Films you've watched recently.

[asterastrip]

Suspect (1987) - 3/5

Q (1982) - 2/5

Ms .45 (1981) - 3/5

My Cousin Vinny (1992) - 5/5

True Believer (1989) - 3/5

The Spitfire Grill (1996) - 4/5

Fire in the Sky (1993) - 2/5

Street Smart (1987) - 2/5

[simo106]

Lone survivor, purely for the first perspective gun fight that erupts 20 mins in and go's on for the next hour . Then it gets American style sentimental but wll worth watching.

[nak4ma]

As your lawyer I advise you to watch this movie of true events by the one in only Andre Gregory, an ultimate eye opening experience ^.^

[dolly_cat]

Kraftidioten (In Order of Dissapearance)

A black comedy with a very subtle sense of humor.

IMDB: 7.2/10
Torrents link -- TPB
Direct link -- DVDRip, x264, MKV

[asterastrip]

Unforgiven (1992) - 3/5

Clean and Sober (1988) - 2/5

Missing (1982) - 4/5

[flowers]

The Mist [2007], and felt cheated when I watched it. It started out with some promise then went all balls of cheese on me. I don't mind watching movies about 3 headed sharks and gigantic octopuss alien things etc, as long as they're marketed right, but to pass off a cheese fest as a decent horror was too much, and after 10 minutes I started to get distracted by penis banter on the tpb irc channel.

Not even worth a watch in the middle of a rainy weekday afternoon when you're off sick from work and laid up on the settee, feeling like crap and bored out of your skull as you hop through 500 tv channels for the 2nd time looking for something to alleviate your boredom.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

[RobertX]

Capitalism: A Love Story. I love it; As Moore documentaries go, it's between Bowling for Columbine and Sicko respectively.

Link: https://thepiratebay.la/torrent/5468842/...e_(Kingdom

Battle of the Five Armies: I thought the plot would have been better used if Smaug joins the battle of the five armies, but that would be heavily-modifying Mr. Tolkien's masterpiece, which can be considered sacrilege. Still pretty good.

Link: https://thepiratebay.la/torrent/12626492....1080p.WEB

[Scooters]

I really hope that Pixar (and Disney or any other film study for that matter) learns from the bizarre scene in The Good Dinosaur (you'll know what I mean when you see it) that they will not put any other sort of scene in their movies from now on.

A fruit scene that is completely out of context and makes no sense whatsoever. Would that really do that to you? It seems as though all of the other elements in every other Pixar film made sense and was completely believable as such but then this comes through. And like I said, considering the movie's mixed reception and currently underperforming box office numbers, that must tell you something. Its not that big of a stretch to suggest that this scene could have tainted people's feelings towards the rest of the movie (even if it actually did get better after this scene), also bringing other complaints about it to a brighter light when otherwise they may have been disregarded.

I cannot believe that anyone would even think that you'd want something like that.They actually had the sense to cut a similar Cars 1 Deleted scene that thankfully got changed to something not only less disturbing but more functional for the story in the final film. Seeing something ridiculously bizarre (not to mention pointless and about as "out there" as you can go) happen to characters that you love just smugs you and makes you never look at them the same way again. There are appropriate ways to tell the story and create humour with it than to resort to bizarre adult referenced humour. They have done that in the past with all of their other films which from the look of things are going to be a lot more successful and memorable then this will be.

It is also unchallenging and unimaginative that they have to result to desperate, bizarre humour just to tell a story. They have discarded these kind of elements from their movies in the past, and all of their movies before now would probably have not been as memorable or celebrated had they kept those elements in. They have created movies that challenged them and brought out the bestow their imaginative thoughts before now. I mean if they were to get drunk did we really need to see all of that multi eyed crap? We could have seen them doing daring stunts, or being praised by not only Arlo's family but the T-rexes or other characters which by the way would have helped set up things later on in the movie. Alternatively there could have been other funny moments of humour which could have showed their bonding like a set up of the sky lift scene, and showing Arlo overcoming his fears in a funny way or seeing his fears as something silly. That would have more effectively brought poignance to Butch's speech about not eliminating fear, but not letting it control you.

