Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

If you can keep focus aint nothing wrong with watching multipe series at once. Thing is for me with series that are already done I never get around to watching them unless everything falls in to place (free time and I'm bored and something just hit me to finally watch it). I'm currently keeping up with The Good Wife, Mad Men, Vikings, The Borgias, Game of Thrones, The Following (I'll just finish off the 1st season), got back in to Person of Interest, Elementary, Golden Boy, The Americans, Happy Endings, New Girl, Community |I , Nathan For You, The Jeselnik Offensive, and Blue Bloods.

Not sure I'll keep up with Hannibal of Bates Motel cuz I think I've just had my fill of serial killer/psychopath shows at this point. Main characters in both are not egaging enough for me (dude playing Norman is a limited actor and the guy playing Will seems to just be copying someone else in a different show I watch). Mads does his thing but he and the writing kinda remind me of what I didn't care for in the movies.
 
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Mitchellicious said:
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what in the blue hell is The Bling Ring?

Americans is great. Was ep 10 the season finale?
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It was a pretty big deal in the celeb world a while a go.  A group of teens in Hollywood were robbing celebrities homes

They made a lifetime movie about it with the same name and one of the chicks, Alexis Neiers, wound up with a reality show from it

The character Emma is playing is based on Alexis
 
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I'm looking forward to this movie too. Spike's been putting out some quality work...


http://www.slashfilm.com/first-oldboy-teaser-poster-plus-very-early-screening-reaction/


First ‘Oldboy’ Teaser Poster, Plus Very Early Screening Reaction
Posted on Monday, April 15th, 2013 by Russ Fischer

Spike Lee‘s new version of Oldboy, drawn from both the Park Chan-wook film and the manga that inspired it, is getting closer to release, with a date planned for this fall, but it remains more or less a mystery. Sure, we know the basics: that Josh Brolin plays a guy kidnapped off the street one night and held in a strange prison for many years. Unceremoniously released, he sets out on the trail of the person responsible for his ordeal, and finds surprises as well as the culprit.

Sharlto Copley (District 9) plays a big role, as does Elizabeth Olsen. We don’t have any footage to show you, but we do have a teaser poster. In addition to that, there’s an early report out of a test screening that was held not long ago.

First up, the poster, which comes from CinemaCon. Collider has a couple shots, but they amount to the same thing:

In addition, JoBlo heard from someone who attended a test screening of the film. As always, take semi-anonymous test screening comments with a grain of salt, but there are a few things that might reassure those concerned about the remake. This bit makes Lee’s film sound like it rides the line between faithful remake and new interpretation, as we’ve heard:

There are only minor changes, with stuff like the prison sequence being longer and some tweaks to the ending. It’s not shot for shot by any means either, so if you see it, you should definitely expect things to be different and to cringe all over again…Much like the original, acts two and three are very sadistic and “wrong.”

Lee’s touch is reportedly noticable (“Even if you didn’t know that he directed the movie, the soundtrack, cinematography, vibe and feel of the movie scream Spike Lee”) while Brolin’s character is compared to the lead from Breaking Bad (“you feel for him, you root for him, but that does not make him a good guy”) and Copley’s work garners praise (“I couldn’t even recognize him. He honestly blew me away with how good he was”).

There’s more at JoBlo, but given that this was a rough cut screening, we’ll wait for something more final before really getting into details.

Oldboy opens on October 11.

An advertising executive is kidnapped and held hostage for 20 years in solitary confinement. When he is inexplicably released, he embarks on an obsessive mission to discover who orchestrated his punishment, only to find he is still trapped in a web of conspiracy and torment.
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Kevin Cleveland said:
Haven't we all watched like 11 straight episodes of Breaking Bad before?
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Nope. :lol

I told you, I been on it since day 1.

I've seen some reruns here and there, rewatched a my favs like the broken plate ep, when Jane choked, One Minute, Bug, Crawl Space...Face Off, but no binging.

I'm gonna try and do that for s4 and s5.1 before these last eps though.
 
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Read that the mallick movie with Ben affleck was horrible. Which is what I expected. Those two seemed like oil and water to me.
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So...I saw the new Malick movie, To The Wonder...

I'm a big fan...Badlands...The New World...The Tree of Life...I'll swear by those movies, so when I had to wait 6 years for Tree, I was hyped. That's the Malick way. Every scene and every cut is so delicate...you can feel years and years of decisions and feeling being expressed in his films. Now...yeah...people have called Malick, pretentious for pretension's sake. I never minded that, because I felt like his films let me in.Malick coats his films with this magical sensation that he popped the lens out and let the world speak to him. You don't realize how precise his floaty style is, until you see someone do it poorly. And for me, it's not alienating. It cleanses the mind and soaks it in that koolaid.

