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Entertainment Forum General Chat Thread • Page 316

Discussion in 'Entertainment Forum' started by morgantayler, Mar 20, 2016.

  1. Morrissey

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    Wasn't the point of Quibi to skirt around union rules or something? I thought I had read something about how a shorter length meant they could be immune from certain rules.
     
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  4. EASheartsVinyl

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    Excuse me?!
     
  5. Morrissey

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    I was driving home and the Springsteen song from The Wrestler came on. The movie was very good despite being directed by Darren Aronofsky, who has tortured us throughout the decades with films like The Fountain, mother!, and Black Swan.

    So, it had me thinking, what are films that you like or appreciate despite generally dismissing or despising the rest of their work?

    While I have deeply criticized a lot of Nolan's work, Batman Begins is a very effective film precisely because it avoids trying to reach for half-baked political analogies, and is probably the best of the "serious" Batman movies (although Batman and Robin is the one that understands comic book superheroes the best). Michael Bay is a destructive force in cinema, but Armageddon is so absurd that it manages to work as a sort of commentary on how shallow Bay's movies are. It is probably accidental, but it feels like a film that is mocking other disaster films and the absurd premise that the movies center around.
     
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  6. irthesteve

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    The Wrestler is boring as fuck, The Fountain is amazing. Black Swan is excellent. Requiem is great. mother is crazy, but also great. I didn't see Noah
     
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  7. The wrestler is not boring did we even watch the same movie
     
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  8. phaynes12

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    i guess its probably david o russell for me. i genuinely loathe all of his films I've seen with the exception of three kings, which I remember quite liking, but it's admittedly been years since I've seen it
     
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  9. Nolan. I liked dunkirk and was indifferent to hate mostly everything else
     
  10. Dinosaurs Dish

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    Zodiac is perfect and Se7en is pretty good but otherwise Fincher ranges from ‘meh’ to dislike for me.
     
  11. Dinosaurs Dish

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    The Wrestler is okay but The Fountain is ten times better, imo
     
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  12. phaynes12

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    what!
     
  13. Morrissey

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    I have not seen it in years, but I generally feel the same way.
     
  14. angrycandy

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    [​IMG]
     
  15. Serh

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    rewatched silver linings playbook some months ago and i liked it a lot less. it's an okay movie, but i found it hard to believe i really thought DOR knew what he was trying to say with that one
     
  16. Nathan

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    Three Kings is a good one, Russell and Inarritu make flashy, empty husks of movies. Armageddon is the only Bay I’ve seen and I first watched it like last month but I thought it was legitimately great in ways that Bay probably didn’t intend. Apollo 11 is the only Ron Howard I like. Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo + Juliet works for me in ways his other stuff doesn’t.
     
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  17. Dinosaurs Dish

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    I Heart Huckabees is great
     
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  18. Dinosaurs Dish

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    Howard/Apollo 11 is a great choice for this.
     
  19. Serh

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    only good bay film is the rock. yes, that includes pain & gain

    mind you, haven't seen 13 hours or the one with ewan and scarlett
     
  20. phaynes12

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    gtfo

    armageddon is good wyd
     
  21. Serh

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    trash
     
  22. Nathan

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    I forgot I saw Pain & Gain. It’s not good but it’s the only great Dwayne Johnson performance
     
  23. tdlyon

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    I was really excited for Dan Gilroy's future when Nightcrawler came out but nothing he's put out since has even come close
     
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  24. SpyKi

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    yep.
     
  25. iCarly Rae Jepsen

    run away with me Platinum

     
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