The Official Movie Thread

[Arn]

The only oscar nominees I've yet to see are Nebraska and Philomena. 12 Years a Slave stands head and shoulders above the rest of them I think.

After that I'd go Dallas Buyers Club and Wolf of Wall Street in 2nd and 3rd.

 

[Madferret]

I didn't enjoy American Hustle but it looks by the reviews that I'm in the minority on that one.

I found it tried to hard to be witty and outlandish.

Yeah I have no idea how that got nominated for an Oscar. Sub-par at best

 

[iwas11in67]

I didn't enjoy American Hustle but it looks by the reviews that I'm in the minority on that one.

I found it tried to hard to be witty and outlandish.

Yeah I have no idea how that got nominated for an Oscar. Sub-par at best

I feel the same way about Gravity.
Saving Mr Banks was a much better movie to me.

 

[Madferret]

I didn't enjoy American Hustle but it looks by the reviews that I'm in the minority on that one.

I found it tried to hard to be witty and outlandish.

Yeah I have no idea how that got nominated for an Oscar. Sub-par at best

I feel the same way about Gravity.
Saving Mr Banks was a much better movie to me.

Gravity had pretty good eye candy at least - did you see it in Imax?

 

[iwas11in67]

I didn't enjoy American Hustle but it looks by the reviews that I'm in the minority on that one.

I found it tried to hard to be witty and outlandish.

Yeah I have no idea how that got nominated for an Oscar. Sub-par at best

I feel the same way about Gravity.
Saving Mr Banks was a much better movie to me.

Gravity had pretty good eye candy at least - did you see it in Imax?

No just in old fashioned regular 2D.
American Hustle has eye candy as well.

 

[Nik]

I think y'all are crazy re: American Hustle. The Louis CK bits alone make it the best movie of the year.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

I think y'all are crazy re: American Hustle. The Louis CK bits alone make it the best movie of the year.

Louis CK was absolutely hillarious..I'll give you that. I'd say for the first 3/4's of the movie I was all in. The last half hour ruined it though.

 

[Bender]

I thought American Hustle was contrived and boring. I also didn't care much about the characters except for Amy Adams, for obvious reasons.

I thought it was a bad attempt at making a Goodfellas type film.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment today.

 

[maplesyrup]

Probably the better thread to post this in. It's always something? to speak  of someone's death in the Useless Thread.

 

[GhostofPotvin29]

Ah! Hadn't even checked that thread.

 

[dappleganger]

Phillip Seymour Hoffman was found dead in his apartment today.

That sucks. He was a great actor.

He first caught my eye in "Happiness". Anyone who likes dark comedies should definitely check out that flick.

 

[mc]

So sad...loved him as an actor. Too soon to go.

 

[Corvette14]

We saw the Wolf of Wall Street when it came out and it was okay but definitely rated r for good reason

 

[mc]

Took the boys out to see The Lego Movie. Wanted to see the 4pm show. Huge line up. 4.40pm? Massive lineup! Finally had to get tix for the 3D version at 5.10, got in the lineup early and managed to get good seats.

Boys loved it. I hated it. Too long.

 

[Champ Kind]

We saw the Wolf of Wall Street when it came out and it was okay but definitely rated r for good reason

I don't consider myself a prude, or maybe I'm just showing my age, but I found 90% of that movie gratuitous and unnecessary.  Terribly long and sort of pointless, really.  In lieu of being able to capture the magic of Goodfellas, Scorsese seemed to default to the shock factor on this one.

 

[Nik]

In lieu of being able to capture the magic of Goodfellas, Scorsese seemed to default to the shock factor on this one.

I don't think the intention there is to shock, exactly. I think that if you're looking for a point to the movie I'd say that it's not a coincidence at all that the first movie that Scorsese, a filmmaker who seems as rooted and connected to New York as any filmmaker is to any city, chose to make after the financial collapse is a detailed litany of the kinds of people who perpetrate fraud in the financial markets and the rewards that are there for them if they do. It's certainly a frank depiction of those things but, I'd say, frankness is probably needed to drive the point home of the kinds of people they are and the reasons they do what they do and Scorsese has never been the kind of guy who shied away from depicting things as they are.

I think that's why the controversy that surrounded the movie as to whether or not it was glamorizing guys like Belfort was so telling. Personally, I thought that if someone left that movie thinking that Belfort and his gang were cool or awesome or whatever then that person is probably a sociopath. However the controversy arose because those people exist, they often have prominent roles within the financial industry and the public at large doesn't seem to learn anything from the consequences of their actions.

I think it's probably my favourite Scorsese movie since Goodfellas.

 

[OldTimeHockey]

In lieu of being able to capture the magic of Goodfellas, Scorsese seemed to default to the shock factor on this one.

I don't think the intention there is to shock, exactly. I think that if you're looking for a point to the movie I'd say that it's not a coincidence at all that the first movie that Scorsese, a filmmaker who seems as rooted and connected to New York as any filmmaker is to any city, chose to make after the financial collapse is a detailed litany of the kinds of people who perpetrate fraud in the financial markets and the rewards that are there for them if they do. It's certainly a frank depiction of those things but, I'd say, frankness is probably needed to drive the point home of the kinds of people they are and the reasons they do what they do and Scorsese has never been the kind of guy who shied away from depicting things as they are.

I think that's why the controversy that surrounded the movie as to whether or not it was glamorizing guys like Belfort was so telling. Personally, I thought that if someone left that movie thinking that Belfort and his gang were cool or awesome or whatever then that person is probably a sociopath. However the controversy arose because those people exist, they often have prominent roles within the financial industry and the public at large doesn't seem to learn anything from the consequences of their actions.

I think it's probably my favourite Scorsese movie since Goodfellas.

I haven't watched the movie yet but don't most movies of this type 'glorify' the lifestyle?

 

[Champ Kind]

In lieu of being able to capture the magic of Goodfellas, Scorsese seemed to default to the shock factor on this one.

I don't think the intention there is to shock, exactly. I think that if you're looking for a point to the movie I'd say that it's not a coincidence at all that the first movie that Scorsese, a filmmaker who seems as rooted and connected to New York as any filmmaker is to any city, chose to make after the financial collapse is a detailed litany of the kinds of people who perpetrate fraud in the financial markets and the rewards that are there for them if they do. It's certainly a frank depiction of those things but, I'd say, frankness is probably needed to drive the point home of the kinds of people they are and the reasons they do what they do and Scorsese has never been the kind of guy who shied away from depicting things as they are.

I think that's why the controversy that surrounded the movie as to whether or not it was glamorizing guys like Belfort was so telling. Personally, I thought that if someone left that movie thinking that Belfort and his gang were cool or awesome or whatever then that person is probably a sociopath. However the controversy arose because those people exist, they often have prominent roles within the financial industry and the public at large doesn't seem to learn anything from the consequences of their actions.

I think it's probably my favourite Scorsese movie since Goodfellas.

Maybe I was expecting more, given the hype, hence my disappointment.  But I don't think anything about this movie was frank, or real.  Was it hoping to represent or depict the excesses of that industry?  Maybe, I just thought it wasn't necessary.

 

[Nik]

I haven't watched the movie yet but don't most movies of this type 'glorify' the lifestyle?

I suppose it depends on what you mean by "this type".