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h8kurdt 02.12.2018 09:18 AM

Sometimes, Rob... sometimes *despairs*

tw2113 02.12.2018 09:30 AM

I'll watch Citizen Kane some day, but only because a bunch of people think I should.

noisereductions 02.12.2018 09:34 AM

I feel like Rob must be trolling now.

Right?

demonrail666 02.12.2018 09:59 AM

I really hope so, cos I'd hate to think he's just turned into a common all garden prat.

!@#$%! 02.12.2018 10:17 AM

ha ha ha

this is good comedy

ilduclo 02.12.2018 11:04 AM

Not Kane, but

Citizen Jane, Battle for the City. Really well done docu, EXCEPT music too loud and not very good music at that....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fwf5h3MIdRs

Severian 02.12.2018 01:17 PM

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Originally Posted by h8kurdt
Sometimes, Rob... sometimes *despairs*


I only believe him about 6% of the time. I think 94% of his comments are bullshit meant to antagonize.

noisereductions 02.12.2018 01:34 PM

 

!@#$%! 02.12.2018 01:40 PM

man i have not seen a movie in a while. moving and all that.

wanted to see pantherballs or what’s it called but who has time? not me.

Rob Instigator 02.15.2018 09:06 AM

I prefer Touch of Evil. Citizen Kane is boring.

tw2113 02.17.2018 07:12 PM

Drop Dead Fred.

RIP Rik Mayall. He was perfect for the role.

Hello Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda as well.

Severian 02.18.2018 10:09 AM

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Originally Posted by tw2113
Drop Dead Fred.

RIP Rik Mayall. He was perfect for the role.

Hello Phoebe Cates and Bridget Fonda as well.


I LOVED this movie when I was a kid. Only child and all. I was frustrated that I couldn’t conjure up a kick-ass imaginary friend I actually believed in. It upset me quite a bit as I recall. Looking back, it doesn’t feel like such a bad thing, as it probably would have indicated child schizophrenia.

Severian 02.18.2018 10:16 AM

 


Started this last night... had an Amazon gift card balance so I bought the goddamn thing.

Didn’t feel compelled to finish it, and stopped half-way through to watch Halt and Catch Fire, which is free and on Netflix and I can watch whenever. So that’s not a great sign. Less of a great movie. Not great at all. Perhaps not utterly worthless, but wow... decidedly not good.

Not even playing. Bear in mind, this is coming from a guy who has watched and enjoyed Man of Steel several times, and watched BvS twice.

Zimmer >>>>>>> Elfman

!@#$%! 02.18.2018 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
bought


LOL

why???

i mean— if it’s for home watching why not just rent?

halt and catch fire is awesome yeah

noisereductions 02.18.2018 10:47 AM

wait, Justice League is out already? I thought it was March.

Severian 02.18.2018 03:51 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
LOL

why???

i mean— if it’s for home watching why not just rent?

halt and catch fire is awesome yeah


It’s not out for rent yet — won’t be until March. But it’s available to buy in stores and digitally. I had a a day off, a gift card to burn, plus it’s the first-ever movie with Batman OR Superman in it that I haven’t seen on opening weekend in the theaters. So I have been feeling guilty and strangely identify-crisisy about not having seen it.

Now, of course, I wish I’d just waited.

Yeah, Halt and Cartch Fire is all kinds of awesome. Hey isn’t Cameron played by the Replicant prostitute from Blade Runner 2049? Pretty sure she is.

Severian 02.18.2018 03:54 PM

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Originally Posted by noisereductions
wait, Justice League is out already? I thought it was March.


See above.

Out for purchase now, our for rent in March.

Not really important though, because I’ve yet to see anything that really recommends it. Might not even finish.

Bad guy is ALL CGI. Like... ALL. And it’s bad CGI. Could have put a guy in a helmet and it would have looked better in every way. Instead it’s a CGI stencil of some no-name actor’s face. Wasted opportunities all around.

!@#$%! 02.18.2018 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Severian
It’s not out for rent yet — won’t be until March. But it’s available to buy in stores and digitally. I had a a day off, a gift card to burn, plus it’s the first-ever movie with Batman OR Superman in it that I haven’t seen on opening weekend in the theaters. So I have been feeling guilty and strangely identify-crisisy about not having seen it.

Now, of course, I wish I’d just waited.

