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Antz (1998)

I watched this one in kindergarten, and I don't really remember enjoying it, because I didn't understand the film at all. But, now I can watch it as a teenager and understand the plot entirely. So, I re-watched it almost ten years later, and here's what I thought.

Antz is a typically interesting animated film because so many people think it copycats Pixar's A Bug's Life, and vice versa. Granted, both films were released in the same year, and have similar settings and storylines. But, watching this film made me come to realise that the storylines have little to no similarities at all. Both films are about ants and an ant princess, and whatever. But, Antz has a much more meaningful and delicate storyline that mainly targets youths and adults, while Pixar's counterpart settles for an audience of children. Switch the target audiences around, and you have annoyed adults and confused kids.

I liked Antz, and it was fun to see Dreamworks' first 100% CGI feature (despite the fact that it is indeed Dreamworks). And I did enjoy it a lot more than A Bug's Life. But, I don't think that most kids will not find this one as enjoyable as A Bug's Life, only because of Antz' adult humour and cruder animation and colour patterns.

I Absotivily LOVED Antz, and watch it every few years.  I got to see a midnight preview the night before it's release back in October 1998.   I remember the Antz/Bug's Life wars (Antz was actually conceived and released earlier), and you're right the two movies are nothing alike, so neither is a rip off of the other.  Antz was more of an epic story while Bug's life was kiddie fare.  Remeber too, that MElissa in HOO Episode 2, mentions how she also loves "Antz".

Oh, and my last movie was "Spider Man 3".  It was just on FX.

Though I consider it the weakest of the 3, I kinda like it more each time I watch it.  Still not up there with Marvel's more epic films like Iron Man 2, Captain America 1, and X Men First Class.  I also have a strange affection for the first Ghost Rider movie.  I know it's not among Marvel's best, but I just enjoy it.  Just like Batman 4.  I know it's cheezier than the 60s series, but I love it though I know I shouldn't.  Maybe it's because I love Mr. Freeze the most out of all Batman's villains.

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Having gone to the Harry Potter studios tour this weekend, I figured it was only right...

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
luv it omg so awesomesauce

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
luv it omg so awesomesauce

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Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith

I love the Star Wars Prequel Trilogy. Every singe time I think about it, I find another thing wrong with it.

What's odd is that everyone seems to regard this one as a guilty pleasure. Some even say that it redeems the entire trilogy somewhat. I disagree. This kinda sucks. I suppose in comparision to the first two films of this trilogy, this is a huge improvement. But if Episode 1/2 is like being crucified, and Episodes 4-6 are like a fun night out in town, then Episode 3 is like having your wisdom teeth removed.

Possibly the worst thing of it all is that we don't see the Clone Wars. Well, we see the very end of it. We see three battles. Combine that with the Battle of Geonosis and you have four battles. Four brief battles.

I recently watched Series 1 and 2 of Downtown Abbey. I didn't really like Series 1, but Series 2 was surprisingly good - mostly because everything changes due to World War 1 completely shaking the class system up. I like how we feel the repercussions of war, and we feel the strain it takes on everyone.

Do we see that here? No! Because we've skipped the war! We've skipped the most interesting part! Now its back to all the exciting politics and farting about in cities.

Oh, and Obi-Wan is dumb. He can clearly see that Anakin is pretty disturbed, and he knows that Padme is close to Anakin - but not only does he not try to help, but he forces Anakin to spy on the Chancellor; which puts him under even more strain. He looks so shocked when he finds out Anakin's gone AWOL

And he does two of the stupidest things I've seen any character do in cinema:
1. He jumps down into the middle of an army of droids, armed with only a lightsaber, and announces his prescence. He is only saved by General Grevious being just as stupid as him and doing the classic "I could just set my minions on you and get this over with, but no! I'm going to do the stupid thing!" (see Voldemort for another good example of this unnamed trope)
2. He defeats Anakin...and just walks away instead of finishing the job and ridding the galaxy of the most powerful sith lord of all time. Oh, he stops to pick up Anakin's lightsaber, as if to say: "Crap! Gotta keep up continuity! See ya Annie! Hope you don't, like, get rescued or anything..."

I love how in Episode 2 he doesn't know how to find Kamino, and a child has to help him out. That basically sums up Obi-Wan's intelligence. 

