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

[Master Zik]

Zik, you know about Glass???? From the movie, or the actual live story??? (I only know the movie, the only proof I have that Hayden "could" have done Anakin right if not for George)

Yeah I think me and you (or somebody else maybe) chopped it up about that in this thread a while ago (a year or two). I came away watching that movie thinking where the **** has this Hayden been since? Still searching. Like he became that guy or that type of guy for that movie down to the mannerisms and then he's never shown that skill again. It's like his profile kept dropping after the episodes and he's never recovered.

I think I remember you saying that too about the prequels and then we got what we got

So, does anyone in the thread like the show Hannibal?

Because it's my favorite show on television right now.

Mads Mikkelson KILLS it for me man. The dude is Hannibal Lecter. He's exactly as I imagined he would be if Hannibal was a free man.

I mean, there really isn't any aspect of his character I don't like. There are others parts of the show I don't really care for, but in terms of him? He's great.

The show is arguably the best on tv right now even if you put Mads' amazing performance aside and just look at the damn visuals. Mads is almost going overboard with it given how great a Hannibal he is. To me it's like Ledger playing Joker in 15+ movies and just keeps getting better. Not to mention the writing is top notch, the hunt of it all, the mystery of these psychopaths.

 

[ecruteakcityboy]

Two best stoner movies... The Big Lebowski.... and..................GOOD BURGER because of it's pure dumbness and innocence.

 

[Hahahaha]

If they remake Lethal Weapon I hope it fails epically like $36 from the box office opening day. That's what needs to happens when Hollywood just wants to remake everything. Bad enough we accept all those damn sequels and prequels. Remakes of classics that don't need to be remade need to be shutdown early.

I just finished the first season of The Wire. I don't see the hype at all. The English detective is awful. The lesbian is pretty bad too. I've heard season four is when it gets good, also heard that season 2 is mad boring.

Well I mean if you can't relate, then you can't relate.

While I can see why ppl love it and hold it to a high standard I can also see why some ppl don't love it and why it didn't get any awards. I love it just for how they juggle the characters and all of the acting is believable. I don't see how you scan say the actors playing Greggs or McNulty are bad. They're pretty much on point.

Even though I'm not from Bmore I can say they definitely captured the 2000s. The in depth look at everyday police work, the drug trade on a street level from the dealers to addicts, education, political corruption extending to the police and law is excellent.

I'm on S5 and while I can't say this is better than BB I'd also add you can't really compare it to that given how wildly different they are.

If you didn't like S1 I don't know if you'll love S4. S2 to me wasn't boring it just that a chunk of it covered new characters entirely and focused on shady dealings of a different profession.

Only slight I'd give the show is I wish they had a season focusing on East Bmore

I don't think it's an issue of whether I can relate. I think the problem is all the hype this show has gotten over the last decade. If you didn't watch it then, it probably won't meet your expectations. I've only finished season one so far. It's not a bad show but I don't think it's the epic show most people talk about. As I said before, I find McNulty to be extremely corny and fictional. Why in the hell is this random English detective working in Baltimore? His accent is a joke, doesn't fit the script. At times he sounds like he's from Boston, he's trying to mask his accent at times or all the time. Then you have this fake Queen Latifah, feels like I'm watching outtakes from Set It Off when she's on the screen. There are some great characters, Wood Harris and Idris are great. So is Wallace and the two kids that work with him in the pit. I would give season one a C+ so far. Will start season 2 later today or tomorrow.

 

[Master Zik]

If they remake Lethal Weapon I hope it fails epically like $36 from the box office opening day. That's what needs to happens when Hollywood just wants to remake everything. Bad enough we accept all those damn sequels and prequels. Remakes of classics that don't need to be remade need to be shutdown early.

I just finished the first season of The Wire. I don't see the hype at all. The English detective is awful. The lesbian is pretty bad too. I've heard season four is when it gets good, also heard that season 2 is mad boring.

Well I mean if you can't relate, then you can't relate.

While I can see why ppl love it and hold it to a high standard I can also see why some ppl don't love it and why it didn't get any awards. I love it just for how they juggle the characters and all of the acting is believable. I don't see how you scan say the actors playing Greggs or McNulty are bad. They're pretty much on point.

Even though I'm not from Bmore I can say they definitely captured the 2000s. The in depth look at everyday police work, the drug trade on a street level from the dealers to addicts, education, political corruption extending to the police and law is excellent.

I'm on S5 and while I can't say this is better than BB I'd also add you can't really compare it to that given how wildly different they are.

If you didn't like S1 I don't know if you'll love S4. S2 to me wasn't boring it just that a chunk of it covered new characters entirely and focused on shady dealings of a different profession.

