Movies you just recently watched

[Haruka]

I saw it today. Lets hope for the best.

[Earth Gwee]

I just recently rewatched The Great Mouse Detective, one of my favorite Disney movies. Vincent Price as Ratigan actually helped inspire a character for my Rayman fanfiction. XD

[Keane]

Watched Monsters Universe. Incredible movie. It's one of the best animated movies in years. Excellent story, pace, characters, and especially graphics (To the point where it actually looked realistic). It's really a shame that Despicable Me 2 is taking a lot of its fame because it's unbelievably inferior. Definitely check this one if you can.

As long Turbo is better than Cars (Cars gets on my nervs, it is the worst Pixar movie from all of those I've watched from them)...

My favourite movies from DreamWorks from the ones I've watched are Kung Fu Panda, Shrek 2 and How to Train Your Dragon.

Cars is pretty bad, I'm happy Pixar isn't the one behind Planes, cos it looks awfully cliche and the stereotypical characters make just the trailer a drag.

[Adsolution]

Who's making Planes? I thought it was Pixar.

[Haruka]

Like if it wasn't enough, there's no place you won't see Lightning McQueen. Toys, boxes, clothing, pens, stickers, magnets, shoes, wall stickers... Jesus christ, aren't there better movies to worship?

[Keane]

Who's making Planes? I thought it was Pixar.

DisneyToon Studios.

[Adsolution]

What? I thought DisneyToon studios was shut down a long time ago after they made all those 90's and early-2000's sequels. This is news to me.

[GNineify]

Nah, they're still also doing these Tinkerbell movies.

[spiraldoor]

Saw Pacific Rim. Great action film with a level of attention to detail and world creation that you just don't see in most modern blockbusters. I was surprised by how intensely emotional it got at times. Story-wise it was kind of Top Gun meets Independence Day, but it's just so much better-made than either of them. The art direction is stunning, the cinematography is great, the combat is well-staged and it all feels so real...

Highly recommended to anyone whose soul has not yet withered away.

[Shrooblord]

I'll check that out too then.

I'm interested in seeing how Pacific Rim will do, because the director has been hoping to do well it, so he can get some attention, and good publication, and then continue to ask for funding for Hellboy III. Basically the film needs to do well to help fund another film, if you will. That's something I haven't ever heard of before, not in the slightest been following closely before (because I'd like to see Hellboy III become reality).

[Adsolution]

Saw Pacific Rim. Great action film with a level of attention to detail and world creation that you just don't see in most modern blockbusters. I was surprised by how intensely emotional it got at times. Story-wise it was kind of Top Gun meets Independence Day, but it's just so much better-made than either of them. The art direction is stunning, the cinematography is great, the combat is well-staged and it all feels so real...

Highly recommended to anyone whose soul has not yet withered away.

Having literally just finished watching it (I saw a midnight show and I'm still sitting in my seat), I completely agree with everything said here. Along with that, the pacing was absolutely perfect. For not one single moment was I ever not completely entranced with what was going on. The drama, action and bridging were all flawlessly interwoven, each given just the right amount of time on-screen. The progression of the events that happen throughout was rather unconventional, mostly because of how little it's been influenced by the billion other mediocre future-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi movies that have come out this year and last, and that left me on the edge of my seat, as I really didn't know how it would end until it ended. Almost nothing in this movie was predictable in the slightest, and in the best way possible.

There were a couple of pertinent conceptual flaws that really stuck out to me though. Firstly, why did they not simply make the Jaegers bigger than the Kaijus? They would have easily pummelled them if they'd done that. Secondly, and this one bothers me the most of all: Why are the pilots situated inside the Jaegers? While I was watching, I actually was a bit awed at the fact that they had them enter the machines during the first action sequence. It makes no sense, they're risking the lives of skilled fighters, placing them inside the machines, when they could just as well be controlled remotely. These two things I found to be ridiculously obvious and they sort of stuck with me throughout the whole movie, but at the same time, I realise that if either of those two things were done, the movie would be incredibly boring. I just wish that they would have addressed those issues. Maybe I'm the only one who noticed these problems almost instantly, but they are worthy of pointing out.

