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Jessica Chastain Gun-Control Stinker "Miss Sloane" Opens to Numbers That Would Make Even the Lady Ghostbusters Laugh

I don't get Jessica Chastain. Hollywood seems to have decided that a lack of expressiveness in an actress reads "smart" or something.

At any rate, her movie, which I'm sure is wretched, got punished at the box office by a public that's tired of all their crap.

Miss Sloane, the gun control thriller starring Jessica Chastain, over the weekend posted one of the worst performances of the past 35 years for a movie in wide release.

The movie pulled in $1,167 on average at the 1,648 theaters across the country it was shown in. It made $1,922,300, meaning it was the 11th-highest grossing movie in the country. It is number 79 on Box Office Mojo’s list of Worst Opening Weekend by Per-Theater Average since 1982.

That means Miss Sloane earned less money per theater than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, and Gigli.

Posted by: Ace at 06:54 PM




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1 Chastain sounds porny.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 06:51 PM (UD0Gq)

2 The name.

Makes me think of Chasey Lain. A 1990s Chasey Lain.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (UD0Gq)

3 ace is popping them out like a sixteen year old inner city Philly girl,

Posted by: JEM at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (tA/XW)

4 I'd never even heard of this film until someone mentioned the lousy numbers on Twitter. Apparently they targeted their advertising a bit too narrowly.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (39g3+)

5 She's not smart, she'll let anyone bang her.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (4e+hS)

6 Well, that's one I won't regret seeing.

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (zLDYs)

7
They made a movie out of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" ?

Any good?

Posted by: ArthurK at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (h53OH)

8 A Gun Control THRILLER??? Not computing.

Posted by: Molly k. at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (ITucM)

9 Whats going on with the site. On my phone it's all gray and weird.

Posted by: Jaimo at December 12, 2016 06:54 PM (eDc0r)

10 Cause I ain't going to see it. Will See Star Wars this weekend though. Probably regret that?

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2016 06:54 PM (zLDYs)

11 Is this left wing shit?

Another reason I never pay to see a movie

I don't buy from the enemy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 12, 2016 06:54 PM (EbeEQ)

12 are there titties in this film?

Posted by: Harry Paratestes at December 12, 2016 06:54 PM (WGxp4)

13 Just noticed my hash would be a great one for Caitlyn Jenner...

Posted by: Molly k. at December 12, 2016 06:55 PM (ITucM)

14 Wasn't she nominated for a golden globe for that movie?

Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2016 06:55 PM (Q5Ymk)

15 O/T Wi recount over...

Trump GAINED 162 votes...


We now return you to the lamentation of the womenz...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 12, 2016 06:55 PM (qf6WZ)

16 Awesome, Molly.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 06:55 PM (UD0Gq)

17 Do they just not listen, or are they too stupid to understand what's going on in the country?

Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (0tfLf)

18 I can't decide whether Jessica Chastain is hot or not.

Most people are sick of anything political by this point.

If you're not, you can get a fresh fill of Raw Red Meat every day of the week in the Real World.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (SIY7D)

19 https://tinyurl.com/hplafvg



EXPOSED Anti-Trump Faithless Elector TheChrisSuprun Paid For Ashley Madison While Bankrupt & Married w/ 3 Kids

from a lower thread

Posted by: Evilpens at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (y3aQB)

20
Who?

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (zu88C)

21 Crazy, but that how it goes
Million of dollars wasted recounting the votes
Maybe it's not too late
To accept the result and forget how to hate

Mental wounds still screaming
The Russians are to blame!
I'm going off the rails on a crazy train

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2016 06:57 PM (jw2Xw)

22


If this movie tanks, it will be due Russian hackers.



Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 06:58 PM (zu88C)

23
From the Industry Lingo Dictionary:

"Stealth Turd" = a film that was in and out of the theaters so fast it didn't have time to stink.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 06:58 PM (mbhDw)

24 I just saw Manchester by the Sea. It's really good but it's a downer.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 06:58 PM (SIY7D)

25 Will Miss Sloane beat Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?

"Gross revenue: $116.40 million USD"

Not at this rate.

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 06:59 PM (bqN/x)

26 18 I can't decide whether Jessica Chastain is hot or not.

Most people are sick of anything political by this point.

If you're not, you can get a fresh fill of Raw Red Meat every day of the week in the Real World.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (SIY7D)

I vote for hot, but I kind of have a thing for gingers. She looks a lot like Bryce Dallas Howard, who is also hot.

Posted by: Simon Gruber at December 12, 2016 07:00 PM (60SwY)

27 Uh-oh...Tucker Carlson has that "What the fuck?" look again.
Who is this babbling loon?

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 07:00 PM (qJhUV)

28 Miss Sloane is directed by the same guy, John Madden, who directed Shakespeare in Love.

He should stick to beer commercials.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 12, 2016 07:00 PM (4e+hS)

29 Wait. I got to a thread before it had been up for an hour?
Get outta here.

Posted by: teej at December 12, 2016 07:01 PM (gJ3Vg)

30
I want to know if the Russians are hacking the Golden Globes.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:01 PM (zu88C)

31 hey made a movie out of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" ?
Any good?

Posted by: ArthurK at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (h53OH)


I thought it was OK-maybe-a-little-bit-good. I'm kind of surprised it tanked at the box office.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:01 PM (mAinT)

32 The only time I go inside a theater is to go to church. Sometimes I see the marquis (is that the word) so I recognize the names that Ace posts about. That makes me feel kind of smug.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:02 PM (dFi94)

33 Miss Sloane is directed by the same guy, John Madden, who directed Shakespeare in Love.

Also a great coach and color man!
BOOM!

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 07:02 PM (qJhUV)

34 Hah.

It's kind of funny that a gun control movie is the one that you could actually take your gun into the theater and shoot it without endangering anybody.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:02 PM (8ZskC)

35 Will Miss Sloane beat Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?

Hey, I thought ALVH was a decent movie.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:02 PM (mAinT)

36
Yeeesss.

Posted by: The Adventures of Pluto Nash at December 12, 2016 07:03 PM (yfObW)

37 The only time I go inside a theater is to go to church. Sometimes I see the marquis (is that the word) so I recognize the names that Ace posts about. That makes me feel kind of smug.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:02 PM (dFi94)


Your church is in a movie theater? Just what kind of whack-a-do Lutheran cult did you get yourself involved in, grammie?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (mAinT)

38 I was unaware of Miss Chastain. Hmm, needs an adjective. "Blissfully".
Yeah, that'll do.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (phx8K)

39 The volcano scene at the end was totally superfluous.

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (4e+hS)

40 Wait, she plays a hero DC lobbyist?

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (BS8yt)

41 I want to know if the Russians are hacking the Golden Globes.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:01 PM (zu88C)



Feh. I don't even bother watching Dancing With The Stars anymore.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (8ZskC)

42 wow, that has to be on par with openings in triple-x theatres.


Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (cPsPa)

43 And from the sounds of it this whoring for an oscar movie is even too cheap of a slut for that.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:05 PM (z/Ubi)

44 The movie pulled in $1,167 on average at the 1,648 theaters across the country it was shown in.

I've been to Beef and Beers that made more money in one night.

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2016 07:05 PM (jkmtt)

45 she is getting closer to getting spit out the bottom of the porn industry.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:05 PM (cPsPa)

46 so was she paid on par with her male peers?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (cPsPa)

47
Does this gun controll movie take place in Chicago?

Posted by: YIKES! at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (yfObW)

48 Russian hackers killed Florence Henderson.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (8ZskC)

49 You know, every time Hollywood makes a movie where the good guy reluctantly picks up a weapon and starts blowing away bad guys who are threatening him and his loved ones, it completely blows away all of the left's tiresome nonsense about gun control.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (mAinT)

50 >>she is getting closer to getting spit out the bottom of the porn industry


They don't spit in those low budget productions.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (UD0Gq)

51 Shaun the Sheep was awesome - in fact, most af Aardman's stuff is good.

Posted by: Filthy Scandi Snowbilly at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (R/MfF)

52 how does this affect her future pay?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (cPsPa)

53 2 The name.

Makes me think of Chasey Lain. A 1990s Chasey Lain.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 06:53 PM (UD0Gq)


She's had a lot of dick.

https://youtu.be/If9fC9aJd-U

Posted by: Buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (z/Ubi)

54 Your church is in a movie theater? Just what kind of whack-a-do Lutheran cult did you get yourself involved in, grammie?


Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:04 PM (mAinT)
==================================

No - my own happy fun church which is the only true Biblical church meets in a movie theater. The now-present LCMS church is full frontal stained glass. It's not nearly as happy or fun. But it's nice. The people are nice. Pastor kind of drones on, tho.....

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (dFi94)

55 Heh, did worse than Gigli.

Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (XoldI)

56 I could fix Hollywood...
Miss Sloane: Gun control lobbyist by day. Lesbian Vigilante Supermodel Bounty Hunter by night!

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (qJhUV)

57 They don't spit in those low budget productions.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (UD0Gq)



But they do wear safety goggles or they'll hear from Cal-OSHA..

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (8ZskC)

58 >>She's had a lot of dick.


Piker.

Posted by: Sandra Fluke at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (UD0Gq)

59 17 Do they just not listen, or are they too stupid to understand what's going on in the country?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (0tfLf)


This was the cinematic chef d'oeuvre that was supposed to launch the Hillarhoid's gun grabbing program.

Posted by: kallisto at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (jkmtt)

60 Bet they were all planning for this movie to come out as Grandma Evita prepared to take power, to help her dispatch the Second Amendment. Now it's irrelevant. Too bad, so sad...down, schadenboner!

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (iMxBJ)

61 Batman's opponent Bane won't be co-blogging because of his new editor gig at the Weekly Standard.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (VdICR)

62 Yeah, when the commercial starts with "The movie that the NRA doesn't want you to see!" it's a dead give away that it's anti gun propaganda.

Posted by: Deplorable Old Blue at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (9iR5/)

63 Seen about eleventy million commercials for this on direct tv. The advertisements made it look like a political thriller. Nothing about gun grabbing. Of course any ads showing that wouldn't really play well here in Texas.

Posted by: Darth Randall at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (6n332)

64 Hey, I thought ALVH was a decent movie.///

Haven't seen it just picked a movie the people that made this would make fun of for being lowbrow. It will be funny if ALVH outdraws Miss Sloane.

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (bqN/x)

65 yeah, there are a lot of poor performing box office films that go on to become cult classics. miss chastains feature will not be one, unless it has rocky horror picture show cultishness.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (cPsPa)

66 It'd be nice to know how many showings there were.

Maybe only 10 people showed up on average.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (BS8yt)

67 e
Evil rightwing gun nuts don't even have to threaten to shoit up thetheatres. The mivie shoots itself in the foot and scares away what few viewers it has.

Posted by: richard mcenroe at December 12, 2016 07:08 PM (OVJcF)

68 I wish she Jessica Chastain would do porn.
And that Chasey Lain hadn't lost her looks...and Janine hadn't gotten all those tats...

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (MYX5P)

69 Hey Dave put up a link for ya in the thread after you mentioned 3 chords and the truth. Didn't know if you'd seen it.

Also there is a vote that this Jessica someone or other is kinda hot but ace didn't throw a pic of her up so,,, mebbe not?

Posted by: teej at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (gJ3Vg)

70 Uh-oh...Tucker Carlson has that "What the fuck?" look again.
Who is this babbling loon?
Posted by: tu3031
------------

A tenured babbling loon.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (ZO497)

71 Bet they were all planning for this movie to come out as Grandma Evita prepared to take power, to help her dispatch the Second Amendment. Now it's irrelevant. Too bad, so sad...down, schadenboner!


And the Babes in Toyland remake with a cameo by Bill Clinton is already in the can.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (8ZskC)

72 That would be a great Epitaph :


RIP
(Any Girl Name) Lynn

"She had a lot of dick."

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (UD0Gq)

73 I'm going to see the revival of Rochelle, Rochelle this weekend. The story of a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk is more my style of holiday fare.

Posted by: george costanza at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (kUgrv)

74 I am not going to waste my annoyance on this, but from what I've read it's a script by one of those typical lefties who *think* they know things, but wouldn't actually sully their brain with information that might affect their smugness.

You know, mustache-twirling villain who explicitly mouths leftist propaganda about The True Enemy instead of talking like a real person, and the Hero that is So Pure that their Pureness wipes out the stain from their unethical, dishonest crap.

That sort of thing.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (wB8Tg)

75
The sequel:
"Miss Sloane-Reloaded"

Posted by: YIKES! at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (yfObW)

76 but she's still proud of her work in it.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (WTSFk)

77 Elevator pitch: "It's about a heroic lobbyist who..."

Hollywood producer: "This is my floor. Good luck to you."

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (iMxBJ)

78 ... btw: who's jessica chastain?

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (WTSFk)

79 Also, you can gran an LIV and patiently explain to him or her about our inherent right as human beings to be able to defend ourselves, the purpose of the 2nd amendment and the fact that it it wasn't included in the Constitution to protect duck hunters, and how the police are really under no legal obligation to protect you.

Or, they could watch an episode of The Walking Dead.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (mAinT)

80 Your average moviegoer doesn't want to spend their hard-earned cash to watch 90-105 minutes of agitprop.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (0mRoj)

81 I have not seen a single thing this woman has been in so I don't see why I would see her latest garbage.

Posted by: Kreplach at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (+lv+r)

82 I won!

Posted by: Shaun the Sheep at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (Tyii7)

83 well this is one of those weird propaganda shows, which weirdly feature redheads in dc power positions, as opposed to more appropriate and ealistic positions.

has something to do with hillary running for president. in her first run someone put out that horrible geena davis as president tv show. this year there was that tea leoni secretary show and the jessica chastain thriller.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (cPsPa)

84 The numbers would have been better had the Russians not stolen a lot of the money.

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (2z74n)

85 75 The sequel:
"Miss Sloane-Reloaded"
Posted by: YIKES! at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (yfObW)


"Miss Sloane II. This time it's futile. Again."

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (iMxBJ)

86 79 Also, you can gran an LIV and patiently explain to him or her about our inherent right as human beings to be able to defend ourselves, the purpose of the 2nd amendment and the fact that it it wasn't included in the Constitution to protect duck hunters, and how the police are really under no legal obligation to protect you.

Or, they could watch an episode of The Walking Dead.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:10 PM (mAinT)

I'm telling y'all, Negan is a progressive!

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (0mRoj)

87 Extensive internet research reveals Jessica Chastain is not hot.

Posted by: Donald at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (fvkPE)

88 "Sloane : DVDA" - A Double Barrel Production

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (UD0Gq)

89 Chastain should have hung up her spurs after "Zero Dark Thirty".

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 07:11 PM (vmm2Z)

90 "Drop the Hammer on Miss Sloan"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (MYX5P)

91 "Miss Sloan Misfires"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (MYX5P)

92 "Miss Sloan is a dud."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (MYX5P)

93 good news is she is going to have to rehabilitate her career with a sex tape, which will also generate more money.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (cPsPa)

94
So I take it no bouncing titties in this movie.

Posted by: YIKES! at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (yfObW)

95 "Miss Sloane : Accidental Discharge"

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (UD0Gq)

96 "Miss Sloan jams at the box office."

This is kinda fun!

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:12 PM (MYX5P)

97 72 That would be a great Epitaph :


RIP
(Any Girl Name) Lynn

"She had a lot of dick."
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (UD0Gq)

Ballad of Chasey Lain

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (0mRoj)

98 "Miss Sloan Revolutions: Hang Fire"

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (iMxBJ)

99 Shaun the Sheep was awesome - in fact, most af Aardman's stuff is good.

Posted by: Filthy Scandi Snowbilly at December 12, 2016 07:06 PM (R/MfF)


I can't believe I'm admitting this, but I watched this with my son and grandson, and by suppressing my AoSHQ level of expectations had a good time watching (but mostly because I was with my son and grandson).

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (wCEn4)

100 And I see the left's fascination with the Kennedy's continues as Natalie Portman's turn as Jackie-O has received honors and rave.


Posted by: Kreplach at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (+lv+r)

101 "Miss Sloan stovepipes coming out."

Nah, now we're back to porn.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (MYX5P)

102 In one of the commercials here, the red headed heroine states that any yahoo any where can buy an assault rifle without showing so much as an id.

Posted by: Deplorable Old Blue at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (9iR5/)

103 Don't people appreciate smug anymore?

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (Nwg0u)

104 blowback

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (cPsPa)

105 If they had done something like 'Shaun the sheep meets Lawnmower Man I think they would have had something.

*starts writing*

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (AGr9E)

106 It will be at the Dollar Tree in 6 months. And will still suck donkey balls.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (89T5c)

107 "Miss Sloan backfires."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (MYX5P)

108
Do they just not listen, or are they too stupid to understand what's going on in the country?
Posted by: Diogenes at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (0tfLf)


Hollywood elites truely believe they are the trendsetters.They don't listen to you,we are supposed to listen to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (lKyWE)

109 Personally, I thought "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" was a pretty good movie......

Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (br2jI)

110 wow, that has to be on par with openings in triple-x theatres.


Phrasing!

Posted by: Blanco Basura at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (IcT7t)

111 Never even heard of the movie.

Oh well.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (CRotO)

112 Thanks teej, I'll go look.

Posted by: Dave at Buffalo Roam at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (phx8K)

113 Oops, in the thread after the thread where you mentioned 3 chords

Posted by: teej at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (gJ3Vg)

114 In one of the commercials here, the red headed heroine states that any yahoo any where can buy an assault rifle without showing so much as an id.
Posted by: Deplorable Old Blue


The NRA should have a showing at the next convention and MST3K it to death.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2016 07:15 PM (1G5R8)

115 "Miss Sloan: Extreme Penetrator"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:15 PM (MYX5P)

116 I don't think the release the actual number of tickets sold, do they?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:15 PM (mAinT)

117 By the way..

Who the fuck is Jessica Chastain and why should I give a squirt of piss what she does?

Posted by: Dirty Randy at December 12, 2016 07:15 PM (br2jI)

118 Hah hah!

Posted by: Nelson Muntz at December 12, 2016 07:15 PM (5zfq1)

119 "Miss Sloan: Bang, bang gangbang."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (MYX5P)

120 97 72 That would be a great Epitaph :


RIP
(Any Girl Name) Lynn

"She had a lot of dick."
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (UD0Gq)

Ballad of Chasey Lain
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:13 PM (0mRoj)


Already linked it up thread.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (z/Ubi)

121 There's still hope...

Posted by: Frank the Goat at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (Tyii7)

122 "Miss Sloan: The Rubout."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (MYX5P)

123 Hollywood elites truely believe they are the trendsetters.They don't listen to you,we are supposed to listen to them.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:14 PM (lKyWE)
==========================

This. Very much this. Just follow some of their Twitter feeds. They'll dispense their wisdom right there for you. Easy peasy. If you want to start with someone. start with Debra Messing. She is having a psychotic break on Twitter over Donald Trump.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (dFi94)

124 Miss Sloane in The Expendables.

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (bqN/x)

125 "Miss Sloane: The Front Fell Off"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (mAinT)

126 If James Cromwell isn't the evil villain then why even bother.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (qJhUV)

127 They opened it too wide (TWHS?) is all. A lot of movies flop because they do gangbusters in a limited but don't have wide appeal.

Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", e.g., was on fire in limited, but it turned out general audiences weren't crazy about a biopic of a alcoholic, transvestite war hero who made the "worst movies ever".

I (of course) loved it.

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (7zeA4)

128 Miss Sloan. With better gun control it would've been a hit.

Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (XoldI)

129 Apparently they targeted their advertising a bit too narrowly.

-
I've seen the trailer several times. Her handlers beg her not to tie her self to an issue she cannot win like gun control but she bravely ignores them. So it's kinda like real life.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (Nwg0u)

130 I haven't seen Texas Zombie around lately. Anybody heard from him or seen him here?

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (D2vc1)

131 "Miss Sloan expands to 1,648 theaters, fails to penetrate top 10."

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (MYX5P)

132 All the Century theatres around here are having four to five showings. I would expect there were more on the weekend, but still $200 per show ain't half bad! That's about 80 people per showing. YUUUGE!

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (2z74n)

133 She is having a psychotic break on Twitter over Donald Trump.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:16 PM (dFi94)


Still? I thought you mentioned Messing 2 or 3 days ago? She's still at it?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (mAinT)

134 Crap.
He's gonna be ticked off at me.

Posted by: teej at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (gJ3Vg)

135 They usually roll out the mega-movies at the end of the year to get into the Academy Award cut-off. Then there are movies like this that are just made for the tax write off money-loss, I believe.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (CFc5L)

136 Miss Sloane Blows Its Wad Early

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (kUgrv)

137 Seeing as how one of my great pleasures is shooting, going to the gun range, and hanging around with gun aficianados, I doubt that I will be able to give a first hand review of this movie.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (d6TTt)

138 Miss Sloane +P

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (wCEn4)

139 "Miss Sloan: Death Wish 5"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (MYX5P)

140 Miss Sloane Blows Its Wad Early
Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (kUgrv)




wadcutter

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (cPsPa)

141 "Miss Sloan: Body Shots"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (MYX5P)

142 "Miss Sloane: The Short Round"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (mAinT)

143 Time out! Oh, we won?

See ya sometime in later January 2017.

BB of the 4 time world champion New England Patriots.

Well, grammie was allowed her cub thing, amirite?

Posted by: Andy Reid KC (chief ot team) at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (o5vMc)

144 Miss Sloan 4: Sloan Away

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (1G5R8)

145 Miss Sloane Fails to Register at the Box Office.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (kUgrv)

146 Jill stein links to a cosmo article where a Michigan recounters breathlessly tells how the recount efforts were being stymied by- gasp- trumps attorneys and recount observers. And there was very little representation by the FAB or Stein people and it wasn't faaaaiiiiiiiirrrrrrrrr.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (5p94Q)

147 "Miss Sloan: Semi Jacketed"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (MYX5P)

148 "Miss Sloane: Firing Blanks"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (mAinT)

149 Madden directed The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel which was pretty good, although a little "cute" and fill-in-the-numbers vis-a-vis "gay relationship drama subplot".

He also did the sequel and Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I dunno. Crapshoot time.

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (7zeA4)

150 Wasn't This Messing woman an actress, a long time ago?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (d6TTt)

151 "runaway jury" was a particularly obnoxious anti-gun movie, cynically manipulating both the audience and justice system.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (WTSFk)

152 127 They opened it too wide (TWHS?) is all. A lot of movies flop because they do gangbusters in a limited but don't have wide appeal.

Tim Burton's "Ed Wood", e.g., was on fire in limited, but it turned out general audiences weren't crazy about a biopic of a alcoholic, transvestite war hero who made the "worst movies ever".

I (of course) loved it.
Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (7zeA4)


Miss Sloane has been in limited release for a couple weeks already apparently since nov 25.

Posted by: Buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (z/Ubi)

153 It appears it's easier to buy a gun than a movie ticket. I think they call it the Miss Sloane Loophole.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (qJhUV)

154
"Dirty Sloane"
"Do you feel litigated punk?"

