mco543 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 I fully expect it to be a soul crushing feature but I'm just wondering if it's as bad as I imagine it being from looking it up, the Fast Car by Tracy Chapman of cartoon films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Z Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Can't be worse than Watership Down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Tango & Cash and Harley Davidson & The Marlboro Man - two 80s (or early 90s, which is practically the same thing) buddy cop movies that are so trope-heavy that they border on self-parody but are also awesome and really should have spawned sequels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaedmc Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 This is worth your time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin877 Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Can't be worse than Watership Down. Aren't Watership Down and Plague Dogs both novels by Richard Adams and turned into animated adaptations? EDIT: They are once I looked them up. I have seen both, prepare for the melancholy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 This is worth your time. http://vimeo.com/96558506 This is so true.In the wake of Wright's sacking from ANT-MAN, I popped in HOT FUZZ the other night and was blown away by it all over again, even though I feel like I know it by heart. It's one of the tightest movies I've ever seen. There is zero fat, despite the fact that it's stuffed to the gills with references and running gags. The thing that probably stood out to me the most, though, is something this video pointed out: Wright gets a ton of value out the bits that drag other films down because they put no imagination into them. All of the rote exercises that other film makers accept (moving characters around, introductions, etc.), Wright turns into opportunities to squeeze more gags into his movie. For instance, there's the one bit when Nicholas first arrives in Sanford, and it's basically "He settled into his room, gets bored, decides to go to the pub." It's a scene that really serves no purpose but to transition him to the next thing (meeting Danny), and it's exactly the sort of scene that a lesser filmmaker would trip over. They would linger in the malaise too long, because they really need you to know that his room sucks, there's nothing to do, yadda yadda. But Wright burns through it in, like, 10 seconds tops, and earns a laugh in the process. Everything you need to know is communicated in about 6 hard cuts. The only other director out there I can think of who is capable of packing so much kinetic energy into mundane operations is Fincher. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted May 30, 2014 Share Posted May 30, 2014 Man, that all sounds like work. You have to realize how many starlets the average director has to bang in the average day. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 Watched I Saw the Devil for the second time last night, showing my teenagers what I thought was the best movie on Netflix. Still is. Just turns the whole "revenge movie" on its ear and features just unrelenting badassery. And the ending is pretty boss. Love this movie. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted May 31, 2014 Share Posted May 31, 2014 I loved Anchorman, but since that movie it seems like too much of American comedy movies are just throwing random improv lines at the camera and hoping one of the hundreds will result in a laugh. That Edgar Wright video was great. Parts of it still made me laugh out loud, especially Paddy Considine reappearing in the frame for a split second. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I really like almost all of Adam McKay's movies*, but he and Edgar Wright are definitely polar opposites when it comes to their styles. (Okay, so *polar* opposite might be a bit strong for that comparison. If anybody is the antithesis of Wright, it's probably Kevin Smith. Nonetheless, you get the idea.) *With the notable exception of ANCHORMAN 2, which I saw for the first time last night and...boy, that was not great. Not to say I didn't laugh at all, but the whole thing just felt...off. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Building on what Cam said, boy oh boy was AMWTDITW a heaping pile of shit. I LIKE a lot of what MacFarlane does, but this movie is sub-Family Guy level stuff. Very disappointing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I watched A Good Day to Die Hard. It was...not completely horrible, but that doesn't make it good. I mean, it's the least plausible Die Hard ever and the laziest fuck script for a movie of this kind. There's a part early on where Jai Courtney keeps saying "damn you, John..." It was like he didn't know his line and just kept rolling with that. And if I remember correctly, they fucking freeze frame the final shot before the credits. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I have no idea why Hollywood keeps trying to make Jai Courtney happen. He has less charisma than Sam Worthington. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 He was just a black hole in AGDtDH. I mean, Willis wasn't exactly going far beyond phoning it in, but his comfort in the role and his natural charisma made him somewhat interesting to see. But good lord was Courtney just there, taking up space, adding nothing, sucking everything else down... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I realized today how, for every project Samuel L. Jackson is announced for these days, I'd much rather see Andre Braugher do it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Jai Courtney was actually good in Divergent playing, yep, a complete dick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 I really like almost all of Adam McKay's movies*, but he and Edgar Wright are definitely polar opposites when it comes to their styles. (Okay, so *polar* opposite might be a bit strong for that comparison. If anybody is the antithesis of Wright, it's probably Kevin Smith. Nonetheless, you get the idea.) *With the notable exception of ANCHORMAN 2, which I saw for the first time last night and...boy, that was not great. Not to say I didn't laugh at all, but the whole thing just felt...off. Q: How many hacky jokes, goofy scenarios, and cameos can we jam into a two hour movie? A: ALL OF THEM McKay is way too complacent now and it finally showed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Jodorowsky's Dune is an absolute must-see. It played at the Art Theater last night and I am thinking about another watch on Wednesday. The sheer insanity of how the project came together is incredible. The studio give him the rights to Dune on a lark thinking "this nut will never get it together". He gets the best artists and some of the biggest names for actors ever (Mick Jagger? ORSON WELLES?) and makes this immense storyboarded tome to film his vision... and then it all crumbles beneath him. You see why it was inevitable, but you also see why with the right support from the faceless execs it could have come to pass, because