Movies
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I'm with Chris. If I wanted intellectual stimulation I wouldn't go to the movies. I have to think and be creative all day at work. Sometimes you just need to watch people get shot and blown up.
Agreed. xXx: Return of Xander Cage was one of my favorite movies to come out last year. Vin Diesel drives a motorbike on the ocean. It's frickin awesome…
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Screw you guys.
I'm totally fine with mindless crap. I watch movies to turn my mind off for a couple of hours. Explosions, unbelievable plots and CGI fakery work just fine for me.That's why I giggle like a school girl each time a new Fast and Furious movie comes out.
EDIT: and to answer your question, Doug-
Oh. My. God. YES.I’m with Chris and Doug
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Example of mindless fun: watching Pacific Rim 2 tonight
Because in the future, it takes two brains to do what I could do in 1992 with a joystick and six buttons
PR2 was ok but not as good as the first one. I liked John Boyega's character but Scott Eastwood couldn't act his way out of a paper bag
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Oh, so many great/terrible movies here. Return of Xander Cage was truly bad, and I loved it. John Wick 1 and 2 were fantastic, though I liked 1 better. And Doug, my hat's off to you- requesting the day off for the premiere of 3 is next level.
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My boss is a huge John Wick fan too. Got him this for his birthday this year
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I went to see Isle of Dogs tonight. Fantastic movie! We loved it.
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Pacific Rim 2 wasn't terrible, and Scott Eastwood's acting isn't much better than his dad at that age. Clint basically squinted and shot his way though most of his movies.
Batman Ninja was a complete shitshow though. I'm writing those 90 minutes of my life off on my taxes as a capital loss.
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Anyone else seen Solo yet?
Going tomorrow. Can’t see myself being anything other than entertained.
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12 Strong: 1/10
Shite of the highest order. I like a good war movie but this one seemed to hit every cliche known to man. Being straight-to-dvd and being a Bruckheimer film should've tipped me off. I like Chris Hemsworth but god he was horrible.
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Deadpool 2 was awesome. Most funny, most inappropriate movie I have seen since … well .. Deadpool 1. I had a blast.
I'm hesitating reg. Solo. Where those movies suffer, IMHO, is that there's no cannon anymore. Each director does whatever they want, and as long as there are x-wings & lightsabers, it's considered Star Wars enough. One thing that drives me up the walls is how equipment evolves from one movie to another. So in ep. V, you see Empire bombers (they look like oversized, dual body Tie fighters) bombing the asteroid where the Millenium Falcon is hiding, to no effect. Fair enough. Then in the prequels (ep. III?) Jango Fett tries to loose Kenobi in an asteroid field and uses bombs that split asteroids in two for miles around! Where were those a generation later in Ep. V? Finally in TLJ / ep. VIII, the resistance has super dupper shitty bombers crawling at the speed of a lame snail and dropping bombs that require manual triggering!!! WTF?
With regard to super hero movies, I think each movie tries to do too much. My favorite is probably The First Avenger, because it's a story that takes its time to set things up. I still enjoyed Infinity Wars though. It's very well crafted.
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I made the mistake lastnite of trying to get my boy to watch Logan. 20 minutes into the movie he asks me, "what does heck, fuck mean?" There were plenty of bits where Logan was throwing out expletives left and right. At one point Logan says, "stay outta my shit!" My son responds with, "he has a ship?"
Not gonna live this one down if he starts throwing out F bombs around his mom -
With regard to super hero movies, I think each movie tries to do too much. My favorite is probably The First Avenger, because it's a story that takes its time to set things up. I still enjoyed Infinity Wars though. It's very well crafted.
I quite enjoyed Infinity War but, it didn't leave me as satisfied as Ragnarok and the GOTG movies did.
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One thing that drives me up the walls is how equipment evolves from one movie to another.
STAR WARS NERD-ALERT:
I feel like there’s an easy explanation for all this. First of all, Jango Fett would obviously have the most badass weapons—asteroid busting, and probably illegal. The Empire sending TIE bombers to the astreroids looking for the Millenium Falcon was probably just an example of using the cheapest ordinance available that wouldn’t prove fatal. They wouldn’t want to expend a lot of personnel or money on it—they were just trying to flush them out. Finally, the Resistance doesn’t have any money! They’re the miscreants that didn’t even try to play along with the creation of a new republic under the First Order, because they knew it was just the Empire with a new name.
Of course this is all just rationalization for why the movies have such differences in tech, when really it’s just because our real world moviemaking has become so much more sophisticated—but I think my explanations hold water.
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