Posted January 02, 2017
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kalirion
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Posted January 02, 2017
Best Movie - Deadpool
Runner Up for Best Movie - Captain America: Civil War
Don't Quite Understand All The Hype Movie - Zootopia
Worst Movie - Star Wars: Rogue One
Those are the four movies I saw this year.
Runner Up for Best Movie - Captain America: Civil War
Don't Quite Understand All The Hype Movie - Zootopia
Worst Movie - Star Wars: Rogue One
Those are the four movies I saw this year.
Post edited January 02, 2017 by kalirion
itchy01ca01
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Posted January 02, 2017
Best Movie: Rouge One.
Sorry, it really is that good. People trying to nay-say it seem like hipsters who hate everything and really didn't understand that Star Wars needs to go darker. And it did.
Oh, and the "Vader dad-joke" thing? Is it really THAT much of a problem?
And overly corporatized? REALLY? No corporation in their right mind would allow that ending.
Sorry, it really is that good. People trying to nay-say it seem like hipsters who hate everything and really didn't understand that Star Wars needs to go darker. And it did.
Oh, and the "Vader dad-joke" thing? Is it really THAT much of a problem?
And overly corporatized? REALLY? No corporation in their right mind would allow that ending.
rampancy: Biggest Positive Surprise: Star Trek Beyond - I wasn't expecting much after Into Darkness left me feeling levels of anger I'd not felt since Attack of the Clones, not to mention the announcement that Justin Lin was directing it. However Beyond really was a very enjoyable and very solid Star Trek film that hit very close to the mark in terms of capturing the feel and spirit of the original series. The acting, writing and dialogue all were excellent, at least for the crew. Of course, the only weak point of the movie was that Idris Elba's Krall wasn't fleshed out as well as he could/should have been.
Biggest Non-Surprise: Rogue One. I expected a highly corporatized and commoditized product dressed up to look like a flashy war movie clothed in Star Wars garb. And for me, it was exactly that.
Beyond was.. yech. Disgusting. All flash and absolutely no substance. 2009 was SO much better. I could predict the plot and almost every dialogue point during Beyond. At least in the first one it was fresh and fun and new. Not this one. If you want something to focus your anger on, focus on how shitty Beyond was.Biggest Non-Surprise: Rogue One. I expected a highly corporatized and commoditized product dressed up to look like a flashy war movie clothed in Star Wars garb. And for me, it was exactly that.
Post edited January 02, 2017 by itchy01ca01
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Posted January 02, 2017
I loved Deadpool too. It was the only one I saw this year that came out this year (and even then it was on HBO) so I can't compare it to anything. :P
Post edited January 02, 2017 by tinyE
rampancy
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Posted January 02, 2017
tinyE: I loved Deadpool too. It was the only one I saw this year that came out this year (and even then it was on HBO) so I can't compare it to anything. :P
I just love Deadpool for existing. If you haven't seen it already you might want to see Ryan Reynolds' interview at Google to see what he had to go through to get the thing made.Kleetus
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itchy01ca01: And overly corporatized? REALLY? No corporation in their right mind would allow that ending.
Given the fact that it was stuffed full of unnecessary Vader fan-service that should have gone more towards fleshing out the characters (and the movie itself was surrounded by an insane amount of marketing), yes, I'd say it was overly corporatized. But then again, this isn't new; you could argue it started all the way back with Return of the Jedi. With Disney moving towards a yearly release schedule for Star Wars, it's fairly apparent that they're going with the same general model EA's adopted with Battlefield, or Activision with Call of Duty. And while I do commend the higher-ups at Disney for okaying the movie's ending, the problem is that the characters arguably aren't given the development they need for us to genuinely care about what ultimately happens to them, with the exception of K2SO and possibly also Baze Malbus/Chirrut Îmwe. Instead -- just like the elevator scene in Attack of the Clones -- we're told, not shown everything we need to know.
Do I hate Rogue One? No, I quite enjoyed it. I think CGI Tarkin was a fitting tribute to Peter Cushing's role in ANH, and Krennic was an interesting villain. But IMHO we've seen the Dirty Dozen formula done before, and done better before.
