Michael Bluth
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Inside Llewyn Davis - .....not real sure....I'll go 5/8 for now
What Movies Did You See in March?
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The Sleeping House (UK-2012)
Horror: We are in the Balkans in 1996 where a Militia group has raided a small town taking their young woman captive. They are sold to a guy who keeps them tied up in rooms and are forced into prostitution. Enter an orphan mute girl named Angel who is put in charge of cleaning up the girls between men and making sure they are kept doped up but once she recognizes the ones that murdered her family she has revenge on her mind.... deeply depressing movie ... 4.5/8
Donner Pass (US-2012)
Horror: A group of friends head to a cabin in the Donner Pass and are told the urban legend that the cannibal Donner is still out their eating his victims. It wouldn't be a horror movie if nothing happens right? .... 4.0/8
Horror: We are in the Balkans in 1996 where a Militia group has raided a small town taking their young woman captive. They are sold to a guy who keeps them tied up in rooms and are forced into prostitution. Enter an orphan mute girl named Angel who is put in charge of cleaning up the girls between men and making sure they are kept doped up but once she recognizes the ones that murdered her family she has revenge on her mind.... deeply depressing movie ... 4.5/8
Donner Pass (US-2012)
Horror: A group of friends head to a cabin in the Donner Pass and are told the urban legend that the cannibal Donner is still out their eating his victims. It wouldn't be a horror movie if nothing happens right? .... 4.0/8
Dark Touch (France-2013)
Horror: An 11 year old girl claims that the house was to blame for the murderous deaths of her parent and infant brother. Now she is with a foster family and strange things are happening again. This movie is pretty deep and disturbing ... 5.5/8
Horror: An 11 year old girl claims that the house was to blame for the murderous deaths of her parent and infant brother. Now she is with a foster family and strange things are happening again. This movie is pretty deep and disturbing ... 5.5/8
SportsGenius
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13 sins 4/8
Noah
7/8
Saw Noah last night and really liked it. Sure, it has some serious flaws but it's visually interesting with some absolutely stunning sequences. In fact the visual tone is dream like from the strange lights in the sky to a frighteningly blasted landscape there's an other worldliness to the whole movie.
As to the over the top "environmental" message, only a passing reference to the evils of eating meat (sorry, but a steak is still the best food) bothered me as a conservative who thinks the global warming scare is the biggest scientific fraud since "poly water"! Whether you're on the Left or right, the utter disdain in which this movie envisions humans treating each other and the Earth earns them the destruction they get. What is shown on screen is TRUE pollution and environmental destruction, not the nonsense that passes for "issues" (preserving the snail darter anyone) in today's enviro-nazi activities!
Bottom line is if you want to see something different and challenging check this movie out. At least it's not the same comic strip, sequel, prequel, drivel being produced by Hollywood.
7/8
Saw Noah last night and really liked it. Sure, it has some serious flaws but it's visually interesting with some absolutely stunning sequences. In fact the visual tone is dream like from the strange lights in the sky to a frighteningly blasted landscape there's an other worldliness to the whole movie.
As to the over the top "environmental" message, only a passing reference to the evils of eating meat (sorry, but a steak is still the best food) bothered me as a conservative who thinks the global warming scare is the biggest scientific fraud since "poly water"! Whether you're on the Left or right, the utter disdain in which this movie envisions humans treating each other and the Earth earns them the destruction they get. What is shown on screen is TRUE pollution and environmental destruction, not the nonsense that passes for "issues" (preserving the snail darter anyone) in today's enviro-nazi activities!
Bottom line is if you want to see something different and challenging check this movie out. At least it's not the same comic strip, sequel, prequel, drivel being produced by Hollywood.
Nelson Van Alden
Cooling Off
Boiler Room was based on the WOW book...
Crusaders
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The Wolf of Wall Street: 7/8
- No complaints really other than the length. Probably could have trimmed it down.
American Hustle: 6.5/8
- I thought the story was good.
I wasn't real impressed with some performances and casting. Bale was great, Cooper wasn't so much. Adams, I didn't like in the role. Jennifer Lawrence, seeing her as another mentally unstable woman impacted the character. I just kept thinking, "that's J.L. being a crazy character again," not really "his wife is nuts." Jeremy Renner as an Italian-American politician in New Jersey was off-putting.
I also thought the pacing was a little weird in the beginning, but it improved.
Inside Llewyn Davis: 6.5/8
- Not a film a lot of people will enjoy, I think. It's pretty subtle, which for some = boring. But the writing, directing, and acting are really good. The Coens haven't really truck gold their last few films, though.
Catching Fire: 6.5/8
- About what I expected: engaging story, mostly well-acted, and overall a pretty entertaining movie.
- No complaints really other than the length. Probably could have trimmed it down.
American Hustle: 6.5/8
- I thought the story was good.
