Movies

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 7:35 am

How did that get greenlit?

Rogan and Franco come up with some weird shit when they're blazed.

Nonlinear FC · Post by **Nonlinear FC** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 8:47 am

DaveInSeattle wrote:We watched Spotlight last night. Damn good movie. Very well done. And infuriating on a million different levels.

All the acting was great, especially Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo.

Yeah, my wife is a somewhat lapsed Catholic and it really affected her. I "enjoyed" it for what it was, a well-told exposition of a truly terrible story. I was taken aback by the scope of things. The list of places where scandals had been uncovered was pretty depressing.

rass · Post by **rass** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:03 pm

oh no

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:05 pm

rass wrote:oh no

Funny, I was just coming here to post that same news.

Working title: Indiana Jones and the Assisted Living Cafeteria of Doom

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 1:43 pm

Nonlinear FC wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:We watched Spotlight last night. Damn good movie. Very well done. And infuriating on a million different levels.

All the acting was great, especially Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo.

Yeah, my wife is a somewhat lapsed Catholic and it really affected her. I "enjoyed" it for what it was, a well-told exposition of a truly terrible story. I was taken aback by the scope of things. The list of places where scandals had been uncovered was pretty depressing.

I know. That was brutal how those screens kept flipping at the end with another full page of cities. Even the Boston story is a bit understated. Those 87 priests that they found was actually 250 by the time they made the movie.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 2:47 pm

Jerloma wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:We watched Spotlight last night. Damn good movie. Very well done. And infuriating on a million different levels.

All the acting was great, especially Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo.

Yeah, my wife is a somewhat lapsed Catholic and it really affected her. I "enjoyed" it for what it was, a well-told exposition of a truly terrible story. I was taken aback by the scope of things. The list of places where scandals had been uncovered was pretty depressing.
I know. That was brutal how those screens kept flipping at the end with another full page of cities. Even the Boston story is a bit understated. Those 87 priests that they found was actually 250 by the time they made the movie.

The morning after we watched it, there was a big story in the Sunday Seattle Times detailing one Priest here locally who had been moved multiple to new parishes while the Church was fully aware of his abusive behavior.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Mar 15, 2016 9:10 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:
Jerloma wrote:
Nonlinear FC wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:We watched Spotlight last night. Damn good movie. Very well done. And infuriating on a million different levels.

All the acting was great, especially Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo.

Yeah, my wife is a somewhat lapsed Catholic and it really affected her. I "enjoyed" it for what it was, a well-told exposition of a truly terrible story. I was taken aback by the scope of things. The list of places where scandals had been uncovered was pretty depressing.
I know. That was brutal how those screens kept flipping at the end with another full page of cities. Even the Boston story is a bit understated. Those 87 priests that they found was actually 250 by the time they made the movie.
The morning after we watched it, there was a big story in the Sunday Seattle Times detailing one Priest here locally who had been moved multiple to new parishes while the Church was fully aware of his abusive behavior.

You'd think in the internet age, someone would post something about a pedophile priest letting people know when they are transferred.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 2:13 pm

File this one under "Dead-On Casting:" Margot Robbie to play Tonya Harding in biopic

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Mar 22, 2016 9:14 pm

"Brooklyn" is really good.

And you can score points by watching it with your wives as it really sets up like a women's movie, but is good all the way through.

Fantastic script and that Saoirse Ronan is really good.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:11 pm

The "Superman vs Batman" movie is getting killed by reviewers. Gems such as this:

AV Club review wrote:...all the fun of a protracted custody battle...

howard · Post by **howard** » Wed Mar 23, 2016 4:38 pm

By age 11, I had concluded the idea of Superman v Batman is absurd. Superman, and give the points, no fucking contest. And I was/am a Batman fan and lukewarm on Superman. The passing decades have provided no reason to change that conclusion.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:43 am

The whole point of Batman vs. Superman is to make Superman remember that he isn't a god. They played up that part pretty big with Zod in the latest Man of Steel.

I hope to god they use the money quote from The Dark Knight returns, but I have suspicions that they won't.

[+] spoiler

Superman was a great idea when he first came out. But Batman is more like the real world, and that's why he's the main DC character, despite Superman being the de facto Leader of the Justice League. In the Injustice storyline, every hero has an alternate dimension character who is kinda evil and working for Superman who realizes he is all powerful. Except Batman. Batman is doing right in both. He's far and away the most important DC character.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 7:46 am

The hitfix review was also delightfully brutal.

http://m.hitfix.com/motion-captured/rev ... act-at-all" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:41 am

And another brutal review:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/batman ... 1766555948" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:06 am

I'm sure this has been addressed before but isn't Batman just rich guy with a bunch of cool shit? Without any supernatural powers, don't you cease to be a super hero?

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:08 am

I don't like superhero shit in general, but the fact that Batman is just a regular person makes him my favorite superhero by default.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:29 am

That movie has always looked to me like it was going to be crap. I'm not surprised to find out it is.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:07 am

Has there eve been a successful cross-over in the history of cinema?

