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What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?
It's going on for 25 years, I haven't seen it since, and something about that line still cracks me up.
I must watch High Fidelity again, similar stories to above. Loved it, loved the book, might cut close these days.
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And when there were action scenes with the Predator there was too much CGI and quick cutting, making it sometimes hard to follow what the Predator was doing, and the CGI Predator didn't look very good in general. This was also easily the most violent Predator movie but the fact that most of it was CGI was distracting when it was used in places where practical effects would have worked.
As for performances, I didn't really care for the protagonist but Thomas Jane and Keegan-Michael Key were fun. Olivia Munn was actually pretty decent and the script gave her things to do, which was a pleasant surprise. I think I was one of dozens of people nationwide who was excited to see Jake Busey show up, only to be disappointed that he wasn't in the movie and was gone after the first act (which also might be the first time anyone's said that about Jake Busey).
Of the non AVP Predator films, I would put this one last after Predator, Predator 2 and Predators. It's the sort of movie that, once it makes its way to TV, people will convince themselves is better than it is because they can leave the movie on in the background and play on their phone during the boring, formless middle of the film.
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I finally got around to seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, i was amazed at how good Gene Wilder was at doing Wonka and how much fun it was. I feel super guilty for never haven seen it until now. Now I find Depps Wonka just plain ol obnoxious
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Black Barney wrote: Thanks for seeing it instead of us!!
I had a feeling it was going to be a stink burger so I made sure to get off work in time to get the cheaper matinee tickets. I primarily went because it was a chance to see a theatrical Predator film with my sons, so in that respect it was a good time.
Black Barney wrote: I finally got around to seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, i was amazed at how good Gene Wilder was at doing Wonka and how much fun it was. I feel super guilty for never haven seen it until now. Now I find Depps Wonka just plain ol obnoxious
Gene Wilder's portrayal of Wonka is brilliant where, in addition to the eccentricities and aloofness, he infused his performance with a touch of melancholia to round out the character. After Wilder, Depp's Wonka comes off as a shallow, goofy dipshit.
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There are so many great moments...the tumble, the guy fussing with the computer, Mike Teevee’s parents, the opening song, and of course the fucking boat ride, where the film suddenly becomes maliciously psychedelic...
I would actually probably put it on a top 20 of all time list.
Hardcore Henry was just dumb. I watched it only because I like things Timur Bembabektov has been involved in. This was just stupid. Sharlto Copley likely shouldn’t be in films, I think.
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Black Barney wrote: Thanks for seeing it instead of us!!
I finally got around to seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, i was amazed at how good Gene Wilder was at doing Wonka and how much fun it was. I feel super guilty for never haven seen it until now. Now I find Depps Wonka just plain ol obnoxious
That is the single most remarkable thing I've ever seen you post. How on earth did you manage to avoid seeing it? Like not having seen The Wizard of Oz. Seems like they aired it twice a year on TV for 50 years. Maybe it was during maple syrup season up in Canada and you were too busy tapping trees?
Anyway, it's utterly brilliant. Wilder is amazing.
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My verdict? This movie is Cave Evil, utilizing every color within (and a few just just outside of) the human ocular spectrum. It's dumb, but so is staring for too long at a sunset. It's beautiful. It's really, really violent. It's probably a must see, especially for TWBG regulars.
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Edit, Post Script, possible spoiler, and an example of what this movie's all about: The narrative really kicks into high gear at the moment Nick Cage samples the mescalin that the demons have been chugging throughout the movie.
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Another Edit, Post Post Script: Opening track by King Crimson.
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It's wild that with the innovation of hundreds of channels, EVENT t.v. has faded away. It was literally an event when Willy Wonka was on when I was little. Same with the afore mentioned Wizard of Oz. Or going out to see TRHPS. Who didn't watch The Day After when it debuted.repoman wrote:
Black Barney wrote: Thanks for seeing it instead of us!!
I finally got around to seeing Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, i was amazed at how good Gene Wilder was at doing Wonka and how much fun it was. I feel super guilty for never haven seen it until now. Now I find Depps Wonka just plain ol obnoxious
That is the single most remarkable thing I've ever seen you post. How on earth did you manage to avoid seeing it? Like not having seen The Wizard of Oz. Seems like they aired it twice a year on TV for 50 years. Maybe it was during maple syrup season up in Canada and you were too busy tapping trees?
Anyway, it's utterly brilliant. Wilder is amazing.
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Re: event TV- “Kids, come in, Thriller is coming on”...that’s what my friend’s mom would yell out into the neighborhood and we’d all run in to watch it.
I miss event TV. All those miniseries that were a BIG DEAL like V, Amerika, Shogun...special airings of films that at the time weren’t available to see any other way or only on expensive VHS tapes...the holiday stuff is really impacted by this. It used to be you could watch Rudolph ONE time a year and you had to catch it when it was on unless you taped it. Now, the kids watch it 5-6 times and it doesn’t have that ephemeral, transient quality any more.u
Also miss stuff like ABC Sunday Night at the Movies...”viewer discretion...is advised”.
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One particular deleted scene really got to me. The main character was big on lists, and he had already given us a short list of horrible things that he did to his ex:
1. Cheated on her...
2. ... while she was pregnant...
3. ... causing her to get an abortion.
4. Borrowed $4,000 from her, and never paid it back.
5. Said that he could see himself dating somebody else.
So during the movie, that's the moment where everybody realizes that this guy is kind of an asshole and deserves to be dumped. But this one deleted scene is title The Five Worst Things, and I mistakenly thought it was going to be an alternate take. Instead, Cusack looks at the camera and challenges the viewer to think about the five worst things that he did to his significant other. I put the scene on pause, and genuinely reflected upon it. My list:
1. Threw her laptop, which broke on my driveway.
2. Cheated on her.
3. Suggested that she move out of my house at least a half dozen times in the last year worth of arguments.
4. Ditched her at a store in the middle of a public argument, leaving her to walk home.
5. Grabbed the steering wheel to force her to the side of the road, when she was refusing to give me back my own car. We were travelling 30 mph at the time, but I startled her into slowing down and then stopping.
I re-start the movie, and Cusack talks for another minute, and then says "Pencils down." He challenges the viewers to compare our lists with his, and then realize that maybe we shouldn't judge him so harshly. Like Cusack's character, I had my reasons and excuses, but have to admit that it looks bad. This scene really should have stayed in the movie.
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I found it especially interesting that it was super committed to ultra-violence but it was also not very exciting at all... all the action scenes and whatnot are clumsy and analog. Most of the final scenes are not really tense in terms of a "who is going to win and prevail?" kind of way that most action movies today are really going for. The violence is more like a motif, which fits with the heavy metal stuff.
It is super up lots of TWBG alley in terms of anyone who has metal in their blood at all.
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What a disappointment. :/
Visually, it's fantastic. Everything looks cool. Everything. Except for Bruce Wayne's face, I suppose. It seems overly large. But the story.... sucks. They set up this "plot" that allows them to have multiple Batman villains all in the same film, but frankly only two of them matter. The others barely do or say anything, and could have been excised for the better.
This would have made a much better video game than it did a film.
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