Actually, everyone in the Jedi Council is dumb. Yoda only communicates in bizzare riddles instead of just saying if the galaxy is screwed or not, and he does the same thing as Obi-Wan: walking away from Palpatine instead of getting back there and finishing the job. Mace Windu acts like a complete jerk towards Anakin. And no-one else is able to forsee the clones turning on them until its too late...except for Yoda who, like Doctor Who, is protected by the divine power of plot-convinience.

No character in this film acts like a rational, sane person. Padme dies for no reason. Captain Organa orders C-3PO's memory to be wiped for no reason other than to lazily fill a plothole. Palpatine is more subtle than the last person who tried to hit on me. Just like Darth Maul and Count Dooku, we know nothing about General Grevious and thus don't care at all about him - meaning he sucks as a villan and sucks as a character. When this film first came out, I was expecting Count Dooku to be a big part of this film too; but he gets killed off instantly, probably because Lucas realised he had too many characters - although if thats the case, he completely screwed up because he just replaced Dooku with another villan we don't give a crap about.

The clone troopers themselves suddenly turn evil through a radom plot-contrivance. Anyone who doesn't have a detailed knowledge of these films will have no idea what Order 66 is and where it came from. And even then, its stupid. What? So Palpatine knew that Djan-I mean, Jango Fett would be really bad at concealing his tracks and Obi-Wan would blunder over to Kamino to come across a massive army that Master Sifo-Dyas (again, if you didn't have a detailed knowledge of these films, you wouldn't know who the hell Sifo-Dyas was. And why did he want a massive army? He was a Jedi, not Vladimir Putin! Are the Jedi council just letting anyone in these days?) and then be betrayed by Count Dooku who would chose Jango Fett as the main template who would botch an assaination attempt and lead Obi-Wan right to him because Obi-Wan just happens to have this random friend that knows about Kamino weaponry. And Palpatine PLANNED all that from the start? Bullcrap!

Good god, these films are stupid.

This is the prequel George Lucas put the most effort into...but thats not saying much at all.

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Noah 2014

To be completely honest, this movie was pointless. What I mean by "pointless" is that there was really nothing much to take away from it when you look at how the plot goes about much differently than the biblical story. As everyone's saying, the makers took a lot of license with this. The whole environment Noah and his family dwell in is very different from what we read in the bible. I saw this with my mom, and she said that it really isn't fair for people to take a story out of the bible and convolute it into a whole different thing. Alright, aside from all that, this movie was pretty amazing. From the CGI, to the excellent cinematography, it was visually amazing. I recommend this movie only to people who want mere entertainment, not anything else.

2.5/5

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The Grand Budapest Hotel

This was my first Wes Anderson movie, and I loved it.  The style was so unique, I have truly seen nothing like it.  As my friend put it, the movie is like reading a story book.

Aside from the style, it was funny, well acted, and overall entertaining.  It did appear to me that they tried to hard to jam pack the cast seeing that Bill Murry only got maybe 3-5 minutes of screen time in a role anyone could have done. Regardless, it was great.

4/5

Silence of the Lambs

My friends and I felt the need to go to the movie theater twice in the same weekend in order to see this movie on the big screen.  I can say that it was worth it.  I think this was the scariest movie I've seen in theaters.

The build up of the suspense was brilliant and the acting was top notch, especially Lector of course.  My only qualms were the amount of gore.  I personally really hate it and I thought it would have been scarier to leave it out and have the audience imagine it.  It was a pretty disturbing movie overall.

3.5/5

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Bill Murry only got maybe 3-5 minutes of screen time

It's very common to spot Murray in a small role in a Wes Anderson film. In his film, The Darjeeling Limited (which I actually haven't seen), the dude on the train depot platform? And in his stopmotion-animated gem, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Murray voiced a badger. His name might have been on the poster, but it was a considerably small role, if I remember correctly. Owen Wilson's name was also on the poster, but all he had was a short, unimportant monologue in one scene.

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Episode 3 is like having your wisdom teeth removed.

There is an ad for dentures on BiM right now for me.
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Re: What was the last movie you watched?

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Noah 2014

To be completely honest, this movie was pointless. What I mean by "pointless" is that there was really nothing much to take away from it when you look at how the plot goes about much differently than the biblical story. As everyone's saying, the makers took a lot of license with this. The whole environment Noah and his family dwell in is very different from what we read in the bible. I saw this with my mom, and she said that it really isn't fair for people to take a story out of the bible and convolute it into a whole different thing. Alright, aside from all that, this movie was pretty amazing. From the CGI, to the excellent cinematography, it was visually amazing. I recommend this movie only to people who want mere entertainment, not anything else.

