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Old 08-11-2013, 05:41 PM   #13461 (permalink)
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Anyone seen Alpha Papa yet?
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Old 08-11-2013, 06:02 PM   #13462 (permalink)
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It's fantastic. Brit Marling who stars in the film is one of my favorite people in Hollywood right now. She's a great actress and also great writer. She helped write Another Earth. Check out Sound of My Voice and The East. They're also written by her.
Agreed, she is just amazing.
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Old 08-11-2013, 08:58 PM   #13463 (permalink)
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No one saw Elysium this weekend? That's a shame.

I saw it but I can't talk about it because I was way too tired when I went to see it and ended up only catching parts of it.
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Old 08-11-2013, 09:25 PM   #13464 (permalink)
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No one saw Elysium this weekend? That's a shame.

I saw it but I can't talk about it because I was way too tired when I went to see it and ended up only catching parts of it.
I saw it this weekend. Really great, probably the best summer blockbuster of the year.
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I saw it this weekend. Really great, probably the best summer blockbuster of the year.
I'm going to go see it again probably Monday or Tuesday. Most likely Tuesday.
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Old 08-12-2013, 12:37 PM   #13466 (permalink)
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No one saw Elysium this weekend? That's a shame.

I saw it but I can't talk about it because I was way too tired when I went to see it and ended up only catching parts of it.
I really want to see this movie and support Neill Blomkamp because he's one of the best things to happen to science-fiction in a very long time... but I just hate the moving going experience. Doesn't seem to matter which theater I go to or at what time, there's always a bunch of inconsiderate assholes that just ruin the experience. I really can't wait for the day when movies will be available on demand at the same time they're in theaters, even if there is a markup price, although obviously within reason. I remember hearing that Tower Heist was suppose to be the first movie to try this and they were going to charge $60 for the privilege of seeing an inconsequential Bret Ratner movie in the comfort of your own living room.
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Old 08-12-2013, 10:36 PM   #13467 (permalink)
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It was OK overall and entertaining enough, but I thought it dragged on WAY too long, more so than any movie I've watched in recent memory. I also thought each consecutive "storyline" got progressively worse.

I have to say though that those were some of the better chase scenes I've seen. Kind of reminded me of Children of Men in a way in terms of how intense it was.

I thought Cooper did a really good job. Gosling was Gosling, I guess. No one else really stood out too much, and Gosling's kid was really bad.

5.5/10
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Old 08-13-2013, 03:02 AM   #13468 (permalink)
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I've seen Hellraiser, Hellraiser II : Hellbound and Hellraiser III : Hell on Earth over again. I'll comment on Hellraiser and Hellraiser 2 first.





I've seen these before, but it's been a little while. Should anyone not know them, they are 80s horror flicks, but they are not quite run-of-the-mill as that may sound. The macabre intelligence of Clive Barker's gothic horror mythology makes for a very intriguing and spooky setting and Doug Bradley as the cenobite Pinhead makes for such an interesting character, I find. The whole mythology and its rules quite compelling. The movies are also more dark, gloomy and gory than your average 80s horror flick.

The rest of my post may contain some spoilers, so read at your own peril!

Spoiler for Hellraiser & Hellraiser 2:
I think the first movie may be the creepier one, but the sequel may be the most entertaining. There are a few things I particularly appreciate in the second film. First is that a lot of it takes place in hell which is just plain interesting. Second is the inclusion of Hell's ruler, the god Leviathan, which is a large, rotating geometrical construct mirroring the lament configuration which emits darkness much as a Lighthouse emits light. Instead of the typical fallen angel, we get this which is much more interesting. You gotta love Barker's imagination.

Third, I think the villain, Dr. Channard, is just a great bad guy - both as a human and in his cenobite form. Fourth, it may not be as spooky as the first, but the subject matter is so dark and the gore never lets up. You have insane asylums, skinless people trapped in hell, lobotomy, nails hammered into heads .. I mean, it's completely bonkers!




Hellraiser 3 doesn't have the quality of the first two. It's more boring, less spooky, less gory and it doesn't seem to stick to the rules of the mythology like the previous two did. Pinhead, while getting plenty more screen time and dialogue, comes off as less menacing, even if he is the main villain this time around (spoiler, sorry!). Without having seen the rest of the series, I have heard that the quality only declines the further out you go. Perhaps I'll watch them out of curiosity .. not sure yet.

I love the mythology and the cenobites, so I don't like the thought of them being in sucky movies.
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The first Hellraiser is one of my favorite horror movies. (I do find its ambiguous location kind of funny though.)
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Old 08-13-2013, 04:16 PM   #13470 (permalink)
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The first Hellraiser is one of my favorite horror movies. (I do find its ambiguous location kind of funny though.)
Ambiguous location?

Ugh, I watched the fourth Hellraiser film, Bloodline, out of curiosity today. While watching it, I just got the feeling the writers didn't understand the myhology or characters. For example they pretty much establish that the Hellraiser hell is the biblical hell. The explanation behind why it doesn't quite look like it seems to be that while it used to be more biblical, hell was literally just redesigned away from the Danteish style of old at some point. In the first film, the cenobites are 'demons to some, angels to others', but this film establishes them as biblical demons. How much less intriguing .. And whereas Pinhead was more or less just an amoral entity fullfilling some purpose or doing some job in the first two movies, in this he's an evil guy who works towards enslaving or killing all of humanity or somesuch.

In other words, they took something unique and made it a lot more unimaginative and run-of-the-mill. I'll stay away from the rest of the series.
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