Escape to the Movies: The Master

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You know when you're watching an American sitcom and the wife always wants to go out and be more cultured, she wants to go and see opera's and art exhibitions and the husband wants to sit at home watching sport but gets dragged out by the bagging wife?

This seems like a movie the wife would want to see. Fuck all action and mountainous piles of character development.

I think I'll go watch the expendables 2 instead.
 
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And thus Oscar season has begun, with this movie that's NOT about The Doctor's crazy frenemy from their childhood on Gallifrey, but "based on a true story" about Scientology. On Anderson's other movies Bob mentioned, I still can't make it through the 2nd 1/2 of Boogie Nights and to this day I have no idea what There Will Be Bood was about. Texas Oil men in the early 20th century? Daniel Day-Lewis shouting at the top of his lungs for 2 hours?

And about Dredd: It's grokking AWESOME!!! 2D, 3D, don't matter, it's just as insanely violent and off the wall as it should be, and Judge Dredd himself is a stone-cold badass laying down the law. Gotta see Looper.

Wait. Master? Blaster? Ho ho ho, you clever clog. Well done, sir.

captcha: sea shore
where she sells sea shells. Where else would she, the desert?
 
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Dredd sounds like a movie for me.
Masters does not.
Reference... no idea what that was all about...
 
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Paul Thomas Anderson: technically proficient director, absolutely too moralistic in the final accounting for me. In what universe have you made bad life choices when your life consists of banging both Heather Graham and Julianne Moore in their prime? What the hell else were you going to do if your career options were: greatest porn star ever or uneducated bus boy?

Looper: fantastic for the first third. Very good to good up until near the end. Not so thrilled with the ending.

In brief: a) unoriginal. It's Goddamn Donnie Darko again. b) Bruce Willis ceases to be future Joseph Gordon-Levitt the minute JGL meets Emily Blunt, but BW's still kicking around somehow. I feel like the further the two split the more of BW's humanity he loses until there's no emotional resonance with killing him anymore.

Edit: Initially I wasn't a fan of the ending logic-wise, but it works well enough for a movie. Still not a big fan of the conceit that 'only bodily harm that cannot be fixed over the course of 30 years affects your future self, and only in the most literal and immediate way', but things get very messy if chaos theory gets to play too.

Anybody else hoping that Gat turned out to be the younger, dumber version of Jeff Daniels and that it just got cut?
 
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DVS BSTrD said:
I think the escapist should have a standby movie reviewer for this time of year.

Edit: It's always the same isn't it? You start out thinking you can master the tides, but instead you just end-up riding the Wave.
Now THAT'S an obscure reference!
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I had to really think about that one.

 
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The Pumpkin Witch said:
I haven't watched this guy before. Does Bob always spend 3/5 of a show talking about other movies and the directors? What was the point of having an extended clip from There Will Be Blood? It felt like by the time he got around to the actual film he just spewed out a shake and bake review. Someone I know told me Bob could be fun to watch, but is THIS normal for him?
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No, this is a special case, watch some of the earlier one. He only mentions movies when they either relate to the movie being reviewed or movies that were popular that didn't screen for him.
 
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I really enjoyed Dredd and its pretty true to the comics although in the cityscape vista it did just look like LA that they just plonked some 200 storey skyscrapers in.

Its a far better film than Stallone's but I prefer the city in that one. Although i may have to re-watch it to be sure
 
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Great, now I have to blow the dust off of my old VHS copy of The Last Dragon.

And I haven't owned a VCR since 2001.
 
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Can't wait to see it! This will separate the sheep from the goats in regard to Paul Thomas Anderson's films.

Also, that RZA 'kung fu' film -- not interested. I grew up on the ACTUAL kung fu films not the piss poor dubbings and rude recuts and splices which RZA, Tarantino and the like all worship. Commemorating such films is perfectly fine endeavour and undoubtedly fun, but it has little to nothing to do with the original films and genre, nor the culture they came from, and this weird objectification by hip hop makes no sense to me. I'd rather dig out the classics and watch them.
 
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I just came back from watching Dredd. I feel a little underwhelmed coming out of the film, but its only because I don't think I fully "get" what the point of Judge Dredd as a character is supposed to be.
 
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Genndy Tartakovsky directing an Adam Sandler movie? I'm so conflicted right now.
[HR]I'll admit it, I had to look up the obscure reference, I did recognize Lord Bowler though.

"I've already eaten! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wVaePO0srI]"

Julius Carry R.I.P.
 
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Pipotchi said:
I really enjoyed Dredd and its pretty true to the comics although in the cityscape vista it did just look like LA that they just plonked some 200 storey skyscrapers in.
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It was filmed in South Africa apparently. I thought that the cityscape was very well done, as was the whole movie. It was a nice, well done action flick that made sure all of its component pieces were well put together. It wasn't a "large" film, but then I think that worked in its favor. Karl Urban was fantastic in it. Wouldn't have even known it was him if I hadn't known before hand.
 
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Aureliano said:
Paul Thomas Anderson: technically proficient director, absolutely too moralistic in the final accounting for me. In what universe have you made bad life choices when your life consists of banging both Heather Graham and Julianne Moore in their prime? What the hell else were you going to do if your career options were: greatest porn star ever or uneducated bus boy?

Looper: fantastic for the first third. Very good to good up until near the end. Not so thrilled with the ending.

In brief: a) unoriginal. It's Goddamn Donnie Darko again. b) Bruce Willis ceases to be future Joseph Gordon-Levitt the minute JGL meets Emily Blunt, but BW's still kicking around somehow. c) Once young Joe figures out that old Joe made the Rainmaker, why not just shoot off his own trigger finger and take a second to REMIND his older self of that little bit of logic? Or for that matter, shouldn't Bruce Willis just disappear when he realizes that? It's not like he's going to go back in time just so he can ruin the future by that point.

Good time travel movies should never have their logic bested by, "Trash can. Remember the trash can."
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I haven't seen Looper, does it work if you look at it from the point of view that as soon as BW does something to change the timeline he is now living in an alternate timeline but still existing?
It's some time travel theory about alternative universes or something.
 
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