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Tiernan
Posts: 13,021
Jan 12, 2014 12:00pm
Man Up ya *****SportsAndLady;1566220 wrote:Going to see American hustle in an hour. Wanted to see lone survivors but was overruled.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 12, 2014 12:03pm
Jennifer Lawrence and the naked red head. I'll take the alternative
iclfan2
Posts: 6,360
Jan 12, 2014 12:11pm
Just finished the book for the second time (listened to it first time), pretty pumped to see how they translate it to the big screen. Is it much different other than the fire fight noted by the other poster?sportchampps;1565747 wrote:Lone survivor 10 a perfect 10 I already want to go see it again and go thru the emotional roller coaster again
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vball10set
Posts: 24,795
Jan 12, 2014 12:16pm
Why only a 6? Plot, acting, both or neither?wes_mantooth;1566211 wrote: Her: 6/10
reclegend22
Posts: 8,772
Jan 12, 2014 12:25pm
I know I'll like Her no matter what, just based on everything I've read about it and the previews. I love Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson's voice. A win-win-win.
Plus, it's an unusual story and Phoenix's best work is often in strange roles. He's an "emotional" actor, so it fits him well.
Plus, it's an unusual story and Phoenix's best work is often in strange roles. He's an "emotional" actor, so it fits him well.
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vball10set
Posts: 24,795
Jan 12, 2014 12:27pm
Count me in on these three as well.reclegend22;1566233 wrote: I love Joaquin Phoenix, Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson's voice. A win-win-win.
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MontyBrunswick
Jan 12, 2014 1:00pm
if I had to, I'd probably have sex with Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 12, 2014 2:04pm
Wouldn't your cat get jealous?dlazz;1566244 wrote:if I had to, I'd probably have sex with Amy Adams and Scarlett Johansson
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Jan 12, 2014 2:17pm
Her has great acting just a little too weird for me. I would recommend watching it...just not for me
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Jan 12, 2014 2:18pm
Also, I would read too much into my opinion...I'm like the only person in the world that wasn't blown away by American hustle.
Fab4Runner
Posts: 6,196
Jan 12, 2014 2:20pm
And you're really stupid and have terrible taste in everything except best friends.wes_mantooth;1566279 wrote:Also, I would read too much into my opinion...I'm like the only person in the world that wasn't blown away by American hustle.
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vball10set
Posts: 24,795
Jan 12, 2014 2:22pm
Fab4Runner;1566281 wrote:And you're really stupid and have terrible taste in everything including girlfriends.
GoChiefs
Posts: 16,754
Jan 12, 2014 2:28pm
I will never forgive you for recommending Buried to me.wes_mantooth;1566279 wrote:Also, I would read too much into my opinion...I'm like the only person in the world that wasn't blown away by American hustle.
wes_mantooth
Posts: 17,977
Jan 12, 2014 2:35pm
Lol...I loved the concept
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Tiernan
Posts: 13,021
Jan 12, 2014 2:53pm
Very close to the book except for that and by doing so they missed one of the great lines in the book...when Luttrell was finally rescued in the Village after going thru 6 days of Hell he says "damn it had to be Rangers" when the first guys came thru the door.iclfan2;1566227 wrote:Just finished the book for the second time (listened to it first time), pretty pumped to see how they translate it to the big screen. Is it much different other than the fire fight noted by the other poster?
DeyDurkie5
Posts: 11,324
Jan 12, 2014 5:15pm
I bet you came like a warrior prince when he uttered that lineTiernan;1566303 wrote:Very close to the book except for that and by doing so they missed one of the great lines in the book...when Luttrell was finally rescued in the Village after going thru 6 days of Hell he says "damn it had to be Rangers" when the first guys came thru the door.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 12, 2014 5:35pm
American Hustle, 8/10
Great acting, good flick.
Great acting, good flick.
