GLASSJAW Posted December 19, 2015 Share Posted December 19, 2015 (edited) 5 minutes ago, D-Money said: Saw it last night. I'd say more around 7.5. Lots of fun though. 8.5 is obv the right score. what were your complaints? spoiler tag them Edited December 19, 2015 by GLASSJAW Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falcon45ca Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 On December 18, 2015 at 7:36 PM, GLASSJAW said: speaking of re-watching shows, I just finished Deadwood season 1 for probably the 500th time. The single most rewarding show I've seen in terms of re-viewings. So many jokes and references and tidbits that I miss out the first 400 times. Easy 10/10 Deadwood is Dynamite! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 2 hours ago, D-Money said: Saw it last night. I'd say more around 7.5. Lots of fun though. Going to see it on Wednesday. Haven't heard anything yet, but considering I'm not a Star Wars fan, I'm predicting a 6.5. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scottish⑦Canuck Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I'd give Star Wars a solid 8. I think it serves as a good bridge from the old trilogy to this new story, and I'm really looking forward to the next one. Lots of similarities to Episode 4 but I thought it was well done. I had completely lost interest in it during the prequels so I'm glad they did a good job of this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Tons of screeners have leaked. Just sayin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canuckster19 Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I give The Force Awakens a solid 5/7 I tried watching that Amy Schumer movie, christ, I think she's pretty funny in real life but that movie was just one big clichéd tripe. I guess it only has a good score on IMDB cause strong independent feminists have no taste, or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 4 hours ago, nuckin_futz said: Tons of screeners have leaked. Just sayin. holy christ. Sicario, Peanuts Movie, Revenant, Brooklyn, Carol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bookie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 ah, screener season - the most wonderful time of the year came early! I'm so tired yet still tempted to stay up til 3am watching The Revenant Watched season 2 of Fargo over the past few days. Didn't watch season 1 so I have nothing to compare it to (oh, there was that 90s movie I guess) but I found it quite enjoyable in a popcorn crime drama sense. Scratched the Breaking Bad / True Detective s.1 itch. Pushed into navel gazing territory occasionally, and as much as I'd like my 70s mid-western gangsters to debate French literature it's not the most realistic, but still a lot of fun. The UFO stuff was a little out of left field but it fit. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 21 minutes ago, The Bookie said: ah, screener season - the most wonderful time of the year came early! I'm so tired yet still tempted to stay up til 3am watching The Revenant Watched season 2 of Fargo over the past few days. Didn't watch season 1 so I have nothing to compare it to (oh, there was that 90s movie I guess) but I found it quite enjoyable in a popcorn crime drama sense. Scratched the Breaking Bad / True Detective s.1 itch. Pushed into navel gazing territory occasionally, and as much as I'd like my 70s mid-western gangsters to debate French literature it's not the most realistic, but still a lot of fun. The UFO stuff was a little out of left field but it fit. 8/10 part of me really wants to hold out for the theatre experience for Revenant, but who am I kidding? I won't get far, i don't think. as for movies: I re-watched Elf. I seem to have a love/hate relationship with this thing. Last year I remember enjoying it. Year before that I didn't. This year I'm somewhere in between, I guess. 6-6.5/10 A Very Murray Christmas: 5.5/10. Bill Murray's netflix variety show. mostly a bunch of celebs or musicians singing famous songs. Some of them sound fantastic (I love the Phoenix song, and the group version of a Fairytale in New York), but some of the songs are just flat, and I don't care about the celeb worship going on, even if it is meant to be ironic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babych Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 The Force Awakens - 9/10 I loved this movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeefcakeBo Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 I saw the new Star Wars last night. The movie was pretty good but I didn't really care for the story. Don't want to spoil it for people that haven't watched yet. I'd give it like a 6.5 or a 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Down by the River Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) The opening scene of the Revenant was so great I stopped watching it so that I could wait until I got to my parents' house to watch it on their fancier TV. ...and based on the first few minutes, I doubt Leo wins an Oscar, simply because the cinematography and costume design will over-power any acting performance. Edited December 20, 2015 by Down by the River Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
