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Harry's DVD PICKS & PEEKS - DEC 18th 2012 edition: William Friedkin, Eastwood, Len Wiseman, Pitch Perfect and more!!!
Hey folks, Harry here... I've been discovering the amazing joys of HD Projection 3D at home with the Shutter glasses and Holy Shit does it look many times better than the 3D in Theaters. I'm genuinely shocked by how amazing it looks at home. As usual, the images and links take you to Amazon where you can learn more on the title in question, or you can purchase it, which helps to keep this column's best efforts going. Also, if you haven't picked up the Picks & Peeks App from the App store for i-Devices, do so now! Otherwise let's get right into it!
Tuesday, December 18th, 2012
So I admit, I was skeptical of PITCH PERFECT, though by now I should know to just place my faith in Anna Kendrick and just let her work her magic, but this is an a cappella College coming of age comedy… It wasn’t an immediate home run, but by the end of the disc, I was hooked. Sure it’s just like BRING IT ON and STEP UP and GLEE and all that stuff… but if you watch to enjoy, you will. This is a very fun little flick.
If you want a notably pedestrian interpretation of TOTAL RECALL – with a very restrained color palate and the big science fiction is the elevator through the Earth from England to Australia (The Colony) – instead of a story involving Mars and Mutants. For me, this was a loose enough adaptation as to not be patently offensive – but at the same time – it was familiar enough that it constantly made me aware of how much better Paul Verhoeven’s film with Arnie was. This was just unneeded… especially by Len Wiseman.
If there’s an award for best first time director casting… Seriously what a great cast. Here, Eastwood plays the grizzled and cantankerous recruiting scout on his final run, needing help and the only person he can turn to is his lawyer daughter played with effortless cuteness by Amy Adams. I just love watching Eastwood on screen. The film is pretty by the numbers, but with this cast, that’s enough. They seem like they’re having a good time with the film. I know I did.
William Friedkin kicks more ass with this low budget, amazing cast sweaty noir than just about anything else I saw all year long. I have no problem believing that somewhere in Texas this is all happening right now. That seedy realization makes me stay in Austin. Where I don’t believe this is happening right now. That’s a delusion, but one I prefer to believe in. If this had been picked up by a larger company, Gina Gershon would be being bandied about for Best Supporting Actress nods. And I think Thomas Haden Church is doing work that I could see getting a Supporting nod of his own. But nobody is campaigning for this obsidian black humored film. See if your skin crawls in that scene with McConaughey and Ms Temple. And Matthew and Gina… hell, they work in the best spirit of Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange from their POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE remake. Sharp eyes will spot me in the extras helming the most wildly inappropriate Q&A I’ve ever done. Of course it winds up on the Blu Ray! Crazy.
I tend to love most of David Koepp’s directing work, and this is no different. Of course with Joseph Gordon Levitt and Michael Shannon headlining, a film would have to muster some powerful suckage to knock this one of the rails. Koepp’s another fan of Noir – and this reminds me of the DOA kind of scenario. A mystery suspense action flick that causes a high amount our eeeks out of me. I’m deathly afraid of collisions. If you double feature this with KILLER JOE, play this one first. KILLER JOE is a closer.
Here’s a film where Richard Gere plays a total prick, that I think I’m supposed to be rooting for, but everything he says and does makes my fucking skin crawl. So instead of rooting for him, I keep trying to manufacture ways for his life to suck more and usually it does. But I still think the movie is too nice to him. He’s just a rotten being. If you like a good prick movie, this one is mildly satisfying. I have no desire to really see it ever again.
This is one of my all time favorite Danny Kaye films. That’s saying something, because as far as I’ve seen, I’ve never seen a bad Danny Kaye flick. However, what puts this title above most of the others is the depth that he dove into the character. Too often, Kaye was used exclusively for comic timing and melodic contributions – and he’s funny and musical here… but there’s more soul in his performance as Hans Christian Andersen. This is a welcome addition to the Blu Ray library!
