I just can't like Harry Potter. I've tried, I saw the first two films plus one or two others in theatre, I read the books. But the movies just don't do it for me. The Philosopher's Stone is so goddam cloy, simplistic, and filled with cliches, I couldn't stand it. I know the characters and story grow with the series, but the seeds of distain have already been planted, and I doubt I have the emotional maturity to uproot this sentiment.
Nevertheless, I'll give Chamber of Secrets a shot tomorrow.
The first two films are terrible. Chris Columbus Schlock. It gets good at Prisoner of Azkaban and only goes up from there. Don't give up on it!
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I know my Paxton versus Pullman. Pullman was really good in Rocketeer, very underrated movie. As was Paxton in The Phantom. Those were the good years growing up and being introduced to Jennifer Connelly and Catherine Zeta-Jones in their prime.
Bill Pullman's greatest role was in Zero Effect. Fight me.
I hate that trailer. It reads like it was edited by a Disney executive.
This is a better representation of the film. Darryl Zero (Bill Pullman) just finished a long and nonsensical song with no melody as his handler (Ben Stiller) was coming into the apartment:
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This is just for fun...
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The first two films are terrible. Chris Columbus Schlock. It gets good at Prisoner of Azkaban and only goes up from there. Don't give up on it!
Yeah, if for some reason I'm going to do a Harry Potter-a-thon, I'm always tempted to just start at Prisoner of Azkaban. But the Chamber of Secrets sets up the Horcrux story, so it's nice to include that one.
I just can't like Harry Potter. I've tried, I saw the first two films plus one or two others in theatre, I read the books. But the movies just don't do it for me. The Philosopher's Stone is so goddam cloy, simplistic, and filled with cliches, I couldn't stand it. I know the characters and story grow with the series, but the seeds of distain have already been planted, and I doubt I have the emotional maturity to uproot this sentiment.
Nevertheless, I'll give Chamber of Secrets a shot tomorrow.
I dont even care about the films, I never read the books, the fact of the matter is that any society, Wizardry or not, would have some oversight on School.
Hogwarts is a deathtrap that should have been shut down and their faculty incarcerated or at the very least terminated with cause for Gross Incompetence.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, that Weasley kid was useless, Harry Potter was the dumbest kid in school and was essentially only useful as Bait. The teachers were morons, Dumbledore I think was effectively Senile and the only person even worth mentioning was Hermione because she at least did her homework and knew what she was doing.
She was the only one who took the whole thing seriously while everyone else was just screwing around and the teachers just chuckled and let them.
Idiots. The lot of them.
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Bill Paxton was killed by The Terminator, a Predator and an Alien; great great career. Besides what was mentioned he was great in Tombstone, Apollo 13, A Simple Plan and in a supporting role in Nightcrawler.
Before going completely off the rails in season three the HBO series Big Love was so good as well.
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Michael Keaton is low key one of my favourite actors. Has anyone watched the mini Series Dopesick? The dudes incredibly.
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Michael Keaton is low key one of my favourite actors. Has anyone watched the mini Series Dopesick? The dudes incredibly.
Birdman was also really, really good.
But Dopesick was a great series. Its one of the few times I wanted to actually assault my TV.
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The scene where the girl goes to Narcotics Anonymous and has withdrawal symptoms and the kindly old lady goes to help her in the bathroom but offers her drugs? I wanted to smash my TV I was so pissed. But thats a hallmark of damned good TV.
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Saw Monkey Man the other night. It was good, but I think my expectations going in were too high because of the reviews. The shaky cam was a bit confounding, and made some of the action scenes hard to follow. When the camera was static it became a much better movie. Also some of the subplots about politics and religion seemed unnecessary and bogged down the movie. Dev Patel was great, and I was invested in his story. I would still recommend seeing it, it's just not at the level of John Wick.
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He was really good in The Founder as well. Dopesick was just so really well done.
Dopesick was so good it will piss you off and make you wonder WTF is wrong with humanity.
Human beings have been using drugs and alcohol since the dawn of time, but if you got into your DeLorean and went back to Ancient times and gave them Oxy or Fentanyl...they'd think we were insane.
And these are guys that poured lead into wine to 'sweeten' it so they're not exactly teetotalers or anything.
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The Dark Backward is either going to be a fantastic watch for you, or the worst thing you will ever see in your entire life. It gives you a gross sense of awe, which very few films have accomplished. If you don't want to watch it, Redlettermedia did a review, for the Cole's notes, and it's a Bill Paxton lovefest.
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Saw Monkey Man the other night. It was good, but I think my expectations going in were too high because of the reviews. The shaky cam was a bit confounding, and made some of the action scenes hard to follow. When the camera was static it became a much better movie. Also some of the subplots about politics and religion seemed unnecessary and bogged down the movie. Dev Patel was great, and I was invested in his story. I would still recommend seeing it, it's just not at the level of John Wick.
Agree on all points. And had they edited out those sub plots it would have been a better length.
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Continuing with the Alien films, I watched Alien 3, the special edition that's 2 and a half hours. I didn't outright hate the film, I actually really dug the vibe Fincher was going for. The prison he created looked really cool and looked like something out of Seven. I also like how they went back to one Xenomorph, and it also had a feeling of isolation similar to the first one. And I thought the story worked for the most part, they just jammed too much into it. If they split it into 2 films it could have really been something special and up to par with the first 2, but the film we got is a few notches below the first 2. I also hated that they killed a certain someone in the opening credits and the CGI in this was rough. When the Xenomorph was still it looked good but any movement looked really bad. It's crazy that the film from 92 had worse special effects than one from the 70s and one from the 80s. And I thought the death at the end worked, it was impactful and handled well.
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