Game Night was pretty good, yeah. Rachel McAdams no shit deserved an Oscar for that, she was amazing.
But they don't give Oscars for comedy performances for some reason.
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This may be a controversial opinion but i think Rachel McAdams is a very good actor and also quite pretty
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What about Booksmart? I legit thought that was one of last years best films.
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We watched Fan4stic because it was on the front page of Disney+ and I was a curious bub.
That was not the dogshit fire I was told to expect. Certainly paid to see worse. But it also wasn't any good at all and also the design on Doctor Doom was indeed dogshit and he was on fire for a lot of the movie and it was very silly. His weird head exploding scene was p.cool.
I liked immediately noticing all the reshoot scenes cause of the bad wig, and wondering what about that scene made em think this was a necessary thing to include.
I guess I ended up watching the Will Ferrel Eurovision movie instead.
It was
Uh
Well, it was a two hour Will Ferrel movie, so I guess I bought that on myself. The Eurovisiony bits are OK, and the songs sound right, but it feels like such a fuckin lazy movie. The script, the plot, the way it’s shot, everything is so “well, that’ll do”.
Yeah, my wife suggested we watch that last night and... I was "meh" about the whole experience. It's not even a good movie if you want Will Ferrell being Will Ferrell. It's like a romantic musical comedy with no chemistry. I mean, Dan Stevens is the best part of it.
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I guess I ended up watching the Will Ferrel Eurovision movie instead.
It was
Uh
Well, it was a two hour Will Ferrel movie, so I guess I bought that on myself. The Eurovisiony bits are OK, and the songs sound right, but it feels like such a fuckin lazy movie. The script, the plot, the way it’s shot, everything is so “well, that’ll do”.
Yeah, my wife suggested we watch that last night and... I was "meh" about the whole experience. It's not even a good movie if you want Will Ferrell being Will Ferrell. It's like a romantic musical comedy with no chemistry. I mean, Dan Stevens is the best part of it.
Dan Stevens is the best part of a lot of things, so I'm not really sure where you're going with that.
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The last time I remember people making a big deal about how funny a film was, was The Hangover. And it is not funny at all.
The Death of Stalin is absolutely hilarious. As long as you don't mind the humour being mixed with occasional horror.
"Nicky, this is very serious. I'm gonna have to report this. Threatening to harm or obstruct the central committee oh my god look at your fuckin' face!"
This weekend I watched a couple of movies I'd been meaning to get around to this past year:
One Cut of the Dead was a delight. Saw the trailer for this one beforehand, and even though I still felt intrigued and confused at the end of that, by the time I was watching the movie I felt the trailer maybe gave away a tiny bit too much. Highly recommend this one if you're looking for a kind of light-hearted horror-comedy, but definitely find out as little about the movie as possible before watching. It was real fun.
Crawl is of that special breed of movie that focuses itself, laser-like, on very few moving pieces, and spends its full runtime exercising every way imaginable to leverage those moving pieces against each other to see what comes out. Florida, hurricane, father and daughter stuck in a crawlspace, alligators. That's it! That's all the movie is. But it finds so many grounded-feeling ways to explore the tension between those elements. The alligators behave a bit more like movie monsters than they do animals, but other than that, every extraordinary event that the characters go through feels like a natural result of their circumstance. I liked this one a lot more than I thought I would.
I watched Starcrash, which is deliriously bad in the way that only an Italian rip-off of Star Wars starring David Hasslehoff could be. I’m not one for bad movies generally, but this was curiously compelling in its absolute refusal to hang together as a coherent story.
It felt very much like the SF movie they make in Community, the one kicked off by Keith David declaring “Let’s crap out this piece of crap”.
I watched Starcrash, which is deliriously bad in the way that only an Italian rip-off of Star Wars starring David Hasslehoff could be. I’m not one for bad movies generally, but this was curiously compelling in its absolute refusal to hang together as a coherent story.
It felt very much like the SF movie they make in Community, the one kicked off by Keith David declaring “Let’s crap out this piece of crap”.
I read this as Starcraft and was both confused and horrified.
I picked up the concept of "Marvel undercut" somewhere. The disease of constantly removing tension from your movie by undercutting every serious thing with a gag.
