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[Poindexter Arachnid]

Do The Right Thing

 

[The Ü™]

Starting the Xmas season, I'm watching Scrooged, my favorite Xmas Carol adaptation.

 

[prplchknz]

Just started Orange is the New Black

 

[Patches]

Just started Orange is the New Black

Loved it. Highly recommend.

 

[prplchknz]

Loved it. Highly recommend.

Yeah I'm on the second episode. Watched the first one last night, it was awesome.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

Red Dawn (original)

 

[Ginkgo]

Thanking [MENTION=9552]momental[/MENTION] for suggesting There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

IMO The former was the more provoking of the two, but "Sigur" was an awesome character nevertheless. I can understand why [MENTION=13147]senza tema[/MENTION] made the comparison.

Color me entertained.

 

[Nicodemus]

Thanking [MENTION=9552]momental[/MENTION] for suggesting There Will Be Blood and No Country For Old Men.

IMO The former was the more provoking of the two, but "Sigur" was an awesome character nevertheless. I can understand why [MENTION=13147]senza tema[/MENTION] made the comparison.

Color me entertained.

Now you have to see Zodiac, to complete the Great Three of 2007.

 

[Ginkgo]

Now you have to see Zodiac, to complete the Great Three of 2007.

Seen that one, but good eye. Just another example of why Robert Downey Jr. seems to only play ENTP characters.

I also watched Star Trek: Into Darkness recently. Very well executed, but a couple of the plot devices near the end were too corny for me. Maybe a Treky would find them more palatable.

If you haven't seen it, I'd also recommend The Departed. That movie pulls no punches.

 

[The Ü™]

Seen that one, but good eye. Just another example of why Robert Downey Jr. seems to only play ENTP characters.

I also watched Star Trek: Into Darkness recently. Very well executed, but a couple of the plot devices near the end were too corny for me. Maybe a Treky would find them more palatable.

If you haven't seen it, I'd also recommend The Departed. That movie pulls no punches.

Ugh. Everything in Star Trek Into Darkness was well-executed except for the story. And dammit, that was a pretty fucking big problem with this movie. I cannot remember when or if I literally was pissed off by a story.

Why couldn't they have just made Khan a Khan-like character, or maybe even rewrite Khan as the good guy? It still would've been more innovative than what they ended up pulling off. They cleverly changed the timeline with the last Trek and now all they're doing is rehashing old villains. Talk about wasted potential. And at the final 20 minutes, I was downright laughing.

Oh and yeah, why are Khan and Carol Marcus British? What in the alternate timeline would've changed that?

The Departed was good, but I don't think it's the movie Scorsese should've one his long-awaited Oscar for -- he should've gotten them for Goodfellas, The Aviator, and Hugo. But not Gangs of New York, that movie was boring as fuck.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

Now you have to see Zodiac, to complete the Great Three of 2007.

Replace "Zodiac" with "The Assassination of Jesse James."

 

[Nicodemus]

Replace "Zodiac" with "The Assassination of Jesse James."

That would be foolish.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

Nuh-uh.

 

[prplchknz]

Less than Zero- it sucked

 

[93JC]

I was invited to an advanced screening (it doesn't open until Friday here) of Dallas Buyers Club. The acting was absolutely superb, and the physical transformations that Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto underwent to realize their roles was just... crazy. I can only imagine what they went through, and there's no way I could ever rationalize becoming that gaunt for a movie role to myself.

The story is compelling yet I feel that it's all sort of... "TV movie"-ish. Not to say it wasn't expertly done, but the way it just happened to be put together felt more like a series of events than a story. That's the danger of any adaptation of a "true story" I guess, I felt the same way about Rush (the movie that came out earlier this year about F1 racers James Hunt and Niki Lauda).

 

[Ginkgo]

I'm trying to watch Unforgiven but my brain just isn't having any of it.

 

[Poindexter Arachnid]

^Wha? Unforgiven da bomb.

Full Metal Jacket.

 

[chubber]

Captain Phillips and The Butler. I liked both. Informative to me.

 

[chubber]

Ugh. Everything in Star Trek Into Darkness was well-executed except for the story. And dammit, that was a pretty fucking big problem with this movie. I cannot remember when or if I literally was pissed off by a story.

Why couldn't they have just made Khan a Khan-like character, or maybe even rewrite Khan as the good guy? It still would've been more innovative than what they ended up pulling off. They cleverly changed the timeline with the last Trek and now all they're doing is rehashing old villains. Talk about wasted potential. And at the final 20 minutes, I was downright laughing.

Oh and yeah, why are Khan and Carol Marcus British? What in the alternate timeline would've changed that?

The Departed was good, but I don't think it's the movie Scorsese should've one his long-awaited Oscar for -- he should've gotten them for Goodfellas, The Aviator, and Hugo. But not Gangs of New York, that movie was boring as fuck.

What happened to Vger, they cut Vger out the damn story too. Bastards.

 

[The Ü™]

Did I actually say one when I meant to say won? I totally deserve to die. I don't know if I should hang myself, drown myself, cut my wrists or throat, or burn myself alive.