Topic: Last movie you watched? (Read 104066 times)

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SOMEONE WATCH THE NINES FUCK

I wanna hear crits about it.

Also I watched Ink around the same time which is really good. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ink_(film)

My favorite part what with this character who has his eyelids taped shut and he is supposed to be fate or something like that. There is a kind of crossroads where something must be done inorder to shake the protagonists perspective and kind of "wake him up". Then music starts playing (rhythm of fate or some shit) and everything is perfectly choreographed with it from streetlights to cars and causes a chain reaction giving the protagonist just what he needed.

I can't really explain it well you'd have to watch it but its brilliant.
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The Nines?

Is that the movie where the guy is some kind of god like being and has created different versions of himself in different realities?
The only part that interested me was the 'Everquest' chatter and I suppose the idea that there are different levels of beings from 1-10... thinking about it now, maybe Everquest was some sort of metaphor for those different levels of people.

Either way, I didnt want to over think it.

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spoilers asshat

no it has nothing to do with everquest
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cant remember how to add spoilers tags
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well I think its so awesome because of the way the story presents itself. I literally almost turned the damn thing off because I was getting bored but dudes acting kept me going until the plot started picking up and I loved it after that.

The whole idea of the unaware creator, the self-conscious human being actually trapping himself in an existance he just thought up. The thought that "god" could be his own image in the most literal sense. A being that was not even aware that he is infact god. Is brilliant to me. Theres some theory me and evangel were discussing in highschool (it was mostly him asking me about it) about the subconscious mind and how a person totally unaware of the existance of the world he/she was born into might percieve their very existance. How that person would be god of their own domain. They would have to kind of make up their own perception of what they are, what the little bit of reality they could even manage to fathom would present itself as.

An example of what I'm talking about is. Imagine someone deaf, dumb, and blind with no outer senses whatsoever in a comotose state their whole life. They can still think like everyone else on some level but how would they percieve their existance, themselves, their own consciousness? I know its different with the story of a superdimensional being but its kind of the same in a way. Dude had perceptions and senses that no human ever would and just like the comatose person lost all of that and fell into a lower state of consciousness and trapped himself in it. Creating a very universe that he thought was reality but was all a complex form of his imagination.

Shits fuckin' deep...
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did anyone see tim and rick's billion dollar movie? what did you think? I like that it's SPOILERS the stupidest movie ever. it's hell. it's stupid without being too easy or regurgitated or obvious. besides that idk
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Napoleon Dynamite. I didn't actually LOLed in any part but it was amusing and oddly satisfying in the end.
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I just watched that Japanese movie, Departures. It was pretty famous a year or two ago when it came out, and it's definitely a polished, sentimental kind of drama. I have seen a lot of films like it already and will probably see more. It was okay, though. There are a few eye welling up moments - not necessarily because of how moving the actual story is, but just because of the subject matter and well used score - sentimental, but I didn't really mind in the context of death.
 
 I had a few problems with it, but they are probably mostly cultural because it's that thing where Japanese people act inexplicably. The movie's protagonist is this guy who becomes an 'encoffiner' (some kind of funeral artist who gives the dead a nice send-off), and obviously working with the dead is going to raise the eyebrows of some people when they hear you do it but the reaction he gets from the other characters is extreme. One of his friends disowns him for a while and his wife flat out leaves him. I dunno! The scene with the wife pissed me off so much that I turned the film off for ten minutes before deciding to give it another chance. Although, that was just as much because she was saying that she had followed him 'with a smile, even though I was sad on the inside' up until the point he became an encoffiner...and that kind of set the whole tone of the movie off for me because for about half an hour I was just incredulous and angry at most of the people in the film. It's probably all cultural, and the thing comes back round in the end so it doesn't really matter but there are often things like this in Japanese media in general. These seemingly random taboos that I can't understand because they don't fit in a familiar spectrum of values - even watching Indian films, films from the Middle East, I feel like I've got some bearing on the values being presented (endorsed or not), but sometimes watching films like this I'm just shaking my head.

