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Neither Kurtz nor Lucas' takes were ideal, a middle ground should have been found between them. I actually think Lucas was closer to what should have happened - an ultimately happy ending with a few bittersweet moments. The Vader/Luke resolution was good, as was the appearance of Palpatine. Lando being redeemed was good, although Han really should have died in the end of Empire. Recreating the Death Star was stupid, dumber than the Ewoks. The Ewkos should have been Wookies, as was originally planned, and Endor should have been Kashyyyk. It would have been a good motivation for Chewbacca to live on without Han.
Even if Force Awakens could have been said to follow the plot of the original Jedi trajectory, by not showing that development (growing distant from Kylo, Luke abandoning everyone, the New Republic crumbling under ineptitude) it merely implies character development, unlike what that original Jedi prototype would have done.
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Scott Pilgrim vs the World
So my boyfriend and I have this weird habit of watching movies that like we hadn't seen in a few years, usually movies we like to see if they remain the same in our eyes and this one was no exception to that rule. I hadn't seen Scott Pilgrim since it originally came out and he told me he was about the same. In all honesty we both thoroughly enjoyed it, we loved how it remained true to the comics, had a good blend of action and comedy and is just in general such a fun movie to watch. Honestly, I could totally throw it on my top 10 movies list, if I haven't already. 9/10 man.
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The Last three movies I watched were, " Finding Dory, Force Awakens and Nine Lives" all good family movies I have to say but cannot wait for the Power Rangers movie to come out ( I saw the trailer the other day and Fing screamed in joy cause I think its awesome)
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12 Angry Men
Finally saw this. It was a pretty good movie. It deals with a super important topic, but as entertainment value goes I feel I'd be lying if I said it was top-notch. It's a fine movie. It's not a waste of anyone's time to watch, and on the contrary is the sort of movie that every American should probably see at some point in their lives before taking on the responsibility of a juror themselves. But I wouldn't say it was, like, super enjoyable or super re-watchable or anything.
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The Tale of the Princess Kaguya
Studio Ghibli's take on the thousand-year-old Japanese folk story, The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. This took several sessions to get through. I'm not the biggest fan of even the original tale (though I appreciate it for what it is and for what it means to Japanese culture), so sitting through a 2-hour adaptation that weirdly shortens some areas while stretching out others and inventing some new material out of thin air ... yeah, I wasn't the biggest fan. The plot, I felt like you're simply best off with the original tale. No ifs, ands, or buts. The movie tries to make the tale more "real" / "happening in real life" I suppose by way of various mundane conversations (and the introduction of several new characters), but at the end of the day the padding doesn't add much of benefit in my opinion, and instead simply takes what could be read in 30 minutes and transforms it into a 2-hour-11-minute slog. The soundtrack, it has transient moments of greatness but is largely plain, unassuming, and unnoticed. This can be chalked up to artistic license but it is what it is -- I'm not humming any tunes from this movie right now and can't see myself rushing out to download any of its songs. Spirited Away it is not. The animation, more than anything else, is what the film puts its stakes on. The idea seen here is, "We have an ancient tale told to children, so let's animate it using very simple art that looks like it belongs in a children's picture book." Lots of colored pencil, lots of very simple shapes and forms, very little in the way of actual animation. It's a gamble, but one which seems to have largely paid off for the team judging by the Internet's opinions. For me personally, I felt it was hit or miss. I enjoyed the scenes where Kaguya tears through the castle / fields / wherever she is, beast-like, like a primal force of nature ... those scenes were a really fun opportunity to look at what pencil art can look like on the big screen. But for the average scene, where nothing much is visually happening ... I dunno, while I get and respect that the colored pencil look is meant to evoke both the feelings of the tale's bedtime story-ness and its ancientness, it was just bland and boring to look at for me. In the end, this one wasn't for me. Satisfied to have seen it, but that's about it.
