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[DigDog]

here's my take on Margin Call - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/reference

it's the story of the market crash. we all already know that story.

it tries for nerd points by sticking to the jargon of the business - except for the super-obvious scene put in the film *just* so that normal people can understand it; the boss guy actually uses the phrase "explain it to me like i'm a child".

really? this is the guy who OWNS A TRADING FIRM? and he needs it explained?!?!

so .. you're gonna be one of two people. either you understand the jargon, you know what's going on .. in which case you already know the story, and you're essentially watching a docudrama. with not much drama.

or, you don't, and you'll basically be watching people do stuff that means nothing to you. they totally forgot that a film needs to be entertaining .. like, for example, The Big Short.

It's boring. The worst thing a film can be, is boring.

5/10

 

[Imp]

I understood what happened prior to seeing the movie, but I still enjoyed the weird explanations. I thought it was kinda funny how whoever was giving the explanations had NOTHING to do with the actual movie. They were each there for their one short monologue and that was it. It was a way to quickly explain relevant terminology or events to people with no clue and keep it somewhat entertaining for the people that haven't been living under a rock for the past 6-8 years. Brilliant decision imo.

The first two were short and sweet, but the last one felt too long. And that's the one I usually see because I like rewatching the last hour.

the film is called Margin Call. it's absolutely horrid. i say, try to watch it, and you will appreciate The Big Short much more.

Didn't see it but I read the summary on Wikipedia. Probably won't see it because it sounds pretentious and the one who wins is not to my satisfaction.

 

[Pandasaurus]

Flashpoint(TV - Canada) - 9/10

I started watching it because of Enrico Calantoni (AKA Elias - Person of Interest). I kept watching it because of Bruce Willis' secret brother nobody knows about (seriously, look up Hugh Dillon. I swear, it's a younger Bruce Willis). Then I realized it's actually a really good show, that actually shows some technical knowledge (more than the average "cop show", at least). For the most part, it's really well written (in my "I'm not a professional reviewer or writer" opinion), though some episodes are better than others.

Yeah, there's some issues (like a sniper "taking the shot" while the bolt is open... Oops?), but overall, I would definitely recommend it.

Note: If you watch on Netflix and care about continuity... Reference the episode listing on IMDB, rather than watching in order on Netflix (Netflix has the correct titles, but incorrect episode numbers and order). Somewhere around the start of S3, up until around the end of S4, they're out of order. It's not a huge deal (the episodes are mostly standalone, but there are some details between some episodes that don't make sense) unless you really care.

 

[Muse]

True Detective (Season One, 2014) 8.5/10

Finished Season One last night (there are 8 episodes, and I watched most of the extras, only a bit of the one with the writer and T-Bone Walker, who did the music). Season Two is quite different, different characters, CA instead of LA. Not as highly rated, some recommend stopping with Season One, I suppose I will!

Well, it was pretty good, gotta say it didn't just go over the same old ground again and again, one fears that with a TV series (such as Breaking Bad and White's family scenes). It was HBO, they don't have to worry about the FCC near as I could tell. They didn't show genitalia but had a good look at a hot fuck, nice tits, ass and all. Quick but to the point.

Curious, I looked it up: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are both from TX. MM's dad was from LA. Woody's dad was a hitman and convicted of killing a judge when Woody was 15, in 1979.

Now, I heard of this series by talking at length to a guy I encountered at the driving range. He was hitting 280 yard 3 woods, and I started a brief conversation. He was working on a wad of chewing tobacco as I approached him on the practice putting green a little later and we talked for something like an hour. He was from LA, is now a TX guy, Corpus Christie. He's here because his wife is going to grad school at Cal, in some kind of micro-biology curiculuum. She called a time or two while we were talking! We talked about myriad things including traveling, food, entertainment. Somehow he mentioned True Detective (which I'd never heard of) and said I should check it out. I, in turn, said he should check out The Wire, he hadn't heard of that.

It's powerful, not without its faults. To my sensibilities it was way too drenched in that sweaty bayou voodoo superstition ethos, the sense that the perpetrators of the horrors that fueled the detective team's investigations were driven by dark mysterious quasi-religious impulses and passions involving sacrifice. All the talismans, the voodoo sculptures, those themes returned again and again and again, ad nauseum. However, the casting, dialog and acting were quite something ...pretty much throughout.

 

[gorcorps]

Pixar story 10/10

Informative documentary to see.

Yeah it's really good. It was on Netflix a while back, and then disappeared.

 

[sdifox]

Metro Manila 8/10 Simple yet elegantly told.

