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Started by GalacticBusDriver, February 16, 2013, 12:37:09 AM

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Mermaid

Quote from: Mike Cl on December 21, 2014, 07:17:46 PM
Just saw Wild.  I guess Witherspoon is an actress--I was a bit surprised.  To have a movie made about hiking means it has to be good--surprised again, for it was good.  It was interesting to note that the most dangerous thing she faced on the hike (1200 miles in the wild) was a pair of male hunters.  I'd give it an 8.5/10.  See it...............
Have you ever seen her in Walk The Line? She was extremely great in that.

I read Wild. I liked the story and disliked the main character, she made a long series of bad decisions. I hear they left out the part about her having an abortion from the movie.
A cynical habit of thought and speech, a readiness to criticise work which the critic himself never tries to perform, an intellectual aloofness which will not accept contact with life’s realities â€" all these are marks, not as the possessor would fain to think, of superiority but of weakness. -TR

SGOS

The Gambler  (Mark Wahlberg)  7/10

I like Mark Wahlberg.  This is not his greatest work.  He does fine, but the script is kind of thin.

the_antithesis

What? Nobody saw The Interview now that it's free on Youtube?

I didn't think anybody would.

Mike Cl

Quote from: Mermaid on December 27, 2014, 11:30:23 AM
Have you ever seen her in Walk The Line? She was extremely great in that.

I read Wild. I liked the story and disliked the main character, she made a long series of bad decisions. I hear they left out the part about her having an abortion from the movie.

No, did not see Walk The Line.  I don't see a large number of movies, so going to Wild was to mainly keep my wife company.  She read the book and was very excited about going to the movie.  I was glad that I went; it was well done and the acting was good.  The abortion was in the movie.  And as it was portrayed  in the movie, it was the right choice on her part.  Yes, she made many, many bad choices, in that they were self-destructive.  And because of that, she destroyed her relationships as well.  Yet, she had something inside her that finally saw that--she bottomed out and reached for something positive.  She found the hike.  That would not have worked for me, but I realize that it could work for someone else--different strokes for different folks.  I think she paid for her bad decisions--and overcoming so many was quite an accomplishment.  I was happy for her by the end of the movie.  I still rate it an 8.5 to 9.  Which is remarkable, since the kind of movie I like is the Hunger Games type. 
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

PickelledEggs

rewatched Gattaca. It's been so long since I've watched it that I forgot how good it is. 9000000/10

GrinningYMIR

Quote from: the_antithesis on December 27, 2014, 02:29:09 PM
What? Nobody saw The Interview now that it's free on Youtube?

I didn't think anybody would.

its five bucks on youtube
"Human history is a litany of blood shed over differing ideals of rulership and afterlife"<br /><br />Governor of the 32nd Province of the New Lunar Republic. Luna Nobis Custodit

Aroura33

Big Hero 6,

My daughter gives it a 10/10 and says the only movie she's ever liked more is How to Train your Dragon (and maybe HtTYD2).  I thought it was full of awesome, but will give it a 9/10 because I thought it lost pacing a bit near the end.  I 100% recommend it to everyone though, unless you really hate Disney just on principal or something.

Last day of Christmas vacation for us, and I wanted to make it special, this movie seen in a theater was perfect!
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.  LLAP"
Leonard Nimoy

Hydra009

#1042
Finally saw The Hunger Games:  Catching Fire.

The government is either run by complete idiots or they're in it For the Evulz.  They do so much stuff to provoke the districts for seemingly no benefit for them.  Let's storm towns and burn their crap because...I dunno.  Let's do (presumably televised) summary executions on the spot and right in front of crowds.  Let's deny the districts basic services so we can feast and vomit and feast some more!  I mean, there's inequality in the our world, but this takes it to a whole new level.  We're talking futuristic airplanes and forcefields and holograms and all that jazz, but food production is apparently too difficult.  And just so pointlessly cruel on top of it all.  Do you want a rebellion?  Because that's how you get a rebellion.  And Jeez, the Prez is taking governing advice from the GM?!  Get that man a Cabinet, stat!  Next thing you know, the Tributes will be manipulating this guy, saying that they'll eat poison berries if he doesn't do what they want.  Can you imagine?

And the worst thing is it's not even internally consistent.  A major part of the first movie was that the Hunger Games victors are set for life.  Dragging them back seems incredibly deceitful.

As for the eponymous games, I'm glad they went a different way with that.  It would have been a drag if it was just a repeat of the last movie.  But it strikes me as strange how it always becomes a team-based game instead the expected free-for-all.

