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What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

No, but I did watch the movie. Tosh.0 is hilarious btw.

From Ebert:
I am required to award stars to movies I review. This time, I refuse to do it. The star rating system is unsuited to this film. Is the movie good? Is it bad? Does it matter? It is what it is and occupies a world where the stars don't shine.
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chemdude1232 said:
No, but I did watch the movie. Tosh.0 is hilarious btw.

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they edited it to a minute for the show, this one is twenty something but well worth it. if you have netflix his stand up special "Completely Serious" is on watch instantly. one of the best hours of stand up ive ever seen.

"Germany is like Wisconsin but with like a really bad past."
 
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I watched Tron the other day -- the original. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. Well, it's completely silly -- but if you can turn off your brain and stop yourself from thinking -- What? Computer programs don't work that way. It's kind of fun. And aside from being fun, it's totally badass in some kind of kitschy modern art impressionistic way. Great visuals. Also, I love Jeff Bridges more than I love Megan Fox's beach-ready bikini abs.

On Saturday Night Live, Bridges kept letting out this laugh that was like a little squeal, and I kept thinking: what is this? Is he faking this squeal? Is this some kind of country old man affectation? But he does it like 6 times in Tron, so it appears to be a legitimate Jeff Bridges phenomenon.
 
Stickler said:
I watched Tron the other day -- the original. I hadn't seen it since I was a kid. Well, it's completely silly -- but if you can turn off your brain and stop yourself from thinking -- What? Computer programs don't work that way. It's kind of fun. And aside from being fun, it's totally badass in some kind of kitschy modern art impressionistic way. Great visuals. Also, I love Jeff Bridges more than I love Megan Fox's beach-ready bikini abs.

On Saturday Night Live, Bridges kept letting out this laugh that was like a little squeal, and I kept thinking: what is this? Is he faking this squeal? Is this some kind of country old man affectation? But he does it like 6 times in Tron, so it appears to be a legitimate Jeff Bridges phenomenon.
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I'm serious when I say that, "True Grit" looks like the best movie of the century. PLEASE don't suck.
 
How was Conviction?

Saw The Fighter today. Very good movie. And holy cow was Vinyl right. Bale more than hit it out of the park. One of the best acting performances I've ever seen. I was slightly underwhelmed by the boxing sequences though. It didn't hurt the film for me in any way. They just didn't sell me enough and feel totally legit. The camerawork and everything was fine. But the choreography of it all was a bit supbar imo if we're comparing it to other boxing movies.
 
Conviction was decent. A bit of a tear jerker.

I thought Love was tonight at 730. But it was at 630. Fail on me.

Funny regarding your take on the boxing scenes in The Fighter. All the scenes were legit. Wahlberg trained for two years. And every boxing scene was shot by a crew of HBO boxing cameramen.
 
VINYLONE said:
Conviction was decent. A bit of a tear jerker.

I thought Love was tonight at 730. But it was at 630. Fail on me.

Funny regarding your take on the boxing scenes in The Fighter. All the scenes were legit. Wahlberg trained for two years. And every boxing scene was shot by a crew of HBO boxing cameramen.
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I said the camerawork was fine. I loved the HBO feel. And that's great that Wahlberg trained. Anyone can train for anything for years. That doesn't mean they'd be able to sell the mimicry of it which is what essentially acting, in many ways, is. My main problem, if you want me to be more specific, was with the speed of the punches. We're not talking heavyweights here. Yet, they were punching slower than heavyweights. And many a time, it therefore felt staged just very, very slightly. To me.
 
Patrick, I wasn't invalidating what you said...sorry if it came off like that. Also, just for the record, they were fighting in those scenes. Like really.
 
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