A few films recently watched.

parks and reac. is full of facepalm. community is pretty funny, up there with 30 rock.

An idiot abroad was good, much better than any NBC comedy.

  On 2/27/2011 at 5:56 PM, Haldermaniac said:

An idiot abroad was good.

I watched it once. I really hated the 'idiot'-guy because of his constant whining.

You have to be familiar with the Ricky Gervais Podcasts/Show before you watch it. Karl Pilkington is a bit of an acquired taste.

I watched Predators.

Seriously,I watched it...all of it.

It was rubbish-I loved it.

  On 2/27/2011 at 6:39 PM, Squee said:

  On 2/27/2011 at 5:56 PM, Haldermaniac said:

An idiot abroad was good.

 

I watched it once. I really hated the 'idiot'-guy because of his constant whining.

And the Oscar for "Not getting the point" goes to ..

Squee

  On 2/26/2011 at 3:32 PM, disparaissant said:

watched the film adaptation of The Road after reading the book for the first time. they changed up the order of things, which kind of stunted the emotional impact of a few scenes, and a lot of the realy long drawn out awful "we are starving to death" scenes got compressed into like a minute, which was annoying, but otherwise, it was pretty good. i think i cried through the whole thing, though. christ almighty. bleak doesn't begin to describe it.

what did you think of the endings?

MiddleMen - starring luck wilson and giovoni ribisi , starts off trying to be like an internet porn version of the Social Network and then degenerates into a bad version of the movie Wonderland.

IF i could give any movie the label of 'frankenscript' it would have to be this movie. It literally felt like the studio had 2 movies in the que and decided to mashup the scripts together.

5/10

  On 2/27/2011 at 8:40 PM, vodor said:

  On 2/26/2011 at 3:32 PM, disparaissant said:

watched the film adaptation of The Road after reading the book for the first time. they changed up the order of things, which kind of stunted the emotional impact of a few scenes, and a lot of the realy long drawn out awful "we are starving to death" scenes got compressed into like a minute, which was annoying, but otherwise, it was pretty good. i think i cried through the whole thing, though. christ almighty. bleak doesn't begin to describe it.

 

what did you think of the endings?

 

 

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i thought the book was kinda critical of the father, since he'd been paranoid about everyone, thinking that there was no one good anywhere, and as soon as he dies some good people that had been observing decide to take in the kid. it's like the father was trying to prepare the kid to fight in the world alone but he was actually keeping them away from a group of good people who couldn't trust the father. and it was also a bit ambiguous, because you never saw the woman or kids.

 

and then in the movie it was just like "whoops what a happy coincidence, and see, there actually is a woman who will love you, what a lovely hollywood ending yay"

 

but i thought the movie was a very good adaptation, as far as adaptations go.

 

but yeah, one of the best book adaptations i've seen, i think. which doesn't REALLY say a lot.

anyways i just snagged "house," the 1977 japanese horror flick, not the show. i've heard... interesting things. looking forward to it.

Gunhead -3/10 just for the sets and robots

really ... Alice in Wonderland wins an Oscar ... REALLY?

The Ghost Writer - It's really a bit much. 5.5/10

Jackass 3D - Much better than 2, but in my mind these guys can do no wrong. Bam Margera still irritates the fuck out of me though. 10/10

naked lunch (2nd view) - 7/10

this one's a shout out to Robbie

Black Swan VFX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n71sjmd-bM

some surprises.

nice on the GB2 shot!

has anyone seen any good flicks directed by atom egoyan? "the sweet hereafter" looks good, if starkly depressing.

  On 3/1/2011 at 4:36 AM, Deep Fried Everything said:

nice on the GB2 shot!

 

has anyone seen any good flicks directed by atom egoyan? "the sweet hereafter" looks good, if starkly depressing.

I think his most recent film was chloe which was shit but its worth watching for the awesome lesbian action between Julianna Moore and Amanda Siegfried.

Splice, geh/10/. Seriously the bastards, they should have told me that they didn't have a budget and lacked a script.

Black Death - 8/10

Pretty good thriller/horror which losely deals with witchcraft and paganism during the time of the Black Death. Starring Boromir from LOTR! Enjoyed this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXycl0ohLto

  On 3/1/2011 at 5:57 AM, delet... said:

Splice, geh/10/. Seriously the bastards, they should have told me that they didn't have a budget and lacked a script.

I don't think the budget was the problem. It's the same guy who made Cube and he definitely had less money to spend there. But I didn't like Splice either. It started off pretty good actually but then it got silly as soon as things were getting humanoid.

the comparisons between 30 rock and community in this thread got me on a 30 rock spree.

love it.

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Kenneth: Well, it's like Dr. Laura Schlessinger says, "women should be more accommodating to men, for the health of their marriage."

Surie: She sounds smart. Is she a real doctor?

Kenneth: No, I think she's kind of like Dr. Pepper.

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  On 3/1/2011 at 6:34 PM, disparaissant said:

the comparisons between 30 rock and community in this thread got me on a 30 rock spree.

love it.

 

haven't seen much community but comparing it to 30rock seems wrong. 30rock is the best show on us tv still in production

  On 3/1/2011 at 10:01 PM, Benedict Cumberbatch said:

  On 3/1/2011 at 6:34 PM, disparaissant said:

the comparisons between 30 rock and community in this thread got me on a 30 rock spree.

love it.

 

 

haven't seen much community but comparing it to 30rock seems wrong. 30rock is the best show on us tv still in production

they're really quite similar shows, same sort of comedic style. i just think community has a bit more heart than 30 rock. 30 rock has more jokes, though.

I dunno, 30 rock has this grating way of attempting to force dry humor at the same time as being endearing. Community does this to, and I think what you refer to as 'heart' I interpret as 'trying way too hard.' That being said, I still watch all of the Thursday night comedies, but I honestly feel that Parks and Recreation is the only show of the bunch that is worth watching. All the others seem to have to many in-jokes and self referential comedy.