Vic Sage

it bored the crap out of me.

Shama lama dingdong makes a comeback of sorts, with this solid horror film with an ending that is, while not exactly a twist, puts the film in context, both as a narrative and as a film in his canon.

themetfairy wrote: Reconsider seeing Florence Foster Jenkins - it was very entertaining. ok, i'm reconsidering it. And now, after reconsidering it, i'm still not going to see it. I have an image in my mind of wild horses trying, unsuccessfully, to drag me into a theater to see it, but i triumph!

2016 FILMS My top 10 so far: ARRIVAL LA LA LAND HELL OR HIGH WATER DEADPOOL CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR SING STREET KUBO AND THE TWO STRINGS LION ROGUE ONE: A STAR WARS STORY MANCHESTER BY THE SEA honorable mentions: THE NICE GUYS DOCTOR STRANGE MOANA 10 CLOVERFIELD LANE HAIL, CAESAR! THE LOBSTER MOONLIGHT SWISS ARMY MAN Other films I’ve seen this year [ranked]: SAUSAGE PARTY STAR TREK BEYOND MIDNIGHT SPECIAL THE JUNGLE BOOK FINDING DORY --------------- KUNG FU PANDA 3 SNOWDEN GHOSTBUSTERS JASON BOURNE HIDDEN FIGURES --------------- X-MEN: APOCALYPSE BATMAN V SUPERMAN: DAWN OF JUSTICE SUICIDE SQUAD THE HUNTSMAN: WINTER'S WAR THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN MONEY MONSTER SULLY THE LEGEND OF TARZAN LONDON HAS FALLEN THE 5TH WAVE Nominated films I still intend to see: HACKSAW RIDGE A MONSTER CALLS NOCTURNAL ANIMALS Other films I intend to see: THE ACCOUNTANT ALLIED THE BFG CROUCHING TIGER, HIDDEN DRAGON: SWORD OF DESTINY DON'T THINK TWICE THE EDGE OF SEVENTEEN EVERYBODY WANTS SOME!! FANTASTIC BEASTS AND WHERE TO FIND THEM THE FOUNDER FREE STATE OF JONES HIGH-RISE JACK REACHER: NEVER GO BACK THE LITTLE PRINCE MISS PEREGRINE'S HOME FOR PECULIAR CHILDREN MY LIFE AS A ZUCCHINI PETE'S DRAGON PASSENGERS PATERSON THE RED TURTLE THE SECRET LIFE OF PETS WARCRAFT ZOOTOPIA Nominated films I have no intention of seeing: CAPTAIN FANTASTIC ELLE FENCES FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS JACKIE LOVING SILENCE TONI ERDMANN 20TH CENTURY WOMEN Other eligible movies of 2016: THE ABOLITIONISTS ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS THE MOVIE ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS ALMOST CHRISTMAS ALWAYS SHINE AMERICAN HONEY AMERICAN PASTORAL AMERICAN WRESTLER: THE WIZARD THE ANGRY BIRDS MOVIE ANTHROPOID APRIL AND THE EXTRAORDINARY WORLD ARMENIA, MY LOVE ASSASSIN'S CREED AUDRIE & DAISY AUTHOR: THE JT LEROY STORY AUTUMN LIGHTS BAD MOMS BAD SANTA 2 BARBERSHOP: THE NEXT CUT BARRY BEAUTIFUL PAIN BEFORE THE FLOOD BEING 17 BELIEVE BEN-HUR A BIGGER SPLASH BILAL BILLY LYNN'S LONG HALFTIME WALK THE BIRTH OF A NATION BLEED FOR THIS BORN TO BE BLUE THE BOSS THE BOY BRIDGET JONES'S BABY THE BRONZE BROTHER NATURE THE BROTHERS GRIMSBY CEMETERY OF SPLENDOR CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE CERTAIN WOMEN THE CHARNEL HOUSE CHEVALIER CHIEF ZABU THE CHOICE CHRISTINE CITIZEN SOLDIER CITY OF GOLD CLOSET MONSTER COLLATERAL BEAUTY THE COMEDIAN COMPLETE UNKNOWN CONFESSIONS OF A WOMANIZER THE CONJURING 2 CREATIVE CONTROL CRIMINAL CROSSCURRENT DANCER DARK HORSE DEEPWATER HORIZON DEMOLITION DENIAL DESIERTO DOG EAT DOG DON'T BREATHE DREAMLAND THE DRESSMAKER THE EAGLE HUNTRESS EAT THAT QUESTION - FRANK ZAPPA IN HIS OWN WORDS ECHO PARK EDDIE THE EAGLE EISENSTEIN IN GUANAJUATO ELVIS & NIXON EQUITY EVERYTHING IS COPY - NORA EPHRON: SCRIPTED & UNSCRIPTED EYE IN THE SKY THE FINEST HOURS FIRE AT SEA THE FIRST MONDAY IN