Dan H.

Wow, the CG on the Casterly Rock attack was fucking awful.

Not sure I really enjoyed Dany and Jon's meeting together. They are both at their most exhausting and boring in this episode, like their dialogue is stuck on repeat.

Hopefully we get a proper battle soon. Dunno if I can take more chatting from these people.

Loved the new film.

Dawn is still the best by far and away, but War is still better than Rise IMO.

I had a few hangups with War. "Bad Ape" was very Jar Jar Binks esque. The film was very very heavy and bleak, and the comic relief Bad Ape provided almost always seemed poorly timed or inappropriate for the situation.

The concentration camp stuff was a little obvious and heavy handed. I also thought that while Woody Harrelson wasn't quite made into a one dimensional military beefhead cartoon, he didn't have as much of a character as the lead humans in the other two films, and was not nearly as interesting of a villain as Koba.

That being said the film looked great, had an efficient flow, good drama and emotions, great acting, and neat sets. It tied everything off a well as it could, and I was satisfied with its resolution.

Rise is a 7/10 for me. Dawn 9/10, War a 7.5 or maybe an 8/10

Great series, and a tie for my favorite blockbuster this year next to GotG 2

Yeah. Too bad we're never getting another book

They're doing reshoots to adjust the tone. That's a bad sign.

1 hour ago, The Holographic Universe said:

Why?

Because he's better than you, peasant.

1 hour ago, tsinindy said:

I dunno man, these two episodes have been fairly strong in my opinion.  

They just seem like a lot of exposition that we already know, and a lot of feet dragging. The show needs to speed up now or we're gonna get more wacky timelines down the road, like Euron somehow building 1000 ships in just a few months, even after half of the main fleet leaves with Theon and Yara (also Varys going to Dorne then Esso then back to Westeros all in one episode).

I'm not ready to call either of these episodes bad, but I have serious concerns about these two half seasons.

These past two episodes have wasted a whole lot of time when theres so much story left but so few episodes. A whole 5 minutes on Greyworm and whats her face? C'mon. Shoulda done that seasons ago. I've got a really bad feeling that the pacing is going to bw incredibly fucked.

Also everything about Euron's place in the story makes no sense.

Ozzy Osborne

56 minutes ago, Black Sabbath said:

Hesitation Marks actually rivals Year Zero, to me. Aside from Everything that is. That song is still garbage.

Its a decent album for sure. I can't expect NIN to please me much anymore. Their newer more mature sound isn't why I got interested in them in the first place.

Nothing Trent does is garbage, but I think I probably won't get another NIN album that I absolutely love.

These EPs have been surprisingly good though.

Muse took a lot of their sound from Radiohead. I won't go as far as accusing them of intellectual theft, but they really wear that influence on their sleeves. Especially albums like Supermassive Black Hole and Origins of Symmetry. It just sounds like high school kid versions of Radiohead songs.

Although ShowBiz through Origins have a lot of catchy pop songs, they're a pretty boring band, and always have been. Now they're making almost laughably bad albums like Drones (even the title and album artwork is like a photoshop by an angsty teen who just discovered politics)

This isn't me tryin to praise Radiohead here, just calling it like it is. 

And I'll concede that they put on a great live show. Saw them at Lollapalooza not too long ago and I had a good time. Its fist pumping arena pop, and that kind of music always thrives at big venues with lots of lights and pyro and shit.

On 7/20/2017 at 5:22 PM, Nicklord said:

 

Muse - have a lot of old fans that just shit on anything new to Muse and it's really annoying to read all that. Really annoying 

In fairness Muse hasn't done anything good since the mid 00s, and even then they were a poor mans Radiohead

Less Than is the best thing he's done in years. Probably won't listen to the rest of the EP a second time, it's okay and all, but NIN hasn't been particularly interesting since Year Zero, and this continues the trend imo.

It was okay, we got some good Arya stuff and we got some good Sandor stuff. Other than that it was half the shit from the trailers, and nothing really new.

Excited for the next episode, where it looks like we'll be getting a naval battle

Farewell to the father of zombie movies 

Met Jimmy Carter several times, he lived very close to my childhood home in Georgia, and he frequented a buffet style restaurant that my parents also enjoyed.

Met Leslie Neilson at a ball game in Tampa when I was 10 or 11. Still have the signed photo somewhere.

And most recently I bumped into Jessica Simpson at Macy's on a random shopping trip in town (Chicago)

The film is one of my favorites. The black and white cut (which is how the director intended it to be) on the DVD is fantastic. Excellent homage to campy early horror films and monster flicks. 

The show has nothing interesting to offer, and given the high number of excellent quality TV shows coming out this year, The Mist is pretty inessential. I'd recomend passing on it.

2 hours ago, Oldest Goat said:

I enjoyed the other two for what they were so it's even more surprising  I'd go as far to say that it's completely generic/mediocre/predictable/boring. Other than some of the visuals I honestly can't think of any redeeming qualities.

The original Planet of the Apes is way better.

Any examples of why you felt it was generic and predictable? Almost every single professional and anecdotal opinion I've heard has been nothing but praise, and many have said it is pretty fresh compared to other summer blockbusters, with a nice slow pace and deliberate character arcs

7 hours ago, Graeme said:

Dare I say, a perfect 5/7?

Top shelf reference

 The National hasn't exactly been on fire the last few years, but their two new singles have gotten me incredibly interested in the new album (September release). Here's the first single, its a pretty good pop rock song, and I figured there'd be a few people here that are into it.

Enjoy!

The first one was great, but Franco and his family really dragged it down from perfection for me.

The second is damn near one of my favorite movies. It cranks up the tension right off the bat, puts energy and anxiety into the inevitable conflict between man and ape, and manages to slip in a lot of quality emotional motivation for the characters. When the action finally comes, it feels like the film has earned it, which makes the climax all the more powerful.

This trilogy is the best blockbuster action series since the Dark Night trilogy. Hell, maybe its even better if the reviews of the third are true.

What else can I say? Go see it!

Thats probably the only reason I'd support the idea of a Kenobi film.

Palpetine Vader could only probably be pulled off by a talanted director with a lot of creative control. Unfortunately that isn't how Disney writes these movies, so I'd rather they just stick to safer films that can fit into a more traditional plot.

If The Last Jedi proves that they can take risks and succeed that would go a long way towards my enthusiasm towards the spin offs. I have a feeling though that it will be pretty safe and straightforward, much like TFA. These movies are written by boardrooms and market executives, not screenwriters and directors. 

On 5/23/2017 at 2:34 AM, DieselDaisy said:

I'm not convinced, but it is a decent enough try.

It is a source of much embarrassment for Mozartian scholars, those letters.

It kinda sobers up the near saint-tier status people put him in, which makes him even more compelling as an artists imo.

Its also pretty hillarious because everytime I watch the IASIF episode where Danny Devito says "Poop is FUNNY" I think of Mozart

This is stupid af

It was already a dicey concept anyways. Han's arc happens in the OT, not before. It would have been a tough endevor creatively speaking, to give us a compelling story that fits into the rest of the films.

The cast and directors gave me a tiny bit of hope, but now this already fragile concept has taken a huge blow.

They should have waited to do Han after Boba Fett. Boba is a blank canvas and you could do almost anything with his story, and it would've helped add more credibility to the spin offs to have two decent films already under the belt