I enjoyed Titanic when it came out. a big weepy fairy tale for the ladies to cry over. It was not bad as a movie. I thought DiCrapio was the worst part in it, worse than Billy Zane!

I was in love with Kate Winslet so that may color my perceptions....

I never watched good will hunting because I had grown tired of Robin Williams' schtick after Dead Poets Society. I will watch it someday.

I'm with NR. It's a great movie. Robin's best performance. And honestly I never was mychnof a fan of his, but it's not a "Dead Poets Society" kind of role. For a movie with such a stupid name, it's obscenely good.

will check it out this weekend. I am going to see Rogue One tonight, gonna need something more intellectual to cleanse the palate!

for me it was so-so. i didn't love it. genius wish fulfillment fantasy seemed a bit... maybe i missed something. everyone wanted to be a genius in the 90s.

the problem with robin williams is that his sad eyes and manic humor weren't a schtick

if you'd see past the laughs , you'd catch his sadness, and then it became painful to watch-- hence the fatigue.

apparently he was great as a villain. i never saw 1 hour photo because i was also burned out on him. maybe i should put in in the queue for future disturbances.

okay honest-honest i didn't like good will hunting. found it to manipulative and sentimental. sorry. won't see it again.

let me start by saying this is not a brag.

I am considered by the appointed testing authorities as a "smart" person. The tests all say this, and my people know I am a bit of a polymath whose intellectual interests are far ranging and that I am full of data. Because of this, I have friends and family and co-workers recommend me these movies, like Good Will Hunting, The Imitation Game, and A Beautiful Mind, always saying "You would love it! It is about this really smart person!" and invariably, I watch the film and find it wanting, mostly because the films are portraying supposedly very smart people in a manner that will allow the "regular" person to be awed or impressed by the protagonists amazing mind.

In other words, they are portrayed with a shorthand that lets non-smart people know that so-and-so is VERY SMART. I find this shit so tiresome and uninteresting and it ruins the shit for me.

Contact was a movie where nearly every single character is a VERY SMART person and they are portrayed like real humans, without the visual storytelling shorthand that telegraphs their "intelligence".


Re: One Hour Photo - I saw an hour of it, couldn't give a flying fuck about what I was seeing, and turned it off. I hated it but Robin was creepy and good in it.

CONTACT you say? the jodie foster yeah? i'll take a look, thanks.

(and yeah good will hunting traumatized genius solves math in his head while mopping floors, he'll show them snobs, oh if only he could only get 4 therapy sessions...)

possibly part of my love for GWH came from living in Massachusetts. I don't know. I love it though.

i liked THE FIGHTER which is also a mass. thing

The Fighter was great.

<3 Amy Adams

yeah, it was pretty good, but I saw too many fights with Micky Ward to appreciate the concept behind it.

Amy is looking pretty good in NA's

she is great.

Yea that's all well and good but Rob. How do you like them apples?

Ha!

what apples?

I'd seen her in films before The Fighter but that was the one where I first really noticed her. There's something mesmerising about her. She's one of the only actors right now whose films I'd watch just because she's in it.

straight up: That's what I've been doing the past few months. I told my wife that, "hey - I just wanna see everything she's in." Watched Enchanted, Muppets, and Man Of Steel most recently. She's great in everything.

Hey, spot on on Robin Williams. I agree completely. He reminds me a lot of a teacher I had in high school who also had a deep sadness tucked away behind his fags and slapstick.

But re: Williams as villain...
One Hour Photo is just ok. I remember feeling sorry for his character even though he was a creepy murderer. Sadness still reigns.

BUT... Have you ever seen Insomnia? Chris Nolan's Insomnia? The one after Memento, before all the stuff he's now famous for. Al Pacino = homicide detective chases psychopath killer to Alaska. Robin Williams is NOT a sad sack in that film. He's Fucking terrifying.

Bahahaa!

Love Amy Adams. There's something almost addictive about her when she's on screen. Especially in more human roles like in the Fighter, Doubt and American Hustle.

Glad you liked Man of Steel, NR.

I loved MOS!

And yes, Amy Adams steals the camera. She is really something.

i saw the original one (norwegian i think?) so skipped the gringo remakes

dragon tat (swede) same thing

i did sorta caved on this policy with let the right one in but by accident

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eta in american hustle she was fucking fantastic-- her accents ha hahahahaha

Thank god. Not many people do. Not the "comic book" crowd anyway. A lot of my Uber nerd friends thought it was too serious. But I'm a Supes lifer and I loved it. LOVED IT.

friend let me know he had an extra ticket to see this last night at the Imax 3-D. Fucking awesome. FUCKING AWESOME.

cool. I prob won't get to see it til after holidays.

Glad to hear it.