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 10:15 am

P.D.X. wrote:Has there eve been a successful cross-over in the history of cinema?

In the current context (even though Battfleck, who seems to be a bright spot in BvS, has never had his own flick) the two Avengers movies would have to count, so yes.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 8:02 pm

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Mar 24, 2016 9:41 pm

I was home sick today and watched "Snowpiercer" on Netflix. That movie was awesome.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 7:04 am

DaveInSeattle wrote:I was home sick today and watched "Snowpiercer" on Netflix. That movie was awesome.

The graphic novel it is based on is pretty interesting too. The third book in the series just came out.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 9:29 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:I was home sick today and watched "Snowpiercer" on Netflix. That movie was awesome.
The graphic novel it is based on is pretty interesting too. The third book in the series just came out.

I just read that graphic novel a couple of weeks ago. It was interesting, but not as good as I had expected. Great idea and setting but the story felt very rushed. It needed to be at least twice as long.

The second one was even worse. I couldn't finish it.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 11:18 am

wlu_lax6 wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:I was home sick today and watched "Snowpiercer" on Netflix. That movie was awesome.
The graphic novel it is based on is pretty interesting too. The third book in the series just came out.

I'm not a graphic novel kind of guy, so I only had some basic information about the story.

[+] spoiler: The line "I know babies taste the best" just killed me. It was perfect, and Chris Evans delivered it perfectly.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Mar 25, 2016 8:04 pm

rass wrote:

That's awesome. Ten am tomorrow. I will probably enjoy it but I'm a sucker for batman. Man of steel was only decent though.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 10:04 am

It was...fine. I agree with some things in those reviews way more than I wish I did. But they are correct. This isn't a good movie. It's just there.

[+] spoiler: GODDANGIT BATMAN DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE WHY CAN'T THE FUCKING MOVIES GET THIS RIGHT?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Superman is a dope with no depth, and it's hard to tell if it's Henry Cavill's fault. I don't think it is.

Lex Luthor, eh...meh. He was great at the end but leading up to it he was way off.

BATMAN DOESN'T KILL PEOPLE!

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Mar 28, 2016 11:11 am

We watched "The Big Short" over the weekend. Good movie, very informative. Got pretty deep though in explaining the whole credit swap scam...the GF kept asking me questions about it, and I kinda hemmed-hawed my way through it. I liked the "breaking the 4th wall" bits trying to explain it...who can't love Margot Robbie in a bubble bath, drinking champagne, while explaining bundling mortgages.

[+] spoiler: I enjoyed seeing the "Mortgage Broker/Bros" at the job fair at the end, applying for jobs at IKEA. Nice touch.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Apr 03, 2016 8:32 pm

Johnnie wrote:I'm getting around to finally seeing Mad Max: Fury Road.

All I can think is "Damn, the welders and mechanics in post apocalyptic America or wherever are awesome."

I can see why this got a best picture nom, but it's not for the acting.

Just watched it and holy shit!

Up until an hour ago, my favourite action movie of all time was The Road Warrior - this may be the new one.

And that's with the spoilers and inflated expectations. Amazing stuff.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 1:20 pm

Showed my 11 year old "Raiders Of The Last Ark".

She thought it was boring. Clearly, I have failed as a parent.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:43 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:Showed my 11 year old "Raiders Of The Last Ark".

She thought it was boring. Clearly, I have failed as a parent.

But the Nazi's face melts!

What's with these kids today?

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Mon Apr 04, 2016 4:56 pm

Funny you should mention Raiders of the Lost Ark. I saw it in the movies, so I was about 7 and a half in 1981. A few months ago I sat down AEM (she was 7 and half at the time), and L-Jam4 (he was just short of 5) to watch the original Star Wars. They were freaked out by the first note of John Williams' score, and the jawas had them cowering, but the destruction of Alderaan barely registered.

Moral of the story: kids today are pussies.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Wed Apr 06, 2016 2:53 pm

Johnnie wrote:I'm getting around to finally seeing Mad Max: Fury Road.

All I can think is "Damn, the welders and mechanics in post apocalyptic America or wherever are awesome."

Or present day Cuba.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:07 pm

Damn...pretty good.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:10 pm

I recognized him, but had to GIS that shit to identify the actress.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Thu Apr 14, 2016 1:54 pm

rass wrote:I recognized him, but had to GIS that shit to identify the actress.

I'd recognize Emma anywhere, under any make up.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:20 pm

Things that make wlu_lax6 happy
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Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Apr 15, 2016 1:35 pm

sancarlos wrote:

HAHAHAHA

Rex · Post by **Rex** » Sat Apr 16, 2016 9:21 pm

Why the fuck is there a big budget dark fantasy version of Snow White? What is wrong with you people?

rass · Post by **rass** » Sun Apr 17, 2016 10:27 am

Rex wrote:Why the fuck is there a big budget dark fantasy version of Snow White? What is wrong with you people?

I think it's a prequel to the big budget dark fantasy version of Snow White.

Watched Ant-Man last night. Paul Rudd is just so damn enjoyable, but I think I could have enjoyed it even without him.