There must be something wrong with me because I absolutely adored the first two-thirds and then the back third of the movie dragged my opinion of the entire thing down to a solid "meh."
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kaceypwe stayed bright as lightningwe sang loud as thunderRegistered Userregular
So I finally watched The Disaster Artist last night and I really enjoyed it.
Seth Rogan & James Franco might have my favorite group of actors of any 'production crew' working in Hollywood at the moment.
I also finally watched this over the weekend! And I didn't really know beforehand who was in it other than the Brothers Franco, so just about every time a new cast/crew member showed up I was like "Oh hey it's _____!"
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
I guess about as sad as when the Golden Compass movie came out
There must be something wrong with me because I absolutely adored the first two-thirds and then the back third of the movie dragged my opinion of the entire thing down to a solid "meh."
I kind of felt the same
Also I don't think it's really believable that no one was able to figure out their weakness to certain frequencies prior to the events in the movie, it seems like a basic weakness
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There must be something wrong with me because I absolutely adored the first two-thirds and then the back third of the movie dragged my opinion of the entire thing down to a solid "meh."
I kind of felt the same
Also I don't think it's really believable that no one was able to figure out their weakness to certain frequencies prior to the events in the movie, it seems like a basic weakness
Thaaaaat was the part that really retroactively ruined the entire film for me. Really? No one, in the world, at any military or intelligence organization tried that? You honestly expect me to believe that?!
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It was yet further evidence that I can buy super into suspension of disbelief of all manner of weird scifi shit, but if you mess up basic stuff or things you should really know it will just punt me out of your world and I'll be pissy about it.
I stopped watching The Walking Dead after a dude at the CDC asserted that the adrenal glands are in the brain. If you can't spend 10 seconds googling basic anatomy so that your show's grounded in some kind of reality, I've got better things to do.
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
I guess about as sad as when the Golden Compass movie came out
It's kind of amazing how the big Christian book series and the big Atheist book series got equally disappointing movie adaptations for basically the same reasons.
(Insert joke about "The Chronicles of Narnia movies were way better than Eragon" here)
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
That was my wife's reaction to my thoughts on the movie as well. Apparently I'm the problem because I didn't read the book. I shouldn't have to read the book in order for the movie to make sense or entertain me. She loved it, I was bored by it. The kids were fairly neutral in that some scenes held their attention while others didn't.
Great score though. The music really jumped out at me and did it's best to keep me interested.
There must be something wrong with me because I absolutely adored the first two-thirds and then the back third of the movie dragged my opinion of the entire thing down to a solid "meh."
I definitely agree that the ending is one of those things that could sour someone completely on the whole film. It didn't for me, but it probably did affect my desire to rewatch the whole thing again anytime soon
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
I guess about as sad as when the Golden Compass movie came out
Oh the Golden Compass.
Never has a movie adaptations gotten so many things so entirely right despite the fact that it seems like nobody involved ever read the book.
Perfect casting, fantastic look, Polar Bear Fight, but it's like they had no idea what the movie was actually ABOUT.
Watched A Wrinkle in Time this weekend. A more accurate way to phrase that would be "it was my wife's turn to pick the family movie, so we had to watch A Wrinkle in Time".
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
That was my wife's reaction to my thoughts on the movie as well. Apparently I'm the problem because I didn't read the book. I shouldn't have to read the book in order for the movie to make sense or entertain me. She loved it, I was bored by it. The kids were fairly neutral in that some scenes held their attention while others didn't.
Great score though. The music really jumped out at me and did it's best to keep me interested.
No, no. The movie is a bad adaptation of the book. The problem isn't you.
I thought it ended in precisely the right place, with the family armed with an effective weapon and ready to go on the offensive. Does it work? I don't know, maybe. The important part is that they're done hiding. I think the fact that the little girl's disability is far from the weakness they thought it was is a great message for the movie.
I liked the setup for the film generally, because it doesn't give you too much information about what's going on. There are monsters, the military couldn't stop them, they're essentially invulnerable, don't make a sound. We don't know what the situation is like worldwide, it's not important. Is this post apocalypse? It's not important. We know what the situation is for a few square miles, where the story happens.
