Top movies of 2012

STAYSEA

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

It was horrifically violent, bloody and full of gore. I give it 4 out of 5. :corn:

81

STAYSEA wrote:

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

It was horrifically violent, bloody and full of gore. I give it 4 out of 5. :corn:

hopefully it will be on hbo or cinimax shortly

wpg pearl

huh? its an average movie at best.the way you describe it i wonder if we watched the same movie? lol

Jason P

The Expendables 2
21 Jump Street

Those were the only two I saw.

musicismylife78

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

shown at cannes, and a brad pitt film. for me, i see those types of films based on those 2 facts alone. I thought it was a good movie. Not for the faint of heart. Brad Pitt and the director were grilled during cannes about the violence, and brad and the director seemed okay with it. They suggested the violence was cartoony, and deliberately fake looking. I also think violence was essential in the story and theme they were making

I thought this movie was essentially what Zero should have been. There were larger political points made throughout the movie. To me, the theme of the movie was that america is built on crime and it drives the economy. The use of obama and bush in the background in the cafe and bar scenes really hit home that point. And its a point i make often. Its ludicruous that people tell children to be nonviolent, and then the president lobs bombs and drones and tortures people. Kids pick up on that, and in my view its why alot of crime is committed, and although it isnt okay to do that stuff, im a pacifist myself and vehemently antiwar and violence, but as a sociologist, i see a connection between the outrageous nature of the news, and whats going on in families, what the president is doing, and the culture at large.

The point was subtle but brilliant. Having some violent scene, then having Bush or Obama talking about violence and war in the background on some tv, really was ingenious.

81

musicismylife78 wrote:

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

shown at cannes, and a brad pitt film. for me, i see those types of films based on those 2 facts alone. I thought it was a good movie. Not for the faint of heart. Brad Pitt and the director were grilled during cannes about the violence, and brad and the director seemed okay with it. They suggested the violence was cartoony, and deliberately fake looking. I also think violence was essential in the story and theme they were making

I thought this movie was essentially what Zero should have been. There were larger political points made throughout the movie. To me, the theme of the movie was that america is built on crime and it drives the economy. The use of obama and bush in the background in the cafe and bar scenes really hit home that point. And its a point i make often. Its ludicruous that people tell children to be nonviolent, and then the president lobs bombs and drones and tortures people. Kids pick up on that, and in my view its why alot of crime is committed, and although it isnt okay to do that stuff, im a pacifist myself and vehemently antiwar and violence, but as a sociologist, i see a connection between the outrageous nature of the news, and whats going on in families, what the president is doing, and the culture at large.

The point was subtle but brilliant. Having some violent scene, then having Bush or Obama talking about violence and war in the background on some tv, really was ingenious.

damn it, i hate political shit in movies....absolutely ruined machete for me.

i'll defiantly be keeping an eye for this tho....sounds like real folks generally like it

musicismylife78

i actually really liked Jeff Who lives at home. That character is essentially me, and i completely related to the film. Plus any film directed by the Duplass brothers is going to be awesome. Ive seen pretty much every single film they've been part of, and liked nearly every single one. Only one i didnt love was Cyrus.

musicismylife78

Pap wrote:

dankind wrote:

To Rome With Love was decent enough, probably better than most of the crap playing at the multiplexes, but Woody Allen has the misfortune of being judged against his previous work, and in that respect, this one was a stinker.

That's true.

whats funny is Midnight in Paris was one of the best films of 2011 and i think will fit in nicely with the many classics he's made.

Pap

Anna Karenina

dankind

musicismylife78 wrote:

Pap wrote:

dankind wrote:

To Rome With Love was decent enough, probably better than most of the crap playing at the multiplexes, but Woody Allen has the misfortune of being judged against his previous work, and in that respect, this one was a stinker.

That's true.

whats funny is Midnight in Paris was one of the best films of 2011 and i think will fit in nicely with the many classics he's made.

Absolutely. When you are as productive as Woody Allen is (basically, a film a year) and have made some of best films of the past 50 years, some of them are not going to stand up to your previous work, epecially when the last film you made was a masterpiece such as Midnight in Paris. (Vonnegut wrote some stinkers when measured against his other books, but they were still great reads.)

Like I said, I think To Rome With Love was probably better than most of the films that came out this year, and I enjoyed it as much as any other movie I saw this year, with the exception of Moonrise Kingdom, which really got to me.

Woody Allen is far from obsolete, as recent films such as Midnight in Paris, Vicky Cristina Barcelona and Match Point prove, and he's 77 years old!

When Blue Jasmine is released, you can bet I'll be seeing it on opening weekend.

Long live the Woodman!

Pap

dankind wrote:

Long live the Woodman!

Amen, brother.

STAYSEA

81 wrote:

musicismylife78 wrote:

81 wrote:

did anybody see killing them softly? we were going to double dip it on christmas, but it was pulled just before then.

i thought it looked good, but it was given mediocre reviews.

shown at cannes, and a brad pitt film. for me, i see those types of films based on those 2 facts alone. I thought it was a good movie. Not for the faint of heart. Brad Pitt and the director were grilled during cannes about the violence, and brad and the director seemed okay with it. They suggested the violence was cartoony, and deliberately fake looking. I also think violence was essential in the story and theme they were making

I thought this movie was essentially what Zero should have been. There were larger political points made throughout the movie. To me, the theme of the movie was that america is built on crime and it drives the economy. The use of obama and bush in the background in the cafe and bar scenes really hit home that point. And its a point i make often. Its ludicruous that people tell children to be nonviolent, and then the president lobs bombs and drones and tortures people. Kids pick up on that, and in my view its why alot of crime is committed, and although it isnt okay to do that stuff, im a pacifist myself and vehemently antiwar and violence, but as a sociologist, i see a connection between the outrageous nature of the news, and whats going on in families, what the president is doing, and the culture at large.

The point was subtle but brilliant. Having some violent scene, then having Bush or Obama talking about violence and war in the background on some tv, really was ingenious.

damn it, i hate political shit in movies....absolutely ruined machete for me.

i'll defiantly be keeping an eye for this tho....sounds like real folks generally like it

It's was easy to ignore the political themes. But I agree, at first it was distracting. A few beers into it and I didn't really care.