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Old 07-24-2018, 02:14 PM   #4381
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Venom looks like shit, though. I have no idea why the response to the trailer has been so positive.

 
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Old 07-24-2018, 08:30 PM   #4382
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I'm actually cautiously optimistic about Aquaman and Shazam!.
I thought the Aquaman trailer looked incredibly bad, but I kinda wanna watch it anyway.
Shazam! seemed way more endearing than I expected, thought that was a solid trailer.

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Venom looks like shit, though. I have no idea why the response to the trailer has been so positive.
Yes! I don't get the hype around it. It has to be because people already love the character beforehand doesn't it?

 
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Old 07-24-2018, 08:37 PM   #4383
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is Shazam a movie with Sinbad?

 
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Old 07-25-2018, 02:59 PM   #4384
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Yes

He plays basketball against a team of slave aliens from Moron Mountain

 
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Old 07-25-2018, 04:18 PM   #4385
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a genie playing basketball? get out of here

 
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Old 07-25-2018, 09:40 PM   #4386
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Old 07-26-2018, 03:23 AM   #4387
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Perfect Blue - WTF. I am really confused.

 
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Old 07-26-2018, 06:28 AM   #4388
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So, we live in the universe where Shaquille O'Neal played Kazaam instead of Sinbad.

 
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Old 07-26-2018, 07:13 AM   #4389
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Who's that?

 
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Old 07-26-2018, 09:56 AM   #4390
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Perfect Blue - WTF. I am really confused.
right?!

 
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Old 07-27-2018, 01:04 PM   #4391
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Divergent - C+
A teenage girl fights for her life in a post-apocalyptic America, unintentionally taking down a dystopian/Orwellian government. Sound familiar? Apparently a Hunger Games cash cow rip-off (there are more like this??) that might be fairly interesting if you discard logic. After all, a futuristic aptitude test shows that 95% of all people just somehow conform to one of five types, because each pretty much has one defining virtue? Are people in the future just that one-dimension, or just the screenwriter's concept of character? Oh yeah, and then they can inexplicably be easily be brainwashed but that 5% somehow can't... or something? You know it's pretty bleh when the best part of it is an icy Kate Winslet as a villain.

Divergent Series: Insurgent
- C-
You'd think there was a time jump between films in the way some characters have changed (wow Tris cuts her hair and all of the sudden she's Sarah Connor?), but apparently this film takes up right where the last one ended. Insurgent assumes you remembered the half-baked dystopia from the previous film, so it needn't bother with establishing, well, anything. While this one makes up for the missing action in the first film, the characters seem to be simply drifting around in every other post-Apocalyptic trope. Not even a half-assed Naomi Watts can make this not excruciating.

 
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Old 07-27-2018, 01:22 PM   #4392
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right?!
what got me was the twist at the end with rumi. what a mindfuck. shit's like turn of the screw. you start going crazy along with the protagonist.

i'm watching hedwig btw. halfway thru and it's hella fun.

 
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Old 07-28-2018, 01:17 PM   #4393
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Old 07-29-2018, 05:03 AM   #4394
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Has anyone seen either

3 Women (1977) or Badlands (1973)

(A+ for both)

 
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Old 07-29-2018, 06:07 AM   #4395
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!QWERTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 
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Old 07-29-2018, 06:59 AM   #4396
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Has anyone seen either

3 Women (1977) or Badlands (1973)

(A+ for both)
Essential Altman and Malick
A for both from me

Try Days of Heaven for Malick, even better IMO
And Altman has like 10 great films

 
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Old 07-29-2018, 09:29 AM   #4397
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Divergent: Allegiant - D+
The third (and thankfully the prematurely-final) film in the Divergent series begins a bit more promising, as the main characters leave the Orwellian Chicago and we get to see a bit of what the rest of America looks like, although we only get so far as O'Hara Airport (oh and Providence, apparently). Everything is promising (do we get to see mutant cannibals??) until a ho-hum Jeff Daniels slows everything back down again to dwell on the ridiculousness of the previous films' "five factions" (oh this again?). By this point in time I no longer care if Daniels is like Chicago's Matrix Architect and if he's a good guy or a bad guy or whatever because I just want this dismal drivel to end. Judging by the cancellation of the fourth film, so did all of the actors, filmmakers and audience.

