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El Floppo said:
Andy Dufresne said:
17seconds said:
Andy Dufresne said:
Team America: World Police - 2/10

I did guffaw in a couple spots.

But in general, just...no.
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At least 7/10 just for I'm So Ronery
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One point is for the process and result of disguising Gary.The other point is for the fight between F.A.G. and Team America in the palace.
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one of the best comedies of the 21st century. no schtick.
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I wonder if this one has to do with when you saw it. I saw it for the first time recently too and thought it sucked as well. Like half the jokes had been recycled in South Park so I'd already heard them. The montage song was literally word for word out of South Park.

 
Jurassic World:

This movie confused me a tad. On one hand, I did enjoy a bit of it and thought some of the scenes looked really good. Also, BDH = :wub: . On the other hand, the training Rapters thing and other parts of the "plot" were as stupid as I expected (to a point where it doesn't become enjoyable for me), and some of the scenes looked liked dog #### (mostly when humans were running away from dinos battling each other.) I guess in my rating system it is a 4/10 - I thought it was below average overall, but would still tell others I think would dig it to check it out.

Dope:

Not quite as good as I was hearing, but still a damn fun ride. I think a lot of people in here would like it. 6.5/10

Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 -

I think these have gotten worse as each movie goes on. I liked 1 quite a bit, still enjoyed 2 although it was basically a retread of the 1st, and thought this was OK. Suffers from what happened to the HP movies that got cut in 1/2 - there really isn't that much material for 4.5 hours of movie, so they drag a bit. 5/10

 
Jurassic was fun in the theaters--just absolutely rocked the house tonight on my home setup. I like the movie a lot, but just not a flick you want to start saying well what about....but agreed just can't get enough of Howard's assets. 8-10

Watched The Loft on Netflix.....wife liked it because there is a ton of eye candy for her. But the pool scene with the girl from Transformers when she goes buck naked---literally my wife and I both went WOAH!! That beautiful, nubile blond had a butt that was so out of place with the rest of her. Cue Sir Mix A lot. You have to see it to believe it. The rest of the movie was good, but the ending was so bad. We had to stop and start this movie over a couple days and we couldn't understand why it got such brutal reviews, but when you get to the ending, you will understand. 4-10 because my wife was very interested.

 
Captain America: Winter Soldier 4/5

Others have covered it earlier, but it's pretty darn good. Definitely up there with the Marvel movies.

 
Courtjester said:
Jurassic was fun in the theaters--just absolutely rocked the house tonight on my home setup. I like the movie a lot, but just not a flick you want to start saying well what about....but agreed just can't get enough of Howard's assets. 8-10

Watched The Loft on Netflix.....wife liked it because there is a ton of eye candy for her. But the pool scene with the girl from Transformers when she goes buck naked---literally my wife and I both went WOAH!! That beautiful, nubile blond had a butt that was so out of place with the rest of her. Cue Sir Mix A lot. You have to see it to believe it. The rest of the movie was good, but the ending was so bad. We had to stop and start this movie over a couple days and we couldn't understand why it got such brutal reviews, but when you get to the ending, you will understand. 4-10 because my wife was very interested.
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Dog crap both in theaters and at home.

 
Was reading about David Foster Wallace and ran across this about Requiem for a Dream. Never read the book but didn't get the Christian message watching the movie though.

Yet there’s another, seedier literary tradition that Infinite Jest can lay claim to – the Great Protestant Addiction Novel, a gloomy genre developed by Hubert Selby Jr. Selby’s strategy was pretty similar to what Insane Clown Posse (ICP) did in the 90s – taking an Evangelical message and dressing it up with enough Korn dreadlocks and John Wayne Gacy makeup to slip it past the kids, hoping they wouldn’t notice how strangely pro-family and anti-drug those albums by “Psychopathic Records” were. In other words: pure stealth Christianity.

