08-01-2017, 10:32 AM | #1151 |
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Y'all ever seen Tim Allen's Zoom?
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08-21-2017, 07:20 PM | #1152 |
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08-22-2017, 11:46 PM | #1154 |
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The Big Lebowski? It's a cult comedy hit but I'm just not seein it, other than a few amusing lines (the rug really tied the room together).
I've seen There Will Be Blood and Fargo. I wish I could have a more in-depth discussion about them but it's been a long time since I've seen them and I didn't rank them higher than 7/10 so not a great recollection of what happened. The dark, slow atmosphere of There Will Be Blood reminded me of No Country For Old Men except the latter movie is about 100 times better.
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Most "Dakotans" don't get upset by Fargo anymore, but what I've noticed is that the accent is largely gone among younger folk, even if the intelligence or education level is pretty much the same. This applies to both North Dakota and Minnesota. So my conclusion is that sounding stupid was more of an embarrassment that whether it was true or not.
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09-11-2017, 06:50 PM | #1156 |
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The Big Lebowski's been postponed for over a week, though I will probably watch it tonight or tomorrow. That stated ...
Just finished watching Kimi no Na wa for the very first time. Easy 9 or 10 out of 10. Nothing less. Will write more in the Anime forum later. Suffice to say, you should check this movie out whether you like "Chinese cartoons" or not. You could even hate them and I'd still say you need to check this movie out. Comes out on Blu-Ray and DVD in North America on November 7. This is a Day One purchase for me.
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Just finished watching The Big Lebowski. It was entertaining enough. I'd give it a 6/10. Not bad. Even above average, honestly. But ... not by much. I can definitely appreciate why it's a cult classic, neither mainstream (until, arguably, the last fifteen years) nor outright rejected.
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09-13-2017, 01:02 AM | #1158 |
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The original Ghostbusters had that effect for me. Individual gags, which were parodied over the years, were great in isolation. But the plot also feels like it has two disconnected acts. And Venkman, who was one of the most celebrated and quotable characters in that movie, is also the least believable as a psychologist. His whole gimmick is "tough guy New Yorker" rather than smart-arse scientist.
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09-17-2017, 09:50 PM | #1159 |
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Venkman was more of a sarcastic con artist than a smart-ass scientist. And he definitely isn't a psychologist. At least not a real one.
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09-26-2017, 02:16 AM | #1162 |
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Interesting. I must have discussed the film (albeit briefly) with no less than twenty different people IRL, and read dozens if not hundreds of thoughts online. Not once did anyone I encountered ever bring this tidbit up. (Though, admittedly, everyone gushed about how great the kids were!) That's pretty cool to see that the studio was that confident in the film's success -- they had to have been, to make a decision like this! -- that they decided to
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09-26-2017, 02:21 AM | #1163 |
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I suspect that it wasn't confidence but rather that the kids half makes up a coherent movie, whereas the adults half is insanely dependent on the flashbacks to them being kids. And there is no way that they would have been able to make anything resembling a good movie with the two halves crammed together.
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10-01-2017, 04:50 AM | #1164 |
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Instead of It, I went to Mother! with, well, my mother.
So like I have a lot of thoughts about this movie, but I also know a lot of people would probably hate it. We were alone in the theatre, and according to a few people I know in real life, a TON of people walked out when they went to see it. I mean, I absolutely understand. I really liked it, it's absolutely up my alley but it's so weird. Like there were so many moments where I was so happy we were alone, because we'd both be like "what the fuck?". It's interesting, with a very strong narrative. (Oh, and chalk full of symbolism which is absolutely my shit.). I don't really want to spoil what the movie is truly about, because it left me guessing until like the third arc where I was like OH, OH MY GOD. But it's a very interesting take on a lot of things, and I adored it. It's probably my third favourite movie of the year as it stands. And my other two are a fun movie with good music (Not GOTG2; It's Baby Driver), and a horror/comedy full of symbolism (Get Out). |
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Hi I've been gone for a while but I saw a lot of the summer blockbusters (Wonder Woman, Guardians 2, Dunkirk, Apes, and Baby Driver) of which Baby Driver was my favorite. I've spent some time catching up with my Wes Anderson filmography, watching Rushmore and Royal Tenenbaums for the first time and watching Fantastic Mr. Fox a couple of times just because I love it. I also went to see Kingsman 2 the other weekend, which was fun but not the best. Just thought I'd share. If anyone wants to talk about any of these feel free to hit me up.
