Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[Kimchi Papi]

Not going to pay theater money (even at matinee prices) to see a Tom Cruise movie... I'll def watch when it hits VOD...

 

[noskey]

although im not as well versed in critiquing movies as some of you guys (for example, i was unable to tell if the lighting in wild wild west was good or not), i'm always down for new movie suggestions

I mostly judge it on whether or not it conveys the mood/style of the scene, and whether it's clear what the director wants you to focus on. Citizen Kane is an example that a teacher of mine used, and breaking it down you could see the effects it had on the film. There's a movie called Visions of Light that detail the evolution of cinematography through film history. Good watch, actually.

 

[youngdoc]

Not going to pay theater money (even at matinee prices) to see a Tom Cruise movie... I'll def watch when it hits VOD...

Dislike Cruise that much?

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Not going to pay theater money (even at matinee prices) to see a Tom Cruise movie... I'll def watch when it hits VOD...

Dislike Cruise that much?

No, I don't dislike him just kinda tired of seeing big action movies from him. I'd rather spend my theater $$$ elsewhere...

 

[youngdoc]

Not going to pay theater money (even at matinee prices) to see a Tom Cruise movie... I'll def watch when it hits VOD...

Dislike Cruise that much?

No, I don't dislike him just kinda tired of seeing big action movies from him. I'd rather spend my theater $$$ elsewhere...

Got it.

Ghost protocol was probably the last one I saw in theaters.

Edge is getting such good reviews that I might have to check it out. Maybe a Sunday matinee

 

[licensed to ball]

Tom Cruise was past his prime, they said.
He couldn't carry a block buster anymore, they said.
He was turning into box office poison, they said.

Cruise is back in top form.

 

[mronegative]

No, I don't dislike him just kinda tired of seeing big action movies from him. I'd rather spend my theater $$$ elsewhere...

Well...Edge of Tomorrow is the best Tom Cruise movie since Collateral? Minority Report?

It's not bland like Oblivion, or just good enough like the Mission Impossibles. It's like...I don't know how to talk about the film, because all I wanna do is break down moment for moment how pitch perfect and impressed I was with the movie. Emily Blunt did work. It's the best she's ever been in anything. I thought...it's stupid that she has a sword...no. They're trying to make her badass? She is. She owns every moment that she's in this film. There aren't just 2 characters in the movie like the trailer makes it seem, and I don't wanna spoil you on the others. And the bad guy is so much better than I thought it'd be.

The marketing was so awful, but at at the same time, it did a service to anyone who might go see the movie, because you haven't seen 90% of the stuff that makes it great. The mech suits looked stupid as hell in the trailers. This grounded them, made them make sense against the enemy they were facing, and made them awesome in a realistic way. The whole time travel mechanism, felt like bs that they just stole from whatever was lying around in the trailers, but they make it work in such a seemless way.

It's the Tom Cruise movie for people who hate Tom Cruise. And they use his particular type appeal (and unappeal) towards the audience against him. He's not really the hero of the movie. And they break down his character as a scumbag from go. It's so clever. It's so ridiculously well written. I haven't seen anything like it since Memento. And the action scenes are awesome. They're so consistently well done and surprisingly just kick your *** at times.

You never expect awe when things are cgi, but there are so many moments in the film, you just lean back and think damn...they nailed it. And the pace is perfect. The whole middle of the film could've kept going on forever and I would've been happy. It's brilliant the way they edited the movie. You never feel like you see any sequence for longer than you needed to. For a movie that relives the day over and over, it actually never feels repetitive. I mean, it has that up on Groundhog Day. In that, Bill Murray was a cynical god-man, who knew all and just lounged around playing tricks on people. In this Cruise never, ever knows enough, no matter how many times he's been through.

It's the beauty of the filmmaking. They knew exactly how many takes they needed to get things across, with the movie never getting stale. And the comedy just always hit. Not punchlines, but just super witty. It reminded me of Casino Royale. A movie with so many great action beats, that was just witty top to bottom and flowed relentlessly to new emotional beats and tense scene you never saw coming, but always felt like it fit. And since you followed his emotional journey through the time jumps there was such a strong core to it. I forgot that Tom Cruise was a movie star until right now. I knew he was popular and always did a good job, but we been making due with Aaron Johnson and Jax from SoA and Chris Evans, and all the great ones like Damon doing trash, that I forgot what the real looked like.

And the realest cleverness of the writing and storytelling is that they built a world that mattered to you. They built a scenario that shouldn't work, but it just does so immediately. They never made the film so simple that you could plot it out, because the differences in each take wasn't just pick Door #1 or Door #2. The movie was constantly ahead of you, but so damn accessible. The only knocks I could give it are maybe the very beginning jumps into things real quickly so you don't get a chance to think..."well wait a minute..."