Ever wanted to see a film directed by Paul Newman & starring him… that was adapted from a novel that was written under the influences of LSD about Union Logging? Of course you did. This was Ken Kesey’s novel after ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST – and is not nearly as well known as that. However, Paul Newman’s film with Henry Fonda, the gorgeous Lee Remick and one of my fave character actors, Richard Jaeckel as Newman’s bro. Next to SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS – this is one of the great Logging films. Heh.
Nazi Ghost Ship vs GEORGE “Patron” KENNEDY? On Blu Ray? Forgettaboutit!!! This is an absolute must have. Alongside Rambo’s handler, George Kennedy ends up on a fateful voyage that brings him and his fellow passengers into intimate terror with the DEATHSHIP! That’s pretty much all you need to know. I love ghostly tales of the ships wandering the Earth wanting to kill you. Now just get me a SARGASSO OGRE movie.
This release was moved today to January 29th, 2013. But was scheduled to come out today, as of yesterday. Le sigh. THIS one can’t get here soon enough. FLIGHT OF THE NAVIGATOR is awesome. If you want it now – you’ll have to seek out the German Import, but very soon this gets a full on domestic release. You can pre-order it now it seems.
Then next week we have Christmas releases leading off with the tremendous LOOPER, which is about the only thing being released on Christmas day… so Next Tuesday I’ll have my picks for the best releases of the year! Stay warm and safe this Holiday season.
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Unless there's some secret version of Amazon that releases movies a week early, we have to wait until New Year's Eve to pick up Looper. http://www.amazon.com/Looper-UltraViolet-Digital-Copy-Blu-ray/dp/B005LAII8K/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355870544&sr=8-1&keywords=looper
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that he used the maker of his favorite brand as his nickname. Who knew?
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Can anyone tell me how the Blu looks?
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Ta Harry.
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Now that's a scary movie aboard a ghost ship. And Kim Novak at the end gave me nightmares.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 5:49 p.m. CST
Top Ten Marketing-Polished Quotes for the Blu-Ray Boxes
by Jacob Underhill
12. but if you watch to enjoy, you will. 11. But was scheduled to come out today, as of yesterday. 10. Alongside Rambo’s handler, George Kennedy ends up on a fateful voyage that brings him and his fellow passengers into intimate terror with the DEATHSHIP! 9. this is an a cappella College coming of age comedy 8. This was just unneeded… especially by Len Wiseman. 7. Next to SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS – this is one of the great Logging films. 6. as far as I’ve seen, I’ve never seen a bad Danny Kaye flick. 5. However, what puts this title above most of the others is the depth that he dove into the character. 4. If there’s an award for best first time director casting… 3. The film is pretty by the numbers, but with this cast, that’s enough. 2. If you like a good prick movie, this one is mildly satisfying. 1. A mystery suspense action flick that causes a high amount our eeeks out of me. This just in from our Dept. of Circular Logic and Narrative Studies: I have no problem believing that somewhere in Texas this is all happening right now. That seedy realization makes me stay in Austin. Where I don’t believe this is happening right now. That’s a delusion, but one I prefer to believe in. Bonus Section, Your Vocabulary Assignment, should you choose to accept it: *Discuss Palate vs. Pallet vs. Palette *Define Patently *Differentiate between relevant and irrelevant usage of the following words: However, Genuinely, Awesome, Seedy, Humored *Finally, discuss the need to capitalize the words: Next, THIS, Logging, and College. Selected transcripts from Harry's recent visit to the Psychiatrist's office.: ...Harry, Please discuss what you love... I love ghostly tales of the ships wandering the Earth wanting to kill you. ...Sounds scary...If that is something you love, then what is something that frightens you?..... I’m deathly afraid of collisions. ...OK, step out of your skin for a moment and pretend you are talking about Harry Knowles, as if he were someone else who you were responsible for...how would you treat him?... instead of rooting for him, I keep trying to manufacture ways for his life to suck more and usually it does.
