Movies

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:23 am

Johnny Carwash wrote:Liked this take: The Han Solo movie proves that prequels are the worst

If the prequel explains the boast of completing the Kessel run in under12 parsecs can be logically explained, it will be worth it.

(Parsec being a unit of distance, not of time.)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:30 am

howard wrote:
Johnny Carwash wrote:Liked this take: The Han Solo movie proves that prequels are the worst
If the prequel explains the boast of completing the Kessel run in under12 parsecs can be logically explained, it will be worth it.

(Parsec being a unit of distance, not of time.)

I've already explained that to you people! It's as much about navigational ability as speed. Because planets move in orbits and therefore the distance between two points is constantly changing, and assuming hyperspeed is the theoretical upper limit of speed, the shortest distance covered making the Kessel Run would be the fastest route.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:34 am

I do like and accept your explanation (and I do remember it.) I want to see a Hollywood project smart enough to use it.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:35 am

howard wrote:I do like and accept your explanation (and I do remember it.) I want to see a Hollywood project smart enough to use it.

I'll make some calls.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:35 am

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:39 am

I've heard an elaborate mental-gymnastics explanation that Han deliberately made a nonsensical statement to see if Luke and Obi-Wan would pick up on it, in order to gauge their gullibility.

Post by **Shirley** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:46 am

A_B wrote:
howard wrote:
Johnny Carwash wrote:Liked this take: The Han Solo movie proves that prequels are the worst
If the prequel explains the boast of completing the Kessel run in under12 parsecs can be logically explained, it will be worth it.

(Parsec being a unit of distance, not of time.)
I've already explained that to you people! It's as much about navigational ability as speed. Because planets move in orbits and therefore the distance between two points is constantly changing, and assuming hyperspeed is the theoretical upper limit of speed, the shortest distance covered making the Kessel Run would be the fastest route.

Basically, Han solved the Traveling Salesman problem.

Ryan · Post by **Ryan** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 9:50 am

Han: "I can name that tune in 3 notes!"
Jim Lange: "So...like 1.5 seconds or something?"
Han: (Blank stare)
Jim Lange: "OK, we'll go with notes!"

Prequel.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 10:35 am

Ryan wrote:Han: "I can name that tune in 3 notes!"
Jim Lange: "So...like 1.5 seconds or something?"
Han: (Blank stare)
Jim Lange: "OK, we'll go with notes!"

Prequel.

Jim Lange! Wow...now that's a name from the past....my mom used to always listen to his afternoon show on KSFO when I was a kid. I remember that during the holidays he would do a bit called "Chief Santa" (a stereotypical Native American version of Santa) that would probably get him fired in about 3 minutes these days.

Of course, he also hosted the Dating Game as well...

rass · Post by **rass** » Sat Jul 18, 2015 10:02 am

Gone Girl should have ended with the "You fucking bitch..." line.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:58 am

John Cena is fucking killing me in Trainwreck. He's hysterical.

Edit:

And so is LeBron James too. He's a pretty good actor.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:54 pm

Samuel L. Jackson makes some interesting character choices. The Lisp in Kingsmen is one of them. Sort of like Ordell Robbie in Jackie Brown.

Rush2112 · Post by **Rush2112** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 11:11 pm

Watched 'Staten Island Summer" last night. Nothing ground breaking, but a enjoyable flick. Does remind me of the summer teen flicks of yesteryear.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:31 am

Here is where I drop by to note - the lastest Mission Impossible is really quite good. As they all have generally been. Turned into a pretty great franchise.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Aug 05, 2015 7:39 am

I dreamed I went to the theater and watched some movie. Then my friends and I loved it so much we bootlegged it at watched it at a house party that same night. It was odd.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:30 am

tennbengal wrote:Here is where I drop by to note - the lastest Mission Impossible is really quite good. As they all have generally been. Turned into a pretty great franchise.

I can't get past my preconceived notion of this genre of movie. How much of the MI movies are action scenes and explosions in relation to actual plot? I saw the first one in the theater, but haven't seen any others.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:31 am

I thought Ghost Protocol was tremendous. I think the plots are generally pretty good, considering the main thing is the action.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 9:54 am

I fully endorse this movie...

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:51 am

The Sybian wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Here is where I drop by to note - the lastest Mission Impossible is really quite good. As they all have generally been. Turned into a pretty great franchise.
I can't get past my preconceived notion of this genre of movie. How much of the MI movies are action scenes and explosions in relation to actual plot? I saw the first one in the theater, but haven't seen any others.

First one was the weakest as it has turned out - the last three have been just fantastic.

L-Jam3 · Post by **L-Jam3** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:21 am

The third M:I was when I remember saying to myself "Jesus Christ, Philip Seymour Hoffman can really act. He could totally mail this in for money, but he's pulling off this creepy smart guy like it's a tailored tux."

