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3 hours ago, Monty said:

About to see Rogue One. 

 

We'll see.

I'm not a fan of Star Wars fan. Don't love them, don't hate them.

 

I enjoyed this one quite a bit, if not more than the others. I went in with terribly low expectations, though. 

 

All this said, I still would never watch it again.

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Hacksaw Ridge  6.5/10

Interesting individual true war story with a couple memorable moments (alternate title: Vince Vaughn's Super Fun Sleigh Ride!) but I'm not sure it warranted the 2:20 run time.

 

Idiocracy  7.5/10

Had never seen this but apparently I downloaded it at some point, and my tv will keep playing files alphabetically off my hard drive, so, now I've seen it. It's funny but a little too absurd - there's no way someone as ridiculous as President Camacho and his bumbling cabinet could ever seize power in the United States of America. C'mon.

"I can't believe you like money like me!"

"Yeah, hey, we should hang out!"

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30 minutes ago, The Bookie said:

Idiocracy  7.5/10

Had never seen this but apparently I downloaded it at some point, and my tv will keep playing files alphabetically off my hard drive, so, now I've seen it. It's funny but a little too absurd - there's no way someone as ridiculous as President Camacho and his bumbling cabinet could ever seize power in the United States of America. C'mon.

"I can't believe you like money like me!"

"Yeah, hey, we should hang out!"

http://flavorwire.com/537887/who-said-it-presidential-hopeful-donald-trump-or-idiocracy-president-camacho

 

Who Said It: Presidential Hopeful Donald Trump or ‘Idiocracy’ President Camacho?

 

Film | By Jason Bailey | September 16, 2015
 

The next big Republican presidential debate is this evening, and we’re off-the-charts excited — not in anticipation of any substantial policy discussions, and certainly not in anticipation of anything resembling the democratic process at work, but for the sideshow. After all, the frontrunner in the field is Triumph the Insult Comic Dog made flesh, a comically bouffanted racist oligarch who tweets like a fifth grader and brags like a cafeteria rapper.

Watching him work the crowd at that first debate last month, your film editor could only think of one real parallel to the experience: the scenes in Mike Judge’s cult hit Idiocracy that find Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho (Terry Crews), “five-time Smackdown champion, porn superstar, and President of the United States,” firing off his machine gun in a speech to the “House of Representin’,” and issuing policy decrees like, “$&!#. I know $&!#’s bad right now, with all that starving bull$&!#, and the dust storms, and we’re running out of French fries and burrito coverings. But I got a solution.” So, just for fun, we dug up some Camacho quotes, and put them side-by-side with the Donald’s. Can you tell the difference?

1. “Remember, new ‘environment friendly’ light bulbs can cause cancer.”

2. “I will be the greatest jobs president that God ever created, I tell you that.”

3. “I will build a great wall — and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me.”

4. “I beat China all the time. All the time.”

5. “If there is one word to describe Atlantic City, it’s Big Business. Or two words — Big Business.”

6. “Listen, you mother&^@#ers, we’re going to tax you 25 percent!”

7. “This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bull$&!# has got to stop.”

8. “Sorry losers and haters, but my IQ is one of the highest — and you all know it!”

9. “So you’re smart, huh? I thought your head would be bigger. Looks like a peanut!”

 

ANSWERS:

1. Trump.

2. Trump.

3. Trump.

4. Trump.

5. Trump.

6. Trump.

7. Trump.

8. Trump.

9. The one and only Camacho quote. Happy debate night!

 

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On February 8, 2017 at 8:42 PM, Down by the River said:

Michael Pena is definitely one of those guys I forget about, see him in a movie and am reminded of how much I like him, and then inexplicably forget about him all over again almost as soon as the movie is done.

You should watch it. It's great!

 

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Continued on with the Rachel McAdams series - 

 

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But I think I'll stop after this movie... it is one of those movies that I strongly disagree with the IMDB rating. It gave it a 7.8, much higher than most movies. I don't get it. The 2nd half was fairly boring - one long 'happily ever after' ending for like an hour of screen time.

 

7/10

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Yeah Crash sucked  but come on man analyze it for me will ya?

I have no problem with films like this. But in the first 10 minutes, I was instantly reminded of a Bill Burr standup bit where he said, something along the lines of, "What's next, a film about the first all black swim team?"

 

Literally 10 minutes in, the 3 main characters are being escorted to NASA following a police cruiser while speeding behind it and saying, "Can you believe that in 1961 we are..." My wife and I looked at each other and were like "Wait, they're speaking as if they know that 50 years from now, they will have equal rights." It seemed incredibly hokey and out of place.

