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January 22, 2016 at 5:09 pm #32612

Tommyfw
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Kevin wrote:

Agree with both of you. It’s very well made, and it seems like the type of movie that wins Best Picture. At least it has something to say, unlike say The Revenant. It would be crazy if it wins Best Director, though, as there’s very little style to it. Can’t believe Ruffalo and McAdams got nominations and Keaton didn’t. I found Ruffalo to be doing some weird affectation that annoyed me. I loved the scene where Keaton basically undercuts Ruffalo’s Oscar bait speech by saying “alright settle down, I’m the boss here.” McAdams doesn’t do anything special, though she does get the best scene in the movie, at the door of that priest with dementia.

That scene and the BC High “intervention” scene were my two favorites.

I though Revenant was a better movie visually. Both movies were very good. I think I liked the Revenant more than you guys.

January 23, 2016 at 9:45 pm #32773

Danny Duberstein
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Watching the Blu Ray of The Martian. Such a good interpretation of the book. Just really well done.

January 25, 2016 at 2:50 pm #33632

Danny Duberstein
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Ryan Coogler (Creed) is directing Black Panther. Nice hire, very excited about that movie.

January 26, 2016 at 11:09 am #33730

Kevin
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I’ve never been much into the whole liberal white guilt thing. So when this whole thing with the Oscars being too white, and people boycotting them, I really don’t give a shit.

But in the interest of finding a movie that both my wife and I could tolerate watching, i put that movie “Brooklyn” on Saturday night. I figured she could get her some love story, and I know it got a few nominations, so I could maybe stand it.

We lasted a half hour. What a bore fest. Not sure how that could be nominated for Best Picture.

It’s also the whitest movie ever. Creed was much better. Haven’t seen Straight Outta Compton yet, but it has to be better.

January 27, 2016 at 6:56 pm #34063
Tommyfw
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Straight Outta Compton was very good. Worth a couple hours of your time.
- This reply was modified 2 years, 10 months ago by Tommyfw.
January 27, 2016 at 7:14 pm #34068

Lebron
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Finally caught Ex Machina. Really enjoyed that one, probably because it was pretty straight forward and you had 3 characters. Ironically I had caught Imitation Game the night before so was fully versed on the Turing Test.

January 30, 2016 at 12:24 pm #34470

Patrick Pass
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Saw Spotlight. Very good movie despite the media are heroes agenda. Well acted. In fact I’d say I expected to see it and think it was overrated. But I didn’t. Probably the best of the five nominees I’ve seen so far (haven’t seen Brooklyn, Room or Fury Road)

January 30, 2016 at 4:43 pm #34482

Tommyfw
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Concussion was pretty darn good. When you think about the NFL ignoring science in relation to weather effects on football you see that play out in this movie as well.

Not sure why Will Smith didn’t get a nomination for that movie. He was great.

January 30, 2016 at 8:40 pm #34489

Yahtzee
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Patrick Pass wrote:

Saw Spotlight. Very good movie despite the media are heroes agenda. Well acted. In fact I’d say I expected to see it and think it was overrated. But I didn’t. Probably the best of the five nominees I’ve seen so far (haven’t seen Brooklyn, Room or Fury Road)

Just saw it. Took me a good 10 minutes to get over Curse of the Bambino is a good book scene. Seriously.

As a practicing Boston Catholic it was hard to watch at times; including trying to remember how I reacted at the time. I think I was fucking naive: something of this magnitude is impossible. I was wrong.

Law should be in jail. Hank Paulson is well down the list compared to him.

January 30, 2016 at 8:42 pm #34490

Yahtzee
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Tommyfw wrote:

Concussion was pretty darn good. When you think about the NFL ignoring science in relation to weather effects on football you see that play out in this movie as well.

Not sure why Will Smith didn’t get a nomination for that movie. He was great.

Because he’s black?

January 30, 2016 at 10:52 pm #34493

Kevin
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Wow, Straight Outta Compton is terrible!

January 31, 2016 at 12:06 am #34494

Gimp
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Respectfully disagree. Just watched Straight Outta Compton on a flight back from France-along with Black Mass- and thought it was the better of the 2. The only thing I didn’t care for was Paul Giamatti’s character: almost like he was playing a cliche. Ice Cube’s playing him and the actor that played Dre were great.

January 31, 2016 at 8:54 am #34496

Kevin
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Agreed, it is better than Black Mass, which is very terrible.

About the only time the movie good is when Cube is rapping. Unfortunately, that’s ten minutes out of 2:20. Otherwise, it is very perfunctory and low energy.

Here’s the part where all the record guys are scared to sign them. Oh here’s the part where Suge Knight scares the hell out of everyone. Here’s the part where the doctor carefully says to Eazy that HIV can also be transmitted by heterosexual sex, too!

January 31, 2016 at 11:56 am #34501

Tommyfw
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Yahtzee wrote:

Tommyfw wrote:

Concussion was pretty darn good. When you think about the NFL ignoring science in relation to weather effects on football you see that play out in this movie as well. Not sure why Will Smith didn’t get a nomination for that movie. He was great.

Because he’s black?

Signed,

Jada Pinkett Smith.