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...you always refer to Rambo. To me, when I think of Crenna, I always think of Kathleen Turner's slimy husband in Body Heat. Next would be his Detective Janek in a series of films for tv, especially Doubletake where in investuigated the murders of two women in different locations but the killer switched the heads. Cool. Speaking of The Postman Always Rings Twice, does anyone have information on the bluray release? I preordered the original Garfield/Turner one and the Nichloson/Lange version which were due to be released together in november. The Garfield one was released but the Nicholson one has been pushed back, so my double feature night has been waiting. I'm thinking of buying the Italian version Osessione to make it a trilogy, not sure if that's in blu though.
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Always loved the movie (for what it is), but I will give a word of warning: the folks over at Scorpion Entertainment didn't bother to do any color timing correction, and the image (while fairly sharp) has a washed out, bluish cast. If you're alright with that, purchase away!
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I don't get the love for LOOPER. I just watched that with my brother and, to be honest, it's pretty retarded with it's logic. To keep it relatively short, I have to disagree with LOOPER's theory that whatever happens in the present will automagically effect your "future in the past" self. While I cannot say I have experienced time travel, I CAN say that, even with a machine that can make time travel possible, you still are bound by the rules of physics. As in: you as an individual are in one constant linear time line. You can go back and forth and even kill yourself... you will not magically disappear because (1) you are a different "you" and (2) it is physically impossible. Existence does not care if there are 2 or 2 million versions of yourself at any point of time/existence, as to the natural physical world around you would consider each and everyone as a separate living being (thus no TIMECOP megamelting from touching your past/future self). Even if you went back to the exact time right before you stepping into said time machine, you are technically a few seconds older and thus different enough to be 2 different beings. Even so, let's go by LOOPER's own premise (here be spoilers). The moment young Bruce Willis made the realization about the Rainmaker (seeing his mother shot, getting on train, becoming super villain to villains), old Bruce Willis would have the same memory and thus would not shoot the mother (or would hesitate, make a grumpy face, throw a PULP FICTION tantrum and not shoot the mom), and thus young Bruce Willis would not need to shoot himself (not to mention, young and old Bruce Willis would stay and help raise/protect damien/ the kwisatz haderach). This is not even taking into account that old Bruce Willis went back into time without a hood and went on his shenanigans in a time line where he KILLED his older self 30 years prior... which doesn't make any sense as that would mean his future self FAILED in his attempt to overpower the Rainmaker's henchmen. Regardless of whether the rules you set are illogical, it is definitely illogical and cheating if you break the very rules you set up in your own story.
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All good points well presented, but that is the *meat* of time travel sci-fi - to willingly suspend that logic. I rather liked it. Your post reminds me of a different question: Why did the site writers stop using the Inviso-Text gimmick to hide the spoilers? I thought that was a rather clever conceit.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 6:46 p.m. CST
Bullshit you're 3D at home looks better than the the theater...
by JackSlater4
and I'm a huge fan of my 55" Sony 3D on gorilla glass.
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...in that same sort of lazy afternoon fun way that I like Michael Bay's The Island or John Stockwell's Into The Blue. Outstanding special effects? Check. Fast-paced and fun story? Check. Cool villain? Check Eye candy? Check It's a good solid flick on its own terms that I'll revisit from time to time when I'm in the specific sort of mood. It's best not to think of Total Recall as a "remake", but Len Wiseman did not do a favor to the film by including the nods to Paul Verhoeven's film. The three-breasted girl had no reason to be in this new interpretation of the story. I give it a grade of B-, but it's fun to shake the dust off those B- flicks ever so often.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 6:48 p.m. CST
Joseph Gordon Levitt is our Eric Von Stroheim and I adore him.
by The_Cellarrat
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I called it a remake in the subject line, then wrote that it's best not to think of it as a "remake." Long day at the office, y'all.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 6:50 p.m. CST
I love ghostly tales of the ships wandering the Earth wanting to kill you.
by The_Cellarrat
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Dec. 18, 2012, 6:59 p.m. CST
This release was moved today to January 29th, 2013. But was scheduled to come out today, as of yesterday
by robamenta
I had to read that a few times..hilarious
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Dec. 18, 2012, 7:48 p.m. CST
It's weird how Harry likes every movie ever made, except Inception and Napoleon Dynamice
by Mel
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Dec. 18, 2012, 7:52 p.m. CST
The only thing that would prevent me from watching an Eastwood movie is the casting of either Justin Timberlake or Ashton Kutcher. Mission accomplished.
by The Krypton Kid
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Also, Premium Rush is a piece of shite!!
