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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 18, 2017 0:43:03 GMT -5
It is the idea that everyone is so desperate to save a VR fantasy and apparently don't give a shit about fixing the real world that is so revolting. Edited to add: Both times I saw it, I couldn't shake the feeling that this scenario is how the society of The Matrix was formed. Oh, Im just purely talking about the game for the vr wonderland, kinda like a tron in that sense. I couldn't care less about the dystopian stuff. It is sad that this likely will end up as one of speilbergs last films. I mean, the trailer makes a big deal about how much life sucks. And they escape into this VR fantasy world. And I just find it horrible that they are more concerned with a fantasy than their own society. |
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Post by pairesta on Dec 18, 2017 12:09:32 GMT -5
I was at a Toys R Us yesterday and they already had all their Justice League stuff consolidated to one shelf in a far corner of the store. Man, that movie did NOT do well did it?
It's kind of amazing how basically for four and a half years (since Man of Steel came out, and they announced that it was the cornerstone of a DCU), at nearly every step of the way, critics, pop culture writers, anyone who knows even a little about movies, warned Warner Bros that this was the wrong way to go about it, that they were rushing into it, they had all the signs in the world with the bad reception B v S got, and still went ahead with it. I guess the Whedon stuff was a hasty attempt to salvage it, but it's just so interesting that this train was coming and they really didn't do anything to avert it.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Dec 26, 2017 19:27:33 GMT -5
I had a boyhood fascination with Winston Churchill (as with great generals, usually getting an old LIFE magazine at Christmas with one glorified on the cover). Anyhow, the trailer for Darkest Hour suggests soporific, melodramatic bullshit full of windy rhetoric.
I await the prequel of the ‘thrilling true story’ how the Dardanelles Commission found him responsible for that epic military disaster, forcing him out of the Admiralty; his creation of the Black and Tans as War Secretary; his suppression of Welsh miner strikes as Home Secretary; his role in establishing the Kingdom of Iraq and suppressing Afghan and Kurdish insurgents as Colonial Secretary; his suppression of the 1926 General Strike as Chancellor; and Field Marshal Alanbrooke’s assiduous efforts to keep him as uninformed as possible so that he wouldn’t fuck up Alanbrooke’s war plans for which Churchill later took credit, while Prime Minister.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 28, 2017 2:19:14 GMT -5
I had a boyhood fascination with Winston Churchill (as with great generals, usually getting an old LIFE magazine at Christmas with one glorified on the cover). Anyhow, the trailer for Darkest Hour suggests soporific, melodramatic bullshit full of windy rhetoric. I await the prequel of the ‘thrilling true story’ how the Dardanelles Commission found him responsible for that epic military disaster, forcing him out of the Admiralty; his creation of the Black and Tans as War Secretary; his suppression of Welsh miner strikes as Home Secretary; his role in establishing the Kingdom of Iraq and suppressing Afghan and Kurdish insurgents as Colonial Secretary; his suppression of the 1926 General Strike as Chancellor; and Field Marshal Alanbrooke’s assiduous efforts to keep him as uninformed as possible so that he wouldn’t fuck up Alanbrooke’s war plans for which Churchill later took credit, while Prime Minister. I'm gonna guess you may have to rely on books for that stuff. Sorry. Or maybe some epic miniseries that will end with the more heroic presentation that is present in all Hollywood (and likely British) adaptations. |
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Post by Celebith on Jan 1, 2018 15:54:36 GMT -5
Rudolph has always been about how it's fine to mistreat people until you find out they have something useful to you, and how you should happily embrace your abusers once they figure out your freakish abilities can benefit them. They're all lucky Rudolph didn't just crash them into a mountainside. |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 5, 2018 3:21:52 GMT -5
Trailers sure are content to give a lot away. Most of the story arc. Anyhow, it pains me to see Day-Lewis in yet another film where he’s not playing Yeats. I know I’ve said it before, but what an extraordinary likeness and performance that could be.  |
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Post by haysoos on Jan 6, 2018 14:26:52 GMT -5
Is Julia Roberts in contention for an Oscar this year?
