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

I totally got screwed on show times and theaters which was my own doing.

Now I'm stuck watching the Commuter in 4DX :lol:

Started off well.
 
I know for a lot of people it would be impossible to just select 0ne, but I want to know what's you guys favorite movie of all time.

If anything from top to bottom by genre.
 
keko jones said:
I know for a lot of people it would be impossible to just select 0ne, but I want to know what's you guys favorite movie of all time.

If anything from top to bottom by genre.
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Zero chance of me picking just one. Zero chance.

I could name 20 I couldn't live without. Then 20 more I wouldn't want to live without. Then 20 more, etc. :lol:
 
Commuter 6.5/8

This movie was good. Really good in 4DX.

Impossible to sleep in a 4DX flick. I'm about to watch all action movies in this format. Been a while since I have but this go around seats were getting hot, random spurts of water, etc. Gave a good you're actually in the train feeling.

While the setting and execution of investigation bends the susoension of disbelief the plot is good and ties thing together nicely.

The one problem being when you see a notable actor you know they're gonna play a larger role even if they initially seem inconsequential

I will say it was laughable that one black guy seems to be a hapless hitman and the other becomes the black hero sacrifice (just to come full circle with a joke line).

Gotta say I'm happy I didnt at least waste a trip given I didn't get to see what I intended to.
 
the shape of water was wild

kinda boring but still sorta entertaining

dont really see what all the hype was for

and once again that magical super helpful negro stereotype like i like octavia but this wasnt it

6/10
 
Need to get back on GOT...got a few episodes into season 3, but it's just so damn slow some episodes and hard to keep up with the storylines/characters
 
got through most of the florida project but i had to leave work and get my son. does something shocking happen like in sling blade? or is it pretty much just a snapshot into their life? don’t even feel like finishing it. the music was horrible for me cause i hate most modern rap/ mumble rap.
 
stuntman mike said:
got through most of the florida project but i had to leave work and get my son. does something shocking happen like in sling blade? or is it pretty much just a snapshot into their life? don’t even feel like finishing it. the music was horrible for me cause i hate most modern rap/ mumble rap.
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the mom gets busted for prostitution and theft off her craigslist meet up that she stole the disney tickets from

cps comes to take the girl

she gets mad and runs to her friends to say bye

the lil redhead girl runs with her as they escape to magic kingdom

the end
 
The Shape of Water Reveals the Greatest Movie Monster is White Privilege
Guillermo del Toro reinvents classic monster movie tropes to expose the "great" white privilege of America's past as the true monster.
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http://www.denofgeek.com/us/movies/...the-greatest-movie-monster-is-white-privilege

Guillermo del Toro once told me that he considers The Shape of Water his most personal film. After all, it is the fruition of the auteur’s lifelong desire to offer a proper ending to the Universal Monster movies of yore. Whereas those films often pitied and even romanticized their creatures, they were still always doomed to loneliness and despair. The Shape of Water, by contrast, flips perceived tragedy on its head by presenting a supposed beast who is not a monster at all: he is a romantic hero. And those who might have scoffed at the Universal Monsters (or their fans) as “weird” and “perverse” once upon a time… their land of a purportedly great America is where the true demons lie.

Indeed, The Shape of Water is a sumptuous ode by del Toro to the monsters he loves and the creatures he fears, perhaps even more so in recent times. Set in a chilly and rain-soaked 1962, the filmmaker returns to the generation that was still growing up with Universal Monsters being replayed on their television screens, and an America that is often worshipped by the current political establishment as the good old days. Handicapped women like Elisa Esposito (Sally Hawkins) and minorities like Octavia Spencer’s Zelda Fuller are relegated to the night shift of cleaning government facilities. Ignored and invisible, the most acknowledgement they’ll get from some sneering superiors is that they’re only here to be “piss wipers.”

Meanwhile Michael Shannon’s Col. Richard Strickland is an all-American hero. A member of the U.S. military who has a ticket to the top (he’s verychummy with his five-star general boss), Shannon’s Strickland is a member of the unofficial club. He’s white, married, proudly Christian and quoting Bible verses while aggressively asserting his authority over a woman of color (he wonders why Zelda has no siblings like most of “her people”). In this time of a “great” America, things truly were great for him. If he peed on the floor, it was owed to him that the women wipe it. This is also why he views himself as the hero of his own story.

Like so many monster movies of yesteryear, the square jawed white man is supposed to be the romantic adventurer. He has returned from the Amazon with a creature, a thing. This apparent monster, played by del Toro’s constant collaborator, Doug Jones, is an aquatic marvel. Described as a river god by Amazonian locals, it is a majestic creation del Toro has conjured with his special effects department, obviously reminiscent of the eponymous beast of The Creature from the Black Lagoon, yet still very different… and not just for legal reasons.

The classic Universal Monsters were mostly created in artist Jack Pierce’s makeup chair, albeit the Black Lagoon beastie was primarily designed by Millicent Patrick (for which she received no credit at the time of 1954, largely due to her gender). They were meant to be as repellent and fearsome as they were wretched and lamentable. Boris Karloff’s Frankenstein Monster lumbered with a stumbling melancholy, and like Dracula, the Wolf Man, and yes even Lagoon’s Gill-Man, he summed up his plight in Bride of Frankenstein (1935) to his titular mate. “We belong dead.” There is no place for them in this world, and contemporary American consumers from the ‘30s to the ‘50s nodded their heads in agreement. Who could love such things?

Del Toro answers that question in The Shape of Water. Calling his film a literal “counterpoint” to the shot in Creature from the Black Lagoon when the Gill-Man swims longingly beneath a girl in a bathing suit, this movie is meant to explain why those two crazy kids should get together. They don’t belong dead, not when they come from a world as cold and gray, and dead, as post-50s America.

