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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339597#Comment_339597Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:39:37 -0500Osmosis
Submarine. It's a great debut for a director, and I think the main character is actually a much more subtle performance than he's usually given credit for. I was watching with a couple of friends, and it might have been because of that that I found there to be more laughs than I remembered. Some of the pompous Tateisms are so spot-on they're painful.

Next watch I have planned is Shadow Dancer. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339604#Comment_339604Tue, 04 Sep 2012 03:39:50 -0500Ben GwalchmaiUtter tripe. So much so that I went on a bit of a rant about it over at the blog.Suffice it to say that I ended up finding it partly funny but mostly "Why?"

I guess I was hoping for a bubble-gum sort of affair with just enough in the film to pull me in and keep my mildly amused for a bit. How wrong I was.

I imagine you'll all have the smarts to stay away from it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339613#Comment_339613Tue, 04 Sep 2012 07:41:20 -0500twentythoughts
this.

"Music is on the button. SFX are excellent. Filming is impressive. I’ve not seen a modern 3-D movie before but I like it. I found myself reaching out trying to touch things that were dancing before my eyes. Karl is a great Dredd and Olivia gets Anderson completely. This is Dredd as it should be done – true to character, visceral, unrelentingly violent (but not off-puttingly so). It will open, I believe, sometime in September. No doubt you’ll let me know what you think when you’ve seen it, but this has my recommendation."

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339617#Comment_339617Tue, 04 Sep 2012 09:11:44 -0500William Joseph Dunn"Lawless" over the weekend. I'm a big fan of "The Proposition", so the fact that it was the same writer and director trumped the fact that Shia LaDouche was in it and I enjoyed it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339622#Comment_339622Tue, 04 Sep 2012 11:59:48 -0500Cat Vincent
Samsara: basically, if you like the 'qatsi's and Baraka, you'll love it. Baraka is stll my favorite of the genre by a long chalk - I think its (for want of a better word) plot has more of a clear line. Also, the middle of Samsara gets very damn preachy indeed. Still, a complete treat for the eyes and ears. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339647#Comment_339647Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:44:02 -0500Miranda's EyesThe Bullet Vanishes--Lau Ching Wan as an eccentric detective investigating murders at a munitions factory in 1930s China. The film's fun and gripping up until they get to the explanation portion, then you wind up feeling as if the theater should have issued you scorecards before the film started. Lau's performance makes the whole thing watchable, though.

Tears of Gaza--Regardless of how you feel about the Israeli treatment of the Palestinians, this film argues the simple point that launching missiles and phosphorous bombs into a densely populated area will destroy the lives of those who manage to survive. This film's made really remarkable by the use of smuggled film and cell phone footage shot within Gaza during the late 2008 and early 2009 IDF attack on the Gaza Strip.

Compliance--One of the most important American films of the year. It's a grueling portrait of how American business culture's current emphasis on obeying authority can lead to spectacularly horrifying results. Making the experience especially creepy is learning that the film was based on an actual incident. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339653#Comment_339653Wed, 05 Sep 2012 01:41:33 -0500OsmosisKubrick one-point perspective ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339708#Comment_339708Thu, 06 Sep 2012 01:45:49 -0500VornaskottiWow! Kubric is one of my all time favourite directors and there's always been something, um, "threateningly solid" in the way he films some scenes - now I realized what gave that impression for me. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339789#Comment_339789Fri, 07 Sep 2012 09:57:41 -0500Oddcult
fucking brilliant.

This was a small film, more like the very best version of a tv series pilot ever, but with 3D that was actually used well. Mostly to make violence look awesome. The violence is utterly gratuitous and will make you grin like a loon.

It played Dredd straight and not as a fascist satire, but that was touched on when Anderson challenged Dredd over a judgement. She was really well realised too, and the way her psychic powers were handled was plausible and not just used as a deus ex device. A bit that seems misogynist gets utterly turned around in an instant using them. She's a great counterpoint to Dredd and she earns his respect by sticking to her job and not giving a fuck about what he thinks of he once she's flunked as a rookie. But it's clear that's exactly what he wants to see and what in his eyes constitutes what makes a good Judge.

It was an utterly solid introduction to what Dredd is all about, which did a lot with what it had and as a result didn't overreach and never looked or felt stupid.

Where it really, really, really fucking works is in nailing the beats. Some awesome, perfectly timed and delivered dialogue and great moments elevate this above what's a pretty basic plot.

Don't go into this expecting a sci-fi epic. It's not that film. It's tight and visceral and punchy.

Also: FUCKING CHOPPER! YES!

Now, go and fucking pay to see this, so that there's a money for a next time, because when Stallone couldn't even do I AM THE LAW without sounding like a twat, I really can't wait to hear Urban deliver FIST OF DREDD. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339790#Comment_339790Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:05:06 -0500William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339791#Comment_339791
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339791#Comment_339791Fri, 07 Sep 2012 10:13:06 -0500FlabyoIt's not the best film I've ever seen, for sure. But it just *feels* right in all the ways the Stallone one didn't. I like the costume and set choices, it doesn't go down the full on 'wacky future' vibe of the comics, and perhaps some people will feel it's a bit too 'recent', but it lets them concentrate on a good plot and set up without having to blow silly money making everything CG.

It earns its 18 rating though for sure, really works the 3D for once rather than just being gimmicky with it. If you have vertigo there's at least one scene in here you probably won't like...

The people that made this clearly *get* what Dredd is, go see! GO! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339815#Comment_339815Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:25:49 -0500vandalhandlego see it people, for fun, enjoyment and a great movie that hasn't been overhyped for 9 months ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339821#Comment_339821Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:10:09 -0500Osmosis
Dredd has a 100% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339822#Comment_339822Sat, 08 Sep 2012 02:40:04 -0500nelzbub
Dredd doesn't get a release date here in Holland until 11th October, can't remember being this excited about a movie for a long time. Almost tempted to fly back to the island to catch it sooner and without the annoying subtitles fucking up the 3D effects. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=339992#Comment_339992Tue, 11 Sep 2012 13:05:57 -0500RobSpalding
Urban absolutely nails him, it treats Dredd like a force of nature, he's not a character you get to know - and that's how it should be.Anderson works well, she provides the audience counterpoint to Dredd, but not so much that you ever feel like she shouldn't be working with him. This is not an odd-couple buddy-cop movie.And the violence, of the violence! Some moments made me gasp, some made me laugh. I can't remember the last action film I saw that was this bloodily violent.I will be seeing it again, no doubt.

As a counterpoint, Total Recall had some interesting set pieces, but doesn't work as a whole. Doesn't commit to the "Is it real or fake" question and takes itself too seriously to be entertaining. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340052#Comment_340052Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:34:34 -0500FlabyoOne Game at a Time ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340387#Comment_340387Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:19:33 -0500Osmosis
Dredd was great. Really, really well done. Obviously I was rooting for it to be good, but it's such a relief that it genuinely was. I'm so pleased it's gone wider than the comics fanbase and is getting mainstream recognition.

Snappy dialogue; tight performances; lean script. Some of the Dredd black humour came through, but I liked the straight take on the character.

Alex Garland has said that sequels are a 'financial equation', and that if it takes more than $50m in the States there will be at least one more film. Edited: Opening weekend in 400 theatres in the UK took $1.6m, and it's opening in 2400 theatres in the US this week.

On this evidence, here's hoping. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340388#Comment_340388Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:26:00 -0500Osmosis
Dredd things:

I didn't see Hershey on a vidscreen, but in the opening riot scene there is a reference to 'Fergee memorial day'. And when Dredd is making the announcement over the PA from the call box, there was a glimpse of a poster for a film called Krysler's Gift, which of course is a reference to the Judge Child.

After I saw the movie I was scanning around some movie sites, and saw a grab of the new Robocop character design, which looks like they may have taken, um, some inspiration ... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340391#Comment_340391Mon, 17 Sep 2012 04:56:51 -0500Ian MayorThoroughly enjoyed it; Urban walked like he owned the world, his measured, deliberate pace walking through the smoky, desolation of the block was pure ballsy-Dreddness. Loved the handling of Anderson's psychic abilities and Thirlby was great, although not the cocksure older Anderson of the books she's on her way to becoming her.

I do feel it lacked a memorable action sequence, relying very much on the slo-mo aesthetic and beautifully gleeful gore to get by in that department.

the Judge on Judge fight in the Slo-Mo lab was really, really bland, and the 'big gun' section, I feel was an interesting bit of writing that could have been far more on the screen

3D is a real headache inducer for me, but for Dredd, it was worth it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340394#Comment_340394Mon, 17 Sep 2012 06:10:45 -0500Steve Toase
Cockneys VS ZombiesHas this been mentioned yet? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340512#Comment_340512Tue, 18 Sep 2012 12:37:02 -0500Ben GwalchmaiFor my part, I saw Woody Allen's newest recently - To Rome With Love.

Not as good as Midnight in Paris but a helluva lot better than any of his other recent films and it harks back to his early New York based stuff.

It has a good few references to Italian film while still remaining his own - sometimes surreal - 4th wall breaking style. All the performances are great and the whole piece is just charming. Though some scenes could be said to be Rome advertising, I don't think it takes much away from what is only really meant to be an amusing film. nothing groundbreaking but warming. It's also good to see Allen keeping form after Midnight in Paris.

I came out with a smile on my face. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340588#Comment_340588Wed, 19 Sep 2012 11:07:05 -0500Wood
New Trailer for the Hobbit !

Holy shit, was that Radagast the Brown between 1:21 and 1:26 ?

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340774#Comment_340774Fri, 21 Sep 2012 10:59:43 -0500OxbrowAlso, Raiders Of The Lost Ark in IMAX this week. It helps to sit near the back of the cinema. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340835#Comment_340835Sat, 22 Sep 2012 07:36:35 -0500TFAwful.

There is a sex scene which contains the dialogue-

ANNAHow much do you love me?

