You hate Captain America like I hate Prometheus, I think. The details break whatever else is going on there, like 'they didn't bother with the foundation, what the fuck am I watching.'
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You hate Captain America like I hate Prometheus, I think. The details break whatever else is going on there, like 'they didn't bother with the foundation, what the fuck am I watching.'
I get what Cheeks is saying. When you're that into something, you're vigilant about it, and seeing an anachronistic tank hatch in Captain America is as jarring as seeing someone drink a diet Coke in Game of Thrones. Ironically, it's the projects with less money than Captain America that tend to hire a period consultant or two.
We've all had bees in our bonnets over less. It's been pretty great reading people who lose their minds when on-screen depictions of their favorite funnybooksman's costumes stray from the real spider and bat suit giving Cheeks shit for this.
I wonder how much moreit is to criticize a period movie over what a war looks like on screen than it is to opine aboutQuote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
on screen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
At least Prometheus had a story it wanted to tell, even if they got so mixed up with their science and ideology that it collapsed under its flaws. The Marvel movies are disposable and a concerning use of resources for reasons more fundamental than just their details.
Dammit, I guess I have to go back. What did Captain America do, say the Nazis were killing Jews?
Ancient Aliens is on History Channel, you'd love it. Ridley did!Quote:
Originally Posted by FuryFox
Shocked if the next one isn't about pyramid power and healing crystals.
Actually, I think they gloss over that almost entirely.Quote:
Originally Posted by Doc Holliday
Which kind of ruins any build up on the Red Skull. He is suppose to be this ultra evil guy. He is suppose to be someone more evil and smarter than anyone in the Reich. And yet no follow through. It is never shown how he is more evil. The worst thing he does is vaporize some nazi officials. Which on its own, actually makes him nicer than Nazis.
The movie completely flubs the positioning of the characters. It tries to be dark with the villains, and yet pulls back from the history of the period, so the final product is that the Red Skull is somewhere between the Nazi's and Captain America. Like some kind of fascist Tony Stark or Batman. Not super evil. Just ideologically wrong. And still not ideologically as wrong as the alternatives.
And this botched mess is probably deliberate. People do not know how to write true evil in a reoccurring human character. They don't know how to write nazi's. But they probably want to leave things open for sequels, so what do they do? Down play the nazi, up play the fascist. Everyone knows how to write fascists. We have those on Fox News (though Yoshi will say otherwise). The world is full of likable people that become totalitarian fascists when things get hard.
I don't think anyone wants any pesky reality seeping into their summer popcorn flicks. The Holocaust might distract some from all the punching and shield throwing.
I get what you're saying, though. Watching an actor that's never held a musical instrument in their life pretend to play one makes me nuts. Pulls me out of the movie every time.
I mean, I see people cooking wrong every time they cook on film. I just turn off my filter for that.
I was watching Armageddon and my machinist father pointed out in the hanger before flight, Ben Afleck was holding an indicator in his hand to measure an automobile crankshaft. An indicator measures the distance between the indicator and an object (you need to have the indicator mounted to the table to get an acrurate reading, only Superman could hold it still enough to prove anything). And why would NASA have a car crankshaft in a space shuttle?
Shut. Up.
Yeah!
I'm sorry. When I watch a movie, I don't want to miss a thing.
I suppose no more retarded than oddly comparing one or two nonchalant, off-hand comments from the X-Men thread (that I don't even remember making) to someone having a near-breakdown about WW2?Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
He didn't have a "near-breakdown", he stated his opinion and several people jumped down his throat for it and made fun of him for being passionate about history, like it was some great shock he'd react that way. ARBM is right; everyone here has made a pedantic movie observation at some point (for example, Josh being pulled out of Fury Road because Immortan Joe's mask opened during one scene). This is a forum full of jaded, aging nerds. We're all guilty of it.
That mask thing bothered me too. A poignant moment was lost on me because I was thinking about how, why, and when the mask might open.
you assume a lot. I'm moved very little in any direction by captain America.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
Just the artillery.
NO YOU ASSUME A LOTQuote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
I was so mad when Quicksilver moved those bullets left and they still flew forward when time "started" again.
