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RSBro wrote:Was that the alien one with Craig and Jonah and all them? If so, yeah probably a similar role lol.

If by "alien" you mean "demons and angels," yeah, that one.

I'm just saying, Channing Tatum as the gimp is probably the perfect Channing Tatum role.

Oh, and posessed Jonah > all other Jonahs.

nakedzen wrote:Watched Alien again. Watching that movie really makes you hate CGI when you see what can be achieved without it.

The original Jurassic Park fits into this too. They did so much live-action puppeteering and whatnot it felt so real (b/c it was) and that's so lost nowadays. I mean a life-sized T-Rex!?? You couldn't make anything moar awesome.

RSBro wrote:

nakedzen wrote:Watched Alien again. Watching that movie really makes you hate CGI when you see what can be achieved without it.

The original Jurassic Park fits into this too. They did so much live-action puppeteering and whatnot it felt so real (b/c it was) and that's so lost nowadays. I mean a life-sized T-Rex!?? You couldn't make anything moar awesome.

You mean use CGI to aid in moviemaking instead of making movies with CGI and shoving real people into them? NO WAY DUDE!

ovid9 wrote:

RSBro wrote:

nakedzen wrote:Watched Alien again. Watching that movie really makes you hate CGI when you see what can be achieved without it.

The original Jurassic Park fits into this too. They did so much live-action puppeteering and whatnot it felt so real (b/c it was) and that's so lost nowadays. I mean a life-sized T-Rex!?? You couldn't make anything moar awesome.

You mean use CGI to aid in moviemaking instead of making movies with CGI and shoving real people into them? NO WAY DUDE!

I will settle for nothing less than a life-size model of Godzilla when they make the upcoming reboot!!

Kick ass 2. 8/10
This is the end. 9/10

Kick ass 2. 8/10
This is the end. 9/10

Rush - 9/10
Please bear in mind that I'm totally gay for F1 when evaluating my score however

Young Sherlock Holmes - 8/10

Role Models - 7/10 some great moments.

Iron man 3 . A lot better than I had heard but a bit long. 7/10

Anybody heard of Rapturepolooza? It looks like a companion piece to This is the End, and stars Craig as the Anti-Christ. Wondering if anybody's seen it or it just sorta slid out without notice.

Speaking of bad CGI ^, World War Z 3/10 and I'm being liberal. Blech. And I am normally a big BPitt fan.

nightflameauto wrote:Anybody heard of Rapturepolooza? It looks like a companion piece to This is the End, and stars Craig as the Anti-Christ. Wondering if anybody's seen it or it just sorta slid out without notice.

Sounds relatively interesting. Looked it up on wikipedia. Did you see it in the cinema?

Elessar [Sly] wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:Anybody heard of Rapturepolooza? It looks like a companion piece to This is the End, and stars Craig as the Anti-Christ. Wondering if anybody's seen it or it just sorta slid out without notice.

Sounds relatively interesting. Looked it up on wikipedia. Did you see it in the cinema?

Saw it on the shelf at Best Buy and it was the first I'd heard of it at all. I may have to just buy it. Read a few reviews and people seem to either absolutely despise it, or love it, and the love seems to come from the folks that loved This is the End.

nightflameauto wrote:

Elessar [Sly] wrote:

nightflameauto wrote:Anybody heard of Rapturepolooza? It looks like a companion piece to This is the End, and stars Craig as the Anti-Christ. Wondering if anybody's seen it or it just sorta slid out without notice.

Sounds relatively interesting. Looked it up on wikipedia. Did you see it in the cinema?

Saw it on the shelf at Best Buy and it was the first I'd heard of it at all. I may have to just buy it. Read a few reviews and people seem to either absolutely despise it, or love it, and the love seems to come from the folks that loved This is the End.

Interesting... I will have to keep my eye out for it.

Oblivion

8/10

Rapture-polooza: 8/10 - it strikes most of the same chords as This Is The End, though it definitely has its own thing going on. The pothead undead are freaking awesome. And Anna Kendrick looks really, REALLY good in that tight, white dress. Good lord.

And the person they got to play god played off of Craig perfectly. Those two really were the perfect respective God/Satan pairing for this type of movie, and I never would have thought either of them would fit those roles.

Lots and lots of lulz in this one.

i would so slay anna kendrick.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:i would so slay anna kendrick.

I would certainly consider impaling her.

