Your parents actually to let you choose the same movie over and over? This suddenly explains a lot about you
[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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Yes. It's like with him, there was no way out.Your parents actually to let you choose the same movie over and over? This suddenly explains a lot about you
--Patrick
Dave
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I saw Short Circuit four times in one weekend and wanted to kill myself. The first time was just to see it, the second was because a friend wanted to see it and dragged me along, and the last two times were from dates (two different girls) who had to see it. The first time was okay. After that it was a trial.
GasBandit
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INPUT STEPHANIE! INPUT!
Dave
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I wish. I was in high school, my game was largely in my head.INPUT STEPHANIE! INPUT!
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Tucker and Dale vs Evil
Nice reversal of the slasher hillbilly genre. Funny enough. Definitely not an award winner or anything, but fun to watch.
Knights of Badassdom
On the other hand, this was stupid. Not worth watching. Jokes were flat, monster wasn't scary.
Kung Fury
Stupid, but funny. I do wonder how they thought of some of the gags. Like using a detached arm as a helicopter blade. Who wore it better, Kung Fury or Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
Nice reversal of the slasher hillbilly genre. Funny enough. Definitely not an award winner or anything, but fun to watch.
Knights of Badassdom
On the other hand, this was stupid. Not worth watching. Jokes were flat, monster wasn't scary.
Kung Fury
Stupid, but funny. I do wonder how they thought of some of the gags. Like using a detached arm as a helicopter blade. Who wore it better, Kung Fury or Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon?
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I mean I got that they were going for silly, but for me it overstepped that into just eyeroll territory.
Hot Rod
Damn good movie, like an eighties comedy plot but amplified to WEIRD degrees.
Damn good movie, like an eighties comedy plot but amplified to WEIRD degrees.
I found it incredibly boring. I get it was supposed to be a B horror movie, but I felt like it missed the mark by quite a bit.
Do tellYour parents actually to let you choose the same movie over and over? This suddenly explains a lot about you
.We saw dad every other weekend, and each of those it was one of our turns; i.e. sister, me, sister, me. So we didn't just see Jumanji, but it was what I kept choosing when my turn came up. I think the second two times were at the discount theater.
cool beans
COOL beans.
I liked it!
The Last Five Years
STOP CRYING IDIOT
STOP CRYING IDIOT
Gonna take that info, go out on Teusday while shopping and have a day.
GasBandit
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Inside Out.
Cute film, with interesting bits to pick up on. Also liked how it showed that even sadness has a valid role to play in a person's life.
Also, I thought it was interesting how every person had one of their five emotions usually acting as the "alpha" in their group. Riley's Joy ruled her roost most of the time, as she was young and innocent. However, her parents were different - Anger was in the driver's seat most of the time in Dad's mind, and Sadness seemed to be mother hen in Mom's mind - albeit a much more subdued and parliamentary version. Made me kind of think, who's generally in my driver's seat?
Cute film, with interesting bits to pick up on. Also liked how it showed that even sadness has a valid role to play in a person's life.
Like some of you others have commented, there were parts that hit a little close to home, and that was one of them. When my mother died when I was 14, I "banished sadness to long term storage" and just swallowed the grief and tried to pretend it wasn't there - tamping it way down inside to fester, and it ended up just giving me more issues to deal with. When Pauline died, I made special effort to not internalize my sorrow, and by instead going through the grief and loss openly and without reservation, I think it has helped me deal with it much more effectively. Sometimes it's OK to let the blue chick drive, in the long run. It's just part of life. Just make sure the glowy amber chick gets her turn, too.
Also, I thought it was interesting how every person had one of their five emotions usually acting as the "alpha" in their group. Riley's Joy ruled her roost most of the time, as she was young and innocent. However, her parents were different - Anger was in the driver's seat most of the time in Dad's mind, and Sadness seemed to be mother hen in Mom's mind - albeit a much more subdued and parliamentary version. Made me kind of think, who's generally in my driver's seat?
Gone Girl well that was a hell of a thing
Robin Hood (Russell Crowe & Ridley Scott version)
Wow. An absolute ton of Academy Award winners went into making this steaming pile. An origin story that didn't need to be retold again, with weird plot holes and absurd geographical nonsense. Lord Loxley's hall is said to be in Peper Harrow which is in Surrey, 150 miles from Nottinghamshire, in the movie as less than an hour's walk and part of the same jurisdiction (a plot point is the Sheriff of Nottingham threatening to seize Loxley's estate for back taxes). Nottinghamshire and Sherwood Forest are also 160+ miles as the crow flies from Dover, yet somehow Robin and his troops can get there in 2 day's ride. Worse, they meet with King John's forces near the Kilburn White Horse, which was built 700 years after the events of the film, and is in North Yorkshire, nearly 90 miles north of Nottinghamshire and not far from the Scottish border, hundreds of miles north of London.