Posted by: YIKES! at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (yfObW)

155 In one of the commercials here, the red headed heroine states that
any yahoo any where can buy an assault rifle without showing so much as
an id.


You say it like it's a bad thing.

Posted by: Democrat Election Precincts at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (2z74n)

156 Still? I thought you mentioned Messing 2 or 3 days ago? She's still at it?


Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (mAinT)
========================

Oh yeah. Now she's all over the Electoral College/ Russian Hackers thing. I'm starting to get concerned - truly. I started out pointing and laughing. Now I think she needs medical intervention.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (dFi94)

157 Tim Burton , When you want to wake up and the sky is purple, orange or green . Your choice.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (vmm2Z)

158 Well, grammie was allowed her cub thing, amirite?

Posted by: Andy Reid KC (chief ot team) at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (o5vMc)


Don't you need to call a time-out?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (mAinT)

159 So do we want to do Miss Sloane headlines or movie subheads?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (kUgrv)

160 I thought Pride and Prejudice zombies was OK. Missed many opportunities to go hard R, too strong of thread used to contain heaving bosoms.

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (2RVmA)

161 t-bird, at $11 bucks per ticket, it's less than 20 people per show.

Posted by: Deplorable Old Blue at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (9iR5/)

162 Me and Misses, Misses Sloan

We got thang, goin' on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (/tuJf)

163 She beats the villain by peeing on herself, right?

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (3hIZX)

164 I'm watching The Wizard of Oz.
Here comes my favorite scene, you know, when the house falls on Hillary.

Posted by: mpfs, DeplorableFishstick at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (P5/31)

165 Never heard of this bitch, or her poxy movie.


I guess my luck had to run out sometime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (SRKgf)

166 "Gun control thriller" - probably the first time that phrase has been uttered.

Posted by: waelse1 at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (bN6q7)

167 #11 with no bullet.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (3hIZX)

168 who is newton... jeopardy

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (WTSFk)

169
Wasn't This Messing woman an actress, a long time ago?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (d6TTt)
===============================
Will and Grace. BFF with the gay guy.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (dFi94)

170 Miss Sloane: The Thing That Goes Up

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (DW+jj)

171 wow... not newton

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (WTSFk)

172 Miss Sloan: Private Dicks, Public Exposure

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (1G5R8)

173 Self-righteous female so far on wrong side of important issue as to be evil, but don't worry, surely the beta-males will run to white-knight for her sour-faced self-proclaimed alpha-female self-righteousness, if she is just sour-faced and self-righteous enough. Oops, missed even that demographic. Forgot that even the Ben Shapiros of the world need their Michelle Fieldses to at least welcome their beta-male eagerness to commiserate and support in hopes of someday being allowed to pet, or be petted, just a little bit. If all she can do is bite even Shapiro can't get himself there. He'd like to. Oh how he would like to. But sweetheart you can't be 100% bitch, come on.

Posted by: Alec Rawls at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (AphMS)

174 The sequel: "Miss Sloane - Shooting Blanks"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (SRKgf)

175 halley, of course!

bastards

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (WTSFk)

176 "Miss Sloane: Not Loaded"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (mAinT)

177 "Miss Sloan: Tales from the squib"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (MYX5P)

178 I (of course) loved it.

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:17 PM (7zeA4)

Lol. Then you'll love my new take on Shaun the Sheep. He's a crack addict and gets shorn to buy drugs. But here's the twist. Get this, he has to clip this other sheep, the one selling the drugs...and by clip i mean...

Kinda like Las Vegas meets Animal Farm. But with crack and sheep.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (AGr9E)

179 Review of "Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" at my blog:

http://moviegique.com/index.php/2012/06/10/the-best-exotic-marigold-hotel-for-the-elderly-and-2/

Eh. Even when Madden's on his game, you don't get edge-of-your-seat greatness.

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (7zeA4)

180 "Miss Sloan: Dead Bang"

Yep, zombie porn

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (MYX5P)

181 If I was an investor and bought into this piece of shit, Chastain wouldn't be on my Christmas card list.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (vmm2Z)

182
Miss Sloan - Illegally filmedcto to the Picture Show Loophole

Posted by: fixerupper at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (JmjOe)

183 Miss Sloan: Tight Metal Jacket

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:23 PM (8ZskC)

184 Well, grammie was allowed her cub thing, amirite?


Posted by: Andy Reid KC (chief ot team) at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (o5vMc)
=====================

Oh yeah. And I have the Christmas crap to prove it. Everybody on the list is getting something World Series related. Regardless of the naughty or nice thing.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (dFi94)

185 169
Wasn't This Messing woman an actress, a long time ago?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:19 PM (d6TTt)
===============================
Will and Grace. BFF with the gay guy.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:22 PM (dFi94)


Oooh. THAT show.
Never watched it.
Seemed really gay and stupid, from the ads.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (d6TTt)

186 159 So do we want to do Miss Sloane headlines or movie subheads?

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:20 PM (kUgrv)


Certainly.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (mAinT)

187 Miss Sloane Misses Target

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (kUgrv)

188 Jessica Chastain: the Tonya Harding of acting.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (Nwg0u)

189 Messing is a fag hag.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (89T5c)

190 I dunno. There are just too many questions about this election. We might as well swear Obama in for a third term and sort all of this out later. I mean there are allegations and everything. We must take each and every one seriously so as to not disenfranchise a single voter. Ok, Obama is not possible? Well, since all of the allegations center around trumps wrongdoings, we should swear in Hillary until every single allegation is thoroughly investigated. If he has done nothing wrong, then he should be exonerated on all of them and he can be sworn in as soon as Hillary certifies the result.

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (5p94Q)

191 Miss Sloan: Loaded for Bare

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (1G5R8)

192 "She's had a lot of dick.

https://youtu.be/If9fC9aJd-U

Posted by: Buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:07 PM (z/Ubi) "

Damnit, of course I'm away the one time a Bloodhound Gang link is apropos.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (kumBu)

193 "Miss Sloan: Both Barrels"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:24 PM (MYX5P)

194 Mayor: I don't want any trouble, like you had in Wisconsin last month. That's my policy.
Miss Sloane: Yeah, well, when I spot a perp eyeballing an innocent hipster with intent to gloat, I lobby the bastard.
Mayor: Intent to gloat? How did you establish that?
Miss Sloane: When I see a man with a MAGA hat and a schadenboner, I figure he's not collecting for the Red Cross.
Mayor: Good point

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (iMxBJ)

195 "Miss Sloan's Double Penetration"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (MYX5P)

196 Me and Misses, Misses Sloan



We got thang, goin' on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (/tuJf)
==========================

O great - now I'll be hearing that all night

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (dFi94)

197 Miss Sloane got a 69% from critics on RottenTomatoes, which is an OK score. But only a 6.1 from real people on imdb, which isn't good for a Serious Movie.

So typical critic bias.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (SIY7D)

198 She has to make up to the retarded set for killing Bin Laden.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (8J/Te)

199
Miss Sloane scores a Maggie's drawers

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (lKyWE)

200 "Miss Sloan Got Her Gun"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (MYX5P)

201 Hey, I like Shaun the Sheep! I haven't seen the movie but the show is funny and our grandson loves it.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (nvMvs)

202 "Gun control thriller"

That was the Sniper movies right?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108171/

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (bqN/x)

203 Jill Stein took enough votes away from Hillary to prevent Hillary from winning.

My guess Hillary threatened Jill with an all out attack from her flying monkeys in the media unless she served as Hillary's proxy in a last desperate attempt to weasel into the White House.

Alas for Hillary, she will never be President of the USA.

Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (XoldI)

204 This was a great flick.

Posted by: Ralph the Marmot at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (Tyii7)

205 Deep Inside Miss Sloane

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (DW+jj)

206 "Miss Sloan: Negligible Impact"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (MYX5P)

207 "Miss Sloane: Can't Shoot For Shit"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (mAinT)

208 What is a gun control thriller? A story of government agents rolling through town confiscating guns all the while being threatened by evil bitter clingers?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (5p94Q)

209 wow... not newton
--------------

Posted by: wolf blitzer at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (kUgrv)

210 "Miss Sloan Does Dallas"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (MYX5P)

211 Cannibal--

I didn't see "Leaving Las Vegas" precisely because I don't like movies that wallow in degradation and despair. (Has to be both at once: A movie that wallows in degradation can be fun, while one that wallows in despair can be poetic, but one that does both is just creepy.)

The thing about "Ed Wood" is that it works because it's such a goofy fairytale about Wood. It's so upbeat about a man who, at the top of his game, was already spiraling out of control. It's just endearing. (Plus the stories are basically true, just spun the way Ed Wood spun his movie ventures.)

(N.B. I'm a genuine, bonafide Ed Wood =fan=.)

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (7zeA4)

212 "Miss Sloan Does Alexis Texas"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (MYX5P)

213 the last movie i saw in a theater was american sniper. there was a 15 year hiatus from theaters before that one. i expect i will be dead before i return. fuck hollywood and all their bullshit. the all ghey, politally correct, ophuckstick worship in everything does not need my support. no more.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (KP5rU)

214 Will Miss Sloane beat Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter?

Hey, I thought ALVH was a decent movie.

-
Needed more smug.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (Nwg0u)

215 Has this Jessica Chastain been in any movies that were good?
Can't place her.

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (d6TTt)

216 Alas for Hillary, she will never be President of the USA.


Posted by: davidt at December 12, 2016 07:26 PM (XoldI)
==============================

I feel bad about that.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (dFi94)

217
I Think His Name Was Tonto - a limerick


This movie just couldn't be stranger
The writer is a well known game changer
The story line got flipped
When he rewrote the script
Now he's known as the Sloan rearranger

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (wPiJc)

218 "Miss Sloan: No Trigger Warning Necessary"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (mAinT)

219 196 Me and Misses, Misses Sloan



We got thang, goin' on.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:21 PM (/tuJf)
==========================

O great - now I'll be hearing that all night
Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (dFi94)

Ugh. Many years ago in a land far away I worked with JD's in a live in situation in NY. Song was played endlessly. Aaahhhhh!!!!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (AGr9E)

220 Dear Hollywood, Agitprop is not entertainment.

Posted by: Eisenhorn at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (J9FkY)

221 "Miss Sloan: Picasso Trigger Control"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (MYX5P)

222 trigger finger

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (cPsPa)

223 A gun control thriller wherein a leftist threatens to pepper spray an open carrier, steal his gun, and aim it at him until the police arrive?

Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (5p94Q)

224 "Miss Sloan Meets the Bangbus"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (MYX5P)

225 "Miss Sloane-Firing blanks"

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (vmm2Z)

226 fingerbang

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (cPsPa)

227
Miss Sloan: Muzzle Loaders Ram Rod

Posted by: fixerupper at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (JmjOe)

228 >>O great - now I'll be hearing that all night

Soul Train baby!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2v98PGBZH4

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (/tuJf)

229 "I don't get Jessica Chastain..."

Well you're one up on me. I've never heard of her. Maybe I've seen her but I wouldn't know it. She's been just that spectacular so far.

And now I can go out of my way to not see even more of her. So, thanks, Hollywood! You continue to make my life choices that much simpler.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (1CroS)

230 Miss Sloan: Sitting Duck

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (8ZskC)

231 The thing about "Ed Wood" is that it works because it's such a goofy fairytale about Wood. It's so upbeat about a man who, at the top of his game, was already spiraling out of control. It's just endearing. (Plus the stories are basically true, just spun the way Ed Wood spun his movie ventures.)

(N.B. I'm a genuine, bonafide Ed Wood =fan=.)
Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (7zeA4)


But how much time in the movie was devoted to cashmere sweaters? That's important.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (mAinT)

232 "Miss Sloan Blows It"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (MYX5P)

233 Miss Sloan Meets the Bangbus"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (MYX5P)




such specific wording betrays specific intimate knowledge of subject matter.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (cPsPa)

234 We meet every day, at the same cafe.

Posted by: Ralph the Marmot at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (Tyii7)

235 at least alexis texas is a competent actress compared to most hollywood airheads. as are most pornstars. are you listening ben affleck?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (KP5rU)

236 A gun control thriller wherein a leftist threatens to pepper spray an open carrier, steal his gun, and aim it at him until the police arrive?
Posted by: Cat Ass Trophy at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (5p94Q)

You're joking, right?

Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (d6TTt)

237 Miss Sloan: Hammerbite"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (MYX5P)

238 "Miss Sloan Got Her Gun Taken Away"

FIFY

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (jw2Xw)

239 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies was a fun movie.

Posted by: @votermom @vm at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (Om16U)

240 139 "Miss Sloan: Death Wish 5"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (MYX5P)

They killed The Giggler! But not with a gun, because that's bad!

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (7qAYi)

241 Miss Sloan Meets Captain Stabbin'

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (UD0Gq)

242 Most conservative show on television (though not perhaps intentionally) --The walking dead. What was the overt and centralized symbol of Rick and company throwing off the yolk of slavery and fighting for freedom? Daryl handing Rick his Colt Python after it was taken by the saviors at the star of the season. The idea that it is better to die on your feet than survive on your knees.

Posted by: Keith at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (USf3s)

243 Just testing ...

Posted by: Dude With No Name at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (fiGNd)

244 east alexis texas is a competent actress compared to most hollywood airheads. as are most pornstars. are you listening ben affleck?
Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (KP5rU)




wasn't she one of sheens girls?

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (cPsPa)

245 Miss Sloan Meets the Bangbus"
Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:28 PM (MYX5P)




such specific wording betrays specific intimate knowledge of subject matter.
Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (cPsPa)

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:30 PM (MYX5P)

246
211 Cannibal--

I didn't see "Leaving Las Vegas" precisely because I don't like movies that wallow in degradation and despair. (Has to be both at once: A movie that wallows in degradation can be fun, while one that wallows in despair can be poetic, but one that does both is just creepy.)

The thing about "Ed Wood" is that it works because it's such a goofy fairytale about Wood. It's so upbeat about a man who, at the top of his game, was already spiraling out of control. It's just endearing. (Plus the stories are basically true, just spun the way Ed Wood spun his movie ventures.)

(N.B. I'm a genuine, bonafide Ed Wood =fan=.)

Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (7zeA4)

You are so right about Leaving Las Vegas. Ugh. Just left me in the dumps. No hope. think Ed Wood is still available? I'll check. thank you for the synopsis. Sounds good.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (AGr9E)

247 To put this in perspective, Jill Stein raised about five times more cash for a "recount" than that anti2A masturbatory aid has made so far.

Such smart, smart people they are.

Posted by: Azathoth at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (XN0hD)

248 Soul Train baby!



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2v98PGBZH4

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (/tuJf)
===========================

The sad thing is, I probably watched that at the time.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (dFi94)

249 So I guess we're never going to get Miss Sloane: Tokyo Drift, eh?

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (kumBu)

250 "A Gun Control THRILLER??? Not computing."

I assumed this was a rehash of "Runaway Jury," with Gene Hackman, who is always great, and John Cusack, who is less great. It was, IIRC, all about Cusack's character, who got onto a jury in a lawsuit against a gun manufacturer, with the express intent of tilting the scales in favor of the plaintiff and against the gun manufacturer.

Cusack is, get this, the good guy.

Posted by: Qoheleth at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (iIzG7)

251 "Miss Sloan: War Doggiestyle"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (MYX5P)

252 Everything's bigger in Alexis.

Posted by: Ralph the Marmot at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (Tyii7)

253
Sloan Ride.
Take it easy.
Sloan ride.

I'm in the mood
The rhythm is right
Move to the music
We can Sloan all night....

Posted by: fixerupper at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (JmjOe)

254 'Miss Sloane: Grabbed By The Pussy', would have worked for her.

Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (jW0/I)

255 I totally forgot there was a "Lawnmower Man" sequel. But I do remember the video game, lol.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (7qAYi)

256 The coroner of Munchkinland just declared Hillary not only merely dead. She's really most sincerely dead!

Posted by: mpfs, DeplorableFishstick at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (P5/31)

257 Jessica's big role is in Zero Dark Thirty as the CIA guy who won't take no for an answer until bin Laden gets killed. Like the Claire Danes Carrie Mathison character in Homeland without the bipolar crazy. Supposedly both were inspired by a real woman CIA guy.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (SIY7D)

258
Feh. I don't even bother watching Dancing With The Stars anymore.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)

====

O. M. G.

I didn't even...I mean...

DAMN YOU , IVAN.

IS NOTHING SACRED ??

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (zu88C)

259 "Miss Sloan Target Drift"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (MYX5P)

260 Hollywood, like all the centers of the Left, is incapable of learning from its mistakes. When a political film bombs, Hollywood doesn't say "Maybe we should try something different," it says, "We should try TWICE as HARD!"

May they continue to bomb.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (MZcWR)

261 "Miss Sloan: Like Squeezing a Tit"

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (MYX5P)

262 Miss Sloan and the Stabbin Cabin.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (89T5c)

263 Drilling Miss Sloane

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (DW+jj)

264 "You are so right about Leaving Las Vegas. Ugh. Just left me in the dumps. No hope. think Ed Wood is still available? I'll check. thank you for the synopsis. Sounds good.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (AGr9E) "

There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (kumBu)

265 >> Everything's bigger in Alexis.



Dat Ass!

Posted by: Al pacino at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (UD0Gq)

266 >>The sad thing is, I probably watched that at the time.

Me too. And all these years later, here we are.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (/tuJf)

267 You know who had great gun control? Rambo!

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (BO/km)

268 I'm beginning to think that gun possession and positive gun rights crosses political lines. Just a hunch.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (1CroS)

269 "Miss Sloan: Head down, ass up"

Ok now, I'm just projecting my fantasies. I should really be talking about movies, as that's my other wheelhouse.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (MYX5P)

270 Miss Sloan: We Were Suckers

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (8ZskC)

271 244: probably. it would be easier to name porn babes that didn't do the sheen. and guys that sheen didn't do. winning!

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (KP5rU)

272 "Miss Sloane: Wet Powder"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (mAinT)

273 Has Hillary seen it?

Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (jW0/I)

274 Miss Sloane and the Case of the $15 John

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (UD0Gq)

275 "Miss Sloan: Two Fisted"

Last one, I swear.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (MYX5P)

276 Hicks Nix Fire-sticks Flick

Posted by: Variety, today online at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (kUgrv)

277 "Miss Sloan: A Flash In The Pan"

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (mAinT)

278 Miss Sloane Again....Naturally.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (QlyN5)

279 Can someone give me a short summary of what it's about? Are there any volcanoes?

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (BO/km)

280 257 Jessica's big role is in Zero Dark Thirty as the CIA guy who won't take no for an answer until bin Laden gets killed.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (SIY7D)


I don't understand. You mean she played Obama? He's the one who made the Gutsy Call.

Posted by: A New York Times Reader at December 12, 2016 07:34 PM (iMxBJ)

281 "(N.B. I'm a genuine, bonafide Ed Wood =fan=.)
Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM (7zeA4) "

Cut, print, perfect!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (kumBu)

282 I don't even bother watching Dancing With The Stars anymore.



Posted by: Cicero (@cicero)
===========================


I don't watch Dancing With the Stars either, but if anyone sees that they have a Cubs player on, please tell me. Thanks.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (dFi94)

283 264 "You are so right about Leaving Las Vegas. Ugh. Just left me in the dumps. No hope. think Ed Wood is still available? I'll check. thank you for the synopsis. Sounds good.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (AGr9E) "

There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (kumBu)

I just hate weeping in public, and Heidi hates when I do that too.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (AGr9E)

284 "Miss Sloan: The Hunt For Red October"

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (zu88C)

285 >> Dat Ass!

She's no Anikka Albrite.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (DW+jj)

286
Hollywood, like all the centers of the Left, is incapable of learning from its mistakes. When a political film bombs, Hollywood doesn't say "Maybe we should try something different," it says, "We should try TWICE as HARD!" May they continue to bomb.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (MZcWR)


It's called Hollywood accounting.The right people make money on a bomb.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (lKyWE)

287 There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

Cool Hand Luke.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (fiGNd)

288 Free condom with ticket purchase might have helped.

Posted by: torabora at December 12, 2016 07:36 PM (jW0/I)

289 260 Hollywood, like all the centers of the Left, is incapable of learning from its mistakes. When a political film bombs, Hollywood doesn't say "Maybe we should try something different," it says, "We should try TWICE as HARD!"

May they continue to bomb.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at December 12, 2016 07:32 PM (MZcWR)

=================

Ever heard of In the Valley of Elah?

Didn't think so.

Neither the first nor the last of the anti Iraq films, but probably one of the better known. It made no money and Hollywood gave it some Oscar nods as a consolation prize. And yet....despite losing millions...they just kept making anti Iraq films.

Weird that...

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:36 PM (Jj43a)

290 Who is Jessica Chastain?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:36 PM (PY9jH)

291 gianna michaels, now dats an ass.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:36 PM (KP5rU)

292
RIP
(Any Girl Name) Lynn

"She had a lot of dick."
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (UD0Gq)

----

Me Too!

Posted by: Paul Lynde at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (EZDs2)

293 287 There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

Cool Hand Luke.
Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (fiGNd)

==============

Raging Bull.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (Jj43a)

294 Miss Sloan: Ghandi With the Wind

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (Nwg0u)

295 We both know that it's wrong. But it's much too strong. To let it go, now.

Posted by: Ralph the Marmot at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (Tyii7)

296 Last two films I've seen were 300 and Master and Commander. Can't recall from before those.

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (kUgrv)

297 >>gianna michaels, now dats an ass.


Ace would refer you to a 13 year old Keifer Sutherland.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (UD0Gq)

298 As I said above, Manchester by the Sea is really good but it's a downer.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (SIY7D)

299 "I totally forgot there was a "Lawnmower Man" sequel. But I do remember the video game, lol.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (7qAYi) "

I'm a huge fan of shitty, shlocky sci-fi and/or horror, and even I haven't seen Lawnmower Man 2. And I saw both Candyman sequels!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (kumBu)

300 but still $200 per show ain't half bad! That's about 80 people per showing. YUUUGE!
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (2z74n)

I don't know where you live, but around these parts 200 bucks would be about 15-20 peeps per show.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (D2vc1)

301 Only reason I'm going to see it is because I heard that Brian Dennehy gives the performance of his career in it.

Posted by: Steve Skubinna at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (M6Zoy)

302 The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)

303 nothing and nobody does more to promote and glamorize the reckless, illegal, lethal use of firearms than hollywood. not the nra, republicans, conservatives or the "gun lobby".

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (WTSFk)

304 "I'm going to see the revival of Rochelle, Rochelle this weekend. The story of a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk is more my style of holiday fare."
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Minsk?

/lascivious

Posted by: Kensington at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (Cw3TC)

305 Actually a movie involving government gungrabbing could be pretty good, if done right.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (0mRoj)

306 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (zcX++)

307 ... nobody contributes to a "gun culture" than hollywood.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (WTSFk)

308 >>There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, with a young Hillary Clinton in the role of Nurse Ratchet.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (/tuJf)

309 304 "I'm going to see the revival of Rochelle, Rochelle this weekend. The story of a young girl's strange, erotic journey from Milan to Minsk is more my style of holiday fare."
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Minsk?

