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: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon November 25, 2019 11:16 pm
by Rangi Guy
tragabigzanda wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:none of that comic book stuff should be there, except maybe Deadpool.
Bridesmaids should be #1, regardless of how you may feel about that movie -- it blew the roof off female-driven comedies as a viable genre.
And how is The Heat not on there? Another one that was hugely popular.
PopStar is awful
I personally would've liked to see 21 Jump Street. And I have yet to see In The Loop, but it's so universally admired that I have trouble believing to doesn't deserve a spot.
I kind of get your boner for Bridesmaids, but it really wasn't all that good.
I absolutely loved it, but again, that shouldn't really matter. It completely changed the game for the genre.
Well it certainly gets a tick for not falling into the whole - 'You know that movie from your childhood that you absolutely loved? Well get this - we're gonna re-do it, but this time with all female leads! Oh - that movie didn't do it for you? Well how about this other film that you loved, and this time......wait for it.......all female leads!' category
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon November 25, 2019 11:18 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: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon November 25, 2019 11:43 pm
by BurtReynolds
Comedy is a dead genre.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue November 26, 2019 7:18 pm
by epilogue
tragabigzanda wrote:
Rangi Guy wrote:
tragabigzanda wrote:none of that comic book stuff should be there, except maybe Deadpool.
Bridesmaids should be #1, regardless of how you may feel about that movie -- it blew the roof off female-driven comedies as a viable genre.
And how is The Heat not on there? Another one that was hugely popular.
PopStar is awful
I personally would've liked to see 21 Jump Street. And I have yet to see In The Loop, but it's so universally admired that I have trouble believing to doesn't deserve a spot.
I kind of get your boner for Bridesmaids, but it really wasn't all that good.
I absolutely loved it, but again, that shouldn't really matter. It completely changed the game for the genre.
Wow, there's not a lot of good '10s comedies.
It would be hard for me to list 10 really good and truly funny ones.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Tue November 26, 2019 11:42 pm
by surfndestroy
Biff Pocoroba wrote:Wow, there's not a lot of good '10s comedies.
It would be hard for me to list 10 really good and truly funny ones.
Comedies suck in a woke environment.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed November 27, 2019 12:02 am
by epilogue
surfndestroy wrote:
Biff Pocoroba wrote:Wow, there's not a lot of good '10s comedies.
It would be hard for me to list 10 really good and truly funny ones.
Comedies suck in a woke environment.
I don't think that's fair. "Woke" shouldn't be a factor.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed November 27, 2019 2:17 am
by Monkey_Driven
No one really makes $25-$75 million dollar movies anymore. Comedies are just a casualty of the new business model.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed November 27, 2019 2:41 am
by E.H. Ruddock
It doesn't cost extra to write funny stuff though
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Wed November 27, 2019 2:44 am
by Monkey_Driven
E.H. Ruddock wrote:It doesn't cost extra to write funny stuff though
No, it does not.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun December 01, 2019 5:23 am
by BurtReynolds
skip to 2 minutes
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun December 01, 2019 8:29 am
by bune
taint stab...lol
that was good but also terrible. weird music choices and cuts.
and yeah, that two-minute skip was a good idea. wow.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun December 01, 2019 6:18 pm
by BurtReynolds
I appreciate that the Wick fights don't usually feel like a dance routine (though I think there are a couple of exceptions) and that they are not horrible shaky cam, so I agree with him there. I also agree that the knife museum fight was amazing and part 2 was the weakest of the bunch.
My main criticism with the movies is the corny world building. I don't care about the secret society of assassins shit at all.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Sun December 01, 2019 9:14 pm
by bune
I'd care about it if it made sense but 3 was basically 2.5 and they should have ended on three with him killing the master in the desert. as is they lost sight of what was a promising story. I mean an assassin's guild with QA enforcers? wtf?
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon December 09, 2019 5:34 pm
by epilogue
I don't know if Richard Jewell is "Clint Eastwood's best film in a decade" or not. But Olivia Wilde is in it. So it will be the first Clint Eastwood film I've seen in a decade.
Re: Post Random Movie-Related Thoughts You Have
Posted: Mon December 09, 2019 5:37 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.