I likely won't see it until the new year either, which is what we did with Force Awakens. We waited for the hype to die down. Then saw it in a half-full theater in the middle of January. It was nice.

Force Awakens was fun to watch in a nearly empty theater. My wife and I watched it on a matinee.

I had not seen an Imax movie in a while because the shit makes me dizzy sometimes, but this was allright. I am not a fan of 3D and I would love to go see the movie again without the 3D.

There were at least 8 different times when I was agog seeing something i had never seen before..... The air battles were filmed perfectly (not like the bullshit battles in the last two Star Trek films where you cant see what the fuck is happening.)

yeah we waited til the end of January to see Force Awakens, and did so on a weekday morning. It was pretty much empty and awesome (3D, luxury recliner seating...), so we'll prob do the same for Rogue One.

My wife grew up watching old classic hollywood films and not much of the modern stuff, so she had never seen the star wars OG 3. We ended up watching them a year or so ago and she enjoyed them a lot but she FREAKED OUT when Darth Vader took his mask off and he was not James Earl Jones. She has gone her entire life thinking James Earl Jones actually played the physical role of Darth Vader!!! she could not understand why he was white.... hahahahha. I had t explain it all

my wife had never seen any Star Wars either. She didn't think she'd like them. I begged her to watched New Hope. She loved it, so we marathoned all 6 leading up to Force Awakens release. It was fun watching 7 Star Wars films in the course of like 2 months.

Ms, Ild drags me to see these. The last couple were OK, but those early ones stunk.

Haha! That's purty goddamn funny. If you're anything like me, Darth Vader has been in your life since toddlerhood. Such an iconic figure. I'll bet it was kind of a shocker for you, since that character is about as universal as the lineup of the Beatles to folks like us. Haha.

She overestimated the cultural awareness of Hollywood in the '70s and '80s if she believed the hero would be the son of a biracial union though. Anyway... lolz.

I'm super excited about Rogue One based on what you've said though. I too have a hard time with IMAX sometimes (dizzy spells, disorientation, etc. is always just around the corner for lifelong migraine sufferers like me), and I haven't seen a 3D movie since Jaws 3D (derp!). I have no real interest in any of that pop and fizzle shit, but I am now PUMPED to see it on a standard screen some lazy afternoon in the near future.

What? Star Wars? You can't mean Star Wars.

Because this is how the Star Wars films rank (definitely):

1. The Empire Strikes Back
2. Star Wars (A New Hope)
3. The Force Awakens
4. Return of the Jedi
5. Revenge of the Sith
6. The Phantom Menace
7. Attack of the Clones

The Ewok movie is blood curdlingly terrible, but it might be better than Attack f the Clones.

I'm pretty sure Rogue One will be up there once I see it. I honestly probably prefer TFA to the original Star Wars — it just looks SO much cooler, cleaner, harder, better, faster, stronger) but for now I rank it below the first film just because #nerdstalgia.

Also, Rob was it you who said something disparaging about the recent Star Trek films? 'Cause fuck that man! All three of them have kicked ass in my opinion. Especially the first two.

Hard to compare them directly to Star Wars. SW has always had more space battle type stuff, but I think the recent films have all had extraordinary effects and some great space showdowns.

spot on Sev.

I *might* put Force Awakens at #2 though as well. Like... I don't want to cuz the original is so imporant, but...

Though I personally rank Revenge Of The Sith above Return Of The Jedi. IDGAF. Come at me bro and all that. I think Sith is a great movie. I think Jedi is half-great and half-not great.

I enjoyed parts of the Trek reboots. I am a huge Trek nerd from the way back, and my favorite part of Trek are the morality plays and the solving problems by thinking and intelligence FIRST.

The two reboot films are half that, and half overblown, un-interesting, massive CGI space "battles" where you cant tell what the fuck is happening and everything is a cliche. I HATED the whole riding a motorcycle with holographic projector bullshit.

Cumberbatch was boring as khan. he did not even come close to looking Sikh... ha!

Star Wars (because it was a rebirth of the pulps and serials, which are fun as fuck)
Empire (because it had the most emotional plot)
Rogue One (honestly, it is a great show even if you did not know the OG flicks)
Force Awakens (Held my interest all the way through and restarted the FUN and the FORCE baby......)
Return of the Jedi (I do not have any beef with Jedi. I liked Ewoks.)

as far as the prequels go, I was bored shitless with all of them at some point in the films, and all had some amazing sequences that made me wish the acting/writing of dialogue was better. Haden Christensen SUCKED so fucking hard. Made Darth Vader look like a pussy soft lil biatch)

also, I hate CGI Yoda. I want rubber muppet YODA

I also hate that the Trek films keep destroying the Enterprise. cheap ass gimmick trope cliche. Kirk would have burned half the galaxy rather than let their ship be destroyed so stupidly every time.