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May 13, 2002
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Just a place to dump trailers, reviews and general discussion regarding up coming films that otherwise don't necessarily deserve it's own thread.




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The Martian
Director: Ridley Scott
Runtime: 141 minutes
Rating: PG-13
Cast: Matt Damon, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jessica Chastain, Jeff Daniels
Availability: Theaters everywhere October 2

Ridley Scott’s The Martian will give faith to secular science geeks



There are those that like to assert that science is a religion of its own. That’s utter nonsense, for a variety of reasons that would require this entire review to unpack, but The Martian, in which an astronaut accidentally stranded on Mars decides he’s going to “science the shit” out of his dilemma, comes close to serving as the secular equivalent of faith-based inspirational films like God’s Not Dead and 90 Minutes In Heaven. Thankfully, it’s not as ham-fisted as that genre, and understands that any message should reside beneath a protective atmosphere of pure entertainment; the film works superbly as an adventure/disaster flick, albeit one that’s unusually focused on technical matters. Still, at its heart, The Martian is an unapologetically stirring celebration of our ability, as a species, to solve even the most daunting problems via rational thought, step by step by step. It’s basically Human Ingenuity: The Movie.

Faithfully adapted by Drew Goddard (The Cabin In The Woods) from Andy Weir’s initially self-published sci-fi novel, and directed by Ridley Scott, The Martian imagines a near future, probably just a few decades from now, in which the U.S. is sending regular manned missions to the Red Planet. Early into one of them, a freak storm snaps a radio antenna and sends it hurling into engineer and botanist Mark Watney (Matt Damon), apparently killing him—his biometric spacesuit indicates no sign of life, and the crew reluctantly heads back to Earth without him so the storm doesn’t swallow them up as well. But Watney has improbably survived, and awakens to find himself completely alone on a desolate world, with no hope of rescue for at least four years. His food supply (including the food for the five crew members who left) will last only a quarter of that time, but Watney, after a brief moment of despair, decides he’s not going down without a fight. Meanwhile, back on Earth, NASA eventually notices, via satellite, that he’s still alive, and the best minds on the planet get to work figuring out how they can help save him. Given that Jessica Chastain plays the captain of the abandoned mission, accompanied by the likes of Kate Mara and Michael Peña, it’s just possible that this may involve turning a certain spaceship around, though that’s not exactly as easy as turning an airplane around. (Cue Donald Glover as a manic astrodynamicist.)

Sticking closely to Weir’s novel, which is extremely nuts-and-bolts, Goddard and Scott subordinate everything to a detailed chronicle of the various difficulties Watney faces and his painstaking efforts to overcome them. All Is Lost, the movie about Robert Redford alone on a sinking sailboat in the middle of the ocean, memorably achieved something similar with virtually no dialogue, but Watney’s methods are too complex to be readily grasped by non-scientists. He maintains a regular video log, explaining to the camera how, for example, he’s converting hydrazine into water, so that he can irrigate a potato farm he’s managed to create from the handful of spuds that were onboard for the crew’s Thanksgiving dinner. And Damon has a lot of fun playing Watney as the gigantic nerd Weir conceived—the kind of guy who, when ordered by NASA to provide a publicity photo, decides to strike a Fonzie pose. (His hatred of disco, which is the only music he can find among the crew’s belongings, is a running gag.) Had The Martian been just a Cast Away–style survival tale, with the video log serving as Wilson, few would have complained.

Nonetheless, it’s the scenes set on Earth that give the film much of its inspirational punch. Weir isn’t particularly skilled at dialogue or characterization (or elegant prose, for that matter; he’s a technician who works with words), and the actors playing NASA personnel—including Jeff Daniels, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kristen Wiig, Mackenzie Davis, and Benedict Wong—are mostly stuck playing mouthpieces. And there’s a legitimate argument to be had, which the film never even raises, about the ethics of spending what must be billions of dollars to rescue one astronaut, when the same money could potentially save many thousands of lives at home. (Admittedly, it’s Matt Damon, who was also deemed important enough to bring home, no matter the cost, in Saving Private Ryan.) But the movie, though decidedly America-centric, imagines the entire world consumed with Watney’s fate—China plays an especially key role—and there’s a rousing “We can do this!” attitude throughout that’s genuinely hopeful about mankind’s future. For viewers worried about climate change and other existential threats, The Martian will be the rah-rah event of the year. Without ever openly stating as much, it suggests that we might well all be martians one day.
 
Jan 29, 2005
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Just caught the Attack On Titan live action flick last night. Never watched the cartoon, but the movie was dope as fuck. It's only playing for like a week in America, part 2 releases on October 20th and it's gonna play for like a week also.

Basically non stop action for 90 minutes, cool mindless violence popcorn movie.

I'm amped for part 2 in 3 weeks.

 
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yep, but it was part of the horror festival, but it leaked already


saw that one Attack the Titan and i wasnt impressed. was looking forward to it, but it was kinda disappointing

but this movie:

Turbo Kid (2015)

Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Release dates January 26, 2015 (Sundance Film Festival), August 28, 2015 (United States)
Running time 95 minutes


fucking love it
 
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yep, but it was part of the horror festival, but it leaked already


saw that one Attack the Titan and i wasnt impressed. was looking forward to it, but it was kinda disappointing

but this movie:

Turbo Kid (2015)

Directed by François Simard, Anouk Whissell, Yoann-Karl Whissell
Release dates January 26, 2015 (Sundance Film Festival), August 28, 2015 (United States)
Running time 95 minutes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UyBUYmUnNCw

fucking love it
Shit looks ill...even if it is Canadian.

Also, noticed this blurb from Wikipedia on some reviews of it:

Flickering Myth awarded it four stars and said "Turbo Kid is an electrifying blast from the past. Not everyone will see it that way, but anyone with an appreciation for 90s culture will have a permanent smile for 90 minutes."[7] We Got This Covered awarded it four out of five stars, saying "Turbo Kid is a magical can't-miss experience that's like a Saturday morning cartoon turned into an apocalyptic 80s fever-dream

OK, so which one is it? 90's or 80's? By the looks and music, i would lean towards the 80's....
 
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I knew Deathgasm would be good haha. I mean, it's fucking called Deathgasm.

Anything else good from the horror festival besides what you mentioned?
to be honest not that many -it was horror film festival (grimmfest) and beside Deathgasm and Turbo kid only 2 movies worth mention are:
Blood Sucking Bastards
Bloodsucking Bastards (2015) - IMDb


We are still here

We Are Still Here (2015) - IMDb


I am looking forward to this movie as well:

Directed by Jonathan Milott
Release dates January 18, 2014 (Sundance Film Festival),September 18, 2015 (United States)
Running time 88 minutes


 
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Just caught the Attack On Titan live action flick last night. Never watched the cartoon, but the movie was dope as fuck. It's only playing for like a week in America, part 2 releases on October 20th and it's gonna play for like a week also.

Basically non stop action for 90 minutes, cool mindless violence popcorn movie.

I'm amped for part 2 in 3 weeks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InF16sp7J0M
Just got back from seeing part 2. Great movie, closed up the story nicely.

Part 2 had a lot more story and a little less Titans and non stop action, but it was still great.