Yeah, the dragon was amazing. And I actually liked the filler much better than the first movie.

sorry i may have come off a little snide....i actually loved the film....and all of the added stuff....sure it dragged a bit...but so what....it had 40 minutes of Smaug just fucking shit up! :)

the elves are simply bad asses (that river scene was just....well awesome! )....the necromancer side story is very interesting....and the woman who plays (Evangeline Lilly) Tauriel is absolutely stunning

but as expected Smaug stole the show.....he just looked so amazing

I didn't think you were being snide. I probably would have loved the movie too, except I was stuck behind a bunch of teenagers, one of whom apparently thought she was so hilarious that I'd rather listen to her make bad jokes than the actual movie. She pretty much ruined the last fourth of the movie for me. Seriously the only people worse than people who talk in movies are people who make computer viruses. Hang them all I say.

i'm telling you man.....tuesday afternoon is the best time to see a movie :)

there was maybe 20 people in there.....and me and my three nephews were the only ones not wearing LOTR shirts :)

and i agree...people who talk during movies should be shot....not in the head or anything....but in the arm or leg :)

I was actually there on a Sunday afternoon with almost nobody else in the theater. Which is probably why they wanted to talk so much I guess. On the plus side I got to be the guy who told them to shut up. I've always wanted to be that guy, but never thought it would be me. I felt like a vigilante.

you are a true American hero man
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Superman might have super strength and Spider-Man might be able to stick to walls, but it takes a real man to tell a teenage girl to be quiet.

I liked this a lot. The old woman absolutely devastated me - and according to wikipedia she was an actual resident who lost her home so what I first believed to just be great acting was actually a very real, very heavy moment.

In regards to the spoiler you and Joe were talking about

Desolation of Smaug. It begs the question: Is Peter Jackson trying to piss me off?

Netflix suggested Fireplace For Your Home to me and I just have to say that after three hours of watching it has one of the weakest plot lines I've ever seen.

True. I didn't realize that.

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****, the ending got me, I knew **** was going down, but jeez. I cried a bit.

What, the ending? :D

I watched Christmas horror movies yesterday and it was lovely!

ATM
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I love movies that can take place in one setting and have so much going for it plot wise. Now that I see the movie poster it makes sense. The guy that made Buried made this movie as well. I'm pretty sure the critics took a steamy pile of **** on this movie but I love it. I recommend watching this just for Alice Eve alone. So much feels for her. Also I'm sure you'd like to know what's so scary about visiting an ATM after a Christmas office party and how you could even become trapped in one.

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The guy that plays the dad. Man, he's such a great actor. I remember his performance on the show Reaper and it just makes me smile. I'm sure he's had other roles in the past that I don't know about but whenever he's on screen he steals the scene. This family gets stuck on a road singing Christmas jingles and they slowly start dying. That's all I can say. It would be too much of a spoiler to say anything else.

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I've seen this before in the past so even though I fell asleep on it. I still had some great laughs before I dozed off. This movie is pretty much a cult classic. What's not to love about a killer snowman getting revenge on the sheriff that caught him with puns and hilarious death scenes.

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Saw a bunch of movies in theater this week. Very unimpressive overall.

The Hobbit

Surprisingly might have been the best movie I saw all week. It's one of those movies that simply is what it is, and shouldn't be critiqued as anything more than an action/adventure with stunning visuals. Fantastic fight sequences and beautiful scenery.

7.5/10

Anchorman 2

I was a huge fan of the first one but this was god awful. There really is no other way to describe it. Absolutely ridiculous and not in a funny way. There were only a handful of good lines; the rest of it was pure trash.

1/10

American Hustle

Way too much hype for this. The first half of the movie is painfully slow. It definitely picks up steam in the second half, but is still underwhelming overall. Bale was pretty good but the acting as a whole was overrated. I thought Amy Adams was quite weak in this actually. Louis CK has an amazing part in this though; the scenes he's in with Cooper are pure gold.

6.5/10

The Wolf of Wall Street

After hearing a lot of glowing reviews, I was let down by this. Still entertaining and a solid movie, but I was expecting so much more. DiCaprio is great though, and Jonah Hill has some good bits, but from a comedy standpoint, it seemed to be trying a bit too hard, and it didn't connect more often than not. With it being so long, there is a lot of filler in there that didn't need to be there, sandwiched around some pretty memorable scenes.

7/10

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ireland's only martial arts movie.

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I agree with this review but I wasn't disappointed and I didn't let reviews hype it up for me. I went into the movie just thinking it would be okay but it surprised me how good it was and how much I enjoyed it despite the minor flaws.

Star Wars Episode III. Rubbish.

