What movies are you watching?

[Anders]

Raw Deal

While not up to Arnold’s top tier work at the time, like T1 and T2, Conan, Commando and Predator, it’s not a bad movie. Got a good 80s action movie vibe, and Arnold is in fine form. Like Red Sonja, the movie needs more of him, which the ending sequence finally gives us.

[BurtReynolds]

Gosling is weirdly unanimated in every movie.

[Anders]

Good point.

[Bi_3]

"Rise of Gru" for family movie night.


Fine. They are the masters of repeating the same story and keeping kids interested.

[epilogue]

I do usually like Winding Refn movies. Not seen The Neon Demon, but I own it, and it’s on the list for 2016.

Neon Demon is great.

I also didn't care for Only God Forgives.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Gosling is weirdly unanimated in every movie.

In a lot of them, yes. I don’t get him.

[Farmer John]

Plus, he's got a bit of a wonky eye.

A heartthrob? Get real!

[Anders]

I do usually like Winding Refn movies. Not seen The Neon Demon, but I own it, and it’s on the list for 2016.

Neon Demon is great.

I also didn't care for Only God Forgives.

Look forward to it.

[Farmer John]

I thought Michelle Williams was a bit much in The Fablemans. Still really liked the movie overall.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

I thought Michelle Williams was a bit much in The Fablemans. Still really liked the movie overall.

The adult interactions were the lone downside to me. LaBelle was great though.

[Farmer John]

I thought Michelle Williams was a bit much in The Fablemans. Still really liked the movie overall.

The adult interactions were the lone downside to me. LaBelle was great though.

Yep. That kid's going places!

Judd Hirsh was also great in his brief appearance.

[Anders]

Blue Jasmine

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Anders]

Blue Jasmine

I thought this was pretty bad

I saw it once years ago, and thought it was ok. My wife saw it before we met as well, and she loved it so much then, that she told her friends about it. So some different opinions there.

I do it is generally rated highly on various sites.

Good enough start so far, so we’ll see. I can’t remember much from the first time I saw it.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

May find another Nic Cage movie here in a bit.

[tragabigzanda]

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.

[Anders]

Blue Jasmine

I thought this was pretty bad

I saw it once years ago, and thought it was ok. My wife saw it before we met as well, and she loved it so much then, that she told her friends about it. So some different opinions there.

I do it is generally rated highly on various sites.

Good enough start so far, so we’ll see. I can’t remember much from the first time I saw it.

My wife and I also diverged on this one. She really liked it, I thought it was kind of lazy Woody

Certainly not his best. I couldn't remember too much about it, but I think I feel about the same as I did back in 13-14. Decent movie, worth seeing, but not more than that.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. I really don't know how to take this movie. I think I generally know what the movie is going for, but the tone is just so weird at times. I will need a rewatch at some point.

[Malloy]

I do usually like Winding Refn movies. Not seen The Neon Demon, but I own it, and it’s on the list for 2016.

Neon Demon is great.

hope the collaboration between refn and gosling resumes. when i watch gosling perform in drive and only god forgives, his face is always a mask. a decidedly handsome, though impenetrable one. i find that their negation of character in favor of type -- particularly in a moment when character, memoir, depth, and interiority are so widely valorized and fetishized -- to be refreshing, even necessary.