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Finally: an interesting Hollywood remake. Contact could be a lot better with Anne Hathaway as Jodie Foster.
 
Early reviews for Godzilla are 85% on RT.

Nearly every fan of kaiju style movies LOVES it.

Also a special appearance of Kubrick's 2001 Dawn of Man piece.
 
Went and watched Gojira, non-3D just regular.

LOVED it. Characters besides Cranston and Watanabe are kind of bland, but nobody came for the humans we came for the monsters!
 
Had a bunch of Redbox promo-codes, so I checked out a few "new" films this weekend:

This Is The End

Fairly funny, but definitely felt like a very easy project for all involved. In terms of the concept, I preferred it to The World's End, but both films sort of fizzled at the end—This Is The End just starts a lot stronger.

Inside Llewyn Davis

A very good film. In some ways, it felt like A Serious Man: a personally-invested project that is very well-written and well-directed by the Coens, yet doesn't seem to bear that trademark "Coen Bros" stamp in the way that, say, Burn After Reading (to name another recent project) does—or even as No Country For Old Men, or their version of True Grit, does.

The music (another huge soundtrack win for T Bone Burnett) was superb, I liked the ouroboros (perhaps Finnegan's Wake-nodding) narrative structure, and I found it very funny—largely thanks to the film's characters, who were well-wrought however brief their screen-time was. I think, in light of the latter quality, it forms an interesting diptych with Barton Fink (which is, perhaps, my favorite Coen Brothers film).

Dallas Buyers Club

Decent film; I enjoyed it, but I wasn't enthralled or particularly compelled by it.

While McConaughey was excellent—in fact, his performance pretty much made the film—finally seeing Dallas Buyers Club confirmed my strong suspicion that DiCaprio's performance in Wolf of Wall Street was nonetheless more outstanding. If McConaughey won the Oscar due to residual acclaim for his performance in True Detective, however, I can't really complain.
 
Wanna reenforce that I'm stoked for Interstellar.

Nolan hasn't failed me yet. Always wanted to see a deep space travel movie... and if there's one guy that can pull it off right now it's Nolan. Sunshine is one of my favorite sci-fi flicks.
 
"The Right Kind of Wrong" - comes with very high recommendations. The kind of film "That Awkward Moment" wished it could've been.
 
Just returned from the 10pm viewing of X-Men... ABSOLUTELY AMAZING GLORIOUS WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT. Spoilers and thoughts in spoiler tag.

Everything I could've asked for in an X-Men movie.

First off
thanks to Singer for negating the X3 timeline. Thank you thank you so much.

I got very emotional during the movie, especially during

The part where the Sentinels are coming to the China hideout. At first you're expecting a huge confrontation... then you see hundreds of Sentinels come out of their ships and start flying towards the tower. Even at age 80 Magneto shows he's still got it, does his thing to wipe out many of them... and then they all start falling like dominos. It was very very sad for me to see my heroes fall apart and get slaughtered one by one... I know it was negated because Xavier saved the day in 70's but man that was a really really tough scene. Don't even care for Halle's Storm but when she got stabbed my heart dropped...

A very beautiful scene and very powerful was definitely:

Young Charles going into Logan's conscious and talking to Old Charles. Twas a very powerful scene and I felt like I was reading it out of a comic book watching it. There's just something about it that was so poetic.

And now...
Excellent Magneto work by both McKellan + Fassbender. So amazing all around. Both Magnetos have a screen presence that's just so amazing. Lawrence was decent as Mystique... everything else was A+. Bolivar Trask was top notch, this might be the first time I've actually liked Jackman as Wolverine, and even Young Beast was solid. The trailer made me hate Pietro but after watching this movie Pietro was a huge badass. Kind of funny because if Pietro was with them the entire time then we could've avoided a lot of the trouble with Magneto hahaha. He could've removed Magneto's helmet easily.

As for the final scene
Very surreal seeing the entire team together in the same house all happy for the first time in the entire movie universe. Jean + Rogue + Bobby + Scott + Logan + Storm + Hank (Don't know if that was Kelsey Grammar doing the cameo but it was great nonetheless!! :rock:) + Kitty + Colossus + Xavier.

All in all, I had doubts coming into the movie, but the movie just blew me away. It's definitely now 1A or 1B with The Dark Knight Rises as my favorite comic book movie of all time.