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Dec. 18, 2012, 8:12 p.m. CST
If you look at the back of the TOTAL REMAKE DVD or Blu-Ray..
by Deaft0ne
It says at the top left: "Better than the original!" - Matt Shlerky, MySpace Since no real review of the remake ever said it was better than the Ahnuld version they had to scour the internets to find some idiot on MySpace that said it was. Fucking hilarious.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 8:21 p.m. CST
My pleasure folks. I get a good laugh out of doing that, even though I always feel kind of bad about it.
by Jacob Underhill
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Dec. 18, 2012, 8:27 p.m. CST
Why are these so short now? What happened to all the nunsploitation gems? Is that damn app to blame?
by FlickaPoo
I demand answers.
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Because harry is obviously mailing it in. Every article starts with a sentence about how he is sorry about how late he is. He is somewhat knowledgeable about movies, albeit from a self-admitted *geek* viewpoint, but is more damningly excruciatingly lazy and blind to the disrespect he engenders towards what used to be and still COULD be an excellent site. Now it is just a cool lounge for us trolls. He is like the alcoholic in the office whose work is shiite and who everyone knows is a drunk but who thinks he is getting away with it and keeping his little problem a secret.
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you win the Talkbacker Of The Year Award 2012 for your outstanding contribution to this column.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 9:25 p.m. CST
3D is way better on my 64" plasma than in theaters
by Bob Loblaw Law Blog
Active shutter glasses are pretty bad ass, even though they cost a bit.
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Totally agree, I love when he pops up every few years with a low key movie that is just good small story telling, ie Stir of Echoes, and my favorite of his, Secret Window. Happy he uses his weight of writing big movies to get behind projects he's clearly passionate about.
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Dec. 18, 2012, 10:29 p.m. CST
Michael Shannon is the only reason to watch Premium Rush...
by GravyAkira
Sure JGL is his usually great self, but Shannon steals the show in this. One of the funniest and entertaining portrayals of a corrupt cop I have seen in recent memory. CANT WAIT TO SEE THIS GUY AS GENERAL ZOD!!!!
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I've posted elsewhere and a few people have already emailed and said they want in as contributors. I can't take this fucking shit anymore. So it's cine229 at gmail... if you want in.
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That Harry doesn't even read these before he posts them. Or it's possible he is intellectually challenged.
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Micheal shannon looks like a pansy How does this MOS movie not.come across like.the total recall remake / karate kid remake / ect. SMII had the talents of Reeves, Hackman, and Stamp. If you think Shannon can hold Stamps joke your a chode. Plus ... Who can bitch about Harry's writing while at the same time bitching about him not writing more ? Boggles the mind !
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Im picking Shannon in the fight, even if you do happen to be the size of The Rock. And make sure there are not any hot irons in the room.
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Shannon can be pretty much anything he wants; he’s that type of actor. Also, I’m not sure why Stamp strikes you as more menacing than Shannon as neither man has a brutish look but rather they both are capable of channeling an icy and subdued viciousness. Oh, and Gene Hackman FUCKING SUCKED AS LUTHOR. And FYI, MOS isn't a remake of Donner's Superman anymore than Nolan's films were a reboot of Burton's Batman.
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Now that is Richard Gere at his prickiest (he's such a prick in that, I made up a word for it). I sometimes have a hard time watching a movie with Gere in it because of what a shithead he is in Internal Affairs.
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I live in fear of coming across him one night when I'm out for snacks. Great actor but I don't want to meet him on a dark corner.
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I mean srsly is such a thing even possible ? well at least it looks good.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 1:05 a.m. CST
I love a good prick movie, And you can't beat a great logging movie to watch as a double bill.
by Miss Moneypennys Pishflapsh
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Dec. 19, 2012, 1:52 a.m. CST
Trouble With The Curve - Is that a Criterion edition or what?
by schlockthemonkey
That cover looks very Criterion style.
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aaaahahahahaaa!
