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Welcome to the 2015 Off Topic Thread
This is the place for conversation on movies, music, current events, one-off MMA discussion that doesn't warrant its own thread, etc.
So what upcoming movies is everyone looking forward to? Here are a few of mine, all in September:
1. Black Mass
In 1970s Boston, FBI agent John Connolly (Joel Edgerton) persuades Irish gangster Whitey Bulger (Johnny Depp) to help the agency eliminate their common enemy, the Italian mob.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE3e3hGF2jc
2. Pawn Sacrifice
American chess legend Bobby Fischer (Tobey Maguire) and Soviet Grandmaster Boris Spassky (Liev Schreiber) enthrall the world with their intense battle of wills and strategy during the 1972 World Chess Championship.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFHvH9FtACg
3. Sicario
After rising through the ranks of her male-dominated profession, idealistic FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) receives a top assignment. Recruited by mysterious government official Matt Graver (Josh Brolin), Kate joins a task force for the escalating war against drugs. Led by the intense and shadowy Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro), the team travels back-and-forth across the U.S.-Mexican border, using one cartel boss (Bernardo Saracino) to flush out a bigger one (Julio Cesar Cedillo).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XLQ1bkSLDo
^^ #3 looks so fucking good. Can't wait.
I think it looks cool, but Sicario is the one I'm least excited about of the three. Then again, I think the Black Mass trailer just looks awesome and I'm really interested in chess.
I'll be the third wheel and say Black Mass looks best to me. Depp is always good in things. For the most part, I don't like bio movies, though. I hate going into a movie knowing what its already about
How do you always know the story? Did you really know THAT much about Ray Charles's life? Or Queen Elizabeth? Or Truman Capote?
Speaking of Wikipedia, I just saw the guy Johnny Depp played in Blow ( George Jung) was released from prison last year
Damn, I just assumed that motherfucker was dead.
Who we got here who watches Game of Thrones?
Game of Thrones is the tits.
^^^ We really need spoiler tags. They're so useful.
How do I post a video I saw on facebook on here?
Who here has seen M. Night Shyamalan's "Signs" recently? Or can remember it from back in the day? I just recently ran across this fan theory regarding the alien creatures. Pretty thought-provoking shit.
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When I first saw this film, I didn't realize that it wasn't about aliens at all. It's about the return of demons. Notice it's all about a priest's resurgence of belief, and a preordained moment of redemption-if-dared-and-attempted. There is no alien technology or weaponry or clothing of any kind, only a clawed, naked beast creature and lights in the sky.
Furthermore: The running joke throughout the movie is that people see these "invaders" in a way that's related to their particular frame of mind: The cop sees them as prankster kids, the bookstore owners see them as "a hoax to sell commercials," the Army recruitment officer sees them as invading military, the kids see them as UFOs... and the Priest sees them as test of faith. This understanding of the film removed my hatred of the "You've got to be kidding me; they were killed by WATER!" concept. In fact, the priest's daughter had been referred to as "holy" (as revealed during Mel's key monologue)–recognized by all who saw her at her birth as "an Angel;" and her quite particular relationship to water is shown to be very special and spiritual: In other words, she has placed vials of what are, essentially, HOLY WATER all around the house. (And the creature's reaction when coming in contact with this blessed liquid is EXACTLY like monsters/vampires being splashed by spiritual "acid.")
This view of the movie also explains the creature's actions: They act like superior tricksters, are not able to break in through closed doors, can be trapped behind simple wooden latches –all mythological elements of demons and vampire-like creatures of lore. It also explains the news over the radio at the end of the movie that an ancient method of killing the creatures has been found "in three small cities in the Middle East" - one would suspect the religious "hubs" of the three main Abrahamic traditions, each discovering the "mystic methods" of protection-and-dispatch that I’ve noted earlier.
Note also: All the Christian iconography throughout the movie, the references to "Signs and Wonders" (the true meaning of the title), the crucifix shapes hinted-at everywhere (check out the overhead shot, looking down on the street driving into town) and the ultimate fact that the entire movie is built around a Priest rediscovering he is not abandoned to a random, Godless, scientifically-oriented Universe but, rather, is part of a predicted and dreamed-of plan.
Now –these creatures may for all intents and purposes be some sort of extraterrestrial or inter-dimensional "aliens" –but the point of the movie seems to be that they are, in the ACTUALITY OF THE FILM WORLD, the dark stuff from which all the character’s tales of devils and night-creatures were born.
I think Signs is really good, but I actually think The Village is his best. I understand I'm in the minority with that viewpoint, but I really do think it's a masterwork that is underappreciated and misunderstood. An excellent concept, excellent direction, excellent performances, an excellent score and absolutely gorgeous cinematography on the part of Roger Deakins.
M. Night himself is an underrated director. He's had some missteps, and sadly it seems like his best days may be behind him (though I always keep the door open for a resurgence), but The Village, Signs, The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable are all great movies.
I have not yet seen Wayward Pines. For whatever reason the trailer just doesn't do much for me and I have never been a Matt Dillon fan. But since it's M. Night, I do intend to check it out eventually.
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If anyone has seen this man, PM SPX
^^^ BOL! Look at that motherfucker!
BTW sup dorks
Really, you think Signs sucks? I wholly disagree, but that's another subject really.
As for the theory, you could be right. It's interesting how people can build these sorts of grand theories that, like you say, may have nothing to do with reality. If you want to see the ultimate example of this, watch Room 237 if you haven't already.
But then again, on the other hand, I think the dude makes a lot of interesting points and Shyamalan's work has always tended to have a religious tinge to it so it wouldn't shock me to learn that there's some actual truth here.
Thought Signs was decent when I saw it, but I was like 20 years old. Haven't seen it since, I don't think
Speaking of movies, really haven't seen many good ones in the last 1-2 years
I think 2015 has been pretty damn weak in terms of movies. But 2014 was good.
In 2014 we got Gone Girl, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Birdman, Boyhood, Edge of Tomorrow, Nightcrawler, just to name a few that come to mind.
And I'd like to give special attention to this bad boy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d_jQycdQGo
The only one of the movies that I though was good is Nightcrawler. The rest..........