MAY THE FITS FIVE NIGHTS IN MAINE FLOYD NORMAN: AN ANIMATED LIFE THE FOREST FROM AFAR FRONT COVER THE FUNDAMENTALS OF CARING GENIUS GIMME DANGER GIRL ASLEEP THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN GLEASON GOLD GREATER GREEN ROOM THE HANDMAIDEN HANDS OF STONE HARDCORE HENRY HELLO, MY NAME IS DORIS HILLSONG - LET HOPE RISE THE HOLLARS A HOLOGRAM FOR THE KING HOW TO BE SINGLE HOW TO LET GO OF THE WORLD AND LOVE ALL THE THINGS CLIMATE CAN'T CHANGE HUNT FOR THE WILDER PEOPLE I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO I, DANIEL BLAKE I SAW THE LIGHT ICE AGE: COLLISION COURSE IN A VALLEY OF VIOLENCE INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE INDIGNATION INFERNO THE INVITATION IS THAT A GUN IN YOUR POCKET ITHACA JIM: THE JAMES FOLEY STORY JULIETA KEANU KEEPING UP WITH THE JONESES KICKS THE KIND WORDS KINGSGLAIVE FINAL FANTASY XV KNIGHT OF CUPS KRISHA LAND OF MINE LANDFILL HARMONIC LAST DAYS IN THE DESERT L'ATTESA THE LEGEND OF BEN HALL THE LENNON REPORT LIFE, ANIMATED LIFE ON THE LINE THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS LIGHTS OUT LITTLE MEN LIVE BY NIGHT LONDON ROAD LONG WAY NORTH LOUDER THAN BOMBS LOVE & FRIENDSHIP THE LOVE WITCH MS DHONI - AN UNTOLD STORY MAMA MAGGIE'S PLAN A MAN CALLED OVE MAN DOWN THE MAN WHO KNEW INFINITY MASCOTS MAX ROSE ME BEFORE YOU THE MEASURE OF A MAN THE MEDDLER MEN & CHICKEN MIDDLE SCHOOL: THE WORST YEARS OF MY LIFE MIFUNE: THE LAST SAMURAI MIKE AND DAVE NEED WEDDING DATES MILES AHEAD MIRACLES FROM HEAVEN MISS HOKUSAI MISS SHARON JONES! MISS SLOANE MR. CHURCH MONKEY KING: HERO IS BACK THE MONKEY KING 2 MORGAN MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS MUNE THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING 2 MY GOLDEN DAYS NEIGHBORS 2: SORORITY RISING THE NEON DEMON NERUDA NEVER SURRENDER NINA NO LETTING GO NOW YOU SEE ME 2 O.J.: MADE IN AMERICA OFF THE RAILS OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY OLYMPIC PRIDE, AMERICAN PREJUDICE 100 YEARS: ONE WOMAN'S FIGHT FOR JUSTICE ORDINARY WORLD OTHER PEOPLE THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR THE OTTOMAN LIEUTENANT OUIJA: ORIGIN OF EVIL OUR KIND OF TRAITOR OUR LAST TANGO OUR LITTLE SISTER OUTLAWS AND ANGELS PATRIOTS DAY PELE: BIRTH OF A LEGEND PEE-WEE'S BIG HOLIDAY PHANTOM BOY THE PHENOM PO POPSTAR: NEVER STOP NEVER STOPPING PRESENTING PRINCESS SHAW PRICELESS PRIDE AND PREJUDICE AND ZOMBIES THE PURGE: ELECTION YEAR QUEEN MIMI QUEEN OF KATWE RACE THE RED PILL THE REMAKE REPARATION RIDE ALONG 2 RISEN RULES DON'T APPLY THE SALESMAN SARBJIT SHADOW WORLD THE SHALLOWS THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE SILICON COWBOYS SILVER SKIES SING SNOWTIME! SOLD SOUTHSIDE WITH YOU SOUTHWEST OF SALEM: THE STORY OF THE SAN ANTONIO FOUR SPA NIGHT STORKS SUMMERTIME SUNSET SONG SWORN VIRGIN A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS TALLULAH TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES: OUT OF THE SHADOWS 10 DAYS IN A MADHOUSE THEY WILL HAVE TO KILL US FIRST - MALIAN MUSIC IN EXILE THINGS TO COME 13 HOURS: THE SECRET SOLDIERS OF BENGHAZI 13TH 37 TOO LATE TOUCHED WITH FIRE TOWER TROLLS 25 APRIL TWO WEEKS TO GO THE UNCONDEMNED VALLEY OF LOVE VEERAM-MACBETH VIGILANTE DIARIES WAR DOGS WE ARE X WEINER WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT WHEN THE BOUGH BREAKS WHISKEY TANGO FOXTROT WHITE GIRL WHY HIM? WIENER-DOG THE WITCH WITHIN WOLVES AT THE DOOR THE YOUNG MESSIAH YOUR NAME ZERO DAYS ZOOLANDER 2

