Sam's Thread of Chattin' w/ Jake & Other Robust Subjects

[Uncle Sam]

I don't think either of us have seen it. I don't think either of us are enthusiastic about it, though that obviously won't stop Jake from watching it.

After a rewatch of The Guest last night-- well, it's still fucking amazing. I even spotted a second You're Next easter egg ("YOU'RE NEXT" is scrawled on one of the walls in the Halloween set). It's a big, warm, synthy hug.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

1. Fight Club ★★★★★
2. The Guest ★★★★★ x2
3. Oculus ★★★★★
4. Pride ★★★★★
5. Kajaki: The True Story ★★★★★
6. Noah ★★★★★
7. Starred Up ★★★★★
8. Nightcrawler ★★★★
9. The Wolf Of Wall Street ★★★★
10. X-Men: Days Of Future Past ★★★★
11. The Inbetweeners 2 ★★★★
12. The Babadook ★★★★
13. Paddington ★★★★
14. A Walk Among The Tombstones ★★★★
15. Delivery Man ★★★★
16. Pompeii ★★★★
17. Non-Stop ★★★★
18. Labor Day ★★★★
19. The Fault In Our Stars ★★★★
20. Under The Skin ★★★★
21. Guardians Of The Galaxy ★★★★ x2
22. How To Train Your Dragon 2 ★★★★
23. What If ★★★★
24. Fury ★★★★
25. Before I Go To Sleep ★★★★
26. The Riot Club ★★★★
27. Bad Neighbours ★★★
28. The Grand Budapest Hotel ★★★
29. Nymph()maniac: Part 1 ★★★
30. Her ★★★
31. Gone Girl ★★★
32. St. Vincent ★★★
33. The Raid 2 ★★★
34. Annie ★★★
35. Stranger By The Lake ★★★
36. Into The Storm ★★★
37. Boyhood ★★★
38. Penguins Of Madagascar ★★★
39. Horrible Bosses 2 ★★★
40. Get Santa ★★★
41. Last Vegas ★★★
42. The Book Thief ★★★
43. Black Sea ★★★
44. 22 Jump Street ★★★
45. The Lego Movie ★★★
46. Need For Speed ★★★
47. Grudge Match ★★★
48. The Drop ★★★
49. Chef ★★★
50. Dallas Buyers Club ★★★
51. Nymph()maniac: Part 2 ★★★
52. The Purge: Anarchy ★★★
53. The Amazing Spider-Man 2 ★★★
54. Sabotage ★★★
55. Cold In July ★★★
56. The Expendables 3 ★★★
57. Horns ★★★
58. The Imitation Game ★★★
59. Godzilla ★★★
60. The Other Woman ★★★
61. Muppets Most Wanted ★★★
62. Lucy ★★★
63. The Two Faces Of January ★★★
64. Edge Of Tomorrow ★★★
65. Deliver Us From Evil ★★★
66. 12 Years A Slave ★★★
67. Out Of The Furnace ★★★
68. The Stag ★★★
69. Dumb And Dumber To ★★★
70. The Monuments Men ★★★
71. Fading Gigolo ★★★
72. The Equalizer ★★★
73. Annabelle ★★★
74. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes ★★★
75. Earth To Echo ★★★
76. That Awkward Moment ★★★
77. What We Did On Our Holiday ★★★
78. Love, Rosie ★★★
79. Cuban Fury ★★★
80. The Railway Man ★★★
81. A Long Way Down ★★★
82. Life After Beth ★★★
83. The Best Of Me ★★★
84. Dolphin Tale 2 ★★★
85. Let's Be Cops ★★
86. Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey?! ★★
87. The Hundred-Foot Journey ★★
88. A Million Ways To Die In The West ★★
89. Hercules ★★
90. Hector And The Search For Happiness ★★
91. Maleficent ★★
92. Captain America: The Winter Soldier ★★
93. Sin City: A Dame To Kill For ★★
94. Sex Tape ★★
95. The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 ★★
96. The Boxtrolls ★★
97. If I Stay ★★
98. Robocop ★★
99. American Hustle ★★
100. Interstellar ★★
101. The Hobbit: The Battle Of The Fiver Armies ★★
102. 3 Days To Kill ★★
103. As Above/So Below ★★
104. The Giver ★★
105. Transformers: Age Of Extinction ★★
106. The Maze Runner ★★
107. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ★★
108. Mr. Turner ★
109. The Unbeatables ★
110. The House Of Magic ★
111. The Book Of Life ★
112. Dracula Untold ★
113. A Most Wanted Man ★
114. Ouija ★
115. Belle ★
116. Mrs Brown's Boys D'Movie ★
117. Transcendence ★

Not a vintage year that's for sure.

