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The wrestler sheamus calls everyone fella. I assume it's an Irish thing.
The wrestler sheamus calls everyone fella. I assume it's an Irish thing.
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Cool. I'm a quarter Irish so I really am going to start using that.
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I need to rewatch Wedding Crashers.. I used to just throw the DVD on and have it playing in the background constantly back in the day.
I haven't seen it in probably a year, but I love that movie.
I haven't seen it in probably a year, but I love that movie.
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Wedding Crashers is a classic 
can't believe it came out 10 years ago 
..."I don't even know what the **** a quail is"
can't believe it came out 10 years ago ..."I don't even know what the **** a quail is"
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Every time I watch it, there's a scene I appreciate more. Today it was when Vaughn is talking to the priest about Gloria aka Isla Fisher. "I had an imaginary friend ... his name was Shiloh...we played checkers...bless his heart, he always let me win."
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.....also when Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are listening to Brady Cooper do the seal impression before dinner...VV's face had me 
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Not that there was probably anyone who would have gone to see it, but I can't recommend going to see The Green Inferno.
There was so much hype behind this film in the horror community. It had been seen as long as two years ago, but is just now hitting theaters.
It takes a concept which may seem fresh, but has been done countless times by Europeans, and done much better previously.
I went into this with an open mind, but about two minutes in, I knew I was going to be disappointed. The acting from the cast is God awful, and the script/plot that plays out in front of you makes you sit there scratching your head at how this is getting a pretty wide release.
From the first few shots, you can tell that this was shot low-budget. And there's nothing wrong with that sometimes. One of my favorite indie horror films of the past decade was The Dead, and it had a similar look to it. But when you combine the poor acting, it really gives off the amateurish vibe that you don't want in a theater. At home? Watching Netflix? It's passable, but spending your money to see the movie on the big screen? Meh.
The only merits I can give the film is that the tribes people were actually the best actors in the entire film. They were more believable than the people they were eating, which is kind of absurd if you think about it. Cannibal films have been done before, and what made them effective was that for whatever reason is that the natives that are portrayed usually play their parts very well, and the actors can play well off of them.
Here? It's terrible. Absolutely putrid. You cannot suspend your disbelief when you see drama kids who are clearly just acting because they're being told to act. It's honestly quite frustrating, because Eli Roth got a great location to film in, and has some great shots of the rain forest, but because he couldn't really direct and because the actors were so very amateur as well.
So, what about the gore?
Cannibal films have always been some of the most gruesome, and vile films to have ever been produced and released. This film is fairly tame, even for Eli Roth. You have one pretty gruesome cannibal scene early on, but after that, it's very tame. You have the first main scene where he's dismembered, and cooked, but after that we don't really see anyone else. You see some kind of amusing scenes where people are killed off, but it's typically quick and dirty. The worst scene is where a guy is tied up to a pole, and lathered with some muck that attracts ants. You know, killer ants. The kind that eat peoples flesh? The kind that are heavily CGI? The kind that you'd see on SyFy? Yeah, it was that bad... In some of the previous cannibal films, you'll see bodily mutilation (penises chopped off, breast meathooks, vaginal mutilation), but here you get a guy who's taking a piss in the forest and a tarantula walks on it, and that's supposed to be the "vile," part of the film. Man, whatever.
The film tries to hard to tie back in some referenced material earlier, and just makes it seem convoluted. There's a woman (played by Eli Roth's actual wife) who is trying to raise awareness through activism that women are being mistreated and genital mutilation is commonplace, and so there's a few scenes that are teased in there, but you are kind of left wanting more.
Cannibal films were made notorious through the likes of Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. As mentioned previously, the terror that these characters went through was devastating. Heartbreaking. And of course, incredibly gruesome. There's not a genre-fan out there who will see this movie (who had previously seen a cannibal movie) and go, "Wow, they really pushed the envelope with that one!" We've seen it before, and done far better.
I remember seeing my first cannibal film when it was still unreleased in the USA. I had to get a bootleg because that was the only way I could watch it at the time. You couldn't even rip movies from the internet yet. You had to find someone with a copy of a foreign disc, and have them copy it. I had seen all of the more common gruesome films in horror history, but this was so real. The effects done in these films 30 years prior were better than what Roth put out. And one of the most controversial tidbits about a lot of these films is that they used real animal mutilation at times; I've probably seen half a dozen animals die in front of the camera. It's quite sad, but really engages you as a viewer.
I didn't go into the plot much because, it's quite frankly stupid, and not worth mentioning. Roth really tries to nail down some hard stuff when it comes to uprooting these uncivilized tribes, but it's so muddled because of the lack of a fine touch.
