you figured you'd see what all the hubub was about by watching the third movie in a series
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:23 (four years ago) link
it was out tbhdef think you’d like Boy > Wilderpeople >>> Jojo, forks
― insecurity bear (sic), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:25 (four years ago) link
it was out tbh
yeah fair
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:29 (four years ago) link
its true that the movie with the trailer that shows keanu reeves having a kung fu gunfight on horseback in manhattan could have been more subtle and lacked a meaningful moral core.
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:31 (four years ago) link
could have been more subtle and lacked a meaningful moral core.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:40 (four years ago) link
to be clear: i didn't need subtlety in the story or the acting but in the direction. if all you're gonna do is sit me in front of a conveyor belt of executions, I feel like you're obliged to come up with interesting visual choices to present those murders AND/OR do them in a cartoonish enough, tongue-in-cheek style so that I don't feel like a bad person for watching. Wick 3 ran the opposite direction almost immediately so i followed suit.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:47 (four years ago) link
i stopped watching the first one when the puppy gets killed and never went back
― #FBPIRA (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
that's the heart though
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:48 (four years ago) link
the action is also beautifully choreographed imo but ymmv, sometimes the john wick movies are also too much for me even though i love them
― american bradass (BradNelson), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:49 (four years ago) link
The choreography + Keanu's manipulations of po-faced badassedness impressed me, but it's not a film I'll watch again.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:52 (four years ago) link
anyways, is everybody okay with the idea that the cinematic reboot of noted ultra-wholesome 1940's comic book superhero turned early 80's Kids Power Hour saturday morning cartoon tentpole Captain Marvel (newly rechristened SHAZAM for reasons that merit their own movie) is comparably violent to Dude Killed My Dog 3?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:56 (four years ago) link
In case you need a refresher, after Thaddeus Sivana, against the wizard Shazam’s protests, stole the Eye of Sin from the Rock of Eternity and became the new vessel for the Seven Deadly Sins, he traveled to Sivana Industries to confront his father and brother. Both of them had been emotionally abusive towards Thaddeus growing up, with his brother, Sid, blaming him for the accident that paralyzed their father. Now that he had the power to exact revenge, Thaddeus tossed Sid out the window and had the Seven Deadly Sins murder Mr. Sivana and everyone else in the room.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 21:58 (four years ago) link
"Joker" was hot steaming garbage. I'm still perplexed as to what a hit it's become - ok, not really.
"Her Smell" was insufferable.
― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
xpost Leeeeeeet me guess without even bothering to check: Geoff Johns was involved in some capacity.
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:48 (four years ago) link
you win a ponyhttps://ew.com/books/2018/12/04/geoff-johns-shazam-bigger-spotlight-page-screen/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 3 December 2019 22:50 (four years ago) link
His impulse to befoul anything that once reeked of whimsy is pathological and more than a little creepy.
― Typo Netagive (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 01:21 (four years ago) link
I’ve been curious about Aniara, heard mixed reviews. Not worth watching?
― JoeStork, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 01:59 (four years ago) link
glad to see some hate for Her Smell and the Wicks (one was all I could manage)
I see relatively few bad movies since I stopped reviewing em (my pre-selection is like a bloodhound's)
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:12 (four years ago) link
like if I saw the Noe and T*r*ntino films, i'd put em here
but no
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:13 (four years ago) link
echo in the canyon. like being forced to read every page of an issue of mojo. jakob dylan and beck are given more screen time than david crosby. even tom petty manages to be annoying.
― ingredience (map), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:18 (four years ago) link
I thought Aniara had some clever ideas but they were all leading to a sort of weirdly anti-humanistic POV with an ending that got a chuckle out of me but also basically invalidated everything that came before as pointless. Seductive, promising, ultimately a little sadistic to the viewer; didn't pay off at all.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
all that may be a function of the poem it's based on:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aniara
Can’t agree with you at all about Jojo Rabbit, I thought it was great. Shazam was fun. John wick 3 was fun. The worst movies I saw this year were Serenity, IT Chaper 2, and yeah, Late Night.
― akm, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
Also yes Echo in the Canyon was a missed opportunity
― akm, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 03:00 (four years ago) link
― ingredience (map), Tuesday, December 3, 2019 9:18 PM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Roger Mcguinn's fucking hat
― Evan, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 04:35 (four years ago) link
What was so objectionable about The Biggest Little Farm to put it on a worst of list?
