Which man would be brave enough to marry a woman who could turn him into a popsicle if they ever had a disagreement? :D
Is Elsa supposed to be a nun? ;)
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Which man would be brave enough to marry a woman who could turn him into a popsicle if they ever had a disagreement? :D
Is Elsa supposed to be a nun? ;)
Finally saw Captain America 2 the other night. Not a bad movie. Still trying to get my head around the fact it has a 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Because of that, my expectations were a bit high. Maybe I'm missing something here...
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Originally Posted by Bartrim
Not much to do these days eh? ;) :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Bartrim
Let it go.Quote:
Originally Posted by jazzcomp
Can't hold it back anymooooooreQuote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
Not much to do except enjoy high quality cinema :pQuote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
I haven't seen Frozen but I am thinking about watching it. I for one am surprised at how popular this movie is. They have even made the evil sister (Elsa?) the main antagonist for Once Upon a Time season 4. Quite surprising given the amount of older and more recognised Disney characters available for use.
The cold never bothered me anyway .......Quote:
Originally Posted by Sinnertwin
(yes i have a 2 1/2 year old daughter ok !!!!)
Heh, yeah, I initially watched it because my daughter's friends at school keep talking about it and she's been really getting into it. I didn't expect to enjoy it as much as I did. :D But Frozen is written to appeal to both kids and adults. It's directed by John Lasseter, who also produced Monsters Inc. & Monsters University, Wreck It Ralph, Up, all the Toy Story movies, WALL-E, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Cars & Cars 2 etc. Jennifer Lee was one of the directors, who also wrote Wreck It Ralph. :cool:
It's fear that makes her lose control of her powers, but love allows her to control it. :) This in itself can be seen as a metaphor for how those who fear persecution tend to lash out, whereas feelings of acceptance and inclusivity helps them to better interact with society. The really nice thing about the ending is how Elsa is still able to use her powers in a way that mutually benefits the people in the castle, rather than just pushing it deep inside and never letting it show (which was the cause of the problem in the first place). So Elsa is able to be herself without needing to hide/deny her true nature from others, while society has learnt to accept her difference and celebrate in the diversity rather than fearing it. It's a certainly more subtle metaphor (as opposed to say X-Men, where it's more obvious). :)Quote:
Originally Posted by jazzcomp
Hah.Quote:
Originally Posted by 1AZRAEL1
i'm not buying that reason for a second :p :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Starscream77
I loved frozen so much that after I had seen it with the school as an excursion, the missus and I went and saw it again by ourselves.
I teach 7-8 year olds and am the only male on staff for all of K-2, with over 400 kids in the theatre. We go to the movies in the last week of term every year and Frozen was the first movie where I didn't have to take any kids to the bathroom during the film!:D
Downside is I forever have the kidlets singing the songs, wanting more of the frozen colouring in books, and Mr Bean is no longer the top choice to watch during wet weather at lunch (although the lego movie gets a good run too!)
Anyone seen Guardians of the Galaxy yet? I hear its the real deal but would like to hear a fellow ozformers perspective before I see tomorrow.
Definitely worth watching but I'll disagree with anyone saying this is better than The Avengers.
Loved Guardians, it gets very exposition heavy at points (especially after events have happened) but it is a rollickingly good film.
I think the best description would be Indiana Jones in Space, but even that does not do it justice.
Also it is easily Vin Diesel's most emotive and nuanced performance.
Guardians is a lot like the original Starwars, a fun sometimes cheesy space adventure with a likable band of misfits against a guy in black, set to a great soundtrack. I smiled from end to end.
It's a different beast to Avengers, but they both make solid claims for top Marvel studios film.
As long as you not counting The Iron Giant, then yup.Quote:
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I AM GROOT!!Quote:
Originally Posted by i_amtrunks
loved the film
it is a much different movie to avenger in the same instance that GOTG and Avengers Comics are Different.. Avengers only worry about Earth... the Gaurdians stop everything else Earth doesnt know about.....and i must say it easily craps all over AOE and one of the best movies i have seen this year, will need to watch winter soldier again in a couple of weeks to see which takes out my top movie of the year
would see it again in a heartbeat..
Hooked
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i wonder if we will se more of Cosmo and Knowhere
Everything about this film was good but I wasn't wowed by it. Some external factors including illness might be in play here though. It was a good story, good action, amusing, well cast. Rocket and Groot were both great and convincing as cgi main characters which was a worry going in. Enough connections to the existing Marvel movies that it still felt part of the overall story, but I kind of think that the Marvel galactic Universe still needs a bit more fleshing out and it's a bit of a shame that vast parts of it (Skrulls, Shi'ar, Phalanx, Brood, Galactus) can't be part of it due to those pesky film rights.
