what the...daffy duck and bugs bunny come from the same creators! same company. crappy? i think you're in the minority on that one.
i don't doubt i'm in the minority. but, when i look at what tv shows, movies, and music are the most popular, i'm proud to be in the minority, more often than not. and yes, i am well aware that daffy and bugs have the same creators. does that mean if i like a song, i must automatically like every other song from the same group? *CRAZY*
Thought The Prestige was okay, nothing to write home about. Wanted to love it...but too flawed. REALLY liked Memento. Maybe a little too wrapped up in its own convoluted back-to-front story-telling method, but overall I thought it was very well done, with a great performance by Guy Pearce. Really liked Leon: The Professional as well.
Saw "Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid" for the first time in years the other day. Good stuff - especially if you like old movies (like I do). Another that I had seen a few times before and watched again last night was "The Game." Implausible, but one I really like. Kind'a like "Sleuth" (which I just got for Xmas on DVD) where you KNOW something's going on but misdirection keeps leading you down wrong paths of conclusion.
glad u mentioned The Game. when browsing IMDB recently, i noticed it - was probably under one of the "people who liked this movie also liked" links. took a look at their page for it, and couldn't place it. but since u brought it up here, made a point of watching the first few minutes, and it's not ringing any bells. gonna watch it tonight aside from the problems we seem to agree with in The Prestige, i have another issue with it that i'm sure didn't help any. i just don't like christian bale. to me, he's the new jack nicholson.
now that i've watched it, i'm sure i've seen it before. i'll guess it was only once, when it was new - but a couple of the scenes were familiar. as u say, implausible at many points, but still a fun watch.
i liked the prestige. kind of cool how they were doing stuff - especially jackman. the twins thing was a cool twist too. jack nicholson...ok lulz, i'll be a sucker...what did he do to you? i don't see the comparison to him and bale. different style of acting. bale is a method actor who does at times get into a role so seriously he is scary. look at his weight loss for the fighter and the machinist. creepy. people say he's hard to work with and i don't doubt that but many of his roles are solid. some not, but for all the actors out there, he's a better one. as for bugs and daffy...to me they go together. like paul and john for the beatles. solo they're ok but on screen they belong together. as for the other hanna-barbera cartoons .... i don't know what to say over you not liking their other works. the jetsons, flintstones, scooby-doo etc.
I don't dislike Bale - think he's done some really good work. I aloso really like Nicholson, although recently he seems to have become a bit of a caricature of himself.
REAL fun. One of those movies I'll probably always watch if I come across it. I also didn't mind looking at Deborah Kara Unger, either. *KISSED* TWO (count 'em, two) key players from Sons of Anarchy were in The Game - Bobby Elvis and Chibs.
no new yrs plans tonight. i lead a boring life. may watch the second planet of the apes movie. the new one, not the heston one.
Oh, two more movies I saw last night: R.I.P.D. - Awful. Just...holy fudge, was it lousy. Damn, it makes me wonder how they can make a movie so bad. Django Unchained - I don't know. It generally received very good reviews, but somehow I just can't put this very high among the Tarantino oeuvre. Something was lacking, something missing...and I'm not quite sure what it was.
RIPD was bad. I cant understand a word Jeff Bridges says anymore. Ever since he won his Oscar he is Mister Mumbles now. Ryan Reynolds sucked too. Django. it was long and ok. Hated Samuel L Jackson in it. Dicaprio said the violence bothered him a lot. However to me Christop Waltz wins another Oscar for the same freaking role he had in Inglorious Bastards. Same over the top, annoying role. And in a year with big Oscar Supporting Roles, he wins out? Ugh. I know Tarrentino is a huge hit, but i don't get all the hype at all. Pulp Fiction is good at times and annoying as balls at other times. And he himself thinks he's the smartest guy in the room and thinks everyone else is dumb. I did read he has a genius IQ so maybe that's it. I've seen countless interviews with him. he takes arrogance to a new level. Bastards was ok. Ending was dumb. Django was ok but again like Axe says is missing something.
i don't expect everyone to agree with me. i'll make these comments and move on. he didn't do anything to ME, cat, any more than all those people on your death planes did anything to YOU. to me, jack nicholson is astonishingly overrated. as far as i'm aware, he's gotten more academy award nominations than any other actor - which strikes me as absurd. additionally, i don't think he has much range. for whatever reason, he comes off to me as a guy who essentially plays one character. now, add to that the fact that he's an asshole IRL who is way too impressed with himself, and that about sums up my opinion of him. and since i just previewed this post, and saw your latest post, cat, which u made after i started this one, i would expect no argument for my basis here, since you seem to have no qualms about applying the identical reasoning to tarantino - which, btw, i happen to agree with. i think he's got some real serious issues, which are reflected in his films. but at least, as far as i'm aware, they don't include being regularly abusive toward other people on the basis that he feels he's better than everyone else and entitled to act that way. from what i've seen of him so far, bale strikes me as cut from the same cloth. agree or disagree, that's fine. hollywood does many things i don't care for. the way they lionize both of these guys, to me, is a good example. i've never seen this particular "gem" - but this is something i wondered so often in the past, i've finally given up wondering about it any further. they do this crap because we, the spending public, enable them to. and with the advent of modern technology, which takes movies out of where they used to be - something only a big budget and studio could do on a practical basis - and puts their creation within reach of far more people - it will only get worse. because personal taste in entertainment couldn't possibly vary from one person to another, huh? should i say that because pulp fiction is #5 on IMDB's all time top 250 films list, i don't know what to say about your lukewarm take on it? of course not. beware the fallacy of "might is right", one of the pillars of propaganda. just because tons of people love pulp fiction, or scooby doo, or christian bale or justin bieber - i'm still comfortable with forming my own opinions.
