RutgersJetFan Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Birdman was very interesting. I can't say it's the best movie of the year, but it's very well done and Keaton and Norton certainly deserve all the accolades they have gotten for it. Definitely deserving of best cinematography, and Inarritu would be a shoe-in for best director if Linklater hadn't blown everyone out of the water this year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Birdman was very interesting. I can't say it's the best movie of the year, but it's very well done and Keaton and Norton certainly deserve all the accolades they have gotten for it. Definitely deserving of best cinematography, and Inarritu would be a shoe-in for best director if Linklater hadn't blown everyone out of the water this year booooooooo! Other than the gimmick of filming over 12 year span, I didn't find anything special about the film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 booooooooo! Other than the gimmick of filming over 12 year span, I didn't find anything special about the film. Except that's exactly what is special about the film. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morrissey Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 Except that's exactly what is special about the film.I don't agree, I don't believe filming for a few weeks every year for 12 years is special and makes it Oscar worthy. You can age wine for 112 years but when you open it and it taste like crap... then it's 112 year old crappy wine. Filmmaking to me at the end of the day is about the storytelling, and the story in Boyhood, to me.. isn't great. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 19, 2015 Share Posted February 19, 2015 I don't agree I'm sorry but that's not allowed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Search for Spock...solid as always, but I can never get past Christopher Lloyd as the Klingon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlife33 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Just saw the Kingsmen, loved it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Edge of Tomorrow is a really great piece of science fiction. Okay, I finally saw Groundhog Day vs. The Alien Calamari Monsters. I doubt I liked it as much as you, but it was certainly good. I can accept that you liked Cruise in this, but I still think Jack Reacher was an abomination. I thought Paxton was pretty good too, though I kept thinking he was doing a Raylon Givens imitation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Finally saw Gone Girl. If ever there were any doubt in my mind of never marrying, this solidified it. Also, who knew Rosemund Pike had an ass like that on her? Damn. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slowmoe57 Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 Finally watched "Draft Day". Hokey Baloney but was worth watching. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted February 21, 2015 Share Posted February 21, 2015 so I just watched poltergeist II on cable. holy sh*t thank you HR Giger for the vomit creature, the singularly most awesomely awful thing I have ever seen in a movie I mean holy sh*t what a mind ****, lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdetroit Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Hot Tub 2 sucked. Was disappointed I was a big fan of the first movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 so I just watched poltergeist II on cable. holy sh*t thank you HR Giger for the vomit creature, the singularly most awesomely awful thing I have ever seen in a movie I mean holy sh*t what a mind ****, lol Google the artwork he did for the version of Dune that was supposed to get made in the 70s. Crazy sh*t. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 Google the artwork he did for the version of Dune that was supposed to get made in the 70s. Crazy sh*t. now I want to cry, thanks In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed. The option was then taken over two years later by director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who proceeded to approach, among others, Virgin Records, with the prog rock groups Tangerine Dream, Gong and Mike Oldfield before settling onPink Floyd and Magma for some of the music; artists H. R. Giger, Chris Foss, and Jean Giraud for set and character design; Dan O'Bannon for special effects; and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Amanda Lear, and others for the cast.[3] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 now I want to cry, thanks In 1973, film producer Arthur P. Jacobs optioned the film rights to Dune but died before a film could be developed. The option was then taken over two years later by director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who proceeded to approach, among others, Virgin Records, with the prog rock groups Tangerine Dream, Gong and Mike Oldfield before settling onPink Floyd and Magma for some of the music; artists H. R. Giger, Chris Foss, and Jean Giraud for set and character design; Dan O'Bannon for special effects; and Salvador Dalí, Orson Welles, Gloria Swanson, David Carradine, Mick Jagger, Amanda Lear, and others for the cast.[3] Favorite documentary of the year last year and maybe of all time. Really inspiring ending too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetlife33 Posted February 22, 2015 Share Posted February 22, 2015 The Boy Next Door was actually pretty entertaining. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
