Movie Thread (Bearded Cage)

[Gesadt]

I'd say this looks interesting, we haven't had a good sci-fi flick in quite some time. I quite like the visual style they went for.

not a total recall movie if its not going to have hookers with three tits. also that trailer is bland and generic as fuck tbh.

edit: also content. saw a pretty decent Norwegian thriller recently http://akas.imdb.com/title/tt1614989/

featurin Jaime Lannister as the villain

[Fuggin]

My problem with Tom Cruise is that he is an okay actor but not a great actor. I could not care less about him being in some fruity little club.

The thing with Tom Cruise is that he always seems to play the same part. He always is the action guy, the hero. Always playing strong valiant characters. This might be part due to the roles he gets offered but it doesn't allow him to prove, in my opinion, that he can act over a broad spectrum. And this makes me dislike him because it is more of a Movie x with Tom Cruise rather than Movie x with Tom Cruise staring as.

Action guy? Hero?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise_filmography

You must be under 25.

Yeah. He's done some great dramas IMO like The Firm, Jerry McGuire, Rain Man and A Few Good Men to name a few.


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[Devec]

My problem with Tom Cruise is that he is an okay actor but not a great actor. I could not care less about him being in some fruity little club.

The thing with Tom Cruise is that he always seems to play the same part. He always is the action guy, the hero. Always playing strong valiant characters. This might be part due to the roles he gets offered but it doesn't allow him to prove, in my opinion, that he can act over a broad spectrum. And this makes me dislike him because it is more of a Movie x with Tom Cruise rather than Movie x with Tom Cruise staring as.

Action guy? Hero?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Cruise_filmography

You must be under 25.

Yeah. He's done some great dramas IMO like The Firm, Jerry McGuire, Rain Man and A Few Good Men to name a few.


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The list tells me I've apparently see only a handful of movies with Tom Cruise in it. Although I did see Jerry Mcguire last year, but that isn't really up my alley. Still I can't say I've really been blown away by Cruise's performance. To me he is a good actor at best.

Also reminded me of that bad movie eyes wide shut, I love Stanley Kubrick's movies but I couldn't watch eyes wide shut in one sitting.

Unrelated note: Watching drive tonight, heard good things about it.

[Dirk Magnum]

The Raid: Redemption
Think it may have been mentioned in the thread somewhere, so seconding it if it has. If you love a good martial arts beatdown starring people with legitimate martial arts credentials, look no further.

[Cerbus]

killer inside me has possibly the most uncomfortable 5 mins i have seen in a good while

  Spoiler:

Jessica Alba being slowly punched to death, filmed unflinchingly

I raise you irreversible.
9 minutes of rape.
feltbadman.

Also I need to start watching good films again.

I went to the only showing of that in Auckland and I have to say that was a pretty uncomfortable movie, especially as I was tripping and the intro had already freaked me out.
The soundtrack by Tomas Bangalatere (dunno the correct spelling) was perfect.

[Cerbus]

Wrong place, but I'd love to have a weekend off to watch all the following films back to back:

Return to Oz
Legend
Krull
Willow
The Princess Bride
Lady Hawk
The Dark Crystal

[cullnean]

Of those

Return to oz
Willow
Dark crystal

Those movies are still good return and dark crystal being some dark shit man.

Princess bride is the fucking bomb "as you wish"

On the :tomcruise: I posted the last really good tc film I saw that was minority report, cameos I'm not counting as Downey jr ran away with tropic thunder

[whispous]

So many hipsters in this thread

[Gesadt]

The thing with Tom Cruise is that he always seems to play the same part. He always is the action guy, the hero. Always playing strong valiant characters. .