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Posted January 02, 2017
I have now seen Rogue One. While the movie was enjoyable, there were some issues with it. (In case it matters, I ended up seeing the 3D version, which is not what I would have preferred.)
* The previews before the movie (of which there were way too many) were obnoxious. The sound was loud and distorted to the point where it felt like an assault on my ears. The Transformers preview gave me a bit of motion sickness. I also saw some destruction of objects (like glass), which is something I do not enjoy. (I don't remember if there were shouting arguments, the other thing I don't want to see when I go to the movies/TV.) What is somebody who's sensitive to loud noise supposed to do if she wants to see a movie in the theater?
Getting to the actual movie:
* In some scenes, backgrounds (and sometimes even characters less important to the scene) were blurry. I would accept this in a low budget film, but I have a feeling that Rogue One was not low budget.
* The early and late parts of the film had plenty of action, but there was the whole middle portion of the film where there was basically no action at all. I can understand the need to maybe space out the action a bit to give the audience a rest (something the previews failed to do), but a somewhat more even distribution would have helped.
* When it comes to important characters that actually participate in the action, there's still a gender imbalance; even taking into account Jyn, the cast is still male-dominated. (It is at least better than the classic trilogy and the prequels in this respect.) (The movie does pass the Bechdel test thanks to certain scenes in the middle of the movie where Jyn interacts with other non-combatant members of the rebellion.)
* There is a lack of interesting villains. If you don't count Darth Vader (whose role in this film is minor, as it isn't really his story; that would be Episode 5), there are no villains who are important enough to be given names.
* Rogue One is lacking the procedural generation and turn-based combat found in other Rogue titles such as Rogue.
It may sound like I don't like the movie, but that is actually not the case. I enjoy it, but I think that both Episode 7 and the new Ghostbusters are better (but I can come up with flaws for these two movies as well.) (Also, in case you couldn't tell, the last bullet point is a joke, but the rest are serious.)
* The previews before the movie (of which there were way too many) were obnoxious. The sound was loud and distorted to the point where it felt like an assault on my ears. The Transformers preview gave me a bit of motion sickness. I also saw some destruction of objects (like glass), which is something I do not enjoy. (I don't remember if there were shouting arguments, the other thing I don't want to see when I go to the movies/TV.) What is somebody who's sensitive to loud noise supposed to do if she wants to see a movie in the theater?
Getting to the actual movie:
* In some scenes, backgrounds (and sometimes even characters less important to the scene) were blurry. I would accept this in a low budget film, but I have a feeling that Rogue One was not low budget.
* The early and late parts of the film had plenty of action, but there was the whole middle portion of the film where there was basically no action at all. I can understand the need to maybe space out the action a bit to give the audience a rest (something the previews failed to do), but a somewhat more even distribution would have helped.
* When it comes to important characters that actually participate in the action, there's still a gender imbalance; even taking into account Jyn, the cast is still male-dominated. (It is at least better than the classic trilogy and the prequels in this respect.) (The movie does pass the Bechdel test thanks to certain scenes in the middle of the movie where Jyn interacts with other non-combatant members of the rebellion.)
* There is a lack of interesting villains. If you don't count Darth Vader (whose role in this film is minor, as it isn't really his story; that would be Episode 5), there are no villains who are important enough to be given names.
* Rogue One is lacking the procedural generation and turn-based combat found in other Rogue titles such as Rogue.
It may sound like I don't like the movie, but that is actually not the case. I enjoy it, but I think that both Episode 7 and the new Ghostbusters are better (but I can come up with flaws for these two movies as well.) (Also, in case you couldn't tell, the last bullet point is a joke, but the rest are serious.)
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Posted January 02, 2017
Just watched it yesterday and was about to post how shitty it was.
The dodgy accents and mumbling totally ruined it, how the hell are you supposed to understand anything?
I thought I was watching Walking with Neanderthals the way they were freaking mumbling.
And I have no idea why it was released in HDR.
Although that's not the movie's fault, some movie environments just aren't as suited for HDR as others are.
