movies

[thrill]

RIP James Gandolfini. Great character actor.

[cardsfantx]

Jeez.....was always hoping they'd do something more with the sopranos

Sad

[ghostrunner]

Cabin in the Woods. Jesus, that was fun. I had no idea what was coming and it was like slowly realizing I was winning the lottery. Perhaps I exaggerate.

[cardsfantx]

Man of steel

Ok I love superman. I grew up with Christopher reeves.

But [expletive].... Best superhero move I've seen. And I love the dark knight.

Seeing it again, and soon.

[Schlich]

I've heard so many damn mixed reviews on this damn movie. Gah.

[Cole Burns]

Man of Steel was absolutely horrid. The dialogue was dreadful. The plot was thinner than a napkin. Snyder couldn't have hit us over the head with the Superman-as-Messiah motif unless he literally went to each theater and threw crucifixes into the audience. The action sequences were fun, but too far over the top. The scenes on Krypton were cool, but too many phallic and vulvic symbols for me. I literally laughed out loud when Gen Zod and his team were encased in dongs and sent into the Phantom Zone. I laughed out loud and everyone just looked at me. Seriously, how can you not laugh at that scene. I know there's some artist somewhere who contributed that design as a joke and it just kept getting past the censors. I bet he called up his friends, "You won't effing believe it but they kept the giant dong prisons in!"

[pioneer98]

Man of Steel was absolutely horrid. The dialogue was dreadful. The plot was thinner than a napkin. Snyder couldn't have hit us over the head with the Superman-as-Messiah motif unless he literally went to each theater and threw crucifixes into the audience. The action sequences were fun, but too far over the top. The scenes on Krypton were cool, but too many phallic and vulvic symbols for me. I literally laughed out loud when Gen Zod and his team were encased in dongs and sent into the Phantom Zone. I laughed out loud and everyone just looked at me. Seriously, how can you not laugh at that scene. I know there's some artist somewhere who contributed that design as a joke and it just kept getting past the censors. I bet he called up his friends, "You won't effing believe it but they kept the giant dong prisons in!"

Hollywood today, sucks.

[Michael]

<meltdown>

Last night I watched The Avengers on netflix and I have no idea why. While watching it I wondered if anyone was excited for Iron Man 3 so I googled it and I found out it grossed over 1 billion dollars. Good lord, people, are your lives that boring?

I also noticed they are making new Captain America and Thor movies. I swear to God you suck at life if you are excited about that.

I'm so sick of all these super hero movies. It's time to move on.

</meltdown>


I do like batman.

[Vidor]

"Monsters University"

Didn't really have a story, unless "How Mike and Sully became friends" is a story. Didn't really have an antagonist. And the happy ending denoument was surprisingly rushed.

Better than "Cars 2", not as good as "Brave", and definitely not the return to form for Pixar.

[JL21]

<meltdown>

Last night I watched The Avengers on netflix and I have no idea why. While watching it I wondered if anyone was excited for Iron Man 3 so I googled it and I found out it grossed over 1 billion dollars. Good lord, people, are your lives that boring?

I also noticed they are making new Captain America and Thor movies. I swear to God you suck at life if you are excited about that.

I'm so sick of all these super hero movies. It's time to move on.

</meltdown>


I do like batman.

I think at least part of it's the whole "post 9/11" narrative. Creating these kinds of heroes gives screenwriters a quick and easy way to play around with morality in that world, and the name recognition of the characters brings in big bucks. Think about how many of these films have dabbled in the world of terrorism and loss of personal freedom. In the very least, the entire Iron Man trilogy and two of the three Batman films qualify.

Maybe it's slightly comparable to the popularity of cop movies in the 70s on the heels of the riots and assassinations and "Godless hippies" of the late 60s and early 70s.

Here's a really good piece I saw a month or so ago about it:

http://moviemezzanine.com/tony-stark-is ... on-terror/