Let's all go to the movies~

[Mothra]

I cannot believe how fucking amazing this Kong movie looks.

[Mongrel]

Finally got around to watching Zootopia. It was good, nothing to report.

I can't recall if you guys already had some kind of "But wait... what do predators eat?" discussion earlier (other than blueberries)?Maybe it's like Richard Scarry books where you have pigs going to a butcher where they buy enormous pork sausages and then go home and have a fry up and no one says boo, because hey fuck it, it's a kid's book and kids get it.

[Friday]

Did you see any disabled or developmentally disabled animals in the movie, Mongrel?

No, you didn't.

[Grath]

Eugenics and cannibalism? Hooray!

[François]

[Blossom]

Eugenics and cannibalism? Hooray!

It's not cannibalism unless they're eating the same species.

[nosimpleway]

Yeah, eating a different species of sentient, intelligent creatures is anthropophagy, obvs

[Büge]

Every Zootopia is a Zdystopia

[Thad]

This is a real teaser:



I'm not gonna lie: I kinda respect Pixar's commitment to traumatizing children.

[Thad]

John Turturro is reprising the role of Jesus "the Jesus" Quintana in the upcoming film Going Places, which he's also directing.

John Turturro plays Jesus Quintana in GOING PLACES, a film about a trio of misfits whose irreverent, sexually charged dynamic evolves into a surprising love story as their spontaneous and flippant attitude towards the past or future backfires time and again, even as they inadvertently perform good deeds. When they make enemies with a gun-toting hairdresser, their journey becomes one of constant escape from the law, from society and from the hairdresser, all while the bonds of their outsider family strengthen.

The Coen Brothers don't seem to be involved but they've given it their seal of approval. Good enough for me; they're not involved with Fargo either, but it's one of the best shows in years.

Given that the only information The Big Lebowski provides about the Jesus' personal life is that he's on a sex offender registry, I assume that's going to have to be addressed, and we will presumably find out that Walter Sobchak is an unreliable narrator, because a comedy where the main character is a pederast is a pretty fucking tough sell.

Maybe the Jesus isn't on a sex offender registry at all and Walter is just full of shit. Or maybe, perhaps more compellingly, he is on a sex offender registry but it's not the way Walter described it. There are a lot of ways to get on a sex offender registry that are a lot less horrifying than "eight-year-olds, Dude" -- say, consensual sex between a seventeen-year-old and an eighteen-year-old. And given that The Big Lebowski is set in 1990, there were still states with sodomy laws. Maybe Jesus is a guy who has to deal with the worst of stigmas but didn't really do anything wrong (other than talk shit and lick a bowling ball suggestively). That could make for some thought-provoking drama even in a comedy.

Then again, maybe it'll just be a tossed-off line about "That fat fuck is telling lies about me again, man."

[Büge]

[Mongrel]

What is that, the fourth Spiderman film reboot? The fifth?

I mean, it's enough for a clones joke now.

[Grath]

What, they aren't just going with the Green Goblin yet again? I'm disappointed. That's like, mandatory for a Spiderman story.

[Mothra]

What is that, the fourth Spiderman film reboot? The fifth?

I mean, it's enough for a clones joke now.

I think you just accidentally came up with a Spider-Man movie so incredible it retroactively justifies every reboot.

The Clone Saga, featuring every actor who's ever played Spider-Man.

[Büge]

With Nicholas Hammond as The Jackal!

[beatbandito]

What is that, the fourth Spiderman film reboot? The fifth?

I mean, it's enough for a clones joke now.

I think you just accidentally came up with a Spider-Man movie so incredible it retroactively justifies every reboot.

The Clone Saga, featuring every actor who's ever played Spider-Man.

This is what I've been hoping for since they announced it was happening again after Amazing. I don't think anyone who makes these decisions would ever understand how truly amazing and perfect that would be. Especially since the next Avengers arcs are going to have to introduce the multiverse in some way.

So are we getting a new dead Ben? I'm thinking an early scene alludes to him and they look at a portrait or something.

[Mothra]

Watched The American Astronaut with some friends recently. We paid attention to like 15 minutes, then got progressively more drunk as the party spread out, losing track of the movie. Then this happened:



And a complete hush fell over the party as we all watched, amazed.

[Büge]

Watched The American Astronaut with some friends recently. We paid attention to like 15 minutes, then got progressively more drunk as the party spread out, losing track of the movie. Then this happened:



And a complete hush fell over the party as we all watched, amazed.

This happened when I brought Rock & Rule to a party once. Never again. Everyone was completely oblivious to the movie until a musical number came on. They'd watch it, then they would go back to socializing once the music was done.

Afterwards I got complaints that the movie sucked and didn't make sense.

[Mothra]

Yeah I mean, it wasn't a great party movie at all. But it was a fun occasional distraction, which I guess is what you're looking for in party movie?

Generally goofy, earnestly-made bad movies are good party movies. American Astronaut was real good, but lordy, whoever was expecting us all to not talk at all while we absorbed the ambience and quiet progression of a black and white indie movie had the wrooong idea.

[Mongrel]

Afterwards I got complaints that the movie sucked and didn't make sense.

To be fair, Rock and Rule doesn't make a whooooollllle lot of sense even when you sit down and watch the thing without doing anything else at the same time at all.

>:3