Spoilery bit. I thought the cameo at the end of the credits was fantastic and totally unexpected. As soon as I saw it I started uncontrollably laughing out loud. But I think it's one for the die-hard Marvel fans because the rest of the audience was dead quiet, making me a little self-conscious - but it was a much needed belly laugh.
i to loved the end bit so much so i re purchased the subjects movieQuote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
i didnt even know he was a marvel character......
I really enjoyed this movie. Much more than I originally thought I would given that I never branched into this 'realm' of Marvel comics much.
Easily my favourite Marvel movie since Iron Man 1.
Leagues better than AoE, which kind of annoys me. Guardian/Avenger type fans get these fantastic movies while TF fans get lame-ass shitfests in comparison. So unfair. Imma go pout in the corner.
Movies like GotG prove that popcorn special effect style movies can be good and enjoyable, meaning we shouldn't have use the "turn your brain off, its just a action movie"argumentexcuse. Which I did use for AoE. And in hindsight, should probably stop doing. Using this excuse allows moviemakers to serve us up second rate action/popcorn flicks. I think we can demand more for our movie dollar. Ooops, little off-topic there...
I highly recommend you go see this movie.
What was it? Second time I have left the cinema missing the bonus scene!!!!:mad:Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
I was in perfect health and felt the same way. Everything was awesome but it never really kept the tempo up, threw in any genuine thrills/surprises or escalated the tension to have me at the edge of my seat. Basically although I liked just about everything: no WOW factor.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Compared to the Avengers I think they did a lot better job of characterisation. There was a lot more character to character interaction and I think they had a lot more freedom to flesh out the characters by not having to stick so closely to the source material. The main cast in GotG are far more human (despite being mostly alien :p) and make the Avengers look 2-dimensional in character.
Loved Guardians of the Galaxy! Definitely my favorite movie this year, Go see it immediately if you haven't already!
Looks like I have to see GOTG.
Just saw gotg and I thought it was a good movie.
If you havent seen it I would recommend it .
It must be the teacher in me but most of what I could hear was the inane conversation of 2 teenage girls in the row behind me, went on and on, im not sure they new there was a f movie on ....sigh
Good movie go see it
Hello.
I haven't seen Guardians of the Galaxy yet. I'd really love it if people refrained from putting visual spoilers in their board signatures (same would be good for any movie, I suppose). Thaaaanks. :)
After reading all these positive comments I'm thinking the same :pQuote:
Originally Posted by jazzcomp
Definitely see it. I thought it was great, and this is coming from someone who is very sick of the marvel formula. Avengers was only good the first time, IM3 & Thor 2 sucked, but this is something special. James Gunn is quite the talent, and GotG genuinely feels like one of his movies.Quote:
Originally Posted by 5FDP
Drax was the real surprise of this movie, I expected nothing and got possibly the best character in the movie. The only real downside is Gamora, bland and uninteresting.
Just watched the new Robocop movie. Spoilers ahead for those who haven't seen it, and this is a comparative review with the original 1987 Verhoeven film.
I liked the new Robocop. It's certainly a different take from the original, but it still keeps the core story themes in tact; corruption, dystopia, media, social division, authoritarianism, personal identity, privatised corporate capitalism etc. The deliberately over the top violence is gone, and both versions portray Robocop as a Christlike messiah figure. The method of execution has changed ... the original is arguably more Christlike, as Murphy was directly executed face-to-face and also died slowly and painfully. The walking on water symbolism was essentially removed though. We do see that scene where Robocop is running through the water filled rice-paddy in China, which feels like a nod to the water-walking scene at the steel mill in the original, but its place in the story just removed the religious symbolism. On the other hand, Murphy's resting station has him strapped upright with his wrists and ankles bound, which is arguably somewhat reminiscent of a crucifix. The station can also pivot 90 degrees which then resembles Christ's tomb.
But the biggest deviation from the original seems to have been in the way that they portrayed Murphy's family (actually including them in the story) and creator (Dennett Norton has a conscience, Bob Morton didn't). The new version also becomes more political as well, which served well in demonstrating how the media and public perception can be used to affect politics (exposing democracy's greatest weakness). The new version also expands the social criticism on an international level (as seen in the opening scene), which the original didn't.
Having said that, the original did a better job in focusing on some of the local domestic/local issues, namely the rampant crime that was plaguing Detroit. In the new version, we hear about the high crime rate, but we don't really see it as much. But I think that this was a result of the new story's focus shifting more towards corruption. The original version showed us plenty of corporate corruption, but the new version also gave us corruption within the police department going as high up as the chief. In the original film, the corruption of the police department was a result of its privatised ownership by OCP, whereas the new version shows corruption coming from within the DPD itself.
I would have liked to have seen more scenes of crimes in progress (and Robocop stopping these crimes!), but I think that this took a backseat to showcasing a wider level of corruption. Also, while the old Robocop was a reactive crime-stopper, the new Robocop is a more proactive crime preventer; using his uploaded database and satellite uplink to track down and arrest wanted felons rather than patrolling around stopping crimes in progress.
