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Creed is just getting released next week over here and I saw an advance screening of it last night. It is very good, which surprised me because it's a Rocky movie - but on the other hand DUH of course it's good it's written and directed by Ryan Coogler and has Michael B Jordan in it. It's the very definition of a movie that was much better than it had to be, and I am glad for it. Also interesting that both Creed and Straight Outta Compton were huge hits and are both movies that are firmly rooted in the black american experience. Hopefully these successes are the vanguard of sea change in exploring more contemporary minority stories in a dramatic context (i.e. not just comedies). But then I guess you could've said the same thing about Boyz N The Hood all the way back in 1991, so welp.
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tanglewood1420 posted:Creed is just getting released next week over here and I saw an advance screening of it last night. It is very good, which surprised me because it's a Rocky movie - but on the other hand DUH of course it's good it's written and directed by Ryan Coogler and has Michael B Jordan in it. There were American theaters that refused to show Straight Outta Compton because they were afraid it would
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tanglewood1420 posted:Creed is just getting released next week over here and I saw an advance screening of it last night. It is very good, which surprised me because it's a Rocky movie - but on the other hand DUH of course it's good it's written and directed by Ryan Coogler and has Michael B Jordan in it. Which Rocky movies have you seen?
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Luigi Thirty posted:There were American theaters that refused to show Straight Outta Compton because they were afraid it would Really? I heard stories about theaters upping security, but none going as far as refusing to screen it.
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Luigi Thirty posted:There were American theaters that refused to show Straight Outta Compton because they were afraid it would Pretty sure this never happened.
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Speaking of Ice Cube, been seeing a lot of commercials for Ride Along 2 and man, he comes off as just an awful person in it. His entire part seems to be just him scowling and insulting Kevin Hart in some way.
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muscles like this? posted:Speaking of Ice Cube, been seeing a lot of commercials for Ride Along 2 and man, he comes off as just an awful person in it. His entire part seems to be just him scowling and insulting Kevin Hart in some way. I believe the gimmick in the first movie is that he's Kevin Hart's overprotective brother-in-law, but I don't know how they continue it here.
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computer parts posted:I believe the gimmick in the first movie is that he's Kevin Hart's overprotective brother-in-law, but I don't know how they continue it here. I am pretty sure the dynamic is he hates him. So the first probably ends with him gaining some respect. So it could go easy.
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Luigi Thirty posted:There were American theaters that refused to show Straight Outta Compton because they were afraid it would Lol no, it just wasn't shown in Compton because there aren't actually any movie theaters in Compton. IShallRiseAgain fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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Someone on a podcast I listen to went to see The Butler but the title was partially cut off at the box office, advertising Lee Daniels The But
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muscles like this? posted:Speaking of Ice Cube, been seeing a lot of commercials for Ride Along 2 and man, he comes off as just an awful person in it. His entire part seems to be just him scowling and insulting Kevin Hart in some way. Are most of it about Hart being tiny? I laughrd watching this, though. It's Conan, Cube and Hart going on a ride with a student driver. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Za8BtLgKv8
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zandert33 posted:Pretty sure this never happened. They didn't show it in St. Petersburg despite its big activist community and 33% of the population being black. It's also been the site of race riots. Luigi Thirty fucked around with this message at 05:23 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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muscles like this? posted:Speaking of Ice Cube, been seeing a lot of commercials for Ride Along 2 and man, he comes off as just an awful person in it. His entire part seems to be just him scowling and insulting Kevin Hart in some way. My dad and brother rented Ride Along, I fell asleep and didn't feel like I missed much
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The best thing about Ride Along was....................................uhhhhh............................................ Well Ice Cube was pretty fantastic in 21/22 Jump Street, at least.
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computer parts posted:Crossposting from the Netflix thread: Good review, but did you mean to post this in "Rate the latest movie you've seen"?
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Luigi Thirty posted:They didn't show it in St. Petersburg despite its big activist community and 33% of the population being black. It's also been the site of race riots. anatomi fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Jan 9, 2016 |
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In ongoing boardgame movie adaptation news, Russia is making a sci-fi action movie out of Mafia. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvZrrdvSAWE
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Sleeveless posted:In ongoing boardgame movie adaptation news, Russia is making a sci-fi action movie out of Mafia. I have been playing Mafia the wrong way.
