GwaziBSRider1 Posted January 12, 2015 Share Posted January 12, 2015 Probably going to go see Big Eyes later this week. I really want to see Inherent Vice as well, but it doesn't seem to be playing near me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterP Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 The Lego Movie is completely shut out by the Oscars as a Best Animated Feature category. What a total screw-job! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 We just saw "Into The Woods," yesterday. Surprised it didn't get at least a Best Picture nom today, besides what it did get (Go Meryl!). And having seen the original on Broadway back in 1988, I was really surprised how well they stuck to a lot of the piece, and the amazing editing (also a snub) to put it all together. And the deaths were still handled "offstage" as it was, back then. I didn't think the dark last part, was as un-liked by me as a lot of previous posters, have said. But that's Sondheim. And Fairy Tales. Original Fairy Tales. And considering a lot of these tales have been grossly "vanilla-ed" up, for a less ready-to-handle-it crowd of kids --- whoever that was. I did agree, that Rapunzel suddenly bolting out of the "After" scene and out of the movie was kind of a wtf. The reprise of "Agony" would have been nice, too but that takes an adult twist the kids might have to be explained to. Or not. All in all, the soundtrack was gorgeous! Streep can sing nice and tender, Blunt and Kendrick were a great surprise, the Princes were the best of the guys, and it really really looked like to me, like an onstage production how long shots took in woods paths weaving in different directions, I liked seeing that, from time to time. So 8.5 out of 10 for me. And I plan to get the dvd of it, too.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodie Warrior Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 The Lego Movie is completely shut out by the Oscars as a Best Animated Feature category. What a total screw-job! I was thinking The Lego Movie was gonna win the whole thing, and it didn't even get a nom. Yet the Boxtrolls got a nomination. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 ^ And "How to Train Your Dragon 2" just won the Golden Globe for Best Animated? No hate on the movie....but really??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 The Lego Movie is completely shut out by the Oscars as a Best Animated Feature category. What a total screw-job! I was thinking The Lego Movie was gonna win the whole thing, and it didn't even get a nom. Yet the Boxtrolls got a nomination. I didn't see Box Trolls, but I haven't read or heard any favorable reviews of it. "Everything Is Awesome" is up for Best Song, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
molemaster43 Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 ^^I personally do think they made the right choice with How to Train Your Dragon 2 during the Golden Globes.I do find it extremely depressing that Lego Movie didn't get nominated and The Boxtrolls did (Haven't seen it, though, but haven't heard the best things), but what does get me happy is that The Tale of Princess Kaguya was nominated, and I've heard it is a phenomenal animated movie (seeing foreign films nominated is also always cool). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPDave Posted January 16, 2015 Share Posted January 16, 2015 So I finally saw Big Hero 6 the other day and I really liked it! Disney/Pixar are so much better at doing emotional scenes. I'm not sure how they did it but I ended up empathising with a robot who only has eyes and body language to convey everything. I didn't know anything about the base material but I thought the story was great, another awesome instalment from WDAS, they're on a roll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 The Lego Movie is completely shut out by the Oscars as a Best Animated Feature category. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodie Warrior Posted January 17, 2015 Share Posted January 17, 2015 Tried to watch A Million Ways to Die in the West and couldn't even finish it. One of the worst comedies I've seen in a long time. Seth MacFarlane should probably just stick to writing and directing animated shows. His character just came off as lame, annoying, and boring. Overall, I did chuckle a couple of times, but comedies should have you laughing at more than 1/5 of the jokes. D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosscoe Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Predestination: One of the most original movies I have seen, a mind bending sci fi flick that in years to come will be looked back as being ground breaking ( same way Blade Runner is now ) I believe it has just opened state side. Sarah Snook gives one of last years best performances, it starts off really talky, hang in cause the story is one hell of a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diamondbacker27 Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 Suprised you guys aren't raving about American Sniper. Everyone seemed to love it, but it honestly wasn't my cup of tea. It was good, but not amazing. I'd rate it an 7.5-8 out of ten. Maybe I'm not 'Old enough' to appreciate it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 (edited) ^Haven't seen it yet, but I did catch The Imitation Game, which was very good. Although the excessive Cumberbatch fandom can be a bit annoying, he is a talented actor and was perfect in this movie. Edited January 19, 2015 by cfc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rcjp Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 ^I'm looking forward to watching that. Seems like a good film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nannerdw Posted January 19, 2015 