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Momo · « **Reply #30360 on:** May 10, 2018, 10:43:35 AM »

Quote from: Philip Cardgage on May 10, 2018, 10:11:55 AM

So the whole autism rumor pans out.

Oooof.

I forgot I read that, fuck you for making me remember

Assimilate · « **Reply #30361 on:** May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM »

Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM

Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad, but HOW SOMEONE TELL ME HOW OLIVIA MUNN STILL GETS WORK?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30362 on:** May 10, 2018, 03:03:49 PM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM

Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad

I'm gonna have to disagree with you, there.

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30363 on:** May 10, 2018, 03:05:04 PM »

Man, that looks real bad.

Assimilate · « **Reply #30364 on:** May 10, 2018, 03:40:30 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2018, 03:03:49 PM

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM
Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad

I'm gonna have to disagree with you, there.

It doesn't matter. It's a Predator movie. I won't watch it until i can torrent it.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30365 on:** May 10, 2018, 04:44:36 PM »

Lmao they might as well have the kid play with a predator snowglobe

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #30366 on:** May 10, 2018, 04:47:51 PM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on May 10, 2018, 04:44:36 PM

Lmao they might as well have the kid play with a predator snowglobe

"Look daddy, I'm the prederator! Zoom! Woosh! REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30367 on:** May 10, 2018, 04:50:56 PM »

I’ll just say if that opened with the Netflix bump I wouldn’t question it

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30368 on:** May 10, 2018, 05:14:54 PM »

The first third of that trailer could have come from some 80s kid movie.

The other two-thirds could have come from some 00's DTV trash.

Optimus · « **Reply #30369 on:** May 10, 2018, 05:59:07 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2018, 03:03:49 PM

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM
Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad

I'm gonna have to disagree with you, there.

Honestly the trailer doesn't show enough to form an opinion. It gives a few hints that it might be a convoluted mess for an action movie but that could go either way.

Bebpo · « **Reply #30370 on:** May 10, 2018, 06:13:36 PM »

Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM

Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

Yeah, this is me. The Nice Guys was so good. He completely gets how to do comedy.

Maybe The Predator is secretly an awesome comedy.

Assimilate · « **Reply #30371 on:** May 10, 2018, 07:10:46 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on May 10, 2018, 06:13:36 PM

Maybe The Predator is secretly an awesome comedy.

Which would be the best thing it could possibly do

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30372 on:** May 10, 2018, 07:48:43 PM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 07:10:46 PM

Quote from: Bebpo on May 10, 2018, 06:13:36 PM

Maybe The Predator is secretly an awesome comedy.

Which would be the best thing it could possibly do

Nah, the best thing it could do is just not exist.

Assimilate · « **Reply #30373 on:** May 10, 2018, 07:54:03 PM »

Quote from: Great Rumbler on May 10, 2018, 07:48:43 PM

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 07:10:46 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on May 10, 2018, 06:13:36 PM

Maybe The Predator is secretly an awesome comedy.

Which would be the best thing it could possibly do

Nah, the best thing it could do is just not exist.

wait, don't you watch Marvel movies?

Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30374 on:** May 10, 2018, 07:55:23 PM »

Yeah, I've watched some Marvel movies.

TVC15 · « **Reply #30375 on:** May 10, 2018, 11:09:48 PM »

Reading the Gummo screenplay (https://www.amazon.com/dp/0571210023/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apu_i_1Jq9AbWY775XA ) and it is amazing. I can finally read about some of the material in the never-released Diary of Anne Frank part 2. The very first scene in the screenplay is the infamous blackface scene!

Transhuman · « **Reply #30376 on:** May 11, 2018, 01:00:56 AM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM

Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad, but HOW SOMEONE TELL ME HOW OLIVIA MUNN STILL GETS WORK?

She's probably cheap? They're probably trying to keep the film under budget.

