[blackshoe]

Already did. And I agree.

[jjbrr]

I strongly suspect no one else on bbf would enjoy it at all, but This is the End is amazing

[mike777]

jjbrr, on 2013-June-27, 22:36, said:

I strongly suspect no one else on bbf would enjoy it at all, but This is the End is amazing

Saw it..it was ok but far from amazing...



Bling ring 3.5 stars out of 4.....ya it sounds like a stupid movie about teens with vacant eyes but it is well made and I recommend it.


Before Midnight 3 stars out of 4.....I guess I was hoping for something more than a movie long argument between this couple.


Up this weekend is the brad pitt zombie movie and the Sandra bullock cop movie and season 7(2012) of Dexter.

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With the year half over my fav movie of the year so far is fast and furious 6....action...funny and lots of fun.

What is your favorite movie of 2013 so far?

[hrothgar]

jjbrr, on 2013-June-27, 22:36, said:

I strongly suspect no one else on bbf would enjoy it at all, but This is the End is amazing

In my entire life, I have only walked out on one movie (The film version of Strangers with Candy)
This is the End was almost that bad...

For what its worth, I really like SUperbad and stoner comedy, however, this was awful on so many levels.

[1eyedjack]

hrothgar, on 2013-June-28, 03:57, said:

In my entire life, I have only walked out on one movie (The film version of Strangers with Candy)
This is the End was almost that bad...

For what its worth, I really like SUperbad and stoner comedy, however, this was awful on so many levels.

A bit like that disaster movie about being stuck in an elevator

[jjbrr]

hrothgar, on 2013-June-28, 03:57, said:

In my entire life, I have only walked out on one movie (The film version of Strangers with Candy)
This is the End was almost that bad...

For what its worth, I really like SUperbad and stoner comedy, however, this was awful on so many levels.

Wrong.

TitE > Superbad >> Ted

[jjbrr]

McLovin and Cera were funnier in TitE and they had like 3 seconds on screen

[hrothgar]

Saw Much Ado About Nothing last night. I'm normally not a fan of Shakespeare adaptations set in modern times, however, this time things really worked. There were a lot of really good performances, with Duke Leonardo stealing the show. Whedon obviously gave a lot of thought to things (for example, most of the characters were drinking heavily throughout the movie because Whedon said this was the best way to explain things). For me, the part of the performance that will stick with me longest is the following song which really captures the feel of the movie.

[gwnn]

Elysium was pretty awesome (with the usual caveat of too much action and the normal consequences thereof). Agent Kruger is one nasty mother*****r. brrr

[Cyberyeti]

Went to see KickAss 2.

I enjoyed it very much although some of the critics didn't.

To me it had all the things I enjoyed in the first movie, with some of the "Hit girl growing up" stuff being quite well done. The criticism that it was "2 separate movies" (KickAss/Hit Girl) was probably valid, but given the source material, (2 separate comics) I was expecting that.

Difficult to go into more serious discussion without spoiling the movie, but there's a hand held device that would have made one of my last days at work a lot more fun and the scene after the end credits does add something.

[Mbodell]

jjbrr, on 2013-June-27, 22:36, said:

I strongly suspect no one else on bbf would enjoy it at all, but This is the End is amazing

I liked it (This is the End) a lot.

Elysium was average-plus, but felt like it could have been better, something missing.

I didn't enjoy KickAss 2 as much as the first. I thought it was uneven with parts that were good, but parts that dragged.

I liked the Spectacular Now (although not as much as (500) Days of Summer by same writers).

Lee Daniel's The Butler was pretty good. I'm still amazed how recent past is a bunch of civil rights events.

I enjoyed The Way, Way Back. I thought that was a pretty great coming of age movie that is funny and touching and all that. That might be my favorite movie of the year so far.

Fruitvale station was affecting and quite good. You know what's going to happen, but still keeps you interested.

Wolverine was better than the last Wolverine movie (which was horrid), but I think X-Men work better as a group/team.

Pacific Rim was surprisingly decent.

Despicable Me 2 was great.

[hrothgar]

I have high hope's for The World's End

Then again, I felt the same about Kick Ass 2 and the reviews for that were so scathing that I steered a wide berth...

