The Movie Thread

Usagi Miyamoto

If this were Opposite Day, then I'd have to say I just saw an Oscar-worthy A-list star vehicle that showcased its brilliant script with incredibly moving performances and a sure directorial hand in what must have been the most enjoyable and critically acclaimed movie of 2009. Ah, but this movie was in fact Opposite Day! I was innocently sitting in my living room with my wife and child when we were accosted by a gang of "actors" led by Pauly Shore, backed by what I assume was a crack "writing" team of Ritalin-addled bubble-gum-popping fifth-graders, and a "budget" that wouldn't have covered Lindsay Lohan's dinner drinks bill, in a straight-to-remaindered-VHS-bin "family" movie that deserves all the "scare" quotes I can muster. Do they make Listerine eye wash? Oh, this was bad, in the completely not so-bad-its-good but what-were-they-thinking how-did-this-stinker-ever-get-greenlit kind of way.

It might be some time before I let my beloved offspring pick the movie for family movie night again.
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Lasairfiona · Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2013 10:42 pm Post subject:

Lockout with Guy Pierce. I really like Guy Pierce. This move is FULL of one liners that are just amazing. I giggled my way through all of them. The plot is pretty basic and cheap: there is a prison breakout, a president's daughter, a frame up, and espionage tacked on too! However, the science is atrocious. I'll take the idea that they have figured out a false gravity in space - no big deal in a futuristic movie! - but guns with bullets in space? Not so much. It would have been an easy fix but they wanted the sparks that come with bullets even when it doesn't make a damn bit of sense.

But the one liners are SOOOOOO awesome!
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Mr Gary · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 2:18 am Post subject:

Guy Pearce is brilliant.

I'm watching Mean Girls again. Every line is golden. But if you do watch it, you WILL get Calamity, and die.

Lasairfiona · Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2013 7:08 am Post subject:

Seven Psychopaths. Yes, I like this movie.
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Canopus · Joined: 13 Sep 2010 Posts: 623

That sounds quite good. I've seen the 3 Idiots film recently, so the self-explanatory title is a good motivator for watching it.

Yorick · Joined: 11 Jul 2006 Posts: 12101 Location: In the undersnow

Timeline was terrible

The Sugarland Express (halfway thru when I hadda go somewhere) is good
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Mr Gary · Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 2:04 am Post subject:

I hate that my phone still doesn't understand the difference between the word 'calamity' (eg, Halen tried to get an erection but the resultant coitus was a c-a-l-a-m-i-t-y) & when I'm quoting Mean Girls.

Stop trying to make 'calamity' happen, phone. It's not going to happen.

Darqcyde · Posted: Thu Mar 21, 2013 7:56 pm Post subject:

Anyone seeing the new Korine flick tomorrow? One critic describes it as essentially his best work since Gummo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rVvn9T6bqls

James Franco is even more unrecognizable than he is in Pineapple Express.

Also, Miley Cyrus plays Justin Bieber. Laughing

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WheelsOfConfusion · Joined: 09 Jul 2006 Posts: 12454 Location: Unknown Kaddath

Finally got around to watching Steven Spielberg's Tommy Lee Jones. Why they felt like focusing so much of the movie on that side-character played by Day-Lewis I'll never know.

Lasairfiona · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 3:19 am Post subject:

GI Joe 2 was just as bad as expected - actually it was a bit better (NINJAS! SEXY NINJAS!). However, skip the 3D. The 3D was just bad and added nothing to the movie.
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stripeypants · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:55 pm Post subject:

I recently rewatched Ghost Dad, a film I watched countless times as a kid. And then my roommate told me there was a debate/meme across the internets about whether this film existed. I am disappointed I didn't know about that when it was going on, because I could have shared so many half remembered ideas.
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Mr Gary · Posted: Fri Apr 05, 2013 1:42 am Post subject:

I got really sad at the bit where Ghost Dad had to bury Ghost Dog.

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