Was the delay in production enough to tear that kind of creativity out of them? Yet, they revamped the entire movie of Toy Story 2 (aka my favourite movie and the movie that made me want to get into making movies (and NOT animated movies for that matter, just movies in general)) in 9 months when it was normally a 4 year process. Here they revamped the entire movie in 2 years and 3 months. What happened? Did they forget the process that they went through and how that film turned out? While others may not like it as much as me, consider the following facts:

Toy Story 2 has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes

It won the Golden Globe for Best Picture (as in for ANY movie in general, period)

It made pretty close to $500 Million at the box office

I've yet to meet one soul (online or not) who was disappointed in it. Even those who normally hate sequels say that they loved this one. "The rare sequel that is just as good or better than its predecessor." I've also met many people who even say that they liked this one better than Toy Story 3 and consider it one of Pixar's best.

Now let's look at The Good Dinosaur:

78% on Rotten Tomatoes (even lower on other critic sites)

Pretty much the lowest opening in Pixar's history (and considering that ticket prices are more expensive and it has the 3-D element, the movie's opening should be higher than the movies which were released in 2D, which were more than half of the previously released ones)

Quite a lot of people (even those that did like it) have called it disappointing or even "meh" and most have agreed that they would have cut this messed up bizarre scene out of the movie.

Bottom line is that Pixar could have challenged themselves and put more imaginative input into this movie like they have in the past. All reviews and reactions that I have seen towards this movie state that they didn't even find that it felt Pixarish.

And by the way, Inside Out earlier this year had the biggest opening (excluding Toy Story 3) of all time for Pixar and the biggest opening for an original movie AND the biggest opening for a second place at the box office movie. It was loved by most and you would think that this fact along with the popularity of dinosaurs, fuelled by the to grossing movie of the year (and the top 3 highest grosser of all time), that it would be enough to make this movie do better and even receive a better acclaim.

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Its not so much that they hallucinated but what the images were of when hallucinating. The Pink Elephants sequence did not do anything to Dumbo yet here we see Arlo and Spot in a very bizarre way that makes me never think about them the same way again. And again, the fact that they hallucinated (in a way that did not make any sense at all for the record) when it seemed very out of place like it was not even part of the same movie and for no real reason to have it in there makes me disturbed. I know Pixar can do better than this. Like I said there was a very disturbing deleted scene that they cut from Cars 1 that would have been funny to some but what they had in the final film was not only more creative and challenging but it still created more humour and felt more natural and appropriate for the movie. While I can disregard this scene through simple fan editing, whats to say that something like this will occur in Toy Story 4 or another Pixar film? It may not be so easily edited away or disregarded next time.

[RobertX]

I just watched Terminator 5: Genisys.

I liked the remaking of the idea with going back in time to 1984, but I didn't like the handling of John Connor.

I hope I don't spoil the film too much, but in the movie, he's the bad guy. Maybe they're trying to do different, but for the last four films of the series, they hyped him up to be the leader that will destroy the antagonists. They emphasised it to death during the first four series, and when they decide to put the kibosh on the series, they made him a bad guy. What a waste.

I bought the extended edition of Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and I was impressed, although that impression came from the special effects predominantly. I liked Ian McKellan's acting of the Gandalf role, and Elijah Wood as Frodo Baggins. I hope I can go back to the second-hand shop and find the other movies of that trilogy. If you don't believe me, download it.

That's all for now, children, I am going to fuck off.

Until next time.

[RobertX]

OK, another one: The Interview.

Crap ass movie, with a crap ass ending. Other than the fact that we'd all relish the US of A ending to a dangerous world power, it's completely unrealistic.

If the fat boy was as paranoid and delusional as dad, if he would actually kill his girlfriend and his uncle, he wouldn't be confiding his secrets to a guy that he knows nothing of... well Dennis Rodman being one exception...

Anyhow, I would like to not recommend to you or your children. Watch Canadian Bacon instead.