i also don't think it's the worst year, but to be fair, a bunch of stuff on your 'good' list came out way earlier in the year.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 December 2018 20:57 (five years ago) link
yeah but they're getting nominated & winning, which is always good - silly to ignore films released before the fall/winter
― flappy bird, Monday, 10 December 2018 21:49 (five years ago) link
fair enough, i took it as a comment on the 'awards movie season' as much as we evaluate 'this year's summer blockbuster crop' etc.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:51 (five years ago) link
Beale Street was a mild disappointment.
― Your sweetie-pie-coo-coo I love ya (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 10 December 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
Q: Is Green Book a spiritual sequel to Crash? Or is it a literal sequel to Crash?
― my hand is finally unglued from my face (Old Lunch), Monday, 10 December 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Prequel
― I Never Promised You A Hose Harden (Eric H.), Monday, 10 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
soft reboot
― jmm, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 01:22 (five years ago) link
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Monday, December 10, 2018 4:51 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
actually you're right, esp. with the wicked trifecta of star/book/rhapsody
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 04:55 (five years ago) link
Don't feel like Roma and A Phantom Thread (the 1/2 in the S&S poll) were that big a deal.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 18:29 (five years ago) link
Benadryl Camembert IS Brexit
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Sunday, 16 December 2018 13:01 (five years ago) link
Did Michael sheen die or something?
The FavouriteRomaThe House that Jack Built
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 30 December 2018 20:18 (five years ago) link
so they really cast the most posh, royal family-looking British actress as Brooklyn-born, second generation Jewish immigrant Ruth Bader Ginsburg? the Jews who control Hollywood need to be replaced with better Jews— etan (@EtanHeytan) December 11, 2018
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 3 January 2019 12:50 (five years ago) link
that movie has such a dumb, unwieldy title
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 16:38 (five years ago) link
Pubescent kids gonna be so disappointed after they surreptitiously DVR this Sex movie six months from now.
― The Mandal Brah Set (Old Lunch), Thursday, 3 January 2019 16:52 (five years ago) link
seems obvious they were banking on "RBG" as a can't-miss title, then the doc scooped them, and then they had months to come up with something else and just kept procrastinating the big meeting.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:00 (five years ago) link
Oh is that what that film is about?! Funny that it’s coming out so close to the doc, one for the magician movies threadThis type of film is such an insta-skip for me that the only reason the fact of its existence has stuck in my mind at all is that the director mimi leder did consistently excellent work on the leftovers, & when I looked her up on the basis of that I saw that she’d directed deep impact and this upcoming oscarbait thing
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:09 (five years ago) link
Whoa
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
On The Basis Of Comets
― imago, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:23 (five years ago) link
Leder also helmed the icky Pay It Forward, which automatically cancels any interest I might have had in seeing this (though I had none).
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:28 (five years ago) link
― Pierrot with a thousand farces (wins), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:30 (five years ago) link
ehh I think of leder as an example of how female filmmakers only get 1-2 cracks at blockbuster scale work if they "underperform" (or make money but not quite ENOUGH money) while male mediocrities seem to get chance after chance after chance. deep impact is a perfectly reasonable disaster movie that was only overshadowed because armageddon (same subject matter, different genre) was concentrated preposterous manipulative cheese. the peacemaker was pretty lame on recent rewatch, i'll admit. disclaimer, i haven't read any interviews or anything to back this up - maybe she found doing these movies to be a nightmare and never went back on purpose, idk.
― |Restore| |Restart| |Quit| (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:39 (five years ago) link
Deep Impact is dope, maybe I will see this new Notorious RBG film
― flappy bird, Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:45 (five years ago) link
I mean ...
2 Armageddon BV $201,578,182 3,184 $36,089,972 3,127 7/18 Deep Impact Par. $140,464,664 3,280 $41,152,375 3,156 5/8
Not to mention that apparently Deep Impact cost about half as much to make as Armageddon.
― love craptually (Eric H.), Thursday, 3 January 2019 17:46 (five years ago) link
green book, the upside
why are these movies still being made
― adam the (abanana), Friday, 18 January 2019 22:47 (five years ago) link
Oscars, baby
― A Nugatory Excrescence (Old Lunch), Friday, 18 January 2019 23:15 (five years ago) link
are the voters who nominated guess who's coming to dinner still voting?
