The 150 Movie Challenge - 2012 Edition

Post by **Pappa** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:32 pm

tattuchu wrote:
Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:18) The Dead. A pretty nice serious take on the zombie genre with some genuinely unsettling moments for a change. Also absolutely gorgeous to look at. I give it 4 out of 5 dismembered limbs. I would have given it five dismembered limbs, but I'm a tough grader and, while very enjoyable, the film wasn't quite emotionally resonant to move me to tears or anything. It was more a matter of admiration for a job well done, and I quite enjoyed it certainly. But, yeah, four severed limbs is enough. No need to get carried away with the severed limbs.
Wait, is that the one set in South Africa?
That's the one

I hated that film. It bored the pants off me.

Post by **Pappa** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:34 pm

31. The Lost Continent - **
32. W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) - ***
33. The Adventures of Tintin - ***.5 (I enjoyed this, it was fun, and the cgi was outstanding.)

Post by **tattuchu** » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:53 pm

Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:
Pappa wrote:
tattuchu wrote:18) The Dead. A pretty nice serious take on the zombie genre with some genuinely unsettling moments for a change. Also absolutely gorgeous to look at. I give it 4 out of 5 dismembered limbs. I would have given it five dismembered limbs, but I'm a tough grader and, while very enjoyable, the film wasn't quite emotionally resonant to move me to tears or anything. It was more a matter of admiration for a job well done, and I quite enjoyed it certainly. But, yeah, four severed limbs is enough. No need to get carried away with the severed limbs.
Wait, is that the one set in South Africa?
That's the one
I hated that film. It bored the pants off me.

It kept my interest well enough. There were a few places where I felt some potentially interesting developments were dealt with a little too easily or conveniently. The baby for instance. And while I found it genuinely creepy in the beginning, I don't think it maintained that creepiness throughout. I still liked it, though.

Post by **tattuchu** » Sun Mar 18, 2012 2:25 am

20) Game of Thrones Season One Disc One. Jesus there's a lot of fucking in this. It's pretty cool, though. Although not an awful lot has happened yet. So are there dragons in this or what?
I like the dwarf the best. He's awesome.
I give it four out of five missing dragons. It lost a missing dragon because it's missing dragons.

Post by **tattuchu** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:18 am

I was going to list every disc separately but that might be cheating, particularly since each disc only had two episodes apiece. Let me amend my last entry and call it Game of Thrones Season One. Let me also amend my rating and change it to four and a half out of five dragon tits. The reason I'm leaving it a half a dragon tit short of a perfect rating is because I'm a prick and it takes quite a lot to impress me. Though I ended up really quite liking this series, like, quite a lot, really.
My favorite character is still the dwarf. I like the fact that they don't play him for laughs but rather give the actor a serious role. Not just a serious role. I consider him the star of the series. He is easily the most charismatic actor of the cast, and his character the most interesting.

Post by **Audley Strange** » Mon Mar 19, 2012 1:41 am

I never noticed this year. I should pay attention to such things. These is the ones I remember.

So let's see...

1. Kill List.
2. The Fountain.
3. Begotten (again does that count?)
4. Bronson.
5. Revolver.
6. The Muppet Movie.
7. Los Ojos de Julia.
8. Cookers.
9. To the Devil a Daughter
10. Marcy Martha May Marlene.
11. The Baader Meinhof Complex.

Post by **tattuchu** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 12:21 am

21) Melancholia. Well that was depressing. At first it was excruciatingly boring. And then it was depressing. I like depressing, but I don't know. Not sure what to make of this one. I really really really like Charlotte Gainsbourg, though, that's for certain

After seeing the whole film, I can appreciate the deliberately slow rhythm. I imagine it mirrors the elegant pace of, say, a celestial body. Okay, I get it. And it's not like I've got to have action every minute. I'm not like that. Still. You gotta have a lot of patience for this one.
I give the film three and a half out of five channeled Kubricks.

Post by **tattuchu** » Tue Mar 20, 2012 2:23 pm

I'm gonna change my rating on Melancholia, and now give it four out of five magic teepees. This film refuses to leave my head. I don't want to go so far as to say it's haunting me. But it's staying with me and I can't quite shake it loose. It seems to be a little more powerful than I at first thought.

Post by **Xamonas Chegwé** » Wed Mar 21, 2012 12:31 am

tattuchu wrote:I'm gonna change my rating on Melancholia, and now give it four out of five magic teepees. This film refuses to leave my head. I don't want to go so far as to say it's haunting me. But it's staying with me and I can't quite shake it loose. It seems to be a little more powerful than I at first thought.

I found it was a film that grew on me upon reflection too - although Kirsten Dunst's titties made it a 4.5 ragged-edged ticket-stubs from the off!

Post by **Pappa** » Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:16 am

31. The Lost Continent - **
32. W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) - ***
33. The Adventures of Tintin - ***.5
34. Punch-Drunk Love - **** (An extremely surprising, interesting and novel film. )

Post by **tattuchu** » Wed Mar 28, 2012 1:08 am

22) Blind Fury. Some good silly fun with Rutger Hauer. Cheesy and ridiculous, but surprisingly funny. Good for a few laughs, and the chance to see Hauer back in his prime. Kinda sad, though. Why, after Blade Runner, he didn't do better films than this, I've no idea. I give it three out of five Darth Mauls.