And nothing in modern US literature comes closer to ICP than Selby’s Requiem for a Dream, a sadistic 280-page Chick tract disguised as an avant-garde heroin novel. In his ‘99 preface, Selby attacks what he calls “the Great American Dream,” the evil, illusory pursuit of pleasure and possessions that “ultimately… destroys everything and everyone involved with it.” This is the novel’s Puritan core – all ‘worldly’ pleasures are false and drugs always lead to the worst fate imaginable. Requiem has an Evangelical stink right from the schmaltzy dedication page: “This book is dedicated, with love, to Bobby, who has found the only pound of pure – Faith in a Loving God.”

Selby also plucks an epigraph from the book of Psalms (“Except the LORD build the house, they labor in vain that build it…”) just to drive home the (Calvinist) point that human beings can’t do anything for themselves without a Higher Power. He illustrates this by shifting the narrative between four characters: a junkie named Harry, his token black friend Tyrone, his Jewish mother Sara, and his model girlfriend Marion. I guess this is meant to show that addiction is a universal condition, affecting all the Unsaved: young and old, male and female, Jew and gentile, black and white. (Except it’s not true – few things are more relevant to the consequences of drug use than money and skin colour; sometimes they’re more relevant than the drug itself.)

While Harry and Friends are feeding their smack addictions, the mother starts amphetamines to drop a few kilos, convinced she’ll soon appear on a game show. Within three months, she loses her mind, undergoes ECT (an extremely unlikely treatment for speed psychosis, even in the 70s) and spends the end of the book as a drooling vegetable. Meanwhile, Harry’s girlfriend Marion suffers a fate worse than death. (Having to work for a living, basically.) As for Harry himself, he loses an arm. Darren Aronofsky, who directed the film version, calls this “a very traditional heroin story.” No, Darren, it’s a ####### depressing heroin story! What kind of sick #### would write a novel about a one-armed junkie? An Evangelical, that’s who.
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I thought the Christian thing was a misunderstanding of DFW, he always mentions going to church or knowing someone from church, but the writer of the movie mistakenly took it literally. Every time DFW mentioned church he was using a codephrase for AA.
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AA is a church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/22/us/alcoholics-anonymous-without-the-religion.html?_r=0

Seven of A.A.’s famous 12 steps refer either to a deity — “God,” “Him” or “a Power greater than ourselves” — or to religious practices such as prayer. The ultimate goal of sobriety, as the final step states, is to achieve a “spiritual awakening.” Besides the Lord’s Prayer, the Serenity Prayer is a staple of A.A. meetings.
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El Floppo said:
jdoggydogg said:
So The ******* Executioner is ####ing horrible.
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theres a thread... after a couple of episodes' worth of posts, I've been tempted to take a peek to see just how horrible.
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The first awkward thing you'll notice is how cheap it looks compared to Game of Thrones. To its credit, the acting and writing are pretty decent. But all you need to do to laugh out loud is listen to Katy Sagal doing a gypsy accent for five seconds and the show is instantly terrible. That, and there's a scene so revoltingly violent that I wanted to throw my television in the garbage when it was finished.

 
I rented the re-make of Poltergeist from Redbox for tonight. I know it won't live up to the original, but I hope it's at least somewhat entertaining. It got decent reviews. Its rated PG-13. Anyone see it? Decent? Suitable for a 10 year old girl?

 
Our Halloween double feature for tomorrow night will be What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ( neither of us have seen it) and It Follows.

 
Copeman said:
I rented the re-make of Poltergeist from Redbox for tonight. I know it won't live up to the original, but I hope it's at least somewhat entertaining. It got decent reviews. Its rated PG-13. Anyone see it? Decent? Suitable for a 10 year old girl?
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Hate to be that guy but you asked...The movie sucks. I didn't care one wit for any of the characters or their predicaments. Thought the movie was paint by numbers and annoying more than scary or tense. As for it being okay for a ten year old, eh, it has some language and some imagery that might make someone that young wince but I found it less scary than the original.

 
dutch said:
Copeman said:
I rented the re-make of Poltergeist from Redbox for tonight. I know it won't live up to the original, but I hope it's at least somewhat entertaining. It got decent reviews. Its rated PG-13. Anyone see it? Decent? Suitable for a 10 year old girl?
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Hate to be that guy but you asked...The movie sucks. I didn't care one wit for any of the characters or their predicaments. Thought the movie was paint by numbers and annoying more than scary or tense. As for it being okay for a ten year old, eh, it has some language and some imagery that might make someone that young wince but I found it less scary than the original.
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Hmm, it got pretty decent reviews on IMBD.