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Dec. 19, 2012, 3:13 a.m. CST
The theaters showing *Trouble with the Curve* had lots of empty chairs in them for Clint to talk to
by James
I'll always love his old stuff, but I don't want to see his *old* stuff. Oh, you're *grizzled and cantankerous*, are you? Let me just fall all over myself to watch this movie, Clint.
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i think he was supposed to play crennas role, but i think sly thought using crennas voice and image was a better idea
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bad effects, casting, action, lens flares, script, no humor, ripoff set design. if die hard 4 is your best movie, you got problems
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It was horrendous and the only highlight was Beckinsale in her Alan Whickers.
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I mean, he was pricky in The Hoax, but still very likable.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 9:22 a.m. CST
is pitch perfect more like glee or more like bring it on? Cuz bring it on was cute. Glee is infuriatingly disgusting and offensive to every part of me.
by Stephen
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Saw Premium Rush at the drive-in, not bad. Unfortunately it was followed up by the immense turd that was Borne Whatchamacalit. Fortunately I was plenty liquored up and it didn't matter.
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Hilarious ...
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Bravo! Three chops for you!
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Dec. 19, 2012, 10:57 a.m. CST
LOL, I didn't know Alan Whicker was CRS for knickers..
by Lao_Che_Air_Freight
Where waterfalls of whiskey wash away the worries of a world-weary Whicker..where gin and tonics jingle in a gyroscopic jubilee of something beginning with J..
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...Gere does indeed play a prick (if a grounded and surprisingly believable/low-key one) in it, there's not nearly enough Susan Sarandon for my taste, and there's a plot twist that stretches believability more than a little. That said, it's certainly watchable...just not terribly memorable, which is kind of sad between Gere/Sarandon and a slumming Tim Roth.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 12:32 p.m. CST
Harry, I can guarantee it's happening in Austin right now
by BoRock_A_Boomer
And you've probably eaten some BP's by now
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Dec. 19, 2012, 12:40 p.m. CST
I was going to give the Ban-Hammer of the year award to creepythinman(insert_action_verb_here) but it looks like it's going to dedrek!
by Darth_Kong
Holy jumping Moses.
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if you traveled back in time on your own plane of existance of course if you killed yourself you wouldnt exist anymore because its the same you its not like jet li the one where you kill yourself and you get stronger great way to use logic on that one
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Oops did I say that out loud?
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Most overrated movie of the year, easily.
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What did he say to get banned? :-D
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My favorite movie of the year so far, Good to see MM actually "acting" again. Saw Looper last night too! also excellent! Though I thought it dragged a bit in the middle.
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Dec. 19, 2012, 3:49 p.m. CST
BatMangelo: well... that's the thing about time travel movies...
by Monroville
They like to have their cake and eat it too. To copy and paste my point from my original post: - Even if you went back to the exact time right before you stepped into said time machine, you are technically a few seconds older and thus different enough to be 2 different beings. - Thus, there is only one timeline for you. The moment you go back to meet yourself, that is essentially another person, who is going to immediately start having new/different memories just by seeing you version #1. You are NOT going to magically -remember- seeing yourself, as that point in time for you has already come and gone for you. Imagine time like a railroad track. If you go back and kill Hitler or become his best friend when he's young and impressionable (and change his attitude to be a bit more benevolent and thus not become the mega jerk everyone hates today), the only one who will know that Hitler is dead BEFORE leading the Nazis into WW2 or altering the course or pre-Nazi Germany into something a bit less destructive... will be you. To everyone else, that is the way it always was. Thus you have put time on another track. Now if you went back to your future starting point, guess what? It will be the alternate future/track you put the new timeline into, negating your prior future. Short of going back a bit further in time when you did initially and stopping yourself, once you switch tracks it is permanent. Even so, the problem with LOOPER is that it breaks it's own rules. Even if their rules are true (the immediate actions of/effects upon young you affects older time traveling you), why didn't old Bruce Willis have the same memories/thoughts as young Bruce Willis at the cornfield? Hell, young Bruce Willis KILLED Old Bruce Willis to begin with.. thus there shouldn't even be a movie to watch (as by killing himself, getting the gold, going to China and meeting his much younger wife only happens because he killed his older self 30 years prior, thus proving that the Rainmaker goons tied him up pretty well). Or better still: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qncm0hTPriE the_cellarrat: Understandable, but that (for myself) only applies to movies like BILL AND TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE, where things like changing the time travel rules as a comedic element makes it that much funnier. Because it's a comedy. LOOPER on the other hand is supposed to be taken seriously. If I recall, the reviews on this site praise it for not having any plot holes. This entire movie is one, giant plot hole. Even with that said, I did like the part where Cromartie (from the SARAH CONNER CHRONICLES) got John Cassavetied. If you don't know what I am referring to, just watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfeLJi2qCVk (go to 3:25)
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That is quite a silly movie. Let's not talk about that one. I'm NOBODY'S bitch!!!" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M213TbKqxlU
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Dec. 19, 2012, 5:05 p.m. CST
I'm reading this on my phone..why do i need to buy the app?