/lascivious
Posted by: Kensington at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (Cw3TC)

I knew a guy who lost a bundle on a Minsk ranch. Just not enough demand for furs.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (0mRoj)

310 Miss Sloane: Cum And Take It

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (kUgrv)

311 not much hope left at the end of The Third Man

-
Finds out his good buddy is a lying, thieving murderer, the chick dumps him, and he has to walk back to town.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (Nwg0u)

312 302 The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest?

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (AGr9E)

313 ... nobody promotes illegal and irresponsible gun use than hollywood.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (WTSFk)

314 286 It's called Hollywood accounting.The right people make money on a bomb.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:35 PM (lKyWE)

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It helps when you're a studio that does something like Harry Potter that bankrolls pretty much the whole operation. Then you get the opportunity to spend $10 million on some project that will make no money but make everyone involved feel good about themselves and convinced that they did something important.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (Jj43a)

315 Raging Bull.

Outlaw Josie Wales ... kind of.

He has to go to the Western Frontier to find somewhere he can live.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (fiGNd)

316 Miss Sloane: Live, from the Snake Pit.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (Cf0i2)

317
The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)


I felt really bad for the forger.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (lKyWE)

318 I'm surprised the lefty gun-grabbers didn't go out in force to see Miss Sloane.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (PY9jH)

319 299 "I totally forgot there was a "Lawnmower Man" sequel. But I do remember the video game, lol.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (7qAYi) "

I'm a huge fan of shitty, shlocky sci-fi and/or horror, and even I haven't seen Lawnmower Man 2. And I saw both Candyman sequels!
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (kumBu)

I think someone needs to let the boys at RiffTrax know about this. I've discovered so many bad movies there.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (7qAYi)

320 308 >>There's room in this world for movies that leave you feeling despair, you just need to be in the right mood - not much hope left at the end of The Third Man or Ran, but both are masterpieces.

Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (0mRoj)

321 "Ever heard of In the Valley of Elah?


Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:36 PM (Jj43a) "

In The Valley of Elah makes Green Zone look like Lions for Lambs!

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (kumBu)

322 301 Only reason I'm going to see it is because I heard that Brian Dennehy gives the performance of his career in it.
Posted by: Steve Skubinna at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (M6Zoy)



As an AR-15 right?

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (z/Ubi)

323 Actually a movie involving government gungrabbing could be pretty good, if done right.///

Red Dawn?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (bqN/x)

324 323 Actually a movie involving government gungrabbing could be pretty good, if done right.///

Red Dawn?
Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (bqN/x)

It would probably be in that vein.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (0mRoj)

325 >>> the gun control thriller

It certainly sounds exciting.

Watch as a true to life drama unfolds. Will the heroic SJWs succeed in their attempt to stymie the dastardly NRA and successfully pass gun control legislation? Will the dreaded filibuster make an appearance? You will be on the edge of your seat until the very shocking end!

From the makers of next summer's blockbuster, Cops Are Horrible. Don't miss it!

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (R+30W)

326
Miss Sloane II : Russians. RUSSIANS!

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (zu88C)

327 266 >>The sad thing is, I probably watched that at the time.

Me too. And all these years later, here we are.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:33 PM (/tuJf)


Same here. At the risk of sounding like an old fogey, popular music has gone downhill a bit since then.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (sdi6R)

328 Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (0mRoj)


Isn't that the one with the happy "Box" scene?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (PY9jH)

329
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2v98PGBZH4

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:29 PM (/tuJf)

+++

What's it called when you like it and get depressed about it at the same time? Don't say schizoid.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (CFc5L)

330 >>Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

What's in the booooox?!?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (/tuJf)

331 313 ... nobody promotes illegal and irresponsible gun use than hollywood.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (WTSFk)


True, but I remember some cop speculating about how many lives had been saved by movies and music videos convincing gang members to hold their guns sideways because it looks cooler.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (iMxBJ)

332 318 I'm surprised the lefty gun-grabbers didn't go out in force to see Miss Sloane.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (PY9jH)

============

Probably the same reason that the objectivists didn't go and see Atlas Shrugged.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (Jj43a)

333 Miss Sloane: Cum And Take It

aka 'Molon Labia'

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (QlyN5)

334 Who is Jessica Chastain?
Posted by: Jane D'oh


Tom Hardy's wife in a moonshine movie.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (+wjl1)

335 Miss Sloan: I Spit on Your Second Amendment.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (7qAYi)

336 What's in the booooox?!?

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (/tuJf)

Her greatest scene...

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (42Mgr)

337 WOW! Hard to make it under the Gigli Line. They were trying really hard to make a good movie right? It's not like I go see movies in theaters anymore.

If it makes onto Netflix or Amazon I might consider watching it after I'm done watching everything else. Then, I'll watch Gigli and then this steamer. If I remember.

Posted by: Skunky Choom at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (CbGSW)

338 BeckoningChasm: "When a political film bombs, Hollywood doesn't say 'Maybe we should try something different,' it says, 'We should try TWICE as HARD!'"

We need to talk.

Posted by: Bialystock and Bloom at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (1CroS)

339 I sure hope Dave isn't still looking for that.
I'll be getting stampeded by a herd of buffalo in my dreams tonight as it is.
Gonna get dinner.

Posted by: teej at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (gJ3Vg)

340 14 Wasn't she nominated for a golden globe for that movie?
Posted by: CaliGirl at December 12, 2016 06:55 PM (Q5Ymk)
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Indeed. Movie critics are the original checked-out elite, obsessing over total shit to try to appear smarter than the rest of us. Both specimen and analyst, so stereotypically overwrought. I'm glad the general population is done with it. You know that abysmal showing was at least half leftists trying to vote with their wallets. If electric partisan effect wasn't a feature of this film, it probably never would have been made, I would bet the producers were banking on it.

Tomorrow's #hottake: Why an electoral college is important to Golden Globe integrity.

Posted by: MakeJarrettHotTheFirstTime at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (hDDgx)

341 328 Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (0mRoj)

Isn't that the one with the happy "Box" scene?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (PY9jH)

That was the only happy part

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:42 PM (0mRoj)

342 We need a remake of Red Dawn. The young "heroes" are all anti-gun SJW's who constantly need Safe Spaces and teddy bears.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (PY9jH)

343 >> aka 'Molon Labia'

Thread winner right there.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (DW+jj)

344 328 Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (0mRoj)

Isn't that the one with the happy "Box" scene?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (PY9jH)



Its Paltrow right?

So yeah that's happy.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (z/Ubi)

345 Miss Sloane II: The Russians Are Cumming! The Russians Are Cumming!

Posted by: mpfs, DeplorableFishstick at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (P5/31)

346 290 Who is Jessica Chastain?

Overpaid ginger w/big cans and pumped up lips. Or, AN ACTOR!!!!!

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (ty7RM)

347
Gran Torrino. Loved that movie.

Posted by: fixerupper at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (JmjOe)

348 Miss Sloane: Flash in the Pants

Posted by: Paul Lynde at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (EZDs2)

349 Brian Dennehy's performance isn't going anywhere, it will be on DVD, HBO then FX before to long.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (5sOEp)

350 I'm surprised the lefty gun-grabbers didn't go out in force to see Miss Sloane.

They're still in a post-election fetal position in their safe places.

Posted by: Ralph the Marmot at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (Tyii7)

351 when does the movie with lena dunham dropping an obama come out?

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (KP5rU)

352 were she serious about gun control she could fuck for guns. hand in a gun get laid.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (cPsPa)

353 She's going to have to put some Sloane's Liniment on that butthurt.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (MiBfH)

354 Chastain was also in The Tree of Life.

Damn I love me some Terrance Malick. I really mean that too.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (Jj43a)

355 305 Actually a movie involving government gungrabbing could be pretty good, if done right.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (0mRoj)


Screenplay by Matt Bracken.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (sdi6R)

356 Greetings:

"Miss Sloane: Pants Suit Ready"

Posted by: 11B40 at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (evgyj)

357 330 >>Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

HEAT.

Go watch it. One of the best movies I've ever seen. And then think about that cast.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (fiGNd)

358 Jessica Chastain was really good in Zero Dark Thirty and performed well in Interstellar and The Martian. She's a talented actress.

I wouldn't call her attractive, but that's more personal taste than anything else.

This movie sounds dreadful and I'm sure we won't be seeing it.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (nvMvs)

359 Worse than "Gigli"?

Now that's bad.

Posted by: The Cinimatic Hat at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (OzJeO)

360
Miss Sloane III: Unarmed and Mugged

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (zu88C)

361 I didn't see "Leaving Las Vegas" precisely because I don't like movies that wallow in degradation and despair. (Has to be both at once: A movie that wallows in degradation can be fun, while one that wallows in despair can be poetic, but one that does both is just creepy.)

The thing about "Ed Wood" is that it works because it's such a goofy fairytale about Wood. It's so upbeat about a man who, at the top of his game, was already spiraling out of control. It's just endearing. (Plus the stories are basically true, just spun the way Ed Wood spun his movie ventures.)

(N.B. I'm a genuine, bonafide Ed Wood =fan=.)


Posted by: moviegique at December 12, 2016 07:27 PM


Ed Wood is a genuine movie masterpiece. It's a great story about reaching for the stars.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (lmIoG)

362 330 >>Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

What's in the booooox?!?
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:41 PM (/tuJf)

In college my friends & I had a guys night out - we saw "Showgirls", went bowling, and played beer pong till 3. A subset of friends didn't want to "objectify women" so they saw "Se7en" instead. Guess who had the fun night & who didn't speak for days afterwards?

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (7qAYi)

363 were she serious about gun control she could fuck for guns. hand in a gun get laid.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (cPsPa)

I have a piece-of-shit .22 revolver. And she's cute.

It's worth it.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (42Mgr)

364 "Finds out his good buddy is a lying, thieving murderer, the chick dumps him, and he has to walk back to town.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (Nwg0u) "

At least he got a new book out of it!

"Death's at the bottom of everything, Martins. Leave death to the professionals."

"Mind if I use that line in my next Western?"

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:45 PM (kumBu)

365 aka 'Molon Labia'
Some Like It Greek

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:45 PM (kUgrv)

366 342 We need a remake of Red Dawn. The young "heroes" are all anti-gun SJW's who constantly need Safe Spaces and teddy bears.


Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:43 PM (PY9jH)

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They did. It was awful. And not because they changed the Chinese to North Koreans. It was genuinely just awful.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:45 PM (Jj43a)

367 Isn't that the one with the happy "Box" scene?

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It's nice when a guy and his girlfriend get back together.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:46 PM (Nwg0u)

368 >> aka 'Molon Labia'

That begs the question: Has Jessica Chastain had labiaplasty?

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:46 PM (DW+jj)

369 >>> Tom Hardy's wife in a moonshine movie.

Lawless

I liked it a lot, despite Shia LeBeuf

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2016 07:46 PM (jw2Xw)

370
I saw a movie where guns were confiscated and only the police had guns.


It was "Schindlers List"

Posted by: fixerupper at December 12, 2016 07:46 PM (JmjOe)

371 No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Just me I guess.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:47 PM (fiGNd)

372 "Miss Sloane: Shot at andMissed, Shit at and Hit!"

Posted by: Rotten Azzed Tomatoes at December 12, 2016 07:47 PM (cTuj5)

373 Miss Sloane: Shooting From the Hip

Posted by: andycanuck at December 12, 2016 07:47 PM (kUgrv)

374 how hard could it be, she did not even get 130,000

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:47 PM (cPsPa)

375 It's time for Paltrow to do another hapless victim movie.

Her best work.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (PY9jH)

376 357 330 >>Se7en's always a nice uplifting treat.

HEAT.

Go watch it. One of the best movies I've ever seen. And then think about that cast.
Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (fiGNd)

Burt Reynolds Heat or Al Pacino Heat?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (0mRoj)

377 My favorite anti-gun propaganda movie is Liberty Stands Still. Has a good over the top, Blade-era, pre-jail for tax evasion Wesley Snipes performance.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (kumBu)

378 371 No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Just me I guess.
Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:47 PM (fiGNd)

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You and AMPAS.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (Jj43a)

379 Miss Sloane got a 69% from critics on RottenTomatoes, which is an OK score. But only a 6.1 from real people on imdb, which isn't good for a Serious Movie.

So typical critic bias.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:25 PM (SIY7D)


Additionally, there's a *massive* built-in bias for viewer reviews on such obvious agitprop.

I mean, I'm not going to review it,as I'm not going to see it.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (wB8Tg)

380 >>No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Great movie. Better book.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (/tuJf)

381 Dare I hope ......

that the American people are starting to regain their common sense and resist lefty propaganda?

Posted by: Emmie at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (xVuS6)

382 Wait, this isn't about Ferris' girlfriend?

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (EZDs2)

383 Behind The Sloane Door.

That's all I got.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (D2vc1)

384 >>
Miss Sloane: Shooting From the Hip

Squirting from the hip.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (DW+jj)

385 I have a piece-of-shit .22 revolver. And she's cute.

It's worth it.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo




yep

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (cPsPa)

386 O/T Watching Tucker "Cuts Like A F*cking Hammer" Carlson tonight, I agree with a moron earlier that he'd make a damned good press sec.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (PY9jH)

387 If you have Amazon Prime they have some RiffTraxx movies MST3K more or less and we watched Kingdom of the Spiders with Shatner, The movie is terrible about the Dangers of DDT.

They do have MegaForce, I loved that movie as a kid, a pure 80's movie.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (dKiJG)

388 "Damn I love me some Terrance Malick."

I think he's great when he's not self-indulgent.

Love "Days of Heaven."

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (SIY7D)

389 380 >>No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Great movie. Better book.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (/tuJf)

Yep.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (CFc5L)

390 Saw Hacksaw Ridge last weekend, was pretty good, if there was a anti gun movie contest it could be a winner.Only one guy didn't have a weapon though.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (5sOEp)

391 were she serious about gun control she could fuck for guns. hand in a gun get laid.

I love when they show the gun buyback inventory: rusty ass .32's, crack open shotguns, all crappy. I would take my $300 and put it towards the shootiest AR I could find.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (ty7RM)

392 "She had a lot of dick."
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 07:09 PM (UD0Gq)
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Me Too!
Posted by: Paul Lynde at December 12, 2016 07:37 PM (EZDs2)


IT'S FUNNY BECAUSE PAUL LYNDE USED TO EAT A LOT OF DICKS

Posted by: Ben Roethlisberger at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (mAinT)

393 Seeing as how one of my great pleasures is shooting, going to the gun range, and hanging around with gun aficianados, I doubt that I will be able to give a first hand review of this movie.
Posted by: tubal at December 12, 2016 07:18 PM (d6TTt)

Yup...she sounds like some kinda stupid, idiotic jerk.

"Dogs of War" is on....young Mr. Walken.

Kimba must die.....

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (5VlCp)

394 "Guess who had the fun night who didn't speak for days afterwards?

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (7qAYi) "

You both saw horror movies, though.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (kumBu)

395 The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)

Despite knowing the entire film by heart, I still think McQueen is going to jump that fence.

One of the all time greats.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (mbhDw)

396 Miss Sloane: Titty, Titty, Bang, Bang.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (Cf0i2)

397 387 If you have Amazon Prime they have some RiffTraxx movies MST3K more or less and we watched Kingdom of the Spiders with Shatner, The movie is terrible about the Dangers of DDT.

They do have MegaForce, I loved that movie as a kid, a pure 80's movie.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (dKiJG)

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If you have Amazon Prime watch The Neon Demon.

Weirdest mindfuck you'll watch in a while. I kinda loved it.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (Jj43a)

398 A bomb called Sloane. - that might be obscure

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (EZDs2)

399 389 380 >>No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Great movie. Better book.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (/tuJf)

Yep.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (CFc5L)

The Road was NOT a good movie. I haven't read the book though.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (0mRoj)

400 I'm surprised the actors playing the gun lobbyists weren't given fangs and horns.

So was this movie supposed to herald the new cultural offensive against guns in the wake of a Hillary victory?

Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (6EH85)

401 Saw Hacksaw Ridge last weekend, was pretty good, if there was a anti gun movie contest it could be a winner.Only one guy didn't have a weapon though.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (5sOEp)


I don't think I need to see Hacksaw Ridge. The trailer shows you pretty much the entire movie, doesn't it?

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at December 12, 2016 07:51 PM (mAinT)

402 Stop, Or Miss Sloane Won't Shoot!

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (QlyN5)

403 Chastain was terrible in the Martian. Even though she was the commander, she came across as a complete beta female in a Mary Sue role.

Posted by: avi at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (RvXb3)

404 395 The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)

Despite knowing the entire film by heart, I still think McQueen is going to jump that fence.

One of the all time greats.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (mbhDw)

++++
True.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (CFc5L)

405 I never saw "Unbroken." The book was one of the hardest things I've ever read.

After my husband read it, I suggested he give it to his mother ("the Japanese have always been more civilized and polite than we have been").

When our son was leaving for his sea base on Okinawa, she actually said the above to him.

Bless her clueless old heart.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (PY9jH)

406 It's time for Paltrow to do another hapless victim movie.

That simpering waif needs to stick to vag-steaming classes, and stay the hell off the screen.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (ty7RM)

407 "The Road was NOT a good movie. I haven't read the book though."

It's a great book. You can read it as a Christian allegory, especially because of the last page.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (SIY7D)

408 EXPOSED Anti-Trump Faithless Elector TheChrisSuprun Paid For Ashley Madison While Bankrupt & Married w/ 3 Kids

from a lower thread

Posted by: Evilpens at December 12, 2016 06:56 PM (y3aQB)

Faithless in uno, faithless in omnibus.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (MiBfH)

409 Haven't seen it, but let me take a stab at it.

Bad thing happens with guns.
Brace brave brave woman finds out that big evil corp knows about it and doesn't care.
Brave brave brave woman finds out that politicians are in the pocket of bid evil.
Brave brave brave woman speaks truth to power.
Big evil tries to have brave brave brave woman killed.
Something something
Brave brave brave woman emerges victorious.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (kTF2Z)

410 Great movie. Better book.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:48 PM (/tuJf)

I read one of his books: "Blood Meridian," and it was a tough slog at times, but damn, it was a fine piece of writing.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (42Mgr)

411 But I liked Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and the Shaun the Sheep Movie. Nick Park rocks.

Philistines.

Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (ZkXe+)

412 388 "Damn I love me some Terrance Malick."

I think he's great when he's not self-indulgent.

Love "Days of Heaven."
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (SIY7D)


Stunning movie. Like watching a Bible story illustrated and animated by Wyeth.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (mbhDw)

413 388 "Damn I love me some Terrance Malick."

I think he's great when he's not self-indulgent.

Love "Days of Heaven."
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (SIY7D)

===============

I've seen everything except Knight of Cups and I honestly think that Days of Heaven is his most self indulgent film. I really like it but it's shockingly formless. The Thin Red Line is in my personal top 10 ever.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (Jj43a)

414 >>The Road was NOT a good movie. I haven't read the book though.

I liked both I like Cormac McCarthy so I'm biased.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (/tuJf)

415 Steve McQueen. Another great actor who died too damned young.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (PY9jH)

416 I have two movies I wish to see that aren't kid flicks, Manchester by the Sea and The Dressmaker. This Christmas break we plan on watching Fantastic Beasts and Rogue One as a family. I don't want to watch Moana. I'll let my husband take that one for the team.

Posted by: no good deed at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (hJamr)

417 They do have MegaForce, I loved that movie as a kid, a pure 80's movie.


Barry Bostwick's spandex-wrapped wang says "You're Welcome."

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (QlyN5)

418 404 395 The Great Escape. Left you sad, but you know the ultimate ending.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:38 PM (PY9jH)

Despite knowing the entire film by heart, I still think McQueen is going to jump that fence.

One of the all time greats.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (mbhDw)

++++
True.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (CFc5L)


Same here. I also always think that Jim Brown is going to make it in "The Dirty Dozen."

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (7qAYi)

419 394 "Guess who had the fun night who didn't speak for days afterwards?

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (7qAYi) "

You both saw horror movies, though.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (kumBu)


Yeah, but one had prodigious amounts of T&A, so, winner.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (0mRoj)

420 Next Jessica Chastain movie. Miss Sloane and three other lobbyists go river rafting in a red state: Deliverance II: Banjo Boogaloo

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (DW+jj)

421 One of the all time greats.


Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:50 PM (mbhDw)

Huh...didn't think you had seen it!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (42Mgr)

422 I never saw "Unbroken." The book was one of the hardest things I've ever read.

DON'T see that movie: Angelina Jolie f'd that story up 10 ways from Sunday. She absolutely ignored the most inspiring and compelling parts of Louie's story.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (ty7RM)

423 405 I never saw "Unbroken." The book was one of the hardest things I've ever read.

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It needed to be a 10 hour mini-series. One episode just men in a pair of rafts. That might not even be enough

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (EZDs2)

424 I don't get Jessica Chastain. Hollywood seems to have decided that a lack of expressiveness in an actress reads "smart" or something.

Please. They've been trying to stuff Jamie Fox into "smart" roles. It's laughable.

As far as Jessica Chastain and smart ... she might have smart tits, but that's about it. Who really cares about intelligence in an actress? You'd have to have intelligent writers and directors to exploit it, if that illusory being even existed. SO ... smart tits are about it. And sugar britches.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (zc3Db)

425 >>I read one of his books: "Blood Meridian," and it was a tough slog at times, but damn, it was a fine piece of writing.

That's actually my least favorite for that very reason. Ponderous at times. But yea, he's an excellent writer.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (/tuJf)

426 One of the all time greats

No Stalag 17?

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (Cf0i2)

427 "I honestly think that Days of Heaven is his most self indulgent film."

I read a Roger Ebert review before I saw it, which gave me the clue to watch it from the innocent kid's viewpoint.

Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (SIY7D)

428 If only Steve McQueen had Barry Bostwick's flying Megaforce motorycle

Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (6EH85)

429 422 I never saw "Unbroken." The book was one of the hardest things I've ever read.

DON'T see that movie: Angelina Jolie f'd that story up 10 ways from Sunday. She absolutely ignored the most inspiring and compelling parts of Louie's story.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (ty7RM)

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The movie's worst crime? It's boring.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (Jj43a)

430 I didn't see the trailer for Hacksaw Ridge, could watch it and report back.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (5sOEp)

431 Worse opening numbers than Gigli?

That's gonna leave a mark. A skidmark. In the money guys' underoos.

Posted by: GnuBreed at December 12, 2016 07:56 PM (oZEJt)

432 I never saw "Unbroken."

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They de-Christianiazed the book.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 07:56 PM (Nwg0u)

433
323 Actually a movie involving government gungrabbing could be pretty good, if done right.///

Red Dawn?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 07:40 PM (bqN/x)







The first and only Hollywood film to explicitly mention ATF Form 4473.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 07:56 PM (LuZz8)

434 405: yeah jane , that bataan death march was just really misunderstood. it was very civilized and the ultimate in politeness.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 07:56 PM (KP5rU)

435 I prefer that movies be revenue neutral. So, for every good revenue producer there has to be a stinker. This is Hollywood's admirable effort to be revenue neutral.

