pipGofern Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 A local discount bookstore went out of business a few years back and I picked up a bunch of these hardcovers collecting old Playboy interviews. They were published by Dark Horse of all people. Anyway, I grabbed a few because I figured why not for a few bucks but after reading them I wish I had cleaned out the whole section. I don't know if publicists have always figured dudes are buying it just to check out bewbs so they didn't bother prepping/screening their clients or what but unlike the cliche BS you typically get from celebs, they've always done a great job asking revealing questions or provoking people to expose their true personality. To tie this into this thread, the Sam Peckinpah interview in the Directors omnibus is crazy. I remember Vince's was pretty revelatory, too. But yeah, their interviews have always been really well done. Reminds me of how Howard Stern, after you get past the fart jokes and porn stars on sybians, is actually one of the best 2-3 interviewers working in media today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Nature Boy Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Jimmy Carter admitted to lusting after other women in a Playboy interview too. There's also the famous one with Vince McMahon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Just finished the new Jack Ryan movie. A good watch, but nothing ground breaking. Chris pine is a perfectly acceptable actor, but I see why people wouldn't like him. He's limited, but unlike some other guys they've tried to make stars, I think he is credible enough to be in a star in a action movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Chris Pine has zero charisma in that movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Chris Pine has zero charisma in that movie. Chris Pine has zero charisma in every movie lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 So I watched the first half an hour of Friends With Benefits, right, and what I'm taking from it is that the movie wants me to feel invested in these people and care about the future of their relationship, BUT they're horrible people and I don't want them to be happy. It's like that Love and Other Drugs film, only I don't think this one has tits in it. Although I have seen Woody Harrelson, Emma Stone and Jesse Eisenberg on this screen. If they sacked Kunis and Trousersnake off and just had those three fight Zombies, THAT would be a good film. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newb82 Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 Chris Pine has zero charisma in that movie.Chris Pine has zero charisma in every movie lol I'm pretty sure that is the only movie of his I have seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 26, 2014 Share Posted June 26, 2014 I always feel like Chris Pine is trying to be Chris Evans...and failing miserably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Anyway, I've decided Shia LeBeouf has got that Matt Hardy/Tammy Sytch thing going on where he obviously has a lot of problems, but you can't really have much sympathy since he seems like an awful person anyway. I mean, lots of actors have drinking/drug problems. But they aren't chasing after homeless people for their food or plagarizing everything in sight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 You know, Cabaret was already my favorite musical BEFORE Lebouf got arrested in between acts at a performance of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Poor Shia will never find out how WW2 started now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 That's what I was trying to say about chris pine. He may be wooden and have exactly one way of acting, but unlike guys like Shia, he doesn't come across as a douchebag on screen. Which is usually good enough for me to get into a action movie. Even if Captain Kirk was played exactly like Jack Ryan. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLowe Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I started watching Abraham Lincoln Vampire Hunter last night. I stopped after 15 minutes and deleted it from my DVR. Last time I did anything like that was back in the day when I rented Batman and Robin. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 I just watched that Indiana Jones movie with Shia LaBeouf, and it really wasn't all that bad. I really enjoyed it, actually. Why does everyone seem to hate it? Most people I've talked to hate that it's about aliens, never mind the fact that the Indy movies have always reflected the kinds of movies that were popular at the time the movies are set, and that sci-fi movies about aliens were popular at the time Crystal Skull was set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swift Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Huge Indy fan, but the overall feeling I had about the Crystal Skull was... meh. I honestly barely remember a thing about it - the fridge scene, the CGI monkeys, Cate Blanchett doing a bad Russian accent and Ray Winstone. Outside of those things, I can't remember a single scene. Just totally forgettable. It probably isn't a horrible movie, just a totally unnecessary one. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 27, 2014 Share Posted June 27, 2014 Shia is pretty bad but I liked him in Disturbia. I don't think he'll ruin this WW2 film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 My girlfriend saw the trailer for the new PURGE movie, so I suggested we watch the first. Holy shit, it was so. Damn. Bad. Poorly slapped together and whatever social commentary it was attempting to make was just...ugh. Every twist and turn was so damn obvious. At least now I can save money and not have to go to the new Purge. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I just don't think The Purge can get past it's absurd premise. -Killing off loads of old people and homeless people will prevent unemployment...except those people don't work anyway. -The economy is booming and society is doing great, despite there being one night of the year where literally billions of dollars in damage is done and most stores/businesses get destroyed.. -Everyone would spend the next year being so paranoid about not doing anything that might make someone want to try and kill them on the one night they can get away with it, you'd have a miserable, fear-filled society Yeah, it could be an interesting social commentary...but the situation doesn't make any sense to begin with. If you went with some Battle Royle idea where the evil authoritarian government picked one city at random for The Purge just to keep the people of the country in line, that would work better. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marty Sugar Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 I'll give Ethan Hawke credit: as the "super dad" type that is a rich, "everything is awesome" type of annoying dick? Great job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 There was a really great moment in the first movie where he was like "Yeah, I'd go out and kill someone tonight if I felt the need to" and Lena Headey gives him this tremendous "WTF" look. It's one of the most unsettling parts of the film, even before the masked murderers show up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattdangerously Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 Ethan Hawke is pretty damn underrated. He's fantastic in the Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight trilogy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 One problem. He sells security systems but every soccer mom in America can enter their domain at will. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted June 28, 2014 Share Posted June 28, 2014 One problem. He sells security systems but every soccer mom in America can enter their domain at will. And his kid can just let strange guys off the street in the house easily. How was this man successful at his job? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Has anybody seen "Enemy"? It's with Jake Gyllenhaal from last year. It's about a guy who rents a movie and one of the actors looks exactly like him-- so he attempts to track the actor down. It is interesting and strange and I'm not sure I understood it all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S.K.o.S. Posted June 29, 2014 Share Posted June 29, 2014 Has anybody seen "Enemy"? It's with Jake Gyllenhaal from last year. It's about a guy who rents a movie and one of the actors looks exactly like him-- so he attempts to track the actor down. It is interesting and strange and I'm not sure I understood it all. Yes, I've seen it twice now, and Jae and I had a PM conversation about it. I think I've got it figured out enough now that I'm comfortable with it, but I certainly wasn't there after one viewing, and Jae pointed out at least one thing that I still hadn't noticed after the second time I saw it. I think I've still got a long rambling PM about it in my mailbox that I could send to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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