Secret Ninja Movie Club (aka what have you watched lately)

[cyclopian]

Also just saw this on FB, some dute was asking for 'sci fi movies set in space' recommendations and this gyal came up with this:

"Space Jam
Event Horizon
Galexy Quest"

[vishes]

Watched Fury last night and really quite enjoyed it. (Although I do agree with what was said about the end bit)
Tanks for the recommendation!

[hubb]

booooooooh

which booh tho ?

[wubstep]

Watched this last night, really good quantum sci-fi/thriller, tense as fook, better than the trailer makes out.

[hubb]

Hunger games seems like it'd be kinda legit for a young teenager/pre-teen.

The story is pretty much just a mash up of classic sci-fi tropes blended with a cheesed out romance storyline.

battle royale wedding

[ehbes]

Hunger games seems like it'd be kinda legit for a young teenager/pre-teen.

The story is pretty much just a mash up of classic sci-fi tropes blended with a cheesed out romance storyline.

its young teen gladiator love mixed in with some oppressive totalitarian regime. gripping stuff really, gonna see the 3rd soon

[hubb]

good cast

kids that die

[ehbes]

my favorite kid death in film is when Gavroche dies. hate that little tnuc

[hubb]

had to google

but if he sings then yeah

[ehbes]

had to google

if he sings then yeah

little shit. Who in their right mind thought that picking an annoying little cockney mopheaded shit to play a stupid little parisian pleb was a good idea.

[hubb]

probably good if you want to keep it semi light hearted and still get to kill him on screen

[cyclopian]

Saw Fury last night, thought it was terrible.
Storyline was felt like it was pieced together from every other ww2 movie and they totally sensationalized the situations. Insanely predictable plot. I felt like there was a lot of room for character depth and growth but it was extremely basic and shallow for the most part.

[+] Spoiler

Young kid goes to war, becomes hardened.
Salty tank crew is angry at new kid and germans.
Angry tank commander turns out to be softer than he seems.

Also, the last scene was full of continuity problems that kept taking me out of the film.

[OGLemon]

Ending is laughable. 5 Americans vs 300 SS

[topmo3]

I saw a bit of the first hunger games movie (I guess it was that) and to me it seemed like a tired battle royale rip off

[topmo3]

Ending is laughable. 5 Americans vs 300 SS

they always make the sizan dumb targets in movies who drop like flies. poor izan

[Harkat]

Saw Fury last night, thought it was terrible.
Storyline was felt like it was pieced together from every other ww2 movie and they totally sensationalized the situations. Insanely predictable plot. I felt like there was a lot of room for character depth and growth but it was extremely basic and shallow for the most part.

[+] Spoiler

Young kid goes to war, becomes hardened.
Salty tank crew is angry at new kid and germans.
Angry tank commander turns out to be softer than he seems.

Also, the last scene was full of continuity problems that kept taking me out of the film.

[+] Spoiler

Yeah I did notice the inside shots of the tank showed daylight while the outside shots were in pitch black night for a few beats. I almost never notice that stuff in films, but it was surprisingly bad there

[nousd]

wasted me moula on Hunger Games...boring shit, tears & predictability...patent elongation to rake it in...will boycott last one.

Now, yu wanna see a good filum?
Go see The Dark Horse, a kiwi exposition of a chess-playing, psychiatrically-challenged maori who decides to help himself by teaching troubled kids chess.
No gloss nor Ken Loach contrived grit or over-acting. Pretty real imo. Characters appear to actually listen to each other.

[jrkhnds]

I saw a bit of the first hunger games movie (I guess it was that) and to me it seemed like a tired battle royale rip off

because it is. with added bigot annoying stance on morals.

[hubb]

Saw Fury last night, thought it was terrible.
Storyline was felt like it was pieced together from every other ww2 movie and they totally sensationalized the situations. Insanely predictable plot. I felt like there was a lot of room for character depth and growth but it was extremely basic and shallow for the most part.

[+] Spoiler

The plot is hardly the point like with most good war films. It's about putting you in that situation and no other ww2 film has had that going for it like this one has imo. Sure there's bits in saving private ryan, valkyrie or thin red line that kind of makes us understand the scale. But this is much, much darker and less patriotic.
And in this one there's a kill every other minute and you really get to see why ww2 was much more than other wars. I thought Pitt was great tbh, not clever, not likeable, not holy or anything - just fucked up from war. This director makes kind of similar films where it seems like showing the casualties is the point, the risk 'professionals' take. It's very similar to both sabotage and end of watch that have some of the same slight focus issues but imo the important bit is showing how grim it is and they get away with doing a film where half goes on inside a tiny little room.

[leyenda]

Saw Fury last night, thought it was terrible.
Storyline was felt like it was pieced together from every other ww2 movie and they totally sensationalized the situations. Insanely predictable plot. I felt like there was a lot of room for character depth and growth but it was extremely basic and shallow for the most part.

[+] Spoiler

The plot is hardly the point like with most good war films. It's about putting you in that situation and no other ww2 film has had that going for it like this one has imo. Sure there's bits in saving private ryan, valkyrie or thin red line that kind of makes us understand the scale. But this is much, much darker and less patriotic.

Come and See to me achieves this much more effectively as a war film. Even within Western WW2 films The Pianist probably captures it more effectively. Parts of this film were effective but really didn't add up to much as a whole in my opinion. One part in particular felt like it was a deleted scene from Inglourious Basterds.