Apparently it’s all set, with a release date and poster and everything.

It will be somewhat “loosely-based” on DQ, but hopefully not quite as loose as his Brothers Grimm film (which I actually really enjoyed!)

He loves puppets too.

Ever seen the Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus? Some great puppet shit in that one.

Too bad Mr. Ledger died midway into filming, as I think the movie would have been better with his character just being played by him (no offense to Jude Law, Colin Farrell or Johnny Depp).

i saw parnassus but remember little of it unfortunately. just some visuals—some sort of circus. why is this? i don’t know.

my mind is however forever branded by brazil, which i have seen only about 5,377 times to this day.

man i can’t believe i remember the other one so vaguely. something about a disappearing act, a traveling circus, somebody trying to look behind some curtain... lololol. damn!

Hate when that happens.

It worse when you have someone say "oh, have you seen such-and-such a film" you say "yeah, I have" cos you know you have, but then they start to talk about scenes in the film you don't remember AT ALL. So all that does is make it look like you were lying.

Actually I forget a lot about it too. Tom Waits played the devil though. And yes, there was certainly a curtain, behind which some folks did step.

Also it had pre-Spider-Man Andrew Garfield.

Maybe time for a rewatch.

Tom Waits was fabulous as the devil. Very very funny.

eh! the movie was okay but not great ha ha ha. otherwise i would have remembered more or even rewatched on the spot.

i'm always game for rewatching brazil though

Brazil is iconic indeed.

I just watched the documentary about Jim Carrey playing Andy Kaufman on Netflix. Not bad, but Jim Carry is fucking bonkers.

It made me like Kaufman more and Carry less. I thought his whole spiel at The end was borderline patronizing. And while i sort of agree with him about “disappearing” it’s very easy for someone to say that who basically has no financial worries.

Still love Kaufman though.

i was watching the CBGB movie tonight but stopped partway through. does sonic youth, dna, or the b-52s ever make an appearance?

Agreed. The whole situation with the death of his ex- girlfriend stinks so that makes me like him even less.

The bit where he was saying "I decided I didn't wanna do anything I didn't have to" was bullshit. It's easy for him to say when he's tens of millions of dollars in his bank account.

Plus the whole thing where he constantly kept being a dick to Jerry Lawler was just stupid. To the point where Jerry Lawler had to take him aside to say that Kaufman was never like that off camera. Try-hard method acting in my eyes.

the other day (or week or something) i watched the new ghostbusters, with the women.

i don’t understand what is the problem people have with it and i liked it more than the original.

sure the original was some sort of cultural/merchandising phenomenon but i didn’t like that movie in the first place.

this reboot wasn’t that great either but on the one hand the visuals were way more spectacular so it wins on the basis on that alone.

and then there’s kate mckinnon who in this role was funnier than any other cast member in either movie in their roles. she looked and acted more or less like an insane, manic, ultraintelligent chicken. which was great.





yeah there were some dead moments in this movie and a lot of plot points were just about paying homage to the original— like all of the old fart cameos which were nice—and telling the backstory. but the original never did anything for me, so while i’m not gonna rewatch either one, overall this one wins by points—for me, anyway.

This makes me weep

did it damage a gasket? :D

Yeah i felt bad for Lawler. Poor guy had to keep being so professional the whole time. Also the fact that Carey started fucking with the great Milos Forman.

Carrey sent Forman over the edge I think. In one scene, Carrey describes a conversation he had with “Andy” on the phone about how tough it was to work with someone like “Jim Carrey” (or whatever), and Carrey kept playing the part, and said “I’ll pass it onto Jim” or some shit, and Milos said, “I just want to talk to Jim.”

Jesus.

Feels like a power play. Not anything else.

Jim Carrey is not Daniel Day Lewis, and even Daniel Day Lewis is a douchebag method acting fucjwad (but a goddamn good one). Anyway... Jim Carrey wanted to bring the world to his knees. It was all about anger and power, as far as I’m concerned.

You don’t seek to humiliate Milos Forman.

Those darn SJWs. Yep. People getting angry on the internet because they’re bored/want attention/think it’s the good liberal thing to do are what’s REALLY wrong with this country and everything in it.

SJW is an Alex Jones/Billy Gorman/crazy person wet dream term. It pisses me off whenever anyone uses it. Goddammit we are silly.

