So speaking of Disney remakes, I caught that Disney live action remake of The Wicker Man last night. That was something else. The musical numbers were on point, though Dani’s singing voice was a little rough for a Disney princess.
Considering that people are talking about live-action remakes of Disney films, there is remarkably little mention of Polish weirdness The Lure (warning: trailer NSFW):
I'm looking at that gorgeous steelbook release of Mothra, but the bloody thing is only region A and (so far at least) doesn't have a UK release lined up. I has a sad. If I could play that over here (region , I'd totally pick it up, it's just lovely.
(I don't presently have a region free Blu-ray player, as I rely on consoles for that. I might have to start thinking about getting one at this rate.)
So I just noticed Hulu has ALL of the Friday the 13th movies.
I guess I'll watch these because I hate myself and I deserve this.
Awwww shit.
Yeah, I guess that's happening to me, too.
Edit: On the plus side, visiting hulu to verify this led me to a section of hulu called "Huluween" which I never knew existed. I guess it's just a focused section of hulu dedicated to horror. The point is, there's a category named "Spooky, not Scary" and my wife is going to be all over that. So, in a roundabout way, this was a good discovery?
I thought the point of most Dick was "I'm on ALL THE DRUGS"
or is that just King?
Dick:
Drugs drugs I like drugs oh and i guess society has some problems so I’ll mention them in passing but really I’m just all about the Druuuuuuuuuugs in fact why don’t you put the book down and go take some drugs
King: this book doesn’t mention drugs at all but I don’t remember writing any of it because I was zonked out of my gourd for about a decade
“I was quick when I came in here, I’m twice as quick now”
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
So I just noticed Hulu has ALL of the Friday the 13th movies.
I guess I'll watch these because I hate myself and I deserve this.
I bought the collection that came with the mask and 3d goggles in clearance once when I was out of town for work. I rather enjoyed watching through all of them.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
I thought the point of most Dick was "I'm on ALL THE DRUGS"
or is that just King?
Dick:
Drugs drugs I like drugs oh and i guess society has some problems so I’ll mention them in passing but really I’m just all about the Druuuuuuuuuugs in fact why don’t you put the book down and go take some drugs
King: this book doesn’t mention drugs at all but I don’t remember writing any of it because I was zonked out of my gourd for about a decade
King: I was so high that I thought I made a movie with Lisa Simpson.
AstaerethIn the belly of the beastRegistered Userregular
Lots of King’s books, both during and after his drugs period, are about addiction.
The Shining, Doctor Sleep, and The Tommyknockers are about alcoholism
Misery is about addiction to pills
The Dark Half and Needful Things are less specific but still about addiction (recidivism and recognizing it, respectively)
A fair number of his short stories are about a smoking habit
Broadly speaking the majority of King’s work was about addiction and drugs until he got hit by a van, and then they were pretty much all metaphors for getting hit by a van (Dreamcatcher, From a Buick 8, Lisey’s Story, Duma Key, the last few Dark Towers)
Since then he’s been in a period of pastiche and self-pastiche that seems less personally motivated, although they’re not without their charms
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So I just noticed Hulu has ALL of the Friday the 13th movies.
I guess I'll watch these because I hate myself and I deserve this.
I bought the collection that came with the mask and 3d goggles in clearance once when I was out of town for work. I rather enjoyed watching through all of them.
Reminds me of how I went through all the Resident Evil films before the RE2 remake came out. Holy fuck was that a painful experience, those movies start off bad and then plummet towards stunning depths of terrible. Honestly one of my worst movie experiences, sitting through all those. Especially since I'd watch one, then find out there was another fucking sequel and that happened to me like three times.
Though the Friday the 13th movies can actually be entertaining, even if only for the camp. The RE movie franchise is just pain.
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It really is. Kumail is great. Ray Romano is surprisingly good. And Holly Hunter is out of this world.
Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff are great too, but the greatness of that movie really comes down to the writing and the performances of Holly Hunter and Kumail Nanjiani.
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Apparently Stuber is pretty bad. =( I was really looking forward to it, too...
Apparently Stuber is pretty bad. =( I was really looking forward to it, too...
It looked terrible, but something cool has come out of it. I was watching Hot Ones interview Kumail and I couldn't get over how swole he is. Apparently, working with Bautista inspired him to get shredded. He's put on 20 pounds and looks sexy.
It really is. Kumail is great. Ray Romano is surprisingly good. And Holly Hunter is out of this world.
Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff are great too, but the greatness of that movie really comes down to the writing and the performances of Holly Hunter and Kumail Nanjiani.
