The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

mr_n00b wrote:
Stele wrote:

Yep. Loved it. Looking forward to part 3 (2 movies).

Well, it can't get any worse than the book, that's for sure.

Yeah, Mockingjay was definitely the weakest of the three. Mostly because it just descended almost fully into teenage girl romance triangle territory. The movies have so far successfully managed to moderate that. I hope this director can keep it up.

Catching Fire was really good. Jennifer Lawrence was fantastic. I just adore her.

Quintin_Stone wrote:

Catching Fire was really good. Jennifer Lawrence was fantastic. I just adore her.

Have we posted a thread for American Hustle yet?

I didn't recognize Christian Bale until his name appeared!

I just got back from 12 Years a Slave, which joins Requiem for a Dream in the ranks of "Amazing films I'm glad I watched, and now never want to see again." Could be the best film I saw this year.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I just got back from 12 Years a Slave, which joins Requiem for a Dream in the ranks of "Amazing films I'm glad I watched, and now never want to see again." Could be the best film I saw this year.

Yeah. Can't see myself watching it again, yet I'm glad I did.

SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I just got back from 12 Years a Slave, which joins Requiem for a Dream in the ranks of "Amazing films I'm glad I watched, and now never want to see again." Could be the best film I saw this year.

Oh, so it's like Grave of the Fireflies? Which... for some reason, I bought on DVD and quite literally have NEVER OPENED because I'd seen it already and wanted to have it on DVD in case I ever wanted to watch it... but never, ever have... and likely never, ever will.

Demosthenes wrote:
SpacePPoliceman wrote:

I just got back from 12 Years a Slave, which joins Requiem for a Dream in the ranks of "Amazing films I'm glad I watched, and now never want to see again." Could be the best film I saw this year.

Oh, so it's like Grave of the Fireflies? Which... for some reason, I bought on DVD and quite literally have NEVER OPENED because I'd seen it already and wanted to have it on DVD in case I ever wanted to watch it... but never, ever have... and likely never, ever will.

I've had to move Grave up on ye olde queue, but I'll just say from reputation, Yes. I recommend 12 Years be watched.

I take it back, I did watch it a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th time as a teaching tool in my high school class, and reduced the entire room of obnoxious self-centered teens to tears. It was glorious and hilarious and I wish I had filmed it.

I must be a cold-hearted bastard, because Grave of the Fireflies just did not make me cry. Which is funny, because it theoretically should have.

Spoiler:

I typically cannot stand the death of children in films. It takes a film to execute it in a particular way, and it has to carry meaning. Shock value and other such things can go to f*cking Hell. So yeah, I was upset that the younger child died in Grave of the Fireflies, but it was more covered up by the insane frustration of the older brother being an idiot. I may have been expecting too much out of a kid, but he just kept pissing me off. So I basically figured out where the film was going, knew the younger sibling was going to die, and knew he'd inevitably die as well.

No f*cking sadness from me.

I guess I'm just a heartless bastard or something.

I watched it as a 14 year old who was going down the line of anime in my local video store who didn't know that there were anime genres other than action. Took me completely by surprise. I started reading the backs of the movies.

Grenn wrote:

there were anime genres other than action.

Wait, what? There are?

The Wolf of Wall Street is two hours and fifty-nine minutes.

Saw Anchorman 2 and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty this weekend. Anchorman 2 was okay, but a little over the top (not in a good way) in many spots.

Walter Mitty was really fun. As a traveler and a "live in the moment" guy it spoke to me big time. Made me want to go home and hit the bike hard so I can travel to more extreme places before it's too late.

So the "Wolf of Wall Street" is terrible, IMO. If you didn't laugh at the first two hours (I didn't), here's a cookie. You're not a complete sociopath.

If you laughed then Martin Scorcese just pulled an M. Night Shamylan on you and flipped you the bird.

Also, hilarious that "Blue is the Warmest Color" can't get rated, but this movie is a-ok.

Also hilarious that Team America got hammered for puppet sex.

DSGamer wrote:

So the "Wolf of Wall Street" is terrible, IMO. If you didn't laugh at the first two hours (I didn't), here's a cookie. You're not a complete sociopath.

