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macbdog said:
I read the book so everything is spoiled already unless Ridley Scott added actual martians. I'm not gonna see it until Monday- please tell me they didn't give Watney a love interest like how they had to go and give Hugh Glass an Indian wife and son?
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Just saw TMNT (the new one). Megan Fox was better in this than she was in Transformers. I think she's improved her acting. I actually really liked the TMNTs. I thought their characters were done well personality-wise, and the characters' CGI and animation was done fairly well too. Splinter was okay. I thought they could've done a better job with him. The plot was cookie cutter and lackluster. Shredder was pretty cool. I thought the final fight scene could have been a little bit better and more creative.

6.5/10.
 
The Martian 9/10 (as a movie) 7/10 (when considering the book)

I always wondered how they would adapt this amazing book and knew they were going to make some tough choices but a few really great aspect of the story are missing

Scott does turn it into a fast paced thrill ride and the story carries forward at a breakneck pace. A few cuts left non book readers confused like
why he had to cut a hole in the rover and make a balloon, and how the mav had all the fuel left
but overall it was a great ride.

The technical nature of it could have been clearer and it would give an extra layer of intelligence to Whatney (who got demoted from engineer/botanist to just botanist)

Damon was great as was Daniels but Sean bean wasn't as gruff and abrasive as I was expecting

My geek wish is for a 4 hour directors cut that features all the missing parts
 
On a horror kick now that October is here.

The Honeymoon was actually VERY good. Had that The Strangers claustrophobic feel most of the way through and the acting was really great.

Still not 100% sure what happened at the end, but wgaf. In horror movies I'm more concerned about the acting and the realism WITHIN the rules set by the movie.

On a 1-10 horror movie scale, it was easily a 7.8

@gourimoko
 
It's a 3 star on Amazon Prime where everybody likes to give higher marks... unless it's horror.

When it's horror they like to hand out 4 stars to bullshit like Insidious 1 and 2 whereas I thought they were basically a jumpscare fest with mainstream buffoonery/atmosphere. More supernatural than horror. The VHS anthology movies all gather less than 4 stars but are leaps and bounds better horror with nods to the old 90's and 80's anthologies. Halloween is meant to release the horror side of yourself, at least since I was kid. Pinhead, Micheal Myers, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Blade (from Puppet Master) yada yada.

I'm a Tales From The Crypt TV series guy who appreciates a good short story horror and these ghost/zombie movies are just ruining things.

Give me fucking HORROR. This better be good Jigs... or we're (the Cavs in your speak) gonna sign Tristan Thompson to a 5 year 200 million contract.
 
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JSS2306 said:
It's a 3 star on Amazon Prime where everybody likes to give higher marks... unless it's horror.

When it's horror they like to hand out 4 stars to bullshit like Insidious 1 and 2 whereas I thought they were basically a jumpscare fest with mainstream buffoonery/atmosphere. More supernatural than horror. The VHS anthology movies all gather less than 4 stars but are leaps and bounds better horror with nods to the old 90's and 80's anthologies. Halloween is meant to release the horror side of yourself, at least since I was kid. Pinhead, Micheal Myers, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Blade (from Puppet Master) yada yada.

I'm a Tales From The Crypt TV series guy who appreciates a good short story horror and these ghost/zombie movies are just ruining things.

Give me fucking HORROR. This better be good Jigs... or we're (the Cavs in your speak) gonna sign Tristan Thompson to a 5 year 200 million contract.
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See I've always felt like people were harder on horror movies than other genres.

Like a lot of horror movies I think were excellent get asinine ratings. Imdb has Exorcist at an 8. It's a fucking 10. It is absolutely a great movie. It is pretty much flawless. Rosemary's Baby gets an 8. It's a 9+. It is AMAZING horror cinema. The Omen (original) got a 7.6! It's another nearly perfect and absolutely disturbing movie with one of the most disturbing scenes of all time. Hint: "It's all for you!"

For more recent examples, Sinister, The Ring, Signs, The Strangers are all rated 7 or below. These were VERY good horror movies. The Omen reboot was given a 5.5.

We're talking movies that scared the shit out of people with great atmosphere, good to great acting and some scenes that will never leave your mind.