 

[clamum]

Flashpoint(TV - Canada) - 9/10

I started watching it because of Enrico Calantoni (AKA Elias - Person of Interest). I kept watching it because of Bruce Willis' secret brother nobody knows about (seriously, look up Hugh Dillon. I swear, it's a younger Bruce Willis). Then I realized it's actually a really good show, that actually shows some technical knowledge (more than the average "cop show", at least). For the most part, it's really well written (in my "I'm not a professional reviewer or writer" opinion), though some episodes are better than others.

Yeah, there's some issues (like a sniper "taking the shot" while the bolt is open... Oops?), but overall, I would definitely recommend it.

I watched several episodes of Flashpoint but couldn't really get into it. It just seemed like corny and weak to me. I thought something like '24' was wayyy better, especially seasons 1-5 of the latter. And I'll admit '24' can get pretty frickin corny but I much prefer it to Flashpoint. If you want a solid special-ops type show, check out "The Unit" (cancelled by CBS years back but it's excellent).

True Detective (Season One, 2014) 8.5/10

Finished Season One last night (there are 8 episodes, and I watched most of the extras, only a bit of the one with the writer and T-Bone Walker, who did the music). Season Two is quite different, different characters, CA instead of LA. Not as highly rated, some recommend stopping with Season One, I suppose I will!

Well, it was pretty good, gotta say it didn't just go over the same old ground again and again, one fears that with a TV series (such as Breaking Bad and White's family scenes). It was HBO, they don't have to worry about the FCC near as I could tell. They didn't show genitalia but had a good look at a hot fuck, nice tits, ass and all. Quick but to the point.

Curious, I looked it up: Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson are both from TX. MM's dad was from LA. Woody's dad was a hitman and convicted of killing a judge when Woody was 15, in 1979.

Now, I heard of this series by talking at length to a guy I encountered at the driving range. He was hitting 280 yard 3 woods, and I started a brief conversation. He was working on a wad of chewing tobacco as I approached him on the practice putting green a little later and we talked for something like an hour. He was from LA, is now a TX guy, Corpus Christie. He's here because his wife is going to grad school at Cal, in some kind of micro-biology curiculuum. She called a time or two while we were talking! We talked about myriad things including traveling, food, entertainment. Somehow he mentioned True Detective (which I'd never heard of) and said I should check it out. I, in turn, said he should check out The Wire, he hadn't heard of that.

It's powerful, not without its faults. To my sensibilities it was way too drenched in that sweaty bayou voodoo superstition ethos, the sense that the perpetrators of the horrors that fueled the detective team's investigations were driven by dark mysterious quasi-religious impulses and passions involving sacrifice. All the talismans, the voodoo sculptures, those themes returned again and again and again, ad nauseum. However, the casting, dialog and acting were quite something pretty much throughout.

I think I'd give season 1 of "True Detective" 9 or 9.5 out of 10. Man, just fantastic. But yeah, I hit season 2 and kinda went "uhhhh..." I ended up finishing it, and it was ok, but I didn't find it nearly as good as season 1. I'd maybe give season 2 a 7.5/10.

 

[ralfy]

The Apu Trilogy - 10 out of 10

 

[A Casual Fitz]

The Apu Trilogy - 10 out of 10

Simpsons VHS collection?

 

[motsm]

The Fall - The movie flips between reality and fantasy, where a recently disabled man is telling a story to a little girl with a broken arm in a hospital. The story he is telling is just awful, no need to go into it really, but it exists only so the director can show off with the visuals; which honestly aren't all that great anyway. The hospital stuff was OK I suppose, but nothing great. It has a 59% on RT, but an audience score of 85%. The audience can suck it.

 

[DigDog]

Simpsons VHS collection?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Apu_Trilogy

unfortunately, no.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7s7YR9wS8eg

 

[MongGrel]

Watched last night:

The Road Warrior (George Miller, 1982) 6/10

Mel Gibson, he had such a soft aspect about him compared to the later Lethal Weapon movies (I loved at least the first two, can't remember how I felt about the 3rd).

This movie is watchable, but for me not so much. At 95 minutes it still seemed too long, damned too long. I don't know that I'll ever watch another road warrior movie. Pretty far out there on the mad fantasy tip. I agree that this was the best of them, but still really a mediocre movie.

Well, it was a B movie that became a cult classic.

George Miller coming back and doing Fury Road with minimal CGI was a big part of the revival there.

Zootopia [7/10]: Good, but nothing special. The sloth scene absolutely destroyed me. Now THAT'S humor, not this stupid tryhard pop-referencing brand found in Deadpool. Some people here in ATOT spoke very highly of this flim. It is just okay. It did not tug my heart or got me sucked right in like Ratatouille or Up.

Just watched Zootopia a couple nites ago myself, I'll just agree with everything you wrote. It's a one off for me, won't be watching it again.

