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Also it's a dramatic shift in tone and structure from the other reviews, even from someone who likes CR, it was completely out of left field. It's a movie review not a college essay, use a god drat contraction.
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Judge Clayjar posted:i've never heard the word quondam before, and ive heard a lot of god dang words my friend. It's one of the first results on a basic thesaurus.com search for "former" and is also the one of most obscure of the results. It really was a toss-up as to whether we'd see it or "whilom" in the review.
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Nucular Carmul posted:Also it's a dramatic shift in tone and structure from the other reviews, even from someone who likes CR, it was completely out of left field. It's a movie review not a college essay, use a god drat contraction.
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James Hardon posted:This is a comedy website and the writers are welcome to use all the big words they like provided they enhance jokes, of which there are none in this or any other edition of Current Releases hth. That's unfair. Your boy g0m wrote that review that had y'all in stitches!
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Judge Clayjar posted:i've never heard the word quondam before, and ive heard a lot of god dang words my friend. What about squamous? Have you heard that one? Not read it, anyone with any exposure to H. P. Lovecraft will have read it. But have you ever actually heard someone drop "squamous" into a conversation?
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johntfs posted:What about squamous? Have you heard that one? Not read it, anyone with any exposure to H. P. Lovecraft will have read it. But have you ever actually heard someone drop "squamous" into a conversation?
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CloseFriend posted:I admit, it's a fair point. I'll work on it. Language bitching aside, you done talked me into seeing it when it passes through the local arthouse.
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Keanu Grieves posted:Funny you should mention that. Salah writes Lovecraftian slash fiction on the side: The Strange Cock of Charles Dexter Ward, Sluts in the Walls, From Behind... Grand Prize Winner posted:Language bitching aside, you done talked me into seeing it when it passes through the local arthouse.
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CloseFriend posted:Cthulhu moaned, hornily. "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits wet dreaming."
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Senior Woodchuck posted:It works for me, but I wish it hadn't. actually, killing a newborn baby is looked down upon by most people regardless of their political views
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Do people seriously not look up words they don't know? I thought that was like the one thing they still taught in school.CopywrightMMXI posted:If you think this week's bad, look at September's release schedule. There's no wide release that looks like it'll stand out for the next few weeks. We could have funny reviews if someone on the CR team ends up seeing the new Atlas Shrugged movie though. At least Box Trolls comes out at the end of the month. That one should be good. I watched one Atlas Shrugged movie, and that's all the Atlas Shrugged movies I need for a lifetime. Then again, lately it seems like every time I say "I'm not seeing that movie," I wind up seeing that movie. It just happened two weeks in a row. So look forward to my review of Atlas Shrugged 3, I guess is what I'm saying.
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Keanu Grieves posted:Funny you should mention that. Salah writes Lovecraftian slash fiction on the side: The Strange Cock of Charles Dexter Ward, Sluts in the Walls, From Behind... And is that strange cock squamous? Of course it is.
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I just felt like it was worth commemorating the first ever dickless week of Current Releases. Keep up the good work, ladies. Male film critics are terrible and we need less of them. On actual content, they were really pushing The Identical at Nashville this year and I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who thought the premise sounded bizarrely stupid. Keeping an eye out for The One I Love.
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Some Guy TT posted:I just felt like it was worth commemorating the first ever dickless week of Current Releases. Keep up the good work, ladies. Male film critics are terrible and we need less of them. Some Guy TT posted:On actual content, they were really pushing The Identical at Nashville this year and I'm glad to see I'm not the only person who thought the premise sounded bizarrely stupid. Keeping an eye out for The One I Love.
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Some Guy TT posted:I just felt like it was worth commemorating the first ever dickless week of Current Releases. Keep up the good work, ladies. Male film critics are terrible and we need less of them. TwistedLadder posted:We vagina-havers do our best. (Sincerely, thanks.)
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"Hmmm, I wonder what's on tap for Current Releases this week, hopefully some good reviews!"Page 1 posted:...I guess any step away from the politics of Taken is a good thing. Page 2 posted:It's tasteless and serves little purpose but to poke fun at a man in a dress... Page 3 posted:I am so tired of these types of films, wherein a well-off white person... I don't know when Current Releases became a pissing contest over who could be the most outraged at socio-political issues in a friggin' movie review column, but it's becoming close to unreadable. Give me Prof. Clumsy and his dongs any day of the week- at least he showed some self-awareness and humor. get that OUT of my face fucked around with this message at 17:39 on Sep 28, 2014 |
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Y-Hat posted:"Hmmm, I wonder what's on tap for Current Releases this week, hopefully some good reviews!" "They are outraged, this is an outrage. I am outraged." What a vicious cycle.
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I know, it's almost like we care or something. What the gently caress, guys?
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Jay Dub posted:I know, it's almost like we care or something. What the gently caress, guys? Sorry, Boss. The Tumblrs done corrupted me.
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TheBigBudgetSequel posted:Sorry, Boss. The Tumblrs done corrupted me. Get back in your box.