Posted by: Bitch McConnell, Movie Critic at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (CiLUq)

436 >>The Road was NOT a good movie. I haven't read the book though.

I've read almost all of his stuff. I made it 10 pages into "The Road," and was ready to chew a bullet.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (ty7RM)

437 Jessica Chastain was really good in Zero Dark Thirty

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 07:44 PM (nvMvs)


That was one of the most disappointing movies ever. I rated it as "pile of crap". And the CIA was giving the director double secret access for that shit?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (zc3Db)

438 426 One of the all time greats

No Stalag 17?

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HOOOGANNN!!!!

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (EZDs2)

439 Miss Sloane. You can get her cheap at S-Mart!

Posted by: Eromero at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (zLDYs)

440 426 One of the all time greats

No Stalag 17?
Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (Cf0i2)


Well, that one is THE all time great.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (mbhDw)

441 Al Pacino Heat?

Yeah ... the Al Pacino version. I think it's a classic.

As is The Road. At least in my book.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (fiGNd)

442 No Country For Old Men is a keeper.

Meh.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (zc3Db)

443 The Thin Red Line is in my personal top 10 ever.


Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM


TTRL is I think, Malick's best film and I've been a huge fan of Badlands since it came out. TTRL is greatly under rated and an incredible film.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (lmIoG)

444 427 "I honestly think that Days of Heaven is his most self indulgent film."

I read a Roger Ebert review before I saw it, which gave me the clue to watch it from the innocent kid's viewpoint.
Posted by: Ignoramus at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (SIY7D)

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Roger Ebert is the critic who taught me how to watch movies. We agree star for star about 95% of the time, but Days of Heaven is one place where we depart slightly. The movie was filmed without a script and it shows.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (Jj43a)

445 Is this a fictional account where nobody in Chicago dies?

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (TqmC9)

446 "Yeah, but one had prodigious amounts of TA, so, winner.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (0mRoj) "

Yeah, naked Elizabeth Berkeley is always a good thing, though you do get exposed to the terror of Kyle MacLachlan's O-face.

Speaking of even shittier sequels to shitty movies, there's always Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (kumBu)

447 414 >>The Road was NOT a good movie. I haven't read the book though.

I liked both I like Cormac McCarthy so I'm biased.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM (/tuJf)

Fair enough. The biggest problem for me with The Road was I just could not stand the kid. He was a whiny, unrelatable, unsympathetic twerp who grated on my nerves every time he opened his mouth.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (0mRoj)

448 Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 07:52 PM (PY9jH)

Well, the Japanese were eventually rendered polite. So there's that.

Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (6EH85)

449
Speaking of "Days of Heaven," Leo Kottke's music is incredible.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (mbhDw)

450 428 If only Steve McQueen had Barry Bostwick's flying Megaforce motorycle
Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (6EH85)

One of the best RiffTrax.
http://www.rifftrax.com/megaforce

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (7qAYi)

451 I'm watching Alpa Cino right now.

Booty Sweat.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (/tuJf)

452 443
TTRL is I think, Malick's best film and I've been a huge fan of Badlands since it came out. TTRL is greatly under rated and an incredible film.
Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (lmIoG)

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You and me both brother.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (Jj43a)

453 405: yeah jane , that bataan death march was just really misunderstood. it was very civilized and the ultimate in politeness.

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I got to drive down the route of the march this summer, heading to the boat ride to Corregidor. Completely worth 20 hours in a plane each way.

Posted by: Buzzsaw90 at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (EZDs2)

454 To be honest, the Hollywood Illiterati thought that Hillary would win and guessed completely wrong on the mood of the country. this movie was the kick off of Hilary's gun grab. She failed, it failed, the left failed.

Posted by: Jukin,The Deplorable & Profoundly Unserious at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (cOHS7)

455 Better to watch a movie with a happy ending, like Full Metal Jacket or A Clockwork Orange.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (kumBu)

456 Fair enough. The biggest problem for me with The Road was I just could not stand the kid. He was a whiny, unrelatable, unsympathetic twerp who grated on my nerves every time he opened his mouth.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (0mRoj)

+++

It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (CFc5L)

457 Miss Sloan: Cap and Ball Breaker

Posted by: weft cut-loop at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (1G5R8)

458 If you want a cute anti-gun movie then Gunless is what you're looking for.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (zc3Db)

459 Chastain sounds porny.
Posted by: garrett


Stained chastity?
Jizzstain?

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (+wjl1)

460 One of the all time greats

No Stalag 17?
Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (Cf0i2)


Well, that one is THE all time great.

-
It was ahead of its time. Guys dance with each other.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (Nwg0u)

461 Please. They've been trying to stuff Jamie Fox into "smart" roles. It's laughable.

As far as Jessica Chastain and smart ... she might have smart tits, but that's about it. Who really cares about intelligence in an actress? You'd have to have intelligent writers and directors to exploit it, if that illusory being even existed. SO ... smart tits are about it. And sugar britches.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 07:54 PM (zc3Db)

++++

I usually don't much care for Fox, but he nailed the role of the sargent in Jarhead. Smart character, but no egghead or anything.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (R+30W)

462 @450 well there goes my evening. MST3k has always been a guilty pleasure.

Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (6EH85)

463 What's it called when you like it and get depressed about it at the same time?


******


A schadendowner

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (wPiJc)

464 460
It was ahead of its time. Guys dance with each other.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (Nwg0u)


"Ach SOOOOOOO!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (mbhDw)

465 The biggest problem for me with The Road was I just could not stand the kid.

I see you've met my children.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (fiGNd)

466 I made it 10 pages into "The Road," and was ready to chew a bullet.

I read the whole thing and decided to never read another of his books. I hated the dad and the kid.

Posted by: no good deed at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (hJamr)

467 "You are so right about Leaving Las Vegas. Ugh. Just left me in the dumps. No hope. think Ed Wood is still available? I'll check. thank you for the synopsis. Sounds good.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 07:31 PM (AGr9E) "

I watched the what? First 20 minutes of 'Leaving Las Vegas'. Couldn't take it. Couldn't go on. It's a hard watch for recovering drunks like me. I kept thinking, 'That could've been me.'

It very nearly was. *shudders*

Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (ZkXe+)

468 As much as a trailer shows the movie it does cover but the long version is still better. Quite the applause after it was over.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (5sOEp)

469 Well, I saw Miss Sloane, and have only one word to describe it:

YEEEEAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGG!

Posted by: Howard Dean at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (nd1zx)

470 >>What's it called when you like it and get depressed about it at the same time?

Marriage.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (/tuJf)

471 dr. strangelove. now, that was a happy ending.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (KP5rU)

472 The Thin Red Line is in my personal top 10 ever.





Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 07:53 PM




Hey! It was the WORLD'S red line, not mine!


*pouts*

Posted by: Sir Golfsalot at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (PY9jH)

473 Speaking of even shittier sequels to shitty movies, there's always Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (kumBu)


Oh no. They didn't. Please tell me they actually didnt.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (0mRoj)

474 Chastain sounds porny.

Jessica Lynn Chastain.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:02 PM (ty7RM)

475 A schadendowner
Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (wPiJc)

+++

Ah ha.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:02 PM (CFc5L)

476 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.

----

Try the carnival!

Posted by: Harry Reid at December 12, 2016 08:02 PM (EZDs2)

477 456 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (CFc5L)

===========

Peter Bogdonovich got a girl of about 12 an Oscar nomination for Paper Moon. He also said he'd never work with kids again because he had to do 50 takes for each shot to get what he wanted from her.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:02 PM (Jj43a)

478 "Cross of Iron" with Jim Coburn was a goody...

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (5VlCp)

479 >>I read the whole thing and decided to never read another of his books. I hated the dad and the kid.

Try All the Pretty Horses.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (/tuJf)

480 I started watching Korean movies, they are gritty and good

Blood Rain
During Korea's Chosun Dynasty, an imperial investigator (Seung-won Cha) probes a series of grisly murders that may be linked to the executions of a suspected Roman Catholic commissioner and his family seven years earlier.

The Man from Nowhere
Really good action movie

About a girl being sold for organs, Which is a recurring theme in Asian movies.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (dKiJG)

481 No Guns for Sister Sarah

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (8ZskC)

482
441 Al Pacino Heat?

Yeah ... the Al Pacino version. I think it's a classic.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 07:57 PM (fiGNd)








Love that flick.

It's a remake of Michael Mann's TV movie LA Takedown. LOTS of the dialog is word-for-word identical. But the acting......oh my sweet Lord *barf*. Awful, just awful.

As much as I despise actors as a whole, I have to admit that there's really a difference between bad actors and good actors, and it's evident when you see them deliver the same lines.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (LuZz8)

483 You know, I took a 12 year old daughter to see Miss Sloane, and she enjoyed it a lot.

Of course, it wasn't my daughter, and I'd pumped her so full of roofies she'd have probably enjoyed Gigli, but, still...

DON'T JUDGE ME, PEASANTS! YOU'RE NOT WORTHY!

Posted by: John Podesta at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (nd1zx)

484 Well, that one is THE all time great.

I'm just glad you made it out J.J. I knew you didn't do it from the start.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (Cf0i2)

485 I usually don't much care for Fox, but he nailed the role of the sargent in Jarhead. Smart character, but no egghead or anything.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (R+30W)


Agreed. He plays some roles very well. But in others he's a total joke.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (zc3Db)

486 OT that sidebar on the Turtle suddenly being concerned with the debt is rich...get it over with a switch parties....what a...words fail me to express my loathing

Posted by: A deplorable rage monkey in MI at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (0LQ4f)

487 466 I made it 10 pages into "The Road," and was ready to chew a bullet.

I read the whole thing and decided to never read another of his books. I hated the dad and the kid.

That was the point. You're supposed to hate them.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (fiGNd)

488 Was very surprised by Vince Vaughn as the Sgt, can't say ever really liked him that much but he did a good job.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (5sOEp)

489 So McConnell is all of a sudden "concerned" about the national debt.

Not to put too fine a point on this, Sen. Chester Turtle, but where, precisely, the fvck have you been the last 8-years as Barry JEF was doubling the debt you're now so desperately concerned about?

Once the Democrats are relegated to the fringe, leftist party they so richly deserve to be relegated to, it's time to start clearing-out the RINOs - starting with this douche.

Posted by: DocJ at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (+7EAV)

490 Try All the Pretty Horses.

I almost read it when I lived in San Angelo.

Posted by: no good deed at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (hJamr)

491 Romancing the Sloane

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (UD0Gq)

492 473 Speaking of even shittier sequels to shitty movies, there's always Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (kumBu)


Oh no. They didn't. Please tell me they actually didnt.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (0mRoj)

Holy crap. He ain't lying.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (7qAYi)

493 Does Wayne Lapierre get a cameo? I'd see it then.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (+wjl1)

494 I read the whole thing and decided to never read another of his books.

The "Border Trilogy" might warrant another look. Last gasp of the true cowboy.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (ty7RM)

495 I'm pretty sure that Jessica isn't utilizing her vagina at MAX potential, hence the weak opening. Chalk it up to a lack of casting couch experience.

Posted by: Fritz at December 12, 2016 08:04 PM (hOptz)

496 479 >>I read the whole thing and decided to never read another of his books. I hated the dad and the kid.

Try All the Pretty Horses.
Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (/tuJf)

===========

It's hard to say that any two of his books are all that similar. Sitter is completely unlike anything else he wrote. The Road is the sparsest of his books in terms of language by far. And yet they all feel like his.

Distinct but different at all times.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:05 PM (Jj43a)

497 Another vote for Fox in Jarhead

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 08:05 PM (5sOEp)

498 "Oh no. They didn't. Please tell me they actually didnt.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:01 PM (0mRoj) "

They did!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1693110/

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (kumBu)

499 480 I started watching Korean movies, they are gritty and good

Blood Rain
During Korea's Chosun Dynasty, an imperial investigator (Seung-won Cha) probes a series of grisly murders that may be linked to the executions of a suspected Roman Catholic commissioner and his family seven years earlier.

The Man from Nowhere
Really good action movie

About a girl being sold for organs, Which is a recurring theme in Asian movies.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (dKiJG)

===========

Oldboy!

Just don't watch it with the kids or the parents.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Jj43a)

500 Chastain sounds porny.
Posted by: garrett
--------------

What's her real name?
I know now what street she grew up on, and what she named her first puppy...

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (xCv1X)

501 Hey! It was the WORLD'S red line, not mine!

-
There was another chemical weapon attack at Aleppo. Wait until Obozo finds out.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Nwg0u)

502 Tom Hanks was good in The Road to Perdition, and the kid who played his son was excellent.

A friend of ours owned the building where the whore house across from the bank is located (in Geneva, IL).

We got to go in and see the set.

Friend was paid a very nice sum for the use of his building.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (PY9jH)

503 Saw Hacksaw Ridge last weekend, was pretty good, if there was a anti gun movie contest it could be a winner.Only one guy didn't have a weapon though.

Posted by: Skip at December 12, 2016 07:49 PM (5sOEp)


We enjoyed Hacksaw Ridge. I think it's at least as good of a war as Saving Private Ryan. The battle scenes put you smack in the middle of the fighting and overwhelms you. You really get a sense of what they mean by the Fog of War.

Many claim that it's an anti-war movie but it didn't seem that way to me. The protagonist clearly thinks that the Japanese Empire is evil and needs to be destroyed. He also supports the war and wants to do his part.

I think his personal belief in refusing to fight is misguided yet he specifically volunteers to be a medical and has no problem being in the midst of battle.

I have to wonder whether the film was purposely mislabeled as an anti-war film in order to gain Hollywood support.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (nvMvs)

504
Chastain was terrible in the Martian. Even though she was the commander, she came across as a complete beta female in a Mary Sue role.

Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

They should titled the movie A Bunch of Douche Bags.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Knv95)

505 J.J. Sefton: "Despite knowing the entire film by heart, I still think McQueen is going to jump that fence."

Get outta my head! I thought I was the only one.

If ever his name comes up, I visualize his stare off into the fields with him on the bike calculating which way to go. So iconic.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (1CroS)

506 496 Distinct but different at all times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:05 PM (Jj43a)


Oh, good. Is there one where he uses quote marks for the dialogue, like a normal writer? It was the self-consciously stylized stuff like that that made No Country For Old Men feel sort of twee, like it was aimed at the sort of people who read The New York Review Of Books. Loved the movie, though.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (iMxBJ)

507 Just don't watch it with the kids or the parents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Jj43a)

No kidding. Oldboy is a good movie, but talk about bleak and depressing.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (0mRoj)

508 Jessica Chastain in Ticklefight at the OK Corral.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, This Is the Dawning of the Age of the Trumpius! at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (Nwg0u)

509 450 428 If only Steve McQueen had Barry Bostwick's flying Megaforce motorycle
Posted by: weew at December 12, 2016 07:55 PM (6EH85)

One of the best RiffTrax.
http://www.rifftrax.com/megaforce
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 07:59 PM (7qAYi)

It's on Amazon Prime, along with RiffTraxx Breaker Breaker

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (dKiJG)

510 480 I started watching Korean movies, they are gritty and good


In the same spirit, I watched "Northern Limit Line" on Neflix. Interesting to get another country/culture's take on events.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (SRKgf)

511 It's a remake of Michael Mann's TV movie LA Takedown. LOTS of the dialog is word-for-word identical. But the acting......oh my sweet Lord *barf*. Awful, just awful.

As much as I despise actors as a whole, I have to admit that there's really a difference between bad actors and good actors, and it's evident when you see them deliver the same lines.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (LuZz


I think they did the remake about 4 years after the original. Michael Mann must be the number one director whose films were remade within a decade. He directed the Heat remake, too, I think.

Personally, I liked the original one. I also liked Manhunter better than Silence of the Lambs - not an exact remake but close enough.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (zc3Db)

512 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.

"Paper moon" is pretty good. Tatum O'Neil steals the show. We showed it to our girls when they were like 7 and 9. Oops. They still occasionally recite some of the funnier lines.

Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (ty7RM)

513 506 496 Distinct but different at all times.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:05 PM (Jj43a)

Oh, good. Is there one where he uses quote marks for the dialogue, like a normal writer? It was the self-consciously stylized stuff like that that made No Country For Old Men feel sort of twee, like it was aimed at the sort of people who read The New York Review Of Books. Loved the movie, though.
Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (iMxBJ)

===========

His earlier books are more "normal" stylistically.

I think he eliminates punctuation in an effort to maker his books feel more spare. I think it works.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (Jj43a)

514 "Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:03 PM (dKiJG) "

Oldboy is a great one from Korea.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (kumBu)

515 Miss Sloane: The Nuns of Navarone

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (8ZskC)

516 Personally, I liked the original one. I also liked Manhunter better than Silence of the Lambs - not an exact remake but close enough.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (zc3Db)

Red Dragon was the remake of Manhunter.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (0mRoj)

517 I usually don't much care for Fox, but he nailed the role of the sargent in Jarhead. Smart character, but no egghead or anything.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:00 PM (R+30W)



I can't help but think that Foxx was supposed to be unlikable in that role though. Maybe that's just my bias though in that he's the only character I liked and all the others who I assume are supposed to be sympathetic I couldn't fucking stand. Especially Gyllenhal.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (z/Ubi)

518 512 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.

"Paper moon" is pretty good. Tatum O'Neil steals the show. We showed it to our girls when they were like 7 and 9. Oops. They still occasionally recite some of the funnier lines.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (ty7RM)


Freddy Bartholomew in "Captains Courageous" and "Great Expectations."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (mbhDw)

519 That was the point. You're supposed to hate them.

Really? Because everyone I spoke to about it said it was such an uplifting tale of a father's love for his kid.

Posted by: no good deed at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (hJamr)

520 Personally, I liked the original one. I also liked Manhunter better than Silence of the Lambs - not an exact remake but close enough.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (zc3Db)

"Manhunter" was based off of "Red Dragon."

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (7qAYi)

521 Personally, I liked the original one. I also liked Manhunter better than Silence of the Lambs - not an exact remake but close enough.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (zc3Db)



Manhunter (Mannhunter?) is awesome. Disturbed the hell out of me. Silence of the Lambs was a pale shadow of it.

Mann's signature is apparently the integration of the music with the narrative, and he is superb at it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (SRKgf)

522 Red Dragon was the remake of Manhunter.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (0mRoj)


I know, but Silence of the Lambs was similar enough to seem like a remake.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (zc3Db)

523 512 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (ty7RM)


Dakota Fanning in Man On Fire.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (iMxBJ)

524 I'd gotten comp tickets for Miss Sloane, and went thinking I'd enjoy it a bunch.

Unfortunately, after a five-gallon bucket of popcorn (with extra butter!), a one-pounder of Sno-Caps, one of those Big Gulp-size Pepsis that you can box paint in, a couple of movie dogs, slice of pepperoni (not bad, Bow Tie Theaters!) and a sack of Twizzlers Mr. Aorta got uppity again, and I missed the last 90 minutes or so.

But I'm sure I'd have REALLY liked it!

Posted by: Michael Moore at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (nd1zx)

525 If your pron name is your first dog's name plus the street you lived on in first grade I would be Long Sam Pegram.

Heh.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (wPiJc)

526 I wish I could 'member the movie with Gene Hackman. It was a western. He is sitting at a desk with a book open.
He starts talking and for a brief moment you can see the script he is reading (it's a cut-out and pasted in his book).
I've always loved his acting, but for some foolish reason, this always sticks in my brain --- his cheating with his lines.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (CFc5L)

527 520 Personally, I liked the original one. I also liked Manhunter better than Silence of the Lambs - not an exact remake but close enough.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:08 PM (zc3Db)

"Manhunter" was based off of "Red Dragon."
Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 08:10 PM (7qAYi)


If you read Thomas Harris' books, it's evident that he is one sick, twisted dude. The movies are VERY tame by comparison of what was left out.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (mbhDw)

528
Chastain was terrible in the Martian. Even though she was the commander, she came across as a complete beta female in a Mary Sue role.

Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

They should titled the movie A Bunch of Douche Bags.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Knv95)








I disagree. Sean Bean's character came off as professional and honorable.

Too bad about how the Chinese Space Agency guys executed him and sent the bill for the bullet to NASA.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (LuZz8)

529 I make a point of reading the books before I see the movie.

Silence of the Lambs scared the crap out of me. The film was disturbing and didn't disappoint.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (PY9jH)

530 I think his personal belief in refusing to fight is misguided yet he specifically volunteers to be a medical and has no problem being in the midst of battle.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (nvMvs)

My old platoon sergeant (who was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross) said the bravest man he knew when he served in Vietnam was a medic. That, to me, was the highest praise anyone is likely to get.

As an aside, my platoon sergeant was 33 years old when I knew him. We called him the Old Man. I think about that and laugh.

Old man. Heh.

Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (ZkXe+)

531 I know, but Silence of the Lambs was similar enough to seem like a remake.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (zc3Db)

Eh, don't agree. Dolarhyde and Buffalo Bill were very different.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (0mRoj)

532 Speaking of even shittier sequels to shitty movies, there's always Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (kumBu)



Did they make the sequel just to prove they could make a move shittier than that first one?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (auHtY)

533 I kept thinking,

I never got busy with Elizabeth Shue.

What, gratitude month was last month.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (8J/Te)

534 I was a Marine sniper 88-90 and I have to say that Jarhead was an unbelievably stupid movie. That branding scene happened to, say, no one ever. Also, as a sniper, anyone who would station himself in the control tower of an airport isn't worth the title Marine sniper. Just fucking dumb.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (kTF2Z)

535 507 Just don't watch it with the kids or the parents.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Jj43a)

No kidding. Oldboy is a good movie, but talk about bleak and depressing.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:07 PM (0mRoj)

Love the Hammer Fight, then the twist ending and gross.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (dKiJG)

536
Miss Sloane: Grab It By The Barrel

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (zu88C)

537 I believe Thomas Harris wrote both "Red Dragon" and its sequel, "Silence of the Lambs."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (SRKgf)

538 527 If you read Thomas Harris' books, it's evident that he is one sick, twisted dude.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (mbhDw)


The worst was Hannibal. I read it eagerly in hardcover after waiting something like 8 years for it to come out, and literally threw it in the trash the minute I was done. Disgusting stuff.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (iMxBJ)

539 Anyone else here seen 'Unthinkable"?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (vmm2Z)

540 >>> Especially Gyllenhal.

Fuck him.

Posted by: Heath Ledger at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (jw2Xw)

541 ... nobody contributes to a "gun culture" than hollywood.
Posted by: musical jolly chimp


For a couple of women, the Wachowskis sure had a hard on for gun violence in the Matrix franchise. I guess they are big fans of Zardoz.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (+wjl1)

542 523 512 It's hard to get a good kid in a movie.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (ty7RM)

Dakota Fanning in Man On Fire.
Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (iMxBJ)

That was an excellent movie, and Dakota Fanning was good in it. Chloe Grace Moretz is another good child actor, but they are few and far between.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (0mRoj)

543 You know what's a fantastic sequel?

Hamlet 2

Look it up.