MANThis much, and this much AND THIS MUCH

[as he... y'know]

HOW is...... WHY? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340856#Comment_340856Sat, 22 Sep 2012 15:32:42 -0500William Joseph DunnCall me a weirdo if you want, but you can put a giant GI Joe scar on Lena Headey and give her bad teeth, I'll still think she's pretty hot. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340858#Comment_340858Sat, 22 Sep 2012 16:06:26 -0500oldhatAlso:

When the other Judges came in to hunt Dredd down I had to stop myself from shouting "20 YEARS ON TITAN!"

Excellent film. Will be watching again for sure. If only to catch more of those easter eggs. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340881#Comment_340881Sun, 23 Sep 2012 01:45:40 -0500adrian r
Dredd. A solid tubthumping account of the lawman and his world, visually striking and almost always finding novelty in the narrow parameters it functions within. Also, perhaps the best use of 3D I've yet seen.

Since then, I caught Premium Rush, and was massively impressed by a film that - like Dredd - could have been a clunker in the wrong hands. Only, it wasn't. It's a sharp and focused thriller centred on a New York cycle courier that's a wonderful piece of kinetic cinema with a subtle portrayal of social and economic realities that's rare in any film, and especially in a genre that's more typically associated with simplistic reactionary views. I wrote more about it here and I'm going to be seeing it again soon. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340898#Comment_340898Sun, 23 Sep 2012 12:40:26 -0500andycon
Throat Punching needs to be in every movie

Really hope we get the trilogy of this->Cursed Earth->Judge Death ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340902#Comment_340902Sun, 23 Sep 2012 15:51:03 -0500agentarsenicTook the daughter to go see Finding Nemo 3D, as her sister was just born, and we're trying to set aside a day just for her so she doesn't get jealous.

Finding Nemo is still just as good as when it was first released, and the 3D amazingly doesn't feel tacked on. It's almost as if the film creators thought it might be released in 3D one day and set up some scenes that way. The little floating bits of the ocean, all at different field depths, add a lot to the effect.

Partysaurus Rex was astounding, it really showed off some truly next gen lighting and texture effects. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340947#Comment_340947Mon, 24 Sep 2012 12:18:58 -0500screaming meatSo, to the film: It was visually stunning, undoubtedly, but I was a little disappointed that it had eschewed the futurism for grit. Not a deal-breaker at all, just kinda missed the flying surferboards etc (anyone see the Chopper reference?).... I guess it's the zeitgiest? Karl Urban was great as Dredd considering he had little-to-no character arc to work with (and rightly so), whilst Lena Hedley was utterly, UTTERLY terrifying.

Sadly for me, the film seemed a little bit souless. Considering the source material started off as a kind of "take that" against fascism, the film seemed to lack any kind of message or point... other than being brilliantly gory. Unless I missed it, of course.

All-in-all, mixed feelings from my end (oo-er), but way better than Danny Canon's attempt; I'd still like to see what they'd do with a sequel though. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340953#Comment_340953Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:01:56 -0500William Joseph Dunn
"Kenny Who?" reference in the background. I probably missed a whole bunch more. it doesn't look like it did too well this weekend which is a shame. I'd like to see more Dredd movies like this one. maybe with Mean Machine Angel or Judge Death. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340958#Comment_340958Mon, 24 Sep 2012 13:51:31 -0500screaming meatOnce I saw the Chooper graffiti my Reference Sense started tingling, so I probably missed loads too. It's clear that they loved the source material, but the film as whole just seems to lack any kind of depth... I guess it's not about that.

Hopefully, they'll really nail a sequel, in which case, I'm well up for andycon's trilogy suggestion. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340960#Comment_340960Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:03:21 -0500RenThing
I also liked Dredd.

Unfortunately, not a lot of people are going to go see it and it's only made about $6mil total, which I believe includes foreign ticket sales as well, so the likelihood we're going to get more good Dredd, instead of that fantasy some people seem to have where Sly Stallone played Dredd, is probably slim. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340963#Comment_340963Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:33:44 -0500Osmosis
Sadly, it seems that way. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=340965#Comment_340965Mon, 24 Sep 2012 14:40:22 -0500oldhatI think one of the big problems may have been a comparison to The Raid, which was the reason for not going to see it for several friends of mine. Plus Dredd just isn't that big in North America (at least not in Canada, where I had to fight with our only book retailers to stock the Complete Case Files books (which for our version is only up to book 5). ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341003#Comment_341003Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:42:59 -0500TFI don't think I'm alone. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341059#Comment_341059Tue, 25 Sep 2012 21:57:07 -0500Mercer Finn
The Hunger Games and Iron Sky both come out this weekend in Japan. I leave Tokyo forever on Monday, but definitely going to catch both of these before I go. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341158#Comment_341158Thu, 27 Sep 2012 12:46:35 -0500CrusherJoeI finally STOPPED watching Cabin in the Woods on disc, so I'm up to four times. I need the companion book.

Got a Criterion issue of seven old LIVE tv movies called The Golden Age of Television, which includes Marty, No Time For Sergeants and the only one I've watched so far, Requiem for A Heavyweight. For all my love of Rod Serling, I had never seen this. And it still works. I was totally wrapped up in everybody, and genuinely cared. But then, I've developed the muscles for old movies like I'm sure a lot of other people here have.

I went to a Fathom event of The Birds at my local theater and it was a LOT of fun. Weird shit happening for no reason. No time wasted on explanations, The Birds are just OVER IT, HUMANITY. Lots of effective stuff in it, even if the modern eye sees unsophisticated effects. The jungle gym sequence outside the school (I always called them eagles' nests, ironically) is beautifully planned out to a shot full of dread and portent.

I'd missed Singing in the Rain from Fathom (this is in a Regal Cinema), but I'm on board for Lawrence of Arabia next week, and Frankenstein/Bride Of prior to Halloween. It's been a couple of years for Lawrence for me, and the timing is just right, I think. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341250#Comment_341250Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:47:30 -0500Ben GwalchmaiI think I may be one of 4 people [the only people in the cinema I saw it in] to watch DREDD in 2D. I saw it here, for reference and for any UK citizens that fancy a journey to one of the few places showing it.

I'll just add that I too liked it and was happy to see one of my favourite comic book artists, Jock, as the principal Concept Designer.

I've also seen Hysteria recently and enjoyed that too - funny, irreverent, and quite British when not being too on the nose with the writing [at the beginning] so thoroughly enjoyable. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341254#Comment_341254Sat, 29 Sep 2012 14:25:53 -0500manglrAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341261#Comment_341261
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341261#Comment_341261Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:34:46 -0500TFI think I laughed at it to much to say I truly hated it but it was just so so silly that I couldn't go along with it.

The cinematography was lovely but the staging in places just reminded me of a music video (When Jude Law was standing in the theatre in the snow my brain started playing the opening of "Loosing My Religion" - while watching I also came up with "What do Jew's call Jude Law?" - Halakha - I was bored!!!!!)

The editing was off pace, both with the rhythms of many of the individual scenes and narratively: the story didn't effectively balance Anna's story with that of the "good couple"; or the city vs. agricultural life. Whenever the story went to the Good couple they just felt out of place.

I like a lot of the theatre stuff (the racing scene in particular was wonderful) but thematicly the staging of this wasn't consistent.

So - yes - there where many little things I liked but the bad outweighed the good.

I'm a bit harsh because I loved Joe Wright - loved Atonement (when I saw it a family walked out of the screen because of a close up of a type writer) and thought Pride and Prejudice was wonderfully realised, well shot, edited and paced.

The Soloist was a mess - I remember Downey Jr. putting on an Indiana Jones hat to visit skid row - and Hanna was less of a mess but it tried way to hard to be cool and do some Soderbergh and Paul Greengrass tricks without managing to infuse those tricks with energy.

Anna K settled it in my head that he's interesting filmmaker because he tries - but he's probably to pretentious to make a really good, properly emotional movie again. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341262#Comment_341262Sat, 29 Sep 2012 15:40:54 -0500MagnulusAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341275#Comment_341275
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341275#Comment_341275Sat, 29 Sep 2012 23:05:10 -0500InvincibleMThe line about the ties coming back into fashion was perhaps a tad on the nose for me, and the scene where Bruce Willis used a human shield had me frowning.

Other than that I was pleased. I imagine the writer/director is going to be on a bit of an ascent into the great hall of bankable directors, but time will tell I guess. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341293#Comment_341293Sun, 30 Sep 2012 07:08:22 -0500Ben Gwalchmai
Brick. It's a great film and JGL is excellent in it. I hope that Rian Johnson gets an opportunity to blow us away on something well financed but something small and set in the present.

@Magnalus - I too thought Brave held up its end of the bargain: I was both entertained and emotionally moved. I think perhaps my only problem with it was that it felt like such an old Disney movie that it didn't always feel like a Pixar film. Did your screening have the short film La Luna at the beginning? For me, strangely, that felt more like a Pixar piece than Brave did. However, you're right, it doesn't deserve a panning.

@TF - Joe Wright is indeed a pretender. I agree with you. For me, he always misses something. In Anna Karenina's case I thought he missed the emotional involvement. I loved the cinematography and I'll have to disagree with you about the editing because I thought that the music and the editing were beautifully, seamlessly done but you're definitely right about the thematic choosing of the 'in the theatre' scenes. The balance too. It didn't always make sense.

My film choice tonight will be Chaplin's The Immigrant because I haven't seen it in about 2 months and I always need a top-up of Chaplin. Any other Chaplin enthusiasts in Whitechapel? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341310#Comment_341310Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:48:23 -0500oldhat

Also loved how I found myself more sad over the deaths of the two controllers.

Favourite scenes included the celebration party with the epic "final battle" going on in the background screen.

Also, "TEQUILA IS MAH LADY!"

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341312#Comment_341312Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:59:34 -0500William Joseph Dunnedit: did anyone else think the looper guns looked like those giant pepper mills that waiters have in restaurants? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341316#Comment_341316Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:24:38 -0500TFYou've reminded me to buy that on DVD! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341317#Comment_341317Sun, 30 Sep 2012 14:34:37 -0500Osmosis
"Awwwww, c'mon!"

