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I guess we're not gonna see eye to eye when it comes to this specific fight sequence. I still find him dodging all those hits pretty ridiculous.

I can see how someone could literally fall asleep because of them, but I personally think they're hilarious.
And you're asking the wrong person mate, I have zero knowledge of Star Wars information besides what I vaguely remember about the films.

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"A film has to be a dialogue, not a monologue — a dialogue to provoke in the viewer his own thoughts, his own feelings. And if a film is a dialogue, then it’s a good film; if it’s not a dialogue, it’s a bad film."

- Michael "Gloomy Old Fart" Haneke

Look at this discussion....and people think it's dead here.

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Procrastination aside, MM, your commitment to see this thread through to completion is quite commendable. I would've waved the white flag long ago, but I struggle to remember what I watched two days ago, let alone two years ago. Obviously your memory is as strong as your writing. As always, it's a pleasure to read your reviews. I actually think I've reached a point where I more eagerly anticipate the way in which you articulate an opinion more so than the opinion itself, due in large part to your playful writing style, your clever puns and wordplay, as well as the way in which you subtly reference various aspects of a film through carefully chosen vocabulary. And to do it all in a language that isn't native to your own is mind-boggling to me. I think you're awesome and probably the best reviewer on the forum nowadays.

But anyways, that's enough sucking your "lightsaber" in public view of everyone else, so onto the films themselves . . .

I've yet to watch Treasure Planet, Home on the Range, Meet the Robinsons or Princess and the Frog. I'm most interested in seeing Treasure Planet, which sounds pretty cool, and Meet the Robinsons, which I believe is one of Miss Vicky's favorite films. Plus the masochist inside of me is now a bit curious to see if Home on the Range is really as terrible as you make it out to be. I hated Chicken Little and thought Brother Bear was average and forgettable. Bolt, on the hand, was a pleasant surprise. I found it rather cute, charming and funny. Stop being a curmudgeon.

It sounds like your re-watch of American Splendor bears closer sentiment to my own rather than your five-star first viewing. I definitely think it's a film worthy of praise thanks to the performances and the deft integration of animation and documentary footage into a normal character study. Stylistically, the film feels very fresh. However, even though Harvey Pekar is an interesting dude and sometimes quite funny, spending time with him gets to be a bit of a drag due to his general demeanor and humdrum existence. Quality film-making aside, I found myself checking my watch quite often as the film progressed.

I've fallen out of love with Reservoir Dogs. I still think it's a great movie and I have nothing negative to say about it, but for whatever reason I just never feel the urge to revisit it nowadays. Jackie Brown, on the other hand, is one of my absolute favorites and, in my opinion, QT's second best film after Pulp Fiction. Echoes of Elmore Leonard could always be heard in QT's voice, so the shared DNA made for the perfect adaptation. It's a shame that you don't like the movie more, but I'll just chalk that up to you being a racist.

I watched The Force Awakens with the glazed-over eyes of indifference, although at least that was better than the butt-numbing boredom of Rogue One. I'm not a Star Wars guy, though, having only seen each of the previous installments once in my life, so during these new films I'm usually confused about what the hell is even going on or who is who.

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PLEASE CONTINUE! My thread is alive and kicking like never before - all from a discussion coming out of a movie I reviewed! That's EXACTLY what I wanted, really. Couldn't be happier.

Indeed, suddenly things went wild. I love it!

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The Great @Captain Spaulding returns! My number one fan, helping me put this thread out of its Misery!

Thank you as always, for your longer-than-standard posts and your thorough thoughts and comments on me and my reviews. I endlessly appreciate it. I'm glad you admire my dedication here, though admittedly, I think we can all agree that it's on the verge of embarrassment for taking so long for me to finish it. But nevertheless, I'm gonna finish it, and this time for good. No week-long, month-long or year-long breaks... This is it.

I can understand why my writing may be more appealing than what I write about, and to some extent that's sometimes also my main purpose. This diary thread, in contrast to my cinema review thread, is all about fun. Sometimes I get more deep and sometimes a movie has more of importance to talk about, but in the end my goal for this thread was always that it was to be a little more loose and lively. Some of my reviews end up "a little thin" when being viewed as actual reviews, but what do you expect when I review stuff from 2 years ago. Not every movie is stored, minute by minute, in my head. Though, yes definitely, I remember what I watch quite well...

Glad you agree mostly about Force Awakens and Rogue One. Looks like we feel more or less the same here. And I would probably recommend you watch Treasure Planet. You might like that actually. Meet the Robinsons is more of a bet than anything, it's a love/hate film, but you may like it.

Thanks again, Captain, for sailing into my waters and splashing a little of the sea into my sight to help me wake up and be even more dedicated to enter the unknown lands where threads like this come to rest. see you on the other side!

haha sorry think it came to an end with me and Okay exhausting the discussion of a 7 second clip. Good news though i'm pretty sure i convinced him that everything i said was right!





joking Okay

I do like Paul Giamatti

Liked Tangled alot more than i thought i would, mostly because it was funnier than i was expecting. Hated some of the songs and i think there was some potential in the Rapunzel and her step mother relationship that was touched on but not fully explored, but overall it was very enjoyable.

Winnie The Pooh is one of six Diney Animated Classics i've not seen.

Once again, Tangled was a movie I saw right on when the hype was at its highest, so it was hard not to be a little disappointed... But as you can see from my rating I was definitely more positive than negative. I did like it.

Winnie the Pooh is really a nostalgic film for me and for many others. I understand it's not exactly one that is appealing for being a groundbreaker or something totally new and revolutionary.

Thanks for checking in again, Camo!

Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh was a big part of my childhood so i think i'd enjoy it on at least a nostalgic level, especially since i've heard it was done well. As well as that i have to see The Three Caballero's, Make Mine Music, Fun and Fancy Free, Melody Time and Moana.

So basically, the newest one and then ALL those stupid animated compilation films. I understand why you haven't gotten to those quite yet.

Make Mine Music was my "favorite" out of those type movies... Melody Time was my least favorite. Kinda hated that one very much.

But I see it like this... it depends on whether you like the shorts in it or not. It's really tough to like every short in there, so that's really why it was so hard to make an opinion on em...

I have reviews for all of those of course. You can look/search for them in the first post of this thread and click the links through there.

I think that if I hadn't said to myself I wanted to watch every Disney Classic, I probably hadn't made it through that crap.

Really interesting review...I liked this movie more than you did, but I certainly respect your opinion. I especially love this:


"But with ‘Jackie Brown’ the does not roll, it drags, and Tarantino struggles with making a novel into a movie without making a novel out of his movie along the way. "

Glad you found it interesting! And I'm especially glad you liked that quote... I do too... although I now notice there is a spelling mistake "the does not roll" dammit

Anyways you for the point and still liked the quote. Mission accomplished then I guess.

Not a big fan of Sicario here, I would say it's my least favourite Villeneuve film. It's still good though.

I agree with a lot of that on Sicario MM, but I didn't like it overall as much as you. It's very well made and starts out great, but then after a while I was waiting for it to end.

Thanks for the comments, guys!

In short, what's your main problem(s) with Sicario? And what's your favourite Denis film, now since you kinda brought it on yourself here.

A shame, but I can see it. Thanks for checking in, cricket!!!