Re watched Sicario again last night, not sure if I rated it before but 8/10 here.

 

[DigDog]

i watched

Kill Command - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2667380/reference

super bland, well made but horrible in every other way, independednt scifi film about a bunch of guys getting killed.

Spoiler

in THE FUTURE, a group of guys in 2016 marine uniforms, complete with SCAR and AVP, land in a drop point in a forest.
a bunch of robots attack and kill some.
the marines find a building, inside they find out the machines have a bug in their programming.
the machines kill them all, the end.

it's just so much incompetence in one film, it's astounding. the marines have no idea how a military person would act in any occasion. The CGI is quite impressive, but you'll get bored quickly, just looking at the robots looking at the marines for half an hour.

the dialogue is super-bland, the emotions are all over the place and never in the right spot, the pacing is fucking terrible, it's like, not a single person in this crew knew how to make a film.

it's a shame because, despite the weird uniforms and a couple other weird things, the film looks amazing. I bet you could cut it into a 8 minute YouTube short and it would be great.

5/10, without remorse.

 

[DigDog]

Remember the Titans - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0210945/reference

Denzel doing Denzel

if i can raise a critique, it's just that, the amount of inspirational, it's too damn high.

solid film, but it really likes to hammer in the point. 7.5/10


Ethan Suplee best supporting, should have gotten more room. Also some other recognizable faces do a pretty fine job.

 

[MustISO]

It Follows 6.5/10
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/

Interesting horror movie that resembles movies from the late 70's and 80's. Not a gore-fest, almost no blood, just more psychological and thematic in their use of music/sounds. Had a lot of questions that I wish were answered and it's unclear if they're preparing a follow up but they certainly left it open to that possibility.

 

[mikeymikec]

here's my take on Margin Call - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615147/reference

it's the story of the market crash. we all already know that story.

it tries for nerd points by sticking to the jargon of the business - except for the super-obvious scene put in the film *just* so that normal people can understand it; the boss guy actually uses the phrase "explain it to me like i'm a child".

really? this is the guy who OWNS A TRADING FIRM? and he needs it explained?!?!

You kinda missed one of the points the film had to make then I guess.

 

[shortylickens]

Is 88 Minutes twice as good as 44 Minutes?

 

[Imp]

8/10 - Star Wars: The Force Awakens

I liked it for what it was. I'm old now so it's not as mind-blowing as seeing the originals as a kid, but it was good. Concerning the story:

Spoiler

ya, another Death Star type weapon, but this didn't bug me. And ya, another "Luke" new Jedi. Lightsaber battles also weren't overdone like in the prequels, straight to the point, no 5 minute compilation of shit waving around. Captain Phasma got like 2 minutes of screen time. Final helicopter shot also didn't look great -- these, the helicopter shots, really bug me now.

 

[smackababy]

The Hateful Eight - 5/10: At this point, I'm fairly convinced Tarantino has a fetish for saying the N word. It was cute and funny in Pulp Fiction, but it got old quickly. I also am of the opinion Westerns don't lend themselves well to Tarantino's style of dialog writing (which was superb in modern day movies of his early years). All in all, same cast of characters for 3 hours and not much substance or clever dialog and story to be great. It's like Reservoir Dogs 150 years before it happened, but not as good.

 

[Majcric]

Black Death -8.5/10 Just watched this again and its still as good as the first time I viewed it. This movie doesn't drag around and gets right to the core story. I think Game of thrones fans might enjoy this.


The Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj3Jw1DLGpA

 

[clamum]

Black Death -8.5/10 Just watched this again and its still as good as the first time I viewed it. This movie doesn't drag around and gets right to the core story. I think Game of thrones fans might enjoy this.


The Trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj3Jw1DLGpA

I've seen that on Netflix for awhile (or used to, anyway). Looked kinda "meh" but with your recommendation and the trailer looking ok I think I'll check it out.

 

[DigDog]

^ have you watched Triangle (2009), by the same director? imho, even better.

 

[Guurn]

Kingsman - really liked the movie, kind of an action James Bond but more light-hearted. 8\10

 

[DaveSimmons]

John Carter (of Mars) - 7.5/10

The reviews were not kind, but it was a well-done sword-n-sorcery movie (science fantasy) based on the Edgar Rice Burroughs story from 1912.

I'd give the visuals in Jupiter Ascending a higher rating for being more vivid and creative, but JCoM did an excellent job of creating Burrough's setting, and the acting was better (i.e. not awful ).

 

[sportage]

ANGRY BIRDS
What creative thing could they do with making a film about a simple video game?
Not much.
Ten minutes in and you'll either be yawning or pulling a theater no no. Messing on your cell phone.
Believe the bad reviews. They are spot on.