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Just curious, what is your opinion of American Psycho?

I was just thinking about how crazy this movie was, so I wanted to give this thread a bump

Not gonna lie, the Transmorphers cover is pretty convincing.

How has there not been a class action lawsuit against this company by all of the people who thought they were watching a blockbuster but got tricked into watching their crap?

I couldn't hear what the audience member said at 1:18 that everyone went nuts for. I listened 3x but couldn't hear it and they didn't repeat it, can anyone tell me what it was?

I think one of the problems with most Wesley Snipes movies is that he almost always plays his characters as invincible. As a good guy, who inevitably wins, this makes for a boring story. As Simon Phoenix however this works perfectly.

Everyone needs to remember that words on the internet are devoid of tone and thus someone may post something with a fairly innocent or inquisitive intent, but have it be read as a hostile attack.

Next you're gonna tell me Dark Side of the Moon isn't supposed to sync up with the movie. Nah, I can see that. I can see someone coming up with an interpretation after the fact that makes a lot of sense.

I don't know if you're aware, but Baum's book was an allegory for a bi-metallic monetary standard. At the time he wrote it we were on the gold standard, and as a result there was slight deflation, which some believed was the cause of economic woes. At the time they thought that by adding silver-backed money to the economy they could improve the state of the economy. The symbolism is: OZ -> Ounces The Yellow Brick Rd. -> The Gold Standard The Silver slippers (in the book they're silver, not ruby) -> Silver standard The tin man -> Industrial workers The scarecrow -> The agricultural worker The cowardly lion -> William Jennings Bryan (who was also the lawyer who argued in favor of teaching creationism in the Scopes Monkey trial and thinly veiled as the prosecutor in Inherit the Wind) Dorothy -> The common person

I just watched this with my wife and all I have to say is FUCK THIS MOVIE!!! Good lord I would say this should have been called The Wizard of Oz: Phantom Menace, but that would be an insult to Jar-Jar Binks.

I believe that Tango & Cash is the highest IMDB rated movie that Z'dar has starred in so far. That is telling you something.

Wait, you stayed through Baby Geniuses and left before Wing Commander and THAT was the right choice? I've never heard anyone say that watching Baby Geniuses all the way through was "dodging a bullet."

I can't believe you didn't reference him as Zeus from No Holds Barred. WTF?

I am being very kind to the movies and I admit that I'm probably not as objective with them if I had seen them for the first time today. The Rocky movies were a HUGE part of my childhood and it's difficult to separate emotional attachment to the characters from enjoyment of the films themselves (not true for all childhood movies, No Holds Barred holds up terribly). I'm not saying that they're masterpieces, just that if you are able to focus on that element of the series then it makes them enjoyable in another dimension than just for the fights at the end. I think that a lot of movies that deal with a rags-to-riches-to-rags story tend to do so in a grand fashion. The protagonist comes from humble beginnings, rises to the top of their profession where they experience a lavish lifestyle. Then at the peak of their fame, they express some fatal flaw which causes them to spiral down in a spectacular crash (often ending in death). Rocky on the other hand does it in a more modest fashion, which is what I like about it. And like I said, I think it's particularly relevant to athletes who very frequently have a hard time adjusting to life after their paychecks start to decrease. And for full disclosure, this is how I rated the movies on IMDB: Rocky - 9/10 Rocky II - 7/10 Rocky III - 7/10 Rocky IV - 6/10 Rocky V - 6/10 Rocky Balboa - 7/10

It's very obvious when watching a Rocky marathon. But it makes the sequels better, you get emotionally invested in the characters, want to see how their story plays out, etc. Despite the flaws of 5 *cough*Tommy Gunn*cough*street fight*cough* the mismanagement of money that was once flowing in, followed by the humble return to his roots is an important piece of the Rocky puzzle. I also think that it's a fairly realistic portrayal of rise-and-fall fame in general, especially for an athlete. And I'd be lying if I said I didn't tear up when Apollo Creed dies. That is really the only thing Rocky 4 contributes to the arc. Also:

I am a staunch defender of the Rocky series, even 5. I think that the Rocky saga is the story of a man's rise and fall in a pretty realistic manner. In this context the fights are not important and 4 contributes the least to it.

I think Doug Benson said it best when he said some of the stories are good and some are not so good. The one with Colin Firth is works for the first scene, but keeps going on far too long with the same gag and becomes tiresome quickly. The one with the English guy in America could have been played with a bit more subtlety, but some of the other stories are engaging and heartwarming (and that's said as a guy who generally doesn't like romance movies). Valentine's Day on the other hand copies many of the stories (a kid with a crush anyone?) and it's like watching several trains on a collision course.

Thestray's dinosaur analogy is perfect. In Jurrasic Park, the Velociraptor was an evolved killing machine and they didn't specialize in humans, we just happened to be within the spectrum of things that they were evolved to kill. Nobody is saying that it's a well written line, just that it's not as much of a contradiction as it seems. They probably have said "everything down there has evolved to be efficient killing machines" or something like that.

From what I remember, and it's been a long time since I saw it (like I rented it from blockbuster shortly after you could rent it) the whole time they had been telling us about how all of this horrible stuff had happend and then at the end they were like "sike none if it happened, who wants dinner?" Which was very anti-climactic.

To me this isn't such a stretch. If they've evolved to kill each other it's not like weak and slow humans are harder to kill than anything else on earth. It is surely a poor choice in words, but it's not incorrect.

I remember liking this move until the ending. It was the most anti-climactic, limp dick of a twist ending prior to "Swing Away Merrill"

Or a Gorilla according to the boy.

I was very disappointed with Drive. The dialog felt really awkward ("Hey kid want a toothpick?" for example) and people seemed to behave in ways that I felt made no sense what-so-ever (he's a psychopath, but he's the good guy kind of psychopath). I really wanted to like Drive, prior to it I really really liked the Pusher trilogy that Refn had done, and since I have enjoyed Bronson, but it just didn't sit well with me. That said I would not suggest this movie for the podcast, it just doesn't have the right pacing, it's too well received and there aren't enough weird moments to make for an interesting episode.

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