The Coli Movie Club: End of Watch (2012)

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Good movie.

Saw the Mexican dude dying as a "martyr" a fukking MILE away

A very traditional trope, to an otherwise innovative movie. shyt was a pleasant surprise
 

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This movie was forgettable. The bytches in this movie annoyed me. I wish they just sticked to the cop stuff, no need for the personal lives.

The ending was suppose to be emotional, but I was like :comeon: and rolling my eyes.

I get that you might not like it but saying it's forgettable is plain wrong on the style alone it's gonna be remembered + having the best male to male chemistry (pause) in any movie in something like a decade and I don't say that lightly
 

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Loved this Movie from Start to Finish. Justice & Partnership were both in Full Effect. The Ending. :to:
 

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Great film. Production and supporting cast were tip top. Nice to see Ugly Betty and the love interest from Magic Mike in something meatier. Pena and Gylenhall's chemistry held the film together for me, as well as a great script. Got the feeling a lot of the dialogue was quite ad-libbed, remembered seeing some dvd extras when I got this out that said the leads were very involved in the filming, especially given that wearing camera harnesses for a lot of the footage pushed them deeper into the production.

Weaknesses: Didn't quite buy the female mexican gangsters, their portrayals were kinda cartoonish. I dunno, but if you're handling hits for mexican cartels like that are you really getting women to help out? Not trying to be a misogynist but it didn't ring true.

Also, the story-arc about cartels zoning in on LA beat cops. It was interesting, specially given what's been going on in Mexico, but given the best bits of the film were the little vignettes between the leads and these dynamic perspectives into barrio/hood life in LA, the climax seemed to toss that to the side in favour of a more basic and inevitable action finale.

Since the main theme was cameraderie tho I suppose the ending underlined that. I thought all the action and tension building was masterful, with them busting into increasingly macarbre cartel hideouts. That bit when the big esse handled those two cops was thoroughly nasty, and even when the calvalry arrives too late at the end, it's such a rush seeing the black and whites blow away those hoods, been a long time since I was cheering on cops on screen like that.

I've seen others complaining about the found footage approach, I did too at first, but with this rewatch they bail on it so often it's become way less noticeable to me.

For me David Ayer's gone 3 for 3 with his LA skulk movies (s/o to Collateral and Falling Down) including Training Day and Harsh Times, I'd put this at 2 out of those 3. Anyone caught that latest film he did with Arnie?

Anyway, I'm giving this a high 7 :obama:
 

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I get that you might not like it but saying it's forgettable is plain wrong on the style alone it's gonna be remembered + having the best male to male chemistry (pause) in any movie in something like a decade and I don't say that lightly

If you like the style of this movie, then you would love Southland. I honestly don't even remember much about this movie. :manny: I remember that ending though. :comeon:
 

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Big Evil Film Reviews:

Yo this fukking end of watch movie man. This fukking movie man. This fukking movie fukking annoyed me man. Like for fukking real man. HEY STOP fukkING FILMING ME ESE, PUT THE fukkING CAMERA DOWN MAN, WHILE WE'RE DOING fukkING CRIMES. fukk. fukk. WHY THE fukk YOU FILMING WHILE IM MURDERING AND SHOOTING AT COPS ESE??

Anyway, bro, fukking this movie. fukking Michael Pena and fukking Jake Gyllenhall sorta fukking killed it bro, though, fukk bro. Like why the fukk did my nikka fukking Brian Taylor, like fukking marry that fukking elf looking bytch after like fukking five months bro?

I mean, what the fukk is the timeline on this fukking movie ese? Like, I'm fukking watching it in the beginning when these two city cops light these two fukkers up in the fukking beginning, and it clearly says fukking April 2011. But the night fukking Michael Pena dies, like, it's fukking August bro. So you're telling me bro, that the fukking Voldemort looking bytch and my nikka Brian Taylor got married and had a kid in like, five fukking months bro? I give them maybe even like 7 fukking months bro, because perhaps they had been talking before we ever meet Anna Kendrick. But there's that entire fukking speaking scene where Brian fukking Taylor is all like, "I want to talk to a bytch you know? And I want to get to fukking know them bro." But then he marries this fukking psycho looking through the wallet after fukking and filming herself on the fukking camera ass bytch up in like 3 fukking months bro? What the fukk bro. Like I've had my share of healthy and fukked up relationships bro, but even I, Big Evil, wouldn't even think about fukking wifing a bytch up until at least knowing the bytch for a year, you know what I'm fukking sayin? I read it on one of them listicles on fukking buzzfeed, bro. 36 Ways You Know that bytch is the fukking One eh. I'm sorry I couldn't get too fukking invested in your stupid fukking McDonald's fast food wedding and relationship bro.

And I fukking realize that fukking brotherly love and camaraderie among public servants and uniformed forces is like, the fukking theme bro, and there is always the central fukking question about the overwhelming fukking power of the police and the sometimes uncomfortable similarities that persistently spring up between gangs and fukking police bro, but that doesn't make a fukking story bro, or well fukking rounded characters bro. Like, this fukking movie tried so fukking hard to get us on the side of these two fukking LAPD officers, bro, but fukk like, there wasn't any interesting characterization fukking ever bro. Most of the fukking movie was pretty fukking episodic man, which for one doesn't make a fukking compelling story ese, and for another made the movie fukking comical man. Like Big Evil fukking knows that LA can get fukking crazy holmes, cuz I be out in these fukking street holmes, (*lounges in sun chair* *raises up 40 oz.* CURBSIDEEEE) but the fukking fact that these officers found crackbabies tied up, stumbled upon a fukking cartel secretly operating in Los Angeles, along with a human fukking trafficking ring, uncovered pounds of fukking drugs in one of LA's biggest recent drug busts, found severed heads and decomposing bodies in an LA fukking house, saved three kids from a fukking fire bro, it was like, fukk I get it ese, these guys are fukking heroes bro. But the fukking film was confused bro. Like on one hand it was trying to be fukking realistic bro with the fukking dialogue, the style and the grim fukking ending bro, but on the other fukking hand holmes, like their entire fukking police work was fukking absurd. Like these dudes had the worst fukking luck bro.

But fukking ultimately bro there has to be something said for the fukking dialogue and the rapid fire fukking banter between Gyllenhaal and Pena, and credit is undoubtedly fukking due, but for me bro, listening to these two was about as fukking mentally nourishing as watching a fukking blank screen for two hours bro, or like listening to a creaky door hinge ese. Not to mention they were utterly fukking irritating, with most of their humor falling fukking flat man. It was like if The Chive and BodyBuilding.com forums were somehow fukking transformed into human form, on some John Hughes, fukking Weird Science shyt bro, it would be these two fukking dudes ese.

And don't get me started on the entire fukking concept of the handheld camera bro, the reasoning of which is explained, bro, but then is entirely fukking dropped, and rather fukking lazily I might add bro.
 
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Grafx: Dope. Found footage is really the only framing device that makes "sense" (who the fukc was filming Frodo the whole time he was on his mission?) and while this was a mix of found footage and traditional cinematography, it had that feel. It's very hard to do found footage well.

Breax: Dope. I believed every minute. I like the quasi random action scenes thrown in like the fire (it was kinda cliche. Who just runs out the house like "good luck kids"? But shook things up in a nice way).

Lyrix: Dope. Well written. Kept me plugged in even though this was my second time seeing this.

Trax: Basic soundtrack, although the scene of them driving rapping along to that song was so vivid like you are right there on a nice day just riding out and bullshytting with your lady. I wanted to rewind that for a second there.

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