― the public eating of beans (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:00 (four years ago) link
fatuousness mostly. flimsiness as well. very quid/aggy.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
Have absolutely no desire to see Jojo Rabbit or anything by Taika Waititi but It Chapter 2 is def on mine
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:02 (four years ago) link
i will not be seeing It pts 1/2/infinity, Late Night, Jojo, Downton, Echo in the Canyon or Joker. Thread is helpful.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:06 (four years ago) link
Speaking for myself -- as muttered on the Alamo Drafthouse thread, the SF one is my actual local theater, so I see a lot of films there. This meant I saw the trailer...a lot. It was annoying the first time I saw it; by the tenth time or whatever I was pondering how to burn the screen down.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 06:20 (four years ago) link
I'd much recommend the poem Aniara, it's pretty incredible. And the film is quite clever in how it adapts it. Still don't really think it's enough, it doesn't really work.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 08:44 (four years ago) link
Shazam, IT Chapter Two and Doctor Sleep were all terrible.
― Ward Fowler, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
the arthouse elephant in the room:
An Elephant Sitting Still
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:14 (four years ago) link
a good 2018 film
― devvvine, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:27 (four years ago) link
The worst thing I saw this year, by a *huge* distance, was the Netflix movie Polar directed by Jonas Akerlund. Those of you who thought John Wick sucked should see what a bad movie really looks like.
Tbh though I don't think I saw anything bad in theaters this year!
― Simon H., Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:39 (four years ago) link
bad astra
― devvvine, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Her SmellBiggest Little FarmThem That Follow
these sound like made-up titles
― fetter, Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:56 (four years ago) link
Spiderman: Far From Home
― The World According To.... (Michael B), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 12:57 (four years ago) link
worst movie i saw in the theater was the new child's play. second-worst was joker.
― na (NA), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:18 (four years ago) link
The bad guy in Shazam murdering his terrible family didn't bother me at all?
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Wednesday, 4 December 2019 15:31 (four years ago) link
http://www.tcj.com/the-shame-of-shazam-its-present-debacle-and-abuse/
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:39 (four years ago) link
I left Shazam early. didn't think it was terrible, but I was bored and they hadn't even gotten to the final boss battle or w/e. felt like it hit its one note too hard too often.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:42 (four years ago) link
Can't wait to finally see the Rock tear some people in half in the pseudo-sequel.
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:51 (four years ago) link
Walking Tall 2?
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:54 (four years ago) link
Tallest Walking
https://www.screengeek.net/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/dwayne-johnson-black-adam.jpghttps://comicvine1.cbsistatic.com/uploads/scale_small/0/8190/251820-193465-black-adam.jpg
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
Rock be nimbleRock be quickRock rip off the bad guy's dick
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:10 (four years ago) link
lol
― afraid of gosts, frankinstines, mummys, vampires, warewolf (Old Lunch), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:11 (four years ago) link
I will gladly defend Jojo Rabbit, Arctic, the Art of Self-Defense, John Wick 3 and especially the Dead Don't Die.
Right now worst for me is Hagazussa
― The Mandymoorian (Whiney G. Weingarten), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Real talk, I never heard of Shazam until this thread, and for a short time I thought it was a remake of the Shaq genie movie but then I remembered that was Kazaam not Shazam
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:18 (four years ago) link
alright whiney you clearly wanna argue, so tell me what's good about mumblecore fight club
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Seven Psychopaths one of them?
No I meant the "magicians do magic heists" movies, you'd think it was impossible to be sub-Nolan but apparently not
― éminence rose et jaune (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 December 2019 19:56 (four years ago) link
Xpost i felt sick at that scene but found out it apparently came from the book.
Glad nobody did that at my showing.
― master of nuggets (Neanderthal), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:00 (four years ago) link
Velvet BuzzsawPet SemataryRocketmanJudy
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:01 (four years ago) link
I was apparently in the vast minority who thought It: Chapter 2 was better than the (pretty awful) first part.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:02 (four years ago) link
what was so bad about judy ;_;
― ingredience (map), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:03 (four years ago) link
I'm biased against the genre.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
haha yeah i don't like the biopic genre either but i thought it was weird / interesting / deeply depressing and r.z. doing her best wounded animal throughout was something else.
