For you other dadguys, Book of Life was horrible. I can see folks from Mexico liking it, though, since it sort of comes off as a Mexican fairy tale and in sure it's rooted in their history/heritage.
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For you other dadguys, Book of Life was horrible. I can see folks from Mexico liking it, though, since it sort of comes off as a Mexican fairy tale and in sure it's rooted in their history/heritage.
I'm sure the Haslems enjoyed it.
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Originally Posted by Glanmazing
Ha! I meant to do that and forgot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tim Izzo
Haha, I'm not retarded, I leave like a buck on a few prepaid/rebate visa gift cards for stuff like this.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool
Must be something with my adblocker/virus/browser, when I click on those links with the adblocker on it loads absolutely nothing, just a blank white page. When I turn the blocker off it loads the feeds but when i try to play one it won't play anything without logging into an account. Not sure how to get past that....
Even if I go straight to the link you posted ([URL="http://www.solarmovie.is/link/play/3757432/"]) it makes me log in. Anybody else?
What browser/ad-blocker are you using?
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Love 12 Angry Men, A Man for All Seasons, A Lion in Winter and Citizen Cane.Quote:
Originally Posted by DennyMcLain
J. Edgar Good movie
Horrible Bosses 2 It sucked. Not really sure why it was in my Netflix Que
Cat Run 2 is better than the original.
Neighbors is pretty bad.
"This Is Where I Leave You" is pretty meh
Saw that, it's not good.
Watching it again. It's so lame it actually makes me laugh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fool
Saw Get Hard the other day. I was not hard while watching it.
Took my daughter to see Tomorrowland. It's actually better before they get to the main overarching problem (which they solve in like 3 minutes of movie time).
(had to be done) Were you hard while watching it? (God I hate myself, sorry...)
watched Wedding Crashers for the first time last night. The last, like, 25 minutes were kinda shitty.
Seeing either Black Mass or The Martian tomorrow
Review coming!
Saw the Martian yesterday. It was good. There were stops that didn't quite hit the mark so the people calling for it to win best picture I think are over ratting it but certainly worth watching. Took my daughter and she liked it too. Made me want show her Apollo 13.
I was meaning to read The Martian, but then I heard it was being turned into a movie so I said "screw it, I'll watch the movie".
Now that the movie's come out, I'm so-so on seeing the movie... weird.
The Martian was fantastic, IMO. And I'm a movie cynic. Damon was really good, and it was visually stunning, of course. It does require a bit of suspended reality, but what movie doesn't?
Only downside was Jeff Daniels and Kristin Wiig. I like Daniels but his parts were the only ones that had me thinking "okay, this is bad".
I rolled my eyes a bit at the obvious effort they made to be all-inclusive, diversity-wise, but I guess the effort is at least commendable, even if distracting.
One of the best films that I've seen in recent memory, pretty powerful.
The book is apparently ridiculously inclusive. Every characters is a different ethnic stereotype.
Surprised you found it really powerful. You might not want to read them but these are just some of the moments I didn't think landed or things I thought took away from a movie that, in general, I enjoyed.
I couldn't find the spoiler tags so I just white texted it. I rolled my eyes at the letter to his parents where he says he's dying for something bigger but never actually says what that bigger thing is (great we all get to decide what we think he's dying for!) He just didn't feel all that isolated to me. Wiig's character is pretty useless in the entire movie. How do you make a movie like this and not make the moment they realize he's alive a bigger deal. That was a real let down. The "shit we actually have a problem now" moment is far better after the "OMG he's not dead moment." Not even the rest of the crew finding out he was alive was a good moment. The Golden Eye bad guy tells them is a terribly awkward way and then defuses any blow back in the actual moment with "I wanted to tell you guys but they wouldn't let me." The Donald Glover thing is set up entirely by shots of him (who we otherwise have no connection to at all) waiting next to computers and servers like he's doing these big complex calculations but then as soon as he's in the meeting where he's telling everyone about his plan, everybody is like "yeah, those are correct calculations" because apparently computers are slower than humans at math. Then what he ends up proposing seems so ordinary. Hey, let's slingshot around the Earth. Really? No one else considers that option? I mean, we already do that with satellites all the time. Then the crew decision is supposed to be so emotional and fraught when we've seen them for all of 5 minutes of screen time (so no real connection to them) and they make the obvious choice that is so obvious even the writer has to admit it by including a character that demonstrates it from the beginning. Yeah, no one's choice was tougher than the Latino dude's. Not even the guy with a family that you showed after the decision. Everyone says yes immediately, even some dude who hates Matt Damon says yes immediately. The astronaut who gets kissed (whatever his job was other than getting booted from doing the cool chair rescue thing) does an untethered space walk that no one watches, because apparently it's pretty run of the mill or something, only to end up outside of a door that the chick from House of Cards just walks up to from the inside and opens? Why didn't the space walk guy just walk through the ship to that door? His buddy who left him just before he did the walk is the one who made the bomb with the House of Cards chick, so obviously he had plenty of time to make it.
