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Post by Ben Grimm on Jun 28, 2017 10:18:50 GMT -5
Sure, but the reason TFA made a shitload of money is that it was the first proper Star Wars movie since 2005. Rogue One also made a shitload of money, though, just not as much. And until one of these doesn't make a shitload of money - along with moving a shitload of merchandise - they're going to assume continuing to make them is a good idea. |
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Post by Trurl on Jun 30, 2017 21:19:50 GMT -5
Just watched John Wick 2, and I'm wondering why, in this world of very rich criminals, that the computer that Accounts Payable uses is a Vic 20. Seriously, if it's a matter of updating legacy code I'm sure the whole codebase can be rewritten in about an hour and a half.
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Post by dＬᵒ on Jul 16, 2017 20:10:08 GMT -5
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jul 23, 2017 23:09:55 GMT -5
I just watched the teaser trailer for The Disaster Artist. I don't get why everyone's raving about Franco's mediocre performance as a shitty actor.
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Post by oppy all along on Jul 25, 2017 0:20:30 GMT -5
The only movies I've seen from this year are Wonder Woman, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Lego Batman, Fast and the Furious, and Beauty and the Beast. Aww yeah, going 0/8 on the Best Picture nominations again.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jul 27, 2017 10:00:22 GMT -5
The only movies I've seen from this year are Wonder Woman, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Lego Batman, Fast and the Furious, and Beauty and the Beast. Aww yeah, going 0/8 on the Best Picture nominations again. I saw Dunkirk, so I think I have one down. I'll probably go 4/5 on the Visual Effects noms though. I'm cool skipping Beauty and the Beast. |
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Post by Celebith on Jul 28, 2017 9:13:12 GMT -5
The only movies I've seen from this year are Wonder Woman, Spider-Man: Homecoming, Logan, Guardians of the Galaxy 2, Lego Batman, Fast and the Furious, and Beauty and the Beast. Aww yeah, going 0/8 on the Best Picture nominations again. Logan could get a nomination, like Unforgiven did. they're both in the same mold. |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Aug 9, 2017 7:36:59 GMT -5
Cue snarky GJI! about how long it took him to make this review.
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Post by oppy all along on Aug 19, 2017 21:26:06 GMT -5
So it kind of sucks for the little girl in Logan that she got her skeleton Wolverinized before she got her growth spurt, huh? X-23 only had her claws coated in adamantium if I remember correctly. |
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Post by Dellarigg on Aug 28, 2017 10:08:53 GMT -5
This just popped up on my facebook. No idea if it's genuine or not.  |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 10:52:56 GMT -5
Former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici has died. My most surreal moviegoing experience involved him. It was Darren Aronofsky's The Wrestler. In the theater, Domenici was in attendance with what looked like his grandchildren. Domenici had been retired for a few years at that point and had been diagnosed with dementia. I can only guess his presence in the movie theater was a situation of his family saying to the grandchildren, "kids, get Grandpa Pete out of the house for a while. Take him to a movie or something." During the duration of the movie, Domenici frequently got up to wander around the theater and mutter things to himself. He was clearly deep into the throes of his brain illness. All I could think about while the film unreeled was the strangeness of watching a movie about people on the margins of society with a decades-long Republican Senator who was known as a staunch fiscal conservative. Now, he was seeing a film, with his grandkids, about the sort of people hurt by his policies and who knows how much of it he was understanding. |
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Post by Celebith on Sept 15, 2017 2:09:43 GMT -5
I was talking about one of my favorite lines in Lawrence of Arabia the other day- there's a bit near the beginning where Lawrence is pinching out a candle with his fingers. One of the other officers tries and says, "That hurt. What's the trick?" Lawrence replies, "Of course it hurts. The trick is not minding that it hurts." The next day it struck me that this is scene is placed at the same point in the narrative as Paul Atriedes being tested with the Box in Dune, which is the same concept, i.e. can you make yourself not mind that it hurts? The broad strokes of both stories are the same, but this seemed like an interesting small and specific overlap between the two. That match scene is my favorite part of the whole movie, and probably influenced a lot of the way I approach reality. |
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 15, 2017 14:19:57 GMT -5
What's Donald Trump's favorite movie?
Gynatown!
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Post by Meth Lab Shenanigans on Sept 26, 2017 22:17:06 GMT -5
This is just such a beautiful way to end the movie
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Post by Deleted on Sept 28, 2017 10:20:57 GMT -5
Harrison Ford described Blade Runner 2049 as "fucking awesome", "epic" and "a cathedral of a movie". I hardly ever see him actually seem excited about anything, so that's probably good news. (On a side note, he seems to be fighting some tremors in the video...  ) |
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Post by LazBro on Sept 28, 2017 11:25:03 GMT -5
Harrison Ford described Blade Runner 2049 as "fucking awesome", "epic" and "a cathedral of a movie". I hardly ever see him actually seem excited about anything, so that's probably good news. (On a side note, he seems to be fighting some tremors in the video... ) "Cathedral of a movie" is a good line. Go Han! |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 28, 2017 12:20:11 GMT -5
Harrison Ford described Blade Runner 2049 as "fucking awesome", "epic" and "a cathedral of a movie". I hardly ever see him actually seem excited about anything, so that's probably good news. (On a side note, he seems to be fighting some tremors in the video... ) Keep in mind, he was probably high as balls when he saw it. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Sept 28, 2017 14:16:57 GMT -5
The way I saw it described as “One Perfect Shot, but almost three hours long” so “cathedral” sounds about right as far as comparisons go. This is the year for less-accessible versions of generally accessible, if niche, nerd stuff, I suppose (not a complaint).