/merman ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341322#Comment_341322Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:22:30 -0500MagnulusAlso brilliant: A mass of naked, middle-aged men's arses in a children's/ family film?! Brilliant. :D

Yeah, La Luna was absolutely beautiful. LOVED the theme of it and it had those classic Pixar "Oh man, that's so clever!!" moments. It's such an amazingly creative bunch of people, I'm constantly astounded by their work. For the record, I have now stopped using "more than one way to skin a cat" and switched to "more than one way to sweep the moon". :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341324#Comment_341324Sun, 30 Sep 2012 15:35:16 -0500CrusherJoeThat's my favorite REO Speedwagon song. Also, I've watched it with the making-of thingie running and also the commentary track."This is the most pretentious commentary I think we've ever done.""And the most self-congratulatory."

La Luna in front of BRAVE was perfect for me, as I'm in a very Lord Dunsany phase right now, and the fable-ness (Fabulousness?) of it just hit the spot. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341548#Comment_341548Wed, 03 Oct 2012 16:34:51 -0500FinagleAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341562#Comment_341562
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341562#Comment_341562Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:08:51 -0500DavidLejeuneAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341563#Comment_341563
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341563#Comment_341563Wed, 03 Oct 2012 23:10:28 -0500Vornaskotti
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Started with The Martyrs yesterday. Well now that was a heartwarming fun little flick. Picked up the dubbed version accidentally, and although the dubbing was good, it distanced me from the film a bit. Certainly an interesting statement in a way, but maybe something that would've worked even better as a graphic novel. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341677#Comment_341677Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:31:12 -0500Flabyo

Mostly bits from the previous two trailers, but with some new bits. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341704#Comment_341704Fri, 05 Oct 2012 10:50:58 -0500oldhatdo yourself a favour.

Watch Event Horizon. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341706#Comment_341706Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:07:52 -0500Magnulus
Second half: Eehhhhhhhhh, not so much.

It has the same problem the TV movie based on the Langoliers has. The first half is creepy as fuck, but when they actually have to turn tension suspense into a climax, it just turns into crud. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341724#Comment_341724Fri, 05 Oct 2012 16:24:22 -0500Oxbrow
Event Horizon and AVP are my main evidence. Good starting tension, adequate at best concluding action. I hope one day he makes a horror film all the way through. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341743#Comment_341743Fri, 05 Oct 2012 21:25:20 -0500CrusherJoeLawrence of Arabia on the big screen this past Thursday was just magic. Full Entr'acte and intermission, and the Scorsese comments prior to the film starting were very welcome. I have the first DVD issue with all the extras, and Spielberg had a presence on it, since he was part of the restoration, but I liked hearing Marty talk about the film. Also, they ran some of the newsreels that I recognized from the dvd, and I had never seen full sized newsreels before. That was awesome. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341783#Comment_341783Sat, 06 Oct 2012 20:30:26 -0500StefanJ
Dredd. I'm usually not into ultra-violent nihilistic stuff, but this was so well done!

As is usually the case, the 3D kind of disappeared after about a half-hour. It became noticeable again in one jarring scene involving distorted faces. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341832#Comment_341832Mon, 08 Oct 2012 05:05:24 -0500VornaskottiWhat a sad waste of awesome milieu...

Afterwards we watched an art movie called Heavy Water - A Film for Chernobyl, and it was totally awesome. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341907#Comment_341907Tue, 09 Oct 2012 14:54:30 -0500FoamheadTerra Nova creator to write Fifty Shades screenplay ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341908#Comment_341908Tue, 09 Oct 2012 16:02:27 -0500MagnulusAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341939#Comment_341939
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341939#Comment_341939Wed, 10 Oct 2012 10:16:20 -0500nelzbub
I am, to say the least, a touch excited... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341943#Comment_341943Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:33:31 -0500a ethic whelp

At the end Looper why didn't young Joe blow off his shooting finger or hand.

Anyone know why Dredd has done so bad in the US? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341955#Comment_341955Wed, 10 Oct 2012 17:52:04 -0500William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341978#Comment_341978
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=341978#Comment_341978Thu, 11 Oct 2012 06:07:13 -0500Vornaskotti

Revolver, the guys who completely screwed us over with their distribution strategy of Iron Sky in UK, just got awarded at Screen Awards for their ‘clever’ DVD marketing of Iron Sky. The award shows two things: the absolute disrespect for filmmakers and audience, and that the distribution industry is its’ own worst enemy. Here’s an article from Screen International.

The more you screw a filmmaker, the more creative you are – the Revolver saga continues ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342079#Comment_342079Fri, 12 Oct 2012 17:41:45 -0500Osmosis
Dredd again, and enjoyed it just as much as the first time. Talking later with friends, it's only disappointment is that it's really set 22 years in the future, not 122. The gleeful nature of the violence is straight from the page, as is Dredd's stoicism and black humour. Any failure at the box office isn't for poor quality in the film itself. It's sad that there won't be any further films in this series; sequels could have built on this foundation and gotten further into the bizarre MC1 that we love.

Other than that, Looper was kind of underwhelming. I had the misfortune of going with two people who were exceedingly negative about it, putting me in a kind of a hostile Spin Room on the bus home from the cinema and dissolving what good feeling I had toward it. I think that it's fair to say that it's enjoyable while you watch it, but once subjected to in-depth thought it starts to flake away. Why did JGL wear ties the whole time? Why didn't they just send loopers to other loopers? Why did ... spoiler spoiler spoiler. It's an entertaining film, but there are too many holes in it to be really satisfying.

And tonight I watched the Fincher Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. I've not read the books, but I have seen the Swedish original (cinema cut). That original I found disturbing to the point of being unwilling to watch this one. However, I'd seen Zodiac recently, and the parallels between that and GwtDT are pretty telling. I think Fincher learned from Zodiac how not to do an investigatory drama: it was extended and tedious, whereas this was long, but gripping. The cinematography was great, and I appreciated the greyed out palette. I was sceptical about Craig being anything other than Bond, and indeed when attempting to be schlubby and cardiganed he was fairly suave, but he made a good Blomqvist. I was also really sceptical about Rooney Mara playing the Noomi Rapace role, but she was brilliant. Controlled fury. A great performance. Dug the NIN references, too. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342093#Comment_342093Sat, 13 Oct 2012 07:12:13 -0500nelzbubWhen I was about four and a half years old, for reasons I still can't quite work out, my parents took me to see Watership Down.Described on wikipedia as " a 1978 British animated horror movie ", I was, needless to say, completely traumatised by the end of the movie and had to be carried kicking and screaming out of the cinema, demanding that my parents changed the ending so that the hero did not die.It was the first time in my life that I became aware that my parents were not completely in control of reality and that there were some things that could not be changed.

Flash forward to 1995 as the credits rolled at the end of ninety minutes of Sylvester taking a steaming dump all over a world I had cherished for years, all I wanted was to stay there until somebody made that not to have just happened. Before I had to be dragged kicking and screaming out of the cinema, I recalled that sad day of my childhood and that some things could not be changed; I swallowed the bitter taste of disappointment , got up and got on with my life, another layer of cynicism added to the core..

This week I got to blast away that particular accretion of cynicism and what a pleasure it was to see done properly.Dredd played as he should be, just another day on the job for the city's toughest lawman. while I would have loved to see more of the city and wish we could see some sequels (super surf anyone?), if this is all we get, then for me it's enough to have laid those old ghosts to rest and I'm very happy.

Now if only they could remake Watership Down with a happy ending, everything would be right with the world. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342104#Comment_342104Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:56:38 -0500Vornaskotti
like this. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342256#Comment_342256Wed, 17 Oct 2012 08:33:30 -0500fleckyBUGGER! :( ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342299#Comment_342299Thu, 18 Oct 2012 06:42:14 -0500cjstevensCabin in the Woods. It was fun in a kind of post modern / satirical kind of way, but it was also like meh, really? REALLY? Bit of a let down actually. Best bits was any scene where someone was smoking weed.

Plan B's debut 'Ill Manors' was pretty good, especially for a 28 year old rapper. Stylish, the soundtrack used to advance plot was cool and original, however it was ultimately a bit 'typical British council-estate-gangster depressing' kind of thing.

I saw The Skin I Live In last week..Now that is a movie. Shocking, erotic, funny, original.

50/50: for a comedy about cancer it is really good.

THE RAID....(FULLY UNCUT VERSION) words do not exist to describe my love of this film. It may be the greatest action film I have ever seen. I saw it last night and am still in shock. It blew my mind with awesome and left me literally battered and bruised. I can't remember the last time I was watching a movie that made me cry out "Ouch! Wow! Woah, Holy shit! No way!" since I was 12 years old. Seriously, I'm not sure if this is me just bigging it up too much but I will be buying that and watching again ASAP. How the hell a 30 year old Welshman ended up making this I have no idea.

So yeah, I will pay to see Django Unchained, maybe Skyfall.... ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342324#Comment_342324Thu, 18 Oct 2012 15:58:10 -0500InvincibleMWho do you even press charges against in that instance? The director? The distributor? The DVD/Blu-ray/Video File itself?

Please, I'm very interested. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342413#Comment_342413Sat, 20 Oct 2012 03:31:01 -0500cjstevensIn this case I will not be pressing charges because I feel that if after watching an action film I am wincing in pain, it was a successful achievement from all concerned (especially the director/actors).

I am however, seriously considering suing the makers of the film Taken for what I can only describe as inflicting an horrific emotional and intellectual violation upon myself. Some people I know said it was brilliant, popular consensus seemed to suggest it was an original exciting action movie, the truth is that it may be the worst film ever made. There is no action in it. Maybe a car crashed into something? An episode of Spongebob Squarepants made more coherent sense. The audacity of the stupid main character to fly from America and infiltrate an Albanian people smuggling network in France within 8 hours with no grasp of French or Albanian only the ability to throat punch people....God I fucking hated that film so much. A feeling intensified by its popularity and sequel...Suprisingly I know lots of women who love it too. They adore the strong protective father figure character...

Luc Besson...Leon.....what happened?? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342449#Comment_342449Sun, 21 Oct 2012 11:16:12 -0500TFI think if I saw it when I was 10 - 12 it would have melted my brain. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342459#Comment_342459Sun, 21 Oct 2012 16:37:54 -0500StefanJI really like the soundtrack. Didn't fully appreciate it in the theater.