I was also pleased to see Vella Lovell in something (she was one of the potential arrangees) because she's delightful, but the whole movie was just a joy.
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I said fuck it and I’m sitting waiting for Stuber to start. It’s going to be bad. But man, I can’t help but give a mainstream R-rated comedy that isnt a franchise or straight remake a little bit of support.
May god have mercy on my soul.
Edit: Ha, another Bautista preview. So he’s just gonna be Discount Rock now, right?
A black, female 007 with Rami Malek as the villain, written by Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Can I just preorder my tickets now?
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Eh, the Rock didn't start out with AAA movies either. He's got to work his way up.
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FencingsaxIt is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understandingGNU Terry PratchettRegistered Userregular
Bautista has already been in AAA movies. Once Dwayne got up there, he didn't really stop. (Not to say all his movies were good)
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Stuber wasn't funny, wasn't really that good, but it was a timekiller. Reminds me of Starsky and Hutch '04, in being just generic action comedy that isn't good but isn't outright bad but you can tell it only had ideas from other movies they tried to cobble together for their own purpose. And just a heads up, the best parts were in the trailer (which largely consists of the last 15 minutes)
It's a quasi buddy cop movie; meathead detective doesn't care for anything but the job, gets lasik surgery, but shock! He gets a lead for a drug deal with his sworn nemesis, Rama from The Raid, but he can't drive! And he has to attend his daughter's art exhibit that night too! So he gets Sad! Nice Guy (TM) to Uber him around, and they butt heads but make each other better, awwwww.
The general idea of the movie feels like it was a script made in '03, probably around the same time Jimmy Fallon's smash hit Taxi came out, but no one wanted to touch it until an ex-studio intern found it and just added Uber to the mix. It's just really by the numbers with at least not as much bad improv as you'd expect, Nanjiani is riffing but the film doesn't pause the scenes for asspats like others comedies have done. I mean one character is gone ten minutes into the movie (and the opening was filmed in the same hotel Blockers was which was really glaring and apparent), another character shows up and is easily the real villain because again the main through of the story isn't original, and even the artist daughter angle feels bland and generic and you know what's going to happen at the end but the movie still tries to hide it like it's fresh.
The action scenes aren't that good either but serviceable yet again just feel like copy and paste from other films (they try so hard to make a slow-mo shootout to odd music seem relevant but it's not), and by the end it really does hammer the Uber stuff home to a point where it's too in your face. Also, for a movie that is about Uber it seems very illogical and more plot specific to have the main character drive around in an electric-only vehicle in L.A. That said, there are two funny parts; one was the gun fire/throw gun/catch gun/hit and throw back that was in the trailer, and the other was Drax selling a joke with his confused blind face (You have another program, like Uber Eats? You mean Uber Guns? Uber Bullets?).
90 minutes, nothing to write home about, but probably gonna be one of those FX or Paramount Network movie mainstays in a few months. Watch it then.
Yeah, on a scale of Fist Fight to Game Night it sits on the lower end. I got enough laughs out of it that I didn't mind driving to the theater for it. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it too. Decent enough for a Sunday matinee screening or subscription showing*. It wasn't bad, as the reviews might suggest, IMO. It was just fine.
Not sure how I feel about waiting for it on basic cable, I feel like they use the R rating so it might be worth a legit Redbox or something. Or waiting for Netflix/HBO. Or just skipping altogether.
* - If you've already seen the better movies playing, that is.
AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
Mary Poppins movies are pretty weirdly stuck in the values of their Edwardian setting
Pt 1: The misogynistic and domineering father needs a break from his stressful high-paying job and bothersome activist wife, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
Pt 2: The fiscally-irresponsible and emotionally-devastated single father needs fucking therapy, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
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AstaerethIn the belly of the beastRegistered Userregular
Mary Poppins movies are pretty weirdly stuck in the values of their Edwardian setting
Pt 1: The misogynistic and domineering father needs a break from his stressful high-paying job and bothersome activist wife, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
Pt 2: The fiscally-irresponsible and emotionally-devastated single father needs fucking therapy, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
Mary Poppins 1 & 2:
In pt 1 everyone ends up agreeing that the father needs to stop being so domineering and accept being a father means treating your kids like kids and not clones in training
In pt 2 the father’s financial problems never existed in the first place, ie, things aren’t so bad, they just look that way; the nanny’s magic is either the solution to every single problem or completely irrelevant, depending on how you look at it
Part 1 actually has a good message
Part 2 is just a complete mess
I watched American Psycho for the first time over the weekend, after avoiding it like the plague due to a somewhat traumatic encounter with the novel. (It's probably not good to read a passage at random, lacking context, especially if the passage contains some of the most disgusting violence I'd ever read at that point.) I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it - and more so at how timely and relevant it felt.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I watched American Psycho for the first time over the weekend, after avoiding it like the plague due to a somewhat traumatic encounter with the novel. (It's probably not good to read a passage at random, lacking context, especially if the passage contains some of the most disgusting violence I'd ever read at that point.) I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it - and more so at how timely and relevant it felt.
