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The Happening had some great trailers though. People leaping off buildings, rustling leaves, Mark Walhberg looking really loving worried. There were some very dramatic shots. My God, that was a terrible movie.
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Happening had some great trailers though. People leaping off buildings, rustling leaves, Mark Walhberg looking really loving worried. There were some very dramatic shots. My God, that was a terrible movie, though. The scene of them driving through this neighborhood full of people who hung themselves was pretty haunting too Shame about the everything else
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Jan 20, 2018 15:31
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I’m mystified about the hate for The Happening, it’s a moderately amusing horror/comedy with some good horror and good comedy bits. I’m not mystified by the hate for that Mel Gibson crap though, if you get both pretentious and portentous you gotta deliver.
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Jan 20, 2018 15:44
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To be fair that scene is weird from both ends, I'd probably sound like that too if someone asked if I was planning on murdering them - it's just a weird thing to say. My reaction might have been "What? Of course not, that's a weird thing to ask..." Even if I were, like I'd tell her...
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Jan 20, 2018 15:52
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The good thing about being a director I guess is that you get to decide a lot of how the movie is shot and edited before audiences are supposed to see it
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Jan 20, 2018 15:55
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The Lady in the Water is his best film, and will fight anyone that disagrees with me.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:01
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Shyamalan is a director with a lot of really great ideas and absolutely no sense to tell them apart from the terrible, terrible ideas he also has. He needs someone that he has a really good close relationship with, that he trusts completely, to tell him that an idea is loving stupid and he shouldn't do it. He's also terrible at action. I'm glad he's sticking to relatively cheap movies where there are very low expectations and he can just do something small and fun without getting too up his own rear end.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:07
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Gejimayu posted:The Lady in the Water is his best film, and will fight anyone that disagrees with me. I like the part where the director cast himself as the writer whose work of art will literally change the world. Very subtle Away all Goats has a new favorite as of 22:28 on Jan 20, 2018 |
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Jan 20, 2018 22:23
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Baron von Eevl posted:Shyamalan is a director with a lot of really great ideas and absolutely no sense to tell them apart from the terrible, terrible ideas he also has. He needs someone that he has a really good close relationship with, that he trusts completely, to tell him that an idea is loving stupid and he shouldn't do it. He's also terrible at action. Shyamalan is truly his generation's George Lucas.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:48
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Krispy Wafer posted:The Happening had some great trailers though. People leaping off buildings, rustling leaves, Mark Walhberg looking really loving worried. There were some very dramatic shots. My God, that was a terrible movie. The bit where the cop shoots herself and then the scene follows the gun as a bunch more people shoot themselves is pretty good. But the scene where they try to outrun the wind more than compensates for that one decent bit of film-making.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:54
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Away all Goats posted:I like the part where the director cast himself as the writer whose work of art will literally change the world. Very subtle I know, I know, I was literally just talking about that with my wife. But it's a great piece of modern fantasy that doesnt rely on a twist.
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Jan 20, 2018 22:57
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The Happening would have been great if there was no explanation for the event. Just two hours of people killing themselves and the survivers wondering when they each will succumb to whatever force is at work. That way there's no outrunning the wind or negotiating with plastic trees.
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Jan 20, 2018 23:09
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rydiafan posted:The Happening would have been great if there was no explanation for the event. Just two hours of people killing themselves and the survivers wondering when they each will succumb to whatever force is at work. That way there's no outrunning the wind or negotiating with plastic trees. The crazy dude has a great explanation about plants hating on humans, but he was a legit crazy man. We have no idea if he was actually right. I do think that people expected a thriller, but got a comedy / thriller. If you think of the humor as intentional, it elevates the movie.
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Jan 21, 2018 02:15
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out of the ten movies night has made icluding sixth sense ive ratd six at decent or higher
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Memento posted:The bit where the cop shoots herself and then the scene follows the gun as a bunch more people shoot themselves is pretty good. That whole buildup is fantastic. It's scary and creepy and beautiful but then it just becomes stupid. Those openening scenes, tnough
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Jan 21, 2018 02:53
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I have to wonder how he hosed up The Last Airbender so badly. I'm guessing it was more cases of 'My ideas are better than the silly cartoon's ideas'.
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Inescapable Duck posted:I have to wonder how he hosed up The Last Airbender so badly. I'm guessing it was more cases of 'My ideas are better than the silly cartoon's ideas'. I just wanna know why an Asian dude thought it'd be a good idea to cast Asians with white dudes and dudettes. Like, hey, this is one of the few occasion where not whitewashing a movie will actually improve your numbers!
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Jan 21, 2018 08:45
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Has everyone forgotten that he also made After Earth, the dreadful Jayden Smith vehicle?
