Saturday Evening Movie Thread 06-23-2018 [Hosted By: TheJamesMadison]

It was Terrible, Except…

I've stopped watching a movie part of the way through once. It was Sicko, the Michael Moore documentary about healthcare. It infuriated me to no end, not because it was an apologia for Cuban healthcare, but because it's manipulative technique was so obvious and forced that I just couldn't take it anymore. He'd start making a point with numbers, and then cut away to some sob story about a family who couldn't afford insurance. I found the technique itself infuriating, so I just stopped it (I paid no money to watch it, by the way).

However, with that said, I watch every new movie all the way through whether I love it or hate it. I don't need to explain the love it part, but why do I subject myself to a film if, through the opening minutes, I decide that it's garbage?

There are really two reasons. The first is that I always hold out hope that the movie will redeem itself. That it will build to some great ending that makes all of the mistakes over the previous 90 minutes or so completely worthwhile (this oh so rarely happens). The second is that even bad movies can have good elements.

You know what I'm talking about. That one scene or performance or design element that grabs you despite the awfulness of everything else around it. Yes, the movie as a whole is awful, except did you see that one part near the end?

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

I've defended both The Motion Picture and The Search for Spock as misunderstood good movies, but that does not extend to William Shatner's directorial effort. The Final Frontier is bad. The story makes no sense (borrowing a plot line from The Animated Series of all places), with completely needless retconning, a total misuse of some beloved characters, and mostly questionable performances.

With that being said, there are three things in this movie that I genuinely and totally love.

First is the opening scene:

This does not feel like the start of a Star Trek movie. The slow motion, the desolation, and the color palate seem so off from what we expect from the series. And yet, as almost a short film unto itself, I love the feel of it. I buy the digger's isolation and desperation (and casting, he's got a great face). The weird and unexplained way that this new entity (Sybok) brings peace. It's really quick nice. The movie that follows doesn't really do anything good with it, though.

The second and third actually happen at once, but I consider them separate elements. The second would be McCoy's scene where he faces his pain.

I don't think I've seen DeForest Kelley give a better performance than in that scene where he has to relive the euthanization of his father. I don't know what Shatner said to him to get that performance, but it worked. Go back to the beginning of that clip to see the third thing that I absolutely love about The Final Frontier. You have to watch the whole thing, but pay attention to what goes on outside of the window. It's a surprisingly subtle effect that draws absolutely no attention to itself whatsoever, but the cluster of stars just gets steadily bigger as the scene draws on. It took me years to notice that (granted, I've only seen the movie all the way through perhaps twice), but once I did see it, I was a bit amazed. Through all of the cutting back and forth, and the fact that the effect was captured in camera with projection on a screen in the background as opposed to any sort of post-production compositing, it still just grows larger with every shot. There's a command in the handling of that effect that is absent in almost everything else in the film. It's obvious to me that a lot of thought went into that effect, and it pays off in its own way. I just wish the rest of the movie had that much thought.

Alexander

Oliver Stone's foray into historical epic filmmaking on the heels of Gladiator and in the same year as Troy is…not good.

I actually saw this in theaters. I was excited. Oliver Stone is not a bad filmmaker, and the movie looks quite good, something that came through in the trailers very easily. However, no two actors seem to be performing like they are in the same movie. Colin Farrell looks like he's in a soap opera and Angelina Jolie acts like she's a monster in a horror movie. I think Val Kilmer gives the only good and grounded performance as Philip, Alexander's father. Even Anthony Hopkins seems to be half asleep as Ptolemy.

However, as implied by the movie's inclusion on this list, I do feel that the sequence that dramatizes the Battle of Gaugamela is quite well shot and assembled. The only clips I can find online are pixelated to all hell, so this will have to do:

There's a grand sweep to the sequence there that's missing from a lot of the mess of the movie. I genuinely find it quite engaging to watch on its own, separate from the rest of the film. But seriously, though, Val Kilmer is actually pretty good in his limited role.

The Lone Ranger

Have you seen this movie?

Did you fall asleep during it? I almost did. Almost.

This was Disney making one of the largest miscalculations of the last twenty years, and it happened at about the same time that it also dropped the egg that was John Carter (addendum: that movie is awesome. Don't hate.). It was wildly expensive (actually less expensive than originally intended), had a huge star at the height of his power (Depp), was supposed to launch Armie Hammer to stardom, and was directed by the man who had brought Pirates of the Caribbean to the screen, Gore Verbinski. It was the kind of sure bet that Hollywood is always desperate for and further proof of William Goldman's adage, "Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work."

The move as a whole is largely self-serious and boring. It doesn't engage as it tries to build this weird mystique about itself that never settles while also using the US Army as bad guys in a super dense plot that made William Turner say, "Wow…that's overly complicated."

However, that being said, the final train fight and chase sequence is one of the most fun big budget sequences over the last couple of decades. It's the first time the familiar theme comes into the film. The action is big, brash, bold, and wildly inventive. Here's the opening to that sequence:

I don't own this movie because Disney has a very tight handle on the primary market for its films which keeps the price of its films high, but if I saw a copy for $5 or less, I'd pick it up just for that final sequence.

I'm not the only one here

Are there movies that you generally dislike but contain individual sequences or elements that you overall enjoy? I've listed a few up above, but mine isn't the only voice that matters.

Movies of Today

Opening in Theaters:
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

Next in my Netflix Queue:
Payback: Straight Up: The Director's Cut

Movies I Saw This Week:
Mother of Tears (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1/4) Poster blurb: "Feels more like the work of a no-name than the man who made Suspiria. It's almost like Dario Argento forgot how to make a movie." [Netflix DVD]
The Taking of Pelham 123 (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Travolta was bad, and I don't like how Tony Scott makes movies in general, but it was almost entertaining enough." [Netflix DVD]
Backdraft (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1.5/4) "Rote and tedious, but at least the fire looked nice." [Netflix DVD]
Suspiria (Netflix Rating 5/5 | Quality Rating 4/4) [Rewatch] "My second viewing of this jumped my opinion up a full star. Stylish descent into the logic of a nightmare." [Personal Collection]
The Four Feathers (Netflix Rating 4/5 | Quality Rating 3/4) "Handsome adventure story that holds up well enough. Could use some tighter focus, though." ["Library"]

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Posted by: OregonMuse at 07:26 PM

Comments

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1 The Taking of Pelham 123 (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Travolta was bad, and I don't like how Tony Scott makes movies in general, but it was almost entertaining enough."

See, you watched the wrong one. The original Pelham123, starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, and released back in the 70s, was much better.

Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at June 23, 2018 07:25 PM (UX379)

2

That scene in Requiem For A Dream.

/thread

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 07:27 PM (SByeH)

3 1 The Taking of Pelham 123 (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Travolta was bad, and I don't like how Tony Scott makes movies in general, but it was almost entertaining enough."

See, you watched the wrong one. The original Pelham123, starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, and released back in the 70s, was much better.
Posted by: OregonMuse, AoSHQ Thought Leader & Contributing Editor, Vanity Fair Magazine at June 23, 2018 07:25 PM (UX379)

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I actually own the original.

It's good solid entertainment. I second your recommendation.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 07:28 PM (Jj43a)

4 The only movie I ever walked out of the theater on was "Last Tango in Paris." I even made it through "Clockwork Orange," somehow.

Posted by: Caliban at June 23, 2018 07:29 PM (QE8X6)

5 I completely forget to mention The Black Dahlia.

The scene where they find the girl's body is great, and there's a sequence near the end that involves a staircase and a death that is classic de Palma in the best way.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 07:29 PM (Jj43a)

6 Never walked out of a theater I don't think.
There is one I wanted to but have to try and remember the title.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (pHfeF)

7 What with the streaming services I tend to "walk out" of a lot of films now. If it doesn't get me quick or it wanders too far off topic, it's just too easy to stop watching and move on to the next film that catches my eye.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (+Tibp)

8 Evening, all

Posted by: fluffy at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (cHbmY)

9 Man, those are some bad, bad movies

I admit, though, that I enjoyed a lot of Cutthroat Island.

Let the recriminations begin.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (e7oj4)

10 Original Taking Pelham 123 is a good move.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (pHfeF)

11 I actually liked 'Backdraft', well perhaps 'like' is a bit overstated. It looked like fire porn for pyros, very good fire porn.

I have it in a Ron Howard Collection - A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Cinderella Man, Backdraft.

Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (roQNm)

12 Also, I kind of disagree about Stone. I don't think he's a good director, at least anymore.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (+Tibp)

13 11 I actually liked 'Backdraft', well perhaps 'like' is a bit overstated. It looked like fire porn for pyros, very good fire porn.

I have it in a Ron Howard Collection - A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Cinderella Man, Backdraft.
Posted by: Skandia Recluse - Alt-Ctrl at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (roQNm)

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Well that's about 30 minutes of that 130 minute movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 07:32 PM (Jj43a)

14 Walked out of blue velvet.

Posted by: NCKate at June 23, 2018 07:32 PM (nU09Z)

15
The Blair Witch Project was a bad movie. Pointless and dull wandering around. It could have been good if done right, but within 10 minutes I wanted to kill everyone in the movie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 07:32 PM (SiINZ)

16 What with the streaming services I tend to "walk out" of a lot of films now. If it doesn't get me quick or it wanders too far off topic, it's just too easy to stop watching and move on to the next film that catches my eye.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (+Tibp)

Good point. There are some I should have walked out of, and some that would have even been decent movies if I'd left at just the right point, but muh sunk cost fallacy, I guess. At home, I don't even think twice about ditching a movie.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 07:32 PM (fZuhk)

17 12 Also, I kind of disagree about Stone. I don't think he's a good director, at least anymore.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:31 PM (+Tibp)

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Alexander seems to have been where it was obvious that he had completely lost his mind.

I'm far from the biggest Stone fan, but I do love Wall Street.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (Jj43a)

18 You're damn right John Carter is awesome!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (gUCYC)

19 The Taking of Pelham 123 (Netflix Rating 3/5 | Quality Rating 2/4) "Travolta was bad, and I don't like how Tony Scott makes movies in general, but it was almost entertaining enough." [Netflix DVD]

++++

What OM said. The remake was... unnecessary. The original with Matthau was fantastic. Plus, though it was uncredited, NY in the 70's can be very interesting to watch and the original had all that.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (pvjTE)

20 Prime Music has a lot of Beatles albums up now.

June 25 is World Beatles Day, for some reason. . . .

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (e7oj4)

21 I walked out of Last Tango too. Also a bad sci-fi in the late 70's with Julie Christie where she was knocked up by a computer. Can't remember the title.

Also Last House on the Left, the original one.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (+Tibp)

22 6 Never walked out of a theater I don't think.
There is one I wanted to but have to try and remember the title.
Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (pHfeF)

Walked out of 'Bridesmaids'...

Luckily, date I was on was OK with walking out...

And I still got lucky that night... LOL

Posted by: Don Q at June 23, 2018 07:34 PM (NgKpN)

23 noom

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 07:27 PM (SByeH)

This was not autocucumber.
I liked Blue Velvet. Weird AF."Now it's dark."

Posted by: Miley, the High Duchess at June 23, 2018 07:35 PM (iTpm7)

24 There are really two reasons. The first is that I always hold out hope that the movie will redeem itself. That it will build to some great ending that makes all of the mistakes over the previous 90 minutes or so completely worthwhile (this oh so rarely happens).

"Rarely" is an overstatement. I doubt you could even cite one instance of it. But you hold out hope, anyway. It's cute, really.

The second is that even bad movies can have good elements.

Sure. Pretty much anything can have good elements. That's still not a reason to suffer through it.

'Do not suffer foolish movies gladly.'

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2018 07:35 PM (UqY2u)

25 Front page taking forever to load on my Fire.
Ok on my phone though

Posted by: Votermom's phone now on Team Gloom Sub Duty at June 23, 2018 07:35 PM (hMwEB)

26 Taking of Pelham 123 book was fun, and the first movie was at least watchable. The newer version, however, did not betray any awareness that the original book was completely unaware. Can't tie metanarratives to this extremely thin unpretentious story. Kind of reminds me of the remake of "Miracle on 34th Street." As soon as you try to take the narrative too seriously, it falls apart.

Posted by: Caliban at June 23, 2018 07:36 PM (QE8X6)

27 None of the Rocky movies have stood the test of time, IMHO, but with the magic of fast forwarding, I can watch all of the mostly awesome fight scenes, without watching Stallone marble-mouth between fights.

Posted by: Aeric at June 23, 2018 07:37 PM (ZbgGv)

28 You're damn right John Carter is awesome!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

If you cut them some slack for making a SC-FI film based on what folks in the early 20th century (or maybe late 19th century?) thought was sci-fi, it kinda works. I like it too.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:37 PM (+Tibp)

29 One of my beeflets with "Alexander" is, here is one of the most famous profiles in all of history -- let's cast snub-nosed Irishman Colin Farrell!

And I like Colin.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:37 PM (gUCYC)

30 Never walked out on a movie, because I need to be damn sure I want to see it before I go.

Was pretty friggin' close with the Last Jedi, though. I didn't even want to see it. My brother and my sons basically dragged me to it.

Lord I hate that movie.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 07:37 PM (EhZNT)

31 I give the new Jurassic movie a 'meh.'

Too much is recycled in my opinion, both in plot and shots. They keep casting a great hunter and each is terrible. Only the Aussie in the first movie is remarkable and memorable.

Jeff Goldblum gets another paycheck out of this.

The only payoff moments come with Owen and Blue. She still considers Owen a friend but knows he can't protect her as he promises. The other humans have shown her betrayal. So she runs off into the darkness.

Posted by: Anna Puma at June 23, 2018 07:38 PM (ZOAr/)

32 Never walked out of a theater I don't think.
There is one I wanted to but have to try and remember the title.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 07:30 PM (pHfeF)

I have walked out of many movies ... and demanded rain checks. Interestingly, the "crappier" theaters would give cash back while the artsy-fartsy places would actually argue with me that the movie was good. Just goes to show you.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2018 07:38 PM (UqY2u)

33 Also Last House on the Left, the original one.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (+Tibp)

This movie is absolutely in no danger of ever appearing on my favorites list.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 07:38 PM (fZuhk)

34 Also a bad sci-fi in the late 70's with Julie Christie where she was knocked up by a computer.
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"Demon Seed". I saw this on t.v. as a kid-- freaked me out.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:39 PM (gUCYC)

35 The b&w version of Four Feathers is a great adventure movie.

Posted by: Northernlurker lighter less filing at June 23, 2018 07:39 PM (eAMlh)

36 Next in my Netflix Queue:
Payback: Straight Up: The Director's Cut

I liked that movie. I wonder how much is changed in the Director's Cut

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 07:40 PM (SiINZ)

37 >>> I liked Blue Velvet.

Pabst! Blue! Ribbon!

Posted by: fluffy at June 23, 2018 07:40 PM (cHbmY)

38 Not that this is the point of this thread but"Sicko" also lied that dentistry is "free" in Canada. It ain't and never has been.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (Evws/)

39 Anyone see the new JP movie? Comments?

Posted by: tbodie at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (E9ede)

40 Never walked out of a theater I don't think.
There is one I wanted to but have to try and remember the title.

Posted by: Skip

Walked out of Eraserhead.

Also once left a George Thorogood, not because he wasn't awesome but the girl I was with suddenly offered that which can never be declined (at least at that age). Don't blame George.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (+Tibp)

41 Porky's,
Started typing up a description and finally remembered the title. Thought it was the worst movie I ever saw in a theater.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 07:42 PM (pHfeF)

42 I have walked out of many movies ... and demanded rain checks. Interestingly, the "crappier" theaters would give cash back while the artsy-fartsy places would actually argue with me that the movie was good. Just goes to show you.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2018 07:38 PM (UqY2u)

The theater where we saw the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy was just handing out refund tickets to everyone as we left the theater, so we took them and went back and saw it again.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 07:42 PM (fZuhk)

43 Yeah, sort of like my former golf game. One or two great shots, but always hoping to redeem myself.
I gave up golf.

Posted by: RI Red at June 23, 2018 07:42 PM (SY1FC)

44 38 Not that this is the point of this thread but"Sicko" also lied that dentistry is "free" in Canada. It ain't and never has been.
Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (Evws/)

--Tru dat.

Fortunately I had really good dentists during my time in Winnipeg,

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 07:42 PM (e7oj4)

45 but the girl I was with suddenly offered that which can never be declined

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (+Tibp)

"Ever'body funny ... Now, you funny too."

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at June 23, 2018 07:43 PM (UqY2u)

46 "Demon Seed". I saw this on t.v. as a kid-- freaked me out.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

Yes! Thank you. I would never have remembered.

Now, to forget again.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:43 PM (+Tibp)

47 >>Are there movies that you generally dislike but contain individual sequences or elements that you overall enjoy?

The Walter Mitty movie with Ben Stiller has some gorgeous cinematography of beautiful and dramatic scenery, and the moody music complements it. Rich colors, sweeping ocean and landscapes.....and an underwhelming story.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 07:44 PM (W+vEI)

48 39 Anyone see the new JP movie? Comments?
Posted by: tbodie at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (E9ede)

--Hmmmmm . . .

Because Spielberg thinks all aliens and predators are cute and cuddly, no dinosaurs are killed in the movie.

[I'm going out on a limb.]

Did I get it right?

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 07:44 PM (e7oj4)

49 >>Also Last House on the Left, the original one.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (+Tibp)

Stumbled into the local theater to see that one with a friend after, oh, maybe 6 or 7 TALL Budweisers in the cozy old Thunderbird. We were both big "B" movie fans and thought it might be fun. You know, like Robbie the Robot and "Curse of the Demon." Literally do not remember a thing about it. Might have walked out if I was conscious of what was going on.

Posted by: Caliban at June 23, 2018 07:44 PM (QE8X6)

50 Blue Velvet was a tough one to make it through.

I like David Lynch, mostly Twin Peaks. But Mullholland drive is my favorite non-TP endeavor. Kinda got a thing for Naomi Watts.

Don't like some of his other stuff. Like the one with Barretta. (Sorry. Senior moment)

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 07:44 PM (EhZNT)

51 That scene in Requiem For A Dream.

I almost cried, that's how hard I was laughing.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 07:45 PM (rnAwa)

52 My girlfriend at the time wanted to go see "The Blair Witch Project". After about 30 minutes, I was bored to tears. There was a couple in front of us,and about an hour in, the woman wanted to leave. The man looked at her and said- "No, I am not leaving until all 3 of those whiny bitches are dead."

I had wanted to go see the movie "Hostiles" when it came out, because I thought "Hey, U.S. Cavalry, frontier war, sounds great." Well, I didn't make it to the theater, but I streamed it when it came out. Made me glad I didn't waste more money seeing it in the theater.

Posted by: DaveKinNC at June 23, 2018 07:45 PM (/NgNT)

53 >>> (I paid no money to watch it, by the way).

Shame on you!!! It's because people like you that I can only afford to have a meager 100 gallons of Lard* a day in this oppressive, tyrannical, failed, fascist-capitalist system!

*begins sobbing uncontrollably while wolfing down Filets-o-Fish*

*In addition to numerous other foods.

Posted by: Michael Moore at June 23, 2018 07:47 PM (/pt8Q)

54 Oliver Stone's best work was as a writer on "Conan the Barbarian".

I will also say that "The Doors" had a certain hallucinogenic visual flair that captured fever dream world of Morrison's world:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IERQmR2qESU

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:47 PM (gUCYC)

55 I like David Lynch, mostly Twin Peaks. But Mullholland drive is my favorite non-TP endeavor.

He did a film called the Straight Story that is awesome and you'd never guess it was him. Just sweet and brilliant.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:47 PM (+Tibp)

56 Walked out of Rango, with my four year old in tow.

Couldn't stand the message it was putting out there.

Johnny Depp has fallen quite far in my estimation, nothwithstanding his current issues of losing a $650 million fortune. How does that even happen?!