Its interesting. Like Starship Troops i feel like the director was 50% laughing at the book the whole way through.
Not having read more than a couple of pages of the novel, and the most offputting ones at that, I suspect: was the original novel devoid of the satirical humour that the film clearly has?
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Yeah, on a scale of Fist Fight to Game Night it sits on the lower end. I got enough laughs out of it that I didn't mind driving to the theater for it. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it too. Decent enough for a Sunday matinee screening or subscription showing*. It wasn't bad, as the reviews might suggest, IMO. It was just fine.
Not sure how I feel about waiting for it on basic cable, I feel like they use the R rating so it might be worth a legit Redbox or something. Or waiting for Netflix/HBO. Or just skipping altogether.
* - If you've already seen the better movies playing, that is.
Funny that you mention Game Night I watched it with my brother on HBO Go a few months ago and was very surprised at how good it was. I was expecting a passable comedy movie and was blown away by how funny it actually was.
Obviously the premise is reminiscent of The Man Who Knew Too Little, but that's not a bad thing. I remember enjoying that movie as a kid.
Yeah, on a scale of Fist Fight to Game Night it sits on the lower end. I got enough laughs out of it that I didn't mind driving to the theater for it. The rest of the audience seemed to enjoy it too. Decent enough for a Sunday matinee screening or subscription showing*. It wasn't bad, as the reviews might suggest, IMO. It was just fine.
Not sure how I feel about waiting for it on basic cable, I feel like they use the R rating so it might be worth a legit Redbox or something. Or waiting for Netflix/HBO. Or just skipping altogether.
* - If you've already seen the better movies playing, that is.
Funny that you mention Game Night I watched it with my brother on HBO Go a few months ago and was very surprised at how good it was. I was expecting a passable comedy movie and was blown away by how funny it actually was.
Obviously the premise is reminiscent of The Man Who Knew Too Little, but that's not a bad thing. I remember enjoying that movie as a kid.
Game Night also has some pretty nice cinematography.
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I watched American Psycho for the first time over the weekend, after avoiding it like the plague due to a somewhat traumatic encounter with the novel. (It's probably not good to read a passage at random, lacking context, especially if the passage contains some of the most disgusting violence I'd ever read at that point.) I was surprised to find that I really enjoyed it - and more so at how timely and relevant it felt.
The Huey Lewis & The News conversation between Bale and Leto will always be amazing. Bale's expressions during that scene alone are worth a watch.
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"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
(I don't presently have a region free Blu-ray player, as I rely on consoles for that. I might have to start thinking about getting one at this rate.)
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Yeah, I was going to post the trailer, but it had some mermaid nudity in it.
It's definitely the best Polish mermaid social commentary/memoir, 80s set musical I've seen in the last few years.
(And worth watching!)
I guess I'll watch these because I hate myself and I deserve this.
Awwww shit.
Yeah, I guess that's happening to me, too.
Edit: On the plus side, visiting hulu to verify this led me to a section of hulu called "Huluween" which I never knew existed. I guess it's just a focused section of hulu dedicated to horror. The point is, there's a category named "Spooky, not Scary" and my wife is going to be all over that. So, in a roundabout way, this was a good discovery?
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Drugs drugs I like drugs oh and i guess society has some problems so I’ll mention them in passing but really I’m just all about the Druuuuuuuuuugs in fact why don’t you put the book down and go take some drugs
King: this book doesn’t mention drugs at all but I don’t remember writing any of it because I was zonked out of my gourd for about a decade
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
I bought the collection that came with the mask and 3d goggles in clearance once when I was out of town for work. I rather enjoyed watching through all of them.
King: I was so high that I thought I made a movie with Lisa Simpson.