Momo · « **Reply #30377 on:** May 11, 2018, 01:28:36 AM »

Harold's still searching for White Castle

Assimilate · « **Reply #30378 on:** May 11, 2018, 08:18:42 AM »

Quote from: Transhuman on May 11, 2018, 01:00:56 AM

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM
Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad, but HOW SOMEONE TELL ME HOW OLIVIA MUNN STILL GETS WORK?

She's probably cheap? They're probably trying to keep the film under budget.

anything with her in it is 'cheap'. the perception she brings to anything she's involved with should automatically disqualify her from being hired. yet, here she is .

chronovore · « **Reply #30379 on:** May 11, 2018, 11:28:39 AM »

Quote from: Assimilate on May 10, 2018, 01:29:15 PM

Quote from: Momo on May 10, 2018, 08:29:41 AM
Guy's responsible for Kiss Kiss Bang Bang and The Nice Guys, I'm willing to give him until the end credits of the movie before I nay say

EDIT: ok the trailer wasn't that bad, but HOW SOMEONE TELL ME HOW OLIVIA MUNN STILL GETS WORK?

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30380 on:** May 11, 2018, 10:17:43 PM »

Watching Altered States for the first time. The initial trip where he and his wife turn to sand and are strip of their features is such a fantastic long take of some level of ego death.

Assimilate · « **Reply #30381 on:** May 11, 2018, 11:33:43 PM »

Game Night- meh, totally goofy with a few laughs but overall a waste.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30382 on:** May 11, 2018, 11:35:46 PM »

I feel like opinions on Game Night have become the new Turing Test

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30383 on:** May 11, 2018, 11:55:14 PM »

I wasn't feeling the literal regression in Altered States but that ending absolutely redeemed it. A statement on being incomplete beings.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #30384 on:** May 12, 2018, 12:03:17 AM »

Game Night is great in the Harold and Kumar sense. It looks like a cash grab, but there's actually some surprisingly fun shit in it. Doesn't stop it from being as forgettable as basically every comedy for the last three decades, though.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30385 on:** May 12, 2018, 12:11:27 AM »

From my viewing I felt it was pretty dense, as far as laugh per minutes. It is pretty Harold and Kumar'ish but it worked without the particular age group gross out stoner angle for me. As a comedy a couple of bits have stuck with me, like the bullet retieval, the computer room scene, and the finale scenes. I felt it was evolutionary in the genre.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #30386 on:** May 12, 2018, 12:20:33 AM »

I thought it was good but 'evolutionary' seems like high praise. it's a strong dark comedy but I don't see it turning the dial too much a la The Hangover

Assimilate · « **Reply #30387 on:** May 12, 2018, 09:43:13 AM »

Quote from: BlueTsunami on May 12, 2018, 12:11:27 AM

From my viewing I felt it was pretty dense, as far as laugh per minutes. It is pretty Harold and Kumar'ish but it worked without the particular age group gross out stoner angle for me. As a comedy a couple of bits have stuck with me, like the bullet retieval, the computer room scene, and the finale scenes. I felt it was evolutionary in the genre.

Rachel McAdams was the wrong choice for this. And Bateman... his acting ways isn't novel or funny to me anymore since he plays the same person in every single thing he's in.

I've never been a fan of comedies that try to stuff as many gags and jokes per min as possible. It creates fatigue. I've already forgotten anything that made me laugh from the movie.

chronovore · « **Reply #30388 on:** May 13, 2018, 05:11:52 AM »

Quote from: Shostakovich on May 13, 2018, 12:15:51 AM

I didn't see Red Dragon but Manhunter is surprisingly good.

Yup. Michael Mann visuals, better music choices, and interesting take on Lecter by… was it Brian Cox? Tom Noonan was the killer, IIRC. Good stuff.

Transhuman · « **Reply #30389 on:** May 13, 2018, 06:56:57 AM »

Yeah i'd go so far as to say that Manhunter and the first 2 seasons of the Hannibal tv show are the only Thomas Harris properties worth watching.

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30390 on:** May 13, 2018, 08:19:11 AM »

did hannibal ever eat dicks or pussies?

kingv · « **Reply #30391 on:** May 13, 2018, 10:23:57 AM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on May 13, 2018, 08:19:11 AM

did hannibal ever eat dicks or pussies?