Yet people give these movies scores like they're Gigli or something.

@gourimoko
 
JSS2306 said:
It's a 3 star on Amazon Prime where everybody likes to give higher marks... unless it's horror.

When it's horror they like to hand out 4 stars to bullshit like Insidious 1 and 2 whereas I thought they were basically a jumpscare fest with mainstream buffoonery/atmosphere. More supernatural than horror. The VHS anthology movies all gather less than 4 stars but are leaps and bounds better horror with nods to the old 90's and 80's anthologies. Halloween is meant to release the horror side of yourself, at least since I was kid. Pinhead, Micheal Myers, Jason, Freddy, Chucky, Blade (from Puppet Master) yada yada.

I'm a Tales From The Crypt TV series guy who appreciates a good short story horror and these ghost/zombie movies are just ruining things.

Give me fucking HORROR. This better be good Jigs... or we're (the Cavs in your speak) gonna sign Tristan Thompson to a 5 year 200 million contract.
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Btw, the slasher movies never did it for me. None of them.

I did watch Hellraiser for the first time last week and thought it was tremendous though. The most noticeable thing was that the special effects were almos hilariously better than anything around at that time. They were incredible! A truly great horror movie.

I'm definitely more into psychological thrillers. I'm all about atmosphere. I want to feel like whatever is happening could happen to me and get those adrenaline rushes that make me feel like it is. It's why I like apocalyptic movies.
 
The Martian: 8.5/10.0.

Well shot, well acted. Great pacing. Science is dubious at times but not egregiously so. Rather liked it.

See it in IMAX or 3D if you can.
 
King Stannis said:
The Martian: 8.5/10.0.

Well shot, well acted. Great pacing. Science is dubious at times but not egregiously so. Rather liked it.

See it in IMAX or 3D if you can.
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I saw The Martian in 3D, not IMAX. Maybe that's what it was missing. I flet the 3D was lack luster. Again, Avatar was the best 3D movie I have seen (to date). I have yet to see anything in IMAX.

8/10 for me. I really enjoyed it.

The LOTR reference made me chuckle. Because Sean Bean was there.
 
Interstellar 8/10

I just rewatched this. I think my previous rating was in the 6-7/10 range, so rewatching did bump it up a bit and reminded me that there are some truly great moments in this movie (the transition from Cooper driving away from the farm house to him launching in space, Cooper catching up on life events after being on the water planet, and the spinning docking sequence).

Rewatching though also reinforced my belief that the whole tesseract/communicating to Murph idea was an incredibly convoluted deus ex machina ending. That's not to say that I don't think that they do a decent enough job explaining the science behind everything, but it just feels rushed after 2.5 hours and in the end relies on the dumb luck that she realizes what the clock movements mean. Every movie asks you to suspend your disbelief at times, but in a movie that relies so heavily on logic it just seems strange to have your whole movie rest on your audience taking that leap of faith.

I also feel like it would have made sense to condense the second act into one disaster planet. There was no need, imo, to have two "tricks," especially when all that was gained by the second planet was the redocking sequence which could have been worked in some other way.

In the end, I hope that Nolan takes something away from this and TDKR experience and tries to do a better job of tightening up his films because he's clearly one of the best filmmakers of our time.

@gourimoko
 
Nicky said:
I saw The Martian in 3D, not IMAX. Maybe that's what it was missing. I flet the 3D was lack luster. Again, Avatar was the best 3D movie I have seen (to date). I have yet to see anything in IMAX.

8/10 for me. I really enjoyed it.

The LOTR reference made me chuckle. Because Sean Bean was there.
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There was an Apollo 13 reference, too.
 
King Stannis said:
The Martian: 8.5/10.0.

Well shot, well acted. Great pacing. Science is dubious at times but not egregiously so. Rather liked it.

See it in IMAX or 3D if you can.
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I think I'm leaning towards The Martian over Black Mass.

It's Depp vs. Damon
Bacon vs. Wigg @The Oi
Murder vs. Mars

Martian is in 3D but Mass isn't.
 
Mass was really good.

It was more driven by acting performances than plot IMO, but others may disagree.
 
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