Like the new hip hop song that has generated some controversy. They are clearly going for pornographic, but all they achieved was gross.
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Comedy seemed to have gone through, or is going through a phase where they mistake discomfort for comedy. Sometimes it works (Most times with Michael Scott on the Office), most times it doesn’t (Andy Bernard on The Office, or most Will Ferrel movies).
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It was more graphic and vulgar than what I’m accustomed to with regard to superhero movies, but I admit that I’m not a huge fan to begin with. It had plenty of swearing, and was pretty liberal with the bloodshed. Most of the Marvel movies I’ve seen in the past were more family friendly.
I may be the only person here, or on earth for that matter, that likes Norbit. Hell, I may be the only person here who has seen Norbit.
Margot Robbie though. I’m usually not a big fan of blondes, but she does it for me.
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Yeah, I guess I meant in terms of story. I don’t think the gore/language add much to the film. I guess they don’t detract too much either, other than as a bit of a distraction. I think some people loved the movie simply because it was rated R, which doesn’t make much sense to me.
My friend Mike starred in Troll 2, which is on a lot of worst movie lists. It’s not even a sequel to Troll (starring Julia Louise-Dreyfus) in fact it doesn’t even feature a single Troll. Somehow they got the naming rights and it was largely forgotten until Troll was released on DVD and they decided to bundle Troll 2 with it in the early 2000s and it developed a bit of a cult movie status.
Mike was super embarrassed of it in high school. Once somebody recognized him as the kid from Troll 2 when we were roaming around Lagoon (as davis county kids in the 90s would do) and he looked like he was going to die. After Troll 2 started getting a cult following he embraced it and made an excellent documentary about it called Best Worst Movie (check it out on Netflix).
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Battlefield Earth was pretty bad. Yeah the aliens wiped out the world’s air forces in a few minutes, but a few crop-duster pilots were able to defeat those same aliens. That’s believable.
Blair Witch Project.
I think profanity can make a film feel more realistic, depending on the film and context. Try watching a censored for TV version of Goodfellas, and you’ll know exactly what I mean. Wolverine is violent as hell by nature, so the cursing certainly doesn’t detract from the character.
Nudity also can lend authenticity in some circumstances. I don’t watch movies for boobs, at least not nowadays, but sometimes a lack of it can take me out of a scene. For example, in “Knocked Up” Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl are having sex when she stops and comments how gross she feels, specifically that her boobs are flopping all over like National Geographic. This is a Judd Apatow movie, which means nudity is a surety, so the fact that she isn’t topless during a planned sex scene is already weird. Her making that comment when she’s wearing a bra completely kills the illusion that a movie should create.
Of course, there’s always a fine line when it comes to sex, violence, and profanity. Crossing it can make a film seem hokey, but I would definitely argue that each of these serve a purpose at times.
Sure, though for a comic book action movie, I don’t think it matters at all. It’s a fantasy genre, so realism is out from the beginning. I think some people were fooled into thinking it was good because of the gore/language.
I have seen Goodfellas on TV, and the censored language doesn’t bother me. Either the movie is good based on story/acting/dialogue, or it’s not. If it’s not, the added realism of a lot of language can’t rescue it. If it is, the lack of realism in the form of clean language doesn’t detract much.
Rocker, yes, I was confusing Wolverine and Logan. The former, I think, has the best single action scene of any of the x-men movies (a low bar) with the wedding scene.
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Never saw American Beauty, but I did see another Oscar favorite - the Facebook Movie. That was not great to start with, but I imagine it now feels super dated in addition to being lame.
At the behest of my wonderful wife, I spent two weeks one afternoon in a theater watching academy award winning “Out Of Africa”. I spent the whole time waiting for something, anything to happen. It never did.
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I remember being bored stiff in the theater “watching” Out of Africa with my parents. I think your two weeks is about four too short.
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Funny story related to Out of Africa. At the time my sister was engaged and her future husband’s parents were living in Nigeria at the time. His dad worked as a project manager for a company building chemical plants all around the world. My mother was at the theater to see Out of Africa. Earlier in the week the Box Elder New & Journal had run my sister’s engagement announcement, common at the time, where it didn’t have a picture of her fiance but did say he was the son of “Mr. and Mrs. X of Lagos, Nigeria.” On her way out of the theater a local minister said he’d seen the announcement, followed by, “It seems like this boy she’s marrying has an interesting background.” My mother said, “We don’t call him boy.”
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Almost any Adam Sandler movie. Happy Gilmore was tolerable and I hear
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Uncut Gems is pretty good