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Post by Desert Dweller on Jan 25, 2018 0:30:10 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. Same. I'd buy that movie on blu-ray. I loved that section. That should have been its own movie. Alas. |
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Post by Floyd Dinnertime Barber on Jan 27, 2018 9:08:55 GMT -5
So, "The Shape of Water" is basically Carol Burnett meets Abe Sapien?
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Post by LazBro on Jan 29, 2018 12:42:23 GMT -5
Nobody Puts Million Dollar Baby in the Corner
Johnny Castle biffs the big lift at the end, sending Frances "Baby" Houseman flying into a nearby table, breaking her neck and leaving her quadriplegic. After a few hard scenes detailing the stages of grief, we see Johnny sneak in one night and mercy kill Baby with a shot of adrenaline.
Come on, where's my staff writing position, SNL from 14 years ago?
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Post by chalkdevil 😈 on Jan 29, 2018 16:18:46 GMT -5
Why did no one tell me Bright was written by Max Landis? It makes so much more sense now. Like the high-concept, Mad Libs pitch (Training Day meets Lord of the Rings) with the shallow understanding of social issues.
Uh, now I'm on Landis's IMDB page. He's writing a gender-swapped An American Werewolf in London remake. Hopefully they'll be a male werewolf to teach her the ropes, so she doesn't suddenly know how to turn into a werewolf without the proper training.
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Post by Not a real doctor on Jan 29, 2018 21:27:39 GMT -5
Oooohhhhh, a Rambo marathon on amc. 8:30 pm central and we're only halfway through First Blood? I'll just go ahead and cancel my classes for tomorrow.
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Post by Invisible Goat on Jan 31, 2018 21:10:29 GMT -5
Here it is, folks. Literally no one asked for it and even more literally no one wants it, but here is the definitive top 20 movies of 2017. I seen every one and this is the correct order.
1. Call Me By Your Name
2. Get Out
3. The Killing of A Sacred Deer
4. Blade Runner 2049
5. The Florida Project
6. The Blackcoat’s Daughter
7. T2 Trainspotting
8. Good Time
9. A Ghost Story
10. Phantom Thread
11. Lady Bird
12. mother!
13. Wind River
14. Logan Lucky
15. The Shape of Water
16. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
17. Brigsby Bear
18. The Lost City of Z
19. Molly's Game
20. Baby Driver
Edit: I forgot about Star Wars which is my favorite movie every year, but like I don't even feel comfortable putting it in a list like this because it's more than a movie, you know
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2018 11:10:02 GMT -5
1. Logan Lucky
2. Baby Driver
3. Big Sick
4. Jim and Andy
5. Get Out
6. The Last Jedi
7. I, Tonya
8. Thor Ragnarok
9. IT
10. Kong Skull Island
That is my top 10
Movies I liked but not top 10
Guardians of the Galaxy 2
Logan
Beauty and the Beast
Movies I have not seen but still want to
Lost City of Z
Phantom Thread
3 Billboards
Detroit
Your Name(Not that poor excuse for a gay romance, but the anime film Your Name)
John Wick 2
Atomic Blonde
Murder on the Orient Express
War For the Planet of the Apes
A Cure for Wellness
Valerian
Wonder Woman
Okja
American Made
Worst Films I saw
1. Alien Covenant
2. Blade Runner 2049
3. Transformers: Last Knight
4. Power Rangers
5. Bright
6. Fate of the Furious
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Feb 2, 2018 17:32:56 GMT -5
It's times like these I wish we had a dislike button.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Feb 2, 2018 19:15:31 GMT -5
Here it is, folks. Literally no one asked for it and even more literally no one wants it, but here is the definitive top 20 movies of 2017. I seen every one and this is the correct order. 1. Call Me By Your Name 2. Get Out 3. The Killing of A Sacred Deer 4. Blade Runner 2049 5. The Florida Project 6. The Blackcoat’s Daughter 7. T2 Trainspotting 8. Good Time 9. A Ghost Story 10. Phantom Thread 11. Lady Bird 12. mother! 13. Wind River 14. Logan Lucky 15. The Shape of Water 16. Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri 17. Brigsby Bear 18. The Lost City of Z 19. Molly's Game 20. Baby Driver Edit: I forgot about Star Wars which is my favorite movie every year, but like I don't even feel comfortable putting it in a list like this because it's more than a movie, you know I literally didn't know that eight of these even existed. Also my favorite movie of the year was probably Get Out. |
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Post by ganews on Feb 3, 2018 17:30:24 GMT -5
Of all the movies Chris Rock has been associated with, the best one is his documentary Good Hair.
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Post by Pastafarian on Feb 3, 2018 19:39:35 GMT -5
I watched Call Me By Your Name last night. Beautiful film, but I wanted to highlight the monologue that Michael Stuhbarg gives at the end. It brought tears to my eyes. He's such a great actor.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Feb 5, 2018 17:11:21 GMT -5
"It’s fucking embarrassing. It means you couldn’t land your fucking movie, is what it means. Even if you got 100,000 Twitter addicts who are gambling on what fucking scene is going to happen after the fucking credits, it’s still cheating. [Post-credits scenes are] selling them the next movie while you’re making this movie, and kind of all that shit that I find really fucking embarrassing.”
Good, James Mangold, good. Let the hate flow through you.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2018 20:55:04 GMT -5
Heh, even villeneuve thinks 2049 was a bit of a slog.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Feb 7, 2018 12:51:05 GMT -5
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Post by ganews on Feb 7, 2018 15:11:44 GMT -5
I didn't read the linked article, but I'm OK with the product in your version of the headline. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2018 4:00:41 GMT -5
For a film about drugged out pornstars and Mark Wahlberg's alien Dick, Boogie Nights is a pretty heartwarming movie.
