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[Movies] that may not include Star Wars
GreasyKidsStuff
MOMMM!ROAST BEEF WANTS TO KISS GIRLS ON THE TITTIES!Registered User regular
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Movies! The moving pictures we know and love.
There are all kinds of movies, many of them in a theatre near you.
Here are a few recent releases that are getting some buzz:
The Disaster Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKX2tE5Luk
Lady Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi_HC839Wo
Call Me By Your Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMgliTBFKU
What's your favourite movie? Mine's Star Wars, but we have another thread for that, so maybe go use that one.
There are all kinds of movies, many of them in a theatre near you.
Here are a few recent releases that are getting some buzz:
The Disaster Artist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMKX2tE5LukLady Bird
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNi_HC839WoCall Me By Your Name
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AMgliTBFKUWhat's your favourite movie? Mine's Star Wars, but we have another thread for that, so maybe go use that one.
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"If you're going to play tiddly winks, play it with man hole covers."
- John McCallum
Simon Stalenhag makes that good shit so I am excited
I haven’t seen Rollins in anything for a fair while now, so I’ve got the hankerin’
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I liked it! A rare unique good low budget genre film, and Rollins' performance is certainly worth the watch
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it's really good!
First up this morning was Warcraft, a movie I could not have cared less about. It was fine. The cgi already hasn't aged well, maybe? I dunno. Definitely seems like it was made for fans, which I admittedly am not. I did catch the murloc gurgle sound from Hearthstone though. Probably the only real reference I actually got.
Then for lunch I had Fantastic Beasts etc.
It was also fine. Eddie Redmayne was in it. End of review.
A little while ago I wrapped it up with The Circle, starring Emma Watson and Tommy Hanks. It actually came pretty close to being great, maybe? Emma Watson was excellent, Bill Paxton was great, but some of it felt half-baked and I'm not sure if it knew what it was trying to say. Or if it was even trying to say anything at all? I'm really not sure. It's kind of a weird movie.
Unfortunately, now i gotta plan up some shit to watch tomorrow since I'm staying home again and I burned through most of my "eh I'll watch it at some point" pile. Maybe John Wick 2 finally. Pretty sure that's streaming on HBO right now.
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A lot of movies are now owned by Disney.
No, Disney is spinning off Fox News and a few other things into their own company, which will be owned by Fox shareholders, as part of the deal.
Well Disney isn't Murdoch is to better spread his lies. I doubt any media company wants the taint of Fox news
I saw it on a plane!
I feel like it is one of the best small movies in forever!
Fox News is the most popular news media outlet in the US, there will be PLENTY of folks wanting to snap that up.
Dang that's such a fun movie, y'all
Really make me want to pick up some of the comics too
How do cable news ratings compare to broadcast news ratings aynway?
Pretty sure I am going to be hate watching that movie now when I have to see it.
I'm sure we'll end up seeing it - my son's 13 and it feels like it's going to be a pretty direct hit to that age group. I've actually read the book, and while the writing isn't very good (it's kind of like reading an episode of Family Guy, just reference after reference), I could absolutely see Spielberg turning it into a fun flick.
but like, the author is really not very good and the sheer density of reference after reference is inane, but the core concept behind it all and perhaps the themes (which the book butchers as quickly as it introduces them) would make for a cool film in the right hands
the only thing I can say in its defense is that the sections that people like to make fun of the most aren't quite as bad in context
it is still an extremely bad novel and the only person I know who both reads a lot and will say it isn't awful (he will not say it is good) is friends with Ernest Cline so I'm inclined to think he's a little biased
I think the references will be far better in film format actually. You won't have to say "Jim was riding astride a giant ostrich, from an 80's game called Joust and holding a two toned grey gun with the word Zapper on it. The Zapper was originally a gun from the 80's NES console, Nintendo's first console in the US. Jim was wearing armor that changed color with heat, clearly inspired by 80's gear called Hypercolor which was known for leaving visible hand prints wherever one was touched."
Instead you can just show Jim on a big bird holding a Zapper wearing a color changing shirt, and if the audience gets the references, great, if not life goes on.
Right now "Bad to the Bone" starting when Arnold puts the biker gear on is making me doubt everyone saying this is one of the peaks of action cinema
I would be fine with calling RPO "fun". I might have even enjoyed myself while reading it.
But when I thought about anything to do with the book other than all the silly references I just feel my mind recoil in horror
Where do you think that cliche came from
Edit: and like, to be clear, I'm not trying to say anything negative about the people who like it here. It's entirely okay to enjoy something despite poor execution. But, like, the nature of his prose is something you really need to be prepared for going in, is all.
I read it, and I'm somewhere in between. It's fun and the premise is pretty great I thought. I can definitely say Teenager LiLo would have been all over this as the greatest book ever written.
However, it gets too caught up explaining all it's references and trying to be cool and retro. The over-explained references are especially bad if you're a reader of a certain age that already gets the references.
It definitely felt like when the wife got pulled into reading Twilight or Fifty Shades and when I made fun of passages she would say "Oh, the writing's complete garbage, but it's fun."
This movie is very good except for the part where I'm actively rooting for the death of John Connor
Joe Morton appearing in T2 reminded me
also Joe Morton rules in T2
It spends so much time calling people fake nerds for not knowing exact trivia, and has a specific canonical list of things you should like to be a real nerd who's actually important.
And in all this, neither the author nor any single character ever says why they like this stuff. No one ever manages to say "well this means a lot to me because..." characters are obsessed with these shows and books and whatever because that's all the male-created Nerd Stuff that cline likes.
Ernest Cline's philosophies and politics shine through in other awful ways, but the whole book is about Real Nerds, not these Fake Nerds who like stuff other than what these Great Men have produced.
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