I know it won't be as good as the original, no re-make ever is. They basically are to update some things (sfx) and pay homage to the movie. Heard the little girl was exceptional. Ah well, for the cost of a cup of coffee, I guess I can sludge through it. With the girls never seeing the original, they won't be able to compare the two anyways...

 
BroncoFreak_2K3 said:
jamny said:
Binky The Doormat said:
jamny said:
Our Halloween double feature for tomorrow night will be What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ( neither of us have seen it) and It Follows.
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But you AH in a wheelchair!!
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I have no idea what the #### that means.
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Bette Davis, in one of her finest performances, deliciously abusing Joan Crawford.
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It was everything I could have hoped for and more. Can't believe I never saw it before. I'm looking forward to reading about the history of the movie. I'd love to read some reviews from when it came out. People must have freaked on Bette Davis' performance. And King Tut was awesome in it!

So it turns out that this didn't have a scene I thought was in it. Which movie has Bette Davis ( or maybe it was someone else) walking down this big circular staircase and it was a big dramatic scene that might have been all in her mind?

 
Children of Men

I'm not sure I can explain exactly what I saw but I understood the message and the film was breathtaking. Highly thought provoking and well acted. I'm a bit stunned right now.

 
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Mission Impossible 2

Recently mentioned I finally realized I don't like superhero movies. Well, I also realized MI is my favorite action series. I always loved the first one, and really liked #4 and #5. Never saw #2, and I think I've only seen a little of #3. So I've decided to watch 2 though 5 (I've seen the first one so many times don't need to rewatch).

Good god is John Woo bad. He turned this into a completely generic action movie. Felt nothing like a MI movie and wow is it ever full of action cliches. The story, dialog, and action shots are all laughable. Has to be the most overrated director. Maybe he's not overrated anymore after making so much crap. I could hardly get through it.

{slow-motion-jumping-while-firing-two-guns}

1.5 / 5

 
17seconds said:
Mission Impossible 2

Recently mentioned I finally realized I don't like superhero movies. Well, I also realized MI is my favorite action series. I always loved the first one, and really liked #4 and #5. Never saw #2, and I think I've only seen a little of #3. So I've decided to watch 2 though 5 (I've seen the first one so many times don't need to rewatch).

Good god is John Woo bad. He turned this into a completely generic action movie. Felt nothing like a MI movie and wow is it ever full of action cliches. The story, dialog, and action shots are all laughable. Has to be the most overrated director. Maybe he's not overrated anymore after making so much crap. I could hardly get through it.

{slow-motion-jumping-while-firing-two-guns}

1.5 / 5
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What do you have against doves?

 
What the ####???

A Gladiator sequel script had Maximus reincarnated by the Roman gods and returned to Rome to defend Christians against persecution; then transported to other periods including WWII, the Vietnam War, and finally being a general in the Pentagon. It was rejected for being too far-fetched.
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Southpaw

Thought it was really good. One of the better movies I've seen in a few years. Acting is top notch. Boxing scenes were well choreographed. Decent to good story line.

4/5

 
Fantastic Four (the new one) - What the hell happened there? Thought it was going well enough then it's like the director said "Hey we forgot about Dr. Doom, quick bring him back, let's say he's...I don't know telekenitic and stuff and uhm...let's have him try to destroy the world because he actually never tries that in the comics and uhm...let's have him beat the FF individually because that's obligatory and er...let's have them unite and beat him...again obligatory. AND LET'S DO ALL OF THAT IN FOUR MINUTES AND THIRTY SECONDS. The End"

It's a shame because, like I said, it started off well enough for an origin story.

 
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