happy to see the love for ARRIVAL and HELL OR HIGH WATER. But Amy Adams got hosed (Meryl? AGAIN?), and they went out of their way to ignore DEADPOOL.

yeah, that.

Vic Sage is high on (well we won't know for sure until the lab comes back with the results) but also Lagares, Salas, Henderson, Kelly; low on Loney, Wright, Conforto, Flores, Reyes how can i be high on my rankings for Salas and Kelly when i didn't even include them? This makes me question your record-keeping. I DEMAND A RECOUNT!

i loved it, mostly, and I think the complaints i've heard about the lack of singing and dancing ability of Gosling and Stone are both overstated and miss the point. I do think its somewhat overlong and rambling, and a lot of it is lifted without acknowledgment form UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG, but its still a terrific piece of filmmaking, and the music is really good.

Oy... I'd say something about "wild horses" now, if i had the energy on a Monday morning.

positively stoned

30. SYNDERGAARD -------------- 29. deGROM 28. COLON 27. CESPEDES 26. CABRERA 25. REED 24. GRANDERSON --------------- 23. MATZ 22. WALKER 21. FAMILIA 20. LUGO 19. GSELLMAN 18. BLEVINS 17. JOHNSON ------------- 16. ROBLES 15. CONFORTO 14. FLORES 13. REYES 12. LAGARES 11. TJ RIVERA 10. R. RIVERA -------------- 09. DUDA 08. HENDERSON 07. HARVEY 06. BRUCE 05. WRIGHT 04. D'AZA 03. VERRETT 02. d'ARNAUD 01. LONEY I considered Kelly, Nimmo, Ruggiano, Reynolds, Cecchini, Smoker and Salas, but didn't feel they had enough ABs/IPs to warrant listing ahead of guys who played substantially more (though not as well). I left off Plawecki and Bastardo despite having enough ABs/IPs, due to poor performance, and i considered doing the same to D'Aza, d'Arnaud, Verrett and Loney, but ultimately they played too much to ignore. Goeddel pitched enough to consider, but Henderson just edged him out.

