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The 2009 Summer Movie Thread
April 17th 2009, 19:56 MSD by Trunks Star Trek, Up, Terminator, Wolverine, Transformers 2, Harry Potter 6. Bitch about the upcoming summer blockbusters here. |
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She does - most of it was just an act. I tried to change my avatar and this is what I get?!
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Looks like The Hurt Locker picked up the most Oscars tonight. |
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The Oscars were last night? Man, TiVo really has changed my life. blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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Better Hurt Locker than Avatar. |
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At least it wasn't District 9. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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I'd rather Avatar had won, actually. At least it has the populist thing going for it. Hurt Locker won solely on the fact that it's set in Iraq, and nobody bothered to notice that it's full of shallow caricatures and terrible plotting. BUYBUYBUY
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And Avatar wasn't? blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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"it has the populist thing going for it" BUYBUYBUY
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I haven't seen The Hurt Locker so I really can't comment on that. Oh, wait, this is PC, The Hurt Locker was totally better than anything else. Double plus good. And to comment further about shit I didn't see, The Cove winning best documentary annoyed me. "Won't someone think of the dolphins/whales" is just as annoying as "won't someone think of the children." Bleh. <Hugin_len> Basically, cheesy doesn't have awful taste in music, he's simply very white.
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#2607 by BobJustBob it's full of shallow caricatures and terrible plotting. Uh, that's a problem in Avatar as well. None of the Best Picture nominees are perfect other than Up, but I'm shocked that someone thinks Avatar is better than Hurt Locker in any category other than best visuals. |
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jjohnsen (#2611): Uh, that's a problem in Avatar as well. I hope you're being ironic. I was rooting for Avatar out of spite, but if Hurt Locker is weak too then I guess that's okay. "I hope you one day decide to smarten the fuck up so I can stand to look at your posts." - gaggle
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Hurt Locker is a good movie overall. The "action" scenes are very tense and well done, but outside those scenes the plot is predictable nonsense and the characters are shallow and disposable. I would absolutely put Avatar's story and characters as on par with Hurt Locker's, and Avatar's might even take the lead. But Hurt Locker is the Issue movie because of its setting, so awards awards! BUYBUYBUY
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Hurt Locker was good. "Fucking Radio Shack. It's a wonder they even know how to use a bathroom and don't just walk around all day with shit in their pants." - smds
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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I'm glad with Hurt Locker winning Best Picture and, especially, Best Director but I was disappointed that it won for Best Screenplay. It was the weakest part of the movie and I think all four of the competitors were better. "when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully." Samuel Johnson
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I sort of agree with Bob about Hurt Locker (I don't think they're shallow and disposable characters, just cop movie cliches), but I don't feel strongly enough about any of the other movies to advocate for them. Maybe Up. It's not the setting though, actually I think it's the first one set in Iraq (II) that's done decently. The others (Elah, Stop Loss, Lions of Lambs, etc.) bombed critically and commercially, so it's likely done well despite the setting. It's been noted, but Kathryn Bigelow is 59 years old? Yowsa. My compliments to her surgeon. Sandra Bullock winning seems odd (though I didn't see the movie), but she's always seemed cool so whatever. Here's her accepting the Razzie the night before she won her Oscar. I was a little disappointed in the Animated Short winner. Yes, really, and I did see all but one (most of them are probably still online if you're looking). Logorama is an interesting concept, but the "story" is a weak pulp fiction thing. I liked the Lady and the Reaper, Granny Grimm and the Wallace and Gromit one better. |
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It looked to me like that Woody Harrelson movie was better than Hurt Locker. |
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#2616 by eggbert It's been noted, but Kathryn Bigelow is 59 years old? Yowsa. My compliments to her surgeon. Wow, that is impressive. |
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Goddamn. Get those bingo wings sorted out and she'd look like she's still in her forties. Jim Cameron needs a fucking haircut. "One part disembowels me while another slowly eats its way through the gas line. As I bleed out on the floor, it reminds me that I need to buy milk." - Jibble
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For those of you who grew up in the 80s: Shock. Awe. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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Last night's Lost was my favorite one this season. I know Michael Emmerson's won an Emmy already for playing Ben, but damn, the man needs another one. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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#2620 by yotsuya The other one wins by default now, I guess. blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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I guess they finally found a purpose for the alternate timeline. |