by paul burnett
This is what confuses me, am i missing something?
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Dec. 19, 2012, 5:31 p.m. CST
Hey Chubbs, Nice in depth review!s.. keep up the lack of hard work
by Jones Jonez
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Dec. 19, 2012, 5:48 p.m. CST
have a hard time watching a movie with Gere in it because of what a shithead he is in Internal Affairs.
by future help
so true...haha
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Dec. 19, 2012, 8:49 p.m. CST
Also, Harry refers to Premium Rush as a suspense flick, and used the word suspense to describe Jack Reacher as well. It appears I have misunderstood what the word suspense means all along.
by Jacob Underhill
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Dec. 19, 2012, 9:55 p.m. CST
darth_kong, ease up on those supposed Ban Hammer awards you want to hand out
by Bobo_Vision
While your intentions may be good, you may be unintentionally putting bullseyes on the best talkbackers. Call them something else if you have to hand out imaginary talkback awards.
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was filmed in my little Oregon hometown. It's kind of a big deal around here, so it's a little disappointing that it only came out on DVD earlier this year. It's a pretty mediocre adaption of the epic book, but it's a pretty good movie. The scene where Richard Jaeckel gets pinned under the tree in the river is one of the most serenely nervewracking pieces of film I've ever seen.
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Actually I really enjoyed The One and by the way it's not a time travel movie but a parallel dimension/divergent timelines movie, kinda like that classic Star Trek mirror universe episode. It was a fun trashy flick and was like a stepping stone for Statham's action career. Oh and also Looper's way overrated. For a nice classy similar movie I think Source Code was way better.
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Check it out.
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Michael Shannon is the only reason to watch Premium Rush...
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..."The Kidd vs.", "The Kidd vs.", The Kidd vs.", "The Kidd vs.", ad nauseum.... GREAT!! An infinite "variety" of 'reviews' & opinions by the single most boring "writer" (and I use that term loosely) ever to 'grace' the site. How exciting (yawn...).
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But alas, we live in a world where idiots consider Inception to be the better film.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 9:31 a.m. CST
Looper was ok. It didn't add anything new to the Time Travel genre.
by SergeantStedenko
And frankly, the fact that time travel was only being used to dispose of bodies seemed a little myopic. And there didn't seem to be any law in the present day timeline, I mean people were being killed on the streets with no repercussions, so why did they need to take such extreme measures to dispose of bodies in the future? Unless it has become a totalitarian state, but that wasn't addressed at all in the movie. Also, the direction and cinematography seemed amateurish as if in a low budget student film.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 9:59 a.m. CST
I'm going to go one further and say that LOOPER was not just overrated but in fact not a great movie
by Autodidact
One of those where I honestly shake my head in bemusement when people go on about how great it is. They spend half of this sci-fi time-travel movie hanging around a nondescript farm with some silly hobo/is-he-friend-or-foe vibe that was completely uninteresting to me. INCEPTION is not a better movie either. INCEPTION is another sci-fi premise given the most mundane and boring treatment. Yeah great, a movie about dreams where everyone dreams about action movies.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 10:01 a.m. CST
Here's a novel concept: How about a time travel movie that doesn't feature some hackneyed twist where the protagonist connects to himself in the past?
