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| Befade |
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| Should I drive 2 hours to see The Canyons? |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 3:16 pm |
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Befade wrote: Should I drive 2 hours to see The Canyons?
From everything I've heard, you shouldn't walk across the street to see The Canyons. Of course, buzz isn't everything. In fact, it's often meaningless. |
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| Befade |
| Posted: Fri Aug 16, 2013 11:03 pm |
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| Billy..... Where's that cute little boy? He sure grew up fast! |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 3:51 am |
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Befade wrote: Billy..... Where's that cute little boy? He sure grew up fast!
LOL. Gonna see that cute little boy today; can't wait! |
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| bartist |
| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 10:35 am |
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Weeds - thanks. I don't live in NYC, so I have to wait a bit for such as Spect. Now.
And it's partly a matter of being picky - Crystal Fairy was here last week, and I just didn't feel the tug, much as I like Michael Cera. The Butler is here, not sure if I'm interested - will wait for more buzz. |
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| billyweeds |
| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:19 am |
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bartist wrote: Weeds - thanks. I don't live in NYC, so I have to wait a bit for such as Spect. Now.
And it's partly a matter of being picky - Crystal Fairy was here last week, and I just didn't feel the tug, much as I like Michael Cera. The Butler is here, not sure if I'm interested - will wait for more buzz.
The Butler is gonna get lots of great response and also some negativism. But it definitely sounds worth seeing. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 9:41 pm |
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| Kickass 2: Somewhat hit or miss, but when it's good, it's very good. Chloe Grace Moritz is so good and Hit Girl so interesting that it makes most of the rest of the cast look two-dimensional. There are scenes in here that make me think casting her in the Carrie remake may be a masterstroke. |
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| Marc |
| Posted: Sat Aug 17, 2013 11:25 pm |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 12:12 am |
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| Late August is one of the dumping grounds, in this case for the films that weren't big enough to make it into the summer blockbuster list. This year the summer blockbusters were so dismal that the late August films are a lot more intriguing. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:25 am |
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| Really liked the first Kick-Ass. Really worried about the second. |
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| Syd |
| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 3:46 am |
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Joe Vitus wrote: Really liked the first Kick-Ass. Really worried about the second.
There's an obvious problem that the romantic interest should be Kick-Ass and Hit Girl and she's jailbait. The film tries to get around this by giving Kick-Ass a girlfriend, but she's a non-entity. |
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| Joe Vitus |
| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 4:00 am |
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| I was thinking more that I read the first installment of the Kick-Ass 2 and it felt like writer Mark Miller had nothing to add to his original series. Similarly, the first movie worked well as a stand-alone, but I don't know you turn this into a franchise without the material turning into the very thing it was satirizing. Seeing that actor playing Kick-Ass looking ripped and capable kills what the character was about. |
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| marantzo |
| Posted: Sun Aug 18, 2013 6:42 am |
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| bartist |
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| Summer means theaters full of films aimed at 16 year olds, and then you get the demographic of older people who just want to see a movie, any movie, so they go and see that. 2010 had the usual large number of such films and I can usually take maybe one per season, and that season there was Kick-Ass and there was Scott Pilgrim v. the World, and I picked the latter. No regrets, mes amis. |
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| whiskeypriest |
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