The Big Picture: MovieBob's Best of 2013

Stabby Joe

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Markunator said:
Stabby Joe said:
Markunator said:
You just haven't watched the right stuff. Watch the Swedish films Show Me Love and Kiss Me (With Every Heartbeat) as well as the TV series Orange Is the New Black and Skins (there's a lesbian couple in the third and fourth season).
TV does seem to be better than film in this instance, Skins for example was well done there. From what I gather now though, Blue seems to be the "young bi-curious" angle. Again, have yet to see it but I'm skeptical.
Good to know you liked the lesbian romance in Skins, too! Just out of curiosity - what, specifically, did you like about it?
That she came off as believable since it was a big part of herself while also identifying as separate from her twin and of course the denial of her love interest. It was a common issue played out normally along with both male and female friends, that just happened to involve 2 women.

I don't believe that in many cases in film, that the lesbian angle being their ONLY character trait and the sex having more emphasis than a straight couple would have had on average.
 

thehermit2

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I saw Wolf of Wall Street on Tuesday. Wolf of Wall Street was not a great movie. It was a good spectacle, and it was fairly entertaining, but I walked out of it feeling like I had been talked down to about serious issues about the stock market and our economy for three hours while the director tried to hard sell me qualudes and the merits of mysogeny, all to the tune of the third act of Goodfellas meets a watered down version of Casino at a Hollywood coke party. I think the ultimate effect of this movie will be to generate a new generation of amoral stock market slimeballs, because what else are they gonna do? Flip burgers at McDonalds? I would rather have seen this move done from the perspective of the FBI Agent who arrested Belfort and focusing on interviews with the victims, but then I have a hard time seeing Scorsese doing that flick.

Pacific Rim was pretty decent. Could have used a few more giant-robot-versus-monster-battles. I would have liked to see the Chinese team put on a better show before they got taken out.

And yes, the Atlas Shrugged movies do absolutely suck, but I am still holding out hope that they will turn it around with the third film.
 

tangoprime

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Pacific Rim... yeah... no.

I thoroughly enjoyed the monster punching bits, but they were a tiny fraction of the movie. The rest was cliche, one-note characters spouting painfully trite dialogue at one another.
Yeah, I enjoyed it in theatre because it felt like I was watching live-action Evangelion, but after watching it a second time recently, GOD that dialog was garbage. The characters are super cliche, and the whole damn thing felt like they were going for the vibrant animation-to-reality live-action Street Fighter feel but it didn't work. But the HK fight was good, and Max Martini (Herc) is good here and sorely needs to be in more movies (and is interestingly in 1 of Bob's top 10, being the SEAL Commander in Captain Phillips).
 

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KissingSunlight said:
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I agree with Mark Kermode's critic friend. I had a serious issue with Crash, but loved Pain & Gain. The difference between the two was the honesty they dealt with their subject. Michael Bay showed the warts and all of what their protagonists were doing. While Crash have their characters change their racial attitude to suit whatever would advance the plot without having any basis in realty.
He said the friend was talking about Cronenberg's Crash - that's the "cars accidents=sex" movie, not the "everybody's racist" movie.
 

KissingSunlight

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Raikas said:
KissingSunlight said:
Markunator said:
I agree with Mark Kermode's critic friend. I had a serious issue with Crash, but loved Pain & Gain. The difference between the two was the honesty they dealt with their subject. Michael Bay showed the warts and all of what their protagonists were doing. While Crash have their characters change their racial attitude to suit whatever would advance the plot without having any basis in realty.
He said the friend was talking about Cronenberg's Crash - that's the "cars accidents=sex" movie, not the "everybody's racist" movie.
Oops! You were right. I'll still stand by what I said about the "Everybody racist" Crash.
 

thehorror2

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I loved Pacific Rim, but I couldn't give it a #1 slot because there's just not enough MOVIE there. It moves so quickly and covers so many bases that none of the characters other than Mako, Raleigh, and Stacker (EFFING) Pentecost get any characterization at all. And they killed off the cool Russian team in their first big fight. Anytime someone cool dies before we get to see them actually do anything cool, I am disappointed.