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(2,068 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Eragon is literally the exact same plot as Star Wars with the names swapped out. No exaggeration. It is beat for beat the same movie. I'd love to see a commentary on why Star Wars works and Eragon fails.

1,077

(123 replies, posted in Episodes)

Zarban wrote:

Roger Ebert said that most movies could stand to lose 15 minutes, and I'm inclined to agree, at least with the recent crop of 150-200 min films.

He also famously said that no good movie is too long and no bad movie is too short, so he probably would have had words about this article.

Zarban wrote:

Matt Singer is terrific. He's half of Filmspotting SVU.

Oh yes. Alison Willmore is also fantastic.

1,078

(123 replies, posted in Episodes)

Trey wrote:

This guy gets it.

Matt Singer is great and I would have his film critic babies. That is all.

1,079

(15 replies, posted in Episodes)

The only thing I know about this movie is that it has Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head in it, a trivia question which won me 4 tickets to Six Flags today. So thanks, Butch Cassidy! Maybe I'll actually watch you now.

1,080

(93 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Teague wrote:

Sorry, totally hated this one. Guh.

http://i397.photobucket.com/albums/pp51/InternNin/YouandIareenemiesnow.jpg

1,081

(34 replies, posted in Off Topic)

The reason why Foster's performance didn't work in my eyes had less to do with character motivation and more to do with that stupid accent and her over-affected line deliveries.

1,082

(18 replies, posted in Off Topic)

So I FINALLY caught up with this last night. AMC was doing a $3 showing for charity, so my friends and I decided that we might as well. I really, really liked it. Was it derivative of other sci-fi movies? Maybe. But while you can draw comparisons to other movies, I think that Oblivion is great in its own right. I'm so glad that movies like this exist. It isn't trying to reinvent the wheel, it's just trying to tell a cool story. And I found a lot of its twists pleasantly surprising. If I have one complaint, it's that for most of the second act I was REALLY confused about what was going on, mostly pertaining to Morgan Freeman and his people. Other than that, though, Oblivion is a great movie, and I'm glad I got to see it on the big screen.

1,083

(34 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Saw it, didn't love it. It certainly was pretty, I'll give it that. But most of the fight scenes were poorly edited, so it was tough to see what was going on. And pretty much every major plot beat felt totally arbitrary, like he was writing himself out of corners at every turn. Damon's sickness is basically just introduced to get the story going, and it has no bearing on the story beyond that. There's a ton of stuff that feels like that.

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And the ending was just unforgivably stupid. The robot says, "Sorry, I cannot arrest a citizen of Elysium." So I guess Elysium has absolutely no crime whatsoever? And so what if Spider made everyone a citizen? All he did was change ONE WORD in the code. Will it really be that hard to change it back and deport him and Damon and the rest? But we're supposed to take this as a big heroic moment for the underclass. Overall, this movie needed another hour to flesh out its world. The audience is left having to take a whole lot for granted, and it's kind of unfair. I know it's a bad thing to put your movie's whole bible on screen, but can we at least have a little bit of that information? We know next to nothing about Elysium or Earth.

1,084

(40 replies, posted in Episodes)

Thought you guys would find this interesting. Turns out Searching For Sugar Man wasn't as unbelievable as they lead you to believe.

1,085

(123 replies, posted in Episodes)

Texting in a theater just doesn't make any sense to me. You paid for the opportunity to see a movie on the big screen. You can look at your phone any time FOR FREE (barring data charges, or whatever, but still.) Is it really so hard to watch the movie you just paid for without looking at your phone?

Talking is a different thing to me, though. Certain movies warrant it. Obviously I'd be annoyed by someone chit-chatting through The Act Of Killing or something, but I think that horror movies are all about the experience of seeing it with an audience. Part of the fun is how the audience interacts with the movie. It becomes a two-way street where movies normally aren't.

1,086

(77 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I think the Star Trek thing went on a bit long, but it was definitely hilarious. Seeing the scene in context of the whole episode, it's a great moment, but as I was watching, I was wondering why they were spending so much time with it and not with the main plot threads.

But then

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Hank shuts the garage door
and you realize that HOLY SHIT this season is going to be amazing.

1,087

(77 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Brian wrote:

I predict:

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Jesse ultimately kills Walt.

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I predict that Jesse will flip and rat out Walt to Hank. Hank sets Jesse up in a sting on Walt. It goes sour, and either Jesse, Hank, or Walt is killed.

1,088

(25 replies, posted in Episodes)

They manage to avoid "Teague's Constant" in Chronicle. Andrew is withdrawn, but far from obnoxious. He uses the camera to keep people at a distance rather than draw them in.

1,089

(51 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I'd rather see them team up than fight. Their backgrounds and personalities are so different that you could basically do the best buddy cop movie of all time.

But I'm sure they'll just punch each other real hard until they decide to stop.

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(991 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I would give my right arm for Chiwetel as the Doctor.

1,091

(991 replies, posted in Off Topic)

If it's another lanky white dude I'll be severely disappointed. It's been half a century. Let's mix things up a bit.

1,092

(162 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Dave wrote:

Saw it. Didn't like it.

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someone explain to me why his mum couldn't be a holo-deus ex machine, too?

Because Superman is more about fathers and sons than mothers and sons. Not that his mothers weren't important to his development, but Superman's two dads had the biggest impact on who he is. That's what this movie chose to focus on, anyway.

1,093

(48 replies, posted in Episodes)

Pick-up artists and the people who follow their advice are truly the scum of the earth. The good news is that almost all of those people are laughably pathetic and ineffectual.

1,094

(3 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Max Landis is awesome. I'll never understand why he gets so much hate on the internet. Do a commentary for Chronicle and invite him on. He'd fit right in on the couch.

1,095

(12 replies, posted in Pitches, Fixes, and Rewrites)

Well, obviously Act 1 is pretty much the same. Starts with Bruce on an airplane, headed to the wrap party for DIE HARDEST in LA. He gets there, argues with his wife, and then the fans attack. And because it's a Galaxy Quest thing, they've meticulously created a situation that exactly mirrors the plot of the original Die Hard. Bruce gets isolated right off the bat.

1,096

(29 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Teague wrote:

Not to be a complete pig over here, but I'm kind of into your friend Brooke.

Heh. Brooke's been like a sister to me for years. And I already have 3 sisters, so that's saying something.

She's actually releasing an EP soon, by the way! Can't believe I didn't mention it. I've listened to it, and it's lots of fun.

1,097

(29 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Awesome! My friends are so much more talented than me. My friend Brooke, for example, is a really talented musician.

1,098

(3 replies, posted in Off Topic)

Goddamn this is cool. I'm sure that Eddie and other people who are more familiar with comics will have more to say about this than me, but I think it's a really interesting way to re-do the Death and Return storyline without just doing the same thing with minor detail changes. The deaths in that battle are shocking, although they do feel a bit thrown in just for shock value. I guess you get to do that when you're doing a whole new universe.

1,099

(48 replies, posted in Episodes)

Like Zach Braff, Spike Lee is using Kickstarter to preserve his artistic vision. Interesting.

1,100

(70 replies, posted in Off Topic)

I had the misfortune of watching Epic Movie on cable once. It is more devoid of good than any other movie I've ever seen. So I'm going with that one.