munchmemory Posted February 23, 2015 Share Posted February 23, 2015 Watched "Nightcrawler" over the weekend. Although I appreciate Gyllenhaal's performance (so understated/so creepy), thought the movie was a bit dull. I kept waiting for something bigger to happen before the ending. Also thought they should have explored Renee Russo's character a bit more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Tonight I forced my wife to sit through an old 70s scifi horror flick called Demon Seed. It's about an artificially intelligent computer program that hijacks his makers house, and after it has access to the house the computer kidnaps the developer's wife and blackmails her into letting it impregnate her so the computer can give birth to itself in human form. Then it self-destructs and leaves an incubator behind, from which a big slimy robot newborn crawls out several days later. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RaoulDuke Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Saw Imitation Game last night. Very good movie on Adam Turing during WWII, and great acting all around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Tonight I forced my wife to sit through an old 70s scifi horror flick called Demon Seed. It's about an artificially intelligent computer program that hijacks his makers house, and after it has access to the house the computer kidnaps the developer's wife and blackmails her into letting it impregnate her so the computer can give birth to itself in human form. Then it self-destructs and leaves an incubator behind, from which a big slimy robot newborn crawls out several days later. When I saw this repped, I knew without a doubt that it was Thor! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thor99 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 When I saw this repped, I knew without a doubt that it was Thor! My wife scowled at me through 20 minutes of Zardoz, then left the room. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 My wife scowled at me through 20 minutes of Zardoz, then left the room. I don't know what is with you guys. They just fall asleep and you can watch whatever you want. Even La Fenech in Giovannona Coscialunga Dishonorata Con Onore or Gloria Guida and Lilli Carati in Avere Vent'Anni. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 When I saw this repped, I knew without a doubt that it was Thor! I like to think of him as my spirit animal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vw5vcUPyL90&list=PL3764A3CF482DA559 This only hurt my soul some. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 Adi Shanker is that dude. I'd have him make every movie ever for eternity if I could. Have him do Hamlet next. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T0mShane Posted February 25, 2015 Author Share Posted February 25, 2015 If you took the very essence of pretense and the very essence of twee and jammed both of those things into a musket and then fired that musket into your face at close range, that's what watching Grand Budapest Hotel was like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Saw "30 for 30" about the Russian perspective about the US 1980 win in Lake Placid. Interesting, a decent way to spend a few hours if you're a hockey fan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I only know Lake Placid for the classic American monster film starring a giant croc, Bill Pulman, Brendan Gleeson, a still hot Bridget Fonda in probably the only other worthwhile movie she's been in not named Jackie Brown, Oliver Platt....Can't ask for much more tbh. ---- Shaker needs to make an Animorphs movie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 I only know Lake Placid for the classic American monster film starring a giant croc, Bill Pulman, Brendan Gleeson, a still hot Bridget Fonda in probably the only other worthwhile movie she's been in not named Jackie Brown, Oliver Platt....Can't ask for much more tbh. ---- Shaker needs to make an Animorphs movie. Not a fan of Singles, Single White Female or the La Femme Nikita reboot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdetroit Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Not a fan of Singles, Single White Female or the La Femme Nikita reboot? Talk about a career that died. She was the biggest female star around in the early 90's. She and Cuba Gooding Jr should do Expendables 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drdetroit Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Saw "30 for 30" about the Russian perspective about the US 1980 win in Lake Placid. Interesting, a decent way to spend a few hours if you're a hockey fan. Best 30 for 30 is the one about the pro athletes all going broke. The OT for the Jaguars with the last $50k check to his name go buys a fully loaded hummer. Lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Talk about a career that died. She was the biggest female star around in the early 90's. She and Cuba Gooding Jr should do Expendables 4. She married Danny Elfman and quit to raise a family. How dare she! She hit the age where women often start having trouble finding decent roles. I am willing to bet she comes back well before her On Golden Pond years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Not a fan of Singles, Single White Female or the La Femme Nikita reboot? I've been had. Alright, Bridget Fonda is cool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersJetFan Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 Singles... CITIZEN DICK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
isired Posted February 25, 2015 Share Posted February 25, 2015 booooooooo! Other than the gimmick of filming over 12 year span, I didn't find anything special about the film.I think "gimmick" sells it way short. It was a great idea that, IMO, was a perfect fit for the story - about people and relationships changing over time - that he had. I admit, if he films that story with a normal production schedule, changing the actors to cover the time span (for the kids anyway), it probably doesn't get a single nomination. If he had won best original screenplay, you'd have a legitimate gripe. But you can't separate his unique concept from the story and everything else. And the fact that it's a fit with the story is what makes it much more than a gimmick. I thought it was brilliant, and deserved the Best Director hands down. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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