Never seen the new Ghostbusters, but NO WAY is it better than the originals (yes originals, plural, because Ghostbusters II was f****ng awesome).

i thought the guy was a caricature of a useless millenial haha. i didnt mind him, he was one of the actually funny things besides the chicken lady

as for your question, for me it’s like saying: did you like baby food when you were a baby? (we need more baby food restaurants)


the old ones were fucking garbage. the new one is garbage too but it looks better and has the crazy chicken lady who makes me laugh.

the only think i can remember about the old ones is the music cuz the movies were so dull. the music is like the cyst of a brain parasite that refuses to die. it’s “good”in that sense.

ok no, the premise that the former heroes are now doing childrens parties is great and funny and correct. i did enjoy that. but after that it’s just more nonsense.

The reboot is a misguided, muddle-headed catastrophe. Just a marathon of plot-holes, poor CGI and ad-lib babble. They tried to turn a razor-sharp horror-comedy into fucking Bridesmaids. Why?!?

sure but— what was the first one? or the first 2 whatever

razor-sharp horror comedy how?

i watched them both last year and they were a borefest

maybe in 1980-something they were better but i don’t know—much rather watch caddyshack

ps- ive never seen bridesmaids. don’t plan to either.

i should add that there are many “great” cultural products of the 80s that i have never enjoyed: michael jackson, madonna, ronald reagan, lady diana, back to the future, the breakfast club, top gun, e.t., rambo, gremlins, bon jovi, journey, hall & oates, etc

I do agree that the 2nd is underappreciated, but I can wholly see why the first one is still held in much higher regard.

:eek:

Wow man. Did you, like, not grow up in the ‘80s or something?

The Ghostbusters movies are dumb and kinda bad, but also hilarious and awesome. Not unlike Back to the Future.

If all you can remember is the music, maybe re-watch one of those days. At least the first one.

I think I have more fun watching the second, but the first is definitely THE Ghostbusters movie. Second has a lot to love.

“Where exactly are you from?”
“Ze upper-Vest Side.”

Bahahah!

i didnt see ghostbusters when it came out

but i saw star wars as a kid and now hate it too—i don’t always like now what i liked as a kid—like shitty candy

but scooby-doo, stupidest cartoon ever, i’ve always hated

Nebraska

i'm glad you broke my hating streak. that movie was really great. i wanna rewatch it now.

Desperately Seeking Susan

Still has a certain period charm but Madonna is insufferable. I get that she's playing an unlikeable character but a little charisma would've gone a long way. Rosanna Arquette is, of course, eternally lovely.

maybe, but when i actually watched the 80s stuff it it was a huge letdown, sorta like when i used to hear all about the amazing snickers bar but upon actually eating it was an oversweet piece of shit goo. or lucky charms cereal... your childhood sucks! (not yours personally— just saying it to america).

whereas with the new version, i expected shit already , AND indeed found shit, but laughed a couple of times (thanks, chicken lady).

but anyway i’ll stop with that because they’re all a waste of time ha ha.

I can't think of a single thing from my childhood that I returned to and thought, "That's so much BETTER than I remembered!"

Like, nothing.

I mostly finally get jokes and details better as an adult than when I was a kid. For example, a drunk politician character from "An American Tail"

same here. i have zero interest in nostalgia

Yeah.

Man, Batman ‘89 and Batman Returns like, MADE my childhood. When I went back and watched them in my twenties, I was thoroughly disappointed that the storylines form both films was paper thin, and that it was all style (good style, for the era) and literally no substance. Still great to look at though. Actually, not so much in that case.. both moved look like snow-covered shit compared to Nolan’s gorgeous reboots, but whatever.

That Hitlery Penguin was super fucked up.

“I’m gonna steal all of your children and kill them!”

Cool plot bro.

o man, i watched that last year for the first time ever and it was awesome. cheesy-awesome, but awesome. it embraced its ridiculousness fully and was very entertaining. so good, even the horrible song was appropriate. A+++ will watch again.


poltergeist?

Not Poltergeist the movie with actual ghost rape that you're thinking of is The Entity from 1983.

There’s basically a ghost rape in Ghostbusters. “I am Zule, fuck me” or something like that. Not a full rape maybe, but suggestive enough.

Also, Evil Dead = THE ghost rape.

All rape is terrible of course, but... just sayin’

yes! that’s the one. a rapey poltergeist.

i don’t think severian has seen it

The Wolf of Wall Street. Currently watching, so not through it all the way yet.

Nope, I know the scene, Dan Akroyd thought it would be funny for us to basically see Ray get a blowjob from a ghost, and since its one of the few scenes where we don't actually see a ghost onscreen, who's to say that ghost was female, huh Dan? Its a pretty dumb scene, is there a scene in the new one where a ghost is pleasuring one of them? I imagine not. lol