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Handman said:

07/27/1978
An hour long analysis of a Garfield comic strip. This changes everything.

I’m sorry but just because something is an hour long doesn’t make it a movie.

Judge Dredd (1995)

There are some fun elements but it’s mostly stupid.

4/10

TV’s Frink said:

Handman said:

07/27/1978
An hour long analysis of a Garfield comic strip. This changes everything.

I’m sorry but just because something is an hour long doesn’t make it a movie.

Please define it then, and be careful not to exclude things like Koyaanisqatsi and My Dinner with Andre.

As far as I can see it’s 60 minutes of some guy talking about Garfield. Unless I’ve missed something, how is that a movie?

TV’s Frink said:

Judge Dredd (1995)

There are some fun elements but it’s mostly stupid.

4/10

The only thing I remember about that movie is that they basically wallpapered every Taco Bell in America with Judge Dredd stuff for one summer in the mid-90s.

darthrush said:

I’ll be seeing Beauty and the Beast tomorrow night and will leave a review here. Not crazy interested but the animated feature is quite charming so I’m mildly excited. I’m probably one of the only people on earth who wasn’t a huge fan of the live action Jungle book.

I’ve seen Beauty and the Beast live action and it was enjoyable to an extent but not as good as the original. I enjoy musicals if they are done well. The problem with this movie was that none of the actors are good singers. That’s a huge problem for a musical.

Exact opposite as you though, I haven’t seen the Jungle Book remake yet, but I actually want to because I heard they did an entirely different interpretation from the original.

TV’s Frink said:

As far as I can see it’s 60 minutes of some guy talking about Garfield. Unless I’ve missed something, how is that a movie?

It’s a commentary on our post modern world, setting its sights on the very idea of criticism with biting irony and satire, without a hint of sarcasm that so often befalls other works of parody. It employs actors, production design, uses the entire Philip Glass score for Kundun, and in a similar vein to Best Picture winner Birdman and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, uses a single, unbroken take. It’s production values are high enough to be considered a professional effort, I don’t know what to really call it if not a movie, it is certainly art of some kind.

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Labyrinth (1986) – 9/10
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 8/10
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) – 6/10
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – 8/10
• Home Alone (1990) – 7/10
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – 6.5/10
  Okay

Eh I would swap the score for Misery with Raiders and I’m not a big John Hughes fan, but you know I think this is mostly fair.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five, it’s a cool concept with plenty of interesting ideas despite a few overly comedic bits. There are comparisons with a recent release that is also good but saying more gives away too much. Another one for the list of great pre-Star Wars 70s scifi flicks.

SilverWook said:
Interesting they would do a tie in with a violent R rated film.

In Demolition Man, another Stallone rated-R movie, Taco Bells were the only restaurants in the future. So they did heavy promotion for that one too.

Alderaan said:

darthrush said:

I’ll be seeing Beauty and the Beast tomorrow night and will leave a review here. Not crazy interested but the animated feature is quite charming so I’m mildly excited. I’m probably one of the only people on earth who wasn’t a huge fan of the live action Jungle book.

I’ve seen Beauty and the Beast live action and it was enjoyable to an extent but not as good as the original. I enjoy musicals if they are done well. The problem with this movie was that none of the actors are good singers. That’s a huge problem for a musical.

Exact opposite as you though, I haven’t seen the Jungle Book remake yet, but I actually want to because I heard they did an entirely different interpretation from the original.

I don’t know much about it, but if it’s based on the book rather than the first Disney movie I’m in. The book was much darker

Mocata said:

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Labyrinth (1986) – 9/10
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 8/10
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) – 6/10
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – 8/10
• Home Alone (1990) – 7/10
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – 6.5/10
  Okay

Eh I would swap the score for Misery with Raiders and I’m not a big John Hughes fan, but you know I think this is mostly fair.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five, it’s a cool concept with plenty of interesting ideas despite a few overly comedic bits. There are comparisons with a recent release that is also good but saying more gives away too much. Another one for the list of great pre-Star Wars 70s scifi flicks.

