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Post by Douay-Rheims-Challoner on Jun 15, 2016 9:10:14 GMT -5
Also, a Phantom movie in 2016 would surely be the film that launched a thousand think-pieces. I mean, the core concept alone (rich, white defender of generic "Africa") would make the controversy of Dr. Strange's casting look like nothing. You rang? Okay, Tarzan's not rich, but if you blink you'll miss all the non-white people in the trailer for a movie set in Africa. |
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 15, 2016 10:56:23 GMT -5
My Little Pony: The Movie (1986)
Grundles are misunderstood. All power in the universe moves and shapes Little Pony access to Hasbro Toy Dream Castle. Learn nothing of your internal mystery without buying our product! Yo, and wha'tz with the mostly Broadway cast slumming in this wood? Heavy smoozing?
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 15, 2016 16:16:09 GMT -5
Dreams That Money Can Buy (1947) I'm only through the first 10 minutes. The dada antidote to My Little Pony's Dream Castle. Thanks, NetworkAwesome!
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jun 16, 2016 14:40:10 GMT -5
Criterion will release Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!!
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 16, 2016 17:05:25 GMT -5
Criterion will release Russ Meyer & Roger Ebert's "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls"!! "Oh how glorious "Look(ing) on Up..." at the bottoms in Blu-Ray will be!" Z Man |
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 16, 2016 21:06:40 GMT -5
The Endless Summer Mellow, pretty, kinda boring. Very of its time.
JFK Defenders of this film will say it's bad history but great cinema. I agree totally on the first point (I mean, good God), but I don't know where the fuck they're coming from, because this film is impossible to follow, cheesily written (goddamn that "Cat's Cradle" subplot), overacted, uncomfortably shot and edited, and punishingly long. Oliver Stone really is an overgrown high school kid who thinks he's got it all figured out and will just drown out your objections by throwing whatever noise he can think of at the audience. |
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Post by Stuffed Salvador on Jun 16, 2016 23:22:14 GMT -5
I'm pretty sure I'd find Joel Schumacher's the Phantom of the Opera enjoyable if it wasn't obvious that the main trio of actors were lip syncing. Gerard Butler and Patrick Wilson's singing voices in particular sound like it's not even them singing and it's distracting.
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Post by Stuffed Salvador on Jun 16, 2016 23:37:30 GMT -5
Also, Patrick Wilson's hair is so gross in this
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 17, 2016 0:03:58 GMT -5
Pulp Fiction (1994)
I thought it was fine. Samuel L. Jackson is quite good in it, it's nicely shot, and it has its moments (particularly the final scene in the diner), but otherwise it felt unfocused and overlong, and none of the three subplots is really all that compelling. It was also icky that they essentially play a rape scene, including the rape itself, for laughs. I really don't get why this is seen as Tarantino's masterpiece (I'd say that Inglourious Basterds and Reservoir Dogs are far better), much less one of the greatest films of all time. B
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Post by starforge on Jun 17, 2016 3:41:15 GMT -5
Disney's Hercules is so strange and wrong and dumb I couldn't keep up with the drinking game. I love it.
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Post by Stuffed Salvador on Jun 18, 2016 0:37:12 GMT -5
Just saw The Good Dinosaur. No idea why it was met with so much indifference when it came out last year. I thought it was way better than Inside Out and definitely the best dinosaur-themed movie to come out in 2015.
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Post by Creeper on Jun 18, 2016 8:16:28 GMT -5
Watched Tarsem Singh's The Fall, after a discussion about best-looking movies. The scenery and location shooting for the fantasy sequences is fantastic, and makes for a great live-action fairy tale. The story is a little ramshackle (perhaps excusable for reasons within the movie), but the little girl is adorable. The coming attractions on the DVD began with an ad for a special edition of The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, which seems like a really good comparison that otherwise would not have occurred to me. I know it's not perfect, but I love The Fall. Went and saw The Conjuring II: Electric Conjuloo the other day and it was mostly decent because it was a full theater, and the jump scares had a lot of people reacting so there was the whole shared experience aspect of it all and that was nice. There was a stupid fvckin scene early on where the Warrens are being called out as phonies on some talk show and afterwards there is this whole WHY ARE WE SO PERSECUTED scene that just pissed me off. The Warrens WERE hucksters, I wish they had just made them generic ghost hunters or whatever instead of legitimizing these people. Anyways I remember thinking that Bob Odenkirk should've played Patrick Wilson's part back when I saw the first one, something just feels right about that. I also think Bob would've been a good choice for Sam Rockwell's character in Iron Man 2. I think these three share some physical traits and that is why it popped into my mind, but I really do wish casting directors would base their decisions on what I think would've been funny. Sam Rockwell is great, and Moon is a damn fine film, but imagine Bob in that role. I rest my case. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 18, 2016 8:44:10 GMT -5
Urgh! A Music War
Watched with a knowledgeable friend who kept me up to speed on the American side of things. A strange mixed bag: highlights were Dead Kennedys, XTC, X, The Go Gos, Joan Jett, and especially The Cramps, who should've been saved till last on the basis of Lux's low-slung pants and Ivy's sneer alone. The lowlights were many and shall not be named here (mainly because I've already forgotten most of their names). Strange, from a British perspective, to see people like Toyah Wilcox in amongst it all: she's not a particularly valued figure these days. (Fun fact: she's married to Fripp.) In general, overlong and far too much of The Police.
