[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo

checkeredhat

checkeredhat

The Mighty DucksI didn't expect this to hold up as well as it did. I mean, it is still utterly ridiculous, but even though it hits every kids movie and every sports movie cliche, it does it well.

D2: The Mighty DucksNot so much here. Oh man this is so much worse than I remember it. Also, Iceland is your villain? Really?! Iceland? And the other teams the USA has to beat to get there are Italy, Germany, and TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO? What division is this?

Honey I Shrunk the Kids
The green screen stuff is god awful. They rotoed it so badly you can actually still see giant green patches around everything. The sets and animatronics and everything still hold up great, and again, it holds up better than you'd imagine it would.

Bender's Big Score
Been slowly introducing my roommate to Futurama, which has given me the opportunity to revisit the whole series for the millionth time. We finally got to the movies recently.
Bender's Big Score is still the best of the four Futurama movies, in my opinion. Even after the series returned, there were a lot of instances where things just didn't seem to properly fit in that universe anymore. Bender's Big Score doesn't have that problem. Although it doesn't hold up to the fourth season, it was a great re-introduction to the series that was true to its roots.

The Beast with a Billion BacksActually, surprisingly better than I remembered. I laughed more than I thought I would considering I'd already seen it multiple times before.

Bender's Game
This is such a low point for Futurama. I felt embarassed showing this to my roommate. The stuff before they get into the fantasy realm is actually pretty good Futurama, but the fantasy realm stuff is just Family Guy-esque lazy satire. Roommate was excited for this one, but even he only laughed once or twice throughout the whole thing.

Into the Wild Green Yonder
My thoughts on this are the same as when it first came out. It was a big step up from the previous two Futurama movies, but still nowhere near the quality of the 4th (PRODUCTION) season. Still, think this was a great way to (potentially) end the series. Now I gotta get my roommate to slog through the horror that is season 6 (or 7, or 5, depending on how you count). Man there's some terrible episodes there. Bender's Game was a low point for the series, but the season following the movies reaches its LOWEST point for sure.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

Hey I love Rocky Horror, I just meant the Ritz at the Bourse is having a midnight showing. WHOLE month of midnight movies, wish I knew about it during the beginning.

Now I just need to decide what props to bring, I wish I had a bigger bag.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Yoshimickster said:
Hey I love Rocky Horror, I just meant the Ritz at the Bourse is having a midnight showing. WHOLE month of midnight movies, wish I knew about it during the beginning.

Now I just need to decide what props to bring, I wish I had a bigger bag.
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That's what I'm talking about. I dislike the movie as a social experience. I actually enjoy watching the movie home alone without a bunch of people yelling stuff.
 
Frank

Frank

Far said:
Roboflop was not great. I mean I wasn't really going into it expecting much, but was still underwhelmed. I spent more time watching the wide shots to see if they rendered Windsor correctly, or at all, than I did actually watching the movie. They did not.
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Yeah, it wasn't good.

There was so much that wasn't good. His gun was bigger, but managed to be less intimidating than the original. The ED-209s were bigger, but managed to be less intimidating. The music cues were trash, awful use of the original theme.

Yeah, it wasn't good.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Bowielee said:
That's what I'm talking about. I dislike the movie as a social experience. I actually enjoy watching the movie home alone without a bunch of people yelling stuff.
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I prefer this too. The stuff that people yell out all sounds extremely rehearsed and not that funny. I enjoyed picking the movie apart with friends way more than the public theater party with the throwing and the yelling.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Cajungal said:
I prefer this too. The stuff that people yell out all sounds extremely rehearsed and not that funny. I enjoyed picking the movie apart with friends way more than the public theater party with the throwing and the yelling.
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Again, not really what I meant. I meant that I genuinely think that it's a good, albeit strange, movie and not in a so bad it's good way.
 
Cajungal

Cajungal

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Bowielee said:
Again, not really what I meant. I meant that I genuinely think that it's a good, albeit strange, movie and not in a so bad it's good way.
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This is also the thing that I think.

I think it's an interesting movie to pick apart, not in a "this is wrong" way but a "this is interesting" way.
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

Cajungal said:
This is also the thing that I think.

I think it's an interesting movie to pick apart, not in a "this is wrong" way but a "this is interesting" way.
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For sure, it's one of the most subversive movies and I think that's what I love about it.

