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Plugabugz:
--- Quote from: Hypotheliciously on July 13, 2014, 08:20:03 AM ---Dear 'The Raid 2',
MY.GOODNESS. I've never yelled and winced with pain so much during a movie since that time I got my ass beat by my brothers while watching one. You are brutal, realistic, and oh so fun to watch. And that last fight scene....I applauded. I was watching by myself and I applauded.
Watching you again and again,
Hypotheliciously Meticulously Ridiculously
thanks for the new name hah
--- End quote ---
I watched this in the cinema when - about 10 days prior to its UK release - and that final fight scene caused the entire room (about 350 people) to nearly erupt insane applause.
The Raid 2 makes all western movies look tame in comparison after that.
BlackNMild2k1:
The Raid 2
I enjoyed it, but not as much as the first one. Some fight scenes, like in the car, just seem like action pauses when the camera leaves and as soon as the camera came back "ACTION!!" and things start up again.
Other scenes like hammer & bat are like they are obviously holding back, like they were taking turns and trying to give him a chance.
The opening fight in the stall though was pretty crazy, there were lots of other visually brutal scenes and the perfectly timed cutaways made them all them more brutal for making you use your imagination. The camera would move with the strike pulling the victim just out of frame at the moment of impact. You might have to watch to see what I mean if you don't get it already.
Overall the action is top notch, the movie is gory, brutal and all that.
A few details would break the suspension of disbelief, and some of that could have been fixed with slightly better editing.
azeke:
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
7/10
Solid movie. Not as good as first one. Rise was instant classic, and easily the best film in entire series.
Ah well. Caesar was badass, what else do you need?
It's a pity there weren't more scenes with Maurice, he is my favourite character.
nickmitch:
Boyhood
If you didn't know, this movie takes place over 13 years as a boy ages from 5 to 18, filmed over 12 years with the same actors. Here is the IMDB page for more info.
This movie was incredible to watch. The kid really does grow up before your eyes over a span of 2 hours and 45 minutes. It's amazing watching him age a full year at a time between scenes with all the things happening in his life. The movie really has no central plot. It just shows a kid going through life events: moving, making friends, girls, jobs, his mother dating, etc.
What was weird to me was that it seemed like every older male acted like a father figure to the kid. Like everyone was his dad. The scenes just kinda jump between life events, so it always feels like something is happening. The characters really grow on you (because, yeah). It's hard to describe the experience of watching this film. Suffice it to say, this is why we go to the movies.
10/10
Pixelated Pixies:
Boyhood
I have a love/hate relationship with Richard Linklater. Well, maybe hate is a strong word, but there are definitely elements of his films that make my eyes roll. I love his naturalistic style of directing, and admire the fact that he imbues his characters will real feeling and heart, but sometimes the words he puts in the mouths of his actors are downright pretentious. Take Boyhood for example, in which the following line is uttered,
"You know how everyone’s always saying seize the moment? I don’t know, I’m kind of thinking it’s the other way around, you know, like the moment seizes us.”
While I love the 'Before' trilogy, I could point to any number of similarly bogus lines from those films which made my skin crawl . Maybe it's a question of upbringing, social class, or cultural difference, but the people in Linklater's films bear little resemblance to people in the real world (or rather my world).
I find it much easier to accept the preternatural when it's not trying to evoke realism. I have fewer issues, for instance, with a director like Wes Anderson because his films are so very stylised; while Linklater's films strive to render realistic portrayals of people at given times in their lives. It's for that reason, because Linklater does deal with things like relationships and feelings so deftly, that when his characters say something that feels unnatural or forced, it pulls me right out of the film.
That, however, is just a personal gripe. My only other issue with 'Boyhood' is that the 'boy' at the centre of the story wasn't a particularly interesting character. Like some of Linklater's protagonists he's passive; things happen to him, he experiences events, but takes little action in them. In some ways I guess that's a fairly realistic portrayal of many of us (myself included), but as a result I found myself gravitating towards the lives of the other characters in the film. In fact, by the end I was pretty much ready for Mason to go to college just so the story could move on to the lives of other characters, who were much more interesting.
Those issues aside though, 'Boyhood' is unlike any film I've ever seen. Even if you were to ignore the logistics of putting a film like this together, you can't help but be impressed by this director's devotion to his characters. I very much look forward to seeing this film again and I suspect that, as was the case with the 'Before' films, I will appreciate 'Boyhood' more with each subsequent viewing.
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