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Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:14 pm
by Rangi Guy
Last few
The Hateful Eight - Tarantino used a device that I hate in films, so this ranks towards the bottom of his movies for me, but bad Tarantino is still great
Spotlight - Cannot say enough great stuff about this, from the story to the acting. It was great!
Trumbo - really engrossing - had a great time watching this
Concussion - was pretty good
Creed - Meh - it's pretty much fan fiction
Legend - story was a bit meh, but Hardy's acting was top notch
Woman in Gold - good story - it was enjoyable
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:19 pm
by E.H. Ruddock
Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:21 pm
by Rangi Guy
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
Generally I like his style - was really enjoying The Hateful Eight - right up until towards the end - then he pulled a cheap shot and ruined it
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 7:27 pm
by LoathedVermin72
E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
yeah
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 8:47 pm
by contamination
LoathedVermin72 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
yeah
Kind of like Mike Patton: riding on the wave of cool, and mastering only one style?
Well I watched
Primer. I liked it, but can't understand the people who say it's better than
Upstream Color. I
Upstream Color.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:04 pm
by LoathedVermin72
contamination wrote:LoathedVermin72 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
yeah
Kind of like Mike Patton: riding on the wave of cool, and mastering only one style?
You can criticize Patton for a lot of things, but only having "one style" certainly isn't one of them.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:17 pm
by BurtReynolds
I like Primer but thought Upstream Color was crap.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:24 pm
by LoathedVermin72
BurtReynolds wrote:I like Primer but thought Upstream Color was crap.
Burt, you probably don't want to hear what I have to say about this, so I just won't say it.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:34 pm
by BurtReynolds
LoathedVermin72 wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:I like Primer but thought Upstream Color was crap.
Burt, you probably don't want to hear what I have to say about this, so I just won't say it.
thank you very much.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:37 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.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:38 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: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 9:42 pm
by LoathedVermin72
tragabigzanda wrote:BurtReynolds wrote:I like Primer but thought Upstream Color was crap.
I enjoyed Primer, have had UC in my queue for way too long. Is it worth watching? Or should I just watch Side Effects instead?
none of the above
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 10:27 pm
by The Argonaut
Rangi Guy wrote:
Creed - Meh - it's pretty much fan fiction
We better get used to this. Just look at the number of 20+-year-old movies that were re-booted/sequel-ized this year alone (with varying degrees of input from their original creators): Mad Max, Rocky, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Terminator, Mission Impossible, James Bond. It comes from a combination of our obsession with nostalgia and the studios' need to appeal to as many people as possible.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Mon January 04, 2016 10:47 pm
by dimejinky99
Spotlight was excellent.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:09 am
by Strat
Looper.
I thought i had seen it before. Isn't there another time travel movie that JGL is in? That is a passenger on a train and he keeps going back in time to try and save everyone on it?
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:11 am
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: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:12 am
by VinylGuy
The Argonaut wrote:Rangi Guy wrote:
Creed - Meh - it's pretty much fan fiction
We better get used to this. Just look at the number of 20+-year-old movies that were re-booted/sequel-ized this year alone (with varying degrees of input from their original creators): Mad Max, Rocky, Star Wars, Jurassic Park, Terminator, Mission Impossible, James Bond. It comes from a combination of our obsession with nostalgia and the studios' need to appeal to as many people as possible.
True. Its actually kinda depressing to see it that way.
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:14 am
by LetMeSleep
LoathedVermin72 wrote:E.H. Ruddock wrote:Tarantino has to be one of the most overrated directors of all time. All. Time.
yeah
Holy shit. Do we share a cinematic value?
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:16 am
by LoathedVermin72
No
Re: What movies are you watching?
Posted: Tue January 05, 2016 4:16 am
by @SkitchP
tragabigzanda wrote:Strat wrote:Looper.
I thought i had seen it before. Isn't there another time travel movie that JGL is in? That is a passenger on a train and he keeps going back in time to try and save everyone on it?
Jake Gyllenhaal was in Source Code.
He was also in the Homicide: Life on the Street episode entitled Bop Gun. His father was played by Robin Williams. I believe that episode was the first "red ball" featured on the series.