― adam the (abanana), Saturday, 19 January 2019 00:19 (five years ago) link
tide goes in, tide goes out
― flappy bird, Saturday, 19 January 2019 04:21 (five years ago) link
I had my "enough" moment with comic book movies back in 2015. I saw "The Rock" in theaters and I haven't seen another Michael Bay movie since. Anything directed by Zach Snyder is also insta-banned.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Tuesday, 22 January 2019 17:59 (five years ago) link
Honey Boy
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 5 February 2019 05:03 (five years ago) link
lol this has a trailer nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g0irKUtaCaU
― devvvine, Tuesday, 12 February 2019 22:48 (five years ago) link
And who was asking for a Mapplethorpe biopic?https://youtu.be/TvXLMpjyqpU
― Anne Hedonia (j.lu), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:29 (five years ago) link
new liam neeson joint "cold wish or whatever" sounds exactly like every other liam neeson movie in the past two decades.
― adam the (abanana), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:37 (five years ago) link
the best part of Love Actually was when crying Liam Neeson kicked the sexist US President through a window and the president knocked over Egg Off Of This Life and all his stalker cue cards
― The Very Fugly Caterpillar (sic), Tuesday, 12 February 2019 23:53 (five years ago) link
I am baffled as to why Cold Pursuit has such a "wacky comedy" poster:
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BOGY3YjUzOTgtMmJmMS00ZDJjLTkwOGEtYWE3Mjk0ZTgwYmY4XkEyXkFqcGdeQXVyMjM4NTM5NDY@._V1_SY1000_SX675_AL_.jpg
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
Like, the tagline looks like it should read "Everyone remember where we parked."
― Timothée Charalambides (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:53 (five years ago) link
lmfao otm
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 01:55 (five years ago) link
It's a remake of a Norwegian comedy (with a script from a Danish writer). Very good film, the original, but even thought the director is the same I have a hard time imagining it to be any good. It's so much about Norway.
― Frederik B, Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:07 (five years ago) link
Don't fret, no one knows Norway quite like Hollywood.
― Shaved Cyborg (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
Hey, if it's half as good as Nolan's remake of Insomnia it'll be complete fucking shit
― Stephen Yakkety-Yaxley-Rosbif (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 13 February 2019 17:11 (five years ago) link
I saw it today, Fred is right, Cold Pursuit is a black comedy disguised as an action movie. it's very similar to Miami Blues, and in the same universe as Repo Man (though not nearly as good as either). worth seeing imo, and I hate all that Taken shit. it's not like that at all
― flappy bird, Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:16 (five years ago) link
Liam Neeson's action star career has run the gamut from competent trash to outstanding. Taken obv made him viable as an action commodity but its the least interesting film of this era (well maybe more interesting than Taken 2&3...) The Grey and A Walk Among the Tombstones and a couple of those Collet-Serra flicks are great.
― omar little, Saturday, 16 February 2019 23:19 (five years ago) link
Perhaps unfairly, i assume any movie with liam neeson isn’t worth watching
― i believe that (s)he is sincere (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 17 February 2019 02:31 (five years ago) link
gonna fight you over Darkman
― steven, soda jerk (sic), Sunday, 17 February 2019 02:34 (five years ago) link
and Buster Scruggs I guess
The Grey is really good
― . (Michael B), Sunday, 17 February 2019 12:27 (five years ago) link
Director: Gurinder Chadha Starring: Rob Brydon, Dean-Charles Chapman, Hayley Atwell, Aaron Phagura, Kulvinder Ghir, Sally Phillips, Viveik Kalra, Nell Williams, Meera Ganatra Duration: 117 min In 1987 during the austere days of Thatcher's Britain, a teenager learns to live life, understand his family and find his own voice through the music of Bruce Springsteen.
― shhh / let peaceful like things (wins), Thursday, 11 July 2019 12:23 (four years ago) link
the first movie written solely for eric alterman
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 11 July 2019 12:36 (four years ago) link
Saw the trailer for that the other day and it looked so bad I was embarrassed to be there for that two minutes.
― Manfred Hemming-Hawing (WmC), Thursday, 11 July 2019 13:05 (four years ago) link
there's a mini-trend of movies trying to follow the commercial success of bo rhap, using some combination of 1. britain 2. minority groups 3. classic rock. rocketman and yesterday being the other prominent ones, and this one looking by far the worst.
― adam the (abanana), Thursday, 11 July 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link