Movies

Post by **brian** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:02 pm

Shirley wrote:
Johnny Carwash wrote:On one of the Deadspin podcasts a while back, I think it was Magary who made what I thought was a good point: the Marvel movies are successful because they are made for kids, while the DC movies are made for 40-year-olds who still take comics seriously.
I'm pretty sure Deadpool wasn't made for kids, and it was awesome.

I don't think an exception necessarily disproves the theory. Then there's also the fact that it took years of griping and pleading from fans for them to make the movie in the first place.

rass · Post by **rass** » Thu Aug 04, 2016 5:23 pm

Johnny Carwash wrote:On one of the Deadspin podcasts a while back, I think it was Magary who made what I thought was a good point: the Marvel movies are successful because they are made for kids, while the DC movies are made for 40-year-olds who still take comics seriously.

I totally disagree with that assessment. The DC movies have been much less faithful to the nature of the characters being adapted, which is the sort of thing a kid won't care about but will enrage a 40 year old nerd.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 12:09 pm

The only review of Suicide Squad you need to read.

Post by **brian** » Fri Aug 05, 2016 11:22 pm

Watched Deadpool tonight. Was not impressed. Tried a little too hard.

tennbengal · Post by **tennbengal** » Sat Aug 06, 2016 6:41 am

brian wrote:The only review of Suicide Squad you need to read.

Thanks for the heads up - perfect.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Sun Aug 07, 2016 6:59 am

John C. Reilly in the Lobster is fantastic. Strange, dark movie with very muted colors and personalities, but a different story.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:27 am

I watched No Country for Old Men last night for the first time in years (it's on Amazon Prime right now). What a fucking masterpiece. Seriously, every bit of that movie approaches perfection. Javier Bardem rightly got a lot of acclaim for his performance, but for me, Tommy Lee Jones was the best part of that movie. Best works he's ever done.

Post by **Sabo** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:41 am

Shirley wrote:I watched No Country for Old Men last night for the first time in years (it's on Amazon Prime right now). What a fucking masterpiece. Seriously, every bit of that movie approaches perfection. Javier Bardem rightly got a lot of acclaim for his performance, but for me, Tommy Lee Jones was the best part of that movie. Best works he's ever done.

Co-sign. What I love about that movie is how little dialogue there is. Instead, the settings and the acting itself tells the story, and you just don't see that in movies very often.

Post by **brian** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 10:56 am

I can watch No Country every few months which is saying something for a movie as brutal as it is. Completely agree on its genius. I like the way the Coens twist some of the typical film-making conventions to make you think Josh Brolin's character is the protagonist. Then you get upended about 3/4ths the way through the film.

Post by **Shirley** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 1:14 pm

What's shocking to me is that it's only 166 on IMDB's top 250 movies. I won't bother listing all of the inferior movies above it. I guess maybe the violence and hopelessness of it bothers people such that they rate the movie lower? Surely nobody reasonable can say it's a bad movie.

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:49 pm

Fun fact: I call my wife sitting on my face the "No Country for Old Men" because she was doing exactly that when it won Best Picture at the Oscars in 2008.

The Sybian · Post by **The Sybian** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:54 pm

[quote="Giff"] "No C..unt.. for Old Men"

Is that your way of saying Howard, HDO and Sancarlos aren't invited to join you and your wife?

Giff · Post by **Giff** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 2:58 pm

The Sybian wrote:
Giff wrote: "No C..unt.. for Old Men"

Is that your way of saying Howard, HDO and Sancarlos aren't invited to join you and your wife?

No, no it's not. Howard gets past the first round of interviews because he gave us Giants tickets where we saw her favorite pitcher of all-time take the mound. I think Sancarlos' wife would be pissed. HDO has awesome taste in music, so he's past the first round too.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:51 pm

Shirley wrote:I watched No Country for Old Men last night for the first time in years (it's on Amazon Prime right now). What a fucking masterpiece. Seriously, every bit of that movie approaches perfection. Javier Bardem rightly got a lot of acclaim for his performance, but for me, Tommy Lee Jones was the best part of that movie. Best works he's ever done.

It's a phenomenal movie, and it adheres really closely to the (excellent) novel.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:02 pm

Giff wrote: No, no it's not. Howard gets past the first round of interviews because he gave us Giants tickets where we saw her favorite pitcher of all-time take the mound. I think Sancarlos' wife would be pissed. HDO has awesome taste in music, so he's past the first round too.

As I always say, the true honor is being nominated.

And No Country is an awesome movie, but compared to the other Coen Bros films that I often rewatch, that one gets fewer viewings than it deserves because it is so damn intense. More often I'd rather spend two hours with Barton Fink, Ed Crane, Ulysses Everett McGill, Hi and Ed or even Jerry Lundergaard than with Anton Chigurh.

sancarlos · Post by **sancarlos** » Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:15 pm

I co-sign the love for Coen Brothers movies. And, that movie is certainly intense.

Ps: Giff is right. If Mrs. sck ever even suspected I had extra-marital whoopie, I'd likely come to a quick, painful demise.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:33 pm

The movie I wrote is getting a one-day theatrical release ahead of a full blitz on the Disney networks around the English-speaking world.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... 15/.106260

It's no "Citizen Kane," but it's a living!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 6:34 pm

That is awesome! I'll try to check it out.

