movies

[mikechamp]

Watched "Trouble with the Curve" last night.

I feel Amy Adams was miscast. I could believe she was a lawyer, but didn't buy that she could run a pool table, or hit a baseball. Denouement was also too rapid fire for me. Could have used a couple of cameos from real ballplayers/front office personnel.

Other than that, it was pretty good.

[Schlich]

Dredd is streaming on Netflix tomorrow reportedly. Reddit has a boner for this movie, so I'm curious if it lives up to the hype.

I haven't seen it, but to me it seems as though the consensus is "much better than expected" but not super groundbreaking.

[cardsfantx]

just saw it (dredd) on netflix...i thought it was good.

not sure though how you could like this movie, but not like the other superhero movies out there (that people are complaining about here). it's basically the same movie as those....

no plot, bad lines, bad acting....but plenty of action and it was just fun in general. same as the other superhero movies out in the last few years.

[ghostrunner]

I watched it too and I'd say its different. The big difference is focus. It's one story start to finish and takes place over a day. It's one conflict with one villain. There's not a huge load of exposition, and the world isn't being saved yet again. The big studio movies often throw way too much of everything at you.

Not an excessive amount of CGI either. Not the best superhero movie I've seen but better than a lot of the recent stuff that isn't TDK or Avengers.

[The Third Man]

It's also way better stylistically than most of its ilk, has a wicked sense of humor, better action, and, yes, it's incredibly efficient. It craps all over The Avengers, which is loaded with nonsense exposition and arbitrary character bickering and, worst of all, Joss Whedon dialogue.

[ghostrunner]

It's also way better stylistically than most of its ilk, has a wicked sense of humor, better action, and, yes, it's incredibly efficient. It craps all over The Avengers, which is loaded with nonsense exposition and arbitrary character bickering and, worst of all, Joss Whedon dialogue.

Eh. Dredd as a character is kind of lame. I know he's supposed to be a sneering sourpuss, but it gets a little old. Avengers gets points for eschewing the gritty ethos which is worn out by now, and to me the characters, humor and the dialogue are just better. I'm not a full on Whedon fanboy as I didn't care much for Buffy or Angel, but Firefly and Cabin in the Woods are both tremendous. Avengers has a pretty fair amount of Firefly in its DNA. I'll agree the action was better, as well as the story. Either of them is way better than Thor, Captain America, or Iron Man 2, not to mention most of the non-superhero action movies.

[The Third Man]

Dredd could've fallen into the pit of brooding superseriousness were it not such great satire. It's like the best remake of Robocop possible; you know how the happy ending in that film is that the CEO of the awful corporation kills its second-in-command and the cop remains suborned to his boss' whims? Same difference here; the happy ending is that a fascist judge-jury-executioner gets to fight another day. Things are so [expletive] up in MegaCity, that's the best we can root for. Plus, he's so unwavering in his commitment to upholding the law that he puts the lives of the destitute citizens that live in the high-rise under Ma-Ma at risk just to fight his own personal battle. I was surprised how many of my friends missed the satire; appropriately, the only one who caught on right away was the Verhoeven fanboy.

I really just can't stand Whedon's dialogue. I'm otherwise indifferent to him (I'll give him credit for managing to hit so many beats in The Avengers, even if I think some of the infighting/drama is weak and manufactured), but whenever his characters open their mouths I go right back to thinking he's terrible. His dialogue for RDJ in The Avengers exemplifies everything I hate about him. Everything out of his mouth is a punchline or a completely obnoxious reference (didn't he bust out a Point Break joke? Gimmie a break), to an obnoxious extent even for a character defined by being a smug [expletive]. His wordplay would be clever and funny coming out of the mouth of a five-year-old, but from a Hollywood writer I just cringe in embarrassment. I'll fully admit that I'm horribly biased against him, and I can understand why other people like The Avengers a lot more than I do.

[Jocephus]

lex luther is walter white

http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/news ... l-20130826

[wart57]

Dredd could've fallen into the pit of brooding superseriousness were it not such great satire. It's like the best remake of Robocop possible; you know how the happy ending in that film is that the CEO of the awful corporation kills its second-in-command and the cop remains suborned to his boss' whims? Same difference here; the happy ending is that a fascist judge-jury-executioner gets to fight another day. Things are so [expletive] up in MegaCity, that's the best we can root for. Plus, he's so unwavering in his commitment to upholding the law that he puts the lives of the destitute citizens that live in the high-rise under Ma-Ma at risk just to fight his own personal battle. I was surprised how many of my friends missed the satire; appropriately, the only one who caught on right away was the Verhoeven fanboy.

I really just can't stand Whedon's dialogue. I'm otherwise indifferent to him (I'll give him credit for managing to hit so many beats in The Avengers, even if I think some of the infighting/drama is weak and manufactured), but whenever his characters open their mouths I go right back to thinking he's terrible. His dialogue for RDJ in The Avengers exemplifies everything I hate about him. Everything out of his mouth is a punchline or a completely obnoxious reference (didn't he bust out a Point Break joke? Gimmie a break), to an obnoxious extent even for a character defined by being a smug [expletive]. His wordplay would be clever and funny coming out of the mouth of a five-year-old, but from a Hollywood writer I just cringe in embarrassment. I'll fully admit that I'm horribly biased against him, and I can understand why other people like The Avengers a lot more than I do.

It must be tough to be so much smarter than everyone else.... It is so much more fun to be the idiot in the room like me!

[Jocephus]

i dont know whedon well enough to really comment but tony stark is a bit of an ass in the comics. i thought rdj has fit the tony stark model quite well. looks like, talks like him, both actor and character have had substance issues (which may not come into play in the movies but feel theres some sort of underlying connection with RDJ's performances)