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Movie: Ghostbusters

This one had a mayor-from-Jaws joke though, that counts for something.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:56 PM on July 16, 2016

This is an important thing for all mayors.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:03 PM on July 16, 2016

Holtzman's mentor.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:27 PM on July 16, 2016

Well... He certainly favours playing a type.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:28 AM on July 17, 2016

As I mentioned in the other thread the big third act CGI spectacular fell a little flat for me. I wonder if there was another version where the big Hemsworth song and dance routine was more integrated and if that would work better - that said, it works so well where it is.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:19 AM on July 17, 2016

So how do we feel about the weird reveal that the name of the film is "Answer the Call"?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:20 AM on July 17, 2016

Yeah, though I would say I prefer the pacing of the finale of the first movie to this one it's true that I would say that of literally any other summer blockbuster right now.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:01 PM on July 17, 2016

I liked that no one "won" a boyfriend/girlfriend at the end

Hemsworth won a sandwich!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:27 PM on July 17, 2016

I loved it. I have to go look up everything Kate McKinnon's ever done now, brb.

I looked her up in IMDB didn't really turn up much - she's in a ton of things but no roles jump out.

I guess I could watch SNL...

/shudder

(also a bunch of Venture Brothers voice acting? go Team Venture!)
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:55 AM on July 18, 2016

Oh wow, that's lovely.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:02 PM on July 18, 2016

Ghostbusters Go To Town
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:25 AM on July 19, 2016

So That’s Who You Call: The Politics of the New ‘Ghostbusters’
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:27 AM on July 19, 2016

More on the dance scene ending up in the credits - there's a longer story here, I'm sure.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:17 PM on July 20, 2016

Movie: Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens

Poor Anakin. He really needed a student.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:47 AM on March 5, 2016

The Ahsoka stuff in that show is so great... But I guess that is a different thread.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:21 PM on March 5, 2016

This is the most compelling to me. From the very first viewing of Episode VII in the theater, I noticed that Rey’s first move upon force-grabbing that lightsaber is to jab at Kylo with a horizontal stabby motion, both hands on the hilt, with a big forward shoulder thrust. This is the exact move that Palpatine uses to take the jedi off-guard when Mace Windu comes to arrest him in Revenge of the Sit

This dies rely on Abrams giving a shit about the prequels though.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:03 AM on March 23, 2016

That's true from a certain point of view.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:58 PM on March 30, 2016

Home watch with both the kids was very successful. Now we ALL Love this stupid movie.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:53 PM on April 3, 2016

Hey, do we get to welcome new people to the thread?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:43 AM on April 4, 2016

I ordered mine from Amazon DIGITAL. Go slice up a chair or whatevs.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:37 AM on April 4, 2016

And the troops are all "nope" and going the other way...
posted to FanFare by Artw at 12:37 PM on April 4, 2016

Reminds me a little of old school Space Marine power armour helmets.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 5:44 PM on April 4, 2016

According to youngest kid's schoolmate Kylo Ren is for certain Rey's dad, so that's sorted out.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:07 PM on April 6, 2016

Stay on target!
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:34 PM on April 6, 2016

Having a secret original Death Star that also blows up would be funny as hell though.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:17 AM on April 9, 2016

It's complicated.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:05 AM on May 6, 2016

That was a possibility? I'm pretty sure nothing from the prequels or the EU (or the new EU) will have any significance in the new movies.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:07 AM on May 12, 2016

I think the toe-in material will continue to be the space for intense nerdery where every single thing must tie together and everything must connect to every other thing, if that is your whole deal, but the movies are mostly going to keep it simple - also will probably bulldoze anything set up in the tie-ins or prequels with impunity.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:30 AM on May 13, 2016

That's almost more of a sign they are ignoring the EU than diligently ignoring any ground the EU has previously touched would be, TBH.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:53 AM on May 13, 2016

The kiddos watched Clone Wars long before AOTC and were fine with it. >
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:17 PM on May 25, 2016

Desplat lives his motifs - see his work with Wes Anderson.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:09 AM on May 27, 2016

I do like any opportunity to give someone spider legs, it has to be said.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 1:05 PM on May 31, 2016

Rome has always been the most prominent template. Even the Empire's Nazi stylings fit into that, what with the Nazis having their own Roman obsession.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 11:43 AM on June 15, 2016

I think the thing with Leia is she's good at this stuff, would be good at becoming a supreme leader, but doesn't want to because she knows where that leads. So she tries to reject it and yet, here she is again, leading an army.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 2:08 PM on June 15, 2016

You can tell Star Wars is fantasy because it comes in trilogies.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 9:10 AM on June 16, 2016

The untold stories of Ahsoka Tano
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:50 AM on July 15, 2016

Movie: Convoy

Note that as the sheriff begins to massively exceed his usual powers they give him a tank and a machinegun, making it a predictor of present day law enforcement.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:09 PM on June 4, 2016

I was 11 when this first came out, and I don't remember the movie at all. But I had a 45 of the song and I played it over and over and over again. I absolutely loved it.

11 year old me had some really shitty taste in music.

This is by no means the best Peckinpah movie, but it's absolutely my favorite, and has been since I was 11.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:17 PM on June 4, 2016

Movie: Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation

Come on, you know Tom wrote that, about himself.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 6:16 AM on May 19, 2016

Movie: TRON: Legacy

This is absolutely the movie I'm going to watch if I ever have to take a lot of painkillers for some reason.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:31 PM on March 21, 2016

Oblivion was slightly better, with great visuals and a nearly as good soundtrack and a moderately more engaging script, but I'd be curious to see what Joseph Kosinski could do given something with some actual meat on it.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:55 PM on March 21, 2016

Movie: The Witch

Guys.

It's clearly "The Vvitch".

Really enjoyed it, and it's pretty apparent that it's taken from period accounts even without the postscript, and thus pretty crazy on account of it.

Of course actually they were all tripping balls from ergot on the corn.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:15 PM on March 5, 2016

He will offer you the taste of butter.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:23 AM on March 21, 2016

The X-Files: Season 10 Postmortem Thread

Ironically given the ratings Season 10 is a very good argument for not bringing the X-Files back.

Thing is, we had a pretty good argument a while back the X-Files could still work in the form of Fringe. So what went right there that went wrong here?

The biggest thing I think is Fringe wasn't hampered by being a nostalgia show. It didn't have obligations to drag out a stale mythology that's no longer relevant, it could make its own crazy myths… [more]
posted to FanFare by Artw at 10:35 PM on February 22, 2016

Battlestar Galactica?
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:40 PM on February 23, 2016

Home Again does okay pretty much entirely by comparison. It's basically half an episode of "what if... Banksy?" and half boring family plot with added DNA baby woo, and barely comes together at the end - in the series proper it would have come in at the low end of the scale.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:54 PM on February 23, 2016

Gilligan is busy moving forwards, it wouldn't profit him much to go back.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 8:17 PM on February 24, 2016

Utopia did the paranoid conspiracy mashup thing so much better.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 7:53 AM on March 15, 2016

The X-Files: Babylon

Ugh. Good god is Tad O'Malley a shitty character.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 3:20 PM on February 22, 2016

Some kind of actual twist would have helped, yes. Particularly one that defeated stereotypes.
posted to FanFare by Artw at 4:30 PM on February 23, 2016