For those not familiar with UK geography, this would be akin to George Washington preparing the repulse a seaborne invasion of Virginia by starting in Morristown, NJ, meeting up with his fellow generals in Albany, NY, and then heading for Norfolk, and getting it all done in 48 hours.
But all that aside, the acting was forgettable, the plot cliched, and Russell Crowe's "wisdom voice" that he uses in this and Man of Steel is laughable. Bizarre questions immediately arise, such as, if the French are landing at an allied encampment, as they are at Dover, why are they behaving as if it's a hostile landing, with men jumping out of landing craft like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan? Many are shown to drown from their equipment and yet, basically, they weren't initially under fire and had little reason for haste. We're given no reason the boats don't actually come aground, either - at Normandy, there were mines and spiked obstacles that would have pierced the hulls of the landing boats, so they couldn't come in all the way, but no such thing in this case. Secondly, Dover is dramatic but a terrible place to land. The cliff provides ample high ground for archers and catapults to rain fire down, and the only road off the beach is a narrow chokepoint.
Wow. An absolute ton of Academy Award winners went into making this steaming pile. An origin story that didn't need to be retold again, with weird plot holes and absurd geographical nonsense. Lord Loxley's hall is said to be in Peper Harrow which is in Surrey, 150 miles from Nottinghamshire, in the movie as less than an hour's walk and part of the same jurisdiction (a plot point is the Sheriff of Nottingham threatening to seize Loxley's estate for back taxes). Nottinghamshire and Sherwood Forest are also 160+ miles as the crow flies from Dover, yet somehow Robin and his troops can get there in 2 day's ride. Worse, they meet with King John's forces near the Kilburn White Horse, which was built 700 years after the events of the film, and is in North Yorkshire, nearly 90 miles north of Nottinghamshire and not far from the Scottish border, hundreds of miles north of London.
For those not familiar with UK geography, this would be akin to George Washington preparing the repulse a seaborne invasion of Virginia by starting in Morristown, NJ, meeting up with his fellow generals in Albany, NY, and then heading for Norfolk, and getting it all done in 48 hours.
But all that aside, the acting was forgettable, the plot cliched, and Russell Crowe's "wisdom voice" that he uses in this and Man of Steel is laughable. Bizarre questions immediately arise, such as, if the French are landing at an allied encampment, as they are at Dover, why are they behaving as if it's a hostile landing, with men jumping out of landing craft like the opening scene of Saving Private Ryan? Many are shown to drown from their equipment and yet, basically, they weren't initially under fire and had little reason for haste. We're given no reason the boats don't actually come aground, either - at Normandy, there were mines and spiked obstacles that would have pierced the hulls of the landing boats, so they couldn't come in all the way, but no such thing in this case. Secondly, Dover is dramatic but a terrible place to land. The cliff provides ample high ground for archers and catapults to rain fire down, and the only road off the beach is a narrow chokepoint.
What'll really rustle your jimmies is the movie was originally much different before Ridley Scot got a hold of it. It had a brilliant screenplay called Nottingham, where the star would be the Sheriff dealing with these outlaws in the forest.
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The best part was the freeze frame when the sheriff gave chase, and the Merry Gang's carriage jump'd yon brook, and Robin didst give a mighty bellow "YEEEEEE HAWWWWWWW!" and our fair minstrel sayeth, "How them Hood boys going to get out of this one anon?" before strumming on his lute.[DOUBLEPOST=1447705454,1447705294][/DOUBLEPOST]"Just the good olde boys
Wouldst ne'er change would they could
Having a row with the system
Like a two contemporary Robin Hoods"
Wouldst ne'er change would they could
Having a row with the system
Like a two contemporary Robin Hoods"
Every time I think about Robin Hood in the movies, I flash back to ROBIN HOOD PRINCE OF THIEVES, and when Christian Slater says "Fuck me, he cleared it." and ruined my life forever, since nothing will ever be that funny.
GasBandit
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For me the funny line was "Thank you, Lord, for teaching me humility."
--Patrick