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Post by Dr. Rumak on May 19, 2019 16:55:41 GMT -5
Despite Jessep's confession that he ordered the Code Red, the defendants in A Few Good Men were still guilty of manslaughter, and should have been convicted as such.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on May 30, 2019 20:16:27 GMT -5
Well, I'm cranky, so you get a bunch of bitching.*
16 Candles: It literally never occurred to me when I was a teen-ager that Farmer Ted did anything to Jake Ryan's girlfriend. Like, never crossed my mind. Not that Farmer Ted is a great stand-up guy or anything, but narratively, he wasn't set up as that kind of rapey. It was indeed super-creepy for Jake to say "you could violate her ten ways and she'd never know it" (or w/e), but seriously, never thought Farmer Ted did anything untoward (retrospectively, as an adult i think he prob looked down/or up her dress/groped her, which is in its own awful that my brain doesn't find that AS upsetting because "eh who hasn't had that happen and never known about it", but you get my societally-damaged drift)
Breakfast Club**: What kind of idiot child watches that movie and thinks that Bender and Claire "ended up togther"? Sure, they obviously made out in the broom closet, but what does that mean? Absolutely none of those kids (other than Allison) were brave enough to buck the high school hierarchy and "get together" or even say more than "hi" in the hallway after that on Saturday. Perhaps especially Bender, who is really, really caught up in his image as self-protection.
Also even when I first saw it, as a weird teen-aged girl, I didn't have a problem with the make-over scene. Allison was enjoying one of the popular girls being nice to her for a change, and I always thought she knew perfectly well that Claire was never going to be her friend. And Claire had no idea how to relate to Allison, so "hey lemme do your make-up" was all she knew to do. It's a pretty standard girlie thing to offer. I have more of a problem with the whole "oh she has on nice makeup she's hot" reaction from Andrew.
Grease: I've never seen the play,just the movie. And I swear to fucking Christ, if I hear one more Tumblr-ite screech about how Danny clearly assaulted Sandy, I am gonna...do something. "Summer Nights" could not more be more obviously a this-is-how-guys-talk-about-chicks/this-is-how-girls-talk-about-boys song. Sandy flipped her shit when Danny accidentally hit her boob with his elbow;would she have been happy to see him at her new school if he'd been all Roman hands and Russian fingers? I mean, honestly. They literally had a song about her being Sandra Dee, the 60s platonic ideal of Good Girl. If she'd had to fight him off, she would not even be speaking to him. Sure, "did she put up a fight" is pretty rapey, but if you believe one word Danny says to his friends about him and Sandy, you are delusional. He has every reason in the world to lie and make himself seem like a stud, and zero reasons to try and explain how much he actually has feelings for her. So maybe a good example of toxic masculinity, though.
*I admit that some of these opinions may be a generational thing
**I would slap a puppy for a well-written Breakfast Club class reunion movie.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Aug 13, 2019 20:38:01 GMT -5
How's this for an unpopular opinion: I have never minded Shia LaBeouf as an actor. I mean, he may be varying levels of unbearable/douchey as a person, and some of his roles inarguably suck, but he's good at his job, and I don't want to punch him in the face every time I look at him, unlike, say, Bradley Cooper.
He's also just fine in Crystal Skull, even if the movie itself is largely tragic. i don't want him to be The New Indiana Jones, but he's fine in his role.
fuck I can't stand Bradley Cooper's goddamn smug face
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Post by ArchieLeach on Aug 24, 2019 15:58:59 GMT -5
The beginning of Midnight in Paris is better than the beginning of Manhattan.
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Post by Jimmy James on Aug 24, 2019 16:25:53 GMT -5
How's this for an unpopular opinion: I have never minded Shia LaBeouf as an actor. I mean, he may be varying levels of unbearable/douchey as a person, and some of his roles inarguably suck, but he's good at his job, and I don't want to punch him in the face every time I look at him, unlike, say, Bradley Cooper. He's also just fine in Crystal Skull, even if the movie itself is largely tragic. i don't want him to be The New Indiana Jones, but he's fine in his role. fuck I can't stand Bradley Cooper's goddamn smug face Guardians of the Galaxy is the best way to include Bradley Cooper, because he does not show his face. I fully endorse his being replaced with a CGI raccoon in all subsequent roles, and (time and technology permitting) all past ones as well.
