Topic: Movies in the Theater (Read 106553 times)

Mongrel · « **Reply #1040 on:** January 15, 2013, 05:47:03 PM »

I think it would be screamingly hilarious if it turned out he actually thought it was spelled that way and nobody questioned him on it (though with Waltz as a senior cast member, this seems incredibly unlikely).

Joxam · « **Reply #1041 on:** January 15, 2013, 08:01:21 PM »

I honestly think it was completely on purpose. A sort of play up on the high society of the south at the time. That they would misspell a name like that accidentally and not even know it. I mean just look at Calvin. A francophile who knows almost nothing of France, not even that Alexandre Dumas, who he'd named a prized slave after, was in fact the son of a slave himself. And seemingly, to confirm this, you will notice that Waltz pronounces the name properly the entire movie.

Mongrel · « **Reply #1042 on:** January 15, 2013, 08:35:19 PM »

Just a slight note on Dumas' father, Thomas-Alexandre Dumas.

Under legal technicalities, he was born a slave and records indicate he was even sold and repurchased by his father (A white French aristocrat of high standing).

However, he lived his entire life as a free man and was educated as an aristocrat. He served in the French republican armies, cleverly escaped the clutches of the Commission of Public Security, rose to general-in-chief of the French armies of the Tyrol, West, Rhine and others (in the western world, no black man would reach equivalent rank again until Colin Powell, a full two hundred years later), beat the Austrians in their own end of the Alps, saved the republic from several uprisings, and only ended his career with a full-blown argument with Napoleon in Egypt (after Napoleon had almost killed him and several other generals with an ill-advised march through the desert).

It would be technically correct to call Thomas-Alexandre Dumas a slave. But it would be a lot more accurate to call him one badass motherfucker.

Thad · « **Reply #1043 on:** January 15, 2013, 10:23:53 PM »

Shut yo mouth

Mongrel · « **Reply #1044 on:** January 15, 2013, 10:55:30 PM »

But I'm talkin' 'bout Thomas-Alexandre Dumas!

Brentai · « **Reply #1045 on:** January 16, 2013, 10:53:35 AM »

Nous pouvons creuser!

Büge · « **Reply #1046 on:** January 19, 2013, 08:02:00 PM »

A Lawyer examines the legality of the contract from The Hobbit

Pacobird · « **Reply #1047 on:** January 21, 2013, 09:57:18 AM »

Les Miserables was pretty good for a movie version of a Really Bad Opera (as opposed to a mediocre musical, which it has made quite a name for itself by pretending to be) but Hugh Jackman and Russell Crowe were embarrassing. I mean, Valjean is one of the highest tenor parts out there, Javert one of the lower basses (considering this is, again, the genre of Really Bad Opera), and run-of-the-mill baritones like Jackman and Crowe couldn't hack it even if they had better senses of pitch and actually spent $20 on a voice lesson where in the first five minutes the instructor would tell them to sing from the stomach and not the throat/nose.

That said, Amanda Seyfried is really a surprisingly great soprano and it was hilarious to watch all these big hollywood names get upstaged by a third-place finalist from a reality show.

PS: T RICO I particularly liked how Crowe fucks up the phrasing on literally his last line in the whole movie. THERE IS NO WAY TO *breath* GO OOOOOOOOOOOOOON

Rico · « **Reply #1048 on:** January 21, 2013, 11:42:54 AM »

What do you mean Really Bad Opera having the hero and villain do nothing but jump octave Fs at each other is brilliant recitative.

Thad · « **Reply #1049 on:** January 21, 2013, 11:43:53 AM »

Overanalyzing Movies Dept: Should we be troubled by the existence of a von Shaft descendant who looks IDENTICAL to Stephen?

Mongrel · « **Reply #1050 on:** January 21, 2013, 11:50:53 AM »

no wait, that's the wrong emote

there we go

Pacobird · « **Reply #1051 on:** January 21, 2013, 12:36:51 PM »

Quote from: Rico on January 21, 2013, 11:42:54 AM

What do you mean Really Bad Opera having the hero and villain do nothing but jump octave Fs at each other is brilliant recitative.

teehee

BEfore you SAY another WORD javert

BEfore you CHAIN me up like a SLAVE again

LISten to ME there is something i must doooooo

god les mis is so bad :D

BUT I will give it some credit and say In My Life shows a glimpse of what would have been a great show if it had required more parts than just Marius and Eponine to actually act, and Empty Chairs at Empty Tables is a cool example of how to write a great, impassioned, and dead-straight solo for a bass and I have been glad to use it in the semi-rare event I've had to prepare an audition piece for this sort of thing.

Thad · « **Reply #1052 on:** February 14, 2013, 09:38:51 PM »

Die Hard 5 is less dumb than Die Hard 4, mostly by virtue of not bothering to have much of anything resembling a plot. It's also the most briskly-paced Die Hard movie, consisting pretty much of three giant action setpieces.

It's not very good, and certainly nowhere near as good as the original Die Hard. The franchise has turned into Generic Action Movie Series, and John McClane has turned into Generic Action Hero. He gets a little banged up but there's nothing remotely resembling the kind of pain and suffering he was put through in the original movie -- he's basically invulnerable.

It's a way to kill 90 minutes. It's not bad. It's not good. You could definitely spend your money on a worse movie. I don't know if there are any better ones recently out.

Healy · « **Reply #1053 on:** February 24, 2013, 07:25:43 PM »

fuck nevermind

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1054 on:** April 02, 2013, 07:52:28 PM »

Evil Dead was fucking fantastic, y'all.

[spoiler]And yes, there is a tree rape scene.[/spoiler]

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1055 on:** April 03, 2013, 07:53:24 AM »

Also, stay after the credits.

Also also, there was a guy in line behind me who was very seriously trying to convince his friends that the Newtown shootings were faked. After the movie, I overheard him complaining that [spoiler]the tree rape scene was "not as well done as the original".[/spoiler]

Brentai · « **Reply #1056 on:** April 03, 2013, 11:03:14 AM »

If they couldn't manage to clear that bar, I'd be a little upset too.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1057 on:** April 06, 2013, 07:05:06 PM »

I just got back from Chekhov's Gun: A Horror Story.

And by that I mean Evil Dead. It's a fun show.

You should go see it.

[spoiler]The bit at the end where Mia chainsaws the demon in the face had me grinning ear-to-ear[/spoiler]

Ted Belmont · « **Reply #1058 on:** April 06, 2013, 07:59:17 PM »

Yeah, that actually had me clapping and yelling, and I wasn't the only one.

[spoiler]I realized later that if kind of makes the tree rape scene more problematic.[/spoiler]

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #1059 on:** April 06, 2013, 09:21:33 PM »

A few things:

I kind of expected at the end that [spoiler]Mia would be ambushed by the rednecks from the beginning of the movie. Too obvious, maybe? Or perhaps it's a deleted alternate ending.[/spoiler] I was also expecting that [spoiler]the girlfriend's severed arm and the dog to come back to life and wreak havoc.[/spoiler]

On the drive home I realized that [spoiler]The bottle full of gasoline that Mia used to fill up the chainsaw was the same bottle that the girl's father used to set her on fire.[/spoiler] Seriously, it was crazy how every little thing in the movie played a part: [spoiler]the electric knife, the shotgun and nailgun, the chainsaw, the story about Mia Over Dosing and then being revived with a defibrillator, the crawlspace under the shed, the machete Mia passed up in order to get to the chainsaw, the aforementioned water bottle full of gasoline.[/spoiler]

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