movies

[go birds]

You can view from the comfort of your own couch via various different services

[go birds]

Just finished the babadook....man what a stressful movie.

Wasn't quite as scary as I thought it was gonna be but it was def creepy as hell.

That kid is a really good actor

[ghostrunner]

Not going to see The Interview. 60% because I rarely get to go see any movie anymore, 20% because there are likely better options, and 20% because This Is the End was pretty awful after the first 30 minutes and the trailers make this look to be along the same lines.

[slide_into_first]

I think it was all a publicity stunt and will not pay to see it.

[docellis]

You can stream the interview on google play, you tube and some other thing I can't remember - right now if you want to.

[The Third Man]

This Is the End was pretty awful after the first 30 minutes and the trailers make this look to be along the same lines.

whoa there buddy

I'm watching Die Hard, because of course. Merry Christmas!

[Vidor]

This Is the End was pretty awful after the first 30 minutes and the trailers make this look to be along the same lines.

whoa there buddy

I'm watching Die Hard, because of course. Merry Christmas!

"Now I have a machine gun. Ho-ho-ho."

[heyzeus]

This Is the End was pretty awful after the first 30 minutes and the trailers make this look to be along the same lines.

whoa there buddy

I mean, he's not wrong.

[Freed Roger]

Unbroken. Overall it was a good treatment of an incredible person's true story....but

[SHOW]

Couldn't help but feel formulaic. It's unflinching in depicting the hell he went thru- though expected for the many that have read the book or know the saga. What parts do you choose to dramatize and how? Got to say though, that opening scene in the planes was pretty darn good - just annoyed me some when it cut to a long flashback sequence.

For a biographical/period pieces, I think it's challenging, but easier for the likes of "12 Years a Slave" or" "The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford " where there is true story premise, but it's older, and has a lot more ambiguity to work with, and characters to flush out artistically.
I don't know, something just didn't click - the music, the flashback work-ins.

It's a well done movie -don't get me wrong. The handicap of the story already being known hampers it. At this point, I probably would have rather seen a good documentary on the man.

And another thing

[SHOW]

It wasted a topic that was somewhat a theme in the book - why some make it, some don't. Some of it is fate and luck, but much is mental and physical resolve to remain unbroken i.e. the guy who dies on the raft -in the book I recall Zamperini learning a lesson -that the man broke mentally even though he was stronger physically.

Anyway, if you haven't read the book the movie is worthwhile. If you've read the book, it's probably still worthwhile when it goes to video

[Famous Mortimer]

Made it all the way through the "Silent Night, Deadly Night" series, including the 2012 remake. Sort of miserable, apart from the hilarious part 2.

I keep discovering more Christmas-themed slasher films, though, so I feel I'm going to have to save a load of them for next year. One called "To All A Good Night", and then there's "Silent Night, Bloody Night" (plus awful-sounding low budget recent "sequel"), "Santa's Slay", "Black Christmas" (2 versions), "Christmas Evil" and no doubt even more.