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I picked up the concept of "Marvel undercut" somewhere. The disease of constantly removing tension from your movie by undercutting every serious thing with a gag.
I think the Marvel movies are exactly as serious as I need them to be
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The quippy stuff is half of what helps it makes it easy to buy into the heroes as people, seeing as these folks deal with heavy shit constantly and it's a natural human response to cope with tough situations through humor.
I much prefer it to hyper-dramatic crap of silent glowers and close-ups with rising music to make it really really clear it's a big dramatic moment. That stuff always seems horribly artificial to me since it means people just standing around to ham it up for the best shots like they know it's a movie scene.
Babette's Feast: This is the least vegetarian movie of all time but I have to admit it is pretty lovely anyway
Julie and Julia: Meryl Streep as Julia Child is of course delightful, but the movie keeps cutting away from her to a modern day New York couple, The Boring McBoringtons. Honestly, the DVD ought to include a "just the Julia Child parts" cut
Tampopo: I am in love with the core concept of this movie: a "ramen western" (as opposed to a spaghetti western) where the cowboy-hat-wearing hero wanders into town on his trusty steed (in this case, a milk delivery truck) fixes a local problem (in this case, a lousy ramen shop that needs to be turned around with expert ramen guidance) and then rides off into the sunset. Anyway the movie is pretty fun. Afterwards, I naturally got some ramen takeout
The quippy stuff is half of what helps it makes it easy to buy into the heroes as people, seeing as these folks deal with heavy shit constantly and it's a natural human response to cope with tough situations through humor.
I much prefer it to hyper-dramatic crap of silent glowers and close-ups with rising music to make it really really clear it's a big dramatic moment. That stuff always seems horribly artificial to me since it means people just standing around to ham it up for the best shots like they know it's a movie scene.
yeah, not gonna lie, even now that I've become disillusioned with him, I still prefer Whedon's style to Snyder's.
The modern day bits of Julie and Julia were borderline unbearable.
I was sure that the modern day stuff was going to pay off and be redeemed with a scene where Julia Child visits with Julie (either in the flesh or some sort of fantasy sequence) (and thus, by proxy, visits with the audience of the film). Then that didn't happen tho
On a similar note I also had somewhat mixed feelings about the sections of Tampopo that cut away from the main storyline, but a yakuza member having weird food sex with his girlfriend where they pass an egg yolk back and forth between their mouths is, well... at least it’s interesting
That they never met up and all you get is Julie saying oh my god she doesn’t like what I’m doing and then nothing else was infuriatingly anti-climactic.
This weekend I watched a couple of movies I'd been meaning to get around to this past year:
One Cut of the Dead was a delight. Saw the trailer for this one beforehand, and even though I still felt intrigued and confused at the end of that, by the time I was watching the movie I felt the trailer maybe gave away a tiny bit too much. Highly recommend this one if you're looking for a kind of light-hearted horror-comedy, but definitely find out as little about the movie as possible before watching. It was real fun.
Crawl is of that special breed of movie that focuses itself, laser-like, on very few moving pieces, and spends its full runtime exercising every way imaginable to leverage those moving pieces against each other to see what comes out. Florida, hurricane, father and daughter stuck in a crawlspace, alligators. That's it! That's all the movie is. But it finds so many grounded-feeling ways to explore the tension between those elements. The alligators behave a bit more like movie monsters than they do animals, but other than that, every extraordinary event that the characters go through feels like a natural result of their circumstance. I liked this one a lot more than I thought I would.
I think I've said this before, but One Cut of the Dead basically becomes better and better by the minute. You'd want that out of any movie of course, but here it's a very specific thing. It just grows more delightful and fun continuously, due to its structure/conceit.
And yeah, definitely go in blind. I'm happy that I hadn't watched a trailer/read anything specific.
How is BttF III rated PG and full of people saying "shit" yet Captain America: Civil War is PG-13 and has only one "shit" and it's a big deal? I know the answer is that ratings are bullshit but I can't figure this out even by bullshit ratings logic.