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Post by Hachiman on Aug 26, 2019 0:48:19 GMT -5
How's this for an unpopular opinion: I have never minded Shia LaBeouf as an actor. I mean, he may be varying levels of unbearable/douchey as a person, and some of his roles inarguably suck, but he's good at his job, and I don't want to punch him in the face every time I look at him, unlike, say, Bradley Cooper. He's also just fine in Crystal Skull, even if the movie itself is largely tragic. i don't want him to be The New Indiana Jones, but he's fine in his role. fuck I can't stand Bradley Cooper's goddamn smug face Guardians of the Galaxy is the best way to include Bradley Cooper, because he does not show his face. I fully endorse his being replaced with a CGI raccoon in all subsequent roles, and (time and technology permitting) all past ones as well. Shia's fine. I recognize that some of these may fall under popular opinions but here are my most punchable faces in Hollywood: Bradley Cooper Miles Teller Patrick Wilson Emile Hirsch Blandness and Smugness aren't great on their own, but they create a terrible feedback loop when they exist together.
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Post by ganews on Sept 5, 2019 21:22:33 GMT -5
I'm not saying Hot Shots: Part Deux is a better movie than Airplane! necessarily, but it's more of my age and if I had to choose I'd rather watch it.
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Post by LazBro on Sept 6, 2019 7:27:01 GMT -5
I'm not saying Hot Shots: Part Deux is a better movie than Airplane! necessarily, but it's more of my age and if I had to choose I'd rather watch it. The scene where Hopper is trying to get the keys and keeps making all that noise, capped off by the fact that the prisoner could just slip through the bars anyway, always gets to me.
Edit: Topper. It's Topper. I know this.
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Post by ganews on Sept 6, 2019 8:18:32 GMT -5
I'm not saying Hot Shots: Part Deux is a better movie than Airplane! necessarily, but it's more of my age and if I had to choose I'd rather watch it. The scene where Hopper is trying to get the keys and keeps making all that noise, capped off by the fact that the prisoner could just slip through the bars anyway, always gets to me. In the same scene, the guard being awakened by a tiny mouse sneeze is the hardest I have ever heard Wifemate laugh during a movie.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 8:44:27 GMT -5
The scene where Hopper is trying to get the keys and keeps making all that noise, capped off by the fact that the prisoner could just slip through the bars anyway, always gets to me. In the same scene, the guard being awakened by a tiny mouse sneeze is the hardest I have ever heard Wifemate laugh during a movie. It's probably the simplest, dumbest sight gag of all time, but I can't get enough of Topper strangling the camp guard by tightening his necktie.
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Post by The Spice Weasel on Sept 6, 2019 12:44:13 GMT -5
I'm not saying Hot Shots: Part Deux is a better movie than Airplane! necessarily, but it's more of my age and if I had to choose I'd rather watch it. "I loved you in Wall Street!" is one of my all time favorite gags.
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Post by Hachiman on Sept 8, 2019 21:15:18 GMT -5
I'm not saying Hot Shots: Part Deux is a better movie than Airplane! necessarily, but it's more of my age and if I had to choose I'd rather watch it. Whenever I go to the candy aisle, I recall the scene with the kickboxing match and chuckle. There's just something so absurd about punching someone with a fist covered in sprinkles and m&ms!
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Post by Ice Cream Planet on Sept 8, 2019 21:35:50 GMT -5
I thought Call Me By Your Name was a fucking trash heap of a film and one of queer cinema's nadirs of this decade. How it got so much Oscar love (especially for that atrocious Sufjan Stevens song) will never not flabbergast me.
