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- Fri Feb 17, 2017 4:17 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Michael K. Williams Asks: Am I Typecast?
- Replies: 0
- Views: 1191
Michael K. Williams Asks: Am I Typecast?
Interesting short film. Thoughts?
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 11:54 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23279
Re: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
My to-watch document is called my memory.
I think I do have a few Word documents lying around too though...
I think I do have a few Word documents lying around too though...
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 7:03 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Holy crap my cousin is insane
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3092
Re: Holy crap my cousin is insane
It's time to sever.
- Thu Feb 16, 2017 3:24 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23279
Re: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
I find watching movies is like battling the hydra. I watch one film, and suddenly there are five more in its place I want to see.Derived Absurdity wrote:The list of movies I want to see but haven't are probably in the hundreds by now.
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 10:43 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
22. Hidden Figures - I'm really conflicted on this one. I love that I actually learned some stuff about the history of NASA, the contributions of African-Americans to one of our most important accomplishments as a country, and what may be the first film I've ever seen period about black lady scienti...
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 7:32 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17055
- Wed Feb 15, 2017 3:59 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17055
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Wait when was the second punch?
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 10:44 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
Let me ask you all this then: Is The English Patient the Best Picture Winner of the 90's to ultimately hold the least relevance? Here all of the winners of that decade: Dances With Wolves (1990)* Silence of the Lambs (1991) Unforgiven (1992) Schindler's List (1993) Forrest Gump (1994) Braveheart (19...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 9:13 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
I guess people haven't seen The English Patient. :( 21. Moonlight - A quiet movie about emotional vulnerability in people that Hollywood is usually all too quick to reduce to stereotypes, particularly in movies like The Blind Side. It has a really interesting narrative structure too, which kind of r...
- Mon Feb 13, 2017 1:07 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6914
Re: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
Context is important. That line about brevity is from one of Shakespeare's longest plays, which is filled with many lengthy soliloquies that most certainly do not go for the briefest way of expressing ideas. Even that link talks about how Polonious is unwitty and long-winded, whereas other character...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:10 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6914
Re: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
As we all know, Shakespeare was known for his brevity. :P
I do agree there shouldn't have been three movies. Hell before it was even announced as a trilogy I remember complaining that two films was overkill.
I do agree there shouldn't have been three movies. Hell before it was even announced as a trilogy I remember complaining that two films was overkill.
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:00 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6914
Re: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
The thing is that I don't think Jackson is always doing serious in the Hobbit movies. Like the more comedic scenes that are just Martin Freeman fulfilling his patriotic duty as the British fish out of the chips are great. Hell I even liked that silly nonsense with the barrels on the river. OTOH the ...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 4:40 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Jordan Peele made a horror movie about racism
- Replies: 31
- Views: 6624
Re: Jordan Peele made a horror movie about racism
Key and Peele had some really great skits- watching a bunch of them, it really surprised me how well they were able to combine classical filmmaking ideas with their comedy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izh-j8KUYjs It's pretty easy to draw a parallel between this video for example, and Hitchcock's...
- Sun Feb 12, 2017 10:37 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6914
Re: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
FWIW I was referring to the 1928 Joan of Arc movie, the one Dreyer directed. ^ I'm with aels on LotR, though I did make it through the books. I do prefer The Hobbit book to the films, though. I liked the Hobbit book. As far as the movies go...I feel like I enjoyed them more when they weren't trying ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:53 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
- Replies: 35
- Views: 6914
Re: Popular movies that I didn't enjoy
The two I always get into trouble for not liking are The Passion of Joan of Arc and Lawrence of Arabia. I'm not fond of the Lord of the Rings trilogy either though it's been such a long time that a rewatch might change my opinion.
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 10:49 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
20. The English Patient - I had trouble really getting hooked into this one, though I think that's less of a fault of the film than the fact I felt pretty sick today. Otherwise I liked several aspects of the movie- namely how soft the more romantic scenes felt, as well as the back and forth between ...
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 4:11 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
What's funny is that the Rocky sequels do deal with similar themes as Million Dollar Baby- Creed in particular has the specter of Apollo being killed in the ring in Rocky IV haunting over Adonnis' entire quest, the film hinting that he'll probably meet the same end as his father some day . It's inte...
