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« Reply #2275 on: May 26, 2015, 02:24:33 AM »
It didn't entertain me.

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« Reply #2276 on: May 27, 2015, 01:03:30 AM »
What did you not like about Tomorrowland? I haven't seen it, but I was curious.

It's basically Rand For Kids.

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« Reply #2277 on: May 30, 2015, 07:44:29 AM »
Mad Max: Fury Road - Pretty much as good as advertised. I love the biker gang of grannies.
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« Reply #2278 on: May 30, 2015, 10:28:24 AM »
Was out and about on a Saturday and got the urge to go to a theatre. The only thing playing that looked interesting was Maze Runner. Apparently it's another movie franchise based on a YA novel series.

I have literally never heard of the books nor movie until today but it wasn't bad. It has Dylan OBrien who is hot and I know him from trashy tv shows so that made it worthwhile. The movie is about Abercrombie models who are placed in a huge Maze and had their memories wiped. Apparently Dylan is the latest arrival to the center of the Maze which is basically an acre of forest where the boys have been subsisting for three years. From there Dylan proceeds to break all the rules and figure out the mystery behind it all!

The plot hits its beats predictably but everything flows without plotholes. The ending is basically a cliffhanger but I honestly have no desire to see more. I can certainly see it being engaging but I feel like a movie franchise was a bad choice. Feels more like a TV serial.

Overall competent but forgettable. As in I am typing this now because I'm liable to forget it exists before I get home.

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« Reply #2279 on: June 03, 2015, 01:35:26 AM »
After watching the Mad Max series in full for the first time in like twenty years, I'm prepared to call Fury Road the best of the lot by a fairly substantial margin.

Also it took me a couple viewings to notice that the guy who falls out of the Citadel at the beginning of the movie yells "Witness!" as he falls. I love this movie.

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« Reply #2280 on: June 03, 2015, 09:13:51 AM »
I went to the theater to watch it again with another group of friends. Worth it.
I like how exhausted everybody is after seeing this movie

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« Reply #2281 on: June 03, 2015, 11:43:13 AM »
Dune - had the first 20 minutes playing while I ate dinner.  My sister apparently hasn't seen it.

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Also love that the entire plot of the movie is literal stated out loud by the Emperor and the Navigator in the first five minutes and the movie still doesn't make sense.
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« Reply #2282 on: June 04, 2015, 04:37:36 AM »
I like that they condensed the middle... what, five hundred pages of Dune into one montage?

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« Reply #2283 on: June 05, 2015, 01:00:41 AM »
Dune's romance subplot in particular is hilariously perfunctory. "Paul and Chani's love grew" relayed to us through voiceover narration. That's all you get folks.

(I actually like Dune for other reasons so this is just good-natured ribbing as opposed to when, say, The Last Airbender attempted to get away with the exact same thing and had no such goodwill to earn it a free pass.)

I went to the theater to watch it again with another group of friends. Worth it.
I like how exhausted everybody is after seeing this movie

Is it called Therapy Road in France. That would almost be appropriate.

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« Reply #2284 on: June 05, 2015, 01:12:12 AM »
(I actually like Dune for other reasons so this is just good-natured ribbing as opposed to when, say, The Last Airbender attempted to get away with the exact same thing and had no such goodwill to earn it a free pass.)

You can get away with skipping a lot of things if the things you do show are really weird and memorable.

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« Reply #2285 on: June 09, 2015, 11:08:44 AM »
The score: Paint by numbers thriller. It was an entertaining popcorn film with a strong cast.  It was however hilarious to see how totally out of date all the technology from 2001 was, though.
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« Reply #2286 on: June 13, 2015, 01:48:20 AM »
Spy:  Hilarious.  I was smiling throughout.

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« Reply #2287 on: June 16, 2015, 06:04:31 AM »
Huh. No one, really?

Jurassic World: High highs, low lows, overall an entertaining popcorn flick.

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« Reply #2288 on: June 20, 2015, 10:16:46 AM »
Mad Max: This was entertaining/10

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« Reply #2289 on: June 21, 2015, 11:06:25 PM »
Jurassic World:
Unfortunately it's not Mad Max: Fury Road.

