Deadpool was everything I hoped it would be. I'm so happy Ryan Reynolds finally got a break. He's fucking adorable, even when he's all scarred up.

Any movie with pegging being depicted as something that isn't going to destroy a person's masculinity is a good movie.

Ashnod wrote:

Saw Jem & the Holograms tonight.

I loved it. Not even in an ironic sense.

I know it's not a great film.

Still loved it.

Would have seen the sequel that they will never make now.

I would be very interested in hearing why you liked it, because I was already angry with it before the first trailer even appeared.

Giovanna wrote:

Deadpool was everything I hoped it would be. I'm so happy Ryan Reynolds finally got a break. He's fucking adorable, even when he's all scarred up.

Any movie with pegging being depicted as something that isn't going to destroy a person's masculinity is a good movie.

I have yet to hear a bad review from anyone who's watched it. Hopefully, I can work it into my schedule Tuesday.

The points you gave are perfectly valid reasons for liking it. I think that if it had been packaged as its own movie instead of slapping Jem's name on it, I would be more likely to give it a shot.

Ashnod wrote:

1. Enjoyed the Jem as accidental internet celebrity angle. Makes sense to me for the era.
2. Liked that Synergy and the hologram technology was present in the narrative in some form.
3. I liked the interplay between the actresses for the four sisters.
4. Enjoyed a lot of the soundtrack.
5. Liked that this was set up, cliche as it may be, as more of a prequel to something larger.

Even the incidental music is really charming. And, that really was some great sibling dynamics, especially compared to how much most Hollywood flicks fall back on the same basic sitcom sibling patterns.

I like that it plays well for kids, mostly. First rule of kids movies, for me, is always: see it with kids.

Someone was talking about an Expendables for horror icons, again, and so I'm rewatching Wishmaster (with Robert Englund, Buck Flower, Angus Scrimm, Hodder Kane, et al)  and realizing that action movies were, essentially, the only genre that hadn't had those sort of get-the-old-leads-big-guns-together flicks, probably because real action movies are, really, a fairly young genre. (Which, I'm arbitrarily going to say Leigh Brackett and Howard Hawks invented, or distinguished from adventure movies.)

Thinking of Secretary and how, for all the received wisdom that adaptations are lesser forms and water everything down, some things could use a little water. Things grow with water. Other things get mercy-killed with water.

I watched The Green Mile for the first time.

The funny thing is I was not aware what novel it had been adapted from, but as I was watching it I began thinking, damn this is SO Stephen King, but it's definitely not by him. And then the credits rolled and I did a double take. XD But the 'we are all walking our own green mile' at the end made me roll ym eyes so hard they almost popped out of my skull.

It's alright...I mean, it feels like this amazing movie while watching but when you think about it, it isn't all that deep? People are split into 'good' or 'bad' categories...you don't ever find out what any of the 'good' prisoners did to get the death sentence. The 'bad' ones (Percy and the nutso prisoner) are waaayyy too cartoon-villain and have no depth at all. They have not one single redeeming quality between them. Jon Koffy (sp?) has the most lack of depth, being just a simpleton with a gift. And in the end the most important thing is that the main (white) character has bad feels for what happened to Koffy. Of course there are no women worth mentioning and I'm pretty sure the movie doesn't pass the Bechdel test - although the two ladies might have shared a line or two during that one lunch. No fault of the movie - this reeks of Stephen King storytelling.

I feel awful admitting this but the one character in The Green Mile that I truly connected with was the rat. I was rooting for the rat the whole time...other than I remember precious little, to be honest. I seem to recall its trying very hard to be How To Kill A Mockingbird but with zero nuance.

I think you should also watch The Shawshank Redemption for comparison, which is also a Stephen King movie/book set in a prison.

So, lots of movies have got our basic human conditions down: feeling in love, feeling scared, etc. But, some movies make you feel the effects, perfectly, of more specific situations. Gregg Araki's Smiley Face makes me feel stoned, watching it. It's like eighty minutes of being stoned. Scorsese's Bringing Out the Dead makes me feel burnt out, watching it; it's immediately exhausting and then pushes through exhaustion into that slipstream of moment-to-moment coping and drained-ness.

Any good suggestions for movies that make you really feel some of those more precise scenarios?

Ashnod wrote:

Are you the Japanese Sandman?

I am the Japanese Sandman.

(And, I am, once again, watching Walker, which is reminding me why I love acid westerns, Alex Cox, Marlee Matlin, and Ed Harris so much. Beautifully smart movie. As relevant today as it was then and in the period the film takes place in.)

Movies I watched in theaters more than four times:

All three Lord of the Rings
Star Trek Beyond

I've never seen such a horribly managed marketing and release campaign for a movie that was actually really good, and I hope to god they don't bail on the whole thing with the nuTreks on account of its 'failure', now that they finally found their stride. (Can you call a movie that's made $300 million so far a failure, when you released it a god damn week before Suicide Squad so it was only on IMAX for a week and also forgot to tell anyone at all it was coming out, despite it being Trek's 50th anniversary?)

Can Yorktown please exist? Someday? Can I be frozen in a block of ice (hey I do live in Canada) until it does? Of course not. ...But since such large scale human ambition and ingenuity is the stuff of Rivendell-like fantasy, can we also throw in Kirk so I can suffocate him with my vagina?