And one more time. Fuck heroin.

Post by **Shirley** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 12:59 pm

Deadpool looks pretty awesome.

And that MI that was directed by John Woo and was basically just one face-change plot twist after another was fucking terrible. The rest have been pretty good.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 11:36 pm

My 14 year old talked me into taking her to Jurassic World.

My god, that movie sucked balls. So so so bad...

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:31 am

Trainwreck was outstanding.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 3:13 pm

I just saw Captain America: the Winter Soldier last night. Pretty fun stuff. What killed me though was Nick Fury's tombstone. I loved that. I won't ruin it in case anyone else hasn't seen it.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 6:44 pm

We watched P.T. Anderson's most recent, "Inherent Vice" last night. Considering it was adapted from a Pynchon novel, its not surprising that it was weird as hell and didn't make much sense. But we both liked it. Joaquin Phoenix was great in it.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 5:32 am

Finally saw Ex Machina. Outstanding flick. Probably worthy of nominations at year's end in a just world.

That French Guy · Post by **That French Guy** » Tue Aug 11, 2015 1:32 pm

I really lilked Antman (but I usually like paul Rudd). Lots of funny bits (Michael Pena !), doesn't try to hard to be a splashing superhero flick, a few easter eggs for comics readers, fine actors.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:06 am

We watched "While We're Young" last night. Pretty solid Bambach movie. Very funny in spots (Ben Stiller has some great lines...like listening to "Eye Of The Tiger" to get pumped up for a meeting and saying "I remember when this was just bad..."). Worth checking out.

Oh, and it was great seeing Adam Horowitz (aka "Ad-Rock" from the Beastie Boys) in it, playing one of Stiller's friends.

Post by **Shirley** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 12:53 pm

rass wrote:Gone Girl should have ended with the "You fucking bitch..." line.

Just watched that last night. Fortunately, I only vaguely knew the story going in, so I had no idea where it was going.

<spoilers>

On hand, it was a really good movie. In hindsight, I love that they didn't go with an easy, Hollywood ending. It's tough to make a good movie where most (all?) of the audience is going to hate how it ends.

On the other hand, I do get an icky feeling that, while it's a good movie, it certainly perpetuates the common Women Are Crazy attitude. It's interesting that in this case the book and screenplay were written by a woman. I'm guessing the book and movie spawned a million post-feminism think pieces that either loved it for the strong female lead or hated it for the crazy, manipulative, rape-faking, murderous, female lead.

travzilla · Post by **travzilla** » Mon Aug 17, 2015 1:13 pm

Shirley wrote:
rass wrote:Gone Girl should have ended with the "You fucking bitch..." line.
Just watched that last night. Fortunately, I only vaguely knew the story going in, so I had no idea where it was going.

<spoilers>

On hand, it was a really good movie. In hindsight, I love that they didn't go with an easy, Hollywood ending. It's tough to make a good movie where most (all?) of the audience is going to hate how it ends.

On the other hand, I do get an icky feeling that, while it's a good movie, it certainly perpetuates the common Women Are Crazy attitude. It's interesting that in this case the book and screenplay were written by a woman. I'm guessing the book and movie spawned a million post-feminism think pieces that either loved it for the strong female lead or hated it for the crazy, manipulative, rape-faking, murderous, female lead.

We also watched this over the weekend and my wife and I felt the same way.
For whatever reason in the last year or two I've really become aware of and been interested in gender dynamics in society (and particularly in the sports culture, since that's where I live my life). Once you start hearing enough female voices explaining their experiences with double standards, and victim blaming, and slut shaming you start to notice it all the time.
The fact that millions of people saw this movie depict yet another poor white guy with his life ruined by a crazy woman, when in reality it is so overwhelmingly the opposite and the husband is the killer (or raper, or abuser), just doesn't sit well with me at all.
I'm not one to hold Hollywood movies to the job of setting the moral standard for a society so if this was a better told and acted story, or even explored some of those issues, I'd be all for it. Sadly it was none of those.

Jerloma · Post by **Jerloma** » Wed Aug 19, 2015 12:27 pm

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:28 am

The Wolfpack sounds interesting.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sat Aug 22, 2015 6:42 am

Straight Outta Compton was pretty good. Of course it was produced by Dre, Cube, and Eazy's girlfriend plus had Cube's son playing him, so it was geared towards certain things, but it was very entertaining.

Also, Fuck The Police! I completely forgot that that song got FBI attention.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Thu Aug 27, 2015 3:53 pm

For those of you starved for anything related to the new Star Wars movie, another brief teaser was posted that includes a couple new shots:

Better quality, plus sound, on Instagram.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 7:39 am

DaveInSeattle wrote:We watched P.T. Anderson's most recent, "Inherent Vice" last night. Considering it was adapted from a Pynchon novel, its not surprising that it was weird as hell and didn't make much sense. But we both liked it. Joaquin Phoenix was great in it.

