Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[noblekane]

just ignore her noble like i did. her scenes in tdk were difficult to look at especially considering who Bruce Wayne was.

they should have started off the dark knight with the joker pouring acid on rachel's face to explain the drastic change to maggie's fugly face


if they ever made a Mask prequel maggie would be great as Rocky Dennis

 

[venom lyrix]

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[CP1708]

there was no real reason for why the phenomenon happened? Are you guys serious right now? You couldn't have completely missed the point... completely.

the planet created an antibody. Virus was... us.

Simple. sounds to me like you guys didn't pick that up... at all.

What you just typed >>>>the actual movie.

I thought the virus was bad acting and there was no cure. *shrugs*

 

[servechilled81]

 Yoooo, is no one else watching Rectify?  This last episode caught me way off guard

 

[jpzx]

After Ska's post I might have to watch The Happening now. With low expectations, of course.

Trying to plow through Arrested Development, just finished Episode 6. I haven't really laughed out loud much but it's a lot of grinning moments. I love how random things connect and cause the characters to be in the situations they're in. Like the twin sister saying "I have the same blouse" and then them rewinding and you see David Cross trying to dress like a pirate so he wears her blouse, accidentally gets on the gay boat, and then they show her saying that line again.

I get annoyed every time Michael Cera's cousin, the one he likes, is on the screen. She's just a waste of time.

The funniest is Will Arnett by far.

 

[lawdog1]

oh hell to the naw you did not just say that :x

absolute ugliest woman in hollywood

almost threw up in my mouth just reading her name :x

almost ruined the dark knight for me :x

thought she was two face in that movie

What can I say, man? I guess I'm just very NOT picky.

 

[duba169]

Everything connects all the way to the last episode, it's the wire of comedies haha

But you can watch it 3 times and still find new things. Especially in the background.

 

[noblekane]

What can I say, man? I guess I'm just very NOT picky.

hey we all have different taste. i love michelle rodriguez sweaty dog like face

 

[sb]

there was no real reason for why the phenomenon happened? Are you guys serious right now? You couldn't have completely missed the point... completely.

the planet created an antibody. Virus was... us.

Simple. sounds to me like you guys didn't pick that up... at all.

 

[venom lyrix]

This Halloween Disney/Pixar is releasing another Toy Story short film on ABC titled: Toy Story of Terror. The short will be 30-minutes long, and has the toys staying in a motel after Bonnie takes them on a road trip only to have the car break down along the way. Once inside the spooky motel, one of the toys goes missing, and “the rest of the gang will find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.”

 

[venom lyrix]

First clip from Alexander Payne's Nebraska, one of the most anticipated films at the 66th Cannes Film Festival - http://wp.me/p2CCWq-2ZI

 

[jj watt]

This Halloween Disney/Pixar is releasing another Toy Story short film on ABC titled: Toy Story of Terror. The short will be 30-minutes long, and has the toys staying in a motel after Bonnie takes them on a road trip only to have the car break down along the way. Once inside the spooky motel, one of the toys goes missing, and “the rest of the gang will find themselves caught up in a mysterious sequence of events that must be solved before they all suffer the same fate.”

 

[big j 33]

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Seems like the average price for a good size vinyl is at least 50, but pretty cool and there's a bunch of different options and choices.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

that joker one's cool but it's kinda weird to live with.

 

[darthska]

that happening explanation ska gave sounds pretty dope. however, without watching the movie, i could see how it fell flat.

there was no real reason for why the phenomenon happened? Are you guys serious right now? You couldn't have completely missed the point... completely.

the planet created an antibody. Virus was... us.

Simple. sounds to me like you guys didn't pick that up... at all.

What you just typed >>>>the actual movie.

I thought the virus was bad acting and there was no cure. *shrugs*

there was no real reason for why the phenomenon happened? Are you guys serious right now? You couldn't have completely missed the point... completely.

the planet created an antibody. Virus was... us.

Simple. sounds to me like you guys didn't pick that up... at all.

No way.

You guys seriously... didn't... get that? I mean... there are a few lines EXPLICITLY saying that in the movie.

