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The first two Terminators were good. Every one of them after that has sucked. Hollywood has to realize that not every movie needs to be a franchise.
What score did it get? Is this an out of 10 scale?
Why the ad hominem attack?
I really liked the first two Nolan Batman movies. Having said that, I wasn't too interested in this movie when it was announced but after seeing the most recent trailer, I definitely wanna see this movie. It looks really good.
I don't think they care about continuity. Which is fine. We don't really need two comic studios doing the same thing.
I've felt for a while now that DC needs to not try to copy what Marvel has done and just concentrate on making good movies. If the movies are good, people will see them. I was not interested in this movie at all but after seeing the trailer, it looks like it might be really good.
[quote]Seen it a dozen times as both a kid and adult.[/quote]
Why would you watch any movie you don't like a dozen times?
I drank Nesquick as a young kid but moved to Ovaltine when I got to my early teens. I much prefer the taste of Ovaltine. Nesquick is just too sweet for my taste. But I also love dark chocolate and a lot of people hate the taste of that too. I would still drink Ovaltine if it didn't aid in giving me a spare tire. I had to cut it out about a year or so ago.
Even though I didn't grow up in the '40s, I feel like this is how Christmas is supposed to be. The snow, the childhood wonder, mom and dad, getting that present you soooo wanted but never thought you'd get, writing letters to Santa at school, the big fancy department store etc. etc.
It's supposed to be funny. I laugh every time I hear Schwartz's mom yelling through the phone and Schwartz screaming "Mom! What'd I do?" For those of us that were "abused" by our parents like that, it rings true and is funny.
It does look good, but isn't January when sucky movies are supposed to come out?
I thought you were gonna say that he had a clause in his contract that was a santa.
I think you mean January 6, 2019.
Looking on the UP network website and see no mention of it. I wonder if there's some reason that prevents UP from airing the show at the same time as CBC. I would assume that season 12 would start in the fall of 2019 on UP since they usually show it several months after CBC.
Looking on the CBC website, there's no word on whether 12 will be the last season. It's popular enough that it could probably go past season 12 but I have to think they're getting near the end.
So you saw some restored 35mm film on youtube and thought it didn't look that great. You're watching an analog medium on a digital medium. That's akin to me saying I watched an 8K Rec 2020 video on an iPhone 5 and it didn't look all that great. Well of course it wouldn't. The technology couldn't handle the full spectrum of the medium.
A good film print projected through a good film projector will spectacular. No matter how far you zoom into film, there's always information but you also introduce grain. If you zoom in far enough to 16K or 32K or whatever, there's going to be space, a lack of information, between pixels.
They both have their limitations. To a certain extent, it comes down to personal preference. I personally prefer film and I'm anything but a hipster. I've been conditioned, like many people from the 20th Century, to see film as a luxury because it was expensive to shoot on and thus the look of film was thought of as more professional. Movies like The Force Awakens looks like video to me instead of an expensive, Hollywood film. It gives me the feel of a local news channel affiliate on video which, in the past, was always viewed as cheap or having a cheap look as opposed to a filmed Hollywood production.
Agree.
Boxing is nowhere near as big as it was in '76.
The problem with boxing is that they thought pay TV and pay per view was the future. But going that route actually kept the sport out of view and subsequently out of the mind of many would be fans. The reason the NFL is so big is that it's been available on over the air TV for decades. It's been easy to find and watch and thus has been front and center for a lot of people, making them fans. MMA has been on basic cable channels for years thus making it easy to watch and become a fan. But boxing created a barrier to entry into fandom and has paid a heavy price for it. Without a compelling draw like Mike Tyson, people don't seek out boxing and won't pay for it.
Never said I was upset by it. GreenGoblin said they didn't see how it was campy so I gave examples.
GreenGoblin says it's not campy like the '60s version was and is then shown exactly how it's campy like the '60s version and responds with, "That's nitpicky."
I haven't seen the play so I can't really comment on that. I do wonder how different it is since it's written by the same guy that wrote the screenplay.
It's one of those movies that feels like it's trying to be way more important than it actually is. When you get right down to it, it's just a lot of explicit talk about a grown man having sex with a young girl.
A lot of the lines make it feel like it was written by a teenager and is fulfilling some male fantasy. Having Rooney say things like 'You touched my breasts' and 'You took out your prick and told me to hold it' or talking about if she came and saying things about how he 'f***ed' her all sound like a guy writing an erotic fantasy about a young tween girl.
A lot of it seemed to be filler. Was it layoffs that Peter was supposed to be dealing with? At first it seemed like that might actually come into play and intertwine with the Una storyline but it didn't. And what's with them trashing the break room? That made no sense.
For the most part, though, it was just them walking around a building having conversations in different rooms. Well, we're done with our conversation in this room. Let's wander into another room and start a conversation but make it about the same thing we talked about in the previous room. And then, it just kind of ended. But it didn't really end, it actually just stopped. As if they ran out of film. Actually they ran out of ideas. It's as if they couldn't figure out how to end it and just cut to black.
It felt like an indulgent, self-important film.
[quote]You can't get more cheesy or stupid than that![/quote]
But you can get just as stupid.
>Joker and his goons dancing around to Prince music
>Joker's goons all wearing matching jackets with the Joker's face on them
>Joker pulling out a comically long pistol to shoot down the Batwing
>Vicki seducing Joker in the most overtly, comic way
>Joker's goons driving cars painted with the Joker's color scheme
>The bad guys on the roof are stereotypical bad guy goons who speak in a made-up Hollywood dialect rather than any real dialect
>Joker's silly plan that makes people die and look like him
>The bad guys in this movie are more goofy and generic than the Dr. Evil and his bad guys from Austin Powers
>The movie is full of caricatures not characters
I'm sure there's many more that I can't think of but I haven't actually watched this movie in years. I've seen clips here and there. People want to act like this movie was dark and brought Batman back to his roots after what the Adam West Batman did, but again, it's just a different flavor of campiness.
Ben: Are you sure you won't freak out?
Grace: A plane disappeared for 5 years. I'm ready to believe anything.
Ben mentions voices
Grace: Are you hearing voices?!?!
Grace proceeds to freak out and not believe him.
Thanks, Grace. Your husband will never trust what you say again.
I don't know why I keep watching it. The tropes are so bad. Everyone's life is so awful but it really isn't. They put a blue filter on the camera on most every scene. Everyone talks in whispers. It all has to be so super serious. No wonder they all want to kill themselves. No one ever laughs.
If you're talking about the Tim Burton directed Batman, that was '89. It was a movie that lacked a plot and was about as campy as the '60s version, just in a different style. Give Batman Begins or The Dark Knight a watch. Much better.