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TV’s Frink said:

snooker said:

Drive (2011)

This is my favorite movie of all time. Before I first saw it I thought that nothing could trump Empire. I was wrong. 10/10

Drive is good move but come on.

I might have been over-exaggerating but I still really like it.

This is what I watched today:

The Learning Tree - The first movie funded by a major studio helmed by a black filmmaker. Shame it’s not better. He went on to direct Shaft afterwards, so at least there’s that. This film is in the national registry, and was inducted the first year possible, in 1989.

The Poseidon Adventure - A disaster movie with three-dimensional characters, great colors, and GENE HACKMAN. This is a great movie.

The Conversation - I wanted to watch something else with Gene Hackman in it, and this did the job. I ended up drifting to sleep at points since it’s around midnight now, but I enjoyed it. I’m sure as I think of it in retrospect I’ll like it more and more.

Oh I remember enjoying Poseidon Adventure as a kid. Been awhile. The Conversation is a classic.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

If you want to keep up the Gene Hackman fox, maybe Get Shorty next?

Ooh, neat, but I’m really in the mood revisiting the 70s. I find the 90s the hardest to go back to.

CHEWBAKAspelledwrong said:

The French Connection?

That’s one I’ve wanted to see for years, but haven’t yet. Great suggestion!

Ha! I thought about suggesting that but just assumed you’d seen it already. Possibly his best.

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Black Panther just now. I think it was my first MCU movie since Winter Soldier. It was fine. I thought the story was pretty by-numbers, but I found most of the characters very appealing and I really dig everything about Wakanda. With any luck the inevitable sequel will get a little more adventurous with the plotting. These characters deserve it. Except Michael B. Jordan, who I thought was really terrible. If I didn’t already know who he was and this was the first thing I saw him in, I would have guessed he was a musician or something who hadn’t done a lot of acting. I remember his name being thrown around for Star Wars a couple years ago and this movie made me glad that nothing ever came of it.

Reported.

That’s old form, Dom; the in thing to do is to say “bad take.”

Reported because no one says that here, nor should they.

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Black Panther just now. I think it was my first MCU movie since Winter Soldier. It was fine. I thought the story was pretty by-numbers, but I found most of the characters very appealing and I really dig everything about Wakanda. With any luck the inevitable sequel will get a little more adventurous with the plotting. These characters deserve it. Except Michael B. Jordan, who I thought was really terrible. If I didn’t already know who he was and this was the first thing I saw him in, I would have guessed he was a musician or something who hadn’t done a lot of acting. I remember his name being thrown around for Star Wars a couple years ago and this movie made me glad that nothing ever came of it.

Reported.

That’s old form, Dom; the in thing to do is to say “bad take.”

Reported because no one says that here, nor should they.

good give

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Black Panther just now. I think it was my first MCU movie since Winter Soldier. It was fine. I thought the story was pretty by-numbers, but I found most of the characters very appealing and I really dig everything about Wakanda. With any luck the inevitable sequel will get a little more adventurous with the plotting. These characters deserve it. Except Michael B. Jordan, who I thought was really terrible. If I didn’t already know who he was and this was the first thing I saw him in, I would have guessed he was a musician or something who hadn’t done a lot of acting. I remember his name being thrown around for Star Wars a couple years ago and this movie made me glad that nothing ever came of it.

Reported.

That’s old form, Dom; the in thing to do is to say “bad take.”

Reported because no one says that here, nor should they.

good give

Reported because it took me a minute to get it.

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Black Panther just now. I think it was my first MCU movie since Winter Soldier. It was fine. I thought the story was pretty by-numbers, but I found most of the characters very appealing and I really dig everything about Wakanda. With any luck the inevitable sequel will get a little more adventurous with the plotting. These characters deserve it. Except Michael B. Jordan, who I thought was really terrible. If I didn’t already know who he was and this was the first thing I saw him in, I would have guessed he was a musician or something who hadn’t done a lot of acting. I remember his name being thrown around for Star Wars a couple years ago and this movie made me glad that nothing ever came of it.

Reported.

That’s old form, Dom; the in thing to do is to say “bad take.”

Reported because no one says that here, nor should they.

good give

Reported because it took me a minute to give it.