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Tiernan
Posts: 13,021
Jan 12, 2014 10:15pm
Once again your ADD is kicking in dipshit...I said its in the book NOT the flick. Nice try tho tool boy.DeyDurkie5;1566362 wrote:I bet you came like a warrior prince when he uttered that line
Commander of Awesome
Posts: 23,151
Jan 12, 2014 10:29pm
Ip Man the Final Fight. Enjoyed the other IP Man's but this I turned off after 40 min. Boring, would not bang.
robj55
Posts: 9,511
Jan 12, 2014 11:40pm
Well looks like I won't be checking it out.Commander of Awesome;1566467 wrote:Ip Man the Final Fight. Enjoyed the other IP Man's but this I turned off after 40 min. Boring, would not bang.
SportsAndLady
Posts: 35,632
Jan 13, 2014 7:15am
American Hustle cleaned up at the Golden Globes last night
Mulva
Posts: 13,650
Jan 13, 2014 9:45am
Not the only person. Saw it last night. Unbelievably slow and boring. Not sure what I was expecting, but it wasn't that.wes_mantooth;1566279 wrote:Also, I would read too much into my opinion...I'm like the only person in the world that wasn't blown away by American hustle.
ernest_t_bass
Posts: 24,984
Jan 13, 2014 9:53am
After reading everything about Lone Survivor, it seems like a must watch. Is it all action, action/drama?
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Jan 13, 2014 10:10am
Pretty much action. I would say the last hour is action, 15 minutes of some recon and the tense moments starting to build and maybe 20 or so minutes of the leadup to it. The whole ordeal lasted 6 days and the firefight alone was close to 3 hours and they had to condense it down. Wish it woulda been 20-30 min longer to develope a few things taht I will describe in my next post.ernest_t_bass;1566538 wrote:After reading everything about Lone Survivor, it seems like a must watch. Is it all action, action/drama?
It was the top movie of the weekend bringing in closet o 40 million. Theatres were packed.
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thavoice
Posts: 14,376
Jan 13, 2014 10:35am
POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERT::::and to be first to say it......TL;DR.
As I stated already, great, great movie. There were some differences from the book and you can things online about it.
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/lone-survivor.php
My thoughts:
-was great to see Marcus was actually in the movie. In all the things I had read and heard I didnt know he was actually going to be in it in a few scenes. I think he wanted to be in the chopper in the movie what went down, because as he has said before, he died a bit on that mountain that day.
-Others bring up the last battle did not happen. Correct. It didnt. He was in teh village for around 4 days and in the movie it didnt show seem like it (time constraints). They moved him from house to house to house. The Taliban did come and look for him. Often. They interrogated and beat teh fuck out of him before the village elder put a stop to it. While the final battle didnt happen, the taliban was reported to be planning and staging a possible attack on the village to get him, and/or to ambush the US forces coming to look. Then the Rangers found him, outside, in the woods they did have the gunships soften the target in the woods outside the village to bomb teh fuck out of any and all taliban who were ready to come into the village. Marcus saw that they were ready to fight to the death to protect him. So yes bombs flew at the end, but not in a just-in-time assualt. I was OK with it I guess, made the movie 'end' with a bang.
-Yes, those villagers really protected him because of their 2000 y r old tradition to protect whomever they take in. It was contentious and not everyone wanted to give him Lohkay, pashtuwalli (SP?) but the village elder granted it to him.
-One thing I dont know why is when Marcus was on the medevac they put on screen "3 days earlier". Was I missing something? The time from the battle to rescue was 6 days.
-They showed marcuss walking after the battle, when in reality he basically crawled 7 miles before finding water and those from the village getting him.
-Shows he was close with one of the village kids. IN the book each day more an dmore kids showed up and he became friends with them. He noticed one day most of the kids were all beat up, most likely from teh taliban trying to get the kids to tell them where he was.
-He was basically pantless when he was saved, but probably for decency reasons he didnt lose his patns in the movie.
-Book talked about the old, rusty, nasty, putrid pepsi can that they gave him water from that he believes ended up getting him very sick for a long time. IN the movie they had water in a plastic bottle. wonder if pepsi didnt want it to be in the movie?
