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Started by Eddie Teach, March 06, 2011, 09:29:27 AM

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Josquius

Quote from: mongers on December 26, 2021, 02:08:18 AM
'Don't Look Up' - a great satire, excellent turns from Streep, Blanchette and Rylance who do battle to see who can steal the movie from De Caprio.   :)

I've only seen the first half an hour or so so far. Seems decent.
I like how they lampshade de caprio playing an ugly guy.
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Admiral Yi

Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

celedhring

Vice was very hit and miss, too, mostly miss. Adam McKay struck gold with The Big Short, but the whole social farce thing isn't totally working.

Eddie Teach

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 26, 2021, 01:58:09 PM
Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

Interesting hypothetical.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

celedhring

Took my mom to West Side Story. It's well done, but besides the latino cast the movie doesn't really add much and it's a pretty straightforward remake/readaptation.

I feel they should have Bazluhrmanned it because the story is so twisted and over the top - I mean, María fucks Tony right after he kills her brother - but then again, Luhrmann already did this story (with gangs and latino actors, too).

Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 26, 2021, 01:58:09 PM
Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

My brother strong-armed my mom into watching this and she hated it.  Made her feel sad.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Darth Wagtaros

I liked Hawkeye.  It was fun.

PDH!

mongers

Is 'Rumble Fish' worth a viewing?
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Admiral Yi


Berkut

Quote from: Razgovory on December 27, 2021, 06:14:58 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 26, 2021, 01:58:09 PM
Monger, if we ever have a date, we should most definitely not go to a movie.  Never.

I'm about half way and the satire is dismal.  They take swings at the oddest collection of targets and miss big on every one.  For example morning shows.  Yes, they're cheerful and lightweight, HA HA HA HA HA, but what do they have to do with a planet killing comet?

Don't know how they got such an all star cast for this dog, but Merryl's last movie was a bit of a dog too.

My brother strong-armed my mom into watching this and she hated it.  Made her feel sad.


Its a movie that is just a rather ham handed allegory for COVID. It has its moments, it isn't nearly as bad as Yi amkes it out, but overall it misses more than it hits.

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Eddie Teach

Just the trailer is enough to know it's an unfunny satire.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Syt

Watching a video review of The Living Daylights. I wasn't aware that in 1987 Bratislava was actually in of Vienna. :P

(The shot is at Währinger Gürtel, the building on the right is the Volksoper. Still not as weird as seeing the Vienna subway in Firefox.)



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Josephus

Don't Look Up. Had its moments, but somewhat overlong. May have worked better as a 2 minute SNL sketch.
Civis Romanus Sum<br /><br />"My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world." Jack Layton 1950-2011

Sheilbh

Quote from: Berkut on December 27, 2021, 10:07:06 PM
Its a movie that is just a rather ham handed allegory for COVID. It has its moments, it isn't nearly as bad as Yi amkes it out, but overall it misses more than it hits.
I think it was actually written before covid but filiming had to be pushed back because of it.

It's really weird film critics are pretty negative on it, but loads of journalists seem to love it :lol: It's a very big divide.
Let's bomb Russia!

mongers

Quote from: Admiral Yi on December 27, 2021, 09:20:33 PM
Haven't seen it.

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I watched half of it, but didn't like it because it was shot in a video -like B&W rather than the correct film B&W.

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