Jodo is the most illusory, charismatic, amazingly funny dude ever, and you buy him almost pulling the wool over everyone's eyes in order to make a masterpiece. It would have ended up like a cross between Heaven's Gate and Apocalypse Now in the filming, but it would have been A MA ZING. Watch this fucking documentary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 *With the notable exception of ANCHORMAN 2, which I saw for the first time last night and...boy, that was not great. Not to say I didn't laugh at all, but the whole thing just felt...off. Was just coming to post something similar, albeit not nearly as nice as you did. Really this was just tiresome. My sister told me it was awful, but we have pretty differing senses of humor some times and the first 10 minutes or so I was totally into it. Then it just sort of drags its lifeless carcass from gag to gag and most of the gags don't hit that hard any way. Two things that really made me laugh After Burgundy goes blind and the news team visited him gave me a few good laughs, even if it was basically PG-13 Mr. Magoo and the news-anchor battle was good. In fact, the tone of the news-anchor battle was more of what the film needed with ghosts, minotaurs, and weapons from the future. And what was the deal with trying to shoe-horn a message in there about news?! Who in THE WORLD goes to see 'Anchorman' and says "Boy, this is funny, but I wish it was trying to teach me a lesson!" Also, after being a perpetual highlight of the first movie, I could not have expected how much I did not want to see Brick on the screen at all. Every Brick scene was bad to awful, with the scene where he and Kristen Wiig fall in love being so bad that I actually felt embarrassed for everyone involved. The 15 minute gag reel was, by far, the best thing about the movie. Actually watching some of the deleted stuff, one gets the impression that Ferrell wanted the movie to go a certain way (More like 'Step Brothers', 'The Campaign' or 'Eastbound and Down') and the studio had them tone it way down, which also might explain how punishingly unfunny most of it is. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 Finally watched Hunger Games 2 last night. 1st half dragged a ton, but the actual games were interesting, with the conspiracy to escape and all. The ending was pretty sudden and we had to rewind and watch it again to understand. Also, is this the President's first tyrrany? He's making rookie mistakes on how to rule and keep revolution down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted June 1, 2014 Share Posted June 1, 2014 *With the notable exception of ANCHORMAN 2, which I saw for the first time last night and...boy, that was not great. Not to say I didn't laugh at all, but the whole thing just felt...off.Was just coming to post something similar, albeit not nearly as nice as you did. Really this was just tiresome. My sister told me it was awful, but we have pretty differing senses of humor some times and the first 10 minutes or so I was totally into it. Then it just sort of drags its lifeless carcass from gag to gag and most of the gags don't hit that hard any way. Two things that really made me laugh After Burgundy goes blind and the news team visited him gave me a few good laughs, even if it was basically PG-13 Mr. Magoo and the news-anchor battle was good. In fact, the tone of the news-anchor battle was more of what the film needed with ghosts, minotaurs, and weapons from the future. And what was the deal with trying to shoe-horn a message in there about news?! Who in THE WORLD goes to see 'Anchorman' and says "Boy, this is funny, but I wish it was trying to teach me a lesson!" Also, after being a perpetual highlight of the first movie, I could not have expected how much I did not want to see Brick on the screen at all. Every Brick scene was bad to awful, with the scene where he and Kristen Wiig fall in love being so bad that I actually felt embarrassed for everyone involved. The 15 minute gag reel was, by far, the best thing about the movie. Actually watching some of the deleted stuff, one gets the impression that Ferrell wanted the movie to go a certain way (More like 'Step Brothers', 'The Campaign' or 'Eastbound and Down') and the studio had them tone it way down, which also might explain how punishingly unfunny most of it is. Yeah, I'm with you on most of this. I thought it was almost as bad as ACE VENTURA 2, in terms of retreading all the gags and beats from the first movie but bigger and louder. In particular, somebody needed to calm Steve Carrell the fuck DOWN. I don't know if Carrell decided to go bigger this time around, or if, by virtue of him being a much bigger star than he was during the first movie, there's just more of him and therefore the act gets obnoxious quicker, but, man, I found myself reaching for the volume every time he was on screen. And for a movie that McKay and Ferrell fought for years to get made, you'd never guess it based on the plot, which seemed like it was slapped together over a weekend. Not even a long weekend. The idea of Ron Burgundy being responsible for the state of modern cable news is kinda brilliant and potentially hilarious, but they suck all the fun out of it in a hurry with the blatant Rupert Murdoch stand-in and Ron learning a lesson in the end and all that shit. Again, that's not to say I didn't laugh a bit, but the only part of the movie that really worked for me was when he was blind, mainly because that was the one part that wasn't a blatant rehash of the first movie where I kinda knew all the jokes beforehand. I laughed at the brawl...but probably not as much as they expected me to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lawful Metal Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Maleficent was great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spritenaut 32 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Maleficent was great. Yeah, wife and I loved it. Is it really getting mostly negative reviews? I watched Anchorman 2 a week or so ago and thought it was really stale. But Will Ferrel is a weird one for me. His movies always sound funny to me if someone tells me about the plot, or recounts some of the gags, but I never laugh when I actually see the movies. I thought Anchorman was kinda bad, but it sounded hysterical when the wife talked it up (she saw it before me and thought it was very funny). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I think I would like Angelina Jolie more if she wasn't already everywhere. I miss back in the '90s when she had mystique and was edgy. To me, she's a potentially all-time great film star just being absolutely ruined by over-exposure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I think I would like Angelina Jolie more if she wasn't already everywhere. I miss back in the '90s when she had mystique and was edgy. To me, she's a potentially all-time great film star just being absolutely ruined by over-exposure. Is Jennifer Lawrence gonna play Jolie in her biopic? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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