Movies

[Excal]

Erm, yeah.  The Expendables sounds like a fine way to kill a few hours if you can turn your brain off.

On that note, saw Scott Pilgrim, went in with pretty high expectations and it was pretty flawless from start to finish.  One or two minor weaknesses as things went along, but nothing major.  And every now and then one of the small touches would stand out and it would be brilliant.

[superaielman]

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

If you made a poll of this (at least on the DL), I'd imagine 75% would say the say choice was in the other direction!

Likely, but the Expendables looked like the kind of terrible I haven't seen since the Super Mario Bros Movie. I was enterained by EPL, at least.

[Grefter]

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

If you made a poll of this (at least on the DL), I'd imagine 75% would say the say choice was in the other direction!

Likely, but the Expendables looked like the kind of terrible I haven't seen since the Super Mario Bros Movie. I was enterained by EPL, at least.

So just to confirm Super hates fun and good things and really would rather catch a chick flick and have a good cry.

Kay.

Does it hurt that much to hate fun?

[Scar]

Scott Pilgrim was awesome. I dug the Pee meter.

[Hunter Sopko]

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

If you made a poll of this (at least on the DL), I'd imagine 75% would say the say choice was in the other direction!

Likely, but the Expendables looked like the kind of terrible I haven't seen since the Super Mario Bros Movie. I was enterained by EPL, at least.

So just to confirm Super hates fun and good things and really would rather catch a chick flick and have a good cry.

Kay.

Does it hurt that much to hate fun?

Does emasculating mean cool?

[Cotigo]

Eat pray love- It was either that or the expendables. Soooooo yeah, not a hard choice.

I dug it, even if the overarching plot was pretty spotty. Bonus points to the movie for randomly throwing in a badass Texan in the middle of India of all places.

If you made a poll of this (at least on the DL), I'd imagine 75% would say the say choice was in the other direction!

Likely, but the Expendables looked like the kind of terrible I haven't seen since the Super Mario Bros Movie. I was enterained by EPL, at least.

So just to confirm Super hates fun and good things and really would rather catch a chick flick and have a good cry.

Kay.

Does it hurt that much to hate fun?

Does emasculating mean cool?

In Superese it does.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

The AV club breaks EPL down pretty well- it is the story of the worst woman ever. And she wrote it about herself for fucks sake.

[Lady Door]

If you go into a movie called "Eat Pray Love," based on an autobiography, starring Julia Roberts, and expect anything BUT this movie, you're only fooling yourself.

That said, GREAT food porn and travel porn. Hooray for pasta, iconic architecture and beautiful beaches.

[Shale]

Scott Pilgrim: Yeah, see what everybody else said. Lots and lots of fun. Haven't read the books, but could still tell when it went off adaptation, and I thought Gideon's "relationship" with Ramona was a cop-out, but other than that it was great. Loved every minute of the fight scenes, was cracking up most of the way.

Twilight: Watched this with RiffTrax and it was still damn near intolerable. Good God. Even Mike and the bots can only do so much. And it's still better than what I've heard about the books, because at least it wasn't narrated.

[OblivionKnight]

Scott Pilgrim: 0/10. What bullshit. When Scott Patel was defeated he was supposed to drop $2.10 and Ramona offered to lend 15 cents. In the movie, it was 2.30 and 45 cents. This change was inexcusable and represented a complete rape of the source material.

I agree wholeheartedly with Andrew here.  Seriously horribly overhyped and awful movie that deserves none of the praise it receives.  But, for a deeper evaluation...

The whole premise of the movie is retarded and makes no sense.  We're supposed to believe this takes place in Canadia?  So where are polar bears?  The mounties?  The moose?  The movie fails miserably at atmosphere - the only part of the movie that makes it feel like it takes place in Canadia is the fact that there's snow on the ground.  Way to fail on immersion, movie.

More to the point, there is no logic to this world!  The real world?  Bullshit.  Words appearing instead of sounds?  Fucking ridiculous.  References to save points and other crazy things?  Preposterous!  This movie is impossible to take seriously and understand!  Where the fuck does this subspace thing come from?  How does Ramona carry a gigantic hammer in her purse?  This movie makes no explanation or reference to normalcy, making it a failure as a live action movie.

It's also horribly racially insensitive!  The first evil boyfriend we meet is Indian.  And uses magic.  And summons demons.  This is horribly insensitive - it perpetuates the stereotype that Indians are evil, godless, magic-using heathens. 

