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Coming Soon (New Movies)

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BigWoof31 said:
Has anyone seen this yet?
I've read you either love it or totally hate it.
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I don't watch Paul Feig movies, so I won't be seeing it.

The movie reviewers at Collider Videos, whom I trust the most, were pretty much uniform in saying that it didn't suck, but that it wasn't very good. They felt Leslie Jones had the best performance while Kate McKinnon was completely out of place in the movie.
 
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LostLassie said:
This hot mess...


So the eleven Oscar '59 version wasn't good enough for them, huh? OK. Maybe next they can take on Casablanca.

Props to the new team for upgrading the tired old dialogue, anyway. "Are we having fun yet, brother?" Ah, poetry.
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I'm not against the idea of a new version in this case since the producers stated they wanted to make a more faithful rendition of the novel, which was published in 1880.

Trailer does make one question if they have done so.
 
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buckeyegrad said:
I'm not against the idea of a new version in this case since the producers stated they wanted to make a more faithful rendition of the novel, which was published in 1880.

Trailer does make one question if they have done so.
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Not sure it's exactly a faithful rendition, maybe more a faith-full one? The article I read had Ben-Hur forgiving Messala, whom they've turned into an adopted brother rather than a childhood friend. Don't see much evidence of that in the original. The article also alluded to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Sounded to me like they were looking to capitalize more on that market.
 
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I watched Suicide Squad. I generally like comic book movies even when bad, but I couldn't wait for this one to end. It is difficult for me to explain, but every single moment in the movie seemed contrived, and poorly executed. And I have no idea what the story was supposed to be.
 
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LostLassie said:
Not sure it's exactly a faithful rendition, maybe more a faith-full one? The article I read had Ben-Hur forgiving Messala, whom they've turned into an adopted brother rather than a childhood friend. Don't see much evidence of that in the original. The article also alluded to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Sounded to me like they were looking to capitalize more on that market.
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I have not read the novel, but it is more faith-full than the original movie it inspired. The novel has been rated as the most influential Christian book of the 19th Century and it was the first work of fiction to be blessed by the Pope.
 
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LostLassie said:
Not sure it's exactly a faithful rendition, maybe more a faith-full one? The article I read had Ben-Hur forgiving Messala, whom they've turned into an adopted brother rather than a childhood friend. Don't see much evidence of that in the original. The article also alluded to Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ. Sounded to me like they were looking to capitalize more on that market.
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Speaking of a certain market, did anyone watch God is not Dead or its sequel?
 
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kinch said:
Speaking of a certain market, did anyone watch God is not Dead or its sequel?
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Also, on this note, "Left Behind." They both make out atheists to be idiots in a way that has never happened once in reality, and assume stupidity at all times. It is telling.

My favorite part of Left Behind (yeah I read the book, and one or two more, for laughs) was that scientists, because scientists are so dumb, assumed that half the world disappeared due to radiation or something. Something so stupid and infantile only a zealot could read it without laughing.
 
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kinch said:
Also, on this note, "Left Behind." They both make out atheists to be idiots in a way that has never happened once in reality, and assume stupidity at all times. It is telling.

My favorite part of Left Behind (yeah I read the book, and one or two more, for laughs) was that scientists, because scientists are so dumb, assumed that half the world disappeared due to radiation or something. Something so stupid and infantile only a zealot could read it without laughing.
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My mom has the series. I actually read the beginning part of the first book where people magically vanished and everyone was perplexed as to why. And I stopped. Kirk Cameron hates both of us.
 
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In the same vein as Best in Show, Wating for Guffman, and A Mighty Wind.....the new mockumentary from Christopher Guest

Guaranteed to be quirky and rife with obnoxious characters.
 
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