Last movie you watched......

American Sniper. I liked it but also remember there was chatter here about how they left stuff out of the official Chris Kyle narrative, or perhaps the movie was nowhere aligned with the book ... or something. Maybe YF can refresh my memory.

 

Also, While We're Young with Stiller and Watts and Grodin and Driver and Seyfried.

It's pretty good. I like Stiller when he does these kinds of cerebral flicks. He goes a little Woody Allen in this one, about generational overlap between X and Y.

 

Either men hate women or women support women even when the work is no good.

 

Haven't heard the explanation of why an all-female cast was necessary. Is this some alternative universe where men are no longer strong enough to carry the packs? seems gimmicky and nonsensical. But I like the women who are in the cast and think all of them are funny, so I'll definitely check it out. honestly I thought the original ghostbusters was decent but not particularly funny. in the bill murray oeuvre, it barely rates IMHO.

 

Watching the Amy Winehouse doc ... some real heartbreaking footage.

 

I like the idea of McCarthy, Wiig and McKinnon.
I like it notion of chicks instead of a reboot with guys. I mean, yeah I would have been as funny with Galifanackis, Rogan, Hart and Ferrell ... but whatever.
I'm willing to give it a chance.
The original was good. I have never been a big Bill Murray fan.

 

Don't know if an explanation is all that necessary other than "This is the way the producers and director decided to go." Quite frankly, if they're going to remake it with a new cast, why not do the gender switch to make it distinct from the orignal? And I haven't really understood the extreme backlash to this movie: I loved the original too, but it's not so special that it should be immune to a reboot when we get plenty of those these days.

I agree with you on the cast, CD. That's the reason I'm going to give this movie a shot. It would be great if it could give MacKinnon or Jones a jumpstart to more comedy roles.

 

Free State of Jones

Really refreshing to see a grown up movie amid all the kiddie fare I had to fight through to get to the tiniest theater in the multiplex to see it. Kind of curious why this wasn't held until later in the year and closer to award season.

As for Ghostbusters, I think the studio hired a proven director, whose movies have made money and are popular, and he figured why screw with a profitable formula? So he makes a movie with female leads because that's what he does. I really don't think there's some conspiracy or agenda to further the villification of straight white men, as some of less secure in society seem to believe.

That said, I've seen the trailers and haven't even chuckled. I can't remember the last comedy I watched and really laughed at. Zombieland, maybe? Woody Harrelson is hilarious.

So this will probably go in the pile of the dozen other remakes I have no interest in. Seriously, I saw a trailer for a Ben-Hur remake for this fall.

 

Or, instead of baiting him, you could just do your own search for the thread.

I'm in the process of trying to put movies into some kind of e-file so it's easier to lug them around, and I got up to the Gs last night. I loved "Ghostbusters" and didn't want a reboot. That's pretty much true of all movies, though.Trying to recall, but I believe the only reboots I've seen are "True Grit" (and I barely remember the original) and "Point Break," which was different enough from the original that I didn't compare. (And I was bored silly that weekend with no alternative.)

Last movies I saw in full: "Training Day" (Netflix) and "Dead Poets Society" (my copy). Random that Ethan Hawke was in both; I've probably only seen 1-2 other movies he's ever done. TD was intense. And Denzel Washington is, by far, one of the best looking men on the planet. And a darn good actor.

In the course of transferring movies, I watched part of "Dirty Dancing" and caught the "I carried a watermelon" comment from a different angle. Before we hear her mutter it to herself, the camera angle at the side, with Johnny talking to his cousin. Guess I've never watched from as close as a computer screen before because I saw her mouth the words before the camera angle comes from the front and we hear it. Looks like they edited in the clip twice. The movement of Jennifer Grey's head and lips are exactly the same in the "mouthing" clip as they are in the "verbal" one.

I might need to lay off this transferring process. I'm clearly spending too much time watching movie clips right now.

 

Baiting him? Get off your high horse. It was a real question for him and he has written extensively about it, and I like him.

 

Apologize, but it's hard to tell tone in email, and it's common practice here to troll.

But if you're curious, why post the question? Just go back and read the thread.

If he's written about it, extensively or not, it's still there. If it's his opinion you seek, you could PM him. Does he even read this thread?

 

Haven't seen a movie in a theater in FOREVER... but I am tonight. WTF happened to little quizzes and mildly entertaining stuff before a film I instead of HALF A FUCKIING HOUR OF COMMERCIALS?!?!?