Why do LCD audiences lap this crap up like labradoodles?

Ive just noticed it in alot of professional film critics over the years. They have a hard time enjoying lowbrow stuff.



Theres nothing wrong with it, nor should anyone be embarrassed by it.

Alot of the popular stuff is driven by the teen to mid 20s Friday night/sat night crowds.

That particular audience is basically just wanting to have a good time. They dont want to have to "think".

I'm completely OK with not liking it. I like what I like. Hate the Stooges. But I love Airplane. Wanted to kill myself for the 45 minutes of Superbad I watched. Wedding Crashers is hysterical. Can't stand Mel Brooks. I've seen 90 percent of his work, and the only one I've enjoyed was the original Producers. Hate Dangerfield with such a passion it's almost holy.

Love Kennison, Pryor, early/mid-career Robin Williams (not so much the last 5-10 years), Mitch Hedberg, Steve Martin stand-up (not the early movies), early Eddie Murphy, some George Carlin...

Interesting.
Each is his own I suppose.

I'm with you on most of this, although I enjoy Carrell's, Carrey's and some of Ferrell's more standard comedies too.

Crazy Stupid Love, Dan in Real Life, and ESotSM were great movies. And Wedding Singer and Punch Drunk Love are the only Sandler movies I can stand (although I haven't seen Reign Over Me).

Reign Over Me is worth seeing if you liked Punch Drunk Love. Completely non-comedy, though.

Everything Must Go might be my favorite Ferrell movie. Next would be ELF and Anchorman. Then a couple of notches down everything else.

I did, so I will check it out.

The Campaign was OK. Worth a Redbox, probably nothing more.

The new Bourne movie was good. A bit slow but they were introducing a new character and a mildly dissimilar plot. Tension was good. Renner was good.

Watched "The Lorax" last night with the kids.

It was better than I thought it was going to be. The kids didn't really pay attention though.

it's fine if you don't like it, it doesn't make them bad though, necessarily.

Sure it does. Are you new here? :p

Carrell OWNED in The Original Bruce Almighty, Anchorman, 40 Year Old Virgin, and Little Miss Sunshine.

I really liked the lorax. It was very entertaining and i plan on renting it again.

I feel quite the opposite. I liked Stranger Than Fiction and really don't like Talladega Nights.

Stranger than Fiction is very good.

Talladega Nights was stupid

I'll be the one to drop the bombshell....



Anchorman isn't that funny.

Elf was great!

To each his own. As far as "stupid" comedies go, its at the top of the list IMO.

Some ppl just dont dig those type of comedies.

I think I posted in this thread fairly recently that I actually turned it off. "Isn't that funny" doesn't even begin to cover it.

I've only seen it once. And Steve Carrell is the funny part IMO.

Wife lives it. I hate it. Infinitely.

Carrell had a scene in Bruce Almighty where I actually had tears coming down in the theater. It was when his voice was taken over by Bruce.

Also, as far as brainless recent comedies go, Stepbrothers is a guilty pleasure. "We literally have never done any of those things."

You have to turn off your brain for all of Ferrells movies. He's the best thing since Jim Carrey though.

I just watched Hunger Games. It was good, I guess, even though it was fairly shallow and some of the characters were dumb as dirt, but I don't like the direction it takes. I'd rather we as a society not lose the taboo against showing children get killed for our entertainment.

I just got done watching this one. Pretty interesting flick with Ryan Reynolds. Definitely belongs in the "What the...?" category. Good, but not great.

Whatever happened to irishjayhawk, anyway?

If you can deal with the played out shaky cam style, this is a pretty trippy movie. It's a horror anthology (think 5 short stories). Lots of blood, guts and boobs.

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saw the new Bourne movie

it was better and worse than I expected...it was actually traveling along pretty good and then ends with what feels like the 2nd act...major anti-climax, imo

should have been about 2/3 through a good movie...

up to that point I liked how they were developing it, in spite of not being a big Renner fan, and in spite of some eye-rolling science...

Rachel Weisz was excellent, and gets hotter as she ages...

Agreed. Saw this last night, it's available on RedBox. Damn, non-stop adrenaline rush of action. Highly recommend for action fans.

Yup. Fantastic movie as far as action goes. No slow-mo bullshit -- all fast, live action.

American Reunion was good if only for the barely legal, neighbor girls tits.

American Reunion was good if only for the barely legal, neighbor girls tits.

You can stand Chris Farley? Go kill your ****ing self

I'd given up on that movie franchise. First one was funny, all went down hill from there.

I saw Red Riding Hood. It was bad, but not terrible. Gary Oldman and Julie Christie are wasted; Amanda Seyfried is really good, but the two leading men are horrible; the Wolf is actually a pretty effective Gothic-horror villain-monster.

But be warned: cliches abound. You've seen everything in this movie before.

I feel like I've seen everything in this post before.