Okay it's not fantastic but it's final 30 minutes are pretty damn hilarious

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (Jj43a)

544 Also, as a sniper, anyone who would station himself in the control tower of an airport isn't worth the title Marine sniper. Just fucking dumb.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (kTF2Z)



Never saw the movie, but I've thought before: any sniper who takes up position in the very highest, most obvious place, must be a retard. Alas, a short-lived retard.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (SRKgf)

545 Anyone else here seen 'Unthinkable"?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (vmm2Z)


Absolutely. Great movie. Perfect ending.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (zc3Db)

546 >>I know, but Silence of the Lambs was similar enough to seem like a remake.

It was supposed to be a sequel of sorts.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (/tuJf)

547 man, the schlongings just keep cumming

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (cPsPa)

548 I looked up Ms. Chastain, because she looks vaguely familiar. Her list of movies... I somehow seem to have missed all of them. And really, I like movies.

Yet still, none of them brought me in.

I don't think that's an accident.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (Pz4pT)

549 Love the Hammer Fight, then the twist ending and gross.
Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (dKiJG)

Ayup.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (0mRoj)

550 539 Anyone else here seen 'Unthinkable"?
Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (vmm2Z)



Wouldn't think of it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (SRKgf)

551 526 I wish I could 'member the movie with Gene Hackman. It was a western. He is sitting at a desk with a book open.
He starts talking and for a brief moment you can see the script he is reading (it's a cut-out and pasted in his book).
I've always loved his acting, but for some foolish reason, this always sticks in my brain --- his cheating with his lines.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (CFc5L)


The Quick and The Dead?

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (z/Ubi)

552 I knew a guy who lost a bundle on a Minsk ranch. Just not enough demand for furs.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 07:39 PM (0mRoj)

The IRS lost a bundle on a bunny ranch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (MiBfH)

553 I've got Stephen King's sequel to The Shining (I KNOW! DON'T YELL AT ME...sez Yelly McYellerson), Doctor Sleep.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (PY9jH)

554 Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

Brian Denehey was great as Mars.

We may already have done this joke.

Posted by: DaveA at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (8J/Te)

555 545 Anyone else here seen 'Unthinkable"?

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (vmm2Z)

Absolutely. Great movie. Perfect ending.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (zc3Db)

Yes! Highly underrated. There were two endings to the movie, though. Which one did you see?

"You're evil!"
"Oh, and he's NOT!?"

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (0mRoj)

556 548 I looked up Ms. Chastain, because she looks vaguely familiar. Her list of movies... I somehow seem to have missed all of them. And really, I like movies.

Yet still, none of them brought me in.

I don't think that's an accident.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (Pz4pT)

============

You should at least have heard of The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty.

Unless you're Tom Cruise, you take whatever job you can no matter how small the movie.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (Jj43a)

557 532 Speaking of even shittier sequels to shitty movies, there's always Showgirls 2: Penny's from Heaven.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 07:58 PM (kumBu)



Did they make the sequel just to prove they could make a move shittier than that first one?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (auHtY)



Showgirls could have doubled their box office if they had gotten Tiffani Amber Thiesen instead of the other chick from Saved By the Bell.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (z/Ubi)

558
I disagree. Sean Bean's character came off as professional and honorable.

Too bad about how the Chinese Space Agency guys executed him and sent the bill for the bullet to NASA.


You're thinking of Driving Miss Daisy, an entirely different movie.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (Knv95)

559 "Did they make the sequel just to prove they could make a move shittier than that first one?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (auHtY) "

That's as good a reason as any. It certainly wasn't to resolve all of those compelling plot questions that people had at the end of the first movie.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (kumBu)

560 527 If you read Thomas Harris' books, it's evident that he is one sick, twisted dude.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:11 PM (mbhDw)


I thought that too. "Here's one sick puppy."

Of course, that's the source of the tension in "Manhunter," whether the protagonist (whose name I've forgotten), who is teetering on the edge of insanity, will tip over into it after marinating in the antagonist's psyche in order to catch him.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (SRKgf)

561 Threads like this make me realize how few movies I've actually seen.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (sdi6R)

562 Manhunter has withstood the test of time. SOTL hasn't aged as well as Manhunter. Part of it is anthony Hopkins and Harris turning Lektor up to 11. It has retrospectively damaged SOTL. Lektor was originally just a cunning and well educated killer. Harris and Hopkins turned him into Satan incarnate. An all powerful Bond supervillain. Brian Cox remains Lektor for me.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (lmIoG)

563 Am I the only one that wouldn't know Jessica Chastain if I hit her with my shopping cart?
I had to look at IMDB - I have seen The Help (don't remember her), but nothing else on that list.

Meh. I don't think my life is affected.

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (xCv1X)

564
Chastain. Sounds like some sort of brassiere.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (mbhDw)

565 Ben Had,

Never seen it myself.

Another one to place on my "watch it one day" list.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (CRotO)

566 Really? Because everyone I spoke to about it said it was such an uplifting tale of a father's love for his kid.

Really ?

... I thought it was a good flick precisely because it showed how bad a good man would go to protect his son. And be consumed in the process. The movie, and the book, were brutal in showing how good ethics are just a luxury with most people - to be shit-canned when no longer affordable.

I think it showed how people really will be.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (fiGNd)

567 McCarthy's books depress me. Blood Meridian convinced me that I didn't want to read any more of them.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (0F67M)

568 Yes! Highly underrated. There were two endings to the movie, though. Which one did you see?

I don't want to spoil it for anyone hasn't seen it AND MUST!

"You're evil!"
"Oh, and he's NOT!?"

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (0mRoj)


Heh. The dialogue in the bathroom was classic. "You're the problem!"

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (zc3Db)

569 Soooo the wifey thinks a SW body guard or an LCR are "old time" implements. All her friends have sparkly new 380 autos. I say ok but can you hit anything with it? Slide bite, jams, mags partially popped-out, etc.

Posted by: Attila D Hun at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (eRAVa)

570 540 >>> Especially Gyllenhal.

Fuck him.
Posted by: Heath Ledger at December 12, 2016 08:14 PM (jw2Xw)


Big lefty. Him and his whole family, even by Hollywood standards.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (mbhDw)

571 558 You're thinking of Driving Miss Daisy, an entirely different movie.
Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:17 PM (Knv95)


Kind of boring, but Brian Dennehy was great as Morgan Freeman.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (iMxBJ)

572 Who doesn't want a Chia Trump for Christmas?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (6Ll1u)

573 Showgirls could have doubled their box office if they had gotten Tiffani Amber Thiesen instead of the other chick from Saved By the Bell.
Posted by: buzzion
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So, you're saying you would've seen it six times?

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (xCv1X)

574
The Quick and The Dead?
Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (z/Ubi)

Not sure.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:20 PM (CFc5L)

575 Donald Trump has reportedly picked Michigan GOP chairwoman, Ronna Romney McDaniel, to lead the Republican national committee.


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Watch out for your cornhole, bud.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:21 PM (zu88C)

576 Now she can her pale, skinny, vegan self home and eat a black bean and a leaf of lettuce...

Posted by: macleod at December 12, 2016 08:21 PM (N315I)

577 Late to the thread as usual, but I also liked Shaun the Sheep. (Glances furtively at DVD case.) I probably own it. In Blu-ray.

Posted by: Adorably deplorable delayna at December 12, 2016 08:21 PM (KNFU5)

578 Insomniac- I watched both endings but believed the 4th bomb theory the most.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (vmm2Z)

579 Not sure.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:20 PM (CFc5L)


Maybe it was Unforgiven when he was reading The Duck of Death?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (zc3Db)

580 Chastain. Sounds like some sort of brassiere.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:18 PM (mbhDw)



Nah, it sounds like "chilblain," or some sort of a sore you'd get on your dick.

"Oh man, I've got a chastain, and right near the tip, too."

"Bummer, man."

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (SRKgf)

581 530 My old platoon sergeant (who was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross) said the bravest man he knew when he served in Vietnam was a medic. That, to me, was the highest praise anyone is likely to get.

Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (ZkXe+)


My nephew was a medic in Iraq because the Army gave him some aptitude test and told him that's what he was going to be.

My nephew really wanted to dust some Hadjis.

Still, the Army's decision led him to become a nurse after he was discharged and he loves his job.

I would never want to get crossways with him though. The Army made him mature and responsible, which was what he needed, but he still has a wild streak lurking beneath the surface.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (nvMvs)

582 572 Who doesn't want a Chia Trump for Christmas?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (6Ll1u)
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That would be so cool.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (CFc5L)

583 Memories of Murder is really creepy about Korea's first Serial Killer, who only kills in the Rain. The movie was made because they never found the killer.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (dKiJG)

584 I was a Marine sniper 88-90 and I have to say that Jarhead was an unbelievably stupid movie. That branding scene happened to, say, no one ever. Also, as a sniper, anyone who would station himself in the control tower of an airport isn't worth the title Marine sniper. Just fucking dumb.
Posted by: Duke Lowell


Those that can, do.

Those that can't make stupid movies & fight Twitter Wars ...

Posted by: Adriane the Red Peril Critic ... at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (AoK0a)

585
Maybe it was Unforgiven when he was reading The Duck of Death?
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (zc3Db)

+++

That's it!

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (CFc5L)

586 The worst was Hannibal. I read it eagerly in hardcover after
waiting something like 8 years for it to come out, and literally threw
it in the trash the minute I was done. Disgusting stuff.


Oh, lordy, yes! What a pile of sewage.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (nd1zx)

587 I wish I could 'member the movie with Gene Hackman. It was a western. He is sitting at a desk with a book open.


******

Was that Unforgiven? He's reading the dime novel while sitting at the desk in the jail.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:24 PM (wPiJc)

588 I was a Marine sniper 88-90 and I have to say that Jarhead was an unbelievably stupid movie. That branding scene happened to, say, no one ever. Also, as a sniper, anyone who would station himself in the control tower of an airport isn't worth the title Marine sniper. Just fucking dumb.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (kTF2Z)

*scribbles in notebook furiously*

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 12, 2016 08:24 PM (D2vc1)

589 he movie, and the book, were brutal in showing how good ethics are just a luxury with most people - to be shit-canned when no longer affordable.

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When your reputation is the only thing you own, for some of us, you tend to treasure it more.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:24 PM (CRotO)

590 Who doesn't want a Chia Trump for Christmas?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (6Ll1u)



Especially if you can use some orange food coloring in the chia water.


Glorious Golden Scalp Weasel for the win.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:24 PM (PY9jH)

591 Primordial beat me to it.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (wPiJc)

592 588 I was a Marine sniper 88-90 and I have to say that Jarhead was an unbelievably stupid movie. That branding scene happened to, say, no one ever. Also, as a sniper, anyone who would station himself in the control tower of an airport isn't worth the title Marine sniper. Just fucking dumb.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:13 PM (kTF2Z)

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Still not as bad as that dreck, The Hurt Locker.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (CRotO)

593 582 572 Who doesn't want a Chia Trump for Christmas?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (6Ll1u)
====
That would be so cool.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:23 PM (CFc5L)



The perfect gift for every liberal on your Christmas list.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (SRKgf)

594 Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM (vmm2Z)

Okay. That's the one I saw. I wonder what the other ending is. It couldn't have been better than that.

There were only a few minor problems with that movie that they had to do in order to let it last but it ranks as one of my all-time favorites. The Matrix chick was perfect in her annoying, snowflaky idiocy.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (zc3Db)

595 "Paper moon" is pretty good. Tatum O'Neil steals the show. We showed it to our girls when they were like 7 and 9. Oops. They still occasionally recite some of the funnier lines.
Posted by: Brave Sir Robin at December 12, 2016 08:09 PM (ty7RM)

------------------

I once played golf with the guy who played the inn keeper, Burt Gilliam. He originally signed up to be an extra, but was invited to read for the part. He got an Oscar nomination, but went back to his job as a Dallas firefighter. Then one day Mel Brooks called him about this movie titled Blazing Saddles and the rest is history. Good guy.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:26 PM (kTF2Z)

596 I would never want to get crossways with him though. The Army made him
mature and responsible, which was what he needed, but he still has a
wild streak lurking beneath the surface.


Nurses, male and female, know where all the nerves are.

The nerves that make you light up and say 'TILT' when they either dig their thumb into them or, say, do other things to them.

So, it pays to be nice to nurses.

Posted by: Sort-of-Mad Max at December 12, 2016 08:26 PM (nd1zx)

597 Shaun the Sheep was brilliant!

Posted by: Mordineus at December 12, 2016 08:26 PM (AAtCz)

598
The perfect gift for every liberal on your Christmas list.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (SRKgf)


Chia Trumps or MAGA hats.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:26 PM (PY9jH)

599 Soooo the wifey thinks a SW body guard or an LCR are "old time" implements. All her friends have sparkly new 380 autos. I say ok but can you hit anything with it? Slide bite, jams, mags partially popped-out, etc.
Posted by: Attila D Hun

She can fire the LCR without even pulling out of the purse if needed.

Posted by: Jean at December 12, 2016 08:26 PM (2RVmA)

600 Primordial beat me to it.

Posted by: Muldoon at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (wPiJc)


I had help from the Russians.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (zc3Db)

601 Maybe it was Unforgiven when he was reading The Duck of Death?


Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM


Duke. It's "The Duke of Death".

Posted by: w.w. beauchamp at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (lmIoG)

602 563,
Same here, then someone mentioned the Martian flick.
That was so bad that I've tried to forget it, so that explains the not knowing...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (fUV/T)

603 I looked up Ms. Chastain, because she looks vaguely familiar. Her list of movies... I somehow seem to have missed all of them. And really, I like movies.

Yet still, none of them brought me in.

I don't think that's an accident.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:15 PM (Pz4pT)

============

You should at least have heard of The Tree of Life and Zero Dark Thirty.

Unless you're Tom Cruise, you take whatever job you can no matter how small the movie.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:16 PM (Jj43a)


Yes, I have heard of them. I don't intend to see them. I can't think of any reason why I should.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:28 PM (Pz4pT)

604 I'll put in another vote for "Leaving Las Vegas" great, depressing film.

On the opposite side of emotions, I find that Groundhog Day gets more moving and profound every time I watch it (which is every couple years or so). Finally picked up my own blu-ray copy and will watch it some time this month.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 08:28 PM (q177U)

605 How badly did the White-hating Nat Turner movie tank?

All good news, but who the hell is Jessica Chastain?

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 08:28 PM (iUpcK)

606 Duke. It's "The Duke of Death".

Posted by: w.w. beauchamp at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (lmIoG)


Duck, I says.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:28 PM (zc3Db)

607 "Bar Fly" is a somewhat depressing and entertaining film. Another drinking film.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (q177U)

608 Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

They should titled the movie A Bunch of Douche Bags.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:06 PM (Knv95)




I thought Ray Walston was good

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (auHtY)

609 I just saw an add on the TV, Chia Trump is real. I want a Castro version as a bookend though.

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (6Ll1u)

610 SMFH- if you can't find a copy I will send you one. And I will wait for your review because it is going to be epic.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (vmm2Z)

611 I'm still waiting for them to make Chia genitals.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (0mRoj)

612
As to Chastain's looks, I think she's gorgeous....... when she smiles. She's got a great smile. But you NEVER see it in her films. Everything she's done has been pretty much downer, serious films.

Which kind of brings up another issue. I actually don't think an actor is worth a shit if they don't do both drama AND comedy on-screen. That's why I think Sean Penn is wildly fucking overrated. Dude NEVER does comedy, and is one of the most humorless, self-righteous cocksuckers in Hollywood. He did the one comedy flick Fast Times, and then has spent the rest of his career talking about how much he hates the fact that he did the film.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (LuZz8)

613 Silence of the Lambs scared the crap out of me. The film was disturbing and didn't disappoint.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (PY9jH)

I saw it in the theater, and right at the moment when you see the head in the jar in the car, someone burst into the theater & started shouting. That scared the hell out of everyone.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 08:30 PM (7qAYi)

614 When your reputation is the only thing you own, for some of us, you tend to treasure it more.

Hence ... the brilliance of The Road.

Reputation is pretty piss-poor, calorie wise.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:30 PM (fiGNd)

615 603

Yes, I have heard of them. I don't intend to see them. I can't think of any reason why I should.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:28 PM (Pz4pT)

==========
The Tree of Life is a transcendent experience asking about man's relationship to God. I'm a Terrence Malick nut, though.

Grain of salt.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:31 PM (Jj43a)

616 you know I am really getting tired of my weather being the meteorological equivalent of a dick tease. one day we are getting 3-5 inches, then it is 5-8 inches, now it is 1-3 inches. when we do get the 1-3 inches it is followed by an inch of rain and everything melts away.

it should be snow followed by more snow, more snow, more snow, and more snow.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 08:31 PM (cPsPa)

617 Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

They should titled the movie A Bunch of Douche Bags.



It was no Mission to Mars or Angry Red Planet but I enjoyed it.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:31 PM (0F67M)

618 Duke. It's "The Duke of Death".

Posted by: w.w. beauchamp at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (lmIoG)



Dayum, I just ordered "The Duck of Death" from Amazon, wonder if I can cancel?

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 08:31 PM (wCEn4)

619 Silence of the Lambs scared the crap out of me. The film was disturbing and didn't disappoint.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:12 PM (PY9jH)



I saw it in the theater, and right at the moment when you see the
head in the jar in the car, someone burst into the theater started
shouting. That scared the hell out of everyone.

Posted by: josephistan at December 12, 2016 08:30 PM (7qAYi)


I saw The Shining in a bar/theater in Atlanta. Even with everyone drinking and in a partying mood, you could have heard a pin drop. I was scared to death.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (PY9jH)

620 >>Which kind of brings up another issue. I actually don't think an actor is worth a shit if they don't do both drama AND comedy on-screen. That's why I think Sean Penn is wildly fucking overrated. Dude NEVER does comedy, and is one of the most humorless, self-righteous cocksuckers in Hollywood. He did the one comedy flick Fast Times, and then has spent the rest of his career talking about how much he hates the fact that he did the film.

We're No Angels with DeNiro.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (/tuJf)

621 >>>Everyone was terrible in The Martian.

M-m-matt Damon? Matt Damon!

Posted by: Matt Damon at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (+wjl1)

622 601 Maybe it was Unforgiven when he was reading The Duck of Death?


Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:22 PM


Duke. It's "The Duke of Death".
Posted by: w.w. beauchamp at December 12, 2016 08:27 PM (lmIoG)

This is funny. I wouldn't know if it was the duck or the duke. I am unfamiliar with the book.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (CFc5L)

623
I saw the ad for the Chia Michelle Obama. And Chia Michelle Obama Mega Ass sold separately.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (auHtY)

624 Thanks Ben Had.

I see it's on Prime for $2.99, but I refuse to pay for any movie that has Samuel L Jackson in it.

I'll prolly wait for it to end up on netflix or sling tv.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (CRotO)

625 "Bar Fly" is a somewhat depressing and entertaining film. Another drinking film.


Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM


A great, great 80's flick. Rourke's best. An overlooked and undeservedly forgotten movie. A stone cold classic that deserves much more love.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (lmIoG)

626 622
This is funny. I wouldn't know if it was the duck or the duke. I am unfamiliar with the book.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (CFc5L)

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It's Duke.

It's an in movie book written by one of the characters.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (Jj43a)

627 That's why I think Sean Penn is wildly fucking overrated. Dude NEVER does comedy


*cough*Fast Times*cought*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (0F67M)

628 Manhunter is a terrific movie, its super creepy yet at the same time you kind of feel for the bad guy.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (39g3+)

629 No love for The Road to Perdition I mentioned up-thread?

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (PY9jH)

630 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned he considers current levels of U.S. debt "dangerous" and said he wants any tax overhaul to avoid adding to the deficit. "I think this level of national debt is dangerous and unacceptable"

Oh? NOW you dig in your heels, NOW you think it's unacceptable?

Fuck off.

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (ZIFyZ)

631 Wonder if they'll figure anything out in the next 8 years.

HA - HA !

Oh, and "gun-control thriller" ?

HA - HA !

F them, WAR !

*staggers off to investigate the Strategic Cheap Beer Reserve, cuppa hot chocolate+peppermint schnapps in hand*

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (02Q1d)

632 The Martian.
I kept thinking if I saw that Captain again I would punch her in the face for leaving me behind.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (dKiJG)

633 I would never see either Angel Heart or Skeleton Key ever again. Not because they weren't good, but because they freaked me out they were so good.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (0F67M)

634
It's Duke.

It's an in movie book written by one of the characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (Jj43a)

+++

Shows you how much I pay attention. Actually I haven't seen the movie in a number of years and have completely forgotten the plot.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (CFc5L)

635
620 >>Which kind of brings up another issue. I actually don't think an actor is worth a shit if they don't do both drama AND comedy on-screen. That's why I think Sean Penn is wildly fucking overrated. Dude NEVER does comedy, and is one of the most humorless, self-righteous cocksuckers in Hollywood. He did the one comedy flick Fast Times, and then has spent the rest of his career talking about how much he hates the fact that he did the film.

We're No Angels with DeNiro.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:32 PM (/tuJf)








Damn, you're right. I'd forgotten about that one.

Then again, wasn't that flick a terrible comedy? As in, totally unfunny? That's my really vague recollection, which considering that I'd forgotten about the film.......

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (LuZz8)

636 I guess we all get to munch popcorn and watch the liberals freak out all over again on the 19th?

This is just the BEST holiday season EVER.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (wfDW1)

637 They could do a sequel where Miss Sloane teams up with the lady ghostbusters. I am curious to see just how LOW movie attendance can GO.

Posted by: The Walking Dude at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (Go37U)

638 >>I saw the ad for the Chia Michelle Obama. And Chia Michelle Obama Mega Ass sold separately.


As are the extra 2 packages of seeds it takes to cover her taint.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (UD0Gq)

639 Still not as bad as that dreck, The Hurt Locker.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (CRotO)

An old friend was an officer in Navy EOD, and he had no idea what the hell they were doing in the movie.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (42Mgr)

640 >>Then again, wasn't that flick a terrible comedy? As in, totally unfunny? That's my really vague recollection, which considering that I'd forgotten about the film.......

Yea, not very good.

Posted by: JackStraw at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (/tuJf)

641 Midnight Run is hilarious, but its mostly Grodin that makes it funny. DeNiro did do some funny stuff in it though.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (39g3+)

642 This is just the BEST holiday season EVER.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (wfDW1)

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Wish I could say the same.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (CRotO)

643 It was no Mission to Mars or Angry Red Planet but I enjoyed it.
Posted by: Grump928(C)


I found MtM kind of dull. I think you have to be a Gary Sinise fan.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (+wjl1)

644 >>> it should be snow followed by more snow, more snow, more snow, and more snow.

I'll let you shovel my driveway. You only have to pay me $10, but I'll throw in hot chocolate with Rumpel Minz.

