[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Motherlover and Golden Rule are better than Dick in a Box anyway. Not to mention the other various skits he was in outside of Digital Shorts. Beyond that, yeah, I think he's a pretty good actor. He's done a lot better for himself than most singers who try to act and fail miserably, as he ended up having a talent for it.
Pretty self-explanitory. I'm sure I don't have to spell it out.
Just because he does better than Rhianna doesn't make him a good actor. There have been singers who came out as fantastic actors, so it's not completely uncommon but I just can't say I see Timberlake as one of them.
Please, spell out what liking The Social Network has to do with my persona here.
Justin Timberlake got into acting the right way. He paid his dues doing character roles in smaller and independent movies. I respect the way he did it.
He was also in Black Snake Moan and was perfectly fine in that flick.
He was a near spot on Boo Boo for Yogi. He did a way better job than Aykroyd. The movie was a piece of shit, but he did fine as Boo Boo.
Alpha Dog sucked, but he played the role fine.
He's in some shitty movies but he usually does exactly what's required and isn't distracting in the role.
He was a near spot on Boo Boo for Yogi. He did a way better job than Aykroyd. The movie was a piece of shit, but he did fine as Boo Boo.
Alpha Dog sucked, but he played the role fine.
He's in some shitty movies but he usually does exactly what's required and isn't distracting in the role.
Yeah I'm going to just have to disagree:
He was the weakest part of Black Snake Moan. Yogi Bear was terrible including Boo Boo (he took the role, he played it out, it was terrible), Alpha Dog (Same deal as Yogi).
I completely respect your opinion, but to me, he's only a step above Shia LeBeouf. (Bad movie choices and the good ones he picks, he ruin/near ruins)
He was the weakest part of Black Snake Moan. Yogi Bear was terrible including Boo Boo (he took the role, he played it out, it was terrible), Alpha Dog (Same deal as Yogi).
I completely respect your opinion, but to me, he's only a step above Shia LeBeouf. (Bad movie choices and the good ones he picks, he ruin/near ruins)
Such a gawd damn shame too, his 80s/90s flicks were just damn fantastic. He was always fucking crazy though, his father raised him as a UFO staunch believer.
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The Social Network was boring. It was well-filmed, but flat out boring. Good photography can't save a snoozer story in which you have no connection to any characters. It doesn't help that I find Jesse Eisenberg's one facial expression and vocalization irritating.
Now, I'm going to be a hypocrite. I just saw Meet Joe Black for the first time. I was suitably impressed, and rather surprised to see the critical reaction to the film. Many critiqued its pace. It was slow, but that seemed to me to be intentional. It was part of Death's holiday. It was him slowing down to smell the roses. A little trite but well acted and well shot.
Now, I'm going to be a hypocrite. I just saw Meet Joe Black for the first time. I was suitably impressed, and rather surprised to see the critical reaction to the film. Many critiqued its pace. It was slow, but that seemed to me to be intentional. It was part of Death's holiday. It was him slowing down to smell the roses. A little trite but well acted and well shot.
Southland Tales is a weird, at times beautiful, mess and JT has a couple really great / standout scenes and sequences. The little mini music video set to that Killers song was really great and something that probably less than 5 actors could have pulled off.
I didn't like it either, and Timberlake made it worse. What can I tell ya? Sometimes fade hits it square on the head.Alright Gilg. Fade didn't like The Social Network, how much more of an endorsement do you need?
Would you (or anyone else here) recommend watching this? I heard it was a bit of a mess, but some people say it's got nuggets of awesome that are quite worth it, and the Book of Revelations comparison has me a bit intrigued.
Iiiiiiiiii dunno. It's really long. And it is just a complete mess by any definition. I barely think it was worth it? It's also worth noting I saw it while I was recovering from surgery and high on vicodin. And I still slightly didn't like it. So. Um. At your own risk.
It doesn't make any sense. I read somewhere Justin Timberlake said "I still don't know what that was about."
Dredd
If ever there existed an apology for Stallone's Judge Dredd, this must be it. This was brutal, unforgiving, violent, gory, and over the top. And I loved every second of it. There's very little in the way of character development or story in general, but by god it was fun. It's very much a bottleneck kind of movie, where it's almost primarily set in one place (a 200-floor mega building complex). But yeah, it was awesome.
I put this movie into my favourite movie category: "So Manly, I Need a Shot of Estrogen by the End."
If ever there existed an apology for Stallone's Judge Dredd, this must be it. This was brutal, unforgiving, violent, gory, and over the top. And I loved every second of it. There's very little in the way of character development or story in general, but by god it was fun. It's very much a bottleneck kind of movie, where it's almost primarily set in one place (a 200-floor mega building complex). But yeah, it was awesome.
I put this movie into my favourite movie category: "So Manly, I Need a Shot of Estrogen by the End."
Easily the second best comic movie this year.
I went and saw Les Miserables. It was a mixed bag. Some of the performances were great, others were kind of horrible. I didn't think that Russel Crowe deserves all the negative reviews he's gotten. I hated the actor who played Marius. He sang from his throat and that is always annoying to me. Anne Hathaway was absolutely great, as was the girl who played Epinene. Hugh Jackman was OK. I was also disappointed with Sasha Baren Cohen as Thenerdier.
See, I thought he and Helena Bonham Carter were inspired choices. Both have musical chops and worked together in Sweeny Todd (were Cohen was much better) and performed really well in their spoken scenes. The problem is that they didn't perform "Master of the House" with the bombasity it needed, and the director instead used it as a chance to get some sight gags in. I really feel like this wasn't the fault of the two singers and the director is the one to blame.
I'm going to agree with Marius' singer. I physically recoiled whenever he sang. I had done vocal lessons from 8 years old until 18....and that is NOT how you sing.
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The best Dredd movie I ever saw was Officer_Charon
Actually, I fully agree with that. Master of the House is one of my very favorite songs not just of Les Mis, but of musicals in general and it was handled extremely poorly. Though, I do have to say that SBC having the only french accent in the movie was jarring. It kind of breaks the shared illusion that they're all supposed to be french, but have english accents.
Just watched this. I agree, it was a solid action movie and a solid comic book movie. Urban was a good Dredd and if there's a sequel I hope he's in for it.
That's one of the movies that's been perpetually on my "to watch" list and I never seem to get around to it. It's right up there with Casablanca and Network as to movies I keep telling myself that I have to see.