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TVC15

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« Reply #29940 on: April 03, 2018, 03:59:03 PM »
Fuck it. I’m just taking a Xanax and staying inside wearing nothing but my faux leather bondage jock and eating a meatball sub. It’s laundry day anyway. Maybe I’ll do Lost Boys tonight if I’m not still xombed out by then.
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« Reply #29941 on: April 03, 2018, 04:14:02 PM »
Jami Gertz was so hot. Julia Roberts stole her career.




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« Reply #29942 on: April 03, 2018, 04:52:20 PM »
I finally sat down and watched The Force Awakens.

I thought it was pretty solid.  I don't like Finn.  He walked out on Rey and BB-8.  He seems pretty OK with abandoning his friends as a rule, fuck that.

TVC15

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« Reply #29943 on: April 03, 2018, 05:20:27 PM »
Well, it’s a good thing you people were so shitty at convincing me to go see a movie. The post-movie commute home would’ve been hell after the shooting.
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« Reply #29944 on: April 03, 2018, 05:27:05 PM »
Weird that you'd make sure everyone knew you had an alibi

If I snapped and killed, I’d just set the homeless encampment/garbage heap down the block on fire. I wouldn’t go all the way to San Bruno. I’d be considered a hero, too. I’d easily rack up 200 crispy kills of humanity’s most awful.
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« Reply #29945 on: April 03, 2018, 05:47:59 PM »
Well as long as you haven't given it any thought

I’ve given it thought. I figure once The Purge is legal, I’ll just step outside my apartment, get a bow and arrow, light an arrow on fire Rambo-style, and fire it into the tinderbox trash encampment. Then I’ll safely step back into my apartment, inhale the scent of filthy barbecue in the air, and maybe finish watching Jeepers Creepers 3.
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« Reply #29946 on: April 03, 2018, 06:01:05 PM »
Fuck it. I’m just taking a Xanax and staying inside wearing nothing but my faux leather bondage jock and eating a meatball sub. It’s laundry day anyway. Maybe I’ll do Lost Boys tonight if I’m not still xombed out by then.
god im so hard rn
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« Reply #29947 on: April 03, 2018, 06:37:26 PM »
Well as long as you haven't given it any thought

I’ve given it thought. I figure once The Purge is legal, I’ll just step outside my apartment, get a bow and arrow, light an arrow on fire Rambo-style, and fire it into the tinderbox trash encampment. Then I’ll safely step back into my apartment, inhale the scent of filthy barbecue in the air, and maybe finish watching Jeepers Creepers 3.

So yeah, uh, this is not a healthy mindset to have. Please discuss this with your therapist/psychiatrist.
Also homeless people are people, good & bad.

TVC15

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« Reply #29948 on: April 03, 2018, 09:47:33 PM »
Well as long as you haven't given it any thought

I’ve given it thought. I figure once The Purge is legal, I’ll just step outside my apartment, get a bow and arrow, light an arrow on fire Rambo-style, and fire it into the tinderbox trash encampment. Then I’ll safely step back into my apartment, inhale the scent of filthy barbecue in the air, and maybe finish watching Jeepers Creepers 3.

So yeah, uh, this is not a healthy mindset to have. Please discuss this with your therapist/psychiatrist.
Also homeless people are people, good & bad.

I’m joking. I’d never be able to pull off the arrow bit. But no, homeless people are generally not people.

And I don’t see therapists/psychiatrists. In my 20+ years of experience with them, they’re about as useful and accurate as fortune tellers.
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« Reply #29949 on: April 04, 2018, 06:41:37 AM »
Scooby-Doo.
Dumb fun. Mexican wrestlers, cultists, catchphrases, and lots of cheese! Lillard is standout as Shaggy. Linda Cardellini as Velma is drool worthy.

Infini
Too long at 1:45 plus, should’ve been edited down to 70 minutes. Someone didn’t know which movie they wanted to rip off. Alien, Aliens, The Thing, and then they threw in a contagion and time travel/teleportation for kicks. Offensive use of decent production budget, even if it is entirely derivative. Made me angry.

