What movies have you seen recently?

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Central Intelligence. I really liked it. The Rock was awesome as always. Kevin Hart is making a living in these "buddy cops" flicks.

[RockinDaMike]

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Saw Central Intelligence too and Ghostbusters. They were both OK to me, had some laughs but that's about it.

[RockinDaMike]

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Pele Birth of a Legend

I give it a 4 out of 10. Just a vanilla script and the acting was not very good. The futbol action was ok but I also hated that it was in English. If you are gonna have a movie about a legend, it should be in his language. That just puts me out of the movie immediately and probably the main reason i didn't enjoy it.

[GAMEC0CK2002]

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Saw Nerve. It was good. Surpisingly so.

[The JareBear]

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Honest question:

If I said that I watched Pitch Perfect/Pitch Perfect 2 back to back tonight and was really entertained the entire time, would you think less of me?

Cuz that may or may not have just happened.

Allegedly

[Blzer]

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Not at all. I love the first one. Didn't like the second one quite as much though. I just don't like how quickly the first one seemed to get a cult following.

[ubernoob]

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Not at all. I love the first one. Didn't like the second one quite as much though. I just don't like how quickly the first one seemed to get a cult following.

So you're part of a following for a movie you say you love, but you're unhappy a lot of people loved it.

[The JareBear]

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Not at all. I love the first one. Didn't like the second one quite as much though. I just don't like how quickly the first one seemed to get a cult following.

The second one seems like it barely featured the guys at all, I can only remember one song the guy group did but maybe I was just not paying attention.

I have a crush on Anna Kendrick though, so it's cool

[RockinDaMike]

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I loved the first Pitch Perfect, laughed my *** off. 2nd one I didn't really like it at all because they were just shoving Fat Amy down your throat and it pretty much copied the beats from the first movie. They also tried to make us like the new girl which didn't work at all.

[The JareBear]

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I loved the first Pitch Perfect, laughed my *** off. 2nd one I didn't really like it at all because they were just shoving Fat Amy down your throat and it pretty much copied the beats from the first movie. They also tried to make us like the new girl which didn't work at all.

Hailee Steinfeld? Yeah she was disappointing. When I saw her in True Grit I thought we had a new Jodie Foster up and coming but I'm not sure anymore

[Mabster]

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Honest question:

If I said that I watched Pitch Perfect/Pitch Perfect 2 back to back tonight and was really entertained the entire time, would you think less of me?

Cuz that may or may not have just happened.

Allegedly

I haven't seen either one but I'd just say you're trying to sanely make it to August 12th anyway possible.

[Lieutenant Dan]

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Loved the first PP, it was entertaining and a well-rounded, well-done flick...and really funny in spots. I actually gave it a watch back when the board here was buzzing about it and you guys did not let me down. Good stuff.

PP2 is still entertaining, and I love the character of Anna Kendrick's producer/boss at the studio; he was amazing. I too loved Hailee in True Grit and she was likable and cute here, but she felt a little forced as did a lot of the film by comparison to the first.

[Blzer]

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So you're part of a following for a movie you say you love, but you're unhappy a lot of people loved it.

Love may have been a strong word on my end, then. I liked it quite a bit though, probably more than most guys would admit. I think that's all I was saying, spinning it off of what I was quoting.

It became immediately quoted everywhere, a sequel was clamored for immediately with no warrant other than wanting more Fat Amy, my softball players get a media guide with bios and everybody's favorite film was Pitch Perfect, poor Anna Kendrick will only be remembered for her role here and not for Up In the Air or 50/50...

And I think a part of it is that I sometimes want to like things that not everybody else does. I liked that it was a guilty pleasure of mine and kind of don't think it deserves all of the cred that it gets. I think it helped wipe off the stink that the show Glee was, because PP did the things right that Glee did wrong (though one is a musical and the other isn't, I get that).

[Blzer]

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I had to look back at some of my notes on my impressions for PP2, and I caught wind of one thing that I really remembered hating in the film...

I wish they did something different with the ending than the way they gave it to us, but either way I'd say it was fine. Just wasn't a very good sequel compared to its original is all.

And I'll spoiler it just in case, though it's not that big of a spoiler:

Spoiler

The Bellas get justifiably ripped in their a cappella battle in the middle of the movie when Steinfeld's character starts busting out an original instead of doing a cover. So why is it in the end when she does her smae exact original, it gets glorified? Not only that, it starts opening up an opportunity for PP3 to do originals whenever they want, not just our group but any group. I'm not saying originals can't be interesting, but I think we all enjoy it a little bit more when we're hearing mashups of songs that we recognize.

One other part I mentioned was:

However, one scene that really got to me was the campfire scene. Great callback moment to the first film there. Very touching that may have saved this one.

I forgot about that scene. Great scene.

Too much Fat Amy in this one. Again, I think I liked it for different reasons than the cult followers do. I just like that it did right what Glee couldn't, and it mashed up some good songs (whereas these "followers" have never heard of Simple Minds in their lives).

[SPTO]

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I watched an interesting Japanese Sci-Fi movie late last night called Gorath (1962) which basically took the story idea of When Worlds Collide (1951) but rather than building spaceships to leave the Earth the scientists of the world decide to use nuclear based explosion/thrusters in the south pole to...MOVE THE EARTH!

The thing I love about these old Japanese movies is the earnestness in which they tell the stories. They take it so deadly serious that you are either cracking a smile or going for the ride with them. Of course, this movie is known for the rather silly huge mutated looking walrus that disrupts the earth moving plan. The director originally didn't want to put that in there but was pretty much forced to. Other than that one bit of unintentional comedy this was a fairly good movie though the character of Kanai (a young astronaut cadet) is fairly goofy.