movies

[JL21]

The Avengers was a [expletive] load of fun... which seems to be the consensus, and rightfully so.

[SHOW]

-The Hulk was used perfectly. He kind of stole the show, really.

-Robert Downey, Jr. was great here, and he's perfect for Tony Stark. But I think you all know that.

-I kind of feel like a giant chunk of it was really average- all of the back story [expletive] at the beginning- but it had to be there. It wasn't the smoothest narrative, but whatev. It totally paid off in the end and various other times throughout, and it's completely understandable how and why they had to do it that way. It's a bit clunky but it's not really a flaw, if that makes sense. When you're squishing together 8 character stories or whatever it was, you're going to have to make some sacrifices.

-I thought Hulk's Thor punch was contrived and dumb. Nothing to hurt the movie or anything, just really forced. I sort of felt the same way with the giant flying battleship thing at first but it wound up having a larger role, with Stark and Rogers working together to fix it and the Hulk going ape [expletive].

-The "Hulk... smash" line, on the other hand, was [expletive] awesome, as was the "Puny God" line after he tossed Loki around like a ragdoll.

-I agree with what Jocephus said about the smaller things they threw in, like Thor's hammer not breaking Captain America's shield. It gives some background for how badass the shield is.

-The only part I really could've done without was the dumb 5-10 minute segment in the middle where they're all arguing. I went to see a superhero movie, not a movie about a bunch of grown-ass men standing in a room bickering like pubescent girls.

[Vidor]

Will Leitch does not approve of Will Smith's career choices. It is a little disturbing to read that Smith is making nothing but sequels now.

http://deadspin.com/5911386/will-smith- ... -gone-away

[cpebbles]

That article is wrong in almost every way. Will Smith is and has long been an absolute hack of an actor. He and his agent figured out a formula to make him into a movie star, and he has starred in 90% [expletive] ever since. The author even points out [expletive] I Am Legend as a high point of his career.

Then he says he's going down the Tom Cruise career path? What the [expletive]? In spite of how crazy he is, Cruise's career choices since the peak of his stardom have been downright inspired when compared to Smith's application of the movie star formula. You aren't going to see Will Smith playing a sociopathic killer, a husband feeling betrayed and looking to step out on his wife, or a seduction-method conman because it would turn off audiences for his next big family-friendly scifi [expletive]-fest. He sure as hell isn't going to parody a megalomaniac movie producer and risk pissing off the guys who write him $20 million paychecks.

[Maclowery]

He was very non-Will Smithish in Six Degrees of Separation. But that only helps your argument - he figured out soon afterward that it was a waste to bother with any kind of complex role in any kind of non-high-profile movie.

So, yeah, Will Smith sucks on the exact same level as Adamn Sandler. They are both wretched. Bot have a great talent (Smith can do super-charming, Sandler can do angry man-child). Both have pretty much ignored any opportunity to act in anything but a money-grabber for the past decade.

On that note, it hurts my stomach a little bit every time I see an ad for Men in Black 3, which looks like the biggest piece of forgettable Hollywood feces I can remember. Josh Brolin could do his great Tommy Lee Jones in a Saturday Night Live skit and save the world from 100 minutes of vomit on a screen.

[thrill]

Oh boy. PTA is back to f your mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... oZDKFoCqAw

THE GREATEST OF ANTICIPATION.

[thrill]

Hot fire.

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[ghostrunner]

I haven't watched the trailer yet, but the idea of Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge) directing The Great Gatsby doesn't thrill me. I thought I'd be a fan of his after Romeo and Juliet, but MR was one of my least favorite movies ever. Does "The Great Gatsby" need [expletive] tons of extra visual flair and over-acting? I'm inclined to say no. If anything, I'd go the opposite with a Terence Malick or PTA.

[MrSaigon]

Hot fire.

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imdb lists Q. Awesome. I've missed the gadgets.

[thrill]

I haven't watched the trailer yet, but the idea of Baz Luhrman (Moulin Rouge) directing The Great Gatsby doesn't thrill me. I thought I'd be a fan of his after Romeo and Juliet, but MR was one of my least favorite movies ever. Does "The Great Gatsby" need [expletive] tons of extra visual flair and over-acting? I'm inclined to say no. If anything, I'd go the opposite with a Terence Malick or PTA.

Uh, I love Gatsby, Fitzgerald, the Jazz Age, Leonardo DiCaprio and Carey Mulligan. I saw the trailer. I am not going to see that unless someone promises me that the movie isn't as obnoxious as the trailer.

HEY AWRIGHT THROW ANATHAH SHRIMP ON THA BAHBIE AND INSTEAD OF USIN JAZZ IN A FILM ADAPTATION OF THA BOOK THAT EPITOMIZES THA JAZZ AGE YA SEE, WE'RE GONNA HAVEA SOUNDTRACK WITH JAY Z AND JACK WHITE!

[expletive] you, Baz. You're the worst.

[JL21]

Oh boy. PTA is back to f your mind.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=pl ... oZDKFoCqAw

THE GREATEST OF ANTICIPATION.

That thing looks incredible. I've been waiting for it to be released for years but it kept getting pushed back because Xenu was messing with PTA's thetan levels or something.