2011 New Release Database

**B-side** · 09-25-2011, 07:19 AM

Quoting Sycophant (view post)

Horrible Bosses is a "mild" yay, if it makes you feel better. I was on the fence about it.

I didn't care for Drive.

I'm shaking my fists in anger. You should know that this upsets me greatly.

**MadMan** · 09-25-2011, 08:53 AM

Horrible Bosses was funny. I'll see Drive sometime this week.

Moneyball-Yay

**Dukefrukem** · 09-25-2011, 03:37 PM

I'm going to have to give CEDAR RAPIDS a nay. It was cute, and had some funny elements but it was missing something.

**Raiders** · 09-25-2011, 09:07 PM

Quoting Sycophant (view post)

Horrible Bosses is a "mild" yay, if it makes you feel better. I was on the fence about it.

I didn't care for Drive.

You're the drunk guy who yells "Play Free Bird!" at live local bar shows, aren't you?

**Pop Trash** · 09-25-2011, 11:30 PM

Moneyball - yay

Cracking script. Cracking direction. Cracking acting.

It was also really cool seeing this in Oakland, even if the guy behind me was griping about the story being "Hollywoodized" which I don't agree with at all. This is a very cynical baseball movie, and any romance about the sport is self-concious ("it's hard to not be romantic about baseball").

**Philosophe_rouge** · 09-26-2011, 12:08 AM

Moneyball - yay

**TripZone** · 09-26-2011, 01:45 AM

Drive, nay

**Boner M** · 09-26-2011, 02:08 AM

Aaand the Drive-lash begins.

**Ezee E** · 09-26-2011, 06:02 AM

No Rango-lash yet.

**B-side** · 09-26-2011, 10:10 AM

Melancholia - yay

**Dukefrukem** · 09-26-2011, 12:22 PM

Quoting Pop Trash (view post)

Moneyball - yay

Cracking script. Cracking direction. Cracking acting.

It was also really cool seeing this in Oakland, even if the guy behind me was griping about the story being "Hollywoodized" which I don't agree with at all. This is a very cynical baseball movie, and any romance about the sport is self-concious ("it's hard to not be romantic about baseball").

I heard it was 30 minutes longer than it needed to be.

**Boner M** · 09-26-2011, 12:30 PM

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - mild nay

**B-side** · 09-26-2011, 12:32 PM

Pina - largely indifferent nay

**B-side** · 09-26-2011, 12:44 PM

A few things:

Am I seriously the only one to nay Horrible Bosses so far? Crazy.

And I don't think you've differentiated between the two Sleeping Beauty's.

SLEEPING BEAUTY - 2 out of 4
yay - Brightside, philosophe_rouge
nay - Boner M, Winston

I watched and yay'd the Breillat one titled The Sleeping Beauty, which came out in the US back in July. I can't speak for the other 3.

**Boner M** · 09-26-2011, 12:53 PM

Yeah, Rogue and B-Side are talking 'bout the Breillat; Winston and I are talking about Naked Emily Browning Movie.

Although I've also seen the Breillat and yayed it despite not really remembering why.

**B-side** · 09-26-2011, 12:56 PM

Quoting Boner M (view post)

Although I've also seen the Breillat and yayed it despite not really remembering why.

Cuz it's fucking good is why.

**Philosophe_rouge** · 09-26-2011, 05:49 PM

Quoting Brightside (view post)

A few things:

Am I seriously the only one to nay Horrible Bosses so far? Crazy.

And I don't think you've differentiated between the two Sleeping Beauty's.

I watched and yay'd the Breillat one titled The Sleeping Beauty, which came out in the US back in July. I can't speak for the other 3.

breillat

**Stay Puft** · 09-26-2011, 07:17 PM

Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame - nay

Hmmm. Been a while since I've seen Carina Lau in a movie, almost forgot how awesome she is. Love everything in the movie involving her and Bingbing Li, and the scene when she meets Andy Lau under the cover of night felt like old school Tsui Hark with the intercutting of the courtesan dancing - at least politically, if not aesthetically. But now getting to aesthetics... yeesh, Rowland was right. Awful special effects, and with none of the wit and verve of a film like Time and Tide... looks more like a standard Chinese wuxia television show at times. Tsui Hark's stylistic flourishes are few and far between. And while again I do love everything involving Carina Lau, and the film's treatment of Wu Zetian's dynasty, it's unfortunate that this is also wrapped up in an episode of CSI: Ancient China. Awful, convoluted, lazy plotting. Too bad, too, because I liked Andy Lau's performance as Di Renjie.

**elixir** · 09-26-2011, 09:06 PM

Road to Nowhere - nay

also, you have me down as yay for captain america, a movie I haven't seen

**NickGlass** · 09-26-2011, 09:29 PM

Drive: Yay

I'm not without reservations, but all I can think of in regards to what worked for me is "excessive minimalism."

**eternity** · 09-26-2011, 11:49 PM

Moneyball - yay

**Lucky** · 09-27-2011, 01:38 AM

Drive - yay

...wow, I need to get off the TV and watch more movies.

**Kiusagi** · 09-27-2011, 04:50 AM

Moneyball - yay

The Help - nay

Straw Dogs - nay

Our Idiot Brother - nay

**Bosco B Thug** · 09-27-2011, 05:06 AM

Quoting elixir (view post)

Road to Nowhere - nay

also, you have me down as yay for captain america, a movie I haven't seen

Oh, hmm... I'll be generous and yay Road to Nowhere...

Road to Nowhere - yay

A complete failure as a credible story, and a neo-noir/mystery tale, but it has side-concerns that are strange and offbeat enough to make the ridiculous story (and questionable production values) adequately ignorable.

**baby doll** · 09-27-2011, 12:08 PM

Yeah, I couldn't even finish The Road to Nowhere. It's like a failed attempt to rip-off Roger Avary.

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