Those are my only two complaints about the movie, and they're nothing more than conceptual things that could have better been explained. With that in mind, it's one excellent work of art. I think it's unfortunate that this movie came out when it did, in the midst of a billion other future-post-apocalyptic-sci-fi films; I'm afraid that it may not remain as iconic as it should because of this, and it's a real shame, especially since this is one of the only ones that's actually done it right. By 'right,' I of course mean very well.



I recently also saw This is The End. I was really looking forward to this one, given what it's about. While it was a funny and enjoyably crude movie, the whole selling point of the film was the idea of a load of famous actors getting together and having a party (Michael Cera was absolutely hilarious) only really applied to the first twenty minutes or so, before everyone was promptly killed off and only a few were left. It then might as well have been actors playing characters, as while it made a few jokes here and there in an attempt to retain the sense of them being real people, there was absolutely nothing about the second and third acts that differentiated it from any other dumb sausage-fest comedy. Overall, while it did make me laugh pretty good at times, especially at some of the more blunt scenes (like the Devil's dick getting chopped off by Heaven-beams), the first half-hour is really the best part, and I wish they had stuck more to that idea throughout the movie instead of taking the path they did with it.



A couple days ago I saw Despicable Me 2. Strangely, even though I thought I would dislike this movie, I found it to be very funny and inventive, and I liked it a lot more than the first (I didn't really like the first). Unlike that piece of shit movie Epic where they had these obnoxious slugs making terribly unfunny and generic jokes at every turn, the minions actually added to the movie, as they actually had some level of personality, and the scenes they were thrown in to were very creative. I've always liked Gru's character, and his sarcasm is especially hilarious in this movie ("Oops, I didn't see you there. Or there" - probably one of my favourite lines). My favourite scene is probably when Lucy was on the plane heading to Australia, and she decides she wants to stay with Gru saying "I choose Gru, I choose Gru!" and she stands by the door and opens it, waving goodbye to everyone as they wave back, cheering, while the oxygen masks drop, and she hurls herself off the passenger deck. The sheer absurdness and unbelievability of the scene was just fucking hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing for nearly a minute.

This movie's unconventionally over-the-top wacky nature and good writing makes me like it quite a lot. Definitely one of the funniest films I've seen this year.

[Rayfist]

Fuckin hell Adsolution
My Dad wants me to see Pacific Rim, he offered me for free, guess I should do so!

[Adsolution]

Hell yes you should!

[Keane]

A couple days ago I saw Despicable Me 2. Strangely, even though I thought I would dislike this movie, I found it to be very funny and inventive, and I liked it a lot more than the first (I didn't really like the first). Unlike that piece of shit movie Epic where they had these obnoxious slugs making terribly unfunny and generic jokes at every turn, the minions actually added to the movie, as they actually had some level of personality, and the scenes they were thrown in to were very creative. I've always liked Gru's character, and his sarcasm is especially hilarious in this movie ("Oops, I didn't see you there. Or there" - probably one of my favourite lines). My favourite scene is probably when Lucy was on the plane heading to Australia, and she decides she wants to stay with Gru saying "I choose Gru, I choose Gru!" and she stands by the door and opens it, waving goodbye to everyone as they wave back, cheering, while the oxygen masks drop, and she hurls herself off the passenger deck. The sheer absurdness and unbelievability of the scene was just fucking hilarious, I couldn't stop laughing for nearly a minute.

This movie's unconventionally over-the-top wacky nature and good writing makes me like it quite a lot. Definitely one of the funniest films I've seen this year.

Nay, I completely disagree. I feel it wasn't at all well written and just a long collection of shorts with the Minions and had merely a fair plot line. It's really not that hard to think of "Here we'll have some minions dress up like YMCA" or "We'll have the minions do some silly stuff as they try to chase a car". I actually like over the top humour but the movie just kept doing it over and over and it quickly lost charm.

And I remain to argue that the minions are terribly hit and miss.