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Post by kitchin on Feb 27, 2018 7:01:58 GMT -5
Sicario 2: Soldado...Looks like garbage, based on the preview. They turned it into a video game, all Benicio del Toro and Josh Brolin, no Emily Blunt or Daniel Kaluuya. Kept the signature music and visual style of course. The original was pretty great, whatever flaws. Flaws? Overplayed Blunt's insecurity a bit. The various plot holes (why so much driving?) are not so bad, in surreal/expressionistic writing. But the sequel preview shows how that can go astray. It becomes all action and gullibility. In the original, my guess based on comments is that the more cutting points went over the audience's head. The intel on the tunnel came mostly or entirely from the Mexican cop and the migrants, not from torturing the perp. The heightened unreality was in the tradition of Latin social justice movies like City of God (2002). Not since Hot Tub Time Machine 2 has a sequel so disappointed.
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Post by oppy all along on Mar 11, 2018 7:05:55 GMT -5
The Oscars would be more interesting (and rate higher) if like at the first Oscars the Best Picture category was split into 'Best Big Movie' and 'Most Artistic Movie'. Just think of the fun thinkpieces and Twitter arguments that would be generated with a Best Movie award contested between Get Out, Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok, It, and Girls Trip. Make it an eight movie category and you can throw Coco, Baby Driver, and Last Jedi in there as well.
Meanwhile the fish one, the gay one, the chick one, the war movies, the Daniel Day Lewis one, the news one, and the local advertising one can duke it out for Most Artistic.
And let's face it, which eight movies are more culturally relevant and memorable anyway. Three months from now Darkest Hour will be nothing but a difficult trivia question about how Gary Oldman got his Best Actor award.
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Mar 11, 2018 8:31:35 GMT -5
In what universe is Get Out a "big movie"?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Mar 11, 2018 11:36:25 GMT -5
In what universe is Get Out a "big movie"? One using box office as the guide? |
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Post by Dellarigg on Mar 11, 2018 12:53:15 GMT -5
In what universe is Get Out a "big movie"? One using box office as the guide? And sheer tonnage of thinkpieces. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 11, 2018 14:31:27 GMT -5
The Oscars would be more interesting (and rate higher) if like at the first Oscars the Best Picture category was split into 'Best Big Movie' and 'Most Artistic Movie'. Just think of the fun thinkpieces and Twitter arguments that would be generated with a Best Movie award contested between Get Out, Wonder Woman, Thor: Ragnarok, It, and Girls Trip. Make it an eight movie category and you can throw Coco, Baby Driver, and Last Jedi in there as well. Meanwhile the fish one, the gay one, the chick one, the war movies, the Daniel Day Lewis one, the news one, and the local advertising one can duke it out for Most Artistic. And let's face it, which eight movies are more culturally relevant and memorable anyway. Three months from now Darkest Hour will be nothing but a difficult trivia question about how Gary Oldman got his Best Actor award. Dunkirk grossed 400 million dollars more than girls trip. It would not be in artistic. |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Mar 11, 2018 14:56:39 GMT -5
In what universe is Get Out a "big movie"? One using box office as the guide? I guess, but there's a such a canyon of difference between a low budget horror satire like Get Out and Thor. |
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Post by oppy all along on Mar 11, 2018 16:59:30 GMT -5
One using box office as the guide? I guess, but there's a such a canyon of difference between a low budget horror satire like Get Out and Thor. I used box office, yeah. Figured it was the best metric for wide release versus limited release I could get in ten seconds of Googling. |
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Post by Lone Locust of the Apocalypse on Mar 11, 2018 18:06:39 GMT -5
I didn't know they actually used to have two separate categories. Somehow, the Oscars used to be even dumber than they are now.
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Mar 21, 2018 11:33:37 GMT -5
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Post by Lord Lucan on Mar 21, 2018 11:35:52 GMT -5
I’m going to go see The Death of Stalin, though I’m sceptical about degree of political-historical perspicacity I should expect from a man who admonished his peers to support the Liberal Democrats seven years ago as Britain’s last best hope on earth.
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Post by Lord Lucan on Mar 21, 2018 13:03:27 GMT -5
The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle.
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Post by ganews on Mar 21, 2018 13:51:05 GMT -5
The crew in The Matrix should have suspected Cypher, if not seen his betrayal coming.
The movie explicitly states that your appearance inside the Matrix is a function of how you see yourself, not of your appearance in the real world. That's why when the crew is inside, they don't have jack ports in the back of the neck and aren't dressed in rags. Keanu Reaves has a full head of hair inside the Matrix and a head covering in just-regrowing stubble in tehe real world after he is extracted from the machine farm. But not Cypher.
The movie also states that Neo is being extracted from the Matrix at a particularly late age. (Keanu Reeves was ~33 at the time of filming, but male movie stars fairly universally play characters younger than themselves unless it's a high school setting.) All of the crew who hack into the Matrix were freed by Morpheus; Trinity and Cypher explicitly so, as the former argues over the phone "He set us free!" Therefore, Cypher was not skinhead, cue ball-bald when Morpheus freed him. At most, he was in the early stages of male pattern baldness.
Cypher's appearance inside the Matrix reflected how he saw himself subconsciously, which should have been a white man in his 30s with a full head of hair. He saw something else. It should have been a sign to the crew that there was something else in his psychology.
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Post by dwarfoscar on Mar 21, 2018 15:16:03 GMT -5
It's not bad. I'm actually kinda envious. I wish I was as disconnected from the perpetual blockbuster promotion machine. |
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