His movies, to me, have a rhyme and reason to what they're showing. If that was the best way you could express yourself and your shapeless feeling, than so be it. But if it's not, then it's ********. If you stare a piece of corn for 10 minutes, because you're trying to tell me that the world is a sad place, you can go **** yourself.

That being said...To The Wonder Is really ******g bad.

It's a parody of itself. It's every bad thing you ever heard about Tree of Life, but even more trivial. Ben Affleck was a terrible, terrible choice. Every single scene he's in, he looks like he's ready to roll his eyes, not at the circumstance, but the entire film itself. It feels like the magic is gone, and all you're left with is some ***** in a box pretending like she just got cut in half. The Tree of Life sold me. It drew me in, it told it's tale...or at least its feelings about its tale, and it floated in and out of time until finally it reached its emotional destination. This is a pretentious film about how to awkwardly Dutch angle every scene you randomly decided to remove 90% of the dialogue from. And everyone involved looked all the stupider for it.

You can't fix the broken scenes where this film was BEGGING for dialogue, by having a terrible voiceover by Olga in French, thought the entire film.

You can't undo the fact that Ben Affleck and Olga Kurylenko have no chemistry.

You can't change the fact that Affleck and Rachel McAdams aren't much better.

Malick actors have this quality. This wonder in their eyes. This deepness and appreciation for living, breathing world around them. What's a good pompous word? Ennui? :lol Cuz it's not gravitas, I think that's different. And mind you, Affleck doesn't really have that either. He can do seriousness. He can check you on your ********. His default is ******* and we all know it. He just can't...run around in the grass and dance. He can't look into the wilderness and appreciate it. He doesn't have a quietness in him. You can tell that dude is a born talker. So it's painful letting the pretension of the moment sink in as you watch an actor muted by his director, struggling to express anything, because he needs his words.

Oh...and you can't undo all of the scenes that felt like he missed his mark creatively.
You can question story and meaning all day, but you never question Malick's aesthetics.

You never try and figure out what's wrong with whatever scene. You never cringe at the images. You accept. You let it wash over you. It's the lack of narrative that might get people, but the visual filmmaking is supposed to always be there with him. I think the biggest problem with this film is that it's the most mundane and ordinary story Malick has told. Maybe his films need that grand vitality to them. They need to be about cross-country chases, and wars and the beginning of time. Maybe they need to be little epics unto themselves to justify his style. Half of this film feels like how someone would make fun of Malick films. There ARE moments, here and there where you see the beauty and the inspiration, but they come too late, too few and with too much that didn't work in between them.

A Malick film, stylistically, leaves nothing in question. Every cut is a soulful choice. Every camera move IS the wonder. Everything flows like a ballet or a symphony in a Malick film, whether the narrative works for you or not. Except in this. This has clunk. This has awkward shots pointed up people's noses. Shots that miss the emotion or the performance they were aiming at. This has scenes all over where it feels like the director yelled cut, but forgot to stop the camera. It feels like he didn't know how to do his own signature style of film.

This reminded me the most of The Bourne Supremacy. Supremacy had the best story of the 3 Bourne films, but it'll always go down as the lesser of the 3. Paul Greengrass, who directed the 2&3, was still beta testing his style, and didn't nail it until Ultimatum (where he basically just told the same story over again). So the edges were rough, he didn't always catch the performances and it made people nauseous. This film would've been fine if it had come out before The New World. If it had been a case of a director not knowing how to let this esoteric, ambient style breathe in a rigid, plain, modern world, then I could understand. He's old...he's rusty...whatever. But not after The New World. And not after The Tree of Life. I know that's a lot of baggage to bring into a film, but had I not had the respect and love for some of the work he's done, I probably wouldn't have even finished this.

It's 2 hours of Olga Kurylenko being a spaz. All I could think watching it was that I respect the work Jessica Chastain did in The Tree of Life even more now.

And I guess I should mention, Javier Bardem is in it as well and he's a priest with issues of faith, and just human kindness. He's the closest thing the film has to a real character. There was legitimately something worth pursuing there...but he's so randomly dropped into the film, that I didn't care. By then he was just one more clown at the circus.

This movie is buns. :{ 5.5/10

I'm not looking forward to his next film.
 
I changed my mind, I gotta catch up on Community, and maybe I'll give Mad Men another try.

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Brie hasn't been forgotten, nice reminder
 
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Such a fool to be ignoring Community or Mad Men. Smarten up ONeg.

Pete's life the new Don life.

For yall who expected it, The Following's ratings have been steadily dropping since like ep. 6 or 7 :lol so expect things to be relying on the season finale and S2 premiere which will probably decide if it's cut short or not renewed for a 3rd season.

On a bright side, Hannibal is maintaining pretty high ratings so far.
 
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