Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

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#1821 Post by creep » Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:52 am

Bandit72 wrote:
Larry B. wrote:Just saw "Baby Driver". Well, the first 10 minutes, approximately.

Absolutely insufferable.

1/10.
What's it about? All the 'critics' were raving about that film.
Probably best not to ask a guy that only watched 10 minutes of it. You can't review a movie based on 10 minutes. :essence:

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#1822 Post by Larry B. » Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:53 am

Bandit72 wrote:
Larry B. wrote:Just saw "Baby Driver". Well, the first 10 minutes, approximately.

Absolutely insufferable.

1/10.
What's it about? All the 'critics' were raving about that film.
It's about a young guy who wears shades and is always listening to his iPod Classic, who drives a car for a band of criminals and is a terrific driver. According to the trailer, the guy finds a girlfriend and at some point the head cheese of the gang turns on him and threatens to kill his girlfriend if he doesn't keep driving for them.

All the characters were insufferable: after the opening scene in the movie, when they display how awesome a driver the young guy is, there is a long take of him going out to buy coffee, and he's dancing to some funky music, and bits of the lyrics are like written on the walls or light posts, and he's supposed to be funny because he's a bit clumsy and cool, and his name is 'Baby', so that's also funny I guess, and then once he comes back with the coffees to the gang, one of the criminals gets tough on him (out of absolutely nowhere, just so that the audience says 'I get it, he's the bully in the movie'), the head of the gang says "leave him alone", and the other two members are all over each other (so the audience thinks 'that's funny, they're really horny for each other'). At that point, we stopped watching. The characters were just too cartoony and the movie tried too hard to have a "cool" factor in the fact that there is loud, 'vintage' music playing for most of the movie and as a spectator you're supposed to find that really cool. Plus the shades and the iPod Classic = head blown with coolness.

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Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

#1823 Post by Larry B. » Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:55 am

creep wrote:
Bandit72 wrote:
Larry B. wrote:Just saw "Baby Driver". Well, the first 10 minutes, approximately.

Absolutely insufferable.

1/10.
What's it about? All the 'critics' were raving about that film.
Probably best not to ask a guy that only watched 10 minutes of it. You can't review a movie based on 10 minutes. :essence:
Agreed, but you can get a very decent idea of how the movie is being directed, how the characters are designed and how they're trying to tell you the story. If I'd watched only the first 10 minutes of Inglorious Basterds, I'd want to watch the rest of the movie. I saw 10 minutes of this shit and knew it fucking suuuucked.

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#1824 Post by Juana » Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:05 am

The new Thor was good for the comic movie

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#1825 Post by Matz » Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:53 am

attempted to watch Manhunter a few days ago, but I only got through the first minute before I said fuck it.....I'm such a girl when it comes to movies like this, it sucks cause it's supposed to be a great movie :bored:

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#1826 Post by perkana » Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:28 am

What do you mean you're "such a girl"? :waits: :essence:

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#1827 Post by Matz » Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:27 pm

perkana wrote:What do you mean you're "such a girl"? :waits: :essence:
:lol: grraarrghh, very sorry! Please replace "girl" with "wimp" :nod:

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#1828 Post by Pandemonium » Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:34 pm

Juana wrote:The new Thor was good for the comic movie
My wife and I both had today off so we caught a matinee. I agree, it was a pretty enjoyable movie for what it is, easily the best of the Thor flicks. The thing that continues to impress me with the Marvel movies on a whole is they continue to kill it with great casting.

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#1829 Post by wally » Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:09 pm

Larry B. wrote:
Bandit72 wrote:
Larry B. wrote:Just saw "Baby Driver". Well, the first 10 minutes, approximately.

Absolutely insufferable.

1/10.
What's it about? All the 'critics' were raving about that film.
It's about a young guy who wears shades and is always listening to his iPod Classic, who drives a car for a band of criminals and is a terrific driver. According to the trailer, the guy finds a girlfriend and at some point the head cheese of the gang turns on him and threatens to kill his girlfriend if he doesn't keep driving for them.

