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Movies you've seen lately
40hz:
Agree with Ren. The last dystopian flick I saw that really did it for me was Michael Radford's 1984.
When pickins is lean, ya takes what ya gets.
(Note: FWIW I thought Hunger Games was pretty lame and vastly over-hyped. Nothing new there either. The theme of a government sponsored death match has already been done several times too many in scifi. Haven't seen The Giver. But I read the book and thought it was a little too contrived and obvious about where it was going. Veteran scifi fans can figure the reveal out pretty quickly.)
wraith808:
I'm starting to find these movies rather tedious being, seemingly, rather teen oriented.
Divergent
The Maze Runner (first of what seems to be a series)
The Hunger Games
The Giver (which reminded me of a toned down PG13 version of the far better Equilibrium)
etc
-4wd (December 14, 2014, 01:18 AM)
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I don't get it. They *are* teen movies, aren't they? Based on teen books? No more adult oriented than If I Stay, or Fault of Our Stars, right?
40hz:
BTW - Am I the only one here who wasn't impressed by Equilibrium?
wraith808:
BTW - Am I the only one here who wasn't impressed by Equilibrium?
-40hz (December 14, 2014, 02:11 PM)
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Maybe not the only one. But I'm not in that camp. I loved it.
MilesAhead:
BTW - Am I the only one here who wasn't impressed by Equilibrium?
-40hz (December 14, 2014, 02:11 PM)
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The plot holes were gaping. But I enjoyed Christian Bale's intensity. It was similar to Fahrenheit 451. F451 was a flick of much higher quality though. This was kind of like a high tech F451 the way the movie AI was a high tech Pinocchio.
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