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Post by merh on Jun 16, 2019 22:19:45 GMT
They have been running ads for MiB for weeks. Where you been? Got my tikis for Sunday. "Tikis"?
The extra 2 letters in "tickets" too much for you?
Seriously....."tikis"?
Got a problem with it? Not like bioslave & his "lol" every post.
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Post by ck100 on Jun 16, 2019 22:43:14 GMT
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Post by Fetzer Zinfandel on Jun 16, 2019 23:09:53 GMT
Let me know what you think? I say it's worth the price. One can tell the budget cut-half the last one. There are fewer aliens, but it works. Thompson & Hemsworth are excellent, but Hemsworth is playing the pretty dolt 3 steps above his vacuous Ghostbusters character. Thanks!
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Post by mecano04 on Jun 17, 2019 0:47:22 GMT
MIB International was OK.
It felt like other movies where the story is only there to link the stunts and the "wow" scenes with special effects. It wasn't bad per say but it felt generic and exhausted.
5/10 for me.
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Post by merh on Jun 17, 2019 2:33:31 GMT
MIB International was OK. It felt like other movies where the story is only there to link the stunts and the "wow" scenes with special effects. It wasn't bad per say but it felt generic and exhausted. 5/10 for me. I'm between 8 & 9. 9,10=A 7,8=B So I am between B+ & A- Probably B+.
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Post by merh on Jun 17, 2019 2:36:55 GMT
I told you. The Avengers sucked all the money out of the box office. Sony don't care. Spiderman is on the horizon. Got my tikis today for Spidey. 4th of July in IMAX Spidey will improve Sony's quarter. Maybe the entire year.
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Post by President Ackbar™ on Jun 17, 2019 6:10:49 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Jun 17, 2019 15:40:36 GMT
33% on rotten tomatoes as of this post. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/men_in_black_international/Critics Consensus
Amiable yet forgettable, MiB International grinds its stars' substantial chemistry through the gears of a franchise running low on reasons to continue.Hard to argue, there wasn't much to it. The leads elevate what would otherwise be an unwatchable film to something you don't walk out of 20 minutes in. My question is, will Chris Hemsworth ever do a successful film outside of the MCU?
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Post by Deleted on Jun 17, 2019 18:35:22 GMT
33% on rotten tomatoes as of this post. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/men_in_black_international/Critics Consensus
Amiable yet forgettable, MiB International grinds its stars' substantial chemistry through the gears of a franchise running low on reasons to continue.Hard to argue, there wasn't much to it. The leads elevate what would otherwise be an unwatchable film to something you don't walk out of 20 minutes in. My question is, will Chris Hemsworth ever do a successful film outside of the MCU? A fair question. I hope so because I find him so likable, but he needs better projects.
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Post by taylorfirst1 on Jun 17, 2019 18:55:33 GMT
I'm worried about the MIBCU.
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Post by hi224 on Jun 18, 2019 18:17:40 GMT
I'm worried about the MIBCU. no universe after this movie at all.
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Post by merh on Jun 20, 2019 6:14:21 GMT
That might be it. Growing up in SoCal we had Shasta soda from Hayward, CA & one of their flavors that I loved was Tiki Punch. So it's a word I grew up using
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Post by hi224 on Jun 21, 2019 20:05:51 GMT
33% on rotten tomatoes as of this post. www.rottentomatoes.com/m/men_in_black_international/Critics Consensus
Amiable yet forgettable, MiB International grinds its stars' substantial chemistry through the gears of a franchise running low on reasons to continue.Hard to argue, there wasn't much to it. The leads elevate what would otherwise be an unwatchable film to something you don't walk out of 20 minutes in. My question is, will Chris Hemsworth ever do a successful film outside of the MCU? Well if he'd not be allergic to solid scripts.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Jul 27, 2019 9:03:15 GMT
Shaft might deserve it's own thread. Went to a screening of Shaft on Mon and I actually found it to be consistently funny. Had a better idea of what it wanted to be as opposed to the 2000 version. Will still probably get panned because it'll come off as very toxic masculine to some, but, to me at least, it felt like a 21/22 Jump Street semi-meta commentary on blaxploitation movies, and how the lead characters are nothing more than sex obsessed, hyper-masculine brothers with smooth street swagger. They poke fun at that in my opinion, and have Samuel L equally as the butt of jokes and the instigator of them, as opposed to never looking bad. Feels a little like Uncle Drew last year in that I thought it would be terrible but it is actually a pleasant surprise of the summer.I liked Uncle Drew last summer (a surprisingly "good" comedy), and I liked this version of Shaft as well ("pretty good"). (As I mentioned last summer, I thought about seeing the 2000 version back then yet never did so. I originally was not going to see this edition, either, but eventually I decided to take the chance.) This Shaft is a very entertaining, engrossing, and funny parody. I will add that not only does it parody the Blaxploitation genre and its African-American archetypes, but it explicitly parodies all manner of elements—racial, generational, societal, sexual, and other movies as well. The dialogue and editing are crisp, and Richard Roundtree's late reintroduction establishes that, ultimately, he is by far the coolest Shaft of them all. The plot is perhaps needlessly convoluted, but that was never the point, and one could certainly do worse when dusting off an old studio property and trying to re-energize it. This Shaft is relevant yet politically incorrect, and Samuel L. Jackson strikes all the right notes in that regard. Oh, and the movie's soundtrack is of course brilliant, in terms of the vintage theme, other non-diegetic funk, and specific songs such as the Souls of Mischief's "93 'Til Infinity."