Posted by: squeakywheel at June 23, 2018 07:48 PM (vB7kY)

57 I haaaaated "Gremlins" and almost walked out, but my friends wanted to stay. I did walk out of "Amistad" during the ocean scene just to get a break - it was too intense.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 07:48 PM (W+vEI)

58 Read "Demon Seed" as a teen. Saw the movie on TV. The book, oddly enough, was better.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:48 PM (Evws/)

59 He did a film called the Straight Story that is awesome and you'd never guess it was him. Just sweet and brilliant.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:47 PM (+Tibp)

--That was a tear-jerker movie.

Loved it.

I think Lynch was just saying "Hey, I can make a straight story as well."

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (e7oj4)

60 And I liked "Zardoz", muthas! So bite me!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (Evws/)

61 I so wanted to leave Avatar, but I wasn't the one driving.

Only redeeming thing was the beginning special effects were interesting.

Posted by: kallisto at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (QLqRY)

62 I will also say that "The Doors" had a certain hallucinogenic visual flair that captured fever dream world of Morrison's world:

The best thing, or things I should say, about the Doors was Kathleen Quinlan's bustline which was spectacular.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (+Tibp)

63 Oliver Stone is well-named. He's completely unaware of the difference between story-telling and didacticism.

Posted by: Caliban at June 23, 2018 07:50 PM (QE8X6)

64 He did a film called the Straight Story that is awesome and you'd never guess it was him. Just sweet and brilliant.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:47 PM (+Tibp)

Yes! Totally forgot he did that one. I love that movie. I need to find that one and watch it again and again.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 07:50 PM (EhZNT)

65 The theater where we saw the Kids in the Hall movie Brain Candy was just handing out refund tickets to everyone as we left the theater, so we took them and went back and saw it again.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 07:42 PM (fZuhk)
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I actually liked that movie!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:50 PM (gUCYC)

66 And I liked "Zardoz", muthas! So bite me!

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (Evws/)

It's hard not to like a movie with a man wearing a red diaper

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM (SiINZ)

67 I walked out on Avatar.

Also on the end of the second Star Trek reboot.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM (oVJmc)

68

I've tried watching Barbarella twice on TV. Never finished it either time. Never tried again.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM (IqV8l)

69 61 I so wanted to leave Avatar, but I wasn't the one driving.

Only redeeming thing was the beginning special effects were interesting.
Posted by: kallisto at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM (QLqRY)

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I watched the final battle independent of the rest of the film once. It blew my socks off, it was so amazing.

It did not do that when I saw it as the ending of the full film.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM (Jj43a)

70 Zardoz is cool.

It's mad, of course, but still cool.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM (oVJmc)

71 I feel a compulsion to watch a movie I've chosen all the way to the end, even sitting there watching the final credits. There've been very few exceptions, even for stuff that's terrible.

I walked out on one movie in a theater--"The Gambler" staring James Caan. I understand addiction now, but at the time I did not. And the film failed to convey the absolute hold that addiction has over a person.
When I tried to watch it, it just didn't make any sense. Caan's character kept making such utterly stupid choices--despite absolutely knowing the danger he was putting himself in--that I just couldn't take what I thought was stupidity.
Well, it is stupidity. The film failed to make the compulsion real to the audience.
I've sent some films back to Netflix (back when I could afford a subscription) when they were only half (or less) watched. "Bad Lieutenant"--I really don't have time these days for vile people doing vile things. "Punch Drunk Love"--I got about 30 minutes into this "masterpiece" before deciding it was a senseless valentine to senselessness. And I've avoided Paul Thomas Anderson ever since. (At least Paul W.S. Anderson manages to be stupidly entertaining.) "The Last of Sheila"--I found it impossible to care about any of the characters.
And there I stand.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 23, 2018 07:52 PM (l9m7l)

72 >>What with the streaming services I tend to "walk out" of a lot of films now. If it doesn't get me quick or it wanders too far off topic, it's just too easy to stop watching and move on to the next film that catches my eye.

Yes, definitely.
Particularly if there a gratuitous gut punch, political or otherwise, it's "click" - I'm out.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 07:52 PM (W+vEI)

73 Oh, yeah--forgot about "Avatar." Got into some trouble at family parties talking about how awful that one was.

Posted by: Caliban at June 23, 2018 07:52 PM (QE8X6)

74 Walked out of only one movie in 50 years: 1981's Tarzan the Ape Man, with Miles O'Keefe and Bo Derek. There have been several VCR /DVD movies I have truncated, but mostly because I have a 'gore threshold'.

Posted by: Looper at June 23, 2018 07:53 PM (7xvrP)

75 40: she offered One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer?

Posted by: kallisto at June 23, 2018 07:53 PM (QLqRY)

76 Damn, I had paragraph breaks in that and everything. Sorry everyone.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 23, 2018 07:53 PM (l9m7l)

77 My wife and I went to "Incredibles II" this last week and enjoyed it very much.

Pixar managed to make a decent movie and at times, when addressing issues, did a good job of putting both sides in the dialogue. I didn't really see anything I thought was overtly SJW, which was good.

Posted by: Blake - used scripting salesman at June 23, 2018 07:53 PM (WEBkv)

78 28 You're damn right John Carter is awesome!
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes

I saw it in the theatre. Didn't really match the book, but it was so much fun that I bought it on DVD. Tried to lend it to one of my brothers, but he heard it was bad. Then he caught the tail end of it oin his travels and asked to borrow it.

Too bad Disney crapped on its marketing. It was better than the recent SW movies.

I liked Backdraft, too, especially the cut scenes. There's a future post for TJM: cut scenes good and cut scenes bad. The cut scenes from SW: Attack of the Clones actually gave a better sense of why the princess and the Jedi would have a relationship.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (/+bwe)

79 Two movies I should have walked out of:

The Phantom Menace, although the pod race was at least a bit interesting.

Mad Dog and Glory. Absolutely nothing interesting at all in it.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (YTxkQ)

80 JOHN CARTER was good, not great. The issue is that it's certainly no worse than the Star Trek reboot that too many slobbered over yet it bombed with the critics and was basically abandoned by the studio.

JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM gets points for continuing the idea that the dinosaurs are just examples of the destructive power of genetic engineering but loses most of them for a story that gets progressively stupider as it goes along.

Mike

Posted by: MBunge at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (FluJm)

81 How does that even happen?!
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Very slowly at first then all at once.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (Evws/)

82 she offered One Bourbon, One Scotch and One Beer?
Posted by: kallisto

Let's just say I came home last night about half past ten and that baby of mine finally let me in.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (+Tibp)

83 I've never seen Avatar all the way through. I used to catch segments in the Walmart breakroom. Figured out pretty quickly that it was a monumentally successful load of horse shit.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (EhZNT)

84 >>>It was the kind of sure bet that Hollywood is always desperate for and further proof of William Goldman's adage, "Nobody knows anything. Not one person in the entire motion picture field knows for a certainty what's going to work."

Kathleen Kennedy should try out that line on Bob Iger.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (/qEW2)

85 I was watching a movie, and walked out because of a sudden desire to be at home ... safe, dry and warm. Snow started coming down about half an hour later. I won't name the movie because it seems unfair to compete with my animal cunning.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 07:56 PM (rnAwa)

86 Michael Moore is not a documentary filmmaker, none of them are really.

I had the great misfortune of having to be in the room for all of the post production work for Fahrenheit 9/11.

Michael Moore is a hack propagandist of the first order.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2018 07:56 PM (VkTrF)

87 The first is that I always hold out hope that the movie will redeem itself.
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Same here, TJM. It infuriates my wife, who gives up on movies early if there are no likable/virtuous/heroic characters ... but, like Fox Mulder, I WANT TO BELIEVE!
I'm nearly always disappointed ... but you never know.

Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 07:56 PM (BiLU+)

88 Too bad Sicko came out before Charlie Gard and Alfie Evans. That might have modified Moore's stance on socialist health care. Hahaha. Just kidding.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (/qEW2)

89 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (KCxzN)

90
A friend of mine dragged me to see Bolero. About a half an hour a box of popcorn hit the screen. It was painfully bad

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (SiINZ)

91 Only movie i actually walked out of the theater for was 'Jingle All the Way'. Ahhnold and Sinbad were the worst match-up of all cinematic history. I still remember the nightmarish line: "You're my numbah one customer!"

Posted by: Aeric at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (ZbgGv)

92 85 I was watching a movie, and walked out because of a sudden desire to be at home ... safe, dry and warm. Snow started coming down about half an hour later. I won't name the movie because it seems unfair to compete with my animal cunning.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 07:56 PM (rnAwa)
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Fifty Shades Freed?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (gUCYC)

93 "John Carter" could have been great, if they'd cast someone else in the lead. Someone who didn't come off as a whiny millennial. (Everything else in the film was fine.) I've read the first few books, and John Carter was a man's man and should have been portrayed by an actor who could do that convincingly. And I'll stop now.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (l9m7l)

94 2 That scene in Requiem For A Dream.

/thread

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 07:27 PM (SByeH)

Yeah, that couldn't even save RfaD for me. I had heard that movie hyped for so long that, when I finally did watch it, I found myself angry. Trainspotting is a far superior junkie movie--though, I never did see the sequel.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (NL6wI)

95 Svengoolie coming up.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (+Tibp)

96 Five Jurassic Park movies, and the dinosaurs excape every frikkin' time. You'd think someone would learn.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 07:57 PM (oVJmc)

97 Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 07:58 PM (qplvQ)

98 The only movie I've walked out of was 2007's The Golden Compass. I've got a love-hate relationship with those books - the first is great, but as they get grander over the second and third they lose their heart, and the ending is THE OPPOSITE OF UPLIFTING. Which is what comes of attempting to write an epic trilogy denouncing the concept of a loving God.

Shit that movie was bad.

Posted by: ghost of kari at June 23, 2018 08:00 PM (eY/ez)

99 Starship troopers RULES. The left thought they were mocking toxic masculinity but instead they made a movie that was BALLS TO THE WALL AWESOME

Posted by: ghost of kari at June 23, 2018 08:01 PM (eY/ez)

100 97 Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.

Like Battlefield Earth was a crime against L. Ron Hubbard, humanity, and all carbon-based life forms.

Posted by: Aeric at June 23, 2018 08:01 PM (ZbgGv)

101 Starship Troopers is amazing.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 08:02 PM (rnAwa)

102 Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 07:58 PM (qplvQ)

The movie was absolute fun on a bun and just as enjoyable as the completely unrelated book that happens to have the same title.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:02 PM (fZuhk)

103 Is Tammy Baldwin the Congressperson who recently gave birth?

Seriously, some dude actually tagged that recently???

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 08:02 PM (e7oj4)

104 >>> Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.

It's a good song, though.

Posted by: fluffy at June 23, 2018 08:02 PM (cHbmY)

105 Oh, how I hated Mulholland drive! I had insomnia and I figure it *must* get better or reveal at the end to have it all make sense. Nope.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 08:03 PM (W+vEI)

106 Starship Troopers is amazing.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 08:02 PM (rnAwa)

I've seen only parts of it, mostly the co-ed shower scene, but it strikes me as one I would love partly because of its shittiness.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:03 PM (EhZNT)

107 Zardoz is cool, never in a theater but seen it 3 times, shown on TCM about once a year.

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 08:04 PM (pHfeF)

108 Only movie I ever walked out of was BROKEN CITY. Someone else paid for my ticket, so it was no loss to me. p)

I will give up on a movie at any point - beginning, middle, late - if I get bored or it just sucks too bad or if it pisses me off.

By giving up I mean change the channel. There's always a ball game on somewhere.

Posted by: Hands at June 23, 2018 08:04 PM (EzdLW)

109 One of the worst films I've ever seen was a film called Brown Bunny.

Its truly a piece of shit that not even Cloe Svegniny giving an actual blowjob on screen could redeem, actually the on camera blowjob was one of the least forced thing about the film.

I remember Roger Ebert panned it an Vincent Gallo called him a fat piece of shit, Eberts response was priceless, "I may be fat but you will always be known as the director of Brown Bunny."

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (VkTrF)

110 Starship Troopers 90210.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (oVJmc)

111 Starship troopers RULES. "

except for the part where Verhoven took Heinlein's source material and crapped in its mouth. Which was the entire movie.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (V2Yro)

112 It was almost worth sitting through the entirety of Godfather III just for that seen when Pacino knocks Diane Keaton down with a (unfortunately staged) slap.
That, and the fact that Sophia Coppola looked a lot like but was more sexy than my first love ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (BiLU+)

113 Has anybody seen "The Fountain"? I've had it from Netflix for a week but haven't had it in me to see it.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (gUCYC)

114 * scene, not seen * jeebus

Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (BiLU+)

115 Mad Dog and Glory. Absolutely nothing interesting at all in it.

Posted by: Chuck C at June 23, 2018 07:54 PM (YTxkQ)

++++

I liked that movie. Both Bill Murray and De Niro playing against type.

We can get you with soup.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (pvjTE)

116 I stopped watching the Purge after about 20 minutes (borrowed it from library). It looked like a generic low budget horror flick and nothing on the back blurb or the cover gave an indication that it was an SJW poop fest. Now I always take my smartphone to the library so I can carry out a check beforehand.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (/qEW2)

117 Starship Troopers is even better if you watch it knowing that Paul Verhoeven was struggling to get the cast to react to monsters that would be added after filming and you imagine that all of their interactions with them are really to Paul Verhoeven waving his arms and yelling "BAAAHGS! BAAAAAAAHGS!"

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:06 PM (fZuhk)

118 Flipping around the channels one night a long time ago I caught the last two-thirds of what was called "The San Patricios" but I see from IMDB was also called "One Man's Hero" about Irish deserters fighting for the Mexicans in the Mexican-American War and so wanted to like it because of the subject matter, they did a great job with the uniforms etc. but the acting sucked as I recalled.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 08:06 PM (Evws/)

119 I've tried watching Barbarella twice on TV. Never finished it either time. Never tried again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM

I'm allergic to any movie with any Fonda in it. Henry, Jane, Peter, Bridget...no way.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (2NqXo)

120 113 Has anybody seen "The Fountain"? I've had it from Netflix for a week but haven't had it in me to see it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (gUCYC)

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Saw it in theaters.

Wildly ambitious sort of SciFi. It doesn't reach the highs it's going for, but it's at the very least interesting to see and kind of gorgeous to look at.

It's also short, if I remember correctly.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (Jj43a)

121 Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.

Not even props for the pointless nudity?

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (U8Uiu)

122 The first movie I ever walked out of was "Natural Born Killers." No ending could have redeemed that POS ...

Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (BiLU+)

123 Julie Christie movie was Demon Seed did not walk out because 1) I was a teenager and 2) Julie Christie.

I have walked out of a few the first I walked out of was Raise the Titanic.. As a kid I was a model building buff and had just made a model of the Titanic.

After they raised the ship in the movie I walked out as the film was incomprehensible.

Posted by: Big V at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (ZvLtE)

124 John Carter isn't bad but it could have been so much better. First, Taylor K. was the wrong guy for the part. You needed someone who could play a Civil War vet who was done with humanity. A young Harrison Ford would have been the guy to play the character back in the day. (OT: Leading men need distinctive features. Perfect looking doesn't do it.)

Next they needed to scale back the film. Twenty years ago the film would have been a hit. Today, it was just another big CGI fest. It needed a tighter story with less CGI.

Finally, I don't think they ever had confidence in the material and it shows.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:08 PM (J70i0)

125 119 I've tried watching Barbarella twice on TV. Never finished it either time. Never tried again.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2018 07:51 PM

I'm allergic to any movie with any Fonda in it. Henry, Jane, Peter, Bridget...no way.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (2NqXo)

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But... But... But...

Once Upon a Time in the West is amazeballs!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:08 PM (Jj43a)

126 I love that Starship Poopers is the Roshamon of movies. Everybody sees something different.

Shiteous!
Brilliant!
Horrible!
So Bad It's Good!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:08 PM (gUCYC)

127 There was one time back in the 1970s when I went to a movie. I don't remember the title, but it was about Flashman and Britt Ekland was in it.

It was an afternoon showing. I bought my ticket and popcorn, sat down, and realized I was the only person in the theater. I felt pretty self-conscious, but luckily a few more people drifted in before the movie started.

I guess I should have been happy to get a private showing, but I felt kind of weird and embarrassed.

Posted by: rickl at June 23, 2018 08:09 PM (sdi6R)

128 "99 Starship troopers RULES. The left thought they were mocking toxic masculinity but instead they made a movie that was BALLS TO THE WALL AWESOME
Posted by: ghost of kari at June 23, 2018 08:01 PM (eY/ez)"

Well, you might be right if it wasn't for the fact that it missed the entire point of the book. The director was trying to make the MI into NAZIs. And even worse, they wrote out the main character of the book: the powered suits. I hope someone will be able to do the story justice in the future.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:09 PM (qplvQ)

129 113 Has anybody seen "The Fountain"? I've had it from Netflix for a week but haven't had it in me to see it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (gUCYC)

It was my favorite Aronofsky movie. His films are always heavy, but this one was far more beautiful than Requiem for a Dream.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:09 PM (EhZNT)

130 I wanted to walk out of GOOD NIGHT AND GOOD LUCK, but had gone to it with my folks while visiting them. Their car drove us, and it was their house I was staying at, so I had nowhere to go.

I was one of the only people in the theater without gray hair. Buncha crazy boomers getting their Bush derangement syndrome fix from that flick. Ugh.

Posted by: Hands at June 23, 2018 08:10 PM (EzdLW)

131 shown on TCM about once a year.
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The "Zardoz" airings here that I saw starting as a grade niner were shown uncensored probably affecting my view of the movie.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 08:10 PM (Evws/)

132
I'm allergic to any movie with any Fonda in it. Henry, Jane, Peter, Bridget...no way.
Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:07 PM (2NqXo)

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But... But... But...

Once Upon a Time in the West is amazeballs!

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:08 PM (Jj43a)

++++

Yup. Also, The Limey. Easy Rider. Klute. Sometimes a Great Notion. etc.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 08:11 PM (pvjTE)

133 "126 I love that Starship Poopers is the Roshamon of movies. Everybody sees something different.

Shiteous!
Brilliant!
Horrible!
So Bad It's Good!"

The Zen is strong with this comment.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:12 PM (qplvQ)

134 Friend of mine's wife dragged him to see Brokeback Mountain. He left screaming "they're f--king faggots".

Posted by: Cosda at June 23, 2018 08:12 PM (KBUFi)

135 In answer to TJM's query, I generally very much disliked "Gods and Generals," but not for the reason the "professional critics" disliked it.

They objected to the humanizing of Confederates as opposed to portraying them as mere violent psychopaths who only took breaks from beating slaves long enough to go stomp on kittens.

I, on the other hand, couldn't stand the tedious melodrama and Robert Duvall's drawl. But, I did enjoy the attention to detail regarding sets, costumes, etc. as well as the cinematography--particularly during one of the final scenes depicting armies charging through the forest.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 08:12 PM (NL6wI)

136 See, you watched the wrong one. The original Pelham123, starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw, and released back in the 70s, was much better.

One hundred percent agree. Robert Shaw was a great actor. His brings depth to all his characters. He was brilliant in Jaws and The Sting.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (rdl6o)

137 >>I hope someone will be able to do the story justice in the future.

