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A place to talk about movies--old and new, good and bad, high art and high cheese. It's the place to place your kittens on the award winners, gossip about upcoming fims and discuss DVD releases and extras. Spoiler policy: White font all plot-related discussion until a movie's been in wide release two weeks, and keep the major HSQ in white font until two weeks after the video/DVD release.


Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 19, 2016 9:22:01 am PDT #150 of 3455
"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

I think my favorite part though is during "Dancing Queen" when the elderly woman carrying a huge bundle of sticks joyfully throws them aside and joins the procession.


Steph L. - Jul 24, 2016 5:54:02 am PDT #151 of 3455
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe

The Comic-Con trailers for Wonder Woman and for Justice League actually look pretty good! Wonder Woman more so, I think, but I'm surprised at how promising Justice League looks.


askye - Jul 24, 2016 9:24:17 am PDT #152 of 3455
Thrive to spite them

I loved the Wonder Woman trailer. I was getting into and I realized it was set in WWI and the scene of her going over the trenches.


DXMachina - Jul 24, 2016 2:58:44 pm PDT #153 of 3455
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Yeah, and Captain Kirk is wearing the Blue Max and flying an Eindecker. What's up with that?


sj - Jul 24, 2016 3:33:14 pm PDT #154 of 3455
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."

We saw Star Trek Beyond today. It was the fist movie I have seen in the theater in over a year, and it was just so much fun and perfectly what I needed.


Scrappy - Jul 24, 2016 9:27:02 pm PDT #155 of 3455
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

I saw it too. We went with our pal Andy, who was the prop master on it, so that made it extra cool. I really enjoyed it--it just flew along, didn't it?


megan walker - Jul 25, 2016 8:33:55 pm PDT #156 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Saw Les Innocentes (which was called Agnus Dei at Sundance but is now The Innocents for some reason). It really just blew me away. Serious themes and complex characters, but also humor at times. It's especially interesting on faith. The cast is mostly women who give incredible performances. Beautiful cinematography. I will not be surprised if this shows up in the foreign-language category at the Oscars.

tl;dr: Like Bresson, but good.


megan walker - Jul 26, 2016 8:17:14 pm PDT #157 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Just got back from Jason Bourne. Very disappointing. Perhaps it was a mistake to watch the first three back to back last week because this one just doesn't compare. It took itself way too seriously and (even for a Bourne film) it strains credulity in so many places I lost count. Oh how I hate the soft bummerness of high expectations.


Zenkitty - Jul 27, 2016 9:48:14 am PDT #158 of 3455
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.

Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.


megan walker - Jul 27, 2016 9:58:39 am PDT #159 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist

Aw, shoot, I was thinking of going to see Jason Bourne.

It really depends on your tolerance for action sequences. I could cut them down radically in almost any movie. Here they are just not believable and go on forever. My favorite thing about the Bourne films is him outsmarting his opponents and/or the puzzle of it all. That just isn't what this film is.

Also, more serious potential spoiler: the first thing my critic friend said to me after it was over was "Does that count as fridging?"