I found Wolf of Wall Street hilarious but it's hard to recommend. I heard really good things about American Hustle so I'm going to wait and pick that up on Blu-ray.

Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street is really funny. Also, really good. It's a very dark, uncomfortable kind of funny, because you're laughing at a bunch of disgusting assholes being reprehensible and getting away with it, but still funny.

Saw 'Her' this weekend.

Bleh. The movie had so much going for it aside from the actual story. Fantastic, imaginative and convincing near-future L.A. Great cinematography and soundtrack. Acting was really good too.

But that story.

Started rolling my eyes about 20 minutes in and by the end they just about rolled out of my head.

DSGamer wrote:

Also hilarious that Team America got hammered for puppet sex.

If the ratings system amuses you (and you love movies!) there is a great documentary called This Film Is Not Yet Rated that I think is still streaming on Netflix. Interesting plus lots of great movie clips, of course!

DiscoDriveby wrote:
DSGamer wrote:

Also hilarious that Team America got hammered for puppet sex.

If the ratings system amuses you (and you love movies!) there is a great documentary called This Film Is Not Yet Rated that I think is still streaming on Netflix. Interesting plus lots of great movie clips, of course!

That's a good one! I watched that in the theater when it came out because the film professor at Oregon State appears in it. I took one class with him and he was pretty cool.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Yeah, Wolf of Wall Street is really funny. Also, really good. It's a very dark, uncomfortable kind of funny, because you're laughing at a bunch of disgusting assholes being reprehensible and getting away with it, but still funny.

http://blogs.laweekly.com/informer/2...

Christina McDowell wrote:

Anyhow, after my father successfully laundered money in my name, hiding what was left of our assets from the government in a Wells Fargo bank account, I arrived home to discover multiple phone calls from creditors and attorneys threatening to sue me. He'd left me in nearly $100,000 worth of debt. He left and never told me.

I didn't see the same movie she did, apparently.

The Wolf of Wall Street doesn't glorify Jordan Belfort and his associates. Sure, it depicts the allure and glamour of drugs and money - and it has to, because otherwise it'd make no sense that a person would destroy so much in pursuit of it - but it also shoves that excess down the audience's throat until it's sickening and depicts these people as pathetic, disgusting animals. Their crimes are obvious but they get away with it for so long not because they're smart - all in all they're pretty inept - but because crime is mainstream on Wall Street and very few people really care.

I you don't want to see it because Belfort doesn't deserve whatever money the movie's might make him, that's fair enough, and entirely understandable. But the movie, taken as it's own thing? It might find entertainment in Belfort's Caligula-like excess but it's laughing *at* him, and absolutely hates him as a person.

The audience I was in was definitely laughing *with* him. I can see an entire generation of Wall Street parasites as inspired by this as they were by Gordon Gekko.

DSGamer wrote:

The audience I was in was definitely laughing *with* him. I can see an entire generation of Wall Street parasites as inspired by this as they were by Gordon Gekko.

Gross.

Yeah, the movie is funny because of how just how ridiculously disgusting the characters and the system is. Giant Palm --> Face.

I freely admit I haven't had the chance to see Wolf yet (might tonight, its a lot of time to block out), but I find this recent trend of demanding solemn moralizing from movies purportedly for thinking adults really troubling. All our blockbusters are already lowest common denominator.

Aaron D. wrote:

Saw 'Her' this weekend.

Bleh. The movie had so much going for it aside from the actual story. Fantastic, imaginative and convincing near-future L.A. Great cinematography and soundtrack. Acting was really good too.

But that story.

Started rolling my eyes about 20 minutes in and by the end they just about rolled out of my head.

That's sort of been my reaction to every Spike Jonze movie and why I'm not really interested in Her.

I think it is more of a case of how poorly satire works on conservatives. You will find conservatives that think Colbert is on their side, too.

Those people aren't actually engaging with the movie, they're just reacting to surface things and going WOO COCAINE. There's no sane interpretation of Belfort desperately digging for his drug stash because he can't deal with what's happening that makes it a cheerworthy moment.