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Author Topic: Movies in the Theater  (Read 106653 times)

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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #260 on: June 06, 2009, 09:38:28 PM »

Hence why it was immoral. [spoiler]Here is the Ellie Badge, Russell. It means you should calm down and live a normal life if you want to be a retarded teenager some day.[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #261 on: June 07, 2009, 05:53:01 AM »

This is right up there with the "The Incredibles is Objectivist screed" discussion.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #262 on: June 07, 2009, 04:57:02 PM »

I went to see Land of the Lost.  Someone drag Will Ferrel away.  Far away.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #263 on: June 07, 2009, 07:00:08 PM »

 :;_;:

What if you happened to think that Anchorman was comic genius? I've been really, really hoping LoL is as funny as I think it could be.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #264 on: June 07, 2009, 07:46:29 PM »

I'm a fan of Ferrel, and Land of the Lost looked funny from the trailers, but apparently it's turned out on the tier of Pluto Nash or Howard the Duck.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #265 on: June 10, 2009, 04:08:30 PM »

Sooooo.... slightly better than the original series?...
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« Reply #266 on: June 25, 2009, 08:26:09 PM »

I will not double post in the Transformers thread, because you are not the boss of Cannon.

Revenge of the Fallen created a new, lower standard for big, loud, and stupid summer action movies. You know how most every Michael Bay flick has a frenzied goofball who is quite the character? At some point before he made Revenge, he fired the guy that said he could only have one such dolt per movie, because they are all over the place here.

So the eponymous villain's motive makes no sense (beyond the plot necessity of someone having to be evil and set events into motion), I would not want to share close quarters with any man who thinks dogs humping and "wrecking balls as testicles" are choice gags, and the idiotic mess felt at least forty-five minutes too long. I could cherrypick somewhat mythical themes and Transformer-y bits that I latched on to, but I could not divorce them from the work itself. That's often how it is with movies that are objectively mediocre, bad, or just plain horrible, but that I am otherwise entertained and engaged by.

I still smiled and almost cheered at certain parts of this mass of cinematic junk food, and I am planning to see it again. Probably on my birthday, since box office makes the case that it'll still be in theaters then. Something is broken within me.

...As for the previous "lower standard" remark, yeah, that's exaggeration. I have no idea if there's any redeeming typical summer action schlockbusters; I just wanted to sound like a fancypants.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #267 on: June 25, 2009, 11:14:15 PM »

I saw The Hangover a few days ago; it was pretty good! Much better than the trailers made it out to be.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #268 on: June 26, 2009, 08:19:19 AM »

Yeah, definitely an entertaining film. Ed Helms was way better than I'd expected the guy to be, considering he's never had a likable role, and Zach Galifianakis was obviously completely awesome. Whenever they tried setting up a bad guy, like with the mafia folks, the movie started getting pretty stupid, but they moved on fairly quickly and definitely get their shit together by the end.

Great cast, fun movie.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #269 on: July 28, 2009, 10:30:56 PM »

Moon was good. I'm glad I watched it.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #270 on: July 29, 2009, 03:37:39 PM »

Just watched The Half Blood Prince

[spoiler]Turns out Snape kills Dumbledore[/spoiler]
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #271 on: July 29, 2009, 03:45:05 PM »

Turns out Snape kills Dumbledore
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #272 on: July 29, 2009, 04:07:49 PM »

holy fuck thanks a lot DN
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #273 on: July 29, 2009, 07:21:59 PM »

... seriously?
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #274 on: July 29, 2009, 07:53:25 PM »

ya srsly.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #275 on: August 02, 2009, 11:45:01 AM »

Went and saw UP again, when the wife suggested we take her dad out to go see it. Still gut-wrenching and terribly enjoyable.

Just posting because I remembered the 'Does Muntz die?' nonsense from earlier. Well, yeah, the Pixar folks took very careful pans to show that he had a few balloons attached to him - but on the other hand he was falling pretty damn fast.

So uh... still inconclusive!  :imagination:
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #276 on: August 02, 2009, 12:00:36 PM »

His ship and dogs and supplies and everything are gone, though.  If he's lucky, the fall killed him.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #277 on: August 05, 2009, 12:10:41 PM »

Funny People was about an hour too long.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #278 on: August 05, 2009, 12:13:31 PM »

Ouch.
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Re: Movies in the Theater
« Reply #279 on: August 05, 2009, 01:10:08 PM »

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