On the :tomcruise: I posted the last really good tc film I saw that was minority report, cameos I'm not counting as Downey jr ran away with tropic thunder

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0369339/

[cullnean]

So many hipsters in this thread

Hipsters love disscusing Tom cruise

[Cerbus]

So many hipsters in this thread

i had to google what a hipster was

[Me]

Just watched the first hour of Avatar on the telly, never seen it before but I knew who all the characters were before they even opened their mouths. That's her dad the chief who hates whitey, that's her mum the witch doctor, that's the betrothed angry guy.

Pocahontas in SPAAAAACE. I ain't staying up till midnight for this rubbish. I preferred the disney version, at least it had songs and that awesome dog.

[Maximillian]

So many hipsters in this thread

i had to google what a hipster was

If you googled from an iPhone or iPad you'll also need to google what irony is.

[Takon Orlani]

Just watched Lockout (knowing in advance it would be a shitty movie and getting drunk beforehand)

I haven't seen such a funny "hero" in years. The guy literally gave 0 fucks about what was going on and he pulled it off beautifully.
I had a good laugh, would see again with drunk m8's.

Edit: Lockout not lockdown.

[cullnean]

Just watched Lockdown (knowing in advance it would be a shitty movie and getting drunk beforehand)

I haven't seen such a funny "hero" in years. The guy literally gave 0 fucks about what was going on and he pulled it off beautifully.
I had a good laugh, would see again with drunk m8's.

guy pierce is a boss

[Ralara]

Just watched the first hour of Avatar on the telly, never seen it before but I knew who all the characters were before they even opened their mouths. That's her dad the chief who hates whitey, that's her mum the witch doctor, that's the betrothed angry guy.

Pocahontas in SPAAAAACE. I ain't staying up till midnight for this rubbish. I preferred the disney version, at least it had songs and that awesome dog.

jake is so fucking hot. i spent half that movie with a weird boner for a blue cat-alien creature. i felt dirty after.

[cullnean]

Just watched the first hour of Avatar on the telly, never seen it before but I knew who all the characters were before they even opened their mouths. That's her dad the chief who hates whitey, that's her mum the witch doctor, that's the betrothed angry guy.

Pocahontas in SPAAAAACE. I ain't staying up till midnight for this rubbish. I preferred the disney version, at least it had songs and that awesome dog.

jake is so fucking hot. i spent half that movie with a weird boner for a blue cat-alien creature. i felt dirty after.

bolded the lie

[Ralara]

Just watched the first hour of Avatar on the telly, never seen it before but I knew who all the characters were before they even opened their mouths. That's her dad the chief who hates whitey, that's her mum the witch doctor, that's the betrothed angry guy.

Pocahontas in SPAAAAACE. I ain't staying up till midnight for this rubbish. I preferred the disney version, at least it had songs and that awesome dog.

jake is so fucking hot. i spent half that movie with a weird boner for a blue cat-alien creature. i felt dirty after.

bolded the lie

I just felt like... "am i a furry now?"

I wasn't sure.

[Wall]

So many hipsters in this thread

Makes fun of hipsters, has a pony avatar.

[Miriam Sasko]

Just watched the first hour of Avatar on the telly, never seen it before but I knew who all the characters were before they even opened their mouths. That's her dad the chief who hates whitey, that's her mum the witch doctor, that's the betrothed angry guy.

Pocahontas in SPAAAAACE. I ain't staying up till midnight for this rubbish. I preferred the disney version, at least it had songs and that awesome dog.

Avatar never was about the story. It was about breath taking visuals (with enough story to make the thing bearable).

Obviously, if you watch it on the telly, you won't get the 3D experience (which really made sense for that movie), and all that remains is a story that is maybe better than that of most other block buster type movies but still not enough to carry the movie.

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Myself, I watched 2 movies this weekend. Spielberg's Tintin, which was great in my book, and Larry Crowne, which was pretty bland but ok.

Tintin has gotten rather mixed reviews from mainstream critics. But the motion capture they used does an excellent job of transporting a graphical novel feel to the screen, the cross fades were spectacular, the story was good to a guy who never read one of the novels, and I was thoroughly entertained.