Plus, it has one of my favorite soundtracks of all time.
 
checkeredhat

checkeredhat

Star Trek Into Darkness
Meh.
It wasn't even close to being as bad as everyone said it was, but also wasn't anywhere near as good as it easily could have been. It was just mediocre. Maybe I'd feel more strongly if I had seen the Wrath of Khan and/or the related episode(s?) of the Original Series, but I haven't, so without that to go as a basis, meh.
 
filmfanatic

filmfanatic

checkeredhat said:
Star Trek Into Darkness
Meh.
It wasn't even close to being as bad as everyone said it was, but also wasn't anywhere near as good as it easily could have been. It was just mediocre. Maybe I'd feel more strongly if I had seen the Wrath of Khan and/or the related episode(s?) of the Original Series, but I haven't, so without that to go as a basis, meh.
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Honestly, it was kind of worse to me because of how it ended up being a retread of Wrath of Khan. It's like they had the opportunity to do whatever and instead they just go back to one of the best and most well-known Star Trek films. Personally, I would have taken a villain from the original series, revamp them and center the plot around that.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

filmfanatic said:
Honestly, it was kind of worse to me because of how it ended up being a retread of Wrath of Khan. It's like they had the opportunity to do whatever and instead they just go back to one of the best and most well-known Star Trek films. Personally, I would have taken a villain from the original series, revamp them and center the plot around that.
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I know they did it for that god awful video game tie-in, but I would've loved to see a big budget return of The Gorn.
 
Yoshimickster

Yoshimickster

I just saw the Lego Movie where me and my buddy snuck in a bunch of cheap snacks and the theater was empty so we could be as loud as we wanted and EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! And I will secretize the ending to my grave. MY GRAVE!
 
Shawn

Shawn

Yoshimickster said:
I just saw the Lego Movie where me and my buddy snuck in a bunch of cheap snacks and the theater was empty so we could be as loud as we wanted and EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! And I will secretize the ending to my grave. MY GRAVE!
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I want to be your buddy and sneak snacks into The Lego Movie.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

Yoshimickster said:
It was super easy. There's an unspoken code at this theater, either buy tickets, or buy snacks, but you don't need to buy both. United Artist on Tuckahoe Road I LOVE you!
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The things I've snuck into movie theaters include:

My own candy (the most common)
A Dairy Queen Blizzard
Sushi
Bag of Macdonalds
2-liter bottles of soda
My own popcorn (pro-tip, don't try to use the butter pump at the concession stand when you're holding a bag of orville)
A half-rack of ribs, bbq sauce, and wet-wipes
A whole apple pie.
Thanksgiving Dinner (team effort)
 
Far

Far

Once found an entire bucket of KFC and an extra large pizza box while cleaning a theatre. Wasn't even mad at either of those.
 
sixpackshaker

sixpackshaker

Ravenpoe said:
The things I've snuck into movie theaters include:

My own candy (the most common)
A Dairy Queen Blizzard
Sushi
Bag of Macdonalds
2-liter bottles of soda
My own popcorn (pro-tip, don't try to use the butter pump at the concession stand when you're holding a bag of orville)
A half-rack of ribs, bbq sauce, and wet-wipes
A whole apple pie.
Thanksgiving Dinner (team effort)
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I was half in the bag from watching football, drinking and barbequing all morning. A friend talked myself and my friend into watching a movie after the 3 o'clock game. So we snuck in a pint of whiskey. We were loud and obnoxious, so much so that a group that sat down in front of us, moved. I am a little shocked that we weren't kicked out. Then my buddy passed out through the second half of the film.
 
Ravenpoe

Ravenpoe

sixpackshaker said:
I was half in the bag from watching football, drinking and barbequing all morning. A friend talked myself and my friend into watching a movie after the 3 o'clock game. So we snuck in a pint of whiskey. We were loud and obnoxious, so much so that a group that sat down in front of us, moved. I am a little shocked that we weren't kicked out. Then my buddy passed out through the second half of the film.
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Well, I'm quiet with all of my food, because I'm not an asshole. :troll:
 
Bowielee

Bowielee

The only movie I was a jerk in was Nell. To be fair, that movie was boring as fuck. My friend and I ended up MST3King the entire movie.
 
ThatNickGuy

ThatNickGuy

Years ago, me and a friend of mine got dragged to see I Know What You Did Last Summer by our girlfriends. The movie was insufferably bad but unintentionally hilarious, so we wound up joking and laughing through all of it.

The best part, though, was the running joke me and my friend had going. See, at about the same time in WCW, Sting was acting mysterious, appearing up in the rafters (dressed very similar to The Crow for whatever reason). Any time he appeared, the announcers would point and shout, "IT'S STING! IT'S STING!"

Every time that ponce in the rain slicker appeared, I swear he was high above. So every time he appeared, my friend and I would look at each other and shout to each other, "IT'S STING! IT'S STING!"

We got elbowed so much that night by our girlfriends (who, admittedly, were laughing just as much).
 
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