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Post by ganews on Jun 18, 2016 9:00:45 GMT -5
Finally saw The Martian. What a great time! The scene where he composes a goodbye to his parents was beautiful.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 19, 2016 19:58:38 GMT -5
Clue
Fun! I'm glad they ended up including all the endings, because the last one is easily the best, funniest, and includes the two most famous lines in the movie.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jun 20, 2016 0:19:48 GMT -5
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) - I had seen part of 2001 back in middle school, but I think I fell asleep right around the time they found the Monolith buried on the Moon. So, after re-reading Arthur C. Clarke's book, I finally watched Kubrick's film in its entirety. And it was one of the best films I've ever seen; I'm amazed at how beautiful it looks for having been made in 1968; Kubrick's visual aesthetic is unimpeachable. It also evokes a staggering sense of loneliness, from the opening shots of a deserted landscape, to the silence but for the breathing of Poole and Bowman in their spacesuits when they're outside of the Discovery, to the off-putting awkward video conversations which steadily become further and further divorced from meaningful engagement with the recipient as a human being (which is far more profoundly conveyed than countless facile films/books/other-putative-art about how technology is supposedly making us unable to connect with other people and blah blah blah), to the stilted deliveries of the not-especially-talented cast lending a sense of perfunctory disingenuousness to much of the little dialogue that there is in the film, to the frightened and traumatized Bowman staring uncomprehending at his middle-aged self standing in the hotel room after traveling through the star-gate, isolated even from himself. On the other hand, I think that at times the film is a bit too cold and dispassionate, and to me it keeps the film from being quite as transcendent an experience as Kubrick seems to have intended it to be. But all in all, it's an amazing movie. A
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 20, 2016 10:09:49 GMT -5
Finding DoryMore important than the actual movie, this was our first attempt at taking both kids to a movie in the theater and it went...pretty ok, I think? We had grandma in tow for an extra set of hands, which helped. Owl Girl got a little antsy toward the end and the jerk sitting behind us is probably lucky that it was Owlette that overheard her and not me, but otherwise everyone was able to just enjoy the show. The movie was a pretty good, median-level Pixar effort. I thought the aquarium setting sort of sacrificed some of the animation possibilities offered by the ocean setting of the original, but the story was still fun. For all the shit Pixar gets for not reaching the highs of their first hot streak, they can still (exempting Cars 2) be proud of having an extremely high, consistent baseline quality for family films. 
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 20, 2016 11:14:28 GMT -5
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
I'll eventually watch the Criterion Blu-Ray. Eventually. I uncovered so many more laughs out of this film, this go 'round. Berle's mugging when Merman's character asks where she can put the cactuses was a big one this time. The laugh from guessing that Merman's character simply has to be a strong influence on Alex Borstein and her Lois voice characterization from Family Guy. Phil Silvers' casual assault personality.
That's one thing that remains most salient to me this time through: Adult humans don't generally behave by clapping shoulders, pushing, and manhandling these days (be it film or the quotidian sidereal Earth day in these United States of America).
It's also interesting to come up with the notion that these comedians serve as barometer to the American gestalt of the period: pluck and greed = American know-how. Versus today's most public humor vista: pluck and greed = self-aggrandizing toilet humor that no longer understands its own purpose because the echo of "meta" has reduced signal and increased noise. I want to say something with a bit more bite, but cannot formulate the thought - so I'm trying to work it out here.