It also made me hate Timothee Chalamet so fucking much and now he's in the new Little Women film and goddammit, it's really reduced a lot of my enthusiasm for that picture.
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Post by Angry Raisins on Nov 19, 2019 15:42:34 GMT -5
Given that Cats is an adaptation of a stage musical where people dress up as weird-looking cat-people, the trailer, where people get CGI'd as weird-looking cat people, is fine. Not "fine" as in the film looks any good (it probably won't be), but no, it didn't give you nightmares. And neither did the original Sonic the Hedgehog trailer. "Looks kind of weird" is an acceptable description, you don't have to always jump to "most horrifying thing I've ever seen".
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Post by Crash Test Dumbass on Nov 19, 2019 16:35:19 GMT -5
Given that Cats is an adaptation of a stage musical where people dress up as weird-looking cat-people, the trailer, where people get CGI'd as weird-looking cat people, is fine. Not "fine" as in the film looks any good (it probably won't be), but no, it didn't give you nightmares. And neither did the original Sonic the Hedgehog trailer. "Looks kind of weird" is an acceptable description, you don't have to always jump to "most horrifying thing I've ever seen". Hyperbole is a thing, and let me tell you, exaggerating for comic effect is LITERALLY THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY AND IN AT LEAST FIVE OTHER DIMENSIONS WHERE GRAVITY IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT.
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Post by Pastafarian on Dec 4, 2019 20:25:31 GMT -5
Given that Cats is an adaptation of a stage musical where people dress up as weird-looking cat-people, the trailer, where people get CGI'd as weird-looking cat people, is fine. Not "fine" as in the film looks any good (it probably won't be), but no, it didn't give you nightmares. And neither did the original Sonic the Hedgehog trailer. "Looks kind of weird" is an acceptable description, you don't have to always jump to "most horrifying thing I've ever seen". Hyperbole is a thing, and let me tell you, exaggerating for comic effect is LITERALLY THE WORST THING THAT HAS EVER HAPPENED IN THE HISTORY OF HUMANITY AND IN AT LEAST FIVE OTHER DIMENSIONS WHERE GRAVITY IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT. "Ladies and gentlemen, I've been to Vietnam, Afghanistan, and Iraq, and I can say without hyperbole that this is a million times worse than all of them put together."
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Post by ganews on Dec 22, 2019 15:52:40 GMT -5
I would like for someone to create special editions of every Star Wars movie made after 1978 and update the special effects to look like the original: 1 inch-diameter lightsaber beams, swordfight choreography with the prowess of 70-year-old men, planet explosions that go poof, and freeze-frame automatic doors.
But seriously, the spaceship dogfight material was pretty good, and it's a shame that the lightsabers are what ended up making more cultural impact. I'm pretty sure George Lucas would agree.
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Jan 10, 2020 23:21:16 GMT -5
Solo is pretty much the perfect background movie: it sounds like Star Wars, I can pay attention when Lando is on, and frankly, it’s a goddamn shame they are unlikely to do anything more with Enfys Nest she is my friend and I love her can she have a TV show please. Also Paul Bettany’s scenery-chewing is entertaining.
Also also Emilia Clarke is much more appealing as a normal criminal person rather than a teenager who thinks clenching her jaw & pouting =great leader.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 12:30:23 GMT -5
I've finally figured out what I dislike about the majority of Hitchcock that I've seen: his films too often seem like a lot of technical innovation and precision in the service of simplistic, uninvolving stories.
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Post by ganews on Jan 22, 2020 12:53:37 GMT -5
I recently saw Raging Bull for the first and surely last time. Good for Scorsese for getting there not-late (certainly not first or even early, movies have been centered around violent self-destruction for 100 years) and assembling a lot of great shots, but I'm not interested in watching any more movies about characters like Jake La Motta.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 22, 2020 12:55:36 GMT -5
I recently saw Raging Bull for the first and surely last time. Good for Scorsese for getting there not-late (certainly not first or even early, movies have been centered around violent self-destruction for 100 years) and assembling a lot of great shots, but I'm not interested in watching any more movies about characters like Jake La Motta. Agreed. I like most Scorsese but I always found that one tedious at best.