I'm not sure how my nieces (14-16) would react. If it weren't for a brief mention of a hard-on it would be totally tween-friendly, but on the other hand, the subtlety of it might whiz right over their heads. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342463#Comment_342463Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:44:36 -0500StefanJ The model rocket launched at 1:06:53 was an Estes Big Bertha, which was available in 1965, but not with a plastic nose cone. The launch tripod is an anachronism. This totally ruined the film for me. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342501#Comment_342501Mon, 22 Oct 2012 05:18:07 -0500Ben Gwalchmai
Moonrise Kingdom recently for the first time and, though I'm a Wes Anderson fan, I thought this one...lacking something.

It was OK and at a fine standard with a good few chortles and titters but no real belly laughs. The performances were great but I didn't find myself empathizing with the characters much due to the structure of the piece that placed the island as a fabulous place away from the world with its doll houses and its gentle people and its almighty flood.

I wanted to like it, you know, but found myself feeling it too gentle, too washed out, too...teenage, I suppose.

I loved Rushmore, Life Aquatic, and Fantastic Mr Fox which all teenage films in their way but I just couldn't appreciate Moonrise and I don't really know why. Perhaps it was the knowledge of everything that was to come: the kids running away, the storm, the soft changes - don't get me wrong, it was great to see Harvey Keitel unexpectedly - but everything that happened we'd had warned to us before. The only mild condition of 'maybe' was the end but then it was all so soft I didn't mind.

Thoughts?

[You may hereafter call me a heathen.] :) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342532#Comment_342532Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:18:31 -0500tedcroland
The Royal Tenenbaums probably 50 times or more, and each time I experience it a little bit differently: see a something a little different from my own Dad in Royal, see a different part of myself in the kids, see something more complex in Etheline. While I connect with that film in ways that I understand are my own, I feel Moonrise Kingdom has a similar, if lighter, quality to it: if you are there with the kids, emotionally, you will get a lot out of it. If you want the film to feel what they're feeling for you, it's not going to happen.

I don't know what happened when you watched it, Ben, but I feel where it broke down for you is somewhere in there. I've had others complain that his films feel "flat" or "emotionless," but the emotional core of the film doesn't come out in the expression of the dialogue, but in the movement of the character, a physical reaction, a movement toward or away some element of the film. Once you can connect with what they're doing, the mystery of why they're doing it untangles itself.

Also, as far as laughs, c'mon:

"Was he a good dog?"

"Who's to say? But he didn't deserve to die."

Forgive me if I'm misreading your critique. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342534#Comment_342534Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:44:42 -0500StefanJThe fox boys in The Fantastic Mr. Fox were actually a little more interesting that the boy and girl in Moonrise. Ash was both a right bastard and deeply sympathetic; his dad really treated him like shit for most of the film.

EDIT: The "extras" for Moonrise Kingdom were really weak. Five or six trailer-like shorts featuring the actors talking up the movie.

The "Mr. Fox" extras, by contrast, were great. In addition to the "movie magic" stuff about stop-motion animation, there were long features about the adaptation of story. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342558#Comment_342558Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:48:30 -0500FlabyoWhy? Why would they do this to us? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342567#Comment_342567Tue, 23 Oct 2012 04:46:23 -0500Ben GwalchmaiYou're right about the dog too and, while I was thinking about it yesterday, the timing and the look of the:

explosion after Harvey Keitel goes back in

was pretty damn funny. Ed Norton should do more slapstick comedy too.

@Flabyo - How much do you wanna bet Japan gets it two months later than us? [I always feel sorry for Japan when it comes to releases.] ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342613#Comment_342613Wed, 24 Oct 2012 07:02:48 -0500Ben Gwalchmai
Gladiator for the first time in years tonight.

I'd forgotten most of it until I wrote 'Are you not entertained?' in an email and realized that I couldn't remember where the quote was from. One Google later and I had to watch it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342675#Comment_342675Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:02:28 -0500Steve Toasehttp://livescifi.tv/2012/10/watch-ouija-movie-online/ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342696#Comment_342696Thu, 25 Oct 2012 15:31:58 -0500StefanJWes Anderson played on otter in a school production of Benjamin Britton's "Noye's Fludde."

He memorized the address of the school (St. Francis Episcopal Day School, 345 Piney Point Road, Houston TX 77024) and "...I can more or less trace all of the inspirations for MOONRISE KINGDOM to that address." ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342753#Comment_342753Fri, 26 Oct 2012 15:55:07 -0500twentythoughtsThere are just two problems with it. The rest of the movie is good enough that they don't matter that much in the end, but they kinda soured the third act a little for me.

SPOILERS AHEAD:

So the bad guy, Silva, gets captured by Bond and MI6 about halfway through the movie, after his (wonderful) introduction. It's way too early for that to be any kind of resolution, so guess what: They went with the "villain gets captured as part of his plan, and breaks back out as the good guys play right into his hands" plot.

Except that plan wouldn't have worked if the MI6 people hadn't been tossed the Idiot Ball for plot conveniences.

Silva's plan to re-hack into MI6's network involves them trying to crack codes on his computer by connecting it to their network. The hacker wiz Q does this without hesitation, even though Silva EASILY BREACHED THEIR NETWORK FROM THE OUTSIDE EARLIER IN THE MOVIE, DEEP ENOUGH TO BLOW UP THE FREAKING MI6 BUILDING.

So rather than hook this computer, which is owned by a major hacker, up to a closed-up network, they hook it up to the same network that deals with both their in-house security and their secret files. A-dur.

Of course Silva breaks free, and he goes after M. Who's currently sitting in a hearing populated by important political figures. MI6 send out the message to evacuate M immediately, because, y'know, a trained agent with serious manpower, weapons and resources is coming for her. M declines, since it's an important meeting dealing with the future of MI6 (or simply because she's too proud for it, as her comment implies).

And then MI6 don't do anything more. They don't send out reinforcements to the building. They don't alert anyone else there. They KNOW Silva's coming there, and all they've got is Bond chasing after him, backed up by the MI6 people helping track Silva.

Silva manages to get to the MI6 hearing, with goons, and kills a bunch of people. Even though they knew he was coming.

It's a shame M had to die, but let's face it: If this is the kind of MI6 she was running, it was time for a shakeup.

SPOILERS END.

Do go see it, though. I love it, and those above-mentioned things wouldn't have mattered so much if the rest wasn't so awesome. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342772#Comment_342772Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:07:41 -0500Oddcult
why, if they were setting a trap, weren't the whole of the highlands filled with the rest of the Double-O section and the SAS? Cuz, that would have actually rocked. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342773#Comment_342773Sat, 27 Oct 2012 07:20:09 -0500twentythoughts

That was actually justified, I thought.

They wanted to capture or kill Silva, and as he was pretty much a communications god, organizing all that would've left enough traces that he would know what was waiting for him - and that might make him go into hiding again, and/or start more devastating terrorist attacks. The idea was to be just hidden enough that he would come to them, putting him in a situation where he'd have to wing it and fall for THEIR traps, rather than the other way around.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342792#Comment_342792Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:46:30 -0500StefanJI'm planting this meme in various places, in hoping it will catch:

I believe that the people behind Looper are the people who could make a creditable attempt at adapting Bester's The Stars My Destination* to the big screen.

* AKA "Tiger Tiger." ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=342803#Comment_342803Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:51:09 -0500Ben GwalchmaiAlso, he can shoot the hell out of anything. So I'd encourage you to do it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343069#Comment_343069Thu, 01 Nov 2012 04:21:13 -0500Ben GwalchmaiI've been recommended Strange Days. Anyone seen it? Worthy of a place in the 90s film canon [that's sometimes brilliant, sometimes tacky as all hell but the brilliance outshines the tack]? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343077#Comment_343077Thu, 01 Nov 2012 07:46:45 -0500TFThe movie has some really funny stuff in it, good performances and it's beautifully shot.

The story structure is interesting. The first act is very long which is really appropriate for Sean Penn's Goth character as we get to live with him before his world changes and he has to become a Nazi hunter. There is an "intermission" of sorts where David Byrne sings and the visuals in the show he stages coupled with the camera movement indicate a change of perspective as our movie movie (specifically "American road movie") begins.

It received some poor/mixed reviews when it came out here and I think - much like how when the Big Lebowski first came out to poor reviews - time will tell and this movie will be loved in that culty way these things are. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343085#Comment_343085Thu, 01 Nov 2012 09:00:49 -0500Miranda's Eyes
Big Boys Gone Bananas will have you giving Dole Foods the upraised middle finger pretty quickly. Filmmaker Frederik Gerten made a documentary called "Bananas," which looked at a lawsuit brought by a group of Nicaraguan banana workers who had allegedly been sterilized by exposure to aerial pesticide spraying. Dole Foods, the defendant in the lawsuit, mounted a successful disinformation campaign to not only hamper "Bananas"' film festival screening, but to attack Gerten's professionalism. The film will chill you with how easily corporations in America can squash information that calls them on their malfeasance. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343236#Comment_343236Sat, 03 Nov 2012 04:07:28 -0500Ben GwalchmaiTonight I watch Strange Days, wish me luck. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343238#Comment_343238Sat, 03 Nov 2012 08:52:24 -0500William Joseph DunnSaw "Cloud Atlas" yesterday. Ambitious and flawed. For me, it's really a mixed bag. There are some good moments in the film, but it has many heavy handed and pretentious moments too. Some of the makeup adds to the unintended silliness to the film as well. I didn't hate the film and even though it clocks in at almost 3 hours, I wasn't bored at any point. The film moves at a pretty fast pace. I guess I would catagorize "Cloud Atlas" as an interesting failure. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343252#Comment_343252Sat, 03 Nov 2012 17:28:54 -0500Cat Vincent
John Dies At The End at the Leeds International Film Festival. I'm an immense fan of the book, and the adaptation did not disappoint (despite cutting over half of the actual book... a necessity, as the damn thing is sprawling and complex). Coscarelli caught the balance of cosmic horror and dick-joke humour of the original nicely, and the cast were splendid.

