. I do think that will definitely be in the other movie being made about this, where Jake Gyllenhaul plays one of the victims. Can't wait for that one too Shit, I went from thinking one movie about this was too soon, to wanting to see another. Guess that means this was done right. Still, I won't let all that curve my review score. As a movie it was good, not the most amazing thing ever filmed or anything like that. The shameless local pride factor does add .5 though, so we'll give it an 8.5 / 10 The bombers were sherdog members so I couldn't really blame religion.
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Post by nickcage on Jan 26, 2017 14:19:59 GMT -5
I went and saw LaLaLand. I guess I can see why peolple appreciate it but It wasn't for me. Very very good directing tho and I have no qualm if Emma Stone wins best actress--she was fantastic in it.
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Post by Baph on Jan 26, 2017 17:05:49 GMT -5
I went and saw LaLaLand. I guess I can see why peolple appreciate it but It wasn't for me. Very very good directing tho and I have no qualm if Emma Stone wins best actress--she was fantastic in it. Your T levels just dropped off the table.
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Post by Baph on Jan 26, 2017 17:06:47 GMT -5
MoonlightThis is a tough one to describe. Any theme I mention will give you the wrong idea of what this is about or what it's like. Like if I say it involves drug dealers and junkies, you may get a certain expectation. If I say it's a coming of age drama, involving a kid in grade school and high school dealing with bullies and a broken home, you may have a particular notion of what other films you can compare it to. If I say it's about someone conflicted by their sexuality, not sure of what they want, and if they deserve the ridicule they fear if they are in fact a certain way, you would probably have a specific idea of what kind of movie this and who it's for. You would be wrong, every time This is a unique story, told in a unique way. Yes, it involves some homosexuality and all the tension and stigma that comes along with that, in a rough inner city setting. So if you can't handle that, don't bother. But know that you will be missing out on some excellent story telling. This movie is just as much about that as it is about dealing with despair and bullying and a fear of opening up to people. It shows you why it can happen. What it can do to you. And it does it in a way that most movies wouldn't dare to. The director of this must have had full autonomy, because he lets scenes, not so much drag on, but.....ferment. I expected scenes to cut, when they didn't so many times. I expected so many things to turn or twist certain ways, and they didn't. He just let things play out in such a real way. When he did edit and use a little flair, it was through imagery and use of an excellent soundtrack that set such a mood and kind of put you in the main character's head, so you could kind of feel what he was feeling Great movies are often the kind that can present a person and a personal experience so different than your own, yet make you understand and make you care, just as much as if it were something farm more familiar and personal. And that, along with a multitude of excellent performances, is why this movie is great. And why you should see it 9/10
Interested. Happy to see your review turn out this way. Now interesteder.
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Post by Baph on Jan 28, 2017 23:13:38 GMT -5
Arrival - 7.75 of 10.
Mixed bag here. Love the concepts. Love the visuals. Love the originality. LOVE the score. Great tension in the build-up. Great atmosphere. I legit felt nervous in "their" presence. Lots of great things going on here . . . but it just stays in this ethereal world too much. The meat and potatoes don't ever get served up. And then it's over. Man, just a *nudge* in the right direction and this is an easy 9 of 10.
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Post by nickcage on Jan 29, 2017 4:45:37 GMT -5
Hell or High WaterHoly High Plains Shit....this movie is awesome. Two brothers who are bank robbers. A cowboy and commanche cop team. It's west texas, so almost everyone is packing. This sounds like a formula for some fun shoot-em up, with a bunch of high octane action and sharp, quick cut editing and corny dialogue full of tough red neck cliches and yee haws and shit...........Well, there's some of that. But no, this is a realistic, smart, fascinating story, that lets scenes play out and breath. They slowly reveal certain things in a perfect way to make you at the very least understand, maybe not agree with....or maybe you will agree with what they're doing Chris Pine and Ben Foster play the brothers. And they are both fantastic. Pine is so different than anything I've ever seen him in, and he nails every scene. Foster is so good he could catch himself a nomination for this. Another guy that could is Jeff Bridges. He plays something pretty close to his Rooster Cogburn character from True Grit, but while it's familiar it's still damn good. His parter is played by a feller named Gil Birmingham, and he and Bridges play off each other wonderfully. There's other characters, but they're all pretty ancillary. Those four people ARE the movie. And it's enough I loved this movie. I want to see it get nominated for Best Picture, come hell or high water.....ya here, ya lousy fancy schmancy academy sons-a-bitches. Y'all better pay this movie some mind, or I'm-a put my boot through the back of y'alls teeth, by ways of your asshole. Now go on.....GIT! And see this movie 9/10 Holy shit could I not disagree with you more. There was zero backstory. at all. Probably one of my most anticipated movies--not by yr review but by reviews in general. Fell way flat here 6/10. 8/10 for acting--not the movie.
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