Last movie you saw?

I actually liked it too. It was a good old school mindless action movie with funny one liners, over the top performances, and stuff exploding. I particularly liked the part with Travolta using a bazooka from an Audi A8 W12.

Also the fact that this has a 37% on Rottentomatoes while Haywire has an 80% has me convinced that critics have no idea what makes a good action movie.

 

not a big surprise there

 

Horror is another genre I would say critics don't really understand. The horror movies they recommend usually suck. And some horror movies that are now considered classics, like The Shining, were panned by critics.

Which pretty much tells you critics don't know anything, because many now consider it one of the best horror films ever made if not the best.

 

Chronicle

What if you gave a group of angsty, moronic high school douchebags super powers and filmed them doing incredibly unimaginative things with those powers "found footage" style with a shaky cam and bad special effects? That's this movie in a nutshell, and boy did it suck.

There's a fight at the very end of the movie that's decent, but it's only about five minutes long, and it's hardly worth sitting through the rest of this boring stinker to see it.

 

Lots of my friends (and/ or internet acquaintances lol...) call it live action Akira

Anyway I watched yet another Amazon Prime freebie, Bill Maher's "Mockumentary" (my words not his) of religion, Religulous.

Hey, Religion may very well (and this I agree with) be rediculous, but somehow mocking it is made 2x as such. Just kinda' funny how that is. It's like he wrote the last part of that flick before he even filmed the first part. His mind was made up, it was a waste of time to even film. But hey, Bill Maher is Bill Maher in his world only his opinion matters. I learned about as much from that as I did from Sasha Cohen's Borat. Their styles of comedy are much the same.

 

I've heard the fight at the end is a ripoff of Akira, and that was literally the only part of the movie worth watching.

Maybe I'll watch Akira next so I can see what Chronicle was trying to be. It's one of those movies that's been recommended to me many times that I've never actually bothered to watch.

 

Avoid the original dub. The Blu-ray has awesome audio.

 

Would it be better just to watch it in Japanese with English subs?

 

You've never seen Akira? It's fucking awesome. Just get prepared to hear "KANEDAAAA!!!!" and "TETSUOOOOOO!!!" a lot. That film is a mind fuck. Hollywood is supposedly trying to ruin another classic by making a live action version of Akira. It could be awesome but you owe it to yourslef as a film lover(?) to see the original Akira.

 

I've seen it both dubbed and subbed and it was about the same for me. However I'd go for the dubbed version because your eyes can actually stay on the animation instead of spending 2 hours reading dialogue, plus I hate the sound of loud high pitch screaming Japanese women. Personal preference I guess. Wouldn't the blu ray version provide both dubbed and subbed?

 

I can't READ and SEE things!

Dubs tend to be pretty awkward for most anime but if you're finding you can't see pictures because of reading. You read like a retard.

Dubs are getting better, I watched steamboy in the dub because it had British actors and the thing is set in London. But you still get the problem of too many words squeezed into too little time.

 

Just learn Japanese you lazy bastards.

 

Don't get your hopes too high.

 

I didn't say I couldn't read and watch, but it's surely better to just watch with no reading isn't it? You know me by now. I 'm a lazy mother fucker who's always looking for the easiest/most convenient way to do things, and I make no apologies for it.

 

With the quality of the majority of dubs, I'm gonna have to say no. Not to mention the lines can be mangled but if you can put up with that then that's cool.

If you haven't seen the revenge trilogy yet, you should.

 

That bad huh? I probably just won't bother then. I don't even like anime.

 

Yeah it's not that great, it's just the only exciting bit in the film. Also, the kid is a dick.

 

So Chronicle was pretty faithful to it then I guess? Because it was also a shitty movie with one good fight at the end. I mean you could pretty much fast forward to that fight and not miss anything.

 

Yeah, there's a lot of teen angst from the least likeable kid in te world who gets his comeuppance at the end.