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Immortals (2011)

Caught this on Instant Netflix last night and am a little perplexed as to why the film only has 2 stars. I mean it's not perfect by any means, the second act really drags on because the film makes the time to try and flesh out all these broad, archetypical characters, mistakingly believing that the audience will care about their motivations. There's some story structure problems too, but that's always the case with Greek drama, and the film is a little too fond of filming in really dark locations which makes it hard to see what's going on. But you know what it doesn't have? Fucking goddamn shaky-cam in every god damn shot like Wrath of the Titans, and that's just enough to make it far better. There's some absolutely beautiful cinematography, lush wideshots, and each frame looks like a painting that you could put up on a wall. Besides that the action is really good, especially in the third act when the Olympian Gods and Titans fight, it looks like a Mortal Kombat fight, except each hit is a fatality.

Basically it's an arthouse action movie that has a very similar story to thousands of other movies you may have seen, but a different look and feel to thousands of movies you may have seen, and to me that's enough.

Why are you continuing to correct him? I mean it's only a pointless debate.

Is there any other kind on the internet? :)

Wait, everything is. I guess the internet shouldn't exist.

I still love it.

yeah i love that as well

dunno why it got such crummy reviews

easily the best movie of last year, for me, anyways

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It went exactly as I thought it would. The usual mix of cliched stereotypes in an ensemble movie (a fatherless one, a jock, a nerd etc) it has the usual DIY camera and a soundtrack with Indie pretentiousness.

On the plus side it has some amazing performances from it's young cast and the film's screenplay is always questioning your moral stance but I would recommend the little seen River's Edge made nearly 20 years earlier for a similarly themed film.

River's Edge - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I would just watch Brick again.

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again, starts off promising enough - thought it was gonna be a futuristic espionage piece

later downgrades into a "save the VIP from deranged psychos" flick

the first 10 minutes also have some pretty neat visuals, but after that, just lock, stock, barrel any 2000s sci-fi movie

2/10

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Thor
Well this movie was a hell of lot better than I had been lead to believe. It's not the greatest movie of all time or anything but I'd say it was on par with Iron Man and Captain America and better than the last Hulk movie.