Oh geez, Mac and Me. Even the name sounded like a McDonalds commercial disguised as "entertainment"...
EDIT: Also, I miss Wayne's World. Watched that too many times as a kid. Yet I barely remember it because I always watched a bunch of embarassingly bad comedies around the same time...oh, the days of "5 Movies for 5 Days" rentals...
@RR529: I guess it just doesn't bother you as much as it does me, and that's fine.
Agree to disagree then
Sorry if I sounded a little harsh in my responses. I don't get into many debates here, but when I do, I feel like I get a bit TOO much into it, lol (which is probably why I don't do it much).
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St. Vincent (DVD) - Bill Murray plays a grumpy "get off my lawn" type elderly fellow who seems fed up with life, until he ends up finding himself taking care of his new neighbor's son after school. It has both it's funny parts & tearjerking parts (which even managed to get to me), as the boy helps him find new purpose in life, and he helps the boy to fit in to his new life.
It's not the sort of thing I'd typically watch, but I'm glad I did, and am surprised it didn't garner much (if any) Academy Award attention.
Fury (DVD) - This is one I've wanted to watch for awhile, and I must say it didn't disappoint. It stars Brad Pitt as the head of a tank squadron in the last days of WWII. The group has been fighting ever since America entered the war (started fighting in Africa), and only now does the group lose it's first member. They soon get a new member who is still pretty naive about the brutality of war, and as the film goes on you see his innocence fade away as he becomes numb to the horrors of war. It's not for the faint of heart as there are some pretty brutal scenes that happen often, but it's a highly effective way of expressing itself. Despite the dark nature of the film, I've been enamored with tanks ever since I was little, so when the battle scenes came they were a real highlight for me. There was one tank on tank battle in the film that really had me gripped, and their last stand at the end of the film was an action packed flury of gunfire & explosions.
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Just finished up Penguins of Madagascar: the Movie (Netflix)!
If you enjoyed the antics of the penguins in the Madagascar films you'll probably get some enjoyment out of this, and even though I myself like them, I felt it was a getting a little long in the tooth here. It was a decent watch though.
TBH, none of the animated films I've seen this year have really impressed me, other than maybe Rise of the Guardians.
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Welcome to Cinema Nihongo Thursday! (on a Friday because reasons)
This week I watched I Wish (Netflix/Japanese language film).
Two brothers are split apart because their estranged parents have split up (though not officially divorced yet), and while they try to make their new lives apart work, they hatch an ambitious plan to make a wish on two passing bullet trains for their parents to hook back up (according to elementary school gossip, there's so much energy between the trains as they cross that it can grant wishes).
It's sort of a coming of age story, as well as a look at everyday life in Japan. There's also some side stories, such as the boys' grandfather trying to rekindle his aging Kurakan Cake business, one of thier friends trying to become an actress, and one who even has a serious case of puppy love for the hot librarian, lol. Everything mixes well together, and I thought it was an interesting watch, though I know it won't be for everyone. For those interested in coming of age stories, the everyday lives of people, or those into Japanese cinema.
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Watched Conan the Barbarian 1982 (Netflix) earlier today!
Arnold Schwarzenegger plays the titular character as he fights his way to revenge against those who killed his entire village & enslaved him as a child. It has a real sense of epic scale, which is really cool considering it's age (and limited special effect ability), and was quite good.
As long as you can put up with (and old enough for) some violent scenes and nudity, I'd heartily recommend this for anyone looking for a film with a quest in epic scale.
Watched Terminator (Netflix) earlier today! Actually never watched the original before, though I've seen the others at least once. Nice to say I've seen them all now, other than the newest one that's still in cinemas.
Personally I didn't like it as much as 2 or 3, but that's probably because I didn't see it back when it was innovative, and since it didn't have any surprises in store (since I knew about them all).
Well to be fair, this IS a gaming site first & foremost, so it's no surprise most here are spending their free time gaming. As for me? Well, I don't have a new game to play at the moment & we have a Netflix subscription, so I gotta spend my free time doing something, lol.
