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Y-Hat posted:Well obviously you'll have to include Marmaduke in it somehow. Someone said he did so much coke his nipples turned into scabs and fell off.
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Nov 11, 2011 14:58
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If you already read Current Releases this week, take another look as a review of Take Shelter has just been added.
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You changed the movie of the week! I've wasted my movie dollars thanks to you!
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Johnny Walker posted:You changed the movie of the week! I've wasted my movie dollars thanks to you! Oh well.
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Professor Clumsy posted:Oh well. Here at Current Releases the customer is always right except when we say gently caress it. Then they aren't.
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So... so as someone who enjoys bad movies and satire when it's played straight, I should watch Twilight: Breaking Dawn? I'm just so shocked to see an earnest endorsement of the film. I don't know what to say. The earlier ones weren't even fun to mock. 
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I'm with Vargo on this one. When you say that Condon perfectly pulls off an elaborate prank on the films target audience (I'm willing to bet that Pattinson and Kristen Stewart were in on it too), I'll take your word for it. However, Twilight fans don't see irony, even when it's explicitly spelled out to them. In that case, it's pretty much wasted. For the ten people who are willing to see it for that reason, however, they'll probably enjoy it. I won't watch it when it's in theaters because gently caress shelling out $11.75 for a ticket.
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Should I watch the other Twilight films first or can I just jump on Breaking Hymen? I saw the first one, it was pretty naff.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Should I watch the other Twilight films first or can I just jump on Breaking Hymen? Remember the long-haired Indian kid? He's a werewolf. You're good to go now.
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Quantum of Phallus posted:Should I watch the other Twilight films first or can I just jump on Breaking Hymen? It's hard to say what the target audience for Breaking Dawn is, and that just makes me admire it more. A sizable minority of the Friday-night theatergoers, who I assume were mostly Twilight fans, were laughing right along with me, so I think this is the movie that finally broke them.
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jeremy oval office posted:With a couple exceptions, the only people I know who've enjoyed Breaking Dawn for the same reasons I did were those forced to suffer through the first three. Do so at your own peril. Well, there's your problem. I can't tell if the Current Releases reviewers are having a long, slow joke at the world's expense or if there's something to their theory. Either way I'm torn.
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Just wanted to chime in and say that the Twilight review had me giggling for like 20 minutes. I always really enjoy the movie reviews so great job to the movie review crew.
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Nov 20, 2011 19:38
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About the last release, what was the reasoning behind Ben Lyons proclaiming I Am Legend as required watching?
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Admiral Goodenough posted:About the last release, what was the reasoning behind Ben Lyons
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Well you convinced me, i'm going to go watch Twilight. (also a column here in sweden said it was really really horribly misogynist so I want to see this)
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Admiral Goodenough posted:About the last release, what was the reasoning behind Ben Lyons proclaiming I Am Legend as required watching? It's Ben Lyons. He's just all around terrible. Edit: Oh, beaten to it by Y-Hat: Ladykiller
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Here's his explanation: Ben Lyons posted:Lyons: Yes, I do. OK, listen I’m going to explain it to you. This is a film that I saw and it blew my head to bits and I grew up in New York and it looked unlike anything I had seen before and I grew up on Will Smith. I think it’s an emotional movie, it’s funny, it made 700 million dollars around the world and inspired a prequel so there’s obviously a connection that people have made to the story. There are certain movies that just speak to you and that’s a film that I connected with and I won’t (inaudible) hide my opinion when that’s what I’m being paid to do. I love that film. That film is awesome. Every time I watch that film I notice new stuff in it. 
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So his justification boils down to "it's cool"?  I'd never heard of this guy before, but I'm going to avoid him from here on.
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jeremy oval office posted:The answer to your dilemma seems to be mixed: With a couple exceptions, the only people I know who've enjoyed Breaking Dawn for the same reasons I did were those forced to suffer through the first three. Do so at your own peril. Surely there's a youtube video that can summarize the plot "so far" in 3 minutes or less? Other than the teenage angst there isn't really that much else to Twilight.
