Brian Fowler Posted December 20, 2015 Share Posted December 20, 2015 Was Cena's character enjoyable? Hes one of the better parts of trainwreck He was great. Deadpan hilarious. It's striking seeing him standing with normal sized people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Was it as good as 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 ... I don't think a comparison fits. Line apples to Deathstars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 I have watched a lot of movies over the last week, as I try to play catch up on not watching much this year.I offer at least some small quips about everything I have watched on my Letterboxd profile. I can offer some more detailed thoughts on this at a later period, but I highly recommend everyone see Clouds of Sils Maria prior to voting in Caley's best of 2015 poll. I still have a good bit to watch, but I have a strong feeling this will end up somewhere in my top 5-10 if not higher. Assayas is proving to be one of the more interesting directors we have from overseas between Summer Hours and this film. I still also need to see Carlos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bustronaut Posted December 21, 2015 Share Posted December 21, 2015 Dear nerds, I have already seen The Hateful Eight. Tarantino almost ruins it with his damn voice over, but it was better than I was expecting. Love, Mike 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roman Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Bone Tomahawk was pretty good. The last ten minutes or so were a bit too 'silly', but overall I enjoyed it. A pleasant surprise, but much darker than I had imagined. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Dear nerds, I have already seen The Hateful Eight. Tarantino almost ruins it with his damn voice over, but it was better than I was expecting. Love, Mike I hate that my nearest 70mm screening is a 3-4 hour drive away, and that I am driving 6 hours to Nashville for NYE, which happens to be the last day it's screening on film there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted December 22, 2015 Share Posted December 22, 2015 Watched Force Awakens for the 2nd time this morning, just finished The Martian and rounding it out with Creed right now. I feel like I'm going to be halfway between weeping mess and ready to conquer the fucking world by the end of the day. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 We should debate which is the best Pyun film. The Sword and the Sorcerer, Nemesis, or Cyborg? Or, I dunno... Dollman? Dollman or Cyborg. Im actually not ashamed to admit owning Dollman on Bluray. Didn't he do one or both of the Breakin' movies as well? Nope, Breakin' was directed by Joel Silberg and Breakin' 2: Electric Boogaloo was directed by Sam Firstenberg. But I found out he directed that sci-fi movie Knights with Kris Kristofferson and Lance Henrikson that I saw as a kid, the first Captain America, and Arcade, the Full Moon feature that had some of the worst CGI ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I went to a screening of Captain America 90 a few years ago and Pyun was there to do a Q&A. The people there knew what they were in for, so the questions were generally respectful. And Pyun is just this nerdy guy with a backpack eager to talk about his film and what he was working on trying to finance next. Say what you want about his work, but he ain't going to be on his deathbed brooding about acceptance or not getting the Big Epic that would cement his legacy. Dude has a helluva legacy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 that is all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Death From Above Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I really wish The Martian was out on (home viewing purchase option of your choice) in time for Christmas. Ah well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 that is allDespite the fact that his entire career has specialized in Teutonic wallowing in bewilderment and despair at the inexplicable cruelty found in all aspects of our reality, the single most depressing thing Werner Herzog has ever done is his continual support of Harmony Korine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Apparently, Hateful 8 and Revenant screeners have leaked. I post this for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not in any way condone seeking these out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I did not know this movie existed until yesterday. I feel for anybody who may have had to sit through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I really wish The Martian was out on (home viewing purchase option of your choice) in time for Christmas. Ah well. You can buy it for $14.99 in full HD through Amazon Instant, Vudu, Google Play, iTunes etc. right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chaos Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Apparently, Hateful 8 and Revenant screeners have leaked. I post this for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not in any way condone seeking these out. Neither one of those are films that you would want to experience in a compressed video format anyways. Those are both meant to be seen on the biggest screen available to you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nate Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Apparently, Hateful 8 and Revenant screeners have leaked. I post this for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not in any way condone seeking these out. I heard about the rape scene in "Revenant" being unBEARable. Hah-chachacha! