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Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:18 am
by L-Jam3
There is no good reason in this day and age for a true comedic movie to last more than 120 minutes.

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:57 am
by Joe K
I think Apatow made a movie based on Pete Davidson’s life so that for once it would actually be believable when his awkward, pot-loving male protagonist wound up with a woman way out of his league.

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 11:49 am
by Nonlinear FC
Joe K wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:57 am I think Apatow made a movie based on Pete Davidson’s life so that for once it would actually be believable when his awkward, pot-loving male protagonist wound up with a woman way out of his league.
Solid take.

/not being sarcastic.

//seriously

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:56 pm
by EdRomero
Uncut Gems is stupid

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:03 pm
by BSF21
EdRomero wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:56 pm Uncut Gems is stupid
Disagree.

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:28 pm
by EdRomero
BSF21 wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:03 pm
EdRomero wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:56 pm Uncut Gems is stupid
Disagree.
I hate every character except for kg and that's just because he was a Celtic. Adam Sandler's character is exausting

Re: Movies

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 5:47 am
by Pruitt
L-Jam3 wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 10:18 am There is no good reason in this day and age for a true comedic movie to last more than 120 minutes.
Amen.

Re: Movies

Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2020 6:28 am
by The Sybian
EdRomero wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:28 pm
BSF21 wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 8:03 pm
EdRomero wrote: Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:56 pm Uncut Gems is stupid
Disagree.
I hate every character except for kg and that's just because he was a Celtic. Adam Sandler's character is exausting
I was so torn. I liked it and hated it at the same time. I just couldn't relate to any character and didn't like any of them. I hated every decision Sandler's character made, yet there was something about how the movie was made that I liked. Can't explain it.

When I was ring shopping, I had a coworker introduce me to the world of the Diamond District in NYC. The scenes in his shop were sooooo realistic. It's pure chaos, people screaming at each other in Hebrew, 100s of millions of dollars of jewelry in the seediest looking stores that haven't been painted since the 1950s. But the deals, my friend! Same coworker took me to Chinatown's equivalent. Equally scummy, equal amount of yelling from employees, but you cut out the middleman and are basically paying wholesale.

Re: Movies

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 2:35 pm
by DaveInSeattle
Drew Magary watched 'Gone With The Wind', so you don't have to...

The Gentlemanly Hater’s Guide to Gone With the Wind
Until this week, I had never seen Gone With the Wind. That neglect was one of the very few things keeping me feeling young at age 43. But then HBO temporarily pulled the movie from its streaming service last week to add an introduction that would provide vital context to a movie that is widely beloved but is also super racist. Well, of course, our finest Applebee-American citizens weren’t pleased to see the film get temporarily shelved by literally one streaming service among many, many others that have left it untouched. So they burned their Covid masks, strapped on their bandoliers, and made Victor Fleming’s 1940 Best Picture–winner the number one movie on Amazon in retaliation. Because these people must always be staging the least worthy protest they can possibly conceive of. #DeadRacistLivesMatter.

Re: Movies

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 5:55 pm
by sancarlos
That's an excellent piece. (And, despite its racism, somehow still an entertaining movie.)

Re: Movies

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 7:18 pm
by DaveInSeattle
The bus from 'Into The Wild' has been moved...


Re: Movies

Posted: Thu Jun 18, 2020 8:03 pm
by brian
Weird. I once did an installation/consulting gig at the Fairbanks News-Miner. One of the paper's claims to fame is that all north-bound railroad traffic in North America ends at the newspaper. The railroad literally ends at the newspaper and there are no other tracks north at the same latitude in Canada.

Once upon a time at least that was how they could be certain of delivery of newspaper and ink even in winter. (Most papers store only a month or so of either, the News-Miner building has a storage area as large as the rest of the newspaper to make sure they could maintain a store of it.)

For all I know it's still in use.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:17 am
by Shirley
I've lived in the south my whole life and I've never seen Gone With The Wind.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:24 am
by brian
Shirley wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:17 am I've lived in the south my whole life and I've never seen Gone With The Wind.
It's a great movie in my opinion, but obviously problematic in a lot of respects. I think most intelligent people can separate the virtuoso filmmaking from the goofy script from the Confederate retconning.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:29 am
by Shirley
brian wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:24 am
Shirley wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:17 am I've lived in the south my whole life and I've never seen Gone With The Wind.
It's a great movie in my opinion, but obviously problematic in a lot of respects. I think most intelligent people can separate the virtuoso filmmaking from the goofy script from the Confederate retconning.
I haven't intentionally not watched it, but it just never was interesting enough to me to justify watching a four-hour movie. If anything, I'm more interested in it now, just to better understand how it may have affected generations of people's views of the Confederacy.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 11:33 am
by brian
Yeah, for what it's worth I wasn't talking about you, just people in general. I was a little dismayed that HBO Max took it down. I get wanting to include an introduction that has a reflective historical perspective. A movie like Birth Of A Nation or Triumph Of The Will shouldn't just be available on Amazon Prime without any kind of context as to the system(s) that produced them nor arguably should Gone With The Wind, but I felt like it could have been left up for a few weeks while that was done considering it's still (adjusted for inflation) the highest-grossing movie in the history of the Republic.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:38 pm
by Jerloma
I never saw Donnie Darko. Should I see Donnie Darko?