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Man of Steel

Earlier on in the year I reviewed “The Avengers”. I explained how I’m not a huge fan of superhero movies that don’t involve Batman. Most of this is because Batman is just a lunatic billionaire ninja in a cape and the rest of them have super powers that I just find stupid. Don’t get me wrong, if you’re into that kind of stuff, all the power to you. I just can’t wrap my head around it. Now, I did really enjoy “The Avengers”. The same can not be said of Man of Steel.

This is the first Superman film I’ve ever seen. I didn’t grow up on Superman. I grew up on Batman and occasionally Spiderman as long as it is represented by bad 90s animation. I had no interest in the Christopher Reeve films and when Bryan Singer made his version I skipped it as well. I guess the only reason I watched Man of Steel is because it made so much damn money and I felt that my 2013 end of the year review would be incomplete without it. I also think that Zach Snyder is perfectly capable of making a good film if he wants to evident by the vastly underrated “Watchmen” and one of the better modern zombie films “Dawn of the Dead”. When the initial trailer came out I had hope. It had a great narration from Crowe and just felt like it was going to be done right.

It wasn’t. It ended up being a big let down. However…

What I liked…

The visuals were fantastic. This is to be expected from a director like Zach Snyder. Pretty much every one of his films has that visual flare that makes in more than an ordinary film. It’s usually a spectacle and Man of Steel follows that mold. It’s a gorgeous film that really shines when the action kicks up. The second half of the film featured plenty of great fight scenes and it was fun to watch those. The acting was also good in parts as I enjoyed the always fantastic Amy Adams. I don’t think she’s ever had a bad role. Russell Crowe was also casted perfectly as the wise father of Superman. Oh and Elliot Stabler was in this. He was not saving rape victims with Benson but rather trying to kill aliens with bullets even though he knows they don’t work. Silly Stabler. Oh, and Michael Shannon is a badass. His face is made for villain-ry.

What I didn’t like…

Pretty much everything else. The story was full of holes. They tried to pack in ALL the Superman lore into a nice two hour plus package and it came off very shaky. Multiple times they had to create a situation where a talking head would come in and narrate a story so we could try to figure out what the hell was going on. It didn’t work well as I was constantly trying to figure out what certain words were or what the hell the Krytonians…Kryptons? Kryptonites? SEE? I DON’T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY ARE CALLED. Maybe it has to do with the fact that I don’t know much about Superman but geez did they shove that fact in my face. They also, and I don’t see this as a spoiler, killed like a million people. Seriously, Superman with his brash fighting skills ended the lives of women and children and dudes who were getting coffee in an office building that is now toppling over. This happened in “Star Trek Into Darkness” and at least they had the decency to have a scene in which they acknowledge the fact that a lot of people died. Metropolis kinda just went “Well that sucked. Anybody wan to get a pancake or something?” Maybe we’ll get an Academy Award style memorial during the sequel and it’ll last sixteen hours.

It just wasn’t very good. I didn’t like the cheesy dialogue. I didn’t like Henry Cavill’s face. I didn’t like the same blockbuster garbage that seals the fate of promising films with great visuals. It’s like they spend the entire time making sure every detail on every ship is great but forget to write a story until it’s Monday morning and your homework is due first period. It didn’t work for me in High School and it won’t work on a 250 million dollar film.

2/5

I didn't have to see Man of Steel to know it was going to be disappointing. I am so sick of his origin story so I passed on seeing it for that reason also.

Oldboy. **** yeah. 9/10. **** yeah.

I love that film, that is assuming you mean the original Korean version. I love it because it's so well shot, it has a great bleakness, and originality to boot. It was recently remade by spike lee this year, ivent seen that one yet but you might like it.

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I knew that this movie was supposed to be a disappointment, but this was still shockingly bad to me. I loved District 9 but everything about this movie fell flat, from the horrible acting to the poor writing.

3/10

Probably the most recent movie I saw was Catching Fire. It was surprisingly good.

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Inside Llewyn Davis

I honestly don’t think the Coen brothers can make a bad film. There is not a single film of theirs that I can say I didn’t enjoy in some respect. That statement was made with full awareness that “The Ladykillers” is a film. I actually enjoyed it. Lately, they have been making very subtle and quiet films with heavy undertones of sadness and bleak realism. We saw a completely cold and menacing hitman in “No Country for Old men”, a Jewish man seeming to be under a test from God in “A Serious Man”, and a revolving door of bad decisions in “Burn After Reading”. I don’t think any other filmmakers have such a unique style as the Coens. They have a resume of films spanning all kinds of genres but still seem like they fall in the same universe as each other. I’ll never get tired of seeing them succeed.

