Movies (and occasionally face slaps) (Part 1)

[RiskyFlush]

I appreciate this about you.

I can appreciate Transformers as a worthwhile product for its target audience while also saying it is not to my taste and then judging everyone who thinks it should be.

[anon10396289]

Well there’s some middle ground, which is what I’m saying. You can want a movie to be good and well made and have all the lighting and editing and whatever elements there. Like I don’t know anything about that stuff but I know Godfather is a good movie and Plan 9 From Outer Space is less good. What I’m saying is that all the technical details that make Godfather great all matter, and they all register with the audience. But not in any conscious way. And if enough of those technical elements don’t work then people won’t like the movie regardless of how good the acting or script is. I think nearly all people will reject it on a subconscious level if the technical stuff isn’t up to snuff. And if they don’t like the movie’s plot, script, or acting they won’t praise the technical stuff. Because it’s all subconscious. They’ll just say if they like it or not, that’s it.

[jwax13]

That said, I watched an hour of Face / Off the other day. And I typically consume a couple hours of NBA most nights during the season.

I’m very particular about my Michael Bay. No desire to see Transformers but The Rock is one of my all time favorites and I can’t quite explain why.

[kerowo]

Maybe we just go into movies with a different mindsest but I’m basically just all OK entertain me GO.

Then why should anyone bother talking about movies with you?

[anon10396289]

maybe they shouldn’t, feel free not to.

[kerowo]

I’m trying but your posts keep showing up in this thread.

[anon10396289]

Sounds like you should put me on ignore.

[kerowo]

Naw, there are some people who don’t know that your contribution to this site is similar to this latest derail of a thread at your hands. Instead of talking about movies we’re talking about your idea of how to talk about movies. Not enough people tell you to fuck off keed, so why don’t you just fuck off then?

[anon10396289]

Again, sounds like you should put me on ignore. Or report my posts ITT? I’m certainly not going to stop posting ITT because it upsets you.

[RiskyFlush]

Me too. Armageddon is amazing. The Rock is awesome. But The Island is good for about 45 minutes. Pain & Gain goes from hilarious critique on gym bros to wtf am I watching in about 20 minutes. He’s made two of my all-time favorites, but most of the time I’d rather an asteroid hit his movies.

[Trolly]

I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a Michael Bay movie. Am I a weirdo? I watch garbage movies all the time.

[RiskyFlush]

Wat

If that’s true then you are in for at least a few treats.

[Trolly]

Someone recommend me a Michael Bay movie, and no, I’m not watching a Transformers movie unless it’s the OG 1980’s animated film with Orson Wells and Leonard Nimoy.

UPDATE: Okay, I’ve definitely seen Bad Boys and Armageddon. Thought Bad Boys was loads of fun for reasons that had nothing to do with the action scenes, I loved Martin Lawrence back in the day.

Armageddon was meh.

[RiskyFlush]

No Jesus fuck no not Transformers.

Armageddon
The Rock

These are so good. You’ll be like lol why do I like this. But you will.

Lots of people love Bad Boys, but they’re as unwatchable for me as everything else he’s made.

[Trolly]

Ah goddamn, I need to watch Blue Streak again. I’d forgotten how much stupid fun Martin Lawrence movies were. And Dave Chappelle too,so great. It’s like half of these scenes feel as though they were completely improvised on the spot.

Blue Streak (1999) - Stone Cold Killer Scene (7/10) | Movieclips

[jwax13]

I totally forgot. Quentin Tarantino had some kind of role in ghost writing the Rock. The Rock is my all time guilty pleasure. Watch it ASAP

Edit: And Aaron Sorkin

[Chuckleslovakian]

The Rock is legit fun. Sean Connery and Nicholas Cage break into Alcatraz to stop terrorist Ed Harris. If that description doesn’t sound like a watch, what is wrong with you?

[Jalfrezi]

@jwax13

Lol

Edit: I would venture that quite a few people ITT (Risky off the top of my head) give a significant number of fucks about those things as they pertain to filmmaking. Maybe just dorks that were Engllish / Lit undergrads care, but I’m one of them. Our film program was a good chunk of the English department at my Uni. Speaking of, Vivre Sa Vie is on Kanopy as well. Been wanting to rewatch that since watching it for my French New Wave class a million years ago. Remember really liking that and A Bout de Souffle

Weekend was the only other Godard film I enjoyed, having seen a few. I found the highly rated Alphaville almost embarrassingly bad, and how anyone could make the Stones recording at their peak so dull is baffling, though I’m sure this is my inner philistine expressing itself and they are both masterpieces in some way I can’t comprehend.

[clovis8]

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[EpicWestern]

@jwax13

Hereditary is a movie with a wide disparity between critic and audience reception.

I was entertained by Hereditary (“enjoyed” is certainly the wrong word), but IMO it borrowed too much from other classic horror, mainly Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby. Some reviewers saw this as being “film literate” or paying homage, but really it just means that at its core its unoriginal. That said, basically every horror movie steals heavily, what sets one above another is the slickness of the delivery, and Hereditary certainly has that.