What's also most frustrating is that I know Eli Roth has a love for the genre, and a love for this sub-genre in particular. He has subtle nods that no one else would know about, and in the credits one of the last lines is "Per Ruggero," who is the director of the most infamous cannibal film ever, Cannibal Holocaust. But he allowed such pisspoor acting in front of his camera, and focused too much on a plot which was not important, that he could've just focused on that, and he could've had a decent film.
He didn't have to go Apocalypto with it, it didn't need to be THAT good, but ugh. A film which was made for only two million more than this is something like The Ruins. The Ruins is a far better (albeit still not great) film which delves into interactions between two parties where the rain forest is the common denominator. Except that film had far better acting, far better direction, and far better cinematography.
So yeah, I can't really recommend anyone see this. Not regular horror fans. Not people who just want a good scare. I don't even want to recommend it to Noskey even as a horror fan, because it's just so mediocre. Painfully mediocre.
I need to go re-watch Black Mass to get this taste out of my mouth. :x
There was so much hype behind this film in the horror community. It had been seen as long as two years ago, but is just now hitting theaters.
It takes a concept which may seem fresh, but has been done countless times by Europeans, and done much better previously.
I went into this with an open mind, but about two minutes in, I knew I was going to be disappointed. The acting from the cast is God awful, and the script/plot that plays out in front of you makes you sit there scratching your head at how this is getting a pretty wide release.
From the first few shots, you can tell that this was shot low-budget. And there's nothing wrong with that sometimes. One of my favorite indie horror films of the past decade was The Dead, and it had a similar look to it. But when you combine the poor acting, it really gives off the amateurish vibe that you don't want in a theater. At home? Watching Netflix? It's passable, but spending your money to see the movie on the big screen? Meh.
The only merits I can give the film is that the tribes people were actually the best actors in the entire film. They were more believable than the people they were eating, which is kind of absurd if you think about it. Cannibal films have been done before, and what made them effective was that for whatever reason is that the natives that are portrayed usually play their parts very well, and the actors can play well off of them.
Here? It's terrible. Absolutely putrid. You cannot suspend your disbelief when you see drama kids who are clearly just acting because they're being told to act. It's honestly quite frustrating, because Eli Roth got a great location to film in, and has some great shots of the rain forest, but because he couldn't really direct and because the actors were so very amateur as well.
So, what about the gore?
Cannibal films have always been some of the most gruesome, and vile films to have ever been produced and released. This film is fairly tame, even for Eli Roth. You have one pretty gruesome cannibal scene early on, but after that, it's very tame. You have the first main scene where he's dismembered, and cooked, but after that we don't really see anyone else. You see some kind of amusing scenes where people are killed off, but it's typically quick and dirty. The worst scene is where a guy is tied up to a pole, and lathered with some muck that attracts ants. You know, killer ants. The kind that eat peoples flesh? The kind that are heavily CGI? The kind that you'd see on SyFy? Yeah, it was that bad... In some of the previous cannibal films, you'll see bodily mutilation (penises chopped off, breast meathooks, vaginal mutilation), but here you get a guy who's taking a piss in the forest and a tarantula walks on it, and that's supposed to be the "vile," part of the film. Man, whatever.
The film tries to hard to tie back in some referenced material earlier, and just makes it seem convoluted. There's a woman (played by Eli Roth's actual wife) who is trying to raise awareness through activism that women are being mistreated and genital mutilation is commonplace, and so there's a few scenes that are teased in there, but you are kind of left wanting more.
Cannibal films were made notorious through the likes of Cannibal Holocaust and Cannibal Ferox. As mentioned previously, the terror that these characters went through was devastating. Heartbreaking. And of course, incredibly gruesome. There's not a genre-fan out there who will see this movie (who had previously seen a cannibal movie) and go, "Wow, they really pushed the envelope with that one!" We've seen it before, and done far better.
I remember seeing my first cannibal film when it was still unreleased in the USA. I had to get a bootleg because that was the only way I could watch it at the time. You couldn't even rip movies from the internet yet. You had to find someone with a copy of a foreign disc, and have them copy it. I had seen all of the more common gruesome films in horror history, but this was so real. The effects done in these films 30 years prior were better than what Roth put out. And one of the most controversial tidbits about a lot of these films is that they used real animal mutilation at times; I've probably seen half a dozen animals die in front of the camera. It's quite sad, but really engages you as a viewer.
I didn't go into the plot much because, it's quite frankly stupid, and not worth mentioning. Roth really tries to nail down some hard stuff when it comes to uprooting these uncivilized tribes, but it's so muddled because of the lack of a fine touch.
What's also most frustrating is that I know Eli Roth has a love for the genre, and a love for this sub-genre in particular. He has subtle nods that no one else would know about, and in the credits one of the last lines is "Per Ruggero," who is the director of the most infamous cannibal film ever, Cannibal Holocaust. But he allowed such pisspoor acting in front of his camera, and focused too much on a plot which was not important, that he could've just focused on that, and he could've had a decent film.