It has the usual blockbuster movie curse: It starts off pretty strong, and becomes too stupid towards the end, when plausability is sacrificed for spectacle because you're not supposed to be thinking too much at this point

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« Reply #2290 on: June 22, 2015, 06:27:26 AM »
Mad Max: Fury Road.  Fortunately, was Mad Max: Fury Road.
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« Reply #2291 on: June 22, 2015, 01:11:37 PM »
Fury Road was great. Act surprised.
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« Reply #2292 on: June 22, 2015, 06:08:26 PM »
Yeah it'll be difficult for blockbusters to live in a post Mad Max world


The ending of Jurassic World was terrible and the more I think about it, the stupider it gets. So let's recap.

There's a giant evil T-rex mutant thing walking around and attacking everything. To retaliate, the humans decide to send the 4 pet raptors that the main character had trained.
Plot twist : The Mutant T-rex is part raptor, so he has a nice little chat with the raptors and they all agree on destroying all humans.
Okay.

So raptors start destroying shit, then the main character comes around and is all "HEY RAPTORS IT'S ME, YOUR BEST FRIEND". Raptors change their mind AGAIN and immediately decide to have a heroic sacrifice and so they all attack the Super Dinosaur. Good lord. They are dinosaurs, not Kain, what is this shit. Three of them die immediately.
4 raptors are not enough raptors to kill the Final Boss, so the main girl goes to free a regular T-rex, and have it chase her around to lure it towards the bigger badder Rex. This plan is bad enough on its own, but you should also note that she's wearing high heels.
Despite all odds, this plan works, and the two big dinosaurs fight. (It's impossible to tell which is which unless you look at their arms) Regular T-rex and raptors somehow improbably team up to kill the Z-Rex (they nearly high five themselves). The fight is close, but the Z-Rex ends up getting eaten by a giant whale dinosaur which jumps out of its nearby pond to eat it. HOW CONVENIENT. Wait, why didn't the whale dinosaur attempt to do that before to eat some tasty humans?

The Final Boss is dead so the background music stops being stressful, and the humans leave whatever hole they were in. There is still a velociraptor and a T-rex walking around but no big deal.
Yeah guys that T-Rex is our pal now so I don't see why we should fear him.


In short they attempted to humanize the dinosaurs which was a terrible idea. The T-Rex thought process was :
- There's a tasty human, let's slowly run after her
- There's a big dinosaur that wants to kill me, let's fight!
- That big dinosaur's dead and this little velociraptor fellow helped me beat him. We're pals <3
- There are some humans around, but I don't really feel like killing any of them despite being really hungry
- I get to be in the final shot of the movie, cool

It should have been:
- Tasty human wearing high heels, lol *slurps*
- What the fuck is this big mutant dinosaur's problem, I am going to annihilate his face
- That big dinosaur's dead and I'm still hungry. Oh there's a velociraptor here. *slurps*
- Oh man there are also some other humans still around. This is an amazing day. *slurps*
- Eat everything

So yeah the dinosaur in the movie wasn't actually a regular T-rex, it was Dinosaur Comics T-Rex. At the end, I was half expecting the t-rex to draw a tiny heart in the air with his tiny arms while looking at the humans then ride off to the sunset. (To be fair, this would have been adorable and would have redeemed the whole movie)
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« Reply #2293 on: June 22, 2015, 06:18:31 PM »
I just realised that the mutant T-Rex is female so that they can reuse the "Clever girl" Line.

Yeahhhhh not gonna go see it.
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« Reply #2294 on: June 22, 2015, 06:45:34 PM »
The movie seemed very fanservicy but I barely remember Jurassic Park so I can't comment on it.

There are basically two really good scenes (The attack on the gyrosphere and the attack of the avians) + an enjoyable first part in which you get to see the theme park. Nothing else is really incredible and the ending leaves too much of a sour taste

I liked seeing Omar Sy as the French Dude
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« Reply #2295 on: June 22, 2015, 07:42:23 PM »
Jurassic World

Good review.  Thank you for curing my curiosity about whether it might be worth seeing.

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« Reply #2296 on: June 23, 2015, 12:24:01 AM »
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« Reply #2297 on: June 23, 2015, 04:39:59 AM »
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« Reply #2298 on: June 23, 2015, 04:44:45 AM »
Inside Out was classic Pixar. Awesome movie.

It is about feels, so there were plenty of feels to be had. I imagine if you're a parent you'll bawl.

Also, it's strange to see places you live and work represented in fiction.
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« Reply #2299 on: June 27, 2015, 09:26:51 PM »
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - I watched this yesterday. Definitely a good one, both funny and serious in pretty cool ways. :) Also a pretty appropriate day to watch it!
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