I expected that since it was a lay up but he was honestly really good in that movie.

Kevin just made Straight Outta Compton feel trite. How do you tell a story about something that happened in a different world when now those same things feel trite? I thought the movie accurately portrayed what the prevailing culture of the day felt like.

Then again I would look forward to a Fab 5 movie as well since I think that was one of those major changes in culture.

January 31, 2016 at 7:39 pm #34522

Danny Duberstein
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Gimp wrote:

Respectfully disagree. Just watched Straight Outta Compton on a flight back from France-along with Black Mass- and thought it was the better of the 2. The only thing I didn’t care for was Paul Giamatti’s character: almost like he was playing a cliche. Ice Cube’s playing him and the actor that played Dre were great.

Paul Giamatti as Jewey Jewman.

February 1, 2016 at 2:53 pm #34651

Kevin
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https://www.gq.com/story/the-definitive-ranking-of-all-17-coen-brothers-movies?mbid=social_twitter

Lebowski sixth? Come on!

Full disclosure: Raising Arizona sucks.

February 1, 2016 at 3:16 pm #34654

InThisTown
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Blood Simple and Raising Arizona both ssssstink. What terrible choices. I mean, anyone who would rather watch them than True Grit is batty. I’ll listen to any argument for Fargo, Lebowski, Millers, No Country for best.

I really liked Black Mass, mostly because I had such low expectations after the reviews.

February 1, 2016 at 4:14 pm #34672

BSF34
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I don’t have the hate for Raising Arizona like you guys, but #1? Uh, no.

Wait, what?

February 1, 2016 at 6:05 pm #34681

Lebron
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Haven’t seen Raising Arizona in a long time – Nathan Arizona (Huffheinz) pointing out that all the cops were at the one place where we know my boy ain’t at was good. No Country was awesome. I also enjoyed A Serious Man.

February 1, 2016 at 10:58 pm #34715

Patrick Pass
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Anyone see Cartel Land? I saw it was nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars and it’s on Netflix so I watched it.

I would say it was okay at best. I found the story about the Autodefensas in Mexico interesting. But the part about the couple American crackpots in Arizona should have been left out altogether. The thing was was too long probably could have cut off a half hour at least of filler including, like I said, the entire American part.

February 2, 2016 at 12:25 pm #34803

Rickkyboy
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BSF34 wrote:

I don’t have the hate for Raising Arizona like you guys, but #1? Uh, no.

Same here.

I love O’Brother but probably more so for when Durning, Root and Goodman characters are in scenes.

February 6, 2016 at 3:53 pm #35735

Patrick Pass
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Saw Black Mass again. Had originally seen it in the theater. Thought it was borderline bad in the theater though not completely awful. Liked it a lot better with a second viewing for some reason. Still think its just okay. Disappointing thing is it could have been done much better. Depp was good I’ll grant that.

February 7, 2016 at 7:02 am #35751

Marty Nopointe
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I’ve seen maybe 5 of those Coen movies, the rest sound boring

February 7, 2016 at 10:09 am #35774

BSF34
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Just 21 reviews so far, but Deadpool is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Wait, what?

February 7, 2016 at 12:05 pm #35798

Doncabesa
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BSF34 wrote:

Just 21 reviews so far, but Deadpool is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

tickets bought for saturday, no kids this weekend makes that easier. Can’t wait

February 7, 2016 at 1:33 pm #35817

Kingasaurus
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InThisTown wrote:

Blood Simple and Raising Arizona both ssssstink. What terrible choices. I mean, anyone who would rather watch them than True Grit is batty. I’ll listen to any argument for Fargo, Lebowski, Millers, No Country for best.

I have no argument for best, just a general opinion. Lebowski is a cultural touchstone at this point, it has to be higher than 6th.

I seem to be in the minority in thinking that Ladykillers is underrated, and doesn’t deserve the bashing it gets. I remember he audience I saw it with laughed in all the right places and was very enthusiastic. Oh well. Maybe people viscerally rebel at Tom Hanks playing a bad guy.

True Grit being 10th is a fucking joke. Higher.

February 7, 2016 at 3:10 pm #35823

Kevin
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Saw the Amy Winehouse doc.

It was good, but I don’t think I was supposed to laugh when after she died, they had Tony Bennett to tell us how great, great she was.

February 7, 2016 at 8:00 pm #35973

Danny Duberstein
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BSF34 wrote:

Just 21 reviews so far, but Deadpool is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I’ve never taken to the character. I’ll skip, just like Guardians and Ant Man.

February 8, 2016 at 1:35 pm #36372

thatsnotwhatisaid
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Danny Duberstein wrote:

BSF34 wrote:

Just 21 reviews so far, but Deadpool is at 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.

I’ve never taken to the character. I’ll skip, just like Guardians and Ant Man.

Guardians is worth seeing whether you are attached to the characters or not. I had no idea who any of them were going in and it was a fun watch.

February 8, 2016 at 5:49 pm #36414

Major Intangibles
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And I found Ant-Man to be way more enjoyable than the Avengers-Age of Ultron.

