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I'm a lady. It is my belief that the executives in charge of casting may have have had me and my ilk in mind when casting Mr. Reynolds in this role. To that I say, "assless tights, please".
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Hear, hear! I second that emotion.Originally Posted by Babychoby
I thought this movie was really great! It had a lot of funny in it that I didn't expect and it's this type of romantic comedy that really makes me okay with the genre. I loved it. It's almost funny enough to have its own thread in the comedy forum.
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For about the first 30 minutes of Public Enemies I thought Quentin Tarantino was one of Dillinger's cronies.
I saw The Hurt Locker and it is as good or better as the hype.
But, seriously, is that one Rural Juror of a title or what?
The Hurt Locker leaked online back in January and I had to turn it off halfway through because I couldn't stand what I was seeing. The movie is supposed to be super realistic but it features a character that would never make it that far in the military. That bothered the shit out of me and I couldn't continue with the film.
I'm not being sarcastic - were you in the military? or know of people that were/are? I'm just curious why you think he would never make it that far in the military.
I haven't even the seen the film, I just thought that was an interesting thought
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This didn't bother me because I assumed he didn't start out behaving like this, but earned the right to act however he wanted when he disarmed 800+ IEDs. I could see the military being very hands-off with a guy this accomplished. Make no mistake, he's insane, but that's the point. He's driven solely by this need to do this one very dangerous thing he does well that, I assume, few others are as good as him at. This purpose fuels him so palpably throughout the movie, that even though I kept saying to myself, "This guy is one insane motherfucker," I was with him until the end. A truly lights out performance from Jeremy Renner. He's got to get award recognition for it, if those things mean anything at all. Anthony Mackie was also very affecting.
This is a pretty big spoiler if you are planning on seeing the movie:
Spoiler:
But seriously, try to tell people about this movie. "What's it called again?" "The Hurt Locker." "It's about a Foot Locker? Like the shoe store?" "No, the Hurt Locker." "What does that mean?" "Uh, I don't really know. It's a great movie though, you should really check it out." "Sure... Can you write down the title for me?"
My dad was in the Army, but that has no bearing on how I came to my conclusions. Without spoiling anything, the guy is such a loose cannon that it wouldn't make any sense for him to have gotten that far, no matter how good he was at his job. I'm not saying I'm any kind of military expert, but even with my limited knowledge of how it works it was a complete turnoff. I wasn't able to take the movie seriously any more.
Promised my little cousin that I'd take him to a movie and he demanded the midnight showing of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Being the nerd that I am I was like "Hells yeah!" Though oddly enough, my dad enjoys the books more than I do. But anyway...
The movie had some cool stuff and balances the dramatic with humor. But (just like every other Harry Potter movie), the scenes have no real transition from one to another. They just happen. And if you don't know the books, this movie is going to make very little sense. They just assume that you know every little thing and go along with it. It is fun but every time I see these movies I am amazed at how little they try to really make the story flow in anything resembling normal pacing.
The Hurt Locker is what I call my woo woo when I have cramps
For serious though, I loved the movie. It had my guts bunched up the entire length. Man the shit was tense!
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Saw In The Loop yesterday and laughed like an idiot throughout. Brilliantly written and perfectly cast.
I can't wait until it shows on IFC In Theaters so I can watch it again and catch everything I lost beneath the roars of laughter.
Harry potter is terrible. As a huge fan of the books, I sat there the entire time perplexed about why they choose to leave in, and in many cases expand, several of the more boring storylines and then choose to greatly simplify, or entirely ignore, several of the most interesting parts of the book.
It really feels like they took the extra months before release to re-edit the movie to appeal more to the twilight crowd. I liked the romantic storylines in the book, but the movie builds them up way to much with very little payoff.
And as much as I disliked the movie, I feel like it would be much, much worse for someone who hadn't read the books. Nothing is explained and without already knowing what is going on, the movie would really just seem like a bunch of random scenes put together into the vaguest semblance of a story.
"I'm the best detective in this room." -Jimmy Pardo
Yeah, pretty much. They assume that you are really familiar with the subject matter.
I really enjoyed the third and fifth movie, I thought the rest were just okay. I know a lot of people have complained about unclear stories in the other movies, but before now, it had never been something I noticed on my initial viewing. And I have always been the nerd who complained about little subplots that were ignored, but it wasn't something that actively disrupted my enjoyment of the movie. There was a lot of cool and important stuff in the sixth book that would have been really nice to see in the movie and none of it was in there.
Now that I think about, where did the budget on this movie go? With the exception of the first scene and the climax, the movie seemed to really skimp on the special effects. The effects that were there looked bad, with the exception of those two scenes. The sets looked fake. And there was no way that there wasn't budget for all of that stuff to be great.
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How do you use the spoiler function? There was some spoiler stuff I really want to address.
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The group has a logo now.
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I am going to stop trying now.
Orphan wasn't nearly as bad as it could have been. It had tone issues and a very conventional structure but it was fairly entertaining. I give it a C+. The biggest problem wasn't that it was irredeemably stupid, which is the usual problem with movies like this. Peter Saarsgaard is gay.
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