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teen witch posted:I really, truly, do not want to watch Lady in the Water, but I love the Paul Giamatti voice so much. I haven't seen about half of the movies they've covered, and I still listen to all of them. They sum up everything well enough to follow along.
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Jul 11, 2016 13:44
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The Happening is a really, really funny movie with some clever direction. It comes across as a bad xerox of Hitchcock and I firmly believe it's meant to not be taken seriously. Strong recommend.
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I'm about halfway through the Lady in the Water and I'm excited for the episode and angry that I'm pressing on with it. Normally I do a quick wiki read-through but I feel that I get a bit more out of podcast by watching it.
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Cyron posted:have the guys said if there will be a on-screen of ghostbusters 2016? i love to hear what they think of the movie since A) they think a idea of a ghostbuster 3 or reboot is a wraste of time and B) a review from fat nerds who won't judge it because of vaginas.
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Evil Mastermind posted:Is Ghostbusters coming out during their summer break, or is that next month? The movie is coming out this week. The summer break is August. I also asked them if this was the live episode they did a while ago and it is not.
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bobkatt013 posted:The movie is coming out this week. The summer break is August. I also asked them if this was the live episode they did a while ago and it is not.
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Their outrage at M. Night playing the savior of humanity in his own film is incredible and totally justified. e: Welcome back to What's Happening, the podcast about The Happening
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precision posted:e: Welcome back to What's Happening, the podcast about The Happening They should do a bunch of podcast pilots a la Andy Daly with that and the Bee Movie podcast and whatever else they've mentioned. Which movie had the podcast they made up where every episode focuses on a single minute of the film in sequence?
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egon_beeblebrox posted:I haven't seen about half of the movies they've covered, and I still listen to all of them. They sum up everything well enough to follow along. yea there's no reason a human should have to watch Lady in the Water
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Jul 11, 2016 21:41
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The only time I've gone out to watch a WHM choice before I listened to the podcast was for Hard Target and Brainscan. Those were both solid decisions, but I would not recommend anyone watch Lady In The Water
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Jul 11, 2016 21:43
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I would absolutely recommend watching The Lady in the Water because no words can ever possibly inform you of how much of a weird, horrible trainwreck of a film it is. It's non-cinema. It's not a film.
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From what I remember, Lady in the Water is a M. Night Shyamalan movie, co-starring M. Night Shyamalan, about why M. Night Shyamalan is great. And the villain is called a "narf" or something because M. Night Shyamalan clearly wasn't watching Pinky and the Brain in the '90s.
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Chris Cabin is back next week!! 
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Is Lady in the Water at least funny like The Happening? The Happening could almost be viewed as a self-conscious throwback to cheap 1950's sci-fi shlock.
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The Vosgian Beast posted:The only time I've gone out to watch a WHM choice before I listened to the podcast was for Hard Target and Brainscan. I watched Body Parts one night when it was on Cinemax, really upped the experience having listened to the episode previously. Honestly, I tend to listen to each episode at least twice. The first time I don't really follow the overall plot stuff and cause I'm usually laughing so much.
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Stacks posted:Is Lady in the Water at least funny like The Happening? The Happening could almost be viewed as a self-conscious throwback to cheap 1950's sci-fi shlock. The movie is about a magic being whose purpose is to inspire people into greatness. Her mission is to inspire a writer, played by M Night Shyamalan, to write the best book ever written that will literally change the world for the better forever. Said lady lets M Night know that he will die in the process, as its his martyrdom that will propel his book forward, but M Night doesn't care, he has to let the world know. There is a character played by a guy who looks a lot like Willie from Alf. He is an antagonistic movie critic who nobody in the movie likes. He gets killed messily.
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Also PG plays his career's biggest nebbish dork so you know they'll have fun with the impressions
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Calaveron posted:Also PG plays his career's biggest nebbish dork so you know they'll have fun with the impressions He also cleans pools!
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Calaveron posted:The movie is about a magic being whose purpose is to inspire people into greatness. Her mission is to inspire a writer, played by M Night Shyamalan, to write the best book ever written that will literally change the world for the better forever. Said lady lets M Night know that he will die in the process, as its his martyrdom that will propel his book forward, but M Night doesn't care, he has to let the world know. So it's self-serving and a childlike lashing out at people who criticized Shyamalans work. That's not at all as fun as The Happening 
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That sound incredible bland. What is the patented twist in this one?
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e X posted:That sound incredible bland. What is the patented twist in this one? That it is a lovely movie written by a has-been. But actually the movie's theme is about the roles we play in society in something and the twist is that the characters don't actually play the role they think they do in narf mythology
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Jul 11, 2016 23:59
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e X posted:That sound incredible bland. What is the patented twist in this one? It's not at all bland. It's like watching the deranged ramblings of a 7-year-old on meth put to film. The twist is that there is no twist, this insane and fruity fairy tale is being played 100% straight and somehow hedgehog dogs that fight eagles have something to do with a person literally becoming the next Jesus by writing a book that nobody reads and is found in the Midwest by a gifted preacher.
