Dellarigg
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Post by Dellarigg on Sept 5, 2018 14:18:12 GMT -5
I cannot get through The Hateful Eight, and don't really believe anyone can.
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Post by Kangaroosevelt-Ecks on Sept 5, 2018 15:24:02 GMT -5
I cannot get through The Hateful Eight, and don't really believe anyone can. It pains me that that's the movie that got Ennio Morricone a well-deserved Oscar.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 6, 2018 22:32:05 GMT -5
Peter Parker freaking out after getting stuck under a pile of rubble in Homecoming is far, far more affecting than his last scene in Infinity War. That one is just too heavy-handed IMO.
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Post by kitchin on Sept 7, 2018 7:17:58 GMT -5
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Post by Celebith on Sept 9, 2018 11:40:30 GMT -5
I watched Rogue One, and it was hands-down my favorite Star War since the original series. I love it, and Last Jedi, because they're both rebuilding how we look at The Force. It seems like most of the galaxy probably experiences it along the lines of Imwe - 'hedge magic', faith and superstition. Last Jedi shows Rey learning from light and dark sources but still remaining 'good'. The comics and novels got into it more, but expanding things out so The Jedi and Sith are more obviously just two conflicting religious orders, with a much more holistic Force out there, is building a better universe, even if it is getting away from the core Saturday Serial underpinnings.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 9, 2018 19:41:38 GMT -5
If I may wax pretentious for a moment, Rogue One feels like the first Star Wars film that really embraces the idea of genre collision - that is, taking your dominant narrative form (this case a Star Wars movie), smashing it into another genre (in this case, a World War II movie) and seeing what happens. A New Hope does this a bit - it's differentiated from any number of Ray Harryhausen movies only in setting, really - but it's a pretty straightforward science fantasy piece (this is not a criticism). ESB does it twice - a war movie in the beginning and a "hero finds himself" quest in the middle, with the final confrontation living comfortably within Star Wars's own narrative devices. ROTJ is... well, not a great example of anything, really, but it's mostly just what it is. All of the prequels are content to be nothing but Star Wars films, with a few little details thrown in here and there (a bit of noir, a bit of sword-and-sandals), the same of which is true with The Force Awakens. But Rogue One takes a single genre to collide with, sticks with it throughout the entirety of its length, and allows the mechanisms of the war movie to function through a Star Wars lens. The kind of war movie it invokes varies - the end section is very obviously patterned after Saving Private Ryan, the middle section invokes Casablanca and so on - but it finds its groove and sticks to it consistently, beginning to end. The results are spectacular, and I agree it's my favourite since the original. Yeah, the dogfights from the original trilogy were heavily inspired by WW2 films as well, so I thought it worked really well. The original series was about a conventional war being fought with fairly conventional, albeit laser-based, weapons so the action scenes felt the most in-line with the original series. Rather than going bigger in technology and weapons, Star Wars is the best when it goes smaller. Its like the writers forget that the signature weapon of the series is a sword. The characters also felt the most like they belonged in the Star Wars universe out of the newer movies. I always thought the prequel characters were a bit flat and the new trilogy characters where a little over-done(or kind of flat in a way that reminds me of the prequels), but Rogue One seems to have gotten the right balance there as well. There should be a test in the writer's room of asking if a character feels like they would fit in either in the prequels or the Clone Wars cartoon. If the answer is yes to either, then they should be re-worked. All that said, I have very little desire to rewatch it, but I still think it works the best of the new films.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Sept 9, 2018 23:43:57 GMT -5
But if you did have an agent when you'd first seen Boogie Nights, would you have fired them over how much you hated it?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Sept 17, 2018 15:49:23 GMT -5
Jaws is boring.
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Post by songstarliner on Sept 17, 2018 18:59:29 GMT -5
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Post by Gamblin' Telly on Sept 18, 2018 2:48:19 GMT -5
Boogie Nights is great first 60 minutes, after that ok 45 minutes, then 45 minutes of why won't this end already?
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Sept 20, 2018 23:33:27 GMT -5
Interstellar > Inception
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Post by Deleted on Sept 23, 2018 0:41:22 GMT -5
The Joaquin Phoenix joker look is just as bad as the Suicide Squad look, but for different reasons. It just looks lazy and uninspired. I saw a comment elsewhere that summed it up perfectly, it looks like what would be one of Joker's goons rather than Joker himself.
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Post by Dr. Rumak on Sept 24, 2018 5:52:10 GMT -5
Boogie Nights is great first 60 minutes, after that ok 45 minutes, then 45 minutes of why won't this end already? And then finally 30 seconds of "I know why that group of moms seemed excited to be here".
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Sept 26, 2018 21:27:57 GMT -5
I mean maybe I haven’t seen the right things, but I am bored af by Jessica Chastain and Bryce Dallas Howard. And yes I can tell the difference between them.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Oct 4, 2018 21:17:58 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the Charlie’s Angels movies. They’re silly fun & girls punch people & shit blows up real good & sometimes that’s all I want. And actually it’s the only thing I can stand Cameron Diaz in.
