28 Film Discussion Threads Later

[soitgoes...]

Here's one I knew you'd like. My only real issue was that, even at only slightly under an hour long, it still seemed felt too long. I mean, I get the sentiment behind the employment of the quotidian, but it did drag a bit. I'd like to rewatch it without those blurred out logos and subs for what little dialogue there was.

I thought it was beautiful. I didn't feel it was too long, actually my problem was I thought it to be too short. I wanted it to keep going. I have it at three stars, but on reflection today I'd probably bump it up a half star more for whatever that's worth. I would like to see it with subs, but I imagine that it will be completely unnecessary. I got all excited to see if this director made anything else like this. I'm going to give Time to Die a go next. It has that same beautiful, sharp B&W look.

[B-side]

I thought it was beautiful. I didn't feel it was too long, actually my problem was I thought it to be too short. I wanted it to keep going. I have it at three stars, but on reflection today I'd probably bump it up a half star more for whatever that's worth. I would like to see it with subs, but I imagine that it will be completely unnecessary. I got all excited to see if this director made anything else like this. I'm going to give Time to Die a go next. It has that same beautiful, sharp B&W look.

Oh yeah, definitely. It's absolutely endearing with its gentle humor. Subs are being worked on for at least one of her other films. I've donated to two pots for subs for her films.

[Watashi]

First Class:
Talladega Nights
Freaks and Geeks

Great:
Superbad
Tropic Thunder
Pineapple Express
Adventureland

Good:
Step Brothers
Observe and Report
Anchorman
Knocked Up

Meh:
The 40-Year Old Virgin
I Love You, Man

Bad:
Funny People
The Other Guys

Horrible:
Walk Hard

[soitgoes...]

First Class:
The first day of "stupid comedy" discussion

Meh:
The second day of "stupid comedy" discussion

Horrible:
The third day of "stupid comedy" discussion

[Sycophant]

Talladega Nights is one of the best films of this century.

[eternity]

Despite being an early-90s MTV movie in every way, I still am surprised by how good Orange County is every time I watch it. It's up there with Fast Times at Ridgemont High as one of the few movies that capture the feeling of high school in a timeless way, even though both are firmly planted in the era in which they are set.

[soitgoes...]

Talladega Nights is one of the best films of this century.

I willing to agree with this as long as everyone concedes that Christopher Nolan is a hack.

[transmogrifier]

Despite being an early-90s MTV movie in every way, I still am surprised by how good Orange County is every time I watch it. It's up there with Fast Times at Ridgemont High as one of the few movies that capture the feeling of high school in a timeless way, even though both are firmly planted in the era in which they are set.

Orange County is atrocious. Envy-esque even.

[eternity]

Talladega Nights sucks and Christopher Nolan is a hack. trololololololo

[eternity]

Orange County is atrocious. Envy-esque even.

[megladon8]

I, too, think Orange County is pretty great.

[transmogrifier]

Just to be sure, we are talking about this Orange County, aren't we?



Not the actual place or another movie with the same name that is actually tolerable and demonstrates at least some type of cinematic skill from those involved?

[Winston*]

Two of the strongest feelings anyone's ever expressed about the movie Orange County on this page.

[Sycophant]

Talladega Nights is one of the best films of this century.

Allow me to unpack this. It's perhaps the best chronicle of who we Americans were in the waning Bush years. Ricky Bobby is the ultimate everyman, full of a confidence and drive instilled in him by a mythic and misunderstood forefather which he clings to even as his own prowess begins to fade. He's deathly afraid of a gay Frenchman who hangs out with Mos Def and Elivs Costello, who is also appropriately skewered as being. The film's bombast feels the like the Fourth of July. It's America, I Fucking Love You/I Fucking Hate You: The Movie, and I cherish it.

And, also, I find it funny. Which is reasonably important in a comedy film.

[transmogrifier]

Two of the strongest feelings anyone's ever expressed about the movie Orange County on this page.