Only slight I'd give the show is I wish they had a season focusing on East Bmore

I don't think it's an issue of whether I can relate. I think the problem is all the hype this show has gotten over the last decade. If you didn't watch it then, it probably won't meet your expectations. I've only finished season one so far. It's not a bad show but I don't think it's the epic show most people talk about. As I said before, I find McNulty to be extremely corny and fictional. Why in the hell is this random English detective working in Baltimore? His accent is a joke, doesn't fit the script. At times he sounds like he's from Boston, he's trying to mask his accent at times or all the time. Then you have this fake Queen Latifah, feels like I'm watching outtakes from Set It Off when she's on the screen. There are some great characters, Wood Harris and Idris are great. So is Wallace and the two kids that work with him in the pit. I would give season one a C+ so far. Will start season 2 later today or tomorrow.

Well yeah like I said McNulty was believable to me. I aint know dude was English until after the fact. So his take on an American accent didn't bother me at all. Things like that rarely bother me for me to complain about it this much especially since McNulty isn't the sole main star of the show and everything revolves around him. I don't who the fake Queen Latifah is suppose to be. Like I said if you can't relate then you can't and some of your criticisms simply seem that that's the problem here. No appreciation for the setting and characters or story telling. It's cool.

Like if you're watching The Wire and get a Set It Off vibe the show most likely isn't for you. Same with the complaints about accents, you're probably missing a lot if you're focusing on that. To me dude aint out here giving a Borat quality joke accent it's not worth mentioning and funny enough the whole bad accent gets a nod in the show with that character.

As for the hype, only place I ever saw huge hype for this show was on NT and I think by then it was already in it's 4th season. Show wasn't really on my mind like that which is why I never caught up and finished it while it was still airing.

 

[am1x90xnike]

So what's up...who writes scripts? I got two that I've finished and would like some feedback, more than happy to do the same, got a lot of time this summer

 

[Master Zik]

Feel free pm me it. I got some free time.

 

[darthska]

This movie looked kinda interesting before...maybe not for me?
But this trailer made it something I gotta look for.

Holy Based, yes please!!

When??!?! "Coming soon"?!?!  WWWHHHEEENNN?!?!

 

[rustlenomics]

you can find that movie already. 

 

[darthska]

Finally saw MoS.

Took awhile to get going, but once the fighting started, man I was hooked.

Loved the story line, but I felt like the first 1.5 hrs was a different movie. Obviously, that was the backstory, which was interesting, but when I see a superhero movie, I want to see them do superhero stuff... pretty much nonstop. 

Loved it, overall.

Don't know what the collective opinion is or what opinion I'm supposed to have to be in line with people who like 'Breaking Bad' and 'Antwone Fisher' and hate reading, but I loved it. 

 

[am1x90xnike]

If you can get over the ridiculous premise, Snow Pierce is a pretty good movie, suprisingly Gritty. It came out a while ago. Didn't know it was made by a Korean director, it make sense that some of the main characters are Asian. Probably one of the most horrific dystopian futures I've seen in a while.

MoS is like the Nic cage of movies...no one can decide if its really good, or really bad, or really bad at being good, or really good at being bad...it's an enigma shrouded in a mystery.

 

[darthska]

 
If you can get over the ridiculous premise, Snow Pierce is a pretty good movie, suprisingly Gritty. It came out a while ago. Didn't know it was made by a Korean director, it make sense that some of the main characters are Asian. Probably one of the most horrific dystopian futures I've seen in a while.

Ridiculous premise?! "Stay in your lane, know your place; there are consequences for refusal" is a GREAT premise.

"Horrific dystopian" is all I need to know.

 
MoS is like the Nic cage of movies...no one can decide if its really good, or really bad, or really bad at being good, or really good at being bad...it's an enigma shrouded in a mystery.

For me: really good. I'm sure someone will come along and tell me why it's really bad and doesn't follow the comic story and was too over the top in the fight scenes, but pre-influence, I like it.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Casey Affleck will star in an HBO mini series Lewis & Clark which is being produced by Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt & Ed Norton... Sounds very interesting/promising...

I love Blade Runner... One of my all time favorite movies. It was one of the first movies I ever rented (from Erol's no less) on betamax...

This first vid is a tribute of various scenes from the flick set to Sigur Rós. The other is a featurette about the art direction & production design.

 

[am1x90xnike]

"Stay in your lane" is the theme of the movie, the premise is "what would happen in a future where the only way people can survive is on a train that continually circles the earth" which is ridiculous...they never explain why they couldn't just stop, they never explain why they couldn't have used the same technology to build some sort of biosphere...I get the world is being destroyed, but a massive train is a horrible remedy for that, to much cost, to unreliable, what happens if an iceberg falls on the tracks? or one of the bridges goes out due to rust? Who maintains the railways all across the globe? Very very dumb premise...but once you get past that, the movie is actually pretty good. Chris Evans is believable, the action sequences are pretty dope, they used the space well, Tilda Swinton is an underrated beast of a female actor...I liked it a lot...but the basic premise of the movie was such a bad idea.

