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The Bar => The Lounge => Topic started by: Gina on August 20, 2012, 09:15:48 AM
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I love good action flicks and I watched one on Netflix yesterday that was AWESEOME :yahoo: The Warriors Way
Has ninjas, swords, wild west, guns, and a cute baby :popcorn:
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Boobiez? :???: :naughty: O-)
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Boobiez? :???: :naughty: O-)
no, none in this movie but really it was awesome!!!!!!! I love cool ass fighting movies like this. Watch the trailer. Google it. that's an order! :rant:
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Some time this week, I may see 'Paranorman,' and possibly 'Expendables 2.' Any desire for a review of either when I see it?
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Some time this week, I may see 'Paranorman,' and possibly 'Expendables 2.' Any desire for a review of either when I see it?
Of course !
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The last really good action movie I watched was John Carter of Mars. I have no idea why it bombed. Even my girlfriend got into it and she's the Downton Abbey type.
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Some time this week, I may see 'Paranorman,' and possibly 'Expendables 2.' Any desire for a review of either when I see it?
I still haven't seen Expendables 1 yet! I am so behind in movies.
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I still haven't seen Expendables 1 yet! I am so behind in movies.
Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a whole series of dates with your bf ?
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Sounds like a perfect opportunity for a whole series of dates with your bf ?
Yep! I have two free movie passes I won in May, so no excuse. Aside from the fact that we always have something better to do, and generally don't like big crowds of people. Not agoraphobic mind you, just no tolerance for stupid people. Odds are, the more people, the better chance to run into some stupid ones. :-)
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Yep! I have two free movie passes I won in May, so no excuse. Aside from the fact that we always have something better to do, and generally don't like big crowds of people. Not agoraphobic mind you, just no tolerance for stupid people. Odds are, the more people, the better chance to run into some stupid ones. :-)
It's usually not too contagious.
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The last really good action movie I watched was John Carter of Mars. I have no idea why it bombed. Even my girlfriend got into it and she's the Downton Abbey type.
I thought it was pretty good. HOWEVER the books being the first Science Fiction I ever read and re read, I had a bone to pick about the choice of Dejah Thoris. The actress was completely and utterly wrong.
From the book:
And the sight which met my eyes was that of a slender, girlish figure, similar in every detail to the earthly women of my past life... Her face was oval and beautiful in the extreme, her every feature was finely chiseled and exquisite, her eyes large and lustrous and her head surmounted by a mass of coal black, waving hair, caught loosely into a strange yet becoming coiffure. Her skin was of a light reddish copper color, against which the crimson glow of her cheeks and the ruby of her beautifully molded lips shone with a strangely enhancing effect.
not a damn Amazon.
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We're going to have a date on the weekend, going to the movies and dinner, we're going to see 2016 Obama's America.
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The last really good action movie I watched was John Carter of Mars. I have no idea why it bombed. Even my girlfriend got into it and she's the Downton Abbey type.
I loved Downton Abbey. I only watch it on Netflix. Hope it will come out soon.
I just finished watching 56 episodes of Mad Men. That show is awesome!
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We're going to have a date on the weekend, going to the movies and dinner, we're going to see 2016 Obama's America.
Can we get you or movie buff to review it ? That's Dinesh D'souza's new film, isn't it ?
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Can we get you or movie buff to review it ? That's Dinesh D'souza's new film, isn't it ?
Yes, it's Dinesh D'Souza's movie and I'll gladly review it, most likely we're going to see it but my husband is having Dental issues, he had an emergency appt. yesterday and he needs to have work done starting next week for 2 weeks, so if he feels OK we'll go this weekend.
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We saw "Act of Valor" a few nights ago. Both of us really liked it.
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We saw "Act of Valor" a few nights ago. Both of us really liked it.
Good flick. Real SEALs.
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We're going to have a date on the weekend, going to the movies and dinner, we're going to see 2016 Obama's America.
We had an argument, I'm not talking to him now, so we either cancel date night, go on date night and don't talk, or I say screw it and go on date night by myself! :lmao:
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I just saw 'Paranorman' last night. It was kind of a mixed bag, some parts worked, some didn't.
It's a stopmotion film made by Laika, the same film company that made 2009's magnificent stopmotion film 'Coraline' (Highly recommeded to those who haven't seen it). It's the first of what will apparently be three dark/ spooky- themed animated movies coming out this fall (The other two being 'Hotel Transylvania' and Tim Burton's 'Frankenweenie').