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I watched Life After Beth last night and it was pretty decent with Aubrey Plaza being brilliant (it just makes me wish for more Parks & Recs tho) but they should of recast the evil kid from Chronicle, I don't think I've seen him in anything where he's likable and just he just grated on me throughout the film.
Well, it's Cinema Nihongo Thursday again, and this week I watched Caterpillar (Netflix/Japanese language film).
Set in a small mountainside Japanese village during the early days of WWII, it sees the return of one of the village's own return from the war early, having both his arms & legs amputated, but still alive. It features the struggles of his wife as she tries to take care of him & keep up appearance as "proper Japanese citizens", while he's slowly tormented by the deeds he's done in the name of country, and thus disillusioned by it (it's shown that he took part in the infamous "Rape of Nanking", where Japanese soldiers commited atrocious crimes against the normal citizens who lived there). The film itself (despite being a 2010 production) is purposefully made to look like you're watching it on an old film reel.
I'd say it's definitely an acquired taste (I don't think I'd watch it again, though I don't think it was ineffective), and it's not one for younger audiences (it doesn't shy away from showing his actions during the war, or how he still tries to have marital relations with his wife).
watched american beauty yesterday. again. first time in english though. native german speaker here. think i'm gonna try to watch movies in english from now on, if the movies were originally made in english of course. kinda helps learning the language even better.
german synchronization is good though most of time.
...well, that'll be my nightmare fuel for the week...
Possibly my favorite movie of the year so far. Alex Garland is definitely an up-and-comer to keep an eye on. Wrote 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Sunshine, and Dredd. Ex Machina was his directorial debut, which he also wrote. All great movies.
Also, love the new Spectre trailer and Jurassic World 2 announcement makes me happy. Jurassic Park, along with Star Wars, was among the first film series I ever got invested in as a kid and I still love it.
@CaviarMeths: It's the first movie in a while to give me mixed feelings, that's for sure. It was difficult to sit through, yet I don't hate it. It made me think, yet it had a lot of scenes I'd rather forget about. It's different, at least, so I'll give it that, and I don't totally regret watching it.
Any classic horror fans on NL? I'm looking for suggestions on old Vincent Price movies. Got House on Haunted Hill and The Fly picked out. Maybe House of Wax as well?
So Anakin kneels before Monster Mash and pledges his loyalty to the graveyard smash.
I also recommend Warm Bodies; it is more of a comedy than a horror film however, it is suitably creepy/jumpy in places and the two main characters have great chemistry, despite the general premises!
Other than those, I find the horror genre lacking as of late. I realised you are checking out classic horrors films, but I thought I'd throw my few recommendations out there. The Fly, The Thing and The Shining are my favourites. You could look up Hammer (film productions) for their line up too. Christopher Lee stars in at least half a dozen Hammer films!
@Peek-a-boo Hmm I don't think recent horror movies are lacking, so much as we tend to view the past through a narrow lens. There were tons of crappy horror movies released in previous decades. Some of them, like Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, even became very popular. Horror is a genre that has been filled with garbage in every era. Only subgenres that really seem to have gone away are haunted house and asylum movies. We don't get good ones very often.
TCM and Ft13, by the way, both got 21st century reboots that are not terrific, but still better than the originals. Nightmare on Elm Street remake on the other hand was one of the worst movies I saw that year, despite an interesting interpretation of the character by Jackie Earle Haley.
Anyway, I watched It Follows and The Babadook a few weeks ago, and enjoyed them both. It Follows was pretty unnerving and unsettling just by the concept alone. Atmosphere were quite good too, and it had a good screenplay, rare among horror films. The Babadook wasn't quite as enjoyable... mostly because I hated that f***ing kid. The Conjuring I caught in theater and liked it quite a lot. Shame about Annabelle. That movie was pretty junk.
The Thing and The Shining are both in my top 5 all time as well. Great, great movies.
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