Yes, I'm Ellen M. on Fitbit.
eta: Welp, wasn't gonna watch Suicide Squad, anyway. More reason not to, now.
I can beat up demons until the cows come home, and then I can beat up the cows.
Buffy ,'Dirty Girls'
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SailAweigh - Jul 29, 2016 2:40:09 pm PDT #194 of 3455
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb
Jesse - Jul 30, 2016 10:39:14 am PDT #195 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I don't know what the heck is going on with my local independent theater -- they never had Ghostbusters, and have Bourne on the big screen this week. Star Trek is in a smaller theater. So I guess I'll see The Lobster!
Jesse - Jul 30, 2016 1:51:54 pm PDT #196 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
The Lobster, you guys. Anyone else see it? That was some weird shit, and either the perfect or the worst movie to see alone.
megan walker - Jul 30, 2016 6:15:09 pm PDT #197 of 3455
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I've been debating. Based on my boyfriend's description, I didn't think I'd like it, but I feel I'll regret not seeing it.
Dana - Jul 30, 2016 6:36:55 pm PDT #198 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
Yeah, I was interested, but a friend said she found it deeply unpleasant and upsetting.
Jesse - Jul 31, 2016 4:59:10 am PDT #199 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I did not find it upsetting, but maybe equally enjoyable and unpleasant? I don't know, I laughed and also gasped with WTF. I would say I liked it, but that's such a milquetoast word to use for such a wild experience!
But I think I only find real-life stuff actually upsetting, for what that's worth.
Jesse - Aug 01, 2016 10:39:11 am PDT #200 of 3455
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
ION, I don't understand why they would need to make a gender-swapped Splash remake with Channing Tatum, when Ryan Lochte exists? [link]
DXMachina - Aug 02, 2016 8:31:30 am PDT #201 of 3455
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I saw a drive-in double feasture of Jason Bourne and Star Trek Beyond Friday night. A group of us sat in lawn chairs in front of the speakers up near the screen, so we had a great view of the mess that was Jason Bourne. At the end of it, my friend's 17 year-old son turned to me and asked "Did you understand any of that?" Now granted the neither he nor I had seen any of the previous Bournes, but when even your target audience is wondering what the hell just happened...
We had gone for Star Trek , and it was okay. Liked the character stuff, and unlike the first two it actually felt like Star Trek. But I kept losing my suspension of disbelief in the action scenes. There was some stunningly bad science and logic holes, even for Trek, and it kept throwing me out of the experience.
Dana - Aug 02, 2016 9:05:22 am PDT #202 of 3455
"I'm useless alone." // "We're all useless alone. It's a good thing you're not alone."
It's not looking good for Suicide Squad.
Suicide Squad is bad. Not fun bad. Not redeemable bad. Not the kind of bad that is the unfortunate result of artists honorably striving for something ambitious and falling short. Suicide Squad is just bad. It's ugly and boring, a toxic combination that means the film's highly fetishized violence doesn't even have the exciting tingle of the wicked or the taboo. (Oh, how the movie wants to be both of those things.) It's simply a dull chore steeped in flaccid machismo, a shapeless, poorly edited trudge that adds some mildly appalling sexism and even a soupçon of racism to its abundant, hideously timed gun worship. But, perhaps worst of all, Suicide Squad is ultimately too shoddy and forgettable to even register as revolting. At least revolting would have been something.
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If you can believe it, Suicide Squad is even worse than Fantastic Four.
Tom Scola - Aug 02, 2016 9:18:48 am PDT #203 of 3455
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