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Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 8:41 pm
by epilogue
I think that looks really cool. Outside of Affleck, again, looking out of his depth as an actor. But I dig the story and the visuals in the trailer. And the rest of the cast is outstanding. I'll definitely see it.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 8:45 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Just reading the synopsis made me lol
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 8:49 pm
by epilogue
Obvious plot and all. But I think it still looks like it could be cool.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 8:50 pm
by Jorge
It reads like the plot of a Frank D'Angelo movie
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 8:54 pm
by epilogue
The poster sure makes it look like Ben thinks he's making a new Dick Tracy movie.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 9:10 pm
by tragabigzanda
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.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 9:22 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:
I think that looks really cool.
Outside of Affleck, again, looking out of his depth as an actor. But I dig the story and the visuals in the trailer. And the rest of the cast is outstanding. I'll definitely see it.
Well that's my problem exactly. Looks like it could be a good movie, if I didn't have to stare at his stupid face pretending to be a gangster for two hours. The man can direct a good Hollywood movie, for sure. I just wish he'd stop starring in them.
Oh. Well, then we are in agreement.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 9:26 pm
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote:durdencommatyler wrote:
I think that looks really cool.
Outside of Affleck, again, looking out of his depth as an actor. But I dig the story and the visuals in the trailer. And the rest of the cast is outstanding. I'll definitely see it.
Well that's my problem exactly. Looks like it could be a good movie, if I didn't have to stare at his stupid face pretending to be a gangster for two hours. The man can direct a good Hollywood movie, for sure. I just wish he'd stop starring in them.
like hell he can
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Fri September 09, 2016 10:22 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Lol. Yeah he's not a very good director
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 3:03 am
by Strat
Yes he is
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 3:07 am
by LoathedVermin72
This is why you can't come to our Braveheart party
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 3:09 am
by Strat
But i love braveheart
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 3:10 am
by LoathedVermin72
And yet, here we are
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 4:32 am
by E.H. Ruddock
Strat wrote:Yes he is
I don't even know who you are anymore
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 4:09 pm
by epilogue
Argo is a good movie. That's all I can say about Affleck as a director.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 4:50 pm
by LoathedVermin72
I understand people's admiration for Argo about as much as I understand why Ben Affleck thought it was a good idea for him to play a Hispanic man.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 5:34 pm
by epilogue
I don't know what to tell you, friend. It's taught. It's well shot. It's well paced. It's gripping. The characters are well drawn. It hits all its beats. He did a great job of building and maintaining powerful tension in a story most of us already knew the ending to.
He wasn't great in it. As always. He miscast himself. But everything else about it showed off how good he can be as a director. I haven't seen his other two films. Based on this one alone, I'd say he's a good director. He's not great. He's not someone I'll freak out about or make sure I see everything he does. But he's a good director.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 5:36 pm
by LoathedVermin72
Yeah, I mean, it's none of those things. And it's also pretty racist. But okay.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 5:42 pm
by epilogue
You watch movies wrong.
Re: The Cinematic Motion Picture News Thread
Posted: Sat September 10, 2016 5:46 pm
by Jorge
Now that I think of it, that movie also had Clea Duvall as an asian lady