I watched "Dead Man On Campus" last night. If it's remembered at all, it's as the poor cousin to "Dead Man's Curve", the two movies about people trying to exploit the loophole about if your roommate kills himself, you're awarded straight As for the rest of the semester, that both came out the same year.
But I think it's due a re-appraisal. Popping up are Jason Segel and Linda Cardellini, just before "Freaks and Geeks"; and there's a weirdly small appearance for Alyson Hannigan, as Buffy had already been on TV for a few years and she was probably a bigger deal than half the cast. It was written by Mike White, who also wrote for "Freaks and Geeks", as well as "Orange County" and "School of Rock". It's a bit like what a Judd Apatow movie would be like if it had a really dark premise, and stuck to it. The three main people in it (Mark Paul Gosselaar, Tom Everett Scott and Poppy Montgomery) are all decent too.
Not saying it's perfect or anything, but there aren't tons of movies where
so I'll give it a thumbs up.
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Watched the 2016 version of the magnificent 7. Thought it was pretty good. The cinematography was excellent and the casting was terrific. Kinda felt like things were a bit rushed at the end but that's being nitpicky I reckon. 4/5 stars
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Went and saw "Patriot's Day" over the weekend and I thought it was really, really well done. I'll be the first to admit that when everything went down I didn't follow every detail of the story so some of the things revealed in the movie was new info to me (and I'm sure it might have been released as things played out), but overall the movie portrayed the awful events of the day and the ensuing manhunt very well.
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With Wehenberg doing $5 movies on Tuesdays I think that Patriots Day will be my movie to see this week and go see The Founder next week.
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I saw Split this weekend. Wasn't great, but it was pretty good I guess.
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Has this been posted? There's about 1/2 second of nip, which zeus would spy on first viewing, so no embedding.
NSFW!!! Kinda, not really...Trainspotting 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w
NSFW!!! Kinda, not really...Trainspotting 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w
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Saw Hacksaw Ridge tonight, really good war movie. Interesting that it's a high profile war movie from the medics perspective.
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Wow! Flood of memories after watching that.Tambourine Man wrote:Has this been posted? There's about 1/2 second of nip, which zeus would spy on first viewing, so no embedding.
NSFW!!! Kinda, not really...Trainspotting 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w
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Yeah, man. The original is a go-to for something to watch when I can't find anything...Seen it dozens of times.stlouie_lipp wrote:Wow! Flood of memories after watching that.Tambourine Man wrote:Has this been posted? There's about 1/2 second of nip, which zeus would spy on first viewing, so no embedding.
NSFW!!! Kinda, not really...Trainspotting 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsozpEE543w
I'll catch this one opening week, no doubt.