What have you seen recently III

Silver Linings Playbook- Awesome movie, Jennifer Lawrence is pretty damn hot, and won an oscar for a reason. Anything I have to say about the plot wouldn't do it any justice. The movie is slow, but I don't find myself bored with slow movies as I get older.

Cloud Atlas. Christ on a small bicycle, everyone needs to see that movie now. It's insane. I have no idea how a movie that ambitious got made, let alone attracted so many big names.

i heard it tried to do too much, and had a bunch of plot holes. still interested in seeing it though, it looked neat

I didn't think that at all. I've read a lot of criticisms of it and, by the sounds of it, a lot of people just didn't understand what the movie was trying to achieve. It's really not that confusing to keep up with the various plots once you get into it. A lot of people seemed frustrated by the fact none of the plots actually have a lot to do with one another, but that's because it doesn't really have an overarching story. It's much more to do with the parallels in the various stories and its overall message about humanity repeating itself again and again over the ages. There's no big existential revelation like I thought there would be, but you realise towards the end that that's really not what the movie's about.

Oz the Flaccid and CGI Reliant Fucktard:

I get that Mila Kunis is flavour of the moment, but one would think that the main quality required of an actress is the ability act? Though based on this movie I could level the same criticism at most everyone in this film. Outplayed by a 13 year old girl playing a china doll.

The Revenant

Awesome comedy/horror film on zombie vampire things. Recommend it if you're looking for a good fun cheesy movie.

Inglorious Bastards & Django Unchained. Was on a Christoph Waltz kick

ThatNaggerGuy wrote:

Inglorious Bastards & Django Unchained. Was on a Christoph Waltz kick

fucking watch The Chronicles of Riddick. Thats too great a sci-fi movie not to watch given that you own it. Im not even a Vin Diesel fan.

chronicles of riddick was really okay...enjoyable though

Going to watch the 25th Hour again tonight. 3rd favourite Edward Norton movie

The Hobbit
Definitely not as bad as some people made it out to be. I thoroughly enjoyed it, actually. I always love it more than LotR proper, and I thought the film is doing it pretty good justice so far. Besides, the dwarves are just badass.

Also been watching a lot of television, need to get caught up on the Walking Dead, but to be honest it's not as good as it used to be for me. I thought it was much better in the first two seasons.

Spoiler:

The new Game of Thrones starts here in less than 2 weeks, so I'm really stoked for that. I'm in the middle of the third book now, so it will be cool to see how they adapt what i've read. This is the first time I'm ahead of the show, because I started reading after the fact.

Other than that, been watching Star Trek: The Next Generation, Mad Men (which is probably one of the greatest shows on tv right now) and some random things here and there. Also incredibly excited for the Breaking Bad finale. That's one of the few shows where I can say the quality has only increased.

fuck yes! im still salty that people dont like the hobbit. it was fucking terrific.

I am on the 5th Game of Thrones book. My roommate opened it and read one line in it. It turned out to be a massive spoiler for non-book readers. It was hilarious, what are the chances. He asked me "Dave, is ______ mean that ________?"

And I just smirked and he's like fuuuuuuuuck

Started watching Samurai Champloo again... tis awesome.

Watched Jack the Giant Slayer. Never in the history of the world has the word 'meh' been more appropriate.

I wont watch a kids movie unless its Pixar or older Disney or whatever is good basically

The A-Team: Better than I thought it'd be- still wasn't overly happy with the B.A actor. UFA fighter? Get a real actor, fuck

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Rob Ford: Good movie, watching Brad Pitt's face react to things is quality film

Killing them Softly- It was like a watered down Goodfellas

Passion of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand having lots of sex, interesting movie.

Taxer666 wrote:

Passion of Ayn Rand

Ayn Rand having lots of sex, interesting movie.

Tis a good film. I may be biased because she is my favourite philosopher. Well, maybe tied with Sartre.

You're retarded if she's your favorite philosopher.

Maybe you assume I adhere to or identify with objectivism... not the case. I just like the way she thinks. Objectivism is fundamentally flawed, but rational self interest is a concept that intrigues me.

Atlas Shrugged is also a great novel in and of itself.

Atlas Shrugged is a terrible book comprised of nothing more than "intellectual" self masturbation. Rational self interest is so basic and simple that it doesn't warrant anything more than a simple definition. If you want a good philosopher, go read Hume, Kant, Russell, Wittgenstein, Hobbes, Aristotle, Plato, Pyrrho, Hegel, Nietzsche, or pretty much any other important philosopher. Saying that Ayn Rand is your favorite philosopher is like saying Avenged Sevenfold is your favorite heavy metal band, Naruto is your favorite anime, or Little Caesars is your favorite pizza place.