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Post by moviemanjackson on Jul 28, 2019 2:24:28 GMT
Shaft might deserve it's own thread. Went to a screening of Shaft on Mon and I actually found it to be consistently funny. Had a better idea of what it wanted to be as opposed to the 2000 version. Will still probably get panned because it'll come off as very toxic masculine to some, but, to me at least, it felt like a 21/22 Jump Street semi-meta commentary on blaxploitation movies, and how the lead characters are nothing more than sex obsessed, hyper-masculine brothers with smooth street swagger. They poke fun at that in my opinion, and have Samuel L equally as the butt of jokes and the instigator of them, as opposed to never looking bad. Feels a little like Uncle Drew last year in that I thought it would be terrible but it is actually a pleasant surprise of the summer.I liked Uncle Drew last summer (a surprisingly "good" comedy), and I liked this version of Shaft as well ("pretty good"). (As I mentioned last summer, I thought about seeing the 2000 version back then yet never did so. I originally was not going to see this edition, either, but eventually I decided to take the chance.) This Shaft is a very entertaining, engrossing, and funny parody. I will add that not only does it parody the Blaxploitation genre and its African-American archetypes, but it explicitly parodies all manner of elements—racial, generational, societal, sexual, and other movies as well. The dialogue and editing are crisp, and Richard Roundtree's late reintroduction establishes that, ultimately, he is by far the coolest Shaft of them all. The plot is perhaps needlessly convoluted, but that was never the point, and one could certainly do worse when dusting off an old studio property and trying to re-energize it. This Shaft is relevant yet politically incorrect, and Samuel L. Jackson strikes all the right notes in that regard. Oh, and the movie's soundtrack is of course brilliant, in terms of the vintage theme, other non-diegetic funk, and specific songs such as the Souls of Mischief's "93 'Til Infinity." Really good post. I loved that Roundtree was used more in this movie than the 2000 version too. I feel like those who have some knowledge of the Blaxploitation genre ('71 Shaft, '72 Super Fly, Coffy, etc.) would only pick up that Shaft 2019 is actually parodying and poking fun at those movies. Everyone else that I've read seems to think it's overly toxic masculine, or perhaps we've really gotten super soft as a society with our comedy. I actually wouldn't mind seeing a sequel (especially as Roundtree is still alive, let's crank one more of these out!), and hope this picks up on home media. I think I'm going to buy on Blu-Ray to support.
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Post by joekiddlouischama on Aug 17, 2019 6:25:56 GMT
I liked Uncle Drew last summer (a surprisingly "good" comedy), and I liked this version of Shaft as well ("pretty good"). (As I mentioned last summer, I thought about seeing the 2000 version back then yet never did so. I originally was not going to see this edition, either, but eventually I decided to take the chance.) This Shaft is a very entertaining, engrossing, and funny parody. I will add that not only does it parody the Blaxploitation genre and its African-American archetypes, but it explicitly parodies all manner of elements—racial, generational, societal, sexual, and other movies as well. The dialogue and editing are crisp, and Richard Roundtree's late reintroduction establishes that, ultimately, he is by far the coolest Shaft of them all. The plot is perhaps needlessly convoluted, but that was never the point, and one could certainly do worse when dusting off an old studio property and trying to re-energize it. This Shaft is relevant yet politically incorrect, and Samuel L. Jackson strikes all the right notes in that regard. Oh, and the movie's soundtrack is of course brilliant, in terms of the vintage theme, other non-diegetic funk, and specific songs such as the Souls of Mischief's "93 'Til Infinity." Really good post. I loved that Roundtree was used more in this movie than the 2000 version too. I feel like those who have some knowledge of the Blaxploitation genre ('71 Shaft, '72 Super Fly, Coffy, etc.) would only pick up that Shaft 2019 is actually parodying and poking fun at those movies. Everyone else that I've read seems to think it's overly toxic masculine, or perhaps we've really gotten super soft as a society with our comedy. I actually wouldn't mind seeing a sequel (especially as Roundtree is still alive, let's crank one more of these out!), and hope this picks up on home media. I think I'm going to buy on Blu-Ray to support. ... probably a little of both, unfortunately—historical obliviousness combined with an aversion toward edginess. Many of today's critics probably fail to understand that the original Blaxploitation films used inherent satire and humor as a means of dealing with racial stereotypes. In other words, by pushing those stereotypes to excess and rendering them heroic one way or another, they displaced the original racist meanings and unsettled the racist purveyors of those tropes. And that is what Samuel L. Jackson is doing in this version of Shaft, albeit in an entertaining, postmodern, obviously parodic context.
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