LMAO

You know what pisses me off? Every time I think of a movie or show I would like to watch, Netflix doesn't have it on instant watch. NEVER. I think to myself all the time "Hmm, I sure would love to watch *insert movie/show here*. Maybe Netflix has it!". Nope. Never. They can sure put a million shit movies up though. **** Netflix. I'm cancelling it right now.

Rented Bernie, Hell, The Haunting of Whaley House and the Corridor.

I just watched a couple movies these past few weeks I should have seen long ago. Good Will Hunting, True Romance, The Siege, and The Score.

I know there are lots of others I need to see. First one that comes to mind is Citizen Kane and some others.

True Romance is often overlooked and under rated. Another is Kalifornia.

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Pitt was awesome at those "crazy" roles. (12 Monkeys) I'd like to see more of that. These days he's always the hero.

Watching Real Steel right now. This movie makes Transformers look like a masterpiece. It makes the Fast and the Furious storyline seem as complex as Inception.
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It's Rocky with robots.

It's good entertainment.

Watched L.A. Confidential this afternoon. Had forgotten how good a movie that was.

I pulled 16 Blocks off the shelf today.

I don't know what the masses think about the flick, but I think it is pretty well done.

Say what you want about Mos Def, but he can be effective if used correctly. I remember he was on a House episode and was really powerful. I can't imagine the movie would work with any other actor in the character.

Good flick IMO.

He was outstanding in Dexter last season.

Anyone here ever see "Felon"? It's with Stephan Dorff and Val Kilmer. Awesome jail movie.

I caught that on Netflix or Redbox a while ago. Good flick indeed.

Yup. I watches completely out of the blue on night on Netflix as well. I liked it.

Watched a 2006 film last night A Guide To Recognizing Your Saints.

Absolutely fantastic ensemble and a great drama based on a real life story.

Yeah, I've seen that. It's not bad.

I just watched this for the first time last night and it was certainly worth my time. Can't believe I'd never heard of it.

Good news. I like the flick.

I'm pretty sure most of you have seen this but just in case, those who haven't should.

Memento. Amazing movie.

Awesome movie. I was entranced through the whole thing. I remember thinking " I got this one figured out " until the end... Wowser, was I wrong LMAO

Yea, I was the same way the first time I saw it LOL

Watching an oldie but goodie.

TROLL!!

lol

Troll 2 is on netflix streaming

NILBOG MOTHER****ERS!!!!!!

Watching this show begs the question..

If there was ever such a thing as a female troll with a big rack would you **** it??

Troll with a big rack or Killer Klown with a big rack?

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...le_killers.jpg

All clowns can suck on a big penis.

Although, great movie.

I love horror flicks. always have. but I am a bit less eager when it comes to the subject of demons. I kinda want to see this....and I sorta don't want to.....
anybody seen this yet? it was originally titled The Dibbuk Box...maybe you've heard the "true story" about it.
link attached

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http://dibbukbox.com/story.htm

That movie scared me when I was young. Damn clowns.

I read a review that said it was pretty solid.
http://www.salon.com/2012/08/31/pick...e_of_the_year/

Moody and a little slow, with muted colors and a half-empty, alien-feeling suburban setting, Danish director Ole Bornedal’s “The Possession” is a nifty end-of-summer gift for horror buffs. (Understandably, the promotional campaign for this movie has emphasized producer Sam Raimi, but he didn’t write it or direct it, and it never feels much like his work.) This is a lugubrious, lovingly crafted B movie, with more than a little 1970s flavor but no arch postmodern attitude. Is it great cinema, or even a picture you’ll remember clearly this time next year? Maybe not, but “The Possession” is beautifully photographed and well cast, with Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Kyra Sedgwick as a depressed, divorced couple whose younger daughter meets a most unwelcome new friend. Furthermore, it delivers its shocks masterfully and without overkill, and offers a new twist on the familiar exorcism formula.

I’m not going to claim that there’s never been a Jewish-themed demonic-possession movie before, since that’s probably not true — every arcane corner of human religious and spiritual belief has been plumbed by horror screenwriters at some point. (In fact, I dimly recollect a Judeo-centric parody of “The Exorcist,” released on LP, that my big brother owned. Anyone?) Here, writers Juliet Snowden and Stiles White take the genuine concept of the “Dybbuk box,” demonic containers made of ornamented wood sometimes found in the 18th- and 19th-century shtetls of Eastern Europe, and run with it. More interesting still is Bornedal’s portrayal of the Hasidic community in Brooklyn’s Borough Park neighborhood, where Morgan’s stricken dad finally finds a rabbi’s renegade son – played by Matisyahu, the ex-Hasid alt-rock artist – to help cast out the evil one.