That would great. I'd also love to see someone take on the Hugh Howie "Wool" series. I love Sci-Fi when done well on screen.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (W+vEI)

138 Has anybody seen "The Fountain"? I've had it from Netflix for a week but haven't had it in me to see it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (gUCYC)

It's a beautiful mess. Really beautiful music under beautiful scenes with beautiful actors.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (/+bwe)

139 I love that Starship Poopers is the Roshamon of movies.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:08 PM (gUCYC)

I like how the Rashomon of movies is a 1990s space bug flick and not, y'know, something from Kurosawa or anything

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (fZuhk)

140 That clip on Gaugamela is entertaining filming, but also shows that Stone did not understand Alexander's military genius even one tiny bit. Few do. It shows Alexander planning the moves carefully, detailing the trap he would set - and yet that wasn't how a daring innovator like Alexander thinks and works at all. Alexander knew that he had the best people at their positions, and he knew they would hold their own. Then, as the two forces at Gaugemela faced each other, he made a move to create chaos, to do the unexpected, and to see what would happen. He had no real idea what would happen next; but he knew that he was the absolute master of Chaos in Action, that when things went out off the rails and everyone began reacting, HE would be able to adapt and take advantage of the new situation more quickly than anyone else on the battlefield. THAT was his genius, THAT was how he operated. He knew that his fly by the seat of his pants intuition was BETTER than all the planning done by all the military geniuses of his day. He didn't know what mistake the enemy was going to make - but he was sure that if he confounded them, they WOULD make a mistake, and he would spot it.

At Gaugemela, Alexander moved his cavalry unexpectedly to create some chaos. The other side was flustered, and made a mistake. Alexander saw the mistake instantly, exploited it immediately, and within a few minutes the massive Persian Army was scattered and Alexander was the new Ruler of Asia. That was his genius.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (V2Yro)

141 TJM - No comments about Disney's 'no more standalone Star Wars movies' announcement?

Was anyone wanting a Boba Fet movie?!?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 08:14 PM (W+vEI)

142 Backdraft (Netflix Rating 2/5 | Quality Rating 1.5/4) "Rote and tedious, but at least the fire looked nice."

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*fist bump*

Posted by: Nero's fiddle at June 23, 2018 08:14 PM (EzdLW)

143 I always almost watch Cat Baloo, because I love Lee Marvin so much. But then I remember Hanoi Jane is in it, and I just,

I just don't.

Somebody talk me into watching Cat Baloo.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:14 PM (EhZNT)

144 I will also say that "The Doors" had a certain hallucinogenic visual flair that captured fever dream world of Morrison's world:

The best thing, or things I should say, about the Doors was Kathleen Quinlan's bustline which was spectacular.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:49 PM

My cousin was an extra in that movie, I think in a crowd scene in a ballroom (?) where the band was playing. She had a sixties look with long straight blonde hair. I've never seen it so I don't know if she's visible or not.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:15 PM (2NqXo)

145 I kind of miss the freak-a-delic SF movies of the 70's like Zardoz which, red diaper and thigh boots aside, has some interesting things to say about barbarianism vs. sterile lotus-eating civilization.

I guess. All I remember is the thigh boots.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:15 PM (gUCYC)

146 There's gratuitous nudity in Starship Troopers? I never got past the ants on the moon, unless I'm mistaken about which movie that is.

Last one I actually walked out of in the theater was the Avengers Infinity thing. No. 1 Son suggested that we leave, so I was happy, but he liked it again later. I just sucked the joy out of the room.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:16 PM (fuK7c)

147 Personally, if there isn't a shoot out, a car chase, or cowboys and Indians in the first ten minutes; I'm out of there.

Posted by: Cosda at June 23, 2018 08:16 PM (KBUFi)

148
Henry Fonda has the acting ability of a 2x4. His rotten kids only got jobs because of daddy. Fuck the lot of them with a GAF viewmaster wrapped in barbed wire

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:16 PM (SiINZ)

149 i've walked out on two movies: "ninja iii: the domination" and "joy of sex".
long enough ago that i don't recall the details, although i have hazy memories of a circular firing squad from which the ninja magically escapes, which i think is when i walked out on that one.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:17 PM (2//jc)

150 Uh-oh. Don't talk about chaos. Or else... HE may come.... You know, HIM:

https://youtu.be/OBnxOUCQD1c?t=22

Posted by: Zombie Dom Deluise at June 23, 2018 08:17 PM (EzdLW)

151 There's gratuitous nudity in Starship Troopers? I never got past the ants on the moon, unless I'm mistaken about which movie that is.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:16 PM (fuK7c)

I wouldn't call it gratuitous.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:17 PM (fZuhk)

152 The seventies had some unique movies. I'd like to see the Parallex View again.

Posted by: Concerned People's Front at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (rdl6o)

153 I walked out of "Mirrors" (Kiefer Sutherland). Mainly because I got sick from the shaky cam. I also can't make it through "Battle L.A." for the same reason.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (w+Jhj)

154 I don't really like Clint Eastwood as a director or actor. He was good in the spaghetti westerns that were directed by Sergio Leone only because his character was perfect for the part. You know. His character. Clint Eastwood the steely eyed, tense jawed movie star. As a director, I have never found him to be capable of nuance. He is just black and white. Always. Even when he uses good actors, they are reduced to some archetype that he is using to tell his story. Films like Unforgiven or Million Dollar Baby aren't bad. They just don't soar. There is a plodding nature to his vision.

That having been said, my favorite Clint Eastwood movie is Kelly's Heroes. It was not directed by Eastwood, but, once again, his limited acting range is perfect for his part. The one scene he messed up was at the end, when the German tank commander that blew open the bank for them was leaving with his take of the gold. He saluted Eastwood's character with the Roman salute, and Eastwood got all steely eyed and angry, like he's just pissed in his face. Of course, the German then realized his faux pas and changed it to the American army type salute. To which Eastwood responded in kind. His anger at the Nazi salute is ridiculous. It is an early 70's kind of political correctness of Nazi's bad, American's good. But, Eastwood and his fellow American thieves have already told the German that they don't know what the war is about and they're just going to get their share of booty. "Yeah, I'm a traitor and a thief, but that Nazi shit is just too evil!"

Kelly's Heroes had a great cast. Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin McLeod, and more whose faces you would recognize.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (9BLnV)

155 The Hobbit movies. The only good parts are the ones from the book. The quality difference is obvious.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (J70i0)

156 One thing I've realized about H-Wood movies is that whatever it seems like in the first 7 minutes is what it is.

It is a remarkable consistency that seems impossible.

If you don't like something in the first 7 minutes hit eject. You will never be wrong.

For instance everything that has Amy Adams in it is bad within the first 7 minutes.

I don't hate Amy Adams but everything she is in is awful.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (+lOpA)

157 Somebody talk me into watching Cat Baloo.
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:14 PM (EhZNT)

It's a very funny movie with one of my favorite lines:

Jackson Two-Bears: Kid, Kid, what a time to fall off the wagon. Look at your eyes.

Kid Sheleen: What's wrong with my eyes?

Jackson Two-Bears: Well they're red, bloodshot.

Kid Sheleen: You ought to see 'em from my side.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (gUCYC)

158 That was "Royal Flash". It's a shame that the only one they could get made was it because it's basically "The Prisoner of Zenda" even with Fraser doing the screenplay. We need all of them done but too unPC and antiSJW to get made. Dicks.

Posted by: andycanuck at June 23, 2018 08:20 PM (Evws/)

159 Also shaky cam is awful.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:20 PM (+lOpA)

160 2

That scene in Requiem For A Dream.

/thread
Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 07:27 PM (SByeH)

That scene from Irreversible.

/thread

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 23, 2018 08:20 PM (EM0pH)

161 Protesters confronted Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi at a showing of a documentary about children's TV host Fred Rogers, and they questioned the Republican's stands on immigration and health care.

The Tampa Bay Times reports Bondi received a police escort Friday when several members of Organize Florida confronted her as she left a Tampa theater after seeing "Won't You Be My Neighbor" about Mr. Rogers.

This is going to end in bloodshed

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:20 PM (SiINZ)

162 Barbarella is tremendous fun to watch, particularly when you are lit up.
Actually, that's true about a lot of movies - get smashed and even the awful becomes passable if not hilarious.

I've never walked out on a film, largely because I've always been very selective about what I see in a theater. I have turned them off, though. In fact, I'm not as tolerant as I used to be in that respect.

Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at June 23, 2018 08:21 PM (cfSRQ)

163 Oh yay, Watters has that dingbat Cathy Areu on.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (e7oj4)

164 Maybe getting a little controversial here but facts is facts.

I walked out of Sin City halfway through and never regretted it. Huge Tarantino fan at the time, and don't terribly mind Rodriguez but that was a steaming load.

Also turned off Wall-E after about 30 minutes. Turned off Captain Phillips cuz it was making us dizzy (large screen) although I would have liked to have watched that one.

One movie I truly regret finishing was Ex Machina. "Best Sci-fi since the Matrix!!!!". It wasnt even the best Sci-fi since Sharknado 3.

Posted by: Mega at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (rv0Fo)

165 I have been watching some RiffTrax movies lately, and when you get into the more obscure ones, all I can say is that not do most people not realize that there are movies that bad, most people probably can't even conceive of movies that are that bad.

I watched one a couple days ago that had Bigfoot with a paper mache' mask.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (V2Yro)

166 I kind of miss the freak-a-delic SF movies of the 70's like Zardoz which, red diaper and thigh boots aside, has some interesting things to say about barbarianism vs. sterile lotus-eating civilization.

I guess. All I remember is the thigh boots.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:15 PM

I liked the first act of A BOY AND HIS DOG. Loved how the dog communicated psychically instead of moving its mouth (if remade today they'd move the mouth with cgi), and that dog's voice sounded like a whiny middle aged man stuck in traffic and arguing with his radio. Then the movie blew it when Don Johnson goes underground and finds Jason Robards doing a reinterpretation of OUR TOWN with sets. Off the rails.

Posted by: Hands at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (EzdLW)

167 Kid Sheleen: You ought to see 'em from my side.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (gUCYC)

You see my dilemma? I would love to see this movie. I've seen bits, but from way back in the day.

But dear Lord, my intense loathing of *her* *spits between fingers* wrecks the whole thing for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (EhZNT)

168 1941 w/ John Belushi. Never made it through that one.
Also "Howard the Duck".

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:23 PM (w+Jhj)

169 Doctor Bellows looks freaky in this movie.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:23 PM (oVJmc)

170 I like the part in Shawshank Redemption when Tim Robbins get beat up and raped.

The pole dance sequence in Showgirls.

I really love the the bit in Ronin between the start of the movie and the credits at the end.

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at June 23, 2018 08:24 PM (IeDO8)

171 Starship Troopers is not only a crime against Robert Heinlein, but a crime against humanity.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 07:58 PM (qplvQ)

Yes, all involved should have been shot as a warning to others.

It was the first movie I followed on the Internet. As fans heard more details, it was obvious what a disaster it was going to be.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:24 PM (J70i0)

172 One really interesting movie-viewing experience I had was in the 1980s remake of "Invaders from Mars".
The movie is very silly, so silly that I was making fun of it out loud in the theater, which I *never* do.
And then the plot twist happened and all of the silliness suddenly made sense and *had* to be that way. It was genius.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:24 PM (2//jc)

173 This is going to end in bloodshed
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:20 PM

Dining While Republican was outlawed. Now it looks like Watching Movies While Republican is also verboten.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:24 PM (2NqXo)

174 I thought Starship Troopers was terrible.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (+lOpA)

175 OT/

Dammit TVGuide! Wtf? You had a new series listed tonight, about a US Marshall juggling her job and dysfunctional family. 3 back to back episodes.

Instead, I get some super dark, depressing Scottish program (can barely understand the words) about a super creepy rapist from back in the 50s. I'm 20 min. in and depressed.

How could you get it so wrong so many times. You are TVGuide! You have One job! The listings!

Maybe stop injecting political outrage into every single show review, and get the listings right.

What a bunch of crapweasels.

/rant off
Still pissed

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (KeRzR)

176 Greetings:

Do movies that were so bad that you got thrown out of the theater count. At any specific ages ???

Posted by: 11B40 at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (evgyj)

177 Enter the Ninja

Exit the theater

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (+Tibp)

178
I liked movies like Pelham 123, with that gritty 70's cop-robber-spy-thief feel to them, such as:

-- The Seven-Ups
-- Marathon Man
-- The Eiger Sanction
-- Fuzz
-- Sharky's Machine

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (SByeH)

179 I gotta say that I kinda like Wall-e, acknowledging that it's just a light hearted kids movie with some sci-fi eco nonsense thrown in.

What I like most is the closing credits, where whoever animated that did a progression that was really subtle and quite amazing. I'll nominate that as the best animated closing credits ever done.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hscu7cc1_2Y

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:26 PM (V2Yro)

180 I recently watched The Disaster Artist, the story of a man with bags of money who made arguably the worst movie ever made. I loved this movie. I've seen portions of The Room, made by Tommy Wiseau, a mysterious fellow who had loads of money and a dream.

Ed Wood would have loved to have this guy's bank account.

"Oh, hi Mark."

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:26 PM (EhZNT)

181 Posted by: Mega at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (rv0Fo)

--I liked Captain Phillips.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (e7oj4)

182 >>>|Instead, I get some super dark, depressing Scottish program (can barely understand the words) about a super creepy rapist.

What channel.is this on?

Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (EM0pH)

183 Greetings:

Do movies that were so bad your Mother had to remove you from the theater count ???

What about your date as opposed to your Mom.

Posted by: 11B40 at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (evgyj)

184 We tried watching it at home, not in theater, but I think the single worst movie ever attempted was "Swiss Army Man".

Harry Potter communes with a farting corpse that can be used as a motor boat.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (fuK7c)

185 50 minutes later the comments load.

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (hMwEB)

186 @161

Republicans do not get safe spaces.

This is all part of the plan.

There will be bloodshed because the left will not stop otherwise.

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (VkTrF)

187 Pug, just imagine Jane is some other young Hollywood starlet. She's quite charming in the movie. But it is really worth seeing just for Lee Marvin's boozy sharpshooter.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (gUCYC)

188 I remember a dirty old man who used to hang out at a local theater when we were kids. We were always in a group, so we felt safe. We knew to look out for him. Nobody went to the bathroom alone, that sort of thing.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (2NqXo)

189 As for movies I didn't like but that had a redeeming scene, I'd say Batman vs. Superman. I found the movie very muddled for the most part. But I absolutely loved the fight. Affleck made for a very good Batman. You could sense his anger as he beat the shit out of Superman. "You're not a god. You're not even a man!" That was my "worth the price of admission" scene, though I didn't pay for that either.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (/qEW2)

190 Here's Mike & the MST3K bots taking on STARSHIP TROOPERS in 1998.

https://youtu.be/60S0T0rvK6M?t=1122

Posted by: Hands at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (EzdLW)

191 166
I liked the first act of A BOY AND HIS DOG. Loved how the dog
communicated psychically instead of moving its mouth (if remade today
they'd move the mouth with cgi), and that dog's voice sounded like a
whiny middle aged man stuck in traffic and arguing with his radio. Then
the movie blew it when Don Johnson goes underground and finds Jason
Robards doing a reinterpretation of OUR TOWN with sets. Off the rails.

hope you stayed with it long enough for the punch line. that whole thing's a shaggy dog story.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (2//jc)

192 Test

Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (GDpRb)

193 I liked the first act of A BOY AND HIS DOG.
Posted by: Hands

Did you know that Alvie Moore of Kimble, Hank Kimble (well, not Kimble Hank Kimble) Green Acres fame was the driving force behind it? That always amazes me.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:29 PM (+Tibp)

194 192 Test
Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 23, 2018 08:28 PM (GDpRb)

Hated that too.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:30 PM (+lOpA)

195 I enjoy Uwe Boll's Rampage trilogy and Assault on Wall Street. Both characters had a valid point.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 08:30 PM (EM0pH)

196 Pug, just imagine Jane is some other young Hollywood starlet. She's quite charming in the movie. But it is really worth seeing just for Lee Marvin's boozy sharpshooter.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (gUCYC)

All right. I'll give it a go. Like I said, I love Lee Marvin. I remember a scene where he and his horse are leaning drunkenly against a wall.

thanks.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:30 PM (EhZNT)

197
Yup. Also, The Limey. Easy Rider. Klute. Sometimes a Great Notion. etc.

The only good thing about Easy Rider was its uplifting, joyous, ending!

Once Upon A Time In The West is one of the greatest westerns of all time and probably Henry Fonda's finest movie. He totally played out of character. One of the most evil villains put on film. Charles Bronson at his most Bronsonist (a GREAT thing) and Jason Robards wasn't shabby either. Claudia Cardinalle was a stunning beauty. Yes, I am a fanboy of OUTTITW.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:30 PM (Tcxb+)

198 As opposed to Starship Troopers, Dune is an honorable yet failed effort to do justice to the Frank Herbert novel. It had some great casting and truly excellent art direction. On top of that it had a very effective sound track.

Unfortunately, the sheer complexity of the book defeated the screenwriters and the film falls apart in the second half. One dubious achievement of the film is that is has two of the most unintentionally hilarious lines in cinematic history:

I am the Shadout Mapes, the housekeeper.

And the never to be topped:

Because he IS the Kiwsatz Hadarach!

It doesn't get any better than that.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (qplvQ)

199 Jane Fonda was only memorable when she was younger and naked. Otherwise, meh.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (Tcxb+)

200 This is starting to sound like an episode of "Men on Film".

"Hated it!"

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (w+Jhj)

201 50 minutes later the comments load.
Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (hMwEB)

I've been having that problem on this site for the last few days. Bring up the main page, click on comments, and after half a minute, a popup saying "This page is non-responsive". Never happened before.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (/qEW2)

202 "Oh, hi Mark."
Posted by: Pug Mahon

My kids made me watch the Disaster artist. I'd seen the Room get the Rifftrax treatment, so I was prepared. Really good stuff.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:32 PM (+Tibp)

203 Jane Fonda was only memorable when she was younger and naked. Otherwise, meh.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM

She got the scolding, hectoring Henry gene.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:32 PM (2NqXo)

204 200 This is starting to sound like an episode of "Men on Film".

"Hated it!"
Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (w+Jhj)

I hated that too. It was ok.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:32 PM (+lOpA)

205 Two films I've walked out on were Hollowman and Inception.

I walked out of inception muttering, " there's suspending disbelief, but this is too much."

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2018 08:33 PM (VkTrF)

206 Instead, I get some super dark, depressing Scottish program (can barely understand the words) about a super creepy rapist.

What channel.is this on?
Posted by: Bill Clinton at June 23, 2018 08:27 PM (EM0pH)

You guys never disappoint. lulz

Actually, it is boring too. Boring and slow. The whole thing is a big bag of yuck. No wonder they listed some completely different show. Who would turn in for this. Shut up Bill. Shut up Harvey.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:33 PM (KeRzR)

207 It doesn't get any better than that.
Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (qplvQ)

If I ever fail to yell USUL HAS CALLED A BIG ONE at inappropriate times, consult a medical professional.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:33 PM (fZuhk)

208
The only thing I'm looking forward to seeing Jane Fonda in is a casket

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:33 PM (SiINZ)

209 >>Yup. Also, The Limey. Easy Rider. Klute. Sometimes a Great Notion. etc.

Ugh, The Limey - was going great until the end. Why spare [spoiler] after all that?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (W+vEI)

210 164
One
movie I truly regret finishing was Ex Machina. "Best Sci-fi since the
Matrix!!!!". It wasnt even the best Sci-fi since Sharknado 3.

never made it my little corner of rurality. my friend who lives in reno really liked it, but he also liked (and made me read) "daemon" and "freedom" by daniel suarez, a series involving a communal society that rewards people based on their social media reputation and whose idea of green energy is grinding down a mountain to liberate trace hydrogen trapped in its rocks (i'm not making that up).

there's no accounting for taste, i guess.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (2//jc)

211 Jane Fonda was only mildly hot.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (+lOpA)

212 Once Upon A Time In The West is one of the greatest westerns of all time and probably Henry Fonda's finest movie. He totally played out of character.
Posted by: Puddleglum

And Fonda was also in the movie Yours, Mine and Ours with Lucille Ball which was released, I think the same year. That's a stretch.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (+Tibp)

213 Kelly's Heroes had a great cast. Telly Savalas, Don Rickles, Carroll O'Connor, Donald Sutherland, Harry Dean Stanton, Gavin McLeod, and more whose faces you would recognize.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (9BLnV)

Well, the Nazi's are the bad guys. Even Kelly recognizes that. He simply thinks the US army is incompetent.

