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Morpheus posted:Watched A Wrinkled in Time last night. Not a particularly good.movie. But what really got me was how absolutely pointless the character of Calvin was. He literally does nothing the entire film. I mean, nothing. Could've been removed entirely without changing a single plot point. I feel like he actually does something in the book, but don't really remember. It's been a while since I've seen Blade Runner 2049 but I feel the same way about Jared Leto in that movie. Same with the Walton Goggins character in Ant-Man. Movies are way bloated with pointless characters.
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Jared Leto is always a pointless character. I will never understand his popularity.
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Mar 25, 2019 18:34
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Captain Monkey posted:Jared Leto is always a pointless character. I will never understand his popularity. 
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Mar 25, 2019 18:47
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Every now and then he does something really good (Requiem for a dream) and then follows it up with poo poo, then does something really good again (he was p drat good in Dallas buyers club) and then follows it up with like suicide squad or whatever
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Mu Zeta posted:It's been a while since I've seen Blade Runner 2049 but I feel the same way about Jared Leto in that movie. Same with the Walton Goggins character in Ant-Man. Movies are way bloated with pointless characters. My experience was that Blade Runner 2049 is more of an cyberpunk art exhibit with a plot than a movie about synthetic people and mega corps. Similarly as Space Odyssey 2001 is an artwork revolving around near sci-fi, or a slow-moving flick with really obtuse final act. Unless you read the book that was released along with the movie.
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In Coco the dead are able to retrieve offerings during Dia de Los Muertos and it is depicted by them taking the 'ghosts' of the food /gifts of their living families. OK, makes sense. But then how the hell did Ernesto De La Cruz bring back the mountains of offerings from his fans? He's such a big shot in the land of the dead that it doesn't seem like he has time to bother crossing the bridge in the first place, since he seems to be partying and preparing for his big concert the whole time.
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Mar 25, 2019 19:56
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Panfilo posted:In Coco the dead are able to retrieve offerings during Dia de Los Muertos and it is depicted by them taking the 'ghosts' of the food /gifts of their living families. OK, makes sense. But then how the hell did Ernesto De La Cruz bring back the mountains of offerings from his fans? He's such a big shot in the land of the dead that it doesn't seem like he has time to bother crossing the bridge in the first place, since he seems to be partying and preparing for his big concert the whole time. Maybe some of his guards do it? I presume just like in the land of the living, in the Land of the Dead if you have money and power you can get away with bending a lot of rules.
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I guess, but up to that point we only see dead people personally take offerings. For example, there's a gag where a pissed off skeleton lady is telling her husband "I'm not spending Dia DE Los Muertos with your ex wife's family" (implying his kids from a previous marriage put his photo up with their mom).
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Mu Zeta posted:It's been a while since I've seen Blade Runner 2049 but I feel the same way about Jared Leto in that movie. Same with the Walton Goggins character in Ant-Man. Movies are way bloated with pointless characters. walton goggins is a national treasure you monster. Biplane posted:Lucifer makes me weep for the Sandman/Lucifer HBO extravaganza we’ll never have same. they really butchered the comic w/ lucifer. outside of american gods has gaiman ever had a good film / tv adaption? edit i forgot about star dust. thats a good adaption to vv you forget the shield!? snergle has a new favorite as of 20:34 on Mar 25, 2019 |
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Mar 25, 2019 20:27
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Yeah in Vice Principals and Justified. In most movies his characters are nothing. I'm not even saying the actor is bad. I'm complaining about how movies have useless characters. In the case of Ant-Man they don't give him enough to do.
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Mu Zeta posted:Yeah in The Hateful Eight
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Mar 25, 2019 20:31
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Don't even get me started on Ocean's Three-hundred and Forty-Seven
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jojoinnit posted:MI does lean completely into it as a character trait in every single movie so for me it's completely forgivable, plus everything he does feels so visceral and painful that it's basically the opposite of a superhero movie where nobody seems to ever feel a hit. Also Cavill keeps introducing himself to people who really don't care. Which made sense since it wasn't his real name.
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Der Kyhe posted:My experience was that Blade Runner 2049 is more of an cyberpunk art exhibit with a plot than a movie about synthetic people and mega corps. My IMM: Please stop putting Harrison Ford in movies (at least as anything other than an old man) Dude is a loving legend, so I get it. But he's too old and he's done way too many drugs. He just cannot act anymore. Seeing him as "Deckard" and "Han Solo" was just... weird. He's not playing a character anymore. He's just Harrison Ford. He just walked up on set and started talking to the movie characters.
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Mar 25, 2019 21:58
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Well, tbf the only time I recall him acting like someone else was in regarding henry, where he played a brain damaged Harrison ford. Dude's like John wayne, he plays himself in every movie. Only the mood changes.
