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I don't know, I never really thought about it. I just know that I wasn't all that impressed with Chronicle's finale. Maybe you're right, though.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

To be fair, The Avengers hadn't come out yet when Chronicle was in theaters.

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I wasn't even thinking of The Avengers. Just in and of itself, Chronicle's third act, as well as Chronicle as a whole, didn't really impress me that much. Honestly, and not that it wasn't well made, I thought the coolest part of Chronicle was that glowing alien thingamabob near the beginning. And what does that say?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

The third act is when Chronicle really gets all Akira-y on us, and I liked that.

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Ditto. Everyone I was watching it with called it right then too.

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I thought it didn't get Akira-y enough. In fact, nothing bigger than what was already shown in tv spots really occurred.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Pardon, but that post wasn't really meant for you. It was more in reply to...


I would totally have agreed with that sentiment... as of the weekend Chronicle was released. To my mind, the only comic book film climax to rival it in terms of destruction, scale, and general filmmaking excellence would be that in X-Men: First Class. And maybe The Incredible Hulk, if you're feeling generous.

But then The Avengers happened.

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True, but second best, or even top 5, is quite exceptional considering the budget and the strict rules set by the film makers of only using footage that could have been filmed by random people, police cars and helicopters.

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4/10

I wasn't expecting 2001 to be honest, but neither did I expect this to be so bad.

Please Mr. Pegg, please Mr. Sheldahl, don't fuck it up again like this.

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Man, you have a really unpredictable taste in movies. I thought it was really enjoyable although I wasn't looking forward to seeing it at the time.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

And you have a tolerance for repetition, really, I don't think I've ever seen a more cliched comedy than this one, and that's not even it's worst problem.

I mean, I could pass "21 Jump Street" on grounds of being ACTUALLY FUNNY despite the overabundance of dick jokes.

This thing ? Hell, Paul didn't even have a personality of his own, he was Seth Rogen himself !

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Lockout - 5/10

Five out of ten is being generous.
But I can't say I had high hopes going into this.
Anything Besson only produces or presents usually ends up being very mediocre.
Like Columbiana. *shudder*

Guy Pearce is great. No doubt. But this is one tired and overdone story that can't be kept afloat on his shoulders alone.
Theres nothing really unique here, and even the action is tame and typical.
PG-13's don't have to be so tame. Look at Live Free or Die Hard.
If this was rated R, and was wall to wall swearing and gore, I might've scored it a seven just for being good clean nhilistic fun. As it is, it gives a horrible name to "die hard in space". Which is sadly what it often feels like.
But come on...
this was so underwhelming in every area, I can't possibly reccomend it.
But, the thing is, its not BAD per se, it just lacks punch.
And you kinda HAVE to go overboard and all out something to make a cliche story like this even worth your time.
And... it wasn't.

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6/10

I really do have a mixed relationship with this movie. I remember liking it the last time I saw it, while I still having feelings very mixed feelings about its integrity as a film. Now, re-reading the prequel comics and rewatching the film I realize that there is an awful lot to like about the film, but I can totally see why it's nowhere near as good as it could have been. It's pretty funny in spots, the fears it invokes, as ridiculous and hilarious as they may seem, actually feel plausible, the performances are surprisingly solid, it has a great soundtrack and even some pretty great scenes that stem from the combination of all these things.

However, the movie doesn't quite know what its story is. And this is evident even in the comics. You might say that it is about Boxer Santaros trying to find out his true identity and what happened to him in the desert, but both the comic and the film spoil this way too early in their stories, as well as the true intentions of the Treer organization. Basically, things that should be kept mysterious aren't and things that shouldn't be vague become vague. This results in a film that doesn't seem to have any actual direction of what it wants to be, who it should be paying attention to. In consequence, scenes or storylines that should be emotionally resonant don't quite hit as hard as they could.

But honestly, I'd rather take a "Southland Tales" over something like "Norbit" any day of the week and twice on Sunday.

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0/10

Without a doubt one of the stupidest moves I've ever seen. Don't try and say I only iddn't like it becaus eI didn't get it... I got it... it was just a horribly stupid movie that could have worked much better as a short film.

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Definitely. No matter what, no one can say Southland Tales isn't an interesting film at the very least.


I like it when we agree.

Speaking of stupid movies, this was pretty dumb.



But cool.

But dumb.

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

Man, you are never going to let this go huh ?

Let's see:

What did you, good Doctor, think the movie was about ?

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"The world is a fine place and worth fighting for." I agree with the second part.

"There's a cello in your house now."

This time ?

We don't have to rip each other's throats, I've seen this movie getting worse treatment than 0/10, that doesn't mean I have to defend it, nor that we can't find some value to a discussing it.

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7.8 / 10

Yup, first time I've scored a movie with decimals, somehow just 7 or 8 didn't seem right.

Very good movie ! It's best aspect it's that it tackles the issue with the seriousness it deserves, it's obviously not the end of the world that people in the US are raging, consumerist, uneducated assholes, and so what we get is a mix of "Falling Down" and "Little Miss Sunshine", which I found to be pretty satisfying.

Special props to Joel Murray for being a badass and a great actor on this, equal praise to Tara Lynne Barr who also did great and was cute as all hell !

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What did I think it was about? It's about how movies are often times meaningless, as clearly stated in the opening scene, movies are full of no reason scenes, so the movie is an extrapolation of a no reason scene to create a no reason movie. At the same time the movie is commenting on how audiences will sit through the movies time and time again, despite there being no reason... they'll camp out and endure any number of perils just to see movies.

Then there is also the subtle messages about violence and how the audience demands it, it's not until there is violence introduced that the binocular wielders are entertained, then they can't get enough. Sure, the people complain, the people are hurt/disgusted/confused... but they keep watching no matter how meaningless the action/plot truly is.

That doesn't make this a good movie though...

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