[spiraldoor]

I'll check that out too then.

I'm interested in seeing how Pacific Rim will do, because the director has been hoping to do well it, so he can get some attention, and good publication, and then continue to ask for funding for Hellboy III. Basically the film needs to do well to help fund another film, if you will. That's something I haven't ever heard of before, not in the slightest been following closely before (because I'd like to see Hellboy III become reality).

He's also trying to make At the Mountains of Madness, a $150 million HP Lovecraft adaptation about a 1920s Antarctic scientific expedition that discovers the humanly incomprehensible remains of an ancient alien civilisation. I've read an early draft of the script, and trust me, you want to see this one too. You also want to see Slaughterhouse-Five, his mooted Kurt Vonnegut adaptation about an alien-abducted WWII veteran who experiences every moment of his life in random order (the writer of Being John Malkovich is scripting it).

There were a couple of pertinent conceptual flaws that really stuck out to me though. Firstly, why did they not simply make the Jaegers bigger than the Kaijus? They would have easily pummelled them if they'd done that. Secondly, and this one bothers me the most of all: Why are the pilots situated inside the Jaegers? While I was watching, I actually was a bit awed at the fact that they had them enter the machines during the first action sequence. It makes no sense, they're risking the lives of skilled fighters, placing them inside the machines, when they could just as well be controlled remotely. These two things I found to be ridiculously obvious and they sort of stuck with me throughout the whole movie, but at the same time, I realise that if either of those two things were done, the movie would be incredibly boring. I just wish that they would have addressed those issues. Maybe I'm the only one who noticed these problems almost instantly, but they are worthy of pointing out.

It seems the pilots' nervous systems have to be wired directly to the Jaegers – Yancy cries out and grabs his arm when Gipsy Danger's arm gets ripped off. Maybe the neural interface isn't something that can be maintained via broadcast? Or maybe it would be dangerously laggy? I don't know man, just go with it.

[ikke471]

gonna see man of steel this Tuesday.. I heard mixed things about it.. so I'll see how it is for myself

[Adsolution]

I don't know man, just go with it.

I tried to, and did, as it didn't end up hindering the experience for me at all. It's just that considering what I do - a lot of virtual mechanics design for games and such, that's one of the first things I would have though about when designing this sort of thing. Minor complaints are all they are, though!

[spiraldoor]

gonna see man of steel this Tuesday.. I heard mixed things about it.. so I'll see how it is for myself

It's kind of interesting as a science fiction film but it has very little in the way of heart or fun. I do hope you're not subconsciously choosing it just because it's an established media franchise, because that kind of thinking is the reason we're in a bit of a creative vacuum at the moment.

[Adsolution]

The action scenes actually made the movie somewhat worthwhile for me, since they were so unlike anything I'd seen before, and I thought, moreso towards the beginning of the fights, it was very intense.


The trailer looked phenomenal. The movie wasn't very, though.

[ikke471]

It's kind of interesting as a science fiction film but it has very little in the way of heart or fun. I do hope you're not subconsciously choosing it just because it's an established media franchise, because that kind of thinking is the reason we're in a bit of a creative vacuum at the moment.

I just went to go see it because.. Superman..
so.. my thoughts on the movie:
TL;DR version: It was decent.

The movie started out very good but it began to get weird every quickly.
I loved the fact that Zod was the main villain of the movie (I loved him in the comics) but his performance.. eh
Superman himself... was calm.. a little too calm.. I'd freak the fuck out in his situation.
Zod and his fellow Kryptons were emotionless most of the time and that didn't really help the movie's plot (there was also a lack of backstory on these characters which is a shame).
The action scenes were really cool just because of the super powered Kryptons being near the strength of Superman himself that made the clashes were really epic
The story made sense but there was a lack of.. well.. backstory.
Lois.. well.. where do I start.. I felt everything was wrong with her in this movie.. she felt so.. generic.. so.. simple.. not Lois from the comics and that bothered me a lot.

score: a Micheal Bay out of Oprha Winfrey (6/10)