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Note* = If anyone would like to add more movies they watched up through the end of June, I'm still collecting data from this thread

So yeah. I don't think I have to tell you how this thread works.

Sharknado​. It was beautiful

Fern Gully... >.> It was... ca-ute!!! *shrugs*

The Third Man. Good movie, but not one of the best I've ever seen (as it's often ranked among the best movies of all time). A lot of pretty neat shots... though there's also a lot of canted angles.

Pacific Rim omg why are you even here right now go see it nao even if you've seen it again you should go see it now before it's too late because it is awesome and what are you still doing here reading this text for GO

Pacific Rim.

Took my niece and nephew to a second-run matinee of The Croods yesterday. You know...I quite liked it. It wasn't quite 'good Pixar'-quality, but it was still head and shoulders above the main.

The Missing Link wrote:Pacific Rim omg why are you even here right now go see it nao even if you've seen it again you should go see it now before it's too late because it is awesome and what are you still doing here reading this text for GO

Just watched it this morning. Most fun I remember having at the movies.

Also, I don't usually watch movies in 3D, but I recommend it for this one.

Wreck-It Ralph I've seen a few times now, plus I found the Blu-Ray version of The Lion King so I'm happy with that as well. As far as Netflix goes I do have The Naked Gun on. May watch it again tonight.

I saw Pacific Rim last night with friends. I was a lot of fun.

Harry Potter 1-8

SD bought me the whole set. She's awesome.

Seriously, AI, I thought you hated Harry Potter.

Watched Pitch Perfect the other day. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'm a choral music geek, so it was pretty easy for me to like.

When I was in Argentina I watched El Secreto de Sus Ojos, which I liked a lot. I'd recommend it if you like foreign language films.

Movies I've seen since I last posted:

To the Wonder: The most recent film from Terrence Malick and the last film Roger Ebert filed a review for before he passed away. Ebert was a great admirer of Malick's, so I'm glad that he liked this film. On the other hand, I had kind of mixed feelings about it. Like all of Malick's movies, the cinematography is awe-inspiring. I can't emphasize that enough. Unfortunately, once I got over how beautiful the visuals were, it felt like there wasn't much left to it. It probably would have been better at half the length.

Infra-Man: Cheesy Hong Kong quasi-superhero martial arts movie from the mid 1970's. I've been wanting to see this one for a few years now, and it definitely lived up to expectations, especially since I saw it on a worn-out, poorly English dubbed print.

Kill and Kill Again: Cheesy apartheid-era South African martial arts movie. Shown in conjunction with Infra-Man as two of Roger Ebert's "guilty pleasures" (this summer's Cinematheque series is a tribute to Ebert). This is a perfect example of "so bad it's good" film making.

Life of Pi: I really liked it, a lot. I'm so glad Ang Lee won Best Director for this.

1-up Salesman wrote:Seriously, AI, I thought you hated Harry Potter.

It's not my preference for fantasy, but I like mystery a lot as a genre and it generally follows more on from that. I liked the earliest books the most as they were a bit more fixated on introducing the magic world and new ideas, while the later ones are all intercharacter stuff and just a lot of bumbling by the main cast, overall. The movies on the other hand, I felt took awhile to get better and some of the characters are underdeveloped or not even included as films adapted from book tend to go. The initial appeal to the novels was in its similarity to Roald Dahl - it was very comedic and a bit more genuinely nonsensical. I appreciate that a lot more than generic chosen-one prophecy stuff.

So an answer in response to this is that I have complicated tastes, and respond differently to various elements in the series. Name of the Wind is perhaps my favorite novel, and actually addresses similar themes, and much more convincingly. It takes magic seriously where Harry Potter uses it as a foundation for the author's desire to play with her audience, and it benefits from that seriousness in being able to fixate on those fantasy elements.

Does Sozin's Comet count?

Marilink wrote:Watched Pitch Perfect the other day. I enjoyed it quite a bit, but I'm a choral music geek, so it was pretty easy for me to like.

It is decided: Next VGF-con, I'm hooking you up with my friends' acapella group's stuff.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

I have strong opinions on Pitch Perfect but that's mostly because of people who RUIN EVERYTHING

The Wicker Man. This might be my favorite bad movie that's not The Room (which honestly at this point I think is my favorite movie of all time)

Easy A. Really solid comedy, though I did have problems with it. Apparently before the events of this movie Emma ****ing Stone was "invisible to the opposite sex"? That's highly implausible.

^Unreliable narrator.

Sin City is still intensely satisfying, if anybody wasn't sure.
Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium, however, seems to just kinda end. Yeah a plot thread gets resolved, but there are at least 3 more that don't.

And remember, "I'm-a Luigi, number one!"

Ugh, I remember Mr. Magorium. The movie was depressing and that was about it.