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Jan 21, 2018 08:46
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Pook Good Mook posted:Has everyone forgotten that he also made After Earth, the dreadful Jayden Smith vehicle? Yes, and gently caress you for bringing up that awful turd of a movie. "Everything has evolved to kill humans!" NO IT DIDN'T YOU SCIENTOLOGIST PIECE OF poo poo THERE WERE NO HUMANS gently caress YOU AND YOUR STUPID SON I HOPE BOTH OF YOU MEET YOUR END IN A TIRE FIRE
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Screaming Idiot posted:Yes, and gently caress you for bringing up that awful turd of a movie. To be fair to that incredibly stupid plot point the point could be made that animals started getting better at doing that due to natural selection making sure that the ones that could withstand humans would survive being hunted to near extinction to the extent that humans had to flee earth due to things getting out of hand. For example if a leopard had some weird mutation that made it's hide tougher, and all the other leopards got killed in machinegun/pistol fire and the tougher hided one survived it would be more likely to pass on the "Thicker , bulletproof skin" gene. Then those cubs in which it expressed would be more likely to survive themselves, etc, until a few thousand years later a few pockets of nature have become Australia levels of "gently caress you" to the extent that they start killing humans faster, because they can. It's still dumb, and a dumb way of putting it, and I have no idea why I'm trying to defend it. I think I'm just treating it as a thought experiment, like if I was forced to write a story in which that was the premise that's how I would handle it given 5 minutes of barely thought.
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Jan 21, 2018 09:18
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BioEnchanted posted:To be fair to that incredibly stupid plot point the point could be made that animals started getting better at doing that due to natural selection making sure that the ones that could withstand humans would survive being hunted to near extinction to the extent that humans had to flee earth due to things getting out of hand. For example if a leopard had some weird mutation that made it's hide tougher, and all the other leopards got killed in machinegun/pistol fire and the tougher hided one survived it would be more likely to pass on the "Thicker , bulletproof skin" gene. Then those cubs in which it expressed would be more likely to survive themselves, etc, until a few thousand years later a few pockets of nature have become Australia levels of "gently caress you" to the extent that they start killing humans faster, because they can. Dammit Bio, I know your schtick is rummaging through the midden-heap of media and finding gems, but After Earth is indefensible on every level and all you're going to find rummaging through it are corn hulls and dysentary.
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Jan 21, 2018 09:22
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Screaming Idiot posted:Dammit Bio, I know your schtick is rummaging through the midden-heap of media, but After Earth is indefensible on every level. I know, I'm just having fun. Edit: Not trolling or anything, I just find it fun to over think things.
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Jan 21, 2018 09:23
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Will Smith isn’t a Scientologist.
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Pook Good Mook posted:Has everyone forgotten that he also made After Earth, the dreadful Jayden Smith vehicle? GENERAL CYPHER RAIGE
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Jan 21, 2018 09:43
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Not a movie, but a clever way Rocko's Modern Life uses an old joke/cliche - the elevator floors being announced. The reason each floor has a list rattled off of all items sold is because Rocko is listing them while looking for Dr Hutchinson on each floor - "11th Floor... Underwear, Dog toys, home movie equipment... I Don't see them!"
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Aphrodite posted:Will Smith isn’t a Scientologist. I’d like to believe that, but he’s friends with Tom Cruise, has donated in excess of $100,000 to the CoS, his wife was seen repeatedly at the CoS celebrity centre, he put a Scientologist as the head of a school he funded, and there’s random articles claiming he "left" it. So he probably is.
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Jan 21, 2018 10:39
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Scientology is not about keeping its celebrity members secret.
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Aphrodite posted:Scientology is not about keeping its celebrity members secret. They are 100% about loving with people.
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Jan 21, 2018 11:07
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poo poo, I've forgotten more bad M. Night Shyamalan movies than I can remember existing. He did After Earth also? Jeez...
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Jan 21, 2018 13:40
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i loved the rooftop scene but watching it again its badly written https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrCh_2_zVaY "give him some room" .......