How about how Marty McFly sings in a voice that doesn't even remotely sound anything like Michael J. Fox?
When you're 5, you dismiss all logic in a movie about time traveling DeLoreans.
Down with the flu today, checked out There will be Blood. Excellent. The score really ramps up every scene.
I watched the last episode of Twin Peaks again. What an absolute triumph! I can't imagine what it would have been like for your average joe to stumble across it while channel surfing :lol:. Even now, in the golden age of TV for adults, there has been nothing so unashamedly abstract and arthouse as this.
I watched the whole series for the first time a couple of months ago.
This was exactly what I was thinking as the last episode ended.Quote:
Originally Posted by arjue
Even with the weaker second season, Twin Peaks is a much better show to just hang out in for a while than most anything.
What exactly is golden about the age? I've seen the odd Game of Thrones and House of Cards episode. They don't do anything interesting formally--they're TV writing shot in a TV way. House of Cards like David Mamet parody.
Is it golden because we have boobies and bad words now?
Era of decompressed storytelling if anything. Why make a movie when you can have a plot doing doughnuts for twelve hours?
Isn't that always what TV has done, though?
More of a matter of TV being destigmatized for 'name' directors/writers/actors to work on now, I think. Big money projects go to TV instead of movie theaters more often nowadays.
Things like Fargo, Top of the Lake, the first few seasons of The Killing, even True Detective. These things wouldn't exist as is even a decade ago. I think it's the Golden Age because networks are willing to gamble on finite story telling. Not everything has to be set up to be milked for far more seasons than it should be (see House, Bones, Supernatural, etc.)
Also, the internet has opened up some access to the rest of the world's content. I grew up mostly with American TV shows but now it's easy to get stuff like Wentworth (Australia), Borgen (Denmark), The Returned (France), Cordon (Belgium), various UK shows, etc..
And the dying of the laugh track has been a plus for comedies - Louie, Broad City, You're the Worst, Nathan for You, Short Poppies.
'Looking for the good stuff' usually pays off well. Most people are still content with "Must See TV" or whatever they're calling the sitcom blocks nowadays, they're just mixed in with a fucking ton of Law & Order: Miami Dograpers shows. It is the golden age of casual sexcrime procedural detective show TV.
Ugh. I really wanted to like Blacklist, I love James Spader. But it's the worst. The only (Big Three) network show I've gotten into was Person of Interest.
For "big three", I like Hannibal, American Crime, How to Get Away with Murder (dumb but entertaining), and The Good Wife (the earlier seasons moreso). Quantico's been decent so far. I gave up on Blacklist early and Person of Interest after three seasons I think.
The golden age of TV refers to cable TV, not what's on CBS, Fox, NBC, ABC.
huh, people watch american tv. Thats still a thing.
I watched the orginal dawn of the dead the other day. I think that is the name of the mall one.
I really enjoyed it. Its a different bird from the remake. Less terror / scary. A little more artsy.
There is something about movies set in 65 to 85. Especially when they have malls. I hated Lovely bones but enjoyed looking inside the mall.
I really enjoy both of those movies for different reasons. They're a fun double feature.
Watching it and thinking about dead rising, it's entered ting just how much of the game layout is explained in the first hour of the movie.
It is also interesting how doing low budget movies is similar to game map design. About trying to cut you budget by using limited spaces.
Supernatural is best to pretend ended at season 5 like it was intended. I wouldn't include the show with stuff like Mad Men, Breaking Bad, or Mr. Robot though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
My wife is obsessed with that show. She reads fucking fan fiction of it all the time. It's disgusting.
I like the supernatural world they weave and some episodes are legit hilarious spoofs but it's pretty much the same episode every time.
Big bad guy kills someone they care about, they find magical weapon or make deal with an even evil-er thing that kills boss, One of the brothers is sent to hell for summer. Then next season evil-er thing is new big bad guy.
I watched most of the series to make her happy, and it's a perfectly fine show, but 10 seasons is a bit long in the tooth.
I'm pretty sure 9/10ths of the audience for that show also writes fan fiction for it.
You're not wrong.
It Follows - Pretty movie, but pretty whatever.
The Signal: There are some plot holes that made you question why and what certain characters were doing, but it didn't take too much away from the story that was being told. I'd give it a 3 1/2 out of 5 stars.
