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So, dads. Don't even front and act like you are not going to take your kid to go and see The LEGO Movie this weekend.

 

My daughter has penciled us in for the 2:30PM showing on Saturday and has leveraged me via good grades into taking her curent BFF along.

 

She and her friend will probably drag lunch at Johnny Rockets out of me, too. Cha ching cha ching.....

 

My favorite superhero movie is Chronicle.

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It's always good to see Escape from New York again at random.

 

"They sent in their best man. When we roll across the 69th Street Bridge tomorrow -- on our way to freedom! -- we're going to have their best man leading the way... from the neck up! ............... ON THE HOOD OF MY CAR!" That long pause for emphasis on the punchline always cracks me up. Isaac Hayes is one menacing motherfucker (THE DUKE OF NEW YORK YOU ARE A-NUMBER-ONE). And of course so many great character actors... Harry Dean Stanton, who I always forget is in it, Donald Pleasance being alternately terrified and a dick, "Big Boobs Barbeau" (as my folks always call her), Lee Van Cleef, Ernest Borgnine, and of course Charles Cyphers and Tom Atkins. It's a murderer's row. 

 

EDIT: And of course, Ox Baker, who I didn't know was a wrestler until years later.

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I had no idea what The Lego Movie was gonna be like but the trailer actually makes me want to rent it down the road. Should be fun. 

 

So what's the second-best John Carpenter soundtrack: Escape? Assault (which I am particular to)? The really underrated one from Christine? The Thing doesn't count because it wasn't him but I'll be damned if Morricone didn't nail his vibe. 

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This Texas Chainsaw movies is the ass. I turned it on while I was working out, and the best part was when the girl ran into the kitchen to find Leatherface nonchalantly making some finger food.

20 minutes left and it's just sitting at a bar talking about history, while Leatherface is just hanging out.

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 Hell now that just made me thing of a Devil's Rejects/Firefly Family TV series... THAT would be something to watch.

 

Nah, I will skip the epic Kevin Smith-esque levels of wife pimpage that I'd get from Rob Zombie in this Devil's Rejects TV series destined to end upon Starz! Network.

 

That is unless Zombie hires Ken Foree again for a cameo role.

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It wears its heart on its sleeve and it really embraces the fact it's a period piece. i can't imagine it being made so earnestly today. They'd set it in 2014 and he'd wear a purple hoodie or something. 

And a helmet!

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End of Watch is fucking great.  Too bad we had no Best of 2012 Poll.. even though I would've been dumb and not voted for it anyway.

End of Watch is pretty good if you ignore all the times that the movie messes up the found footage gimmick.  3rd person in the room controlling the camera when there couldn't be someone there and all that.

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I disagree Tabe, I don't think that the movie is a "found footage movie"either à la Cloverfield or shitty horror movies that I don't watch™. I think they use the found footage gimmick as a way to present some scenes in a different way but it's not the crux of the entire movie.

 

I would go as far as to say that most of the movie is not shot in the found footage style but just regular over the shoulder shaky cam style (similar to the other Ayer's movies like Harsh Times or Street Kings).

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I disagree Tabe, I don't think that the movie is a "found footage movie"either à la Cloverfield or shitty horror movies that I don't watch™. I think they use the found footage gimmick as a way to present some scenes in a different way but it's not the crux of the entire movie.

I would go as far as to say that most of the movie is not shot in the found footage style but just regular over the shoulder shaky cam style (similar to the other Ayer's movies like Harsh Times or Street Kings).

C'mon, one of the scenes from the camcorder is a sex scene between Gyllenhaal and his chick - and includes footage of both of them but with nobody to work the camera.
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Okay I just popped in the movie to watch that particular scene (it's the one right after the quinceanera party right?) and like I said it's shot with the shaky over the shoulder cam and not the hidden camera stuff.

 

The next scene, however, is a mix between 3d person camera and Kendrick's character POV. There are 3 shots, one from her POV recording Gyllenhaal on the bed, another by the 3rd person camera showing  her with the camcorder on her hands and the next one is her speaking directly to the camcorder.

 

Anyway, I don't think that's a big deal and I never found it distracting or "immersion breaker" during my first viewing.

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