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« Reply #29950 on: April 05, 2018, 01:18:57 AM »

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« Reply #29952 on: April 05, 2018, 07:51:47 AM »
I want to watch this, it seems like the good kind of schlock


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« Reply #29953 on: April 05, 2018, 09:25:57 AM »
I tried to watch OG Night Of The Living Dead yesterday but it was trash and I think I made it half way through before giving up on it. It's so fucking dull. Which is weird, because I like a lot of Universal Horror movies which are even slower and have even less happening in them. Bride Of Frankenstein the GOAT.

Which one, 1968 or 1990?

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« Reply #29954 on: April 05, 2018, 09:31:08 AM »
1968

Maybe that's why, I really liked the 1990 version. Of course I watched it 15+ years ago but I remember it being pretty entertaining.

TVC15

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« Reply #29955 on: April 05, 2018, 10:05:03 AM »
I tried to watch OG Night Of The Living Dead yesterday but it was trash and I think I made it half way through before giving up on it. It's so fucking dull. Which is weird, because I like a lot of Universal Horror movies which are even slower and have even less happening in them. Bride Of Frankenstein the GOAT.

Scandalous, but I’ve always felt the same way. Dig Dawn though.
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« Reply #29956 on: April 05, 2018, 04:07:20 PM »
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« Reply #29957 on: April 05, 2018, 06:15:21 PM »
Indiegame, the mOvie
"It’s full of bugs. from the game start, it’s full of game ending bugs. We make too many changes last night, and now it’s crashing all the time." — Phil Fish, on his own game, Fez, at Pax East

Indiegamedev: The Bad Methodology.  WHO fucking makes major changes the night before a public showing? Especially a critical one, as it’s the game’s first showing in years, after multiple delays?

The SUPER MEAT BOYS come off as sympathetic. Jonathan Blow comes off as smart and well spoken, and judgmental. Fish seems bratty, precocious, and hypocritical. He wants appreciation and consideration from those around him, but fails to afford them the same.

The craft in this documentary is impressive. Camerawork and editing are superb. Sound is tight. Makes me want to watch more of their stuff.
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« Reply #29958 on: April 05, 2018, 06:20:14 PM »
I actually came away from IGTM hating Blow more than anyone. Fish is your run of the mill jerkoff, but Blow's clingy protectiveness of the message of his work came off as both horribly misguided and undeservedly pretentious. You made a platformer where you can rewind, not the 2001 of digital entertainment bro, don't get your panties twisted cuz Soulja Boy thinks it's funny when he's high as shit

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« Reply #29959 on: April 05, 2018, 06:23:16 PM »
Oh, and I watched Alien Covenant cuz the thumbnail popped up on my cable app and I didn't have shit else to do. I heard it was bad but man, it was a lot sillier than I expected. The cute lil xenobabby, the flute scene, the hamfisted bible shit, the hilariously predictable 'twist' at the end - all of it was just so goofy. I liked it better than Prometheus though.

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« Reply #29960 on: April 05, 2018, 06:25:54 PM »
Saw The Prestige the other night, and really enjoyed it. Felt very unique and was an interesting tale of obsession and deceit. The final plot twist wasn't really necessary IMO but damn, what a movie.
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« Reply #29961 on: April 05, 2018, 08:54:51 PM »
The Bad Batch
This was a surprising treat. I'm utterly unsure what the message was, but I guarantee you that I'll be thinking about it for the next few days. It's about women making their way in an unfair, unsupportive world, working to define their own space and means of living, frequently at the expense of others of their own kind. Fair warning: This is not a movie for the squeamish. Scenes involving casual cannibalism, fecal defense measures, and heaps of drugs. Standout performances by Suki Waterhouse and Keanu Reeves.