Oh - and all the guys doing Dark City, eXistenZ, Matrix et al... I've waffled on about The Year of Your Reality Isn't flicks at Weaponizer (Intro, Matrix, The Thirteenth Floor) and one day I swear I'll finish the series! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343257#Comment_343257Sat, 03 Nov 2012 18:40:28 -0500StefanJ
Argo earlier today. Liked it a lot.

I appreciated the historic montage up front which explains why the Iranians were so pissed off at the U.S.A.

Bryan Cranston is one extraordinarily busy supporting actor. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343269#Comment_343269Sat, 03 Nov 2012 23:35:54 -0500StefanJSo, I grew up in the late 60s, early 70s. I watched lots and lots of science fiction B-movies on Saturday mornings. An encyclopedic knowledge? Perhaps not, but more Sci-Fi monster schlock than could possibly have been good for me.

Following a tip from Adam "Apelad" Koford, I'm watching a 1954 movie I've never heard of called GOG: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047033/

It is really, really strange encountering a movie so well produced -- great color, good sets, quite decent b-list actors -- that has totally fallen off the radar.

It is set in a multi-level underground research center out in the desert. (Like The Andromeda Strain!) After an accident in a cryogenics lab results in two scientists getting hard-frozen and shattered (really, not shit!), a researcher from the OSI comes to investigate.

And people die right and left! Poisoned by radiation, spun to death by G-simulator centrifuges, zapped by solar concentrators . . . SHIT, the radar tech is getting deafened by an ultrasonic attack! AAAAHHH! Good bye, security chief, fried by concentrated sound!

It turns out . . .

. . . after the NOVAC, the electronic brain, is cleared of guilt, that the base's gear was hacked by commands from a high-altitude aircraft. Well, it actually looks like a 1950s rocket ship. I was hoping it would be meddling aliens, but it was just "Them," taking advantage of security flaws built into the networking gear by a European contractor.

So, it's on Netflix Streaming. ]]>
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@Stefan Going to try and make time for GOG. Growing up some of my favorite things in the world were 70's Martial Arts flicks and 50's-60's B Horror and sci-fi. It eventually grew into long, horrible movie marathons with friends that led us to wonder, "WTF? These guys have a camera in our living room?" when MST3K came out.

Newer stuff I am going to try and see: Looper, Dredd, Skyfall, Argo, Wreck it Ralph, Man with the Iron Fists. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343338#Comment_343338Sun, 04 Nov 2012 20:55:19 -0600StefanJLooper, Dredd, and Argo were all better than I expected.

Dredd is already out of theaters, sadly. Not in any way cerebral, but well produced and for a shoot-em-up, quite smart. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343579#Comment_343579Tue, 06 Nov 2012 21:48:38 -0600InvincibleMPaperman was too good off an appetizer. I could've stood up, left the theatre and been pleased entirely.

That being said, I liked Wreck It Ralph quite a bit but I think there's a lot to be said about it: First of all, It's very derivative, but I think that term is generally associated with copy and pasting, and here I think it's more of a sense of using in a similar fashion.

It's highly similar to Toy Story on the onset. What I like is how it diverges from Toy Story's formula while sticking to it as well: Where Buzz' identity issues are solved by realizing he is who he is, so are Ralph's as well as Venelope's. However, when Venelope gains the new title, she reinforces the fact that even though she is really someone of importance, that she was always what she wanted to be, that doesn't change who she is. Ralph is able to wreck something and by wrecking, fix something showing that he's more than just his title.

The movie borrows a few powerful images from other children's animation: Ralph's plunge into Cola mountain was reminiscent of the Iron Giant, with the Giant flying into the missile for a much more poignant climax which simply wouldn't have worked in Ralph, as well as the Beast's transformation as well as the restoration of the Kingdom in Beauty and the Beast in Venelope's reveal.

What I like about Wreck It Ralph more than perhaps Beauty and the Beast as well as Toy Story(Iron Giant remains my favourite children's movies): How it tells it's message to a modern audience of children in an age of multicultural, multi-religious, and multi-orientation. Venelope and Ralph find out they are great the way they are, but they are not one note, they are faceted and wonderful. The girl in the arcade herself breaks the trend of 'games are for boys' and the first game we see her playing is what's considered a 'boy's game'. Felix and Calhoun find love with one another, even though it looks awkward, it works for them.

King Candy tries be something that he isn't and ultimately fails.

I also enjoyed how both female characters won via their skills and ultimately didn't have to depend on men. Additionally, going back to the girl in the Arcade, she's sort of a herald, isn't she? Well rounded female characters who are self sufficient as well cooperative with men.

At least I thought so.

Too bad it didn't pass the Bechdel test, though.

It's trite, sure. But goddamn if it doesn't put a smile on my face.

Also, the first half of the music in that movie was pretty good. The last half was forgettable, I'm afraid. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343788#Comment_343788Fri, 09 Nov 2012 15:01:28 -0600William Joseph Dunn
much better than "Quantum of Solice". Some nods to the old Bonds films in this one. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343792#Comment_343792Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:10:39 -0600StefanJ
Cloud Atlas tomorrow. Fallback if I am in a shit mood* and need to watch something happy: Wreck It Ralph.

Lincoln isn't playing in Portland yet. (I have this fantasy about Lincoln (the movie) -- which is based on the book A Team of Rivals. -- in which after the end titles is a dramatization of Tolstoy's account of meeting with an isolated South Asian clan who not only have heard about Lincoln, but consider him a legendary hero. I doubt they'd include that bit from the book. But it would be glorious.)

* My friend's kid has cancer. And not the good kind, so to speak. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343794#Comment_343794Fri, 09 Nov 2012 16:29:27 -0600twentythoughts
Some nods to the old Bond films? :)

I'd missed that the US only just got the movie, having seen it a couple of weeks ago. Posted my thoughts on it earlier in the thread, and they haven't changed in retrospect. It's in my top three of favorite Bond flicks (the other two being Goldeneye and Casino Royale). Still undecided on where each of'em stand within that top three, exactly... They're different flavors of Bond. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343871#Comment_343871Sat, 10 Nov 2012 19:19:40 -0600StefanJThe makeup thing mentioned uptopic . . . I didn't realize that essentially the whole cast appeared in each of the interleaved segments. I just thought that I was seeing some really unusual casting. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343880#Comment_343880Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:29:07 -0600MoracGoing to see Skyfall tonight. Looking forward to it! ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343881#Comment_343881Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:51:33 -0600StefanJI mean, I spotted MOST of Tom Hank's characters, and a few of Weaving's, but for the most part, the cast credits at the end -- when they showed each actor's characters -- made me drop jaw. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343888#Comment_343888Sun, 11 Nov 2012 04:12:49 -0600Osmosis
That's a topic for conversation. Top five Bond films? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343897#Comment_343897Sun, 11 Nov 2012 08:35:02 -0600William Joseph DunnCasino Royal (2006)GoldfingerFrom Russia with LoveDr NoSkyfall ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343939#Comment_343939Mon, 12 Nov 2012 10:05:02 -0600Ben GwalchmaiI feel slightly bereft - I haven't listened to a movie podcast since it came out so as to remain as unbiased as is humanly possible for when I see it on Thursday. I am only able to complete my top 5 today with what I know.

My first Bonds were mostly so bad they're good and remain in there because they were formative to my understanding of Bond:

I'll update this after I've had a skinful of Skyfall. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=343957#Comment_343957Mon, 12 Nov 2012 21:14:40 -0600HEY APATHY!
@Ben Gwalchmai I am also a Existenz fan, twas an amazing flick ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344024#Comment_344024Tue, 13 Nov 2012 22:31:24 -0600InvincibleMThe title sequence was pretty cool, though. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344057#Comment_344057Wed, 14 Nov 2012 12:31:19 -0600arklightI do wish they would just get going and make the live action version of Akirathough.

The bad guys in Looper and 2011's Chronicle were basically Memes of the Akira character.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344078#Comment_344078Wed, 14 Nov 2012 19:39:35 -0600AtomicSloth
Skyfall, and it was pretty great but something that I thought was a clear part of the plot, even if it wasn't explicitly spelled out at the climax, like I thought it would be, seems to have gone unnoticed by my friends/a quick google: Spoilers.

Silva, Bardem's character WAS James Bond. Either he is Timothy Dalton's Bond gone mental, or an unseen James Bond before Pierce Brosnan.1) When he has bond tied in the chair he says something like "I was M's favourite from 1986 to 1997. The exact years between Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnans Bond appearences. 2) When he's captured he shouts to M "SAY MY REAL NAME." In the next room she tell's Craig's Bond some obvious bullshit about him being called Tiago Rodriguez.3) At the end by the chapel he see's Bond's parents gravestones, reads their names and laughs as if it's all a big joke. Plus the constant digs at Bond comparing himself to Craig. I spent the last half of the film expecting a final confrontation between Craig and Bardem where Bardem reveals an old photo of himself with black hair and a tux and 007 membership card, and goes "See, you're whole life is a lie, they made you! We're the same! mwahaha etc" but with more class, cause it was a classy film.I know Casino Royale being a clean reboot of the Bond films would go against this, but he has the 1960's astin martin so it's not like they're being strict with that rule, and Judi Dench was M at least by 1997

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344132#Comment_344132Thu, 15 Nov 2012 16:51:21 -0600twentythoughts
Spoilers:

He's definitely supposed to be a mirror to Bond: Just as Bond took a bullet thanks to M's willingness to let agents die for the sake of the mission, Silva ate the cyanide pill. They both survived, and they both suffered a bit of a mental breakdown from what felt like a betrayal. They have the same training. Their difference lies in how they handled it. While Bond comes back to "mum" grudgingly, but he still comes back to HER, Silva develops a nasty obsession with punishing her and her whole world.Your interpretation relies on the idea that every new Bond actor is in fact a new James Bond within the same universe. Which is a fun idea, but it's about as flawed and convoluted to put together as the Zelda or Mario game timeline. Not that I wouldn't like to see someone attempt to do that! It'd be a neat timeline to see.Actually, looks like a buncha people have already explored the "James Bond is also just a codename" theory. One example is here. That one doesn't explore the idea that James Bond is brainwashed into thinking he's James Bond, but, y'know, you do realize that'd be even more of a wall-banger reveal than George Lucas putting midichlorians into the Star Wars universe. It would DESTROY James Bond as a character, it would fuel the fire of the people who think the Daniel Craig Bond flicks owe everything to the Bourne series... It'd be among the worst things you could do to Bond, because EVERY Bond movie would be made worse by it.The "1986 to 1997" line is nicely spotted, but like all the other Bond references in the flick, I'd just call it a reference.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344245#Comment_344245Sun, 18 Nov 2012 04:17:53 -0600D.J.Also:

"It is the most advanced encryption in the world, but I can hack it because I invented it." THEN IT IS A TERRIBLE ENCRYPTION METHOD.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344300#Comment_344300Mon, 19 Nov 2012 03:42:09 -0600D.J.

