The Movie Thread: New, Rented, Whatever....I don't care

[St. Clown]

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It's pretty well known that much of the skiing wasn't actually filmed at any Aspen resort. The best part of the movie is the mandatory ridiculous stunt skiing, much of which was filmed in BC, some at Alta, UT, and a bit in the (then closed to the public) Highland Bowl, by Scott Schmidt and the late Doug Coombs.

Otherwise, it's your typical carryover, trashy mid-to-late 80s movie released in the early 90s. Big hair, those horrid neon ski suits that everyone breaks out on closing day for silliness now, at least one male catfight, a fur-bound/moneyed brunette cougar, a blonde girl next door, etc. I've heard it compared to Top Gun on the slopes, and that's not too far from the mark, just with much more forgettable acting.

Is this the one where they have an a** shot of one of the guys in a steamed up shower? The reason I ask is that if it is, I was at the theater when I saw this with a bunch of high school buddies and then there were a bunch of other guys from my class there, too. One of the guys sees the start of the shot, yells out, "Yeah, that's what we want to see!" Then the camera angle changes and we immediately hear shouted, "What the hell," followed immediately with a quieter, and making himself sound sincerely worried, "Does that make me gay?" Honestly, I don't remember much else from the movie other than that scene and that's only because of the guy yelling out.

 

[SteveP]

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It's pretty well known that much of the skiing wasn't actually filmed at any Aspen resort. The best part of the movie is the mandatory ridiculous stunt skiing, much of which was filmed in BC, some at Alta, UT, and a bit in the (then closed to the public) Highland Bowl, by Scott Schmidt and the late Doug Coombs.

Otherwise, it's your typical carryover, trashy mid-to-late 80s movie released in the early 90s. Big hair, those horrid neon ski suits that everyone breaks out on closing day for silliness now, at least one male catfight, a fur-bound/moneyed brunette cougar, a blonde girl next door, etc. I've heard it compared to Top Gun on the slopes, and that's not too far from the mark, just with much more forgettable acting.

And it was definitely not the entrance to Aspen on Hwy. 82 that the boys drove on when they arrived in town.

 

[Slap Shot]

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I'm not sure there's a single superhero period with which I identify. Either because of their superpowers or because they're so mentally effed.

 

[burd]

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Honestly, is it a top 50 movie? I have very little interest in the subject matter. Actually, I have none. BUT, if it's THAT good, I might take a gander.

Give it a shot. I'd be interested to hear what you think.

 

[The Rube]

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Project X

Don't bother. That's all I will contribute to that trash.


Old Boy (Korean version)

About the only difference between this and the American version is the cultural way of telling the story. Asians have a very different way of unfolding a story, and it shows here, just like many other Asian movies compared to their American remakes/counterparts. I liked it as much as the American version, but in different ways. The ending for the main character was quite different, and it is directly due to the culture, IMO.

Homefront:

This is a nice little movie that starts as a character study movie, and ends with it being your standard Statham action flick. I did like it, it was entertaining. While I wasn't expecting anything Oscar worthy, it did exceed my expectations.

 

[Handyman]

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I think we know where this is heading

No jokes in any DC comic

It was debunked like 2 hours after it was posted by people who actually work with WB (like Seth Rogan who is doing the Preacher series) as opposed to the guy behind that article who has zero sources at WB. Someone trolled him (and another guy who gets every DC scoop wrong) and they bit to get people to click on their web sites. (I post on a couple comics boards so I am well versed on these sites...they prey on the average fan and rube on FB and Twitter)

If you want he ultimate trolljob Google "El Mayimbe Fake Script" and read. A guy on the web acted like he worked for WB and leaked rumors to the clickbait sites like Latino Review (run by El Mayimbe) amongst others. They never checked the source they would just run with it. Many of these guys have sources at Marvel (they spoiled the ending to Avengers 2 before fans got ****ed) so they assumed DC would use them as well. This fake WB producer leaked all sorts of stuff about Batman V Superman and it spread like wildfire for months. Then, midsummer he wrote a fake script (a terrible one, and easy to figure out fake he even purposefully spelled names wrong like "Louis Lane") put a WB/DC watermark on it with the writers names and sent it around to the same sites. All the script did was expand on the kids rumors. They took it as fact (and WB never denied it to give them more rope) and then the kid went to twitter talking about how he wrote the script (actually both the scripts that circulated) and can prove it. 95% of the sites took it down right away and admitted they were fooled. El Mayimbe defended the script saying he got it from WB and even after it was proven he was wrong he decided instead of admitting defeat he would attack the kid and threaten to expose who he really was by tracing his IP.

Long story short, unless it is in a reputable trade, is a direct quote from someone at WB/DC or is in WB press release assume it is a lie. WB does random source hunts to weed out leaks so they tend to put out disinformation to trace the source. Stuff like what Hitflix put up (see also: most stuff by AMC Talks and Latino Review) is either made up "editorials" or sources with fake info designed for them to get responses like this.

The problem is the fans are hungry for info and buy it all as fact. (as seen around here with other stuff) These sites also fan the flames of the "Marvel vs. DC" BS that has all but killed comics and will do the same to movies. If every studio made movies the same it would get boring. The X-Men movies arent like Marvel films neither were the Nolan movies. Variety is key. So Hitflix uses that to say WB will go all humorless when even the movies that have come out have jokes in them. WB is a billion dollar studio they arent going to make edicts that are that sweeping just like Disney isnt going to say every movie has to be exactly like Guardians of the Galaxy.