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Post by ganews on Sept 29, 2017 21:13:00 GMT -5
My Cousin Vinny is one of my favorite comedies. It really plays the north-south culture clash even-handedly and without any mean humor.
But when Vinny goes to the diner and sees grits for the first time, why is he confused? He's Italian-American and grits are identical to polenta.
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Post by gillianandersoncpr on Sept 29, 2017 23:17:46 GMT -5
I was looking at 2018 film release dates and as far as 'big' ones that interest me... Jan -  Feb - Black Panther, Annihilation, Cloverfield 2017* (*née 'The God Particle' from what I can tell)Mar - A Wrinkle in Time, Tomb Raider, Pacific Rim: Uprising Apr - X-Men: New Mutants May - Avengers: Infinity War, Star Wars: Han Solo Jun - Incredibles 2 (maybe: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Deadpool 2, Ocean's 8)Jul - Alita: Battle Angel, Ant-Man and the Wasp Aug - The Predator, Christopher Robin Sep - uh...Robin Hood? Oct - (maybe: Venom, The Jungle Book With Cate Blanchett as Kaa!!!)Nov - The Nutcracker and the Four Realms? (I'm holding off on Fantastic Beasts for possible JK Rowling marathon; X-Men: Dark Phoenix is of doubtful interest)Dec - Mary Poppins Returns (Aquaman, Bumblebee both of doubtful interest)tl;dr 2018 is front-loaded like a beast...but the later autumn winter months are looking rather dire in comparison, even more so than usual. Maybe I do want Han Solo to get moved back to December (usually I'm of the more-sooner mindset when it comes to Star Wars). |
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Post by Ben Grimm on Sept 30, 2017 6:42:47 GMT -5
Looking at that list, my likelies are: January: Nada February: Black Panther, Annihilation March: A Wrinkle in Time, Pacific Rim April: New Mutants May: Avengers, Han Solo, maybe that mystery Laika project June: Deadpool 2, Incredibles 2, Jurassic World 2 July: Ant-Man and the Wasp. I'm guessing that mystery DC film just hasn't been scraped off the thing yet August: Happytime Murders, maybe The Predator September: Nada October: Maybe Venom, but it's at best really iffy November: X-Men December: Aquaman, maybe the animated Spider-Man |
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Post by ArchieLeach on Oct 3, 2017 6:47:03 GMT -5
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Post by dwarfoscar on Oct 5, 2017 4:31:18 GMT -5
Does anyone follow the Schmoedown around here by any chance ? I could give or take the WWE pastiche, but it's a very entertaining show for movie trivia nerds. Two of my favorite competitors (McWeeny, Bibbiani) just got eliminated in the first round, I have no idea who's gonna win that thing...
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Post by Deleted on Oct 7, 2017 18:11:53 GMT -5
Heat has my favorite ending of any film, along with probably one of the best ending themes of all time.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 17, 2017 11:38:06 GMT -5
In discussing the new film "Only the Brave" which is based on a horrific event that killed a bunch of AZ firefighters, the local film critic said this in the paper:
"Films that carry the sometimes-worrisome tag “based on a true story” often play fast and loose with the “true” part of that description. Which, of course, is fine; feature films are not documentaries, and what’s most important is an accurate representation of the truth. (Fiction, after all, often gets closer to more-universal truths that a straight telling.)"
I read this comment after I read the review of the film and the accompanying article about how the filmmakers were committed to "getting it right".
This comment is making me consider what "truth" is. If you change the story to make it play with a "more universal truth" is that an "accurate representation of the truth"? Those seem like different concepts to me. I can see the argument about fiction getting closer to universal truths. That's true.
However, it seems very strange to say "what's most important is an accurate representation of the truth" and then argue that fiction might be better b/c it has more universal truth.
Anyway, yes I know this film is not a documentary, but it still horrifies me that the film is going to valorize this, when what really happened was an absolutely epic fuck up due to politics and mismanagement. This drives me crazy because the city involved has been..... let's (charitably) say reluctant to admit their gross failure of regulation here because they were trying to cut costs. When press tried to ask serious questions about this the common response was "Oh no! How dare you insult these true American heroes!" So, it naturally kind of pisses me off that this film is going to come out and be all "Look how hard these guys worked to become true heroes!" Um..... yeah, not really. That was one of the problems that contributed to the disaster, actually.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Oct 19, 2017 14:08:58 GMT -5
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Post by Desert Dweller on Oct 19, 2017 15:51:33 GMT -5
I find it amazing that anyone could make a film that bad out of one of Nesbo's books. This director made a great 2-hour adaptation of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" a book which is seemingly not nearly as easy to adapt as anything Nesbo wrote. Now I kind of want to see it, just to experience how it all went so wrong. |
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Post by dwarfoscar on Oct 19, 2017 16:17:10 GMT -5
I find it amazing that anyone could make a film that bad out of one of Nesbo's books. This director made a great 2-hour adaptation of "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" a book which is seemingly not nearly as easy to adapt as anything Nesbo wrote. Now I kind of want to see it, just to experience how it all went so wrong. That's also what I find so weird. The two previous Alfredson movies are masterful adaptations. The guy knows how to adapt. What went wrong here ? My "studio tampering" sense is tingling. |
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Post by Wallet Inspector on Oct 19, 2017 22:01:51 GMT -5
I hadn't rewatched Boogie Nights in years, so I did so tonight. So perfectly stylish and so perfectly cast. I can't believe how many fantastic performances I sort of forgot about.
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