How is BttF III rated PG and full of people saying "shit" yet Captain America: Civil War is PG-13 and has only one "shit" and it's a big deal? I know the answer is that ratings are bullshit but I can't figure this out even by bullshit ratings logic.
PG-13 did not exist until 1984 and they were still ironing out the quirks
How is BttF III rated PG and full of people saying "shit" yet Captain America: Civil War is PG-13 and has only one "shit" and it's a big deal? I know the answer is that ratings are bullshit but I can't figure this out even by bullshit ratings logic.
PG-13 did not exist until 1984 and they were still ironing out the quirks
III came out in 1990. I'd say six years should've been enough to iron things out, and at least have some consistency. It was very unevenly used in the early 90s.
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That they never met up and all you get is Julie saying oh my god she doesn’t like what I’m doing and then nothing else was infuriatingly anti-climactic.
Then, in real life, the real Julie cheated on her husband, who endured her obsession, with the publisher of her Julie and Julia book and divorced him.
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In terms of outright comedies there's Paddington 2 which is probably the closest to comedy you can get these days. Game Over, Man! is also pretty high. Yeah it's trying to mimic Die Hard but that feels like 20% compared to just going raunchy comedy.
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That they never met up and all you get is Julie saying oh my god she doesn’t like what I’m doing and then nothing else was infuriatingly anti-climactic.
Then, in real life, the real Julie cheated on her husband, who endured her obsession, with the publisher of her Julie and Julia book and divorced him.
That they never met up and all you get is Julie saying oh my god she doesn’t like what I’m doing and then nothing else was infuriatingly anti-climactic.
Then, in real life, the real Julie cheated on her husband, who endured her obsession, with the publisher of her Julie and Julia book and divorced him.
That reminds me of the Eat Pray Love actual author being an insufferable human. Which syncs up with the movie.
I would like some money because these are artisanal nuggets of wisdom philistine.
How is BttF III rated PG and full of people saying "shit" yet Captain America: Civil War is PG-13 and has only one "shit" and it's a big deal? I know the answer is that ratings are bullshit but I can't figure this out even by bullshit ratings logic.
I mean, one of them is two hours of people trying to beat and shoot each other to death. There ARE things that determine the rating other than how many times someone says "shit."
For example, do you glimpse a female nipple anywhere? That's a hard R.
(Ratings are stupid, yeah, but I'm fine with Civil War getting a stricter rating than BttF3.)
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Underwater surprised me and is definitely worth a watch, especially if you like anything which might give off vibes of Alien, Soma, or Event Horizon. If nothing else, it's notable for
literally involving Cthulhu as the big bad, although it was kind of a shame that they didn't explicitly do more than "giant monster" with it.
That they never met up and all you get is Julie saying oh my god she doesn’t like what I’m doing and then nothing else was infuriatingly anti-climactic.
Yeah, that's the problem with basing it entirely on real life. It turns out the whole thing was just a stunt and had no real climax or purpose. At least in the movie. I've never read the book so maybe there's something more useful or meaningful in there, but the movie has none of that. It's just "she cooks some shit, Julia Child doesn't like her".
The original Transformers movie had Ultra Magnus say "Open damn it" to get a PG rating on purpose. Same with Flight of the Navigator, there's a single "shit", to avoid the curse of a G rating.
Alternately, Silver Streak, has multiple instances of a certain racial slur directed towards Richard Pryor's character by the white bad guy, and blackface, and it only got a PG.
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That was not the dogshit fire I was told to expect. Certainly paid to see worse. But it also wasn't any good at all and also the design on Doctor Doom was indeed dogshit and he was on fire for a lot of the movie and it was very silly. His weird head exploding scene was p.cool.
I liked immediately noticing all the reshoot scenes cause of the bad wig, and wondering what about that scene made em think this was a necessary thing to include.
Quippy, anyway
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Yeah, my wife suggested we watch that last night and... I was "meh" about the whole experience. It's not even a good movie if you want Will Ferrell being Will Ferrell. It's like a romantic musical comedy with no chemistry. I mean, Dan Stevens is the best part of it.
Dan Stevens is the best part of a lot of things, so I'm not really sure where you're going with that.