Yeah, Halt and Cartch Fire is all kinds of awesome. Hey isn’t Cameron played by the Replicant prostitute from Blade Runner 2049? Pretty sure she is.


send me your unused amazon giftcards instead of frittering them away like that :D

now you “own” that turd forever whereas you could have bought some good coffee with it instead

anyway yeah cameron is also that girl. i forget her real name, but isn’t she great? i think she’s great. my favorite character in that whole show.

Severian 02.18.2018 06:44 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
send me your unused amazon giftcards instead of frittering them away like that :D

now you “own” that turd forever whereas you could have bought some good coffee with it instead

anyway yeah cameron is also that girl. i forget her real name, but isn’t she great? i think she’s great. my favorite character in that whole show.


Noted

I hated her at first. Reminded me of one too many ex-girlfriends in far too many ways. But now I like here (on season 4, cuz I’ve been binging)

Donna was initially my favorite character. But she seems to have turned into a stone-cold serpent.

Can’t lie. Like Joe.

Hey, that guy who plays Joe would be an EXCELLENT Bruce Wayne/Batman —perhaps simply because of his relative similarity in portraying semi-psychotic rich guys to Christian Bale, but also because DAMN HE LOOKS LIKE BATMAN!

!@#$%! 02.18.2018 06:53 PM

joe is the king of the wood elves already

and yeah he’s the most interesting character maybe but i dont like him as a person— he’s too much a psychopath

as for donna—i’ll just attribute her latest serpentine qualities to your own mistaken interpretations and not look at this thread anymore with your usual spoilers ha ha ha ha

tw2113 02.18.2018 10:38 PM

The Road to Wellville...rather weird movie, but entertaining at the same time.

!@#$%! 02.18.2018 10:58 PM

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Originally Posted by tw2113
The Road to Wellville...rather weird movie, but entertaining at the same time.

dat the cornflake movie with ferris bueller yeah?

it was lolworthy as i recall

Severian 02.18.2018 11:35 PM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
joe is the king of the wood elves already

and yeah he’s the most interesting character maybe but i dont like him as a person— he’s too much a psychopath

as for donna—i’ll just attribute her latest serpentine qualities to your own mistaken interpretations and not look at this thread anymore with your usual spoilers ha ha ha ha


Goddammit, I thought you’d seen it all! Ugh. Sorry. Fuckaduck

tw2113 02.19.2018 12:01 AM

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Originally Posted by !@#$%!
dat the cornflake movie with ferris bueller yeah?

it was lolworthy as i recall


Correct. Kind of so bad it was entertainingly good. At the moment, probably my favorite character was the son played by Dana Carvey.

noisereductions 02.19.2018 09:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Severian
See above.

Out for purchase now, our for rent in March.

Not really important though, because I’ve yet to see anything that really recommends it. Might not even finish.

Bad guy is ALL CGI. Like... ALL. And it’s bad CGI. Could have put a guy in a helmet and it would have looked better in every way. Instead it’s a CGI stencil of some no-name actor’s face. Wasted opportunities all around.


must just be for sale DIGITALLY now. Amazon still says it's a pre-order for bluray.

Rob Instigator 02.19.2018 11:33 AM

I am just hype for Batman anime.....

noisereductions 02.19.2018 12:02 PM

I don't know about anime, but the DC animated movies are great.

Severian 02.19.2018 12:05 PM

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Originally Posted by noisereductions
must just be for sale DIGITALLY now. Amazon still says it's a pre-order for bluray.


Whatever man. I bought the thing.

Severian 02.19.2018 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I don't know about anime, but the DC animated movies are great.


BATMANIME!

Or, “Batman: Ninja.” Dumbass title for a movie that’s being made by exclusively Japanese animators. You’d think they could come up with something, anything, better than that.

Like, if they do a Batman western will it be called “Batman: Cowboy?” If they do a Batman gangster movie will it be called “Batman: Gangster?” Anyway, the Thing looks like it takes place in feudal Japan, so wouldn’t Samurai or Ronan be more accurate?

But omg yes it does look fucking awesome.

Severian 02.19.2018 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by noisereductions
I don't know about anime, but the DC animated movies are great.


Ah... nah. No, they’re not. Sometimes they’re OK, but they’ve been milking the basic style of Batman: the Animated Series for 25 freaking years, and just making it slightly more stylized and detailed. I think they always feel a bit clunky and stupid. The Dark Knight Returns movie looked dumb. They all look dumb, which is why the anime one looks promising. FINALLY something that doesn’t look like that overhyped TV show that nobody wants to admit is actually shit.

