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Star Wars, Episode 7 The Force Awakens (2015) [SPOILERS]
Edgy MD replied to Elster88's topic in Film Review Forum
Ka-POW! Potential for historical greatness and historical badness with that many chips on the table. -
I guess the best summary is that the producer oversees the budget and coordinates the schedule, but it's sort of a vague job description of shepherding the project form start to finish. Funny thing is that John Leguizamo, not trying to be funny here, sounded kind of like Bobby Valentine.
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The scope seemed somewhat limited, in part because of MLB's non-cooperation --- clearly not wanting to be part of what they couldn't control. Not really going to win Bobby Valentine any friends at MLB's offices. I gave it seven milky gloves, but I hovered over six. I just felt like there's a bigger story we're hinting at but not getting.
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Yeah, the film does really well on Rotten Tomatoes. I'm guessing folks who like his act project the Q-rating he earned there onto his fictionalized self in this movie. Cuz independently, which is how I'm seeing this film, I'm not with him.
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I'm not sure what's to root for with this guy. He's a timid manchild trying to weaselly escape from a relationship that is more than he deserves... into what? The independence to guiltlessly enjoy the road life of his career that has him upgraded from fifth-rate comic to third-rate on the strength of material portraying his charming and tolerant girlfriend as a pain in the ass? The joy of living on handouts from his hateful father?
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It's through cinema, Obama said, that "our children learn to open their imagination and dream just a little bigger and to strive every day to reach those dreams." Especially Ted.
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Best Picture - Battleship Best Actor - That hairy, sexy, out-of-control guy that a good woman must tame from Battleship. Best Actress - Brooklyn Decker, Battleship Best Supporting Actor - Liam Neeson, Battleship Best Supporting Actress - Rhianna and her arms, Battleship Best Director - That latter-day Eisenstein who made Battleship Best Original Screenplay - God, for making Battleship possible. Best Adapted Screenplay - Battleship, adapted from Hasbro's game instructions Best Cinematograpy- If that means the camerawork, Battle- Battle- Battleship! Costume Design- Gotta go with Darling Companion on this one. Best Song- "I Got to Get Paid" --- ZZ Top, Battleship
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No women? All white guys too. Is this a recording studio or a golf club? Seriously, you had me at Cronin.
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Yeah, I figured the Golden Globes are a board of foreigners happy to be here, who celebrate American stuff. Jim Lehrer once said that you could tell American spies from the European ones because the Americans all smoked Galouiises, while the Europeans smoked Marlboros. Sometimes the outsiders are more jingoist than the natives.
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I'm curious and I guess a little cynical about who constitutes the best trainers and specialists.
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Wanna be a daughter of Dracula Wanna be the son of Frankenstein Let's meet, and have a baby now! -AEv1Pky-qo
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Yeah, Perfect Game it is.
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Pretty much a dead ringer for Papi, with great taste in numbers.
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You won't hate yourself for watching it. You won't hate yourself for missing it. For research purposes, you get a good weird shot of Robert Downey either at the end of the dark years or the beginning of his revitalization. It's as much a filmed play as a film, so you may like it.
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Oh, I'm sorry. I hadn't realized we were discussing The Craft.
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Well, my testosterone levels are falling even as I type this, but if you're looking for video sexuality, some younger and hornier folks than myself find that Brooklyn Decker and Rhianna push their buttons just fine.
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Wait a minute... did you just use the term "lady love"? You're a little off with Big Fish. Billy Crudup plays the son. McGregor is Albert Finney's younger self. Otherwise excellent summations. Thanks. There's a handful of films here I haven't seen, but I feel like I did from the previews and their incursions into the general zeitgeist. It's funny how my readings of films I didn't see jibes with your summations after having actually seen them.
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Yeah, how 'bout that? A lot of cheesy action is pretty bunched up there. My main issues with Avengers are in the thread devoted to it. The battlefield layouts were confusing, there were plot holes that could have been easily explained with a tossed-off line or two here or there but they just didn't bother. The characters were just more appealing. There's a reason Iron Man got a lot more money than Captain America or Thor to appear. Poeple love those characters on the page but these actors haven't exactly caught folks' imaginations with how they've brought the characters off the page. They're glorified ink. The one other guy who kinda did was Norton, and he didn't come back. Avengers was certainly more ambitious and I give them credit for that, but well, so was The Hobbit. They just didn't get there for me.
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Pee-Wee is still my favorite film of his. And that's a film that he couldn't end either.
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I assume by "as usual," you mean "as usual with Burton." I agree. His films also have a problem figuring out how to end themselves. I think this is the film he originally did as an unreleased short feature with Disney, but somehow Paul Reubens saw it and said, "THAT'S the guy I want doing a Pee-Wee movie!" and so launched his goofy career.
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Jeremy Renner played a clip on the Letterman show that made it look like Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters might be a fun tongue-in-cheek kind of movie. Of course, it's very hard to judge a movie from a 20-second clip. Really? I judged it by the posters, and in fact by the title, and sure, by the date of release, and I ain't looking back.
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It was a crappy year --- at least from where I stood. It was a two-bit popcorn movie whose best parts were stolen from other films, and has one of those headscratching hooray everything's great now post-climax wrap-ups that every jingoist action movie seems to have, but it went down better than, for instance, The Hobbit --- which, as you noted, was technically excellent, but largely heartless, despite being derived from a book overflowing with heart. It was comparable to John Carter (and hey! starred the same dude!). Goofy and absurd but with colorful and well drawn, if shallow, characters moving quickly. When you can't find nutritious viewing, sometimes the best you can do is shop in the cheese aisle. I'm apparently the only one who saw this lumpy summer cheesefest. Don't make too much of my ranking, as I only gave it 2 1/2 out of five stars. I just didn't like much of anything I saw this year.
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Bike movie --- not good enough to enter a lean top ten. Lincoln Moonrise Kingdom Safety Not Guaranteed John Carter Brave Battleship The Amazing Spider-Man The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey The Avengers Salmon Fishing in the Yemen * * * Plus: Trouble with the Curve Premium Rush The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel Ruby Sparks
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There's a certain sub-genre of films (and yes, usually aimed at 13-year-olds) about the denizens of a thrill-seeking and adrenaline-rich, but utterly useless hobby suddenly thrown by the contrivances of a benevolent fate into a situation where their allegedly stupid and self-centered and self-destructive past-time is actually revealed to be a great tool for fighting crime! Take that, Mom and Dad and Uncle Pete!
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Could they have said that any more?
