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[Movies] Talk about the last movie you saw 2: Electric Threadaloo
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I'm somebody on this forum that isn't Gas, and it wasn't me.
Wait a second, I'm somebody on this forum that isn't Gas!
So I clicked on one of those clickbait side-ads on FB, "15 Actors Who Could Play Snake Plissken in the Escape From New York Remake".
I disagreed with most of their choices - I mean, Kit Harington? Really? You know nothing, Snake. Also a bad choice, Chris Pratt. I really like Chris Pratt, but he's a lovable goofball. Totally the wrong energy for Snake. That'd be like if it was being done 10 years ago and casting Owen Wilson.
I did like three of their choices: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Timothy Olyphant, and Oscar Isaac.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the physical presence and has proven his chops for playing a morally ambiguous badass as Jaime Lannister.
Timothy Olyphant has the swagger and his role in Justified has earned him a slot in the conversation, certainly.
Oscar Isaac because if he can make Inside Llewellyn Davis watchable, he can make anything good.
My own choices:
Karl Urban or Armie Hammer. I wouldn't have thought so about Armie Hammer until I saw The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in which he was actually really good, and Free Fire looks nuts.
Sharlto Copley would make a good choice for Brain, Terry Crews as The Duke, Gina Carano as Maggie (the Adrienne Barbeau role, Brain's woman), Alec Baldwin as The President.
I disagreed with most of their choices - I mean, Kit Harington? Really? You know nothing, Snake. Also a bad choice, Chris Pratt. I really like Chris Pratt, but he's a lovable goofball. Totally the wrong energy for Snake. That'd be like if it was being done 10 years ago and casting Owen Wilson.
I did like three of their choices: Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Timothy Olyphant, and Oscar Isaac.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau has the physical presence and has proven his chops for playing a morally ambiguous badass as Jaime Lannister.
Timothy Olyphant has the swagger and his role in Justified has earned him a slot in the conversation, certainly.
Oscar Isaac because if he can make Inside Llewellyn Davis watchable, he can make anything good.
My own choices:
Karl Urban or Armie Hammer. I wouldn't have thought so about Armie Hammer until I saw The Man From U.N.C.L.E. in which he was actually really good, and Free Fire looks nuts.
Sharlto Copley would make a good choice for Brain, Terry Crews as The Duke, Gina Carano as Maggie (the Adrienne Barbeau role, Brain's woman), Alec Baldwin as The President.
This is now the movie random thread!
The African Queen.
I thoroughly enjoyed it both times I caught it on TV. I still really have no idea who the 2 protagonists are or why they're fighting Germans or even where they are, since I've never seen the first half hour of it.
They're in German East Africa in the early parts of World War I. Bogie is Charlie Allnut, a Canadian running a river boat that delivers the mail and small odds and ends. Hepburn is Rose Sayer, the sister of an English missionary who had recently died. Bogie was supposed to take her to the coast so she could get a ship back to England; instead she convinces him to take a makeshift torpedo and go down the river through a dangerous set of rapids that no one had successfully traversed, take take out the Konigin Luise, a German warship controlling the lake and keeping the British Army from being able to make progress.
Is that even possible?
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I don't think so, but it is true that this is how Bogart claimed he avoided sickness.
Geeze. Leave you guys to your own devices and you go all Family Circus.
Ouch.
What about @Ravenpoe? He started it!
He's just acknowledging that the family circus has been stealing from me for years! Unfunny jokes are my thing! (But to be fair I stole them from @Dave)
It's hard not to "steal" a bad joke from the guy who invented the concept of "bad humor" with the infamous "Urggh!" "Grraaahhh" joke.
"Fuck you, it's funny. Gronk."
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I guess it was there to show the lengths Saw would go to contrasted with the more familiar Rebel faction. But, yeah, it's kind of pointless when the threatened de-braining doesn't stick more than 5 seconds.
Remember this?
So it's available on netflix as "Robot" with subtitles if you are inclined to watch a 2:45 long bollywood movie. If you skip the music videos it's a lot shorter. Most of the action happens in the last 30-45 minutes. It's not sharknado bad, but it's not sharknado good either. It tries to tackle a number of themes, but does so in such a hamfisted fashion that it's muddled and forced.
All that said, the action scenes are reasonably creative, if you've got industrial suspenders of disbelief.
So it's available on netflix as "Robot" with subtitles if you are inclined to watch a 2:45 long bollywood movie. If you skip the music videos it's a lot shorter. Most of the action happens in the last 30-45 minutes. It's not sharknado bad, but it's not sharknado good either. It tries to tackle a number of themes, but does so in such a hamfisted fashion that it's muddled and forced.
All that said, the action scenes are reasonably creative, if you've got industrial suspenders of disbelief.
Finally saw Suicide Squad.......
What a piece of crap. Someone needs to tell WB that stuffing a whole bunch of popular music into a badly written and edited POS does not a good movie make.
Dumb villain with a non existent or just plain stupid plan. Too much Will Smith and Harley Quinn. Several of the Squad get hardly any screentime (see first point as to why), not that enough work was done to make their characters even slightly interesting, I mean Boomerrang was a joke, Croc barely did anything, was just a waste.
I did not care for it and really wish I hadn't wasted the time, when will I learn.
What a piece of crap. Someone needs to tell WB that stuffing a whole bunch of popular music into a badly written and edited POS does not a good movie make.