Johnny Carwash · Post by **Johnny Carwash** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:10 pm

Congratulations Pruitt, great job!

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 7:15 pm

On my way to see sully. And also just watched he end of captain Philips. I can't quit Tom hanks.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 8:35 pm

A_B wrote:That is awesome! I'll try to check it out.

Coming to Disney. I wrote half the episodes for the second season which is airing now. A silly show, but some of it's kinda funny.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Fri Sep 09, 2016 9:28 pm

Wow. Movie was short. Well done but the trailers are misleading. Sully that is.

I remember texting with hood when that happened. He was in Manhattan for 9/11 and it was basically a PTSD trigger. Not really but bad memories.

A_B · Post by **A_B** » Thu Sep 22, 2016 9:11 pm

Watched A walk in the woods. God for as great of a book as that was the movie paled. Nolte was pretty great but God Redford was boring as hell.

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 8:37 am

Watched One Wall: Kings of Coney Island. This is a documentary about the One Wall Handball National Championships. What an interesting set of characters. Back in college I had to write an paper for intro to Anthology. I would be very interested in an academic study of these folks. Maybe it is just because I am not a New Yorker...but these characters were great.

Steve of phpBB · Post by **Steve of phpBB** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:45 pm

Pruitt wrote:The movie I wrote is getting a one-day theatrical release ahead of a full blitz on the Disney networks around the English-speaking world.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... 15/.106260

It's no "Citizen Kane," but it's a living!

Wait - you wrote the largest grossing film in Japan for 2015? What are you doing with us losers?

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:48 pm

Damn, I didn't read to the bottom of the linked page. 7.8 billion yen, thats like what, six, seven thousand bucks?

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 2:55 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote:
Pruitt wrote:The movie I wrote is getting a one-day theatrical release ahead of a full blitz on the Disney networks around the English-speaking world.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... 15/.106260

It's no "Citizen Kane," but it's a living!
Wait - you wrote the largest grossing film in Japan for 2015? What are you doing with us losers?

If I got my IMDB correct, there are probably some swamp folk who think you owe them several shots for having a writing credit on Paw Patrol. And I want to know if GPJ influenced "The Day My Butt Went Psycho!".

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:33 pm

wlu_lax6 wrote:
Steve of phpBB wrote:
Pruitt wrote:The movie I wrote is getting a one-day theatrical release ahead of a full blitz on the Disney networks around the English-speaking world.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/20 ... 15/.106260

It's no "Citizen Kane," but it's a living!
Wait - you wrote the largest grossing film in Japan for 2015? What are you doing with us losers?
If I got my IMDB correct, there are probably some swamp folk who think you owe them several shots for having a writing credit on Paw Patrol. And I want to know if GPJ influenced "The Day My Butt Went Psycho!".

Yeah, I'm a legend among Kindergarteners.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:36 pm

howard wrote:Damn, I didn't read to the bottom of the linked page. 7.8 billion yen, thats like what, six, seven thousand bucks?

That's 80 million. And the sequel was released the same weekend as the latest T'Star Wars" movie and outgrossed it for the first three weeks.

And most importantly of all... the cheques clear, and I get to write fart jokes.

howard · Post by **howard** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 5:41 pm

I bet the Japanese are big on fart jokes.

govmentchedda · Post by **govmentchedda** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 7:20 pm

My 2.5 year old doesn't know yet that the Paw Patrol aren't real, but once he does, you'll be his hero.

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Fri Sep 23, 2016 7:43 pm

govmentchedda wrote:My 2.5 year old doesn't know yet that the Paw Patrol aren't real, but once he does, you'll be his hero.

The kids love it!

rass · Post by **rass** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:49 pm

mister d · Post by **mister d** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 12:55 pm

Oh fuck, really? Are you the guy who invented Tracker? Is Ryder's voice different because the same kid is aging or because its a new kid?

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 4:49 pm

mister d wrote:Oh fuck, really? Are you the guy who invented Tracker? Is Ryder's voice different because the same kid is aging or because its a new kid?

Yes. No. Not sure.

I wrote on the first two seasons, and Tracker was introduced in the third.

This is the show I've been working on pretty much full time for the past year. High-quality educational content for the young ones!

wlu_lax6 · Post by **wlu_lax6** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 6:31 am

Pruitt wrote:
mister d wrote:Oh fuck, really? Are you the guy who invented Tracker? Is Ryder's voice different because the same kid is aging or because its a new kid?
Yes. No. Not sure.

I wrote on the first two seasons, and Tracker was introduced in the third.

This is the show I've been working on pretty much full time for the past year. High-quality educational content for the young ones!

I love the idea of Pruitt sitting in front of his computer writing "Long Wet..followed by purple gas wrapping around head"

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 7:11 am

This really is the best gig I've had in more than 20 years.

And it would be written like this -

Cheeksqueek tenses and then <FARTS - Continues>. Purple mist shoots out of his "mouth."

Post by **brian** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:18 am

Well done. Made me want to fart afterwards.

howard · Post by **howard** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 10:41 am

I laughed, I cried…I farted. (It was better than Cats)

Pruitt · Post by **Pruitt** » Tue Sep 27, 2016 5:35 pm

howard wrote:I laughed, I cried…I farted. (It was better than Cats)

Well, duh! Intense stomach cramps are better than Cats