Possessed said:

TV’s Frink said:

dahmage said:

TV’s Frink said:

yhwx said:

DominicCobb said:

joefavs said:

Black Panther just now. I think it was my first MCU movie since Winter Soldier. It was fine. I thought the story was pretty by-numbers, but I found most of the characters very appealing and I really dig everything about Wakanda. With any luck the inevitable sequel will get a little more adventurous with the plotting. These characters deserve it. Except Michael B. Jordan, who I thought was really terrible. If I didn’t already know who he was and this was the first thing I saw him in, I would have guessed he was a musician or something who hadn’t done a lot of acting. I remember his name being thrown around for Star Wars a couple years ago and this movie made me glad that nothing ever came of it.

Reported.

That’s old form, Dom; the in thing to do is to say “bad take.”

Reported because no one says that here, nor should they.

good give

Reported because it took me a minute to give it.

Reported because you weren’t there.

Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)

Sometimes you’ve got to slog through the dull and meandering to appreciate the true gems once in awhile. But, my god, did this do everything wrong.

From a production standpoint, Sweet Bird of Youth is pretty generic and unremarkable, but its characterizations and storytelling, like Paul Newman’s character, take the wrong doors every time.

There are too many characters, and the ones there are, are melodramatic caricatures. The whole thing is a farce. I couldn’t bare to watch Ed Begley’s performance as Boss Finley. His wide smile, his spitting, everything he does is just so mean spirited with little to no justification. Sure, there are people like that, but they aren’t cartoon characters. The entire subplot with his lover was completely unnecessary and pointless, and also completely derails a proper introduction to his daughter.

That’s a big issue. We don’t really get to know any of the characters before the melodrama starts. Every character introduction is completely botched. The timing is wrong, too. We’re introduced to Boss Finley with a 4-minute newsreel going on about his history, after about two minutes I thought he’d shut it off, but we go on about something to do with his son. Our introduction to the main antagonist is from a newsreel. And then he’s a cartoon. His daughter, Paul Newman’s supposed love, is introduced by yelling at her dad how he can’t perform in bed. And Paul and the daughter don’t share any scenes until about half an hour before the end! Even though this is supposedly what the movie is about.

What the hell is this movie about?? In the end, I don’t care.

P.S. I’m shocked that this film comes from the man who brought us Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, a similar film in what it’s trying to present, but vastly superior in every way.

Tried watching Justice League tonight.

Tried. Holy shit is it bad.

And this is coming from someone who genuinely liked Man of Steel and didn’t think BvS was quite the abomination many saw it as (though it’s not exactly good).

I’m going to try to finish it someday, but I’ll need lots more booze first, if only to be able to see past the mustache removal (which isn’t even the worst of the CGI I’ve seen so far).

Hey, I quite enjoy MoS. You guys are not alone. It’s the only DC movie that felt like it knew what it was doing. Plus I don’t know enough about Superman to judge if he was in character or anything like that, I just enjoyed the movie.

Still upsets me that they rushed the Batman movie to try to match Civil War with BvS. The DCEU was off to a solid start with MoS.

Man of Steel isn’t that bad. It’s not great, but it does have good aspects.

I’m surprised you liked BvS more than Justice League though. BvS was simply one of the worst films I’ve seen in recent memory. JL ain’t great either, but at least I didn’t want to kill myself while watching it.

DominicCobb said:

Man of Steel isn’t that bad. It’s not great, but it does have good aspects.

I’m surprised you liked BvS more than Justice League though. BvS was simply one of the worst films I’ve seen in recent memory. JL ain’t great either, but at least I didn’t want to kill myself while watching it.

It might have helped that I’ve only seen the director’s cut, I dunno. From what I’ve seen of the differences between that and the theatrical, I don’t understand how the theatrical was comprehensible in any way.

ChainsawAsh said:

DominicCobb said:

Man of Steel isn’t that bad. It’s not great, but it does have good aspects.

I’m surprised you liked BvS more than Justice League though. BvS was simply one of the worst films I’ve seen in recent memory. JL ain’t great either, but at least I didn’t want to kill myself while watching it.

It might have helped that I’ve only seen the director’s cut, I dunno. From what I’ve seen of the differences between that and the theatrical, I don’t understand how the theatrical was comprehensible in any way.

Is the director’s cut the “ultimate version”?