What was the last movie you've seen?

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Menegrothx wrote:... recognizable actors unrecognizable.
See, that's not right. When I screened the movie I knew who was who. And when I went to see the movie in a theater, people blurted out "Oh that's Hallie Berry!" and "Oh, That's 'so and so'".

Jesus, if you can't figure out Tom Hank's voice by now...

PRISONERS tonight or early this morning. I like Jackman, un-clawed. Like him a lot. Looking forward to seeing the final cut (no claw joke intended).
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Luke wrote:
Menegrothx wrote:... recognizable actors unrecognizable.
See, that's not right. When I screened the movie I knew who was who. And when I went to see the movie in a theater, people blurted out "Oh that's Hallie Berry!" and "Oh, That's 'so and so'".

Jesus, if you can't figure out Tom Hank's voice by now...

PRISONERS tonight or early this morning. I like Jackman, un-clawed. Like him a lot. Looking forward to seeing the final cut (no claw joke intended).
PRISONERS looks really good and hard to watch. Can't wait.
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Cloud atlas was bad and you should feel bad for liking it. :P
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Stark wrote: PRISONERS looks really good and hard to watch. Can't wait.
The deck is totally stacked from bottom to top. The writers, actors...everything looks great. After dinner I'm jumping right into this.

It's difficult to not have expectations but I already want to say "Buy this movie". I'll give a non spoilerish review tomorrow.
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Luke wrote:
Menegrothx wrote:... recognizable actors unrecognizable.
See, that's not right. When I screened the movie I knew who was who. And when I went to see the movie in a theater, people blurted out "Oh that's Hallie Berry!" and "Oh, That's 'so and so'".

Jesus, if you can't figure out Tom Hank's voice by now...
My take on it was that the makeup was intentionally held back so that the various actors were recognizable.

Either way, I enjoyed Cloud Atlas more than I had thought I would based on (some of) the critical response to it.
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Hobie-wan wrote:Cloud atlas was bad and you should feel bad for liking it. :P
Didn't you watch it with us? I don't recall you thinking it was bad...
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Stark wrote:
Ack wrote:So I have to ask, guys, because it's bothering me: What caused Val Kilmer's career to suddenly nose dive?
Weight gain? Not sure myself. Last awesome Kilmer movie I saw was Salton Sea.
I heard he was hard to work with.. Basically a diva..
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Jmustang1968 wrote:
Hobie-wan wrote:Cloud atlas was bad and you should feel bad for liking it. :P
Didn't you watch it with us? I don't recall you thinking it was bad...
I thought it was meh upon first impression, but once the niceness of the imagery wore off my opinion was worse.
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PRISONERS

*Flashback to 2011* In a Hollywood studio complex a group of writers are spitballing ideas for their next big project. The door swings open with a woosh, and there stands a Hollywood Fat cat, wearing a suit with suspenders and smoking a cigar. He snarls and screams while pointing at the writers "You guys are going to do something a bit different! You're going to write a classic suspense movie full of plot twists and characters that you can relate to and that also act like actual human beings! And get some actors that are actually believable! Like that Hustle and Flow guy and some Australian actor with incredible range! And the story! Focus on the damned story instead of explosions an action sequences! If the audience doesn't feel some type of adrenaline rush I'll castrate the lot of you! And if the dialogue strays from any action at hand, I'll castrate the rest of the men in your family!"

At least I think that is how it went down. PRISONERS could have been entirely laughable in the wrong hands. Not saying it is perfect by any stretch, but it achieves what it set out to do, which is to provide a suspenseful thriller.

And, as usual, non-wolverine Jackman brings the mustard.
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Stark wrote:
Ack wrote:So I have to ask, guys, because it's bothering me: What caused Val Kilmer's career to suddenly nose dive?
Weight gain? Not sure myself. Last awesome Kilmer movie I saw was Salton Sea.
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