by Autodidact
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Fuck I hate that movie.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 10:14 a.m. CST
I mean, insofar as one can "hate" a movie. I just remember sitting there wishing the movie would grab my interest and stop having the characters explain the technology and the situation to each other for the umpteenth time
by Autodidact
My memory of watching that movie is in the same bin with the most painful memories of school, where you're sitting there bored out of your mind because instead of learning something you're listening to the teacher explain the same basic concept to the slow kids for the fifth time in two hours.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 10:32 a.m. CST
Based on how blown away by LOOPER here is my concept for a blockbuster sci-fi film. I know I can trust everyone here not to steal my ideas.
by Autodidact
There is a struggle between ancient, long-transcended higher dimensional beings for domination of the interdimensional nexus which resides at the center of the Milky Way's central supermassive black hole. One man will be caught up in the struggle to determine the fate of our universe using the as-yet unseen, vast powers hidden within his mind. That's the logline, now I will film myself posting bullshit to AICN for 90 minutes and call it a movie. Judging by the reaction to LOOPER, people will be blown away.
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Well played sir.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 2:49 p.m. CST
The biggest problem with looper wasn't that it was bad (it was) but that it was douchey and thought it was genius-level sci fi while being so bad
by Stephen
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Dec. 20, 2012, 2:50 p.m. CST
I saw Deathship as part of a horror quadruple-feature years ago and was so drunk, I barely remember it...
by Danny Boil
Should probably watch it again. Dedrek's always hysterical contributions aside, is it just me, or does Harry actually seem to be trying to be a little less incoherent these days? Dedrek, I think you may actually be making a real difference around here.
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Your post was so win. Best laugh i had for a long time. Thanks.
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Just didn't think it was possible (even for Wiseassholeman) to fuck up that badly with so many ingredients at the disposal.
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Dec. 20, 2012, 6:19 p.m. CST
Why in living fuck should there be a world where Killer Joe and Premium Rush are even contemplated as a double bill?
by melonman
Maybe the Mayans knew about Harry Knowles…
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Kate Beckinsale's hot but she's no Sharon Stone. Farrel can be good but he's no Schwarzenegger. Wiseman... just sucks balls.
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Dec. 21, 2012, 10:10 a.m. CST
Len Wisemen is a competent, but totally uninspired director. And for that he gets to sleep with one of the hottest p.o.a. on the planet.
by SergeantStedenko
He and W. S. Anderson are made of the same cloth. Water Shit Anderson also garnered a mediocre career into a hot wife.
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I can never look at fried chicken at all!
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Dec. 22, 2012, 4:44 p.m. CST
Home 3D is a completely different vastly superior experience, start with Avatar and Prometheus (yes bitches)
by quantize
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Dec. 27, 2012, 11:39 p.m. CST
sk229 - you totally should start a site with these prolific talkbackers.
by AnwarNamtut
Maybe let them troll some of your work first though to see if you can stand them. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlDrFPW2Q9U Is that you at 1:01 in doing the Hitchcock cameo? I think that looks like an entertaining indie movie, and I dig stuff shot on HVX cameras. I like to shoot with an NX5, not quite as nice but it does the job and takes a beating. Is Timid available anywhere to watch? I couldn't find it on Amazon or Netflix and the URL for the movie's site is offline.
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Heck nah i aight watching a move about singing... Whoa look at those legs !!! Ok honey you can rent it MM is tearing it up. Great performances this year. Shocked at how he has upped his game. His Aids movie is going to earn him a nomination this year. My auto correct kept changing "aids" to "anus". Just saying. Richard gere does not play a total prick. Richard gere is a total prick. Andy Garcia was intense in internal affairs. He always gives a solid performance. Except in black rain. He lost his head in that one. beckinsale go topless ala stone in total recall.2.0 ? If not gtfo. So wiseman just does unneeded sequels and remakes. Underworld I was ok. But what else has he done do deserve shot after shot at big budget movies ? Box office for his films stink.
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They all turn Lesbo
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