TV/Movies Megathread

[Ideologue]

Yi: A movie that came out last year sucked balls, and I hope Tom Stern goes blind.  My memory casts back to the hazy past of 2012, and I think Berkut said he enjoyed this.  What the hell, man?

Also watched Forbidden Planet, The Strangers, and the original Amityville Horror.  A, B+, B respectively.

Forbidden Planet is pretty rad, I'd never realized how darn Star Trek it was till watching it as an adult.  You could literally plug Kirk and McCoy into the movie in the place of Leslie Neilsen and the slightly fish-faced guy, say Spock was on vacation, and lose nothing.  As for the chick playing Altaira--I didn't know skirts that short could be legally photographed in 1956.

A little disappointed in Amityville, thought it'd be scarier.  Think I liked the remake better, despite its sometimes over-the-top stylistic choices and the retrospective dissonance that Goerge Lutz is played by Ryan Reynolds.

The Strangers has some wobblycam like The Hunger Games, but not sickeningly so and its use has more of a point, is also edited reasonably well.  Is The Strangers iconic yet?  I think so.  I find it interesting that Dollface (one of the masked home invaders, arguably the leader) is played by super-hot model Gemma Ward, but you never clearly see her face (and blink and miss her in Gatsby--she's gone from four lines per movie in 2008 to one in 2013).  I like what Kip Wells (unfortunately a nobody) does with his breathing and the weird stuff he does with his eyes under the potato sack mask he's wearing too.

[Ideologue]

Another indictment of professional critics: Hunger Games was enjoyed by 85% of RT respondents.  Christ on the cross.

My man David Denby called it shit, though.  And used the word "epicene."  What a guy.

[Viking]

P.S. I don't know what you're talking about with regards to Fantastic Four.  The fluctuations you see are statistically insignificant: that movie is not entertaining.  The second one is okay--and I mean middlingly okay--but my recollection is that the first one is a real fart.

The first one was not "bad" but rather "not good". It wasn't 26% worthy though and it was most certainly much better than the 1994 version which was made to keep the rights to the franchise for zero money rather than actually to be a movie. BTW the second one got 39% on tomatoes with the audience scoring much higher.

But yes reviewers have lost the mandate of heaven, this is why I demand they say why a movie is bad or good rather than just say that it is.

[Eddie Teach]

Hunger Games > Days of Thunder

[lustindarkness]

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The Hunger Games (2012). 

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F

I enjoyed that movie, it entertained me, as it should. You really should start enjoying your entertainment, that is the purpose of it after all.

[Grey Fox]

It's very very weird story in a very weird society. From what I gathered, the next 2 books are crazier.

[11B4V]

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The Hunger Games (2012). 

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F

I enjoyed that movie, it entertained me, as it should. You really should start enjoying your entertainment, that is the purpose of it after all.

Same. It was entertaining. Plus it has Jen Lawrence  . She did a good job in Silver Linings Playbook too.

[Barrister]

Also watched Forbidden Planet, <snip> A

FINALLY Ideo properly appreciates a good movie.

[Ideologue]

P.S. I don't know what you're talking about with regards to Fantastic Four.  The fluctuations you see are statistically insignificant: that movie is not entertaining.  The second one is okay--and I mean middlingly okay--but my recollection is that the first one is a real fart.

The first one was not "bad" but rather "not good". It wasn't 26% worthy though and it was most certainly much better than the 1994 version which was made to keep the rights to the franchise for zero money rather than actually to be a movie. BTW the second one got 39% on tomatoes with the audience scoring much higher.

But yes reviewers have lost the mandate of heaven, this is why I demand they say why a movie is bad or good rather than just say that it is.

I think 800 words, cut from 1100, insulting a cinematographer counts.

I enjoyed that movie, it entertained me, as it should. You really should start enjoying your entertainment, that is the purpose of it after all.

I don't think of myself as a particularly severe critic.

Hunger Games > Days of Thunder

Have you been indicted for securities fraud yet?  Because you're crazy, Eddie.

[Ideologue]

Same. It was entertaining. Plus it has Jen Lawrence  . She did a good job in Silver Linings Playbook too.

HG gave me no standard by which to judge her talent, so I didn't.  I'm sure she's fine.

FINALLY Ideo properly appreciates a good movie.

[Barrister]

I thought I was damning you with faint praise, Ideo...

[Ideologue]

If one is to put one's opinions out there, it behooves one to have thick skin.  But self-delusion is even better.

[Eddie Teach]

Because you're crazy, Eddie.

You should consider the beam in your own eye before the mote in God's. 

[crazy canuck]

Went to go see Star Trek: Into Darkness today.  I shall write about it after I feast.  I am torn about it, however.

No reason to delay your feast.  Dont beat yourself up about eating first.

[crazy canuck]

The Hunger Games (2012).  There are times I regret not getting out to the theater more often before about a year ago. 

Yeah, Hunger Games was even better on the big screen.  You really missed out.