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[GasClown]

straussy240, on 25 June 2015 - 12:58 AM, said:

Hoping to watch ex machina soon

Yeah - that wasn't too bad... certainly original and a little thought provoking.

[spectre51]

GasClown, on 16 January 2015 - 06:48 PM, said:

GotG was awesome. Seemed to have that perfect balance of everything... reminded me a lot of the original Star Wars films. Definitely hope they make more of them.

Check out a movie called Predestination - it's a little bit like Looper. Also a movie called Snowpiercer. Then there's the more obvious ones like Dawn of the Planet of the Apes, Days of Future Past and Edge of Tomorrow.

Last year was great for sci-fi - a lot of quality movies.

Got around to watching Snowpiercer it was mostly good the ending was just so-so for me after the rest of the movie.

Snowpiercer movie spoilers

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I liked that it added a few light moments into it the slipping on the fish the scene as it went into the new year and they stopped fighting for moment(though its not as this doesn't have a precedent in Real-life).

I enjoyed the train so I had to pause the moment it showed the map of its track as from the beginning it was a curiosity of mine and study it. Using it to convey a passage of time was a clever.

Another moment I liked was Curtis sacrificing his arm to save the child after hearing that story were he couldn't cut his arm off in the past and traded a baby for someone else's arm.

I guess why I found the ending so-so was after the rest of the movie I expected something a bit more it had done a few more less typical things, like killing people instead of using them as hostages/pawns, not saving his friend so when it was just train explodes pretty much everyone dies I was a bit let down.

If they didn't show the Polar Bear at the end I might've thought they wanted to portray that, it was the end of humanity but seeing the Bear made me think that it wasn't the case and as such I felt the ending was weaker then the rest.

I watched Days of Future Past a bit back it was good. I found it a clever way to I guess "erase" the other movies though there was a brief moment at the end when I wonder did if it just erased the point of me watching the movies in the past

Have Edge of Tomorrow recorded to watch for a while now as well so it will be sometime soon hopefully.

[GasClown]

WalrusKing, on 01 July 2015 - 01:49 AM, said:

Got around to watching Snowpiercer it was mostly good the ending was just so-so for me after the rest of the movie.

Snowpiercer movie spoilers

Spoiler

I liked that it added a few light moments into it the slipping on the fish the scene as it went into the new year and they stopped fighting for moment(though its not as this doesn't have a precedent in Real-life).

I enjoyed the train so I had to pause the moment it showed the map of its track as from the beginning it was a curiosity of mine and study it. Using it to convey a passage of time was a clever.

Another moment I liked was Curtis sacrificing his arm to save the child after hearing that story were he couldn't cut his arm off in the past and traded a baby for someone else's arm.

I guess why I found the ending so-so was after the rest of the movie I expected something a bit more it had done a few more less typical things, like killing people instead of using them as hostages/pawns, not saving his friend so when it was just train explodes pretty much everyone dies I was a bit let down.

If they didn't show the Polar Bear at the end I might've thought they wanted to portray that, it was the end of humanity but seeing the Bear made me think that it wasn't the case and as such I felt the ending was weaker then the rest.

I watched Days of Future Past a bit back it was good. I found it a clever way to I guess "erase" the other movies though there was a brief moment at the end when I wonder did if it just erased the point of me watching the movies in the past

Have Edge of Tomorrow recorded to watch for a while now as well so it will be sometime soon hopefully.

Good to hear mate - yeah, I wouldn't call Snow Piercer perfect... but I think just to have some scifi movies that are good or even great is something we didn't have for a long long time. Edge of Tomorrow I personally love... great popcorn flick.

[Saintsy]

So..... (terminator spoilers)

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Reese goes back in time to a new timeline because they sent arnie back even further, but he said "FC#K you asshole" to skynet and decided to protect Sarah rather than killing her.
They then design a trap for Young arnie and the T-1000. Then arnie just so happens to have the required things to make a time device using Young arnies chip.
From there they go forward in time to stop skynet from ever being created to find out humanity has been enslaved to technology and "Genisys" being skynet is full swing in action.
Finding out that John Conner is now some "None human- None machine" thing thats just unfair, is behind the whole thing.

Then some BS happens and the plot to T2 kicks in where they go to blow the building up.
Arnie sacrifices himself like per usual to kill the baddie, cept he doesn't die and becomes a T-1000 with a magical upgrade.

This movie is a clusterfuck lol. Only good moments were Arnie's smile haha

[SmokeyPSD]

I have a feeling James Cameron only endorsed Genisys because he's going to be extremely happy when the the property rights revert back to him lol.

[GasClown]

SmokeyPSD, on 15 July 2015 - 03:47 PM, said:

I have a feeling James Cameron only endorsed Genisys because he's going to be extremely happy when the the property rights revert back to him lol.

No excuses - he endorsed Salvation as well.

[Saintsy]

It wasn't awful.
But why they just didn't do the war in the future and finish it with sending Reese back in time, thus closing the loop is beyond me.. It's the movie we deserve lol..

San andreas: Meh nearly fell asleep.
Mad Max: Was good, no real complaints.
Insurgent: Pretty good. If you enjoyed the first you'll like this.
Get Hard: Can get FC#Ked, waste of time.
Poltergeist: Could've done much, much better. Was a let down big time.
Insidious Chapter 3: If you enjoyed the other 2, will enjoy this.
Lazurus effect: Not bad for what it was
Into the storm: For a tornado movie i enjoyed it. Like a modern Twister, just without the flying cow haha.

[Axe99]

Watched "If I had Wings" on Netflix yesterday, pretty good for an uplifting feelgood movie, worth a watch if looking for something like that .

[Aromaci]

Watched The 300 Spartans (1962). Not particularly good. Not particularly accurate either.



Counter-balanced that by watching Casablanca (1942) for the umpteenth time. That film never gets old.

[Saintsy]

Kingsmen.. For a gentlemen movie it was fucking brutal, well worth watching.

[GasClown]

Saintsy, on 17 July 2015 - 01:03 PM, said:

Kingsmen.. For a gentlemen movie it was fucking brutal, well worth watching.

Haha - yeah Kingsman: The Secret Service was a good surprise.

[GasClown]

Been going through a few old classics... this scene (the first part) always cracks me up...

https://www.youtube....h?v=3_dGBLwXBIE

You have to watch the whole movie (everything before) to really get it I suppose.

[GasClown]

Next classic I watched was this...

https://www.youtube....h?v=uauN3psd2Ds

[Axe99]

Classic thriller-tastic .  Been watching more TV than movies on Netflix of late, although watched JFK on it a week or two ago and was quite impressed.  Very entertaining for a movie that involves an awful lot of talking in it!

[GasClown]

Yeah - hadn't seen some of these movies for quite some time... trying to think of what to watch next.

[GasClown]

https://www.youtube....h?v=s-45NTlgp-o

[Aromaci]

GasClown, on 16 September 2015 - 09:26 AM, said:

https://www.youtube....h?v=s-45NTlgp-o

So it's basically Ben Bova's books with more action and less substance.

[GasClown]

Well potentially if Hollywood has anything to do with it.

[Axe99]

Looks interesting, although as you both say, could lack a little on the substance part, but you never know - they tend to struggle to fit much in the way of substance into trailers even for movies that have it.  Surprised with all that high-tech jiggery-pokery they couldn't design some kind of scanner to 'look' through the cloud, but that'd ruin the suspense, eh?

[SmokeyPSD]

Rewatched Mad Max after grabbing a copy. One of the best films this year at this point and for awhile.. Appreciated even more than I did in the theatre. Bit of an action renaissance going on lately. Dredd comes to mind too.