Let's all go to the movies~

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby kashan » Sun Dec 25, 2016 12:15 pm

I can't recommend La La Land highly enough, with the caveat that I think you pretty much have to like golden age hollywood musicals, and maybe also jazz. But if that's you, then this movie is honestly one of the best films I've seen in years.

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mothra » Sun Dec 25, 2016 11:17 pm

Heard nothing but great things from all but the Too Cooliest of hipster friends

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Sun Jan 08, 2017 4:12 am



This looks sweet as

I mean, Ding Sheng is by just about any account a *terrible* director, but I don't even care.

EDIT: Ooo it's already out!
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby beatbandito » Sun Jan 08, 2017 8:13 am

I am really worried about the lack of movement in Jackie's scenes in that teaser.

I mean, he looks amazing, but I'm not ready for him to be the Stan Lee of Wuxia, showing up and smiling at the camera to remind you of a better time.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Grath » Sun Jan 08, 2017 9:56 am

BTW Hidden Figures was good, if you get a chance to see it. Also the book it was based on was actually written by a historian and they were meticulous about keeping up the accuracy to the point of getting photos of NASA parking lots from that era to make sure they looked right, making sure they knew what random switches and buttons did inside the spaceships, and that each one was in the right location. (And unlike most Based On A True Story movies, the real life main character actually said "yeah, that's how I remember it happening" rather than being angry at Hollywood for adding a bunch of inaccurate bullshit.)

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Mon Jan 09, 2017 3:51 am

There's a couple other clips on Youtube and Jackie doesn't move much in them either. :/

I mean, I'll watch it anyway (it's basically Jackie's tribute to The General - Buster Keaton is pretty much his biggest influence), but I get what you mean, Beat. Jackie's a bit of a weird case because he's exactly the right age such that it feels like he aged right before our eyes, and because he started off so amazingly active, the effect is much more pronounced than it is for say, Schwarzenegger.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby IGNORE ME » Mon Jan 09, 2017 2:21 pm

Knowing Jackie he's probably not moving because he just recently broke something.

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:00 pm

Thad wrote:

I'd be into that.

So I was going back though this thread looking for old movie suggestions I'd forgotten to pick up (Love & Peace! I forgot I totally wanted to see that!) and I noticed this old post.

I haven't seen it, but apparently a sequel to Unbreakable actually came out: The twist ending to Split is that it reveals it's a sequel to Unbreakable when Bruce Willis' character from Unbreakable shows up at the end.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Joxam » Fri Jan 27, 2017 10:49 pm

Calling it a sequel is a bit much. Basically M. Night directed a movie with no twist and then someone told him 'but that's your thing man!' so they hamfisted a cameo in in literally the last five seconds of the movie. Besides, at this point with other reference points like Marvel and Star Wars I'd call it more EU than sequel.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Fri Jan 27, 2017 11:08 pm

Ah.

Well, my assumption was - based on the director - that it wasn't necessarily good.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby malikial » Sun Jan 29, 2017 12:21 am

Well, for reference, Split isn't a bad movie. It's not a wonder movie that's going to win awards but it's a solid thriller.

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Blossom » Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:09 pm

I find it difficult to get past the gross ableism in the premise. "A man has a mental disorder AND THAT'S TERRIFYING, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT BE THE DANGER" is kind of a shitty public message?
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:24 pm

I misread your post as saying "atheism" at first and was briefly VERY CONFUSED.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Büge » Sun Jan 29, 2017 3:29 pm

TA wrote:I find it difficult to get past the gross ableism in the premise. "A man has a mental disorder AND THAT'S TERRIFYING, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO MIGHT BE THE DANGER" is kind of a shitty public message?


That's only slightly ahead of the gross ableism where the message is "their disability is what makes them special!"
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby malikial » Sun Jan 29, 2017 5:21 pm

I mean it's not a mental disorder, he's a werewolf like demonic entity with the ability to morph his body physically. The people in the movie just assume he has multiple personality disorder because they are not equipped to believe he's a werewolf. It is actually outright stated in the movie that he does NOT act like an actual person with disassociative personality disorder and that the only reason he's thought to have that is both incompetence and ease of calling it that in the media..

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Smiler » Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:25 pm

John Wick Chapter 2 was very good.

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Grath » Fri Feb 24, 2017 10:23 pm

Smiler wrote:John Wick Chapter 2 was very good.

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Mongrel » Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:47 pm

There exists a Polish Mermaid Horror Musical Comedy Movie

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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Niku » Wed Mar 01, 2017 6:33 pm

And I hear it's goddamn fantastic. At least as fantastic as Stephen Chow's mermaid movie is supposed to be. Looking forward to catching both of them sometime, ideally as a double feature.
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Re: Let's all go to the movies~

Postby Büge » Wed Mar 01, 2017 7:10 pm

Mongrel wrote:There exists a Polish Mermaid Horror Musical Comedy Movie


There is no part of that sentence I didn't like.
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