Been awhile since i posted about movies, so heres a long post about movies
I still have to see Birdman and The Imitation Game
Edge of Tomorrow (6/10)It was fairly average to me, i guess i was expecting more after what bacon said
It just felt like it couldve been better, but i wouldnt say its bad
I guess i was expecting something like Looper but got an action version of Groundhog Day which is fine, i love groundhog day, but it didnt feel like anything new to me and i think the concept works better as a comedy
Gone Girl (9.3/10)One of the longest movies ive seen recently, but didnt even realize how long it was until it was over and it was nearly 3 hours after we started watching lol
It was really great, the twist got me in a way that i wasnt expecting
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I very early on suspected she was framing nick for her own murder, nick constantly did things that would contradict a murder plan unless he was just an idiot or wanted to be caught so the only other thing that made sense was that Amy was framing him
Then as it went on with more dairy pages i was like "oh i guess im reading too much into it, looking for meaning where there is none like i always do" so it convinced me that it was just a straight forward thing where nick killed her and i was disappointed
Then nick said it was her idea to bump up the life insurance and at that point im like "no, theres no way, they just spent 40 mins convincing me that it totally wasnt her framing him and now they imply that she did", then it revealed the twist of her framing him and it was just brilliantly done, even if you figure it out like i did it still gets you
After that i had no idea where it was going to go and it just kept getting better
Well worth spending the 2 and a half hours to watch
The Lego Movie (9/10)This is amazing, the story is great, the way its filmed is fantastic, its like part stop motion part cgi part live action, which sounds like it would be a mess but it all comes together amazingly well
Its 1 of the best family/kids movies, but even beyond that its a good movie in general
And its pretty funny
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The last line batman says "Hes the hero you deserve" really had me laughing so hard, like the relationship between batman and lucy was a set up for that joke during the whole movie, it took the entire movie to deliver the punchline to that joke/make that reference and it just makes it hilarious to me
The Maze Runner (5/10) (potentially 8/10 in the future)The ending to this really drags it down since it ends on a cliffhanger baiting you into the sequel which doesnt exist
If the sequel is good (and i will watch it) i will change this to potentially 8/10 (probably 7/10) as the ending will no longer drag it down
Before the ending it was very enjoyable, with 1 exception
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The girl that came last had no character to her, i cant even remember her name, she literally didnt do anything and really didnt even need to be there at all
I dont understand the point in putting her there, its like they needed her there for the next movie so they threw her in quickly to get her intro out of the way
It feels like we are missing more than half of the story because of that ending, all i ask for is some sort of conclusion, could even be open ended that would be great
But dont just set up for the sequel without explaining anything it really pisses me off (unless i can watch the sequel right away)
Oculus (9.5/10)This is incredible, your perception and interpretation of this movie as you watch is exactly what the movie is regardless of what that perception/interpretation is
Unfortunately most people dont see that, they just see it as a standard/generic ghost story with a terrible ending, which i cant argue with because of what i said above so its very underrated and fairly unappreciated
But if you see what i see its amazing
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Personally i think it was just in their heads, both of them had mental issues after what their father did (and since the father already had mental issues they already had a bit of mental issues even before that)
So to me, the mirror was just a normal mirror and nothing supernatural happened
Normally i might think that maybe im looking too hard at something again by saying that it is exactly as you perceive it, but here i think its intended to be looked at like this since most of the movie plays with perception
Guardians of the Galaxy (I am Groot)This is damn good, funny, action packed, emotional at times, great characters, just all around great
It was actually surprising to me, i went in expecting something completely different to what this was but was much happier with what i got than i would be with what i expected
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Since i went into it completely blind I expected a super hero team up movie about defending the galaxy, you know a normal superhero team which i was fine with even though its been done several times
I like the ragtag team of outlaws way better
9.7/10
Her (5/10)I liked this at first, then it got boring as it dragged on
Its the kind of movie that has a message, and i get that message, but the message feels unnecessary to me
Maybe if the message worked for me id rate it higher but its just boring to me
It had some moments where i really liked it, that i wouldnt consider boring
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Like the surrogate body bit
