I saw Pitch Perfect 2 yesterday, and thought it was very funny. Thinking back, I didn't love the music as much as in the first one, but it was very entertaining. I could have done without a few of the fat jokes. But the cameos were awesome, and I though Elizabeth Banks did a very creditable job directing.
River: You gave up everything you had. Simon: [Chinese] Everything I have is right here.
'Safe'
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Consuela - May 24, 2015 11:13:50 am PDT #29039 of 30000
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SuziQ - May 24, 2015 12:23:15 pm PDT #29040 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I just saw Pitch Perfect 2 also. I enjoyed a bunch but I agree that many of the fat/ethnic jokes were trying to hard.
SuziQ - May 24, 2015 12:23:18 pm PDT #29041 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
I just saw Pitch Perfect 2 also. I enjoyed a bunch but I agree that many of the fat/ethnic jokes were trying to hard.
Calli - May 24, 2015 1:43:48 pm PDT #29042 of 30000
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I saw Mad Max today. I thought it was loads of fun and didn't feel like 2 hours long.
megan walker - May 25, 2015 12:21:59 pm PDT #29043 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Frankly, I thought it felt longer than two hours, but I wasn't bored and enjoyed it more than I thought I would.
However, the best part was probably the end, when the audience clapped (I can't remember the last showing I went to where that happened) and then, as the clapping died down during the quotation before the credit roll, you could hear a man loudly snoring. Everybody burst out laughing.
He was still snoring at the end of the credits.
lisah - May 25, 2015 2:40:57 pm PDT #29044 of 30000
Punishingly Intricate
That guitar made me laugh every time.
YES! I'm glad everyone I saw it with is adamantly anti-3D so it wasn't even a question.
Jessica - May 25, 2015 4:23:50 pm PDT #29045 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Shrill and Mallory have seen Mad Max and have some thoughts about it. (Spoilers, but probably not spoilers that make any sense if you haven't seen the movie.)
WELCOME TO THE STEAMPUNK FUTURE, SHRILL
THERE’S NO WATER BUT DON’T WORRY WE GLUED SKULLS ON EVERYTHING SO THERE IS THAT
Matt the Bruins fan - May 25, 2015 5:01:26 pm PDT #29046 of 30000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
The salt flats thing mystified me, as it was implied that was the Pacific Ocean. I can accept nuclear war causing the fall of civilization, but as far as I know there's not a way to evaporate the oceans off the planet without killing off everything living on it.
Juliebird - May 25, 2015 5:10:11 pm PDT #29047 of 30000
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I puzzled over the waterfall, and then realized they were in a desert, and the water had to come from somewhere, so I decided that water came out over the aquifer it came from and the "wasted" water filtered back through the sand. Still some loss to evaporation but better than my initial impression.
Jessica - May 26, 2015 1:57:02 pm PDT #29048 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Australia has salt flats - [link]