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« Reply #29962 on: April 05, 2018, 09:04:52 PM »
The Barbarians (1987): Ultra-cheesy, low-budget, spectacularly-awful schlock starring Peter and David Paul, twin bodybuilders who I never heard of before.  Am assuming that somebody figured they could recreate the success of Conan by using not one, but two gigantic meatheads...only these two have the charisma of a paper bag and their acting isn't any better.  They both sound like two dumb jocks from the northeast and one of them has a bizarre "catchphrase" that involves him making this dorky-sounding laugh like the guys from Revenge Of The Nerds.   :lol
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« Reply #29963 on: April 05, 2018, 10:29:50 PM »


Ya beat me to it.

Holy christ, hard to believe this is finally coming out. The last I'd heard, it was when John Hurt was cast, and within a month was diagnosed with terminal cancer.  :'( :'( :'(

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« Reply #29965 on: April 06, 2018, 11:10:14 AM »
Saw The Prestige the other night, and really enjoyed it. Felt very unique and was an interesting tale of obsession and deceit. The final plot twist wasn't really necessary IMO but damn, what a movie.

I never understood the plot twist at the end. Were people really shocked or something? I don't get it.

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« Reply #29966 on: April 06, 2018, 05:09:47 PM »
Not enough jokes to drive it home for you?

If there's not a joke lobbed every third scene i'll lose focus and won't grasp what's going on

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« Reply #29967 on: April 06, 2018, 05:11:37 PM »
The Barbarians (1987): Ultra-cheesy, low-budget, spectacularly-awful schlock starring Peter and David Paul, twin bodybuilders who I never heard of before.  Am assuming that somebody figured they could recreate the success of Conan by using not one, but two gigantic meatheads...only these two have the charisma of a paper bag and their acting isn't any better.  They both sound like two dumb jocks from the northeast and one of them has a bizarre "catchphrase" that involves him making this dorky-sounding laugh like the guys from Revenge Of The Nerds.   :lol

They were also in a buddy cop movie saw that one too lol.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104135/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_4

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« Reply #29968 on: April 06, 2018, 06:08:13 PM »
Speaking of Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals was tied with Manchester by the Sea for my movie of the year in 2016. Gut punch of a movie. Also, Amy Adams got that fuego body.
Yes, and Jake Gyllenhaal plays a great character. A weak cuck that eventually gets his redemption.  :doge

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« Reply #29969 on: April 06, 2018, 06:20:08 PM »
Speaking of Amy Adams, Nocturnal Animals was tied with Manchester by the Sea for my movie of the year in 2016. Gut punch of a movie. Also, Amy Adams got that fuego body.

I love how chilly that movie is. It is absolutely devoid of warmth. Fuckin Tom Ford, ill buy Tuscan Leather eventually you fuck, it smells so good.
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« Reply #29970 on: April 06, 2018, 06:30:33 PM »
Arrival: This was pretty neat. Got me to thinking about how rarely I watch sci fi movies that aren't pew pew lasers or generic dystopian future shit. Can't think of anything besides this and Ex Machina over the past 5 or 6 years probably. It was also a nice change of pace to have a movie that didn't really have an antagonist, but wasn't a slice of life type of movie either. I had some nitpicky issues but it was 2 hours pretty well spent.

You would probably like Annihilation.  It’s not quite as smart as ex machina, and not as clear-cut as arrival, but it is philosophically interesting.

