What movies are you watching?

[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.

[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.

[Rangi Guy]

I don't understand why Burn After Reading is so low on people's list - I loved that film

[LoathedVermin72]

I don't understand why Burn After Reading is so low on people's list - I loved that film

Yeah I love it too. I get why people might find it to be "minor Coen" but I don't agree.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

children of men playing in the background

[epilogue]

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A mixed bag but great performances. Richard E. Grant is stellar.

[dimejinky99]

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A mixed bag but great performances. Richard E. Grant is stellar.

Did you listen to his interview with Maron?
Such an interesting fella.

[epilogue]

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A mixed bag but great performances. Richard E. Grant is stellar.

Did you listen to his interview with Maron?
Such an interesting fella.

I haven't yet no. I'm pretty behind on WTF.

[dimejinky99]

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A mixed bag but great performances. Richard E. Grant is stellar.

Did you listen to his interview with Maron?
Such an interesting fella.

I haven't yet no. I'm pretty behind on WTF.

I wouldn’t be a regular listener of his I only check him out when he has someone I know on.
Which is almost never.

[epilogue]

Can You Ever Forgive Me?

A mixed bag but great performances. Richard E. Grant is stellar.

Did you listen to his interview with Maron?
Such an interesting fella.

I haven't yet no. I'm pretty behind on WTF.

I wouldn’t be a regular listener of his I only check him out when he has someone I know on.
Which is almost never.

Same. I only listen when I like the guest. But I'm still WAY behind on that.

[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]

Sounds about right.

[BootsToAsses]

I watched Bohemian Rhapsody last night. I felt the first half glossed over things far too easily/quickly. The latter half was an improvement, but something didn't sit right with me about how they addressed Freddie's AIDS diagnosis. I'm all for creative license and switching things up to suit the film, but it felt weird to have Freddie telling the band in 1985 that he had AIDS just to give the Live Aid performance more dramatic weight, when he wasn't even diagnosed until 1987.

The Live Aid performance doesn't need any false tension added to it as the real story is interesting enough. Band was seen as somewhat 'washed up' by 1985 and way past their peak. They had something to prove, went out there and utterly stole the show. That would've been good enough for me. That said, I still had goosebumps watching the big performance that the film had been building to. It just goes to show how legendary that 20-minute set is.

Rami Malek was a good Freddie, managing to capture a little bit of that magical quality Freddie had. While the first half felt like it was just trying to touch on seminal moments in the band's history for the sake of squeezing them into the film, the second half gave Malek more to do.

I found it a little funny that the film showed them having a big argument in 1982 and then implied they didn't do anything together until Freddie apologised in 1985 and they decided to do Live Aid. Truth is, they had recorded The Works in 1984 and been on a massive tour!

Anyway, I'm just nitpicking. I suppose a biopic like this ultimately needs to be judged on whether it captured the essence of the character we're looking at. And in that respect, it was semi-successful. Plus, the music is still amazing.

Later, I'll be watching Take Shelter (2011) and Melancholia (2011).

[epilogue]

I love Melancholia. That movie really got to me.

[bada]

I don't understand why Burn After Reading is so low on people's list - I loved that film

Yeah I love it too. I get why people might find it to be "minor Coen" but I don't agree.

My wife loved that one.

[BurtReynolds]

Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.

widows

[BurtReynolds]

Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.

widows

Barf emoji

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.

widows

Barf emoji

i know nothing about it

the new harry potterish film?

[BurtReynolds]

Nothing. I keep looking for something to come out in theaters so I can go eat some popcorn, but it all looks like trash.

widows

Barf emoji

i know nothing about it

the new harry potterish film?

I'm tempted to go see that one because I heard it's awful. The only real enjoyment I get out of movies these days is to make fun of the really bad ones.