The dodgy accents and mumbling totally ruined it, how the hell are you supposed to understand anything?
I thought I was watching Walking with Neanderthals the way they were freaking mumbling.
And I have no idea why it was released in HDR.
Although that's not the movie's fault, some movie environments just aren't as suited for HDR as others are.
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Posted January 02, 2017
If anyone actually cares (Protip: Nobody does), here's my list of 2016's tops and bottoms.
I'll go ahead and add The Great Wall to the list of films I actually liked, despite going in expecting to absolutely hate it. It's getting torn to pieces by audience and critics, but there are a lot of things I genuinely liked:
- Willem Dafoe is in it
- Pedro Pascal pretty much plays the equivalent of Eli Wallach's character from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and he does a damn good job of it
- solid cinematography, doesn't do that shakycam thing during battle scenes
- the 3D was wonderfully non-intrusive, it was almost as good as watching a 2D movie
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one doesn't WAAAAAY overstay its welcome, running at a brisk 104 minutes
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one actually wraps up the proceedings nicely and the ending doesn't feel like a set-up for a sequel (or *gasp* a franchise)
I'll go ahead and add The Great Wall to the list of films I actually liked, despite going in expecting to absolutely hate it. It's getting torn to pieces by audience and critics, but there are a lot of things I genuinely liked:
- Willem Dafoe is in it
- Pedro Pascal pretty much plays the equivalent of Eli Wallach's character from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and he does a damn good job of it
- solid cinematography, doesn't do that shakycam thing during battle scenes
- the 3D was wonderfully non-intrusive, it was almost as good as watching a 2D movie
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one doesn't WAAAAAY overstay its welcome, running at a brisk 104 minutes
- unlike most blockbusters nowadays, this one actually wraps up the proceedings nicely and the ending doesn't feel like a set-up for a sequel (or *gasp* a franchise)
Breja
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Posted January 02, 2017
fronzelneekburm: If anyone actually cares (Protip: Nobody does), here's my list of 2016's tops and bottoms.
Hey, I liked Batman V Superman! But at least we agree about Civil War being a piece of shit. Then again you seem to dislike superhero movies on principle :P I really regret not seeing Hacksaw Ridge in the cinema. I'll definately see it once it's on DVD. Although it is likely I will hate it- a friend of mine really liked it, and we usually have the polar opposite opinions about pretty much all movies :D
Oh, and I liked Blood Father much more than I thought I would. It's not a great movie or anything, but for the kind of movie it's suppsoed to be it works really well, and it was just fun to see Gibson in something like this again and not something bordering on self-parody like Expendables.
Kaesemeister
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Posted January 02, 2017
Warcraft: The Beginning was a huge disappointment, at least for me.
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Posted January 02, 2017
"Like" would be a bit of a strong term, but I didn't really dislike it either. I thought it was interesting. Of all the superhero movies I saw this year - I'm sad to say I saw pretty much all the major ones: Deadpool, X-Men, Bats VS Supes, Civil War - this is the only one that I feel inclined to watch again at some point.
Kind of, but I guess it's a little more complicated than that. When I was a child, my favourite movie was the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve and I still love that one. One of my all-time favourites is RoboCop, which - while it's not based on a comic - definitely has that origin story comic book feel to it.
So I guess it's not the superhero stuff in and of itself that I mind, it's the oversaturation of superhero movies.
Kind of, but I guess it's a little more complicated than that. When I was a child, my favourite movie was the first Superman movie with Christopher Reeve and I still love that one. One of my all-time favourites is RoboCop, which - while it's not based on a comic - definitely has that origin story comic book feel to it.
So I guess it's not the superhero stuff in and of itself that I mind, it's the oversaturation of superhero movies.
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Posted January 02, 2017
tinyE: I loved Deadpool too. It was the only one I saw this year that came out this year (and even then it was on HBO) so I can't compare it to anything. :P
rampancy: I just love Deadpool for existing. If you haven't seen it already you might want to see Ryan Reynolds' interview at Google to see what he had to go through to get the thing made. I fell out of the my chair when that happened. XD