The interesting thing about Kelly's Heroes is how the film walks the tightrope. They can't have the American actions be simply greed. But the characters can't be angels fighting for Mom and apple pie. So in the end, sure the characters are in it for the money but they blow a hole in the German line to help the army advance. In some ways it's a capitalist film.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (J70i0)

214 My kids made me watch the Disaster artist. I'd seen the Room get the Rifftrax treatment, so I was prepared. Really good stuff.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:32 PM (+Tibp)

The portions of The Room that I saw was via Rifftrax, but I had to leave, so missed out on the whole experience.

The Disaster Artist was really well done, I thought. James Franco and his brother Dave were excellent.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (EhZNT)

215 Before I saw Avatar, I saw the South Park critique of it. So I could never think of it as anything other than a Smurf version of that animated Amazon movie with Robin Williams... What was it? The Last Bulldozer or something.

Posted by: Texican ette at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (aUFe9)

216 Jane Fonda was only mildly hot.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (+lOpA)

Only if she was bathed in napalm

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (SiINZ)

217 Just an fyi, I haven't had any problems with site or comments loading.

Only night I had problems was when Pixy banned herself. Which was awesome.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (KeRzR)

218 Suspiria

Discuss.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (Jj43a)

219 Since he's been in the news, I'll say that it was tough to sit through Easy Rider. At the end, I was happy that he got offed by the rednecks.

Another movie I had trouble sitting through was MASH.

Curiously, actors who are assholes are often assholes on the screen too.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (0+2a1)

220 The 2005 War of the Worlds movie was pretty mediocre (the bratty kids ruined it). However, there was one scene that stuck out to me and felt quite chilling.
It's the scene after the ferry gets tipped over and Tom Cruise and his kids swim to land. You can see in the background how the giant alien machines are methodically plucking people out of the water and zapping them like pests as they flee.
A follow up scene has a nice quote to sum up the situation; "This is not a war any more than there's a war
between men and maggots... This is an extermination."

To bad the super advanced aliens didn't know anything about bacteria...

Posted by: JC at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (mJXUS)

221 I've been having that problem on this site for the last few days. Bring up the main page, click on comments, and after half a minute, a popup saying "This page is non-responsive". Never happened before.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (/qEW2)

it's just on my kindle fire, which is an Android tablet
it's ok on my iphone and on the laptop

Posted by: votermom pimping NEW Moron-authored books! at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (hMwEB)

222 I walked out on European Vacation after the intro and got my money back. Other than that, I've been careful to choose only action or adventure films because most comedies aren't.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (/+bwe)

223 TJM, you need to shop your local pawn shops for movies. $2 max

Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (1MUIw)

224 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time? I don't count Lord of the Rings because that is really a single movie. There have been franchise movies in which the second movie, or first sequel, was as good or almost as good as the original. Godfather I & II. Alien and Aliens. Even the first Star Wars and The Empire Strikes back. But a third movie? I can't think of one off the top of my head. Anyone have an opinion on this?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (9BLnV)

225 218 Suspiria

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (Jj43a)

???

Some kind of suppurating skin condition?

*shrugs*

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (EhZNT)

226 @199

There is a scene in Barefoot in the park where she's just wearing Robert Redfords button shirt and oh my goodness.

She was good in the China Syndrome and 9 to 5

Posted by: Kreplach at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (VkTrF)

227 One movie I truly regret finishing was Ex Machina. "Best Sci-fi since the Matrix!!!!". It wasnt even the best Sci-fi since Sharknado 3.
Posted by: Mega at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (rv0Fo)

I wouldn't go that far but the film was underwhelming. Was anyone shocked that the mistreated robots would rebel? It would have been a better twist had the robots tried to rebel but found out they couldn't. That they were chained to the whims of their creator.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (J70i0)

228 Only night I had problems was when Pixy banned herself. Which was awesome.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (KeRzR)

Him, I think? I didn't actually check or anything.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (fZuhk)

229 "That having been said, my favorite Clint Eastwood movie is Kelly's Heroes. It was not directed by Eastwood, but, once again, his limited acting range is perfect for his part."

Even better is Heartbreak Ridge.

Well Gunny, what do you think of this exercise?

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (qplvQ)

230 Speaking of A Boy and His Dog...
Who didn't love the part in "our town" where they talk about inbreeding in a roundabout way and how they need Ron Johnson's 'seed' and he thinks he's going to get to go to town on their women...
And the next scene has him hooked up to..er...a milking machine.
Laugh riot resulted when we watched that in Sci-Fi Club.
Anyone remember "Hardware"? Awful film with some moments.

Posted by: A.H. Lloyd at June 23, 2018 08:38 PM (cfSRQ)

231 Once Upon A Time In The West is one of the greatest westerns of all time and probably Henry Fonda's finest movie. He totally played out of character. One of the most evil villains put on film. Charles Bronson at his most Bronsonist (a GREAT thing) and Jason Robards wasn't shabby either. Claudia Cardinalle was a stunning beauty. Yes, I am a fanboy of OUTTITW.

I quote this in its entirety because I agree with all of that.

It's a funny thing, though, because it took me a while.

There's a girl, Italian, (Milan, not Jersey Shore) with whom I've been off and on for 20 years. Loves of each other's lives but we can't stand each other.

She tried to show me that movie one night when I hated her and it didn't work. Subsequently I realized that it's as good a western as has ever been made.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:38 PM (fuK7c)

232 Henry Fonda's finest movie. He totally played out of character.
Posted by: Puddleglum
-----

I was happy to see him/his character die. It was kind of a twofer.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2018 08:38 PM (Coh3a)

233 223 TJM, you need to shop your local pawn shops for movies. $2 max
Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (1MUIw)

======

I've grown a bit addicted to those digital copies.

I love growing my VUDU collection, and I try to focus on releases that will help me with that.

There are exceptions, of course. Criterion doesn't do digital copies. My new copy of Suspiria didn't either.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:38 PM (Jj43a)

234 Jane Fonda was only mildly hot.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (+lOpA)

She's older than me, but even seeing her work when she was younger I never saw the appeal. But I'm a girl so I figured guys just saw something I didn't.

The one role I liked her in was Mother In Law. She was absolutely HI-larious. I wonder if I have that DVD. Since TVGuide has fvcked up my night royally I need something else to watch.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:39 PM (KeRzR)

235 I can't think of one off the top of my head. Anyone have an opinion on this?
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (9BLnV)

If you look at Star Trek movies II, III, and IV as a set then I think the third one there was a good movie.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:39 PM (J70i0)

236 Suspiria

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

Jessica Harper's eyebrows kept me watching. I also read a remake is on the way.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:39 PM (+Tibp)

237 236 Suspiria

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

Jessica Harper's eyebrows kept me watching. I also read a remake is on the way.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:39 PM (+Tibp)

======

I watch that trailer for the new one and feel nothing, while thinking that I should feel something.

Who knows?

The Mummy Returns had a fantastic trailer and the movie was shit.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:40 PM (Jj43a)

238 99 Starship troopers RULES. The left thought they were mocking toxic masculinity but instead they made a movie that was BALLS TO THE WALL AWESOME
Posted by: ghost of kari at June 23, 2018 08:01 PM (eY/ez)"
Uh.... no...

Apparently you never read the book?

Starship Troopers... Mobile Infantry.. WITHOUT Powered Armor???

WTF?

Posted by: Don Q at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (NgKpN)

239 "I walked out on European Vacation after the intro
and got my money back. Other than that, I've been careful to choose only
action or adventure films because most comedies aren't.

Posted by: NaughtyPine"

There were two good things in European Vacation. Both were on screen at the same time.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (w+Jhj)

240 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Toy Story 3?

Posted by: Bob the Bilderberg at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (U8Uiu)

241 The only thing I want to see Jane Fonda in is a gutter covered in her own puke and a homeless person pointing and laughing.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (1MUIw)

242 Only night I had problems was when Pixy banned herself. Which was awesome.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:35 PM (KeRzR)

Him, I think? I didn't actually check or anything.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:37 PM (fZuhk)

Pixy makes me think of little fairies like tinkerbell, so I go with 'her'. I have no idea. Is it a guy?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (KeRzR)

243 Back home finally.

Another great scene in Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom also involves Chris Pratt. See Owen has been left to die on the island after being shot with a tranquilizer strong enough to put down a dinosaur.

Instead of a Tasmanian Devil threatening him, there is a lava flow. So Pratt has to play half paralyzed while still avoiding the slowly advancing lava. So he is flopping and proving he is a contortionist to avoid being burned to death.

And was it only me or did Isla Nubar's volcano display all types of eruption?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (fAAc5)

244 215 Before I saw Avatar, I saw the South Park critique of it. So I could never think of it as anything other than a Smurf version of that animated Amazon movie with Robin Williams... What was it? The Last Bulldozer or something.
Posted by: Texican ette

South Park has that effect. I saw there "Inception" episode before I actually saw the movie. Couldn't stop laughing at it.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (Tcxb+)

245 "If I ever fail to yell USUL HAS CALLED A BIG ONE at inappropriate times, consult a medical professional."

Touche. I'd forgotten about that one.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (qplvQ)

246 I've never wlked out on a movie in the theater, I'm pretty selective and won't spend money pm anything maybe sketchy.
Currently watching "The Enemies Within". Well worth a look
I have rented Gandhi twice and fell asleep both times. There will not be a third. Commies have not gone way they are insidiously embedded in our country. Well worth watching.

Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2018 08:42 PM (yJ1e6)

247 I was happy to see him/his character die. It was kind of a twofer.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc.

My most satisfying villain death was Clarence Boddiker from RoboCop. I really hated that guy.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:42 PM (+Tibp)

248
I've grown a bit addicted to those digital copies.

DVD ripper.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:42 PM (oVJmc)

249 Pixy-misa is an anime character. A sorcerers no less. Tenchi Muyo nyah!

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (fAAc5)

250 The only thing I want to see Jane Fonda in is a gutter covered in her own puke and a homeless person pointing and laughing.
Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM

As long as the homeless person is Ted Turner.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (2NqXo)

251 Pixy is a guy.

Well, he's also an anime character who is a girl.

He lives in an upside down place, what do you want?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (fuK7c)

252 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Toy Story 3?

Back to the Future III? That whole series is pretty much a triptych.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (oVJmc)

253 220 To bad the super advanced aliens didn't know anything about bacteria...

Posted by: JC at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM (mJXUS)

Duh JOIMS!! Dey can't stand duh JOIMS!

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (NL6wI)

254 Apropos of nothing Candace Bergen was never remotely hot.

What were people thinking?

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (+lOpA)

255 Amazon rain forest animated movie - Fern Gully.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (fAAc5)

256 I like the third Terminator. What?

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (+lOpA)

257 85
I was watching a movie, and walked out because of a sudden desire to be at home ... safe, dry and warm.

revenant?

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (2//jc)

258 South Park has that effect. I saw there "Inception" episode before I actually saw the movie. Couldn't stop laughing at it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (Tcxb+)

I love South Park, but yeah, they can ruin things.

Tried watching Game of Thrones but kept hearing Butters mystified by all the floppy wieners.

Damn you Matt and Trey!

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (EhZNT)

259 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Yes. But I will get laughed off the Board because it is not a guy movie. Or Sci-fi. Or Western.

Wait, actually, the Terminator sequel was good.

So was Bridget Jones Diary sequel. Shut up.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (KeRzR)

260 TJM, if you ever get around to it please watch RED DOG.

Posted by: Ben Had at June 23, 2018 08:45 PM (1MUIw)

261 Now I remember what always pissed me off about Star Trek V - it's that they slog their way through the whole movie, and finally the "big reveal" at the end is "HA ha! God is just a pissed off Alien that lies to people!!!"

it turned the entire movie into a bad joke with punchline that wasn't funny.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:45 PM (V2Yro)

262 Why is Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie?

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:45 PM (+Tibp)

263 you know the scene in star wars 1 the prequel where young anakin is in the race? that wasn't't very good either.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 08:46 PM (Pg+x7)

264 My most satisfying villain death was Clarence Boddiker from RoboCop. I really hated that guy.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:42 PM (+Tibp)

The guy who wanted to get home in time for corn flakes in Total Recall

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:46 PM (+lOpA)

265 Amazon rain forest animated movie - Fern Gully."

Oh yeah, how pathetic for a Big Budget movie to rip off Fern Gully??? Which it totally did.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:46 PM (V2Yro)

266 Why is Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie?

Her last movie, a William Castle shocker.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:46 PM (oVJmc)

267 Speaking of actors, anyone watched Tom Arnold's melt down on CNN with Poppy Harlow? He appeared to be either having a breakdown or drugged. He was trembling and sat silently toward the end when she asked him a question. It was cringe inducing.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (RfnqA)

268 Tried watching Game of Thrones but kept hearing Butters mystified by all the floppy wieners.

Damn you Matt and Trey!
Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:44 PM (EhZNT)

Great Pug! Now I have GOT theme song with the words SP gave it.

"Ween-er, Ween-er-weener, Weener Weener".

I should link the clip.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (KeRzR)

269 Just imagine if Kirk had turned to McCoy and Spock at the end of V and made a joke about "Chariots of the Gods."

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (fAAc5)

270 Was suspira elvira's sister?

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (V2Yro)

271 Has anybody seen "The Fountain"? I've had it from Netflix for a week but haven't had it in me to see it.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:05 PM (gUCYC)

It's a beautiful mess. Really beautiful music under beautiful scenes with beautiful actors.
Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 23, 2018 08:13 PM (/+bwe)

As a movie, it's a complete failure.

Parts of the movie however are brilliant. You can see what Aronofsky was attempting to do, but none of it fits together.

It's a big retarded mess. Not as bad as "Mother". Nothing is as bad as "Mother".

All that being said, I'd probably watch it again if it appeared on cable or something.

Is that a recommendation? Hmmmm.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (9q7Dl)

272 239 "I walked out on European Vacation after the intro
and got my money back. Other than that, I've been careful to choose only
action or adventure films because most comedies aren't.

Posted by: NaughtyPine"

There were two good things in European Vacation. Both were on screen at the same time.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert

I got stationed in the UK not too long after EV came out. There is no round-a-bout (traffic circle) near Big Ben. FYI. Nearest one is on the other side of the Thames, across from the Parliament building.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (Tcxb+)

273 The end of Inception, where the top was spinning, and it cuts to credits ... the whole audience erupted with angry noises when that happened. I don't think they gave it a bad opinion though.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (rnAwa)

274 Apropos of nothing Candace Bergen was never remotely hot.

Not even in the Carnal Knowledge days?

I agree that by the time of Murphy Brown she was a piece of bitter jerky.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (oVJmc)

275 Amazon rain forest animated movie - Fern Gully."

That's DOCTOR Fern gully, thank you very much!

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (EhZNT)

276 254 Apropos of nothing Candace Bergen was never remotely hot.

What were people thinking?
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM (+lOpA)

--Same with that elderly Dem Congresscritter . . . Some dude tagged that????

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 08:48 PM (e7oj4)

277 Speaking of actors, anyone watched Tom Arnold's melt down on CNN with Poppy Harlow? He appeared to be either having a breakdown or drugged. He was trembling and sat silently toward the end when she asked him a question. It was cringe inducing.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (RfnqA)

Y5 said he did last night and it was comedy gold.

I have a tab open where Tom says he will bring down Trump with Cohen tapes. Haven't read it yet. What a dusseldorfwaffle. Embarrassing.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (KeRzR)

278 Why is Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie?
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:45 PM

Wallis Simpson wasn't available?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (2NqXo)

279 Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:33 PM (fZuhk)
---
I had to look it up.

"Usul has called a big one" is in the Urban Dictionary.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (gUCYC)

280 Saw "Incredibles 2" today.

Very fun movie. Not as good as the original.

It felt a bit like a send off, so this may be the last one.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (9q7Dl)

281 Speaking of actors, anyone watched Tom Arnold's melt down on CNN with Poppy Harlow? He appeared to be either having a breakdown or drugged. He was trembling and sat silently toward the end when she asked him a question. It was cringe inducing.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:47 PM (RfnqA)

Yahoo is still running with the Arnold/Cohen will take down Trump stories even after Arnold said he made it up. Of course Yahoo is still running the crying 2 year old BS stories too

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:50 PM (SiINZ)

282 Not even in the Carnal Knowledge days?

That was Ann-Margaret.

I think her only nude scenes.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 08:50 PM (fuK7c)

283 As opposed to Starship Troopers, Dune is an honorable yet failed effort to do justice to the Frank Herbert novel. It had some great casting and truly excellent art direction. On top of that it had a very effective sound track.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 08:31 PM (qplvQ)

I read Dune and thought it had its moments. So I saw the film in 1984. Apparently, Alan Smithee directed it. I had just learned what that name meant. Having watched it and felt that it was appallingly bad, I couldn't help feel vindicated when the credits rolled and showed the director was Alan Smithee. David Lynch directed it, but was not allowed to use his own vision and did not get final cut approval. I felt the whole film suffered from the hey-we're-in-an-epic-so-let's-act-epically strategy.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:50 PM (9BLnV)

284 It felt a bit like a send off, so this may be the last one.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (9q7Dl)

--No, no money of mine to the Big Rat.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (e7oj4)

285 'Why is Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie?'

She's having a bad dream that she's in a bad movie.

Posted by: Peppermint Pattie's Fur Oil at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (UdKB7)

286 258 South Park has that effect. I saw there "Inception" episode before I actually saw the movie. Couldn't stop laughing at it.
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (Tcxb+)

I love South Park, but yeah, they can ruin things.

Tried watching Game of Thrones but kept hearing Butters mystified by all the floppy wieners.

Damn you Matt and Trey!
Posted by: Pug Mahon

Yea, the opening theme, all I hear now is 'floppy weiners floppy weiners....'.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (Tcxb+)

287 Apropos of nothing Candace Bergen was never remotely hot.

Check out an early movie of her's called "Soldier Blue".

She was pretty hawt in that.

Terrible US Calvary bad, Indians good movie tho.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (9q7Dl)

288 Is Eris still trying to finish God Emperor of Dune?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (fAAc5)

289 Why is Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie?

I think it is a psychological thriller. B/W.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (KeRzR)

290 A quick search sez that Ho-re-wood releases over 600 new movies per year.

I can't come close to watching each year's new releases, so I must be selective. That includes walking away on turkeys. I've dumped many a movie before the 10 minute mark. Quite a few of the new series as well. Westworld is awesome, btw.

The very first was Young Dr Frankenstein, in the theater. Becuz B&W. A point they avoided on their posters. I HATE B&W, probably cuz color TV came into our household quite late. It was a socio-economic thingy.

Give me color, or give me death. Something like that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (MQ2up)

291 propos of nothing Candace Bergen was never remotely hot.

What were people thinking?
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:43 PM

That deep voice. When she was a teenager she had a very feminine look but that didn't last. She only gets manlier as she grows older.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (2NqXo)

292
President Henry Fonda ordered two H bombs dropped on NYC in Fail Safe.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (IqV8l)

293 Why are movies based on Ayn Rand novels flops? I'm thinking The Fountainhead and the low budget Atlas Shrugged trilogy. I thought AS should have been made into a miniseries.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (RfnqA)

294 I work for Dick Jones!

DICK!

JONES!

Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (+Tibp)

295
Yahoo is still running with the Arnold/Cohen will take down Trump stories even after Arnold said he made it up. Of course Yahoo is still running the crying 2 year old BS stories too
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 08:50 PM (SiINZ)

Excellent. Then I can close the tab and not read the damn thing. Tyvm.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (KeRzR)

296 Saw "Incredibles 2" today.

Very fun movie. Not as good as the original.

It felt a bit like a send off, so this may be the last one.

Check it out.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 08:49 PM (9q7Dl)

I don't think you can top the original. That movie is simply full of quotable lines. It's a brilliant piece of film making.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (J70i0)

297 288 Is Eris still trying to finish God Emperor of Dune?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (fAAc5)
---
God Emperor of Dune nearly finished off Eris.

