Movie Reviews 2.0

Mize said:
The movie I assume, not the anime?
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The anime wasn't particularly ground-breaking or profound either. The likes of Robocop or Blade Runner had similar thematic underpinnings. They were also vastly more gripping and entertaining films. The original GitS is one hell of a slog despite its brisk 95 minutes running time. Above all else, GitS was a piece of masterful technical animation, and whatever it had to say has already been said many times before and regurgitated hundreds of times ever since. It's tough to be fresh and novel in the cyber punk genre now these days.

The remake turned just the whole deal into a more traditional popcorn viewing experience. It was a rather predictable experience, but it still made me care. And just like the 95 anime, I thought it was worth checking out for the spectacle alone.
 
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Guardians of the Galaxy vol 2:
Never before have I been more satisfied for getting to see a film in 3D. Usually it's more a distraction than improvement, but this was spectacular. I mostly didn't think vol 1 was quite up to the praise it got, but I really liked vol 2.

I've been worried for some time about how every movie nowadays just tried to make everything bigger, louder and more outrageous. At minimum the whole humanity is at stake, and often not only the world but the Galaxy or even the universe is about to get decimated. This time, the entertainment factor was enough to forgive that but it's getting problematic with the pace the MCU is expanding.
 
Saw Guardians vol.2 last night as well. I've never read the comics so I still have absolutely no idea what is going on and how it ties into what they're doing with the MCU, but it was pretty hilarious from start to finish and I had a really good time. Great VFX (Weta at the helm!). Great colour palette. Great music (not my favourite genre of music by any means, but I enjoy it because it fits the film).
 
I've seen Guardians 1 at least three times. Pure, fun entertainment. Looking forward to Guardians 2, but doubt I can convince the wife to go the 3d route.
 
Recently watched Matrix: Revolutions and Willow.

On Matrix: Revolutions, well... I liked it more than Reloaded, but I still didn't like the ending. Kind of presumptuous and I don't think some things make sense at all, but I liked the setting and I wondered how a FPS game would be (the part when they defend Zion), and also how a sequel could be.

Willow. Why aren't there fantasy movies like this, any more? Or are there? A few days ago I watched Legend, too. I love the 80's. :(
 
I watched Deepwater Horizon yesterday. Fantastic action thriller based on a disastrous event which took place on an oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico near the Louisianna shoreline in 2010. The film focuses entirely on the human drama aboard the rig and not the the ensuing environmental fallout. Weg get a good 100 minutes of manly men doing men stuff in order to save their hides on an oil rig that's literally exploding all around them, and it's some gripping stuff. It's highly efficient and shot with a great degree of detachment, oftentimes bordering on documentary film making. Still, the pitch perfect casting really made the human drama work: Mark Wahlberg really knows how to sell blue collar attitude, and Kurt Russel oozes authority as the rig's captain. I was quite glad it avoided portraying the BP execs (one of them being a scenery chewing John Malcovich) as nothing but monsters too. It was also an absolute triumph of practical as well as digital effects work.
 
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Just watched "A Somewhat Gentle Man", a norwegian film about an ex-convict trying to get on with life after 12 years in jail. It's a dark comedy starred by Stellan Skarsgård, who also stars in another norwegian film I've watched recently called "In Order of Disappearance", another dark comedy about a snow plow driver that unknowingly makes two local gangs start a war with each other while he avenges his innocent son killed by mistake by one of them.

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Watched Guardians 2: very entertaining, but it didn't quite click with me like the first one did. The fact that everyone was basically indestructible unless the plot demanded otherwise sort of ruined the many action scenes for me. The many character driven moments worked like a charm, though.
 
Yesterday I watched Blair Witch (2016).

I don't why it received those ultralow ratings. Ok, it wasn't that original, but precisely I liked that it stayed true to the original concept, which I liked a lot. It turned out quite entertaining and scary.
 
eloyc said:
Yesterday I watched Blair Witch (2016).

I don't why it received those ultralow ratings. Ok, it wasn't that original, but precisely I liked that it stayed true to the original concept, which I liked a lot. It turned out quite entertaining and scary.
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Agreed. Especially if you're even mildly claustrophobic. That said, it wasn't rated that low really. 47 on Metacritic is pretty decent for a meat-and-potatoes horror film that's neither annoyingly artsy nor hell-bent on cramming some form of social critique down your throat.
 
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