Posted by: fluffy at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (jw2Xw)

645 If no buys a ticket for a showing at the theater, do they still roll the movie?

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (0F67M)

646 629 No love for The Road to Perdition I mentioned up-thread?
Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (PY9jH)

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First rated R movie I ever saw on my own (yes you can agree me if you care).

Very much love it. It's a surprisingly gentle tale of father's and sons. Very far from a shoot center up gangster movie many people expect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (Jj43a)

647
*cough*Fast Times*cought*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (0F67M)






I mentioned that one in the post.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (LuZz8)

648 630 Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell warned he considers current levels of U.S. debt "dangerous" and said he wants any tax overhaul to avoid adding to the deficit. "I think this level of national debt is dangerous and unacceptable"

Oh? NOW you dig in your heels, NOW you think it's unacceptable?

Fuck off.
Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 08:34 PM (ZIFyZ)


Notice his mentality is that tax cuts deprive government. And that taxes need to be raised to pay down the debt, not a decrease in spending.

Mitch McConnell needs to be (REDACTED).

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (mbhDw)

649 The Martian has probably the best opening line in a novel.

Well, I'm fucked.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (kTF2Z)

650 641 Midnight Run is hilarious, but its mostly Grodin that makes it funny. DeNiro did do some funny stuff in it though.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (39g3+)


Well, Grodin needed someone irascible to play off of, and De Niro did great with that. You can't be a huge pain in the ass if you're all by yourself, and I suspect that being a good straight man is harder than it looks.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (iMxBJ)

651 639 Still not as bad as that dreck, The Hurt Locker.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:25 PM (CRotO)

An old friend was an officer in Navy EOD, and he had no idea what the hell they were doing in the movie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (42Mgr)

---

I watched it with some buddies, some of whom were EOD at the time when it premiered here at Ft Hood.

We walked out of there not even halfway through.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (CRotO)

652 I found MtM kind of dull.

Hello! Tim Robbins flash frozen!

That was worth the price of admission right there.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (0F67M)

653 It's an in movie book written by one of the characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (Jj43a)

--Who was a damn good shot at pheasants from a moving train.

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (iUpcK)

654 according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics.

Posted by: steve at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (/NSeN)

655 634
It's Duke.

It's an in movie book written by one of the characters.
Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (Jj43a)

+++

Shows you how much I pay attention. Actually I haven't seen the movie in a number of years and have completely forgotten the plot.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 08:35 PM (CFc5L)

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Neither have I. It's in my top 20 all time (a list I've never actually put together part the top 10).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (Jj43a)

656 Kind of boring, but Brian Dennehy was great as Morgan Freeman.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:19 PM (iMxBJ)

I thought Dennehy played the Packard.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (MiBfH)

657 638 >>I saw the ad for the Chia Michelle Obama. And Chia Michelle Obama Mega Ass sold separately.


As are the extra 2 packages of seeds it takes to cover her taint.
Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 08:36 PM (UD0Gq)

Does one need to buy a Toro Lawnmower for grooming?

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (voOPb)

658 *cough*Fast Times*cought*

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (0F67M)

I mentioned that one in the post.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (LuZz


He was also in one of those dumb Woody Allen "comedies," a period piece, can't remember the title, and don't care.

Penn fainted funny in that one. That's pretty much all I remember about the movie.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (Pz4pT)

659 I'm still waiting for them to make Chia genitals.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM (0mRoj)


They'd need elephant grass.

Posted by: Barbara Boxer at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (cmE8J)

660 Sure have been a lot of bad movies.

Posted by: Barton Fink at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (OSgHz)

661 SMFH- I will send you a copy Samuel Jackson or not. This is a movie you will not regret seeing.

Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (vmm2Z)

662 I am going to watch TUNNEL

a guy gets buried alive because of shoddy construction and the Government debates if they should rescue him because of how much it costs.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (dKiJG)

663 That wiki entry obviously authored by the makers of the film - word for word from the imdb entry

Posted by: steve at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (/NSeN)

664 it should be snow followed by more snow, more snow, more snow, and more snow.

Posted by: yankeefifth at December 12, 2016 08:31 PM (cPsPa)

Have you moved? Because that is a recipe for a clusterfuck in the city.

Oh...you want to punish them.

Ok.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (42Mgr)

665 I mentioned that one in the post.

The football game ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYV5f0Aqo4w

Posted by: Adriane the Red Peril Critic ... at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (AoK0a)

666 Well, Grodin needed someone irascible to play off of, and De Niro did great with that. You can't be a huge pain in the ass if you're all by yourself, and I suspect that being a good straight man is harder than it looks.


Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM


Bingo. It was one of the greatest partnerships in movies. It needed both of them to make the magic.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (lmIoG)

667 Goodnight, dear Horde. I'm off to try and sleep in a bit.

I keep thinking about making Christmas cookies.

Hoping to actually begin to think some more about making them tomorrow.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (PY9jH)

668 660 Sure have been a lot of bad movies.
Posted by: Barton Fink at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (OSgHz)

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Just go write your boxing movie, Barton.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (Jj43a)

669 >>They'd need elephant grass.


That shit will get you really high.

Posted by: Gary Johnson at December 12, 2016 08:40 PM (UD0Gq)

670
Meanwhile, I almost forgot how incredibly lush ELO's "Out of the Blue" is.

Superb record.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (mbhDw)

671 I wanted to like Book of Eli ...

... heard it wasn't so good.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (fiGNd)

672
Nice CBD...these yours?


https://tinyurl.com/hp58zge

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (AGr9E)

673 Oooh, I just thought of a Chia pet for the Horde: The Schadenboner

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (PY9jH)

674 DON'T GO IN THE LION GRASS!!

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (0F67M)

675 Posted by: Ben Had at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (vmm2Z)

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Thank you, Ben.

I'll watch it since you are hell-bent on sending me a copy.

Posted by: SMFH at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (CRotO)

676 Sure have been a lot of bad movies.
Posted by: Barton Fink at December 12, 2016 08:39 PM (OSgHz)


Yes, you were a mess, but there are few movie failures that came as close as you to being a masterpiece.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (Pz4pT)

677 sean penn is almost as funny as a case of the shits on a nonstop flight from nyc to la. also he's a feckless commie fuck.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (KP5rU)

678 WATCH OUT FOR SNAKES!

Posted by: Eegah! at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (UD0Gq)

679
Mother hated chia pets. Reminded her of grass growing out of skulls she saw whilst in concentration camp.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (mbhDw)

680 671 I wanted to like Book of Eli ...

... heard it wasn't so good.
Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (fiGNd)

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I just saw it for the first time a couple of weeks ago.

For a collection of clichés about the post Apocalypse, it was mostly entertaining if you can get past the hero needing to be the ultimate badass (which is a trend I'm personally sick of).

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (Jj43a)

681 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (39g3+)

682 Very far from a shoot center up gangster movie many people expect.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (Jj43a)

Agreed, and Hanks did a fairly good job. Whoever the director was kept him in line.

Solid movie.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (42Mgr)

683 The Martian has probably the best opening line in a novel.

Well, I'm fucked.
Posted by: Duke Lowell


"We're so screwed!" - Season 4, Farscape

Posted by: Adriane the TV Critic ... at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (AoK0a)

684 Bad dates.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (0F67M)

685 Odd.

Americans apparently don't want to be lectured to for two hours for recreational entertainment.

Now I'm starting to rethink my business start-up "Surrogate Wives". I was going to charge single men $25 to listen to married women complain to them and describe their character flaws for two hour sessions.

Back to the drawing board....

Posted by: Malcolm Tent at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (gXsNw)

686 All the decent 'cult classics' have at least a bit of sapphic tension in them... I gather this film does not.

Posted by: Zettai Ryoiki at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (kP16F)

687 681 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (39g3+)


"Is this moron number 1? Put moron number 2 on the phone!"

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (mbhDw)

688 654 according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics.
Posted by: steve at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (/NSeN)



The kiss of death for any movie. Everyone knows critics suck dick.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (SRKgf)

689 Mother hated chia pets. Reminded her of grass growing out of skulls she saw whilst in concentration camp.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (mbhDw)


Jeebus. I can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (PY9jH)

690 625 "Bar Fly" is a somewhat depressing and entertaining film. Another drinking film.


Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM


A great, great 80's flick. Rourke's best. An overlooked and undeservedly forgotten movie. A stone cold classic that deserves much more love.
Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (lmIoG)


I think I saw that in the theater. It was so long ago I don't remember much about it. I think I wanted a shower afterwards, though.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (sdi6R)

691 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM

And Manhunter. And Get Shorty.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (lmIoG)

692 In an interesting twist, the film begins with the lead (Chastain) prepping to testify before congress and her lawyer has her reciting the fifth amendment over and over. However, when she testifies, she gets flustered and answers an accusation of drug abuse...which (according to the movie) then disallows her the Fifth amendment defense. She eventually sees some jail time...

In reality Lois Learner still wanders free. Selective lefty legality.

PS: I didn't watch the shit...read the movie spoiler write up..

Posted by: Orson at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (qbT6L)

693 I suspect that being a good straight man is harder than it looks.
Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (iMxBJ)

You have no idea...

Posted by: Paul Ryan at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (7qAYi)

694
"according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics. "

Of course it did.

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (JSovD)

695
654 according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics.

Posted by: steve at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (/NSeN)









Sure. And over the last 30 years, the best way to judge if a film was entertaining was to read Roger Ebert's review.

If he hated it: Entertaining film, fun, worth the price of admission

If he loved it: Boring snoozefest, infuriating, "where's the bottle of Drano" level depression, or wildly insulting to anyone to the right of Vlad Lenin.

Not a perfect rule, but more often than not it'd do you good service.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (LuZz8)

696 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (AGr9E)

I saw that!

Funny as hell, especially since I was about 10 miles from there this weekend.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (42Mgr)

697 689 Mother hated chia pets. Reminded her of grass growing out of skulls she saw whilst in concentration camp.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (mbhDw)

Jeebus. I can't even.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (PY9jH)


Nightmare fuel, that. She saw hell on earth and yet still lived a full and decent life.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (mbhDw)

698 682
Agreed, and Hanks did a fairly good job. Whoever the director was kept him in line.

Solid movie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (42Mgr)

===========

Sam Mendes. He directed a few films you might have heard of.

American Beauty
Skyfall
Spectre
Jarhead

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (Jj43a)

699
Highlander 2 : The Confusening

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (zu88C)

700 "Is this moron number 1? Put moron number 2 on the phone!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (mbhDw)



Such a great line. I've forgotten in which movie he delivered it, but it was hilarious.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (SRKgf)

701 I liked Book of Eli, it was very interesting and surprising in its story and content.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (39g3+)

702 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM

Farina's good, but he's no Kareem O'Wheet.

Posted by: Paul Ryan at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (7qAYi)

703 611 I'm still waiting for them to make Chia genitals.
Posted by: Insomniac
--------------------

Um, I don't ride that bike, dude.
Oh- you said chiA. Nevermind...

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (xCv1X)

704 Highlander 2 : The Confusening

Never happened. No such movie.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (39g3+)

705 How bad is Turtle? Didn't he give Obama essentially a blank check on spending the past two years and even going into next year.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (BS8yt)

706
Farina was quite good as Avi in "Snatch."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (mbhDw)

707 Yikes JJ I think you just put us all off Chia forever.

Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (BO/km)

708 'Night Jane!

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (iUpcK)

709 Such a great line. I've forgotten in which movie he delivered it, but it was hilarious.


Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM


Midnight Run.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (lmIoG)

710 694
"according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics. "
Of course it did.
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (JSovD)



It was just that bad.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (SRKgf)

711 696 Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (AGr9E)

I saw that!

Funny as hell, especially since I was about 10 miles from there this weekend.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (42Mgr)

Lol. Yours need to be recruited by this gang!

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (AGr9E)

712 Highlander 2 : The Confusening


Ha! Funny because it's true.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (0F67M)

713 671 I wanted to like Book of Eli ...

... heard it wasn't so good.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (fiGNd)

++++

I liked it quite a bit. Had a moral center which appealed to me.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (R+30W)

714 For what it's worth ... I think American Hustle will be something we see for years to come.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (fiGNd)

715 according to wiki "Miss Sloane received generally positive reviews from critics.

Posted by: steve at December 12, 2016 08:38 PM (/NSeN)



A lefty propaganda movie and the critics loved it? No way

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (auHtY)

716 "If you don't get on that plane, you're gonna suffer from fistophobia."

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:46 PM (39g3+)

717 701 I liked Book of Eli, it was very interesting and surprising in its story and content.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (39g3+)

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Adding a very slight Christian angle to the post Apocalypse doesn't make it any more interesting. I wanted to like it more but it never rises above cliche.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (Jj43a)

718 Nightmare fuel, that. She saw hell on earth and yet still lived a full and decent life.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (mbhDw)


Well, God bless her, and the son she raised.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (PY9jH)

719 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.


Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM

And Manhunter. And Get Shorty.
Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (lmIoG)


Snatch.

Almost steals the film, which is so full of win, practically everybody deserves an Oscar, including bloody freakin' Gypsy Brad Pitt.

Damn near perfect movie. There, I said it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (Pz4pT)

720 707 Yikes JJ I think you just put us all off Chia forever.
Posted by: freaked at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (BO/km)


Sorry about that. Just one of those things.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (mbhDw)

721 I wanted to like Book of Eli ...

... heard it wasn't so good.

Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (fiGNd)


I loved Book Of Eli.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (zc3Db)

722 "Bar Fly" is a somewhat depressing and entertaining film. Another drinking film.


Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 08:29 PM


A great, great 80's flick. Rourke's best. An overlooked and undeservedly forgotten movie. A stone cold classic that deserves much more love.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (lmIoG)

I've got Bukowski's book of poetry, 'Love Is A Dog From Hell' and open it up at random from time to time. He was a terrible human being in life but some of his work is as solid as it gets.

My favorite Bukowski line (not in 'Love Is A Dog...') is 'Find what you love and let it kill you.'

Posted by: troyriser at December 12, 2016 08:47 PM (ZkXe+)

723 I liked Book of Eli, it was very interesting and surprising in its story and content.


I'm going to watch any move with Mila Kunis in it. She still does it for me.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (0F67M)

724 Critics love Michael Moore movies.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (IqV8l)

725
Six more payments, gentlemen, and this beautiful, 4-door luxury sedan is all mine.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (zu88C)

726 Carly "That Face" Fiorina went up to Trump Tower to pay homage. There's talk he may name her Director of National Intelligence. She'd be taking over for Clueless Jim Clapper.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (DW+jj)

727 I loved Book of Eli.

And I'm signing off for the night. Don't have any fun without me!

Posted by: Jane D'oh at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (PY9jH)

728
G'night, kids.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (mbhDw)

729
Crows vs Patriots

Patriots got a Safety. 2-0.

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:48 PM (Knv95)

730 I liked The Book of Eli, but then I don't watch many post-apocalypse movies.

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 08:49 PM (iUpcK)

731 Another funny movie with Joey Pants, 'Running Scared'.

Posted by: garrett at December 12, 2016 08:49 PM (UD0Gq)

732 Wow, they turned Mythbusters into a reality show contest. That is going to suck harder than the vacuum the tested a gun in season 12.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:49 PM (39g3+)

733 A USA Today headline reads "As Spy Chief, Carly Fiorina would support Backdoors".

Backdoor Carly. I like it.

Posted by: publius (not Breitbart publius) at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (DW+jj)

734 How bad is Turtle? Didn't he give Obama essentially a blank check on spending the past two years and even going into next year.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (BS8yt)


I think we will find that the Turtle exists on a level of evil that will rival Hairy Reid's place in the pantheon of traitorous senators!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (wCEn4)

735 Might be a spoiler here

Ok so everybody has been touting "LaLa Land" as a wonderful old fashioned romantic movie musical but the plot synopsis states the 2 leads don't end up together. So how is this romantic? The boy and girl always ended up happily ever after in old Hollywood musicals

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (JSovD)

736
681 Was Dennis Farina ever in anything bad? He was in Midnight Run, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:43 PM (39g3+)







Big Trouble from 2002. Can't even remember his role, but the film itself is awful.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (LuZz8)

737 I'm going to watch any move with Mila Kunis in it. She still does it for me.

Yeah she gives of a real 'daddy spank me' attitude while looking smouldering cute.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (39g3+)

738 Well, went and saw Miss Sloane based on critic's generally positive reviews.

Will go kill myself now.

However, I won't be using a gun.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (BS8yt)

739 Agreed, and Hanks did a fairly good job. Whoever the director was kept him in line.

Solid movie.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo
-------------------

I know he doesn't get much love here, but Hanks is one of my favorite actors.
I can't think of anything he's done that I disliked.
He killed it in The Terminal.

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (xCv1X)

740 Farina was quite good as Avi in "Snatch."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (mbhDw)


That movie really annoyed me. Benicio Del Toro had to be wielding the worst accent in movie history for that one, which is no mean feat.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (zc3Db)

741 735 Might be a spoiler here

Ok so everybody has been touting "LaLa Land" as a wonderful old fashioned romantic movie musical but the plot synopsis states the 2 leads don't end up together. So how is this romantic? The boy and girl always ended up happily ever after in old Hollywood musicals
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:50 PM (JSovD)

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No point in criticizing a movie's ending that you haven't seen and don't know how it gets there.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (Jj43a)

742 The Book of Eli? One of the last scenes where Gary Oldman is looking down on the destruction of his empire? That how I envision Hillary on Nov 8th at about 10 PM.

Posted by: Duke Lowell at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (kTF2Z)

743 Book of Eli was kind of spoiled by people here for me. I took their word on something that turns out to have been wrong. And looking back its obvious.


*SPOILER*

*SPOILER*

*SPOILER*

A bunch of people here talking about the twist of the movie and the Bible being in Braille. And how Eli could read it but he wasn't blind. In fact that is not true. He is blind and a bunch of stuff makes sense. because of that. He only travels during the day when he can feel the sun. He sticks to the path of the road. When he checks the water, he can't just look at it to see how bad it is, he needs to smell it. He doesn't notice the cat. He is never the first to attack.


*End SPOILERS*

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (z/Ubi)

744 OK all just stopped in to break CBD's balls about squirrels.

Watch out for Russians. They're everywhere.

Manana.

Posted by: Cannibal Bob at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (AGr9E)

745
Brady wants a flag!@!

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (Knv95)

746 Is this thread for Hollywood only? I don't watch anything in the theaters. It has to be free on TV.

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (tHwdc)

747 Honest to God, being force feed C-Span for a week Clockwork Orange style is more entertaining.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (BS8yt)

748
"The say the fucking smog is the fucking reason you have such beautiful fucking sunsets."

Dennis Farina- Get Shorty

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (lmIoG)

749 Well, been carrying an S&W J-frame for close to 30 years now (on&off, as required .... ) and it may not be the latest fashion but it fires every time I ask it to.
Postal match results may not have been stellar, but I tried to simulate actual field conditions of use, rather than try to optimize score), and it proved reasonably hazardous to the attacker ....
Bodyguard is an excellent choice, imho ....
I always have several speed-strip reloads in my pockets.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (02Q1d)

750 734: maybe a broken excersize band in his future? couldn't happen to a nicer guy.

Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (KP5rU)

751 ' I stopped by here to tell you two things.
Number one is that you're gonna die tonight.
Number two, I'm gonna go home, have a nice hot meal, I'm gonna find your wife and I'm gonna kill her, too.'

Posted by: Midnight Run Quotes at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (UD0Gq)

752 I thought that Benicio Del Toro was going to be The Most Interesting Man in the World, but no.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (0F67M)

753 645 If no buys a ticket for a showing at the theater, do they still roll the movie?
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:37 PM (0F67M)


Once I went to a movie and I was the only person in the theater. I was starting to feel a little self-conscious, but fortunately three or four other people came in just before it started.

I don't even remember what movie it was, which probably explains the sparse attendance.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (sdi6R)

754 Knowing beforehand the subject matter?

Posted by: Inquiring Minds at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (Tyii7)

755
Benicio Del Toro had to be wielding the worst accent in movie history for that one, which is no mean feat.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (zc3Db)







Then mine will flip you. Flip you for real.

Posted by: Zombie Fred Fenster at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (LuZz8)

756 Carly "That Face" Fiorina went up to Trump Tower to pay homage. There's
talk he may name her Director of National Intelligence.

===
heh.

God, I remember the vapors when Big D made the "Face" comment. Fainting couches, wailing, gnashing, Kleenex all over the place.

Seems that Carly has 'moved on'.

Trump knows exactly what a politician is.
Exactly.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (zu88C)

757 So now J.J.'s got me listening to ELO. I turned to stone when you were gone.......



Haven't listened to that in a while. Thanks J.J.

Posted by: grammie winger - Let Every Heart Prepare Him Room at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (dFi94)

758 I want to see the animated movie 'Sing'.

Man card or no man card.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (IDPbH)

759 If the critics give a movie high marks then the chances are 93.4% that there is male homo sex in it or it's a foreign language flick.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (zc3Db)

760 They should recount the box office numbers for "Sloane". We'll find the movie LOST money, as in gave the viewers their cash back and giving them evening values for matinee tickets

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (6FqZa)

761 679
Mother hated chia pets. Reminded her of grass growing out of skulls she saw whilst in concentration camp.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:42 PM (mbhDw)

That escalated quickly.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (0mRoj)

762 *End SPOILERS*


He shoots a bird out of the sky with an arrow. He's not blind.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (0F67M)

763 Once I went to a movie and I was the only person in the theater. I was starting to feel a little self-conscious, but fortunately three or four other people came in just before it started.

I don't even remember what movie it was, which probably explains the sparse attendance.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (sdi6R)

I expect they would roll the movie anyway, in case some people show up late. Can't hold it until someone shows up, because the theater has to clear for the next feature.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (MiBfH)

764 While watching Miss Sloane I could actually feel my desire and zest for life leaving my body (more like being forcibly expelled).

Why is everything so dark and ashes?

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (BS8yt)

765 Farina was quite good as Avi in "Snatch."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at December 12, 2016 08:45 PM (mbhDw)

That movie really annoyed me. Benicio Del Toro had to be wielding the worst accent in movie history for that one, which is no mean feat.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:51 PM (zc3Db)


Good grief, he was on screen for... what, 10 minutes? Watching Vinnie Jones chew scenery (and practically everything else) is cause enough to make this the greatest movie of all time.

And Del Toro was SUPPOSED to have a bad accent.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (Pz4pT)

766 Gugu Mbatha-Raw, listed as starring in Miss Sloane. Just begging to be fucked with, with a name like that.

Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (Cf0i2)

767 759 If the critics give a movie high marks then the chances are 93.4% that there is male homo sex in it or it's a foreign language flick.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (zc3Db)

==============

Like Star Wars.
Or Mad Max.
Or Skyfall.
Or Harry Potter.
Or Lord of the Rings.
Or Gladiator.
Or No Country for Old Men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (Jj43a)

768 "Highlander 2 : The Confusening

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 08:44 PM (zu88C) "

Hey, my used VHS copy of Highlander 2: The Quickening is one of my prized possessions. I won it for being top scorer at a Trash Trivia event a few years back.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (kumBu)

769 I'm very interested in Scorsese's new move "Silence". Anybody read the book it's based on?

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (JSovD)

770 762 *End SPOILERS*


He shoots a bird out of the sky with an arrow. He's not blind.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (0F67M)

++++

He is blind. He gets the bird by sound.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (R+30W)

771 <decides to stream a rerun of Younger and check back later>

Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (tHwdc)

772 I don't even remember what movie it was, which probably explains the sparse attendance.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (sdi6R)

I watched The Big Short by myself once.

