Escape to the Movies: The Master
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You know when you're watching an American sitcom and the wife always wants to go out and be more cultured, she wants to go and see opera's and art exhibitions and the husband wants to sit at home watching sport but gets dragged out by the bagging wife?
This seems like a movie the wife would want to see. Fuck all action and mountainous piles of character development.
I think I'll go watch the expendables 2 instead.
This seems like a movie the wife would want to see. Fuck all action and mountainous piles of character development.
I think I'll go watch the expendables 2 instead.
And thus Oscar season has begun, with this movie that's NOT about The Doctor's crazy frenemy from their childhood on Gallifrey, but "based on a true story" about Scientology. On Anderson's other movies Bob mentioned, I still can't make it through the 2nd 1/2 of Boogie Nights and to this day I have no idea what There Will Be Bood was about. Texas Oil men in the early 20th century? Daniel Day-Lewis shouting at the top of his lungs for 2 hours?
And about Dredd: It's grokking AWESOME!!! 2D, 3D, don't matter, it's just as insanely violent and off the wall as it should be, and Judge Dredd himself is a stone-cold badass laying down the law. Gotta see Looper.
Wait. Master? Blaster? Ho ho ho, you clever clog. Well done, sir.
captcha: sea shore
where she sells sea shells. Where else would she, the desert?
And about Dredd: It's grokking AWESOME!!! 2D, 3D, don't matter, it's just as insanely violent and off the wall as it should be, and Judge Dredd himself is a stone-cold badass laying down the law. Gotta see Looper.
Wait. Master? Blaster? Ho ho ho, you clever clog. Well done, sir.
captcha: sea shore
where she sells sea shells. Where else would she, the desert?
Paul Thomas Anderson: technically proficient director, absolutely too moralistic in the final accounting for me. In what universe have you made bad life choices when your life consists of banging both Heather Graham and Julianne Moore in their prime? What the hell else were you going to do if your career options were: greatest porn star ever or uneducated bus boy?
Looper: fantastic for the first third. Very good to good up until near the end. Not so thrilled with the ending.
Looper: fantastic for the first third. Very good to good up until near the end. Not so thrilled with the ending.
In brief: a) unoriginal. It's Goddamn Donnie Darko again. b) Bruce Willis ceases to be future Joseph Gordon-Levitt the minute JGL meets Emily Blunt, but BW's still kicking around somehow. I feel like the further the two split the more of BW's humanity he loses until there's no emotional resonance with killing him anymore.
Edit: Initially I wasn't a fan of the ending logic-wise, but it works well enough for a movie. Still not a big fan of the conceit that 'only bodily harm that cannot be fixed over the course of 30 years affects your future self, and only in the most literal and immediate way', but things get very messy if chaos theory gets to play too.
Anybody else hoping that Gat turned out to be the younger, dumber version of Jeff Daniels and that it just got cut?
Edit: Initially I wasn't a fan of the ending logic-wise, but it works well enough for a movie. Still not a big fan of the conceit that 'only bodily harm that cannot be fixed over the course of 30 years affects your future self, and only in the most literal and immediate way', but things get very messy if chaos theory gets to play too.
Anybody else hoping that Gat turned out to be the younger, dumber version of Jeff Daniels and that it just got cut?
No, this is a special case, watch some of the earlier one. He only mentions movies when they either relate to the movie being reviewed or movies that were popular that didn't screen for him.The Pumpkin Witch said:
I like how moviebob just pretends Hard Eight doesn't exist because it invalidates the first half of this review.
I really enjoyed Dredd and its pretty true to the comics although in the cityscape vista it did just look like LA that they just plonked some 200 storey skyscrapers in.
Its a far better film than Stallone's but I prefer the city in that one. Although i may have to re-watch it to be sure
Its a far better film than Stallone's but I prefer the city in that one. Although i may have to re-watch it to be sure
Can't wait to see it! This will separate the sheep from the goats in regard to Paul Thomas Anderson's films.
Also, that RZA 'kung fu' film -- not interested. I grew up on the ACTUAL kung fu films not the piss poor dubbings and rude recuts and splices which RZA, Tarantino and the like all worship. Commemorating such films is perfectly fine endeavour and undoubtedly fun, but it has little to nothing to do with the original films and genre, nor the culture they came from, and this weird objectification by hip hop makes no sense to me. I'd rather dig out the classics and watch them.
Also, that RZA 'kung fu' film -- not interested. I grew up on the ACTUAL kung fu films not the piss poor dubbings and rude recuts and splices which RZA, Tarantino and the like all worship. Commemorating such films is perfectly fine endeavour and undoubtedly fun, but it has little to nothing to do with the original films and genre, nor the culture they came from, and this weird objectification by hip hop makes no sense to me. I'd rather dig out the classics and watch them.
Genndy Tartakovsky directing an Adam Sandler movie? I'm so conflicted right now.
[HR]I'll admit it, I had to look up the obscure reference, I did recognize Lord Bowler though.
"I've already eaten! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVaePO0srI]"
Julius Carry R.I.P.
[HR]I'll admit it, I had to look up the obscure reference, I did recognize Lord Bowler though.
"I've already eaten! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVaePO0srI]"
Julius Carry R.I.P.
