Star Wars 7 shit talk

did you guys miss that amazing 20 minute shot where xavier visits an emaciated magneto in prison and tries to convince him to eat something?

It's definitely kind of sad that actors are willing to just completely abandon any idea of credibility or gravitas for whatever money they can get but the bigger problem here that is, for example, willing to see 7+ Fast and the Furious movies with returns that are actually increasing rather than diminishing.

I mean would Dustin Hoffman have signed up for the equivalent of 20m per movie for some dumbshit film franchise in 1977? Maybe! But the American public didn't make total dumbshit like that possible back then, by the time you got to the 3rd or 4th movie they sensibly got bored.

i don't think things have changed that much tbh. Hackman doing The Poseidon Adventure, Burt Lancaster doing Airport etc..

but the top grossing movies of 1970 weren't all airports.

How do you make this garbage disappear? Assassinate Lucas, Abrams and nuke the parent studio? No because some fucking other worthless arsehole would still want to make this garbage for another few decades. You just have to accept that This Shit is going to bury you and piss on your grave. You are trapped in history and there is no fucking FF button. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but it could be worse.

― xelab, Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

marry me

i'm kind of okay with bad movies existing

i have little ish with things existing

but i'm not in for a scrap, i just wanted to kiss xelab

understandable

there's a rhetorical elision that happens sometimes when you go "these pieces of popular culture are for shit" and yr interlocutor gets very "ugh you think popular culture is for shit"

troo, but it's more that i'm honestly baffled by reactions stronger than bovine indifference where things like action movies are concerned. the passion has died within me.

red lobster, otoh...

absolutely my default position is to blithely let things go by me without worrying bout it god we're derailing the thread aren't we there shd be another one to discuss your relationship to shit people enthuse about that you think isn't very good or worthwhile

i think that thread is called "ILX"

tomorrow i'm going to watch makavejev movies featuring naked people and not worry about star wars, which will doubtless continue to be shit

and not every movie that comes out of France and Germany is Amour

lol it's a good job morbz is no longer reading this thread

was gonna rip on Haneke but it's like shooting a whale in a pint glass

there were no bad movies before 1998. now george lucas runs the ministry of culture & will not let michael haneke remake code unknown for the chinese markets.

i'm not angry that action/scifi movies exist. i'm not even annoyed that action/scifi movies exist. like i said i'm not a film snob by any stretch and i enjoy action/scifi movies every once in a while, and there are plenty of really great, well-made ones! just annoyed that it seems like there are basically 4-6 good hollywood movies made per year out of the 500-600 that are released per year. like i said i don't fault any actor for taking the money for some bullshit, i would probably do the same, it's more a yearning for some decent movies and a desire to see good actors rewarded with more good roles and good movies! it's also more a yearning for hollywood to make movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids

that said i will probably see star wars 7 and enjoy some parts of it even if the rest of it will probably suck as bad as the prequels

i think we're all going to be ok

as xelab said it could be worse

otm there could be ~no more movies at all~ think abt it

it seems like there are basically 4-6 good hollywood movies made per year out of the 500-600 that are released per year. like i said i don't fault any actor for taking the money for some bullshit, i would probably do the same, it's more a yearning for some decent movies and a desire to see good actors rewarded with more good roles and good movies! it's also more a yearning for hollywood to make movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids

― marcos, Friday, June 6, 2014 6:13 AM (3 hours ago)

eh, there are more interesting movies released every year than any sane person could reasonably keep up with. glut of michael bay bullshit can be safely ignored if one so chooses.

4-6 is extraordinarily generous

movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids

after having kids I now realize just how few movies in the theaters are actually appropriate for children - at any given time there's usually one, and that's it. The 12-35 (or whatever range it is) of males is really the demo everything is targeted to. Everybody else is just expected to suck it up.

keep up the good fight, guys

eh, there are more interesting movies released every year than any sane person could reasonably keep up with. glut of michael bay bullshit can be safely ignored if one so chooses.

― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:24 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

that's fair. just hard to do 11 out of 12 months a year when you want to go a movie theater to see something.

I wouldn't mind all of the comic book and superhero shit if it felt like it was still neatly balanced out by more movies for adults. and I'd mind it less if every franchise didn't feel the need to saturate the screens with sequels and spinoffs every other month. it's pretty exhausting.

looks like the Millennium Falcon is alive, and it saw What Lies Beneath and Ender's Game!

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/harrison-ford-injured-star-wars-set-hospital/story?id=24110941

I only just read the other day that the Millenium Falcon was used as a building in Blade Runner: http://www.blastr.com/2013-4-10/little-known-sci-fi-fact-millennium-falcon-appeared-blade-runner

Okay, I officially Give A Shit about the sequels. http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/star-wars-rian-johnson-director-next-two-movies/

wow!

Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Alec Guiness makeup

Ugh Brick is so terrible fuck that guy

^offtm

I give a fuck now

clone army of nora zehetners

xxp yes, but have you seen the brothers bloom?

Looper's not half bad

http://www.avclub.com/article/rian-johnson-handling-next-two-star-wars-movies-206072

These films are not due until I am well into my 40s. Jesus Christ.

I give a fuck now

― What Is It Like To Be A HOOS? (silby), Friday, June 20, 2014 7:00 PM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ what it is like to be a HOOS

Looper's not half bad

nah, the last half is the payoff

probably the best breaking bad director right?

^^^

underrated aerosmith even money to appear in nu cantina scene

omg

probably the best breaking bad director right?

― balls, Friday, June 20, 2014 8:37 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark

definitely

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6geiN6VZIME

35 fuckin years of totally ignoring star wars ruined in one day

you had a good (kessel) run (in 12 parsecs)

Brick's terrible, Brothers Bloom didn't quite work, Looper's pretty good.