Official WTFDetroit Movie Review Thread

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Originally Posted by Codename V

lol@anyone who brought their kids to see the watchmen. Learn the meaning of rated R :)

They kind of learn the meaning of rated R the minute you finally pack them off to a full school day so you can lay around and jerk off all day again. Fuck 'em. They gotta learn about life sometime, and the more they learn from the rest of the world, the less you are going to find yourself being asked uncomfortable questions like, "How come I can't see nekked people but I can watch motherfuckers getting their heads blown off all day?" and "Daddy, do you think anybody, ever, really fucked Barbara Walters?" or, of course, everybody's favorite: "Hey dad, Wanna see my chancres?!"

Of course, there IS the unpleasant situation of having to explain to a kid they should not have sex when, of course, it's all you've thought about since you were 4 years old and would have KILLED to get a blow job from your best friend's mother. And the shit about babies and where they come from? Thank Gourd they will know all about that shit by the time they finish 8th grade at any decent public high school (and most private ones as well, although "Suzie Frickenscrood just decided to transfer to Detroit Central for the hell of it" really doesn't explain a whole lot.

Kidsafe?

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I saw a documentary called Young @ Heart, about a chorus of elderly folks in Massachusetts who cover more-modern rock songs:

http://www.youngatheartchorus.com/

The subject matter is interesting, and this is worth watching for them alone. Watching dozes of geezers, some of whom may even be older than Tahoe :), singing Bowie's "Golden Years" or the Ramones' "I Wanna Be Sedated", trying to tackle Sonic Youth, is odd and slightly macabre and strangely compelling. At their age, there's a lot of turnover within the group... be warned.

The documentary aspects aren't my cup of tea, though. It's British, and has a British voiceover that I could do without. It could've humanized the people perhaps a little bit more. The pacing seemed a bit off. I think I could have made this a great documentary, if only I had any interest at all in film.

Moxie, you take this thread way too seriously. I order you to go out and rent "Stepson", "Tropical Thunder", "Anchorman", and a bunch of Three Stooges videos this weekend AND to watch them.

Gran Torino was a good movie. Eastwoods pretty badass, movie had a couple funny lines and a good but predictable ending.

Forgetting SArah Marshall..movie was pretty funny and that 70's show girl was fine as fuck but wasnt amazing. heard it was good so i gave it a shot, not too disappointed.

watchmen...i hate comic book movies or graphic novels or whatever. like ironman, i was disappointed but only because I thought this movie was going to be worth it. movie looked really good in the trailer, but the movie was just too long and I just wanted it to leave. Maybe I shouldn't have got the midnight movie..For people who read it, they said the movie was really good, and for the people that didnt, they didnt like it as much. Watchmen wasnt complete shit, but it wasnt the shit.

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Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots

Moxie, you take this thread way too seriously. I order you to go out and rent "Stepson", "Tropical Thunder", "Anchorman", and a bunch of Three Stooges videos this weekend AND to watch them.

<laughs> I OWN Anchorman -- the 2-disc special edition no less! Veronica Corningstone and I have made sweet monkey love MANY times, I assure you!

Seriously... I'm a Netflix customer, and I try to watch some things that aren't mainstream along with the likes of Tropic Thunder (in my queue). Lately, it's the obscure stuff, good and bad, that I've felt like talking about. It doesn't reflect my overall viewing habits.

Anyone else here see the Murder City documentary by Al Profit, about the history of crime in Detroit?

I love non-mainstream stuff. Which is why I choose foreign.

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Originally Posted by Tahoe

I love non-mainstream stuff. Which is why I choose foreign.

Choose foreign without subtitles, and then you can brag.

Can't. Because if he dinnit use subtitles, he would feel all Liberal n' shit.

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Originally Posted by Zip Goshboots

Choose foreign without subtitles, and then you can brag.

Its bragging to say you watch foreign? Oh yeah, I forgot, I'm talking to a Lib.

Seriously, foreign isn't about 6 planes blowing up and car crashes and all that shit. I don't know, they just work for me. Hollywood can keep the Tom Cruise flicks.