Movies

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Mon Jan 25, 2016 9:51 am

I really enjoyed The Hateful Eight. I guess I kept waiting for the rumored intermission that I couldn't believe it had been three hours when it was over.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 7:42 am

Saw the Revenant last night. Just a beautifully shot film. Some of the camera shots/angles were phenomenal. DicAprio was solid, and really did a lot of non verbal acting that isn't easy. But Tom Hardy was brilliant. Just so so good.

P.D.X. · Post by **P.D.X.** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 11:22 am

A_B wrote:Saw the Revenant last night. Just a beautifully shot film.

Yep. Had a very Terrence Malick feel. Loved the long single take when they first get raided by the indians. (Although I think there was some splicing in there, it was still pretty smooth.)

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 11:40 am

P.D.X. wrote:
A_B wrote:Saw the Revenant last night. Just a beautifully shot film.
Yep. Had a very Terrence Malick feel. Loved the long single take when they first get raided by the indians. (Although I think there was some splicing in there, it was still pretty smooth.)

Innaritu does those long shots. Birdman was almost one continuous shot, though of course it really wasn't.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Jan 29, 2016 3:21 pm

I finished Creed at lunchtime. Man, Sly was really really good. Not sure he was better than Hardy, but he was damn good.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Sat Jan 30, 2016 12:51 pm

Joy was dreck. David o Russell needs a different muse. J law as middle aged mom doesn't really work.

That French Guy · Post by **That French Guy** » Sun Jan 31, 2016 2:17 pm

A_B wrote:Joy was dreck. David o Russell needs a different muse. J law as middle aged mom doesn't really work.

Yeah, wasn't a big fan of the movie either. I never read previews (always filled with so many fucking spoilers) and didn't ask the GF what it was about, director+casting seemed enough for me. What a suprise !
It's a bit boring, although acting is decent most of the times (the atmosphere/JLau acting switch during the big scene at the end kinda threw me out of the movie though, looked like she was in a different era).

I saw the Hateful 8 last night. I liked it but not that much. Tarantino seems on the verge of self parody.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 11:17 am

Trumbo was solid. Cranston was really good, but I couldn't shake the Walter White similarities in some of the scenes.

[+] spoiler: It was weird when Trumbo started cooking meth!

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Mon Feb 01, 2016 5:47 pm

A_B wrote:Trumbo was solid. Cranston was really good, but I couldn't shake the Walter White similarities in some of the scenes.

[+] spoiler
It was weird when Trumbo started cooking meth!

In case I never mentioned it, Dalton Trumbo was raised in Grand Junction. Statue of him on main street, which was controversial among some residents, because of his politics.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 02, 2016 9:01 am

Meant to mention that Louis CK was strong as Arlin Hird in Trumbo.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Sun Feb 07, 2016 4:49 pm

The Shaun The Sheep Movie if you've got to entertain the youngsters, you could do a lot worse than this one.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Mon Feb 08, 2016 2:47 pm

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rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:33 am

I really really really ridiculously enjoyed the first film, but I had a not so good feeling about the sequel, and...

Brutally unfunny, visually off-putting, and filled with cameos so embarrassing I am bruised from holding a cringe for a full half-hour, Zoolander 2 is every horrible decision you can make with a comedy sequel wrapped up into one nigh unbearable film.

ouch

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 7:59 am

rass wrote:I really really really ridiculously enjoyed the first film, but I had a not so good feeling about the sequel, and...

Brutally unfunny, visually off-putting, and filled with cameos so embarrassing I am bruised from holding a cringe for a full half-hour, Zoolander 2 is every horrible decision you can make with a comedy sequel wrapped up into one nigh unbearable film.
ouch

I liked the first one, but as soon as this was announced, I had a bad, bad feeling. Nothing good can come from a sequel 15 years in the making.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Thu Feb 11, 2016 11:42 am

I'm still going to see it dammit.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 8:32 pm

Deadpool was pretty awesome.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:04 pm

tennbengal wrote:Deadpool was pretty awesome.

Yuuuup! Hysterical the whole way through.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Mon Feb 15, 2016 9:15 pm

Yeah - prob gonna go see it again - had no expectations and completely surprised by how good it was.

Johnnie · Post by **Johnnie** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:08 am

tennbengal wrote:Yeah - prob gonna go see it again - had no expectations and completely surprised by how good it was.

With the time and effort dumped into marketing him as a sarcastic asshole, I'm not surprised. Then the role is given to Ryan Reynolds.

It's basically Van Wilder: Sarcastic Asshole Comic Book Hero. It was perfect.

Zoolander 2, however. Not so much. The theater I watched it in had a $6.75 ticket for military, reclining leather seats, and food delivered to your seat. So that made up for it. Oh, and Penelope Cruz.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Tue Feb 16, 2016 8:12 am

Johnnie wrote:
tennbengal wrote:Yeah - prob gonna go see it again - had no expectations and completely surprised by how good it was.
With the time and effort dumped into marketing him as a sarcastic asshole, I'm not surprised. Then the role is given to Ryan Reynolds.

It's basically Van Wilder: Sarcastic Asshole Comic Book Hero. It was perfect.

Zoolander 2, however. Not so much. The theater I watched it in had a $6.75 ticket for military, reclining leather seats, and food delivered to your seat. So that made up for it. Oh, and Penelope Cruz.

I know there have been places like this for a while, but I am seeing more and more of this. I guess that's the movie version of the NFL stadiums having to compete against home viewing, with the caveat that a lot of home viewing of movies is probably less legit and no advertising cash is generated.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 7:39 am

Deadpool was tons of fun.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:15 am

I was in bed sick yesterday and re-watched Wonder Boys for the first time in years and the first time since reading Chabon's book. Such an underrated movie.