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mafia is loving terrible.
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This is actually an interesting idea for a film. Except I'd cast the leads from the X-Files.
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I can't decide what's going to be worse - Gods of Egypt or Pride and Prejudice with Zombies. I saw trailers for both today, and both look insufferable.
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Luigi Thirty posted:They didn't show it in St. Petersburg despite its big activist community and 33% of the population being black. It's also been the site of race riots. Leningrad has changed a lot since the name change.
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Luigi Thirty posted:They didn't show it in St. Petersburg despite its big activist community and 33% of the population being black. It's also been the site of race riots. I'll admit I'm wrong, but to my defensive we are talking about Florida here. All bets are off when it comes to Florida.
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zandert33 posted:I'll admit I'm wrong, but to my defensive we are talking about Florida here. All bets are off when it comes to Florida. Saint Pete is white as gently caress fyi. It's half Tampa suburb, half retirement community.
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I'm going to assume the new Ben-Hur isn't doing so hot since it was moved from February to August and there's zero publicity out for it yet.
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anatomi posted:Here in Sweden the biggest movie theater company (SF, who owns and operates the vast majority of theaters) hired security guards to handle the tickets. The main reasons being 1) that the film might attract "certain people" who weren't used to going to the movies (lol) and 2) because the movie had a "hip-hop message" and was critical of the po-po. So much stupid. All that for the 5 black people that live in Sweden?
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Unless August has become the new February dumping ground, I would assume the changes in months might be due to a combination of the film needing a bit more time, and the studio suddenly gaining faith to release it in a busy time. Unless it's last week of August, then ouch.
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Young Freud posted:All that for the 5 black people that live in Sweden? A friend and I spent an hour long bus ride in High School convincing someone that there were a total of 6 black people in Texas and one of them lived on a distant mountain. In my defense, multiple people had asked me if it was true that black people couldn't swim after I told them I couldn't swim. So, come on
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Young Freud posted:All that for the 5 black people that live in Sweden?  um actually about 103 thousand people of African descent live in Sweden.
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FreudianSlippers posted:
I was actually curious about the demographics of immigrants in Sweden, so I looked it up and there's a sizable community of Somalian and Eritrean immigrants, but I was more aware that they had more Middle Eastern immigrants (especially with all the talk of Syrian refugees, since Sweden is the top destination after Germany). What surprised me was the number of Eastern Europeans.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I can't decide what's going to be worse - Gods of Egypt or Pride and Prejudice with Zombies. I saw trailers for both today, and both look insufferable.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'm going to assume the new Ben-Hur isn't doing so hot since it was moved from February to August and there's zero publicity out for it yet. That's a positive sign if anything, if they wanted to dump it they'd leave it in February.
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SomeJazzyRat posted:Unless August has become the new February dumping ground, I would assume the changes in months might be due to a combination of the film needing a bit more time, and the studio suddenly gaining faith to release it in a busy time. Early August gets the summer overflow. Late August is the beginning of the dump. My suspicion on Ben Hur is that it's more of a sign that the film just isn't finished and they're going to do some reshoots.
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Egbert Souse posted:I'm going to assume the new Ben-Hur isn't doing so hot since it was moved from February to August and there's zero publicity out for it yet. There's a new Ben-Hur?
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Hollismason posted:There's a new Ben-Hur? Ben-Hur, done that.
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CopywrightMMXI posted:I can't decide what's going to be worse - Gods of Egypt or Pride and Prejudice with Zombies. I saw trailers for both today, and both look insufferable. Gotta love Charles Dance.
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Vegetable posted:Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is supposed to be fairly decent. Not good, but decent. It's already had some advance screenings and audience reception was mildly positive. On a PG-13 zombie movie? I'm not buying it.
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I watched the second half of the 1959 Ben-Hur over the holidays as it came up on a classic movie channel. I hadn't seen it in ages and had forgotten that even though it is horribly sanctimonious and dreadfully, painfully slow, Charlton Heston was a bonafide movie star and of course the chariot race sequence is really well done. Then Jailhouse Rock came on afterwards and that is a BAD movie. Only lasted the first 20 minutes, didn't even make it to the titular performance.
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Sleeveless posted:Ben-Hur, done that. 
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