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Post by firstbasemanwho on Jul 10, 2016 18:05:05 GMT -5
Wet Hot American Summer has some amusing moments, but it's far from a classic.
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Post by ganews on Jul 13, 2016 11:35:06 GMT -5
The Avengers (1998) isn't great, sure, but standing alone it's not that bad of a movie. Certainly there are plenty of worse examples of its genre, like Kingsman (2014).
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 13, 2016 13:12:48 GMT -5
Orbital’s version of the theme song is nice.
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Post by Ron Howard Voice on Jul 13, 2016 13:45:10 GMT -5
Wet Hot American Summer has some amusing moments, but it's far from a classic. I've never seen WHAS, and am afraid to, because the last time AVC commenters told me to watch a comedy, it was MacGruber, which made me laugh exactly three times. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 13, 2016 19:14:41 GMT -5
Wet Hot American Summer has some amusing moments, but it's far from a classic. I've never seen WHAS, and am afraid to, because the last time AVC commenters told me to watch a comedy, it was MacGruber, which made me laugh exactly three times. macgruber is a SNL based movie, higher probability it sucks than the commenters being right. |
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Post by firstbasemanwho on Jul 14, 2016 5:27:25 GMT -5
Wet Hot American Summer has some amusing moments, but it's far from a classic. I've never seen WHAS, and am afraid to, because the last time AVC commenters told me to watch a comedy, it was MacGruber, which made me laugh exactly three times. See, I kinda liked MacGruber, because it let Will Forte go all out on the silliness. All this proves is that comedy is very subjective. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 14, 2016 11:31:22 GMT -5
Wet Hot American Summer has some amusing moments, but it's far from a classic. I've never seen WHAS, and am afraid to, because the last time AVC commenters told me to watch a comedy, it was MacGruber, which made me laugh exactly three times. The same scenario for me and Walk Hard. Laughed at "cut in half real bad" and Jack White and that's it. |
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Post by ganews on Jul 15, 2016 8:58:29 GMT -5
Of the five I have seen, School of Rock is Linklater's best movie.
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Post by ganews on Jul 19, 2016 22:48:23 GMT -5
Black Mass certainly isn't better than The Departed, but it does have the advantage of not being wildly over-rated. Of course, it has the disadvantage of having Punched-in Matt Damon (Jesse Plemons) instead of the real deal.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 20, 2016 1:04:51 GMT -5
I...might like the new Ghostbusters better than the original. And I LOVED the original...so much so I saw it twice in the theater and got the soundtrack cassette for Christmas!
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Post by songstarliner on Jul 20, 2016 16:03:06 GMT -5
Black Mass certainly isn't better than The Departed, but it does have the advantage of not being wildly over-rated. Of course, it has the disadvantage of having Punched-in Matt Damon (Jesse Plemons) instead of the real deal. Jesse Plemons is wonderful and your opinion of him is wrong. |
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Post by ganews on Jul 20, 2016 17:03:52 GMT -5
Black Mass certainly isn't better than The Departed, but it does have the advantage of not being wildly over-rated. Of course, it has the disadvantage of having Punched-in Matt Damon (Jesse Plemons) instead of the real deal. Jesse Plemons is wonderful and your opinion of him is wrong. I still haven't forgiven Todd. It's all the actor's fault! |
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Post by ganews on Jul 21, 2016 22:00:04 GMT -5
I think "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is fine, better even than all the TNG movies other than First Contact.
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Post by Ben Grimm on Jul 22, 2016 7:47:30 GMT -5
I think "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is fine, better even than all the TNG movies other than First Contact. I'd have to see it again, but I probably would at least agree with the second part of that statement. STV has a few very good scenes, and, for all its flaws, still has the original cast, and they're just that much fun to hang out with. It also "gets" Star Trek in a way that most of the TNG films didn't seem to. |
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Post by Jean-Luc Lemur on Jul 22, 2016 9:19:35 GMT -5
I think it’s close between the misplaced ambition of Generations and the intertaining incompetence of V, but V does have “What does God need with a starship?” That scene, if nothing else, is amazing.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 22, 2016 18:09:04 GMT -5
I think "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is fine, better even than all the TNG movies other than First Contact. I had to read this twice because I was about to flip, thinking you said it was better than first contact |
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Post by Jimmy James on Jul 29, 2016 16:03:02 GMT -5
I think "Star Trek V: The Final Frontier" is fine, better even than all the TNG movies other than First Contact. I may not have been in the best place to judge it objectively the last time I watched it, which was the Friday that the news of Leonard Nimoy's death broke. I had long maintained that for all its faults, at least it knew how to use the 'big three' of Kirk, Spock, and McCoy right. That night I wasn't so sure. In spite of the good moments Nimoy gets, around the campfire, rescuing Kirk at the climax, it's just so completely in love with Kirk and the mythology of Kirk. It's a fascinating glimpse into Shatner's ego, Jean-Luc's description of entertaining incompetence may be near the mark- like Shatner sings shouts in "Common People", I'm amazed that it exists. But I would still take Generations over it any day of the week. Favorite moment is not "What does God need with a starship?", but earlier in the film when Kirk is offscreen. Sybok tells a man on Nimbus III, "I can't believe you'd kill me for a field of empty holes." The man replies, "It's all I have." One AV Clubber praised the exchange as "Some Sam Beckett level shit", and that description has stuck in my mind years since. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 16:16:22 GMT -5
Yeah, the "What does God need with a starship?" line is one of the best in all of the TOS movies. It's disappointing that they never really figure out WHAT the damn god IS, or why/how Sybok was led to it in the first place.