 

[SteveP]

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We watched Draft Day on the weekend. Much better than we expected it would be.

 

[The Rube]

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After The Dark:

20 philosophy students and their teacher have to figure out, in a thought experiment, who stays in a bunker made for 10 after an apocalyptic event. Each is assigned a career, etc....and go. Obviously, a movie with this premise can only scratch the surface of reasoning, but I liked it. Caught myself disagreeing with some choices due to pretty obvious reasoning, but hey, the movie then served its purpose if you ask me.

I did NOT like the subplot, most of which comes at the tail end of the movie. It felt forced.

 

[Kepler]

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After The Dark:

20 philosophy students and their teacher have to figure out, in a thought experiment, who stays in a bunker made for 10 after an apocalyptic event. Each is assigned a career, etc....and go. Obviously, a movie with this premise can only scratch the surface of reasoning, but I liked it. Caught myself disagreeing with some choices due to pretty obvious reasoning, but hey, the movie then served its purpose if you ask me.

I did NOT like the subplot, most of which comes at the tail end of the movie. It felt forced.

I liked this in large part. The acting was atrocious and as you said the subplot is laughably bad, but otherwise the writing was a pretty good rendering of basic philosophical and social psych concepts. B+

 

[The Rube]

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I liked this in large part. The acting was atrocious and as you said the subplot is laughably bad, but otherwise the writing was a pretty good rendering of basic philosophical and social psych concepts. B+

Non-spoiler, really: when they voted out the multi-lingual opera singer in the one scenario because she eventually couldn't talk....um, she could still write out communication. Duh.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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Watched Inside Llewyn Davis last night. Both the wife and I were underwhelmed. I kinda figured that she wouldn't care for it going in, but she thought she'd like the music so we went for it. Overall it just was blah. I've seen movies from a similar style of storytelling and I've liked them alot, this one just didn't do it. I think my wife said it best when she said "I just don't care about the main character". And it's tough to watch a movie like that if you don't care about the main character.

 

[The Rube]

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Watched Inside Llewyn Davis last night. Both the wife and I were underwhelmed. I kinda figured that she wouldn't care for it going in, but she thought she'd like the music so we went for it. Overall it just was blah. I've seen movies from a similar style of storytelling and I've liked them alot, this one just didn't do it. I think my wife said it best when she said "I just don't care about the main character". And it's tough to watch a movie like that if you don't care about the main character.

See, NOW I'm really leaning towards not watching it, as we have a ton of movies in common that we like/don't like, and as I mentioned earlier, I had no interest in this movie from the start.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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See, NOW I'm really leaning towards not watching it, as we have a ton of movies in common that we like/don't like, and as I mentioned earlier, I had no interest in this movie from the start.

Watch Nebraska instead. 100x better movie.

 

[The Rube]

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Watch Nebraska instead. 100x better movie.

That I am somewhat interested in.

 

[The Rube]

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I liked this in large part. The acting was atrocious and as you said the subplot is laughably bad, but otherwise the writing was a pretty good rendering of basic philosophical and social psych concepts. B+

Thinking about it more, I'd love to get a couple friends to watch this on their own, then have a group viewing, pausing after each choice/scenario to break it down. Get a really good audience participation vibe going. I think it'd be fascinating.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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That I am somewhat interested in.

Do it. One of the best movies, top 2 or 3, from last year that I've seen. Honestly, it is just superb.

 

[Shirtless Guy]

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Watched Inside Llewyn Davis last night. Both the wife and I were underwhelmed. I kinda figured that she wouldn't care for it going in, but she thought she'd like the music so we went for it. Overall it just was blah. I've seen movies from a similar style of storytelling and I've liked them alot, this one just didn't do it. I think my wife said it best when she said "I just don't care about the main character". And it's tough to watch a movie like that if you don't care about the main character.

it seemed like they wanted to make a movie about that period because of the music, and I really like the music but theatre seemed so pointless and frustrating.

I think the showtime special on the music of ILD is 10 times better than the movie.

 

[The Rube]

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Talked with my closest friend the Ohj (and he's a movie geek and very similar tastes to me). Meh on the Nebraska movie, hasn't seen the LD movie. I'll prob give both a try eventually, but I don't think I'll have high expectations for either.

 

[burd]

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Watched Inside Llewyn Davis last night. Both the wife and I were underwhelmed. I kinda figured that she wouldn't care for it going in, but she thought she'd like the music so we went for it. Overall it just was blah. I've seen movies from a similar style of storytelling and I've liked them alot, this one just didn't do it. I think my wife said it best when she said "I just don't care about the main character". And it's tough to watch a movie like that if you don't care about the main character.

Even though I liked it a lot, your wife is absolutely right. Even if you like the music and appreciate the context (Gaslight early Dylan), if the main character doesn't work for you, the movie just won't go anywhere.

 

[Kepler]

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Non-spoiler, really: when they voted out the multi-lingual opera singer in the one scenario because she eventually couldn't talk....um, she could still write out communication. Duh.

It's been a while, but I remember thinking that as well.

I loved the poet. Twice!