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I've seen so many 30 second commercials for The Skeleton Twins but none of them gave me any indication about what the movie was about, except maybe a zany romcom where Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig are maybe friends who realize they're in love. The actual plot makes me think it's something I'll actually watch. I'm also kind of disappointed about The Boxtrolls but I do feel like all the previews I've seen for it, it didn't seem to really click for me the way I got excited for ParaNorman or Coraline.
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Y-Hat posted:Give me Prof. Clumsy and his dongs any day of the week- at least he showed some self-awareness and humor. I too miss Professor Clumsy (I like all the current writers too!). Though I hated the movie, his review of Only God Forgives got me to re-watch it and while I still dislike it, I can appreciate it for what it is. I hope he comes back.
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Jay Dub posted:I know, it's almost like we care or something. What the gently caress, guys? Shut up you little weenie.
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Jay Dub posted:I know, it's almost like we care or something. What the gently caress, guys? Ha! Gay!
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Chairman Capone posted:I've seen so many 30 second commercials for The Skeleton Twins but none of them gave me any indication about what the movie was about, except maybe a zany romcom where Bill Hader and Kristin Wiig are maybe friends who realize they're in love. The actual plot makes me think it's something I'll actually watch. TwistedLadder is right, this is a movie worth hunting down. (You're right, thought, the marketing is atrocious.)
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The BoxTrolls Review posted:Tumblr is already seething about this, and after seeing it, I cannot blame them. The BoxTrolls, the new cartoon from the studio that put a cool gay jock character in their last children's movie, has been accused of anti-progressive thoughtcrime by Tumblr, the subculture that even progressives laugh at. And you know what? They're right. lol
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I can confirm that Skeleton Twins is really, really, really good. It's a really smart and funny movie about depression.
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The real problem with The Boxtrolls isn't some cliche jokes about a drag show, it's that it fails to follow through on it's revolutionary narrative. It's a story about systemic oppression but it's main villain, Archibald Snatcher, is merely the symptom of this system, not the cause. He is driven to madness by his desire to belong to the exclusive cheese-eating, bourgeois, white hat society. He thinks that by killing all the boxtrolls, who have been forced underground by this society, he will belong and become a part of the elite. Even though the very cheese he dreams of eating literally poisons him. Without absolving him of his genocidal actions, Archibald is himself a victim of capitalism. But his defeat is painted as a grand victory. When in actuality the system that created him is still in place, only that the boxtrolls are now participating in it. Although the propaganda drag show was pretty funny and I don't get why it's offensive.
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Vargo posted:TwistedLadder is right, this is a movie worth hunting down. (You're right, thought, the marketing is atrocious.) I went back and watched a trailer for the Skeleton Twins after seeing the movie, and the movie advertised is decidedly not the film I saw in the theater.
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TrixRabbi posted:The real problem with The Boxtrolls isn't some cliche jokes about a drag show, it's that it fails to follow through on it's revolutionary narrative. It's a story about systemic oppression but it's main villain, Archibald Snatcher, is merely the symptom of this system, not the cause. He is driven to madness by his desire to belong to the exclusive cheese-eating, bourgeois, white hat society. He thinks that by killing all the boxtrolls, who have been forced underground by this society, he will belong and become a part of the elite. Even though the very cheese he dreams of eating literally poisons him. Oh for sure
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axleblaze posted:I can confirm that Skeleton Twins is really, really, really good. It's a really smart and funny movie about depression. Yeah, we loved it. Wiig and Hader's performances are just really great. Hader's sucide note is also a nice opener for the film. Anybody here who gets a chance to see it, please do.
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Jay Dub posted:I know, it's almost like we care or something. What the gently caress, guys? And I gotta agree with the person who laughed at the sentence about Tumblr. This is a community that took a couple of months to warm up to Frozen (no temperature pun intended) over concerns about it potentially being "problematic," whatever the gently caress that means.
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I think it's perfectly fair to talk about trans representation in Boxtrolls (the old "man in dress deceiving men into sex" gag was lovely way back in Ace Ventura and it's lovely now), but waving vaguely towards an entire social network (which doesn't even represent a singular community with a homogenous perspective on this stuff) is a silly way to back it up.
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Y-Hat posted:"problematic," whatever the gently caress that means. It means that there may be problems or negative aspects to the thing being described, aspects that should be thought about and discussed, possibly mocked and even argued against. This is both fun and good.
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I guest-starred on the Secret of the Sailor Madness this week, talking about A Goofy Movie. Here's a link to me and two Irish guys explaining why A Goofy Movie is great for over an hour. Listen to it, fools: http://secretofthesailormadness.blogspot.ie/2014/09/show-80-mahwty-mahwty-wake-up.html There's even a bit where we talk about the relevance of Goofy dressing as a woman for a brief second. So there you go. Topical.
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Vargo posted:I guest-starred on the Secret of the Sailor Madness this week, talking about A Goofy Movie. Here's a link to me and two Irish guys explaining why A Goofy Movie is great for over an hour. Listen to it, fools: http://secretofthesailormadness.blogspot.ie/2014/09/show-80-mahwty-mahwty-wake-up.html (0 Comments)
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Triticum Guzzler posted:I'm glad you don't get paid Getting called slurs for homosexual people is all the payment I need!
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