|
drat I'm just now a half hour into the Anchorman 2 extended edition but apparently it's worse than the original? Should I keep watching or switch to the other version?
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 11:53
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 21:10 |
|
|
Just watched the original and it was aimless and ridiculous, but not in the endearingly charming way the first movie managed to capture. Overall seemed very mean spirited and all of the jokes fell flat. I laughed once during a two hour comedy.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 12:52
|
|
|
Anchorman 2 is alright but in no ways did that movie need to be extended
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 13:08
|
|
|
I gotta give credit to Anchorman 2 for at least doing something different with the story. Instead of making the film about misogyny again, it was about 24 hour news, and why it's poo poo and all that. It wasn't biting satire but it was something at least. I could do without the racial stuff though. But thankfully it was in and out before I started to really care.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 13:41
|
|
|
If anyone here is interested in Family Guy, Season 12 was just added to Netflix.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 13:54
|
|
|
CelticPredator posted:I gotta give credit to Anchorman 2 for at least doing something different with the story. Instead of making the film about misogyny again, it was about 24 hour news, and why it's poo poo and all that. It wasn't biting satire but it was something at least. I could do without the racial stuff though. But thankfully it was in and out before I started to really care. It could have done without all of the family poo poo and the lighthouse stuff. Literally just completely boring scenes to make the movie longer. I'd watch 90 minutes of various news crews fighting each other though.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 14:20
|
|
|
Brick was so boring and overused and overexaggerated in Anchorman 2 that I stopped watching it, I don't know why they looked at a character who yells dumb poo poo and decided a quarter of the movie needed to go to his autistic seduction dance with another awful character.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 14:35
|
|
|
I disagree at least in part with Waste's interpretation of Luhrmann's Gatsby. Jordan and Daisy are portrayed as charismatic but still ultimately shallow folks- in the case of the latter it is still mostly Gatsby projecting his illusions onto her, and she's still weak-willed when the pressure is on. On the former, I'd say the film definitely magnifies Nick's admiration of Gatsby, but on the other hand I'm not sure why deviating from the novel counts as an aesthetic flaw.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 16:22
|
|
|
I just watched the first episode of Black Mirror. The idea was so stupid but holy poo poo how did they pull it off so well? That was shockingly well done.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 17:35
|
|
|
CelticPredator posted:I gotta give credit to Anchorman 2 for at least doing something different with the story. Instead of making the film about misogyny again, it was about 24 hour news, and why it's poo poo and all that. It wasn't biting satire but it was something at least. I could do without the racial stuff though. But thankfully it was in and out before I started to really care. The end result is still mostly them just re-doing gags from the first movie only bigger/louder/dumber and with a few new characters tacked on and more celebrity cameos.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 18:17
|
|
|
Maxwell Lord posted:I disagree at least in part with Waste's interpretation of Luhrmann's Gatsby. Jordan and Daisy are portrayed as charismatic but still ultimately shallow folks- in the case of the latter it is still mostly Gatsby projecting his illusions onto her, and she's still weak-willed when the pressure is on. It's not an aesthetic flaw, but a thematically problematic one. Again, I think the important point isn't that Jordan and Daisy and Nick and everyone else are still ultimately shallow and weak-willed. It's that Luhrmann wants us to understand why they choose these fleeting, materialistic lives that they do over the apparent drudgery and moral judgment of 'the real world.' Heck, even the way Mertyl's husband treats her is ultimately portrayed as bitterly cruel. Even if we can understand why he's angry at her infidelity, this scene is contextualized by the constant cutting back and forth between the accident and 'God's' judging eyes. But that isn't God; it's just an advertisement. Even this supposedly 'real' world, with its poverty and oppression, is just as 'false' and materialistic. The point is that the moral liberation that this opulent materialism offers feels 'more real' than the poverty it's built upon, and to which it is inevitably sliding, Gatsby's facade fading into ruin. The point of Luhrmann's film, I think, is that, even once Gatsby is exposed as this fraud who sniffs at Daisy's heels like a pathetic dog, with no purpose other than to be a facade, Nick perceivers to suggest that this Gatsby, the one who was kind to him, was the real Gatsby, and this is presented without a shred of irony. What matters to Luhrmann is that the American Dream live on in some sense despite the inevitability of pop culture constantly being consumed and replaced and then replicated. His film doesn't want to confront us with the detritus that this culture of materialism creates, and the social consequences of this waste.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 18:33
|
|
|
Romeo+Juliet ruins what may be the single dirties joke you will ever hear in your education. For that it's a horrible movie.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 18:40
|
|
|
Well thematically problematic isn't really an aesthetic issue for me either- it means the filmmakers have a different interpretation of the material. Starship Troopers has more or less the complete opposite meaning of the book (which is an uncritical endorsement of militarism) and it's great.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 18:54
|
|
|
sbaldrick posted:Romeo+Juliet ruins what may be the single dirties joke you will ever hear in your education. For that it's a horrible movie. Which one?