Nothing will be saved. All will be lost. And our new onion-headed sad emoticon is unable to convey the depth of that loss. -10/22/25 (sic) Daily Thread

February 8, 2016 at 6:56 pm #36417

Lebron
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Enjoyed Guardians way more than I thought I would and I had no idea who they were. Avengers is/are fucking terrible. The stupid cutesy line exchanges among them were awful. I liked the first Iron Man movie although Downey grates on you right quick, the Captain America movie, and the Norton Hulk movie, but when they put them all together and mix in pensive Mark Ruffalo, blech. Expecting the Batman/Superman to be the same just from the promos.

February 8, 2016 at 8:29 pm #36436

Gimp
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Major Intangibles wrote:

And I found Ant-Man to be way more enjoyable than the Avengers-Age of Ultron.

This. All day. Avengers began taking itself too seriously 2 movies ago.

Was pleasantly surprised by Ant Man.

Had no knowledge of Guardians, still dug it.

February 12, 2016 at 8:22 am #36903

Kevin
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My memory might not be the best, but the first Zoolander movie was fucking terrible, right?

February 12, 2016 at 8:37 am #36906

Danny Duberstein
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The worst of the bunch is Iron Man 3. Horrible.

And yes, Zoolander was a steaming pile of shit. It’s been long enough that most people forget this.

February 12, 2016 at 9:11 am #36919

InThisTown
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Kevin wrote:

My memory might not be the best, but the first Zoolander movie was fucking terrible, right?

Yes. Inexplicable love from the early 30s crowd.

February 12, 2016 at 9:14 am #36920

Kevin
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InThisTown wrote:

Kevin wrote:

My memory might not be the best, but the first Zoolander movie was fucking terrible, right?

Yes. Inexplicable love from the early 30s crowd.

I didn’t even think it reached some sort of cult status, but it must have, I guess.

And I like Owen Wilson and Will Ferrell.

February 12, 2016 at 11:18 pm #37120

Doncabesa
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Just watched Bone Tomahawk with the Mrs., fantastic movie. Slow paced as all hell, but a damn good old timey horror, gore-riffic Western.

February 13, 2016 at 9:09 pm #37180

Marty Nopointe
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Zoolander was funny, won’t argue this, Will Ferrell is commonly thought of as funny because of Johnny Reilly

February 13, 2016 at 9:21 pm #37181

Major Intangibles
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I’m with Marty on this. And I’m going to further assume all the really funny parts of Zoolander were penned by co-writer Drake Sather, who being dead since 2004 was unavailable to make Zoolander 2 not horrible.

Nothing will be saved. All will be lost. And our new onion-headed sad emoticon is unable to convey the depth of that loss. -10/22/25 (sic) Daily Thread

February 14, 2016 at 11:53 am #37208

Doncabesa
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Deadpool was pretty damned entertaining, hopefully they keep it similar for the inevitable sequel.

February 14, 2016 at 1:40 pm #37217

BSF34
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Doncabesa wrote:

Deadpool was pretty damned entertaining, hopefully they keep it similar for the inevitable sequel.

Saw it yesterday morning and thought the same. And a sequel has already been announced.

Wait, what?

February 15, 2016 at 9:44 am #37269

chicowalker
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Watched Ex Machina this weekend, fantastic. Kind of spooked me all day yesterday stuck in the house

February 22, 2016 at 11:16 am #38147

Lebron
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If you have Showtime or Amazon (thought I saw it on there) highly recommend the hour and 20 minutes spent on the Meru documentary. Ended up watching it twice over the weekend.

February 22, 2016 at 6:50 pm #38257

chicowalker
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Another thumbs up for deadpool

February 24, 2016 at 9:46 pm #38631

Kevin
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Hail, Caesar: Ehh.

Wished it had more laughs.

February 26, 2016 at 1:05 pm #38977

Patrick Pass
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Saw Room, the last of the Best Picture nominees I hadn’t seen. Well made (but not Best Picture worthy) but disturbing movie. Wouldn’t surprise me if Larson won Best Actress.

February 26, 2016 at 2:44 pm #39007

Kevin
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Patrick Pass wrote:

Saw Room, the last of the Best Picture nominees I hadn’t seen. Well made (but not Best Picture worthy) but disturbing movie. Wouldn’t surprise me if Larson won Best Actress.

You made it all the way through “Brooklyn”?

February 26, 2016 at 5:14 pm #39046

Patrick Pass
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Kevin wrote:

Patrick Pass wrote:

Saw Room, the last of the Best Picture nominees I hadn’t seen. Well made (but not Best Picture worthy) but disturbing movie. Wouldn’t surprise me if Larson won Best Actress.

You made it all the way through “Brooklyn”?

I did. Boring chick flick.

February 27, 2016 at 11:41 am #39057

Patrick Pass
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Saw Deadpool last night and thought it was great.

February 27, 2016 at 4:57 pm #39062

Tommyfw
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Patrick Pass wrote:

Saw Room, the last of the Best Picture nominees I hadn’t seen. Well made (but not Best Picture worthy) but disturbing movie. Wouldn’t surprise me if Larson won Best Actress.

Completely agree. Larson was amazing. Source material made me queasy.
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