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10-20-2017, 09:20 AM | #1167 |
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Haven't seen either the episode or the movie, but ...
A trailer for a new Amazon television show that Jean Claude Van Damme is starring in. A scene from a film he made called "JCVD". There was news about the former, and in the discussion people linked to the latter. Whatever your thoughts may be on Jean Claude Van Damme or that first video, I highly recommend you check out the second video. As one person put it, "Either he's baring his soul for the audience or else he's proving he is a legitimately great actor."
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10-22-2017, 12:57 AM | #1168 |
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My dad and sister forced me to watch Guardians of the Galaxy.
I didn't think it was very good, nor was it very bad. I found the comedy ostentatious and didn't laugh at any of it. The story/atmosphere was generic and cheesy, and the music was obnoxious. I also found the action boring and jarring, since it looks like a video game. But I can't really say it "sucks" because I literally felt nothing toward the film. There's no lingering malice that would drive me to criticize it, not even in the face of its acclaim. Just a heavy sense of apathy/indifference that makes me feel like I would forget I even watched it very easily. I guess, if I had to force out criticism, I couldn't suspend disbelief at all when the guardians declared themselves "friends". I was probably not supposed to be in any state of disbelief during that scene at all, which goes to show it was out of nowhere and forced. Um, I thought censoring the word "a-hole" was childish but "dick", "whore" and "bitch" were okay? Ah well. Whatever.
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10-22-2017, 11:49 PM | #1169 |
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Guardians of the Galaxy 2
I liked Drax loosening up, but the rest of the characters were much weaker (except Yondu). The comedy was more polarizing - I laughed at some jokes, but also was disgusted/annoyed by some others. The plot was way worse than the first film, and very predictable. Overall, I'd call it a bad film, but I still feel an immense sense of indifference toward criticizing it.
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I saw Chappie on Netflix. I really liked District 9, unfortunately this isn't anything like that. The entire movie is a series of characters making terrible decisions and a lot of dumb stuff. Short Circuit was a better film with essentially the same premise, but dumber.
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11-09-2017, 11:31 PM | #1171 |
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On my flight trip last Sunday I "saw" Spiderman Homecoming. I didn't get any sound, I only got to watch the visuals and read lips. Perhaps it's a testimony to the lack of audio but I liked this better than either Guardians of the Galaxy installment.
I feel* like a pedo saying this, but there were a lot of hot girls in that movie, way more than in most superhero films. Why was that, because it was supposed to be high school, and the attractive/fugly ratio is much higher in such locations? I dunno, but it wasn't painful to look at. Even freakin' Aunt May was smokin', which was horrifying. Since I didn't have sound, it wasn't immediately apparent to me that LISA was Peter Parker's aunt. Isn't Aunt May supposed to be a granny? I guess this is Hollywood at work. *Girls in their early 20's feels like pedophilia to me now :X
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Every time Uncle Ben dies Aunt May gets his lifeforce to become even younger. Hence why Uncle Ben always gets killed to start with.
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Aunt May has been Benjamin Button'ing each time they reboot the series. Next reboot, she will attend school with Peter.
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It's even worse if Aunt May is Peter's aunt by marriage to Uncle Ben, which seems likely since her last name is Parker. Her husband is dead, she's got a virile, heavily muscled nephew-in-law who walks around the house shirtless, and she's of-age to qualify for a casting call on Desperate Housewives. I'm sure the men in the audience are going "hurr hurr hurr" at the circumstances..
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