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Midnight IMAX tickets for opening day are now available.
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| Posted: Sat Mar 26, 2011 6:26 pm Post subject: |
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Really was not expecting this: It's getting freaking slaughtered by the critics. 20% approval on Rotten Tomatoes so far...
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 10:16 am Post subject: |
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| Rotten reviews wrote: | This isn't the imagination of a young girl; it's the fantasy of a 14-year-old boy steeped in kung fu, Call of Duty and online porn.
The movie is like an arrested adolescent's Google search run amok.
Like a spastic wet dream
Like watching someone channel-surf through five video game boss battles at the same time.
A series of extravagant computer-generated adventure scenarios linked by grim mental hospital plot
If the goal was sensory overload and audience stupefaction, he has succeeded indeed.
it's like watching an unofficial sequel to 'Showgirls' with some 'Kill Bill' and 'Battle LA' thrown into the mix. |
Sounds awesome to me. My wife probably won't be so appreciative if I take her to go see it though =P
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 12:27 pm Post subject: |
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| Grom wrote: | | Really was not expecting this: |
Really? You wern't? This movie was always going to get slaughted by the critics.
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| Benza wrote: | | Grom wrote: | | Really was not expecting this: |
Really? You wern't? This movie was always going to get slaughted by the critics. |
I was hoping that they'd be able to appreciate the awesomeness (like with Scott Pilgrim), but I guess it was too much for them this time. 
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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One movie was edgar wright who averages like 85-90 % on Rotten Tomatoes, full of indie darlings and based on a trendy hipster comic.
One movie is Zack Snyder who averages like 50-60 %. Full of no bodies and based on nothing except "Holy shit that looks cool"
This movie didn't have a chance in hell with the critics. It never did.
That said, it's gunna be fucking awesome.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 27, 2011 2:36 pm Post subject: |
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Just watched the preview.
Looks amazing.
I think we should start up a website where we critic the critics. That'll show 'em to not be too flash.
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| Benza wrote: | | Full of no bodies |
Emily Browning isn't a nobody. I can see what you're getting at though, they are two different beasts indeed.
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| admeister wrote: | | Benza wrote: | | Full of no bodies |
Emily Browning isn't a nobody. I can see what you're getting at though, they are two different beasts indeed. |
Who the fuck is Emily Browning
*IMDB*
Lemony Snickets, Blue Healers and Ghost Ship?
Yes... yes she is.
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| Benza wrote: | Lemony Snicket's
Yes... yes she is. |
A lot of people saw that movie (it was a success, too). That was back in 2004, and I still remembered her when Sucker Punch came around. Ah well, she hasn't been in anything too major since then, but it's not like Blue Heelers wasn't a major Aussie show.
Anyway, enough about that. Movie looks great, me and my bro will be seeing it together as soon as it's out here. 
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| admeister wrote: | | Benza wrote: | | Grom wrote: | | Really was not expecting this: |
Really? You wern't? This movie was always going to get slaughted by the critics. |
I was hoping that they'd be able to appreciate the awesomeness (like with Scott Pilgrim) |
Yeah, pretty much this. Only with more nested quotes.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:30 pm Post subject: |
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So, anyone seen it yet? Thoughts?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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I saw it yesterday arvo.
Wow...
I knew the plot wouldn't be good but wow, that was terrible to say the least. 
It made me wish I had a lobotomy.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 3:06 pm Post subject: |
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Is it bad in a good way, or just plain bad?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:05 pm Post subject: |
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Just plain bad.
Visuals: 10+
Story: 2
The action you see in the trailers is most if not all of the action in the movie in 5-10 minute intervals.
Made me want to leave about half way though.
3D would of worked well for this movie.
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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So was it worth watching though?
Like was it at least entertaining?
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 6:05 pm Post subject: |
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Welp, I'm about to head off with plans of getting a bit drank and seeing it this evening. Maybe I should revise plans to a lot drank.
Oh well, pervy action flick ahoy!
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| Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 7:19 pm Post subject: |
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Heard nothing but bad about this.
Can't wait to watch this though
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Will be interested to read a comparison Suckerpunch vs Nude Nuns with Big Guns
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Just got back from it, this movie was dumb as shit.
Awesome though. Zack Snyder can't tell a good movie to save his life but his movies are constantly fucking gorgeous.
Basically it's a serise of loosely connected music videos.
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Yeah, the music video bit is so very apt. Seriously, the first... half an hour of this film? There's more slow-mo than normal speed, more lyrical content than dialog (also 300% more good music utterly butchered than damned near any other films. Made me so very angry), and more extreme close-ups on pointless shit than you'll see in your standard movie marathon (although that's pretty much his style anyway).
I spent the first part of the film loathing it, the middle section going 'buhhhh... derp this is awesome, girlies and video-game-trope-porn'. and then the end just going 'WHAT?! WHAT??!?'.
If I'd paid that much to watch just the action sequences, as some kind of nVidia tech demo or so, I'd have felt much better about the whole affair.
Sat through to the end of the credits (also, credit sequence - WTF?!) just to see whether there would be a massive trollface picture on screen - 'cause that's what I was expecting.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:09 pm Post subject: |
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I plan to see it today...this should be interesting if even you were stunned, Karai! 
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 1:28 pm Post subject: |
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As others have said, the action is just stupid and awesome, but everything else is just... stupid, insipid, heavy-handed slow-wank about nothing worth a damn.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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So... typical Zack Snyder? This is why I avoid his movies now, you see one, you've seen them all.
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| Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2011 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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judging from the posters, i can predict this movie will look pretty, but suck total arse.
Directors & Writers - "Lets get boobs! and and and ROBOTS! with umm cool special effects! then umm hmm lets make the boobs have skirts! and LASERS PEW PEW!"
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