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Watched Logan:
One of the best movies out currently. Wolverine and Prof X are played well and it is a fitting swan song to the actors whom have stated that they would be retiring from their characters prior to the films release
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Get Out (2017)
Wowie, this movie is great. It's probably my second favourite movie I've seen in theatres (slightly behind Gone Girl, and above The Gift). It has a whole bunch of symbolism which was so good to be like "hey, did you see that?" to my mom. The plot was fantastic, it takes a good amount of time to set itself up before it jumps right in to the nitty gritty of it all. It also has a really good sense of humour and although the subject matter is very serious (especially the symbolic undertones) it never takes itself too seriously. We're actually given an off-screen comic relief character pretty early on in the movie, sometimes it shifts focus to him but it never feels forced nor does it really take anything away from the movie as a whole. The main character also has a pretty good sense of humour through all of it, and it makes him quite relatable and a pretty good character to boot. My only complaint with the movie, is it's reliance on jumpscares. I'm not a person that absolutely hates jumpscares but... they kind of have to have a point? For instance, a jumpscare that was created by something characters saw in screen with little noise or buildup is fantastic; or a jumpscare triggered by a loud noise MADE BY THE CREATURE/PERSON on screen is great. However, although it is done very little in Get Out (only twice if memory is serving correctly), the jumpscares are very forced. Without giving too much away, there's a scene where someone runs behind the main character and it makes that god awful loud sound to attempt to make people jump. This in itself doesn't take away from the movie as a whole, but it is a minor nitpick I have with it. (And multiple films that have done something similar). Overall, I'd give Get Out a solid 8.5/10 and a big recommendation to go see it.
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X-Men: First Class
(Warning: post has soft spoilers outside of spoiler boxes and only hard spoilers inside of them. Going to assume you won't read this wall of text unless you've either seen the movie or are comfortable with soft spoilers.) Watched this for the first time. IT WAS VERY GOOD! I quite enjoyed it. I remember people praising it back when it first came out, but I was always pretty skeptical. Well, I'm glad to say I was wrong on this one. I enjoy Bryan Singer's X-Men (the first film only), and I feel like First Class has a lot of similarities to X-Men only it's set in the '60s and telling the story of how Xavier joined the X-Men (or founded it, really, of course) rather than set in the '90s/'00s and telling the story of how Logan joined the X-Men. Friend lent this to me on DVD, but not gonna lie: if I wind up wanting to watch this again some time soon, I'll probably go out and buy my own copy. It was that enjoyable to me. One thing I really liked about the film was how the writer(s) managed to cram so much material into the first hour without it feeling rushed or bogged down with too much information. This was a script that successfully managed to deliver a three-hour amount of information in a two-hour viewing experience. Very well done. I was never bored or impatient. I never felt lost, though there were a couple of times I'd learn something later that I'm sure now I must've missed earlier on. (Moira's name, for example. Didn't catch that she was Moira until the Blackbird!) I imagine a lot of people wouldn't like the fanficcy nature of this script, how it retcons a lot of relationships and events. (For instance, the out of frickin' nowhere BUT I FUCKING LOVE IT! history that Xavier and Mystique share.) But me personally, I was a-okay with all of it. Didn't mind the retcon for Charles and Erik. Didn't mind the retcon for Mystique and Erik. Didn't mind the retcon for Mystique and Beast. Didn't mind the retcon for how Beast became blue. Didn't mind the retcon to Beast's personality pre-blueification. So on and so forth. One particularly praiseworthy thing about this script imo is ... Spoiler: show Another thing I genuinely enjoyed about the script was the real complexity given to Mystique's relationships with Charles, Hank, and Erik. Spoiler: show It was a real pleasure to watch her interactions with these characters. And not just because this is probably the Internet's Crush at her hottest and most adorkable. There are a few things I'll admit I didn't care for -- Emma Frost looking like she's fifteen years older than the oldest-looking X-Man takes the cake, fuck -- but for the most part I enjoyed this film just fine. For me personally, X-Men: First Class gets a tentative 8/10. I could see it dropping to a 7, but no lower. It's a good movie. So long as you don't know the source material or are not bothered by how much this movie retcons it. ^^;; Lucky me! Didn't know half, and didn't mind the retcons to the half I did know.