― ingredience (map), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
There were points I was caught up somewhere in between rolling my eyes and wiping mist away from them, which means it at least flirted with camp a few times.
― temporarily embarrassed thousandaire (Eric H.), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:15 (four years ago) link
xp back to whiney: i thought the filmmaking and the script for Art of Self Defense were so immediately, egregiously bad that I turned it off shortly after he went to the dojo.i'm gonna take a crazy leap here and suggest the people who beat him up were from the dojo, no?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 6 December 2019 20:26 (four years ago) link
I really like Rocketman. Loads of fun.
― akm, Friday, 6 December 2019 21:04 (four years ago) link
richard jewell
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:29 (four years ago) link
obv
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:34 (four years ago) link
my friend had a screener and it’s like barely a movie
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
so smarmy and self-regarding that it had the unintended effect of making me believe jewell did it
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
"did you do it?""No""Did you do it?""No""Did you do it?""No""We think you did.""Oh."
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
HER SMELL is easily my favorite movie of the year, probably top 5 of the decade
― winters (josh), Saturday, 14 December 2019 21:15 (four years ago) link
i lasted about twenty minutes and then the person i was with simultaneously leaned in at the same time i did and we both said "wanna go?" more or less at once
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:17 (four years ago) link
Has everyone read the Wiki synopsis for Last Christmas already
― Simon H., Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
Scenario I cannot ever imagine myself in, regardless of whatever came next:
Slides actual cash money toward a cashier. "One adult for Her Smell, please."
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:27 (four years ago) link
Who stands in line anymore
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Saturday, 14 December 2019 23:51 (four years ago) link
I'm waiting for Smell Her, personally.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Sunday, 15 December 2019 02:09 (four years ago) link
Sir...
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 02:16 (four years ago) link
Thanks for the heads up on Last Christmas, Simon. I don't know how it took the Hallmark Channel so long to get one of their movies into an actual theater, but good on em.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Sunday, 15 December 2019 02:17 (four years ago) link
I'm waiting for Smell Her
A sequel to Talk to Her?
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 15 December 2019 03:47 (four years ago) link
Or Ben Hur.
― Bidh boladh a' mhairbh de 'n láimh fhalaimh (dowd), Sunday, 15 December 2019 15:51 (four years ago) link
Ben Hur break her any way you want her
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Sunday, 15 December 2019 15:56 (four years ago) link
yahoo headline:
Clint Eastwood's record-breaking movie flopUnlike the breakout success of "Joker," the debate surrounding "Richard Jewell" did little to inspire interest among moviegoers.
Unlike the breakout success of "Joker," the debate surrounding "Richard Jewell" did little to inspire interest among moviegoers.
it is truly some deeply astonishing shit to see one succeed while the other failed.
― omar little, Monday, 16 December 2019 17:27 (four years ago) link
What’s the deal with Richard Jewell, is that a Batman thing too?
― Baby yoda laid an egg (wins), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
Richard Jewell is a renowned jewelry thief looking for one last score. Unfortunately, the job goes bad and he is pursued by veteran cop Olin Picks, who is three days from retirement.
That's when The Man With No Name shows up
― 100 Percent That Grinch (Neanderthal), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
Richard Jewell was so inspired by vajazzling that he created a similar line of genital adornments for men. Guess what the company was called. Just guess.
― Welcome to the Sandwich Trough (Old Lunch), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
The Mule quietly made over $100 million in America last week, so I won't count this fucker out yet.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:52 (four years ago) link
er last year
The new Michael Bay thing, 6 Underground, definitely belongs on this list. I'm not anti-Bay (I own Pain & Gain and respect the Criterion people for picking up on The Rock and Armageddon) but this thing is fucking garbage.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 December 2019 17:58 (four years ago) link
Richard Jewell crucially lacking Baby Yoda
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
I watched The Fanatic and it's not a "fun" bad movie. Deeply misanthropic.
― Chris L, Monday, 16 December 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
seriously though, it's not too hard to figure out why a historical drama focused on a little remembered 90's catastrophe starring an unknown guy and titled "guy whose name you don't know" didn't clean up at the box office; the "it's the media stupid" subtext and imaginary honeypot journalist scandal probably muscled out the small sliver of the audience who would otherwise be curious enough to try it
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
I liked Aniara a lot, btw. Still plan on getting around to Hagazussa.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 16 December 2019 18:10 (four years ago) link