ha yea it was pretty good
― marcos, Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:27 (ten years ago) link
Princess Leia's penis is finally revealed
― Brian Eno's Mother (Latham Green), Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:46 (ten years ago) link
Being called incoherent by Dr Morbius is like being called obese by Fatty Arbuckle.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:52 (ten years ago) link
And as far as "good movies," obviously everyone's standards are different, and what you're getting from Hollywood is no different from any other country's film industry. For every Apu Trilogy there's an Indian Spider-Man, and not every movie that comes out of France and Germany is Amour. The tentpoles make the money that finance the other stuff (just like in publishing) and if Hollywood is going to make this stuff anyway, I'd prefer they use interesting directors and actors to elevate the quality a bit, instead of soap opera has-beens and journeymen or McG.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:56 (ten years ago) link
The tentpoles make the money that finance the other stuff
there is less and less other stuff every year
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 5 June 2014 20:59 (ten years ago) link
How do you make this garbage disappear? Assassinate Lucas, Abrams and nuke the parent studio? No because some fucking other worthless arsehole would still want to make this garbage for another few decades. You just have to accept that This Shit is going to bury you and piss on your grave. You are trapped in history and there is no fucking FF button. It is a bitter pill to swallow, but it could be worse.
― xelab, Thursday, 5 June 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
Xp (citation needed)
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
hey man its just some movies
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 5 June 2014 21:01 (ten years ago) link
gr8080 otm
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 5 June 2014 21:14 (ten years ago) link
jesus wept
― it definitely wasn't designed to be a pants pocket player (stevie), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:30 (ten years ago) link
what scares me about that post is the "it could be worse" end. if it's already at the point of assassinations and nuclear bombs, what would be done in an even "worse" situation? the mind boggles.
or, more accurately, doesn't give a shit.
― djenter the dragon? (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
Every Star Wars thread eventually gets the utility meter data it deserves.
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Thursday, 5 June 2014 22:42 (ten years ago) link
did you guys miss that amazing 20 minute shot where xavier visits an emaciated magneto in prison and tries to convince him to eat something?
― Philip Nunez, Friday, 6 June 2014 04:45 (ten years ago) link
It's definitely kind of sad that actors are willing to just completely abandon any idea of credibility or gravitas for whatever money they can get but the bigger problem here that is, for example, willing to see 7+ Fast and the Furious movies with returns that are actually increasing rather than diminishing.
I mean would Dustin Hoffman have signed up for the equivalent of 20m per movie for some dumbshit film franchise in 1977? Maybe! But the American public didn't make total dumbshit like that possible back then, by the time you got to the 3rd or 4th movie they sensibly got bored.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 6 June 2014 05:01 (ten years ago) link
i don't think things have changed that much tbh. Hackman doing The Poseidon Adventure, Burt Lancaster doing Airport etc..
― piscesx, Friday, 6 June 2014 05:03 (ten years ago) link
but the top grossing movies of 1970 weren't all airports.
― fit and working again, Friday, 6 June 2014 05:34 (ten years ago) link
― xelab, Thursday, June 5, 2014 10:00 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
marry me
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 06:34 (ten years ago) link
i'm kind of okay with bad movies existing
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 06:41 (ten years ago) link
i have little ish with things existing
but i'm not in for a scrap, i just wanted to kiss xelab
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 06:48 (ten years ago) link
understandable
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:32 (ten years ago) link
there's a rhetorical elision that happens sometimes when you go "these pieces of popular culture are for shit" and yr interlocutor gets very "ugh you think popular culture is for shit"
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:43 (ten years ago) link
troo, but it's more that i'm honestly baffled by reactions stronger than bovine indifference where things like action movies are concerned. the passion has died within me.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:50 (ten years ago) link
red lobster, otoh...
absolutely my default position is to blithely let things go by me without worrying bout it god we're derailing the thread aren't we there shd be another one to discuss your relationship to shit people enthuse about that you think isn't very good or worthwhile
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:51 (ten years ago) link
i think that thread is called "ILX"
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:54 (ten years ago) link
tomorrow i'm going to watch makavejev movies featuring naked people and not worry about star wars, which will doubtless continue to be shit
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 07:57 (ten years ago) link
and not every movie that comes out of France and Germany is Amour
lol it's a good job morbz is no longer reading this thread
― sʌxihɔːl (Ward Fowler), Friday, 6 June 2014 08:01 (ten years ago) link
was gonna rip on Haneke but it's like shooting a whale in a pint glass
― arid banter (Noodle Vague), Friday, 6 June 2014 08:03 (ten years ago) link
there were no bad movies before 1998. now george lucas runs the ministry of culture & will not let michael haneke remake code unknown for the chinese markets.