Posted by: Country Boy - Deplorable and proud of it at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (D2vc1)

773 759 If the critics give a movie high marks then the chances are 93.4% that there is male homo sex in it or it's a foreign language flick.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:53 PM (zc3Db)



The latter category pretty much subsumes the former into it.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (SRKgf)

774 Posted by: chavez the hugo at December 12, 2016 08:52 PM (KP5rU)

Great idea for Christmas presents for the Turtle!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 08:57 PM (wCEn4)

775 Dennis Farina also won a Celebrity Jeopardy tournament handily about 10 years ago.

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (iUpcK)

776 769 I'm very interested in Scorsese's new move "Silence". Anybody read the book it's based on?
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (JSovD)

============

Once a decade ago. I didn't really get it and have been planning on re reading it for a while.

Of course, on top of being a Terrence Malick acolyte, I also completely love Scorsese and will see Silence in theatres no matter what.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (Jj43a)

777 Actually he was blind in one eye.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (BS8yt)

778 Once I went to a movie and I was the only person in the theater.

Happened to me a few times. I especially remember that Kurt Russell stinkfest "Soldier". I'd shown up at the late night screening because I was bored at the time. I'm surprised the projectionist bothered.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (6FqZa)

779 Like Star Wars.
Or Mad Max.
Or Skyfall.
Or Harry Potter.
Or Lord of the Rings.
Or Gladiator.
Or No Country for Old Men.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (Jj43a)


I only said 93.4%. You just listed the rest.

And, BTW, there are only 1 1/2 good movies in that list.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (zc3Db)

780 He gets the bird by sound.


He also picks up objects that aren't making a sound.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (0F67M)

781 I will take the IMDB top 100 over most critic's lists. Is Shawshank overrated? Sure. But in general, it's a good list - Godfather, Seven Samurai, Pulp Fiction, Schindler's List, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, 12 Angry Men, etc.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (kumBu)

782 We saw "Nocturnal Animals" this afternoon and I have never ever seen a more visually disgusting opening sequence.

The film was good, Amy Adams was beyond terrific, but gah, the opening, I just can't even . . .

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (U6f54)

783 Good grief, he was on screen for... what, 10 minutes? Watching Vinnie Jones chew scenery (and practically everything else) is cause enough to make this the greatest movie of all time.

And Del Toro was SUPPOSED to have a bad accent.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (Pz4pT)

Vinnie Jones was awesome in that movie. His monologue in the pub to Lincoln and Sol is just epic.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (0mRoj)

784 Actually he was blind in one eye.
Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (BS8yt)


Well, not really blind. He got a little dirt in it.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:59 PM (Pz4pT)

785 My office closed for the day after our computer server went down and I went to see Keanu. Only person in the theater.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 08:59 PM (IDPbH)

786 766 Gugu Mbatha-Raw, listed as starring in Miss Sloane. Just begging to be fucked with, with a name like that.
Posted by: dartist at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (Cf0i2)



Watchyu talkin' about, Willis?

Posted by: The Improbably-Named Te-Nehisi Shabazz at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (SRKgf)

787 He is blind. He gets the bird by sound.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (R+30W)


There's a scene in Ray (as in Charles, movie) like that!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (wCEn4)

788
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
They just don't make 'em like that any more.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (zu88C)

789 Like Star Wars. - mostly shit
Or Mad Max.
- latest one, shit
Or Skyfall.
- meh
Or Harry Potter.
- meh
Or Lord of the Rings.
- 2/3 good, last one meh
Or Gladiator.
- meh
Or No Country for Old Men.
- nihilistic meh

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (6FqZa)

790 McDonough jinxed Justin Tucker.

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (iUpcK)

791
wow did you see that blocked field goal?

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (Knv95)

792 Mother hated chia pets. Reminded her of grass growing out of skulls she saw whilst in concentration camp.

Ooooookay. So much for that idea as a joke gift...

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 09:00 PM (qJhUV)

793 Great art makes you see things in new ways.

Showgirls made me (briefly) question my affection for tits.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (iMxBJ)

794 >>>A great, great 80's flick. Rourke's best. An overlooked and undeservedly forgotten movie. A stone cold classic that deserves much more love.
Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 08:33 PM (lmIoG)

You see Factotum? Same character, different actor (Bukowski). Pretty decent flick, not as good as Barfly, though.

Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (q177U)

795 "I'm very interested in Scorsese's new move "Silence". Anybody read the book it's based on?
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 08:56 PM (JSovD) "

Read it in a Japanese lit class - it's good, and I'm curious as to how it will work on film.

I will say that I was more of a fan of the book that was paired with it, Graham Greene's 'The Power and The Glory.' But I'm a pretty big Graham Greene fan, so there's a bit of bias there.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (kumBu)

796 779 I only said 93.4%. You just listed the rest.

And, BTW, there are only 1 1/2 good movies in that list.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (zc3Db)

=========

There's plenty more. And you weren't talking about movies you thought were good but which has either gay sex or were foreign and we'll regarded by critics.

Critics are movie fans with a variety of tastes. Find a few that you agree with (I have four that I agree with most of the time) and explore what they like.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (Jj43a)

797 746 Is this thread for Hollywood only? I don't watch anything in the theaters. It has to be free on TV.
Posted by: Miley, Duchess of the DSR
-------------

*raises glass in solidarity.
Although, I borrow bootleg movies from the neighbor occasionally.
(Have John Wick & Train wreck now - I may have accidentally dropped the Schumer dvd. And walked on it for a few days)

BTW, Miley. Thanks for the recipe - just got back from the grocery because I needed the almonds.
I'll send a proper Thank You later.

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (xCv1X)

798 Good grief, he was on screen for... what, 10 minutes? Watching Vinnie Jones chew scenery (and practically everything else) is cause enough to make this the greatest movie of all time.

And Del Toro was SUPPOSED to have a bad accent.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 08:55 PM (Pz4pT)

Vinnie Jones was awesome in that movie. His monologue in the pub to Lincoln and Sol is just epic.
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (0mRoj)


I absolutely love that Stratham pretty much played against type. He was about the least badarse dude in the film, even though in real life he could probably kick all their arses together.

Including Vinnie.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (Pz4pT)

799 Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 08:58 PM (6FqZa)

That's one of my guilty pleasure movies. Watch it every time I come across it on TV.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (IDPbH)

800 You see Factotum? Same character, different actor (Bukowski). Pretty decent flick, not as good as Barfly, though.


Posted by: Max Power at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM


No I haven't seen it. Will keep an eye out for it and catch it.

Posted by: otho at December 12, 2016 09:02 PM (lmIoG)

801 >>>Zombie Fred Fenster<<<

Fenster was great.

"Why'd you have to say dat for?"

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at December 12, 2016 09:02 PM (x3uSY)

802 I don't remember any of this stuff about Eli being blind. I don't remember anything even remotely like that. Others in the movie were blind. That was the thing with the glasses, but Eli? I don't know where you guys are getting this stuff from. He was reading the friggin song titles on his iPod in the first scenes.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:02 PM (zc3Db)

803 You see his eyes are clouded over in the end. It is the big reveal. We hadn't realized it as the movie was playing out, but then we are shown the truth. And, of course, in addition to how well he compensated with his other senses, he had God watching over him and showing him the way.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:03 PM (R+30W)

804 795 I will say that I was more of a fan of the book that was paired with it, Graham Greene's 'The Power and The Glory.' But I'm a pretty big Graham Greene fan, so there's a bit of bias there.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (kumBu)


Oh, that's interesting. I had this idea that he was a commie who wrote depressing books, so have avoided him. Wrong guy?

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:03 PM (iMxBJ)

805 "Happened to me a few times. I especially remember that Kurt Russell stinkfest "Soldier". I'd shown up at the late night screening because I was bored at the time. I'm surprised the projectionist bothered."

I rather enjoyed that one.

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 09:03 PM (JSovD)

806 I will take the IMDB top 100 over most critic's lists.

"Warcraft" was better than most critics gave it credit for, yes. It could have been great but unfortunately the producers failed to oversee the process. So we got a bungled screenplay and some ludicrous performances.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 09:03 PM (6FqZa)

807 My office closed for the day after our computer server went down and I went to see Keanu. Only person in the theater.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 08:59 PM (IDPbH)

That was such a sad movie. When the blind killer whale that hunted seals by scent alone ate Rosie O'Donnell, and died of bile poisoning, I broke down and cried.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (MiBfH)

808 "Do you have anything to declare?"

"Yeah - don't go to England."

Snatch has so many good lines. How did Guy Ritchie go from that to (shudders) Swept Away? Oh right, Madonna sucked all of the talent out of him through his dick and it took him a decade to get it back.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (kumBu)

809 How to suck as an NFL quarterback.

Posted by: The Book of Eli at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (kTF2Z)

810 Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election

Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (P/kVC)

811 I absolutely love that Stratham pretty much played against type. He was about the least badarse dude in the film, even though in real life he could probably kick all their arses together.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (Pz4pT)


Actually, in real life Statham was an Olympic diver.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (zc3Db)

812 802 I don't remember any of this stuff about Eli being blind. I don't remember anything even remotely like that. Others in the movie were blind. That was the thing with the glasses, but Eli? I don't know where you guys are getting this stuff from. He was reading the friggin song titles on his iPod in the first scenes.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:02 PM (zc3Db)

==========

They showed his dead eyes at the end. He read the Bible every day and it was in brail. He used the iPod 1st generation with the wheel, which is believable that he could find his song after years of practice.

I think the twist is dumb, but they do enough to not cheat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (Jj43a)

813 The difference between rotten tomato critic reviews and audience reviews is usually a huge gap.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:05 PM (IDPbH)

814 802 I don't remember any of this stuff about Eli being blind. I don't remember anything even remotely like that. Others in the movie were blind. That was the thing with the glasses, but Eli? I don't know where you guys are getting this stuff from. He was reading the friggin song titles on his iPod in the first scenes.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:02 PM (zc3Db)



you're wrong.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 09:05 PM (z/Ubi)

815 I think the guy in Eli was far-sighted, with bad contacts (only ones available after the apocalypse).

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:06 PM (BS8yt)

816 I'm probably the only person on the planet who hates everything Denzel Washington does.

I remember watching Glory, and seeing him getting whipped, thinking "oh quit your bloody preening, you wanker!"

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:06 PM (Pz4pT)

817 If he was blind he was ridiculously Master Po. He puts things down, runs around, the walks back to them and picks them up. Presumably by smell.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (0F67M)

818 Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election

Posted by: Burnt Toast

---

Chris Wallas is a duplicitous, mealy-mouthed little shit.

Like I said last night, he and MeAgain should go host a show together on CNN.

peas in a pod

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (zu88C)

819 Book of Eli is great

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (6FqZa)

820 809 How to suck as an NFL quarterback.
Posted by: The Book of Eli at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (kTF2Z)


ELI MANNING IS NOT A GOOD QUARTERBACK COMPARED TO HIS BROTHER, YOU SEE.

Posted by: BEN ROETHLISBERGER at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (iMxBJ)

821 The WSJ's reviewer Joe Morganstern has an interesting take on the singing and dancing in "La La Land," open now in probably NYC and L.A., and into wide release maybe next week.

It's a musical, and stars Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, who both of course do a lot of singing and dancing.

Morganstern says it's not the equivalent of an old Hollywood blockbuster of a musical, though, in that the co-stars simply do not have the chops of, say, Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, Debby Reynolds, or Rita Moreno. He says they do their parts admirably, but not at that high level of the old films. Morganstern says that modern audiences like their musical stars to be a little more "normal."

I can understand this, for a generation growing up with American Idol.

Posted by: the littl shyning man at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (U6f54)

822 No discussion of bad movies is complete without referencing The English Patient.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (wfDW1)

823 They showed his dead eyes at the end. He read the Bible every day and it was in brail. He used the iPod 1st generation with the wheel, which is believable that he could find his song after years of practice.

That must ahve happened after they showed that stupid koran on the shelf - at which point I turned it off.

I think the twist is dumb, but they do enough to not cheat.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (Jj43a)


Wow. That does have to be one of the stupidest, most gratuitous pieces of movie silliness ever. It was a great movie without that. It seems incredibly stupid with it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (zc3Db)

824 >>>>Seven Samurai<<<<

Kikuchiyo is the Steve McQueen of this movie. You always hope he'll make it no matter how many times you've seen it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (x3uSY)

825 Eli was blind.

Soundtrack:

https://youtu.be/2z_xNE8ETcM

Posted by: BourbonChicken at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (VdICR)

826 822 No discussion of bad movies is complete without referencing The English Patient.
Posted by: Dave in Fla at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (wfDW1)

=========

Elaine: "I hate it!"
Peterman: "you're fired."
Elaine: "Good. Can I go?"

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (Jj43a)

827 I absolutely love that Stratham pretty much played against type. He was about the least badarse dude in the film, even though in real life he could probably kick all their arses together.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:01 PM (Pz4pT)

Actually, in real life Statham was an Olympic diver.
Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (zc3Db)


Mastered more than one of the martial arts, I believe.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (Pz4pT)

828 "810 Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election"

Idiots really think Russia would have hacked our election to get a big time capitalist who wants to build up America power and prestige as president as opposed to the Hag who would have continued making us weaker and weaker? Hmm. Which one would benefit a resurgent Russia? Hmmm.

Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 09:10 PM (JSovD)

829 "Oh, that's interesting. I had this idea that he was a commie who wrote depressing books, so have avoided him. Wrong guy?

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:03 PM (iMxBJ) "

I think you've got the wrong guy - Greene is a Christian writer also known for doing some spy novels like "Our Man in Havana." Also did the screenplay for 'The Third Man,' one of my favorite movies of all time.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (kumBu)

830 "Gugu Mbatha-Raw"
-----------------
I'm sorry, but it's time to bring back the cruel, oppressive custom of making actors change their names if they aren't blessed with pretty ones.
She's a lovely woman but that name has got to go.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (Nox3c)

831 Eli was, shall we say, supernaturally blessed. Yes, he does stuff he shouldn't be able to, but not because he can secretly see.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (39g3+)

832 Mastered more than one of the martial arts, I believe.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (Pz4pT)

"Lead pipe. Picked it up in the engine room."

Posted by: just the punchline at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (MiBfH)

833 810 Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election
Posted by: Burnt Toast at December 12, 2016 09:04 PM (P/kVC)

Yup.... stating it as FACT...

Not even bothering to question the assertion, just what it means...

They are now fully onboard the Trump Destruction Derby...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (qf6WZ)

834 I don't remember any of this stuff about Eli being blind. I don't remember anything even remotely like that.///

You fell asleep before the reveal of the braille Bible?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (bqN/x)

835 829 I think you've got the wrong guy
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (kumBu)


Sounds that way.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (iMxBJ)

836
>>>Zombie Fred Fenster

I'm Dickens. He's Fenster.

Posted by: Dickens at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (IqV8l)

837 816 I'm probably the only person on the planet who hates everything Denzel Washington does.


What? Training Day? Man on Fire? The Equalizer?

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (0mRoj)

838 671 I wanted to like Book of Eli ...

... heard it wasn't so good.
Posted by: SD at December 12, 2016 08:41 PM (fiGNd)


Wifey and I liked it. I even saw it twice.

Denzel was good and Gary Oldman didn't disappoint. I liked the spiritual dimension and the hint of a prophet under God's protection.

I'm apparently less picky about movies than most morons, so other people's mileage may vary.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (nvMvs)

839 829
I think you've got the wrong guy - Greene is a Christian writer also known for doing some spy novels like "Our Man in Havana." Also did the screenplay for 'The Third Man,' one of my favorite movies of all time.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (kumBu)

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Oh, he was definitely anti-American at least. Based on his work with British intelligence in Southeast Asia and what he saw of American involvement there.

Doesn't change the fact that he was a great writer.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (Jj43a)

840 Edelman is one tough little fvcker!
Blount is one tough big fvker!

Posted by: Tom Brady at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (mBYZv)

841 817 If he was blind he was ridiculously Master Po. He puts things down, runs around, the walks back to them and picks them up. Presumably by smell.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (0F67M)



You mean that a movie might actually go and make a character more over the top badass in skills and ability than they probably would be in reality? No, that's just ridiculous. Hollywood would never do anything like that.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (z/Ubi)

842 Wow. That does have to be one of the stupidest, most gratuitous pieces of movie silliness ever. It was a great movie without that. It seems incredibly stupid with it.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:08 PM (zc3Db)

++++

He wasn't doing it all himself. He was literally on a mission from God. That God chose a blind man as his tool just shows the mystery of God.

I say all this as a non-believer. It's just what the movie was.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (R+30W)

843 That must ahve happened after they showed that stupid koran on the shelf - at which point I turned it off.

Agreed, this turned what could have been a powerful tale about the power of G*d's Word into, I don't even know, a scavenger-hunt. Starring San Francisco as the heart of Western culture.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (6FqZa)

844 Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (zu88C)

I think KSA Prince Alaweed is still writing the bonus checks at Faux!

Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (wCEn4)

845 She's a lovely woman but that name has got to go.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (Nox3c)

Alrighty, then!

Posted by: Gugu Mbatha-Sushi at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (MiBfH)

846 I defy anyone to refute my theory about the Book of Eli and my theory in 815.

The gauntlet has been thrown.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (BS8yt)

847 "Kikuchiyo is the Steve McQueen of this movie. You always hope he'll make it no matter how many times you've seen it.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at December 12, 2016 09:09 PM (x3uSY) "

I'm almost positive Toshiro Mifune could eat a sandwich for 2 hours and somehow make it entertaining - one of the all-time greats.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (kumBu)

848 Yes, Eli was blind, and there were dozens of clues to that:

http://bit.ly/2gTyi5g

I am frankly shocked at how many people missed this in the movie. By the end they were practically beating you over the head with it.

Then again, after the first Matrix movie, someone asked me why they never explained where the aliens (robots) had come from.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (wB8Tg)

849 I'm probably the only person on the planet who hates everything Denzel Washington does.


What? Training Day? Man on Fire? The Equalizer?
Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (0mRoj)


I think I've seen about 15 minutes of Training Day. Absolutely hated it. I haven't seen the others. His mannerisms annoy the heck out of me.

Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (Pz4pT)

850 Eli was blind in the Bible. I always thought Eli in the movie became blind after he reached his destination. Remember he saw the old ladies hands shake and grab Kunis to leave. Maybe he was blind before he started on his trip, given sight by God and then have it taken away when he reached his destination.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (IDPbH)

851 Wait, can we go back to that "fat is good for you" thing? I kinda liked that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2016 09:15 PM (cm1Bl)

852 I would have enjoyed The Third Man a lot more if it hadn't been for the bloody Bazouki.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:15 PM (39g3+)

853 Not to say that Greene's books can't be depressing, but he's not a nihilist - if a book is a downer, it's usually for a good reason.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (kumBu)

854 Fox Business News is a good alternative but it has some kind of filler crap shows right when I need it the most.
===


Charles Payne atomized the fey goy Hillary apologist on his show over the Russia "Hack" horseshit today.

Wish they would put some more of that on instead of Weird Inheritances or whatever.



Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (zu88C)

855 849 I think I've seen about 15 minutes of Training Day. Absolutely hated it. I haven't seen the others. His mannerisms annoy the heck out of me.
Posted by: BurtTC at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (Pz4pT)


I hated Training Day too, and that weird supernatural one. I don't like it when he gets that mumbly Elmer Fudd voice. But Man On Fire is great. So is Flight, IMO.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (iMxBJ)

856 828 "810 Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election"

Idiots really think Russia would have hacked our election to get a big time capitalist who wants to build up America power and prestige as president as opposed to the Hag who would have continued making us weaker and weaker? Hmm. Which one would benefit a resurgent Russia? Hmmm.
Posted by: Tuna at December 12, 2016 09:10 PM (JSovD)



I basically agree, but I can also see where Putin would prefer Trump. Putin wants what's best for Russia; Trump wants what's best for America. There's plenty to negotiate about.

Putin probably realizes that Hillary is a sociopath at best, and a psychopath at worst. She'd be more likely to start WWIII just to prove she's a Strong Woman. Whatever you think about Putin, I don't think he wants WWIII.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (sdi6R)

857 844 Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:07 PM (zu88C)

I think KSA Prince Alaweed is still writing the bonus checks at Faux!
Posted by: Hrothgar at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (wCEn4)

Had forgotten about that...

Note, Trump may choose the head of Exxon Mobile.... someone who really knows energy politics... as his Sec State...

A Man who made Exxon Mobile the largest Energy company in the world...

Anddddddd.... Fox continues Anti Trump...

what a co- in- ki- dink.....

Posted by: Don Q. at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (qf6WZ)

858 852 I would have enjoyed The Third Man a lot more if it hadn't been for the bloody Bazouki.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:15 PM (39g3+)

===========

Do you mean the zither? The music?

I think it works as juxtaposition. The music feels light while the movie itself is rather dark.

Posted by: TheJamesMadison at December 12, 2016 09:17 PM (Jj43a)

859 >>>Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election


You know what it would be like if that were factual? It would be like the scene in Take the Money and Run where two gangs of bank robbers accidentally showed up at the same bank at the same time. So they asked the patrons, "Would you rather be robbed be them, or by us?" There can hardly be any alternative to another Democrat term that would be worse.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 09:17 PM (+wjl1)

860 850 Eli was blind in the Bible. I always thought Eli in the movie became blind after he reached his destination. Remember he saw the old ladies hands shake and grab Kunis to leave. Maybe he was blind before he started on his trip, given sight by God and then have it taken away when he reached his destination.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (IDPbH)



Kunis saw the old ladies hands shaking.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 09:17 PM (z/Ubi)

861 You fell asleep before the reveal of the braille Bible?

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (bqN/x)


I really don't remember it. Maybe ... was this after Gary Oldman took it? But a Braille book doesn't mean that the person is blind. There was only one bible copy left ... and if it's braille then you have to take what you get.

As I wrote above, if they wanted to be too cute by half and made this "amazing" twist at the end that he's blind ... then they just ruined an otherwise excellent movie. Which just means that they never knew what they were doing, to start, and just hit on a fluke.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:17 PM (zc3Db)

862 837 816 I'm probably the only person on the planet who hates everything Denzel Washington does.


What? Training Day? Man on Fire? The Equalizer?
Posted by: Insomniac
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Flight.

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (Vwer9)

863 Best blind Martial Arts Master movie ever. Rutger Hauer in Blind Fury.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096945/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_123

Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (bqN/x)

864 That means Miss Sloane earned less money per theater than Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, Shaun the Sheep Movie, Lawnmower Man 2: Beyond Cyberspace, and Gigli.

Posted by: Ace at 06:54 PM

Heh.
Heheh.
Hahaha.
Bwahahahaha!