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« Reply #29971 on: April 06, 2018, 06:55:18 PM »
I remember watching Lost in La Mancha in college.
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« Reply #29972 on: April 06, 2018, 07:50:36 PM »
And aliens don't descend to earth, thus why it's a science fiction film

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« Reply #29973 on: April 06, 2018, 08:10:10 PM »
And aliens don't descend to earth, thus why it's a science fiction film

But one is at least somewhat feasible and doesn't really require that much suspension of disbelief beyond the existence of FTL travel, and the other is just nonsensical.
so, aliens coming to earth? perfectly sensible. humans learning to experience time nonlinearly? unfathomable gibberish
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« Reply #29974 on: April 06, 2018, 08:30:39 PM »
Its using 98% of your brain outcome all over again

Id hate to experience my life like that. Id just be jumping between point in my life where I'm wasting time playing Bethesda games.
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« Reply #29975 on: April 06, 2018, 08:48:00 PM »
Ok Professor Jackass, let me explain why it was jarring. For any element of fiction, there is a particular amount of disbelief I'll have as a natural consequence of having a brain grounded in reality that I have to put aside in order to enjoy the movie. Sometimes it's small, like "the main character is popular with the ladies even though I don't think his scripted jokes are funny". The largest experienced disbelief occurs when you mess when the fundamental laws of the universe. Death is permanent. Things follow logically (i.e. there are no nonsequiturs). Physics exist. Etc.

Learning a language is unlikely to change your fundamental perception of reality. You can't perceive time differently because time is linear. It's difficult even describing this. To accept the reality of Arrival is to accept that all of the universe has already happened, or is happening simultaneously and that with sufficient effort and instruction you can move between any point. Or is it that you have all the memories already? But if you have all the memories, when are you supposed to "act"? As a basis for reality, it's completely inconsistent or impossible to sympathize with. God forbid someone have even a fraction of these thoughts while they're trying to experience the movie.

It's not that it's impossible to believe or understand. It's just a big thing to throw at the viewer. I enjoyed the movie in spite of it, Jack didn't. That doesn't make him a nerd, or me just because I agree. So fuck you!

the whole concept of the movie is that time isn't linear, and that humanity pre-bean aliens just experiences it linearly

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« Reply #29976 on: April 06, 2018, 09:18:01 PM »
So its like... finally being able to percieve those 3d puzzles. Natalie Portman crossed her eyes just enough to send a message to the chinese
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« Reply #29977 on: April 06, 2018, 10:27:08 PM »



Is it really that much different than the monolith in 2001?


Uh-oh Stro is getting into his 2001 thesis again.


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« Reply #29978 on: April 07, 2018, 02:36:27 AM »
The Arrival is lame, and you're all lame for falling for it.

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« Reply #29979 on: April 07, 2018, 02:59:04 AM »
The Arrival is lame, and you're all lame for falling for it.

The Arrival is a badass ultra 90s Charlie Sheen flick. It’s easily better than any movie that’s been made since the 90s.
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« Reply #29980 on: April 07, 2018, 07:50:12 AM »
Ok Professor Jackass, let me explain why it was jarring. For any element of fiction, there is a particular amount of disbelief I'll have as a natural consequence of having a brain grounded in reality that I have to put aside in order to enjoy the movie. Sometimes it's small, like "the main character is popular with the ladies even though I don't think his scripted jokes are funny". The largest experienced disbelief occurs when you mess when the fundamental laws of the universe. Death is permanent. Things follow logically (i.e. there are no nonsequiturs). Physics exist. Etc.

Learning a language is unlikely to change your fundamental perception of reality. You can't perceive time differently because time is linear. It's difficult even describing this. To accept the reality of Arrival is to accept that all of the universe has already happened, or is happening simultaneously and that with sufficient effort and instruction you can move between any point. Or is it that you have all the memories already? But if you have all the memories, when are you supposed to "act"? As a basis for reality, it's completely inconsistent or impossible to sympathize with. God forbid someone have even a fraction of these thoughts while they're trying to experience the movie.

It's not that it's impossible to believe or understand. It's just a big thing to throw at the viewer. I enjoyed the movie in spite of it, Jack didn't. That doesn't make him a nerd, or me just because I agree. So fuck you!

As if you couldn't equally deconstruct the logic of an alien saucer. You're just more used to it from every other generic scifi story, it's not actually any more realistic or believable.