So how are you feeling?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (gUCYC)

298 288 Is Eris still trying to finish God Emperor of Dune?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:51 PM (fAAc5)

======

I think she did.

I also finished it this week.

It's got the makings of a great book, but it's so badly and boringly done that it's the greatest slog I've ever gone through in book form.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (Jj43a)

299 There are a lot of movies that bore me, but only a few that I hate. One of those is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. And yet, there was a brief part of it that made me very happy indeed, for a moment. Meat Loaf enters the scene, and for a moment, I felt hope that he would gun down everyone in the room, and redeem the movie. Didn't happen, alas.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (Vb4BV)

300 154 I don't really like Clint Eastwood as a director or actor. He was good in the spaghetti westerns that were directed by Sergio Leone only because his character was perfect for the part. You know. His character. Clint Eastwood the steely eyed, tense jawed movie star. As a director, I have never found him to be capable of nuance. He is just black and white. Always. Even when he uses good actors, they are reduced to some archetype that he is using to tell his story. Films like Unforgiven or Million Dollar Baby aren't bad. They just don't soar. There is a plodding nature to his vision.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:18 PM (9BLnV)

++++

The two you name are "message" movies, and that can be a put-off. But, The Outlaw Josie Wales was also directed by Eastwood, and that one soars, I think. Most of the morons seem to hold it in high regard.

Another good one is Honkytonk Man. It was a low budget, personal kind of movie, but really very good.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (pvjTE)

301 Halfway through Cabin Fever, I left. In my defense, I had a stomach bug.

Posted by: Pete in Texas at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (3qRdJ)

302 83
I've never seen Avatar all the way through.

it had nothing without 3d.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (2//jc)

303 290 Give me color, or give me death. Something like that.
Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (MQ2up)

======

Black and White is beautiful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (Jj43a)

304 I would love it if Fen checked in to tell us how she liked "Airplane!".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (gUCYC)

305 Why are movies based on Ayn Rand novels flops? I'm thinking The Fountainhead and the low budget Atlas Shrugged trilogy. I thought AS should have been made into a miniseries."

Because every character Ayn Rand ever created acted like Syndrome - they had an overwhelming urge to Monologue their audience to death.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM (V2Yro)

306 My bf and I watched Star Trek V and for years we would intone "FEEEEEL your paaaaiiiin." So I guess that was a good thing.
The last Godzilla movie I saw on the big screen was in 2014, and it had a couple great scenes like the one of the MUTO and the train trestle.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at June 23, 2018 08:55 PM (/+bwe)

307 I hit the slow mo button during all the floppy wiener scenes in Game of Thrones.

Posted by: Ali Watkins at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (EM0pH)

308 "56 Walked out of Rango, with my four year old in tow.

Couldn't stand the message it was putting out there."

Isn't it just a sort-of remake of Chinatown?

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (V8zw+)

309 I have a sneaking suspicion that Robocop (the original) is actually a bad movie with just enough good parts to make everyone forget that.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (Vb4BV)

310 The actor trying to hornswaggle Barbara Stanwyck on Svengoolie was in the great Twilight Zone episode, To Serve Man. He got served.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (+Tibp)

311 305 Why are movies based on Ayn Rand novels flops? I'm thinking The Fountainhead and the low budget Atlas Shrugged trilogy. I thought AS should have been made into a miniseries."

Because every character Ayn Rand ever created acted like Syndrome - they had an overwhelming urge to Monologue their audience to death.
Posted by: Tom Servo

This. Atlas Shrugged desperately needed an editor. Great story, poorly written.

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (Tcxb+)

312 308 "56 Walked out of Rango, with my four year old in tow.

Couldn't stand the message it was putting out there."

Isn't it just a sort-of remake of Chinatown?
Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (V8zw+)

=====

Yup.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:57 PM (Jj43a)

313 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Toy Story 3?

Back to the Future III? That whole series is pretty much a triptych.
_______________________

Guys, if you really believe in your choices, use an exclamation point, not a question mark.

Toy Story 3, mofo!
Back to the Future III, and I'll cut you if you disagree!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 08:57 PM (9BLnV)

314 "The two you name are "message" movies, and that can be a put-off. But,
The Outlaw Josie Wales was also directed by Eastwood, and that one
soars, I think. Most of the morons seem to hold it in high regard."
It's pretty good, except for what's-her-face being in it.

Posted by: AshevilleRobert at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (w+Jhj)

315 Glad you survived the slog there Eris.

Feeling much better. Appetite returning so there is hope. As previously noted escaped house to watch Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom. No 3D or anything extra. So in one of the shoebox cinemas but it was good, had the whole front row to myself. The only trailer that might appeal to me is the animated Grinch movie. Fathom Events 30th Anniv of Big on the big screen, will pass.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (fAAc5)

316 I went to go see Gone Girl with my parents and sisters at the theaters. I had to walk out and leave in a cold sweat after the lawyer said "she's good".

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (EM0pH)

317 I have a sneaking suspicion that Robocop (the original) is actually a bad movie with just enough good parts to make everyone forget that.
Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (Vb4BV)

https://stoatnet.org/frogout.gif

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (fZuhk)

318 309 I have a sneaking suspicion that Robocop (the original) is actually a bad movie with just enough good parts to make everyone forget that.
Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (Vb4BV)

======

Wrong.

It is a movie with the surface of trash but a wonderful emotional core that follows Murphy through his journey becoming and becoming more than RoboCop.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (Jj43a)

319 ...It's got the makings of a great book, but it's so badly and boringly done that it's the greatest slog I've ever gone through in book form.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:53 PM (Jj43a)

I've forgotten, but is that the 2nd book? If so, I tought it was a slog too. It does, however, lay the groundwork for "The Children of Dune" which is very good.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (T71PA)

320 260

TJM, I second Ben Had's "Red Dog" recommendation!

Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (n9EOP)

321 #305 There was a quite good movie about Ayn Rand and her relationship with the Brandens on Showtime back in the nineties, called "The Passion of Ayn Rand." Available on DVD. Peter Fonda played her husband (not kidding) and Helen Mirren played Rand.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (RfnqA)

322 290
The very first was Young Dr Frankenstein, in the theater. Becuz BW.

When he was about 7, Jr. Chronda had a very interesting TV filter. If a show was animated, he'd watch it. If it was live-action color, he'd change the channel. If it was BW he'd watch it for a while to see if it was worth watching.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (2//jc)

323 For instance everything that has Amy Adams in it is bad within the first 7 minutes.

I don't hate Amy Adams but everything she is in is awful.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (+lOpA)

++++

Have you seen either Sunshine Cleaning or Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day? Both were smaller movies with Adams as lead. Give them a try if you haven't seen them and you may be pleasantly surprised.

Doubt is also good, but Adams has a supporting role and doesn't really add anything. But, she doesn't hurt the movie either.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (pvjTE)

324 It is a movie with the surface of trash but a wonderful emotional core that follows Murphy through his journey becoming and becoming more than RoboCop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (+Tibp)

325 I watched quite a few movies last week

Boogie Nights (1997) was pretty good, but too long. (hurr hurr)

From Beyond (1986) was creepy and scary as f*ck. HPL would have been proud. How did I miss this one? How did 13 year old me survive without seeing Barbara Crampton in BDSM latex*?

*I heard she sold that outfit after she was done with it.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (6FqZa)

326 314 "The two you name are "message" movies, and that can be a put-off. But,
The Outlaw Josie Wales was also directed by Eastwood, and that one
soars, I think. Most of the morons seem to hold it in high regard."
It's pretty good, except for what's-her-face being in it.
Posted by: AshevilleRobert

Thats one of the reasons why The Outlaw Josie Wales was great. It overcame whats her name. So good you don't even mind her (whose name seems to escape me and every body else apparently).

Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (Tcxb+)

327 Why are movies based on Ayn Rand novels flops? I'm thinking The Fountainhead and the low budget Atlas Shrugged trilogy. I thought AS should have been made into a miniseries.
Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 08:52 PM (RfnqA)

People who love a book should rarely make a movie from it. They usually fail because they can't see what does or doesn't work on film.

Plus, Rand's books are pedantic screeds. I read The Fountainhead in HS and was skipping whole sections by the end because it was brutally repetitive. Compare The Fountainhead to Heinlein's Starship Troopers. Both are stories that want to espouse a philosophy. Heinlein's is lean, to the point, and has solid story. Rand rambles forever the group talk-athons.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (J70i0)

328 318 Wrong.

It is a movie with the surface of trash but a wonderful emotional core that follows Murphy through his journey becoming and becoming more than RoboCop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (Jj43a)

Having been twice chastised, I will revisit. Haven't seen it in some time, and the memories of the overdone gore in the first ED-209 scene stuck with me far longer than "call me Murphy" or whatever. Or maybe I just don't like movies about brain damage, like that Harrison Ford one.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (Vb4BV)

329 It is a movie with the surface of trash but a wonderful emotional core that follows Murphy through his journey becoming and becoming more than RoboCop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (Jj43a)

Yes. I love this movie, for these reasons.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:01 PM (EhZNT)

330 I have a sneaking suspicion that Robocop (the original) is actually a bad movie with just enough good parts to make everyone forget that.
Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 08:56 PM (Vb4BV)

You actually might be right; really, I just wanted to post that .gif.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:01 PM (fZuhk)

331 320 260

TJM, I second Ben Had's "Red Dog" recommendation!
Posted by: Hrothgar at June 23, 2018 08:59 PM (n9EOP)

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The Russian one it the Australian one?

The Russian one looks more interesting to me.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:01 PM (Jj43a)

332 Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain are the most overrated actresses going today, and yet they keep getting hired and put in almost every freaking film.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:02 PM (EM0pH)

333 324 I'd buy THAT for a dollar!

Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (+Tibp)

Bastard stole my line.

Posted by: C.M. Kornbluth at June 23, 2018 09:02 PM (Vb4BV)

334 a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Nightmare on Elm Street III was an excellent waste of time.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:02 PM (6FqZa)

335 178
I liked movies like Pelham 123, with that gritty 70's cop-robber-spy-thief feel to them, such as:

-- The Seven-Ups
-- Marathon Man
-- The Eiger Sanction
-- Fuzz
-- Sharky's Machine

Posted by: Soothsayer -- Follow and Lick Me On Fakebook at June 23, 2018 08:25 PM (SByeH)

++++

Gloria, the original with Gena Rowlands, was pretty good. Another of those 70's NYC movies with grit. Though it was actually released in 1980, I think, it feels like the 70's.

The remake with Sharon Stone is another waste of time remake.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (pvjTE)

336 Stick around and read the Merchants of Venus.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (fAAc5)

337 328 318 Wrong.

It is a movie with the surface of trash but a wonderful emotional core that follows Murphy through his journey becoming and becoming more than RoboCop.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:58 PM (Jj43a)

Having been twice chastised, I will revisit. Haven't seen it in some time, and the memories of the overdone gore in the first ED-209 scene stuck with me far longer than "call me Murphy" or whatever. Or maybe I just don't like movies about brain damage, like that Harrison Ford one.
Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (Vb4BV)

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The gore is definitely gratuitous, but it has a satirical purpose at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (Jj43a)

338 Gran Torino is one of my favorite movies, probably the best one Eastwood has done in a while.

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (V8zw+)

339 A couple of night's ago there was a thread(I missed) where people were discussing.

"Infinity War" part 2 or whatever it'll be called.

And someone mentioned that maybe not all of the heroes will be restored to life.

I think that's essentially right but not quite on point.

Even Marvel has said this is the culmination of their first iteration of the Marvel Universe....So-

in order to get their SJW versions on board for future movies, I think-

this will be Marvel's version of DC's "Flashpoint".

"Flashpoint" is essentially the story of Flash traveling to the past to save his mother and that screws up everything. He's no longer the Flash, Superman is an near autistic weenie alien kept under gov't seal, etc, etc. The ripples of the destroyed time line make it impossible to restore the original timeline fully. DC used it to launch their new 52 craptastic reworking of their moneymaking characters.

My guess is that Thanos will demand a price for restoring the Universe or perhaps can't truly restore the Universe and the heroes will be replaced in this timeline by alternative SJW heroes.

Some will never have existed. Some will exist but as other (SJWoid) people. Some will exist but not as heroes. You can see the opportunities for poignancy - Old never was Captain America dying in an old folks home. The new heroes will remember adventures with the remaining heroes who have no idea what and who they are and if they can be trusted. ETC.

Captain Marvel will be the new leader.

Pretty sure that's the future of the series.

YMMV.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (9q7Dl)

340 Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain are the most overrated actresses going today, and yet they keep getting hired and put in almost every freaking film.
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo

There's another named I think Emily Blunt from Sicario. I just find her blah.

Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (+Tibp)

341 also I think Children of the Corn III ('Urban Harvest') was the best of the series. The first was bad and the sequel was shite. The third tried to do something new with the premise, which I respected. Still wasn't good, but it was interesting.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (6FqZa)

342 Possibly the worst third movie in any series was Halloween III. I would describe the level of continuity with the prior two movies as "same word in the title."

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (Vb4BV)

343 I like that movie where Amy Adams constantly looks like she's going to cry.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (oVJmc)

344 Why are British actors so much better than American actors? Shakespearean training? Hollywood just seems to churn out baby-faced celebrities who are mediocre when practicing their craft.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (RfnqA)

345 I don't hate Amy Adams but everything she is in is awful.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (+lOpA)

I disagree. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is good, as is Arrival and (I know I'll take heat for this) Man of Steel. She leads in all 3 and she's easy on the eyes.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (T71PA)

346 Anna Puma, I reviewed that one in the book thread here. Frederick Pohl went full commie.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (6FqZa)

347 Barbra must have been hoarse after finishing this movie.
Maybe that's why it's her last.

Posted by: f'd at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (UdKB7)

348 345 I don't hate Amy Adams but everything she is in is awful.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (+lOpA)

I disagree. Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day is good, as is Arrival and (I know I'll take heat for this) Man of Steel. She leads in all 3 and she's easy on the eyes.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:04 PM (T71PA)

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I love The Master as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (Jj43a)

349 Amazingly Robocop still feels like one of the most violent movies I've ever seen, even today.

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (V8zw+)

350 Jessica Chastain was the worst part about Interstellar, a movie I otherwise liked a lot.

Amy Adams, I'm okay with. She has a great ass.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (EhZNT)

351 21 I walked out of Last Tango too. Also a bad sci-fi in the late 70's with Julie Christie where she was knocked up by a computer. Can't remember the title.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 07:33 PM (+Tibp)

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Demon Seed

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (EZebt)

352 337 The gore is definitely gratuitous, but it has a satirical purpose at the same time.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (Jj43a)

Good, good -- I remember people saying that at the time, and I could never figure out what they were talking about. Just what was it a satire of?

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (Vb4BV)

353 There's another named I think Emily Blunt from Sicario. I just find her blah.
Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (+Tibp)

We've done this one before - she's supposed to be horribly miscast in that movie, I think. If you don't like her in something else, that's cool though. It's the only thing I've seen her in.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (fZuhk)

354 There's another named I think Emily Blunt from Sicario. I just find her blah.
Posted by: Clarence Boddiker at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (+Tibp)

Dat ass tho. Edge of Tomorrow.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (EM0pH)

355 For instance everything that has Amy Adams in it is bad within the first 7 minutes.

I don't hate Amy Adams but everything she is in is awful.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (+lOpA)

Well, Charlie Wilson's War is pretty good and The Wedding Date gets quite a few laughs. But in nether case is she a central character.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (qplvQ)

356 Kamala Harris has very veiney hands.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (e7oj4)

357 I love The Master as well.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (Jj43a)

Torgo: The Master will be pleased

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (SiINZ)

358 Black and White is beautiful.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 08:54 PM

The old classic movies, film noir, how could they be anything but B&W? The studios resisted when Mel Brooks for Young Frankenstein and Tim Burton for Ed Wood wanted black and white but they held firm.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (2NqXo)

359 I wasn't moved by Carnal Knowledge, but I recall that Art Garfunkel proved to be a piss-poor actor. Was that Nicholson's first film?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (/lkI0)

360 i liked "bronco billy". it has a good message for the kids.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (Pg+x7)

361

Captain Marvel will be the new leader.

Bitch can't even sell comics, she sure won't sell a movie.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (oVJmc)

362 >>Amy Adams and Jessica Chastain are the most overrated actresses going today, and yet they keep getting hired and put in almost every freaking film.

Amy Adams can be good in the right role - so good in "American Hustle," and appropriately over the top in "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day."

I have decided that Jessica Chastain is annoying, and it may be her personality that is off-putting. She was all "ra-ra feminism, strong powerful DC women!" describing her Miss Sloane character - and all I saw was a sociopath.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (W+vEI)

363 Possibly the worst third movie in any series was Halloween III. I would describe the level of continuity with the prior two movies as "same word in the title."
Posted by: Splunge

Exorcist III which was totally different from I and II is really good, I think. One scene in particular never fails to make my hair stand up. I read later that the studio forced a stupid exorcism scene because money. But George C SCOTT! is good in it.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (+Tibp)

364 Torgo: The Master will be pleased
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (SiINZ)

Beat me to it

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (fZuhk)

365 Jack Nicholson made his acting debut in the movie The Raven playing Peter Lorre's son.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:08 PM (fAAc5)

366 Mel Brooks for Young Frankenstein and Tim Burton for Ed Wood wanted black and white but they held firm.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (2NqXo)

Bob Dole: So does Bob Dole

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:08 PM (SiINZ)

367 334 a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

Nightmare on Elm Street III was an excellent waste of time.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:02 PM (6FqZa)

I have the Underworld Series with Kate Beckinsale. I like it. I'd like it more if Scott Speedman was still in it. I can't remember if the 3rd was actually good, or an excellent waste of time. Still, I hope they make another.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:08 PM (KeRzR)

368
Demon Seed

Semen Deed.

Odd that a movie has so apt a spoonerism.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (oVJmc)

369 >>Captain Marvel will be the new leader.

The chances of me seeing a movie with Brie Larson as the lead is "0." She's the one who just ranted about useless white, male film critics she does not want to hear from. Jane Fonda 2.0.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (W+vEI)

370 356 Kamala Harris has very veiney hands.
Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:06 PM (e7oj4)

A bad person would say, at this point, "just close your eyes and let the woman work."

Fortunately, I am a good person.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (Vb4BV)

371 Robocop (the original) is actually a bad movie with just enough good parts to make everyone forget that

It was a mostly-inept and politically-correct plagiary of the Judge Dredd comic.

There was a tragic drama lurking in there about Murphy's spark of humanity and love for his wife, but Verhoeven cared more about chemical mutants getting splattered by a lorry.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (6FqZa)

372 337 The gore is definitely gratuitous, but it has a satirical purpose at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (Jj43a)

More so with the additional ED-209 footage restored in the director's cut.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (NL6wI)

373 ... & the wonderful revelation that billy was a shoe salesman from new jersey.

* spoiler alert *

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (Pg+x7)

374 YMMV.
Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (9q7Dl)

That's not a bad bet. They've already said the Capt. Marvel is on path to be the leader. Whatever happens, anyone who is done with making these movies is going to die. Considering many of the ones most likely to be done are still alive, it is going to involve them making some sort of major sacrifice.

My prediction is this is the zenith for Marvel and super hero movies. After Avengers 4, it's going to decline because people won't want to start with new characters and SJWism is going to flow into the stories.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (J70i0)

375 I can't remember if the 3rd was actually good, or an excellent waste of time. Still, I hope they make another.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:08 PM (KeRzR)

That's one of those series where I can never remember how many there are because everything after the first blends together in my mind.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (fZuhk)

376 And the part I like least about this timeline is the part where Karl Urban's Dredd movie didn't get two sequels by now.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (6FqZa)

377 372 337 The gore is definitely gratuitous, but it has a satirical purpose at the same time.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:03 PM (Jj43a)

More so with the additional ED-209 footage restored in the director's cut.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (NL6wI)

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Yes. All 7 seconds of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (Jj43a)

378 I can't tell this recent crop of actresses apart. I get Emma Stone, Amy Adams, Kristen Stewart, Jennifer Lawrence et al. mixed up. They look like interchangeable expressionless teenyboppers.

