11-11-2017, 12:21 AM | #1177 |
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Gonna admit, I have no idea. I know I'm at risk of coming across as prosopagnostic, but I thought they were the same character, she was just dressed up on the ship versus when she was hanging around Peter.
That's one of the limitations of not having audio.
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11-11-2017, 04:33 AM | #1179 |
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The honest truth is likely they hired Marisa Tomei for her chemistry with Robert Downey Jr. more than anything else. She is 52 years old. She's in the menopause age range. She just happens to be quite beautiful for someone her age. Sally Fields was only like 65 when she appeared as Aunt May, Rosemary Higgins was 75 in Sam Raimi's films.
You also have to remember, Spider-Man's actor himself has gotten progressively younger. Tobey Maguire portrayed a recently graduate from High School and failing College student. Andrew Garfield literally graduated High School in his 2nd film rather than the first. And Tom Holland is like a Sophomore. It wouldn't really make sense to have such an old parent/guardian when the newest iteration of Peter Parker is also so young. Very old and feeble Aunt May has kind of been a major annoyance to most of the viewers/readers of Spider-Man, as she really doesn't do anything other than mess up Spider-Man. In the Ultimate Spider-man cartoon, she's still gray haired, but she's young and hip as well as accepting of Peter's superhero activities after revealing she had discovered his secret. I feel they probably borrowed most of her characterizations from this version. Even in modern comics, Aunt May rarely shows up because she married J. Jonah Jameson's father (effectively making him his boss his cousin) and they moved to Florida or something. Peter just works on his own problems (like saving NYC from supervillains), not the problem of Aunt May dying of being old and poor and feeble. |
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11-27-2017, 01:35 PM | #1181 |
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Thor: Ragnarok
I went in with extremely low expectations given the groan-inducing title, but it turns out this was the best "superhero" movie I can remember seeing. My only major complainta begin with the infection of Guardians of the Galaxy-tier faux paus jokes that were forced and unfunny. Another complaint is that the movies are getting boring with regard to plot - "get imprisoned on alien homeworld and escape". BO-RING. But otherwise, this was solid. You don't need a deep or edgy villain to make an effective film.
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11-27-2017, 04:12 PM | #1182 |
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11-27-2017, 06:21 PM | #1183 |
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What if they relieved their horny-ness in the theater, with tree clippers or something.
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11-27-2017, 07:57 PM | #1184 |
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12-15-2017, 07:17 PM | #1185 | |
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Saw Last Jedi...
Not sure how i feel entirely although it definately isn't on par with Empire strikes back. Visually a beautiful film.
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12-17-2017, 09:44 PM | #1186 |
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Vaders goes "No, noo" when he throws the Emperor down the Death Star shaft in Return of the Jedi.
What the fudge Lucas? In the original, he said nothing. Instead it's the cheesy ending line from Revenge of the Sith??
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12-17-2017, 11:37 PM | #1187 |
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Did you just watch a more recent edition on DVD/Blu-Ray? George Lucas is pretty much insane. He's like Da Vinci painting the Mona Lisa, but then he kept finding tiny things he wanted to change and now it's a picture of Dogs playing Poker.
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12-24-2017, 01:44 PM | #1189 |
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Just watched the first half of Toy Story 3. And then the DVD died. Bad sectors, scratched up to high heaven. The perils in checking out DVDs from the county library. Alas.
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Just watched Blade Runner for the very first time. (It was the Director's Cut, the one I think from the early or mid '90s? It mentioned a copyright of like 1992 at the end.) Thoughts:
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01-27-2018, 12:21 AM | #1191 |
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Verdict: Good It was more adult and violent than I thought, but was quite fun. It didn't have the same sense of epic as the original but was its own thing without being a dumb reference flick. A lot of cringe-worthy (funny) scenes, mostly involving Jack Black and Kevin Hart.
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It's Valentine's Day, and you know what that means!
It's time to watch The Silence of the Lambs! Hilariously weird timing aside, I decided to watch Silence of the Lambs tonight. I'd never seen it before, but in my tottering quest to clear through my bucket list of acclaimed films I've still somehow not seen, I remembered Sunday that Silence of the Lambs has been on my to-see list for over twenty years. How could I have not seen it before now!? So I decided to finally rectify that, with the help of the local library. (I also have Spider-Man: Homecoming checked out, but that one will have to wait. ) This is a movie that has held up really well in some respects and is outdated in others. It felt a lot like another thriller with Scott Glenn, The Hunt for Red October. While I'd say I enjoy Red October more (and find it to be many times more rewatchable than Silence), The Silence of the Lambs is still a really solid film that every English-speaking adult should probably check out at least once, if for no other reason than: Sir Anthony Hopkins' performance as Hannibal Lecter. While I wouldn't say he's done as good a job here as Daniel Day-Lewis did in There Will Be Blood (not even in the same ballpark), Hopkins is nonetheless a delight to watch onscreen and overshadows all the other actors. When the film is focused on Hannibal Lecter, it is strongest; when the film is focused on its ostensible primary focus, you spend most of the time wishing we were at another Hannibal scene. As much credit has to be given to author Thomas Harris and his creation, the character of Hannibal Lecter, as to Hopkins. While the character has been done to death in post-Silence film and literature, the very notion of a serial killer who is also as brilliant as Sherlock Holmes is incredibly great. So much so that an off-brand Hannibal Lecter in Dexter got eight seasons on television. Spoilers follow. Spoiler: show As for Jodie Foster being perfectly cast for this movie ... Spoiler: show Two final things of note before I wrap this up. One, Jodie Foster's West Virginian accent is in my opinion worse than Dick Van Dyke's Cockney accent. And two, I never knew where that line, "It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again!", came from. But now I know! Overall, I guess I would give The Silence of the Lambs a "7/10 - Good" score. I'd give Hopkins' performance an 8, his character a probable 9. I would say the film ranks pretty low as far as "Gotta own it!" urges go; it's not faring too well in my estimation as far as immediate or near-future rewatchability goes. But it was a good movie, and I would not be put off to watch it again.