lulz - hope you're sitting down for this one... believe it or not lulz, i like your opinions. i may not agree with 79.9% of them but you have the one thing people don't on here --- you got balls man. you stand up for what you believe in which is your God given right and speak your mind. You don't hold back and come forth with your opinions. I like that. I may pull my hair out, but you shoot straight as an arrow on many topics all over mnc and i like that about you. and you don't take any shit from anyone either. lord knows you got a bs detector for my crap. haha. nicholson had range in the 70's and 80's. i mean the same guy from chinatown is a nut in one flew over the cuckoo's nest. then he's the colonial from A Few Good Men. Different roles and range, but yes, many of his roles are the same. to me bale is very different. From a serial killer in American Psycho to the Fighter to fight the Terminators to the brother of a murdered Casey Affleck in whatever that movie was last year. He has a much deeper range than most actors. Hell Tom Hanks got dramatic in back to back roles and won 2 Oscars. What was he known for? Comedy. Bale is versatile. Even Pacino and Deniro now are becoming punch lines of actors- same damn roles. Although I felt bad for Deniro not winning a Supporting Oscar over Waltz (Django) for Silving Linings Playbook. He has the role of a South Philly Dad down pat. I lived in South Philly for 10 yrs so he had it. Right down to the little chain around his wrist etc. tarrentino when interviewing is very high on his own movies as he should be but speaks of them during award season like no other film matters. his interviews and speeches are full of his own air pumping ego. i don't like that about him. cartoons--yes your opinions are yours. just never met anyone who didnt like HB cartoons. im one of 8 kids and was raised on them. Put me and my older brother in front of a tv with HB shows on and we were happy. haha. I loved Speed Racer too and wanted a Mach 5 car forever. haha. But I liked other cartoons too. Same ones as you liked. Basically all cartoons i liked. best Daffy Duck him as Robin Hood and Porky Pig as Friar Tuck! haha. Woody Woodpecker--when he's trying to go over the Niagara Falls in a barrel and the dog is trying to stop him. Everytime the dog goes over the falls - the people down below in yellow raincoats cheer! OVER THE FALLS IN A BARREL - HOORAY! Hysterical. In the 80's i would come home to a cartoon called Star Blazers. It was a Japanese space adventure. Great storyline and characters. It was a little Star Wars with the ships and guns with a long storyline of saving Earth from the Cosmos and their Leader Deslock!
I think that was Bridges character - a salty Old West gunfighter. The dialogue they gave him was just awful. I didn't see ANYTHING annoying about Pulp Fiction - thought it was a classic start to finish. Inglorious Basterds wasn't quite as good, but there were still a number of truly awesome scenes (opening scene; scene in the bar). Thought the ending was fine.
axe--bridges as rooster coburn in the true grit remake? he's mumbling as expected as the Old Western guy. Even his Oscar speech - just seems like a mumbler. pulp fiction- some of the dialogue. just way over the top. a royal with cheese scene? the dance scene? and the opening with tim roth and amanda plummer. just found it annoying. the movie is an episodic movie. its in chapters so it's choppy. it works and all but first time i saw it i hated it in college. saw it again and got to like it but not like everyone else. inglorious bastards--liked the movie. just burning the swastika into his head was a little much.
R.I.P.D. was a combination of the afterlife from "Beetlejuice," a portal to the undead/end of the world (from countless horror movies), mis-matched cop buddies (again, from countless other movies), a touch of the love story from "Ghost," added some special effects, and then removed any semblance of good writing.
for the record, while i'm not a fan of tarantino's, he definitely has his moments. the "Do they speak english in What?" scene is one of my all time favorites in any film. axe, u touched on this topic when talking about memento. as a rule, i'm not a big fan of "artistically" scrambled sequence. that's a minus to me about pulp fiction.
I've been to Europe (and Amsterdam), and I can tell you I've had near identical conversations with friends about mayonnaise on french fries. Sure - Mia wanted to go out. You think Marcellus takes her to places like Jack Rabbit Slims? It IS episodic, but it absolutely worked. You needed to show the connection/interaction among the stories/characters and, beyond that, you kind'a needed to have your "heroes" (Travolta and Jackson) alive at the end. It wouldn't work otherwise.