And something at the end, but honestly, that'll be down to who you are, how you feel about the characters and the movie, and what you wanted out of the story, cuz for me...I knew it didn't make sense, but I smiled anyways. It's all the side characters that got their points and gags across. It's the feel of the movie. I mean this is the man who made Bourne Identity and you can tell, in every little chracter moment peppered all over the film that just hits.

...

There's something about this movie. And I can't quite put my finger on it, but something about it not being a sequel or the first part of the next thing. Something about them getting to build their own world and tell a complete story in it. This is what Pacific Rim should've been. It's what all these big blockbusters should be. It's so complete and singular.

9/10

At the very least it's Top 4 with Lego Movie, Grand Budapest and Cap 2. But a part of me really wants to say best movie of the year.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

I liked seeing Oblivion on VOD, my son liked it too. Ditto for Jack Reacher. I thought they were solid pop corn, catch them on the flat screen at home movies. I just would rather spend my going to the theater mula elsewhere...

youngdoc , you did remind me that my son & I did see Ghost Protocol in the theater. He wanted to see it badly so we caught a Sunday matinee...

 

[Master Zik]

Tom Cruise was past his prime, they said.
He couldn't carry a block buster anymore, they said.
He was turning into box office poison, they said.

Cruise is back in top form.

They said that for real?

I really liked Jack Reacher.

 

[antidope]

 
Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

 

[mronegative]

I feel like I still did a bad job explaining the movie cuz I don't like to spoil and what's the point in only convincing people who already saw it.

Problem is the trailers hid so much of the movie, that there's no way anyone would possibly understand what's going on.

I mean...they never mentioned the main conflict of the movie...or what the enemy looks like...or the state of that world...or what the goal is...or when it takes place...or like 90% of the characters or wtf with the mech suits or the time travel or the plane or what the battlefield looks like or what the stakes are or what the movie's supposed to be recreating/representing. Nothing.

How do you talk about that? It'd be like trying to talk about Inception, except in the trailers they never mentioned dreams or showed Joseph Gordon-Levitt or Tom Hardy or Ken Watanabe or Cillian Murphy or Ellen Page, and they only showed you parts of the first scene when the room flooded and then him running in Africa.

I honestly think they thought they were doing the Inception roll out, and people would be mad curious cuz they had so many questions.

But instead they were like, ughk Tom Cruise

Oh and I hate that ******* title. I hate that they changed it from All You Need is Kill.

 

[antidope]

Speaking of Tom Cruise, Collateral......... You already know what I'm going to say.

 

[senorroboto2k5]

The trailers really felt like they were hiding the entire movie. What they "showed" made no sense.

I'm amped to hear what they hid was really good.

Thanks for the review, you got me pumped to see it...

 

[licensed to ball]

Tom Cruise was past his prime, they said.
He couldn't carry a block buster anymore, they said.
He was turning into box office poison, they said.

Cruise is back in top form.

They said that for real?

I really liked Jack Reacher.

Dude I really liked that movie too.
Real talk that opening seen was one of the most suspenseful/intense scenes I've seen in a thriller in a while.

I loved the quiet tone to the movie. Very "Drive" esque. But unlike Drive, which was helped by a tremendous soundtrack, Reacher let natural noises set the tone for the movie. I loved that. Not a lot of random music or artificial sounds, just let the quiet and natural sounds like the cars he drove or the weapons they shot to be the main soundtrack to the movie.

 

[timelessflight]

finally going to see Godzilla tomorrow

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Watched the new Robocop with the fam... Meh... Should've been better especially with the cast. My son enjoyed it. The whole time my son was like I know his voice (Jay Baruchel's). Just after half of the movie he jumps up & says I got it, it's Hiccup's voice from how to train your dragon! My wife & I were like :x . Wow that's a good memory...

 

[Bend_The_Knee]

Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

So we can watch the twilight trilogy and all of tyler perry's movies? Nah, i'm good.

 

[am1x90xnike]

Just outta Edge of 2morrow...possibly Cap 2. Status. Grand Budapest to go to sleep. Good night. Man...Edge of 2morrow was a damn good movie. It better get nominated for something come awards season. Emily Blunt is a got damn star. She commands every scene she is in. Cruise...man...idk how to explain his performance, you felt that ****. The writing was so damn good. I have to start putting editing on my list of things to watch because this movie put on a clinic on how to edit movies. Every scene felt fresh, yet consistent. They put you exactly where you needed to be. Intense, intencse, intense....uncomfortable, yet familiar/comforting, calm; then they destroy the world you have built with a haze a fury. Only thing...monsters were wack, looked like matrix monsters. Long story short...damn good movie.

