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Melllvar
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Countdown to Zero Documentary about nukes and how easy it would be for le terrorists to get one. Has interviews with Gorbachev and Carter, and tells us how Yeltsin saved the world!
It didn't mention Stanislav Petrov though, the Russian guy who also prevented an accidental retaliation strike against the US, which I was disappointed in. C
I was gonna post this in "Documentaries", but..... I watched this the other day, and it didn't also mention the event of 1983 when a training exercise almost triggered world war 3. It seemed a bit too hubristic, glossing over details with broad strokes, going for the sensational rather than the detail, certainly playing into the hands of the people who love that terrorist paranoia, and certainly would have won a few members to the looney right-wing nut-job party.... Arm yourselves people! They're everywhere! And they've got the BOMB!
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coldangel
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That new cunting Planet of the Apes movie was surprisingly fucking good. I really fucking liked it.
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coldangel
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« Reply #286 on: 08-06-2011 09:24 »
« Last Edit on: 08-06-2011 09:26 by coldangel_1 »
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Yeah, I wasn't sure either. Especially after that abortion of a remake attempt with Mark Warlberg a few years back. But it was really good. I mean, really... The apes were all CGI, but looked pretty decent while still being very emotive in the faces. They weren't the fully upright humanoid apes from the old movies, but rather contemporary apes. And so I didn't expect speech from them because of the much more realistic tone of this film, but when the main one actually did speak it didn't seem unrealistic at all - it was actually really creepy. It didn't sound like a human speaking. It sounded exactly like one might imagine an ape to speak, if an ape could. This film is fairly loosely based on "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes" from the original film series, but is setting up a whole new origin. Throughout, there are quick television and newspaper pieces on a manned mission to Mars that is taking place during the events of the film; the spacecraft goes missing and this sets up the events of the first film, which I assume they'll also be remaking (ignoring the abovementioned abortion). So yeah, really good flick. I don't think I've ever cared quite so much for non-human CGI creatures. 9/10
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~FazeShift~
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Hesher Ok so there's this quiet kid who we see shortly after his mother dies in a car accident, his father (the ugly Rainn Wilson, god I hate that guys stupid face!) is completely self absorbed in grief after the accident, when the kid runs into Hesher (Joseph Gordon Levitt), a tattooed, heavy metal, foul-mouthed misanthrope, and Nicole (Natalie Portman) and have some adventures and deal with grief and stuff. JoGoLev is great as the anarchistic Hesher doing all sorts of crazy shit like setting a diving board on fire then cannonballing off of it, and interrupting a funeral while drunk and telling the story of how he lost his testicle from some shrapnel. B-
Battle: Los Angeles Very Michael Bayish, like Call of Duty meets... District 9 or something, full of tiresome USMC bravado, shaky cam and shouting, forgettable stuff. I couldn't even care about Harvey Dent in this, and does Michelle Rodriguez not feel fucking type cast as "tough female soldier" yet?! Speaking of things in quotations, the military operation to drop a shitload of bombs on the aliens was codenamed "bomb drop"... just wow, good job guys. D+
The Next Three Days Russell Crowe and his wife Elizabeth Banks have a good life until she is hauled off to prison for murder, so Crowe plans to bust her out, seeking help from Liam Neeson. It's kinda like the first season of Prison Break only shorter and Russell Crowe doesn't actually go into the prison, but it's still well done, the actual escape part is exciting. It kind of slows down near the end and there's a weird bit where Elizabeth Banks dangles out of a car door while the car spins out of control, but still decent. B+
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coldangel
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How do you have *** with Mystique?
Um. Were you trying to say "sex"? Why would you self-censor the word "sex"? Anyway...
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Bend-err
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It's easier to rant about crappy movies than to praise good movies?
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coldangel
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I should have specified the position. However, the whole shapeshifting aspect was a very important theme in the movie, especially the considerations that her blue form is her true form. Assuming someone loves her for who she is then my question would eventually logically follow, eh?
I always just assumed her vagina was concealed by movable scales. Hoped, really. She never had scales in the comics, by the way. Just blue skin. And she wore clothes while in her blue form.
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coldangel
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I was more concerned about how they managed to fit a large passenger compartment and VOTL capability into an SR-71 airframe. I mean, as cool as that is... just, how!?
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Melllvar
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Source Code:
For every eight minutes, 1 out of 100 Colter Stevens will be infinite.
I watched that recently, and I loved it. Baked my noodle, but in a good way.... I need to go back and watch Moon.
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DannyJC13
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How is Thor BTW Josh? I heard it was as good as the first Spider-Man.
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DannyJC13
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The third movie was complete utter shit.
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JoshTheater
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« Reply #318 on: 08-11-2011 20:01 »
« Last Edit on: 08-11-2011 20:59 »
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Since I've been hearing good things about Rise of the Planet of the Apes, I decided now was the perfect time to put the Planet of the Apes DVD boxset I got a while back to use. I'm having a Planet of the Apes marathon, and then I'm going to go see Rise in theaters. I also figured, what the hell, I'll review them as I watch them. I remember these films fondly from when I was younger (they may have introduced me to my love of sci-fi, when I think about it), so I want to see how they hold up. I watched the first one last night, so here we go:
Planet of the Apes
This film is every bit as brilliant and wonderful as I remembered. Does this film hold up today? Absolutely it does, and I recommend anybody who hasn't seen it yet to go watch it right now. It's one the greatest classic sci-fi films of all time, without a doubt.
I actually think it's fairly odd that Charlton Heston, who played Moses in The Ten Commandments and was head of the NRA, was in this film, because it's one of the most liberal anti-human moral stories of all time. The whole point of the film is that HUMANS SUCK. It's very anti-war and seems to support the theory of evolution pretty strongly. I wonder if he ever got any backlash for being in it...regardless, his performance in it is fantastic.
For a film from the 60s, this film LOOKS amazing, and the setpieces are great. The spaceship at the beginning, the ape village, the statue of liberty at the end...this film definitely benefited from a good budget and a creative special effects team. Yes, the apes themselves look really cheesy, but I can forgive that because they're very well acted.
The last moment of the film is considered one of the greatest movie twists of all time, as well as an iconic moment in film history. Watching it now, it's a bit hard to see why...by the time you get to the end it's really hard to not have already guessed that they must be on Earth, considering there are humans and that the apes speak English. Of course back when this film was made, things like humanoid species being from alien planets and the whole universe speaking English were somewhat taken for granted, so I can see how it was surprising for people at the time, and considering that it really is a good twist. It's still Heston's biggest moment of overacting in the whole film, though...YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HEEELLLLL!!!!!
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