Saw Captain America: The Winter Soldier last night. So fucking good.

Finally watched Frozen on the weekend, not worth all the wanking people went on about it.

-PB

Finally watched Frozen on the weekend, not worth all the wanking people went on about it.

-PB

One of my tutors has been really recommending David Lynch's films to me so I've watched Blue Velvet and Lost Highway over the last few days and absolutely loved them, Mulholland Drive is next. Lynch seems bat shit crazy but his ability to create genuinely disturbing heart in mouth type suspense is amazing.

Also saw the LEGO Movie a few weeks back, really liked it, probably the best animated film since Toy Story 3

Went to see Noah last night. I loved it. But I went with a bunch of people from church, and they honestly ruined it for me when we discussed it afterwards. (I wouldn't consider these spoilers, so don't get worked up if somehow you didn't know this but were still keen to see it) Basically, the people I went with could have sat in there, saw the rock-monsters, left the movie, and had the same view of the movie in general. All I heard them say afterwards was "so they took the idea of a flood, they took the idea of an ark filled with animals, and they used names from the bible, and that is the ONLY way in which it aligns with the storyline in the bible. The messages don't even align, and there were so many innacuries it made the movie shit". I call horseshit on that. I straight up asked them "OK, if you disregard the rock-monsters, disregard the fact that Methusala (sp) wasn't around then, and disregard the fact that the number of people on the boat wasn't aligned to the bible (apparently because the two younger sons didn't have their wives with them was a major story changer that affected their views on it majorly) - what is the central theme, the message, that the bible attempts to give from/about the Noah story, and what was the central theme/message the movie gave? If you get it down to bare bones, and ignore the Hollywood-ification of the movie, what is different between the two?". For ages they umm'd, ahh'd, and barely answered. My mrs was in my court, she agreed with me, but she was trying to stay neutral so answered the question as best as she could. The group came to the conclusion that the story in the bible was to show that God wanted to restart the world, as he did many times before Jesus, and that Noah was under his every command and did what was told of him - so the message was to trust in god that his decisions are what is best, and always listen. TBH I've barely looked into the Noah story (well properly, at least) and can only assume a group of bible-studying young adults at least drew a conclusion about a story that is slightly accurate, so I'll assume that message is what the bible tries to give. That message is exactly the same as what the movie showed FFS! One of the harshest things they critizised was how mean/angry/murderer-esque Noah was portrayed - that was how they showed that he was under Gods command, doing exactly what was told of him regardless of how he personally felt. Some didn't like the fact that Methusala (sp?) was there - he only strengthened that message, by showing that while there is good in the world it was ultimately up to Noah, under the guidance of God (or The Creator, as said in the movie) to make the decisions. Apparently Noah in the movie working out what he needed to do via going to Methusala was a complete disgrace, as opposed to God just telling Noah in the Bible - who cares, the movie would have been shitter if it wasn't Hollywood-ed up. And the rock-monsters - without them, there's no fight scene. Without them, there's no heartwarming moments. Without them, the movie is worse.

My group came to the conclusion that the movie is only detrimental to "the christian cause" because it so wrongfully portrayed the story, and if you're going to tell stories from the bible they have to be as-written or not told at all. I call horseshit - there's no such thing as bad press. There'll be a bunch of people who will at least enquire into looking more into the bible now, to see how accurate/innacurate that story was as well as find others that were as crazy, interesting, etc as the Noah one.

Also I had to :lol: at the stab at Creation vs Evolution that movie had. There was a scene where they kind of had a massive fxxx you to Creation, by pretty much showing evolution from a fish through to a human. I am the worlds biggest fan of evolution (for reasons that I think are obvious) and all I did was laugh at what was quite clearly a severe amount of butthurt around the globe when that scene happened :lol:

Watched Flight again last night. 2nd time watching, god Denzel Washington is so good. One of his best. Even though he's guilty as all hell, and probably wouldn't have been able to save the plane sober, you still feel sorry for him, yet proud of him for beating his demons when he does.

One of my tutors has been really recommending David Lynch's films to me so I've watched Blue Velvet and Lost Highway over the last few days and absolutely loved them, Mulholland Drive is next. Lynch seems bat shit crazy but his ability to create genuinely disturbing heart in mouth type suspense is amazing.

I saw Divergent last night, I went in with low expectations but I actually really enjoyed it, I thought it was way better than stuff like Hunger Games. The main girl in it is pretty cute too

Saw ADHD Spiderman 2 today, wasn't too bad but was quite annoyed at how misleading the trailers/posters were for this movie.

-PB

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"A Monster?"
"No...A God"

So.Much.Hype.

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"A Monster?"
"No...A God"

So.Much.Hype.

I saw Divergent last night, I went in with low expectations but I actually really enjoyed it, I thought it was way better than stuff like Hunger Games. The main girl in it is pretty cute too

Just on your first point

[spoiler]In the books he does become sort of an inside man when she goes to visit him in the books she gets him to research the serum they use, but in the movie that doesn't happen[/spoiler]

Watched Prisoners last night.

Really powerful film.