What movies are you watching?

[BurtReynolds]

I went ahead and watched Children of Men again last night. I really enjoy that movie.

i'm surprised clive owen didn't really take off

me too

[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.

[Birds in Hell]

We watched something called Dream Lover last night, a 1993 thriller kind of thing starring James Spader and post-Twin Peaks Mädchen Amick (actually, quite a few Peaks/Lynch alumni showed up - which made sense when I noticed the casting director was Johanna Ray.)

Perhaps it was just that it exceeded our low expectations but it was actually pretty good in an undemanding, Hitchcock knock-off way.

[bune]

Watched...well, suffered through Jupiter Rising last night. Man that movie is terrible. Just a bunch of tropes thrown together with deus ex machina's everywhere. God Damn. I never felt like "Jupe" was in peril because she was in peril for the entire movie and at random times. Man. And that Redmayne guy...he won an Academy Award the same year this came out.

They basically destroyed Jupiter the planet at the end, right? Because I don't care how much memory juice you got, you can't erase a planet. And why not show it?!? You spent so much movie on special effects, at least show a planet blowing up.

[E.H. Ruddock]

Are you talking about Jupiter Ascending? Never heard of Jupiter Rising

[BurtReynolds]

Why wasn't it called Jupiter Blowing Up?

[Bi_3]

Sicario

8.5/10.

[LoathedVermin72]

Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges is wildly overrated.

[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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges is wildly overrated.

Who's he and what is that movie?

Acclaimed screwball comedy director. Socially-minded screwball comedy starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. I tend to find a lot of beloved comedies from the '30s and '40s to be painfully dull. This one seems downright hypocritical; begins as a messy satire before becoming exactly what it was satirizing. Ugh.

[LoathedVermin72]

Man, I fucking hated that movie.

[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.

[LoathedVermin72]

Sullivan's Travels. Preston Sturges is wildly overrated.

Who's he and what is that movie?

Acclaimed screwball comedy director. Socially-minded screwball comedy starring Joel McCrea and Veronica Lake. I tend to find a lot of beloved comedies from the '30s and '40s to be painfully dull. This one seems downright hypocritical; begins as a messy satire before becoming exactly what it was satirizing. Ugh.

Do you think it's because the comedy is dated? What do you think of Shakespearean comedy? Or the Three Stooges?

Not really; it's not all of them by any means. A lot of it is still very funny. But, like most comedy now, it's also very uninspired aesthetically, and tends to suffer when it gets loaded with self-righteous liberalism. I like it when it's genuinely biting, or driven by great performers like Cary Grant. And I like when it goes way out there like the Marx Brothers. Mid-brow like Preston Sturges is just a dead zone of interest for me though.

[epilogue]

Man, Sing Street was great.

[Rangi Guy]

The Rain Maker
Kickboxer Vengeance

[LoathedVermin72]

Soooo pumped for Kickboxer Vengeance

[Strat]

Soooo pumped for Kickboxer Vengeance

why

[LoathedVermin72]

Soooo pumped for Kickboxer Vengeance

why

John Stockwell mostly

[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.

[Strat]

There is 1 and only 1 kickboxer in my heart.