"Nicky, this is very serious. I'm gonna have to report this. Threatening to harm or obstruct the central committee oh my god look at your fuckin' face!"
One Cut of the Dead was a delight. Saw the trailer for this one beforehand, and even though I still felt intrigued and confused at the end of that, by the time I was watching the movie I felt the trailer maybe gave away a tiny bit too much. Highly recommend this one if you're looking for a kind of light-hearted horror-comedy, but definitely find out as little about the movie as possible before watching. It was real fun.
Crawl is of that special breed of movie that focuses itself, laser-like, on very few moving pieces, and spends its full runtime exercising every way imaginable to leverage those moving pieces against each other to see what comes out. Florida, hurricane, father and daughter stuck in a crawlspace, alligators. That's it! That's all the movie is. But it finds so many grounded-feeling ways to explore the tension between those elements. The alligators behave a bit more like movie monsters than they do animals, but other than that, every extraordinary event that the characters go through feels like a natural result of their circumstance. I liked this one a lot more than I thought I would.
It felt very much like the SF movie they make in Community, the one kicked off by Keith David declaring “Let’s crap out this piece of crap”.
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I read this as Starcraft and was both confused and horrified.
I picked up the concept of "Marvel undercut" somewhere. The disease of constantly removing tension from your movie by undercutting every serious thing with a gag.
I think the Marvel movies are exactly as serious as I need them to be
I much prefer it to hyper-dramatic crap of silent glowers and close-ups with rising music to make it really really clear it's a big dramatic moment. That stuff always seems horribly artificial to me since it means people just standing around to ham it up for the best shots like they know it's a movie scene.
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Babette's Feast: This is the least vegetarian movie of all time but I have to admit it is pretty lovely anyway
Julie and Julia: Meryl Streep as Julia Child is of course delightful, but the movie keeps cutting away from her to a modern day New York couple, The Boring McBoringtons. Honestly, the DVD ought to include a "just the Julia Child parts" cut
Tampopo: I am in love with the core concept of this movie: a "ramen western" (as opposed to a spaghetti western) where the cowboy-hat-wearing hero wanders into town on his trusty steed (in this case, a milk delivery truck) fixes a local problem (in this case, a lousy ramen shop that needs to be turned around with expert ramen guidance) and then rides off into the sunset. Anyway the movie is pretty fun. Afterwards, I naturally got some ramen takeout
yeah, not gonna lie, even now that I've become disillusioned with him, I still prefer Whedon's style to Snyder's.
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On a similar note I also had somewhat mixed feelings about the sections of Tampopo that cut away from the main storyline, but a yakuza member having weird food sex with his girlfriend where they pass an egg yolk back and forth between their mouths is, well... at least it’s interesting
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I think I've said this before, but One Cut of the Dead basically becomes better and better by the minute. You'd want that out of any movie of course, but here it's a very specific thing. It just grows more delightful and fun continuously, due to its structure/conceit.
And yeah, definitely go in blind. I'm happy that I hadn't watched a trailer/read anything specific.
PG-13 did not exist until 1984 and they were still ironing out the quirks
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III came out in 1990. I'd say six years should've been enough to iron things out, and at least have some consistency. It was very unevenly used in the early 90s.
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Then, in real life, the real Julie cheated on her husband, who endured her obsession, with the publisher of her Julie and Julia book and divorced him.
That would have been interesting!
That reminds me of the Eat Pray Love actual author being an insufferable human. Which syncs up with the movie.
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I mean, one of them is two hours of people trying to beat and shoot each other to death. There ARE things that determine the rating other than how many times someone says "shit."
For example, do you glimpse a female nipple anywhere? That's a hard R.
(Ratings are stupid, yeah, but I'm fine with Civil War getting a stricter rating than BttF3.)
Yeah, that's the problem with basing it entirely on real life. It turns out the whole thing was just a stunt and had no real climax or purpose. At least in the movie. I've never read the book so maybe there's something more useful or meaningful in there, but the movie has none of that. It's just "she cooks some shit, Julia Child doesn't like her".
Alternately, Silver Streak, has multiple instances of a certain racial slur directed towards Richard Pryor's character by the white bad guy, and blackface, and it only got a PG.