Is there a good adaptation of Moby Dick? What about this Ron Howard joint? I'm skeptically excited!?
There is. It's called "Jaws"
Fuck. You're right!
Suffragette
I was worried this was going to be liberal righteous indignation porn. Aaaaand it was. The woman next to me ate it up, moved to literal tsk tsking by lines such as "You're a wife. That's all you're meant to be," and "Nobody's going to listen to a girl like you." She was clacking her tongue against the roof of her mouth so often that I had to get up and move to the front row about halfway through.
If the previews before the movie were any indication, she's going to have plenty of opportunities for more tsk tsking. There's a movie about Jessie Owens coming out that's hand-to-God called "Race."
It was shot beautifully, though.
On a similar take is Plutocracy. I haven't seen it yet, a friend that's an early American professor is checking it out for bonafides. It's part one of several. It's about the way the country has been kept divided since its inception by corporate and social interests.
Free to watch if anyone wants to take the plunge before I report back.
Are they going to include this quote?Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
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Hitler didn't snub me; it was our president who snubbed me. The president didn't even send me a telegram.
MI: Rogue Nation
Not so good as Ghost Protocol, and too many disavow/double-triple crosses. The impossible break-in is almost like a retread from the original CIA break-in, except underwater and a bit of pure luck.
Can you make a blog where you write reviews. I think you are the next Ebert.Quote:
Originally Posted by A Robot Bit Me
Master of None on Netflix is *really good*.
Yeah, I have seen the first few episodes and it's better than I thought it would be. I wasn't expecting an Ansari thingy to be so Louie-ish.
The "Parents" episode is a heartbreaker.
The shit acting was killing me at first, but the show just gets better as it goes.
I've seen 2 eps and yeah, the acting isn't great. I keep hearing it gets much better, so I'll stick around.
Ash vs. Evil Dead ep 1. We're an Evil Dead enjoying household here, some of the show didn't really work, but the gore and the action scenes were good fun. Solid B.
Some of the 'Ash is a complete dick' stuff felt like Rami and Campbell laughing at the setup, I approve.
I knew those had to be Anzari's real parents in that episode because there was no other reason why his mother should be anywhere near a camera otherwise. The father was charming at times but she was just reading lines in the worst way, lol
I am sure she is a great lady.
"Didn't you know? Fun is a new thing!" That was funny.
Even Ansari and his asian friend are horrible actors. It's good regardless.
The acting isn't the focus so much as the comedic timing, which is on point. The episode with Colin Salmon is a treasure.
Cradle Will Rock
How the hell I never heard of this, considering the amazing cast attached to it is...amazing.
Go to imdb and take a look, I'll wait.
The story deals with "Orson Welles tries to stage a controversial musical in 1930s New York."
It was shot beautifully, acted wonderfully, and I plan on watching it again tonight.
God's Pocket
Is there any movie in which Phillip Seymour Hoffman bangs out a hot chick and she doesn't seem unfulfilled/interested while it's happening?
Anyway, pretty good slice of life film directed by Mad Man's John Slattery and starring Mad Man's Christina Hendricks and the aforementioned PSH.
Purge Anarchy. Not bad, especially considering the zero dollar budget it obviously had to work with. And holy fuck, Omar is almost 50?!
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I'm watching this dog and kitty nap together on my lap.
You try those thin Oreos? They make me feel pretty posh.
you need another cat?
I had the TV on in the background while doing some work this morning and Escape from L.A. came on. Terrible movie, but holy shit is it coming true. Right-wing religious nutsjobs assuming power, morality laws up the wazoo, and some girl just told Snake that she was deported to the island prison for being a Muslim in South Dakota.
Big improvement over the first movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Some Stupid Japanese Name
I see absolutely no evidence of any of those things, with the exception of a loud minority maybe wishing they were assuming power and that Muslims would be sent to internment camps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dolemite
The right's head guy is Trump. Drug legalization is spreading throughout the US, prostitution will probably follow, and though my Facebook might make someone think everyone is out to end the Muslims, I think most of us are smart enough to not throw the baby out with the bath water.