riffraff Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 5 minutes ago, Down by the River said: The opening scene of the Revenant was so great I stopped watching it so that I could wait until I got to my parents' house to watch it on their fancier TV. ...and based on the first few minutes, I doubt Leo wins an Oscar, simply because the cinematography and costume design will over-power any acting performance. Yes I am so pumped for this movie! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoughtysCheck Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Just watched interstellar and I didn't understand it at all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 12 hours ago, GLASSJAW said: holy christ. Sicario, Peanuts Movie, Revenant, Brooklyn, Carol While I go to iTunes for music, I am looking forward to watching Revenant, Scario, and Brooklyn soon... 2 hours ago, DoughtysCheck said: Just watched interstellar and I didn't understand it at all... I've said before and I stand by it. Interstellar would have been better served had it been given the HBO 10 episodes miniseries format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Bookie Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 9/10 for The Revenant. I only intended to watch the opening scene.... nope, just got sucked in. Very hypnotizing. The cinematography alone is worth 8. Simple story but I like that; reminiscent of Apocalypto. Leo did a great job and it mmmmight be enough to get him his long chased Oscar, I'm mostly impartial on him and this is probably the best acting I've seen from him, but on the other hand Hardy subtly upstaged him. My one complaint would be that there was a minor-character subplot (starring Ben Hutton!) that seemingly went nowhere unless I missed something. Not my personal favorite of the year but I could see it winning Best Picture. They won't give it to Mad Max, so my vote would probably go to Spotlight, unless Hateful Eight or Carol ridiculously surprises me. I'll re-evaluate once I can see it in theatres, but I didn't want to wait since I'm traveling in January and won't be able to catch it until February. Spoiler Small detail that I really liked from the bear attack scene - I have a friend who was bluff charged by a grizzly; wasn't injured but had to play dead. The thing that always stuck with me about his story was the bear pressing down on his chest and waiting to see if he was breathing. Creepy as F. Anyhow I like that they included that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 new Tarantino just leaked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 (edited) Revenant: 6.5/10 - my comments are spoiler free, but don't read them if you think the negative bits can influence how you appreciate the movie (sometimes when i read a negative review or comment, i watch the movie looking for that negative thing. do you guys do that too?) Horrible disappointment in many ways. Beautifully shot, great costume design, great early sequence - followed by 2 hours of almost nothing. Lubezki is one of my favourite people working in the film industry, and I think he may be the best camera man of all time - at least that I've seen. I have been looking forward to this since its announcement, and so my disappointment just makes me feel bitter almost. Sorta sad! This is Gravity all over again: no emotion, technical beauty. For an opposite version of this, check out Malick's "The New World" - which has a pretty mixed reception due to its slow pace and spiritual-heavy aspects, but it utilizes Lubezki's talents even better, and emphasizes emotion and subjectivity over canned thrills and conflict. Once again, I thought the acting was embarrassingly over-cooked from DiCaprio. Hardy, who I normally like, makes his character a Deliverance-grade caricature somehow more believable than DiCaprio's. Hardy has one of the most absurd, unbelievable, sh-tty accents I have ever heard. Maybe it's just because I've been watching Deadwood all week, which is a frequently similarly themed. But Deadwood is a far, far, far, far, far more intellectually and emotionally complex experience. The Deadwood writing is so wonderful and entertaining that this, by contrast, seemed like it was written for, or maybe by, children: Spoiler DiCaprio: u... killed my son Hardy: Maybe u shouldn't have raised such a girly little b-tch! DiCaprio: raaaghhh*gurgle gurgle* I agree with you, Bookie, that scene you tagged was great. I thought there were a few really good small scenes throughout, but the vast majority of this long movie was just brutally uninteresting. I didn't feel a single bit of "real" emotion and so the conflicts/resolution were ultimately boring or unsatisfying. I looked at the time remaining at least 7 times, and that isn't a good sign for me. After reading some reviews, I know I'm not the only one who has these complaints (it "only" has 81 on RT so far) - and I wonder if this is because the final story was a pieced together revenge plot that was not in the movie or the original few versions of the script. But Inarittu signed up and changed all that, apparently. Edited December 20, 2015 by GLASSJAW 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monty Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 The Revenant - I really enjoyed it/10 Yes, it's a simple revenge/survival film. But I liked it. Life was incredibly rough back in the day and people had very simple needs and no wants. Survive, survive, survive. I think crapping on the script and simplicity of the characters is unwarranted, seeing as though people didn't have time to make their life complex. Get food and supplies by any means necessary. That's it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GLASSJAW Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 14 minutes ago, Monty said: The Revenant - I really enjoyed it/10 Yes, it's a simple revenge/survival film. But I liked it. Life was incredibly rough back in the day and people had very simple needs and no wants. Survive, survive, survive. I think crapping on the script and simplicity of the characters is unwarranted, seeing as though people didn't have time to make their life complex. Get food and supplies by any means necessary. That's it. oh cooooome on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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