-I didnt see it the first time, but the second time in the Team room while Patton was doing his initiation I noticed a patch with Marc Lee on it. I knew something was up with that and didnt know if they messed up something or not. I had met Marc on two occasions. At the time of this OP he was just getting to his Team on the west coast right around this time. I looked and Marcus did added this brief (maybe 1 second) visual as a tribute to his buddy who died a couple of years later in Iraq.
-The movie diid briefly show at the beginning some of the BUD/s training that they do before they even become a SEAL. It was from the discovery class 234 that they had on TV in the early 2000's. (Great 6 set mini to watch). Book talked about the initial training.....I know in my brother's class 168 started, 19 finished the first time through.
All in all, there were a few things in the movie that were a little different, or left out, but overall it was pretty damned good and now I saw it on the big screen I give it a 10. I know I am biased about it and I had been waiting for a very long time for this movie to come out. 0 Dark 30 was two hour and 20 so not sure why this one couldnt have been. I think it coulda developed a little more but I imagine the studiou wanted to stay at the 2 hour mark.
As I stated already, great, great movie. There were some differences from the book and you can things online about it.
http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/lone-survivor.php
My thoughts:
-was great to see Marcus was actually in the movie. In all the things I had read and heard I didnt know he was actually going to be in it in a few scenes. I think he wanted to be in the chopper in the movie what went down, because as he has said before, he died a bit on that mountain that day.
-Others bring up the last battle did not happen. Correct. It didnt. He was in teh village for around 4 days and in the movie it didnt show seem like it (time constraints). They moved him from house to house to house. The Taliban did come and look for him. Often. They interrogated and beat teh fuck out of him before the village elder put a stop to it. While the final battle didnt happen, the taliban was reported to be planning and staging a possible attack on the village to get him, and/or to ambush the US forces coming to look. Then the Rangers found him, outside, in the woods they did have the gunships soften the target in the woods outside the village to bomb teh fuck out of any and all taliban who were ready to come into the village. Marcus saw that they were ready to fight to the death to protect him. So yes bombs flew at the end, but not in a just-in-time assualt. I was OK with it I guess, made the movie 'end' with a bang.
-Yes, those villagers really protected him because of their 2000 y r old tradition to protect whomever they take in. It was contentious and not everyone wanted to give him Lohkay, pashtuwalli (SP?) but the village elder granted it to him.
-One thing I dont know why is when Marcus was on the medevac they put on screen "3 days earlier". Was I missing something? The time from the battle to rescue was 6 days.
-They showed marcuss walking after the battle, when in reality he basically crawled 7 miles before finding water and those from the village getting him.
-Shows he was close with one of the village kids. IN the book each day more an dmore kids showed up and he became friends with them. He noticed one day most of the kids were all beat up, most likely from teh taliban trying to get the kids to tell them where he was.
-He was basically pantless when he was saved, but probably for decency reasons he didnt lose his patns in the movie.
-Book talked about the old, rusty, nasty, putrid pepsi can that they gave him water from that he believes ended up getting him very sick for a long time. IN the movie they had water in a plastic bottle. wonder if pepsi didnt want it to be in the movie?
-I didnt see it the first time, but the second time in the Team room while Patton was doing his initiation I noticed a patch with Marc Lee on it. I knew something was up with that and didnt know if they messed up something or not. I had met Marc on two occasions. At the time of this OP he was just getting to his Team on the west coast right around this time. I looked and Marcus did added this brief (maybe 1 second) visual as a tribute to his buddy who died a couple of years later in Iraq.
-The movie diid briefly show at the beginning some of the BUD/s training that they do before they even become a SEAL. It was from the discovery class 234 that they had on TV in the early 2000's. (Great 6 set mini to watch). Book talked about the initial training.....I know in my brother's class 168 started, 19 finished the first time through.
All in all, there were a few things in the movie that were a little different, or left out, but overall it was pretty damned good and now I saw it on the big screen I give it a 10. I know I am biased about it and I had been waiting for a very long time for this movie to come out. 0 Dark 30 was two hour and 20 so not sure why this one couldnt have been. I think it coulda developed a little more but I imagine the studiou wanted to stay at the 2 hour mark.