In Hollywood's Golden Age the women were distinctive and mature-looking with interesting sculpted faces: Greta Garbo, Kate Hepburn, Hedy Lamar, Greer Garson, etc.

Posted by: Semi-engaged Scroller at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (RfnqA)

379 Jack Nicholson made his acting debut in the movie The Raven playing Peter Lorre's son.

Wasn't Little Shop of Horrors first?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (oVJmc)

380 Dat ass tho. Edge of Tomorrow.
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo

Touche, sir. I withdraw the question. I didn't hate her in that. Sorry, Splunge.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+Tibp)

381 Yeah, I'll probably take Mrs. E to see Jurassic World. Does Amy Adams get et by a dyno?

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (zLDYs)

382 I'll definitely take a second look at Amy Adams.

No hate for her personally. Just the three things I've seen her in were bad.

Arrival being one.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+lOpA)

383 374 My prediction is this is the zenith for Marvel and super hero movies. After Avengers 4, it's going to decline because people won't want to start with new characters and SJWism is going to flow into the stories.
Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (J70i0)

Might have happened even without that. I like superhero movies OK, but I'm getting pretty bored with the whole idea.

Now if someone filmed Peter Clines' Ex-Heroes books, that would be different.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:12 PM (Vb4BV)

384 349 Amazingly Robocop still feels like one of the most violent movies I've ever seen, even today.

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 09:05 PM (V8zw+)

It really does. Sure, there are other movies with higher body counts, but they're not as visceral and, these days, the blood splats are nearly all CGI rather than squibs.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 09:12 PM (NL6wI)

385 I stand corrected. By three years the plant wins.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:12 PM (fAAc5)

386 I would love to see The Space Merchants made into a movie. It's kind of like Mad Men meets The Manchurian Candidate.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:12 PM (gUCYC)

387 Another odd movie-going experience: Evita gave me nightmares. Nightmares that were sung by Antonio Banderas. Not kidding.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 09:12 PM (2//jc)

388 Was that Nicholson's first film?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 23, 2018 09:07 PM (/lkI0)

I saw him in Little Shop of Horrors, the old one. Was it a Roger Corman movie? the woman who played Audrey was stunning. what an amazing dress.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (EhZNT)

389 Arrival being one.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+lOpA)

Speaking of movies I stopped streaming partway through without hesitation or regret...

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (fZuhk)

390 380 Touche, sir. I withdraw the question. I didn't hate her in that. Sorry, Splunge.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+Tibp)

I think you've mixed up your posters.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (Vb4BV)

391 There was a tragic drama lurking in there about Murphy's spark of humanity and love for his wife, but Verhoeven cared more about chemical mutants getting splattered by a lorry.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (6FqZa)

Yeah, Verhoeven's need for gore drowns out any other point he is trying to make. Robocop and Total Recall are okay. They could have been a lot better.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (J70i0)

392 382 I'll definitely take a second look at Amy Adams.

No hate for her personally. Just the three things I've seen her in were bad.

Arrival being one.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+lOpA)

--She was pretty funny in an unfunny way in The Office.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (e7oj4)

393 The Outlaw Josey Wales -- On my top 10 list.

A funny thing about the movie -- the guy that wrote the book (renamed Gone To Texas) was a KKKster among other peccadilloes; Clint picked up the option on the book for $50k.

From wiki

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 - June 7, 1979) was a 1950s Ku Klux Klan leader, segregationist speech writer, and later western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 09:14 PM (MQ2up)

394 ... but i've never seen any of the leone/eastwood spaghetti westerns. could never sit through them. found them tedious. all mood and no story. clumsy. and that's just on tv. i think i would have walked out of them if i had seen them in a theater.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (Pg+x7)

395
Starship Troopers... Mobile Infantry.. WITHOUT Powered Armor???

WTF?
Posted by: Don Q at June 23, 2018 08:41 PM (NgKpN)

Actually, it was Nubile Infantry. Translation issues. Mistakes were made.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (e1mEI)

396 377 Yes. All 7 seconds of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (Jj43a)

You jest, but I happen to agree with Verhoven that the restored footage makes that scene far more absurd than the theatrical version.

Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (NL6wI)

397 372
More so with the additional ED-209 footage restored in the director's cut.

what surprised me the last time i saw robocop was how bad the ed-209 animation looked. i remember it being awesome.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (2//jc)

398 Speaking of movies I stopped streaming partway through without hesitation or regret...
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:13 PM (fZuhk)

I made to the 7 minute mark. **eject**

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (+lOpA)

399 I always thought Star Trek 5 was a pretty good movie, outer space effects notwithstanding.

I didn't see it in theaters but I ended up turning off Pacific Heights in disgust part way through.

For those who like MST3K and Riff Trax, there is and app and Roku app called Pluto TV that plays channels dedicated to each.

Posted by: MAGA at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (LnOh3)

400 Thats one of the reasons why The Outlaw Josie Wales was great. It overcame whats her name. So good you don't even mind her (whose name seems to escape me and every body else apparently).
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM (Tcxb+)

I believe you are speaking of the talentless Sondra Locke. What can I say? Clint was dicking her. As a man, how do you tell a woman you're poking that she can't act for shit. Especially if you want to keep poking her. But, the fact that he cast her in that movie and subsequent movies proves my point about his quality as a director. Obviously, his dick is more important than the quality of his movies.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (9BLnV)

401 Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 09:14 PM (MQ2up)

--Endeavor to persevere.

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (e7oj4)

402 Suspiria

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

What makes "Suspiria" great is the last bit where the heroine finally confronts the Old Witch.

Like the best horror movies, it goes completely insane with it's own loopy logic.

Argento's best movies do that.

I highly recommend "Phenomena" which is like a horrorific dream that goes completely insane with it's own logic.

Try not to read anything about it before watching.

If you like "Suspiria", you should love "Phenomena".

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (9q7Dl)

403 396 377 Yes. All 7 seconds of it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (Jj43a)

You jest, but I happen to agree with Verhoven that the restored footage makes that scene far more absurd than the theatrical version.
Posted by: antisocial justice beatnik at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (NL6wI)
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I don't disagree.

But it is literally about 7 seconds.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (Jj43a)

404 Touche, sir. I withdraw the question. I didn't hate her in that. Sorry, Splunge.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:11 PM (+Tibp)

I think you've mixed up your posters.
Posted by: Splunge

Dr Rockzo pointed out she was in a movie I liked her in, Edge of Tomorrow.

I thought you wrote I should consider her in other films than just Sicario. You were right.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (+Tibp)

405 Emily Blunt...I like her as a person. I like her husband. I hope theirs is a marriage that works.

They lived next door to Kimmels and were friends. But they never went political, and I think partially moved bcz Kimmel was pushy with boundaries & politics. Like breaking into their house at night. He always goes OTT in a bad way.

So I just like Emily & John. Down to earth they seem, without the usual huge egos. They just did a movie "A Quiet Place" iirc. He directed. Horror film? Anyone see it.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (KeRzR)

406 Avatar aka Fern Gully also made a HUGE misstep on its style guide. Papyrus font has only two uses Greek Restaurants and Mediterranean Themed Apartment complexes.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (X+DbD)

407 At one of the MST3K-a-paloozas (which to this day I regret not attending), they had a "March of the Torgos" with all the Torgo cosplayers staggering along.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (gUCYC)

408 Total Recall was responsible for my staring at Roman cauliflower in the supermarket, asking myself "now where have I seen that before?"

I liked the movie. You could even say I liked it a lot. But the whole "heads swelling up in vacuum" thing took me out of the story at a crucial moment. Annoying.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (Vb4BV)

409 Ugh, The Limey - was going great until the end. Why spare [spoiler] after all that?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 08:34 PM (W+vEI)

++++

I think he, Stamp, recognized that he was in a way responsible. He and his daughter had that running gag about how she was going to call the law on him.

Only "gag" isn't really the right word because she wasn't doing it to be funny. But, she would run that number. And, in the end, he saw it from the other guy's perspective and could see how it played out. No longer had the cold urge for vengeance.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (pvjTE)

410 397 372
More so with the additional ED-209 footage restored in the director's cut.

what surprised me the last time i saw robocop was how bad the ed-209 animation looked. i remember it being awesome.

Posted by: Anachronda at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (2//jc)

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It's old school stop motion animation.

The same technique used for the original King Kong.

I love the jerkiness of it all.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (Jj43a)

411 Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?

How about a first sequel? I think The Incredibles 2 blew chunks.
From the mopey, Chi-com, Momma just can't even when fat boy bags a round eye hottie cartoon at the beginning, through the really wrinkly cast hyping the movie that **I'm about to watch so you obviously don't need to sell it to me, morons** and the Chi-comming of the Disney castle and then finally into the dull, boring, gurl-powr-boyz-druul, tedious, whiny, and most of all UNFUNNY main event, this movie wouldda stunk on ice.
Though not as bad as Darkman, or Grunt! the Wrestling Movie, or Richard Chamberlain's Allen Quartermain (the latter two of which were playing in adjacent rooms at the dollar theater back in the day--they were so bad that we just kept switching back and forth until we ran out of candy and left).

Posted by: Troll Feeder at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (hbrUW)

412 404 I thought you wrote I should consider her in other films than just Sicario. You were right.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (+Tibp)

Objection withdrawn. I didn't actually write that, but I can't get enough of being told "you were right."

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:18 PM (Vb4BV)

413 Edge of Tomorrow.

Was that with Tom Cruise? I meant to watch that.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:18 PM (KeRzR)

414 ED-209 being spastic adds to the impression its OS is not even Minx 0.5 alpha. Thus not really ready for deployment.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:18 PM (fAAc5)

415 From wiki

Asa Earl Carter (September 4, 1925 - June 7, 1979) was a 1950s Ku Klux Klan leader, segregationist speech writer, and later western novelist. He co-wrote George Wallace's well-known pro-segregation line of 1963, "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever", and ran in the Democratic primary for governor of Alabama on a segregationist ticket.

Also, as Forrest Carter, wrote "The Education of Little Tree".

I heard a radio documentary on him. No one who knew him could make a lick of sense out of his life. People who knew him as Forest did not accept the he was Asa.

"Little Tree" made me cry.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 09:19 PM (fuK7c)

416 402 Suspiria

Discuss.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone

What makes "Suspiria" great is the last bit where the heroine finally confronts the Old Witch.

Like the best horror movies, it goes completely insane with it's own loopy logic.

Argento's best movies do that.

I highly recommend "Phenomena" which is like a horrorific dream that goes completely insane with it's own logic.

Try not to read anything about it before watching.

If you like "Suspiria", you should love "Phenomena".
Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (9q7Dl)

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Added to the queue!

What I love most about Suspiria is the fact that it seems to work despite the illogic of it all. It really does feel like it operates like a nightmare, and it draws me in completely.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:20 PM (Jj43a)

417 Edge of Tomorrow is a movie I would recommend if I recommended movies, which I don't.

Emily B fan.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:20 PM (+lOpA)

418 Good evening, all! I have been thoroughly enjoying all your snark and wit over the years, but too shy to jump in, I guess. Just wanted to mention the movie we watched last nite-- "The Last Movie Star" with Burt Reynolds - very sweet and poignant movie.

We especially enjoyed the parts where the older, 'mobility challenged' Burt is in the scenes with his younger, virile, self. (Deliverance; Smokey and the Bandit) Makes you realize how quickly time zips by, and how you look back at your life - either with regret and sadness, or with reconciliation and acceptance. Even though the film isn't specifically about him, I can't help but think that it mirrored his life somewhat, and that he probably realizes the irony. It was difficult to see him in such tough shape now, but a nice little movie over all.

I think that's it-have a good night, and God bless all of you!

Posted by: misslurk'ette at June 23, 2018 09:20 PM (GDpRb)

419 Obviously, his dick is more important than the quality of his movies.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (9BLnV)

Worked for me.

Posted by: Zombie Alfred Hitchcock at June 23, 2018 09:20 PM (sXefu)

420 Thanks for the thread TheJamesMadison. Consider reviewing "The Enemies within", it's paranoind, but I think very good.

Posted by: Farmer at June 23, 2018 09:20 PM (yJ1e6)

421 413 Edge of Tomorrow.
Was that with Tom Cruise? I meant to watch that.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:18 PM (KeRzR)

One enthusiastic thumbs up here. Really enjoyed that one, and a fun variation on a Groundhog Day sort of theme. No Great Film stuff here, just a movie I had a lot of fun watching.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:21 PM (Vb4BV)

422 I liked the movie. You could even say I liked it a lot. But the whole "heads swelling up in vacuum" thing took me out of the story at a crucial moment. Annoying.
Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (Vb4BV)

I'm thrilled to hear that I'm not the only pedantic fun-hating prick who cringes at that part.

*"um, actually," fistbump*

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:21 PM (fZuhk)

423 It was a mostly-inept and politically-correct plagiary of the Judge Dredd comic.

There was a tragic drama lurking in there about Murphy's spark of humanity and love for his wife, but Verhoeven cared more about chemical mutants getting splattered by a lorry.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:09 PM (6FqZa)

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I never knew this about you. It's like someone coming out of the closet or saying you like to eat boogers.

Posted by: MAGA at June 23, 2018 09:21 PM (LnOh3)

424 That chick in Dredd was cute.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (+lOpA)

425 At one of the MST3K-a-paloozas (which to this day I regret not attending), they had a "March of the Torgos" with all the Torgo cosplayers staggering along.
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:16 PM (gUCYC)

Mike Nelson's Torgo is sheer brilliance.

MST and Rifftrax is my 3 Stooges.

Hate the Stooges. So fvcking hate the Stooges.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (EhZNT)

426 >>Was that with Tom Cruise? I meant to watch that.

Yes. I recommend that one, too. Fun Sci-Fi and Tom Cruise is tolerable. He does *not* play the totally badass mavericky hero guy that he typically plays.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (W+vEI)

427 The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as twentieth century vampires, with Susan Sarandon.

Directed by Tony Scott, Ridley's brother. And Catherine Deneuve is so beautiful.

The hospital scene with David Bowie trying to be admitted is perfect.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:23 PM (qQ7kL)

428 Hate the Stooges. So fvcking hate the Stooges.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (EhZNT)

hah...yeah.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:23 PM (+lOpA)

429 Objection withdrawn. I didn't actually write that, but I can't get enough of being told "you were right."
Posted by: Splunge

Oh, whoops. Sorry again Splunge and to the Unknown Moron who actually did set me straight whose name I'm too lazy to scroll up to.

Just kidding. It was Hogmartin. Hog, you were right, too.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:24 PM (+Tibp)

430 Hate the Stooges. So fvcking hate the Stooges.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (EhZNT)

hah...yeah.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:23 PM

Moe, Larry and Curly, or Iggy?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 09:24 PM (2NqXo)

431 The Hunger, starring Catherine Deneuve and David Bowie as twentieth century vampires, with Susan Sarandon.

Directed by Tony Scott, Ridley's brother. And Catherine Deneuve is so beautiful.

She is. But unlike Sarandon, she does not show bewbs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 09:24 PM (fuK7c)

432 I don't have strong feelings one way or another about Emily Blunt, but I do have a soft spot in my heart for The Adjustment Bureau. She's quite good and even makes Maaaattttt Daaaaaamon not so bad. Great soundtrack too. Of course, Terence Stamp is always a plus.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 09:24 PM (qplvQ)

433 Just kidding. It was Hogmartin. Hog, you were right, too.
Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:24 PM (+Tibp)

Thanks. What were we talking about?

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (fZuhk)

434 I also like Robocop because Houston stands in for future crapped out Detroit. Yea, hometown nostalgia.

Posted by: Texican ette at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (aUFe9)

435 Endeavor to persevere. Well that explains Sondra Locke. And as I've said many times The Outlaw Josey Wales and The Shootist are probably the 2 best western movies ever made.

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (zLDYs)

436 And then there was Saturn 3

https://youtu.be/NENxIu02bvg

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (fAAc5)

437 415 Also, as Forrest Carter, wrote "The Education of Little Tree".

Posted by: bandersnatch

Also per wiki, that book was originally sold as 'a biography', then later retagged as fiction.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (MQ2up)

438 Thats one of the reasons why The Outlaw Josie Wales was great. It overcame whats her name. So good you don't even mind her (whose name seems to escape me and every body else apparently).
Posted by: Puddleglum at June 23, 2018 09:00 PM

I believe you are speaking of the talentless Sondra Locke. What can I say? Clint was dicking her. As a man, how do you tell a woman you're poking that she can't act for shit. Especially if you want to keep poking her. But, the fact that he cast her in that movie and subsequent movies proves my point about his quality as a director. Obviously, his dick is more important than the quality of his movies.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM

Ladies & Genltemen: I present to you The Gauntlet

QED

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (KCxzN)

439 Phenomena - Jennifer Connelly and Donald Pleasence. Great 80's Italian horror.

Posted by: Quilter's Irish Death at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (X+DbD)

440 5 I can't remember if the 3rd was actually good, or an excellent waste of time. Still, I hope they make another.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:08 PM (KeRzR)

That's one of those series where I can never remember how many there are because everything after the first blends together in my mind.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:10 PM (fZuhk)

Ha!

Pretty much. It's true. I can't even explain why I have it or like it myself. But there ya go. I think I hope they make another movie and return it to more of a 1st movie storyline. Mostly bcz there are not many movies that draw my interest.

I used to be so different. I think the advent of SuperHero movies is when I checked out. I am unable to keep up my enthusiasm, even if I may like the 1st installment.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (KeRzR)

441 When I think of heads swelling and popping like balloons I think of that High Noon in Space movie, "Outlander".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (gUCYC)

442 Thanks. What were we talking about?
Posted by: hogmartin

My illogical disrespect for Emily Blunt. The motion has been withdrawn.

Posted by: Blutarski-esque 0.0 at June 23, 2018 09:27 PM (+Tibp)

443 >>I think he, Stamp, recognized that he was in a way responsible. He and his daughter had that running gag about how she was going to call the law on him.

Yeah, that was a gut punch, but it's not like he could undo all of the stuff that got him to that moment - why does he stop with the *one guy* who was responsible for his daughter?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:27 PM (W+vEI)

444 441 When I think of heads swelling and popping like balloons I think of that High Noon in Space movie, "Outlander".
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (gUCYC)

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Outland is so good.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison's Phone at June 23, 2018 09:27 PM (Jj43a)

445 Amy Adams in Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day (I think) and Francis McDermott too.

Posted by: d9 at June 23, 2018 09:28 PM (WX+x0)

446 I also like Robocop because Houston stands in for future crapped out Detroit. Yea, hometown nostalgia.
Posted by: Texican ette at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (aUFe9)

That's cool, but Forest Park could stand in for Pripyat if they make a "20 years after Chernobyl" movie.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:28 PM (fZuhk)

447 I had a math professor at Nebraska who was proud of his son who was making it in Hollywood. His big break was as the suit with the gun who got blown away in the ED-209 demo.

Posted by: Came a hobo hikin' at June 23, 2018 09:28 PM (VWE5i)

448 How about a first sequel? I think The Incredibles 2 blew chunks.
From the mopey, Chi-com, Momma just can't even when fat boy bags a round eye hottie cartoon at the beginning, through the really wrinkly cast hyping the movie that **I'm about to watch so you obviously don't need to sell it to me, morons** and the Chi-comming of the Disney castle and then finally into the dull, boring, gurl-powr-boyz-druul, tedious, whiny, and most of all UNFUNNY main event, this movie wouldda stunk on ice.
Though not as bad as Darkman, or Grunt! the Wrestling Movie, or Richard Chamberlain's Allen Quartermain (the latter two of which were playing in adjacent rooms at the dollar theater back in the day--they were so bad that we just kept switching back and forth until we ran out of candy and left).
Posted by: Troll Feeder at June 23, 2018 09:17 PM (hbrU

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When listening to Mr. Incredible TALK is an actual annoyance (due to Craig T Nelson's extreme "old man" voice) you got problems. Couldn't they put it through some software to clear it up?