And it's insensitive to people with different preferences in other areas!  Vegans?  Vegans are depicted as also using evil psychic powers, being elitist, and being lying cheats!  This is not right!  We needed a better, more peaceful and integrative association of Vegans with society, and this movie is simply insulting.

Finally, it also perpetuates some idiotic social interaction - yes, charge into the fray and get slashed, you can come back with an extra life!  This movie has so many problems - if only it could have taken cues from the Twilight series, which does a much better job of fashioning fantasy and real life in a believable, and masterful literary and cinematic work.

[BaconForTheSoul]

People Magazine review on the Expendables: 0/10
RPGDL Reviews on Scott Pilgrim: 10/10


Sorry People, you can't bash on a movie like this for being unrealistic and be serious about it.  This movie was not intended to be the least bit realistic.  I suppose Star Wars and Rambo also blow because the bad guys have unrealistically bad aim.

Yes RPGDL, you CAN bash on a movie for being unrealistic when this bashing is completely awesome and sarcastic.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

I doubt People Magazine has a reader base the Expendables much care about.

[Grefter]

Having read a few more reviews by dudes that are into mindless action movies, I am hearing that Expendables tries to not be mindless at some points which is kind of a massive let down.

Seriously they should have had a 4 way fight between Sly, Jet Lee, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren, this should have taken place on the moon and clearly been filmed on a sound stage.  Also heard that it is like the exact same script as Rambo, so yeah maybe a bit to serious?

Oh well, Super still has a vagina anyway.

[Idun]

Clash of the Titans - 2/5. (old one)  . . . if the gods helped me with everything, maybe I'd be badass too.
The Sandlot - 5/5.
Adventureland - 3/5.
Frost/Nixon - 3/5.
Truman Show - 4/5.
Battle Royale 2 - 2/5.

Haven't been watching many movies. I am in a funk ):

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Having read a few more reviews by dudes that are into mindless action movies, I am hearing that Expendables tries to not be mindless at some points which is kind of a massive let down.

Seriously they should have had a 4 way fight between Sly, Jet Lee, Jason Statham and Dolph Lundgren, this should have taken place on the moon and clearly been filmed on a sound stage.  Also heard that it is like the exact same script as Rambo, so yeah maybe a bit to serious?

Oh well, Super still has a vagina anyway.

It's not the exact same script as Rambo. It's the exact same script as FIVE RAMBOS TEAMING UP.

[Grefter]

And five Rambos teaming up in the script for the latest Rambo movie is wayyyyy to serious.  It might have worked for First Blood though.

[Captain K.]

Grease Sing-a-long:  Fun.  Dusted off my letterman jacket and took the wife and stepdaughter to see it.  Weren't a whole lot of people in the theater, but everyone had a good time.  The added graphics were pretty amusing, especially during "Greased Lightning".  Also, hot dogs and buns, icwutudidthere.

[Luther Lansfeld]

Watched The Big Lebowski. It's... sometimes good, sometimes obnoxious, but overall a fine movie.

[Dhyerwolf]

People Magazine review on the Expendables: 0/10
RPGDL Reviews on Scott Pilgrim: 10/10


Sorry People, you can't bash on a movie like this for being unrealistic and be serious about it.  This movie was not intended to be the least bit realistic.  I suppose Star Wars and Rambo also blow because the bad guys have unrealistically bad aim.

Yes RPGDL, you CAN bash on a movie for being unrealistic when this bashing is completely awesome and sarcastic.

This post confuses me so badly. Are you implying...that the posts generally here on either of these movies that generally aren't sarcastic? This somehow bends back around back to confusing internet sarcasm right?

[Grefter]

I believe he was saying Fuck People Magazine and it's review of Expendables and that we are awesome and we do funny things with reviews of Scott Pilgrim.

[Meeplelard]

Just wanna say that I had the same interpretation of that post as Grefter did, so yeah, pretty sure that's what he was saying (or something similar to that effect.)

[Idun]

Saw Predators at the dollar theatre.

Suffice it to say, I enjoy most movies like this at a cheaper price.

[NotMiki]

Saw Predators at the dollar theatre.

Suffice it to say, I enjoy most movies like this at a cheaper price.

It's the perfect movie for it.  As I mentioned when I saw it, it should win an academy award for 'best use of the word 'Fuck.'

[Idun]

Burn After Reading:
3/5.

Will do. Loved the characters, hated the plot, hated the outcome of the ending for some characters/wish others were offed.

[Hunter Sopko]

Burn After Reading:
3/5.

Will do. Loved the characters, hated the plot, hated the outcome of the ending for some characters/wish others were offed.

Awwww no waaaaaaaaaay!

Brad Pitt stole that movie.