I ate pussy before. Overrated.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #30392 on:** May 13, 2018, 12:09:19 PM »

DJ Khaled's alt revealed

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #30393 on:** May 13, 2018, 12:10:06 PM »

Stro, you gonna go the full nine and do Hannibal Rising? Ever seen it before?

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #30394 on:** May 13, 2018, 01:14:09 PM »

Watched Game Night.

I liked it. Struck me as fun date night kinda comedy. Not an all time comedy high or anything but there was enough in there to make me laugh a number of times. Not a lot more to say.

seagrams hotsauce · « **Reply #30395 on:** May 13, 2018, 01:49:51 PM »

Quote from: Stro on May 13, 2018, 01:14:04 PM

Quote from: seagrams hotsauce on May 13, 2018, 12:10:06 PM
Stro, you gonna go the full nine and do Hannibal Rising? Ever seen it before?

Idk, probably not. I've never seen it and it sounds awful. I'll probably check out Manhunter again as I don't think I've seen it since it was on TV around the time Red Dragon came out in theaters. Then, in a few months, maybe I'll get around to the show.

It really is terrible. Harris only wrote the book because there was a contractually obligated prequel film and he was worried they'd do it without him. It might be worth watching before the show if only to see how much better the show handles the material. The show itself gets kinda goofy by the end, but it's stylized in a way that's very enjoyable.

Mr Gilhaney · « **Reply #30396 on:** May 13, 2018, 02:08:39 PM »

I started watching the black panther, but it was a bit shit. So went and watched a real quality movie instead, yes you guessed it, the sequel to the Saw movies called Jigsaw.

(it wasn't very good)

team filler · « **Reply #30397 on:** May 14, 2018, 01:32:36 AM »

game night? more like lame night

or maybe gaym night

watched jeff who lives at home right after, much better comedy

Stoney Mason · « **Reply #30398 on:** May 14, 2018, 02:36:19 AM »

Watched Black Panther.

Overall I liked it. I really liked it

spoiler (click to show/hide)

(right up to the point where Killmonger takes over as King)

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After that it sort of devolves unfortunately into a cg action fest which I hate in all these Marvel movies. The physicality and traditional action scenes are replaced by computer animated weightless action schlock. Every super-hero movie I've seen in recent years does this. Thor Ragnorak, Wonderman, etc. Everytime this happens I'm reminded of how much I prefer to watch super hero action in animation rather than live action. Funny enough I enjoyed the action scenes without Black Panther the most like when the ladies fought. Because they were less inclined to CG it up and instead rely on choreography.

Basically I liked the parts of the movie that showed Wakanda and built out the backstory of that place and the sort of the internal conflicts of the characters. I didn't like the parts where it was like every super hero movie where a guy puts on a suit and beats up a bad guy in the action overload part of the movie.

I liked it less than Logan. About the same as Wonderwomen. More than Thor Ragnorak.

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30399 on:** May 14, 2018, 01:44:21 PM »

chronovore · « **Reply #30400 on:** May 14, 2018, 06:25:16 PM »

Yeah… that doesn't look like a movie I'll need to see.

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #30401 on:** May 14, 2018, 06:58:09 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 14, 2018, 06:25:16 PM

Yeah… that doesn't look like a movie I'll need to see.

Me neither, I don't want to see Uma Thurman that old :'(

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30402 on:** May 14, 2018, 07:45:51 PM »

lars the god

antichrist > the entire mcu

dogville > star wars

melancholia > taco bell

BlueTsunami · « **Reply #30403 on:** May 14, 2018, 08:15:42 PM »

Quote from: chronovore on May 14, 2018, 06:25:16 PM

Yeah… that doesn't look like a movie I'll need to see.

https://twitter.com/RaminSetoodeh/status/996148511988039681

Dude has gone full sadism

Transhuman · « **Reply #30404 on:** May 14, 2018, 09:17:48 PM »

https://twitter.com/RaminSetoodeh/status/996148511988039681
"I CAME TO CANNES TO WATCH MARVEL MOVIES EARLY NOT THIS ARTY SHIT"

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30405 on:** May 14, 2018, 09:27:07 PM »

Quote from: Exodust on May 14, 2018, 09:25:19 PM

Lars Von Trier is the MCU for TVC people. They're not very good(aside from maybe Anti-Christ and the first part of Nymphomaniac) and you could do much better when it comes Avant-garde sadism.

who is the dceu of avant-sadism?