 

[darthska]

 
"Stay in your lane" is the theme of the movie, the premise is "what would happen in a future where the only way people can survive is on a train that continually circles the earth" which is ridiculous...they never explain why they couldn't just stop, they never explain why they couldn't have used the same technology to build some sort of biosphere...I get the world is being destroyed, but a massive train is a horrible remedy for that, to much cost, to unreliable, what happens if an iceberg falls on the tracks? or one of the bridges goes out due to rust? Who maintains the railways all across the globe? Very very dumb premise...but once you get past that, the movie is actually pretty good. Chris Evans is believable, the action sequences are pretty dope, they used the space well, Tilda Swinton is an underrated beast of a female actor...I liked it a lot...but the basic premise of the movie was such a bad idea.

Gotcha.

And I agree.

I hadn't gathered from the trailer that EVERYONE alive was on that train, circling the globe.

I'm still in, but that's pretty ridiculous. 

 

[licensed to ball]

Saw Neighbors last night.
Just wanted to let anyone whose on the fence know that you should absolutely GO SEE IT!

It was ******* hilarious man. All the way through. My girl was in tears and she hasn't liked recent comedies.

It was really funny and entertaining.

Franco and Efron were great in this. The roles really fit them well

 

[darthska]

I've tried to convince myself it looks funny.

Failing so far.

 

[Master Zik]

Damn that premise is dumb as **** How you got tech to build a train and tracks that goes all around the world through the ocean, around mountains, etc. but don't go the tech to simply build a dome in one spot? Especially given how big the Earth is.

It'd be a bit more believable if like a few hundred thousand were forced on the train with haves and have nots in this dystopian future while there were still ppl in other parts of the world struggling through some other horror show. **** almost reminds me of the remake of Total Recall with the transport system that goes through the center of Earth to get to one place to another

 

[darthska]

Damn that premise is dumb as ****

How you got tech to build a train and tracks that goes all around the world through the ocean, around mountains, etc. but don't go the tech to simply build a dome in one spot? Especially given how big the Earth is.

It'd be a bit more believable if like a few hundred thousand were forced on the train with haves and have nots in this dystopian future while there were still ppl in other parts of the world struggling through some other horror show. **** almost reminds me of the remake of Total Recall with the transport system that goes through the center of Earth to get to one place to another

This is what I had assumed watching the trailer earlier, that there was like this separate group of people or whatever, resigned to the train, not the entire living species. 

 

[licensed to ball]

I've tried to convince myself it looks funny.

Failing so far.

It's funny bro. Have a few beers and give it a watch. It brings back a lot of college memories man.

 

[darthska]

I've tried to convince myself it looks funny.

Failing so far.

It's funny bro. Have a few beers and give it a watch. It brings back a lot of college memories man.

Rrrrrriiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhht.

 

[licensed to ball]

I've tried to convince myself it looks funny.


Failing so far.

It's funny bro. Have a few beers and give it a watch. It brings back a lot of college memories man.

Rrrrrriiiiiiiigggggghhhhhhht.

Sorry I meant have some prune juice before.

 

[darthska]

I can't just chill w/ some water, tho?

I wish we could hoop so bad. It feels so good beating dudes who run their mouths about walkers and canes and prune juice and bingo night.

I mean, SO GOOD.

You'll see, someday. You'll see.

And everyone of them swears they won't get beat; SWEARS.

 

[am1x90xnike]

I think you ought to watch

 
This is what I had assumed watching the trailer earlier, that there was like this separate group of people or whatever, resigned to the train, not the entire living species. 

That would have only made sense...it's clear the screenwriter did not agree. Good movie non the less.

 

[licensed to ball]

I can't just chill w/ some water, tho?

I wish we could hoop so bad. It feels so good beating dudes who run their mouths about walkers and canes and prune juice and bingo night.

I mean, SO GOOD.

You'll see, someday. You'll see.

And everyone of them swears they won't get beat; SWEARS.

Cool story, but trust me it wouldn't be how it plays out in your mind if we actually hooped. Not unless we run 5's and your on my team.

1 on 1 tho... You'd probably ban me from NT after.

And I didn't say you had to have a beer to
Enjoy it lol, i had water. I just thought you were a beer kinda guy lol

 

[macbk]

Saw Neighbors last night.
Just wanted to let anyone whose on the fence know that you should absolutely GO SEE IT!

It was ******* hilarious man. All the way through. My girl was in tears and she hasn't liked recent comedies.

It was really funny and entertaining.

Franco and Efron were great in this. The roles really fit them well

This Is The End/21 Jump Street funny? Where in the sense it was really unexpected going in? Think I'm going to see it tonight.