The only good thing I hear about the Newsroom is always about Olivia Munn
eeeeh her character is fine but she is mansplained to a lot
Is it still mansplaining when it's done to everyone, all the time? At some point, doesn't it graduate to bloviating?
I love Sports Night and West Wing but ever since then, every Sorkin show has been about how he loves to hear his own voice coming out of someone else. I didn't see The Social Network, so maybe he's better in that setting, but I'm having increasing trouble actually seeing characters in Sorkin shows.
There's a lot of stuff that appears in Pacific Rim that was really explained and developed in ancillary materials as well as interviews before release! The movie did a really shit job of communicating any of those ideas.
Examples?
Giant monsters show up from the ocean. We make robots to fight them. All you need to know to hop into the movie and all covered in less than 2 minutes.
Canterbury Tales is a movie that's good for what ails you.
Because I don't know about you people, but everything everywhere lately has been total bullshit.
And Lucille Ball is amazing because A) She pioneered using film for television (which is why The Untouchables, The Andy Griffith Show, and I Love Lucy survive to this day, in syndication forever and ever, amen) and She also helped to pioneer the three-camera TV show. Basically Lucy not only invented TV. Her company also produced Mission: Impossible and Star Trek, so, like, you're welcome JJ Abrams.
lucille ball is one of my heroes not just because of her almost impossible sounding list of accomplishments, but also for her steadfast refusal to age gracefully
Pacific Rim's depth was overstated by the enthusiasm of a lot of the fanbase who saw shit that wasn't there, as excitable nerds are wont to do these days
I did, however, enjoy the simplicity of the muscular character archetypes used and enjoyed the movie a lot
Pacific Rim is the worst film I've seen that is so beloved by so many people. I mean I get that giant robots fighting monsters tickles a very specific spot in some people's brains, but I thought it was drek and its popularity baffles me.
But some people say the same about Fury Road. The world is bonkers and so are we.
Pacific Rim's depth was overstated by the enthusiasm of a lot of the fanbase who saw shit that wasn't there, as excitable nerds are wont to do these days
I did, however, enjoy the simplicity of the muscular character archetypes used and enjoyed the movie a lot
Pacific Rim is the worst film I've seen that is so beloved by so many people. I mean I get that giant robots fighting monsters tickles a very specific spot in some people's brains, but I thought it was drek and its popularity baffles me.
But some people say the same about Fury Road. The world is bonkers and so are we.
Easy potshot I guess but this is very very easily passion of the Christ for me
Despite me being a giant Star Wars nerd with far too many toys, my favorite movie of all time is easily The Princess Bride. I'd also put Clerks 2 right up there.
I don't hate a lot of movies though - I can't think of one that I'd put on a list. The only movie I remember actively giving up on and shutting off those was Superman Returns out of absolute boredom. I also remember being really bothered by paying to see Bean in the theater and then having all the best material be stuff from his show.
I also have favorite movie combos. There was a point where about once a month I'd watch No Escape and Surviving the Game back to back, and I remember a similar phase with Ed Wood and The Fisher King.
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I like Sorkin as a writer probably more than most, and his movie output as of late has been better than... well, I really l like The Newsroom, although the 24 hour broadcast cycle is something that a: gets me riled up and b: The Newsroom covers in such a hatefully vitriolic way that it's essentially expressing all of my feelings about it through the mouth of Jeff Daniels.
Being said:
I'm not sure about a Lucille Ball biopic penned by him.
At all.
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My top three change pretty often, but right now they are probably Raiders of the Lost Ark, Fantastic Mr Fox, and Oh Brother, Where Art Thou.
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We watched straight outa Compton tonight (only just released here)
It was solid! But it didn't really have the frenetic pace and intensity of the trailers and I was kinda expecting a stronger showing with the
Fuck the police climax in Detroit, it was fine, but I was just expecting a lot more of them versus the police, and all of the pent up frustration behind the song.
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Here is the (brief) trailer for that TV movie where Daniel Radcliffe is one of the brothers that created GTA and Bill Paxton is Jack Thompson
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and they're both from west wing
The only good thing I hear about the Newsroom is always about Olivia Munn
eeeeh her character is fine but she is mansplained to a lot
Also I do not care for Olivia Munn at all but thats not here nor there
Is it still mansplaining when it's done to everyone, all the time? At some point, doesn't it graduate to bloviating?
I love Sports Night and West Wing but ever since then, every Sorkin show has been about how he loves to hear his own voice coming out of someone else. I didn't see The Social Network, so maybe he's better in that setting, but I'm having increasing trouble actually seeing characters in Sorkin shows.
Examples?
Giant monsters show up from the ocean. We make robots to fight them. All you need to know to hop into the movie and all covered in less than 2 minutes.
she was one of the first great comedic actresses and also had a fairly fascinating personal life
What?
Damn, Vow.
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She thought she heard russian commie transmissions through her fillings one time.
So... I dunno.
I love lucy is pretty good, especially in the context of being one of the first TV shows ever.
But it loses its thread
Unconfirmed if that actually came from Lucille Ball.
lucille ball fought to put an interracial marriage on television in the fifties
like, put aside everything else
that shit is beyond ballsy
Because I don't know about you people, but everything everywhere lately has been total bullshit.
And Lucille Ball is amazing because A) She pioneered using film for television (which is why The Untouchables, The Andy Griffith Show, and I Love Lucy survive to this day, in syndication forever and ever, amen) and
I'm sorry if someone already went over this.
I thought I was literally the only person in the world who had this opinion...I really wanted to like the movie, and was excited to see it too. ><
This has nothing to do with how big a badass she was; it's just an interesting bit o' history
That would kinda be enough on its own
She did a million more things
She said it herself on the Dick Cavett show.
Which probably makes her about 80% less goofy than most current celebrities in the baloney they believe.
But it loses its thread
That's pretty dang awesome casting
Pacific Rim is the worst film I've seen that is so beloved by so many people. I mean I get that giant robots fighting monsters tickles a very specific spot in some people's brains, but I thought it was drek and its popularity baffles me.
But some people say the same about Fury Road. The world is bonkers and so are we.
Three way tie between The Incredibles, The Last Crusade, and Primer.
Easy potshot I guess but this is very very easily passion of the Christ for me
What an awful, awful film
I don't hate a lot of movies though - I can't think of one that I'd put on a list. The only movie I remember actively giving up on and shutting off those was Superman Returns out of absolute boredom. I also remember being really bothered by paying to see Bean in the theater and then having all the best material be stuff from his show.
I also have favorite movie combos. There was a point where about once a month I'd watch No Escape and Surviving the Game back to back, and I remember a similar phase with Ed Wood and The Fisher King.
Being said:
I'm not sure about a Lucille Ball biopic penned by him.
At all.
"Readers who prefer tension and romance, Maledictions: The Offering, delivers... As serious YA fiction, I’ll give it five stars out of five. As a novel? Four and a half." - Liz Ellor
My new novel: Maledictions: The Offering. Now in Paperback!
It was solid! But it didn't really have the frenetic pace and intensity of the trailers and I was kinda expecting a stronger showing with the
Satans..... hints.....
Or perhaps I should revise that.
I love everything Martin Scorsese makes and he has made some gangster films.
Here is the (brief) trailer for that TV movie where Daniel Radcliffe is one of the brothers that created GTA and Bill Paxton is Jack Thompson