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 19:00
|
|
|
Maxwell Lord posted:Well thematically problematic isn't really an aesthetic issue for me either- it means the filmmakers have a different interpretation of the material. Oh, I agree. Part of what I like about Luhrmann's adaptation is that it's so ballsy in its rejection of Fitzgerald. A lot of critics ironically missed the point by accusing him of missing the point.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 19:09
|
|
|
Luhrmann cut out some of the best parts and characters and it makes me think he didn't even get/care about making an adaptation so much as his own hyper-stylized version which is why a lot of people hated it. Also, despite the most exaggerated Roaring 20s imagery ever it's really loving boring.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 19:34
|
|
|
Wolfsheim posted:I just watched and adored The One I Love but that might be because I'm a huge fan of both Mark Duplass and films with supernatural elements where someone repeatedly tries to break the rules and 'figure it out' the way any autistic CineD poster like myself would. Yeah I really enjoyed that a lot more than I thought I would. Deffo recommended. Also echoing that Romeo + Juliet is amazing.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 19:52
|
|
|
weekly font posted:Luhrmann cut out some of the best parts and characters and it makes me think he didn't even get/care about making an adaptation so much as his own hyper-stylized version which is why a lot of people hated it. Which is like complaining that Moulin Rouge had all those song numbers.
|
|
#
?
Dec 9, 2014 20:15
|
|
|
Wolfsheim posted:I just watched and adored The One I Love but that might be because I'm a huge fan of both Mark Duplass and films with supernatural elements where someone repeatedly tries to break the rules and 'figure it out' the way any autistic CineD poster like myself would. Watched this the other day knowing nothing about it and absolutely loved it. I highly recommend.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 03:18
|
|
|
I just finished watching the non-extended cut of Anchorman 2. It's not as strong as the first one but it's worth checking out if you were a fan. I probably wouldn't watch it again but it got a good amount of laughs out of me. I haven't seen the extended cut but honestly I can't see making the movie longer improving it. salty fries make me cry fucked around with this message at 04:56 on Dec 10, 2014 |
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 04:54
|
|
|
Turfahurf posted:I just finished watching the non-extended cut of Anchorman 2. It's not as strong as the first one but it's worth checking out if you were a fan. I probably wouldn't watch it again but it got a good amount of laughs out of me. Its not simply longer its mostly a "B" cut of the whole film. Different set of jokes. Way too many scenes left in of characters explaining jokes and holy hell these jokes were cut for a reason.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 05:11
|
|
|
Thank god I chose to watch the theatrical edit of Anchorman 2 today; anything past those two wretched hours would have driven me to suicide.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 07:54
|
|
|
The last 15 minutes of Anchorman 2 just got really, really weird 
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 08:00
|
|
|
Mr.Jones, not exaggerating, is the worst movie in terms of pretentiousness I have seen on NF. It doesn't establish any level of stakes and dear god it has the worst camera work this side of shaky. Editor of this is the real monster. I loathe this movie please never watch it. On the other hand taking of Delores Logan was enjoyable and was lifted from its weakest elements "horror" by the solid performance of its star.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 08:37
|
|
|
Junkie Disease posted:Mr.Jones, not exaggerating, is the worst movie in terms of pretentiousness I have seen on NF. It doesn't establish any level of stakes and dear god it has the worst camera work this side of shaky. Editor of this is the real monster. I loathe this movie please never watch it. The first like, ten to fifteen minutes of Mr. Jones seemed promising, but everything after was real bad and aimless. The Taking of Delores Logan was really good for the first half until it turned into another unoriginal jump scare Paranormal Activity wannabe. I love good found footage movies but 90% of them are loving awful.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 09:01
|
|
|