Pretty much what I felt after watching it last night. Started out really great - felt that it could be on the way to becoming a classic... but just past the halfway mark it slid into near complete incoherence.

You know, if the relationship between Doc and Bigfoot was a little more clearly presented, there'd have been a thread running through that would have held it all together. But, probably very loyal to the source material...

Guess I can recommend it, but not too enthusastically.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 11:55 am

Went and saw Rogue Nation yesterday....and we both loved it. Great great action movie, but felt more "caper-y" than just explosions and gunfights. And the motorcycle chase was insanely great.

And Rebecca Ferguson? Yowza...what a bad ass.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 12:16 pm

Watched Southpaw. It wasn't too bad, but it was pretty cliche.

Dude on top is challenged, suddenly goes through shocking circumstances, faces serious adversity, goes through hell, finds redemption, & overcomes everything in the end. Add a decent soundtrack and average acting and there you go.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Aug 30, 2015 8:10 pm

DaveInSeattle wrote:
Pruitt wrote:
DaveInSeattle wrote:I'm home sick, so I just watched "Fury"...the Brad Pitt drives a tank in WWII movie. Wasn't too bad. A bit cheesy. But well made.
Dead Nazi factor?
High....to extremely high. And Pitt breaks out the "Aldo Raine" (from Inglourious basterds) accent.

The end borrows generously from Saving Private Ryan.

Wow! Dead Nazis left, right and centre. And three full frontal head explosions too.

Really enjoyed "Fury," but was really in the mood for a war picture. You want to see nazis die? This is your film.

Ot was very well done, and most interesting was that Shia Lebeouf was really, really good in it. Predictable, violent and satisfying.

Post by **Shirley** » Sun Sep 06, 2015 7:48 pm

Time for a little trip through Dave's week alone in Bellevue, WA with Amazon Prime:

1. Chasing Amy - I rarely do this, but I gave up on this one about 20-30 minutes in. Too much stilted dialog. I was bored.

2. The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - This was actually better than the first one, I thought. It was interesting that unlike most sequels, they made no effort to fill in watchers on what happened in the first movie. Given the popularity of the books and first movie, this was a good call. I actually think the movie worked a bit better than the book, because there was less of the boring love triangle crap.

3. Tucker and Dale vs. Evil - This movie was great. I loved it. A nice twist on the typical slasher film.

4. Defiance - Sort of Saving Private Ryan meets Schindler's List. Obviously not nearly as good as either. It was a good movie, but it dragged at times and felt like it was trying a bit too hard at times to be Schindler's List. It was worth watching though.

5. Sling Blade - Yes, I'd never seen this before. Great movie. As the dad of two boys, one with autism, this one sort of struck home. The whole time, I was waiting for some terrible catastrophe for either the young boy or Billy Bob. Instead, the ending was almost triumphant. I know it's cliche to go "full retard," I was impressed at the end to see that Billy Bob also wrote and directed it. It was fun to watch and pretend it was actually Bad Santa on a scam.

6. A Band Called Death - A documentary about a mid-seventies, all-black (three brothers - both kinds) punk band that almost nobody heard of until they were rediscovered nearly 35 years later. I want to find their music online now, because the clips they played were pretty awesome. The doc dragged in the middle, but overall it was good.

7. Hornet's Nest - Another documentary from US fighting in Afghanistan. It was good, but I couldn't help feel a bit weird at the end. It certainly was sad to see young soldiers die, and it was touching to see just how affected the other soldiers - including commanding officers - were. But yet, there was something striking to me about how in this awful fight that lasted for days, something like 6 or 7 (8?) Americans died while 100+ Taliban soldiers died. After seeing all of the death totals from all the other ISIS, etc. fighting going on recently, it just seemed like it would be nice if everyone valued the lives of young men/soldiers as much as the US soldiers seemed to be. I'm sure those Taliban dudes had moms and friends too. (I am NOT suggesting that we shouldn't have been fighting them. It just seems like if we are so moved by our deaths, we should be moved at least somewhat by ALL death, right?) I can't even imagine if we were so sensitive during much deadlier wars like WWII or the Civil War.

8. Pain and Gain - I actually liked this one, even though it was kinda dumb. Something about dumb, swole criminals. They're pretty funny.

In between all of these, I've been watching Archer episodes as well. That show fucking rules.

duff · Post by **duff** » Tue Sep 08, 2015 7:18 am

Shirley wrote:6. A Band Called Death - A documentary about a mid-seventies, all-black (three brothers - both kinds) punk band that almost nobody heard of until they were rediscovered nearly 35 years later. I want to find their music online now, because the clips they played were pretty awesome. The doc dragged in the middle, but overall it was good.

This doc is great. To think what they could have been had David not hit the bottle and died young. Their music is really really good.