George Clooney haters will adore this one! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmxeoh69G4o
A wonderful, bitingly-succinct review. -Exactly how I was predicting the movie would be when my Disney-addict sibling was gushing how great it was to have Clooney starring in this. That was over 6-weeks ago. No word about it since, and I'm not asking.
The concept: watered-down Cameron-envy...
This slug will spend his golden years sniveling how Nazi movie reviewers and theater owners conspired to keep seats empty during yet another in an endless chain of unicorn-dusting. But have no fear: the Sundance group-gropers and the Palm D'or Reacharound Society at Cannes will be ecstatic at the opportunity to tongue-bathe him.
After all: he helped kill the Batman franchise.
Disney could lose approximately $140 million on this film.
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2015/06/11/disney-could-lose-140m-over-george-clooneys-tomorrowland/
Too bad they had to preach Marxist Utopia, I actually wanted to see this.
Granted, on DVD borrowed. :biggrin:
Quote from: Solar on June 12, 2015, 08:58:24 AM
Too bad they had to preach Marxist Utopia, I actually wanted to see this.
Granted, on DVD borrowed. :biggrin:
Another one to avoid is "Elysium," with Matt Damon. Earth is strangling from overpopulation (evidently Dems couldn't remember to sterilize the unwanted or murder the unborn) and have erected an idyllic space-station for the privileged. Jodie Foster evidently needed to make a house payment and agreed to be in this travesty. (It was, however, the first time she died on-screen.)
If you like sci-fi, you'll like the special effects (except for the sound of rockets in space....) and set-designs. Its one saving grace is Clooney wasn't in it, or Sandra Bullock.
Quote from: quiller on June 12, 2015, 09:44:22 AM
Another one to avoid is "Elysium," with Matt Damon. Earth is strangling from overpopulation (evidently Dems couldn't remember to sterilize the unwanted or murder the unborn) and have erected an idyllic space-station for the privileged. Jodie Foster evidently needed to make a house payment and agreed to be in this travesty. (It was, however, the first time she died on-screen.)
If you like sci-fi, you'll like the special effects (except for the sound of rockets in space....) and set-designs. Its one saving grace is Clooney wasn't in it, or Sandra Bullock.
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Probably the most boring movie I've sat through in ages.
Quote from: Solar on June 12, 2015, 11:08:02 AM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Probably the most boring movie I've sat through in ages.
For that you need to suffer through M. Night Shayamalan. Absolutely
ANYTHING by M. Night Shyamalan. Between Unbreakable nearly breaking Bruce Willis's career and Sixth Sense stunning audiences into REM-sleep comas, or Lady in the Water botching a terrific premise....gee, I can't think of a more consistent loser still able to draw producers' dollars...except Clooney.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=movie+producer+M.+Night+Sha+
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
Quote from: taxed on June 12, 2015, 12:42:24 PM
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
I can imagine being trapped in an elevator for six hours with Sandra Bullock and winding up stuffing her shoes down her throat just to keep her quiet. Clooney? I'd be far more creative. And quicker.
Quote from: quiller on June 12, 2015, 09:44:22 AM
Another one to avoid is "Elysium," with Matt Damon. Earth is strangling from overpopulation (evidently Dems couldn't remember to sterilize the unwanted or murder the unborn) and have erected an idyllic space-station for the privileged. Jodie Foster evidently needed to make a house payment and agreed to be in this travesty. (It was, however, the first time she died on-screen.)
If you like sci-fi, you'll like the special effects (except for the sound of rockets in space....) and set-designs. Its one saving grace is Clooney wasn't in it, or Sandra Bullock.
I like Sandra Bullock. In any case why don't Leftard understand anything about Capitalism. The always assume Capitalists would act like they do. The don't seem to understand that whatever capitalist invented the Medical Miracle Machine, they would make sure there was one on every street corner. You don't get rich keeping your inventions to yourself. Just as their would be hundreds of Elysiums in orbit around the Earth. According to Libtards they've never had anything like housing developments or planned communities. Of course they built the first Levitttown in the 40's.
Quote from: mdgiles on June 12, 2015, 01:21:10 PM
I like Sandra Bullock.
I suspect my wife might object, but if you run across Thandie Newton, you can have Sandra and the cabfare to get her to the nearest bus stop when you hear her run her mouth. You live in the city, yes? Would five bucks cover the fare and cabbie tip?
QuoteIn any case why don't Leftard understand anything about Capitalism. The always assume Capitalists would act like they do. The don't seem to understand that whatever capitalist invented the Medical Miracle Machine, they would make sure there was one on every street corner. You don't get rich keeping your inventions to yourself. Just as their would be hundreds of Elysiums in orbit around the Earth. According to Libtards they've never had anything like housing developments or planned communities. Of course they built the first Levitttown in the 40's.
