The martian was good. Not too thought heavy, but good fun

am i wrong about it totally just being a remake of Apollo 13??

Yeah, quite right. But like Fury Road, it was also just a really nicely styled, high quality production all around.

I actually didn't think the new Mad Max was quite as good as the rest of the world seemed to. I mean... it's great that it received a Best Picture nom, but I'm not sure it totally deserved it. As an adrenaline flick it was great. And the cinematography and effects were exceptional, but I don't think Charlize Theron necessarily deserved a fucking acting nomination for a film where there was so little acting.

I realize that the entire reason the Academy makes an effort to not exclude extremely well made action and sci-fi films is a direct result of the fallout over The Dark Knight not getting a Best Pic. nomination simply because it came it didn't quite get enough votes to make it into the top 6 films of that year. So I appreciate their paying homage to that film's greatness by making sure that #7-10 films have a chance for getting a nod. But honestly, if they wanted to make up for shafting TDK, they should have given Dark Knight Rises a nomination, or better yet Interstellar. I can't believe Interstellar didn't make it. What in the mighty fuck was THAT all about?

In short, while I'm glad more films have a chance to be "Oscar nominees," no amount of after the fact rejiggering can make up for Dark Knight'a snubbing. They'll have to just live with the embarrassment of that, and eat shit over it, until the end of time.

I would have rather seen The Force Awakens get a nod than Mad Max. That was a fun film, but it had no business in the non-editing/effects/sound categories.

Technically yes, as it was quite literally not a remake of Apollo 13.

Also, yes in a bunch of other ways that aren't so technical. The stories do have a similar theme (space, thing is space not working) but apart from that there's not much overlap between the real life story of the 7th Apollo mission and the Andy Weir novel The Martian.

so have you just not seen Apollo 13 in a long time or are you Harry Ellising me?

In both flicks we have a pioneering space mission to a new terrestrial location, an unanticipated disaster, a back and forth between Houston and the astronauts trying to work out solutions, dudes using tape and jerry rigging equipment, the scientists using models back on Earth to develop a strategy, sarcastic banter back and forth between astronauts in space and scientists on Earth, a communication failure that scares everyone, some scenes with scientists all depressed, some scenes with astronauts all depressed, gutsy but risky solution, massive fan fare back on Earth, a triumphant launch scene from mission control, a near failure on the game winning attempt..

dude i felt like i had literally seen it all before then i realized i HAD.. over 20 years ago ;)

Edit: Sorry - I said 13th Apollo mission like a goddamn idiot. Apollo 13 was the 7th in the Apollo Space Program. I remembered this after I wiki'd the movie to remind myself what year it came out. ... And also because I'm such a smartguy ;)

Actually.. I haven't seen the Martian. :( I just read the book.

And the book is a very clean little first person survival story for the most part. Apollo 13 had several perspectives, and was based on a non-fiction book (which I also read, way back when) that wasn't really comparable to Weir's the Martian.

But I also haven't seen Apollo 13 in a long, long time. Not since 1996, the year after its release (thanks Wikipedia!) when I got it on VHS. So I really can't speak to the movies much. You may be and probably are right that they're a lot alike.

Yeah.

TREMORS



terrible and cheesy but mostly funny

Johhny Cool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0IEZb9ESzk

I remember this pretty fondly. Used to watch it whenever I was with my dad.

Never saw Tremors 2-10 or whatever but I'm ok with that.

i always missed it when it was on tv through the 90s-- finally saw it complete!

the dvd has a cakeboxed picture! you know-- letterboxed inside a pillarbox, black space all around

now getting ready to watch PIRANHA 3D

have ready beer, peanuts, and of course canned smoked herring-- cuz i gotta eat fish while the fish eat us haaa haaaa haaa

tremors is fantastic

as a comedy (real comedy not involuntary comedy) i give it a thumbs up

kevin bacon and the remo guy are great

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pirahna 3D was fucking terrible but i screamed in the end haa haaa haaaa -- really good ending

mostly i guess i really resent not having seen it in a big movie screen with the 3d effects

on a regular hdtv it's dark (3d movies are dark) and there are no 3d tits to marvel at, so i kinda missed the whole point of the thing which is Big Floating Tits

too many instances of absurdity to make sense of any of it--but it was fun, yeah, even in its degraded version

i rate it 3 beers

yup, its not quite a funny movie, i don't recall ever actually laughing during it, and it tries to be a horror movie but doesn't ever scare either.

i like it everytime i see it. i think its actually kind of original

Is it the one with Hasselhoff. There's almost nothing but tits in that.

EDIT: No, Piranha 3d, on the boat shooting porn. That one's a bit boring. The sequel's the one.

right-- DD is coming next week!

i hope it's not made for 3D also (though i suppose it was)

i don't have a 3D TV or the stupid glasses... but i'll say today was the first time ever i felt like i needed one. DD might make me feel deprived ha ha ha.

ETA: a funny nod to jaws that richard dreyfuss was there or what??

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watched the original LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS. roger corman's own.

absurd and terribly made but kinda funny. a lot of goofy "jewish" jokes-- it's like it might have been written by mel brooks!

saw this randomly, i know nothing about it other than that i couldn't stop watchimg it, i even initially thought it aa Coen Bros flick so i guess that is w compliment of sorts since it seems clear that was what they were going for

Oh man, my dad and I used to laugh our asses of at Tremors. Not in a "oh that was so dumb it was funny" way, or in a Watchmen way (so serious it becomes insanely dumb, and therefore funny), but in a genuinely comical way.

I'll try again: we didn't laugh AT the movie, we laughed WITH the movie. We laughed at the characters and the line delivery. I definitely think it was intentionally funny. More self-aware camp gore than actual horror. If it wasn't aiming for fun, it would have been rated R. Pretty sure it was pg-13.

Great movie though. Probably even a classic at this point. There's something really endearing about it basically being "Jaws... in the dirt" that says a lot about where their heads were at. They were happily making a b-movie, and the result was a pretty massive cult hit that people still fall for to this day.