― schlump, Friday, 6 June 2014 11:48 (ten years ago) link
i'm not angry that action/scifi movies exist. i'm not even annoyed that action/scifi movies exist. like i said i'm not a film snob by any stretch and i enjoy action/scifi movies every once in a while, and there are plenty of really great, well-made ones! just annoyed that it seems like there are basically 4-6 good hollywood movies made per year out of the 500-600 that are released per year. like i said i don't fault any actor for taking the money for some bullshit, i would probably do the same, it's more a yearning for some decent movies and a desire to see good actors rewarded with more good roles and good movies! it's also more a yearning for hollywood to make movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:13 (ten years ago) link
that said i will probably see star wars 7 and enjoy some parts of it even if the rest of it will probably suck as bad as the prequels
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 13:14 (ten years ago) link
i think we're all going to be ok
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:08 (ten years ago) link
as xelab said it could be worse
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 15:17 (ten years ago) link
otm there could be ~no more movies at all~ think abt it
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 15:25 (ten years ago) link
it seems like there are basically 4-6 good hollywood movies made per year out of the 500-600 that are released per year. like i said i don't fault any actor for taking the money for some bullshit, i would probably do the same, it's more a yearning for some decent movies and a desire to see good actors rewarded with more good roles and good movies! it's also more a yearning for hollywood to make movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids
― marcos, Friday, June 6, 2014 6:13 AM (3 hours ago)
eh, there are more interesting movies released every year than any sane person could reasonably keep up with. glut of michael bay bullshit can be safely ignored if one so chooses.
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:24 (ten years ago) link
4-6 is extraordinarily generous
― Who whom kissed? (imago), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:27 (ten years ago) link
movies for people other than 12-24 year old males and little kids
after having kids I now realize just how few movies in the theaters are actually appropriate for children - at any given time there's usually one, and that's it. The 12-35 (or whatever range it is) of males is really the demo everything is targeted to. Everybody else is just expected to suck it up.
― Οὖτις, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:32 (ten years ago) link
keep up the good fight, guys
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:42 (ten years ago) link
eh, there are more interesting movies released every year than any sane person could reasonably keep up with. glut of michael bay bullshit can be safely ignored if one so chooses.― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:24 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― riot grillz (contenderizer), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:24 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that's fair. just hard to do 11 out of 12 months a year when you want to go a movie theater to see something.
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 16:43 (ten years ago) link
I wouldn't mind all of the comic book and superhero shit if it felt like it was still neatly balanced out by more movies for adults. and I'd mind it less if every franchise didn't feel the need to saturate the screens with sequels and spinoffs every other month. it's pretty exhausting.
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 6 June 2014 16:45 (ten years ago) link
looks like the Millennium Falcon is alive, and it saw What Lies Beneath and Ender's Game!
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/harrison-ford-injured-star-wars-set-hospital/story?id=24110941
― son of a lewd monk (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 12 June 2014 20:43 (ten years ago) link
I only just read the other day that the Millenium Falcon was used as a building in Blade Runner: http://www.blastr.com/2013-4-10/little-known-sci-fi-fact-millennium-falcon-appeared-blade-runner
― ornamental cabbage (James Morrison), Friday, 20 June 2014 06:07 (ten years ago) link
Okay, I officially Give A Shit about the sequels. http://www.deadline.com/2014/06/star-wars-rian-johnson-director-next-two-movies/
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:45 (ten years ago) link
wow!
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:47 (ten years ago) link
Joseph Gordon-Levitt in Alec Guiness makeup
― Disagree. And im not into firey solos chief. (Phil D.), Friday, 20 June 2014 18:51 (ten years ago) link
Ugh Brick is so terrible fuck that guy
― Οὖτις, Friday, 20 June 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
^offtm
I give a fuck now
― What Is It Like To Be A HOOS? (silby), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:00 (ten years ago) link
clone army of nora zehetners
― goole, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
xxp yes, but have you seen the brothers bloom?
― Pew Nornographers (contenderizer), Friday, 20 June 2014 19:01 (ten years ago) link
Looper's not half bad
― mh, Friday, 20 June 2014 19:08 (ten years ago) link