Flipping channels earlier today, I noticed that there were three Julia Roberts movies on different channels at the same time (My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, and Money Monster). Scrolling through the guide, I see that Mystic Pizza and Hook are both playing later today. Tomorrow there's Pretty Woman, and a quick glance over the next week I see Mona Lisa Smile, The Mexican, Eat Pray Love, and Steel Magnolias. Eat Pray Love, My Best Friend's Wedding and Mary Reilly are all on next Saturday.
Last time I saw this was in the run up to Sandra Bullock's Oscar win for Blind Side, when there was literally at least one Sandra Bullock film playing every day between New Year's and the Academy Awards.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jan 6, 2018 16:25:11 GMT -5
Is Julia Roberts in contention for an Oscar this year? Flipping channels earlier today, I noticed that there were three Julia Roberts movies on different channels at the same time (My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, and Money Monster). Scrolling through the guide, I see that Mystic Pizza and Hook are both playing later today. Tomorrow there's Pretty Woman, and a quick glance over the next week I see Mona Lisa Smile, The Mexican, Eat Pray Love, and Steel Magnolias. Eat Pray Love, My Best Friend's Wedding and Mary Reilly are all on next Saturday. Last time I saw this was in the run up to Sandra Bullock's Oscar win for Blind Side, when there was literally at least one Sandra Bullock film playing every day between New Year's and the Academy Awards. Maybe for Wonder? That's all she's been in this year (that could conceivably qualify, at least). |
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Post by haysoos on Jan 6, 2018 19:47:58 GMT -5
Is Julia Roberts in contention for an Oscar this year? Flipping channels earlier today, I noticed that there were three Julia Roberts movies on different channels at the same time (My Best Friend's Wedding, Notting Hill, and Money Monster). Scrolling through the guide, I see that Mystic Pizza and Hook are both playing later today. Tomorrow there's Pretty Woman, and a quick glance over the next week I see Mona Lisa Smile, The Mexican, Eat Pray Love, and Steel Magnolias. Eat Pray Love, My Best Friend's Wedding and Mary Reilly are all on next Saturday. Last time I saw this was in the run up to Sandra Bullock's Oscar win for Blind Side, when there was literally at least one Sandra Bullock film playing every day between New Year's and the Academy Awards. Maybe for Wonder? That's all she's been in this year (that could conceivably qualify, at least). Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Yeah, Wonder's got 'Oscar Bait' written all over it. No Golden Globe nomination though. Possibly they're stepping up their campaign? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 6, 2018 22:28:17 GMT -5
Trailers sure are content to give a lot away. Most of the story arc. Anyhow, it pains me to see Day-Lewis in yet another film where he’s not playing Yeats. I know I’ve said it before, but what an extraordinary likeness and performance that could be. I thought that guy wasn't acting anymore? And isn't he a bit old to play Yeats now? |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 6, 2018 22:32:13 GMT -5
I had a boyhood fascination with Winston Churchill (as with great generals, usually getting an old LIFE magazine at Christmas with one glorified on the cover). Anyhow, the trailer for Darkest Hour suggests soporific, melodramatic bullshit full of windy rhetoric. I await the prequel of the ‘thrilling true story’ how the Dardanelles Commission found him responsible for that epic military disaster, forcing him out of the Admiralty; his creation of the Black and Tans as War Secretary; his suppression of Welsh miner strikes as Home Secretary; his role in establishing the Kingdom of Iraq and suppressing Afghan and Kurdish insurgents as Colonial Secretary; his suppression of the 1926 General Strike as Chancellor; and Field Marshal Alanbrooke’s assiduous efforts to keep him as uninformed as possible so that he wouldn’t fuck up Alanbrooke’s war plans for which Churchill later took credit, while Prime Minister. What about his complicity in the Bengal famine of 1943? |
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Post by Lord Lucan on Jan 7, 2018 0:22:07 GMT -5
Roy Batty's Pet Dove. An important omission. I don’t see why too old. I thought I’d heard he’d left acting to be a cobbler many years ago as well before coming back.