LOL, those are all fair points, but I guess I chalk that stuff up to as part of suspending reality
https://grantland.com/hollywood-pros...ng-matt-damon/Quote:
With all of its acclaim and zeitgeist-tapping luck, The Martian also looks to have some long legs. And another factor must be considered: Do we have a Best Picture nominee here? After all, Gravity opened big with similarly great reviews and it earned a Best Picture nod and seven actual Oscars. And consider the two faces of the film: Despite being fixtures in the starry firmament, Damon has not won an acting Oscar2 and Scott has never won Best Director despite three nominations. The Academy loves a winner and would love an excuse to throw a mainstream studio film with a legitimate chance of winning in the mix, as opposed to another indie film that a tiny fraction of the American audience has been able to see in theaters.
My point here is not to handicap its awards potential, but to recognize that the film’s combination of good word-of-mouth and early success could kick off a virtuous Oscar circle: The Martian opened big, which makes it a serious Oscar contender, which makes everyone go see it, which makes it an even more serious Oscar contender. Whether the For Your Consideration campaigns are worth the expenditure is debatable, but with a mainstream, widely applauded hit like The Martian, all of that extra hype and buzz does generally translate to more money. And for once, it seems as if Hollywood’s broken system actually works.
We are going to get Mxy to this movie eventually.
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If they suddenly discovered potato mines on Mars, that would change our story substantially.
Watched some movie where Sean Penn plays a washed up rock star who goes to look for a Nazi. It pretty much sucked.
It Happened.
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Originally Posted by Fool
And?
I enjoyed both the book (which I read awhile back) and the movie. The book is far better than the movie at addressing most of Fool's points. Based on the book, I was expecting more of a Tom Hanks "Cast Away" vibe than what I got. Both the book and the movie seemed to ignore background radiation, but that only occurred to me as I watched the movie. I hope that's not too spoiler-y.
Thanks Mxy, i didn't even know Tom Cruise was in this one, now I'm looking forward to it!
The digital version of the book was on sale for $2 about a week before the movie. I bought it then but haven't started on it yet. It's getting close to the top of the list though. The book started out self-published (I assume on Amazon) and I recently read a series that started out the same way (self-published then got hugely popular and was picked up by a major publication and printed, only the series wasn't turned into a movie). It was called the Wool Series. I really liked the first book of that series but by the end of the third (and last) book I was just reading to finish the series.
So much fail here, this was intended to be a stupid, funny only to me comment of me pretending to be stupid but I said Cruise instead of Hanks so instead it's just plain stupid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinny
Tom Cruise played the astronaut jettisoned into space by the other astronauts prior to landing on Mars.Quote:
Originally Posted by Vinny
His last words were "I feel the need... the need for speed" as he was plummeting toward some atmosphere.
I believe he'll show up on the DVD extras.
Saw the latest Star Wars movie.
Didn't realize it'd star Jar Jar Binks.
Not many surprises:
http://www.avclub.com/article/100-be...ar-1-20-217530
I agree completely with #1.Quote:
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Oh lord no.
Before getting there, I was getting ready to post "BUT WHERE'S THE MASTER?" as a joke.
It's a horrible movie, you guys.
Agree with Gla, The Master is terrible and half a loaf. The best way to get love from the over-thinkers.
#11 is trash and #15 is boring. To make it all the way to #14 out of a script written because people like the idea of their phones talking to them more than the implementation of that technology to date is pretty damning to the list IMO. Imagine the films that should have been made about the first drive-through fast-food location.