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47m05s into Spider-Man: Homecoming, will finish the film later tonight. So far, so very good! An easy 8/10 thus far. While it's a little weird going from Raimi 1 to Raimi 2 to Raimi 3 to Amazing 1 to Amazing 2 and then back in time (Peter-wise) yet forward in time (Avengers-wise) to this, it's been fun getting to see Spider-Man at his youngest as well as many of the other little things this film decides to try out.
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Just finished Spider-Man: Homecoming. It was fantastic. Thoughts!
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Turned Spider-Man and Silence of the Lambs back in, got The Shining and Toy Story 3. You may recall, I tried to watch Toy Story 3 on Christmas Eve, only for my copy to have significant damage that prevented me from watching past the halfway point. Welp, the library gave me back the same DVD as before -- but they clearly buffed out the two pockmarks that were there before, leaving behind only the thin hairline scratches all over the disc. It was enough that the DVD only hung up once, and only skipped four seconds. I'll take it!
So! Toy Story 3. I thought it was a good movie. If Toy Story 2 was "an excellent sequel to a masterpiece, and a sequel that didn't need to exist," then Toy Story 3 was similarly "a very good sequel to an excellent predecessor, and a sequel that didn't need to exist." So like ... we had the 10/10 original, then we got the 9/10 sequel, then we got the 8/10 sequel to the sequel ... and while neither sequel needed to be done, both were wonderful products that we can be glad were made. Spoiler: show Having not grown up with it, I don't see myself rewatching 3 nearly as much as I would want to rewatch 2 (which in turn I don't want to rewatch nearly as much as I want to rewatch 1). But that stated, I can see how anyone who grew up in the late '90s / early '00s would want to bordering on have to own all three movies on DVD rather than just the first one or two of them. Three movies down. Just The Shining to go before I finish all four of the movies I reserved. Getting back into reading soon, so will probably put movies on hold for a bit after this, but who knows, we'll see.
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02-20-2018, 02:25 AM | #1196 |
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Toy Story 3 is much more derivative than 2. The villain, Buzz brainwash, and Ken/Barbie stuff are all ideas first presented in the second film. There was forced drama with the dump. The entire day care was basically a huge side show to soften the impact of the whole film's premise, the break-up, which was already gutted early in the film with foreshadowing. I think of Toy Story 3 as closer to Cars than the untouchable masterpiece that is the 2nd film, let alone the first. And to be honest, I liked the 2nd more when I saw them originally but I didn't appreciate the first fully until I got older. Though, the CGI really holds it back now, to the point of distraction.
Personally, the most out-of-body experience for me was seeing Andy drive a car. I was 23 when Toy Story 3 came out and would not get a driver's license for another 5 years. So it was really, really jarring to see this child driving a car without supervision.
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Watched The Shining. It was pretty good. Even though I've been spoiled on so much of the film by pop culture references, the film does a remarkably good job of building up the tension and the suspense. While not as good as, it calls to mind the excellence of an Alfred Hitchcock film in this specific regard. The acting is so-so by all parties, the soundtrack likewise, but the cinematography is a special blend of dated and excellent without equal. All in all, it's a good movie and very worth seeing. The only real reason I can think of for why it shouldn't be shown to young teens or adolescents is a surprising prevalence of full frontal nudity, including one especially grotesque scene that, while right at home for a horror movie, might be a bit too much for younger viewers. Spoiler: show A movie to own? No. A movie to rewatch again and again? Nah. But a movie worth seeing at least once? Absolutely. Go and check it out if you haven't already. Mind the full frontal nudity and occasional disturbing imagery, but it's nothing too awful. If you can handle a movie like the Saw series or Event Horizon then you're not going to have any difficulties here. The Shining gets an overall score of either 7/10 - "Good" or else at worst a 6/10 from me. It's certainly above average.
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Saw Black Panther in theaters. Also re-watched an old documentary called "Awesome Pawesome" about some tigers born in a zoo, but I'm not sure if that counts.
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HEY GUYS DO YOU WANT TO HEAR HOT TAKES ON STAR WARS Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi -Flawed as this movie is, I think I prefer it to VII (which my dad's review of was "they remade A New Hope", and it's hard to find the hyperbole there) -I didn't have a chance to read about the "controversies" until now to avoid spoilers, but my impression after doing so is that there are a lot of fanboys who don't seem to get that Disney didn't drop 4 billion on one media franchise just to get access to the "jacks off to Wookiepedia" demographic -I mentioned in a chat with someone else that I feel like a lot of this movie's sins are inextricably tied to how conservative Disney's Star Wars cinematic universe has been so far. We have a movie that's built heavily around subverting expectations and whose main themes include ruminations on legacy and letting go of the past, but it's surrounded by obvious fanboy nostalgia bait like VII, Rogue One and Solo: I feel like this movie would have been better received if audiences had been primed for more beyond HEY LOOK GUYS IT'S MARK HAMILL BUT HE'S OLD NOW AND HIS VOICE IS KINDA FUCKED UP FROM VOICING THE JOKER FOR YEARS BUT YOU GUYS LIKED STAR WARS EVEN AFTER THE SHITPILE THAT WAS THE PREQUELS RIGHT
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