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Post by Dellarigg on Jan 7, 2018 9:48:50 GMT -5
Just saw some of The Godfather for the billionth time. It strikes me that the most violent moment in the whole thing is the end of Sonny's assassination - that contemptuous and wholly unnecessary kick to the head they give him.
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Post by oppy all along on Jan 7, 2018 17:21:26 GMT -5
Midway through Coco
"Pfft, the plot twist is so obvious. And I'm really not feeling the emotional stakes of this movie. Maybe I'm too old for kids movies."
The end of Coco
*through broken sobs* "remember me, though I have to say goodbye..." *resumes sobbing*
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 7, 2018 22:31:09 GMT -5
I definitely haven't seen "I, Tonya", but is there a reason in it why Tonya Harding is at the Golden Globes on a night which is entirely about speaking out against assault and harassment? I don't care how interesting she is. She lost and was then involved in a conspiracy to physically assault another skater.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jan 8, 2018 17:51:20 GMT -5
Lord Lucan They mention Gallipoli but that’s about it. I got a bit of a kick that Eden’s so prominently featured in the movie–which is history, after all—but he ended up a disaster in the fifties too (perhaps their fifties careers were in mind because I’d seen someone call Trump’s foreign policy “a Suez every day” earlier that week). Attlee gets a nice big scene in the beginning. Overall I’d call Darkest Hour…fine, except for that damned Underground scene…though that fine-ness is pretty much all due to the film’s sense of focus and literal bunker mentality (again, why the Underground scene doesn’t work). I went with my dad and it is kind of the ultimate dad-film.
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 9, 2018 0:25:11 GMT -5
Our Harry Potter concerts all went well this weekend. People love seeing the movie with the film score played live. And I mean, a lot of people paid upwards of $60 per ticket to see this. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", not even one of the decent films.
Anyway, because it is a concert audience, and the Symphony plays the closing credits music, everyone stayed through the credits. (A shortened version of the credits, at least.) The audience would cheer names as they came up in the credits.
The biggest cheer from the audience invariably went to Alan Rickman. So even though these people are obviously nutty enough to pay $60 to see a nearly 20 year old movie that isn't very good, at least they correctly cheer for Alan Rickman.
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 9, 2018 10:50:14 GMT -5
Our Harry Potter concerts all went well this weekend. People love seeing the movie with the film score played live. And I mean, a lot of people paid upwards of $60 per ticket to see this. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", not even one of the decent films. Anyway, because it is a concert audience, and the Symphony plays the closing credits music, everyone stayed through the credits. (A shortened version of the credits, at least.) The audience would cheer names as they came up in the credits. The biggest cheer from the audience invariably went to Alan Rickman. So even though these people are obviously nutty enough to pay $60 to see a nearly 20 year old movie that isn't very good, at least they correctly cheer for Alan Rickman. The Minnesota Orchestra does these types of shows all the time and the tickets start at $60. We've never gone. I think they do Harry Potter every year. This year was Chamber of Secrets, the worst Harry Potter film. I've seen them recently do the new Star Trek, Little Mermaid, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I assume the reason to do these types of shows is to try and bring orchestral music to a wider audience since the bougie white folks who've typically funded the arts are getting old and dying out so they need to hook a younger crowd. They are also doing shows with "rock" musicians: Ben Folds, Rufus Wainright, Dessa. Still, with the prices starting at $60, you're still really keeping the orchestra to at least the upper middle class. For $60 a ticket the kids could go see that Taylor Swift at the giant hockey arena. I dunno, maybe this plan is working fine. There are always more rich white folks around then I think who need something "classy" to do with their kids. Seriously though, it would be awesome to go to one of those live film scores but it's hard to justify the cost. |
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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 9, 2018 22:13:18 GMT -5