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It always had a purpose; they just didn't tell you what it was. BUYBUYBUY
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I guess they finally found a purpose for the alternate timeline. Corey Haim lives and gets a great supporting role as Osiris Jones in 'Tropic Thunder'. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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#2624 by BobJustBob It always had a purpose; they just didn't tell you what it was. If the only purpose was to allow Linus a chance at redemption, then the rest of it is exactly what I always thought it was: A chance for Abrams et. al. to masturbate themselves into a stupor over how clever they are to bring all these people back together again. |
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No spoilers for those of us without a TV! "Fucking Radio Shack. It's a wonder they even know how to use a bathroom and don't just walk around all day with shit in their pants." - smds
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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I got really, really annoyed with the criss-crossing paths all the characters in the flashbacks (or alternate timeline ...flashsides?). Just utterly annoying and smacks of the producers going "Eh? Eh? Didja see that? Talk about that on your twitters, you gobs." Which I guess is like half of Lost's appeal, but still. Agreed about Michael Emmerson, though. Dude has some acting talent and he got to show some of it off. blog | Twitter | The Psychology of Gaming
"It was a little hard to tell how bad I was bleeding on account of the salsa" -- Jibble |
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He's awesome. I never would have expected him to end up on the Good team, I give the writers props for making it somewhat believable. |
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I give Emmerson props for making it very believable. I wish more shows would follow this 'planned exit' model. 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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plz to be stopping misspelling Emerson BUYBUYBUY
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Emmmersonn rocked! 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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I caught up completely on Lost this week, and I have to agree about Emmerson. Before, the only place I saw the guy was in Saw, so to see him become one of the most interesting characters on a TV show I've ever seen was a surprise. Awesome. \"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"
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I still can't believe no one ever saw The Practice. It was a really good show for a while there. BUYBUYBUY
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I watched a couple of seasons of The Practice, but I don't remember him. |
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He was the serial killer. BUYBUYBUY
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I watched The Practice off and on when I came across it years ago, but I don't remember him. \"Making love to a woman is like working on an assembly line. No matter how good you are at it, you\'ll eventually be replaced by a foreigner or a machine.\"
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The Practice was really good for a couple of seasons, but the writing went downhill faster after that. "Fucking Radio Shack. It's a wonder they even know how to use a bathroom and don't just walk around all day with shit in their pants." - smds
"the concept that a happy worker is a productive worker is hardly an entry from Matt's Big Book Of Things The Fairies Said." - Dum |
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Yeah, I don't remember him at all. I wasn't gung-ho about The Practice though, I could have easily missed him. |
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Man, I bet when he showed up you guys thought he might have actually been Henry Gale from Kansas. I was all "Hey it's that guy who plays the bad guy in EVERYTHING." BUYBUYBUY
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I think he played a 52 Weeks and Something's On Movie Blog
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Alice was prerty bad: The 3D is a net negative and the story is surprisingly straightforward and fails to really go anywhere at all whatsoever. Not recommended. |
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Awesome. I'll be going to see it asap, then. |
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Yeah, me too. Parhelic Triangle is coming.
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I've seen it in normal and 3d. My girlfriend is a big Alice fan to be sure. I didn't think the 3d took anything away, but it was almost unnecessary, that's for sure. It was already a pretty visually stunning movie. The story was a bit lame I thought, and also moved a tad too quickly for my liking. |
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Can't say the story in the original Alice novel was exceptional. It was just one wacky shit after another. If the movie provides me with it, I'll be very happy. Parhelic Triangle is coming.
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It was probably more impressive in 1865. Updating a story without updating it's relevance feels like a negative. |
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Relevance, seriously? Was Alice a political commentary back in the day? Should Hatter have a cell phone and drink coke instead of tea? Parhelic Triangle is coming.
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Would've been nice if the story had more meat than she finds her inner strength by slaying a monster. Kinda. I guess the sword handled that for her too. |
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