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Roman

#2321 July 18, 2010, 08:24:32 am

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you know it's weird because I've never been more aware of mulholland drive's flaws and yet I don't think I've ever loved it as much as I do right now. I feel like for the first time I truly understand why I want to be a director and as corny as this is going to sound it's because I want to move someone in the same way that it moves me. mulholland drive is one of the few movies that genuinely moves me. ugh I hate saying MOVES ME because it sounds so PETER TRAVERS OF ROLLING STONE but it is the only way I can express that right now. little drunk so I'm just spillin the beans. some of you are probably thinking UGH MULHOLLAND DRIVE but I don't expect anyone to appreciate it for the same reasons I do. or to even like it at all. I'm just sayin.

so three cheers for movies that actually make you feel something.

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Hundley

#2322 July 18, 2010, 12:01:09 pm

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Quote from: GaZZwa on July 16, 2010, 09:05:58 pm

Just saw Inception. Yeah, it was pretty fuckin' good.

yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.

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#2323 July 18, 2010, 01:48:25 pm

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Quote from: Hundley on July 18, 2010, 12:01:09 pm

yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.

i just read about this movie from finn magazine!!! maybe i should see it some day. redundant post

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everyclear

#2324 July 18, 2010, 02:44:37 pm

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your existence....... is justified

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#2325 July 18, 2010, 07:18:01 pm

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A few nights ago a bunch of the people that I am doing my internship with watched Clint Eastwood's "A fistful of dollars." I have actually never seen a Clint Eastwood movie (aside from the things that he has directed in the latter modern day) nor have I ever actually seen any of the traditional sort of spaghetti western movies of this era, let alone just about any western movie in general, so it was a bit of a new experience. While I was watching the movie, I was sort of not really expecting too much in way of the plot and whatever, and just sort of sat back expecting to have some fun and watch some tense gunfight scenes, which there a few of. As I expected, the characters are flat and the plot is pretty much abysmal and unoriginal as any sort of movie can get, but Clint Eastwood makes his badass character do pretty well (despite having pretty much no development during most of the film) and for the most part I enjoyed the movie. It was fairly well put together, or at least much better than I expected it to have been put together, considering that it was from the early 60s, but it was a pretty fun ride and I enjoyed it while it lasted.

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#2326 July 19, 2010, 03:10:13 am

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Quote from: Hundley on July 18, 2010, 12:01:09 pm

yeah, this is a cool movie. i found the characters pretty flat and wished that there was more stuff to really think about(the story was really set up for that), but it was still a lot of fun.

pretty much this. I enjoyed the movie as a blockbuster film! It's nothing new, but I had a great time watching it. Fun movie.

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everyclear

#2327 July 19, 2010, 04:32:56 am

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Is it anything like this perfect movie that the news and people seem to be hyping it up to be? Are the critics correct in their super-duper positive reviews of this movie?

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Beasley

#2328 July 19, 2010, 07:21:45 am

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just got back, nope. too long.

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Hundley

#2329 July 19, 2010, 08:35:46 am

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Quote from: everyclear on July 19, 2010, 04:32:56 am

Is it anything like this perfect movie that the news and people seem to be hyping it up to be? Are the critics correct in their super-duper positive reviews of this movie?

compared to the rest of the horrendous special effect-driven bullshit of the last few years, ABSOLUTELY. compared to, you know, REAL MOVIES, absolutely not. it's fun, but nowhere near great. it's kinda like a less pretentious/stupid matrix i guess. action-packed enough to satisfy the mainstream, and interesting enough to not be totally without merit.

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#2330 July 19, 2010, 03:19:24 pm

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i think that would be well described as 'a step in the right direction' as far as recent film is concerned

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#2331 July 19, 2010, 04:15:59 pm

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i right step inside a deep, empty pool you mean...

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#2332 July 19, 2010, 07:39:50 pm

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jesus you guys

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#2333 July 19, 2010, 10:16:31 pm

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I found it funny that a person's subconscious, when defensively "trained", manifests itself as HOLY SHIT BAD DUDES WITH GUNS. Not really surprising at all, just funny.

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#2334 July 19, 2010, 11:10:18 pm

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Quote from: Hundley on July 19, 2010, 08:35:46 am

compared to the rest of the horrendous special effect-driven bullshit of the last few years, ABSOLUTELY. compared to, you know, REAL MOVIES, absolutely not. it's fun, but nowhere near great. it's kinda like a less pretentious/stupid matrix i guess. action-packed enough to satisfy the mainstream, and interesting enough to not be totally without merit.

sums up my thoughts. one of the few movies in recent memory that I've left the theater satisfied with!

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Mateui

#2335 July 20, 2010, 12:05:03 am

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Yeah, just came back from Inception. I found the beginning of the movie a little confusing but it all fell into place quickly. It was definetely an enjoyable ride, though I feel the explanations of what was going on near the end of the film kind of fell apart and felt too rushed, but meh, it was excitement all-around. (Did anyone else feel like they were in Metal Gear Solid in level 3? Hahahaha).

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#2336 July 21, 2010, 04:49:07 am

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Event Horizon.

Pretty disappointing actually. I heard it was really intense and disturbing but it all felt really rushed. It was alright though I guess.

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Hundley

#2337 July 21, 2010, 10:54:36 am

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Quote from: konix on July 21, 2010, 02:56:50 am

i was actually a little underwhelmed by inception. it's a shame because i had been anticipating it for about a year since first seeing the first teaser trailer. i guess part of the reason for this was because i had been following it too closely and hyped it up far too much for myself. it was by no means close to being a bad film (as hundley said as far as mainstream stuff goes it was more or less the only good thing released this year), but it just didn't blow me away like some of nolan's earlier stuff. i'll probably grow to like it a lot more from repeat viewings when i can finally make sense of everything.

yeah this definitely isn't a BLOW YOU AWAY sort of film, which is part of the reason why i didn't think it was a great movie. i thought that a lot of the conflicts in it were resolved in rather underwhelming ways and didn't do a lot to really amplify the drama or get you particularly involved in it outside of the vaguely surreal nature of it. there were some really interesting scenarios in the story that had the potential to really reach some sort of climax, but they always kinda petered out and didn't do anything particularly memorable. thinking back on it i can't really remember a lot of the individual things that happened in the movie. the atmosphere of it all was interesting(sometimes engaging) but it had a small amount of memorable moments.

still, i went into this with really low expectations so i didn't really think about this or particularly care about it until later. i just wanted something different, and i think i more or less got it. not really the kind of movie you should go into expecting something INCREDIBLE because it never reaches that point.

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#2338 July 21, 2010, 11:26:15 am

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I am going to see Inception at some point this week. I haven't been to the movies in quite a while, there's never been anything I wanted to pay money to see and rarely even anything I was interested in watching. This looks okay, though. Just about okay, and really I only perked up when I saw Joseph-Gordon Levitt cos even though he has been making crap for a while I still find him an interesting guy in movies.

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everyclear

#2339 July 21, 2010, 12:57:03 pm

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I really liked him to I saw GI Joe, and now I'm just kind of neutral on the subject

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#2340 July 21, 2010, 01:30:53 pm

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yeah i'm going to see inception soon, i've heard a lot of good things about it but my friends generally have very different taste to me when it comes to movies!

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