-Silva's master plan relies on MI6 being complete buffoons-Bond's master plan to prevent M from being killed fails miserably and no one seems to care, which is particularly odd given his relationship thus far with Mallory.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344318#Comment_344318Mon, 19 Nov 2012 09:15:55 -0600Ben Klumaster
once they'd had to relocate to an entirely new building thanks to a computer vulnerability, they might be smart enough not to lock anyone in a cage with a computer-controlled door. But no. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344333#Comment_344333Mon, 19 Nov 2012 13:47:36 -0600twentythoughts

I thought about Bond failing to protect M, and the thing is: Mallory and M both approved of the plan. It was the lesser of two evils: They could either risk a ton of lives in London by keeping the fight there, and still have no guarantee of M's safety, or they could take it outside, so to speak. Broadcasting the plan further might have driven Silva away for the moment, leaving him to wreak more havoc around the next corner.Basically, Bond's plan was putting M in the line of fire, making her an at-risk agent. Both she and Mallory accepted this... And it's no surprise she did, because that was her theme during Skyfall: Accepting the risk, or even the inevitability, that an agent could die thanks to her decision. Choosing the lesser of two evils.

Regarding computery things, as I mentioned earlier,

Silva's get-out-of-MI6-HQ plan is reliant on the computer genius doing something I, someone just mildly above averagely computer-literate for my generation, finds completely stupid. Here we have a master hacker, who puts the computer of a hacker who managed to blow up the MI6 headquarters from the OUTSIDE, right INTO the mainframe that also controls all the security and stuff. It's the equivalent of Clint Eastwood suddenly deciding that the best way to hold a gun is with the barrel pointed at his own face, or Chuck Norris roundhousing himself in the back of the head and knocking himself down an elevator shaft.Not to mention that they knew early on that Silva was coming to a meeting staffed by important people, and DIDN'T. WARN. ANYONE. ABOUT IT.

That whole sequence was kinda soured for me thanks to that. Though I was placated when

Silva dropped a train on Bond. That was his Goldfinger moment... Humiliating Bond to the point where all Bond could do was look grumpy.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344417#Comment_344417Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:37:57 -0600Osmosis
Skyfall again, mainly so that I can watch the London sequences without trying to figure out where they are the whole time. Also: Jubilee line train. District line stations. Annoyance. Also also: they missed out on the chance to send him to Bond Street station. Generally I thought it was tops, though.

My top five Bond films (after much offline discussion):

1) Goldfinger2) Casino Royale3) You Only Live Twice4) Live and Let Die5) The Living Daylights

... I like Timothy Dalton, what of it? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344420#Comment_344420Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:39:18 -0600Miranda's Eyes
... I like Timothy Dalton, what of it?

@Osmosis If you had said you liked George Lazenby's Bond, THAT would have raised some eyebrows. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344434#Comment_344434Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:53:17 -0600AtomicSlothIt get's juggled around from time to time but the usual contenders are From Russia With LoveYou Only Live TwiceThe Living DaylightsGoldeneye (special mention for GoldenEye64)Casino Royale

Skyfall might be kicking one of those out unless I ever look to cloesly at those plotholes. I also remember loving The World Is Not Enough when I first saw it but haven't seen it since, and as Tomorrow Never Dies was horrendous and Die Another Day was half-horrendous, it may not be as good as I remember.

Must say I despise the middle Moore films the most. His first two and the last one don't leave me a weeping pile of cringe though. As a kid Moore-bond films were spent in competition with the family looking for the cuts where you can see his ridiculous huge be-wigged stuntman.

and as far as my now-looking-like-Head-Canon theory posted above

Still what is up with silva laughing mockingly at Bonds parents gravestones and similar acts of knowing derision? And it's been revealed the Groundskeeper role was written for Connery, that's one for multiple-bonds-with-the-same-name-over-time-mostly-unaware-of-their-predecessors-and-silva-being-one-of-them-theory right?

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344436#Comment_344436Thu, 22 Nov 2012 03:03:40 -0600OddcultThe one scene in The Living Daylights where Dalton's Bond rips the dress off a woman so that the bad guy bursting through the door stops to look at her, so that Bond has a split second extra to shoot him in the face, is a horrible, but perfect moment that's never been surpassed as an example of both the misogyny and the murderous practicality of the character. Most people haven't seen it though, as it's cut whenever the film is shown on TV. I expect it's probably been cut for certification purposes on most of the releases, as it probably breaches the BBFC's guidelines on showing sexual content and violence at the same time too. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344451#Comment_344451Thu, 22 Nov 2012 07:28:02 -0600tapheadThe plot made even less sense than you usual Bond plot, mostly due to the attempts at explaining it in the film, and that final battle felt like one of those endless boss fights in computer games, with clear autosave checkpoints between the different waves.

All that said, some fine acting all around, so still beats TDKR in that respect.

Hi. I'm old, and grumpy.

Edited: TDKR, not TDK. The latter was awesome, but this year's attempt was a bit of a miss. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344454#Comment_344454Thu, 22 Nov 2012 10:21:29 -0600StefanJ
Wreck It Ralph. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344483#Comment_344483Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:27:07 -0600Cat Vincent
Farscape? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344505#Comment_344505Fri, 23 Nov 2012 05:47:36 -0600twentythoughts
dies at the end? DUDE SPOILERS! I haven't felt so bummed since they told me that the ship sinks in Titanic!

But yeah. There's something to be said for ending a movie in a place where everyone knows what's going to happen. Roll credits moments before the shooting, or just as he goes into the theatre, or something, and it's always going to be more powerful than if you show the shooting everyone knows happened anyway.

Reminds me of another great ending where you KNOW there's a huge shitstorm coming, not because of history, but because of what's just been done. Y'know, that other huge Daniel Day Lewis flick, "There Will Be Blood". Lewis' ending line has such a sweet double-meaning in that movie, and it ends at the perfect moment.

Guess I'll have to see this movie now, anyway! And also getting a hankering to rewatch "Gangs of New York". ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344519#Comment_344519Fri, 23 Nov 2012 13:30:31 -0600StefanJ
Lincoln could have ended: A short dramatization of the essay, excerpted in the Goodwin book on which the movie is based, by Leo Tolstoy. Tolstoy ran into a bunch of tribesmen in central Asia who had, less than forty years after the president's death, worked him up into a sort of demigod. It is simultaneously laughable and tearjerking. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344527#Comment_344527Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:07:22 -0600FlabyoIt might surprise the Merican's to learn that we don't really teach US history out here in the old country. It's part of what I love about Assassin's Creed 3. I can tell that people like me spend the whole game being surprised by the double-crosses and the way it goes, whereas the US audience get to be all 'cool, they're spinning our history in this really fun way' (a little like all the Ezio stuff in the previous games worked the other way) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344530#Comment_344530Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:40:03 -0600William Joseph Dunn
"I wish I could stay" and he walks down the hall away from the camera. I think that would have been way more powerful and poetic, but to me, the way it was done here, is another example of how Speilburg tends to not have enough faith in the audience's intelligence and spoon feeds them when it isn't necessary. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344531#Comment_344531Fri, 23 Nov 2012 15:47:03 -0600FlabyoThat's literally it. I know more about obscure British Prime Ministers than I do about Lincoln. I certainly couldn't quote you anything much he might've said.

Oh, he wore a bitchin' hat. So that's three things.

(I'm reminded of how the UK movie 'The Madness of King George III' was renamed to lose the 'III' from the title outside the UK in case people thought it was a sequel... fact is, it's REALLY easy to think a historical film is dumbing down when it's your own culture in the movie)

Not arguing with you that it could've been done better, just saying that in some places we really wouldn't notice, and it's fun to be on this side of that for once. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344550#Comment_344550Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:07:16 -0600StefanJ
Lincoln is that it isn't just about Lincoln. An amazing assortment of pols, soldiers, and lobbyists.

I do wish the movie would at least have mentioned the other assassination attempts. Seward, for one, was damned near stabbed to death in his bed. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344576#Comment_344576Sun, 25 Nov 2012 16:35:19 -0600oldhatStill, good acting. Really liked the guy who played Q. ]]>
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@oldhat and SkyfallRoger Deakins , the director of photography (cinematographer) for Skyfall is getting masses of praise for the work on what is a totally digital film. Unlike Batman Darkn Knight Rises which was shot on film.He's getting love, because he knocked it out of the park!

I was looking at the Alexa camera used for the film at an Expo a while back , and they were saying they were going to use this to shoot the next bond movie.Everyone was "cool" but skeptical. He smashed all doubters!

and he's a cool guy , he's got a forum where you can ask him newbie "how did you do that"questions- Roger Deakins Forum

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344602#Comment_344602Mon, 26 Nov 2012 07:37:54 -0600oldhatI'm trying to figure out if you liked it or just liked the cinematography. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344612#Comment_344612Mon, 26 Nov 2012 12:36:58 -0600arklight
@oldhat

For me the best bond movie was Casino Royale or "Bourne Identity IV" as I call it because of the use of physicality instead of CGI which seemed to be taken straight out of the Matt Damon Bourne movies. A complete departure from the CGI heavy Pierce Brosnan era.This seems to be Something Christopher Nolan had taken note of for the Batman movies he helmed.