It's really funny to see Christians get upset when they're lumped in with Westboro, but then do the same thing to other groups.
I clearly didn't mean it as a 100% serious statement. I more meant that the "ridiculous" things portrayed as the "future" in that movie aren't quite that far-fetched these days. Obviously, no one is deporting U.S. Muslims to island prisons, as much as some people would love to do so (most likely Trump with all his "closing down mosques" comments).
I get hit over the head with a lot of this shit on the occasions that I check out my Facebook feed, which is one of the (many) reasons I barely ever use it.
Anybody with a bad Facebook feed can go ahead and blame themselves, you can curate that shit pretty easily.
Mine is completely blank. Best Facebook experience.
No doubt. I use it to pen-pal people I'm fond of, for the most part. It is excellent for that.
I'm managing the pages of two defunct bands. I log on, like, once a month to see how many new Muslim fans the Quarantines have. Qurantines? I don't know, but the Middle East loves us.
Natural Born Killers is so hokey.
First time I saw the whole movie it was on a television with a tilted screen and messed up colors. It was the first movie we watched on that TV, so we didn't even realize there was a problem with the TV until the subtitles came on with the Native American.
Haven't seen it since, not sure how I'd feel about it now.
The only movie I've ever walked out on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Josh
I liked it at the time.
I've walked out on two movies I can think of. Meet the Spartans and Furious 7.
The Rodney Dangerfield scene is the only thing I remember from NBK.
The first episode of Jessica Jones was really good, I'm happy they're staying true to the books.
I'm six eps in and David Tennant is fantastic
I'm also really liking Mike Colter as Luke Cage.
Definitely liking this more than Daredevil so far
I'm thinking it's a better show than Daredevil, but Daredevil needed to happen to get this to be how it is.
Luke Cage The Series is going to be fuckin' bananas if they keep this up.
The Iron Fist show is still the one I'm most excited to get
IDGAF about Iron Fist the character but I welcome as many of these things as they want to make.
The Marvel Movies are getting showed the fuck up by the Netflix crew.
Immortal Iron Fist was an incredible funny book. If they can do it justice which it's looking like they can it's going to be amazing
You guys watch so much garbage.
Yeah? And you're short.
Weren't you just posting about watching an Avenger dry hump historically dubious tanks?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fe 26
Me or yeller? Cause I said the captain America movie was garbage too.
On the 'films' front we watched Tampopo the other night, it was a delightful movie with possibly the best sex scene ever put to film. Highly recommended, stupid expensive on DVD due to being out of print. $10 on laserdisc, though. ;)
Started to watch my copy of Andrei Rublev the other night while drawing and had to stop the movie, figure it's not the sort of film that encourages multitasking.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1FmE2t9Y_I
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Originally Posted by Fe 26
Watched some episodes of NY Med. It's entertaining enough, but I got reminded that Dr. Oz is a real doctor who actually has patients and got worried, and then discovered he's a surgeon and I feel so scared for those poor people he operated on.
I did like that they didn't really shy away from how naturally asshole a lot of those people are. Seeing the look the assistant gave to the surgeon when he was basically told, "Come stand here. No, don't stand here, I'm standing here," cracked me up.
visiting the folks so it is time for my yearly viewing of cable/satellite programming.
Watched local news - horrible
Watched some morning shows - horrible. They are like the facebook feeds of middle aged white women. Segments on pretty actresses. news stories about kids that help old women. Cats doing cute things.
Modern action or scifi shows - horrible. Soap operas parading in the dead carcasses of fantasy and scifi.
Watched the live speech from the US and french presidents - horrible - They keep saying the same stuff over and over as if they were selling coke or talking to 5 year olds.
Watching a dr sues kid show now. - Horrible. - Have we always treated kids as if they were this stupid? I don't remember sesame street or mr rogers being this insulting. I can still watch some of mr rogers now. They also had a poisonous snake on the show. I don't think they mentioned that it was poisonous. Good job TV. Parents of the world will be thrilled when their children want to play with Coral Snakes. The floaty flash animation also sucks.
craftsman legacy was ok. Not as in depth as I'd like but that probably isn't possible with the time limits of the show.
Read an internet message board post today - horrible.
Sedition - horrible