suspiciouscoffee

Dr. Strangelove (1964) - Hilarious

Koyaanisqatsi (1982) - A film unlike any I’ve seen before.

Still, at what point would the movie itself be “propaganda”? Is it already just for being about a strong woman, or would she have to go on a pro-abortion crusade or something?

Also, I don’t know why the women-only screenings are a problem. I don’t think anyone would have complained about the screenings had they been called “girl’s night out” or something.

I loved Wonder Woman btw, after hating DC’s movie universe prior. It felt feminist by nature of having strong women, but not “propaganda”.

Unlike most kids my age, West really was my Batman. Sure, I watched the JL cartoons, but I mostly watched those for Superman. For Batman, I popped in the 66 movie or watched reruns of the show when I found them. My mom even made a Robin shirt for me when I was 4 years old, and man, what I wouldn’t give to be wearing it now.

EDIT: Pretty much like this, but with green sleeves sewn on.

SilverWook said:

There was a time when it wasn’t exactly cool to admit liking the 60’s show, (especially around the time of the 1989 film) so it was gratifying to see people acknowledge it’s place in Batman history, and Adam West embark on a whole second career after too many years of being typecast.
Family Guy was never my cup of tea, but I always thought West’s mayor character was hilarious.

He also appeared a few times on a dumb cartoon from the time of my childhood as Catman, or rather an aging actor who used to play Catman, before eventually becoming the character. The rest of the show doesn’t hold up well, but his appearances do.

If you need me, I’ll be watching Batman all day.

Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Why did I watch this today? I don’t know, honestly. Maybe I hoped that it wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered, maybe I was bored and grabbed it without thinking, I don’t know. Somehow even worse than I remembered. As I wrote in my long chain of tweets while watching, this movie has no connective tissue, everything just… happens. This is the cinematic equivilant of buying a bag of chips that turns out to be mostly air.

DuracellEnergizer said:

Non Solo

Suggested avatar: this head

Photoshopped onto this body

Challenge accepted.

EDIT: Eh, it’s rough, but serviceable enough I guess.

I’m actually watching TPM right now and I assure you, it’s still uncool. I regret paying 50 cents for this tape.

I’m livetweeting the experience though, if anyone cares.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T8elmcv4AwI

SilverWook said:

Tobar said:

I like to think it was also an excuse to finally move away from their awful redesign.

Uh, isn’t the 1701-A being built at the end of the film exactly the same?

No. The nacelles are slimmer, and farther back from the disc, among other things iIrc.

diffbtwn

Tobar said:

I like to think it was also an excuse to finally move away from their awful redesign.

+1701

TV’s Frink said:

Related:

http://makingstarwars.net/2017/06/star-wars-fans-are-massively-down-voting-anti-prequel-trilogy-video-on-youtube/

I can tell you as a fan that doesn’t like the prequels, but rather as a fan that loves the prequels, I hate it when people give me hyperbolic, pre-packaged criticisms of the films that address a tiny speck of “sand”-sized flaw in one of the most imaginative series to be released from 1999-2005. As films of their day, they’re brilliant, fun, and entirely unique. I can think of another franchise or two from the era that are often heralded as “great movies” but I sincerely don’t think they hold up or look as good or timeless as the last three films George Lucas directed.

Wait, people are mad at a WatchMojo video? WatchMojo, who churns out deliberately bland, innocuous content like an assembly line just for clicks and ad revenue? Lol!

Lord Tobias said:

suspiciouscoffee said:

I think the galaxy is at least so many, but maybe not too many.

define too many

Way more than so many.

I think the galaxy is at least so many, but maybe not too many.

generalfrevious said:

I AM IN UNBEARABLE AGONIZING PAIN WORSE THAN CANCER

Have you ever actually had cancer? Because if not, shut the hell up.

RESOPONDING

I believe an early draft of Empire stated that Lando was a clone, so perhaps he was going to be a clone of Han, and that line’s just left over from earlier scripts.

By the time Williams dies, they’ll have an algorithm set up to generate “Williams-ish” music that’s “good enough” (not actually good but not terrible so they just go with it, since it’s mostly sampling old Williams music anyway). Things get weird when the second movie they try it with starts using music from Lost in Space, and fan theorists lose their minds.

yhwx said:

Jesus has a fidget spinner?

He died for your spins.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I’ve been considering seeing Star Trek Beyond, as I’ve heard its more in the mold of classic Trek than ST ‘09 & STID. Now, I still haven’t seen the prior two movies and still don’t plan to. Can this movie be viewed as a standalone film, or is it too mired in the continuity of Abrams’ films?

COFFEE’S GUIDE ON EVERYTHING YOU ACTUALLY NEED TO KNOW BEFORE WATCHING BEYOND

•Kirk’s dad was a starship captian, but died.
•Spock Prime was living in the Abramsverse for a while, and everyone knew it

…that’s it iirc.

I hate basketball too, definitely the worst thing in the EU. They only added it into SW to capitalize on the success of Space Jam, and it worked given the later popularity of Jedi Master Miichael J’rdan.

EDIT: Noticed this wasn’t the hate thread. O well.

DuracellEnergizer said:

I swore I’d never touch anything of the DCEU with a 100-kilometre-long pole, and here you guys are, making me consider reneging on that oath.

Damn you all. Damn you all to hell.

Trust me, I was the same way, but my mom wanted to see it because she grew up with the old TV show, so the whole family went with her.

I’m probably still going to skip the JL movie though, and any other DCEU movie without Patty Jenkins’ name on it 😛