I personally prefer the ending in the original too, but I can see why they changed it in the new version. The new one is trying to show Alex's human spirit fighting his mechanical nature -- to show that he is human. In the original, Murphy tried to fight his programming, but couldn't succeed. He was only able to shoot Jones after the OCP President sacked him ("Dick, you're fired!"), whereas in the new movie, Murphy was able to triumph over the machine in him (and we did see him previously overriding his programmed protocols when he began investigating his own murder). But I do like how the new ending shows Murphy being reunited with his family and OCP being faced with accountability, neither of which ever happened in the original. But I can see that some people might prefer the original's more dystopic ending; and I still really do like how the original shows Murphy's final reclamation of his humanity in its last line ("Great shooting son, what's your name?" / "Murphy").
I think that both versions have their strengths; they both explore the same core themes but in different ways.
I read the first few lines of your review Gok (Haven't seen it yet) but stopped when I got to:
"The deliberately over the top violence is gone"
Boo! That's what makes a Robocop movie!
It's what I love about Paul Verhoeven's directorial style, which he also used in Starship Troopers. :D The new Robocop movie does touch more on media and political-military propaganda, which is something that Starship Troopers delves into quite heavily. Starship Troopers is set in the backdrop of Earth as an ultra-nationalistic fascist society, which is something that bubbles under the surface of America in the new Robocop film. It's an interesting metaphor for when patriotism/nationalism can be used as a means of propaganda to influence the way that people think. We see many examples of how nationalism can be used as a tool for brainwashing the masses (Starship Trooper's Federation uniforms being modelled after Nazi uniforms is a deliberate reference to this theme).Quote:
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"Would you like to know more?" ;)
I'll have to rewatch that scene, but I'm sure that I remember Bruce Wayne firing down on Robocop first? Perhaps this was the override in his programming that he needed to be able to fire back? I'm probably thinking way too much into this anyway :pQuote:
Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime
The new version wasn't too bad. It was a lot cleaner than the original (you could literally see crap hitting the screen) & i didn't mind the Nick Fury news pieces, i thought they were very clever. The one thing that i did find lacking was the score. Where was Basil Poliderous' theme? I think i heard brief snippets of it twice in the movie, but instead of that we get some good ol' rock music. They probably weren't able to secure the rights to it.
While i didn't mind the remake & probably will watch it again soon, the 27 year old Verhoeven version absolutely creams it and leaves it for dead.
Too all the NFL fans, there is a new movie out there to rent which i watched the other day
Draft Day
Stars Kevin Costner Dennis Leary Jennifer Garner and others
Its a drama kind of Movie which is based on what happens behind the scenes on NFL draft day from the Cleveland browns perspective (I am sure it's a little creative) not much football is seen in the movie but I enjoyed it far more then I thought I would
Kind of like any given Sunday....worth the watch
Draft Day is very enjoyable. A few exaggerations but a good effort.
Finally saw Guardians of the Galaxy on Tuesday and like most I really enjoyed it. I get the music, how they used it as a tool to link Quill to Earth even though he was on this wild space adventure and I think it was very cleverly done. Plus it was an awesome selection of songs (yes I downloaded "Awesome mix Volume 1"). I think my wife is starting to get sick of The Piņa Coloda song:p.
Interesting note. After the first trailer featuring "Hooked on a Feeling" by Blue Swede sales for that song increased by 700%:eek:
My girlfriend took me to see TMNT (ruddy lucky i know) and in all honesty twas quite enjoyable! Some parts were a tad stupid but in general overall I thought it was quite good, I'd recommend it!
Watched "Flashpoint Paradox" and I didn't get why Thawne was still the same when the world was changed.
Put me down as one who enjoyed Draft Day as well. Given they had the NFL license (unlike Any Given Sunday which had to make up an entire league), I would've rated it higher if they had featured more 'real-life' players. Dan Marino and Brett Favre were great in Ace Ventura and Something About Mary respectively IMO.
I would probably rate this in my top 15 football movies but definitely not in my top 5.
My top 5 football movies -
Any Given Sunday
Rudy
Varsity Blues
Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Just saw an advanced screening of Sin City 2
Awesome!!! :D
I didn't think that the fwd messages, facebook posts, urban legend, etc about a student versus professor was actually made into a movie.
Watched "God's Not Dead" - too superficial and fake for me.
Anyone seen Felony yet?
I finally saw X-Men: Days of Future Past last night. Freakin' awesome! :D
One question though...
How come Professor X has his original body in the future? I remember him being disintegrated in X3, and I know that his consciousness was transferred into that brain dead patient -- so how does he still look like his pre-disintegrated self? :confused: Have I missed something?
Recently saw Kevin Smith's Tusk.
Totally dug it. Michael Parks is incredible, as is the unnamed actor playing the Canadian detective. ;)
#walrusyes