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Saw Captain America; The Winter Soldier. I liked it, very good superhero movie overall. Found it interesting the mid-credit section I'll discuss that below. In my spoiler section as well

Plot was very predictable. It was clear that Fury wasn't dead. And everyone who knows the comics knew Bucky was the winter soldier. I found the overall ploy solid though. HYDRA forming inside of shield. And they stuck to the main plot point. I thought the mid credits were awesome if not maybe a touch confusing. Scarlett Witch and Quicksilver being brought in in a non-mutant way, found that interesting twist. Wonder if they'll play on the good or bad side in Age of Ultron. My guess is bad, but we don't really know.
 
Seems to be an issue with the mobile view of the site. Just checked on my phone wouldn't open in mobile view and switched to desktop view and it opened fine. Calling [MENTION=1]KeithLockhart[/MENTION]
 
Saw Captain America 2 today - very good movie, imo - portrayed Cap to be much more badass than the first movie and Avengers did.
 
Caught Django Unchained yesterday on HBO and was surprised at how good it was. Some of the dialogue is hard to hear but the acting is great. Christoph Waltz is so damn awesome.
 
nocalgirl10 said:
Caught Django Unchained yesterday on HBO and was surprised at how good it was. Some of the dialogue is hard to hear but the acting is great. Christoph Waltz is so damn awesome.
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Christoph Waltz and Leo made that movie. Jamie Foxx was solid, but he was outshone
 
KeithLockhart said:
Does it compare to Fellini and 8 1/2?
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I actually think there are some very Fellini-esque qualities—almost, in some ways, as if you smashed I vitelloniOtto e mezzo, and Amarcord all together—but then there's the bacchanal gyre of color and light, orbiting a locus of smiling, drunken melancholy, that—to a certain extent—subtly recalls Pasolini's later work (though obviously with a much more personal, localized central character).
 
Watched The Railway Man last week and learned something new about WWII and British POWs in Thailand. Also reminded of what a great actress Nicole Kidman is.
 
Pretty cool article re Robocop (1987):

The Old Testament is full of examples of chiasmus, which is a figure of speech used in ancient times to emphasize balance. It lists a bunch of ideas or things and then repeats each of them in reverse order. It’s often not an identical repetition. It frequently uses the opposite of what came before or something similar to it.

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Why am I giving a grammar lesson? Because I’ve noticed this same pattern used in films – a Cinematic Chiasmus, if you will. That shouldn’t be too surprising. Good storytelling involves setting up ideas and then paying them off over the course of the story. But some films have second halves that so closely mirror their first halves that it makes them truly breathtaking to behold once you notice their chiasmus at work.

RoboCop (1987) is the first film I reviewed on this website, so it’s fitting that it should be the first that I talk about here. Get ready to see how RoboCop is an almost perfectly symmetrical film.
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Definitely worth the click-through for the full interrogation.
 
Got a sleeper recomendation to everyone - "The Way Way Back." Let's address the downside first. It's difficult to accept Steve Carrell in anything but a comedy role. It does seem like kind of a made-for-TV movie, but it's a good film for what it's indended. I got it off Netflix a while back, and enjoyed it much more than expected. HBO is starting to run it in May. So, it's worth checking out.
 
Bj1133 said:
Saw Captain America 2 today - very good movie, imo - portrayed Cap to be much more badass than the first movie and Avengers did.
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While still staying consistent to his "boy scout" persona. Bravo. Man of Steel, I'm looking at you.
 
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