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I'm reading The Greatest Sci-Fi Films Never Made by David Hughes. Amusingly, it was written in 2001, so many of the films he talks about (Avatar, Watchman, Fantastic Four) did get made eventually. He also mentions 1996's The Island of Dr. Moreau and how badly it differed from the original director's vision. Man, it's mental. You know things are bad when even Marlon Brando is lecturing other actors on professionalism. It's kind of weird how the studio fell over themselves to placate Val Kilmer and his outrageous demands, like he was a star on the level of Tom Cruise and/or Will Smith. Was he ever that big a box office attraction, even at his peak? Really? Oh, and David Lynch's batshit mental Ronnie Rocket sounds like something that was better off not coming to fruition, quite frankly. Even though Lynch and the author seem to think it could have been a cinematic masterpiece. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 It seems like Hollywood goes through times when it tries to make the next big thing, and that period was Kilmer's. Between the Saint, Batman Forever, Ghost and the Darkness and the Dr Moreau, and his role in Heat. I don't think any of them were great hits, and his behavior likely has kept him out of the supporting roles that probably should have been his. . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVA Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I remember loving THE GHOST AND THE DARKNESS when I was a kid. Probably a lost classic of Manly Cinema. Michael Douglas is crazy in that movie. I AM THE DEVIL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jingus Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Kilmer wasn't a draw, but it's easy to see how his agents could've made that case or how he might've believed it was so. He happened to be in several movies where people clearly weren't lining up to see the movie because of him, but the films still made good money anyway: Top Gun, Willow, Tombstone, Batman Forever, Heat. It's the sort of thing where no filmgoer would be saying "hey everyone, let's go see the new Val Kilmer movie!" but he was good enough in his roles that in hindsight he looked like a larger part of those movies' successes than he really was. He was the movie equivalent of Ricky Steamboat in the WWF; everyone might be raving about his performance afterward, but everyone knows it was Hogan who sold the tickets in the first place. Really it's too bad that he was apparently such a dick and spent so many years in Hollywood Limbo, because he really is a first-rate actor. I say the following in all seriousness: go watch MacGruber for his performance in that movie. Yes, really. He is awesome as a postmodern caricature of a villain from an early-period Steven Seagal flick. And if you've never seen Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, be sure to give that one a whirl too (it also introduces us to Modern Hyper-Talking Robert Downey Jr). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neil Koch Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 Apparently, Hateful 8 and Revenant screeners have leaked. I post this for informational and entertainment purposes only and do not in any way condone seeking these out. Neither one of those are films that you would want to experience in a compressed video format anyways. Those are both meant to be seen on the biggest screen available to you. Sadly, most people (especially younger ones) really don't care - they're perfectly happy watching stuff on iPhone screens or on upscaled DVDs on TVs that are set to SD. People that bootleg even moreso. It's more important for them to have the movie than to actually watch and enjoy it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 I grew up watching stuff on crappy 10" TVs or poor quality vhs tapes and RCA selectavision discs. If i can see something in HD or on blu-ray, great. If not, oh well. I'd rather see what i want than refuse because its not in a perfect format. I watch more things on my ipad or portable dvd/blu-ray player than a big TV these days or in the cinemas. We are also driving an extra hour next week to see H8 in 70mm outside Baltimore than wait a week to see the reg version. So, for the right thing, exceptions are made. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Technico Support Posted December 23, 2015 Share Posted December 23, 2015 We are also driving an extra hour next week to see H8 in 70mm outside Baltimore than wait a week to see the reg version. So, for the right thing, exceptions are made. White Marsh? Be careful where you park. Last time I was there, somebody hit my parked car and drove merrily away. Sadly, most people (especially younger ones) really don't care - they're perfectly happy watching stuff on iPhone screens or on upscaled DVDs on TVs that are set to SD. People that bootleg even moreso. It's more important for them to have the movie than to actually watch and enjoy it. Well, I think some people just want to see a movie and enjoy it once and that's it, and don't care to be hardcore cineastes about it. Different strokes, etc. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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