thumbs up. unlike last SW movie, this one has a halfway original story that adds something to the canon, and it evoked the earlier films rather than regurgitating their past story elements. It actually fixes some story problems from the earlier films (like why the deathstar had a weakness in the first place) and reintroduces the religious aspects of the Force (fie on midochlorians!). Could it have used some more character development and a few less laser blasts? Yeah, probably. And the CGI portrayals of two characters from the original trilogy were both creepy and distracting. But the introduction of Vader was awesome, in the actual definition of that word. And the cast was pretty good overall. The battles had the feeling of actual warfare rather than the clean, CGI robot slaughters of the prequel trilogy. on the whole, worth the wait.

Has anyone been following the recent news about Last Tango in Paris ? I haven't seen the movie, so I'm not familiar with the scene in question, but from my understanding Marlon Brando raped (or otherwise sexually assaulted) an actress on camera. They didn't tell her what was going to be done to her because they wanted her reaction to be genuine. according to the actress: "that scene wasn’t in the original script. The truth is it was Marlon who came up with the idea. … They only told me about it before we had to film the scene and I was so angry. I should have called my agent or had my lawyer come to the set because you can’t force someone to do something that isn't in the script, but at the time, I didn’t know that. Marlon said to me, “Maria, don't worry, it’s just a movie,” but during the scene, even though what Marlon was doing wasn't real, I was crying real tears. I felt humiliated and to be honest, I felt a little raped, both by Marlon and by Bertolucci. After the scene, Marlon didn't console me or apologize. Thankfully, there was just one take." But that quote is over 5 years old. There is no new story here. But Bertolucci has been asked about it recently and he explained: "Several years ago at the Cinemathèque Francaise someone asked me for details on the famous butter scene. I specified, but perhaps I was not clear, that I decided with Marlon Brando not to inform Maria that we would have used butter. We wanted her spontaneous reaction to that improper use [of the butter]. That is where the misunderstanding lies. Somebody thought, and thinks, that Maria had not been informed about the violence on her. That is false!" the statement continued. "Maria knew everything because she had read the script, where it was all described. The only novelty was the idea of the butter. And that, as I learned many years later, offended Maria. Not the violence that she is subjected to in the scene, which was written in the screenplay."

i agree about Cavill. I even liked him in MAN OF STEEL.

i just rewatched this last night on cable. i still like it, despite its obvious (and significant) problems, which i noted above. And i once again have to do a mea culpa in my premature criticism of Affleck's Batman. It's the best version of Batman after Bales (and Kevin Conroy). He offers an older Bruce Wayne, but with a prep school obnoxiousness that is spot on, and his Batman is truly a deadly monster. They've gone back to both the roots of the character, where he carried a pistol and had no problems killing bad guys, while updating it with Frank Miller's version of an older Wayne. But that "Martha" twist... it's just awful, practically destroying the movie (along with Eisenberg and Doomsday).

has anybody else seen it?

send me a photo.

i mostly enjoyed this one. Cumberbatch was perfect, and they nailed all the elements of the Dr. Strange universe, from the cape, to the eye of agamatto, to the Ditko-esque universe of Dormammu. I didn't love the INCEPTION-like visual effects, but other than that, it was spot on.

Canadian director Denis Villeneuve (Sicario, Prisoners) has adapted a great SF short story (“Story of Your Life” by Ted Chiang) into a great film. A dozen alien ships land in random places around the world, but the aliens remain unseen, within their stone-like monoliths. Countries bring teams of linguists and scientists in to try and communicate with them, as people start to panic. In the US, the military (Forrest Whitaker) bring in a team (Amy Adams and Jeremy Renner) and they may yet uncover a truth that will change humanity forever. It’s a thoughtful, dreamlike film about causality and free will, and, despite its intellectual conceits, it is deeply moving. It is a contemplative film, not an action movie, and its deliberate pacing can put some people off. But i found it emotionally satisfying and I recommend it. I also recommend Ted Chiang's short story collection where i originally found the story, called "Stories of Your Life and others" https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Your-Life-Others-Chiang/dp/B00BQ1TZDA/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8

i'm a big fan of the show, but i heard this was dreadful, so i passed on it. The last Broadway revival was about 10 years ago, with Raul Esparza as Riff Raff and Dick Cavett as the narrator. It was really good.