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DumbWhiteGuy posted:Just wanted to chime in and say that the Twilight review had me giggling for like 20 minutes. I always really enjoy the movie reviews so great job to the movie review crew. Admiral Goodenough posted:About the last release, what was the reasoning behind Ben Lyons proclaiming I Am Legend as required watching? Y-Hat posted:Stop right there. That's your answer. Affi posted:Well you convinced me, i'm going to go watch Twilight. (also a column here in sweden said it was really really horribly misogynist so I want to see this)
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Nov 21, 2011 11:31
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Ben Lyons is one of those lazy critics who thinks is job is simply to have an opinion, rather than actually articulate it.
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Well, I went to see Breaking Dawn today, funniest film I've seen all year.
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This is an entire website dedicated to hating Ben Lyons. However, it hasn't updated since February. Perhaps Ben Lyons should be next to get the Mr. Movie treatment?
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Wow, Ben Lyons is only 30? I just sort of assumed he was some guy in the 45-60 age range, what with how vacuous some of his reviews tend to be. But 30? Geez...
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Have you guys ever thought about proposing to Sr. Lowtax doing something like the A.V. Club where you can do more serious writing and other entertainment coverage? That way there's not such a huge connect between it and the rest of the site's content. Also, did any of you guys end up seeing Jack and Jill?
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Sheldrake posted:Have you guys ever thought about proposing to Sr. Lowtax doing something like the A.V. Club where you can do more serious writing and other entertainment coverage? That way there's not such a huge connect between it and the rest of the site's content. I think it'd be really cool if we could get Current Releases, Awful Video Games and some other columns/projects like Friday Night Death Slot (TV IV's television blog) under one roof. An Awful Media Network, if you will. It's not such a bad idea, if you ask me.
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Jay Dub posted:[The Muppets] isn't wall-to-wall slapsticky musical nonsense like some other films currently in theaters
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Y-Hat posted:The only negative review I've seen of this movie (in The Village Voice) says that it is exactly this, and that it loses a lot of the charm of the first Muppet movies and the TV show (one of the examples he gives is that in those incarnations, the Muppets are viewed as just normal people by human actors and not oversized puppets). After reading that review, I thought, "I don't give a poo poo what he said, I'm still watching this." And why not? It's the friggin' Muppets, what's not to love? He must've taken a lot of pee breaks through all the talky parts, then, because there's a lot of downtime in the movie. The entire middle of the film is almost entirely character and plot stuff, so either he went out for a smoke after 30 minutes or he just blacked out.
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Jonah Hill's reasonably funny? Catch Allen Greggory tonight, see if you don't change your mind.
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Regarding New Year's Eve: So the Pfeiffer character's resolutions were all about visiting tourist spots? Nothing regarding self-improvement?
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Why do the expectations for New Year's Eve end halfway through a sentence?
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goatface posted:Why do the expectations for New Year's Eve end halfway through a sentence?
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The Pfeiffer office scenes were shot at the EMI Publishing offices in NY over a two week period. It was pretty annoying to people who actually work there because Pfeiffer didn't want anyone to actually look at her while she did her scenes, and no one was allowed to move around when she was there. It was even more aggravating because they built a whole office inside an office smack dab in the middle of the actual office space leading everyone to wonder why they didn't just use a sound stage since there was almost nothing of the actual office space showing in the movie. Also the entire conversations of every person was recorded separately and edited together. Meaning any shot of Pfeiffer talking to Effron, or anyone else, literally never took place, but was edited together after the fact. They never even appeared on the set on the same days, leading me to wonder if conversations are pieced together ala Lucas camera 1 to camera 2 style. Effron was pretty cool and actually hung out and let the ladies chat him up.
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I don't like the idea of Michelle Pfeiffer being a crazy botox lady, but there you go.
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Sheldrake posted:Have you guys ever thought about proposing to Sr. Lowtax doing something like the A.V. Club where you can do more serious writing and other entertainment coverage? That way there's not such a huge connect between it and the rest of the site's content. Danzou, how much of the blame for Allen Gregory do you lay at Jonah Hill's feet? It's abysmal but I keep wanting to excuse him from some of it. I won't see The Sitter in the theater, but I'll watch eventually. He's kind of funny to me in small doses though I'm most likely broken.
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