Jump to content
🔒 The Earwolf Forums are closed Read more... ×

thestray

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Content count

    425

  • Joined

  • Last visited

  • Days Won

    6

Posts posted by thestray

  2. Posted

    I don't think I've ever laughed so hard at the silence during the WYR theme song.

     

    Totally. That was one of the parts that was really enhanced by the live show because they kept focusing on PFT who would just be looking around, then cut to Rob Corddry watching PFT and cracking up.

  3. Posted

    Oh wow. For a second after seeing the photo I thought Paul was doing the Boardwalk Empire guy with the half face mask. Regardless, looks like a great ep. Will probably wait for the VPN version.

     

    That's exactly what he's doing.

     

    I agree with Syme, I watched the live broadcast on youtube, and PFT's mannerisms were very fun to watch.

    • Like 1

  5. Posted

    I can imagine this baby totally rebelling against it's parents and becoming the humourless CEO of an oil company or something "If I catch any of you making any so called 'jokes' you'll be out on your arse faster than you can say 'end scene'!"

     

    P.S Screw you spell check, humour has an 'o' in it! Death to America!

     

    Humorless evangelical Christian CEO of an oil company... who's spokesperson is Tim Tebow.

     

    Congrats Matt and Danielle. From his stories Matt sounds like he had a great dad, so I'm sure he'll probably be one as well.

  6. Posted

    I think it would've been a lot better if they went a step further and made them feel like real people, even if some of them are really awful real people. I also don't think Refn quite has a handle on telling a story with minimal dialog, there were lots of moments of people staring blankly that didn't seem to really be conveying anything. In Drive Gosling came off as a stoic Man With No Name type of person, but in this movie I don't know what the hell was going on with him, he seemed like he had some developmental issues or something.

  8. Posted

    Saying it shamelessly borrowed fighter pilots, being struck by lightning, and intelligent robotic beings is a bit of stretch.

     

    It wasn't a good movie, but I didn't find it to be horrible either, it was an adequate time-waster. I don't know if there's enough to make a good HDTGM episode.

  9. Posted

    I finally watched this. It's very cool visually and there are some nice sequences, and it's very close to being a good movie, but it's more style than substance. It's more preoccupied with being artsy than it is with telling a good story or offering up an interesting fully-formed relatable character. There were definitely some moments that made me laugh, and a few that made me go "The fuck?"

  10. Posted

    She wasn't even adequate as Emma Frost in my opinion. I wouldn't even say she pulled off being an "ice queen", so much as she just pulled off being a boring lady. Emma's a really strong character, very confident, bold, assertive, morally ambiguous. But I felt like when they cast her they were like "Who's a hot blonde?

    Watching the movie I definitely didn't get any sense that she was the character I read in comics.

     

    It'd be cool if they bring him back. But watching him die was definitely an eyeroll worthy "Of course" moment.

  13. Posted

    I thought it was a fairly entertaining movie. January Jones was definitely the worse part of it, even if you don't mind her shitty acting, she just didn't fit the character she was playing at all, but I guess that's also the writer's fault.

     

    The way they kinda half-ass rebooted it was really weird and confusing too.

     

    Also, they killed the fucking black guy. Who barely got to really do anything. Boo.

     

    But Magneto hunting down Nazis was cool (I wish that had been the whole movie). And there were some great action sequences.

    • Like 1

  16. Posted

    I remember seeing one of those HBO inside the movie type things where Leguizamo said he actually ate the maggots or cockroaches (I don't remember which) that were on the pizza. I don't know why he thought that was necessary, but I admire his commitment... kinda.

    • Like 1

  18. Posted

    I think if you want to have an ethics debate about whether bestiality is wrong or not, "these other things are done to animals" shouldn't be part of the argument, because you don't prove that something is right by contrasting it to things that are worse. If you want to make the case that bestiality is acceptable you have to do it on it's own merits or you don't really have a good argument.

    • Like 1

  20. Posted

    Malcom McDowell is just one of those guys who while being well respected also probably doesn't have people beating down his door to offer him big roles or anything. He's less of a movie star and more of a guy just doing the work where he can get it and does his best, whether it be a really good role in a film or as a bad guy on a Monk episode or something.

  21. Posted

    When I was in college my friend had this dvd that he got from another friend called National Lampoon's Lost Reality. The conceit of the dvd is that it was supposed to be a bunch of reality tv show pilots that never got picked up, because they were too crazy or offensive. The Amazing Racist was one of them, Ari Shaffir is his real name, and he's a piece of shit in my opinion. A lot of the stuff on the dvd was pretty dumb, but this movie looks even worse, I'd have to be paid to watch this.

  23. Posted

    Just thinking about this films bums me out because:

     

    1) like thestray said, the comic is pretty amazing. The art and layout is incredible. And it builds a world in which it makes sense that a Tank Girl can love a kangaroo-human hybrid named Booga. And that there's a Jet Girl and a Sub Girl (I think?). And they drink shitloads of beer, play baseball, and Tank Girl has a koala. It must be a particular British sensibility that many Americans just can't quite put their heads around and definitely doesn't translate well to an American-made film, in a manner similar to the Judge Dredd comic from 2000 AD (which has been running since 1977!)

     

     

    I don't think it's so much a British sensibility that doesn't translate as it's just a thing that's very much tailored to the medium it was created in. There's so much going on in any given page, shitload of text, and there are jokes that only really work on a page, each issue is not so much a linear ongoing narrative as it is just like random short stories and vignettes that don't always wrap up or explain everything and there are prologues and non sequiturs and all types of random shit. It's a comic's comic.I think all the charm of it is lost when you try to extrapolate that to a 3 act live action movie script.

    • Like 1

  24. Posted

    The weird thing is, this movie wasn't critically reviled. It actually sits at a respectable 68% on RT.

     

    Also, this happens (NSFW)

     

    http://www.metacafe....s_on_the_plane/

     

    I can understand that, because despite the absurd premise I don't think it's that much worse than most mediocre action/thriller type films. Like it's at the very least watchable. I also feel like a lot of reviewers probably wanted to be "in on it", so they didn't want to trash a movie that was already kinda making fun of itself. Low hanging fruit.

  25. Posted

    Jamie Hewlett is amazing, Definitely one of the people I strive to be as good as, as an artist. This movie definitely doesn't capture the comic, and like cat&beard said I don't think it could really be done. Tank Girl is a good example of comics being their own thing, I could rant for days about comic book adaptations and how I feel it's affected the medium, but maybe that's too esoteric of a discussion.

     

    Definitely down for them to discuss this movie. It would be amazing if they got Paul F Tompkins back on the show, or somehow the actual Ice T.

×