Our Harry Potter concerts all went well this weekend. People love seeing the movie with the film score played live. And I mean, a lot of people paid upwards of $60 per ticket to see this. "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets", not even one of the decent films. Anyway, because it is a concert audience, and the Symphony plays the closing credits music, everyone stayed through the credits. (A shortened version of the credits, at least.) The audience would cheer names as they came up in the credits. The biggest cheer from the audience invariably went to Alan Rickman. So even though these people are obviously nutty enough to pay $60 to see a nearly 20 year old movie that isn't very good, at least they correctly cheer for Alan Rickman. The Minnesota Orchestra does these types of shows all the time and the tickets start at $60. We've never gone. I think they do Harry Potter every year. This year was Chamber of Secrets, the worst Harry Potter film. I've seen them recently do the new Star Trek, Little Mermaid, Raiders of the Lost Ark. I assume the reason to do these types of shows is to try and bring orchestral music to a wider audience since the bougie white folks who've typically funded the arts are getting old and dying out so they need to hook a younger crowd. They are also doing shows with "rock" musicians: Ben Folds, Rufus Wainright, Dessa. Still, with the prices starting at $60, you're still really keeping the orchestra to at least the upper middle class. For $60 a ticket the kids could go see that Taylor Swift at the giant hockey arena. I dunno, maybe this plan is working fine. There are always more rich white folks around then I think who need something "classy" to do with their kids. Seriously though, it would be awesome to go to one of those live film scores but it's hard to justify the cost. Oh yeah, these were sold out concerts. It was amazing. People brought their kids. Lots of younger people showed up. My boss said she'd heard about it and wanted to go, but couldn't make it this weekend. Symphony says they are planning to do Prisoner of Azkaban over Thanksgiving Weekend. That will sell out fast. But yeah, I would love to go see one of these events for Star Wars. I bet I could get free or deeply discounted tickets from the Symphony. Keeping my fingers crossed. |
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jan 16, 2018 21:11:36 GMT -5
In the MCU movies, why are there not like hundreds of dudes with Falcon wings?
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 16, 2018 22:53:30 GMT -5
In the MCU movies, why are there not like hundreds of dudes with Falcon wings? Cost? |
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 17, 2018 1:14:44 GMT -5
In the MCU movies, why are there not like hundreds of dudes with Falcon wings? Because Sam Wilson is the only human whose reflexes are fast enough to pilot them due to his high midichlorian count. |
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Post by Celebith on Jan 17, 2018 2:02:39 GMT -5
You'd think that a movie with Robert Mitchum as Philip Marlowe would be better than one with Elliot Gould, but you'd be wrong.
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jan 21, 2018 15:59:25 GMT -5
Wind River is the movie Three Billboards wishes it had the balls to be—probably the most underrated film of the year for me, even if it did get a fairly decent reception.
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Post by [Citrus] on Jan 22, 2018 0:03:20 GMT -5
Given that most of his films are about an old badass transformed by a little girl, I wonder how long it'll take before we get a really gross Luc Besson sex scandal.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Jan 22, 2018 0:08:52 GMT -5
Wind River is the movie Three Billboards wishes it had the balls to be—probably the most underrated film of the year for me, even if it did get a fairly decent reception. I liked Three Billboards but yeah, Wind River is probably the most overlooked movie of the year. White-knuckle tense at some points and the most viscerally horrifying scene of the year probably. |
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Post by dwarfoscar on Jan 22, 2018 16:02:10 GMT -5
Paddington 2 is for the time being the best reviewed movie of all time on Rotten Tomatoes
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Post by Powerthirteen on Jan 23, 2018 0:49:56 GMT -5
I mean this as no disrespect to Cate Blanchett's great performance, but I'd like Thor: Ragnarok a lot better if it was just a movie about Thor trying to break out of space slavery with no "save the world!" angle.
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