Transhuman · « **Reply #30406 on:** May 14, 2018, 09:28:00 PM »

Sadism

Masochism

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30407 on:** May 14, 2018, 09:30:09 PM »

tru, a serbian film is fuckin awful. the boondock saints of transgressive cinema. not as bad as those artless centipede movies.

Quote from: Transhuman on May 14, 2018, 09:28:00 PM

Sadism

Masochism

sadistic onanism

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #30408 on:** May 14, 2018, 10:00:50 PM »

Onastic sadism

Transhuman · « **Reply #30409 on:** May 14, 2018, 10:27:29 PM »

Is there any good transgressive cinema that doesn't involve gore or weird sex shit?

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30410 on:** May 14, 2018, 11:06:52 PM »

Quote from: Transhuman on May 14, 2018, 10:27:29 PM

Is there any good transgressive cinema that doesn't involve gore or weird sex shit?

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1520498/

Momo · « **Reply #30411 on:** May 14, 2018, 11:14:32 PM »

Quote from: Transhuman on May 14, 2018, 10:27:29 PM

Is there any good transgressive cinema that doesn't involve gore or weird sex shit?

It's got sexual themes but it's not about sex.

TEEEPO · « **Reply #30412 on:** May 15, 2018, 01:29:49 AM »

Quote

I’ve never seen anything like this at a film festival. More than 100 people have walked out of Lars von Trier’s ‘The House That Jack Built,’ which depicts the mutilation of women and children. “It’s disgusting,” one woman said on her way out. #Cannes2018

my dick is so hard for this film

Momo · « **Reply #30413 on:** May 15, 2018, 02:10:09 AM »

Bore Movie Night - Asian Hard Target

chronovore · « **Reply #30414 on:** May 15, 2018, 11:00:19 AM »

nudemacusers · « **Reply #30415 on:** May 15, 2018, 11:41:40 AM »

No director named?!?

Joe Molotov · « **Reply #30416 on:** May 15, 2018, 11:50:36 AM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on May 15, 2018, 11:41:40 AM

No director named?!?

Directed by Christopher Plummer

spoiler (click to show/hide)

I like the idea of Christopher Plummer being the Alan Smithee for #MeToo'd actors and directors.

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Great Rumbler · « **Reply #30417 on:** May 15, 2018, 11:52:39 AM »

Quote from: nudemacusers on May 15, 2018, 11:41:40 AM

No director named?!?

Bryan Singer directed most of it, but got kicked out near the end of filming. It was finished up by Dexter Fletcher. The Director's Guild says only one director can be named, so apparently they haven't decided whose name to stick on it yet.

Straight Edge · « **Reply #30418 on:** May 15, 2018, 01:42:44 PM »

Just saw Revenge, a rape revenge exploitation film a la I Spit on Your Grave and made by a woman. It's highly entertaining and has some good gore.

etiolate · « **Reply #30419 on:** May 15, 2018, 03:04:23 PM »

One part of the Black Panther action scene problem that irks me is that final fight that people complain about that is NOT the bad CGI.

They set up this: BP and Killmonger are fighting on a train track with a train periodically running through that interrupts the fight. Okay, so how is that supposed to be done? Brutal fierce fights that are brief with interruptions of the train where you get the sense of tension as the two fighters wait.

But what you get instead is a cut up version of that spliced between two other action scenes and all the tension and atmosphere is lost. So even if the CGI was better, it'd still play poorly because the fight needed all the focus and instead the focus was all over the place, which just deemphasized any narrative or meaning behind the protagonist/antagonist conflict.

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