Prometheus - Probably an Alien prequel, unless it isn't (it totally is)

CorporateLogo

TrippyJing wrote: »

Every character in Burn After Reading is thoroughly unlikable.

Wrong

The gym manager is an ok dude

TrippyJing

Yeah, he was an idiot as opposed to being terrible.

CorporateLogo

But are we not all fools for love

Romanian My Escutcheon

Brad Pitt was the only acceptable thing about that movie.

Well, that and the boss thief from Home Alone 3.

Dichotomy

CorporateLogo wrote: »

But are we not all fools for love

no

TankHammer

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

TankHammer wrote: »

Aneurhythmia wrote: »

TankHammer wrote: »

I've seen Blade Runner only once.

It was on VHS with a friend who also hadn't seen it.

I thought it was a cool universe with awesome visuals but I need to watch it again so I can figure out what was happening in the main plot. Maybe I'll get my hands on the director's cut one day.

I've got all of the cuts on DVD. All of them.

May I borrow Final Cut sometime? I have a vast collection of movies you could borrow in return. Like half of them are animé but there's good stuff in there too!

Oh, yeah, by bringing it up, I meant that as an implicit offer to lend it to you.

Thanks man, you're good people. I don't care what everyone else says about you.

Vann Diras

burn after reading is incredible

you fucking people

The_Scarab

Vann Diras wrote: »

burn after reading is incredible

you fucking people

it's mediocre at best. the narrative is a complete mess. it's like the coens looked in their ideas notebooks and picked ten of the best scenes and wrangled an overarching plot to tie them together. a lot of the actors are miscast in roles they have no idea what to do with (only jk simmons really comes out of it looking good) and the film has no ending. not that it doesn't have a climax or an emotional high. it's that it doesn't have an ending. it just ends. thankfully.

Vann Diras

nope sorry it's great!

Olivaw

Burn After Reading is a great flick

It is a total mess and ends in a thoroughly anticlimactic way, but then, that's the whole point of the thing

That's why it's funny

It's no Big Lebowski or anything, but what is

Quoth

I loved Burn After Reading but it was definitely a kind of uncomfortable love

I wonder, do you folks who dislike it have issues with Christopher Guest or Robert Altman films?

Vann Diras

for real the last scene of the movie explains everything about how the movie was structured

the characters are all great and the actors playing them do excellent jobs.

plus it is straight up a hilarious movie

Romanian My Escutcheon

Quoth wrote: »

I loved Burn After Reading but it was definitely a kind of uncomfortable love

I wonder, do you folks who dislike it have issues with Christopher Guest or Robert Altman films?

Never seen either.

Gustav

Burn After Reading has like the best anticlimax ending. JK Simmons just sells the shit out of it.

PiptheFair

CorporateLogo wrote: »

TrippyJing wrote: »

Every character in Burn After Reading is thoroughly unlikable.

Wrong

The gym manager is an ok dude

j. k. simmons

PiptheFair

The_Scarab wrote: »

Vann Diras wrote: »

burn after reading is incredible

you fucking people

it's mediocre at best. the narrative is a complete mess. it's like the coens looked in their ideas notebooks and picked ten of the best scenes and wrangled an overarching plot to tie them together. a lot of the actors are miscast in roles they have no idea what to do with (only jk simmons really comes out of it looking good) and the film has no ending. not that it doesn't have a climax or an emotional high. it's that it doesn't have an ending. it just ends. thankfully.

Scudo

I am not a fan of that TED trailer, Pearce is coming across as a cartoony supervillian. plus, and this doesn't necessarily indicate anything about the quality of the movie, but the 2023 thing bothers me -- nearly indistinguishable androids in ~10 years? drive slow, homie

Centipede Damascus

Romanian My Escutcheon wrote: »

Quoth wrote: »

I loved Burn After Reading but it was definitely a kind of uncomfortable love

I wonder, do you folks who dislike it have issues with Christopher Guest or Robert Altman films?

Never seen either.

what

Scudo

I feel like sci-fi screenwriters should pad their timelines by at least 50 years more than they originally think

though I'm still hopeful for off-world rutger hauers by 2019

tech_hunter

Yeah I would just ignore the dates, I dont think any dates were mentioned in any of the other movies? I think maybe in Aliens when Ripley confronts Burke about the communication he sent to Hadleys Hope about the location of the Alien ship, but I cant remember for sure.