By the time Em (Natasha Calis), a girl of 9 or 10, picks out the odd-looking box at a suburban garage sale, we already know it’s extremely bad news, thanks to an actual 1970s prologue sequence. We also know that Em and her older sister Hannah (Madison Davenport) are suffering through their parents’ dreary divorce, which has exiled Clyde (Morgan), their shaggy basketball-coach dad, to a brand-new house in a distant outer suburb and led their thin-lipped mother, Stephanie (Sedgwick), to shack up with an irritatingly cheerful orthodontist (Grant Show). I have the feeling that I’ve seen the orthodontist-as-inadequate-stepfather gag played out before, in other divorce movies, but it still works. I apologize in advance to all those who practice this noble and helpful profession, but doesn’t the very idea – “Mom’s dating a guy who puts braces on kids’ teeth!” – conjure up your inner sixth-grader? (Wait till you see what the imprisoned Dybbuk has in store for him!)

That atmosphere of faint but persistent gloom, along with the underplayed performances of Morgan and Sedgwick, a pair of genuine movie pros, constitutes the true heart of the picture. (The photography, most of it in blues and grays, is by Dan Laustsen, who also shot Bornedal’s delicious noir thriller “Just Another Love Story.”) Movies about demons usually have to choose between psychological and supernatural explanations, but this one insists on both. The muttering entity in the box, which first manifests itself as swarms of oversize moths, is real enough in this movie’s universe – but it can only gain access to Em’s mind and body because she’s vulnerable and unhappy. If I really wanted to, I could construct an argument that “The Possession” has a right-wing, family-values agenda: Don’t get divorced, or the Jewish boogeyman will get your kids! Well, maybe I buy into that agenda, because my reaction to that is advice readers frequently offer me: Chillax, man! It’s just a movie!

Given the understated mood of the picture, Bornedal doesn’t try to stage big, gruesome shocker moments, or for that matter fake shocks designed to make you jump. There’s minimal gore (although I gather the movie was cut down to garner a PG-13 rating), and the movie’s power comes from an inexorable grinding fear that’s very much reality-based, the terror that just as unseen forces ate away Clyde and Stephanie’s love for each other, now something else is eating their daughter. “I feel funny,” Em tells her father during a moment of clarity. “I don’t feel like me.” While “The Possession” is no blindingly original reinvention of horror formula or anything, I found it an intensely creepy invocation of parental fears, with a nifty climax staged in the hallways and basements of a hospital.

I’d have to agree with the sentiment that if you’ve seen one exorcism sequence in a horror movie you’ve pretty much seen them all. This one builds nicely toward two tripped-out final twists, and features the immensely agreeable Matisyahu as Tzadok, a street-wise Hasid who blends his dad’s Old World wisdom with a little NYC hip-hop attitude. As Tzadok explains to the thoroughly goyish Clyde with a certain relish, he has an obligation to violate the Sabbath and get into Clyde’s car, because a human life is at stake. Your obligation, on the other hand, is to catch “The Possession” this weekend with appropriately mixed expectations – and then not to buy the cool-looking box with Hebrew writing on it at the Labor Day garage sale.

Just watched Inglorious Bastards again. I remember liking it before, but I don't remember guffawing st Pitt's performance like I did this time. May have caught me in the right mood, but damn it was funny.

I watched it too for the first time. Great movie. Although the part right before Shoshanna was killed kind of pissed me off. I hate scenes in movies where a good person starts feeling sympathy for an obvious bad guy.

i had the same reaction, the second time around was quite different.

I know I will get crapped on for saying this, but I found the love story plotline so boring. Take that away and the movie is nearly perfect. The bar scene was my favorite scene for the year.

Mrs. FMB! and I saw Lawless last night. We both enjoyed it. Very violent, but very well acted and just beautifully shot. I've come to expect stellar performances from Tom Hardy, Guy Pearce, and Gary Oldman (though underused in this character). And Mia Wasikowska has turned in a number of fine performances since she hit the spotlight a few years ago, but I've really got to give it to Shai LaBeouf. If he can continue on his path to find better scripts and branch out, he may actually be a pretty good actor. He turned in a memorable and moving performance.

Excellent. I was hoping it was good. I must see this.

caught up on a few movies the past week or 2

The Grey - sucked ****ing balls. I really don't understand how writers/directors do not know what hypothermia is and how you can get it. Plus everything else about it sucked. Liam Neeson should be ashamed.

The Hunger Games - eh, not terrible. Never read the books.

American Reunion - better than I thought it would be I guess.

Im a little late on this one, but i dont know if any of you have seen the prestige, but i rented it a few weeks ago and bought it last night. After a second viewing it might be my favorite film.

I thought it was pretty good but after you watch it the second time you see all the foreshadowing and you get the little twists.

Hugh jackman did great, bale was exceptional. Michael cane was good as always. Scarlett johannson is sexy. Did i mention sexy?

A masterpiece by nolan IMO

Great movie. If you haven't watched it, do

Coincidentally, this is the only movie to my knowledge that my mother in law and I both like.

Pitt was so awesome in that movie. Hes turned into a hell of an actor.

Im really looking forward to this.

PTA is a stud

Just watched this again. Enjoyed it even more this time around. Agree that it's not a great movie, but still one that I find myself drawn to. The music, the acting, and the pacing. Plus I love Nobody.