Spieler Eins
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I just remembered that a terrible looking TV series for The Mist is coming.
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It's funny, The Descent bucks what they said of the jump-scare ending being a recent thing. The North American release of the movie came out like a year before The Mist and did exactly that.
Marcia Gay Harden is goddamn fantastic. In The Mist she is everything that can be terrible about Western society thrown into a bad situation with willing ears. She's so fucking hateable.
Admiral Woofington
Member
StopMakingSense
Member
Toby Jones
putting a bullet in her head is one of the most disturbingly cathartic moments in film.
Skiptastic
Member
I always thought it was, like, the darkest Twilight Zone ending ever.
She's the main reason why I don't re-watch The Mist. I'm totally fine with the downer ending, it's the thought of having to spend an hour with that psycho that keeps me away.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Which is why we have to recognize just how amazing her performance when just the thought of being with that character again makes me want to punch a wall
There is!
It's a video series that's been going on for several years called "Best of the Worst".
Peter Ian Staker
Member
Booze will kill Mike long before anything happens to Rich.
BassForever
Member
Rich will dies from Erotic asphyxiation jerking his droid to yearly star wars films before that happens
Jay will commit to a murder/suicide pack with both Mike and Rich, shoot them both and jerk off on their corpses, only to chicken out and be left unable to take his own life and spend the rest of his years in a mental clinic long before that happens.
You really went to a dark place on this post, didn't you?
What thread are we in?
Shrug, they made a career and name out of star wars bashing. I enjoy more of it, not really a lot of other places go that in on attacking star wars as more of a cultural phenomenon than incredible movies.
Why do they have to attack anyone?
I think they like Prometheus too much too be a total riff, but it has too many flaws to be that positive.
Sounds like their commentary for Return of the Jedi.
BassForever
Member
I'm not sure if I want their ro commentary track to he 2 hours of them doing fake excitement or an actual break down of the film
DoctorFling
Member
Listened to half of it, it's pretty funny. RLM are at their best when they're discussing Star Wars.
ultracal31
You don't get to bring friends.
Mike did say he wanted to do more with that movie in the HitB.
they don't have to hate on it, just a couple of jokes, maybe an anecdote and an hour long star trek episode discussion with jay audibly rolling his eyes would suffice.
edit: oh yeah, and rogue one is boring as shit. looked good, though. (except the cgi faces)
plasmawave
Banned
That part about Jim's son made me burst out.
Spieler Eins
Member
Great commentary on one hand. On the other hand, it made me look up Star Wars Detours.
firehawk12
Subete no aware
This is so random. I guess at least the movie is on Netflix (I think).
disappeared
Banned
The Mist re-view was spot on. Such a grim, but great, film. Really glad Darabont got to make it the way he wanted despite having to release the B&W version later. I remember seeing it when it hit DVD and only hearing that it had a "shocking" ending (I think maybe it was printed on the back of the box or something). Wasn't prepared for what it actually was though. Shit was bleak.
Also totally forgot how much of the Walking Dead cast was in it.
Also totally forgot how much of the Walking Dead cast was in it.
Snowman Prophet of Doom
Member
I'll never understand how they were so relatively soft on Prometheus. It's SO MUCH WORSE than almost anything they've ever talked about on Half in the Bag, and it's bad in exactly the ways that usually really nag at them.
Admiral Woofington
Member
Maybe if prometheus had been shat on more we wouldn't have more movies coming out where the scientists in these sci fi movies keep doing dumb shit
marvelharvey
Member
Hollywood spends millions on a movie, a Star Wars movie nonetheless, and I'm not in the slightest bit interested. A bunch of drunks Milwaukee make a commentary and suddenly I'm all for renting it.
Take note Hollywood execs!
Take note Hollywood execs!
firehawk12
Subete no aware
The commentary really is beating a dead horse.
They should have done it as the Nerd Crew characters and tried to be "on" for 2 hours.
JYN URSO IS SO FUCKING AMAZING etc etc
They should have done it as the Nerd Crew characters and tried to be "on" for 2 hours.
JYN URSO IS SO FUCKING AMAZING etc etc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NiQfbgDPz6o
They're actually relatively kind to it on Half in the Bag.
Rodney McKay
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FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW, DARTH VADER IS A CHARACTER FROM THE ORIGINAL STAR WARS MOVIES.
Minor complaint:
Mike complains that the movie abruptly skips from Jyn Erso as a child who just lost her parents to Jyn Erso as an adult rotting in prison, and we're given no information as to who she is now, or what sort of events made her the kind of person she is now. Rich says it's just like the Lion King, which got away with having the character development happen offscreen. Jay says that he remembers that bothering him as well when he saw the Lion King as a kid.
But the Lion King deliberately didn't have any offscreen character development. Scar fucks up Simba's happy life, Shakespearean-style. Simba flees in terror and meets Timon & Pumbaa, who teach him their life philosophy, which is essentially "I don't give a shit, because nothing matters." Simba starts dancing to this song, and in a couple seconds of transition it's shown that several years have gone by and Simba (still dancing) has grown from a helpless child into the body of a much more powerful adult. There was no character development, aside from some physical growth. Simba wasted several years of his life away, smoking weed with his friends, without a care in the world, doing nothing, and not confronting the shit that happened to him. Then a chance meeting drags Simba out of his blissful ignorance and back into confronting the problems of his previous life.
It's also revealed that in Mufasa/Simba's absense, Scar's evil administration has pretty much fucked up the entire Kingdom, but that's not really something that needs to be explained.
Rogue One does a timeskip and shows Jyn in a strange new position that begs many questions.
The Lion King does a timeskip and shows Simba blissfully trapped in a go-nowhere holding pattern, after adopting a thoroughly unambitious outlook on life, requiring zero explanation.