yeahh this was....not very good
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:42 (eleven years ago) link
it's almost a satire for abt 20 mins but i dont think bay could really commit to it (not that it wouldve been any good but itd at least be different), too many pandering gags & joeky setups, way too much voiceover filler
the rock really shouldve done the weird shit w/ his fingers calling back southland tales
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
the lack of ironic distance in P&G makes it a lot more interesting than the obvious juxtapositions of eg., Spring Breakers (which i liked)
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Monday, April 29, 2013 3:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
it's very marginally more interesting than spring breakers (which is garbage)
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 01:54 (eleven years ago) link
agreed re: voiceover and pandering gags (tho them being such dated gags bothered me more than the pandering aspect), which is why i liked it and didnt love it
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 02:34 (eleven years ago) link
The voiceover stuff would have been fine had the movie stuck solely to the Gang's POV - having Ed Harris's private detective chime in breaks the spell somewhat. Gives us too clean a break from the madness.
Seeing the movie and then reading the articles - the stuff that turns out to have been combined or invented turns out to be pretty much exactly what I'd figured it would be based on the fact that this is a Michael Bay movie.
― Simon H., Wednesday, 1 May 2013 02:48 (eleven years ago) link
yeah harris' v/o struck me as the most unnecessary, plus his marge gunderson ending was pretty unearned
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 02:55 (eleven years ago) link
such dated gags
biggest laugh/reaction in my theater was shaloubs fat roommate in the hospital who shits all over the bathroom stall
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:14 (eleven years ago) link
tho i guess that is never untimely, is more on the pandering tip
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:16 (eleven years ago) link
also bothered me that ken jeongs character sez 'hot mess' in 1995
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
good point, esp. since they seemed to be trying to be real leading edge when it came to lol 90s stuff
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:19 (eleven years ago) link
im always game for an explosive diarrhea joke. hated the musty & dusty slide projector gag
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, April 30, 2013 11:17 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark
mackie pumping up one of the guy's hes training by telling him he's kobe beef bugged me. wasnt nobody talkin bout no damn kobe beef in 1995... maybe in the fine dining world they were but not this guy. also, the schlotsky's deli was clearly one of the new rebranded ones, not a vintage 90s schlotsky's. dug the condom billboard though
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Wednesday, 1 May 2013 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
just read the miami new times series on this story - HOLY SHIT
― balls, Sunday, 5 May 2013 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
haha yeah.
― turds (Hungry4Ass), Sunday, 5 May 2013 04:15 (eleven years ago) link
On the apparent (I haven't seen it yet) failure or lack of willingness of "Pain & Gain" to reflect upon its basis in reality, and also Spring Breakers. Interesting enough.
http://www.popmatters.com/pm/column/171180-spring-breakers-pain-gain-and-postmodern-folly-at-the-movies/
― Mule, Friday, 10 May 2013 10:09 (eleven years ago) link
this was a lot of fun
― "Dave Barlow" is the name Lou uses on sabermetrics baseball sites (s.clover), Saturday, 31 August 2013 02:34 (ten years ago) link
Just re-watched this (I bought the DVD). The most utterly & perfectly American movie of 2013. The Rock deserves an Oscar.
― Humorist (horse) (誤訳侮辱), Saturday, 14 December 2013 20:05 (ten years ago) link
i laughed my ass off, this was so much better than I thought. Not perfect, and agree upthread there was way too much voiceover and corny bullshit, but basically it's like bodybuilding serial killers star in Bad Boys III. I dunno if Bay was parodying himself because of the 90's setting or that's the only way he knows how to make movies set in Miami but hey, I'm not gonna look a gift horse in the mouth. Mainly I dug it because this is the role that I've been DYING to see The Rock play. He was hilarious. And Wahlberg plays a good meathead.
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:19 (ten years ago) link
i hear eeeenormously homophobic
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:36 (ten years ago) link
well it's Michael Bay, who constructed an entire "comedy" scene around Martin Lawrence and Will Smith sounding "gay" in an electronics store.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:50 (ten years ago) link
Actually that could be indicative of what I find so troubling about P&G: The characters would be totally homophobic, so representing them as such isn't a problem. The actual problem is that it's one of the many aspects that Bay seems to really enjoy about them.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 30 December 2013 06:51 (ten years ago) link
http://www.theverge.com/2014/1/6/5281542/watch-michael-bay-melt-down-onstage-at-ces
hahaha
― polyphonic, Monday, 6 January 2014 22:45 (ten years ago) link
aaaawkward
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 January 2014 22:49 (ten years ago) link
was hoping he'd say "fuck it we'll do it live"
― Hungry4Ass, Monday, 6 January 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
hit EJECT after 33 minutes, i'm fine with that decision
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 14 January 2014 17:18 (ten years ago) link
"this kid's parents took him to Paris, and France"
haha i get it he's stoopit
― eclectic husbandry (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 16 January 2014 19:54 (ten years ago) link
did u finish it
― Hungry4Ass, Thursday, 16 January 2014 20:48 (ten years ago) link
Streaming on Netflix starting the 10th
― Alvarius B. Goode (WilliamC), Friday, 2 May 2014 17:17 (ten years ago) link
Just started watching this, pretty fun.
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:35 (nine years ago) link
"You love those big bitches, and they love to eat. It's okay!"
― RAP GAME SHANI DAVIS (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 21 December 2014 23:42 (nine years ago) link
great movie
― Unchanging Window (Ross), Monday, 26 June 2017 00:52 (six years ago) link