Cannot stress enough bravo for Singer. Haven't watched any of the Wolverine flicks, but I did enjoy First Class, and X3 was so painful to watch.

Thanks again for a wild ride! Like Dark Knight and Dark Knight Rises, I already know I'll be watching this movie plenty of times to come in the next few weeks! 10/10 great movie. First day buy, immediate midnight release watch... and again I'll probably be dropping a ton of money to watch this again and again.

Oh and
ALL HAIL, THE APOCALYPSE!!
 
I'll be seeing it tonight - everything I've seen online, including here, tells me I will not be disappointed. Can't remember the last time I had this much anticipation/excitement for a movie. I was pretty pumped for The Avengers, but I grew up watching the X-Men every Saturday morning and their story was always my favorite.
 
Bj1133 said:
I'll be seeing it tonight - everything I've seen online, including here, tells me I will not be disappointed. Can't remember the last time I had this much anticipation/excitement for a movie. I was pretty pumped for The Avengers, but I grew up watching the X-Men every Saturday morning and their story was always my favorite.
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I'm still holding out hope that one of the x-men movies will include Apocalypse. Always my favorite character in a cartoon/comic of all time next to Venom.
 
thethe said:
I'm planning on seeing it this weekend. Were you a fan of First Class? If so which was better? By the looks of it you loved DOFP.
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I was let down by the abortion that was X3... the only thing I liked about it was Beast. As for First Class... it's growing on me. Initially didn't like it mainly because of the supporting cast mutants. However I think the First Class cast steals the show in this movie. McKellan and Stewart's chemistry as the future Magneto and Xavier is definitely amazing, better than their scenes in the first few X scenes combined. McCavoy and Fassbender are amazing, McCavoy especially puts on an amazing performance, and Fassbender as past Magneto is awesome as well.

Bj1133 said:
I'll be seeing it tonight - everything I've seen online, including here, tells me I will not be disappointed. Can't remember the last time I had this much anticipation/excitement for a movie. I was pretty pumped for The Avengers, but I grew up watching the X-Men every Saturday morning and their story was always my favorite.
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I too watched the 90's Animated Series. I can tell you from watching this movie that it feels like I was watching a live-action adaptation of the 90's Animated Series. It's THAT awesome.

thethe said:
I'm still holding out hope that one of the x-men movies will include Apocalypse. Always my favorite character in a cartoon/comic of all time next to Venom.
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It's already been confirmed that the next movie is Age of Apocalpyse in 2016, it will have the First Class cast and take place in the 80's. Also
The end credits scene for DOFP is of Apocalpyse in Egypt in I think 4,000 B.C. creating the pyramids telepathically, with thousands of Egyptions on their knees worshipping him. You then see the four horsemen on their horses watching... and this is Apocalpypse in his human form before the cybernetic material
 
One of the sub plots in this movie is the relationship between Xavier and Magneto, and you can see their relationship come full circle... I almost cried when
In the war-torn post-apocalyptic future which takes years after X1-X3, the future advanced Sentinels (they're all like Nimrod), have an army of about 100, and there's only a few mutants left that have been able to evade the Sentinels. Warlock, Sunspot, Blink, Bishop, Storm, Wolverine, Kitty, Colossus, Magneto, Xavier, Iceman. There's a scene where old Magneto at like Age 80 takes out like 100 of the Sentinels by himself with pure badassery that can only be pulled off by McKellan. Unfortunately the advanced high tech sentinels slaughter the X-Men one by one... and Magneto has a huge sharp debris in his ribs that he pulls out... before the Sentinels break through the barricade Magneto made to hold them off, he sits down says to Charles "All these years we spent fighting each other..." then reaches his hand out to Charles. It's such an emotional scene because of their bromance, and in the past timeline, you see their younger versions going at it how they respect each other, etc.
 
Saw X-Men on Friday. My thoughts....

--Thought it was the best X-Men movie to date.

--Still needed more action and less dialogue

--Quicksilver was great and I thought he could've used more screen time

--JFK tie in was pretty creative

--Bone claw Wolverine sucks

--Looking forward to the next movie, just to see the team they put together (Cyclops, Jean, Storm, Gambit(do it right this time!), Nightcrawler all being mentioned so far - will be interesting to see how they incorporate Wolverine into that movie based on the timeline of the others)
 
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