movies

[thrill]

Star Trek was bad but it didn't have to be. Obvious fealty to studio economic interest and misguided, clumsy shout outs to fan boys made what could have been as fun a movie as the last one into a total dud.

The cast was as likable and charismatic as the last one, but some really dumb choices in plot and script ruined it.

[Vidor]

What could make me even more excited about "The World's End"? Finding out that the insanely good-looking Rosamund Pike is in it.

Full-length trailer.

http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-worlds-end,98108/

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Only God Forgives - the new Refn/Gosling Bangkok crime movie - is getting trashed, and yet every trashing makes it sound awesome. From one of the few positive reviews by Andrew O'Hehir:

In this case, we have a director who has deliberately chosen to move away from the fusion of American genre movie and European artistry embodied in “Drive.” Even though it displays a man sliced open to the ribcage and features two scenes of Muay Thai martial arts – in one of them, Gosling’s character receives a vicious ass-kicking from a middle-aged Thai man – “Only God Forgives” is an abstract, dreamlike, heavily symbolic film with little concern for pacing and almost no dialogue. Shot largely at night in death-dream-sex colors (black, deep blue, blood red, magenta) by cinematographer Larry Smith, this movie is more akin to Refn’s experimental Viking-era freakout “Valhalla Rising” than to “Drive.” It’s the martial-arts movie that might result from a drunken collaboration between David Lynch, Luis Buñuel and Michael Haneke.

[expletive] yes.

[Vidor]

Feminists get all pissy because Alice Eve was shown in her underwear in "Star Trek"

http://www.grantland.com/blog/hollywood ... y-exchange

[go birds]

Been awhile since i perused....has this been posted? it looks incredible:

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[The Third Man]

It's a great movie. 4th best movie I've seen this year, out of 11.

[go birds]

what are the other 3

[The Third Man]

what are the other 3

Top three are Spring Breakers (natch), To the Wonder and Mud. I could see an argument for Place Beyond the Pines over Mud, though. Anyway, all kickass movies.

Also, I finally watched It's Such a Beautiful Day, and holy [expletive], that's the best animated film I've ever seen.

[go birds]

I didn't realize that The Place Beyond the Pines had already been released. Guess I'll have to wait til it comes out on DVD.

Damn limited releases.

[go birds]

Warrior was really goddamn good.

I hate MMA, which is why i was so reluctant to watch it. Great movie though.

Plus the use of The National was terrific.