MrSaigon wrote:Michael Cera has become to me what it appears Shia LeB[bunch of vowels]f is to some here, but this is a pretty fantastic, promising preview. Plus my love of Edgar Wright can swallow my annoyance with Cera:
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Michael Cera is always sort of the same character, but at least he's the lovable, goofy slightly awkward guy with good comedic timing.
Shia LeD-Bag always plays the same crying little whiny d-bag. Everytime. All he does is [expletive] and moan and complain.
MrSaigon wrote:Michael Cera has become to me what it appears Shia LeB[bunch of vowels]f is to some here, but this is a pretty fantastic, promising preview. Plus my love of Edgar Wright can swallow my annoyance with Cera:
I agree with all of this (though I'd add that my hatred of Cera and Shia LeWhatever is pretty much equal). Any time Edgar Wright makes a movie, it shoots to the top of my list, even if it involves Michael Cera.
planet pujolsian wrote:So is it bad to watch Avatar in standard HD?
The 3D thing isn't that big a deal, if that's what you mean. After I adjusted to it, it was cool to me for about 15 minutes. After that I kind of forgot about it, and I think I would have liked the movie about the same in 2D.
planet pujolsian wrote:So is it bad to watch Avatar in standard HD?
So should I watch or not? People are so finicky about these kind of things.
Yeah, watch it. Most of the characters are 2 dimensional no matter what, but it's got some cool stuff going on.
I assume you don't mean "standard" as opposed to "widescreen" That's a bigger deal to me than not being in 3D. If that's what you mean, I'd wait for a widescreen version.
Do they even make DVDs with improper aspect ratios anymore? I have some in my collection and I always laugh when I have to make sure it's on the "widescreen" side of a flip disc. Thank god that's gone away.
I just watched I Heart Huckabees. That movie is apparently pretty polarizing - I rate movies on Criticker.com and my "friends'" opinions seemed to vary from hilarious to pretentious tripe. I fall on the former side, I enjoyed the hell out of it. The cast is great, it's laugh-out-loud funny and it does a great job of skewering some hifalutin philosophical issues without completely depriving them of dramatic weight. Anybody else got any thoughts on that one?
I actually pretty much just rented it because I love Naomi Watts so I'm pleasantly surprised. Also, I had no idea Mark Wahlberg or Isabelle Huppert were in it, so that was great.
The Third Man wrote:Do they even make DVDs with improper aspect ratios anymore? I have some in my collection and I always laugh when I have to make sure it's on the "widescreen" side of a flip disc. Thank god that's gone away.
I just watched I Heart Huckabees. That movie is apparently pretty polarizing - I rate movies on Criticker.com and my "friends'" opinions seemed to vary from hilarious to pretentious tripe. I fall on the former side, I enjoyed the hell out of it. The cast is great, it's laugh-out-loud funny and it does a great job of skewering some hifalutin philosophical issues without completely depriving them of dramatic weight. Anybody else got any thoughts on that one?
I actually pretty much just rented it because I love Naomi Watts so I'm pleasantly surprised. Also, I had no idea Mark Wahlberg or Isabelle Huppert were in it, so that was great.
This nailed my view. I enjoyed it immensely, a few people that I've shown it to have reacted negatively, but I think it's a matter of understanding the tone of the movie. Don't take it too seriously and it can be great.
I liked it a lot when it first came out. My feelings about it changed a lirtle when I read some of the stories that came out of the filming, about David Russell being a huge turd to everyone. In the big picture, though, that isn't the film's fault.
I finally got around to watching Gone with the Wind. It's the best movie I'll ever hate. I won't deny that it's an incredible epic, great visuals, and a great story at its heart. But it pushed all the wrong buttons for me. The representation of the slaves as pro-Confederate was waaaaay over the top. The glorification of the antebellum south is sickening. At least a half hour, probably more, should have been left out- there's absolutely no excuse for it to be nearly four hours long. And most importantly, Scarlett O'Hara is a humongous spoiled brat [expletive].
JL21 wrote:
I finally got around to watching Gone with the Wind. It's the best movie I'll ever hate. I won't deny that it's an incredible epic, great visuals, and a great story at its heart. But it pushed all the wrong buttons for me. The representation of the slaves as pro-Confederate was waaaaay over the top. The glorification of the antebellum south is sickening. At least a half hour, probably more, should have been left out- there's absolutely no excuse for it to be nearly four hours long. And most importantly, Scarlett O'Hara is a humongous spoiled brat [expletive].
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Third Man - About Huckabee's, I felt the way you did for about the first 60-90 minutes (just going off memory here) and thought I was witnessing something brilliant. Then suddenly it seemed to lose whatever it was trying to say and my interest dropped off a cliff. Lots of points for effort, though.