The Elysium film did have "med bays" in homes, thouigh didn't clearly specify who had or didn't have one. They were keyed to implanted identity stamps certifying citizenship (and being worthy of being fixed at all). It was a masterpiece of elitist thinking, that the rabble could not improve themselves and therefore must be abandoned and exploited from afar.
Not sure where you were heading on the planned developments thing. Many cities were planned. Housing came in due to need. The homes aren't the problem as long as you can tell your place apart from the next. Movies get based on stuff like that. Or, in this case, based on the idea that there are a finite number of deserving citizens, so they only need one massive wheel-shaped station. I wonder how much even one cost, much less constructing even more? Thousands of people, mind you. You may be overestimating the money left on Earth for the people to fill a second station.
Quote from: quiller on June 12, 2015, 01:54:40 PM
I suspect my wife might object, but if you run across Thandie Newton, you can have Sandra and the cabfare to get her to the nearest bus stop when you hear her run her mouth. You live in the city, yes? Would five bucks cover the fare and cabbie tip?
The Elysium film did have "med bays" in homes, thouigh didn't clearly specify who had or didn't have one. They were keyed to implanted identity stamps certifying citizenship (and being worthy of being fixed at all). It was a masterpiece of elitist thinking, that the rabble could not improve themselves and therefore must be abandoned and exploited from afar.
Not sure where you were heading on the planned developments thing. Many cities were planned. Housing came in due to need. The homes aren't the problem as long as you can tell your place apart from the next. Movies get based on stuff like that. Or, in this case, based on the idea that there are a finite number of deserving citizens, so they only need one massive wheel-shaped station. I wonder how much even one cost, much less constructing even more? Thousands of people, mind you. You may be overestimating the money left on Earth for the people to fill a second station.
I love her...
Quote from: taxed on June 12, 2015, 02:26:04 PM
I love her...
Bidding starts on who pays for the bus fare.
Apparently it is on schedule to lose 140 million....
Quote from: The Boo Man... on June 12, 2015, 11:58:32 PM
Apparently it is on schedule to lose 140 million....
Just another resume enhancer for a leftit.
Clooney to the film backers....
"Yes, we realize we lost $140 million, but if YOU hadn't been so cheap on advertising and spent just a few hundred million more....."
It is never the message, just the evil right wing which suppresses it.
Quote from: quiller on June 12, 2015, 12:29:30 PM
For that you need to suffer through M. Night Shayamalan. Absolutely ANYTHING by M. Night Shyamalan. Between Unbreakable nearly breaking Bruce Willis's career and Sixth Sense stunning audiences into REM-sleep comas, or Lady in the Water botching a terrific premise....gee, I can't think of a more consistent loser still able to draw producers' dollars...except Clooney.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=movie+producer+M.+Night+Sha+
Really?
I take it you've never seen "Heaven's Gate"!
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As one reviewer put it, "It took Michael Cimino 4+ hours to tell a story John Ford could have told in 30 minutes!"
Quote from: Darth Fife on June 13, 2015, 03:21:21 PM
Really?
I take it you've never seen "Heaven's Gate"!
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As one reviewer put it, "It took Michael Cimino 4+ hours to tell a story John Ford could have told in 30 minutes!"
I may get that movie if Big Lots sells the DVD for $3 or something. But judging from reviews, it was "Ishtar" on roller skates (another I have avoided.) No argument about Ford: he could tell more story in a fixed panoramic shot than any number of Stuart and Kate Baird-style editors slicing up footage, trying to make it more interesting.
In hindsight, Lady in the Water did introduce me to the super-quirky actor Paul Giamatti, who was superbly creepy in Shoot 'Em Up and simply splendid in TV's miniseries John Adams.
What man in his right mind would willingly go into a movie knowing he would exit the movie sans testicles?
Quote from: The Boo Man... on June 13, 2015, 11:47:12 PM
What man in his right mind would willingly go into a movie knowing he would exit the movie sans testicles?
Bruce Jenner?
:rolleyes:
Quote from: quiller on June 13, 2015, 04:46:15 PM
I may get that movie if Big Lots sells the DVD for $3 or something. But judging from reviews, it was "Ishtar" on roller skates (another I have avoided.) No argument about Ford: he could tell more story in a fixed panoramic shot than any number of Stuart and Kate Baird-style editors slicing up footage, trying to make it more interesting.
In hindsight, Lady in the Water did introduce me to the super-quirky actor Paul Giamatti, who was superbly creepy in Shoot 'Em Up and simply splendid in TV's miniseries John Adams.
I don't watch much live action these days, I prefer animation. However, I did love Paul in
American Splendor. I never met Harvey Pekar, but I have a friend who is a big comic book fan who did and he told me that Giamatti had Pekar's personality and mannerisms down pat!