2013 Off Topic Thread

[SPX]

If you have $4.5 million. . .

[Mr. IWS]

hate you

[Luke]

Speaking of movies, I saw this trailer before Oz the other day. Looks pretty interesting:

yeah, I'll watch that

[zY|]

I don't know about that. Because the scene in the apartment where he's talking to the rental agent seems to suggest that SOMETHING happened. I think it was meant to be ambiguous.

Yeah I thought it was pretty clear in its ambiguity.

[SPX]

Yeah I thought it was pretty clear in its ambiguity.

What does that mean?

[SPX]

I watched Fight Club last night for the first time in a while. What's everyone's thoughts on that movie?

[MMA_scientist]

Bale= pretty good. I liked The Prestige. Machinist, I remember seeing, but all I recall about the movie is that he was rail thin... so the movie probably wasn't that good.

Fight Club= an all time classic, of course. I enjoyed the first half of the movie much more than the second half. It is almost like 2 different movies, it just down a really weird road and never returns. I wish it would have just been a musing on man-hood and introspection, kept it light, and stayed with that. I still like it in spite of the second half though.

[SPX]

Bale= pretty good. I liked The Prestige. Machinist, I remember seeing, but all I recall about the movie is that he was rail thin... so the movie probably wasn't that good.

Yeah, The Prestige is great. It might be my favorite Christopher Nolan film. Probably is.

Fight Club= an all time classic, of course. I enjoyed the first half of the movie much more than the second half. It is almost like 2 different movies, it just down a really weird road and never returns. I wish it would have just been a musing on man-hood and introspection, kept it light, and stayed with that. I still like it in spite of the second half though.

I may agree with your statement regarding the first half of the film vs the second half. I also think it probably would've been better if Tyler Durden had been a real person. Was the multiple personality thing really necessary? I don't even really get the point of it.

[MMA_scientist]

I may agree with your statement regarding the first half of the film vs the second half. I also think it probably would've been better if Tyler Durden had been a real person. Was the multiple personality thing really necessary? I don't even really get the point of it.

I get the whole multiple personalities deal, and I just took it that they were making a statement about the feminization and supressed manhood in modern America. Like we all have a real man somewhere wanting to get out, but instead we shop at IKEA (I love IKEA FWIW) and are giant pussy wage slaves. SO I get that. What I don't get is why the movie went down the crazy militia path. I think it would have been a better movie if they would have just drawn out the actual fight club part of the movie and focused on that, it was enough.

[Svino]

Re: Equilibrium, I just couldn't get past "gun kata" as a concept. Too silly. Disbelief not suspended. And (spoiler alert) did anyone not see the ending coming? It's like, "You're not fooling anyone, guys -- we all know you can't shoehorn a new villain into this film in the time remaining."

I really liked some other Bale movies though, like The Prestige and the Nolan Batman series.

[SPX]

Damn, I always thought the gun kata was cool as hell. It was an interesting concept and looked awesome. Disbelief easily suspended.

[zY|]

I watched Fight Club last night for the first time in a while. What's everyone's thoughts on that movie?

Yeah, all-time classic. What kind of question is that? I must've watched this movie a thousand times in high school.

[SPX]

I actually didn't really learn to appreciate it until I got older. I saw it in the theater when it first came out. I thought it was cool, but didn't really understand the following it developed. Now I connect with it a lot more.

[SPX]

I saw a girl today who looked to be about 14 wearing a Nirvana shirt. I thought that was pretty interesting.

[Svino]

As far as Fight Club goes, I did like the movie, but I also think it's overrated. I kind of agreed with a lot of the points in Ebert's 2 star (out of 5) review: http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/...IEWS/910150302

The problem with the movie is that it can't quite decide if it wants to be a condemnation of countercultural violent machismo or a celebration of it.