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e X posted:That sound incredible bland. What is the patented twist in this one? Honestly, at this point, most of Shyamalan's movies don't have the patented game-changing twist and it's just that his early reputation makes people reach to consider plot twists on the level of "Lando is working with Vader" or "Hans Gruber was actually a thief and not a terrorist" to be on the same level as "Tyler Durden was the narrator's split personality" or "Keyser Soze was Verbal Kint"
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Jul 12, 2016 00:39
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Probably the funniest moments from the WWW podcast are the references to Emma Thompson. "Are you going to come my premier Emma?" "Nah, I'll just wait in the car."
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I saw Lady in the Water in theaters. 
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I watched a group of adults sagely nod their heads after a child read them an outlandish prophecy he interpreted from the sides of cereal boxes, Paul Giamatti hold his breath for close to two minutes as he squeezed into a magical grotto hidden underneath a swimming pool grate for a magical healing rock, and a wolf made of grass scratch at a locked door so hard that it swung open towards him, letting him wander undetected into a group of people actively on the lookout for wolves made of grass. Going in, I knew Lady in the Water was going to be bad, but precision is right. It is more than bad. It is an un-film.
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Careful, y'all might summon SMG here. BRING IT. I would love to know how Lady in the Water is actually about the hardships of the Russian Revolution and not just M. Night Shyamalan proudly and publicly Shyamalaning the bed.
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As someone who never really cared for Shyamalan, I couldn't have been happier Lady in the Water happened. These days I just feel bad for the guy but man it was loving irritating catching so much flak for thinking The Sixth Sense was a lot of build-up for nothing and on the other side of the coin no one else liking Unbreakable, somehow.
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Shyamalan's run from Sixth Sense to Signs was really great and it was even understandable that people were calling him the next Hitchcock based on the strength of those movies. It's a shame his ego got the best of him and he made a bunch of turds after that but he's redeeming himself a little since he started focusing on smaller projects; Devil was a perfectly serviceable feature-length Twilight Zone/Tales from the Crypt episode, I haven't seen The Visit but I heard it was alright, and his work on Wayward Pines was way better than the source material deserved.
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well why not posted:The Happening is a really, really funny movie with some clever direction.
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Illinois Smith posted:Counterpoint: No it isn't. Well I mean, it's definitely funny.
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Yeah, but none of it comes across as intentional. I can laugh at Wahlberg's dumb line readings or endless menacing shots of trees and bushes rustling in the wind as much as the next guy but that doesn't make it cleverly directed or a movie that's not meant to be taken seriously. Because the tone of the thing is still as super serious as in all his other movies.
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Illinois Smith posted:Yeah, but none of it comes across as intentional. I can laugh at Wahlberg's dumb line readings or endless menacing shots of trees and bushes rustling in the wind as much as the next guy but that doesn't make it cleverly directed or a movie that's not meant to be taken seriously. Because the tone of the thing is still as super serious as in all his other movies. Oh absolutely, and I cannot even begin to get into the headspace of people who claim it was meant to be a joke unless they're simply confused. I mean, it really is that bad that you can be legit confused about if it's meant to be taken seriously.
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Further From Porkins: The Andrew Jupin Story
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Maybe it was my past with writing SCP stuff, but I liked the idea behind The Happening. Something causing plants around the globe to emit something that makes humans apathetic to the point of ignoring self-care is terrifying. People who aren't healthy start dying off, and society only starts paying attention when more people are just  ing to death, and society just slowly fades away because it's too late to stop it. Lumberjack Bonanza posted:on the other side of the coin no one else liking Unbreakable, somehow. Unbreakable, time-wise, before the superhero movie boom, right? I could see people finding out the twist and thinking "ugh, so he's basically Superman, whatever". Guy Mann posted:Shyamalan's run from Sixth Sense to Signs was really great and it was even understandable that people were calling him the next Hitchcock based on the strength of those movies. It's a shame his ego got the best of him I'm not going to deny that his ego played a part, but I'd say a big part of it was him beginning to believe the press about him, to say nothing about studios giving him carte blanche because of every critic and Sundance cinephile calling him the next Hitchcock. MisterBibs fucked around with this message at 08:59 on Jul 12, 2016 |
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Rageaholic Monkey posted:Oh my god, this Dinesh D'Souza tangent is wonderful https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7e6gLht6OQ It is as bad, if not even worse, than the tangent let on. This is a On-Screen worthy "film". Cabin's back  (is it for good or for a guest spot?)
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