Worse than Gigli.

Preach on, Hollywood! There's NOTHING the public craves more!

ps. except ass-kicking girls, and evil white men, guaranteed box office gold to combine them.

Posted by: OneEyedJack at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (kKHcp)

865 Oh, and about the Russians supposedly hacking, if Soros couldn't do that in her favor, why would we think Putin could do it in his? Stupid. Fake news. All that.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (cm1Bl)

866 >>>> Toshiro Mifune<<<

Yojimbo is the shit.

One of my favorite action scenes is the brawl in the snow in Sword of Doom. Mifune was too cool.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (x3uSY)

867 Isn't Flight the one where he plays a drunk pilot? I think he was pretty darn good in that one.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (CFc5L)

868 I would have enjoyed The Third Man a lot more if it hadn't been for the bloody Bazouki.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:15 PM (39g3+)

It was a zither. Leastwise in the original, and the only one you should watch.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (MiBfH)

869 I couldn't stand Training Day, but Denzel is usually really good. I liked the remake of The Equalizer quite a bit. Man On Fire was great, too.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (39g3+)

870 I'm sorry, but it's time to bring back the cruel, oppressive custom of making actors change their names if they aren't blessed with pretty ones.
She's a lovely woman but that name has got to go.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 12, 2016 09:11 PM (Nox3c)



Diana Fluck: Why whatever do you mean?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (auHtY)

871 Gugu Mbatha-Sushi
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Posted by: Margarita DeVille at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (Nox3c)

872 Best blind Martial Arts Master movie ever. Rutger Hauer in Blind Fury.

Great movie.

Posted by: tu3031 at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (qJhUV)

873 863 Best blind Martial Arts Master movie ever. Rutger Hauer in Blind Fury.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096945/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_123
Posted by: Willy J. at December 12, 2016 09:18 PM (bqN/x)

Not that I am a fan, but every time I hear his name, I think "Howard Rutger." I never say it right, either.

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (cm1Bl)

874 850 Eli was blind in the Bible. I always thought Eli in the movie became blind after he reached his destination. Remember he saw the old ladies hands shake and grab Kunis to leave. Maybe he was blind before he started on his trip, given sight by God and then have it taken away when he reached his destination.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:14 PM (IDPbH)

He heard the rattling as she was handling the tea set.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (0mRoj)

875 A Man who made Exxon Mobile the largest Energy company in the world...



Anddddddd.... Fox continues Anti Trump...


====


Billionaire Proxy Fight

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (zu88C)

876 I say all this as a non-believer. It's just what the movie was.



Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (R+30W)

Hey grammie!!! Fenelon!!! We got us a live one here!!!!

: )

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (D2vc1)

877 If Russian hacked the DNC and tilted the election toward the Donald, then I for one want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.

Posted by: navybrat at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (w7KSn)

878 762 *End SPOILERS*

He shoots a bird out of the sky with an arrow. He's not blind.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (0F67M)


He IS blind. That's the Christian mystical part of the movie that made it so appealing to me.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (nvMvs)

879 "I would have enjoyed The Third Man a lot more if it hadn't been for the bloody Bazouki.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:15 PM (39g3+) "

I think it's a zither, but fair enough - the soundtrack is definitely a 'love it or hate it' thing. I think it works for the atmosphere but I certainly wouldn't listen to it for pleasure.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (kumBu)

880 >>>>Best blind Martial Arts Master movie ever.<<<<

Zatoichi.

Posted by: the guy that moves pianos for a living at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (x3uSY)

881 Jeebus. Fox News is entertaing Russia hacked the election

They could have half the pie all to themselves, but no. I guess news types need invites to cocktail parties, too.

Posted by: t-bird at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (HwVbl)

882 I basically agree, but I can also see where Putin would prefer Trump. Putin wants what's best for Russia; Trump wants what's best for America. There's plenty to negotiate about.

Putin probably realizes that Hillary is a sociopath at best, and a psychopath at worst. She'd be more likely to start WWIII just to prove she's a Strong Woman. Whatever you think about Putin, I don't think he wants WWIII.
Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 09:16 PM (sdi6R)

Concur... right now Russia needs stability in the world...

They don't really want to pick a fight... they have plenty of natural resources... a market in Europe... they really don't WANT a new Cold War...

Yet WE (and the EU) are now on their borders...

A President who won't stick a finger in the Bears eye... who will do business with them, vice antagonize them?

Of course they'd rather have Trump.... vice someone who is a known War monger....(look at Egypt, Libya, Syria...).

Posted by: Don Q. at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (qf6WZ)

883 It was a zither.

Yeah, I was just unsuccessfully attempting to channel John Cleese from the Cheese shop sketch.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (39g3+)

884 I also found it a twist that the Sully character in the recent Tom Hanks "Sully" movie was revealed to be blind in the end.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (BS8yt)

885 Well shit. I thought he was blind, too. Who brought the confusion into this issue? Now I'm befuddled.

Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (CFc5L)

886 He IS blind. That's the Christian mystical part of the movie that made it so appealing to me.

Me, too. For once in a movie, God helps the good guy and he's got powers behind mortal ken instead of being a martyr and a punching bag.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (39g3+)

887 I think it's a zither, but fair enough - the soundtrack is definitely a 'love it or hate it' thing. I think it works for the atmosphere but I certainly wouldn't listen to it for pleasure.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (kumBu)

You must be a young pup. The Harry Lime Theme, played on zither was a huge Top 40 hit in the early 1950's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (MiBfH)

888 883 Yeah, I was just unsuccessfully attempting to channel John Cleese from the Cheese shop sketch.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (39g3+)


I thought that seemed familiar.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (iMxBJ)

889
If Russian hacked the DNC and tilted the election toward the Donald,
then I for one want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.

===

So is Soros influencing American politics with actual evidence, money trails and influence groups still "conspiracy"?

Just trying to keep up.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (zu88C)

890 Welcome Sir, to the Natural Cheese Emporium.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (0F67M)

891 He shoots a bird out of the sky with an arrow. He's not blind.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 08:54 PM (0F67M)

He IS blind. That's the Christian mystical part of the movie that made it so appealing to me.
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (nvMvs)

Do you not suppose that he had at least a little divine intervention on his behalf, since he was the last one with the Bible?

Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2016 09:23 PM (cm1Bl)

892 884 I also found it a twist that the Sully character in the recent Tom Hanks "Sully" movie was revealed to be blind in the end.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:21 PM (BS8yt)

He narrowly avoided the volcano because he could sense the increased heat. Also his co-pilot screaming "PULL UP, THERE'S A FUCKING VOLCANO!"

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:23 PM (0mRoj)

893 Billionaire Proxy Fight

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:19 PM (zu88C)

Lets see..... tough choice...

American Billionaire who got there through producing...

Vice... Saudi Prince...

OK then...

Posted by: Don Q. at December 12, 2016 09:23 PM (qf6WZ)

894 867 Isn't Flight the one where he plays a drunk pilot? I think he was pretty darn good in that one.
Posted by: washrivergal
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That's the one.
I thought he was awesome in that.
In fact, SMFH was looking for a movie for her character study paper for school & I recommended it.
She liked it & ended up doing her paper on it.

Posted by: Chi at December 12, 2016 09:23 PM (Vwer9)

895 885 Well shit. I thought he was blind, too. Who brought the confusion into this issue? Now I'm befuddled.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (CFc5L)



People like TPOP.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 09:24 PM (z/Ubi)

896 885 Well shit. I thought he was blind, too. Who brought the confusion into this issue? Now I'm befuddled.
Posted by: washrivergal at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (CFc5L)

The character is blind.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:24 PM (0mRoj)

897 "You must be a young pup. The Harry Lime Theme, played on zither was a huge Top 40 hit in the early 1950's.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (MiBfH) "

I know the theme pretty well - Anton Karas did the soundtrack.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:24 PM (kumBu)

898 Soros is apparently spending his money to no effect, so, I hope he keeps it up until his money is all gone.

Posted by: navybrat at December 12, 2016 09:24 PM (w7KSn)

899 I'll concede that he was blind but he might as well be sighted as they made his actions that of a sighted person even if they gave subtle hints he was blind. I wish one of the hints was him bumping into an object at least once.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (IDPbH)

900 given sight by God and then have it taken away when he reached his destination.





Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth
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Yeah, but no. There is a long tradition of blind swordsman movies. Heck, there's even one called, get this, The Blind Swordsman: Zatoichi. It's also good. On Netflix. I think it's still there. Rutger Hauer was in one called, Blind Fury.

Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (8b+oT)

901 Nood.

It's about the lowest of the low in the media.

Posted by: Splunge at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (iMxBJ)

902 899 I'll concede that he was blind but he might as well be sighted as they made his actions that of a sighted person even if they gave subtle hints he was blind. I wish one of the hints was him bumping into an object at least once.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (IDPbH)

He did a couple of times.

Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (0mRoj)

903 Thanks for the little piece of real there, JJS.

No relatives, but I met quite a few people with the scrawly little tattoo back last century, and even though I was young and stupid I listened to every word they said.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (02Q1d)

904 Vice... Saudi Prince...



OK then...

===

I laughed when the Saudis threatened Trump that he "had better not stop buying their oil" immediately after the largest oil find in US history.

I laughed and laughed.

Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (zu88C)

905 People like TPOP.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 09:24 PM (z/Ubi)


I must juts not have remembered what the movie was really like. I'm going to have to watch it again.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (zc3Db)

906 If he's blind, it's not even a twist. It's not necessary in the least. The very idea sounds like ... M. Night Shamalamadingdong.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (0F67M)

907 889
If Russian hacked the DNC and tilted the election toward the Donald,
then I for one want to thank them from the bottom of my heart.

===

So is Soros influencing American politics with actual evidence, money trails and influence groups still "conspiracy"?

Just trying to keep up.
Posted by: Mortimer, Finish Her! at December 12, 2016 09:22 PM (zu88C)


Putin is no fan of Soros, so we're actually on the same page here.

Posted by: rickl at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (sdi6R)

908 I wish one of the hints was him bumping into an object at least once.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (IDPbH)

Like bumping repeatedly into Christina Hendricks?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (MiBfH)

909 He narrowly avoided the volcano because he could sense the increased
heat. Also his co-pilot screaming "PULL UP, THERE'S A FUCKING VOLCANO!"

"Ahem"

Posted by: Wi Too Lo at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (Cf0i2)

910 876 I say all this as a non-believer. It's just what the movie was.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:12 PM (R+30W)

Hey grammie!!! Fenelon!!! We got us a live one here!!!!

: )

Posted by: Country Boy - stay deplorable my friend at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (D2vc1)

++++

Oh no. Tell me you didn't just sic the Christians on me.



Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (R+30W)

911
obama's new tranny bathroom regs require, get this, a URINAL in Womens/Girls bathrooms because some "women" have penises and penises are more conducive to urinals

Posted by: Soothsayer at December 12, 2016 09:26 PM (Knv95)

912 instead of being a martyr and a punching bag.

YEAAAAAAOWWW

Posted by: Sean Bean in 'The Black Death' at December 12, 2016 09:27 PM (6FqZa)

913 This was a Year of Remakes Gone Bad: Ghostbusters, Ben Hur, Magnificent Seven.

Not all remakes have to be bad, but tread carefully when you want to take on a classic.

Posted by: logprof at December 12, 2016 09:27 PM (iUpcK)

914 One of my favorite scenes is in Dead Alive where the priest tells the main character to clear out, because he'll take care of the zombies. Then he declares "I kick ass for the Lord!!" and proceeds to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at December 12, 2016 09:28 PM (39g3+)

915 I defy anyone to refute my theory about the Book of Eli and my theory in 815.

The gauntlet has been thrown.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:13 PM (BS8yt)


Page 110:

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Book-of-Eli,-The.html

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 09:28 PM (wB8Tg)

916 Also, people just can't like different movies? Whatevs.

Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 09:29 PM (wB8Tg)

917 If he's blind, it's not even a twist. It's not
necessary in the least. The very idea sounds like ... M. Night
Shamalamadingdong.

Posted by: Grump928

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It is an issue because when Gary Oldman gets Eli's bible, it is in braille and he can't read braille.

Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:29 PM (8b+oT)

918 In the 2002 re-boot of the video game Shinobi, there's a blind swordsman boss that fights you in a corridor filled with ankle-deep water - I don't remember any other blind swordsman on film or in a game doing something nice and logical like that.

Of course, since it's a video game, you can just jump and avoid touching the water.

Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at December 12, 2016 09:30 PM (kumBu)

919 White is one sticky-fingered fast fvcker!
Blount is one big tough fvker!
Mitchell can catch, too.

16-0, in middle of 2nd Q.

Posted by: Tom Brady at December 12, 2016 09:30 PM (mBYZv)

920 Posted by: Insomniac at December 12, 2016 09:25 PM (0mRoj)

Do not remember that but okay.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:31 PM (IDPbH)

921 >>>78 ... btw: who's jessica chastain?

I personally realized I was old when I asked this question myself two years ago. People were chattering about her online and I realized I'd seen the name but had no idea who the hell they were talking about.

It's the woman who played the lead in Zero Dark Thirty. She's done a lot of mostly forgettable movies since then.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2016 09:32 PM (8rNrN)

922 It is an issue because when Gary Oldman gets Eli's bible, it is in braille and he can't read braille.

Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:29 PM (8b+oT)


But lots of sighted people can read Braille. It just means that the last bible happened to have been a braille copy - which makes sense, since they were out trying to destroy all of them and would most likely have missed one they couldn't read.

Just seeing a braille book doesn't mean that the owner is blind. Given a few months Gary Oldman could have easily learned Braille and kept the book to read, thereby having a braille bible.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:34 PM (zc3Db)

923 Page 110:

http://www.imsdb.com/scripts/Book-of-Eli,-The.html
Posted by: Merovign, Dark Lord of the Sith at December 12, 2016 09:28 PM (wB8Tg)

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Oh, sure, bring the script into it.

Posted by: Make America Great Again at December 12, 2016 09:35 PM (BS8yt)

924 Interceptions work, too.
Thanks, Flaaco!

Posted by: Tom Brady at December 12, 2016 09:36 PM (mBYZv)

925 Zatoichi

Is he Blind or is he faking it.

Posted by: Patrick From Ohio at December 12, 2016 09:36 PM (dKiJG)

926 Sometimes, they film a movie with more than one ending. Maybe there's another ending out there, where Sloane gets kidnapped by an armed thug, and Clint Eastwood blows his head off, completely changing Sloane's mind about the issue.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 09:39 PM (rH4JY)

927 922 It is an issue because when Gary Oldman gets Eli's bible, it is in braille and he can't read braille.

Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:29 PM (8b+oT)

But lots of sighted people can read Braille. It just means that the last bible happened to have been a braille copy - which makes sense, since they were out trying to destroy all of them and would most likely have missed one they couldn't read.

Just seeing a braille book doesn't mean that the owner is blind. Given a few months Gary Oldman could have easily learned Braille and kept the book to read, thereby having a braille bible.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:34 PM (zc3Db)

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Learned from who? The blind woman with him hadn't read Braille since she was a child, and claimed she no longer knew how. The world was full of illiterates. Most people couldn't read at all, much less Braille. For all practical purposes, it was a foreign language with no one around who spoke that language.

Having finally gotten his hands on a Bible that he thought he could use to extend his power, it turned out that it was useless to him. Dust in his hands. Which fits with the Christian theme of the movie.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:39 PM (R+30W)

928 One of my favorite scenes is in Dead Alive where the priest tells the main character to clear out, because he'll take care of the zombies. Then he declares "I kick ass for the Lord!!" and proceeds to.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor


And he does it in a New Zillund eggcent. "I kick ahhh-sss for the Lawd!"

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at December 12, 2016 09:41 PM (rH4JY)

929 I always thought before I even saw the movie the character was supposed to be blind since Eli in the bible was blind but they did too many things a sighted person would do and not just the necessary divine intervention . Like why keep the fire going at night if you're blind? When he puts the key in the book it's no effort to hit the hole exactly. To much effort to make him appear sighted IMO .

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 09:45 PM (IDPbH)

930 Learned from who?

By himself. Braille is pretty much just a simple cryptogram. It's not hard to figure out which letter is what with hundreds of pages to work with. It probably wouldn't take more than 10 minutes to figure the alphabet out. From there, it's just a matter of transcribing. The numbers might be a minor hassle, but that's about it.

The most difficult part about learning braille, I would think, is not figuring out which patterns are which letters but learning to sense them with your fingertips. But there's no reason to have to do that just to translate the whole thing once into writing.

The blind woman with him hadn't read Braille since she was a child, and claimed she no longer knew how. The world was full of illiterates. Most people couldn't read at all, much less Braille. For all practical purposes, it was a foreign language with no one around who spoke that language.

Having finally gotten his hands on a Bible that he thought he could use to extend his power, it turned out that it was useless to him. Dust in his hands. Which fits with the Christian theme of the movie.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:39 PM (R+30W)


But Gary Olfman was one of the few who could read. He could have easily read and translated the braille bible. Then, if he had time he could have learned to read braille with his fingers, if he so cared.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:46 PM (zc3Db)

931 Ace and some other funny people need to do a Rifftrax for this movie. Granted, it would require them to actually watch the movie. But it would greatly improve the viewing experience.

Posted by: Mr_Fastbucks at December 12, 2016 09:46 PM (4xZi9)

932 Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
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Or he's just fucking blind like everyone who made the fucking movie says he fucking is.


Learned from who? The blind woman with him hadn't
read Braille since she was a child, and claimed she no longer knew how.
The world was full of illiterates. Most people couldn't read at all,
much less Braille. For all practical purposes, it was a foreign language
with no one around who spoke that language.

Having finally
gotten his hands on a Bible that he thought he could use to extend his
power, it turned out that it was useless to him. Dust in his hands.
Which fits with the Christian theme of the movie.



Posted by: Anon Y. Mous

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Yes. Exactly. Holy shit, what is wrong with people?

Hey, maybe Bruce Willis wasn't really dead in The Sixth Sense! He just had the flu and it was all a dream!


Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:49 PM (8b+oT)

933 >>> Like why keep the fire going at night if you're blind?

well i'm not here to defend a movie I didn't really like, but fire is good for warmth and for warning predators away.

Posted by: ace at December 12, 2016 09:50 PM (8rNrN)

934 But Gary Olfman was one of the few who could read. He could have easily read and translated the braille bible. Then, if he had time he could have learned to read braille with his fingers, if he so cared.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 09:46 PM (zc3Db)

++++

You might be able to figure it out, but that doesn't mean everyone has that skill set. Gary Oldman didn't have your confidence. From his behavior, it wasn't something that even occurred to him to try.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 09:51 PM (R+30W)

935 Then, if he had time he could have learned to read braille with his fingers, if he so cared.

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair
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Yeah, but he didn't.

Dude, you should write some kick ass story about a guy who teaches himself to read braille! Maybe Eli 2: The Guy Who Taught Himself How to Read Braille. You should write that since no one else has! Totally, dude! Run along now. Go write your screenplay! Shoo!


Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:55 PM (8b+oT)

936 891 He IS blind. That's the Christian mystical part of the movie that made it so appealing to me.
Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 09:20 PM (nvMvs)

Do you not suppose that he had at least a little divine intervention on his behalf, since he was the last one with the Bible?
Posted by: tcn in AK at December 12, 2016 09:23 PM (cm1Bl)


Absolutely. I think divine protection of Eli was one of the major themes of the movie. It was one of the most overtly Christian movies to come out of Hollywood in a long time.

Posted by: Michael the TEXIT at December 12, 2016 10:02 PM (nvMvs)

937 Posted by: ace at December 12, 2016 09:50 PM (8rNrN)

Yes but it wasn't cold and he wasn't near it to keep warm. He actually took his shirt off to wash down with a towelette . He was also inside so no predator danger except possibly giving his location away to the marauders with the fire.

Again I concede he was blind but I think too much effort to make him look sighted.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 10:02 PM (IDPbH)

938 Dude, you should write some kick ass story about a guy who teaches himself to read braille! Maybe Eli 2: The Guy Who Taught Himself How to Read Braille. You should write that since no one else has! Totally, dude! Run along now. Go write your screenplay! Shoo!


Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:55 PM (8b+oT)


What the hell is your problem?

Posted by: ThePrimordialOrderedPair at December 12, 2016 10:03 PM (zc3Db)

939 Posted by: Dang at December 12, 2016 09:49 PM (8b+oT)

What the is wrong with you? It's a movie. You act like you're defending one of your kids.

Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 10:06 PM (IDPbH)

940 Yes but it wasn't cold and he wasn't near it to keep warm. He actually took his shirt off to wash down with a towelette . He was also inside so no predator danger except possibly giving his location away to the marauders with the fire.

Again I concede he was blind but I think too much effort to make him look sighted.
Posted by: Sebastian Melmoth at December 12, 2016 10:02 PM (IDPbH)



Eli was the one making the effort to look sighted. That's why when he was speaking to people he made sure to look at them so they wouldn't catch on to him being blind.

Posted by: buzzion at December 12, 2016 10:09 PM (z/Ubi)

941 I've only walked out of one movie: House of Sand and Fog - wanted to strangle every single character in the film.

Somebody made a film with Jennifer Connelly in it and I didn't even want to look at her - now that takes screen writing and directorial talent to pull off.

Barf.

Posted by: An Observation at December 12, 2016 10:13 PM (YO+V3)

942 941 I've only walked out of one movie: House of Sand and Fog - wanted to strangle every single character in the film.

Somebody made a film with Jennifer Connelly in it and I didn't even want to look at her - now that takes screen writing and directorial talent to pull off.

Barf.

Posted by: An Observation at December 12, 2016 10:13 PM (YO+V3)

++++

My favorite part of that movie was Ben Kingsley and his wife arguing with each other and calling each other Arabs, as an insult. Just cracked me up.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at December 12, 2016 10:24 PM (R+30W)

943 Coming soon, after the all-sjw "Star Overseas Contingency" (Star Wars) movie....Oceans 8, with all chick cast. No, not kidding.

Posted by: Kachunka kachunka at December 13, 2016 12:07 AM (0cUlH)

944 Hey now, my family loved Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. We have seen it 3 times. Kind of hoping they would do a sequel, maybe on the Oliver Twist side of things.

Posted by: doug at December 13, 2016 10:45 AM (Y7fRE)

945 Miss Sloane came in last in a three legged horse race @ Hollywood Downs....and was taken out and shot by the Jockey....................................

Posted by: saf at December 13, 2016 11:37 AM (+zN6H)

946 Yankee quote "openings in triple X movies"..............YUUGE so I have heard......................

Posted by: saf at December 13, 2016 11:41 AM (+zN6H)

947 For all you Korean moofie fanz......N Korea is up for an Oscar with "La La Land".......KIM UN BASSINGER is great in the background......

Posted by: saf at December 13, 2016 11:47 AM (+zN6H)

948 Maybe after finding OBL and rescuing Pvt Ryan again she was afraid she would be type cast as an American Hero.

Posted by: they call me...steve at December 13, 2016 04:09 PM (5zw2K)

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