BSF21 · Post by **BSF21** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:16 am

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:53 am

I am more curious about the $5 tickets referenced...

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 10:59 am

there is a theater here that has 5.50 night on tuesdays, all showings. That's usually when i go.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:07 pm

Speaking of kids in the theatre... I saw The Hateful Eight on its opening day in Toronto, and there was a youngish Black couple there with their son who couldn't have been older than 6.

If you've seen the movie, you'll understand why the fact that they were Black is pertinent. In addition to the extreme violence, profanity, homosexual rape and mature subject matter, there is liberal usage of the N word throughout. And the final 25 minutes is a complete blood bath.

Yet they stayed through the Intermission and all the way to the bitter (3 hour) end.

Perhaps they were doing an experiment on the kid - but seriously, a sitter would have been a good idea in this case.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Wed Feb 17, 2016 12:12 pm

I went to see This is the End and someone had a 12 year old or so with them. And that movie is just about more obscenity than even I could handle.

degenerasian · Post by **degenerasian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 8:59 am

we have cheap Tuesday here. Saw Deadpool last night, it was excellent.

did you guys stay after the credits?

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 9:23 am

degenerasian wrote:we have cheap Tuesday here. Saw Deadpool last night, it was excellent.

did you guys stay after the credits?

Yes. Don't know enough about the comics to react to the reveal.

DaveInSeattle · Post by **DaveInSeattle** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 11:32 am

We watched "The Walk" over the weekend with my kids. And it was way better then it should have been, once you get past Joseph Gordan-Levitt's ridiculous french accent.

The last 45 minutes (the rigging of the cable and the walk itself) are great. Worth a redbox rental on a slow saturday night.

And, it should go without saying, if you haven't seen the documentary "Man On Wire" put that on the top of your list. Its fantastic.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:22 pm

20th anniversary of Bottle Rocket is this week.

You've probably never heard of it or dismissed it as a lesser Wes Anderson work, but I fell in love with the movie from the moment it started. I even remember I was just out of college and living with a roommate in my first post-college apartment working my first post-college job and we rented it one night from the grocery store down the street. (People still rented VHS movies back then, there was a video store inside the supermarket).

We watched the movie and then immediately re-watched it. Might have even watched it a third time, but even if we didn't we rented it at least a couple more times in subsequent weeks to watch it again. We were amazed that someone made a movie about guys we felt like we knew, guys that we had grown up with. That talked like us, acted like us. Even as good as John Hughes movies were/are, you'd be hard-pressed to make an argument that characters in his movies represent what someone in their early 20s is really like. Hughes characters, especially in the Breakfast Club, were archetypes, but Anderson gave his characters in Bottle Rocket and in subsequent movies the kind of idiosyncratic quirks that real people have.

Anderson has since made better movies, but 20 years later, Bottle Rocket still stands the test of time to me.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:28 pm

Bottle Rocket is on my very short list of favorite movies of all time. Like top 4-5. It's still my favorite Wes Anderson movie and his least Wes Anderson-y (still quirky, but more like a conventional comedy, with actual jokes and less of a preoccupation with being clever for its own sake). Definitely recommend if you haven't seen before.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:43 pm

I can probably recite all of Bottle Rocket from beginning to end. I think my favorite parts are stuff that you can barely notice, like when Bob is driving and complaining about his brother and runs a stop sign and you can see Anthony in the background flinch as he notices he's about to run the stop sign and mumbles almost inaudibly, "Just ran a stop sign back there."

And just for the hell of it, every character in every Wes Anderson movie, ranked.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 3:58 pm

brian wrote:I can probably recite all of Bottle Rocket from beginning to end. I think my favorite parts are stuff that you can barely notice, like when Bob is driving and complaining about his brother and runs a stop sign and you can see Anthony in the background flinch as he notices he's about to run the stop sign and mumbles almost inaudibly, "Just ran a stop sign back there."

And just for the hell of it, every character in every Wes Anderson movie, ranked.

Yep. It's my favorite Anderson, slightly ahead of Rushmore, depending on the day you ask me. Wes wasn't nearly as twee back then. One year in college, I went as Dignan one year to a Halloween party. I looked like a little banana in that suit.

So many great lines.

Bob, you're the zero out here in the car.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:03 pm

I probably like The Royal Tenenbaums a little better, maybe because it's a more emotional movie. Bottle Rocket and Rushmore are a close 2A/2B.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:10 pm

brian wrote:I think my favorite parts are stuff that you can barely notice, like when Bob is driving and complaining about his brother and runs a stop sign and you can see Anthony in the background flinch as he notices he's about to run the stop sign and mumbles almost inaudibly, "Just ran a stop sign back there."

That is maybe my favorite throwaway joke in any movie and one of the first things I remember about Bottle Rocket.

Also, my fantasy football team for a few years was named the Lawn Wranglers.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 4:34 pm

Alright, now. Seeing that movie is now on my to-do list.

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:20 pm

sancarlos wrote:Alright, now. Seeing that movie is now on my to-do list.

"Tell Anthony I love him."

"OK, man."

Post by **brian** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:25 pm

I could literally just quote great lines from that movie all day.

"He's out. You're out too. And I'm don't think I'm in either. No gang!"

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Wed Feb 24, 2016 5:34 pm

"Bob's gone, he stole his car!"

"Look at her, what has she ever done with her life? Nothing!"

"You're always at lunch now!"
"Not always."
"Yes! Always!"

"What the fuck is this?"
"...it's a leaf."

"Little bags, man..."

"What a lemon!"

"I hope this doesn't offend you, Bob, but your brother's a cocksucker."

(The great thing is how it's almost impossible to understand those out of context, so they don't spoil anything for those who haven't seen it.)