I wasn't real impressed with some performances and casting. Bale was great, Cooper wasn't so much. Adams, I didn't like in the role. Jennifer Lawrence, seeing her as another mentally unstable woman impacted the character. I just kept thinking, "that's J.L. being a crazy character again," not really "his wife is nuts." Jeremy Renner as an Italian-American politician in New Jersey was off-putting.
I also thought the pacing was a little weird in the beginning, but it improved.
Inside Llewyn Davis: 6.5/8
- Not a film a lot of people will enjoy, I think. It's pretty subtle, which for some = boring. But the writing, directing, and acting are really good. The Coens haven't really truck gold their last few films, though.
Catching Fire: 6.5/8
- About what I expected: engaging story, mostly well-acted, and overall a pretty entertaining movie.
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Were there any dinosaurs in the movie?
No, there were "rock giants" though that were described as "fallen angles".
Interestingly, in a sequence in which Noah tells the story of creation, the film visually depicts what to me looked like an evolutionary process. It was a clever moment in the film that would satisfy both the religious "creationists" and the atheist evolution supporters.
For the record I'm agnostic but was confirmed catholic and I felt the movie overall respected Christianity but also hinted at a broader interpretation of the bible.
Again, a movie that makes you think and is entertaining: an all to rare combination now a days!
zeeman
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In what way?
zeeman
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Gee thanks for stating the obvious
The Bell Witch Haunting (US-2013)
Horror/Found Footage: A family moves to a new home in Tennessee and shortly after strange things start to occur. Movie was full of mistakes, palm tree's in Tennessee? Pool parties in January and leaves on the tree's in mid January? The idea was to get evidence of the Bell Witch and when strange things happen nightly and I am talking some pretty obvious things they don't do a thing about it.... Hello, are you not watching what you are recording? Too bad, it wasn't awful but could of been better with some simple changes... 3.0/8
Horror/Found Footage: A family moves to a new home in Tennessee and shortly after strange things start to occur. Movie was full of mistakes, palm tree's in Tennessee? Pool parties in January and leaves on the tree's in mid January? The idea was to get evidence of the Bell Witch and when strange things happen nightly and I am talking some pretty obvious things they don't do a thing about it.... Hello, are you not watching what you are recording? Too bad, it wasn't awful but could of been better with some simple changes... 3.0/8
Nelson Van Alden
Cooling Off
Then how is the WOW movie a rip off of Boiler Room? That doesn't make any sense.
zeeman
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Which movie came first? Was Boiler room a successful movie? Hence the weak attempt to do a follow up. Load it up with A listers and put it out there for the masses. It was a weak, jumbled up rip off of the Boiler room. Just because Leo was in it doesn't make it good.
FairwoodKing
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Signal 30
I am not a science fiction fan. I get bored to death with movie monsters, men from outer space, and all the rest.
But 50 years ago I saw a movie that put my teeth on edge. It was the most horrible thing I ever saw and I will never forget it. It was definitely non-fiction. It was produced by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and I watched it in drivers' education class at Steubenville Big Red. It was one solid hour of police and paramedics pulling dead bodies out of cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles, and pedestrians. Many of the bodies were mutilated beyond identification. One body pulled out of a car was such a mess that no makeup artist in Hollywood could have reproduced it. And there was blood everywhere. The girl sitting next to me nearly had a nervous breakdown. She screamed through most of the movie. I myself thought I was going to throw up. This movie truly did not have a happy ending. Every time I am about to do something stupid when I'm driving, I think about that movie and I don't do what I was about to do. It was a lesson worth learning.
I am not a science fiction fan. I get bored to death with movie monsters, men from outer space, and all the rest.
But 50 years ago I saw a movie that put my teeth on edge. It was the most horrible thing I ever saw and I will never forget it. It was definitely non-fiction. It was produced by the Ohio State Highway Patrol and I watched it in drivers' education class at Steubenville Big Red. It was one solid hour of police and paramedics pulling dead bodies out of cars, trucks, busses, motorcycles, and pedestrians. Many of the bodies were mutilated beyond identification. One body pulled out of a car was such a mess that no makeup artist in Hollywood could have reproduced it. And there was blood everywhere. The girl sitting next to me nearly had a nervous breakdown. She screamed through most of the movie. I myself thought I was going to throw up. This movie truly did not have a happy ending. Every time I am about to do something stupid when I'm driving, I think about that movie and I don't do what I was about to do. It was a lesson worth learning.
Boiler Room was loosely based on Belfort and his escapades. The Wolf of Wall Street was an actual adaptation of Belfort's book. If you can't see the difference here, then I feel sorry for you.
Michael Bluth
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Not a movie but recently watched the first three episodes of Sherlock, which were over an hour each, so basically movies. Damn good television
tallmadge H2 dad
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Everyone is surely entitled to their opinion. You are the 1st and only person that I have heard that hated the Wolf of Wallstreet. I, for one, thought it was brilliant. Even with Boiler Room being one of my favorite movies, this put that movie to shame. The Wolf was a masterpiece.
Michael Bluth
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Wolf acting >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Boiler room
and that's an understatement
and that's an understatement