V/H/S - 8/10

Pretty good unconventional horror movie split into 6 separate stories, worth a go

Not it isn't Dave, that movie blows. Just watch Blair Witch Project if you ever want to watch a "recovered lost footage" film.

I've seen that so many times. Its good to watch classics but also nice to see whats new in the horror realm. Some of the stories were better than the others.

But I was consistently at least a bit scared for most of it

Taxer666 wrote:

Saying that Ayn Rand is your favorite philosopher is like saying Avenged Sevenfold is your favorite heavy metal band

this.
but i gotta say, Hegel's a loser. All the existentialists hated him.

I don't agree with Hegel and think he's wrong but he did something new and did it in a smart way. He's quite influential and important in the field of philosophy unlike Rand.

Been having a James Bond movie marathon with my roommates lately. Pretty legit. We usually watch one every day or two. Just finished up Thunderball tonight

Daniel Craig = Action scenes are unbelievable
Connery = Dialog is way more likable, Craig is almost quiet

I still don't like Craig. Bronson, while not close to being the best Bond, looks most like what I would picture Bond to look like.

Pearce- Face of the franchise
Connery- Personality
Craig- ???? Girl with the Dragon Tattoo character

Pretty much

yeah i agree. i actually really liked pearce. but he's totally he face. connery is my fav as he's in more of the movies I guess and he's...sean connery. I also don't think daniel craig is doing the same type of bond the others are doing. He's doing a more human-type bond. Almost close to saying "maybe we shouldn't compare him to the other bonds" because he's doing aw different thing. Timothy Dalton is my least favorite bond. SO FORCED.

George Lazenby was the only true James Bond- -Hipsters

I actually don't mind Dalton. Plus he got The Living Daylights by A-Ha for a theme song which is legendary.

Most Bond films are pretty crappy: most have aged poorly, or where shit to begin with. GoldenEye was chill though. I mean Onatopp was just genius.

i love most bond films. there's only a few that i thought were just meh. actually enjoy the older ones more for whatever reason- they were more... exotic or something. quantum of solace was also super meh. actually thats probably the only recent bond film i have grudges with. not really a fan of the world is not enough right now either though but that could be becuase its been on tv for the past 5 months.

Anyone who defends Moonraker needs a lobotomy.

dont think ive seen all of moonraker. but i bet ill be okay with it. i dont watch bond films because of how intelligent they are haha.

Dr. No and Goldfinger are both still amazing to this day. And I actually enjoyed Moonraker. But, i'm a fanboy

Saw Django last night. Really fucking hysterical and awesome camera work.

Silent Hill Revelations: Everything was really rushed and underdeveloped. Shannon went from normal life to Silent Hill in like five minutes. No transition from reality to craziness, scare factor was always really low. I liked it because Jon Snow was in it and it was amusing. I really did like seeing Pyramid Head, wish there was more of him. I wonder if the first one is any better. Probably not

breakyoudown wrote:

Silent Hill Revelations: Everything was really rushed and underdeveloped. Shannon went from normal life to Silent Hill in like five minutes. No transition from reality to craziness, scare factor was always really low. I liked it because Jon Snow was in it and it was amusing. I really did like seeing Pyramid Head, wish there was more of him. I wonder if the first one is any better. Probably not

^Saw this last night as well. I enjoyed the first film, this one was fucking abysmal.

Oh yeah the first ones worth seeing? Its all about Rose right looking for young Shannon right?

Yeah this one was kind of amusingly bad. The brethren die if they breathe in the darkness, but nobody else has this problem. I found it kind of hilarious, I mean okay Shannon is immune because shes kind of a demon, Jon Snows immune because he's in the order. Sean Bean is immune because....He's Borimir. So I thought maybe they were just paranoid but it really did kill them. That's just funny.

Spoiler:

I felt like Silent Hill the game did all kinds of work for them and laid out a full movie, but they still couldn't figure out what the hell they wanted to do

It did however make me want to play one of the games, haven't done it yet

The games are good. I'm a big fan of the series myself and this film basically just ripped as many themes and names from the third game as possible without actually using them correctly or putting them together in any way that made sense.

I have a PS3 and have access to the original on the PSN and there is a high definition version of 2 and 3 on disc. Four is unattainable.

I wouldn't mind playing Downpour or even Homecoming.

Will probably play the original first

1, 2, and 3 are the best in my opinion. Four was meh. Homecoming was cool.

Know of any other good horror games?

I haven't played a decent horror game since Resident Evil 4 and that was more action than horror.

The other Resident Evil games on Gamecube were pretty good, RE remake and Zero.

Amnesia the Dark Decent was really scary, that'd be my top call after RE4
RE5 was boring and RE6 doesn't look any better.

Condemned Criminal Origins you should check out. Pretty gritty games, most of the bad guys are drug addicts.

Chasing Mavericks.

Surprised how much I enjoyed this. Well worth a watch.