Inside Llewyn Davis is probably one of their best films. I absolutely loved it. I’m not going to go so far as call it a masterpiece because it’s going to be something that most people are going to like but certain people are going to fall in love with. People who seem to be set with their lives are going to laugh at the antics of John Goodman and a hilarious supporting cast of characters that fall right into place with all the other great Coen scene stealers. They’re going to appreciate the music and probably be confused with the end and you know what? That’s okay. This movie is really made for people who are having trouble finding where they fit in this world. The story follows Llewyn Davis, a struggling folk singer without an address who is trying to build a career in his passion of singing songs and playing his guitar. He sleeps on couches. Most people don’t like him. He is the epitome of a lost soul trying to find substance and meaning. I may not be in the same in the same situation as Davis, but I connected with him as somebody who just can’t catch a break in trying to find happiness. It’s a bleak but very real look into a time where so many people were trying to find themselves.

The film is smart and witty. I found myself belly laughing at a lot of scenes which feature the usual Coen sense of humor. John Goodman steals every scene he is in but also plays one of the films more tragic characters. Justin Timberlake and Garret Hedlund don’t have much screen time but each of their characters make an impression one way or another. The always great Carey Mulligan plays a former lover of Davis and a spiteful one at that.

The music in the film is the final character as it’s one of the best soundtracks I’ve heard in a long time. I’m not even that big a fan of folk music but the songs in here are sung with such emotion and feeling that it was hard not to fall in love with them. I’ll be purchasing the soundtrack. Oscar Isaac, whom I’ve only seen in one other movie (Drive), gives one of the best performances of the year. The dude can also sing. This is obviously to be expected but I was surprised by how good he was. His performance was crushing and while his character definitely came off a bit unlikable, I couldn’t help but sympathize with him. I wanted Llewyn to find happiness in his life just like I want everybody to find happiness, including myself.

The film is fantastic. It’s the perfect film for people trying to leave a footprint on this planet. It’s going to be too depressing for some, boring for the others, and pointless for many, but I found the film to be engrossing and completely endearing to the human need for purpose. It’s a special film with a special performance. I’ll be seeing it again.

5/5

Great review. I connected with this film on so many levels, it felt like one of those serendipitous moments where it came into my life at exactly the right time. Several times during watching I thought to myself "Oh ****, I AM Llewyn Davis."

The thing I really appreciated about this movie is that a lot of plot points were set up to go a familiar route, especially in regards to a fictional biopic of a struggling musician, but the Coen brothers, as is their way, lead you to believe you can predict what will happen next and then violently pull the rug from beneath you and keep you guessing. It's not a love story. It doesn't have a happy ending. Burned bridges are not repaired and characters aren't given breaks. It felt altogether real and I found myself clutching my heart in empathy.

It was absolutely beautiful. I agree that it's not something everyone will love but for those of us who do it will be loved hard and long.

I hope you grabbed the fire extinguisher.

Thought you'd like that.

::bowdown: Hilarious.

Yes the writing was terrible. The acting pretty bad too. A lot of questionable set piesces(does the main antagonist really need to use a samurai sword?) and some glaring plot holes.

I still liked the movie. I love Blamkop's aesthetic. His dystopian futures, being a representation of current living conditions for many africans-or in this case the favela's-is admirable. And no matter how brazingly,and rather simply, he goes about his social commentary in films it still something that is all too missing in the recent, hallow entries in the genre.

I agree it's nowhere near as good as district 9.

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great documentary. I never knew of "mandatory arbitration" and thats some crazy business.

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God damn. I saw this for the first time a couple weeks ago and have watched it a few more times since and wowow. It's still blowing my mind. I think it's because I love this kind of detached emotional business world deal and this movie plays that perfectly. The atmosphere is incredibly eerie and Robert Pattinson is either a really good actor or is just playing himself (im still not sure which). The scenes with his wife still give me goosebumps. Oh and Paul Giamatti. Yeah he's cool too.

I dont think id recommend this to just anyone (or atleast id expect a large number of people to hate it). It's very dialogue driven and very slow paced and probably as pretentious as movies come. But fuck it I love pretension and this could easily be one of my favorite movies already. But that might also be because im a movie noob. But wow this movie. I love it. Cant stop thinking about it. I want to be Eric Packer

Saw Cabin In the Woods a couple days ago. I figured I'd dig it since it got good reviews on this thread. Wasn't prepared for just how much I loved it. When I saw "Producer - Joss Whedon" in the credits I kind of came in my pants. I had no idea. I came for some kind of spoof of the horror genre and I got an undiscovered nugget of Whedon genius. It was like reaching into the pockets of an old pair of jeans and finding a twenty.

^ I'm gonna have to watch that soon. I've heard really good things about it too.

Please tell me it was a Bollywood movie version of the video game Doom 3, because I would totally watch that.

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rewatched this recently. still a pretty neat film