 

[IATT]

Watched enemy of the state, unbreakable...





And good will hunting tonight

 

[Master Zik]

I feel like I still did a bad job explaining the movie cuz I don't like to spoil and what's the point in only convincing people who already saw it.

Problem is the trailers hid so much of the movie, that there's no way anyone would possibly understand what's going on.

I mean...they never mentioned the main conflict of the movie...or what the enemy looks like...or the state of that world...or what the goal is...or when it takes place...or like 90% of the characters or wtf with the mech suits or the time travel or the plane or what the battlefield looks like or what the stakes are or what the movie's supposed to be recreating/representing. Nothing.

I honestly wish I could experience that time period when movie studios didn't even have to do all that. I mean first off there's already a ton of great movies out there that don't get EOT type promo that goes unwatched by the masses anyway but in a twisted sense I'm not even mad they didn't bother to do all that and just tried to bank on Cruise and Blunt cuz the trailers barely even scratch the surface of Tom's or Emily's characters and I caught on to that after watching all the trailers and commercials.

I pretty much knew I was going to see this movie (probably not in theaters) regardless of reviews when I caught on a few weeks ago that this movie is basically, and I'll quote Jimmy Fallon, Groundhog's Day meets Call of Duty

Tom Cruise was past his prime, they said.
He couldn't carry a block buster anymore, they said.
He was turning into box office poison, they said.

Cruise is back in top form.

They said that for real?

I really liked Jack Reacher.

Dude I really liked that movie too.
Real talk that opening seen was one of the most suspenseful/intense scenes I've seen in a thriller in a while.

I loved the quiet tone to the movie. Very "Drive" esque. But unlike Drive, which was helped by a tremendous soundtrack, Reacher let natural noises set the tone for the movie. I loved that. Not a lot of random music or artificial sounds, just let the quiet and natural sounds like the cars he drove or the weapons they shot to be the main soundtrack to the movie.

Yeah nice comparison to Drive, def had that feel and yeah that opening had me thinking I was watching the wrong movie I was like wow okay this is not what I thought it was going to be. Then it just got interesting, brought some lulz, and entertained me throughout.

I enjoyed oblivion for what it was.

Decent flick to watch in the crib, some of the film work was dope.

I dialed oblivion because they showed Morgan Freeman in the previews.

So it basically showed the plot or "monsters"

One of my favorite movies was SE7EN.

Why? Cause kevin ******* spacey came out of no where.

See now I liked Oblivion too but I can get ppl not liking it. I was kinda there just cuz I love sci-fi and that kept me engaged. Not to mention it had one of those twists that I legit did not see coming and it's not like that twist wasn't something I didn't see before it's just I did not expect that twist for the way this movie went. Left field haymaker.

And as mentioned it kinda ended a bit flat and the tone of it throughout I can see cause some ppl to call it bland but to me it just had a unique feel and look given the story. It was really inbetween a lot of genres. Pretty much a longer Twilight Zone ep.

Watched enemy of the state, unbreakable...

And good will hunting tonight

That's a great viewing night.

Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

So we can watch the twilight trilogy and all of tyler perry's movies? Nah, i'm good.

Wait Antidope likes Tyler Perry movies? Forget Twilight. Tyler Perry movies!?!!

Excommunicate this dude.

 

[denni5themenace]

Edge of tomorrow was

VERY DOPE movie

 

[sb]

any of yall checking out edge of tomorrow?

Saw it last night. I'm actually thinking about seeing it again.

Forget any commercial or trailer you saw for it and just see the damn movie. You won't be disappointed.

is it better than oblivion?

Tom Cruise was past his prime, they said.
He couldn't carry a block buster anymore, they said.
He was turning into box office poison, they said.

Cruise is back in top form.

They said that for real?

I really liked Jack Reacher.

the movie was terrible imo. it felt all over the place. cruise is usually money but that was one of his weaker films.

 

[youngdoc]

Sounds like Edge might be on Minority Report level?

Gotta find a way to see it this weekend

 

[shogun]

Not going to pay theater money (even at matinee prices) to see a Tom Cruise movie... I'll def watch when it hits VOD...

Dislike Cruise that much?

No, I don't dislike him just kinda tired of seeing big action movies from him. I'd rather spend my theater $$$ elsewhere...

I dislike him enough that I won't spend money to support his movies. If he played a crazy, scientologist super villain in a movie then I would go and see it.

 

[antidope]

Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

So we can watch the twilight trilogy and all of tyler perry's movies? Nah, i'm good.

I abhor Tyler Perry. He contributes nothing good to the world. The Twilight series wasn't bad though