2.5/5

It wasn't supposed to be a recreation of the biblical story, it was a movie with the same concept from the Christian/Catholic Bible and put into the form of a movie.

Movies are made for entertainment. Lets take 300 for example, I read the story on the Battle of Thermopylae, definitely worth reading, and I was not disappointed after watching 300. Why? Because it was a movie that took the idea and story and generated a film that helped create what people thought the battle and time period looked like.  Sure there were things that were different from the history books, but it still got the story across and did a fantastic job on portraying and telling the story of Thermopylae.

You're bashing the movie because it doesn't meant your idea of interpretation. I said it before and I'll say it again. Movies are for enjoyment, and not meant for your catering, especially when they are the ones creating a film. I enjoyed Noah, it was an OK film. But a 2.5/5 is way below of what it deserves.

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I saw this with my mom, and she said that it really isn't fair for people to take a story out of the bible and convolute it into a whole different thing.

I saw the trailer, and I was confused at the odd, mystical, Hollywood-ish spin they put on the classic Biblical tale. So, I didn't watch it, and I don't plan to.

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It wasn't supposed to be a recreation of the biblical story, it was a movie with the same concept from the Christian/Catholic Bible and put into the form of a movie.

What makes me laugh about this film is that in the radio ads for Noah, they say, with a straight face (if we could see them), "We believe this movie is faithful to the spirit of the original Bible story"!

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Eeeeh phooy, you guys are missing out on an enjoyable movie

You turkeys

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You turkey's

*Turkeys, as in the plural word. "Turkey's" implies ownership.

Anyways, Noah doesn't look that enjoyable in my opinion. It looks why too "Hollywood-ish" as Mickey put it.

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You turkey's

*Turkeys, as in the plural word. "Turkey's" implies ownership.

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Eeeeh phooy, you guys are missing out on an enjoyable movie

You turkeys

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The Lego Movie
I watched it about maybe a month ago i thought that it was.... LEGOTACULAR, my favorite character was Benny because of... SPACESHIP!!!! mini/lol

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It wasn't supposed to be a recreation of the biblical story, it was a movie with the same concept from the Christian/Catholic Bible and put into the form of a movie.

Yeah. Hollywood does this. They take stories and re-tell them, cutting and changing stuff to suit their needs regardless of what the source material is. Its just what they do.

One day there will be a film version of The Diary of Anne Frank where Anne Frank and her family survives in the end. I'm not even the first person to call this...

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yeah, guess prob the biggest change that is offensive to people is that the 'giants' (demons and their sons on earth) have been pictured in this as good guys.....

yeah, I'm not gonna watch it....

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Noah

While the film has some wonderfully executed cinematography and visuals in general, and it does a good job of interpreting the Biblical-Canin-and-Abel-good-and-evil-faith messages, I felt like this film was missing something already from the start.

I have hard time finding what it exactly was that made the film sort of blank for me. I think it can be incredibly challenging to take such an old, classical story as such and recreate it into a blockbuster. Both that, and the fact that the film is made as a blockbuster. I would have loved to see a much slower, peaceful adaptation of the tale that would take its time to show the audience what this world in the beginnings of our time is like, and show what the problem is. I'd also love to see the cliches cut out, despite Jennifer Connelly's extraordinary acting.

I can see how making a biblical tale epic makes sense, because they are grand and epic and poetic. So to see this made into a LOTR-like film would perhaps be even more fitting than making it slow and peaceful, but this wasn't really as poetic and epic as LOTR.

And a small problem I had with the story was the constant time jumps. First we see Noah young, then we see Noah older with children, then we see Noah even older with older children, and then all of them even even older. This was just sort of skipping over parts that could have been filled with some character arcs (see what I did there?), or something like that.

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Rear Window
As far as Al Hitchcock films this wasn't my fave, although I'm glad Grade Kelly's character was way better than in Dial M For Murder!! It was a really great setup but the story wasn't the strongest; the resolution was also really ridiculous (like too fast!) But yeah this was great... I liked the bit with the composer and the lonely lady who looked like a plant ahaa

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Rear Window
As far as Al Hitchcock films this wasn't my fave, although I'm glad Grade Kelly's character was way better than in Dial M For Murder!! It was a really great setup but the story wasn't the strongest; the resolution was also really ridiculous (like too fast!) But yeah this was great... I liked the bit with the composer and the lonely lady who looked like a plant ahaa

I remember having to watch that movie for Movies in Literature.

I asked if we could watch birds instead, but apparently it's to violent for a PG movie. mini/confused

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