Thorner Posted June 15, 2017 Report Posted June 15, 2017 I looked up woot on m-w.com and it says first known use is 2002, but I have IRC chat logs from at least 2000 with the word. ...the more you know! Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 17, 2017 Report Posted June 17, 2017 Just watched Donnie Darko in a theater. What a movie. Swoon. Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 17, 2017 Report Posted June 17, 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal might be the greatest actor of all time period. Quote
Robviously Posted June 17, 2017 Report Posted June 17, 2017 Went up to Ithaca to see It Comes At Night tonight. I was so excited to see it! It's director Trey Schults's second movie. His first movie is called Krisha, an indie film he shot with his family in 9 days with so little money. Krisha is amazing. Fantastic. Touching. Frightening. Real. It Comes At Night is such a disappointment. Basically a ###### rehash of The Witch, but it's not tethered to anything. It's not scary and it's not about anything. It's a believable post-apocalyptic setting, but absolutely nothing is done with it. At least I watched Zodiac and Nightcrawler earlier (Gyllenhaal double feature!), so my good movie itch was already scratched for today. It Comes At Night was the biggest POS I've seen in a theatre in years. It was 90 minutes and they didn't have enough to fill even that. There's basically no story, all of the "scares" are dream sequences, and the characters are completely bland. There are plenty of long shots of the woods to fill time though. "Make it atmospheric" isn't all you need to make a movie. The movie sets up one interesting plot point - that the only way in or out of the house is via a locked door that only one character has the key to -- and then they completely forget about it. The door ends up open but no one really asks any questions about that and the mystery is never solved or explore. Oh well. And it has a dark ending because that's what hacks consider "art." Quote
ubkev Posted June 17, 2017 Report Posted June 17, 2017 (edited) Gleaming the Cube is the second best Christian Slater movie ever made. Behind True Romance and ahead of The Legend of Billie Jean. Damn, I left out Very Bad Things! Edited June 17, 2017 by ubkev Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 17, 2017 Report Posted June 17, 2017 It Comes At Night was the biggest POS I've seen in a theatre in years. It was 90 minutes and they didn't have enough to fill even that. There's basically no story, all of the "scares" are dream sequences, and the characters are completely bland. There are plenty of long shots of the woods to fill time though. "Make it atmospheric" isn't all you need to make a movie. The movie sets up one interesting plot point - that the only way in or out of the house is via a locked door that only one character has the key to -- and then they completely forget about it. The door ends up open but no one really asks any questions about that and the mystery is never solved or explore. Oh well. And it has a dark ending because that's what hacks consider "art." Right when the movie ended a kid in our theater said "What." I've heard that "What." before. In suicide squad when Viola Davis just randomly executes like 4 people a guy in that theater vocalized what we were all feeling. What. Quote
nfreeman Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Gleaming the Cube is the second best Christian Slater movie ever made. Behind True Romance and ahead of The Legend of Billie Jean. Damn, I left out Very Bad Things! Broken Arrow was a very good and underrated action thriller with Slater and post-Pulp Fiction John Travolta. Quote
Robviously Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Broken Arrow was a very good and underrated action thriller with Slater and post-Pulp Fiction John Travolta. And Howie Long! Quote
ubkev Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Broken Arrow was a very good and underrated action thriller with Slater and post-Pulp Fiction John Travolta. Yep, I own that one too Quote
inkman Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Jake Gyllenhaal might be the greatest actor of all time period. Slow down there cowboy Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Slow down there cowboy Without thinking very hard, my short list: Daniel Day-Lewis Denzel Washington Amy Adams Nicole Kidman Jake Gyllenhaal Don Cheadle Quote
Thorner Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Alan Rickman is my favourite. Tom Hanks. Quote
Thorner Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Philip Seymour Hoffman!! He was amazing. Loved him in Charlie Wilson's War with Hanks. You know who is a legitimately very good actor that no on mentions cause he's crazy? Shia LeBeouf. Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 He was amazing. Loved him in Charlie Wilson's War with Hanks. You know who is a legitimately very good actor that no on mentions cause he's crazy? Shia LeBeouf. I haven't seen lotsa Shia, but I heard he was good in American Honey. I stayed away from young actors on my list. I thought about Kirsten Stewart, Brie Larsson, and Emma Stone. My favorite of Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles was in The Master. 5 seconds into his screentime I knew that this was something I'd never seen from him before. Joaquin Pheonix deserves to be on the list too. Quote
Thorner Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 I haven't seen lotsa Shia, but I heard he was good in American Honey. I stayed away from young actors on my list. I thought about Kirsten Stewart, Brie Larsson, and Emma Stone. My favorite of Philip Seymour Hoffman's roles was in The Master. 5 seconds into his screentime I knew that this was something I'd never seen from him before. Joaquin Pheonix deserves to be on the list too. Will have to check this out. Quote
ubkev Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Oldman Pacino De Niro Body of work speaks for itself. Godfathers, Dog Day, True Romance, Heat, Leon. Quote
Lanny Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Along Came Polly was a bad movie but Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in it Quote
Thorner Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Along Came Polly was a bad movie but Philip Seymour Hoffman was great in it Basketball scenes! Quote
bunomatic Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 One of my favorites- Steve Buscemi His Snickers role was amazing Quote
nfreeman Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Philip Seymour Hoffman!! He was amazing. Loved him in Charlie Wilson's War with Hanks. And the Talented Mr. Ripley, and Boogie Nights, and pretty much everything else he was in (including one of the Mission Impossibles). One of my favorites- Steve Buscemi His Snickers role was amazing He lives in my neighborhood. I've seen him around a number of times, including in a restaurant a couple of months ago. Quote
TrueBlueGED Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Oldman Pacino De Niro Body of work speaks for itself. Godfathers, Dog Day, True Romance, Heat, Leon. I don't think Pacino or De Niro are in the running, to be honest. They're tremendous in certain roles, but I think their range is lacking. Or maybe I'm just putting too much weight on their work after they got older and stopped caring. Quote
ubkev Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Or maybe I'm just putting too much weight on their work after they got older and stopped caring. You are. Quote
bunomatic Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 And the Talented Mr. Ripley, and Boogie Nights, and pretty much everything else he was in (including one of the Mission Impossibles). He lives in my neighborhood. I've seen him around a number of times, including in a restaurant a couple of months ago. Thats cool. I've always enjoyed Buscemi. Quote
qwksndmonster Posted June 18, 2017 Report Posted June 18, 2017 Will have to check this out.It's not a fun movie, but it's great. Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the finest American artists of our time. I forgot Viola Davis! Quote
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