movies

[stlouie_lipp]

Holy crap, Jurassic world made half a billion worldwide in one weekend

Over $200 million in the U.S. alone.

[The Third Man]

What this tells me is that opening weekend for Star Wars is going to be [expletive] insane.

[Schlich]

What this tells me is that opening weekend for Star Wars is going to be [expletive] insane.

Truly

[go birds]

Eden Lake was messed up

[slide_into_first]

...critics, however, have savaged the film, denouncing it as an incitement to class prejudice against working class people in Britain. The Sun condemned the film's "nasty suggestion that all working-class people are thugs"[9] while the Daily Telegraph concluded that "this ugly witless film expresses fear and loathing of ordinary English people".[9] Left wing writer Owen Jones, in his book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class cites the film at length as an example of media demonisation of proletarian youth via the "Chav" stereotype. He comments, "Here was a film arguing that the middle classes could no longer live alongside the quasi-bestial lower orders." [9]

Eden Lake sounds stupid. The quote is from wikipedia

[go birds]

...critics, however, have savaged the film, denouncing it as an incitement to class prejudice against working class people in Britain. The Sun condemned the film's "nasty suggestion that all working-class people are thugs"[9] while the Daily Telegraph concluded that "this ugly witless film expresses fear and loathing of ordinary English people".[9] Left wing writer Owen Jones, in his book Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class cites the film at length as an example of media demonisation of proletarian youth via the "Chav" stereotype. He comments, "Here was a film arguing that the middle classes could no longer live alongside the quasi-bestial lower orders." [9]

Eden Lake sounds stupid. The quote is from wikipedia

lol yea these were my exact thoughts while watching the movie.

but seriously what a weird tear down

[ghostrunner]

Holy crap, Jurassic world made half a billion worldwide in one weekend

That surprises me. I guess it works for all ages, but I thought it looked bad.

[thrill]

Holy crap, Jurassic world made half a billion worldwide in one weekend

That surprises me. I guess it works for all ages, but I thought it looked bad.

Apparently Jurassic Park is a huge touchstone movie for people my age (29). I liked it a lot when I was a kid, but I missed the part when we decided it was the Indiana Jones/Star Wars of our youth. That obviously translated at the box office, but I'm with you. Based on the trailer, I thought it would flop.

I gotta say though, it's pretty awesome that the dirtbag who played Andy Dwyer is now the world's most bankable movie star.

[letsgocards89]

Perusing through Netflix this weekend looking for something interesting to watch and stumbled across Parallels. Oh neat, a movie about an adventure exploring infinite parallel Earths. That should be cool. Imagine what the writers could come up with in a movie that allows for unlimited possibilities, right?

NOPE. This stupid movie draaaaaagggggs on and on. Not only does it not wrap up any plots within the story, it introduces even more questions just as the movie ends. Cliffhanger! Must be a setting up a sequel or something. Wrong again. It was a pilot for a TV show on FOX. And FOX, in it's usual fantastic decisions regarding tv shows (right Joss?) decided to just pad the pilot, release it as a movie, and call it a day.

Don't bother with this movie or you will be envious of the version of you on the parallel Earth that didn't waste its time falling into the trap of "Parallels".

[Schlich]

Jodorowsky's The Holy Mountain. What the [expletive] did I just watch?