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Post by repulsionist on Jun 20, 2016 11:20:18 GMT -5
Zootopia (2016)
So my 4.5 year-old finally got with the social wave of his schoolmates. He watched it 3 times through over the weekend; absorbing certain scenes carefully so that he might be able to repeat lines to his friends that have innundated their own language with song snippets and themes from the film. Also, Nice themes and story development. Worthy voice characterizations. My own cynical perspective defused by disarming displays of zoomanity.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2016 22:00:30 GMT -5
Captain America civil war: I had to leave 30 minutes early because I had stuff to do, it was supposed to start 30 minutes earlier as well..... Anyway, from what I did see, it was fun. The action was super great and the best of any marvel film. The story? Ehhhhh, not really. Tony getting too gung ho over one death seemed forced compared to how he was in ultron. The break up with pepper came up out of nowhere, and while I like the route they took tony the execution was bad. Zemo was a shit villain. Like seriously, no development before I left and to have to fill it all in after two hours? Even if I was there doesn't seem like I could ever really care. Marvel needs to stop having shit villains. But hey, heroes fighting against one another is a good gimmick that worked. Spider Man felt weird and out of place but I liked him. And overall it felt like the film was just biding time as it went from action set piece to action set piece, but the action was so dope. B
Bring it on. Spirit fingers. A++
Money Monster. Decent little thriller. Couldn't care less about the political stuff, but did get invested in the hostage situation and the two main characters. Nothing special though. B
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jun 20, 2016 22:34:14 GMT -5
Election. Who knew a tossed jumbo Pepsi could contain so much emotion and meaning?
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 20, 2016 23:29:01 GMT -5
The War Room
A fun timepiece, but surprisingly sparse in its coverage of the 1992 campaign.
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Post by Stuffed Salvador on Jun 21, 2016 18:46:38 GMT -5
Finding Dory
It's cute and entertaining enough to have left me smiling for most of it, but like most other films I've seen this year that I was excited for, it's not very memorable.
The Lobster
I loved the first half of the movie and how strange and playful it was, but the second half of the movie lost me and reminded me way too much of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, which I hate.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jun 21, 2016 19:10:40 GMT -5
Finding DoryIt's cute and entertaining enough to have left me smiling for most of it, but like most other films I've seen this year that I was excited for, it's not very memorable.
The Lobster
I loved the first half of the movie and how strange and playful it was, but the second half of the movie lost me and reminded me way too much of Jean-Luc Godard's Weekend, which I hate. Rarely has a film fallen off for me as abruptly and as far as The Lobster did at the halfway point. Brave effort, though, I'll give it that. |
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Post by ganews on Jun 21, 2016 21:28:49 GMT -5
X-Men: ApocalypseIt seems like a lot of people were down on this one, but I quite liked it. How could I not? I did well with some of my favorite characters. Plenty of costume details to love: Warren Worthington's (Angel/Archangel) awesome hair, Nightcrawler's awesome jacket, Mystique finally wearing something (anything, actually) closer to her comics uniform. Interestingly, Olivia Munn's perfect-replica Psylocke outfit just didn't look that great. She looked great it in, sure, but it's hard to comport a human into such a character physique/design. And I guess I'm an adult now. Still, maybe it will go over with Wifemate for a Halloween costume. No one could deny that Quicksilver's scenes are the best. It's an odd complaint, but as with DOFP he's just portrayed as too fast. It was more egregious here. Scott Summers was pretty annoying. I preferred James Marsden's version of the old-school stick-up-his ass Cyc to the more contemporary rebellious Cyc in the comics. Sophie Turner's Jean Grey was better. Jubilee was pointless, just like in every iteration. Good work with Nightcrawler here, but it still doesn't top the all-time best X-movie moment of his in X2 (nor Blink in DOFP). I though Oscar Isaac was fine as Apocalypse himself. Good make-up. His delivery of "from the ashes of their world, we'll build a better one" was slightly less of a clunker in the movie than in the trailer. Combining his stuff with some from the Shadow King was pretty smart. Was that The Blob getting beaten up by Angel before Kurt gets introduced? I'd sure like to see Toad in action again. Good to see Caliban.
Interesting to see where the Mr. Sinister plot is going to go for the next one. How will they keep it from seeming like a retread of Trask from DOFP? I suppose Cable is going to get introduced as well, after he appears alongside Deadpool.