My ranking of GENERATIONS was, as i said, my understanding of the critical consensus about the film, but my personal ranking would put it ahead of ST III and INSURRECTION. Still, I'd keep it in the 3rd tier. It has some great nerdgastic moments, but some awful ones too. It's a very inconsistent movie.

just saw LEGEND. It's not a great movie (sort of rambling), but Hardy gives not one, but two great performances in it. I haven't seen LOCKE yet, but i'm planning to.

In honor of the 50th anniversary, here's a consensus ranking of the 13 Star Trek feature films (based on Metacritic, Rotten Tomatoes, and IMDB), plus the various TV series: [u:3grop4ca]Best of the lot:[/u:3grop4ca] STAR TREK (09) - JJ Abrams hugely successful reboot is best reviewed film in the series (by both critics and fans); rescued the franchise ST: FIRST CONTACT [VIII] (96) - The best (and only good) one of the NEXT GEN movies ST II: WRATH OF KHAN (82) - Best of The Original Series movies; Nick Meyers brought the franchise back after the disaster that was the first movie -[TV] TOS - sure, it looks cheesy and overacted now, but it clearly resonated in the culture at the time and, without it, none of the rest happens -[TV] TNG - a sequel that took the series forward, with better FX, acting and writing [u:3grop4ca]Good, too:[/u:3grop4ca] ST INTO DARKNESS (13) - Cumberbatch is great as Khan in the reboot's 1st sequel ST IV: VOYAGE HOME (86) - Comedy, time travel and environmentalism in fan fave from TOS cast ST BEYOND (16) - Most recent sequel; another solid chapter ST VI: UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY (91) - Last of TOS movies, with Christopher Plummer terrific as Klingon big baddie -[TV] DS9 - a different direction; the most philosophically interesting of all the series [u:3grop4ca]Marginal, but watchable:[/u:3grop4ca] ST III: RETURN OF SPOCK (84) - was there ever any doubt? ST: INSURRECTION [iX] (98) - Would have been a decent TNG TV episode ST: GENERATIONS [VII] (94) - uneven passing of the torch from the TOS cast to TNG cast; broke the odd/even pattern of bad/good movies -[TV] VOYAGER - Ok, but uneven [u:3grop4ca]A pox on all their houses:[/u:3grop4ca] ST, The MOTION PICTURE (79) - After all the years of waiting, the first one was an epic disappointment ST: NEMESIS [X] (02) - antithesis of ST; the last TNG movie that (along with dreadful ENTERPRISE tv series) sank franchise until JJ rebooted it ST V: FINAL FRONTIER (89) - Shatner's infamous turkey, he recently apologized for it -[TV] ANIMATED SERIES - good writing ruined by awful animation -[TV] ENTERPRISE - there was absolutely nothing worth watching here

As for Gig Young, it was reported that he collapsed on the set of BLAZING SADDLES on their first day of shooting, due to alcohol withdrawal, and was fired. Funny that it was Pryor that the studio was concerned about, but they were fine with hiring a notorious, raging alcoholic.

never mind, i looked it up. Here's what Brooks said: The studio didn’t want him because they said he was unreliable due to his personal problems. I fought hard for Richard and was going to quit the film but he told me not to because he needed his screenwriter fees to pay his mortgage. Then we had a long and expensive search to find the right actor for his part. When Cleavon Little auditioned, Richard was in the room and gave me a signal that he was our man!