lukethedrifter wrote:Some of you guys act like your mother made the movie.
I can handle someone disliking a movie, my mother just did a little voiceover work for it is all, so I'm not that emotionally invested.
I do find it fascinating when someone only likes one movie, yet seems to see most others--afterwards critiquing them in a way that often seems to be a critique of the prols that actually liked it. Am I being hypersensitive, quite possibly.
Maclowery wrote:Hey man, I'm not some big homer, but Joce has a point. You said before you went that you weren't going to like the movie. So why bother, then come back to concur that you indeed didn't like a silly popcorn action movie?
This is a terrifically respectful forum compared to most of the online world, but you were pretty much straight up 'trolling' as most forums would say. You deliberately posted a contrary opinion, that you had predetermined, just to incite arguments. Don't be upset at Joce (or myself) for calling you out on it.
Here's how it read (keep in mind that my mother only did VO work on Avengers and I'm probably being too sensitive):
I can't wait to confirm and flex my superior taste. Done.
It's his bit, guys. It's not personal, he just likes being obstinately critical. Enjoy it. It's part of the cast of characters that keeps us all coming back to this place.
Think of him as our Armond White, but about everything, not just movies.
bob thrill wrote:It's his bit, guys. It's not personal, he just likes being obstinately critical. Enjoy it. It's part of the cast of characters that keeps us all coming back to this place.
Think of him as our Armond White, but about everything, not just movies.
This was that special kind of obstinate criticism that deserves evisceration. I'm not going to go easy on snarky taste-propriety just because someone reviews movies like a junior with a music column in the high school newspaper.
I watched Conviction last night after the replays of HBO's Sunday night lineup (I'm giving up on Girls, btw). With apologies to anyone whose mother was involved in the making of this movie, it seems like someone in Hollywood heard of this true story, thought it would make an incredible movie, and didn't let the fact that the first draft of the script was 10 pages stand in the way of that. Consequently, a 30-minute story, at best, was padded with every trope imaginable to get the movie to an acceptable running time.
Also, much as I like Sam Rockwell, he wasn't very good in this movie.
Did anyone go see Prometheus last night? Initial reviews are mixed, some on the extreme end of suckiness. I am going to see it tonight, but admittedly the hype level is rapidly declining.
I'm going to see Moonrise Kingdom tonight. It'll be the first movie I've seen in 9 months, ie since something or other happened in my life. It looks like the most Wes Anderson movie of all time, which is cool because I like his sense of humor and sentimentality.
Bill Murray as a depressed yet darkly comedic sad sack? Check.
Twee? Check.
Retro fashion/look? Check.
Story about precocious children who fall in love while doing something twee like hiding out in a museum, or summer camp, or somesuch? Check.
Jason Schwartzman is present? check.
A soundtrack with the Kinks, Nico, the Who, and/or Elliott Smith? Actually, I don't know what's on the soundtrack yet, but I'll assume this is here too. Check!
heyzeus wrote:I'm going to see Moonrise Kingdom tonight. It'll be the first movie I've seen in 9 months, ie since something or other happened in my life. It looks like the most Wes Anderson movie of all time, which is cool because I like his sense of humor and sentimentality.
Bill Murray as a depressed yet darkly comedic sad sack? Check.
Twee? Check.
Retro fashion/look? Check.
Story about precocious children who fall in love while doing something twee like hiding out in a museum, or summer camp, or somesuch? Check.
Jason Schwartzman is present? check.
A soundtrack with the Kinks, Nico, the Who, and/or Elliott Smith? Actually, I don't know what's on the soundtrack yet, but I'll assume this is here too. Check!
I'm going to assume the soundtrack is super Mark Mothersbaugh-y as well.