The story centers around Norman Babcock (Voice of Kodi Smit- McPhee), a young boy obsessed with zombies and horror films (i.e. He has the 'Halloween' theme as his ringtone) who can see/ talk to the dead. As you can probably guess, pretty much nobody believes him, and he's not the most popular kid in school as a result. His New England town has a real fixation with witches, kind of like Salem today. Norman suddenly learns from both his weird Uncle Prenderghast (Voice of John Goodman) and his own observations that a 300- year- old curse relating to a witch getting her revenge on the townspeople who condemned her to death is about to come true. So, together with a few other kids, he sets out to unravel the mystery behind the witch, dodge a crew of zombies, undo the curse, and save the town before history can repeat itself.
As usual for my review, I'll get what I didn't like out of the way first. The story didn't really start to pick up steam until a little later on. Also, they could have done a lot more with Uncle Prenderghast. We learn very little about him, yet he seems like an interesting character,so that's a shame. In addition, while the animation in general and character designs are for the most part great (More on that a little later), a lot of the adult characters look really weird visually. One last critique is that I thought some of the humor in it was a little too adult for a movie that's supposed to be PG.
Now, for what I liked; 'Paranorman' was a movie with a lot of fun parts to it. It had a very good message about the nature of fear: We see that fear is a normal part of life, but then also see that letting it take too much control over a person can drive him or her to do monstrous things to others. The latter of the two isn't a message I see too often in movies nowadays, so I'm glad they use it here. While the story takes a bit of time to get moving and a scene when our heroes are being chased by zombies runs on a little too long, its climax (Especially when Norman confronts the witch's spirit) is great.
The visual effects in 'Paranorman' are wonderful to behold. The movie took years to make, and it shows. Stopmotion animation has evolved a lot over the last 20 years or so, and we see that in full force here. There is a scene in which Norman has a ghostly encounter in a bathroom, and the visuals from that scene alone apparently took a year to do. It's all quite impressive. While, as I said, the character designs for some of the adult characters look too weird, the kid and teen characters all look great. I love how Norman's hair is constantly standing straight up, like he's in a perpetual state of extreme terror (On the rare occasions when he tries to comb it down, it springs back up again in less than five seconds). The zombies are all creepy, and the designs for them are unique and quite detailed.
Most of the characters in it were pretty cool. Norman makes for a very good protagonist, he's alternately timid and brave, and pulls both off well. I like how they don't portray him as some pretentious Goth weirdo who looks down on others because of his ability, he's just a kid who likes horror films (I was the same way at that age) and views his ability as kind of cool in that he can talk to his deceased grandma and others, but also a curse in that it makes the other people around him see him as a freak.
Norman's sister Courtney (Voice of Anna Kendrick) starts out as an intentionally- obnoxious flake who is deeply embarassed of Norman's eccentricities, but goes on a bit of a character arc as the story progresses. Norman's pudgy friend Neil (Voice of Tucker Albrizzi) is awesome, he's quite likable and EXTREMELY funny. Neil's hunky older brother Mitch (Casey Affleck) makes for kind of a neat character, he's a cliched dumb jock for the most part, but he's also surprisingly kind towards his brother and has some funny parts (Though the twist in the very end regarding his character is kind of dumb). Another surprisingly funny character is the school bully Alvin (Voice of Christopher Mintz- Plasse, an actor I like a lot who normally plays much geekier characters, the sorts of guys that Alvin would pick on); he is always good for a laugh, usually for the scenes that demonstrate how brainless and cowardly he is (i.e. In one scene, he's trying to carve his name into the wall of a bathroom stall, but has to keep crossing it out and starting over because he keeps misspelling his own name).
The closing credits were neat, showing interesting drawings of each of the major characters while playing the White Stripes' catchy and very fitting song 'Little Ghost' in the background.
And so, that's 'Paranorman.' Not as good as 'Coraline,' but an alright film. See it, if any of you are interested in that kind of a movie.
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We had an argument, I'm not talking to him now, so we either cancel date night, go on date night and don't talk, or I say screw it and go on date night by myself! :lmao:
We're talking again, movie date night on! :lmao:
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We're talking again, movie date night on! :lmao:
Yay ! Will we get our review of Dinesh's movie ?
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Yay ! Will we get our review of Dinesh's movie ?
Yes, if we can get tickets to it that's what we'll see.
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I wanto see The Expendables 2. I heard Rush talk about it today. I also want to see 2016.
I wanted to take my daughter to see Paranorman but read the reviews where they said they had a lot of adult content, including a boy (the jock I think) who is gay. Why in the hell do they have to do this shit to a PG movie?
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I love good action flicks and I watched one on Netflix yesterday that was AWESEOME :yahoo: The Warriors Way
Has ninjas, swords, wild west, guns, and a cute baby :popcorn:
Well Im bored so I guess I will take your advice and watch it on netflix. Hope you don't disappoint me :p