justcheckin wrote:I watched Red Dawn on TV the other day. It was the first time I've ever seen it. It was very interesting. I didn't realize who all was in it so it was quite an adventure of a movie. Pretty cool. I also saw there is a re-make coming. Also very cool.
TheBaxter wrote:what ever happened to josh hartnett anyway? he must have disappeared into the same hole of talentless, charisma-deficient prettyboy actors that freddie prinze jr got swallowed up by.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Spandau Belly wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Wait, does that mean you had already accomplished 386 things with your life? I find that hard to believe.
Bloo wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Wait, does that mean you had already accomplished 386 things with your life? I find that hard to believe.
Well to be fair 376 involve masterbaution
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Bloo wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Wait, does that mean you had already accomplished 386 things with your life? I find that hard to believe.
Well to be fair 376 involve masterbaution
What he said.
minstrel wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Bloo wrote:Spandau Belly wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Wait, does that mean you had already accomplished 386 things with your life? I find that hard to believe.
Well to be fair 376 involve masterbaution
What he said.
On my list, watching MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION has been crossed out and replaced with still more masturbation. Actually, almost everything has been crossed off and replaced with masturbation.
TheBaxter wrote:Bloo wrote:caruso_stalker217 wrote:Last week I was sitting on the toilet with a shotgun in my mouth, ready to finally end it all. Only one thing stopped me. It was the knowledge that I had never seen MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION, which happened to be #387 on my List Of Things To Do Before I Die.
Well to be fair 376 involve masterbaution
what about masturbating to MADEA'S FAMILY REUNION?
Spandau Belly wrote:So instead of watching all this promotional PROMETHEUS stuff that will probably just spoil the movie, I figured I would check out a movie that looks similiar. Warning: I don't think there's any way to discuss this film without being spoilerish, so if you haven't seen this film yet and plan to, don't read this review.
SUNSHINE
Danny Boyle was considered for both ALIEN 3 and ALIEN 4: RESURRECTION, but got passed over for other directors, so it was neat to see him try his hand at the space thriller genre without the constraints of a big franchise. He and screenwriter Alex Garland do a good job of having the crew of this mission cause all their own problems without it becoming frustrating or having us think they are incompetant. And they do an excellent job of pushing the crew into an increasingly hopeless situation while always dangling some hope for salvation in front of them. They play against our knowledge of sci-fi movies by doing things such as establishing a HAL style computer and then occassionally having it linger in disagreement with the crew just long enough for us to think it's turning evil but then not. They also toss out the red herring of whether Chris Evans's character will go like Michael Biehn in THE ABYSS. Stuff like that was very clever.
The performances among the crew are all well grounded. Chris Evans does a really good job with his character, which could've easily come across too much like an action hero or like the stereotypical hot-headed army guy they always have in these movies, but he finds the right balance. Rose Byrne also does a good job with her character showing good emotional range. Cilian Murphy is good, but I've seen him dressed as a girl in a couple movies now and sometimes when I see him I get these flashes of him dressed as a girl. Maybe he should keep some stubble on.
The third act has some pretty big problems though. It didn't ruin the movie for me, but it definitely took it down a few notches. When the crew comes upon another identical ship that was sent on an identical mission and went AWOL they introduce Mark Strong as this movie monster character and it turns into a slasher movie. This plot developement isn't the worst idea, but Strong's performance is so overthetop monstrous and Boyle films him like he's superhuman. It may offend some religious people that the third act also equates religion to insanity. This didn't offend me, but it just felt like a theme that was dumped in too late in the movie and handled poorly. If the movie was supposed to be about the conflict of whether the sun is the force that sustains the universe or if it's God, they should've developed that earlier. And if the film is going to be about science versus religion, then they should find a more interesting way to pit these two forces against each other rather than fist fighting.
But all and all, I liked this movie. I'd say it's fun for the whole atheist family and if PROMETHEUS is this good, I will leave the cinema satisfied.
Bloo wrote:I think (and I could be wrong) that this was a backdoor sequel for a Carrie TV show on the heels of the successful Dead Zone TV show
Spandau Belly wrote:Yo Ribbons, is BARRY MUNDAY good? I think I debated renting it when I was in a dramedy mood but went with LARS AND THE REAL GIRL.
