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

[licensed to ball]

Same here.. I would have checked it out eventually but the great reviews will probably get me to the theater for it.

And 22 Jump Street is at 97% on RT right now... I can't wait to see it. 21 Jump Street is one of my favorite comedies the past few years.

But... But...

Ska said we shouldn't have assumed the movie would be good because of the trailer.

Ska laughed at us for being excited

 

[licensed to ball]

Yall ever see Zodiac?

One of my favorites and one of the best movies I've seen in years. Joint had me shook

Good movie.
Awful ending.

But, I understand it was based on a true story so the ending couldn't have been different. I guess that's one case where I wish it would of just been "inspired" by a true story instead of "based", because a different ending would of made it a better "film." Probably great.

But outside of that, understanding they had to stay true to the story, it was a good film.

 

[calypso chanta]

I think i might check out Edge of Tomorrow tonight. 

 

[CP1708]

Checked the first couple of pages... what is this fantasy draft?

The whole thing was about Will Smith movies, cats were straight up slandering Will Smith, talking he doesn't have range.

ahhhh, the good ol days.

A friend of mine and I were talking one day, and came up with an idea about doing a fantasy movie draft, much like a fantasy sports team. So, we pitched the idea in here, and several of the guys were into it.

So we started with the 1990's, only movies that could be picked would be from that decade. Then we came up with the particulars. As an example, I will show you my "team"

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Sports---Rounders
Drama---Shawshank Redemption
Comedy---American Pie
Horror/Thriller---From Dusk Til Dawn
Crime---The Usual Suspects
Sci-Fi---Independence Day
Action---The Rock
Western---Legends of the Fall
Utility---Good Will Hunting
Utility---A Time to Kill


Basically, every one had to fill the same slots, a Sports movie, Drama, COMEDY (I know you love those) and so on. Then we did a draft order, and went to work.

Much like baseball/football, it's up to you what is more important. Do you take the QB, or the RB? (Drama or Crime) Do you take 3 Comedies early,and use 2 of them as your untility movies?

Anyway, we all enjoyed it, and afterwards, we decided to do more, a 2000's draft, a 1980's, and a 70's. The last one we did was a character draft, and included all sorts of character types. Here's my team from that one.

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Director --- Robert Zemekis, Forrest Gump
Leading Man --- Neil McCauley, Heat - Robert DeNiro
Comedic Role --- Austin Powers, Austin Powers - Mike Myers
Kick @#$ Chick --- Sarah Conner, Terminator 2 - Linda Hamilton
Leading Lady --- Erin Brockovich, Erin Brockovich, Julia Roberts
Action Hero-Super Hero --- Jason Bourne, The Bourne Identity - Matt Damon
Dramatic Male --- Kaiser Sose, The Usual Suspects - Kevin Spacey
Glue Guy, Character Guy --- Teddy KGB, Rounders, John Malkovich
Villian Role --- Alonzo Harris, Training Day - Denzel Washington
Utility Role --- Samuel Gerard, The Fugitive - Tommy Lee Jones

 

[proshares]

I was def ready to hammer that Dusk Til Dawn pick until I saw only 90s. What an awful decade for horror films :x

 

[CP1708]

Well, it was sort of a hybrid, Horror/Thriller, so we had range from Silence of the Lambs, to Seven, to Scream, so it's not "that" bad of a category.

If I remember right, I made my Horror pick late in the draft. I still think I won that damn one, but I think I got 3rd or something like that.


Brutal, Shawshank, Usual Suspects, Legends of the Fall, Good Will Hunting, The Rock, A Time to Kill, American Pie, Rounders, ID4, and I didn't win?????

 

[Cashflow]

So I've been watching The Wonder Years lately and it's definitely not how I remembered.

It's been dope though seeing some plots/elements Boy Meets World borrowed and reused. As leads, Fred is definitely way more charismatic and a better actor than his little brother Ben.

But Kevin Arnold is an absolute douchebag. There's nothing redeeming about him at all. Even when there's a dope lesson to be learned, his obnoxious attitude and outbursts drown the message out. This guy doesn't deserve a Winnie Cooper.

The Winnie character was just a prop only around to soften Kevin and make him look less like a douchebag.. She was real loose too

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Speaking of Pierce, he's got another spy movie coming out called November Man. Looks like a good red box or VOD movie...

 

[servechilled81]

I think I've mentioned this podcast before but

They talk with Kevin Smith about his brushes with the movie, specifically, where the idea of that dumb ******* mechanical spider came from

Edit:

Spoiler: Warning: Spoiler!

Kevin Smith wrote a treatment for that Nic Cage Superman movie that was being developed. John Peters, the producer of WWW, was involved. One of his notes was he wanted the climax to include something terrifying, amazing, memorable: a giant spider

That movie never got made, so he threw his spider idea into WWW

Did you listen to the one they did on Winter's Tale?  I didn't even know he was in that movie apparently his cameo was 

this is one of my favorite podcasts

 

[am1x90xnike]

So how do you win? whats the points system? tournament style play? Interesting idea though. You really gotta know your movies.

 

[CP1708]

So how do you win? whats the points system? tournament style play? Interesting idea though. You really gotta know your movies.

Eh, there was no real clear cut winners. What we did was just have everyone give their opinions/votes, and then a few that weren’t a part of the actual draft gave theirs, and I totaled up the most points and named a top 3. We didn’t like have trophies or anything.

After the draft, nothing else was “played” per se, we just had a roster, viewed them, and went on to the next one. It was a lot of fun, and I think everyone enjoyed it. If we’re all still here at the end of 2019, we can certainly do another one, for the 2010-2019 decade.

 

[rck3sactown]

any of yall checking out edge of tomorrow?

will be seeing it on Tuesday

 

[mronegative]

any of yall checking out edge of tomorrow?