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X-Men: Days of Future Past
Just finished watching this tonight. I enjoyed it! It was, for me, less entertaining / less exciting than its predecessor, X-Men: First Class. Hard to pinpoint exactly why, although I think it has something to do with the respective scripts. Regardless, it's a fun sequel to First Class with a rather ... curious ending ... Spoiler: show I had forgotten about my softcore crush on Ellen Page. She's so cute! I don't think I've really seen her in anything though since frickin' X-Men 3 way back when ... back before the world knew she was a lesbian, breakin' straight guys' hearts ... Okay, more spoiler discussion: Spoiler: show I really enjoyed having Peter Dinklage aboard. This is my first time actually seeing him act, not counting bit appearances on shows like Saturday Night Live. I was impressed and entertained thoroughly. As much as I was enjoying the movie, I periodically thought to myself, "Man, I can't wait to watch Game of Thrones!" Maybe I'll try for that some time later in 2017. Overall, I would give X-Men: Days of Future Past either a 7 or an 8 out of 10. Where with First Class I leaned instantly more to the 8, here I'm leaning more to the 7. It's a good movie. I enjoyed it. But whereas First Class I fantasized about purchasing some day soon, Days of Future Past had a more "That was a fun rental " feel to it. I dunno. I can see myself buying all three of First Class, Days of Future Past, and Apocalypse if they're sold in a conveniently less-expensive trilogy boxset, but buying them on their own the only one I think I'd care to buy at this time is First Class. ----------------------------------- Speaking of which ... Time to ask! Do I need to see Apocalypse before going to see Logan? I assume the answer is "No." I'm personally comfortable with skipping over X-Men Origins: Wolverine as well as The Wolverine before I go to see it, but Apocalypse I figured I should at least ask about since I can see First Class and Days of Future Past having obvious tie-ins to Logan's backstory in Logan and it's questionable, then, for me if maybe Apocalypse won't have some tie-ins too. I dunno. For right now I'm assuming the answer is, "No, go see Logan. " And that's pretty much what I plan to do.
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I've actually seen a lot of movies recently. I've been on kind of a binge. I'm not sure what triggered it.
Hell or High Water - A movie about bank robbing brothers and the sheriff trying to catch them. A modern day western. Jeff Bridges absolutely kills it in this movie. It was a decent romp, kept me engaged throughout. Music and atmosphere was spot on, portrayal of Texoma/rural middle America was spot on. It was nominated for Best Picture; I'm not sure I'd go that far personally, but it's a pretty good movie. Hacksaw Ridge - A retelling of the battle of Okinawa in WWII, but from the perspective of a conscientious objector who enlisted as a medic, but refuses to touch a gun. Aside from a few minor parts of the story that were adjusted for the sake of Hollywood, it's otherwise a fairly accurate retelling. I will say the first 1/4th of the movie of so did nothing for me, but when it turned around, boy did it really turn around. This movie is not for the faint of heart; intense gore is extremely prevalent as it does its best to portray the horrors of war in as gruesomely accurate detail as possible. Andrew Garfield really surprised me, here. Didn't think he had it in him. Spotlight - very straightforward, the movie is a docudrama about the making of this news article that blew open the catholic church's widespread child abuse scandal. It's intense, heavy, dark, and real. The pacing isn't typical of many movies; the movie has a story to tell, and it fucking tells it how it is sans the bullshit. It was very refreshing. It didn't feel artificial, it didn't feel like it was intentionally creating drama to make the story more interesting. The stakes were high in writing this article, and the movie shows the viewer exactly why that's the case, and how the team managed to pull it off despite an overwhelming amount of odds. There's a reason it won best picture last year. Argo - Another one based on a true story. Ben Affleck is a government agent who disguises himself as a Canadian filmmaker to save six Americans in hiding in Iran during the hostage crisis. A lot of it was clearly padded with artificial drama to Hollywood-ize it, but it was nonetheless interesting. Out of the movies I have listed here, Argo was probably my least favorite, though it was by no means bad. Arrival - Actually, I take it back. If any movie on this list was a letdown, it was Arrival. For making a feature length adaptation of a short story, they didn't do too bad. Unfortunately, the movie's pacing is questionable and the story gave the impression it was created in the first place to simply be a catalyst for the plot twist the author came up with. Without going into detail and spoiling it, have you ever seen a plot twist that felt like it was created before the story itself was, and so the author wrote a story around that twist? That's how Arrival came off to me. I doubt that's actually what happened, but nonetheless it sure did feel like... well, it felt like... yep, that certainly was a science fiction movie I just watched. Do not think this was worth a 'best picture' nomination. It wasn't AWFUL, but I'd probably give it a solid 6.5/10. Logan - Extremely dark. I hope Hugh Jackman gets a goddamn Oscar for this. I really fucking do. That's all that needs to be said. Last edited by deoxys; 03-18-2017 at 12:14 AM. |
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Logan also takes place outside the normal timeline of the X-Men movie franchise. If you have any small amount of information about Wolverine, Charles Xavier, and the idea of mutants and the X-Men, you should have no big problem understanding it.