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Post by ganews on Oct 4, 2018 22:31:08 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the Charlie’s Angels movies. They’re silly fun & girls punch people & shit blows up real good & sometimes that’s all I want. And actually it’s the only thing I can stand Cameron Diaz in. Cameron Diaz's best roll is as the fatally obsessed not-girlfriend of Tom Cruise in Vanilla Sky.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Oct 4, 2018 23:09:07 GMT -5
The Joaquin Phoenix joker look is just as bad as the Suicide Squad look, but for different reasons. It just looks lazy and uninspired. I saw a comment elsewhere that summed it up perfectly, it looks like what would be one of Joker's goons rather than Joker himself. What if he had the words "ALSO DAMAGED" tattooed on his forehead; would you consider that an inspired look?
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Oct 4, 2018 23:36:55 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the Charlie’s Angels movies. They’re silly fun & girls punch people & shit blows up real good & sometimes that’s all I want. And actually it’s the only thing I can stand Cameron Diaz in. I remember the first one being pretty good, but I also haven’t seen it since middle or high school. The same goes for Miss Congeniality.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Oct 5, 2018 8:24:33 GMT -5
Yeah, I like the Charlie’s Angels movies. They’re silly fun & girls punch people & shit blows up real good & sometimes that’s all I want. And actually it’s the only thing I can stand Cameron Diaz in. I remember the first one being pretty good, but I also haven’t seen it since middle or high school. The same goes for Miss Congeniality. Oh I unironically love Miss Congeniality.
The second Charlie's Angels would have been much better if the antagonist hadn't been a cardboard cutout. Demi Moore is just awful.
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Post by Prole Hole on Oct 8, 2018 6:39:55 GMT -5
Batman & Robin is an excellent Batman movie.
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Post by kitchin on Oct 9, 2018 16:17:09 GMT -5
I remember the first one being pretty good, but I also haven’t seen it since middle or high school. The same goes for Miss Congeniality. Oh I unironically love Miss Congeniality.
The second Charlie's Angels would have been much better if the antagonist hadn't been a cardboard cutout. Demi Moore is just awful.
I think it was the latest Get Shorty episode where McG was introduced at a Hollywood party as "the amazing director of all those Charlie's Angels films."
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Post by ganews on Dec 21, 2018 13:22:59 GMT -5
Opinions about Christopher Nolan movies, unpopular or not
The Prestige is the best Nolan movie. Batman Begins is good but not the greatest superhero origin story committed to film. Inception is not very difficult to follow; try putting down your phone. Tom Hardy and his voice were the best part of The Dark Knight Rises, just as integral as Heath Ledger was to The Dark Knight. Memento is the best concept movie of at least the past 20 years.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 21, 2018 13:39:30 GMT -5
Opinions about Christopher Nolan movies, unpopular or not The Prestige is the best Nolan movie. Batman Begins is good but not the greatest superhero origin story committed to film. Inception is not very difficult to follow; try putting down your phone. Tom Hardy and his voice were the best part of The Dark Knight Rises, just as integral as Heath Ledger was to The Dark Knight. Memento is the best concept movie of at least the past 20 years. Agree. Ehhhh, maybe Captain America had a better origin story. I honestly can't think of many origin stories that were better comic book wise. Black Panther might end up the best first movie in a comic book series, but considering he was already introduced in Civil War it wasn't really an origin story. Inception isn't hard to follow, it just isn't that good. No. No.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 30, 2018 18:40:03 GMT -5
Memento is the best concept movie of at least the past 20 years. Memento is Sliding Doors for dudebros.
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Post by ganews on Dec 31, 2018 8:18:13 GMT -5
Memento is the best concept movie of at least the past 20 years. Memento is Sliding Doors for dudebros. I've never seen Sliding Doors, but this makes me think I should. Is there a romantic comedy version of Fight Club?
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Post by Ben Grimm on Dec 31, 2018 8:30:48 GMT -5
Memento is Sliding Doors for dudebros. I've never seen Sliding Doors, but this makes me think I should. Is there a romantic comedy version of Fight Club? Besides Fight Club?
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Dec 31, 2018 19:16:46 GMT -5
Memento is Sliding Doors for dudebros. I've never seen Sliding Doors, but this makes me think I should. Is there a romantic comedy version of Fight Club? It's an okay movie that's wholly uninteresting outside of its gimmick which is well-executed but basically just a gimmick, and if we're being real here the only reason anyone cares about it now is that it was a mass-release movie that has non-linear editing obvious enough to be picked up on by undergrads in Cinema 101, and if I'm being honest I think the best thing about the film is the episode of Malcolm in the Middle that spoofed it.
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Post by Prole Hole on Jan 10, 2019 10:12:52 GMT -5
Sorry To Bother You really isn't a very good film. Veep does better political satire, Silicon Valley does better corporate satire, and to be honest The Jeffersons deals with race at about the same level/success rate. A rubber horse cock frankly just isn't good enough.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 10, 2019 16:08:32 GMT -5
Sorry To Bother You really isn't a very good film. Veep does better political satire, Silicon Valley does better corporate satire, and to be honest The Jeffersons deals with race at about the same level/success rate. A rubber horse cock frankly just isn't good enough. Agreed, and the flat archetype of Tessa Thompson's character as a foil to the lead grated on me. The scene of them arguing in bed felt really insincere.
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 31, 2019 1:19:26 GMT -5
The Star Wars prequel trilogy movies are more rewatchable than the sequels.
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