Red Mosquito

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I hope you can calm down and get some good sleep tonight, ensign.

Oh, I’ll be fine. The Odyssey preview has me jazzed.

Ensign9 wrote:

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:I hope you can calm down and get some good sleep tonight, ensign.

Oh, I’ll be fine. The Odyssey preview has me jazzed.

Just, be careful.

Ensign9 wrote:

Jorge wrote:

Ensign9 wrote:

Jorge wrote:You are like an AI trained by AV Club comments sections I swear

I just got out of Fire & Ash and am FIRED UP.

That's how I felt when I walked out of it a couple days ago, but fired up with a love of cinema (I liked it a LOT)

I would definitely like to hear an earnest defense of it in the Avatar thread.

I posted some stray thoughts as I was walking out of the theater, in the all-purpose MOVIES thread!

lennytheweedwhacker wrote:

Jorge wrote:He's made some stinkers, to be clear!

What are his 3 most overrated?

Worst 3:

3. The Lost World
2. Ready Player One
1. The BFG

Never seen 1941.

Jorge wrote:I posted some stray thoughts as I was walking out of the theater, in the all-purpose MOVIES thread!

Going to see it this afternoon (Avatar). I will share my thoughts in this thread.

Damn I missed a lot of good debate in this thread

Well I’m pumped

Cant wait for this one. I wont see any more trailers or promotional videos.

This is getting pretty terrible reviews.

No it's not?

what do you expect from a round earther?

82 percent on Rotten Tomatoes and 74 audience score. Fake news, Ruddo!

Better than Hudson Hawk!

I enjoyed this very much. It was way more "fun" than I thought it would be. It’s got elements of Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones, Minority Report, ET, Catch Me If You Can -- lots of chase sequences and government/tech bad guys. But it doesn't have much of the heaviness or cynicism of War of the Worlds, AI, Bridge of Spies. It also revisits some of the "fifth estate" soapboxing of The Post, which feels a bit antiquated.

The third act hit me surprisingly hard. It’s like the first act is Jurassic/Catch, second act is Catch/Minority, third is ET…but it also has some real profundity near the end, despite a lot of silliness before it.

It's imperfect, but the good far outweighs the bad. Definitely in the top half of his filmography.

I’m sold

A text from my friend who was in the the theater watching the movie:

"People are going to love Disclosure Day but I fucking hate it. It's very well made. Which isn't shocking. Looks great. The acting is great. There are some set pieces that are legitimately cool. I may be too cynical for what the movie is doing, but I've been bored out of my mind and I hate the way the plot unfolds. I think it's just a bad screenplay. Also, I know you're not in Kansas City. Don't choose Kansas City as a location and then film in the Catskills you asshole."