I only quoted the films I found the scores to be strange on. Whether you liked TFA or not, rating it lower than home alone 2 is crazy

Well I said mostly

Possessed said:

Mocata said:

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Labyrinth (1986) – 9/10
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 8/10
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) – 6/10
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – 8/10
• Home Alone (1990) – 7/10
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – 6.5/10
  Okay

Eh I would swap the score for Misery with Raiders and I’m not a big John Hughes fan, but you know I think this is mostly fair.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five, it’s a cool concept with plenty of interesting ideas despite a few overly comedic bits. There are comparisons with a recent release that is also good but saying more gives away too much. Another one for the list of great pre-Star Wars 70s scifi flicks.

I only quoted the films I found the scores to be strange on. Whether you liked TFA or not, rating it lower than home alone 2 is crazy

FWIW, I think the non-Starkiller parts of TFA are worthy of a 7/10. But I really, really don’t like the Starkiller Base; I can’t forgive the movie for that.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Possessed said:

Mocata said:

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Labyrinth (1986) – 9/10
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 8/10
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) – 6/10
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – 8/10
• Home Alone (1990) – 7/10
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – 6.5/10
  Okay

Eh I would swap the score for Misery with Raiders and I’m not a big John Hughes fan, but you know I think this is mostly fair.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five, it’s a cool concept with plenty of interesting ideas despite a few overly comedic bits. There are comparisons with a recent release that is also good but saying more gives away too much. Another one for the list of great pre-Star Wars 70s scifi flicks.

I only quoted the films I found the scores to be strange on. Whether you liked TFA or not, rating it lower than home alone 2 is crazy

FWIW, I think the non-Starkiller parts of TFA are worthy of a 8/10. But I really, really don’t like the Starkiller Base; I can’t forgive the movie for that so I give it a 7/10.

Fixed.

And before all the people who claim we bully people who didn’t like TFA I’m joking.

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

Possessed said:

Mocata said:

Possessed said:

DuracellEnergizer said:

• Labyrinth (1986) – 9/10
• A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors (1987) – 8/10
• Star Wars: Episode VII – The Force Awakens (2015) – 6/10
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) – 8/10
• Home Alone (1990) – 7/10
• Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992) – 6.5/10
  Okay

Eh I would swap the score for Misery with Raiders and I’m not a big John Hughes fan, but you know I think this is mostly fair.

I watched Slaughterhouse-Five, it’s a cool concept with plenty of interesting ideas despite a few overly comedic bits. There are comparisons with a recent release that is also good but saying more gives away too much. Another one for the list of great pre-Star Wars 70s scifi flicks.

I only quoted the films I found the scores to be strange on. Whether you liked TFA or not, rating it lower than home alone 2 is crazy

FWIW, I think the non-Starkiller parts of TFA are worthy of a 8/10. But I really, really don’t like the Starkiller Base; I can’t forgive the movie for that so I give it a 7/10.

Fixed.

And before all the people who claim we bully people who didn’t like TFA I’m joking.

Still reported.

Batman: The Killing Joke (2016)

Is your taste in film that poor?

Honestly, it’s not as if TFA is some kind of masterpiece even worth raving about. It was okay, not amazing, not awful. I’m sick of seeing all this condescension over it.

Handman said:

Honestly, it’s not as if TFA is some kind of masterpiece even worth raving about. It was okay, not amazing, not awful. I’m sick of seeing all this condescension over it.

Isn’t this post itself condescending?

Also, I think it’s pretty clear DE is on the same page as you there.

Handman said:

TV’s Frink said:

As far as I can see it’s 60 minutes of some guy talking about Garfield. Unless I’ve missed something, how is that a movie?

It’s a commentary on our post modern world, setting its sights on the very idea of criticism with biting irony and satire, without a hint of sarcasm that so often befalls other works of parody. It employs actors, production design, uses the entire Philip Glass score for Kundun, and in a similar vein to Best Picture winner Birdman and Alfred Hitchcock’s Rope, uses a single, unbroken take. It’s production values are high enough to be considered a professional effort, I don’t know what to really call it if not a movie, it is certainly art of some kind.

Seems more like some sort of video essay? I mean the concept of “movie” is a rather nebulous term so technically you could apply it to all manner of videos. That doesn’t mean you should, though.

And, though I’m sure you know, neither Birdman nor Rope is really a single, unbroken take.