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:26 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: So who here has seen
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2453
Re: So who here has seen
Can't say I've heard of either of those two. :(
- Sat Feb 11, 2017 1:25 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Poll - on punching Nazis
- Replies: 82
- Views: 17055
Re: Poll - on punching Nazis
Rational debate didn't defeat the Nazis the first time- I'm not sure why anyone would think it might do the trick this time.
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 11:59 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
18. Million Dollar Baby - So I generally enjoy Clint Eastwood's movies, and had decided to save this one for a while. Watching it today its pretty decent but I don't think I would have given it the Best Picture Oscar, certainly not over The Aviator. The ending was surprising, with it maybe being the...
- Fri Feb 10, 2017 8:32 am
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
17. Le Petit Soldat - I'm a little surprised that Godard made this right after Breathless, since while it has the content you might expect from early Godard...it's got like none of the formal inventiveness we associate with him now. It feels super conventional, but well done conventionality. I kind ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:47 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Re: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies
The new Blair Witch is also a sequel, believe it or not. If you didn't like the original though I really doubt you'd like the newer movie. Shutter Island was interesting to revisit since the first time I saw it I really didn't care for it. The twist just didn't work at all for me, like Scorsese was ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 8:03 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
- Replies: 342
- Views: 49507
Raxivace's 2017 List of Movies or (Neo-General Chat)
So here's my list of movies I've seen so far this year. If you want to hear about what I thought of any of these specifically, just ask. As I post new films I'll try and add a line or two about them though. 1. Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces 2. Exam 3. Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2 4. Shadow of the ...
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:16 pm
- Forum: Movies & Television
- Topic: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
- Replies: 119
- Views: 23279
Re: Gendo's 2017 list of movies
I liked Triangle (2009), though I think the way the stuff with the main character's child plays out comes off as a little needlessly edgy.
Also if you've seen anything else in the genre the big twist is a little predictable, though still well done.
Also if you've seen anything else in the genre the big twist is a little predictable, though still well done.
- Thu Feb 09, 2017 7:24 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: I hate people
- Replies: 72
- Views: 13984
Re: I hate people
Yeah its one of those things where they're not wrong to be skeptical of the big news stations but advocating for Alex Jones is like a thousand times worse than the flaws of CNN and the like. I don't think unbiased news really exists- reporters are always going to have to interpret facts and organize...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:55 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Evesdropping on a fascinating coversation bout bears in schools
- Replies: 8
- Views: 3382
Re: Evesdropping on a fascinating coversation bout bears in schools
When I was in middle school, we once went on lockdown for several hours because someone decided he just had plain had enough that day and tried to escape. Never found out what happened to him. When I was in college we went on lockdown because of reports of someone with a "long gun" on the ...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 7:55 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello There
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5329
Re: Hello There
You know I can't help but wonder if I wouldn't be quite so distasteful of Ghibli if it felt like the only anime a lot of cinephiles seemed to not immediately reject, if only in comparison to the stuff from more "disreputable" genres I tend to prefer. I'd like to think I'm above such biases...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 7:33 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello There
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5329
Re: Hello There
Hello there, fluffy new board lambkin! Thanks. :) You're one of the good ones, right? Nope! Hey Raxi. FYI for everyone, Raxi is the first refugee I've invited from the Evangelion board. He's good peeps, despite his lacking a soul, which I discovered when he admitted his apathy towards Studio Ghibli...
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:20 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: EXISTENCE IS PAIN
- Replies: 12
- Views: 4505
Re: EXISTENCE IS PAIN
I dunno, hearing that this cockroach that digs into our skulls still lives is actually pretty frightening.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 6:08 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello There
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5329
Re: Hello There
Refugee.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 5:14 pm
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello There
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5329
Re: Hello There
That's right, I believe we talked briefly over at IMDb- assuming you're the same Gendo, that is.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 10:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Less than three weeks into Trump's monarchy...
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1498
Re: Less than three weeks into Trump's monarchy...
When I moved away from Indiana a few years ago, I took some comfort in believing that at least I no longer had to live under Pence's governorship.
Jokes on me, of course.
Jokes on me, of course.
- Wed Feb 08, 2017 8:07 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Hello There
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5329
Hello There
Hi, how are you all doing, what's up, etc.