General Movie Thread

[cavorting with nudists]

Now that they managed to get production values this good, I'm going to start flipping off anyone who wishes me a Merry Christmas.

Win.

[davidgoeschatting]

Queued this up a while back. "Short wait" has got to TBS-related, right?

[effecT]

The problem with Robert Rodriguez and especially "Machete" is that he is not a very intelligent man.
He covers all the fanservice bases but forgets that movies actually have to have some cohesion and novelty in them to be good. Which is also the crucial difference between him and Tarantino. Tarantino can write dialogue that is funny, immersing and believable on some level and is always the necessary contrast to the stupid violence and fanservice. One guy on rottentomatoes said it all: "The trailer was better!"

[moonshake]

I am really looking forward to this one. The trailer looks fantastic.

True Grit Trailer 2010 HD

[MikeInManhattan]

Death Wish 3 Review at Onion AV

http://www.avclub.com/articles/death-wish-3,45778/

[JonFromMaplewood]

Just watched Role Models.  Pleasantly surprised. 

[Andy]

I really cannot think of anything less interesting than a movie about the guys who invented facebook. What am I missing?

[Smelodies]

I really cannot think of anything less interesting than a movie about the guys who invented facebook.

A documentary about the making of a movie about the guys who invented facebook.

[Joe Rogaine]

I really cannot think of anything less interesting than a movie about the guys who invented facebook. What am I missing?

I thought the same thing but i enjoyed the film, as Sorkin said himself its not really about Facebook its about friendship, betrayal, ambition, greed a story as old as time.

[dave from knoxville]

I really cannot think of anything less interesting than a movie about the guys who invented facebook. What am I missing?

It's a movie about the guys who invented Facebook about like The Right Stuff is a movie about engineering.

[Christina]

I really cannot think of anything less interesting than a movie about the guys who invented facebook. What am I missing?

I'm wif you Andy. Another mark against this one for me is that, at least on the subway posters, they're prominently featuring a gushy quote from Peter Travers about how it's some kind of decade-defining film.

Peter Travers has always been a shitty film critic and given that he must be getting up there in age, I have to think he's deep in Bosley Crowther territory (circa 60s) at this point.

[Andy]

I never saw The Rught Stuff, but based on the previews I've seen for The Social Network, I'm going to guess that The Right Stuff was really, really about engineering?

[Andy]

Why am I even posting in this thread? I only like scary movies (the franchise, not the genre) and the last movie I saw in the theater was Tim Burton's masterful reimagining of Planet of the Apes.

[Christina]

Why-come I'm only learning about this now? I must be out of it.

http://io9.com/5654684/first-inside-look-at-the-thing-prequel-shows-why-it-may-be-awesome-after-all

The Thing nerds, thoughts?

[Sarah]

I had no idea Carpenter's remake was a religious icon.  Regardless, this one looks like it's going to be fun; I will enjoy watching it in a year or two.