Anyone seen a good movie lately?

[ice grillin you]

I also am proud of my ignorance.

lol

[ice grillin you]

american hustle - so painful....scorcese ripoff/homage whatever you wanna call it that contained over two hours of nothingness which led to a bleh "twist" at the end...acting was very good but literally nothing ever happened except for tiresome relationship drama.....i am not an action movie person at all but this thing was just ridiculous

4/10

agree agree agree

i did not understand the love for this movie. i found it bland and somewhat boring. never really went anywhere. perhaps best summed up by david o. russell himself: "i dont care about story. i care about characters."

i prefer characters over story as well...but it cant be 95-5...theres gotta be a middle ground....also the characters in the movie werent very good...same issue i had with inside lewellyn davis...didnt have much story but also didnt have the coen brothers normal awesome characters....and i still preferred that to american hustle....american hustles blatant attempt to stylistically mirror goodfellas was to in your face

[MDS]

also some of the actor choices were off...

i know jlaw was supposed to be young and shes 20 years between bale. and jeremy renner is like 30 something...why is he playing a seasoned politician? not to mention he was a scheming pos that we were supposed to like?

imdb said a lot of the dialogue was improvised....like DOR was like do whatever you guys want. i just dont get the love for this movie. it just wasnt there.

[rjs246]

I watched a queef porn a few days ago. It's been haunting me. When everything is quiet I can still hear it. I'm not sure life is worth living any more.

[ice grillin you]

i just dont get the love for this movie. it just wasnt there.

i think critics already had their reviews written in their head as soon as they saw the director and cast

then after seeing the movie couldnt get away from it

[Rome]

It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but certainly warranted the sort of critical praise it's received.

It's worth seeing it just for Amy Adams.   She's massively hot.

[Don Ho]

12 years a slave - this isnt a movie but rather an experience. its insanely well done and well acted and feels as real as anything but its not a MOVIE per se. like its the type of thing thats going to be shown in high school classes from here to 2090 but im not sure its something that should be winning awards. it has zero replay value and is just harrowing from beginning to end. but omar was in it. anyway really it was amazing and an absolute must watch, even for people like dio who wouldve probably been a slave catcher back in the day 4.5/5

nebraska - now this was a movie. alexander payne is a farging genius. no one does mood, tone and feel better. the acting is out of this world...not only from the main people but from the side characters. it looks like they found all of them in wyoming or something. the mom (june squibb) is the best thing ever and will take best supporting actress. will forte is legit good and i have no idea how or why that happened. hands down the best movie ive seen this year. not even close. 5/5

Really want to see both of these.  You are correct about Payne.  Terrific director.

[MDS]

It wasn't the best movie I've ever seen but certainly warranted the sort of critical praise it's received.

It's worth seeing it just for Amy Adams.   She's massively hot.

yea she was off the charts for a little old white lady

but it didnt deserve much of anything except a meh. it was a movie you see on a plane or on hbo but it had a great cast and big time director so its an oscar contender

[SD]

The Desolation of Smaug was awesome. my only gripe is they changed a lot about when Bilbo goes into the mountain and talks with Smaug, which was one of my favorite parts of the book. But overall it was really well done and better than the first, IMO

It was better than the first one which was awful...but it was only better because the part of the story they were telling was better. Jackson still overused CGI. The ridiculous "every scene is a near escape or last second save" is back. It cheapens the movie. He didn't do that with LOTR so I have no idea why he's doing it with the Hobbit. The barrel scene was the epitome of what I hate about the last two movies. I also hated the way they changed the story in the mountain. Loved Smaug...thought they nailed his character and the CGI with him was outstanding. Jackson needs to revert back to LOTR and get away from King Kong.

[General_Failure]

CGI's cheaper than the million hand-tailored outfits they used in the LotR movies.

[SD]

Using CGI characters I can understand (although I don't favor it)...but using those characters to make every fighting scene some jumping around and edgy fight just cheapens the effect. It's overblown and poorly done. They have one scene where Legolas is shooting arrows at orcs while standing on two dwarves heads who are in barrels floating down rapids. There's also a barrel that flings in the air and takes out a bunch of orcs and a scene where Legolas surfs an orc down and hill while killing other orcs. I hated the scene in the Two Towers when he takes the shield and surfs it down the steps while shooting arrows at the Uruk Hai...but that was one scene and was whatever. In the hobbit films it's like every scene is some narrowing escape or some fast paced fight scene that is farging horrible. Slow it down and stop with the over the top crap. It drives me insane that he could nail these scenes in LOTR and receive awards for them but feels he has to tinker with it in the Hobbit. It's George Lucas with the prequels all over again.

[Munson]

Yeah I haven't liked many of those action scenes either for that same reason....I was still pretty entertained by the move though. As you said, they did a great job with Smaug. I was looking forward to him and Bilbo trading more jabs with each other over a longer period of time though, like in the book.

I've really loved the Gandalf side story. It's interesting to see Sauron as the Necromancer and see Gandalf go up against him. And really, it would have been weird if they did the movie like it happens in the book. "BRB, gotta go up North on some business, see you in the 3rd movie".

If anything needs to be cut, it's Legolas/that female Elf and most of their scenes. Though I did get a good chuckle out of Legolas questioning Gloin about the pictures in his locket. "Who is this half breed Goblin beast?" "That's my wee lad, Gimli!"

[SD]

The gag about the dwarves wife was pretty funny too. The Gandalf side story I'm not sure where which direction they're going...but they like to tie the Hobbit and the LOTR movies together in forced and unnecessary ways so I can see Jackson going in that direction. It's all kind of just thrown in there with Sauron. I wish they'd of cut the movie down and only made two movies. I know it's a money grab but they still could have made them shorter and cut a lot of the nonsense out.

When Gandalf gets triced up by Sauron and he's looking down at the Wolves, are they eating Radaman's rabbits?

Still the best Smaug dialog and scene adaptation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVeZx2IP30

[Munson]

The gag about the dwarves wife was pretty funny too. The Gandalf side story I'm not sure where which direction they're going...but they like to tie the Hobbit and the LOTR movies together in forced and unnecessary ways so I can see Jackson going in that direction. It's all kind of just thrown in there with Sauron. I wish they'd of cut the movie down and only made two movies. I know it's a money grab but they still could have made them shorter and cut a lot of the nonsense out.

When Gandalf gets triced up by Sauron and he's looking down at the Wolves, are they eating Radaman's rabbits?

Still the best Smaug dialog and scene adaptation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWVeZx2IP30

The Gandalf stuff is all detailed in the other Tolkien works I'm pretty sure, so I think Jackson is getting most of the material right from the stories. I'm no LOTR super nerd though. I just know that Gandalf left the group to "attend business in the North", and that business was dealing with the Necromancer, who is Sauron in disguise.

I don't think Radagast dies, so I don't think it was his rabbits. He was sent to tell that powerful elf woman Gladladlaldiral about Sauron before all the shtein hit the fan.

I definitely agree that two movies probably would have been perfect. Most of the first movie could have been condensed into like 45 minutes and added it to Desolation, cut 20 or so minutes of needless crap from it, and shifted the rest into the Part 2. Between all the extra shtein with the female Legolas character and Azog the Defiler, there's enough to be cut. Don't see why they needed to add all the stuff with Azog, he could have easily been introduced as a more minor character leading Sauron's horde out of Dol Guldor. No need to spend half the first movie with him/his chasing the dwarves. It's been entertaining, but not important to the story at all.

[ice grillin you]

there arent many things these days that pisses me off more than when a middle finger gets blurred out of a movie on tv....of all the farging things people can see or hear on tv or in even pg rated movies why the farg does this matter