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Post by Superb Owl 🦉 on Jul 29, 2016 16:44:03 GMT -5
I LOVED Star Trek V as a kid, but I really haven't revisited it as an adult. Really the only one of the pre-reboot Trek movies I've revisited at all has been Wrath of Khan. But we're getting into "Hey Owl Jr., do you want to watch this cool space show with dad?" ages, so that might change.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 29, 2016 18:01:08 GMT -5
Escape From New York isn't as good as people remember it being. Good characters, cool setting, but mostly a void where a plot should be. Also, I have never understood the appeal of Big Trouble In Little China.
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Post by ganews on Jul 29, 2016 19:07:55 GMT -5
Star Trek Generations was not awful, though it's not a great thing that the best part is the crew hazing Worf on the holodeck. It was not a terrible way for Kirk to die; for him to have been sucked into space as thought in the prologue would have been worse. Hell, he gets to save an Enterprise twice.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 4, 2016 8:26:57 GMT -5
Raiders of the Lost Ark is boring. Last Crusade is by far the best Indiana Jones movie, and so far it's the only one worth watching.
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Post by MarkInTexas on Aug 4, 2016 11:01:38 GMT -5
Raiders of the Lost Ark is boring. Last Crusade is by far the best Indiana Jones movie, and so far it's the only one worth watching. Raiders is awesome, but the melting Nazis, which terrified 6-year-old me so much I refused to watch the film again until college, look really, really fake. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Aug 4, 2016 11:19:35 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex.
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Post by LazBro on Aug 4, 2016 12:22:39 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. I like it, too. Regarding your comment, in the original version of the film the princess explicitly offers anal sex in exchange for saving the world. You can find the scene on YouTube, and it helps explain a really awkward cut in that scene when the princess and Eggsy first meet. It's a lame gag, but I'm not sure removing it makes the movie any better or worse. The problems with the scene exist outside of that detail. I'm worried about the sequel. If there's one defining element of Kingsman, it's spectacle, and so if there's one thing a Kingsman sequel will aim to do, it's up the spectacle. But I can't imagine upping this level of spectacle without going completely off the rails. Especially when many of the film's detractors feel that's what this one already did, and more than once. Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit. |
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Post by LazBro on Aug 4, 2016 12:26:00 GMT -5
Raiders of the Lost Ark is boring. Last Crusade is by far the best Indiana Jones movie, and so far it's the only one worth watching. Raiders is awesome, but the melting Nazis, which terrified 6-year-old me so much I refused to watch the film again until college, look really, really fake. I know I saw it as a kid, but I don't remember how I felt about it then. Seeing it again as an adult I found the pacing so sluggish and the action mediocre. Crusade is the fast, funny, red-blooded adventure flick I want this series to be. Also it has the Hitler scene. The Hitler scene is amazing. |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 4, 2016 12:40:25 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. I like it, too. Regarding your comment, in the original version of the film the princess explicitly offers anal sex in exchange for saving the world. You can find the scene on YouTube, and it helps explain a really awkward cut in that scene when the princess and Eggsy first meet. It's a lame gag, but I'm not sure removing it makes the movie any better or worse. The problems with the scene exist outside of that detail. I'm worried about the sequel. If there's one defining element of Kingsman, it's spectacle, and so if there's one thing a Kingsman sequel will aim to do, it's up the spectacle. But I can't imagine upping this level of spectacle without going completely off the rails. Especially when many of the film's detractors feel that's what this one already did, and more than once. Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit. Huh, I rented this movie from Redbox I'm pretty sure, and the anal sex reference was right there. Is this a "Director's Cut" version or something? |
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Post by LazBro on Aug 4, 2016 12:46:48 GMT -5
I like it, too. Regarding your comment, in the original version of the film the princess explicitly offers anal sex in exchange for saving the world. You can find the scene on YouTube, and it helps explain a really awkward cut in that scene when the princess and Eggsy first meet. It's a lame gag, but I'm not sure removing it makes the movie any better or worse. The problems with the scene exist outside of that detail. I'm worried about the sequel. If there's one defining element of Kingsman, it's spectacle, and so if there's one thing a Kingsman sequel will aim to do, it's up the spectacle. But I can't imagine upping this level of spectacle without going completely off the rails. Especially when many of the film's detractors feel that's what this one already did, and more than once. Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit. Huh, I rented this movie from Redbox I'm pretty sure, and the anal sex reference was right there. Is this a "Director's Cut" version or something? Hmmm, not sure. Every version I've ever seen has had the scene, so maybe it was the censored version that I saw on YouTube. I think it was a regional version, though I'm not sure which region got which version. There's a US, a UK and an Indian version of the movie. There are differences in the church scene as well. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Aug 4, 2016 13:30:00 GMT -5
Seen Kingsman for the third time this weekend. Still love it. And I still can't fathom how "If you free me I'll give you more than just a kiss." translates necessarily to anal sex. I like it, too. Regarding your comment, in the original version of the film the princess explicitly offers anal sex in exchange for saving the world. You can find the scene on YouTube, and it helps explain a really awkward cut in that scene when the princess and Eggsy first meet. It's a lame gag, but I'm not sure removing it makes the movie any better or worse. The problems with the scene exist outside of that detail. I'm worried about the sequel. If there's one defining element of Kingsman, it's spectacle, and so if there's one thing a Kingsman sequel will aim to do, it's up the spectacle. But I can't imagine upping this level of spectacle without going completely off the rails. Especially when many of the film's detractors feel that's what this one already did, and more than once. Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit. Ha, so all my confusion comes from seeing a different cut! I had no idea when I ... received my copy through totally legal means. Other than that I see no problem one way or the other, I'd totally offer anal sex to anyone who got me out of that cell. |
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Post by Tellyfier on Aug 4, 2016 13:35:59 GMT -5
Also, they killed the best character, so that's another deficit.
It's a movie, maybe Colin Firth got better.
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