However, Elastigirl's action scenes were fantastic and I wonder why Fox can't do something similar for Mr. Fantastic.

Posted by: MAGA at June 23, 2018 09:29 PM (LnOh3)

449 400 I believe you are speaking of the talentless Sondra Locke. What can I say? Clint was dicking her. As a man, how do you tell a woman you're poking that she can't act for shit. Especially if you want to keep poking her. But, the fact that he cast her in that movie and subsequent movies proves my point about his quality as a director. Obviously, his dick is more important than the quality of his movies.
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:15 PM (9BLnV)

I do not want to think about the implications for Every Which Way But Loose.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:29 PM (Vb4BV)

450 I'm reading a book on SF in rock and roll and now I'm on a Pink Floyd kick. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond".

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:29 PM (gUCYC)

451 Hate the Stooges. So fvcking hate the Stooges.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (EhZNT)

First there's someone trashing Darkman, now the Stooges? Is this some mirror universe AOS?

Posted by: Whatever (not Ever) at June 23, 2018 09:29 PM (sXefu)

452 >>Amy Adams in Miss Pettigrew Lives for A Day (I think) and Francis McDermott too.

Francis McDormand is a delight in that movie!
Nice to see her in something light, silly even.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:30 PM (W+vEI)

453 That alleged Steed and Peel flick with Fiennes and Thurman.

Oh my God, that was awful.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at June 23, 2018 09:30 PM (lLeln)

454 don't have strong feelings one way or another about Emily Blunt,

Well, if she opens her mouth up about politics I'll be changing my mind.

She is in a sequel to Mary Fricking Poppins. But, once I saw some trailers for it, I softened my criticism. It looks like it is different enough that it might work.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:31 PM (KeRzR)

455 She is. But unlike Sarandon, she does not show bewbs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

Yeah, she's so beautiful she doesn't have to.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:31 PM (qQ7kL)

456 Pretty much. It's true. I can't even explain why I have it or like it myself.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (KeRzR)

Because they're graphically exciting and fun to watch, that's why. Doesn't have to be anything more than that.

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (fZuhk)

457 And the guy who wrote Gone For Texas wrote a pretty good book about Geronimo, fictional to the max. I mean long on the fiction, but nonetheless a good read.

Posted by: Eromero at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (zLDYs)

458 I know I'm just representing the distaff side here, and therefor my opinion is suspect, but the only good Stooges sequence is the "oyster stew" bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JH28BCGb4s

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (gUCYC)

459 That alleged Steed and Peel flick with Fiennes and Thurman.

Oh my God, that was awful.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, Penitent Cylon at June 23, 2018 09:30 PM (lLeln)

It was unwatchable garbage. It was like they never watched the TV show and had no clue as to what it was about. The same goes for the Man from UNCLE movie.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (SiINZ)

460 Eris, does Daft Punk Interstella 5555 count?

https://youtu.be/FGBhQbmPwH8

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (fAAc5)

461 Edge Of Tomorrow was the best of the Groundhog Day movies, including 'I toast to world peace' Groundhog Day.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:33 PM (6FqZa)

462 Good gol, Chris Hahn is a triple-decker douchecake

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:33 PM (e7oj4)

463 Anna, yes! It's mentioned in the book (which I shall pimp tomorrow).

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:33 PM (gUCYC)

464 Angelina Jolie or Alicia Vikander? Who played and looked the part of Lara Croft best?

Discuss.

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:34 PM (EM0pH)

465 Pretty much. It's true. I can't even explain why I have it or like it myself.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:26 PM (KeRzR)

Because they're graphically exciting and fun to watch, that's why. Doesn't have to be anything more than that.
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:32 PM (fZuhk)

I have to write that down.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:34 PM (KeRzR)

466 ref Payback: Straight Up: The Director's Cut

(I thought I heard that the streak had been broken recently)
In none of the movie adaptation of "Richard Stark's" Parker novels* is the main character named Parker. They always change it a little. Like in this one, Mel Gibson is named "Porter".

*And there have a been a ton of them!

Posted by: ArthurK at June 23, 2018 09:34 PM (O29hh)

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Posted by: Torgo's theme song at June 23, 2018 09:35 PM (953wK)

468 Edge Of Tomorrow was the best of the Groundhog Day movies, including 'I toast to world peace' Groundhog Day.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:33 PM (6FqZa)

Do I need to put you in the corner again?

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:35 PM (KeRzR)

469
My favorite thing to watch is election night coverage 2016. BEST ENDING EVER

Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (SiINZ)

470 A movie I hate that contains a scene I love?
The End of Evangelion.
Taken as a whole, its a hideous evocation of cruelty, nihilism, and despair. But the "Asuka awakens" sequence, in which she regains her mojo, connects to her long-lost mother, and annihilates the invaders -- all to the accompaniment of glorious, triumphant music -- is a brief divergence into a different and infinitely better movie. A movie that would have redeemed the whole series.

Posted by: Rob Hobart at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (nf6f8)

471 I walked out of Born on the Fourth.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (FOPyv)

472 My favorite thing to watch is election night coverage 2016. BEST ENDING EVER

Same here!! Never get tired of it!

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 23, 2018 09:37 PM (dUJdY)

473 I think the only movie I ever walked out on was "Tommy". It was just a mish-mash of pseudo-psychodelic scenes. Even Ann-Margaret and her body coudn't redeem it.

Posted by: JTB at June 23, 2018 09:37 PM (V+03K)

474 I don't even know y'all anymore. The best sequal of all time is Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:37 PM (EM0pH)

475 My favorite thing to watch is election night coverage 2016. BEST ENDING EVER
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (SiINZ)

--Agreed.

https://youtu.be/RE-uhXKO-nk

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:38 PM (e7oj4)

476 469 My favorite thing to watch is election night coverage 2016. BEST ENDING EVER
Posted by: TheQuietMan at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (SiINZ)

I can't believe they left out the "concession speech" scene, though.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 09:38 PM (Vb4BV)

477 455 She is. But unlike Sarandon, she does not show bewbs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch

Yeah, she's so beautiful she doesn't have to.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:31 PM (qQ7kL)

++++

That's not how that works. That's not how that works, at all.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 09:38 PM (pvjTE)

478 One thing prevents me from declaring Groundhog Day to be "The Perfect Movie": Andie McDowell.

yrrch! So repulsive.

Never understood Harold Ramis's attraction to her.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (EhZNT)

479 TheQuietMan, the paid-off crooks at RottenTomatoes love to slide in antiTrump comments in their articles, which, I must add, are paid for by Warner Brothers.

They have Disqus. I have taken to commenting 'Hillary Clinton will never be President' wherever I see antiTrump snark.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (6FqZa)

480 Backdraft was great. What are you talking about.

Taking of Pelham 123 was ... a travolta film.

The Four Feathers was at once a great WASP time piece, very anglo-philic while at the same time they fucking hate the Brits and western civ.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (FOPyv)

481 >>My favorite thing to watch is election night coverage 2016. BEST ENDING EVER

Heh. Compare Rachel Maddow that night (genuine emotion) vs. Maddow's sobs over immigrant kids. LOL.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (W+vEI)

482 I walked out of Dumb & Dumber. It just wasn't funny. Then, it got worse.

Posted by: doug whiddon at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (ek0tc)

483 Hate the Stooges. So fvcking hate the Stooges.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (EhZNT)

Moe Howard deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award and possibly a Nobel Prize for establishing that the pipe wrench is definitely the most comedic tool of all tools.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (lSrgA)

484 Hillary's concession speech was 'blaargghhh' and only her toilet heard that. Maybe Huma.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (6FqZa)

485 474 I don't even know y'all anymore. The best sequal of all time is Breakin 2: Electric Boogaloo
Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:37 PM (EM0pH)
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OMG you are so correct. It's Shakespeare in parachute pants.

More conflicts should be settled by Dance Off.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (gUCYC)

486 466 In none of the movie adaptation of "Richard Stark's" Parker novels* is the main character named Parker. They always change it a little. Like in this one, Mel Gibson is named "Porter".

*And there have a been a ton of them!

Posted by: ArthurK

The Jason Stratham version is named Parker.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (MQ2up)

487 --Agreed.

https://youtu.be/RE-uhXKO-nk
Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:38 PM (e7oj4)

All day, every day. I want to fill a bathtub with that video* and just... luxuriate.

* also yes, Singapura kittens too

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (fZuhk)

488 Catch 22, great movie the book was better.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (qQ7kL)

489 Hillary's concession speech was 'blaargghhh' and only her toilet heard that. Maybe Huma.
Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (6FqZa)

Oh sure, because Huma was holding her hair back.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (EhZNT)

490 And then there was Saturn 3

https://youtu.be/NENxIu02bvg
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at June 23, 2018 09:25 PM (fAAc5)

Well, it started pretty well with Harvey Kietel's character murdering the real pilot.

And S3 did have Farrah Fawcett's boobs...so points for that.

But, yeah...the whole horny, homicidal robot thing was ridiculous.

Good music though. Who did that?

Posted by: naturalfake at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (9q7Dl)

491 Off to Google Amy Adams as I have no idea who she is

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (pHfeF)

492 i'd like to know what brad bird's paycheck was for "incredibles 2". he could pretty much name his own price.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (Pg+x7)

493 While TJM is around, I recommend him doing a post about Flash Gordon.

While it's derided as camp and a joke, I think it's one of the best movies ever made. It's positives massively outweigh the (mis)perceived negatives.

View it as a space opera fantasy instead of science fiction and pretty much every criticism becomes moot.

Posted by: MAGA at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (LnOh3)

494 Also recommend Edge of Tomorrow and liked Cruise's Oblivion.

Battlefield Earth would make a fun epic in the right hands and Travolta sucks for his hash of a fun 1k page space yarn.

Posted by: d9 at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (WX+x0)

495 482 I walked out of Dumb & Dumber. It just wasn't funny. Then, it got worse.

Posted by: doug whiddon at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (ek0tc)

++++

She sent me a John Deere letter.

That film was hilarious.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (pvjTE)

496 Wow, I think the last time I listened -- really listened -- to "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", I was enjoying a slight mescaline buzz.

It was a LONG long time ago.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (gUCYC)

497 And then there was Saturn 3

First good look at Farrah Fawcett's bewbs.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (fuK7c)

498 Flash saved each one of us.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:43 PM (6FqZa)

499 Catch 22, great movie the book was better.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (qQ7kL)

Yup. Like the book more, but Alan Arkin as Yossarian was excellent. Wonderful adaptation, book to film.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:43 PM (EhZNT)

500 I seen her in a couple of movies

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 09:43 PM (pHfeF)

501 OMG. Walked out of The Lone Ranger

Posted by: Fast Eddie Felsen at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (/1AIY)

502 Yes. I recommend that one, too. Fun Sci-Fi and Tom Cruise is tolerable. He does *not* play the totally badass mavericky hero guy that he typically plays.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:22 PM (W+vEI)

That could also be said of Oblivion, although that kind of drags at times and the denouement with Morgan Freeman was a bit silly.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (/qEW2)

503 All day, every day. I want to fill a bathtub with that video* and just... luxuriate.

* also yes, Singapura kittens too
Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (fZuhk)

--Although this improves on it:

https://youtu.be/Kn9Xsmj942E

Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (e7oj4)

504 Off to watch "High Society". It's not a patch on "The Philadelphia Story" but it has three things going for it: Louis Armstrong, the scenes with both Sinatra and Crosby, and the exteriors were shot in my home town. It's the way the place looked when I was a kid.

Posted by: JTB at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (V+03K)

505 Also recommend Edge of Tomorrow and liked Cruise's Oblivion. ...

Posted by: d9 at June 23, 2018 09:42 PM (WX+x0)

Agreed, Mrs. WTF and I watch both every time they're on.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (T71PA)

506 i'd like to know what brad bird's paycheck was for "incredibles 2". he could pretty much name his own price.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (Pg+x7)

Not knowing who Brad Bird is, I thought you were talking about Brandon Bird at first.

http://brandonbird.com/elysium.html

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:45 PM (fZuhk)

507 Dumb and Dumber was funny.

I'll box anyone over that.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (+lOpA)

508
https://youtu.be/RE-uhXKO-nk
Posted by: logprof at June 23, 2018 09:38 PM (e7oj4)
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I bet Obama did go down as president!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (gUCYC)

509 0 A movie I hate that contains a scene I love?
Posted by: Rob Hobart at June 23, 2018 09:36 PM (nf6f

I sorta have a movie like that. Travolta and Sedgewick (Not partial to either actor,) in a pretty boring movie. But there is one scene where she shaves him and cuts his hair that is so intimate..way more than the wham-bam-ty mam' sex...or even the arty kind. I love that scene.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (KeRzR)

510 Oh sure, because Huma was holding her ~~hair back~~ ~~wig~~ ~~gin bottle~~ ~~Pampers~~ ~~exoskeleton~~ ~~gin bottle~~ ~~anti-psychotic medication~~ ~~broom~~ ~~gin bottle~~ black beating heart.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:41 PM (EhZNT)

fixed

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (lSrgA)

511 I bet Obama did go down as president!

I wish.

Posted by: Michelle at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (6FqZa)

512 Oblivion was cool but the girl's incredibly dilated pupils were a bit distracting.

Cocaine much?

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (+lOpA)

513 O/T: For "Game of Thrones" TV fans, just saw a news item that the actors who played Jon Snow and Ygritte (the red-headed Wilding love interest) -- Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie (she's a descendant of Scottish royalty), respectively -- were married today in her family's Scottish castle.
Which begs the question: how many people were killed at the reception? j/k

Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (BiLU+)

514 I liked the 1980s Lone Ranger movie. There is a scene in there where TLR and his brother are talking about how corrupt DC and politicians are.

Posted by: MAGA at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (LnOh3)

515 I bet Obama did go down as president!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (gUCYC)

Oh, yeah.

Posted by: Reggie at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (sXefu)

516 67
Kid Sheleen: You ought to see 'em from my side.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 08:19 PM (gUCYC)

You see my dilemma? I would love to see this movie. I've seen bits, but from way back in the day.

But dear Lord, my intense loathing of *her* *spits between fingers* wrecks the whole thing for me.

Posted by: Pug Mahon at June 23, 2018 08:22 PM (EhZNT)

Robert DeNiro has ruined any of his movies for me after he has gone all "Punchy". I no longer see or hear the character he is trying to portray, just his a**hole attitude the last two years.

Really, eff him where the sun don't shine.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at June 23, 2018 09:48 PM (UsCnO)

517 Dumb and Dumber was funny.

I'll box anyone over that.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (+lOpA)

Totally agree. by far the best Farrely Brothers movie. by which I mean I mostly hate every other Farrely Brothers movie.

But I love Dumb and Dumber.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:48 PM (EhZNT)

518 ...and the denouement with Morgan Freeman was a bit silly.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (/qEW2)

I really like Oblivion but there is one nit that I pick every time I see it.

The scene where Cruise meets Freeman for the 1st time and Freeman is smoking a cigar. Since no tobacco had been grown in 60 years, that cigar has got to be one rasty dry horror.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:49 PM (T71PA)

519 513 O/T: For "Game of Thrones" TV fans, just saw a news item that the actors who played Jon Snow and Ygritte (the red-headed Wilding love interest) -- Kit Harrington and Rose Leslie (she's a descendant of Scottish royalty), respectively -- were married today in her family's Scottish castle.
Which begs the question: how many people were killed at the reception? j/k
Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (BiLU+)

She is royalty with a body like that!?!?!

*wipes brow*

Posted by: Dr. Rockzo at June 23, 2018 09:51 PM (EM0pH)

520 Meh on the Alexander scene. I haven't seen the movie, never wished to, and sure haven't changed my mind. What a beefless Alex. THAT's the Warlike Son of Zeus? NFW.

And he gets the battle wrong. Arrian quite clearly says that Alexander released his auxiliary cavalry first, a few at a time, drawing the Persians into a full on matchup with the Companion cavalry. Only after that was won did Alexander turn to Darius.

(BTW, it was the first known use of reserves in battle.)

I don't even LIKE Alexander, as a man. But after years of resisting, I've had to rank him #1, over even Hannibal and Nelson.

Posted by: George LeS at June 23, 2018 09:51 PM (59GGI)

521 Since no tobacco had been grown in 60 years, that cigar has got to be one rasty dry horror.
Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:49 PM (T71PA)

Had a humidor that would make Rush Limbaugh sink to his knees, weeping out of sheer joy.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:51 PM (EhZNT)

522 Alan Arkin as Yossarian was excellent. Wonderful adaptation, book to film.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge

I am the most renowned killer of fish in the whole United States Army Air Force. _Yossarian

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:52 PM (qQ7kL)

523 But I love Dumb and Dumber.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:48 PM (EhZNT)

I worked with a girl who loved Something About Mary, which I hated, and she hated Dumb and Dumber, which I loved.

Strange. Same producers.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:52 PM (+lOpA)

524 Which begs the question: how many people were killed at the reception? j/k
Posted by: ShainS at June 23, 2018 09:47 PM (BiLU+)

Sean Bean is unavailable for comment...

Posted by: Don Q at June 23, 2018 09:52 PM (NgKpN)

525 Finally saw Blade Runner 2049. It's a stellar Sunday afternoon movie. If you enjoyed the first one you will love this film. Not a perfect film. Once again Jerrod Leto performs a cringing performance and occasionally the dialogue is awful for some reason. But overall better than good to moments that are extraordinary. Highest recommendation for science fiction fans.

Posted by: Max Power at June 23, 2018 09:52 PM (QCc6B)

526 Also agreed that Arkin was the perfect Yossarian.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:52 PM (+lOpA)

527 >>Robert DeNiro has ruined any of his movies for me after he has gone all "Punchy". I no longer see or hear the character he is trying to portray, just his a**hole attitude the last two years.

Really, eff him where the sun don't shine.
- - -

Ugh, right?
So many of these actors have made me hate them back, IYKWIM, that I am repulsed on sight of them - will never watch their movies.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:53 PM (W+vEI)

528 How did it get to be almost ONT time? Where did the day go?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:54 PM (gUCYC)

529 Moe Howard deserves a Lifetime Achievement Award and possibly a Nobel Prize for establishing that the pipe wrench is definitely the most comedic tool of all tools.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 23, 2018 09:40 PM (lSrgA)

I wonder how many starry eyed young boys were surprised when they crushed the skull of one of their brothers and it didn't ring like a bell but sort of sounded like running over a dog with a car? I know I was!

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:54 PM (9BLnV)

530 So many of these actors have made me hate them back, IYKWIM, that I am repulsed on sight of them - will never watch their movies.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:53 PM (W+vEI)

Which brings me full circle to: do I watch Cat Baloo or not?

Well, my battery is dying. Might be back, or I might be watching MST.

Lates.

Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:56 PM (EhZNT)

531 How did it get to be almost ONT time? Where did the day go?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 09:54 PM (gUCYC)

Right?

I accidentally took a nap, so I guess I have no excuse. But still!

Posted by: hogmartin at June 23, 2018 09:56 PM (fZuhk)

532 Actors should take a hint from Charley Sheen unleashed. Actors do characters who are not themselves and speak words they did not think.

Attention all actors STFU and go back to work.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:56 PM (qQ7kL)

533 So, duel at dawn over Dumb and Dumber?

Pistols, paintball guns, or nerf machine guns?

Crossbows and Longbows will not be available.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (KeRzR)

534 Intersectionality is like Thanos' glove, you can rule the universe if you have every victim status.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (rnAwa)

535 One thing prevents me from declaring Groundhog Day to be "The Perfect Movie": Andie McDowell.

yrrch! So repulsive.

Never understood Harold Ramis's attraction to her.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM (EhZNT)

Well, he wasn't really attracted to all of her. Just certain parts of her body.