ShaneV wrote:I liked Super 8. Ovid probably just wished there were more scenes of Katherine Heigl finding love in the last place she ever expected

this is hilarious

but super 8 was fucking

slow, disjointed, serious WTF moments. you cant eb E.T. and cloverfield. you have to pick one.

at least later on JJ apologized for lens flare. still waiting on the apology for the inexplicable train wreck.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:

ShaneV wrote:I liked Super 8. Ovid probably just wished there were more scenes of Katherine Heigl finding love in the last place she ever expected

this is hilarious

but super 8 was fucking

slow, disjointed, serious WTF moments. you cant eb E.T. and cloverfield. you have to pick one.

at least later on JJ apologized for lens flare. still waiting on the apology for the inexplicable train wreck.

I just was glad to find out that if you drive a 70s pickup into the front of a train you'll survive, at least for awhile.

Hitchcock- 8.5/10 Really well done. Anthony Hopkins was amazing. Scarlett Johanssen was gorgeous. Just a really good movie.

ovid9 wrote:

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:

ShaneV wrote:I liked Super 8. Ovid probably just wished there were more scenes of Katherine Heigl finding love in the last place she ever expected

this is hilarious

but super 8 was fucking

slow, disjointed, serious WTF moments. you cant eb E.T. and cloverfield. you have to pick one.

at least later on JJ apologized for lens flare. still waiting on the apology for the inexplicable train wreck.

I just was glad to find out that if you drive a 70s pickup into the front of a train you'll survive, at least for awhile.

you will, but the armored US military cargo train wont. it will derail and explode. i guarantee it.

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:still waiting on the apology for the inexplicable train wreck.

I find myself surprised by the number of people that don't understand that the train wreck was a statement by the filmmakers about the quality of the entire film. I didn't hate it, but it had a definite vibe of them giving up about halfway through and just throwing whatever random shit they could think of into it.

Captain phillips

--in the end, great cinematography, naval accuracy and visceral lead role make the film
as a film itself, 6/10. brilliant cinematography, great acting towards the end, a solid telling of an actual story.
as a film viewed through someone who had been involved with somali piracy on board a burke class destroyer: 9.9/10

this is the first time i have ever seen a 100% accurate portrayal of the modern navy. actual crew spaces, captains at sea cabin, medical, most notably CIC are all filmed in real spaces on the USS Bainbridge, the actual destroyer present at the time of the incident, and the USS Boxer and USS Halyburton were present as well.
No futuristic displays were concocted to make our radar and tracking look badass, etc. nav displays, radar displays, etc look as close to real as can be (with the exception of the main CIC screen--thy can filter out contacts to only show contacts of interest, but in real world probably wouldnt, so there would be like 300 contacts on that screen instead of two, but the map geometry is legit).

the actors chosen to play Cmdr. Frank Castellano and Capt. Richard Phillips dont look like them, and are a bit "movied out" as they generally are. This works to great effect for Cpt. Phillips, not so much for Cdr. Castellano, who's portrayal was overdone IMO. Most USN warship commanders dont talk like henry rollins, they simply handle shit. and they get stressed and pissed and talk pretty much how anyone would in their position. but then again, i wasnt on the bainbridge.
didnt meet the SEAL operators either, so i dont know how accurate they were. but their tactics and dress were accurate.

plot accuracy to actual events: the main points are covered, but there were a few omissions and inaccuracies in the events, notably the omission of pirate gunfire directed at Halyburton, the 4 (not just 1) pirate motherships headed to aid the somalis, and the main departure was the SEALS conducting negotiations, whereas it was actually the Bainbridge CO and FBI negotiators. the FBI is nowhere to be found in the film, possibly due to a decision to not be involved with the film.

there is a lot, as one could expect, of somali yelling. a LOT of it. say 40% of the movie is people yelling in somali.

but again, the shots in this are the best capturing of a seaborn environment i have ever seen....they capture the scale, the desolation of open sea and the warships, freighters and dhingies alike that operate on it like nothing i have ever seen. some truly breathtaking vantages of something i myself have already experienced, so who knows how someone who hasnt would take it.

hanks' acting at the end, while in shock in sick bay of the Bainbridge, is riveting.

nightflameauto wrote:

Y0UNGBL00D wrote:still waiting on the apology for the inexplicable train wreck.

I find myself surprised by the number of people that don't understand that the train wreck was a statement by the filmmakers about the quality of the entire film. I didn't hate it, but it had a definite vibe of them giving up about halfway through and just throwing whatever random shit they could think of into it.

i think that is total bullshit and it shows.

Captain PHillips - great movie. And I remember reading that those were some of the best sniper shots in US military history considering two unstable non-stationary platforms - f'n amazing they pulled all 3 of them off simultaneously...

World War Z - decent movie. I prefer my zombies of the slow variety as in TWD - speedy, high strung zombies that turn way too fast & are far tougher to kill make zombie apocalypse survival too difficult.