Harridan

This is the first movie I want to see in the theater since I went to the final Harry Potter installment. I'm really excited for it, which is apparently the only way to get me into a theater nowadays...I'm not sure when that changed exactly. Now I just wait patiently for everything to come out on dvd or on-demand or netflix, etc. This just seems like a movie I need to see in IMAX.

re: Sci-fi films - I'm rediscovering a love for sci-fi comedies. I've always loved MIB and Galaxy Quest, and Alan Rickman (who is fabulous) is hilarious as Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide. Any other suggestions for comedy scifi?

Veldrin

Event Horizon

TankHammer

tech_hunter wrote:

Yeah I would just ignore the dates, I dont think any dates were mentioned in any of the other movies? I think maybe in Aliens when Ripley confronts Burke about the communication he sent to Hadleys Hope about the location of the Alien ship, but I cant remember for sure.

The dates jarred me too. We didn't invent fusion last decade at all.

We'll just have to assume this takes place in an alternate timeline.

Quoth

Now that's just mean

The Geebs That Is A Pony

Dichotomy wrote: »

the best movie

is Speed Racer

here is the legally mandated post where I just start barfing

The Geebs That Is A Pony

I enjoyed the crap out of burn after reading

Gustav

I say it every time. But Speed Racer is the only movie I think I want to be redone in 3d. Because maaaan. Think of it.

Harry Dresden

Romanian My Escutcheon wrote: »

TrippyJing wrote: »

Every character in Burn After Reading is thoroughly unlikable.

@TrippyJing THANK YOU!

Fuck, it's like Seinfeld, except the characters are outright psychotic instead of just borderline douchey.

They were more likable than the characters on Always Sunny.

Harry Dresden

Harridan wrote: »

This is the first movie I want to see in the theater since I went to the final Harry Potter installment. I'm really excited for it, which is apparently the only way to get me into a theater nowadays...I'm not sure when that changed exactly. Now I just wait patiently for everything to come out on dvd or on-demand or netflix, etc. This just seems like a movie I need to see in IMAX.

re: Sci-fi films - I'm rediscovering a love for sci-fi comedies. I've always loved MIB and Galaxy Quest, and Alan Rickman (who is fabulous) is hilarious as Marvin in Hitchhiker's Guide. Any other suggestions for comedy scifi?

Dark Knight Rises and Avengers doesn't interest you? o_O

-SPI-

Scudo wrote: »

I am not a fan of that TED trailer, Pearce is coming across as a cartoony supervillian. plus, and this doesn't necessarily indicate anything about the quality of the movie, but the 2023 thing bothers me -- nearly indistinguishable androids in ~10 years? drive slow, homie

To be fair, He says they will have androids that are nearly indistiguishable in a "few short years". And one can assume he's being very generous with that proposed schedule given it's meant to be an inspirational forward looking talk.

DodgeBlan

The_Scarab wrote:

Vann Diras wrote: »

burn after reading is incredible

you fucking people

it's mediocre at best. the narrative is a complete mess. it's like the coens looked in their ideas notebooks and picked ten of the best scenes and wrangled an overarching plot to tie them together. a lot of the actors are miscast in roles they have no idea what to do with (only jk simmons really comes out of it looking good) and the film has no ending. not that it doesn't have a climax or an emotional high. it's that it doesn't have an ending. it just ends. thankfully.

Its like you understood it perfectly but didn't understand it at all

TrippyJing

JK Simmons is truly the only character in the movie I related to, if only because of his utter confusion at the end.

PS

Gustav

Wait was that a deleted scene or actually in the movie? I have no memory of that.

Clint Eastwood

deleted scene added in for a rerelease of the movie

Grey Ghost

I understand what they were doing with Burn After Reading
I just didn't like it

Druhim

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I understand what they were doing with Burn After Reading
I just didn't like it

That's ok. Disliking good things is pretty much your shtick.

Grey Ghost

Druhim wrote: »

Grey Ghost wrote: »

I understand what they were doing with Burn After Reading
I just didn't like it

That's ok. Disliking good things is pretty much your shtick.

:cry:

Blake T

Cohen brothers are very much an aquired taste.

Like The big lebowski is considered their best work and I only find it good, not amazing like everyone else.

I picked up Die Hard 2, predator and blade runner on blue ray today.

Pleased.

Grey Ghost

I love lots of other Coen Bros. stuff

Clint Eastwood

we just watched die hard 2 today actually. when i say "watched" i mean "i baked and it was on in the other room" but still.