[gwnn]

What did y'all think of Jobs? It didn't impress me too much, although it's of course nice to see these really old computers in action. Yes, he was a very motivated man who was a perfectionist. We get it! I respect that work ethic very much but I was hoping to find out a bit more about him, is that too much to ask for? His disputes with the management that forced him out of the company were also poorly developed (if he really did design several extremely expensive models that didn't sell, isn't it fully justified to sack him?) as was his "vindication" thereafter.

[Mbodell]

gwnn, on 2013-September-11, 02:32, said:

What did y'all think of Jobs? It didn't impress me too much, although it's of course nice to see these really old computers in action. Yes, he was a very motivated man who was a perfectionist. We get it! I respect that work ethic very much but I was hoping to find out a bit more about him, is that too much to ask for? His disputes with the management that forced him out of the company were also poorly developed (if he really did design several extremely expensive models that didn't sell, isn't it fully justified to sack him?) as was his "vindication" thereafter.

I agree that there was a lot more potential there than was developed. In particular, his return to Apple wasn't really covered at all, nor was his reconciliation with girl friend and kid, nor was his "alternative" treatment to his cancer at the end.

Kutcher did look fairly similar to Jobs in a number of ages, and they captured the combination of energy, passion, and being a jerk. I know some people who knew very little about Jobs so were surprised by how much of a jerk he was.

[Fluffy]

Cyberyeti, on 2013-August-19, 05:27, said:

Went to see KickAss 2.

I enjoyed it very much although some of the critics didn't.

To me it had all the things I enjoyed in the first movie, with some of the "Hit girl growing up" stuff being quite well done. The criticism that it was "2 separate movies" (KickAss/Hit Girl) was probably valid, but given the source material, (2 separate comics) I was expecting that.

Difficult to go into more serious discussion without spoiling the movie, but there's a hand held device that would have made one of my last days at work a lot more fun and the scene after the end credits does add something.

there was a scene after the credits? gotta go watch it. I loved the movie BTW.

[hrothgar]

Fluffy, on 2013-September-11, 05:24, said:

there was a scene after the credits? gotta go watch it. I loved the movie BTW.

I found the movie amusing. Not great, but no where near as bad as the critics lead one to believe.

Didn't stay past the credits. Please let me know what happened.

[Cyberyeti]

hrothgar, on 2013-September-11, 05:31, said:

I found the movie amusing. Not great, but no where near as bad as the critics lead one to believe.

Didn't stay past the credits. Please let me know what happened.

Spoiler

Hospital bed, the MF bandaged from head to toe pathetically failing to reach the glass of water on his table, sounds like the route to a 3rd movie.

[y66]

20 Directors to Watch - Manohla Dargis and A. O. Scott, film critics for The New York Times, discuss 20 young international filmmakers.

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Filmmakers around the world are making movies that blur the boundaries between documentary and fiction, personal reflection and social advocacy, conventional narrative and radical experimentation. The oldest filmmakers on our list were born in 1973, on the eve of the home-video revolution, making them members of the first true on-demand generation. They have grown up with unprecedented access to movies from across the globe and from different epochs, an abundance of influences that informs their work and can make it difficult to pigeonhole them aesthetically or regionally.

Sebastián Silva is a Chilean who lives in Brooklyn (Fort Greene), as do the Nashville-born Dee Rees and the Dallas-born Terence Nance (both Bedford-Stuyvesant). Benh Zeitlin is a native New Yorker living and working in New Orleans. Lixin Fan is a naturalized Canadian citizen who makes documentaries in China, the country of his birth. Sarah Polley is a well-known actress, with a long résumé of Hollywood and indie credits, who lives and shoots her movies in Canada. Na Hong-Jin is a South Korean who doesn’t speak English and whose last movie was partly bankrolled by an American studio. The sensibilities of these filmmakers are in some cases intensely local, but their work over all also reflects the cosmopolitanism of transnational financing, the international festival circuit and a shrinking world.

more

[gwnn]

Gravity - WOW. Best 3D film ever by far...

[mike777]

gwnn, on 2013-October-06, 16:29, said:

Gravity - WOW. Best 3D film ever by far...

saw my first and only bad review....
rest of reviews rave.

3 characters...they float in space....boring....

look forward to seeing it later this week ...but then I will see Machete kills and Enough Said. so...oh well... ")