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    2024 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

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    3 hours ago, Curt McGirt said:

    John Krasinski got an ovation like he was the Second Coming last night on Colbert. It was kind of shocking, I think even to the both of them. Pretty sure a "SIMMER DOWN" sign flashed where the cameras didn't see it, haha. Ryan Gosling came out after and didn't get the same! 

    Could it have been because the audience expected them to do puke takes?

    The 58th Superb Owl

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    1 hour ago, NikoBaltimore said:

    I was rooting for the 49ers the whole game and wished they won.  I don't even care for the Chielfs one bit.  But when they won I oddly had the biggest smile on my face and this is the reason why.

    Kinda weird how certain people get so twisted up over a singer and a vaccinated guy dating that they'll crap on a team that's as Middle America as Middle America gets in favor of hoping *the team from San Francisco* wins.  Nose, face, knife, hi, bye!

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    2024 TV DISCUSSION THREAD

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    6 hours ago, Travis Sheldon said:

    I'm going to assume some may have missed True Detective dropping on Friday night, do that's why there's no discussion.

    But episode 5 is more gut punching.

    Also, I didn't know John Hawkes was a player.

    Oh right, because why run it opposite the game? That is asking for trouble. I should have remembered that, but I'm also kinda glad I saved it.

    Although I do marvel over and over again that Christopher Eccleston really looks like shit in this show.  There's a part of me that wonders whether that's for the role, since the character is straight out of the Gone to Seed Shitheel Handbook, or if it's the kind of thing that simply awaits all of us when we hit 60, even big fucking stork people like him and myself (though I'm actually even taller than he is!). 

    I think I'll choose to solve that problem by simply not hitting 60.

    The 58th Superb Owl

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    2 minutes ago, Mister TV said:

    Also, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this many candy commercials in a Super Bowl. 

    Candy and real estate, both equally garbage ways to make money.

    Ah, who am I kidding? Real estate is way worse.

    2024 MOVIES DISCUSSION THREAD

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    Posted

    Hey, hadn't done this in a minute.  New page, good time as any.

    The Duellists - Too bad House of Gucci didn't involve Adam Driver and Jared Leto chopping flaps of skin off each other.  I'm not usually a fan of any Carradines in basically any capacity, but this is one of Keith's best roles, if not his best. And cripes, is this a beautiful film, and coming from a guy who would be known for stunning visuals as much as anything else.  But...there's really something about how much he let the scenery participate or even dominate the rest of what was there.  Given the flack that Napoleon caught, it sounds like Ridley's first movie in the era might be better than his last one.  Heck of a debut.  I could do without the narration, but it makes an interesting double-bill with French Lieutenant's Woman as grimier portrayals of past Britain than what we'd eventually get out of the Merchant-Ivory lot.

    The Canyons - You know, at 27:04 when that UPS truck comes into the shot, I was really hoping it just...wouldn't turn, and it would spare us all from this bullshit.

    Somehow, of all the movies out there that have ended up with some kind of strange critical reappraisal, this is, stupefyingly, one of them.  But there isn't a moment of this all-too-serious, badly acted, hacked together, stakes-free whiskey dick of a movie that deserves to be held up as having something to say. The gutted theaters and vacant buildings don't have any legs to them, since they're throwaway non sequiturs that reflect and/or symbolize precisely fuck-all within the context of the film itself. Even if the casting had somehow been immaculate - and it would take a literal miracle for anyone with a brain and a pulse to have willingly worked on this film - the characters themselves are written so poorly and have so little emotional resonance that you want them all to fail, miserably, as though their only-talked-about horror film were real and they became its victims. And the rest of the script...Jesus tapdancing Christ, Bret, why did you think kink or swinging was going to shock or interest anyone?

    I really don't know what Paul Schrader was thinking, choosing to work on this. I can only imagine that he, in fact, managed to murder a yoga instructor in Century City sometime in the 80s, and Bret Easton Ellis helped him hide the body, so his payback for that favor was to shart out this bathwater-quality dramatization of their youthful hijinx.  Ugh.  PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE quit sniffing directors' farts and telling them they're gold.

    Still not as bad as The Crow: Wicked Prayer, though.

    You Hurt My Feelings - I still can't really get too far past the wannabe-Woody Allen feel of Nicole Holofcener's movies: truly, how many upper-classers in New York City need movies made about them?  Really, I want an answer, hopefully one that isn't evidently, "every fucking one of them".  Please Give was an interesting-at-times look at white guilt, and there's a little of that here, but the overarching story is only just all right.  What does work here is the humor, but it's just a little too bad that the initial scene between the actually-married David Cross & Amber Tamblyn is a bit of a highlight in terms of laughs, rather than merely a prelude to bigger things to come.  Still, you may laugh your ass off in a few places, so maybe it isn't a waste of your time.

    A Knight's Tale - Wait, so...this was just proto-Slumdog Millionaire with more anachronisms and a less perverse morality system? 

    Huh.  That's a thing, I guess.  But this is just way too long, not terribly well-written, and it only has, I dunno, 2 or 3 scenes in the whole movie that aren't a snooze?  It's also just a really strange stylistic choice to have your entire cast casually singing along with the 70s tracks being overlaid because otherwise average American dummies won't find it amusing, I suppose.  Oh, and Edward the Black Prince was the Black Prince for a fucking reason: Rufus Sewell's whole "Aldhemar" character may as well be based on shit Edward actually *did* and people Edward supported (or certainly didn't condemn), so face-turning him is, well, sort of ridiculous.  But hey, we're just here for silly bullshit and making money off the poor dumb Americans, so, mission accomplished, maybe? 

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    All-Purpose Health and Fitness Thread

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    Of course this week was a deload and OF COURSE this is the week I pull a muscle in my ass.  Luckily I'm giving myself another 2 days off (had 2 off, L/P/P deload through this afternoon, tomorrow & Monday are the next 2), so we'll see if I'm not limping for nearly the stupidest reason ever on Tuesday.

    2024 UPCOMING MOVIE DISCUSSION

    in MOVIES & TV

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    3 hours ago, Log said:

    @Contentious C

    The first Despicable Me is cute. A nice premise and the minions are fun. People saw it, and were like, "Those little minions sure are fun!" Hollywood heard that and was like, "YOU LIKE THOSE MINIONS!?!?! YOU LIKE THEM, DO YA!?!!? WELL, HERE'S EIGHTEEN FUCKING MORE MOVIES WITH THE LITTLE FUCKERS AND THEY'RE GOING TO GET MORE ANNOYING WITH EACH ONE!!! YOU LIKE THAT!?!?!" as Hollywood tends to do.

    Yeah, every trailer from this interminable decade of their overwrought dross looked like some kind of sanitized Looney Tunes/Three Stooges bunch of bullshit that I already saw when I was 6 and had no interest in revisiting as a grown-ass adult, except in its original form.

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