also did I miss it, but why did Spacey talk about how he never uses the same crew twice other than Baby and then he re-uses Hamm and Gonzalez again 30 minutes later?
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal)
would you ever work with Flea again?
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:57 (six years ago) link
can I just
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/5e/f1/bb/5ef1bb3bfa7be1814b910ba59bd6e647--ansel-elgort-fun-facts.jpg
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:59 (six years ago) link
or did he just mean "exact configuration" i.e. Batts was subbed in for Griff so that = "new crew" even tho it was only 25% diff
this is how I took it.
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:01 (six years ago) link
First half great
Second half shit
Scott Pilgrim is a perfect, incredible movie.
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:02 (six years ago) link
I really wish the MIchael Myers mask thing hadn't been in the trailer cos it woulda been a lot funnier just showing up cold mid-movie
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
I feel like blind foster dad shoulda been like "dude I am already not ok with u robbin shit but at least if yr gonna do i can I like benefit from it and live somewhere decent"
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:05 (six years ago) link
Every character in this is a cipher fyi
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:06 (six years ago) link
I kind of expected that going in tho
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:08 (six years ago) link
this wasn't too horribly different from Driver other than I feel like this was a better movie and Gosling's character liked to use stealth rather than do doughnuts on the highway
― Charles "Butt" Stanton (Neanderthal), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:09 (six years ago) link
It was transporter more than driver but it isn't as subtle or as adult in its themes or relationships as transporter
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Monday, 3 July 2017 19:10 (six years ago) link
Wished the movie kept up the energy of the first half hour but whatcanyado. It was still a fun watch
― Vinnie, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 03:42 (six years ago) link
Is it named after the Simon & Garfunkel song?
― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 03:47 (six years ago) link
yes it plays over the credits
― micah, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 08:01 (six years ago) link
Lily Collins is more of a MPDG than anyone in Scott Pilgrim was
― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Monday, 3 July 2017 18:43
Lily James.
I enjoyed this, it moved along well but I do wish it had something a little bit more to it.
Only complaint is Hamm doing the "you can't hide from me" thing later on.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 13:53 (six years ago) link
I do wish it had something a little bit more to it.
yeah, i don't want a ticket purchase for this to result in more films like it being made.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link
you chuckleheads should be discussing Walter Hill's The Driver rather than that ludicrous POS Drive, get yr titles right.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 13:59 (six years ago) link
that kid's legs are too thin, Alfred.
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 14:01 (six years ago) link
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius),
What, decent Hollywood froth for once?
So were McCrea's.
Wright's a big Hill fan, but I see Streets of Fire in this more than The Driver.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 14:03 (six years ago) link
i need to watch Streets of Fire, thx
sacrilege to compare a boy to Joel McCrea
― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:12 (six years ago) link
You're in luck: SOF recently got a Blu-ray reissue, I believe.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
And you can dream about it.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:53 (six years ago) link
If I can hold it just right!
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 15:59 (six years ago) link
i didn't like this at all really. clever-clever w/o being clever. careless about violence. terrible dancing. cutesy and shallow instead of 'archetypical' or w/e. 90s in a bad way. jamie foxx was great though.
― goole, Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
i did like how it was really in atlanta instead of an anono-city, but that only highlights some unappealing racial attitudes in the thing.
― goole, Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
no you're a terrible dancer
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:32 (six years ago) link
Anyone see Triple 9, the John Hillcoat Atlanta set Heist Thriller with Casey Affleck and Gal Gadot?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:47 (six years ago) link
Jamie foxx was as bad as everyone else
― quet inn tarnation (darraghmac), Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:48 (six years ago) link
in the Michael Jackson sense
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:54 (six years ago) link
I was hoping for more from this, but the first hour was fun. It didn't stay as funny as I'd have liked.
― jmm, Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:36 (six years ago) link
spoiler alert - obv all the non white ppl die in this. which is very 80s just like most of the movie. good to know edgar wright absorbed the decade well. i thought foxx was actually very good, though obv his character is an arsehole. jon hamm proved he can only really act as don draper, even when playing a bank robber. i liked the film overall, the car park battle was a bit too cartoon tarantino, and excessive in a way the rest of the film wasnt, and something i thought edgar wright was above, but hey, its hollywood. i like that he got to make this in the structure he wanted, it was a lot of fun to watch, and kind of sweet, but the film was also a little culturally/emotionally empty in a way his british films havent been. the other odd thing i found was that apart from the bank job in the red car, many of the car sequences werent actually that amazing to watch. this might be as i find very few race/car action sequences as amazing as many seem to think (unless its the delorean in back to the future), but i thought wright would pull something more kinetic and inventive out the bag. tarantino did it better in death proof IIRC. the sequence of baby just walking around listening to music on the street when he goes to order coffee was more memorable than any of the car scenes.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:30 (six years ago) link
(spoiler) Hamm and Spacey die and the black foster dad doesn't, so I don't think that first point really holds up.