Gotham Knight, the anthology film from around the time Dark Knight came out, was ok.

But the best DC animated movie ever, by FAR, is LEGO BATMAN.

Severian 02.19.2018 12:15 PM

Finished Justice League.

Ugh.

Someone kill Batman in movies please. I want to see him die on screen at this point.

One half-made Whedon film plus one half-made Snyder film, stripped down to an hour and a half does not equal anything worth watching.

Superman’s barely in it, and when he is, he’s super positive. Overly course-correcting for the pussies who couldn’t stand to see him not be 100% happy 100% of the time in Man of Steel, which is the real victim here.

Poor Cavil got like 12 lines. Again.

Flash is ok, but runs like a spazz.

Kill the whole thing. Kill it dead.

I heard whatshisname from Whiplash spent like a year pumping iron so he could play Jim Gordon. He had TWO LINES.

Goddammit DC. You’re killing me.

noisereductions 02.19.2018 02:02 PM

Whatever, I love those animated movies.

Lego Batman was ok.

Rob Instigator 02.19.2018 02:05 PM

lego batman was fun, but a throaway. it was like watching an ADD kid not get his Ritalin and recount all the times batman did something he thought was funny.

I have Batman Gotham by Gaslight but have yet to see it.

Severian 02.19.2018 02:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Rob Instigator
lego batman was fun, but a throaway. it was like watching an ADD kid not get his Ritalin and recount all the times batman did something he thought was funny.

I have Batman Gotham by Gaslight but have yet to see it.


See, that’s a great example. Gotham By Gaslight is an iconic story. Kicked off Elseworlds, helped really put Mike Mignola on the map, and obviously has kickass Mignola art. For the animated movie though, will they take the art into consideration? No. Looks just like all the rest. Slight variations on BAS style animation. They should have based it on Mignola’s art. It’s possible... that’s what MTV did with The Maxx, and HBO kind of did it with Spawn. But nope. Everything looks like everything else, with little tweaks.

The New Frontier movie was a spit in the face to Darwyb Cooke’s brilliant style. DKR movie was just a more BIG shouldered Batman with a BIGGER bat-symbol. That’s the only homage to Frank Miller’s excellent work on that book.

These are fanboy complaints, but I do think the films are lacking in production quality. The Killing Joke movie mad me sad with how it rendered that last scene. Just felt cheap.

But I’ll be watching Gotham by Gaslight for sure.
I guess I’m glad they make them, but they’re not what they could be.

and LEGO Batman was great. Can’t eveb count the smart references in that thing. Clearly put together for fun by folks who fucking bloody well knew the character, from the beginning to the present. Yeah it was a bit of an ADD spectacle, but still badass.

ilduclo 02.19.2018 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by tw2113
The Road to Wellville...rather weird movie, but entertaining at the same time.


I thought it was pretty fun when I saw it. Good soundtrack, too, as I recall....plus Briget Fonda!

LifeDistortion 02.19.2018 03:43 PM

We miss you Bridget Fonda, wonder if she was a casualty of Harvey Weinstein too. I'm a big fan of the author of the novel of The Road to Wellville- T.C. Boyle.

tw2113 02.19.2018 04:56 PM

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Originally Posted by ilduclo
I thought it was pretty fun when I saw it. Good soundtrack, too, as I recall....plus Briget Fonda!

I rather fancy Traci Lind who played Nurse Irene Graves in the movie, the one that Ferris Bueller almost hooks up with in the end.

Rob Instigator 02.19.2018 05:01 PM

I watched the Road to Wellville when it came out. It was screened at my university. I found it to be overly-mannered, and not funny at all. I knew Broderick's career was dead after that

Severian 02.19.2018 06:27 PM

I was thinking, “What the hell are these eggheads taking about?” because I couldn’t conjure an image or impression of the film from the title. Then I realized what it was. I’ve seen it. Yes it’s weird. I don’t remember if it’s acrually good or not, but John Cusak and John Mallovic are always fun.

Oh yeah, and Dana Carvey!

Severian 02.19.2018 06:28 PM

Hey Symbols, did you ever watch Road to Perdition? That post-American Beauty San Mendes joint I recommended to you a few months ago?

Or maybe it was like a year ago. Who the fuck can tell anymore?


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