Dumb villain with a non existent or just plain stupid plan. Too much Will Smith and Harley Quinn. Several of the Squad get hardly any screentime (see first point as to why), not that enough work was done to make their characters even slightly interesting, I mean Boomerrang was a joke, Croc barely did anything, was just a waste.
I did not care for it and really wish I hadn't wasted the time, when will I learn.
I went in with such low expectations, that I actually had a good time watching it.Finally saw Suicide Squad.......
What a piece of crap. Someone needs to tell WB that stuffing a whole bunch of popular music into a badly written and edited POS does not a good movie make.
Dumb villain with a non existent or just plain stupid plan. Too much Will Smith and Harley Quinn. Several of the Squad get hardly any screentime (see first point as to why), not that enough work was done to make their characters even slightly interesting, I mean Boomerrang was a joke, Croc barely did anything, was just a waste.
I did not care for it and really wish I hadn't wasted the time, when will I learn.
This is exactly how I feel.
I just liked the spin-off of X-Men and after Torrenting the last few X-Men and being quite underwhelmed it was a nice goodbye to probably the best part of that lore in the last 15 years.
That said, it is hard to say goodbye to Stewart and Jackman in these roles, they were the best elements of all X-Men movies after so many shortcomings.
Also Jackman is literally Wolverine, he's made to be in that role and I'm happy it gave him success. He's great and charismatic and true gent.
I'm not gay but god damn I'd marry Hugh Jackman and let him fuck me everyday.
If you skip the music videos you have no soul. I ain't watching Bollywood movies if I don't get to see some of the happiest GD musical numbers possible by humanity.
I didn't skip the first few but it was getting late and I had to get up in few hours. It was either skip the numbers or turn it off and risk never finishing it.
Absolutely!
I showed this to a friend some months ago and ever since he uses it to start his daily workout routine. I play that clip often enough when I get home from get my spirits back for either chores or hobby time.
I wanna say Woody had a more mature reaction to losing his arm than Buzz in Toy Story 2, but Woody DID know he was a toy beforehand so I'm not sure.
I must have misread the list in the other thread. I thought Colossal was playing near me next weekend, but late this afternoon I decided to see if it showtimes were up. Turns out it was playing this weekend, only this weekend, and we had a half-hour to get out the door or miss it. Yaaay misreading!
For all that ... it was great, actually! I haven't read/watched Movie Bob, but I agree with his "go in blind" stance. We did and ... if you can see it, and you intend to, don't read any more about it. It's best that way.
For all that ... it was great, actually! I haven't read/watched Movie Bob, but I agree with his "go in blind" stance. We did and ... if you can see it, and you intend to, don't read any more about it. It's best that way.
For everyone else, I thought the whole thing was going to be a comedy, but this shit gets intense.
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The Lightning Thief
I read this book last week, and I enjoyed it. I remembered there was a movie, so I decided to watch it. Oh boy. What a turd. Really. I made it to around the beginning of the camp scene and turned it off. It was like watching a parallel universe version of the same story but where everything was bad, because there weren't any really major plot changes, yet they made it suck. There were quite a few relatively minor changes from the book, too, and they all seemed to work counter to the story instead of improving it for visual storytelling. Oddly, a lot of the changes they made weakened Percy instead of making him stronger--which is the opposite of what you'd expect from a movie. Examples? Percy's battle with the minotaur in the book was pretty epic, but in the movie it was lame. Instead of Percy somersaulting over the minotaur and forcibly removing his horn, Percy sort of just dives out of the way and the minotaur just breaks if off on his own after getting it stuck in a tree. Or Percy's fight with Mrs. Dobbs. In the book, he kills her with the sword Chiron throws him. In the movie--she just sort of flies off.
Other little things: it bugs me when they change the age of the protagonist. He's only 12 in the book. This kid was like 16. Fine, I can deal with that. But when the book describes Annabeth as having blonde curls on EVERY OTHER PAGE, it clearly makes sense to have the movie Annabeth be a straight-haired brunette. Meh 3/10, mostly for decent centaur effects.
I read this book last week, and I enjoyed it. I remembered there was a movie, so I decided to watch it. Oh boy. What a turd. Really. I made it to around the beginning of the camp scene and turned it off. It was like watching a parallel universe version of the same story but where everything was bad, because there weren't any really major plot changes, yet they made it suck. There were quite a few relatively minor changes from the book, too, and they all seemed to work counter to the story instead of improving it for visual storytelling. Oddly, a lot of the changes they made weakened Percy instead of making him stronger--which is the opposite of what you'd expect from a movie. Examples? Percy's battle with the minotaur in the book was pretty epic, but in the movie it was lame. Instead of Percy somersaulting over the minotaur and forcibly removing his horn, Percy sort of just dives out of the way and the minotaur just breaks if off on his own after getting it stuck in a tree. Or Percy's fight with Mrs. Dobbs. In the book, he kills her with the sword Chiron throws him. In the movie--she just sort of flies off.
Other little things: it bugs me when they change the age of the protagonist. He's only 12 in the book. This kid was like 16. Fine, I can deal with that. But when the book describes Annabeth as having blonde curls on EVERY OTHER PAGE, it clearly makes sense to have the movie Annabeth be a straight-haired brunette. Meh 3/10, mostly for decent centaur effects.
Sounds like I need to dig into the books. The movies were ok popcorn flicks, but I have no desire to see them again. The story itself is what carries the movie past its warts and bumps, so if the book series improves the other aspects then it's probably worth a read.