Movie thread

[envirotex]

is there basically nothing coming out this Christmas season other than Star Wars?

Pitch Perfect 300...

 

[Road Guy]

I actually find those fairly funny, especially when drinking!

 

[csb]

But will the Green Bay Packers be back? 

 

[FLBuff PE]

You mean this guy, right?

 

[Road Guy]

^- is that Fat Amy?

 

[envirotex]

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

My daughter loves Pitch Perfect. She added the soundtracks for both to Mrs Dex's spotify account.

 

[Supe]

John Wick: Chapter 2 was nowhere near as good as the first one.

 

[envirotex]

John Wick: Chapter 2 was nowhere near as good as the first one.

No, but it was worth 2 hours and a rental.  Don't F with a man's dog or his car.

 

[Supe]

No, but it was worth 2 hours and a rental.  Don't F with a man's dog or his car.

Agreed.  It just didn't seem as fluid/well executed as the first one.  

 

[csb]

In the last 24 hours I have watched Guardians of the Galaxy Volume 2 twice. 

 

[Dleg]

We went to see Coco opening night. It was much better than I had anticipated from the previews (which wasn't much) and was really good. A truly great film about family. 

Then we rented Valerian and the City of ten thousand planets or whatever.  What an awful film. I didn't turn it off, but I did mostly stop watching after the first hour. What a tremendous waste of resources. 

 

[Supe]

Finally saw Wonder Woman.  The opening was pretty slow, and the whole movie had a distinctly different vibe from all the other superhero movies, but I thought it was pretty good.

 

[knight1fox3]

Finally saw Wonder Woman.  The opening was pretty slow, and the whole movie had a distinctly different vibe from all the other superhero movies, but I thought it was pretty good.

You're still on LadyFox's Xmas card list. And you'll also still be welcomed at the supper club table. :thumbs:

 

[jeb6294]

No kids, I was sick and the wife was working over most of the Thanksgiving weekend.  I tried watching "Atomic Blonde" because it was supposed to be one of the great movies of 2017.  I made it about an hour before I turned it off.  I also watched "Baywatch".  It was bad, but it came across like it was intentionally bad.  Like they realized they were making a movie based on a ridiculous TV show and didn't try to take things too seriously.

 

[Road Guy]

we enjoyed the Baywatch movie in the sense that it wasn't supposed to be serious - but Im glad we didn't pay much to see it either!

But I wish they could make comedies that didn't have to necessarily have a point to them

 

[Dleg]

I watched Baywatch on the plane. I remember essentially nothing, which is a pretty good measure of the film.

My wife forced me to watch "Wonder" this weekend.  A pretty good Lifetime movie about a kid with a physical deformity. Formulaic, manipulative, etc. but still pretty uplifting and positive.

My problem with it is that it is fictional, and paints a uniformly inaccurate view of disability and other people's acceptance of it. In the movie, Augie has physical deformities but inside he's just a regular kid and in fact a very smart kid, and as a result, when other kids "get used to" the way he looks, they become his friends. In reality, most kids with disabilities are not "regular kids' inside, and they have a much harder time making friends because to be a friend, a regular kid must get over not only the physical deformities but the cognitive and behavioral differences, as well. As a parent of a child with a disability, I felt kind of cheated by the movie, because it was literally made up by someone and it felt that way - an artificially simple solution to a problem that is never that simple. It was still a positive message, though, I guess, but I left feeling kind of angry, to be honest. 

 

[Audi Driver P.E.]

 

[csb]

I watched Baywatch on the plane. I remember essentially nothing, which is a pretty good measure of the film.

My wife forced me to watch "Wonder" this weekend.  A pretty good Lifetime movie about a kid with a physical deformity. Formulaic, manipulative, etc. but still pretty uplifting and positive.

My problem with it is that it is fictional, and paints a uniformly inaccurate view of disability and other people's acceptance of it. In the movie, Augie has physical deformities but inside he's just a regular kid and in fact a very smart kid, and as a result, when other kids "get used to" the way he looks, they become his friends. In reality, most kids with disabilities are not "regular kids' inside, and they have a much harder time making friends because to be a friend, a regular kid must get over not only the physical deformities but the cognitive and behavioral differences, as well. As a parent of a child with a disability, I felt kind of cheated by the movie, because it was literally made up by someone and it felt that way - an artificially simple solution to a problem that is never that simple. It was still a positive message, though, I guess, but I left feeling kind of angry, to be honest. 

Plus the actor looks like this in real life:

The kid is practically the next James Bond. 

 

[Dexman PE PMP]

The name's Box. Juice Box.