The Shining, Doctor Sleep, and The Tommyknockers are about alcoholism
Misery is about addiction to pills
The Dark Half and Needful Things are less specific but still about addiction (recidivism and recognizing it, respectively)
A fair number of his short stories are about a smoking habit
Broadly speaking the majority of King’s work was about addiction and drugs until he got hit by a van, and then they were pretty much all metaphors for getting hit by a van (Dreamcatcher, From a Buick 8, Lisey’s Story, Duma Key, the last few Dark Towers)
Since then he’s been in a period of pastiche and self-pastiche that seems less personally motivated, although they’re not without their charms
Reminds me of how I went through all the Resident Evil films before the RE2 remake came out. Holy fuck was that a painful experience, those movies start off bad and then plummet towards stunning depths of terrible. Honestly one of my worst movie experiences, sitting through all those. Especially since I'd watch one, then find out there was another fucking sequel and that happened to me like three times.
Though the Friday the 13th movies can actually be entertaining, even if only for the camp. The RE movie franchise is just pain.
It really is. Kumail is great. Ray Romano is surprisingly good. And Holly Hunter is out of this world.
Anupam Kher and Zenobia Shroff are great too, but the greatness of that movie really comes down to the writing and the performances of Holly Hunter and Kumail Nanjiani.
It looked terrible, but something cool has come out of it. I was watching Hot Ones interview Kumail and I couldn't get over how swole he is. Apparently, working with Bautista inspired him to get shredded. He's put on 20 pounds and looks sexy.
I was also pleased to see Vella Lovell in something (she was one of the potential arrangees) because she's delightful, but the whole movie was just a joy.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/07/14/lashana-lynch-will-introduced-bond-25-audiences-new-007-10287976
May god have mercy on my soul.
Edit: Ha, another Bautista preview. So he’s just gonna be Discount Rock now, right?
Can I just preorder my tickets now?
It's a quasi buddy cop movie; meathead detective doesn't care for anything but the job, gets lasik surgery, but shock! He gets a lead for a drug deal with his sworn nemesis, Rama from The Raid, but he can't drive! And he has to attend his daughter's art exhibit that night too! So he gets Sad! Nice Guy (TM) to Uber him around, and they butt heads but make each other better, awwwww.
The general idea of the movie feels like it was a script made in '03, probably around the same time Jimmy Fallon's smash hit Taxi came out, but no one wanted to touch it until an ex-studio intern found it and just added Uber to the mix. It's just really by the numbers with at least not as much bad improv as you'd expect, Nanjiani is riffing but the film doesn't pause the scenes for asspats like others comedies have done. I mean one character is gone ten minutes into the movie (and the opening was filmed in the same hotel Blockers was which was really glaring and apparent), another character shows up and is easily the real villain because again the main through of the story isn't original, and even the artist daughter angle feels bland and generic and you know what's going to happen at the end but the movie still tries to hide it like it's fresh.
The action scenes aren't that good either but serviceable yet again just feel like copy and paste from other films (they try so hard to make a slow-mo shootout to odd music seem relevant but it's not), and by the end it really does hammer the Uber stuff home to a point where it's too in your face. Also, for a movie that is about Uber it seems very illogical and more plot specific to have the main character drive around in an electric-only vehicle in L.A. That said, there are two funny parts; one was the gun fire/throw gun/catch gun/hit and throw back that was in the trailer, and the other was Drax selling a joke with his confused blind face (You have another program, like Uber Eats? You mean Uber Guns? Uber Bullets?).
90 minutes, nothing to write home about, but probably gonna be one of those FX or Paramount Network movie mainstays in a few months. Watch it then.
Not sure how I feel about waiting for it on basic cable, I feel like they use the R rating so it might be worth a legit Redbox or something. Or waiting for Netflix/HBO. Or just skipping altogether.
* - If you've already seen the better movies playing, that is.
Shot @ 9:15
Pt 1: The misogynistic and domineering father needs a break from his stressful high-paying job and bothersome activist wife, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
Pt 2: The fiscally-irresponsible and emotionally-devastated single father needs fucking therapy, so let’s hire a nanny to take the children away
Mary Poppins 1 & 2:
In pt 2 the father’s financial problems never existed in the first place, ie, things aren’t so bad, they just look that way; the nanny’s magic is either the solution to every single problem or completely irrelevant, depending on how you look at it
Part 1 actually has a good message
Part 2 is just a complete mess
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Its interesting. Like Starship Troops i feel like the director was 50% laughing at the book the whole way through.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Funny that you mention Game Night I watched it with my brother on HBO Go a few months ago and was very surprised at how good it was. I was expecting a passable comedy movie and was blown away by how funny it actually was.
Obviously the premise is reminiscent of The Man Who Knew Too Little, but that's not a bad thing. I remember enjoying that movie as a kid.
Game Night also has some pretty nice cinematography.
The Huey Lewis & The News conversation between Bale and Leto will always be amazing. Bale's expressions during that scene alone are worth a watch.
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