As such, Jones’ creature is graceful and strapping in his demeanor. Stunningly realized with makeup effects and minimal CGI, he inhabits one of the more gorgeously designed movies of 2017; he also brightens it from its period drab by simply appearing in its various sets and casting them aglow with movie magic. For he is touching the lives of the marginalized and forgotten every time he meets one of the “wipers.” Among them, the subject of his Amor is Hawkins’ Elisa, a quiet and mute girl who has been forgotten by her society. Her daily routine includes making breakfast, pleasuring herself before work, and going to endure the condescension and entitlements of the Stricklands of the world.

Shannon’s character embodies to a tee the sort of toxic masculinity that is currently dominating our daily news cycles. Quite intentionally too. Echoing the boasts of a then-braggart reality TV star, Strickland muses to his general that even after a minor accident at the lab, he still has his “***** finger” to do the Lord’s work. And like so many men who’ve felt insulated in their power over women for millennia, Strickland later attempts to corner Elisa in his office at one point, whispering between heavy breaths that “I don’t mind you can’t speak.” It actually makes things easier if she’s quiet, in point of fact.

Like everything else about The Shape of Water, there is nothing prototypical or broad about Shannon’s performance. Elisa’s daily miseries are implicitly linked with his impunity over her and everyone else in the film. Set in a 1962 corner of America that looks like the ‘50s are still thriving, Strickland is a layered monster made of fleshy white privilege and entitlement, and everything else that is supposedly great about his time. In his one scene with a black man in the film, he towers over the stronger figure like a malevolent god, confident in the social structures that allow him to talk and cow people of color in any context.

Conversely, Elisa and her one friend, the even lonelier Giles (Richard Jenkins), live in the shadows as essentially throwaways. Giles is a not-so-closeted gay man who lost his job at an advertising agency after an “incident” and continues to lust after younger men from afar. But he is condemned to stay in the margins in a world possessed by Strickland and the beasts of his ilk. That is perhaps why he too eventually understands Elisa’s empathy and passion for Jones’ Amphibian Man. There is something noble and pure about a being who judges all men and women by their virtue and not their rank.

In the eyes of this creature, a mute woman is a goddess, and maybe an aged gay man is also worthy. By contrast, the white Christian who demands complete devotion is the Devil himself. The square jawed hero of The Creature from the Black Lagoon or King Kong, or any other creature feature that set del Toro’s mind afire is the true epitome of the banal evils of their times. Ours too if they can wrap themselves in enough “Christian values” to blind followers to where they place their fingers. If so, this movie’s creature might be a gift from the heavens, if not a god. As with The Shape of Wateritself, the creature of this film cuts an unusual yet intimately familiar romantic outline, representing escape from the all-too-real abominations of our world.
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Three Billboards

Good flick. Not best picture worthy IMO but still very good. Frances McDormand definitely best actress worthy though. She killed it 22 years after she killed Fargo.

Some funny appearances from lesser known actors.
O-Dog :nthat:
Napoleon Dynamite's grandma :lol:
 
thanks h2hk. i had to head back to work so i watched the remaining 5 minutes or so. damn, that was it?
movie felt really immersive, i'll give it that.
 
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...-works-at-starz-keanu-reeves-attached-1074315
Starz announced Friday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour that it was developing The Continental, an ongoing drama series based on the John Wick film franchise starring Keanu Reeves. Reeves, Starz execs said, is expected to make an appearance in the potential series but will not star.

The potential TV series is set in the John Wick universe and focuses on the inner workings of the exclusive Continental Hotel, which serves as a refuge for assassins.

"This series is truly unlike anything else on TV,” Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said. “The Continental promises to include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introduce some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world.”
 
big j 33 said:
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/l...-works-at-starz-keanu-reeves-attached-1074315
Starz announced Friday at the Television Critics Association's winter press tour that it was developing The Continental, an ongoing drama series based on the John Wick film franchise starring Keanu Reeves. Reeves, Starz execs said, is expected to make an appearance in the potential series but will not star.

The potential TV series is set in the John Wick universe and focuses on the inner workings of the exclusive Continental Hotel, which serves as a refuge for assassins.

"This series is truly unlike anything else on TV,” Starz CEO Chris Albrecht said. “The Continental promises to include the thunderous fight sequences and intensely staged shootouts between professional assassins and their targets that fans have come to expect in the John Wick movie franchise as well as introduce some new, darkly compelling characters who inhabit this underground world.”
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F YES!!!! :wow:
 
Master Zik said:
Commuter 6.5/8

This movie was good. Really good in 4DX.

Impossible to sleep in a 4DX flick. I'm about to watch all action movies in this format. Been a while since I have but this go around seats were getting hot, random spurts of water, etc. Gave a good you're actually in the train feeling.

While the setting and execution of investigation bends the susoension of disbelief the plot is good and ties thing together nicely.

The one problem being when you see a notable actor you know they're gonna play a larger role even if they initially seem inconsequential

I will say it was laughable that one black guy seems to be a hapless hitman and the other becomes the black hero sacrifice (just to come full circle with a joke line).

Gotta say I'm happy I didnt at least waste a trip given I didn't get to see what I intended to.
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Random spurts of water!? LOL I can't do it...
 
shonuffsheff said:
Random spurts of water!? LOL I can't do it...
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:lol: I got a look at the chairs before I left. They have 2 holes on the sides that shoot air where your head will be right inbtween.

A tube at the top and one by your feet pointing upwards. Its not liquid water but more like a quick burst of mist :lol: Guaranteed to keep you alert.

There is an option by the armchair to turn water off though.

But I gotta say its ingenious cuz they specifically use the water during a scene where a character gets sprayed in the face :lol:
 
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