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I don't get why he gets so loving pissed when people ask him about Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Those two are why he became loving famous, not loving Sabrina.
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Mar 26, 2019 00:47
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Many famous people seem to despise what made them the most famous
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snergle posted:same. they really butchered the comic w/ lucifer. outside of american gods has gaiman ever had a good film / tv adaption? Coraline? Edit: I also enjoyed Mirrormask, don't know if that counts
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oldpainless posted:Many famous people seem to despise what made them the most famous Not always. For example, R Kelly will always will always have a place in his heart for abusing minors.
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Mar 26, 2019 01:52
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I loved mirrormask but am afraid to watch it again, lest I accidentally discover it's actually poo poo or something.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I don't get why he gets so loving pissed when people ask him about Star Wars or Indiana Jones. Those two are why he became loving famous, not loving Sabrina. probably hearing the same question for the two hundredth time gets old
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Mar 26, 2019 02:32
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Who the gently caress wants to talk to star wars fans
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Tunicate posted:probably hearing the same question for the two hundredth time gets old Star Wars so probably more like two millionth time.
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Beef Jerky Robot posted:Who the gently caress wants to talk to star wars fans Chris Hansen.
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Tunicate posted:probably hearing the same question for the two hundredth time gets old I wonder if the kid who was Harry Potter will turn into Ford when he gets older. He just seems more chill about his fame.
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Cowslips Warren posted:I wonder if the kid who was Harry Potter will turn into Ford when he gets older. He just seems more chill about his fame. He seems to have taken that Harry Potter money and fame and used it to just take whatever weird rear end movie role he wants.
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Push El Burrito posted:He seems to have taken that Harry Potter money and fame and used it to just take whatever weird rear end movie role he wants. Aside from that weird horse movie, I love what he's doing. Swiss Army Man is simultaneously hilarious and sad as hell. A movie about a farting boat corpse shouldn't make me cry, but it did. The undercover nazi one was kind of weird, but he still pulled it off.
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Right now he's on a comedy miniseries on TBS where he plays a low ranking angel in heaven working for God (played by Steve Buscemi.) He brings this hilarious intense awkward energy to his character.
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He did a funny mini series with John Hamm where he was some Russian surgeon in the early 1900s. It was gross too.
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Screaming Idiot posted:Chris Hansen. I thought that was Star Trek fans? muscles like this! posted:Right now he's on a comedy miniseries on TBS where he plays a low ranking angel in heaven working for God (played by Steve Buscemi.) He brings this hilarious intense awkward energy to his character. Is that good? I've been meaning to check it out.
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yeah I eat rear end posted:Aside from that weird horse movie, I love what he's doing. Swiss Army Man is simultaneously hilarious and sad as hell. A movie about a farting boat corpse shouldn't make me cry, but it did. The undercover nazi one was kind of weird, but he still pulled it off. He was also in Horns which was a pretty weird film. So far all the main Harry Potter kids have done alright.
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Push El Burrito posted:So far all the main Harry Potter kids have done alright. Poor, poor R Pats. He did not deserve what Twilight did, and is probably still doing, to him.
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He's been working with Cronenberg and Safdie Bros. And he's doing the next Nolan movie.
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Schubalts posted:Poor, poor R Pats. He did not deserve what Twilight did, and is probably still doing, to him. I'd say he's been fine. He did three romantic dramas in between the Twilight movies and then stepped away from being typecast with stuff like The Rover, Good Times and recently High Life. Cosmopolis was apparently released before the last Twilight movie, but already showed in which direction he wanted to go.
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snergle posted:walton goggins is a national treasure you monster. Lucifer isn't a Gaiman adaptation. He only created this version of Lucifer, Mazikeen and the Lux nightclub. The comic was written by Mike Carey, who also wrote The Girl With All The Gifts.
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Schubalts posted:Poor, poor R Pats. He did not deserve what Twilight did, and is probably still doing, to him. I dunno man, he's become one of those names that when I notice, they make me want to check out a movie that didn't seem interesting at first glance.
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Schubalts posted:Poor, poor R Pats. He did not deserve what Twilight did, and is probably still doing, to him. Poor Robert Patterson? Poor Kristen Stewart! People act like she wrote Twilight sometimes.
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Mar 26, 2019 15:25
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But Stewart was a lovely actor.
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Android Apocalypse posted:But Stewart was a lovely actor. She really isn't. She played her Twilight character perfectly because nobody liked her.
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She's a limited actor, which isn't necessarily the same as bad. Because of Twilight she got popular and cast into roles she shouldn't have been.
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