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Star Trek Into Darkness 2013
Marvel and Trek purists can go suck a dick.
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Star Trek Into Darkness 2013
by Gregory Ashman 19 May, 2013 Star Trek: Into darkness in the end felt a lot like the 2009 reboot to me: a slick and confident example of 21st century filmmaking tasked with simulating a piece of pop culture entertainment that does not easily bend to the will of the flashy adrenaline spectacle of what is now the modern summer blockbuster. The mid 20th century optimism and focus on civil rights that first provided a lens for Gene Roddenberry's utopian idealism of the original series and…
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Upstream Color 2013
Watched by Colin George 19 May, 2013 Shane Carruth is an exciting conceptualist, but a clumsy, overreaching storyteller. Feels as much like a first film as Primer did.
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Mud 2013
Added by Andrew James Love is a trap. Never trust it. It will take away a man's livelihood and possibly even his life. You're much better off scavenging the bottom of a river for trash.
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The Great Gatsby 2013
Watched by Dan Gorman 10 May, 2013 I didn't hate The Great Gatsby, and I didn't really like it either. It didn't need to be in 3D - though it looks nice enough - and it features a lot of actors I very much enjoy putting in solid work. I felt like the early scenes didn't fit together the way they should have, and that the over-the-top Baz-ness of it all betrayed the depth of the source material. I also found the anachronistic use of music to be off-kilter in a few scenes.
The Great Gatsby was basically a thing that happened in front of me for two and a half hours.
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The Great Gatsby 2013
Watched by Ozols 10 May, 2013 5 Uses of the word "fuck" in Casino: 398.
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Pain & Gain 2013
Watched by Rocco Tenaglia 07 May, 2013 3 I can't justify giving this movie a lower rating, based on how much fun I had watching it.
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Upstream Color 2013
Watched by FilmApe 06 May, 2013 5 This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.
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Pain & Gain 2013
Watched by Josh Larsen 22 Apr, 2013 14 I can’t help but wonder if Pain & Gain is the reason Michael Bay was put on this earth.
More here: www.larsenonfilm.com/pain-gain
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Upstream Color 2013
Added by Nat Almirall Appropriately disjointed primer on transcendentalism that ties together a push at self reliance and connectivity through endless match cuts. This would have been much more impressive had Tree of Life not done it first, and made each bit more compelling.
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Upstream Color 2013
Watched by Jerry O'Keefe 12 Apr, 2013 I'm very interested in Shane Carruth as a filmmaker and will definitely be eager to see his next film. I hope that film requires him to wear less hats. Not because I think he doesn't have the ability to effectively produce a film...or direct one...or edit one...or write one...or compose the music for one...or act in one...or probably cater one if he wanted to. He can definitely do all those things. It's not even that he needs to be able…
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Upstream Color 2013
Watched by Andrew James 04 Apr, 2013 7 A brooding, serious, male-centric version of a Miranda July picture. But without the quirk or humor.
Looks and sounds fantastic but poetry of this nature has never really spoken to me. I feel it has a deeper meaning that I'm willing to give it credit for trying to convey (and maybe does for some people), but like Tree of Life, I mostly found it to be pretentious twaddle.
