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Svnla

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Saw 3 movies over the weekend.

100 ft Journey - 8/10. Interesting concept. Good acting and the scenery <the town and the restaurant and food> was very good. I have no idea what that punky black fruit/vegetable was and I do know a few things about Asia and its culture/food/way of life.


Lucy - 7/10 (1 bonus point for Sca Jo) - interesting concept of 10% brain but not enough action and I did LOL at the open carry gun in the Taiwanese hospital. The ending was meh (come on really..into something), could be a lot better. Oh and the Chinese dialect in the movie was strange.


Guardians of the Galaxy - 8.5/10. Love the "Rocket" racoon. He stole the show.."so we are a bunch of jackasses..standing up". I think there would be a sequel. Oh, and love the cameo role of certain someone (like in Spiderman movies>
 
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Fingolfin269

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I'm not going to worry about putting a rating on this film but Guardians of the Galaxy was great. It seemed effortless and made me wonder why it's so hard to make a film that is actually good when whoever made this movie made it look so easy.
 

WiseUp216

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Moon - 8.875/10

Great movie! It brings up a lot of questions that society could find itself facing within this century. I don't want to spoil too much.

It left me and the girlfriend completely full of the sads, but in a good way.
 

purbeast0

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Sep 13, 2001
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TMNT (2014) - solid 9/10. it's just a really really fun movie and the effects are incredible. and megan fox actually did a good job, especially when you think about the scenes with all of the turtles.

I also finished season 8 of Dexter last night and I really don't understand all of the hate about the final season of the show.
 

ImpulsE69

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Jan 8, 2010
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Not a Movie, but if you've never watched any Red Dwarf try it someday.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVmKeisK2cU

The wife even hates British comedy, but she used to watch that every week with me when it was on.

Great series. The JFK episode is my favorite of them. I'm guessing you already knew there was a season 10 released last year(maybe year before) and that there is another season coming out next year!
 

Ichinisan

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Oct 9, 2002
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Moon - 8.875/10

Great movie! It brings up a lot of questions that society could find itself facing within this century. I don't want to spoil too much.

It left me and the girlfriend completely full of the sads, but in a good way.

Glad you watched it. This is a great movie!

I love the gradual escalating intensity of Clint Mansell's score.
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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I also finished season 8 of Dexter last night and I really don't understand all of the hate about the final season of the show.

They are just really poor compared to the first ~4 or 5 seasons. Everything is just, forced--and Dexter begins to be written as this superhero type character: that opening scene in was it, season 7 or 8 where he plays dead? A show that begins with a rather absurd premise somehow manages to leap beyond those acceptable boundaries of absurdity.

I think that final season, over all, is OK (season 7 was the really, really, really, really bad one), but the ending was a cheap cop-out.

Rather than keeping with much of the show's original tension--forcing Dexter to make tough decisions with this life he has chosen--after that 5th season, the writers seemed willing to just give Dexter everything he wants; seemingly for no other reason than to satisfy those viewers that simply want Dexter to succeed, despite all else. Hence, major cop-out. :\

Dexter 1-5: great show. Worthy of one of the best ever.
6-8: Not worth anyone's time (despite some decent character, nothing makes up for the overall shallowness of those seasons)
1-8: leaves you with the overall taste of a middling show, just refusing to die.
 

purbeast0

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They are just really poor compared to the first ~4 or 5 seasons. Everything is just, forced--and Dexter begins to be written as this superhero type character: that opening scene in was it, season 7 or 8 where he plays dead? A show that begins with a rather absurd premise somehow manages to leap beyond those acceptable boundaries of absurdity.

I think that final season, over all, is OK (season 7 was the really, really, really, really bad one), but the ending was a cheap cop-out.

Rather than keeping with much of the show's original tension--forcing Dexter to make tough decisions with this life he has chosen--after that 5th season, the writers seemed willing to just give Dexter everything he wants; seemingly for no other reason than to satisfy those viewers that simply want Dexter to succeed, despite all else. Hence, major cop-out. :\

Dexter 1-5: great show. Worthy of one of the best ever.
6-8: Not worth anyone's time (despite some decent character, nothing makes up for the overall shallowness of those seasons)
1-8: leaves you with the overall taste of a middling show, just refusing to die.

i'll agree that the early seasons were better for sure, but i'm glad that things in season 8 aren't the same as they were in season 1. if dexter was the same character, then we wouldn't have seen any kind of evolution of his character, which to me, is what the entire series is about. i won't spoil it in here, but his character does a dramatic change throughout the entire 8 seasons, which i'm glad we got to see his transformation instead of him being the same one dimensional character the entire series.

