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Batman Vs Superman, And Oh Yeah, Suicide Squad: Movies Thread

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I want to see this movie: Can We Take a Joke?, a documentary on how people at comedy shows are becoming more and more offended and interrupting shows because of it. From what I heard, they spend a lot of time discussing college campus shows. There's a long list of comedians appearing in the movie.
 
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It is getting pretty lame out there...I mean when Jerry Seinfeld wont do campuses because of the PC police you know things have gone too far.
 
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I met my wife 20 years ago in Bahrain and one of our first dates was seeing Spy Hard in Manama, then a few months later during my first trip to Bangkok we saw Twister. Coincidentally I saw a link for the Most Popular movies (per IMDB voter ratings) from 1996. Here's just the Top 20:

Trainspotting
Independence Day
Fargo
From Dusk Til Dawn
Scream
Happy Gilmore
Matilda
A Time To Kill
Romeo + Juliet
Twister
Mission: Impossible
The Rock
Primal Fear
Sling Blade (20 years ago already?)
Mars Attacks
Sleepers
The Phantom
Jerry McGuire
The English Patient
Space Jam

I've seen every movie on the list except Matilda and at least half in the theater. I sure don't go to the movies as often as I used to.

Oh and Spy Hard was robbed! ;)
 
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Watched "High And Low" last night (by Akira Kurosawa). A major executive at a shoe company must decide to either save his company or pay the ransom for his chauffeur's kidnapped son.

Awesome, awesome movie. The see-sawing on whether to pay or not (and the reasons why) are great. The solution is up in the air until towards the very end, and even then, there's more to the story and how it ends. How this didn't make it into the 25-movie box set is beyond me. It's one of my favorite Akira movies thus far. Definitely put it on your list.
 
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So I watched SS.

The first half is an ungodly mess. It is as if they put six scripts in a blender and let William Burroughs edit the result.

The second half is actually not bad at all, aside from the idiocy of the whole Big Bad and Evil Plot.

I think the reaction (28% now on Rotten Tomatoes) is simply the disappointment of the movie's failure to live up to the trailers, particularly the very first, which is the greatest trailer in film history and will be studied for years.

Some other assorted reax, none of them spoiler worthy: the number of characters who were introduced and then forgotten is so large it seemed like a running gag; the good guy platoon leader and the cold as ice b-tch could have been combined to form one good characters rather than two lame ones; Will Smith is still a cool cat; why can't comic book movie characters have adult motives? Every character could have been written, acted and directed by a teenager with no noticeable reduction of complexity; HQ was somehow even more ridiculously cray f-ckable at full length than in the trailers, which themselves burned the theaters down.
 
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Brenthoven said:
Only 25?

I forget what station, it was USA or TNT or something like that, that showed Blues Brothers/Animal House back-to-back on NYE every year. It was a family tradition. As mentioned before, I am too young to have seen it on the big screen, so this was a treat for me. :)
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Those movies are terrible when cut for TV.

When I finally bought them and watched them at full length for the first time in 20 years I remembered just how great they are and how much is lost in the censorship.

At least they don't even bother with Slap Shot. What would be left? The anthem?
 
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Kepler said:
Those movies are terrible when cut for TV.

When I finally bought them and watched them at full length for the first time in 20 years I remembered just how great they are and how much is lost in the censorship.

At least they don't even bother with Slap Shot. What would be left? The anthem?
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I can't say they are TERRIBLE, but they lose that "genius" edge with the cuts. It's a whole 'nother level un-cut, if that makes sense.
 
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Meanwhile the edits for "Major League" are so laughingly bad that they make for an entertaining movie unto themselves. "Strike this [two-beat silence] guy out!"
 
Kepler said:
Those movies are terrible when cut for TV.

When I finally bought them and watched them at full length for the first time in 20 years I remembered just how great they are and how much is lost in the censorship.

At least they don't even bother with Slap Shot. What would be left? The anthem?
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Slap Shot has been on censored TV

"Hey Hanrahan, Susanne like girls!" is the edited track, though lesbian is used as Reggie skates by the net for the final time.

Oh and they pixellate her tracts of land.
 
joecct said:
Slap Shot has been on censored TV

"Hey Hanrahan, Susanne like girls!" is the edited track, though lesbian is used as Reggie skates by the net for the final time.

Oh and they pixellate her tracts of land.
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The classic example is when Die Hard would be on TNT or TBS and they edited it heavily. The highlight became a meme before there were memes: Yippie-ki-yay Mister Falcon!
 
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ticapnews said:
The classic example is when Die Hard would be on TNT or TBS and they edited it heavily. The highlight became a meme before there were memes: Yippie-ki-yay Mister Falcon!
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THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU FIND A STRANGER IN THE ALPS! /BigLebowski

Rambo was a primitive. /TangoAndCash
 
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The Revenant:

Pretty intense movie. I think Tom Hardy did just as well as Leo, and that's not a knock on Leo. The lack of dialogue was very powerful in much of the movie, which I definitely appreciated. It's something that many big movies lack nowadays. Definitely recommend watching this one.
 
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Went to see Suicide Squad yesterday. Like most of these comic book movies, I thought it was light on plot, heavy on flash/style/looks. I enjoyed it as a summer blockbuster. Harley was by far the most enjoyable character (visually and character-wise), but I also really liked Viola Davis , Jay Hernandez, and (surprisingly) Will Smith. Jai Courtney was definitely the lowest part of the cast. My beef with this movie, like the Marvel movies, is the lack of a good villain. Maybe it's because the Joker and Loki have set the bar too high, but I find there is too little development of the villain (and plot) in these movies. I didn't see Batman v Superman, but I don't think it had any effect on my enjoyment of the movie.
 
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bostonewe said:
Went to see Suicide Squad yesterday. Like most of these comic book movies, I thought it was light on plot, heavy on flash/style/looks. I enjoyed it as a summer blockbuster. Harley was by far the most enjoyable character (visually and character-wise), but I also really liked Viola Davis , Jay Hernandez, and (surprisingly) Will Smith. Jai Courtney was definitely the lowest part of the cast. My beef with this movie, like the Marvel movies, is the lack of a good villain. Maybe it's because the Joker and Loki have set the bar too high, but I find there is too little development of the villain (and plot) in these movies. I didn't see Batman v Superman, but I don't think it had any effect on my enjoyment of the movie.
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I think the next movie (or whatever movie) that really delves into the Harley/Joker/Batman world will be phenomenal. This was a total set-up movie, and if that is indeed the case, I think it was well done. Entertaining either way....

And whether we want to or not, we will always compare to Ledger's Joker. A true testament to how great he did that villain.
 
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Brenthoven said:
I think the next movie (or whatever movie) that really delves into the Harley/Joker/Batman world will be phenomenal. This was a total set-up movie, and if that is indeed the case, I think it was well done. Entertaining either way....

And whether we want to or not, we will always compare to Ledger's Joker. A true testament to how great he did that villain.
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Ledger's Joker and Nicholson's Joker for me are very tough to top. I would need a rewatch to figure out where I stand on Leto's. I think the level of manipulation that's hinted at for Leto's version is the scariest (made me think of the villain from Jessica Jones), but he doesn't seem as chaotic as Ledger.
 
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bostonewe said:
Ledger's Joker and Nicholson's Joker for me are very tough to top. I would need a rewatch to figure out where I stand on Leto's. I think the level of manipulation that's hinted at for Leto's version is the scariest (made me think of the villain from Jessica Jones), but he doesn't seem as chaotic as Ledger.
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I surprisingly liked Leto's, due to the world it was set in. It just fit. Was it great? Dunno. It does have potential.
 
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