Escape to the Movies: Chronicle
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Just to pop in here, there is a difference here between being hurt and suffering scars and actively seeking to continue perpetuating this victim mentality where you are a poor guy and everything you see always comes down to a victim-bully paradigm.MANIFESTER said:
I agree with Bob that I hate the found footage gimmick. However I might give this movie a whirl.
tha saidd I must of been a weird nerdy kid in that though I do have the superpowered fantasy more and more they began to take the form of leading normal people to stop a superpowered aggressor, to work together with others and overcome a monster.
I had the exact same though. That trope is one of my biggest pet peeves. I'll still make time for this movie though.MowDownJoe said:
I cannot wait to see this movie. I haven't wanted to see a movie this bad since Warrior came out, back in SEPTEMBER. Trailers look cool. The honesty is worthy of praise (the fact that when teenagers get super powers, they don't automatically decide to save the world, but instead decide to dick around with them). And now, all movie reviewers that I respect are throwing roses at its feet. It's like icing on the cake!
1. I really want to see this movie now.
2. I'm still pissed at the Patriots for beating my Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl years back, ergo screw those guys and in particular Tom Brady, let's go Giants.
3. Adam Sandler, you might want to lay off the drugs, man. Because really, a Candy Land movie?
2. I'm still pissed at the Patriots for beating my Carolina Panthers in the Super Bowl years back, ergo screw those guys and in particular Tom Brady, let's go Giants.
3. Adam Sandler, you might want to lay off the drugs, man. Because really, a Candy Land movie?
Knowing my karma...that might actually be close to the truth, although not as awesome as MrDeckard depicts.Scars Unseen said:
CAPTCHA: andotify Chamber
NURSE! Get that man to the Andotify Chamber...STAT!!!
Not-so-subtly calling Kojima "God"
Potentially spoiling a character death
Rooting for the Pats
Yep, I officially hate this video. But I'll still see Chronicle.
Potentially spoiling a character death
Rooting for the Pats
Yep, I officially hate this video. But I'll still see Chronicle.
Damn right, Go Pats!MovieBob said:
Also I was on the fence about seeing this, and now I plan to go. Thanks
canadamus_prime said:
Frank_Sinatra_ said:
Look, when I was a kid, I was bullied so bad I had to be home schooled for the rest of my schooling years. I was ten. But I don't let it rule my life making up petty revenge fantasies and constantly talking about it like Bob does. I'm 21, and I've moved past it. Maybe you guys haven't. I don't know how old you all are, but when you're 30 years old, are you seriously going to still have it hanging over you like Bob does? I mean, really?MANIFESTER said:
Hmmm, maybe if we're lucky it will turn out to be based on Carlton Mellick III's "Cannibals Of Candyland"! 
That said, this one might (Chronicle) be worth checking out.
Honestly, I also tend to think we need something similar to "Watchmen" when it comes to these avenging nerds, where the guy your cheering for, actually wins, without it entirely being presented as a bad thing. I tend to think that movies like "Law Abiding Citizen" were kind of ruined by the need for the guy your going to be cheering for to wind up losing, and that guy losing requiring some horrible writing during the end.
I'll also be honest in saying that I think it's time to grow up about Columbine and start looking at the actual issues. I've looked at that from a lot of perspectives, and the big question I always arrive at is "what else were they supposed to do?". The general answer from society is "shut up and take it" reinforced by few school reforms to do anything but restrain violent expression to drive people even more nuts. Maybe Columbine isn't the perfect example, but it's on a list of things I look at when it comes to the simple point that working within the system doesn't always work, and any way you slice it nothing short of this attempt at armed revolution would have gotten any attention at all. It was not however a movement, but an individual act, and as such a lack of pesistance has allowed a lot of what it was actually about to be glossed over and propagandized, with things going in exactly the opposite direction that they should.
While long (which people complain about) I'll also add that I've been reading a few conspiricies about the popularity of the found footage genere, and why it's getting greenlit recently despite it's history going back to the 80s... plausible deniability based on people wanting to "try and make their own movie similar to these" if real found footage was to ever surface which would be an issue in any cover up in a world where people have such huge access to recording technology. I'm not exactly a believer, but I have to admit a few things I've read have been very thought provoking, especially when you consider what garbage most of these movies are.