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I remember when I was a kid I really didn't like that IT was a brain but now that I'm older I think the movie makers are cowards for not going full giant brain.
I don't know if A Wrinkle in Time was written before or after A Never Ending Story, but I do know that ANES won the villain battle name. The IT is such a stupid name for a big bad. The Nothing is absolutely perfect in every conceivable way.
Yeah nothing with IT as the bad guy name has ever worked...
Not It, The It. It works because it means anything you can't describe. The It is that thing that you somehow can't name/describe despite the fact it is a clearly defined thing. It is anything, The It is the thing. The name is lazy. Or at least in the movie the name was. Maybe the book offered up a better reasoning than the movie. Scratch that, there is no way the book doesn't do it better.
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I liked A Quiet Place. But man, it would have gone up a full letter grade by my reckoning if it went whole hog and didn't have a score at all
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A Quiet Place was just the latest iteration of "horror movie that gets a lot of mainstream attention and it's not bad, mind you, but it's just kind of another horror movie and didn't need to be hyped up half as much as it was" for me.
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3cl1ps3I will build a labyrinth to house the cheeseRegistered Userregular
I liked A Quiet Place. But man, it would have gone up a full letter grade by my reckoning if it went whole hog and didn't have a score at all
Yeah the decision to include music just at all was weird. Having no music at all was working so well, when it comes in about 3/4 of the way through the film it just feels weird to me.
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Watched 3 movies this weekend:
Tau - could have easily been 3 movies. Gary Oldman plays an AI wired into a house. He's pretty good. The second act of the movie was mildly compelling, but the first and third act were bafflingly stupid.
Sorry to Bother You - wall to wall bonkers. Not a single standout performance because everyone is so fucking good in this. Excellent all around.
Skyscraper - I went because I wanted popcorn. The Rock says the movie is pretty heavily inspired by Die Hard but half the film is dedicated to getting him back in the building and he doesn't really... Hunt anyone down or defend himself until the end. Neve Campbell was great, and Ben Mendelson is in there. You'll never ever guess if he's a secret badguy or not though.
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A Quiet Place was just the latest iteration of "horror movie that gets a lot of mainstream attention and it's not bad, mind you, but it's just kind of another horror movie and didn't need to be hyped up half as much as it was" for me.
I don't like to agree with this
But
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A Quiet Place was just the latest iteration of "horror movie that gets a lot of mainstream attention and it's not bad, mind you, but it's just kind of another horror movie and didn't need to be hyped up half as much as it was" for me.
I thought it was pretty good first showing on John Krasinski's part, but yeah, I don't know that it really hit very close to the highs of some of the horror movies of the last few years
Yeah nothing with IT as the bad guy name has ever worked...
Not It, The It. It works because it means anything you can't describe. The It is that thing that you somehow can't name/describe despite the fact it is a clearly defined thing. It is anything, The It is the thing. The name is lazy. Or at least in the movie the name was. Maybe the book offered up a better reasoning than the movie. Scratch that, there is no way the book doesn't do it better.
But who's on first?
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1) solid hook
2) approachable, not too bloody, could bring in non-genre fans on word of mouth
3) no real competition for 4 weeks until infinity war dropped
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It's also got one of those premises that invites a lot of fun conversations after the fact. My friend and I left the theater asking increasingly silly questions about A Quiet Place. Like sneezes and farts. How fucked are you? And so forth.
(these aren't like criticisms of the movie by the way. I can handwave a lot of stuff like that)
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1) solid hook
2) approachable, not too bloody, could bring in non-genre fans on word of mouth
3) no real competition for 4 weeks until infinity war dropped
It really did carve out a little niche for itself in the perfect spot between Black Panther and Infinity War. Whoever decided on that release date is good at her job.
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There must be something wrong with me because I absolutely adored the first two-thirds and then the back third of the movie dragged my opinion of the entire thing down to a solid "meh."
I also finally watched this over the weekend! And I didn't really know beforehand who was in it other than the Brothers Franco, so just about every time a new cast/crew member showed up I was like "Oh hey it's _____!"