i do agree though that the show did go over the top a lot, but then again, it's a show about a forensics cop who is a blood spatter expert, and oh, also happens to be a serial killer!
 

zinfamous

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Jul 12, 2006
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i'll agree that the early seasons were better for sure, but i'm glad that things in season 8 aren't the same as they were in season 1. if dexter was the same character, then we wouldn't have seen any kind of evolution of his character, which to me, is what the entire series is about. i won't spoil it in here, but his character does a dramatic change throughout the entire 8 seasons, which i'm glad we got to see his transformation instead of him being the same one dimensional character the entire series.

i do agree though that the show did go over the top a lot, but then again, it's a show about a forensics cop who is a blood spatter expert, and oh, also happens to be a serial killer!

yeah, I liked his character development, and learning to adapt, as best he could, to normalcy
though in the end, he pretty much goes back to being the same outcast. So, while that was nice, there was no real justice, which I think was deserved
. As mentioned in the other thread, which I only now saw, one of the original creators had a writeup for the final episode and the series ending, which I think is much better than what we are left with. But so it goes.

And I mispoke--it was season 6 that was the most offensive one: Colin Hanks and Admiral Adama. Just...bad bad bad bad all around.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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haha yeah tom hanks son was terrible. the show is already plauged with awful acting, and even he stood out as being the worst.
 

zinfamous

No Lifer
Jul 12, 2006
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haha yeah tom hanks son was terrible. the show is already plauged with awful acting, and even he stood out as being the worst.

I was uncomfortably grabbing my nose like Wily Wiggins in Dazed & Confused throughout that entire season, whenever Hanks came into frame.
 

clamum

Lifer
Feb 13, 2003
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Expendables 3: 8/10

I've seen the previous two movies in the series and thought this one was definitely the best. Lots of great action and and lots of laughs (fuckin Antonio Banderas, lol) which is what I expected and it delivered. My only real complaint is that there were some really shitty CGI scenes but that was about it.
 

steve wilson

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Transformers Age of Extinction: 7/10

I am a transformers fan, so I may be a little biased

Story wasn't awesome, but the action was good. Some of the bits that were supposed to be funny were just awkward, the parts with Stanley Tucci.
 

steve wilson

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TMNT (2014) - solid 9/10. it's just a really really fun movie and the effects are incredible. and megan fox actually did a good job, especially when you think about the scenes with all of the turtles.

I also finished season 8 of Dexter last night and I really don't understand all of the hate about the final season of the show.

Regarding Dexter: the ending was a bit shit and I think it just got too repetitive. The show just ran for too long.
 

alkemyst

No Lifer
Feb 13, 2001
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Expendables 3: 8/10

I've seen the previous two movies in the series and thought this one was definitely the best. Lots of great action and and lots of laughs (fuckin Antonio Banderas, lol) which is what I expected and it delivered. My only real complaint is that there were some really shitty CGI scenes but that was about it.

Being you more than likely watched the leaked version that is floating around the internet, you may actually have not seen the final cut/edited version.
 
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I am absolutely bored by Sci-fi and most movies these days. I'm 38 and 10 years ago I would have loved a lot of the movies coming out today. But it's turning into recycled crap. Same story, different people. Please mention any uncommon movie with decent production value that has an interesting original story. Just sick of all this Transformer and comic book based crap that is the same thing over and over again. I am praying for Spawn 2 (hard R pushing NC-17) and praying that the next Terminator movie does not suck .... it will.

And FWIW ... I have a good idea for a historical sci-fi fiction movie but have no idea where to start. I have considered actually trying my hand at a script. The script would be more of a detailed outline though. Or atleast, I would have to start with a detailed outline.
 
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n7

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Jan 4, 2004
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Coherence (2013) - 8/10 - Part sci-fi, part human drama about a group of old friends meeting for dinner on the night a comet is passing close to Earth. Things get weird quickly. It was pretty interesting and can't go too far into it w/o giving too much of the plot away.

On my watchlist!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. (2014) 9/10

great, fun film

Hahahahaha...:whiste:



I really liked it too.


Moon - 8.875/10

Great movie! It brings up a lot of questions that society could find itself facing within this century. I don't want to spoil too much.

It left me and the girlfriend completely full of the sads, but in a good way.

I want to watch that again. It was an amazing movie.



I'm intrigued by this one.
 
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