But most of the time it was boring
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I consider anything capable of composing music (creating any kind of unique art) and making jokes as human, those are what i would consider the minimum requirements of humanity, it could even be terrible music or an unfunny joke as long as the attempt was made and you can see what it was going for
So, to me, the movie was just showing a normal relationship between 2 people where 1 had a disability (in that she didnt have a body), which was fine at first but they showed too much of the relationship, i was just thinking "Yeah, i get it, they are happy together, move on to the unhappiness now plz" for most of the movie and all of the bits i liked were the problems they had
And once i considered her human i knew it wouldnt work between them since she said she read a book in 2/100s of a second, a relationship with a human would just be too slow for her if she can read that fast, so i thought she'd leave him for an OS at some point since an OS like her would be more her speed
So yeah, watching 2 people working hard at making it work and being happy most of the time in a relationship that i knew was doomed to fail was not enjoyable to me
The Inbetweeners 2 (7/10)So this started out as a british comedy sitcom about 4 friends in highschool, the show has 18 episodes and is great
Then the show went off the air and they started doing movies instead, the 2nd movie was released this year
The movies arent bad but the show is a lot better
A lot of the jokes are immature, but the set up for them is amazing and it turns something that would normally be an unfunny immature joke into something hilarious
The 2nd movie is the worst of the series, the show should definitely be watched though
Predestination (8/10 or 4/10)So i dont really know how to feel about this one
Ive managed to make it make sense in a way that is pretty cool, so i guess im going with 8/10, but you could very easily argue that it was terrible
This is how i see it
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We are missing at least 1 timeline, the first timeline in which Robertson kidnapped a hermaphroditic baby (Jane, but not the Jane that we see) and made it have sex with itself so that it could start the closed loop of the predestination paradox that we do see
Or something along those lines, thats just my interpretation of the beginning, but something had to start this loop initially for it to make any sense at all
But thats the main reason i like it, a lot of movies have endings that are left to the viewer to interpret, but this one has a beginning thats open ended for interpretation
If i hadnt thought of that i wouldve just said its a time travel movie that literally makes no sense and given it like a 4/10 or something
So yeah, either 8/10 or 4/10
The Interview (6/10)I only watched this cause it was pulled from theaters
Its not bad, some parts are funny, but its pretty average all around
Interstellar (5/10)I agree with bacon on this being Christopher Nolan's worst movie
I disagree that the movie uses real scientific theories, it tries to but its almost entirely science fiction since they got most of the science wrong, they almost got 1 thing right though
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Time dilation near a large gravitational force like a black hole would occur like they were saying but the plan to have the ship orbit the black hole next to the planet to be outside the time dilation effect wouldnt work at all
Its not like theres a clear boundary to the time dilation effect, the closer you get to the black hole the more dilated time becomes, so the ship would also be slowed down, just not as much as the planet
He said it was 23 years (which is how much time passed on earth, roughly, yet on the ship it shouldve only been maybe 12 hours to a day longer than what they experienced on the planet since the ship and planet were still fairly close to eachother near the black hole, it could be longer than that but it wouldnt be anywhere near the same amount of time that passed on earth
In fact just being in the same area of space with a black hole would be enough to slow you down to drastically change your clock relative to earth (or anything not near that area)
It seemed like they thought gravity had a boundary throughout everything, but gravity doesnt have a boundary, it effects everything around it in all directions infinitely, its just once you get far enough away from the source the effect is so small that it doesnt make a difference, but its still there, for example, earths gravity extends all the way out to other galaxies, its just that earths gravity is so weak it doesnt actually do anything that far away on its own but it adds to the total gravitational pull of our galaxy on other galaxies
In this case though, the black holes gravity is strong enough to effect that whole system
I had many complaints with the science in that but as it goes its clearly science fiction so i cant complain, but i would have prefered them to not try to put some real science in since it was all inaccurate in some way
But i have other complaints which is where the 5/10 rating comes from
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When he sent the message to stay did he forget that she already told him she got a message telling him to stay, from his perspective that was less than a few days ago so he shouldve known that wouldnt work