My quips during the airing:

"That Tribute (the white guy with the beard) looks pretty cool, can't wait to see more of him!"
"Let's all stumble and fall while running away from the lethal gas.  Oh yeah, carry the old lady.  That'll work out well."
"Wouldn't it be funny if the old lady wins the games?  Like all smeared with blood?"
"No monkey I've ever heard of is that aggressive.  Stealing stuff, I can understand.  But these guys are on the warpath."
*Katniss wakes up with an oxygen mask on*  "We interrupt this movie to bring you Resident Evil."

I actually sort of liked the ending.  I also really liked how Katniss's escort to the Capitol (Effie something or another) actually feels sympathetic for the team and, like Haymitch, apparently doesn't like her role in this sick system.  But this movie was still a trainwreck.  5/10.  6/10 tops.

SGOS

Quote from: Hydra009 on December 29, 2014, 10:18:05 PM
Finally saw The Hunger Games:  Catching Fire.
That was perhaps the most scathing, while not inaccurate, review of Hunger Games I've ever read.  While I had to suspend my sense of reality way beyond what is usually required by science fiction, I have still enjoyed them so far.  Although #2 lost a lot of interest for me.  I believe I read somewhere that the books are being promoted as a "young adult" series.  I think this means written text without any pictures or illustrations in an extra large font that renders less than 100 words per page.  But mostly, I think it means that the content is much more violent than what is usually associated with books of a 5th grade reading level.

In fact, that was my impression when I read the last two books of the series.  I'm not sure if I would call them poorly written, or simply written in a way that does not tax young readers.  The dialogue was especially simplistic.  It was pretty much just:  Then he said, "... bla bla," and then she said, "... bla bla."

Frankly, given the quality of the writing, I'm amazed that Hollywood managed to turn the books into a block buster series.  I think the movies target mostly late teens, while the books targeted elementary level children, so I wouldn't expect the plot lines to make a lot more sense than basic readers for schools, "Dick and Jane Go Postal."

Mike Cl

Quote from: SGOS on December 30, 2014, 08:14:15 AM
That was perhaps the most scathing, while not inaccurate, review of Hunger Games I've ever read.  While I had to suspend my sense of reality way beyond what is usually required by science fiction, I have still enjoyed them so far.  Although #2 lost a lot of interest for me.  I believe I read somewhere that the books are being promoted as a "young adult" series.  I think this means written text without any pictures or illustrations in an extra large font that renders less than 100 words per page.  But mostly, I think it means that the content is much more violent than what is usually associated with books of a 5th grade reading level.

In fact, that was my impression when I read the last two books of the series.  I'm not sure if I would call them poorly written, or simply written in a way that does not tax young readers.  The dialogue was especially simplistic.  It was pretty much just:  Then he said, "... bla bla," and then she said, "... bla bla."

Frankly, given the quality of the writing, I'm amazed that Hollywood managed to turn the books into a block buster series.  I think the movies target mostly late teens, while the books targeted elementary level children, so I wouldn't expect the plot lines to make a lot more sense than basic readers for schools, "Dick and Jane Go Postal."

Yes, the Hunger Games books are in the Young Adult section of the bookstore.  I found that I like that 'level' of writing--although I don't really understand what that actually means.  I've now read several more books of the post-apocalyptic type.  I enjoyed them all.  Then tackled a book named The Last Ship--a very adult level book.  It is right in my wheelhouse!  This is about the last surface ship in the world left after a true world wide nuclear war.  There is one more ship, but it is a sub.  On The Beach, move over!  Well, not so fast.  This writer of adult fiction (an actual naval officer) was so verbose I got to the middle of the book and stopped reading.  He would belabor each and every point over and over again.  He took two paragraphs for what a sentence or two would do better. 

I also like Orson Scott Card quite well. His books are in the regular sci-fi section.  So, I guess when all is said and done, we simply like what we like.  And one never knows until one gets into any particular book if one will like it or not.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

Aroura33

Quote from: Mike Cl on December 30, 2014, 02:23:18 PM
Yes, the Hunger Games books are in the Young Adult section of the bookstore.  I found that I like that 'level' of writing--although I don't really understand what that actually means.  I've now read several more books of the post-apocalyptic type.  I enjoyed them all.  Then tackled a book named The Last Ship--a very adult level book.  It is right in my wheelhouse!  This is about the last surface ship in the world left after a true world wide nuclear war.  There is one more ship, but it is a sub.  On The Beach, move over!  Well, not so fast.  This writer of adult fiction (an actual naval officer) was so verbose I got to the middle of the book and stopped reading.  He would belabor each and every point over and over again.  He took two paragraphs for what a sentence or two would do better. 