Spandau Belly wrote:
So I saw the above animated gif on a site I go to and it made me laugh, but didn't recognize the movie. Thankfully, justcheckin identified it for me as SCREWBALLS, so I watched it. I'm no expert in this subgenre, but I've seen my share of teen sex comedies and this one is by far the most ridiculous that I've seen. I find myself thinking back and laughing more in retrospect than I did when I watched it a few days ago. Every scene in this movie is just propelled forward by the zaniest cartoon logic playing the most outrageous gags beyond their ridiculous conclusion.
This movie creates a strange alternate universe. It's set in this mishmash era that takes every decade from the 1950s through to when this was made in the 80s and combines them, sorta like the sex comedy version of STREETS OF FIRE or something. They drive vintage 50s/60s cars, go to a drive-in and watch a Pam Grier movie (70s), use 80s technology, read Playboy magazine, and the prices for most things seem to be from the 80s (I mean, $9.00 for a dildo? in the 1950s, $9.00 would buy you a house and they probably didn't have sex shoppes in the 50s anyway). I'm not sure how intentional this anachronistic stuff was, but anyway, it's not the definitive trait of this movie's world. What really sold me on this movie was just how fucking upbeat and liberated everybody was. In between all the blowjobs, orgies, strip-bowling matches, gym class devoted to breasts-enlarging excercises, burlesque shows, and public masturbation it's all sunshine, wholesome smiles, and high-fives. It's all just so surreal.
There's only one character in this movie who won't take off her clothes and fuck with a smile if you asked her to, and she's the focus of the film. The basic story is that this group of dudes make a pact to see this one prudish girl's tits. But unlike most sex comedies, they aren't a bunch of sexually frustrated guys. All off their schemes to see this chick's tits play out cartoonishly like if the Coyote wanted to see the Roadrunner's tits. They fail in many of their overly-complicated ways to see this one girl's boobs, but fuck every other woman (including teachers) along the way, and the female characters all join in on the quest to see the prude's tits.
Anyway, I've seen my country's government fund all sorts of trashy exploitation movies, but I've never seen the text 'Funded by the Government of Canda' appear on the screen over a shot of tits. It made me feel patriotic, or at least glad I saw this wacky movie.
Spandau Belly wrote:Anyway, I've seen my country's government fund all sorts of trashy exploitation movies, but I've never seen the text 'Funded by the Government of Canda' appear on the screen over a shot of tits. It made me feel patriotic, or at least glad I saw this wacky movie.
Spandau Belly wrote:In response to Baxter: Yes, they find the dress she plans to wear at a sports game when she will sing the national anthem (this movie is set in America so that it would be easier to sell to American distributors) and they line her dress with steal wool and then build giant magnets to rip the dress off while she's singing and that works. It's the very end of the movie. As soon as the dress gets ripped off the credits start popping up on the screen with shots of her cowering in shame and the crowd cheering and high-fiving at her disgrace.
Bloo wrote:I've had Killshot on my computer for awhile because you know its Mickey Rourke and Elmore Leonard and I love both of those guys not to mention my man boner for Tom Jane. But I've held back on watching this now I'm glad. thanks for the heads up (though knowing me I'll watch it sooner or later.
caruso_stalker217 wrote:Bloo wrote:I've had Killshot on my computer for awhile because you know its Mickey Rourke and Elmore Leonard and I love both of those guys not to mention my man boner for Tom Jane. But I've held back on watching this now I'm glad. thanks for the heads up (though knowing me I'll watch it sooner or later.
I've read up on the movie since then and there were a lot of reshoots and shit apparently, which makes sense. It feels very reshooty. The sleazy U.S. Marshall subplot was actually in the film at one point (with Johnny Knoxville in the role) but it got cut due to poor test audience reactions.
Now that I've thought about it, Rosario really is the best thing going for the film. I may have to rethink my position on Rosario Dawson, Actress.
So, yeah, I'd recommend skipping this. But like you said you'll probably get to it eventually. I would definitely recommend the book, though, if you haven't read it already.
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