2015

1. The Theory Of Everything ★★★
2. Birdman ★★

I really wish I liked Birdman.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Fucking tell me about it! Less a laugh riot and more of a laugh orderly queue.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Foxcatcher is appealing if only because of Steve Carell's fancy face prosthetics.

Saw it. Short on laughs, that one.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Not to mention, having a bit of knowledge on the background of the events and people portrayed in the film, I am a bit confused as to why it was done the way it was done.


I think maybe I need to watch it again. Perhaps I didn't pick up on some subtleties.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Sam, I'm seeing Foxcatcher on Friday and it'll be my 7th of the year at the cinema so far. Tell me where my life is going wrong.

 

[Барбоса]

Paying to sleep in a cinema 150 times in a year is a bit strange

 

[Y 2 Jake]

To be fair, my girlfriend runs one so I only pay for half the films I see. I've also been retired for 6 years and it's hard to fill those hours.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Sam, I'm seeing Foxcatcher on Friday and it'll be my 7th of the year at the cinema so far. Tell me where my life is going wrong.

I went on a date with a girl recently who lives in Stoke and she said there was nothing to do there. She was boring as fuck though. She didn't even go into pubs. Of course you think there's nothing to do if you don't go into pubs - there's nothing to do anywhere if you don't go into pubs. Well, maybe if you're into arts and crafts or baking or going to the cinema.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

She can't be real.

 

[Rusty]

To be fair, my girlfriend runs one so I only pay for half the films I see. I've also been retired for 6 years and it's hard to fill those hours.

Are you actually 45 years old?

 

[Y 2 Jake]

How dare you.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

American Sniper -


Not sure why they did what they did....The book is chock-full of amazing stories from war, and yet the film chose not to depict most of them, and instead, fabricated the main storyline into something that is utterly unbeliveable.

Also, somehow managed to make a film mostly based in intense urban combat into something that is quite dull.

How one fucking dimensional was every character? Especially his wife. Lord.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Between your impressions on Foxcatcher and American Sniper (you sure read a lot for a member of the NJexus) my list of new films I'm actually bothered about seeing is dwindling. In lieu of that, I saw three of my very favourites at the Prince Charles over the course of the last two days:

• Aliens ★★★★★
• Pulp Fiction ★★★★★
• Alien ★★★★★

Without a crowd, turns out it's difficult to remember just how funny Pulp Fiction is or just how exciting Aliens is. It's stating the obvious but Hudson steals that film. It was hard not to get goosebumps when the crowd exploded at "Get away from her, you bitch!"

Alien just doesn't scare people like it used to, and people laughed at some of the effects. Don't worry, Alien, I still love you.

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Aliens over Alien? Get the fuck out.

I feel we might have gone through this before.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Normally I'd be an Alien man but it was the influence of that crowd that tipped it on the night - they just took Aliens that much more seriously. Alien's the better film but it's just not as big a crowdpleaser.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

Between your impressions on Foxcatcher and American Sniper (you sure read a lot for a member of the NJexus) my list of new films I'm actually bothered about seeing is dwindling. In lieu of that, I saw three of my very favourites at the Prince Charles over the course of the last two days:

• Aliens ★★★★★
• Pulp Fiction ★★★★★
• Alien ★★★★★

Without a crowd, turns out it's difficult to remember just how funny Pulp Fiction is or just how exciting Aliens is. It's stating the obvious but Hudson steals that film. It was hard not to get goosebumps when the crowd exploded at "Get away from her, you bitch!"

Alien just doesn't scare people like it used to, and people laughed at some of the effects. Don't worry, Alien, I still love you.

As for the reading, keep in mind ive spent nearly three years of my life in places with often no heat or AC, let alone television.

You may like Foxcatcher more than me. Perhaps I just wasn't picking up on the subtleties. Good acting all 'round, no doubt, I just don't get why they went the way they did with the script.

 

[Uncle Sam]

Amateur wrestling is interesting to me. I can't imagine a better fix for that than a movie from the bloke who made Moneyball. What's the one thing more boring than baseball? Spreadsheets!

 

[Mighty NorCal]

The wrestling aspect is probably fourth or fifth in the list of priorities or focus of the film

 

[Барбоса]

No Kurt Angle cameo?

 

[Uncle Sam]

If we only watched movies for Kurt Angle cameos, all we'd watch would be The Fighter and that one movie where he's a serial rapist (and that the terms "Kurt Angle rape movie" won't find on Google).

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

If we only watched movies for Kurt Angle cameos, all we'd watch would be The Fighter and that one movie where he's a serial rapist (and that the terms "Kurt Angle rape movie" won't find on Google).

Warrior, bro. You're thinking of Warrior.

The Fighter was Batman's version; Warrior was Bane's.

 

[Uncle Sam]

You mean to tell me that's not present day Kurt Angle?

 

[Thriller Ant]

Too much hair

 

[Dowdsy McDowds]

Not enough interest in stalking ethnic women.