I also like Orson Scott Card quite well. His books are in the regular sci-fi section.  So, I guess when all is said and done, we simply like what we like.  And one never knows until one gets into any particular book if one will like it or not.
Don't ever read Game of Thrones then!  The characters and plot lines are excellent, but Martin can take an entire page to describe what another writer would probably do in a sentence or two.  Particularly clothing and food.  I don't mind it most of the time, I actually enjoy reading a description so vivid I can really visualize the people in my head, and almost smell their dinner.  But that kind of verbosity isn't for everyone.

The Hunger Games wasn't too bad.  The movies are worse than the books, though the books are fairly simplistic.  I really didn't like book 2, and felt that most of book 3 was better, although by the end it felt extremely contrived.

I'm so tired of YA dystopian books.  I loved Enders Game and I don't mind others, like City of Ember and Hunger Games, but it's overrunning the industry, or feels like it!  Maze Runner and ~gag, choke~ Divergent.  Man, Divergent was so bad, I have NO idea how it was selected to become a movie, or even how it made it to print!
"A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory.  LLAP"
Leonard Nimoy

aitm

Saw "The Desolation of Smaug" again. I really enjoy the LOTR works, they are just so rich in color and epicness that you fall right into the fantasy and a talking dragon...why...perfectly normal! Why shouldn't a dragon be able to talk? Always a fun time and looking forward to the next one. I rate all of the LOTR and Hobbits at 9.5.
A humans desire to live is exceeded only by their willingness to die for another. Even god cannot equal this magnificent sacrifice. No god has the right to judge them.-first tenant of the Panotheust

Mike Cl

Quote from: Aroura33 on December 30, 2014, 03:00:13 PM
Don't ever read Game of Thrones then!  The characters and plot lines are excellent, but Martin can take an entire page to describe what another writer would probably do in a sentence or two.  Particularly clothing and food.  I don't mind it most of the time, I actually enjoy reading a description so vivid I can really visualize the people in my head, and almost smell their dinner.  But that kind of verbosity isn't for everyone.

The Hunger Games wasn't too bad.  The movies are worse than the books, though the books are fairly simplistic.  I really didn't like book 2, and felt that most of book 3 was better, although by the end it felt extremely contrived.

I'm so tired of YA dystopian books.  I loved Enders Game and I don't mind others, like City of Ember and Hunger Games, but it's overrunning the industry, or feels like it!  Maze Runner and ~gag, choke~ Divergent.  Man, Divergent was so bad, I have NO idea how it was selected to become a movie, or even how it made it to print!
I have actually been toying with the idea of reading the Game of Thrones and the others in the series.  I too, like good description--but in the Stephen King vein.  If it is done well, describing one's surroundings gives the story and world depth--I like depth.  But the author of The Last Ship was not only verbose but his choice of vocabulary was obnoxious--words that were very obscure, or outdated.  His editor must have been very lazy to let that pass.  So, I will probably go to my local Barnes and Nobel bookstore (since that is the only one we have), grab The Game of Thrones, buy a cup of coffee and sit and read for an hour or so.  If I like it, I'll start it.  If not--I'll do something else.
Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?<br />Then he is not omnipotent,<br />Is he able but not willing?<br />Then whence cometh evil?<br />Is he neither able or willing?<br />Then why call him god?

SGOS

Quote from: Mike Cl on December 30, 2014, 02:23:18 PM
It is right in my wheelhouse!

OK, I've got to ask:  Are you living on a boat?

Shiranu

Quote from: aitm on December 30, 2014, 03:14:30 PM
Saw "The Desolation of Smaug" again. I really enjoy the LOTR works, they are just so rich in color and epicness that you fall right into the fantasy and a talking dragon...why...perfectly normal! Why shouldn't a dragon be able to talk? Always a fun time and looking forward to the next one. I rate all of the LOTR and Hobbits at 9.5.

Just saw the new one and really, really enjoyed it. I know alot of LotR purists and whatnot have criticised the Hobbit Trilogy, but I loved every minute of it. The third is just as good imo as the first two, so I don't think you will be disappointed by it.
"A little science distances you from God, but a lot of science brings you nearer to Him." - Louis Pasteur