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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
Just saw this and I was watching for some sense of hobby games too. There were 2 that I spotted, one not a shock and so unexpected I swear I must have been mistaken. Over the start credits they have a bunch of game pieces falling in the background and one is a city from Catan. The weird one I would love to have confirmed by someone else is a scene where someone is climbing through a window and in a bookshelf below them is a copy of Renegade Legion: Leviathan.Sagrilarus wrote: I saw Game Night last night and it was very good. Great characters. We had a good audience too that added a few laughs when there wasn't a lot of noise on the screen. I thought they did a good job of balancing the comedy and the excitement.
Not so much as the slightest call out to hobby games. Naddah. Nothing. A big slice of don't-care-pie for what we all think is this raging new industry. Apparently not enough for Hollywood to notice!
My wife and myself were discussing the crap games they play and suspect that the script was written by a gamer and featured some hobby games and the studio told them to change it to mass market games.
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Black Barney wrote: MOON is also the only Kevin Spacey movie that isn’t ruined
Wait...isn’t Moon a Sam Rockwell film? Where was Kevin Rapey in that?
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Black Barney wrote: MOON is also the only Kevin Spacey movie that isn’t ruined
Wait...isn’t Moon a Sam Rockwell film? Where was Kevin Rapey in that?
He's the voice of the robot assistant.
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I was walking home from the bus last night and couldn't stop thinking of Casey Affleck for some reason and the blowback he's getting cuz of allegations around... harassment? I think it's harassment. I can't remember. Anyway, this is one of my favourite actors. I think he's genius in front of the camera and I loved him in Manchester by the Sea, Gone Baby Gone and even when he has little roles in Good Will Hunting and Ocean's Eleven (the one with the guys). Maybe it's cuz his specific allegations don't seem particularly bad to me at all, but I have no problem continuing to enjoy him as an actor in past, present and future performances. No issue at all.
It's pretty easy to dismiss Harvey for me cuz he's just a producer AND his accusations are shocking and extremely distasteful. So if he were to appear in something, i'd have trouble watching it be it something new or old. Luckily he's just a producer so no harm done.
I'll admit that I have trouble watching Mel Gibson or Kevin Spacey stuff without thinking of the drama around them. It's affected me as a viewer and fan for sure. Luckily with Spacey, i think i'll be able to still enjoy MOON no problem at all. Haven't tried it yet.
I think the difference between athletes and movie stars, is that movie stars require serious financial backing for the movies to be made. So that's a risk that someone is taking. They're certainly not going to take additional risk by casting someone who's movie might get boycotted and made an example of, costing that person millions. With athletes, it's all paid for already and fans don't care. They want the team to win. If no law hasn't been broken, they don't care. With movie stars, it's not the fans' opinion which matters, it's the financial backers who aren't going to green light stuff with these risks.
public perception matters in some industries (movies, tv, politics) that rely heavily on investment and financing. it matters much less in others.
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Gregarius wrote: I get that the allegations against him are bad, but isn't there a line to be drawn somewhere that separates the artist from the art? Are we to banish Picasso exhibitions because of his philandering? And why can athletes be convicted of crimes and not lose status, but mere accusations against movie stars destroy their careers?
I'm not a fan of the trend of accusing, and the court of public opinion condemning.
It bothers me the selective hypocrisy of separating the art from the artist.
Condemn lovecraft because he was a racist early on in life. His contributions to literature amongst others thrown to the 4 winds.
Condemn Abraham Lincoln because he was also a racist and wanted to segregate black people to an island away from the United States.
His contributions are null and void... Er wait....
*Eyeroll*
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Belko Experiment - Basically its Battle Royale in an office building with co-workers forced to kill each other. Only watched it because a co-worker recommended it which maybe I should be concerned about. It was direct-to-video level stuff with absolutely no suspense or underlying themes and nothing to say about anything. You'd think it would at least dig at corporate culture a little but nope. Just dudes killing other dudes at the office.
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*With one exception. I didn't think immunology worked like it did in one part of the movie.
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Looking for light entertainment that wasn't too deep, we came across something called Butter. What a great movie. From an anthropological perspective, it's highly interesting as the plot develops around a butter carving contest in Iowa. What a disgusting and wasteful activity, right down my alley. A great cast and a script that reminded me of older Cusack films. Some really dark jokes in an otherwise pretty friendly environment. If you pay attention, it serves some nice offhanded cuts while being just very real. People are like that sometimes. Parts of it are 'Phil Dunphy, the movie', but he's not the main character. It's got an unusual amount of interesting female characters.
I read it got dismissed because a lot of people thought it was a satire about the 2012 republican election. I don't think that was intended at all, just a stupid coincidence. It wasn't intended as a Palin impression, I'd bet. Tons of jabs at racism, hypocrisy, that strange form of christianity and that even stranger form of liberal/conservative divide that imploded shortly after.
Coming round full circle, I had a great time until the credits rolled and I saw it was a Weinstein movie. Now, do I have to like it less? Nah, but I stopped smiling and got all serious for a moment.
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This movie was big, loud, dumb, and tons of fun. In a lot of ways better than the first (Boyega > Hunan, plot, if you can call it that) but didn’t quite have del Toro’s finese. It ain’t high art, it’s giant robots punching giant monsters and every character is a cartoon, but if you were expecting anything else, you’re looking at the wrong movie. Great fun!
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Otherwise, prepare to live in a world without art.
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From an anthropological perspective, it's highly interesting as the plot develops around a butter carving contest in Iowa. What a disgusting and wasteful activity, right down my alley.
The Ohio State Fair has a butter cow every year, with other 'art' on exhibition being relatively topical. Worth seeing so you can check it off your bucket list.
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