He didn't have to go Apocalypto with it, it didn't need to be THAT good, but ugh. A film which was made for only two million more than this is something like The Ruins. The Ruins is a far better (albeit still not great) film which delves into interactions between two parties where the rain forest is the common denominator. Except that film had far better acting, far better direction, and far better cinematography.
So yeah, I can't really recommend anyone see this. Not regular horror fans. Not people who just want a good scare. I don't even want to recommend it to Noskey even as a horror fan, because it's just so mediocre. Painfully mediocre.
I need to go re-watch Black Mass to get this taste out of my mouth. :x
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Anyone else going to check out Quantico just because of how gorgeous the lead actress is? That girl is fine.
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Ouch, that last line got me I was reading your review, holding out for some sort of silver lining... then the bomb dropped Great write up, JA. I might skip the movie all together then; it sounds like a rewatch of Cannibal Holocaust is worth more of my time. And I was excited to see Green Inferno too, had high hopes that this was the film that Eli wanted it to be. Shame 
I was reading your review, holding out for some sort of silver lining... then the bomb dropped Great write up, JA. I might skip the movie all together then; it sounds like a rewatch of Cannibal Holocaust is worth more of my time. And I was excited to see Green Inferno too, had high hopes that this was the film that Eli wanted it to be. Shame
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Saw the poster for Green Inferno yesterday, wondered what it was all about and looked it up. Read that Eli Roth was involved and immediately lost all interest. His movies have never been my thing. Sounds like I'm not missing much with this latest one.
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Ouch, that last line got me
I mean maybe it's just me because it has gotten some favorable reviews. But I wasn't a fan. At all.
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On a scale of Hostel to Salo, how brutal was Green Inferno?
I suppose if the actings bad in a film like this, nothing will save it. These films live or die by the level of believability, something that the classics e.g. Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, etc all got right. Eli Roth's never been a good filmmaker in my eyes, which is disappointing considering the circle he runs in, but I just want him to deliver for once. The marketing for this film is great, or maybe I'm just drawn to it because it invokes a sense of the shock and awe classics, something modern horror has been missing despite all the great films to come out recently.
Hostel = 1, boring, cheap shocks.
Salo = 8, devastating, hopeless, 3 day mind ****.
I suppose if the actings bad in a film like this, nothing will save it. These films live or die by the level of believability, something that the classics e.g. Cannibal Holocaust, Salo, etc all got right. Eli Roth's never been a good filmmaker in my eyes, which is disappointing considering the circle he runs in, but I just want him to deliver for once. The marketing for this film is great, or maybe I'm just drawn to it because it invokes a sense of the shock and awe classics, something modern horror has been missing despite all the great films to come out recently.
Hostel = 1, boring, cheap shocks.
Salo = 8, devastating, hopeless, 3 day mind ****.
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Probably not surprisingly, the critic reviews on The Intern are pretty bad. But the user reviews on both IMDB and RT are decent. Still, think I'll wait to catch in on cable at some point.
Relatedly, I always find it interesting when there's a disconnect between critic reviews and regular people reviews. Like the other day I was looking at Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, which I've always thought of as the weakest of the original Mad Max trilogy, and was surprised to see that it got a pretty good critical reception. But consistent with what I thought, does not seem to be that well liked by the general public.
Stuff like that is why I use critic reviews more for informational purposes than anything else.
Relatedly, I always find it interesting when there's a disconnect between critic reviews and regular people reviews. Like the other day I was looking at Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, which I've always thought of as the weakest of the original Mad Max trilogy, and was surprised to see that it got a pretty good critical reception. But consistent with what I thought, does not seem to be that well liked by the general public.
Stuff like that is why I use critic reviews more for informational purposes than anything else.
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youtube critics are usually good with being consistent with the regular fan's opinion
I never read written reviews anymore, more often than not they are way too snobby (grantland is the worst)
I never read written reviews anymore, more often than not they are way too snobby (grantland is the worst)
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Let's put it this way. It took forever for a trailer to come out. I literally watched it for the first time just now. The trailer does a fantastic job of covering up how poorly made this actually looks. They never linger on one actor for too long, and they show a lot of the cannibals. Like I said, the cannibals are often the best parts of these films, as they are here.
How brutal? I'd say a two-to-three. I don't think it's a spoiler to say there are scenes where people are getting their limbs removed. Day of the Dead in 1985 ***** on this. There are a few other scenes that are supposed to be pretty shocking, but it's edited so quickly that it takes you a second to realize what just happened. I'm curious if there's going to be an NC-17/Unrated cut of the film, but I honestly don't think I'd have the desire to watch it, just because I can't see them changing a whole lot.