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (9BLnV)

536 What time is the ONT?

Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (XOAlA)

537 I wonder how many starry eyed young boys were surprised when they crushed the skull of one of their brothers and it didn't ring like a bell but sort of sounded like running over a dog with a car? I know I was!
Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:54 PM (9BLnV)

When I was 13 I was on the Jr. High wrestling team. I used to practice with a guy from India and he thought rasselin' and the 3 stooges were the way to do it. It really hurt.

Posted by: DR.WTF? at June 23, 2018 09:58 PM (T71PA)

538 I went to Mass where the priest delivered a silent homily. Seriously, he literally sat down and had the congregation sit quietly for ten minutes.

Sheesh, and they say *I* suffer from sloth...

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 09:58 PM (6FqZa)

539 So, duel at dawn over Dumb and Dumber?

Pistols, paintball guns, or nerf machine guns?

Crossbows and Longbows will not be available.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (KeRzR)

What about hot sauce and champagne corks?

Posted by: Anonymous White Male at June 23, 2018 09:58 PM (9BLnV)

540 504 Off to watch "High Society". It's not a patch on "The Philadelphia Story" but it has three things going for it: Louis Armstrong, the scenes with both Sinatra and Crosby, and the exteriors were shot in my home town. It's the way the place looked when I was a kid.
Posted by: JTB at June 23, 2018 09:44 PM (V+03K)

Well, High Society had the incomparable Grace Kelly, who definitely had several orders more pizazz than Kate Hepburn.

Posted by: MichiCanuck at June 23, 2018 09:59 PM (qplvQ)

541 So many of these actors have made me hate them back, IYKWIM, that I am repulsed on sight of them - will never watch their movies.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 23, 2018 09:53 PM (W+vEI)

It does suck. Not just movies but TV shows too. It's the hate and name calling...vs. a political disagreement.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:59 PM (KeRzR)

542 Dumb and Dumber was funny.

I'll box anyone over that.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 09:46 PM (+lOpA)

Totally agree. by far the best Farrely Brothers movie. by which I mean I mostly hate every other Farrely Brothers movie.

But I love Dumb and Dumber.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:48 PM

Agreed. It's the only movie of Jim Carrey's that holds up well, for me anyway. He's gone full-tilt lefty crazy though. But he was always someone who looked like he'd be in a mental institution if he hadn't hit it big.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 09:59 PM (2NqXo)

543 533 So, duel at dawn over Dumb and Dumber?

Pistols, paintball guns, or nerf machine guns?

Crossbows and Longbows will not be available.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (KeRzR)

I will settle for manspaining teh awesomness of Dumb and Dumber to you over a pillow fight.

Cause you're an ette.

Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 10:00 PM (+lOpA)

544 Jesus.. people are already shooting off fireworks here. *sigh*

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 23, 2018 10:00 PM (dUJdY)

545 So, duel at dawn over Dumb and Dumber?

Pistols, paintball guns, or nerf machine guns?

Crossbows and Longbows will not be available.
Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM

Did you get a gun? I didn't get a gun.

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 10:00 PM (2NqXo)

546 ONT up

Posted by: Jewells45 at June 23, 2018 10:01 PM (dUJdY)

547 I don't mind Andie McDowell, but the character she played on Groundhog Day was terrible.

Bill Murray is stuck in purgatory until he can convince that character he is worthy. Ugh. To me that's like being in hell.

Posted by: boulder t'hobo at June 23, 2018 10:01 PM (6FqZa)

548 536 What time is the ONT?
Posted by: ALH at June 23, 2018 09:57 PM (XOAlA)
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Now!

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at June 23, 2018 10:01 PM (gUCYC)

549 THE ONT IS NOOD

Posted by: Skip at June 23, 2018 10:01 PM (pHfeF)

550 One thing prevents me from declaring Groundhog Day to be "The Perfect Movie": Andie McDowell.

yrrch! So repulsive.

Never understood Harold Ramis's attraction to her.
Posted by: Pug Mahon, Large and in Charge at June 23, 2018 09:39 PM

She's an Orc?

Posted by: JuJuBee, just generally being shamey at June 23, 2018 10:02 PM (2NqXo)

551 532 Actors should take a hint from Charley Sheen unleashed. Actors do characters who are not themselves and speak words they did not think.

Attention all actors STFU and go back to work.
Posted by: Braenyard at June 23, 2018 09:56 PM (qQ7kL)

Just that. Actors do a basically weird thing. They get taken over by a character, and can actually play-act that, so well that you are convinced. To be really good at that is rare. To be so very good at it, and to scintillate on camera, is even rarer. So if you have been blessed with all of that, just go to work and do it, and count your blessings. No one cares what you think about the President.

Take a cue from one of the very best: Gary Oldman. Doesn't talk much outside the work, does he? Can't tell what his politics are, can you? Are you better than him? No, you're not. So shut up.

Posted by: Splunge at June 23, 2018 10:03 PM (Vb4BV)

552 The Lone Ranger ... a movie I never saw, but the horrible, thudding disaster of it set off some discussions among the writer-ilk, about how we would go about re-launching the franchise if the power were ever given to us to do so.
My own suggestion - rack it back 40 years, lose the mask and the silver bullets, and make it a historical set during the time of the Republic of Texas -- and make it aimed at tween-teen boys inspired me no end.
Two collections of classic Western adventures later -- (but with the identifiable other bits carefully sand-papered off...)
Lone Star Sons and Lone Star Glory. On Amazon, etc.

Posted by: Sgt. Mom at June 23, 2018 10:04 PM (xnmPy)

553 Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, DeNiro...all have crossed the line and insulted people too many times. Many more also.

Then there is Robert Redford who spoke about it in an adult way. The difference in their approaches is staggering. I may disagree with Redford, but he still operates in a respectful way. He also talked about America, and how did we get here. Which I think everyday. So the difference is stark between the screechers and the sane.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 10:05 PM (KeRzR)

554 alexander? ooo ooo ooo [raises hand]

it's estimated that alexander and his army marched over 10,000 miles i less than a decade of conquest. that's like crossing the u.s. 4 times including crossing mountains, bridging rivers, laying seiner to cities and fighting battles. boggles the mind.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 10:06 PM (Pg+x7)

555 laying siege to cities.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 10:07 PM (Pg+x7)

556 Almost walked out of the heap of crap reboot Star Trek Into Darkness. The arrogance of the movie makers to take the greatest Star Trek movie ever and remake with a reversed death role? The original had years to build the Kirk-Spock friendship so when Spock dies (spoiler) happened it meant something. What a crap fest.

Saw Incredibles 2 and it was good but no where close to the first. The SJW theme kept getting in the way of great music, animation, and action. Good lord, every character that was in a power position was a woman. Elastagirl, Violet, the villain, and even the amabassador were the ones in power. The first had a balance that every character had a chance to shine.

It wasn't all bad although...Jack-Jack vs. the racoon was hilarious...Edna Mole steals the movie...and there was a fight scene between ElastaGirl and the main villain that was mind blowingly great. It did need more Dash in it and Frozone.

Posted by: Rgallegos at June 23, 2018 10:09 PM (59GQk)

557 I will settle for manspaining teh awesomness of Dumb and Dumber to you over a pillow fight.

Cause you're an ette.
Posted by: eleven at June 23, 2018 10:00 PM (+lOpA)

Doodlebrain, and I mean that affectionately, i never saw the movie, so I don't even have an opinion.

I was gonna be the duel...referee? What are those guys called? I was gonna count out the paces and do all that kinda cool stuff. Probably wear an awesome outfit.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 10:09 PM (KeRzR)

558 I saw "Avatar" all the way through. In a theater. The thing I dislike about it is that there is not a single competent human in it.

Posted by: Cybersmythe at June 23, 2018 10:12 PM (tGO9e)

559 552: the lone ranger... how we would relaunch the franchise..."

which brings to mind the last star trek reboot, star trek: enterprise. what a great opportunity to gradually show the advance of technology from today to the tech of the original series. instead they jumped right into zipping around the galaxy meeting rubber-faced aliens like the other shows.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 10:12 PM (Pg+x7)

560 most heterosexual men found Andi McDowell to be quite fetching. Although, nancy had nice hooters.

Posted by: Krystal Slider Enthusiast at June 23, 2018 10:13 PM (FOPyv)

561 552: the lone ranger... how we would relaunch the franchise..."

Didn't they try to with Johnny Depp? It was a disaster. I hope they leave it alone. The SJW issues would kill me.

Posted by: platypus, gg channel at June 23, 2018 10:14 PM (KeRzR)

562 Damn, missed this one.

Stupid dinner...

Ah well, will read and then comment anyway!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2018 10:25 PM (xJa6I)

563 Just got back from Jurassic Park. I suspect the Director filmed an hour and 45 minutes of CGI actions scenes then stopped, trying to figure out what he had forgotten.
Then it came to him, he forgot a PLOT!
Then he shrugged, asked someone to hold his beer then tried to shoehorn a plot into about ten minutes of bad dialogue.
The bad guys are so clich� and stupid you feel sorry for the CGI dinosaurs that have to eat them.

Posted by: JB1000 at June 23, 2018 10:26 PM (ECkAC)

564 Movies I've walked out on:

McHale's Navy
Godzilla 1998
Pan's Labyrinth
...possibly others but that's all I got for now.

I'm MUCH more selective about what movies I see now. The Last Jedi was the last straw for me in a lot of ways. I simply will not spend time and money on something (Rifftrax aside, cuz I gotta support my Homies) that I haven't heard reviews from people I trust.

Even then...I skipped Soylo: A Soy Wars story. I skipped Oceans 8. I am skipping The Incredibles 2.

I have no more trust in me.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at June 23, 2018 10:29 PM (xJa6I)

565
559 552: the lone ranger... how we would relaunch the franchise..."

which brings to mind the last star trek reboot, star trek: enterprise. what a great opportunity to gradually show the advance of technology from today to the tech of the original series. instead they jumped right into zipping around the galaxy meeting rubber-faced aliens like the other shows.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at June 23, 2018 10:12 PM (Pg+x7)

How about a good UESN vs. Romulan war? Primitive nukes and all. That would be a good way to introduce Vulcans, Andorians and Tellerites and make a UFP setup seem realistic.
Pacifist UESN vs warlike Romulans would be a near run thing at the beginning. Desperate former rival races unite to fight the common enemy that threatens to crush them all. Then the matter-antimatter vessels of the UESN would crush the fusion Romulans in the end.
Or something.

Posted by: Headless Body of Agnew at June 23, 2018 10:30 PM (e1mEI)

566

Whoreywood continues to give us what they insist we watch for our betterment, rather than what we want to watch for our entertainment.

Fuck. Them.

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at June 23, 2018 10:32 PM (UFLLM)

567

Also Nood, You Blue Falcons...

Posted by: In Vino Veritits at June 23, 2018 10:36 PM (UFLLM)

568 Are there movies that you generally dislike but contain individual sequences or elements that you overall enjoy?

Upon first viewing, I didn't like 'Boondock Saints II' (The original 'Boondock Saints' is one of my top 10 favorite movies of all time). But upon repeat viewings, I liked it more and more. It's not up there with the original for me, but I can say that I genuinely like the movie and was hoping the last scene was setting up an eventual 'Boondock Saints III'.

That said, it did NOT seem to be very popular with many others.

But the infamous Rocco speech scene I think even fans critical of the movie could think was awesome. An awesome, awesome defense of 'toxic masculinity' that is simply... awesome.

"Men build things. Then we die. It's in our f-cking DNA! That's.what.we.DO!"

https://bit.ly/2IjkNbT

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 23, 2018 10:54 PM (7A4qQ)

569 I've never actually left a movie theater I paid to get into -- though there were undoubtedly some films I wish I had walked out of.

Dr. Mrs. T. and I did "walk out of" a couple of movies on DVD. We bailed on Pearl Harbor after the attack was over and we realized that godawful movie was only HALFWAY OVER and we couldn't hope for Admiral Yamamoto to save us anymore.

The other one was Cameron's Avatar, which we gave up on about two-thirds of the way through because we both knew exactly what was going to happen and didn't really want to watch the cast going through the motions. Maybe it was better on the big screen.

Posted by: Trimegistus at June 23, 2018 11:09 PM (8c54+)

570 I walked out of The Boyfriend and Caligula. I'm sure there's a message there somewhere.
Sharkey's Machine was awesome.
A good friend, and aspiring actor, pushed me into seeing the remake of The Seagull.
Should have been called "The Turkey."

Posted by: vivi at June 23, 2018 11:10 PM (11H2y)

571 Oh, 'the Suicide Kings" I will watch every time it's on. Christopher Walken and Dennis Leary, great plot and a bunch of trust fund boys who get their comeuppance when they try to punch above their weight.

Posted by: vivi at June 23, 2018 11:13 PM (11H2y)

572 I liked Jeff Who Lives at Home except for all the parts of the movie with Susan Sarandon in them. Those parts are totally WTF, the rest pretty funny.

Posted by: OCBill at June 23, 2018 11:15 PM (FhU1S)

573 Me and my roomates used to drive to Colorado to ski, and we'd watch Dumb and Dumber every time the night before the drive.

Posted by: goodluckduck at June 23, 2018 11:23 PM (V8zw+)

574 220 The 2005 War of the Worlds movie was pretty mediocre (the bratty kids ruined it).

Posted by: JC at June 23, 2018 08:36 PM

A-freaking-men to this. I actually liked the movie, but those f-cking whiney-ass kids pissed me the hell off in every.freaking.scene.they.were.in.

I have watched the full movie once, hating the kids and hoping they'd die the entire time. Then tried to watch it again some time later when it was on somewhere and just couldn't. Because those annoying freaking brats.

Posted by: Clyde Shelton at June 23, 2018 11:37 PM (7A4qQ)

575 39 Anyone see the new JP movie? Comments?
Posted by: tbodie at June 23, 2018 07:41 PM (E9ede)

Mrs IMG and I just returned from viewing it (big screen, XD sound, barcalounger seating).

1. We liked Chris Pratt and his character.
2. There's a KAF type character that we did not care for. Fortunately, she's quite minor to the story.
3. Her counterpart character is a soy boy. Also very minor. Nuff said about that.
4. Overall enjoyable

Nit picking points:

1. Mercs never bring enough gun in the movies in this series, which makes no sense. They know they are going after predators the size of elephants. Those guys are supposed to be former Army and USMC. so they'd look at dino's as tanks and bring the HEAT and armor piercing rifle/machine gun ammo.
2. Dino's aren't tanks. More like APCs. Very much killable by guys on foot with proper weapons.
3. I don't buy some of the big dino's physics: 1 ton +, walk/run/jump on two legs. That's a lot of ground pressure and some stuff in this movies that should break from that doesn't. Dunno if that's ignorance or license to "tell a good story"

Overall, we liked it and would see again.

Posted by: Iron Mike Golf at June 24, 2018 12:07 AM (di1hb)

576 #411 "Has there ever been a SECOND sequel that was not a complete waste of time?"

I can only think of one: Toy Story 3. I was dubious going in but it totally won me over. I am dubious that there is going to be a Toy Story 4... 3 was such a great way to end the series, and I don't know where they will go with it; but maybe 4 will win me over too.

Note, the third James Bond movie, Goldfinger was good, but I'm not sure that counts as a sequel of a sequel.

#421 I also liked Edge of Tomorrow, but I prefer the title of the book it was based on: "All You Need Is Kill"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_You_Need_Is_Kill

Posted by: mr_jack at June 24, 2018 01:17 AM (57l0O)

577 "Leaving Las Vegas" with the execrable Nicholas Cage was really awful, unredeemed by the presence of Elizabeth Shue , shown peeing on a toilet.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at June 24, 2018 01:23 AM (611Lm)

578 Jim Carrey has a ll the intelligence of a ameoda and all the charm of a or Gilla Monster and is as hugable as a cactus his movies are junk and his art stinks Clooney Toons George Clooney has all the mind of a squished ant and Leonardo DiCaprio has all the attention span of a chicken

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 24, 2018 02:26 AM (FLiOE)

579 >>>The second is that even bad movies can have good elements.

This is also true of parties and other life events. And is generally true of life.

Posted by: m at June 24, 2018 03:55 AM (/TzhX)

580 One day, I will die, and when I am approaching that final curtain, I can face my maker and say "I did not waste 2 hours of my life watching 'Taxi' with Queen Latifa and Jimmy Fallon."

You are right about the last 30 minutes of "The Lone Ranger;" they are fun. However, it's a real slog to get there; it takes 45 minutes just to get to the plot.

Go to YouTube and listen to a radio episode of "Gunsmoke," with William Conrad as Marshall Dillion. The writing and acting are flawless, and you are done in 30 minutes.

Posted by: Darwin Akbar at June 24, 2018 07:24 AM (/HPTN)

581 I walked out on Koyaanisqatsi in the 80s. No plot, just fast moving images of nature and what industrial man had built. Not recommended for epileptics, that's for sure.

Posted by: KathleenP at June 24, 2018 10:05 AM (lVtvs)

582 I thought the new comedy "Tag" was a dud, but the first time they used the slo-mo effect to show Jeremy Renner avoiding a tag grabbed me. The novelty, and the movie in toto, quickly wore thin.

Posted by: Christian Toto at June 24, 2018 10:25 AM (GppXG)

583 I think of "The Final Frontier" as a buddy movie, and less so as a Star Trek movie. I rather enjoyed it.

Posted by: Sheerq at June 24, 2018 12:08 PM (uxJlk)

584 The Lone Ranger johnny Depps version of Tonto makes him look like someone on Halloween with a stuffed Bird on his head and never forget the fact when they made that other movie LEGEND OF THE LONE RANGER the movie maker got a court order preventing the Original Lone Ranger(Clayton Moore)from wearing his mask the results the movie Bombed

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 24, 2018 12:47 PM (FLiOE)

585 I enjoyed "Alexander", especially the "Final Cut" version that restored the original design of the movie. I agree that Val Kilmer is quite good as Philip, while the other cast members are perfectly viable. My biggest problem with Farrell is that he doesn't believeably "age". By the end, I suspect Alexander was psychologically "tired", even if emotionally still "dreaming".

Is the quality of a movie mostly dependent upon its time and place in a culture? I'm thinking here of "Four Feathers" (1939). I consider this an outstanding film, but very much of its era. Does that reduce its quality?

Posted by: DZouave at June 24, 2018 12:50 PM (9/QQm)

586 I may be late to the comments, but I enjoyed Star Trek The Final Frontier. Best scene was Kirk telling Sybock that pain makes us who we are: "I need my pain!" . . . I don't think William Shatner could see it, (or maybe he could) but Sybock was a poor imitation of Christ who freely gives forgiveness and grace to those that come to him.
Funny scene: Scotty, " I know this ship like the back of my hand." Womp!

Posted by: Tim from Nashua at June 24, 2018 01:04 PM (EATOD)

587 I agree with you on STV, but liked the camping scenes too. True, they were a bit corny yet still made me chuckle. The rest of the movie sucked big time. One more thing about the opening, the book explains that the alien digging holes in the desert had just lost his family and had gone a bit mad as a result (hence the hopeless search for water). I thought the movie could have done a better job referring to that.

I haven't seen the other 2 movies and since you posted the best bits, I guess I don't have to now.

Posted by: JohnAGJ at June 24, 2018 03:52 PM (EZegn)

588 Literally, the last "first run" movie I saw in a theater was "Dune" in 1984. (I added that because I might have went to see "The Wall" or "Rocky Horror" at the Midnight Movies after this).

It was so terrible I vowed to never pay to see another movie again. Never had HBO or Skinemax. Never have Netflixed or Hulued. They show up on free TV eventually.

34 yrs and counting...

Posted by: Scott at June 24, 2018 08:23 PM (sTk/4)

589 How much dert was messed up while Robert REDford and Hanoi Jane were making that putrid movie THE ELECTRIC HORSEMAN his other movie THE HORSE WHISPER was a Bomb so was Matt Damon's movie The Great Wall

Posted by: Spurwing Plover at June 25, 2018 09:56 AM (FLiOE)

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