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:18 pm
by A_B
Jerloma wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 6:38 pm I never saw Donnie Darko. Should I see Donnie Darko?
It’s weird. I won’t say I liked it but I didn’t mind watching it.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:52 pm
by Jerloma
Not exactly an overwhelming review. I'm alone. I could get a hooker. Should I get a hooker instead?

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:07 pm
by A_B
Jerloma wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 7:52 pm Not exactly an overwhelming review. I'm alone. I could get a hooker. Should I get a hooker instead?
Yes. You’ll still have time for the movie.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:10 pm
by P.D.X.
Screw AB, Donnie Darko is great.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:29 pm
by brian
Donnie Darko is great. The hooker depends on how much you’re willing to pay.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:36 pm
by A_B
I’m firmly in the camp that it may well be. Definitely need a rewatch. It’s fucked up you won’t deny.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 8:38 pm
by A_B
But seriously. He’d have time for both.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:14 pm
by Jerloma
I think I'll just get high and watch it. Maybe masturbate after. Who knows.

Re: Movies

Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:26 pm
by sancarlos
Jerloma wrote: Fri Jun 19, 2020 9:14 pm I think I'll just get high and watch it. Maybe masturbate after. Who knows.
So, I'm behind on the story. Did you ever make the move with the interested woman?

Re: Movies

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 5:29 am
by wlu_lax6
Watched 7500 on the Amazon Prime last night. Okay for a straight to Prime movie. Gordon-Levitt does a decent job. Better the Amazon balloon movie but would not pay for it.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sat Jun 20, 2020 10:05 pm
by Pruitt
Yep - "Parasite" is amazing.

Wow!

Re: Movies

Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2020 8:02 pm
by wlu_lax6
Okay it is not winning an Oscar but clearly could pull off a few popcorn trophies from MTV.....I enjoyed The Hunt.
Solid Blumhouse film. So you know what to expect...but even the credits add something fun.
Characters names inclue
* Flight Attendant / Not Stewardess / Kelly
* Yoga Pants
* Vanilla Nice (that is Sturgil Simpson)
* (Shut the F*** Up) Gary
* Rannnndeeee
* Dead Sexy
* Fauxnvoy
* Staten Island
* Bandana Man
[+] spoiler
The extras on "you get the know the people right up to where you would know the name and then we kill them..."

Re: Movies

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:36 pm
by A_B
Watching silence of the lambs. Holy fuck this is sexist.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:43 pm
by P.D.X.
A_B wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:36 pm Watching silence of the lambs. Holy fuck this is sexist.
Finally just watched that for the first time also.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 6:04 am
by Pruitt
A_B wrote: Sat Jun 27, 2020 9:36 pm Watching silence of the lambs. Holy fuck this is sexist.
Hated that movie.

Mind you, I avoid horror in any case, but that movie was just so grotesque with with central plot points that were so grisly that it actually offended me.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 1:36 pm
by Shirley
Man, SotL is a great movie. Yes, it's kind of scary, but it's so, so good. I guess maybe the characters are sexist - or at least the FBI guy - but they are pretty explicit about how he's using Jodie Foster as essentially bait. I'm not sure that means the movie is sexist. I mean, the main hero is a woman.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 2:46 pm
by brian
It’s a great movie and it is sexist in a way but I think Clarice is in on it. She knows she’s been used but goes along to further her career. So it’s also empowering in a way.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 4:50 pm
by A_B
I'm not even talking about the main storyline. It's basically EVERY SINGLE MALE CHARACTER she interacts with hits on her at some point.

Re: Movies

Posted: Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:17 pm
by brian
I mean you’re obviously not wrong but she eventually bests them all.

Re: Movies

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 8:10 am
by A_B
brian wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 5:17 pm I mean you’re obviously not wrong but she eventually bests them all.
DAMN! SPOILERS!

Re: Movies

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:25 am
by P.D.X.
I don't recall Hannibal hitting on her.

Re: Movies

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:28 am
by rass
They saved that for the sequel.

Re: Movies

Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2020 11:50 am
by A_B
P.D.X. wrote: Mon Jun 29, 2020 10:25 am I don't recall Hannibal hitting on her.
Not for sexual reasons, but he was definitely inappropriate.