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MOVIE'S 2014
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Abandoned in Tunisia, yes, captured by the British . Was from the 504th Battalion.
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Lol, you guys are some nerds :-)
I don’t care at all, which tank it is and wouldn’t recognize it in any way. And it doesn’t really influences how good a movie is, if you ask me.
Use of a real tank might not influence anything in-and-of-itself, but I certainly think that going through the effort to use a real one as opposed to a fabrication speaks of a level of quality and dedication to the story that may be absent in a similar film.
And yes, it does look like something of a flag waving American hero movie, but what else do you expect from Hollywood? The masses are perceived to not care about war stories that do not involve Americans. That may very well be true, but it is unfortunate.
I saw the preview when I went to see Planet of the Apes on Saturday (which was surprisingly very good). I had known about Fury for some time and was under the impression that it would be just another war film along the lines of Red Tails or Pearl Harbor or some garbage like that… all action and no substance. However, the trailer really intrigued me. Looked much grittier and more serious than I anticipated. Not quite a Saving Private Ryan, but I was encouraged. There does seem to be some dramatization, what with a tank duel and all, but I’d watch it.
Another preview I saw over the weekend was this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk1M_HwmFMM
Unbroken. The story of Louis Zamperini; a former Olympic track athlete whose plane was shot down over the Pacific and survived the ocean and POW camps. This seems to be a very very close adaptation of his true story. I am interested in it. Sadly, Zamperini just recently died. There is a fuller account you can read on him here.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2014/06/26/4-lessons-in-manliness-from-louis-zamperini/ -
I’m going to go see Fury when it comes out.
I just hope I don’t see a Sherman pop a tiger with ease however…
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I will scream like a girl if that happens. And I don’t care how full the cinema is!
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@wittmann:
I will scream like a girl if that happens. And I don’t care how full the cinema is!
Hahaha… you know it will happen to. It is almost a foregone conclusion. Though the Sherman will probably be wrecked in the process. Sort of like a mutual annihilation.
Oh, how I wish I could be there to hear your shriek of incredulity. Please record for posterity. :lol:
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Would love to. Also, I won’t be able to blame my girly shriek on my wife either: she will not lower herself to come and watch. Will be just me and my scream.
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Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend… it was okay, but didn’t deserve all the hype. It was marketed as a comedic version of the already funny Avengers, but I thought Avengers was actually funnier. Guardians seemed to try too hard to be funny. Some parts were, but I just didn’t laugh all that much.
On another note, I am in the middle of Pacific Rim and find it oddly intriguing. Doesn’t seem like it should be.
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Saw Guardians of the Galaxy last weekend… it was okay, but didn’t deserve all the hype. It was marketed as a comedic version of the already funny Avengers, but I thought Avengers was actually funnier. Guardians seemed to try too hard to be funny. Some parts were, but I just didn’t laugh all that much.
On another note, I am in the middle of Pacific Rim and find it oddly intriguing. Doesn’t seem like it should be.
I am Groot.
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I am Groot.
Yeah… did Vin Diesel do one take over the phone? Advertising him as a cast member is somewhat disingenuous.
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I am in total disagreement with you. GOTG was the most fun I’ve had at the movies in quite awhile. It was funny, and scary, and touching and spoiler
I like stories where the good guys win.
I don’t know how “good” it was because I was too busy enjoying myself and having fun to care and that’s a rare thing for me at the movies these days. (I thought the new “Apes” movie was good and I enjoyed it but fun isn’t really a word I’d use to describe it.)
Diesel did not just give one reading of that line and while it might be tough to hear the difference that’s kinda on you if you didn’t. It had lots of great effects, hot alien chicks, and a minimum of shaky-cam for these days. The soundtrack was really “awesome.”
If you don’t have a stick to far up your bum you’ll probably find it a good time. :mrgreen:
I am Groot!
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I am in total disagreement with you. GOTG was the most fun I’ve had at the movies in quite awhile. It was funny, and scary, and touching and spoiler
I like stories where the good guys win.
I don’t know how “good” it was because I was too busy enjoying myself and having fun to care and that’s a rare thing for me at the movies these days. (I thought the new “Apes” movie was good and I enjoyed it but fun isn’t really a word I’d use to describe it.)
