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Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:52 am
by creep
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:

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:53 am
by Larry B.
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 4:55 am
by Larry B.
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 5:05 am
by Juana
The new Thor was good for the comic movie

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 6:53 am
by Matz
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:

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 8:28 am
by perkana
What do you mean you're "such a girl"? :waits: :essence:

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:27 pm
by Matz
perkana wrote:What do you mean you're "such a girl"? :waits: :essence:
:lol: grraarrghh, very sorry! Please replace "girl" with "wimp" :nod:

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Nov 06, 2017 3:34 pm
by Pandemonium
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Tue Nov 14, 2017 2:09 pm
by wally
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 3:38 pm
by Matz
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 4:17 pm
by creep
Matz wrote:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess
Horrible movie

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2017 6:53 pm
by perkana
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 4:48 am
by Larry B.
creep wrote:
Matz wrote:Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind :jasper: fuck, what a mess
Horrible movie
You soul-less pair of twats.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 6:31 am
by SR
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 8:36 am
by perkana
It's a movie by Michel Gondry. His films are amazing visually.
http://www.indiewire.com/2014/07/the-fi ... est-24001/

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 9:02 am
by Xizen47
Larry B. wrote:
You soul-less pair of twats.
+1

That movie is genius

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2017 1:19 pm
by Hype
I'm with creep. It's bad. But I guess I can see why people might like it.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2017 12:07 pm
by Matz
watched Ace Ventura for the billionth time, what a miracle of a movie


Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Fri Dec 08, 2017 7:43 pm
by creep
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.


Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 2:23 am
by Matz
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

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Sat Dec 09, 2017 5:18 pm
by Artemis
My fave Jim Carey movie is The Cable Guy.





Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2017 1:34 pm
by wally
JIm Carey is not funny. He is a fucking prop comic and his prop is stupid facial expressions.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 3:20 pm
by Artemis
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:


Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:21 pm
by farrellgirl99
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.

Re: Movies or "the breakdown of jasper"

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 8:41 pm
by creep
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.