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Post by Moose on Feb 6, 2017 21:42:25 GMT
I know that I saw at least two of these many many years ago - when they were still pretty new - but I didn't remember anything at all about them when I rewatched the first one with Col a couple of days ago. I didn't hate it and I didn't really find it as difficult to follow as I might have made out - sometimes I say things for dramatic effect - but I still didn't care for it very much. Just not my sort of thing, I guess. What do others think?
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Post by tangent on Feb 6, 2017 22:55:56 GMT
I found the first one fascinating, I love science fiction that messes with your mind. The other two, not so much because they had used up the novel ideas in the first film of the series.
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Post by Moose on Feb 7, 2017 4:01:34 GMT
It's weird - I can read - usually - complicated books and follow them and spend hours with my nose in them. But with visual stuff I really suffer. Generally (and this drive Col nuts) I don't even 'watch' TV at all .. I just listen to it. I think that this was probably a very visual movie and I just didn't get it.
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Post by Miisa on Feb 7, 2017 5:11:02 GMT
I think it has and deserves its place as a modern classic, partly for the ground-breaking visuals, but also because it is just a good story.
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Post by Moose on Feb 7, 2017 18:15:17 GMT
I might give the second one a try, just to really fry my brains
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Post by juju on Feb 7, 2017 20:24:13 GMT
I loved the first one. As I said on fb, it's one of my top movies - such an innovative premise, even though it's based on Plato's Cave. I think you should watch it again, and concentrate this time
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Post by Moose on Feb 7, 2017 22:35:40 GMT
C .. concentrate?!
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Post by Yuki on Apr 23, 2017 20:32:57 GMT
It's one of my all-time favorite movies. I liked all three, but the first one is my favorite. Other sci-fi movies that I like include: Dark City (I love the references to Mesopotamian mythology), The 13th Floor, Ghost in the Shell 2 (if you don't like anime, you can watch the new action movie with Scarlett Johansson, which was nice, but is not as good as the first and second movie animes in my opinion), Predestination (based on a short story by Robert Heinlein titled "All you Zombies"), The Edge of Tomorrow (based on a Japanese sci-fi novel, can't wait for the sequel!)
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 24, 2017 10:29:29 GMT
Another Predestination fan! I thought it was briliant. And the actress Sarah Snook just blew me away, she made Ethan Hawke (who I think is a fabulous actor and did an amazing job in this film) seem mediocre compared to her performance. I've been dying to see it again ever since I caught it at the cinema, but haven't come across it again.
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Post by Yuki on Apr 24, 2017 19:55:19 GMT
They don't sell it on DVD?
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Post by raspberrybullets on Apr 25, 2017 8:42:21 GMT
Probably, I just haven't really looked. If only it was on netflix or something. Or if they hadn't shut down all the video stores. I don't like to buy if I can avoid it, I don't have enough room.
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Post by Shake on May 4, 2018 13:22:36 GMT
I own the whole series, but the first was truly groundbreaking. The second one has some good action scenes, though. My favorite is the scene in the courtyard with all the Smiths (preceded by a speech about purpose).
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Post by Mari on May 6, 2018 11:13:48 GMT
I liked the MAtrix. They tried to do something similar a couple of years ago where people could go into other people's dream, questioning what was real and what wasn't, but they didn't manage to pull it off as well as the Matrix did. Not so much a fan of the sequels though.
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Post by robert on Jul 26, 2018 9:49:34 GMT
I think the concept was more interesting than the actual film. I found it dry and without good character development. And even for an action film there was nothing compelling about it. It makes a good Cartesian example of epistemic deception of the mind. But as far as a film, I honestly barely made it through the first time watching it.
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