Share Posted January 19, 2015 ^Haven't seen it yet, but I did catch The Imitation Game, which was very good. Although the excessive Cumberbatch fandom can be a bit annoying, he is a talented actor and was perfect in this movie. Just as a movie, I thought it was really good, but it falls very much into the historical fiction genre. The biography by Andrew Hodges was a little dry for a straight-up film adaptation, but at least it was historically accurate. It was especially weird that the movie started off sort of almost touching on the subject of Turing's relationship with Arnold Murray, but then quickly abandoned those events to focus on some fictitious and overly-dramatized "Soviet spy" tangent instead. WTF was that about? Also, at some points I started to wonder if this was supposed to be about Alan Turing, or re-telling of "A Beautiful Mind" with a bit of "Sherlock" mixed in as fan service to the Cumberbitches. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GCI Wooden Posted February 2, 2015 Share Posted February 2, 2015 I saw "Into The Woods" today, and it was extremely well done. I don't know what Disney's doing, but they keep hitting home runs (Frozen was super popular, Big Hero 6 was 100% awesome, and now Into The Woods) Strongly recommend this! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nrthwnd Posted February 6, 2015 Share Posted February 6, 2015 (edited) So it was just released that not only are they planning to do another three Star Wars films, with the first one (7th? 8th?) opening this year. This, and the other two in this series, PLUS two stand alone films (one of which opens next year), makes it now 'possible' that from now until 2019, there will be a Star Wars film released every year... Edited February 10, 2015 by Nrthwnd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking86 Posted February 8, 2015 Share Posted February 8, 2015 Finally watched Big Hero 6 today. Great movie, really enjoyed it! Baymax was awesome! Oh, and so many opportunities for a Transformers-style dark ride... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Garet Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 So looks like the amazing spiderman series is dead and spidey is getting another reboot, but this time he'll be part of the MCU. It looks like the new movie is taking Thor 3's spot: http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RCT3Bross Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 ^ So let's see if I understand this. This means no Amazing Spider-man 3 and a completely new one in 2017 (new actor new story) that will be part of MCU. Which means it will fall in the same street as Iron man (2008) and the others in the Avengers movie line. But we won't see other avengers in Spider-man movies, but could we still expect Peter Parker in a movie in the avengers line? I'm kind off lost on that part. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodie Warrior Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 So looks like the amazing spiderman series is dead and spidey is getting another reboot, but this time he'll be part of the MCU. It looks like the new movie is taking Thor 3's spot: http://marvel.com/news/movies/24062/sony_pictures_entertainment_brings_marvel_studios_into_the_amazing_world_of_spider-man The funniest thing is that Andrew Garfield's Twitter has a link to a petition for Sony to team up with Marvel, which was posted about a month or two ago. I bet he didn't know that the collaboration would result in him being replaced. In my opinion, it's a dumb choice to replace Spiderman yet again. This isn't James Bond, we don't need a new actor every five years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPDave Posted February 10, 2015 Share Posted February 10, 2015 Suprised you guys aren't raving about American Sniper.Everyone seemed to love it, but it honestly wasn't my cup of tea. It was good, but not amazing. I'd rate it an 7.5-8 out of ten. Maybe I'm not 'Old enough' to appreciate it. It's still on my list, I've heard some negative stuff about it idolising war etc. but the consensus seems to be that it's a powerful film so it'll be an interesting watch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterP Posted February 12, 2015 Share Posted February 12, 2015 I've seen American Sniper, and yes, it is good. Of course, I'm a dirty liberal (wink wink) and I don't like how they completely ignored the fact that the U.S. was the invading force and the Iraqis were just reacting to being invaded. But either way, its a good film. And worthy of discussion. But yeah, its nowhere near Best Picture-worthy. Boyhood, Whiplash, Grand Budapest Hotel, Selma, even Birdman (which I think is very overrated, but still very good) are all superior films to Sniper... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jynx242 Posted February 13, 2015 Share Posted February 13, 2015 Saw "The Boy Next Door" with J-Lo last week. The boy it is referring to is hot and it was a fairly tight little thriller. One thing though....they both were talking about "The Iliad" and then he brought her the book and she said, "This is a first edition." I don't think he found a 3,000 year old copy of Homer's classic. I laughed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rosscoe Posted February 16, 2015 Share Posted February 16, 2015 Jupiter Ascending, what a crap load of fun, space opera at its finest, don't listen to the critics, go see it, the visuals are amazing, and it has one of the best come on / pick up lines in any movie, period! American Sniper, you can't deny this is a stunning film , with a brilliant performance from Bradley Cooper, but jebus I hated it, nasty, vile film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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