#3654379 - 01/31/1211:28 PMRe: What was the last movie you've watched? - Version 5
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Originally Posted By: Jack Knight
Attack The Block. Quite good. Though I understand some complaints people have had over the kids not being likable, I didn't feel the same way. Moses in way reminded me of Snake Plissken, except maybe a bit kinder of a person, but the similarities are there, for me at least.
that movie is 100% awesome. I loved Moses esp at the end.
And that's where the Snake Plissken comparison comes in. An outlaw in it only for himself, not willing to do anything for anyone unless forced to. Snake may be put in the protagonist position, but he did something to become a wanted felon, and he was considered extremely dangerous. The deleted footage opening of Escape From New York is a bank robbery, the crime he got caught for. I'm willing to bet had he been put in a position where he had to kill one of the other humans in that bank, he would have. He may be facing something worse, but Snake Plissken is not a nice man. The same can be said for Moses.
I'm not trying to change any opinions on the matter. That's just how I see it.
Interesting.
Thinking back to the Death Race 2 opening act, with Luke Goss, bank robber, 'forced' to shoot a guard to enable his escape, and how I had no problem with 'getting past his wanton destruction of life' whereas the oiks from AotB will forever in my mind be unforgivable mugging oiks who just need to be slapped, even after saving the planet from being massacred+eaten by horny fuzzballs.
#3655894 - 02/02/1212:06 AMRe: What was the last movie you've watched? - Version 5
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I have watched moneyball 4 times since being released on bluray.
Here's what I like(love???) about it. I am re-reviewing it from whatever i said before.
+Brad Pitt is cooler than a polar bears toe nails in this film. +Jonah Hill is great in his dramatic turn. +The score +the pace +the story +the whole cast +the relationship between Billy and his daughter +the story +it's about baseball's inner workings +the look +how it's directed +it's just as good as the book which is also greatness
what about it? you never answered me on what part you are referring to?
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the ending left me feeling all huh?! as he never won a thing using the system, but the team he didn't move to, well they instigated his method and won using it. Now, I didn't need for him to win that endofmovie championship, but it would have been nice if in the following years he'd at least won something to put in the trophy cabinet. I also found it a little strange that the JonahHill character wasn't also offered a contract with that big team as it was him doing all the math stuff and thus Brad+Jonah were a team
#3656685 - 02/02/1207:14 PMRe: What was the last movie you've watched? - Version 5
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^what about the ending ?
what about it? you never answered me on what part you are referring to?
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the ending left me feeling all huh?! as he never won a thing using the system, but the team he didn't move to, well they instigated his method and won using it. Now, I didn't need for him to win that endofmovie championship, but it would have been nice if in the following years he'd at least won something to put in the trophy cabinet. I also found it a little strange that the JonahHill character wasn't also offered a contract with that big team as it was him doing all the math stuff and thus Brad+Jonah were a team
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well first consider those characters are real people(jonah's character was renamed). Billy Beane has stayed in oakland all these years because as he said to Peter "I really wanted to win here" Here being the key word. He wanted(and still wants) the challenge of it. Plus by going to Boston he would have been doing it for the money a mistake he already made and had to live with once. He also wanted to remain close to his daughter. He's also loyal.
peter brand is really Paul DePodesta who later would go on to be the GM of the Dodgers and now works for the Mets as an assistant of some sort. You don't go from being a guys assistant one year to being a GM the next esp when a huge portion of baseball people are anti-sabermetrics
the movie ended how that season really ended. and to be clear Billy did accept the red sox offer at first in real life but quickly declined it because it didn't feel right. and of course Theo epstien took Beane's method to build a team and they went on to win a ws
#3658352 - 02/03/1209:57 PMRe: What was the last movie you've watched? - Version 5
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I am in no way a found footage film fan. But this one is easily the best one I have seen. It was really well done and the concept is slick. The three actors all do a great job.The special effects are really really well done and awesome.
it's a perfect movie. I have zero complaints.
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