Post by **tattuchu** » Sat Mar 31, 2012 5:16 pm

23) The Adventures of Tintin. Boring as fuck, holy shit. I'm not familiar with Tintin, since the character is virtually unknown here in the States but, being a comics geek, do know who he is at least and recognize he and his dog. I've no idea, then, whether Spielberg did these iconic characters justice. Still, I was expecting something a little more cerebral, and a little more elegant. I suppose I should not have expected that from Spielberg, but I was nevertheless horrified by what I saw. It started out nice enough, but the pace quickly turned frenetic as the film devolved into nothing more than an extended Spielbergian chase scene. Well, it is Spielberg. But what was once fresh, exciting, and endearing (the early Indiana Jones films, for instance) is now just tiresome and cliched, even when it's Spielberg himself doing it. Some of the sequences were fairly inventive, and I did appreciate that. But we've seen this sort of thing so many times before that it's difficult to generate any excitement over it. And it's difficult to care, besides, since this whole affair was rather soulless. I wasn't given a reason to care about any of the characters. I could have done with something a little slower paced and punctuated by spurts of action, as opposed to to a script that doesn't give me much time to think at all, and yet nevertheless manages to bore me to tears. Speaking of the script, I couldn't believe how cliche-ridden some of the dialogue was. WTF?
I also had a huge problem with the animation that I simply could not overcome. I was annoyed throughout the whole film at the way Tintin was depicted. If you want a photo-realistic character, then FFS do a live action film. If you're portraying a cartoon character, then he should be animated accordingly. If Tintin were more cartoonish in the film, he would have been more interesting, more colorful, more visually appealing, easier on the eyes, easier on the brain, and truer to the original source material. That's not to say he should have been drawn exactly like the comics. Of course he shouldn't. This is a film after all. But Capt Haddock, for instance, and the two police inspectors, were more cartoonish. So why not Tintin? By making him look so realistic, it just made him look and feel wrong. And then there's the uneasy annoyance of something looking very realistic but not quite real. Christ, just because you've got this great technology (rotoscoping) doesn't mean you need to make cartoon characters very nearly (but not quite) realistic. It's much more fun if you keep them cartoonish. Place them in beautifully rendered backgrounds, sure, but the characters themselves should remain simplified. Isn't this what Herge did in the comics? And Moebius as well? It's this juxtaposition and melding of the realistic and the abstract that makes a fantasy world a fantasy world. I mean, Christ, the animators gave Tintin realistic eyes. That's all wrong! Ironically, by making him more realistic, he becomes less easy to identify with.
Okay so I guess the film wasn't a complete piece of crap. The animation was lovely, even if I didn't think the title character looked right. There were some bits I laughed at. And I did like the first part of the film before it got retarded and tiresome. I suppose I'll rate it two and a half out of five Billy Elliots. It wasn't great, nor was it worthless. In the DVD extras, Spielberg says this could be a series of films, and that he and Peter Jackson would trade off directing from film to film. I hope this is the case, and that Jackson directs the next one. Because I'd enjoy seeing another Tintin brought to the screen with Jackson's sensibilities as opposed to Spielberg's.

Post by **JacksSmirkingRevenge** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 4:42 am

Xamonas Chegwé wrote: <snip>
9. Attack The Block
<snip>

Completely forgot about this film - Obtaining now!

Post by **tattuchu** » Sun Apr 01, 2012 10:28 pm

I watched Tintin again today and I didn't hate it quite so much as I did the other day. I guess I got over what I felt Tintin ought to look like, and what I thought the tone and pace of the film should have been, and reassed it based on what it was rather than what I wanted it to be. This time around I actually found it clever and amusing and visually inventive. Voice acting all around was superb, particularly Jamie Bell as Tintin.
There were some bits in the film that seemed too contrived or didn't sit well with me, but overall I found myself wondering just what exactly my problem was previous. I tried to pinpoint where I thought the film started to fail, but it kept rolling along and along with nothing exceptionally annoying at all. On the ship, when Tintin was dodging bullets trying to make his way to the longboat, and the Indiana Jones music started to play, I thought that was it. But then that quickly passed, and I was back to not-at-all annoyed for some time. When it came round to the extended chase sequence in which the characters were vying for the three notes, that's definitely when it became tiresome for me and I shut it off at that point. But that was quite a long way into the film.
So, not so terrible after all. Still some parts I didn't care for. But not horrendous overall, and even pretty enjoyable through large swaths. I guess I'll up my rating to three and a half out of five Billy Elliots.

Post by **Pappa** » Wed Apr 11, 2012 12:57 pm

31. The Lost Continent - **
32. W.R. - Mysteries of the Organism (W.R. - Misterije organizma) - ***
33. The Adventures of Tintin - ***.5
34. Punch-Drunk Love - ****
35. Puss in Boots - ***.5
36. The Neverending Story - ***
37. The Muppets (2011) - ****.5
38. Atlantis (2001) - ***

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