But you know what, if you were thinking of seeing it, go ahead. Maybe I just have a tainted view because I expected more. I wanted Roth to make a really great film.
The score isn't horrible, but it's not nearly as memorable as some of the other classic Italian/European films.
And for those of you outside of Nos and I, if you want to watch a cannibal film, you don't get better than...
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Since The Intern was mentioned, didn't know adam devine was dating this hot piece. She looked very pornstarish at the premiere but read she's on pretty little liars. I think she hangs out with jessie andrews though.
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The thing about Roth, is that I'm in the same boat you are JA. I want so badly for him to live up to what he wants to be, and what we as fans want him to be.
The only thing that'll get me to watch the movie at this point is if one my friends wants to see it. Critics and people alike are bashing Green Inferno, never a good sign.
The only thing that'll get me to watch the movie at this point is if one my friends wants to see it. Critics and people alike are bashing Green Inferno, never a good sign.
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Yes, that's pretty much my only reason I want to watch. That little scene where she smashed dude in the car and then was mad open about it around the rest of her friends turned me on. Not even all that interested in the one of these FBI trainees is a terrorist premise.
I just want more of that chick. I know she's a star in Bollywood. I wish she did other movies.
I also notice the blonde chick from being on Unreal who is also smashable.
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IMDb @IMDb · 1h1 hour ago
New @StarWars #TheForceAwakens details teased: http://imdb.to/1gVdLMF
December just can’t come fast enough for us. In the meantime, we nibble on the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” teases that emerge before we feast when the movie arrives in full.
With that in mind, John Boyega’s been talking about his role in the “The Force Awakens” in a recent interview with GQ. The actor describes his grueling seven-month audition process as, “’The X Factor’, but without the TV show around it.”
When he finally was able to read the script, Boyega had a far more emotional reaction than he might have expected. “I cried,” he said. “And I'm not really a big crier... I'm more like a frog-in-the- throat kind of guy, who'll try to hold it in and make sure I don't let it all out."
The elements of the story that impacted him emotionally remain to be seen, but he likens Finn’s journey to a combination of two we’ve seen before.
"Finn is dope,” Boyega enthused. “His story is so epic. It's a story that's never been seen before, but it also mirrors the stories of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. And he's quirky and charismatic and funny. For me, he was the best character in the script."
As to using the iconic lightsaber, he said it made for a pretty good workout.
"They're heavy, those things, and there's a lot of running involved,” the actor revealed “I was trained on a high incline treadmill so when it came to it I could sprint around the desert in a leather jacket. They should do a ‘Star Wars’ weight loss program."
I would happily go on that exercise program.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard...ar-wars-the-force-awakens#CZLd8QcULLC17pCJ.99
New @StarWars #TheForceAwakens details teased: http://imdb.to/1gVdLMF
December just can’t come fast enough for us. In the meantime, we nibble on the “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” teases that emerge before we feast when the movie arrives in full.
With that in mind, John Boyega’s been talking about his role in the “The Force Awakens” in a recent interview with GQ. The actor describes his grueling seven-month audition process as, “’The X Factor’, but without the TV show around it.”
When he finally was able to read the script, Boyega had a far more emotional reaction than he might have expected. “I cried,” he said. “And I'm not really a big crier... I'm more like a frog-in-the- throat kind of guy, who'll try to hold it in and make sure I don't let it all out."
The elements of the story that impacted him emotionally remain to be seen, but he likens Finn’s journey to a combination of two we’ve seen before.
"Finn is dope,” Boyega enthused. “His story is so epic. It's a story that's never been seen before, but it also mirrors the stories of Luke Skywalker and Han Solo. And he's quirky and charismatic and funny. For me, he was the best character in the script."
As to using the iconic lightsaber, he said it made for a pretty good workout.
"They're heavy, those things, and there's a lot of running involved,” the actor revealed “I was trained on a high incline treadmill so when it came to it I could sprint around the desert in a leather jacket. They should do a ‘Star Wars’ weight loss program."
I would happily go on that exercise program.
Read more at http://www.hitfix.com/the-dartboard...ar-wars-the-force-awakens#CZLd8QcULLC17pCJ.99
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I liked Cabin Fever, but I watched it when it first came out, and my tastes as a film-goer was not yet refined. If I watched it today, I might have a change of heart. I was never fond of Hostel, nor any of his other work.
Hell. Being completely honest, the best thing he's ever done is that fake trailer Thanksgiving.
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Can't say I've ever had that mood strike me.
Click . . . click . . . click . . . "man, there's nothing on . . . you know what might be entertaining? A movie where people eat each other. Let's do that . . ."