 
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Old 07-30-2018, 09:20 PM   #4398
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I have had a lot of movies wreck my shit and reduce me to a blubbering pool of tears, but Issa Lopez's Tigers Are Not Afraid lands somewhere squarely up top of that list. Any comparisons to Guillermo Del Toro are justified.

Make it a point to see it when you can. Bring tissues. A+

 
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Old 07-31-2018, 02:51 PM   #4399
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El Topo - Woah

 
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Old 07-31-2018, 06:28 PM   #4400
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I know, right?

 
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Old 07-31-2018, 06:47 PM   #4401
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'congrats' on 5000 posts buzzard, you absolute no-lifer, is this all you do every day? talk about what the best smashing pumpkins song is?

 
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Old 07-31-2018, 11:39 PM   #4402
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One things for sure, they certainly don't make 'em like this any more. Nor, I suspect, would anyone want them to. El Topo ("The Mole") is the deeply eccentric brainchild of veteran dingbat Alejandro Jodorowsky as he embarked on a film-making career as the 1970s dawned. As viewed through the out-of-their-gourd brainstems of a generation of American hippies, it was a key part of the "midnight movie" phenomenon, as celebrated by the recent documentary. If you're stone cold sober, it comes out a charmingly slapdash assemblage of mostly extraordinary - though sometimes idiotic - images and setpieces, culled seemingly indiscriminately from the planet's more lurid myth systems: Christian, pagan, pre-Columbian, you name it. There is a tenous narrative logic - in which Jodorowsky himself, dressed in cowboy black, must gun down four desert-dwelling killers - which gives the film a measure of watchability. But it's hardly deep.
-some douche

"If you are great, El Topo is a great picture. If you are limited, El Topo is limited."
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Old 08-01-2018, 07:48 AM   #4403
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Where is the 5000 posts buzzard ama thread

 
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Old 08-01-2018, 05:21 PM   #4404
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The Post - B

The Spielberg newspaper movie about the pentagon papers leak at NY Times and Washington Post, with Tom Hanks and Marilyn Streep (AND both Bob Odenkirk and David Cross!)

Really good except for 3 Spielbergian monologues that take you out of reality, plus a retarded shot of Streep walking past these perfectly arranged women... you'll know what I mean if you see it

 
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Old 08-01-2018, 06:40 PM   #4405
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'congrats' on 5000 posts buzzard, you absolute no-lifer, is this all you do every day? talk about what the best smashing pumpkins song is?
It's this very sort of open hostility that keeps us from the beautiful friendship that is our destiny.

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I'd consider doing an AMA;EN.

 
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Old 08-01-2018, 11:56 PM   #4406
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I'd consider doing your dad.

 
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Old 08-02-2018, 02:49 AM   #4407
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The Big Short - A-

soooooo entertaining

 
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Old 08-02-2018, 09:59 AM   #4408
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Logan - Pretty decent for a superhero film.
First Reformed - Awesome. Ya'll should watch this.

 
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Old 08-02-2018, 07:19 PM   #4409
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Hell or High Water - B

Nice cinematography and editing. Chris Pine was good. Felt kind of “staged” to this native Texan.

 
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Old 08-03-2018, 11:48 AM   #4410
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Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them - B-
A klutzy and overly-CGI'd expansion to the Harry Potter series in the form of a prequel centering around a character we feel nothing for and is never really developed, set in 1925 New York. Other interesting characters that have promise fall to the wayside (Katherine Waterston's Auror Tina) or are only seen for literal minutes (Depp's Grindelwald). Blame should be laid with JK Rowling herself, for thinking she could be a screenwriter. Regardless, fans of Harry Potter would enjoy the expansion into a full-fledged cinematic universe, and I did enjoy seeing the American version of the wizarding world. The ploddiness can be excused with the promise that future installments will be better--much like the Harry Potter films themselves.

 
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