That sure was a movie. I guess. I don't know. The music was good. I don't know why the white kid was there. James Tiberius Kirk had a beard, so that was something. And apparently love is the key to long distance interplanetary travel? Oh and it had sandwiches. Really clever I guess.
It was a boring movie, it was shittily edited, and I still don't know what the fuck it was actually about. Depression maybe? A kid dealing with a dad going to jail? Or perhaps there was no deeper meaning and it was just a bunch of scenes hastily thrown together with little regard to coherence?
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do you know how sad this post and this whole situation makes me
Wait how does this change the movie again? Cause I’m not seein it.
I guess about as sad as when the Golden Compass movie came out
The acting would be better for one
I kind of felt the same
Thaaaaat was the part that really retroactively ruined the entire film for me. Really? No one, in the world, at any military or intelligence organization tried that? You honestly expect me to believe that?!
I stopped watching The Walking Dead after a dude at the CDC asserted that the adrenal glands are in the brain. If you can't spend 10 seconds googling basic anatomy so that your show's grounded in some kind of reality, I've got better things to do.
It's kind of amazing how the big Christian book series and the big Atheist book series got equally disappointing movie adaptations for basically the same reasons.
(Insert joke about "The Chronicles of Narnia movies were way better than Eragon" here)
That was my wife's reaction to my thoughts on the movie as well. Apparently I'm the problem because I didn't read the book. I shouldn't have to read the book in order for the movie to make sense or entertain me. She loved it, I was bored by it. The kids were fairly neutral in that some scenes held their attention while others didn't.
Great score though. The music really jumped out at me and did it's best to keep me interested.
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I definitely agree that the ending is one of those things that could sour someone completely on the whole film. It didn't for me, but it probably did affect my desire to rewatch the whole thing again anytime soon
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Oh the Golden Compass.
Never has a movie adaptations gotten so many things so entirely right despite the fact that it seems like nobody involved ever read the book.
Perfect casting, fantastic look, Polar Bear Fight, but it's like they had no idea what the movie was actually ABOUT.
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No, no. The movie is a bad adaptation of the book. The problem isn't you.
I liked the setup for the film generally, because it doesn't give you too much information about what's going on. There are monsters, the military couldn't stop them, they're essentially invulnerable, don't make a sound. We don't know what the situation is like worldwide, it's not important. Is this post apocalypse? It's not important. We know what the situation is for a few square miles, where the story happens.
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Not It, The It. It works because it means anything you can't describe. The It is that thing that you somehow can't name/describe despite the fact it is a clearly defined thing. It is anything, The It is the thing. The name is lazy. Or at least in the movie the name was. Maybe the book offered up a better reasoning than the movie. Scratch that, there is no way the book doesn't do it better.
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Yeah the decision to include music just at all was weird. Having no music at all was working so well, when it comes in about 3/4 of the way through the film it just feels weird to me.
Tau - could have easily been 3 movies. Gary Oldman plays an AI wired into a house. He's pretty good. The second act of the movie was mildly compelling, but the first and third act were bafflingly stupid.
Sorry to Bother You - wall to wall bonkers. Not a single standout performance because everyone is so fucking good in this. Excellent all around.
Skyscraper - I went because I wanted popcorn. The Rock says the movie is pretty heavily inspired by Die Hard but half the film is dedicated to getting him back in the building and he doesn't really... Hunt anyone down or defend himself until the end. Neve Campbell was great, and Ben Mendelson is in there. You'll never ever guess if he's a secret badguy or not though.
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I don't like to agree with this
But
I thought it was pretty good first showing on John Krasinski's part, but yeah, I don't know that it really hit very close to the highs of some of the horror movies of the last few years
But who's on first?
My favorite character was the mom by a country mile.
Plus it would just be inaccurate
One's a clown, the other's a goo monster!
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1) solid hook
2) approachable, not too bloody, could bring in non-genre fans on word of mouth
3) no real competition for 4 weeks until infinity war dropped
(these aren't like criticisms of the movie by the way. I can handwave a lot of stuff like that)
It really did carve out a little niche for itself in the perfect spot between Black Panther and Infinity War. Whoever decided on that release date is good at her job.