I wasn't thrilled to see the Phoenix force back in action. Again it's not a cosmic force - get with the program, Fox, all the cool MCU films are into aliens! Anyway, it makes Jean too powerful to ignore, and I don't want another retread of the Phoenix saga. Mr. Sinister had better make this tidy.
Moira MacTaggert was awfully not-displeased about Xavier's admission of mind-rape. In conclusion, this was pretty good but still not the best X-Men movie (X2). It crammed plenty in, but I don't think it was as overstuffed as Avengers 2. In a way, it was sort of the comic-bookiest of movies: very episodic, touching base with all the characters ( the whole side trip to the Weapon X program was quite the diversion, lampshaded all the more by the trapped mutants saying how they don't know what's going on ), tying up ends, laying track. Good, but not quite what a movie ought to be, I guess. Perhaps this was the best argument yet for a Game of Thrones-style, super-budget TV series.
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Post by Return of the Thin Olive Duke on Jun 22, 2016 1:58:58 GMT -5
The Right Stuff
Kinda surprised by the movie this ended up being. It's kind of all over the place, but I didn't mind that so much as that the actual space stuff seems kinda limited (the effects are kinda wonky as well), while the sort of personal stuff was more heavily emphasized (side note: Pamela Reed was cute as hell, coincidentally not unlike Dolly Read). I now understand why the Mercury program was overlooked by the magnificent Playtone series From the Earth to the Moon, but feel the latter is far superior, giving the awe of space travel its due and going over the technical aspects in great detail in a really fun way.
Sidenote: Holy shit, Sam Shepard was once young!? Meanwhile, Ed Harris has always been old!
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Post by starforge on Jun 22, 2016 2:28:57 GMT -5
Finding Dory was actually brilliant. Enriching the first film immensely and crafting its own snappy and introspective tale, it's the first Pixar sequel outside of the Toy Story films to truly thrive. Its portrayal of mental illness, limitations, and loss are borderline profound, and yet the film is kept aloft and bubbly by the same caliber of excitement and jocularity we've come to expect from the best of Pixar's efforts. Its momentum is strong and solid with every scene, driven forth by even the most one-note of characters, each charming and memorable and, naturally, instantly lovable.
Finding Dory is at least as good as Nemo. Maybe better.
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Post by pairesta on Jun 22, 2016 6:05:42 GMT -5
Finding DoryMore important than the actual movie, this was our first attempt at taking both kids to a movie in the theater and it went...pretty ok, I think? My wife wasn't so lucky. While I was at my conference, she took both kids and grandma (her mom) to see it yesterday. Our four year old was restless, loud, and whiny, including kicking the backs of seats, kicking his sister, until he finally got hauled out of the theater by my wife for the rest of the movie. Grandma sat and looked at her phone during the first half of the movie. A woman behind them shushed them increasingly loudly throughout the movie, and honestly I don't blame her. Suddenly the conference doesn't seem so bad. |
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Post by pairesta on Jun 22, 2016 6:12:22 GMT -5
The Insider
1999 was such a great year for movies that this one often unfortunately gets overlooked (or at least, it does by me). Whenever I happen across it I get sucked right in. Last night was no exception; I even watched it way past my bedtime to its completion (I never can remember how it ends).
I had forgotten Crowe could be so good and compelling as an actor. Even though I thought he was really good in the Nice Guys, here he's stretching his abilities more, inheriting another character. I also always forget to include this movie as the exception to Pacino's two decade long slide into HOOHA territory. And oh, hey, there's Debi Mazar, who used to be an actor instead of co-host on a painfully staged reality show/cooking show.
This might be my nod for Mann's best movie, with maybe only Heat above it.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jun 22, 2016 7:28:17 GMT -5
Finding DoryMore important than the actual movie, this was our first attempt at taking both kids to a movie in the theater and it went...pretty ok, I think? My wife wasn't so lucky. While I was at my conference, she took both kids and grandma (her mom) to see it yesterday. Our four year old was restless, loud, and whiny, including kicking the backs of seats, kicking his sister, until he finally got hauled out of the theater by my wife for the rest of the movie. Grandma sat and looked at her phone during the first half of the movie. A woman behind them shushed them increasingly loudly throughout the movie, and honestly I don't blame her. Suddenly the conference doesn't seem so bad. That was basically my fear going in. I don't get how someone at these screenings wouldn't be more understanding. The lady behind us seemed legitimately surprised and offended to be contending with small children at a 3:00 matinee of Disney movie. Mind-boggling. |
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