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 22, 2020 19:13:44 GMT -5
I recently saw Raging Bull for the first and surely last time. Good for Scorsese for getting there not-late (certainly not first or even early, movies have been centered around violent self-destruction for 100 years) and assembling a lot of great shots, but I'm not interested in watching any more movies about characters like Jake La Motta. Agreed. I like most Scorsese but I always found that one tedious at best. It just keeps going. I swear that movie ends like 5 times.
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Jan 23, 2020 17:42:23 GMT -5
OK, so imagine this:
That Diner Guy from Episode II: A Star Wars Story, Part 1 of 3 (2023 C.E., dir. Rian Johnson)
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Post by Hachiman on Jan 23, 2020 20:27:33 GMT -5
They need to make more fun historical or period movies. About once a year I watch the 2002 "Count of Monte Cristo" which stars Jim Caveziel, Guy Pierce, a young Henry Cavill, and Richard Harris in one of his final roles. James Frain and Helen McRory are in it as well. Its got a super stacked cast. I feel like its a forgotten movie at this point, but I still really love it and am continually surprised that they aren't really making movies like this any more. That weird "3 Musketeers" movie and the "Pirates of the Caribbean" films don't count. Nor does that last "Robin Hood." Something without magic, anachronisms, or (anachronistic) explosions.
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Post by Rainbow Rosa on Mar 14, 2020 22:00:30 GMT -5
All the President's Men - what am I missing here? It's a conspiracy thriller where the conspiracy is totally opaque without outside knowledge of how Watergate went down, and where the only "thrill" is a goofy and poorly-lit scene of Robert Redford running thirty feet in a garage. The film slogs from non-answer to non-answer with no sense of momentum, and the cinematography is totally pedestrian other than that one overhead shot in the Library of Congress. This is one of the all-time classics?
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Post by DangOlJimmyITellYouWhat on Mar 20, 2020 23:10:53 GMT -5
The de-aging on Kurt Russell in GotG2 and on Samuel L Jackson in Captain Marvel is not actually bad. It's just weird because we've gotten used to what they look like now. However, the de-aging on Clark Gregg is Uncanny Valley af.
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Post by ganews on Mar 26, 2020 11:33:46 GMT -5
Richard Linklater's best movie is "Bernie", and neither "Boyhood" nor "Dazed and Confused" are in second place.
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Post by Angry Raisins on Apr 18, 2020 8:06:05 GMT -5
The Colin segment (Brit guy goes to America, hot women swarm over him due to accent) is one of the best parts of "Love Actually" (not THE best - that's obviously still Emma Thompson). It's obviously not meant to be taken remotely seriously, and there's something appealing about fully committing to and escalating a single, absurd joke. It wouldn't be any good if they tried to present it as a logical plot, but elements like his landing in Milwaukee and just saying "take me to A BAR" make it work.
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Post by Hachiman on Apr 19, 2020 20:28:41 GMT -5
The Colin segment (Brit guy goes to America, hot women swarm over him due to accent) is one of the best parts of "Love Actually" (not THE best - that's obviously still Emma Thompson). It's obviously not meant to be taken remotely seriously, and there's something appealing about fully committing to and escalating a single, absurd joke. It wouldn't be any good if they tried to present it as a logical plot, but elements like his landing in Milwaukee and just saying "take me to A BAR" make it work. Then he orders a Budweiser, king of beers! It's just so brazen in every step that it's hard not to laugh at it for one reason or another. The American girls disappointingly going "same"in unison upon discovering that "bottle" is pronounced the same in UK or US English is one of those really accurate observations of something that I've seen a happen a ton of times in real life. I'll also add as my own unpopular opinion of Richard Curtis films that I appreciate his intent in trying to make happy and upbeat films even if they are can be equal parts problematic and saccharine.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2020 7:03:29 GMT -5
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