I think I’ve said before that I might skip this one but, honestly, I’ll probably see it because:
So either way, I win.
People who throw out the term ad hominem and try to cut and run when they don’t have a sufficient argument are a plague upon this Earth. They must be stopped.
This is ad hominem. You must be stopped.
Find a baby to drive you to the cinema?
Baby Driver (2017)
One of the slickest, best action movies I’ve ever seen.
Any word on if this actually made it into the movie?
That’s not being subtle, it’s being lazy.
I beg to differ. The things I’ve noticed are very subtle and not the sort of thing you want to rest a major plot point on. The points are too subtle and too few and most people don’t even notice them. And a lot of people don’t even try once they decide the PT are utter trash. How many OT members have seen the PT none or once and yet have very strong opinions of it? Many have seen it many times and some have even grown up with them and have completely different opinions.
I grew up on prequels and, no, they’re not subtle at all. For example, Anakin is virgin-birth-space-Jesus, but this Jesus also murders kids later so even the least subtle of images is fundamentally broken.
I could get addicted to that InspiroBot thing.
Ok, could someone tell me why they had to reboot Spiderman yet again. Why couldn’t they just tie the most recent series to the Marvel Cinematic Universe?
If you mean the “Amazing” movies, it’s because they kinda suck. But I’ve been worried about Homecoming suffering a similar fate due to Too Much Tony Stark, but lots of critic people are liking it so I guess I could be wrong. Which would be great, I would love to be wrong.
DE is redpilled.
Miss Representation (2011)
I find myself in fundamental agreement with the messages and most of the ideas presented, but it’s not a particularly well made movie.
Thanks
It could get pushed back to Dec 2018 and move Mary Poppins Returns because no one gives a crap about that but will still probably give it billions of dollars anyway.
FTFY
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Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
And, again, Johnny Depp is in this movie, and he is scum
Are you referring to the Trump thing and/or other things?
I was referring to the wife-beating thing, the Trump thing is news to me.
I thought Harry Potter was wholesome family entertainment?
And this movie actually was fun, wholesome entertainment for a while. They were chasing around some cute little CG things and general hijinks ensued. Suddenly, about halfway through the runtime I estimate, we see a woman preparing to beat her son with his belt, and then after a strange (possibly anti-semetic?) charicature alerts the magic police of the presence of the hero group, they get arrested and sentenced to death by very gruesome means, but the executioners enjoy every second of it. They escape, of course, but man, it was hard to watch.
And, again, Johnny Depp is in this movie, and he is scum, so suddenly everything bad here fits a bit too well.
Other than that, I did like the the main hero characters (and I can have a good time just looking at Eddie Redmayne for a while). I liked a lot of the designs of various things and places as well. It’s really a shame, there are good things here, but they can’t escape the bad taste left by the awful parts of the movie.
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them (2016)
I wanted like this movie, and I did for a while actually, but I spent most of the last half or so feeling uncomfortable. Between the child-beating subplot, and the sadistic execution scene, and other bizarre bits of “why?!”, there’s a pervasive grossness to this movie that I couldn’t ignore. O, hi Johnny Depp suddenly appearing in the finale to top off this gross cake!
I wanted a fun fantasy flick, but this was draining.
I’ve officially given up on trying to rate movies out of any number/letter/star scale.
The Truman Show (1998)
Fantastic. I am now fully aware that typing this here is meaningless and the whole world is watching me do it. Good afternoon, good evening, and good night.
Human Misery Vampires just sounds like the title of an early Twilight draft.
Hearing rumors of Ron Howard directing (finishing) the Han Solo movie, my brain immediately jumped to Andy Griffith.
I read part of Joss Whedon’s Wonder Woman script and had several viscerally unpleasant reactions
Also, Mask of the Pantasm blu is great news! I doubt either BTAS or STAS will ever get to blu tho.
Last Jedi might be the only SW movie I have much faith in anymore. Between this and Book of Hank or whatever Trevorrow just did, yikes.
BOOKS
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The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury
Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Graphic Novels and Trade Paperbacks
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Wonder Woman by George Pérez: Vol. 1
I also saw Cars 3. I didn’t think it was quite as good as the original, but it did feel like a proper movie, unlike 2, which felt like a straight-to-DVD project that accidentally wound up in theaters.
The time might come when we may need to take action in the streets to get the OOT released.