All the characters were insufferable: after the opening scene in the movie, when they display how awesome a driver the young guy is, there is a long take of him going out to buy coffee, and he's dancing to some funky music, and bits of the lyrics are like written on the walls or light posts, and he's supposed to be funny because he's a bit clumsy and cool, and his name is 'Baby', so that's also funny I guess, and then once he comes back with the coffees to the gang, one of the criminals gets tough on him (out of absolutely nowhere, just so that the audience says 'I get it, he's the bully in the movie'), the head of the gang says "leave him alone", and the other two members are all over each other (so the audience thinks 'that's funny, they're really horny for each other'). At that point, we stopped watching. The characters were just too cartoony and the movie tried too hard to have a "cool" factor in the fact that there is loud, 'vintage' music playing for most of the movie and as a spectator you're supposed to find that really cool. Plus the shades and the iPod Classic = head blown with coolness.
actually a pretty good review.
i thought the flick was ok for a heist film, but i don't know why it was so lauded.

I just watched The Hateful 8. kinda slow in the beginning and long but i enjoyed it.

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#1830 Post by Matz » Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:38 pm

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess

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#1831 Post by creep » Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:17 pm

Matz wrote:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess
Horrible movie

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#1832 Post by perkana » Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:53 pm

I loved it :lol:
I found Kate's character very annoying, but when I feel very down, I love watching it.
I watched "While We're Young". I was a bit disappointed. I don't know if it's because I related a bit to it, but more like I could totally see my brother in Ben Stiller's character.

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#1833 Post by Larry B. » Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:48 am

creep wrote:
Matz wrote:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess
Horrible movie
You soul-less pair of twats.

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#1834 Post by SR » Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:31 am

Never heard of this film, but recognized the title's allusion to Pope, one of literatures most influential crossover influences between antiquity and modern lit....and most brilliant minds. It was said of Pope that at times he had to disconnect from Shakespeare entirely in order to write anything at all because the weight of shakes genius was that intimidating to him. Thanks for the heads up.

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#1835 Post by perkana » Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:36 am

It's a movie by Michel Gondry. His films are amazing visually.
http://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/the-fi ... est-24001/

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#1836 Post by Xizen47 » Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:02 am

Larry B. wrote:
You soul-less pair of twats.
+1

That movie is genius

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#1837 Post by Hype » Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:19 pm

I'm with creep. It's bad. But I guess I can see why people might like it.

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#1838 Post by Matz » Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:07 pm

watched Ace Ventura for the billionth time, what a miracle of a movie


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#1839 Post by creep » Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:43 pm

Matz wrote:watched Ace Ventura for the billionth time, what a miracle of a movie

If you have Netflix you should watch Jim and Andy. Jim Carey is insane and was a nightmare to work with on the Andy Kaufman movie. Interesting stuff.

By the way...the only good Jim Carey movie was Dumb and Dumber.


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#1840 Post by Matz » Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:23 am

looks interesting, thanks. I never knew he took things to that extreme.

interesting also how tastes differ, Dumb and Dumber is a kids movie to me

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#1841 Post by Artemis » Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:18 pm

My fave Jim Carey movie is The Cable Guy.





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#1842 Post by wally » Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:34 pm

JIm Carey is not funny. He is a fucking prop comic and his prop is stupid facial expressions.

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#1843 Post by Artemis » Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:20 pm

Saw Lady Bird this afternoon and really enjoyed it. .
The movie has nothing to do with Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, if that's what you were thinking. :lol:


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#1844 Post by farrellgirl99 » Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:21 pm

Artemis wrote:Saw Lady Bird this afternoon and really enjoyed it. .
The movie has nothing to do with Lyndon B. Johnson's wife, if that's what you were thinking. :lol:

i also really enjoyed lady bird. funnier than i thought - great acting.

i saw shape of water too, which i thought was engaging. definitely strange, but a good cinematic experience.

next, i want to see call me by your name.

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#1845 Post by creep » Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:41 pm

Award season is coming so screeners are starting to show up online.

I just downloaded:

Lady Bird
Three Billboards
I, Tonya
Call Me By Your Name

Look forward to watching them in the next week or two.

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