As for the cinematography, im that much of an anorak, i can just appreciate the cinematography being excellent while the story may be so- so. I love the way Velvet Goldmine [1998] is filmed-[Not digital cinematography]. I've watched that movie with the sound off.

And the Dark Knight Rises was my favorite blockbuster movie.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344630#Comment_344630Mon, 26 Nov 2012 20:08:11 -0600taphead(I edited my previous comment, as I was griping on TDKR, not TDK. That one was actually very nice, by virtue of having an insane antagonist. Again brilliantly played, as Silva was by Bardem in Skyfall.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344657#Comment_344657Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:12:17 -0600Osmosis
Threads.

Why did I just watch Threads? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344659#Comment_344659Tue, 27 Nov 2012 14:31:29 -0600OddcultAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344660#Comment_344660
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344660#Comment_344660Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:27:20 -0600William Joseph Dunn
Threads is all about. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344661#Comment_344661Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:28:53 -0600OddcultAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344662#Comment_344662
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344662#Comment_344662Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:34:56 -0600twentythoughts*checks IMDB*

Why did you watch Threads, again? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344663#Comment_344663Tue, 27 Nov 2012 15:59:28 -0600OddcultThat.

Don't watch it.

Just don't.

I'm not saying that in a 'it's like Bad Taste, it's nasty but it's also pretty awesome' sort of way. It's more like a Grave of the Fireflies sort of 'don't watch that'. Except worse. Much worse.

If you're the sort of person that likes watching snakes eating kittens, or you can knock one out to When The Wind Blows, you might enjoy it.

It's genuinely traumatising and not in a cathartic way that you can come out of a changed, better person.

It might, however, explain a bit about Margaret Thatcher and how she came to power and where people thought the world was going at the time, and just how fucked Britain was in the 80s.

There is that, if you need it.

Don't watch Threads. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344665#Comment_344665Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:34:45 -0600FlabyoYeah, they made damn sure we knew that if Russia and the US kicked off, we were totally an irrelevant afterthought, erased before anyone even noticed the war had started.

Growing up in the UK back then was *fun*. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344667#Comment_344667Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:38:04 -0600oldhatFree on youtube.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344695#Comment_344695Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:04:31 -0600OsmosisThreads, free on Youtube too.

I could never get too far into The Day After, as America is still On-TV-Land, but for goodness's sake I used to live in Sheffield, and I still go there regularly for work - most often to a building about fifty yards from the town hall in Threads. The emergency public information broadcasts in Threads are completely real, by the way. Profoundly depressing - don't say you weren't warned. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344697#Comment_344697Wed, 28 Nov 2012 15:18:30 -0600Osmosis
The War Game - queued it up) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344700#Comment_344700Wed, 28 Nov 2012 16:45:08 -0600tapheadThe Men Who Stare at Goats

Really mixed on this one. On the other hand the strange new age counterculture by way of the military-industrial complex angle is fascinating (and, like the opening credits state, not as fictitious as one might think) and the acting is as fine as you'd expect with that cast (if a bit hammy).

On the other hand it's weighed down by some weird desire to be "quirky", in that rather insincere Hollywood fashion. (In that, it reminded me of another offender: The Informant! That was even more disappointing coming from Soderbergh.) I'd love to see a story like this one played straight without a bargain bin elfman-esque score and the rest of the trappings of this genre.

Blindness

I'd wager your enjoyment of this film is pretty much entirely dependent on your ability to watch it as a parable, and not expect a Contagion-like disaster movie. I liked it quite a bit, especially for being rather unflinching and quite gorgeusly shot; for once there's a good reason for playing with the colour saturation and exposure. In the end the film may not quite hit its mark, but I do admire the aim. Goodness, a movie that has some sort of an emotional core and/or message? In this day and age?

And of course Julianne Moore is wonderful, but ain't that always the case. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344702#Comment_344702Wed, 28 Nov 2012 18:34:39 -0600MoracAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344708#Comment_344708
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344708#Comment_344708Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:12:38 -0600DavidLejeuneAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344709#Comment_344709
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344709#Comment_344709Wed, 28 Nov 2012 20:52:29 -0600StefanJ
The Informant! I thought it would be a "watch once" sort of film, but I picked up the DVD cheap and watched it with my folks. The loved it. My father, an old-time movie guy, seemed blown away by the fact that the new generation of actors could, well, act. (He also spotted the ADM secretary as the actress who played Louis C.K.'s fictional sister . . . the pregnant one.)

Oh, man. I really, really wanted to love Men Who Stare at Goats. After a promising start, it got so ordinary. Really, I was squirming for the last half hour. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344718#Comment_344718Thu, 29 Nov 2012 02:22:58 -0600Wood
and it's on Kickstarter ? 5 dollars will get you a digital download ? How come I didn't know about this sooner ? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344724#Comment_344724Thu, 29 Nov 2012 05:46:18 -0600OddcultAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344728#Comment_344728
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344728#Comment_344728Thu, 29 Nov 2012 06:56:30 -0600WoodYeah, you did. Repeatedly, with great insistence. Which was the surest way to make me watch it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344731#Comment_344731Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:47:26 -0600OddcultAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344867#Comment_344867
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=344867#Comment_344867Sat, 01 Dec 2012 11:25:50 -0600Miranda's EyesLeos Carax' insanely entertaining love letter to cinema, Holy Motors.

Michal Kosakowski filmed over a decade people enacting their murder fantasies. The result is Zero Killed. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345128#Comment_345128Fri, 07 Dec 2012 02:42:10 -0600taphead
Bellflower

A pretty genuinely devastating film about getting your heart broken. Made on a shoestring budget, looks glorious, feels wondefully ambiguous and honest. Also includes a car with a whiskey tap, and flamethrowers. I watched it with a still sore heart and a hangover. PERFECT. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345134#Comment_345134Fri, 07 Dec 2012 04:42:05 -0600Vornaskotti11-3-2012 Nazi Sympathizer Sarah Palin in ‘Iron Sky’ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345137#Comment_345137Fri, 07 Dec 2012 07:50:21 -0600city creed
El Secreto de Sus Ojos and would recommend it. An Argentinian entry in the retiring-investigator-revisits-that-one-old-cold-case genre with some acutely observed character moments, strong lead performances and a terribly postmodern self-awareness in the writing and direction. This film should probably get some sort of difficulty level warning - what we see of the rape/murder at the root of the story is nothing short of stomach-churning. I found the ending a little too pat, but the rest was just so lovingly and cleverly made that I didn't care too much. Sets out to do a very specific job and, for me, succeeds rather beautifully.

Been meaning to watch Holy Motors for a while now.

@Vornaskotti

I spend an enormous amount of time creating graphic charts, and composites to show what and how they are doing what they’re doing.

This is surely true. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345138#Comment_345138Fri, 07 Dec 2012 08:15:56 -0600Miranda's Eyes

Been meaning to watch Holy Motors for a while now.

Do. It's one of the more entertaining cinematic mind trips you'll see this year. Now if some adventurous repertory cinema programmer can pair HOLY MOTORS with MULHOLLAND DRIVE...

Meanwhile, I caught THE SESSIONS the other night. It's a charming film which reassured me that Americans can still make mature films about sex which don't resort to leering smirkiness. The three central actors, John Hawkes, Helen Hunt, and William H. Macy riveted the screen in different ways. Hawkes' face had to carry a lot of the acting weight, as he was playing the paralyzed writer Mark O'Brien. Macy played a progressive-minded priest both supportive of Mark's efforts and warmly out of his depth. And Hunt? If her performance as the sex surrogate doesn't force a re-think on how sexuality can be portrayed onscreen, then American cinema will be the poorer for it. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345315#Comment_345315Tue, 11 Dec 2012 20:38:06 -0600InvincibleMI thought it was pretty good, there were a few truly excellent shots. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345347#Comment_345347Wed, 12 Dec 2012 16:52:42 -0600Oddcult

Pacific Rim trailer.

Expectations exceeded.

There is a fucking rocket punch in the damn trailer. They know what we want: giant robots rocketpunching giant monsters. Yes. This. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345369#Comment_345369Thu, 13 Dec 2012 07:48:41 -0600vandalhandleAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345370#Comment_345370
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345377#Comment_345377Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:06:52 -0600William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345386#Comment_345386
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345386#Comment_345386Thu, 13 Dec 2012 11:36:03 -0600Ben GwalchmaiAfter EarthOblivionThe Mulbury Project

However, saying all that, I watched When Harry Met Sally for the first time ever [yes, I'm 27 and no, I never got around to it until now] and it's a great film. No apocalypse; no giant monsters or hidden truths, sure, but damn is it well written and well done. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345393#Comment_345393Thu, 13 Dec 2012 13:30:03 -0600MagnulusAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345397#Comment_345397
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345397#Comment_345397Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:19:36 -0600TFAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345398#Comment_345398
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345398#Comment_345398Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:57:34 -0600FlabyoIgnore the reviews, it's a good movie. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345402#Comment_345402Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:11:15 -0600InvincibleMThough, I am old and grumpy. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345403#Comment_345403Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:04:00 -0600StotoDid you hear Mark Kermode mention When Harry Met Sally on the latest podcast perchance?

(I am also 27 and haven't seen it yet.) ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345407#Comment_345407Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:42:40 -0600StefanJ
Argo . . . which I'd seen before.

I am happy to report it was quite re-watchable. A really nicely done film, with a grim situation balanced with just enough humor.

In the lobby, in a roped-off aisle, were a half-dozen or so kids waiting for the midnight showing of The Hobbit. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345490#Comment_345490Sat, 15 Dec 2012 18:41:41 -0600city creed
Holy Motors, what a delicious and strange little film. I felt like the scene with the father and daughter in the car was where it was at it's most cogent and fierce, but all of those odd little vignettes have a whole lot of charm. The motion-capture dance was really unexpectedly pretty.