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The Wolverine
So I just finished watching The Wolverine. A.k.a. "X-Men: Weeaboo Edition." It was alright! A lot of little things about it impressed me, and there was nothing severe which set the film back. It wasn't the greatest movie of all time -- in fact, it's easily the weakest of the three X-Men films I've watched these past few weeks -- but it was a perfectly fine movie to spend two free hours with. I might've been a little more miffed if I'd spent $10 on it, but hey. For those who might not know this -- I didn't -- the film is set some time after the events of X-Men 3 and, owing to a mid-ending credits scene, is meant to lead into a first viewing of Days of Future Past. You most definitely do not need to see DoFP first (though it helps one to appreciate that ending credits scene a little bit more!), but you do need to see X1, X2, and X3 first. The film makes constant references to Logan's relationship with Jean, including multiple references to the events of X3. I suppose that's a good segue into spoiler discussion, so here we go! Spoiler: show Would I recommend that an X-Men fan check out this movie? Yes, but for free or at low cost. Would I say that this film is a "must-see" for anybody, X-Men fan or otherwise? No. I wish it would have been, but it's not, I'm sorry to say. The Wolverine gets a decent 6/10 - "Fair" from me.
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That movie has tie-ins with Logan as well oddly enough. Although, at the time, everyone though it was a throwaway line.
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I watched both X-Men: Apocalypse yesterday and Disney's Moana tonight. I'll save Apocalypse for the next post since I started it last night and it's going to be long, but let's go ahead and discuss Moana, eh?
Moana This was a pretty good movie in all of the small ways, and a decent enough movie overall. Story's a solid 4/5, the two main characters are each 5/5's, there are at least two songs worth keeping and which the movie recognizes as keepers and thankfully recycles the leitmotifs for over and over again ("How Far I'll Go" and "You're Welcome") ... On the other hand, the story's not the coveted 5/5, the supporting cast of characters leaves little for me to treasure, and the movie bills itself as a Disney musical (boasting Mr. Hamilton himself, Lin-Manuel Miranda, as its composer) yet is sorely lacking for memorable, sing-alongable songs outside of the aforementioned two. So like ... we're in a weird spot here. It's a good movie and one worth owning ... but it's not the next Toy Story or Lion King either. It's not a movie I'd want to watch more than, say, two or three more times this year and then that's it for the next couple of years. But it is good. And the thing is, Moana and Maui have such wonderful Maui is a wonderfully complex antihero (at first, and hero later) character for a children's movie. The team does a wonderful job of showing every side of him honestly, and of never trying to simplify him for kids. He's ... left complex, but he works so well as is and I'm glad they made the choice they did. The closest thing the film has to an antagonist proper ... on into the spoiler box! Spoiler: show The movie packs a surprising amount of narrative density for the duration. I didn't feel that way necessarily as the ending credits rolled, but when I actually sat there and thought about it, I had no choice but to conclude that sure enough this movie has quite a few events or plot points to it and that it forms a pretty good template for a legend -- which is of course exactly what they would want to be aiming for here! The one thing I heard from everyone before seeing this film was -- "The animation! " Sure enough, the animation is really quite pleasant to watch. While the people have the same Pixar 3D Play-Doh feel to them that the humans in Wall-E had, it isn't unpleasant to watch. And everything else is even more wonderful to look at. I'm not sure how fun it is to be a 3D animator vs. a traditional one, but had this been the product of traditional animation I would be certain that this movie was just plain fun for the animators to create. Moana receives a 7/10 from me, with a possible bump up to the 8 but I'm not sure.
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X-Men: Apocalypse
I watched this film two nights ago. Going into it, I had been warned by the Internet that it was both a poor film and the weakest of the three "prequel" films starring the First Class actors. I honestly don't believe this information biased my perception too badly, but out with it: I, too, found the film to be pretty dissatisfactory. I wrote up some of my thoughts shortly after finishing the film, because I was thinking over what the film did wrong and I realized it would make for great post material. I'm going to go ahead and copy and paste it below. Spoilers! Spoiler: show Now, I'll go ahead and finish up with some additional thoughts that didn't make it into that session: Spoiler: show I could keep writing, but I've already written the equivalent of two Talon-Posts™ on this film, so let's put it to rest, shall we? X-Men: Apocalypse gets a 4/10 - "Bad" from me. It's not the worst movie ever, but it's certainly a movie that I'd feel pretty pissed about wasting $10 on at the theater. Would not bother to buy it other than for completionist's sake. Don't intend to watch it again any time soon if ever.