That said, this one might (Chronicle) be worth checking out.
Honestly, I also tend to think we need something similar to "Watchmen" when it comes to these avenging nerds, where the guy your cheering for, actually wins, without it entirely being presented as a bad thing. I tend to think that movies like "Law Abiding Citizen" were kind of ruined by the need for the guy your going to be cheering for to wind up losing, and that guy losing requiring some horrible writing during the end.
I'll also be honest in saying that I think it's time to grow up about Columbine and start looking at the actual issues. I've looked at that from a lot of perspectives, and the big question I always arrive at is "what else were they supposed to do?". The general answer from society is "shut up and take it" reinforced by few school reforms to do anything but restrain violent expression to drive people even more nuts. Maybe Columbine isn't the perfect example, but it's on a list of things I look at when it comes to the simple point that working within the system doesn't always work, and any way you slice it nothing short of this attempt at armed revolution would have gotten any attention at all. It was not however a movement, but an individual act, and as such a lack of pesistance has allowed a lot of what it was actually about to be glossed over and propagandized, with things going in exactly the opposite direction that they should.
While long (which people complain about) I'll also add that I've been reading a few conspiricies about the popularity of the found footage genere, and why it's getting greenlit recently despite it's history going back to the 80s... plausible deniability based on people wanting to "try and make their own movie similar to these" if real found footage was to ever surface which would be an issue in any cover up in a world where people have such huge access to recording technology. I'm not exactly a believer, but I have to admit a few things I've read have been very thought provoking, especially when you consider what garbage most of these movies are.
Unsure if I want to cry "spoiler!" on this one. You basically gave away what happens at the end and that one of the three main characters die. That's pretty significant stuff. Granted, I don't know how much they show in the trailers, and it's stuff that you may figure out while watching it anyway (even though some of us are more blissfully unaware of the tropes of the genre than others), but still. Can't help but feel I would probably have been more excited for it if you had left those parts out of the review. Then again, I'm known to be kind of sensitive about spoilers so maybe it's just me...
Dude. Dude. Dude.
I am so sick of every action/thriller/sci-fi/superhero movie being a giant bro-fest! Why couldn't at least ONE of the characters in this movie be a woman? Or how about 2 women and one guy? That would have been an interesting dynamic.
But no... 99% of today's movies are made by and for men. Any female character is simply a sex object for the male gaze.
And don't start giving me examples of female superheroes in movies, unless you can give me one who DOESN'T dress like a stripper (or worse), and who has her own life that is not dependent upon a male character.
Ugh.
I am so sick of every action/thriller/sci-fi/superhero movie being a giant bro-fest! Why couldn't at least ONE of the characters in this movie be a woman? Or how about 2 women and one guy? That would have been an interesting dynamic.
But no... 99% of today's movies are made by and for men. Any female character is simply a sex object for the male gaze.
And don't start giving me examples of female superheroes in movies, unless you can give me one who DOESN'T dress like a stripper (or worse), and who has her own life that is not dependent upon a male character.
Ugh.
Because those socially isoalted groups usually are composed of men? Or the writer was man and would feel more comfortable writing people of hios own gender as he understands those group dynamics better?lesterley said:
I think your point at large is fine but having a movie made with an focus ona group of three male friends is fine and probaly made it the better movie.
Bob, normally I will agree with you and sometimes defend you but this tome I ca't, even though I know where you're coming from...
Go Giants
more OT: nice to see that this movie got a good review
Go Giants
more OT: nice to see that this movie got a good review
Yes. I'm also 30 and it still effects me to this day; not as much as it once did, but still does. It's because of that that I'm afraid to go out and meet new people. And yeah, if I got super powers I'd probably go around smashing bullies in the face.TheDrunkNinja said:
So maybe you're more resilient than Bob and myself, hooray for you; but don't go around judging everyone else by your standards.