I was provoked into it by the peculiar claim that, in fact, it is any good.

[eternity]

We are indeed talking about that movie.

The strongest feeling ever expressed about that movie comes from my mother. She says it's her second favorite film, behind Meet Me In St. Louis. :/

[Qrazy]

It's amazing to me just how much better On Her Majesty's Secret Service is than any other Bond film. Everything about it is better - the direction is tighter and more creative, the action is perfectly framed and hard hitting, and Lazenby captures the essence of Flemming's Bond better than any of the other actors who ever portrayed the character.

Such a great film.

Easily one of the worst for me. Lazenby is terrible. The film is cut for shit, shot like crap and boring as hell for the vast majority of it's run time. The car chase is mildly entertaining.

[B-side]

We are indeed talking about that movie.

The strongest feeling ever expressed about that movie comes from my mother. She says it's her second favorite film, behind Meet Me In St. Louis. :/

Is her name Joe-John?

[Qrazy]

Allow me to unpack this. It's perhaps the best chronicle of who we Americans were in the waning Bush years. Ricky Bobby is the ultimate everyman, full of a confidence and drive instilled in him by a mythic and misunderstood forefather which he clings to even as his own prowess begins to fade. He's deathly afraid of a gay Frenchman who hangs out with Mos Def and Elivs Costello, who is also appropriately skewered as being. The film's bombast feels the like the Fourth of July. It's America, I Fucking Love You/I Fucking Hate You: The Movie, and I cherish it.

And, also, I find it funny. Which is reasonably important in a comedy film.

Can you repack that please?

[Sycophant]

Can you repack that please?

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[Spinal]

Rio is not very funny and not terribly involving, but it is notable for being the only children's film I can think of that revolves around the central character needing to get laid. Of course, it's the survival of the blue macaw that we focus on, as the domesticated pet, Blu, (Jesse Eisenberg) is taken to Brazil, where a bird specialist hopes that he will hit it off with the only other known member of his species, the feisty, fiercely independent female tm, Jewel (Anne Hathaway). However, with lusty Brazilian Carnival as the setting, and the subplot involving Blu's owner evolving from virginal bookstore owner to booty-shaking samba dancer, the sexual undertones of the story are kind of hard to ignore. While I am tempted to praise the film's subtly positive depiction of human sexuality, the primary objective for Blu throughout remains procreation. So I'm not sure whether this can be considered progressive or not.

[eternity]

Is her name Joe-John?

She likes to get naked and start the revolution.

[B-side]

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That's two posts now decrying my one image macro response to Qrazy. Can I count on four posts bitching about it next time?

[Dead & Messed Up]

Allow me to unpack this. It's perhaps the best chronicle of who we Americans were in the waning Bush years. Ricky Bobby is the ultimate everyman, full of a confidence and drive instilled in him by a mythic and misunderstood forefather which he clings to even as his own prowess begins to fade. He's deathly afraid of a gay Frenchman who hangs out with Mos Def and Elivs Costello, who is also appropriately skewered as being. The film's bombast feels the like the Fourth of July. It's America, I Fucking Love You/I Fucking Hate You: The Movie, and I cherish it.

And, also, I find it funny. Which is reasonably important in a comedy film.

I can get behind this. I wish the film were shorter, but I enjoyed it, and I agree that Ferrell's character is meant to embody that block of voters that supported Bush and believed so absolutely in American Exceptionialism that they never bothered to consider what being exceptional actually means. "If you're not first, you're last" is the motto of someone who doesn't understand life as anything more than a childish competition to riches. The American Dream as the American Lottery. Win your way to millions.

[Sycophant]

That's two posts now decrying my one image macro response to Qrazy. Can I count on four posts bitching about it next time?

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No, but seriously, it wasn't even about you, so much as about glibness in general (here, specifically, Qrazy's).

I also tend to dislike image macros ("NO U" &c.) in discussion threads anyway, so I took a shot at them, too. Wasn't even thinking about how you posted one.