Do you guys... and I'm only talking to the serious movie buffs, here... do you guys ever wonder if you miss the meaning of some movies altogether because you're paying so much attention to character development and the score of the movie and the flow and the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th acts and the introduction of characters and the makeup and screenplay and all that? Like, you're paying so much attention to the production that you're not even watching the movie?

I think this would be one of those times, because the message behind Happening is VERY compelling, but for you guys to have not even gotten it... just to have written it off as bad acting, 'just scary air', slow... I'm in disbelief. Legit disbelief.

You guys may as well be talking about the Titanic and declare "Wait, Titanic is the name of the boat? And... it SUNK?! WHAT?!" So busy paying attention to segues and dialogue and lighting and camera angles that you completely missed the point.

And that's why we differ so much on movie taste, some of us. Django aside, QT's movies are bells and whistles w/ no message. Neat camera angles, mixed up acts (3rd act at the start of the movie, 1st act second, 2nd act third, then 4th act fourth), excellent character development, exaggerated action scenes, witty screenplay... all to say "There was a murder attempt on a bride who got her revenge" or "These 2 guys are assassins."

I'd much rather hear a few instruments accompany a song whose lyrics challenge me to be a better person over a 57 piece orchestra playing 'Jingle Bells'.

In the same way that our bodies create antibodies to fight off viruses, and then those antibodies stand down once things are under control, nature realizes a threat to the planet, creates an antibody that causes that threat to slowly kill itself... which it can do, because WE ARE NATURE... and once things were under a little more control, 'the scary air' stood down.

M. Night's movies are simple, and I appreciate that. But strictly in the case of Happening, Village, and Unbreakable, they are simple and contain a very compelling message.

*waits for someone to come through w/ "Nah, I got all that, unlike those guys. It was just a bad movie."*

Now that I think about it, I bet Avatar and District 9 went completely over y'all's heads, too... yet you probably hail Avatar to high esteem because it oooooohed and aaaaahed you, but District 9 is right there w/ Happening; just... messy.

 

[lawdog1]

^^^ Avatar is a below average movie.

 

[jj watt]

that joker one's cool but it's kinda weird to live with.

this.

star wars one though

^^^ Avatar is a below average movie.

this.

the whole appeal of that was to watch it at the movies so you can get the visuals behind it and so forth.

saw it at home, it was way tooo long and the story was predictable.

also District 9 is

underrated movie IMO

also finally saw Blue Valentine, its on netflix, i enjoyed it but you could feel for Ryan, i think it was a pretty good movie because of the story, thats something that really happens and i could appreciate that. Acting was pretty on point too.

 

[noblekane]

leo looks like val kimer in the django one

 

[mronegative]

Ska, who are you trying to drop knowledge on?

I get The Happening plain and simple. But movies aren't books. Your ideas can only go so far in making up for the technical, theatrical, acting and directing letdowns your film can have. If you can't connect. If you can't execute your ideas in a meaningful way, then why didn't you just write a book? You don't need $100M to express your ideas. You don't need all the fuss and the hype and the marketing and the big production. But if you are gonna get all of that. If you are gonna make the claim, that what you can bring the to screen with those ideas can meet some kinda populist, critical or artistic standard, then go ahead. If someone's willing to front you, let it out.

That wasn't this. The Happening is a terrible film regardless of its ideas. It's bad on a minute by minute, cut by cut, scene by scene level. It's a parody of itself. You would swear that M. Night forced every actor to act with an affect on purpose. To what ends? God knows. But it makes it a grating, cringeworthy, disappointment to film. And THEN...in the middle of it all, we get hit with an anticlimacic literary, matter of fact twist, that practically spits in the face of anyone stupid enough to buy the marketing and a ticket and that M. Night finally got back on track.

It makes sense on a literary level. So make it literature. There are plenty of books like this. But if you can't execute it in film, that's on you. The Birdsis 50 years old and they were able to film a big literary idea like this and make it work. M. Night? It's a film where we follow a high school science teacher. So of course they casted Mark Wahlberg, known thinker. And I'm guessing, to soften the blow of the twist, M. Night decides, let's let it out early. Known thinker, just looks at the grass blowing and realizes...omg...it must be nature.

