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JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:25am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:16am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Where does Spaceballs rank?
Very high in concept, very high in anticipation, and mostly disappointing in execution. The really dumb thing is that even knowing how mediocre it is, if I see it's on tv I get kinda excited and start watching.
I still get a kick out of it. Mainly because of Joan.
For me it's John Candy. It seems like he gets funnier in all his movies the longer he's been gone.
You have to say that because you're Canadian. Isn't that the RCMP motto?

(Candy was great)
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revbob wrote:
11 Jan 2018, 11:27pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:25am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:22am
JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:16am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:15am


Very high in concept, very high in anticipation, and mostly disappointing in execution. The really dumb thing is that even knowing how mediocre it is, if I see it's on tv I get kinda excited and start watching.
I still get a kick out of it. Mainly because of Joan.
For me it's John Candy. It seems like he gets funnier in all his movies the longer he's been gone.
You have to say that because you're Canadian. Isn't that the RCMP motto?

(Candy was great)
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BostonBeaneater wrote:
12 Jan 2018, 1:11am
revbob wrote:
11 Jan 2018, 11:27pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:25am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:22am
JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:16am


I still get a kick out of it. Mainly because of Joan.
For me it's John Candy. It seems like he gets funnier in all his movies the longer he's been gone.
You have to say that because you're Canadian. Isn't that the RCMP motto?

(Candy was great)
Canadian Content Rules. All Canadians are morally and legally bound by them from birth to death.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
This is why childhood summer trips to Moosehead, Maine were polluted with poorly executed French language rip-off Are You Being Served sitcoms.
You ain't lying. The best is when they show some french camadian "rock and roll"

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revbob wrote:
12 Jan 2018, 7:08am
BostonBeaneater wrote:
12 Jan 2018, 1:11am
revbob wrote:
11 Jan 2018, 11:27pm
JennyB wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:25am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
10 Jan 2018, 11:22am


For me it's John Candy. It seems like he gets funnier in all his movies the longer he's been gone.
You have to say that because you're Canadian. Isn't that the RCMP motto?

(Candy was great)
Canadian Content Rules. All Canadians are morally and legally bound by them from birth to death.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_content
This is why childhood summer trips to Moosehead, Maine were polluted with poorly executed French language rip-off Are You Being Served sitcoms.
You ain't lying. The best is when they show some french camadian "rock and roll"
Pre-cable, French CBC was valued because after 9 pm it would show movies with boobs and even bush. Because the French are more mature and stuff.
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Watched Rogue One this afternoon. Saw it once in the theatre and once when it got home release, so this was number three for me, and I liked it much more this time than the previous viewings. I still have deep reservations about it as a Star Wars film (but not as a scifi film), but I think Last Jedi helped me appreciate it a lot more. It's working similar terrain and themes—the moral ambiguity of the rebellion and role of sacrifice for the greater good and the group—and it's also grittier than previous SW flicks, but what impressed me this tim around is how well it flowed. It's a fairly long film (only slightly shorter than TLJ), yet it doesn't run flabby and the sequences sensibly flow into each other. It plays as a tight and purposeful story from start to finish, maybe the tightest SW film since the first one.
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Just noticing this now, she looks a lot like the someone I played softball with.

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revbob wrote:
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
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Just noticing this now, she looks a lot like the someone I played softball with.
I’d join that league.
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"I never doubted myself for a minute for I knew that my monkey-strong bowels were girded with strength, like the loins of a dragon ribboned with fat and the opulence of buffalo dung." - Richard Nixon, Checkers Speech, abandoned early draft

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Is Solo any good? After the prequel-esque TLJ I am gunshy.
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Is Solo any good? After the prequel-esque TLJ I am gunshy.
It’s fine. A solid B. Totally unnecessary, but competently made.

Then again, I loved TLJ.
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Wolter wrote:
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eumaas wrote:
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Is Solo any good? After the prequel-esque TLJ I am gunshy.
It’s fine. A solid B. Totally unnecessary, but competently made.

Then again, I loved TLJ.
Should I just wait for home release?
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eumaas wrote:
31 May 2018, 12:40pm
Wolter wrote:
31 May 2018, 12:39pm
eumaas wrote:
31 May 2018, 12:34pm
Is Solo any good? After the prequel-esque TLJ I am gunshy.
It’s fine. A solid B. Totally unnecessary, but competently made.

Then again, I loved TLJ.
Should I just wait for home release?
Depends on whether you think Star Wats works best on a big screen. I had a good time, but I came in with managed expectations (and am an unapologetic fan of most non-prequel Star Wars)
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Solo was fun. It's weird to me that people don't like this movie. It's 100% sci-fi pulp escapades with Donald Glover being Lando. I fail to see what the downside was.
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