What movies are you watching?
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Crazy Rich Asians is great.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Deadpool 2
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2018 has been the worst year for movies since I’ve been alive, and Peppermint is the worst one yet. Truly one of the worst things I’ve ever sat through.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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Harry Potter and the half blood prince.
Man this one is fucking beautiful to look at.
Man this one is fucking beautiful to look at.
Calibrate your enthusiasm
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I thought it was Albert, not Andre.tragabigzanda wrote:
i don't care about the fashion world at all, yet i consume a fair bit of it by proxy to my wife. This was a good doc, dude is one of a kind.
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Bahahaha seriously? Are you 5?dimejinky99 wrote:Harry Potter and the half blood prince.
Man this one is fucking beautiful to look at.
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The Greatest Showman. I generally don't like musicals because the songs can get in the way of the plot but this one has a very loose plot to begin with. I liked most the music and the dance routines and/or set pieces. A fun, light, "let's put on a show" flick that, for what it is, is particularly well done.
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Last Flag Flying - this was pretty good!
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Yeah, that one was pretty good. We all liked it, and even listen to the soundtrack every now and then on long drives. That song that Jenny sang was probably the best one, and I was actually a little sad that it was lip-synched.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The Greatest Showman. I generally don't like musicals because the songs can get in the way of the plot but this one has a very loose plot to begin with. I liked most the music and the dance routines and/or set pieces. A fun, light, "let's put on a show" flick that, for what it is, is particularly well done.
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Steve Albini wrote:Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.
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I'd agree with pretty much everything you've written here. The movie is definitely a downertragabigzanda wrote:Right on RG. See my thoughts below, would love to hear more from you.
Rangi Guy wrote:Last Flag Flying - this was pretty good!tragabigzanda wrote:Last Flag Flying.
Like a lot of Linklater, the characters transcend the filmmaking technique. Steve Carrell has barely any lines, yet he owns the whole film. Despite being based on a book, it feels more like a play.
It's a road movie; a war movie (Vietnam and Iraq 2003); a film about men; about getting older and death; about regrets and looking forward; about religion; addiction... It's all of those things and none of those things, because it's really just four guys talking as they transport a body across the country.
Linklater gets a little schmaltzy at times, but then other scenes hit really hard. One scene in particular got me choked up -- Cicely Tyson outshines Carrell with about two minutes of screen time.
Unless you're a big Linklater fan; feeling particularly pensive; or maybe if you're a veteran (I'm just guessing), you can probably skip it. But I really enjoyed it, despite it being mostly a bummer.
I thought all the leads did a great job, although I thought Cranston's character was a bit under developed. Loved Carell and thought that Fishburne did a great job and for me it was his character that stayed with me for the longest.
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I just watched this and it was actually pretty enjoyable. A very pleasant surprise.bune wrote:Yeah, that one was pretty good. We all liked it, and even listen to the soundtrack every now and then on long drives. That song that Jenny sang was probably the best one, and I was actually a little sad that it was lip-synched.Biff Pocoroba wrote:The Greatest Showman. I generally don't like musicals because the songs can get in the way of the plot but this one has a very loose plot to begin with. I liked most the music and the dance routines and/or set pieces. A fun, light, "let's put on a show" flick that, for what it is, is particularly well done.
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Patriot Games is fine and all but good lord is it flat compared to Red October.
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tangentially related:
September 11, 1850
'Swedish Nightingale' makes her US debut to rapturous acclaim
American showman extraordinaire P.T. Barnum has secured the Swedish singing sensation, soprano Jenny Lind, for a US concert tour and tonight's premiere in New York is met with a thunderous ovation. The press will dub the hubbub surrounding the singer's American debut, 'Lind mania.'
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What the fuck? Is Jennifer garner a huge super star or something? I just went to a noon showing on a Tuesday to her dumb movie and it is packed! I thought it would be an empty theater but it looked like a Saturday night.
Oh, the movie was terrible. Like shockingly bad.
Oh, the movie was terrible. Like shockingly bad.
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AgreedBurtReynolds wrote:What the fuck? Is Jennifer garner a huge super star or something? I just went to a noon showing on a Tuesday to her dumb movie and it is packed! I thought it would be an empty theater but it looked like a Saturday night.
Oh, the movie was terrible. Like shockingly bad.