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« Reply #29981 on: April 07, 2018, 09:43:54 AM »
Ok Professor Jackass, let me explain why it was jarring. For any element of fiction, there is a particular amount of disbelief I'll have as a natural consequence of having a brain grounded in reality that I have to put aside in order to enjoy the movie. Sometimes it's small, like "the main character is popular with the ladies even though I don't think his scripted jokes are funny". The largest experienced disbelief occurs when you mess when the fundamental laws of the universe. Death is permanent. Things follow logically (i.e. there are no nonsequiturs). Physics exist. Etc.

Learning a language is unlikely to change your fundamental perception of reality. You can't perceive time differently because time is linear. It's difficult even describing this. To accept the reality of Arrival is to accept that all of the universe has already happened, or is happening simultaneously and that with sufficient effort and instruction you can move between any point. Or is it that you have all the memories already? But if you have all the memories, when are you supposed to "act"? As a basis for reality, it's completely inconsistent or impossible to sympathize with. God forbid someone have even a fraction of these thoughts while they're trying to experience the movie.

It's not that it's impossible to believe or understand. It's just a big thing to throw at the viewer. I enjoyed the movie in spite of it, Jack didn't. That doesn't make him a nerd, or me just because I agree. So fuck you!

As if you couldn't equally deconstruct the logic of an alien saucer. You're just more used to it from every other generic scifi story, it's not actually any more realistic or believable.

Yeah, Shost really shit the bed here. I guess it’s not surprising since he apparently likes Dune.
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« Reply #29982 on: April 07, 2018, 09:54:12 AM »
Dune is my favorite sci fi series.

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« Reply #29983 on: April 07, 2018, 09:56:56 AM »
If it helps, we can’t have good taste in regard to everything. For example, I am fond of 1983 fantasy film Krull.
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« Reply #29984 on: April 07, 2018, 10:47:48 AM »
We need more campy fantasy films. Was hoping Guy Ritchies King Arthur film would scratch that itch.
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« Reply #29985 on: April 07, 2018, 12:36:20 PM »
We need more campy fantasy films. Was hoping Guy Ritchies King Arthur film would scratch that itch.

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« Reply #29986 on: April 07, 2018, 03:10:50 PM »
Ok Professor Jackass, let me explain why it was jarring. For any element of fiction, there is a particular amount of disbelief I'll have as a natural consequence of having a brain grounded in reality that I have to put aside in order to enjoy the movie. Sometimes it's small, like "the main character is popular with the ladies even though I don't think his scripted jokes are funny". The largest experienced disbelief occurs when you mess when the fundamental laws of the universe. Death is permanent. Things follow logically (i.e. there are no nonsequiturs). Physics exist. Etc.

Learning a language is unlikely to change your fundamental perception of reality. You can't perceive time differently because time is linear. It's difficult even describing this. To accept the reality of Arrival is to accept that all of the universe has already happened, or is happening simultaneously and that with sufficient effort and instruction you can move between any point. Or is it that you have all the memories already? But if you have all the memories, when are you supposed to "act"? As a basis for reality, it's completely inconsistent or impossible to sympathize with. God forbid someone have even a fraction of these thoughts while they're trying to experience the movie.

It's not that it's impossible to believe or understand. It's just a big thing to throw at the viewer. I enjoyed the movie in spite of it, Jack didn't. That doesn't make him a nerd, or me just because I agree. So fuck you!

As if you couldn't equally deconstruct the logic of an alien saucer. You're just more used to it from every other generic scifi story, it's not actually any more realistic or believable.

Yeah, Shost really shit the bed here. I guess it’s not surprising since he apparently likes Dune.

I thought besada was quite good in Dune.


I just got out of Pacific Rim and I largely enjoyed it.

Also saw the preview for the Spider-man Spiderverse movie.... and I really hate the animation. Something about it makes it look really choppy. I feel like they rendered on computers but then they only output like 13 frames per second. The end result is really offputting to me, it looks like a slideshow.



