jim wrote:Not sure if documentaries count in here but we saw Meru last night and holy [expletive] that was intense. Mountain climbing documentary. Mountain climbers intrigue me because they do all of the things I hate. I have a fear of heights, hate the cold, and I can't handle altitude. When I watch these guys I keep asking "Why?" but at the same time I admire them.
Meru.
I concur with your thoughts. Some interesting folks, and really amazing what they can do - and top it off by getting quality film footage while they are near death.
Krakauer was good on providing framework - such as the constant question they always get " why do this?" - I really can't relate much- but they are so locked in on things - it seems to make sense for them. FWIW, I'm impressed by their clarity - which I guess they acquire in their dance with death.
stlouie_lipp wrote:"Creed" is getting great reviews. Some even saying it deserves to be nominated for multiple Academy Awards.
Finally saw this today. It was great - reminds you of the original Rocky. Some humor, sadness, action, reminiscing. The fight scenes were very well done. I'm guessing at least one, if not both Stallone and Jordan get nominated.
Wasn't sure if I'd be able to follow since I hadn't seen a few of the prior sequels....
but yeah, agreed, reminiscent of the original. No surprises. I didn't get a nomination vibe, but did enjoy it.
You can't really trust rotten tomatoes it turns out. My wife picked Man Up, based on it's ratings (80/71). It was absolutely awful. She thought it was ok, but god damn I just wanted to puke through the thing. What the [expletive] are people thinking?
jim wrote:You can't really trust rotten tomatoes it turns out. My wife picked Man Up, based on it's ratings (80/71). It was absolutely awful. She thought it was ok, but god damn I just wanted to puke through the thing. What the [expletive] are people thinking?
Saw Hateful 8 in the 70mm Roadshow, and I say this as a Tarantino fan of 20+ years: it's hot garbage. The first QT movie I've actively disliked. There's no point. It's a lot of n-word, n-word, b***h, b***h, people talking about how they're going to shoot people and shooting people, and really has no overriding theme or anything that makes sitting through 3 hours of it worth the price of admission--which for the roadshow was darn near $20. Looks great in 70mm (save the however many minutes we didn't see b/c we watched the film burn up in the gate onscreen, leading to an early 20-minute intermission and a changeover to the digital projection rather than the 70mm for the last 2 hours), sounds great, the music is great, but other than that it stinks.
jim wrote:You can't really trust rotten tomatoes it turns out. My wife picked Man Up, based on it's ratings (80/71). It was absolutely awful. She thought it was ok, but god damn I just wanted to puke through the thing. What the [expletive] are people thinking?
Don't see this piece of [expletive].
So [expletive] stupid.
God damn it.
It is a romantic comedy. What did you expect?
I've actually seen romantic comedies that were ok. That's about as good as it gets, but at least I can survive them. It was all I could do to watch this piece of [expletive] and not keep adding commentary to completely ruin it for my wife.
33anda3rd wrote:Saw Hateful 8 in the 70mm Roadshow, and I say this as a Tarantino fan of 20+ years: it's hot garbage. The first QT movie I've actively disliked. There's no point. It's a lot of n-word, n-word, b***h, b***h, people talking about how they're going to shoot people and shooting people, and really has no overriding theme or anything that makes sitting through 3 hours of it worth the price of admission--which for the roadshow was darn near $20. Looks great in 70mm (save the however many minutes we didn't see b/c we watched the film burn up in the gate onscreen, leading to an early 20-minute intermission and a changeover to the digital projection rather than the 70mm for the last 2 hours), sounds great, the music is great, but other than that it stinks.
This doesn't surprise me. I will see it someday, but even the previews gave me the vibe that it was nothing new.
Jocephus wrote:saw the big short on xmas. i enjoyed it.
I just saw it today. I also liked it. I had read the book and some things went down exactly as I imagined and some things got portrayed quite a bit differently. I thought Carell was really good.
