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| bartist |
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carrobin wrote: If you have a fair-sized TV, I'm sure it'll be fine on DVD or whatever. In fact, I was thinking that I'd like to have a DVD of it myself. I'm glad I saw it with an audience, though; there was a lot of laughter, sometimes at places I wouldn't have expected it (but it wasn't improper). And I always get a kick when people applaud at the end of a movie.
Audience response is often an important part of the theater trip for me, too. That goes double for anything by the Bard. Occasionally, there's also the entertainment of seeing where people stalk out of the theater. Around here, it's usually older and more conservative types who apparently didn't notice the "R" rating and the reviews warning of crude material. Though it's not always predictable - friend and I were watching some thriller where the villain tells Jody Foster that she's a "charming c--t" and a couple of black teenage girls in front of us both emitted loud gasps and then departed never to return. What can I say, I love the audience experience.
EDIT: (I had to look this up) The mayor, in fact, calls Jody Foster "A magnificent c--t," and the film is "Inside Man." (and we were just talking about Denzel over in Couch...) |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 8:34 am |
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| We went to "Internship" last night, mostly because there wasn't much else showing and we needed a dose of mindless fun. Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson are "dinosaurs," who have the remarkably anachronistic (if that's the word) job of selling wristwatches, and their company has gone belly-up in an age when people consult their phones for the time. After a brief slog through a slough of despair, they end up getting internships at Google (the film is shot at actual Google campuses) and the plot turns into a standard fish-out-of-water/underdog team sort of comedy, as the interns break up into competing teams - the winning team gets actual paying jobs. Though Vaughn and Wilson lack the usual intellectual tools and software writing skills of Google applicants, they demonstrate that old-fashioned qualities of salesmanship and the personal touch....you know where this is going, and the predictable ride is enlivened by some decent comic riffs on geek life and those who rarely look up from their smartphones to behold the world in front of them. There are weak spots - a romantic subplot with Wilson and Rose Byrne somehow lacks spark - and Google gets a few too many love notes when a sharper and more satiric pen might have been applied (ah, but then the actual company wouldn't let us shoot on their lovely campus, would they?). |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 9:31 am |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 10:36 am |
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They'd have to pay me to see The Internship.
I should probably copyright that line .... |
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| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 11:29 am |
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Oh, come now, watching Owen Wilson and Vaughn swap lines is like watching jazz. Two of the best bullshit slingers in the business.
"RIPD" seems to be MIB. However, it stars the Dude, so I'm there regardless. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:45 pm |
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| Saw the preview of RIPD a couple of months ago. Looked good. Didn't see any connection to MIB. |
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| Good lord does the new SUPERMAN suck. Soulless CGI. Tons of plotholes. Cold and heartless. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 5:09 am |
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Marc wrote: Good lord does the new SUPERMAN suck. Soulless CGI. Tons of plotholes. Cold and heartless.
No surprises there. But will see it for free 6/24 anyway. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 6:58 pm |
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This is the End: In his directoral debut, Seth Rogen gets his Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back taken care of in one movie. The Apocalypse comes and a large group of actors (all playing themselves) are left behind at James Franco's house party. Franco's front yard is apparently the portal to Hell. Left behind in the house are Franco, Rogen, Jay Baruchel, Jonah Hill and Craig Robinson, and, eventually and unfortunately, Danny McBride, which presumably means they're in Hell already. If this is the apocalypse and these are the characters you're trapped with, you'd better run for the hills.
I found it amusing in the same way as the Kevin Smith movies, sometimes really funny. It's always nice to see Emma Watson swinging an axe. You'd think that when the Rapture comes, Watson would be one of those taken to Heaven, but there is that witchcraft thing and also being in a movie with Seth Rogen and Danny McBride, so she had to wait. Reasonably good special effects considering the movie probably didn't have much of a budget. Pacing's off here and there and it has the same pleasant, sloppy feel as Rogen's screen persona. |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 15, 2013 11:27 pm |
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| This Is the End lists Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen as co-directors. Since I compared Rogen with Kevin Smith, it's fair to point out that "This is the End," which is going to get wildly diverging reviews, is better directed than any film Smith has ever done. (I like "Dogma" a bit better, but Smith's direction is pretty bad.) Besides, they killed off Michael Cera right away. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 2:43 am |
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Syd wrote: This is the End: In his directorial debut, Seth Rogen gets his Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back taken care of in one movie.
Wow, a Kevin Smith Legacy(?)
Funny. I can get that vibe from the Tv ad.
I seriously doubt I'll see this unless one of my nieces requests it and I say What the Hey and try it.
Looks kind of semi-amusingly dumb. |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 16, 2013 3:14 am |
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In spite of all the silliness, "This is the End" does cohere and maintain a tempo of zaniness which for the most part is not insulting to the audience's intellect. Good clean fun. Sorry! Good dirty fun.
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Quote: Since I compared Rogen with Kevin Smith, it's fair to point out that "This is the End," which is going to get wildly diverging reviews, is better directed than any film Smith has ever done. (I like "Dogma" a bit better, but Smith's direction is pretty bad.)
Yeah, KS doesn't set the bar high. I find myself liking some of his films, like Dogma, for what they wanted to be. Anyway, Hollywood seems like a natural setting (well, and LA, more generally) for an apocalypse, so that saves money on location shooting. Sounds like a film Bunuel might enjoy, if he were still around. |
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Ghulam wrote: .
In spite of all the silliness, "This is the End" does cohere and maintain a tempo of zaniness which for the most part is not insulting to the audience's intellect. Good clean fun. Sorry! Good dirty fun.
I liked the choice of tools they used to dig to to the water in the basement. A baseball bat? |
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gromit wrote: Syd wrote: This is the End: In his directorial debut, Seth Rogen gets his Dogma and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back taken care of in one movie.
Wow, a Kevin Smith Legacy(?)
Funny. I can get that vibe from the Tv ad.
I seriously doubt I'll see this unless one of my nieces requests it and I say What the Hey and try it.
Looks kind of semi-amusingly dumb.
I got confused and thought it was the upcoming Simon Pegg movie "The World's End." I was a bit confused when I saw Seth Rogen, Michael Cera and Emma Watson listed among the film stars. |
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