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The Vosgian Beast posted:By any chance was it Stanley Cavell? Good guess since Pursuits of Happyness was on the syllabus, but my professor's name was Chris Grau.
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Good guess since Pursuits of Happyness was on the syllabus, but my professor's name was Chris Grau. Just a fan or someone with a similar perspective then, I suppose.
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The cgi in the matrix movies for everything except humans is absolutely phenomenal and looks great today. The scene where neo and trinity fly the hover craft into the squid bomb artillery is gorgeous. The squid attack on zion is likewise great. But man did the full cgi burly brawl scenes suck. I remember groaning in the theater when that poo poo started
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Rough Lobster posted:Anyone watch Ozark on Netflix? I'm only two episodes in and it's a lot darker than I was expecting. Still has funny bits, but does it ever lighten up (and is it worth finishing)? I'm on episode 10, and no, while it still has funny bits, they don't lighten up. Ozark is a great show.
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I'm still convinced that the only reason the Matrix was good and the sequels weren't is because they bought the first script and created the other two. Nothing the Wachowskis have done since has been as well-written as the Matrix. Not that the Matrix is Citizen Kane or anything, but it's very clearly the pinnacle of a Wachowskis movie. Since then It's all been jumbled garbage over pretty scenery.
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Speed Racer was not jumbled garbage.
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Jupiter Ascending was, but only because iirc the original script was like 800 pages long and they had to hack it to pieces to get the drat thing made and in theaters. If they'd kept it near its original length and done a film series, I think it would be a decent amount better received.
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Jupiter Ascending was wonderfully entertaining even if it was a complete mess. Speed Racer is their best movie though, and Sense8 in a lot of ways is like they revisited parts of the Matrix movies that didn't work and made them work by playing to their strengths more.
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Sense8 may not be good. But it is super fun.
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If nothing else watch a compilation of all the VAN DAMME scenes from sense8 because that guy owns super hard
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Asnorban posted:Sense8 may not be good. But it is super fun. Sense8 was clearly made by people who just really love humanity and the human experience and huge chunks of the show are just them cinematically gushing about how great human beings are. It's charming, and it works whereas in the Matrix any time they try to do that it has to overcome all the grime and despair of the setting -- not that those are bad things, but rather they weren't quite proficient enough to make the extreme contrast work. It feels fake, or at least strained, while in Sense8 it seems totally sincere.
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LloydDobler posted:I'm still convinced that the only reason the Matrix was good and the sequels weren't is because they bought the first script and created the other two. Nothing the Wachowskis have done since has been as well-written as the Matrix. Not that the Matrix is Citizen Kane or anything, but it's very clearly the pinnacle of a Wachowskis movie. Since then It's all been jumbled garbage over pretty scenery.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Sense8 was clearly made by people who just really love humanity and the human experience and huge chunks of the show are just them cinematically gushing about how great human beings are. It's charming, and it works whereas in the Matrix any time they try to do that it has to overcome all the grime and despair of the setting -- not that those are bad things, but rather they weren't quite proficient enough to make the extreme contrast work. It feels fake, or at least strained, while in Sense8 it seems totally sincere. Yeah it's basically "gently caress you, being weird rules" in show format and played so sincere it's endearing. The title sequence shows two buff dudes with mohawks licking an ice cream cone together and like, that one shot tells you all you need to know about whether you'll enjoy the show or not.
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precision posted:The title sequence shows two buff dudes with mohawks licking an ice cream cone together and like, that one shot tells you all you need to know about whether you'll enjoy the show or not. that's exactly the image i was thinking of
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I noticed a movie called Check Point up on Netflix with a blurb about a homeless vet and a cook stopping a terror plot on US soil involving a secret civil war era tunnel that travels apparently scores if not hundreds of miles, to the white house - also they take over a battleship for some completely bizarre logic a la underpants gnomes business strategy. It sounded amazingly stupid so i watched it, and loved it. It has terrible acting, really awful fight scenes, claims to be based on a true story, has hamfisted use of music, bad special effects in firefights, a mostly incomprehensible plot, and William Forsythe and Fred Williamson claiming to be in their mid 40s. Most of the cast seem to be wrestlers or something, a little girl calls in the military st one point, and at the end they literally stand the US flag back upright like goddamned Iwo Jima. A must watch. coyo7e fucked around with this message at 08:32 on Aug 1, 2017 |
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precision posted:The title sequence shows two buff dudes with mohawks licking an ice cream cone together and like, that one shot tells you all you need to know about whether you'll enjoy the show or not. The fact that they have ice cream in their beards that really squicks me out and I have to look away each time. Yet I enjoy the show.