The more I think about the actual characters, the story and the filmic aspects the less I really like them. There are some boring and only functional emotional hooks used, the centerpiece of the film fell flat to me (i guess it's all just too high society for my brat brain), and I peaked in my investment about halfway through the movie. By the final scene I was feeling pretty detached. I was more interested in the idea that this job the main character, Daigo, is something that can really get under your skin, and I was getting fascinated with the whole process along with him in the earlier parts of the film. I was more moved by the funerals of the background characters than I was by any of the characters given much depth which is probably not a compliment to the film because it means I'm interested in the concept but found filling in the blanks myself more interesting than the detail the film was giving me.

 Anyway, the movie was okay. If you've heard of it and haven't seen it, then you can probably figure out what to expect from this without having to read any thoughts about it. Your expectations are probably correct.
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I decided to watch the Nines since it was mentioned here and I actually think Ryan Reynolds is a pretty underrated actor, so that helped. (Spoilers incoming so don't read unless you've seen it).

I loved it! The way the story resolved and how the three parts tied in together was brilliant. Lots of moments where I gasped at certain revelations. It was like Memento in a way but a lot less choppy. I'm going to have to watch it again to fully appreciate it.

I think the film has multiple levels of explanation. Farren's is probably the most in-depth reasoning on the film, but on the surface, the film to me is about the multifaceted aspects of addiction. Ryan Reynold's character, as a Nine, has become addicted to the world he designed so much so that he has lost his own grip of reality. It is interesting that he takes on the roles of Game Designer (the impression I got from the film since he was called the Quentin Tarantino of the VG world is that he was a designer of an MMO) and Writer (one who actually states that he doesn't have a computer at home because he would never get any writing done if he had the chance to play video games all day and get lost in their worlds). As an actor he indulges in drugs, but ultimately he realizes that its not healthy to overindulge in any of these "worlds" so he gives them up completely.
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yeah when she said he was a "crackhead" I literally thought he fucked himself up on crack or something and was in a coma until they explained it. And those job titles were really interesting. Pretty much all of them collaborate with creating something.
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Just watched Liar Game : Final Stage It's  movie which conludes th two seasons of the tv series. I expected to be dissapointed because the story isn't canon and expected a lousy 'game' since the original manga author wasn't the one who made it, but still it was great overall.
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yeah when she said he was a "crackhead" I literally thought he fucked himself up on crack or something and was in a coma until they explained it. And those job titles were really interesting. Pretty much all of them collaborate with creating something.
It's also cool how the runtime of the film is 99 minutes. :)
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I seen last sunday, The Descendants. Pretty good actually. Some funny parts. Though it's suppose to all drama.

Next sunday, I'll go see Chronicle.
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All 3 Harold and Kumar Movies.

I liked them a lot. As someone that has never smoked pot, I can't help but love stoner movies, and I have to say these were basically the best of the bunch. I haven't laughed like I did with these movies in a long while. (on all three, which is a shocker, sequels generally have a higher and higher chance of sucking with each iteration)
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^related.. I've watched Harold and Maude
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I should have said "despite" never smoking pot.

In any case, I recently rewatched the first Harry Potter movie. I've never seen any Harry Potter movies from 3 to 8. Namely because I thought the third Book was boring and couldn't finish the forth, so I assuming the movies were only worth watching up to 2. Apparently I was wrong. My older brother, who is extremely harsh on movies usually, said that the latere films are actually significantly better than the first 2. So I'm going to watch them all, starting again with 1. Watching it again, I thought it was a little boring, but thats largely because I already knew story mostly (still wanted a refresher though).
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I recently watched 50 / 50.  It is a very well done movie, although admittedly a little predictable and has no shame about the hollywood-ness of some parts of it.  There are some questionable ethics regarding the therapist character and what not, and in a real-life situation there would be some significant professional reprocussions as a result of some of those actions.  However, the performances were good, Seth Rogen didn't ruin the movie for me (which happens for pretty much all the movies that I've seen him in).  So I'd say that for the most part I really enjoyed the movie.   I definitely touched on some themes that I could relate to really well.   Reminded me of almost a lighter "Lost in Translation" with a more potent subject matter (cancer, rather than culture shock)
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Yeah my parents and I watched it and liked it too. My dad, who went through chemo for bladder cancer (he's as recovered as one can get from cancer at the moment), said he didn't like it very much actually because it reminded him of the pain of chemo. Odd that the one who actually WENT through cancer treatment would dislike it among those that haven't.