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New/Rented Movies: Now In Smell-O-Rama!

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Brenthoven said:
Extract


If you like Mike Judge's work, you'll love this. Bateman definitely has the "nice guy but a sap" character down (*cough* Hancock *cough*). JK Simmons does well with what he has to work with, and I'm fast becoming a resurrected fan of Clifton Collins Jr (Stoned Age, Boondock Saints II, and much more). The rest of the cast was great, too, and due to the setting (factory/warehouse) I was in hysterics at points, because of some of the attitudes/personalities rang oh so true with some people I have worked with over the years.

I rank it behind Office Space, but ahead of Idiocracy, if you want a comparison.
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I like Mike Judge, but Extract was pretty bland. Felt like everyone was mailing it in.
 
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PrezdeJohnson09 said:
Saw Shutter Island...I liked it...

Kind of weird at parts...but I thought it was predictable.
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Predictability isn't necessarily a bad thing. I thought Shutter Island works because it isn't reliant on the plot to deliver suspense.

Always the mark of a good film. A lot of Hitchcock's movies were the same way.
 
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Handyman said:
I like Mike Judge, but Extract was pretty bland. Felt like everyone was mailing it in.
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I think he'll always have that "cult movie" status, but do feel that somewhere along the line he'll accidentally stumbly on a true box office smash hit.

I think JK Simmons character could have had more substance, but other than that, the way the movie was written, I think the actors did as much as they could do.
 
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Role Models.

How the **** did I not see this movie before now? Awesome. Simply awesome.
 
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I Love You Man sucked less than anybody had any right to expect given the cast, premise, product. It should have been crap but it worked.
 
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Without digging up the The Dark Knight thread... the release of Inception this weekend means that we'll finally start hearing Christopher Nolan talk a little more about what he has planned for the third movie.

Nugget #1 to come out is the obvious one: No Joker. Frankly, I think his stance on the issue is more to preserve Ledger's legacy than it is that the role can't be recast. There are plenty of great actors in the world, and well... their job is to play other people.

Seems a shame to have absolutely nothing to build off of from TDK, considering that one great villian was killed off and you won't recast the other great villian.

Whatevs. I guess we're just stuck with some ****ty story about the Riddler.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Without digging up the The Dark Knight thread... the release of Inception this weekend means that we'll finally start hearing Christopher Nolan talk a little more about what he has planned for the third movie.

Nugget #1 to come out is the obvious one: No Joker. Frankly, I think his stance on the issue is more to preserve Ledger's legacy than it is that the role can't be recast. There are plenty of great actors in the world, and well... their job is to play other people.

Seems a shame to have absolutely nothing to build off of from TDK, considering that one great villian was killed off and you won't recast the other great villian.

Whatevs. I guess we're just stuck with some ****ty story about the Riddler.
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The rumor I heard was Riddler and Catwoman. The Catwoman role desperately needs to be revived after the atrocity Halle Berry made it.
 
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Next movie villain:

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Fits with the story line and just makes too much sense for it to not happen.
 
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From what I've read, Nolan wants to stop at three for the Batman series and bring the story to close. (Part of the difference between film and serial comics as art mediums) So, it stands to reason that someday (perhaps soon), we'll be thinking of the Nolan Batman films in terms of a trilogy.

What will be interesting about that is if the Nolan Batman films have an overall arc, the only consistent elements to the story will be Batman, Gordon, Alfred and the general notion of crime/corruption in Gotham city. We've already had four major villians, but - barring some really clever writing regarding Scarecrow - you can't really revisit any of them. Most of the rest of the Batman villains are so cartoony, that you risk going into Tim Burton land by bringing them into the fold.

I get that the Batman story isn't really about any one villian, and the story can probably be fine with the antagonist being crime and corruption in general. Yet, by introducing new villians in the third movie (and having no one else, besides Scarecrow, to fall back on), it feels almost like what Return of the Jedi would've been if you replaced Vader and Palpatine with something else.
 
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dxmnkd316 said:
Your sample size blows --> :eek:

;)
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You're right, enjoy your movie with Stifler and Jane Lynch. If you like Jane Lynch characters having witty lines you can also try making an appletini and watching Glee.

Also, Rush >>>>>>>>>>>>>> Kiss, so there's that too.
 
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Rimbaud said:
Next movie villain:

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Fits with the story line and just makes too much sense for it to not happen.
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True. But in a way, the Black Mask (or even the Riddler), aren't the answer either.

To more cleanly summarize my last post: If Nolan wants there to be a clean narrative across the trilogy, then adding new villians in general makes the story seem a little too much like a serial narrative, doesn't it? I'm starting to wonder if the story isn't better served by playing out the need for Gordon to "hunt" Batman and taking the story further down the road of questioning the difference between vigilantes and villains.
 
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Kepler said:
I Love You Man sucked less than anybody had any right to expect given the cast, premise, product. It should have been crap but it worked.
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If you have a problem with Paul Rudd and Jason Segal (not to mention Lou Ferrigno) then you have just proven, again, you have zero taste :D
 
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Oh, Mel Gibson...

The man that invented the word "sugartits" is at it again. Honestly, the AVClub people bring up a good idea: Mel needs a box set. Or some other way to catalogue his obsene/racist/profane tirades. He goes in some crazy directions that are unintentionally hilarious, in a dark sort of way, and his epic profane wordplay must be preserved.
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
True. But in a way, the Black Mask (or even the Riddler), aren't the answer either.

To more cleanly summarize my last post: If Nolan wants there to be a clean narrative across the trilogy, then adding new villians in general makes the story seem a little too much like a serial narrative, doesn't it? I'm starting to wonder if the story isn't better served by playing out the need for Gordon to "hunt" Batman and taking the story further down the road of questioning the difference between vigilantes and villains.
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That was the setup, my guess is that is the way they go. TDK ended with that in mind. Now the story would be more interesting with the Joker running around no doubt, but they don't need it. Batman is the hero and the villain, saving Gotham but doing it now in haste because everyone is trying to stop him. That was the sacrifice he made to preserve the legacy of Harvey Dent. (if Heath had died during filming my guess is Two Face lives)

Honestly it is better than everything else. As a trilogy it works the best, and that way you dont need 2-3 villains to amp up the drama. Hell you could do the Black Mask if you want, and his final defeat absolving Batman, who then chooses to go back into the shadows. (become the urban legend that Frank Miller wrote him as in Year 1)
 
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ExileOnDaytonStreet said:
Oh, Mel Gibson...

The man that invented the word "sugartits" is at it again. Honestly, the AVClub people bring up a good idea: Mel needs a box set. Or some other way to catalogue his obsene/racist/profane tirades. He goes in some crazy directions that are unintentionally hilarious, in a dark sort of way, and his epic profane wordplay must be preserved.
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This is probably the worst fall from grace seen in some time. Even Tom Cruise looks down on this guy. He is father's son.
 
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Handyman said:
If you have a problem with Paul Rudd and Jason Segal (not to mention Lou Ferrigno) then you have just proven, again, you have zero taste :D
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Lou Ferrigno rocks, I'll give you that.

Most of the rest of the Batman villains are so cartoony, that you risk going into Tim Burton land by bringing them into the fold.
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King Tut and Egghead hear you and are not amused.
 
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I can't think of King Tut without thinking of Steve Martin. Seriously I was in his tomb and I was humming it!

Born in Arizona, moved to Babylonia...
 
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