A Quiet Passion, Emily Dickinson bio. Really good, but not a date movie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2392830/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_6

Not yet.

96% on RT last I checked.

92% this morning. Sinking like a rock! JK

Actually, I am shocked and disappointed it is PG-13! I can't even tell you how much that punctures my interest in seeing it.

Whoa! GET OUT is at 99%!

Something's wrong with the aggregator if so many movies are getting 90%+. Seriously. I question their statistics.

They posted a "best superhero movies" list a while back, and it boggled my mind. Logan was #1 with a score of, like, 92% and Dark Knight was #2 with a score of 94%. And they were ranking purely by score. I didn't get it, then I realized they were using an "adjusted score" to determine the rank, which, I imagine, creates sort of a z-score for the films, and balances out variables like the amount of time a movie has been out, and adjusts movies with fewer reviews to make them comparable side-by-side to movies with more reviews. Which is REALLT stupid for an "all-time" list, and will almost always guarantee that the most popular movie at the time is at the top.

So Logan had an "adjusted score" of 94.54 or something and Dark Knight had an adjusted score of 94.48 or something, and so the movie with a decade of precedent-setting history, voted the best movie of the millennium by twitter users, that is STILL turning up in reviews of every comic-based movie you read because of how influential it was came in second behind the only Wolverine movie that didn't totally suck nards -- a movie that's 6 months old and is still in its sizzle phase, but didn't win any Oscars and didn't change shit.

Stupid fucking site.

Oh, and they re-published the list after Wonder Woman came out, and guess what? It was #2. Same deal as before. Dark Knight had the highest score of any film in the "genre" and it's in third place. Wonder Woman was good too! But ... come the fuck on RT.

Also, the Room has like 36%, which seems awfully high for the "worst movie ever made." Really. Something's up with that fucking site.

DARK KNIGHT! CHRIS NOLAN! FUCK YOU, BUTTHOLES!

Also, all of Nolan's movies have been PG-13 since the first Batman. Insomnia was his last R-rated picture. Not sure why you're surprised. Wasn't Saving Private Ryan PG-13 as well?

Anyway I really want to see Dunkirk but I have nobody to see it with. Nobody's interested. Fuckers.

Why do you need a nanny for the movies. Wanna see something just go and see it. Sheesh.

Well, my girlfriend of almost a decade is heading out in a soul-searching RV trip. She usually comes to movies with me. It's been like 7 years since I saw a movie without her. So it's a little rough just now.

:( Going through some shit, Slambang.

And my fucking dog has cancer. (Fuck you're face, God!) :mad:

Being someone who writes (marginally) in the film culture, I can't tell you how much I kinda hate aggregate sites like this and metacritic. Beyond all the "adjustments" you mentioned, sites such as these leave no room for the middlebrow effect. For example, if a publishing site or critic have slight reservations about a film but give it just enough oomph to recommend it, the quota goes into the favorable column. Basically, a 2 1/2 star film on the age-old scale of 1-4 will fall into the favorable column. This doesn't seem like 96% favorable to me, at times.

Think back on the reviews of Ebert and countless other critics who gave films that queasy 2 1/2 star review. Their opinion could teeter either way, giving it a slight edge for cinematography, the auteur theory director push, or some unseen guilty pleasure that they'd make sure and express in eloquent ways. This wasn't always a shining recommendation. Being kind, maybe. Basically, we've lost the most valuable quotient of discussion and rhetoric and replaced it with blurbs.

I know know.... old man kids get off my lawn. I"m done now. If it gets people to see movies, I'm all for it.

How do they assign points to stuff without a star system or whatever, like New Yorker? Seems really subjective.


Of course it wasn't. Would you let a 13 year old watch that?


I don't want a PG-13 war film any more than I want an R rated porno. A PG-13 war film suggests a wussy vision of hell.


Fun! I had to put down a cat cause of cancer. Good times! Glad I took photos at the vet's office so I can experience that joy over and over. Really, one of the best parts of life is losing a best friend who loves you unconditionally for no good reason at all.

O man. Thats all kinds of fucked up. I thought she had already gone. But the dog--awful news. My cat died last year. Terrible. I know how it feels. Sorry man.

Anyway just go on a matinee and dont make it a "date". It's just a movie.

She was going to go at the end of May, then it became the end of June, now it's the end of July. Made for a summer of constantly bracing for impact that never seems to come, but she's moved most of her stuff into storage at this point, and it's not going to be much longer. :(

The dog... god fucking dammit. I suck at losing pets. Lost my childhood dog when I went off to college. He got sick about a month after I left, and 3 months later I got a call. Fucked my entire life up. I've lost one rescue dog and one cat since, and while I still have my cat from 2006, who's crossed the country with me and been a really healing presence (he's, like, my best friend), my dog is going to be irreplaceable. Not looking forward to what comes next.

You'd think losing pets would get easier as you get older, but it doesn't. I think it actually gets harder.

Yeah, I'll go to a matinee or something.

John Carter

This was savaged by the critics and flopped at the box office (I think). There is loads wrong with it but it's become a real guilty pleasure.

I thought John Carter was pretty cool! Like Tron on Mars!

i've been on a movie kick lately, especially sci fi.

cloud atlas - no idea why this was panned, i thought it was brilliant

the arrival - charlie sheen in an alien movie? kind of terrible, but not too bad

american dreams - cool flick on netflix. girl on farm finds a dude locked up in a silo.

butter - fuckin funny. comedy about a mid-west state fair butter sculpture competition

safety not guaranteed - i'll admit, the clincher for trying this movie was aubrey plaza. not a bad flick. ending was a little cheesy.

a scanner darkly - the list of actors was off putting, but it is philip k dick so i tried it anyway. glad i did.

^ i liked cloud atlas too

what's offputting about scanner darkly's cast? name some names

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anyway last movie i watched was...

MONKEY BUSINESS

which was old and arrived by surprise but was actually very funny. cary grant and ginger rogers and some monkeys are in it.

it actually had a serious philosophical point to make about the impossibility of eternal youth but so well wrapped in comedy it seemed like some classical greek farce.

is it a classical greek farce?

anyway, very good

oh yes marylin monroe is in it unfortunately playing an annoying dumb blonde. it's a small part

here's a poster i guess:

watched this bad boy again.

and my wife and I watched Rogue One on the Netflix. I liked it even more without the 3-D Imax bullshit that I saw it on the opening night.

SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING

Good for a Spider-Man movie. Tons of fun. Wish I'd seen Dunkirk. Girlfriend didn't want to though, and this was kind of our last night out. :(

Fuck.

Watched Valerian. If you get a chance to see it 3d it is pretty spectacular. Pretty bad dialog and overly cutsie characters, though, kind of like Star Wars on stevia :lol: