movies

[Freed Roger]

watched "Following" by Christopher Nolan back in 1998. Real good.

[pioneer98]

Saw Guardians II Saturday night. Not as good as the first one, IMO, but still really good (my kids liked it better than the first though).

Yeah, my wife and I saw it Saturday night too. Our opinions echoed yours - we both thought the first one was better. It just seemed that they were trying too hard for most of the movie... Like that escape scene with Rocket and Yondu - that went on about 2-3 minutes longer than it really needed to.

I agree with this. The opening scene also was longer than it needed to be. But they nailed enough of the other scenes that it didn't bother me that much.

[cardinalkarp]

Rented "Split" the other night and thought it was really, really good.

[go birds]

Rented "Split" the other night and thought it was really, really good.

at first i was like what the.....

then i was like...nice.......

[thrill]

[ghostrunner]

Unusual for Soderbergh. Feels like a Coen script got handed off to Seth Rogen or Danny McBride.

Daniel Craig tho.

[Transmogrified Tiger]

He is the guy who did all 3 Ocean's movies and The Informant! so it's not entirely off brand.

Speaking of which, Soderbergh heist movies are extremely my jam.

[ghostrunner]

Don't know. Feels tonally different to me from the Ocean's movies, which I also think are just sorta okay. The Informant is one of those movies I keep forgetting about. Want to see that eventually.

[thrill]

Don't know. Feels tonally different to me from the Ocean's movies, which I also think are just sorta okay. The Informant is one of those movies I keep forgetting about. Want to see that eventually.

I'm going to see it because I'm a Soderbergh mark, but another red flag is that when non-southerners try to make a southerner movie with comedic elements, it never lands right for me. People like Danny McBride do it well because they're actually from the South. English actor doing a specific kind of southern character beyond caricature? I'm dubious.

[JoeMcKim]

He is the guy who did all 3 Ocean's movies and The Informant! so it's not entirely off brand.

Speaking of which, Soderbergh heist movies are extremely my jam.

Out of Sight was amazing, easily the best Elmore Leonard translation. I really like Jackie Brown too but QT made it just as much his movie as it was a Leonard movie.