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Jan 21, 2018 13:52
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I've just realised how weird the world of Rocko's Modern Life really is - and realised why as well. Most stories with cartoon animals have two styles - animals acting as people (Ren and Stimpy, Father of The Pride etc) or animals acting as animals but given a human voice (Animals of Farthing Wood, Watership Down) - however Zootopia and Rocko both strike a compromise - in Zootopia they used to act like wild animals but civilised over time and stopped eating each other. Zootopia was one, and is now the other. However, Rocko combines them. Heffer's parents adopted him with the intention of eating him but grew to love him as their own son, the Bigheads eat sapient insects who are characters in their own right but are still treated as mindless insects, the Chokey Chicken hires chickens to work there and promptly kills them for their meals, with the hiring manager himself being a chicken, selling out his own kind without a single twinge of guilt. The reason: Capitalism run amock, a literal dog-eat-dog world. Everyone stepping on each other and literally devouring each other to survive because that's what the society encourages. Certainly it has jokes about corporations, like the mall in the centre of a national park and the "campsite" that is just a paved over trailer park, but the greatest joke it tells is right at it's core - the world of O-Town is a nasty place where Virginia Woolfe would either eat you or serve you a meal in equal likelihood, depending on what her family needed at the time, which the episode An Elf for Heffer brought into sharp focus. Even Rocko, the kindest inhabitant of O-Town by far, is still pushed to satisfy his darker urges by this city built on competition above all else.
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Jan 21, 2018 14:15
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Rocko's Modern Life is basically a brutal social satire of modern capitalism in the guise of a children's cartoon. The fishing episode gave me existential dread as a child.
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Jan 21, 2018 14:42
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I was showing Black Dynamite to a friend last night and she pointed out a gag that I had missed before (I think I find something new every time). When Black Dynamite offers to give Gloria a ride down the street, it’s evening. When they get to Roscoe’s it’s the middle of the day. Also, at one point in the movie he says “By the ghost of Abraham Lincoln I will emancipate and proclamate your rear end!” At the end of the movie, he is saved by the ghost of Abraham Lincoln. Maybe that’s not actually subtle but I don’t think I thought about it before. Henchman of Santa has a new favorite as of 15:00 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Inescapable Duck posted:Rocko's Modern Life is basically a brutal social satire of modern capitalism in the guise of a children's cartoon. I know, I was just unpacking the layers.
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Sorry, was being obvious. In retrospect it's right there; the episode where Ed Bighead ends up rocketing through the corporate ladder out of sheer luck because he takes advice from a magic meatball (like a magic 8-ball, but... meat) where hard work and competence failed, and loses it just as quickly when left to this own devices. Or the Spring Cleaning episode where everyone makes an effort to clean up their own space, but it's pointless with how Conglom-O is polluting the town and owns the government, and it takes Rocko's idealistic activism to get them to cut down and make the town liveable again. Even the episode where Rocko's home videos, including one where he's naked getting a midnight snack, are turned into a commercial art film without his knowledge or informed consent, and he has to deal with his private life being made public for entertainment. drat, that show has aged terrifyingly well.
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Inescapable Duck posted:Sorry, was being obvious. In retrospect it's right there; the episode where Ed Bighead ends up rocketing through the corporate ladder out of sheer luck because he takes advice from a magic meatball (like a magic 8-ball, but... meat) where hard work and competence failed, and loses it just as quickly when left to this own devices. Or the Spring Cleaning episode where everyone makes an effort to clean up their own space, but it's pointless with how Conglom-O is polluting the town and owns the government, and it takes Rocko's idealistic activism to get them to cut down and make the town liveable again. Even the episode where Rocko's home videos, including one where he's naked getting a midnight snack, are turned into a commercial art film without his knowledge or informed consent, and he has to deal with his private life being made public for entertainment. Rocko can be pretty badass when pissed off or when something he cares about is in danger of being hurt in any way. In the episode when the bugs invaded his kitchen I was actually worried for them - my thoughts were literally "Careful Flecko, he's nice, but you don't want to take advantage of that. He has a fury that boy..." Also that great moment when Rocko warns Ed that if he keeps his behaviour the way it is he will lose Bev to another man, after Ed thinks he's caught them in a compromising position and responds by insulting Bev ("You've seen my wife in her bathrobe!? Isn't it awful...  ). "Why, If I wasn't such a gentleman, I'd... I'd...*kisses Bev on the hand and leaves*"
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Jan 21, 2018 16:24
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There was that time Rocko was seduced by capitalism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbaRmdpALsE
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just lol if you don't get out of the shower, put a towel on, puff your chest out and scream "YEAH, MELBA!" over and over. Every single time. As a 30 year old man with children. edit: Also lol if you can't single the entire Recycling song from memory. ARE EEE SEE WHY SEE ELL EEE RECYCLLLLLLLLLLLLLE edit: you guys I think I just figured out I'm autistic Mr. Bad Guy has a new favorite as of 17:12 on Jan 21, 2018 |
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Mr. Bad Guy posted:just lol if you don't get out of the shower, put a towel on, puff your chest out and scream "YEAH, MELBA!" over and over. Every single time. As a 30 year old man with children. Dawning Realization Day can be a very dangerous day.
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It's definitely been mentioned before, but in I Am Legend the mannequin that's where it shouldn't be turning it's head is a great touch
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