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david_a posted:What? http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/11/22/inside-the-billion-dollar-matrix-lawsuit-one-of-the-internets-most-pervasive-hoaxes/
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:Sense8 was clearly made by people who just really love humanity and the human experience and huge chunks of the show are just them cinematically gushing about how great human beings are. It's charming, and it works whereas in the Matrix any time they try to do that it has to overcome all the grime and despair of the setting -- not that those are bad things, but rather they weren't quite proficient enough to make the extreme contrast work. It feels fake, or at least strained, while in Sense8 it seems totally sincere. This is a good, precise summation of why I liked Sense8. The first season was stronger than the second in this respect, but the childbirth scene matched with the opera/classical music performance is a good example of this. Just a celebration of humanity's emotional tapestry that's played completely straight.
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:... gushing about how great human beings are. So it's sci-fi then?
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I watched Toys last week and I still can't figure out what the gently caress that was all about.
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Yoga Hosers is on Netflix and I double dog dare you guys to watch it.
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Super Fan posted:Yoga Hosers is on Netflix and I double dog dare you guys to watch it. Do not take this dare unless you are a teenage girl related to Kevin Smith. This makes Tusk look like Citizen Kane.
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Back to The Matrix, Netflix has all 3. No idea how long they've been there.
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I watched Yoga Hosers ask me anything
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I'll give Yoga Hosers this much, it's not nearly as bad as Cop Out was.
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THE STUNT MAN IS ON AMAZON PRIME
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Wilhelm Scream posted:I'll give Yoga Hosers this much, it's not nearly as bad as Cop Out was. Is Cop Out that bad? Yoga Hosers was the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Super Fan fucked around with this message at 03:08 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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Super Fan posted:Is Cop Out that bad? Yoga Hosers was the worst movie I've seen in a long time. Cop Out was bad, but I did laugh a few times. Yoga Hosers solicited only annoyance from me.
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A MIRACLE posted:I watched Yoga Hosers ask me anything What is it like posting from beyond the grave? This assumes of course that it was bad enough to have killed you.
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A MIRACLE posted:I watched Yoga Hosers ask me anything
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A MIRACLE posted:I watched Yoga Hosers ask me anything How soon is Kevin Smith's daughter gonna resort to porn?
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Wilhelm Scream posted:I'll give Yoga Hosers this much, it's not nearly as bad as Cop Out was. Is it Kevin Smith's best film to date?
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Bored As gently caress posted:How soon is Kevin Smith's daughter gonna resort to porn? Wait, he called his daughter "Harley Quinn"?
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mrfart posted:Wait, he called his daughter "Harley Quinn"? Yes, and she loves it. She dresses up as the character and I guess owns the bat, or a replica of the bat, from Suicide Squad. She seems okay for having Kevin Smith as a father. edit: Also, Cop Out is as bad as everyone's saying. It doesn't make sense, but it's nowhere near as messy as Red State, Tusk, or (I presume) Yoga Hosers (I refuse to watch Kevin Smith movies). I don't think Cop Out's as bad as Zack & Miri, which I couldn't finish. That movie fails at even creating the tone of a comedy. Franchescanado fucked around with this message at 14:02 on Aug 2, 2017 |
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The only positive thing I've heard about Yoga Hosers is that the cast clearly had a blast making this terrible, terrible movie
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Franchescanado posted:Yes, and she loves it. She dresses up as the character and I guess owns the bat, or a replica of the bat, from Suicide Squad. I don't doubt that, but might it be possible she loves Harley Quinn because it's her name and her dad raised her on comic books?
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precision posted:I don't doubt that, but might it be possible she loves Harley Quinn because it's her name and her dad raised her on comic books? which came first; the jorts or the man?
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Parachute posted:which came first; the jorts or the man? haha Like, I really just don't get naming your kid poo poo like that though. I would never name my daughter Cat Power.
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precision posted:haha i don't either, but then again i named my son after a terminator character
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