And why not? How big of a leap is it to suspect mother nature? And that's the end of discussion And all of that without any discussion. Oh...sure that makes sense, I think you got it.

No other reasoning. No validation. Nothing for us, as a more intelligent audience than say...20 or 30 years ago to take in...to see any logic in this being the only solution. No counter, that it's pretty stupid if that's the only way nature figures to attack us. Science is real. It actually exists. This wasn't science. That's like taking a math professor, giving him a calculator and 5 minutes later he tells you what the winning lotto numbers for tonight are gonna be. And worse, that was the end of the narrative. Where are the stakes, when it's nature? What's the point, when it's the wind blowing. How is this something that ever needed to be filmed? And how are we supposed to feel about these flat characters all accepting the state of things?Suddenly we're just running from the wind and hoping nature spares us. And it does. And that's it.

Remember people, be better to nature or...wait...nope lost my train of thought.

There was an X-Files episode I saw when I was like 9 only the one time. And it stayed with me so vividly, because it felt profound. It touched on similar ideas as The Happening. Scully and Mulder get thrown into the sticks hunting down this Big Foot Fish. And they're fish out of water, and away from the paved roads and electricity, stuck in the leftover world all our modern success left behind. And they play the whole skeptic/believer thing. They wade through the waters, and people get got. Nature is trying to kill them. And at the end of it, Scully says this one quote that stuck with me: 'Have respect for nature, because it has none for you.'

That's it. That's all M. Night is trying to get across, and look at all of the fundamental film things he cannot do right for his life in this. You wanna call it a noble POS, fine. Ignore the film, follow the message? By all means. It can have you imagining the better thing it maybe could've been, but don't call it a good film, because of that.

 

[kevin cleveland]

I never think about it unless someone brings it up, but District 9 is probably one of the (top-15/20?) best films of the past five years.

I think ska and I have called ourselves M. Night apologists in the past. He is a third good writer, a third good director and a third delusional OCD nut or something that disallows everything to come together for a full movie. I'll have to watch Lady in the Water again sometime because I remember legitimately hating it, but all of the others that people tend to lambast (The Happening, The Village, Devil), I enjoyed on at least some level.

 

[mastamind033]

he slipped that **** in there right quick

I didn't try to slip anything anywhere, I saw the movie once and I'll never see it again but he was really good in it. There are much more "suspect" movies to watch for you guys worried about such stupid things

 

[mronegative]

I never think about it unless someone brings it up, but District 9 is probably one of the (top-15/20?) best films of the past five years.

That's a movie I don't want to watch again, because I know I won't like it as much as I did the first time.

And I'd probably find a bunch of ehhhh plot stuff to nitpick at. But it was one of the best moviegoing experiences. Packed house, no one got up or spoke for the last half hr. Pure silence when the fighting started. You could feel everyone on the edge of their seats. So rare. And then Inglourious came out the next week.

You gonna watch After Earth?

 

[kevin cleveland]

Maybe on Starz in two years.

It stars Will Smith and Will Smith's spawn. I can't, in good conscience, directly pay for that.

 

[duba169]

I loved district 9 but have no urge to watch it again. Strange. Don't know why.

 

[darthska]

Ska, who are you trying to drop knowledge on?

Nah, man. Not trying to drop knowledge at all.

Was just originally saying that I like M. Night movies, then it turned to a Happening discussion, and I could tell the main poaint went right over people's heads.

Remember people, be better to nature or...wait...nope lost my train of thought.

On point.

Hey, I still like the movie, though. That's definitely the impression I got from the ending, though. "Wait, what? Sooo... ummm... hey, M. Night... there a sequel or something? You stopped the movie mid-sentence. Dah well, I need to go do some recycling and get a Prius."

It can have you imagining the better thing it maybe could've been, but don't call it a good film, because of that.

I didn't call it a good film, though. Said I liked it, and now I'm simply contending that there was a message to Happening... and most likely Lady and Unbreakable and Village... that went RIGHT over the heads of most. Actually, I'm not even 'contending' that, because it has been made plainly obvious in here.

Sure, YOU grasped the concept and still didn't like the movie... (called it!)... but you =/= most.