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Okay, from now on I'm gonna use "think piece". As in "it's a think piece about a mid-level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom". I hope you're happy.
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« Reply #1426 on: November 17, 2011, 05:48:22 PM » |
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Okay, from now on I'm gonna use "think piece". As in "it's a think piece about a mid-level band struggling with their own limitations in the harsh face of stardom". I hope you're happy.
Only if you "get it" though. |
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« Reply #1428 on: November 17, 2011, 11:38:32 PM » |
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"There's the machine called the mojo. It only takes two hours to get one page!!!"
That one was kinda an eye roller.
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« Reply #1429 on: November 18, 2011, 09:04:46 AM » |
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BRIDESMAIDS
MONEYBALL
PETER GABRIEL: NEW BLOOD 3D
RANGO
PUSS IN BOOTS
HOBO WITH A SHOTGUN
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
X-MEN: 1ST CLASS
SUPER
KUNG FU PANDA 2
PAUL
FRIGHT NIGHT
THE TRIP
HP7p2
THOR
DRIVE ANGRY
TUCKER AND DALE VS. EVIL
WITCHES BREW
RED STATE
RUBBER
TF3
PEARL JAM TWENTY
CONAN O'BRIEN CAN'T STOP
SCREAM 4
AMERICAN-THE BILL HICKS STORY
COWBOYS VS. ALIENS
RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES
HAROLD AND KUMAR 3D XMAS -NEW
FAST FIVE
THE GREEN HORNET
THE BEAVER
YOUR HIGHNESS
HORRIBLE BOSSES
PIRATES 4
SUCKER PUNCH
BAD TEACHER
ARTHUR
NO STRINGS ATTACHED
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS
THE MECHANIC
FINAL DESTINATION 5
GREEN LANTERN
H&K was pretty funny. The theater was empty, so that took a bit away from it I think. Thankfully the NPH stuff wasn't nearly as bad as previous posts about it made it sound (perhaps it was toned down from test screenings). I'm glad they kept his bit short this time around. The egg fight and blowing smoke towards the camera were some of the better 3D effects I've seen. I kinda dig how they do one of these flicks every 3-4 years, and actually letting the characters grow (while making the surrounding events more and more absurd).
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« Reply #1430 on: November 18, 2011, 09:10:08 AM » |
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"There's the machine called the mojo. It only takes two hours to get one page!!!"
That one was kinda an eye roller.
Yeah, but considering what a cheesy writer Crowe can be sometimes, I commend him for how little "Hey, it's the 70's!!!" type jokes he had in there. |
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« Reply #1431 on: November 18, 2011, 09:17:22 AM » |
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What was that other line? "If you think Mick Jagger is gonna still be strutting around at age 50 you've got another think coming!!"
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« Reply #1432 on: November 18, 2011, 09:21:03 AM » |
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DAZED AND CONFUSED and, oddly enough, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER are the only 2 period piece movies set in periods that I remember living through that accurately capture a lot of the overall feel of the time period and don't always feel like a big costume party.
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« Reply #1433 on: November 18, 2011, 09:23:09 AM » |
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Oh, and ADVENTURELAND.
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« Reply #1434 on: November 18, 2011, 09:40:48 AM » |
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I didn't live through the seventies, but DAZED AND CONFUSED is so authentic-looking and feeling that as a kid I just assumed it was filmed in the seventies. Like, of course it was. Look at it. Its made exactly the same way they would have made a movie in 1976.
It also led me to wonder, time and again, "Just how fucking old is Ben Affleck? He's aging amazingly."
I was shocked when I found out it was made in 1993.
The only thing that shocked me more in high school was the day I realized that Kevin Pollak and Mark Linn-Baker were not the same person.
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« Reply #1435 on: November 18, 2011, 10:11:36 AM » |
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I remember showing my Dad DAZED and at the end, I was like what did you think?" And he just said "That's *exactly* what it was like." That level of authenticity I think is the most amazing thing about that movie.
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« Reply #1436 on: November 18, 2011, 10:28:45 AM » |
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DAZED AND CONFUSED and, oddly enough, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER are the only 2 period piece movies set in periods that I remember living through that accurately capture a lot of the overall feel of the time period and don't always feel like a big costume party.
Fast Times at Ridgemont High. (EDIT: never mind) And I disagree with you about ADVENTURELAND (and not only because I actually went to the real Adventureland during that time period). I felt like you could take one or two characters out of that movie and it could have taken place now. |
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« Reply #1437 on: November 18, 2011, 10:58:18 AM » |
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High.
He's talking about period pieces that were made after the fact correct? Fast Times isn't that. |
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« Reply #1438 on: November 18, 2011, 11:05:43 AM » |
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DAZED AND CONFUSED and, oddly enough, WET HOT AMERICAN SUMMER are the only 2 period piece movies set in periods that I remember living through that accurately capture a lot of the overall feel of the time period and don't always feel like a big costume party.
My favorite period piece movie set in a time I didn't live in = A CHRISTMAS STORY. Unless you watch it with my Dad. "That's a '68 Chevy! Totally off!". "That Oldsmobile wheel rim didn't have that many lugnuts!". |
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« Reply #1439 on: November 18, 2011, 11:18:10 AM » |
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He's talking about period pieces that were made after the fact correct? Fast Times isn't that.
You're right. My bad. So then I'll go with -- SUPER 8 |
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