― evol j, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:37 (six years ago) link
jon hamm proved he can only really act as don draper, even when playing a bank robber.
This is a plus! Also, he's way more handsome when elegantly wasted than in the suits.
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 July 2017 14:39 (six years ago) link
yes, also very much reminiscent of 80s racial tropes. the non white character gets to live... but only if hes sufficiently harmless and non threatening to warrant being saved/spared. got to have One Good Minority character. good in this case meaning perfect by way of being adorably deaf.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:56 (six years ago) link
SPOILERS
the point is not that 'oh hey! white ppl die too! all lives matter! okay?!' but that no non white characters live except the one no one could ever dislike. because there is no way he could every harm anyone. thats how perfect the non white good guy has to be.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:58 (six years ago) link
*ever
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 14:59 (six years ago) link
Spoilers
Most ppl die in this movie
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 10 July 2017 15:01 (six years ago) link
just realised, my comment should have read 'obv all the non white ppl die FIRST'
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:04 (six years ago) link
Yes it's now an excellent review of this bad movie
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Monday, 10 July 2017 15:15 (six years ago) link
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:30
That's unfair, I thought they were very different. Similarities were just Jon Hamm playing a bastard.
And Lily James wasn't manic or unattainable or teaching Baby much at all, she was just really cute.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:31 (six years ago) link
Last point to Simon H
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 10 July 2017 15:32 (six years ago) link
main thought i had watching this was edgar wright is directing like this like someone who just saw MTV for the first time in the early 80s and thought 'what if someone did this in a movie?!'
other recurring thought: i need to get my old ipod repaired. i liked that dial much better than the replacement.
― StillAdvance, Monday, 10 July 2017 16:14 (six years ago) link
i loved that the 56 second intro to Geogaddi - Boards of Canada was in this. AND maybe a mid/late period Stereolab track?? there was s song playing when he went record shopping that sounded just like something from Dots and Loops or Cobra and Phases.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 05:21 (six years ago) link
Ok, so now I guess I'll have to watch this movie
― Moodles, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 05:24 (six years ago) link
this movie was great, probably gonna be my favorite of the summer. as good as any of Wright's other films, imo. a better musical than La La Land. don't miss it.
― Nhex, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 08:21 (six years ago) link
Car chase to "bellbottoms" at the start was exhilarating. I enjoyed it although I do think by the end it swallowed a lot of action movie cliches.
― Well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 11:59 (six years ago) link
Regurgitated them in some interesting new flavours though.
― chap, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link
I did; it was OK. Not great. The robbery sequences were well done. Kate Winslet's really good in it.
― grawlix (unperson), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link
Was quite pleased they gave Focus - "Hocus Pocus" a good spot.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 14:50 (six years ago) link
― Moodles, Wednesday, July 19, 2017 1:24 AM (eleven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha to be fair it could've easily been a piece of exotica/lounge music that Stereolab referenced or absorbed.... BUT it really sounded like the first part of Refractions in the Plastic Pulse, or Velvet Water.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
http://68.media.tumblr.com/982d0a4f3a0142aa1270df0f16181865/tumblr_n6k7a8Qwru1sskn9qo2_250.gif
― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 17:19 (six years ago) link
Atomic Blonde sucked, totally drab & boooooring
― flappy bird, Tuesday, January 23, 2018 3:45 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
for once I agree with flappy
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Tuesday, 23 January 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
scott pilgrim rules, so does this movie (kevin spacey's last)
It definitely felt like a valedictory performance; I was very moved.
― clemenza, Thursday, 25 January 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
he died as he lived, being ambiguously creepy & controlling over pretty young men
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 02:19 (six years ago) link
not as good as The Blues Brothers
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:24 (six years ago) link
how about other films about tinnitus?― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:09 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, January 23, 2018 8:09 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Noise is better than this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=4&v=4u8KxEf4A3M
― mor frog bs (S-), Thursday, 25 January 2018 03:37 (six years ago) link
Doesn't Sly have tinnitus in Cop Land?
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 January 2018 04:05 (six years ago) link
one punctured or ruptured ear drum iirc
― Haribo Hancock (sic), Thursday, 25 January 2018 07:24 (six years ago) link
loss of hearing due to years of listening to Harvey Keitel yelling
― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 25 January 2018 14:22 (six years ago) link
that reminds me, i've been meaning to ask for a while if non-uk ilxors are aware of harvey keitel's embarrassing reprisal of the character of winston wolf in a series of godawful ads for insurance which have been running for a few years in the ol' blighty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRTSd-ppQFQ
― your skeleton is ready to hatch (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 January 2018 14:28 (six years ago) link
wow
― flappy bird, Thursday, 25 January 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Oh shit they didn't...
They didn't know
― i,CloudiOS (darraghmac), Thursday, 25 January 2018 18:55 (six years ago) link
lol my thoughts exactly
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 25 January 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link