Who in their right mind would consider a planet orbiting a black hole as a good place for the future of humanity, even the other 2 planets were bad choices because there was a black hole in that system, black holes arent known to be the most stable things so settling next to one probably not the best idea
How is plan B supposed to work, a group of like 5 people and a robot raise 300 babies, how would the babies grow, they didnt really explain the details but it seems like this plan has no details
Why is no one suspicious of a wormhole that appears at roughly the same time the planet starts having issues, they all seem cool with it like its a good thing, they were right, but still
How does Murph know that Brand survived at the end, and was still out there, she should have no way of knowing that
Did no one tell Dr. Brand about the black hole in the system with viable planets, the black hole that he needed to complete his research properly, seems like it would be important for him to know, they couldve at least tried to get the info he was missing, even if it seems impossible, if no one told him that would explain why they thought that system was viable for the future of humanity even though there was a black hole there
And i have similar issues with the end that bacon has, its just too happy, Cooper was more upset when Murph sent the message about being the same age (which was a really good scene btw) than he was at her deathbed
So they really pushed hard for a happy ending, kindve surprised that Nolan made this honestly
Oh and heres a few of the science complaints if you were wondering (some of them are valid even with the "its science fiction so stfu" mentality)
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1. They needed a 3 stage rocket to leave earth, but had no issues leaving a planet that had 130% of earths gravity (it should require at least the same rocket if not more to get off a planet like that), if the normal ship had that much thrust then why bother using a 3 stage rocket to leave earth
2. You dont need to generate artificial gravity on the ship, the way they did it is almost scientifically correct (they arent generating gravity to create artificial gravity, they are using centripetal force to hold them to the outside of the thing that is spinning, but the ship isnt docked in a way where that would work they end up on the wall of the ship if it was accurate)but creating artificial gravity is completely unnecessary, even the hibernation pods had a thing to seal you down so that you didnt need gravity, you wouldnt need the water that they have if there was no gravity
3. They translate "quantum data" into morse code.... seriously, thats ridiculous, even if that data was 1 megabyte, which is insanely small for "quantum data", it would take years, decades even, just waiting for the second hand on the watch to move (from Murphs perspective, i assume Cooper has all the time in the world so the time it would take him to send that message doesnt matter, but the time it takes Murph to receive it does)
4. The future humans that sent the wormhole and set all this up took a lot of time to avoid causality paradoxes but didnt care if Cooper caused a paradox, like why bother doing any of that if Cooper is just going to cause a paradox anyway, they may as well have just told them what to do, they were just being dicks the way they did it considering how it ended (which they wouldve known being from the future and all)
5. Getting info out of a black hole is impossible
And i would argue that they didnt "have its cake and eats it too"
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they never actually eat the cake so they just have it
Nightcrawler (8/10)I cant write a thing for this without spoiling something
If the IMDB plot summary interests you its worth watching
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At first i was going to say:
"I wish more movies/shows had a dispicable main character like this, especially stories that end with that character succeding"
Since its more like reality, the "bad guy" more often than not gets away with what they do
But then i thought about it and realized why there are so few of those, because even i wanted to see him be arrested, killed, or something and if this was a normal thing movies did i would start complaining about how the main character never gets whats coming to him
As an ocasional thing though i think its great
These arent really 2014 but im throwing them here since we went from Summer 2013 to top movies of 2014, so we skiped september-december of 2013
Enders Game (9/10)This was really good and makes me want to read the books to see what happens (though i didnt)
It ends on a cliffhanger like maze runner does but does it in a much better way that im ok with waiting for the next movie since this part had a real conclusion
Im curious to know the differences between the book and the movie now, and how the movie is compared to the book
Gravity (6/10)A very standard survival story, but set in space so it looks cooler
It is visually impressive and has an emotional moment, but its a story weve seen a million times without any variation to it (i dont count the space setting as a variation to the story)
So while its not bad, i cant say its good either
The World's End (7/10)A comedy written by the same people that made Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz, 2 really good comedies, but it doesnt really live up to those movies
Its no where near as funny, but it is still entertaining and has its moments
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