Turfahurf posted:The first like, ten to fifteen minutes of Mr. Jones seemed promising, but everything after was real bad and aimless. True and true. Know of any good ones? [REC] 3 poo poo the bed and I'm drawing blanks.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 09:37
|
|
|
...of SCIENCE! posted:The end result is still mostly them just re-doing gags from the first movie only bigger/louder/dumber and with a few new characters tacked on and more celebrity cameos. Maybe it was because the first wasn't fresh in my mind, but there seemed to be a lot more new stuff than old. I mean, as dull as it got at least the lighthouse stuff was new. It didn't feel like a rehash. It felt like a tacked on part of an earlier draft, but I'll take that scene over anything in Hangover 2 or Dumb and Dumber 2.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 12:07
|
|
|
Candy Dawn posted:Watched this the other day knowing nothing about it and absolutely loved it. I highly recommend. I started to watch this,but the guy in it looks too much like Louis Theroux for me to take it seriously.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 14:43
|
|
|
stickyfngrdboy posted:I started to watch this,but the guy in it looks too much like Louis Theroux for me to take it seriously. Why did you have to say this?
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 14:51
|
|
|
Turfahurf posted:I just finished watching the non-extended cut of Anchorman 2. It's not as strong as the first one but it's worth checking out if you were a fan. I probably wouldn't watch it again but it got a good amount of laughs out of me. Agree with this. Just watched the regular version last night and it was much better than I expected. Obviously nowhere near the first one, but I went in with pretty low expectations. It was definitely enjoyable enough as a sequel and worth one watch - it had enough new storyline and wasn't just a rehash of all the same jokes. Also agreed that I can only imagine a longer version making it worse.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 15:04
|
|
|
Anchorman 2 screamed bro-deal movie from the get go, just like every Adam Sandler movie since his funny movies. Bring in your friends for a couple hours of work, they all get to cash in checks for hundreds or thousands of dollars every month for the next few years.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 15:43
|
|
|
Utopia is so, so good. Almost finished with season 1, any word one when season 2 will come to netflix?
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 15:45
|
|
|
Turfahurf posted:I haven't seen the extended cut but honestly I can't see making the movie longer improving it. I'm having a hard time thinking of any comedy that is improved by being longer.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 16:08
|
|
|
Just watched Devil's Due on Canadian Netflix, I suggest you don't do the same as it's pretty drat boring. The only decent part was the ending with the Brazilian(?) taxi driver / cultist from earlier, now a Frenchman, picking up a new couple. The credits music was good though, very unexpected.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 16:34
|
|
|
I just about finished season one of Wentworth and I am pretty impressed with it so far. It's about life in a womens prison, however nothing like Orange is the New Black. No comedy, all drama and drat does it get pretty depressing at times.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 16:50
|
|
|
laxbro posted:Utopia is so, so good. Almost finished with season 1, any word one when season 2 will come to netflix? If there is a god, NF will buy the series. If they have season 1 its a good chance they will get two. Just don't google anything about the show or go to its original website its laden with spoilers.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 18:25
|
|
|
Just started watching Bojack Horseman. It's pretty good. More or less your standard cartoon aimed at adults, but the voice actors really make it.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 19:53
|
|
|
Alfred P. Pseudonym posted:Which one? The penis jokes, the only one an audience of school age children is really going to get.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 20:12
|
|
|
HUNDU THE BEAST GOD posted:Why did you have to say this? I'm sorry, but I didn't want to be alone.
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 20:19
|
|
|
|
| # ? Jun 8, 2024 21:10 |
|
|
dik-dik posted:Just started watching Bojack Horseman. It's pretty good. More or less your standard cartoon aimed at adults, but the voice actors really make it. I think this ended up being my favorite Netflix original show. it has an incredible payoff and gets better and better as the season goes on
|
|
#
?
Dec 10, 2014 20:24
|
|