What Movies Have You Seen Lately?
February 4th, 2019 at 11:24:00 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
The Golden Globes are run by the Hollywood Foreign Press -- it is a tiny group of reporters - basically a way for them to hobnob with celebrities and accept bribes (allegedly) |
February 4th, 2019 at 11:07:32 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | Watched Lucy again. I like the premise, though the story of being chased by the Chinese till the very end is silly. She can see into the future and would have killed them immediately. But then you have no antagonist to drive the story. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 5th, 2019 at 1:43:09 AM permalink | |
Pacomartin Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 1068 Posts: 12569 |
When Director of "The Martian" Ridley Scott came on stage to accept the award for Best Motion Picture, Musical or comedy he openly laughed at the award category. The Golden Globes will usually give this award to an outright musical if one existed, but for Comedy they tend to go for basically dramatic films with a little comic relief. "The Hangover" was the rare exception which was a pure comedy film. MUSICALS Film Director Producer 2001 Moulin Rouge! * Baz Luhrmann Fred Baron, Martin Brown, & Baz Luhrmann 2002 Chicago † Rob Marshall Meryl Poster, Martin Richards, Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, & Craig Zadan 2005 Walk the Line James Mangold James Keach & Cathy Konrad 2006 Dreamgirls Bill Condon Laurence Mark 2007 Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Tim Burton John Logan, Laurie MacDonald, Walter F. Parkes, & Richard D. Zanuck 2011 The Artist Michel Hazanavicius Thomas Langmann 2012 Les Misérables * Tom Hooper Tim Bevan, Eric Fellner, Debra Hayward, and Cameron Mackintosh 2016 La La Land * Damien Chazelle Fred Berger, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, and Marc Platt COMEDY Film Director Producer 2000 Almost Famous Cameron Crowe Ian Bryce & Cameron Crowe 2003 Lost in Translation * Sofia Coppola Sofia Coppola & Ross Katz 2004 Sideways * Alexander Payne Michael London 2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona Woody Allen Letty Aronson, Jaume Roures, Stephen Tenenbaum, & Gareth Wiley 2009 The Hangover Todd Phillips Daniel Goldberg & Todd Phillips 2010 The Kids Are All Right * Lisa Cholodenko Jeff Levy-Hinte, Gary Gilbert, Jordan Horowitz, Celine Rattray, Daniela Taplin Lundberg 2013 American Hustle * David O. Russell Charles Roven, Megan Ellison, Richard Suckle, and Jonathan Gordon 2014 The Grand Budapest Hotel * Wes Anderson Wes Anderson, Jeremy Dawson, Steven M. Rales, and Scott Rudin 2015 The Martian * Ridley Scott Simon Kinberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Schaefer, Aditya Sood, and Mark Huffam 2017 Lady Bird * Greta Gerwig Scott Rudin, Evelyn O'Neil, and Eli Bush 2018 Green Book * Peter Farrelly Jim Burke, Charles B. Wessler, Brian Hayes Currie, Peter Farrelly, and Nick Vallelonga |
February 5th, 2019 at 9:48:29 PM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 | The Commuter, awful. The story is impossible to make sense of, it's so convoluted. The whole thing was filmed on a train movie set, with actors I've never seen. The guy who plays Mike on Saul gets killed in the third scene he's in. Then you have a 60 year old Liam Neeson getting the living crap kicked out of him three times and not a scratch on him. Any one of the blows he got would put him in the hospital for a month. Towards the end he gets stabbed, and shot in the foot and it doesn't even slow him down. The medics just patch him up on the spot and send him home with his wife. Ridiculous beyond belief. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |
February 6th, 2019 at 2:34:23 AM permalink | |
Wizard Administrator Member since: Oct 23, 2012 Threads: 239 Posts: 6095 | Just saw The Favourite. This is the kind of movie that maybe I should like, but didn't. I found it to be rather boring, too long, and overly artistic. To be honest, I was attracted to see the movie after I heard there were some graphic lesbian scenes, but what few there were were very veiled in whatever happened. The movie was basically a two-hour cat fight over Queen Anne between her chambermaids. I will say that I learned a bit of history from it though. Knowledge is Good -- Emil Faber |
February 6th, 2019 at 4:54:00 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12419 |
I loved The Favourite. Way more than I expected to. Thought it was very funny and loved the performances. The only things I didn't like were the over-the-top camera work and the pretentious ending. I had no idea about the lesbian stuff before I saw it. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
February 6th, 2019 at 5:48:55 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
Can you expand on the over-the-top camera work comment? When I hear that I think of shaky or fast-movements which would probably get me seasick and nobody wants that |
February 6th, 2019 at 5:54:42 AM permalink | |
ams288 Member since: Apr 21, 2016 Threads: 29 Posts: 12419 |
Not shaky. I hate shaky cam. Just lots random wide angles and the overuse of fish-eye lenses (see the pictures below) which is so distracting. “A straight man will not go for kids.” - AZDuffman |
February 6th, 2019 at 6:20:11 AM permalink | |
aceofspades Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 83 Posts: 2019 |
Yeah I am not a fan of fish-eye lenses - will skip this |
February 6th, 2019 at 10:30:30 AM permalink | |
Evenbob Member since: Oct 24, 2012 Threads: 146 Posts: 25010 |
A bunch of actors in wigs. If you could go back in time to that scene, the smell would have knocked you over. People who seldom bathed, in stinky clothes and really smelly wigs. They didn't notice because they all smelled the same. Bad. If you take a risk, you may lose. If you never take a risk, you will always lose. |