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Post by Mr. Blonde on Sept 1, 2012 11:57:41 GMT -5
Cabin in the Woods: I suck at writing reviews so I'll be brief. I thought it was great. Fun, random, pretty original and had some very clever takes on old school horror cliches. As someone (who will remain nameless) built up an expectation for me, I went in expecting something amazing involving an elevator. I will say that the elevator part was pretty fucking awesome. The movie started to lose me in the last few minutes but I held on just long enough to really enjoy it. It may or may not be my favorite movie of the year so far. I'll have to re-create my list to find out. Overall, good stuff.
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Post by neenee on Sept 1, 2012 12:01:51 GMT -5
I liked Cabin in the Woods and nothing more. I get that it was playing on clichés etc but my god it had this real smug air about it.
Bradley Whiteford was as amazing as ever though!
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Post by driftin on Sept 2, 2012 15:09:29 GMT -5
Didn't see the smugness of the film at all, I just thought that it played the cliches really well and when the two of them descend that lift and uncover the rest of the horror, the film goes batshit insane and it's awesome.
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Post by Mr. Blonde on Sept 2, 2012 17:58:18 GMT -5
Well, it was a little smug. I mean, Joss Whedon and Drew Goddard are both smarter than me. If you're going to condescend to me, at least be smarter than I am and they are. I appreciate things like that. Kinda like when I watch something by Aaron Sorkin.
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Post by tailbest on Sept 3, 2012 19:33:01 GMT -5
Have to agree, there is a bit of smugness there, but Whedon and Goddard have proven they can pull off something like 'Cabin'. And they did that very well.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 4, 2012 16:48:31 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D As much as I love computer animated movies, nothing beats a good stop-motion film.
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Post by driftin on Sept 5, 2012 4:31:42 GMT -5
;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D As much as I love computer animated movies, nothing beats a good stop-motion film. Now THERE is a film which I did think was very smug.
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Post by tailbest on Sept 5, 2012 21:32:45 GMT -5
Got to say, love Mr. Fox. Was my number 3 film that year.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 6, 2012 1:47:29 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that the film was smug, but I thought it was very well made, had a lovely retro feel to it and didn't at all take itself too seriously.
I watched a couple of "Making of" videos on YouTube just earlier and they put an insane amount of work in to it. Everything from the puppets to backgrounds and clothes was hand made. The fur on the different animals was actual fur, they had 4 different size puppets of most the characters, and the voice recordings were all done on location and in action so to speak.As in, running, jumping, in a barn, on a bike, even underground (apparently)
George Clooney was perfect as Mr Fox, along with most of the other voice actors. Could have done without Owen Wilson though.
Part from that - top movie.
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Post by driftin on Sept 7, 2012 12:21:26 GMT -5
I'm not quite sure what you mean when you say that the film was smug, but I thought it was very well made, had a lovely retro feel to it and didn't at all take itself too seriously. I watched a couple of "Making of" videos on YouTube just earlier and they put an insane amount of work in to it. Everything from the puppets to backgrounds and clothes was hand made. The fur on the different animals was actual fur, they had 4 different size puppets of most the characters, and the voice recordings were all done on location and in action so to speak.As in, running, jumping, in a barn, on a bike, even underground (apparently) George Clooney was perfect as Mr Fox, along with most of the other voice actors. Could have done without Owen Wilson though. Part from that - top movie. The animation is absolutely fantastic, yes, but the script isn't Roald Dahl, it's Wes Anderson. I can just see the star studded cast patting each other on the back for making a film about talking foxes who talk about existentalism and saying introverted, academic things incessantly and having an animated Jarvis Cocker playing the banjo. If they actually made a Roald Dahl family film with that kind of animation it would've been great.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 7, 2012 17:29:14 GMT -5
Yeah fair enough, I see what you mean now. And I agree. I think some of these movies would actually be better if they used unknown actors to do the voices.
We really don't need to see another cartoon with a fat creature voiced by John Goodman.
Apparently the original cut had Jarvis Cocker narrating the story, but the test screening audience didn't like it, so they got rid of that and added the text in between the different chapters.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 9, 2012 23:11:00 GMT -5
Had a pretty big night on Friday and an even bigger on Saturday so spent the majority of Sunday on the couch. Thought I'd do the double header and watched these two. I've seen them both before a couple of times, so it was nothing new. Ok say what you want about these movies but they're good hangover Sunday fun. I mean, c'mon, it's Cars. With machineguns. In a prison. Seriously, what more do we want from a movie like this? A lot of people say the second (which is a prequel) was rubbish but I think it is well done and ties in nicely with the first one. The whole backstory on how the death race came to be and the cliche characters etc is great. Sean Bean is great as the cliche kingpin who rules the city, has men everywhere and blah blah blah. Luke Goss... well... you know, I think he's good in this. He definitely has a prescense on the screen and while he didn't have much to work with script- or dialogue wise, he does it pretty well. And we know what happens to him in the other movie with Statham, so there's no typical soppy happy ending crap either. While the Statham movie just HAD to do that didn't it. I mean really, I would have preferred to see them ALMOST make it, rather than the ending we got. But I suppose Statham's character was innocent so they had to let him go. All round fun movies with lots of explosions, cars, angry prisoners and all the rest. We could have done without the sex scene in death race 2 though. I'm so over that. Really. We get it. They're doing it. *yawn* I fast forwarded past it and to be honest I do that with most movie sex scenes. I have yet to see the original Death Race with Carradine by the way. Might look it up now.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 11, 2012 1:48:18 GMT -5
Yet again I'm asking myself "Are there ANY good comedies being made?" I thought this might be ok as it had Martin Freeman, Mandy Moore and Angus Deayton in it, and it seemed to have all the right components for a lighthearted (dare I say it) Rom-Com. *GASP* But it just never took off and the whole movie could have been compressed to a 20 minute short. While Martin Freeman's acting and emotional range seems to consist of listening to someone speak, blink and then look in a different direction, he still does it well, and is usually amusing. The British do awkward very well. Probably better than anyone else, and there were a few good moments but all in all it was a pretty bad, drawn out movie and it has now been deleted off my harddrive.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 15, 2012 23:04:09 GMT -5
See the first line in my post above.... Same goes for this one.
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Post by dirtyvinylpusher on Sept 25, 2012 22:37:11 GMT -5
Oh my god ;D What a terrible but hilarious movie. All the actors overacted to breaking point and it was soooo poorly written, directed and executed it was amazing. From the first frame it was clear that this was a B-movie. It's just something about movies like this - you pick it straight away. It's either terrible or so bad it's good. I don't know where to begin with this one..... So it starts with this whole apocalyptic theme - humans have created artificial life, or clones or whatever, the world goes to shit, the clones move underground and there's ongoing battles between humans and clones (or Gens as they're referred to as) yadda yadda yadda. Could be a decent movie then? A few battle scenes etc? But no. What we get is a Days Of Our Lives type scenario underground where men wear dresses and eyeliner. There is one scene where they go above ground, armed with huge swizzle sticks, some gadget with randomly flashing LED lights and oxygen masks (but no tanks) and kill someone... This could have been an awesome movie if it had a big budget, a good director and decent actors. It really goes to show that making a good solid movie isn't that easy. That said, it was hilarious to watch, and I found myself laughing a lot. More than I did to Swinging with the Finkels, Our idiot brother and Get him to the greek, combined
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