Also saw The Brothers Bloom recently - a slow, sharp, sweet film which is done an absolutely horrifying disservice by its trailer. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345567#Comment_345567Mon, 17 Dec 2012 02:08:19 -0600MoracAs a big fan of the book (it was one of my favorites growing up), the movie was wonderful. I loved every minute of it.

My friends, however, who were less... enthusiastic about the source material as I was, found the movie to be enjoyable but not mind-blowing. So grains of salt all 'round. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345576#Comment_345576Mon, 17 Dec 2012 03:24:40 -0600Ben GwalchmaiFunnily enough, I'm loading the newest podcast onto my phone as I type. After this, I'm off for a walk and a listen.

Any other Radio Five Live Kermode & Mayo podcast listeners here apart from me & Stoto? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345609#Comment_345609Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:35:02 -0600Foamhead

Buggering copyrightists are too quick for me. Try this instead.

http://trailers.apple.com/trailers/paramount/startrekintodarkness/ ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345663#Comment_345663Tue, 18 Dec 2012 05:59:42 -0600OddcultIt was sort of like the very best BBC special that's ever been made. The story was... well... it was The Hobbit, so no surprises there, but it was paced like a TV miniseries and looked like one. I'm not saying that was a bad thing, because it was relaxing to watch. It didn't feel cinematic at all, it felt like it was all right there in front of you, which seemed very odd at first, and then you settle into it. The sets and costumes look like sets and costumes. As if you could glance over the other side of your living room and you'd see the same things, in the same detail.

And Gollum's right there, in utterly realistic detail. As if he were over the other side of your room. And giant trolls. And eagles. And Rivendell. And it's real. Not just like when Jurassic Park came out and everyone was like 'whoooaaa dinosaurs!' but like... real like your sofa is real, not just 'real for cinema'. You're way over the other side of the uncanny valley and I had to stop and think about what was on the screen as not being real. It plays into your experience of what's real onscreen and not and instead of thinking 'ooh, that looks clever' or admiring the special effects, you've really got to think about what's an effect and what isn't. Or, just stop caring and accept it all. It all looks too real. Even the things that are fake.

What I was thinking though, was that it's a bit regrettable that Bruce Lee never got filmed in that sort of format.

But yeah. It's The Hobbit. If you like that sort of thing, you'll like it. HFR 3D is just fucking odd if you think about it too much, but incredibly relaxing to watch if you don't. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345675#Comment_345675Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:46:07 -0600johnjones
Man of Steel. It looked pretty and even with spaceships and explosions there was the lyrical, somewhat emo ballet tune running through the whole thing. I could not help but recall Warren Ellis' take on the opening themes of Doctor Who and Torchwood as I compared and contrasted the Man of Steel music with this:

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345676#Comment_345676Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:55:20 -0600James Cunningham

While I really enjoyed The Hobbit, I went in more interested in the effect of 48FPS. I've got to say I'm very happy with it, and hope it becomes a standard. The smoother frame rate makes action scenes flow better, and did wonders for camera panning as well. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345683#Comment_345683Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:11:35 -0600OddcultBut you've got to go with something fairly original for Superman now, even if you think it isn't what it should be. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345685#Comment_345685Tue, 18 Dec 2012 16:34:24 -0600DavidLejeuneAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345687#Comment_345687
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345718#Comment_345718Wed, 19 Dec 2012 11:21:12 -0600Ben GwalchmaiI'm hoping that because it's produced by Nolan, it's going to be alright. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345721#Comment_345721Wed, 19 Dec 2012 12:52:31 -0600WoodIt's not easy to make a movie from the perspective of a six years old, but these guys got it right.

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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345723#Comment_345723Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:45:10 -0600DavidLejeune
Snyder's obviously a comic book fan...He's a comic book fan, but he's a comic book fan who has demonstrated very little understanding of the works he purports to be a fan of in his adaptations of them.

And I think you're vastly overestimating how involved Nolan has been as a producer. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345724#Comment_345724Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:47:57 -0600twentythoughtsIt's badly paced... Something that could have been fixed by cutting off half an hour or so of downright fillery material, and moving some of the bits around. In particular, I'd like to have moved

Radagast's scenes.

Here they're in the middle of a TON of introductions, and then they give us yet another one, right when we're wanting to actually get into some proper action with the dwarves. It gave me sort of a "why do I care about this?" feeling... Simply because it's placed in the wrong spot.

See, it's a fun sequence on its own, despite the vast amounts of Uncanny Valley on display. But it would've been FAR better to see it later on, after

Radagast's hare-sled happens upon the party of dwarves

. You get a flashback there anyway, so you might as well make it longer, since that'll have perked the audience's curiosity about him and his situation.

There are bits that serve only to pad the length of the movie, and one sequence in particular is so downright silly, lengthy AND without any effect on anything else in the movie, it almost counts as a shark-jumping moment. I enjoyed the

rock'em-sock'em-mountain robot sequence

on its own, but... Come ON, Jackson, the movie's already too long, and I'm verging on thinking that it's a little too fantastic for the movie at that point.

The movie also suffers seriously from cartoon physics. It's especially bad in the

goblin fight and the tree-hopping bit

, where you've got dwarves Super Marioing around and where the enemies seem feather-light except when they're heavy, like a video game without a stable physics engine. A lot of the effects, especially the animals, LOOK cartoony too... Especially the eagles and wargs.

I saw it in 2D, and I think I'll recommend watching it that way. I wouldn't want to see those effects in 3D-48FPS-vision... They look distracting enough as it is.

But man, in those moments when it hits all the right notes, it works oh so well. The one bit I really needed them to nail, they nailed so hard. Freaking Gollum. That sequence is funny, tense, incredibly acted, beautiful, and touching.

And looks-wise, outside of the Narnia-looking CGI animals, the whole movie is freaking beautiful. It's an incredible work of art at its best.

There's a great a-little-over-two-hours movie hidden in here. As it is, it's just Good. But worth seeing. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345947#Comment_345947Tue, 25 Dec 2012 03:28:23 -0600Foamhead
Has 3D film-making had its day? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345957#Comment_345957Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:09:34 -0600D.J.At the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345959#Comment_345959
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345959#Comment_345959Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:51:40 -0600Kay OrchisonAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345966#Comment_345966
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345966#Comment_345966Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:27:25 -0600William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345994#Comment_345994
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=345994#Comment_345994Thu, 27 Dec 2012 20:25:12 -0600InvincibleMI'm glad that there was a four way attempt to steal the show.

Samuel L. Jackson's alternate name for the Black Hercules was probably my favorite single line, though. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346000#Comment_346000Fri, 28 Dec 2012 04:39:14 -0600Purple WyrmFirstly it needed between 20 and 30 minutes of cuts to tighten everything up. I'm the biggest Tolkien fanboy you can imagine, but towards the end even my attention was starting to drift. They could start by eliminating the stone giants sequence which was only a couple of throw away lines in the novel to start with, then continue by chopping down the battle in Goblin Town. Watching the film in 2D made it pretty clear both those sequences existed purely to make everyone drinking the 3D kool-aid go "woah! cool!".

Secondly there were minor cannon violations all over the place - which didn't bother me because I expected them - but they seriously pissed me off with what they've done with the Witch King of Angmar. No one wants to hear me in full flight Nerd Rage, so I won't continue except to say way to break the background guys!

Oh, and finally, why did Thorin get Mordor/Nazgul music when he charged Azog in the final battle scene? ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346011#Comment_346011Fri, 28 Dec 2012 14:17:33 -0600manglrI rather enjoyed a seeming comment by Tarantino on 3D movies towards the end of the movie. As well as some obligatory cameos, and the glory of practical effect blood squibs.

Oh yes, and Fritz rocks. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346036#Comment_346036Sat, 29 Dec 2012 19:26:13 -0600William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346037#Comment_346037
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346038#Comment_346038Sat, 29 Dec 2012 20:47:02 -0600William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346055#Comment_346055
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346098#Comment_346098Mon, 31 Dec 2012 18:25:43 -0600StefanJYou know what?

This has been one fucking incredible year for the movies.

I still haven't seen Beasts of the Southern Wild or Silver Linings Playbook or Django Unchained. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346110#Comment_346110Tue, 01 Jan 2013 04:15:45 -0600FlabyoI think that might be my film of 2012. It was exactly what I needed for my mental state, hehe.

I do like a movie that doesn't treat the audience like they're idiots. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346124#Comment_346124Tue, 01 Jan 2013 13:51:05 -0600William Joseph DunnAt the Movies - The Last September to Black Novemberhttp://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346147#Comment_346147
http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346147#Comment_346147Wed, 02 Jan 2013 00:40:08 -0600aikeHowever:

a) That movie needs a decent editing desperately. How someone sat in the editing room and thought to themselves: "wow this is great", I do not know. Pacing, tension curve, story thread, action sequences - all were just awful, in my opinion. b) It desperately needed shortening by about 50%. There was no need for it to be 3 hours, the story implemented did not warrant 3 hours, and it was just the feeling of "Oh, oh we need to show that, too..." that made it that. As Saint-Exupery said, perfection is when there is nothing left to remove.c) The acting was mediocre. d) The entire movie can be summarized as such: Dwarves bumble about, Hobbit feels out of place, Deus Ex machina gets involved, everyone runs screaming, Gandalf saves everyone. Repeat ad nauseam. e) The hyper-crisp 48fps 3D deluxe glorificarama digital thing. It does make for fluid motion. It also makes everything look so artificial that everything ends up looking like a cheap soap opera. I imagine it will be great for certain things, but it is clear the post people were not sure how to handle all the added crispness and got themselves into trouble. d) The camera didn't help - I found myself wondering sometimes if perhaps they just let some film school kids take over the cam for a while. Some terrible cinematographical atrocities done here.

To sum up, it wasn't even a good popcorn movie. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346163#Comment_346163Wed, 02 Jan 2013 07:25:53 -0600Ben Gwalchmai@Stefan J - damn right. An incredible year. ]]>
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http://freakangels.com/whitechapel/comments.php?DiscussionID=10823&Focus=346176#Comment_346176Wed, 02 Jan 2013 12:54:27 -0600StefanJThis one was supposed to end at the end of Black November! ]]>