Saw it last night. I'm actually thinking about seeing it again.

Forget any commercial or trailer you saw for it and just see the damn movie. You won't be disappointed.

 

[rck3sactown]

I watched All Is Lost



And all I can say is WOW.

For the most part, its a dialogue-free film. And Robert Redford ******* killed it.

Admittedly, I know next to nothing about him other than he is old as dirt and was close friends with the salad dressing guy. And was the baddie in CA:TWS.

But hot damn, its like Redford was chillin out in Palm Desert (or wherever old people usually live), got bored of playing bocce, received a call by some random newcomer director, and was like "**** it, I'll do it" and does this one-man show just to remind everyone who he is and what he is/was capable of as an actor.

To the film, being the only character in this film, Redford absolutely grabbed the film by its balls and breathed life to it. The material itself is very limited and to the point. But what Redford was able to do was bring every wave, every rain drop, toppling wind, to the hopelessness and loneliness and anguish and misery his character experiences; he portrays it all at such a visceral level that you feel that you are there with him, if not a hapless bystanding ghost watching him falter and suffer.

Having basically no lines of dialogue, the film is pretty much a vague symbol up for different interpretation. It relies much on the moods and emotions of Redford's character, as well as the relatively simple score that went with the film. It made it such a neat, well bound film that accomplished and presented so much with so little (if that makes sense).

All in all, I give it a fantastic 8/8.

I'm not sure if yall have watched/discussed it already, but if you haven't I would definitely give it a watch.

 

[Master Zik]

Yall ever see Zodiac?

One of my favorites and one of the best movies I've seen in years. Joint had me shook

Which one? I swear there's like 3 movies about that. 2 of which released in a close time to each other.

I may be forgetting the name one and just thinking they were all called Zodiac

I watched All Is Lost






And all I can say is WOW.

For the most part, its a dialogue-free film. And Robert Redford ******* killed it.

Admittedly, I know next to nothing about him other than he is old as dirt and was close friends with the salad dressing guy. And was the baddie in CA:TWS.

But hot damn, its like Redford was chillin out in Palm Desert (or wherever old people usually live), got bored of playing bocce, received a call by some random newcomer director, and was like "**** it, I'll do it" and does this one-man show just to remind everyone who he is and what he is/was capable of as an actor.

I was gonna watch it once I saw the trailer. Thanks for posting it. Don't think this was brought up much or praised last year. Wish I knew earlier.

You need to catch up on the boy Redford though

All in all, I give it a fantastic 8/8.

Nice

The first 8/8 on the new scaling system?

 

[am1x90xnike]

Eh, there was no real clear cut winners. What we did was just have everyone give their opinions/votes, and then a few that weren’t a part of the actual draft gave theirs, and I totaled up the most points and named a top 3. We didn’t like have trophies or anything.

After the draft, nothing else was “played” per se, we just had a roster, viewed them, and went on to the next one. It was a lot of fun, and I think everyone enjoyed it. If we’re all still here at the end of 2019, we can certainly do another one, for the 2010-2019 decade.

Thats dope. How did the movie of the week club work?

 

[CP1708]

Lot less successful.

We made it about 4-5 weeks, and everyone fell off.

The idea was to go week to week, in order, a person would recommend 3-4 films, everyone votes, pick 1, watch, review, then repeat the next week with the next person recommending 3-4 films.

Good theory, harder to pull off for guys all over the world, online at different times, hard to nail down the one film to review, etc. So it folded pretty quick.

 

[licensed to ball]

It would be easier if you just let a movie savant like myself choose the movie of the week, every week.

 

[Master Zik]

Maybe better to make it movie of the month?

I don't even think it's the voting and suggesting the movie that'd be a problem (I'm not sure wasn't there for it) watching that one specific one before the week is done, then review and then be there for the next vote.

On a slightly related note, this dude Tome Cruise said he loves movies so much he tries to watch at least one everyday.

 

[CP1708]

Maybe better to make it movie of the month?

We could do that if enough people want to put something together for that.

I'd maintain it in the OP or somewhere to keep everything clean (tho, I'd probably use the second/repeated post since it's cleaner than editing the first which is a nightmare nowadays )


But yeah, if people wanna try something like that again, I'd be glad to help/participate.

 

[denni5themenace]

although im not as well versed in critiquing movies as some of you guys (for example, i was unable to tell if the lighting in wild wild west was good or not), i'm always down for new movie suggestions

 

[rck3sactown]

Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

 

[Kimchi Papi]

Thanks for the review rck3sactown . I've been meaning to watch it but haven't had much time.

I remember seeing that Louis CK hated the movie because he's an avid boater. Here are some quotes from him regarding the movie...

I didn’t like that movie because . . . you know, you shouldn’t see movies about something you know about because I’m very into the boating and I know how to navigate. There [are] a lot of people better than me but I can get my boat all the way up the Hudson and I can get it out, you know, I can get it to Cape Cod from New York.

I’m not nearly as experienced as a lot of captains. But this guy in that movie, he made so many stupid choices. So every 10 seconds I was just yelling at the screen.

You know, there w[ere] a million things he could’ve done to ensure his safety that he didn’t. Like, he’s trying to figure out how to use a flare gun. I’m like who doesn’t know how to use a flare gun who’s in the ocean? You’re in the open ocean and you’re sleeping? He didn’t have his water anchor out. A million things that he did that were stupid and it just made me mad.

 

[licensed to ball]

Let Antidope select a movie for you guys to review every 2 weeks pls.

Not interested in watching Wild Wild West, Men in Black, Grown Ups, Iron man 3 or Ghost Rider every 2 weeks.

 

[mronegative]

Yall need to go see the movie formally known as Edge of Tomorrow.