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« Reply #29987 on: April 07, 2018, 06:41:21 PM »
All the Money in the World

Interesting piece of cinema. Crazy to think that it is based on a true story. I kinda understand Getty. I mean his grand son must've been the dumbest motherfucker on the planet.
Also great to see how Chase (kinda obvious name for a spy-dude tbh) and the kidnapper's character evolve over the course of the film. Because of all the things that happened you aren't quite sure if the kid will make it.
Although if you know the real story I suppose that's not a spoiler. I had to look up some stuff to see if it was actually real but it seemed so surreal.
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« Reply #29988 on: April 07, 2018, 06:53:04 PM »
Carrie (De Palma) :  I haven't seen the more recent version, but I'm going to assume it didn't open showing full frontal nudity of a group of characters that are explicitly teenagers. I guess if you really want to be reductionist, that Stephen King is a real weirdo when it comes to woman things. De Palma da gawd. Jesus the son of gawd.  :doge

It's an interesting time capsule, not just in the fashion and incredible hair or even the shooting style, but basically nothing that happens in this movie could happen today. The kids would have been immediately suspended/possibly arrested for the shower thing. The gym teacher would have been fired/arrested for slapping that cunt. Carrie's mom likely would have home schooled her and have been arrested for child abuse.

I love this movie. Might be my favorite non-Shining King flick.
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« Reply #29989 on: April 07, 2018, 07:33:49 PM »
If Sissy Spacek’s character was a real person, I’m pretty sure I’d be in love with her.
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« Reply #29990 on: April 07, 2018, 07:41:42 PM »
 I recently watched two critically lambasted movies: Tom Cruise in The Mummy, which was meant to kick off Universal’s “dark universe“ cinematic universe,  and Idris Ilba in the dark tower.  I actually enjoyed both of them very much.

The Arrival is lame, and you're all lame for falling for it.

Your Mom’s lame and so are my retorts.
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« Reply #29991 on: April 07, 2018, 07:51:19 PM »
oops. I blame my cold medicine.

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29992 on: April 07, 2018, 08:07:29 PM »
I’ve meant to check out The Mummy. I’ve heard it’s so obsessed with setting up a half dozen “other movie” pieces of its universe and it sounds like it has to be a strange mess.
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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29993 on: April 07, 2018, 08:45:27 PM »
I remember when we went to see Arrival in a 21+ theater where they serve booze to your seat the guy next to us was furious 20 minutes before the movie started that he couldn’t double fist Michelob Ultras, loudly proclaimed that the movie sucked before Amy Adams opening monologue was over and then asked for a spit cup.

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29994 on: April 07, 2018, 09:04:55 PM »
I will freely admit to liking almost every big budget movie I see.

I just don’t think about most movies much and if the spectacle is there or it has some funny moments then it’s “good enough”.

Only two movies I can think of that I actively disliked in the last two years or so were suicide squad and fifty shades freed.

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« Reply #29995 on: April 07, 2018, 09:30:35 PM »
I saw Ready Player One last night against my wishes. I was really pleasantly surprised. It was a lot of fun and I had forgotten what good CG looks like in a blockbuster. I think it will be hard to top this as the most fun movie this year.

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29996 on: April 07, 2018, 09:40:09 PM »
The Quiet Place in my book, it's in the same realm of quality as Mad Max: Fury Road. Which is very good company.
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Re: The Movie News/Reviews Thread
« Reply #29997 on: April 08, 2018, 03:26:18 AM »

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Re: The Movie News/Reviews Thread
« Reply #29998 on: April 08, 2018, 06:24:56 AM »


Queen of Versailles was perfection itself; I'll watch anything that woman makes.

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Re: The new and improved "Movies you've seen recently" thread
« Reply #29999 on: April 08, 2018, 11:42:35 AM »
Watched Atlantic Rim: Resurrection Somehow they managed to make it worse than the first. And not in that good schlocky way. Still unintentionally hilarious though. I really wonder just who they make these movies for.
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