 

But the film was also riddled with the cliched "stand up and make a speech" moments. What's worse, none of those pivotal scenes that "tug at the heart strings" actually occurred to any of them. In fact, NASA was quite forward thinking and years ahead of what the film would have you believe happened. 

 

Which leads me to the ultimate problem. Hollywood (ie: whoever was in charge of writing the film) HAD to create those moments in the film, because the actual story was not interesting in the slightest. Like, at all. If those false moments of tension weren't created, it would have been a film about a bunch of Math nerds going to NASA to try and figure out how to put a man into space using Math. That is NOT an interesting movie; so the writers had to make up a bunch of non stories to this real situation in order for the audience to care.

 

Which is why I couldn't stop thinking about the Bill Burr standup bit. At what point do they just say, "Let's wait until we have a good story, rather than just tell every story."

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9 minutes ago, Monty said:

I have no problem with films like this. But in the first 10 minutes, I was instantly reminded of a Bill Burr standup bit where he said, something along the lines of, "What's next, a film about the first all black swim team?"

 

Literally 10 minutes in, the 3 main characters are being escorted to NASA following a police cruiser while speeding behind it and saying, "Can you believe that in 1961 we are..." My wife and I looked at each other and were like "Wait, they're speaking as if they know that 50 years from now, they will have equal rights." It seemed incredibly hokey and out of place.

 

But the film was also riddled with the cliched "stand up and make a speech" moments. What's worse, none of those pivotal scenes that "tug at the heart strings" actually occurred to any of them. In fact, NASA was quite forward thinking and years ahead of what the film would have you believe happened. 

 

Which leads me to the ultimate problem. Hollywood (ie: whoever was in charge of writing the film) HAD to create those moments in the film, because the actual story was not interesting in the slightest. Like, at all. If those false moments of tension weren't created, it would have been a film about a bunch of Math nerds going to NASA to try and figure out how to put a man into space using Math. That is NOT an interesting movie; so the writers had to make up a bunch of non stories to this real situation in order for the audience to care.

 

Which is why I couldn't stop thinking about the Bill Burr standup bit. At what point do they just say, "Let's wait until we have a good story, rather than just tell every story."

So what you are saying is they created racial-oriented tensions for the sake of having conflicts which, in real life, weren't really there?

 

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So what you are saying is they created racial-oriented tensions for the sake of having conflicts which, in real life, weren't really there?

 

The real life events did not have the conflicts the film would have you believe. 

 

I understand films take liberties when translating to the screen, but there were no "make a speech in the center of the NASA brain trust about going pee across the compound, using a different coffee pot, the NASA director hammering down the coloureds only bathroom sign, etc". The real life event was very much a "nerds going to work, nerds going home."

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1 minute ago, Monty said:

The real life events did not have the conflicts the film would have you believe. 

 

I understand films take liberties when translating to the screen, but there were no "make a speech in the center of the NASA brain trust about going pee across the compound, using a different coffee pot, the NASA director hammering down the coloureds only bathroom sign, etc". The real life event was very much a "nerds going to work, nerds going home."

Cool. Saves me time and trouble from watching it.

Thanks.

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i'm personally quite sick of these Wikipedia-type movies. you know, the true stories that are made into movies for Oscar buzz but lack a that intangible "artistry" that makes a movie really stand out?

 

I'm talking Argo, Dallas Buyers Club, The Imitation Game, Hidden Figures, Spotlight, etc. Now don't get me wrong - I enjoyed all of these to some extent, but you would have to pay me to re-watch most of them. In fact, after seeing Argo a second time I was straight up baffled by what I liked about it the first time: remove the tension of two or three scenes and there's very little left. Imitation Game? amazing story. decent movie. repeat. Was there a vision and voice in Spotlight? Can you even make a movie about that type of thing into "art" without detracting from the story? I just don't know. But I do know by the end of it I'd rather just watch a thoroughly researched documentary without the dramatic tinkering here and there. 

 

Compare those with 12 Years a Slave, Nightcrawler, Birdman, Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonlight, etc. and I just think we're talking two completely different worlds here. Even if you don't like these movies, I think it's difficult to deny that they have a unique vision, or a distinct voice, tone and that intangible. 

 

Now don't get me wrong, I think there are plenty of movies/filmmakers who are talented enough to blend the two (I love Bennett Miller because I think he does it every time), but I think these people and examples are few and far between. 

 

Anyway, that's my rant on this subject. 

 

side note: 2011 was totally stacked with good releases

 

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