Diesel did not just give one reading of that line and while it might be tough to hear the difference that’s kinda on you if you didn’t. It had lots of great effects, hot alien chicks, and a minimum of shaky-cam for these days. The soundtrack was really “awesome.”
If you don’t have a stick to far up your bum you’ll probably find it a good time. :mrgreen:
I am Groot!
Fair enough. It was enjoyable, certainly. Still, I could not help but compare it to my experience seeing the Avengers… the format is very, very similar and intended to be so. Avengers was incredible, very easily the most enjoyable film I have ever seen in a movie theater. It was a unique turn in the bland or dead-serious superhero genre.
Guardians was a deliberate copy of that format, but strung out even further in the whimsical and comedic. Which is fine, it was still enjoyable, as I said. But I just didn’t find it as funny. It did not seem as random and natural as the Avengers, maybe a little more forced and definitely more overt with the funniness.
This is a personal opinion, though I have heard others who have seen the movie say similar things. I am not here to critique a deliberately zany comic book film, just to offer my impression.
As for Vin Diesel, well I stand by my comments. The character Groot was fine, but the voicework could have been done by literally anyone, what with all the digital modification to it. Even if it was intoned differently he still only spoke three different words in the whole movie. Not that Vin Diesel was a poor choice, just that Groot was utterly unrecognizable as Vin Diesel. I suppose they just wanted a celebrity name for the part. It’s not as though they even did any motion capture, I am pretty sure it was just all digital animation.
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Oh, forgot about this trailer I saw at Planet of the Apes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGvEmRCWyBo
Could be great or it could be awful. Moses sounds a heck of a lot like Batman.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstellar_(film)
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/astrophysics-interstellar-black-hole/ - very good article
Need I say more? Haven’t been this excited for a movie since… LOTR Return of the King in 2003???. Taking an hour drive to see in IMAX 70mm. Can. Not. Wait.
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Seeing Imax 70mm as well, but the theater I’m seeing it at is a 20 minute subway ride away. November will be a busy month:
Interstellar
Dumb and Dumber To (have serious doubts the Farrelly Brothers and Carrey/Daniels can recapture the magic but I have to see it)
Mockingjay Part IAlso heard great things about Birdman, the Michael Keaton comedy/drama with the meta effect of having a superhero movie pioneer star in a movie about a struggling superhero actor.
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Seeing Imax 70mm as well, but the theater I’m seeing it at is a 20 minute subway ride away. November will be a busy month:
Interstellar
Dumb and Dumber To (have serious doubts the Farrelly Brothers and Carrey/Daniels can recapture the magic but I have to see it)
Mockingjay Part IAlso heard great things about Birdman, the Michael Keaton comedy/drama with the meta effect of having a superhero movie pioneer star in a movie about a struggling superhero actor.
Always liked Michael Keaton. Not sure why.
I am sorry but Dumb and Dumber To looks like the most utterly stupid thing I have seen come out of Hollywood. Granted I am not a Dumb and Dumber fan so I am just not on that bus. But the TV spots make me want to change the channel.
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Yep… saw this coming. Will not be going to see the Hobbit.
http://www.londoncitynights.com/2014/12/the-hobbit-battle-of-five-armies-2014.html (no spoilers - not that there would be any if you have read the book)
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The Hobbit should have been two films.
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@ABWorsham:
The Hobbit should have been two films.
It isn’t even primarily the length that I have issues with, although I think that contributes a lot to its problems.
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“Unbroken” comes out Chrismas day, I’m wondering if this is a war film, or an inspirational drama.
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@Young:
“Unbroken” comes out Chrismas day, I’m wondering if this is a war film, or an inspirational drama.
Definitely feels like the latter. Which I think is why my wife actually thought it looked good. She did not say the same about Fury and that was decidedly a war film.
Judging by the previews, seems like the only war action we see is the B-24 being shot out of the sky. Beyond that it is about Zamperini’s life, accomplishments and ordeals as a POW. That can still make a good film certainly, but I would not expect to see much war fighting.
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