EVA
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Kinda crazy, but it really looks like there might not be another big hit movie this summer. ELYSIUM, you're our only hope? Other than that, all we've got is Denzel and Marky Mark playing Denzel and Marky Mark in a movie with a lot of gunplay (that's literally all I've been able to glean from the ads) and a lot of 3rd rate kiddie fare - SMURFS 2, PLANES, PERCY JACKSON: THERE'S A PERCY JACKSON SEQUEL?, and that other thing with the weird title that's not Hunger Games. There's KICK-ASS 2, I guess, but let's be real: An R-rated offbrand superhero movie isn't going to save the summer.
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True, THE CONJURING has been a bright spot. But all the high-dollar stuff you expect to drive the market is just crashing and burning.
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Finally saw it. Overall, I liked it, but it was one of those frustrating movies where you can tell it changed hands a few times. Really, it's almost like it was intended to be a smaller movie that opened in March or October (I'm assuming this was Aronofsky's idea), but then it got bumped into the summer and suddenly it needed a big WHIZ BANG POW KABLOOIE denoument, so we got...giant robot samurai and snake lady. Cut that shit out and use all that time to flesh out the Yashida family stuff, and you've probably got a really good movie. I liked the actresses they had playing Mariko and Yukio. Both of them had good chemistry with Jackman, I thought. They were just underserved by a movie with too much stuff going on for 2 hours. Viper is just a whiff all over. Underwritten part with a nothing performance from whoever that was. And Lordy, her costumes were like something from a comic book film 15 years ago (and she CHANGES COSTUMES FOR NO APPARENT REASON in the final act). I can only assume it was a more substantial part when it was supposed to be Jessica Biel in the role Surprisingly, the bullet train fight looked better in the film than it did in the trailers. -
With the exception of DESPICABLE ME 2, this July has just been DEATH at the box office. Which is even stranger when you consider that June was the biggest June ever. It's like America had it's fill of the movies.
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DVDVRSBE: The 100-Year-Old Man Who... by Jonas Jonasson
EVA replied to jaedmc's topic in READING & WRITING
Yeah, I had a hard time with Allan's lack of motivation or conviction about anything. That's something I wanted to talk about, but I was afraid the review might get too long. A character who doesn't have a strong, explicit want or does not care deeply about the things happening around him is...not a good character. And I definitely struggled to figure out why exactly that was. At various times, I thought maybe he 1) was kind of a simpleton himself, 2) in a constant drunken stupor, or 3) was just completely apathatetic for undetermined reasons. But despite tracing 100 years of his life, the book never clearly defines why he responds to the world the way he does. -
I was going to see it this afternoon but something got in the way. Super bummed.
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I haven't read those stories (nor any of the EU stuff, if I need to restate it for the record on the new board), so I can't speak to their actual quality per se, but just that idea by itself, if a tad obvious, sounds 100% more interesting than anything that's been done with Star Wars since...EMPIRE? Yeah. EMPIRE. The whole thing has just been treading water, protecting the status quo since then.
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I'm really interested to see how THE WOLVERINE turns out this weekend. As I suspected might be the case earlier in the summer, none of the big sci-fi/action releases post-MAN OF STEEL, with the exception of WORLD WAR Z, really took root. And, of course, most of the big releases in July have bombed. So, the way is clear for WOLVERINE to be the big, late summer blockbuster this year. Mojo is pegging it for $70-ish, which feels right, but I wouldn't be surprised if it goes higher. Keep in mind, ORIGINS was actually a hit and had a huge opening weekend, despite 1) being terrible, and 2) an almost-finished copy leaking online months before it's released. The public seems to love Hugh Jackman playing this character. The question for me is, will the hype for DAYS OF FUTURE PAST drive people to the theater to see this, or will they see view movie as an afterthought and wait for the main event next summer?
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I realize you're probably purposely exaggerating here, but it has to be said: This has, literally, never happened ever.That's the equivalent of a coach seeing a high school free safety and saying, "He's pretty good, but he'd be even better as an OFFENSIVE GUARD."
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DVDVRSBE: The 100-Year-Old Man Who... by Jonas Jonasson
EVA replied to jaedmc's topic in READING & WRITING
All those semesters of fiction workshop rubbed off. FIND THE STRENGTHS.The first half of the present-day narrative plays a lot like an Elmore Leonard novel. And I love Leonard, so I was genuinely enjoying it for a while. The gangsters even have quirky interests outside of drug running, just like every Leonard thug character, ever. Granted, Leonard does this sort of thing a gazillion times better, but he's certainly not writing Pulitzer short-list quality meditations on the state of the planet either, just fun crime capers with a snappy pace that don't let up until they're over. Jonasson just couldn't keep it up and the whole thing fell apart.In fact, now that I think about it, the plot is eerily similar to Leonard's PRONTO, in which an elderly bookie absconds to Italy with money he skimmed off the top from the mob and is pursued by the mob and DEPUTY US MARSHAL RAYLAN MOTHERFUCKING GIVENS. If my summary of the plot of 100-YEAR-OLD MAN piqued your interest at all, maybe just read PRONTO instead. -
DVDVRSBE: The 100-Year-Old Man Who... by Jonas Jonasson
EVA replied to jaedmc's topic in READING & WRITING
FIRST asshole to not like his book, that's me. -
Stuff like that is just SO not what I want out of more Star Wars. Yet another prophecy of a chosen one, yet another Darth Whoever who will never be as good as the original, yet another oppressive government that must be overthrown...If any or all of those are a part of the new trilogy, they can just keep it. It would just be really sad to have a playground as big as the Star Wars universe, yet be stuck telling the same damn stories over and over again.
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...but Allana(Jacen's daughter) on the other has been prophecized as a queen who is going to bring balance to the galaxy. Oh, boy!
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I think people call them "Trayvon" and "Zimmerman" because those are more distinctive names than "Martin" and "George."
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Yeah, let's not do this again.
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Sheesh. The more reviews that come in, the more I worry I'm going to be the one dude with negative things to say about his book.
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I said "takes a mulligan on his second album." Are you familiar with the word "mulligan" as a term for a "do-over" in certain games and sports, particularly golf?
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That's what I'm saying. "Home" was this huge hit that kickstarted a whole new, obnoxious genre, but his second album was really spare and kind of a downer. And it just came out last year. So either this guy has the work ethic of Prince or Ryan Adams, or he had an epiphany, "Oh, shit, I'm missing out on a bunch of money right now. Better get a fun album out before the scene is over."
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I haven't listened to it yet, but I assume this is where he takes a mulligan on his second album and tries to cash in on the bright, jaunty folk-pop genre that he accidentally created with "Home."
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It's not so much the shape as the visual texture of it. It's really incongruous with the Superman logo. It really does look like a bad photoshop somebody slapped onto the background.
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Yeah, I don't like what they did with the Batman logo at all. The BATMAN/SUPERMAN logo that showed up in I AM LEGEND looked way better.
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I can't get into RAY DONOVAN. His job hasn't been as interesting as you'd think it'd be, and I'm still not sure why I'm supposed to care about what Jon Voight is up to.
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It would be a CRAZY coincidence if they were both not only using Quicksilver, but also doing time travel stories.
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I understand it's a story from the comics, but that is a terrible title. For people who don't keep up with contemporary comics, those are just...three random words somebody slapped together. I guess they're playing the loooooooong game on Thanos.
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Apparently, it's HALO meets GROUNDHOG DAY and has, like, 8 screenwriters, so...the title is probably the least of it's problems.