slinker
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The Shannara Chronicles seems pretty good so far. The first 3 episodes are available from Mtv even though only one has aired so far. The cast is solid. I had my doubts since it's being aired on Mtv but so far so good. I never read the books but was curious about them when I was younger and read actual chapter books. It's weird that I only read comics now. I used to be such a bookworm.
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I'm the only one watching the Expanse?
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So, wow, The Knick's finale was something else wasn't it?
I still haven't rewatched the Leftovers season finale. I didn't really like it initially, but I was distracted. still, I have some trepidation with doing so.
I still have not seen the season (series?) finale of Manhattan. did anyone else?
I'm about to watch ep. 10 of Ash v Evil Dead. Is it the finale? seems like it's headed there in one episode.
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it's kind of obvious when he sees her again, and of course it was poorly done, if that gives you a hint.
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The Big Short's first half was very good, very gripping and informative. You have to love a film that supplies its own infographics to explain terminology and provide subtext. but once the introductory part of the movie plays, the rest kind of falls flat because it becomes familiar due to the headline fodder we were inundated with in 2008-09. And I find it to be lazy film making to have to add paragraphs of text to say what happened when the movie ended. show it, damn it! B+
The Diary of a Teenage Girl made me feel like I was watching kiddie porn. it's based on a well reviewed graphic novel based on the sexual awakening of a 15 yr old girl whose first several sexual experiences are with her mom's boyfriend, and the sex is graphic and the girl looks 15. I thought the theater might get raided. And I mean, he fucks the shit out of her, does drugs with her and there are long scenes with her completely naked. maybe I'm not liberated enough to totally view it as 'artistic expression,' but methinks the director had an agenda with 'pushing the envelope.' the actress playing the girl is 23, but still, I feel like the story would be adequately told without all the underage fuck scenes (and does he have to fuck her that hard, she's 15!!!). So, what could have been an intriguing look at the innermost secrets/thoughts of a teenage girl coming of age really became obscured by all the exploitative graphic fuck scenes. If they were omitted, dialed down a little or maybe if they'd just shown the first one and flashes of the rest, then I think you would have a nice film you can see with other people without feeling uncomfortable. As it is, it's disturbingly graphic with too many sex scenes and nudity of what appears to be a 15 yr old girl. B-
Anomalisa is a strange as fuck animated film about a motivational speaker with marriage issues who gets a bit horny while he's on the road for a speaking engagement. First off, the characters look like they were assembled to look like semi-robotic humans. There are seams where their face plates fit together (at one point, part of a face falls off a character) but they look like human muppets. There's a fair bit of muppet sex in this film too, but other than the extracurricular sexual urges of an unsympathetic main character, I'm at a loss to determine the overall creative vision of this project. In other words, I didn't get the point. That's not to say I didn't enjoy it for the most part, but it was more out of curiosity than anything else, I think. B-
Joy has an immense cast and features a plot about an independent single mom rising above being cheated and fucked with by those in position to fuck with her, including her own family. It's narrated by her grandma who dies halfway through (getting tired of narrators dying in movies but continuing to narrate to the end). it's basically Jennifer Lawrence selling her mops on QVC and Dudley Cooper resisting her when she needs him to give her a break, then he gives her a break. That's his role - discourage her but then give her what she wants. Do I need to point out the obvious hollywood happy ending where she becomes mop mogul of the new century? C+
I was a kid growing up in San Francisco when the Stanford Prison Experiment actually took place in 1971, and I remember the big uproar it caused locally, but I never got that it caused the world wide upset that it claims to have caused. In all honesty, I've seen 2 documentaries of the experiment made from actual film footage shot to record the events which were much more entertaining and informative as far as putting you in its midst. C-
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Epiphany wasn't who he fucked up (he created her, so fuck it), it was Gemma and Angie he ruined.
Both were strong, compelling female characters--equals to John in his cunning and guile, but Milligan reduced them into the the very worst of cliches, weak & victimized. Boo hiss!
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well, you're a hardened few...
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In the Heart of the Sea's ad campaign is a little misleading. While there are encounters with a whale with a vendetta, that does not comprise the entire tale. I didn't love this movie but it gave a solid effort. B
I had the same reaction to Steve Jobs some of you had - too much Seth Rogan. Besides that, though, there wasn't a whole lot that was interesting other than his fucked up relationship with his daughter and that he was king of the 'failed bit.' B-
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250 issues Grip ? : P
some of us don't count issues 251-300 as a matter of quality and taste, though Suicide Bridge was good and it exists in that lot.
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I recommend reading them in order seeing as he's the only comic character to age in real time.
Hopefully this will fill in the blanks.
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Housebound?
Oh, just watched the trailer
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I saw it again and liked it more than i did the first time.
May we quote it yet? Best line in the movie for me was:
[ Spoiler : Han Solo: (to Fin) "That's not how the Force works!" ]
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it's a blowtorch saber!
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So dropping n-bombs just because he can has replaced feet as Tarantino's #1 fetish to overindulge in his films, then?
yes.
ade. I don't think you'll like it for real. did you see Bone Tomahawk yet?
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Tom Hardy's British.
Have I missed something with Slink's post?
i'm so embrrassed. well, i've seen him play american roles enough times to make me think he was one of us. oops.
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Crimson Peak - so much build up for an incestuous reveal which seemed obvious from the beginning. So many people loved this movie but it didn't do much for me. C
Legend - add Tom Hardy to the very short list of American actors who can do a solid convincing british accent. this biopic about the Kray twins was enjoyable. they got the look of the time (early 60s) down and even though the characters were all mostly despicable, they were still very compelli9ng to watch. B+
H8ful Eight - this film got under my skin early and stayed there. almost 3 hours of every single white character calling Samuel L Jackson "nigger" repeatedly and so often that it became offensive but that was just part of what was wrong with this movie. I don't get how saying the N word over and over is artful. OK, we get it-post civil war whitie was a racist fuck, but god damn, we don't need it in every single scene. This film could have been an hour shorter and been the same damn movie, but that extra hour made me dislike it even more. And the twist at the end to explain why things went down the way they did wasn't that cool or interesting. It was just like, oh so that's how that guy wound up there. Really disappointing movie. Meh. C
if you want to see a recent western also starring Kurt Russell, watch Bone Tomahawk, a much better movie.
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Concussion if it's true is a very damning look at those who own and operate the NFL. I went to my first pro football game this year, and I was amazed that even way up in the nosebleed seats, you could hear the helmet to helmet contact, that's how hard they hit each other. I was moved by the toll concussions took on one team, the Pittsburg Steelers. One guy on their offense line and one guy on their defense line are left alive. These guys would be in their 60s which today isn't that old but concussions drove a few of them to kill themselves. The focal character is Mike Webster who was the center, the ball hiker and qb protector of the Steelers team that won a bunch of Super Bowls. The center, it had been established by research, takes twice as many blows to the head as any other player. Running backs and receivers take harder blows to the head than other positions due to opposing players getting a running start. The NFL knew all about the effect concussions had on former players and covered it up. It is because of the character played by will smith that they have revamped their concussion protocols to keep players out of games after hard hits to the head. 5000 players sued the NFL for covering up the data they had and the NFL agreed to a settlement that included them never having to admit they covered up the data, which to me is an admission of guilt. This film was very much like The Big Short in that the information given was interesting and compelling, but ultimately it's a data driven movie with no action at all, and the drama based on courtroom type stuff and phone threats and verbal confrontations. The scenes of players freaking out due to the long term effects of concussions were very dramatic and sad. So many former NFL players have killed themselves because of the concussions they suffered while playing. It will blow your mind. B+