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PCF at the Movies (5 Viewers)

Agree 100% regarding tomorrow land.

The secrecy behind the whole thing and the trailer had me intrigued but the execution was just...poor.

Mad max - went in with no expectations and that was a crazy ride. I didn't love it as much as everyone else seemed to but I just wasn't prepared for the type of movie it was. There was almost no dialogue (which is okay) but the flashback scenes didn't really make sense and while the world was somewhat interesting I'm not sure what I'm supposed to feel after the movie. What was the point?

The action scenes were awesome though, especially the guitarist. I was loving every scene where he can flying in out of nowhere and was just shredding.

I think I'll like the movie better on a second viewing
 
Bradcorn said:
Mad max - went in with no expectations and that was a crazy ride. I didn't love it as much as everyone else seemed to but I just wasn't prepared for the type of movie it was. There was almost no dialogue (which is okay) but the flashback scenes didn't really make sense and while the world was somewhat interesting I'm not sure what I'm supposed to feel after the movie. What was the point?
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with regard to the flashbacks, they make more sense if you've recently rewatched the first three films. i don't think it's particularly difficult to get the meaning without them, but certainly recalling max's trajectory to this point, they're more easily understood. as to the point, i think the point was just to have an amazing and fun action film. mission accomplished imo.

but i really came to this thread to post the new point break trailer:


point break is one of my favorite cop action films of all time. it's honestly perfect. i don't see why to remake it other than a money grab. bonus points for including a member of the original point break cast in this trailer, though ("why not pull your chute above the jungle and escape like a normal person?"). still, at best this looks middle of the road. anyway, point break was already remade as fast and the furious and that took 5 movies to get really good.
 
I consider Fury Road to be comparable with The Road Warrior. There's not much of a story, but a lot of exciting action, and a lot of mayhem.

If you liked The Road Warrior you're gonna love this. If you didn't, don't watch MM:FR.
 
Watched Friday night. Holy crap was that awesome!!! I laughed pretty much non stop through the entire thing.

Edit: Almost 10 million views since it was put up on Thursday.
 
mentioned it very briefly in the tv thread, but just a public service announcement that San Andreas is a horrendous, boring piece of garbage.

don't get me wrong, i love horrendous garbage disaster movies (see: deep impact, the core, the day after tomorrow, 2012), but this movie's sin is that it is painfully boring. give me terrible, over-the-top bad CGI and ludicrous dialogue and we're good. make me fall asleep during a disaster movie and you've screwed the pooch.
 
tommythecat said:
Watched Friday night. Holy crap was that awesome!!! I laughed pretty much non stop through the entire thing.

Edit: Almost 10 million views since it was put up on Thursday.
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I thought it was godawful. Made it 12 minutes before turning it off.

jbutler said:
don't get me wrong, i love horrendous garbage disaster movies (see: deep impact, the core, the day after tomorrow, 2012), but this movie's sin is that it is painfully boring. give me terrible, over-the-top bad CGI and ludicrous dialogue and we're good. make me fall asleep during a disaster movie and you've screwed the pooch.
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that sucks. I also love disaster flicks. As with sci-fi I will give them some lee way. Not if their boring damnt.

thanks for saving me two hours.

Watched Battle Royalehttp://www.imdb.com/title/tt0266308/?ref_=nv_sr_1 , a 2000 foreign flick. WOW............How "Hunger Games" should have been done.
 
also somehow this escape my posting in this thread, but one night last week i watched - one after the other: Left Behind (with Nicolas Cage); Left Behind (with Kirk Cameron); and Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (with Kirk Cameron). The quick and dirty:

Left Behind (Nic Cage): amazing. honestly, hilariously entertaining throughout. it is absolutely flabbergasting that this movie got greenlit and got Nic Cage to star. his salary has to be where 99% of the budget went because it looked like i filmed it with my iphone. just an absolute shit show on every level, but a great bad movie.

Left Behind (Kirk Cameron): not QUITE as amazing, but definitely worthy of bad movie night rotation. basically the same story as above except about a thousand times as much christian propaganda. the Nicolas Cage Left Behind was by no means subtle, but it didn't quite look like an afterschool special in its evagelizing whereas this definitely does.

Left Behind II: Tribulation Force (Kirk Cameron): even my patience was wearing thin by now. not as fun, but i think maybe i'd just overdone it. i really wanted to complete the Kirk trilogy and see World at War (also on Netflix), but i couldn't bring myself to do it.

tl;dr - watch the Nicolas Cage Left Behind, but go ahead and skip the rest.

the three trailers are below:



 
I finished a few minutes ago Disconnect. I was very impressed with it. Even though its message was not direct, the message was still strong.
one of the better movies I have seen this year for sure.

PS. Horrible Bosses 1 and 2 were great! I think I liked 2 better even though most so 1 was better
 
spikeithard said:
I finished a few minutes ago Disconnect. I was very impressed with it. Even though its message was not direct, the message was still strong.
one of the better movies I have seen this year for sure.

PS. Horrible Bosses 1 and 2 were great! I think I liked 2 better even though most so 1 was better
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I thought horrible bosses 1 was good. 2 just seemed exactly like the first except kidnapping instead of murder. Heck the ending was almost identical. Reminded me of the hangover 1 & 2.
 
i had considered it a bit of an oversight never to have seen V for Vendetta so i watched it tonight and holy god what a load of overrated shit. literally every moment in the film was cringe-inducing. i've never seen natalie portman less convincing and the script was as bad as anything i've seen in the last couple of years.

i almost turned it off about halfway through, but i thought i should give it through to the end just in case it could salvage any of the nuance present in the original source material. it could not.
 
jbutler said:
i had considered it a bit of an oversight never to have seen V for Vendetta so i watched it tonight and holy god what a load of overrated shit. literally every moment in the film was cringe-inducing. i've never seen natalie portman less convincing and the script was as bad as anything i've seen in the last couple of years.

i almost turned it off about halfway through, but i thought i should give it through to the end just in case it could salvage any of the nuance present in the original source material. it could not.
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Thank god. I thought I was the only one.
 
detroitdad said:
My son really liked it. I hated the damn movie myself. I was bored with it.

As for Horrible Bosses..........The first one was barely tolerable for me. I never gave the second one a shot.

Bad Words http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2170299/ +1 btw. If you haven't seen it, I found it to be pretty funny.
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Another recommendation for Bad Words. Very funny movie.
 
Last night we watched Kajaki http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3622120/ .

British soldiers get stuck in a land mine field. Pretty fucked up. It starts of slow. The first 20 minutes is "meh" while it lets you get to know the soldiers. After that...........wow........
 
Finally got around to watching Avengers Age of Ultron. It was ok, not as good as the first Avengers flick. And I felt the CGI for Ultron was lacking in some shots.

Also, when the Scarlett Witch is fighting the Avengers and she puts them all into a dream state, why not just kill them then while they're helpless?

The trailers for Fury Road looked meh, so skipped that one.
 
grandgnu said:
Finally got around to watching Avengers Age of Ultron. It was ok, not as good as the first Avengers flick. And I felt the CGI for Ultron was lacking in some shots.

Also, when the Scarlett Witch is fighting the Avengers and she puts them all into a dream state, why not just kill them then while they're helpless?

The trailers for Fury Road looked meh, so skipped that one.
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please start a thread: "gnu critiques the practicalities of comic book movie plots". maybe it's just me, but the avengers might not be intended to be grounded in reality. just a thought.

and mad max was in the top 3 movies i've seen all year no matter what garbage the marketing shitbags put in the trailers.
 

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