lost in melb. (12-29-2017)
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
A dark comedy, with the emphasis on dark. Fantastic movie.
I would have sworn that the Coen Brothers wrote this in their heyday, same tone.
Frances McDormand is great as a grieving mother whose daughter was raped and killed.
Woody Harrelson and Sam Rockwell also give great performances.
A lot of unexpected moments in this. Recommended.
Last edited by Hal-9000; 12-28-2017 at 08:55 PM. Reason: too much c.c.c.c.c...coffee
Justice League
I was never a big comic book reader and have to say that most Superhero movies degenerate into a confusing mess of invincible people throwing each other around into buildings. Killing millions of civilians in the process. Shame on you Superheroes.
There's been the odd Spiderman or Superman or Ironman movie that has some heart and I've enjoyed, but not many.
That being said this movie had both components from the above. Lots of big-ass smackdown scenes, along with a few humorous scenes and a few character scenes.
Ben Assfleck will never be Batman to me, the Cyborg dude was a total CGI mess, as well as most of the Chernobyl CGI scenes looked like bad miniatures. It was an odd mix.
I liked Cavill as Superman, dude who played the flash was funny at times, but overall I just can't care about what happens to people who for the most part, can't be hurt.
Where's DGX??? To me, Aquaman is a dude with blonde hair and a gill suit. He is NOT a big biker looking guy with a beard who drinks whiskey
Wonder Woman is hot, but again...she's just about invincible so where's the real danger?
I was mildly entertained, but would never pay for a movie like this.
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
i haven't seen justice league yet because my kids have ZERO interest in seeing it i will catch it for free on one of my international flights in 2018
DemonGeminiX (12-29-2017)
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Music was better when ugly people were allowed to make it.
Hal-9000 (12-29-2017)
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You kind of dropped a huge spoiler about a main character....
I've already read the series when they came out years ago
I'm pre-prepping myself with a refresher before watching the recent movie. It's been a few years since the first four books came out.
Have to agree. King has done better work.
To be honest though, most of the movie adaptations of King's books usually fall flat. His writing doesn't really translate well to the big screen. I haven't seen the new It yet, but a lot of people are saying it's good, so my interest is peaked. If a King adaptation is good, then that usually means that the writers and directors have taken massive liberties with the source material. Think Stanley Kubrick's The Shining... half of the junk in the film doesn't go down like that in the book. When they try to follow the book verbatim, the result usually sucks. There's a bunch of examples I can name. I don't think the ideas in his head play out like a movie. Maybe he just can't visualize it. Or maybe we're too desensitized to think the shit in his head is truly horrifying. I'm sure a croquet mallet would hurt, but really? Can you seriously terrorize somebody with it?
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I've found that King's books were better the first time through. Meaning, on a reread years later they don't seem as shocking or well written as I remember them. There could be other reasons for that, like other authors have stepped up their game and writing in general has improved over the years.
I just reread It, The Stand, and am going through the Dark Tower series now. The Stand in particular is not half as good as I recall. Some might say there's some hack writing in there.
The end of It is/was a mess depending on your taste and King has a bad habit of ending his books badly.
I liked The Shining movie (maybe because of the changes?) and understand your points above. His brand of terror rarely translates to movies. His ideas are still way out there, and I think that's why I appreciate him as an author.
As I get older though, my love for his work seems like a memory of something great you had as a child. You go back to that memory only to find it wasn't that great.
DemonGeminiX (12-29-2017)
I can agree with this statement in so many ways over many different things other than Stephen King.
When I was a kid growing up in NJ, we used to have supermarket frozen pizza called Ellios. Just rectangular frozen pizza. Nothing special about it. My cousin and I used to inhale those things like the air we breathed. It was so good. I always had fond memories of Ellios pizza back when I was a kid. Fast forward 35 years later, I find Ellios pizza in a local supermarket here in town... and I buy it. I come home, I cook it, I eat it, and it is the absolute worst tasting piece of shit I've ever had in my entire life. I immediately imagine my adult self looking back in time to my childhood self and telling him, "You fucking idiot. What the hell's the matter with you? This is horrendous. Jesus, kid, get a clue."... and the childhood me just looks down at his feet and starts crying.
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