That chick from twilight is in it and proves she can actually act and not just a little but a damn lot. This easily proved that she is going to be around for much longer than the Twilight saga.
I thought she was outstanding in Adventureland too.
I followed Transformers 2 with Inglourious Basterds which I enjoyed thoroughly. I haven't seen a better Tarantino film since Pulp Fiction (to be fair, I've not seen Jackie Brown).
In hindsight, it was less a film than a series of scenes strung together. The only narrative throughout the film were Shoshanna and Landa. Still, what great scenes. The basement tavern scene being perhaps my favorite, despite the absence of the Landa character.
I did a double feature a few weeks back with first Dr. Strangelove followed by Inglorious Basterds. I love both films and it was interesting to see war movies with black humor from the cold war through the post 9/11 mindset.
Finally a film that answers the age old question: "If you were a teenage boy who found a sexy naked zombie strapped to a table in the basement of an abandoned asylum, what would you do?"
My brother in law put Deadgirl on the TV one night when I was totally baked and I had no idea what the premise or even the title of the movie was, I just started watching. The conversation was like this:"what is this?" "shut up, just watch." "okay." I wish there was a way I could make everybody watch that movie under those same circumstances. It blew my fucking mind.
Meh. I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. It was unmitigated nonsense, but entertainingly so.
Oh fuck you. There was no entertainment to be had, not at all.
All I watched was the last half hour of this piece of shit and wanted to vomit blood. None of it made any fucking sense and I don't think seeing the preceding two hours would have helped one fucking bit.
Shit, this was so fucking bad.
I submit that, if you were to cut all the offensively stupid and stupidly offensive bits out of that movie, you'd have 20-30 extremely entertaining minutes of giant robots punching each other left, and it would make exactly as much sense as the theatrical release. Also, Soundwave was a communications satellite!
Went home for the weekend, failed to convince my brothers to see Scott Pilgrim with me, ended up seeing The Expendables instead. Meh. It mostly fails even on its own terms. I knew it was going to be stupid, but I thought it would at least be entertaining. Not so much. If you're going to do a big ensemble cast of 80's action stars, and that is going to be the entire hook for your movie, it would help if they played characters who were even remotely distinguishable from one another.
Also, if both of the women in a movie get punched by abusive dudes in the exact same spot on their face, that counts as passing the Bechdel test, right?
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Oh! And one other thing I forgot to say about The Expendables. Despite all the right winger ideologasms about how - finally! - a movie is coming out that isn't afraid to be all hetero American men, fuck yeah!, there are a couple of details that should (but probably won't) throw a big gay French kiss in their enjoyment of the film. First, the ultimate villain is an agent gone rogue from the CIA's Central American government overthrowing, cocaine growing business. Second, waterboarding is clearly presented as torture, and something that the bad guys do.
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Well, of COURSE it's torture when the bad guys do it.
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I submit that, if you were to cut all the offensively stupid and stupidly offensive bits out of that movie, you'd have 20-30 extremely entertaining minutes of giant robots punching each other left, and it would make exactly as much sense as the theatrical release.
Then you'd have to exclude the fight scenes from the end, because all I saw was the US military shooting the shit out of the Decepticons
I submit that, if you were to cut all the offensively stupid and stupidly offensive bits out of that movie, you'd have 20-30 extremely entertaining minutes of giant robots punching each other left, and it would make exactly as much sense as the theatrical release.
Then you'd have to exclude the fight scenes from the end, because all I saw was the US military shooting the shit out of [a bunch of generic nameless] Decepticons [and also a couple Constructicons who mysteriously were both fighting the US military and climbing the Great Pyramid at the same time].
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The wrecking ball Bot Nutz would have been a mildly amusing sight gag if Bay hadn't felt the need to have John Leguizamo call the fucking joke out. Hey! Look! Balls! Aren't we funny!
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The Blind Side. Liked it a lot. If Sandra Bullock's performance was accurate, I like Leigh Ann Touhy a lot.
Astro Boy.
Okay WTF? I was expecting some fluffy boy-hero schtick and I get "ethics relating to AI" that I am supposed to explain to a 4yo? Goddamn it! Oh, and as with Iron Giant, robot sacrifices are what touches Kiddo's developing feelers, he was crying when ZOG decided to save Astro Boy at the end.
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Astro Boy. Okay WTF? I was expecting some fluffy boy-hero schtick and I get "ethics relating to AI" that I am supposed to explain to a 4yo? Goddamn it! Oh, and as with Iron Giant, robot sacrifices are what touches Kiddo's feelers, he was crying when ZOG decided to save Astro Boy at the end.
SPOILER WARNING GODDAMNIT!
Fucking socially awkward homeschoolers don't know shit about nothing.
Really? It needs a spoiler? Hasn't everyone who wants to see it seen it yet? I am like years behind on movies so I just assumed there was nobody left waiting to rent it.
Astro Boy. Okay WTF? I was expecting some fluffy boy-hero schtick and I get "ethics relating to AI" that I am supposed to explain to a 4yo? Goddamn it! Oh, and as with Iron Giant, robot sacrifices are what touches Kiddo's feelers, he was crying when ZOG decided to save Astro Boy at the end.
SPOILER WARNING GODDAMNIT!
Fucking socially awkward homeschoolers don't know shit about nothing.
SPOILER TAG YOUR QUOTE GODDAMNIT WEI YAU!
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Srsly, tho, I was thinking about watching Astro Boy with my eldest. I need to introduce her to more age appropriate cartoons. She still enjoys watching the pre-school stuff, which is weird to me.
I mean, she's growing out of most of it, but still watches "Wow Wow Wubzy" and "Wonder Pets" etc.
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It's worth a watch, it just had a deeper theme than I expected.
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