What movies are you watching?

[The Argonaut]

Concussion is severely misunderstood, and quite brilliant. It's much more than some social message movie about football injuries; it explores what happens when the American ideal collides with corrupt American reality. I found it deeply moving and profoundly tragic, but never cynical. Furthermore, Will Smith just disappears in that role. I thought he was amazing. The character feels so lived in and fully realized.

Perhaps because your description sounds a lot like the ideas explored in The Founder (which as I just mentioned I'm kind of stuck on in my head), I'm going to download this one.

[LoathedVermin72]

All the movies I've watched so far in 2017, ranked from best to worst:

xXx: Return of Xander Cage (2017)
Concussion (2015)
Heavenly Bodies (1984)
The Accountant (2016)
Elle (2016)
The Negotiator (1998)
Ender's Game (2013)
Dog Eat Dog (2016)
Deepwater Horizon (2016)
A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
The Purge (2013)
Bandit Queen (1994)
Lonelyhearts (1958)
Morgan (2016)
Broken Arrow (1996)
Split (2016)
Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World (2016)
Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping (2016)
Belly (1998)
Mr. Church (2016)
Cafe Society (2016)
Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)
Keeping Up with the Joneses (2016)
Resident Evil: The Final Chapter (2016)
Silence (2016)
Manchester by the Sea (2016)
The BFG (2016)

[E.H. Ruddock]

Wait, resident evil sucked?! Ugh

[LoathedVermin72]

Wait, resident evil sucked?! Ugh

I know, it's a goddamn shame

[E.H. Ruddock]

Damn it.

[Orpheus]

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Belly, LV. It's a cult favorite of mine.

[LoathedVermin72]

I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on Belly, LV. It's a cult favorite of mine.

Yeah, I actually remember you talking about it way back when. I think someone gave you shit about buying the DVD, and you defended the movie.

It's an interesting film. I feel like I should love it. It is hyper stylized, and I give Hype Williams major credit for that. But, ultimately, I respect it more than I enjoy it. I think it feels massively overlong, and a bit repetitive. Nothing ever connects with me viscerally or emotionally as much as I want it to. There's a lot to admire, but it never quite jelled.

[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]

Taking the day off today, gonna watch a movie. Help me pick:

Green Room
John Wick
The Nice Guys (I didn't love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, nor Iron Man 3, so this won't win unless there's a huge push from RM)

Green Room is the best of those, but I'm not a fan of any of them.

[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]

Taking the day off today, gonna watch a movie. Help me pick:

Green Room
John Wick
The Nice Guys (I didn't love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, nor Iron Man 3, so this won't win unless there's a huge push from RM)

Green Room is the best of those, but I'm not a fan of any of them.

I want to watch a movie with tough guys.

John Wick is probably the only one of those that fits that description, but god I hate that movie.

[LoathedVermin72]

Watch Bronson instead.

[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.

[bune]

Taking the day off today, gonna watch a movie. Help me pick:

Green Room
John Wick
The Nice Guys (I didn't love Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, nor Iron Man 3, so this won't win unless there's a huge push from RM)

Well if you didn't like KKBB or IM3, why is it even on your list? It's basically the same thing all over again. Depends on how much you like Angry Russell Crowe and Dapper Ryan Gosling talking.

Some of the better parts from the trailers aren't even in the movie, that bummed me out.

Haven't seen Green Room, and you haven't seen John Wick yet? That's one you can watch and just not think too hard about.

[VinylGuy]

Fences.

Maaan, that was so fucking boring!!! I know its a play but why make a movie like this?? And this piece of shit is being nominated in the oscars? Denzel is named best actor? and Viola Davids? They were in auto pilot the whole fuckin garbage movie.

Goddamn what a piece of shit.

[washing machine]

Just got home from work after a long night and Ghost Dog is on one of the digital antenna channels. Perfect.

[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.

[Orpheus]

Fences.

Maaan, that was so fucking boring!!! I know its a play but why make a movie like this?? And this piece of shit is being nominated in the oscars? Denzel is named best actor? and Viola Davids? They were in auto pilot the whole fuckin garbage movie.

Goddamn what a piece of shit.

Well, I really wanna see this now.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Just got home from work after a long night and Ghost Dog is on one of the digital antenna channels. Perfect.

One of my all-time faves.

i need to watch this one

[lennytheweedwhacker]

think i'll go see nocturnal animals after work tomorrow