General Movie Thread

[Steve of Bloomington]

I liked Looper well enough. I found I could see where things were going pretty early on, though. It delivered as an entertaining sci-fi film, I thought.

[Gleepglop]

Has anyone here seen Looper? I'm a fan of Rian Johnson's work, but despite all the plaudits the film seemed to receive, I came away somewhat disappointed.

I loved all of Brick and the first half of Brothers Bloom.

Looper was a fun, well-constructed summer movie, but lacked the spark that made those other two films interesting. It was cool to see JGL working with Johnson again, although I was freaked out by his makeup for pretty much the entire film. It was really distracting.

[JonFromMaplewood]

I watched Pina last night.  It was lovely.  I have never been much of a dance enthusiast, but Wim Wenders' camera work adds a dimension that makes the action so much more thrilling.

Also, the opening choreography to Stravinsky's "The Rite of Spring" floored me.

[Bryan]

In 3D?

It was the first 3D movie that I've seen that was really worth it. I thought that the interview scenes, strangely enough, were the most interesting use of 3D. I'd never seen anything like that before.

[Joe Rogaine]

Has anyone here seen Looper? I'm a fan of Rian Johnson's work, but despite all the plaudits the film seemed to receive, I came away somewhat disappointed.

I loved all of Brick and the first half of Brothers Bloom.

Looper was a fun, well-constructed summer movie, but lacked the spark that made those other two films interesting. It was cool to see JGL working with Johnson again, although I was freaked out by his makeup for pretty much the entire film. It was really distracting.

Yeah i  think they were to distracted with the script to figure out "wait a minute" Joseph and Bruce Willis look nothing alike how can we fix this. Just put ridiculous make up on him and shave his eyebrows.

[JonFromMaplewood]

In 3D?

It was the first 3D movie that I've seen that was really worth it. I thought that the interview scenes, strangely enough, were the most interesting use of 3D. I'd never seen anything like that before.

Sadly not in 3D. Saw it on Netflix. Still amazing, though.

[BadGuyZero]

Has anyone here seen Looper? I'm a fan of Rian Johnson's work, but despite all the plaudits the film seemed to receive, I came away somewhat disappointed.

I saw it four times during its theatrical run.

So yeah...I liked it. 

[fonpr]

"Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World"

I liked the writing.

[Wes]

I liked Looper well enough. I found I could see where things were going pretty early on, though. It delivered as an entertaining sci-fi film, I thought.

In terms of seeing things early on, I have to say that I appreciated a few of the things they managed to disguise. None of the trailers or pre-release discussion hinted at the other major sci-fi element in the movie, and it was mentioned kind of casually early enough and then moved to the background that just as I was starting to question if there was going to be a point to it, it came back full force and had me genuinely wondering if the time travel element was the feint and Johnson had secretly been doing a stealth Akira update all along or something crazy like that.

I really enjoyed the whole diner scene where the Willis version tries to blow off the time travel logic questions but then gets yanked back into trying to explain it, which I thought was a fun way of tackling the "either you accept this premise or you don't" issue. Plus the sequence at the end of that section where Young Joe helps the mob chase Old Joe, then the mob and Young Joe both realize that the mob should also be after Young Joe was a perfect, Daffy Duck-style time traveling hitman gag.

[Bryan]

I just saw 'This Is 40'. Please, don't make the same mistake. I even defended 'Funny People', but holy shit is TI40 a disaster. Unfunny, unstructured, relentlessly vulgar, with nothing at stake and annoying primary characters... A waste of a pretty great cast (and over 2 hours of my time). Sadly, the obnoxious commercials were a pretty accurate forecast of the film.

[YuriDedman]

I saw This Is 40 when it seemed like everyone I knew was talking about it positively. Upon leaving the theater I wanted to make a Nixon-style enemies list (or at least a useless recommendation list.)

[Hugman 3.0]

Yuri, Bryan, how old are you? Just curious. Haven't seen This Is 40 yet, but I get the sense that it's wayyyyyy less palatable to people under 40.
 
In other news, I just saw End Of Watch.  Is there a genre called Copaganda?

[Bryan]

I'm 38 1/2.

[YuriDedman]

You may be right, Hugman. I turned 28 last month.

[Paul DeLouisiana]

Red Flag, starring and directed by that dude from GIRLS, was pretty terrible. This movie contained some of the laziest writing. For instance they did that thing where a character decides to use a clean word instead of swearing and uses it throughout the movie like it's supposed to supply this ongoing supply of charming humor.
If you want to watch good mumble core-type stuff, watch Bad Fever or Open Five 2