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Moana wasn't going to have a romance due to a real or perceived age gap. Huge guy, small girl, or older guy/younger girl ain't gonna cut it a militant era of age gap and hypergamy shaming.
That said, I was curious about the title's box office because I saw a display at Wal-Mart for Sing, which has horrifically atrocious character designs. Anthro animals are not that appealing to me (see: Zootopia) but Sing looked possibly even worse. Illumination however has consistently been able to produce huge grosses, shaming Disney, on small budget films. Sure enough, Moana and Sing had a show-down last Fall and Sing won big: Sing Budget: $75 million Gross: $590.1 million Moana Budget: $150 million Gross: $606.9 million Illumination actually outperformed Frozen with The Secret Life of Pets, looking at Gross/Budget. Frozen topped out at a ratio of 8 something, while Secret Life was 11+.
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It's funny bc I've heard complaints Maui wasn't made a teenager like in the original legend. *shrug* Personally I don't mind Disney's reinterpretations of fairytales/mythology. Keeps it fresh and interesting IMO.
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And if what Yuki says is true and Disney really did rewrite Maui from being a teenager as he is in Polynesian legend to being a 28-year old as depicted in the movie, then that's all the more reason to think that they were concerned about romance way ahead of screening the very first trailer to the public and that they were looking for ways to solidly write it out of the script. In other words, it's not the public that thinks a 28-year old can't pair off with a 17-year old -- it's Disney themselves that think that, and his very being a 28-year old is proof that they changed his age on purpose to ensure that audiences wouldn't be trying to pair the two together. (Too bad! XP You gave them too much "chemistry"!) I think the studio was genuinely trying to produce a film where, for once, a male and female protagonist can be partners in heroic deed-doing without falling in love with one another. It's just unfortunate, in my opinion, that the one time they try to do this deliberately ... they write two characters who are so real / life-like and who go so well together. I dunno. It's complicated. They're complex characters, the both of them, and it's hard for me to put into words how I perceive their relationship by film's end. Quote:
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Just finished Logan less than an hour ago. Let's cut to the chase: the film's an easy 9/10. It's the best X-Men movie to date. It's not the best stand-alone X-Men movie to date. And in my opinion ... it's not the best superhero movie to date. But it is great. Spoiler: show All in all, this is the best movie I've seen in theaters since Watchmen. (Yes, it's even better than Star Wars Episode VII.) Like Watchmen, I look forward to owning this one on home video soon. But I think I'd still place both Watchmen and The Dark Knight ahead of it as far as the title of "best superhero movie ever" goes. One last time, Logan receives a 9/10 - "Great" from me.
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Spoiler: show For that onus to be transferred to Charles was an interesting spin, and made the story much sadder for him IMO. (Personally I feel like he stole the show for the first half.) It also lends a weight to his desperation to hold onto a fleeting "family moment", even though we all know what the result will be. In regards to your second criticism, you ask where Spoiler: show I do agree the movie did better than the comic - especially in terms of that mini-plot arc - in getting you to feel sympathy for the secondary characters. Spoiler: show Oh, one other thing that carries over from the comic to the movie is the gore, as you mentioned. It's kinda jarring for a "superhero story" to contain so much killing and blood for me, especially coming straight from the Batman universe. I'm so used to the "no killing" rule that seeing someone with no qualms about it (not to mention children decapitating others) made for a weird whiplash lol. (Yeah yeah, I know Batfleck used guns and probably murdered a bunch of people, but at least there weren't any graphic on-screen deaths like this.) But I guess it's rated "R" for a reason. (Not that I mind the realism, but of course I had to look away from any neck wounds. x.X Whee irrational phobias.) Laura is still a sweetheart though. That last scene where she Spoiler: show Man, as much as I hate the trope of "scientists experimenting on kids to give them mutant powers", it's seriously just not a cool thing to do. Glad the bad guys got their comeupppance at least in the end. >.>
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To the point that it's superficial at times. For example, the new Power Rangers film features a gay character. A lesbian. A hot lesbian in skin-tight armour. With a hot lady friend. See where I'm going with this? The intent to pursue transparency to attract millennials is so superficial, rather than actually try and make a political statement (which would require featuring a hyper sexual gay male), they end up showcasing fapbait fetish fuel.
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